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Never Grow Up · Brainwaves

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Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to another episode of Two Shot
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Tuesday. It's Barry Nixon along, a man
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who truly knows everything there is to know about life.
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Jay, I've learned so much from you.
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It's incredible. There are men out there, but
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then there is the man, and that's you.
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Thanks for making time to be with me on another week.
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And our audience certainly appreciates that.
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You know, Barry, I would argue if I could, but that intro just
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was so spot on that I think it's it.
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I like to think I am the man, although in many ways I haven't
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grown grown up. So I'm quite the boy when it
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comes to my reading habits, my TV habits, a lot of my habits,
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my eating habits tend to. Be some of your dietary choices
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could be, you know, questioned. But yeah, that's not for mere
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mortals to question. Anyway, it's good to see you
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Jay. We have a an absolutely jam
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packed show. But before we dive in head 1st,
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I believe you and I will be doing a shot together, maybe 2 I
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think. So I think we're going to do
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that. I'm going to start with a very
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manly shot because you know, that's one thing only you have
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to be over a certain age to legally drink alcohol.
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And so tonight I will be consuming Bushmills Black Bush,
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one of my 2 faves that I always keep on offer.
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What have you got? Amazing.
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Amazing. I love the the the Bushmills
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black Bush. I haven't had it in a while.
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I have another Bushmills product, the 12 year nice.
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Equally delicious. Yeah.
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See you. Cheers, cheers.
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Oh, oh, it went up into my sinuses.
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In a good way, yes. In a good way.
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Wow. Yeah, from from that face, it
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almost looks like you did a somersault in a pool, you know
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that move. And then the water kind of goes
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up as you're going to go on under I.
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Know yeah, I felt that I've been in there I was looking at the
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LCBO when I was there last because I saw the 12 year at my
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LCBO it's behind lock and key and so I never asked for it
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because I see it and I go oh that's the one Barry gets all
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the time he likes it. But at my LCBO it is under like
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glass with another aged one. I'm not sure if it's a 10 year
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or anything but it's it's behind lock and key and I can't be
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bothered to bother people to get it for me.
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What do you think about that, Shane?
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They should be falling over themselves to open that cabinet
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for you, Jay. That's surprising.
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It's behind lock and key. Mine is just on the open shelf.
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Really. That's yeah.
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Wow. I've never seen it kind of just
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out there. I've seen it either not anywhere
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or at mine. It's behind lock and key.
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I guess there's a lot of a lot of near do wells looking to get
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their hands on the 12 year. It's a It's a good year for
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criminals. I guess so, but I'm wondering is
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maybe maybe you were seeing something like an 18 or because
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usually they lock up the stuff that's really really it's AI
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checked it. And it's like a $64 bottle.
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It's not the cheapest bottle of 12 year.
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Yeah. Like the the black Bush is like
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a 50 something dollar bottle. 55 maybe.
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Yeah, this one's of step up. And then there's one next to it,
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which I bet you is the 18. And they they keep them
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together. Interesting.
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Yeah, Yeah, I would have thought 64 bucks, while expensive and
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certainly not, you know, good. Quality, yeah.
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You wouldn't think that would have to be locked up.
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That's. It's not that big a step up, I
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know, from the black Bush. Like that's right there.
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Why are you locking up the 12 year?
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And really, if somebody's stealing whiskey, they're going
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to just steal whatever they can get their hands on anyway.
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You're thinking it's mostly to be consumed.
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I guess it could be resold, but you know, yeah, the free, the 12
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year, I say, that's what I say. LCBO at DuPont near Spadina,
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Free the 12 year please. Dude let's get that trending on
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X free the 12 year. I love it.
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Yeah. And I will say they do have
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ample black Bush, Jameson black black barrel, sorry, Jameson
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black barrel as well. So that I'm happy about.
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They've got several facings of that.
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So nothing to complain there. That is good.
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That's something I would love to see returning to my LCBO.
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It's so inconsistent I really don't understand who does the
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ordering. I don't either.
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Anyway, Barry, you've been very vocal in the last several
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episodes as you've taken us through World Cup fever.
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I'm wondering what you've got for us today to talk to and, and
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I'll, you know, do my best to keep up And, and really, I've
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been carrying my fair share of the load.
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I, I want to be able to do that in this episode.
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Hence a little bit of a chat about how we lock up our boots.
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Right. Yeah, exactly.
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Well, that's thread. I can certainly update you at
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the time of this recording, you might notice that I'm wearing an
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England shirt. England has made it ratted
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through to the quarter final and they will be facing the
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Norwegians this Saturday at the time of this recording.
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So just a few days away. And it's do or die as if all
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these matches are now they're all one and done eliminations.
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But I don't remember ever England and Norway facing off.
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And if they have, I don't think it was ever this deep in the
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tournament. So it's super exciting and let's
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go England, let's go Lions and hopefully they can come through
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and move on. It would be be super exciting,
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yeah, if they could. I've got to tell you, I've been
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watching as well. I'm getting caught up in the
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fever now. Ever since the Canada game, the
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most recent Canada game where they lost and then I watched I
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think it was. The Morocco that was.
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Yeah, France and Mexico, basically.
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I watched all the host countries get put out.
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Was it France and Mexico? Yeah.
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France is not a host but USA and.
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Mexico is so as I met and Mexico lost.
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So France beat Mexico, Canada got beat, and then of course the
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US just got beat. So all of the host countries are
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now out of this turn? That's right.
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Actually was actually just to correct you quickly, it was
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England that defeated Mexico in Mexico City to send them home.
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Yeah, that was beautiful. An absolute stunner of a game.
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It was just incredible. Yeah, that and that stadium was
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incredible. Like that stadium in Mexico was
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like, it kind of puts BMO Field a bit to shame.
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But that thing's built, I think, for soccer, right?
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The Mexico. It's purpose build for soccer.
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They call it the Azteca, and it's a legendary facility that
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has probably, I don't know, like 90, maybe 80,000 in the seats.
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Like it's enormous. And apparently it gets super,
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super loud. I could see.
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Because that's a lot of people excited about the same thing.
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So, yeah, that's true. Yeah.
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So what? OK.
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Have you got a pick then? I know England is the jersey
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you're wearing, so that would be your pick.
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OK. That is my pick.
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I truly hope that they can make it past the Norwegians.
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And then who's to say who will be next?
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But this has been one heck of a tournament.
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Jay, everyone, we'll always remember the 26 tournament, not
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just because it was in our own backyard.
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I what am I saying? Of course it's because it was in
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our own backyard. Everyone's going to remember the
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26 tournament, but there's been so many surprises, so many
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upsets. It's just been so entertaining
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today. At the time of this recording,
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the yard continuance were down to nothing in their must win
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situation against the Egyptians and they came back and 132 like
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nobody's out of this out of any of these matches it seemed even
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with just like a handful of minutes left at the end of the
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match. So Argentina is through at the
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time of this recording. Executive producer Aldo Roma
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looked up a stat and it was Who has won the most World Cups?
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Can you tell me, Barry, who's won the most World Cups?
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I believe it's Brazil with five, five of them.
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You're correct. I thought it was 4, but it was.
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It's definitely Brazil. They're of course out.
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They were put out of the tournament.
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Thank goodness. I know this.
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Look, I'm talking sports. With they are dangerous, yeah.
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Dangerous. Yeah.
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So they were like #1 And then he made a separate comment going,
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it's amazing. You hear a lot of these teams
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with a lot of bluster that have actually never won the World
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Cup. But there's a number of teams
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that are like, they're talking like they've won it.
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They're acting like they've won it, but they've never won it
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yet. So they're thirsty for their
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first World Cup. And they're, yeah, not humble.
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Out of the 100 years almost of this tournament existing, only
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eight countries have won the World Cup, which is incredible.
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Right. Only every four years.
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Yeah, that's true. OK, So be 40 tournaments I guess
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in in 100 years? Well, almost 100.
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It'll be 120, 30. But regardless, only eight
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nations have won it. And like you said, there's been
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many other teams competing in it.
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They they talk a big game. Maybe some of them will have won
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European Championships, CONCACAF or tournaments in South America.
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At the World. But the World Cup is the World
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Cup, so. It is the you know what nobody
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has. Said.
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It nobody said it better than you, the World Cup is the World
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Cup and I think on that. Truly is.
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We should do our second. Shot.
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Let's do it. All right, you know what?
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I'm drinking the black Bush and you.
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I'm sticking with what's working, Jay, and that's the
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Bushmills. 12 year behind lock and key.
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Here's to you. Cheers.
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Now, you sent me an interesting text earlier today on a new item
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that has changed your life almost from the outset.
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Yeah. From on from the unboxing to
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this moment, your life is different.
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Tell us how. Barry, I always read at night,
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as you know, and a lot of that is comics.
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And I read before I go to bed. And so I'm always reading on my
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iPad. And it's comfortable and it's
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nice. But it's, you know, it's, I
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have, as, you know, behind me, you can see physical copies of
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giant omnibuses and things that I buy and like to have in my
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collection. But I don't always, you know,
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I'm reading at night. So I don't get a chance to
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always read these physical books that I love so much.
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Well, suddenly I was reading in the chair in the living room,
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and I turned on the light over me and it was very bright.
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And I was like, oh, this is too bright.
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And then I thought, this must exist.
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And I went to Amazon, which is where you always go when you're
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not sure something exists because they will have it.
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Yeah, and it was an on book clipped reading light.
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You clip it on the back of your book.
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It has to have a heavy enough spine.
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It can't be like a loose comic. I can't do that.
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It's got a little little wire and then it's got the light and
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like 8 LED settings, dimness for days.
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It now charges up with a, with a regular charger, kind of like a
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phone would do. And I'm reading in bed.
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As I said to you, it turns every physical book into an iPad
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basically. Because I can now read, I'm
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flipping pages. It's not disturbing.
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Executive producer Alda Roma, who's right next to me.
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And I took it on its maiden voyage last night.
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And I have to tell you, I really enjoyed this.
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It's so lightweight, you can't even feel it on this book.
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Like you, it does not add really any weight at all, maybe not not
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even an ounce to this book. So I'm loving this.
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So I'm going to be able to now alternate between iPads and
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physical books. And as you know, I don't sleep
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so good. So I'm also trying it because I
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know screens are kind of bad for you at night.
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So I'm kind of going to go on a little quest and see if it works
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where maybe post 7:00 PM onwards, I'm going to go to the
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physical book and just, you know, check in on my phone if I
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need to, but go to the physical book and read off the physical
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book. So I'll this will be a journey
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that my our listeners and our viewers and you can come on with
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me as I see if that helps improve my sleep.
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Right. Well, that's very, that's a very
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good point that screens have been linked to some sleep
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interruptions, especially before bed.
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So this is a kind of a cool experiment.
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What was the first book that you took to bed last night and
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watched or read rather? Yeah.
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What was it? Oh my God.
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Barry, this is a story in and of itself, but it's called All.
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Right, let's go. It's called X-Men Else When and
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it is by a creator named John Byrne who is a legendary comic
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book creator. He had a legendary run on the
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X-Men and this is in the 70s. He left the book in like 7980
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due to disagreements with the writer and he went off and he
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did a big run on the Fantastic Four.
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Anyway, during the pandemic, he started doing fan fiction where
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he would post one page on his website of just penciled pages
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of this is what I would do if I had continued my run on the
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X-Men. And he posted one page every day
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or so for a couple of years for nothing.
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He paid nothing, although he has sold the pages and made a lot of
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money, I've heard, like through selling original artwork.
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So he's not starving, but it was something that he did for a
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couple years and he and so just this past year they've made they
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decided they were going to ink it, color it.
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So they got an anchor over his pencils.
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They're colored it and they bound it.
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There's the empty spine because I take it out of the slip cover.
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It's behind me. And so they've they're not
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publishing it in three volumes of John Burns X-Men else when,
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and this is if he would have continued now he stopped doing
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that too. So I know it's going to end on a
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cliffhanger. And he's already said when we
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published the third volume, I'm just I don't feel like doing
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anymore. So I'm just going to write out
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what the rest of the story would have been.
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I'm going to tell you how it would have ended.
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And that's great because this guy is he got me into really
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collecting comics with his Superman run in 1986, the Man of
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Steel, which I will be getting an absolute edition when it's
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comes available later this summer.
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And you'll be the first to see it anyways.
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John Burns X-Men else when is an alternate reality of how the
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X-Men would have gone had he continued on the book and taken
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over the writing chores. So that was my I just got it
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about a week ago and it's what I was excited to read it and I
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started reading it last night and it's great.
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It's just a lot of fun classic comic book stuff, classic comic
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book art, not a complicated story and really kind of a cool
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story of how he at a time when he just felt like doing stuff
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like he's older now, he's in his 80s.
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So he, he just started putting out, putting out these pages and
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rough pencils. And people over the years have
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kind of grabbed the pages and ink them and collected them
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themselves. So Marvel decided, hey, let's
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make some money out of this, and they've put them together in a
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book and approved this this publication.
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So he's not only an artist, but a writer as.
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Well, yeah, he he was he wrote and drew the Fantastic Four for
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like a number of years. He wrote and drew Superman.
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In 1986, he relaunched Superman. So a lot of the elements of
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Superman that we know today, he came up with or was a Co creator
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in like Lex Luthor being a businessman, you know, as we saw
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in the latest Superman movie and has been that way since the 90s.
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He, a guy, a writer named Marv Wolfman came up with that they
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work together on this. Superman's parents not being
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dead, but being alive, like stuff like that were all stuff
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that he, he came up with as part of his run.
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And it was that Superman comic Superman #7 that I saw at the
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newsstand. And I was like, how can Superman
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only be at issue number 7? And then I bought that and I
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realized that he relaunched it. And anyways, he's done lots of
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other stuff, big runs on Wonder Woman, the New Gods, all kinds
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of characters you have no idea of.
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Like your eyes are like super glossed over now.
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As they should could be, but he is a legendary creator.
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Bit of an attitude, a lot of a chip on his shoulder and a lot
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of interviews he ties. But he was so popular in the 70s
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and 80s especially that he he could basically say and do
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anything he wanted because he was bringing in a lot of money
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for Marvel and DC. Where does this chip on his
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shoulder come from, do you think?
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He's just. You know, so successful.
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Well, that's it. I think, you know, sometimes
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when you're driven to success, you're driven to, I don't know
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about a chip on his shoulder. Very strong opinions.
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Definitely bought into the hype of him being because you know,
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when you're the number one star, like think of an athlete when
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you're the number one star, you're driving, you're putting
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the bums in seats, you're making things happen for a giant
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company. And then that starts to turn.
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You're a little bit past your prime.
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Tastes change. You know, it's hard to kind of
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let that go like he's a competitor.
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I would say he's probably a. Sure.
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Yeah, that's a good, that's a good analogy.
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And yeah, I guess at that level, you're probably drinking your
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own Kool-aid on how good you are.
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And you're being, you're surrounded by people telling you
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that all day. Long, that's right.
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And you're seeing your other people come up like there were
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other comic book creators at that time that were like getting
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attention. And so you're always trying to
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kind of one up each other. Yeah, it was a big time in the
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90s was a big time of that. There's we'll talk about this
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another time, but there's like a whole other sets of creators of
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different eras that come up. Like there's, there's a podcast
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I've listened to by a creator named Rob Liefeld.
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He's a huge fan of John Byrne collects his original art, this
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guy. So the Rob Liefeld created
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Deadpool and a bunch of that's his real big claim to fame.
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But he's he's had a lot of success.
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He loves John Byrne's art, loves it.
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But John Byrne hacks on him because he was one of the
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creators of the 90s. John Byrne was one of the 70s
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and 80s. So the 90s creators kind of
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supplanted them as being the superstars.
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And see, that's where some of this chip on the show, he's just
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like, there's a lot of fight. So John Byrne has taken shots at
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him. But Rob Liefeld can separate the
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art and the and the kind of personality and he's he owns a
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lot of this individual, this kind of original art, I should
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say. Anyway, it's kind of and Rob
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Liefeld on his own is also a very polarizing creator.
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He's also will talk up a tough game and remind everyone that
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always that he created Deadpool and he'll say, I'll do it
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because nobody else is going to. So I have to hype it up.
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And he gets he also gets royalties for when they license
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out Deadpool. So it's in his best interest to
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keep Deadpool as a popular character.
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Right. Well, I think Ryan Reynolds is
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certainly helping in that regard.
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I don't think he has to worry so much about that character being
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relevant or going away anytime soon.
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He no, that shouldn't have been brought to the forefront.
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Yeah, exactly. That's pretty cool.
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I can imagine you in an alternate universe working as a
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comic book writer slash illustrator.
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I mean, I think that in an alternate universe you would be
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right at home in that environment.
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Yeah, I used to. Well, when I was a kid, I used
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to write and draw my own comics. I had.
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They're in my basement. I'll show you the next time
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we're at the mini mansion. I'll show you some of the
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classic from the yes yeah, Oh yeah from Jr.
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Comics. They were just being.
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Revealed now you. Didn't know this.
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My mom would know this. Yeah, Millie knows this.
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There was. So I've actually, those are one
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of the few things I've kept, which is like collections of of
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comics that I created as a kid. There are some titles you might
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recognize, like the Amazing Spider Kid, the Incredible Kid,
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Super Kid. There were a lot of a lot of
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characters that were a theme here.
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Yeah. Similar to characters you might
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think you know, but they're not exactly that.
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You don't the The Amazing Spider kid just happens to look like
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Spider Man and have similar adventures.
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They fought a lot of classmates that I was that I went to school
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with. My classmates would be like,
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draw me in your comments. So they would be, they would
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kind of fight. Wow, Yeah, that was kind of a
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thing. You didn't definitely want to
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see this and we should have Millie on the show to.
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I cannot believe that this is just being unearthed today on
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episode 299. I was saving it for this.
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Yeah, I was saving it. All right before we go just
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really quick Jay, I have a quick 4K corner for you and I did
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preview this disc even though you and I do have a a plan to
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sit down together and watch it, which I am happy to do because
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this movie I'm I'm here to tell you right now I.
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Think I know it up, Beastmaster. Yeah, the Beastmaster.
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After seeing it too, I feel like I understand you better.
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Why? Because this lead character,
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DAR, he doesn't wear a shirt the entire movie and there's only
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one scene where he pops on like a tarp just to like the disguise
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of the commoner. It itches his skin so badly.
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It's only on him for about 20 seconds and then he's back to
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being the boss, sweaty guy. So you as a young man figuring
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out who you are, this I can completely get the appeal of the
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beast master for you. I was like, OK, I think I
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understand Jay more. This guy, obviously, he's
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working out. Yeah, he's doing what he needs
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to do. And it's just hilarious that no
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matter what scene, what circumstance, this guy is just
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oiled up and ready to go. Yeah, I think everybody goes a
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little gay for a Beastmaster. That's just how it is.
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That's just how things go. Exactly.
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Yeah, totally. This is.
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And it's Mark Singer, am I right?
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From V, From the show V, Yeah. And yeah.
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I remember when I first watched it, like, as not a child, I was
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like, Oh my God. Mark Singer.
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Mark Singer's really well put together, but yeah.
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Yes, yeah, good for. His good for him in those days,
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he was holding it together. Yeah.
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The Beastmaster, Yeah. The Beastmaster also with Rick
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torn as the the main baddie, the main heavy in the movie, along
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with some like really disfigured witches that he has that have
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fantastic like supermodel bodies, but their faces look
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like they're wearing ham sandwiches on their face.
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It's it's terrible. But anyway, the movie holds up,
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Jay, and you'll love the runtime.
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It's very lean, though. I look forward to revisiting it
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with you. I thought it was good.
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It held my attention the entire time.
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I thought it was. It clipped along nicely.
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And the animals in there, of course, you know, you got the
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black tiger, You got the eagle. Yeah.
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It's pretty cool. Yeah.
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Amazing. I enjoyed it.
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I enjoyed it very much. Thank you for 4K Corner, that
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will be our next watch at the mini mansion when we get
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together. Speaking of lean runtimes, we're
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running out of our time and next week we got a huge episode 300
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episode 600 shots are going to be having been consumed and
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we're looking forward to it. Join us for an extra special
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episode next week. You don't want to miss it.
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