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I'm John Fuller along with Greg Smalley and Greg we're friends right?

Well I thought we're best friends but friends

well I've never considered you what a BFF or whatever the kids say these days. We are friends. If I let you down let's say I

I forgot that we had lunch scheduled for tomorrow. I think I know you well enough you'd say that's

okay you know let's let's reschedule

if my wife forgot that I had lunch with her tomorrow you know if I show up and she's not there

I'm gonna be pretty upset. Why is that? Yeah. I think it's really simple. The

best analogy pictures. Think of John you and I are as friends are in separate canoes out on a lake.

So if we're scheduling lunch, we're gonna canoe over, paddle over to one another.

And if you do anything that doesn't feel safe to me, if you start splashing me or shaking my canoe,

simply I just push away from you. I can paddle away from you.

When I'm married, my wife and I, Aaron, we're in the same canoe.

As friends, you and I are in separate canoes, Aaron and I are in the same canoe.

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