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Children of the Corn… Maze · Brainwaves

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Welcome once again to another exciting episode of Two Shot
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Tuesday. My name as always Jason Riley
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and my copilot on this exciting journey, Barry T Nixon Two Shot
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Tuesday, the podcast you can and should listen to on your break.
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Barry, how are you doing today? I'm doing wonderful, Jay, and
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very well put. That's exactly what people
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should do. We're in and out in 17 to 19
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minutes. It's kind of perfect.
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It really is perfect. And we have a format on the
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show. We have topics that we cover
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interspersed among two shots of our favorite liquid of the
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moment. And why don't we get into shot
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#1 to kick off our format. What have you got?
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I have some more Bareface whiskey Canadian made from our
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new friends we met at Whiskey Global some time ago.
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Delicious Jay, I love it. What have you got?
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Fantastic Barry, I'm joining you on this adventure because I
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picked up a bottle myself at my local bareface, so we are
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cheering it up. We both really enjoyed this.
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Cheers to you. Oh, all the notes.
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Is there some Maple syrup in that?
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I get a Maple syrup note. Yeah, wow.
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I feel like, yes, that you were up here for a second.
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You were right. In my own way.
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It's it's incredible. Yeah.
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A little bit of a little bit of syrup, but now it's gone.
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But it was just now it's gone. Fleeting moment of syrup.
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Like pancakes? I had some pancakes with some
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wonderful Maple syrup, all in shot form.
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Barry, you did something really exciting this past weekend.
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Yeah. You know it.
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It's been a weekend of dates with my missus and it's been a
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lot of fun. She is a wonderful partner to go
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through time with. We always have a great
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adventure, no matter what it is we're doing.
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Today we went out near Uxbridge, which is Craig Zavitt's country,
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and we went, yeah, we went to CSA Farm and Corn Maze.
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Now you might say, OK, that's an interesting choice to go through
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a corn maze. You know, you, you're a grown
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ass man. Yes, that's very true.
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Yeah. But I'm also open to things.
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As you know, Jay, I like to say yes to things.
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So my wife, she came up with the idea and it was quite an
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adventure, beginning with the drive.
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Trying to get out of our fair city, as we know, can be a bit
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of a pain, but. Let's let's take our listeners
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through and viewers through all of this because I know that
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we're going to want to go through every minute with you.
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So it's Sunday when you do this and that you're getting out of
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the city. I want to hear about that.
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Was that a maze? Felt like a maze, Jay.
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There was some Rd. closures, as they often are in our fair town.
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So there was some diversion, some detours.
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But eventually we got to the four O 4 where things started to
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open up. And that's when I was able to
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let my car off the chain a little bit, as you know, I do
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like to do. And the next thing you know,
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we're in no man's land bridge. Yeah, like it was just farms
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and, you know, rows of corn for as far as the eye could see.
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It felt kind of otherworldly, if I may.
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You could have walked through anywhere and it would have been
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a corn maze at that point. You didn't have to go to the
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official 1. You could have just picked,
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pulled over to the side of the road, picked some rows of corn
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and stomped on through. But you didn't.
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You went to the official sanctioned.
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Corn. I went to the ticketed event.
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Yes, Jay. Yeah.
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This was something that Linda and I had to, we bought tickets
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for in advance and we actually have to pick a time slot as
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well, which is interesting. 12:30 it was only two options,
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12:30 or three in the afternoon. Three kind of blows your whole
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day, but 12/30 was where you know what we landed on.
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It was perfect and it was an absolutely gorgeous crisp, sunny
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day, which was perfect for wandering around, you know, a a
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cornfield. Now, I would have thought it
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would have been like a golf tee time, like every like maybe 10
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minutes somebody new enters the main, but it's not.
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Is it groups of people at 12:30 and then another group at one
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and a group at 2? How did that work?
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Well, this is what we learned. I feel like it's a bit of a
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sliding scale. There was no group.
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There was no discernible, you know, starting time.
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There was nobody like saying wait until, you know, the clock
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actually rolls over to 1230 before we turn you loose in the
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maze. It was a little more farm like
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in that way, which is a little more loose.
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Although, I guess farms, if they're well run, you're up at
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six, you're milking the cows, You know what I mean?
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You have a schedule. This was not that.
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This felt a little a lot more loose.
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And it was great. We just got there and we did
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what you and I like to do, Jay, often is breeze into a place.
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Yeah. Well, we do like that.
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But just breezing in, I like that.
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Yeah, I like that too. For Ken, less setting is kind of
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what you want. That's your VIP experience.
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So you're saying everybody at the corn maze got the VIP
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experience essentially breeze on through, so you wander into the
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maze. Was there other people going
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into the maze at the same time? Yes, there were.
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And it was kind of like there were some families there, but
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there were also people like Linda and I like who were just
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there on a date, you know? So it was kind of cool.
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You didn't necessarily have to have a kid with you.
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Yeah. So that was kind of great.
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How long does it take to get from beginning to the end of the
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maze? Well, let's see, we made a.
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There were a few, a handful of wrong turns.
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Really, it's a maze. It's a maze, right?
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But I, I kind of, you know, I, I thought, I thought I knew where
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I was going. And of course, eventually, you
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know, and then when I gave the brain back to Linda, we found
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our way out of the maze in like not very long after I had kind
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of backtracked this, there was a, there was a section where I
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was like, we've been down this corridor before.
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And it was kind of like, I had that feeling like you're kind of
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like literally just going in a circle.
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And so I was like, oh, shit. And then Linda's like, OK, let's
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try this way. So we did, we got back on track,
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but it was fun the whole time. Like you, it truly is just a
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walk. You know, you're not, there's no
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race. There's no like time to
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complete, but you do get a reward upon completion, no
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matter how long it takes. You get to select a pumpkin from
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the patch of your choice, which we didn't realize was built into
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the cost. Then there then as we were like
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checking in the guys like, well, if you want an extra pumpkin,
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it's only a dollar. I was like, wow, I mean, that's
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the deal. We didn't get the extra pumpkin,
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but we got like a small condo sized appropriate pumpkin that
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you know, had the the proper bottom 'cause you know, you, you
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need one that's that kind of sits straight.
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Yeah, of course that's. You have to, right?
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Otherwise, what are we doing here?
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Yeah, exactly. So you've got get your pumpkin.
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You got through the maze in a reasonable time.
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Reasonable. You're dressed obviously for it.
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You wore this outfit to the pumpkin or to the corn maze,
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right? I did, yeah.
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And I could have just blended right in with the corn and just
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scared the shit out of people as they were coming around corners.
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But I didn't. You know, I'm a little maybe a
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touch old for that, but. Terrifying man in the maze is.
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Yeah, exactly. Yeah, totally.
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Yeah. Kidnapper, whatever would be,
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would be a label slapped on me. So no, that that didn't happen.
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But what did happen is we finished the maze.
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We went into the store. Of course you got to.
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They had all kinds of stuff, you know, you would have loved it.
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They had brownies. They had a variety of different
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jams and syrups and things on offer.
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I did not. I did not.
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We had AI had a coffee and Linda had a hot apple cider that was
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that was kind of like our sit down, you know, 5 minute reward
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at the end of the completion of the maze.
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But they did have a bunch of meats and stuff.
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So I was kind of tempted by that.
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They had some steaks and stuff and I was like, is today the day
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for that? And I was like, wow.
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To buy home, maybe not bring home and cook.
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At home? Exactly.
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But then I remembered I have a factory delivery waiting for me
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at home, so I was like, well, the cooking.
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I got mine. You did today.
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I I'm back I I took like 3 or 4 weeks off and I was like I would
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love a factor delivery for this week.
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So I got mine today as well. Beautiful.
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And what do you share with our viewers?
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Some of the highlights of your package, Yeah. 3 white meats, 3
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red meats. So I got the always popular
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mozzarella burger, one of my favorites.
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I got. Two of the chicken, honey
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mustard chicken, one of my favorites as well.
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Those are great. I'm trying it another chicken.
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I forget what it is. It might be an apricot type
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chicken. Yeah, that's a good some kind of
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sauce. Yeah, I'm trying that.
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There's a steak where the steak is cut up into bits.
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So it's a steak, something that I'm trying.
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Steak bites. Steak bites.
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Yeah. And something else that's also
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in the red meat family. It's like a steak something.
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So I'm looking forward to my factor meals.
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So interesting. You've got yours coming today
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too, or have has already arrived maybe?
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Has already arrived, just need to be picked up, yeah.
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Yeah, great. So this is exciting the the
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maze. How would you rate the maze?
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Let's do it on a star rating like we do with movies.
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In terms of just difficulty to complete or just fun, enjoy
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being in there enjoyment, I'd say it's like a yeah.
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It was a 5 out of five. I enjoyed everything about it.
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It it was nice. The path wasn't, you know,
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muddy. Thankfully we've, you know, had
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some dryness in the air so there was no sliding around or making
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a mess of yourself. That's key.
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Yeah, because you never know with these farms, you know, you
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turn up and God, no, God knows what good, what condition
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they're in. You know what I mean?
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No one's checking. No.
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Anyway, that this one was well, well manicured and, and, and
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looked after. And there was some like kind of
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eerily, I, I guess they did this purposefully, but they left some
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corn unharvested and it was starting to rot.
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And so that kind of added to the sort of the eerie, you know, 10
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acre corn maze adventure. Yeah.
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That's what it was, 10 acres. It spread over 10 acres, but it
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was split up into a couple of different, like a more difficult
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version and then like a smaller version.
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What did you do? Well, I don't know.
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I think we kind of did all of it to like we, we didn't come out
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the same way we went in. So presumably we crossed over
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into the more difficult maze without even knowing it.
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That's the thing. Like there was no signage when I
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said it was loose, that's what I mean.
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It was. Got it.
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There was not. Yeah, Yeah, it was.
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They did have some hints, but the hints were indecipherable.
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That's just the Lyndon. I were just like, we just got
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to, we can kind of see where we need to be because it's not like
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the stocks were 15 feet high, right.
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So they were, you could, they were parts of the maze that were
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kind of elevated a little bit because it is like it's
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farmland. Yeah.
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It's all like perfectly flattened and, you know, doesn't
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feel like an NFL, you know, Astroturf or whatever it was.
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It was some lumps and whatever. So you can kind of see where
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you're going as you get up into the higher parts of the maze.
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Did they give you like sometimes a mazes?
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They give you those little sticks you can show if you're
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lost. They didn't do anything like
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that. No.
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So there might be people wandering that maze for months.
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You don't know I. Mean you didn't run.
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Into any people that would look like they were living in it.
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All like emaciated and hadn't eaten in a long time and.
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Just like really. Plus a corn.
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Yeah, Yeah, I guess not. If there was corn rotting, they
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obviously because they would have eaten it if they were maze
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dwellers. Yeah, totally.
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And if you're that desperate, yeah, Yeah.
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No, we didn't come across anything like that, thankfully,
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nor did we see, you know, any demonic children within the
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corn. It was perfectly good.
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I want to talk about that. I want to talk about that.
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Now that you've gotten through the maze adventure, this is
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going to lend itself to what I'd like to touch on maze related
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Maze didn't do. You want to get our second shot
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in the four? Yes, yes, there's a format.
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So I I will bring as our second shot more of the bare face
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goodness. We're on the same page once
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again, Jay Bareface. Yeah, yeah, Maple syrup.
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That's what I'm getting. Even if it's not there, I feel
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it. I do too.
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Now. I don't know whether that is you
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hypnotizing me or whether it is actually true.
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I'm going to look at it. I'm going to look at it and
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we'll see what we got. OK, Maze themed.
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When you told me you were going to the maze, which was just the
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day before, I immediately said is this going to be like The
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Shining? This is going to be like
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Children of the Corn. So I do want to touch on some
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maze themed movies, TV shows, events or anything we talk
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about. I think The Shining is a good
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one to touch on because it's a classic and I believe you've
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added that to your 4K collection.
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Is that true or untrue? I have yes.
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Recently I got the Warner Vault collection.
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How would you describe that? Have you watched it yet?
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I have it's. It looks incredible.
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It is slightly zoomed in. What?
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Yeah, Why did they do that? I don't know, But apparently
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this, that was, according to some things I've read online,
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that that was what Stanley Kubrick approved.
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However, he's long since been deceased, so I don't know who's
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approving. It may be in his name because as
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you may remember, like it was always known for really wide
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shots, like almost everything, even close-ups were wide.
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You can see, you know, But now it's, it's and now I, I don't
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want to give you the impression they get zoomed in the way you
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and I are zoomed in. It's not that.
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No, it's like no. It's not that it's ever so
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slightly zoomed in, but it is enough that you notice it.
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Are they trying to take away the letterbox?
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Is that what they're trying to do is go from a 16 by 9 to a
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what is it 4 by three or something?
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Well, four by three would be the square.
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Like what what you and I are looking at?
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What's the what's the little bit zoomed in where it's like TV
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size but not 16? BY9168 or something like that.
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Yeah. There you go.
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Or 8 I believe. Something I don't know,
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Letterbox. Anyway, 16 by 9?
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I think that sounds right. Anyway, it's just ever so
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slightly zoomed in. This is not a criticism.
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I didn't find it distracting at all.
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I thought it was actually better.
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You get to see like when Jack is having his interview at the
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Overlook Hotel, you can kind of see more of what's on the desk
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of the guy who who's doing the interview.
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On the desk. That's what I'm imagining on his
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hand writing in. Just his name plate.
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It's like, it's like front and center.
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Anyway, I thought it was great. It looked great.
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Now, of course, while I was in the maze, I couldn't help but do
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the Jack Nicholson limp. As I was going through the maze,
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I couldn't help it. And then just say, you know,
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Danny, you can't get away. I'm right behind you.
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I couldn't, I couldn't resist. Linda thought that was funny
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one. Of course, after four times,
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it's not one of those jokes you want to keep going back to.
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So no. Yeah, but I will say this as a
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reader of the book and as a watcher as well of the, I think
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it was the 90s miniseries on ABC.
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Right, with the guy from Wings. That's Jack Torrance.
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Yeah. Yeah, in the original novel
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there was no maze. Did you know that?
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Yeah, they were like animals, hedge.
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Animals hedge. Animals.
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Yeah. So they went back to that for.
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So the maze was brought in by Stanley Kubrick.
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And I got to say I mean as I'm a purist of reading Stephen King
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novels, but that maze works in the context of the movie that
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they made. Totally right.
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Stephen King currently hated the movie that we made.
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Yeah, yeah, yeah. So.
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Let's also jump to while we're talking about Stephen King and
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mazes and corn, we got to go to Children of the Corn, another
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Stephen King book. Yep.
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Was it Stephen King? Yeah, another Stephen King book
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made into a movie. You didn't see Isaac in the maze
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Malachi? Didn't see any of those guys.
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Didn't see Linda Hamilton, unfortunately.
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She was in that movie. Yeah, she was in it.
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I forgot. She's the star of the film and
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then this other guy who was like, I think he's popped up in
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a few other 80s things, but I can't think of his name,
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unfortunately. I used to watch that movie so
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many times. I had that recorded off of HBO.
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As a child, yeah. What was it that you liked so
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much about? It I just think I liked the
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movie. It was just sort of creepy and
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it was kids and I was a kid and it was kind of like, yeah, kids
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kind of taking over this town. I don't even remember all of it.
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Well, they murdered all the adults.
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So yeah, that'll happen. Yes, they did that.
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And then and then the corn and it was, it was just like as a
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kid being creepy. I don't think I'd be creeped out
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by it now so much. Have you seen it recently 'cause
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I watched it maybe inside of 10 years ago and it's it's OK.
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I have it on Blu-ray, but I this not one that I've thought yet to
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to upgrade to 4K, but there is a 4K version out there if you
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really we're so inclined, yeah. No, I haven't watched it.
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It also spawned all of these sequels that I know nothing
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about. Like have you?
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Either I've never watched them. No, I have not.
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Straight to video. Sequels, I believe.
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Yeah, I think you're right. I think one, the first one kind
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of hit all the notes. I'm not sure how much more you
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need, you know. Was I think was Isaac in all of
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the sequels. Or I think so.
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Yeah, I think so, yeah. I think him and although did
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Malachi get killed he was the redhead.
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Yeah, I feel like he did. I'm not sure if he did, but I
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feel like he might have. No.
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Well, you can circle back on that.
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Yeah, So anyway, that's Children of the Corn.
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But I really was impressed. I was.
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That movie really sucked me and I've never read the Stephen King
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story about it. That's unusual because you are
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definitely the reader of this show.
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Yeah. I'll get right on it.
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Let me get my reading glasses out and start checking it out.
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So those are two maze related things that I wanted to talk
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about. Anything relate to mazes or
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spectacles in any fashion on your side.
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Well, I, I don't know. There was a movie called The
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Maze Runner, which I never saw. It was kind of weird for younger
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people, but I don't think it really caught on, made the maze
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craze, didn't catch on, I think. No.
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You know, the most iconic would be the the maze from The
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Shining. I think that's the one that most
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people know. Yeah.
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But aside from that, I'd be labyrinth, of course.
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Course. Yeah, that's amazing.
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I added that in 4K. You did.
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And yeah. Great it was.
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Looks amazing. Jennifer Connelly's in it.
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Yeah, David Bowie. David Bowie, Fantastic.
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In the movie, the Jim Henson Muppets.
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Well, not Muppets, but Jim Henson's other types of puppets.
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Not The Muppets are in this movie.
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Puppets. Yeah, it's, it's, I mean, it's
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just a lot of fun. It's it is.
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Geared toward younger audiences. Tough to get through in one
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sitting. As you know, I'm challenged to
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get through anything in one sitting.
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That's true and so. For meals.
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I've seen that too. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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Especially the factor meals because they're quite large.
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Yeah, totally. But I did enjoy of course.
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Labyrinth was fabulous. Really loved that movie.
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So good, worth the. 4K upgrade for me.
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Awesome. Yeah, so.
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I mean, that's our maze theme show, isn't it Barry?
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I think so. I think we've hit all the notes
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and I would recommend CSA Farms. If anyone does want to drive out
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to the Uxbridge area and check it out.
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It's kind of fun. It's a fun little date idea.
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And obviously kids, if you have kids, they probably enjoy it as
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well. Also good too.
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Yeah, I think we've given our viewers as many pro tips as we
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can today, Jay, and it is time for us to say goodbye.
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Until next week. You know, I'm glad you got to
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experience the maze and the maze craze.
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I think if anybody's going to bring the maze back, it's you,
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Barry T Nixon. I'm going to try to do that.
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And I will see you next week and all of our viewers and listeners
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next week. However you choose to consume 2
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