Greg Fitzsimmons
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Yeah. And also when the fear of being physically hurt is driving you to push yourself to be better. Yes. That's real.
Yeah. My nephew, Rowan, he grew up in South Africa and he was like – You know, had every letter, ADHD, whatever. He had it all. And he was the number one most – he got the record at his school for the most detentions. They kept track, and they, like, gave him an award. And then he found rugby. When he was, like, 14, he started doing rugby hard. And he's a big, thick kid.
And he became an animal, and it straightened him out. Right now he's at Columbia University. He was in the – he went out for the – Green Berets. No, the Navy SEALs. Have you seen? He just missed it. He made it all the way to Hell Week and then got dropped from the program. That's crazy. But because he was in the Navy, they gave him a full ride to Columbia. They pay him to go to school at Columbia.
I guess it's the GI Bill. Is that what they call it? Probably. Something like that.
yeah i think putting a kid who's got some because you get anger when you when you have all these learning disabilities you get very angry oh yeah you know because you're not fitting in you're not doing as well you're trying your hardest and you're coming up short and you get fucking angry and you need something to focus that on i think all kids need something to focus yeah they just need something it's too easy to just be lazy and
It was the 30s, yeah.
Well, because they were recent immigrants and they were fighting for turf. They were fighting for jobs. The Irish and the Italians were fucking fighting each other. They needed food. Yeah.
And they had 11 brothers and sisters. So they were fighting at home before they even left the house.
Cabbage. That was your only vegetable.
Yeah. You had the Iceman. Every couple days, an Iceman would come to your house and put it in your box.
More expensive for ice. Because it didn't have piss in it. That's the delineating factor.
The French are serving up some chocolate ice cream. Did you mean this to be chocolate?
Right. Not a chance in hell. Do you eat snow?
It's amazing how bad it gets in New York in the winter, how fast. That shit falls, and an hour later, it's gray.
I got a guy. Maybe that's why they call it on the rocks because it's surrounded by rocks in the pit. No. I think it's ice cubes are like rocks, right? Well, there's a lot of schools of thought on this.