What’s your “cranky old man” opinion? | One Good Question

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Ladies and gentlemen, Welcome to One
Good Question, our Friday episode where we

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get involved with the community and potentially
ask questions today. And this is very

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relevant to me as I'm now officially
unk. I feel like and I was

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talking to Omar last night. We
had a nice two hour reminisce. We're

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talking about how old we are in
old generations and Golden era and all that

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bullshit. The question is, what's
an old man opinion? You have something

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that kids do that you just don't
get, So are you? So I'll

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start the youngest you got an old
man opinion? You got you're a bit

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of an old soul for your age, just in general. Yeah, I

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think so it could be anything online
stuff, lifting stuff. I mean,

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I have a million, so I
don't even know what I'm gonna say,

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pass passed, it would come back
to me, come back to me,

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Oh come. The lifting one for
me is probably like the my head coach

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shoutout. Dean Stark, one of
my first and greatest mentors of all time,

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would always talk about fake intensity or
fake motivation, and so you'd see

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you know, you see Kobe beating
his chest, but that's just because he

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just played his living heart out for
forty minutes, you know, and he's

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literally trying to restart his herd.
Yeah, he's done it for forty years

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or something, right, Or he's
screaming or you know, you're clapping them

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up your chest bumping. So then
I didn't notice it much as a player

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because my team was pretty passionate.
But then I started to coach under him,

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and I would notice it in players. They would see big guys do

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it, or maybe they watched me
play a couple of years before them,

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and they'd be screaming on defense.
But then they're like lazy, you know,

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they're like not even working hard.
They're not diving for a free ball,

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like it has to come after the
act. And so I don't know

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if it's a TikTok and I was
told at one point as a TikTok trend

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or whatever. These motherfuckers are hitting
three by three, RPE six and ye,

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eating their belt across the room and
screaming in their camera like they just

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fought a lion. Well, you
know, and I'm like, look,

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man, I love a little passion
and I love intensity, I really do,

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because you know I lack it now. I just don't care. But

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it's gotta be real. You know, you got to really have fought for

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something. You can't be powerlifting for
two years and think you're an absolute savage

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that you're going through the grind.
I've seen people tweet shit like that.

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Yeah, you know, powerlifting things
and the grind. I'm a bitch.

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You've lifted for six months. Even
if you've lifted for three years, I

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don't give a flying fuck. You
know, Like the grind is like at

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least twenty five percent of your life. That should be the rule. Then

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you can call it a fucking grind. And the older you get, the

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harder gid is the grind. That's
for damn sure. I got one,

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all right. Shout out to a
little Adrian. Oh damn, you're gonna

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call them out? No, no, shout out because we're talking about this

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the other day. Putting chalk on
the back of your shirt, Oh yeah,

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I had this conversation with him last
night. Chalk everywhere, and that's

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been a thing for sure. Uh. The chalk on a fucking the bench,

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chalk on the bar, chock on
your back big motherfuckers will put chalk

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on their back and not even put
the bar where the chalk is. Yep.

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Well, and I saw that start
really, I think start in e

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courts powerlifting for sure, And you
know a lot of fat motherfuckers were sweating

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through their all of their gear and
so it was wet, and like when

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you put the the the chalk on
there, it literally like made a practically

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a paste yeah, on their on
the back of their suits. But even

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that, like is it really helping, because like, wear a cotton shirt

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if you're not wearing like under armor, like a wet shirt's kind of sticky

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to begin with. Yeah, I
don't yeah, I don't know. It

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gets heavier, right, and so
like if the bar has some kind of

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neuraling. I've never had a bar
slip off my back except when I'm wearing

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like an under armory type shirt or
there's no neuraling in the middle. You

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know, it's just a beater bar
away. That's the only time wetness has

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affected a bar. I've had it
slide off in a way that it had

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nothing to do with wetness, right, and had had everything to do with

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how thick the squad suit. Sure, straps of the squads because the suit

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is a little different. It'll be
canvassy and some of that is a little

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slippery or depending, but I would
I would submit. The thing that's worse

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is putting chalk on the bar.
Yeah. I think that's slightly less common

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because people just get shamed or whatever. But people do that a lot.

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It defeats the purpose of the neural. Yeah, they do a lot.

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Or the amount of chalk people out
on their hands. Baby Powder's another one.

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Motherfucker be going from RPE seven and
they come in looking like a snowman,

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like what are we doing? Like
it's just if you can't pull an

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army Montana. Yeah, if you
can't pull an RP E eight without baby

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chalking. I baby chalked up twice
in a in a competition, I would

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go fucking the heaviest deadlift in prep
and then maybe second and third attempt.

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I think I'm not even baby I
don't know from my opener, like bitch

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and shoes smoked that thing, and
the baby potter's not doing that much.

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I think I only did in competition. Yeah, I ever did it in

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Yeah, training, dude, there's
baby powder flying all around this place.

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That's a zoomer shit for sure.
For talking like thing. Yeah, no,

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I think that's true, And some
of it's like I get it,

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and I don't want to take someone's
passion and fun away, right because if

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that's fun for you and you're prepping, yuck, anybody's young. Yeah,

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it's like the football guy throwing pain
on his face, which was made for

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sun glare, but they're playing in
an indoor arena. Look, man,

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if you feel cool with the pain
on, do a paint. But you

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know, we also got to have
a little perspective here. That's part of

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the grind because if you do it
twenty years, fifteen years, ten years,

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five years, you don't have a
baby powder on every day. Shit's

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annoying, you know I do.
I barely use chalk, yeah, and

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it's hot out there. I barely
use chalk for anything. Maybe at chin

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up if my shit's real slippery and
I have fucking anxiety MOISTNDS and I'm still

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not chalking up as hard as everyone
goes Moist team. I think mine is

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definitely just not being able to lift
on any equipment that's just available. There's

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definitely high maintenance list. Just now. It's like I gotta have kila plates.

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I got to be in a combo. I gotta have I have.

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I have to have the combo that
is in the meat I'm doing. I

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have to have the bar that's in
the meat I'm doing. It's like,

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have you heard anything about being adaptable? Yeah? Like, is that is

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that there's a strong under any circumstances, any conditions, Like like what if

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we got to tier these? Like
I can at least understand slightly the kilow

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to a regular plate, right because
obviously they're calibrated depending on the gym our

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gym, which I don't know if
the lifters know or not, but hopefully

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they listen to this. Like,
our pound plates are incredibly expensive because they're

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incredibly accurate. They're not technically calibrated. But the few bottom Yeah, go

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fucking weigh them. Yeah, go
way them. They're gonna be within a

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pound for sure. Where you go
to a regular gym and you weigh of

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forty five, it could literally be
forty nine. I get that. H

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And they're thicker. Ours are not
thick. They're thicker than a kilo,

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but they're not thick. Our plates
aren't gonna cause your whip going crazy.

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So that one I at least kind
of can start to understand. The bar

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probably overrated if you can't. You
know, chances are if we did a

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blind full test and I put you
under an Ohio power, a rogue power,

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and a TSS power, You're probably
not gonna know. But THESS is

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whippier. Yeah, Like if I
if I blindfold your ass, like,

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you're not feeling that whip. You
know, someone who's actually strong said that,

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and you're you're parroting what they said, because if you pull eight hundred,

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yeah it feels it probably is whippier. But if you're pulling probably even

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below six hundred, probably not gonna
tell on a stiff bar. The one

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I literally just can't get is the
Combo Rex squad rack. Like no one

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will use a squat rack, although
it serves one hundred percent the same function

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and it feels ninety five percent the
same and safer. Yeah, you can

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definitely. Yeah, if I'm squatting
alone, I'm going on a squad wreck,

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especially ours, because they're in the
ground and I'm throwing the arms up.

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I trust those arms more than I
trust these dipshits spotting me. Yeah

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right, Yeah, the steals you're
not gonna Yeah, no, they're stiff

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as shit and it's in the ground. As long as you're not throwing jet

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fuel on the steel, you're okay, right, Yeah, yeah. I

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literally just don't get it that one. I don't get it at all.

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And even like the entitlement to even
understand that, like the train on comp

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equipment every day, is so rare
and such a blessing, even in nowadays

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when it is more common. In
our days, it was unheard of.

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Yeah, it's like privilege. We
had a whole kilo set when we're powerlifting

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and no one won't even touch it, just sat there, hang my bag

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on it. We didn't want to
use it. Fuck that thing. Yeah,

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it's crazy. And the truth is
the best lifters aren't like that.

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You look at the best lifters,
they're simply not like that. I just

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don't get it because no other sport
was like that, playing up basketball all

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the way up to pro am,
like we're not giving a My sneakers were

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very important, but I had multiple
sneakers I would wear like I'm not just

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gonna go run out there in vans, you know, Like my sneakers were

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important. But I'm not bitching about
the ball. I'm not bitching about the

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net. I've played in some really
fucking C minus gems. You know.

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One was an air hanger because I
was in a small league. One wasn't

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an airplane, old airplane hangar and
woodland that they put like puzzle pieces on,

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you know, talk about like no
spring, like your knees are getting

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clanked up. The ball barely bounces. It's freezing in there. There's no

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heater, so the ball literally won't
bounce because of the cold. Are like,

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and yeah, that sucks you to
bitch about it, but it's not

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like, well I'm not going to
go compete there, Like what the fuck?

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Yeah, I don't get it.
I well I could see, like

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you don't want to do a meat
that has shitty equipment. Sure, that's

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different than having perfectly competent equipment perfectly
you know, that just isn't the brand

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you're Yeah, especially us, like
all of our equipment is B plus is

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the worst writing I would give any
of our shit, Yeah right, because

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like maybe you don't like the Texas
power bar because they're not used in a

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lot of meats, all right,
And that's still like how close it is

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to the bar the deviation of difference
from the bar you will compete at,

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but regardless of what bar it is
is like nearly nothing, yes, nearly

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nothing. Yeah, I don't know. I don't know. Kids. You

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gotta get it together. You gotta
get it the fucking together. I'm kidding.

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I have a many old man opinions
on many other things, but we'll

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leave it to lifting for now.
That sounds good, all right, Lady

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