The Rithm (formerly The BlacLife Pod)
TR018 | Beat Down Belt
Oh man, it's almost that time back to school markets get these kids up off the motherfucker. I know, right? I'm so excited. So excited. I mean, it's getting close. Yeah, it's getting close. I'm excited, but I'm not like it's still letting us see. She'll be in second grade. So it's that pre K kindergarten. So she's started school three different times, right? That first drop off. They still it still gets me done. Oh, yeah. Yeah. I'm never cry excited as y'all be. It's different when you kid is which side by your side, like at this point, it's just for the summer. So yeah, I've seen Layla for multiple hours every day for the past two months, right? I can see that. Yeah. So leading up to it is home, I have extra time and all that, right? Right. But then when they walk away that first day, you leave in them and some strangers hands, you just hope everything goes well. Yeah. Thank God for the past X amount of years. It's been going great. So I can see that I can see because I, you know, there's times where I'll have the kids for like a Sunday or something, at least we'll go get her nails done or something or go to lunch with her friends or something. I have the kids like majority of the day or majority of the evening, right? And knowing that, you know, the next day, because at least is usually the one that takes them to school and all these deals with auto bullshit, right? But, but after having them for like a whole afternoon or like a whole evening, like, I know it's not, it's not like having them for several hours, like multiple days, like you, but I can understand, like, I'd be like, yo, I'd be wanting to not say bedtime because I know that I'm about to go like another like five days, only maybe seeing them for like a couple hours. Like, and this is like, especially when it was like a good quality time moment. Yeah. You know, if it was a bad moment, you know, like, yo, when, you know, it takes a lease when you coming back. But like, if we had like a good solid, like five, six hour day and it's like, we had fun with that. I'd be like, oh, brush your teeth ready for bed. Yeah. You know, I get it. I mean, I kind of get it. I don't have kids, but my mom functions as a kid. And there's been a time to where, like I had to really, I relinquished, you know, my, I don't know, protective rights, whatever, I relinquished my time with her so she could visit some family because they wanted to take her out. But the whole time I'm over here freaking out the entire time. Yeah, because you think some shit might happen. Yeah, man, but some shit did happen. I was just like, see what the fuck up in this show. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. It's tough. I understand that like with the back to school thing, it had me thinking, dude, do y'all remember the standardized tests in high school? Like the, uh, the ACT, the SAT, all that type of stuff? Yeah. Unfortunately. Yeah. Did you, did you tell you both or one of them, Brian? I took, I took both of them. How'd you do? I don't exactly remember. I know. I think it's the SAT that had like the higher, uh, point system. Yeah, it's in regards to whatever. Yeah, but regardless of the fact, I, uh, fucked up on both of them. So, why? I don't know why I fucked up on both of them. I, uh, I just didn't do well on them. I don't, I mean, it wasn't a good standardized test takers. Were you one of those multiple time takers? Yeah. I've taken a couple times. What you want both of them or one of them? I think I took, I think it was the ACT that I took. I can't remember, but I think it was ACT that I took twice and ended up getting the same score. I'm like, I'm gonna get, I'm gonna do better this time. Yeah. Do you remember the score? Uh, I'll say this. I don't remember the exact score. I remember the score of being pretty, pretty not like great. I'll say that. And I remember, you know, cause you get the letter in the mail, right? And for whatever reason, you know, my mom is excited and like more excited than I am to get the letter in the mail. Cause I think this is the test that you, you know, you take to get into the college. And her dream for me was to go to college. Well, the letter came back and she, I just remember the facial expression on her face, like the way I say and getting into anything. Um, and then I took it again and she goes, I think I'm gonna get the same damn score twice. But on my head, like it don't give a shit. Cause I'm paying for this test. So who's, who's really losing right now? Yeah. I took the ACT. So this is, this is funny. So the morning of the ACT, I forgot. We forgot what? What? I didn't forget the, the test. My dad took me to the testing site. I forgot my ID. So I couldn't take the test. Damn. My dad was hot. Yeah. That drive back. Oh, he was mad. He was mad. And I felt really bad. I didn't do it on purpose. Like I'm just an irresponsible 16 year old. So I come back. My mom feels bad. Cause I, you know, I feel bad. My dad is mad. Cause we out of $50 or whatever. Well, yep. So wait, did he pick you up like hours after the test? No, I got there. He's like, you got all your stuff. And I realized I didn't have my ID. Okay. I see what you say. All right. I thought you hold on. I just need to know. I need to know what he said, like, cause I'm just, I'm trying to, like, internalize that. So when, so he's sitting there in the driver's seat and you're sitting next to him. And once you say, no, he got all your shit. He say, no, what did he say? You know, I don't remember exactly what he said. I do remember him looking at me and it piercing my soul. I remember where we part. It was a parallel part. So he had just parked and then he just pulls out and does the Michigan U turn and starts going back home. Yep. Just drive. And he's, he's chastising me, but he's looking straight because he's driving. And there's no worse feeling to somebody chastising you and not looking at you. Right. So he, he's like me up all the way home. Right. So we get home. He tells my mom, my mom can see in my face that I feel bad. So me and my mom go shopping. Why do we go shopping? Cause typically on Saturdays, that's what we did. We went shopping for this Saturday. I was, you know, supposed to take the ACT somehow. I ended up with my first big stereo that day. So y'all remember that banging at a stereo I had? Yes. That's the day I got it was the day I was supposed to take the ACT dog. Yo, so you didn't take the, you didn't take the test and you got you still got rewarded. I didn't, I didn't take it that day. So I had to make, you know, to make up for the next session or whatever. Right. So I went with Lena, because we were dating by this time. Okay. And I took it, right? I don't remember our scores, but I remember my score was one point less than hers. Right. I'm talking cash because she's staying. It is the time to like study. No, no, but don't just graze over it. Like we took hours, hours, hours, hours, hours, for hours to months. Like Lena's a studier. You know, study in the year before. Yeah. And I also want all the listeners to know that they're putting that much on it. I'm not, but they're right. So, yo, so I'll get nothing wrong with on it. And of course not. So I'm, but also you have to like give Alex a runway to like, this is why he talks shit, because he, she does. But like he, he didn't. Yeah. So I'm talking cash. Right. So she decided she's going to retake it. She said, are you going to retake it for a higher score? No. Why would I do that? Right. Right. So she retakes it. I don't remember if she got higher or not, but obliterates your score. If she did, it wasn't that much higher. So I'm cool with my score. So I remember, you know, all the little, uh, allegedly smart kids that get good grades and all that. Yeah. And so they would look down on me, like, you know, you got to see or whatever, when it was just like, I don't want to do this shit. Like this shit is stupid. Right. So they all come, oh, you know, it's AC what you get on your AC to. So I would tell them and they're like, no, you didn't. I was like, what you mean? No, I didn't. I said, I just don't like this. Like I could do it. I just don't want to. Right. And I remember it was this little red head of white girl, right? And she was like straight A's and all this. And I remember her ACT score. She was so ashamed of it. She didn't want to tell anybody. She finally told us and I was like, why did you do that? That means you'd be laughing at me. She used to treat me like shit, because I didn't get good grades. You know, you know, she was one of them stuck girls, dog. Yeah, I'm with it. I'm with it. Yeah. So she ended up like, you know, doing drugs and getting skeded on all the time. So it didn't go well for her. You know, wow. This took a turn. I am all in. I'm invested. So what's going on? Wait, so when this happened immediately after she got the score, you know, this was out in these streets. This was soon thereafter. This was so thereafter. She just, I don't know what happened, dog. And it just turned to her entire life. It wasn't me. It's not my fault. She was too. You put it on Alex. What did you say? What did you say? Hey, dog. Yeah, I think that grades are a measure of intelligence. It's not is a measure of who does the work the most or who just is good at testing. Yeah. Yeah. Or who understands. And that clearly wasn't her or me. So I'm glad I didn't go that route, though. That's crazy. Oh, yeah. You wait until after college started busting and bitched down. So we're just leaving this in. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, sure. I didn't have a crazy experience. I just remember after your test or. Um, yeah, I think I think I remember being so nervous about it because I was my mom kept reminding me like, all right, study. All right. Hey, do you homework? Yep. All right. Study for that damn ACT. Dang. All right. All right. And so studying like involved like playing Madden and watching boondocks. So, so, so I, you know, I took it and I got, I got like slightly above average, but like, I felt bad because I mean, like people were telling me like they got like, I think like, what was it out of 36 or something like that? Right? Yeah. So people were getting like 28 and 24 as 25s. I got like, you know, I did all right. I got like a 18, 19, right? I think average was like 17. Oh, I remember that. I got, I got a 23. I kept calling myself Michael Jordan. I remember that. I got called 23. Yeah. I think I got anywhere between 17 and 19. Yeah. I'd have been shit. No, y'all. Yeah. Because Brian, Brian, Brian used to always hate how we would study for physics and I would never study. And then if I he would always do better, but like, if I would get even remotely close, he'd be like, damn, dude, you didn't even study. I heard the TV over there on the other side of the room. You play a video game. I was like, Hey, man, you know, some of this physics. Yeah. What can I say? I believe watch the throne came out that year too. I was on my shit. Yeah. That's studying that shit is for the birds either. I know it or I don't. Yeah, man. Yeah. But which is funny because now, like, if we prepare for pies and all that, it's because I'm interested in the material. Yeah. So I know it inside and out. Back then, I don't care about your fractions. Yeah. Yeah. X X equals Y plus plus two V. No, no, none of my ever going to have to solve for X. I want my learner. And you know, I know we're not going on this tangy here, but yeah, like 99% percent of the shit that I learned, like I'm not using. Right. Right. Yeah. But school overall, I think school, at least here, school teaches you how to be a good employee. Poor. Oh, except you said poor. No, it doesn't teach you, but it doesn't teach you how to do that. But I do think I'm with you a little bit on the it teaches you how to be an employee. It teaches you how to how to work for somebody and pay tax and pay tax. It doesn't teach you it doesn't teach you how to pay taxes. You don't learn nothing about it. Yeah. They'll teach you shit about it to be a taxpayer. And that's what I mean. Yeah. It teaches you about the standards of the world. Like it teaches you how to be a standard. It teaches you how to be an American, but even with all of that, I don't think I don't think school is inherently bad. No, I don't know either. It just like fundamentally, there's a lot that needs to be changed. Well, of course, there's a lot that needs to be changed, but so changes coming changes coming. I had a lot of fun in college. I had a lot of fun in high school. I had a lot of fun to do. The things I did to this. Some of y'all see the girls is our age now. So I can't even say that crazy dude. Some of y'all parents who thought I was the nice black kid. If you knew the stuff your daughter was into. Okay, time out too far. Which they were that you were into. I was never the way I was taught. Is you respectful? You don't that, but also you don't you don't start with the women. The women you let them lead because we don't need no miscommunications around here. Absolutely not. It was absolutely not. You know, this is a random tidbit just because this happened not too long ago, like a week for me, right? So my mom, you should just mainly tell me don't get these bitches pregnant. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And like, I found the belt that she used to threaten me with growing up. Yo, I yeah, I was going through some of my stuff because I'm reorganizing her, you know, some of her things and I'm sitting there like, yo, what? And I remember the belt actually being a lot bigger though. That's because she was 47 pounds. I know, dude. I was like, yo, I just at the belt just look, it's like a leather black belt with a metal silver buckle at the end, right? And I'm sitting here. This shit looks so warm. Yeah, right, right. He saw that shit. He saw that shit sitting at the edge of the base. I'm big now. Yo, I'm but the thing is, yo, the crazy thing about it, my mom had this belt and didn't wear it. That was just be fine though. That's the best though. Yeah. Ain't no need to wear it if I'm going to be beaten ass. Yeah, it's a beat down though. Be down though. Yeah. She's wild. I was just like, oh, it's crazy. It is crazy, man. It's shit. I was like, why does she still have this? Like the crazy thing about it, she's still had it. And I'm like, I know her motherfucking ass didn't ever warn it. Like talk about 20 years later, 30 years later, she still got this shit like, she got good memories. Start. Yeah. She did. Yeah. Well, you remember, uh, you remember in July, it was, I think it was 95 when you came in the house and I cracked you upside your mother. Yo, Brian, Brian was at the boat. Like it was like terrible memory. She looks at it like your member in 95. So you start that Kool-Aid on the count? Good times. Good times. Brian look at it. They're like, I remember that. Yeah, she sure remember nothing else, but that like, you're the best. Keep that shit. So she can remember it. Yeah, that's shit. The crazy thing about that shit was hung up like it was a goddamn trophy too. It was weird. Stop. It was not almost regular. Yeah. I'm not even, I'm not even lying with you. That shit was hung up, hung up on a trophy on a single like hook, like by itself. It was just by, it was just behind something that I couldn't see it before, but I'm like, oh, what the what? He said, mine, where's the green? Not a green one. Oh, shit. That's her favorite belt. Not because she liked the way it looks. She's like, oh, yeah. This is crazy. Ah, she liked the way it saw on the skin. Okay. All right. I remember the crack, you know, is too, like when she would like grab it, like fold it and then whip it, you know. She did not pull it. You got the both hands and pulled it. And then it would snap. It was no, not all me, but like, that would be like the, that'd be the initial, like I'm about to beat your ass real quick. Yeah. Crack crack. It's gonna be yours. It's gonna be, it's gonna be your bones. Anyway, well, I don't know how to transition out of PTSD. So I'm just gonna say something. No, Lyles dark. Did y'all see? Uh, no, Lyles ran the 200 with COVID. But no, yeah, that was, I did, because that's why I was. Yeah. So, so no, a lot. He ran the 100 earlier last week. And he got, yeah, he got gold because it was a photo finish. Yeah, he got gold. He got gold in a hundred. Yeah. So then he woke up last Tuesday and he didn't feel right. Test it. Turned out he had COVID and he decided, I'm at the Olympics. I'm still running 200. He ran the 200 with COVID. They still let him run with COVID. No, he announced it. Yeah. You have to tell me about it. This ain't 20, 20. We ain't worried about other people getting sick no more. Yeah. So he ran it. He ran the 200 and got bronze and like fell out and had to get medical detention. He was all right. Yeah. I got rolled out in a wheelchair. Yeah. But hey, I was like, that's, that's gutsy, but I really, I'm really, it's really interesting to me. Now, if you have, I'll start with you, Brian. You have a once in a lifetime opportunity. And you could potentially get everybody around you sick. Are you going to do it? No. Marcus, what about you? Yes. Yeah, if I'm at the Olympics and I'll be working my entire life for this moment. Yeah, I understand. I was about to say, go ahead. Go ahead. You go. I'm running. Yeah. If I've been, do you have to understand? I mean, Brian, you know this, man. They train. They train for so long. I get it to run 10 seconds. I completely get get it. My 20 was the 200. Oh, okay. So, so with that, with that is like, you know, he's already there and has already accomplished, you know, a lot already. And so, you know, and I understand that, right? So, but at the same time, like it's still a risk. It is still a big risk and I wouldn't, I wouldn't. I personally wouldn't. So what is your risk? Are you talking about the risk to you or the risk to others? Both. So as far as others to his credit, he was wearing a mask. They say he was trying to stay away from people in the little warm up spot and all that. The only time he did not have his mask on is when he raced, he should have kept the mask on when he raced. He ain't breathing while you running. So how, how, you know, in the last time he was in the Olympics, man, I was a 96. Actually, I was in the last. You were not in it. I went to the other. I just was watching. See, I was like, but I mean, no, but I'm just saying, like with the race like that, when you're sprinting, you're not really breathing anyway, is what I'm trying to get at. Yeah, I haven't trained with the mask. I'm not wearing the mask during the race. I remember trying to walk with the mask on that shit was taxing. So, I mean, I ran, I ran 10 miles with a mask on. So. Congrats. I'm going to run in the Olympics. I mean, I didn't get a medal. I didn't get a participation medal. Thank you very much. Oh, you kids in your petition patient battles, participate in it. Yeah. Yeah. I got I was a finisher. They gave me a medal. Oh, you finish from rank. You finished. I finished too. I drove though. Oh my gosh. He's I drove. Yeah. It's amazing. I would race. Yeah. I would have to race, man. Yeah. I would have to race. I would have to race. Once in a lifetime thing, Olympics, they only come every other every four years, man. And we don't even know if we don't get the next one. So, and let's be real. Let's be real. We risk other people for a lot less. I mean, you're right. It's this $37,000 in a gold medal. So I get it. Wait, how much? Yeah. You get it. Yeah. You get like 40. You get like 40 grand. Perfect. And you get a gold medal. Yeah. Yeah. That's fire. I didn't know they got paid for the gold. Yeah. But see, Brian's magasses over here. That's not enough money. Yo. And he had a red shirt on right now. Yeah. Well, there's no alliances. Looking at first. Yo, his red shirt, he did kind of shit on you there, Marcus. He got me. He got me. So, so his red shirt says Black Lives Matter. Yeah. He got you. He got me. He got me. That's good. So anyway, like I was saying, so, Brian, you look at that as the money and the material object. Yeah. He's looking at as the prestige. I get it. I got it. I get it. Yo. Even he got bronze. I'm one of the three fastest people on the earth in this event with COVID. And yeah. If there's ever a time to rent to run a race with COVID, it's at the Olympics. Yeah. And we've done, we've all done significantly less and rest people die. And some of y'all out there right now on y'all way to or from work and you were coughing this morning and you were like, but I got to go. You ain't put the swab in your nose. You just went. Right. Hey, let's keep it a buck. There's a few of you out there that got COVID and that's giving up neck in the back. All right. That was Chris Brown. Yeah. Yeah. That Chris Brown video is crazy. That Chris Brown video is crazy. Is that Chris Brown for real? Hi. Hey, girl in the red. What do you speak? Hello. Are you kidding me? Hi. This isn't a pre recording. No. Oh, my fucking God. Are you kidding me? Are you kidding me? For real? Yes. Are you for real? You're hurting my throat. No, no, no. Hey, hey, Chris Brown, I love you so much. I would really suck and fuck every single fucking day. I don't think you understand every day nonstop constantly all the time. Any sometimes you want to, I'd do it. I don't know about that. I don't know that I've ever had in my backslide days. I don't know if I ever had anyone be quite that forward. Yes. I mean, also, I was never a celebrity that I have not. Yo, that's what's up. Yeah. I mean, it's what this, I'm going to edit all this out. So listeners, you're going to hear some music right here. But remember when. Exactly. So Chris Brown's not running for president. So Brian, tell us some stories about the women like that. What? No. He said what? No. No, just play. Have y'all ever had in today's day and age where we all have a smartphone and we all have maps, right? Yeah. What was the last time y'all have somebody ask you for directions? So where? Yo, that is a great question. You know, I've, it hasn't been too long, but I do realize nowadays when someone asks you for directions, it's because you live in the area that they're going. It's not like how do you get here, right? How do you get from this city to this city? It's like you live in that city? Where is this thing I'm going to? Yeah. Where's the nearest? Whatever. Right. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. I was, Brian, it was the last time anybody ever might ever ask you for some directions, man. You never from the area though, you travel too much. So I can tell you, man, I don't know. Yeah. I was talking to a friend of mine, man. And he says that when people ask him for directions today, he just makes up shit because they should know by now that you could just open your phone. Now, if the phone is dead, because I was giving him some shit, right? And I was trying to give him like these little caveats. He said, all right, fine. If you have, if you don't have the means, like your phone might be dead, or maybe you should, you've been on this long road trip, like to Alex's point, you're not from this area. He might try to help you out, but he said majority of the time, I might just send you to like McDonald's. Like, yeah, it's like, yo, what? That's why. Yeah, that's crazy. Yeah. And the fact that it's intentional too. That's crazy. Yeah, it is also a crazy place. But I feel like I know exactly who that person is too. Yeah, I couldn't, yeah, I don't know. I don't know if I would even trust people's directions now, because we rely on the technology so much like, do you really know? Yeah. Like think about this, when, when it went like recently in a path, what's the last phone number you had to memorize? Yo. Oh my. Wow. I mean, I know, I know the last one I memorized, but yeah, but I was also like 10. Yeah, but when was it? Oh, earlier last year, man, I started dating, dating my girl. That's stupid. Nobody cares about that, Doc. I'm talking about a less important phone number that you just memorize. Y'all remember these fucking telemarketers so I can block that shit. Yo, I don't know. Block. Yeah, man. Like, we were like, so like, why would you remember directions? Yeah. But today, I'm bad at giving directions though, because a lot of times I know how to get there, but I just know the way everything looks. I don't know the name of the streets. I don't know the name of the highway. I just know when I get, when I see those trees over there, I got to turn right. I'll say this. I'll say this. And I'm going to Alex's spot, even if I use maps, it doesn't bring me to his house. It takes me to like, oh, yeah, some random ass tree. It has its flaws, right? But like, one of my biggest, one of my biggest, like, so like, something that really messes with like, my self-esteem on like a regular is geography. Like, I'm bad. I'm bad. And my wife takes advantage of me. Like, when I be driving, I say, all right, how do we get back? And she'd be like, we've been to my dad's like, five times in the past, you know, this year, how do you not know? And we've been there several more times in that, like, but like, how do you not? I'm like, I just never remember to Brian's point, like, or I just don't remember where to turn at the right moments. Or, you know, when Alex said the trees, like, I'd be trying to like, all right, I know that there's like a save a lot right here at the corner. But is it left or right? You can almost get there. I'm bad, man. Then my wife, yeah, my wife makes fun of me, man. I'd be sitting there sad, driving quiet, right? All right. And then I want to say like, where to next, but you almost just want to like, all right, if you don't say nothing and you're going to leave it up to me, you know, we're going to get lost. So let's just let's just let's risk it. Let's see where we end up. The worst is when the the maps don't have the construction. So you go on the right way, and then you end up in construction. It takes you on the detour, but the detour of the construction is different from the detour, you know, the map we call it re something, but it starts rerouting. Yeah, re-rout you. Yeah, when they rerout you, but you get to the corner. So it's like, do I take the signs way or do I take the maps way? I'll be getting mad like you get on the detour and it's like, make a U-turn here, though. I'm like, yo, I can't still on the detour. I'll be yelling this year in a car. Why are you telling me that earlier then? It's too late for me to try to turn. I got a white BMW next to me right now. If I tried to do this, should you tell me to, I'm about to crack. Are you talking about? Do what's map app do you all use? I use maps Google Maps the most. What about you, Marcus? I use the little map. Should they come on the iPhone? See, I don't like Apple Maps, dog. You don't trash. How would you think Google Maps is trash? It never used to update from me. No, Google Maps is fired. Google Maps is the best. I feel like with the I maps, what is it called? I maps. It's Apple Maps. Whatever, dog. That's shit. He tried to put an I in front of it. He put an I in front of it. I maps and I'm like, oh my god, that's shit. Yo, he didn't like the interface. Just the aesthetic of it. I'm just like, yo, and even I feel like when I'm approaching, when I'm approaching, you know, the for the distance, right? If I'm approaching like a turn, I feel like I'm the map. It tells you like it looks like it's so much further out than it really is. Oh, so you literally look at the map. You got to look at where you are, dog. Yeah, I'm just saying. But no, wait, wait, he's sometimes that should be like laggy. So I'm a I'm good with numbers. I'm a math dude. I'm a mathematician. I'm a math wizard. What'd you call it? What is it? I don't know. But yeah, I get a little rough with distances, like what it should be like 500 meters away or 500 feet. I'd be like, but like how much like, is this the turn or is it the next one? Like, because it could be a turn like before that. This is true. You know what I'm saying? This is true. Like, is it? And I'm just does a poor job of that is what I'm saying. It's not I maps. You you've had a couple of dope episode titles this part. But like, I'm mad about the I'm mad. You got to stop that. Speaking of speaking of streets, man, what's the what's the P V T? Is that pavilion? Like, you know, private name it. So it's just like West Illinois private. Oh, I guess I was thinking like it. You know how like in the corner, like it'll say roll like RD is road, right? I don't know. I guess I don't know. There's no P V T is. I was thinking like, you know, if it's like, maybe it's a private street. Maybe. Yeah, maybe. I have no idea. Just be honest. I don't think I've ever seen that. Marcus, if you could name a road, would you name it after yourself or would you name it something like some crazy word or something? I would name it some crazy. I thought about this several times. You know, you see them signs to be like, what? Own a road. Own a road today. You know, I'd be like, who the fuck who who wants to do that? And I'd be like, I should be fired though. Brian would definitely name his shit Brian lotion. That's right. So that's right. Loach and way. Yo, that sounds like a terrible neighborhood. Yo, it sounds like a terrible name. Paint the sign red Bentley boulevard. Whoa, we cooking now. I'm sure there is this Marcus J. I have a dude, dude. Yo, why are you? I'm sure that I can work as Jay Avenue. I think I'd probably find I'd find some kind of short phrase. Because if there can be Martin Luther King, Jr. boulevards all over, that means I get at least three words. Yeah, that's yes. You know how like the size and the little green strip where the street name is like some of them shits me long because it's like a lot of letters. Yeah. So I could definitely get my shit off of three words. Yeah, I bet I have like not like us Avenue. Not like that's fire. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Drake drive. You know, like because D.R. is drive. I know all of them except for P.V.T. Fuck. Yeah. I'm gonna have to look. Yeah. I don't know. I don't know. But I want somebody to correct this. So if you know what P.V.T. is, I don't like it's private, but I've never seen that actually. So I don't know. I got it up to. I got asked you, Brian, I noticed when we started talking to that. Oh, you face your hair is gone. Yeah. Yeah. Wait, wait, wait. He said he said they're like, all right, they might not bring it up. We almost done. He said he said he said he said he said he said he said he said he said he's trying to shake it. So I'm curious. Was this a sartorial decision or did you I had a fucking mishap? Okay, I know, man, it was thick too. So I was trimming it. And in my like we're, you know, in the chin area, I accidentally went too far in somewhere and made it super, super rectangular. And I was like, I can't fix this. I can't fix this. So when you line up your beer, do you line it up under closer to your neck or closer to your jawline? So I do it closer to my neck. However, that's not where I messed up at. I messed up where like my actual chin is like right below my lip where like, Oh, so you were trying to you were trying to shape. Yeah, trying to shape around the lip. Yeah. And I made I made like a like a straight horizontal line looking like Ironman. I hear something. And yeah, I just wasn't it wasn't gonna look good if I were to do it to the other side. So I was just like, yeah, that's tough. Yeah, I've been there with the beard. I've never done it with the like if I do it with the beard, I just go straight go to you know, right? It's been months since I've shit like shaved this much off my face. And like, I didn't even recognize myself. I was like, who is this? You know what was crazy is I've never since I began growing facial hair, I've never cut off my mustache. I've never not had the mustache. You are markets. You know, yeah, I have I fuck my shit up plenty of time. Yeah, I've met my shit up plenty of time. I never shaved off my beard though. Yeah, that's what it was like, I've shaved my mustache off and kept my full beard and looked crazy out. It's like, yeah, because I feel like y'all always have, y'all always have facial hair. But yeah, I literally I literally don't know what I look like with no facial hair at all. It's scary sometimes. I got one for y'all though. I got one for y'all. How about this? Because I can see Brian, right? The cogs turning, right? Yo, at what point do you decide that it's a lost cause? Because I've sat there for hours to be like, all right, touch out, you might not even be touching nothing up. You might just be grazing your skin with the razor, but like really hoping for a change. Like, like, like Donald Trump out to the bitch. Like, like, I'm just really, yeah. To be honest, the other day for me was real quick. Like, it took me maybe 20 seconds because I'm sitting there looking in the mirror and I try to like, you know, put the hair down as if like, I can cover it up. You got a brush? I got a brush in the comb. And I'm just sitting like, go after after about 10 strokes. I'm just said, yeah, this ain't just. So did you, did you do the thing where you mess up one side and then you mess up the other side to see if it looks even? And I already, I could just tell like, there's just no, we're coming back from this. This isn't. I'll answer you. I have. Because that's what happens when you sit there and stew, right? Like, I sit there like, damn, my left side is fucked. You know, like, all right, let's get it somewhat salvageable. And then let's move to the right and match it, right? And then you sit there and you sit there, I do the chin up, chin down. You know, all right, both sides is fucked up. I fucked up. But when it comes to the beard, I'll lead that shit versus the mustache. The mustache has got to go. You'll look, you'll look foolish if you just leave a fucked up mustache. Yeah. You know, you know what I think is going to, it's going to make like our generation stop dying our beers and stuff because I'm not going to die mine. I'm not going to die mine either. Unless like, it's looking real crazy. I think for people that need somebody to look at, if y'all watched Olympic basketball, LeBron, it's just letting the beer grow in gray. And he is out here killing everybody. So I think that at some point, if athletes keep letting it go. Wow. I think that men will let theirs go and just accept it because if you like, you know, let's keep it real. We're pushing 40, but a lot of us look up, still see athletes. Oh, those of us who aren't jaded and, you know, we still look at athlete as like the pinnacle of something, right? Yeah, we do. Not me personally. I know, but I know, I know. So I think stuff like that, if stuff like that keeps going, if he doesn't die, do as if this recording, they haven't played the gold medal game. And my mind, he's going to diet for the medal presentation. It'll be interesting if he does or does it, but it's kind of dope to see some old dude out there. Just some old dude. He's talking about LeBron James. I'm with you though. Like that, that's going to be what it's going to take because a lot of people will be right. It's like a zebra or a leopard. I'm probably going to die. I'm just saying, first off, if you shit came on like a zebra, that'd be crazy. I missed one. My facial hair is weird because I only have grades on the left side of my beard for some reason. And I don't really like that. So what happens is I just trimmed those specific hairs off because it's not a lie at this point because it looks silly. But also when I got the five o'clock shadow, at first, I didn't realize they were great. So I'm like, what is on my face? And I kept wiping it. And then I got closer and I realized, oh, that's that's that's a great shadow. That's what that is. I've definitely thought I had lent on my face. Yeah, you're right. You're right. Yeah, but I don't mind at this point. I'm just going to embrace it. Yeah. You know, you keep it lying. Yeah, there's certain things I'm embracing. But yeah, I'm not ready to lose my hair yet. So we me embracing that anytime. What are you embracing about your old age? Me? Yeah. Man, I'm just embracing just not every talk of my like, like in general, anything dog, any try to make sure you're way out of it. No, no, no, I'm just making sure to be honest, just the ability to just be like content. To be 10. What'd you say? Content. Oh, bless, blessed and content. Oh, that's that's way too mature for what I was thinking about. Yeah. Yeah. I know some guys, I'm 37. I know some guys that they feel as if they've accepted their physical limitations. When realistically, they just don't want to work hard and they're lazy. Yeah. I feel like I've accepted my physical limitations. I'm not as fast as I used to be. I never jumped that high. So I'm certainly not jumping higher now. But I've accepted it and I found other ways, especially hoping to be crafty and use the skills I do have. I have not accepted mine. I feel other people my age have decided I can't do it as well, which means I can't do it at all. So I'm going to stop. And I think that is what's the word I'm looking for stupid. You know, you know, you know, you wouldn't hear the dumbest way I gauge my physicality in terms of like, I'm still got it. I had a joke not going to say it go. Oh, my God. All right. Well, so you know how I do this, right? Like what this is this running race every year, right? The 10 miler. Yeah, the 10 miler race. I don't I don't train for it. So if I find myself to where I don't have to train for it and can still run it and still get like a better PR is every time or close to your good to get out there and pull something come out. Come up lame. I wanted them heels until then until then I'm like, I don't know what my limits are yet. I don't like thinking about that because I would probably break down and cry if I started thinking about like, there's several things that I've experienced in my as I age, right? That should tell you like, all right, when fucking this is this is a limitation, like, you better be careful, like lifted heavy shit or you know, trying to show you kids that you can live heavy shit and you ain't really like really bench pressed that much in a long time, right? So you better chill, right? But like simple shit that messes with you like opening a jar of mandates or something or I had to open his jar of pickles. My wife like, you help me with this real quick. I'll be like, yeah. And you know, like, you surprised yourself on being the one in the house that could like open these things. I still am goddamn it. Don't let it get twisted. But it's when it's one of them fucking jars that like somebody at the manufacturer decided to fuck with me. Yeah. So like when I can't open the pickles or your wrist are hurting in a different way, like something you hear like you ever like try to twist some shit real quick because you don't even like I had to I like to hit the bottom of the jar to give it like a little get it a little looser, right? Yeah. Yeah. I don't need to just a small ass jar of pickles. Now I need to hit the bottom watch says, hold on. That was wrong. Nothing. Hold on. And you hear your wrist crack like the fuck. He tried that to like, try not to like make it known that you're hurting right now. Get your shirt out. Yeah. Yeah. It's the grip. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. It's the grip. It's the grip. Yeah, man. That's in those moments to make you want to cry sometime. Dang. What's funny. I didn't mention this a few weeks ago. We were talking about pushing 40. I've noticed myself. Like, I'll be out or even like I'll see somebody I know. And then after we talk in my mind and be like, damn, they look like they like 40. Yeah. Every time you say some shit like that, I see somebody on like Facebook or something, I'd be like, I know that they were three years younger than me. Yeah. They look 10 years younger. They took 10 years. Well, my thing is like, I don't feel like what I used to think 40 is. Neither do I. And I also, when I talk to other people my age, like they look in the way they talk, they feel the way I used to think 40 was. So in my mind, the age of 40 is like old and bad. Yeah. But as I'm getting towards 40, it doesn't have to be like that. So I need to change my mindset to like, damn, they look 60. I agree. But you know, who does that though? My wife does that. Oh my God. I'm almost 40. And you know, I should be doing this this now. I'm just like, dang, man, is she on or something? Like, damn, I'd be like, yo, I'm about to be almost 40 question mark. Damn. It's a gift. I'm glad I'm. Yeah, me too. Yeah. Well, and everything goes well that I'm gonna make it to 40. But but the thing is like, as I'm approaching it, I realize everybody else is bad at life and stuff. If 40 is that bad. Yeah, I agree. Yeah. It feels like it doesn't have to be what it doesn't, what it seems like they feel it is. Very simple. And back to what you say, though, accepting your limitations, though, when I coach my daughters, little seven, eight year old basketball team, and at the end of every season, I do players first coach thing. So if I score on the players, the players got to do five pushups. If one of them scores on me, I got to do five pushups, right? Seems easy enough. And other coaches would probably take it easy on these kids, but they need to know that they're not as good as their coach. So yeah, and that's because that's why you the coach, you know, I'll let some of them give buckets, you know, because it builds Kamarader, you know, because everybody's cheering for each other and all that. But overall, I am here to annihilate you all. And I say all that to say, like, if this was when I first started a few years ago, I could just show up to the practice and we could just do it and no big deal, right? But now I get up a little earlier and I stretch just like I'm going to hoop before I get there, Doc. I put my knee sleeves on and all day because I'm here and they don't tell it. But what I did is the last season at the end of the season, I got a little too into it, dude. They decided it's supposed to be one on once, but they decided they wanted to like bring three players out there, dude. Yeah. Coach, all three of us give you the business right now. So they came out there, dude, and I dribble, you know, I was dilly dallying and then one of them like, I don't know, he hit my arm or something. I was like, Oh, y'all really trying, right? So he's getting back and I, oh, yeah, please just listen to it. So I came, I came down the lane and this is an eight foot rim. So I went up and dunked on the ass dog. No, my one of my players tried to block it. No took his ass out. So I dunked. I didn't even see him. So I dunked and I yell. Right. And then I realized one of my players is on the ground crying, right? Yeah, because your foot's probably like, he tried to block the shot. I mean, that's what happens. So, so my wife is sitting front row, right? She goes out loud because it's quiet now because everyone sees I dunked on the kid and he's crying, right? So she goes, Alex. Yeah, I'm like, first of all, you're not helping. Yeah, no, he's right. He's right. Because my wife does that too. He's right. He's right. But right. So I felt bad, but I got, you know, nine other players who I need to beat down. So he, you know, he went. So I wouldn't talk to his parents after. And you know, they, it's like, it's not a big deal. Like he was, he was embarrassed, like he wasn't hurt. I thought he was hurt because he was laid out. No, I'm crying because he just made me a poster. Yeah. So that's what it ended up being. But I told him after I see, I said, that's the kind of effort you need because sometimes somebody going to score on you, you got to get back up and keep playing until his credit after he had his little moment, he got back up, got back out there, but I didn't even encourage you for the rest of the game. Yeah. No, we was, that was like the second to last one, dude. So he was, but he got back in and he bought out that game. So it was cool. But like, it was just funny. Like, I didn't even see him, dude. I got into that mode. And I don't know how to dunk. Yeah. Me dunk it. Me dunking those of eight year olds is crazy. Alex got in that mode, saw red, right? He dunked on the kid and looked back. All the kids on the ground crying and shit. No, it was just one, it was just one. Yo, he said, he heard, he said, nah, he said, what's wrong? I'm a poster. I'm a poster now, yo. Yeah, man. And that's cool. Cause our season starts in a month. So I'm hyped. I'm not going to dunk on him this year, though. Yeah, man. Yeah. I was checking real hard. Yeah. I'll stay, I'll stay away from the dunking on folks. All right. Before we get out of here, I want to apologize. Cause my dog was upstairs going ham. I don't understand why. Yo, buddy. What up, man? He's inside. Well, he needs to stop. Nothing is that exciting. So he's wild. So I'm going to go see what that's about. We said last week, we was going to have some fun on this pod. And that's what we did. If we got facts wrong, if we got facts wrong, we just got them wrong. I didn't fact check. Nothing. I didn't look up a thing. You know, we could have got on here and talked about how Donald Trump said his crowd sizes were bigger than Martin Luther King's. We could have got on here and talked about the race riots in the UK. We could have talked about that. You know, we could have talked about the new VP nominee, what Kamala Harris. We could have talked about that, man. We could have talked about how JD Vance couldn't answer the question. What makes you happy? What makes you happy? Answer that. Yo, it's so much out there, man. We want, yo, y'all should have came in. This is to have fun. Like you said, JD Vance, he's incapable of telling us how he has fun. Yeah. So next week, I don't know what's going to happen. Hopefully next week, we could just have a balanced pod, a little bit, a little serious, but more fun and lighthearted. We're going to see because this, this America thing is crazy. This is America. America. Fuck yeah. I was going to, those are two totally different songs. And I'm not sure, I'm not sure which one I'm going to end with. Because as soon as Marcus said, well, he said, I was like, yo, I'm putting Gambino at the end of this. And then Brian went south part. So I'm not sure. I'm not sure what's going to happen. But after I say this word listener, you will hear peace. Peace out, John. All right, peace