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Hush and a Heavy Bench · Brainwaves

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  Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to our Season 6 premiere of Two
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  Shot Tuesday. It's the weekly podcast you can
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  enjoy on your break, Barry Nixon along with the one and only
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  Jason Riley. Jay, Can you believe it?
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  Here we are, six seasons of the show.
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  I mean, this is unbelievable. Well said.
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  Yeah, exactly. I'm 52 episodes per season too.
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  Like this is we don't. We don't do short seasons, we
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  don't take time off for the holidays.
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  We come at you every single week.
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  We are as steady as a Swiss watch.
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  There you go. Very well put.
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  Let's begin Season 6 with a shot.
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  Oh, that sounds like a a new thing for us.
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  Yeah, absolutely. What a great new idea.
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  What have you got Barry for your first shot?
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  Well, I want to just give a quick shout out because you and
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  I, last week we're at the Whiskey Global event.
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  Fantastic. The first vendor we met
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  introduced us to this little beauty bear face.
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  Nice. Notice the slashes on the
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  bottle. I like that.
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  You got it. You got a bottle.
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  We talked about it on last week's show and here you are.
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  You have produced a bottle in person as good as your words.
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  It was at my local and the price point was exactly as we were
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  told, 36 bucks. Nice.
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  Here's to you, Jay. What are you enjoying over on
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  your side? Well, I was gifted a number of,
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  you know, almost like travel size whiskey bottles.
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  And so there's one I've been sitting on for a while.
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  I have tried it before. It can be a a an interesting
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  tasting whiskey. It's called Sheepdog is peanut
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  butter whiskey. And if you get right in there,
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  it's not 70 proof, it's 70 woof you get back.
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  Do you get what's happening there with proof?
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  All right, we get it. So I'm going to do both of my
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  shots are going to be of Sheepdog peanut butter flavored
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  whiskey. OK, here's to shot #1 and Season
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  6 underway, Jay. Happy season, OK, talk to you.
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  Barry, that was just as good as it was at Whiskey Global, I have
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  to say. What notes are you getting from
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  that one? Well, yeah, I mean notes.
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  Go deep. It's like the.
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  Entire London Symphony Orchestra is playing in the back of my
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  throat right now. There's a lot going on it.
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  There's a little bit of heat, there's a little bit of sweet,
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  but I'm, I am very pleased to say there is 0 smoke because you
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  know how I feel about that. Yeah, but we didn't spend a lot
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  of time talking about it on the show last week.
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  But yeah, there were some definitely Pete filled whiskey
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  that didn't agree with you so much.
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  And that's true. I, I sort of feel like I stand
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  with you in solidarity so that when I taste a little bit of
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  that smoky Pete, I'm also turned off by it.
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  Just by how much you're turned off by it.
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  Well, I appreciate it. There's something about taking a
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  mouthful of campfire that I just can't get behind.
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  I don't know what it is, but I know there are people out there
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  that absolutely love it and God bless them.
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  It's just odd for me. That's it.
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  Sheepdog, let me tell you, has got more than just a note.
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  It's got a whole notebook full of peanut butter flavor.
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  So that's what I'm tasting right now.
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  It's a. Sweet whiskey and I enjoy it in
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  I would say small it's like a liqueur almost like in small
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  doses I think is how I would have describe that I would enjoy
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  it maybe not always in shot form, but for tonight, both
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  shots from our friends at Sheepdog 70 Wolf very.
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  Bad, not bad. Something pretty exciting
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  happened to you this week, and I surprised you've been able to
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  sit this quietly without talking about it, so I'm going to just
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  step back and let you explain it to our listeners and our viewers
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  for Season 6. Yeah, we need a little, a little
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  room to breathe here. As you know, my wife and I,
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  executive producer Linda Lebrun, are workout enthusiasts.
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  You might even say it's more than just a season.
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  It's a lifestyle that we are currently occupying.
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  And Jack Small has begun. I don't know whether we didn't
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  actually officially kick it off. We had Jack Summer now into Jack
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  Fall and you know to support further gains as we approach the
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  end of the calendar year. We invested in the top of the
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  line weight bench from our friends at Rogue and we picked
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  up the manta ray which is. Swimming in the.
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  Manta Ray Yeah, absolutely. The depths, that's where all the
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  gains are. Jay, you got to go deep.
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  And I'm telling you right now, this thing is a beast.
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  It's absolutely so solidly put together.
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  It weighs 100 40 lbs. Great, there's a workout.
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  Getting it to your, into your into your unit is a workout
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  right there. Absolutely.
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  And my trainer Andre was kind enough to show up early.
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  We, we planned this. We couldn't have planned it any
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  better. We pushed our Monday workout to
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  Thursday and that was the delivery date.
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  It came from the States in Columbus, OH.
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  I followed it every step of the way.
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  In fact, one night I probably texted you and said, Jay, it's
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  in Kitchener. It's like 2 in the morning.
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  You're like, I don't care. This is not what I need right
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  now. But I shared it anyway because I
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  was just that excited. So Andre came, he brought some
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  tools, we put it together, he put it together, and then
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  immediately afterwards we got a session using it.
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  And I'm telling you right now, you've used other benches and
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  there are other benches that are not as pricey as the Manta Ray.
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  Sure, Yeah. But if, and I'm just going to
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  say this, if you are, if you have the means, as they say in
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  Ferris Bueller, I highly recommend you picking one of
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  these up. If you are serious about, if you
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  work out with intent, if there's something behind what you're
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  doing, this is going to help you get to the next level.
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  It is incredibly smooth to operate.
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  There's no like having to yank things or pull things.
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  Like everything just moves beautifully and smooth.
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  There's like 3 or 4 different seat positions for like the main
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  like the what you sit on that seat but then the back pad has a
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  whole bunch of different angles. Up and down I bet, right?
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  There's incline. Incline.
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  And decline exactly right and you can do a full decline.
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  We also decided to get the add on foot catch, which enables you
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  to then do abdominal work at various angles.
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  It's insanely cool. And then like I said, I cannot
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  stress there is no wobble at all.
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  This thing feels it's like built like a tank.
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  Literally. You sit on this thing, you lean
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  back, you're not going anywhere and the pad is very grippy.
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  So you feel secure even if you have to kind of like move a
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  little when you're in getting in position to lift, you know you
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  want to get your shoulder blades in behind.
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  You're you feel secure the entire time.
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  It is grippy as hell and and I just can't say enough good
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  things about it. We went with the orange
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  colorway, which is another cool thing.
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  There's like 12 different colorways you can select with
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  Rogue 1212 different ones. Yeah, and it has.
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  Made to order. And the wheels are silent.
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  You know how sometimes things can sort of squeak?
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  Yeah. When you're moving them around?
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  These are silent. This is like a Tesla.
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  It's like an electric car. You can come.
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  Here at you, Yeah, it's coming at you in the water.
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  It's a manta ray searching for its prey.
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  There it is. It needs to live up to its name,
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  and I'm glad that it does. I do have a question because
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  yes. And when I bought my adjustable
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  bench a few years ago, it's not that I'm trying to think what
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  the name of it is. I'm trying to glance at it.
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  So the, the rogue manta ray, the thing that always irked me and I
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  spent a lot of time looking and I know you, you did too.
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  So I know the answer to this. You want to make sure when
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  you've got that, whatever the height in the is, the position
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  that that seat is snug against it.
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  So there's no gap because that when you lean back, I find that
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  that's, it's almost like your back is in the gap.
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  And so you don't want gap. And I bet you have 0 gap.
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  It's pretty close to 0. It's like less than one inch,
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  and you cannot feel it when it's, Yeah, when you get it all
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  the ways, you know, sitting up, like if you're doing Arnold
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  presses or supported shoulder presses, you don't feel
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  anything. And I agree with you.
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  That's a very annoying thing about a lot of benches is that
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  gap, especially when you're lying down, you can feel it and
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  it kind of throws you off a little bit.
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  It's also adds to like. It also provides a bit of wobble
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  because you're not all that stable if you have a gap that's
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  too large. True, yes.
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  Anyway, what can I say? Rogue, if you're going to, you
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  know, invest in some home gym equipment, Rogue is the best.
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  I did a lot of research. This particular bench is there
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  top of the line. It's it is expensive, but I'm
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  telling you right now it will be the last bench that you're ever
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  going to purchase. It's certainly the last one we
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  will ever buy. It's OK.
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  Incredible. I know you.
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  Weren't You can store it upright, it has pads.
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  You can store it upright and the pads do not damage your floor.
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  They thought of everything. There's nothing that you need to
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  do here. Is that your choice of storage
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  upright or as it comes laid down?
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  What's your preferred? It's laid down because when
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  Linda's working in on her Zoom calls, she doesn't necessarily
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  want to see a bench in her background, right?
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  But if it were me, I would absolutely have it.
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  In fact, you know, maybe in a future show you will see it
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  displayed that way. But I'm telling you, it's very
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  easy to maneuver, even though it is 140 lbs because the the
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  handle is welded into the front. So it's very simple.
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  And all the weight is in the back.
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  So when you lift it up, you're not straining, you lift.
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  That's important. Yeah.
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  And the higher it is, obviously the easier it is to maneuver.
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  It can't say enough good things. It's.
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  Like a workout companion. It it is.
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  I know you're not set up for this, I know you weren't
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  planning for this, but is there any way that if you were to
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  shimmy out of the shot for a minute like you did?
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  I don't think you can really see it from here.
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  Can you see? I can show you the fortune of
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  it. I can show.
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  You to see the foot catch and I think all of our audience would
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  love to see the foot catch. OK, let me show you the foot.
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  Catch. It's like a tease.
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  Barry Nixon, ladies and gentlemen, getting the foot
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  catch to his new manta ray bench from Rogue.
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  Look at that thing. That is a beautiful foot catch.
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  That's for all your feet needs scooping up, plugs in, snaps
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  right in there. That's a foot catch.
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  That's what you're going to want.
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  That's what you're going to have available at Rogue shop.
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  Now you can put in your credit card.
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  We will take 3 easy. Oh, no, wait, That's we're not
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  the we're not the Home Shopping Network at all.
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  That was an incredible foot catch.
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  I could see our ratings going through the roof as we were
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  doing it and we pre record. So that's something.
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  It really is everything made in the USA.
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  That's the other cool thing about Rogue.
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  This is not anything manufactured overseas.
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  This is made with American know how.
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  One thing they know is weight benches.
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  I'm telling you right now, an amazing use of money and I can't
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  wait for more gains to now be unleashed and they.
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  Take your word for it. Yeah, I'll take your word for
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  it. And if I may raise a glass in
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  your honor and in the honor of your manta ray, I assume you're
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  going with the bearface? I'm sticking with the bearface
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  100%. And I got the sheepdog, both
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  animals in this case, for our shots.
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  That's a theme for this episode. Sure is.
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  Cheers, Jay. Cheers.
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  Oh, notes, notes everywhere. Yeah.
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  That was like, I want Carmel for me, a bit of a.
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  You don't like caramel, do you? I don't mind it, but I'm not
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  when I'm expecting peanut butter whiskey.
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  But that's fine. It it is, as I said, more of a
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  liqueur. Tell me what note you were
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  getting there, because that was something.
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  Yeah, the, you know how I usually like to have a frozen
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  shot glass? Well, now that one kind of
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  warmed up a touch, so it was a little warmer going down, but
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  not in an offensive way at all. It was just nice.
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  But it was a touch warmer. So that gives you a little bit
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  more heat, a little bit more sweet, basically everything you
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  want and nothing you don't. All right, very.
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  I'm all over it. You brought something into the
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  into The Newsroom for to kick off Season 6.
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  That was your manta ray bench. Can I talk about something that
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  came into the mini mansion recently that I'm pretty excited
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  about and I'm going to do a little bit of a setup on this
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  one? Because.
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  One of my favorite you, you know, all of my favorite comic
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  book artists. You could probably name them all
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  because we're that close. Yeah.
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  I'm going to give you a name. I'm going to give you a name.
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  It will surprise nobody who is a comic book fan because this
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  person is not. He's not a somebody I haven't,
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  you know, I've just discovered it's somebody that's an icon in
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  the comic book industry. His name is Jim Lee, probably
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  one of the most popular commercial artists.
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  He broke out in the 80s. I got his start on on the
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  Punisher, War Journal, Alpha Flight, some other books before
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  that really came into his own on X-Men.
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  In fact, as your eyes glaze over the X-Men cartoon show of the
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  90s, you're familiar with that at least sort of.
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  OK, they're based on his design. That's just how popular there he
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  was, went off, started Image Comics with a bunch of other
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  Image founders, then went to DC and he is now the publisher at
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  DC Comics. So he's very successful on the
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  in the kind of the boardroom, you know, side of it as well.
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  Wasn't in two. Do you have any questions before
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  we? Is he still drawing or is he
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  just leaving DC? Yeah, yeah.
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  No, he's leaving DC and he draws.
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  I think DC hangs on to him because they know they've got a
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  bankable star. Yeah.
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  Getting a little, you know, he's getting older, obviously he
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  started in the 80s and he, I would say his newer artwork is a
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  little looser. Comic book artists are kind of
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  like sports, you know, players in that regard.
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  You kind of have your peak and then you kind of come down.
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  You think maybe practice gets better and better and better.
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  I just think as you get more seasoned, you want your style to
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  change. Maybe you, you know, just become
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  a little looser and stuff you don't put as much detail in.
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  It becomes harder to see, you know drawing consistently for
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  hours and hours on end can impact you.
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  Are they still hand drawing these comics though?
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  You've been in today, Yeah. Yeah, a lot of artists also now
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  draw on iPads or on a tool called the Cintiq, which is it
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  does a digital drawing, but they'll still use like, like,
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  you know, Maple pencils and things like that to draw.
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  OK, Jim Lee, for as far as I know, still uses regular paper
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  to draw on. Anyway, he came out in 2002.
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  One of his first works at DC Comics was a run on Batman and
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  it was called Hush and this was a 12 issue run.
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  Really great series that they put together.
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  In fact, the reason it's so it's talked about now is because he's
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  just come out with Hush 2. So this is what's happening
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  right now, Hush 2. Now why they didn't make the two
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  the backwards SI don't know why they put the two over EU.
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  As a marketing guy I say that's probably a bit of a fail.
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  They could have worked that logo a little better.
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  I purchased the original run of Hush as 12 issues in 2000 and
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  two 2310 years later I repurchased it as Hush
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  unwrapped. Which is the a version of it
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  with no colors so just pencils so you get pure unfiltered.
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  Artwork. From which is kind of neat and
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  then what just came to the mini mansion.
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  Barry, I'll show you the so we've got the the unwrapped.
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  Look at this baby. Wow, that's your Hush Absolute
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  edition. A gigantic absolute edition
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  featuring all of the eye popping artwork in a slip case, by the
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  way. Yeah, that's a slip case.
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  Slip case. Look at that thing.
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  Look at those, look at Catwoman, does she ever look better?
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  He always draws very sexy ladies, very attractive men.
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  He knows exactly what you're looking for when you're looking
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  for when you're looking for stuff.
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  So we got Batman, we got all kinds of things.
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  Anyway, I'm very excited this arrived.
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  It's almost 25 years old. This storyline really cool.
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  Happy to have any Gimli art that is.
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  It's just something that I enjoy.
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  Kind of takes me back to where I was when I was first buying it
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  in the early 2000s. So Batman Hush Salute Edition by
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  Jim Lee, written by Jeff Loeb, a very popular writer,
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  particularly at that time. He went on to lead Marvel
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  television. So he led a lot of the Netflix
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  series, the Daredevil series that came out in the kind of 20.
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  So Barry, that's what I wanted to tell you about that came to
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  the mini mansion. I'm very excited for all of our
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  listeners and viewers that are interested in comics.
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  Yeah. You might want to pick up Hush
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  in Absolute edition. And you can bet that even though
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  I'm not going to collect all of Hush too, I just bought the
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  first couple issues in single issue format.
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  I will be buying the Absolute edition when that comes out,
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  probably the next. Year and what's the retail on
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  the absolute edition just for our viewers?
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  I did a pre-order on Amazon and I got it for I'm going to say it
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  was about $120.00 so probably sells for about 150 bucks.
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  I'm not sure exactly what that is, but I did a pre-order.
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  So it was, I purchased it back in February.
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  So, you know, you buy it a long time ago.
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  It's kind of like it's free February you forget.
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  Yeah. And then it it's a pre-order.
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  Yeah, but damn that's a pretty long window for a pre-order.
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  I like that. They announced comics, they got
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  on it. Quick.
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  Yeah, pretty early. They'll announce comics because
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  they've got to go to a print run.
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  So they want to, I think, get a gauge of what the orders are
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  going to be like before they do their print run of it and commit
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  to papers. Yeah, sure.
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  Yeah, so I did that and it arrived just about a week ago.
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  And I got far. Are you into it?
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  I haven't started it yet. I'm still reading some other
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  books. I'm reading a Spawn that I've
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  got around that size. I think I may have shown that on
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  the show before the Spawn Origins Deluxe issue.
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  I'm on volume #6 so it takes me a while to get through these.
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  As you know, I like to savor these types of things, but
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  that's what I got. Beautiful.
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  Yeah. Any other questions about Jimmy?
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  Would you like to borrow some of these issues maybe at some
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  point? I know you're not much of A
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  reader. Yeah, I'm not.
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  I'm not much of A reader. And that's, that's OK.
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  You can read for the both of us, Jay.
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  OK, great. I believe that you believe that
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  you will do that and thank you for sharing that with everybody.
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  That's pretty cool. I'm happy to.
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  We got plenty more coming up of our favorite things this coming
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  season. In season 6, we got a lots of
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  exciting things around the corner.
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  We've got movie reviews. We've got everything you've come
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  to expect from two Shot Tuesday. We've got a format and I think
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  our listeners and our viewers, whether this is your sixth
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  season with us, whether you're just joining us for the first
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  time, I think you'll find something that you enjoy.
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  Yeah, and we do appreciate you being with us each and every
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  week. And Jay, you're absolutely
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  right. I can tease it because we have
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  the tickets already. Predator Badlands.
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  We will be welcoming back our movie guy Rob Peetz to discuss
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  that. Yep.
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  In a future episode. Yeah, so if you're on the fence
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  And happy to, Yeah, happy to share it with our listeners and
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