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Jacked for All Seasons · Brainwaves

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  Hey, welcome to another exciting episode of Two Shot Tuesday.
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  My name is Jason Riley, with me as always, Barry T Nixon.
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  And you know the only thing I can say about my friend.
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  Of all the souls I have encountered on my travels, his
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  is the most. Human.
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  Thank you. Done.
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  Yeah, pulled that out, which is nice.
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  And everyone knows most people know where that's from.
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  Yeah, that's from 2, from 2 movies, right?
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  Two. Well, it was at the end of two,
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  and then they used it again at the beginning of three for those
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  who wouldn't see 2. Yeah, because it was such a
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  moving tribute. And it was.
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  It's summarized because you really couldn't see 3 without
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  his having seen two. I cannot imagine anybody making
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  The Search for Spock their first Star Trek foray because it was
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  such a follow up. It truly was.
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  Yeah, exactly. And then it went directly into
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  that. I think those middle ones,
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  right, 2-3 and four are sort of one story.
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  It's a trilogy. Like it all happens in one
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  afternoon basically. Well, maybe not one afternoon,
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  but it's pretty quick and that's rare.
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  I don't think you ever get that. I can't describe one other like
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  trilogy within a series. I mean Star Wars I guess, but
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  those are three banks of trilogy's.
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  This is like just a rando trilogy in the middle of things.
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  Am I bothering you? Is there anything else you'd
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  like to be doing other than discussing a a a trilogy rammed
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  into? A a series.
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  I feel like we have covered it, but that's cool.
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  OK, great. Just in case people didn't know,
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  was rammed right into a six pack.
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  And it's like the other one. There's no connection like 1-5
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  and six are all standalone adventures.
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  Yeah, they just kind of fly off. You're just happening to be
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  there. But anyway, that's not what we
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  were originally going to talk about in the show, which
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  happened. Sometimes we go into different
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  corners of what we might want to cover, but what always brings us
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  back is our format. And we do two shots in every
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  episode, hence the name. Two shot Tuesday.
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  Barry, what have you got tonight?
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  Well, Jay, it's a clean, sober show for me tonight.
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  I'm hitting the iron immediately following this record, so I'm
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  going to be having a little of Godzilla free workout.
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  All right, and you've inspired me.
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  I'm also going to hit a workout immediately after the show.
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  And so I'm starting with water with ice cubes in it too.
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  In fact, from my new Brita that actually gets rid of lead, it's
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  I've upgraded to the Brita 2.0 or something and it takes lead
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  out of water. I have old lead pipes, so it's
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  something that we need to be aware of.
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  So I thought, you know, since I was upgrading my water pitcher
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  anyway, why not go with the lead removal system?
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  Seems like a perfect choice. Jay, here's to you.
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  I'm not crazy about the flavor. I have touched on that before.
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  This will not be a repurchase. It gives you some gas, but it
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  just says I don't mean gas below the equator, I mean energy.
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  And but it's just the flavors. It's not really there anyway.
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  OK, let's get to it. Jay, we have a whole bunch of
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  stuff to talk about. Maybe we should start with what
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  just happened at the time of this record, a mere 72, or maybe
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  it's now 96 hours ago. At the time of this record, we
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  went and supported a very dear friend of ours, friend of ours,
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  friend of the show, and now not only a performer but a
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  playwright, Laurie Carruthers. Yeah, absolutely.
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  It was. We got to see her debut of yeah,
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  it's the first like long form play that we've seen her do,
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  which it like stretched 2 hours with an intermission.
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  Like that is a serious play. And she pulled it off.
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  It was incredible. It let's just get that out of
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  the way. Incredible.
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  And don't just take our word for it.
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  Sold out run. Basically there was like maybe a
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  seat or two available and from the theater that they were at
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  the Red Sandcastle Theater here in Toronto, they were saying
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  that what she was able to bring in in terms of crowd was kind of
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  and they, they don't see that kind of crowd at the Red
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  Sandcastle Theater. So kudos to Laurie for being
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  able to pack all of the houses for what seemed to be a probably
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  around a six or seven show run over the course of the May long
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  weekend. Yeah, yeah.
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  You're exactly right. And it was really well written.
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  There was a lot of jokes in there and I I forgot that Laurie
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  really does have this talent for writing jokes.
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  I mean, we knew. I mean, I just.
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  She was in our improv troupe. You remember that right, Barry?
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  Well, I do remember that, but that was like, 25 years ago.
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  To still have that, you know, that muscle that you can flex
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  and then, you know, put something on, you know,
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  something live on stage is pretty cool.
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  Yeah. I enjoyed it.
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  Now, we should also touch on the fact that we I I don't think we
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  were late to the theater, by the way.
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  We were there at least 10 minutes before the curtain.
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  Yeah. But Jay and I had the pleasure
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  of sitting literally in the front row and now at the Red Red
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  Castle, Red Sand Castle Theater. Is that what it is, Jay?
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  That's it. It is a little more snug.
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  So literally front row is almost in the show, Jay.
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  I mean, we had a little bit of a snicker about that, but it was
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  in like there was nowhere to turn to not be watching the
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  play. Like you were literally, it was
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  like wearing an Oculus Rift. It was all around you.
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  There was nowhere to look. You were just looking at the
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  action. What?
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  Do you think I loved it because it was such an intimate show?
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  There were four actors on stage and it was great to be a part of
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  it. In fact, the, the one thing that
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  I was very focused on was not having to pee during the show
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  because the washroom was in fact one of the doors that the actors
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  would be coming out. If you would have had to go on
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  stage and be in the show, if you had to use the washroom during
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  the show, which always, as soon as I see that, I immediately
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  have to pee. So that's why I got a little
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  quiet before the show started when you were sort of like,
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  we're in the front row. We're in the front row.
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  And I was like, yeah, yeah, I, I just don't want to have to pee.
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  And so that was, that was me being aware of it.
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  Yeah. Now I don't tell you all these
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  things. I just kind of.
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  You should. I well, I assume maybe you're
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  going to pick up on the cues you never do.
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  And it's great because then you're like, is it a great J?
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  We're in the front row. And then I'd be like, yeah, I
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  just let's, let's just get to. This point I'm just not in tune
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  with your urinary cycles, but I should be more into now I know
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  if we ever go to a show again where there's a restroom on the
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  stage, I'm going to know immediately that Jay's got to
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  use it. That's what I'm thinking of
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  exactly. I'm thinking of should I go, how
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  much time do I have before the show starts?
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  Otherwise, is there an intermission?
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  I'm working all this. I'm doing a lot of math in my
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  head at the same time that I'm enjoying my time with you.
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  So we got to see the show. 2 hours.
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  Incredible. Flew by.
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  Really flew by. It was quite entertaining.
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  And yeah, then we were able to hang out with her briefly.
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  My friend Stacy, who was in the show, you got to meet and.
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  Just talk about very nice lady. Yeah, yeah.
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  And we went to the ROI in this was all happening in my old hood
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  of Riverside, Leslieville. We started at prohibition.
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  We had our pre drinks there and some food.
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  Very nice. Then we got to the play and then
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  we went to the ROI afterwards. And then at that point, as you
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  duly noted, my tank had run dry. So there was just a certain
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  point when it was like, I'm leaving now, you're welcome to
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  stay. I'm.
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  And then you were like, no, no, I'm going to leave now.
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  And we went to leave and then you're like, maybe we should
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  walk for a bit. I was like, that's not going to
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  happen. It's just time to it's time to
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  go. And so, yeah, I, you know, I,
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  you're used to hanging out with me.
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  There's just a certain time when the when the tank runs the.
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  Battery's done. The battery's done and it's time
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  to time to head out. So I did that and you of course
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  had an entire weekend full of visitors and, well, visitor, and
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  that was great. Visitor, Yeah.
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  Yeah. So you got to do that?
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  Yeah. How was that?
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  No, it was really good. The one thing I also enjoyed
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  about the intermission on Laurie's play is that I was able
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  to go out there and have myself a marijuana cigarette,
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  unbeknownst to me that a lot of it was wafting into the theater.
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  But you know what? That made for a much more lively
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  second-half. I don't know whether you picked
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  up on it. Everyone was a lot looser,
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  including me. We all had a definite waft of
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  the of the berries. Naughty weed that was.
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  Yeah, the devil's lettuce was being served up at half time,
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  baby. All around you.
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  Yeah, all around you and you were just getting enveloped.
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  It was like you didn't get away from me fogging.
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  It was going on. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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  Because you're talking to me like an old timey, like a 90s
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  detective movie with a cigarette, and you're talking to
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  me. But it's weed and it's, it's
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  always coming at me. Like, yeah, at me.
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  It's coming out of everywhere. Yeah, yeah, it's.
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  So anyway, that was really fun and I will say we should before
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  we move on Prohibition, we both had the brisket sandwich without
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  the coleslaw and I got to tell you, with the crispy onions,
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  that was a winner. So shout out to Prohibition.
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  Enter my buddy Rich Koh, who goes there frequently and is the
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  one who recommended it. Rich, you were right on the
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  money, all right. Well done, Rich.
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  Hey, let's do celebrate that with shot #2 I think you've got
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  the now, Gene. Yep.
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  Continuing to sip on the Godzilla pre workout.
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  Like I said, good energy, not so great flavor.
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  Will not be purchasing again. Jay, how are you enjoying your
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  lead Free water? Fantastic.
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  Yeah, it's all the tastes different you don't want.
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  Cheers. Cheers.
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  Before we move on, if I can just say one quick thing, Jay.
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  Sure you can. I want to just preview our
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  There's an upcoming episode, the time of this recording.
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  Rob Peetz, the movie guy, will be returning to talk about The
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  Mandalorian and Grogu at the time of this recording.
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  This is just days away. I'm super excited.
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  You've seen the trailer, right? Yes.
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  OK. Where?
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  Where's your excitement level for this movie?
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  I mean, it's there. I'm not so excited about it
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  because it was ATV show and so now it's like, I feel like we've
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  bolted on a movie like Star Trek The Next Generation.
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  Now we bolted on a movie. So I'm less excited because of
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  that because it's like X-Files TV show.
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  Then we tag on a movie. So it feels like an extension of
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  something that should be on TV that is now been turned into a
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  movie. And I get why they're doing it.
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  They're trying to drive people back to the theaters, are trying
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  to make more money with less content.
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  And so that's what they're doing.
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  So I don't want to burst your bubble.
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  I'm sure it's going to be fantastic.
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  I feel like it's going to be the best.
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  It will be as a good episode. I think the movie guy, Rob Peetz
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  is going to come back and say I've seen better episodes of the
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  show. That's my prediction because
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  they always, and again, this is an early prediction, they always
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  try to do too much in those movies.
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  Star Trek Generations was they tried to do too much and it was
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  lesser for it than say the final episode of Star Trek The Next
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  Generation in my opinion, in my opinion.
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  So that's what I'm expecting. I'm expecting them to try a lot.
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  I could be wrong, but I think they're going to say and people
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  go, oh, that would have played out nicely as say 4 episodes.
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  I think that I think we'll hear some of that, but the special
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  effects will be great. That's what they'll say.
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  Like that will be great. It's like you've seen it
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  already. I just, that's what I think when
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  I hear TV show that bolts on a movie at the end.
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  So what do you think? Would you rather the other way
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  around? Like would you rather a movie
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  become ATV series? Would you be more excited about
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  the TV series if it was first to film?
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  Yes, I would absolutely, because I think it was envisioned as a
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  cinematic feat and then it and then it's either so strong that
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  the story can carry on as a series like it can.
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  Then like Stargate was that I never saw Stargate the movie.
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  I didn't really watch Stargate, the series, so probably not the
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  best thing, but I think a series that becomes or a movie kicks
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  off of the movie and they're like, hey, this has got some
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  legs, let's see if we can extend this out.
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  That's great. Ferris Bueller's Day Off was
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  actually became a TV series called Ferris Bueller.
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  Did you know that with Jennifer Aniston was in it?
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  And I didn't know that, but that was obviously quite short lived.
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  Yeah, those I don't love so much where they adapt.
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  That was done in the 80s a lot where they took a movie and they
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  would adapt it to a TV. Series.
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  You told me that they did that with Uncle Buck.
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  Yeah, where the parents died and they just lived with Uncle Buck,
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  who was that comedian who you would recognize in a second.
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  And it was, but it was a really tough premise to, to launch a
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  comedy, a situation comedy out of.
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  But MASH did that very successfully.
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  The movie that became the TV series.
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  Yeah, Battlestar Galactica as well.
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  Went the other way, it was like the pilot was packaged into ATV
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  series or sorry, the pilot was packaged into a movie so it was
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  like the first 3 episodes. So I don't think that was
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  correct. I think that was to cash in on
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  the popularity of the series or something.
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  Yeah. So I don't know, like I'm sure
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  it'll be great. Like you said correctly, every
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  season of the Mandalorians been really good.
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  You love the I've loved. The setup, yeah, I like that
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  too. Yeah, so now you're just sitting
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  in a theater and it's going to be condensed into two hours or
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  maybe 220. I wonder how long it's going to
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  be. What's the runtime do you know?
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  I don't know, this one, I'm not too.
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  I don't care about the runtime for this one, to be honest with
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  you, Jay. I'm looking forward to just
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  getting back into the world of Star Wars, but more importantly
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  with the Mandalorian and Grogu off on an adventure because I do
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  like this combination. These two characters are great.
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  That little Yoda character is adorable and just the whole
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  dynamic is a lot of fun. It's nice to not see Skywalker's
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  and every Star Wars story. Like do we have to know?
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  It's nice to actually get some new blood in there.
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  Yeah, though he was in The Mandalorian, the series Luke
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  Skywalker. Well, that's true, but he it
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  wasn't about him, like, you know what I mean?
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  No, he. Just showed up.
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  The universal doesn't revolve around him for once.
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  Yeah, which is kind of good. Did you ever see Andor?
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  I did, I I really enjoyed that as well.
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  I, I don't think I saw the last season though.
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  I saw the one where he was like imprisoned on that Imperial
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  prison or whatever. Yeah.
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  And that was incredible in the escape and all that.
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  But I don't I don't recall seeing them.
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  That one, the second season, if you have a chance to, I would
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  watch that. That connects directly, directly
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  into Rogue One, which was one of my amazing Star Wars movies.
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  Yeah, yeah. And stand on not a Skywalker
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  insight, I don't believe, if I'm correct.
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  Well, I guess if you count Princess Leia at the very end of
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  it. That's true.
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  Yeah, and she's sort of Skywalker adjacent, but at the
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  time she didn't know she hadn't done her ancestry DNA.
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  No, she hadn't check, thank goodness.
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  Before we go, can I? How about we do a RIP from the
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  headlines? Let's do that before we go, All
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  right? Yeah.
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  I've got, it's kind of fun. Yeah, let's do that.
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  I'm going to open this up. You've gone to the effort of
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  sending me some. I'm going to scroll on through.
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  I don't know what we got. We got we texted quite a bit
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  after that. So here we go.
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  How about this extra? Speaking of exercise, 5 minutes
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  of exercise a day could help millions of people live longer.
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  Barry, I would assume that's true.
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  I want to believe it, Yeah. Just like you were talking about
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  X-Files earlier, Fox Mulder. I want to believe.
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  I want to believe. You want to believe that just 5
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  minutes a day can help people live longer and be helpful.
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  Yeah, yeah, 5 minutes of exercise a day.
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  And this person in the picture is running across a bridge.
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  So I imagine that's a good, good way to do it.
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  Run across as many bridges as you can because it bridges you
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  from one place to another. That's how you, that's how you
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  live longer. I think is continuing your
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  lifespan is all about just making it to that next step,
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  that next step, that next step. So perhaps these 5 minutes teach
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  you in increments how you make it to that next step, because
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  then at some point, you just kind of stop, you take that last
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  step and you go, that's it for me.
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  So I guess you do, and hopefully there's not a grave waiting for
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  you at the end of that last step.
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  Well, there is for us all, but that's.
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  Eventually. That's what I'm saying.
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  So this sort of teaches you to just go a little further, a
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  little further, a little further.
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  And maybe at some point you just you forget to take that last
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  step and you just keep going. And then you're 300 years old.
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  Wouldn't that be something? Speaking of going a little
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  further, you've gone a little further with your home gym
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  setup. Yeah, yeah.
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  Thank you. Yes, I'm you're working out
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  tonight. That inspired me.
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  So executive producer Aldo Roma and I use the long weekend,
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  which we're just coming out of here at the Two Shot Studios and
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  all across Canada to put together, put back together our
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  basement. 18 months ago, we stripped everything out.
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  Just after Christmas 2024, we stripped everything out.
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  We went right down to the bare walls and we started to put
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  things back in just just, it's amazing what you can take out of
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  a basement. And so now we've got one room,
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  which is going to be part workout area, part TV, lounging
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  area. And so I've MU is able to, we
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  got the carpet down there, we got the pot lights in, we've got
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  the the walls up. And I was able to bring all of
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  the equipment that was right next to me here in the office
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  finally back downstairs and I have space to work out.
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  And so I'm looking forward to getting my routine going again
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  without feeling like I'm in cramped quarters.
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  Yeah. So all that's fantastic.
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  I mean, you're a big man. You take up a lot of real estate
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  and you need room and especially if you're trying to do, you
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  know, dumbbell pressing your flies or whatever, you need room
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  to stretch. Yeah, and he didn't really have
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  it in the office, although the office is not tiny, but it just
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  it's not as. Conducive, exactly.
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  And and that's it. I like to be able to leave stuff
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  around, have to move everything all the time.
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  So that's nice to have a little bit of space to be able to do
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  that. So I'm going to be focusing in
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  on office workouts and not office workouts on workouts in
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  what we're calling right now the studio downstairs.
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  The studio. I like it.
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  Where we'll be? Well, this is your invitation to
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  join me, to be jacked for all seasons from here on out.
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  Jay, you have all the tools. Perfect.
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  Sounds great. Accepted, just like that.
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  It was accepted before you even said it.
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  I love it, I love it. It's important to inspire each
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  other to do positive things and not just drink 20 beers, which
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  we're good at that. We can do the 20 beers, but we
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  also, you know, can nudge each other along with positive
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  things. Well, Jay, I don't know about
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  you, but that feels like a complete episode.
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  We will be back with you audience next week, and we do
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  I'll see you then, brother. Absolutely, have a great night.
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