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What's up, man? Good. So having this big Counter-Strike tournament in town, does that give you the Joneses?
Totally. Totally. So your guy, Jason, was telling me about it because in addition to driving, he also flies the helicopter. And he told me the Red Bull guys were flying off and there's this big tournament. I looked it up. It was like, oh, Counter-Strike. So I used to be a bit of a pro player myself.
So how do you get out of pro playing? Because the problem with like playing games is that it's essentially like an eight hour a day thing. Like it becomes a giant chunk of your life, right? And I would imagine if you're playing pro, it's even more of a commitment.
You know, I take a different view on games. You know, a lot of people kind of view it as a sort of somehow like a negative thing, especially for kids. Actually, I got my four-year-old a Nintendo Switch early on. We were playing together. Because I feel like, for me, it helped me a lot with strategy thinking, with reaction time. I think gamers tend to think really fast.
Have you seen the studies that they've done about surgeons?
No, tell me.
Surgeons that play video games regularly are much less likely to make mistakes. I totally believe it. Something in the neighborhood of 25%. Is that what it is, Jamie? Something like that? But so much so that I would say you should teach video games to surgeons. It should actually be a required thing, like cross-training.
Right. Isn't the Army also recruiting from gamers today as well? That's what I heard.
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