Yo! Welcome into the House of L podcast. I'm Lawrence Holmes. Thank you so much for joining me and hanging out with me.

We're going to do a lot of numbers today. So you know, I know that I usually say that there's not going to be any math, but there's some math. Well, not really math. It's just me reading numbers.

You know, the thing is that I'm actually not as bad at numbers as I say I am. I just don't, you know, for some reason, math has always been something that

if you turn it into baseball for me, I got, I can figure out ERAs and all sorts of other stuff. Maybe there's one of the things I need to do is I get older. I need to try like academic stuff that I've been bad at and work on that a little bit more.

Perhaps that's one of the pursuits that I'll take is I Korean into, well, I guess I'm already into middle age, but that can be a hobby.

Like I've already at least started what I think is going to be a hobby for me. I picked up a drone, y'all. I haven't even taken it out of the box yet. I don't, I haven't read any instructions or anything like that.

I am going to try and learn how to fly a drone. I don't think it's really that hard, but I now have one in my possession and I'm going to see if I can learn how to do it and then maybe I learn how to do something else.

I actually really like learning things. Still, strangely enough. So, you know, I've, I get obsessed with stuff too, like chess openings.

That became a thing for me for a good six months is why I ended up having a conversation with Derek Rose about chess openings when he was in town because he's going to do like this big chess thing, which I think is kind of amazing.

And I get obsessed with it. It's funny though, because like my dad and I have played, you know, hundreds of times and I've only beaten my dad too. And I asked him about openings because he teaches chess and I was a bad student because I'm aggressive, like my aggression.

I get emotionally attached into games. My father does not. So his record against me is like, you know, a hundred and ninety eight and two.

But, but the last match that we played in my father still with us. He's still alive. I saw him this morning.

The last match we played, I won. And that will be the last match that we played. I have my mother taking picture of the board and everything.

But I'm, I'm always like in attack mode. It's so strange because for the most part, as a human being, I am fairly cautious.

I'm not out here running scared, but I'm pretty cautious. Very conservative when it comes to a lot of things.

When it comes to chess for some reason, I have a taste for blood and it puts me in bad situations. Now to my own credit, I am not one of these people that falls apart when I lose my queen.

I don't like it. Don't get me wrong. It's not a good thing that you lose your queen. But I don't fall apart. And I would say that one of the things about like my dad, like I think I admire about him is his creativity on a chess board.

Like that's where I do think I inherit some of the stuff that he's got because after I lose the queen, I get creative.

Sometimes I get stupid and that's why I end up losing. But sometimes I can play so unorthodoxy. Is that even a word that I can end up winning a match where I've lost my queen against lesser players?

If I'm playing against really good players, if I'm playing up against people who are 1600 and above, it's a wrap. But anyway, I digress.

Yeah, I go into these modes where I think right now my obsession is kind of based in really trying to learn Spanish.

And so I'm doing the duo lingo. I'm not doing a good enough job of like watching Telemundo noticias every night. Like I should be doing that. Like I should add on to my duo lingo experience by watching 30 minutes of news.

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