October 30, 2025 • 17 mins
After tearing his MCL, meniscus, and fracturing his femur — and still walking on it — Meech realized something deeper: sometimes strength isn’t a choice, it’s survival.
In this episode of Talkin’ Crazy, Meech breaks down the double-edged sword of being “too strong.” From pushing through pain to learning when to ask for help, this one’s for anyone who’s been fighting silently, holding it down, and still showing up.
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The hidden cost of being “too strong”
The difference between real toughness and emotional denial
Why asking for help isn’t weakness
What true resilience actually looks like
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(00:00):
And I'm a hold your hand when I say this, but a lot of people
want strength, but they don't want the battle that's
associated to it. And I'll say that again, but a
lot of people, they want strength, right?
Like we'll sit back and we'll pray to God for strength.
We'll ask God, give me strength.But you don't want the battle
that's associated to it. Always say something.
(00:40):
This episode is sponsored by Better Help.
What's going on everybody? As we all know, mental health is
a huge piece for me. And recently, as I become a
better version of myself, I've decided that it's time for me to
go to therapy because I understand how life can be a
little overwhelming and we all need help navigating through the
trenches of military service in and out of uniform.
Better Help connects you with a licensed therapist who is
(01:01):
trained to listen and give you helpful, unbiased advice. 1st
all you got to do is go to theirsite.
Matter of fact, you can use my link right here.
Answer a few questions and Better Help will match you with
a professional who has years of experience in helping people
with struggles just like yours. You can do it all from your
phone or computer, via phone call or video chat or messaging
(01:22):
however you feel most comfortable.
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You will be matched to a therapist usually within 48
hours, so you can get started fast.
Let Better help connect you to atherapist who can support you
all from the comfort of your home.
Visit betterhelp.com/meech Speaks and enjoy a special
discount on your first month. What's going on, everybody?
(01:44):
It's that ordinary podcaster with the extraordinary thoughts
that tells you to stop being great and be extraordinary.
I'm Demetrius Thicke and also known as Me Speaks and welcome
back to another episode of the Talking Crazy podcast.
Now before we get started with this podcast, head on over to
your favorite streaming platformand leave it an honest review
because this podcast is deservesto grow just as much as we do.
(02:05):
I'm serious. A lot of y'all watch this show
haven't subscribed a lot of y'all watch this show and follow
and if you see me on Instagram, don't forget to check out this
podcast all right so boom man Ohmy God, I got something that I
got to just all right. So y'all remember when I messed
my knee up? I have been honestly, I think
for the past like 3 or 4 episodes I've been complaining
(02:26):
about my knee all right, and I finally went and got it checked
out. First and foremost, I will
always start this episode by simply just saying I don't know
who needs to hear this, but takeyour ass to medical, OK?
All right? Because if you don't, you may be
walking on something that's a lot, a lot worse than what you
think it is. So anyways, went to the MC map
(02:50):
symposium, had a great time, gota chance to see people I had not
seen in a year and a half, you feel me?
Got a chance to hit the Mets, got a chance to hit some people,
got a chance to actually get back on the mats.
Now, now obviously I ended up messing my knee up, OK, I messed
(03:10):
my knee up. My knee had been sore and it
hadn't been feeling right. And I want to say for roughly
about like 2 weeks now. And I was like damn man, like
this shit, like maybe I need to get this checked out.
Like something, something in theback of my mind kept telling me
like yo like go get your knee checked out bro.
Like you might actually be hurt.And I was just like fuck,
(03:31):
finally. So I did, I go to medical, they
do a X-ray, they do Amri. Bro, tell me why I'm not torn.
My whole MCL tore my meniscus and I fractured my damn femur.
(03:51):
I'm not bragging, all right? I I just want to let everybody
know I'm not bragging about anything, OK?
I legit didn't know, you feel me?
Even when the injury happened, Istill did six to seven rounds
after that. I'm the injury happened on a
Wednesday. I didn't leave until Sunday.
(04:13):
You see what I'm saying? I still was doing rounds.
Obviously I was watching my leg.Obviously I was pulling it back
a little bit more, but I still was out there even before I
found out the seriousness, like the severity of the situation.
I'm still out there training with my son.
I'm still out there going over the moments.
(04:34):
I know I'm sore, so I'm taking it easy.
But I didn't know. And that really is what birthed
the idea of this entire episode.OK, because once they told me
the severity of it, you feel me,my first reaction was I was
like, damn, should not be in a little bit more pain.
(04:58):
Should not be in a little bit more pain than what I am right
now. You know what I mean?
Like you, you you telling me my meniscus is torn, my MCL.
You said a should not be in a little bit more pain than what I
am right now. He said, I don't understand how
you're walking on this. I was like, brother, I'll, I'll
walking on this. You should see what I did this
(05:18):
morning. You know, you should have seen
what I did this morning. They gave me a brace.
I looked at them and I said I was like, y'all ain't got
something for like high mobility.
You, you know, because in my mind I'm still thinking like I,
I, I'm still training. I still have to train.
I still got to be able to move around and they're like, you
need to get off your leg. And I legit did not know how
(05:42):
severe it was. And honestly, ma'am, as I sit
back on this episode, right, like as I sit back on this
episode, I just want to say how many of us, right?
Like how many of us have been through a situation?
And I don't know who need to hear this, but I feel like a lot
(06:03):
of us are stronger. Like we're stronger than what we
let on. Like a lot of us, man, like are
stronger than what we believe. And it takes for somebody else
to pull you off to the side and show it to you from a different
perspective. It takes for somebody else to
(06:23):
tell you exactly what you went through before you even realize
the situation. It takes for you to go through
the storm, come out of the stormand then look back on hindsight
to realize like, damn, I'm really that strong, huh.
(06:43):
It takes you ever had to tell somebody like your story, You
feel me, Like somebody's you telling somebody your story or
something that you've been through and you sitting back and
you saying to yourself, like, damn, now that you think about
it, that's that was fucked up. How did I, how did I make it
through that? And that's exactly where my head
(07:04):
was at once. They told me because as soon as
he start reading it off, he he literally called me and he said
he was like, Hey, so you actually did mess yourself up.
I was like, oh, shoot, what do you mean?
And he was read it off and I waslike, damn, I forgot he was
talking to me. I forgot it was about me.
But with that being said, today's episode is all about
strength. Let's go ahead and get started.
(07:26):
So one thing that I really want to say, man, and I, I don't know
who and and I don't know who needs to hear this.
And I'm a hold your hand when I say this, but a lot of people
want strength, but they don't want the battle that's
associated to it. And I'll say that again, but a
lot of people, they want strength, right?
Like we'll sit back and we'll pray to God for strength.
(07:47):
We'll ask God, give me strength.But you don't want the battle
that's associated to it. You feel me?
And then there's others that didn't want the battle, but got
the strength. And they got the strength
because they made it through thebattle.
They got the strength. And one thing that I want a lot
of people to understand this is that that that that battle, that
(08:09):
battle is adversity. That battle might be a physical
injury. That battle might be a bad
relationship. That battle may be anything that
did not go the way that it was supposed to go in your life.
And for some reason you were able to come out on top on it.
So I will tell you, ma'am, like a lot of people, man, they want
the battle. They, they, they want the
strength, but they don't want the battle that's associated.
(08:32):
But then there's those who neverwanted the battle but got the
strength instead. There's some people, man, like
even when they was in that battle, they were asking for
help. They were asking for help.
And now there's also people, right, that have been through so
many battles, right? Like they've been through so
(08:53):
many battles, they don't even realize how strong they are.
They don't realize like that's the crazy part.
And I don't think a lot of people really get that.
There's some people that are listening to this show right now
that have been through so many battles.
They don't even realize how strong they are because it's
just become something of, of normal to them.
(09:14):
When I messed my knee up, I, I didn't think nothing of it.
You feel me like I didn't think like, oh shit, I'm fucked up.
I didn't think that because I had already, I had been in this
space before. I had been hurt before I knew
how to maneuver around the entry.
You feel me like when I messed my knee up, all I did was I
(09:35):
just, I, I just paid more close attention to it to make sure
that nobody attacked it. I I, I adjusted fire and that's
a lot of how some people operateyou feel me?
They get hurt, they get injured,they get knocked down.
But guess what? They don't fucking quit, they
don't back out, they don't give up.
All they do is adjust fire. I don't think y'all really
(09:58):
hearing me though man. It's somebody right now that
probably lost everything and because they have been through a
similar situation before, all they did was pick themselves
back up and regain it again. I don't think y'all really
hearing me right now. It's somebody right now that's
probably a single parent. They coming home, house in
(10:19):
chaos, kids working, they nervesshit piling up and all they got
to do is pour a glass of wine, shrug they fucking shoulders and
get right back to it. I don't think y'all hearing me
though. Somebody having a bad day,
things ain't going away that they want them to go.
Shit falling apart. Everybody else is freaking out
and they just like, hey, we going to make it work.
(10:43):
And people sit back and they will say, Oh my God, wow, you're
so strong. Wow, you, you're very composed.
Wow, you really have it together.
No, I don't, No, I don't, I don't got it together.
I I'm not as composed as you think I am.
I've just been here before. I just know how this shit work.
(11:05):
I just know that I could continue to keep moving.
And the reason why I got to keepmoving is because who the fuck
going to come save me? Some people really need to
understand that a lot of us gained strength because we
realized early on that nobody was coming to save us.
Nobody was. So yes, the house may be in
(11:28):
shambles, the kids are acting a fool, shit piling up, but ain't
nobody bout to come and tag you out.
So you go ahead and you handle business.
Yeah, you lost everything. But guess what?
Ain't nobody about to come and give it back to you.
You got to get that shit back inblood.
I don't think you understand. You got to get that shit back in
(11:48):
blood. Ain't nobody believing in you.
You know, You got to put all that back on on your back.
You know? You got to support yourself.
And that's where that strength really comes from, man.
Earlier, somebody had asked me, they say, you know, how do you
gain mental toughness? How do you gain mental strength?
(12:09):
I said, man, sometimes you just got to fucking fall and just get
right back up. All right?
Like, like people sit back and then say, oh, this is a quick
way to gain mental resiliency. This is a quick way to to gain
mental toughness. I'll just tell you right now,
all you got to do is just fall and get right back up.
That's it. As soon as you get back up, you
(12:31):
are going to gain that strength.You going to gain that strength
and that's the reality. And that's exactly what this
injury really showed me. And that was what this injury
really showed me about other people is that a lot of us, man,
like we're stronger than we think.
We've been doing this longer than we think.
We've been in this space longer than we think.
(12:52):
And we don't give ourselves enough credit for it.
And it takes sometimes for somebody else to have to tell
you exactly what's going on before you realize exactly what
it is, exactly how long you've been fighting, exactly how long
you've been strong. Now, there's a couple of lessons
that this entire experience taught me.
The first one is strength. And I've already said this, and
(13:15):
I've echoed this throughout the entirety of this episode.
But sometimes, you know, true strength it it really comes from
man just getting back up. True strength really just comes
from the simple fact that you were in that battle and you came
out on it. Yeah.
Did you get a couple of bumps? Yeah.
Did you get a couple of bruises?Yeah.
Did you feel like you wanted to quit?
(13:35):
But you didn't. You didn't and you gain a level
of strength that nobody else going to be able to take from
you. Also, and I will say this real
quick and I and I don't know whoneed to hear this, but some of
y'all too strong for your own good.
I hey, hey, me, this is me. Some of y'all are too strong for
(13:58):
your own good. I would say that again, all
right, because if I would have known the severity of the
situation, I got the fuck off the mat, you feel me?
Like I would have got the fuck off the mat.
I wouldn't have done the next six to seven rounds.
But because I had been here before, because I had used to
(14:18):
being hurt before, because I had, I was used to surviving, I
immediately reverted back to my my natural habits.
And I say that, man, because some of y'all, y'all too strong
for your own good. I ain't saying nothing's wrong
with it, But I will tell you right now, you wouldn't ask
anybody for help because you're used to having to do it on your
(14:39):
own. And I understand people let you
down before, but because you so strong, you won't even look to
the people to, to help you, eventhough they will you so strong
you, you, you won't, you won't reach your hand out when there's
people that are, they're willingto take it from you.
(15:00):
You so strong that you willing to carry that.
Let that shit build, let that shit worsen because you know
that you can get through it. And I bring that up, man,
because I'm one of those people.I know I can get through it.
I know I'm going to be fine. But at the exact same time, just
because I know I can get throughit, just because I know that I'm
(15:21):
going to be fine, does not mean that I'm exempt from asking for
help. So I so I challenge all the
people that are strong, man, like all the people that are
strong. You feel me?
If you have people in your corner that can help you, then
ask for help. If you have people that can also
carry the load, then carry it. I remember being on those math
(15:46):
man and somebody pulling me off to the side and they said, Yo,
what are you doing? You've already proven to
yourself. We know your capabilities, we
know who you are. Why the fuck are you still
pushing like this when you're limping?
And that's when I realized I've already proven my strength.
(16:08):
I've already proven who I was. And I'll tell whoever's
listening. You've already proven that it's
OK to get off the mat. It's OK to ask for help.
It's OK to reach out to somebodybecause if you don't, that's
strength, right? It might become a blinder, It
(16:29):
might become a blinder and you might end up making something
worse. You might be prolonging
something because you used to being strong.
So please understand that strength could be a gift and
that strength could be a curse. But regardless of the situation,
we both know that you never evenasked for it from the beginning.
(16:52):
But now that you have it, you know that that's your
superpower. Use it with the proper
responsibility. And just like that, another
extraordinary thought left this ordinary mind.
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(17:15):
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That's right, Meech Speaks mechaspelled M EE Ch.
Stay motivated, stay healthy. I'm out.
And I'm a hold your hand when I say this, but a lot of people
want strength, but they don't want the battle that's
associated to it. And I'll say that again, but a
lot of people, they want strength, right?
Like we'll sit back and we'll pray to God for strength.
We'll ask God, give me strength.But you don't want the battle
that's associated to it. Always say something.
(00:40):
This episode is sponsored by Better Help.
What's going on everybody? As we all know, mental health is
a huge piece for me. And recently, as I become a
better version of myself, I've decided that it's time for me to
go to therapy because I understand how life can be a
little overwhelming and we all need help navigating through the
trenches of military service in and out of uniform.
Better Help connects you with a licensed therapist who is
(01:01):
trained to listen and give you helpful, unbiased advice. 1st
all you got to do is go to theirsite.
Matter of fact, you can use my link right here.
Answer a few questions and Better Help will match you with
a professional who has years of experience in helping people
with struggles just like yours. You can do it all from your
phone or computer, via phone call or video chat or messaging
(01:22):
however you feel most comfortable.
It's the easiest possible way tostart talking to a therapist.
You will be matched to a therapist usually within 48
hours, so you can get started fast.
Let Better help connect you to atherapist who can support you
all from the comfort of your home.
Visit betterhelp.com/meech Speaks and enjoy a special
discount on your first month. What's going on, everybody?
(01:44):
It's that ordinary podcaster with the extraordinary thoughts
that tells you to stop being great and be extraordinary.
I'm Demetrius Thicke and also known as Me Speaks and welcome
back to another episode of the Talking Crazy podcast.
Now before we get started with this podcast, head on over to
your favorite streaming platformand leave it an honest review
because this podcast is deservesto grow just as much as we do.
(02:05):
I'm serious. A lot of y'all watch this show
haven't subscribed a lot of y'all watch this show and follow
and if you see me on Instagram, don't forget to check out this
podcast all right so boom man Ohmy God, I got something that I
got to just all right. So y'all remember when I messed
my knee up? I have been honestly, I think
for the past like 3 or 4 episodes I've been complaining
(02:26):
about my knee all right, and I finally went and got it checked
out. First and foremost, I will
always start this episode by simply just saying I don't know
who needs to hear this, but takeyour ass to medical, OK?
All right? Because if you don't, you may be
walking on something that's a lot, a lot worse than what you
think it is. So anyways, went to the MC map
(02:50):
symposium, had a great time, gota chance to see people I had not
seen in a year and a half, you feel me?
Got a chance to hit the Mets, got a chance to hit some people,
got a chance to actually get back on the mats.
Now, now obviously I ended up messing my knee up, OK, I messed
(03:10):
my knee up. My knee had been sore and it
hadn't been feeling right. And I want to say for roughly
about like 2 weeks now. And I was like damn man, like
this shit, like maybe I need to get this checked out.
Like something, something in theback of my mind kept telling me
like yo like go get your knee checked out bro.
Like you might actually be hurt.And I was just like fuck,
(03:31):
finally. So I did, I go to medical, they
do a X-ray, they do Amri. Bro, tell me why I'm not torn.
My whole MCL tore my meniscus and I fractured my damn femur.
(03:51):
I'm not bragging, all right? I I just want to let everybody
know I'm not bragging about anything, OK?
I legit didn't know, you feel me?
Even when the injury happened, Istill did six to seven rounds
after that. I'm the injury happened on a
Wednesday. I didn't leave until Sunday.
(04:13):
You see what I'm saying? I still was doing rounds.
Obviously I was watching my leg.Obviously I was pulling it back
a little bit more, but I still was out there even before I
found out the seriousness, like the severity of the situation.
I'm still out there training with my son.
I'm still out there going over the moments.
(04:34):
I know I'm sore, so I'm taking it easy.
But I didn't know. And that really is what birthed
the idea of this entire episode.OK, because once they told me
the severity of it, you feel me,my first reaction was I was
like, damn, should not be in a little bit more pain.
(04:58):
Should not be in a little bit more pain than what I am right
now. You know what I mean?
Like you, you you telling me my meniscus is torn, my MCL.
You said a should not be in a little bit more pain than what I
am right now. He said, I don't understand how
you're walking on this. I was like, brother, I'll, I'll
walking on this. You should see what I did this
(05:18):
morning. You know, you should have seen
what I did this morning. They gave me a brace.
I looked at them and I said I was like, y'all ain't got
something for like high mobility.
You, you know, because in my mind I'm still thinking like I,
I, I'm still training. I still have to train.
I still got to be able to move around and they're like, you
need to get off your leg. And I legit did not know how
(05:42):
severe it was. And honestly, ma'am, as I sit
back on this episode, right, like as I sit back on this
episode, I just want to say how many of us, right?
Like how many of us have been through a situation?
And I don't know who need to hear this, but I feel like a lot
(06:03):
of us are stronger. Like we're stronger than what we
let on. Like a lot of us, man, like are
stronger than what we believe. And it takes for somebody else
to pull you off to the side and show it to you from a different
perspective. It takes for somebody else to
(06:23):
tell you exactly what you went through before you even realize
the situation. It takes for you to go through
the storm, come out of the stormand then look back on hindsight
to realize like, damn, I'm really that strong, huh.
(06:43):
It takes you ever had to tell somebody like your story, You
feel me, Like somebody's you telling somebody your story or
something that you've been through and you sitting back and
you saying to yourself, like, damn, now that you think about
it, that's that was fucked up. How did I, how did I make it
through that? And that's exactly where my head
(07:04):
was at once. They told me because as soon as
he start reading it off, he he literally called me and he said
he was like, Hey, so you actually did mess yourself up.
I was like, oh, shoot, what do you mean?
And he was read it off and I waslike, damn, I forgot he was
talking to me. I forgot it was about me.
But with that being said, today's episode is all about
strength. Let's go ahead and get started.
(07:26):
So one thing that I really want to say, man, and I, I don't know
who and and I don't know who needs to hear this.
And I'm a hold your hand when I say this, but a lot of people
want strength, but they don't want the battle that's
associated to it. And I'll say that again, but a
lot of people, they want strength, right?
Like we'll sit back and we'll pray to God for strength.
(07:47):
We'll ask God, give me strength.But you don't want the battle
that's associated to it. You feel me?
And then there's others that didn't want the battle, but got
the strength. And they got the strength
because they made it through thebattle.
They got the strength. And one thing that I want a lot
of people to understand this is that that that that battle, that
(08:09):
battle is adversity. That battle might be a physical
injury. That battle might be a bad
relationship. That battle may be anything that
did not go the way that it was supposed to go in your life.
And for some reason you were able to come out on top on it.
So I will tell you, ma'am, like a lot of people, man, they want
the battle. They, they, they want the
strength, but they don't want the battle that's associated.
(08:32):
But then there's those who neverwanted the battle but got the
strength instead. There's some people, man, like
even when they was in that battle, they were asking for
help. They were asking for help.
And now there's also people, right, that have been through so
many battles, right? Like they've been through so
(08:53):
many battles, they don't even realize how strong they are.
They don't realize like that's the crazy part.
And I don't think a lot of people really get that.
There's some people that are listening to this show right now
that have been through so many battles.
They don't even realize how strong they are because it's
just become something of, of normal to them.
(09:14):
When I messed my knee up, I, I didn't think nothing of it.
You feel me like I didn't think like, oh shit, I'm fucked up.
I didn't think that because I had already, I had been in this
space before. I had been hurt before I knew
how to maneuver around the entry.
You feel me like when I messed my knee up, all I did was I
(09:35):
just, I, I just paid more close attention to it to make sure
that nobody attacked it. I I, I adjusted fire and that's
a lot of how some people operateyou feel me?
They get hurt, they get injured,they get knocked down.
But guess what? They don't fucking quit, they
don't back out, they don't give up.
All they do is adjust fire. I don't think y'all really
(09:58):
hearing me though man. It's somebody right now that
probably lost everything and because they have been through a
similar situation before, all they did was pick themselves
back up and regain it again. I don't think y'all really
hearing me right now. It's somebody right now that's
probably a single parent. They coming home, house in
(10:19):
chaos, kids working, they nervesshit piling up and all they got
to do is pour a glass of wine, shrug they fucking shoulders and
get right back to it. I don't think y'all hearing me
though. Somebody having a bad day,
things ain't going away that they want them to go.
Shit falling apart. Everybody else is freaking out
and they just like, hey, we going to make it work.
(10:43):
And people sit back and they will say, Oh my God, wow, you're
so strong. Wow, you, you're very composed.
Wow, you really have it together.
No, I don't, No, I don't, I don't got it together.
I I'm not as composed as you think I am.
I've just been here before. I just know how this shit work.
(11:05):
I just know that I could continue to keep moving.
And the reason why I got to keepmoving is because who the fuck
going to come save me? Some people really need to
understand that a lot of us gained strength because we
realized early on that nobody was coming to save us.
Nobody was. So yes, the house may be in
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shambles, the kids are acting a fool, shit piling up, but ain't
nobody bout to come and tag you out.
So you go ahead and you handle business.
Yeah, you lost everything. But guess what?
Ain't nobody about to come and give it back to you.
You got to get that shit back inblood.
I don't think you understand. You got to get that shit back in
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blood. Ain't nobody believing in you.
You know, You got to put all that back on on your back.
You know? You got to support yourself.
And that's where that strength really comes from, man.
Earlier, somebody had asked me, they say, you know, how do you
gain mental toughness? How do you gain mental strength?
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I said, man, sometimes you just got to fucking fall and just get
right back up. All right?
Like, like people sit back and then say, oh, this is a quick
way to gain mental resiliency. This is a quick way to to gain
mental toughness. I'll just tell you right now,
all you got to do is just fall and get right back up.
That's it. As soon as you get back up, you
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are going to gain that strength.You going to gain that strength
and that's the reality. And that's exactly what this
injury really showed me. And that was what this injury
really showed me about other people is that a lot of us, man,
like we're stronger than we think.
We've been doing this longer than we think.
We've been in this space longer than we think.
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And we don't give ourselves enough credit for it.
And it takes sometimes for somebody else to have to tell
you exactly what's going on before you realize exactly what
it is, exactly how long you've been fighting, exactly how long
you've been strong. Now, there's a couple of lessons
that this entire experience taught me.
The first one is strength. And I've already said this, and
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I've echoed this throughout the entirety of this episode.
But sometimes, you know, true strength it it really comes from
man just getting back up. True strength really just comes
from the simple fact that you were in that battle and you came
out on it. Yeah.
Did you get a couple of bumps? Yeah.
Did you get a couple of bruises?Yeah.
Did you feel like you wanted to quit?
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But you didn't. You didn't and you gain a level
of strength that nobody else going to be able to take from
you. Also, and I will say this real
quick and I and I don't know whoneed to hear this, but some of
y'all too strong for your own good.
I hey, hey, me, this is me. Some of y'all are too strong for
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your own good. I would say that again, all
right, because if I would have known the severity of the
situation, I got the fuck off the mat, you feel me?
Like I would have got the fuck off the mat.
I wouldn't have done the next six to seven rounds.
But because I had been here before, because I had used to
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being hurt before, because I had, I was used to surviving, I
immediately reverted back to my my natural habits.
And I say that, man, because some of y'all, y'all too strong
for your own good. I ain't saying nothing's wrong
with it, But I will tell you right now, you wouldn't ask
anybody for help because you're used to having to do it on your
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own. And I understand people let you
down before, but because you so strong, you won't even look to
the people to, to help you, eventhough they will you so strong
you, you, you won't, you won't reach your hand out when there's
people that are, they're willingto take it from you.
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You so strong that you willing to carry that.
Let that shit build, let that shit worsen because you know
that you can get through it. And I bring that up, man,
because I'm one of those people.I know I can get through it.
I know I'm going to be fine. But at the exact same time, just
because I know I can get throughit, just because I know that I'm
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going to be fine, does not mean that I'm exempt from asking for
help. So I so I challenge all the
people that are strong, man, like all the people that are
strong. You feel me?
If you have people in your corner that can help you, then
ask for help. If you have people that can also
carry the load, then carry it. I remember being on those math
(15:46):
man and somebody pulling me off to the side and they said, Yo,
what are you doing? You've already proven to
yourself. We know your capabilities, we
know who you are. Why the fuck are you still
pushing like this when you're limping?
And that's when I realized I've already proven my strength.
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I've already proven who I was. And I'll tell whoever's
listening. You've already proven that it's
OK to get off the mat. It's OK to ask for help.
It's OK to reach out to somebodybecause if you don't, that's
strength, right? It might become a blinder, It
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might become a blinder and you might end up making something
worse. You might be prolonging
something because you used to being strong.
So please understand that strength could be a gift and
that strength could be a curse. But regardless of the situation,
we both know that you never evenasked for it from the beginning.
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But now that you have it, you know that that's your
superpower. Use it with the proper
responsibility. And just like that, another
extraordinary thought left this ordinary mind.
I hope you enjoyed this episode half as much as I enjoy making
it. Don't forget to head on over to
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