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This Celebration Got Out of Hand Fast · Brainwaves

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Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to another exciting episode of Two
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Shot Tuesday. And not just any episode,
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because if there's a man who likes to call out a holiday when
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we're recording, but is in the past when our audience is
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consuming, it's Barry T Nixon. Barry, what holiday are you
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calling out today? Well, if it's not obvious, I'll
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give you one more shot. Today is Saint Patrick's Day at
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the time of this record, Jay, a very important global holiday,
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if you will. It's only, I think, an actual
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day off in Ireland. It's, it's not a day off here in
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Canada. However, it is celebrated around
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the world, and with good reason. Yeah.
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Because we're celebrating the Irish, you know, with.
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We should fill in that reason. Yeah, the Irish, they've done a
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lot. I'm part of the Irish community.
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Are you part of the Irish community, Barry?
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In a manner of Speaking of my wife and she's half Irish.
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So I've, I guess you could say I've married into it.
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But you're married into it. My, my roots are all from the
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UK. As I told you before I did the
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23andMe and I'm 73% from that island.
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So what do you know? Got to be some Irish in there
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somewhere. Well, I've got some Irish in me
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as well, as, you know, it shows up right in my last name, Ryan.
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Does. The Hungarian half hides hides
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in the background, but the Irish part is on full display,
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especially on this day. I want us to do a shot.
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And then I want you to think back to maybe a fun Saint
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Patrick's Day that you had. And we'll start the show talking
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about that. All right, so let's let's
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consume what have you got for your first shot?
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As you know, we have a format on the show.
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Yeah, I'm over the moon excited. I couldn't help but share this
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with you mere moments ago. As you know, my local has been a
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desert for Jameson Black Barrel. Well my friend, that has ended
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today. I walked in and there was 3/3
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facings I think is how you call it.
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Yeah, facings of Black Barrel. I would just like, where am I is
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this is this heaven? I fell to my knees, Jay.
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I reached up. I grabbed a bottle.
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I hightailed it to the cash. And I even said to the guy at
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long last, look what's back. He's like, oh, you like this is
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like. Yeah.
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And I've been wanting it to be back here forever.
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Anyway, it's finally here. Jameson Black Barrel.
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What have you got? Fantastic.
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And I also, I stopped not at my local, but at the one that was
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down the street from my office on my way back from our morning
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meeting. Yeah.
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And I swung in there and I picked up one that's never at my
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but was certainly there. St.
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Kevin helping us ring in Saint Patrick's Day with a fresh
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bottle of Glendale. So there's to you.
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And our loyal audience, we love you on Saint Patrick's Day.
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Cheers. Happy week after.
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Oh, first time. The system's really had a shot
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of that in a while, isn't it? Oh, man.
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But you know what it remembers, Jay?
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The system remembers how good it was.
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It doesn't take long. You're right.
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Oh, my goodness gracious. Mine too.
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So before we got to get into our favorite Saint Patrick's Day, I
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think it's worth noting that Saint Patrick is credited with
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driving the snakes out of Ireland back in the 1600s.
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Now, do we know whether snakes existed on the island before his
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arrival? We don't know.
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You think we don't? Need to know just to clear them
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out. He might have.
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It might have been like that episode of Simpsons with the
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Whacking Day. Like a Charlotte?
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I don't know. Well, that's a either way to
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start. St.
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Patricks Day. He's pretty cool.
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Snakes to clear them out. Well, that's your interpretive,
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that's your surmise. I would say that it's kind of a
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cool story. He's also credited with bringing
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Christ to the island as well because prior to that time a lot
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of people who lived there were pagans, so he's credited with
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that as well. So he brought Christ, cleared
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the snakes. That's nice.
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Not bad, not bad. Tied things.
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They're huge. And the snake obviously is a big
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thing in the Bible. It was in the Garden of Eden
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according to legend, so it all ties up.
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It really does. I'm satisfied.
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If he would have had some revelation, because that's the
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snakes, Old Testament, Christ is New Testament, he could have got
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some revelation in there. Maybe he brought the rapture as
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well. Maybe at some point, maybe that
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was undocumented, we could have got some revelations.
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And my mom listening to this podcast right now, we'll be
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smiling because I know my Bible stories.
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Barry, let's talk about a fun Saint Patrick's Day.
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I think we might have talked about this on a past episode of
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the show, but I think not on our YouTube episodes.
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They haven't seen us talk about a fun Patrick's Day member,
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Saint Patrick's. Boy, well, we got, you have to
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kind of give me a second here for the hard drive to warm up
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because you know, there's been many of the thing about Saint
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Patrick's Day, as much fun as it is, often moments are missed and
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they're not missed because you weren't there.
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They're missed because you might have been stewed to the gills
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and we've all been there. But anyway, I would say maybe
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about 5 or 6 years ago, Linda and I went to the Steam Whistle
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Roundhouse and they have a truly legendary Saint Patrick's Day
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party. It's where it's like completely
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packed. The only downside for us now, I
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mean back then we loved it, but they're kind of only serve Steam
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Whistle beer, so you got to like Steam Whistle to go to the
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party. But when we went, we loved it
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and it was really a great time. People were dressed up, that
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there was a live band playing, you know, Irish traditional
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music was really great. I had a blast.
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Nice. Yeah, we've done that a couple
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of times, but not, like I said, not in really recent memory.
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What about you? Would that other one question,
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would that be happening this year like today, would that be?
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I think it's happening. It might have probably happened
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on the weekend. At the time of this recording,
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we're on our usual Tuesday schedule, so I think the party
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would have been on Saturday. Right.
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Mine goes back a long time. I was still living in my condo
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at the time and my friend Ryan and I went and we spent like a
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weekend or so in Fort Lauderdale.
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And so we went down there. But here's the thing, we flew
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back. This is back when I could do
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this. We flew back on Saint Patrick's
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Day, landed and I'm thinking of this day because it's so cold
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outside here in Toronto right now.
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We got an Arctic wind came in. Well, that Saint Patrick's Day
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was so warm. We were sitting.
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We found ourselves landed, got home, changed, came back out and
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met on a patio. I think it must have been a
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Saturday night and we enjoyed that.
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So that was our Saint Patrick's Day from Fort Lauderdale.
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A weekend of drinking or whatever weeks, whatever days it
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was landed, changed and we were on a patio on Saint Patrick's
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Day. You know, why couldn't I have
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known that Jason Riley, the guy who gets off an aircraft and
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goes immediately to a bar to continue his good times?
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Jay? I mean, I'm happy, but I'm also
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a little sad that I never knew that Jason Riley.
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Well, just it's. Not about me though.
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It's about the holiday. It's about the holiday.
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We enjoyed some time together this past weekend at the Wheat
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Chief, Toronto's oldest Tavern. Yeah, we.
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Sure did. It was also apparently was
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Saturday prior to Saint Patrick's Day, one of their most
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popular days. She was saying yeah.
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We were there on the Friday night.
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Yeah, exactly right. And she was teeing it up, saying
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Saturday was going to be the big night.
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But it was a kind of a big night Friday, too.
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As you may recall, we were asked to vacate the table that we had
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it occupied originally because of a reservation.
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But they bounced us to a high top.
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And I got to tell you, Jay, once you go to a high top, you can't
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go back. I like the high top.
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It's great. You got a beautiful view of the
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bar. It's perfect.
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The only issue for me, of course, is you know, when I
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first sat down was my chair was missing a place to hang put my
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legs. It was missing that little peg
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across the front to put my feet on.
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And so they were dangling. And I'm a tall man.
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I'm not used to have my feet dangling.
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Luckily I spotted it was a defect in the chair.
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We moved it around, we got a correct chair.
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And I'm glad I got that story out, because that's something
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that will likely light up the Internet.
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Yeah, Oh, for sure. And you did say, hey, can you
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pass from that chair? And I was just not moving.
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And so I I should have been more attentive.
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I should have helped you. I did hold your jacket, though,
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while you made the swap. So I feel like I contributed
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something. But you shouldn't have gone
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through all that asshole Jay. I really, I was just asking for
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a little help, but you did give a little, hey, a little.
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You've you've got a huge Saint Patrick's Day update in terms of
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your 4K universe. I'm setting you up.
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I'm setting you up so that you'll remember this.
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Thank you. Thank you.
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Yeah, yeah. Yeah, I just got, first of all,
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I've got to give a shout out to Rough Cut Video in Calgary, AB I
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think it's sort of a family run shop.
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That's the impression that I get anyway.
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It doesn't seem to be a chain. It's certainly not Amazon and we
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love those guys. I do.
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I've given them a good amount of business now and I that's sort
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of where I go now for for case, because they truly do have the
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best selection of the limited editions.
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They have no shortage of steel books.
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If that's what you like, that's what I like.
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That's what you like, Jay. Our preferred format.
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Our preferred format yeah and and all the arrow releases that
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have that are loaded with the non disk swag.
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You know I need that in my life. You do so I got.
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You need a booklet with them coming.
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Yeah, you need a booklet with type that's far too small for
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the human eye to. Yeah, it's it's essential.
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Tell me about the four that are coming from Rough Cut Video.
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What's that website again? Rough Cut.
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Dot com CA yeah, right, yeah.ca. So they're in Calgary, AB Check
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them out. Rough cut video.
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And man, like I said, I've had nothing but a good experience
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with them. Everything that I've ordered has
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always arrived nicely on time. No issues, no defects on the
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disks to report. Never had to return anything.
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As you know, Jay, I, I, you know, I'm kind of being your
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tester for some of your Seinfeld episodes and I'm happy to report
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I've not encountered anything. So thank you.
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Anyway. Before the four that I got #1
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Red Sonya. And you said this is going to be
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unwatchable. By the way, I read the, I read
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the review today. It came out.
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It's holding steady at 2 point out of five.
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This is the original red Sonya this.
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Is the original one with? Yeah, with Brigitte Nielsen from
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1985. Good luck.
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So yeah, but did I mention the non disc swag?
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I know you're. Going to.
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Love it. Yeah.
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Salem's Locked is another one and you also said that's going
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to be a 7 hour slog I think so who knows.
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It includes the mini series as well as the theatrical version.
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I didn't know the fully restored will be Hooper, the guy who
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directed the Texas Chainsaw Massacre.
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He did this. We did.
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I didn't know. Yeah.
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So I have high hopes. I don't remember seeing.
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I haven't seen it in years. Yeah, I wouldn't have high hopes
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but have some hopes. But I have some hope #3. #3
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Spaceballs that is. You can't go wrong.
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That's that has endless repeatability and again, stuffed
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with non disc swag. Jay, I need this.
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And the final thing again, this is another one that has endless
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repeatability, just like the first two I mentioned.
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Endless. The usual suspects.
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Endless for sure. Endless.
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That is it. Greater percent non disc swag
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with the usual suspects. A little bit it's the thinner
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release. You know, some of them are a
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little thicker, more book like, more biblical in you know the
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the heft of the packaging. This one is not so much.
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This one is more like your Spawn special edition.
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Very little in terms of maybe like a fold out poster, but.
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Which I think that's what I get here.
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Yeah, I'm happy with the fold out poster that'll never be
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folded out, but that's OK. Doesn't matter.
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It's nice to know it's there. It's nice to know it's there.
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You know what else is here? Yeah.
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Our second shot, All right, you just can team me up.
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You're throwing me lobs. This is the most fun episode
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we've ever done. OK, Jay, going back to the well
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with. I'm so happy that it's back.
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I can't even express. I'm choking on my own tongue
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here trying to trying to get it out.
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Yeah. Yeah.
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Jameson Black Barrel. Who you did it St.
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Kevin Glenda Locke. Happy Saint Patrick's Day to you
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and yours, Barry. Same to.
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You, Jay. Cheers.
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Cheers. Oh, my goodness.
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That is just. There's something real special
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going on there. That really is.
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Should we do? We do a Saint Patrick's Day
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ripped from the headlines. Yeah, if we have one, sure, of
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course we do. You send me, I don't know if
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it's Saint Patrick's Day, but you did send me some headlines.
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I'm going to, as usual, just scroll through them and pick one
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at random. Here's one.
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I think we're gonna both enjoy this one.
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OK, good. This.
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In our case, just happened this past weekend.
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Michael B Jordan marks Oscars win with In and Out Burger.
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I love this. Tell me.
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Yeah. Have you seen the video?
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I have seen the video circulating, yeah.
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Yeah, I saw still and I thought that was AI generated and then I
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you sent me the video. Yeah.
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And it was real. He did.
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What do you think of? That I think that's amazing.
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That is a true man of the people move to and he was still wearing
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like his probably Armani black tux.
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He like, he looked great, but he just went and he wanted an
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American cheeseburger. And having tried In and Out
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Burger, I can tell you that was definitely a good move.
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The place went crazy as well. And he was signing autographs
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for all the staff that worked there, and he was taking photos.
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Yeah. And then he sat there at a booth
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by himself. Well, not by himself.
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He was surrounded by people, but it was like him at the booth.
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He had his burger and he had his statue on the table.
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And I was like, fuck, that's really cool, man.
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Like my respect for him has gone up even more that he would think
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to. Now.
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He's not the first person to get a burger after an Academy Award.
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Hilary Swank did it, but she didn't do it within and out.
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I was reading a little bit about this today.
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She did it when she won $4 million, baby.
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But she went to another burger place.
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OK, doesn't matter. It's still pretty cool.
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But this is the first time in a while that, you know, like the
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winner of the best actor category decided to pop into in
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and out with, you know, fresh from the show and to get a
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online. I read.
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I don't know whether this is true.
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He got himself a triple burger and I have even more respect for
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that if that's what he ended up getting.
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I could totally disagree. He's a big guy, he's working out
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all the time. Absolutely.
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So I thought that was super cool.
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I still have not been to an in and out, even though in Phoenix
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we drove right past and in and out and our Uber driver, she
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told us as she was driving us from the airport to the hotel,
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she said The number of people that ask for an in and out stop
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from the airport, she said I can't even count it.
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It's such a big thing when you go to the southwestern portion
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of the United. States and to which you didn't
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pick up on that and say can you bring us there right now please?
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I was excited to get to the hotel.
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Jay. I'm sorry I didn't do it, but my
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brother Jordan did it for all of us.
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He did all right. One more, one more, and then
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we're going to wrap. All right, let's do this one
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here. An end to hay fever.
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The new wave of effective cures for seasonal allergies,
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important as we get to spring Berry.
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Absolutely. And I suffer from allergies, as
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you know, during the month of May.
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I don't know whether that's true, though.
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I hope it is. Hope it's not fake news because
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I would love it if one day I, you know I could be off reacting
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for the entire month of May. You don't have any allergies
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though yourself, do you? I.
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Totally do. I used to have hay fever bad as
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a kid. I used to like be rubbing my
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eyes. They'd stick closed like it was
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terrible. It was a.
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Kid. As a kid and then it got better
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and then it got worse again as I got as I'm getting older so I
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but I carry on maybe a little bit longer, but much more mild
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than you like you're I can't even talk to you.
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I can't even look at you in the no like I just.
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Want a little test? It's disgusting.
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I'm pussing and it's just, it's not good.
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It's not. This is the first year, it's the
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first year that you're going to be featured on YouTube for the
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month of May. So you're going to want to get
15:09
yourself some React and Plus or something because.
15:12
An eye patch. An eye patch for sure.
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Two eye patches maybe like like a sleep mask.
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You should probably be a great. Idea.
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I have one. That's what I want you to wear
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for the month of May. Just wear a sleep mask.
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We won't even address it. We'll just we pretend like it's
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not even. Happening.
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Yeah, he's just visually impaired.
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Deal with. It now because of the sleep
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mask. Why doesn't he take the mask
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off? Really could, but that's just
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too logical. Yeah, anyway.
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Barry, how would you rate our Saint Patrick's Day?
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I'm having a great time. I don't know about you, I I feel
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like you are having fun, but it is a little bit like herding
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cats and you're like. I am bringing you along.
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Yeah, you are. I do feel that.
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You feel it. You do?
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Yeah. I feel it because I feel like
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I'm perhaps a little further down the road of the drunkenness
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than you are. So really.
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You've been here. For the show, I appreciate
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everything that you do, Jay, and thanks.
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Now I know. I appreciate Saint Patrick's
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Day. Yeah.
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Yeah, I know. After we hung out on Friday.
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I mean, just before you got in the cab, I told you I loved you.
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And then what did you do? You just started laughing.
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I did. Just just laughed your ass off
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and walked away. Said nothing.
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I was like, that is Jay and that's straight out of a movie.
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By the way. He's not calling again.
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But. That's what that is.
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Keep it. Also, doesn't that speak to
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people needing love, Jay? It's obviously a hot topic.
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Obviously, and I think you are going to be the guru of love for
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the rest of 2026. That's a lot to live up to, it
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really is. I'll do my best.
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All right, well, bring us home. Bring us home on this episode
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because I I love that. And I got to say, you wanted to
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ask, you asked earlier about my favorite Saint Patrick's Day.
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Well, I'll tell you something. It's right now.
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It's as as we're sitting here in the moment, Jay, it's right now.
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And audience, thank you for being with us.
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Thanks for sharing your time. Thanks for listening, thanks for
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supporting. And Jay, you're amazing, That's
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all I can say. Happy Saint Patrick's Day,
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whether you're celebrating right now, as we are, or in the past.
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