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Episode 156: Landlords and Live-Service Games Suck · Chucks Cantina

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This is Chuck's Cantina podcast, where anything and everything is up for discussion.
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And now here's your barman, Chuck O'Donnell. Oh oh oh, time to
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start the show. Oh oh car park place? Yeah, car park place,
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car park place. If you missed last week's episode, you'll miss that.
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Shack Zilla taught me a valuable lesson in not the same places. They
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don't sponsor the show, so fuck I'll sing their jingles though. I literally
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I think it one span sense I don't be listened last week and one span
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of sense I said like six actual businesses, and then it caught me out,
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like wait, why is it like like Drewdyven like I said the communications
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marketing, Like Drew's like seeing like he's like really random places. You know.
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He's like I think he called like one like you call it one place
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like sweater bike or something like that sweater bike. Yeah, I'm just like
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like, oh, I get it, Like you know, yeah, let's
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not say the name of the places, but you know, we'll say things
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and make it obvious, make it freak, and you cut out, you
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cut out. He's so excited, ladies and gentlemen, he cut out while
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he's getting his microphone back then while he's dingled, I dingled my freaking cables
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disconnected me. Oh you dingle that? Huh? You call yourself away and
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I'll show you something you can dingle. Tack on my goblet? Huh?
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I thought you said he said, took him my goblet, and sim's gonna
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put it your goblin. Have some old man freak out on that person?
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What the person? Have I entered the cantena. Are we rolling? Yes?
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Decompressed? Oh geez, hold on, I got gotta get through the
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intro ship. I'm saying, Welcome to Chuck's Cantina. I'm yourfer barment host.
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We really want to call me Chuck. Join us today? Is O
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G. Patron Patrick obviously, while he's getting set up also joining us.
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Well, he's not really here. He's sleeping. He's knocked out, is
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my dog, Tully. I know you're good. You wake him up,
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Wake him up. He's actually seeming like a baby. We think you know,
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it's really quick. It kind of hit me last night Kate and I
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were watching TV and she was laying like he was like laying like on her
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lap like full like like just fully sprawled out, and it like hit me
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there like my dog, like we've had him for four months now, which
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is crazy to say almost actually have four months tomorrow, literally four months and
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literally he was sprawled out. Yeah, no, it was crazy how because
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literally it was like not even like two months ago, like he was like
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laying from like her lap to like her knees, and like he was past
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her knees and like not even two months ago, like he was. No,
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I'm just like, what the fuck? Dog getting old? No,
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they really quick. The dog. The dog deaded me one story short.
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I won't say where for privacy purposes, but my wife and I we're going
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on a little trip next week, and last couple of days were trying figure
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out where he's gonna stay. And I got that I'll sort it out,
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and then right away I got out like dad worried, like asking these questions
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like all right, I got some I got some questions about your uh,
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your watchability of my animal. You know. The people are like, why
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i'm your mom, Yeah, well I know dogs, So this is I
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know you're used to bears, mom, don't let your bears eat my dog.
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Oh God, be kicking ass over there, probably know kick their ass.
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You should let me come on over here. I'll show you what this
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pay for kicking kick away. I don't know. I love I love that
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it is. Chris Tucker started off as like Hartman. I went to Chris
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Tucker. That was pretty good, really quick. I am drinking and I
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am gonna try let me see what's in the fridge. Here. We'll be
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on the fridge. He's reaching down underneath his desk. He's fishing around in
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the fridge. Gotta get the ring, got the flavor. I'm just knocking
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it over. I am drinking. This was given This was given to me
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by a co worker's husbands, one of no techic to my coworkers. We're
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from the same place. One of our husbands gave me this beer because long
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storry short. They went back to Germany because they're coming here for some v
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like you know, uh, interim assignments. And he had this like he's
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like, I wanted to I wanted to try Wisconsin. He's not. Why
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is he Russian? You want to try try thesconsin beers. You wanted to
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try, so he gave me a It's if you're from the Illino, Wisconsin,
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you know you've heard of nuclaries, you know my you know spot of
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Calasogos to go to the pretty good. They're pretty good. The preging there's
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like was it like naked? Something's the good one too, But he gave
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me I've never had this called dancing man wheat mm hmm. So that's gonna
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be crisp. Jesus, what the fuck are you doing? Sorry? I
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was doing the old knocking on the desk thing. Are you gonna try to
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open a bottle on your desk? Yeah? It didn't work out. This
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is why the kay of nice things. You have a bottle opener in your
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house? I know you do. I know there's probably like a magnet.
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He should get a one of those fancy magnet. Oh my god, there's
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literally a bottle up right here. What you doing so for there? Just
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banging on his desk. I've been working monitors. I've got monitors on the
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desk, got a custom PC. He's your quick live review shout around.
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I wish it was colder, but it's actually not bad. They're pretty good.
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That's what we should do. The long waited, the long waited.
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Uh here, this is what we'll do. Since this is far overdue.
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I will be right back. I will assemble the ranking system of beers that
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Chuck gave me. Wait, okay, can be your drink, so really
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quick. While he does that, let me get to the go ahead.
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Here's my drink. I'm drinking some tea. I'm drinking some tea because you
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already drink the beers, right, you're not gonnadrink the I'm not gonna drink
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them all now. The fucking cans have been lined up in order on my
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fridge for years, like years, it felt like he is I'll go grab
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him and take This is a smart way. I'm gonna take a pics that
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way. I don't have to move eight cans over here. God, that'd
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be loud as fun. I'm speaking in my headphones like that mic from that'd
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be loud. It'd be too loud. Don't do it. List enough,
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keep anyway, I haven't seen doing yet, So please let's put it the
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slip review comings to and I promise anyway. While he's doing that, as
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always, you to join us today. You can find us at Chuck's Cantina
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on your socials Chuckscantina at gmail dot com. I already said I'll say it
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again, I'm your favorite barman. Host it coming chuck apparently, Jesus Christ,
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great audio, the strongest man alive. Are you okay? Tell me
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assemblies in order anymore? Sounds like just it sounds like you just walked into
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Steve Boston's like shed Jesus Christ, M all right, so okay, coming
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in? Oh I really quit just before. No, I just want to
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make sure you can hear you. Put my head thones on. I just
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I just want to explain to the people, uh people. So oj Patron
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was at my house a couple of weeks ago, and he was just stopping
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by, and my wife and I were doing a lot of cleaning gear and
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a lot of stuff and stuff like that because it's that time of year.
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And I used to be this beer kind of club thing. Sorry, this
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isde You're fine, dude, It's actually good. It's funny though, It's
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all good. And I had bestowed upon him, he's my bro a gift
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of six. I sound like an alcoholic with all these cancel it like cold
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water. Let's go. No, it was eight eight. But here's the
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thing chocked to one of one of the cans that I lost one of the
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cans by accident. But it was that Cranberry, that Cranberry weak beer,
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and that came in dead last, and I'm not gonna lie came last,
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all right, because it was decent, but it was not bad and it
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was not good. But then the second and last it was the spark of
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a genius. That'd be cool if you could like put all these in the
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links to use in the bios of this episode the bios like a podcast episode
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has a biography, all right, I mean it does. Actually you know
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what I mean. You know what I mean in the description of the episode.
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But that's from Melvin Brewing and that's from uh Wyoming. Actually, that's
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fucking crazy. Yeah, that one came in second to last because it was
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a bitter ale with tea leaves. Now, I am all for trying new
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combinations of things, trying different flavors of things. I've had beers that had
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peanut butter that were like fucking whiskeys that had marshamallow, Like, who cares,
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if it's good, it's good. This one was close to good.
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It was tasty, but it was not It tasted like a good combo.
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I bet maybe different tea, I don't know. Not their fault. They
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wanted to try it. They called it Spark of Genius, which was lofty,
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but you know what, it was quality. It tasted good. But
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the next few beers are not just good, and they're a little bit better
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than good. The next one's he says, you say, we have something
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to say, You had something to say, No, I just I just
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wanted to just say, like, this is why I've always said a couple
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of times in the podcast, I always recommend if there is a brewery in
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your area or anything like that, to go try those because while I'm not
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part of that beer club anymore, where I got those beers I gave to
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you, and I still have some of those. Literally other night, Kaitlin
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and I were just having dinner and I'm like, you know what, I
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even had a beer and Mom, I'm gonna open one up. And I
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had this and it was an ip I couldn't tell you which one it was.
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You might have one for all I know, and it was just it
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was like one of those IPAs. I literally did double take. I'm like,
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shit, like this is really good, and I'm like we're like I
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started like writing it down, okay, like like here's what it is.
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I can like try to find it online or something like that. But just
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but yeah, carry I apologize, Oh you're fine, and no need to
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apology. We got a whole episode ahead of this, and besides, we're
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leading. This is all leading up to why I Am, Why I am
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drinking this week, so to speak, So lady, how I always like
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to say, sometimes I drop pipe bombs. My friend will be dropping a
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pipe on tonight, you know what. And theoretically, thereatically, of course
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they're theoretically yes, we'll drop the pipe now anyway, No, because that
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I just wanted to take a second and talk about why this podcast is so
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so great, so worthwhile, so worth your time. It's that it's a
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slice of life. There are no there are no what's the word structures for
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this episode. We gave up on that idea a long time ago, earlier
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that we did that because it is off the cuff, it is ad lib.
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It is just who these peeps are. That truck just happens to have
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in that canteena from time to time. Um, but yeah, shall I
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continue or please please continue? All right, So this might break your heart,
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but it's it's for a good reason. Wait that came out wrong,
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But this is al Segundo's Broken Skull. I p A. This isn't fifth
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place. I think it just speaks to the quality of the competition. And
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let's be honest. Steve Austin had a bit of a He had a bit
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of a unfair advantage in this poll because he had two beers while other companies
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only had the one beer companies Anyway, Yeah, did you know? Did
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you know he has two more beers out of that company? Really, I'd
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love to try him. He I, okay really quick and I'll get you
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sorry, he has a double I PA, which I don't know what the
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fool? Yeah? Well, and then he just and then they just released
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like uh they called it a three sixteen beer, and like I tried to
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like what exactly is this? And like one person was just like just try
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it, you know, fine, Like okay, like sure, I'll just
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try it. I guess six is coming up? That was Yeah, those
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are this recording it's in two days. Who knows it isn't two days?
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Wow? Yeah, happy three sixteen brother? Ye amen to that. I'll
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drink of that brother. Also a Happy Pie Day also be Pie Day to
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Day and recorded Happy Saint Patrick's Day to Irish folk including morning. Fuck.
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I can do that because I'm Irish and I'm Scottish. I can I can
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talk like these whatever you fucking you mess with us? This beer is actually
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not what's so goddamn it promoting things and I was promoting the show. I
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wait, this whole this whole fucking episode is me promoting these different beers.
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It's fine, I got the purpose this was. That was the original concept
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of the show was we talk and ship, we sometimes get drunk, but
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whilst we tried different things on like every other episode, just to like,
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you know, be like, hey, this is pretty good, this is
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pretty good too. Continue are you fine? Al? Steve Austin broke A
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s call I p A one of the best uh I p A I p
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as that I've ever had. It was the best version of the base I
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p A that you could wish for. It was crisp, ahead bite.
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It was great. That's hype praise number four. It's a live East Coast
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style India I p A from the Melvin Company as well. So again,
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Melvin a little uneven in the playing field here. That one was excellent.
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That one was, like I said, East Coast IPA has a pretty decent
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alc by volume. But yeah, man, it is really fucking it laps,
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dude, It's it woke you up and caught you by surprise, caught
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you by the booboo and was like, you know again, I'm remembering the
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reviews of these beers that I had like months ago. Anyway. Number three
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els again Steve Austin, Broken Skull American Lagger. That was fucking tasty.
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That is the best lagger I've had in a long time. Very good,
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very crisp, still light, still a little like lighter, you know what
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I mean than some of his I pas in this list, But really tasty,
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really good. I know some people that they really like that lager or
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they're not fans of it at all. Oh my god. Yeah, it's
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the best locker I've had. I do a lot of time, well until
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earlier in this list, if I could remember. The next is the East
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Brother Beer Company, the Monster Itself. This is a brown ale, and
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man, let me tell you, when you look for a brown ale,
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sometimes you get something that's a little too leaning into like a dark style area.
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Sometimes you get a brown ale that's really just like a red ale or
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just really fucking light. This was perfect. This was fucking perfect. Yeah,
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perfect brown ale and number two spot, number one spot, let's talk
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about it. Bonita Bonita Mountain Style pale ale. Wow. Man, I
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could drink this all day. I shouldn't and I won't, but it was
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that fucking good. Like it was like it didn't feel like drinking a beer.
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I felt like drinking a glass of lemonade. It was so perfect,
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it was so refreshing. Yeah, it really took me a surprise. Brewd
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this ship. It was the same people. Lammy, yeah, it's Melvin
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again, Melvin again. Yeah. I think the Beer Club, like the
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Beer Cub like most of their beers were from the Melvin Browmin Company. They
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didn't which is where they didn't like promote it, which was weird because I
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remember that because it's like the third time I got a case for them.
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I'm like, all right, like this is like the third time I just
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is all from Melvin. There was one and I can't remember it was,
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and that I was one of the worst ones I had from them. And
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because you know from where, not gonna say who if you live in the
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Lake County, Cook County area, it's pretty obvious, but uh, there
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was one that was from like Illinois, and I was like, oh sweet,
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like like local, kind of like I know exactly where this one.
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I know where this place is. I can try it. It was one
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of the worst ones ever read. But it was a beer. It was
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a It was one of those like tea infused ones, which I'm not really
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a teen infused guy. So that's why I don't think I liked it that
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much when I say it was like one of the worst ones, not like
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the worst beers I ever had, but it was like like of all the
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one there was like one of the worst ones I ran. But with that
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digression, I'm glad. I'm glad you enjoyed the bruise. That's what's thank
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you. Thank you as a gift for my friend. It was very nice.
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You know, I do what else do you want? Hey, hey,
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you're a gay guy. You fucking this guy's out of him he's crazy.
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All right, Well, I just wanna we'll get to like some we'll
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get to your little thing here or not little thing, your thing here in
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a minute. I just want to give a little quick, just like update
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on how things are going with you. There's a few things I want to
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talk about. There's a few there's I know you want to talk about before
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we get to the the things on the list, the tea. The tea,
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because I got a little t not as crazy not well, let me
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take it back, not as big as your tea, but mine might be
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bigger in terms of the realm of who it effects. But I can talk
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about the uh huh, I'm gonna talk about the yeah, cause of bombardment
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and talking about the continue Okay, how are you well? No, man,
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the reason I'm heated is you can probably tell from listening. I just
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sound so riled up right now. The reason, oh so I'm so upset
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triggered. M No, but I am. I'm fucking uh tilted. You
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could say that, Okay, fucking tilted right now because tell me more.
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Well, the apartment uh they live in again, I'm not gonna say names.
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Already named all the names from earlier in the segment. If you forgot,
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they go ahead and rewind. Well wait, you're back. Cool here
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we are, thank you, welcome back, and well I'm tilted, as
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we once said, because the whatever company that owns my apartment building is deciding
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that my current abode for the year of you know, for the span of
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July to July of twenty twenty five, My apartment needs to be three hundred
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more dollars more expensive a month for no reason. Apparently because other people aren't
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paying their rent enough was their reason they gave, which was so bullshit.
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And then also because they these prices were what the apartment was worth the entire
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time, and it's merely being raised to current market value, which was also
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some bullshit because as we you know, undoubtedly started doing, we started looking
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at other apartments in the area, and there's nothing comparable to what we're living
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in that will go for that amount. So basically, landlords up the rent
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of the shape or the style. But you know what sucks more, Truck,
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is that, Chruck. I don't know why I called your truck right
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now, Chuck. You know what sucks even worse, Chuck, is that
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Indiana is one of those awesome states where the person who's property you are living
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on, person you pay monthly for the right to live there, they can
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not only raise your rent whenever they want, they can raise it however much
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they decide to, of course, because they have the right to do that,
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and they have the right to do that without providing any type of explanation
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or or you know, retionale or anything like that reasoning to do that and
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anyway, so shit kind of hit the fan a little bit. Jesus.
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You know, that was Tuesday, and so here we are Thursday afternoon,
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and you know, we've kind of found we've kind of found some options that
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are good, kind of found out some options that will afford us to you
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know, gain gain space in our living home living situation, our household and
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kind of keep the price the same and locked that price in for a good
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long time. Nice. So the borel of the story is, you know,
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when life handy lemons, you make lemonade, and when life decides to
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raise your rent, she say, fuck that shit, come out but that
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ship anyway, Yeah, I I'll never forget. Never I'll forget. Oh
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God, I'll just say I'll briefly say this. I'm not gonna say the
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whole scoop of it. For a reason. The scoop. I lived in
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an apartment I can say Milwaukee, because there was multiple apartments in Milwaukee,
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and one of the apartments I moved into I had to move out for I
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think it was literally just like, hey, I'm going home for the summer.
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I'm not gonna pay for this place for three months if I'm not here
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kind of thing. So anyway, so I told the landlord this all cool,
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man, hey brads, that have you. It was great, blah
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blah blah blah blah, all that jazz. So anyway, a couple months
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go by, and let's just say it was one of those summers where again
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we're growing you learn from your stakes. It was one of tho summers was
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like literally like end of like halfway or not halfway, like almost you know,
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end of July, beginning of all. I guess I'm like, oh
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shit, I need a place to live in Milwaukee. And so anyway,
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so I was looking for places and stuff like that. So I called I
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just happened like I called my own landlord. I'm like, hey, man,
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by any chance, I know you own a few places. Do you
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have anything available? And they guy literally goes, actually, Charles, no
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joke. Your apartment's opening up at the end of this month because the people
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that lived there only wanted a two to three monthlies. Like, well,
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that's great right away. I should have known something was up because this landlord
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did not allow two three monthlies. So unless unless they knew him or something
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like that. Whatever. So anyway, but the point is he only it
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was always six months to a year. That was his deal. And after
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six months you were able to essentially walk in the day before that last day
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of the month and go, hey, I'm out after this month or whatever,
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and he was cool with it as long as you wrote it down or
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sent him an email. Anyway, when I left the apartment the first time,
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there were some issues with the oven I had, and uh I had
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documented those, and then there was an issue with I believe one of the
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lights, and then one of the walls had a debt in the wall because
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my wife attacked me and I accidentally I put a hole in the wall with
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my knee, so and I patched it then not myself. Everything like that.
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So three months ago, by right, I'm moving to this apartment and
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the guy's like, hey, go ahead and be black blah blah blah,
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literally same rent, same everything, like cool, great, thanks, this
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is great for me. I trust you. I trust you, you're a
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good guy. Anything, no joke. And here's what I swear to God.
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Anytime anything ever happened with that apartment or someone was going out like like
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a light went out, or like there wasn't because remember like one of the
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lights, like the electric it was an older building, electrical in the in
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the kitchen always went in and out. Electrician there that day. Great,
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And it was always the same thing when I was always something different. So
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anyway, get to the point. Go into the apartment the second time.
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Here's your list. Hey, write anything that's not right. Cool. I
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go in and the part of the wall that I patched, I saw was
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a little indented. I'm like, okay, well that wasn't me. Wrote
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that down. Walk into the kitchen, same part of the even doesn't work,
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still doesn't work. Write that down. Write a couple of little more
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things I noticed about blah blah blah. Fast forward to a year later.
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This guy was so this guy literally came and helped me move out. He
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helped me because I'm like, hey, I'm moving in, I'm moving or
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I think I was like, hey, I'm moving to a camp a place
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closer on campus, or I was actually moving with Kaitlin, sorry, moving
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with my girlfriend and some friends of ours like baby heay go good man.
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Blah blah blah. The guy was something like he was actually potentially selling some
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place like, hey, good for you make it small talk good. I
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literally had a beer with this guy. So I handed the sheet the day
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I moved in, and he goes, hey, you know when you move
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out, document anything that blah blah blah, and I said the only thing
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that I documented was like, hey, I hunt a few pictures up,
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but I patchoes myself. You gotta pay a great cool. I don't know
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how this guy got her number, because this guy did not require a co
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signer nothing. This guy somehow got my mom's phone number. I don't know
27:25
how your son knows me this. That da da da da. My Mom's
27:32
like, who the fuck are you? First of all, like, first
27:36
of all, who are you? I don't know what you're talking about.
27:37
YadA yeah, yeada. So my momld he goes, hey, this guy
27:40
and by the way, I'm I'm literally camping with or I'm not camping.
27:42
I'm up north at this lake house with my now beautiful wife and my father.
27:48
It's like the friends, no joke. This is the first time they're
27:49
meeting, you know. It's like a big deal to me, like,
27:51
oh my wife, you know, my girlfriend that I'm thinking about potentially marrying
27:55
someday. Yeahda YadA YadA, you know she mean my dad for the first
27:57
time, blah blahlah, huge deal and all that stuff. And I'm sitting
28:00
I'm like, what the fuck, Like, what are you talking about?
28:03
So I call the guy and he goes, Charles, you owe me this,
28:07
you owe me that, And I'm like, what are you talking?
28:10
Goes the oven doesn't work. This doesn't work. I go whoa, whoa,
28:14
whoa wa hold the fucking phone. I go the oven. He goes
28:18
yeah, and he literally says, the top left corner oven will not turn
28:22
on. Do you know what that's about? And I'm like, yeah,
28:25
how about this. Look at my first lease with you we talked about I
28:27
wrote that on their asshole. So then the guy goes. Then the guy
28:33
all of a sudden, he's like flabber He's like cussing me out something.
28:36
I'm just being calm. I'm a sinner and my dad here is this.
28:38
He's laughing his ass off. He's like clearly like because you know, you
28:41
know, he's like, oh, yeah, I remember when I was in
28:42
your age, landlord's or assholes blah blah blah. So anyway, the guy
28:45
just simply goes you owe me this amount of money. Either you pay that
28:49
artist keep your deposit. And I'm like, I'm like, you're just gonna
28:53
so wait. Either I pay you like it was like double what the deposit
28:56
was, almost like like, so way, either I pay you that,
29:00
or you're just gonna keep my deposit. Goes yeah, you just want to
29:02
keep my deposit. He goes, well, I mean would help with some
29:03
of the damage you caused. And I go all right, here's what we're
29:06
gonna do, okay, and here's the Thankfully I studied media law a little
29:08
bit because of what I was in college. He goes, I'm in the
29:11
state of Wisconsin and so are you. So by this way, I am
29:12
able to record this call without having a the other party's consent. So therefore
29:17
I multiple witnesses saying this blah blah blah blah, goat to it. Either
29:19
you ford me my money by tomorrow, no check, no nothing, I
29:22
want Vemo or in the pink, or I will be essentially did the legal
29:26
jargon left My dad just laughing his ass off, and the guy's like,
29:33
you got nothing on me, Charles, and hen Han's up the phone and
29:37
I'm like my dad is like is it, Like my dad goes, okay,
29:41
that was this like a he goes like okay, like I know you
29:44
kind of stood in film a little bit. Was this like a like a
29:45
movie script theme. I'm like, no, God, no, why do
29:52
I picture Danny de Vito saying that, I'll tell you what this guy looked
29:56
like in a second, because it's nothing like that. I'm not even joking.
29:59
Then after nothing, I get a notification on my phone from the bank,
30:06
like a big deal for this guy. Like no, And I think
30:08
what it was was like the building we lived in. Actually, I could
30:15
say it was a Milwaukee like there's schools and everything like that. We were
30:18
just the elevator with the Yeah, this is the one with the weird the
30:21
old school, A certain location. I won't say, uh, a certain
30:25
location that's haunted anyway. I'm really making a narrow down here. And it
30:30
was in order for me to move into this apartment, I had to get
30:33
multiple background checks because we lived by a school, and then they did background
30:37
checks just on their own whim like okay, like, hey, I can
30:38
preach it because it means I live in a safe building quote unquote, yeah,
30:42
sure, I'll tell some of the stories that happened in that building a
30:45
different time, but there was there was some nights I'm like, like,
30:49
he will be like, hey, like when I come over for dinner,
30:52
I'm like, how about come to your house your apartments? Like I don't
30:56
think so not to night, but anyway, Yeah, literally, that afternoon,
31:00
I get a duification. I think we're like literally like on the dock
31:03
fishes like that, like something like like, hey, this much has been
31:07
foreign into your bank. I'm like, oh, ge how funny that works.
31:08
And then I literally I know joke. I swear to God. When
31:14
I went back to school, even I'm moving in with Kaitlin, I literally
31:18
went online. I filled out an applica cause they were free for that the
31:21
building. Not even ten minutes later, I got an email due to full
31:27
bookings, we cannot accept your application this time as this building is now full,
31:33
which by the way, it wasn't because literally they raised rent for that
31:37
building by like one hundred and twenty dollars for every room. So yeah,
31:41
so I totally I totally get that side of other landlords. I'm not gonna
31:45
lie, like I said, like say, which that was a bullshit like
31:48
again, and this guy looked like, oh, okay, the landlord I
31:52
had I won't say a way for Robbie's reasons looked like Kee and Michael Keay
32:00
with a jaafar looking mustache, and I swear to God other than that nice
32:08
guy. But every time I talked to him, his eyes were so bunked
32:12
out out of his head. I thought he wasn't reenacting to see from fucking
32:15
total recall when they're on bars. So it was like there are times like
32:21
we like I would just start laughing, like when he was like like me,
32:27
so you can imagine, I'm like, okay, doing you got nothing
32:30
on me? Charles like like like like I'm like like like when he first
32:34
said it outaway, I thought like Magneto, like Charles, we have the
32:37
future, so and I'll never forget that. And the thing that like confused
32:45
my mom and I for a one time. I was like, wait,
32:46
how did he have or not even how do you even remember? Why did
32:49
he call you? Yeah? Like it made no It made zero sense because
32:53
anytime, anytime, anytime I needed help, anytime I needed help with them,
32:58
I called them like trying to extore money from somebody. Yeah, I
33:04
don't tend to target your poor mother. Little did he know he would she
33:07
would rip his head off, Like, I mean, she would rip his
33:08
head off. She's like, what are you talking about? That's sure you
33:12
were on trucks. I'm seriously kid. Oh god, I thought of I
33:21
haven't literally talked about that story in a long time. Oh man, good
33:25
times. Anyway, Yeah, so fucking bitches makes you want to hit your
33:30
finish air on the guy. Oh god, you want to go from the
33:35
top rope and hit a fucking elbow dropper. As you can tell, I've
33:42
been playing the ship out of w W two K two twenty four game spot
33:46
to the show Thank You. Game is really good. It's not perfect.
33:50
I've just done some glitchy shit. Like literally, in the first match my
33:57
partner and I were playing, we were she was kicking my ass as Randy
34:00
Orton, I, I don't know what the fuck she was beat my ass.
34:05
But we took it to the outside and let me tell you, we
34:07
saw some gluccy ship, like some actually just type ship because you know how
34:12
you can like throw the weapons yep. So I had picked up the steel
34:16
steps and you know how they have that V shaped wedge. Yes, I
34:23
don't know why is it correct, Yes, yes, correct. Indeed,
34:28
of course, indubitably, indubitably, indubitably, indubitably what the fuck was that
34:35
my phone fell? Jesus was attached to a charger too, so it's lost
34:39
ship. Anyway, I threw the steps and the wedge landed perfectly on her
34:46
character, and it just did some weird ship where their body started doing some
34:51
rag doll physics but was stuttering off the inside of a stair wedge v ship
34:57
shaped looking ship, and she just started like scat skittering across the outside area
35:02
towards the other corner, like the camera put pan back and everything. It
35:07
was fucking disturbing. And then of course every time I go for the book
35:10
shot lariat and the opponent is standing right at the ropes, it does some
35:15
weird ship where you land on them but you're still doing your animation so bends
35:21
and does all weird, ragged all shit, and then you miss the clothesline.
35:27
That's ninety of the ship because I'm playing the my rise story right now
35:30
and hard, and that's ninety percent of the damage I'm doing is like whiff
35:37
and shit and them countering, or just me whiff and dives. Well,
35:40
I do love how you can just equip anything you want to your character.
35:45
You don't have to spend points on locking shit or whatever. Well, no,
35:47
and that's why, And that's kind. That's kind I talk about too.
35:52
It's it's games like this two K game. We're talking about this wrestling
35:58
game, where this is the direction games need to go. I'm not just
36:04
saying this because you and I are obviously fans of wrestling. It's I've been
36:09
on here and I've spoken a nausea about the problem with games today is is
36:13
live service bullshit which has proven not to work. I mean, if you
36:17
don't believe me, literally listen to the most recent and again I my father
36:22
in law. He says, it's not even a quote. He says this,
36:25
and it's one of those things that it holds because like how many people
36:29
really know? It's like, here's the question, how many CEOs do people
36:31
really know other than like maybe the one maybe the company work for, or
36:37
like the guys that are out there, like honestly, like like like I
36:40
mean, I could probably go ask a person like, hey, who do
36:43
you know that works at Disney and some some might say Bob Bicker because like
36:45
Bob Biker is like a guy who's up in the forefront doing all that stuff,
36:50
you know what I mean. But like, but who's really at the
36:52
table? Yeah? Yeah, but do you really because you don't know who's
36:57
running these companies until like I mean literally until shit hits the fan in the
37:00
negative way. But like the game, like Suicide Squad, they literally had
37:05
their quarterly financial whatever it was, and they said Suicide Squad was not did
37:10
not meet expectations upon release, and it's like, no shit, Sherlock.
37:16
The game was delayed twice because first you were explaining the reason why. First
37:22
second was because it was like a whole year because the trailer came out and
37:24
everyone and you literally you didn't even hide the live service shit. You literally
37:30
like, Hi, Hi, Patrick, would you like to play a video
37:35
game where you have to use the dc IP? I mean cool? And
37:38
you get to play as members of the Suicide Squad. Now, don't get
37:44
me wrong, we know you've been asking for a Superman game or potentially another
37:46
Batman game, which by I frollo, if I mentioned the company that literally
37:50
essentially revolutionized video games in third person for the next fifty years called rock stead
37:54
he's making this. Yeah, so we're gonna actually make a game where you
37:59
don't play bad Man, but you play the Suicide Squad. So think there's
38:01
a vast majority of different characters to pick from. So we're to give you
38:05
Harley Quinn, obviously a fan favorite. She's a little bit psychotic, but
38:07
she can do almost anything. We're going to give you a dead Shot,
38:10
a guy who could literally shoot you. Know, he can literally shoot you
38:14
and you're not even the same room, but he could somehow find a way
38:15
to reject it off a or overpowered. Okay. Secondly, we're gonna give
38:21
you Captain Boomerang, a guy who uses boomerangs to kill you. See I
38:27
actually kind of like boomerangs. That kind of like, uh, you can
38:30
throw him and they come back. That's pretty cool. Yeah. Yeah,
38:31
and then we're gonna give you King Shark, this giant, big ass god
38:36
of the way who eats people and has super strangth at speed. And yeah,
38:42
so you know you can use dead Shot or Harley Quinn. But hey,
38:43
you know what, I want to hold on, hold on, hold
38:45
on, I want to tell you the best part. He's a giant shark.
38:47
He said, He's a shirt giant walking sharks, A giant shirt.
38:52
Yeah sounds amazing. I want to tell you something, So you describe how
38:58
you want to talk about Captain Boomerang. You want how about King Chuck?
39:00
Do you want to make those characters even better? Make them better? Yeah,
39:07
make him better? How about we give him guns? Oh? Well,
39:13
I mean because Captain Boomerang needs to use an AR fifteen and King shure
39:17
Bo well, he well, he does, he does. But we really
39:23
think you would enjoy him using a sniper rifle. Does it shoot boomerangs out
39:28
of this sniper? No? No, no, no, no no,
39:30
it just it just shoots bullets. Why wouldn't you use boomer Okay, okay,
39:34
but if you want to, okay, but if you want, if
39:36
you pay an extra twenty five ninety five, we'll let you have that Captain
39:38
Boomerang gun. Have not a skin of like Captain Boomerang. I'll have a
39:42
skin of the Joker, which, by the way, you can't play as
39:44
a Joker, but you can have the Joker skin on your Captain Boomerang gun.
39:49
But why would I'm sorry, maybe I missed something. Why would the
39:53
skin be for somebody that's not in the don'torry about that. Let me put
39:57
you off for the quick if you have in the pre order of the game
39:59
before came out, or if you paintash to thirty five ninety five. I
40:01
don't know about the actual prices allegedly, but the pay of thirty five ninety
40:04
five allegedly, We'll let you dress your kne shark up at Superman. Do
40:10
I do I get to you? No? No, no, no no
40:13
no you just you just no, you just you just You're just dressed up
40:15
as a giant circus recast who shoots a sniper rifle. I keep I actually
40:25
quit that long with that ship. That's pretty good. But the point I'm
40:30
trying to make is, and that's why I'm enjoying too, Kate, is
40:35
I really expect to make money off of that? Well? The problem was
40:37
they there's the problem with the big these big people in the studios and CEOs
40:43
who think that people want to keep playing live service, which is bullshit.
40:46
The reason that games like Fortnite are so successful is because, for one,
40:50
it's free, which is the first kept suicide squad to get all the just
40:54
the base game is like seventy dollars, which is fucking insane. Yeah,
40:59
and then the other one is like one hundred dollars, which you don't get
41:01
that much more. Again, that's what I've read and people complain about,
41:05
but it's like, what do you pay for Fortnite? You don't pay for
41:07
anything that gives you an advantage. All you pay for is, oh,
41:10
hey, Patrick, there's a deal right now where it's like, hey,
41:14
there's a movie. Come, there's a fucking uh wrestle Mania is coming out.
41:17
So you know what, Patrick, you want to dress up as John
41:21
Cena. You could dress up as John Cena and you can have your John
41:23
Cena character who go team up with the Mandalorian Predator and fucking Rick from Rick
41:29
and Morty and the Four. We can go shoot a bunch of dudes from
41:31
teenagea Turtles, like yes, fuck, thank you. Oh I had to
41:36
pay three dollars for that, or I had to play one hundred dollars to
41:38
get enough coincidentent Okay, And that's why I'm excited for games like two K
41:43
because they've had years where and if you've listened to the podcast, thank you.
41:46
First off, you've heard me bitch about things like my factions and Ultimate
41:50
Teams and my GM and all that. Not my GM, but like my
41:52
whatever anything. Ultimate Team Base essentially it's long storry stories where you buy cards
41:59
and you have to upat these cards in order to get them to be better.
42:01
But you're playing against people around the world, or sometimes you're not,
42:05
and it's like this is pointless. But where they tied to is like,
42:07
oh, by the way, like for example, with Madden, oh hey,
42:10
you want to have Terrell Owens or Walter Payne, Well you have to
42:14
play Ultimate Team. Wait can I pull them out and play with online against
42:17
my buddies like a franchise dinasymore. It's like we take years and years to
42:21
like build our teams run super Bowl. No, you can only use the
42:22
guy who have on your teams. I can't put this guy that I bought
42:28
on my other team. No, you gotta put them on the team that
42:30
you bought for the team that you're only allowed to play in that game mode,
42:32
which is bullshit. But then two K, but then two K this
42:36
year they heard that bullshit? Great, you know what? Fine, you
42:38
want to have the guy that you won during our weekly bonus shit and our
42:44
my faction you know mode? Great? Great, you have to earn enough
42:49
coins in order to transfer them over or which they've done so far. The
42:52
majority of those quote unquote unplayable characters, they just put them in the game
42:57
anyway, just like there's like it's fucking creepy, like you know video games,
43:01
like you know, there's the sports scans and all that ship with like
43:04
where they get the guys looking like like it looks like they're actually like on
43:07
the screen you're controying like that. They somehow with this game they literally screen
43:13
grabbed or scan rather actual action figures. I mean you've seen this actual action
43:19
figures and you can play as action figures, which is fucking weird. You
43:22
see all the fucking like you see the actual space in between their arms and
43:24
shoulders and the fucking night's it's it's terrifying, but it's like it works.
43:30
Yeah, like put that in the fucking video game. Why why not?
43:34
Right? What I mean interesting nobody, but it works. And that's the
43:39
you know, and then I'd like to say this was my faction or whatever,
43:43
like at least that's not the whole game, you know what I mean,
43:46
No, which is what most games are due. Right at least there's
43:51
like all this other content there, you know, that's fun. I like
43:55
a good little RPG and when it's like tied to a dope resting simulator,
44:00
which they like, you can do everything, like you can do just about
44:04
anything you can want to do, Like I was lighting tables on fire,
44:07
I was jumping off of you know, ladders onto the fucking shit, and
44:14
it was. It was a good old time. And then of course the
44:15
customization for the move sets and shit. You know, I do gotta say
44:22
I like the combo system that they added, you know what I mean,
44:24
where you can actually like string a combo together, and then there's a whole
44:30
guessing game as to the defense of like which button are they gonna press?
44:34
If you can match at blocke and shit like that. Right, it's pretty
44:37
cool. I like it. I think it's a good, good tweak and
44:40
there's a bunch of shit that you can do in there. It's just nice
44:45
that like. And the reason they did is because enough people complaned, which
44:51
and this is the thing people forget, like us consumers, which we'll get
44:54
to the other thing I really want to talk about a little for a little
44:57
bit today, us consumers we do have a voice, Like there's a reason
45:01
why the suicide squaking, which I talked about a few weeks ago, and
45:05
I'm starting to repeat myself, but like it has gotten so much negativity that
45:08
like the fact that, like you, people are going online and broadcasting,
45:12
the fact that the three other games that rock Steady produce one like what almost
45:20
ten nine, ten years ago. I was, Yeah, I was a
45:22
sophomore in college when Arkha Knight came out. Christ It's crazy to say that
45:25
when Arkham Knight came out and that has more people playing that than a new
45:30
game that just came out, Or you have games like two K which is
45:37
doing very well. I don't know the numbers, but then you go online
45:39
and you look at mind people playing Fight Forever and it's laughable. That's literally
45:45
like for eight people. It's it's more it's I mean honestly, like I
45:50
mean, like, I'm proud of the of the podcast so far. I
45:52
want to obviously do what I have can to grow and I know a lot
45:54
of that takes more work, which I need to do that on my own
45:57
enit to make it where I wanted to go. But when there's certain weeks
46:01
where the podcast is being the amount of people playing Fight Forever, it's just
46:07
like like, hey, well, I mean it's a tiny cat. But
46:14
I'll take I'll take the win, you know. But it's like, come
46:17
on, guys, like what the fuck? But again, it's it's one
46:21
of those things where it's like it's I'm not gonna say it's not that hard,
46:25
but like, if you just take the time and just listen to your
46:29
audience, the ship works. Again, there's a reason why we've talked about
46:32
it here. The game like Hell Divers, simple concept, but what is
46:37
it is, literally, other than maybe Power World, the biggest game in
46:39
the world right now, and it's the most simplest. I mean, it's
46:45
fallen way off, but it's still got hundreds of thousands of people playing it.
46:51
And it's only by the way, Power is only a beta. It's
46:52
only a beta. Someone actually comes out like it's just who knows where it
46:57
can go? But yeah, it's it's it's it's ship like that were And
47:00
unfortunately, what it all comes out to with your landlord or the company whatever,
47:05
my you're okay, my old landlord. Do you see those of these
47:08
game companies and shit like that, it's just greed and oftentimes what happens,
47:14
thankfully, you know, not always, but thankfully in our cases. I
47:15
mean, I can't say for you yet, and I hope it works out
47:19
for you. It comes back to bite them in the ass, and I'm
47:22
glad it does. Oh my god, I'm so glad you said that,
47:23
because earlier I forgot to mention that, like, what's really gonna happen here
47:28
in the situation is that like a bunch of people are gonna move out,
47:30
because we're talking about college students that are on you know, produced budgets,
47:36
budgets right, or like you know, young professionals like me. I mean,
47:38
there's a bunch of young people. There's some old people, Like there's
47:42
some old folks not gonna lie, but who knows if they're like gonna put
47:45
up with it because it's like a twenty percent increase And that's the thing.
47:49
It's like they lurk people in a lot of people that are living here,
47:52
like had moved in when it first was here and there was a reasonable rent
47:57
situation, which even back then not very reasonable, but like after the first
48:01
year it was a much lower increase to the rent, and then this year
48:07
it's like up, like are you kidding me? Yeah? Everything, but
48:14
why because oh well, cost of cost of everything's going up? Well,
48:19
yeah, I understand that, but it's not just for you because like this
48:22
is like what it's like like, oh, hey, like the cost of
48:24
this has gone up, so we gotta do this. It's like okay,
48:25
so then don't be upset when people literally leave and then don't side in to
48:30
join your thing. But right, God, it's just it just amazes me,
48:38
like how dumb some people can be. But yeah, it's just it
48:44
has never ceased to amaze. Nope, there's I mean, there's plenty of
48:47
dumb. There's plenty of dumb out there. There's plenty of bullshit, there's
48:52
plenty of you know, ship to get fucking pissed off about. But you
49:00
know what you gotta do. You gotta with the punches. You just gotta
49:02
keep you just gotta keep swimming, man, you just gotta keep swimming.
49:07
Just like in that movie, what was it? Fucking can't somebody do with
49:13
a fish? I can't find I can't seem to find the answer. Do
49:23
you do you see what? Do you see what I ride back? Do
49:27
you see what I did there? I saw it. I know what you
49:30
did. I know what you did last summer? How do you know?
49:37
Is it possible I killed anyone who knew anyway? Is that what is it
49:45
that my diner is there? Like? Is there like a power converter behind
49:47
you going power it up? That's my laptop I have, that's your That's
49:52
that's not my laptop, that's my place Bo's floaded three ship. I'm sorry
49:58
it's so loud. You're fine. I can I didn't impost baby anyway.
50:04
So really quick. It really sounds like it's like about to explode. Uh
50:09
hold on, well we can actually get out of here because I was actually
50:17
gonna sign up here in a minute. Because I know it's it's pretty late
50:21
for you. I know you had a long day as well. I appreciate
50:22
you coming on so quick. Update about next week's episode. I'm not sure
50:27
what's gonna come out. I will be away next week, but I'm probably
50:31
just gonna come home next Sunday, and then once I forgot how I'm gonna
50:34
get my dog back home, they'll probably do a podcast and I'll probably do
50:36
like a recap of our trip or what's coming up and stuff like that.
50:38
So thinking for that, I do, and I do promise June too.
50:42
Saper View is coming soon. I just have not had time to see it
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myself. I really want to see it. I'm thankfully I've avoided spoilers.
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Then listen to Gleb. That's the only thing I've seen, so I have
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no cool what that means, but I'm looking forward to it because I mean
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again, when people were telling me this is the best thing since Empire strikes
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back, It's like it's phenomenon. That's what I'm saying, Like, all
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right, man, that's high as Nicholas Cage would say, that's high praise.
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So before you know, uh, his apartment comes the sequel to Oppenheimer,
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Do you have Anthony want to say, my good friend, that was
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too good? Thank you. If I don't make it at anyway, that
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is ot patron Patrick, I am your favorite Barban host. Where do you
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want to call me? Chuck as always gonna find is ed Chucks can't at
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Chucks Cantina on your socials Chuckscantina at gmail dot com. Ignie stay safe and
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a little funny sign off message this week to all you people who try to
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do all these things to make money off us and try to be very scheming
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stuff like that, and then you go, oh no, I lost all
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this stuff. How am I gonna redeem all this cash I lost. I
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say to you, in the great words of one Eddie Kinson, redeemed these
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nuts, take care guys, thinkers. Computer blew up