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Israel Adesanya On Why He Wants To Run The World And A LOT More... | Myprotein
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Jan 30, 2025
UFC Middleweight Champion Israel Adesanya, reveals career regrets, life ambition, and his biggest fears. In our Light Heavyweight series, we dig a little deeper into what makes some of our top athletes tick with a mixture of serious and playful questions. Get to know Nigerian-born New Zealand professional mixed martial artist and UFC fighter, Israel Adesanya (aka. The Last Stylebender). ********************************* Subscribe to our channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/MyproteinUK?sub_confirmation=1 If you like this, you'll love this: https://youtu.be/IZYh8xbLZzY Find more Light Heavyweight interviews here: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLkb17OgnhB-G4rXDk5xMiV3csd_aNmROq Download the Myprotein App: https://bit.ly/3dhVVUE ********************************* #israeladesanya #stylebender #ufc #myprotein Israel Adesanya On Why He Wants To Run The World And A LOT More... | Myprotein
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yes what's up it's israel i just find
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the last style bender and here's a few
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questions that i'm going to address
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that was good that was perfect most
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embarrassing thing that's happened to me
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at the gym
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over 10 years ago eugene
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decided to have a seminar on how to pick
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up hot chicks
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at the gym
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and
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we had cava and i was drinking bourbon
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as well
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and before you knew it i
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was in a red dress with a blonde wig on
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doing a simulation on how to pick up hot
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chicks
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and that video will never see the light
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of day it's buried deep in my archives
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and it's going to stay that way
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[Music]
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what would i like to be remembered about
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me
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he was a nice
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the best flavored my protein is the
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cookies and cream tip
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banana blueberries
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cookies and cream flavored my protein
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honey and milk mwah thank me later
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biggest achievement of my career so far
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would
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definitely be winning the
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ufc middleweight title against kelvin
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gastelum
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um yeah that was
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instant classic in many ways in one
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uh my annoying habit i'm annoying
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sometimes but
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ah i respect people's boundaries but
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yeah my annoying habit is just i'm
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annoying sometimes
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do i have any career regrets
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no regrets
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no regrets you know what i mean i'm sure
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you can use it in this if you want the
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most ridiculous and expensive
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unnecessary thing i bought
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this
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royal oak
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ap watch i'm not really a watch guy but
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this is my second
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i guess super expensive watch i bought
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fun fact i wasn't as excited when i got
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it like i was kind of like oh it's nice
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i don't know like it's it's nice but
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yeah these are temporary things like
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they just give you like a temporary
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happiness this this is nice but
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man
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my life ambition geez that's a big
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question uh damn
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it's a big one uh there's many but
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all in all just
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there's happiness and there's all the
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other life constantly goes like
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that so i kind of want to just get back
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just always get waiver around here
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that's that's my i guess life ambition
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the most embarrassing song on my workout
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playlist hold up oh hold up let's
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actually bring it up i don't really
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think anything's embarrassing but for
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the world's um view of what embarrassing
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is for a workout playlist i would say oh
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it's not embarrassing but i love this
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track it's classic it always gets me
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into that mode anyway i don't want to
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give you a whole performance gotta pay
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for that as only fans anyway next
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question
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if i could run the world what would i
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change first
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can i think of a me answer but it's not
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too pc
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i kind of just want
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those
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people of my age to run the world
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because
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the people who are in the world now
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they're ancient and they don't really
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understand what's happening like they're
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out of touch
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they were here before the internet and
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they don't really understand
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the world with the internet so
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not me
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even though i make a good president but
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um want someone like myself to run the
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world and i feel like they'll make the
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right changes to
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benefit everyone i just okay look this
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whole culvert thing has taught me that
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the world can change like that
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you all have masks on in here
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two years ago
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this would look stupid like what the
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what are we doing people have the
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power to influence the masses so if the
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people in power were able to
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influence the the masses to to change
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for the better it can happen because
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that's one thing people saw the world
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can't just change overnight
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look at this look at the world we live
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in now it's just crazy so yeah um i hope
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to answer your question starter or
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dessert dessert
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ooh
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favorite dessert i don't really have one
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but i love me a good creme brulee
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you smash the glass robert bro yeah
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i i'm a sweet tooth kind of guy who is
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my greatest hero
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uh i have a few right i want to say my
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dad my mom
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um avatar ang naruto
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brock lee professor x yeah there's so
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many but i don't really have a greatest
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one like someone i put on a pedestal no
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my god
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nope
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muhammad ali many many people i look up
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to
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i speak
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that's my native tongue uh
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sometimes i speak it like a foreigner
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but i'm getting better i'm getting more
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connected to my roots and i used to
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speak chinese quite
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passively but you know if you don't use
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it you lose it so i'm definitely gonna
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get back on that horse because we know
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where the world is heading
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huh was the last time i cried
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day before yesterday why uh
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why did i cry i was just just yeah it's
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just release of energy
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yeah just release of energy like people
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don't grow up i'm like what are you
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gonna tell me not to cry like
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when energy gets pent up
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and you can feel it bubbling
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something might trigger it and you just
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like let loose and then you feel much
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better like your brain releases these
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chemicals after you cry that makes you
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feel better and soothes you and you're
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like oh yeah that was a nice really it's
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like
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like
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yeah
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just blur that out it's really important
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you just keep that in there but blur it
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out i'd like to visit um europe actually
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i was supposed to do a europe tour and
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then the silver fight came up and i had
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to i was in ireland at the time actually
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and i had to decide like
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you know what do i want to do continue
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this trip or go get ready for you know
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history and i'm glad i made the right
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choice by
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deciding to take the silver fight
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because europe's always going to be
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there
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but we didn't know the run was coming
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through did we
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um yeah that's a while ago
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my biggest fear
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my biggest fear is
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i just thought about my kids i don't
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have kids that i know my biggest fear i
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guess is not
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doing right by them
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even like
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uh my friend's son camille he's a he's a
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young boy who adores me i love him he's
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my soul mate i love him i live my life
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the way i do and
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i'm not known as role model because i
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heard i watched a video with poc the
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other day who was saying like think
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about the world
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role model those are two fake things
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you're playing a role and you're
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modeling a behavior or a character
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you're acting so those that's stupid i
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don't want to be anyone's role model i
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keep it real i'm just real with him and
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i'm not trying to influence him in that
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way but i never want to be able to i
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never want to disappoint him does
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pineapple belong on pizza don't shake
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your head at me
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[Laughter]
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subjective but i don't mind it i don't
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mind it i feel like hey man put whatever
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you want on your pizza if it's your
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pizza put whatever you want put put
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grapes on your pizza if you want
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uh if i could have a superpower
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probably like nightcrawler teleportation
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yeah i'll take
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that um
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[Music]
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