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Top 10 College QBs, USA Owns Canada in Olympic Hockey and Mental Health
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A
Yo, yo, yo. Do you ever wonder why they put lists together for college football greats and who is actually the greatest of all time? Do you want to know what's going on in the Winter Olympics and how the United States of America owns Canada? And do you want to know what the heck Sean Strickland and Cam Newton are going crazy about now? Well, we're going to tell you guys in 30 minutes or less. Welcome to out of Pocket with RG3, hosted by your boy and the lovely, amazing 111 time all American, Greta Grrfin. That's right. Make sure y', all, like, subscribe to our YouTube channel. We're gonna have a lot of fun today getting out of pocket. As we said, in 30 minutes or less, today's gonna be football first. So we're gonna hit all the viral stuff and then we're gonna talk about Cam Newton, how he thinks that women's value goes down when they have more children. And Lord have mercy. Sean Strickland keeps mucking it up, talking about people in all types of ways, but he keeps winning inside the Octagon. So let's go ahead and get this. What's our first segment, baby?
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B
Out of. It's out of Pocket. No, that's the name of our show. It's actually called Opening Drive. And guys, let's give a little quick applause here for Robert because he was named in the ESPN's top 1002000 QBs and he was number 10. Now, do I think he should be number one? Yes, I do. Am I biased? Yes, I am. What did you think off the entire top 100 list that ESPN put out?
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A
Yeah, man. First, everybody that was on the list is deserving of being on the list. The bottom line is, you know, I think, you know, I should be higher. Any quarterback, you ask him, they say, hey, would. Would you take this guy over you? No quarterback in their right mind is going to say, yeah, no. I just think from my aspect of it, when you talk about impact and where a quarterback did what he did for us to win the Heisman Trophy at Baylor University was unheard of, beating out the. The Blue Blood program. So I think that type of impact with the efficiency that we had throwing the football down the field certainly warrants us being higher than number 10. But, hey, you know, we're blessed to be on the list and excited for all the quarterbacks that made it. Yeah, I for sure think I should be higher than that.
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B
I totally agree. I. If the list was up to me, you would be number one. And you are number one on my list, baby.
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A
Oh, thank you. So, you know, we're not saying that we're. We're looking for respect because that's obviously a respectable ranking. We're just saying that the risk is. The list is wrong. Okay. It's wrong. It is what it.
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B
All right. We have another little what do you want to call it List for you on. On Three's top 25 college sports x accounts, or if you want to call it Twitter, whatever. Whatever it is for you, X accounts. Robert also made the list, and the people that saw the list, you can clearly tell a distinctive difference between everybody that's on the list of the 25 accounts, and then Robert. First of all, he's the only black man on the list or black person. But that's not. I was going. He's also the only personality on the list. Everybody else on the list is some part of some sort of a bigger association, a bigger show. They have a bigger backing, like whatever you can think of. You know, you think of Barstool. That's not just one person. Robert is the only actual person on the list, which I think is super impressive for you to be on that list. And everything you do on X. So tell the people what you do on accent.
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A
Oh, thank you, baby. No, listen, the bottom line is impressions. And. And, you know, getting visibility is very difficult in today's age when it comes to social media. So when you see the ESPNs, the foxes, the Yahoo. Sports, the on threes. You know, what I've always been extremely impressed about with Barstool and On three is the fact that they actually take care of each other. You know, their personalities support. Support each other. They retweet, they. They comment. They do that. I don't know if it's a mandate at the. At their network, probably, but they. They definitely do it. And all three is the same way. And on three is primarily focused on college football. So when you see their personalities all connecting, giving out great information, I've always thought that. That that network is, like, really, really cool type of thing. So there's no hot takes here or anything like that. It's just a matter of. I think it's a. It's a blessing. I think I came in at number 14 on that list, and I said, like, listen, the truth is, not all those numbers are actually accurate, like, to a T. Yeah, but. But I do think it is representative of who are some of the bigger personalities in the space. The one thing that people aren't mentioning is that that list of people and personalities don't all only talk about college football. I don't also only talk about college football, but I don't dabble in the politics of it all. But which politics on social media is like a click farm, you know?
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B
Absolutely.
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A
You have an opportunity to go out there and get as many views as
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B
you want to, especially right now if
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A
you just talk politics. So I don't do that. I do primarily talk sports, college football, NFL. So it's.
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B
But I do love your variety on X. Like, you know, you give your opinions, but you also give your analysis. Like, you also post family content. You also have you and the kids doing WWE moves. Like, I feel like you kind of give it all and then you do the little safe space thing and like you have a nice little variety going on on X.
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A
Yes. Look at you. What is this? Is this the gas stalker? Oh, my goodness.
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B
I stalk you on X.
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A
She's gassing me right now. But, you know, the bottom line is you have to show different sides of yourself. And I feel like when I was a player, I grew up in a time where social media was kind of taboo. Now guys are all using social media for. For different things, and I just choose to show the side of my family, side of my personality. Faith, motivation. If you're looking for some motivation, you're looking for to get some laughs, follow us on social media. Let us know in the comments what, what skit you want us to do next because we really do enjoy and have a lot of fun with it. So honored to be on the list. And let's keep on climbing, baby.
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B
That is the funny. One of the funniest things on your Twitter, though. Like, you are named in this list as a college football analyst, right? And most people view you as a college football analyst. But what do most people say when they see you on the street or in the airport or whatever? Hey, Robert, I really appreciate you being a man of fai. Hey, I really appreciate your morning quotes. Those motivational quotes keep me going. Like things that you think, don't think make as big of an impact or like you always think like a hot take on college football will make a bigger impact.
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A
Right?
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B
But I feel like the most. The thing that has made the biggest impact on people has been your morning motivational quotes has been you talking about God and all of that. Because so many people that I've heard just randomly come up to you on, like I said, at the airport or wherever, and they're like, hey, I really appreciate you, like, what you're doing with your faith and how you're showing your love to, for God and like, all of that. And like, I think that's really cool.
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A
I appreciate that as well. And, and you're, you're telling the truth about the people that come up and talk to us. They'll even say, hey man, we, we really love your podcast. YouTube, your dynamic is so cool. So I just think the appreciation, you know, comes from authenticity and you know, being a man of God and being a man of faith and motivation is, is authentic to who I am and authentic to who you are as being. So you never know what, what impact you're having on people in the world. And I feel like when we, when people do walk up to us and tell us those things, it makes you realize like, yeah, okay, I, I know I'm doing this and I'm going to continue to do it, but at least I know I'm making an impact in their lives in a positive way. And sports isn't always that way, right? Your opinions. Everyone's not going to agree with your opinions and not everybody's going to agree with your opinion about faith or, or about whatever you're going through, overcoming adversity. But the people that really rock with you and are supposed to be there with you and are helping us like drive this podcast, drive our social media drive to those 723 million impressions on X, you know, those are the people that you do it for. So we appreciate you guys. Leave a heart in the comments if you feeling, if you feel in love right now, because I know I am. Small businesses are the backbone of the American economy. But getting funding from traditional banks is an uphill battle. Of the 36 million small businesses in the US over 70% report needing additional capital every year while revenue is at an all time high. Big banks are tightening standards and approving fewer loans than ever, leaving owners stuck with mountains of paperwork. But if you want bank rates without the bank delays, check out Cardiff Co RG3 for up to $500,000 in same day funding. Cardiff is the largest privately held small business lender in the US having funded over $12 billion since 2004. Their application takes less than five minutes, has no impact on personal credit, and approvals happen in minutes. With same day funding, banks try to lock out small businesses. Cardiff has the key. Big banks may not want to approve your business loans, but Cardiff does. If you've been in business for at least a year and are pulling in $20,000 a month in revenue, apply now for up to $500,000 in same day business funding at Cardiff Co RG3. Again, that's Cardiff Co RG3. Real growth, fast funding. Cardiff Borrow better.
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B
All right, the love stops here, okay? Viral spiral virus. Viral number one. Actually, the love fully stops here because. What the hell? Cam Newton. We're talking about Cam Newton again.
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A
Here we go.
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B
Cam Newton went on a podcast and talked about how a woman's value decreases with the more kids that she has. Should we play this clip for them?
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A
Yes, go ahead and play the clip.
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B
Play the clip.
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C
Women's value get lower the more children that they have.
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A
Break that down. Because.
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C
And I was having this conversation, you know, with one of the mother of my children, and she's still fine. You see what I'm saying? But like, I was telling her, I was like, yo, the guy that you're dating or will date, if he ain't willing to love on these five children that you have, that ain't the guy for you. Because when I came into your life, I was willing to accept you and whatever you had.
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B
All right, after watching this, first of all, that is just so heartbreaking to me that a man would even talk about a woman like that. A man that has multiple baby mamas would talk about a woman like that. A man that has put women in those positions where he thinks their value has now decreased. You have then done it to them, sir.
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A
Oh, my goodness.
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B
So if a woman's value drops with every child. Correct.
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A
No, it doesn't.
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B
But based off of Cam Newton, a woman's value drops with the more kids that she has. So does a man's value drop with every broken promise, with every added baby mama? Or do we only do the value math on women? That is like, I feel like that is such a toxic masculinity mindset that, like, that truly pisses me off to my core. Yeah, because what do we see? Every day? People get a divorce, women have multiple babies, and they find somebody new the next day, the next month, the next year. This is not a thing anymore. People are actually willing to step up and raise the kids that you don't.
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A
Yeah, that's true.
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B
So this is such a BS take, and that literally pisses me off to my core that he would even go and talk about women like that and think that a woman's value decreases with the more kids that she has. Because I sure well know a woman that is just going through a divorce and has multiple babies, and she got all types of celebrities in her DMs, including Shaq, a married woman. Okay, Shaq, she married yeah.
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A
So, I mean, I think the bottom line is this is a great topic. Obviously, you just nailed.
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B
I can yell for an hour.
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A
You just put. You hit the nail on the head. We have to stop talking about women's value as if it's like a stock or a bond, and it, and it ebbs and flows and goes with the times. And I think a woman's value isn't a number. Right. It's about their character, sacrificing, love, commitment. And also, value is in the eye of the beholder.
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C
Yep.
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A
So when you talk about, like, standards, responsibility, presence, you know, that to me, is, Is where women's value comes in. Not from counts or baby counts. To me, a mother doesn't lose value. A man loses value when he can't respect the women who are raising the future, because that's essentially what it is. Without women, men cannot re, you know, procreate, put people on this earth. It's not like men are the sole ones doing that.
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B
Yep.
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A
And then honestly, in traditional terms of, hey, the man goes to work, the woman, you know, makes the house a home. There is no one to make the house a home if you don't have the woman. And now, of course, in today's age, you have women who are going out to work and men are going out to work, and sometimes the women are the breadwinners. And to say that a woman's value decreases with the more children that she has is. It's not just problematic, it's nonsense, nonsensical. It's non logical now for you as a man to say, hey, I don't want to be with a woman who has four, three, four, five kids. That's your choice from another man or from different men. That is your choice. But that doesn't decrease the value.
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B
Exactly.
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A
Of that woman. I just think that's a missed a misplaced statement, especially when it's. It's a guy like Cam who has multiple baby mamas. And listen, Cam, we compete together in overtime in OT7. We see each other all the time. We've done podcasts together. But, brother, come on, man, you're going down the wrong path when it comes to how you talk about women. And, and I do think it probably had something to do with bet getting rid of 106 in sports because Cam had a female co host on that show and had also come out and said that he can't be friends with women who are attractive because you don't want to hit. And it's like, it's just a. It's Problematic way of thinking. And I think it's. Honestly, it's a big problem with the way that men think about women in the first place.
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B
And it's really problematic when you have that sort of a platform that Cam Newton has, and then this is what you use our platform for. Yeah, like. Like I said, this interview pissed me off to my core, because let's say a woman, right, with three kids, all from the same man, and then the man has. Has seven kids from four different baby mamas. Whose value here has decreased. It ain't the woman. What are you talking about? But now if a woman goes out and says that, oh, you're gonna have a problem, because. No, no, no. A man. Nothing decreases a man's value. The more baby mamas, the more women you hit, the bigger of a man you are. No, no, absolutely not. Like, don't use your damn platform this way. That's sickening. Pisses me off.
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A
No, it's. I mean, I don't know if there's much more that needs to be said on that topic, because I'm gonna keep
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B
yelling because viral spiral 2 might be even worse
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A
at the end of the day. A woman's value, like, a woman's value. It'd be one thing for. For Cam or any other man out there to say, hey, I'm not as attracted to a woman who has multiple kids that aren't mine. That's your own pride.
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B
Personal choice.
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A
Beauty's in the eye of the beholder. Like you said, it's a personal choice. But to say that the value of women decreases with the more. More children I have, I would say the value of a woman increases with the more children that she has.
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B
It proves we are very fertile.
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A
Not only that they're. They're fertile, but it's just like a woman. A woman's ability to impact this world is greater, in my opinion, than a man's. And it's. And it sounds like. Oh, what are you talking about? Are you simping? No, it's not simping. It's not. It's not gas up anything. It's the bottom line of men cannot give birth. So if God put women on this earth to be the companion of man, to grow with man. Right? We're. We're supposed to be in this thing together. Then how can we be in it separately? Yeah, right. I know back in the day, like you said, proving that you're fertile. Oh, man. That. That would increase a woman's value. The more children that she could have, the better. So how is it that now in 2026, we're saying, hey, a woman has more kids, she proves that she can not only have children, proves that she can, you know, be a great mother, be a great provider. If she is the breadwinner. Oh, that decreases her value.
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B
We're not saying. Only Cam Newton is saying.
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A
We're definitely not saying that. And I, I think that he. He has to. My guy has to understand the road that he's going down when he starts tearing down women as, as if it's just an. An overarching blanket statement. No, a woman having more children does not decrease her value. If anything, it increases it.
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B
Period, baby. Period. King.
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A
There we go. Viral spiral number two.
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B
Viral spiral number two. Like I said, I'm gonna keep yelling. One of the most controversial UFC fighter Sean Strickland won his UFC fight this past weekend in Houston, Texas. Now, did he offend a lot of people on his way there and after it? Yes, he did. Now, did the UFC have to cut his mic at the post fight press conference? Yes, they did. And Dana White ended up blaming the media for it.
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A
Let's go ahead and listen to all those clips.
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B
Thank you.
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A
Throw them up right here.
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D
And there's nothing wrong with women. I mean, they do great things. You know, they. They cook, they clean. Problem is we've. We've empowered them too much to ruin society. Look at the NFL, dude. You had that. I don't even want to say that its name because, like, you know, I'm talking for the halftime. Go the halftime show guy. The Puerto Rican, right? Puerto Rican bunny, bro. Yeah, that. How do we ruin it? Why don't we bring a gay foreigner who doesn't speak English and have him perform it? Man, hockey is like the last man sport.
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B
An NHL player came out as gay.
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D
Oh, no. Well, that guy's gonna definitely beat him in locker room. Feel bad for the gays. Can you imagine being a dude waking up and be like, hey, I want to other dudes. I don't know what that's like. It's clearly mental illness.
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A
What he says during media day and things like that, that doesn't affect your booking of him. Still happy to put him in those. It's a nightmare. It's. I mean, but you guys don't help asking them. Dumb, you know, ask that, you're gonna get dumb. What'd you think of Bad Bunny? How'd you think of the Super Bowl? Out of here.
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B
All right, now if you don't think this is just a. I want a sore winner because he won. How do you win the main event and still lose the press conference so bad that they have to cut your mic?
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A
Exactly.
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B
This is like Sean Strickland. Also, like Cam Newton. Pisses me off to my core.
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A
Yeah. I mean, Sean Strickland. There have been people who have said that when Sean talks, he's really is. He's just doing it to. To rage, bait everybody.
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B
Oh, he's doing it.
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A
But when you listen to him talk and, like, he's done this for. For a number of years, Sean Strickland is. Is hand down, one of the. One of the best middleweights in the world.
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B
Right.
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A
Like, it's. A lot of people don't want to admit that, but. But he is. And then he won his fight. Knocked it, knocked out Fluffy Hernandez, and he's probably in line to get a title shot, but he's become a problem for the UFC with their new Paramount plus deal and the new Paramount partnership because they got new money, a bigger audience, and all of a sudden, this audience is hearing this misogynistic guy who isn't afraid to say racist things, isn't afraid to say anything that he thinks is going to garner more clicks or get more attention. Attention for himself. And it's no longer. You can't just brush it off as, oh, that's an act.
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B
No, you don't call somebody a goat effer as an act.
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A
He's attacking the women's division of mma, which has been honestly, one one of the more exciting divisions. When you look at Amanda Nunes, you're talking about Ronda Rousey when she was coming up through the ranks. You know these types of fighters. I mean, Cyborg was in there for a little bit. It's like when he's denigrating them now, he's not just saying whatever he wants. And. And I gotta be with Dana White on this. He said he thinks the media sometimes makes it worse by the questions that they ask Sean Strickland. I agree with that. For. To the extent of he's.
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B
Because they already know who he is.
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A
Yeah, they know who he is. He's going into a fight, and he's about to be fighting for his life, and they're asking him about Bad Bunny in the Super Bowl. I get that. But Sean Strickland is responsible for what he says. And although there is freedom of speech in this country, it does not mean it is freedom from consequence or freedom from someone else's reaction to you. And I've had my own situations. You can throw a couple of my tweets up, up on the screen in response to some of the things that Sean Strickland has said, and it's because of the platform that he has. I know that there are probably some people out there who feel the same way that Sean Strickland feels about the NFL, about women's mma, about women's sports in general, and probably some who agree with him, with women in general, but that doesn't mean that he is going to get the same level of attention that the person who doesn't have his platform has. So when I see those things, yes. It causes a, you know, an impulse reaction, because I know that him saying it means more than some other person without his platform saying it.
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B
Exactly.
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A
And that, to me, is why I just think that Sean Strickland is trying to. He's trying to be the algorithm. He knows that if he doesn't say these things, he's not going to get any attention, and no one's going to pay attention to his fight. So instead, he says them, and then after the fight, goes in the ring and tries to act like. Like, oh, I didn't say any of these things. I didn't insult this guy's culture. I didn't insult where he's from. I didn't insult women. I'm gonna try to be the bigger man right now, but he has become a massive problem for the UFC when it comes to their business model.
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B
Yeah.
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A
And that's why I think they cut his mic after the fight, because they realize, all right, man, we can't tell him not to say stuff because there is freedom of speech, and that's what we roll with in the ufc. But we do have to protect our partners.
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D
Partners.
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B
Yeah.
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A
And Sean Strickland is making it really difficult for Dana White in the UFC to protect their partners.
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B
Exactly. I was going to say the exact same thing. Like, UFC is known. Like, they are known for letting guys speak their mind.
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A
Yeah.
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B
You know what I mean? Like, we have heard some crazy stuff coming out of the ufc, and Dana White is known for that. He lets these players be themselves. But good God, like, there has to be a line, because Sean Strickland is not just, like, tiptoeing the line. That man is so far past the line, you can't even see the line.
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A
Yeah.
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B
So, like, them cutting the mic was definitely the right thing to do. So kudos to whoever cut the mic, because. Good God.
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A
Yeah. If you. Like you said, if you have to cut the mic, you already know the answer to the question. That means the UFC realizes he's a problem.
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B
Exactly.
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A
And to all the UFC fans out there who are in my mentions talking about, well, why don't you get in the ring with Sean Strickland? Well, why doesn't Sean Strickland come get on the football field with me? I promise you, you. Sean Strickland has zero chance to make any type of play on me on a football field with or without knees.
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B
And this argument makes no sense, because no one's talking on Sean Strickland in the octagon. Yeah, we're talking about Sean Strickland as the man. Yeah. Nobody has ever said he's not a good fighter. He's a great fighter. Like Robert said, he's one of the best fighters in the world.
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A
100.
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B
No, I don't think we have ever debated that. We're talking about Sean Strickland, who he is. Is before the fight, who he is after the fight, and how he also chooses to use his platform. Because we have young, young adolescent kids. Exactly. Who are eating that thing up, and that's a horrible example to set for them.
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A
No, you are 1,000% correct, because there's a lot of MMA fans, a lot of UFC fans that are like, man, if Sean Strickland is doing this and he feels this way, maybe I should feel that way, too. I was a, like, Mike kid growing up. Michael Jordan, all the commercials, Gatorade, Nike, everything. And, you know, when he would do something, I. I go home and I try to make that shot. When he would say something, I would internalize that as, like, this is the way that I'm going to become the best of all time.
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B
Exactly.
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A
So if Sean Strickland, who is a UFC champion who has held the belt, is doing these things, he is influencing people in a way that, in our opinion, is the wrong thought process. Women are not less Mexicans, or people from the Middle east are not lesser than people from America. Listen, we're all trying to attack this thing and achieve all the dreams that we possibly can imagine. You don't get to go say those things and then come back and say, hey, I think I'm a great guy, and then go say them again right before your next fight. No one knew Sean Strickland was fighting until he said what he said in that post, that press conference. The UFC diehards like ourselves and the fans out there knew he was fighting, but to the general fan, they didn't know he was fighting at UFC Fight Night, but they knew then because they wanted to see him go get knocked out for what he said. And then he won. So he became an even bigger problem for the ufc, because now he's looking at a potential title fight on the White House card, which. Lord have mercy. You can only imagine what he's going to say.
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B
I don't. I'm not even. I'm not even gonna talk about that. Let's move on to beautiful. More beautiful. For more brighter topics. Viral spiral number three. The winner. Olympics. All right, the biggest topic we have from the Winter Olympics is USA beat Canada in men's hockey gold medal game on overtime.
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A
Yes.
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B
Wow.
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A
Yeah. That's right. That's right. Yeah. No, you don't even got to ask the question. Guess what. The USA owns Canada now, baby. Yes, we do. I don't know if y' all saw on.
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B
On ice. On ice.
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A
Yeah. Yeah.
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B
Oh, no. That sounds bad, too. I'm not on ice.
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A
Oh, my God. What are you talking about? We're talking about on the ice.
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B
On the ice. On the ice.
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A
America owns Canada on the ice. And women's hockey defeated them in overtime.
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B
Jack Hughes with the overtime gold.
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A
Yes. Jack Hughes with a. See? Threw it in there.
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B
This man.
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A
Throw the picture up on the screen. This man lost his teeth.
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B
Yeah.
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A
To go get a gold medal for the United States of America. The first time in 46 years that the U. S. Has won the gold medal in the hockey winter Olympics. The first time since 1980, y'. All.
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B
I mean, that is so impressive, because,
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A
you know, this will make a grown man cry.
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You don't really think of us as a hockey country. Country. A hockey country. You think of Canada as a hockey country. You would think, like, Sweden as a hockey country or, you know, I mean, like, freaking Russia as a hockey country.
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Yes.
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When you think of the U.S. you think football, baseball, basketball, whatever.
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Basketball, baseball. I mean, you could even throw in there a little bit of soccer. But that means that America is winning in Canada's number one sport. And it's like, I'm. For the fifth sport. Like, our best athletes don't even go to play hockey. I'm not saying that our hockey athletes aren't great athletes. They're great athletes. They're unbelievable. But the phenomenal men and women. I'm just saying it's not the primary sport of our country, and we just beat the Canadians in both of them. And I'll even go so far as to say this. Canada won the. The curling gold medal even though everybody believes they've been cheating. They got visual evidence of them cheating in curling. But I think the universe corrects itself, and the ice never lies. Okay? The ice don't lie.
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The ice.
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The ice don't lie. And that's why they lost the gold medal in the one sport they actually care about.
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Dang. You are such a Canada hater.
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I'm not a Canada hater. I love Drake.
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Oh, my God. He said, I love Drake. I love Drake and Justin Bieber.
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I think Drake is a phenomenal artist. I think Justin Bieber is a phenomenal artist. Okay?
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Canada is way more than Drake and Justin Bieber.
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I do not hate Canada. The USA owns Canada when it comes to hockey, baby. Okay. That's right. Men's and women's.
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Okay, okay. Well, we have more because I'm pretty sure they said that the US has, this Winter Olympics, won more medals than they ever have in Winter Olympics.
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Yeah.
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So let's also talk about women's. Alicia Liu.
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Lou. Yeah.
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She also won a gold in figure skating. The triple axel of them all. What a beautiful story.
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The fact that she had given up figure skating, came back, and now is in control of her own program. She determines when she skates, what moves she does. She puts it all together, as opposed to her coaches doing that for her. I mean, I think, you know, you watched her after she won the gold, and she had that infamous line of. She said, that's. Oh, she said, that's what I'm talking about. That makes her relatable to the masses because she's like, hey, I was down and I was out, but I decided to come back. For me, I took control of my own destiny. And then she won that. But before we even get past that, let's talk about the hockey team. The men's hockey team coming back out after they won the gold medal. And they held the jersey of Johnny Goudreau around the ice rink, knowing that Johnny had been killed in 2024 along with his brother Matthew in a car accident by a drive by a drunk driver. They weren't on cars. They were riding bikes. And they got hit on the side of the road as he was trying to pass another car. And for them to do that and then bring his kids onto the ice and take a picture with them, just selfless moment. It's. It was a selfless moment. It was a class moment. And had Johnny not died, he would have been on the ice for the United States of America. He was a star in the NHL. So for them to understand that this was bigger than hockey. Yeah, right. It was. It's bigger than just winning a gold medal at the Winter Olympics. That, to me, is what sports is all about.
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Absolutely.
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It was an incredible moment that they got to honor their teammate with in that moment. And his family, those kids, they're going to show them that picture. Unbelievable picture. Put it up on the screen. They're going to show them this picture years from now, and they're never going to forget that moment.
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Yep. And before we move on from the Winter Olympics, let's just want to say huge prayers up for Lindsey Vaughn, who decided to come back and compete at the Olympics after completely shattering her ACL in a race before that. And she finished her practice race for the Olympics. She said she's gonna go ahead, she gonna do it. And then we all know that she clearly ended up crashing at her Olympic race, which had nothing to do with her acl. You know, it was like a little miscalculation, and her arm got stuck in the middle of the flagpole. And she has gone through, I think, I want to say, four surgeries now for her leg. So she has now been flighted back to the States, and she's in a hospital in the States. But huge prayers up for her. Like, I know clearly her skiing career is done. I think she knows that. Everybody knows that. But just for the. For the sake of her leg. You know, her leg is shadowed in pieces and what she has had to go through and how strong she has been through it all. And, like, clearly. And it's for all the.
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All the.
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All of her fans, like, you guys are literally keeping her going. All the flowers, all the teddy bears, everything you guys send to her in the hospital. So huge prayers out for Lindsey Vaughn and what an incredible woman.
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Yeah. For all the great stories that have been happening at the Olympics. Sometimes you forget about some of the adversity that the athletes have to go through as well. So the US Is enjoying a historic run at the Winter Olympics, and we're obviously super excited and happy about that, but we're also praying for Lindsey Vaughn, like you said.
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Yep. All right, guys, viral spiral number four. March Madness is trying to extend, expand to 76 teams. And that is a huge debate that's going on right now. So you, as a basketball, former basketball player and a basketball fan, what do you think of that?
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Yeah, let's just throw everybody in. I mean, at this point, that's what they want to do. 76 teams in March Madness. You know, what makes March mad is
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going to last for four months.
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You know? You know, exactly. It's going to be March, April, May, June, July Madness. Like, March Madness, what makes it so special is the scarcity. Right. You lose, you Go home, you have your. Your couple Cinderella teams, and you really buy into those teams when they knock off these top seeds. But as you continue to expand, all you're going to see, they're all. There'll be more Cinderella teams. No, there won't. No, there won't.
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If you won't make it, you go into the. What's the other tournament? Nit.
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Yeah, I don't know if they even call it that anymore. But my point is, you're going to. You're going to expand it so much that you're going to see more blowouts. Yeah, right. That's one issue that people have with the college football players. Like, oh, my gosh, there's so many blowouts. These first round games don't matter. Well, guess what? If you expand march madness to 76
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teams, you know, you're not making it better. You're just making it longer.
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You're making it longer because guess what? All they care about. Money, of course. Opportunity to sell gaming rights. And I get it, nil. You're paying the players more money now. So guess what? You got to find ways to generate, make more money, but don't dilute the product. There's the. The 70. Like I said, just throw everybody in. Just say, you know what? The regular season don't matter. Everybody's going to march.
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Doors are open.
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Everybody's got a chance to do it. And guess what? He gonna be like Oprah out there. You get a game, and you get a game, and you get a game, and you get a game. And I just don't understand it. I think it's stupid. I think it's stupid. I understand why they want to do it because they only want to make more money, but that's not really helping the game, and it's certainly not helping the allure and the. The. The what drives people to March Madness. You got to get in. It's not given to you. This ain't a participation trophy, but that's what it feels like right now.
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All right, guys, here we have our mental health check segment, and we want to know how are you guys doing? You know, let us know in the comments. What are you struggling with? What can we pray for you? What can we pray for you?
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You about.
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About. There you go. English is not my first la. How are you guys doing? Let us know in the comments. Because so many people are just, you know, smiling in public. You see them all throwing up their life highlights on social media or Instagram. But are we actually as happy as we seem on social Media. Are we actually as happy as we seem in public when people at the grocery store ask, hi, how you doing today? And you say, I'm great, thank you. Are you actually. You know what I mean?
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Like, are you okay?
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Exactly. Are you guys actually okay?
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Yeah. Because listen, there's, there's a lot of people out there and if you're listening to this or you're watching this, and you're the strong one, right? You're the leader, you're the, the athlete, you're the provider for your house, listen to me, you're allowed to need help. Okay? And needing help doesn't make you weak. It's actually a sign of strength.
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Absolutely.
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The fact that you can tell yourself, I know I'm supposed to be strong for my wife, my girlfriend, my kids, my mom, my dad, my brothers, my sisters, but I also too, need to take care of myself so that I can take care of them.
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So now why, and the reason why we are talking about this this week specifically is because we lost Randall Moore at 25 years old. And the authorities say that it was being treated as a suspected self inflicted death. And that breaks my heart. That is such a young man taking his own life. And that. No, that tells me men, and especially black men in this country, yeah. We actually need to care for their mental health way, way, way, way, way more than we do.
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Yeah. You know, Rondo Moore, current Vikings wide receiver. You know, I saw Hollywood Brown, my former teammate in Baltimore, post a tweet saying that he, there's no way that Rondell is gone because he was just texting him a few hours ago. And you know, we all. There's this negative, I don't even want to say stereotype, but just this negative thought process when it comes to football culture, when it comes to athletes in general, men in general, that men don't need help when it comes to these certain things that we, we have this identity that we're all superheroes that were indestructible, that it's our job to help others, not their job to, to truly help us. And that being vulnerable as a man is, is a sign of weakness and shows that you're, you don't have the mental toughness to, to handle what the world is throwing your way. And when I, when I think about that, I think that really we're all just talking about pain. Right? And at the end of the day, if I stubbed my toe on the edge of the bed, you stub your toe on the edge of the bed. Anyone watching this, you stub your toe on the edge of the bed. That pain in your pinky toe don't care about your talent.
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Yeah.
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They don't care how tall you are, how much you weigh. They don't care whether you want a Heisman Trophy or greatest athlete in Estonian history. They don't care if you're, you know, you work at the grocery store or you, you do insurance, you work on Wall Street. That pinky toe pain is gonna find you wherever you're at. And that, to me is kind of what life is also about when it comes to going through the struggle, when it goes to your mental health and understanding how important it is to make that a priority. It doesn't care about how talented you are. We're not here to speculate. The authorities said that Rondell Moore looked like it was a self inflicted gunshot wound. So we're not here to do anything but mourn the loss of a young man that has gone way too soon.
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Way too soon.
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And none of us know why. And as the details continue to come out, we'll keep you updated on the story. But the bottom line is depression, anxiety, mental health, it hits all of us. It hits everybody. And it doesn't care about your paycheck. It doesn't care about how many touchdown catch made or how many people were in the stands cheering for you. Everybody is going through something and we have to do our part to try to be there for the people by just asking them a simple question. Hey, you good?
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Yeah.
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How you doing? That can save a life. And for whatever reason, Rondell Moore felt like he just didn't have the person or people that he could reach out to and talk to to help him through the things that he was struggling with.
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Yeah. And the disbelief that Hollywood Brown expressed on X after saying that he was just texting him shows he wasn't texting him, talking about, hey, I'm really struggling, you know, I mean, yeah, they were probably just having their regular normal conversation and then this happens. And that's when it really hits you deep because you're like, I didn't see that at all. And we were friends. You know what I mean? And that's when I feel like people have to find somebody in their life, like a loved one, a therapist, whoever. It is okay to talk about your struggles. It is okay to look for help. It is okay to say, hey, I'm not okay, because it is okay to not be okay. Like, and I feel like social media is really doing a disservice with, for us with that every single day because everything is so glamorous and so beautiful and so everything is always so great, and it's not. You know what I mean? Like mothers who struggle in silence. It's a complete taboo to talk about how hard postpartum is. You know what I mean? Like, and postpartum psychosis, it's a real thing, but nobody wants to talk about it because everybody else on social media, making it seem like it's so easy. So, like, we as people have to start using our platform, our life, just to talk about, hey, I'm really struggling with this. And it's okay to ask for help. It's okay to look for help for outside. And it's okay for us as human beings to support other people who are athletes, who are celebrities, instead of treating them like they're not human beings. Like, it's okay to be kind to each other. It's okay to treat celebrities like they are normal human beings who struggle with the exact same things as you do. Because at the end of the day, as far as we know, you only get one life. And once you take it, you can't get it back. And you leave people behind who are going to stay here and maybe think forever, why did that happen? How. How. What they could have done to help you. And that's a. That's a tough burden to carry for the rest of your life.
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Yeah, I agree. I agree. I think it is a massive burden. And, you know, it's just really sad. Rondo Moore's the son to all his family, friends, and loved ones out there that are. That are going through it right now, searching for answers. We're praying for you. We know that this time definitely. It certainly isn't one that is easy.
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No.
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And, yeah, man, it's. It's very sad.
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Yeah. So if you or your loved one or anyone, you know, sometimes the strongest thing you can do is let somebody in before you break. And if you know somebody that's struggling, text or call 988 in the US that's the suicide and crisis lifeline. So if you have a friend struggling, if you have a loved one struggling, if you are struggling, don't wait. Don't wait for the perfect words. Don't wait. Just show up. Show up for your loved ones and let them show up for you.
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You're allowed to need help.
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Exactly.
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That's the bottom line. You're allowed to need help. This is bigger than sports. It's. It's bigger than life. It's bigger than your job. It is your life.
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Exactly.
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And it matters. And if you're ever wondering if you get up one day and you're facing some adversity that you. That you didn't expect, or you've been facing that same adversity for months, years, your life is worth living.
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Absolutely.
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So, obviously, we did not get that done in 30 minutes or less, and sometimes that's okay. The. The conversation with Rondell Moore and everything that's been going on is. Is something that hits us deep, and it hits us hard because, you know, we are former athletes, and we know that. We know that lifestyle and the mental pressure. We know the pressure that goes into that, and, you know, the responsibilities, and it's no different than the responsibilities that you at home have to deal with on a daily basis.
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So our dog agrees.
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Also, we appreciate you guys tuning in today's show. Make sure y' all drop in the comments, really, all of your thoughts about the stuff that we talked about today, whether it be Cam Newton and the value of women, Sean Strickland and the value of women. The value of women and how much he's hurting the UFC and their new business deals, whether it's the mental health check and talking about Rondell Moore or what you're going through, let this be a safe space for you guys to provide whatever therapy that you need. You know, we'll be in the comments section responding back, and if that's all it takes is to have a conversation, and maybe that goes a long way. But we appreciate you guys, and we'll see you guys next week. Peace.