Faith & Endurance

In this episode, D Burke opens us with the FIFA World Cup Final recap and his feelings about the controversy and rumors surrounding Argentina throwing the match. From there he pivots to the NBA and LeBron James choosing to take his talents to Philly and become a 76er. To close he share his current mindset around grinding as a business owner while life for everyone else happens around him + more! 

Transcript

SPEAKER_09 0:20

Back up in this thing, y'all. Back up in this thing, y'all. This just vibes, we ain't three pieces yet.

unknown 0:33

Task force.

SPEAKER_09 0:34

Gotta get the energy right. Shake off some of the air forces. The long trying week I had. Give me a second, just go along with me. New Raw's for you. Shit called Remarkable Hustle. One of the standouts on the album set in stone, Rick Ross. I pray for a big one. You got a decent one, my boy. One time for Leon Thomas on the hook. Word on the curve is you can't drop an album without Leon on it.

SPEAKER_11 1:43

I need security, surely the clear path for me. I'm walking off on you, goofy niggas that act funny. Life's sentence, the biggest a slight menace. I have a billy, this really the right penis. The white deadly, my niggas call it the big morgan.

SPEAKER_09 2:09

If you watching, you can see the vibes. If you listening, you won't hear the vibes in a moment.

SPEAKER_11 2:13

Tell you what I saw. Never said I'm perfect.

unknown 2:18

Keep on switching cars, keep on spin balls. See, no excuses needed. Do it just because something was handed.

SPEAKER_05 2:37

A hundred women. Hold on, for they like the door and that goes.

SPEAKER_09 3:03

Alright, quick vibe. The pod on this audio journey. My bad, y'all. Another day to be a day. Another day to be a line. Whatever you want, and whatever you want to do, you know, we gotta be on the way. My energy has been a little bit older than we don't know. But as always we maintain, as always we we overcome, as always we you know, we keep on pushing through, but everything is I mean, you know, sometimes you just gotta second mentally, second physically, second spiritually, regard yourself mentally, physically, spiritually, like we say all the time on this podcast. And just make sure the energy is just in a great space, you know. And it ain't always gonna be, but when it you gotta retool yourself, get yourself back in line in alignment with the with the positive energy. But either way, as we go through today's three-piece spicy, we talk as we go through it, you know, this is for the hustlers, man. We we we are a podcast, or I am a podcast, or you listeners who are you know supporters, we are a podcast, or people who are are hard workers and people who got ambition and things that they want to achieve in life, and just go out there with their best effort to do so, you know. For this podcast, you know, this three piece spicy would say is gonna be dedicated to the hustlers. It's all about getting to that bag today. So make a shot, make your air horn, of course, turn this shit up to ignore volumes, wherever you at, wherever you listening from, wherever you're watching from, wake this energy up. Deburks three piece spicy, let's get it.

SPEAKER_10 5:11

And I'm actually gonna get right into it. And you really want to know how. You know, how can I blaze my own path? Uh, how can I be successful? Um, how can I follow the path that someone else has laid for me to be successful?

SPEAKER_09 5:23

Let's go.

SPEAKER_02 5:25

Sitting on deuces while the blunt burn, still raping rap music, cause I want more.

SPEAKER_09 5:30

Everything on the table, we coming for.

unknown 5:36

It's just Adam, it's just black salmon, both the facts.

SPEAKER_02 5:39

Where your six hundred beans, where your rollers at? Where your Cuban legs, nigga, where your rollies at? Where your big boots are?

SPEAKER_09 5:45

Come along with me, fella hustlers, lady hustlers a light. We here to motivate the moves. Willin' to make the most out of any situation. Get it out the mud.

unknown 5:58

Amongst it all, put yourself on the map. Turn into a boomin' operation.

SPEAKER_09 6:02

What type of nigga is that? One of the illiteras of our generation. Going too soon. Left a lot of jets for you. Let's talk about it.

SPEAKER_02 6:09

I would rather shoot before I burn a bullet. Pressure on my shoulder when you should try and do what we dumb. Make a million dollars.

SPEAKER_09 6:19

When we young, I would rather. My way till you're old, I'm gonna do it now. Get off your ass. Every day is another day above ground to go out and get it. Let's talk about it. Verse two nip.

SPEAKER_10 6:31

So if you can tell us how exactly, and what deal you did to make your first male dollars.

SPEAKER_02 6:37

I can tell you niggas how I came up. Similar to comin' at the grave, huh? Can't be actin' like a bitch trying to get saved, bruh. Get that dirt up off your shoulders, step your game.

SPEAKER_09 6:47

Pay attention.

SPEAKER_02 6:48

Can't be chasing pussies with your ways up. Can't be fucking off your loose, you gotta save up. Pay attention.

SPEAKER_09 6:58

He's yet for the loose looking for to be collected by the most of like mindset.

SPEAKER_02 7:05

Nigga, you can't fade us. Niggas like we can braids come. Where you coming from? Where do you get your name? Come along with me, y'all.

SPEAKER_09 7:14

As you can see the vibe from the title. They say in the niggas something is over when we talk about it when we talk about it, but it can never be over. It'll never be over until we say so. And when we do say so, it's gonna be because we coming back to crack your head top one more time. In the title defense. One time for the dream, we let it rock today. Let's go.

SPEAKER_02 7:43

Tell me why you mad.

SPEAKER_09 7:44

Tell me why you mad. We still talking our shit, it's still a next summer. It ain't easy. It ain't easy to bring home that chip. Got the whole leagues shooking up. Tryna get one. Listen, man. As I said, we're still a New York Knickerbacker summer. As I said, we still looking to motivate those who looking to get that bag, get to that mission, get to that purpose, get to that goal. So one of my favorite get money songs of all time, for one of my favorite artists of all time, let's go talk to him. If you know, different time, different place, different era, different city, let's do it.

SPEAKER_12 8:30

I'm fucked up.

SPEAKER_09 8:32

I need the line talking. We just looking to get paid. Chip in the struggle this month in the business style. We low on the revenue. Slow summers, we must arrive. Walk step by step to the goal.

SPEAKER_12 8:44

I'm in the court, take your jag with a bag, knocking hauling notes off. And I told you I fucked my pill. I take cups in the bowl.

unknown 8:56

Feel like me, you about to fuck up your deal.

SPEAKER_12 8:59

But I told you I make my bill. I'm at home and alcohol bad, tryna talk to him style. I got a bad habit making people mad at me. Dog to tryna get paid. We don't have chest, so I can get out with the pill. Got to get my head right.

SPEAKER_09 9:24

So I can lie on the mill. What up? We just tryna make it. Shouts to all the entrepreneurs, shouts to all the business owners. As we take this lonely walk, step by step to the goal, let's keep rapping.

SPEAKER_12 9:52

Catch me in the scarbox and then the arena. I'm gonna be happy to cop my niggas fit in the penis. But I'm trying to be realistic. And I can really kick it. Don't settle into 70 beaters. Somebody call Bill Velling with the tweets. One on one. So I can get the real cake. Try to see my shit in the board. And the niggas need lottery numbers.

unknown 10:16

Talk this time on the car, free the car.

SPEAKER_12 10:18

Word for word, let's go. Smoke in the car to the Air Force comp. 50,000. And if I can't live it up, then I'm running up. And the record label telling everybody give it up.

SPEAKER_09 10:35

I'm just trying to make some cats. Ha ha. We just tryna make it down. Even when hot tops get hard, even when that money gets low, we bounce back. We arise like the Phoenix, baby. Let's do it. We're going three verses here.

SPEAKER_12 11:00

White T and some Bruno Magli's.

SPEAKER_09 11:02

Niggas don't remember the Bruno Magli's. That's why I keep the 45 government addition.

SPEAKER_12 11:11

So for the love, speak the big screen is crazy, and I'm loving the conditions. I got a vision in the sky.

SPEAKER_09 11:18

Wind them windows down, turn that volume up for the vibes. Stay with me, y'all. We're rocking out today. Trying to make it, y'all. I'm just talking about every dollar counts, every effort counts to the goal. And listen, man, as we keep this three piece spicy going, if you're in the way now, wake that ass up, man. Pick that energy up out there. Thanks for coming and listen to the three piece spicy. We got one more from you. Get money error. Get money talk. Get money city. Get money artists. Let's do it.

SPEAKER_03 12:09

Ain't nothing funny about not getting this money, man.

SPEAKER_09 12:12

It ain't.

SPEAKER_03 12:12

What's funny about that?

unknown 12:14

Make money, money, money. Make money.

SPEAKER_02 12:19

Ha ha ha ha ha.

SPEAKER_03 12:20

Two niggas make me laugh. One time bad. Here we go. New York sting out the clothes out the three piece spicy. Can't take the joke. All you niggas be embro.

SPEAKER_09 12:29

Who thought it was over? Ha ha. My niggas is still moving around. Cleaning up the S-beeds. We got all the interviews going. You thought the next summer was over, you crazy.

SPEAKER_03 12:47

Money mic, I get money on the mic. His something say I'm wildin out. The number got he stylin' out. Push them seven digits, dialin' out. But I ain't got a fucking choice. My money talks in a crisp upper voice. And you know this man, you a stand-up rapper, hip hop comedian. I start laughing as soon as I put your seed in. You joke, you joke, you kid, you kiss. Shouldn't win the comedy, send you with the vid, you did. But okay, you wanna beat. Only if it's comic dude. Promise you funny style, I could be a comic too. I'm all the ma, at an audio mall. A cute snarty bra, tits like Dolly Paw, and Hardy N. This is caughty ma. This is hustle talk.

SPEAKER_09 13:28

This is hustle music. Get off your lazy ass, get out there and get it.

SPEAKER_03 13:37

Gotta work. Gotta grind. You can't take the dope. Well, I can't take it in broke up.

SPEAKER_09 13:44

Gotta endure, gotta stay faithful.

SPEAKER_04 14:03

They may not feel me too much on this pre-fall.

SPEAKER_09 14:05

The ones that do if you know, you know. If you feel you feel called with hustle talk only today. Lady hustles fellow hustles alike. East Coast West Coast Down South, Midwest, overseas. Wherever you watch it, wherever you listen from, get off your ass and get it.

SPEAKER_04 14:38

Sort of like Kramer. I'm joking, you don't wanna see the anger.

SPEAKER_09 14:42

Fab tell him. Listen, man. Footing out the D Perg's three P spicy. We got big energy. Take a breath, man. Settle in. We're gonna get to this podcast. As always, you know the vibes, man. We are back for another audio occasion. In the house one time, and of course, we're here to talk big shit today. They might call me a hater today. They're gonna call me a hater today. They already calling me a hater. You know, for some of the perspectives, we're gonna get off. We're gonna talk about a lot of the things we've seen that have transpired recently, but it's alright, man. Settle in. Tell a friend to tell a friend. We're gonna open up the podcast with our lead and audio. And as we do get to it, man, we're just gonna wrap up, you know, an event that we've been talking about the last few episodes. We see how it transpired, we had to let things kinda cool off before we came to y'all and and got mounted off, but we just gonna talk about it, man. Let's do it.

SPEAKER_00 15:56

Messi carried a team to the final and dominated this tournament statistically. Dominated it. Like, here's Messi's numbers in the tournament with ranks. There is a you know, we can argue, you know, for hours about whether or not in American sports a losing player should be able to win finals in VP. I just thought Messi was not just the story of the tournament, but so clearly the most impactful player in the tournament. There was a good one. When you said about Roger, there were seven or eight guys on Spain who could have been the lead character. So yeah, talk about it. He deserved it.

SPEAKER_09 16:49

Talk about it. You know, we ain't even gonna go too long. Leon message. We said what we said. We said what we said. Sorry to even run that back. I should double back for y'all that ain't hear me the first time, but it's all good, man. Good vibes. Good vibes. As we kick this thing off, let my theme music run. Give me one, give me two, give me an abundance of air horns on the way in. Let's go. And as always, if you made it to the audio slash visual occasion, please do not forget to like, comment, share, and subscribe. We love the love over here at the EFS Podcast. Again, like, comment, share, subscribe. If you're listening on Spotify, if you're listening on our Apple, do not forget to subscribe to the podcast so that every time we drop, you know we're dropping, and you can listen and support. If you're watching, of course, do the same. We appreciate all the love that you've been we've been getting and that you've been given. And you know, it is what it is. We want to make sure that we keep on spreading this thing and sending it to the moon. But I'm your boy, the man, the myth, the legend from the EFS brand himself, the biggest brand that you don't know about yet, Mr. 1% two times. Berg back at you for episode number 81 of the EFS Podcast. And very pleased to be here as we enter our next episode, our next week, our next cycle of things that I'm gonna sit around here and talk shit about. But we back, man. Let's fade out this Steam music and let's get to it. As always, happy to be here on mic with y'all, whoever's out there, man, making me a part of your weekly, your your occasional, whatever cadence you listen to to the podcast, man. Thank you, man, and keep the love coming. Um getting a little bit of feedback on some of the things I'm gonna talk about, you know, really, really enjoying that. You know, it's just it's good for me to let to understand that y'all are listening and to get the you know, just the the general thoughts. The thoughts about the episodes, you know, and just the content in general. And if you love good content like this, if you like, you love, you hate, you know, sometimes we gotta hate listeners, hate watchers. Of course, man, just just keep it going as we keep this thing growing. Um, but we'll open things up today kind of off of the heels of my lead-in audio, with the World Cup closing out. Um, and how things kind of went like that. Um, of course, uh to my I well keeping it funky. I really thought that we could have well we not mean we as in that sense, but you guys know I support RDC. You know, had the jerseys on, been talking about Messi Fitch the last couple episodes, was hoping that he got to the finals, he did get to the finals, and I'm documented while people I have spoken to that can vouch for me that uh I said leading into the final game, uh, that it's a win no matter what happens. If he gets another one, it's cemented. He is the greatest ever. If not, then he's done enough for me to say he's the greatest ever anyway. Um It went how it went. It went how it went. Um and then it went how we didn't expect it to go as far as the Argentina side of things. Spain did what they did and you know went out there and played a good game. And congrats to them. So round of applause for Spain for taking things home. La Minha Maul to next up. Shouts to him. Bright future ahead, winning his first World Cup at the age of 19, I think. And then, you know, the other players on the team, Pedri, you know, we had a we had good squad all around, you know. Uh I'm an I'm a you know La Minha Maw fan, but Spain is they top and bottom top to bottom, I would say they got a great, great team. And won the Euros two years ago, won the World Cup now, you know. They they're showing that they are a force to be reckoned with in world football. And they went out there and they won. Um I would say that it was a little disappointing as a person who was supporting Messian Argentina to see them go out there and play the way that they did uh for the final game of the World Cup. Um, but I think that it just goes to show that the World Cup, as I said before, is one of the hardest things in the world to win. Um as there's been very few teams to ever win it back to back. Um very few teams to even like repeat in the finals, you know, in a back-to-back format like that. Um so listen, man, they did what they did. They made it as far as they could have, you know, from from the way it seems. But, you know, my piece of the conversation comes in around all of the controversies surrounding Argentina, um, especially in the finals. We talked about all the racism shit. I said what I said, I'm still doubling down, standing on that, and I feel even more validated in that now. The more content comes out from that region, that country, and just what we come to understand about the history of Argentina. Um racism involved in it, of course, and some things that we don't, you know, support, but also do your research, man. That's all I'm gonna say. And for anybody who still has feelings about any of the other things about me or anyone who is black or anybody supporting Argentina, like go get a life at this point, man. Yeah, we'll move on to the next thing in about another week or so. Uh either way, surrounding the game, there was a bunch of controversies that matched the the World Cup final. Um and uh it's very interesting, you know, for me, um, as a person who supported Argentina, but even more so as a person who is just watching football to kind of been given this feeling during the game, which leads. After the game, that it was not really Argentina we were watching. So if you don't know, if you haven't heard the controversies surrounding the game, some people call it conspiracy theorists. I wouldn't say that just because I think there are valid questions to be asked about how Argentina went out and played or what happened to cause them to go out there and play the way they played. That was not a team that we saw throughout the rest of the tournament. That was not a team that we had, we saw had the resilience. That was not a team that we saw had the fight. That was not a team that we saw that had the will, you know, in that last game. And why they looked like that, hey, maybe they were just burned out. You know, they had a lot of close games leading up to the finals. Pretty much could have lost every game in one split decision one way or another before that. And maybe they just ran out of gas, you know. Uh the other side of the story, the equation, is that maybe they had something happen that caused them to lose the game. Um, and that's where conspiracy theory is presented. Uh, so if you've seen maybe some content on social media, maybe not, some things floating around. Uh, the rumor is that Argentina was forced to throw the game. Um, say what you want, don't care. The rumor is that Argentina was forced to throw the game from FIFA, uh, and it leads back to the actions of uh the team, a few players on the team, but you know, it comes down on the team uh from the uh semifinal match against England. Um, and we talked about a little bit on the last episode leading into it, uh, the history between England and Argentina. Uh obviously, we came out on top and won and went to the finals. Uh, and in the post-game celebration on the pitch on the field, right after, uh, there were some players that grabbed a flag uh that was referring to some of the conflict, uh war pretty much, that was between Argentina and Great Britain or, you know, the UK or England, you know. Um, and going around the Falklands Island War was what it basically was, you know, it came from. So uh a little bit more context on that, what happened during the Falklands Island War. Uh the Falkland Island War, uh Beyond the Pitch, this is an excerpt straight from uh AI, who, you know, I did a little bit of digging and research on it uh about the thit about the topic and found a little bit even more though so than I knew, uh headed into it, and was interesting to learn. So here I go presenting it to you. Uh so Beyond the Pitch, in the 1982 conflict over the Falklands Island, known as Malvinas, uh in Argentina, uh, deepened the historical tension between the two nations. While Argentina and Britain have a long history of cultural and economical ties dating back to the 19th century, the 74-day war significantly significantly raised the emotional and political stakes whenever the two countries face each other. Um, so the players after the game held up a flag saying that basically the Malvinas, which I just referred to from that little excerpt, uh, are Argentine, uh, which is to basically it's a a statement to say that you guys stole land from us uh because of the Falklands War was all about the the islands that I just spoke about. Uh and uh Britain occupied them. Argentina tried to get them back, uh, and then Britain eventually ended up winning. And you know, Argentina, you know, they just said, listen, y'all got it, more or less. Uh so that I guess poster, whatever, the written poster that was held up after the game, basically goes against FIFA's codes or FIFA's rules. Um, because it says that in the rules, which they've been pulling up all over social media and putting it out there, um, that in the rules, you are not allowed a player, manager, anyone on the staff, team representative, etc., etc., not allowed to make any kind of political or religious statements uh during any kind of a FIFA uh event or you know, in front of people that can see who are there to watch a soccer game. Um so basically, with them holding up that flag, it looks like there was reports that they the Federation for the England football team basically went to FIFA and told them, like, listen, this goes against your code. Y'all gotta do something about it. And the the penalty is like up to a 10-year ban. Uh so rumors that FIFA stepped in and let the Argentines know that you can either lose this game or get banned. Uh, rumor goes even further to say that in a locker room pregame, which is I think is what this when they're saying they found out that they needed to either throw the game or, you know, be banned, that a lot of the players just wasn't fucking with it. They're not doing it. Fuck it, we can win it anyway, and then they're gonna ban us after. But it says uh it was said that Lionel Messi and some other you know voices of the team basically said that listen, like uh we have a future ahead of us, you know. And I know it's Leo Messi, his last World Cup, but he was even more so thinking about the future of the team and saying, listen, man, let's just go out here and throw the game, and then you guys will play on. This is my last one, I'm done, et cetera, et cetera. Um, they even pulled out clips of them walking immediately out of the locker room, headed to the pitch, which you know they have a bunch of cameras outside that are waiting for them to leave to walk towards the game. Um, where some players were crying. I think Enzo Fernandez might have been crying, um, but just emotional walking out of the locker room. Uh, and they translated, you know, I could understand most of it, but they translated basically what they caught Leonel Messi saying coming out of the locker room, which is like guys, listen, forget about what we just heard. Uh, this is me paraphrasing, forget about what we just heard, forget about what just went on. Let's go out there and let's basically do what we gotta do, you know. So, even further than more to say, people that was look uh watching Leon Leonel Messi warm up to say he missed like five kicks in a row from a certain distance that he never misses. I've never watched him actually warm up in full before a game, but you know, this is what people are saying. Um, and is it true? I don't know. I think it is a little bit funny how things played out in that way. Um, do I think it's out of the realm of possibility? Hell no. You know, FIFA's been corrupt for a long time. FIFA's been one of those organizations that people have had a lot to say about over the years. And I do believe there is a realm where they're like, listen, like you either do this or this is gonna happen. And it kind of looks like it could be true. Um, so I'm not gonna be the person to say to anyone that doesn't think it's true, you're wrong. But I am a person who does like to look deeper into things than what I'm just presented. Um, and I believe it's healthy to ask questions, you know, if you feel like something is a little bit off in that regard. Um, but either way, we know the champions of Spain. It is what it is. Um, Leonel Messi, his career will be whatever it is going forward. I hear now they're mad that he's not doing uh the all-star game at the uh in the MLS, which is coming up, uh, which all FIFA uh players that are in the FIFA tournaments, every anytime they go back to their local leagues or their, you know, their in their international leagues, wherever they're playing, they have a like mandated rest period. So now it's a big deal and fuse more into the messy hate. I ain't here to address none of that shit, man. I do think the game was a little bit controversial. So I'm just presenting my you know thoughts and the facts of what's being said about things. And you guys could think what you want, man. I I do think that it is not out of the realm of possibility that they were asked to throw that game, and it just is what it is. If they were asked to throw the game because there's no change in it now. Um, but either way, we'll move forward. We will move forward, and we won't spend too much time on that because then I get a little bit too hot on here. Um now to a sport that I'm a little bit closer to, as far as my own experience uh in my life. Uh, we'll talk about some hoops. Um, and I guess the biggest bomb that has been dropped over the last 24 to 36 hours is LeBron James choosing of where he wants to play basketball up next, which we know is the Philadelphia Sixers. Um biggest news of the weekend. It just is what it is, you know. And I'll present how I feel about it. Uh but I mean, you'll be damned if I'm gonna miss out on a chance to talk about LeBron when you know it'll get me a little bit more of the into the cycle of things that's going on out there. Not cloud chasing in any kind of sense, but hey man, like it is what it is. We gotta talk about it. He's the biggest basketball player of our generation, and now he's created a big fuss after saying he's gonna play for the Sixers. Um, so what do we think about it, y'all? You know, I guess let me know in the comments. Let me know your thoughts. Uh I know there's a lot of thoughts going on there around around about this situation. Um, but in general, uh my perspective on it is he is who we thought he is or was, or you know, he just it's just LeBron. It's just LeBron, you know, and I think it's very it's big, it's newsworthy because he is the potentially greatest player in the league by some people's, you know, estimation or some people's thought processes. I do think that he's a great player. You know, he's just been in the league for that long, he's done a lot for the league, he's done a lot in the league. So do I think he warrants the attention that he gets? I mean, that's up for debate. You know, I think that, you know, knowing who he is is naturally gonna happen. So you kind of just gotta be along for the ride with it. But it's just LeBron, you know, and I think that when it comes to LeBron, there's a lot of emotions that go on around the decisions that he makes. Um, I would say I don't really feel emotional about it, but I just look at him for who he is. Uh so to open up a little bit of the conversation or the talk or my feelings on it, uh, I'll read some of Kevin Durant's comments about LeBron James joining the Sixers. And he just came out today, so it kind of even you know reinforce some of the feelings that I have uh about it. And here it is. Uh, y'all be too emotional, is what he said. Um to further it, he says, How do you feel? How you how you feel don't change the truth about what he's produced as a basketball player. You don't know this man. Uh you don't know this man personally, but you have a personal disdain like he fucked your life up. LeBron James embodies the game of basketball. I'm defending the game itself. Kobe Braun, MJ, top five ever. Debate me. Um so yeah, man, it is what it is. He is who he is. I do think that right now it's creating so much of a buzz that it has the city of Philadelphia in an uproar, and they deserve to be excited about it, I guess. You know, like it is LeBron James coming to their team in the twilight of his career, nonetheless, but hey, it's still LeBron James. Uh, I'm still living in my next summer, you know. There's a lot of people telling me that the next summer is over. You can't tell me that because it's just not. It's like it's not over until the winners say it's over. And like I said a little bit earlier, it ain't gonna be over until we back for another run at the title, you know. And that's just how I feel about it. So y'all can have y'all moment, enjoy it. But do I think it'll play out to where y'all win a championship this year? No, I don't see it happening. I think they will be favored in the League East, like you know, me and all my group chats was talking about yesterday. They'll probably be favored, but it don't pan, it may not pan out that way. You got a lot of team, a lot of players on that team who have to sacrifice in order for them to eventually win a championship or potentially win a championship. And I also think you got a lot of big egos on that team. So being able to check your ego and fall in line with the team success train is it's a little bit more challenging than you may think, you know, because everybody wants to win, but when it's time to do what you need to do to win, everybody don't do it, you know? And LeBron James has one. I'm not taking anything away from him in that regard. Jalen Brown has one, I'm not taking anything away from him in that regard. But everybody else in the Sixers, who are going to be the main starting five players or the people in the main rotation, ain't really one shit. So, you know, they got to go through the fire and be able to contribute, contribute to the team, be able to take a step back when necessary, and then be able to check their ego to say, like, hey, my my points may not look like they looked last year, my my rebounds and my opportunities, like all my minutes may not look like they won't look last year. Uh, just because now we brought a lot of cogs into a system that you got to try to figure out to then roll out there, headed towards the fourth quarter this year and to try to go out and win the championship. It ain't that easy, man. It ain't that easy, you know. And the whole super team thing with LeBron, how he moves around and jumps from team to team. Again, he is who he is, y'all. We've just been seeing this shit for a long, long, long time. You know, and again, great player. I do have my own personal feelings about how he just, you know, kind of stacks his teams everywhere he goes. But again, that's his choice to do how he what he would like to with his career. And when you can throw your weight around in that way, I mean, what are you gonna say to that? You know, you just gotta go out there and beat him, which we do plan on going out there and beating him. Like, I do think all this league hustle and bustle, all this moving of teams, players, this, that, like, all of this shit is happening because the Knicks won. Like, like, literally. It's and I know we're in a propaganda and a media like firestorm anytime something happens, and especially that as historic as a Knicks championship, but like look at the league after this. Like, look what we went out there and made y'all do, you know, and now we got all the Philly fans popping shit to me just because I'm voistress as in my Knicks support and my Knicks fandom. My response to the Philly fans is enjoy it, but I'm a little disappointed in some of y'all. And I ain't gonna call out no names, but I do know people who are Philadelphia fans, Sixers fans, who openly talk shit about LeBron. And as soon as he comes to your team, y'all jump on the bandwagon, and now it's like, you know, oh, we got him. The best player ever is now coming to Philly. We are on the way to the championship. Ain't nobody getting in front of us now. The Knicks can't see us, the Knicks can't see us, the Knicks can't see us, the Knicks can't see us. Like, why y'all do y'all? Why y'all shooting at us so bad? Like, we still living in our, like, we just one vibe for the rest of the summer again. Like, y'all do what y'all do, y'all figure y'all shit out, and we'll see y'all in October. But again, I think I'm a little disappointed in some of y'all because of the way y'all just jump on board with this shit. When y'all know LeBron is a chip chaser. Like, and again, what kind of LeBron do y'all think y'all actually getting at this point to get y'all over the hump as a 40 on well, he'll be 42 sometime this season. 42-year-old LeBron in his however many seasons he's on to now, 40 year old, 40 seasons. But what kind of LeBron y'all think y'all actually get in to the point where it's gonna get y'all over the hump? You know how it works on the court, we gotta see. They'll be good defensively. I think they'll be better defensively than they were last year. But again, y'all still got a lot of big pieces to try to figure out and fit into the wheel that's gonna get y'all a win, you know. So y'all enjoy it. Y'all have architectured or you know, arc, you know, put together, saying fucked up words, but put together y'all rostered the exact way y'all wanted to do. Y'all stacked the team, y'all did the whole trusted process shit. It didn't work. It didn't work. So now y'all gotta do what y'all gotta do to try to get the fan base to be happy about what the team looks like. Because after last year, that wasn't it. We dog walked the shit out of y'all. Dog walked the shit out of y'all all season. We did it in the playoffs, and now I think that has forced y'all's hand to kind of change drastically or lose the fan base. I don't know. But enjoy it, man. Y'all be all right. We'll see what happens during during the actual season. I'm still calling Knicks' is the best team in the league. We just proved it. And then y'all gotta prove it to us headed into the next season for me to make me feel any different than that. And that's just it. It's just that it's just like that, man. I ain't gonna sit here and pop shit to y'all too much just because I still fuck with Philly. I still fuck with Philly. But you know, this one is a little bit weird with some of y'all. Y'all a little bit too hype about this LeBron thing. But again, we'll see what high looks when the time comes, when the real games start. And hopefully your roster comes together. Moving forward from that, man, we'll touch on real quick. Pause, not touch on, but you know, we'll we'll we'll get into real quick. Uh, just uh like I said a little earlier, is you know, some of the the down feelings I was having this week that kind of put me in a weird, weird space. Um, and you guys know how I give it up. I look to be like a living example to some of y'all with any of the things that I'm going through, um, and just bringing the game to the masses and the people, you know. And I'm not a person who is made it to my goal just yet, but I do believe that on the way, it is important to share stories with people who may be going through the same kind of thing, same kind of feelings, just for connection, and then just to be able to motivate each other, you know, towards whatever our goals are. Um so I say that to say uh the topic of this next conversation or next piece is just gonna be faith and endurance. And it goes off of um the Nipsey Hustle excerpt that I heard during the Ross, the Remarkable Hustle song that's on his album, uh, where he was talking about uh faith and endurance being what you need to have to be able to succeed uh in any kind of like, you know, goals where you're either going against the grain, you're starting your own business, you got a belief in your brand, this is that, whatever, like those kind of things uh are what you need to be able to push through, you know. Um, and one having the faith that you may not see what it's gonna look like for you right now, what you plan for it to look like. It may be the exact opposite of what you plan for it to look like, but having the faith to push through and the endurance to last and you know, withstand throughout all the lumps and the ups and downs. Um, so me personally right now, I've been in a state of, and I, you know, kind of working myself out of it mentally just because I don't like to stay down on anything for too long. Um, but we in the middle of summer, you know, and I know that summertime is a lot lity and fun and just free to kind of enjoy a lot of things for a lot of people, you know. People get their traveling in the summers. Events outside is lit up all over the summer. Like it just is that time. Um, but I haven't really felt that for myself personally, just because I've been so boots on the ground and stuck in the grind of trying to get my business, my facility, EFS Training Center, which we know about, talk about it all the time on here, uh, to a certain level and a certain, you know, a certain level of success that I deem, you know, with my own personal goals as a win, you know. And it's not to say that I don't believe I've had wins currently. Um, and I do think I have a lot. Uh, but you know me, success is always moving. I'm looking to, you know, I got goals. So being able to reach those goals is something that I always look to. Um and not feeling like I'm there yet, even though I'm kind of just starting things out, uh, in the middle of summer has put me in a space to where I gotta look at things going on, and I'm I'm like, damn, you know, in my head, I'm like, damn, I wish I was able to do that right now. Or I wish I was able to go here, you know. Most notably, I would say recently the Jay-Z concert, you know, we talked about a little bit on here, but after that concert went down, and I'm just sitting around watching, you know, my family, my friends, you know, people that I really fuck with out there enjoying themselves, it kind of put me in a space like, damn, I wish I would have bought them tickets, you know. I wish I wouldn't have, you know, put out there that I wasn't doing it, or I would have put myself in a position to say, like, hey, maybe you spend a little bit on the tickets and go because just because you know it's gonna be lit, it's gonna be a vibe. You know, on top of that, there's my friend, my man, my brother, you know, won't shout him out too much on on here by name, but he knows who he is. One of my brothers celebrated his 40th birthday and uh proposed a trip to me that he was gonna take to celebrate his birthday months ago. Um, and we kind of got into a little bit of a disagreement about it just because I did not handle the communication on it properly, uh, which made him feel away. You know, I've since apologized, you know, owned up to it man to man, like, my bad, you know, I should have done in that regard. Um, but celebrating his 40th birthday, um, and I wanted to go, basically told him I was gonna go and backed out after I assessed some things for myself financially as far as where the business is at, uh, making sure that I can still run business properly without putting myself in a little bit more of a financial burden, uh, just because my business took on, and I'm just keeping funky, my business took on an extra 15 plus thousand. I want to say 15 to 16 to 15 to 17,000 of extra expenses uh in me getting the space open, uh, just because to obtain permits, I had to have the building up to a certain code, which caused me to have to put more money into the original project to get the doors open, uh, which changed a lot for me financially this year. Uh, and you know, I'm just gonna be honest, extra $15,000 coming out of my pockets or, you know, in in that way just thrust upon me is not something I was ready for, you know. And it is what it is. We got the doors open, we did what we had to do. Um, but again, having to take the time after to reassess some things, it put me in a position of where I'm like, bro, I can't go, you know. And again, we pieced it up over that. He went, enjoyed himself. Love you, my dogs. You know, you you you're a real one, always with me. But it did put me in a space to where, like, damn, I wish I would have gone too. So, you know, FOMO with the Jay-Z concert, FOMO with this uh situation. Um, and it just had me in a weird space over the last couple of days and kind of like a week where the business is not really where I wanted to be at. In the summertime, things are a little bit slow, uh, and revenue is like down this month, you know. So I'm in the grind trying to get things to where every dollar counts. Let's push, let's grind, let's get the like get the doors open to more people, let's figure out what we got to do to make more money right now, all while these things are going on around me, and I'm just like, damn, damn, damn, you know. So kind of beating my me up a little bit in a not too too emotional, but yeah, it had me down a little bit just because it's like, damn, I'm stuck in this shit. I don't really know when the next win is gonna happen for me, but I gotta kind of push through, you know. Um, and to anyone who's been through anything like that similar or maybe can connect with anything I'm saying, you do have to really just check yourself emotionally and put yourself in a space where you can talk to somebody else about it or talk to yourself about it, to where you can work through your own feelings, to where you don't make it a cycle of negative, you know, because that is where your faith in your overall goal kind of wavers, you know, and gets shaken. And once that happens, you're not doing what you're doing with the truest intent of what your goals are, uh, and with the truest like effort and spirit towards what your goals are. Um, and that's where you can get into a negative cycle, man. So I personally have had to check myself and be very intentional about the things I say, the things I think, and the things I put out there about what I'm doing and how I feel right now, and just doubling back and making sure that you you understand it right now is right now, but you're not working for how to how you feel currently. You're working for the future and just staying in tune with what your goals are and understanding that you know, living in the uncomfortable state of being a business owner is just something that you have to do until you can break through, um, and getting strapping in and getting comfortable with that, and you know, the cliche comfortable with the uncomfortable. Um, so say that to say, man, keep your heads up, keep my head up. Sometimes I gotta give myself my own messaging, uh, just so I can keep myself going. But again, to anyone out there who feels they can connect with that, listen, stay in the fight, you'll be good, strategize, prioritize, save, you know, something something that I gotta work on and be better at myself. Uh, all these things, man. But that said, hope you can feel that. Hope you can connect with it. And again, spread the wealth, spread the message, you know, because the messaging is also wealth to keep people in good spaces and keep people on the right path. So, you know, the wealth doesn't always come in the money. Sometimes the wealth comes in sharing and experience with people that keeps you in a positive mindset, you know, to then be able to go get the money and be able to get the actual wealth that you know comes to the bank account. Um, so that said, man, I'll get out of here on this one. Appreciate you all for coming to watch, coming to listen, coming to check me out. As I said, tell a friend to tell a friend, the EFS podcast is up and coming. We're still moving, we still grinding, trying to get this thing as big and as power and to as many people as possible. Uh, so if you do like, if you do feel the content, I would appreciate, you know, and appreciation comes standard for me if you would one follow consistently, subscribe, and two, share it with somebody else, man. Let them know. Um, but that said, as always, guard yourself mentally, physically, spiritually, and all things in between. Uh, EFS podcast number episode number 81 is out. I will catch you on the next one. Peace later.