บทถอดความฉบับเต็มของ The Process

ain't up just yet, what the fuck are you doing? 00:06:07.920 --> 00:06:08.560 Let's rock. 00:06:11.120 --> 00:06:13.759 Gotta abuse the air horn button on this joint. 00:06:14.879 --> 00:06:15.839 Different time. 00:06:16.399 --> 00:06:17.360 Different place. 00:06:18.000 --> 00:06:18.879 Different era. 00:06:19.439 --> 00:06:20.959 One of the illest ladies out there. 00:06:21.040 --> 00:06:22.879 One time for Fox, let's do it. 00:06:26.000 --> 00:06:27.920 Bang this just to the Illus volume. 00:06:42.240 --> 00:06:44.160 What type of crap is that? 00:06:44.399 --> 00:06:45.680 What top of my critics? 00:06:45.759 --> 00:06:46.800 What top of my pages? 00:06:46.959 --> 00:06:48.000 What top of my cut is? 00:06:48.240 --> 00:06:53.279 What type of my button makes the came, rap it's in the game. 00:06:53.439 --> 00:06:56.160 Cold to cold stats to get and post the girl. 00:06:56.399 --> 00:06:58.800 Dark skin Christian D all post the girl. 00:07:00.319 --> 00:07:01.519 Then the coochie loaf a girl. 00:07:01.920 --> 00:07:02.959 Niggas say I'm too pretty. 00:07:03.040 --> 00:07:05.279 This bit robbed pretty fuck your thoughts. 00:07:05.360 --> 00:07:07.759 We dance around in soups like I'm pretty. 00:07:08.079 --> 00:07:09.839 Show niggas how we run this city. 00:07:10.079 --> 00:07:10.800 Respect my name. 00:07:11.120 --> 00:07:11.680 Boogie nigga. 00:07:14.079 --> 00:07:15.680 Rains on bitches like chicken chain. 00:07:16.079 --> 00:07:18.560 And deal when they are rap, bitches to mention Fox name. 00:07:18.639 --> 00:07:19.360 What's the beef? 00:07:19.519 --> 00:07:21.360 Beef is when bitches think it's sweet. 00:07:21.439 --> 00:07:23.839 See y'all front in the streets and let my death. 00:07:29.600 --> 00:07:33.759 Yeah, lights up. 00:07:34.399 --> 00:07:35.279 Light up here. 00:07:43.519 --> 00:07:45.600 First two, stay with me, stay right here. 00:07:45.680 --> 00:07:46.480 Let's talk about it. 00:07:48.399 --> 00:07:49.600 I think that's how I feel. 00:07:49.839 --> 00:07:52.240 Sometimes I feel like I'm just too fucking real. 00:07:52.639 --> 00:07:53.920 I love a stack, Richard. 00:07:56.720 --> 00:07:58.560 But I don't fuck with rap bitches, niggas too. 00:08:02.000 --> 00:08:03.839 Been like this from the fucking start. 00:08:04.000 --> 00:08:06.319 Since I bust my gun in ninety six. 00:08:08.800 --> 00:08:09.600 Let's talk about it right here. 00:08:10.879 --> 00:08:11.920 Turn around and pop shit. 00:08:12.399 --> 00:08:13.439 You were in the street, bitch. 00:08:13.600 --> 00:08:14.480 I'ma in the street. 00:08:20.639 --> 00:08:21.199 One time. 00:08:31.360 --> 00:08:32.240 Stay with me, y'all. 00:08:32.480 --> 00:08:33.200 We got one more for you. 00:08:33.279 --> 00:08:36.399 If you ain't broke that sweat just yet, you got a little bit more time, too. 00:08:37.039 --> 00:08:39.200 We ain't got that mind right to drop 40. 00:08:39.519 --> 00:08:42.000 To get that touchdown, pick up those extra couple yards. 00:08:42.559 --> 00:08:44.320 Stay with me, we got a little more for you. 00:08:45.279 --> 00:08:46.720 Take motivation. 00:08:47.440 --> 00:08:48.960 Goes from the bottom. 00:08:49.440 --> 00:08:50.720 Something out of nothing. 00:08:51.519 --> 00:08:54.720 Ideas, the dreams, to plans, the goals, the visions. 00:08:56.879 --> 00:08:58.480 Let's talk about it today, y'all. 00:09:06.480 --> 00:09:07.120 I can do it. 00:09:09.840 --> 00:09:12.639 When me and my bed was a big piece of home. 00:09:12.720 --> 00:09:15.440 I'ma never like bad and my ear never comb. 00:09:15.679 --> 00:09:18.639 When Mama banned up hurt me, go street for roam. 00:09:18.720 --> 00:09:20.879 I remember when I stay with me, stay right here. 00:09:21.919 --> 00:09:23.120 Make him liquor bread at them. 00:09:28.879 --> 00:09:30.320 Word for word if you don't grow. 00:09:30.480 --> 00:09:33.200 I remember when we run, but I get in the blown. 00:09:33.279 --> 00:09:36.159 I'm a best friend with chicken doing I'm dome. 00:09:36.240 --> 00:09:41.759 I remember Sabi Avenue, turning out zone and Mikey Mata fly mode, cause she get alone. 00:09:42.240 --> 00:09:44.799 Mikey got to farin and the tonal capone. 00:09:45.039 --> 00:09:50.480 Me polypa money no one know what we can laugh the city and that is well low. 00:09:52.960 --> 00:09:53.200 Mr. 00:09:53.360 --> 00:09:56.720 Mikey, we got the kingdom, the motal lock no. 00:09:57.039 --> 00:09:59.679 We squeeze 7 and the wall on the dog no. 00:10:00.000 --> 00:10:01.679 Me up for leafy chucking now. 00:10:01.759 --> 00:10:02.879 We got drop no. 00:10:03.120 --> 00:10:05.600 Ra, ra, ra, rap. 00:10:05.919 --> 00:10:08.399 We got the kingdoms, so we have to make way. 00:10:08.720 --> 00:10:10.480 We take it from the final to the top. 00:10:11.120 --> 00:10:11.840 Little bit longer, yeah. 00:10:13.279 --> 00:10:14.960 Let's get that mind ready for the main event. 00:10:17.120 --> 00:10:18.240 I remember those days. 00:10:18.480 --> 00:10:19.919 Ladies, was it broken? 00:10:20.320 --> 00:10:22.879 I could barely find a dollar for a token. 00:10:23.200 --> 00:10:25.919 I've been with train just to get where I'm going. 00:10:27.919 --> 00:10:29.440 One train, two train, eight train. 00:10:31.600 --> 00:10:31.919 Uptown. 00:10:32.159 --> 00:10:34.480 All I ever ate was white rice and hunt. 00:10:34.879 --> 00:10:37.120 Big dreams in my head, empty my tongue. 00:10:37.440 --> 00:10:39.120 Lady hustles, fella hustles alike. 00:10:39.440 --> 00:10:40.320 Ain't nothing fun. 00:10:46.720 --> 00:10:49.120 Dirty, dirty, focus and hole. 00:10:55.039 --> 00:10:57.679 Gonna make it someday, gonna be somebody's gonna be. 00:10:59.759 --> 00:11:00.720 Just shooting me. 00:11:01.200 --> 00:11:03.600 One day we will get out of this because the reason why we're gonna do that. 00:11:03.759 --> 00:11:06.639 We say we got the thing, the most I look. 00:11:07.200 --> 00:11:10.000 It's the one that my fuck though. 00:11:10.159 --> 00:11:12.240 We not funny, but it's checking

that we know. 00:11:16.000 --> 00:11:18.799 We got the kingdom, so they have to make way. 00:11:18.879 --> 00:11:21.679 We take it from the bottom to the top, face dead. 00:11:21.840 --> 00:11:24.639 And now the whole community can live great lake. 00:11:28.720 --> 00:11:32.960 Listen, man, as always, thanks for coming to check in with your boy. 00:11:33.200 --> 00:11:37.679 So as we wrap up this warm-up, man, hopefully you're ready for some good takes, good conversation. 00:11:37.759 --> 00:11:40.320 Cause as always, we are back for another audio occasion. 00:11:40.399 --> 00:11:43.919 It is the podcast for self-starters and those willing to make the most out of any situation. 00:11:44.000 --> 00:11:46.960 The EFS podcast is Bizak in a big way. 00:11:47.039 --> 00:11:50.240 We got episode number 94 in the house. 00:11:50.480 --> 00:11:58.399 And today we got one from a very influential man from a very influential community, dropping very influential takes and just perspective. 00:11:58.559 --> 00:12:00.240 So come along with me, let's talk about it. 00:12:01.039 --> 00:12:01.759 Lord's Prayer. 00:12:02.000 --> 00:12:03.840 That's what a real man looks like. 00:12:04.159 --> 00:12:12.720 And when you break down the Lord's Prayer, our Father who art in heaven, if you say heaven is up, then a man has to be someone that women and children can look up to. 00:12:12.960 --> 00:12:13.360 Talk to him. 00:12:13.840 --> 00:12:20.639 Women and children cannot look up to dumb men, cannot look up to cowardly men, and cannot look up to lazy men. 00:12:21.360 --> 00:12:29.919 So in order for me to have my woman at child, I gotta be someone that's hardworking, I gotta have some courage, and and I gotta have be intelligent. 00:12:30.159 --> 00:12:31.759 Hallowed be thy name. 00:12:32.080 --> 00:12:40.480 In order for you to have a good name, that's your reputation to have a good reputation, you gotta handle people a certain way and do honorable things in the public and in the private. 00:12:40.799 --> 00:12:42.639 Then it keeps going down the mat. 00:12:43.039 --> 00:12:45.679 Hallowed be thy name, thy kingdom come, thy will be done. 00:12:45.840 --> 00:12:48.799 Working hard to establish God's way above your own way. 00:12:48.879 --> 00:12:51.039 And then if thy kingdom comes, thy will be done. 00:12:51.120 --> 00:12:54.480 A real man doesn't hope and wish, a real man wills things into existence. 00:12:54.720 --> 00:12:55.039 He does. 00:12:55.200 --> 00:13:04.080 See, we we we spend too much time, we done got so spooky and religious that we sitting around talking about anytime it's time to do anything, I'm I'm just gonna wait. 00:13:04.159 --> 00:13:06.000 I'm waiting on the spirit to move me. 00:13:06.240 --> 00:13:06.559 That part. 00:13:06.879 --> 00:13:17.279 Well, if God gave us power and dominion over the fish of the sea, the fowl of the earth, every creepy thing that crawls on the earth, and he put subservient to man everything in the heavens and the earth, I don't need to sit around and wait on the spirit to move me. 00:13:17.360 --> 00:13:18.799 I can move the spirit. 00:13:19.840 --> 00:13:20.960 Talk about it. 00:13:21.840 --> 00:13:29.120 Talk about it a little bit longer on that one, but we ain't gonna beat you over the head with that too too much, you know. 00:13:29.360 --> 00:13:31.039 But soak up some game, man. 00:13:31.279 --> 00:13:34.879 Because as always, as we are back, we got air horns in abundance. 00:13:35.200 --> 00:13:37.519 We abusing the air horn button today. 00:13:37.919 --> 00:13:41.200 As we open this thing up, man, let my pain music run. 00:13:42.480 --> 00:13:44.000 Drop my shit. 00:13:45.200 --> 00:13:50.720 And if you made it to the audio slash visual occasion, please do not get for to like, comment, share, and subscribe. 00:13:50.879 --> 00:13:52.320 It is the EFS Podcast. 00:13:52.399 --> 00:13:54.639 Again, we are back with episode number 94. 00:13:54.720 --> 00:14:00.240 It is your man, the myth, the legend from the EFS brand himself, the biggest brand you don't know about yet, Mr. 00:14:00.320 --> 00:14:01.120 D Burke, Mr. 00:14:01.200 --> 00:14:03.440 1%, two times, and we back, man, for another one. 00:14:03.519 --> 00:14:08.639 As always, another day above ground is a blessing, and another week in front of you people is a blessing as well. 00:14:08.879 --> 00:14:17.200 So, as we get this theme music faded out, we will check in for some conversation and open up our talks for the day, man. 00:14:17.440 --> 00:14:20.399 Got a couple things to hit before we get out of here. 00:14:20.799 --> 00:14:24.159 Um, and uh just you know, you know I do, man. 00:14:24.240 --> 00:14:25.200 We're rolling towards a hundred. 00:14:25.759 --> 00:14:27.840 Keep this thing going one one week at a time. 00:14:28.000 --> 00:14:34.960 But uh as we check in, man, just wanted to tap in real quick and just let you know that niggas is getting hurt out here all over the place. 00:14:35.200 --> 00:14:50.240 Um if you haven't seen, and it's been a big conversation in the in the sports world as of recent, uh, and mainly in a sport that, you know, it it means the the most and is most true to heart, uh true close to my heart, I would say, uh, and that is in the NBA, man. 00:14:50.399 --> 00:14:53.120 Uh injuries on top of injuries on top of injuries. 00:14:53.200 --> 00:14:56.559 I won't even go into how many injuries there actually are currently. 00:14:56.639 --> 00:15:13.440 There's some gruesome injuries, there's some like uh, you know, some bang bang, like a freak kind of injuries to where people are getting hurt, and there's some general injuries that are concerning, uh, just because it's a lot of the stars in the league and it's a lot of people just, you know, off the roster on the injury reserve right now uh in the NBA. 00:15:13.600 --> 00:15:15.039 Uh obviously still able to compete. 00:15:15.200 --> 00:15:24.399 Their team's playing on a night-to-night basis now, still now that

the NBA is rolling, but you know, a big top of the conversation has been injuries in the NBA uh over the last week or so. 00:15:24.559 --> 00:15:27.759 Um, and you know, shout out to all the teams that are dealing with injuries currently. 00:15:28.000 --> 00:15:35.440 I said injuries a lot within the past 30 seconds, but uh shout out to any team that is currently dealing with players off the roster because of it, you know. 00:15:35.519 --> 00:15:37.600 I know it it can be a thing to work through. 00:15:37.679 --> 00:15:43.519 Uh having been on teams where those take place um and having gone through some myself in my life, I know what it's like. 00:15:43.600 --> 00:15:53.360 Um but the the overall consensus uh is that there are a lot of injuries happening in the NBA right now, and what is the the the why is that a trend, you know? 00:15:53.519 --> 00:15:55.679 Um and what is actually causing these injuries? 00:15:55.759 --> 00:15:59.120 What is the you know, what is the the common denominator with all this shit? 00:15:59.360 --> 00:16:07.440 Uh now disclaimer before I even give my actual real takes on the situation, there are gonna be injuries in every single sport every single year. 00:16:07.519 --> 00:16:09.600 It is just part of athletics. 00:16:09.759 --> 00:16:13.519 Uh there's no 100% way to prevent injury. 00:16:13.600 --> 00:16:22.159 Uh so anyone that is telling you a crock of shit, telling you this the one thing is gonna stop all injuries, this one thing is gonna make you, you know, more durable, this, that, whatever. 00:16:22.320 --> 00:16:28.799 Uh there are ways to mitigate injuries, uh, but you cannot completely eliminate them. 00:16:28.960 --> 00:16:37.279 Um but I do think there's a lot of things going on within the league that do not help their situation as far as the injury epidemic that's going on in the injured uh NBA right now. 00:16:37.519 --> 00:16:47.919 Um and I think it's a lot of uh, you know, where the league has gone over the past, I want to say five to ten years or so, uh, with how players are preparing themselves headed into the season. 00:16:48.080 --> 00:16:50.320 Cause, you know, injuries are one thing and they're gonna happen. 00:16:50.480 --> 00:16:56.799 And uh with basketball being such a long season, the NBA and you know, even professionals where you're overseas, it's a long season. 00:16:56.879 --> 00:16:59.279 Like the season is just long and grueling. 00:16:59.440 --> 00:17:14.319 Uh, but the the one thing that you hate to see is that you open up the season and within the first month, you're having injuries that, you know, kind of decimate rosters or again take out key players to where those people aren't available to help make an impact on their team uh for the wins or losses and all that. 00:17:14.480 --> 00:17:22.640 But from my perspective, man, as somebody who's seen a lot of basketball in my lifetime, uh, I do have a different kind of lens on this one. 00:17:22.720 --> 00:17:39.839 And I do think that, you know, being in my current line of work as a trainer, a you know, strength and conditioning coach, all the things that I do uh just from a fitness perspective now, it gives me a different kind of understanding of where things are at, uh, and uh also gives me a little bit of uh insight on the situation. 00:17:40.000 --> 00:17:49.279 Uh so number one thing I think is wrong with the NBA injuries right now, um, and again, you can't prevent 100% of injuries, but you can do things to kind of help yourself have to deal with less of them. 00:17:49.519 --> 00:17:59.039 Um and this is kind of just a shift in where the NBA has gone, and I think that the preseason in the NBA is not long enough to help players get themselves ready for the season. 00:17:59.200 --> 00:18:00.640 I'm not the first one to say this. 00:18:00.799 --> 00:18:05.920 There are a bunch of creators, a bunch of people who, you know, have even played in the league that have kind of echoed the same sentiments. 00:18:06.079 --> 00:18:08.880 Uh but one, the preseason isn't long enough. 00:18:08.960 --> 00:18:23.680 Um, and for me, what you gotta understand from a, you know, health and wellness or, you know, personal training, somebody who practices this stuff to then, you know, give people the chance to play the game, uh, is that the ramp up time is just too, too fucking short, you know. 00:18:23.839 --> 00:18:33.519 And obviously there are players who are gonna be just fine as they go through it, but whatever's gonna work for one player versus the whole entire roster is what you kind of have to focus on. 00:18:33.680 --> 00:18:40.160 And I think the league itself has a little bit of an issue with this just because they're turning the off-season into the season too quickly. 00:18:40.240 --> 00:18:43.440 Um, and I would say preseason, excuse me, into the season too quickly. 00:18:43.680 --> 00:18:46.319 Uh off-season is another part of the story we'll talk about in a moment. 00:18:46.400 --> 00:19:11.680 But the preseason in the NBA right now used to be a lot longer, like at least a good two to three weeks, and that was like years ago, you know, um, especially when I was first coming out of college, and you know, having guys that went through the process uh were part of vet camps and having a chance to make rosters and having a chance to get on teams and really just practice and practice and practice, uh just because when you know you get to the NBA season, you're not gonna have the chance to practice that much. 00:19:11.839 --> 00:19:18.240 So you gotta kind of lengthen the process before you start off actual preseason games of getting players' bodies ready. 00:19:18.480 --> 00:19:22.400 Um, so this year I wanna say I feel like the preseason was like a fucking week. 00:19:22.480 --> 00:19:26.079 Like, you know, you had not preseason itself in total, but I want to say training camp. 00:19:26.160 --> 00:19:26.480 Excuse me. 00:19:26.640 --> 00:19:28.799 Training camp before the

preseason was like a fucking week. 00:19:29.039 --> 00:19:35.279 Like I feel like guys went back to their teams and then like a week later, or maybe like ten days later, we're actually playing games. 00:19:35.440 --> 00:19:39.359 Uh and I wish I had a direct number to actually quote for this, but I feel like it was very, very short. 00:19:39.440 --> 00:19:44.240 And I said that to some of my people who, you know, we had this conversation with all the injuries rolling around. 00:19:44.319 --> 00:19:48.720 Like, I feel like the preseason started way too soon after training camp. 00:19:48.799 --> 00:20:06.240 Like, and even the people on the team who are the you know, the strength and conditioning coaches, the the professionals on that high level, will probably feel the same way because you're ramping guys up too quickly coming off of an off season um to where they may or may not be actually ready for the season. 00:20:06.480 --> 00:20:20.319 Now, as a person who's playing on a lot of teams and went through a lot of preseasons, whether it be college or professionally, when you come into your preseason for or your training camp or your preseason with your team, you have to have some time to kind of get things going a little bit more. 00:20:20.559 --> 00:20:27.519 Um, and there's only so much you can kind of hold off because once you get into the season, the competitive atmosphere picks up immediately. 00:20:27.680 --> 00:20:30.079 Like guys are excited coming out of the summertime. 00:20:30.240 --> 00:20:35.920 Um, teams are really trying to put themselves in position to get better and win, so your coaches may be coaching you a little bit harder. 00:20:36.000 --> 00:20:39.920 You're just doing more uh than what you may be doing in the off-season. 00:20:40.000 --> 00:20:42.799 And there are a lot of guys who put out great, great off seasons. 00:20:42.880 --> 00:20:46.400 Um, and we'll talk a little bit more about how that helps you prepare for the season in a moment. 00:20:46.559 --> 00:20:52.160 But even still, when you jump into a competitive atmosphere, you have to understand that things are gonna ramp up. 00:20:52.240 --> 00:20:55.759 Like just players are competitive, they're gonna want to compete on the highest level. 00:20:55.920 --> 00:21:02.000 Um, and you actually kind of have to hold yourself back a little bit before you give too much too early in a basketball season. 00:21:02.160 --> 00:21:10.000 I remember even when I was playing overseas, getting into the first season, first week of training camp or first week of just team activities was a little bit tricky for me. 00:21:10.240 --> 00:21:18.240 Me coming from a plane which where I'm changing environments from the US to either Europe, South America, Asia, wherever I played, like it's gonna take you a little a little bit to get going. 00:21:18.319 --> 00:21:22.240 And you don't want to go all out right out the gate because you have to think about the long game. 00:21:22.400 --> 00:21:43.759 Uh, and your team should also be the ones preparing you for the long game, uh, to making sure that you have time to scale up the intensity with enough time rather than going out there and playing your first game, shocking your nervous system so much that you know, just being able to repeat these efforts over and over and over again, uh, and a lot of times with limited recovery is gonna be a recipe for disaster for some of these players. 00:21:43.920 --> 00:21:46.640 So, in general, I just think the ramble time is too short. 00:21:46.720 --> 00:21:56.079 Um, and just from a training perspective, you do wanna have time where you're taking taking a week or two to just make sure you're not going balls to the wall out the gate. 00:21:56.240 --> 00:22:01.359 Like obviously, again, the atmosphere itself is gonna create an environment which Things turn to turn up. 00:22:01.440 --> 00:22:08.319 But again, you got to be a little bit more strategic in how long you're putting these players through training camps before they go out there and start playing games against each other. 00:22:08.400 --> 00:22:12.160 Because we had players getting hurt in the preseason too before they even got to the NBA. 00:22:12.240 --> 00:22:20.319 Most notably, one of the rookies that is supposed to be a star in this league, AJ DeBonsa, he wasn't out with a hamstring injury before the actual first game was played. 00:22:20.400 --> 00:22:24.319 So, you know, something has to go on to where these preseasons are a little bit longer, I think. 00:22:24.400 --> 00:22:28.319 Uh, and more mostly importantly, like training campus a little bit longer. 00:22:28.480 --> 00:22:39.200 And I know everyone is a professional, so it is supposed to be a situation to where players are coming in in shape, uh, but in shape versus in basketball shape are two different things. 00:22:39.359 --> 00:22:45.680 Um, and uh what we find nowadays is a lot of these guys aren't playing in their summertime, you know. 00:22:45.759 --> 00:22:54.000 Um they're doing some of the strength and conditioning work, they're getting their skill work in, working out, shooting, you know, all that stuff is valuable too. 00:22:54.079 --> 00:23:06.400 Uh, but without actually playing the game, playing the sport that you're supposed to be involved in, it's hard to just go from not doing much of it to doing a lot of it in a short amount of time and expect the body to respond very well, you know. 00:23:06.480 --> 00:23:14.640 And I go back to my days at Marquette, like when I was really, really getting into the whole getting your body ready for a season and understanding that it's a year-round process. 00:23:14.880 --> 00:23:16.480 We played all year round. 00:23:16.640 --> 00:23:18.799 Like we literally played all year round. 00:23:19.119 --> 00:23:22.640 Obviously, when you're being coached by the team and you're in the season, that's one thing. 00:23:22.720 --> 00:23:29.200 But as soon as the season was over, we

might get a little time off to take care of your bodies and stuff like that, which your strength and conditioning team is helping you do. 00:23:29.359 --> 00:23:32.079 But we're also doing open gyms multiple times a week. 00:23:32.160 --> 00:23:37.519 Uh at Marquette specifically, we would have at least three to four open gym days to where players are playing. 00:23:37.680 --> 00:23:41.920 Of course, you know, coaches can't be in there because of rules and compliance kind of stuff. 00:23:42.000 --> 00:23:43.279 Like, yeah, we understand that part. 00:23:43.359 --> 00:23:51.440 But as players, we were responsible for playing three to four days a week, getting in with our teammates and going through competitive games, you know. 00:23:51.680 --> 00:23:55.279 And if you're a competitive team, the intensity level is going to be pretty high. 00:23:55.440 --> 00:24:00.640 Obviously, it's not going to be, you know, NCAA tournament kind of stakes, but we competed. 00:24:00.720 --> 00:24:10.720 So we tried to get better at the things we wanted to work on in the offseason, whether it be you want to shoot a little bit more, whether it be I want to work on my jump hook and be able to effectively, you know, shoot that over the next season. 00:24:10.799 --> 00:24:22.079 That is when you had a chance to put yourself to the test with the things you're working on off the court to then be in a competitive atmosphere with your teammates doing it, you know, with not as high stakes, you know, but you're still playing the game. 00:24:22.160 --> 00:24:29.440 So again, if you're not playing the game that much and then you go into it playing a lot too, too quickly, I think things have a recipe to go a little bit wrong there. 00:24:29.680 --> 00:24:35.839 Um, so overall in the offseason, I think guys are going a little bit left with not playing the game as much, you know. 00:24:36.000 --> 00:24:45.519 Um outside of that, I do also think the training that some of these guys are going through in their offseasons is not helping them to be, you know, strong through the season. 00:24:45.680 --> 00:24:51.039 You know, and a lot of that goes to what I preach now, what I live behind, what I stand behind, and that is weight training. 00:24:51.119 --> 00:24:54.640 Like, you know, and you see a lot of the strength and addition in community. 00:24:54.720 --> 00:24:56.960 We kind of shit on some of the sports and how they train. 00:24:57.039 --> 00:25:00.240 Uh, there's a lot of flack that goes into basketball, soccer mainly. 00:25:00.319 --> 00:25:02.400 Soccer probably gets it the worst in basketball. 00:25:02.480 --> 00:25:08.799 Uh, but basketball is pretty much up there as far as the training that uh the athletes are put through and how it's a bunch of bullshit. 00:25:08.960 --> 00:25:15.440 Um, I will say that, you know, being biased as a basketball player, that you got to give it a little bit of grace. 00:25:15.519 --> 00:25:24.480 Um, and you also have to understand people who,

you know, are just so quick to jump in the comments and shit on, you know, the strength and condition for the NBA or basketball players in general, mainly the NBA. 00:25:24.559 --> 00:25:35.759 Um, but you got to understand that some of the stuff is valuable that you see, you know, um the mobility work, the bandwork, those things do serve a place in your off-season regiment. 00:25:35.920 --> 00:25:38.240 Those things do serve a place in your in-season regiment. 00:25:38.319 --> 00:25:39.440 There's value to it. 00:25:39.519 --> 00:26:00.240 Uh, but if at the core of your training you do not have heavy strength training to where you can build muscle and then teach that muscle how to produce more power, teach that muscle how to decelerate better, teach that muscle to do the things that you want it to do in your sport, then for me, you're kind of missing the mark a little bit just because you have to be strong in order to be able to execute those things. 00:26:00.400 --> 00:26:06.160 And you also have to be strong to be able to be resilient and you know, fight your body breaking down over a long season. 00:26:06.319 --> 00:26:08.079 And it just has to be part of your summer. 00:26:08.160 --> 00:26:12.880 Like, you know, you do want to give your body rest, you do want to give your body time to recuperate after a long season. 00:26:13.039 --> 00:26:28.799 But from there, you should be trying to put on more muscle and put on, you know, enough mass to be able to withstand the things that you're gonna go to uh and go through, you know, as the season, as the season wanes and you know, things start to either ramp up or just drag out with the length of how long you're gonna be playing basketball. 00:26:28.880 --> 00:26:30.799 And this goes for pretty much every sport too. 00:26:30.880 --> 00:26:34.880 Uh, but there are a lot of sports that get a lot more right with the strength and conditioning thing. 00:26:35.039 --> 00:26:44.000 Um, and I do think it's kind of showing in the NBA now how there is a lack of that kind of focus with how players train in the offseason. 00:26:44.160 --> 00:26:49.279 And there's a lot of guys, a lot of NBA trainers that do great work as far as the strength and conditioning side of things go. 00:26:49.440 --> 00:26:55.359 Uh, I can shout out some right now, but I'll probably spend five minutes shouting them out because these are the people that I like to soak up and learn from. 00:26:55.440 --> 00:27:00.640 Um, but again, I do think as a whole, the league is going through a little bit of an issue with the injuries. 00:27:00.720 --> 00:27:12.000 Um, and you know, it's starting to mess up the quality of the game a little bit when you sec, especially when you're seeing stars out uh and not available to play, because the stars are the ones that kind of drive the league, and those are the ones that put butts in the seats. 00:27:12.079 --> 00:27:16.880 Uh, and if those people start getting hurt on a consistent basis, then you know the

fan base looks a little bit different. 00:27:17.039 --> 00:27:19.039 Um, but that's my soapbox. 00:27:19.119 --> 00:27:28.079 Again, as a basketball player, as someone, well, ex-basketball player at this point, as someone who's now in the strength and conditioning lane in industry, uh, it's just my take on the whole situation. 00:27:28.240 --> 00:27:30.400 So uh best of luck to all the teams out there. 00:27:30.480 --> 00:27:34.240 Hopefully, guys can get back healthy, get back on the court, uh and go out there and compete. 00:27:34.319 --> 00:27:41.279 But, you know, something got to give with these offseasons, and then again, that ramp up time headed into uh players actually going out there and competing. 00:27:42.400 --> 00:28:01.279 From here, we'll take a little bit of a pivot uh to somewhere that I am not usually too uh excited to go on this podcast, uh, just because it's something that, you know, it is a very touchy subject for me and in and people in general nowadays, just because that's just where we at as a society. 00:28:01.440 --> 00:28:24.160 Um but day after the elections, we are now in a quote-unquote blue tsunami um just because of the way people went out there and represented during their chance to vote yesterday, uh, with the Democrats taking over the House of Representatives, taking over the Senate, uh, and really like, you know, beating the shit out of the Republicans in this uh midterm elections. 00:28:24.400 --> 00:28:32.880 Um and I would say that I'm a person who has had a, I guess, a love-hate relationship with the whole political process here. 00:28:32.960 --> 00:28:38.559 Um, as a person who's been an American my whole life and and an adult American now for a long time. 00:28:38.720 --> 00:28:51.359 Um the whole political process thing for me has been something that I've you know had some struggles with as far as someone who can understand, believe in, and want to participate uh in the process. 00:28:51.599 --> 00:28:59.920 And I say this as someone who is now speaking about it after the election, not before, just because I'm not the person that wants to go out there and preach to people about what they should do. 00:29:00.079 --> 00:29:14.240 Because I want everyone to have a informed and you know, either an informed choice or a choice that means something to them as far as you know why they choose to make it and have real reasons to stand behind why they do and don't do the things that they do. 00:29:14.480 --> 00:29:17.599 Um, so if you went out there and voted yesterday, I did. 00:29:17.680 --> 00:29:21.680 I'm a person who's proud to say I went out there and voted, did my quote unquote civic duty. 00:29:21.839 --> 00:29:22.480 Shout to you. 00:29:22.640 --> 00:29:27.279 If you're a person that also, you know, decided that they didn't want to go out there and vote, shouts to you. 00:29:27.359 --> 00:29:28.559 And I know some of them too. 00:29:28.640 --> 00:29:30.880 Uh so I do want to give grace to those people. 00:29:30.960 --> 00:29:36.240 And I know nowadays people can get a little touchy over the whole did you vote, did you not thing. 00:29:36.400 --> 00:29:49.759 Um, I'm not a person who likes to wrap up too much emotion into what others do with their choices surrounding the political process, just because I'm a person who was once a per uh once abstaining from the process themselves. 00:29:49.920 --> 00:30:02.160 Uh and uh my belief comes a lot from you know being a black man in America who has seen things and kind of understands things from a uh a different perspective than just like surface level. 00:30:02.319 --> 00:30:10.880 Um and again, I do respect people who want to vote, and I do respect the opinions of people that don't want to vote because again, I've been now on both sides of it. 00:30:11.119 --> 00:30:22.960 Um my shift for that started to come as I've been a person who's gotten a little bit older in my life now, um, with a little bit more things to either value or things to protect as far as how my future goes. 00:30:23.119 --> 00:30:26.079 You know, one first and foremost, I'm a father. 00:30:26.319 --> 00:30:41.680 So my perspective now, as far as how to see the world, is a little bit different from back when I was a 24, 25-year-old man, just looking at the world in front of me with no one to kind of like say, here, like look at all this now and understand that as you grow, this thing can go one way or other. 00:30:41.839 --> 00:30:51.599 So for me as a father now, I am a person who wants to see the world be a better place for my daughter to live in, you know, after I'm eventually gone. 00:30:51.680 --> 00:31:04.400 Um, and my daughter's 10 now, so it's not like she won't be an adult here within the next eight years and see her own, you know, political struggles or whatever's going on with the world around her and have her opinions formed around that. 00:31:04.559 --> 00:31:14.400 Um, so I started to look at things differently from a political standpoint when that happened, and I do still feel some frustrations with the physical the political process in general. 00:31:14.559 --> 00:31:33.359 I would say a lot of frustrations, not just some, but you know, now having a daughter uh and someone to you know look towards to say, hey, the world is gonna be yours behind this, is something that matters to me as far as my choices and what I do now and you know backing people to represent my community, represent the country, represent whatever, right? 00:31:33.519 --> 00:31:46.720 Um as now a business owner, it means something to me to put to put myself into the political process because some of the decisions that happen, especially on the local level, uh, can affect how I do business, is how I operate on now a year-to-year basis. 00:31:46.880 --> 00:31:54.799 Uh, this is not a thing to me where it's just like a flash in the pan, and I don't plan on being around for a long time or don't plan on building and growing. 00:31:55.039 -->

00:32:07.680 So my thought processes around that have to be a little bit more sound in, you know, getting behind people that can make my life a little bit easier or, you know, represent things that I stand behind uh in office. 00:32:07.839 --> 00:32:12.880 So I would say that my thought process on these things has changed just because of those two reasons mainly. 00:32:13.039 --> 00:32:21.039 Um, but also just knowing that the world we live in right now doesn't really give me the feeling that I have the luxury to abstain from the process. 00:32:21.200 --> 00:32:29.119 And again, I say it again, I do not shit on, I do not judge anyone who does not want to put to participate in the process. 00:32:29.200 --> 00:32:43.519 Uh, but I do feel like for me, abstaining would be something that goes against what I believe, just seeing where things are at, as far as some of the people that are representing the country uh and representing, you know, us as a people and a lot of the bullshit that's gone on over the last two years, especially. 00:32:43.599 --> 00:32:53.119 Um, and where that goes going forward means to me even more so, like, hey, we gotta kind of, you know, get this shit together as a people who participate in this process. 00:32:53.279 --> 00:33:03.039 Um, so all those reasons are things that I feel like are important to me as far as why I go out there and vote and why I went out there and, you know, represented my voice and the things that I wanted to do. 00:33:03.200 --> 00:33:10.160 Um, but I also am a person that understands that there's problems with both sides of the coin, you know. 00:33:10.319 --> 00:33:13.920 And I do think that it is a big win for the Democratic Party. 00:33:14.079 --> 00:33:16.000 There's a big win for the progressives. 00:33:16.079 --> 00:33:30.559 You know, I see a lot of people excited about, you know, black people being elected to certain offices for the first time, women being elected to certain offices for the first time, um, Muslims or people of Arab descent being elected to the offices for the first time. 00:33:30.640 --> 00:33:39.200 So it is an exciting time for you know different cultures to feel like representation in America looks more like what we want it to be. 00:33:39.279 --> 00:33:42.960 Uh, but we also have to hold people's foot to the fire and make them work for us. 00:33:43.039 --> 00:33:50.319 Um, because over the next two years, I think it's gonna set the tone for a lot of what we see for our children um in the years to come behind that. 00:33:50.400 --> 00:33:52.079 You know, my daughter's 12, uh, 10 now. 00:33:52.160 --> 00:33:56.960 She'll be 12 by the time we're voting for another president, which means she'll have even more of an understanding about the world. 00:33:57.119 --> 00:34:03.519 Um, not the biggest, of course, but you know, as my kid grows, she's gonna see different things about what's going on in front of her. 00:34:03.680 --> 00:34:06.000 Um, and right now is a very, very pivotal time. 00:34:06.160 --> 00:34:10.079 Like, yeah, they Democrats have the House, they have the Senate, but what are they actually gonna do with it? 00:34:10.159 --> 00:34:21.280 Because they lost it in the first place because they disconnected from what true, like, you know, Democrats and people who feel excited about that party, you know, really represented and really, you know, what it really meant to them. 00:34:21.440 --> 00:34:27.119 Um, so it's a quote unquote win at this moment, but again, there's work to be done. 00:34:27.280 --> 00:34:47.280 And, you know, Democrat, Republican, Progressive, Liberal, whatever, like all this shit has to be something that, you know, we really take a look at the world around us and the world that we live in and try to get it right and try to get it straight to where people can live well, earn a good wage, and then feel happy about, you know, where most of things are at. 00:34:47.360 --> 00:34:49.119 Because everybody ain't gonna get everything they want. 00:34:49.199 --> 00:34:55.039 But right now is the time to make sure that the people that we are putting in office are going to work for us over the next couple years. 00:34:55.280 --> 00:34:57.119 Um, and we'll see, man. 00:34:57.440 --> 00:35:06.960 It's supposed to be a very tricky time for what they're saying, as far as you know, the the what the the Democrats are now gonna do now that they have the House, now that they have the Senate, you know, but we'll we shall see. 00:35:07.039 --> 00:35:09.039 Uh all remains to be seen going forward. 00:35:09.119 --> 00:35:14.000 But my tidbit on it, just wanted to share that just because, again, I do understand both sides of the coin. 00:35:14.079 --> 00:35:29.039 Um, and uh from a place of creating conversation without judging each other is what I want to look at the process as, just because even myself in this point of my life, I do probably know some people who might have voted for the guy when it came around. 00:35:29.199 --> 00:35:33.679 But, you know, I know those people may have their own feelings about what he's represented thus far. 00:35:33.760 --> 00:35:37.119 Um, but I can also connect with those people on certain things. 00:35:37.280 --> 00:35:40.800 But I think conversation is the best way that we can come together on these things. 00:35:40.960 --> 00:35:47.360 I think conversation is the best way that we can start to collaborate on these things uh without the judgment, you know. 00:35:47.519 --> 00:35:55.599 And I never want to be a person to go out there and put out my political views as far as doubtning someone else for their thoughts and their views, uh, but more so understand why. 00:35:55.760 --> 00:35:58.719 And I think that's where the the core of all this shit should start. 00:35:58.800 --> 00:36:01.119 And, you know, that's the path forward for us. 00:36:01.760 --> 00:36:04.239 But either way, man, not to make it too heavy. 00:36:04.320 --> 00:36:05.519 Uh gotta get out of here. 00:36:05.599 --> 00:36:09.280 And uh as always, man, hopefully you guys are staying safe in this crazy world. 00:36:09.599 --> 00:36:12.719 Regard yourself mentally, physically, spiritually, and all things in between. 00:36:12.880 --> 00:36:17.360 Um of course, until the next time, the EFS podcast, episode number ninety-three is out.