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🗓️ 9 October 2025
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Marty Solomon, Brent Billings, and Reed Dent talk about pride (or, rather, vainglory).
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Baymont podcast with Marty Solomon. |
| 0:08.7 | I'm his co-host, Brent, Billings. |
| 0:10.1 | Today we are with Reed Dent to talk about pride, I guess. |
| 0:14.4 | I don't know, Reed. |
| 0:15.9 | What's going on here? |
| 0:17.1 | Well, we're going to get into that. |
| 0:18.6 | Vain glory? |
| 0:19.6 | Like, why? |
| 0:20.6 | Like, my, I don't know if my ancestors, I'm not really that sure about |
| 0:24.4 | my ancestry, but my ancestors came over here and fought so that we did not have to be under the |
| 0:30.2 | tyranny of the king. Why are you shoving the King James English down my throat every week? |
| 0:35.0 | Because the nuances of the vices have been lost largely because of |
| 0:39.5 | language shifts and pride is a thing, but it is different and importantly different, which we're |
| 0:45.6 | going to get to. But now my cold open, Brent, I've been doing these cold opens where I talk about |
| 0:49.6 | other things. Anyway, have you ever seen the movie? Hey, listen, since we've already screwed up your cold open, what I love about this |
| 0:57.0 | is I usually have to work so hard at just coming at Reed, but Brent's got it taken |
| 1:02.2 | care of the day. |
| 1:02.8 | Like, usually I'm the one that's like, rah, rah, rah, read. |
| 1:06.3 | And Brent was just like, down with the king. |
| 1:31.3 | That is exactly what that. That actually. That fits well. All right. Go ahead. Cold open. Here we go. Well, hold on. No, but Marty, I feel like you and I have been like doing so much better since our earliest days. People are seeing our real, like our friendship is real. At being kind. Yeah. It's really. Yeah, I think we only have reason to get feisty over football anymore. |
| 1:30.1 | It's the only reason. |
| 1:31.3 | It's the only reason. |
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