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A lot of times it's a crutch people find like common grounds in ethnicity.

I mean like they'll still look at me and assume I'm Mexican so they'll bring up like

flaming hot. Have you seen flaming hot? You know what I'm like? Why are you leading off with that? Yeah. Why? Why? Richard Matanyes, right? Am I right? Hey, I bet you like that, right? Like, yeah, I did. So what? Yeah. I think it's just, it's an easier common ground to find. If I, if I saw Danny G. at the school yard with his soon-to-be little baby, and I see him rocking a Raiders hat, I know, worst case scenario, if I'm sitting with him at a little table at a school function, I can be like, yo, Rich, what's your name? Oh, Danny, Danny, Raiders, what do you think, man? Jimmy G., Like, you could immediately just be like, oh, small talk.

Small talk, and you're fighting for it. Yep, yep, yep. That's why the barbershop is always a fun place because you're having all this common ground and a bunch of people you don't even know. Yeah. So my piece of advice before we get into the show, sports, and if they don't respond, then I'm imagining if they're not wasting their time watching sports.

Bring up the aliens in Vegas.

Bring up the hottest show on Netflix. sports and if they don't respond, then I'm imagining if they're not wasting their time watching

sports. Bring up the aliens in Vegas. Bring up the hottest show on Netflix or Hulu or, you know,

Amazon or something because if they're not watching sports, they're watching something.

Those Vanderpumps, am I right? Man, yeah, if he doesn't want to talk about Michael Jordan selling

his, you know, his stock in the team, he may want to talk about the Scandival. Oh. Well, you know what? It's all better than the weather. It really is. Because that's when you realize you have to moonwalk out of that conversation. When's the sun coming out? Yeah. Am I right? Am I right? Is this June gloom, right? This June Gloom. I can't take it anymore. Yeah. It's like, is the sun ever going to come out? When are we going to the beach? Come on.

And then you look. Am I right? Right, Robles? This June gloom, right? This June gloom, I can't take it anymore.

Yeah.

It's like, is the sun ever going to come out?

When are we going to the beach?

Come on.

And then you look at your watch and you're back out of that conversation. You're like, man, these waffles, huh? Right? Waffles with dad. I'm a dad. These are waffles. It's pretty good, right?

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