42: Dress For the Guy You Want to Be (with Boban Marjanović)
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code gil sent me so here we are we're here to help america's uh favorite podcast number one podcast in the united states of america i would say serbians favorite podcast yeah and we expect this we expect this there'll be a bump in serbia with uh boban marjanovic you say right you joined us now boban how do you pronounce his name

Don't look at the poster behind us. Get it. Get it. Yeah. You said it right. I know about get it, but get it. Big B and little G. Yeah. Together again. And kind of mediumish small J.

Thanks for coming in, man. Thank you for having me, guys. For those who do not know Bowman, he's a professional basketball player. You're on the Houston Rockets right now. You had practice today. Yes. He came after practice, which we appreciate. And the other thing about Bowman, how I know him, is he's a great actor. Wow. He was in my movie, and I was telling Gareth before you got here, but I wrote it with you in mind.

You were the only guy I wanted for it, and I appreciate you doing it. You're awesome in the movie. Everybody who sees it, it's a real standout scene. So thanks for doing the movie. Yeah, you're great in the movie. Thank you very much. Thank you for nice words coming from you. And I know you as director, producer, and you're the main character in the movie. I really have a great, great experience. A lot of advice from you. Thank you on that.

And I really like, I really enjoy. No basketball advice, right? Just acting. No basketball advice. But you know, like, I think we like, we like learning every single day, something new. And this is like, this is what I hear this, this couple of nice words. This is like, make me like, yeah, even, even you feel proud and confident in a basketball court outside walking on the street, that type of things. What I think with you, man, is when your basketball career is over, push into the act,

Can you guys put me in the show? Yes. That's why we're doing this, man. You got that thing, man. You're great. Well, I hate to interrupt, guys, but we have a caller on the line. Okay. If you want to have him join. Sorry, I talk too much. No, perfect. No, you talk the right amount. And you said Jake gave you great advice. Amazing advice. So that's what this show is. So we're going to give advice to whoever helps. We are going to give advice. We get advice. Okay. I guess you guys pass him that. Yeah. All right. Here we go. Hello, caller. Welcome to the podcast. We're here to help.

One pause. He's only doing the notebook because I do it. It's not. He's not a notebook guy. You ever seen the movie Twins? Yes. It's like us. Have you ever seen the movie Single White Female? No. That's really like us. It's where I kill Jake at the end. I try to kill Jake at the end. Yesterday we did this and I was wearing this shirt and I mostly don't look great when we do our Zooms and Gareth goes, you look

good today. And I go, I said, thanks. Today he showed up. He's wearing the same clothes as me. Do you think that I would imagine that Jake's going to wear the same shirt two days in a row? Let's go to the caller, please. All right. And me too. Yeah, you too. We'll switch shirts after this. We'll see what happens. You look a little cooler than us. We look similar. All right.

Come on, we both look great. We all look great. We look okay. We look great. Let's go believe in them. All right, caller. Sorry about that. We just had to get some business out of the way. You're on, as usual, with Jake and Gareth, and we have a very special guest.

professional basketball player, actor, Boban Marjanovic is with us as well. 7'4". 7'4". Yes, and the man is a 7'4 actor and basketball player. Okay, so he's a triple threat. I see why this relates to my question now. Well, I got to tell you, we don't know your question. Yeah. So Gareth, Boban, and myself are in the dark. So where are we at here? What's your name, please? Yep. I'm Juliana.

Hi, Juliana. Hi, Juliana. Where are you from? I can't do you writing the notes to me. I have to write them. We're in a fucking two-shot dress tonight. It's adorable. No, Gareth. On the next. Gareth, you know I love your weirdness. This is where we both write. I know. Well, you've got a cute pencil. Just stop.

You guys both cute. Thank you, bro. You guys look cute, dress nice. I love this guy. This guy's been my guy for 20 years. This is too much. I'm missing my brother. Hey, hold on. I've known this guy for 20 years. This is too much. Hey. Hey, come on. What are we doing here? Good looking. Hey, good looking. Hey, how are you, pal? Hey, good looking. Hey, sweetheart. If when you walked in, Chuck,

Try it. He was laughing every time. If you walked in and I go, hey, man, great to see you. And Gareth said this. Hey, man, great to see you. Self-reliance was so much fun. We've got to do that again. No, no, no. As you. Oh, okay. Hey, honey pie, how you doing? No, the thing you said off camera that you were going to try. Hey, big guy. Oh, you little chicken shit. He was going to say this. He wanted to say something better. He wanted to say this. Hey.

Hey, big dick, how you doing? You must have a big old dick. And I said, I wouldn't do it. He's a nice guy, but it's not going to land. And Gareth said, I should try it. And I go, just don't. Because Boba, Jake was talking about how his dad used to, to guys, be like, hey, cutie pie. My father used to say to men. So I wasn't just going like, hey, he's going to walk in. I'm going to go, hey, big dick.

My father used to say to men, he would call men good looking. So he would say, without it being a joke, he'd go like, hey, sweetheart, how you doing? Good looking. Hey, honey. And men would respond to him affectionately. Yes. So then Gary said, I should try it. I should say, hey, good looking. Yes. And then he said, I should say when he walks in, hey, big dick. And we got there slowly. But you see, there was some machinations that led up to this. And I would sit like this. Yeah.

We bring out an extra chair. The other thing that's weird is that today he's dressing like me and now doing a notepad and crossing his leg. It's too much, Garth. Juliana, we're really excited to have you on the show. You're on with Jake, Jake, and Boban. Can we get your age roughly and where are you calling from?

I'm 20 and I'm calling from Massachusetts. All right. What can we help you with? I'm in college right now. I'm studying to be an elementary school teacher. But the thing is, I'm very short. I'm 4'10". 4'10"? Okay. 4'10"? Yes. Okay. And so kids are constantly questioning my age and everything. They say what they want to say.

The kids kind of just say whatever's on their mind, which I've gotten used to. But the thing that I'm more worried about is teachers thinking I'm a student and me like walking down the halls and then telling you to get back to class or something. So you're four foot 10 and I don't know elementary school sizes, but what's the average size? Is that a first through fifth? Elementary is first through sixth technically. Okay.

I'm looking to do grades more like first through third. Honestly, a big reason is we will be smaller. So like there might be a little bit more of a height difference. But sixth grade, I'm like roughly the size of a sixth grader.

Can I say something? You know, like I have, I understand you because like I'm on a different side because like I'm really like from beginning, from beginning of my life, I was like tall, tall, tall, tall person. And they think I'm like the smartest and like the oldest guy in the group. Never mind if I'm on the youngest than everybody else. Sorry for my English, by the way. But I want to say, because I learned that to my all my years and my all my experience is

because it depends how great heart you are and how you believe in yourself and what is your confident passion. If you try to be what you want to be, this is who you will be. Don't listen to what people say, how people look around because if you listen every time that, you will every time think about that and you will not be happy.

Is imagine you need to be happy who you are and with your heart with your knowledge what you can be what you can bring and like Look from the bright side that is beautiful advice Gareth. Listen to it next time you get dressed for one of these Be yourself. Yeah, you're beautiful. Yeah. Yeah, you might be a little bit littler than yeah, but don't dress like yeah And then do the stuff I do. Yeah, I'm a two-shot. Yeah, I

But maybe he wants to be like you. Maybe he's his idol. Because you're like, he wants to be like you. He's like my little brother. He was like, that shirt is so nice. That's what he did. I need to buy it. Well, I did see the shirt. And yesterday, what I wish he did is what you gave the advice. Bowman Advice is perfect. Believe in yourself. And that is go with your heart. Listen to yourself. And have your inner confidence

confidence of who you are gareth yep and if that dress for that don't dress for the job you want dress for the guy you want to be so it's so it's it's basically it's it's talking about manifesting what you want so so what

Go ahead. I like this. Yeah. So, so it's basically what I'm saying is, you know, I, I don't need to necessarily dress out of my comfort zone. I just need to dress for who I want to be. And I want to be Jake. So you got dressed today.

What were you thinking? I was thinking, you know, like, I'll dress what they can fit. Whatever fits you'll wear. I was like, what they bring on the road, this is what they can fit. So, Julian, I got a question for you because I do think this ties back to you. So one of the things I think is going to set you apart from a fourth grader is what you wear. Right. Right? So I got kids who are 10 years old and their outfits are definitely the outfits of children. So potentially, four,

4'10 is not tiny. Maybe it's you do the bullion thing where you listen to your heart, you have your confidence. God bless that. But you lean in to dressing and looking like an old lady teacher. Juliana, you're 20 years old. You're a kid. When you are at school, you're not a 22-year-old co-ed who just started teaching who's cute. You're a 65-year-old lady. You lean in. Cardigans. Do you wear glasses? I do.

I do sometimes, yeah. Well, you do every day at work. You do now all the time. And the glasses have the chain. And you get an old lady frame. Yeah, you got a chain. You get the old lady frame. But, Juliana, it sounds like we're doing a joke here, but we're really pitching, and here's why. If you look like an old lady, and I'm not talking about wear the gray wig, but you lean into the kind of clothes that are not fashionable, they're comfortable.

You get shoes that are meant for comfort, not aesthetic. Yeah. You get loose fitting slacks that don't flatter the body. You get a sweatshirt that's fine and you wear your hair in a way that is okay. Maybe a gray streak if you're really looking for it. And you wear glasses with a little chain. You bring a gross bag lunch.

And all the kids go, that's definitely our teacher. You don't like this. I love my teacher. It's part of Boban's advice. I think my advice is a little bit better, but I can agree with you. No, I think you're right. Like, listen. Yeah. So he more talk about, like, outside. I talk about more inside. Yes, but that's why we're a good team. And Gareth just does what I do on the outside. Yeah, but Jake, like Boban's saying, the outside doesn't matter. So why are you so hung up on the outside?

on what I wear. Because that's what this calls about. So Juliana is afraid that the outside and correct me if I'm wrong, Juliana, I'm asking, not telling is that this career you want to do, you're afraid that the other kids are going to go, Miss Juliana is us and they're not going to show respect.

They're not going to show you authority? I think the one that just scares me the most is teachers mistaking me for a child and how I would respond to them. Yeah, but that's one of those things that

It happens a couple times and then they know. Yeah. What were you thinking, Moa? No, I said like we everybody kids, you know, like I'm 35 years old and we like, we are kids. We are kids in the cart. Yeah. You can never change that. You every time hear that, this is because you get great with the kids. Yeah, but also I'm going to stand with you guys are both pushing this under the rug. It's very embarrassing to be a teacher with your students and have another teacher go, hey, all you guys sit down now. Yeah.

And then when Juliana doesn't sit, they go, I'm looking at you, yellow shirt. And it's the gym teacher who goes, hey, young lady, get your butt down. And you go like, I'm Mrs. Watson. That's humiliating.

I mean, you're basically asking her to Mrs. Doubtfire at her school. So the question is, are you down to like, I think some glasses, anything that'll subtly age you up, but wearing non-flattering slacks and dressing, like having like eight brooches on your top.

t-shirt i am the teacher or yeah yes holy shit or a name tag because they asked me how tall i am i i think to do like my tattoo here i'm seven four don't ask me how it's weather up there wait but hold on hold on juliana i actually think that's a really fun idea for when you start a job

And that is a shirt that says, I might be little, but I'm the teacher. Because it's going to spread with the other teachers. People are going to laugh at it. It's going to show your personality that you're not sensitive about your. I like it. But it's going to say, and then it's preventing you from wearing the outfit that I pitched that nobody seems to like. But I did think was going to win. Well, it's when you said unflattering slacks that I think we all dropped a little. It's a close second. But I think that the funny T-shirt might be better for.

Yes, really? Yes. I like it a lot. Oh, what else? And you can sell you can sell the t-shirts like down on the school. Now you got a merch line. Yeah. This is a businessman. Oh, my God. We can sell it. You can make a lot of money. We were all in the room when the idea happened, my friend. So, Juliana, do you think there's a reality of possibly when you start this thing wearing a shirt?

that says something funny such as, I may be short, but I'm the teacher? I honestly could see myself doing that. I definitely have become a lot more comfortable with my height. Like,

Like, I think when I was a kid, obviously, I was more sensitive, but I'm really fine with it now. I make fun of myself all the time. My friends, you know, tease me about it and I'm really fine with it. So I feel like that's definitely something I would do a little bit more than the Mrs. Doubtfire route. That sounds right. Yeah. If you're down to do that, I mean, I think that's really funny and a really good way to kind of handle it. Do you feel like it's either a shirt? You could also do a pin.

Right. The reason I say a pin is this. So Gareth is right. I have one nice shirt that I wear for all my press. And now I'm considering we have one. And now that Gareth is wearing the same shirt as me, I'm realizing I probably need a second shirt. We need it. So my, my comment to you, now you understand what the show is. The show is called. We're here to help. What it should be called is I need help. Please help me. I need help. I need help.

But here's what I'm saying about the pin. You wear the pin the first week of school every day because you can't wear the shirt every day, but you can wear the pin and it can be something that becomes fun for the other teachers. Do you have anything, Bowman, where you'll do? Because obviously at your height, that's a big focus of conversation. When you go, everybody's interested. I know you're a really warm guy when you came on set

you say hi to everybody when you walked in here. A lot of people don't do what you do, but you introduce yourself to everybody. Is that partly to make everybody comfortable or is that just your personality? I think this is my personality and on the end, like, you want to be comfortable with the guy who you meet, but

right now because we talk about her she can be so mad because I have mad teachers that she's angry on everything like how why you do that why you do that like do this do this why you do your homework sit down I don't want to listen to you anymore like you need to show how to say authority yes you need to show authority this is because I married I married my wife like 5'4

5'4", and between us, it's a big difference. Just know, I know how she do to me. It's because you can try with that kid. So she just... There's almost a Juliana difference between the two of you. She just gets aggressive early. She's the chihuahua and dominates you. This is what they want. Do this.

And stop laughing at the teachers or like friends or colleagues. Does your wife have a button, a little sign that says, I may be smaller than you, but I'm the boss? No, she don't care. I see that in the eyes. She don't need to care. So, Juliana, there's two things. And I think he's right there. And obviously, you know this because you're going to school for it. But the authority you will put over the kids obviously is going to fix that issue. I've had smaller teachers I was disrespectful to and bigger teachers.

You're going to have some asshole kids like me and Gareth. You don't have a chance no matter what. I was good. You were good. But then you're going to have some bobas who are going to be good kids. I don't know. Can't remember. But I think the pin or the shirt is for the other teachers. Yeah, I think so too.

I like to think I'm pretty good with kids and, you know, other, like my family members and my friends and stuff will not hesitate to say, I definitely have a big personality. I don't have a hard time opening my mouth and saying how I feel. So the authority thing, I think I actually got, but more just the kind of possible, inevitable embarrassment of a teacher thinking I'm a student, but I really liked the idea of like a pin or a funny t-shirt, you know, making fun of it. Well,

Well, I got to say, this is your victory here, sir. It's your advice. You're one for one. Me? I said Mrs. Doubtfire. This is how we do. Yeah. You won the call. Our recommendation is coming from Boban. He's saying a shirt or a pin. Sounds like you're going to take it. If anybody asks where you get the idea. Give them my phone number and tell them to call me. He's got two phones. One of the phones. Call him on one of his two phones. Thank you very much for the call. We appreciate you.

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Hello. Welcome to We're Here to Help You On with Jake Johnson. Gareth Reynolds, who are you, where are you, and how old are you, roughly? Okay, I am Luke. I'm coming to you from Edmonton, Alberta.

And I am 38 years old. So far, sounds like things are really great. Luke, I don't see a problem. I've got no notes. What's going on, man? Okay, well, I've just got this one weird hobby that... I see a potential problem. There's blood in the water. Here we go. Weird hobby. I don't know... Good for us, bad for you, my friend. ...where it's been in my life now. All right, talk to us. So I'm...

Pretty good with a Rubik's cube. Whoa. Love this. And I've been solving them for a while. Sure. I'm pretty fast now, usually about 30 seconds or so. No kidding. Good for you. You're one of those people. Very jealous. Now, are you keeping the stickers on or are you taking them off?

That's not what Smart People would ask. Let me talk to him, man. Let me talk to him more of a pro model. Yes. Yeah, okay. I'm so sorry. Because I can do one real quick, just if you can remove the stickers. The key is you got to make sure that they still have adhesive. But go ahead. You're doing it the old-fashioned way. Respect. Love it. Well, I can. I also have a lot of stickerless models to sort of evade that. That's so crazy. It doesn't have stickers to take off. All right, Luke. So you're really good at a Rubik's Cube.

Uh, I can't go down there. All those stickers, stickers. I think honestly, people who can do stuff like this, I find you guys really impressive. You have great brains.

Thank you. I think I don't include you in that. You're definitely a guy who would take all the stickers off and do it in post. Yeah, yeah. You got a fake cube in your back pocket. And it would still take you a while. Oh, yeah, it takes ages. A problem with a guy like me is I think that you're all lying and it's impossible to fix these things. They're not meant to be solved. Oh, my God. That's even darker. I'm like, not a chance. I go, I've tried it, but I go like this. I turn this cube around. I can't even get the tube to cube. I'm like, nah, I'm out. This doesn't work. It's not real life. So go ahead, Luke.

What's the problem? You're great at a Rubik's Cube. Yeah. Anybody can learn how to do it in like an hour or two if they want to. Not true. That will take them like two minutes to solve probably. Not accurate. We'll get into your problem in a minute here, but you are downplaying the skill. I think the problem might be you're a little bit

insecure about how good your brain is. You're up there in Canada being like, oh, it's not a problem. We could all do it if you put your mind to it. Well, the SAT is pretty easy. Oh, not a problem. Well, that was easy. All those IQ tests I used to take as a kid, yeah, sure, I was in Mensa, but I wasn't like the top of it. Oh, come on. Everyone can move books with their mind. It's not a skill. I'm just a regular guy. So I can see through walls and see what's on the other side. So Luke,

What is the issue here, my friend? Well, the issue is I just kind of don't know where that it fits into my everyday life because the scene of cube people. Oh, boy. Tough to hear. They're like mostly prepubescent math nerd boys and stuff. Sure. Interesting. I don't fit in there so much as a 38-year-old man. Yeah. I got you. It could be potentially pretty helpful if like I wanted to, you know,

you know, impress clients or something like that in my professional life. What is your profession? You don't just whip out a good stuff. So I help associations and nonprofits. So I have quite a nonprofit. So you think to close a deal, you could be like, look, running a nonprofit is a complicated puzzle, but yeah,

but complicated puzzles are not as crazy as they seem. Good Lord, Luke. You could do it if you did like a 30 second commercial. Yeah, yeah. So you are really good at Rubik's Cubes. You can solve them in 30 seconds and you're wondering what?

How can I make this fit into my daily life as an adult man? Meaning what? Like it's a kid's toy for the most part. Yes. But do you enjoy doing it? I do. Yeah. And I'm getting, I keep drilling and trying to get faster and beat my times and stuff like that. Yeah. So my guy,

There's the amount of embarrassing hobbies that human beings do a third of them are Olympic sports these days right then You go this isn't real life what you guys are doing and they go yes It is I'm actually a champion at it, and you go oh It's just a weird hobby that you're into your hobby shows something that I personally think would be in an attractive trait and that is

You're pretty smart and you're pretty clever. But he's asking for daily applicability in, I mean, you can't, there isn't one. Yeah, but you also don't need it. You don't have to walk, I mean, are you a weirdo? Do you walk around with it all the time? Are you doing it 19 hours a day or do you just do it sometimes?

if I'm going on the plane or on the bus, I might whip it out. Yeah. No, wrong, wrong. Let me tell you. Yes. If I'm sitting next to someone on the plane and they're doing a Rubik's cube, a conversation started. I'm like, get the duct tape. Not me. This person needs to be taped to the chair. Just for the safety of it. It's not normal. If I sat next to someone on a

playing and they were continuously rubik's cubeing. How about some little geek playing game boy who's 38? Way more normal. That's what I mean, but it's worse. It's weird. I'm just being honest. But I'll tell you what, Luke, I play on my phone nonstop chess. Okay. And if this is a rubik's cube, it's still taking me nine hours to solve it. Yeah. But I'm always constantly in between stuff. It would be one thing if there was a guy sitting next to me doing a rubik's cube.

Okay, this guy brought a little... If a guy is doing it over and over again, I'm like, this is weird. Not me. I'm thinking, this guy has a skill set. Now, is there anything that you could do? Are there competitions, Luke? Oh, no. I'm nowhere near competition. Like, when I say 30 seconds and you hear, that's good. It's like, pro level is like five seconds. But here's what I'm saying. No, but here's what I'm saying.

You're going after something. So you're not going to be the top. That's great. But you have a hobby. And this hobby is trying to put together a Rubik's cube in five seconds and you're at 30. So if you shave your time to 25, that's interesting. If I'm your friend and we're in a bar,

One of the questions I'm asking is how's work at the nonprofit? Everything's good. How about you? Yeah, pretty good. My back's hurting. I'm balding. I don't know if I mentioned that. And you go, yeah, you've mentioned it. And I go, it's really bad under bright lights. Let's keep it on him because we're. I agree. Yeah. Then I'm going to say. The fact that you have a real life fear of lights is not great, but we'll talk. Not great here. And then, then Luke. I'm missing it too. It looks good.

I'm telling you, it's going to help your standard. Whoa. Hey, look at me with a full head of hair. Wow. Tommy Selleck all of a sudden. To complete the picture, I'm balding too. I don't know if that's- Of course we are, Luke. So here's what I'm saying to you in the bar. And here's my point is after we get through the small talk about our hair, which we'd get in, and there's some pills you can do, my guy. I'll talk to you about that at the bar. Then I'm saying, what's your time on the cube?

And if you go, I'm at 28 seconds, I go, you fucking shaved two seconds, my guy. Then you're saying, how's the chess? And I go, I got beat by a nine-year-old. And you're going, why? And I go, because my brain's not good enough to compete at a high level like you. But let's get you down to 20. Let's get my rating up to a 900, which is humiliating. But that is such a... That is it. Other than bringing the cube out, which is a no. Which is a maybe. Which is a no. And talking about it, there's really not much else to it. What you really need is... Like...

There is a community for this stuff. Right. Right. But he said they're little guys. Yeah. I want to hang out with a bunch of little guys. I'm like double the age of everybody. Yeah, I agree. And I think there are, there are, there's a cube, a cube beauty. Are you looking for a community? Cube munity.

Because I don't want to go down this weird road. I don't think you're asking, how do I make friends in the cube community? But I also don't want him going to a bar like he's read the game and he's showing up with a Rubik's Cube. Facts. Okay. So I wouldn't do this as like a pickup thing. This isn't your peacocking. Put it as a necklace. And wear a goofy hat. Yeah, wear a big hat. Call yourself Cube. Or Rubik's. Luke Cube. I was just going to say, if I was going out to a bar to, maybe if it came up naturally that like,

Somebody planted it so that it was there when I arrived and it wasn't me just pulling it out of my pocket. By the way, if that happened to me at the bar, then I think you're a weirdo because I know you planted it. Luke, if someone finds out that you are Rubik's Cube planting and pre-placing... Then you're the weirdest.

Listen, we're, we're, you got to keep this as organic and natural as possible. No, my vote is yes. Do that Luke. Everywhere you go. Kevin, do not listen to Kevin right now. You are not showing up. Hey, whoa. Would you look at that? They got one of those bar Rubik's cube. And then your friend goes, so what man? Anyhow, the way I was talking about my, my mother's having really bad back pain. Oh man. Oh,

Oh, 30 seconds. Not anyone could do that. Thank God they had that here. Anyway, so I don't really know what to do with my mom. I'm going to rearrange it again. Did you hear what I said about my mom's back? Yeah, that's a complicated puzzle back surgery. You know what else is, but not to me? This one. Look at that. So, Luke, in closing, I think we got to get out of this because my pitch to you is you don't have a problem. You have a skill.

I would not overly lean into it because it's not a highly celebrated skill. I would not plant a Rubik's cube in places you go. If you walk into a Chipotle and then go like, hey, can I get a chicken ball with brown rice? Look at this. You're a weirdo. Each section, I'm resolving it.

But the ability to have something that you can do in 30 seconds like this, I think it's pretty great. I would say don't join the community. I see this as a non-issue. Keep going. And when you're at 22 seconds, I'd like you to call. I'd like you to film yourself doing it. Send it to the show and we would love to repost it. But if it's over 22 seconds, you need more practice. You're a joke.

Luke, I think that this is a home skill. I'm not going to show up to a bar with a slinky for a reason. These are little toys. Because you can't do it right. I can too. You throw it up the stairs or something like that. Exactly. Put it in an elevator. Stickers is your new nickname. Yeah.

I've got like two of the stickers on my face. I'm like, boy, I came pretty close, but it's not fully full yet. I think this is something just I think I kind of there is a Venn diagram of our advice here. Keep it at home. Keep getting better at it. I do think there's a community, which I think we obviously have to copyright of people who are probably more your age who are into this. If you wanted to engage in that, I think there's a way to do that.

But I also think this is one of those things that, you know, it's more of a home thing. I don't think you should be taking it out to the bar. I mean, if you want to talk about it to someone is a 10 second conversation. I know if my buddy kept bringing up the Rubik's Cube, I'd be like, I'm good. Yeah. You know what I mean? So I just think don't feel don't feel like you necessarily need to exploit this. Just enjoy it for what it is. And then, Luke, I'm going to add three seconds to my time and ask you when you get down to 25 seconds.

to please film yourself and send it in. I could shoot for something a little, like 20, sub 20. If you go sub 20, I'm going to lose my fucking mind. Let's go. If you get sub 20, Luke, I'm going to lose my top, my guy. Because that's a real time. Okay. If you get 19 seconds, I'm going to freak out. He's going to be peeling the stickers off. I can tell already. No peeling. I recognize a sticker peeler when I talk. Luke, thank you for the call, my friend. Good luck out there. Hey, thank you. All right, Will. All right, take care. Bye. Bye. Bye.

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