By: T.R. Slyder, TRSlyder@yahoo.com, AndyDisco on Twitter
They are both so awesome.
That's how I roll.
Thursday, March 4, 2010
Where Aweome Happens Singalikes v. 1.0: Manny Pacquiao and Herve Villechaize
Wednesday, March 3, 2010
Best Thing Possible. By Far.
By: T.R. Slyder, TRSlyder@yahoo.com, AndyDisco on Twitter
I remember in middle school when a kid in my school would act like he was in a gang, he'd throw up his (alleged) gang's sign and ask, "Do you claim this?". Not sure what it was all about, but I think he was asking if anyone dared show the effrontery to claim that they too were a member of that gang. Blasphemy of that order not being tolerated, a fight would ensure. At least I think that was the point, I never saw anything become of it.
Anyway, the point is that's what I'm doing with this video. I'm posting it and if you don't claim to like it, then maybe we just aren't that into eachother. If you haven't seen the Epic Beard Guy video here's a brief synopsis: a bearded white dude and a black dude have a disagreement on an Oakland public bus, they get in a fight and the bearded white dude beats the crap out of the black dude (who is visibly drunk by the way, making it an unfair fight, but I digress). The black dude got hit in the face a lot and was bloodied, while suggesting someone call an ambulance, he for some reason, pronounced it "Amberlamps".
The remix game is afoot.
That's how I roll.
It's Time we Look Into the Future
By: T.R. Slyder, TRSlyder@yahoo.com, AndyDisco on Twitter
Lets take a look at the Las Vegas futures pools for the KY Derby, March Madness, the World Cup, and Baseball. Not because I have some insight that you can gain, but because it's fun to think about the playoffs/post season/huge race, etc. even when it isn't not all that close to us.
First up: KY Derby. (you can find the past performances of the Derby eligible horses here.) If you have never heard of any of these horses that's ok, as I have heard of about 4 of them. This is the second "pool" or round of betting, you can see that atop the list it says "Pool 2", some horses were dropped or added since Pool 1 and odds on some horses have changed, (drastically in the case of Eskendereya- click here to see the race that precipitated his odds plummeting).
KY Derby Future Wager Pool 2 Odds | |||
| # | Horse | M/L Odds | |
| 1 | Aikenite | 50-1 | |
| 2 | American Lion | 30-1 | |
| 3 | Buddy’s Saint | 12-1 | |
| 4 | Caracortado | 12-1 | |
| 5 | Connemara | 20-1 | |
| 6 | Conveyance | 12-1 | |
| 7 | D’Funnybone | 30-1 | |
| 8 | Dave in Dixie | 30-1 | |
| 9 | Discreetly Mine | 30-1 | |
| 10 | Dublin | 15-1 | |
| 11 | Eskendereya | 6-1 | |
| 12 | Jackson Bend | 20-1 | |
| 13 | Lookin at Lucky | 6-1 | |
| 14 | Nextdoorneighbor | 30-1 | |
| 15 | Noble’s Promise | 30-1 | |
| 16 | Odysseus | 50-1 | |
| 17 | Radiohead | 20-1 | |
| 18 | Rule | 20-1 | |
| 19 | Setusko | 50-1 | |
| 20 | Sidney’s Candy | 20-1 | |
| 21 | Super Saver | 20-1 | |
| 22 | Tempted to Tapit | 50-1 | |
| 23 | Vale of York | 30-1 | |
| 24 | Field (all others) | 7-2 | |
Many of these horses raced in the Breeder's Cup Juvenile, the chart of the results can be found here And the race can be viewed here.
That race was 1/16th of a mile shorter than the Derby will be, and was raced over a synthetic surface, whereas the KY Derby will be run over dirt. A few random notes about that race and the Derby:
-You can get 30-1 odds on the winner of the BC Juvenile in the Derby Futures Pool.
- Lookin at Lucky was undefeated going into that race (all of his races coming over a synthetic surface, like he saw in the Breeder's Cup), lost by a head, will race on natural dirt in KY Derby, yet still remains co-favorite at 6-1. Doesn't seem like great value. He also loses value for having a superstar trainer in Bob Baffert- who doesn't hurt his chances of winning the Derby, but also skews his price, much like buying a condo in a Trump-owned building. The owner doesn't make the condo good or bad, but with an owner like Trump, you can be sure you won't be getting a steal, either, in fact, you'll probably overpay.
-D'Funnybone was the 4th betting favorite in Juvenile and is currently 30-1. You can see him winning his 2010 debut here in the Grade 2 Hutechson Stakes.
- Vale of York had never raced on anything but grass before his win in the BC Juvenile.
-Aikenite finished 5th and was the third betting favorite in the Juvenile and is now at 50-1.
-Noble's Promise was the second favorite in the Juvenile, finished third by a head, and is now 30-1 in the Derby pool. Why? Because he has never raced on a dirt surface.
So that's the Derby. I haven't paid much attention to horse racing since the Breeder's Cup, but I am starting to pick it up again now. I am not making any predictions just yet, but just trying to gather the facts, note the trends, and begin watching the upcoming Derby prep races.
NCAA Futures- taken from VegasInsider.com
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I didn't include all of the teams, but I thought these were the only ones with a chance to win it. It looks like the only real value on the board is Duke at 15-1. The point of playing a Futures Pool is to get better odds NOW then you would at the time of the event. If Kansas goes undefeated until the tournament starts, they still won't be less than 2-1, so they offer terrible value. If you love Kansas, why waste your money now when a player could get injured before the tournament starts, and why not just hold your money and take them at 2-1 on the day the tournament starts? Same goes for Kentucky. Syracuse was great value at 25-1, but 7-1 seems fair, and I can't see their price dropping below that before the tournament starts. Again, the point of a future's pool is to assume more risk (injuries, the unforeseen, team falling apart, etc.) and get a price break as a result. Unless you think that Duke, OSU or MSU will make a big run betwixt now and the start of the tourney, you'd be silly to make a wager on the current NCAA futures.
Baseball- taken again from VegasInsider.com Opening Line Current
| N.Y. Yankees | 3/1 | 14/5 |
| Boston | 13/2 | 11/2 |
| Philadelphia | 13/2 | 6/1 |
| L.A. Angels | 17/2 | 14/1 |
| Detroit | 20/1 | 24/1 |
| Seattle | 125/1 | 50/1 |
| Arizona | 75/1 | 60/1 |
| Toronto | 75/1 | 125/1 |
| St. Louis | 8/1 | |
| L.A. Dodgers | 9/1 | |
| Tampa Bay | 11/1 | |
| Chi. White Sox | 12/1 | |
| Atlanta | 12/1 | |
| Chi. Cubs | 14/1 | |
| Colorado | 20/1 | |
| N.Y. Mets | 20/1 | |
| San Francisco | 30/1 | |
| Texas | 30/1 | |
| Minnesota | 30/1 |
Again. If the Yankees were in the World Series, they'd be about about 1/1, so why take less than 3/1 in March? If your goal is to make $200 on the World Series this year, you could either bet about $65 on them in March, or about $110 in October. I'd prefer the latter, since if you do the latter, you at least know that the Yankoffs are IN the world series. Same for Boston and Philly, If the WS were the Yanks and Philly, Philly would be about 3/1, so why take them now at 6/1?
The only real value I can see might be with the White Sox and Mets, and I am not really sold on either.
World Cup- I got it from this site.
2010 FIFA World Cup – June 11 – July 11 – South Africa
Spain 9/2
Brazil 5/1
England 11/2
Argentina 9/1
Italy 11/1
Germany 12/1
Netherlands 12/1
France 14/1
Ivory Coast 25/1
Portugal 28/1
USA 50/1
Your guess is as good as mine, but my value play is Germany. True story: I have ESPN on while I am typing this and while typing Germany was my value play, I saw they lost 1-0 to Argentina. It's probably an omen. The only stand I will take is to not bet on England, they are just total wussies and love choking on the big stage. Don't believe me? Ask Tim Henman how his Wimbledon career went. England reminds me a bit of the Cubs- they make a lot of not noise, play up their tradition and love of the game, occasionally don't suck, have a huge and wild fanbase, and often confuse their bed for their toilet so to speak.
That's how I roll.
Funny or Die Presidential Sketch
By: T.R. Slyder, TRSlyder@yahoo.com, AndyDisco on Twitter
This is new, funny and getting a lot of buzz.
That's how I roll.
Tuesday, March 2, 2010
News Story of the Day
By: T.R. Slyder, TRSlyder@yahoo.com, AndyDisco on Twitter
Can be found here on Mediaite.com
To quote/plagiarize them: "An atheistic student group at the University of Texas, San Antonio has undertaken a campaign to trade pornography for holy books – that is to say, they are distributing soft-core porn for any religious texts they receive. It’s almost as though they’ve undertaken this campaign to get some free press attention. Et voilà!"
the kicker? If you click the link, you can see a FoxNews "expert" discuss the legality of this stunt. He also references an alleged well-known porn which the news anchor had never heard of (nor have I) and describes it as "breasty" before going on to say, "I know my porn".
I'm not making that up.
Update: Still no word yet on whether or not that porn movie won any breastigious awards. Teatails as they arrive.... HELLLOOOOO.
That's how I roll.
Still Stinking: ESPN
By: T.R. Slyder, TRSlyder@yahoo.com, AndyDisco on Twitter
Congratulations ESPN, you managed to once again reprove that you suck.
They re-violated my Duke Lacrosse Scandal Theory (toward the bottom of the article). The short version of that theory is that if you never talk about that sport (like college lacrosse, in my eponymous example) then you don't have the right to cover a scandal about it (rape allegations at duke university's lacrosse team). For example, if a scandal breaks out between two members of the United States fencing team, we shouldn't have to hear about it, since we don't know any of its participants. But since ESPN talked about Tiger Woods at every opportunity before his scandal, they are permitted to talk about his scandal.
ESPN violated that rule today while talking about the murder of an Iowa high school football coach. When did ESPN start caring about Iowa high school football? Oh right, when there's a scandal. If ESPN continues on the scandal-for-ratings ethos, we all lose because that just shows how close to MTV ESPN has become. If we wanted scandal news, we'd read US Weekly or a newspaper. What if I wanted just sports news? Didn't ESPN used to be a channel for that?
Even if I did want scandal news, I wouldn't go to ESPN to get it. I'd go to a publication with more experience in covering criminal cases. With the economy as it is, the last thing America needs is Bob Ley going all Nancy Grace on us.
That's how I roll.
Prediction
By: T.R. Slyder, TRSlyder@yahoo.com, AndyDisco on Twitter
Erin Andrews will wind up dating her Dancing With the Stars partner.
You heard it here first.
That's how I roll.
Awesome Video by OK Go
By: T.R. Slyder, TRSlyder@yahoo.com, AndyDisco on Twitter
I'm not a huge fan of hipstery music, but this video is totally awesome. It's safe for work and you can listen to it on mute if you'd rather, but you should see this video.
That's how I roll.
Sunday, February 28, 2010
Analogies
By: T.R. Slyder, TRSlyder@yahoo.com, AndyDisco on Twitter
Mario Lemieux : Sidney Crosby :: Dr. Dre: Eminem
The second analogy is that Uncle Buck is the Atticus Finch of Chicago. There isn't any secondary analogy portion. He just is. I know it. You know it.
That's how I roll.
Don't Toews me, Bro!
By: T.R. Slyder, TRSlyder@yahoo.com, AndyDisco on Twitter
Apparently I need to link to this article about Johnathon Toews.
That's how I roll.
USA Anthem for Gold Medal Hockey Game Against Canada
By: T.R. Slyder, TRSlyder@yahoo.com, AndyDisco on Twitter
As American as a Big Mac with supersized fries and non-diet cola.
That's how I roll.
Saturday, February 27, 2010
Kentucky Will not win the NCAA Tournament
By: T.R. Slyder, TRSlyder@yahoo.com, AndyDisco on Twitter
I should have written this article a few days ago, when KY was still #1 in the country. Saying that they can't win now, after losing to 17th ranked Tennessee, doesn't make this prediction sound quite as gutsy. But it is still as true, and they will be the betting favorite heading into the tournament (barring injuries), even if they aren't the overall #1 seed.
Kentucky just has "sucker bet" written all over them. By "sucker bet" I don't mean that they have zero chance to win the tournament but just that they offer terrible betting value. Horse racing fans have been familiar with a sucker bet for years- invariably its the horse in the race that, 1) is the biggest name for whatever reason- usually its best races are better than the best races of the other horses its facing that day, has a big-name trainer/jockey/owner, has the most talent yet isn't able to run its ideal race as often as others in the race, etc. The overwhelming talent level serves as a siren song to lure in the suckers, the undecided and the spineless. If this horse wins the race it could be by 8 lengths, yet no one would be surprised if the horse throws in a clunker of a performance and finishes in 5th place, either. The sucker bettor lazily thinks, "If every horse runs their best the favorite will surely win. Therefore, I will bet on the favorite." but fail to look deeper. What they need to say instead is, "This horse runs at 100% (of potential) only 65% of the time, whereas less favored horses who are, 90% as talented, can run at 100% closer to 90% of the time.".
Another contributing factor that turns a horse from "favorite" to "sucker bet" status, is a relative difficulty to distinguish between the other logical contenders. It's rare to see an archetypal sucker bet horse be 2-1 with horses being 5-2, and 3-1. Usually the sucker is 2-1 and the other horses are more like 4-1, 9/2 and 6-1. So how does this relate to KY?
1. They are the sexy pick, for sure. No one disputes that Kentucky is by far the most electrifying team in the country, the most talented and easily the most fun to watch. IF they played up to their potential they would win any game they are in. The problem? their two losses haven't came against highly ranked foes. In typical John Calipari fashion, this is a team that can lose focus, get flustered when they don't get their way, and panic when they get hit in the nose. They're a lot like a bully that acts tough but cries after they get hit.
2. Kentucky has the most exciting player in the country since Kevin Durant, in John Wall. That isn't a bad thing for Kentucky, but it is in terms of offering value to the bettor. Visions of Danny Manning and Carmelo Anthony highhandedly carrying their team to the promised land still delude bettors and decrease the value on the team with the best player.
3. They're a bandwagon team. This is what happens: Kentucky fields an outstanding team, they have a sexy new coach who has done everything but win an NCAA championship (coincidence?), new uniforms, and arguably the most passionate fanbase in NCAA basketball, and they play a very entertaining brand of basketball. CBS and ESPN realize this and decide to cash in. ESPN is at its horniest when a large market team and/or superstar with a huge following gets hot. Can you recall being over saturated with news about teams like the Yankees, Red Sox,The Cubs (when in the playoffs) or players like Brett Favre, Peyton Manning, or Tiger Woods? I thought so. You can add Kentucky to the list because it's good business. ESPN knows that when they broadcast a KY game, KY's huge and loyal fanbase will tune in, as will most other college basketball fans. The result is a huge audience and huge profits. This is why you see Kentucky on national TV more often than a team like Purdue, who was ranked third before losing their best player- there is just more money in to broadcast a KY game over a Purdue game. This familiarity then leads to more buzz- now that KY games are on tv more, they are more likely to be on SportsCenter, PTI, the blogosphere and talked about around the cooler. With all this buzz, the casual, the suckers, the uninformed and the spineless think, "well, I haven't followed much basketball this year, but I keep hearing about KY, and they look impressive as hell on SportsCenter, so I guess I'll bet on KY." The influx of that sucker money, reduces their Vegas odds, and subsequently, everyone else's odds, and lowers the value on all bets made on KY. Think of this as morons taking money out of your pocket if you bet on KY. It's called a sucker bet for a reason.
4. John Calipari is their coach. That guy is as erratic, big-headed and chokey as his players. When was the last time a Calipari-coached team OVERachieved? They don't. They look amazing blowing teams out 85-61, but never win the dogfights. They panic in close games, and since they can't hit free throws, they lose. It's always the same story- great athletes, but no veteran leadership or mental toughness, because any Calipari player worth his salt left for the NBA as a sophomore at the latest. Under him, the only kids that stick around to graduate are either head cases, or just plain underachievers. All of Calipari's teams do this, and this group will be no different.
According to VegasInsider, Kentucky is the second choice to win the NCAA Tournament Future Pool, at 4-1. (Kansas is the favorite at 2-1). Following KY on that list are Syracuse, Villanova, Texas and West Virginia. Such a (relatively) mediocre and undistinguished bunch do little to attract significant betting attention, as a result, the betting question becomes, "Well, it's gotta be Kansas or Kentucky, because I can't tell the other teams apart." and that is just lazy betting.
Don't be fooled by KY as a sucker bet. While talented, excited and enticing to wager on- they offer by far the worst value in the field. If KY were 15-1, 10-1 or even 8-1, you could live with their shortcomings, but as the second choice at 4-1, you can't live with them.
That's how I roll.
Friday, February 26, 2010
Where Fat Kids Come From
By: T.R. Slyder, TRSlyder@yahoo.com, AndyDisco on Twitter
It's great to see my man Jamie Oliver doing my second favorite form of fighting childhood obesity*. I think he's doing God's work and I hope his movement catches on. When an English dude comes to America to help out our obese children, you gotta respect that.
* denotes- This is my favorite kind.
That's how I roll.
Great Dr. Dre Lyrics
By: T.R. Slyder, TRSlyder@yahoo.com, AndyDisco on Twitter
At the 1:43 mark when he says, "You must be smoking something if you think I aint smokin nothing". Good work, Dr. Dre!
That's how I roll.
Cubs 2010 Season Outlook
By: T.R. Slyder, TRSlyder@yahoo.com, AndyDisco on Twitter
I don't even want to talk about it.
That's how I roll.
Two Books I Read and Can Recommend
By: T.R. Slyder, TRSlyder@yahoo.com, AndyDisco on Twitter
I May Not Get There With You: The True Marting Luther King Jr., by Michael Eric Dyson and
Metal Men: How Marc Rich Defrauded the Country, Evaded the Law, and Became the World's Most Sought-After Corporate Criminal by A. Craig Copetas
The first book is awesome. I hadn't read a book about MLK and thought I probably should, especially with it being black history month. I'd seen Dyson on Real Time with Bill Maher and a few other tv spots and was always impressed by him. His book is insightful, and exhaustively researched. It's a great combination of hard facts about MLK, and commentary. I wanted to learn about MLK from the book, obviously, but I didn't want a dry excerpting of his works, or some puff piece telling me how he was objectively the best person of all time. This book was ideal to achieving that.
Dyson just tells it like it was and is refreshing honest and fair in his assessment of King. What I learned from the book is how King wasn't just the voice of people with dark skin, but someone who tirelessly crusaded for the economically disenfranchised. King's policies were more about human rights and making sure even the most downtrodden have at least a chance of success. He wasn't so much about saying, "hey you guys kept us as slaves for generations, and we are pissed off!" it was more about saying, "look, everything available to poor people totally sucks. Our schools don't give our kids a chance, colleges won't accept anyone from these schools because they suck so bad, and there are no job opportunities in largely black areas, and the white areas don't admit black people. We need to do something here so blacks/downtrodden have a chance to stand on their own two economic feet and contribute. We don't need a hand out, just a more level playing field, so that we can contribute to the economy and help ourselves, and society in so doing. I'm not asking for a bushel of apples, but I'd like to have the right to buy the seeds to grow my own apple tree." kinda thing.
I also didn't know that MLK was an adulterer and accused repeatedly (and rightfully) of plagiarism. The last thing that struck me about the book was how relatively radically were MLK's opinions about Vietnam and Socialism.
If the word ceiling can be used to represent the highest limit of achievement, (e.g. she shattered the glass ceiling"), then we should be able to use the word "floor" to mean the opposite- the depths of economic depravity. The book made me view MLK as less of a race-centered thinker, and more concerned with "raising the floor" of America's impoverished.
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The second book is about rogue trader/treasonist/slimeball/alpha male Marc Rich. Chances are that if you have heard of him, you heard of him because he was the sketchiest person that Bill Clinton pardoned during his last week as President.
Initially I went to the library to find this new book about Rich, but it wasn't available, so I went with Metal Men. It's all about the life of Marc Rich and how he cut his teeth with uber-trading firm Phillip Brothers. The firm was the perfect incubator for a guy like Rich who apparently cared ONLY about work, and dominating his office as the smartest guy in the room, the biggest earner, the hardest partier, most intimidating guy, etc. He achieved those ends quickly at Phillip Brothers and quickly his ego, appetite for risk, and questionable ethics grew too big for the relatively conservative firm.
Rich started off on his own and wasn't necessarily drunk with power, as much as he went on a 7-month, Vegas coke binge with a gaggle of hookers, a few midgets, circus animals and a pony- with power, metaphorically speaking. Rich quickly became even more wildly successful and roguish. Eventually he was doing business with enemy-of-the-State Iran, and defrauding the US of hundreds of millions of tax dollars by virtue of a banking shell game based out of Switzerland, with tentacles in the Cayman Islands, Bahamas, and South America and New York.
I guess I'm not making the book sound all that interesting, but it is. It's very informative about how the trading industry works, the pressures involved, the risk and the profit potential. It's a fascinating look at an industry that wields unspeakable power, but few people really understand. Rich began as a metal trader, which essentially means, he and his cohorts controlled the world's supply of metal. Kind of a big deal. His first firm, Phillip Brothers, owned metal mines all over the world and Rich's job was to be the middle man between the mines and firms looking to buy their various metals. After striking out on his own, Rich was trading metal, oil, weapons and probably everything else between whoever was willing to bid for his goods. Warlords, the Shah of Iran, governments, stand-up businessmen, and shady businessmen. If someone had money, Rich would relieve them of it. Then with his complex network of banks and lawyers, Rich would defraud the US of tax money, and manage to somehow keep even more of his astronomical and shady profits.
It's an entertaining, informative and quick read about a true American asshole. He makes Ted Turner or Larry Ellison or John Rockefeller, or whoever else you thought of when you thought about wealthy, bristly titans of business look like a thumb-sucking altar boy. Rich was so good at being an asshole on such a grand scale, that you just have respect him for being so fucking good at what he does. Even if that makes him an anus.
That's how I roll.
SNL Analogy
By: T.R. Slyder, TRSlyder@yahoo.com, AndyDisco on Twitter
Does anyone else think that, Andy Samburg: SNL :: Ashton Kutcher: Movie Acting.
I don't mean that as an insult to Samburg, but more of a brotherly, "lets step your game up, big guy". When Samburg started out, he was the young, hip, partying type and his sketches reflected that, and it worked. But how long has that guy been on the show and he's still doing the same laser cat stuff? It reminds me of Ashton Kutcher's post-That 70's Show roles.
You can tell that the goal of Samburg/Kutcher is to make the viewer think, "Man, that acting was bad, but it's cool! Him not even trying to act as anyone other than himself just belies how awesome he actually is. He is just oozing "bro cred" with this awful, sophomoric acting. As an actor, he possesses every skill I look for! Namely, poor acting, stoner humor, and an unwillingness to deviate from that! Where can I get more of that???"
Trust me guys, we get it. We get that you're a jeans and t-shirt or jeans and hoodie type of guy. We get that you have smoked marijuana and you are in touch with your inner child. Mission accomplished gents, we got it loud and clear.
Further down the road, but to that end, when you hear praise the most famous of the famous praised, or the most talented of the talent, it's common to hear them lauded as "multi-talented" and there is a reason that talented is valued. It's hard. It's hard enough to master one thing, let alone multiples. Samburg you might want to think about diversifying your portfolio before you go the route of ostensible mentor, Kutcher, and you decided that you need to be the czar of some new-media platform.
That's how I roll.
Wednesday, February 24, 2010
Bigotry Remix
By: T.R. Slyder, TRSlyder@yahoo.com, AndyDisco on Twitter
1. This is how you legislate- with belittling, bewilderment/lack of understand, and finally, with the first two coming to their natural combinatorial end: assumption.
2. It reminded me of the song beneath. That song along with Boom, Shake Shake the Room; Deeper Shade of Soul and Tic Tac Toe made up my favorite hiphop songs of 5th grade.
That's how I roll.
Monday, February 22, 2010
Unrecommended Freestyle Rap Accesory
By: T.R. Slyder, TRSlyder@yahoo.com, AndyDisco on Twitter
Since this was on Funny or Die, I am guessing it was staged. But it looks believable. "Irregardless", you shouldn't end your freestyle rap the way this gentleman does.
Best Freestyle Ending Ever - watch more funny videos
That's how I roll.
Sunday, February 21, 2010
Eskendereya Kickin That Hiney
By: T.R. Slyder, TRSlyder@yahoo.com, AndyDisco on Twitter
This is 2 year old Eskendereya in Saturday's Fountain of Youth Stakes at Gulfstream Park (this was the race last year where I became enamored with Quality Road). He kicked a lot of hiney and earned himself a 106 Beyer Speed Figure for his effort. The video quality is the opposite of hi-def, but you get the point.
That's how I roll.
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