The value of not falling in with a crowd?

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dot c. The Olympic Star Friday, Olympic Star Friday. I am just

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overwhelmed with happiness for our friend Jacob
Ross and the fact that his South Sudan

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team damn near beat the US Olympic
basketball team. No Avengers. Yeah,

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they're making waves. They're making waves
for sure. A lot of comments by

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big media ESPN, Paul Pierce,
Gilbert Arenas in particular, some real nice

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negative things to say. He flipped
it around though. Of course, of

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course he's just gonna get fired or
blasted. Yeah, you're right exactly,

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and instead of like and I watched
this whole like quote unquote apology video,

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and it's like fine, but it's
just it's just like so ignorant, Like

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you're you're an NBA player for like
fifteen years, You're gonna be a Hall

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of Famer. If he's not already
in there, I don't think he's in

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yet, but he will be.
You literally played in the same era as

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Luel Dang who's the president, and
literally built this from the ground up with

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his team, and he says and
there he's like, oh, I didn't

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even know Luel was sou Denise,
you know. And before that he's making

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insane like continental I don't want to
call it like racism, you know,

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because it's just like just computer ignorant
comments. Yeah, classiest, I guess

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maybe, or like yeah, just
it's so ignorant that you don't know like

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third world countryist. Yeah, yeah, you don't know, like and I

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don't expect I mean, I guess
I should. I guess you should,

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like you should have a general idea
where Sudan is. You should know Sudan

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and South Sudan are different countries.
You should know that Africa is a continent,

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not a fucking country, you know, just like how we phrase things.

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And I know he's probably clickbaiting to
get views, but then it's his

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comeback was just and then there's guys
on the team and he did open the

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statement, Oh, I guess I
should do like research, like yeah,

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bitch, like uh yeah, it's
like part of your job, like you're

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their only job is to comment on
sports. And this team has like yeah

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they don't have fucking Kobe Bryant,
but they have a bunch of guys that

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have been in the league or in
the system. Yeah in the G League.

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They're playing a D one schools here. Their point guard went to Iowa.

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You know, like there's big universities
and big players on the team.

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Let alone again, just the story
being cool, that's like the biggest thing

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to me. And we if you
guys go check back. We talked to

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Jacob right before they went on their
training camp and then now all these games

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are the friendlies warming up. But
and I think we referenced it in there

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that like this story is like a
Disney Channel story. Yeah. I saw

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more than one comment about that.
Actually after that game. It is like

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whether they do well, they do
bad. And Jacob mentioned that too.

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He's like, dude, the win
for US is already here. Like the

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first team to ever come out of
South Sudan and qualify, they did good

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at the Feeble World Cup last summer. And the Philippines. Yeah again,

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like the country literally doesn't have an
indoor basketball court, right, and these

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guys and of course they all don't
live there twenty four to seven, right,

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but you know they have access because
again like their six man is it

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going to be a freshman at Duke? And yeah, some of these guys

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have facilities training obviously, but the
point of the roots of where they come

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from, where their families come from. To have such success in a sport

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that has zero funding and zero like
history is insane. It's insane, like

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trial and error battle to get there. What Jacob said to me I got

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a message from remember the weekend,
said that from the beginning he and Lewell

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thought that like you could have a
you could have a press conference. You

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can bring these guys who were refugees
out and have them tell their story and

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there's maybe one hundred people there,
or you can put together a banging basketball

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team, you can play in front
of twenty thousand people and then millions of

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people around the world and they start
to catch your story and it starts to

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make a difference for the people who
live, you know, full time in

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South Sudan. Yeah, one hundred
percent. I mean, and before they

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played the US, they beat Great
Britain and they're in London, Great Britain.

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I don't know how their team is
necessarily this year, but historically Luel

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played for a Great Britain yea,
and they were an Olympic level probably top

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five team in the world. They
had a lot of really good players at

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NBA players, etceter. And they
put it on them just before. I

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think that's their last friendly with the
US. US. They have a tough

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ass bracket, but I mean,
they're a tough ass team themselves, so

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fuck it. I think they have
Serbia, which is a pretty high team

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US and I forgot the third in
their group. But it will be fun.

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It will be fun to watch.
I don't know what the first game

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is because the Olympics are what three
weeks and they kind of stagger shit.

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Yeah, but they start this week. Basketball should be early because it's a

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big tournament. They have group play
and then they have the knockout rounds,

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so the basketball normally goes the majority
of the time, where like track and

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fields one day, right, like
they all called and you just kind of

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do one race and then you go
to the finals or not. But okay,

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twenty seventh is the first game.
Yeah, Group A, so Australia,

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Spain, France, Brazil, Greece, Canada, Germany, Japan,

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France, Brazil all along this twenty
seventh South Sta Dan plays on Sunday against

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Puerto Rico. Puerto Rico historically is
really good too. They were one of

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the first teams to They might have
been the first team to beat the US

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after the Dream Team era. Oh
that sounds about right after we went pro

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sports in nineteen ninety two or whatever
with Jordan and them. I think Puerto

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Rico beat US in the early two
k's and they were the first, yeah,

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the first world loss. So I
mean, historically they're very good at

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basketball. I don't know again how
their roster is exactly. This year,

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it just got too confusing for me
because there's so many international players in the

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NBA. YEA, I used to
know all the international players because they would

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stand out like a sore thumb,
you know, he'd be like, oh,

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I know that one guy from Brazil
or whatever. But now there's so

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much talent everywhere, and the gap
is closing everywhere where. There's a kid

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named Cooper Flagg, who you know, cliche saying, but like might be

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the next Lebron. He's highest recruited
kid out of high school, literally seventeen

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duke starting player, and he's on
the Olympics Select team, which is,

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you know, the precursor to go
to the Olympics. Yeah, and they

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scrimmaged Lebron in them. And I
didn't see the whole game, but the

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highlights. This kid's seventeen and he's
putting it on Lebron. You know,

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he's like, he's definitely not weak
in this competition or intimidated. I guess

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no, No, he doesn't give
a shit. And that's kind of part

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of basketball, the beauty of it. You know, it's like the ego,

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like like the confidence is crazy.
There's a weird wave of now we're

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on Basketball Talk, there's a weird
wave of content creators in basketball right now,

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there's a whole content creator basketball league
that I think came from like TikTok

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and like kids that played the video
game and stuff. But now like all

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the streamers are playing basketball and they're
challenging each other to two on twos and

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this stuff, and you can clearly
tell, or at least I can clearly

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tell who played or and who didn't. Write a basketball is my passion for

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fifteen years playing in like five years
coaching, so I can just clearly see

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who, like who's trained, or
who's played or who's not. But then

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you can see the kids that like
kind of played, you know, maybe

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they played on the street or they
played junior high. And just confidence alone,

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you can see like damn, like
kid's starting to make shots, like

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he's just like stroking his own ego
and he's not very good, but just

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like confidence alone takes you so far, which is funny, and golf's kind

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of like that. I don't really
do archery or darts or something, but

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I imagine those are similar to like, your skill will only take you so

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far. You really have to believe
in what you're about to do next,

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and it just starts to like line
up, Yeah, and I don't know

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what the new wave of basketball,
because it felt like kind of dead for

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a bit, you know, like
people didn't really care about the NBA as

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much. No one's cared about Olympic
basketball in a long time, whether we

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won or lost. And this team
is different, right. They grab Lebron,

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Steph and Kevin Durant and they're all
in their mid to late thirties,

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so it is kind of the last
hurrah Lebron's kid getting drafted. I guess

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there are some pieces, but I
think some of it is the international play

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too, you know. And Paul
Pierce I think said it in that apology

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too, and it's been true and
everyone's talked about it forever. But I

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think like five out of six or
six out of six of the last MVPs

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in the NBA were not born in
the US. Yeah, you know,

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we're like, yeah, man,
Like it's been the story since the Dream

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Team, that the Dream Team made
basketball international, So why are you waking

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up now twenty years thirty years later, literally thirty years Like every documentary you

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watch on basketball talks about that.
I think it's it's often the media executives

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that you know, don't catch the
the vibe of what's going on. They're

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very late to it, you know, especially now. And we're not going

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to talk politics, but you want
to talk politics, sports or anything.

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The media is because the turnover rate
of content is so fast. The media

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is a day late. If you're
not on Twitter or Instagram, you get

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your news or facts or non facts
there before you get your news or non

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facts on mainstream media. Yeah,
you know, like this is an example.

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Just our local newspaper, the Sacramento
b They recently because they you know,

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they had for years, they've been
releasing articles as things come out,

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but the paper is like a day
behind, right, at least sometimes two

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days behind. And so, and
I stopped subscribing to the physical paper years

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ago now, but I still get
the electronic version. And now you can

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do electronic version that is this day's
print edition, and then you can do

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an electronic edition that is completely up
to date, like up to the moment.

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They're just constantly putting new stuff in
news Twitter, because yeah, because

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otherwise it's it's you're you're reading history
by the time it you know, literally,

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isn't that crazy? Yeah, it's
it's insanity. I I I think

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it's ruined a lot of things.
I was thinking about that the other day,

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like music, because you're so inundated
with the it thing now. Yeah,

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the trend comes and goes before you
can blink. Yeah, and the

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news comes and goes and the news
changes before and that's good and bad,

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right, because then it opens the
door for more. Not that I'm a

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fan of investigative reporting to begin with. I think it's all fucked, but

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it makes it even more hypothetical because
they're trying to get it out as fast

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as possible, right, and then
they get an update every ten minutes,

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like fuck, I was wrong ten
minutes ago, you know, like it

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fucks it all. But I was
thinking about, what are those Mega man

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shoes or whatever that mischief made those
big red boots, the red boots,

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right, the sonic boots. Yeah, there's these pair of boots that went

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viral and they're like two hundred bucks, big red like sonic looking shoes and

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they were just like a silly trend
but kind of a streetwear trend, and

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they were cool and gone in two
weeks. Yeah. I only saw references

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to them. I never actually saw
them. Yeah, no, I've never

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seen them a person either. I
think they're super limited and kind of expensive.

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But the point being like that would
have been a trend for like a

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year, right, it would have
changed into rain boots, or it would

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have changed into something. But because
the internet, you saw it for a

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week, and you saw so much
of it for a week, You're like,

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fuck, that's lamee. I saw
an interview with the guy that created

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them, yeah, or one of
the Mischiefs guys, and I think you

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said the amount of boots that were
out there was nowhere near it because they

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made like a select amount. Yeah. No, I think it was like

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under five hundred, Like it was
nothing any of these. It's the one

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top Yeah, the two hundred nineteen
dollars stock x ones. I was gonna

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say top, right, but I
don't even know because now the screen's mirroring

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and I'm confused. Yeah, those
Yeah, that looks like I think a

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cartoon thing. No, I think
technically it was after Astro Boy. I

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think so, yeah, yeah,
they do look like Sonic boots to me,

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because I don't even know what the
fun I mean, I know who

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astro Boy is, but I don't
really know who astro Boy is. There's

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a red red version of yellow,
yeah, and then like a yellow croc

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version. Yeah. Then it made
me think of it because someone just made

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like a Bart Simpson shoe. You
know, he wears like some silhouette of

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a like a skater shoe, yeah, skateboard shoe. And so someone's making

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that in real life. And I
love all that creation, but it's like

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sad that those kind of creations come
and go so fast, and even music

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and music, I do think,
and this is personal opinion, but I

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think music is the most ever green
art on the planet where I could listen

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to a CCR song Creating's clear Water
was made eighty years ago, sixty years

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ago, nineteen seventies, seventies,
yeah, fifty fifty plus fifty plus,

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so fifty plus years ago, and
it could evoke the same sixties Yeah,

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same emotion, same thought, same
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the very first producer of it in
the studio, right, and I can

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listen to it repeatability. I've listened
to you know, fortune Son for fucking

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thousands of times and every time I
get something from it. Right Where clothing

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I feel like used to kind of
be cool, like that you put your

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favorite shirt on and you feel a
certain way, your favorite shoes on.

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Like more traditional mediums haven't really done
that for me. Like a picture or

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something. You might get like three
looks out of it, but once you

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hang it on your wall, the
next look, you're like it's been there,

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you know. Yeah, it depends. Like I like, if you

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buy original art, I think it
keeps hitting. I think, yeah,

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you feel something. But long story
short, even music gets ruined. And

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that's like the most evergreen thing to
me. But I'll hear a song or

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I'll find a song still because I'm
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and then it trends on fucking Instagram, and then I can't stop hearing

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it, and then I'm over it. I I sort of having that experience

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right now as a matter of fact, Like I just, you know,

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catch the world up. We haven't
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at least. I think the last
day that we did it was maybe the

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thirteenth ish maybe of June. And
it's twenty third, yeah, five six

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weeks of July. Yeah, it's
been about five or six weeks. I

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went to see musical on Broadway executive
produced by our friend David Tao Illinois,

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which is based on an album by
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and like I heard some of the
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into it, but never really like
paid attention. Sure, and a couple

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of those songs actually have. Having
seen the performance, I cannot get out

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of my head, like really,
like seriously cannot get out of my head.

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really really melodic and good arrangements and

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great voices and you know whatever,
like how do you and then like digging

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back into the original and then live
performances by yeah and oh my god.

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Yeah, but as soon as the
trends on Instagram, you're gonna hate them,

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probably, Yeah, that's what sucks. Probably. It sucks that show

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is closing pretty soon. I'd suggest
anybody who's near New York and wants to

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see East Coasters East Coasters, suggest
going because it was great And I actually

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got to meet David in person while
we were in New York. Yeah,

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and hung out a bit, hung
out a bit, super super cool guy,

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exactly what I was expecting. He
was on the podcast a couple of

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months ago. If you guys want
to scroll back, creator of a founder

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of bar Bend, which maybe I
don't know the exact data, but maybe

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the biggest gym or at least our
space like Barbell Weightlifting Space blog of all

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time. Yeah, because then there's
probably you know, P ninety x or

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some bullshit. Yeah, that's big, but they're all paid in trash.

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Yeah, and this, and it
was it was wide across kind of all

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ye crossfed, powerlifting strong man,
et cetera, et cetera. Yeah,

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smart dude, Smart dude, is
that our trending updates for the day.

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Trying to think what else I got. It's been going on. Basketball has

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been on my mind, Music's been
on my mind, Politics been on my

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mind. But we're not going to
dive too deep. But my Twitter crazy,

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My Twitter is crazy. My Twitter
is going nuts. Man. We're

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living in interesting times, bro,
It's got to be the matrix. Like

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there is some shit that happens every
day and I'm just like, holy fuck

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the fuck's going on? Yeah.
You know they say that where conspiracy theories

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come from is when you look at
something and it doesn't make sense to you.

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Yeah, like it doesn't jibe with
what your understanding of a situation.

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Yes, the whole six months,
a lot of stuff going on, That's

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the part of the issue for me
is, like I just said, everything

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else, you get fed so fast
and so accurate. Yeah, pretty accurate.

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The music the Olympics, Right,
Paul Pierce makes these rude comments on

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Friday Saturday's apologizing. Right, all
this stuff is so quick. But with

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what's going on in the political realm, I got no answers anywhere for any

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party, for either side. You
have no clue what's going on. Somehow

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they still keep sit like under wraps
and mysterious. I'm like, bitch,

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nothing's mysterious in twenty twenty four,
Like, might as well just tell me

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what the hell's going on? Yeah, yeah, No, it's crazy out

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there. Man, stay safe,
man, hug your loved ones, fucking

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take care of yourself. Don't buy
too much into this. I think I'm

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doing decent job of making it my
entertainment because as soon as you start to

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buy in or you're just gonna fuck
yourself and everything else, you know what

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I mean, Like a year from
now, we're gonna look back and like,

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yeah, that was crazy. But
like what's the stupid cliche? Like

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if this doesn't if this isn't gonna
be the exact question or exact thing that

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bothers you five years from now,
kind of brush it off, and not

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to say that who's our next president
or whatever isn't impactful in the world,

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But is it impactful that much on
your day to day, Like, you

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still have to figure out your shit. You still have to figure out what

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you're gonna get better at. You
still have to figure out your health,

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your business, your family, Like
make sure your real energy is going there,

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and then if you've got extra energy, go get entertained by the theater

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that is that is our country at
the moment. I think that it is.

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It's an interesting time to be an
observer. Observer of politics. Yeah,

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be an observer. Yeah, don't
of your little ast you know,

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don't don't. Don't die on the
cliff for any of this ship. Like,

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who knows what the fuck's going on? None of these motherfuckers actually can.

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Either side doesn't care about you,
They don't know your name. They

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just care about them fuckingmself. So
be an observer. You know, get

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educated. I think it's important to
get educated. I think it's important to

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research and read, and I think
it's important if you find the right people

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you can have discussions with because a
lot of these motherfuckers you can't even talk

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to regular humans, are gonna blow
your head off for no reason. If

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you can have a regular conversation with
a friend you trust, that's good too.

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But observer, I think is the
word of the day. Just be

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an observer. Another another thing to
throw out there. This was actually posted

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yesterday by somebody I know, somebody
I met years ago actually in Philadelphia,

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who was part of a very small
company that produced the software that inserts advertisement

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into podcasts, and he sold that
business as far as I know. But

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his post yesterday was talking about how
he said, like I made a lot

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of money off of political ads.
I made just just a crazy amount of

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money I can't imagine. Like he
lives out in the woods currently and that's

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you know, like on land and
nice developed stuff and whatever, and continue

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to work on it and and just
has has time to work on himself and

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you know all that stuff. He
said. Instead of donating money to political

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parties because God knows they have money, is find a charity that makes sense

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to you for sure to give them
your money and give your time. Yeah,

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you could impact people's lives maybe more
directly. Sure, And you know

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I mean, politics runs on money, and they and they find money.

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Small dollar donors have made a bigger
difference over the last you know, eight

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ten years of politics that they probably
ever have before. But in reality,

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you might be able to have a
greater impact on the things that you care

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the most about by being involved directly
in a charity. Yeah, these parties

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can't even get along anymore, and
you're gonna put your money into a party

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either side that doesn't fully see the
world the same. Yeah, yeah,

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what are you doing. You're wasting
your time. Go help some people if

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you got extra dough or your time
or again, Yeah, focus on your

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own shit, get healthy, focus
on your family. Yeah, it's messy.

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So I was. I was in
Philadelphia at the end of the trip,

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and this is actually the view from
the Rocky steps. So if you

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and you run up the rocky steps
and people do it all the time,

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Yeah, it's constant, yeah,
constantly people like this shot was the first

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shot that that and because I stood
there and waited until there was nobody coming

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up, and like immediately after that
there was this whole group that came up

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and took their pictures. Everybody's got
their hands in the air. Whatever,

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looking like Rocky looking like the statue. They probably haven't even seen the movie,

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fucking nerds, but potentially not,
who knows, They've probably just Creed

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and not. Yeah. The funny
thing about this statue is that it was

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up I don't remember what at what
point they it was. It was cast

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and put in that park outside It's
It's the Art Museum, and then people

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kind of forgot about Rocky and they
like put it in storage someplace and they

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took it down. Oh yeah,
Actually it was gone for some period of

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time and then Creed came out and
they brought it back. I don't know

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that is it in one of the
Rocky movies. I feel like it is,

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yeah, right, yeah, and
it's in Creed too, Yeah,

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Creed for sure, but like I
feel like, yeah, towards one of

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the end of the rock I think, yeah, five or six, he

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already shows that he's like legend in
a way. Yeah, yeah, I

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mean it. And it is huge
for the city of Philadelphia. Although Philly

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is like a huge city and a
lot of history, both like as a

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country and sport, the movie is
so iconic and I feel like when you

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do anything of that level for your
city, Yeah, not that I put

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Philly on the map. That's what
I was trying to get it, Like,

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Philly has so much shit, but
it is like an easy draw in

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your head. When you hear about
Philadelphia, Rocky's probably gonna pop up.

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Yeah. The the thing I didn't
realize before or not. I've been to

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Philadelphia before, but I didn't really
go as extensively into the neighborhood's side to

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this time. The neighborhood that he's
running through and that Creed runs through is

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so far from those steps. It's
it's far either the biggest aerobic capacity or

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their fucking liars. It's it's it's
I mean it's miles. That's right then

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Yeah, maybe I mean boxers be
going crazy, those motherfuckers be running.

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I don't know, two and a half,

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three miles. Yeah, yeah,
that's a realistic then. Yeah,

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for a little boxer jog in the
morning. Road work they call it in

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the biz. Yes, a little
bit of road work. Uh. I

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haven't really hung out in Philadelphia.
I've been out there for seminar and kind

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of went out to the woods with
the Baileys. I was out in reading

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reading and hers sheep and you know, which are near ish. But I

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didn't really hang out in the city
at all. It's worth it to go

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one time. And it was winter, yeah, which doesn't make me want

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to hang out anywhere in the East
Coast particularly, No, I agree with

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you. But also summer, Yeah, summer would be nice. Yeah,

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summer was. It was hot there. That was the hot, hottest days

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that we experienced on the whole the
whole trip. Luggy. Yeah, the

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first the first few days in Manhattan
were pretty warm and moist. Yeah,

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and and then you know, the
last few days, except for the very

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last day in Philadelphia where it was
like hot, like you gotta you gotta

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retire to a to an air conditioned
space for the afternoon and let things cool

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off. But I don't know,
I did you watch any soccer during this

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I watched all the Copa America US
and Argentina games, of course, because

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we're gonna win, so you gotta
watch it. Yeah, I watched both

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of dose. Well, I'll watch
a little bit of Europe. You know,

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I'm just not as invested in Italy
got knocked out real early, so

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any time dropped out. But I
think I watched you always see clips now,

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right, so you feel like you
were there although you weren't. But

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I watched a little bit of the
finals. But yeah, I'm just an

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Argentina fan. You know. The
last two days we were in in New

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York, we went to a hotel. Were like, we were in a

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hotel the first seven days and we're
on Airbnb in Harlem, which was an

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experience for ten days, and then
the last two we were back in Chelsea

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and we're checking into the hotel and
the guy behind the counter, as he's

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you know, doing our cards and
all that stuff, he's like, do

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you watch soccer? And I'm like, not really yeah, and he goes

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me either, and he said,
what in the lobby of this hotel,

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they've got a you know, seventy
five inch TV that's been on soccer all

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day? Yeah. Yeah, and
there are people gathered down there, even

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though they could be in the room. No, it's kind of fun.

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They're down there. And he's like, you said, those people over there,

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they've been watching that game for two
hours. Yeah, nobody's scored.

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That's such an American. He's like, I don't understand it. Yeah.

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I remember being in One of my
best friends would take family trips to Mexico

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and they used to bring me in
high school and so we went once or

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twice, but one of them was
a World Cup year, and same idea.

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They'd get a projector huge TV by
the pool at the resort and just

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everyone's in the pool watching the game, like it was so cool. You

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know, everyone's cheering what regardless of
what team it is, Like they had

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a game on basically twelve hours a
day. I do like that shit,

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and I feel like the Olympics are
even last World Cup here. I remember

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seeing a bunch of like the bars
here started to dress up and people show

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up. Soccer is getting more popular
in America in general, kind of like

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the dream team effect in basketball to
the world. I feel like the messy

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effect not only coming to America but
in general. And then even now,

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like the US teams arguably set up
to be one of our best teams of

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all time as they age, they're
kind of a younger squad. Pulstitch,

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our leading striker like is a really
good player from Europe. I mean he

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was born here but plays in Spain, I believe, and so like we

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have the potential to be good,
and so like that effect plus the leagues

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here are getting popular. Sacramento in
particular, what are we the USL,

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I don't even know what it is, but we're the smaller of the soccer

409
00:27:30.240 --> 00:27:34.640
leagues versus not MLS professional top level. Yeah, but there's a huge fan

410
00:27:34.720 --> 00:27:37.599
base here. You see like even
one of my neighbors as a flag for

411
00:27:37.640 --> 00:27:42.160
the SZAC Republic, which is our
our football club, or you'll see stickers

412
00:27:42.200 --> 00:27:47.160
and jerseys like it is slowly growing
in America. And I know the same.

413
00:27:47.200 --> 00:27:49.519
When I was flying to Austin,
Texas, I think with subbouts last

414
00:27:49.599 --> 00:27:53.319
year, maybe there's like people on
the plane with like Austin Texas soccer jerseys

415
00:27:53.359 --> 00:27:57.119
that like traveled with the team and
type shit. Like it really is growing,

416
00:27:57.480 --> 00:28:00.240
which is cool, and it is
the reason I like this sport.

417
00:28:00.519 --> 00:28:03.599
One. I grew up kind of
playing it, you know, up until

418
00:28:03.640 --> 00:28:07.400
junior high. I liked it a
lot. But two me and Kyle were

419
00:28:07.400 --> 00:28:12.319
speaking of this the roots of worldwide
soccer. The only thing that we can

420
00:28:12.440 --> 00:28:18.799
kind of relate to here is like
SEC or like Big ten football, where

421
00:28:18.839 --> 00:28:22.559
like if you grow up in Ohio
or you grow up in Alabama, your

422
00:28:22.559 --> 00:28:27.039
parents either have been an Alabama football
fan for twenty years before you were born,

423
00:28:27.160 --> 00:28:30.559
or they went to Bama. Then
you grow up being from Bama.

424
00:28:30.720 --> 00:28:37.079
Obama fan go to Bama. Like
the roots of the sport, it goes

425
00:28:37.119 --> 00:28:38.960
so deep where it just doesn't really
happen here, you know, on the

426
00:28:38.960 --> 00:28:42.160
West Coast, people move here.
Like the amount of people that have like

427
00:28:42.200 --> 00:28:47.480
two to three generations in Sack are
far and few between. So like the

428
00:28:47.559 --> 00:28:51.559
root of the sport just isn't so
or even now, like the legacy family

429
00:28:51.640 --> 00:28:53.240
isn't a thing, right, Like
if so and so went to Berkeley,

430
00:28:53.400 --> 00:28:57.000
chances are that two generations of kids. It doesn't really happen like that as

431
00:28:57.079 --> 00:29:03.000
much anymore. But in Europe,
you know, you're going back a thousand

432
00:29:03.119 --> 00:29:07.000
years to your greatest to the tenth
Grandpa was born in Spain and you're born

433
00:29:07.000 --> 00:29:11.160
in Spain and football is all you
guys, know, like you're going to

434
00:29:11.240 --> 00:29:14.200
be fucking about it, you know, like you're about it more than anything

435
00:29:14.200 --> 00:29:15.960
else, way more than any sports
team here. Which I do like that

436
00:29:17.039 --> 00:29:19.200
because the culture is just so deep. Yeah, I want to go to

437
00:29:19.200 --> 00:29:25.400
a game. I want to go. We got twenty twenty six, twenty

438
00:29:25.480 --> 00:29:33.799
twenty six World Cup. Really Yeah, Santa Clara Sofi in La Seattle Stadium

439
00:29:33.279 --> 00:29:37.519
the Seahawks, I assume. I
think maybe Miami. There's a couple of

440
00:29:37.559 --> 00:29:41.640
stadiums, but I know Santa Clara's
getting games. That's my goal. Hopefully

441
00:29:41.680 --> 00:29:45.480
Messy plays. I don't think he's
announced it. I haven't been to a

442
00:29:45.519 --> 00:29:48.000
Sacropoblic game in a while, but
I don't have to. I have to

443
00:29:48.079 --> 00:29:52.240
check the schedule. My my grandkids
are coming to Thanksgiving and they're really from

444
00:29:52.240 --> 00:29:55.880
Canada and they really want to go. Yeah, they're fun. I wonder

445
00:29:55.920 --> 00:29:57.359
won they're fun. The crowd is
pretty good. I just wish we would

446
00:29:57.359 --> 00:30:00.039
get a fucking stadium by now.
Goddamn. Yeah, they're supposed to be

447
00:30:00.039 --> 00:30:03.400
working on that, but it's not. I bought my house eight years ago.

448
00:30:03.440 --> 00:30:06.720
They told me they're building the stadium. Well that's always that's part for

449
00:30:06.759 --> 00:30:08.640
the course. I think that's crazy. Yeah, literally, I had to

450
00:30:08.680 --> 00:30:11.920
sign like all these extra contracts for
the construction that's going to go on because

451
00:30:11.920 --> 00:30:15.720
it's right by my house. Right, Yeah, it's crazy. I just

452
00:30:15.799 --> 00:30:18.559
doxed myself. Now everyone knows where
I love. You've done that before,

453
00:30:18.599 --> 00:30:22.599
Yeah, nothing new, Yeah,
fucking yeah, I gotta signd all these

454
00:30:22.599 --> 00:30:25.359
contracts, like, hey, there
may be this construction and that construction,

455
00:30:25.440 --> 00:30:27.640
and the roads may change by you
and this and that. All right,

456
00:30:27.640 --> 00:30:32.000
man, fucking six and a half
years later, I don't think they started

457
00:30:32.000 --> 00:30:33.839
digging for the stadium. I don't
think so either. Yeah, other things

458
00:30:33.839 --> 00:30:41.640
have gone but one day. Yeah, so obviously I'm going to spent the

459
00:30:41.680 --> 00:30:47.359
majority of the majority of the month
away. Yeah, and a lot of

460
00:30:47.440 --> 00:30:51.079
you know, like I said,
we're on the streets in Harlem. I

461
00:30:51.079 --> 00:30:53.559
think I told you. The most
interesting thing to me was on the fourth

462
00:30:53.559 --> 00:30:56.240
of July. There are all these
like block parties and stuff going on around

463
00:30:56.279 --> 00:31:00.039
us. The music was not wrap, folks, was not rap. It

464
00:31:00.119 --> 00:31:06.279
was like classic R and B,
current R and B, very listenable.

465
00:31:06.480 --> 00:31:10.400
But going back to what you're saying, like, there's probably that's not trending,

466
00:31:10.599 --> 00:31:12.440
Yeah, because you're sick of the
shit that's trending, exactly exactly.

467
00:31:12.559 --> 00:31:17.160
Yeah, it wasn't stuff I recognized, but other than just what genre,

468
00:31:17.519 --> 00:31:19.240
sure, Yeah, I mean that's
why, like I grew up listening to

469
00:31:19.400 --> 00:31:22.799
rap, but I don't listen that
much anymore. Yeah, just because the

470
00:31:22.839 --> 00:31:26.279
songs do they get spoiled so quick
and obviously I'm just an old fogie,

471
00:31:26.279 --> 00:31:29.799
so I hate all the new artists
with no talent, and I can bitch

472
00:31:29.799 --> 00:31:32.960
about all that stuff now, but
for sure, you know, but it.

473
00:31:33.079 --> 00:31:36.720
Yeah, I listen to like fucking
I listened to African artists because of

474
00:31:36.799 --> 00:31:40.960
my Jacob and my buddy law.
They showed me afrobeats in like twenty seventeen.

475
00:31:41.160 --> 00:31:44.519
I listen to all those guys,
all the guys from Nigeria and South

476
00:31:44.559 --> 00:31:51.039
Africa and a couple from Sudan Cameroon. The uh the only time that I

477
00:31:51.160 --> 00:31:55.599
felt uncomfortable writing the subways and all
this stuff, which the subways are super

478
00:31:55.599 --> 00:31:57.319
clean and they feel very safe.
Yeah, I think they're better than Bart.

479
00:31:57.440 --> 00:32:00.519
Huh oh yeah, oh fuck yeah, there's much better than Bart,

480
00:32:00.839 --> 00:32:04.160
much much better than Bart. I
mean there was a lot of like like

481
00:32:04.200 --> 00:32:08.440
when when I it was on my
Facebook story, like Instagram story was a

482
00:32:08.480 --> 00:32:13.960
Facebook story, and the wife of
one of my cousins was like, oh

483
00:32:14.039 --> 00:32:15.279
my god, be careful in New
York or whatever, and it was like,

484
00:32:15.640 --> 00:32:20.000
ookay, this is like like seventh
or eighth trip to New York ever,

485
00:32:20.720 --> 00:32:22.880
and like it's not my first rodeo
number one, number two. I

486
00:32:22.920 --> 00:32:28.279
don't know how uncomfortable. Yeah,
like I've I've seldom been in situations in

487
00:32:28.279 --> 00:32:30.000
New York where where I felt uncomfortable. I'm kind of the same. I

488
00:32:30.440 --> 00:32:35.039
am sadly more uncomfortable in places in
California than I am in New York.

489
00:32:35.160 --> 00:32:42.200
If you look Google to imagine like
bart or Bay Area transit like clips,

490
00:32:42.480 --> 00:32:45.440
they're gonna be way, way more
dangerous than if you google like New York

491
00:32:45.720 --> 00:32:50.319
subway. Once. New York subway
ones are crazy, Like you'll see like

492
00:32:50.319 --> 00:32:52.680
a band set up in there,
something you know, like you'll lie to

493
00:32:52.720 --> 00:32:55.519
that. Yeah, like dudes like
driving their motorcycle through the subway like weird

494
00:32:55.559 --> 00:33:00.279
shit circus type shit, but like
the dangerous ship. Yeah. Even friends

495
00:33:00.279 --> 00:33:02.640
that live in the Bay areas still
they're like, yeah, man, there's

496
00:33:02.680 --> 00:33:06.839
like drugs happening in the back of
the I never noticed any of that in

497
00:33:06.880 --> 00:33:09.599
the subway either. I did see
someone shooting somebody else up on the streets

498
00:33:09.640 --> 00:33:13.759
in New York. That was interesting. That was one I hadn't seen before.

499
00:33:14.240 --> 00:33:15.480
I see. The thing. The
thing was that was like the most

500
00:33:15.559 --> 00:33:22.160
disconcerting is there was one dude on
the subway. My wife and I were

501
00:33:22.160 --> 00:33:27.160
writing with our niece and guy was
just like going off yelling and stuff,

502
00:33:27.160 --> 00:33:30.400
and it was you couldn't figure out
what he was saying, the drug or

503
00:33:30.400 --> 00:33:32.640
mental health or something. It was
clearly I think both. Yeah, I

504
00:33:32.680 --> 00:33:36.640
think it was both. And the
mental health part of it is like scary.

505
00:33:36.680 --> 00:33:37.880
And the people that like, even
on the streets, the people who

506
00:33:37.920 --> 00:33:43.119
are most intimidating are the people who
have mental health challenges and just don't have

507
00:33:43.160 --> 00:33:45.279
control of themselves. And because they
don't have control of themselves, you have

508
00:33:45.359 --> 00:33:47.519
no idea what's going to happen.
Yeah, you can't reason with them,

509
00:33:47.599 --> 00:33:51.759
even if you're calm and want to
have a conversation. That's that's part that's

510
00:33:51.799 --> 00:33:55.440
scary. But that can happen anywhere. It's just the population concentration is so

511
00:33:55.519 --> 00:34:00.640
much higher in New York City that
you're more likely to encounter than you are

512
00:34:00.640 --> 00:34:02.400
in a lot of other places.
For sure. Yeah, Oklahoma doesn't have

513
00:34:02.400 --> 00:34:07.759
a fucking subway. Yeah but it
but you know it manifests and weird and

514
00:34:07.039 --> 00:34:10.519
strange places too. I hope no
one is offended by this story as I

515
00:34:10.559 --> 00:34:14.800
tell it, but this is fuck
them all. This is absolutely true.

516
00:34:15.800 --> 00:34:19.679
So we were we were riding the
subway at one point, my wife and

517
00:34:19.679 --> 00:34:22.119
I toward the end of the the
thing, and it's probably about a twenty

518
00:34:22.199 --> 00:34:28.239
minute ride or so, and there
was a woman sitting are not directly across

519
00:34:28.280 --> 00:34:30.039
from us, but like on the
angle across from us in the car,

520
00:34:30.639 --> 00:34:37.800
and uh, notable initially in the
fact that she had a long cardboard box

521
00:34:37.840 --> 00:34:44.320
from Crumble and she kept getting into
it and getting pieces of this very sticky

522
00:34:45.559 --> 00:34:50.920
pastry and the humidity and then the
eating it right, and like there's a

523
00:34:50.960 --> 00:34:53.480
whole like delicate thing going on with
her hands and whatever. Whatever. Yeah,

524
00:34:53.480 --> 00:35:00.199
subway rails are known to be dirty. As the last the last piece

525
00:35:00.280 --> 00:35:07.039
that she took out, she finished
it, she licked her fingers and then

526
00:35:07.480 --> 00:35:10.199
she went to her face like she
was applying something that she just got from

527
00:35:10.239 --> 00:35:15.079
the ordinary, you know what I'm
saying, all down her face. I

528
00:35:15.079 --> 00:35:17.800
thought, well, that's that's really
odd. And then I started looking at

529
00:35:17.840 --> 00:35:23.679
this person more closely, and this
was, you know, this was a

530
00:35:23.719 --> 00:35:32.920
female presenting person, like credibly sure
and maybe one hundred percent except for the

531
00:35:32.960 --> 00:35:37.079
little chin whisker business that was going
on. I was gonna say an Adam's

532
00:35:37.079 --> 00:35:42.400
apple and and like it wasn't until
I put all that together that I thought,

533
00:35:42.599 --> 00:35:46.079
Oh, here's a person experiencing some
mental health challenges. Yeah, maybe

534
00:35:46.519 --> 00:35:52.280
because you don't just take the sticky
from the Yeah, and a face there

535
00:35:52.320 --> 00:35:58.320
is not like a that's not a
beauty regime that anyone has subscribed to.

536
00:35:58.760 --> 00:36:00.559
The saliva clean and the face too. That should just retire, Like I

537
00:36:00.559 --> 00:36:04.119
don't even care if you're your auntie. Shouldn't be doing that to a three

538
00:36:04.239 --> 00:36:07.000
year old, Like that's not doing
nothing. The lick the finger fixed the

539
00:36:07.119 --> 00:36:10.039
smudge. That's gross. Yeah,
I don't even do it to myself.

540
00:36:10.360 --> 00:36:14.119
People still do that to themselves,
like lick their thumb and like wipe some

541
00:36:14.199 --> 00:36:16.400
offl and go the fuck, just
go to the bathroom, got running water.

542
00:36:17.960 --> 00:36:22.760
Four. Yeah. Another thing that
I'm just gonna connect to the mental

543
00:36:22.760 --> 00:36:29.360
health thing, Like somebody that I
have known for twenty plus years was very

544
00:36:29.360 --> 00:36:35.000
recently in the last twenty four to
thirty six hours outed as being a serial

545
00:36:36.440 --> 00:36:40.440
abuser. And I know that this
person has mental health challenges, and I'm

546
00:36:40.960 --> 00:36:45.840
and you know, I'm surprised and
not surprised at the same time, because

547
00:36:45.920 --> 00:36:52.639
like this person was abused as a
child, and abuse kind of runs downhill

548
00:36:52.800 --> 00:36:59.639
and has been like under the care
of doctors and whatever for years and years

549
00:36:59.639 --> 00:37:04.440
and years in years, and still
this thing happened. These things, I

550
00:37:04.519 --> 00:37:08.559
mean, if it's hard not to
believe the women who came forward about it.

551
00:37:08.679 --> 00:37:15.800
Yeah, and I'm just like,
I don't I'm not even sure exactly

552
00:37:15.840 --> 00:37:21.960
what to say, other than you
know, some of the women in their

553
00:37:22.000 --> 00:37:28.840
stories had the self to esteem to
disconnect themselves from the situation. Yeah,

554
00:37:28.880 --> 00:37:31.000
we're talking about like sexual abuse and
things, which is something you hear often

555
00:37:31.599 --> 00:37:40.559
like a natural behavioral thing where you
just like go third person. Yeah,

556
00:37:40.599 --> 00:37:45.400
and I think if you have to
think about something too hard about whether or

557
00:37:45.440 --> 00:37:51.119
not it defends you, it probably
is not all that offensive. But if

558
00:37:51.119 --> 00:37:54.480
you were immediately offended and you're trying
to normalize it in your mind, that's

559
00:37:54.519 --> 00:38:00.280
probably fucked up. Yeah. It's
a weird year, like again, with

560
00:38:00.320 --> 00:38:06.079
like the content investigations and people's access
to people's lives, like you text me,

561
00:38:06.119 --> 00:38:09.760
I didn't want to text it back. But one of mister Beast's crew

562
00:38:10.199 --> 00:38:15.679
is under like major fire for very
similar things right now. Yeah, doctor

563
00:38:15.719 --> 00:38:17.280
disrespect. I don't know if we
talked about that on here, but a

564
00:38:17.320 --> 00:38:21.119
twitch streamer I've watched just like twenty
fifteen, twenty sixteen, who was at

565
00:38:21.159 --> 00:38:27.519
Norcall Local, you know, was
messaging minors inappropriately, and then like what

566
00:38:27.719 --> 00:38:30.519
sucks is again like not to like
sit on my high horse like I'm perfect

567
00:38:30.639 --> 00:38:34.519
or nothing. But going back to
like that political speech I said, like

568
00:38:34.559 --> 00:38:38.400
people get so tied into what they
they're like crew or their political beliefs,

569
00:38:38.400 --> 00:38:43.840
and you know, identity politics is
the cliche term, but like identity anything

570
00:38:44.079 --> 00:38:47.880
is so bad for all of us
as a collective that it happens like,

571
00:38:47.960 --> 00:38:51.199
oh, well, that's my favorite
streamer. He didn't do that. That's

572
00:38:51.199 --> 00:38:54.000
not that bad, Like show me
evidence, and you know, we'll talk

573
00:38:54.079 --> 00:38:58.480
politics for now, because it's not
us, it's other people. But doctor

574
00:38:58.519 --> 00:39:01.320
disrespecting his crew seem to lean to
the right, and mister Beast and his

575
00:39:01.559 --> 00:39:07.719
crew seem to lean to the left. And two individuals did very similar activities

576
00:39:08.079 --> 00:39:13.719
on both sides. And my Twitter's
full of now both because it's always been

577
00:39:13.760 --> 00:39:15.800
gaming and like sports, but now
it's gaming sports and politics. And then

578
00:39:15.840 --> 00:39:22.239
the politics dig themselves into the gaming
world and you see which streamers are vocal

579
00:39:22.440 --> 00:39:29.239
or pissed off or cut off other
content creators. But only when it's on

580
00:39:29.280 --> 00:39:35.440
this other political side, but the
wrongdoings are nearly identical. Yeah, when

581
00:39:35.480 --> 00:39:38.159
you have to look on your side
like that's fucking dumb, bro like,

582
00:39:38.679 --> 00:39:43.639
I hate it, fucking on.
That's literally the issue with everything going on.

583
00:39:43.800 --> 00:39:45.639
So again, to be an observer
of these things is great, but

584
00:39:45.679 --> 00:39:51.159
if you're tying yourself to an identity
to a human or a group that you

585
00:39:51.239 --> 00:39:53.920
have never met, right, you
haven't even shook hands with, let alone

586
00:39:53.960 --> 00:39:58.639
have a real relationship with. We
need to get off the fucking internet.

587
00:39:58.880 --> 00:40:01.880
We need to understand what a the
real relationship is. And it's easy to

588
00:40:01.920 --> 00:40:06.039
say, but things are happening around
us, around and we live in the

589
00:40:06.039 --> 00:40:10.440
fucking capital so California, but everywhere
where. You're gonna choose a group that

590
00:40:10.559 --> 00:40:19.320
you don't even know that speaks about
something they believe in. You don't even

591
00:40:19.360 --> 00:40:24.280
know how they act in front of
doors or behind doors over someone that you

592
00:40:24.519 --> 00:40:30.920
know personally and see and know how
they act like that is fucking insanity.

593
00:40:31.000 --> 00:40:37.360
If you choose something that you truly
don't know over an individual that you can

594
00:40:37.480 --> 00:40:40.599
judge. You have the right to
judge someone you've met and interacted with.

595
00:40:42.599 --> 00:40:45.760
And just because you guys vote a
certain way, or you follow a certain

596
00:40:45.800 --> 00:40:51.760
person, or you think you believe
the same thing as this group is insane

597
00:40:51.800 --> 00:40:55.760
to me. So my rant ends
with I believe that you should judge individuals,

598
00:40:57.679 --> 00:41:01.840
You should believe individuals. You should
make your own core beliefs, not

599
00:41:02.000 --> 00:41:06.239
based on what the fuck's going on, not what your political party says.

600
00:41:06.320 --> 00:41:08.760
Make your own judgments on this world
and how you want to move through it.

601
00:41:09.280 --> 00:41:15.239
And then you should connect yourself and
collect individuals that you think have the

602
00:41:15.280 --> 00:41:19.639
same moral ground, not what you
vote on, not where my taxes go,

603
00:41:19.920 --> 00:41:22.480
not the point six percent or the
point three percent you think you're fucking

604
00:41:22.480 --> 00:41:25.639
fighting for, not donating the parties
that don't give a fuck about you,

605
00:41:27.159 --> 00:41:32.119
like connect with the individuals around you, because it's getting fucking ridiculous, Bro,

606
00:41:32.199 --> 00:41:37.880
it's getting so fucking bad. And
like that example, the content creators

607
00:41:37.920 --> 00:41:39.840
is just such an even playing field. They're both content creators, they're both

608
00:41:39.960 --> 00:41:43.840
very popular, they're both X,
Y and Z, and to see like

609
00:41:44.239 --> 00:41:46.239
people speak out or not speak out, and then they're fighting each other which

610
00:41:46.239 --> 00:41:50.239
one's worse, Like, bro,
bad is bad? Yeah? Like bad

611
00:41:50.320 --> 00:41:52.480
is bad? Yeah exactly. And
I think that, like like I was

612
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saying before, like you know in
your gut whether something's right or wrong.

613
00:41:58.320 --> 00:42:01.199
Yeah, if you have to use
your brain AI to justify a thing that

614
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your gut says is wrong a straw
man, Yeah, exactly, exactly.

615
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And that's what's going on all these
debates I read on Twitter, a bunch

616
00:42:08.920 --> 00:42:13.000
of fucking idiots. Man, it's
bad. It's bad. Spread your best

617
00:42:13.280 --> 00:42:15.159
message, Spread it with people you
believe in. For sure, Connect with

618
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people you believe in. And and
again, like take the individual over the

619
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group. I don't understand where that
became so normal to like tie in with

620
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the group, whether you know them
or don't know them. Most of the

621
00:42:27.119 --> 00:42:30.039
case you don't know them, Yeah, rather than like just judging the individual

622
00:42:30.039 --> 00:42:31.880
in front of you, how do
they act, how do they believe?

623
00:42:31.920 --> 00:42:36.320
What is the history you have seen
this individual do or not do? And

624
00:42:36.440 --> 00:42:39.119
of course take on this internet evidence
because some of that's pretty damning. Of

625
00:42:39.239 --> 00:42:44.679
these instances I'm talking of. But
yeah, it's fucking weird, man,

626
00:42:44.960 --> 00:42:46.280
it really, that's what really does
feel like I'm in the matrix. I

627
00:42:46.280 --> 00:42:50.880
need to unplug like Neo and figure
the fuck's going on. We don't even

628
00:42:50.920 --> 00:42:52.239
have AI yet, or maybe we
do. Maybe, oh, we totally

629
00:42:52.280 --> 00:42:55.079
do. Yeah. I figured out
something yesterday. Yeah that was good.

630
00:42:55.719 --> 00:42:58.559
Yeah. I started doing math after
you send me that. I was like,

631
00:42:58.559 --> 00:43:00.760
oh that actually that works out pretty
good. Yeah it does. It's

632
00:43:00.840 --> 00:43:04.159
like, ah, okay, yeah, gym's doing fucking geometry math with some

633
00:43:04.199 --> 00:43:07.320
AI. Yeah. It just explained
the whole thing for me, Like all

634
00:43:07.360 --> 00:43:09.280
I had to do was figure out
to formulate the problem. Yeah. Yeah,

635
00:43:09.360 --> 00:43:14.079
yeah, it is crazy. It
is crazy. Yeah. Well,

636
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number you guys need to know.
We're having a heat wave again, another

637
00:43:17.440 --> 00:43:21.239
a nice one ten today, I
think, Yeah, it's it's it's quite

638
00:43:21.320 --> 00:43:23.559
warm, and this is not a
conditioned space. And so we're recording at

639
00:43:23.559 --> 00:43:28.119
you know, eight thirty in the
morning, and Mike's got something. He's

640
00:43:28.119 --> 00:43:30.559
got a heart out here very soon, and so we're gonna wrap this one

641
00:43:30.639 --> 00:43:36.800
up. But we're happy to be
back in the saddle after our breaks.

642
00:43:37.000 --> 00:43:42.039
Mike was in Vegas, I was
in nice East Coast. This is the

643
00:43:42.079 --> 00:43:45.039
longest that the two of us have
both been gone from the gym since we

644
00:43:45.159 --> 00:43:49.480
opened the thing. Probably true,
Yeah, probably true. I'm pretty certain

645
00:43:49.519 --> 00:43:51.320
of it. Yeah, yeah,
it might have been the longest I've been

646
00:43:51.320 --> 00:43:54.280
gone in general. Possibly be true
as Yeah, yeah, I normally don't

647
00:43:54.280 --> 00:43:59.039
take. My trips are normally a
week. Yes, ladies and gentlemen,

648
00:43:59.119 --> 00:44:01.400
New episodes Wednesday. We'll catch you
there. Third Street, Barbells, Soccomano,

649
00:44:01.440 --> 00:44:05.119
California, THRESB Dot Seal for all
your nees. I'm so Michael,

650
00:44:05.119 --> 00:44:07.199
you want to find me, I'm
Matthews, You're mcdan. All the social

651
00:44:07.239 --> 00:44:08.840
media. This show is fifty percent
facts. For percent is word and fifty

652
00:44:08.920 --> 00:44:14.920
is just numbers. Fifty percent Facts
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653
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on the Obscure Celebrity Network. And
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654
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bit of a break from Friday episodes. They will be back at some point

655
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soon. Trying to work up towards
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656
00:44:25.239 --> 00:44:29.159
how we distribute that part of the
show. And we'll see and then we'll

657
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talk to you next time.