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The Alpaca Paradigm · SpaceTomatoes

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  I can hide behind my microphone now.
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  No, you can't.
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  I totally can't.
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  Absolutely.
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  No.
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  Just like, yeah, you're right.
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  I can kick it out of the way.
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  On the new, on this edition of the podcast,
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  the thing behind is microphone.
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  Who?
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  Who's that?
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  We'll cut all this out.
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  Havoc.
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  That Havoc guy.
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  Damn.
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  That guy.
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  Havoc.
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  That one guy.
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  Do we have a topic?
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  Is there any kind of topic?
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  Is there ever a topic?
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  Not when I do it, no.
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  Same.
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  that would require planning on my part why would we plan this i mean
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  then it would just go smooth and you know it'd be crazy i am kind of hiding behind my microphone
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  yeah how's that even better my dongle hey come back what my dangle my dongle my dongle dangle
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  how's that much better yes yeah oh no i'm not hitting so how has alpaca been it's been great
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  alpaca has been fantastic as always yes as always favorite moment so far the painting was interesting
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  i did like painting yeah i really enjoyed it but i gotta be honest with you i was stressed out
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  i had a great time doing it but i just you did a good job it well thank you we all did everyone
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  did i thought it turned out really amazing can't wait to see it on the wall there i go breathing
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  again i gotta stop doing that well you have to breathe breathing yeah you have to have to
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  it's a necessity uh right well um yeah but i mean i was really stressed out so it was really kind of
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  a weird thing to be as stressed as i was but also having fun is that you know what i mean so maybe
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  Maybe for those who don't know, like, oh, blame the whole alpaca thing.
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  So, yeah, how that came to be, perhaps.
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  Let's let's have ghosts go ahead and clue the audience into what alpaca is.
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  I don't know that I'm the best person to.
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  You started it.
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  Well, I was just like, oh, we should get together and pet alpacas.
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  And then we did.
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  And who's we?
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  We want the original list or the list of.
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  No, just a joke.
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  How it started?
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  In general, we were playing.
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  Yeah, we were playing War Dragons on our phones.
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  Or iPods.
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  A mobile game.
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  iPads.
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  I had a phone back then.
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  You had a phone?
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  I had an iPhone 6.
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  Way back when.
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  That was my last self.
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  So the no phone thing is a relatively new thing.
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  When was the iPhone 6 kind of like around?
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  That was the last one I had.
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  i had mine like eight years ago so probably about that yeah i mean i pawned it off of my wife and
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  she used it for a little while so well that's good and then it just kind of stopped working
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  on everything so anyway mobile gaming and we a bunch of us were on one team but you know friends
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  that you meet through uh online chat apps etc um where we would just banter and share memes and do
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  stupid stuff and ghost comes up and one day with this great idea we should all get together and go
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  pet alpacas at an alpaca farm okay well that sounds like a fun day so we started looking into
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  it and found all these ghost found some alpaca farms you know and and then i ended up finding
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  one near where i live and so you invited a bunch of strangers to your house yes my wife looked at
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  me and went you what i was like yeah it's fine you don't know any of these people well i've been
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  chatting with them for six years now so i didn't know him kind of so she freaked out everyone coming
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  freaked out got lost i had a loss right and then and then had to uh spend some time uh de-stressing
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  after a long drive in a parking lot somewhere,
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  probably wondering, should I really go?
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  I don't think this is a good idea.
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  Yep.
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  It was, as a matter of fact, somebody else in the game
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  that told me to go.
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  They were like, you've already driven an hour and a half.
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  Like, oh my God, just go.
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  and that was uh what six this is the sixth year in a row we've been doing this
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  which is awesome so i mean on the on the surface of it it said it sounds like a terrible terrible
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  idea to meet random people on the internet and then go meet them out in the woods and and co
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  cohabitate with them it just sounds absolutely and utterly ridiculous if you say it out loud
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  kind of like a horror movie plot right you know honestly yeah yeah which one of us is the real
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  killer but somehow it it all came together and and sort of worked out right and we we have um
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  amazingly small uh attrition rate so far
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  yeah and i think we're at the the core group and registration's pretty much closed now i i think
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  for the most part yeah yeah we we have one potential applicant now but they haven't finished
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  the the the tests yet you know it was just a meet and greet next come the tests we'll see if if if
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  they're willing to stick through all the uh the necessary prerequisite are you talking about hazing
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  the initiation ritual i didn't say nowhere did i say hazing hey that would be bad right i mean
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  that's just nice bless you bless you that was the dog the dog yeah specifically asking people to
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  not make noise apparently is uh i think you need a door on the studio i do i think you are right
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  well you know hey one day well that's what post edits for post-production probably yeah
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  we'll see how that goes actually this this actually does a really good job counseling out
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  uh you know errant noises so we'll see might not even be in there that would be great now it'll be
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  in there maybe it does a really good job it really does we'll see you'll have to listen to
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  the playback at least yeah see how it goes yeah yeah yeah if you look up there you guys can't see
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  it but we can and we're all looking at something that you can't see and we're not going to show
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  you either because we're looking at this is our stuff if you look up there you see under
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  on the right hand side it says noise reduction
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  I see it now
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  you see it Alex? I see yeah
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  yeah I turned that on
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  for one and it does
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  a pretty bang up job
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  yeah a little slider bar yeah I see it
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  yeah
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  yeah
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  so what did you think of the tacos?
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  they were awesome
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  yeah
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  not bad
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  awesome
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  I'm not really a big taco
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  fan, but they're good.
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  I am a big taco fan.
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  I am too.
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  Most people seem to like them enough.
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  I love
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  tacos.
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  They're so good.
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  They're like the perfect food, too.
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  We make fancy tacos.
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  They even have street tacos.
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  They're called street tacos.
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  Because they're not fancy.
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  They're just out in the streets.
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  Yeah.
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  Walking tacos, apparently.
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  That's a thing.
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  As opposed to sitting tacos.
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  Is it because you walk around and eat them, or what is the name?
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  I believe they're in a little bag.
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  Yeah, it's because it's something you can carry around with you.
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  I see, I see.
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  Because you can't carry a taco around with you.
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  Obviously not.
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  You have to catch all the drippings.
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  Yeah.
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  If it's on the street, does it matter?
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  Might, to me.
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  You're leaving it for, like, the insects.
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  They couldn't have a snack.
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  This is true.
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  This is true.
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  They deserve the taco.
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  No, they don't.
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  Most of them.
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  Some of them, maybe.
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  You know, ladybugs.
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  They're cool.
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  They come and eat the aphids.
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  Nobody likes aphids.
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  Lady beetles, those are a different story.
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  Yeah.
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  That mean.
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  Gotta love them, though.
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  Gotta have bugs.
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  I don't know why.
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  Mosquitoes actually serve a purpose, but I...
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  They do?
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  Really?
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  Yeah, apparently they're ecologically necessary for fish.
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  I'd heard something about the same thing.
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  Learn something new every day.
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  Yeah.
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  Which kind of sucks because fish are cool, but mosquitoes are not.
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  Like they eat them?
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  Yeah.
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  I see.
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  Yeah, it's a large source of food for little fishes,
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  which happened to be a large source of food for medium-sized fishes.
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  Nice.
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  Which happened to be a large source of food for big-sized fishes.
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  Is that how the food chain works?
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  It's something like that.
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  Yeah.
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  Nice.
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  I think so.
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  and then along comes a bear
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  and it's like well I like big fish too
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  what gets the bear?
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  sharks
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  people
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  where is that bear going if it's running into a shark?
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  well it might have been a polar bear
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  it was swimming
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  it was swimming
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  it was trying to get to the next flotilla of ice
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  so that it could find us
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  we're talking about sharks or orcas
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  a sea lion
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  okay
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  I was talking about sharks in the water, but polar bear, being a bear, they swim.
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  They swim well.
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  Very well.
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  Like, scary well.
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  You're not out swimming a polar bear, then?
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  I take it.
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  No, not a chance.
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  Not even with fins on.
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  I got them big, goofy feet.
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  So if you know about it in advance, you can suit up and race the polar bear.
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  Get a boat.
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  A boat would be a better option there.
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  With fins?
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  Yeah, polar bears, big.
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  Very big.
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  So a boat would be better.
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  Something with a motor that you could, like, get out of the area, I think.
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  Are you still going to wear your fins?
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  Make a little...
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  I mean, you can drive with your hands on a boat, so sure.
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  I'll wear my fins.
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  Why aren't there any movies about polar bears eating people in the water?
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  That's a good question.
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  Just write a script.
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  Submit it.
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  yeah i did see a video clip at one point with a bunch of like people under the water and you see
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  the polar bears going by and stuff it was like a clip of just polar bears swimming
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  it was pretty interesting nice they're pretty goofy this seems like it would be ai no it was
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  it was not i think it was mainly uh captive you know like those pools and stuff like that
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  from video cameras.
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  Sea world.
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  Yeah, I mean,
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  I couldn't tell for sure,
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  but you kind of got the feeling
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  that that was the case.
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  Otherwise, someone was down there
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  in a dry suit.
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  It was too cold.
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  I don't trust anything
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  on the internet anymore.
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  It's kind of hard, isn't it?
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  Yeah.
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  You all right there?
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  The cable bothering you?
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  No, it was just, you know,
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  like it cold.
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  Oh.
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  So I got to keep a little
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  tension on it.
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  We can get it to...
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  No, not really.
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  Not really.
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  The knob.
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  It'll hook around that knob.
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  I tried it.
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  I mean, I guess I could...
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  Maybe like that.
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  There you go.
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  There you go.
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  Problem solved.
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  You're a problem solver.
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  I've been called a lot of things before.
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  I'll take that one.
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  I'll take that one.
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  Absolute problem solver.
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  Right?
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  It got a lot quieter all of a sudden.
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  It did.
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  because you wrapped your cable
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  no
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  ice maker
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  ice maker shut off
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  yeah
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  but that thing's been running before
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  when we did the last one it was running
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  and you couldn't tell afterwards
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  so I think I'd be alright
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  I need to fix the lighting in here though
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  you're a little washed out
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  you're a little washed out yeah
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  yeah
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  you're just white
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  washed out
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  not washed up
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  washed out
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  pretty cool though
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  pretty cool oh so y did another one of these we did one something like that was mostly a test test thing it was a quick test
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  and I think going forward we'll probably
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  you know talk a little bit
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  figure out some topics and throw
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  you know kind of topics in there
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  so that we you know I think we need some topics
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  keep things
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  keep things rolling through or else we'll just
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  end up talking about polar bears
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  eating people you know every time
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  people find that interesting they do random conversation really yeah i do i do it's one
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  of the reasons i tune into a lot of podcasts is it's just kind of random conversation they have
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  a topic but you know it goes everywhere it's not 100 on topic well if i'm being honest i i hate
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  podcast i mean who wants to why did you start what what would that be mostly because like i want to
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  be doing the talking not doing the listening i just i i don't want to hear people talking about
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  their crap i want to talk about mine well that's why not see now you have to become a podcast fan
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  yeah yeah yeah because you have to listen to yourself right so that's the worst part about
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  editing then then i had to listen to a podcast i'd be like yeah i don't want to listen to this guy
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  even if it's me i don't want to listen yeah that sounds like that kind of sucks i guess
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  yeah like this guy is really boring you know and his voice is horrible a lot of people seem to have
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  an opposite opinion of that yeah yeah like a lot of people tuned into the oh didn't you didn't you
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  at one point have like 30 some odd
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  people listening at one point? Yeah.
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  I mean, yeah, it was close to 32
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  people. That is a pretty
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  large audience there.
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  No, I really don't know what it was.
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  There were quite a few.
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  Yeah, a few hundred, I think.
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  Something like that.
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  We'll be able to get some view counters
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  and look at metrics.
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  We'll look into advertising.
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  Nah, I don't know.
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  Probably not. I was like, that's some
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  big plans we got there.
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  We'll just put street signs up in front of our houses.
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  Yeah.
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  Especially for somebody who was like, we don't need a topic.
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  What do we need a topic for?
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  That involves planning.
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  Now we're talking about advertising.
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  It's better than planning.
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  We're going to have a merch store.
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  Oh, yeah.
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  Yeah.
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  Yeah.
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  T-shirts.
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  Oh, we're doing t-shirts?
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  Yeah.
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  Oh, all right.
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  Hoodies.
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  can we do t-shirts and just say
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  moist
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  some people might not like that
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  yeah
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  that's the point right
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  yeah I don't understand why
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  I don't know
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  I mean I know somebody
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  I'd give one of those shirts to
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  do too
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  I would get them at least a two week
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  supply so you never even needed
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  to wash them in between
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  oh my god that is going to be moist
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  that would be a nice gift for someone
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  I think so.
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  Yeah.
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  I think that might happen next year.
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  Might.
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  That would be a little...
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  Yeah, he'll do them individually wrapped.
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  And each one should...
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  Nice voice.
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  Oh.
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  I think she'd stop opening them after the second one.
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  She'd be like, they all say that.
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  I think so.
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  I do.
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  Oh.
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  I do.
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  She'd catch on.
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  She'd be like, they all say that, don't they?
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  Well, you guys say no, absolutely not.
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  Just keep going.
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  One of these doesn't say that.
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  I specifically ordered, there you go, ordered like, you know, 13 that say moist and one that doesn't.
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  I never open them and just go, one of these doesn't say it.
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  Just make sure she doesn't open that one until last.
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  What does that one say?
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  Damn, my goodness.
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  That's pretty good.
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  Yeah, it would be fun.
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  It would be fun.
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  It's going to happen now.
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  I don't know why
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  if I remember I'm gonna do this
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  you're not gonna remember
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  it's being recorded I might
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  he's already forgotten
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  it's true
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  it is true
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  very true
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  so you're leaving for
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  back to your own domicile
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  this evening yes
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  yeah
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  excited to get back
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  not at all what about C-Store
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  I'm happy I'm gonna be excited to see the cats
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  what's the other cat's name
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  Cardi
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  Cardi
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  Seaster
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  Cardi C
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  like Cardi Cat
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  no they're named after characters
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  in
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  the ghost band lore
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  there's
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  Cardinal Copia
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  and they're like
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  oh we're gonna call him Cardi for short
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  and then there's
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  sister Imperator
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  and
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  the main guy's always like
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  sister
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  because he says it with this accent
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  I like it
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  very cool
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  I did not know that
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  or something new
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  I think you may have said something
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  about it at one point
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  I always say
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  that they're named after
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  people in a rock band
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  to just avoid having to go
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  into the whole story.
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  Is there a cricket in that rock band too?
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  There is not. He just caught
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  a cricket.
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  I was like, that's your name right there.
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  I'm very creative.
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  Tabowski's name would
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  really just be nothing.
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  I'd just call you nothing.
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  Because he hasn't caught anything?
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  he's not a very good cat
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  I mean he's a good cat but he's not
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  good at being
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  he's not good at catting
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  yeah
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  he does have a charge to him
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  yeah yeah he does
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  he naps like a cat
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  he does really well with the napping thing
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  I think most cats have that part down
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  yeah
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  Domino is very good at being a cat
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  I really like him a lot
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  not that I dislike your other cat
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  I guess.
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  He don't like to be held.
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  Domino doesn't?
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  Mm-mm.
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  Oh, Domino.
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  I'm sorry, yes.
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  Domino is the best cat ever.
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  Yeah, he's real good at doing the cat thing.
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  Yeah, he is.
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  He kills all the things.
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  He loves.
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  He's just, he's the perfect cat.
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  He likes people.
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  And he's outside.
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  Right.
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  So no litter box.
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  You don't have to hide a box of his feces somewhere in the house.
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  Oh, God. Who says it's hidden?
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  Haven't had to clean up one furball, one hairball or whatever.
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  I mean, what other type of domesticated animal do we hide a box of their excrement?
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  Of their excrement somewhere in our house.
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  And birds only clean it out all the time for them.
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  Yeah.
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  pretty much dogs are the only ones we don't if you think about it i mean i love i have cats i
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  love my cats they're just that they seem fairly useless to have inside yeah they are 100 this is
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  my argument this is can you go talk to my wife i mean they destroy your house they you know
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  cost money and
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  like require
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  endless
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  catering to but I mean they're
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  wonderful. They're something
• 20:48
  that's for sure. I like that they have their
• 20:50
  own separate boundaries.
• 20:52
  You know exactly where you stand with a cat.
• 20:55
  For the most part.
• 20:56
  Really? Do you though?
• 20:59
  If a cat don't like you
• 21:00
  you know.
• 21:02
  Well yeah okay. If a cat likes you
• 21:04
  you know. I feel like
• 21:06
  that's the same with a dog. Yeah.
• 21:08
  I don't know some dogs are just like
• 21:12
  always happy to see people
• 21:15
  this is true
• 21:16
  I have not met a cat
• 21:21
  that is just like
• 21:22
  immediately like yes
• 21:24
  I will accept pets
• 21:27
  and
• 21:27
  be friendly to everybody
• 21:30
  Domino
• 21:30
  okay that's fair
• 21:33
  that's why he sees the perfect cat
• 21:35
  he really is the perfect cat
• 21:37
  if you want perfect cat barn cat they apparently turn out to be the most perfect cats
• 21:44
  yeah and you didn't have to train him at all he was already trained right yeah yeah i mean we just
• 21:52
  got a kitten and he stayed in uh the tack room in the barn until he was old enough to be fixed
• 22:00
  once he was fixed because obviously they come broken so you have to fix them yeah so once he
• 22:07
  was fixed uh he and afa spent another or actually it was dallas dallas left we don't know where
• 22:14
  but they spent another about three weeks in the tack room and then after that we just opened the
• 22:21
  door to the tack room and they decided what they wanted to be in life pretty easy i mean like for
• 22:30
  you know domino he seems like genuinely grateful for you know like his accommodations and everything
• 22:37
  yeah he he really is he's a very loving cat um his but he's also you know stone cold killer
• 22:46
  i mean he just kills everything he can but yeah he loves us he'll follow us to the barn
• 22:52
  he loves showing us around yep he'll follow you out to the side field and everything he cruises
• 22:57
  the whole property.
• 22:59
  He's pretty cool.
• 23:01
  He's a good kitty.
• 23:03
  He gets along with all the dogs?
• 23:06
  Yeah, I mean...
• 23:07
  Mostly?
• 23:08
  Yeah.
• 23:09
  No.
• 23:10
  No?
• 23:11
  I mean, he's a cat, right?
• 23:12
  So they want to chase him.
• 23:14
  He doesn't want to be chased so much, so...
• 23:17
  Fair enough.
• 23:17
  I mean, they're there.
• 23:19
  He doesn't, you know...
• 23:20
  He just knows to stay away from the cattle gates
• 23:24
  for the livestock guardian dogs.
• 23:26
  Excuse me.
• 23:27
  How rude.
• 23:29
  And the dogs at the house, he knows.
• 23:35
  He's had a harrowing experience.
• 23:37
  One time he got up on the deck in the backyard, and the dogs were outside.
• 23:43
  Out of nowhere, he comes popping up onto the deck, and we're like, crud.
• 23:47
  And then the dogs figured out that he was up on the deck
• 23:50
  and started chasing around the deck trying to get him.
• 23:53
  and then he, at one point the dogs went around towards the back door
• 23:58
  and he jumped off the other side of the deck and went running
• 24:02
  and they saw him and went bolting after him
• 24:05
  but he made it to the fence and up and over before they got to him.
• 24:08
  Well, that's good. Yeah.
• 24:10
  Yeah, that's a good thing.
• 24:13
  He got some extra white spots that day.
• 24:15
  Right? Yeah. A little tuxedo kitty.
• 24:19
  And it's funny too that he's, I mean, he's, you know,
• 24:22
  He's out there with whatever else, right?
• 24:25
  Coyotes, fox, et cetera, raccoons.
• 24:29
  And he's not a big cat.
• 24:31
  He's actually kind of a small cat.
• 24:33
  He's kind of petite, yeah.
• 24:34
  Yeah, but he is just, he does his thing, and he's good at it.
• 24:41
  So he's a good kid.
• 24:44
  Good kid.
• 24:45
  I'm just trying to tame mine down.
• 24:49
  It'll happen over time.
• 24:51
  It will happen.
• 24:52
  yeah i mean two months with you know from completely feral you know five month old or so
• 24:59
  cats two months isn't a lot of time no there were multiple people who were like when they heard that
• 25:07
  they were five months old there were multiple people who were just like you should just release
• 25:12
  them back because it's a lost cause and i'm like don't tell me what to do no it's definitely not a
• 25:18
  lost cause. No, 100%
• 25:20
  not a lost cause.
• 25:21
  The shelters around here actually
• 25:24
  will take them in and get them
• 25:26
  fixed and then re-home
• 25:28
  them.
• 25:29
  A lot of the times
• 25:31
  people use them for barn cats
• 25:33
  so it's just like perfect.
• 25:36
  But that's where
• 25:37
  Aifa came from.
• 25:39
  It was a feral cat that
• 25:41
  was at a barn. She's a little more
• 25:43
  on the feral side than Domino
• 25:45
  is, but
• 25:46
  man they'll come around it's just going to take a while it'll probably take you know a year yeah
• 25:53
  that kind of what i thinking man but they will come around the fact that they already coming right up to you you know that that a big big sign if i covered with a blanket even still right they from where you started where they were hiding behind you know
• 26:10
  stuff behind the toilet just like avoid being seen by you to laying down on a perch in front of you
• 26:19
  in the same room that's that's a lot of trust right they have made a lot of progress yeah i'm a
• 26:26
  little bit worried about the time like after my surgery like when i'm not able to be around them
• 26:34
  all the time a little bit worried about coming back from that but you're doing your acl yeah
• 26:42
  you have a little recovery on a couple weeks three weeks four weeks so i got uh they said
• 26:49
  something about like a couple days without being able to get out of bed yeah and then
• 26:55
  it's either one week or two weeks
• 26:58
  with one crutch
• 26:59
  and then one week or two with
• 27:02
  sorry
• 27:04
  one week or two with two crutches
• 27:06
  one week or two with one
• 27:07
  I think I wanted one of those little scooter
• 27:10
  things that would have been
• 27:12
  fun they wouldn't get you one
• 27:14
  well I'd have to like
• 27:16
  kneel on the knee that
• 27:18
  doesn't have an ACM
• 27:20
  so
• 27:21
  no that won't get that to me
• 27:24
  You couldn't opt for the peg leg thing?
• 27:27
  I thought about it.
• 27:31
  Get you a nice eye patch.
• 27:33
  It would fit with the shark.
• 27:36
  The shark?
• 27:38
  You know how I busted it, right?
• 27:40
  Oh, yeah.
• 27:41
  Yeah.
• 27:42
  That would be a good story.
• 27:44
  Let's hear that one.
• 27:45
  So, I got in a fight with someone that I work with.
• 27:50
  Like a play fight, though, right?
• 27:52
  Well.
• 27:53
  No? It's a real fight?
• 27:54
  Yeah, I guess it was a play fight.
• 27:56
  We're still friends.
• 27:57
  But I was wearing a shark suit.
• 28:01
  And he came out of nowhere and started bopping me.
• 28:07
  And the legs of the shark suit only go up to your knees.
• 28:13
  So I didn't have the flexibility.
• 28:17
  And so I went to land after I jumped up.
• 28:22
  to do this ninja kick i won the fight of course yeah when i came down and landed on my knee it
• 28:30
  made this very lovely snap that i felt and heard and i was like there was a lot of pain
• 28:40
  i've like literally somebody came up to me and i was like i just fucked up my knee
• 28:46
  but i was smiling because of who i am as a person and so they just laughed at me and
• 28:51
  and walked away but i was like no like i literally can't put any weight on my knee right now i can't
• 28:58
  walk but does it bother you right now right now no but after like a day of standing or
• 29:06
  i as the weather gets cooler then it's more the standing stuff before it was just like
• 29:15
  i couldn't run and i had a whole lot of running to do that afternoon
• 29:19
  which I did anyway so you know that was great but um I can't run I can't jump that's pivoting
• 29:29
  stuff that like you don't think about doing until you need to do it yeah like there was this
• 29:39
  massive attack spider that came at me from nowhere and I jumped and I regretted it pretty
• 29:47
  much immediately this was a what a spider an attack spider an attack spider attack like someone
• 29:53
  who trained it yeah it had artillery weapons over the side of it wow it's like so worst kind of
• 30:00
  spider i know that's why i had to jump and then i had to hobble around because i was in pain so
• 30:08
  hey at least you got the attack spider yeah i actually don't know where it went though
• 30:14
  uh it's regrouping but i won at least that battle are you still able to like rush the gates at
• 30:20
  concerts and then stand at the barricades for like 10 hours until the main act gets on stage
• 30:25
  well luckily the next concert that i'm going to is in july so i should have recovered from december
• 30:32
  to that point okay good and what concert are you going to ghost i'm gonna go see ghost
• 30:40
  actually for real
• 30:41
  I don't know who's opening
• 30:43
  oh that's another story you can tell that
• 30:46
  story about oh my god
• 30:48
  it's the worst venue in the world
• 30:50
  wasn't it Simpsonville
• 30:53
  yes
• 30:54
  yeah not so great
• 30:56
  we were supposed to go together
• 30:58
  we did go
• 31:00
  we did
• 31:01
  you were right there I was right here
• 31:04
  and then as long as you were
• 31:06
  jumping up and down I could see you
• 31:08
  Well, yeah, there were a lot of people.
• 31:10
  And then the sky opened up, and there was literally nowhere to take cover.
• 31:15
  Nowhere.
• 31:16
  Nothing.
• 31:16
  No cover of any shape or form anywhere.
• 31:22
  By the end of the first song, we looked like we'd all just jumped into a weight.
• 31:28
  Yep.
• 31:29
  Bunch of wet rats.
• 31:30
  Pretty much, yeah.
• 31:31
  Nice.
• 31:32
  Not a pretty scene.
• 31:33
  Didn't smell good either.
• 31:34
  Did they refund you guys for that?
• 31:36
  Yeah.
• 31:36
  They did.
• 31:38
  They had to.
• 31:39
  Well, at one point they were saying they weren't going to.
• 31:42
  I mean, you did get one song.
• 31:44
  Three.
• 31:45
  What are you complaining about?
• 31:48
  We were drenched after the first song, halfway through the first song,
• 31:53
  and they kept playing.
• 31:54
  The guitar player got zapped.
• 31:58
  And then by the end of the third song is when the water was, like,
• 32:02
  standing up to my ankle.
• 32:04
  Nice.
• 32:06
  Nice.
• 32:06
  and right around somewhere around there and i was just like i'm not i can't do this this isn't just
• 32:12
  a short storm here that's gonna pass and i can dry off and yeah okay so i called an uber i go to get
• 32:20
  in the uber and i look at the guy i'm like is this okay i feel so bad he goes yeah yeah it's fine
• 32:25
  just get in got in i was just soaking wet and then ghost called me a little while later she's like
• 32:32
  they're gonna play they're gonna come in like yeah i'm done yeah because i was out in the
• 32:40
  they told us to go and check their social media for updates but the venue doesn't have service
• 32:49
  and so the only place to get signal was to go all the way back out to the car oh nice so i was my
• 32:58
  car smelled like wet dog for two weeks because i was sitting there trying to figure out what was
• 33:04
  going on trying to refresh and the the sites were all freezing and so finally some of the workers
• 33:15
  were like they're canceling everything and i was like well this checks out that sucks but we were
• 33:23
  gonna go meet up for dinner somewhere yep and so on the way out is when we got signal back
• 33:33
  and my phone started blowing up with people who were still there saying oh they're getting back
• 33:38
  on stage they're going on stage and that's when i called you yep and you were already back in
• 33:44
  Greenville at that point.
• 33:46
  Yeah, I was back at my hotel.
• 33:48
  So I turned around
• 33:49
  and
• 33:51
  joined the
• 33:54
  from the pictures, what did you say?
• 33:56
  1,000 or 2,000?
• 33:58
  Probably somewhere in between.
• 34:01
  But that many
• 34:02
  people waiting for
• 34:04
  what we thought was going to be
• 34:06
  the rest of the concert.
• 34:08
  Which never came.
• 34:10
  Right. But they drag it
• 34:12
  out for like two more days.
• 34:14
  because they
• 34:16
  after they called the cops on us for rioting
• 34:20
  when we were singing Spongebob
• 34:22
  so after they called the cops on us
• 34:24
  and the cops arrived with their
• 34:26
  sirens and lights going
• 34:27
  and jumping out of their cars
• 34:29
  they had like riot shields and batons or anything
• 34:32
  not that because we were literally
• 34:34
  singing Spongebob
• 34:35
  that's you know like inciting violence
• 34:38
  I know
• 34:39
  and we couldn't go to the bathroom
• 34:42
  there was a line at the bathroom
• 34:44
  who needs a bathroom it's overrated it was those porta potties anyway yeah but um yeah so after
• 34:50
  they called the cops on us and the cops arrived is when the venue said oh it's postponed until
• 34:57
  thursday and so that's when we actually left because we knew that there wasn't anything to
• 35:05
  stay for at that point and so we went all through wednesday being like all right
• 35:13
  thursday is the day i was making my plans again i had gotten a hotel because i wanted to be like
• 35:21
  in the front of the line right and i was like i can't get another hotel that's
• 35:28
  ridiculous but so i was making plans to like get up stupid early and drive back out there
• 35:35
  to try and get my spot i was like i was at the barricade i earned the barricade give me my
• 35:40
  barricade but i worked hard for that and then wednesday evening i think is when ghost finally
• 35:49
  was able to make their announcement of we knew that we weren't going to be able to play the show
• 35:55
  tuesday afternoon and we haven't been legally allowed to say anything until now
• 36:03
  but they had zero way because all their stuff got completely drenched there was no way that
• 36:12
  they were going to be able to play yeah yeah it was it was bad i've never seen anything quite like
• 36:18
  it the venue didn't want them to begin with no and they actually for a while there the venue was
• 36:24
  i think ghost actually is the one that that uh footed the bill to play again uh or was going to
• 36:32
  because the venue was saying, no, force majeure, you know,
• 36:36
  it's an act of nature, an act of God.
• 36:39
  We're not, you know, because it's even on the tickets, you know.
• 36:43
  This is an open-air event, you know, no cancellation
• 36:47
  or no refunds or whatever for, you know.
• 36:52
  Well, the stage wasn't even set up right.
• 36:55
  Like, there was zero protection for the elements on the stage.
• 36:58
  Like, no canopy for the performers, even?
• 37:00
  It's like right up top, but the sides are open.
• 37:03
  Yeah.
• 37:04
  There was a roof over them, but it was only covering the stage.
• 37:10
  And, you know, it was probably 30 feet up.
• 37:14
  So any angle to the rain, and it was coming down at an angle pretty good.
• 37:21
  I mean, the stage was flooding.
• 37:22
  Yeah.
• 37:24
  You sure they're not just a bunch of wimps?
• 37:25
  I mean, I saw Prince do that Super Bowl.
• 37:27
  You could literally see water hitting the guitars as they were playing, like raindrops hitting the face of the guitars.
• 37:36
  Guitars are waterproof, right?
• 37:37
  No.
• 37:39
  They are.
• 37:40
  They wanted to test that theory, though.
• 37:42
  You've got a pool, you've got a guitar.
• 37:44
  It was already tested in Simpsonville.
• 37:46
  Yeah, I know.
• 37:47
  I mean, what's a little water between friends?
• 37:49
  Makes the neck interesting, though.
• 37:52
  They sound better that way.
• 37:53
  That's what I've heard.
• 37:54
  apparently the band had been wanting to tell us at the event like while everybody was still there
• 38:02
  like we're not gonna be able to play sorry and the venue would not let them that's that's kind
• 38:09
  of crazy yeah the when the band themselves says we got we wanted to tell you but we got trapped
• 38:16
  in legalese yep yeah it was no good bad event bad venue then you're horrible never again god
• 38:24
  Not there. No way.
• 38:26
  I would 100% obviously try to see the band again.
• 38:31
  Yeah.
• 38:32
  But that venue, never.
• 38:34
  Never.
• 38:35
  It's really set up for more like a state fair stage type of a thing.
• 38:42
  I see.
• 38:42
  You know, middle of the day, small show, something like that.
• 38:46
  And you were there, like, from the beginning of the day,
• 38:49
  the fans were the ones that were organizing the lines.
• 38:52
  Mm-hmm.
• 38:54
  Like they were the ones who said, hey, this front parking is going to be ADA.
• 38:58
  So you going to have to go back three more parking lots And fans were the ones that told me that They said I keep your place go move your car
• 39:08
  Okay.
• 39:10
  There were two levels of VIP.
• 39:13
  Yeah.
• 39:14
  It wasn't until the venue themselves were like,
• 39:19
  oh, we're supposed to have two separate lines.
• 39:21
  And then the fans were like, hey, this version here,
• 39:25
  that version over there, go.
• 39:27
  what's the difference between the two?
• 39:30
  it was in stuff that you
• 39:31
  got
• 39:32
  I think for ours it was
• 39:36
  early
• 39:37
  entry we were supposed
• 39:39
  to be able to see the
• 39:41
  old props and stuff
• 39:43
  we didn't get to see that
• 39:45
  because it got rained out
• 39:46
  it flooded imagine that
• 39:50
  yeah
• 39:52
  and the other one got like
• 39:55
  extra merch essentially
• 39:57
  Yeah.
• 39:57
  Same stuff, same stuff, but more merch.
• 40:00
  Right.
• 40:01
  Yeah, I think the first level was extra merch,
• 40:03
  and then the second level was you got the merch,
• 40:05
  but you also got the experiences.
• 40:08
  I see.
• 40:09
  Tickets are not cheap anymore.
• 40:12
  No.
• 40:12
  No, that's such a scam right there.
• 40:16
  I mean, it's ridiculous.
• 40:17
  It used to be like, I've given you tickets.
• 40:20
  Yeah.
• 40:21
  They're like $15, $20.
• 40:24
  I don't even remember.
• 40:25
  Like, yeah.
• 40:25
  yeah 15 15 to 25 was pretty typical maybe 30 35 40 if it was like some really big event
• 40:34
  all right okay did i just have an issue or that just completely lose focus yeah it lost focus yeah
• 40:40
  there we go all right but yeah now now you're looking at you know i mean just about any show
• 40:49
  ga even you're going to be paying close to 100 bucks a ticket that's crazy yeah
• 40:55
  And that's if you don't have to buy them through like a third party.
• 40:58
  Yep.
• 40:59
  Yep.
• 40:59
  Yep.
• 41:00
  Yeah.
• 41:01
  When I was growing, when I was, oh, I guess I was in high school, just out of high school, somewhere around then, worked for a guy that did the ticket thing.
• 41:12
  So he would get a bunch of high schoolers together and give them all cash to go buy the best tickets they could find.
• 41:23
  and then he had tickets for the shows,
• 41:26
  but obviously he reselled them for like a huge premium.
• 41:31
  Now it's basically, you know, I don't know.
• 41:34
  I think the whole, you know, most of the StubHub stuff
• 41:37
  is basically all filled with just those types of people.
• 41:40
  You know what I mean?
• 41:42
  Even though they're supposed to be putting in place limits
• 41:45
  and stuff like that, but it doesn't apply when you just,
• 41:49
  you get a group of 10 people and each one goes and buys,
• 41:52
  four or eight tickets.
• 41:54
  Yeah.
• 41:55
  I remember back in the day,
• 41:57
  you'd get with a group of your friends
• 41:59
  and you'd camp out all night.
• 42:01
  Well, I mean,
• 42:02
  where we would get them,
• 42:04
  it was like some kind of music store.
• 42:07
  Maybe they fixed speakers
• 42:09
  and turntables and things,
• 42:11
  and they also had a ticket booth thing
• 42:13
  in the back.
• 42:15
  Cash only.
• 42:16
  I don't think you could use a credit card back then.
• 42:19
  Yeah, we would go to Tower Records.
• 42:22
  Yeah, that's where we would go.
• 42:23
  Once in a while, they would do like a handed out numbers, like a lottery kind of thing.
• 42:28
  You know, like it didn't just take whoever was waiting at the door first, but it did that a few times.
• 42:35
  Yeah.
• 42:36
  Yep.
• 42:36
  For us, it was Tower Records or they would have Ticketmaster box offices usually at the venues, you know,
• 42:43
  and some people would go up to the venue and do that or whatever.
• 42:46
  but pretty much record stores, sometimes Licorice Pizza, another record store for us.
• 42:54
  Oh, those days seem to be long gone, I guess.
• 42:57
  Oh, they are.
• 42:58
  And it's kind of a bummer, too, because the pricing, you know what I mean?
• 43:02
  It's just so out of control, you know?
• 43:05
  I mean, I guess if you're paying for a VIP experience or if it's a full seating arena
• 43:13
  and you're paying for like really good seats i can see that but you know it anymore if you really
• 43:21
  want a ticket somewhere you're almost if you don't have early access you're almost relegated
• 43:26
  to going through like a stub hub or something else yeah i mean you and i we were talking about like
• 43:34
  with tesla right oh yeah and then like even for like and they're not i mean in my opinion like
• 43:40
  you know, top of the line deal.
• 43:43
  And it was like, forget it, man.
• 43:44
  It's like, you know, what, two or three hundred bucks?
• 43:47
  Something like that.
• 43:47
  Yeah, sure.
• 43:48
  You know, it just doesn't seem worth it.
• 43:51
  250, 300 bucks for a band that, I mean, it'd be cool to see them, but let's face it, there
• 43:58
  has been.
• 43:58
  I mean, if it was under a hundred bucks, I'd say, you know, let's do it, but not for nothing.
• 44:02
  Yeah, same.
• 44:04
  And then add on top of that, it was like an hour and a half, two hour drive from you.
• 44:08
  so
• 44:10
  9-10 hours from us
• 44:12
  just a quick
• 44:14
  drop down there real quick
• 44:16
  go to the concert
• 44:18
  drive home
• 44:19
  I'm not saying they're not all talented musicians
• 44:22
  but you know
• 44:23
  for only knowing a couple
• 44:25
  songs
• 44:27
  not really worth it to me
• 44:29
  I know quite a few other songs
• 44:31
  and I would love to see them for nostalgia
• 44:34
  and everything else but not at top
• 44:36
  tier premium rates
• 44:38
  who was that tesla okay okay i here i was thinking you were talking about the car i was like that's
• 44:45
  a swerving and then they're not and their number one song is a cover isn't it tesla yeah no signs
• 44:53
  that's a cover i don't know that that's their number one song though is it i think so probably
• 44:58
  best known one i think yeah maybe to me it's a good one yeah no it's a good one no i i enjoy it
• 45:07
  Yeah.
• 45:08
  I think the best way...
• 45:10
  The band is very talented.
• 45:11
  Oh, yeah, they all are.
• 45:12
  They're really a talented band.
• 45:13
  Come on, you wacky...
• 45:16
  Just stop.
• 45:18
  Focus.
• 45:18
  Focus on Ghost.
• 45:19
  No.
• 45:20
  Look at Ghost.
• 45:21
  No.
• 45:22
  Look at Ghost.
• 45:23
  No.
• 45:24
  Look at Ghost.
• 45:27
  It's because we're losing the light of the day.
• 45:29
  You need your auxiliary lighting.
• 45:32
  Yeah.
• 45:33
  But I thought the way that we went to go see Green Day
• 45:36
  turned out really well.
• 45:37
  I think that was great.
• 45:39
  General admission festival.
• 45:41
  So if you got there early, then you got the spots up front.
• 45:45
  Yeah.
• 45:46
  We had the good tickets so you could get peace and a nice air-conditioned.
• 45:51
  Right.
• 45:51
  And not like the peasants who had to go.
• 45:56
  The peasants in the shithole.
• 45:57
  They had to drink out of the trough.
• 46:00
  They say free water, but for them, they literally had to drink out of a trough.
• 46:07
  we got liquid man oh man and then yeah for us we had you can drink with death water and you could
• 46:13
  buy drinks you know of course if you want something else but i did definitely took advantage of that
• 46:20
  yeah it was hot it was hot that day well it's way worth it to pay the extra for those vip
• 46:27
  things yeah in my opinion even like when we went and saw willie nelson and stuff oh he didn't show
• 46:34
  but Bob Dylan was there.
• 46:36
  Did you like Bob?
• 46:38
  You know what?
• 46:39
  It was so hot.
• 46:42
  Yeah.
• 46:42
  And it's an outdoor venue.
• 46:45
  And the way it was set up,
• 46:47
  like it was an outdoor venue where we were was covered,
• 46:51
  but it was in kind of the bottom of a bowl.
• 46:55
  And so it was like just, I can't even, it was just hot.
• 47:00
  like like don't want to exist outside anymore hot and i tried i tried we both did and it was just
• 47:09
  like we couldn't find anywhere to like really be in shade and the air was still and it was just like
• 47:16
  i'm i'm not gonna make it through this it's just too hot i'm too old to suffer through discomfort
• 47:22
  for something like that you know you just watch it on youtube in the comfort of your home yeah
• 47:29
  Pretty much.
• 47:29
  You know, put on a rent-a-party bus and just play whatever you want.
• 47:34
  There you go.
• 47:35
  There you go.
• 47:36
  Play YouTube videos.
• 47:37
  That's always fun.
• 47:38
  That was actually pretty cool last night.
• 47:40
  That was pretty good.
• 47:41
  If we had a little screen up there, it would have been even better.
• 47:43
  Your arm was getting tired holding it up there.
• 47:46
  Yeah, yeah.
• 47:48
  Sitting in the Sprinter van with my phone up like this,
• 47:52
  hooked up to the Bluetooth speakers.
• 47:53
  The Mercedes Sprinter van.
• 47:55
  That's just a regular Dodge.
• 47:56
  well i didn't yeah it was nice it was very nice with one exception i don't know who designed that
• 48:07
  road to get back behind the seating oh that was oh god yeah but there's what the hell i had to
• 48:14
  squish myself at that well you know hey you watch their buster just saying i mean honestly
• 48:24
  it was pretty tight
• 48:27
  even if I was
• 48:28
  not carrying extra weight
• 48:31
  Nas had no problem at all
• 48:33
  that's not true
• 48:33
  he had to squeeze through too
• 48:36
  that's where you know
• 48:38
  it's like wow
• 48:39
  you're the only one that walked right through
• 48:42
  no, had no problem
• 48:44
  well that's true
• 48:45
  okay
• 48:46
  she's just a little
• 48:49
  tiny
• 48:50
  you know
• 48:52
  that was a good time i enjoyed it yeah no i i'm you know every alpaca
• 49:01
  has been amazing this is no exception for me at least i just i can't wait to get that painting
• 49:09
  framed and and put up that we we really didn't explain that though then like how that worked
• 49:16
  Why don't you do that?
• 49:19
  We rented an art room at a painting tutorial place.
• 49:24
  I guess I got what it is.
• 49:25
  Art studio.
• 49:26
  Art studio.
• 49:27
  That's what it is.
• 49:28
  One of those things where you can go and paint ceramics or, you know, say, hey, I want to paint, you know, something with some friends.
• 49:34
  Exactly.
• 49:35
  So there was nine of us, and we had a large painting that was done up in sections.
• 49:42
  And so we made a big mural that all kind of came together in the one gigantic painting.
• 49:49
  And it was the biggest that woman's ever done, right?
• 49:52
  Yeah, that's what she was saying.
• 49:53
  She said she's done them with like two, three, or four.
• 49:57
  Right.
• 49:58
  But never with nine of them.
• 50:00
  Nine.
• 50:00
  And so each of us had a 20 by 27 canvas.
• 50:04
  What is the overall measurements of that thing put together?
• 50:07
  Well, that would be 60 by 81.
• 50:10
  Yeah, that's pretty big.
• 50:11
  yeah it is pretty big so we each painted one separate section and like even though we each
• 50:18
  did our own thing and it came together really well it does it looks really cool with every
• 50:24
  every section being different but all still blending together but like you were saying a
• 50:30
  little it is a little stressful because you know you want to do a good job and it's the time you
• 50:35
  I thought I was doing great because it was a picture of a barn with horses is what the overall picture was.
• 50:42
  And I had a piece of the barn with the roof.
• 50:45
  And I thought I was doing a really good job painting the roof.
• 50:49
  And then I'm like, that's supposed to be the barn.
• 50:52
  So I had to turn a large portion of the roof into the barn.
• 50:57
  And it actually turned out okay because it added like shadowing and a little bit of texture to it.
• 51:04
  you'll never know. Nice.
• 51:07
  But now when you're looking up at it
• 51:09
  on the wall and you're like
• 51:10
  if you ever notice that the barn is a different color
• 51:13
  like on that one section, that's
• 51:14
  because it used to be the roof.
• 51:17
  Well, you know.
• 51:19
  We could have just
• 51:20
  done our barn and then it would just
• 51:22
  all have been white.
• 51:24
  Well, it has green on it too.
• 51:27
  That's true. A little bit.
• 51:29
  Did you see the weather vane?
• 51:31
  Yeah. It turned out pretty good, right?
• 51:32
  It did.
• 51:33
  My wife did that.
• 51:34
  That was awesome.
• 51:35
  I thought she did a good job.
• 51:37
  I thought it was a perfect touch.
• 51:40
  I was kind of wondering because there wasn't one there for a while when I kept looking.
• 51:45
  At the end, there was.
• 51:47
  And I was like, awesome.
• 51:49
  Did she do that last?
• 51:50
  I think so, yeah.
• 51:51
  Okay.
• 51:52
  That makes sense.
• 51:54
  It was pretty fun.
• 51:55
  Pretty cool.
• 51:56
  And I cannot wait to see it up in the house.
• 51:59
  It's going to be amazing.
• 52:00
  Yeah, that's going to be pretty awesome.
• 52:02
  It will. It will.
• 52:05
  little piece of each of the, you know, what we call them, the permanent members in the
• 52:12
  United Alpaca Council.
• 52:16
  The United Alpaca Council.
• 52:19
  Yeah.
• 52:21
  Or the UPC.
• 52:23
  UAC.
• 52:25
  Oh, yeah, UAC.
• 52:27
  UAC.
• 52:28
  UAC.
• 52:30
  The Grand Alpaca United Council.
• 52:33
  we are guac
• 52:35
  I could give a high that
• 52:40
  nice man
• 52:42
  yeah
• 52:43
  the shirts for next year
• 52:45
  wonder what we're gonna do
• 52:48
  it'll be green
• 52:49
  yeah
• 52:51
  with you know guac
• 52:53
  guac
• 52:54
  I like green green's good
• 52:56
  you like military green
• 52:59
  I'm wearing your shirt color I think
• 53:01
  right now
• 53:02
  I usually just do black or gray
• 53:07
  but my wife's gotten into this
• 53:11
  kick of getting me shirts with color on them
• 53:14
  which is cool, I like shirts with color on them mostly
• 53:19
  as long as the color is black
• 53:22
  I can kind of deal with the darker
• 53:27
  in general, no reds, no oranges, none of that stuff
• 53:32
  tie-dye. Yeah. Although
• 53:33
  my Stitch shirt is
• 53:36
  pretty cool. I like
• 53:37
  kind of want to turn the light on but I think if I do it just going to whack everything out Probably Yeah Me through the podcast Probably Are we midway
• 53:48
  Almost.
• 53:49
  It'll take you three hours, right?
• 53:51
  I don't know if my back can take it.
• 53:53
  Yeah, we can wrap up.
• 53:55
  We can wrap up soon.
• 53:57
  I think it's been fun.
• 53:58
  It'll be fun to edit it up and see what we come up with.
• 54:02
  Yeah.
• 54:02
  So, I mean, yeah, this is the first time we've actually done something together in person.
• 54:07
  yeah that's fun
• 54:08
  it actually it is
• 54:10
  we've had six years of that
• 54:12
  but we've never you know
• 54:14
  recorded it for posterity
• 54:16
  yeah
• 54:17
  entertainment
• 54:18
  yeah maybe next year we'll do a
• 54:20
  alpaca interview one
• 54:23
  ah
• 54:24
  might not be a bad gig
• 54:26
  yes
• 54:27
  a little 15 minutes with each
• 54:29
  each member of alpaca
• 54:31
  come in
• 54:31
  sit in the hot seat
• 54:33
  nice
• 54:35
  yeah
• 54:35
  I think that'd be good.
• 54:38
  And then we could literally have fireside chats.
• 54:42
  Well, maybe.
• 54:44
  It'd be weird taking all this out there.
• 54:46
  It would.
• 54:47
  Laptop.
• 54:48
  Just need a laptop.
• 54:49
  Yeah, we have a laptop, no problem.
• 54:51
  But, you know, the mixer and the cloud lifter and the boom arms and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
• 54:58
  He's after the noise reduction.
• 55:01
  Well, no, I mean, you need that big thing for these things.
• 55:05
  Oh, yeah.
• 55:05
  and these things have to sit on these things well i guess they don just get some of these you can hold them in your hand yeah oh wait y started setting this up and i was like wow this is in depth i don know what this stuff does really neither do I neither do I yeah now you lying how am I lying
• 55:27
  not you him
• 55:29
  Alex is the one that helped me get all this stuff
• 55:32
  and then I
• 55:33
  used the
• 55:35
  I'll just say his name
• 55:38
  Carmen at Sweetwater
• 55:40
  they don't sponsor us
• 55:41
  we're not even worthy of being sponsored
• 55:44
  to be honest with you
• 55:45
  but Carmen at Sweetwater.com.
• 55:49
  Carmen is a great guy and helped me get the right gear,
• 55:54
  made great suggestions,
• 55:56
  and saved me some money too, which was really nice.
• 56:00
  Called up and followed up to make sure everything's working.
• 56:04
  If I had any questions or, you know, whatever it is,
• 56:08
  a very, very awesome customer service,
• 56:11
  great full-service audio place for any kind of studio recording type equipment.
• 56:22
  I feel pretty good that I made pretty decent choices
• 56:25
  because he didn't even deviate too much from what I suggested to you.
• 56:30
  No.
• 56:31
  He didn't try to upsell you on anything.
• 56:33
  I mean, I did a pretty good job of that.
• 56:37
  Yeah.
• 56:37
  Well, you know.
• 56:39
  Yes, you did.
• 56:39
  I put all the stuff on your list that I probably would have had on my list.
• 56:45
  Yeah, no, he did a good job.
• 56:46
  And he even said, this is a great, you know, great kit to start with for sure.
• 56:52
  And he said you got a lot of flexibility So you be able to expand and use this for a very long time I mean I did send you a link to that Newman mic Yeah Yeah
• 57:03
  You don't seem interested.
• 57:05
  No, I don't need to spend that much money.
• 57:07
  Not at all.
• 57:10
  No, I think yours sounds very good.
• 57:12
  Yeah, I'm actually a fan of this RE20.
• 57:14
  Yeah.
• 57:15
  It sounds better than I thought it would.
• 57:19
  Really?
• 57:19
  Yeah.
• 57:20
  Nice.
• 57:21
  Yeah.
• 57:22
  It's nice when expectations are exceeded.
• 57:25
  Yeah, I like it.
• 57:28
  And now that I got the little shock mount on there, it's fantastic.
• 57:35
  Before that, I'd touch my table like this and you're just going.
• 57:42
  Like that?
• 57:45
  Yeah, like that.
• 57:45
  That's because of this.
• 57:46
  This is not as good.
• 57:49
  Yeah.
• 57:50
  this arm here.
• 57:52
  I'm offended.
• 57:55
  Well, you know.
• 57:57
  What we got.
• 57:58
  That's what we got.
• 57:59
  We're working with what we have.
• 58:00
  This seems to be doing just fine.
• 58:02
  No, you sound pretty good.
• 58:03
  Thank you.
• 58:06
  You sound great, too.
• 58:07
  I'd say we wrap it up here
• 58:08
  before the screen just almost goes black on us.
• 58:11
  Nice.
• 58:12
  Pretty soon here.
• 58:13
  We're actually a proper skin tone right now.
• 58:17
  Bye, everybody.
• 58:18
  Bye.
• 58:20
  join us next time where we'll talk about equally nonsensical things and try and entertain you for,
• 58:27
  I don't know,
• 58:28
  some period of time.
• 58:30
  We can try.
• 58:31
  Hashtag plans.
• 58:33
  Right.
• 58:34
  Peace out.
• 58:35
  Later.