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America First with Sebastian Gorka Podcast
Boris Epshteyn Reacts to Eric Swalwell's Latest Comments
"Republican rhetoric has put a target on the backs of all law enforcement. And I say that with concern with two brothers who serve as police officers and walk the beat every day because if you're hearing defund the FBI and that the FBI was responsible for a false flag operation, you don't distinguish between an FBI special agent and police officer in your community. You just consider it as law enforcement and the quote unquote deep stated. And so that's why we saw the attack that we did at the FBI field office. And we're going to continue to see attacks on law enforcement. So a couple of comments and I will unleash the baron. Number one, he thinks the average American doesn't know the difference between a police officer and a federal agent. Number two, this is the man who had sex with a Chinese intelligence officer. And number three, he wants us to believe that it's the Republicans who want to defund the police. Your reaction baron. This is the alternate world that Democrats will, of course, is the president a little bit. Defund the police is what Democrats have been pushing is a radical Democrat souls back to you have done. They've ruined destroyed cities like Philadelphia, New York, Chicago, Detroit. Washington D.C.. This has been a disaster under Democrat rule. Democrats have ruined safety. They've ruined American American cities and they've unleashed a crime wave. Any we've seen before. Swollen knows it. He's just lying about it because that's what he does. He's a liar.
America First with Sebastian Gorka Podcast
Poll: Democrats Now Sympathize More With Palestinians Than Israelis
"Is the baron Boris Epstein. Welcome back to America first. Happy Friday. Happy Friday my friend. It's an honor to be with you and honor me with the audience that is beautiful Friday it is president Trump dominating the polling winning all across the spectra putting on putting out powerful videos but a great week. Yeah, we played clips for two clips from his video at the top of the show. If he keeps on doing that, he will be just fine substantive policy videos, but you mentioned polling. Let's talk about a poll that I'm sure disturbs you, my dear friend. This is from the daily caller, Kate Anderson. I need you to react, especially when it comes to how these people vote in the federal elections. Democrats now sympathize more with Palestinians than Israel for the first time in decades, the latest polling, this just blows my mind. This is from Gallup Boris. Help me understand this. Now, 49% of registered Democrats have a preferential view of the Palestinian authority over Israel and the pro Israel vote has sunk to 39%. Do these people not understand the difference between these two communities? They do not understand it. And it is absolutely disappointing, depressing and awful, that the left in America, Ilhan Omar, she looked like AOC, Jim Clyburn, Nancy Pelosi. Their push to anti Israel, anti zionist, like beyond anti semitic agenda so far that now as well as pulling low solo with American public. President Trump stood for his move the U.S. embassy to Jerusalem he took out from Soleimani, he fought for Israeli independence. He recognized the goal on heights and he was the best friend to the State of Israel, really an American history, but now you've got the left, let's just be honest, there isn't just about being anti Israeli or anti zionist, anti semitic.
AP News Radio
Byron wins 2nd straight Cup race, beats Larson at Phoenix
"William Byron likes victory lane so much last week at Las Vegas Motor Speedway. He went back this week at Phoenix raceway, besting Ryan Blaney and Kyle Larson in the last battle for the win. I assumed he would be more aggressive, but my counter to that was all right, I gotta win. Do whatever I can do. So it was kind of like it was a game of chicken a little bit. Larson had dominated leading 201 laps, but Byron was on his bumper for the entire race. He did a really good job of holding its outside and clear me down the back. They were in a drag race on the final lap as baron drove in deep to turn one and pulled away. I was kind of like, man, it went so good last week. I'm probably gonna end up crashing here. Blaney came out of the scrum in second with Larson in third. I'm Jerry Jordan.
The Daily Hodl
Hedera HBAR Founder Reveals Big Ambitions for 2023, Says Network Defying Bear Market With Steady Growth
"11 p.m. Sunday February 19th, 2023. Hetero HBR founder reveals big ambitions for 2023, says network defying bear market with steady growth. The founder of profound steak layer one blockchain hedorah hbar is revealing the project's ambitions for the year, saying that the network has managed to defy last year's crypto winter. In a new interview on the Paul baron network YouTube channel, hetero cofounder and CEO mance Harmon lays out his ambitious road map for the crypto protocol. According the post hetero HBR founder reveals big ambitions for 2023, says network defying bear market with steady growth appeared first on the daily HODL.
America First with Sebastian Gorka Podcast
Sebastian Welcomes Boris Epshteyn Back to the Show
"Senior adviser to the Trump 2024 campaign. My former White House colleague, he is known simply as the baron on this show. Boris Epstein, welcome back to America first. Thank you so much, my pleasure. It's an honor to be with you and honor me with the audience. Do you not get your title, right? See your adviser. You got it. All right. It's so complicated. You have so many titles. It just follow him Boris EP dot com Boris Epstein Boris Epstein on all the social medias. Are you ready to have some fun today? That's all I want to do, my man. It's all about having fun and all about saving America while we're doing it. All right, so let me read to you some things that I hope I hope you do not suffer from. Atrial fibrillation, hyperlipidemia, which means your blood has too many lipids. Reflux. Stiff gait based upon spondylosis of the spine and peripheral neuropathy. I hope you don't have any of those, my friend. I'd have to check the medical record. But in my non professional opinion, I've got none of them. I need to do you. All right, I'm a doctor. I'm a doctor, I pronounce you free of those, although it's just a PhD. I list those scary things because apparently those are the 5 conditions that have been identified yesterday by Walter Reed, which the current incumbent of The White House suffers from, but what's strange Boris, is they neglected to do a cognitive test on him. Why would that be? I'm sure it's by accident. I didn't mean anything by it. But just skipped over it. Oh, well, it's obvious that he's in such great shape. He can't string towards together, doesn't know where he is. Doesn't know who the vice president is, doesn't know what year it is. Why do a cognitive test? Why waste time? It's obvious what they're
ToddCast Podcast with Todd Starnes
Lara Trump: Unfortunately, the FBI Isn't Raiding Biden's Home
"Is it that the FBI has yet to jump in there and stage a raid on President Biden's many homes? Yeah. Yeah, I don't think any of us need to hold our breath on that, by the way. You should never think that that's coming because I'm sure it is not. It was unprecedented back in August when the FBI raided the home of a former president at Mar-a-Lago and everybody remembers how shocking a thing that was and not only did they go to the area where they knew as directed my father in law had locked up these documents in question, which as you just pointed out Todd, the president of the United States has the ability to declassify and my father in law has maintained from the very beginning of any question about anything that all of these documents were declassified as when he was president before he left The White House. But that said, then they went throughout the entirety of Mar-a-Lago. Remember rifling through the closet of the former First Lady, Melania's closet, baron, it is very violating whenever you think about coming to anybody listening, consider having anyone you don't know, go into your home, go through your things, but then to know that the FBI was going through all of them. And then as you point out, Todd, very, very correctly, the double standard that exists because we haven't seen nor will we see this happen to Joe Biden and yet as you also pointed out, it is far worse what Joe Biden arguably did and what Donald Trump was ever accused of doing because again, he had the ability to declassify as president. My father in law and of course Joe Biden took these documents when he was vice president, but we should all relax because Joe Biden told us he had a locked in the garage by the Corvette. So I don't know why we're all getting so upset about it. That's for Joe Biden. He thinks we should all just come on down. And Lara,
ToddCast Podcast with Todd Starnes
Where Are the FBI Raids for Biden's Homes?
"So the question on many people's minds this morning, why hasn't the FBI implemented raids on all of the Biden homes? His personal home, the vacation home, The White House? And exactly how many classified documents are out there and to what extent the Chinese been able to use those documents. We know for a fact now that the Chinese government was giving upwards of $54 million to the University of Pennsylvania, much of that money was going to fund Joe Biden's fake institute at the university. And I say fake because when you look at the interviews. That were done at the facility, which is supposed to be a working institute. Just take a look around in the background. There's not a single painting on the wall. The walls are white. There's no materials on the desks, no phones, nothing. It's almost as if the whole thing is a charade. So something's going on there and we've got to get to the bottom of it. We know that we know that the Republicans in the House are going to be raising a lot of hullabaloo over this. But this is messed up. And president Trump is right to point out that there's something going on here, that something very dangerous is going on. And he also points out another very interesting observation. That there is a significant difference between what happened. With president Trump and what happened with Joe Biden. Keep in mind the FBI with the guns drawn pre dawn raid at Mar-a-Lago. And yet they've not rated the homes of Joe Biden. They haven't been rummaging around in the private bedrooms of Melania Trump or rather Joe Biden and Hunter Biden. They certainly did that to Melania Trump. They did that to baron Trump.
American Institute for Crypto Investors
I Cant Believe People Still Believe These Myths About Bitcoin
"11 a.m. Friday December 23rd, 2022. I can't believe people still believe these myths about Bitcoin. It's not a stretch to see him on fire for crypto in a way only a truly converted former skeptic could be. It's true I was not always the baron of Bitcoin BTC, the demagogue of digital assets, the read more the post I can't believe people still believe these myths about Bitcoin appeared first on American institute for crypto investors.
The Doug Collins Podcast
Shepherds: The First Witnesses of Jesus' Birth
"Strikes me the most about this story? Is it the first people that are recorded hearing what we call the good news of Jesus birth or the Christmas Day birth is shepherd? Shepherds who at one point in the scripture were David was a shepherd. We hired these great in the Old Testament of the Jewish writings where shepherds were a very honored profession. And then as it gets into the, you know, as more modern times come, shepherds were out in the fields and not is highlighted as you saw it earlier. But it also highlighted the real just people who got up and went to work. I mean, they washed over their flocks. They had a very lonely job at many times out with the flocks out in the fields and the baron feels away from people. But it's interesting to me that the first moments of this story, the scripture accords that they were the first to hear. And I've wondered about that often. Why were they the first to hear? You know, they didn't run into the churches. He didn't run into the synagogue that when churches weren't in running the synagogues, they didn't run to what an announced in the cities and it wasn't announced in the religious environments or the secular environment in that matter from just a venue perspective. It was announced in the fields with folks who were just doing their job.
AP News Radio
Bruins' DeBrusk, Pastrnak score in shootout to beat Isles
"Bruins right wingers David pasternak and Jake de bruss both scored in the shootout and gave the barons a four three win over the New York islanders. Debra scored two goals, both 19 seconds apart early in the first. The islanders tied it in the second on no adoptions 9th of the year. But the ruins retook the lead with one 32 left in the period in the third, the islanders tied it for the final time with 1520 to go in regulation. In the shootout, the islanders scored first, but the bruins scored on the next two tries for the win. Greg kadesky, Boston
Discerning Hearts - Catholic Podcasts
A Meditation on Luke 1:26-38 for Monday of the 3rd Week of Advent
"For the next few moments, surrender all the cares and concerns of the stay to the lord. Say slowly, from your heart, Jesus. I trust in you. You. Take over. Become aware that he is with you. Looking upon you with love. Wanting to be heard, deep within your heart. A reading from the holy gospel, according to Luke, chapter one versus 20 6 through 38. The angel Gabriel, who was sent by God to a town in Galilee called Nazareth to a virgin betrothed to a man named Joseph of the House of David, and the virgin's name was Mary. He went in and said to her, rejoice so highly favored, the lord is with you. She was deeply disturbed by these words and asked herself what this greeting could mean. But the angel said to her, Mary, do not be afraid, you have one God's favor. Listen, you are to conceive and bear a son, and you must name him Jesus. He will be great and will be called son of the most high. The lord God will give him the throne of his ancestor David. He will rule over the house of Jacob forever and his reign will have no end. Mary said to the angel, but how can this come about since I am a virgin? The Holy Spirit will come upon you the angel answered, and the power of the most high will cover you with its shadow. And so the child will be wholly, and will be called son of God. Know this, too. Your kinswoman Elizabeth has, in her old age, herself conceived a son, and she whom people called baron is now in her 6 month, for nothing is impossible to God. I am the handmaid of the lord, said Mary, led what do you have said be done to me? And the angel left her. What word made this passage come alive for you?
America First with Sebastian Gorka Podcast
Seb Welcomes Senior Advisor to Trump's 2024 Campaign, Boris Epshteyn
"Is the baron and he has a new title to share with us as he waves his baronial wave Boris Epstein. What is your new title? I'm proud to say in the honor to say that I'm a senior adviser for president Trump's third presidential win the campaign for The White House 2024. I wish I had some cigars in some champagne and some single malt to crack out congratulations. Senior adviser for the 2024 presidential campaign, so what can you tell us? What secrets can you dive in front of 3 million people right now? But here's this is a big time super secret plan. Okay, I'm going to everybody. Everybody should be able to pay attention, pay attention. This is like law school and I had a great Professor of law school and said, when they were whenever you said there's a three part test. Everybody else. So this is secret, the super secret player. It's the one point. Full spectrum dominance. Oh, I like that. I like that. Full spectrum. Force back from that one. So it's going to be on every front. We're going to absolutely. President Trump was running because he built the country into The Shining Beacon on a hill that it deserves to be that it's God's place. God's decision for it to be.
America First with Sebastian Gorka Podcast
Jim Hanson: Elon Musk Is Giving a Masterclass on Disruptive Change
"I want to talk about somebody who is doing positive disruption right now. I want to talk about my man Elon Musk. All right, and I'm not a fanboy in the pathetic or anything Elon does is brilliant and I thoughtfully will do whatever it is because you're not putting a chip in my head, brother, okay? That ain't happening. But the rest of the stuff he's been doing over the past couple of months has been a master class on disruptive change. There's a thing that in the military, fighter pilots called the ooda loop, observe orient decide act, and what it means is if you're doing the Top Gun thing and you're flying behind the guy and you can observe orient your plane, decide what to do and act faster than the other guy you can kill him. And Elon has been slaying people. He's been Snoopy killing the red dragon or the red baron. Bottom line, everything he's done that people have immediately gone, oh my God, Elon's gonna destroy Twitter. He bought it to destroy it because he's just a crazy billionaire. He's gonna fire everyone and there'll be no one left to Twitter to work. Well, guess what? Every time they say he's gonna destroy Twitter and he's gonna break it, what happens about a week later, everybody's going, wow. That went kind of well. Twitter, how many people did they need to go ahead and operate the bird app? Apparently not 7500 woke losers like they had. It seems like they may be needed a couple thousand. So the 5000 people that Elon chased out of that building, what were they doing? I think we all know what they were doing. They were shutting us down. And guess what? Good riddance to woke rubbish. They're gone. The bird app still works. They're making it better, right? Every day. He's coming out with new things that are going to happen. And every day, the usual suspects like, oh my God. They took the ban off, saying crazy things about COVID. Yeah, you know why? Because the government propaganda on COVID was the actual disinformation and all the people that the woke tools banned for telling the truth have now been proven right. So of course that ban is coming off on COVID misinformation because it's not coming from the Twitter users. People have a right to question authority
The Hugh Hewitt Show: Highly Concentrated
Last Night's Big Winners
"Welcome back. I'm Hugh Hewitt, I don't know what happened, so let's talk to somebody who will. Michael baron, the dean of American political analyst joins us this morning. Good morning, Michael. Hey, good morning. How are you doing, kid? I'm disappointed, but then again, I've been worse. I've been better and I've been worse. Tell us what happened, Michael. Well, did you deliver trumbull county for JD Vance? I did. We worked hard on that. And JD won fairly comfortable. Mike dewine delivered for JD Vance. That's what happened there. Well, I'll tell you what I think happened. I think that what we saw was American voters repudiated the last of the two most recent American press Donald Trump. And Joe Biden, the Democrats lost the House majority. They've gone from 235 seats when Biden was the anointed nominee down towards two 11 or lower. It looks to me like the Republicans will get a majority in the Senate, but a bare majority. And I think they repudiated Donald Trump. I mean, you saw what happened to the Trump or the Trump backed Senate candidates underperformed that people who put money in for the primaries and publicity and then didn't put any money into the general election. Blake masters seems to be behind in Arizona, state that Republicans won every Senate race from 1992 to 2016. You have men that are lost in Pennsylvania where the other candidate Dave McCormick would have probably won against a guy who was incapable of debating. I think he had them wax out will come through in Nevada. But it's he had a previous history prior to Trump. And JD Vance won in Ohio a state that Trump carried by 8 points. He seems to have carried it by 7, which suggests something in the nature of a declining appeal and he ran 9 points behind governor Mike dewine. So, yeah, I think that, you know, the big winner, Ron DeSantis.
AP News Radio
No. 7 TCU gets to 9-0 with 34-24 victory over Texas Tech
"Darius Davis scored on a punt return and grabbed a fourth quarter touchdown pass leading 7th ranked TCU to a 34 24 win over Texas tech Davis returned the first punt 82 yards as the horned frogs improved to 9 or zero for the first time in 12 years Kendra Miller gave TCU the lead for good by rushing for a TD for the tenth straight game Miller finished with a season high 158 yards on 21 carries Max duggan was 12 of 23 for 195 yards and a pair of fourth quarter TDs Tech freshman baron Morton was 7 of ten with a touchdown before leaving with the left leg injury in the first half I'm Dave fairy
America First with Sebastian Gorka Podcast
Boris Epshteyn's Message to Apathetic Voters
"Message to those in states like New York or California or Massachusetts of a Mont, who say, yeah, I'm a patriot, I'm a conservative, but this state is gone. My vote doesn't make a difference. What do you say to the baron? But now every vote counts. Every vote counts on November 8th, every vote counts. A 24 every vote is going to count. So go vote for Sue Kylie in New Jersey. Go for Peter and Hernandez in California for Lee zeldin in New York. Go out for at least the final of course in New York. Go out and vote, have your voices be heard and they're going to have your voices heard. We are going to have wins the likes we've never seen before. Fight, fight, fight, action, action, action, vote, vote, vote. And with those steps will fight with action voting, we're going to take back America, but it's on our shoulders as our shoulders do not give an inch, keep fighting, keep working. We're going to have a huge day on November 8th, and we're going to march right on from there to take back The White House. Wow,
Parts Counter Gurus Podcast
"baron" Discussed on Parts Counter Gurus Podcast
"People are freaking out over that. Because the Hummer in particular has come to light as that being an actual truth. And Jane and I were talking about this the other day. And I said, yeah, I mean, with all the tech that they're putting in those taillight assemblies. I mean, these things are doing things when the vehicle is turned off. It's not just stop lights and turn signals, right? It's doing all kinds of cool stuff. The LED emitters change color. So the old way was you basically have two or three different colored bulbs, right? Like you may have a red bulb or a clear bulb with a red lens. Or you may have two red bulbs and the second one kicks on when you step on the brakes and then you might have a yellow bulb that's your turn signal. Now it's all the same LED strip. It's just changing colors as needed, or the transitional thing, like Ford's been doing for a while and their Mustang where when you put the signal on it, it actually moves in succession. It's the electronics. It's the electronics that are involved that does all these things. Yeah, there's control boards on each one of those components, right? I mean, you're essentially bolting on OLED TV or LCD. And they might have cameras in them. Because of all that see through the trailer towing thing that GM does. There's just so much tech in the car. It's just amazing. So these are some of the things that you need to pay attention to and be very mindful of when you're buying these vehicles. And the other side to this is, this is why I wanted to talk about this today, is that I use a an online software, which is called all data, all data Perot, which most people in the service industry do use. And what you get with that is you get service information, book time, diagrams of how to replace things, how to do it, all the procedures to perform a specific task on a vehicle to replace something like a tail lamp or a headlamp or whatever. But I have gotten on to all data. This is where they got you right now. There is no information on electric vehicles out there right now. On how to do things. That'll change though, right? Well, I think that with the right to repair act, it's out there. I think that you have to allow people to do that, but I'm telling you guys that there's going to be certain, this is not your average, you know, pull a few torque screws out, pull the lens off, pull the bulb out, put a bulb in, put the lens back on and you're done. This is not how it's going to work because you're dealing with technology within that component, which, like you said, you've got several boards across there, chips, sensors, potentially cameras, which most likely they are. But you have also super, super thick glass that's on this stuff that is like the gorilla glass. It's like use on your cell phones. Right. Stuff like that. So they can handle a lot of abuse, but they can't handle a guy running into the rear end of the vehicle. So taking it out. Yeah, so I have interestingly enough, I'm going to draw back to that same podcast that I was listening to that I talked about earlier. With the guys from one wheel. Before I get to that, Jay, I think baron von Cadillac might be our arch nemesis. So maybe in the power changeover garage sitcom business that we're talking
Parts Counter Gurus Podcast
Bucees Mascot
"Jay, have you heard of Bucky's? It's a fuel station. Oh, yes. Yes, I have. It's the new thing in Florida, yeah. So they're in Tennessee as well. They're moving up. I think they're kind of like the armadillo. They're finally making their own out of floor. Yeah. So these things are massive. For those of you that haven't seen one, it is bigger than any truck stop. I've ever seen. The number of gas pumps, I mean, you're in the probably close to a hundred pumps. That's insane. I mean, it's crazy, right? They're big, like, full on restaurant. Freshly made deli their stores inside. Like you can buy camping gear. It's bigger than some of the bigger little Walgreens, bigger than smaller than a Walmart or a target, but these places are huge. Which I have to wonder with the electric vehicle mandates being out there. And these places being so petroleum dependent for business, what's their long-term vision. But I digress. So pull up and pull up in a Google tab right now. And this is what I want you to type in. Okay. Bucky's mascot. It's be UC EES. Bucky's mascot. Okay? And you should see a picture of the little guy there in the results. Yeah, he's a beaver, right? Bucky the beaver, yeah. I see it. So we stopped for fuel at one of these last week. And I decided that in addition to beer name or mascot name, or apparently, is a gift. Because I came up with a name for this mascot. I couldn't find the name of the mascot in any of their literature. I looked online, I did this very search. Okay? I think you should be called Justin. Justin Bieber, there you go. I love it, man. Justin Bieber. All right, folks, you heard it here first. Just reach out to us. Bucky's, you're welcome. Absolutely. Absolutely. Yeah, you could have him dance it. He could be a movies. For sure. Yeah, absolutely, man. You could absolutely. He just broke ground, man, I think. I think he just broke ground. I really do. But maybe you should be his agent, you know? Yeah, since we got all these beaver, if you need an agent, Justin. Just hit us up over on parts counter guru dot com. There's a comments down. Oh man, I love it so much. I just love it. We are just full of absolute the best information in one could offer. I mean, we've got it all. Okay, so anyway, onto onto expensive cars. We've talked about the Cadillac lyric. It is Cadillac's flagship at this point. Of their entry into the EV market. It's an awesome looking vehicle turns heads like crazy. My dad is actually really, my dad loves cadillacs and he likes the car. We've talked about it. But Cadillac didn't stop there. They are wanting to obviously compete with the rolls royces. And a customizable luxury vehicle that will be there will be no two alike they say. They will all be hand built, they are 3D printing as many as a 115 different components on this vehicle. They are also doing some interesting aluminum casting for the wheels are going to have 23 inch wheels on these things. Here's the thing that got my attention mainly though. Yester hand built luxury vehicle and it'll be a low volume vehicle as well. 300,000 dollars. All right. So this is interesting. And I do like the enthusiasm that Mary Barra and team are showing on, hey, let's try some new things. My gut reaction to this is with no offense to your dad because the Cadillac does make a good product. And then resale values tend to do well over the years. But $300,000 for an automobile made by General Motors. So let me put this in perspective. Okay? This is space, by the way, that they haven't been in yet. Right. So let's say you're going to buy a watch. Okay? And you have $10,000 to spend on a watch. You know what? Let's make it 15. Let's make this interesting, okay? Okay. Okay. You got 15 K to spend on a watch, okay? Do you buy a Rolex? Or do you buy the latest fancy watch from timex that has all the Rolex like features and then some? For 12 5. Point will take in if I've got 15 to spend. You're going to get a Rolex. I'm going to get a rollout. Or an omega, or right? Right. Why is that? Timex has been around. They make decent watches. They don't make a decent yet $15,000 watch. No. That I know of. They make fishing at us out there, Mike, correct me. Right. But if I'm going to spend that kind of money on a watch, I'm buying more than the components in the watch, right? Right. Right. Okay. I think there's a couple of things that you get from this. For example, loss of value over time. Rolls Royce versus a Cadillac, loss of value. I don't think you're going to have near as much in depreciation with that roles or worse as you will with the Cadillac. Likewise, with a timex over a Rolex. It just doesn't happen. If
The Officer Tatum Show
Judge Grants Trump Special Master Over Investigation
"Let's get into some more information. I just finished breaking it down how Donald Trump got to, I think, an incredible win with the judge granting him the special master to oversee the material that the FBI took from his personal home. Donald Trump in his rally just recently, I didn't watch the rally because I didn't see him a thousand of them. And I tell you what, I ain't never seen nobody talk as long as Trump. I mean, I could talk with Trump, be talking three hours at the rally. You wait for 40 hours, and then he talked for three hours at the end of it. So I didn't watch it, but I'm sure he said a lot of really good things, things that he'd been saying before, things that I agree with. But Donald Trump and his rally really fired up the base with his articulation of what they did when they stormed through his residence. And he spoke about how they went through Melania's closet, he spoke about how they even went through baron his room and, you know, it just gave you this visceral or it can give you a visceral visceral feeling once you imagine what they would have possibly done.
Mental Illness Happy Hour
"baron" Discussed on Mental Illness Happy Hour
"And so one day, but it was our camcorder. It was the family's camcorder. It wasn't specifically for me. Even though my grandmother felt I felt like she knew I would be the one that used it the most because I like the tape crap for no reason. And I remember, I came home from school one day. And my mother was messing with the camcorder. And I remember seeing her sitting on the couch with the camcorder. And she was just messing with it. And she had thought I had broken it. The person who probably took care of it more than anything else, and was sober. At the time, I had broken the camcorder. Sure, mom. I don't remember what I said something. I said something that was very monotone and direct. And she didn't like it. So I went into the kitchen and I said whatever I said to her, exactly what it is. And then I went into the kitchen and went to drink another two liter of Sprite. And she pushed me. She came out of nowhere from behind me, just pushed me to Sprite spilled everywhere. And I remember feeling just crazy in that moment. And I was like, what the fuck are you doing? And she's like, who are you talking to? I'm like, I'm talking to you, bitch. What the fuck are you doing? And then. The wrestling match happened. She kind of tried to push me up against the wall, tried to give me an elbow to the throat, and I pushed her off overpowered her. And then I ran to my room. And by the time my stepfather was my life, really, we've never had the best relationship. He courted me for the year that he was courting my mother. And then once they were married, it just kind of flipped, like he was like, now I'm your father and I need to teach you how to be a man. And I was like, I'm not interested in anything that you're interested in. But. I want to say by all means wasn't enabler. And I ran to my room, you know, because he was convinced that I was the problem. As well in some way. And I ran to my room and my room had no door knob. And neither did the bathroom in the hallway that was quote unquote my bathroom. Because I woke up really early to get ready for school because school was like at 7, I had to wake up at four 30 to get ready to leave. Because the bus left at 6 30 and I was a 30 minute walk from the bus. So if I didn't walk out of my home at 6 a.m., I would miss the bus. You had to walk a half hour to the bus? Yes, yes. 25 minutes. Specifically I had timed it. If I lived at 6, I had to walk pretty briskly to get there in time. So what would happen if you missed the bus, just go home? I would go home and 9 out of ten times my grandmother would wake up and drive me to school. That's generally what happened. Because she worked nights. She worked like three to 11 when school was out. She went, she didn't want to be around the kids. She wanted to clean up. I'm not going into the classroom. It has the snake in it. That was where her one rule, the end. So yeah, most of the time she would wake up and drive me to school. When I get home from school, was when she was leaving. So during the night, the normal hours, my mom would get home at 5, and that's when all the stuff would happen. My grandmother was never present for it because she was at work. So I ran into my room, this might have been a time where my grandmother was staying somewhere else. Because there was times where she would take long respites from my family and stay with a friend. I ran in my room after this altercation with my mom, physical art education, my mom in the kitchen, ran to my bedroom. Because I woke up so early, they were so you were slamming every single door. You were slamming every door and I was so Ginger with these doors because I knew it was early and I knew that sound travels more because everything's quiet. And I would always turn them very softly and close the doors very softly, but they were like, no, you're slamming the doors. They took all the doorknobs off my door, my bedroom door, and the door to the bathroom that I used. So there was no way to close my door. So when I ran into my room, I had to hold it closed with my shoulder. And then I heard my stepfather's voice like, I remember him saying, I want fired up now, something like that. And then he pushed the door here, of course, he's an older man so he was stronger than me. He pushed the door open and kind of slammed me against the wall with the door. And castigated me for talking to my mother the way I talked to her or whatever. And then I climbed out of my bedroom window. We were in the first floor. And I went over to the pay phone in the center of the apartment complex. I put a couple quarters in it, and I called my friend Tina. Who was the girl I was in love with at the time, even though nothing ever in the happening between us. And kind of told her what happened. I just needed to tell someone, and then I went back home. And it was nighttime. I had left the light in my bedroom on. So when I walked up to the window, I saw the light turn off. So I'm like, oh, they went into my bedroom. When I tried the window the window was locked. Then I went over to the front of the apartment, the door. There was a trash bag. With all my clothes in it. So, and not all of them. They just took a bunch of clothes and threw them in the bag. And I took that trash bag. No, you know what? It wasn't Tina. It was Daniel. I had a girlfriend at this time. Yes. I actually had a girlfriend at this time. So I went and told her what happened. I took the trash bag and I went upstairs to Jose tooth place, stayed the night. I took the trash back to school with me that day. And all it does the other thing is like, you know, kids make jokes, but I was never bothered by the jokes because I was always funnier than most of the kids. And so, and then also it was my Trump card, is that you can't say anything that's going to make me go, but that was not good. That's what I would say to kids when they were playing the dozens and they would insult something like, that's not good. That would stop, I would stop the game. That is not good. And we'll be like, oh, no, no, no. That is undue award. Reward to this guy who just said the stupidest thing I've ever heard. What are you talking about? So I went to the bus stop with the trash bag and was like, what's that? All the dumb jokes, and I would just stare at people. You don't have anything. This all the hack jokes. Oh, your name's baron von baron von what, right? Basically that equivalent,
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"And he came up to us, Steve and I, he said, something that we're not used to. He said, I think you have to start sharing time, but the rookies. So we were like, wait, what? We're not fit 6 years. We talking about this is prime. We can get this team popping. What are you talking about? So I didn't like that. And it was my contract year. You know, and I'm shooting 40 something 44 from three. Listen, we not gonna do this one, buddy. They gonna have to wait. And jameer was my young boy from Philadelphia. You know, he from Justin. And then, you know, your Deshawn Stevenson, you had Keith bogans. We had a strong, young team. And, you know, I asked for the trade. And you know, the GM at the time, he was my guy. He tells me he says, listen, what do you want to go? So I'm like, you know what? What are my choices, you know? He gave me his cup of choices. He said Sacramento, I said, yo, yeah, I like Sacramento. Those guys pass the ball, they play well. They're winners. I'm going over there. So we were going to Boston. And he told me not to suit up and literally right before I went out on the floor. And I knew it was a trade now. So I go and get traded and I go to, you know, I get the Sacramento myself or Doug Chrissy Doug Chrissy went over to Orlando. I go to Sacramento. I would baby Brad Miller, Chris Webber, Paige's story. I mean, Matt Barnes was there as my guy, I love him. Kevin Martin was there. It was a nice group, nice group. We are, we did pretty well. We lost to Seattle in the playoffs where ray and Rashard Lewis, but you know, we had a nice route. We had a nice group of guys. Mike bibby, I got one year with Mike and Mike was his IQ super high. You know, he wasn't as athletic as a Steve Francis, you know, not too many point guards was like that. It was baron Davis and Steve Francis. In my era that were the most explosive point guards. And for Mike, in myself, Mike was a fundamental expert, you know, bounce passes, you know, chess passes, shoot the ball, the right way, you know, get off the ball kind of thing. And when I would Sacramento, the whole team had such a high IQ and Mike leading us and when you have a Chris Webber and then you have a Brad Miller, they were point guards as well. So it was easy to score with that type of team and having, like I said before, having Mike bibby in the backcourt with me. I think as much as I love Steve, you know, coming into the league. I think Mike and that team made it easier for me. To score. You know, I'm scoring 18 points shooting 47% from three and 40 some high 40s from two. And it was very easy. I didn't really have to dribble the ball this much. You know, Mike didn't have to do the ball as much. It was more so passing cut and come off a screen. So, you know, you know, Mike definitely deserves his flowers because he, to me, was one of the best point guards, especially Myra. And, you know, for me, I said to myself, this team was going to win regardless. Whether he had me or not, even though American 18 points, it's going to have, they're going to win, 'cause they were coach well, Rick Edelman, you know, Pete, you know, all those guys. And I said, you know what, I want to challenge. So I was a free agent. So, you know, my steak was high. So I said, it was Kobe was first, because Kobe's a free agent as well. So it was Kobe first and then it was someone else on me than someone else, whatever it was as far as the shooting guards, as far as reagents, top shooting guards. So, you know, I said to myself, I said, yeah, man. I didn't like LA. Did not like yell at it, because I'm from the east coast, all that fake stuff, blah, blah, blah. Whatever. And then I get to LA and it wasn't so much about LA, you know, me growing mentally and maturity wise, it was more so the people that come to our latest acting like there's something different. LA was amazing. The people from LA, the outdoor scene, the activities, the whole thing was just beautiful. And I'm like, wow, I said, you know what? I was in Spain. And I said, you know what? I'm going to try LA. I'm going to try to not call Sam cassell and I said, yo, what's up? I think you should come with me, man. And we can really turn this organization around. And at first saying it was a little more he was a little reluctant. And then he set up, yeah, Kat, let's do it. So we go to LA. And you know, I knew the history of 14 plus years, no playoffs. They always lose in, blah, blah, blah, blah, the whole thing. And I said to myself, it was more so a challenge for myself. It's like, can I help lead a team, Houston Rockets you make the playoffs? Sacramento, you make the playoffs, right? And that's why I was a little, you know, but heard about the Orlando because they lost, they only won 18 games a year before. So for me, I'm like, that would have been great to go there and help those guys, you know, uplift those guys and things like that. And that didn't happen. So I took it as more of a challenge going to the Los Angeles Clippers. And getting them to the playoffs, and you know, just seeing the faces of kadeem hardison and Billy Crystal and, you know, Freddie muniz and all those guys that were loyal fans for so many years. And once we clinch and we make it, I mean the city, the stadium, everything was just amazingly beautiful. Sam was a yeller, but it meant he meant it in a very uplifting way, right? And if you didn't have tough skin, it was kind of hard. But again, Sam would kind of get you out of the holes that you were in mentally, right? Because he would attack and then he would slow your brain down a little bit or he may give you the ball in the easy spot. Just different things like that. But I met Sam, my rookie year in Houston. And another underrated point guard that I love to death was Nick Van Exel. And him and Sam were tight as vice grips, okay? So they took me in. I was their guy. And they would teach me certain things along with Alvin Williams, just how to attack the game. How to play hard, how to do those different things. And, you know, for me, I think it's 2004, 2005. My 5th or 6th year is when I went to the clippers, and I was sitting there like, you know what? Sam was a fridge and I'm like, Sam, I think me and you should help the clippers, man. I think we can do this. And at first, he was like, nah, come on, cat. Are you serious? The clippers, I'm like, say I'm telling you, you gotta help them brand, you got Corey magda. You got a nice little unit there. These both of these boys average 20. They're gamers. All we gotta do is change the mindset. And having Sam, I don't think people really understand how lethal Sam was. Sam, he may have been scared or fearful inside, 'cause all of us have these emotions, right? But there's a certain amount of people that never show it. And he never showed that, right? He wanted to win all the time. And he would let you know that. Whether it's practice, you know, shooting drills, just different things like that. So I was blessed to be around a person that was so competitive. At a very young age in NBA, right? Because you can easily be around somebody that's a little docile, a little, you know, don't want to be competitive, things like that. But I make the next
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Learn more at UMG C dot EDU slash podcast. Certify to operate by chef. As far as who mentors, I say Lester Connor, Derek Martin, Cheryl mackins. David Wesley, penny Hardaway. Magic. People like that. Those are my basketball point guard. Mentors, Dane subtle, Casper ware. Who else was there? Cameron dollar. A lot of dudes that, you know, just kind of like just took me under their wing, right? Brevin knight, you know, just connected with me and just like, really believed in me and saw something in me. So, you know, I always say, as far as the basketball mentors from point guards was concerned, you know, but then you look at all the other people Tracy Murray, Chris mills, you know, people like that who played an influential role in my life, right? You know, just super blessed to be able to have the right mentors the right guys, you know, and then when I played in the League One year, I got to work with Nate Archibald. I got to work with sending my creek, you know what I mean? I got to work with guys who I heard about and seen highlights and had their basketball cards and it was just like anything they tell me I'm about to do. 'cause they used to get down, you know what I mean? It's a really, really get down. So, you know, just overall, thankful for my mentors and the mentor session and, you know, just shout out to all basketball mentors that, you know, got me here. If it wasn't point guard, what other position in which you have loved to play? If it wasn't point guard, what other position would I have loved to play? You know what? To be quiet honest, I'd love to be a power forward. Like I wish I was 16 with muscles and all that. You know, like the way I would jump. Oh man, that would be crazy. I love to be a powerful. All I wanna do is post up anyway and play bully ball, so I'm with all I went all this shit. I would say the point guard that I would have sweats. I always say Tony Parker, Steve Nash, Chris Paul. That was my three. One, Chris Paul, 'cause basically every time I got traded, they always went and signed the guys and I kind of felt like I needed around me and they put around Chris Paul. So that was one. Two, Steve Nash, he's just always had a whip and I think D'antoni offense was, you know, really geared as suited towards a player like me and like my style of play. And then the third one was Tony Parker because I just I would just have loved to play with a big dude like Tim Duncan. And then playing a system where you have the freedom to be aggressive. You know what I mean? But you also have a consistency to that freedom. Right? And I was just always in admiration of San Antonio and just, you know, the crew and the way Tony Parker playing and the freedom that he had to play. And that space. If I were to, if I were to pick any other position to play, I mean, this shit is gonna probably change every episode, but I feel like if I was a four, I would be like Sean Kemp. If I was the three, I would be like LeBron James. If I was a 5, I'd be like a came odd. If I didn't make the league, I remember I was going to go to school to be a sports agent. And a lawyer, so I'd probably be lawyering or a debate in court or something like that or managing or something like that. But definitely something that entertainment business. If I were to pick three artists that would describe the way I played, I would say. Picasso, you know, when it came to painting, pass it, dribbling, just like trying to make beautiful art. Learn more so I would say more so like a boss yet because people people used to always like would not try to give me credit for being a fucking point guard, right? And be like, oh, he's a big guard. Like fucking 6 two. They'd be like, oh, he just dug. I'm like, no, don't. Like, everyone just jacks threes. Man, I have to. You know what I mean? I would say, yeah, if I three artists to pick with, for me, would probably be, let's say, Basquiat, Jada kiss, 'cause I'm grimy, but I can do a song with Mariah Carey. You feel what I'm saying? So you can get finesse, but I'm a finesse you, and a thug. You know what I mean? You're gonna get thug, you gonna get it's gonna be a thug way of doing it. So I always compare my game to Jada kiss in a sense that it was just like raspy, thuggish, but at the same time, like super fly, you know what I mean where the females enjoy, you know what I mean? And then the third artist I'm trying to diversify my art, I would say the third artist would be, um. E 40 makes with a lily 40. Because it's original. Amanda pendant, I got my own swag, my own bop, I created my own moves, my own lingos, you know what I mean? And, you know, timeless. And then my gang gonna stay timeless. Some of my favorite players are was shit anybody who wasn't a pick, you know? I hate it, fighting over pigs. So any guards that run a lot of pick and rolls, like I just hated that Steve Nash just that Chris Paul a lot of them do is, but you know, honestly, I like garden Kobe. I like garden weighed. I like our LeBron. I like garden, you know, like the best dudes out there and usually it was like the twos out of threes and events Carter, Ray Allen. I was always up for that challenge. You know, Sam cassell was out of a garden. He was a tough car, but I like garden a chance to use the AI. You know, for me, it didn't matter. It was more so step up to the challenge because let's say, if I can guard you, then I'm coming at you and you can't guard me. It was just always thought that ultimately if, you
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"Do you understand kid? You feel me? Doug, do you understand? Kid? Who just spoke to you? And told you you got a chance? Oh, buddy. I ain't sleep. I sleep. I thought about lived a game, breeding game, slept again, went up to UCLA every day where I played or not. And you know, it was and then after that it was Nick van axel and between games, he was like, yo, you want to play one on one. So we was just playing like some one on one like fades. And he was going waiting to go to the next course. So I was up on them three two. So I always say I beat Nick Van Exel, but you know, he wasn't really playing around. He was just playing around, but I remember when I hit the shot and he had to go to the winter court. He looked back like, damn, who was that kid, you know what I mean? And at that point, I was just like, man, I got a shot. I got a hell of a shot. Like I'm up here with a pros. I'm not doing nothing, but I'm not not doing nothing, right? I'm out here. I'm holding my own. You know, I'm learning how to play basketball at a high level. And they was running sets. So it wasn't like, you know, I could get loose for a breakaway or anything like that. I was just happy to be on the court. But I knew at that moment that when I went back and played against the hikes, high school dudes, I was just dunking on them and having my wife. I knew I was going to the league when I was in high school. You know, my junior year in high school, once I kind of hit that growth spurt and started dunking, it was like, oh yeah, I'm going like there is nothing stopping me. You know, I had opportunity to go to the league out of high school. You know, I thought about it. I thought I could be a good opportunity, but I always wanted to go to college. And then you see LA just because of what it is, who it is and what it means to me in this city and what I felt it would mean to me in this city. It's why I went to UCLA and, you know, going into UCLA, I was like, oh yeah, you know, everybody kind of knew I wouldn't be there too long. I don't even think people thought that I would stay. After my freshman year, but unfortunately I hurt my knee, so I had to come back myself more a year. And I remember my sophomore year, like a lot of people I wrote me off and said that, you know, when I injury back then like an ACL it was kind of like career threatening. 'cause it wasn't like a lot of longevity, right? And then ACL tear for, you know, anybody, especially guards, Tim Hardaway had just torn hands, Danny Manning. At o'bannon. And so it was like, man, you lose a lot. And for me, I never forget shout out to coach Spencer. He was like, man, you're not gonna be shit. You know, you just gonna be a big ass wasted talent. And you gonna piss it off if you don't work. And he was like, at least you can do his work and give yourself a shot. And I don't give up, you know, you made this far. And that's when I got to work it. And got back to working, I got back to I couldn't even swim dog and I was fucking swimming. I was like, coach, I need some fucking floaties, duck. I can't. I can't do this. Dog. I need some fucking floaties. I have the board every time having me swimming. At the UCLA Olympic pool, you know, they got the lines and shit and so codes would be like, all right, Chad water. So we be treading water, but I be holding on my hands so I wouldn't drown. And I'll be on and on to the little side and shit where you hold onto the rails. Like a kid. Emily, you fucking hand. Like, come on, coach me. You know what I mean? James, you ain't gonna die. If you drown, I save you. I was like that. And then we have to do it a lapse, right? At the end of the swim shit. And then, you know, somebody like a ray yo, he just flying goddamn down, Olympic pool and shit. And I'm tired as hell, and I went about that way. And coach was like, man, just go halfway. Shit. But I think it was that. You know, is that moment, too, when I got back on the court, my very first game, you said, when I got back on the court, you know, I knew, man, this is if I can if I can get just back just to be a shell of myself, I'm out of here. And that's what I want to win national championship. But I just didn't think, you know, with my engine and all that, I wanted to come back my junior year and really make a push, but, you know, then again, like you're young, you're in college, you ain't really got, you know, the best and greatest advisers around you, right? And at the same time, I didn't want to go, you know, go back to school and get hurt and fucking around and be depressed and broke and, you know, fighting, you know what I mean? Fighting to prove myself. So, you know, with that came, me leaving it and going to the league, but you know, in high school, I pretty much knew that I'm on my way. I'm there. 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"Big dude. Right? Because I was so little for so long that all I ever wanted to be was like a big dude. You know what I mean? Because that was the only thing stopping me from going in there and going into the hole and I think when I played in the league, that was that's kind of like what I play with like that big gar mentality, right? And people always felt like, oh man, this dude is bigger than everybody, but I'm only 6 too. But it was just the idea of, man, I got to go develop me a postgame like a king Elijah one. Like Jamal mashburn, I gotta get the neck van axel bop. You know what I mean? I gotta get the magic passes. So every time I saw something, every time I saw a point guard, I was ah, let me get that. Let me absorb some of that, right? I'm taking notes. You know, you grow up privileged with Magic Johnson. You know, you grow up privileged after Magic Johnson come Nick van axel. Right, so when you think about showtime and then you think about the bop right next to an axle was the one who had all the bop and had all the wiggle and I always say this to this day. LA appreciate Nick van axel, but LA really, if you wasn't in that time and then see Nick van actually get down LA didn't really appreciate Nick Van Dyck, 'cause he was an amazing. He was just an amazing talent entertainer, point guard leader, right? And he was young and like, you know, he was young and, you know, it was just like he was active, right? And I took that with me too. You know, and then I met Kenny Anderson and penny Hardaway and always patterned my game after Tim Hardaway, you know, all the little guys, Isaiah, and I think for me, it was just like, what can I still to pay homage, you know, to the dudes we came before me, right? And then when I got in the league, it was just, now I'm here, I'm scared as shit, right? 'cause there they are, but I can't let them know that I was scared of them. So I got in fear, I gotta just go at them. Nonstop, nonstop, nonstop, nonstop, and I think that's where I earn my stripes. I'm not afraid to guard you. You know what I mean? You can't guard me. But I'm up for the challenge, right? And you know, I think that's where, you know, as a point guard, you earn your respect right from your peers because they know when you show up and they show up like you got a battle. And then I just, I think I got my style in my flavor from just my creativity. My ability to just, I guess, like absorb, absorb, create, innovate, you know what I mean? Iterate, remix, right? And you know, I used to, you know, every summer is just like, yo, I gotta, I gotta have 5 moves and two counters. And I go work out with everybody around the country. I go playing for four games in a day and summerly. It was just, you know, no stop to like what I needed to do or what I wanted to do to really hone in. And I think that's, you know, for me, what defines me as a point God is my God given ability is the ability to see things. To be an incredible passer. An incredibly underrated passer. I always say. And then also to be able to create a style that, you know, I feel is all my own. And, you know, that is original. Yo, yo, yo, we gotta tap in real quick. Let's hear a quick word from our sponsors. Sponsorship for this podcast is brought to you by Ford, built Ford proud. Ford Motor Company is committed to redefining what electric can do with new all electric vehicles like the Mustang Mach-E and the F one 50 lightning that offer an efficient and exhilarating driving experience. Ford is going above and beyond an innovation to create the smartest, most connected EVs and technology on the market. And when you drive all electric with Ford, you get impressive torque, zero tailpipe emissions, and no more oil changes needed. 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And from that moment, I think it was just like, I'm sitting there every day, nobody noticed me. And when magic came and when magic said that, it's like, man, that's magic. Johnson, dog. You understand?
Point God with Baron Davis
"baron" Discussed on Point God with Baron Davis
"Built a brand and an original craft inside of a position right that has a certain type of structure and cadence. And so I look at the point God as a painter. I look at the point God as an orchestra conductor. I look at the point God right as a facilitator, right? And the beauty of this show is I get to finally have real conversations. With some of my favorite point gods and basketball, not just NBA. And basketball history. In basketball, history. We get to unearth stories and legends and rivalries. And hear from some of the most incredible playmakers to ever lace them up in this game we call basketball. I'm your host. Baron Davis, and I would consider myself a point guard as well. So, let me state my case. For why I think that I will be considered a point God ha ha ha ha ha. You know, for me, basketball was art. Basketball was an escape. Basketball was therapy in basketball was like a whole nother world that I can live in. And honestly, it was a dream. Right? Being inside a never ending dream. And your only real break from reality was everything outside of basketball. Right. And for me, it was just, if I could stay in this dream, if I can stand this bubble, if I can stand this way of thinking. And just growing up, it was just basketball, is what I always wanted to do. I remember just thinking this shit, you know, going to the store, everybody buying candy with a 25 cent. I put my 25 cent in and get one of those little shiny ass bouncing balls. And you know how much those balls bounce, right? You know, how crazy that was a little shiny things bounce. And I would try and dribble them. And I literally dribble around the grocery store and the shit would go all the way to the aisle at the sliding catch it. And then I would start to figure out how to dribble it back home for the grocery store. Then one day I got a board, and my grandmother used to make me fold up, grocery bags, plastic bags. And I remember being in the kitchen and I was like, well shit, I'm just gonna tie it back. Around my basketball because at the time, you know, some of my older homeboys, when we play kickball and say, you know the balls get whipped. Right? So the balls be whopped and then like, you know, they had disposable balls. But I remember my cousin telling me, hey, nigga, if you want some handles nigga, you will be able to dribble a wap ball. So I used to always go and find the balls, like the wap kick balls, mostly it was like kick balls and shit 'cause like basketballs was just, you know, real kind of hard to come by. You know what I mean? Like, it's only like two or three dudes that had a basketball and you got to protect that shit like you gotta protect a bike. And so when I got my rock, I remember, I got a brand new basketball, this is how it happened. I got a brand new basketball, and I was like, man, I'm about to go to the school, but I have this routine where I have to dribble between my legs. You know, the whole way to the school, which was like, you know, maybe a 150 dribbles, a 150 dribbles. like, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom. I'm talking about you gotta walk the dog all the way to the court. And if you don't, y'all start and go all the way back home, but it wasn't like it was a long walk, but I remember getting this new basketball and I was like, damn, dawg, like, I don't want to dribble this motherfucking time. So I get to the court, right? So I was just overthinking one day and I just got a plastic bag, put the ball in the bag tied it up. And I just started dribbling and I was like, oh, this is dope. So I was like dribbling the plastic bag and the ball went really bouncing. It was like falling dead on like the air pockets, but for some reason I liked it because it was a challenge. And the creativity alone, I think, is what kind of molded and cracked it. You know, my handle now, my handle go back to the fundamental skills, my first coach Bobby Watson laying down the foundation and he used to tell me when I was a kid. If you dribble the ball hard enough, you should be able to have control because you should hear, you could hear it. And I remember playing at the englewood YMCA and Paul Pierce, I met Paul Pierce, came up to me and was like, yo, man, I was a good game, man. What's your name? He's like, damn, dumb. Why are you trying to boss a fucking heart? Everybody in the gym can hear it. And I was like, damn, dude. I did it right. You know what I mean? But I used to be like, boom, boom, like I used to just pound the ball to command the ball and, you know, back in the day, you go to high school, you see the jock mons, you see, you know, all the young, great point guards. In LA kind of coming up. And then the older guys, the cast where is the day subtle? You know, everybody, everybody bounced a ball hard, you know, because that helped them get into their shot. And LA was all shooters. You know, a lot of the guards was just cold scores. And so for me, that was kind of like what crafted my handle. Fundamentals creativity, and then the plastic bag, right? Over top of the ball, the little machine gumball ball, a tennis ball, and then the wap kick ball. And that was like, those were all of my tools, right? And my dribbling with my whole dribbling routine. And I think for me, it was really about that moment that I wanted to take something that I can own, and I just could keep living in that space. Right? So if I were to stake my claim about being a point guard, it's just like me, you know, my whole job was to paint, right? And because I was always the smallest guy on the team, I always had to have the biggest voice. I always had to be the smartest, always had to see four or 5 minutes ahead of the game because I was the tiniest dude on the court, you know what I mean? And so as I got bigger and taller and high school and once I got to a place where people were like, yo, you ain't got nothing in your shoes. I was like, nah, I really fight tears. It was over because I have the athletics athleticism. And I already had to point guard skills, but then my body was filling out, and then I think what had happened was I got excited about being a
Point God with Baron Davis
"baron" Discussed on Point God with Baron Davis
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Point God with Baron Davis
"baron" Discussed on Point God with Baron Davis
"I'm your host. Boom diesel aka. Too easy for people know above on the government. Name as baron davis point god is a journey through the marv's and the towers and the dish behind some of the greatest point guards ever play the game of basketball point. God's our leaders have god given ability to motivate to think differently to think on multiple different plays. I love this show. Because i get to interview some of my favorite point guards that ever played the game of basketball multiple different levels dive into the story. What made them. What motivates them who they are and where they are. Now ladies and gentlemen. This is a big one. This is a bic for so many different reasons. The auto by graffiti of my life. As baron davis could not be written with out this man to my right the love the brotherhood a never had a brother. My life this is going to be different intial. Never had a brother and my life you know what i mean like. This do became a brother. He showed me what a brother was. He had a brother he had brothers and he basically we basically grew from boys to men two adults to father together. My brother nba. I think he play with fifteen years. He play more years than me. God dammit shit from seattle to memphis codes. Ucla four years like all kinda records. I ain't even got no goddamn no cars. And they say he won't notice. I said no bro. This guy deserves no notes. He is he is he is the being in my life. Here's my point gar. Here's my point guard. Nba vet nba. Coach nba analysts basketball aficionado. Savant amongst vonts wouldn't disciple the legendary earl watson. Ladies and gentlemen welcome to the point god podcast a hell of a intro bro. Would've oh hold on. Unless i hear the crowd noise all right there we go. We go there. We go all right. Well south bro. A man skies hiding in here like usually it's not hot. You know what. I mean like you come in and i get all like an emotional and shit. I don't even know if i can cuss on this show. A who gives us the most you know like i'm so happy on his show. You have no idea. I appreciate you doing this. I mean this is like early drew. Hito first person it'd take me to the original drew. I remember i'm from kansas city. We we pulling up jilin down a court dunkin all on the rams referee fighting a player. Who's like stabili. Keep playing bro. Doing it just keeps later like you know i wouldn't. I would have never been accepted into. La culture seven to la without your intro and like your blessing as a brother and owning me as family. Just take me everywhere you ever went. So that's big for me. Come onto a but like this. this show is about. You is for me to give my roses to the people. I love and the games i respect. You know my point guys so this show is about you. The lesson of era watson here. We go born and raised in kansas city. Kansas house of how many brothers and sisters six. And where do you fall fifth. So you do you you too baby before the baby and the baby is a girl so you are the last boy last went to eat. The one always got beat. And i went and instead Hey dude you have some tough brothers bro. Yeah you had a loving home and credible parents. I want to. I wanna start. Just talk about growing up in kansas city like in your house. You know what i mean and like you know like what it was like being irwa. 'cause i i didn't know you didn't know what i mean. So what was it like being you. You know what. I mean growing up and in that in that house is just the dynamics of everything. 'cause as you know. My mom is first generation. Mexican american is black. But i grew up in all black hood and you know we. We had a lot of mexican culture in house. Burma mom always told me when the world series see you as black so when you go outside you interact with friends and other family members. You're gonna get a little bit of everything. I never knew that would be important until today. So grown up in a house befall her brothers. My mom had her first son my oldest brother when she was fourteen so we grew up in some. You know some real life conversations modus brothers fifteen years older than me. Yeah so i. I grew up in different generations. And i understood a lot about a lot of stuff quickly. i was not sheltered two realities of life Where it was you know brothers you know ended up situations or relationships with women or whatever it is and the streets everything kinda hit me all at once as soon as i touched with outside. Yeah and and and mike in and man s fascinating because like born in nineteen seventy nine on this. You know being being eighties baby right in la right like mexicans and blacks always like was beefing or blacks was always kinda like low key bullying mexicans. You know what. I mean until like the numbers shift like what was the dynamic and you know 'cause like feel mom say like you know go out and people perceive you is blood. You know what. I mean as a kid like what was the dynamic with you know Being black and being mexican and then. What was the mexican dynamic with with black people in kansas city. The mom and my dad had a great culture of not making me choose one but embrace them both like having pride in My mom is one of the most outspoken. People for black lives matter. I've never seen my mom used in word My mom always understood laying and my mother came from texas and our parents came from mexico so she ended up moving to all black neighborhood at the age of like nine and never seen black in. Our lives was all new to her. My dad our lived in that neighborhood so the dynamics from me was always is kind of like. We don't have the la population but we do have the same perspective right where you know. I had to prove myself in all black could at ob- along the culture. And then when i go visit my grandmother and a mexican hood. I didn't really know a lot of spanish. But i had approved that i belong in a culture and so you know what i'm saying how to give the data both ways and his cancel point where basketball became a validation of matter. Where the hell went if i. Who is the coaches speaks for itself. You know absolutely man and shout out to your mom siwi hooking the the the dope breakfast taco..
Eureka by Baron Fig
"baron" Discussed on Eureka by Baron Fig
"At i would be the lead on. I wouldn't be diving into every project but tribute like two at a time to recorder. Then there's another another of it where i've on purpose decided not to go into management. I'm not Responsible for people's careers. And you like that. I really really liked it. Thankfully we have a structure where you don't have to be a manager to grow in your career you can grow in you know if you're really good at your craft you really act to to lead teams in that way you can do that. There's also another another track where we've got. People management has the skill. So we've got another lead designer. Who is responsible for For the For hiring for people's growth. That kind of thing. Gotcha yeah i. I tend to go more mentorship than management That's a strength of mine. And yeah just leading right into it but over the years. I feel like i've been able to make the role makes sense for me which is really a luxury in in the workplace. While i was gonna ask you. I mean what what excites you about your work in being your current role. I mean you've been head space for how long now it's been quite some time five years. Yeah awesome yeah. What excites me. Is we get constant feedback all the time of like you know this app like really helped me in a crisis or it's helped me with my relationships or really basic stuff like i got a good night's sleep you know. The app does a lot more than just meditation these days so that sounds really cool recently. We've been getting into music so having partnerships with With artists such as delib or some work. With doing with arcade fire like. That's just you know just like the musician in me is like. That's so cool. Cool yeah it's really like you know it makes the definition of what is heads faced a little fuzzy. Sometimes 'cause you're like what are we like. We like a record label. I think it. It's still helping people get to those like health outcomes. They're looking for a while. Learn to meditate on sleep. Better wanna be feel more focus more productive So i think whatever is helping people get from ada be hope. Hopefully bigger pictures adapt to more like mindful living lifestyle. But you gotta you gotta meet people where they're at and sometimes just sometimes it's music sometimes. It's just help with the night's sleep shirt debt. I'm really excited by that. And just personally. I realized now i absolutely love working on consumer products. Like i really like having working on something that. I can talk absolutely love working on something that i can talk to you about. You know what. I'm talking about interesting..
Point God with Baron Davis
"baron" Discussed on Point God with Baron Davis
"Point. God is a production of i heart radio so now i gotta figure out a mathematical formula how i can win. I had to be champi and not only champion but everyone who i've played against what recognize and acknowledge he's that dude back point. God i'm your host two time. Nba all star. Baron davis and this is part too with the legendary point. Ga the oracle the professor. I say a tops at that point. You like all right. We're going to be deep is subordinated but the majority of the offense is going to fall on you right. And what were you thinking about. Let's say going into year four. Like how did you train. You know what i mean. 'cause is that is that year where you like. You know what fuck man i gotta go for. My i can't be sitting back you know has been two years. I've been planning to where they want me to like man like what was what was that because not only did you have to change defensively but you also had to like take on a lot more responsibility right because you're in that category but you want it to be in that category that category that category right so you get into that category is to win right so like in in your remember this 'cause your senior year in high school. You was that due to loan your team right in anytime you want it to. You had the green light you get forty night up but which a win right so for me it. It came down to okay. I cannot uplift. My teammates had cannot make them better Because i know this guy gets fifteen fifteen. This guy gets seven this guy. Get nine this guy you know. It's a lot of scorn now. Reineck stopped all of us. Right right if all of us become a threat then defensively. The opponent ain't good enough to stop all of us absolutely so now. My scorn is going to continue to decrease just like yours had to do. Yeah jimmy you're see who. Yeah when it's not making other people better absolutely right now. The critics in the people who write a battery in the media Forget this when my brother told me said june when they start measuring you against you you got to you know and they were saying why is it. You used the average twenty three points but now you only averaging nineteen in the way i would answer. That question is yet. But that's meet here if they get mad bill you man. I said 'cause you you measured me against me and when you measuring me against me. I'm still win at and i'm better in your team better now. We win games absolutely. He's happier and now we become the juggernaut defensively in offensive. I'm loving all izzy Because as i'm listening to this and as young point guards are listening to this. You know there. There's a moment right where you have to define yourself right. You have to measure up against your greatness right and so you know the first the first three years in the league right you know you get off right but you're not getting all you know what i mean and so you decided that. What is a number when the goal is winning right so so for point guards out here. It's the science right. It's the math in the science when talk about the math and the science. That makes you better and not like. I'm just going to be a better shooter. I'm gonna work on my handles. It's like you already had the game you were you were you were don dada already upper echelon right. You had this mastermind thing right but now you started now going into year. Four right when you decided the stats. Don't measure up to the winds right talk about the math and the science around positioning yourself into that category. Believe that that is a great question. And that is the million dollar question. Because the the the criteria in formula up of measurement that had been established for you to win you know though those those formulas in those numbers only applied to six six in a ball thank you they only apply you know the the measurement field goal for senate up bounden all of that. You know it so forgot who play far away from the rim you know. The rumors have changed. But when i was when i was playing the formula for winning was in front of it was it was for six above guy so so now i gotta figure out a mathematical formula. A how i can win. Not using this formula not using their methodology not using their measurement in terms of. What's good. what's bad but now you really going way off the path right and nobody really understands what you doing. In terms of the people who are judging writing because their criteria of measurement is where you know if you're not shooting fifty five percent from the field and right getting twelve rebounds. This is the formula for winning. Yes so we had to create a different formula for the detroit pistons at to create different formula for ourselves. Were guy like dennis rodman can become valuable. Yes john salley can become valuable. Yes games that words can become valuable. Vinnie johnson dumars lamb beer. None of these guys fit the criteria measurement of success. They were saying. Oh if you have is twenty points and ten rebounds that means you first team all Ride but we had under the right right no you didn't you go up with joan formula. Yes that would you know and understand you. That's all you point guard that was on me. Yes all you right so for for the point guards you know listening right vessel you right. 'cause 'cause you gotta tell james that words right they yo you know you'll fifteen you you'll you'll get in twenty and eleven.
Eureka by Baron Fig
"baron" Discussed on Eureka by Baron Fig
"Still haven't really recovered from it or Or have been able to take a break or it. Okay so how you met because this is super important if you if you're willing to go there like how what's what's been helping. What's in helping making a concerted effort to reach out to friends. I'm if i need to vent. Or if i just need to be around. Other people course. Corentin was a huge part of this yup but also delegating more. The work than i normally would allowing myself to do that so that i could have my weekends back. Yeah totally usually. I work six days a week. Sunday is my prep day for monday. But for for like four or five months straight. It was seven days a week nonstop work into the night. I wasn't getting any break in washing the dishes. And i my hands were shaking. Like that's new. That has never before so to anyone. Listening take breaks drink water. You know carriers off. Yeah usually when something comes up physically right. It's it's it's a good sign that things internally have gone far beyond our max right. I shouldn't have let it get to that point But i'm glad i caught it before. I went absolutely ballistic. Yeah no but i wouldn't even say you should have let it get to that point. I mean your human. Like the rest of us i feel like many of us myself included can resonate with with something like that. We might experience it in different ways but like let's be honest. Society is kind of set up the pushes to that place so for not actively doing something in in doing something to see against have the awareness to see that. That's coming up and putting stuff into our routine than at minutes. Inevitable's just going to happen for not wired to handle this much pressure. Yeah and i am someone who like. I am very aware that. I have a a workhorse. I've obsessed with it. Brings me more joy than everything and.
Point God with Baron Davis
"baron" Discussed on Point God with Baron Davis
"What is the point. God show presented by slid. I'm your host band davis this shows about on earth. The real this is for the young point guards. This is for two point guards in directly to still think they got gangs. This is for the old heads who planned pick up. That just wants some gyms we get to live in the minds behind is some of the greatest point guards who have ever played the game yet. The their story who they are who molded. What made them who they like. I'm baron davis i'm your host point guard. Slick iheart ready. Let's kid ladies and gentlemen. I'm damn near brought to tears and i talk about this man. This i've been waiting to tell. Is man the import. He has been to my life as a young l. a. basketball player second round. Pick the lakers. The air after magic era people think kit with showtime had the time he is the originator and tell people all the time he is the originator of the bop. Do not call me. Diddy bob or be diddy or none of that. The originator of the bob the man with the tricks all star legend coal a cold a ball co upon a tit of alpine's co ladies and gentlemen ledge fourteen point four points per game average in his career to point nine rebounds six point six six clutch vision blah. Lord have mercy we gotta get into ladies and gentlemen none other than the point god himself. Nick van accident. God damn man. I've lead pros caller math research. You have me on alleged. Oh my goodness are you guys kidding me. Was the man just sitting here in this hotel room and doing this interview map from a man. I appreciate you being on this show. I mean this is the point. Gosh show where we highlight. You know some of the top point guys to ever played his game and you know just knowing you know what i mean. I wanna start off with a store. Nick nick the quick van list jump into a man. How did you get the nickname nick. Quick that axel man. Crazy man i You know growing up all kind of different names but never really nick. Quick realize i was called pearl bag at decree of approach. Washington favored guard growing up. The you know they call me. Tricky nikki goes back then my name. Everybody called me nikki. You know that was my name and so everything was nikki. Tricky maki slinky. Making all that crazy shit. When i got a late jake earned a great shake harm. Started calling me. You know. Nick at night naked equate geno kind of dictate. I said i'm sitting at home as a kid. Listening to all of this and into all of it Let's let's let's start. Let's start in the beginning early life. You know the early life nikki. You know what was what was that like you know Growing up and Kashasa wisconsin yes so in kenosha man you know it was kind of like a a small town right and We had like a little northside southside so you know especially when the weather got right you know we was. We was playground. Hope you know the indoors wasn't that much. We had a spot card and see what see we would go to but you know what i like that you know what i'm saying. Just go there to play. A game is what i'm saying. So you know the summertime is when we really got to be. You know north and south end when used to be heated. It used to be like we was on. When i grew up i grew up on south on the south side when i was young and i moved to the north side of the oldest kind of switch. Swiss is but it's crazy because like one weekend we'd be on the south side. So we if i lived on north side we gotta walk to the south side san and we crew deep you know savannah crude and sometimes when when when they when the tournament is over saying we. We may have run because we was cool with the northern style so but it was the body shot game and then they had. Oh he beat o'hare you get you get take off so that that's that's what it was like man and it just kind of it kind of tough me up. You know what. I'm saying for whatever that was coming next from ruin up like somebody that you know when you plan. He's rival gangs games Was it somebody that she was watching. Mike at damn this dude this thing. I'm fucking with him. You know what i mean. it was. Who's in it was to do in the neighborhood g al still. Both of them catch to me was like cats was coal. You know what i'm saying. So this just watching them. You know when. I was a shorty. You know They went to our went to saint. Joe's high school and y g went to braford and i used to go to of gains manages. You know when you're kidding you watch Varsity high school basketball. That's all you know what i'm saying. You looking at the lay of line looking at all. You just hiked up man. So i don't to cash man was cast that i looked up to That that's what i saw. Every day. I didn't i didn't see you know the nba cast college.
Eureka by Baron Fig
"baron" Discussed on Eureka by Baron Fig
"Just like don't have them on my phone. Because i've realized that i'm gonna lose the battle ten nine times at a ten and it's not worth one time at a time that i get it and i'm really hopeful that over the next decade we are going to build a healthier relationship with our phones. Because i think we've gone way too far to the extreme in the last few years and yeah yeah what. I think that that mentality is something that will serve us for all technology that is to comrades so like a again. It's you know you're right. There's the the most talented engineers working to keep us addicted to these things but at the same time to there's the onus is on us to to to develop that healthy relationships right like so we can if we can take that responsibility than i mean. We'll we'll win as other things. Continue to evolve in whatnot rights sub. Yeah for sure and like listen. They're also built like you said they're they're built into phones out to like screen. Time is great. Like i generally just like turn do. Do not disturb from like ten pm until seven thirty or eight. Am in the morning. So that when. I tried to open my phone. I am immediately reminded to just put it back down and i think again i think as we as customers demand a healthier relationship tools are going to get built to serve us because at the end of the day like we need to. Yeah i think everything. Everything's really demand driven in that way. Yeah oh man well this. This was super fun. I mean i'm really really digging the whole idea of like the long-form Ide- shen practice. I'm gonna. I'm gonna bring that to our team as well and see what we can do that. I think it's a mirror. That's an amazing thing. And and it takes. It takes a lot of time to do one well. And so i think that's the brilliant piece of it is like you wanna have lots of good ideas like i have will. I have lots of ideas all the time. Rarely do i have a good one. When i have a little a little barrier in front of me that says okay like if ideas really good you need to go through the time and energy to get it on paper and iron ironed out and find the data to back it up. You're just creating a funnel that ensures that only the good ideas really come out of it and so it's a great. It's a great mechanism to screen out all the bad ideas that we have and yet try to try to spend our time and energy doubling down an investing in the good ones will analyze. There's a lot of You know independent creatives freelancers and whatnot. That listen to this show like the thing. I like about the practice. Is we've been talking from a standpoint of the team in presenting new ideas like that. But i mean this up really works in in all situations right like again. Like if you're creating a list of all these ideas in your. I don't know a freelance photographer. And you're thinking of this new project or something. It's probably worth that time. Sure and map it out and take two three pages as the standard exactly. Yeah all every time now. When i'm brainstorming ideas with france. I always say like this is how we're going to do it if we think it's good enough. Let's let's throw down on paper. So yeah yeah that's cool around what's one thing you you know you've been thinking about lately or that's been on your mind or something that you think we should be thinking about You know it doesn't have to be at athene related to what we talked about but just like leave us with a thought or a an idea that floating around in your mind. Get the juices flowing. Yeah so the quote that i heard. Recently i think it's confucius anyways says that. Yes it is computers. So it's it's her we have two lives and the second begins when we realize we only have one nice and so i just love that quote because i think i'm at least moving onto the next stage of my life and thinking about kids and and all of those things and i just wanna to make sure that you always have in the back of your mind that like hey like you got one life like low live at the way you want to and yeah and so. I think it's a hard thing to do because of for me. It's it's the timeline piece of it is like when you compromise a little bit of the short term to sort of achieve longer term goals vs when you're always just like achieving eric. Doing exactly what you wanna do when you wanna do it and just finding that balance is a really tough one. But i just love that quote and it resonates. That's beautiful beautiful way to add to wrap this up that that is wrapped. So thank you so much for joining us. Ben were kin listeners. Connect with you yeah. That's a good question. I would say like emails. A good one ben hopper dot com pretty easy and you can find me on linked in. I'm not great at responding to messages but can find me at lincoln. Ben walters.
Design Matters with Debbie Millman
"baron" Discussed on Design Matters with Debbie Millman
"He's created singular groundbreaking looks for harper's bazaar toga italia and interview vanity fair once called him the most sought after creative director in the world. And indeed he is today. He joins me on zoom from paris france. Fabien baron. Welcome to design matters polls show you have such a lovely voice thank you. Thank you for being the photographer. Glen latchford has insisted that you are the elvis presley of graphic design. Oh my gods and wondering if you know why he stated that no. I don't know i'm sorry. I don t know that he even said no. Glenn quite well from those days the baghdad in operas bizarre and i deem to to work on the magazine into some stories and was one story. Actually that did that. I really liked they did. Was moss going around the city and forty second street and just like taking very report type of pictures. That were like really amazing. That's how glen. Yeah maybe it's the breakthrough groundbreaking part that he was referring to being. Your father. mark barron was a legendary art director. in paris. he worked mainly with two publications. He was the founding art director of the left-wing daily liberation and the sports daily liquid. Is it true that you were a newspaper delivery boy for the not very boy but You know. I've worked on my father. So i was really the go-to guy to do anything. In at the magazine it would be doing at the time. Like photostats which were like you know the the pictures and blow them up different sizes. Didn't okay i used to do that. And they used to do like make any calls like kind of like you know like putting the mechanics of the mechanical part of the magazine pages. You know and i was doing a lot of electro sets. I don't know if you remember that. Still i'd just is just for fun. I used to be really good at it. I used to be really good because you had to pick the size. He couldn't be like at two hundred percent so used to be really good at it could type something like exactly to the links won't in the size of by just guessing so it was fun game knowing that about you now. I could see how that training helped in the creation of some of your typographic constructions. You know there is a sort of puzzling to them and placing them all together in a way that. If i don't think he knew how to do that by hand you wouldn't be able to do it on the computer. Yes actually the first time. I did this kind of graphics i did. It was xerox machine. So a Vogue at the time like everything will have computers or anything so we had to work everything kind of like manually. So i used to take the phones and used as your machine and blow them up on your machine and collage the pc's by cutting them out. Basically you said that your father was super bright super smart and very educated. But i also understand that he was quite hard on you in your early days as a designer in what way i guess he wanted me to learn and learn the proper weber also learned the hard way because he wanted to make sure this is something. I was going to do something. I was going to to love in new like And when it's hard and you still in love that means it sticks right so i guess it was really tough in the way that we will use to work. I was responsible for everything everything every time there was a mistake. It was me even though it was not me so just wanted me to be responsible for everything so it was quite like not very gentle. Let's say i guess at the time you know like it was not like it is now like now. It's you have to be extremely gentle with people and you have to be extremely polite through proper. It was not like that with me. At least i read that your father felt that the objective of graphic design was to get the reader involved with the editorial content of the publication. And you talk about this quite a lot. But at the time you were also reading francine crescents. French vogue and you were enthralled by the photography of helmet. Newton guy bourdin. Did you feel that that was in conflict with what your dad was teaching. you know. actually. I didn't feel i was in conflict. I figures good like a proper balance. I think like is teaching was quite journalistic. It was quite like classic journalism and decem time of felt like having access to magazine like fringe folk. And you know like an all. This dog refers in looking at those visuals. I was really intrigued. How you would create such visuals so it was something that i was really like very like looking after like almost like you know like those magazines when they shopping house because they were like the visuals were exceptional and i really had no idea you would put this type of visuals together. Would create them. I mean the photography part and after like how you would come up with those idea those concepts and everything so it was like really like i was looking at that in extremely intrigued at the same time what was important that the time especially newspapers to past information the proper way and you know like to make sure like the reader woods understand what you're trying to say after a gigantic fight. I understand you left home and his supervision and you moved into your own apartment at that point you stated that he was still your hero and you still looked up to him but it took years before you were both fully reconciled. What did you fight about. I don't remember. I don't remember what the fight was about. But i know that i left that day. I really i don't recall at all. I mean this isn't the case most of the time you don't remember what the fight is about what you remember like did i didn't i did. I definitely left and it was a wide before like not that long either. Because i like tim in the like me. I was quite upset. I was not so happy about it to be honest. It's not a good memory that part but it was time for me to go. I mean some kids live their parents nicely and some don't leave. The parents nicely ultimately said that the relationship with your father gave you a sensitive how to treat people. What do you feel that. He most you in that regard. I think what we re give me a good sense of what this job was about a good sense of being a deep down you have to remain journalist to certain degree in anything into you have to make. It's gotta make sense. It's going to be understood and you've got to be clear. But also i think he gave me a discipline and a work ethic that i don't think i would have gotten if he was not through him. The level of discipline in which i work is quite surprising for some people. I've heard it. I'm very keen and it's a search to perfection to kind of like trying to really find that place which is difficult to find that really. I think perfection is quite good word even though you have understood that you can obtain perfection but you can come close to it but any of these because he can obtain that you continue to search for it but you know like that puts you into a certain category of people that you understand that this becomes life and that you're going to be professional about it a little bit like an athlete. I do anything to make it right. Basically just like an athlete with wake up at four o'clock in the morning if they won't need to train so i'm very similar i. I'm ready to do anything to make this right. So part of why i get result is because of that discipline. I think if i would have the discipline i wouldn't have done that. Many things i would have been is eaten into trying new mediums and i think it stat but also that need that search to perfection. That allowed me to experiment and try new medium quite easily without hesitation..