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Quick Hits & Collector Fix: The Ultimate 4K Roundup · Brainwaves

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Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to a very special episode of Two
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Shot Tuesday because it is Tuesday and we've got a couple
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of shots and we're here. My name is Jason Riley along
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with my copilot on this exciting adventure, Barry T Nixon.
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Barry, how are you doing? I'm doing great, Jay.
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Good to see you. As always, great to be with our
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audience and man oh man, I tell you, summer may be over
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officially at the time of this recording according to the date,
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but if you step outside in downtown TO baby, you're going
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to feel like it's July the 1st. Really it has been quite an
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amazing day and I was downtown today so I got to enjoy some of
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the nice weather which is terrific.
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Why don't we cheers that up? I think we should do a toast to
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our extended summer. What have you got?
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I think that's a wonderful idea. I'm sticking with the Bushmills
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12 year. I'm telling you right now when
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you sample this whiskey, Jay, you've heard me say it before.
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Yeah, it's. Going to be your new favorite?
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I can't wait. I have got a sober show going on
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today so I've got my lemon squeezy.
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I was able to squeeze in a little workout, so I'm going to
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keep things clean and pure. Respect.
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Respect to you. How's that 12 year hitting you?
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Oh, perfect, Jay. Before we jump in, we were going
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to talk about something last week.
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We forgot to, We mentioned it two weeks ago.
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We've got a little a very special event coming up in
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October. I thought maybe we should let
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our listeners and viewers know about it because we'll be
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breaking it down on the show. Do you want to let them know
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what we're up to on October 17th?
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Well, I believe that's a hell of a tee up.
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I really think you should take this one because you're the one
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who found this event. All I did was simply buy the
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tickets. That was just like, an
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administrative thing. Yeah, but you actually went out
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and found this event. Jay, what are we doing?
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Yeah, last year were served up to me by Instagram and we said,
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oh, maybe next year we'll do this.
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And sure enough, we jumped on it because we got the advance
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tickets, VIP ticket experience to the Whiskey Global Show.
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So this is happening in Toronto, down, down near the exhibition
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where there's going. To be sort of me.
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Yeah, AVIP experience where we're actually be putting
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Blazers on you and I'll be putting Blazers or some type of
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Blazer related professional look.
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It's a cocktail attire, Jay specifically.
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I don't know if I own. It on the ticket itself, yeah.
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What does that mean? We're going to.
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Do it and we're going to go do some whiskey tasting.
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There's going to be food served. There's going to be all manner
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of whiskey. What are they called?
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Purveyors of whiskey is that. Yeah, that sounds right.
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Yeah, yeah, yeah. But don't blow past the sit down
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dinner. I know that we're also getting.
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It's not just like past hors d'oeuvres.
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Not that there's anything wrong with that.
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This is a sit down meal. Jay.
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What have we signed up for? This is incredible.
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We have to make conversation with people on either side of
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us, so presumably we do. We'll be sitting next to each
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other then, unless what if there's cards?
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Then they may but. Then we're switching them.
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We're switching them. So you and I are side by side.
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That's obvious. I'm.
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Terrible at a dinner party. Like I am really bad at a dinner
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party. We touched on small talk last
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episode and I can't make it like I you're going to have to give
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me some conversation starters if I have to talk to somebody on my
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left or right. No problem.
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What should I do? I'll be there.
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I'll be there for you. You know what the best thing is?
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I, I will never let you just be waiting out in the ocean by
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yourself. I will be the buoy that you can
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cling to when things get a little bit stupid.
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And they will, because this is a tasting of hard liquor that
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begins at 7 and goes until whenever.
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So like, who knows what's going to happen?
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I, I, I can guarantee this much. We will make some friends and we
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will get at least a couple of fresh subscribers to our
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channel. That is the purpose of this
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event. It's not just for us to taste
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whiskey and have a sit down meal and dress up like we're fancy
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people, although that could you know, that usually is enough.
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But this there actually is a purpose behind this and it's
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it's about driving some additional subscribers to our
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channel as to what we're doing. It's a it's a drive.
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To work. It's a work effort so we can
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write off at the end of the year.
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And we, yeah. And we are, we may find that we
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work well in a, you know, swanky posh crowd and VIP dinners like
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we potentially could, could roll that way.
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I mean, there's no reason why not.
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I feel like this could very easily feel very comfortable to
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two people like us who appreciate luxury.
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We appreciate good meal and we appreciate fine spirits and
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we're going to get all three at this point.
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Maybe we'll make some new friends that share our love of
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whiskey and conversation. Absolutely.
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We may even find somebody we want to have on the show.
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Who knows? Yeah, and I bet you there's
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going to be other podcasts that are there too, people that do, I
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think so I think there'll be people who do other other
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whiskey centered podcasts or sophisticated event podcasts.
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And we're going to be at the Nexus of this and I think that's
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going to be pretty exciting. Yeah, so that's coming up.
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So we attended on the 17th. We will break that down the very
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next Tuesday. And that episode will get right
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out to you. And we look forward to you
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living this event vicariously through US.
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Yes, of course, because that's what we're here to do.
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We're here to have experiences. Yeah, we absolutely are.
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Speaking of experiences, I just got to shoehorn this in because
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at the time of this recording, this happened mere moments ago
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on my walk home from work. I'm crossing the Bathurst bridge
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you're familiar with. It where the bird attacked you.
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Yes, but guess who I passed this time?
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This is unbelievable. And you're going to think that
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wasn't her. It was her.
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Christina Chong from Star Trek Strange New Worlds, who who
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plays LON Noonian Sing, walked right past me walking.
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Her little dog was one of those little condo dogs.
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It was her. I'm very good with the faces.
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Even though she was wearing sunglasses, she has a very
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distinct look. I was like, that's her.
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And I, I really kind of, I could see her coming towards me and I
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was like, is that her? That is her.
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That is her. Pretty incredible.
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So she lives. I get presumably somewhere in
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the neighborhood while she's working on Strange New Worlds
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for the next two seasons. So they're filming the next two
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seasons together. Is that how that's working?
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I guess it's happening now anyway.
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Season 4. That's correct.
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Yeah, 'cause 3 has just concluded, 4 will be 10
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episodes, and I just found out that the fifth season will be
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shortened. They're only doing 6 episodes
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and they're over. Yeah, they had negotiated either
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doing a feature film or just sort of wrapping it up.
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But apparently the showrunners were like, well, a film is not
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long enough to tie up all the threads we have.
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So they negotiated for a shortened season and they got 6
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episodes out of it. OK, I think that's better for
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them. Why all of a sudden?
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I think so too. Yeah, that would have been
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rushed, would have been like a Star Trek Generations feel,
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although Star Trek The Next Generation wrapped up perfectly,
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so it's not like it was a wrap up, but it did.
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That felt like a bit of a bolt on.
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I think Generations and we can talk about this maybe in another
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show. I think Generations happened
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maybe too quickly after the final episode.
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I don't disagree with you. Yeah, as usually we're we sync
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up on this. So you knew her name?
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Did you look that up recently? I.
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Looked it up immediately, I 'cause I didn't know her name, I
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didn't say anything. I simply walked by and I was
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like holy shit that's I remember her character name but I'm not
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going to yell that like some like fanboy I just I know it was
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her. And you brushed right past her
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like, not across the. Past her?
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No, I brushed right past her. You didn't say I love her.
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I love your love you on the. Show I didn't say anything like
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that. I just, yeah, I just, you know,
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played it cool. But I know it was her, Jay.
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I have a very good eye for faces and that was her.
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You may have the butt. Shorter than I thought she would
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be, if I'm being honest. Really.
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OK, but that's they tend to say that about actors, which is not
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true to me. No, it's all.
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You're in like Randy Quaid in Chevy Chase territory.
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You're a big fellow. Yes, thank you.
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Yeah, All right. Take up a lot of screen which is
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good. Yeah, and you do have a good eye
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for faces, maybe the best of any that I've ever seen.
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That's very kind, you know, You know what?
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Can I ride this compliment directly into our second shot?
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I feel like it's just too good. It's too, it's too nice.
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All right, I'm going to continue on, Jay, with the 12 year that I
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can't wait to introduce you to at a future visit at your place.
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It's Bushmills and yourself. You're sticking with the
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squeezy. I'm in squeezy.
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Beautiful. Cheers.
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And just real quick, you said you got to work out in what was
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your program, just quickly if you want to share that with our
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viewers? I was, I wanted to get in a
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chest, so I guess it was a push day.
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So I was doing some chest work. I did some bench press, incline,
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flat. I did push ups and then I did
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some triceps. Beautiful.
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A little in, little in there on the old bench at home.
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Now for the triceps, were you doing the skull crushers or what
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do you like to do for that? Yeah, that's what it was.
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In that case, it was. Sometimes I'll do the seated.
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I don't know why I'm working the seated with the one dumbbell,
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but this was the skull crushers with the two.
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Yeah, laying down on the bench. Yeah, that's my favorite.
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That's my preferred. Yeah, that's that's where you
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get all three, according to Andre, you know, resident
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trainer, special guest who will be back in January.
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When you're doing that exercise, it allows you to target all
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three heads of the tricep. Now, I didn't know there were
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three heads, but there are exactly it.
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It makes sense. But yeah, yeah.
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So that's a perfect exercise for you to get all three J.
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Yeah, I don't love the one with the single dumbbell because I
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find like, I don't feel like I've got everything.
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Like are the elbows in? Are the elbows out 'cause I got
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long arms. So I find that that gets tricky.
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So I just do it and whatever it is, it is.
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But Skull Crusher, there's no, there's no way to make an error.
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It's just as long as you keep it everything straight, you're
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good. Yeah, well, the one error as you
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could deposit the dumbbell a little too close to the old
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noggin, but that's why you want to aim for the top of the
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shoulder, get it down there and straight up.
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Fantastic. So I got.
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That in beautiful. While we're moving on, this is
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like a quick hits episode, Yeah, and I want to do a quick hit 4K
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corner. Yes.
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I ordered Superman, the steel book edition.
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So we, we reviewed this, the movie on the show with the movie
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guy Rob Peet. So I won't get into the movie
10:15
again. We've got an entire episode
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dedicated to that. But the steel book edition
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ordered from grove.com or grove.ca, which is the Universal
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Studios, Universal Studios official site for ordering DVDs.
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So I, it's, I thought it was like Grove.
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What is that? But I guess UV is Universal
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something maybe. Anyway, I think it's universal.
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Lots of steel books. I shared it with you, lots of
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steel books, good prices and and I can happily say that it
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arrived on time. I actually got it early.
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The release date was third I think, and I got it on the 17th
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and so. Happy to get that.
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Yeah, So I don't want to get anybody a Grove in trouble, but
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thank you for releasing that a bit early for us.
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I've put it in, I'm working through it in stages because I
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did see the movie not all that long ago, but I'm not pausing it
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because it's a chore to get through.
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I'm pausing it because it is a treat to get through and I want
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to enjoy that treat as long as I can.
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So I'm like half hour segments. I'm working my way through.
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I got another half hour to go. The picture, phenomenal.
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The sound, Dolby Atmos phenomenal.
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It's everything you want in a 4K.
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It's a great steel book. The steel book actually has a
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plastic slip case over it. So the slip case is the Fortress
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of Solitude. The doors closed, you slip the
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slip case off. So on the front of the
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steelbook, the doors opening, you see Superman going in.
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You open the steelbook, he's cut.
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You're now inside looking at the door and he's walking towards
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you with crypto. I mean.
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That's attention to detail that I can get.
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Like that. Yes, I completely agree.
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And that's what you get with the steel books.
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You actually get a little bit more of that artistic flair than
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you do with some of the plastic clam shells.
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Yeah. Amazing.
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I love that Jay. So that is great and I will also
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tell you coming to the mini mansion in probably 7 days, I
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think it's released a Nightmare on Elm Street 4K, all 7 movies
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my. God.
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I wasn't expecting. I thought I'd be going one at a
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time. It's not the steel book.
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I can't find the steel book. I can't get the steel book.
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Not on Grove. It's not available on Amazon.
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You. I can.
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Expensive. It's, it's very expensive.
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It's too expensive. You can get it at rough cut,
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which is a a purveyor of sort of, you know, rarer.
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Stolen. Just kidding.
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Stolen DVDs There's no. No, not stolen.
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OK. No, no, no.
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Rarer but I saw that steelbook set, it was like 400 bucks no?
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Way. I won't pay it.
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Yeah. No way.
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Yeah, yeah. Yeah, no versus 129 for all 7 on
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the all 7 perfect. And the only the first three are
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the ones I'm really interested in, which I have the first one,
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so fine what? Are you going to do with the
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first one now? Well, if you'd like it, it can
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go to your home. If you're not ordering all size
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of you, I'd be happy for you to have it.
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It's terrific. I kind of want the first three
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though. I'm with you.
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I know the ones after that are it's the law of diminishing
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returns with these sequels. Like because in the beginning
13:10
like Freddie was kind of sinister, but then at one point,
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I'm not sure when maybe part 4, he started becoming a prankster
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and delivering kind of cheesy 1 liners and.
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Yeah, once he became a popular Halloween costume, I think that
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the kids were getting involved and they had to kind of take it
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back a bit. Yeah.
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You had sent me A Nightmare on Elm Street at a great price from
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Amazon, so I didn't spend a ton of money on it.
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But on your recommendation, I did add it to the family and now
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I'll be repurchasing it as part of the Seven seven set, whatever
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that's what we call collateral damage in what we need to have
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the full and complete set. So I'm looking forward to it.
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Will you Add all 7? I don't know I but I'm with you
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though. Like if you're only one deep in
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A7 movie set, it's not a big deal for you to just be 1 deep.
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That's how I feel about Friday the 13th.
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If they just eventually get to giving us all eight of the
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originals. I mean you and I think did you
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pick up the 1st? Friday no I inherited your yours
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in Blu-ray when you upgrade 4K right?
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Well. You're not going to want that
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anymore, no. I'm sure it's for the for the
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birdcage. Yeah, yeah.
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Exactly, it's for London the dog to chew on or.
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Yes. Anyway, it's I might, I might
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get it. To answer your question, I might
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get the the first seven. I want to see what Black Friday
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has to because I suspect you might be able to get the entire
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thing for like 55 bucks. It'll be a one time.
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We'll see. We'll see.
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If I might cancel my pre-order? No, you should enjoy those
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movies. You wanted them.
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Yeah, it's true. You know the other, your other
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option I was thinking about was you could go because presumably
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they'll come out in individual sets too, like steelbook.
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If you could get a hold of like a two and a three steelbook or
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maybe a re release of 1-2 and three.
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I have those three in steelbook. You might be golden.
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And then I've got the others and I'm happy to lend them to you or
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watch them together. So it's like, it's like we own a
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set and you've got 3 steelbook and I've got the plastic
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clamshell of everything. I think you're really on to
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something here. Let's see if the universe
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delivers. Yeah, for us.
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Yeah, yeah, yeah. Is there anything else in?
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There's one I did want to ask if you'd ever be interested in
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getting. Yeah, and it's sometimes.
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Started that. No, no, I, I guess I should just
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go out with it. Yeah, the.
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They recently released the Sean Connery James Bond in 4K.
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Yeah, I did see that. That also went on to a crazy
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discount. It was like a one night only was
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55 bucks. I didn't buy it.
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Yeah, I didn't buy it because those, the Sean Connery ones
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are. They don't in my opinion.
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It's a little controversial. Yeah.
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They're harder to get through and they don't, they haven't
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aged well really at all. So I think I'm going to skip it.
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I have the into all of the James Bond and Blu-ray.
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I'm happy just to, you know, read if I ever need to, you
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know, revisit. Goldfinger's probably the only
16:02
one I would revisit from the from the Connery days.
16:05
But yeah, I don't know. They're not my favorite ones.
16:07
I, you know, I like other Bonds better than Mr. Connery,
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although that is a maybe a spicy thing to say, but I said it.
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Yeah, I've watched, I think I did a review on the show years
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ago. They were on like one of the
16:20
channels and I was recording them and watching them through
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and they're OK. And, you know, just it's not our
16:25
era. And, you know, there were some
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he they had some interesting choices of characters that they
16:30
had him play. And yeah, I don't, but I don't
16:34
own any of the James Bond. I've always kind of held off as
16:37
I was waiting for a full set or whatever.
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And I never bought it. Something if I don't own it for
16:42
55 bucks. If you ever see that one day
16:44
discount again, I might jump on it and get them at a discount.
16:48
Yeah, grow it that way because it's not.
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I wouldn't mind having them. They're also we're supposed to
16:53
be on Amazon Prime because Amazon Studios bought all the
16:56
rights to the James Bond. But they haven't.
16:58
They come on and off. I think they license them out to
17:00
other groups, so it's hard to kind of even get in a groove and
17:03
watch them. Well, I suspect that there's
17:06
going to be 1 super deluxe everything in 4K.
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It's going to be in like in a sexy James Bond attache case,
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and it's going to be 800 bucks. And that's how you can collect
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them all. Although of course, you would
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not weigh in at that price point.
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You wait for a Black Friday, you might get it for half of that.
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Yeah, 'cause there's like what, 25 of them now, right, 25.
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Yeah, quite a few. Something like that.
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Like they passed that milestone. Well, we're into our final
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minutes, Barry. Like, Can you believe it?
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Time has flown on this show. It's our quick hits episode now.
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It's our. Quick hits, let's do one RIP
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from the headlines. I sent you a bunch a little
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earlier today and let's just pick one at random.
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Let's just have some fun and never, we never go beyond the
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headlines. That's where we thrive.
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Short headline for a short segment.
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How Singapore became obsessed by shade.
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Yeah, it's not just Singapore that's obsessed.
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I think I am also. And you, Sir, the sun is not
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necessarily your friend. I like being in the sun, but I
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also enjoy some good shade. Why is Singapore obsessed with
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shade? Well, it's a tropical island,
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probably that's. Probably.
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If you aren't, then you're going to be in some trouble.
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Yeah. From Mr. Sun I.
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Would And it's getting hotter and yeah, it's but a long summer
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and so they're obsessed by shade and we are on siding with
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Singapore on this one. We are all shade and we.
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Are united with Singapore on this issue.
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Fantastic, that. I think that's all.
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That's the news of the day for sure.
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If we clicked on that headline, there would be nothing more to
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it than that. Yeah, exactly.
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We nailed it. Well, thank you, Jay.
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Thank you audience for being with us again this week.
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We are having a hell of a lot of fun being on YouTube and you
18:43
know, being visible for the first time in a, you know, since
18:47
the inception of the show, which is now going on over 4 years.
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So we appreciate you being with us each and every week.
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And we'll be back next week. I will tease something very
18:55
quickly at the time of this recording, the movie guy, Rob
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Pizza, and I will be going to see the new Paul Thomas Anderson
19:00
film 1 Battle after another, and we will be bringing you our
19:04
thoughts on that in IMAX. That's going to be coming up
19:08
soon, probably in a week's time. Stick around.
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And I can't wait. This movie is getting insanely
19:15
good reviews, Jay, and I can't wait for it because Paul Thomas
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Anderson, I was looking at his list of films.
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He's not made anything even approaching a Rotten rating.
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Not even close. So for a guy who's made 10
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movies, each one just keeps getting better, one battle after
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another. We'll be back to talk about
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that. I can't wait to hear about it.
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The only correction I got to make is you said four years,
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Barry. We're coming up to the end of
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five fully on this show and Season 6 has come is just around
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the corner just to let you. Mind blown.
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