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The Reset - #85 · The Grounded Show

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Yo, So I'm mad that I'm an idiot and I didn't start recording because
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that genuine reaction would have been great. Yeah. But this shirt that I'm
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wearing right now is the shirt I wore on me and my wife's first date.
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I got it like sixteen years ago. Our Old Navy and Waterford Lakes.
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If anybody lives in Orlando, and that's why Waterford. I got this
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shirt that Old Navy in Waterford Lakes for five dollars. Set me up for
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success. You heard me sixteen years ago? Yeah, man, that's fucking
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wild. When I was just a young boy. That's funny. Wait does
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vow remember? Yeah, Okay, I got I got this shirt. And
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then I have this long sleeve that night Mamby before Christmas. It's a black
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long sleeve and it has like a night Rember before Christmas graphic on the front.
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That was I wore that when I first met her. And I still
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got that and I'll be wearing that got that's so yeah, man, it's
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all it's crazy, man, And it's held up pretty good. Yeah,
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saying sixteen years old, you know what I mean. And it's black and
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like the black isn't like really dingy like I've actually worn it like out like
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in the in the years, you know what I mean, like in the
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recent years, because it's still hits, you know. Yeah, Yeah,
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it's a nice little, nice little color way of stripes. Here, say
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so myself. That's funny, bro, Like, Hey, let's just say
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this. I remember the shirt that I wore my first day with my fiance.
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But let's just say the boy got a little bigger. Yeah, hear
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the gold shirts right right? Right? Oh, it's funny, man.
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I've been I've been wanting to get back into hooping, so I've been like
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in the courts more like going with my son and stuff. And I've been
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wanting to hit this one court more lately. And we were getting ready to
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go today and it was a shooting there yesterday. So never mind, Dan,
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Yeah, bro, it's crazy. Was it down? Damn? Supposedly
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it was like away from the courts and stuff. It was just some kids
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kind of like playing around from what it seems like right now. But but
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yeah, man, it's kind of scary because I'd be out there with my
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son, you know what I mean. Yeah, still ain't gonna bring the
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kids out there. That's crazy. Yeah, man, even in that area.
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I wudn't even expect that, you know what I mean. It's like
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a neighborhood area, a lot of families. It's like a rec center too,
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you know what I mean. It's super super random for sure. Man,
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It's funny because that gym actually has I've seen it randomly pop up on
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ig like little random viral street ball kind of clips. I guess they got
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a couple guys that be filming that live out here, you know what I
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mean. They'd be going to those outside courts and the inside courts every once
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in a while, and they'd be like a lot of viral basketball clips from
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there, and I'd be like, oh, damn, that's the court that
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I'd be going to. It's crazy. I never would have thought, you
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know what I mean, because I'm not like some crazy like city area,
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you know what i mean. Damn, Bro, you'd be going out there
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trying to hoop boy about to go out there and get cooked by wanting the
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viral boards. Sometimes we be playing and a dude be like, just so
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everybody now, I'm feeling oh sing in the corner. Noah, but you
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could bring I'm not. I'm not killing them like I used to, you
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know what I mean. Yeah, I'm not going to say that I'm killing
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them. I'm not in that kind of shape yet. I can get in
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that shape. I feel it. It's on the way. Yeah. But
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like if I stick to like the stuff that I know I could do,
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I'm ooping out there. You still hold your own Yeah? Yeah, yeah,
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Like like if I if I just know, all right, I'm shooting
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and passing, you know what I mean, Like I can I could get
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like a nice little mid range penetration a couple of times, but like I
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can't score every time, you know what I mean? Like, yeah,
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I can give you a good like four points, you know, solid for
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the person I'm playing on defense on he ain't really doing nothing, you feel
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what I'm saying. I'm holding my own random rebounds. Yeah, I got
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the slick eye, so I'm catching the steel. You know what I mean?
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You count on me for the final, you know what I'm saying.
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I might have missed the first three, but if it's the game, you
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know I'm a making That's funny, man. No, I actually recently got
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back into soccer, man, and that's been dope. Man. That's actually
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been really dope. Man. I don't know if I ever told you this
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story, bro, but like or I might have. But like you know,
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I grew up playing soccer, man, and I was nice, dog
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Like I was really really nice dog like trophies and stuff worth right, yeah,
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yeah, yeah, yeah, And you know when we moved to Florida,
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Like you know, I remember one of the pictures, dog of you
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in the uniform, like in your house, Dog. I see the pictures,
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you see it? Yeah, did you wear like a Maroon jersey?
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Yeah? I had one team where I was Maroon. I had a few
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different teams, bro, but yeah, I know the one you're talking about
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at that point when I had the Maroon where I was nice. Yeah,
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by that time, I was nice. Like I had some pictures of when
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I was younger and I was still kind of learning the game, you know
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what I mean. But by that time, but I was I was that
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dude. And I remember I moved to Florida, man, and like my
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mom put me in like a league and it was a bunch of white kids.
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I think I was the only black kid, and they immediately like put
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me on a bench and like, being like thirteen at the time, fourteen
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at the time, bro. I already didn't want to be in Florida,
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so like I was like, forget it. I gave up on soccer,
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which I really regret that, man, because like I was actually really good
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but recently, but I basically my sister she started to put her kids in
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soccer and she became a coach. And when I went out there to go
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see the game, I got like super motivated. I was like, yo,
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I'm a train I'm join an adult league. And so I had my
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first game last Sunday, and Yo, that joont was dope man. I
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had a great time. That adult league community in soccer is dope, man.
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Like s got out to my homie Matt Man. I used to work
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with him at the airport and he's a big soccer guy, and he was
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the one that kind of put it on my or that they even be doing
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that. Like you used to go to like these indoor soccer leagues and play.
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You would get together with people and play soccer. Yo, buy my
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house one of the times you come out here, we will go out there
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on the weekend. If they out there, yeah, going every weekend because
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you know they got the big soccer fields near my crib. We going out
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there every weekend. Deep. Bro, they be playing games like on like
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four courts, I mean four fields. You know, they be going in
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over there. Bro. It's dope. Man. The league that I'm in
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is super organized too, bro, Like they got like it's almost like I
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said, it's like the leagues that I was in as a kid. You
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know what I'm saying, Like there's uh, you know, a week week
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every game every week. You know, you got your they keep the record
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at the end, you know what I'm saying. They got the playoffs.
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Whoever wins, they get the trophy. You know what I'm saying. It's
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like it's like a legit situation, you know, and they for real bro,
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like they put Bro. I was out there and I was like,
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oh, oh yeah, this is what I needed because now I'm in the
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gym. Bro, y'all not about to see me out here trash, Like
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y'all gonna see me, you know. So like that was like the motivation
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I needed to really like get right. I've been back in the gym working
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on my cardio and I'm just super hyped, bro, because it's like the
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season is like ten weeks and then there's another season a month after that,
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that's another ten weeks. So I'm gonna just stay locked in with it because
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it's definitely getting me motivated to get back in shape for sure. Yeah.
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Man, that that athletic kind of competition, not even just competition, but
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just something with a motivation to do something athletic, you know what I mean.
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That'd be the thing that that I feel like is missing specifically for my
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life, just because I used to play ball so much, you know what
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I'm saying, So like I'm gonna play I'm in that league with Joe now,
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the softball league. I never played softball before, but you know what
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I'm saying, he said, it's I like baseball. I played baseball before,
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so you know, I'm Puerto Rican dog this right. Yeah, you
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know what I mean. I'm a hype to do that, just to you
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know, have something every week to look forward to, like that, you
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know, something to be mindful of when I'm working out, you know work.
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You know, I'm probably gonna pull up like workouts that are good for
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softball, you know what i mean, change up my routine to work around
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that. So I'm excited about that. Man. It's gonna be dope.
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Yeah, man, that's super dope, bron. Like you know you kind
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of like, especially as we get older, but we kind of forget,
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like you know what I mean, you kind of need that, you know
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what I mean, that little outlet you know. Yeah, I'm like,
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man, I'm telling you, bro, Like I left that game, bro,
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and I was like, damn, Like I almost forgot how I feel
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to be like in something like that, like that competitive spirit, you know
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what I mean. Yeah, And even from the mental point of view,
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like that's the thing we always talk about with music, Like people sometimes want
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to look at arts like it's something stupid or whatever, but it's like it's
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just a mental way to relieve that stress or you know, a mental exercise
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something that. You know, them hobbies, bro, Like them hobbies be
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crucial. A lot of people will be putting that to the side and they
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be just focused on work or like thinking they have a machine or something like.
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It's like, nah, man, like you're here to to enjoy and
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grow as well, you know what I'm saying. Big facts. Yeah,
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So definitely looking forward to this weekend, bro, because the last week I
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ain't gonna lie. Man. We caught that l at the last minute,
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so we already know. I've been in the gym last last weekend. My
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son won the championship and won the championship. How he do like on his
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own the last game, so he was disappointed in himself because he didn't like
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he wasn't scoring, like about like halfway through the game, and he was
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like you could tell he was down about it, you know what I mean.
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And then like they benched him. But it's like one of those leagues
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where they have to bench you, like you know, yeah, every kid
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amount of quarters you know, yeah, coach did it. So at least
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he's in the fourth quarter. And he was explaining to him, like,
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yo, I want you in the fourth quarter because he's putting the best lineup
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at the end so they can close it out, especially if it's tight.
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It was tight, you know what I'm saying. And the coach, that
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coach be taking this serious, bro, like he'd be playing beforehand. He
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be coming with a clipboard with plays and everything. Dog Like he got my
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son locked in, bro, Like it's super dope. He's it's dope,
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man, because he's a black dude. He's a sheriff saw the picture,
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yep, And he's and his son is on the team too, and his
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son is like the best player on the team, you know what I mean.
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But he's like one of those dudes that he's not like being like a
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favorite to favorite to the sun, you know what I mean. Like,
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you know what I mean, there's some games that he sees that my son
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got control of the flow and everything. He's telling his son, Yo,
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make sure you give it to him so he can run the ball or whatever.
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You know what I mean. Lets my son run the game and make
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the decisions and stuff. So it's dope. But he didn't score. It
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was a tight game though, Like they didn't even score past twenty, you
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know what I mean. Yeah, Like he had a couple of looks and
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that's why he was disappointed because he knows that he missed ones that he should
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have made. But he played great defense. He had he had his dude
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on lock. His dude, his dude ain't do nothing. He was stilling
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the ball. He had a lot of rebounds, you know what I'm saying.
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And I explained it today on the way home. Matter of fact,
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because like I gave him a couple of days, you know what I mean.
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I didn't want to like, you know, they still at the end
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of the day, they won, right right right right like rain on his
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parade to talk to him about it, you know what I mean. And
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so you know, I waited till today, which has been like three days
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or four days. I was like, hey, you know, I just
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asked him about like how he was feeling during the game and everything, and
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he was just telling me, you know. You know, that's when he
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mentioned to me that he was mad that he got benched, and then he
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was that he was mad that he ain't scored. And I just basically like
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explain to him, like, you know, how you can affect the game
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in other ways. And at the end of the day, basketball was ball
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again in w and they got to w you know, they're the champion.
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You know, if somebody else was there shouting him and and he wouldn't have
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made the shots, but he had a better attitude, they would have known,
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like yo, they would have known by seeing his form and everything that
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he's a good player. Maybe he was just off that day exactly his undeniable
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like you don't need to be on to play defense, you don't need to
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get those steals, and you know what I'm saying. So he was locked
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in on the other end. But I told him, like, but the
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thing that might have messed you up was they would have seen the attitude and
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to look on you're facing stuff, and they might have thought, oh,
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maybe he's not a good fit for my team because maybe he got a little
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attitude. I mean, so I was just explaining to him, like,
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you did good. You know what I'm saying, Like you played the best
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that you could. You know, you missed some shots that could have gone
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your way, but that's you know that happens. You didn't let it affect
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you the rest of your game. But you know what I mean, Like
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the attitude, you know, you can't got to fix that team. You
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can't let it affect how you're moving, you know what I mean? Mm
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hm, that's real. Now, that's dope, man, Like that's dope
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that he got the dub though, because I you know, I don't know
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if you ever bought it up on the pile, but you know, last
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year was a tough He had a tough loss when I was out there,
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and he kind of he had like a little chip on his shoulder two years
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in a row. He cried in the last game. Brom h the first
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year, he cried in the last game when he realized, like that was
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it, you know what I mean. The second year, they was in
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the playoffs and he knew they had to win that game, and they lost
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and he knew that was it too, where it's even more. And this
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year they came back undefeated and won the championship and he was crying, but
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tears of joy this time. You know. That's dope. Yeah, man,
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one of the dads he got them like little championship rings and everything.
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Yeah. I saw that in the picture. I was like that they got
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rings and the coaches son. It was his birthday the day they played the
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game, so they had altitude. Oh, they had a great game place.
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So he was out there, you know, bouncing off the trampolines and
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stuff like it was. That's why, like I said, that's why I
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ain't talked him about it. I'm like, yeah, let him ride that
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high. Yeah yeah, facts, I'm not gonna ruin this great day for
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my man. Yeah. That's dope, man, that's super dope. Mm
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hmmm. That boy just size yeah, man, the kids the kids of
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Hooper Man. Yeah, you know what I'm saying, if you get some
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size, we might be on the song, but we shall see right and
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you never know, man, because you might hit that grol spurg and out
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of nowhere. You know, bro, dudes in my family and vows family,
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it's tall. That's why I'm tight, Like I'm supposed to be tall,
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dog like you know my own my great grandpa's tall, you know what
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I'm saying, Like like everybody was tall, Like I don't know what happened
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with me. Like I'm not short, you know what I mean? But
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I'm not tall right right, a regular guy. Hey, man, it's
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all good because I accepted my fate a long time ago. I had no
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chance, no chance in hell. Yo, Kudos to you and Joe though,
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because at least y'all pass the threshold. You feel me, y'all not
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in the threshold where it's like damn bro, you know what I mean,
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Like you're not even touching the sad category. Yeah, yeah, Like the
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sad category is where it's like, dang, bro. That gotta be like,
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bro, life could be cruel dog life cool? Bro. Hey.
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The good thing, bro, is I got a little size on me,
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So I always feel good because I got size, you know what I mean,
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Like I've always said, you're not even in the You're not even in
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the range where you even have to justify it because you're not in the range.
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Yeah, you're in the range. That gotta be crazy, brog.
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Yeah that's right. Oh man, but no, I know you wanted to
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uh, you wanted to tap on tap into this Wentworth Wentworth? Oh yeah,
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man, because that that went Worth party was crazy. Man. That
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was the last album technically that I dropped, like that album, yeah,
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because I haven't dropped the album since. Oh snap, like you had like
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EP, like look like EP. You know what I'm saying. Oh wow,
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Yeah. Yeah, So that was like the last actual like real put
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together project got dropped. It was a while ago. Bro mm hmm,
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I mean twenty nineteen, twenty twenty. I believe that was the last you
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mentioned that I didn't really think about because that was another thing that's kind of
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crazy to think about. That was the last event that we had went to
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before the COVID stuff started, right literally right before, like people had just
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started like hearing the rumblings and like on the level they were starting to like
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not show up places, staying home things like that. But it wasn't like
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a lot of people were doing. It was just like the real careful people
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that was really like Okay, it was like something ain't looking good right now.
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Yeah. Yeah. I think that night there was at least a couple
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of people that even bought tickets that were like, yo, you know this
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thing is kind of going around, We're not going to risk it, you
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know what I mean. It was like the first like little rumblings, you
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know what I mean, Yep, yep. That was just that was kind
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of crazy, man. And it was just like wow, because it was
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such a dope event and like it was such a major thing that we were
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able to pull off, like in a very like Novice way, you know
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what I mean, Like it just kind of like dipping our toes in it.
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And then the COVID thing happened, and it's just like turning everything around
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facts COVID really like because I feel like that event was like almost like a
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propelling like situation that was about to happen. We were on a trajectory,
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for sure, It was definitely on a trajectory, bro And then COVID happened,
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and I really set everything back because I feel like even at that time,
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but neither of us really had our own studios and stuff like that,
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yet you know what I mean, Like we had our little setups, but
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it wasn't enough to make quality music, you know, Like we were just
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going to the studio regularly. Yeah, Like we was booking sessions just to
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book sessions. Like it was like, yeah, we got none to work,
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don't have no plan, but if not, we'll figure it out right
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right right. Yeah, I definitely missed that vibe, man, Like that's
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something that's like something that you don't even consider, is like a really dope
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moment in time until it passes, you know what I mean? Mm hmm,
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because you can't recapture those moments. Man. I feel like that's one
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of the beautiful things about being an artist and making music, dog is like
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when you have those spontaneous sessions like I'll never forget, Like sessions like the
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Mama Ain't working session, you know what I mean, Like the session like
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the this Moment session from the Wentworth album Shoot, Like you know, I
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feel like every song on that album just about you can just think back to
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those moments, Like, man, those were dope moments, you know what
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I mean. Just the fact that like give her Love was like one of
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the songs that people really rock with, and we we figured it out.
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We figured that song out like ten minutes on the highway. Facts like driving
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Literallysion was just like old spur of the moment. Oh we out all right,
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but let's figure it out. And then we just like had to be
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like sent to us like not that long before, and we just and was
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like, Yo, let's do something like this. Got there, laid it
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down and he was like, y'all, just y'all just did this right now
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like he did. He was surprised, Yo, got about that because he
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had just yep, that's facts. I forgot about that. Open the door.
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Remember he was laying the son, Yo, this ship is dope,
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and he opened the door. So the people that was like walking back and
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here here. Yeah, I forgot. We met a couple of people off
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that like they were just coming in. Yeah. They was fucking with it.
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Yeah, man, that's crazy. I forgot. Man, we was
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in such a pocket. That was a good next little time creatively. Yeah,
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man, that was that was definitely a zone brom. You know.
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It's funny man, because I was talking to my boy Kevin, shout out
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to him, man, he just finished his move back out to Florida from
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Virginia. He's retiring from the Navy soon, not super not so soon,
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but soon, you know what I mean. He's satting up you know,
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his life and he's about two hours away from me. Man, I'm hype
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man. He was my best friend in high school. Dog, so it's
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dope that he's coming back. And but yeah, I was just talking to
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him about like just the studies and stuff that have come out about like working
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from home and how it's like affected people mentally, like working at the same
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place where you're living, you know what I mean, And like a lot
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of people still having to do like a like a process that's almost like driving
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home, you know what I mean, Like they still need that time,
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regardless if it's to drive home or they need to do something, because it's
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like it's like a weird kind of world you're living in where your work is
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your home. You know. Yeah, Bro, it's like if you don't
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and that like a lot of people used to ask like like why, you
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know, go for such a big space as far as home goes. But
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it's like, Bro, me and my partner both work from home, you
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know what I mean. It's like if I have a two bedroom apartment and
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we both work from home. We would go crazy. If you don't feel
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like a jail. It's gonna feel like every day you wake up, you're
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gonna feel like you're at work. As soon as you close your laptop,
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you still gonna feel like you at work, you know what I mean.
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So, like, you know, that's why for me, I love that
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we have the space to be able to, like you know what I'm saying,
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like walk out and close the door to our office because it's like,
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bro, you need that space, dude. And you're right, man,
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After a while, you start realizing like, damn man, I'm waking up
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and going to sleep in the same place I'm working, Like what is this?
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You know? Yeah, it's just definitely like if you don't manage it
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well, it can really like get to you and you might not even know
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that it's getting to you, you know what I mean. It's like like
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you could get to a place where you're like on edge while you're at home
21:34
exactly. You're never able to shut down. You're never able to shut down.
21:38
And that's the beauty of like when you leave an office and your computer
21:42
is at the office or your work is at the office. You're gone.
21:45
There's like there's nothing that can happen that can make you go back into work
21:49
mode because you're not at work when you're at home. Bro. It's some
21:53
people, you know what I'm saying. They got their their work emails and
21:56
stuff on their phone, so they just scroll in and enjoy their free time
22:00
and they just got to email. Now they pulling off their laptop to try
22:03
to get some stuff together. It's like, well, you're never off.
22:06
Yeah, it's crazy, man. And man, it's just definitely uh they
22:15
I forgot where I heard it, but they said that it's gonna be very
22:17
interesting kind of seeing the long term effects of like this time, like with
22:22
the what we were just talking about, the COVID, the Wentworth event,
22:25
you know what I mean, Like what kind of came from all that.
22:26
It's definitely like a crazy, crazy thing that happened. Like you know what
22:33
I'm saying, it's wild, man, because people our age, bro,
22:37
Like we've been through a lot of crazy stuff. Dog, Like you know,
22:41
every generation ain't really how to go through like certain things, you know
22:44
what I mean. I'm not saying we had it the worst by any means,
22:47
because like you know, even just thinking about like people that went through
22:51
war times whatever was like major casualties, you know, where a lot of
22:55
young men was dying, Like there's there's you know, slavery times. Like
22:59
you know what I'm saying, Like I'm never gonna say, like I'm I
23:02
got it worse than somebody that was a slave dog, because like that's that's
23:04
like just a whole dog. Like, but it's definitely like a lot of
23:11
global and national and just like crazy events and just the way that technology has
23:17
advanced, like it's on a whole other level now, you know what I
23:19
mean, Like you wouldn't even like if you live somewhere and nothing's going on,
23:23
you wouldn't even know other stuff is going on. Like we're burdened with
23:27
everything that's going on everywhere at the same time, you know what I mean.
23:30
Like we know like there's a struggle here, the struggle there, Like
23:34
we know to a t, like we could pull up on our phone like
23:37
their point of view and even see exactly what they're living like and when we're
23:41
just doing our thing, we're thinking about like damn, bro, like somebody
23:44
in this area right now is going through this, Like bro, Like you
23:48
know, people back in the day. Wasn't going through that, you know
23:51
what I'm saying. They were just dealing with their own personal struggle, and
23:53
that was like the scope of the world, you know what I mean.
23:56
They didn't even know what anybody else was doing. They just knew what the
24:00
people around them was doing. Yeah, but you know everybody's doing. I
24:03
was reading the fifty cent Hustle, Harder, Hustle, Smarter book and he
24:07
was talking about how when he was in I want to say Africa, I
24:11
can't remember what actual country in Africa, but he was there, and you
24:18
know, he that experience really humbled him because he saw like a lot of
24:21
like just situations there that was like bro us in America, like we would
24:26
never be able to handle that kind of stuff, right, But at the
24:30
same time, he was like, but a lot of these kids had so
24:33
much more joy than what we have in America, you know what I mean,
24:38
even though they had way less. And it's like, if you think
24:42
about it, bro like they don't have that exposure, you know what I'm
24:45
saying, Like they have their problems, of course, but if they're quote
24:49
unquote missing out, they don't even know they're missing out exactly exactly. So
24:53
it's like that's crazy, you know when you actually think about it that It's
24:57
like sometimes people always think like having this access is such a like progression,
25:03
but in a sense it's also a regression, a burden, you know what
25:07
I mean. Like in a sense it's bliss in a sense, there's always
25:11
ignorance. There's always pros and cons, bro. Like people in general tend
25:18
to think like that you're getting like you can tip the scales a certain way,
25:22
but it's always balanced, bro, you know what I'm saying. It's
25:25
like it's kind of like how I always say, if you don't go to
25:27
school, you're still gonna pay the price somehow, you know what I'm saying,
25:30
Like people think, oh, I'm not going to go to college,
25:33
I'm gonna figure it out. Like even if you figure it out, it's
25:36
still going to cost you. You know what I'm saying. If you want
25:37
to be an artist, it's still going to cost you. If whatever you
25:41
want to be is going to cost you, like anything, any path you
25:45
take, like if it's going to be worth anything's gonna cost you. And
25:48
there's just a certain balance of life, bro, And it's just always going
25:52
to be there. You know what I mean. Ye, facts, Yeah,
25:56
that's that's how it goes man, That's why. You know, even
26:00
just reflecting on that Wentworth situation, br it's like it was such a dope
26:06
time, but also I feel like, you know, as much as we
26:11
enjoyed that time, we both were like in situations that we would rather not
26:17
be in today, you know what I mean, Oh, facts facts Like
26:19
so it's like it's crazy when you think about it, Like we were so
26:23
like invested into the music and so like in a pocket, but then like
26:29
at the same time, like where we are today, like just in life
26:32
is just so much further than where we was, you know what I mean.
26:36
But it's a result of that because like once we realized that we had
26:41
the the skills and the capacity to work for it, but we realized that
26:48
we were utilizing those muscles the wrong way, and we redirected it. Look
26:52
how quick everything turned around, facts, you know what I'm saying. Like
26:56
we was, we was plateauing on every level, professionally, financially, you
27:03
know, everything just plateauing. Then we just redirected our energies to fixing everything,
27:08
like just in ourselves first, like in our lives and just just like
27:14
that we was you know, light years ahead facts, you know what I'm
27:18
saying, And it's just you know what I mean, Sometimes it goes back
27:25
to just being solid, bro, Like you know what I mean. Like
27:29
sometimes you just assume people are on the same vibes that you're on, and
27:34
that naiveness is not an excuse. It's just like you got to realize,
27:38
like that you should have been smarter type thing, you know what I mean.
27:41
Like that's why I'm always saying, like you got to look at yourself
27:45
whenever stuff happens, because there's always something that you did that you knew was
27:49
against the balance, but you decided against it because something feeling, you know,
27:56
something in your feelings made you do it, you know what I'm saying.
27:59
But when you look back, the signs were always there. There was
28:02
always something unbalanced, you know what I'm saying. Like whenever, whenever you
28:07
feel balanced in any relationship, it's really easy to maintain, you know what
28:11
I mean, because you know that it's balanced. You know that they're not
28:15
trying to tip the scales. You know that you're not trying to tip the
28:18
scales. You know that y'are both in it for the same reason, and
28:22
it's just balanced, you know what I mean, Like whatever relationship it is,
28:26
you know what I'm saying. If it's personal business, you know what
28:30
I mean, If it's just mutually beneficial, like whatever it is, as
28:33
long as it's balanced and everybody know what it is, everything's cool. Sometimes
28:37
And I know for me, sometimes we fail in being balanced, you know
28:42
what I mean, Like we don't maintain the balance, and then if we
28:47
don't maintain the balance, it's gonna tip, and it's not gonna tip in
28:49
your favor, you know what I mean, right right, Like you always
28:53
it's like I always say, bro, like there's some in you that less
28:57
you know, like what you should be doing, Like you know you're doing
29:00
the wrong thing, And anytime you do the wrong thing, it's always going
29:03
to come back and bute you in the ass. It might not be in
29:06
such a like gigantic way, you know what I mean. Maybe you misplace
29:10
your keys and you know it costs you, you know, a late trip
29:14
in the morning. You know, you know you're five minutes late. Okay,
29:18
you know it ain't nothing, but you still got it paid back,
29:21
you know, right. Sometimes it's not catastrophic, but it's still gonna come
29:25
back right right. Yeah, that's too real, bro, that's too real.
29:30
But you uh what you got planned now as far as uh means,
29:33
I know you have. He has some things in the pipeline, I know.
29:37
Yeah, man, Like honestly, bro, like even like we took
29:41
a little hiatus, he was on vacation. Joe's on a vacation right now.
29:45
Matter of fact, he's on a cruise looking like he having a blast
29:48
out there with his whole fan That gotta be dope. Man, We're having
29:51
a good time. Yeah man. He just did the Puppy Tulo selfie today.
29:56
Yeah yeah, but yeah man, yeah, man, just taking some
30:03
time to reset dog. This this business stuff is not easy, my man,
30:08
you know what I mean. I know you know, but you know
30:11
it's like I told my wife, man, like if if everybody could could
30:17
set up their own thing, everybody would set up their own thing exactly.
30:19
You know what I mean. You just got to weather that storm, you
30:22
know what I mean. Sometimes you feel crazy because I'm like we were talking
30:26
about it before. I'm like, damn, Like, how do you just
30:29
like have like all like you're doing good. All your money's in the savings,
30:33
A lot of money come in and you just say, let me,
30:36
let me spend all this money so that I make my money later, you
30:40
know what I mean. Like it's like you know it's for a reason,
30:42
and you know it's smart, and you know you sticking to the plan.
30:45
But there's those moments in between, like dangn bro, I was chilling,
30:48
you know. Yeah, yeah, But at the same time, you know
30:52
that being in control of my own fate, man, that's really important to
30:55
me. Man. So I'm just I'm really focused on making moves to make
30:59
that happen. And like even with the music, bro, Like I just
31:02
been paused on my project because of that, you know what I mean,
31:04
Like all the money that I had for the project went into the just salon
31:08
stuff and you know, just things being held up there that shouldn't be held
31:12
up, you know, certain things. But anyway, everything is like even
31:18
and out now. And I just got like a big library of music with
31:22
shout out to him, I got a big library of music that I've been
31:26
working on myself, just with the with the machine, Man, I've been
31:30
locked in. I made a man. I love this thing. Man,
31:33
I don't know how long I've had it. I don't know you know,
31:38
if this is like a like a halfway through review or whatever, but it
31:42
still was a great purchase to me. I'm I'm loving cooking up on it.
31:48
I just now started getting into sampling, you know what I mean.
31:52
I've been hearing Splice and downloading like some guitar loops and different stuff and just
31:57
kind of playing around with sam and building melodies and stuff around those samples.
32:02
And one of the next joints that I'm doing is one of those. So
32:06
I'm excited to, you know what i mean, start moving in that direction.
32:09
Man, It's dope because you know, you get the alu. Yeah,
32:15
you don't have to like come up with the whole direction, you know
32:17
what I mean. And for people that don't know, splices like a music
32:22
library of stuff that you can use, like elements that you can use in
32:25
your music. And it's already pre cleared as far as like you don't have
32:30
to get permission to use it because it's on Splice. You can use it,
32:35
you know what I mean, And you don't have to like oh or
32:37
anything like that. So it's like a dope resource and it's a big library,
32:42
so everybody can use the sounds you just got to tweak it in a
32:45
way that it doesn't sound like whoever else uses it, you know what I
32:47
mean? Because go ahead. I was gonna say for anybody that's been following
32:53
us and knows about our song perfect, that loves the song and has heard
32:59
similar you know, melodies from the song. The main melody in that song
33:04
came from Splice from Splice, and basically what happens is like if you don't
33:07
tweak the sound, like a lot of people just use the sounds as is,
33:13
you know what I mean. And you got to think it even shows
33:15
how many times it's been viewed, how many times it's been downloaded, so
33:17
like you know, like how many people have been looking at that sound.
33:22
So you gotta in my opinion and shout out to them. Because he's the
33:24
same way. He's like, he'll never just use a sample, you know
33:29
what I mean. He's like, I'll keep the same vibe, you know
33:31
what I mean. I'll build a similar melody, you know, I'll use
33:36
the same chords, But he's not going to use the sample because it's like
33:38
it's the same, you know what I mean, it's out there, you
33:40
know what I mean. We're making original music, So I always appreciate that
33:45
with him. You know, it takes a little longer, but I'm about
33:49
that life, you know what I mean, Like making great music takes time,
33:52
so I always appreciate that about him, Like we take our time building
33:57
music. And you know, me and him got a lot of music.
33:59
Because I've still been recording, you know what I mean. Shout out to
34:01
him. You know, he always locks me in for a session no matter
34:05
what. So I've still been recording and the music is there. I've been
34:08
riding to it a lot lately and really just analyzing it and because I'm getting
34:14
ready to start dropping. So I'm excited, man, I'm excited about the
34:17
music that I'm going to drop. Like I forgot how dope it was.
34:23
It's like in such a rough shape that I can't even imagine how it's gonna
34:28
sound when it's like, you know, when it sounds like how it's supposed
34:30
to sound, you know what I mean? Yeah, Yeah, And I'm
34:35
finally gonna drop all Night Dog. I'm bro, that's all. I love
34:39
that song, man, I love that song. I hope, I hope.
34:42
I'm excited for you to drop it now with the fan base that you
34:45
have, now you know what I mean, Yeah, facts, man,
34:46
And I'm excited to shoot the video for that. Man. I got a
34:52
dope idea for that video, and I still I've had it since I've recorded
34:55
the song. Bro. It's been like almost three years since I recorded that
34:59
song. Bro. So like that's that same idea. It's still locked in
35:04
because it's such a like dope and like it doesn't it's not really tied to
35:07
anything. It's just an idea within itself. So like it just still it
35:10
still hits now, you know what I mean. I'm still doing that same
35:14
idea and I'm just excited to get this thing in motion, man. Like
35:16
I got a lot of dope music on the way. Man, that's dope.
35:21
Man. Hey, it's the growing pains, bro, the growing pains,
35:24
and I feel like that's what we've been experiencing since the Windworth. Uh.
35:30
You know what I'm saying, project is just constant growing pains man.
35:32
Like, uh, you know, I'm actually super excited. Man. I
35:36
just had like the most beautiful, amazing getting fired from one of my jobs
35:43
experienced last week. That the liberation is beautiful. So I'm so excited to
35:49
like have that time again. You know what I mean, it did what
35:52
it was supposed to do. It got me where I needed to get.
35:54
And now I'm ready to get back locked in. And I still was working
35:58
on music and writing, but I just was not really recording as much because
36:01
I've just been so busy. Man. But you know, like I said
36:04
that liberation is beautiful because now I have the time and the energy and I'm
36:07
ready to get locked back in. Man. I already had my conversation with
36:10
Freddie how we want to roll things out. So it's just really just getting
36:15
locked in and getting everything recorded and getting everything lined up so we can start
36:20
getting back on the grind. Man. I definitely am excited. And it's
36:22
crazy, man, because we're not even that far off from like releasing stuff
36:27
and really being an emotion. It's just like we're just so in that mode
36:31
all the time that sometimes you can't really step back and see, like,
36:35
oh, you know, put out a lot of dup music, build a
36:38
fan base, people still listening, people still asking for music. Like you
36:43
know, there's artists that take two years off, you know what I mean,
36:45
and go through the same thing, like just going through the growing pains
36:50
and different situations with budgets and things. Like that. It's like it's not
36:53
an easy thing to do, you know what I'm saying, But we're so
36:57
used to making it happen, you know what I mean. It's like even
37:00
like a small layoff feels like forever, you know what I mean. And
37:02
that's another thing too, is that like even like the people around you that
37:07
kind of see, you know what I'm saying, things slow down, it's
37:09
like they don't really know that. It's like, bro, this music thing
37:14
ain't cheap, you know what I mean. It's like we are all human
37:17
and we are all going through the same stuff that you're going through when you
37:22
have to slow down on going out, you know what I mean, Like
37:24
the same same stuff. The only difference is that instead of going to the
37:29
club, I'm slowing down on going to the studio, you know what I
37:30
mean. It's like if you privy to any other Spotify stuff, and all
37:34
this fighting about music royalties is because no artist makes enough money off streaming that
37:39
they could live off of it, you know. Shoop Dogg said in an
37:43
interview that like in one year or something, he made I think like thirty
37:46
seven K or something from Spotify, like snoopop dog Loggie. Yes, you
37:51
know what I mean. Like if that's what Snoop Dogg making, Bro,
37:53
imagine somebody like us, that's you know what I'm saying, Like just cracking
37:57
one hundred thousands, you know what I mean, Like m h ain't gonna
38:00
be that. Even even if I was making that, it's still not enough.
38:05
Fact. It's like like you said, Bro, And it's partly like
38:10
we always talk about, like the social media stuff, like people make it
38:14
seem a certain way. Everybody knows what everybody else is doing, so they
38:17
looking at it through that less and unless That's why I appreciate the way we
38:23
moving into music, Like we just really lacking them with fans, you know
38:27
what I mean, It really could like they really could care less what's going
38:30
on with the trends or whatever this is. And that like when you see
38:34
the playlist they put in our music and you know that you want to sound
38:37
for real, you know what I'm saying, Like they throw on your music
38:40
and with classics, you know what I'm saying. You see them Spotify playlists
38:44
and you see where people are placing you, you know, in their their
38:47
top artists and stuff like that, and you know, like Bro, I'm
38:51
onto something, you know what I mean, Like, regardless of what everybody
38:54
thinks is hot or what the vibe is right now, Like, this is
38:58
the kind of stuff that people are going to listen to for the rest of
39:00
their life, you know what I mean. Fact, And I mean it's
39:04
the proof is where it needs to be. Bro. We ain't dropping music,
39:07
you know what I'm saying, And we still got people listening to the
39:10
stuff that we've been putting out years ago, you know, like thousands of
39:15
people, like literally thousands of people, you know what I mean. I
39:17
can't even remember what was on the radio two years ago sometimes, you know
39:21
what I mean? Yeah, Facts, people adding the old songs to their
39:24
playlist every day just because it's good music. Bro. And if you're just
39:28
a fan of music and you come across some dope music, you're just gonna
39:30
like it. That's why everybody always feels like I got a weird playlist when
39:34
it comes to music, And I don't even feel like it's weird. I
39:36
just like good music, like music exactly. I mean most of the time
39:39
when somebody hears something weird from my playlist're like, yo, what is this?
39:42
And they want to know what it is because they want to add it
39:44
to they library, because I ain't never heard of it, you know what
39:45
I mean? Right? Facts man? But yeah, man, were on
39:52
this duty tonight, dog, Yeah, yeah, Yes, I got to
39:57
do a little thing real quick. But I'm ready though, moving on a
40:00
nice little streak, dog yo, for it's been a nice little hey.
40:05
Let's keep it going and ship. I'm ready for more, more ws,
40:08
more dubing tins, and more staying Buddington's not not not not not not not
42:57
not nothing after ever after a