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If people talk crap with you in your face and it's a joke, it's because you earn the privilege

of that. Yeah. It's actually scarier when nobody wants to say anything to your face. Yeah, or people just get real silent. Yeah. And then he came in and he was like, did you see that a Victor got a new truck? And I was like, I did. I felt that I spurred this on. And I kind of told him the story. And he was like, I was like, hey dude, just young professional athlete,

just making moves, doing fun stuff.

I love it too because, you know what people's impression of Victor is always like, man,

he's such like a powerful figure on the mat and he chokes people out.

He's just so respectful and smart and intelligent and careful with his words.

Yeah, those people don't know

him. And then I'm like, oh, yeah, he's still a pro athlete. He's still, he's still buying

trucks and corvettes and you know it. Like, so, but you know, you got to have a vice. I mean,

yeah. I mean, you got to have something. He, uh, uh, I think Victor does a really good job of like putting on what I like to call, like what he thinks that everybody wants. Like he kind of puts on this like, years ago I read a book called thick face black art. That was about like, you know, negotiating within like the Asian community, right? Like, you know, the thick face, like don't show emotion, Blackheartly don't have any feeling. And there's a book I got given pretty early on in my NFL career. So Thick Face, Blackheart. And it was good. It was actually excellent for that time in my life. You know, it's fascinating when people recommend for you like a book to read and it just happens to hit you right at that point in your life. And I think what it did, and maybe this is probably bad in that it affected me later in life,

but I took like a very like an emotionless approach to playing football, like thick face,

like don't show emotion, black heart feel, no, have no feeling for it.

And I don't know if that was good or bad. It allowed me to do the job.

But I think what Victor does a great job of is he puts on a certain, just an air. You know,

like he, you know, he, and like knowing him personally and training with him and being his friend,

I see how he acts like within like kind of the greater group. And it's

not disingenuous by any means, but I think he has a perception of like how he should act. And I think

I get that from Sala. It's like it's like compartmentalization, right? Yeah. We know a lot of really

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