To clarify something. I clicked "like" on this post, not for the critique of Pkm, because I don't really know him as well as GF does, but because of the statement in the middle about friends being on equal footing. It's something I've always tried to teach my kids. How we treat each other matters. And no matter how far we get in life, there are very few things that can really make one person truly better than another. And none of those things have anything to do with how much treasure or how many toys we amass.
I feel like the last statement is a criticism of Peeks and not fair tbh. Does he puff out his chest some when showing pics of his wife in neglige, coolass cars, or in conversation about how he joined the mile high club after getting it up the poop shoot from John Calipari? Sure, I guess he does. But those moments come far less often than his quick, witty (I'm trying to be nice) comments or common man insights or self-deprecating moments or college bball tidbits all of which which make him not just tolerable but fun and relatable even if he may be out of all of our tax brackets. Is he maybe sometimes full of ****? Of course. We all know Cal is tossing around bags of cash and free wheels to all his recruits, even if Peeks doesn't think so. But that doesn't make him a ***********. It makes him human. Maybe he's naive. Maybe he just sees the good in the program like he does in people in general. I'd like to think it's the latter and to me that's what makes the most sense. Peeks never talks **** about anyone here. He never lashes out. He never looks to belittle. He sees the good in all of us, even if all of us, myself at the top of that list, are fatally flawed. He's not critical and doesn't judge. Many of us may say we aren't either but nearly all of us are. Let's face it.
Similarly, most of us don't bow to PKM but simply are chill with the guy because he possesses qualities that many of us admire and hope to emulate, not in his way, but in our own unique way in life. Intelligence, integrity (have you seen his posts on how to get a bank loan for a duplex?!), a sense of adventure, a fundamental deep-seated love for family, a desire to be good, an understanding of the importance to be charitable, and it just so happens, some wealth and coolass ****ing toys, amongst other things. I don't think any of us look at those toys alone and put him up on some pedestal. On the contrary. I think it would be really easy for us to say, "This rich dude's a douche." Well, truth be told I still say that but I digress. Anyway, I think it's easy to judge and think that in life. But virtually none of us here do think that because he's one of the most chill, normal, non-judgmental dudes here who like I said, just happens to have money. And I don't think he props those toys up either as if they define him. I think he just likes to share his toys with us through pics because hell, he's having fun and excited just like any of us would be, and heck, we (or at least me anyway) get a kick out of seeing these toys.
