E394 Yannis Pappas
Episode Stats
Length
2 hours and 5 minutes
Words per Minute
193.1645
Hate Speech Sentences
244
Summary
Comedian Giannis Papas joins me to talk about his new show, Mom Love, and his new comedy special, Long Days. We also talk about the NBA Playoffs, and what it's like to be at an adult party.
Transcript
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We hope you're enjoying your Air Canada flight.
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Fast-free Wi-Fi means I can make dinner reservations before we land.
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All right, I want to let you know that I've got some tour dates coming up.
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As well, I'll be in Florida, Hollywood, Fort Myers, Daytona Beach, and Lakeland,
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But he has a new special on YouTube called Mom Love.
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I'm grateful to get to spend some time with him.
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What's dicey to me is if they get those little sandwiches
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So a lot of my listeners might not even know you
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But yeah, it's the first time we've been in the flesh
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I think two people are either going to fight or fuck
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Because I think nobody ever hears that statement
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Did you ever go to any of the recovery meetings
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Wanted him to know what he said was triggering I wanted him to the next time he should consider first running his material by people it could affect can you imagine the arrogance of that statement well if this guy's buyer you know the male side of him should have fricking attacked him
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He should have attacked himself before he said it
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Well it's just I don't you can't you can't then you don't need to listen to this man go listen to a man or woman that you really enjoy I think
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I thought they hired somebody to do this I really really did
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I also like thought that with the slap you know Hollywood's 9-11 the Will Smith and Chris Rock slap at first I was like that's fake I think a lot of people thought
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Because I guess a lot of people you know we stage shit now everything everyone's got to make a spectacle
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I mean the news even does that right they just create a spectacle with their headlines and their
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Fear mongering and all that because it gets views we're all competing to get attention
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You're like did they stage that for attention? There's always a
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But I'm even if I'm if I'm somebody I don't have anything going on you're like hey
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Some guys are gonna break a couple of your bones. Can you handle it?
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So you say even though you got beat it there is a chance it could still be
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It could still be fake. Oh, I I i'm not saying that it definitely is but I would not have been shocked
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Yeah, that would take a take an ass whooping and go potentially he's not gonna go to jail
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That's I heard he's getting out, but I mean it happened in los angeles, right?
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I feel like that's what happens in los angeles criminals get out
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So I mean, uh, especially if he says he was triggered by jokes
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I feel like they go like oh we we must have had the wrong guy
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But then I guess if you're trans say if you're trans and this guy's in trans
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You know, you know, I'm saying like if you're really on that side of the boat
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No, john brown was uh, the dude who attacked the armory to protest slavery
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He was down for the like he did the crazy like kind of suicide mission
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But it's are people like heroizing this guy or the gay and trans community hero heroizing him?
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I don't know. That's a good question. I don't know
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I don't know how they I think he just came out saying this
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So maybe they're maybe they're having their meeting now to figure out
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Maybe they're having their media meeting to go like oh, you know now we can
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Now we can like him. I don't know what they're doing
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Oh, yeah, because he's adding in also plus jokes earlier in the night
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Made by an opener talking pediophilia rocked lee as well
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Well, that's one of the side effects of being a damn minor these days
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You got to get into a better industry if you guys are underground somebody's gonna touch your ass on the way up
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Disconcerting how much of that is going on like how much
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I love how the guy's arm is out of socket and they still cough him
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Seems a little redundant. Yeah, I mean his arm is backwards
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I mean, it looks like he's an action figure and like you pop it out
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Different way that's 200,000 man. They spat on me and twisted me as if on purpose
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Yeah, no, they definitely they definitely didn't do it on accident
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They didn't break your arm on accident man good at least he's aware of that
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I told him my mother and grandmother who fought for his civil rights to be able to speak would be upset at the things he said
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This is a perfect example of what you were talking about earlier where things go kind of this full circle way where it's like
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It's like you want to get these freedoms, but at a certain point that kind of like get too free. Yeah, yeah
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Like uh, yeah, you're like dude, don't you you know
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Do you know how contradictory what you're saying?
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You're saying my grandparents fought for this right you're like, yeah, that's why he's a
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multi-millionaire comedian speaking freely, right?
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Who's black, right? Exactly like that's the end of the right like yeah, that's at a certain point the end
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That's you're doing you're doing what the cops would do to him back then or maybe sometimes now
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But you're doing what like white america would have done to him back then
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So what you're saying makes no fucking sense you're being the bad person, but he doesn't see that he has no awareness
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Yeah, yeah, he's shutting down a black man doing comedy getting paid millions of dollars having being adorned by all these people who have paid to see him
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you're stopping that because uh, you think you're doing it for civil rights. It's twisted logic
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Well, it's interesting because it's like what's the thing then is it the vet the fact that you don't want him to like
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Like if the money's not involved then it kind of changes it. What do you mean? Well, I guess like
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You want him to be able to speak and I don't know what I'm saying exactly
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Well, you're saying them if the money's not involved well
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Well, it's like civil rights like you want to you know freedom of speech like your grandma
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He says my grandmother fought for his freedom of speech, right? Right?
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Why did he do it? What's his reasoning why he did it?
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And what determines like is it what determines if his speech is?
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Free or not like at what point is it the fact that he's making I don't know what i'm saying exactly
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Well, I mean the ridiculous thing is he's making jokes, right?
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So that's a weird it means your society's in a weird place
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Because right, this is specifically a place where he's making jokes. He's making jokes, man
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I mean he says on the sign it's like this is a comedy show. It's a comedy weekend
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I mean if even this guy knows that I mean dave chapelle's a comedian
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Dave chapelle does not work at a auto body shop
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Yeah, he's a comedian. Everyone knows who he is
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People aren't paying to go watch him fix a car. They're watching him do jokes
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And so when comedians are getting attacked you start going like oh society may be getting a little unhealthy
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They would keep a gesture around to keep them honest to tell them the truth with jokes
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That's what we do. We sugarcoat the truth a little bit
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So it's like, you know, I just want to say like hey, maybe the jester's right, right?
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We kind of put a little candy over the truth like
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You know, yeah, if you don't want to hear the jester anymore, then that's a little bit strange and there's something something strange
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Something's off. That's society's not healthy and it's the black community keeps attacking their own kind. Yeah, which is bizarre
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All right, what else we got any other good news story came in
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Sometimes it's nice to podcast because I don't have to go deal with the rest of my life
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Isn't that crazy? Even though it's a great life. It's like I just have to make choices and do things
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I think the same reason why you listen to a podcast or watch a movie
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It's like sometimes it's like you just don't want to have to
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No, but I know what you're saying is right now you're in the moment. You're not thinking about yeah tough stuff
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Yeah, that's what i'm saying. Yeah, I'm just not having to think about tougher stuff, you know
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My sister's trying to buy a house. I'm gonna help her look at that
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It's like i'm have to make choices about you know all cool stuff, but it's like
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There just feels like less responsibility right now
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But that's why the audience probably connects with it so much because you like you said you're doing the same thing they're doing
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We're both taking a break. Yeah, you're taking a break the audience taking a break
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And when it's over it's like oh right now I gotta go help my sister buy a house. I gotta get back to shit
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There's probably someone watching right now who also is helping their sister buy a house
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Yeah, here's an interesting one new york high court to determine if bronx zoo elephant is a person
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I mean, how would they even mix those two up? How would they
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If it was a person, how did they get how did they get to a point where an article needed to be written that they were going to investigate whether it was true?
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How do you mistake those two things? One's like 10 tons. The other is like 300 pounds if it eats fast food
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Can she can the elephant be considered a person?
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A question was before new york's highest court wednesday in a closely watched case of whether a basic human right can be extended to an animal
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Oh, so it's more that. Okay. It's more the rights of the animal
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You know, this goes back to like black. Have you seen that movie black?
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It's about like black something happened to black fish even like whenever
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With the zoo and they put them in there in san diego and people got upset about it
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The animal's safer in this space, but is it getting
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I think that's the question and it's almost the same thing we've been talking about with humans
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There's bumpers on everything. There's insurance. There's lawyer. There's you're as safe as you could be
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a little thing in it where it also sorts coins on the side of it, right? Like
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Natural experience that's almost what's happening here, right? Right is are we not fulfill is it the most fulfilling?
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Yeah, the non-human rights project wants her to move from a one acre prison at the zoo to a more spacious sanctuary
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Because with all these things they're like just set them free
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Yeah, well, this doesn't even sound like they're returning them to their natural habitat where they'd be this just is like they're getting
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They're just they're upgrading their from a condo to a mansion
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They'd still have that same safety or whatever. Yeah, I'd say maybe the more humane thing ironically would be to put them back into the
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Is suited for nature where it can look around, you know, because elephants can intimidate lions, you know, yeah, and that probably makes them feel good and now they don't have that
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That's taken away, you know, yeah, that must build an elephant self-esteem when lions come around and be like, you know, we're hungry
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Yeah, like if someone came up, like if we had to survive against predators that were trying to kill us, like back in the day, like hyenas, saber-toothed tigers
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And then there was a dude who figured out a way to like effectively keep them at bay
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Who would be, would there be a judge, some sort of judge that came in and be like, dude, dude, dude, you can't advance that much
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But then even having that judge is kind of advanced
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So it's uh, it's a, you can't get out of the quagmire
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Right, this is almost, is this the best case scenario where we are?
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Dude, if we're just left to deal with predators with jiu-jitsu
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Because that's essentially what we're advocating for
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One more generation, we'll have some freaking gangsters out there
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I think, um, there's, I mean, there's old stories of Dustin Poirier beating, you know, 20 raccoons outside of a bar in Lafayette
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Look, there's a, there is, there's a lot of, I think, mythology out there about humans fighting animals, you know?
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Because we, I mean, they try, like, or is this the best?
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Which makes you, like, think and immerses you in the game of, like, survival
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I always like the idea that people can do, like, if somebody wants to fight an animal with a knife or something
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I don't, sometimes with the hunting stuff, I'm not an anti-hunter at all, like
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But I would love to see more hand-to-hand combat with animals
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I feel like we'd lose a lot, though, is my only problem
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Every week there's a video of some guy losing to a goose at a damn local watering hole
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There's some guy's kid getting his, one of his ears nipped off by a damn goslin or whatever
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It's still fucking, it's got that animal strength always
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It's got the advantage, and that's why I think, like, we'll always invent a knife
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We were not the apex predator for most of our existence
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Only the past couple thousand years did we figure some shit out
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We didn't figure it out until we teamed up with dogs
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They did recon for us, and like, yo, bad shit's coming
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And then we were able to, they gave us some time to sit around and think about it
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Because you can't figure out how to build a knife when you're constantly being hunted
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You can't, you know, you can't do your best work when you're anxious
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I know you may feel past those in some ways or whatever
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Watch some more Giannis Papas if you're not familiar with him
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They weren't so thin that they're damn near gone
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