Is “built different” a thing? | One Good Question

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how hard is it to see the
fitness industry now compared to when you,

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bart Alan and Omar were creating vid
smashing weights. I feel like you

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if I were you watch the videos
I see today of everyone being quote unquote

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built different and all the various quote
unquote i'm better than you captions, it

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would be hard to stay quiet.
Meanwhile, all of you crust much heavier

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weights and are super humble about it, sharing success and lessons. I actually

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don't think that that is a new
thing, like like a tough guy mentality,

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yeah, or whatever you have built
different or I'm better than you.

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I don't necessarily think that that's new
to the fitness industry. I just think

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there were less people in general making
content about fitness when we all started,

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So then now maybe the percentage is
higher of people that talk that way.

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But maybe you know, because like
there was still like, yeah, tough

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guy powerlifters, tough guy bodybuilders,
right. And I don't know if it

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necessarily has anything to do with how
much weight you lift or what you look

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like or any of it. There's
just always people that I think, I

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guess they'll play devil's advocate and be
on those people's side. In one sense,

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I think some people don't know how
to motivate or communicate, and so

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that's the only way they know how. I think it's a goggins Yeah,

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particularly the the motivate side, and
and they don't have UM. It just

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tells me they don't have a whole
lot to bring to the table period.

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So hype is what they you know, what they're bringing to the table.

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Shots Yeah, dark ass filter,
crazy music. I think also again because

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I'm not a fan of people like
that and it's not who I follow or

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watch UM, But I don't think
it's all on their fault. I think

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that if it didn't work and it
didn't reach people, it wouldn't be a

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thing, right, So obviously you
can blame Instagram, you can blame trends,

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but you got to blame the consumer
because someone's watching that and liking that

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video, which then gives them the
signal Okay, I need to do more

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of that. Yeah, And so
they go and do more of that.

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Um. All the podcast clips,
you know, they throw epic music behind

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it and people talk about working hard
or whatever. That's super popular on TikTok

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and Instagram. And again, I
don't think you can blame the person on

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the podcast talking about it because it's
just out of context clip. But if

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the consumer wasn't loving that, it
wouldn't be a rinse and repeat and it

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is. So I don't necessarily blame
people or roll my eyes or any of

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it. I don't really care because
I've never like the difference is and I've

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said this many times, it is
like what I don't like about that general

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idea is that people you can take
what you do seriously and you without taking

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yourself too seriously. And some of
those people probably do take themselves too seriously

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or even like lifting weights, like
we're just fucking lifting weights. It doesn't

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make you I've hung out with warriors, like real warriors. Yeah, you

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know, like that's different. We're
just lifting weights. So that does like

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obviously rub me wrong. But yeah, I don't know, I don't know.

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Yeah, sure, I'd love everyone
to have fun and chill out a

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little bit. Yeah, it's just
never gonna happen that way because basketball is

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the same way, baseball the same
way. There's different characters everywhere, there's

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different mentalities in every sport, and
social media obviously is just going to magnify

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whatever gets likes, and so people
are liking that ship. Well, there's

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a certain segment of our population right
now who believes that the only way to

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be manly or whatever is to be
an asshole. Yea, And some of

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this is like very very borderline asshole
kind of kind of stuff, very absolutist.

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If you do if you do this, then you're this. If you

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don't do this, then you're this
whatever. Yeah, which again is magnified

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or proven has a recipe on the
Internet of working. So like, in

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one sense, you can't blame them. I don't agree with it, But

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but do all these guys have shitty
dads? Is that what it is?

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Yeah? Don't because I feel like
that's that's, you know, to a

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certain extent the case. Yeah,
it definitely might be. I think it's

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very weak to look for a to
look to a man that you do not

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know on the internet to figure out
how you're gonna act as a man.

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Yeah, I mean that's how you
become foot clan and into turtles. Yeah,

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exactly. Yeah, And I do
think there's something true to that,

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or like any cult you find,
like, yes, people missing a piece

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and then finding a piece in some
community. Yeah. I mean, even

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powerlifting some extent is like that.
Right. It was the sports for like

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misfits, right, and that's why
it's like not as popular of a sport

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because it, yeah, it takes
a little bit of fucked upness to get

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there. Um, I don't know. Yeah, I don't know. It's

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not my cup of tea. I
don't think overall, I don't think it's

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like detrimental. I mean that the
uber masculine shit potentially could be for sure

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on the internet with some messages people
say but like that I'm built different than

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you, motivational stuff. Yeah,
you know, I don't think it's like

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ruining fitness, even though I don't
like it. I don't care. No,

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it's not ruining fitness anymore than it's
ruining anything else I guess. Yeah,

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yeah, it's not specific to ruining
fitness. Yeah, and it doesn't

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like I mean, it sends it's
kind of like that grindset shit, Like

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it sends probably the wrong message,
like you have to wake up at three

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am, right, and you have
to eat oatmeal with nothing in it,

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and you have to run twenty miles
and you have to bleed while you work

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out to get fit or be rich. I mean that's some of us just

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straight up false. Um. But
yeah, overall, I don't think it's

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negative. But yeah, like here's
an example. Um, it's the you

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know, the getting up at four
o'clock in the morning thing, Like,

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literally, there is a portion of
our population that is genetically set up to

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not be most efficient at four a
fucking o'clock in the morning. Yeah,

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sure, four of us. Yeah, I mean they're there are literally there's

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some people are are night owls and
some people are early birds, and like

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there's variation that obviously obviously, But
if you've ever if you've ever been the

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opposite of that, and you try
to work a job that caused you to

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be in a schedule that was not
in co not not conforming with the way

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You're body just wants to be in
its circadian rhythms. Then yeah. And

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so like, if the idea is
that you got to be up at four

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o'clock in the morning to be successful, what if you can't be as successful

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at four o'clock in the morning as
you could be at four o'clock in the

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afternoon. There's just no way you
can argue like efficiency, So if I'm

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more efficient in three hours, what
do I have to work twenty Yeah,

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And it's just I've always thought that
way. But again, if it motivates

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some people, if they do stuff
that, but they do positive things that

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they wouldn't do otherwise, that's fine. If they act like assholes because not

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everybody is doing what they're doing,
then that's that's detrimental. But that's not

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just fitness. Yeah, that's all
kind of this weird sacrifice martyrdom type shit.

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Take a cold plunge because it's tough, Like, yeah, man,

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fucking bashing my head through glass would
be tough too. Yeah, there's a

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lot of hard walking barefoot a mile
a little bit like why what is it?

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What's it? Like actually lead to
and I do think you should challenge

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yourself. You think there's things you
can learn about yourself when there's kind of

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the the quit now voice screaming in
your head. Worked out with Tim Kennedy

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recently in Texas, and that's what
he kind of said. He's like,

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yeah, I like these workouts.
And then this is a little warrior.

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You know, this guy's saving lives
in Afghanistan, saving lives in Sudan.

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He's putting his own life at risk
monthly for others. And how he speaks

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about is really cool because he is, you know, he is very patriotic,

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but he also just talks about lives
like, no, I'm there to

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help people. Yeah, I'm there
to actually just help people. And so

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for him, one, he has
to be in that kind of shape because

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he's special ops too. And he's
like, yeah, like, I like

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these workouts when you're so deep the
loudest voice is telling you to quit,

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you know, and then you can
kind of see what you do or can't

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do. And I was like,
yeah, like, I do think there's

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some merit to that. In the
first world luxury shit we live in,

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you know, to kind of push
yourself to essentially not be soft as soft

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as yeah yeah, or just know
that you can win that voice battle in

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your head. Yeah, we're all
going to go through. And then if

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you do that enough, maybe consciously
you can decide to also do that in

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tough real lifetimes. But there's a
lot of fucking physical specimens that can do

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that and can't do it in real
life. Right, Like, that argument

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doesn't always it seems not causation to
me. And that's my argument against all

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these things that people do, like
run a marathon to be tough or blah

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blah blah blah blah blah blah,
is like, if you can't transfer it

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or if it doesn't auto transfer to
life, choosing to do difficult things is

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much different than how you handle difficult
things that are thrown at you. And

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that's what people don't necessarily see when
they see this four am. Yeah,

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waking up at four am is hard, and yeah, running and the rain

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is hard. I've never said any
of that. But if it doesn't transfer,

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if you're still bad at taxes and
beating your wife and a dickhead,

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none of that really matters. That
you're in these uncomfortable spots for growth or

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whatever. You think a word you
want to say, yeah, and then

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um, there's just a there's a
disconnect for some people. And I'm just

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thinking about kind of the saddest scenario
for power lifters and somebody who's like super

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gung ho and pushing themselves really hard
or whatever in the gym, and then

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when they get into competition, they
got nothing. They're you know that they

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they don't actually have the mental toughness
that they're trying to display when they're training.

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Yeah, and I don't necessarily know
how you fix that. You know,

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it's sport. Exposure is the easiest, right, you just eat more

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often. But even then some people
never have it. Yeah, people like

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compete all the time, bomb out
or fuck up. Um, and then

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those are one of the ones you
can control. You can sign up for

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a meat right recorder if you want
it. But real life sometimes yeah,

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you don't. You don't get to
a practice, no practice, it's only

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game no for sure. I don't
really know the answer, but I don't

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think four AM's it. I don't
hate the industry worth I mean, we

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had another talk with russwol Russell or
he about the industry and where it's at

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and It's funny because he, you
know, talks so much about watching like

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me and Bark growing up and his
early days of powerlifting. Then now he's

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obviously the guy and he hates the
new generation of stuff, and I get

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it, and I think it comes
down to the same thing where we all

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liked fitness and we decided to turn
on the camera and share what we were

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doing. Where everyone just wants to
be famous, so they choose fitness because

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they think that's a route to it, um, and that is a different

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vibe when you start to film yourself
in the gym, and so I think

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that's part of this in a way, you know, where this guy talks

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about them not being good athletes are
strong or humble, but it is what

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it is. Can't really control other
motherfuckers, so I don't try. No

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