Ed Calderon

And one of the biggest realizations is like, oh, this is just a biological thing.

To realize that this is just meat.

This is not.

And you can cut it.

And then if you bleed, all of a sudden the life can disappear from you.

And it's all gone.

It's like, holy shit, there's this meat vehicle that some people have referred to as Lex.

I'm just a few stabbings away from leaving.

Yeah, from leaving.

Goodbye.

There's a soul that just flies away.

It feels like one of the significant ways to win a street fight is to avoid it by sort of sending pacifist signals in every way, meaning avoiding the situation whenever there's like...

like a hyper-vigilant people, you just kind of avoid signaling that you're one of the players of interest.

If we're talking about counter-ambush, at which point do you do that versus shift to the aggression?

Yeah.

I think he was referring to a different context, but... I know.

That could have gone wrong in so many ways.

Yeah.

And of course, it's not as simple as smile or not smile.

There's subtlety to it.