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Grounded Show Ep. 61 - Dreams & Skateboards · The Grounded Show

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Bronco's gun dry be back ye blind set again. We are back sixty one
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because the last one two got you. So I did say sixty two there.
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It says sixty anyway real quick before we get into yeah, it's says
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sixty two up there. But before we get me and Me and Quincy was
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just saying the hundred's episode has to be live. Whatever, we got to
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figure it out episode here. We can do it live on Twitter, we
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can do it live. There's a couple options we can do it. Oh
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no, I mean like we mean in person together, in the same in
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the same room. Yeah, we gotta make a trip. We gotta make
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a trip out of it, for sure. I'll be I was with me
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and me moving back to Orlando. Me and you less can take a trip
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to Quincy whenever you want. It's gonna be super easy because I lived there,
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and then when when Quincy comes down, We're both gonna be there.
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So I think it's gonna allow for collaboration a lot more now that I'm been
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back on that side. Yeah. Facts, I've been doing yoga every morning
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like I've been. I've been on it. Bro. That's dope, and
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like it really do like just like force you to kind of be more like
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just quiet and in the zone. And it's been making me like not want
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to watch like TV after I finish, you know what I mean. Like
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it's super dope. Yeah, And I've just been like mad disconnected like ever
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since I started doing it, you know what I mean. It's it's been
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real dope. I've been slacking on yoga for a long time. I'm my
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flexibility is horrible, so I should have been on. I knew I should
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have been doing it, you know what I mean, But I was just
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being lazy even now. But look at it. I actually, like I
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said, you got me back into it. Have a every weekend four am
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to four thirty stretcher yoga like you got. You gotta build up that habit.
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If not same thing, but I can. I can't cut my toenails
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without like moving my leg all the way over here to the side. I
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can't just beendible. How did how did you get into it? Just YouTube
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or what? So funny enough, my wife had bought a book, a
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yoga book from Barnes and Noble back in the day, the one that is
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specifically in Waterford that's not even there anymore. That's how, you know,
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how long? Yeah, that's why store now And she just never really got
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around to it, and like I forgot what reason it was. I think
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it was just the fact that, you know, we just needed to do
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something active, you know what I mean, especially like with like the way
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things have been, like it's we've just been like mad busy, and like
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I've been skateboarding again, and that was part of it too, like just
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getting into the yoga just to keep my body a little more limber and stuff.
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But like even with the skateboarding, I'm not able to really like find
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the time to go to the park so much, you know what I mean.
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So I wanted to at least do the yoga in the morning. And
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I'm riding the bikes with a size too. But I don't even know how
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we got into it, but we've been doing it from that book though.
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It's just like a book that gives you like a little introduction to like you
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know, the concepts behind it, you know, breathing techniques, like what
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kind of mine, that's what it's about. It's it's about it's learning how
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to breathe and addition, to get the blood flowing for the flexibility for sure,
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but that prevents accidents like everybody's super tight pause and your skateboard and you
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fall that that that that risk for injury is so much higher than if your
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body was a little more flexible limber, like you said, you could just
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like roll out of it, even with the skateboard and like so much of
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it is bringing your legs up. You know what I mean, ain't you?
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But that thing all over the place of this one, you know what.
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I heard a story about Tom Brady and it was like a big linebacker
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dude, y'all will know him. I just can't remember his name, but
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he said maybe it was warrant that I don't remember, but he said,
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like when he hit Tom Brady, it felt like you smacked the pillow and
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landed on the pillow because the second you touched him, his body would just
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go like limber. And that's why that that's why he was so and except
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for that that that leg injury, like he was so reliable, sustainable because
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he learned how to take the hits and put his body in the position where
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he's not gonna because people kind of go stiff and then that's when you fall,
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and that's when you fucking break. No, specifically the flexibility, but
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that concept that you're talking about and just that that limberness that he has.
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He he credits that specifically as to what you know, extended his career yet
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effective in his later years, like because he had a big, big focus
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on that like flexibilities and like it's funny because Skip Bayless used to always saying
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like the elongating of the muscles as opposed to like working out to like make
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him pump or whatever. Like it's like a whole like like science behind it,
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you know what I mean. M Yeah, Yo, it's important.
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I think one thing I the next step above yoga that I had never tried
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that I heard was just as gratified almost. It's meditation. I don't think
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my brain is that peaceful, though it can get there. I'm on and
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off of meditation for sure. Yeah yeah, oh yeah, Okay. I
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used to do uh sleep meditation as well, you know what I'm saying.
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So I would do like regular meditation and then like basically like meditation to like
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go into deep sleep and stuff like that. It works, It definitely works.
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Yeah. There there's like I've heard I haven't like tried any of it,
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but I did hear that there's a certain kind of meditation techniques that can
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put you into that r M, which is that really deep sleep where you
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have like the real crazy dreams and stuff. Yeah, that's what we got
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into Joe too. Yeah, yeah, what was it? What was it
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about that we were talking? So the lucid dreaming, it's going So you
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have to go through sleep paralysis in order to get to the lucid dreaming.
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So there's steps like where you have to you have to lay flat on your
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back, it has to be completely dark, and instead of like just closing
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your eyes and go to sleep, you kind of have to close your eyes
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and look at the inside of your eyelids. Like That's how it works because
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it's keeping your brain alert, like you're forcing the brain. Your brain is
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still do something, but at the same time, your brain is sending these
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messages like now this person's falling asleep. Like so it's the mixture of falling
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asleep and being awake while you're falling asleep. And I do it all the
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time, Like I get caught and sleeper out and said, bro, and
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I have to like fight myself to get out. I'm like, come on,
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just wake up. Or like you literally feel like someone's just holding you
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down, can't arm up, can't scream. Sometimes I try to scream for
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sure. When I was like I want to say, it was like six
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seventh grade, I remember at getting that. Yeah, I do that a
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lot. Like sometimes I do it accidentally on purpose, just because, like
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if it's a slow day at work and it's like five in the morning,
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like I'll lay down on the couch and I don't have to stay awake just
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in case they get like a message or something. At the same time,
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I'm tired, so I'm falling asleep, and I'll catch myself right in a
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sleeparalysis right there all the time. Bro, that's crazy. I try to
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like yell at my wife like me, Yeah, it feels like you're like
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wrapped tightly in like a lap code and you're just like trying to break out
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of it. Like and I finally wake up and like stand up, like
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I'm not falling back to sleeping alom where I hate that. I hate that.
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But yeah, there's a rather certain So what it is is you don't
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know when you're in a dream, right, That's the hardest part. When
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you know you're in a dream, that's when you can control it. But
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think about it. We have realistic as dreams, but it feels so real,
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right, like you're really in it, like it's really happening. But
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when you think about it, when you wake up, like there's no way
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that would ever happen in real life. Like, but when you're in it,
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you don't know, right, right, you do these little exercises throughout
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the day, right, and you're like, you're like pretty much just trying
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to put your This is like one of the examples of the one you try
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to put your finger through hand, do it a few times throughout the day,
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like just to randomly do it. So when you're in your dream and
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you try to put your finger through your hand, it's gonna go through your
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hand, and that's how you're gonna know you're in a dream. So it's
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literally building up a subsconscious message to yourself. So when you're in your dream,
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you trigger it and lets you know you're in your dream. You know
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you're in your dream, and then you're literally control. That's when people say
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they have like the auto body experiences, like they're flying. I have a
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flying dreams all the time, bro, just flying through my neighborhood. It's
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not that that's all the stuff that I was telling you guys about before that
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I prebosely try to do sometimes just see if I can do it. There's
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people who do do it. Do to it, do now, But it'd
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be super dope being just tapped into like those types of things and just understanding
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like the places your mind can go and how like how deep really it is
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and just bro, like I've been just on like a crazy like ever since
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I stop watching the Larry Sanders show. Bro, I haven't been wanting to
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watch nothing, Like I just like either keep the TV off, but if
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I watch them, I watch like some crazy like science thing, you know
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what I mean. And then like I've been like watching stuff about like black
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holes, quantum physics, you know, the ancient aliens thing. Yeah,
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just I'm just like kind of like taking all that in and even like what
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you said, and it's just kind of crazy, like how how much there
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really is like out there to kind of give you like that perspective, you
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know what I mean. And even like one of the things I was listening
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to was this guy that was basically like an astro physicist, and he was
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just saying that one of the things that separates humans from everybody else is like
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that awareness of time and the like awareness that there's more going on, you
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know what I mean, Like the concept of tomorrow and what's coming tomorrow is
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like one of the main things that separates us from like other animals on the
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planet, you know what I mean, because most animals they don't have a
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concept of it. Yeah, they're not pushing it off to tomorrow and they're
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like, oh, we'll go pick some fruit tomorrow. That's why that movie
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Limitless was so big to me, because you know, we only use like
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well fifteen percent of our brains or whatever they say, and just imagine being
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able to unlock your entire brain and completely control everything like who knows brou Yeah,
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No, that movie was hard. Yeah. I definitely feel like there's
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a lot of limitations even that we put on ourselves, like even subconsciously,
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like even the things that we eat, the kind of life that we're leading,
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you know what I mean, Because that's like a big thing too,
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that like I'm always like hyper aware of It's like every part of my day,
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what am I doing? You know, what am I really doing?
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Because I heard Joe Roewen talking about this, like you like if you put
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the weeks of your life like on like a like a paper, like like
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a poster or something, like, it's all there, bro, and you
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look at it and it's not that much, bro, you know what I'm
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saying, Like it's really like you could cross some things off like every week
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and you see, like, oh my gosh, bro, Like this is
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kind of crazy and like to some people that might be like a crazy concept,
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but to me, it's just like the idea that bro, like you
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gotta be meaningful and intentional like with stuff that you do, you know what
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I mean, Like the more you even dig into like all the stuff that
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we're discovering that is not even like we're discovering stuff that's still just like scratching
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the surface of what's in the realm of possibility, you know what I mean.
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So it's just so it's just so much to me, it's like it's
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so much craziness that it's like I don't have time to be like trapped in
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the minutia of life, you know what I mean. Like that's kind of
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like how I like envision stuff, and that'd be like that constant balance that
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I feel like people like us, like as far as everybody that's living right
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now now, like the world that we was like pretty much given is so
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much different as far as how we lead our lives as you know, previous
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generations, even up to twenty years ago, you know what I'm saying,
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Like so much has changed and so much is important now that's really nothing,
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you know what I'm right. Like, it's kind of like that whole like
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bitcoin and and you know nft thing. It's like, I don't I never
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argued with the money part of it or whatever or people that people make money,
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Like I don't get into that kind of stuff because to me, I
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don't. I don't care about money that much, you know what I mean.
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So to me, it's more like wow, like we really just created
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stuff out of thin air and assigned it a value that's not even a thing.
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Like there's so many other things going on and so many other things that
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are to me more valuable that we're put into the side to just create these
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things that really hold no value and putting them on a pedestal, Like it's
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it's just it's crazy to me, you know what I mean. And that's
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what happens a lot, just even like even with money, Like I was
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saying, like, obviously we're in that situation where everybody needs and we need
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to attain as much as we can to be at the most piece that we
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can be. But there's ways to do it that's intentional and that alns with
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like what you're really here to do, you know what I mean? Yep,
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facts, it's us about what we prioritized, like I feel like now
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now things and it kind of comes back to us full circle, which is
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why we don't get the quality of entertainment that you know was once you know,
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provided like obviously we have more access to entertainment. You know, there's
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way more avenues. But you know, if you look at, for example,
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cartoons, you know what I'm saying, from the nineties and two thousands,
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today's cartoons don't compare, you know what I'm saying. It's like we
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just the lack of appreciation for certain things kind of trickles over where. It's
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like even creators don't even put the same amount of effort into creating you know
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what I mean. The formulas too, you know what I mean, rarely
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are like we all get trapped in the in the thing where like, rarely
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are we just creating just to create, just to make something that we truly
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enjoy and put out just and if people like it, they like it.
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If they don't, they don't like. Everybody so attached to the numbers,
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Everybody so attached to the impressions, you know, the algorithm, all those
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details, and I do everybody does it, you know what I mean.
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But you know, at the end of the day, you know, ninety
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percent of the people that you hear that really like took it to like a
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certain level. At the end of the day, they just said, brou
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I'm gonna get really good at what I do and do it the way that
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I am imagine in my head that I want to do it, And That's
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what I'm gonna care about. That's what Kanye did. He wasn't trying to
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none of his music. He was trying to make any of it to impress
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anybody. He just had a sound in his head and he wanted it to
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hear a sound a certain way, and he wasn't gonna stop until it sounded
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the way that he wanted it to sound. Yeah, you don't care about
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busting down on royalties and splits with people because if he feels like the song
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needs this one person to say one word, and that person is going to
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ask for fifteen percent on the song and that's what he has to do to
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make it happen, and that because that's how he hears the song. Bro,
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he'll do it. Yeah, you know what I mean, And that's
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it. Go ahead, No, no, no, I was gonna say,
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like, that's the approach I had with when I started creating these mixes.
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I remember, and then you asked me it was off the show,
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but you asked me if anybody's like talked about it and stuff like, I
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could really I couldn't care less about anybody thinks until I think it's good.
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So you guys sit here and tell me how good you think it is.
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If I don't think it's good, it's not good yet. And when I
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get there, I'll do it. So I'll you know, I'll listen,
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I'll talk if anybody talks about it. I'm down to hear it. But
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I know I know what I need to work on and until I until I
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hear it, how I think it should sound. What everybody else says is
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not gonna matter to me, even if they's good. Feedback. Yeah,
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And I even feel like a lot of people don't even know how to give
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correct feedback when it comes to things like that, because you always have to
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take into take into account all the variables in the situation that you're aware of,
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you know what I'm saying, Like, especially like with music anything like
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that, Like if you have a new artist and it's like their first time
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in the studio, you're not judging it on the scale that you would judge
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like one of your favorite artists music dropping, you know what i mean.
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We're in an era now that you have to show the growth too, you
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know what I mean. Before artists was getting polished and then they was coming
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out with just their most Like the first thing you heard from an artists was
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their most fire ship, like their best produced, most fire like the project
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they've been working on their whole life like that, No more, you know
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what I'm saying. Like and and that detail, I feel like it gets
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lost a lot of people when they're giving their feedback, you know what I'm
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saying, because it's like you gotta consider those kind of things like where what
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position they're at. Like whenever I get feedback on stuff like that, I'm
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just more looking for if you got the ear and if if I can hear
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this becoming something dope, you know what I'm saying, because I know in
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the very beginning stage it's not gonna be that finished product that polished like oh
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my gosh, this is you know, DJ Jazzy Jeff level, you know
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what I mean, Like, it's not gonna happen. You got you gotta
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look at on the scale and projected, projected out, you know what I
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mean. Yeah, And that that was the best advice you probably gave me
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before I even like six months before I did it, Like you're like,
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we all know you're not like a season DJ who's been DJ in his whole
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life doing this shit forever, Like we're not expecting to hear something come out
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like that. And that's why I was like, yeah, I'm really not
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so so that's kind of like a bar that I set myself. I need
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a lower but still just knowing the quality of ear that I have and how
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little shit just would trigger me and if somebody else was doing it when I'm
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doing it triggers me to I'm like, nah, I can't do that,
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bro, Like I didn't. I should have done that different, but at
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the same time, it's just it's a process and the more you do it,
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but you definitely need to stay tapped into that feeling because that's what's gonna
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like, that's the spark. That's part of why your mixes are good,
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you know what I'm saying, because even though you're at this point, you're
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still trying to make sure it sounds on the level of what other people are
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doing, and you're conscious of that, and you're chasing that. You always,
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you know what I mean, not because you're gonna want to sound like
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somebody else or you want to quote unquote be on that level. You just
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want to be that comfortable with yourself like that. That's what a lot of
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people don't like. I feel like comedians are real good about recognizing that in
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other comedians, Like they a lot of times they don't really envy the jokes.
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They don't really envy, you know, the word play like it's it's
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not the stuff that somebody would think they envy from another comedian. A lot
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of times they envy their poison on stage delivery of it. They exactly,
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they envy the way they're able to maintain their tone. You know what I
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mean, what they envy is those little in between things that makes them them.
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And it's like, nah, bro, you're gonna have those things for
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you as long as you're good, those things are gonna just build for you,
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you know what I mean. And then people are gonna look at you
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and be like oh dang, like they're gonna envy those little in between things
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for you, and you're not even gonna regolize it, you know what I
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mean. That's the funny thing about being an artist, bro, Like you're
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always chasing that next level, and then like you're never you don't ever recognize
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that you're on that next level because you're still looking at the next level.
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Yeah right, you know what I mean. And somebody might be looking at
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you like dang, bro, like you on one, and it's like,
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nah, I'm not on one because I'm not there yet, you know what
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I mean. Like there's a lot of artists that you will hear them after
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they make like a certain album, like they're they're not that they're content,
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but they know that they made a masterpiece, so they're creating from a different
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place, you know what i mean. They're you know, That's why I
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like a lot of a lot of artists sometimes well they'll even experiment and like
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you like, Kendrick does it a lot, like he'll come out of left
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field with like the next thing. But dog, he's a real artist.
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You know. I'm saying he's not gonna make another good kid. He's not
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gonna make another good kid masterity. Why because he already made it. Bro.
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He made it a masterpiece. It captured that feeling. It his story,
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you know what I mean. He don't got another story, Bro,
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He's Kendrick. That's his story. You know, everything everything else that fuel
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changed after that exactly. It's like the same thing with fifty, like you
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know back in the day, Like I feel like it's it's definitely changing now,
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which is super dope. I think the Hip Hop fifty Anniversary is like
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a thing that's been opening people's eyes. But like you know, a few
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yeah, I got some moments going to the show. Yeah, but a
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few years ago people people was talking about fifty like he was washed, like
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oh, he can't make music now. But it's like why like why would
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he need to? Why does why? Why does he need a show that
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he can hang with people now? Like he already did a masterpiece. You
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know. You know what's funny how they do that too, Like I think
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majority hip hop industry, uh, because the R and B industry. You
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got one twelve boys to mail, all these all these fulls touring with their
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old music. You got YouTube being the first people to have a show at
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the MSG Spear playing their old music. Like these people are just making the
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rest of live and never have to make new music again, just singing their
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classic shit. If you have classic shit, you can ride the rest of
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your life out with that. Yeah, it's the it's the culture, brou
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at the end of the day, it's the culture because we just eat our
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own brou. Like. It's something that me and Quincy have talked about before.
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I don't know if we've talked about it on the podcast, but we've
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definitely talked about it with you Joe and just personal you know, me and
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him, like just going to the studios and coming with a with an energy
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of like yo, what's up? Like we're all we're all artists that are
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all on the same level trying to go for the same goal, So like
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what can we do and everybody stand offish? Oh nah, you know,
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like people feel kind of I'm not I'm not gonna say Hollywood, but like
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they just look at themselves a certain way and they feel like they have to
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put a lot of parameters around like how they operate, like as far as
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collaborating or like things like that. But it's like, bro, like we
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all artists on the same plane. We could all help each other. This
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ain't no, you know, we don't got to define what it is as
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far as like artists being just friendly period. You know, like they don't
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have to have a definition. It could just be yo, maybe maybe I'll
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throw some feedback on what you're doing. You take it or you're not take
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it. You know, no hard feelings. You know. It's like different
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little things that can kind of like strengthen a community of artists that a lot
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of people avoid. And it even kind of leads into like with the with
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the yoga thing that I was talking about, it just like really gels with
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just like the spirit of how do you say that, Like just that spirit
22:51
of of being more focused on your own, Like it kind of puts you
22:56
more in that zone of not like trying to lean on other people, not
23:02
really trying to be on something like group think kind of thing. You know
23:06
what I mean, it's just like, all right, I'm getting in the
23:07
zone in my mind so I can be laser focused on what I'm doing in
23:11
my day, you know what I'm saying to really, you know, just
23:17
break through to that next level and like applying that to what you're doing.
23:21
If that community is not there, it's like mad crucial, you know what
23:25
I mean, Because I just feel like a lot of people sometimes they get
23:26
stuck into looking for support stage, you know what I mean. Like I'm
23:30
just and like I said, it's it happened with me too, you know
23:33
what I'm saying. You get to a certain level where your artistry and you're
23:34
like, oh, man, like I put in all this work where the
23:37
people at But it's like you on the right path. You're doing what you
23:41
need to be doing. Just keep doing that. The support will get there
23:45
when whoever those people are feel like it's warranted, you know what I mean.
23:51
Obviously sometimes you would feel you would want certain people to jump on a
23:55
little sooner, but that's jay journey, not yours. You know what I
23:59
mean. What you're doing is you're trying to get to that next point to
24:03
make you know, those those demographics saying with what you're doing and really be
24:08
focused on what you're doing, because you're putting that much working, you're really
24:12
coming with a certain point of view that's unique and it's it's a dope sound
24:18
or whatever it is, you know what I mean. Yeah, not that's
24:22
facts, Like I don't know, man, I think that that's that's one
24:26
of the things that's like I feel like you got to kind of grow into
24:30
or at least be taught it, you know what I'm saying, Like,
24:33
I feel like there's a lot of people that go their entire lives and don't
24:36
get to that place, you know, And I'm I guess I could say
24:41
thankful that I've gotten to a point of record at least recognition, even if
24:44
I'm not like super super intuitive when it comes to it, like, you
24:48
know, at least a point where I can recognize like, you know,
24:53
individual thought, you know what I'm saying, Like just just being aware of
24:56
like group thinking situations and not getting caught up with like you know, the
25:02
cancel culture. I guess you could call it, you know what I'm saying,
25:03
Like I feel like that's such a group think, you know thing that
25:07
like people don't even realize that that's being a part of group thinking, Like
25:11
that's you know what I mean, It's like it's weird, man, It's
25:14
really weird. Yeah. Yeah, I feel like it has a lot to
25:17
do with just like, at least for me, Like how I kind of
25:21
manage all that is like constantly checking myself, you know what I mean,
25:23
like always having a mantra in your head and knowing you know what I'm saying,
25:29
Like it's just it's just that thing I was talking about at the beginning,
25:30
like all the crazy things that happen, all the things that go on,
25:34
all the things that can like things that we're on the cusp of achieving
25:40
as as just as people, and just breakthroughs to have happened and will happen.
25:45
How much ahead we are now compared to let's say, one hundred years
25:48
ago, Like even the fact that we live in a time where there was
25:51
so much technological advancement compared to other errors, you know what I mean.
25:56
Like it's just a crazy thing to think about. And it's like always kind
26:00
of keeping that in scale, So you're always thinking to yourself, like,
26:03
all right, there's so much going on, what am I doing to make
26:07
sure that what I got going on is the is gonna fulfill me to the
26:11
best ability that I can. You know what I mean, because it's something
26:17
we talk about all the time, like at the end of the day,
26:19
like you the only one worrying about you. And again, this is not
26:22
like like a bitterness type thing. This is not like an old fuck everybody
26:26
type thing. It's just understanding that you even fail yourself. So people are
26:32
gonna feel That's what that's like. You gotta time all the time, bro,
26:37
We all let ourselves down all the time. For us to think that
26:41
people aren't gonna let us down, it's crazy, It's literally crazy. And
26:45
I feel like a lot of people just don't understand that detail. And part
26:48
of it is the how do you say it, like the obliviousness, the
26:53
obliviousness of not knowing that you feel yourself as well, you know what I
26:57
mean. Nobody's you know, maybe some people are whatever, but you know,
27:04
nobody's maximizing their time to their best ability all the time and just always
27:10
making the right decisions, you know what I mean. There's always something that's
27:12
gonna fall by the wayside, you know. Me and Joe was talking about
27:17
it before, about Rodney Mullen I shared something I believe on TikTok and or
27:22
Facebook or Instagram and he commented on it. And Ronney Mullin's just like a
27:26
skateboarder from back in the day. He was one of the inter He invented
27:29
a lot of the moves, like I believe he was part of the crew
27:33
that invented the ali, like the basic movement skateboarding, Like there are a
27:37
lot of the flip tricks. Like he really is like like a skateboard and
27:41
savant. But but he'll say himself in interviews that to get to that level
27:48
of mastery on the skateboard, he had to let a lot of things slide,
27:52
like time with family, you know what I'm saying, other other avenues,
27:56
just other things that he just didn't dedicate anytime too because he was focused
28:00
on master and that thing. Yeah, you know what I mean. And
28:03
then his story is crazy, that's exactly what Like, you know, I
28:07
talked about her stories and it's you know, raised on a farm. His
28:11
older sister was a surfer, but his dad was like skateboarding, Like no
28:18
way, and he's like no, He's like I fought with this, like
28:19
this is it for me. This skateboarding's it. And it wasn't until they
28:23
actually started proving to his own family how good he was that they were like,
28:27
all, we're gonna ride the skateboard thing out. But they that was
28:30
the farthest thing they ever expected him or wanted him to do. And if
28:34
he didn't follow through on his own, without the support of his family,
28:37
who you know, we wouldn't have the kind of skateboard cutcher there is today,
28:42
that's for sure. And I'm gonna say this about Rodney Mullen, dog,
28:47
Rodney Mullen is the only skateboarder, the only one that I know,
28:52
Like, I don't care if you like skateboarding or not. If I show
28:56
you his best clips, you're gonna be mom blown broma. Yeah, the
29:02
only one. There's other ones that are great. I love, for example,
29:06
like Paul Rodriguez, I love, Nasa Huston, I love you know,
29:10
there's a lot of great skateboarders and they do amazing things that like if
29:14
you're a skate boarding fan, you appreciate Tony Hawk, you appreciate it as
29:18
a skateboarding fan. But Ronnie Morland is one that you don't have to know
29:22
anything about skateboarding and see him do what he doesn't be like, dog,
29:26
this guy is ridiculously good anything like as sixteen years old. Bro, Like
29:30
it's I have one clip that's my favorite him on clip. If he skated
29:34
like that, that that that was part of his body, he could he
29:38
couldn't even fall off. You couldn't even see him falling off of it.
29:42
Bro' you're talking about a guy that And this is the crazy thing too,
29:47
Like, and it's something that kind of has to do with physics too,
29:49
because it's like this guy mastered the physics of him on a skateboard. Like
29:56
he mastered it to a degree that Like I'm like, you have to dedicate
30:02
so much time and have the aptitude to be able to do what he does,
30:06
you know what I'm saying, Like you gotta have the vision. You
30:07
know, it's gonna be bigger than anybody sees it as. Yeah, it's
30:11
something that like to a certain point, bro, it's like you know,
30:15
it's it's like defying gravity type stuff, you know what I mean, Like
30:18
and just like defining the laws of balance even like you're like, bro,
30:22
how do you have that much balance? That doesn't make any sense? It's
30:26
ridiculous. Yeah, now Rodney mull is a go for sure. Yeah I
30:30
worked and I probably say this because no one's gonna tap in who knows it,
30:34
But yeah, I worked with it as a strange sister. She was
30:37
an older lady. She was actually my mom's boss for a while. And
30:42
I don't know it random like because she would never say it. And then
30:47
randomly we're like, we're like in her office talking about I don't know how
30:49
it came up, but skateboarding came up and she's like, oh, yeah,
30:52
you guys know Rodney Mullen. She said, yeah, that's my brother.
30:56
No, like, no way, Like everybody hit Google. She's like,
31:00
the only way you're gonna know he's my brother is in his book he
31:02
wrote. He wrote a book about his life, and that's the only place
31:03
he talks about her. He wasn't They weren't close at all. He had
31:07
the oldest sister who did the surfing, but she was a farm lady.
31:11
She's like a big equestrian lady. She like on her whole life is horses,
31:15
so she actually starts with the farm life, while the oldest sister and
31:21
Rodney went to skating and surfboarding and kind of chose that life. So that's
31:23
why they and the parents ended up favor in that side because of it.
31:29
Yeah, it's crazy stories. Yeah it's crazy because he even he even has
31:34
a thing where like, oh I heard Tony Hawk talking about her, Like
31:38
he doesn't even allow people to video, like to video him that much.
31:44
Like he's very picky about when he lets people video him skating. Like he's
31:51
very he's a very very like like like just interesting cat bro like he's just
31:57
like being one of the biggest people and not even and nobody really knows him
32:04
because he doesn't care that people know him. But if you're in the game,
32:07
you know who he is. Yeah, facts shout out to Rodney mullin
32:10
man. And like I said, if you don't even have to like anything
32:15
about skateboarding, just look at Rodney mullen highlights on YouTube and you're gonna be
32:20
like, dog, what what's like? You're not even gonna understand. I'm
32:23
gonna send y'all wanting the chat once once we're done here, But so what's
32:29
up with Let's catch up so this you know, we're two we're two weeks
32:32
since our last recording. UH Quincy has been uh on the road again.
32:38
Come up. I feel like that chip came out of nowhere, like what
32:42
you have that trip? Noah, So it's been planned. It's just you
32:49
know, the years gone by fast man, it's been from like mad months
32:52
ago, right, yeah, yeah, I mean it's it's actually my fiance's
32:59
family. They own like three time shares, and so this specific time share,
33:02
uh, we we go to every year unless you know something's coming,
33:08
like for example, next year's the wedding, We're not doing it next year.
33:12
But you know, every year they have like basically two weeks of the
33:17
time share space and it's basically like, uh what sixteen. If it beds
33:24
like sixteen, people like, it's huge, and so you know we do
33:29
that. And yeah, so this was that time. We stayed up in
33:32
Maryland with our family for the first week and then we went to the time
33:35
share for the second week. So today we literally just got back home a
33:38
couple of hours and I'm still trying to transition into like being back home right
33:43
now. So yeah, you're like, you like just hit your house.
33:45
You haven't even been home for like three hours in two weeks. Facts man,
33:49
facts. So but it was cool man. The drive, Like you
33:52
know, I'm usually good with drives, Like I don't mind driving places.
33:58
So from us it's about ten hours, and the drive there and back both
34:02
of them were pretty smooth. Man. You know, we just like basically
34:07
put our phones like you know how you have like the little docks or whatever.
34:08
We put our phone on the dock the night before we'll download like a
34:12
series or something, and we just let that thing play on the surround sound
34:15
speakers and just vibe you know, through the whole way. So it's cool.
34:20
Yeah, we use our thing is when we go drive. So when
34:22
we go like to to Laughlin on like Park City or like any of those
34:28
hiking places like over there, we we do a murder podcast. Nice because
34:32
like you're you're driving, so you're focused in bro. It's just like it
34:37
takes. Yeah, it's good and it makes the trip go like so fast.
34:42
M hmm. Yeah. But you know, time share has a little
34:45
stigma behind it, and you know, my wife works in time share,
34:50
but people who actually use it, like like y'all and actually like take trips
34:54
and use it. It's worth it, man, It's definitely worth it.
34:58
And not only that, but it's act actually a great investment if you use
35:00
it right, you know, what I'm saying, because some people they don't
35:02
even realize like that they can actually rent out their time share, you know
35:07
what I mean, and make way more money off of that that like an
35:10
Airbnb almost you know what I'm saying. So yeah, it's definitely a dope
35:15
little investment. But I'm not gonna lie. Like I was talking about this
35:17
with my father in law recently too. Like part of part of that stigma
35:22
that is on the time share, I feel like it's also because like people
35:27
don't realize that a timeshare is for people with exposable income, you know what
35:31
I mean. Yeah, like if you don't, if you're if all your
35:36
use it, you're not supposed to spend money on luxury stuff, you know
35:39
what I mean Exactly that that's kind of like something that's lost like on like
35:44
a lot of people nowadays. I feel like that it's like, bro,
35:46
if you're if you're on like a like a stringent budget, you don't have
35:52
room in there for luxury things. I mean wait, I had a buddy
35:55
buddy coming down and we were driving down the strip and there's place called like
36:00
the az Tech in Casino, which is like, bro, it's like the
36:04
Wentworth of casinos because I've been there before. Yeah, I know you're talking
36:07
about, but that's what he said. Like, if you're coming there and
36:12
your budget is like that, like you're not even gonna be able to walk
36:15
through Vegas, right yeah. If that's your full budget is getting in that
36:22
room and affording that, then you're not you know, Vegas is gonna hit
36:24
you dog. Yeah. Yeah. And like at the shop, bro,
36:30
I got a sign shop with my father in law, and we do wraps
36:34
and stuff like that, and sometimes people come and they're like, Yo,
36:37
I want to wrap my car. How much is it? It's X amount?
36:39
Oh my gosh. And how long does it take? Three days?
36:43
Oh my gosh. Bro, If you don't got that money and you can't
36:45
be without a car for three days, you should not be here. Not
36:50
be worried about getting to sign them. Come and like get some kind of
36:55
customization done to like either their car whatever, like get some kind of like
37:00
item that like for example, like oh I want to get like ceramic tents
37:05
on my car. All right, but oh but the back window don't go
37:07
down and you gotta do to turn it on, like fix that first dred
37:15
dollars. You're about to spend that. If you just put it into this
37:16
car, this thing is gonna be running like like nobody's business brou Like,
37:22
come on man like people. Just like I said, it's a little ramp
37:25
based off the timeshit thing. But it's like, bruh, if it's not
37:29
for you, just say that. You know what I'm saying, Like you
37:30
don't gotta like. That's another thing too, Like I always find funny like
37:35
people that like leave bad reviews on places or like go back to places that
37:39
they've had bad experiences at. It's like brou like, go somewhere else,
37:43
right and like or like people that argue with somebody about a price or something.
37:46
B if you don't like the price, oh somewhere else on the way
37:50
here, I was imagine seventy five dollars. I'll be hearing some crazy stuff,
37:55
some crazy stuff. But that also goes back to the point too of
38:01
like, just like I said, what people prioritize and like, like,
38:06
for example, if your car window ain't working in Florida where it's one hundred
38:08
and eight degrees and you're trying to wrap it with four hundred dollars when you
38:13
could be fixing your window, your priorities are obviously not where they need to
38:16
be, you know what I mean? Yeah, bro. And it's funny
38:19
too because, like you know, there's a lot of people that will come
38:23
to try to like start a business, you know what I mean, or
38:25
like you know that they're got they got an idea for something they're trying to
38:29
get off the ground or whatever. And you just see, like so transparently,
38:34
how how little people know about business. How how many people think that
38:39
just because they have an idea and say, hey, I'm doing this now
38:44
that everybody's just obligated to to you know, do go to their brudness or
38:49
like or recommend them without a track record, you know what I'm saying.
38:52
Like, there's there's so much funny stuff. And it's funny because like people
38:55
find out about the shop and everything. Oh man, Like why you don't
39:00
advertise that all this is? It's like, bro, because I do business
39:04
with business people. You know what I'm saying, I don't need to be
39:07
Not that I don't need to be, but I'm blessed enough that I've put
39:10
enough working that I don't need to be chasing you know, you know,
39:16
every single dollar and trying to do anything with anybody or I have to advertise
39:22
it and try to get people that I know to be you know, patrons
39:25
to my business. Like, nah, Bro, I'm not in that situation.
39:29
This is this is a professional thing. If anybody needs anything, this
39:32
is the number to the shop. And to be honest and what and what
39:36
I call it's not a social media business. Yeah, and there is aspects
39:40
of like there's a lot of people that run it that way, you know
39:43
what I'm saying. There's a lot of things that we do that you know,
39:46
you can do those little videos and advertising and stuff. But the thing
39:50
is this, Bro. The type of people that want to do that kind
39:52
of stuff, you know, get stripes on their hood, you know,
39:55
do the window tinning and stuff is the people that I'm talking about, people
39:59
that don't I have disposable income trying to do disposable income things. And yes,
40:04
this sounds expensive to you because this is not in your price range.
40:07
Bro, you should not be worrying about this, you know what I'm saying.
40:10
It's like Louis Vatton and like, damn, this shirt's expensive. Bro.
40:15
You're not supposed to be at the store. Bro. You have the
40:19
store, you know, blocks down from this ball brom My daughter said he's
40:27
supposed to be dressing for less. Ross you feel me like, Bro,
40:30
and I'm not. I'm not hating on that because I'm the type of person,
40:34
Bro. I like to live below my means, Like you know what
40:36
I'm saying. I like to be low maintenance. I don't. I don't
40:38
like to have a lot of expenses. I don't like to have to worry
40:42
about a lot of stuff going on. You know what I'm saying. Like
40:45
I'm a very simple guy. I don't. I don't. I don't need
40:47
nothing crazy, you know what I mean. So I'm not knocking people that
40:51
don't go to Louisville or whatever because I don't got nothing louis Vatton Like now,
40:55
item, Bro, you know what I'm saying. I just you know,
40:59
for me, there's that that doesn't have value to me. You know
41:01
what I'm saying. Clothing is clothing, Bro, Like I could finessa.
41:07
Do you ever see like that? Tell me that you ever look online you
41:12
see some shit and the influence you like, maybe I need to have like
41:15
a nice fit. Do you ever get that feeling? I've always been very
41:20
like I'm not gonna say that I've been like like my my my choices have
41:25
always been the best. But I've always been into fashion, and like I've
41:29
always always been real big on wearing stuff that other people don't have. Like
41:34
that's why I'm really like hitting pop up shops when I'm somewhere. I like
41:37
to hit up scure things. That's why I like those like random racks to
41:43
have stuff that's like, you know, one one of each, like you
41:45
might not find your size because they just got one there, you know what
41:49
I mean, Like noster rack exactly. Bro. I like to I like
41:52
to look at the stuff that's discounted because nobody likes it, you know what
41:55
I mean, Like oh, how like what is this? And why do
41:59
people not like like, oh no, I could rock that, you know
42:00
what I'm saying. I always always uh one thing like as far as fashion
42:06
goes, Like something that I always enjoy is when somebody compliments something that I'm
42:09
wearing and like they don't know where I got it from and I know that
42:14
it was just some like obscure fine, you know what I mean? Yeah,
42:16
Like Dann, that shirt is dope, Like where you got that?
42:19
That's what people thrift shop a lot, and they drift shopping. Fine,
42:24
y'all used to work at Good. Well, that's crazy. I used to
42:28
work at Good with Megatron. I'm ain't gonna talk with those stories. Yeah,
42:30
we'll say that for another day. That boy, that's that's the first
42:35
job I ever got him, and that's and that's the first job I ever
42:37
wanted to get him fired from everything. I can't. Yeah, this guy
42:44
would just like hang around and then like shoot, water gets at me mid
42:47
shift, like, bro, come on, yo, He's funny because that's
42:52
uh Joe's boy, Like they're real close. And when me and Joe started
42:57
getting cool, I ended up Like when I realized that they were mad cool,
43:00
I'm like, damn, that's funny because the guy he's talking about is
43:04
a guy that he was like Like there was a period of like maybe like
43:07
two or three years that we would like, me and my boys from the
43:10
neighborhood. We would go around and play ball like in different places, and
43:15
him and his boys, Joe's boy, Megatron, he would always be going
43:21
to the places we was hooping at and he would go with his squad and
43:23
they were like our arch nemesis, like everywhere point because we I'm not even
43:29
gonna say, nah, Bro, fuck that, I'm not gonna arch nemesis
43:32
because we used to fucking scrape them every time, dog, every time,
43:38
Bro. And he used to get so mad he used to get furios.
43:45
Dog. He was. He was funny though, he was. It was
43:50
always fun when he was on the court, Bro, because he was you
43:52
know, he's the one who lived in Wentworth. Oh yeah, yeah,
43:55
you mentioned that you used to be in that. Yeah, he's the one
43:59
who lived in where words, so that he used to pop up at the
44:00
court sometimes exactly. So he was the one who always who had the apartment
44:05
first. So like you know, your first friend that has their own place,
44:08
you run up in that bitch all day. And that's that is why,
44:12
like I know Wentworth because when Jay lived there, we would spend day
44:15
and night there playing crash Bandicoot on the PlayStation. That's when he was eighteen
44:20
and he just had his daughter and he was separated from her mother. So
44:24
like it'll be the four of us babysitting the daughter playing crash Bandicoot every night
44:30
and one and he had his daughter and yeah, so we are used to
44:34
play ball there. I always suck, So I called myself like I'm the
44:37
assist guy and assistant rebound guy. Put a body on a guy, but
44:42
I couldn't get a layup for ship My shots. When I make them,
44:45
they're nice. But that's why I ah, Well, we used to go
44:49
to the Loss. We used to go to that one behind Publics. I
44:52
used to trap Victoria Pines. We used to ball there, you know all
44:57
those That's what I'm saying. We were probably in the same spot. Yeah,
45:00
that's what I'm saying. I remember Gary, your other boy, because
45:02
he used to bring that big gass speaker. So that's why I remembered him
45:06
because he used to always bring the speaker and he used to always play like
45:08
old school hip hop. So I always used to like when he came in
45:10
and play music. Yeah, but bro, I'm telling you, dog,
45:15
I was scraping them. Dog. I feel bad for Gary Dog because I
45:17
know Gary had a garden. Yeah. I remember the last time I played
45:21
with him. It was everybody there was Jay, it was Frank there,
45:22
it was Gary there, and they started beefing. I was like, bro,
45:25
this is we were like in our in our twur thirties by then.
45:30
Yeah. Yeah, it was definitely the last ten years we did that's how
45:34
my boys are. Like I was still beefing our thirties. He's never gonna
45:37
end. But that's why I care. I don't care enough about fucking playing
45:40
basketball to fight, y'all right now, anything else maybe, but not playing
45:45
basketball. I cared about basketball a lot, but not to fight. Like
45:49
I mean, I'm not gonna lie. I did get in a few basketball
45:52
fights, but nine percent of the time it wasn't me like it was just
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you know, Bro, I'm telling you, Dog, I used to cook
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people so much. They used to get pissed bro and try to fight me
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just because I was sucking them up. Bro. I was fucking them up.
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Bro. Yo. Basketball was like the one that got away from me.
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Bro. If I swear a dog, if I had like two or
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three more inches a yo, I would I would have me. I would
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at least in a local college legend. You heard me, you would have
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been a ball in the architect Those are your two missed trains, yo.
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Speaking the architect, we could wrap up with this man like. I've been
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having a hell of hard time getting contractors to show up to the salon because
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I know. I mentioned to the people on the podcast that me and my
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wife opening the salon and Bro, We've been stuck for like three months just
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trying to get reliable contractors to show up, Like Bro, to give y'all
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a little backstory, I'm not a haggler, you know what I'm saying,
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Like, if you give me a price, I pay that price because for
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me, I don't haggle either, like from my services, Like, if
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I give you a price, that's the price. I'm not going down.
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I already calculated how much it's gonna be to make it worth it for me.
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We're not going back and forth. So I extend that same courtesy to
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people I do business with. If I don't like the price, I'm just
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not gonna do it with you. That's it. So bruh. I've had
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four plumbers that have given me prices that I've agreed with, and they literally
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disappear when I asked, like when I'm asking them to pay the deposit,
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Bro for me to pay a deposit. So that's a whole nother thing.
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But we finally own the schedule with the plumber, finally got the architect,
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you know, because we need like a certain permit to whatever. It's the
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whole ship, you know, County stuff or whatever, but we're very that
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takes time, bro, and to like, I think that is one of
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the things that draws certain contractors because but I mean, I told you me,
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my father was in the contract the business for ten years. We had
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we had a business and it was all that. It was pretty much renovation
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construction. And if if if, if it's not in the old bron,
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they're not even gonna help you try to get it in code. But like,
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like that's probably why he gave you mad das because if that ship's in
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code and they don't got to do that work, they're riding with you.
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Let's go, let's get it done. That's the easy part. Yeah,
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facts, man, Like I literally did as much as I could. Like,
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I'm the type of person, bro that I'm gonna do everything in my
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power to do everything I can myself, and I'm only going to use people
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if I literally have to. You know what I'm saying, Like, Bro,
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I promise you if the plumbing thing was something that I could have done
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myself and get the list or whatever, Bro, I would have been on
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YouTube for a week YouTube University, and then I would have jumped there with
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the pipes like Mario hey yo, shot to that. No, so what
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I just said? Ship Yo, there's for the first time ever, there's
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a hurricane hit in the West coast and it's pouring outside. It's crazy out
48:51
there right now. Yeah, there's literally a I went golf in this morning
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and they held us back for like an hour because of it. It was
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terrible. So did the brains instead. But yeah, there's crazy a stormy
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in the West Yo. But global warming, global warming, step into that
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and lead that into a whole bunch of crazy conspiracy theories and stuff about things
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like that. I'm ready, I'm ready. I'm ready for the alien talk,
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the alien talk. I'm ready to dog, I'm ready for the alien
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talk. Let they're coming. They're here, Bru aliens stays, butters too.
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It me the aliens be like stay bad not not do not do not be