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farewell tour. So I was like I'll never get to see him again. It's a farewell tour. And you know, big fan. And he plays the piano so it's a little extra interesting because of the piano. And it was in the new facility in the Chase Center so I wanted to see the new facility anyway, which is amazing. The new place the Warriors are going to play. Really well done. So I went and we got these—somebody…
← Previous segment →re was a big guy in front of me who stood for about a third of the concert filming it with his phone. Now who the hell is going to watch that video? Do you think there's one person in the world who's going to say hey wow you got Elton John on a tiny little screen with bad sound system. Can I watch 15 minutes of that? Nobody. The guy who took the video is not going to watch it again. You might watch 10 seconds of it. That's why a 10-second video is a good idea. Might be fun to see how close you were, see how good your seats were. But oh my God.
So I found myself seething with hatred for human beings. Not all of them. But here's my bottom line. If you were a person who stood up that entire time in that group—and it wasn't everybody, it was maybe 20% of them—and you never looked behind you to see what you were doing to the people behind you the whole time, and that would describe most of them. None of them turned around. They had ruined the evening for a whole swath of people who were hating them with the same amount of white-hot hatred I had for them. And I thought to myself there's no way to explain this. They're just an asshole.
And let me say it to those of you—some of you I see the criticisms coming in from this in the tweet. So some of you are criticizing me for not understanding that people stand up during these rock concerts. Yes idiots, I understand people stand up. Yes idiots, I understand I can stand up. Yes idiots, I understand that if I stand up I can see. Yes idiots, and that that's what people do. But lots of times people were up and down. In a situation where people are up and down they're not standing all the time. If you've never looked behind you to see if you're blocking somebody's view you're just an asshole.
So I'm talking to you who are watching because a lot of you said I went to the concert, I stood the whole time. You're an asshole if you never look behind you to see what you're doing to the person behind you. You're just an asshole. There isn't any way to soften that. I'm sorry that you're hearing it from me for the first time. If you stood the whole concert with your phone you're an asshole. If you stood up during the fun parts with everybody else, you were standing, you blocked my view sometimes, sometimes you didn't. I'm fine with that. I'm fi
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ne with having my view blocked with somebody who was having fun and is considerate. All right. So old man yells at the sky. I know what that sounds like. I did it anyway. I don't care. That's all for now. I'll talk to you tomorrow.
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