In honor of the 5th anniversary of the Kuiper army, Joe the Boomer and Nick reminisce about their favorite moments from the past 5 years of America First. Joe also talks about how he got his start as a podcaster, and how he and his co-host Cassie Dillon came together to create the first episode of the show. Joe also discusses why he decided to leave the corporate world, and why he stayed in the free thinking world of podcasting and social media to pursue his dream of being an independent, free thinking human being. And of course, there's a toast to the man who brought this show to life. Thank you, Nick! Cheers, and Happy 5th Anniversary! -Joe The Boomer & Nick Thee Kwapis - and God bless you! Enjoy, and God Bless, God Bless. - The Kuip Army - Joe Theboomer And God bless, God bless Nick Theeee! - God bless God bless! - Cheers! - Nick Theboi & God bless You! - P.S. - Happy 5 Year Anniversary, Nick!! - God Bless! - God bless YOU! - XOXO, Kuipe! - JOE THE BOOMER! - GOD BLESS YOU, GABE! - KUIPEE! - GULP! - HAPPY 5 YEARS OF AFROM AFRICA FIRST! - BABY! - CHAT WITH ME! - WE'LL SEE YOU SOON THE 5TH ANNIVERSARY! - THE KUIPROM! - SON OF ABOY'S BABOUT! - THANK YOU, KUIPCO AND GOD BLOW ME UP! - I'LL LIVE TO SEE YOU'LL HAVE A FIVE YEARS MORE THAN THAT'S DADDY NEXT WEEK! - HELLO, GIVING ME A PRODUCING ME THAN THEM A CHANCE! - ENJOYING THEM A FAST FOLLOWING ME FAST AND GIV ME A BECAUSE I MEETING THEM THAN THEY'S KUIPPEVERYTHING'S TALKING TO ME, GOOG AND GASKING ME LIKE THAT? - PODCAST WITH ME AND THEY'LL TALK TO ME AND TALK ABOUT SOMETHING LIKE THAT! - AND HE'LL LET ME TALK SOMETHAH?
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00:16:43.000I believe she was working for Campus Reform at the time, and at the conclusion of the interview, she said, OK, and one last question, do you think you'd like to take a trip to Israel?
00:17:25.000I think one day, maybe a couple of hours before the show began, I said, how about America First?
00:17:50.000There's a lot of opportunities that I could have shilled or sold out or cut corners or whatever, but I think, above all else, the belief for the show was, if you produce a good, honest show, then that's more valuable than cutting corners.
00:20:54.000...is writing hit pieces about me, right-wing lads, Jared Holt, when they banned me from PayPal, when they banned me from YouTube, when Charlie Kirk called me a Holocaust denier, when they, oh, he said the N-word, he said this, he said that!
00:21:05.000But, in spite of everything, even when the situation appeared hopeless, when the chips were down, personal crisis, professional crisis, constant rug pulls, constant attacks, but we survived, right?
00:21:34.000But we're the ones that are on the front lines moving the Overton window.
00:21:38.000We're the ones changing the conversation.
00:21:41.000And we did it, and we didn't get any accolades, and we didn't get any credit, and they didn't write glowing articles about us in all these bad think tank magazines.
00:24:35.000There must be a real great reset in the Republican Party!
00:24:46.000And that real great reset should take the donors and take the global special interests out of the GOP, and in its place should be us, the American people!
00:24:58.000The new Republican Party must be America first!
00:25:05.000America First means finally an end to these Middle Eastern wars that do not benefit us.
00:25:14.000America First means an end to this mass immigration, this invasion of our country by foreigners.
00:25:25.000As President Trump said in his inaugural address, from this day forward, a new vision will govern our land.
00:29:25.000The nationalists, people that are authentically and truly opposed to the globalist world order that are the ones doing any kind of resisting.
00:29:32.000It is now a new chapter in American history.
00:29:35.000I think everybody's starting to see that we are actually the real resistance, truly.
00:46:17.000This little boy, Cash Gernon, was murdered, dragged out of his bed in the middle of the night in his home and murdered outside his house in the street by a black man because he was white.
00:46:31.000That black guy killed a white boy because he was white.
00:46:35.000And this black guy hated white people.
00:50:07.000I don't even want to mention any specific dates or anything yet because it's still kind of tentative.
00:50:12.000I'm down here to meet with them also to begin preparations for that as well as some other speaking things that may be going on this year or next.
00:50:22.000So it's really just been kind of a hectic day.
00:50:25.000I flew out of Chicago this morning and honestly flying is just such a chore now.
00:50:35.000You know, I'm off the no-fly list, but I'm still on this quad S list.
00:50:39.000Every time I fly, I gotta get to the airport two hours early, and you know, they put me through the whole, the whole deal.
00:50:47.000I gotta go to the desk, I gotta get, and it's like, you know, that's maybe the worst, well, it's definitely not the worst, but it's one of the worst aspects of it.
00:50:57.000You know, normally you just bring your ticket to the
00:51:01.000To the airport and just can go right through to security if you fly a lot You know this you get your boarding pass on your phone.
00:51:08.000You can print your boarding pass With your printer at home and then you can just show up to the airport If you don't have luggage, you just go straight to security and you're done well, I got to go to the counter and
00:51:22.000And it's it's so funny every time I have the same experience.
00:51:25.000I almost I was thinking I should get like a card like explaining my situation because every time I go to the airport I get in line for customer service and some J.O.
00:51:38.000you know airline representative comes up to me and says
00:51:44.000Because you know they have like kiosks.
00:51:45.000They have kiosks where you know you go there and you put in your record locator and you can get your boarding pass at like a kiosk independently and then you just bring your bag up to the front and they throw it on the thing and it's no big deal.
00:51:58.000And you only need customer service unless you like need help.
00:52:01.000So I walk right into the airport and go on the line and they go, do you need help?
00:52:05.000You know, if you need to check in, go to the kiosk.
00:52:07.000I'm like, listen, like you don't understand.
00:53:10.000Used to be they used to escort me down.
00:53:12.000Now they just print a boarding pass and they have me just get in line, which is new.
00:53:16.000Because they used to walk me to TSA and then TSA would walk me to security.
00:53:22.000Now I gotta wait in line with everybody else.
00:53:26.000And then, you know, so you wait in line for security, and they scan your boarding pass, and they, you know, do the blue light on your ID, and every time I give them my thing, and they go, hey, wait a minute, why don't you stand over here?
00:53:39.000This time, I got through security, and it was like this three foot tall Mexican guy, and he did not know what the fuck he was doing.
00:53:49.000I've done this many times now, even though I just got off the no-fly list.
00:53:53.000I've already been through this like 10 times.
00:54:54.000Why did I open my bag on the floor in the middle of the line in front of everybody when you're just going to have me open up my bag again now that we're at the security part?
00:55:04.000And he sends me through the one machine, but not the other.
00:55:09.000Because he doesn't know what he's doing.
00:55:11.000And then he's like, oh, actually, I'm going to need you to come back through the other one.
00:55:14.000I'm like, yeah, you missed a step, pal.
00:55:19.000And then they pat me down and everything.
00:55:23.000And then this fucking fat black lady with like the most lesbian haircut I've ever seen.
00:55:30.000She takes my boarding pass and ID and she's gotta clear it.
00:55:33.000While they search, while they rifle through all my belongings, some black guy is rifling through my carry-on.
00:55:39.000and he doesn't fold my clothes so they're all wrinkled he opens up my book and loses my bookmark in my book so now I don't know I'm swimming I don't know where I'm at in my book because he lost my bookmark and then he didn't even know how to close the clasp on the inside of the suitcase to hold everything down he's like oh here you figure it out okay really
00:56:01.000So then the black lady comes back with my ID and boarding pass, and she does this, like, cutesy thing where she's like, Mr. Fuentes, uh, I need you to do something for me.
00:57:34.000You know, I just have no confidence in airport security because the kinds of people, and I know this is not like a hot take or anything, but TSA, you know, these are supposed to be like protecting the skies from what?
00:58:49.000So it was like completely in a different direction than the rest of the A terminal and I finally get there and they're boarding and you know the beautiful thing about Quad S is you get the enhanced screening at security.
00:59:01.000You go straight from security to the gate and then they screen you again at the gate.
00:59:05.000So I get to the gate and they're like okay now we're gonna now we're gonna search you again and empty your stuff again and blah blah blah.
00:59:16.000So at this point I'm just like so over it so you know I get on the plane and then I'm sitting between two old women like not not old to me it's sort of like if I were on an airplane I have to go to this middle seat I could barely fit my luggage in the overhead bin
00:59:32.000I'm squished between these two women, and like, here's the thing.
00:59:37.000If they were like my age or younger, that would be fine.
00:59:41.000If they were like 80, that would also be fine.
00:59:44.000But they were in like the exact sweet spot where it was intolerable.
00:59:47.000They were like in their 40s or 50s or something.
00:59:50.000Nothing wrong with 40, 50 year old women or anything, but um...
00:59:56.000Oh I get on the plane I just you know I pass out I was exhausted and I wake up and you know we're getting off the plane and the one lady next to me is going on and on and on about this wedding she's going to.
01:02:55.000Like I said tomorrow I'll be jumping on the Bryson Gray podcast which I'm excited to do and I'll be hanging out with him on Saturday as well and Also have to meet with Dalton Tyler and Beardson planning out our Florida move as well as our big plan for next year and some activism stuff coming up in the next few weeks, so
01:03:55.000You know, I know most people don't travel very much, and so I think a lot of people glamorize, like, I wonder what it'd be like to just travel.
01:04:03.000I mean, don't get me wrong, I like the novelty of it.
01:04:05.000There's, there's things that I find interesting about it, but it's really, especially with the airport stuff, it's just, uh, it's just annoying.
01:05:43.000He said, hey, we love the America First movement, Darren Beattie, and Marjorie Tilley Green, and Wendy Rogers, and Paul Gosar, and the great Charlie Kirk, and Donald Trump, and not me.
01:07:07.000So he posts, uh, America First Patriots, Darren Beatty, Tucker Carlson, Marjorie, Michael Knowles, Matt Gaetz, Paul Gosar, you know, whatever, all these people.
01:07:21.000He says, when the establishment turned their guns on me, when the Uni Party coalesced to defeat an America First member, very few people had my back.
01:12:29.000For our guy, for our America First Cawthorn.
01:12:31.000I don't care that I got snubbed, but we do deserve an answer to the question, is this a declaration of war against non-Jews in America, and do we have to be afraid?
01:12:44.000Do we have to begin scuttling wheelchair accessible ramps to prevent Madison Cawthorn from entering non-Jewish spaces, perhaps with the intention to kill, with the intention to slaughter?
01:12:58.000Because I know I'm going into some of these public places and I see one of those like wheelchair elevators or the ramp.
01:13:11.000All I see is that's a that is a point of attack.
01:13:15.000That's a soft target for some kind of maniac.
01:13:20.000Some kind of disabled maniac who might try to kill me for not being Jewish enough or something.
01:13:26.000The time for Gentile politics is over.
01:13:29.000Give me one good reason we shouldn't scuttle all the wheelchair accessible ramps.
01:13:35.000It's a matter of public safety at this point to prevent this man from I don't know what I who God only knows what this man's intentions are when he says something like that.
01:16:08.000So I supported him throughout all of that, and I continue to support him, and I hope that he can rebound and maybe get another term in Congress.
01:19:14.000They're saying that he, uh, raped, well not raped, they're saying that he exposed himself to some woman and propositioned her on a flight and he had to pay a quarter of a million dollars to cover it up.
01:19:28.000Honestly, there's really not much to say about that.
01:19:32.000Everybody knows what's going on there.
01:19:34.000If I were back at home at the studio, I would go into like, you know, and here's Lee and here's another thing, but we all know what's going on with that.
01:19:44.000It's so convenient that whenever, you know, like when Trump runs for president, then somebody comes out and says, you know what?
01:19:50.00020 years ago, he raped me or whatever.
01:19:54.000And same with Brett Kavanaugh and now Elon Musk.
01:20:22.000And, uh, to the extent that they're not completely fabricating something, we all understand women's penchant to exaggerate, fudge the truth, misremember, and so on to create something convenient.
01:20:40.000You know, as far as... They could do the most messed up thing and then gaslight you into, like, blaming yourself.
01:20:49.000You see it, I don't have any experience with this, but you see this on like TikTok where it's like a guy will catch his girlfriend cheating and then she'll like blame it on him and be like, you shouldn't have been home right now.
01:21:03.000You know, I see these TikToks where it's like Reddit.
01:21:07.000And it's like, what's the worst story you've ever heard?
01:21:09.000And it's somebody like playing Minecraft or something and then it's somebody replies and they're like, I saw one the other day where it's like, uh, the girlfriend was cheating and the, or no, it was the girl.
01:22:26.000When women tell me anything, I automatically assume they're lying or have ulterior motives.
01:22:31.000And especially when it concerns a billionaire, a president, a Supreme Court justice, the new CEO of Twitter, whatever, you can bet your ass they're lying.
01:22:43.000And basically, this is just a completely dysfunctional way for society to be run.
01:22:50.000That it's like a woman, any woman can make any allegation against any man and then that man is going to have his life ruined?
01:22:58.000I know this isn't like a hot take, this is basic like Me Too era type stuff, but seriously.
01:23:03.000Now they're gonna come out and say, oh, actually, Elon Musk, who before was a paragon of EVs and environmentalism and yadda yadda yadda.
01:23:13.000Oh, now he's, uh, now he's turning into Voldemort in real time.
01:23:42.000But, particularly in these situations, I don't believe it, and I basically just think it's a joke.
01:23:49.000And this is a big problem with, like, this consent society, is that
01:23:57.000You know, we've made our own bed with this.
01:24:01.000The entire paradigm which we have, from abortion to Me Too, sexual harassment, women in the workplace, we made our bed with feminism.
01:24:13.000Like, all of this is downstream from feminism.
01:24:17.000Because if women were not in the workforce, and if men and women were only having sex in marriage, or at least encouraged to do that and shamed if they weren't, you would resolve like 80-90% of these societal issues to keep cropping up.
01:24:36.000You could get rid of, you know, all this kind of stuff.
01:24:39.000There'd probably be no more rape for the most part, except for in rare circumstances.
01:24:46.000But you've got this society where men and women are just having sex all the time, strange women, strange men, and it's this casual sex type stuff, and men and women are having high exposure to each other, strange men and strange women having high frequency intimate exposure all the time in the workplace, generally in the society, and then we wonder why it turns into, you know, these
01:25:14.000These kinds of gender wars, these kinds of gender conflicts, we wonder then why society's consumed by malicious envy and these sort of predatory sexual allegations, and in some cases sexual predation itself.
01:25:27.000It's not to say it doesn't exist, but we're kind of inviting all these problems with this sort of liberal attitude we have about the whole thing.
01:26:38.000Like, it's not like, it's not like this is conventional, like... Do you know what I'm saying?
01:26:46.000He goes out there and makes this, he strikes at the belly of the beast, and he's narrating that he's doing this.
01:26:52.000You know, he's aware of it, he's narrating it, he's sort of providing the, uh, uh, what do you call that?
01:27:00.000In like a Greek play, when you have like a little, uh, you know, you had a choir, you know, a chorus singing, you know, narrating what's going on.
01:27:08.000So he, he's on, he's making a play at the regime, and he's narrating it for himself, for the audience, like breaking the fourth wall,
01:27:16.000Again, there's a self-conscious aspect to it.
01:27:17.000He's out there saying, yep, I'm going for them, and now they're gonna come for me.
01:28:03.000And I just don't understand how there are people that aren't, like,
01:28:07.000Like, how are you not watching things play out at that level?
01:28:11.000How could you still play at the level of the veil of ignorance?
01:28:16.000Like, watching this on TV and going, oh, oh, he got a sex scandal, oh boy, well, you know, maybe he's a bad guy.
01:28:23.000How are you not watching this at the level of, he's clearly attacking the regime's monopoly on information, he said they're gonna go after him and now they are.
01:29:10.000But there's still so many people trapped.
01:29:12.000It's just hard to believe that, like, I mean, I guess, I guess if people don't really pay attention, it makes no difference, but if you've been doing this for like six years like I have, five, six years, it's like, how did you not arrive at this destination yet?
01:29:59.000I mean, I could go on here and give the pretense of like, oh yeah, it's probably fake because, you know, they have an interest in taking him down.
01:30:07.000Even if it was true, honestly, who cares?
01:32:22.000There was an article that came out today that said that Trump threatened to, like, execute some woman in Michigan because she wasn't going to turn over the election results.
01:32:30.000Some state election official in Michigan came out today.
01:32:33.000Do you remember when they wouldn't turn over the election results back in, like, November 2020?
01:32:39.000And she came out and said, Trump said he was going to arrest me and charge me with treason and execute me.
01:34:02.000I'm pretty white-pilled about America first, and I'm also very white-pilled about the future of the country.
01:34:08.000I think that this is an electric moment, and we're going to have a chance to capture lightning in a bottle again in 2024.
01:34:17.000And look at how things are coalescing.
01:34:19.000Roe v. Wade, Russian war in Ukraine, Elon Musk possibly bringing us all back on Twitter, Donald Trump running again, maybe he'll be based again, maybe not, but maybe.
01:34:33.000There's a lot of positive things happening, and there's definitely a shift.
01:34:38.000I think the energy switched up like six months ago or something, and I definitely still feel it.
01:34:43.000And this time, America First is going to be a part of it.
01:34:45.000You know, a lot of people lately have been on the fear-uncertainty-doubt train, but consider it was just two months ago that we had Marjorie Taylor Greene, Paul Gosar, Wendy Rogers, Katherine McGeehan,
01:34:58.000Uh, Garrett Ziegler, who just dumped the Hunter Biden laptop.
01:35:01.000Some people are like, who's Garrett Ziegler?
01:35:03.000He just dumped the Hunter Biden laptop story.
01:35:05.000We had all these government officials, Joe Arpaio and AFPAC3, and now they're rolling with Madison Cawthorne.
01:35:11.000Now they're part of, like, this America First thing.
01:35:13.000Like, I don't need to spell it out for you exactly, but we're in a really sweet spot right now that we've never been in.
01:35:23.000And it's easy sometimes to take for granted our progress, but like a year ago, AFPAC 2 almost didn't happen, and we kind of swung the Gosar thing last minute.
01:35:34.000And the year before that, it was me, and Scott, and Michelle Malkin.
01:35:41.000And now here we are a couple years later, and we're a part of a real emerging coalition of like,
01:35:48.000Big shit people, like important people, politicians, influential pundits, and so on, that are comprising a real America First movement that, guess what, is talking about an immigration moratorium, is talking about the neocon endgame in Ukraine, is in some cases saying some things about foreign aid or whatever.
01:36:10.000Socially conservative, saying a lot of more base things about Christianity.
01:36:14.000You know, if you're really paying attention at the broad strokes over the past five years, the trajectory has only gone up.
01:36:22.000And it takes a lot of, it's a lot of subversion, it's a lot of FUD, and in my opinion, probably well-paid opposition that's trying to convince people otherwise.
01:36:32.000But the trajectory remains very positive for America First.
01:36:36.000And the position that we're in, we've never been in a stronger position.
01:36:40.000I don't know how people come off of AFPAC 3 and it's like, oh well that was two months ago.
01:36:45.000It's like, we had 1,200 people, we had nine government officials, we made hundreds of thousands of dollars, and a month later people are like, well there's some e-drama, so what do you have for me lately?
01:37:05.000Because at this point in time, what we have going is so precarious, that it's almost a good thing that it's kind of flying under the radar.
01:37:13.000It's almost a good thing that some people are saying, like, I'll count those guys out, they're not going to make it.
01:37:19.000Because I think if people are really paying close attention,
01:37:23.000It would honestly alarm people, I think, how much progress we're making, the inroads we're making.
01:37:32.000I'm not going to make the ADL's job easier for them, but in some sense it's almost a blessing in disguise that there's not a microscope on the exact manner in which we're making inroads and instead people are focusing on these sort of smoke screens and these other things going on.
01:37:53.000Because then they could thwart some things that are going on, and that gives us a chance to give them a rude awakening very soon.
01:38:00.000So, you know, that's always the delicate game that you play.
01:38:05.000I'm talking to you, I'm talking to, you know, six, seven thousand of my closest friends and followers, but I'm also talking to the media, who hangs on my every word.
01:38:13.000I'm also talking to the researchers that hang on my every word, and they're on my Twitter account, they're on my, they're on my ass on everything.
01:44:43.000I'm actually a really fun person if you just have the same interests as me.
01:44:48.000I'm actually really fun if I'm in a good mood.
01:44:51.000If I'm in a very specific mood which occurs like once every three weeks.
01:44:57.000Because I'm like the most moody person ever.
01:45:02.000And like 90% of the time I'm in like a very neutral or bad mood.
01:45:07.000And like 10% of the time I'm in like a jovial... maybe I'm bipolar.
01:45:11.000Because I guess it's sort of like manic depressive.
01:45:14.000I go through most periods I'm just sort of like
01:45:18.000Like, not emotive, not reactive at all, or depressive, or just straight up, like, furious.
01:45:25.000And then sometimes I'm just, like, on a manic streak.
01:45:30.000And I'm, like, I get... I'll, like, work... I'll do 90% of my work during, like, a manic episode over a two-day period, and then be unproductive the rest of the time.
01:45:43.000So when you catch me when I'm on my manic episode, I'm a really fun person.
01:45:48.000I'm funny, I have caffeine, I drink coffee, I'm caffeinated, and I'm great.
01:45:54.000And then every other time, you know, I'm probably gonna yell at you or snap at you because, you know, you asked me the same question twice.
01:46:03.000So... The mania is a blessing and a curse.
01:47:40.000All my haters, they're always like, you know, someone will crop up and they'll be like, I went to high school at Nick Fuentes, ask me anything.
01:47:46.000And they're like, did he shit his pants?
01:47:48.000Was he, was he, you know, this and that?
01:48:41.000And I looked at that tweet and I'm like, you fucking faggot.
01:48:44.000My private conversations are exactly what journalists think they are.
01:48:48.000They are exactly, they are more than what journalists think they are.
01:48:54.000You know, when we go on the show, I used to, like five years ago, I would say like, wow, journalists are calling me all these things, but I'm really just a nice guy.
01:49:03.000Five years into this fucking battle, five years into this war, you bet your ass my private conversations are worse than what journalists think they are.
01:49:14.000I can't tell you some of the stuff I've said to people.
01:49:19.000Because experience is the ultimate teacher.
01:49:21.000You could read a lot of stuff on Poll in 2016, and then you work in the real world, and you see what's up, and you achieve a far greater understanding.
01:49:54.000They're like, yeah, well, it's confirmed he's a millionaire and he, I think they were upset about the car because I think the girlfriend liked the car.
01:50:02.000The more that I think about it, I was thinking about it the other day and people, because I didn't watch the stream, but people said, he kept talking about your car.
01:50:31.000You know it was like going by a new car back in October with my assistant and he happened to be in town that week and the reason I bought a new car is because my old car I bought from my dad for like three grand it's a 2005 Mustang it had a hundred and fifty thousand miles on it
01:50:49.000And I had driven that since I was in high school, okay?
01:50:52.000I'm a millionaire, and up until October, I was driving a 16-year-old car with 150,000 miles on it that, like, the windows don't close, and the air conditioner doesn't work, and all this.
01:51:04.000And so, yeah, I went out and bought a nice car, and I wasn't gonna do that.
01:51:09.000The only reason I did is because I'm on the no-fly list.
01:51:13.000And so I thought, rather than rent cars, which costs thousands of dollars, rather than, do you know how expensive rental cars are now?
01:51:22.000If you want to rent a rental car for weeks, which is what you have to do if you drive to Florida or Texas or DC, it's costing you thousands of dollars.
01:51:30.000It's costing you thousands of dollars for a nice rental car for a week, and then you've got gas.
01:51:37.000And I thought, you know, it's partially a prop.
01:51:40.000If I go somewhere, it's part of the persona.
01:53:23.000And then, of course, when people go and talk about it, then you're forced into a position where it's like, now in order to defend myself, I have to reveal my legal situation, my financial situation.
01:55:37.000The money comes from the show that I do.
01:55:41.000So when you start doing the job that you have, you know, then I'll consider it, but you're like, you're lackadaisical, you're derelict, and you think I'm gonna pay you more, and you're counting my car payment?
01:56:11.000And honestly, a good purge is a good thing.
01:56:14.000Having a purge every now and again is a good thing because, and I noticed this was happening, these guys get into this thing and they get this unearned sense of superiority or status, and then they start, like, they get too comfortable.
01:56:31.000And, you know, guys that have been around for a long time are doing very little
01:56:36.000But they're waving their dick around like they're doing the most.
01:57:36.000And that was a consistent problem, was like these people gatekeeping, and not for good reasons, but gatekeeping based on like jealousy, gatekeeping based on jealously guarding their precious little spot, their little, rather than working for it, rather than earning it, because I'm pretty lenient, but jealously guarding, and there's no room for anybody and we want the pie.
02:00:00.000I put him onto the Groyper Action, and he benefited from this relationship, but he never wanted to give me, like, then the deference and respect that I was owed.
02:02:21.000Um, you know, and that and people that are not pulling their weight, people that are creating negativity, people that become a toxic force, people that are in it for themselves.
02:02:33.000You know, you can't have that in any kind of a team.
02:04:36.000I see somebody with potential, and I'm very good at recognizing upside and downside, and I try to nurture the upside, and I try to, you know, manage the downside.
02:07:29.000Some people it is their mission in life to lose and nothing will get in their way and you can't you can't get in their way either because they will take you to loser dumb with them.
02:07:40.000That's a very real phenomenon and the more the more that I've gone through life the more that I realize that.
02:07:46.000Attitude is so critical and keeping a positive headspace.
02:07:50.000You could be and I'm a very sober minded person.
02:07:55.000Uh, I would say I always think of, I'm pessimistic when I think about, when I appraise the situation, but I have an optimistic sort of, uh, you know, outlook on things.
02:08:09.000And, um, you know, to have, especially in the kind of thing that we're doing, negativity is just, it's gotta go.
02:08:17.000That's, you know, some of these younger guys struggle with that.