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Grounded Show Ep. 58 - Making It Happen · The Grounded Show

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Yo. You think when jazz musicians got high back in the day, they
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would have like scat battles, you know what I mean, like you know,
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got hired drunk with your homies, like everybody want to sit around and
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be a rapper, right, but like in the jazz times, they was
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probably scatting or something, you know what I mean, like like the corner
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like like yo, son, yo, hold on, hold on, hold
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on, hold up. It sounds like yo, man, it's been uh,
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it's been a dope week. Man. My daughter's in her little theater
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camp man role in the play out, so super hype about that. She
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I just got back from her volleyball game they just won and she was going
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hammertime. Yes, sir, how do you how do you? How did
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you like that come the fruition? Did you like push like artistry in like
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sports on Earth? That's just something she wanted to do and you just supported
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it kind of thing. So that's a great question, and that's actually a
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pretty dope story. So my daughter did theater her first year in middle school,
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right, and then when we went to her first like little plaything,
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she was like a background character, like she had one line, like she
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was just helping kind of more behind the scenes than anything, And like I
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saw the other people that were singing, and it was like very evident that
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she would have been the best singer there, you know what I mean,
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no bias and yeah, no bias, Like it's just from hearing them and
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knowing how her voice is. I'm like, dang, why didn't she even
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try it? You know, like did she try and not get it?
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Or like what's the situation? Then I end up finding out that she just
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didn't even go out for none of that because she thought for some reason they
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were going to be better than they were and she was kind of scared,
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you know what I mean. And I was like, hey, like I'm
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not just telling you this because i'm your dad, but you you could sing
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like for real, for real if you if you can, And I'm like,
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if that interests you, then you know what I'm saying, then you
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should pursue it, because I'm not I'm not just saying it. You could
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really excel at it, you know what I mean. Like if it might
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not be right off the bat, but if you really try, you'll get
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really good at it. So the next thing that the next time they had
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to play she actually like tried out and sang and her teacher was like,
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Yo, you could sing this whole time, Like what the heck, you
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know what I'm saying. She had been there a whole year already and just
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never saying you know. So she got the lead in that play and she
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did that. She was really good, and her teacher was like, Yo,
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you should go to this camp that we're doing where they're gonna do high
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school musical too, and then they're gonna do a production of it at the
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end of the camp, like through the theater, but it's like an actual
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event, like anybody could go, you know what I'm saying. So they
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had literally had auditions the first day of the camp. It's a two week
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camp. First day they have auditions, she was pretty confident that she was
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gonna get the main role, if not something like one of the main roles,
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And the next day they had to do a call back with one other
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girl and then she got the role. Yeah you gotta clap it up.
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Fact. But that's major, bro, that's major. That's following your dream
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right there, and like working for it, being good at it. Yeah.
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And the part that she loves about it is that everybody there is serious
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because in the school it's a class, like some people just get thrown in.
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Yeah they thought anybody and I did that ship and that suck. She
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loves the fact that everybody that's there right now is serious. Everybody that's there
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right now, like they paid to be there, you know what I'm saying,
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So they're not there to mess around. You know what I'm saying that
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we talk about, bro, when you're when you're around the right caliber of
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a crowd that's doing the things that you aspire to do, that she changes
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your game. It's like, oh, and it elevates you to be as
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good as them. Yeah, facts, that's that's one hundred percent true.
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Um, a lot of times you don't you're not even aware of, like
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the way other people do things, if you don't put yourself around people that's
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doing, you know, different things and actually like pursuing things purpose. It's
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the thing we've been talking about kind of lately, like you know, the
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day dreamers and people that just really like to talk. You know what I'm
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saying, And that's that's all good and well. And manifestation is a thing,
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you know what I'm saying. And I'm not doubting that, but at
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the same time, action, at the end of the day, is what
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really makes stuff move. You know what I'm saying. You can't just keep
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talking about what you're gonna do or sell yourself because you don't have to sell
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yourself. If you're about action, people are just gonna know, and then
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the word is gonna spread. And if you know they're looking for a verification
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on you, the other person is gonna say, hey, you know,
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if he says something, he's gonna do it. You know, that's why
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you gotta be U. I feel an important trait to have is being a
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man of your word and following through with the ship you're saying to do,
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whether it's something small or something being. The way you do everything is the
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way you do anything. How I forgot that quote. Yeah, the way
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you do something is the way you do everything. You know what I'm saying.
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Yeah, the way you do anything is the way you do everything,
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everything with the same kind of effort and follow through and diligence as you would
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regardless of the size. Yeah, yeah, yeah, man, there's always
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that element to a relationship, even just kind of seeing that in other people
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as well, and not just recognizing it in yourself and finding ways to make
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things happen, but also like seeing that those people are actually trying to make
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stuff happen, you know what I mean. Like it's it's about that action.
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Like I said, at the end of the day, somebody could show
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you what they're about better than they can tell you, you know what I'm
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saying. And it's not to say that everybody. That doesn't mean your standard
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is wrong or whatever. It's it's that thing that I always like to talk
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about where like if you're looking at levels, like you should look at them
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sideways, like they're all on an even plane, but they're just in different
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positions. You know. It's not that anybody's like better or above anybody.
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It's just you're in a different lane. You know what I'm saying. A
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lane isn't higher than another lane. It's just a different lane. Facts,
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facts, And that kind of goes to like I wouldbout to say, that
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kind of goes to kind of like something that he was trying to talk on
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today. But you know, I posted the status um yesterday that basically said,
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like you can want the best for someone and know that dealing with them
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personally isn't what's best for you, and Summer repeat it just in case y'all
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didn't hear me. You can want the best for someone and know that dealing
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with them personally isn't what's best for you. And you know, for me,
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I think about that all the time because it's like there's a lot of
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people that like I kind of like don't deal with anymore just because it's you
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know, it's we're not in the same lane kind of like you just said
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less. But at the same time, it's like I still like, you
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know, when I see you doing good, I'm you know, I'm saying
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big up in it, you know what I mean. I love it,
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But that doesn't mean I have to like be you know what I'm saying,
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you gotta be in my direct circle or I gotta be best friends with you.
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It's just, you know, I want the best for you, but
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you know, being around you probably isn't what's best for me. You know.
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Yeah, I feel that. It's always like a tough thing and something
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that I had a big issue with, like growing up, it's like feeling
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like you're not real because you're you're not like kind of like trying to bring
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those people along, you know what I mean. And it's like realizing that
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everybody got their own life and you just gotta let the ships fall where they
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may, because you know you can't. You know, if you're a crutch,
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You're literally you're a crutch. Like as soon as you're not there anymore,
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that think. You know what I'm saying, that person can't walk anymore
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because they need to crutch. Is that simple? Like you gotta let people
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do what they're gonna do, you know what I'm saying. Either they're gonna
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figure out how to walk and run again, or they're just gonna keep limping
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for the rest of their life. So with that being said, how do
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you how do we navigate moving people from your life that are destructive to themselves
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and to others? I feel like you just got to treat it like like
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how they treat firing somebody. It's like, make sure that you document the
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situations with the person, make sure they're aware what they're doing is not what
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you expect, you know what I'm saying. And after a few times and
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they show a pattern, it's like, Yo, it's X, Y and
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Z, that's it, you know what I mean. Like, at that
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point, I feel like they could be mad about it or whatever, but
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you know, it's just literally, it's just facts, you know what I'm
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saying. And it goes back to the thing that I always talk about,
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like everybody, like, just because that person isn't for you, doesn't mean
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that you're better than them. But at the same time, you have a
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specific type of person that you are in, a specific type of person that
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you are happy around, more comfortable around, or more conducive for you to
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have a more productive life. All those things have to be in those person
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that in those people that you let around you. So it's not a you
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know, like I said, it's not a thing of oh I'm better than
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you or whatever the case is. It's just, hey, this is my
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goals. These are my goals. This is what I'm trying to do.
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If you don't fit that scenario and you don't carry the same qualities that I'm
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carrying, then that's it. That's an important that's an important thing to look
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at. And it's funny that we talked about this and I thought I was
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going to listen and because I really had during the whole week before this topic
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was brought up, I really had a talk about. But then today I
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was in two sides of the spectrum. I was observing a friend who same
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thing, who didn't just keep up, and even the lanes next to me,
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I just lost him somewhere right, and I'm looking at it, but
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I'm like, yoh, this is still someone who I was really close with,
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And it's like, why am I, you know, comparing that holding
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me back? At the same time that you think about it, it's like
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how after all these years you start analyzing different relations to you learn to recognize
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things early. And if you recognize that something's just on change, that's not
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anything wrong until you know there's a different kind of change. So that's like
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the lane of I feel like it's not you know, where a different lanes
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things. And then there's the ones where I just don't agree with and early
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on with conversations and you just discussed different morals and you know, just like
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choices, and you can immediately recognize when someone's talking early on in conversations what
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are their core values are? And I think that's an easy way to guide
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how deep that relationship gets. Do you feel like and I mean this is
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a question to either of you, do y'all feel like you can tell a
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lot about a person who they keep around them. I feel like yes and
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no and yeah, yes, I know too. And basically that's something that
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really just goes to what you are willing to tolerate, you know what I'm
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saying, Like what kind It kind of goes back to that thing we were
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talking about, like what do you what is your you know, pillars that
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you need those people to be in in order for them to fit into your
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life, Like what are those things and what are the things that they have
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to do to fall out of that? You know what I mean? And
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as long as it don't fall out of that, it don't really matter.
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Because to me, it's like something we've kind of talked about before, Like
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I got certain friends that like I'll hit them up to play basketball and the
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play basketball only you know what I mean, And it's like that's where our
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relationship is, you know what I mean. Maybe maybe nothing happened in the
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past, and that's just how I feel like it should stay because that's where
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it works, you know what I mean, Maybe something did happen in the
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past, and it's like, Yo, this is I'll trust you to this
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level, you know what I mean, right, same thing with other things,
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Like you got certain friends that you'll go on trips with, you know
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what I mean, because you'll know, you know, okay, they're gonna
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hold up their end of the bargain with the bread. They're not gonna,
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you know, run out of money in the middle of the trip. They're
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not gonna be you know, running late for everything you're trying to do,
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you know what I mean. You might have another friend that you're cooler with
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than your trip friends, you know what I mean. But it's just sometimes
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it just don't them exactly, you know what you know, you you bring
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a great point, and I just want to throw us analogy in there because
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it's something I've been thinking about for a while and you're exactly describing what I've
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been thinking about. It's like everybody thinks you have like one core thing,
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like one thing that makes your friendships with people, and it's and it's not
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like that. It's like it is one core thing, but it's supported it
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like it's a roof and it's supported by beings of support, and each one
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of those beams are different, and that supports what maintains your relationships with people.
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Having all those beams that support it, and it's okay to have all
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those different varieties of values that your friendships bring to support that kind of thing,
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and there's negative ones with all of that. And what you said I
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like too because it makes me think of the next point of like you also
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got to take responsibility in that and you have to sacrifice as a friend too,
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you know what I'm saying. Like, for example, like my friends
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like from Wentworth, if you if you hear us talking to each other,
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you would think, like you would kind of be like yo, like I
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have to get in the middle of this at some point, you know what
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I mean. It's like that's just how we talk to each other, like
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the whole time, Like we're just super rowdy arguments about you know what I'm
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saying, Like you randomly, you know, say oh you soft, you
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know what I'm saying. It's a different word for soft, you know what
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I'm saying. And it's like, oh, what you're talking about this day?
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At that time? I remember you got stuff. This is like you
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know what I'm saying. Like it's crazy. You know, there are certain
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friends that I know that they cannot take that kind of joking. You know
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what I mean, if I if I just if I'm if I'm coming from
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the point of view of, oh, this is how I am, you
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just got to deal with it. I'm the jerk, you know what I'm
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saying, because everybody don't joke like that. If you just got to sacrifice,
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not at all. If you just got to sacrifice one aspect of something
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you'd like to do to have a cool relationship with somebody, do it.
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If it's it's a worthy relationship, it's worth that sacrifice and it be Then
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people that want to be one hundred percent in every relationship that is those are
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the type of people that I don't mess with, you know what I'm saying.
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Like the people that their problems are way more important than everybody else's.
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You know, if you tell them something, they got a topic with another
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story of how it was worse for them, you know what I mean,
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Like everybody, people that always bring it back to themselves. Those are just
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not my type of people, you know what I mean. But for example,
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like a lot of people that are great and bring a lot of innovation
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and change just to the world are those type of people. They're super needy,
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They're always worried about them, and they're focused. There's they have the
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mentality of what I'm doing is more important than what all these other people are
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doing. But a lot of the times you could argue that they're right,
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you know what I'm saying, people don't want to accept that, you know
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what I mean. People want to think like, oh, no, my
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time is just as valuable as yours and us o, bro, you know
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what I'm saying. Like you you you know, if if somebody's you know,
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producing ten times, twenty times, a hundred times what you're producing,
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your time is not worth the same as theirs, you know what I mean?
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Like, yeah, you gotta have you gotta be egoists to understand that.
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It's the same thing of like people saying like they should get paid a
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certain amount of an hour for certain things. It's like, yo, if
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if whatever you do is something that somebody can learn in a day, then
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you're not gonna get paid a lot of money, right, that's what they
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say. You don't blame you. You don't pay the plumber the bang on
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the pipes. He paid the plumber to know which piped the bang off exactly?
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Facts. No. Um. The reason I asked that, though,
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was because I always think about the that birds of a father feather flock together,
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like you know what I'm saying, that little quote. And you know,
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for me, you know, in my experience as anytime, well not
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any time, but most times that I've gotten like um faded by somebody or
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something like that, you know, I always have like this confirmation bias kind
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of going on where I'm like, you know, I kind of should have
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known, you know what I'm saying, Like you know what I'm saying,
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like that the signs were all there. I should have known. It's like
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deal, you know, I see who he's around. I don't deal with
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this person that he deals with, you know what I mean? And that's
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my batter cut you off, but just just brought me to a great point.
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I feel that's exactly what it be like you we and it's not just
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you, it's everybody in these situations. Obviously we've all done it. Like
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you see the signs, but in the moment, you don't want to address
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it because you don't want that uncomfortable situation. And it's like, nah,
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bro, you you go through this uncomfortable situation one time. If you're wrong,
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it's not gonna be uncomfortable because they're gonna get it, you know what
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I'm saying. But if you're right, it is gonna be uncomfortable. But
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at the same time, you just save yourself whatever's coming down the line,
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down the line exactly, you know what I'm saying. And a lot of
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times with people that you carry from the past, it'd be hard to to
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you know, have them moments because like you've already built in so much of
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a relationship, especially when you know somebody from kids like y'all kind of met
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each other wrong from the sense of like none of y'all had sense, you
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know what I mean. So it's like y'all can't start from zero because y'all
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came y'all came from under zero, you know what I'm saying, right,
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So sometimes it'd be tough with like those friends. And you know, everybody
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got that friend in their life that like their significant other people around them,
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it's like, yo, why are you friends with that person? And then
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you just be like, you know, it just is what it is.
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You know. It's kind of like the movie you always see like they got
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like the Ragtag group. One of them is like a friend of one of
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the people in the group that shouldn't be along, but they let him come
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along anyway. He gets them in some crazy situation, but then somehow at
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the end he's the one that ends up saving them, you know what I
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mean, like it sacrifice himself exactly. Man, It's like, um,
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I forgot watched that stand exact same story, just subscribed. What's it called.
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Jerry Seinfeld was saying one time, like that's the thing about people,
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Like they're horrible, They're terrible, they're the worse, and then like just
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when you lose all hope, you see them and they do one wonderful thing
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and you're just cooked back in again, you know. And that's that's I
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feel like that's like the cool thing about like people and just like how different
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everybody is. And and that's why I always kind of had that point of
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view of like everybody's right in their own minds. So if you understand that,
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you can navigate everything really easy. Because if if you understand that,
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everybody's obviously thinking that they're the hero and their story, nobody's you know,
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rarely people are operating as the villain, you know what I'm sea. Most
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people think they're the hero, So you can't be acting like, oh,
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you know what they're doing or not bro worry about what you're doing and make
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sure that the people around you are the type of people that you want around
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you doing what they're doing. That kind of goes to look good. Another
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point, you know what I'm saying, basically recognizing early if a relationship is
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genuine, circumstantial, or transactional. You know, I feel like kind of
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going back to the point I made earlier. You know, a lot of
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my life lessons have really taught me to kind of, you know, focus
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on that, you know what I'm saying. When I meet someone, you
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know, I really analyze the situation and how we met and how the relationship
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is developing, and you know what I'm saying. So like for me,
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that's been something that like I really take with me now is like when I
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meet someone, I you know, is this a is this a genuine situation
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that's happening here? Or is this situation wasting circumstantial like we just happened to
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be in the same room because we're dealing with the same stuff, you know
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what I'm saying. Or is it transactional? They see that they can get
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some out of me, I can get some out of them, you know
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what I'm saying. It's like recognizing what's good in the situation and not confusing
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it. You know. Yeah. I feel like something real good to do
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is always go into a situation already knowing what your mindset is, you know
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what I mean. Too many people will go like into a room with no
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like no mantra, no nothing that they're actually just you know, thinking of
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as a goal of what they're trying to do for that situation or whatever it
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is. And if you kind of just go into a situation all like loose
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with no plan and no idea, nothing, you can kind of get pulled
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into whatever direction, you know what I mean. And it's like it's one
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of those things that you gotta definitely be aware, Like you gotta be the
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one that's like driving that, like just knowing like what kind of relationship be
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looking for because like even for me, like regardless of what kind of relationship
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I'm looking to have in a situation, I already know off rip that I
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can't I can't learn somebody unless like it's been like one, two or three
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years, you know what I'm saying. So that's my mindset already off rip
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like you're gonna get the the You're gonna get a respectable person from me.
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And that's about it, you know what I'm saying, Like, you ain't
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getting nothing else until I see that pattern and see what you're really about and
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see you know, how you move in situations, how your timeline looks like
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all, not even just timeline like from the social media aspect, just real
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life timeline, Like I've known this person X amount of time? What are
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they doing in that time? You know what I mean? Like, and
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time is the only thing that could show you that. And I know for
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me, if I don't give anything that kind of time, it never works,
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you know what I mean. And it's knowing, Hey, if you
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give at the time that person, if you're right about that person, they're
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gonna be there regardless. So you waiting is not gonna make a difference,
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you know what I mean. If you understand that that like whatever's there for
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you, it's gonna be there for you. You just gotta do with the
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discipline way to get to that thing, not be reckless exactly. And that
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bro And that's the thing. Like it's funny, man, because anytime,
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like like whether it be the music or the business stuff, like anytime somebody
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sees me like posts a success that I'm having, Like that's the times people
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want to hit me up and get some kind of advice or something from me.
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And it's like, bro, like everybody always thinks there's some kind of
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secret to these things, you know what I mean, And it's like,
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bro, it's time. If you don't spend the time and dedicate yourself to
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do it and you're not in the grind, it's just not gonna happen.
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And it's kind of like what and exactly what you was talking you're all was
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talking about with the people that you keep around you, if you're grinding,
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you recognize other people that are grinding, and it puts you in a different
23:48
kind of state of mind. So even just grinding already puts you in a
23:52
different state of mind, you know what I'm saying, Like it's that thing
23:55
and like it it's dope because you know, I always see on social media
24:00
like uh post where people say like, oh, you know people are busy,
24:06
Uh let them live their lives, like don't don't if somebody don't hit
24:11
you back whatever, and then somebody else will say like nah, you know,
24:14
people will show you if they care about you or not whatever, whatever
24:17
it's like, bro, just be mindful of the stuff that's going on and
24:22
understand, like from the point of view of like like for me, for
24:26
example, like I got like the one day rule. You know what I'm
24:29
saying, It's like, give me a day to get back to you.
24:32
You know. I feel like for me, that's like a respectable amount of
24:36
time. If it goes to two days, you know, it's cool.
24:40
But like, and I'm right now, I'm really talking about more from like
24:42
a like a business kind of point of view. You know what I'm saying,
24:45
I'm doing business with Like I don't need an immediate um turn around,
24:49
but I do like to be in communication exactly. Yeah, you know what
24:53
I mean. And that's something that if I see that like for me being
25:02
available as far as like I know, I'm gonna get a timely response from
25:04
you in the sense of what I'm saying, like a day or two.
25:07
That's what I expect, and that's what I'm cool with. If you're not
25:11
that type of person, it's not gonna work for me because I need that
25:15
type of person in my life because the way my life moves I need I
25:18
think, you know, I need responses in that amount of time, you
25:22
know what I mean. Like there's certain people that you have in your life
25:25
that they'll go ghost for like three months, you know what I mean.
25:27
And it's like, Bro, I can't do anything with you if you're going
25:30
ghost for three months at a time, you know what I mean? If
25:34
I got to scroll that far down to your text mass s thread, I'm
25:38
not setting you shit exactly. It's like the best ability is availability, you
25:45
know what I mean. And that's that's crazy. I've never heard of before
25:48
and it's something I had. Um, I think I heard that like on
25:52
first take or something like that, and um, you know they always talk.
25:56
It's like with those players, you know, you could be as you
25:59
could have Thee's highlight reel of all time. But if that highlight reel is
26:02
coming from you know you playing the third of the season, the highlight reel
26:07
don't mean nothing, you know what I mean. If you like Obj's career,
26:11
is that catching, that's it? Yep. And then it's like even
26:14
even yeah, and even like that Super Bowl bro, like he was he
26:18
was hooping, Bro, he might have they were saying he might have even
26:19
got that MVP if he didn't get hurt, you know what I'm saying.
26:22
And it's like that that that don't be their fault, but at the same
26:26
time, it's having them the wherewithal to know, like if you're if you're
26:30
a player that's always injured, you gotta look at Lebron and understand that he's
26:34
no matter what, he's better than you, you know what I'm saying,
26:37
because he's gonna be there for his team and he's gonna perform how he's supposed
26:41
to perform. I don't want to hear about somebody that's better but you know,
26:45
quote unquote better, but they're only gonna be there thirty percent of the
26:48
time, right, I Mean that's why, Like for example, like my
26:52
favorite player is Kauhi, but I don't I can't put any weight of an
26:56
argument behind him because he's never able, you know what I'm saying, I
27:00
don't put it on him. It's like, I know, if you get
27:03
hurt, you get hurt. That's it. Like I remember hearing Tam Mac
27:06
talk about that like that really hurt him because people used to just question his
27:10
character and think like, oh, like he was scared or or oh he
27:14
was Lazier May players, Broy Yeah, Brandon Roy degeneratives. You know what
27:19
I'm saying. It's like, bro that they can't help that. You know,
27:22
some people just can't. Yo. Funny story real quick. We're at
27:27
the Win on Saturday, and I guess that's NBA Summer League's main hotel.
27:33
So you get tell everybody's over six seven foot. They're all basketball players.
27:38
I'm not being stereotypical. And it's not the color of skin, it's their
27:42
height. So that just I see all these basketball players. But a Rod
27:48
was there literally walking with his girl through the casino, like so many celebrities
27:52
there, like everybody there for NBA. And we're sitting down, we're eating
27:57
and my wife is talking to me and I'm staring at this dude, bro,
28:00
and I swear everything like him. I was like, Yo, that's
28:03
Kawhile and I'm just waiting for him to turn around. And because he's sitting
28:08
down at the restaurant we're at and like gets loaded with people, like it's
28:11
loaded with I'm telling you, it's loaded with NBA people. You see like
28:15
agents, dudes and suits with players with a bunch of chains that you just
28:19
see them there and and she starts, She's like, what are you looking
28:23
at? I was like, I know, I'm gonna know somebody here.
28:26
I didn't know anybody there because I don't know any Summer League players and it
28:29
wasn't Kawhir, but I was definitely gonna be a groupie. And she was
28:34
like, I'm glad I'm not a groupie. I was like, what's that
28:36
supposed to mean? I would have run up in a rod even though I
28:41
hate him. Yeah, man speak speaking to Kawhi Man. He was on
28:45
the Spurs before. That's my favorite team, so I always followed. I
28:51
was thinking, yeah, man, he can't miss him. Yeah man.
28:56
But yeah, Kauai got a crazy story, man, Like just just how
29:00
he like turned into the guy that he is, Like even kind of like
29:03
his demeanor you can kind of explain and just by his story, you know,
29:07
and you see him a lot like in uh footage and stuff. He
29:11
was kind of like Kobe esque, where like he's not big on like the
29:17
over celebrating. You know, He's more like, Yo, let's just focus,
29:19
super you know, Let's get through it, you know what I'm saying.
29:22
And even that, like that's something that Greg Popovic has where He's like
29:27
very straight laced when it comes to like the actual work the game. You
29:32
know, there's different people that they get this reputation like their stand office or
29:36
they don't, you know, and it's like bro, like people are different
29:40
and they're like we're talking about, they want to be around their people and
29:44
sometimes the situation they're in there's just not a lot of their people there,
29:47
and they know that they have to operate at a certain capacity to be great,
29:52
you know what I mean. He won't play with Paul George. Paul
29:56
George that kind of player too, just just about playing playing the game and
30:00
being good at the game. Paul George is another one kind of like we
30:03
were talking about with their injuries. Man, Like a lot of NBA players
30:06
talk about Paul George like he's like a ridiculously crazy, like good player,
30:11
like they have regards from thirteen even guarding him, like even his defense.
30:17
Like a lot of players have a lot of good things to say about Paul
30:19
George. But same thing, like he's injured a lot, you know what
30:22
I mean. It's like, you know, he had that horrific injury and
30:26
the USA team scrimmages. You know, Um, that's tough. Bro.
30:30
That's that's just super tough. And that's like I was saying, bro,
30:34
like it's not his fault. But at the same time, he got to
30:37
understand that he ain't in a certain bubble, he ain't in a certain air
30:41
because of those situations. You know what I mean. But do you know
30:45
what you just made me think of something? Do you think that that's treated
30:48
any different from Joki saying he don't care about parade and he don't like his
30:52
job. He was at the same You know what's funny they were talking about
30:57
that. I think it was on Paul George's podcast. I might be mistaken.
31:00
I know it was. I feel like it was Draymond Green and Paul
31:03
George, but they were talking about it, and they were saying, like
31:07
they basically were saying, that's exactly how every NBA player feels. They obviously
31:11
love playing and the basketball part of it, but they say that the actual
31:15
job of the NBA is like the way. Yeah, that makes sense.
31:19
Even Whenby was talking about it, Yeah, speaking of Wemby, he was
31:25
talking about it, and he was saying that he was miserable like from like
31:27
basically like when they announced the draft and like to the time that he got
31:33
to the first game of Summer League. That whole period he didn't play no
31:37
basketball, and he was miserable. He was like busy every day doing all
31:40
this stuff, but he wasn't able to do nothing because he was just doing
31:44
like the business part of it. Yeah, which makes sense. I mean
31:48
if you think about it, man, like exactly what they said, you
31:52
know what he said. I always you know, people forget that. You
31:55
know, it's still a job, you know what I mean. They're still
31:56
doing something to get paid. And you know, like even if you absolutely
32:00
love what you do, even like a regular job, you know what I'm
32:04
saying, Like you love what you do, there's parts of it that you
32:07
hate, you know what I'm saying. And I feel like people fail to
32:10
realize that. They always be like, whoa, You're playing a sport for
32:14
millions of dollars, Like, yeah, I mean great, you know what
32:15
I'm saying. They're getting paid, well, they're getting able to play a
32:19
sport, you know what I'm saying, and have fun doing it. But
32:21
at the same time, you know, that business side is always going to
32:24
be the side that people don't enjoy. Like even me, Bro, my
32:28
regular job and I enjoy calling people and changing their life, you know what
32:31
I'm saying, Like, Yo, you know you will interview for this job,
32:35
you got this job, you start this date and hearing them get excited
32:38
before they can even hang up. I love that part of my job,
32:40
but the business side sucks, you know what I mean? And I feel
32:44
like people fail to realize that That's like every job, no matter how much
32:47
you get paid, no matter what you do, there's always a sucky part
32:51
about X. That's everything, Like you gotta work to get that reward and
32:55
then it just starts all over again. You know, listen to this though,
32:59
you know I'm thinking about do you think anything relating to how good you
33:04
are at what you do? Uh? Counter into um how much you enjoy
33:10
doing what you do? Like if you suck doing what you do, are
33:15
you gonna enjoy it? Like in the NBA, if you if you if
33:19
you're trash, you don't scoring up, you're seeing the bench, are you're
33:22
gonna love it? I feel like they don't have to um match, you
33:27
know what I'm saying. But I feel like when it does match, that's
33:30
when you know you you peak. It's just a little harder than man,
33:34
Yeah, because I definitely feel like, um, you know what I'm saying.
33:37
Like when I worked at the airport, I was doing like cargo and
33:42
I was like basically like receiving the shipments, like manifesting them, making sure
33:49
there wasn't any dangerous goods, checking if there was dangerous goods, and then
33:53
like loading it on the plane. I hated my job, but I recognize
33:59
what I was doing and I try to make sure I did I did it
34:01
to the best of my ability. You still get a shit what you did?
34:04
Yeah, and bro, Like the one thing lazy people don't realize is
34:08
that like time moves way slower when you're trying not to work. Like sure
34:15
you just if you just say, hey, let me take care of what
34:17
I need to take care of, you buckle down and do it. You
34:21
look up, bro, the whole day already passed. You know what I
34:23
mean? When you when you bus and the day's just dragging along, and
34:29
then when the day ends, it's like you ain't doing nothing all day.
34:34
Facts, Yeah, when I got ship to do, that's when the day
34:37
flies by, and like it sucks but it's good at the same time.
34:40
Yeah, what is that mango rita? Cha mango. Yo, this thing
34:52
has changed my life. What's in there? Shout out to Rannie. Matter
34:55
of fact? Man, when um, when they lived out here, we
35:00
used to go to like this bobo place and he put us onto this drink.
35:02
He's like, yo, when you go order this and it's like mango,
35:07
and then like it has taijin and it has another thing that starts like
35:10
it's that's the child and cha mango. I don't I don't remember what it's
35:14
called, but like it's like a like a spicy kind of thing, you
35:17
know what I'm saying. So it's like like mangoee and spicy. Oh my
35:22
gosh, that's crazy, crazy dog. It's it's crazy, yo. My
35:27
wife makes it like every other day. Dog. It's like and you just
35:31
make it with fresh mangoes, right, It's like fresh and frozen mangoes and
35:36
then like there's a couple other ingredients. I'll have her sent me the recipe
35:39
so y'all could get it. Yeah, it's the fruit. So I make
35:44
Papayan chamoya smoothies with with almond milk and same concept, same concep. My
35:51
pop sut me out of that. Ran. I don't know who told him.
35:54
My pop is always on some natural ship and yeah, he put me
35:58
on that ship and I had it. You have to get like, didn't
36:00
the goal your section soon? Like Spanish products that produce that shite, you
36:04
can't. Y'all got me excited because I just realized. So for those that
36:09
don't know this Friday, yeah, for this this Saturday, I'm sorry,
36:16
it's your boy birthday. Yo. It is so y'all talking about all of
36:22
this stuff. You know what I'm saying that y'all make. And I was
36:27
on the phone with um my fiance and her dad, and her dad was
36:30
basically saying like that he was watching this show and they made like a apple
36:36
pie cheesecake and I never heard of it, but I was like, yo,
36:43
that drunk sound kind of crazy. He was like, it looked really
36:45
good. And so I looked at Robbing because you know, she liked a
36:47
bacon stuff like, and it's going down. She got the ingredients today,
36:52
you're making it tomorrow because they got to sit in the fridge overnight. And
36:57
I'm having that thing on Saturday. And just so y'all know, Saturday,
37:00
I ain't doing shit but gaming with the homies, ordering food in and eating
37:02
apple pie cheesecake. It's your boy, like a skin were assuming. Yo.
37:12
Man, I'm excited right now because tomorrow, which actually would be like
37:17
a week later for the people listening friends zones out, I'm super excited about
37:22
that joint I'm thinking about. I haven't figured it out. I'm not gonna
37:27
say it because I don't know exactly what it's gonna be, but it's gonna
37:30
be dope. A little thing I'm gonna do for that song. Um.
37:34
Another thing too, man, Spotify got a new feature where, like you
37:37
can see how many people have listened to your music, like unique listeners over
37:43
the past two years, and I have like a good amount over one hundred
37:47
thousand like people. Yeah, I got my music. And like even in
37:52
like the last like the last month or so, like I've gotten like a
37:55
lot of new listeners and like people been averaging like at last world tours coming.
38:00
Yeah, man, I'm I'm manifesting the man with his shirt right here.
38:05
Man did like a little world tour design and I used like the top
38:07
um, the top countries that listen to my music, and I threw them
38:12
on there because that's the goal. Man, You know what I'm saying,
38:15
Get that world tour man. Yes, sir, and I got bigger things
38:23
dropping the morrow. I got crash Course dropping on July twenty one. I
38:30
got a few other things dropping in August. It's a beautiful time right now.
38:35
Man, it's your boy birthday again. I just have to say,
38:37
hey, it's that kind of weekend. I'm here, Shaturday, I'm here,
38:42
ready strapped up. Let's get it, get it. I mean no
38:47
double X feed. Yeah, you're right, I'm running that thing up all
38:51
day. There, you're already staying completely but not m