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So my pre-game ritual for every NFL game, I would always at the hotel, like take a shower and I'd go in the shower.

I would always thank God for the gifts that he'd given me. I'm the worst sin

that you can commit is not using the gifts that you give. So I would always like say this little

like kind of mantra and I would just kind of like take a shower, think about everything. And it was like,

I like for some reason, the shower like washed away all my doubts. And it was like just this like

cathartic thing. I did. I do before the podcast. Is that before or after your prayers for Andy Reed? What's that? Is that before or after your gratitude to Andy Reed? Well, I used to have to wear the special, uh, magic, um, underwear that the Mormons wear. So that was part of my ritual, you know, to, to, you know, go up with the golden tablets. oddly enough. I'm going to get back to that one. We're going to talk a little bit about Mormonism because Kyle Turley popped back up in my life. And then he disappeared just as fast as he showed up. But I would take this shower and would kind of wash away and let me have this moment of clarity. So I do it for the podcast too. And I go in the shower, take like three minute shower and I all of a sudden like think like what am I going to talk about today?

And this is where I get a lot of my inspiration and I came out and I dropped it pre on a rush so he'd be prepped when we get into this part of it.

But it kind of dovetailed into your guys' conversation where you're talking about, you know, male loneliness in relation to probably maybe some Matt Vincent pontificating, which Matt

Minson loves to pontificate. And I love him for his pontification. Yeah. And so for those of you

guys, Catholics, what does the, what does the Pope do? He pontificates. Yeah. No, Arash and I were just

talking about how the cure to male loneliness is easy.

You just have to create a space for the bros.

And whether that's jih Tzu or cavity.

Or a podcast.

Yeah.

No, just getting them back together.

And it's kind of like what we were talking about last night about how there's like this generational shift with fathers, where we're much more present than maybe our fathers were.

But part of that tradeoff then is being more present for the kids in the family space.

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