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Being an athlete, and I am the first to say that I think athletes are the corniest motherfuckers in the world, we are busy. I have had a couple so called real jobs before, but now I really do. My dad is having a little trouble so he told me to get a job, so I work at Lowes for $13 an hour, which is pretty damn good considering the fact that I am borderline slow. It’s been fun so far, I’m meeting new people, learning new things, but it is kind of scary too. I am really growing up…

With the coronavirus affecting our every day lives completely, questions are being brought to the table…

Is attending college necessary? Should essential workers be more important? Whats going on?

Personally, I think that college, for most people, is a good first experience away from home. Many people don’t have a sense of individuality in their earlier years, so college may help help define themselves for better or for worse. On the other hand, there are a lot of more realistic people in this world who aren’y caught up in social “norms.” they just want to make money. This pandemic is showing that people like that will rule the world for the next however many years it may be…

So, the long-awaited and much anticipated documentary series finally started on Sunday, and ESPN released two 1 hour long shows about Michael Jordan’s career.

The first episode talked all about the discrepancies between his early playing days in the NBA and his later days. Jordan told a story of how in his rookie year he walked in on his teammates doing cocaine with some strippers in a hotel room the night before a game. He did not partake.

The second episode talked mostly about Jordan’s teammate, Scottie Pippen, and how underpaid he was.

10 Am: Wake up, go downstairs, see if there’s anything to eat.

11AM: Work out

Forget a schedule, I lied I don’t have one. But, I do try to eat three meals a day, work out, and do all my schoolwork. To stay sane, I have been watching a lot of shows. (All American, Ozark, South park, etc…)

Daily life can be boring, but somebody told me that if you ever feel bored don’t tell anybody because that means you are a boring person…

The final scene of the movie is by far the best scene. It starts with the good guys meeting the bad guys at a race track for whatever reason, and here’s where the crazy editing came into play. A huge truck, driven be spenser, comes racing down the track and crashes into all of the bad guys cars, and the explosions erupt, it was really a sight to see, and made the movie great!

Mark Walhburg seems to have a niche for being a “bad cop.” As seen in The Other Guys, him and Will Farrell play cops that lose their badges, and in this movie the same things happens, as the film starts with him beating up another cop. Believing that his boss, Captain Boylan (Michael Gaston), is burying a murder investigation Spenser (Mark Wahlberg) lets him know in no uncertain terms that he won’t stand for it. As a result, Spenser ends up spending five years in prison. When he gets out, he learns that not only has Boylan been murdered, but a good cop named Terrence Graham (Brandon Scales) has been framed for it and then killed. In his quest to uncover the truth, Spenser winds up working with young UFC fighter Hawk (Winston Duke), gym owner Henry (Alan Arkin), and his unstable ex-girlfriend Cissy (Iliza Schlesinger).

Based on the novel Wonderland, “Spenser Confidential” a Boston cop plays by his own rules. As the opening of the film reveals, his rules include beating the hell out of a commanding officer because he suspects he beats his wife. Who needs evidence when you have a gut feeling? In an age where police brutality commonly sparks headlines, that action is not too funny anymore. But, the directors play it safe by making sure that Wahlberg’s white cop only beats up other white cops or white supremacists. Okay, and he brawls with some people of color, but only when they are machete-wielding drug dealers who wear hoodies and kill good, rule-following cops who are black… Spenser is the good guy because he’s hunting the real killer of a murdered black officer who was framed for killing another white cop, who played by his own rules … but in a bad way, not a cool “bad boy” Spenser way! Got it? It doesn’t matter.

Who knows if the directors meant to put a racial spin on the movie, they probably did. The idea of race relations is apparent no matter what you are talking about in this day and age, so why not include it in the film to interest viewers even more.

Dave East, current rapper and former basketball player, had a very strange path to immense success. In his song, “On My Way to School,” he talks about how he was fighting for his life even when he was just walking to school. Many of us cannot relate to this because we cannot even fathom being scared for your life. Seeing homicides and mother’s crying was regular for him and that is what made him so eager to succeed. His teachers would tell him that he wouldn’t amount to anything, and that made him hungry to prove them wrong. So, he earned a basketball scholarship to Towson. He dropped out due to being caught with marijuana a few too many times. He decided rap was the path for him, and he was right…

DO wear a mask to keep your germs from exiting into the air and to stay free the the germs of others. Do stay inside.

Do not hang out with friends. Do not buy out the grocery store. Do not be stupid!