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How do you get that far off track? It's one more thing.

Armstrong and Getty.

One more thing.

So I am somewhat attracted to stories of people blowing up their lives by wanting to not blow up my life.

I don't think it's all just like Schadenfreude or something like that.

I don't want to blow up my life. And whenever I read these stories of people like often blowing up their lives, I think,

how did you, can it happen to anybody where you ignore reality and get this far off track?

I'm using this example.

Sam Bankman-Fried might be one example.

Although he probably thought at some point things were going to turn around.

Yeah, and that he could fix it.

He could somehow cover the accounts, make a billion more bucks, cover his bets, and then get

back to normal.

This particular example I'm going to give is NFL star and great.

If you're an NFL fan, you certainly know his name, Bill Romanowski.

We talked about him a lot here on the Armstrong and Getty show because he was a 49er and

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