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Thank you Yolotango as always. I was talking to Chris because we're about to do an ass-dave

and we were both like, wow, I did say I was like, two kids is just so fucking hard.

Yeah, it's so hard. It's so hard. And like, again, Hugo, I mean, he's not in school because where we're living,

there's nothing, nothing is open for kids for new enrollment. So he's going fucking insane.

So just saying it's hard and Chris is saying how he had a mental breakdown last night.

And basically, this is a long way of me saying, he's like, ah, fuck, I just want to smoke a pack of cigarettes.

It's just like, there's no escape. There's no recourse, man. It's insane.

Smoking cigarettes, I just, just look at your eye right now.

Nothing is such a meaningless stupid act, but man, does it taste good?

And is it terrible for everyone? Am I justifying it? No, I'm just saying it is the highest stupidity to do.

But I just, I don't understand why. Maybe this is too heavy. Maybe it's too early in the ass-dave after dark episode to ask you this question, Dave.

But why does everything that is great, why is everything that's great bad for you?

We just accept that as a rule. Is there any single thing that's great that's just good for you?

No, I mean, listen, I don't know if you guys saw this. This is, this is, you know, inside the NBA on TNT, one of the great shows with Kenny the Jetsmith, Charles Barkley, Chiquillonille, and...

Ernie. Ernie. Ernie Johnson. Charles Barkley, I was commenting because Charles Barkley, wow, he is an extremely large man now, when he was playing in the NBA in the 80s and 90s, was an extremely fit specimen.

But, you know, the big boy, still, right? You could, the kind of player that you looked at and you were like, when you stop playing, it's going to be a slippery slope. But, I don't know if you guys read this or heard this when you're watching inside the NBA because it's one of the very few things I watch.

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