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All right. Hello. Welcome back to another episode of the Chase Thomas podcast from still the A for mention Chase Thomas.

Come to you live from Knoxville, Tennessee, Everything School, HQ.

Joining me, the man in black himself, Mr. Grant, ramy of vaulquest.com. Grant, good morning, sir. How are you? I'm great. I think this microphone is hiding my gray hairs on my chin, so maybe that'll, I think that makes the black makes it stand out a little bit more, so maybe I should rethink that whole thing. There you go. Are you growing out of beard? Are we doing a winter beard? I cannot grow out a beard. I've tried. It looks like a middle schooler trying too hard to grow out a beard. So I'll leave it as I'm lazy with it until it starts itching me and then I got to fix it. So it's about to that stage. There you go. I was thinking about it. I don't think I've ever, Rick Barnes had never had any facial hair, right? Like he's clean shaven always. The same haircut, clean-shaven. Rick is... You talk about another guy, man in black.

He wears black. never had any facial hair, right? Like he's clean-shaven always. The same haircut, clean-shaven.

Rick is, you talk about another guy, man in black.

He wears black at practice. If he wears a black vest and a black-long-sleeve at practice, you know it's going to be a long day for the players. If he wears a white shirt under the black vest, it's not going to be a tough day. We've learned to decipher the wardrobe of Rick Barnes.

Do you think he does that intentionally?

I have no idea, but it's a very big coincidence, if not.

Because we've tracked it for a while. We've tracked it for him. You know, who's like, what does he do for the barber? Like, he has to be super careful. Like, hype's wearing a hat all the time. Hype, I can hide. Vitello, I imagine it would be a lot of pressure to be Tony Vitello's barber locally in Knoxville.

That's a story for somebody to be involved with the Rick Barnes, Tony Vitello, I imagine it would be a lot of pressure to be Tony Vitello's barber, locally in Knoxville.

That's a story for somebody to be involved with the Rick Barnes, Tony Vitello, barber situation because it's a lot of pressure. And the stories that Rick tells, I'm sure his barber has a lot of great stories from those sit downs. The thing I respect about hype, the backwards hat. Love the backwards hat. as an old guy trying to look like a a young guy, respect that so much. He's a big. Do you wear your hat backwards more often than not? Probably because I wear sunglasses a lot and I hate the bill of the hat unless I'm wearing a flat bill with the sunglasses. So that's the problem. But also put my hood up a lot because I'm, I don't know, a loner, whatever, an introvert, I guess, maybe.

So in the hood up, I don't know. It's a whole thing.

Hood up. Like, where are we going? Like, Grant, just, he's at the blunt public library and he's just got the hood up. Just suspicious Ramey, always around. The COVID era was a weird era, but you could go to the grocery store with AirPods in, your hood up, a hat on, and glit.

Hood up in the grocery store?

And a hat on,

and glit. The grocery store? And a mask on your face. It looks like you're robbing the place.

You're just shopping for eggs and, you know, fabric softener. What in the world? Grid, you can't be doing this. It was a wild time.

It was a wild time.

I mean, I'm a team never get involved person.

Like my wife and I are very, very different in this regard.

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