Why do all athletes’ houses look the same? A continued investigation into the world of athlete aesthetics

Testing, testing. Testing, testing, testing. Is this thing on? Is this thing on? Let's see how that sounded. Okay. Hi, Charlotte. Hello, Madeline. We're back with another episode of the Sports Gossip Show. Woo! That was it today. Woo! Woo! Woo! We have a very exciting episode today. I'm thrilled about this one. This is one we've been talking about for a long time. I feel like we've been talking about this for like six months? Maybe a year. Maybe longer. Since I wrote that newsletter? Yeah. I don't know. Well, for those who don't know or didn't read the title of this episode, if you're just jumping right in, we'll tell you what this episode is about. This episode is about how all athlete houses look the same. They kind of fit into a couple different categories. Very rarely do athletes pick a house that looks a little different. Yes. And the reason we're doing this episode is to build upon our athlete aesthetic cinematic universe we've kind of created for ourselves, which started with how all athlete weddings and proposals look the same. Yep. We had compressed flowers. Yes. I would say that the athlete house is the same as compressed flowers energetically. Yes. But spacious, whereas flowers are shoved in there. I think one thing that most of these have in common is you, you could say they are McMansions. They are definitely McMansions. And we'll get into, we'll do a little history lesson with Charlotte about McMansions. But we need to coin a term. Maybe it's, it's, it's cavernous. The flowers are compressed. The homes are usually cavernous. Cavernous. But we can workshop. I like that. If any shareholders have any ideas for a term, we'll give some examples. Yeah. Um, I think, so I, this made you, what, what, what made you? Yeah. Realize. Thanks for asking. When I started my newsletter on Personal Foul in 2020, I had a segment or like a section in the newsletter called Zillow Listing of the Week, not sponsored by Zillow. Wow. Tear to dream. You're listening. You're listening. Um, where I would highlight an athlete's home that just looked, uh, shocking. And what I realized doing it week over week was I noticed a trend that all of these homes kind of fell into two broader categories of home aesthetic. And maybe someone who's an architect can chime in or interior. There was sort of either these modern homes, cement, bless you. Sorry. Bless you. Thank you. That was sorry. Um, almost like what I described in my newsletter about how all athlete houses look the same, which I wrote like a year ago, like a home you would design in the Sims game, the video game, kind of that sort of vibe, just sort of like rectangular, modular, generic, and cold. Yep. And then on the other side, there were these homes that athletes were buying that were these sort of what I can only describe as like a suburban dad home with like a pantry you walk into that has every snack that you didn't have at your home growing up. Every sugary cereal, every Cheez-It, you know, the little snack packs? Yeah, yeah, yeah. They had every, you know, every type. And they were, had more wood elements in the home. Okay. Almost like a little bit more outdated of a McMansion, I guess you could say. Oh, you mean like, like, like wood cabinetry from then on? Yeah. In the 90s or something? Okay, yeah, yeah. Yes, like a, what's the, I think they call it like a Tuscan, a Tuscan kitchen kind of vibe. Okay. And there were sort of those two categories. Okay. And then there were some athletes that did have homes they would purchase like an interesting historical home that does happen, but it was few and far between. Okay. And so I was kind of just, I grouped them into those three categories, essentially. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I think, I like Tuscan. Tuscan. As a category. Yeah, Tuscan. Sort of like. Tuscan, because it's, it's what, it's sort of, it's like when you would go to a friend's home, a friend's house, and the tiles were all kind of yellow or orange, and there was like the rooster cookie jar. Yes. You know? It's like the Michael's home, the home goods of homes. But, but it's more expensive things. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, it's like the not knockoff version that they sell at home goods. It's William Sonoma 1999. Exactly. Um, yeah, it's, it, it is, it's fascinating, really. Um, I, we recommend looking at this one on YouTube also. Yeah. Because we're going to. There are going to be a lot of images. We will describe them for our audio audience, though. Yes. So fear not. Um, I guess the thing that most of these houses have in common is size. Their size. Yes. They all are big. No, I have not seen an athlete home that is small. Where did you, where were you finding these Zillow listings? Was it just in the ether? Well, some, ether, but it would often be like Realtor.com articles talking about an athlete selling their home or purchasing a home, and then I would kind of dig back to find the original house listing. Um, sometimes I would just reference from like a Realtor.com. Um, but I do think it's important to give our audience a couple examples. Yes. Of each before your little history. Oh, yeah, yeah. Let's, let's take our time. Let's walk through these homes. So, first one I'd like to walk everyone through, if we can click on the first link under Modern Houses, Charlotte. Yes. Which Luka Doncic, star for the Los Angeles Lakers, spent $25 million to buy a home from another athlete. Oh. Former tennis star Maria Sharapova. Wow. He spent $25 million in an off-market deal to purchase her home in Manhattan Beach in California, where a lot of athletes live. This house looks like a house where Chris Schell got into a fight with someone on Selling Sunset. Yes. I'm not even kidding. Like, I think this might have been the house. Okay, probably. I mean, I mean, these homes, this outdoor fireplace, first of all, this is like, this is like a brutalist nightmare. Yes. It's also, yeah, it's like homes that, to your point. That's exactly right. Like, they're million-dollar listing homes. That show. Yes. Or Selling Sunset. Just like a TV show, expensive home are what these modern houses look like. Yes. A lot of concrete, a lot of glass, a lot of black steel. Yeah. And here's what's interesting about this that I started thinking about, and maybe we can talk about this later, but that, so Luka bought this house because he was traded in the middle of the night, basically, from the Mavericks to the Lakers. And I can imagine, as we've talked about before on this show, that Luka bought this house because it is very jarring to have your entire life uprooted. You need to figure out, where am I going to live? And you have unlimited resources to purchase any home. And maybe for these athletes, these sort of modern homes are the easiest option because they are so generic, and it's almost like, it's almost like a clinical living situation. Like, it's just kind of like, well, this is like my office in some ways. Yeah. And you don't even care if it's just all, I mean, this house is all black. Black accents and cement and a little bit of wood. Barely any, though. I think that there's an element of it where there are no unknowns. Yes. With a house like this. Right. And I think it also looks generically expensive, even if it's not necessarily the most well-built situation. Right. Also something that, there's a McMansionHell.com. Yes. You know that website? Yes. And it's a journalist named. Kate Wagner. She's amazing. And she's mentioned about this style of home, that it's almost, it's hyper-masculine to the point where anything that could be considered feminine, you know, softness, a design, a color, has been completely sucked out of it. And it's almost like tech-bro-y. Yes. Where it fits this idea of the macho male athlete. But also, you know, I mean, Maria Sharapova owned this before. It's not, it's not, it's not about whether you're a man. It's not about whether you're a man or a woman. It's, it's that, almost the intensity of that hyper-masculine aesthetic. No, that's such a great way to put it. Because it is, it's, it's funny, it's like all of these homes, like, we'll go through a couple more examples, but they all, to your point, like, they're all the same. I'm like, are all these designers, like, getting this, going to the same art, contracting school or architecture school to, like, be like, this is the type of house we're only gonna make? Because you do see, we talk about this, like, I, we, and you too, like, we love, we love a historic home. And when they get knocked down, they are oftentimes building these homes. Yes. And I do know, I believe part of the reason it's that it's, like, a cheaper thing to build. Yes. Are these, like, cement, soulless homes. But I'm like, at what cost? Because it's like, this house, Luka Doncic purchased, he spent $25 million on it. Yeah. It's not like it was a cheap, a deal. No. No. It's like, these homes are expensive and it's, I mean, that's the thing that also, I don't know, that just drives me crazy. Yeah. No. I'm with you. I think part of it, just from having watched the amount of Selling Sunset that I have watched, where, when these real estate agents are often working with developers, they will build, it's almost like the lowest common denominator, the least possibly offensive thing to rich people. Right. Where they're like, we're not gonna take any chances, we're not gonna customize this, we are gonna make this appeal to the widest swath of people who can afford to buy a million plus house in cash. Right. Where I think also, there's sometimes, if you have a lot of money, this fear of expressing personality, or like, if you're that rich and you want to blend in with other rich people while you do what other rich people do, it's the way that those compressed flowers, people know those cost a lot of money, people now see these, you know, black and concrete and glass homes and say, well, that's expensive. Yes. You don't have to think too hard about it. No. think too hard about it. I think that's exactly right it's just basically an even more expensive version of displaying your wealth via compressed flower arches that look like cauliflower yes it's true um i'd love to walk through a couple other examples michael jordan's home okay he has a home in jupiter florida which a lot of um famous and rich people live there i think it's like an island jupiter island yeah you know in florida um oh boy he bought a house for 17 million dollars this was in 2024 um and this one if you look at the exterior if you scroll wow it is full cement which again i know that probably in florida that's likely due to like hurricane i don't know they're building like cement homes but you can make cement look fun you can you or stucco i don't know you can also i think a lot of this is um um again i don't think there's a ton of consideration always for the safety of these houses which we'll get into but i i it's it's a mix of aesthetic this looks like something that costs a lot of money in 2024 yes the second photo uh it says the caption is charlotte the one that says the high-end mansion spans 9100 square feet it's of two mirrors and um entryway tables essentially to me it looks like a hotel like these homes are are staged in a way to look like a a hotel like you know it's like not a i don't know a four seasons but they're like trying to be expensive but it's not an addition yeah an addition oh sorry sorry addition but this this whole entryway there it's cavernous and then there's a um exposed balcony on the second floor so it just all looks huge huge like a warehouse but it's a home and i think part of it too i don't know if this has anything to do with it but if you're an athlete buying a huge house you maybe don't have the time to go through or the desire to go through and like pick out furniture that speaks to you so right right maybe some of these houses are pre-staged so that the developers can then make money on selling them all of the furniture too yeah so you can't really put any personality into it because you have to appeal right to a bunch of people so it ends up looking like an addition yeah but then what's funny is like the michael jordan case he's not playing basketball anymore no you know what i mean he he this is just the vibe of the home he wanted exactly for his life and i'm sure michael jordan obviously has many homes so maybe he to your point just energetically doesn't care in the same way these athletes who are currently playing don't care because they're on the road all the time well you know it also makes me think about the idea of a home where to me a home or a place that i want to live is a place that is filled with things that are meaningful to me right that have the photographs of people i love that have art that was passed down and mean something that have this weird little tchotchke that you know came from some flea market a thousand years ago that i went to with so and so you know yeah and and and i personally love a feeling of warmth um and i think it also speaks a little bit to the nature of the amount of different places these athletes live real estate as an investment also where home almost becomes like a place to park yourself or like a personal hotel as opposed to a place where and i'm sure this isn't the case for all athletes and i'm sure there's a primary residence that has those kinds of meaningful touches but i think when you have when you have a lot of money too you start to think well i'm supposed to do things yeah this way it is supposed to look a certain kind of expensive right no i agree i also think the point you bring up about home is really smart and i would also add to it that i wonder for these athletes because in the luca example it's like you your life was uprooted overnight yes that when you're moving to these new places you don't even really want to put down real roots and make your house feel like a home in any way because you know you could potentially get traded yeah at almost any second yeah and that you're also on the road so there's like it's almost like you never get a feeling of being settled in your house totally so why bother yeah and especially in luca donchage's case who is going through all of this upheaval with his family in a custody battle yeah it almost takes on another level of oh okay so where is home where are the people i love what is going on here right exactly um let's move on to some of the other types of homes tuscan tuscan homes tuscan suburban dad's pantry homes yeah yeah yeah great perfect uh first one i want to pull up is kirk cousins uh atlanta falcons quarterback he's still with the coggins no he got didn't he get traded yeah where is he now he's somewhere else now kirk cousins he got traded he is um with the raiders the raiders oh right because it's him and fernanda right right right yes yes anyways when he played for the falcons he purchased this is a cheap house i would say for an athlete a two million dollar house after he had been traded from the vikings to atlanta this was in uh 2024 um and this house like when you look at the photos of the interiors in some ways it kind of reminds me of like my childhood in a smaller scale like you sort of like stone a stone fireplace oh wow you know like the kitchen's like a little outdated with the granite um everything is just like a little bit outdated but it is still a mcmansion yes and you have the um the bronze hood over the uh viking range the kitchen you've got there's a lot of um beveling in the cabinets yep with um sort of brushed metal um poles you've got a lot of stuff in there you've got oh wow the study is maybe my favorite part um although you know what i'll say about these kinds of houses what i would rather live in one of these than a concrete me too hellscape absolutely because like this the the office room here kirk cousins office or whatever this is has um minus the deer head on the wall i don't need that um the ceiling has sort of inlaid wood it's not beautiful but it's interesting there are a lot of wooden cabinetry like at least this home has a point of view yes no it does have yes i agree the bedroom is horrifying it's it is a lot to take in for the eyes it's kind of giant too big and can you like feel the carpet yes i can like feel the texture of the carpet it's a pile wall-to-wall beige yes and i do think that i i wonder like if we had someone who is a real estate agent my mother should she'll sign a volunteer but that if certain sports like if athletes in certain sports are purchasing certain types of homes i think that would be interesting because if i had to guess i feel like football players are more likely to purchase a home that looks like this yeah versus a modern home i don't know why i'm just going off of my gut but it just feels like the type of home a football player would live in well a backup quarterback certainly well certainly certainly certainly um yeah you know i think that it depends on i think it's true sort of about the culture of the sport in some ways if the nba the wmba are sort of more um forward-thinking leagues i would say the nfl of the conservative family values like you gotta have that cabinet you need to have the backsplash that is for some reason like rose quartz the jars that say cookies on them yes and you know a flourish here or there which i which i don't hate um but not want right um and then there's this i guess it in some ways it's like what does this say about you or what do you want to broadcast to people yes when they see where you live um yeah look at venus williams please so venus williams is is interesting because i still would put this in the category of a tuscan home it's in florida also in jupiter jupiter island i believe this one was she spent 10 million dollars on this home in let's see when was this 2019 so i don't know if she still has it but it feels like in some ways uh it's also still has elements of that sort of tuscan it feels a little bit more homey it has kind of a similar fireplace in the living room um it feels bright and open but i would agree this house has wood paneling in the living room i i does feel like it has a little bit more character and a lived-in element even though it is still 10 million dollars in a giant property yeah and even though the roof lines still make no sense that is one thing that all of these homes have in common the roof lines make no sense and i will i have an infrastructure reason as to why um but i think you're yeah this is you know it's so interesting because it's like a sliding scale because then there's the type of house the the type of athlete home in like a nondescript development if you play in like green bay where the house is all white um with black trim and black hardware on the door and you're like oh my god i don't know what to do with this house yeah yeah like that's almost the the new version of the tuscan home yes yes it's like a it's the modern version of it yeah with like a you're the number of the houses in thin font yes no comic sans or anything but just no like thin thin metal raised font thin razor thin um there's an example of this actually i think um if you click on the i've i found this link it's um the nfl football players homes for sale from realtor.com yeah from from 2025 so these homes are probably okay not for sale anymore but you can see um if you go to mike pouncey's home yep oh my that's kind of you know where it's like this is a boxy it's almost the concrete kind but it's not it's just white with black trim everywhere right um oh my god wait it also has a football field next to it i don't know if you see that in the photo well that's crazy oh that's insane so then you really could say that these homes that these athletes live in it's just an office yeah you have your work right there and also a lot of times these are you know they have the place that their family is based right and then they have the place that they had to buy to live because they were traded to whatever team to your point about like you know in the middle of the night right um and i do want to point out though for these athlete homes because they are ginormous i do understand that there is an element of this that in some ways is kind of out of their control in the fact that they are famous they are all famous people and they probably need some level of security like the example we didn't talk about but shohei otani purchased a home in la cañada flintridge which is near where the dodgers play um that he never moved into after his address was leaked and that was a home that i believe was still pretty secure but he just never moved into it and that was kind of a house that like looked more modern it was a little bit nicer but i do think there's an element of this where it's like these athletes like especially the really famous ones like some of these homes that maybe are more historic and interesting are in neighborhoods that are like not equipped to deal with someone that like you know lebron james isn't going to move into a frank lloyd right house right in a random neighborhood as much as i would love that that's probably not going to happen exactly so i am empathetic to the fact that their options are a little bit more limited i do think that the the there is kind of a bang for your buck situation too where a lot of these people want big homes and there aren't as many yes historically beautifully designed homes that are the size that people want now um also i think that when there are those tend to be so expensive and also come with a lot of things you can't do to it due to historic preservations um i would love to see more athletes like building working with really talented architects to build homes where the roof lines make sense but i know i in in researching sort of the history of mcmansions yes um i i learned something which is that in 1993 the median square footage of a new single-family home was 1900 square feet and in 2023 it was 2300 square feet oh my god so that is a huge increase while at the same time the average family size shrank so it's this feeling this very american thing of more is better needing this um also you know the the housing crisis the u.s has not been building enough homes since the housing bubble burst in 2007 2008 so you're caught in kind of this strange area and you're like oh my god i don't know what to do with this i don't know what to do with this i don't know what to do with this i don't know what to do with this i don't know what to do with this of not having enough inventory but then what you have or what does get built is built to be the most economical for these developments um and the reason that the mcmansion kind of started in california in the 80s um and it was supposed to fill the gap between like the the smaller ranch style suburban homes um and then custom homes that cost more to build this was sort of like look you can be a rich person for like a year and a half and then you're like oh my god i don't know less of the cost yeah yeah yeah um but what it often meant to is that they weren't well built yes and i think a lot of these athlete homes it feels like these are places that they have tried to because they're not in a suburban place where like a mcmansion you think is like too big for the plot of land that it's on yeah yeah yeah these athlete homes generally for security have a lot of land um but it's it's just kind of a fascinating thing that they're built cheap to be big and i can't help but wonder with some of these athlete houses are these as sturdy as they look i would love to know i would love to know because i don't want to touch them yes you want to touch them because you look at photos and it's like when you go to an airbnb that they've redone to be modern but then you touch it and something wiggles yeah i'm like i feel like things are wiggling in these houses that shouldn't be yeah and and i think too it's kind of a question also of like what is taste what does taste mean to you what do you deem right um cool i think if i have to think about taste i think i just sort of think personal you want to see something personal to somebody yeah um that to me is the coolest thing whether it's a style of like a 1960s house or something new but you feel oh i understand this yeah can i tell you something about these roof lines though please the uneven ones yes the only reason they're possible is because of an invention called a truss connector plate uh-oh infrastructure also known as a gang plate which is um this very thin piece of metal that's sort of corrugated it has like holes in it it can secure wooden beams at any angle oh so they used to be that you would need to do joinery or you would need to have a certain angle for the nail to hold these plates can just slap them together it can be it can be a wide angle it can be narrow it can be wherever you want it also though this means that a lot of times the houses aren't that safe they are not very safe if there's a fire like the truss is going to be the first thing uh-oh that gives so but that's where you can have these cavernous hotel looking things with like all of these weird lines in the house and you're like how is this even possible and it's because of this one little piece of so they're basically kind of cutting corners for the sake of extending upwards yeah in different directions yeah and they do hold like they're very they're very sure they hold but i think that there are other issues in terms of like sight lines and and and fires and fire safety which is important in a home it is no i uh that is wild thank you for sharing that history lesson on those homes i do think what i think about a lot with these homes in the same way these athlete weddings and proposals are an extension of their public images image and how they're being perceived by their fans and by their peers yeah and oftentimes unfortunately whether they like it or not an article will be written up if they buy one of these houses like it's unfortunate they should they deserve the privacy but the reality is when these big houses sell people are always like well who bought it because someone has to have enough money and so then their people are digging right and they figure out who it is that it feels almost like a status symbol for some of these athletes that they're like the bigger the better the more compressed the better yeah because it shows to the world that we mean business and we got a lot of money to spend and now you can scroll through and look at photos of my house even if i don't post them on instagram you can go on realtor.com or architectural digest or whatever and see photos of my home and see photos of my money in real life it's that's such a great and it says a lot i think about what it means to be an an athlete in this time especially in america we're not analyzing any any homes that are of you know premier league players i think it'll be a different situation still probably very nice but probably not as big just given the size of european homes europe um but i i do think it says a lot about what it means to be a professional athlete in america and also what it means to show off your wealth and what are signals of your wealth and these homes whether you like them or not are signals of your wealth and and i think it also says something about how for most people conforming is the most comforting thing to do because if you're really rich but you have a small little jewel box house that you know maybe you and i would find more appealing than a big one you have to be so secure in yourself to be like i don't need because in america bigger is better in america size is what conveys how you you can have a multi-story penthouse and that tall building on park ave great as opposed to like a really sweet beautiful maybe smaller apartment in a brooklyn neighborhood like i think people when you're in the business of accumulating wealth it's almost like you need something to show for it yeah and and and conforming you look at what everybody else who has the amount of money you do and you what what have they done well i don't want to look like i'm not keeping up with the joneses like it's it becomes no matter what your socioeconomic level um unless you're a very secure person where like artistry means more time you're gonna get caught up in that rat race yeah whether you you know work in marketing or you're the star quarterback for the raiders like it's it's it just happens on different scales athletes are still people right they still professions they are still not immune to what everybody else is doing yes i agree one thing i wonder is in the same way we've seen just thinking about like trends in the world of athletes and the business of being a professional athlete at least in america how many athletes now aren't they started investing in companies there that they started launching their own media companies there's that kind of period i wonder if there will be a trend perhaps with athletes in this time of ai where people are over ai slop you know there's that like ai is just well it's taking over everything guys well i don't know what to i don't have the answers no but it is but you know the conversations around ai there's the backlash and people wanting to make things the the old old school way which is with humans yeah thinking about the apple you know the apple did that intro graphic and they showed the behind the scenes of what it took to make it when they certainly probably could have used ai yes to make that graphic yes but they were like, we want to show that we are hiring real people to do this. That in the same way there has been the trend of the backlash of the AI slop, I wonder if there will be a trend of athletes purchasing homes that maybe are a little bit smaller, but have a little bit more character as a, like, I don't know, a signal maybe of taste, vague taste, but also saying, like, look, I'm different. I'm not conforming to the status quo because I do think about people like Devin Booker, who if you look at his Architectural Digest tour, it is still, like, has for sure elements of these modern Sims-looking home, and it's clearly a new home, but if you look at the interiors, I just think it has a little bit more character. And I do wonder if we're going to see more athletes kind of rejecting the status quo of these McMansion homes, or at least if they're purchasing those, adding more pizzazz and their own personal touch to it. Yeah. As a way to kind of be like, look at me, I'm different. Well, I think it's a great question because it's also, you know, the backlash to minimalism, to Kim Kardashian's 2012 or 2013 house, where there's just nothing in it, and it's all white, and you're like, you have kids? Yes. I think that, obviously, online or among a certain group of people, maximalism is back. I wonder if athletes will follow that trend and, you know, the cynical part of me is like, so many of them are probably investing in AI companies that maybe they're going to keep that aesthetic going, but when that is no longer cool and when the AI bubble inevitably bursts, because I'm sorry, but that's probably going to happen, I would be very interested to track that because I think you're right. I think it could come back to like, oh, uh-oh, being a person is cool again. I don't want my house to look like a robot. Right, and I think it'll be cool to have something rare, like you have a home that has, you know, some historic landmark, or, oh, this fireplace was built by hand. Like, you don't have this in your modern, generic plug-and-play Sims home. Right, right, right. That that could also be a way to show off to your other famous friends. It's also interesting, when you talk about the Sims, I remember just the deep satisfaction I would get from building a huge house in the Sims. Like, so, yeah, I don't want people to think we're sitting up here and being like, we're better than all of them. We would never buy a big house. First of all, we can't afford a house at all. Right. So, that's a big thing. So, that's not a problem. We're millennials. But the idea of watching something, I can imagine, you have money, say you do build your own place, or you, you know, find a developer who's working on something, and you get in before it's finished. You feel like God looking at those plans. Right? You're like, this is gonna be mine. It's your compound. And it's as big as I want it. And you're just clicking and dragging diagonally. Right. Making it bigger and bigger and bigger. And it felt soulless at the same time. It felt powerful. Yes. And it kind of feels like that's what a lot of these houses, that maybe that experience translates over to the physical world. Yeah. No, I think that probably is how they feel. I also wonder if when they have all this money and they need somewhere to put it, I think they're probably also, I could imagine, I have never had $25 million to spend on a home. You haven't? No, never. I've never had that to spend on a home. It's a lovely feeling. No, just kidding. I'm sure it's a great feeling. You're like, oh, yes. Let me tell you. My homes. But I do wonder if there's like almost a feeling, that's overwhelming for these athletes. And they kind of just are like, I need to just buy something because this is so much. I need to like get rid of this money. I don't know. Yes. I don't know how they feel, but it's like here, here, let's cut a check for $25. I just get rid, just please buy this house. Yeah, listen. So I don't have to like think about the money. If your financial advisor is telling you, you got to invest in real estate, you're panicked. Yeah. You're like, well, where and how and why and what? And then you see a house and you're like, sure, it looks like my friends. And then you buy it. Right, right. And I do. I do. I do think that there's an element of where are you spending the most time? If you live somewhere and you have a different home somewhere else, it gets, I don't know. Yeah. But I mean, it's absolutely fascinating. I think, I feel like we should do athlete style now. Yes. I think that may be next. Because I, now that I, now that I think about it with our athlete aesthetic series, flowers, houses, it seems like the next logical thing, all of them are kind of lack personality. And if you look at, the way a lot of athletes dress beautifully, but have recently become so styled that it feels more like about the stylist than about what the person is actually wearing. And I wonder if that's a thread to follow. Oh, I think that's definitely a thread to follow. It almost feels like now you can, because people are so styled that they're almost like, you know, those ads for those subscription services, like Stitch Fix? Yeah, yeah. Where it's like, you can tell that the person is very styled and they like went on Love is Blind and they're just like very styled. Got the same body. Got the same box. Right. That it almost feels like we've kind of gotten to that point with flowers, houses, and I agree, also style. Yeah. It's like two style. Overly stylized style. Right. Because I think about the sort of through line of all this is like, what feels nice and human, I think, is the personal touch. Yeah. Or something slightly different. Or, you know, you and I talk about this privately, but how like so much of personal style is wearing your own clothes. Yep. Multiple times. Right. Not needing something new and how perhaps that is a backlash to this culture of consumption that athletes who have so much money can participate in. Yeah. So just food for thought. Food for thought. So I'm curious what all of our shareholders out there think. Please drop your questions, comments, concerns, thoughts, feedback in the comments and also any athlete houses you like or don't like. Yes. That'd be interesting. And we would also love to be, you know, to see examples of funky ones. Yes. Because- You know, or if you are an athlete and you want to talk about why you either have your more generic looking house or your funkier house, we would love to do, we would love to talk to you. Email us at info at sportsgossipshow.com or send us a little DM at sportsgossip. Put us in touch with your interior designer. Yes. Oh, my dream. 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