You know, there's things that you learn after the fact.

Hindsight's 2020.

I just hope one day we get a time machine where I can go back and find the early me and be like, don't fucking do this.

Tears kicker, you wouldn't listen to him.

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This has been a rough year, dude.

You know, we started off losing Judd.

We lost Lou and other people.

This has been, yeah, I mean, as far as strength and conditioning goes, this is like the

the year that makes me want to drink, you know, that, yeah, not like I really need a reason, but yeah. My dad made an interesting point to me once. He said, you know, that, yeah, not like I really need a reason, but yeah.

My dad made an interesting point to me once. He said, you know you're getting older when all of a sudden, like close friends start dying and people that you think, like, I thought that guy had another 20 years and then he passes away. He's like, that's how you know you get old. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. the gray in my beard.

I need to go your route and go clean shaven so that I don't see all this gray. But damn. Yeah. But no, it was good to have that conversation with Lou and to get that on tape. It was pretty interesting, you know, having known him over the years and to see, like, he was, you know,

still Lou, but I could tell he was physically in a lot of pain. And his voice in that, man, it just, you know, it broke my heart. But, you know, I thought, I thought he was immortal.

All the things that he'd been through and he came out, golly, you know, but. It might have been you texted me or maybe it was. Yeah, I did. Yeah, well, I know you did, but I also, I think it was Zach Ebonyish was like he texted me and goes, I just got done listening. He's like, I think Louis D died from heartbreak. I mean, literally, it was like he sounded heartbroken that he had built and amassed, you know, West Side into what it was.

And at the end, he was having to pay guys to come there.

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