Nov. 6, 2024

Why are federations always in turmoil? | WRPF drama

Why are federations always in turmoil? | WRPF drama

Why are there so many federations? Is it just because people can’t get along? Without getting too far down in the details of each incident, you must ask, “Why is there nearly always some kind of drama within federations?” No one really knows, but it’s...

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Why are there so many federations? Is it just because people can’t get along? Without getting too far down in the details of each incident, you must ask, “Why is there nearly always some kind of drama within federations?” No one really knows, but it’s possible to take some guesses. Is there any hope for unified federations in powerlifting, or is there too much friction?

Listener resources: Reddit thread about WRPF drama: https://www.reddit.com/r/powerlifting/comments/1gilgdg/wrpf_corruption_powerlifting_united/

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pretty clean. Now you'll probably trade it. I'm on, I'm

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like twelve.

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I'm a fourteen pro, but I think I'm gonna get

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the sixteen so I can get the AI. Yeah, and

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I'm sure it's like I'm starting to just GUI in

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it right like right now?

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Yeah? Why not?

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Yeah?

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Why not? Instagram has its own in the DMS and

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ship now yeah yeah.

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Instagram and and Facebook meta as same ship.

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Google Gemini.

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Yeah, there's there's some crazy stuff like chat gibt dos

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images now. Oh, there's like a trend on threads. It's like, uh,

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ask ask chat GBT to draw an image of you

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from everything they know. Oh no, yeah I did it that.

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They made me look cool though, you know. They make

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you look like Bruce Wayne or something. I mean like

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a sick ass house. And like there's like books on

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like real estate and fitness, like it makes me look

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sick not to preview tomorrow's podcast, but yeah, I gotta

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watch that. Oh yeah, we're doing tomorrow. My bad. We'll

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find out what time I forgot We don't have time yet.

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What time? Batman returns.

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Okay, yeah, I.

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Think it's everywhere movies in which Christmas appears but are

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not Christmas movies, action movies in which Christmas appears but

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are not perfect.

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That's the first one returns. That's not Tim Burton, that

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is Timbert. Oh yeah, this is the one. Okay, No,

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it's probably the worst. It's parably the worst of the sixties.

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It's so bad.

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But it's like, it's like so amazingly bad. It's shockingly

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you'll like a Samas. I've never seen a movie like it.

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You gotta give it that well.

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Beatle Juicus, Beatle Juices close. I'm sure that I did

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not watch that Wonka one, but I bet it's pretty

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close to the New do know. Yeah, the one with

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the musical No, no, no, not that one, the one

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with Johnny Depp that was directed by.

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Yeah, that's a little bit less, a little bit less,

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uh little less comic y crazy.

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Oh god, this one so much.

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This feels like, yeah, like a dark I feel like

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a lot of my childhood TV shows were like that.

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But happy.

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Yeah.

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Right, it's like Teletubbies.

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It's like Teletubbies.

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It's like like Emo Teletubbies. That's how it's like a

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dark hearted pee Wee's Playhouse. Yeah, pee Wee Herman's another one. Yeah. Yeah,

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that's a lot of TV shows than when I was

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a kid.

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Well because because Tim Burton directed TV pee Wee's Big Adventure.

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I didn't know that, yeah, or like, uh yeah, any

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of them like Barney like, they're all it's all kind

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of in this same Well, we'll talk about it tomorrow.

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But pee Wee Herman is in this movie. I don't remember.

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I haven't seen it. You'll you'll know right away, you'll

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know very early on. Yeah, pee Weee, good old pee Wee. Yeah,

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Batman returns of Us. Yeah, we've been in. Oh oh,

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they got a preview of next episode. Oh, I was

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trying to texteen. Well, it may not be the next episode,

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it'll be our next episode. He says. Nine Gentlemen's may

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I have a nine? Okay, I'll be nice and cold.

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I'll try to be on the heater.

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I'll try to steal the car again. So we're there,

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you go talking about movies.

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Yeah, And I just saw something on Instagram that may

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or may not be true, but I like the idea

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of it altogether.

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And that's I think.

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It's true if we believe in it.

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It's it's that uh, Step Brothers, which is a movie

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I just saw see, Yes, a Sacramento life. Most of

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this is supposed to be said in Sacramento apparently.

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Yeah, you've never seen it ever, No, you've never seen

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it either. I've seen parts of it.

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I've only seen the did we just Become best Friends thing.

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It's just another one that's, you know, so dumb, but

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it's whole dumb, but it's so funny. I mean, so

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is dumb and dumber. I even remember as a kid,

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my dad's seeing Dumb and Number because I wasn't allowed

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to see it came out like ninety four, you know.

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So I'm like six or seven, and I remember my dad.

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I come back from the theater and he's like, that

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was so dumb and so funny. I was like, man, like,

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I wish I could watch dumb, funny shit. And Step

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Brothers probably is.

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My generation's dumb and dumber. Yeah, maybe so that are

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Anchorman Anchorman's really good. Uh, I've not seen that either.

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I just don't have a much of a tolerance for

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Will Ferrell or Jim Carrey.

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Those are my problems.

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Yeah, I found another really funny video of Jim Carrey.

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I think I just sent it to Kyle. He's like

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in the club with like fifty cent and like nineteen

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ninety nine and he's like just being one hundred percent himself,

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just dancing like a freak. He's just and fifties like rapping.

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It was so funny. What's funny? Is I like Jim Carrey.

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I just don't like Jim Carrey in movies. I actually, uh,

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there's a lot of people I'm like that with an

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early Jim. I'm not as much of a fan. I'm

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not like a ace venturer guy. Yeah. Like I'll watch

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it and I like, uh, I don't know respects right word,

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but I understand it for what it is. But it

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doesn't like make me actually laugh. But a couple of them,

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do you know, Like yes, man, I really like we'll

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still one about God. Bruce Almighty, Bruce Almighty. I like,

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you know, like those when he's when he's toned down

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just a hair. Yeah, is the Truman Show. I love

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the Truman Show.

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I like the Truman Show.

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Yeah, right, because he's just in a different He's not wacky, right,

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He's not being wacky. He's being human, and I think

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he really is. There's a commencement speech that Jen Widerstrom

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sent me years ago that he does that like some

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art school. I don't think it's host one. Yeah, yeah,

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it's so good. It's so good. He's like has his

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art and that makes me really like him. Yeah, I

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know what else did he? Oh?

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Isn't he an eternal sunshine of this Popu's mind? That's

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a good movie.

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That's good. That's a real mind trip. But it's a

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good movie.

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No.

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Yeah, even Truman Show the first time you watch it, right, yeah,

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the very prel in the theater. Yeah, pre spoilers, you're like, oh, fuck,

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like that kind of hits you. No, he's good. Yeah,

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he's definitely wacky. He's definitely wacky.

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So yeah, back to back to movies and and and

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step Brothers is actually a sign, a real estate sign

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that appears in Step Brothers has a nine one six

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area code at the beginning where we are especially then,

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I think we have two area codes now, but we

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only had one then.

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We're still at nine one six, We're still main mainly

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nine six. What's uh? I wonder if it's the exact

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same post I saw it shows like the King's banner.

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I didn't see the Kings banner, but is it multiple

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So that goes to a bunch of pictures, Yeah, screenshots

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a bunch of shit from the movie and saying why

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it has to be Sacramento.

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And and there's raiders and Niners gear. You're like, well,

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that's odd, right, because if you're in the Bay, you're

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probably not going to have that, but if you're Inna

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Sack you might have that. Yeah, And then the nine

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one six poster is like a definite yeah obviously, but

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it does talk about the Catalina wine mixers like the

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biggest thing, and obviously you could still go. But that's

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down in La so I always assume assumed it was

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in the suburbs of LA. But then yeah, there's another

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screen shot where there's like a corner of an old

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school Kings poster right that you could see and like, no, obviously,

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like how it's sad, but no one out of Sacramento

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as a Kings fan, there's no such thing. True. I

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cannot find that post. I said this this morning. So

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that's one of board Geo's favorite movies. Let's see, I'll

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find it.

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You can bring it up well.

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Also, speaking of movies, and Okay, I'm gonna I'm gonna

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date myself.

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It was Sacramento Life.

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Yeah, I'm gonna date myself. But if I buy myself dinner,

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it means I can have good time with myself later.

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But I saw a movie over our little break here

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called Heartbreakers Beach Party, which was Cameron Crow's first movie

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that he directed, and it's a documentary about Tom Petty

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and the Heartbreakers in nineteen eighty two and eighty three

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while they were making the Long After Dark album. Yeah,

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And in nineteen spring of nineteen eighty two, Tom Petty

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did a Q and A at UCLA and I went, oh.

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Because it was when I was living in Cellco.

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I went and He's like, I'm not sure exactly why

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I'm doing this, but like I'm gonna do this, And

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they shot it for the for the movie and I'm

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sitting there watching it. We watched it at the tower,

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sitting there watching it is like, oh, the scene comes

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up and it's like I was there.

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That was crazy.

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That's crazy.

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Yeah. And my friend who was going actually going to

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use the only at the time because I was not.

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I was with Loyola U.

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Either didn't remember or didn't go, and I can't remember myself.

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Whether she was there or not.

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But there's a lot of random music stuff I watched.

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Fuck I'm blanking, but it was, uh, we are the World.

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Oh there's a documentary, so we watched that and then

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fucking as you know it, Quincy Jones past. Yeah, but

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that documentary was really cool, was it? Yeah, a lot

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of bts of weird shit, not weird shit, but like

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shit you don't expect, you know. And then you're seeing like, yeah,

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every celebrity you could ever imagine, like being themselves because

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they're all locked up in a studio right, and it

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was I'm sure that footage is somewhere, but I've definitely

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never seen it. Yeah, and seeing like Lionel Richie and

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Michael Jackson be like homie inside of the house was cool.

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It it was cool.

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My understanding was that that they went in without actually

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a song to record, and they had to come up

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with something like.

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It was something like yeah, like Quincy had like Quincy

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didn't know it. Michael and Richie like wrote the melody,

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but they didn't have a piece. Yeah, and they didn't

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have it all pieced, and then they didn't I think

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even when the celebrities were there, they didn't know who

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was going to sing what. Yeah, that was part of it.

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So they're trying to piece all that together without like

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you know, pissing people off. And then they only had

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like three hours to film the whole thing. Yeah, because

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it was the night I think after the Oscars or Grammys.

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I think it's I think Grammy and.

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So then like everyone had to leave obviously, but they

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talked about like interview like a security guard or like

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an assistant, like a cameraman's like the second day, he's

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talking about the cars pulling up and who's in them

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and stuff. It was cool. It was cool.

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That's awesome.

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made it all famous.

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I think, Oh the movie, Yeah, I think Netflix.

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I think I gotta look it up.

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lot of those stuffs are good. Like Jimmy Ivan, I've

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seen his documentaries, like not about dre Beats, but about

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Tom Petty and everything else he's done in music.

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I have to I have to see that too. This

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uh Top Petty album I'm talking about was the last one.

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they switched over. I think the next one is what's

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his name for Elo?

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the Red Hot Chili Peppers has come out a big documentary.

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I would watch that.

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Yeah. Yeah, there's a bunch of cool ship. It's it

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does like we've talked about many times as we reviewed movies,

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things going like flows of what's cool or not. It

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seems like we're kind of in like a music flow

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because I think that we are the world. One's new ish, Yeah,

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I know, it's just the last few months. Yeah, and

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then this Red Hot Chili Peppers one they're slowly hyping up.

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We got Mike Tyson fighting in.

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A week fighting this time Jake Paul.

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But the cool thing I think is that it's uh

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Neflix's step into live sports. Oh yeah, on it took

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like a year. It took Yeah, you had a stroke

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or something, poor guy or stroke scare. But uh, I

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think that's interesting to see what Netflix is gonna do

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because it is it's getting stale and divided, Like we

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talked about, you have to have eighteen services just to

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watch what you like. Yeah, I've had my finger on

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that for a while.

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There's a podcast I listened to called The Town where

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they talk a lot about like the streaming services and

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how the evolution of.

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Stream services like the crazy thing.

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I don't know if you watch any of the Olympics

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on Peacock, but like that was a great way to

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get the Olympics. There were a lot of events that

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were there that you couldn't see any place euse or whatever.

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And they, you know, they had great viewership and stuff,

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and they still lost like a quarter of a million

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dollars a quarter of a billion dollars. I don't know,

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they lost a lot of money in that quarter that

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should have been you.

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Know, their biggest moment. Yeah. Yeah, So a lot of

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stuff like that's weird. It does feel like it's Almos

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going backwards, not only business wise but viewership wise, like

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I remember probably twenty ten, like right is these probably

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Netflix is becoming streaming versus DVD type stuff and True TV,

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which I don't know who they're owned by. Maybe they

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for March Madness. Basketball had kind of an option like

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that like on your TV where you could choose like

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any game, you know, like red Zone and shit, and

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NFL was all kind of new and I was like, oh,

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this is so amazing, and then like now to watch

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March Madness games feel like I got to google where

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it is and then buy something new or do a

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seven day trial, Like it's fucking impossible. Like it really

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has gotten more complicated. And although cable and direct TV

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and stuff was like kind of expensive, it was like

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a one stop shop. Yeah, you know, like you pretty

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much got all you wanted. And then with on demand

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you know whatever. Around twenty ten they had Hella movies

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you could click on that were basically streaming. Yeah, it

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has just gotten overly complicated, but I bet you it'll

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it'll correct itself somehow, like YouTube TV, I think is

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a slight recorrect and what users actually want, Yeah.

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I think that interested.

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In terms of streaming, I feel like, uh, Paramount plus

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Peacock and one other on this of the smaller ones

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need to band together and make one thing that get

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They're not going to ever compete with with Netflix because

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Netflix is just so.

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Ingrained unless unless Netflix really falls off.

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I mean the the.

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Their original offerings are a little bit of a mixed bag.

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Then they've cut back on those some.

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But you know, then they do something like bringing in

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suits and have a just explode, right.

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I think that's the part of it. Uh, they'll just

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play the numbers game, so they get one hit and

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throw a little bit more money at it. Yeah, and

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they do. They just like try to play the volume game.

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You know, there's new shit on it every fucking week.

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But yeah, the Netflix, the HBO's the Hulus, they're kind

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of hard to beat. Part of it is, yeah, like

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Direct TV didn't have Direct TV originals, right, they were

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they were happy being the provider. Yeah, where Netflix in

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these companies or producers providers everything, and so yeah, it gets.

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A little either Apple either that or Apple buys some

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of them or whatever. Apple doesn't so much care about

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like ratings as much. It's it's you know, it's just

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having a significant viewership in the demos that they're looking

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for to sell.

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Apple shit. Yeah, you wonder when Apple, I mean obviously

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they got the most money, but Apple or Netflix starts

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just buying up these bitches. Yeah.

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Or Amazon?

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Yeah, Amazon for sure. What's the other one. Something crazy

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just happened. I'm clicking on something and there's like options, Fuck,

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what was it?

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Did you think?

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Now? It's something like you that doesn't do like TV.

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Maybe even Google. There might be like a Google.

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That's YouTube TV though Google.

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Full app was I was on something and there's a

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little like thing creeping in there, like watch something here.

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I'm like, oh man, they're gonna stream out there. Chick

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fil A, No way, way, I like that little home do. Yeah,

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chick fil A is producing content for streaming for their

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own service, just chicken movies only, anti cow propaganda.

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I don't.

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I don't even understand. That's amazing.

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Don't even get that.

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Yeah, that's random.

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Yeah, it's really really crazy. I don't. I don't understand

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why why anyone would.

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Be like invested in Yeah, I don't know, Chicken Sandwich TV.

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With everything being so like centrally located on your phone,

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if you have an insane amount of users for whatever, yeah,

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you could easily just flip it right, like my fitness Pal.

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They're bought Bay under armour. They could easily start just

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showing sports docs. Yeah. Oh they have a billion users,

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you know, like, what do they care now? An Apple

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or yeah, chick fil A, they have enough people on

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their app just start playing some fucking movies. I wonder

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what kind of value they actually got out of that

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that purchase under Armour. Yeah, trye not much. They've tried

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so hard and just never We went to some random

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outlets when I was in the coast and there's an

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under Armour one. I was there with my little cousin

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who's like seventeen. Yeah, they' just never like really done it,

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and they've done like the right things you would think, right.

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They signed Steph Curry, who's won not only the best

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players but coolest players, Like people really like them. No

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one's really wearing a shoe. I was like touching their

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stuff in there, and like it just like hasn't evolved,

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and it's actually kind of devolved. Like the first Under

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Armour shit I bought in like high school, was like

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so quality, like there's amazing, and like now it feels

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like every other techie type shirt and then like it

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doesn't even like look that good. They tried to do

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the thing with the rock, which probably got some peons

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to buy it. They did Dark Knight Rises, they did

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the uniforms. Yeah, uniforms, So I think that was the

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real like come up was Friday Night Lights. Yeah, they

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did the uniforms in that, and then they became the

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tough guy football gear and they should have kind of

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just stayed in that, and I think going with the

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Rock was there move back to that like training centric,

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but it just never really worked. There's other companies crushing,

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like Puma Basketball, which is only like less than seven

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years old, is probably beating them in basketball. Yeah. Nike's

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having trouble right now too, a lot of trouble. Yeah,

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they got the new CEO, so it'll probably be you know,

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twelve months before we see maybe a rebound or more decline.

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But yeah, no, for sure.

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I mean, you know, these really big companies that have

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been successful in the past, we kind of look up

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to them and say, Okay, what are they doing and

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what are they doing right? And how do we emulate

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that or whatever, and then something comes along and they suck.

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Yeah, it's hard. It's hard that the barrier to entry

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on any business is the lowest it's ever been in

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the history of mankind. So like, what is it on

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the Swiss shoe company? Yeah, they popped up on the

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last four years and they're already in the billy crazy

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they're going out Like I was just like when I

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travel because I don't really go in public much, but

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if I go to an airport or something. I'll just

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start looking at people sneakers and outfits, like who's wearing what?

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On's everywhere? It's on in like Hokah yeah on Hoka

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New Balance Yeah, you know for the everyday John.

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It's crazy that that New Balance has got any like

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credit at the moment because because they used to just

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be dad shoes.

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Yeah, you know, dad shoes are cool all of a sudden,

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which I like because it's to me, it's a sign

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of comfort being the leading merit in what you purchase.

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And then two that they've had really good partnerships that

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they're they partner with a company of Me and Sebas

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like a lot Aim Aim Leon Dior like a higher

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end streetwear brand. They've they've done great collaborations with them,

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and they made the right moves, where like Jordan Brand

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still has you know, some legs and Jordan Jordan Brand's

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like real estate or something. It's just like in a

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like a ten year cycle of people thinking it's cool

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or not, so they'll come back in five years. But

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Nike itself is definitely hurting. Like the base Nike China,

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there's like two or three Chinese companies and to peak

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that are making real ripples, both in basketball and everyday shoes.

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Soccany's making a comeback soccony like a bunch of shit.

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It's just yeah, if you have a good marketing campaign,

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now you don't have to pay the dollars because you

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have Instagram, you know, so that everyone kind of has

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a free run at it, noble, like all these companies

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that obviously aren't on that level but they were sparked

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out of nothing. If you have fifty thousand dollars, you

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can start a shoe company. Now.

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Yeah, I say that the barriers to entry are the lowest,

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but the failure rates are highest for sure.

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Because it's more competitive or yeah, it's more saturated. There's

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more dreamers, but there's also more like random kids that

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were drawing sneakers in seventh grade that now can do

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something that are talented, where back then you would just

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end up in college and be stuck like the climbing

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Mount Everest. Of starting a shoe company when I was

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a kid seemed impossible. Yeah, it wasn't even a thought,

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right because there's Nike, Adidas and that's it. But like now,

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like fuck, if you wanted to, we could you know,

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three D shoes are coming in hot three D shoes

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three D printed, three D printed shoes.

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Oh yeah, yeah yeah, like like like totally to your measurements,

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which is something that's been around for a little bit,

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but that was like you know, that was like customized

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on demand kind of whatever.

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And this is Adida just put out at least the

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first big brand one this year in October, and they're

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not that expensive. I'm thinking about getting a pair, and

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they look sick and people say they're crazy comfye and

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they're trying to be performance models. I think On is

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the first one that's going like top end running three

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D printed sneaker that comes out soon.

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I would do that just because fitting my feet is

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so challenging because my instep is so wide and my

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heel is so narrow, and it's like I have to

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tie it in a particular tie them in a particular

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way to keep them from slipping off.

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Yeah. I think these shoes like obviously the bigger brands

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don't like measure your foot to make them, but I

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think the material is malleable to your foot, like a

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bark and stock type vibe. Once you wear it for

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a while, it's supposed to get crazy comfy. Yeah, interesting,

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it is interesting. Yeah.

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I switched to Hokas a year or so ago from

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from New Balance because I was having like quality issues

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with New Balance. I would order a particular size and

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it would not be that size when it came.

465
00:21:20.319 --> 00:21:22.200
I mean it would say that it was, but oh

466
00:21:22.200 --> 00:21:23.000
it didn't fit the same.

467
00:21:23.119 --> 00:21:23.920
It didn't fit the same.

468
00:21:24.000 --> 00:21:26.279
A lot of their stuff, like these ones I have,

469
00:21:26.400 --> 00:21:29.680
like are old and beat up, but they were actually

470
00:21:29.720 --> 00:21:31.960
made in the US, and like a lot of companies,

471
00:21:32.000 --> 00:21:34.440
they only have certain models now they make in the

472
00:21:34.559 --> 00:21:37.000
US and certain elsewhere. So I wonder if it's the

473
00:21:37.039 --> 00:21:38.160
elsewhere ones.

474
00:21:38.240 --> 00:21:42.519
Oh, it probably is, probably because I mean, as as

475
00:21:42.519 --> 00:21:45.200
fat as America is, you would think there would be

476
00:21:45.240 --> 00:21:47.400
more big ass shoes, but they're they're not.

477
00:21:47.920 --> 00:21:51.079
And yeah, that is a benefit of both those companies.

478
00:21:51.079 --> 00:21:53.519
Though they have like wide options, Like you can't get

479
00:21:53.519 --> 00:21:56.519
a wide Nike, right, you know, but getting a wide

480
00:21:56.519 --> 00:21:58.720
hocas so normal. I think I may have had one

481
00:21:58.759 --> 00:21:59.720
pair of Nike shoes.

482
00:21:59.799 --> 00:22:01.279
Ever, they always hurt my feet.

483
00:22:01.359 --> 00:22:03.240
Yeah, they used to. They've changed a little bit. When

484
00:22:03.240 --> 00:22:04.759
I was a kid, even I had wide feet and

485
00:22:04.759 --> 00:22:07.440
I couldn't wear Nike. Now I can warm pretty good, but.

486
00:22:10.119 --> 00:22:12.240
I mean the forty five es.

487
00:22:12.480 --> 00:22:14.759
Yeah that was my dad. My dad's foot literally looks

488
00:22:14.799 --> 00:22:15.359
like square.

489
00:22:15.640 --> 00:22:15.880
Yeah.

490
00:22:16.119 --> 00:22:16.599
Yeah.

491
00:22:16.960 --> 00:22:21.279
My my older son Jake, he is like he could

492
00:22:21.319 --> 00:22:23.519
have just worn the boxes the shoes came.

493
00:22:23.319 --> 00:22:26.640
And yeah, yeah it was so robot so square. Yeah,

494
00:22:26.799 --> 00:22:29.240
that's what my dad kind of looked like to you

495
00:22:29.359 --> 00:22:31.000
just buy like, yeah, then you just have to buy

496
00:22:31.039 --> 00:22:33.279
expensive like was it is it? Edmund Allen? What's like

497
00:22:33.319 --> 00:22:36.200
some crazy expensive dressy shoes.

498
00:22:36.519 --> 00:22:37.799
I'm not sure about brands.

499
00:22:37.880 --> 00:22:40.000
I get a I get a catalog all the time

500
00:22:40.039 --> 00:22:43.920
from a company called Hitchcock that makes or that sells

501
00:22:44.240 --> 00:22:48.319
they like aggregate white juice, and I think they private

502
00:22:48.359 --> 00:22:49.240
brand some as well.

503
00:22:49.440 --> 00:22:51.599
You would buy like some you know, any warm every day,

504
00:22:51.640 --> 00:22:54.200
sayd wear a suit every day. But yeah, you buy

505
00:22:54.240 --> 00:22:56.640
some five hundred dollars shoes that make extra wide and

506
00:22:57.720 --> 00:22:59.400
get your value out of them. Yeah.

507
00:22:59.680 --> 00:23:02.119
And I've also gotten shoes where they were supposed to

508
00:23:02.119 --> 00:23:03.799
be the right size and they weren't and I've stretched

509
00:23:03.799 --> 00:23:07.279
them fuckers out, like just like get shoe stretchers, and

510
00:23:07.279 --> 00:23:09.599
and so this is my toes are not constantly rubbing.

511
00:23:09.799 --> 00:23:12.039
Yeah, that's the worst I know. This is exciting.

512
00:23:12.400 --> 00:23:14.400
Callouses and ship they like shoes. Fuck them.

513
00:23:14.480 --> 00:23:16.119
Yeah, there we go the all.

514
00:23:21.240 --> 00:23:24.319
Now we're into the drama. The diversiveness of the drama.

515
00:23:24.599 --> 00:23:26.680
That's where we're getting into subos.

516
00:23:26.920 --> 00:23:35.079
Okay, so uh, I was just reading this this reddit

517
00:23:35.119 --> 00:23:42.720
post from the powerlifting subreddit about corruption in the w

518
00:23:43.160 --> 00:23:47.160
r PF, and like, I will just this is this.

519
00:23:47.799 --> 00:23:49.640
I'm not going to read the whole thing obviously, because

520
00:23:49.680 --> 00:23:51.279
you can just go as long as it's still there,

521
00:23:51.279 --> 00:23:54.440
you can go and read it and reddit. But Anna Perez,

522
00:23:54.480 --> 00:24:01.599
who was vice president of WRPF, wrote a resignation letter

523
00:24:01.920 --> 00:24:06.720
to Russell Kern, who owns or is president or whatever.

524
00:24:06.519 --> 00:24:08.559
Not I don't know. So yeah, for those that don't know,

525
00:24:09.200 --> 00:24:12.880
powerlifting's been fucked right, there's federations everywhere. It's kind of

526
00:24:12.880 --> 00:24:16.519
like boxing. There's no champion. We go by world records,

527
00:24:16.519 --> 00:24:19.119
but even you know, depending on your judge and everything,

528
00:24:19.160 --> 00:24:22.359
and even the federation could be so different. The two

529
00:24:22.400 --> 00:24:29.759
major camps are untested and tested. Right, Untested might be

530
00:24:30.000 --> 00:24:34.799
arguably the predominant world over the last forty years. Over

531
00:24:34.839 --> 00:24:39.400
the last ten, usapl IPF and now Powerlifting America have

532
00:24:39.559 --> 00:24:41.640
made strides to kind of even it out. I don't

533
00:24:41.640 --> 00:24:45.079
know the numbers, but you know, culturally it feels even

534
00:24:45.279 --> 00:24:50.119
ish now. But again, you know, over the last forty years,

535
00:24:50.119 --> 00:24:53.480
I would say untested was a more common world to

536
00:24:53.480 --> 00:24:57.480
hang out in, and those federations have recycled themselves time

537
00:24:57.519 --> 00:25:02.799
and time again. The most predominant over the last twenty probably,

538
00:25:02.839 --> 00:25:06.319
you would argue, is the USPA and the WRPF. The

539
00:25:06.400 --> 00:25:08.920
WRPF is the newer of the two and maybe had

540
00:25:08.920 --> 00:25:11.119
like a ten year run at it, but they started

541
00:25:11.119 --> 00:25:13.759
putting on really big money meets some of the biggest

542
00:25:13.799 --> 00:25:19.160
lifters internationally with some bassis in Russia like the you know,

543
00:25:19.200 --> 00:25:22.599
the Urie Balkans and the Carills, and people would compete

544
00:25:22.640 --> 00:25:27.640
in that. Then we have equal issues on the Natty side,

545
00:25:27.720 --> 00:25:31.599
where we had the USAPL kind of monopolize it for

546
00:25:31.599 --> 00:25:33.880
a while and in my opinion one of the only

547
00:25:34.079 --> 00:25:36.440
good forms of monopoly where you have like a singular

548
00:25:36.519 --> 00:25:40.880
focused competition. Right, the NBA is only cool because the

549
00:25:40.880 --> 00:25:44.759
best go there, and they were the route to the IPF,

550
00:25:44.799 --> 00:25:48.039
which was the world stage, and then it broke off.

551
00:25:48.119 --> 00:25:50.160
I think on their own slightly got kicked out, but

552
00:25:50.160 --> 00:25:52.559
it was because they dug their ten toes down as

553
00:25:52.559 --> 00:25:57.519
the kids say against they wanted stricter drug testing, I believe,

554
00:25:57.799 --> 00:25:59.400
and the rest of the world wouldn't keep up. So

555
00:25:59.440 --> 00:26:02.880
then Power Doing America was formed, which then again dilutes

556
00:26:02.920 --> 00:26:06.240
the competition base for at least the United States and

557
00:26:07.400 --> 00:26:13.640
tested world and the untested world the USPA WRPF, but

558
00:26:13.680 --> 00:26:15.480
I think those are the only ones that were like

559
00:26:15.519 --> 00:26:18.480
pretty relevant consistently over the last ten years. Have both

560
00:26:18.519 --> 00:26:24.039
had mega dramas on the legal side, not even like depths.

561
00:26:24.079 --> 00:26:26.599
We're not talking squad depth and we're talking you know,

562
00:26:26.759 --> 00:26:29.680
throw all these motherfuckers in jail and lose the key

563
00:26:29.720 --> 00:26:30.640
type shit. Yeah.

564
00:26:30.680 --> 00:26:34.240
Supposedly, the APF has been in the in like on

565
00:26:34.279 --> 00:26:39.359
the verge of serious legal criminal problems as well, which

566
00:26:39.400 --> 00:26:43.319
is I guess why there's an APO. The people who

567
00:26:43.359 --> 00:26:46.680
were under suspicion left and created the APO.

568
00:26:47.240 --> 00:26:50.119
And yeah, it's like the Civil War in America. They're

569
00:26:50.160 --> 00:26:54.000
just making like new little groups to fight the North. Yeah. Well,

570
00:26:54.440 --> 00:26:56.640
let me just run down the headlines of this of

571
00:26:56.680 --> 00:26:59.359
this particular. So this is pretty new though, because there

572
00:26:59.359 --> 00:27:03.799
we are this, uh this this resignation letter was sent

573
00:27:04.039 --> 00:27:07.200
in August because the WRPN of August. Over the last

574
00:27:07.200 --> 00:27:10.960
four years because I think the current dissolved a while ago,

575
00:27:11.000 --> 00:27:13.440
and that was like, yeah, I think forty thousand bucks

576
00:27:13.440 --> 00:27:15.400
for the winner, Like that was the most legit meat

577
00:27:15.480 --> 00:27:18.799
I've ever heard of. But the WRPF seems to have

578
00:27:18.880 --> 00:27:21.880
dissolved slowly anyways, Like you don't see or hear those

579
00:27:21.920 --> 00:27:26.359
meats nearly as much. So this was probably boiling somewhere.

580
00:27:25.960 --> 00:27:29.519
Probably so yeah, So throughout my tenure, I have been

581
00:27:29.519 --> 00:27:32.400
subjected to underpayment. I'm not going to get into the

582
00:27:32.400 --> 00:27:36.279
details of these late and improper payroll practices, constant issues

583
00:27:36.319 --> 00:27:40.720
and lack of transparracy with w RPF funds, sabotage of work,

584
00:27:41.039 --> 00:27:44.759
unpaid debts, and financial irresponsibility which sounds a little bit

585
00:27:44.759 --> 00:27:52.079
similar to the earlier ones. And you know, issues with

586
00:27:52.240 --> 00:27:57.400
their with their like who owns their URLs and all

587
00:27:57.480 --> 00:28:01.759
of that business. And I guess that my question doesn't

588
00:28:01.880 --> 00:28:07.079
is not really specific to to WRPF, but to all

589
00:28:07.119 --> 00:28:09.559
the things that we're talking about. Why is it so

590
00:28:10.680 --> 00:28:15.920
fucked up among federations in powerlifting and do other sports

591
00:28:15.960 --> 00:28:19.240
that use a federation model have this kind of these

592
00:28:19.319 --> 00:28:23.680
kinds of problems, And like my gut wants to say that,

593
00:28:24.559 --> 00:28:25.279
uh and.

594
00:28:25.680 --> 00:28:30.440
This is highly prejudicial. But fuck you that it's the drugs.

595
00:28:30.920 --> 00:28:35.480
It's the fact that these are largely untested federations and

596
00:28:35.799 --> 00:28:41.319
that you know, being on steroids gives people like licensed

597
00:28:41.319 --> 00:28:44.519
to do shit. That's like self serving and stupid.

598
00:28:44.599 --> 00:28:47.039
No, it's proven. It's proven to lower your IQ and

599
00:28:47.119 --> 00:28:52.400
certain doses and longevity. It's proven to raise your yeah,

600
00:28:52.480 --> 00:28:54.160
lack of they put it in fancy your terms, but

601
00:28:54.240 --> 00:28:57.799
your ego, like your self absorption literally is proven to

602
00:28:57.839 --> 00:29:01.079
go up with copious amounts of STERI yeah, I wouldn't

603
00:29:01.079 --> 00:29:03.160
doubt it. I do have many a theory though.

604
00:29:04.559 --> 00:29:07.200
But then in my mind, then there would be less

605
00:29:08.279 --> 00:29:08.720
in the.

606
00:29:10.200 --> 00:29:13.599
In the tested federations, And I don't know that that's true.

607
00:29:13.680 --> 00:29:17.599
It's just maybe the kinds of problems they have are different.

608
00:29:18.079 --> 00:29:22.160
The amount of problems seem to be on the similar side.

609
00:29:22.599 --> 00:29:25.880
Yeah, like the perversion seems to be on the untested,

610
00:29:26.000 --> 00:29:28.640
but that's only what's been caught. Yeah, so that's where

611
00:29:28.640 --> 00:29:31.519
my main theory is is. I think there's actually a documentary.

612
00:29:31.759 --> 00:29:34.599
It just was like filmed kind of slows, although the

613
00:29:34.640 --> 00:29:40.000
topic highly interests me about FIFA, the World soccer organization,

614
00:29:40.079 --> 00:29:43.519
and how fucking corrupt that is notably corrupt and probably

615
00:29:43.559 --> 00:29:46.759
the richest of these federations. I'm not sure exactly, but

616
00:29:46.799 --> 00:29:50.079
i'd imagine they're up there, maybe even beating like PGA

617
00:29:50.240 --> 00:29:52.400
type world. Like, there's an insane amount of money in

618
00:29:52.519 --> 00:29:57.960
history there. My thought is that they're all corrupt, they're

619
00:29:58.000 --> 00:30:03.839
all fucked, and that powerlifting is just small enough to

620
00:30:03.920 --> 00:30:07.599
get caught still, right, they're too dumb. The bigger you

621
00:30:07.640 --> 00:30:10.119
get to do crime, you got to be more complex

622
00:30:10.160 --> 00:30:12.519
and stinky and so like the FIFA has been around

623
00:30:12.599 --> 00:30:14.960
since you know, seventeen fifty or some shit, I don't know,

624
00:30:15.079 --> 00:30:17.440
it's been around forever. There's so much money, there's so

625
00:30:17.519 --> 00:30:20.599
much power that they've already figured it out. Where these

626
00:30:20.640 --> 00:30:23.960
powerlifting feds are popping up, you know, like weeds, and

627
00:30:24.400 --> 00:30:27.519
they're just not as organized with their trash and a

628
00:30:27.519 --> 00:30:31.279
lot of it. Yeah, and yeah, this does sound prejudice,

629
00:30:31.279 --> 00:30:33.480
but this is just one hundred percent just what we've

630
00:30:33.720 --> 00:30:36.640
dealt with over the last you know, twenty years. Jemini

631
00:30:36.960 --> 00:30:44.640
is the tested world seems to be organizational mishandlings, you know,

632
00:30:44.920 --> 00:30:46.960
like where's the money, why's the money? Why are you

633
00:30:47.000 --> 00:30:50.079
fucking up? The fed? Where the untested often seems to

634
00:30:50.119 --> 00:30:55.519
be more personal out of sport issues, right, Like there's

635
00:30:55.519 --> 00:30:57.799
insport issues also, but a lot of it is character

636
00:30:58.119 --> 00:31:03.599
moral out of sport, where that is probably possible and

637
00:31:03.759 --> 00:31:08.079
common in the USAPL and powerlifting America, but it doesn't

638
00:31:08.119 --> 00:31:12.599
seem as yeah, criminally driven just as many issues and

639
00:31:12.799 --> 00:31:16.720
moral issues for sure, but the spectrum seems yeah, and

640
00:31:16.799 --> 00:31:19.559
maybe it is steroids because then I don't know, you know,

641
00:31:19.720 --> 00:31:22.599
going back to like Icarus and the FIFA documentaries and

642
00:31:22.680 --> 00:31:27.519
other big sports, there's corruption everywhere, but you assume the

643
00:31:27.559 --> 00:31:31.200
corruption is shown to be competitive to win something or

644
00:31:31.279 --> 00:31:34.039
be money driven. But a lot of times in powerlifting,

645
00:31:34.799 --> 00:31:37.279
and I'm sure it's in bodybuilding. Maybe we're just not

646
00:31:37.359 --> 00:31:39.440
deep enough to hear about. It's probably the case for sure,

647
00:31:39.880 --> 00:31:41.759
but yeah, and you hear about some of it, like

648
00:31:41.799 --> 00:31:47.640
the judges interacting with competitors and inappropriate ways. CrossFit has

649
00:31:47.680 --> 00:31:51.960
had a past of that for sure, power positions interacting

650
00:31:52.000 --> 00:31:57.680
with athletes in the wrong way, coaches, coaches, trainers, competitors,

651
00:31:58.319 --> 00:32:02.720
maybe CEOs or owners. Like it's all going on, which

652
00:32:02.759 --> 00:32:07.400
obviously is out of sport also, So I've always said,

653
00:32:07.440 --> 00:32:10.559
like the stat people throw out like fifty percent of

654
00:32:10.599 --> 00:32:13.519
successful CEOs or narcissists or whatever. Yeah, I don't know

655
00:32:13.519 --> 00:32:16.359
if that's the exact stata anymore or whatever, but I've

656
00:32:16.440 --> 00:32:20.559
always said that fitness in the modern era, that percentage

657
00:32:20.559 --> 00:32:23.960
is probably like ninety percent because you have the regular

658
00:32:24.039 --> 00:32:28.839
CEO type mentality to get where you want to get regardless.

659
00:32:29.480 --> 00:32:31.920
Then you have the money and everyone knows that when

660
00:32:31.960 --> 00:32:34.920
you have this internet clout in the fitness world, you

661
00:32:34.960 --> 00:32:38.279
can make copious amounts of money. And then three there's

662
00:32:38.319 --> 00:32:41.160
the fame with it, right, And that's just like literally

663
00:32:41.200 --> 00:32:45.000
the witch's recipe for a narcissist, Like you get them rich,

664
00:32:45.319 --> 00:32:48.799
famous and powerful, like what else would they want? So

665
00:32:48.839 --> 00:32:53.880
you take like a fitness ceo online and the chances

666
00:32:53.880 --> 00:32:57.119
that they're you know, psychologed And I don't say narcissists,

667
00:32:57.119 --> 00:32:59.359
like all you little fuckers on Twitter and Instagram just

668
00:32:59.359 --> 00:33:04.440
throwing that word. I'm talking about like diagnosably like personality disorder,

669
00:33:05.519 --> 00:33:10.519
narcissist is probably insanely high. And so i'd imagine the

670
00:33:10.559 --> 00:33:12.680
type of people that want to run a FED at

671
00:33:12.680 --> 00:33:15.079
the top level, right, like we like to run meets

672
00:33:15.079 --> 00:33:16.400
because we want to get back to the sport that

673
00:33:16.400 --> 00:33:19.880
helped us, you know, because we enjoy them. Yeah. Yeah,

674
00:33:19.920 --> 00:33:21.599
it's just not that crazy, you know, and it's not

675
00:33:21.640 --> 00:33:24.960
that hungry about it, Like, yeah, they're fine, it's fine,

676
00:33:25.000 --> 00:33:27.480
so we do them. I feel bad sometimes because you

677
00:33:27.559 --> 00:33:28.759
have the kids, are like you excited for the meet.

678
00:33:28.799 --> 00:33:31.160
I'm like, yeah, man, it's like Saturday, Like that's cool. Yeah,

679
00:33:31.440 --> 00:33:33.680
I want to be really excited. But look, man, I've

680
00:33:33.720 --> 00:33:36.359
been to hundreds of meats. It's just not that exciting,

681
00:33:36.359 --> 00:33:38.720
no Moore, you know. But the person that wants to

682
00:33:38.720 --> 00:33:40.759
be the top of that, to run everything and make

683
00:33:40.759 --> 00:33:42.720
the money and have the clout and have the fame

684
00:33:42.759 --> 00:33:44.960
and have all these little people you know, running their shit,

685
00:33:45.680 --> 00:33:48.880
probably edges on the on the side of not great

686
00:33:48.960 --> 00:33:50.480
human a lot of times.

687
00:33:51.079 --> 00:33:53.559
Yeah, I think that that's that's true, and also not

688
00:33:53.559 --> 00:33:55.039
necessarily the smartest people in the.

689
00:33:54.960 --> 00:33:57.880
World, especially well, because yeah, if you're really smart, you're

690
00:33:57.920 --> 00:34:00.440
going to go try to dominate some other where.

691
00:34:00.480 --> 00:34:03.680
There's yeah, there's more advantage. I mean, yeah, I mean

692
00:34:03.720 --> 00:34:04.359
I hate to say.

693
00:34:04.200 --> 00:34:05.920
It that way, but it's it's kind of true.

694
00:34:06.079 --> 00:34:11.880
Like I mean, especially in the powerlifting world that I

695
00:34:11.920 --> 00:34:15.039
came up with, they came up in the you know,

696
00:34:15.079 --> 00:34:21.239
the untested side, the you know geared side. Uh, I

697
00:34:21.280 --> 00:34:23.400
think that you were always kind of surprised when you

698
00:34:23.559 --> 00:34:27.320
met someone who had a real fucking job, you know,

699
00:34:28.239 --> 00:34:31.000
like a you know, like a like a you know,

700
00:34:31.079 --> 00:34:34.800
somebody who was a real professional. And that's no slam

701
00:34:34.800 --> 00:34:38.559
against people who are not, but like, the life experience

702
00:34:38.760 --> 00:34:42.519
of someone who ends up in a real professional position

703
00:34:42.800 --> 00:34:44.519
is very different from someone who doesn't.

704
00:34:44.760 --> 00:34:51.199
Powerlifting was a blue collar sport. Yeah right, everyone was

705
00:34:51.239 --> 00:34:59.199
a contractor, uh, prison guard, a plumber, right, Like that

706
00:34:59.440 --> 00:35:03.360
was not ninety five percent of the active competitors. Yeah,

707
00:35:03.480 --> 00:35:05.960
besides maybe some westside guys who you know, or you're

708
00:35:05.960 --> 00:35:08.679
a drug dealer. I don't know if that's considerable. Yeah,

709
00:35:08.760 --> 00:35:10.199
I think, yeah, is that blue collar?

710
00:35:10.440 --> 00:35:11.199
What's drug dealing?

711
00:35:12.760 --> 00:35:13.880
I don't know what drug dealing is.

712
00:35:14.039 --> 00:35:16.760
I think you can afford to buy white collars, but

713
00:35:16.800 --> 00:35:17.920
you might still be a blue collar.

714
00:35:18.320 --> 00:35:20.000
Like it's still a grind. I think I think it's

715
00:35:20.039 --> 00:35:22.199
an orange collar. Yeah, I don't know if Yeah.

716
00:35:22.280 --> 00:35:24.360
It can certainly end up being an orange collar.

717
00:35:24.480 --> 00:35:28.519
Yeah, yeah, I don't know. But that that's literally everyone

718
00:35:28.559 --> 00:35:31.039
you met, right, Like everyone did something like that. And

719
00:35:31.039 --> 00:35:33.800
then you're right, like we had a teammate who was

720
00:35:33.840 --> 00:35:37.000
a politician and you're like, oh, like that's rare. Yeah.

721
00:35:37.039 --> 00:35:39.079
And then even robot or you had some college kids

722
00:35:39.079 --> 00:35:41.559
because we're little. Yeah, everybody robots like a genius in

723
00:35:41.800 --> 00:35:43.599
studying mechanical engineering, and you.

724
00:35:43.519 --> 00:35:46.199
Guys get PhDs in STEM.

725
00:35:46.360 --> 00:35:50.280
We're not saying all powerlifting are stupid, but it tends

726
00:35:50.280 --> 00:35:53.000
to work well with a very routine life and someone

727
00:35:53.039 --> 00:35:55.320
that likes physical labor. It makes sense.

728
00:35:55.559 --> 00:35:55.840
Yeah.

729
00:35:55.880 --> 00:35:58.880
And furthermore, like the people who end up running things

730
00:35:58.960 --> 00:36:02.320
are not necessarily the who have like big careers outside

731
00:36:02.320 --> 00:36:03.199
of power lifting.

732
00:36:03.239 --> 00:36:07.960
They're the powerlifting coach evolved. Yeah, And and the amount

733
00:36:08.000 --> 00:36:12.960
of dedication to their craft of powerlifting is probably greater

734
00:36:13.039 --> 00:36:16.599
than their dedication of craft to running and organized whatever.

735
00:36:16.920 --> 00:36:18.880
And many people in the world who are actually set

736
00:36:18.920 --> 00:36:21.239
up to be able to organize, you know, something that

737
00:36:21.360 --> 00:36:23.639
is difficult to organize hurting cats.

738
00:36:23.719 --> 00:36:26.519
You know. Essentially, not everyone's even made to be a coach.

739
00:36:26.760 --> 00:36:28.960
Not everyone's made to be a manager, not everyone's made

740
00:36:28.960 --> 00:36:30.840
to be an executive, and not everyone's made to be

741
00:36:30.880 --> 00:36:33.519
an entrepreneur. Y. It's the sad truth. And so I

742
00:36:33.519 --> 00:36:37.559
think that's part of it. Powerlifting too, where made the

743
00:36:37.639 --> 00:36:41.920
crimes maybe more along those lines versus like FIFA. I

744
00:36:42.000 --> 00:36:43.480
bet you to get to the top of FIFA. It

745
00:36:43.519 --> 00:36:45.360
is more of a corporate ladder probably so so you

746
00:36:45.440 --> 00:36:49.280
probably that guy probably has a PhD in whatever business marketing,

747
00:36:49.320 --> 00:36:53.480
you know, So those guys probably have a different hurdles

748
00:36:53.480 --> 00:36:55.280
to cross to get up there. And I imagine the

749
00:36:55.280 --> 00:36:57.639
same with the NBA. It's a mix of politics and

750
00:36:57.679 --> 00:37:01.000
business to get up there, to be the missioner or whatever.

751
00:37:02.960 --> 00:37:06.039
But powerlifting nowadays, part of the issue is is that

752
00:37:06.079 --> 00:37:11.960
the sport grew, but like that board room didn't grow. Yeah,

753
00:37:12.079 --> 00:37:15.199
it's the same folk, or it's new of the same folk.

754
00:37:15.400 --> 00:37:17.039
Mm hmm. I mean not all of them. You know.

755
00:37:17.079 --> 00:37:19.800
There's some great chairman we've dealt with in the sports,

756
00:37:19.840 --> 00:37:21.880
and great coaches and great businessmen that we've dealt in

757
00:37:21.880 --> 00:37:25.920
this sport, but a fat chunk of them, Yeah, are a little.

758
00:37:27.159 --> 00:37:29.239
To give an example from our lives. And I think

759
00:37:29.519 --> 00:37:31.280
I may have mentioned this on the show before, but

760
00:37:31.320 --> 00:37:34.079
there's it bears repeating because it still pisses me off.

761
00:37:34.280 --> 00:37:36.119
The meat that we just had a few weeks ago here.

762
00:37:36.440 --> 00:37:40.320
It was scheduled for a long time. The meat director

763
00:37:40.400 --> 00:37:44.960
we were using somehow fell out of favor with with

764
00:37:45.239 --> 00:37:49.559
the us APL, and the USAPL assigned the meat to

765
00:37:49.639 --> 00:37:51.920
somebody else and didn't talk to us. Yeah, I mean

766
00:37:52.039 --> 00:37:56.039
obviously we're hosting it, but so but we're not. This

767
00:37:56.119 --> 00:37:58.639
is we're not branding out a legion hall for Fox's sake,

768
00:37:58.719 --> 00:37:58.880
you know.

769
00:37:58.960 --> 00:38:01.079
I mean, well, there's no contract would make you like

770
00:38:01.119 --> 00:38:03.360
good and bad. If there's no contract, then you should

771
00:38:03.400 --> 00:38:07.079
go further to like help, right, you know, like we're

772
00:38:07.079 --> 00:38:09.119
helping the US And I've said this multiple times too,

773
00:38:09.239 --> 00:38:11.880
like we're helping these federations more than they're helping us.

774
00:38:12.079 --> 00:38:12.320
Yeah.

775
00:38:12.360 --> 00:38:15.280
The USAPL has done literally nothing for us, right, and

776
00:38:15.320 --> 00:38:18.719
we've fed them tons of lifters, hype and money. Yeah,

777
00:38:19.039 --> 00:38:21.320
you know, like we could run non sanctioned stuff when

778
00:38:21.320 --> 00:38:23.920
we have the exact same turnout and we have, so

779
00:38:24.000 --> 00:38:26.280
like that's something again and just like the brains of

780
00:38:26.320 --> 00:38:26.920
those people.

781
00:38:27.440 --> 00:38:32.079
Yeah, just somehow that those of us who are you know,

782
00:38:33.039 --> 00:38:37.440
willing and excited to have a meet in our facility

783
00:38:38.639 --> 00:38:42.400
benefits our lifters, but not you know, doesn't benefit us

784
00:38:42.440 --> 00:38:44.119
in a monetary way that much.

785
00:38:44.320 --> 00:38:47.360
No, And there's no like Benny's you know, like that's

786
00:38:47.400 --> 00:38:50.039
something that I think a lot of business folk don't understand,

787
00:38:50.079 --> 00:38:53.039
Like I'm getting way better at it now. But there's

788
00:38:53.079 --> 00:38:54.960
two things that come to mind when you do business,

789
00:38:55.000 --> 00:38:57.800
Like one is separating the emotional from the business. Like

790
00:38:57.840 --> 00:38:59.639
that's a difficult thing to do, right because people are

791
00:39:00.039 --> 00:39:02.679
fully working and things are passionate about. But making your decisions,

792
00:39:02.679 --> 00:39:05.800
you have to isolate those factors. And then two, it's

793
00:39:05.840 --> 00:39:09.280
okay to be transactional, but everyone has to win. And

794
00:39:09.360 --> 00:39:12.199
so I've had obviously every morning I wake up to

795
00:39:12.280 --> 00:39:15.199
five emails of some kind of business proposition from something,

796
00:39:15.320 --> 00:39:17.800
whether it be something about the gym or something about

797
00:39:17.800 --> 00:39:21.679
my YouTube or supplement company. And people don't understand like

798
00:39:22.519 --> 00:39:26.039
the equal opportunity, Like you got to do something for

799
00:39:26.079 --> 00:39:28.519
me if I want to do something for you. We're

800
00:39:28.519 --> 00:39:29.239
not best friends.

801
00:39:29.239 --> 00:39:30.320
Got to balance the equation.

802
00:39:30.480 --> 00:39:33.320
Yeah, we're literally you're reaching out to my business email

803
00:39:33.360 --> 00:39:36.400
to do business. We're not buddies. If my mom calls me,

804
00:39:36.559 --> 00:39:38.920
it doesn't have to be transactional. I do things for

805
00:39:38.960 --> 00:39:41.800
her and don't expect that's my mother. Right. If Bart

806
00:39:41.840 --> 00:39:43.679
hits me up and he needs a you hit me

807
00:39:43.800 --> 00:39:47.039
up besides even in business, but even besides business, right,

808
00:39:47.199 --> 00:39:50.079
we're friends. It's different, Hey, drive my car I need

809
00:39:50.079 --> 00:39:52.760
a fucking toe or whatever the fuck? Yeah, change my

810
00:39:52.800 --> 00:39:56.639
batter I need hope, all right, But when we're not

811
00:39:56.679 --> 00:39:59.440
even acquaintances, let alone we are acquaintances, and now you're

812
00:39:59.440 --> 00:40:03.079
trying to do business, Like, what is the proposition that

813
00:40:03.239 --> 00:40:04.639
makes me want to do any of this? And I've

814
00:40:04.639 --> 00:40:07.880
had multiple conversations in person and online or last month

815
00:40:07.920 --> 00:40:10.920
where like people present these things, I'm like, what's in

816
00:40:10.960 --> 00:40:13.719
it for me? And I'm not selfish, but that's how business.

817
00:40:13.760 --> 00:40:16.280
I have to worry about feeding my team and keeping

818
00:40:16.280 --> 00:40:18.519
the lights on. Yeah, so like what are we doing here?

819
00:40:18.559 --> 00:40:20.480
And the US in all these feds, to be honest,

820
00:40:20.519 --> 00:40:23.320
have gotten away with robbery in some senses, a smaller

821
00:40:23.400 --> 00:40:26.719
gym or someone who's not is into the culture might benefit,

822
00:40:27.039 --> 00:40:29.639
right because they get to put the USAPL banner up

823
00:40:29.719 --> 00:40:31.360
and they get to go on and then then they're

824
00:40:31.400 --> 00:40:34.039
on the website. So when people are searching meats, you know,

825
00:40:34.079 --> 00:40:36.320
they might randomly find a meat in their area for

826
00:40:36.400 --> 00:40:38.639
a newer gym or someone. But like, we've been in

827
00:40:38.679 --> 00:40:42.920
the sport so long, we just don't need that, you know,

828
00:40:43.000 --> 00:40:44.960
like we'll sell out whatever we do, Like I said,

829
00:40:45.000 --> 00:40:46.519
it could be non sanction and we're still going to

830
00:40:46.599 --> 00:40:49.519
sell it out. So like, what are these feds doing

831
00:40:49.559 --> 00:40:51.719
for the meat directors? What are these feds doing for

832
00:40:51.760 --> 00:40:54.320
the gyms? What are the feds doing really for the culture?

833
00:40:54.840 --> 00:40:57.039
And they're definitely not doing anything for the lifter. We

834
00:40:57.079 --> 00:40:57.920
already know that part.

835
00:40:58.159 --> 00:40:59.480
Yeah, I think it.

836
00:40:59.519 --> 00:41:01.840
Part of it is just not understanding how business works.

837
00:41:01.880 --> 00:41:04.079
And you get a lot of people. I would be

838
00:41:04.159 --> 00:41:06.679
willing to bet that most of the people that are

839
00:41:06.719 --> 00:41:10.719
reaching out to you are like you know, new college

840
00:41:10.760 --> 00:41:16.480
grads in that are you know, first job in some business,

841
00:41:17.480 --> 00:41:18.760
and so they don't understand how.

842
00:41:18.639 --> 00:41:19.280
It's supposed to work.

843
00:41:19.320 --> 00:41:21.440
They're just doing what they're told or logic to it

844
00:41:21.480 --> 00:41:21.920
at all.

845
00:41:21.880 --> 00:41:24.199
Or everyone's just a random salesman now, but they actually

846
00:41:24.239 --> 00:41:27.320
have no experience doing anything, you know, like yeah, like

847
00:41:27.320 --> 00:41:29.199
some sub companies like yeah, man, you get one of

848
00:41:29.280 --> 00:41:31.719
anything you choose and just post you know, five times

849
00:41:31.719 --> 00:41:33.559
on You're given me a thirty dollars bottle of pre

850
00:41:33.719 --> 00:41:36.280
workout and you want me to film five videos like

851
00:41:37.360 --> 00:41:39.360
you know and post it on my own shit, Like

852
00:41:39.400 --> 00:41:40.840
what the fuck are we talking about?

853
00:41:41.280 --> 00:41:42.760
Or when when.

854
00:41:44.519 --> 00:41:47.480
You know, when when you're working with somebody who who

855
00:41:47.599 --> 00:41:51.199
has a product and they tell you that you know

856
00:41:51.760 --> 00:41:54.039
that doing something with them is going to you know,

857
00:41:54.119 --> 00:41:57.119
give you more Instagram followers or whatever. It's like, No,

858
00:41:57.440 --> 00:41:58.920
I think it probably is the other way.

859
00:41:58.960 --> 00:42:01.760
That's just never happened. Yeah, it's never happened. And then

860
00:42:01.800 --> 00:42:04.400
and there are opportunities for stuff like that which I've

861
00:42:04.440 --> 00:42:07.760
talked to, like zoom calls and stuff with companies where like, yeah,

862
00:42:07.840 --> 00:42:11.119
we'll create content together and like actual collaboration that benefits

863
00:42:11.159 --> 00:42:13.320
both sides. Yeah. Yeah, there's tons of shit there, but

864
00:42:13.920 --> 00:42:15.400
most of these people just have I don't know if

865
00:42:15.400 --> 00:42:18.599
it's a lack of creativity or logic or what, but yeah,

866
00:42:18.599 --> 00:42:21.039
I feel like these powerlifting feds are the exact same way.

867
00:42:22.000 --> 00:42:24.239
They're going jack shit. The money one was good, Yeah,

868
00:42:24.280 --> 00:42:26.239
the current seemed good. I don't know that you know

869
00:42:26.320 --> 00:42:28.440
the depths of this drama, but I yeah, And.

870
00:42:28.400 --> 00:42:31.159
I'm not going to get that that down deep into it.

871
00:42:31.199 --> 00:42:34.440
But I mean, actually, just another thing that has come

872
00:42:34.519 --> 00:42:40.440
up recently, and I am going to thank Tanner of

873
00:42:41.119 --> 00:42:47.440
Masonomics for actually listening to the podcast of the guy whose.

874
00:42:47.159 --> 00:42:51.159
Company has taken over Kabuki to get the actual story.

875
00:42:51.199 --> 00:42:53.599
Yeah, I didn't listen to the teas I didn't.

876
00:42:55.519 --> 00:42:58.639
I talked to Chris briefly, and I understand like what

877
00:42:58.719 --> 00:43:00.760
his situation is now, but I did not know how

878
00:43:00.800 --> 00:43:01.920
it had come together.

879
00:43:02.000 --> 00:43:03.000
I did not ask.

880
00:43:02.840 --> 00:43:05.320
Him because he didn't volunteer anything.

881
00:43:04.960 --> 00:43:09.320
And that's his prerogative, it's his business. But so apparently

882
00:43:09.320 --> 00:43:14.360
what happened is that Kabuki has never made money and

883
00:43:14.800 --> 00:43:21.400
they they took a two million dollars loan from a

884
00:43:21.440 --> 00:43:24.880
company that acquires a lot of small businesses and does

885
00:43:24.960 --> 00:43:29.599
not does not really operate in the fitness space, and

886
00:43:30.719 --> 00:43:32.239
they were not able to make any of the debt

887
00:43:32.239 --> 00:43:35.480
service on that. Yeah, and so they just came in

888
00:43:35.480 --> 00:43:37.360
and as crazy came in and took him over.

889
00:43:37.599 --> 00:43:38.880
Yeah, and then what do you do? You just run

890
00:43:38.920 --> 00:43:41.920
off with bad credit? Like, well, how does that play on?

891
00:43:42.039 --> 00:43:44.079
I just saw something on my Twitter feed about like

892
00:43:44.360 --> 00:43:45.880
I don't know if those New York could you buy

893
00:43:46.000 --> 00:43:47.679
or someone just built like a two hundred and fifty

894
00:43:47.719 --> 00:43:50.719
million dollars tower and they're like, yeah, already a debt service.

895
00:43:50.760 --> 00:43:53.159
I'm like, now what Yeah?

896
00:43:54.000 --> 00:43:54.440
Your fuck?

897
00:43:54.519 --> 00:43:56.719
Yeah? What the fuck do you do? Now? Yeah?

898
00:43:57.239 --> 00:43:58.480
That's that's a problem.

899
00:43:58.519 --> 00:44:02.239
And I mean, I don't know, get I get nervous

900
00:44:02.239 --> 00:44:05.519
when I got like a fifteen dollars fee and two

901
00:44:05.559 --> 00:44:07.599
hundred and fifty million, and you thought you'd build a

902
00:44:07.599 --> 00:44:09.760
building and fucking make money.

903
00:44:09.480 --> 00:44:10.360
And nobody's there.

904
00:44:10.519 --> 00:44:13.880
Yeah, like I don't know, Yeah, I don't know.

905
00:44:14.039 --> 00:44:17.440
I mean I think I was in the room when

906
00:44:17.800 --> 00:44:21.039
when Chris made the decision to start KABOOKI.

907
00:44:21.159 --> 00:44:21.360
Yeah.

908
00:44:21.400 --> 00:44:25.000
Yeah, we were definitely in his vicinity, multiple trips down

909
00:44:25.039 --> 00:44:27.400
here when he was debating leaving his job and going

910
00:44:27.400 --> 00:44:27.880
full time.

911
00:44:28.079 --> 00:44:32.639
And I think we all admired the work that they did,

912
00:44:33.559 --> 00:44:36.199
but sometimes it's just you know, some stype. It's a

913
00:44:36.280 --> 00:44:41.920
dream and not a reality about about profitability and you know,

914
00:44:42.320 --> 00:44:46.760
the customer service around fulfilling orders or whatever. And it

915
00:44:46.800 --> 00:44:50.159
really sounds like this new ownership is like going to

916
00:44:50.280 --> 00:44:56.159
push into the more the mainstream gen pop fitness kind

917
00:44:56.199 --> 00:44:57.960
of realm.

918
00:44:58.199 --> 00:45:01.920
Yeah, business is hard. There's so many differ things and

919
00:45:01.920 --> 00:45:06.239
what you see is marketing and branding, but you don't see, yeah,

920
00:45:06.239 --> 00:45:08.039
how the x's and o's on the back end are

921
00:45:08.079 --> 00:45:12.280
actually functioning at all and if they have holes in

922
00:45:12.320 --> 00:45:15.280
them or they're just not making money, or there's there's

923
00:45:15.320 --> 00:45:17.960
a million things that can go wrong. But that's slightly

924
00:45:18.400 --> 00:45:21.039
I feel like the negative of the internet, right, it's

925
00:45:21.599 --> 00:45:25.199
probably less likely you have that image, you know, thirty

926
00:45:25.280 --> 00:45:28.559
years ago, right, and you're still like your success kind

927
00:45:28.559 --> 00:45:30.880
of speaks for itself back then. But now you can

928
00:45:30.880 --> 00:45:33.079
fake anything. And not that they're faking it, but you

929
00:45:33.119 --> 00:45:34.639
know what I mean, Like from the Yeah, you can.

930
00:45:34.719 --> 00:45:37.559
You can present a particular kind of image of success

931
00:45:37.639 --> 00:45:39.239
that may not comport with.

932
00:45:39.280 --> 00:45:42.280
Reality, right, right, And many people do and some do

933
00:45:42.360 --> 00:45:44.280
that for ego and some do some of it. You

934
00:45:44.360 --> 00:45:46.840
have to do to sell your product, right right. You

935
00:45:46.880 --> 00:45:49.480
can't tell the story of being broken. No one wants

936
00:45:49.519 --> 00:45:50.639
your shit, I think.

937
00:45:50.800 --> 00:45:53.559
I mean kind of a related thing to that is,

938
00:45:54.719 --> 00:45:58.039
say like a small time actor on a very successful show,

939
00:45:58.519 --> 00:46:00.280
and so they get known for that or what and

940
00:46:00.320 --> 00:46:02.760
so everybody assumes that they got rich over it, right,

941
00:46:03.079 --> 00:46:06.639
and that they're you know, and that they're successful, and

942
00:46:06.679 --> 00:46:09.840
that there will there'll there'll be opportunities for them in

943
00:46:09.880 --> 00:46:11.519
the future played.

944
00:46:11.320 --> 00:46:13.519
Different characters, but no one's given them another.

945
00:46:13.320 --> 00:46:15.840
Shot, and nobody's necessarily giving them another shot.

946
00:46:15.920 --> 00:46:18.400
Yeah, Yeah, it's possible, It's highly possible. Yeah, And I

947
00:46:18.400 --> 00:46:22.559
mean fitness equipment. Talk about a business that was so

948
00:46:22.920 --> 00:46:26.559
like small that just exploded with the Internet. Yeah, you know,

949
00:46:26.679 --> 00:46:28.960
like I bet you, over the last ten years, there's

950
00:46:28.960 --> 00:46:34.119
probably five to ten highly successful manufacturers that have been

951
00:46:34.239 --> 00:46:36.119
come about, with the Rogue being the king of that

952
00:46:36.360 --> 00:46:38.039
Rogue for sure. Yeah, a little more on the twenty

953
00:46:38.119 --> 00:46:42.719
year mark. Rogue even like it's the main one out

954
00:46:42.719 --> 00:46:45.960
of tennessee Arsenal Arsenal. Like again, I don't know their

955
00:46:46.079 --> 00:46:48.440
x's and o's, but I see they're shitting gyms and online.

956
00:46:48.440 --> 00:46:51.199
They're crushing it. Even Panadas not as old. I don't

957
00:46:51.199 --> 00:46:53.519
think like there's a lot of companies that are like

958
00:46:53.599 --> 00:46:56.360
coming out of nowhere. Bell's a steal with the home

959
00:46:56.559 --> 00:46:58.559
gym stuff like that. I don't think they're older than

960
00:46:58.599 --> 00:46:59.119
ten years.

961
00:46:59.400 --> 00:46:59.920
Oh Watson.

962
00:47:00.480 --> 00:47:03.440
Watson's a little bit older, but still probably in like

963
00:47:03.480 --> 00:47:06.159
the twenty thirty. You know, like back in the day,

964
00:47:06.159 --> 00:47:09.679
there's like four companies. There's like Matrix Lifetime. Yeah, that's it.

965
00:47:09.719 --> 00:47:11.760
That's where you bought everything, you know, and then very

966
00:47:11.800 --> 00:47:16.119
specialize like a Laco or something Texas or whatever. But

967
00:47:16.159 --> 00:47:19.559
even in the powerlifting scene, just powerlifting, there's fucking thirty bars.

968
00:47:19.599 --> 00:47:22.719
Now did we need that many?

969
00:47:22.920 --> 00:47:25.480
Yeah? And are they actually an improvement on what's going on?

970
00:47:25.639 --> 00:47:25.880
No?

971
00:47:26.199 --> 00:47:28.960
Right, they don't look different, they don't function different. Yeah,

972
00:47:29.119 --> 00:47:32.119
And like shoes and clothes, I understand because there's like

973
00:47:32.159 --> 00:47:34.360
a different style, like there's an optics to it, and

974
00:47:34.360 --> 00:47:36.079
you want to feel good and look good and stuff.

975
00:47:36.079 --> 00:47:40.400
But like to a functional product, they all, you know,

976
00:47:40.639 --> 00:47:44.719
ninety eight percent look the identical, ninety five percent feel

977
00:47:44.760 --> 00:47:45.119
the same.

978
00:47:45.679 --> 00:47:45.960
Yeah.

979
00:47:46.000 --> 00:47:48.760
So like what are we doing beyond that with a Barbell? Yeah?

980
00:47:49.519 --> 00:47:52.719
In marketing they talk about unique selling proposition. Yeah right,

981
00:47:52.800 --> 00:47:56.519
and what you know, what's your unique selling proposition that

982
00:47:56.679 --> 00:47:59.559
actually is salient for people and that's going to going

983
00:47:59.639 --> 00:48:01.079
to take them in a particular direction.

984
00:48:01.159 --> 00:48:01.599
I don't know.

985
00:48:01.719 --> 00:48:03.840
Yeah, Barbell just can't change that much because of the

986
00:48:03.880 --> 00:48:06.000
regulations of the sport. Yeah, you know.

987
00:48:06.199 --> 00:48:08.639
I mean this is no no, no slam in our

988
00:48:08.639 --> 00:48:12.519
friends who actually review equipment and talk about the differences

989
00:48:12.559 --> 00:48:12.920
and stuff.

990
00:48:12.960 --> 00:48:15.880
It's just like the question I have for you know, it's.

991
00:48:15.760 --> 00:48:17.039
More of the manufacturer business.

992
00:48:17.159 --> 00:48:17.400
Yeah.

993
00:48:17.679 --> 00:48:22.800
But a question I have for somebody like like Brandon Diamond, Yeah,

994
00:48:23.159 --> 00:48:30.360
uh Campbell Diamond is how much does do these differences

995
00:48:30.360 --> 00:48:32.679
matter in performance?

996
00:48:32.760 --> 00:48:37.159
Yeah? I think he would admit one he's in a

997
00:48:37.239 --> 00:48:40.079
privileged enough state to purchase a lot of these things

998
00:48:40.119 --> 00:48:42.760
and play with them too. He's been powerlifting a long time,

999
00:48:42.800 --> 00:48:44.679
so he's trying to find some fun and excitement in

1000
00:48:44.719 --> 00:48:48.480
the nitty gritty and then he enjoys it. You know.

1001
00:48:48.480 --> 00:48:50.119
He's like kind of a tech nerd, and he always

1002
00:48:50.159 --> 00:48:52.639
has been, even before his equipment taken off, you know,

1003
00:48:52.679 --> 00:48:54.840
Brandon for those that don't know, because he's had like

1004
00:48:54.880 --> 00:48:58.039
a revitalization through equipment, Like he was just like a

1005
00:48:58.039 --> 00:49:00.840
fitness vlogger. Yeah. But but even back then when I

1006
00:49:00.880 --> 00:49:02.880
watched this stuff, he was really into cameras and stuff.

1007
00:49:02.920 --> 00:49:05.239
You know, He's always kind of been into tech, and

1008
00:49:05.320 --> 00:49:07.360
so now he's just into metal tech like.

1009
00:49:07.599 --> 00:49:10.039
In some of his aesthetics too, I mean for sure.

1010
00:49:10.280 --> 00:49:12.519
And I and that doesn't really matter.

1011
00:49:12.679 --> 00:49:15.119
I mean, yeah, not to me. It mattered to us

1012
00:49:15.119 --> 00:49:17.679
and the way we set up our gym, right, but

1013
00:49:17.719 --> 00:49:20.599
a Barbelle is gonna be a Barbelle bar is a Barbelle. Yeah. Yeah,

1014
00:49:20.920 --> 00:49:23.159
you know, I'm still like a Texas power bar and

1015
00:49:23.199 --> 00:49:24.840
then everyone likes talks shit on it. But like I've

1016
00:49:24.880 --> 00:49:28.519
just never once there is a difference between a good

1017
00:49:28.760 --> 00:49:31.840
power bar and a bar you would use at a

1018
00:49:31.840 --> 00:49:35.400
commercial gym, that's for sure. Yeah, but then beyond that, Yeah,

1019
00:49:35.519 --> 00:49:38.079
I'm pretty up and and I consider myself kind of

1020
00:49:38.079 --> 00:49:40.400
a gear wore, you know, like I like nice shit,

1021
00:49:41.039 --> 00:49:43.519
But it's just so miniscule when it comes to a barbell,

1022
00:49:44.679 --> 00:49:47.519
and then it's just brand loyalty, I guess. But there's

1023
00:49:47.519 --> 00:49:49.199
just too many because I mean, I just compared to

1024
00:49:49.239 --> 00:49:52.119
other stuff, Like I would argue a basketball and the

1025
00:49:52.159 --> 00:49:55.960
feel of a basketball has greater impact than the feel

1026
00:49:55.960 --> 00:49:59.760
of a barbell if it's within the you know, qualified

1027
00:50:00.119 --> 00:50:03.039
rules of the sport. And basketball doesn't even have that

1028
00:50:03.079 --> 00:50:06.320
many balls. You know, there's like fucking three main companies. Yeah,

1029
00:50:06.360 --> 00:50:09.440
golf balls. Golfs are crazy and I'm just probably not

1030
00:50:09.480 --> 00:50:12.119
good enough to know the difference, you know, because there

1031
00:50:12.119 --> 00:50:13.679
are a shit ton of golf balls.

1032
00:50:13.760 --> 00:50:16.199
Yeah, but we're talking about the difference. You know, it

1033
00:50:16.280 --> 00:50:20.239
might be one to two percent or yeah, you know,

1034
00:50:20.320 --> 00:50:22.880
maybe like five percent would be a lot, but one

1035
00:50:22.920 --> 00:50:26.440
to two percent for your average person at the most.

1036
00:50:26.599 --> 00:50:29.360
If you're like in the top of a sport.

1037
00:50:29.440 --> 00:50:30.320
It might be different.

1038
00:50:30.519 --> 00:50:32.480
But even that's going to come down to preference and

1039
00:50:32.480 --> 00:50:34.840
then who's going to sign you to a contract.

1040
00:50:35.079 --> 00:50:38.280
Yes, it's just money, especially in golf. I think it's

1041
00:50:38.280 --> 00:50:40.719
just money because it's an upper echelon sport and there

1042
00:50:40.800 --> 00:50:42.480
is a bit of style about the sport, right, It's

1043
00:50:42.559 --> 00:50:45.199
historically been a stylish sport. So to have your own

1044
00:50:45.239 --> 00:50:47.360
ball with your logo on it, it's just like cool.

1045
00:50:47.639 --> 00:50:50.039
I made fun of the whole squad here. Curta Navarro,

1046
00:50:50.280 --> 00:50:52.440
who ran our Meat flawlessly, shot up to the Kurt

1047
00:50:52.440 --> 00:50:55.679
from San Diego. He was in here lifting the other

1048
00:50:55.760 --> 00:50:57.800
day and he was probably the biggest deadlifter in the

1049
00:50:57.840 --> 00:51:00.519
room at the time. You know, he's pulling five hundred

1050
00:51:00.519 --> 00:51:01.960
for reps or something. I think he pulls in the

1051
00:51:02.000 --> 00:51:04.159
high sixes, and he had like whatever bar was there,

1052
00:51:04.199 --> 00:51:05.880
and he had a bunch of pound plates on. So

1053
00:51:05.880 --> 00:51:08.159
of course I start chirping, and all our young kids

1054
00:51:08.159 --> 00:51:10.280
like that's crazy, man, Like why are the strongest doing

1055
00:51:10.320 --> 00:51:12.480
the gym just throwing whatever plates? And I'll give a fuck,

1056
00:51:12.519 --> 00:51:15.039
you know. And it really is the old saying. Louis

1057
00:51:15.039 --> 00:51:17.800
made it famous and powerlifting, but it's been a basketball

1058
00:51:17.840 --> 00:51:20.199
saying forever. Like a million dollar move in a ten

1059
00:51:20.239 --> 00:51:23.119
cent finish he said, you know, a million dollar shoes

1060
00:51:23.159 --> 00:51:25.320
and one cent squad or whatever he said, And I

1061
00:51:25.360 --> 00:51:27.960
don't know who said it first, but it's just so true.

1062
00:51:28.039 --> 00:51:31.039
Like majoring in the miners, there's a million terms for it.

1063
00:51:31.039 --> 00:51:32.800
But like, why are we caring about what shoe I

1064
00:51:32.840 --> 00:51:35.960
have on when you've deadlifted for six months? Right? You know?

1065
00:51:36.079 --> 00:51:38.760
Like that shoe is not holding you back from the

1066
00:51:38.800 --> 00:51:39.760
five plate deadlift?

1067
00:51:40.000 --> 00:51:43.199
No, definitely not. I got one thing to close with here.

1068
00:51:43.280 --> 00:51:48.239
We talked at times about.

1069
00:51:47.920 --> 00:51:51.920
What what other sports could be.

1070
00:51:51.880 --> 00:51:54.440
Out there that haven't been invented yet, or have been

1071
00:51:54.480 --> 00:51:56.719
invented and haven't caught traction yet or whatever.

1072
00:51:57.679 --> 00:51:59.199
I think I can put this up on the screen

1073
00:51:59.199 --> 00:51:59.559
home on.

1074
00:52:01.760 --> 00:52:25.960
H Hello, hello, yeah, mirrors, let's see. It's not gonna

1075
00:52:26.000 --> 00:52:26.440
let me do that.

1076
00:52:29.880 --> 00:52:32.960
Well, screw it, I'll just show you on the iPad.

1077
00:52:37.199 --> 00:52:45.639
This I thought was just crazy. It's four guys hanging

1078
00:52:45.960 --> 00:52:52.559
from a square off the off the ground and fighting

1079
00:52:52.679 --> 00:52:53.559
with their legs.

1080
00:52:53.880 --> 00:52:57.599
It's American Gladiator, asked, yes, yeah, yeah, yeah, I dig it.

1081
00:52:58.280 --> 00:53:03.000
Uh huh, and one guy does ultimately win in this

1082
00:53:03.000 --> 00:53:03.519
this clip.

1083
00:53:03.599 --> 00:53:05.360
I think swinging that'd be tough. Yeah yeah, I mean

1084
00:53:05.360 --> 00:53:08.119
it literally is. I think we talked about American Gladiator

1085
00:53:08.360 --> 00:53:10.880
supposed to have a UK revamp.

1086
00:53:11.239 --> 00:53:11.880
Oh really yeah?

1087
00:53:11.880 --> 00:53:14.000
And I bet you it's good. I wish more shows

1088
00:53:14.000 --> 00:53:16.760
like that would come about. Yeah, it's good one, and

1089
00:53:16.800 --> 00:53:19.239
I guess they did what was the Korean one? Was

1090
00:53:19.280 --> 00:53:21.760
a Korean Fit one hundred or something like that.

1091
00:53:22.960 --> 00:53:24.559
Yeah, we've actually talked about.

1092
00:53:24.599 --> 00:53:26.360
Yeah, but that was just kind of underwhelming to me.

1093
00:53:26.920 --> 00:53:28.800
I thought it was super underwhelming. Yeah, I thought it

1094
00:53:28.840 --> 00:53:30.960
was like everybody's jacked, but I don't care.

1095
00:53:31.119 --> 00:53:33.119
Yeah, mister Beest will be doing shit like that. I

1096
00:53:33.119 --> 00:53:35.920
guess mister Beast really is crazy. I don't really watch

1097
00:53:36.039 --> 00:53:38.639
like YouTube like that, but I'll see his clips, like

1098
00:53:38.679 --> 00:53:41.920
he he just did a video like He's obviously got

1099
00:53:42.199 --> 00:53:44.679
tons of money, which opens doors, but he's also is creative.

1100
00:53:44.840 --> 00:53:48.079
He was trying to do like best experience by dollar amount,

1101
00:53:48.199 --> 00:53:50.039
you know, so you do like best one dollar experience,

1102
00:53:50.039 --> 00:53:52.440
best one hundred dollars experience, best ten thousand dollars experience,

1103
00:53:52.519 --> 00:53:55.119
best fifty best one hundred k, best whatever, and like, yeah,

1104
00:53:55.119 --> 00:53:57.679
he like rented a submarine for like fifty K, and

1105
00:53:57.760 --> 00:54:00.599
the submarine's taking them around the ocean for like a

1106
00:54:00.639 --> 00:54:01.360
couple hours.

1107
00:54:01.159 --> 00:54:03.280
So long as you're not trying to go to that Titanic.

1108
00:54:03.079 --> 00:54:05.199
Yeah, as long aside controlled by a n sixty four

1109
00:54:05.239 --> 00:54:09.199
remote Halloween costume? What about that story on that just

1110
00:54:09.239 --> 00:54:13.440
disappeared too gone? They found the wreckage, Yeah.

1111
00:54:13.320 --> 00:54:14.199
A few weeks ago.

1112
00:54:14.480 --> 00:54:17.920
But did you see the video of the guy who

1113
00:54:17.960 --> 00:54:22.320
who's whose costume was like the sub was his on

1114
00:54:22.360 --> 00:54:24.880
his head and like the bubble was his was where

1115
00:54:24.880 --> 00:54:29.559
his face was bad, So just like poor taste but

1116
00:54:29.679 --> 00:54:30.239
still funny.

1117
00:54:30.280 --> 00:54:33.559
No, it's funny. Fucking Halloween's made for it. Halloween's made

1118
00:54:33.559 --> 00:54:38.800
for the memes. That's the Internet has made Halloween better

1119
00:54:39.840 --> 00:54:41.760
because you don't just dress up as like Superman. You

1120
00:54:41.800 --> 00:54:43.880
know you're doing like all these memes and like inside

1121
00:54:43.960 --> 00:54:46.639
jokes for cultural jokes. Yeah, it's kind of good. I

1122
00:54:46.639 --> 00:54:48.559
thought I forgot. I've seen a couple of like pretty

1123
00:54:48.559 --> 00:54:54.960
good ones from that too. Happy Halloween knows holidays are common.

1124
00:54:55.000 --> 00:54:57.480
A couple of movies on the way, We're going to holidays,

1125
00:54:57.519 --> 00:54:59.679
special clothing on the way. So if you want to

1126
00:54:59.679 --> 00:55:03.000
get him, do you join the discord or check out

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1128
00:55:06.039 --> 00:55:10.000
Instagram Good company through SB on Instagram. I'm solid, Michael.

1129
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1130
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1131
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1132
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00:55:20.840 --> 00:55:23.400
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1137
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