All right, before we get to today's podcast, I wanted to quickly address what's going on in our society.

My instinct has typically been to stay in my lane, you know, to not really talk about things I don't really know about, not to just spout off opinions on everything, but in this specific spot, I don't think staying silent is necessarily the right thing for me when I have this

platform. It's sad man it's really hard to watch the George Floyd murder video. Obviously we have a long way to go in our country when it comes to

police brutality and how minorities are treated by some police. Like we have to solve it. I don't think I have a lot to contribute to the

Solution, but I do think empathy and

Compassion and understanding of someone else's situation goes a long way.

And the turning point for me, a while back was when I kind of zoomed out and realized just how plain lucky I am, period.

I was born to two middle class white parents.

I didn't do anything to earn that, to deserve that.

But immediately, through nothing that I earned, I never had to worry about the cops not being on my side I mean hell I got pulled over when I was 17 with a case of empty beer,

case of empty beer cans in my car

and the cop just let us go.

So as someone who was played a ton of poker

and a ton of DFS, I love merit-based outcomes, right?

Like you work hard, you're smart, you play well, you're going to win in the long run.

You know, there will be a ton of variance in luck along the way, but in end it's earned and that makes sense to me but I didn't earn

the right to never have to worry about clean water to get a good education to never worry about the cops treating me

unjustly I was just born into that.

So if we zoom out and think hell, I just ran incredibly hot

at the outset of my life, and it easily could have gone a different way

if I wasn't so lucky.

Well hopefully we can find you know real empathy and compassion for others

...