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He's somebody.
Someone who is comfortable in their own skin.
Let's talk about, um, brain injuries in the NFL, because I just got done on, uh, Dr. Amen's podcast and he was on mine.
We're running it now.
And it's a great, it was fascinating.
He's great.
He's he's magnificent.
You know, I learned a lot on, uh, uh, speaking to Dr. Amen, but.
I was watching the NFL the other day and there's always that one guy and he's usually a wide receiver and he's usually in the slot, right?
Who's got the big fat helmet, the big fat helmet.
Okay.
Now I get it.
you either have to make everybody wear that, right, or nobody wear it.
Because if everyone's not wearing it, the one guy wearing it is getting grief, right?
Yeah, you play the game on the brink of disaster.
I think everybody knows that is a combat sport.
You can't legislate the violence out of football.
I think the NFL, Roger Goodell in the NFL has done an amazing job really trying to take protective measures
to protect the football players the best they can but there's only a certain amount of protection you can give an nfl guy they've changed the kickoff rules and the length and the distance and all this other kind of stuff so in that respect yes but i think when you start talking about like brain injury uh there are a lot of things and this is not a deflective you know comment here in that there's so many other things we're doing in our lives that has impact on our mental health on our brain
I take, for instance, I present to you sugar.