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My guests are bears, good boys, good.
Speaker 1 (01:10):
What's man? How you doing?
Speaker 2 (01:11):
But I'm good? So like here we are unannounced. Nobody
knew what's going on today. So say this what it is?
What else? Real quick?
Speaker 1 (01:21):
Right? Where I'm in the gym right now? It's my boys,
my boys, a little gym.
Speaker 2 (01:31):
Yeah like you was like two more minutes and I'm
head to the gym. A quick to recut, there is
good to ask you.
Speaker 1 (01:41):
Yeah, about to hit a workout after this.
Speaker 2 (01:44):
I'm playing with it.
Speaker 1 (01:47):
This gym is called real strikers.
Speaker 2 (01:49):
Like where's it at?
Speaker 1 (01:51):
It's in Valley Stream.
Speaker 2 (01:52):
Okay, so best right then?
Speaker 1 (01:56):
Got real quick?
Speaker 2 (01:57):
Okay ba ba bet So that's get into it half
I like half energy left. So yeah, that's so typed
by who you are?
Speaker 1 (02:10):
All right. So my name is Harveer Singh. I'm twenty
seven years old, competitive kickboxer, multi fighter. I fight in
New York. I fight in different states. I fight in
a different countries Columbia, Thailand, and yeah, I teach hrepreneur.
(02:31):
I have business uh in schools, gyms, dojo's, karate, kickbox
and stand up ground everything, self defense, women's classes. So yeah,
live breed martial arts.
Speaker 2 (02:48):
Yeah. Like now, but I'll think y'all notice, right, but
me and Harvard's training together at the same dojo like
in a long long ago. That's right, back to the
day insane. Okay, that's tough, tough, kal die car go
right here. We're not right here, right here in Queen's.
Speaker 1 (03:05):
Village.
Speaker 2 (03:06):
It's on two twenty second. It's on two twenty two
twenty street to make an ad canem.
Speaker 1 (03:12):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, right by Springfield. Yeah. Back in the
days when Gerald used to wheel kick people in the face.
Speaker 2 (03:19):
Yeah, you remember that.
Speaker 1 (03:20):
I remember those, man, I remember those.
Speaker 2 (03:23):
I finished the wheel kick look like a like a
a verse spinning dust kick.
Speaker 1 (03:30):
Gerald. It was crafty with the kicks, man, It's crafty
with the kicks. Very agile in my.
Speaker 2 (03:36):
Own finisher that speaking of finish to fallow wrestling or no.
Speaker 1 (03:45):
Not too much anymore because it's busy working training, you know.
Family said, what.
Speaker 2 (03:53):
About what about all other stuff?
Speaker 1 (03:56):
Yeah? I follow UFC, I follow more see kickboxing like
one Championship, like uh K one beyond like that kind
of stuff. R W s.
Speaker 2 (04:11):
Okay, bet, but I had from my notes hear to
your instagram mm hmm. But while I do that, right, Uh,
what's the accolades as far as what.
Speaker 1 (04:26):
So like?
Speaker 2 (04:26):
Hold on about the about the pu plogram right now?
What's second? Oh pluck? What's what's your frand plucking real
quick frand.
Speaker 1 (04:37):
Uh past the juice, past the juice with two underscores
at the end, pass past the juice.
Speaker 2 (04:45):
Yeah. Jamaican Guyanese. What's what's their flag?
Speaker 1 (04:51):
That's India, that's uh, my dad is Punjabi.
Speaker 2 (04:55):
Okay, so you got three. You got three nationalities India,
Guyana and Jamaica.
Speaker 1 (05:01):
All right?
Speaker 2 (05:02):
Yeah? So yeah, a one time wit type champion. You
have kickboxing champion. You'll talk about that thing.
Speaker 1 (05:09):
Yeah, man, uh I have. It's actually supposed to be
uh an extra kickboxing championship. I have to update it.
But I have a Pan American kickboxing championship that I
got and I had to travel to South America. I have, UH.
And the rest are all like regional like New York
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and local scene like championships all for like one five
pound weight classes.
Speaker 2 (05:40):
Okay, okay, And you're you're like you're independent, right, You're
in you go, you're independent fighter?
Speaker 1 (05:47):
Right in terms of like like where I fight, yeah,
like like like the gym that I fight out.
Speaker 2 (05:54):
Of, well, well you you tell me, you tell me.
Speaker 1 (05:59):
For like yeah, so I pretty much I fight like
everywhere like kind of just where wherever I go. I'm
not like on that level of like signing a contract
for like UFC kind of thing, not yet anyways, but
but yeah, so I just I kind of have that
freedom where I can travel to like different countries look
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for fights, and that's kind of what I do. Okay,
two different states national Uh. I have two national titles
for kickboxing that I got in different states.
Speaker 2 (06:36):
Okay, okay, so what what what leads? What promotions have you?
Speaker 1 (06:42):
Like?
Speaker 2 (06:42):
Fat fore?
Speaker 1 (06:47):
I fought for Flex Fight Series. I have a couple
of championships under them, that's the main one. In New York,
I fought for Warriors Cup. That's a more thaie league
in New York. I fought for w K'S that's like
a more national uh read like uh East Coast, West
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coast kind of scene. Uh. And I fought for w
k's and uh uh Columbia. Uh yeah yeah, a little bit,
a little bit, still still building up, you know, I
got more stuff to do. And then I fought for
w m O, which is the World moy Thai Organization
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in Thailand.
Speaker 2 (07:38):
Okay, and how do you so, how do you how
do you how do you fighting in these different arenas?
Like do you get invited or how do how does
that work? A lot of them?
Speaker 1 (07:49):
Well, the ones that I go out of country for
are all like you have to qualify for them, so
you have to fight for a spot in those in
those tournaments. Uh. I'm usually fighting in like tournaments like
on a world level, So a bunch of different countries
all pulling up to fight in one specific tournament, a
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bunch of fights over like two three days.
Speaker 2 (08:14):
Okay, and how do you find out? How do you
like how do you like learn about the tournaments? Like
how do you like learn about the tournaments?
Speaker 1 (08:23):
Like how they have they have like fights to qualify
for those tournaments.
Speaker 2 (08:29):
Yeah, but how do you know so I'm have a
qualified mass?
Speaker 1 (08:34):
How do you know that the tournament they kind of
announced it, they like announced it, and like the fighters
know about it. They have different like different criteria to
even be in like the kind of like those kind
of fights to qualify, like you have to have a
certain amount of fights already, you know. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (08:57):
Okay, uhst like quick, how I still get less of questions?
More than that help you.
Speaker 1 (09:10):
Fighting? Okay? All right? Cool?
Speaker 2 (09:15):
Okay, tell us about being a personal trainer. Tell us
about that.
Speaker 1 (09:20):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, I've been training now people for about
like fourteen years. Fourteen years, so we started thirteen yeah, yeah, yeah,
but for money, I've been doing it maybe like six
seven years, seven years. But I started off personal training
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as like as like a help for my uh my
sense is in like different uh different places I was learning.
I started off doing like classes for people on the spectrum.
I would just help out with those kind of classes
because there's a lot of martial arts, a lot of
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martial arts is it's like good for building coordination, you know, discipline,
that kind of stuff. So that's where I started, was
there in high school, in middle school.
Speaker 2 (10:20):
Okay, okay, well tell me about what's it called?
Speaker 1 (10:24):
Hi Cardio hit style training is like high intensity interval
training that's like cardio kickboxing. So I do like cardio
kickboxing classes, high page like fast music, weights, punch of bags,
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that kind of stuff. I've been doing those kind of
classes for maybe like seven seven years, like the same
same amount of time.
Speaker 2 (10:54):
So where's where's so where's that at?
Speaker 1 (10:56):
So right now I do classes, group classes and hurts
at this place called Warren Leavy Martial Arts, and then
I teach at a bunch of different schools and locally
on the Burrows and Long Island.
Speaker 2 (11:16):
Like all over, come on New York. Those we don't know.
We're at New York sitting there the same and what
and what beat New bullies and stuff? All right, bet
this trailer I saw on vimeo, right, tell me about that.
Speaker 1 (11:33):
Oh yeah, yeah, that's so that was like something that
I had done at the start of my career. So
like it was for my second second amateur kickboxing fight.
A camera crew had hit me up and said they
wanted to follow me around leading to the fight, and
so they filmed like maybe like a week before the fight,
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like me and the gym. They filmed me like in
my personal life. He went to a couple of different places,
they interviewed me, that kind of stuff, and then they
came to my fight. They filmed at the fight, and
then that fight, I actually ended up getting a second
round knockout. Eighteen seconds into the second round I kick.
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I had kicked this dude and knocked out three of
his teeth and cut and broke his jawn half and
he was out for for They had to they had
to take him right to the hospital. Of course, yeah,
because that's never really that's not necessarily the goal like
we go in there to to like compete and like
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like basically hurt each other, but you never, like I'm
never necessarily going into like hurt someone badly for the
rest of their life. You know. That is something that's
unfortunately part of what we do, you know. But but yeah,
so so they caught that knockout on on on camera,
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and uh, it's all part of the documentary. You can
catch it. I'm actually gonna drop it on my Instagram
and about to the whole the whole documentary in.
Speaker 2 (13:18):
That kind of arena, right, that kind of that kind
of situation, Like that's upcoming, right, is it like possible
to get you know or like no, like for hitting
too hard or I mean.
Speaker 1 (13:38):
No, it's like it's like Ivan if he if he dies,
he dies, I'm a tired body.
Speaker 2 (13:47):
I'm a tired Yeah.
Speaker 1 (13:48):
I hear you, I hear you. But yeah, the the
goal isn't for me at least to not hurt anybody
past a certain point. But you know, the goal for
me going in is definitely to put some pain on someone,
but but never to like kill or like you know
that kind of stuff.
Speaker 2 (14:03):
And we did we did karate tournaments you right back
and oh yeah. And the point wasn't you know, to
hurt the person, right, just like to score the point.
Speaker 1 (14:14):
Yeah, to show that you have that that ability.
Speaker 2 (14:17):
And also more for that control.
Speaker 1 (14:19):
M hm.
Speaker 2 (14:21):
So if you hurt somebody, you do get penalized.
Speaker 1 (14:24):
Yeah yeah yeah, all right, cool, cool, cool.
Speaker 2 (14:28):
I got the question the audience when we were coming.
I'm just this one right here. It's very interesting. So
how do you monetize being a personal fighter?
Speaker 1 (14:42):
Mmmm? That's an interesting one. That's a good one. So
there's a there's that's that's actually uh, that's a very
like uh, I guess the lucrative, lucrative kind of kind
of thing. Uh. There's a lot of different ways to
monetize all of being a fighter that's not directly coming
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from the ring. Right. So what I do currently is
I do personal training, and I'm an entrepreneur. I have
a business and that kind of stuff. So I so
I leverage my experience and my fight career in the
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fields that I'm trying that I'm doing business and to
show that I experience and that I'm capable and I
have a lot of knowledge. Like as far as martial arts,
I've been training martial arts for twenty three years of
my life. You know. So I have a lot of experience.
But other than leveraging it for like personal training or business,
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what I'm trying to get into now is like videoing
and social media. My social media is passed juice, but yeah,
I'm trying to start dropping more videos, get a little
bit more involved. I've had sponsors in the past. Ye,
sponsors is a big one. I've had sponsors. One time,
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one of my sponsors pulled me out to LA and
at the end of my trip in La, they he
had me in a big, big mansion in Beverly Hills
for a party. It's one of the craziest experiences of
my life.
Speaker 2 (16:32):
But yeah, so.
Speaker 1 (16:36):
You yeah, yeah, yeah, I've had. I've been I've I've
I've had I've been blessed to have a lot of
people take interest in me over my life in terms
of like sponsors and stuff like that. Like even like
not even monetarily, you can get sponsors as a fighter
for things you need like food or recovery or even
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gym membership tips, you know that kind of stuff. You know.
So there's a lot of different ways to leverage uh
the fighter to make money. That's not necessarily that check
at the end of like fighting in the right.
Speaker 2 (17:18):
The christ that question earlier, just now because he is
the hotline at nine one, seven to eighth, a text, voicemail, calling,
whatever else. The hot line also hashtags real social media
to ask you questions.
Speaker 1 (17:36):
Is that there?
Speaker 2 (17:39):
Chris also asked using the hot line, what were some
what were some of your sponsors?
Speaker 1 (17:46):
Yeah, so some of my sponsors have been like Reset Float,
that's like a recovery spot I was using. I had
like local food places like Taco Express. I've had like
one of my biggest sponsors were I don't know if
you know PABs Blue Ribbon. Yeah, that's the beer I
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had them. Uh, I don't know if you're familiar with
the They were gone for a little bit, but they
came back. But it was a marijuana company called Packwoods. Yeah.
They used to be one of my sponsors too. They
flew me out to l a and they paid for
my trip. They gave me a stipend. You know. I've
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had like under Armor send me clothing and shoe.
Speaker 2 (18:37):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (18:39):
I've had a few. Yeah, I've had a few.
Speaker 2 (18:42):
Okay that talk about by Ricky used the hotline he
wanted to he wanted to ask this personally, so his name,
how would you feel against a wrestler or someone bigger
than you?
Speaker 1 (18:58):
It's uh, it depends on the context of the fight.
I guess if you're fighting in the street it would
be a different set of things to do than if
you're fighting in like an MMA fight or like a
boxing kick boxing fight. So I'll say, like, if you're
fighting in an MMA fight, I guess the best thing
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to know against the grappler would be takedown defense and
how to get up. You know, as a striker, you
want to keep it on the feet, right person, person, Okay, yeah,
but that's how I would do it in an MMA setting,
is to work to take down defense stuff to take downs,
keep people from you know, getting at my legs when
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I don't want them to. If we're talking about in
a street fight, I'm kicking someone in the balls, that's
the first thing I'm doing. Fair enough them in the
balls and see what he got to do after that,
you know, like street fights, the street fight, I'm I'm
trying to walk away perfectly fine, you know.
Speaker 2 (20:03):
Okay, So you have anything you have anything upcoming, like
you know, like like like bookings or et cetera.
Speaker 1 (20:13):
No, I think I'm actually supposed to do a podcast
interview I think next week for for one of the
fight the fights, uh the fight cards that I fight
for the promotion it's called Flex Fight Series. If you
follow my Instagram, I'll be posting about that. But but yeah,
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in terms of fighting, uh like competition, I am in
process of looking for a new gym, like a new camp,
so we're gonna see. I'm also I'm thinking about some
big things coming up soon. So so I don't have
anything scheduled as of yet, but I'm definitely cooking cooking
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some stuff up.
Speaker 2 (20:59):
Okay, Okay, but I guess the same thing. What's uh,
what's next for you?
Speaker 1 (21:12):
Honestly, I don't know what exactly is next for me
because because we never know what comes next, we could
hope we know or hope for things to come. But
if I could control what came next for me, uh,
I would you know, start getting my social media influence up,
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you know, start uh like taking taking certain things a
little bit more serious and putting that full foot on
the gas, yeah, to the mat and just going all
the way and whatever that is. You know, that's what
it is.
Speaker 2 (21:52):
Okay, Okay, I.
Speaker 1 (21:54):
Want to fight Warriors Cup in New York, get a
belt from over there. I want to fight uh in
a few different promotions.
Speaker 2 (22:04):
But yeah, okay, okay, that's that's all I got. Really,
last thing would be last I have here. One of
them is being I'm just sorry boy about almost.
Speaker 1 (22:19):
Like Kyo die mm hmm, Kyo die man. That was
a that was a different era, bro, that was a
different era. You can't have you can't have something so
special and unique like Kyoda in today's in today's time,
you know, And it was.
Speaker 2 (22:43):
Huh, it's still wrong.
Speaker 1 (22:45):
Yeah, I know, I know, but but I mean, like
in the type of way that we were brought up
like they they I I honestly believe and I and
I'm sure you might feel similar that Kyota helped to
teach me a lot of things that I needed to
know as an adults. People, a person, yeah, as a person,
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just a human being, you know them.
Speaker 2 (23:10):
On the other day, he was saying what you say,
she was saying that was his goal, help people grow
up people.
Speaker 1 (23:20):
That's my guy, man. She Hunt Georgia Ashcar is my guy.
That's like my father figure growing up. He taught me
so much even his son, dear Ascar taught me so much.
But coming up a little bit about coming up in Kyota,
I was was like, there's so much. But if you did,
if you, if you, if you fucked around, you would
find out like if you if you were like trying
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to like be bad or whatever, like and our she
Hunt or our senses thought they needed to help you
to get back on the path.
Speaker 2 (23:55):
Back in the day in the old country, right, like
if like he was back up in the street, right,
your neighbors whoever for you, and then and then you
go home. What's them?
Speaker 1 (24:08):
Yeah? Yeah, yeah. I remember a few times when I
would get in trouble in school. My mom would take
me to Kyota and she would tell she Han or
not even her, she would make me tell she Han myself,
and then she Hunted with she Hunt would uh yeah, yeah,
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yeah right.
Speaker 2 (24:29):
He would be like, oh really.
Speaker 1 (24:36):
Like and I let me get this.
Speaker 2 (24:42):
Dad. It's funny too, because I didn't. I didn't get
I got good grades, but like you know, I sometimes
I get in trouble with school.
Speaker 1 (24:51):
Yeah, you know, but that was us being kids, and
that's that's what we needed, you know, because kids will
always be kids.
Speaker 2 (24:58):
They'll do stupid things. She's like, yo, she listen.
Speaker 1 (25:08):
I'll never forget one time I was my mom. I
was being bad in like the sixth grade. My mom
brought me to she Hun, and she Hun he brought
the shanai out. He did what he did with the shannai.
He made me do like a thousand pull up, I
mean a thousand push ups, and then he made me right.
He made me right about why I was wrong. I
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wrote the front and back page. But I remember coming
out of all of that like feeling like, yo, I'm changed,
Like I'm not doing this stupid shit.
Speaker 2 (25:45):
I notice right, like like if you could make it there,
you can make it anywhere.
Speaker 1 (25:50):
Yo, bro, that's life man, you know, thinking on the
small scale, you can make it on the big scale.
Speaker 2 (25:56):
But not even like a small scale. I'll I'll give
him a sample, right, No, ten minutes late?
Speaker 1 (26:03):
Right?
Speaker 2 (26:04):
The class?
Speaker 1 (26:04):
Yeah, pushups?
Speaker 2 (26:06):
Right, that's nothing so like so like that's nothing now,
but you know how I went to school in class, right,
I do twenty push ups or fifty push ups, that's
nothing compared and like what we know is eating like that.
Speaker 1 (26:26):
I remember being a kid, like coming up in high
school and doing like the President's fitness tests and kids
couldn't even do like past ten push ups. They couldn't.
They couldn't.
Speaker 2 (26:39):
Oh part.
Speaker 1 (26:42):
Yeah, yeah, no, it set us up. It set us
up in a good way for for life. Taught us discipline,
taught us about hard work and you know, the things
that she hunt and everybody else at Kyoto I taught
to us when we were kids is what I try
to teach to my kids, like my students, you know,
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and like I try to carry those same values over,
you know. And and that's like the beat of martial.
Speaker 2 (27:10):
Arts father, right, would you all enroll hit into the dojo?
Speaker 1 (27:17):
Yeah? Yeah. My daughter takes karate classes where I work.
She's very she's very small. She's six, she's about to
be six h less than a month. But but but yeah,
when she gets a little older, I'm gonna put her
in some jiu jitsu. Uh. I'll teach her to stand up,
to strike in and all that. Myself.
Speaker 2 (27:38):
Hey, my daughter wants to do so, I said, all right,
another year, you mean you want to do it in fine?
You know, right? And that was like the minimum age
that she will take you at.
Speaker 1 (27:52):
You know.
Speaker 2 (27:53):
Well, like I feel like, see, I feel like a
little bit more.
Speaker 1 (27:58):
H how old? How old does he? Baby? Six? Okay? Yeah, yeah, yeah,
that's a good age. That's a good age.
Speaker 2 (28:05):
I mean.
Speaker 1 (28:08):
Yeah, I started at five. You know, we start like
I started kids as young as like two, three years
old even oh no, like daycare. I do daycares sometimes.
Speaker 2 (28:20):
H six is the good the stud that's what you're smart.
Speaker 1 (28:26):
That's a great age. You ever want, bro, you should
bring her in to where I'm at. You got some
get a free class, couple of free classes. Come on in,
let's see how she likes it. I'm in Cedarhurst.
Speaker 2 (28:39):
Oh that far.
Speaker 1 (28:42):
Yeah, yeah, it's close. It's close to kind of fake,
close to Kyota.
Speaker 2 (28:47):
Yeah all right, cool, cool, cool kid. Before we go home,
plugs close Olidia Bookings.
Speaker 1 (29:00):
Yeah yeah yeah. So So my name's Harvier saying, you know,
my social media is past the juice underscore underscore. That's
my Instagram. I have a business, Strong Island Martial Arts
contracting in schools, elementary schools, public schools. I work for
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the DOE certified, you know, trying to build that up
God willing, you know. But but yeah, I just do
this ship. I do this stuff for U. I shouldn't
say that I do this stuff for love, you know.
Martial arts is where I live and that's God willing.
That's what I'll do for the rest of my life.
Speaker 2 (29:45):
All right, all right, that everything you're happening, last things
you want to say, and that's the words you want
to say.
Speaker 1 (29:53):
No, I think I think it's all said and done. Man,
I think I said it all. You know. I bet
that that on.
Speaker 2 (30:00):
Here we go, I'm about to die.
Speaker 1 (30:03):
Yeah, my guys hopping into the gym right now, we're
about to get some work in. I be all right, Bro,
good to see you, brother. We got to get up
one of these days. Gerald, we got to hang out.
Speaker 2 (30:14):
Bron come down and bring your daughter.
Speaker 1 (30:17):
Bro, you can bring your daughter to a class when
my daughter's taking class to My daughter is very friendly,
so she'll make sure your daughter is comfortable. Yeah, yeah,
take it easy man. All