Sheltie critiques AOC's $30,000 Met Gala attendance as hypocritical, arguing it validates a culture where the wealthy evade taxes via offshore accounts while advocating punitive measures against the middle class. He dismisses the Anna Wintour-hosted event as a fraudulent networking exercise rather than genuine charity, suggesting consumption-based taxes instead of income levies that fail to target billionaires effectively. Ultimately, the commentary frames the gala as a performative display of exclusionary wealth that undermines true political activism and fiscal responsibility. [Automatically generated summary]
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You want to talk about AOC?
Talking about activism.
So this is pretty obvious hypocrisy, though the intended purpose of this was to gain awareness, and that definitely happened.
People are talking about it.
She basically went to the Met Gala, which is this stupid dinner that the food isn't even good.
Hater.
You get to see this exhibit.
We're going to get to me being a hater in a second.
We get to see this exhibit as well.
But basically, it's every year.
It's basically like a Halloween for famous people, and they all dress up in these stupid outfits.
And being invited is like a status symbol.
And it means that you're affecting culture.
And essentially, what they do is they match designers with celebs.
So, and then the designer, Anna Winter is the person who runs Vogue.
And basically, what she does is she'll get all these designers and then she'll be like, we think that you would be dressed really well, or you would dress these people really well.
Match those people.
They'll make outfits for them.
And boom, everybody goes there.
And AOC ends up going and she's wearing a dress that says tax the rich on the back.
A lot of people have said that it looks like Chick-fil-A writing.
And she's going to this event, which costs $30,000 per person to go to.
She's literally hanging around with the people that cheat the tax code all the time.
So some people might say it's kind of brave.
It's like you a crip walking into a blood party.
Like, what's up?
This is what I believe in.
I'm out here.
I think all y'all should be taxed.
But she's not there like checking motherfuckers and going, where are your taxes?
Where are your taxes?
She's kind of going there cheesing it up and enjoying the limelight with all these people, smiling in pictures, et cetera.
So it looks as if her messaging could be a little confusing.
Do you hate people who avoid taxes?
Because guaranteed everybody there avoids taxes.
There's no way.
100%.
100%.
Or do you hate those people or do you fraternize with them?
And do you enjoy them?
And are those your colleagues?
And are those your friends?
And are you going to continue to build with those people?
And what I think is really interesting about the tax laws that she would like to implement, especially in New York, is rich people are never going to pay taxes.
We just have to accept this.
I don't know how we don't understand this.
Because here's the thing.
In order to tax people in a normal way, there are other ways you could do it, but in a normal way, you have to show income.
Rich people are rich enough to just not make money.
What they'll do is they'll just put their money back into the business itself.
They'll hide their money in stock.
They'll hide their money in charities.
There's so many other ways to hide your money to make it look like you're not making money.
So who gets punished by these tax, who gets punished by these tax laws?
Here's who, let me just get this one.
Who gets punished by these tax laws?
Here's who gets punished.
Us.
Yes.
The people who come from either middle amounts of money or no money and are starting to make money.
Do you know how much harder it is for us to ascend to wealth, for us to achieve the quote-unquote American dream, which is going from nothing to something, right?
Obviously, I didn't come from nothing.
I came from something, but to go to something amazing, something insane, it's so much harder when you're taking 50, 60% of our money every single day.
So what it does is it just increases the gap between the super wealthy and the people trying to ascend to wealth.
You're making it harder for middle class people to be super wealthy.
You're making it harder for poor people to ascend to wealthy or even just rich.
You're fucking the people that you say you're trying to help and it's not even touching the people on top.
In order to switch the tax code, you're going to have to do something that's based on consumption.
It's not going to be based on how much money you make.
It's going to have to be based on how much you consume.
And I think there maybe are some countries have done this or they're suggesting it.
So basically you get taxed on everything you buy in that fiscal year.
Right.
And this is, it's similar to the way that I think that they tax alcohol at restaurants and stuff like that.
The tax gets placed when you purchase the alcohol.
Not how much you're selling it for necessarily.
So essentially a giant sales tax instead of an income tax.
This way they can't avoid taxes by just spending all the money they make or buying assets.
Yeah.
Right.
Because they're like, oh, just buy that asset and then it depreciates and then I can write off the depreciation and I find a way not to pay any taxes.
These smart people are smarter than you, AOC.
And they hire people that are way smarter than any fucking politician.
They're smarter than you.
They will figure out a way around whatever rules you create.
And the people that you hire to create the rules are the dumb people.
Exactly.
The smart people were hired by the rich people to create the rules to get around that.
That's the point I was going to make.
The IRS can pay an accountant $60,000 a year or whatever.
You're going to get a $60,000 a year tax guy.
A fucking billionaire can pay a tax accountant $450,000 a year, no problem.
That motherfucker is going to be qualified for that money.
And your government motherfucker is going to be qualified for that money.
So any law that the government guy implements, this rich accountant is smart enough to figure out a way around it.
You will never tax the rich.
A sales tax could be a solution.
I don't know what it is, but I know all your tax laws, they're going to find a way around.
They just are.
They'll hide their income.
They'll figure out how to get it.
They'll figure it out.
So it is a tricky thing, but don't punish the people that are trying to ascend to wealth, right?
Don't punish them and save the people that you actually are trying to tax in the first place.
Do you feel that's her intention?
Because I don't think that statement is like, ah, let's pass something where only people in...
I'm referring to the new tax bill that the House is trying to pass and she's in the House, which would tax New Yorkers like the highest up to 66%.
And she's part of the House.
Yeah.
So it's like, that's the bill that she's supporting.
Yes.
And I do think when coming up with that bill, they're not saying, oh, well, we know the riches of the rich are going to be able to avoid it.
We're hoping that we can start getting the rich.
But it is the reality of the situation.
So it's like.
She's either dumb or dumb.
She's either dumb for not thinking that these rich people will find a way out of it and just not informed.
She's just kind of ignorant to how they avoid the tax laws, which I don't think because she's a pretty fucking smart girl and she's like shrewd.
She goes into those Senate meetings where she got those senators on the fucking stand.
She's grilling their asses with facts nonstop.
So I don't think that she's too stupid to understand how they avoid taxes.
I think she's smart enough to have the research and no, right?
And so she's either, so I don't think she's dumb in that regard.
And then this way, she's dumb thinking that the proposed tax bill will actually find a way to get any taxes from those rich people, that they won't find a way around it.
So it's like either way.
So then do nothing.
Don't punish the middle class.
Don't punish.
Don't make the middle class foot the bill or the upper middle class foot the bill for those rich people that you actually want to punish.
Because you keep saying tax the rich, right?
But like, who are you really talking about?
You talking about Jeff Bezos not paying any taxes?
Are you talking about the guy who makes $125,000 a year?
It's just net worth.
And real quick, and that's a good point.
But like, if we talk about the top 1%, I think it's people who make over $250,000 a year, which sounds like an exorbitant money.
Absolutely.
Exorbitant amount of money.
Absolutely.
$250,000.
If Jeff Bezos woke up tomorrow making $250,000, he would fucking shoot himself in the head.
It kills whole family.
Yeah.
$250,000 are not the people the IRS are going after.
Matter of fact, they don't even audit you.
Like, they don't actually do like real audits on you, I think, unless you're making like in the millions.
That's not saying people can't get audited.
Everybody can get audited 100%, but they're not really looking.
Like, they're going to spend hours and hours of an accountant's time and money to get 40 grand from you.
Yeah.
Or do you think they're going to spend hours and hours to get 100 million from that guy who's hiding money in the Bahamas, hiding money in Switzerland?
Well, I guess you can't do that in Switzerland anymore, but like hiding money in Panama.
That's when they expose like the Panama papers and all that shit.
What was the guy who leaked the stuff?
Assange, maybe, or whatever, like that.
Like those things, that's worth their fucking time.
To her credit, I think Elizabeth Warren's tax plan was like, I only want to tax people making above, maybe it was $10 million a year or $50 million a year, something crazy.
But yeah, this idea of $450,000 a year, yeah, you're rich, but you're not, the people that are really avoiding taxes are worth eight, nine figures.
And look at how stupid they are.
I want to tax people making over $10 million a year.
Okay, I'll just make sure I don't make over $10 million a year.
I will pay this, I will pay, oh, I made $30 million this year.
Well, $20 million of those things I put in my charity that my son happens to be the CEO of, and he gets paid $19 million a year to BC.
Do you know what I'm saying?
Like, there's so many, and I'm not even any fucking tax expert.
Or three charities where all my kids get paid $8 million a year.
Now, here's where I'm thinking.
I'm sure they'll still find a way around it, but if you taxed net worth, the competition at least, where they say, hey, Jeff Bezos is the richest person in the world, then Elon Musk.
And there's this kind of dick swinging that goes on between these rich people.
It's not as public because now they got to hide their net worth.
So a billionaire.
Do you tax your shares in the company?
Yeah, you can't tax assets.
There's no way to tax net worth.
Once you sell, yeah, but that network is fluctuating.
Like, when are you taxing it at its high?
Like, when are you taxing?
Is it at the end of the year what you get?
And you're not getting it because they exist within the asset.
You could tax it even quarterly at its three-month low.
Yeah.
And then I guess they could fucking tank their net worth, but then that's going to, I assume, fuck with stock prices and all that.
And that's not going to be worth it.
That's what I'm saying.
It's like, listen, there are smart people that have probably tried to solve this problem.
I'm not saying you shouldn't do anything.
We should do something, right?
And there's probably a smart person that knows how to solve it.
But this just, we're just going to keep bumping up the taxes and it's going to affect the same people that they're not trying to affect doesn't work and just pisses people off.
Yeah.
And just for clarity, they're saying this tax proposal won't affect anyone making less than 400,000.
Right.
And I know, yes, like you said, they can keep moving the goalposts, but it's.
And most people make less than that.
And that's why most people will support it, right?
But if you are somebody right now making, let's say, $75,000 or you're somebody making $150,000, you aspire to be making $400,000, right?
And in order for you to go for $400 to a million, they're basically taking away your investment savings.
So let's say you like to take 15% of your money, right?
And you like to invest that every single year.
Once you hit 400, buy by investment.
Buy by the money that you're going to put away for your kids.
Buy by the money that you're going to put away for your college or your kids' college.
That investment money just goes for the government for them to fucking waste it because they can't find a way to get money from Jeff Bezos.
So I'm just like, why are you punishing the guy who worked his whole fucking life to get to 400?
He might be able to see a million, right?
Or she might be able to see a million.
And you're taking away that investment chunk that he's been putting away.
He might be putting in crypto.
He might be putting in whatever these things, right?
You're taking away to send to the same fucking people who are going to waste the money every single year.
Anyway, the government, right?
Not the best spending.
Not like they do all bad spending.
I'm not one of those people.
I like the fucking roads.
I like the police.
I like the firemen.
Like, I like the things that we have.
We have a lot of great things.
Don't get me wrong.
But like, I'm just saying, the real money that you want is the billions that Jeff Bezos has.
The real boogeyman is not the guy making $400,000 a year.
That's it.
It's the guy making $400 million a year and hiding and saying he makes zero.
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And can he afford it, the guy making 400?
Yeah, he can afford it more than the guy making 50.
I don't want it to come from the guy making 50.
I want the guy making 50 to have the opportunity to grow wealth too.
Leave the money in their hands because the guy making 50 is probably going to spend all of his 50 because he needs to, right?
The guy making 400 is going to have more savings.
You know who's just going to have money sit there and do nothing with it?
Jeff fucking Bezos, right?
Elon Musk.
Elon Musk is like, I don't even want to buy a house.
Oh, you don't want to buy things?
You don't want to keep the economy turning?
You know how economy works, right?
You need to buy fucking shit, buddy.
You know what I mean?
Oh, you don't want material goods?
Isn't that adorable?
Scrooge.
Yeah.
You know what I mean?
But it's this point that why, which is why I'm not that impressed with AOC's thing at the Met Gallery, that like she's sticking it to people like Lil Nas X, who like is a recent millionaire, like grew up not that wealthy.
Like that's not the guy that when people say tax the rich, they're talking about.
They're talking about like Rockefeller, corporate billionaires and like generational wealth that are using all the accounts to hide their money.
It's like the billions of dollars.
Whereas like these people might pay their taxes or they might pay some of it.
I'm pretty sure she's talking about those people.
I don't think she's no, Bernie's proposal is always like Amazon's not paying any taxes.
Even herself, she's like, Amazon's not paying any taxes.
So like it's those, it's those giant accounts that aren't saying that's the message is for them.
But people are saying, oh, it's so brave that she's going into the den of wealth.
Yeah, she's not going into the people she wants to tax.
I don't think you're ever brave if you're in a beautiful dress walking on a red carpet.
I just don't find that the spot for bravery.
Beautiful.
The actual carpet of a fucking king and queen.
Like actual royalty, kings and queens, and the fucking plebeians are nowhere to be found.
And you're the brave one.
Hurting Mom and Pop Stores00:03:04
Yeah.
That's not brave.
And I've been trying to figure out, I don't know if I got this, like this, this example perfect, but I was thinking why in concrete terms is this so hypocritical to me.
So this dinner cost $30,000 for her to go to.
But she went there because it could benefit her for a dinner.
She ran Amazon out of Long Island City because it would hurt mom and pop businesses, unscrupulous business tactics, whatever.
But a lot of people would have taken those jobs at Amazon because I need to make a living.
AOC is willing to forego her morality for a dinner and an Instagram post and a dress that makes no impact on anything.
And she's going to have a problem with regular guys who want Amazon there because like, yo, I need a job.
Yeah.
So that's where I find the disconnect.
And I don't know if that works, but I'm trying to figure out in concrete terms, what is the hypocrisy?
Because we know there's hypocrisy to it.
You just feel it.
You just know.
Yeah, it's like you could be selfish with other people's livelihood, but when it's your opportunity, because I guarantee you, whoever funded her $30,000 ticket does not have scrupulous business tactics, hurts a lot of mom and pop stores, probably doesn't pay their share of taxes.
But you're cool with that.
So, I can go to the Met Gala.
Yeah.
I'm assuming she got invited and they're like, Yeah, we'll sponsor you to go.
And she was like, I really want to go.
How can I justify me going?
That's why she had her post before she went.
Yeah, I can't just show up.
I got to do some before she went.
She tweeted, before the haters get upset, which automatically reeks of guilt.
Yeah, so you already know what you fucking up.
I just think it's like she doesn't have a way to cut through to pop culture.
Like, she's on all the news cycles.
She's been on Deez and Miro.
Yeah, and that didn't cut through.
Like, who cares?
What are you talking about?
Unless the heavies are on display, like, nobody's paying attention to this.
You don't know any other most that everyone is paying.
Like, every single news cycle is covering this.
TNC is covering this.
CNN's covering this.
Everything's covering this.
I'd give a little, I think I agree with you 100% that a lot of people are covering it, but she is a lightning rod, especially for right-wing media.
Like, no matter what she does, Fox is covering it.
All these other ones are covering it.
They're calling her a communist.
Yeah.
And to get the left on board, yeah, I guess.
But like, the left loves her.
Like, if she does anything, the left is promoting her.
Oh, my God.
Do you see AOC rip this senator in this court hearing?
And so I think that she is someone who gets a lot of buzz.
I don't think there's anybody in the Democratic Party that gets more attention than AOC.
Can y'all think of anything?
Maybe Biden.
He's the president.
She probably gets more news than Biden.
Yeah, but that's, I'm just saying in politics, she gets the most attention.
But there are some people that don't pay attention to politics at all.
So now she's tapping into like an audience.
That's what I think.
And like, okay.
I feel she does a lot of overperformative bullshit.
And like, yeah, some things I just don't like how she goes about it.
But if your focus is, hey, I want to try to get this message out, how's where's the biggest billboard?
Yeah.
This thing that everybody's paying attention to, what you have on, and you're going to take a picture of it.
You know, what is the message?
Like, tax the rich?
I don't, I don't see it.
Yeah, I don't necessarily agree with it.
I don't necessarily agree with it either.
But if you get the conversation started, now people talk about it.
I think what you were saying is correct.
She's a girl who grew up in New York City.
She's romanced by this idea of going to the fucking Met Gala.
The Met Gala Dream00:05:33
Okay.
How can I go to the Met Gala without getting all the internet hate?
Yes.
Okay.
And she found a way to do it that makes her look brave, that makes her look hip, etc.
The reality of the matter is, and I'll tell you a story very quickly afterwards, but like the Met Gala, I've always thought was the stupidest fucking thing.
Yes.
Before I learned out what, before I learned what it is, and now it's even stupider, right?
But it's basically value off exclusion.
And I'm a complete hypocrite because I buy sneakers because of value off exclusion, right?
I'll buy a watch value off exclusion.
Fashion is value off exclusion.
Fashion is value off exclusion.
And so much of life is value off exclusion.
Bitcoin, to a certain extent, there's a limited amount.
Limited amount?
Yeah.
So, hey, let's get it.
So my only issue is when there's value off exclusion and then there's nothing it provides at all, right?
Besides the exclusion, now we have an issue.
So it's basically like if you go to a nightclub, they're not letting people in.
Okay, fine.
But you might get some pussy that night, right?
You might drink with the boys, party.
You might talk to a girl, go out on a date.
There's something that you can obtain from that experience, right?
You might have a great fucking DJ.
It might be a great band playing or something like that, right?
The Met Gala is this dinner where the food is not good.
There's an exhibit that you look at that everybody can look at after you at the Met.
So there isn't really anything exclusionary, right?
The food is not worth the experience.
The value is the cachet of being at the Met Gala.
That's it.
Diamonds.
It's fraud.
There's nothing there.
And the fact that these people buy in so much, I'm like, this is the stupidest fucking thing.
So I asked my girl, I was like, my girl who was in fashion for a while on the corporate side.
I was like, would you want to go to the Met Gala?
And then I go, she's like, she's like, she's like, no, no, no interest in that.
And I was like, oh, okay, good.
She's like, why?
I was like, no, they asked me if I wanted to go this year.
And I was just like, and she's like, they what?
And I go, yeah, they just asked me if I want to go.
Like, well, why didn't we go?
I go, I go.
Well, you said you wouldn't want to go, so I don't want to go to these fucking things.
She's like, well yeah, it'd be cool to know what it's like.
Everybody every bullshitting.
I do think he I think, if he gets I trashed the invitation, I think you go.
I trashed the thing yesterday on Brilliant AIDS and i'm leaving Brilliant AITS and i'm like I shouldn't have done that.
Not because I want to go.
I do not want to go.
I have no interest in going.
And I think the whole thing is fucking stupid.
And you're corralled into the space.
And everybody in the space is like, oh, everybody here must be cool.
Right?
It's like, it was like the early days of Soho House.
I don't know if you remember going to like Sohouse, but like the early days of Soha, I really remember never going to Soho.
Fair enough.
So it's like, everybody was in there was like, well, who's who here?
This must be really cool.
And you could like walk up to anybody, talk to me because everybody there was kind of like qualified.
Well, you must be accepted in here.
So it must have been something, right?
But it was all bullshit.
It's all fake, right?
But at least there was like good food or something in there, right?
The comfy environment, et cetera.
But once I found out, I was like, fuck, man, my girl's going to want to go to this and they're going to ask me to go to this fucking thing one of these days.
And I've said on a podcast that it's the stupidest fucking thing in the world and I cannot go without being a hypocrite.
Yes.
Right.
I was going to say, it's funny your girl said she didn't want to go because I got the exact opposite response.
Yeah, stupid, but you go.
My girl basically said, like, I want to at least know.
It's, you know what I'm saying?
It's one of those things where it's like, nobody's allowed in.
She's like, yeah, the food's not going to be good.
All these things.
But I want to know the food's not good.
I want to know it's a dumb experience.
And tying together all the points I think we've made, AOC is our girls.
She knows it's stupid, but she wanted to go.
So she was like, let's figure out, let's, hey, let's have this dress.
Let's have this tweet before we go.
And now I can go enjoy the Met Galaxy.
She thought about my apple.
In two years, you're going to have to go.
Just all over my city.
Hypocrite all over the city.
But I'm saying it right now, so everybody knows.
I will never want to go to this fucking thing.
I would never want to go to this thing.
How many men want to go?
I feel like every woman is like, we're going.
And the guy's like, fucking fuck.
Al wants to go.
That shit is fucking Halloween, son.
Go Halloween, right?
Yeah, but Halloween with famous people.
I like to go to the Halloween parties that have famous people at them.
It's the same shit.
Al's a cuck a little bit.
Like, he likes to see Charlamagne says, famous people.
Every once in a while, put it this way.
Every once in a while, Charlemagne reminds me that he's from Monks Quarter, South Carolina.
Yes.
Every once in a while.
Like, I always look at Charlamagne.
I'm like, you're the biggest guy on the fucking planet.
You could do whatever the fuck you want to do, et cetera.
And every once in a while, he's romanced.
No.
No, no.
Meaning, like, he's romanced by these things that he's heard of.
Yeah.
Ooh, the Met Gal.
That must mean you made it.
I'm like, Charlamagne, you've got more money than almost everybody at this fucking party.
You've got more success than almost anybody at this party.
Like, you don't need to go to this part.
Like, you're the coolest person sitting at any table at the Met Gala, in my opinion, right?
It's just a bunch of people are dressing, wearing crazy shit, but they might not be fucking interesting to talk to.
You're the fucking man.
But there's a little part of him that's like, I get to be around famous people.
I'm like, you're famous.
You're successful.
You're brilliant.
You've been to fucking Kanye's Wyoming ranch, haven't you?
It was like when we did the private jet, we were doing the private jet and like Dove was getting all fucking anxious because we weren't behaving right.
And I'm like, Dove, you don't have to fake it.
Running for Leukemia Funds00:03:26
It's ours.
We paid for it.
We could dress however the fuck we want.
You made it here.
You know what I mean?
Like, I know the past times you've been on jets, you were a guest.
So you're like, don't fuck this up.
You're the person now.
Yeah.
Fuck it up.
If we walk off that jet and we don't feel embarrassed about how filthy it is, I'm probably fucking it up for all the time.
Oh my God.
We didn't do it right, bro.
There better be some rappers on that fucking thing.
What is this guy doing?
What?
Pretzels everywhere.
You know what I mean?
Sunday's tequila spilt.
Come on.
They don't know this was an infamous tour jet.
Next people after we own that jet.
Shit.
This is the most loser fucking trash left in the jet.
All the time.
Yeah, Oreos.
Oreo rappers.
Dom Pete.
Prince of Chris Hale.
Rondoms everywhere.
Nah.
Jeez-Its.
All I'm saying is sometimes we gotta do shit for our girls.
But I have no, you have interest in going to the fucking mechanics.
I do not want to at all.
At all.
I still don't really understand completely what it is.
Dinner.
Just show up and take pictures.
Dinner and exhibit.
You walk on stairs.
That's what it is.
And then there is an exhibit there that you can check out the Met afterwards.
And there's a dinner that you guys had there.
And it's also a fundraiser.
And the donations go to the people who make the costumes at the museum.
Because that's the only, it's not funded.
So they have to fund themselves.
So it is an actual fundraiser.
Oh, yeah, sure.
Why do we, dude, fundraisers?
Put that on the activists.
So stupid.
Yeah, AOC should win this season on the activists.
She got all these social media attention.
Can we do that for the activists?
Can we do that?
Can we stop making people run?
Can we stop making people go to events?
Can we stop making people do things?
Like, it's like, do you care about leukemia?
Yeah.
Are you willing to run for it?
Oh, do you know what I mean?
Do you care about cancer research?
Yeah.
Yeah, I do care about cancer.
Would you like to donate some money?
Would you like to dress up in a Halloween costume and walk up some stairs in front of people?
Because that's how I'll give you some money.
It's like, why are we making people jump through hoops in order to be activists or donate money to causes?
Do you care about the cause?
Yes.
Then give me your fucking money.
Because the fundraiser has become a networking opportunity.
Say again?
A fundraiser has become a networking opportunity.
That's really what it is.
You're not going there for the charity.
You're going there for the connection that you might make.
Or it's like, if you're already going to donate money, why not have a little fun while doing it?
That's what the people look at, the runs and shit like that.
It's like, hey, we're having a little competition along with you donating.
No, it's fun to me, not running.
Yeah.
Okay, so you would just donate and not run.
But other people like enjoy that activity and it's like, oh, shit, I can do this activity I enjoy and with a good cause attached to it.
Like, why not?
Just run.
Hey, how about this?
You don't ever have to run for me to give you money for leukemia.
If you came to me and you're like, hey, bro, my grandma has leukemia.
We're trying to raise some money.
Here you go.
Here's my money.
You don't have to run for it.
You don't have to jump.
You don't have to swim.
You don't have to do a triathlon.
You don't have to bike.
You don't got to do nothing.
You're already going through enough with your grandma having leukemia.
Here's the money.
Here you go.
Here's my donation.
If you want to do some running afterwards, please exercise.
Great for your body.
Great for your mind.
But you don't have to do it.
I'm not going at the finish line.
There you go.
That's what we should do for those races.
We should stand at the finish line, let them collect.
You don't get anything until you cross the finish.