Howdy, everybody, and a happy skews day.

Today is June 8th, 2021.

I'm Trey Crowder, and that's Mark Aegee.

What's up, Mark?

What's up, Trey?

Just recovering for a brutal sports loss, which I know is a special of yours as well.

Yeah.

Yeah, the MAVs, your MAVs lost in seven to the Los Angeles Clippers.

I'm sorry.

How are you holding up?

Yeah, we're up 2-0 and we lost four out of five, so it feels good.

Are you still, how affected are you still at this point in your life by sports losses like that? Because I've been ashamed so many times as an adult man by how much I let that stuff affect me still.

Like college football especially, which I've kind of given up on at this point because I have nothing left to kill inside of me when it comes to college football as a Tennessee fan.

But yeah, I get mad at myself for how much I care sometimes.

It's stupid.

Like, it's like I made this joke the other day about how like sports and dogs having it your lifespans are like God's way of teaching as nihilism. But the, but like even, I learned about death from having pets, right? But even though I know, I know the only one team can win a title every year. And it's definitely not going to be mine. And I still get so upset when they lose. I never fight. It's a Lucy in the football except it's like way sadder than that.

It's like Lucy and a kangranet or some shit. I don't know what it is. Yeah. Yeah. It's just, it is sad and it is stupid. But hey, what are you going to do? It's just part of our caveman brain, I guess, is just like, It's my thing that do good.

I want it to don't make it sad.

Yeah.

And I was reading this thing about psychology of sports fan. It's like your self-esteem has been entwined with the teams. And you feel like their accomplishments are there or yours. And their failures are yours. Which is not, they don't even know what exists. Nobody in the team knows like, no idea.

Yeah.

And there are a lot of them as professionals, it's like, I mean, I'm sure I'm the, so a lot of

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