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Have Another Drink with Jimmy the Wine Guy from August 7th, 2026 · The Radio From Hell Show - Best Of

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  Speaker 1: Well, it's sponsored by you don't know what he went
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  Speaker 1: through to get here, Jimmy, the wine guy from Wine
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  Speaker 1: Academy of Utah. Go to Wine Academy of Utah dot com.
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  Speaker 2: Wakefield better the train to the feel all.
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  Speaker 1: Right Field talk to feel alright.
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  Speaker 3: Well, here he is, ladies and gentlemen, the exhausted Emperor
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  Speaker 3: of the Wine Academy of Utah, Jimmy Santangelo. Wine Academy
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  Speaker 3: of Utah dot com is where you can go to
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  Speaker 3: find all things Jimmy. Jimmy, and he brought us a
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  Speaker 3: little present from Atlantic City.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, I did the Jersey Shore this week with
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  Speaker 4: the fam and friends, and it was great to revisit that.
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  Speaker 4: You know, I gotta taya. That's where it all began
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  Speaker 4: for me. Wine Academy of Utah me as a smallia.
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  Speaker 4: My whole career started there, thinking of in Atlantic City,
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  Speaker 4: top mezzanine level of the Old Homestead Steakhouse at the Bergata,
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  Speaker 4: just imagining, you know, as a section was getting filled up.
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  Speaker 4: You know, you're buying time, you're thinking through things, and
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  Speaker 4: little did I know I'd be then at Donovan's meeting
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  Speaker 4: you guys.
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  Speaker 5: So it was a lot of fun.
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  Speaker 2: That steakhouse still there.
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  Speaker 4: Old Homestead. Yeah, the Sherry brothers. Yeah, they're not going
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  Speaker 4: to let that one go.
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  Speaker 3: So Donovan's let's just quick quickly. Yeah, it started. It
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  Speaker 3: was a San Diego based, San Diego based Are they
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  Speaker 3: still in San Diego?
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  Speaker 2: I don't know.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, they're over in Old Town in San Diego. Brilliant
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  Speaker 4: business plan.
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  Speaker 2: Great Steaks took over a spot over there.
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  Speaker 4: But here I am in Atlantic City and I'm coming
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  Speaker 4: back yesterday last night, and I was like, I don't
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  Speaker 4: know what my sponsor is.
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  Speaker 2: This was happening like Tuesday Wednesday, and my.
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  Speaker 4: Brother in law, Chris, and I exhausted the distilleries and
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  Speaker 4: so forth.
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  Speaker 2: In all throughout the land for us.
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  Speaker 5: Here the sporting research, it's for you, okay.
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  Speaker 4: So we came across Little Waters Distillery. This is their
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  Speaker 4: sixteen knots. They have a line forty eight blocks because
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  Speaker 4: there's forty eight blocks in Atlantic City.
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  Speaker 2: Now Atlantic City is like the monopoly board. That's the So.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, you come across Tennessee, ave you got you know,
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  Speaker 4: it's crazy.
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  Speaker 2: But Atlantic City from the Bay to I.
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  Speaker 4: Think Ventnor before it goes to Margate, it's forty eight
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  Speaker 4: blocks of town and growing up going there. Manana knew
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  Speaker 4: of that Atlantic City during Prohibition, like during like it was,
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  Speaker 4: it was happening during that period. This is the first distillery,
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  Speaker 4: uh since Prohibition in Atlantic City, so kind of how
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  Speaker 4: we have our high West. Yeah, they got these guys
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  Speaker 4: little waters sixteen nuts.
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  Speaker 3: Here's some of the stuff that they produce. And it's
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  Speaker 3: a little water distillery.
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  Speaker 5: Little Water.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, Liberty, rum, Prosperity Rum, rusted revolver gin, forty eight blocks, vodka,
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  Speaker 3: forty eight blocks, chocolate martini, forty eight blocks espresso martini.
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  Speaker 5: I assume these are bottled.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, they are tds right well, white Cap Whiskey and
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  Speaker 3: white Cap Old Fashioned.
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  Speaker 5: And what is this we have?
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  Speaker 4: This is their special release not only at the distillery
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  Speaker 4: and select few wine stars colsoids. This is their sixteen knots.
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  Speaker 4: This is a bourbon aged in rum casks from the
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  Speaker 4: rum that they make.
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  Speaker 3: Oh so that's what gives it the sweet Yeah, it's sweet.
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  Speaker 4: Oh yeah, it's eight months in rum casks. Pretty cool,
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  Speaker 4: and you know, it's just nice to be able to
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  Speaker 4: see people that have the same heart that I know
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  Speaker 4: our distilleries do. Here are our guys here in Utah
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  Speaker 4: and the bottle shape, slender bottle. It's got the neck
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  Speaker 4: for that copper pot distilling.
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  Speaker 2: Oh that's why that's that way kind of yeah, that's
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  Speaker 2: a fashion, that's a tradition.
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  Speaker 4: Classic bottle weighted at the bottom. Sixteen knots is about
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  Speaker 4: you know, that's how fast you go on a boat.
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  Speaker 4: It's about eight miles an hour, and it's the wake speed,
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  Speaker 4: you know, to get out. They kind of think, actually
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  Speaker 4: it's a little faster than that, but the wake speeds
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  Speaker 4: less but pretty tasty.
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  Speaker 3: I think, Yeah, it's it's good. It's it's very smooth
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  Speaker 3: and I like it. It smells sweet, but it doesn't
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  Speaker 3: take I'm not getting any sweetness.
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  Speaker 2: It's got a kick.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, forty seven to five alcohol, so kind of stronger.
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  Speaker 2: Batch five. They're up the batch eight right now. So
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  Speaker 2: if you want this, you have to go to Atlantic City. Yeah, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: you're welcome.
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  Speaker 5: It says here.
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  Speaker 3: You can buy it online, but I don't know if
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  Speaker 3: you can get away with that in Utah.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, you'd have to get some olive oil sent in.
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  Speaker 4: But no, yeah, you wouldn't be able to get it
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  Speaker 4: delivered here.
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  Speaker 3: You have to have it delivered to your We could
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  Speaker 3: have what's his name up in Evanstone or a good
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  Speaker 3: listener up there.
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  Speaker 2: A lot of people do that, don't they.
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  Speaker 5: You have it delivered to your buddy in Evanstone.
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  Speaker 2: And buddy in Evansteon. It'll show you how to shirk
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  Speaker 2: the waw.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, how you do it? This is very good.
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  Speaker 3: There's a picture here of the a bottle of that
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  Speaker 3: espresso martini. Again, it's our slender bottle. I wonder if
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  Speaker 3: they all are like that.
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  Speaker 2: Some of them are a little square shouldered. Pretty good.
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  Speaker 4: But this being a bourbon and its majority corn, got
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  Speaker 4: to be aged in New Oak American barrel for a
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  Speaker 4: significant period of time, so it's notable aromatically and characteristically.
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  Speaker 4: And then they marry it in those rum casks for
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  Speaker 4: at least six months according to their technical notes and
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  Speaker 4: the people I was chatting with, but sixteen knots.
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  Speaker 2: And you know it's funny.
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  Speaker 4: We stayed in Ocean City, in Atlantic City, a little
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  Speaker 4: suburb off of it, little beach town.
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  Speaker 2: Dry really not.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I know, wild Wood's up the street.
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  Speaker 3: I can tell you all around the city limits there
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  Speaker 3: are places you can buy moons.
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  Speaker 5: Oh that's for sure.
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  Speaker 4: You go over the bridge to Sommers Point and have
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  Speaker 4: Circle Liquors. But on the island it's the classic, you know,
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  Speaker 4: cotton candy, the boardwalk, you got the ferris wheel and
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  Speaker 4: it was fun to walk that with the kids and
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  Speaker 4: the family. Been doing that since I've been pushing the
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  Speaker 4: kids in a carriage and now they're running up ahead
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  Speaker 4: and getting tattoos.
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  Speaker 2: And misbehaving and we'll be home by one and it's
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  Speaker 2: amazing to see.
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  Speaker 5: You know.
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  Speaker 3: I have told this story before, but I toured the
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  Speaker 3: Jack Daniels Distillery, oh okay, years and years ago in Lynchburg, Tennessee,
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  Speaker 3: and we went to the distillery and I said, now
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  Speaker 3: do we do we get some samples? And they said,
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  Speaker 3: son Carroll County is dry. Carroll County Jack Distillery is
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  Speaker 3: in a dry county.
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  Speaker 2: So anytime you think Utah's the worst, it's not.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, Cherald County is a drag county.
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  Speaker 6: Also, the suggestion is get a po box in Evanston
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  Speaker 6: and have things shipped and then drive up when.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean it says right here on a little
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  Speaker 3: water distillery website, order online from anywhere, we're anywhere.
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  Speaker 4: Well, it's interesting though, deliver it right to your doorstep
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  Speaker 4: within New Jersey. So you I could have gotten this
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  Speaker 4: delivered and I know and I would have done it
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  Speaker 4: at the beach house. But it's kind of neat how
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  Speaker 4: they have different services. But I'll leave you with this.
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  Speaker 4: Wah wah is like our great subs wa wa and coffee.
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  Speaker 4: Oh they got coffee as far as I can see.
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  Speaker 4: So wah wah. No booze. You can't buy beer, you
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  Speaker 4: can't buy seltzers, you can't buy nothing really in yeah,
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  Speaker 4: so whenever there's weird laws everywhere, and they pumped the
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  Speaker 4: gas for you in New Jerseys to stay you can't
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  Speaker 4: get out of the car. You stay in the car.
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  Speaker 4: But h yeah, no, you can't have it.
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  Speaker 5: It's Walls policy that they don't serve alcohol.
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  Speaker 2: Any gas station.
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  Speaker 4: If you're on a set of wheels, you can't buy
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  Speaker 4: booze in a general sense kind of kind of so
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  Speaker 4: to genus point.
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  Speaker 2: The worst or best however you look at right there
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  Speaker 2: in the middle.
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  Speaker 3: If you have any questions for Jimmy Santangelo, the Wine
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  Speaker 3: Academy of Utah proprietor you can you can ask them,
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  Speaker 3: that's right. So I'm on that little Water Distillery website.
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  Speaker 3: This is the distillery that Jimmy went to in Atlantic
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  Speaker 3: City and brought this whiskey which.
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  Speaker 2: Is called what sixteen knots?
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  Speaker 3: Sixteen knots And there's some interesting things on their website.
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  Speaker 3: There's a frequently asked questions section and it says do
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  Speaker 3: you serve food?
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  Speaker 5: Is one of the questions.
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  Speaker 3: And what they say is the great in bold letters,
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  Speaker 3: The Great State of New Jersey does not allow distilleries
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  Speaker 3: to sell food by law.
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  Speaker 2: We do think they would encourage.
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  Speaker 5: We do sell bagged snacks.
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  Speaker 3: You are more than welcome to bring food with you
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  Speaker 3: and make sure you bring enough to share with our staff.
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  Speaker 3: We also sometimes have a food truck. We have tons
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  Speaker 3: of great restaurants that deliver to the distillery and your server.
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  Speaker 3: Ask your server for recommendations so you can have food
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  Speaker 3: sent in.
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  Speaker 5: But they can't make it on the press.
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  Speaker 4: Well, think about that. They're a manufacturer. That's what a
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  Speaker 4: distillery is categorized as as a manufacturing.
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  Speaker 2: Even here in Utah. If you think about that, many different.
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  Speaker 4: Licensing, different licensing and explosive. You know, you have fumes
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  Speaker 4: in the distillery and you don't want open flame the
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  Speaker 4: next wall over or otherwise.
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  Speaker 3: And somebody asked you do you have beer or wine. No, no, no, no,
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  Speaker 3: we're a distillery, but they do have something called beer Buddies.
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  Speaker 3: Beer Buddies is distilled beer. We get local craft beer
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  Speaker 3: from our friends in the industry and distill that down
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  Speaker 3: to make a distilled spirit from beer.
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  Speaker 2: Beehive did that.
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  Speaker 3: Twenty eight pints of beer go into every three hundred
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  Speaker 3: and seventy five meter bottle. It's the shot to go
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  Speaker 3: along with your beer. For the thinking man.
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  Speaker 4: That sugar House did that along with behave They remember
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  Speaker 4: during COVID years ago, in two thousand ats.
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  Speaker 2: When was that.
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  Speaker 4: Long, they acquired one of those distilleries acquired from Uinta.
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  Speaker 2: They had like two hundred and ten kegs that were
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  Speaker 2: gonna go back.
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  Speaker 4: We get, what are we gonna do with this? So
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  Speaker 4: they distilled it down into that. That's why the hand sanitizer.
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  Speaker 2: Smelled like some of them smell like Vacker beer.
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  Speaker 5: That's right.
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  Speaker 4: But then one of the distilleries said, hey, what are
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  Speaker 4: we doing just giving this away?
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  Speaker 2: Let's make a spirit out of it. And they didn't
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  Speaker 2: aged in barrel.
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  Speaker 3: Interesting cool, And then it says, uh, do you allow
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  Speaker 3: children at the distillery? Yes, we do allow guests under
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  Speaker 3: the age of twenty one. We do not have soda,
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  Speaker 3: but we do have mocktails available, so you can bring
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  Speaker 3: your kids and get them started drinking early by drinking.
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  Speaker 2: Get them a NEGRONI Yeah, yeah, there you go.
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  Speaker 3: And uh yeah, so those are those are the major.
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  Speaker 6: Chat room is asking if Jimmy and his family ever
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  Speaker 6: been to Summers Point Diner right before the bridge to
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  Speaker 6: Ocean City, New Jersey.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, you have Circle Liquors. You got the crab Trap
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  Speaker 2: and the crab trap right there.
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  Speaker 4: We took the bikes and went over that bridge on
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  Speaker 4: beach cruisers. My butt still's reminding me of it. But yeah,
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  Speaker 4: you know, a lot of fun. Yeah, Summers Diner. Yeah,
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  Speaker 4: good call.
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  Speaker 5: Let's see.
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  Speaker 6: I enjoy London dry style gin. Can you recommend a
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  Speaker 6: Utah gin that is close in taste?
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  Speaker 4: Sure you have the distillery I just headed on the
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  Speaker 4: tip of my tongue. There beehive distilling. Jack Rabbit is
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  Speaker 4: not a London dry gin, but very good. You got
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  Speaker 4: the guys up in Alpine Distillery in Park City. Sarah
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  Speaker 4: up there does a great job with her gin. But
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  Speaker 4: dented brick is that the one dented brick? It's it's
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  Speaker 4: got a tall, slender bottle to it. It's local. I'll
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  Speaker 4: think of it and I'll say it in a minute,
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  Speaker 4: And yeah, London Dry. It's also a high proof that
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  Speaker 4: really just nails those.
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  Speaker 6: That And then the follow up question is do you
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  Speaker 6: have any comment on the new High West gin.
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  Speaker 2: I haven't had it.
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  Speaker 4: I saw it and it's a bit elusive, bless you
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  Speaker 4: to get so I need to assess it.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 6: People are saying dented brick.
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  Speaker 2: Does a great job.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, kind of a juniper forward, Yeah, juniper ford.
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  Speaker 4: But when it's London dry, my friends that averse domestic
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  Speaker 4: or an American or a modern style gin. London Dry
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  Speaker 4: is the one and done through the distilling secondary. So
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  Speaker 4: that's why you can always nail dry. But if you
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  Speaker 4: want these nuances of aromatics, we're going back in and
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  Speaker 4: folding things in.
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  Speaker 3: I see, yeah, I have the tendency to often buy
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  Speaker 3: inexpensive gin, cheap cheap gin.
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  Speaker 2: Well, it's a plastic bow so when you drive.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, but it tastes more junipery. And that's what I've
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  Speaker 3: that's sort of the gin I grew up drinking at
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  Speaker 3: my mother's knee.
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  Speaker 2: I was gonna say, that's a weird thing to say.
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  Speaker 2: The gin.
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  Speaker 5: I grew up drinking at my mother's knee.
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  Speaker 6: Let's see family in oc is all listening. What cocktail
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  Speaker 6: can we make with the bourbon?
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  Speaker 2: Oh?
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  Speaker 4: This bourbon would be a great Manhattan if you have that,
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  Speaker 4: and we could be playful by being all ocean oriented.
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  Speaker 4: I left the bottle of Towny, that sherry, the and
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  Speaker 4: that after iy sherry in this a two to one ratio.
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  Speaker 4: Two parts this whiskey, one part of that sherry. A
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  Speaker 4: little stir with your finger or a spoon if you're
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  Speaker 4: lucky and over ice and you're good to go.
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  Speaker 5: Why dirty up a spoon?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah?
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  Speaker 5: Get it in there.
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  Speaker 2: You know that's flavor, right, that's flavor.
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  Speaker 5: It sure does.
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  Speaker 2: What do you got going Ah this weekend? You said
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  Speaker 2: you were super busy?
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  Speaker 4: Right, yeah, I'm hitting the ground running tonight. I'm up
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  Speaker 4: in Promontory.
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  Speaker 2: But and then have you guys.
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  Speaker 4: Ever heard of Wassatch wine Storage or a Mountain wine storage?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah?
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  Speaker 2: They do a great job.
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  Speaker 4: They have. So we have a lot of people moving
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  Speaker 4: into Utah and they're like, what do I do with
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  Speaker 4: all my wine? It's so dry? I have people ask
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  Speaker 4: me what should I adjust to humidity?
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  Speaker 2: How do I do this?
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  Speaker 5: How do I do that?
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  Speaker 2: Do I keep it up right? Do I put on
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  Speaker 2: a side you go to? It's in Hebrew.
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  Speaker 4: Mountain Wine Storage is a company that has lockers for you,
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  Speaker 4: keeps everything under perfect temperature control. Wow, go in there
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  Speaker 4: whenever you need. Yeah, you load, you unload. Great people
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  Speaker 4: up there. But there's a private function tonight that I'm
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  Speaker 4: seeing them at to reacquaint. But Sunday I'm at Clearwater
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  Speaker 4: Distilling for a cigar function that'll be fun. My buddy
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  Speaker 4: Joe Roberts from Portraits of Smoke will be taken in
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  Speaker 4: pictures for people there, and it's going to be a
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  Speaker 4: fun weekend. Then Monday, I know, I have a lot
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  Speaker 4: of things then.
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  Speaker 2: I just got But if people want to book something
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  Speaker 2: with you, they can super easy. Go right to the
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  Speaker 2: Wine Academy viewtah dot com.
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  Speaker 4: We've got ticketed events, your in home wine events, private events.
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  Speaker 4: I've got more things coming up with different venues and
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  Speaker 4: it's going to be a lot of fun.
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  Speaker 2: But I appreciate all the support. Thanks for letting me
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  Speaker 2: go out of town for a minute. If you bring
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  Speaker 2: us back booze perfect. Yeah, that's kind of you.
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  Speaker 4: Know, all right, Well, thank you, Jimmy Thank you guys,
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  Speaker 4: have a great weekend.
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  Speaker 2: You see you next week.
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  Speaker 3: Mind Academy of Utah dot com. That's where you find
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  Speaker 3: Jimmy Santangelo's stuff.
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  Speaker 2: I have another time in the feel