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“But then at the same time, the costs are up 46% since 2019 to 2025. The cost to put your kid in sports is up 46% faster than inflation. And so the challenge now is how do we reconcile the fact that you need access? And on average, families are spending $1,500 a year per kid per sport per primary sport.”

“We were doing a three and three match, and it was myself. I was Zerg, and I know one of my opponents was very consistently did cannon rush. So I was on the lookout for cannon rush. And sure enough, I, used my overlords, and I spotted a pylon being warped in right next well, yeah, right next to my, my my expansion. So I sent a bunch of drones off. This is very early game, like, only, like, a minute into it or so. They went and took out that pylon. They did a great job. Came back. Victory was well, at least I felt like I felt pretty good. And then lo and behold, though, I noticed that, additionally, there is also a bunker being built right next to that same expansion.”

“The best metaphor I can think about is up until now, a lot of professional women's sports have not been shown on TV, and that is only because of a choice. Right? It would be like opening a restaurant, not telling anyone it existed, and then being like, oh, no one showed up. Like, this was a failed restaurant.”

“I think the women's soccer team just signed a four year media rights deal worth, like, 240,000,000, which is 40 times more than their previous contract. 40 times more. These are, like, huge numbers. Talk about an investment.”

“One time, I'll mention it for kudos' sake. Like, I think I did make it to master league one time. I like to think it was a technical error, though, because I did one placement match, and it's just like, you're in the master league. And and I've just, like, never touched a ranked game again that season because I was afraid I would just immediately lose everything. And it wasn't my my main race is Taren, but I was playing in under a random as well, and it's, like, for random, you're in the master league.”

“Best case scenario for me against the Zerg is, that they totally don't scout the bunker going up in their natural and that they let their expansion finish, actually, which may sound counterintuitive, but by letting it finish, they effectively lose 300 barrels because it's you're gonna immediately let it finish, then load your marines into the bunker, and immediately, they're gonna have to respond to that right away.”

“I actually think Taren is one of the harder races to cheese with. You know, their whole, I guess, philosophy with the Terran race, though, is is kinda like to, you know, root into any given position and to hold a position and and to do so really well. Whereas if you compare that to the kind of the philosophy of the other races, like the Zerg Girl about obtaining overwhelming numbers and just, you know, getting a ton of units on the map and surrounding everything, and the Protoss are more kinda, like, tech intensive and, like, really kinda specialized units. But the Terran are all about, like, rooting into any given position and, like, holding that position fiercely better than any other race.”

“Eileen Gu is a freestyle skier. She has competed in the past for The United States, but she has direct Chinese heritage. And so in this Olympics, she was competing for China, and a lot of people criticized that decision. There are Olympic athletes competing for The US that are making less than $15 a year. When you medal as an American, you make less than $30 a year, and then it's taxed.”

“Like, some of the growth as far as, like like, the salary cap, for example, for the average WNBA team before this year, before 2026, was 1,500,000. That's, like, how much the team can spend on salaries. It is now 7,000,000 in one year, and that's supposed to increase dramatically over the next several years of this agreement. That's just year one.”

“If you kinda roll up to a terrain base and you see no barracks as part of the wall, you know, my red flags are going off at that point. My flashing red warning light is going off at that point. Even if you see three depots and you go up to the top of the wall, but your vision doesn't reveal anything in the back, that kinda tells me that, there's either a proxy somewhere on the map or that the Terran player is hiding something in the back corner of their main base.”

“So what you would do is, you're gonna start by just building SCVs, of course, and then immediately sending two of your SCVs out across the map. Even before you build the supply depot. It's the very first thing you do. Yeah. So you get these two SCVs across the map. As soon as your first SCV comes out of the command center, it's then building a supply depot wall, at the top of your base there while your other two SCVs are heading out across the map.”

“And then after I graduated, I graduated in 2009 and could not find a job. And I ended up getting a call from my old diving coach, and he said, hey. They're looking for division one NCAA and Olympic trial level divers for this aquatic show on a cruise ship, to which I immediately said, that's ridiculous. I have a business degree now. I'm a big deal. Like, I'm not gonna do that. And then two months later, when I couldn't find a job, I called him back and said, sure. I'll do whatever that is. And so I ended up working and living on a cruise ship for three years, and I did aerial acrobatics, high diving, kinda like Cirque. And I did that for three years. And, honestly, it changed my life because I was able to save a lot of money while working on the cruise ship because I didn't have any living expenses. And that's how I started to invest in real estate and the stock market.”

“The stats and the link between sports as a child and success professionally are undeniable. There are stats like 94% of women in c suite roles played sports in high school or college. Obviously, a lot of incredibly important career skills you learned during sports, teamwork, resilience, leadership under pressure, all of these skills that are incredibly important for being successful in the workplace.”

“And if you really think about it, if this continues to move in the meteoric direction that it is, professional women's sports, it's not just about athletes getting paid more. It's about women in leadership. It's about executive ranks of sports. It's media. It's sponsorships. And then when you have women in leadership, studies show that that doesn't stay contained in terms of pay. Like, dare I say, is this a way that we can start to close the gender pay gap in a meaningful way?”

“I think the magic number from what I researched today is three marines. As soon as you've got three marines available, which really you'll have about three or four at the same time is when you wanna immediately start heading into the enemy's base. And you gotta be careful here. You don't just want to, a, move in and and kinda see what happens. You know, three marines at this early level of the game can definitely cause a lot of damage, but, notably, SCDs, drones, and probes actually have a higher speed than marines.”

“The trap that people may fall into with this cheese is overinvesting into it. And, again, you know, those early level marines are are kinda terrible the longer the game goes on as you start getting upgrades for them and stuff. But if you've got a whole bunch of bunkers, well, that's that's great. It's definitely gonna keep them contained. But, you know, as soon as, like, a ravager comes out or, like you said, a spine crawler that outranges a bunker, well, now you're just giving the enemy free kills at that point.”