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Grounded Show Ep. 51 - Jordan Vs. Lebron · The Grounded Show

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This episode is brought to you by anyway. Before Quincy gets into the story,
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I just want to say, Craig David, that album Born to Do
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It, You're the go bro. Yeah that's the pod man. I'm still
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listening right now. That's a classic. But yeah, that was kind of
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crazy. Dog. You call me, what night was it? Uh?
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Monday night? Monday night night? Bro? You call me and I and
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told me something like that was the last thing I would have ever expected to
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hear, and that situation was just crazy. To tell the people what happened
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to you? Man? Bro? When I called him, just so you
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know, Joe, because you don't even know this as well. When I
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called him, the first thing I said was, Yo, I got a
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vent. And because I was, we're supposed to be working on music back
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that night. So I was like, let me just let you know before
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you even think this is about music, I got a vent. And so
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I'm telling him this story and basically, man, what happened Monday night.
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I'm working on this verse for um a collap joint that we was thinking about
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doing, and basically, um, my dogs are just barking, barking,
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barking, barking, barking, and I'm like, what is going on?
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So I come out, um, you know, Robin, and she comes
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out. I'm like, yo, what's good. She's like I don't know.
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Um. And it's like really dreary that night, like like it's like
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real dark but dusk almost it's raining. You can't even see out the glass,
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you know, the windows were like trying to figure out what's going on,
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like literally like a scary movie. So you know, at this point,
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I grab my gun, I go out to the back dock immediately grab
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I go out to the back deck and like I hear it sounds almost like
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a hurricane outside. And but then when I go out there, it's like
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it's raining, but it's like almost like drizzling. Like you know what I'm
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saying. It just didn't make sense. And so then I go to my
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pool and the water is gone, and I look under my deck and all
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I see is a river basically flowing from under my deck to my neighbor's pool.
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Like it's just flowing to my neighbor's pool. Well, before you keep
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going your pool, I mean your property, like the land is higher than
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your neighbor's exactly, so neighbor's lower than you. So literally it's like a
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perfect like it's just a perfect path to the land goes from your pool to
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their pool exactly. And before I even continue, thank god that the path
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is like that, because if it had gone to their house, their house
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would have been flooded for shore yea shore so damn. So you know,
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I'm like, oh snaps, I put the gun down. I'm trying to
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figure out, like because the pump is still going, and now I'm thinking,
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let me go turn the pump off because there's no water going through it.
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That's gonna mess the pump up, you know. So I'm going to
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the pump and like the water's flowing too my neighbor's house, but it's also
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coming out with so much pressure that when I go to the pump, like
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I'm literally going through mud up to my knees, Like you know, I'm
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saying, like that high of mud to get to the pump, and uh
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so I turn off the pump. When you said that, all I could
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imagine was deep blue sea, you know, when they were trying to yea
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and everything. Yeah, it was like sliding across and grabbing it. Like
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I just like that. It was wild and so so damn. So water
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is still flowing out, still flowing out. I go inside. I let
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Robin know exactly what was going on. I come back outside, and then
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I'm realizing because where I live, the ground or like it's clay, you
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know what I'm saying. So it's like, you know, whenever it comes
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up or water soaks, it's like red clay basically everywhere. Well, this
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clay is now flowing with the water into my neighbor's pool, and so I'm
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watching it. I'm just thinking like, oh my god, like you know,
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So at that point I kind of was like, look, there's nothing
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I can do. We went to the neighbor's house that night. Um it
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was like nine thirty, but all their lights was out. I was like,
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if they're sleep, because they're older people, they're older white couple.
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I'm like, if they're sleeping, I'm not about to wake them up with
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this. So like we're just gonna come back in the morning, go to
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sleep. That night literally could not get that off my mind. Probably had
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like three different dreams about that pool, and then woke up, went to
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the neighbor's house. Nobody's home, so I leave a note. So now
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it's daytime, I'm able to actually see what happened. I go outside and
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it looks like basically when you look under the deck, you can see that
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the pool structure itself basically exploded outward. So when the pool exploded outward,
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um, you know, the pressure from the water basically ripped the liner and
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the water just flow it out. And so now it's a work day.
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You know, I'm dealing with work and I'm thinking about this all day,
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but I'm stressed out because like as much as I'm like, yo, we
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gotta fix this pool and paid to get that line like redone, like you
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just got the pool like super prep ready to go, like you hadn't even
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gotten a chance to go in it yet. Facts like literally we got it
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done about a month ago and hadn't even had a chance to actually really enjoy
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it because it's just been a busy few weeks. And so you know,
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the whole day goes by. We end up having a pool guy come out
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to assess the damages because now we got to file a claim with our insurance
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and all that aside. But the only thing that was really concerning me was
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like, yo, then I gotta do it. My neighbor. You know
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what I'm saying, Like, I really hope like they you know, obviously
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that's out of my control, but I really hope that they're not going to
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be assholes about it. You know what I'm saying, Like it's something you
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didn't mention either. Early in the morning, you went over there, they
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weren't there, and you left a note. Yeah. Yeah, so I
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left the note, and so I waiting all day and bam, so got
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the quote. Well no, I didn't get the quote yet, but basically
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the poor guy came out. And then around six thirty seven o'clock at night,
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I get a call from an Atlanta number, you know. So I
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answer, and I basically playing to the neighbor of what happened, and like
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the exact opposite of what I expected was his reaction. Mind you, if
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you've been following this pod, you know, I mentioned about a couple of
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months ago when I went out on a trip and lost my wallet and came
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back and my wallet was at my door, like basically just waiting for me.
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So I've already had a good experience in my you know, where I
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live. My neighbor responds with, oh man, yeah, that's that's that
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sucks, man, Well, don't worry about it. I'll take care of
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my pool and you just deal with your own, you know situation. I
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was gonna get it cleaned anyway, so I'll just take care of it.
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And he proceeds to fill me in that, you know, the people that
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owned the house before us, apparently they had the pool sitting covered since like
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twenty sixteen, twenty seventeen. So now that tells me that the pool was
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dry routed and that was not disclosed to us, you know what I'm saying
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when we bought the home, So now we know exactly what the issue was.
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You know what I'm saying. We got the the assessment done from the
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pool, we got that quote back to get it basically rebuilt completely, and
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gonna go ahead and file out with the insurance company. But yeah, man,
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crazy crazy, crazy story the neighbor. Man, I ain't gonna lie,
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Like already told Robin, we got to do something for them when you
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know what I'm saying the road time. Yeah, man's so crazy. How
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despite it being like a pain in the ass that you gotta deal with,
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it worked out in the best way it could have worked out. And it's
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all for a reason, you know what I mean, Like we talked about
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it, We kind of touched on it. We were playing video games,
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Like you could have been in the pool, or you know, people could
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have been there, or it just could have been or could have happened before
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the engagement party, or like it could have rolled into your house, like
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all the things that it could have been to made this shit like it almost
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yeah, for the way to turn down in your neighbor to bless you that
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kind of just like you take that ship on the chin and be like,
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all right, this ain't nothing. And something something you mentioned that day,
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Quence, he was like and Matt and it was at a different time and
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y'all was in the pool. Your neighbors was in the their pool. Yeah,
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and like it would have it could have got crazy, you know what
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I mean, absolutely crazy. Man. It's just a bar that I've heard
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before that I always think about because I really truly believe it, But um,
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it goes. I got got on my side always down the ride,
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and I feel like, bro, I go through things like this and I
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feel like I always walk away very blessed. You know what I'm saying that
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the situation when you lead with the right energy, like when you're when you're
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brought problems, the problems are just like obstacles that are in the way.
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It's not associated with any like you don't have any any fault in it as
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far as like you didn't do anything that was messed up and causing. So
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you're just dealing with it, assessing it and dealing with it, you know
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what I'm saying, As opposed to you're not like like, oh man,
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I did X, Y and Z and that's why I'm in this situation.
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It's like, no, you did everything with the best intention, it ain't
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work out by by bad luck, and now you're dealing with it, you
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know what I mean. You know, well, real quick, this is
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not part of our topic. But I saw this today, like probably like
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an hour before we started this. It was on Facebook, and it was
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a post saying that you don't have to tell yourself how much worse it could
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have been in order to feel better. And they call it like toxic negativity,
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And I saw that aspect of it. But then I kept thinking,
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I was like, yeah, but at the same time, something happening,
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even something that's gonna cost you money, something that you gotta is gonna be
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a headache and paying asses you gotta deal with no other choice. Happened,
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but you should still consider yourself blessed and fortunate and you know, having ability
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to fix it. You anythink about all those situations where it could have been
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worse, And I think that just kind of emphasizes that, hey, something
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happened, and this ain't shit. You know, this same shit. I'm
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gonna perspective of it. Yeah, I'm gonna take care of me, like
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ye, it's something. Um, it's funny you say that, Joe,
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because I had did a post this week just talking about like I've been having
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like a rough couple of weeks and like just would wished you where you're at
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today exactly like and then I think about it and it's like, these are
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the problems that I literally like before I wished I had these problems, you
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know what I mean? Like this is like a different level and like everything
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is like like things are happening, but it's like like what happened with Quincy,
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you know what I'm saying. It's like you're leading with the right foot.
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Sometimes things happen. You can't control that. All you can do is,
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hey, let me assess this attack it the right way because that's something
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even um, it's not something I'm gonna talk about because it's still kind of
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going on. But like I had called Quincy about an issue that I'm having,
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He's just like, you know, you just gotta keep your cool and
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and and hit it like in a calm way, you know what I'm saying.
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And it ended up benefiting me greatly by keeping that in my head,
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you know when the situation happened, you know what I'm mean. So it's
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like you when you're when you leave with the right foot, I'm not you
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know, when that good energy stuff like that's where people kind of take it
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the wrong way. They think, like, oh, the things we're talking
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about, you're not gonna have problems in your life. It's like you're still
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gonna have problems because problems is gonna pop up, but it's not gonna be
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problems that you cause for being an idiot, right, And that's how you
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react to every single thing that you go through in life continues to to find
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you. It continues to make you a presci hard and so that builds builds
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character. Were talking about building character all the time. So when little shit
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happens, and that's why I always you know, a nod celested for fully
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controlling, and now he has shit that he can process without even a thought.
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Like we were we were all talking about our problems in the chat room
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this week, and I was talking about how my energy is messed up.
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I felt quinisid energy is messed up unless it's like I aren't even tureing about
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that ship. We all handed a little differently now regard situation, but that
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how you react to anything, whether it's big, and how you see how
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much bigger it could have been, whether it's small, and you see how
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much bigger it could have been. It's still that. I think that helps
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build your character. I think that's important to remind yourself that it's not as
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bad as it could be where you can't even handle it. Fact, my
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wife even like hey, because she was kind of stressing about it, and
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I'm like, hey, look at it this way. Did we do anything
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wrong? No? Is there's just an issue that we have to deal with
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that's not even affecting us going forward, Like the situation is not making a
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difference of how we lead our lives day to day. You know what I'm
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saying, it's just a situation that we have to handle apart from what we're
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doing right what I'm saying, So I had to kind of tell her,
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like, hey, don't even think about this because it literally doesn't help you
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at all to think about it, because there's nothing to think about. It's
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just plain black and white. Let's just keep putting our energy towards the ultimate
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goal, you know what I mean. I mean, it's all perspective,
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bro. Like, I think that's you know, kind of what we were
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discussing. As far as me and the counseling and stuff like that. That's
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been my big thing with going through counseling right now, is like shifting my
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perspective, you know what I'm saying on certain things, and I can I
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can easily now say that, you know, I'm starting to realize when I'm
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looking at things a certain way, like kind of like how things trigger me,
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you know what I mean, which is actually really dope, because again,
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it goes back to perspective. It goes back to like, all right,
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this is what happened. This is how I'm going to move about it,
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This is how I decided that I'm gonna feel about it, and I'm
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gonna proceed, but it's not going to mess up my piece exactly. It's
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like it can't get in the way your flow, you know what I mean.
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It's this in different thing. Um. I wanted to say, there
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is someone who when I worked for this company, my first company work with
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when I started this industry twenty years ago. I worked with them with thirteen
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years, and we kind of touched on this quincy too. The conversation will
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happen. After thirteen years, I knew it was it. I knew there's
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nothing more I can do as myself in that company to increase my value,
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to make anybody see me as more than what I am. So I left
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and ever since then, I have been able to prove my worth everywhere I
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went, and it works. There was somebody there who I admired and I
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looked up to, and I learned from and I took advice from. And
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today, after twenty eight years with that company, they quit. And they
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quit for their mental health. They said, I don't want to fall asleep,
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no more worrying about work. I don't want to just deal with this
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stress everything like it's not worth it for me anymore. And I commented it,
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and I was like, um yeah, I was like, you're a
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great leader. I took all your advices, still hold it with me today.
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And he told me he's like, he's proud of me how far I
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pushed myself and to the point where he looks up to me now and it's
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crazy. And it's just like, no matter how set you are, you
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never know if you're gonna be feeling this way forever. Your perspective, I
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feel it's going to continue to change throughout your la matter hale and this this
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guy's in his sixties, probably you know your perspectives never going to change,
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and you have to continuously remember that because when it does, the way you
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react to that is gonna be how you react to everything that's changed your life
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before that. And that's why I think people kind of lose himself in just
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the day to day and forget that, Yo, you're still a programmable computer
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that's continuously being programmed. And you know, sometimes the computer don't work the
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same way after one day, and it never works the same way again.
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And so seeing him right that and he might not even go back in the
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industry or even do what he was doing. He doesn't even know he's taking
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thirty days off and then he's just gonna figure it out. He's just gonna
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figure out what he wants to do. And that's crazy to me because I
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thought, oh, when I mean that position, I'm right it out to
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that retire. Never did I think, what if I'm in that position one
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day and I get sick of it and I want to quit and that so
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I was like, you know, I'll leave that for that, But it's
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never You're never setting stone. You're never setting stone. Man. That that
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thing taught me a lot right there, reading that and seeing someone who I
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thought was in that path or that same path, I'm going like, damn,
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there's there might be a left turn somewhere in this path one day,
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but I'll be ready for it. I'll be ready to deal with it.
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Facts. Man, It's it's crazy because that even it ties into like something
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that I've been thinking about a lot lately, Slash. It's just been kind
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of coming up in different ways, but like specifically, the way we can
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put it is like being underrated. And the way I kind of connected to
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the job thing that you're talking about, Joe, is like sometimes in jobs
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or in the situations like that, guy, he might have felt like,
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you know, what he was doing wasn't being recognized. Also, you know
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what I'm saying, because you know, underrated is like like, you know,
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for to do something twenty eight years and to be somebody that you took
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so much from obviously he was a valuable piece. Yeah, you know what
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I'm saying. And it gets to a point where you're probably thinking, dang,
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you know, for how much output I put, I don't understand why
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I'm getting this level of stress, you know what I'm saying, and you
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know, not getting the slack that I feel like I deserve, you know
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what I mean. And the underrated thing is like so fascinating to me because
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it only makes sense in certain settings, like, for example, something like
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the NBA that you were talking about Joe, the Nuggets being so underrated,
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people still asking them about the Lakers, like even though they swept them,
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like they're literally going to the finals with a conference finals sweep. The guy
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that's your main star set the record for triple doubles, a record that's been
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around since the sixties. Triple doubles in a playoff series, I mean,
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in a playoff run. Your second star average thirty two and a half points
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in the sweep. Think about that, Jamal Murray average thirty two and a
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half points in the suite. So that's like they're playing the pinnacle of basketball
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right now and people are asking them about the Lakers. But at the same
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time, it's like, yeah, they're underrated. But in basketball, it's
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wins, losses, numbers. At the end of the day, you got
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the facts to prove it because you're going to the finals and they're not.
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Now. In something else, like let's say music, you can debate it,
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but to me, music is kind of the same. If you make
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dope music and you reach your fans, nobody can tell that person they're a
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fan or not. You know what I'm saying, Like that person decides it
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with what you're doing. So it's like, you can be underrated in music,
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but if you're connecting with your fans and you're putting out the music that
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you know is your best work, it don't even really matter. It might
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matter for your ego, it might matter for you know, rankings in your
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mind or whatever, but at the end of the day, it don't really
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matter. I agree, yeah, and it was you know, it's funny.
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It's like that in the Bubble year, the COVID year in the NBA,
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it was the Nuggets who lost to the Lakers. They lost, and
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they were never talked about again. Yeah, you know, and now they're
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here playing the same team and they beat the shit out of them, and
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they still talking about the team that lost. Yeah. I will say that
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a lot of people that really know basketball they wrote the Nuggets off. But
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it was because a lot of them knew that without Jamal Murray, they didn't
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have that extra layer to really get somewhere, you know what I mean,
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Like like Yogis, Don't get me wrong, he was playing tremendous, keeping
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them afloat, playing hard and you know, just playing not even just playing
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hard, playing like legendary absence. But at the end of the day,
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he was one guy bro. Like he's he was surrounded by a whole bunch
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of injured in Bubble after the Bubble, the season after he got I think
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it might have been even in that same playoff room. I don't remember exactly,
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but he's he just came back this year and like it took him a
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little while to kind of get a rhythm and stuff. No, but I
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think that falls into favoritism man, and people show their true colors before the
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outcome, and then once the outcome comes out, they're still talking about their
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favorites, whether their favorites one or not. And that's there's any any role
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you're at, like anywhere you're at in your business or your career, is
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you're gonna reach a point where you earn the spot that you're at and you
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deserve the spot more than somebody else, But everybody's still just gonna pick the
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favorite because that's what they're gonna do, no matter how good you are.
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And that's just something that you're gonna have to continuously fight for. And I
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think it's a fight. I think you should never stop fighting to continue to
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not prove yourself to people, but just continuously to be a person of themselves.
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And what yeah, who excels them when you do. Let us speak
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for itself. You don't got to sell nobody nothing you said, Like,
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yeah, you said, not prove yourself to people. It's more like proving
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yourself to you because you know people like constantly doubting you or constantly counting you
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out. You know what I'm saying, do the work to prove it to
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you that you know what I'm saying. I am worth this. I am
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you know what I mean, like that guy, and I'm lucky like my
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wife. It doesn't care because I can't really tell people what I do for
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a living like that's awesome, you know, like it it doesn't makes sense
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to anybody. So sometimes I'll stay here and I'll show her the shit I
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do. I'm like, I'm nice, right, Like I'm nice. And
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that's why I like. It's me really finally admitting to myself, like,
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yeah, I am like good at the fuck I do. I deserve to
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be here. I deserve to earn this ship because I am actually good at
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what the fuck I do, Like you see this ship. So sometimes you
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get caught up and just doing it for so long. And that's why I
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like when people hate on Lebron for when he's blunt and like the eagle comes
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out at the end of the day. If you if you if you do
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it something for twenty years and you're doing it better than you did twenty years
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ago, that's something to talk shit about, Yes, something to talk shit
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about, and you don't have to do it every single day. But if
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you don't talk shit about if you don't remind yourself how good you are at
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what you do. You're you're just gonna forget that. You're gonna and then
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you're gonna let people forget that and that That's something that I never want to
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do, and that's what I want to fight for for us. My life
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just continues to be good what I'm doing, So I know, no matter
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what people say, I'm fucking good at what I do. But I know
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everybody says like they got haters. But if somebody can do something for twenty
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years and twenty years later be better, like whether you like them or not,
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but you gotta acknowledge that greatness because that's great. Not everybody walks around,
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um, you know, basically saying like yo, I've been doing this
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for twenty years and I'm still that guy. And that's the crazy thing about
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that argument, like between Lebron and Jordan, because I'm not gonna lie I'm
22:44
a Jordan guy. Joe is a Lebron guy. But I hate the part
22:48
of the argument where people try to kind of dismiss Lebron in any kind of
22:52
way. It's like, Bro, you're talking about a guy that has been
22:55
an a level player from his rookie season to year twenty. He has never
23:02
been whacked, he has never been not out, and he's barely been injured,
23:07
barely's missing injured. By how are you gonna try and say like he's
23:14
not on the level like bro, he's on the Jordan level. Like you
23:18
can't say that he ain't on the level like that. That's just crazy,
23:22
you know what I mean? And that's why I feel like I think the
23:25
main reason I'm so pro Lebron is because the comparative, like how much I
23:30
relate to him. We're literally the same age. We graduated high school the
23:34
same time, entered our careers at the same time, and we're both doing
23:38
the same shit we've done since we started for twenty years now. I've literally
23:42
been doing this shit for twenty years this month when I first started in my
23:47
career. I've been doing my same shit for twenty years. And that's why
23:51
I'm like, That's why it's like I can't go yeah, but now I
23:56
know when in my workplace, I'm respected by people who know that, and
24:00
I don't got to tell anybody that I don't. I don't sit here like
24:03
when when I'm meeting your teammates, I don't ever tell my story, but
24:07
I'll never tell my story of them. You want to love my story,
24:08
go to my LinkedIn Like that's not important. But there's a reason why I
24:12
am as good as I am. It's because I made sure that I over
24:17
these twenty years that I've continuously work continues to improve things. You put put
24:21
in more knowledge and learn more and just be trying to be better what I
24:26
am. And and that that goes across the board. That goes across the
24:29
board with taking care of yourself, your health, manage your relationships with your
24:33
family, with your with your partners, with your friends. It's like you
24:38
want to just be better at everything that you do, no matter what.
24:42
And I think that's that should never end. And also you know it the
24:48
right way. Like that's another thing people kind of like forget bro, Like
24:52
twenty years, whether we still have not seen this man and no scandals,
24:56
no no bad media. You know what I'm saying, nothing, you know.
25:00
So it's like built a whole school, got a whole night gi VICI
25:04
himed after him as a foundation, and I don't I don't know what else
25:10
if I was saying, I would definitely so yeah, day my boy,
25:12
sends me the me and my other boy, who's a big MJ. Fan.
25:18
He sends us that video that we all seen years ago where where Jordan
25:23
said he can't call himself to cook because he hasn't played against all the ones
25:26
before him, and then Lebron saying when he beat that warrior seventy three,
25:32
seventy two, and nineteen, that's when he knew he was the greatest of
25:34
all time. Yeah, Brah, I don't know what to tell you.
25:38
So my response was points were made. Broun knows he's the greatest. Jordan
25:42
doesn't. That's it. I don't know. That's what I got out of
25:45
that video. And the thing about that too, is like Jordan says that
25:48
in the interview, but then you hear all the crazy stuff he would say
25:52
on the court. Yeah he was cat. It's like, bro, you're
25:56
doing the same thing too, you know what I mean? You just you
26:00
know you're trying to take the humble route in the interview, but you're the
26:02
same too, Bro, Like motherfucker cry because he said people don't agree with
26:07
the way he is and the way he sees things. That means he knows
26:10
he's the greatest, And I love Jordan, Like, I don't doubt Jordan,
26:14
but I think I grew up to to feel like I relate more to
26:18
the Lebrons of the world. And there's Jordan's before me, who think there's
26:21
so much greater than me. But like dog, it's a little different now.
26:26
Yeah, to me, the difference always has been this, like when
26:30
when those moments happened for Jordan's he always delivered. Bro, you always knew
26:37
the ball was going to him, but but it did go to Steve Kerr
26:41
once. No, no, but it went to him originally he made the
26:45
past you know what I mean. But I'm saying like you knew the ball,
26:48
you knew the ball was going. No, I'm not saying like he
26:49
made no he did, he didn't make the pass, But just the fact
26:55
that like Jordan's Like Bro, that Game four, for example, bro Lebron
27:00
got blocked by Aaron Gordon and stripped by Jamal Murray. Bro, Like he
27:03
didn't even get a shot off, Like come on, man, Like you
27:07
don't even get a shot off, like, and he was just so passive
27:11
in that fourth quarter. It's like, Bro, I know you could destroy
27:15
this dude right now, Like, what are you even doing? Bro.
27:18
Yeah, I will say I gets more frustrated. Bro. Yeah, I
27:22
will say the way that your kitchen was attacking the basket compared to Lebron.
27:26
Like, I know, Lebron's on year at twenty, I get it.
27:29
But at the same time, Bro, like you're Lebron, Bro, y'all
27:32
you gotta take over. You know what Davis? Bro? Anthony Davis had
27:36
four field goals halfway through the fourth quarter. Bro. That averages out to
27:40
a field goal a quarter. Brood, what good me and myself that when
27:45
Lebron turned on in that Warriors final, Kyrie turned on with him. You
27:51
know what I'm saying, He turned on with him. Lebron turned on that
27:55
first quarter. Ad didn't do shit, Bro, he didn't do shit.
28:00
And that's the difference between an All Star player. And that's why they want
28:03
Kyrie on that team. Facts exactly Like everybody. It's it's what everybody says.
28:08
They're like, oh man, teams are stupid for trying to get Kyrie
28:12
whatever, Like, Bro, when you could get a Kyrie, a Jimmy
28:18
Butler, a Lebron. You know what I'm saying, Like, come on,
28:22
Bro, these are different players. These are guys that you could you
28:26
could lean on, you know what I'm saying. So it's like that's the
28:30
difference between like a really good and super golded you know what I'm saying.
28:34
It's like what we played Call of Duty, Bro, we know who could
28:37
we could get dubs with, and we know who we run with just to
28:40
run games with them, you know what I'm saying. But we know when
28:42
it's a squad, I'll be like, all right, this is a dub
28:45
squad right here. They know they're the same way. I bet the NBA
28:49
feels the same way. And everybody clowns Lebron maybe because he's the most obvious
28:53
about, you know, kind of documented that talent around him, about how
29:00
he feels about the talent around him. I'm sure every team has that.
29:03
Like, Yo, the first team, three out of five of us are
29:07
scrubs, but we're still gonna wrong with them. But we're probably not gonna
29:11
win a lot of games, but we're gonna wrong with them. And I
29:14
think that's a lot of teams are And Lebron gets shade for being vocal about
29:18
it, and we're trying to do some about it within the organization, but
29:21
he knows, he knows who's gonna who gonna turn up with him and who's
29:23
not a d should have And I know he disappointed in him. I know
29:26
he disappointed him. But that's the thing too, is that And it's my
29:30
bad real quick. That's the thing too that people fail to like mention when
29:34
we talk about Jordan. Jordan for a good amount of time had people like
29:40
that around him at all times, all times, like you know what I
29:44
mean, And don't get me wrong, Jordan's that guy. But I will
29:47
never shade Jordan at all. But I will say that comparison, it's a
29:51
completely different comparison. I will say this though, is I agree with you,
29:56
But also I feel like the reason why these guys were able to deliver
30:00
that is because he was leading the way you know what I'm saying, Like
30:04
those moments that you see of Lebron that you know he should be attacking,
30:08
Jordan would be attacking. Yeah, And that and the way Lebron gives up
30:15
at the end of plays. He stops playing defense if somebody on his team
30:18
did something that he like, if he's like you had a lax, yeah,
30:23
he's not gonna play defense on the next play. Bro. Jordan did
30:26
not do that in Big Games. Bro, he might have did it here
30:30
and there. I don't know, because everybody can do whatever. He might
30:33
have did it here and there, but I'm telling you, in Big Games
30:36
he was not taking no plays off. He was not looking at somebody blaming
30:40
them and not you know, trying to still win the game. Like,
30:42
Bro, all that stuff is what makes the people around you greater. Bro.
30:47
If you're not and I'm not saying Lebron and don't make people around him
30:51
great, But that's that difference between Jordan and Lebron to me, Like Jordan
30:55
is like he's showing you, bro, like he's telling you, Like,
30:59
Bro, I am I gonna let these dudes. You know what I'm saying.
31:02
I'm giving them everything I got regardless. Dog. Yeah that's bro.
31:07
Yeah whatever, No, that's real though that. I mean, people can
31:11
argue it all day. I will never say either because I feel like they're
31:15
both great in their own way. I feel like Jordan's willingness to win is
31:19
unmatched, and then I feel like Lebron's durability is like unheard of. So
31:25
I feel like, either way you slice it, they're both. They're both
31:27
great. Jordan's willy kneelingness all day. I don't care. And that's why,
31:33
like people people send me ship when when like the Lakers lose or when
31:38
Lebron does bad, or when it's like I don't care how you feel about
31:42
Lebron. That's the least of my word. And that's the hater thing that
31:47
Quincy's talking about. It's like I don't broo, yeah, like come on,
31:51
man. And it's just funny because it's like people are like Lebron had
31:56
a bad night, and it puts a pep in their step, like they're
32:00
going to like, you know what I'm saying, like they're terrible days.
32:04
I'm just glad Lebron and the Lakers lost last night. That's how Yeah,
32:08
that's that's what's getting you through the day. Yuh all right, that's crazy.
32:14
Not even not even a Denver fan. I'm glad I had a waffles
32:16
for breakfast. That's what I'm talking about. But it goes back to kind
32:22
of like what we're talking about, like when you're great and you're like putting
32:24
in the work and it's just undeniable, they're just gonna try to find any
32:29
way to like discount what you're doing. You know what, I'm saying,
32:31
but at the end of the day, you know what you're doing, you
32:34
know what you did, you know what you got going on. So they're
32:38
not the people you gotta convince. You gotta keep reminding yourself you're as good
32:43
as you know you are, as you think you are, and fuck them.
32:49
That's a big fact toid. I just I would just remember the waffles
32:53
that Quincy main Dan that sh that shit bust and uh right, yeah,
33:00
man, I've been I've been trying to use that since we got it.
33:02
But it was funny the one time you were like, all right, let's
33:05
do it. We didn't have any like pancake mix or enough to make like
33:07
flour to make it from scratching nothing. Yeah, Quincy's real the stuff pancakes.
33:15
Yeah, stuff chicken and waffles. Bro. That was gas life changing,
33:22
life changing dog yo. Man. I've been giving my house some TLC
33:28
that has been needed for like the past month or so. I've just been
33:30
so busy and like I I remotched everything like around the house right like,
33:37
but I did it like the official way, like I put the weed and
33:40
grass killer first, waited a day, peeled everything out, um, took
33:46
out the heavy duty rake and took out like whatever needed to be taken out
33:52
and had it ready, bought all the mulch, laid it out, spread
33:55
it out like dog. It looked so fire. My wife didn't even noticed.
34:00
Dog hurt, don't do nothing. I was t I was tired.
34:10
And even when she saw it, she still was like, oh, like
34:15
you know what I'm saying, like, oh my God, was about to
34:17
pack that back up in the bags and return them. Hey, but you
34:23
better notice that new hair due though, yo. Facts. But Dog,
34:28
I was out there like two you know, I was out there one day
34:30
for like an hour and then the next day for like two hours. Dog
34:34
mad work for nothing. I mean, I mean it looks dope, and
34:37
I'm glad I did it and it needed to be done anyway. Like we
34:39
said, it sounds yeah, you know, underrated in my own house.
34:44
Dog really did. I can tell you one of my favorite things when I
34:51
was home one was maintaining that look that landscape, having the greenest crass.
34:57
That's prideful brooding. I'm gonna lie, it's so funny that you mentioned the
35:02
most thing, bro because like I'm I'm really hurt right now because we talked
35:07
about it earlier, like one of these other episodes about all the work that
35:10
I did molting around my house. We saw the money I lined ass tiles.
35:15
Yeah yeah, but now I have the opportunity to remote because that pool
35:22
ruined everything. Yeah, you don't hurt bad. You gotta redo it.
35:28
And it was wasn't your fault that sun. Yeah. Man, it's crazy,
35:38
dog, But definitely, we just gotta keep pushing, man. That's
35:43
definitely been the theme of the last month for me. Man, Just keep
35:46
pushing, because yeah, I just noticed what your name says right there.
35:50
I know I know you tired because you you mentioned two things that we said,
35:54
and you said one thing you guys didn't say, and you mentioned it
35:58
as this guy's at over ready. Yeah, man, I've just been but
36:04
bro, I've been on go man, Like I've really been like super locked
36:07
in and like every day like there's just so much to do, dog,
36:13
Like it's just crazy. I've been falling asleep like at nine like the like
36:16
for like the past two weeks. Bro. Like I'm just exhausted because I
36:21
literally like don't stop doing nothing until like eight o'clock. You know what I'm
36:25
saying, Like the only break I have in my day. Dog. Is
36:29
that called a duty, bro, that'd be the shining light. N No.
36:34
But that's the one thing we shared in the chat, and that's I'm
36:37
glad we're understand each other when I know, unless it's not responding chat,
36:39
I know that motherfucker got a lot of shit going on. I literally told
36:45
I literally told Robin that. The other day. I was like, because
36:47
I think she wanted me to mention something. I can't remember what it was,
36:51
but I was like, he's not in the chat, so I know
36:52
he having a busy day. Yeah. Yeah, Joe, you had me
36:57
cracking up because you was like, he slid that in there. A matter
37:00
of fact, I'm gonna be on there tonight. But yeah, like I
37:01
was saying, I'm with it too. I got a session tonight, but
37:06
but it's at ten, so I got time, skis. Yeah, let's
37:09
get it. Yeah. It's just crazy, dog, because like, whenever
37:14
there's work, you gotta take it, bro, you know what I mean,
37:16
Like, because you never know when it's gonna slow down, you know
37:21
what I'm saying. So like I've just been getting it in and honestly,
37:24
Bro, like the other thing, the other project I'm doing that I'm still
37:28
not gonna talk about yet. It's almost time though, but I was up.
37:32
I was like, yeah, a lot going on, man, Yeah
37:35
that other thing Like once that's ready, I'm gonna be able to have a
37:38
little more time like kind of chill out. But dog like, anything that's
37:44
worthwhile, I's gonna take a lot of work, man Like. That's why
37:45
a lot of people don't do it, because it's like it's a lot of
37:49
extra stuff, dog like, And it's sometime like bro, like it's like
37:54
something that like he really tests your limits, like on every level. Bro,
38:00
know what I'm saying, Like it's crazy, but like when you get
38:01
to the end of it, bro, they just be so worth it.
38:04
Man. Yeah, I'm telling Bert, y'all do a lot more than me
38:07
throughout the day, and it's crazy. I commend y'all. I'm not gonna
38:10
say it's an age thing because you're not that much younger, but y'all get
38:15
a lot done in y'all day more than me. And that's why my weeks
38:17
are so played out because a lot of times to everything I don't, I
38:22
don't just I used to have those nice where I could just call on that.
38:24
But the main thing I know I got to be in bed by nine
38:27
o'clock because I'm working up at three thirty in the morning every single day.
38:30
Yeah, I mean, it's it's different for you because, like with your
38:36
work, it's a lot more tedious, but you're also getting compensated for it,
38:40
and like the sacrifices you make for it. It just it makes sense,
38:44
you know what I'm saying. And it's kind of like, you know,
38:47
you don't really have to do the extra stuff anyway, you know what
38:50
I'm saying. So it's like, you know, it don't even matter.
38:52
Yeah, and that's why I appreciate. Like I was working on something this
38:57
week and person I was helping mouth they told me, like, I know
39:00
how tedious this is. I don't know how much bullshit it is for you,
39:02
but we really need and I can do it fast and thank you for
39:07
your knowledgeing that that's all I need to hear. You know, I shouldn't
39:10
be doing but I'm good at it and I'm quick at it, and I'll
39:14
turn it right back around to you and send it right back boom. You
39:16
got it, And that's it. I rather up today. I even wrapped
39:19
up a couple of hours earlier. I'm like, yo, honestly, I
39:22
think I'm done. I hope that's another and they're like, thank you for
39:27
your time, have a good weekend, boom, and that's it. And
39:29
that's what I like. I made sure I maintain that. As long as
39:34
I can't maintain that, that is my job. That is what I grind
39:37
for to maintain the ability to do shit like that and to have that work
39:40
life balance. And I reached the point where I hate myself and I hate
39:45
what I'm doing, and I got to reconsider everything. But you never know,
39:50
Like I said, I learned that this week that you never know.
39:54
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