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We Didn’t Expect 2025 to Turn Out Like This · Brainwaves

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  Welcome ladies and gentlemen to our final Two Shot Tuesday
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  record of 2025. My name is Jason Riley.
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  We are as Barry would say at an ungodly hour and let me just
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  introduce you to Barry Teenix and my Co host.
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  Barry, let me be the first to welcome you to Two Shot Tuesday.
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  Final record 2025. Thank you, Jay.
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  Thank you for having me. It's a pleasure to be here.
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  What time are we working on here, Barry?
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  One can only guess, but it is far earlier than I would usually
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  be operating, especially as we wind out the year.
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  Absolutely. And I thank you for starting
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  early for me. I had a little something later
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  on that I'm not able to do the record.
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  So this is a peek behind the curtain, everyone, and you get
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  to see our fresh faces ready to go, excited to be here to ring
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  out 2025. Because if you're listening to
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  this, yeah, if you're listening to this as it comes out, this is
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  the final days of 2025. We are recording it, as you
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  know, one week earlier, just prior to the Christmas being
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  upon us. So if you see a little twinkle
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  in Barry's almost non existent eyes, you would notice that he's
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  excited for the Christmas spirit.
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  I certainly AM. Let's begin our sending away of
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  2025 with a toast and I in fact, you've already started with one
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  in your honor, Barry, thank you for making the time this early.
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  What what have you got for our not number one that you've pre
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  consumed there? Yeah, we'll do it.
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  It's a sipper. You know, sometimes we do
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  sippers, so this is a zipper. It's coffee, but it also has a
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  little bit of Bailey's Irish cream.
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  And not just any Bailey's Irish cream.
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  Why don't you tell the listeners with what extra flavor it's got
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  into the He sent me via text based message yesterday.
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  Yeah, it's a salted caramel, which is pretty good.
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  Now I have to say, it's not as sweet as one would think.
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  So that's actually a good thing. That's good for you because you
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  don't have much of a sweet tooth.
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  Yeah, I don't. OK.
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  I don't. Usually.
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  I'm bringing in what you've dubbed to be my favorite whiskey
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  Jamison Triple triple. I'm going to have that to kick
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  off the day here. And this is again to you, good
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  Sir. Right back at you, Jay.
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  Oh OK. I'm curious why you picked up
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  this particular Bailey's knowing you don't have a huge sweet
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  tooth? Or was it gifted to you?
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  It was gifted to me by friend of ours, Friend of the show at TJ
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  Chesley. Nice.
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  He brought it over, so I was like, oh, that's pretty sweet.
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  Literally, that's right. But.
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  But not all that. Sweet.
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  Yeah, exactly. Nice.
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  Which was pleasurable for you, I'm sure, because yeah, yeah,
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  you really don't. And you never have.
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  In the all the years I've known you had a real sweet tooth,
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  you've never been drawn to the sugary desserts, shall we say?
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  Yeah, I can be standing in front of a table of desserts and not
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  touch a single one. That is amazing.
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  To me, yeah. And my coworkers are usually in
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  awe of that, too, because one thing I noticed at work,
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  especially during this period, every day, somebody's bringing
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  in cookies or doughnuts or whatever, and I never touch
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  them. Everyone else does, but I don't.
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  That is the favorite kind of Co worker to work with, by the way,
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  because yeah, yeah, because we know there's extra treats for us
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  like and we can hand them to you going, hey, it's all part of the
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  Christmas tradition. They come around and then you're
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  happy to let it go. What if it was a a bowl of
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  chips? Would that be a different story?
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  That would be harder for me to resist because that is I
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  certainly prefer the salt, but also I just I try not to stack
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  in between meals. I really do.
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  If I am going to eat chips, it'll be after dinner.
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  I don't usually do that in the daytime.
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  Smart. Very smart.
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  You know. A certain age it causes a bit
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  more gut rot. I would say the chips, yeah.
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  Than they do when you're younger and can just eat bags of
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  anything at any time. That's true.
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  Yeah. That's that's the beauty of
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  youth. Yeah, an important lesson for
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  the kids out there. Now, certainly.
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  Barry, here we go. We're we're sending off 2025.
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  We're going to talk about some of the things that we learned in
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  2025, some of the more pivotal moments that hit us in 2025.
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  So I want to set that up for you.
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  I don't know if you have one ready to go.
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  If not, I can kick us off and we can just talk about it and
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  really not just to dwell on it for us.
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  But what are these lessons we'll then take into 2026 that perhaps
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  our listeners and our viewers can glean some knowledge from?
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  Wow, OK, I would love for you to get started and then that will
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  give me time to think of. Great.
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  An answer to your query there. Great.
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  It's a good question. Yeah, well, one of my first ones
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  is tied to the podcast and it was our move to Riverside.
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  And in our move to Riverside, it also meant our move to video.
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  And we learned that video is just such AI mean.
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  We weren't the first to learn this, We were a little bit later
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  to the party. But video or podcasting is so
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  critical. We have been able to grow our
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  footprint through YouTube and through the shorts that we do.
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  And that has been an incredible kind of a little bit of extra
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  rocket fuel I'd say this year versus our kind of progressive
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  growth that we've had over the last few years.
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  What do you think? Yeah, that's amazing.
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  And truly I agree with you on that.
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  And it was your idea to say, hey, let's move to Riverside.
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  And it's a fantastic platform and it's definitely worth the
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  money. Yeah.
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  To use it, we had an episode not too long ago where there was an
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  issue with one of the two of our audio.
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  Yeah, well, Riverside was able to salvage what would have been
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  a dumpster fire of an episode, but thanks to Riverside, it was
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  at we were something we could actually put out.
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  So yeah, thank you, Jay. That was a very smart move on
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  your part. Thanks.
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  And if you've got a podcast out there, if you've started one or
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  you're looking to start one in the new year, Riverside is a
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  place to go. We recorded on Zoom before that,
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  which is fine, but you know, at that point we have to do I do
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  all of the editing on. I'm even forgetting the name of
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  the editing platform because I haven't had to use it, but I
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  used it. I.
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  Think it was called Hootsuite? Was that what it was called?
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  No hootsuites where we post our social media.
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  So that's where we post our Instagram and Facebook clips,
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  which if you're not following us already on the show, please do
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  on Facebook and Instagram. Maybe we'll expand to some other
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  social media platforms in 2026, may have some ideas maybe of
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  where we could go. Yeah.
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  Yeah, we'll think about that, right, OK.
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  That sounds good. But Riverside lets us do the
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  video. It's real quick to do the
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  editing. There's a little bit extra work
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  because of putting it on the YouTube platform.
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  And what I've also learned is that I don't need to be a slave
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  to the title of the episode. So if you're also learning this
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  in podcast, it may be I always call the episode the same thing
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  on all of our platforms, podcast versus YouTube.
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  But the descriptor in the title may be a little bit more
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  provocative on YouTube because that tends to travel a little
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  better. It may name a few of the if we
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  name some artists or some athletes, it may name that
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  because these tend to have a little bit more traveling.
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  In fact, our best episode if 2025 in YouTube was the review
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  of 1 Battle After Another. Nice.
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  By like 10X like it, it traveled pretty well for us and so that's
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  kind of cool. So I'm I'm learning all this
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  stuff. We're learning all this stuff as
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  we begin to do this video platform.
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  So that's that's one of the big ones for me.
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  That's huge. That's amazing, Jay.
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  What else from you, Barry, I know your workouts have been
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  really well. Branded, please do.
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  I was going to talk about that. In fact, I had my fitness
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  assessment recently. But that's where Andre will come
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  and he'll, you know, measure the skin folds and we'll take
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  measurements on arms and chest and all that stuff.
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  It's very official. You know, you weigh yourself,
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  all that good, good stuff. Intimate, one might say, if
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  you're doing skin folds. Yeah, well, that's how you can
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  really. Hey, if you don't track it, you
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  can't change it, I believe is the phrase.
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  And if you, if you don't know where you're at, you don't know
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  where you're going. So the last time I did 1 was
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  November of 24, so about 13 months later, which is that
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  that's definitely enough runway to see some changes.
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  And I'm happy to say that there's been some changes.
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  Very good. Of course.
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  Yeah, I added another 4 lbs of lean muscle, sitting at 217 lbs.
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  But I've lost fat and gained muscle during the past 13
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  months, which is exactly what you want to do.
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  And it was kind of funny. Both at different times, but
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  Andre and Linda, my wife, executive producer Linda LeBron,
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  they both separately, but they both brought it up and asked
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  whether I was using steroids and I said no, I'm not using
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  steroids, but I'm just thankful that I have, you know, good
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  genetics. So that's responding to hard
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  work. And also adding a third day has
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  been critical and maintaining that consistency has been huge
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  for the for the year. So yeah, yeah.
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  So next rolling into 26 and I just, I want to keep gaining
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  because now is the time. Once you you Crest 50, it is
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  harder to add muscle, right? Not impossible to start, yeah.
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  What would you say to our listeners and our viewers who
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  are maybe just thinking of getting going in January?
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  What's your message to them as they start on their journey?
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  My message is stop thinking and just get out there and do it.
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  And the first couple of months are going to suck, but stick
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  with it because once you see a change in your body, you should
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  be hooked at that point. But you got to wait.
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  You got to put the work in until you start to see the changes.
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  Too many people quit, you know, a month or two months in, and
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  that's just not enough time for your body to kind of respond
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  unless you have super genetics. And if you're 20, that's that
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  might have happened. But if you're a middle-aged man
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  like myself, you got to give yourself at least three months
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  of consistency. And then after that, you should
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  start seeing some changes. Nice.
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  Yeah. OK.
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  But it will suck in the beginning.
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  I remember when I started, it absolutely sucked.
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  I had to really drag my ass to get there.
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  Even though I was training with somebody, I still had to, like,
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  drag myself. Anyway, the point is, stick with
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  it and you'll be happy. Yeah.
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  There's still some plateaus I have a hard time getting over,
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  like if I if I hurt my back or if I hurt, if I make myself
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  nervous, I'll step back a bit and then I have a hard time
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  pushing through it. So but I hear your message of
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  like, just keep going, just keep doing it, keep showing up.
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  I have some ideas on some things I want to do this year that I
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  will, you know, reveal to you as because I know you'll help hold
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  me accountable. And.
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  I'd be happy to go through and I'll share it, of course, with
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  our viewers and our listeners right here on the show because
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  it's all part of the journey, because it's.
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  Yeah, I would say that. Yeah, I mean you want to be
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  ready for jacked spring, which is good be going to be happening
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  coming. Up.
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  Yeah, I. Mean So that's something to
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  shoot for. Jay, Jack Spring.
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  Act spring shirts off summer shirts off fall shirts off
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  winter where it gets a little colder and the nips start to
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  stick out a little bit. But that's fine, that's what
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  you. Got to do.
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  It's fine. It's all fun.
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  Let him out. Let him breathe, for heaven's
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  sake. Hey, we've.
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  Got a format on this show and that's going to continue well
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  into 2026 and beyond. And it is two shots of anything
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  that we choose. What have you got for shot
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  number? Two and well, I'm going to
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  continue with what I've been sipping on Jay.
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  It's a little Bailey's Irish cream and some quality and
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  espresso coffee. And I will be going back to the
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  Jameson triple, triple. Beautiful.
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  Cheers. Oh yeah.
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  Maybe one day we should have a different one versus two shot,
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  like a second shot. That's different.
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  Maybe that should be a goal in 2026.
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  But that would be novel. We never do.
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  That no we don't. I think part of it is we're
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  trying to keep our costs in line here at the two shots due.
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  That's true since we are pre revenue.
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  However you know. Five years revenue.
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  Yeah, but I do like the idea. I do like the idea and Express
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  is the time to do it because that's usually when you get
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  gifts of bottles. Is that is that what you guys
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  like? Do you get that from your Co
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  workers or from other family members?
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  Do they give you bottles? Not.
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  Really, No, we don't. There's not a lot of gifts that
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  get exchanged. I mean, there is with, with all
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  the executive producer, all the aroma's parents and we'll, we'll
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  go spend some time there with my parents.
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  It's a trip to Sudbury. So it tends to be, you know, in
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  the form of cash that might go, you know, there and because it's
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  just easier to send or it's easier to transport on a plane,
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  that kind of stuff. So, yeah, yeah.
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  But then that usually will turn into a bottle.
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  So I guess it's a 2 step process, but there's always
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  something there like yesterday I re upped the black barrel, which
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  I think is going to be my favorite for 2026.
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  I have to say that is AI even passed up a new bottle of triple
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  triple at the LCBO with like a little bonus bottle of black
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  barrel attached to go right to a single bottle of black barrel
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  because I I I think I like it much better than the triple
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  triple like triple triple is good, but black barrel you can't
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  get one. They don't seem to be available
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  below blue or for some reason but.
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  You know, I would love to find out the reason for that because
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  it is. It's a little frustrating, Jay,
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  but I'm happy that you're enjoying because I completely
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  agree with you. I think the black barrel at the
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  price point and the quality, it's like stands, heads and
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  shoulders above everything else we've tried.
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  Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, absolutely.
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  I'm going to talk about another transformative thing.
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  I think you'll be able to use it as a jump off point as well for
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  you. It's one that we share, the two
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  that I won't talk about because I've talked about in the passing
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  of our dog, Doug London, may he rest in peace.
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  That was pivotal in 2025 and the trip to Japan that we dedicated
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  an entire episode to pivotal in 2025, and I'll be going back in
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  2026 for this shoot. The one, though we touch on it
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  from episode to episode was and again, at almost your
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  insistence, I joined the 4K family at the end of 2024 and so
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  in 2025 was able, I've been able to grow, I think pretty
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  impressively, my 4K disc experience and I wanted to
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  highlight three of them in particular, upgrading ones like
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  Shawshank Redemption that is just a great movie to own in
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  multiple formats. It's kind of grown with me as
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  I've improved my my devices I guess.
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  Yeah, your audio visual home setup.
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  Yeah, screen refresh, you call it, which I love.
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  Yeah, yeah, yeah. The Batman, the original Batman
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  movies with by Tim Burton. Nice to have that.
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  Watched Batman Returns for the first time, even though I owned
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  it for a year. I just put it in this year at
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  Christmas. It's more of a Christmas movie.
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  Fantastic. Looks fantastic.
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  I've now watched all four of them and of course, have just
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  added the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.
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  Yes, we talked about the first one.
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  I'm now halfway through the second one.
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  Executive producer Aldo Roman. I watched part of half of it
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  last night. Silly but fun.
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  Those are three. So the expansion of the 4K
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  experience and the embracing of physical media, I owe this to
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  you and it's become a it informs me in 2025 and will continue to
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  inform my purchases in 2026. Yeah, well, that's great news,
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  Jay. I'm glad I was able to help you
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  get over that 4K finish line because you were ready.
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  You were ready to make the leap. Yeah, you felt ready.
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  You had you had a whole PowerPoint presentation.
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  Oh yeah, that's right. A very convincing one I might.
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  Take through it. Yeah, you did.
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  And, you know, obviously that was enough to get executive
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  producer Aldo Romo over the finish line as well.
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  So that's right. That's right.
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  What? What 4 KS were you most
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  impressed with that you added to your collection in 2020?
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  50 man, I I have added a good number this year, yeah.
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  Yes, some might say weekly. They come in, let's not.
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  Quite weekly, but one that I'm still on the.
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  Was Conan this year? No, no, that was that was at
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  least last year, maybe even 23. Oh wow.
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  OK. That that Chronicles is now out
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  of print. By the way, you can't get the
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  the two films together was really good this year.
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  Damn tough. To think about, they're like all
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  landing in your brain right now. You're like, I can see, you can
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  see the whole shelf and you're like trying to zoom in.
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  I got to say the new Superman movie which I freaking loved.
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  It's looks and sounds amazing at home as well.
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  Like when he's zipping around and all the the channels are
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  engaged and you like the action is totally immersive.
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  Yeah. That's definitely a highlight.
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  I I really, really enjoyed that movie.
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  I thought they hit it out of the park.
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  We finally got a good Superman movie, The best one since
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  Christopher. Reeve brought me back to the
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  theaters again. Yeah, You know, last time I was
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  there, Indiana Jones four or five was the last one that I saw
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  that we did a review on and then back for Superman and then back
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  the weekend after for a Fantastic Four, which was also a
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  quality film. It it's it's getting more of a,
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  it's getting knocked a little bit more.
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  I think because Marvel has had such impressive successes sort
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  of pre pandemic that Fantastic Four, it hasn't gotten the love
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  that Superman got. And Superman, I think was, to me
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  anyway, more of a superior felt. Yeah, I I agree.
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  It had some good laughs in it as well.
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  Everything about it was really cool.
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  I'm looking forward to Supergirl, which I think you've
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  seen the trailer. It looks pretty darn good.
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  Yeah, for sure. Yeah.
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  All right, Barry, it's time to wrap up.
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  So let's just parting thoughts as we're going to 2026.
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  What do you want to leave our listeners and our viewers with
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  as your final thought? Probably just a heartfelt thank
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  you for supporting us and being with us each and every week, and
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  we super appreciate it. And we're going to continue to
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  bring you at least 18 minutes of Entertainment Weekly all
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  throughout 2026. Absolutely, Yeah.
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  Same thing for me. This represents our 52nd episode
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  of the year. That's 52 episodes every year
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  since we since 2021. We started at the end of 2020.
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  So we had a few episodes that year.
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  And then since then it has just been bang, bang, bang, bang,
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  bang. We are, we are the Swiss, Swiss
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  watches of podcasts. Yeah, we keep time.
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  Perfectly. That's right.
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  And Speaking of it, our time is up.
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  Have a happy New Year, Barry and you.
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  Too, Jay. Happy New Year to all our
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  listeners and viewers. We look forward to seeing you in
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  2026. Absolutely.
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