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Under the Spell of Penn & Teller · Brainwaves

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Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to another episode of Two Shot
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Tuesday, Barry Nixon alongside the one and only Jason Riley.
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Jay, you might notice I'm coming to you from a different area of
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The Newsroom because sometimes in life we got to adjust to
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circumstances. Doesn't matter what that means.
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I'm happy to see you. We have a lot to discuss.
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You got your shot ready because I know we have a format on this
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show as we do have a format of saying.
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Yeah, Barry, we've got a format that we carry with us from show
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#1 all the way through to the end of time.
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I do. I am in solidarity with you
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because I know you have a workout after the show, so I am
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consuming good old fashioned water.
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What have you got? Well I got water with a little
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bit of Godzilla piss pre workout.
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Here's to you and you. It almost hits like a Jameson.
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Isn't that weird? Does it?
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I wouldn't know that. Not really.
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That is a taste that only you can, you'd only can bring.
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But that's kind of, I like the idea of like doing a workout and
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having something that was like doing shots of Jameson as you're
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doing the workout. Like, wouldn't that be the
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ultimate quencher? Like, we should come up with
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that. This.
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Yeah. I don't know whether we should
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come up with that because we're not like food scientists, but
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whoever makes pre workouts should consider a Jameson
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flavoring. No alcohol, but just the
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flavoring. I feel like we could bridge this
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the the manufacturers and Jameson and we should take a
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component of this like a two shot Tuesday work pre workout
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that you would consume tastes like Jameson two shots, no more,
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no less gets you ready for your workout.
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I think that is ultimate. Now the the shots may need to
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be, you know, 250 milliliters each should be some pretty big
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shots, but but that would get it in, yeah.
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It would get it in, yeah. I've learned actually from Andre
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that less is more. The way you want to do relief
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with pre workout is you want to kind of make it like you would
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like a long espresso. See how that's Yeah, it's pretty
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cloudy there at the bottom. You still do your full serving
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but you add less water. And in the past I was putting
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way more water with the same sized scoop and I think I was
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losing some value there. To urine, is that it because it
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you pee it out or what's the wide it just gets diluted?
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Yeah, it just gets a little too diluted and you want that punch.
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That's what that's the whole point of taking a free workout.
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If you want that, that kicked to the face, that says it's time to
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start lifting. What does it do specifically
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that makes that happen? Makes your fingers tingle.
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Makes your earlobes tingle. Makes your front bottom tingle.
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What is it? I don't know, It's, it's a
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beautiful concoction of God knows what, but I can tell you
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this much. I always get that extra Rep in,
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I always get that extra set in and the results speak for
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themselves. So yeah, yeah, I'm going to keep
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taking it until it gets banned by whatever and the Drug
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Enforcement folks it whatever. I look forward to watching this
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journey grow, you know, and happen.
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And until they eventually just carry you out the door and
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they'll just be like, Sir, Sir, this is you're the last one in
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Canada using this. So this has been this is this
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has been used in our toxic waste.
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But you'd be like, it makes my fingers tingle.
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Give me another set, boss. Yeah, it'd be great.
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Very. You know what else?
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When you're tingling, that's a sense that there's some magic in
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the air. And I have a feeling that you
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have taken advantage of something over this past weekend
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that I think our audience is excited to know about In the
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land of magic. Can you bring us up to speed on
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what you've encountered and and what can you share with us about
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the secrets of the other side? Right.
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I can't give away any magic secrets, but what I did do is
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see Penn and Teller live at Meridian Hall.
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Now, you and I are familiar with Meridian Hall because it's where
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we saw Tim Dillon a few years ago.
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So it's a nice size theater. I went with the movie guy, Rob
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Pete's. We had some very good seats.
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And I got to tell you, not having really any familiarity
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with these guys other than I believe they have a television
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show. I've never watched it, but I'm
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familiar with the fact that they're.
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Yeah, they're they're what I learned is that these guys are
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actually the kind of equal part comedy and magic.
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Like, yeah, it was, it was a hilarious show.
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And they, the audience participation was through the
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roof. They threw out the whole thing.
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It was about an hour and a half. No intermission, by the way.
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OK, they probably brought 30 people on stage from the
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audience. Wow.
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OK. Yeah, that's incredible.
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And that's you're tightly packed in there at Meridian Hall.
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So people are hopefully on the end seats.
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I think it would be the end seats mostly.
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Got the time to go up. No, it wasn't really.
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Not at all. It was anyone who had their hand
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up, which was almost. Every, everyone.
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Did you go up? Yeah, I did not.
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I didn't put my hand up and neither did Rob.
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No. OK, No, we were happy just to be
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there to witness, but it was really interesting and the the
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magic tricks were insane and they were very clear about
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saying we're not an illusionist, we're a magician.
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OK, so nothing that we saw was a quote UN quote illusion.
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Were they lying? I don't know.
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They could have been. I I couldn't tell you what's an
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illusion? What's a magic trick?
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But it was pretty damn cool. Right now the schtick is Pen
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speaks, Teller does not speak. I know this from my, because
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I've seen them. They've these are people that
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have been like the same age since I was a child.
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They just always seem to have been the same age.
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Like they, they just keep coming back.
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They were on a lot of shows in the 90s.
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They had a, you know, that was kind of a big deal for them in
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the 90s. It drifts.
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They come in and out, but they they feel like they've just kind
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of always been around. Maybe that's part of the non
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illusion magic is that they continue to exist on this plane
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in a similar fashion. Yeah.
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I mean that that's, that's as good a guess as anything I would
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have come up with. So yeah, what was your They've
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lost none of their sass. They'll tell you Penn like, had
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fun and made fun of every person that came up on the the stage,
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including a six year old little Chinese girl.
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She was tasked with throwing a dart.
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And he goes, if you miss, you're a loser and you're a loser.
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And he said right to her. And everyone in the audience was
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just killing themselves laughing.
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And then they they show her face and she's just kind of like
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this. But then she started smiling.
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So it's like, OK, clearly the kids understand, everyone
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understood that when you go up there, you get roasted a little,
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a little bit of a roast, but it's all in good fun.
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And he would be like, it was just, it was absolutely
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hilarious. Like Rob and I were laughing the
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entire time. It was really super entertaining
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for the 125 bucks that we paid. It was, it was definitely worth
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the money and you would have loved it.
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It was an hour and a half. No longer.
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No intermesh. Run through.
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Entertain the folks, send them home.
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Now let me you now because we spent our time with Tim Dillon,
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you understand the inner workings of the Meridian Hall
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and you know that if you want to consume alcohol, the best place
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to go is down the stairs to the hidden bar that we found.
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Is that something you did? And did you purchase extra cans?
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Because you know, they frown on you getting up out of your seat
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as you remember from from the show.
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Did you, did you take any of those learnings from Tim Dillon
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here or did you consume anything at all?
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I took no learnings. In fact, what we did was go
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upstairs to the upstairs bar, which our seats were like on the
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main floor, but there was no line of upstairs funny and art.
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OK, yeah, I didn't even know that one.
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Remember. I remember the downstairs when
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we went to but and we found a weird door that kind of got us
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in at a weird angle that we we. Didn't even have.
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To wait to get in and out. We learned a lot at the Tim
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Dillon show about how the Meridian Hall is laid out and
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how traffic is all sort of run through that main floor with
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that main bar in the center, which is a chaos for everyone,
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so. It is.
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Folks going to Meridian Hall, take advantage of the
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extremities. We know the downstairs and you
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now learn the upstairs. So another new learning.
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Pretty good to apply in life. Yeah.
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Were you kind of jammed again in like a mid mid seats, like you
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know, they're really tight and close together or did you have
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an end? Seat because.
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You like an end seat? Amazing.
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Aisles with with the movie guy, it's always the aisle.
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Always. There's there's no option like
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he wouldn't, he would not go to the event if he couldn't get an
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aisle seat, do you think? I would.
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I would strongly wager that he would not even.
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Every time we go to the movies, it's the exact same seats every
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time we go to the movies. Whenever we go to a concert or
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comedy or magic In this case, aisle seats are key.
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It's aisle seats are bust, truly.
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Yeah. And I agree with that.
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By the way. I do too.
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I just like to know I can escape if I need to.
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I I feel kind of trapped and it takes away from my enjoyment of
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the experience if I feel a bit trapped cuz it's like what if I
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have to use the washroom or something?
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It's like it was like when we saw Lori's play and you're there
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and you're like the only washrooms on stage.
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There's no way we're going to be able to go.
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We're trapped here forever and then that happens too.
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It's just little psychological thing.
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It's not like blind panic, but it just crosses my mind.
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So it's like I always do like to have that aisle seat or I'll be
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one in I'm not an insane man. Like if you want the aisle and
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I'm one in, that's as good as an aisle for me.
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I agree. That's exciting.
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This is exciting to know we're we're learning more about the
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psychology of it. So before we leave this this
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magical experience, what was the best brick that you saw A.
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Man, probably he, they, this is 1 where teller.
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Of course the one that doesn't speak brought up a couple and
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they were both facing each other with panes of glass in front of
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their faces and the woman was given a marker and she traced
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the outline of her partner's face on the glass.
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They then took the glass put into a bag and smashed it all up
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into a million pieces, then took that same bag and put it into
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like this box of smoke and out came the reassembled.
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Exactly. Well, what I mean, obviously it
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wasn't exactly, I understand that This is why it's called
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magic, but it looked exactly like the sketch of the face that
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we saw get smashed like 2 minutes earlier.
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So both Rob and I were like, shit, that's pretty damn cool.
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Yeah. I wonder how that happened.
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We don't know and we're not meant to know.
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Because that we're not meant to know.
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In the world of magic. OK.
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Well, Eddie, parting thoughts for our audience on the Penn and
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Teller show that you want to communicate out.
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Yeah, I'm going to lean a little closer for this one.
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Yeah, if you get a chance to see it, see it.
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It's money well spent. OK, nice.
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Excellent. Seriously.
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I had a great time. That's awesome, that's great.
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Well, and on that, why don't we do shot #2?
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You're already doing it, which is great.
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We'll. Just question my first Jay, I
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was that that story. OK, more pre workout.
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Here's to you and our audience on a very busy Tuesday.
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Here's to you. And some water.
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Barry, what else did we want to talk about on this show?
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You had a you gave us a packed agenda because when you can, let
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me just say this for our audience, You may not know this
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after 200 plus episodes, but the T in Barry Teenix and stands for
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tidal wave of great content because that is what you always
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bring each and every episode. You're basically the showrunner
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for this show. Like you're like Penn and Teller
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tonight. And there's something else I got
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to talk about. I just can't remember what that
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is, but you know, and I'm excited to hear from you.
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I mean, and I'll just briefly touch on this.
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There was a Dundas St. festival called Due West, and that was
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over the weekend. Yeah.
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I don't think you would have enjoyed it, Jay, because it was
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absolutely rant. Like, if you like walking one
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tiny step in front of the other, in front of the other, and then
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watching to make sure you're not stepping on children, stepping
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on dogs, stepping on the disabled, then it might not be
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for you. Linda.
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I don't care about any of that. We just went and had some fun.
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You can kind of scurry off to the sidewalk where there is a
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little bit more freedom to move. But if you're standing in the
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Domain, like on the street between the vendors, yeah, just
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got to be patient, that's all. So it was like us at Fan Expo a
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couple years ago, basically shuffling.
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That's a shuffling. Yeah, yes, that's very good
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analogy. Absolutely.
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Yeah, it was very similar to that.
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You're you cannot be in a hurry when you're going to a packed
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St. festival in Toronto. Now, I will say we had some good
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pizza. So you would have enjoyed that.
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We had some pepperoni slices and a couple of Miller Lites.
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So that was nice. And but the biggest item that we
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saw that people were just going bananas for were all these
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skewers that had like either meat, fish or shrimp or
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something on them. But one guy was carrying like
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what looked like 2 bouquets, but they were skewered.
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There was like 4 in each hand like this guy.
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And he was as happy as you like. And I was like, no, that's
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somebody who's either got an eating disorder or is trying to
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pack in some protein or just too busy to sit down and want to
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just be able to eat and walk because that's the best food for
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that. Yeah.
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Anyway, it was it was a good time.
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That was Sunday when it was hot as hell.
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But it was, it was worth it. We enjoyed it.
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Yeah, that's great. And I did you notice at all if
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you were glancing left or right, maybe out of the corner of your
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eye was at any point did you notice a Bloomin onion on offer?
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No, no, quite interesting. But a lot of tacos, a lot of
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momos. I don't know if you're familiar
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with those. It's a Tibetan.
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It's a Tibetan food. It's like a little pouch of
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meat. And sometimes there's a little
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bit of soup inside if it's the boiled one versus the deep
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fried. Yeah.
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I can already see you recoiling. And this.
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This is no. It's called the no, no, that's
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me No, no on the Momo please. OK, yeah.
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So anyway, yeah, you would just blow right past that stand and
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every stand, it looked like that.
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But yeah, it was like standard stuff, right then people were
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selling soap. They were selling bracelets and
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and necklaces and some vintage clothing and of course, some
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counterfeit and World Cup jerseys were on offer.
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I don't support that, as you know, I don't support the
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underground economy at all, but yeah, at all.
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But, you know, I'm sure some people decided, hey, now's my
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chance to pick up my Uruguay jersey or whatever.
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Yeah. And then we walked home.
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We had a good stretch. It was like, probably, I don't
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know, we walked to like basically Dundas to land down.
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That was sort of where it ended. And then we just walked along
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Lansdowne all the way back home. It was beautiful.
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Interesting. And interesting that you chose
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to shuffle because I would have made my way.
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You're correct in saying I would have made my way to the sidewalk
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where it was open. Yeah.
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I wonder what is the psychology of that because I would assume
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everyone would want space. But to choose the shuffle is
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interesting. What goes to your head in that
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moment when you're about to choose shuffle versus clear?
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Clear. Path Well, the shuffle allows
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you to a check out every vendor, whether it be food or clothing
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or earrings or whatever. But there were also deejays
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posted up along the route, so that's where you would enjoy
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some music. We saw some people dancing.
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Did you get kind of a vibe? I did not.
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No, no. No you didn't.
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Shuffling and you kept shuffling along.
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It's. Like just shuffling, I guess
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it's a dance of sorts. Yeah, looks like the background
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is just moving slowly behind you while you shuffle.
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I'm just seeing you 2 shuffle. Yeah.
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Did you go shirtless at any point?
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Because I know you like that in the summer.
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I was very tempted, Jay, but it was it was just way too hot.
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I just, I was already, I'm already kind of gotten some
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color you can't really see now, but I already sort of had a bit
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of a red chest. I didn't want to add to it.
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And yeah, I don't know. I wore my England jersey,
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though. Everyone's wearing soccer shirts
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at the time of this recording. Obviously, this is the week the
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World Cup is kicking off. Yeah, everyone who has a soccer
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shirt of any description had them on at the Due West fest.
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That was one another thing I noticed.
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Excellent and check out our World Cup episode that we just
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recorded last week. It is now available on YouTube
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and on Spotify and wherever you get your podcasts.
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Barry, that's a great follow up to last week.
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Let's talk about this. Have you got your VIP pass yet?
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Has that been handed to you? Because I know the World Cup
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starts this week. Yes it does.
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At the time of this recording. I got an e-mail today saying the
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past is ready for pick up. Now I want to clarify something.
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I thought you're going to have to have two passes.
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One on your person, one on your car.
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False. One pass for your vehicle only
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perfectly. So you can move freely, you
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don't have to show this grass every time you come and go into
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the zone. It's strictly for driving I.
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Like it? Yeah.
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I like it, but I really like the idea of you having this pass.
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In fact, since you're you're not going to be moving the car very
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often, perhaps you could carry the pass with you and you could
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just show it to people. I guess I got my pass.
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That would be nice. Yeah, yeah.
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And then they're going to say it belongs in your car, pal, or on
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your bicycle or whatever. And you'll say my car is tucked
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away where it should be downstairs for the duration of
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this tournament. And I'm just showing you that I
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have access to get to it. I can get to where my car is
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parked in the VIP zone. Yes, with that pass.
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So I'm you know what, for the ease of movement, I'm glad you
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don't have to do that. For the practical side of it, a
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little bit of me kind of wishes you did have this VIP pass just
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so that you you could have told us about the experience of
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having to show up pass every time you came and went from your
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own domicile. Well, I'm still going to have
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that experience in the car because I intend to drive to
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visit my buddy Brad. This Saturday is when we're
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doing the big reveal to his son that we are going to see Germany
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and Ivory Coast in a week's time at the time of this recording.
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So I will still have that experience when I come home.
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There's going to be cops on the street.
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They will be stopping. In fact, what I've been told is
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they won't be stopping if they see the badge hanging from your
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rear view. If they see it, they're just
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going to way beyond through. We're going to stop you if you
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don't have any type of path, OK, We'll let you know how that
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goes. We'll all have it.
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Wave it. Outside the window if you could
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just like really wave it so you get their.
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Attention. Really let them know.
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Exactly, Barry, this is. I know you're not all that
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excited about World Cup, but may I ask you, will you be following
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any team at all? You got 48 to choose from.
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This is the biggest tournament on the planet and the most
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amount of countries involved ever in its history.
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You got 48 to choose from. Who you picking?
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Am I? Is Ireland playing?
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I'm part, I didn't. Make it?
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No, they didn't make it Hungary. Didn't have a team?
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Does Hungary have a team? Probably not.
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I believe they do have a team. I don't know if they're in.
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I don't know if Hungary made it. I'm part Hungarian as well, so
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that would be yes, right, check. And then I don't know, maybe you
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know what, I'm going to just sort of let me take that in,
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Barry and then about. Canada.
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Yeah, I guess they're a nice fall back then maybe.
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Yeah, they're a nice fall back. We are hosting.
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That's nice. Are you just naturally are on
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and you are? Canadian.
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Yeah. So you know what, that's a good
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idea. Maybe, maybe Canada.
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I'll, I'll keep you posted as we go through.
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I may change teams as we, as we, as I did in life change teams.
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You know, you change teams to go with to go with Canada.
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They go through anyway, Barry. I love it as all.
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Of it Jay and I support you and your workout that's coming
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immediately and the only thing standing between you and your
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workout is a good wrap up for this week's episode.
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Thank you for leading the way in the Penn and Teller review.
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Everyone get out there go see it.
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You don't want to miss it. And as well we've heard about
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the World Cup. We've heard about all of these
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exciting things. Barry, I love to live my life
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vicariously through you. So we've done that again today
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and that's fantastic. We will see you again next week.
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We got some more movie reviews coming up with the movie guy Rob
18:34
Peetz. We got a couple I like
18:35
back-to-back coming up in the next few weeks.
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You don't want to miss that. I won't give away the movies
18:39
just yet, but stay tuned for that.
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And in the meantime, dear listeners, dear viewers, dear
18:44
viewers, have a wonderful week, and we look forward to seeing
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you next week. At Two Shot Tuesday.
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