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Hey Mike Hammer, how are ya?
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Carlos figural.
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I'm doing fantastic.
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And yourself, my friend?
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I'm doing really well, enjoying this super hot summer.
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Yeah, the last couple days, or yesterday, I guess yesterday and today have been a heck of a reprieve, but boy, it's been impressive.
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That weather is It's been although with a great assault as a Minnesotan, because I was talking to my aunt that lives in Phoenix and she's like, been about 114.
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I'm like, okay, you win.
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But it's still too hot for me in the 90s.
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Yeah.
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90s, high 90s, and the humidity is a factor, but and the smoke.
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And then Yeah, the smoke is really bad.
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It really bad.
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I've got I've got some one of the many people out there with lung issues, and it it's painful to me.
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Smoking without a smoking jacket because it's too hot.
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This is an awkward transition, but I'm gonna do it.
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I'm gonna talk a little bit about some of the folks in our hometown in St.
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Louis Park are suffering.
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The folks at the Helix apartment fire this past week, I think 90 plus apartments people were affected, and it's been quite a trauma.
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I know that St.
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Louis Park has the St.
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Louis Park Emergency Program STEP, and I think I mentioned in a post, but we'll be donating our July advertising revenue to STEP in order to do what we can to help people that are hurting in our hometown of St.
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Louis Park.
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I also wanted to mention, I don't know if you've been back in the old hood in the last few weeks, but there's quite the construction project going on at Louisiana and Cedar Lake Road, and it's really hurting some of the businesses there.
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They're different than when we were kids, but you've got Usburgers Brewing at Westwood Shopping Center, Shanghai Market, a barber's touch.
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So if you live in St.
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Louis Park, if you got an extra few minutes, maybe patronize some of these businesses.
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They're really hurting.
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It's really hard to get to them, but you can get there.
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If you find yourself in St.
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Louis Park, show these people some grace and bring them some business during this tough construction period.
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That's uh and that's uh shouts out.
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I mean, to the to helping the complex to fire that was that's devastating anywhere, but when you know exactly where it is and what it's about, it's hard to to take in because it just people it just disrupts stuff when nobody actually had a oh about 20 years ago, I was living in an apartment in Bloomington, and it had a main section that had the office in it, and then the gym and the pool, and then had a couple of buildings that swung that attached to it and swung off.
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That main thing, that whole main building burned down one night.
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So spent a lot fair amount.
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We didn't I didn't have to evacuate my apartment because it wasn't smoke damaged or water damage, but it was kind of weird just being standing out there watching firefighters in the middle of the night.
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And that one, oh you don't know how it happened.
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You hope it's it wasn't somebody's sick idea.
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Yeah, no idea, no idea how I I never heard how the one started in Blue.
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But then it's a 24-hour building, so you know, people people could go in there at any time, but yeah, I don't know, but it's scary, and I can't imagine being told, okay, you can't go back to your house, can't get any of your stuff, it's all gone.
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I just can't imagine.
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Yeah, uh even that the apartment buildings in downtown St.
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Paul or the elevators, the other foreclosure, and all that.
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But then the unfortunate uh shooting in in St.
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Paul, Highland Park.
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Yeah.
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I don't know, life's just weird when somebody you get frustrated.
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You don't want to pay your$65 garage, but just don't pay it.
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I'm gonna quote Kirby Puckett, but I realize there are probably great philosophers that have said it better.
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Nobody promises you tomorrow.
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Oh and uh you shouldn't spend all your time paranoid or th this and that.
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Keep in mind that it's gonna end someday, so you know, have that piece of cake.
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It's okay.
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Go back to that thing at St.
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Louis Park at the corner of Louise Radha.
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I always, you know, St.
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Paul would do it.
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Everybody that had the light rail in front of it, oh wonder.
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You've been a business owner, I've been a business owner, you wonder.
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You don't budget for this because most of the time you're just budgeting to get to next month.
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It's not like you sit there going, No one plans, it's okay.
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What do I do if no one can get to my business?
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Yeah.
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And I'm sure there's some.
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You know what?
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I'm guilty of it.
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I'm guilty.
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It's I'm not gonna go there.
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It's constructionist pain in the ass.
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You know what?
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Maybe deal with a little bit of inconvenience and help some folks out that are suffering.
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Yeah, it it and I yeah, I understand when infrastructure has to be uh upgraded because it's it has to get done, but I feel like sometimes they don't I don't know.
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I feel like they could maybe do a better job of communicating and working with the businesses.
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Construction's construction, and it's roads have to get closed, it has to get done.
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But I just hate to see the collateral damage.
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We're not talking about millionaires here, we're talking about people that put blood and sweat and tears into their businesses.
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But I have a topic for you today because I honestly don't know.
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I have a question for you.
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I do not know the answer to this.
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But what, if anything, does Mike Hammer fear?
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What do you what are you afraid of?
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Do you have any fears?
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Do I have any fears into real phobias or fears?
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I know I'm not really good and confined, it has to be yeah, pretty confined, and I know that I know that because back in the day, and we would go to the flying cloud drive-in theater, yes, and every once in a while we had more people than money to attend.
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Yeah, so maybe some people decided to take a nap underneath the sofa or the bed or in the trunk.
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There was a couple places, one in a van.
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Yeah, we had a buddy a little bit older that uh we'd go in.
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I hid in that van to get into a drive movie before underneath the the the couch, which was and then another time there was so.
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Did you feel a little claustrophobia, a little a little anxiety there?
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Yeah, another the time I it was a little bit weirder was uh uh Steve Falcon was a couple years older than us.
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And a few of us worked at the gas station down there.
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A few of us worked at that gas station down there in the corner of the street.
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K gas seat or k gas pumpers down it.
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And that's when people came out and pumped gas into your car.
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Yes, and but and a lot of gas tanks were behind the license plate in the back of the car.
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Yes, and so Steve Falcon had a Catalina 400, and I don't know why the name stuck, but it was gold.
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He always yelled the name out, and it was gold with gold interior, like that hard, fake plastic leather, whatever.
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And it was fast, it was 400 under that.
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But I remember we were going to the drive-in, and the drive-ins, if you were to take the unconventional way of going through the lanes up and over each berm, because it they kind of go out at a glance.
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Yep, yeah.
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But I remember me and uh Madge had to go in the trunk because went back to the uh money quota.
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We uh so all of a sudden we're back there and we're going through it, and he goes instead of because there is a a drive or path between where you could drive into parallel with the berms and then turn into one.
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But he was driving over them.
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We get there, also we're like, let us out.
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Nope, cat securities here.
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That went on for all 15-20 minutes.
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It's dark in a trunk, it's summer, it's kind of warm, and you're cozy with the buddy of yours that you're like, hey, let's keep this professional.
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And they finally let us out, and they were sitting in lawn chairs drinking beer, and we're like, Oh yeah, no one was here.
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We just felt like leaving you in there.
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That was that was maybe a little bit of anxiety, like that attributed to my we could do an entire series on mine, but I'll start with because I can't do an MRI without drugs.
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I can't those were weird, those were weirder.
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Remember at the beginning when you were like in a tuba toothpaste, yeah, because there was a cap on the end, and the only spot was you could see your feet.
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Yeah, and I don't know if it's just me, but I bet you there's a not just me.
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Plenty of people have figured if something goes south here, I can shimmy down, move my shoulders, I can get out of here.
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If if the fire alarm goes off, because they're those people are gonna bolt, they're not gonna grab me by my feet and yank me here.
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I have to tell you, I've I've gone up and down in size so many times you should nickname me yo-yo, but even when I've not been that huge, it's the shoulders is the problem, is it's just not enough for my shoulders.
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And there are different size MRIs because I've had them.
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I actually I go to North Memorial.
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So North Memorial has an imaging center, but they also have one at the hospital, and the machine at the hospital is much bigger.
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Yeah.
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When they became but I was told, give me something that's a pan, one of those Laraza pan, one of those pans, and I'm good.
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The only thing that sucks is you need a ride, then, right?
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But I can't so I yeah, I can't do closed spaces.
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What about like any animals?
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Let's get back to that MRI real quick.
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The the funny when they made them open-ended, that's fun.
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And then you know what really gets me going always in that is you get in there, you know the drill if you've done it before, so you're sitting there and that loud bang, and then they keep asking you, how you doing in there?
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Fine, you doing okay, fine.
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Hey, we're just checking in how you do how about this?
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Yeah, don't ask me again if I'm doing okay, because now I'm starting to wonder if you're okay.
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But yeah, no, I got my little panic button, I'm like, I'm stress-holding it.
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Yeah, no, it unless I get the drugs, then I'm good.
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I just wanted to tell me like the countdown.
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Like, tell me when I'm a third in, when I'm two thirds.
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I know I've gone in there and it's like, oh, this has got to be almost done.
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And like, you know, you've been in here like 30 seconds, dude.
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Yeah.
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So give me a third time.
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Give me a third when I'm in a third, and then when I have a third left, and then I can start doing I don't know, doing the metal math.
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Do the breathing extra.
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Anything else in clothes space?
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Nothing else, man.
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You're fearless.
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I want to say I now something will come to me.
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It's funny, I'm not a phobia of snakes, but they do kind of freak you out when the ground's moving, you're like, what the hell is that?
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Snakes I I am happy that I do not encounter snakes on the regular, I'll tell you that.
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I'm not a big fan.
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We have snakes here on the property, yeah.
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And the property's not a big, a large amount of property, it's just a regular uh snakes.
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But there's snakes, there's a lot of uh foliage, there's the garden, whatever.
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Yeah, and it's a long before us and they'll be here long after us.
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And people jump, and they got a daughter that's like, I'm not going out there for it.
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I'm like, it's a gardener snake, it's about it weighs about one one hundredth of what you weigh.
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It could not kill you.
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There's no there's no universe in which it could kill you.
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But they're freaky.
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Oh, it's weird.
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Yeah, so you know the hoses that have been out for ten plus years, they're popping out the ones that when you fill them with water, they grow.
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Yeah, and when you turn the water off, they shrink.
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Yeah.
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Hoses I'm talking about.
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Yeah.
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Those are freaky because it'll sit there and I don't put it all the way.
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I just let it do the motion.
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They're like, whoo, these are stakes.
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That's the thing is it's a go in your Minnesota, you have to temper it.
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I remember being out in California at my uncle's house, and he had he was built into the it was the side of the the San Fernando Valley.
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So his hill, his he was on the side of a hill, so you could go up on the stairs, he had a little observation deck, but he'd always walk with his machete in because there was rattlers and just chop it up.
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Yeah, it just yeah, because it's no big deal.
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I'm like going, yeah, I'm glad I didn't ask too many questions because now I'm not enjoying myself up here because they're rattlesnakes.
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I go to Colorado, we go on hikes, and uh you see the snake signs, you know, like going, what am I looking for?
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Am I you gotta keep your eyes on?
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They're like, oh no, they're usually not on the path, at least good.
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And then they say wear long pants and high boots.
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And I'm like, uh, if I'm wearing high long pants and high boots, I'm not going hiking.
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But uh freak me out.
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I would say they don't freak me out, but the tick thing.
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Yeah, you know what?
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Those little things, that's what kills you.
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I saw a graphic that was basically the top 25 people killers, right?
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Yeah, and it's sharks, like four people, and it starts counting up.
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Then you get to then you get to number two, and then you go at several hundred thousand deaths, and then you the mosquito is the king of killing people.
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Mosquitoes, yeah.
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And luckily is not caring, but a kid.
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But the tick, all of a sudden, when we were kids, it was you don't know what kind of restaurant that mosquito ate at before.
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Maybe he was at some guy who was visiting from Mars that has some new disease.
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You don't know where that's you don't know where that mosquito's been?
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Uh-uh.
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Or Edrin or Ed or Edrin, the the planet on Hail Mary.
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I finally got through it.
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Oh wow, look at you.
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It took me three three times, three, three different times to get through it.
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But it's a great, it's a great movie.
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Great book.
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It's a good movie.
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I liked it.
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Uh who doesn't want a Rocky, right?
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But the the the the tick thing is that my son Brady, he got Lyme's disease back when he was nine years old, and it it plays a big factor in the the body.
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And yeah, they've come a long way, and now they think I just read the news because tick bites, ticks and everything are up, the amount of them.
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Because why not?
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The temperature's up, ticks are up, everything else is up.
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They think they might have a vaccine for it.
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Oh, and uh that would be nice because once again, if you go out in any grass, sure you there's really I can't.
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I walk my dogs up, and if I have to go to the side to pick up their b their beautiful dry offerings to the earth, you know, I just it's it is first world problems.
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All right, but it's a world we live.
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I've got a I've got a tangent I want to go down because that's what we do, because I find it fascinating.
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Yeah, and I don't remember where.
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Let's say somewhere China, okay.
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But there's monkeys, people can go visit this the sanctuary, and there are monkeys there.
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Yeah, and there are a couple of problems.
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First of all, the monkeys have learned to rob you of your stuff, like peanuts, this and that, or whatever people buy to feed them and stuff, and then one of them will distract you and then the other one will come and take it.
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But then they've discovered that if they take people's stuff, people will bribe them.
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So they'll steal people's phones and then oh, you've got to give me food.
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That's not enough.
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And then they've discovered that it's better to steal cell phones than combs because people pay more in food for cell phones.
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They've discovered they've just their little criminal conspiracy has discovered what the most profitable items to steal are, and that scares the crap out of me.
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It's like I saw Planet of the Apes as a little kid.
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A little worried that these guys are that smart.
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Damn you.
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Damn you all the hell.
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Damn you, dirty apes, damn you all the hell.
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I can't they are because okay, I got dogs, you've had dogs, and I don't know the I guess the D-O-G-P-A-R-K because two of them are at listening distance here.
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They can't spell.
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They can't spell yet, but I don't know if there is a vibe I give off because I'll think to myself, if I got home from work earlier, I don't have to go in right away, go do stuff right away.
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I'll think about either going for a W-A-L-K.
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Yeah, yeah, because there's a park close or whatever, and then but the young one, he just starts losing his crap.
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And the older one, she's getting senile now.
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She doesn't know why he's losing her crap, so she starts barking because she's like, We barking now?
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What are we doing?
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Where are we going?
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I thought I thought you were the smart one.
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And she's like, I she's like the old man.
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Okay, get off my uh get off my lawn, kids.
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So she's out there a bit, and I'm like, I don't know how you know it.
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And if the truth be, I was thinking about taking them.
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I'm like, how do you know?
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How do you know what I'm thinking?
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And when if you know what I'm thinking, why can't you pee on the puppy pad instead of the carpet, you asshat?
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Or puke on the hard floor, hardwood floor, not the carpet, when you're sick.
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So I don't know.
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They're selective telepathy.
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Yeah.
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Well, actually, I can I am a firm believer that dogs have some kind of a sixth sense or something.
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Maybe it's that they're hearing and smell is so much better, but I remember my dogs knowing when my dad got home from work.
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Yeah, oh yeah, they can't.
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They were in a they were in a place where he would be and he was on a regular schedule, and they would be waiting for him, and they would go sit to watch the window where he came, and it was real.
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This was not like, oh, look what my cute dog does.
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I'm like, this was behavior that they had learned.
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And obviously, they're not thinking.
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This is actually where I've talked about on this podcast before.
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My dear friend from law school, Drew, who passed away.
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And I really wish I could be talking to him right now about AI, because he had a best friend from high school that worked in AI, left high school to go work in AI.
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And I remember talking to Drew 30 years ago, and he was saying, My friend, and I can't remember his friend's name, says, Right now, AI is about as intelligent as a little puppy.
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It's on a I wish I was here to say what the hell happened over the last 25-30 years that turned it from a puppy into Marmaduke.
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Marmaduke.
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Yeah.
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They the yeah, the interesting part about how they figure it out, or like in Rocky from the movie, he was that that was cool.
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And you gotta wonder.
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Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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They know it.
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They know it's oh they know.
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I don't associate it with it.
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They I know I was gonna continue about uh coming home because they can feel you, and I feel the massacre because when I would leave to go out of town for a couple days or whatever, yeah, it was funny, like Ben would say it.
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All my kids would say it, but Sasha would be at the door like before I even turned on the cul-de-sac.
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Yeah, they'd feel it, and then Annie, my gal, she's gotten me into heart math a number of times.
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Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
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Heart math and dealing with it, and you learn about the your brain gives off a uh uh it admits a sphere of about three inches around your head.
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Your heart gives out one like three feet, so that's why you can feel things more if you believe it or not.
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I don't know.
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I believe it.
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It feels like it makes sense that you feel that connection with cells and stuff close to you.
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Yeah, and they say dogs is animals is way bigger, that's why they know they can feel like look pre-2020.
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Carlos would have said enough with that woo stuff about this and that, and it's like, no, I honestly at this point really believe there's something going on that we don't understand.
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People want to point out say that's religion or whatever, but to me, there's something going on, there's parallel universes, there's stuff that bumps on.
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There's a little glitches in the matrix.
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There's little glitches in the matrix.
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I don't know.
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I think we may be in a simulation, Mike Hammer.
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We'll have to raise that as a topic another time.
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Well, there that was a one I heard that our imagination is real, what our dreams are real, and this part of life is really what we're dreaming.
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But I even back to the movie is funny.
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I'm not fixed fixated on it, but I got a little quote from her because before he launches, they were talking before the launch was he goes to the one lady, I can't remember her name, but the head lady person in charge of this operation, and he said, Do you believe in God?
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And she goes, or he said, So you they were talking about religion, so you believe in God, and she goes, It's better than the alternative.
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Yeah, which is always I had a customer used to come into the bar and he back when TNT was the big you play the video question quiz game on the TVs in front of you, and he'd always rip people for believing in the afterlife for that we go to heaven, and I would rip on them going, you might be the smartest one in here and win most of these.
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But when you get there to the afterlife and find out that yes, we just turn to dust and we're in the wind, then you come back and tell me.
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But until that, everybody here that has a sliver of hope and while they're hanging on, tell you, shut the hell up because you have no right because you don't know.
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Old time dude, math dude.
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Anyways, he said, he goes, Listen, is there a God or is it?
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Should I believe in God or should I not?
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All right.
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He's like, if I don't believe in God and I'm wrong, I could turn out real bad.
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Yeah, if I do believe in God and I'm wrong, I lived a good life, I did good things, I tried to live a good life.
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So for him, it's like going you're better off believing in God.
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Now, I don't think that's how belief works.
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I think you have to have actual faith, but he's just saying from a practical standpoint, the downside of not believing is pretty damn high if you're wrong.
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Yeah.
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The funny thing is you have to say you have to have faith, you don't have to have nothing but to believe.
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You can say, I believe.
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Well, the faith, it's faith alone, right?
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It's you know why not?
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The story ends better.
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You never watch a movie where the story didn't end the way you wanted it to, yeah, and then I say, damn it, when I write my movie, I'll have it end the way I wanted to.
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I want to throw a big ass disclaimer.
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But I am not questioning anybody's faith or religion.
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I have no clue.
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I can barely figure out my own beliefs in the world.
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I'm not gonna judge somebody else.
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So we may I don't mean to sound flippant when I talk about faith because there's people for whom it's real and it's deep and it's abiding.
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And your daughter can say I've seen God's influence directly in my life.
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So that's great.
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I am not denigrating that.
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I'm just I'm talking from my own personal experience.
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You don't want to be up there at the old pearly gates going in your best Lucy request.
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Ricardo imitation or Ricky Ricardo.
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I got a lot of explaining to do.
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But it's a com why not believe in something you can't display?
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Honestly, if you want to, I don't think any of the rules are bad.
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The big rules.
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If you want to start talking about plant it's people who want to bring up their favorite sins, I'll bring up you can't plant two different crops at the same time.
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You can't touch a pig skin.
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You can't you can't do this, you can't do that.
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So it's like everybody talks about, oh, you can't be gay.
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It's like there's a lot of other stupid stuff they said you can't do.
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But the big rules, don't kill people.
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That's a good rule.
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I think any society says, hey, what rule should we have?
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Don't kill each other.
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That's a great rule.
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Let's put that one on the list.
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Don't take what's not yours.
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At least ask.
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Yeah.
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And that's the the other one, it's kind of funny in sports.
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And you kind of can break it down because they say, I want to thank the Lord.
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The Lord is not choosing who should win or lose.
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But what they're basically saying is I believed in him enough to believe in myself that I could get here.
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So that's a that's actually I think that was a bone of contention here with our man Dan Barrero, who got a little bit of bug in his be in his bonnet on Tony Dungey, you know, thanking God for the championship.
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And he's like, So God didn't like the other team.
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I get what he's doing, but I can also see the other side.
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Yeah, you can see the other side.
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You look at blind faith sometimes.
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Swing Lee was just done too.
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You look at a gymnast or something like this trained so much for that minute, 30 seconds, whatever, of chance.
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There's gotta be some blind faith there.
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Oh god, you remember that kid?
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I'm sorry, but it just struck in my head.
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There was the guy, I don't know, this was maybe 40, 50 years ago.
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He was a speed skater, and his sister died, and his training, and this and that, and I think he had been injured, so he missed them, and he's finally on the Olympics and he falls.
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He falls in his big race.
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And that was just the it was a big redemption story.
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He ends up, I think, winning a medal or something else like that.
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But I remember that was a big deal.
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Because you made me think of it.
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It's like you work for year after year and hour after hour, and you get your one shot, and you decide, and that's you just you shit the bed.
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This just happened, but and he's young, so he's got plenty of time to redeem himself.
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But how about the quad god?
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Yeah, and how you felt, but you're like, okay, this kid's right, but he didn't seem like a prick, like whatever that swimmer was when he was part of school.
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Lechkey or Lechke.
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Ryan Lochty.
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Lockkey.
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You're like, you're a dick.
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You deserve it.
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I don't know that Ryan Lochty's a dick more than a than an airhead.
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Okay, there's that too.
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I remember Saturday Night Live did Ryan Lochty as a character.
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The guy's like laughing.
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He goes, It's so weird not being wet.
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I guess sometimes it's hard to decipher between airhead and isn't he the one that he went out partying and then he claimed that he was kidnapped in Mexico or something.
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Oh yeah, during the Olympics, he claimed he was kidnapped.
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You know, the old saying, do not confuse my arrogance with airheadedness.
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Or my airheadedness with ignorance.
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But yeah, and I think they actually threw some poor gas station guy under the bus or something.
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They were making all kinds of false accusations.
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Anyways, you know what?
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I'm changing.
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He's not an airhead, he's a dick.
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Yeah, you I don't know.
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Yeah, it's just it's isn't it weird hearing that that Michael Phelps, who for a certain point in time, greatest athlete of all time, right?
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I just killed.
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I remember why I don't care about the Olympics, and I remember being excited about his run, and then finding out that the guy has massively struggled his life with depression.
00:25:38.720 --> 00:25:55.519
And just to me, that's just that is I appreciate when people of fame and renown are willing to be vulnerable enough to share that kind of information because it makes it seem like if you're having an issue, you're not so much of a weirdo, right?
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It's like it's part of the human condition.
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So anyway.
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Exactly, yeah, yeah, yeah.
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And I just watched something on him the other day.
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And he was a great guy.
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Didn't the Beach Boy kid that was with the Timberwolves?
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Call him the Beach Boy Kid.
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I think he came out talking about mental health issues too.
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Oh, who's the guy?
00:26:13.519 --> 00:26:16.880
He broke his hand doing push-ups, knuckle push-ups.
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He was with the wolves, he's related to the beach boys.
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Kevin Love.
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Kevin Love, yeah.
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He actually had mental health issues too.
00:26:25.119 --> 00:26:30.000
Anyway, I just I don't this has to be, and I'm going to I've already come up with the title for this episode.
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I'm gonna call it the random show because we had no topics or anything else.
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You know, when you talk about that that depression, and I would say in sports, it gets hard because you work so hard and you want God, somebody to be on your side.
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So when you can't find it, somebody cheering in the audience, you pull up on God.
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God, will you be on my side?
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But I know some people that if I took it to heart, I didn't have a phobia, but when I played baseball, pitch, you know, yeah, you give up a home run and there's no place to hide.
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Well, there, I was gonna say that's the loneliest place in sports is the pitching mound.
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And if you don't give up after you give up the big dinger or something like that, if you can't turn it around from a wow, yeah, what waiting for your catcher to come out and say, something hit that far, should have a stewardess on it.
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And that's actually where you were a closer in college, and it's to me, you gotta have the ultimate mindset of just that was yesterday, today's today.
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You can't you because if you let it get in your head, you're done.
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You kind of get into this, you get into that mode of, all right, I gotta go to work, let's get this done, I gotta get out of here, I got something to do, type thing where let's get in, get out, and you get on the on the mountain, you're getting it.
00:27:37.440 --> 00:27:43.920
And when they say just to be one pitch at a time, it is because you're sitting there going, what can you not really?
00:27:44.160 --> 00:27:53.759
I never thought about punching this this batter out, or I kept thinking getting this pitch by him, this next pitch, getting it by him, or inducing a ground ball or whatever.
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You're lucky when you play on teams with good defense, especially in the infield, you're like, you get just as excited for a good defensive play behind you as you do for a punch out.
00:28:04.799 --> 00:28:12.319
But uh, hey, by the way, I'm it's almost like we planned this, which I can guarantee anybody listening there was no planning at all involved.
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But I have a new essay coming out tomorrow on Substack, and it's called Ponche.
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And it's what Cubans or my dad and people in Caribbean call strikeout, the punch out, ponche, or poncho.
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I like it.
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Uh and it's funny how that traveled.
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It came from the umpire call of like the punch that they do for strikeouts.
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It's really kind of I'm doing the motion, but it doesn't translate well on an audio podcast.
00:28:36.799 --> 00:28:43.200
But that became then the punch out, and then that became that became the word in Ponche, and then Ponche has worked its way back.
00:28:43.279 --> 00:28:51.599
So, anyways, you said Punch Out, thank you for calling a strikeout that because it it relates in, and I will put a link in the show notes to to my Substack article.
00:28:52.240 --> 00:28:53.440
All right, buddy.
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That's a big gun.
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I'll get into more phobies.
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I'll think about them because there's little ones where losing a game was kind of a phobia and not going there, but the ones that paralyze me, I don't really have any because it like I don't want to say flabbergasted.
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You're you are somebody that there's gonna be some deep friendship talk that's gonna get recorded here.
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You are somebody that seems unflappable, but knowing you, I know that what you do is it's all in your head and it's all internal.
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It's not like you're not experiencing the things everybody else does.
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It's you're just able to you're a duck.
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You're a duck.
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You are you are I've lost your audio, but you you're calm on the surface and paddling like hell underneath.
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I'm able to put it in perspective.
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Yeah, hey, and on that note, yeah.
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Actually, let me tease real quick.
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We are got a good friend from the neighborhood who's gonna be joining us one of these episodes here soon, hopefully.
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But with that, Carlos and Hammer, ouch! Watching all the world go by now.
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Underneath the hazy sky now.
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Got my ticket for the long ride.
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Yeah, from my park bench perspective, got that white eye on light.
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Hey Mike Hammer, how are ya?
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Carlos figural.
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I'm doing fantastic.
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And yourself, my friend?
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I'm doing really well, enjoying this super hot summer.
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Yeah, the last couple days, or yesterday, I guess yesterday and today have been a heck of a reprieve, but boy, it's been impressive.
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That weather is It's been although with a great assault as a Minnesotan, because I was talking to my aunt that lives in Phoenix and she's like, been about 114.
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I'm like, okay, you win.
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But it's still too hot for me in the 90s.
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Yeah.
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90s, high 90s, and the humidity is a factor, but and the smoke.
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And then Yeah, the smoke is really bad.
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It really bad.
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I've got I've got some one of the many people out there with lung issues, and it it's painful to me.
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Smoking without a smoking jacket because it's too hot.
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This is an awkward transition, but I'm gonna do it.
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I'm gonna talk a little bit about some of the folks in our hometown in St.
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Louis Park are suffering.
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The folks at the Helix apartment fire this past week, I think 90 plus apartments people were affected, and it's been quite a trauma.
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I know that St.
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Louis Park has the St.
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Louis Park Emergency Program STEP, and I think I mentioned in a post, but we'll be donating our July advertising revenue to STEP in order to do what we can to help people that are hurting in our hometown of St.
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Louis Park.
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I also wanted to mention, I don't know if you've been back in the old hood in the last few weeks, but there's quite the construction project going on at Louisiana and Cedar Lake Road, and it's really hurting some of the businesses there.
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They're different than when we were kids, but you've got Usburgers Brewing at Westwood Shopping Center, Shanghai Market, a barber's touch.
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So if you live in St.
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Louis Park, if you got an extra few minutes, maybe patronize some of these businesses.
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They're really hurting.
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It's really hard to get to them, but you can get there.
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If you find yourself in St.
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Louis Park, show these people some grace and bring them some business during this tough construction period.
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That's uh and that's uh shouts out.
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I mean, to the to helping the complex to fire that was that's devastating anywhere, but when you know exactly where it is and what it's about, it's hard to to take in because it just people it just disrupts stuff when nobody actually had a oh about 20 years ago, I was living in an apartment in Bloomington, and it had a main section that had the office in it, and then the gym and the pool, and then had a couple of buildings that swung that attached to it and swung off.
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That main thing, that whole main building burned down one night.
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So spent a lot fair amount.
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We didn't I didn't have to evacuate my apartment because it wasn't smoke damaged or water damage, but it was kind of weird just being standing out there watching firefighters in the middle of the night.
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And that one, oh you don't know how it happened.
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You hope it's it wasn't somebody's sick idea.
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Yeah, no idea, no idea how I I never heard how the one started in Blue.
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But then it's a 24-hour building, so you know, people people could go in there at any time, but yeah, I don't know, but it's scary, and I can't imagine being told, okay, you can't go back to your house, can't get any of your stuff, it's all gone.
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I just can't imagine.
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Yeah, uh even that the apartment buildings in downtown St.
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Paul or the elevators, the other foreclosure, and all that.
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But then the unfortunate uh shooting in in St.
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Paul, Highland Park.
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Yeah.
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I don't know, life's just weird when somebody you get frustrated.
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You don't want to pay your$65 garage, but just don't pay it.
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I'm gonna quote Kirby Puckett, but I realize there are probably great philosophers that have said it better.
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Nobody promises you tomorrow.
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Oh and uh you shouldn't spend all your time paranoid or th this and that.
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Keep in mind that it's gonna end someday, so you know, have that piece of cake.
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It's okay.
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Go back to that thing at St.
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Louis Park at the corner of Louise Radha.
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I always, you know, St.
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Paul would do it.
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Everybody that had the light rail in front of it, oh wonder.
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You've been a business owner, I've been a business owner, you wonder.
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You don't budget for this because most of the time you're just budgeting to get to next month.
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It's not like you sit there going, No one plans, it's okay.
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What do I do if no one can get to my business?
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Yeah.
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And I'm sure there's some.
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You know what?
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I'm guilty of it.
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I'm guilty.
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It's I'm not gonna go there.
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It's constructionist pain in the ass.
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You know what?
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Maybe deal with a little bit of inconvenience and help some folks out that are suffering.
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Yeah, it it and I yeah, I understand when infrastructure has to be uh upgraded because it's it has to get done, but I feel like sometimes they don't I don't know.
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I feel like they could maybe do a better job of communicating and working with the businesses.
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Construction's construction, and it's roads have to get closed, it has to get done.
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But I just hate to see the collateral damage.
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We're not talking about millionaires here, we're talking about people that put blood and sweat and tears into their businesses.
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But I have a topic for you today because I honestly don't know.
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I have a question for you.
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I do not know the answer to this.
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But what, if anything, does Mike Hammer fear?
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What do you what are you afraid of?
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Do you have any fears?
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Do I have any fears into real phobias or fears?
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I know I'm not really good and confined, it has to be yeah, pretty confined, and I know that I know that because back in the day, and we would go to the flying cloud drive-in theater, yes, and every once in a while we had more people than money to attend.
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Yeah, so maybe some people decided to take a nap underneath the sofa or the bed or in the trunk.
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There was a couple places, one in a van.
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Yeah, we had a buddy a little bit older that uh we'd go in.
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I hid in that van to get into a drive movie before underneath the the the couch, which was and then another time there was so.
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Did you feel a little claustrophobia, a little a little anxiety there?
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Yeah, another the time I it was a little bit weirder was uh uh Steve Falcon was a couple years older than us.
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And a few of us worked at the gas station down there.
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A few of us worked at that gas station down there in the corner of the street.
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K gas seat or k gas pumpers down it.
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And that's when people came out and pumped gas into your car.
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Yes, and but and a lot of gas tanks were behind the license plate in the back of the car.
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Yes, and so Steve Falcon had a Catalina 400, and I don't know why the name stuck, but it was gold.
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He always yelled the name out, and it was gold with gold interior, like that hard, fake plastic leather, whatever.
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And it was fast, it was 400 under that.
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But I remember we were going to the drive-in, and the drive-ins, if you were to take the unconventional way of going through the lanes up and over each berm, because it they kind of go out at a glance.
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Yep, yeah.
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But I remember me and uh Madge had to go in the trunk because went back to the uh money quota.
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We uh so all of a sudden we're back there and we're going through it, and he goes instead of because there is a a drive or path between where you could drive into parallel with the berms and then turn into one.
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But he was driving over them.
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We get there, also we're like, let us out.
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Nope, cat securities here.
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That went on for all 15-20 minutes.
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It's dark in a trunk, it's summer, it's kind of warm, and you're cozy with the buddy of yours that you're like, hey, let's keep this professional.
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And they finally let us out, and they were sitting in lawn chairs drinking beer, and we're like, Oh yeah, no one was here.
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We just felt like leaving you in there.
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That was that was maybe a little bit of anxiety, like that attributed to my we could do an entire series on mine, but I'll start with because I can't do an MRI without drugs.
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I can't those were weird, those were weirder.
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Remember at the beginning when you were like in a tuba toothpaste, yeah, because there was a cap on the end, and the only spot was you could see your feet.
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Yeah, and I don't know if it's just me, but I bet you there's a not just me.
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Plenty of people have figured if something goes south here, I can shimmy down, move my shoulders, I can get out of here.
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If if the fire alarm goes off, because they're those people are gonna bolt, they're not gonna grab me by my feet and yank me here.
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I have to tell you, I've I've gone up and down in size so many times you should nickname me yo-yo, but even when I've not been that huge, it's the shoulders is the problem, is it's just not enough for my shoulders.
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And there are different size MRIs because I've had them.
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I actually I go to North Memorial.
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So North Memorial has an imaging center, but they also have one at the hospital, and the machine at the hospital is much bigger.
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Yeah.
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When they became but I was told, give me something that's a pan, one of those Laraza pan, one of those pans, and I'm good.
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The only thing that sucks is you need a ride, then, right?
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But I can't so I yeah, I can't do closed spaces.
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What about like any animals?
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Let's get back to that MRI real quick.
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The the funny when they made them open-ended, that's fun.
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And then you know what really gets me going always in that is you get in there, you know the drill if you've done it before, so you're sitting there and that loud bang, and then they keep asking you, how you doing in there?
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Fine, you doing okay, fine.
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Hey, we're just checking in how you do how about this?
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Yeah, don't ask me again if I'm doing okay, because now I'm starting to wonder if you're okay.
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But yeah, no, I got my little panic button, I'm like, I'm stress-holding it.
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Yeah, no, it unless I get the drugs, then I'm good.
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I just wanted to tell me like the countdown.
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Like, tell me when I'm a third in, when I'm two thirds.
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I know I've gone in there and it's like, oh, this has got to be almost done.
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And like, you know, you've been in here like 30 seconds, dude.
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Yeah.
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So give me a third time.
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Give me a third when I'm in a third, and then when I have a third left, and then I can start doing I don't know, doing the metal math.
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Do the breathing extra.
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Anything else in clothes space?
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Nothing else, man.
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You're fearless.
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I want to say I now something will come to me.
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It's funny, I'm not a phobia of snakes, but they do kind of freak you out when the ground's moving, you're like, what the hell is that?
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Snakes I I am happy that I do not encounter snakes on the regular, I'll tell you that.
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I'm not a big fan.
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We have snakes here on the property, yeah.
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And the property's not a big, a large amount of property, it's just a regular uh snakes.
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But there's snakes, there's a lot of uh foliage, there's the garden, whatever.
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Yeah, and it's a long before us and they'll be here long after us.
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And people jump, and they got a daughter that's like, I'm not going out there for it.
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I'm like, it's a gardener snake, it's about it weighs about one one hundredth of what you weigh.
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It could not kill you.
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There's no there's no universe in which it could kill you.
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But they're freaky.
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Oh, it's weird.
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Yeah, so you know the hoses that have been out for ten plus years, they're popping out the ones that when you fill them with water, they grow.
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Yeah, and when you turn the water off, they shrink.
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Yeah.
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Hoses I'm talking about.
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Yeah.
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Those are freaky because it'll sit there and I don't put it all the way.
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I just let it do the motion.
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They're like, whoo, these are stakes.
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That's the thing is it's a go in your Minnesota, you have to temper it.
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I remember being out in California at my uncle's house, and he had he was built into the it was the side of the the San Fernando Valley.
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So his hill, his he was on the side of a hill, so you could go up on the stairs, he had a little observation deck, but he'd always walk with his machete in because there was rattlers and just chop it up.
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Yeah, it just yeah, because it's no big deal.
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I'm like going, yeah, I'm glad I didn't ask too many questions because now I'm not enjoying myself up here because they're rattlesnakes.
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I go to Colorado, we go on hikes, and uh you see the snake signs, you know, like going, what am I looking for?
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Am I you gotta keep your eyes on?
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They're like, oh no, they're usually not on the path, at least good.
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And then they say wear long pants and high boots.
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And I'm like, uh, if I'm wearing high long pants and high boots, I'm not going hiking.
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But uh freak me out.
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I would say they don't freak me out, but the tick thing.
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Yeah, you know what?
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Those little things, that's what kills you.
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I saw a graphic that was basically the top 25 people killers, right?
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Yeah, and it's sharks, like four people, and it starts counting up.
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Then you get to then you get to number two, and then you go at several hundred thousand deaths, and then you the mosquito is the king of killing people.
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Mosquitoes, yeah.
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And luckily is not caring, but a kid.
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But the tick, all of a sudden, when we were kids, it was you don't know what kind of restaurant that mosquito ate at before.
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Maybe he was at some guy who was visiting from Mars that has some new disease.
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You don't know where that's you don't know where that mosquito's been?
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Uh-uh.
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Or Edrin or Ed or Edrin, the the planet on Hail Mary.
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I finally got through it.
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Oh wow, look at you.
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It took me three three times, three, three different times to get through it.
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But it's a great, it's a great movie.
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Great book.
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It's a good movie.
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I liked it.
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Uh who doesn't want a Rocky, right?
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But the the the the tick thing is that my son Brady, he got Lyme's disease back when he was nine years old, and it it plays a big factor in the the body.
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And yeah, they've come a long way, and now they think I just read the news because tick bites, ticks and everything are up, the amount of them.
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Because why not?
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The temperature's up, ticks are up, everything else is up.
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They think they might have a vaccine for it.
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Oh, and uh that would be nice because once again, if you go out in any grass, sure you there's really I can't.
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I walk my dogs up, and if I have to go to the side to pick up their b their beautiful dry offerings to the earth, you know, I just it's it is first world problems.
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All right, but it's a world we live.
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I've got a I've got a tangent I want to go down because that's what we do, because I find it fascinating.
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Yeah, and I don't remember where.
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Let's say somewhere China, okay.
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But there's monkeys, people can go visit this the sanctuary, and there are monkeys there.
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Yeah, and there are a couple of problems.
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First of all, the monkeys have learned to rob you of your stuff, like peanuts, this and that, or whatever people buy to feed them and stuff, and then one of them will distract you and then the other one will come and take it.
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But then they've discovered that if they take people's stuff, people will bribe them.
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So they'll steal people's phones and then oh, you've got to give me food.
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That's not enough.
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And then they've discovered that it's better to steal cell phones than combs because people pay more in food for cell phones.
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They've discovered they've just their little criminal conspiracy has discovered what the most profitable items to steal are, and that scares the crap out of me.
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It's like I saw Planet of the Apes as a little kid.
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A little worried that these guys are that smart.
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Damn you.
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Damn you all the hell.
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Damn you, dirty apes, damn you all the hell.
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I can't they are because okay, I got dogs, you've had dogs, and I don't know the I guess the D-O-G-P-A-R-K because two of them are at listening distance here.
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They can't spell.
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They can't spell yet, but I don't know if there is a vibe I give off because I'll think to myself, if I got home from work earlier, I don't have to go in right away, go do stuff right away.
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I'll think about either going for a W-A-L-K.
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Yeah, yeah, because there's a park close or whatever, and then but the young one, he just starts losing his crap.
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And the older one, she's getting senile now.
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She doesn't know why he's losing her crap, so she starts barking because she's like, We barking now?
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What are we doing?
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Where are we going?
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I thought I thought you were the smart one.
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And she's like, I she's like the old man.
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Okay, get off my uh get off my lawn, kids.
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So she's out there a bit, and I'm like, I don't know how you know it.
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And if the truth be, I was thinking about taking them.
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I'm like, how do you know?
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How do you know what I'm thinking?
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And when if you know what I'm thinking, why can't you pee on the puppy pad instead of the carpet, you asshat?
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Or puke on the hard floor, hardwood floor, not the carpet, when you're sick.
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So I don't know.
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They're selective telepathy.
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Yeah.
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Well, actually, I can I am a firm believer that dogs have some kind of a sixth sense or something.
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Maybe it's that they're hearing and smell is so much better, but I remember my dogs knowing when my dad got home from work.
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Yeah, oh yeah, they can't.
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They were in a they were in a place where he would be and he was on a regular schedule, and they would be waiting for him, and they would go sit to watch the window where he came, and it was real.
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This was not like, oh, look what my cute dog does.
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I'm like, this was behavior that they had learned.
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And obviously, they're not thinking.
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This is actually where I've talked about on this podcast before.
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My dear friend from law school, Drew, who passed away.
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And I really wish I could be talking to him right now about AI, because he had a best friend from high school that worked in AI, left high school to go work in AI.
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And I remember talking to Drew 30 years ago, and he was saying, My friend, and I can't remember his friend's name, says, Right now, AI is about as intelligent as a little puppy.
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It's on a I wish I was here to say what the hell happened over the last 25-30 years that turned it from a puppy into Marmaduke.
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Marmaduke.
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Yeah.
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They the yeah, the interesting part about how they figure it out, or like in Rocky from the movie, he was that that was cool.
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And you gotta wonder.
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Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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They know it.
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They know it's oh they know.
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I don't associate it with it.
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They I know I was gonna continue about uh coming home because they can feel you, and I feel the massacre because when I would leave to go out of town for a couple days or whatever, yeah, it was funny, like Ben would say it.
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All my kids would say it, but Sasha would be at the door like before I even turned on the cul-de-sac.
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Yeah, they'd feel it, and then Annie, my gal, she's gotten me into heart math a number of times.
00:18:08.720 --> 00:18:09.440
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:18:09.839 --> 00:18:20.240
Heart math and dealing with it, and you learn about the your brain gives off a uh uh it admits a sphere of about three inches around your head.
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Your heart gives out one like three feet, so that's why you can feel things more if you believe it or not.
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I don't know.
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I believe it.
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It feels like it makes sense that you feel that connection with cells and stuff close to you.
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Yeah, and they say dogs is animals is way bigger, that's why they know they can feel like look pre-2020.
00:18:43.519 --> 00:18:53.119
Carlos would have said enough with that woo stuff about this and that, and it's like, no, I honestly at this point really believe there's something going on that we don't understand.
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People want to point out say that's religion or whatever, but to me, there's something going on, there's parallel universes, there's stuff that bumps on.
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There's a little glitches in the matrix.
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There's little glitches in the matrix.
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I don't know.
00:19:07.519 --> 00:19:09.519
I think we may be in a simulation, Mike Hammer.
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We'll have to raise that as a topic another time.
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Well, there that was a one I heard that our imagination is real, what our dreams are real, and this part of life is really what we're dreaming.
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But I even back to the movie is funny.
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I'm not fixed fixated on it, but I got a little quote from her because before he launches, they were talking before the launch was he goes to the one lady, I can't remember her name, but the head lady person in charge of this operation, and he said, Do you believe in God?
00:19:40.559 --> 00:19:47.359
And she goes, or he said, So you they were talking about religion, so you believe in God, and she goes, It's better than the alternative.
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Yeah, which is always I had a customer used to come into the bar and he back when TNT was the big you play the video question quiz game on the TVs in front of you, and he'd always rip people for believing in the afterlife for that we go to heaven, and I would rip on them going, you might be the smartest one in here and win most of these.
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But when you get there to the afterlife and find out that yes, we just turn to dust and we're in the wind, then you come back and tell me.
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But until that, everybody here that has a sliver of hope and while they're hanging on, tell you, shut the hell up because you have no right because you don't know.
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Old time dude, math dude.
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Anyways, he said, he goes, Listen, is there a God or is it?
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Should I believe in God or should I not?
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All right.
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He's like, if I don't believe in God and I'm wrong, I could turn out real bad.
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Yeah, if I do believe in God and I'm wrong, I lived a good life, I did good things, I tried to live a good life.
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So for him, it's like going you're better off believing in God.
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Now, I don't think that's how belief works.
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I think you have to have actual faith, but he's just saying from a practical standpoint, the downside of not believing is pretty damn high if you're wrong.
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Yeah.
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The funny thing is you have to say you have to have faith, you don't have to have nothing but to believe.
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You can say, I believe.
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Well, the faith, it's faith alone, right?
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It's you know why not?
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The story ends better.
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You never watch a movie where the story didn't end the way you wanted it to, yeah, and then I say, damn it, when I write my movie, I'll have it end the way I wanted to.
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I want to throw a big ass disclaimer.
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But I am not questioning anybody's faith or religion.
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I have no clue.
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I can barely figure out my own beliefs in the world.
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I'm not gonna judge somebody else.
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So we may I don't mean to sound flippant when I talk about faith because there's people for whom it's real and it's deep and it's abiding.
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And your daughter can say I've seen God's influence directly in my life.
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So that's great.
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I am not denigrating that.
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I'm just I'm talking from my own personal experience.
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You don't want to be up there at the old pearly gates going in your best Lucy request.
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Ricardo imitation or Ricky Ricardo.
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I got a lot of explaining to do.
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But it's a com why not believe in something you can't display?
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Honestly, if you want to, I don't think any of the rules are bad.
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The big rules.
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If you want to start talking about plant it's people who want to bring up their favorite sins, I'll bring up you can't plant two different crops at the same time.
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You can't touch a pig skin.
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You can't you can't do this, you can't do that.
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So it's like everybody talks about, oh, you can't be gay.
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It's like there's a lot of other stupid stuff they said you can't do.
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But the big rules, don't kill people.
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That's a good rule.
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I think any society says, hey, what rule should we have?
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Don't kill each other.
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That's a great rule.
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Let's put that one on the list.
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Don't take what's not yours.
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At least ask.
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Yeah.
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And that's the the other one, it's kind of funny in sports.
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And you kind of can break it down because they say, I want to thank the Lord.
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The Lord is not choosing who should win or lose.
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But what they're basically saying is I believed in him enough to believe in myself that I could get here.
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So that's a that's actually I think that was a bone of contention here with our man Dan Barrero, who got a little bit of bug in his be in his bonnet on Tony Dungey, you know, thanking God for the championship.
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And he's like, So God didn't like the other team.
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I get what he's doing, but I can also see the other side.
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Yeah, you can see the other side.
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You look at blind faith sometimes.
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Swing Lee was just done too.
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You look at a gymnast or something like this trained so much for that minute, 30 seconds, whatever, of chance.
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There's gotta be some blind faith there.
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Oh god, you remember that kid?
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I'm sorry, but it just struck in my head.
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There was the guy, I don't know, this was maybe 40, 50 years ago.
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He was a speed skater, and his sister died, and his training, and this and that, and I think he had been injured, so he missed them, and he's finally on the Olympics and he falls.
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He falls in his big race.
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And that was just the it was a big redemption story.
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He ends up, I think, winning a medal or something else like that.
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But I remember that was a big deal.
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Because you made me think of it.
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It's like you work for year after year and hour after hour, and you get your one shot, and you decide, and that's you just you shit the bed.
00:24:13.039 --> 00:24:18.079
This just happened, but and he's young, so he's got plenty of time to redeem himself.
00:24:18.240 --> 00:24:19.920
But how about the quad god?
00:24:20.319 --> 00:24:28.640
Yeah, and how you felt, but you're like, okay, this kid's right, but he didn't seem like a prick, like whatever that swimmer was when he was part of school.
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Lechkey or Lechke.
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Ryan Lochty.
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Lockkey.
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You're like, you're a dick.
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You deserve it.
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I don't know that Ryan Lochty's a dick more than a than an airhead.
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Okay, there's that too.
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I remember Saturday Night Live did Ryan Lochty as a character.
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The guy's like laughing.
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He goes, It's so weird not being wet.
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I guess sometimes it's hard to decipher between airhead and isn't he the one that he went out partying and then he claimed that he was kidnapped in Mexico or something.
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Oh yeah, during the Olympics, he claimed he was kidnapped.
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You know, the old saying, do not confuse my arrogance with airheadedness.
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Or my airheadedness with ignorance.
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But yeah, and I think they actually threw some poor gas station guy under the bus or something.
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They were making all kinds of false accusations.
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Anyways, you know what?
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I'm changing.
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He's not an airhead, he's a dick.
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Yeah, you I don't know.
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Yeah, it's just it's isn't it weird hearing that that Michael Phelps, who for a certain point in time, greatest athlete of all time, right?
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I just killed.
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I remember why I don't care about the Olympics, and I remember being excited about his run, and then finding out that the guy has massively struggled his life with depression.
00:25:38.720 --> 00:25:55.519
And just to me, that's just that is I appreciate when people of fame and renown are willing to be vulnerable enough to share that kind of information because it makes it seem like if you're having an issue, you're not so much of a weirdo, right?
00:25:55.599 --> 00:25:57.039
It's like it's part of the human condition.
00:25:57.119 --> 00:25:57.680
So anyway.
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Exactly, yeah, yeah, yeah.
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And I just watched something on him the other day.
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And he was a great guy.
00:26:06.799 --> 00:26:09.200
Didn't the Beach Boy kid that was with the Timberwolves?
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Call him the Beach Boy Kid.
00:26:10.480 --> 00:26:12.640
I think he came out talking about mental health issues too.
00:26:12.720 --> 00:26:13.359
Oh, who's the guy?
00:26:13.519 --> 00:26:16.880
He broke his hand doing push-ups, knuckle push-ups.
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He was with the wolves, he's related to the beach boys.
00:26:20.720 --> 00:26:21.519
Kevin Love.
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Kevin Love, yeah.
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He actually had mental health issues too.
00:26:25.119 --> 00:26:30.000
Anyway, I just I don't this has to be, and I'm going to I've already come up with the title for this episode.
00:26:30.079 --> 00:26:33.599
I'm gonna call it the random show because we had no topics or anything else.
00:26:33.839 --> 00:26:41.039
You know, when you talk about that that depression, and I would say in sports, it gets hard because you work so hard and you want God, somebody to be on your side.
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So when you can't find it, somebody cheering in the audience, you pull up on God.
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God, will you be on my side?
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But I know some people that if I took it to heart, I didn't have a phobia, but when I played baseball, pitch, you know, yeah, you give up a home run and there's no place to hide.
00:26:57.279 --> 00:27:01.200
Well, there, I was gonna say that's the loneliest place in sports is the pitching mound.
00:27:01.440 --> 00:27:13.279
And if you don't give up after you give up the big dinger or something like that, if you can't turn it around from a wow, yeah, what waiting for your catcher to come out and say, something hit that far, should have a stewardess on it.
00:27:14.000 --> 00:27:21.119
And that's actually where you were a closer in college, and it's to me, you gotta have the ultimate mindset of just that was yesterday, today's today.
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You can't you because if you let it get in your head, you're done.
00:27:26.160 --> 00:27:37.119
You kind of get into this, you get into that mode of, all right, I gotta go to work, let's get this done, I gotta get out of here, I got something to do, type thing where let's get in, get out, and you get on the on the mountain, you're getting it.
00:27:37.440 --> 00:27:43.920
And when they say just to be one pitch at a time, it is because you're sitting there going, what can you not really?
00:27:44.160 --> 00:27:53.759
I never thought about punching this this batter out, or I kept thinking getting this pitch by him, this next pitch, getting it by him, or inducing a ground ball or whatever.
00:27:54.079 --> 00:28:04.720
You're lucky when you play on teams with good defense, especially in the infield, you're like, you get just as excited for a good defensive play behind you as you do for a punch out.
00:28:04.799 --> 00:28:12.319
But uh, hey, by the way, I'm it's almost like we planned this, which I can guarantee anybody listening there was no planning at all involved.
00:28:12.480 --> 00:28:16.480
But I have a new essay coming out tomorrow on Substack, and it's called Ponche.
00:28:16.960 --> 00:28:24.960
And it's what Cubans or my dad and people in Caribbean call strikeout, the punch out, ponche, or poncho.
00:28:25.359 --> 00:28:25.759
I like it.
00:28:25.839 --> 00:28:27.839
Uh and it's funny how that traveled.
00:28:28.000 --> 00:28:32.400
It came from the umpire call of like the punch that they do for strikeouts.
00:28:32.559 --> 00:28:36.559
It's really kind of I'm doing the motion, but it doesn't translate well on an audio podcast.
00:28:36.799 --> 00:28:43.200
But that became then the punch out, and then that became that became the word in Ponche, and then Ponche has worked its way back.
00:28:43.279 --> 00:28:51.599
So, anyways, you said Punch Out, thank you for calling a strikeout that because it it relates in, and I will put a link in the show notes to to my Substack article.
00:28:52.240 --> 00:28:53.440
All right, buddy.
00:28:54.400 --> 00:28:55.279
That's a big gun.
00:28:55.359 --> 00:28:56.240
I'll get into more phobies.
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I'll think about them because there's little ones where losing a game was kind of a phobia and not going there, but the ones that paralyze me, I don't really have any because it like I don't want to say flabbergasted.
00:29:07.200 --> 00:29:12.079
You're you are somebody that there's gonna be some deep friendship talk that's gonna get recorded here.
00:29:12.400 --> 00:29:22.480
You are somebody that seems unflappable, but knowing you, I know that what you do is it's all in your head and it's all internal.
00:29:22.640 --> 00:29:25.440
It's not like you're not experiencing the things everybody else does.
00:29:25.599 --> 00:29:28.319
It's you're just able to you're a duck.
00:29:28.880 --> 00:29:29.759
You're a duck.
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You are you are I've lost your audio, but you you're calm on the surface and paddling like hell underneath.
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I'm able to put it in perspective.
00:29:39.039 --> 00:29:43.680
Yeah, hey, and on that note, yeah.
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Actually, let me tease real quick.
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We are got a good friend from the neighborhood who's gonna be joining us one of these episodes here soon, hopefully.
00:29:50.559 --> 00:29:58.880
But with that, Carlos and Hammer, ouch! Watching all the world go by now.
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Underneath the hazy sky now.
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Got my ticket for the long ride.
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Yeah, from my park bench perspective, got that white eye on light.
