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A Hockey Game, a Concert, and Random Strangers · Brainwaves

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  Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to another episode of Two Shot
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  Tuesday. It's Barry Nixon alongside the
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  one and only Jason Riley. Back with you for another update
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  heavy episode. But we promise new things are
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  coming to the show and we can't say anything more about that.
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  But new things are coming and we're going to be changing up a
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  couple of things. But until we do.
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  Yeah. It's more of an update heavy
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  episode. Jason Riley, welcome back.
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  How are you my friends? I'm quite well and I treasure
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  these episodes, Barry. These are a living monument to
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  our friendship and I'm so glad that our fans are able to come
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  along with us for these journeys.
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  Me too. You know, as we mentioned this,
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  and I'll just say this, we are on a March to 300 episodes like
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  we are now, you know, 161516 episodes away.
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  So this is pretty exciting, Barry.
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  In this calendar year, we will have done 600 shots of various
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  liquids together. Yeah, and I would wager that
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  probably 550 of those were alcohol based.
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  I think so I. Think so, probably the way it
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  worked. Speaking of which, should we
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  have one of those right now to kick off I?
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  Think we should. I think we absolutely should.
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  What have you got? Let's begin.
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  Jameson Black Barrel. I told you a couple weeks ago
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  how excited I was to find it has returned to my local, so here it
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  is. What about yourself?
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  Nice. And I've got just a little bit
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  left and I finished off the bottle of a classic Jameson that
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  was sitting there. I enjoyed in shot format and
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  here it is one of two. Here's to you, Jay, and to our
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  audience. Cheers, really get on the tongue
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  that one and didn't get over the tongue at all sharp.
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  Mine is much sharper. The black barrel is much
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  smoother than classic Jamison. You know, it really is and it's
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  only, I don't know, maybe 10 bucks more.
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  Yeah, it's well worth it. Now the classics, great.
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  And when we go out, we, you and I always do shots of classic
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  wherever we can. Happy to say the We Chief Now
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  features Jamison because they didn't for a while, but they
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  were, they must be listening to the show and they were happy to
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  furnish us with some last time we went and had our in person.
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  That's right. I was there at the time of this
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  recording. I was there last evening, as a
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  matter of fact. And yes, it's still there.
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  They they love the Jameson. It is still flowing, Jay.
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  All right. Well, what brought you to the
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  wheat chief? And was that perhaps a stop
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  along the way as we it was into? Yeah.
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  Yeah, it was the final stop. Besides, wow.
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  Yeah, it was a. Good evening.
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  Maybe tell me about this whole evening.
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  Put it together, because I didn't even know about it until
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  like the day before when you announced it.
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  Usually you're announcing these things months, if not years
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  ahead. I don't think about years ahead,
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  but yes, mums for sure. Yeah, it's 100%.
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  Please excuse me. At the time of this recording,
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  it's Tuesday. It was last evening, as a matter
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  of fact, Friend of the show, friend of ours, Chris Whitby and
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  my buddy Brad and his wife Danielle.
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  We went to history and saw a band called The Hives out of
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  Sweden and they were absolutely fantastic.
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  There was a band that opened for them called The Chats from
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  Australia. I had seen them last summer, at
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  least Palace. This was the second time seeing
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  them. They were great too, very high
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  energy, sort of like Australian punk rock band and The Hives.
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  I'm telling you, I don't think I've seen a show quite like this
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  in terms of the consistent amazing energy throughout the
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  entire thing. But also the front man, his
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  crowd work style was amazing. Like he was cracking jokes that
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  were actually landing. You know, sometimes you can get
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  those sort of cringy moments where the the the band talks of
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  the audience. This guy is extremely polished
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  and he was, you know, cracking jokes.
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  And what was he saying? I I mean, nothing really comes
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  to mind. I can't remember, but I was
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  laughing and everyone was. It was just like his interaction
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  with the crowd. He was calling people out.
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  He was identifying people who were crowd surfing.
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  He was ripping on his bandmates with some of his introductions
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  were kind of over the top right introductions, you know, the
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  kind of thing that you. Are familiar with you?
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  Yeah, with each other. When we exactly.
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  We're pumping each other up. So he's doing that for his own
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  band. Have you seen?
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  Them before never. Never.
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  What made you interested in seeing the Hives?
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  Well, I just needed to. This was one of those bands that
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  was on my list. Oh, I really enjoy their music.
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  Yeah, yeah, they've been around a while, but yeah, they're
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  they're they're still rocking. So it was, you know, when the
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  opportunity came, I had to jump on it.
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  All right. So take me through this
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  experience. Now when you got there, did you
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  have, was there AVIP purchase, was this general admission, was
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  there any VIP available? I don't know if there was.
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  I didn't look into it because I was with three other people that
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  wouldn't have been down with VIP.
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  Like the additional cost that is.
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  Yeah, I just didn't look. But history?
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  There's really no bad spot. No, I've never been.
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  See, and I hope to change that at some point.
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  If a band that you find worthy to go see live, if they come to
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  history, I think we should definitely check it out 'cause
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  there's, there's, it's just really nicely laid out.
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  It's a great venue. There's a ton of, you know,
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  kiosks for ordering your drinks. You can actually pop outside and
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  have a smoke if you're so inclined.
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  I mean, it's one of the few venues that actually allows you
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  to do that. So that you can order from a
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  kiosk. Well I I meant like individual.
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  It's not a kiosk. A play, a person serving.
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  Yeah, OK. Exactly, but there are there's
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  multiple yes. It's a big old bar with at least
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  5-6 bartenders waiting to take your order, and they're happy to
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  do it. That's good.
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  Yeah. All right.
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  So you get in there, you're happy.
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  Is there much waiting beforehand?
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  Because that can spoil a a concert?
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  Oh, great. So you got right in.
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  Breezed right in. Jay.
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  You would have loved it. That's right.
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  But I love I love to breeze in. I don't like to be I'm not.
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  I like to be waiting. I paid money.
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  You need to get this. We paid money to be there.
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  Why are you holding us up outside of there?
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  So this is great to hear that you breezed in.
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  That makes me relieved for you that you're ready to enjoy the
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  whole experience. There was one strange thing
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  though, I will say. Aha.
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  There was like a pre screening before you actually get to going
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  through the metal detector and the guy asked to see my keys and
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  I handed him my house keys. He examined them and then he
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  said, oh, you got your wallet on you.
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  I said yeah, of course. So he asked to see my wallet and
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  he actually opened my wallet and noticed and looked in there and
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  saw that there was cash in there and he handed it right back to
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  me. But I've never in my life had
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  anyone searched my wallet. So I thought that was
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  interesting. Yeah, been to some clubs where
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  they will check your wallet because they want to see if you
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  may have some paraphernalia stashed in there that I
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  understand the. Reason for it?
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  Oh, you did get that? You didn't think you just wanted
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  to look through some pictures of yours.
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  Make sure you had up to date driver's license.
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  Grab a. 50 out of my wallet. No, I didn't think he was trying
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  to rob me. I've never seen that before.
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  Yeah, yeah. I wonder if they've been busted
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  recently and so now they have to do a check.
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  That could be why they have to demonstrate that they're, you
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  know, working hard to keep everyone safe from the, the, the
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  evils of drugs. Baggies.
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  Yeah, Baggies of cocaines. Of drugs specifically?
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  Yeah, exactly. Sure.
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  So you get in pre screen, you get to the screen, now you're
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  in. I need to know about the merch
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  table. Did you make it to the merch
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  table? Of course, yeah.
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  I didn't buy anything, but I did look at what was on offer.
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  Yeah, it had just been, you know, I'd, I'd had an expensive
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  weekend away in Ottawa. That's another story.
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  So I was like, do I need to? I don't think I needed to.
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  I enjoyed the show, though. High energy.
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  Could there have been a coffee cup?
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  I could have seen you buying a coffee cup.
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  That'll be hard to keep around you, but I can see that.
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  A coffee cup of the hives. That's probably the last thing
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  in the world that I would buy. I'm sorry.
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  I I know you want me to yes, Angie and say, yeah, I would
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  have got a thermos. I would have got a lunch, pail,
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  whatever, whatever they had a. Plastic lunch pail with the
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  flipper sippy cups. I love those.
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  They were great. So, yeah, so the chat started
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  and you saw them with the chats and you saw them with Rob Pete's
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  I believe last time, right? Did you talk about it on the?
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  Show it was a different Rob Rob Ferraz.
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  Rob Ferraz. OK, so we didn't talk about it
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  on the show, but you did see it with Rob Ferraz?
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  Yeah. She went to them again.
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  Did they play a lot of the same stuff or did they have any new
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  stuff? Yeah, to me, it all sounded new.
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  Jay. OK.
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  Great. To cast my mind back to last
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  summer, it's to try to identify like.
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  Remember, a set list is a lot to ask.
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  I see, so this isn't a band that you've been following the chats?
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  Necessarily not tuned. Into every song.
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  OK, 'cause I was. Not every song.
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  You like I I love the chats, I love the.
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  They were great. The way they interacted with the
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  crowd, the hives, but can't recall really much of it at all.
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  But oh, I can recall, but I, I can't recall the set lists and
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  the name, the name of the songs. OK, the chats are a little too,
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  you know, new for me to to be able to drill that down.
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  All right. What?
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  Regardless, they were great. The whole evening was fantastic,
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  it really was. Terrific.
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  All right, The hives come out and that's all I want.
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  Last thing I want to hear about the hives come out.
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  They play for about how long? Yeah, So they took the stage
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  around 9:00. They they played until at least
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  10:40 because the interesting thing in history is they will
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  continue to serve as long as the band performing wants them to.
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  So the band said you can keep serving until 10:40.
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  And that was how we kind of were able to sniff out that that's
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  when they're wrapping up, including their encore, which
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  was cool. So they kept it, kept the bar
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  open for the entire show, and not every man does that, but
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  they did, and that was appreciated.
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  I wonder why he wouldn't. Yeah, I don't know.
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  And it was a Monday night. It was a pretty good crowd for a
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  Monday night too. It wasn't sold out, but it took
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  a little bit of warming up. But the the front man of the
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  Hives certainly got the crowd whipped up eventually.
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  But it took a little bit of because it's the classic Toronto
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  crowd, right? A lot of people and an older
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  crowd, you know, to skewed a little bit older.
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  Yeah. But the cool thing about that
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  was Chris Whitby and I also noticed this, that there was
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  barely any phones out at all. People were actually just
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  enjoying the show, that's what. You want.
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  That's what you want. I do too.
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  It takes you right out of it. It does.
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  And it's like what? Like somebody's got a better
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  seat than you, most likely. And they'll put their shit up on
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  YouTube so you can watch it later.
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  Just enjoy the show live if you need to.
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  I don't know why you want shitty sound.
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  You've got Spotify for great sound.
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  You're there live. You're not going to get a better
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  picture. Yeah, I don't know.
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  I don't know if I agree. It doesn't make sense.
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  So I'm glad to hear you and Mr. Whitby got to enjoy that.
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  And then finally, you wrapped it up at the wheat chief.
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  All four of you went. Nope.
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  Or Brad and Danielle. It was a regular work day I
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  booked ahead. I wanted to set up Future Me for
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  success and so that involved taking a vacation day.
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  Excuse me? Chris Whitby didn't have to work
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  until 5:00 PM today, so it worked out great.
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  We, he drove us back to the Wheat Chief and it was only like
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  4 or five people sitting at the bar, but we ended up chatting
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  with them. And I've had, this has been a
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  thing lately. And I told you about this,
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  having random conversations with people.
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  I ended up talking to some couple from Collingwood at the
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  show last night, you know, right at the very end, which was kind
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  of fun. It's a, it's a challenge, you
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  know, to try to interact with randos.
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  Like, why not? Let's just experience the rich
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  tapestry of humanity. Maybe you'll teach me about that
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  someday. Yeah, I'm just learning myself,
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  Jay. So you enjoyed that show, Let's
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  do shot #2 and then there's one other big life event that
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  happened to you just days before that that we want to cover off
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  on. OK, yeah, yeah.
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  Let's get into it. James going back.
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  Yeah, You got the Jameson. OK, I'm sticking with Jameson
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  too, but with the black barrel. Nice.
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  Here we go. Cheers, cheers.
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  It's sharp man. It's so sharp.
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  Like little knives, but great, but in a good way.
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  This is interesting because usually your second shot is way
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  smoother, but it looks like you're both.
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  Both of yours today were a little bit rough.
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  I'm still feeling it traveling down my esophagus right now,
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  which is great. Okay.
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  Dogs is heading South, That's the important thing.
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  Let's hear about your annual trip.
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  You've talked about it on the show every year.
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  I have two Canada for your Leafs Senators hockey game that for
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  some reason is always on a Saturday night this day.
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  I feel like this one is a planned one at this time of
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  year. Exactly right.
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  That's I guess that's just how the hockey gods align the
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  schedule. But the Leafs are typically,
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  yeah, we've never been there for a Friday night game.
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  It's always been Saturday. It must be done on purpose and
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  it's always this time of year like it's in March.
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  I mean, well, last year was February, but yes, it's later in
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  the year typically that they will come back later in the
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  season. I should say it was a great
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  time. This was by far one of the most
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  immersive fan experiences that I've ever had.
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  Because of the seats that we were able to get.
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  Brad and I went and we sat behind the net.
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  We were only four rows from the glass, so row D right on the
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  aisle, which is where you want to be.
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  And I'm telling you, Jay, like we were looking through the
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  glass the entire game and all the action is unfolding like
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  just spitting distance from where you're sitting.
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  Yeah, every time there was a hit and you saw guys getting stapled
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  to the glass and you could see their faces turn towards you and
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  you could see there's the skin, their cheeks getting rubbed up
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  against the glass. It was wild.
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  And you felt every one of those hits.
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  I was like, holy shit, this is. I didn't take my eyes off the
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  game. Because when you're sitting
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  further up, you can kind of look around the stadium and you're
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  wandering. Your eyes maybe can wander a
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  little bit. This it eliminates that.
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  Yeah. It's like having blinders on and
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  you're seeing everything, everything.
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  It was really great. Like, honestly, I kept talking
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  about how good the seats were to Brad.
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  He's like, I know I'm sitting right here.
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  Eventually he was like, OK, enough about the seats.
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  We know the seats are good. They're good seats.
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  I was like, yeah, but they're really good seats.
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  Do you feel those hits? He's like, yes, I feel them.
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  Anyway, I was just over the moon.
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  It was worth every penny. And even though the Leafs are
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  not in the playoffs at the time of this recording, and maybe the
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  Ottawa Senators aren't going to be either, but it was still a
• 13:38
  fun time. And the Leafs unfortunately did
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  not win. But.
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  We were chipping with. People at the game, as we
• 13:43
  normally do, we were talking to the people in front of us beside
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  us. You know, everyone was kind of
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  like, you know, throwing a little brat, you know, like
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  barbs at one another. And as Brad and I were walking
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  home, we we were getting chirped like crazy.
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  There were people chirping at us from their vehicles as they
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  drove by us as we were walking back to the hotel house.
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  But it was all in good fun. It was not like, you know,
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  throwing F bombs at you. It was just like just
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  good-natured ribbing between 2 fan bases.
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  I think that's the only way to say it That's good.
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  Did you go to that bar that you went to?
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  Was it last year, the year before?
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  There's like 1 bar that you you post it up and maybe it was the
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  night before. Maybe.
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  I'm Yeah. Well, we there's not a lot of
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  options in Canada. No, I will say we went to
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  milestones on the Friday night, but after the game we went to
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  Jack Astor's and yes, I did have the chicken tenders.
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  As we know that is. That's rock solid snuttering
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  right there on the side. On the side, Yes, of course.
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  For you on the side you like, got to be on the.
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  Side for me Jay yeah but it was great and we were chatting with
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  people at the bar there too it was like a lot of like random
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  interactions with people the in the last well I guess the
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  weekend ended at the show last night so the last like 72 hours
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  it was pretty cool I. Mean and the fans.
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  In Ottawa are really fun. They're they're great people and
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  as. An extrovert that fuels you up
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  like you love a random chat with someone you don't know and you
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  get to know them and you ask good questions and you ask of
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  them to come back to you with good questions.
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  I do ask. To ask questions, I do like to
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  leave with questions. That's usually what gets people
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  their defenses down versus just spewing information at somebody.
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  But you know what, you're funny. I this is just a new theme.
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  This is, this is something that this is something that Linda has
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  actually kind of implemented. She told me at the start of the
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  year she had a goal to have a certain number of random
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  conversations throughout the year.
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  And, and that kind of inspired me to say, yeah, why wouldn't we
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  do that? Why can't we be a little bit
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  more friendly? Because Toronto is it's a little
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  harder. It's it's thought of as a bit of
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  a more reserved little, maybe a touch colder.
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  Not cold as in hostile, but just like maybe not necessarily
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  interested in a random conversation.
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  But yeah, lately people have been all up for it.
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  So I think that's maybe something people need now.
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  I don't know. I think so.
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  It's funny, I say, and I just love this.
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  This is this is what I love about.
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  Like, it's a classic executive producer Linda Lebrun.
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  It's like a structured goal to have random conversations.
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  I can appreciate that so much. It's like you put structure to
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  randomness, Like not everyone can do that.
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  She, I imagine, pulls it off Florida State.
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  And so you've come along for the ride, but you always like to
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  chitchat. Like you're just you're fueled
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  up by your extra version. Well, that's nice of you.
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  I, I, I do that more so like when I'm on vacation, anytime
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  we've been S random chats all the time, it's a lot easier.
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  And like also when we went out east in Eastern Canada, there's
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  certain parts of Canada that are much more chatty, but I wouldn't
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  necessarily say Southern Ontario is a chatty hotspot, but it's
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  maybe becoming 1. I don't know.
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  This is new for this is new for me.
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  If it is, it's. Because of you and Linda, making
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  it so very like this has been a lot of updates from you and I'm
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  glad that you've had these great experiences in literally the
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  last 72 hours you've amassed and fun memories for one regular
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  person's lifetime. So for you, it's about 20
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  minutes of memories because you are, of course, massive in your
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  presence and massive in the things that you hope to
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  accomplish. And that's all I've got to say
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  about that. Barry.
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  I'm going to pick up some of the slack next week.
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  Maybe I'll have some updates as well.
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  I know we've got some big things on the way.
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  We've got some more movie reviews coming.
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  But for our fans, I know you're they're always excited that the
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  cards and letters that come in wanted to hear about your annual
• 17:26
  can add a trip. Like I can barely fill the cards
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  and letters room. Like we're going to have to get
• 17:30
  a second trailer, I think for those.
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  And now they're going to want to hear about your concert goings
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  just as much as I do, yes. That's good, Jay, you can bring
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  us in for a landing. Have a great.
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  Night fans we'll see you again next week please talk about the
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  see you Jay. Thank you for.
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