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Battle With The Blue Jay · Nick and Kristen in the Podcast

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Hello and welcome to Nick and Kristen in the podcast.
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I'm Nick. That's Kristen.
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This is the podcast and we'll get into our sponsor a little
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bit later. Yes, I'll try to remember to do
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that. Not at the end of the video this
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time somewhere in the middle, but.
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Money's on the line, Nick. Remember.
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I know and I tried to talk him out of it and he kept insisting
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because he he messaged me yesterday and he's like, hey,
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thanks. So the plug sounds great.
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And you guys, you guys did a good job.
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I was like she. He laughed.
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Because you called it pity money.
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It's pity money. And he's saying he he took it as
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like, I know it's not a lot, but I'm doing the best I.
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Can oh. No, I was like no, no, no, no
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pity because you shouldn't be spending the money.
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At all. It's pity because look what
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you're spending it on. You're you're spending it
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because you feel so bad. For us.
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And so I was like. You're so kind for doing.
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That I was like, thank you. Like, don't do it again.
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You don't have to. It's like, Nope, every two weeks
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we're paying for sponsorship. I was like, fine, fine, you want
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to be a part of this? And he's like, darn right.
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Fine if you want to burn your money in a pile.
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Like you could go to buy hats or shirts or stickers for children,
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like anything. But he's chosen us, so now we
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can't. We have to deliver.
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So what I'm hearing is if the phone rings in the middle of the
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night, yes, you're going to go do favors.
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I'm going to have to play basketball at this point if he
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needs me to get on the court dressed as bandits.
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Nobody needs. That then I will go out there
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dressed as the bandit. He is hiring for the mascot.
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I know and I saw that and I was like.
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How did you not apply for this? Because.
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You are broke. I just don't.
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I just don't. Well, you're too good.
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Unless I'm not too good for it. I just don't think I'd be a
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great mascot, and mascots are athletic.
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Enthusiasts. Have enthusiasm and I guess I
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could behind a mask maybe. Unless you want to go the other
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way where bandits like a fat old like.
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Rack. I mean it's called the trash.
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Pandas, this is like, man, I don't know, man, what's that
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like I could do? I could do that if you want that
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personality with Bandit. I'm in Brandon, if you want your
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mascot to take his head off halfway through the game and
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take out its phone and start playing on it, like let us know
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'cause that offer is on the. Table.
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Look at all the crazy mascots they have out there.
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They don't have a lazy one. It's true.
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I'm here all right, but today we are going to talk about a
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different kind of animal, not necessarily a raccoon, but it
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it's not a blue Jay, but it looks like a blue Jay.
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It's like a black horn Bluebird. It's it's weird, but here's the
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the picture of it. So we have our bird feeder that
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we talked about it and it's a clear one that we put on our
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window and all we've been getting is bummer ass finches.
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Well, yeah, Nick is upset because we beginning song
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sparrows. They're the most annoying sound
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now. They grate on my nerves because
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they have a very distinct whistle.
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If you're from the Pacific Northwest, you're like, so
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they're just brown little birds. And then the males have a
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redhead and you're like. Oh, I hadn't seen the male
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before, and there's some redheaded males that come in and
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I'm like, hey, this is a pretty. Bird.
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If I was the brown bird, yeah. I'd be all.
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Into that head. I'd give it to you.
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So yeah, like it's been kind of boring.
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And Nick's been like, where's all the tropical birds?
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I'm like, hey, guess what, It's summertime in or in Washington.
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Like, I don't know what you think you're going to see.
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No more commas are going to fly out of the.
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Sky but there's so many pretty birds around here like there's
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the black headed chickadee, which is a cool bird.
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There's the the state bird, which is a yellow Finch.
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He's bright yellow like I I want you to have some birds.
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See Doc Yeah, none of that's happening.
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And then the other day I saw this black, this hornbill blue
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Jay. It's like a blue Jay.
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It's like. It's a blue.
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We're going all in a yeah, all the bird enthusiasts can get
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mad. But like, this blue Jay popped
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on. He's bigger than the actual
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house. And he was in there like
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picking. I was like, oh, blue Jay.
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I know. And then I saw him again today
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and he was in there just being a Dick.
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So here's here's a video. I got him up.
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I was like, oh. Look it.
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Oh, nice little Bluebird. What a beautiful.
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Boy. Oh, he's sticking.
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What are you doing? Kind of making a mess.
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It's. A bit aggressive, Yeah, maybe.
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Maybe calm down a little bit. No, he's probably doing an
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accident. Oh no.
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What are you? Doing.
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Bro, that's all the bird. See hey.
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What are you looking for man? He looks like.
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Look, he's not even eating, he's just being a menace.
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He's a picky eater. He's like, I don't see, no, he's
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maybe he's raging. He's like, where are my damn?
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Peanuts. I know.
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Well, I think they eat peanuts is what I've seen.
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And it's like, bro, like you don't see any peanuts.
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Move on. Oh, he took, he took a
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sunflower. Something and I was like, first
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of all we have someone that's allergic to peanuts in his
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house. You're not getting any peanuts.
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Maybe you get an almond Bluebird.
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But yeah, he just knocked all the seed on the ground and we
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just filled it up. We.
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Just filled it up. Like I've been noticing that
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I've been having a fill up the bird feeder a lot more lately
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and I was like, what's going on? Like this feels like a lot of
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bird see that we're going through.
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I mean, I got like a £50 thing from Costco two years ago.
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So now we're finally using it, but yeah, it's like I'm filling
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it up and filling it up and then like 2 days later it's like
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almost empty. And I'm like, this used to last
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like a week and now I know why because there's all this bird
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seed on the ground and I'm just like, man, dude, you're a jerk.
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This blue Jay just chucking stuff around, looking for stuff.
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So I I mean, it's bringing bird now the birds are on the ground
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picking it up like they're it's not going to waste.
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But now I don't get to see any birds in my my little.
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I know, and now I got to fill it back up and see.
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Yeah. And I don't know how to detract
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the Blue Jay from getting in there, but yeah.
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So it's something for the the people that are doing our fence
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to watch and hopefully scare away this guy.
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Somebody our neighbor is having some friends over and they're
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redoing his side of the fence. Yeah.
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But he's giving. Us, which is our side of the
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Yeah, he's. Giving us the pretty side, yeah.
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Because before we had the back end and he's like and we're now
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getting the face of the fence. So it's like.
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Why is he doing? That I don't well, it's easier
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because the so I thought that they were going to take down the
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fence and build a new fence. What they're doing is using the
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same kind of base and then hammering the fence to the other
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fence and then once it's up, they're going to take down the
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other side and so that it looks like a brand new fence.
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I was genius and then I was like.
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I could do that. Is that affecting the our
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property line? No, it's the same because the
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the fence is the same width. You know what I mean?
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Like he's giving up the same width that he's giving us.
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I know. But I thought because we saw the
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bones of the fence that like we owned like that quarter inch or
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whatever that is. So now is he taking that?
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I'm guessing but I don't know if.
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It's why would he give us the pretty side?
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Like, well, because it's easier that way because he doesn't have
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to rebuild the fence because this way he's using the middle
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bits. And so he's just kind of
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hammering the fence to the parts that are already like to the
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bones that are already there, and then just taking down the
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ugly side on his side. So it's all pretty again, and
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then he's going to stain it. And so I was like, well, that's
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a really cool way to do that. And we have another fence on the
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other side that I'm now I'm investing.
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So you're learning. I'm watching and going OK I, I
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are. You out there helping at all?
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No, I tried to help but they seem they're in their own like
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world. They.
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Got their thing. You're going to be a.
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Hassle I came out with like lemonade.
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I was like hi boys, his. Shirt was tied around his and he
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was like yoohoo. Yoohoo boys, you guys look so
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thirsty. Would you like you guys were
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working up a sweat? I ordered them pizza.
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I went and I took out some cash and I want to give him
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something. It was like we're going to give
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him a gift card. I was like, I just give him
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cash. Everybody's cash and I they took
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a break for the day. I don't know if it was because.
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Of the like, he comes out, he's has pizza and money and he's
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like, oh God, I'll be back like tomorrow, whatever.
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But like the neighbor came to the door a couple days ago and
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was this like, Hey, I have friends that are going to be
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doing this for me as like a favor.
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He's like, I owe the I, I told them I'll owe them a really nice
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dinner. And so I was like, well, how
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about if we owe them a really nice dessert?
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So that way. And he was like, oh, that would
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be really nice thing because it's like, this is a really
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expensive project. He bought all the wood and
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everything. It's crazy that he he did this
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so. I think he also kind of, I think
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it's a part of it's a pity fence.
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You know this. Point you can't be like so
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that'll be two grand he's. Just trying to get out of the
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house. No, he's he's just trying to
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move. And he did drop, I don't know if
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you heard this, but like he dropped like, oh, the house is
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paid off so blah blah blah. And I was like, you have a paid
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off house because I asked in this economy.
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I know because I asked him how much he's selling it for and so
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if he's paid it off, he's getting some.
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Bank, it's over 500. Is it over 600?
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So it's like, but that's what he's putting it out for.
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We'll see if it doesn't mean you're going to get it.
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The house down the street was a bit smaller and sold immediately
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so. Like I keep hearing it's a
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terrible housing. Yeah, but I guess our
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neighborhood's really in in demand right now.
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I know. But like, not our house.
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It might be we have to put a new fence up or fix it or whatever,
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but he's got some left to move. And he was like, I'm just tired.
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I'm calling Angie's list and to like come have some people.
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So I offered to help him tomorrow.
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OK so tomorrow after the kid goes to school I'm going to help
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him unload his garage and like load.
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That's nice. That's.
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Nice. And I texted Polly and I was
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like, hey, you wanna come help me?
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We can get the boys back together and get a couple of old
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guys to move some stuff around. So he's gonna text me.
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I think he's gonna ignore. Me, for the record, I'm not
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gonna help move. I know you are.
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That's why I called Polly. So I was like, I'll buy you
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dinner or I'll buy you lunch. We've got some.
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Cold pizza that we were going to give to the guys the day before
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we can reheat it for. You so a couple of old guys
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moving some stuff tomorrow we'll see how it goes but nice of you.
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But because you know he built this it's like a $10,000 fit.
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It's like the woods really nice. He's staining so it's like it's
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the least I can do is try to. We need to get a new door.
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He's building the door. He's for us.
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Yeah, he's making a door for us, so that whole line looks good.
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I know. What a nice guy.
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So I was like, if I have to send my wife over, if you're into
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that look, I mean. I got to do what I got to do.
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If you can do the other side, do you?
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Have any extra wood? I'll probably use it on the
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other fence. Exactly.
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He's. Super nice.
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Now I'll tell you about scientists and ask you a very
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important question. Yeah, Would you eat sourdough
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bread made from the yeast found inside of a frozen mummy that's
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5000 years old? I.
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Mean, I think you got to at that point.
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I thought the same. Thing I.
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Think you have? To I was.
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Like you have. To right, somebody offered you
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that you're not going to be like, I'll give it to the bird.
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Like, do you know how much effort went into that, right?
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Scientists discovered yeast that have been growing in the guts of
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a frozen mummy called Oatsy the Iceman for thousands of years.
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So they decided to make sourdough bread out of the
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yeast. He's a microbiologist.
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Initially it didn't work, but after three months of effort, we
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had a very, very good sourdough, which means they tried it after
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making it and then they're thinking about making a beer
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with it next. Why not?
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Yeah. I mean, what are you going to
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do? Like it's not want not.
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It's, it's fascinating because I had to look more into it.
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And so this body's been frozen for 5000 years.
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The guy was shot in the back 5000 years ago with an arrow and
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then like froze in the tundra and his body was perfectly
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preserved. The old arrow in the back.
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Shooting, I know. Of drive by shooting slept.
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With somebody's wife, I'm sure. Pow pow didn't.
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And so they found like the, although frozen, the stuff in
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the microorganisms lived. Yeah.
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And so they've been like. Cultivating.
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Yeah, and they've been making this.
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Ye, and I'm like, gross that that was your first thought, but
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also kind of cool. Yeah, that you were able to do
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it. Like science is amazing, right?
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So I mean, it's weird that that that they jumped to that
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conclusion. Like we should make some bread.
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Yeah. Like but.
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Yeah, you know, I. Mean what else are you going to
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do with yeast? I'm sure they said they're doing
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actual tests with it. They're like we're doing other
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stuff. I'm.
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Sure, they didn't waste all of it, right?
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Like. But yeah, there's a new line of
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bread coming. Otzie the bread.
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I mean, you have to try it. You have to try it at that
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point. I by the way, I've been I've
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been wanting to make sourdough bread for forever because I.
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Heard. I've heard it's a pain in the
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butt to get started and they're like you need a starter and I
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ran into a person they're like oh you could have some of my
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starter. I was like Oh my God, amazing.
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Here's my e-mail. Never heard I was.
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Again, I was there for that conversation.
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It was the weirdest conversation.
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It's the people, because it was a couple months ago that
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sourdough was like the new hot thing.
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Everyone was baking their own little yeast monster, whatever
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the hell it was inside their kitchens and someone offered you
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a piece of their yeast monster. And they're like.
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It's good it's been made with fresh ingredients.
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I was like sold whatever and like never got the e-mail.
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Yeah, they they ignored you. They're like, I'm not actually
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going to give you my yeast monster.
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Because they were like, I'll come over, I'll teach you how to
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do it. I was like, this sounds amazing.
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I've always wanted to do it. Yes to all of this.
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It's like, here's my e-mail. Can't wait to hear from you.
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Crickets. I was like, wow.
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Like you could. You didn't have to go all in.
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You didn't have to say, I'll come over and I'll teach you.
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Like you could just be like, yeah, I know.
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Sourdough's hard. You know what I mean?
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Like you. Didn't have to offer.
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It's true. Yeah, I even checked my spam.
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Do you have any friends that have any yeast now?
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Or, well, I have a friend, but she's in West Virginia.
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Oh, that's right. Yeah, she.
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I think she gave up can. It I was like, can it travel?
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I can, but lived. Inside of a mummy for.
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Five points. I don't know if I trust it
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because she's, she's been struggling with it for a long
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time because it like it's either good or bad, right.
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And so it's like, yeah. But the problem at the end of it
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is you get sourdough bread. I don't really like sourdough
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rough, So what is wrong? Come with you, It's fine.
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It's the San Francisco treat. Well, think unless it's a bowl
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with with the with the clam. Chowder in it.
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You can put your Campbells in it.
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I know. That's what most restaurants are
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serving anyway. It's true.
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All right, thank you for watching.
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We're I guess we're getting gear soon, so that's awesome.
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What like for us? Yeah, we're gonna hat and
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shirts, so I know he's all going all out.
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He's really invested in this thing.
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Boy, the ROI is so disappointed. Every day I sit down and go, Are
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we still? Are we still doing this?
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That's how I feel. I come home from a day of work.
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I'm on this like can I just rest for a second?
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Yeah, it's like we got to keep it going.
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It's like it's the only thing I got in my life that I'm looking
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forward to now. So thanks for watching.