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Episode 41 Teaser · Off the Bench - London

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Guess who's back? Look at this. Just like that.
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We're back outside. I'm inside. Well, I got back
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from outside. Yeah, we're back inside. We're
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back inside. All right. Well, I'm Malcolm the
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Milkman. Scott the Visionary Hone. And this is
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Off the Bench, where life and sports collide.
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Yeah, let's get it. Yo, it has been some time.
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Yeah, we had a couple month vacation. It was
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relaxing. I don't know if you guys can tell I'm
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really nice and tan now. Yeah. You'll never catch
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up. Let's be honest. Yo, a lot has happened.
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People are only listening to the audio. That
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would be even funnier. That is so true. That
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is so true. The one thing I'll definitely say
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is like we did take about two months off. It
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wasn't necessarily planned, but we definitely
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needed like some time to like reset and like,
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you know, get back on board. Yeah. Well, I mean,
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you get busy like. Both of us are doing a lot
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of things. Two months. Well, yeah. So you need
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a little bit of time to adjust, relax. Summer's
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the perfect time to take some time off. We had
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a nice vacation. Lots of stuff going on. I got
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a dog. Well, before we get into all that, let's
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pay a little bills first. First off, let's do
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a huge shout out to Clubhouse. uh season two
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of off the bench is now here and live we can't
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we couldn't deal without this place 100 100 if
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it wasn't for clubhouse um this podcast wouldn't
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exist also a huge shout out to going for two
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you know they did the uh watch party for the
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first game of the season a few people came out
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and showed up and uh as you can see like from
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the photos earlier on that you know they had
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a good crowd come out for the first game on the
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wednesday It's so weird watching football on
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a Wednesday. I know it's the season opener, but,
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and they were just like, we got to get in, get
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it in ahead of the Australia game. But it's true.
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But if you haven't been to the clubhouse, it's,
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um, it's one of the biggest complexes in London,
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Ontario. Uh, you got so much going on. It's like
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you have clubhouse, you have 100 Kellogg's, which
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is like the whole complex of it all. Um, hardware
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or the hard rock cafe, hard rock, sorry, hotel.
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My apologies. Um, You know, you have the Hard
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Rock. You have Powerhouse. You got Factory. Paradigm.
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Poppy. Starbucks is in here. Children's Museum.
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You know you made it when there's a Starbucks
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in your location. Let's be honest. That's true.
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You know what I mean? You know you really made
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it. So, huge shout out to Clubhouse. If you've
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never been, honestly, take some time. Come out
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to London, Ontario and check out the Clubhouse.
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There's a million things here. You'll notice
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15 things on your way up here. Because we're
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on, what is this, the third floor? Third floor?
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Third floor, but yeah, but the third floor. I
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always get lost in here. Or 2 .5. 2 .5? Yeah,
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because when you look at the elevator, we're
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technically 2 .5, but like. Yeah. Because you
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can't get to the elevator on this floor, but
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you can get, yeah. Anyway, the point is this
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place is huge. Yes, yes. Also paying bills again.
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Huge shadow to pest case scenario. Yeah. If you
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have any situations when it comes to pests in
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London, Ontario. Best case is to call pest case.
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I got to hit him up, uh, right after this. Oh,
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okay. Okay. I got some, uh, whether it's some
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pest needs or pests that I don't need. Yeah.
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Pests that I don't need. Yeah. Yeah. Uh, whether
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it's, you got bats in your house or ant spiders
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or whatever, he'll definitely take care of it.
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Especially when we're going to the winter months,
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mice are about to start being active in your
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house. So if, um, you have any of those situations,
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please call pest case. Uh, and you're helping
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us pay our bills or call us and we'll call him
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and then we'll, we can do that. We can do that.
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Uh, another got to pay bills again. Um, we got
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a lot of bills. Yo, we got a lot of bills. Well,
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it ain't easy owning a podcast, right? It's true.
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This is true. Um, the one thing I'll definitely
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say, we had, we got to buy these Jordan somehow.
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That's what I'm saying. Um, but like the next
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one that we got to pay bills for is Milky Way
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apparel. Oh yeah. Yeah. Does that guy even pass?
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Retrospectively, yes. Retrospectively, yes. Actually,
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if you paid attention, offthebench .com or offthebenchlondon
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.com now is direct page directly to our new landing
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page, which is now out. It's a little bit more
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professional, looks a little bit easier, and
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it also sends you to our link for our Facebook
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group, our Instagram group. our YouTube and Spotify.
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So it's like a great hub for you to get all your
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off the bench needs and more is coming. Um, everything
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there's always, there's always so much, there's
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always so much. It's it. Yeah. It never stops.
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And then on top of that, just because if you're
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tuning in now, if you go to Milky way apparel
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.com, the new revert, revert, revised version
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of the website just got launched today. So, you
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know what? Check on your phone. Check out our
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phone. Let's see what we got. You know what I
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mean? And then when you go to off the bench and
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you check our collection, you might see some
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new apparel as well. Are you doing this to surprise
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me with stuff? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I do kind of
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like when you don't tell. It's like when you
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didn't tell me about the new intro we had. Yes.
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And then I just hear it and I'm like, oh, damn.
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Yeah. Yeah. I like it. But like, even if you
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watch, like if you're watching live. or watching
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on YouTube later on after we post this episode,
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you're going to see some new wingdings below
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us right now with a lot of our sponsors as well.
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Oh, I got a jersey. Yes. That's tight. So there's
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a lot going on. And that's just like before we
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even started our first episode on season two.
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I like that. Right? Right. That's why I asked
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for your favorite number. That makes sense. That
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tracks. All right, everybody. As you can see
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right now, if you're watching, it just popped
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up. There we go. So yeah. Click the link. Get
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that Jersey. Yeah. We'll see who sells more.
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We'll see who sells more. Now I'm going to fortunately
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like start pushing sales. And yeah, a lot of
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things that are coming down the pipeline. We're
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being a little bit more professional. I think
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season one was just getting her feet wet and
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try new things. Uh, but it's definitely, we're
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definitely growing. Um, so yeah, just the audience
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is just getting there everywhere. Oh, for sure.
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For sure. I had someone else, someone asked me
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the other day, uh, when are you guys coming back?
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Oh, for real. And I was like, real soon, real
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soon. Yeah, no, I, we started really pushing
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and now we have ads and everything that we're
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just trying to be a little bit more efficient.
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I think we'd learned a lot after season one.
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Just like how our cadence work, how we're going
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to communicate moving forward. Just the whole,
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just to be better. Yeah. I think last year. Practice.
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Yeah. I think last year we were trying to focus
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on trying to be like first take, you know, uninterrupted,
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speak easily, be too analytical on sports. And
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that's not what people really wanted. Yeah. Well,
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I mean, it is nice getting those takes, but I
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think. You end up starting to talk like that
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just because you're used to hearing people talk
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like that. Yes. But the nice thing when you're
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talking with your buddies, you can just talk,
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say whatever. Some of your takes are good. Some
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of your takes are bad. Sometimes you just start
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bickering over something and then you find out
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you're both wrong. True. But it's nice just getting
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those like quick takes or like. Making those
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little jokes about teams that are having issues.
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Not my team right now. Neither mine. Not my team
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right now. We're good. We're good for now. We
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both got wins. We'll get into that. Thank God.
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But yeah, let's be honest. A lot has happened.
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We could talk sports right now, but let's talk
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about our personal life. Because it is off the
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bench. Life and sports collide. So let's talk
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about... the summer for you like how busy of
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a summer was it for you like what's new uh well
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i mean things just keep moving along and progressing
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like new relationship just got a dog what's your
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dog's name rocco shout out to rocco rocco also
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has an instagram handle got that set up uh the
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other day you gotta send that to me so we can
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link it down yeah yeah we'll get that uh hit
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up i don't know I'm not in charge of it because
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I don't. Ah, smart, smart. Yeah. But he's adorable.
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He's been fantastic. Okay. How is training? So
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he's a rescue. Okay. We got him about almost
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eight weeks ago now. That's fair. We got him
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from London Animal Care. Shout out to them. They're
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fantastic. How was that whole experience going?
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Because I know a lot of people prefer to get
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like a perp. Like purebred? Yeah. But you ended
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up going the adoption route. Like, can you walk
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me through like that experience? Honestly, it
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was a lot of just like you see a dog and you're
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like, damn, he is adorable. And like we were
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kind of in the market for a dog, but like down
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the road. Nothing's ever down the road. Let's
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be honest. Yeah, exactly. The road is we're on
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the road. Yes. But one thing led to another and
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we saw a dog. He was adorable. We were at a friend's
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wedding. Okay. And we were like. Shout out to
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weddings. Yeah. Summer weddings. Shout out to
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Bree and Terry for their wedding. Go Bengals
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go. Yeah. Let's go. Go Bengals go. No. Oh, I
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did. Okay. I did get Terry and Bree the funniest
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wedding present ever. We'll finish the dog story
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and then we'll get to that. Yes. Anyway, so we
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got the, we saw him and we were like, all right,
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let's go take a look at him. Okay. We went, I
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came out. He was adorable. And you know what?
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You're rolling the dice when you get a rescue.
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You really never know what you're going to get.
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True. We had no idea what we were walking into.
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Fair. He was fantastic. Then we took him for
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a nice walk, brought him back. We're like, okay,
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let's. Let's talk about it a little bit. And
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then we were like, all right, let's go take,
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let's take him out again. See if it was just
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like a lucky walk the first time. Cause you know
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how sometimes you take a dog for a walk and they're
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an angel. And then the second time you take them
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for a walk, they're just Satan. Oh, for sure.
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Yeah. Uh, but he was an angel both times. Okay.
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And, uh, so then we started filling out all the
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paperwork. I, it is the best way of getting a
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dog. Cause why do you say that? How much fun
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was housebreaking your dog? Hmm? How much fun
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was making Morales not be inside? Oh, yeah. That
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didn't take long, though. Yeah. I think we had
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one accident. Okay. And that was because he didn't
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know how to wake us up when he wanted to go out
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in the morning. Okay. So he's been great. He
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comes to work with me every day. Interesting.
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We're still working on getting him to stay home
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alone, but we'll get there. You'll get there.
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You'll get there. No, honestly, when we had Morales,
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it wasn't that hard. He was very vocal when he
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was young, so we had a good understanding of
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when he kind of needed to go. I think... Well,
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the first little bit was like us just trying
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to get to know him and him getting to know us.
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Yeah. And now he's great. Yeah. No, honestly,
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getting a dog is... definitely been a great experience,
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but get your steps in. Oh, a hundred percent.
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That's how we lost most of our beer, but bellies,
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you know what I mean? But okay. Okay. So, okay.
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So you got a dog, you're in a new relationship
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and then. So, okay. Backtrack. Backtrack wedding.
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Uh, so everybody knows Burt Reynolds is a fantastic
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actor. Great mustache. Rest in peace. I. So I
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got, I wanted to get something for Terry. Okay.
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Much like what I got for you for your wedding.
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Okay. So I got him an autographed picture of
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Burt Reynolds and it was fantastic. That is hilarious.
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However, he immediately wanted to throw it out
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and his wife wouldn't let him because it's Burt
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Reynolds wearing a Steelers jacket. And I saw
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it and I was like, oh, this is perfect. He's
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going to want it. she's going to not want it,
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but also want it because it annoys him. Yes.
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It's perfect. It was a perfect, perfect thing.
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What a steal. You are hilarious. You are, you're
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hilarious when it comes to like gift giving.
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Cause like you always find like the most creative.
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Yes. We'll go with that. We'll go creative. But
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it's one of those things where it's like, I don't
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know, like when it comes to gift giving for anything,
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you're like, anyone can give a gift card. And
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he's like, Giving money is one thing. Like, obviously,
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it's a wedding. You also give them some cash.
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But like, something a little bit more personalized
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is nice. Oh, for sure. Because it's like, if
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let's say we're doing a gift exchange and there's
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four of us and we all buy a $50 gift card. And
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the gift cards just exchange around the table.
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Yeah. Is it really? Yeah, I know exactly what
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you mean. It feels silly. Kind of repetitive.
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Yeah. And you're like, well, what are we doing
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here? No, I get you. I get you on that. But yeah.
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So, uh, what else did we do this summer? You
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know, it was the first time, uh, either or have
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been on a cruise. Yeah. Uh, so that was wild.
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So we definitely, uh, so, you know, off the bench,
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we took our partners and then my sister and my
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mom ended up showing up as well. Um, but you
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know, took showed up to Will Smith's going to
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Miami. Hey, I would love to, but I ain't trying
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to get copyright right now to put that on. Um,
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yeah, man. So now, okay. We didn't really talk
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after, uh, what's your experience? Like, what
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do you think? Are you a resort guy or are you
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a land resort guy? Um, so I've, as now that I've
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done both, this is both of our first cruise.
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Yep. I. I kind of like the cruise in the sense
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that you're going to different places. Okay.
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Because I know sometimes on a resort, if you're
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at a resort for a week, sometimes you rush around,
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you do everything you wanted to do. And then
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in the first couple days, and then you're like,
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okay, now what? And then you're like... drinking
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in the like you end up going to the same place
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fair and doing the same thing for a couple days
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in a row and you're like it starts to feel a
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little bit repetitive okay uh as someone that
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can't just hang out on a beach the entire time
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i'll just cook and never be able to make it out
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of my room because i'm just bright red but it
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was it was cool that uh it kind of makes you
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wait for excursions too okay because you're doing
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different a bunch of different ports true true
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true And you just wake up and you're like, oh,
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cool. We're in a different place. And it's totally
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different atmosphere. You're not wrong. I found
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that aspect kind of neat. The whole nickel and
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diminess of cruises is kind of annoying. That's
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one of the things that really did piss me off.
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Yeah. And don't get me wrong. Shout out to Carnival.
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Carnival definitely gave a great experience.
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It's just like that's the whole thing with cruises.
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Once you're on the boat, they make it. super
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cheap like our cruise was like super cheap like
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it was very affordable yes yeah uh it was a fantastic
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cruise but it was one of those like almost like
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like a not a free trial but like you know when
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they get you in the door for like a subscription
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and then they're like oh you want the premium
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oh yeah it's like you know You're like, here's
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a free TV, but if you want it to turn on, it's
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20 bucks. Microtransactions. Just like EA sports.
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It's in the game. Yeah. Yeah. So they're in your
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wallet. Yes. No, you're 100 % correct with that
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statement. But I feel like that's like the way
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life is now. Unfortunately. Like that's just
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kind of, there's no, you just an all in thing.
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No, there's a way to get you in and in. there's
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tears to it. If you want to have a better experience,
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you have to pay this much. You want to have a
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better experience, you have to pay this much.
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Yeah. That's one of the things that I noticed
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too. Cause like when we got off out to the ports,
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you could see that to actually enjoy it, you
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had to like spend either 70 US to get a cab to
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go somewhere to actually visit. Oh yeah. Well,
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it's cause they know. Yeah. But then once we
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got to Bahamas, um, Bahamas was really cool.
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That was just a great experience because like
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we were able to, and I've never seen an ocean
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so clear and so relaxing. Oh, man. And it's so...
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It's so... Like... I don't know. Just being in
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that water, you float so easy. Mm -hmm. Well...
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I know you're not a big swimmer, but... I still
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don't float. Well, we try to get you to float.
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Even with a floaty, you just don't work. Yeah,
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it's just... It's just not in the cards. Yeah.
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Well, some people float, some people sink. Yeah.
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I'm just one of those sinkers. Yeah. Well, but
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yeah, man. So yeah, damn, that's a lot. Yeah.
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No, it was a, it was a crazy summer. Yeah. And
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now that's just like a few of our stories. Like
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a few of the other things that we can talk about
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is just like, there was a huge boxing event happened
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during the summer. Yeah. Shout out to boomers.
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Shout out to boomers for organizing the novice
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tournament again. I believe this is the third
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year they've ran it. Um, and I also, we also
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got to do a huge shout out to MPT. We got to
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see, I'll see. Oh, I got to see, I'll see this
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win on gold medal. Um, there was a lot of MPT
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in that tournament too. Like a lot of, I saw
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a lot of nice wins. Oh man. Um, from MPT from
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boomer. Yeah. A lot of the gyms in the London
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community. Um, I've got to go. You got to give
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a huge shout out to all of them. Cause what they
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did was absolutely amazing. Uh, anybody listening
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isn't in shape and wants to get in shape. Boxing.
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Seriously. Telling you. Telling you right now.
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Sign up for a fight. That will motivate you more
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than anything else. Oh, for sure. For sure. Shout
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out to Jason Eckers. I saw the fight that I got
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to see. Man, dominated. 10 second fight. 10 second
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fight. Really? Yeah, it was the first fight he
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had. It was literally 10 seconds. He tried to
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play you because he wanted to go the distance.
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Yeah. Played with him a little bit. Hit him.
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Saw an opening. Hit him with the right. The guy
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was done. And was like, damn. Especially like,
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I mean, you're in that weight class. I mean,
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technically, so am I. Yeah, so are you. But once
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you're at that size, one hit, if you can write,
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it's not like when you have some of the smaller
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guys when they're just fast and wailing on each
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other and not finishing. It's like, no, he's
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like, yes, you wear headgear. Yeah. But like,
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it's real. Oh, for sure. For sure. Um, so yeah,
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that was a great, um, shadow to, and like, I'm
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saying this now, so I'm putting it out there
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in the universe. Cause like we live in London,
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Ontario. Yeah. And we see stories of athletes
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in the States or wherever they are, they come
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from, whatever, but we don't really appreciate
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the ones that are here. Like London, Ontario,
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making a difference out there. Um, Natasha. The
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nightmare spends. Oh, she is a beast. I got it.
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I have to give her her flowers. She's one training
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out of London. Yeah. Doing the work. Going to
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the States and just going to the States and dominating,
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like not just dominate, like dominating. Yeah.
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And like, I just want to give her her flowers
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because we don't give her enough credit in London
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for what she's doing in the oxygen. Um, and so
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I'm saying this now because now I want her on
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this show. So I'm putting it on you first that
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we want Natasha on this show. We got a nice spot
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right here. For sure, for sure. We'll make sure
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it's a chair. You know what I mean? Oh, she can
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have my chair. It's fair. Perfect. We'll make
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you stand. We'll make you stand. It's fine. So
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huge shout out to her. All I know is I ain't
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fighting her. She might warm you up for your
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next fight because I know you got that little
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itch after seeing some of those fights. Yeah,
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I know. It's so hard watching and you're just
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like, you want to get back in it you do but like
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it's time it's the time especially with like
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everything going on it makes makes time a little
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bit harder i know it's hard to do anything right
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especially like in your situation with rocco
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i'm looking forward to him being able to hang
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out at home by himself even for like 20 minutes
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we gotta we're gonna we're gonna yeah you gotta
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just kind of gotta force it Oh, I know. But that's
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not here. Yeah. I mean, it's nice that I can
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bring him to work, but it does be a little bit
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harder to adapt him to being left alone. Yes.
22:47
But we'll get there. One step at a time. You
22:49
know what? Yeah. Think of this. When you have
22:51
a hard day at work or sports. Oh, he just wants
22:54
a cuddle. Yeah. You have something to, like,
22:56
relieve some of that stress. And they absorb
22:58
it. They don't talk back. Well, they do. They
23:00
talk back. But they kneel back or whatever. But,
23:03
you know, those are. He's fantastic. Sure, for
23:08
sure. Yeah. But yeah, I know what you mean when
23:13
you're like, ah, I kind of want to get back into
23:14
it. Yeah. Because you just, you see it and you're
23:17
like, ah. Yeah. I don't know. Who knows? Who
23:20
knows what will happen come January? I wouldn't
23:23
wait that long, but yeah. Well, I'm just saying.
23:26
Yeah. Punch out happens again. I'm not saying
23:30
yes yet. Well, yeah, we got to see what happens.
23:33
Yeah. I'm definitely looking. Cause I did tell
23:37
a few people I was one of them. Did you? Oh,
23:40
your mom? Yeah. The people that are like, you
23:43
know, are concerned about everything. Ah, but
23:47
like, think of like the, the feeling that you
23:50
got afterwards. Yeah. No, that feeling is insane.
23:53
Yeah. It's, it's one of the, you know, soccer
23:58
recreational now, just like, I know how to breathe
24:00
better. I know how to move better because I lost
24:01
so much weight. I started eating better. Sorry.
24:04
Then we went on the cruise and just got it all
24:06
back. Yeah. Well, yeah. The food there. What
24:09
did you think of the food on the cruise? Be honest.
24:12
It was really good. Like, I've been to some resorts.
24:15
Okay. And the food has been, like, not as good.
24:20
Okay. But I think it's... Like, even the buffet
24:25
food was, like, not awful. Okay. Like, it was
24:27
all good stuff. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And then they
24:29
had a whole bunch of, like, little specialty...
24:31
I... Like... Almost little restaurants with like
24:35
walk -up windows, which is kind of cool. And
24:39
then like the sit -down dinners. You know what?
24:43
I would say it was really good wedding food.
24:47
I feel like it. I know you're a foodie. I can
24:50
tell when someone doesn't add enough salt or
24:52
pepper. Yeah. And you can yell at you when you
24:55
add too much salt or pepper. Yeah. Well, she
24:56
can do what she wants. Yeah. No, honestly, when
25:00
it comes to food, though, like. There is a ratio,
25:02
though, right? Because when you cook with salt
25:05
and pepper and you do it before, then it won't
25:07
affect your blood pressure the same way as if
25:09
you put it in after. I think that the big thing
25:12
with the cruise, though, is man, everything sounds
25:16
so good. So you're like, why do we order five
25:19
apps each? Yes, yes. And it's like, he ate the
25:22
apps. We didn't share in between. No one shared
25:24
anything. No, it was like, here, you can have
25:27
a bite of mine. But it's mine. Would you ever
25:30
go back to Carnival? Yeah, probably. Okay. Now,
25:34
what'd you think of Sophie? She's fantastic.
25:36
Yes. Yes. The glitter suit. Entertainment teams
25:40
were great. Yeah. So huge shout out to like Carnival
25:43
and Sophie. That'd be a fun one. That would be.
25:45
But it's never like the whole like sleeping.
25:48
Yeah. She's on the ship for about six months
25:51
straight. Yeah. So like there's no personal life.
25:53
Like that whole team, they don't really have
25:55
a personal life because their personal life is
25:56
shit. So like they're living through other people.
25:58
They don't get to live their own lives. Like,
26:00
you know what I mean? It's like servant -like
26:02
in a sense. In a sense. But it's like, it's one
26:06
of those work hard, play hard situations. True.
26:09
Two months off and you can do whatever you want.
26:11
But then you miss a lot of life. Well, it's true.
26:14
Well, I mean, that's, we're in the service industry.
26:16
You know how it is. Yeah. You're like, you find
26:18
yourself off on a holiday. Well, that's true.
26:22
True, true, true, true. Yeah. Honestly, it was
26:25
great taking a week off because like. even a
26:28
week off from like just a regular life because
26:29
obviously once you put the podcast off the air
26:31
for a few months um it opened up monday a little
26:35
bit but it was still busy yeah um just catching
26:38
up with everything that we couldn't do before
26:39
because we always find time find we always find
26:41
ways to fill in our time uh and it's the one
26:44
thing i noticed as we get older it's harder to
26:47
like just relax one thing is just to get scheduled
26:50
and further out and and they sneak up on you
26:54
or Like I've been trying to go difficult things
26:56
this summer. Didn't get an opportunity, but for
26:59
one time. So culture, I will use those this all
27:02
soon. I will use them soon. Um, but yeah, just
27:06
a lot of things. It's like, whether it's like
27:07
family time, personal time, uh, or catching up
27:10
with work or just doing odd things in there.
27:12
It's hard to like relax. Everyone's like trying
27:16
to get a little bit of attention. When the way
27:19
I know you're this very similar to the way I
27:23
am. how you build your schedule as, like, a week.
27:28
So you're like, Mondays I do this, Tuesdays I
27:30
do... Like, Mondays I have work, then this. Tuesdays
27:33
I have work, then I have soccer. Wednesdays I
27:35
have work, then I'm bartending. Thursdays I have
27:38
work, then... That's kind of almost my free day,
27:41
but it's sometimes I end up bartending, or football,
27:44
or doing anything. Fridays, sitting, work, work.
27:50
Saturdays, I'll work, I'll part to half a day.
27:53
True, true. I kind of just break my day up to
27:56
like daytime, like before five and after five.
28:00
Well, it's smart. So it's like, it's almost like
28:02
have two big things every day. Yes. But then
28:05
you end up having seven days a week filled and
28:09
then there's no gap. That's why like I, I try
28:13
to always size off. That's fair. That way I can
28:16
actually sit down and watch some football games.
28:18
Okay. Because obviously it's very hard to do
28:21
a podcast that's sports related if you're not
28:24
up on all of this. That's why it's called Off
28:26
the Bench Life Sports Club. Because like there's
28:30
no way around where life doesn't get in the way
28:32
of like trying to keep up. And I think that was
28:35
the thing that we also noticed is this like we
28:37
can't just sit down and just watch sports and
28:39
learn everything we need to to then hire opinions
28:42
onto it and just live our normal lives. So we're
28:46
going to miss some games. We're going to highlight
28:48
some games. Fantasy Sports has made it a little
28:51
bit easier to be back to see what's going on.
28:54
Are they going to mess up? Are they going to
28:57
do too many Fantasy Leagues? I'm in too many
29:00
Fantasy Leagues. I said this year that I'm only
29:03
going to do Sleeper Leagues. I'm in four different
29:06
leagues on three different apps. So we're saying
29:10
that now. Next year, I will only do Leagues that
29:13
are on Sleeper. So on one app. because that's
29:17
just like a video like come on but yeah fancy
29:19
and make this and then i guess no no no sleeper
29:22
sleeper yeah i am done with yahoo league i am
29:24
sorry you're never going to sponsor us so i will
29:28
i'm done with yahoo if you have a yahoo league
29:31
and you want to join i'm not a big fan of the
29:34
new uh sp ones i was off of that enough so i
29:38
used to have their own and it used to be amazing
29:39
it was good yeah and then they merged with or
29:45
sold to ESPN. Now all of the NFL switched over
29:51
to ESPN, which is kind of nice that they switched
29:53
everything over so you still have all your history
29:55
and stuff. This is our tier running now. But
30:00
it sucks. It's so hard to find things. I'm going
30:06
to be honest. The search functions are broken.
30:09
Sleeper has dominated the scene for... Well,
30:12
they always try and overcomplicate things. We
30:14
were like, we were halfway through doing one
30:15
of the drafts, and one of the guys was like,
30:17
man, I really, you know what really helped me?
30:19
If I tell where, like, the ADP is for all these
30:24
guys, like, average draft position. I was like,
30:26
oh, it's way over on the far side. You actually
30:29
have to scroll to find it. Yes, yes. But, like,
30:32
unless you miss the little, you'll never see
30:35
it. And it's hidden in there behind, like, random
30:38
stats that they're projecting that you're like,
30:42
I'm not looking at projections. You're pretty
30:43
much looking at projections. Projection total
30:46
number. You're not looking at like, oh, I'm this
30:48
guy, but he's going to get me 48 passing or receiving
30:52
yards a game. No, what's his point total? What's
30:55
his point total going to be? Yes. I'm going to
30:57
do math in my head. So with the amount of football
31:00
teams that you're doing, what was your shot for
31:03
Jeff this year? Did you have a shot or were you
31:06
just taking the highest? Or were you trying to
31:08
build consistency across? So I tried to get a
31:12
few of the same guys. Because that makes it a
31:16
little bit easier to follow. But at the time,
31:20
it makes it hard to differentiate which teams
31:22
are which. It's probably going to take a few
31:26
weeks for me to mentally adjust and be like,
31:28
yeah, this guy in this league. The problem is
31:31
when you're like, when some go down and you're
31:33
like, okay, that guy got injured. He's on my
31:35
bench. Which one did I get him in? I know I was
31:37
trying to get him in this one, but I couldn't
31:39
get him in that one. I picked up Jacoby Lane.
31:45
He's a rookie on Baltimore. I think he's going
31:51
to be pretty good this year. Then he broke his
31:54
hand in the first game, so he's going to be out
31:55
for a while. Obviously, I'm probably getting
31:57
rid of him. Then I was like, which league is
32:02
he in? You're scrolling through and going through
32:04
different things for four different teams. You're
32:07
scrolling through. becomes just scrolling through
32:11
your teeth too much. Way too much. And then I'm
32:14
the kind of guy who like, when I'm watching Red
32:17
Zone, I'm kind of watching for my guys, but when
32:19
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32:21
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