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I think that if you lift weights, here's my take.

If you're a little dude, right, like there's nothing you can do.

But there's a big difference between being a little dude and a jack a little dude right like there's nothing you can do but there's a big difference between

being a little dude and a jacked little dude like if you see a guy who's like in really good shape

and he's super fit and he's on the starter side you're like he's not that big a dude but he's pretty

fucking dieseled up uh i mean not like you know the weird you know trend brothers or whatever those

trend twin guys where they just look like some form of like orc. Yeah. But actually like a smaller dude in shape. Like, that's impressive. Yeah. I do feel bad though for, and not that, you know, I can necessarily relate to my short kings. But I always feel bad for the fact that like some of these guys, like girls are super

dismissive of these guys. Yeah. And I'm like, man, like I would wonder if that mirror would turn and women would be dismissed like that, how they would feel about it. Like there's nothing you can do about your height. You know, I was lucky I grew tall, but like, you know, it wasn't necessarily something I dreamt about. I just grew tall because it was a function of, you know, genetics or whatever, you know, grow up in Southern California. And it ended up being a pretty good opportunity to go play football. But I can't imagine, you know, I think I was what, like a 10.5 pound baby. Yeah. So, I mean, I've always been pretty good size yeah and then in every other avenue

it's super inconvenient like cars like airplanes airplanes dude i get on an airplane all the coolest

cars like all the cool classic european cars not built for anybody six feet tall uh do you know many times I've almost killed myself getting on an airplane when they have those screen monitors in the center? Oh my God. And walking through and looking from side to side and hitting myself, I've almost killed myself many, many times on an airplane. And then having to do the mental yoga of like working my way into these seats when I want to feel like my wife just gets in there and she can like sleep in the seat. I'm like, oh my God. Victor Hugo would never survive with this tiny bladder flying to Fort Laezza. God, one of my favorite Victor Hugo moments was we're like sitting there like said like we're going to Utah sitting side but to see Doc Bueh were sitting side by side. And like an idiot, I had my head down, like looking at my phone. And he sees this like 400 pound dude walking, like looking for seats. And he like got really big and like puffed his chest. And the dude like walks over, looks at Victor, then looks at me at the head down, and then goes,

hey, can I sit there?

And I, like, look at this dude. And I was like, what? I was like, are you out of your mind? And the dude was like, yeah. I'm like, no. And like, and finally, like, I stand up and then the dude realizes how big I am and was like, oh, shit. And then like Victor's over there laughing.

And I'm like, son of a bitch.

She's like, yeah, I saw that big dude.

There's no way I was going to sit next to that.

I'm like, so, shit. And then like, Victor's over there laughing. And I'm like, son of a bitch. She's like, yeah, I saw that big dude.

There's no way I was going to sit next to that.

I'm like, so you stick him next to me.

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