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"Always Exciting" - James Fills in For Amanda · Podcast - Big 98.7

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Are we ready to roll? It's Friday. You know what that means.
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I've never been more ready to roll in my life. Well, then let's
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roll, baby. It's time for a hypothetical situation game where you can play
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along in your car, at home, at work. It's called what Do
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You Do? It's where we give each other hypothetical situations, find out,
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you know, as the title suggests, what we would do it? James.
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Generally, when Amanda is here, she's off today, she goes first,
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because you know, the whole lady's first thing. But I think I'll
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go today first, Kay, got it all right, James? Yeah,
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you decide to go out to the Monster Jam tomorrow happening at the Barrowdome.
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Now, the early ons they got like the other stuff, you know,
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the little bicycle guys coming out there and stuff, and so you think,
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well, now's the perfect time to go to the bathroom before the big show.
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Sure. So you're up there in the Fargo Doo bathroom. You're up
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at the urinal. You look over. Guess who the driver of Gravedigger No
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saddles up next to you, right next to me. That's right. Wow,
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Now he doesn't hesitate to make conversations one of those guys. Oh my
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god. He looks at he said, Hey, dude, I gotta be
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honest, I'm not really feeling it tonight. Would you mind driving my truck
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at the Monster jam So, James, Wow, what a big truck,
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A lot of pressure. What do you do? And just for reference,
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James, you drive out a little car. I do. One of the
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smallest cars that you've ever seen. It's like a clown car. Does it
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have a backseat? Yeah, it's a regular size side Pike, I don't
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know what you're talking about. Are you sure it's not the smallest car I've
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ever seen? It's definitely not this. It's a sedate that's a four door
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vehicle. Yeah. Well, I'm gonna have to go check for sure.
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Would you like to ride in it with me? Pike? Should we drive
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around and have a little date. That's what I want to do. That's
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not for dead. I haven't been in your back seat. Oh no,
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come on now, the grave digger guy, he says, drive my truck.
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What are you gonna do? Yeah? Sorry, we got to flirt
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there. I gotta say yes, Spike, really, I'm gonna say,
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give me the keys. And then as I'm walking out the door, He's
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gonna throw them at me, and then I'm just gonna catch him without looking
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behind my head. That would be so cool. And he's still going to
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the bathroom. Yeah, he pulls him out of his pocket, you know,
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one hand of course, because you know he's not an animal, right,
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Well you think, I mean, he's not doing that move in the
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urinal where he's got both hands on his hips and he's leaning. He's not
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doing that. He's got Well, they do wear those like jumpsuits. Do
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you think you got to take that whole thing off to go to the bathroom?
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Because I know, like when my wife wears a romper, I think
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she says, you got to pretty much take the whole thing off. It
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seems like in a romper we're gonna sidetrack again. Yeah, it seems like
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you could just because it's so like loosen because the ramper is shorts, right,
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she'll just kind of full to the side. Apparently for her that's not
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an option, but got it. For the guy driving grave digger maybe uh
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well, no, that zips in the front, so you can zip it
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down far and then maybe just take the shoulders out just down your knees.
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Maybe, Yeah, yeah, he's probably doing that, right, so you're
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gonna do it. So he's gonna I'm gonna say, give me the keys.
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As I'm walking out, he throws me the keys. I catch them
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behind the back of my head. I walk all the way down. I'm
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just holding the keys. Everybody lets me through they know, and I drive
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the car the truck to complete victory. You're gonna win, you think,
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Wow, I'm gonna crush every vehicle. I'm gonna win every race and then
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and you probably just be full time. Then you just take over pipe digger.
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You are great. It would be over. Yeah, Although it's hard
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to imagine with how small that car you drive is. It is a tiny
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little honestly, I'm I'm a six to one pike. I have to I
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have to get into it by diving in like I'm diving into the lake,
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and then I have to sit up, and then I have to drive sideways
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like this the hole. You have to kind of lotion up before you do,
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totally grease it up for sure. All right, hit me your side
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hustle business takes off your times Man of the Year. The world cannot believe
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the prowess of Pike and Business Forbes comes calling, asking for your insights on
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how to build a multi billion dollar endeavor. Wow, what's next for Pike?
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Well, every company on the planet wants you to run their business,
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so you have to choose a company to run next, any company in the
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world, Pike, Yeah, that's oh we I'm trying to think of all
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the companies. Well, don't try to think of all of them at once.
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What do you do? I think I would go? Go ahead,
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and you want to go to a risk. You're live on the air,
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so don't swear. Who's this? This is Laura? Hey, hy Laura,
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Laura? What can we do you today? Well? I was just
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listening to your what do you do? Yeah? That last years driver was
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a girl? Is that right? Oh? Well, I'm not sharing the
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bathroom with her. So you think my hypothetical situation was just out there?
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Yeah, he was it? Laura, have you ever worn a romper?
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Can you confirm that you need to take the whole thing off to go to
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the bathroom? Okay, there was a while that guys were wearing them too,
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and I honestly thought that would be kind of cool, kind of comfortable,
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So I never comfortable until you have to go the bathroom, right right
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right? Anyway, Well, Lauren, I appreciate the information. I don't
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know you think it'll be the same driver tomorrow at the Fargo. M I
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hope we'll find out very exciting James in the bathroom. Well, you know
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it is possible. Listen, hey, at the Fargo name sometimes that girls
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do not get so long that the girls start going into the bathroom. I've
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seen that, so I wouldn't rule it out because it's more guy. Yeah,
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right, I was thinking more like the Shania Twain concert. That was
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tough. Yeah, that was a tough one for the ladies. All right,
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lad thanks have a great weekend. It so which company? So basically,
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Pike, I need to know which company. If you had the option
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to choose, which company would become the CEO of I would take over a
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golf course? Is that a company? Does that count? Well? You
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could take over Trump's company, that is of the golf courses. Maybe I'm
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just gonna choose for you, all right, Can I give you this one?
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Since we both love this certain type of food, I would choose to
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run who Hot so I could get free who Hot whenever WHOA That would be
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good. That'd be a trouble. That'd be a trouble. I'd be at
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Who Hot right now doing the radio show with you. Be so fun.
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I don't know we should broadcast live there. I used to work at Arby's.
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I've talked about that many times and the two years I worked there,
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I just ate so much Arby's, and everybody says, you know, once
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you work somewhere, Oh, I could never touch that again. I'm like,
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I touch it more now than ever. It's some of the greatest food
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ever. Absolutely. Yeah, So you said you'd touch him more, got
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it? Well, James, you're awakened in the middle of the night by
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a big bad Genie and he's got a gun. He's got a gun.
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You know, Genie really doesn't need a gun. It seems like gilding the
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lily if you will protecting himself. Well, yeah, I do have a
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genie zapping pistol in my just in case. So this big bad Genie looks
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at you as you wake up, he says, James, I'd like to
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make a deal. If you agree to wear the same pair of pants every
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single day or the next two years, I'll give you a free plane ticket
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round trip to anywhere in the world. So James, and he's got a
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gun. Who chooses the pants? I do? What do you do?
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You're there? No, but he'll consult me once you've signed the deal.
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I'm wondering why you were. They're gonna be jeans in my pants. Yeah,
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they're just gonna be jeans, like normal fitting jeans. What do you
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do? First of all, do you do it? And then where do
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you go? If you do do it? Well? I do it.
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I don't know. Would it be hard to wear the same pants forever?
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No, but then people would start to talk. I don't care about you
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people. You sure you can't imagine rolling into work with the same pair of
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jeans. I mean I've been doing it for like a couple months, but
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two years. I don't know. If you see my pants, I don't
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Other than today, I generally wear the same pair of chinos for a week.
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Okay, Well, this shouldn't be too hard for because I can wash
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the pants, so it's fine, unless they're like some sort of white,
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like that light stonewash, so they're super obvious. Yeah, that's why he
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just looks like those old lee jeans or something like that. You can't be
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too out there if you're gonna be wearing the same stuff. That's why I
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keep everything real neutral. That's why I wear gray pants all the time.
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Okay, well so you're okay, obviously you're doing it. But where are're
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gonna go? You get won free round trip, all expense paid, not
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just they are fair. So consider that Genie is a tight one. I
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don't think I would want all of a sudden, I'm changing my mind,
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like I don't want to be in business with him. Yeah, at the
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same time, he does have a gun, so you don't want to upset
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him, so you can call I don't want to go to Minneapolis just a
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piece of no. I'm going to take a flight to Australia, Europe or
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Thailand. Thailand. That's where I'm gonna go. Southeast Asia. That's right,
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nice, all right, because apparently I'm really hungry and I'm just high
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food sons delicious right now. I bet they got some good food there.
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I've heard that. I've heard Thailand like, authentic Thai food is the way
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to go. I don't even need authentic whatever they're doing here in town.
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Yeah, even in More While I moved to West Bargo now but yeah,
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give me good stuff, all right, James, take it home or Friday.
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What do you do? What do you got, Pike? Yeah,
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you've made the trek to Gobbler's Knob. Of course, that's the home of
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the famous punk satani Phil, our weather predicting groundhog. The anticipation of sunrise
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mounts. The light pierces the sky. As old Phil waddles out of the
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cave and he calls looks down, taken aback. The crowd gasps, some
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weep as Phil sees his shadow. You know this means Phil has now given
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us positive confirmation that there will be, in fact, another six weeks of
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winter. Pike, I don't like it. What do you do? M
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Well? I look him in the eye of James and I'd say, I'm
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gonna give you to the country to get your lousy lion down. Poor flush
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and caucus on my doorm who isn't too much? I'm tired of it.
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You marry Christmas, filthy animal. You shouldn't have done it in a happy
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New year. Then answer your question? You ready ready piping hot today?
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Gossip Pike? Oh no, Amanda Stills the sea whosies great news. If
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you're a believer Justin Beeble, who has not released a studio album it's been
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a few years. He was spotted in the studio, and when I say
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spotted, he posted photos of himself in the studio on his Instagram, meaning
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that likely he's working on a new album, which I think we're all due
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for. Unless he's just reading audiobooks just going into a recording. I really
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hope that's not the case. Pike think he's getting into the voiceoverfield. Yeah,
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great advice he does. Yeah, nice. Anybody who sings usually has
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a nice speaking voice, but not everyone with a nice speaking voice can sing
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much like me. Yeah. I was gonna say me too, but then
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it'd be saying I have a nice speaking voice, which I wouldn't even say.
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That's right, Thank god I got into this career. Well, I
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sure that every day we're gonna be oh, you're so sweet. We're gonna
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be getting a lot of usher tidbits over the next weekly, getting interviewed like
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crazy with the halftime show coming up. But I found it really interesting what
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he dropped in an interview yesterday. Apparently we were robbed of what could have
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been the greatest supergroup of all time. He said, they were having secret
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meetings and nearly formed a group that would consist of Usher, jay Z,
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Yeah, Puff, Daddy and d and Pharrell whoa Like, how what would
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a song even look like with those four? It would be an absolute glorious
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masterpiece, a song made in heaven. That's why we couldn't have it here.
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It was too good for this world. Pike, That's probably right,
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he did say, though, they just kind of got busy and like a
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lot of I don't know me personally, have a lot of ideas that just
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go nowhere, you know, to fizzle out. So it was probably the
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case. It seems like a lot of work to put this super group together.
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I mean it's a supergroup, but they were also famous on their own.
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Why would you even waste the effort? Well, and jay Z is
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a goat, yeah, and I don't know, maybe Pharrell's kind of a
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goat. Usher, I mean they all have their place. Usher is one
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of the goats for sure. I just think everybody would be looking at jay
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Z going, oh, he's too good for the supergroup. He is the
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group. He'd be like the Timberlake of the super group. He's the only
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like proper rapper in the group, though he would need that. He's a
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proper genius in my opinion, for sure, you know, absolutely he could
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just he just goes off the dome when he raps it's crazy. Married Beyonce,
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one of his other great feet. And he's not even good looking.
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That's the incredible. That's the key. You married Beyonce not good looking,
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never was either. It's not like he's you know, nobody's feel like that.
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Jay Z is a heck of a handsome gentleman. Well, he did
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say, though, Usher going back to Usher talking about that was one of
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his biggest regrets in his career, but only second to his biggest regret,
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which he says was not starring in two thousand and six dream Girls. Do
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you think he had a shot. I don't know if he auditioned or what
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he turned it down? I know, like well, speaking of Beyonce,
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she was in it. I think Jennifer Hudson was in it. I don't
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know if Yeah it's dream Girls, Uh sure, yeah, get out of
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here. Let the ladies have one. Is he regrets dream Girls and a
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boy? Is that what it was going to be called? The past?
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Maybe? I think it was a working title. Yeah, Speaking of Dream
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Girls Dream Tracy Chapman. You know Tracy Chapman. Of course, Luke Combs
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covered Fast Cars, so that's in the spotlight. But for her part,
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we have not seen her perform live since two thousand and nine. That's the
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last time she was on stage. But that streak will end Sunday night at
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the Grammys, when she has now agreed to join Lukecomb's on stage for a
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performance of Fast Car. Nice. Wouldn't that be nice? I can't wait
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for it, Like she's such a treasure, such a treat she really is.
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She only did a handful of music, but it's timeless, right.
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I got a fun fact about Tracy Chapman. Yeah, please, I thought
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this song right here was a male singer, Is that right? Till I
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was twenty five? Dang? That's interesting, true because because I grew up
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on country music and there's multiple men named Tracy who sing, so I assumed
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that Tracy Chapman was a fella. And I think that this could go either
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way generally, Yeah, you could. It kind of sounds like you don't
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remember Babyface. Yeah, found that's al Yeah. Anyway, Sunday night,
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no footballs. They might as just want some Grammys. Yes, that's your
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options or the Pro Bowl. Yeah. Taking a Man in the Morning ninety
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seven. A viral video recently surfaced James on TikTok where a woman who claims
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to give health advice made the claim that eating an entire orange, including the
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peel, covered in cinnamon and cayenne pepper, immediately will cure your constipation.
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And it had the Internet in a frenzy because apparently quite a few people deal
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with a little indidestion, constipation, a little backed up. I think we've
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all been there. So she made this big revelation. Everyone's like, oh
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my god, Okay, they just started stuffing oranges covered in cinnamon down their
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throat basically. Well, then out comes an actual registered dietitian called Amy Brownstein.
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That sounds made up coincidentally, I swear to god that's her name.
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Okay, she came out and she said she put a squash to it.
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She said, uh, uh, not so fast. I know you're all
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excited, but basically, what this person is claiming is that the peel of
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the orange is fiber in it, and that somehow, you know, makes
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you go immediately. But she's like, no, it's no different than any
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other fiber. Well, Brownstein said that, yeah, so she said,
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no, it's no different, literally, and then she went on to say
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that this cayenne pepper and cinnamon. She's like, well, that's gonna do
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more harm than good. What ouch? So oh, She's like it literally,
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don't do it. So if you're thinking about going to get yourself some
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nave and just eating them whole, now, I will say, and you
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know, I'm a weird guy when it comes to eating and chewing on things,
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like I'll chew on things that other people are not willing to, Yeah,
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such as like shrimp tails. I'll just eat those. That's disgusting.
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Orange peels I love. I love scrape in the inside of those boys off.
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Ah, what's such a bitter taste? The outside is bitter, but
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the white stuff on the inside, because you know, some of that gets
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kind of left on the orange anyway. But I like taking my you know,
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we were just talking about that snowplow in Minnesota. Yeah, so I
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kind of turned my bottom row teeth into a snowplow and just stuff off.
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Yeah. Yeah, And that's why I think that's why I'm such a healthy
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boy. Eating with you as an adventure yeah, boy, I tell you
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what, we got to get an orange in here and see what we can
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do put into the test, and then we're gonna we're gonna follow you around
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for the rest of the day to see if they Yeah. But Brownstein said,
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well, Brownstein said, And if there's anybody that I would listen to
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about any sort of digestion, Brownstein would be at the top of my list.
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I'm gonna now after this, I'm gonna I'm gonna check into her other
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work. I'm signing up for Brownstein's newsletter so I can get a daily updated
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and Amanda in the morning. Now here's what you need to know. Well,
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Amanda Lee is off today for a scheduled vacation day, and James is
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here scheduled de v filling in. Today. Pike is Groundhog's Day, and
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we have got the results. They are in. Spring is near Pike because
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there was no shadow who I would argue Spring is already here. But it's
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not to say it couldn't be a late winner, which I feel like was
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probably going to be happening until I heard the news. My birthday's in the
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middle of April Pike and last year we got a blizzard right around my birthday.
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So I'm not holding out a lot of hope out here that I would
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love to be golfing by what March if that's not too much to ask.
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Normally it's like first week of May. But I feel like I would love
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that for you as well. Thank you, Punksatani fil has been predicting the
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weather every spring since eighteen eighty seven and has been correct only thirty nine percent
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of the time. So we posted on Facebook and I did, yes,
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refer to a groundhog as a field rat, and I regret it. I
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do. I regret it, but I'm saying that, oh well, he's
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doing better than most meteorologists. Don't you feel like Hutch, for example,
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was swinging a little better than thirty nine percent. Hutches in the ninety percent,
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right, sure, for sure top tier. Not to say there's other
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weathermen who aren't. But yeah, but nobody is Hutch. Nobody is except
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for a Hutch of course. What is the life expectancy on a field rat?
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I'm sorry, ground three to five years who are like on her?
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How many fills have we had the good points? Are they just replace it?
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No? Wonder he can't get a good run going because he gets no
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life experience. He's got a new groundhog every year. He's just guessing at
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the thing. You know, how the first time you do anything? How
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good are you at? Yeah? Does he even know what a shadow is?
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What if he's won and somebody made a good point. What if it's
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the human because he doesn't speak the groundhog. You know what if the human
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is the one that gets it wrong? I feel like the groundhog needs to
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have a you know, we need to really rally around the groundhog and really
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give him a boost, just like yeah, exactly, just an easy target
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and again call them a field rat. Feel bad about it, but with
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new information, I do reserve the right to change my opinion. Also,
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the Internet, Let the internet be the internet. Yeah, if you know
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that human being who called you pathetic, I mean he called me pathetic,
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I feel like, like necessarily but it might be to bet you're you're having
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inside issues with well, I mean that's more of a reflection of who they
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are than you. I mean, he called me pathetic and he's right,
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just not for this reason exactly. Moving on, Hulu is set to begin
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cracking down in a passer at an account sharing following a similar move by Disney
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Plus, who also owns Hulu. Disney does they send an email to subscribers
19:41
notifying them of an updated subscriber agreement. Funny, I get their email still
19:45
and I canceled my Hulu like a year ago. Really one that explicitly bars
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sharing accounts outside of the user's household, which is funny. They make these
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emails sound like this is explicitly barred. What are you gonna send me to
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jail? You're just gonna cancel my account? Well, yeah, if you
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want it, you're gonna have to pay for yeah. Yeah, And that
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pretty much wraps it up. Every streaming service. You now have to actually
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pay for your own. I don't like that they know where I live based
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on my internet. Oh it's crazy because we had no live to watch football
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during the football season. And like, for example, like it depends on
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what market you're in, Like they know exactly what game you're supposed to be
20:18
watching. For example, when the Packers played a few weeks ago, I
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was coming back from Oma Omenaha Nebraska, right, and uh, we just
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happened. The game cut out as I was watching it. I'm like,
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what the heck? And I looked at the coverage map, and I was
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in like this weird black hole where the pat they were showing like the Bucks
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game or something. What the I know it's unbelievable anyway, or some out
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for the pack this week. I didn't want to bring that up for that
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reason. But no, I wasn't. I wasn't trying to be mean.
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I was saying I feel for you, Pike. I know, I just
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don't like to think about it. I know we have a winner of the
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fourth annual Name of Snowplow contest over in the Great state of Minnesota. Yeah,
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Taylor Drift is the winner in a landslide. Don't blame them anything with
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related or drifts related. Got twelve thousand votes, twice as many as the
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runner up, which I voted for, Clark w Bliswold. I know you
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like Beyond Sleigh, which was also on the list, but it's not a
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sleigh. Yeah, where do you draw the line anything to do with snow
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at all? I think plowsay would have been better like plow say, yeah,
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yeah, that would be good, but it's no tailor Drift or Beyond
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Drift. You're killing me. Squalls also made the list. Fast and Flurious
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and sleeper hit Plowtown. Now I'd go with plowtown. You'd go to plowtown.
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I would go to if I was a drift, If I was a
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plow, yeah, that'd be the only place I'd go. Plowtown. Really,
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that's the only thing a plow does, is it just goes to town.
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That's right, It's what it's meant to do, meant to destroy these
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drifts. It's gonna be a sunny today. I'm forty four. Hopefully we
21:51
don't need one. I if you're a plow driver, it's been a quiet
21:55
winter. I was. I saw a guy driving his truck the other day
21:57
with the plow in the front. I was like, ooh, that tough
22:00
time. Make any extra bucks this year? What if it must be like
22:03
a subscription thing right where you're Yeah, you pay the money regardless whether you
22:10
get the snow or not. That's a good point. So, if anything,
22:11
it's been a great year because they just Kevin had to do any of
22:14
this cigars and bags with the dollar sign on it filled with coins, evil
22:19
laughing like in a minute in the morning on a big nutty eight point seven.
22:26
This teacher, see's an elementary teacher and she's been having an issue with
22:30
the students swearing. There's one girl in particular, no, who is just
22:33
potty mouth. That's just not going to fly in school. So here's where
22:37
I love what this teacher is doing because I and I'm gonna share this in
22:41
a moment, had a similar concept. I came up with it when I
22:44
was in high school as a members to and council. So the teacher,
22:47
instead of doing what they've been doing for decades and just yelling and punishing this
22:51
little girl for swearing, what she said to her, Well, here's what
22:53
you're gonna do. I'll let you swear, okay, but just not in
22:56
the classroom. So the bathroom is your safe space for swearing. Get it
23:02
all out, and when you come back to the classroom, don't oh man.
23:06
And now I get it's a little out there. It might not work,
23:08
and I fail miserably. Now you just got a girl screaming in the
23:11
bathroom, swearing and then coming out and swearing more. But I think it's
23:14
brilliant because when we were in high school, and I'm sure James you probably
23:17
had this issue too, as many high schools did. But in the boys'
23:21
bathroom there was just a lot of graffiti happening in the sauce. You know,
23:26
it's funny. We didn't have that. We had a lot of smoking
23:30
happening. So we had a very specific issue on Oh okay, got it
23:36
on the bathroom stalls? I did that on my friend's homework. Yeah,
23:38
but obviously people were writing your usual obscene phrases that people just write on bathroom
23:44
stalls for no reason. But also people were drawing, you know, the
23:48
male nd of me, right, of course, and so there was this
23:49
ongoing thing and they kept getting so upset and they couldn't figure out who it
23:53
was. Of course, you can't a bathroom or cameras in the bathroom,
23:56
and so they were just huffing and puffing, and the janet would throw fits
24:00
because he had to clean it again. I'm like, guys, there's a
24:03
solution right here. Why don't we instead of getting mad, why don't we
24:07
encourage people to be drawing in the bathroom, But instead of letting them do
24:11
it on the wall with marker, just line the stalls with paper, put
24:18
some markers in there, and say have at it. See that's the point,
24:21
Pike. See, the point is of doing the graffiti is you're putting
24:23
it somewhere where it does not belong once the paper is there, and I
24:26
would be drawing outside of the paper, is what I would do. Well,
24:29
maybe, James, maybe you're wrong. Maybe these criminals all they wanted,
24:33
after all, was doing creative outlet was to express themselves. Yeah,
24:36
and that would give it to them, because there's nothing more creative outlet than
24:38
just drawing apart. Absolutely, I mean, just so many ways to do
24:41
it. It's a sweet release. Absolutely, Yeah, the details, you
24:45
know, many options for you to detail it the way you like, depending
24:51
on Yeah, I just think that would have been brilliant, much like this
24:52
teacher, just encourage it, be like, yeah, go ahead and draw.
24:56
I'll tell you what it's worth a shot. You know. Don't they
24:59
allow sort of like graffiti in certain places. Yeah, that's the kind of
25:02
a thing with trains. Didn't they just give up on that? Well,
25:04
it's hard, it's a train. I suppose, you know, they don't
25:08
have principles walking around the train yard. They get out of here. He's
25:12
got the guy with that billy club, you know, the the bobby cop
25:17
with that big hat, and he's walking around whistling. He's got those double
25:19
buttons hey, not to mention it. From what I can tell anyway,
25:25
generally gangs are the ones graffeeding. So wow, but don't you think it.
25:30
I mean, some people are just very artfully inclined. Well I know
25:32
some are, but if to me anyway, it appears like they're gangs saying
25:36
you need more than one principle to you need an army. I'm talking about
25:40
going back to the trains. Yeah, yeah, not the bathroom graffiti.
25:42
That's just like dumb kids. You know, it's funny you don't see any
25:45
body parts on a train. It's usually very intricate. Design is interesting.
25:49
It is, man, there's some deep Just when I thought we couldn't have
25:52
any deeper conversation, you and I, you just blew my mind, Like
25:56
why isn't anybody drawn anything obscene on a train? Right? Once? I
26:00
was like, here's my name, looking very into fancy fund. Yeah.
26:03
Just one time I'd like to be parked at the intersection of Eleventh Street in
26:07
Morehead, was sitting through another train, forty minutes in train, and I'd
26:14
just like to say one, you know, drive on by. Look at
26:18
that. It was all worth it, you know what, it would make
26:21
life worth it? For sure. One day, I get a minuda in
26:22
the morning. Come on, get up on dig. Have you been following
26:27
along with this? No? Boy? You know, twenty five years after
26:33
the relationship happened Brittany and Justin Timberlake, it's just getting crazier. And just
26:38
when he thought Justin was like sort of taking the high road after she wrote
26:41
the book and she said a lot of things about him, you know,
26:45
talked about that abortion, he was just being silent here. Okay, the
26:48
guy's high road in it. Respect it. Well. Then Wednesday night he
26:52
does a solo or a private show in New York City. Uh huh.
26:56
And so I'm thinking nobody was allowed to have a phone because there's no video
26:59
of this, but people there have reported that before he played this song Crime
27:03
a River, which of course is part of all the controversy the music video.
27:07
Yeah, I'll bring YadA, YadA, he said, I'd like to
27:08
take this moment to apologize to absolutely bleeping nobody, and he goes into the
27:18
song I want to like him? Is that unlikable? It is? It's
27:22
incredibly unlikable and stupid. So obviously he didn't need to name any names to
27:27
know what he's talking about So it went from the high road to now he's
27:33
like, oh he's upset, Like, yeah, now he's being a baby.
27:37
He hadn't said anything about it, but you could tell he obviously has
27:38
been just stewing about what she said in the book and how it made him
27:44
look. And so it was funny because it was just a couple days after
27:48
she had posted something about him in his new album and the new song being
27:52
really good and how funny he is, which so it's like, okay,
27:55
they're all good now, and she even apologized for anything anybody she hurt in
27:59
the book. Well now it's like flared back up. So did you see
28:02
Britney's most recent post. No, yeah, so she's firing back. Yeah,
28:07
she is very upset. She literally called him out and said that you
28:12
know that she's not sorry, and blah blah blah blah, and you got
28:17
to see the post. So she basically said that if he wants to take
28:19
her on in a game of basketball, she's happy to do it, but
28:22
he's going to go cry to his mommy like he did the last time.
28:26
Okay, that's hilarious. It's a bizarre thing, right, But if you
28:29
remember the book, there was a story about how they would play each other
28:32
in basketball and he would cry, you know, air quotes. I don't
28:34
think he was probably sobbing, but he would. He would be a big
28:38
baby when he beat her, and he's now being a big baby. But
28:41
what if? What if? What if they're flirting? It just be a
28:45
little flirty. It's a little flirty, well on her end anyway. Yeah,
28:48
the whole bat you want to like that sounds like such a early twenties
28:52
high school, like, Oh, let's play a game of basketball, and
28:55
you know how the game goes. There's a lot of touch. I was
28:57
gonna say books and now yeah is that oh I'm going to back my oh
29:03
oh oh back at it. Ooh yeah yeah, just a little bit of
29:06
that. And in the whole you know, oh I beat you, it's
29:07
like, well, do you think he was really trying? Do you think
29:11
Timberlake could dunk? What? Is he six foot? I don't know.
29:15
He looks like he should be tall, but I feel like maybe he's not
29:18
tall. See what's interesting to me Pike is the the I think even him
29:22
saying they apologize absolutely no one. That's him kind of saying hey Brittany,
29:26
hey baby, you think so, yeah, that would be I mean,
29:30
god, he's just so in love with Jessica bil I just couldn't have been
29:33
busy. I don't know. Maybe they've been out of love for a long
29:36
time. It feels like they've been out of love for a long time.
29:38
But Jessica Beal and Britney though, let me come on, who are you
29:41
taking? I suppose Belle. I mean apparently justin Timberlake is about six to
29:48
one, so I bet he could dunk. And he can't dunk. That's
29:51
on him, I mean honestly, yeah, but he looks like he's an
29:53
athletic time. I mean, I can't dunk pike, and it's obviously on
29:56
me. Well, how tall are you? Six to one? Oh?
29:59
Really? So you get close? I can't even touch the net? Is
30:02
that right? Yeah? I'm like four or five and I can get a
30:04
handful of net. What Well, Okay, I take that back. The
30:08
last time I tried, which was probably in high school. We're going to
30:11
the y after this. I'm one of the ymc is Sunday. Maybe we'll
30:15
try there. You are, ye, I got a big birthday party Sunday
30:18
morning. Yeah, who's birthday? My nephew THEO turned three years old,
30:22
going swimming nice Uncle t T. Probably not gonna get wet, but I'll
30:25
be there, Uncle t T. Yeah. Yeah, that's adorable. That's
30:29
also what Justin Timberlake's family calls him Uncle t T. Yeah. So to
30:33
summarized, awesome Brittany calls him. Yeah, now she does like it a
30:38
minute in the morning, Big ninety eight point seven. You know it's a
30:41
tradish here on the show that we speak to the man, the myth,
30:45
the legend, legend, Dustin from Happy Harry's Bottle Shops. I got that's
30:51
a lot to live up to. Oh stop, you are doing every day
30:53
Bill. If there's one man I know that would check all those boxes,
30:56
it is you. Well, you're too kind, especially when it comes to
31:00
you know, the liquor biz. A guy who just knows it top to
31:03
bottom. Any questions you might have, a guy can answer it. And
31:07
then you food too. We're just talking recipes. You just get you know,
31:11
you're all around it. You got to be sure you bring it all
31:12
to the table renaissance, because you never know what question is going to drop
31:17
in your lap at you know, so you might We just scored some ostrich
31:22
and we were wondering what to pair with it, what does one pair and
31:26
how you're gonna cook it. I mean, fining your protein doesn't necessarily dictate
31:30
exactly what the what the perion is going to be. Sometimes that's what you're
31:33
going to put with the protein that maybe shifts it from a light to a
31:37
red or a red to a light. Interesting. I was literally only thinking
31:40
about how would you fit a whole ostrich in the oven? You definitely need
31:45
like another bit. Those are significant birds, right, Yeah, they're like
31:48
ten feet tall, pike, they're like three thousand pounds or ride them.
31:52
I forgot about that. Yeah, how would you cook? How would you
31:53
go about cooking a ground hog, like like a whole hog in the ground.
31:59
Yeah, well first you would dig the hole step one, all right,
32:04
And those guys that actually do those whole hog in the ground like that's
32:07
a that's a commit like you're you're in, like you dig the hole and
32:10
it cooks it, you know whatever, and then oh wow, dig it
32:14
back up and oh my gosh, is that the one where you have it
32:17
on the stick and you spin it. No, this is like they get
32:21
the embers in the ground whatever. They put the hog in the ground,
32:22
and they basically creates like an oven in the ground. No way, sweet,
32:27
that's something that would be fun. We're going to do that. I
32:30
like decades ago, we were doing this big fishing tournament fundraiser up at Devil's
32:35
Lake and we're going to do a whole hog in the ground while the forecast
32:37
just turned and it's going to be you know, forty two and awful.
32:42
So we're like, you know what, We're not going to do that.
32:44
We're just gonna have some burgers there you go. Yeah, And you know,
32:46
it's an option if I ever get tired of the traditional oven. I
32:50
just hey, who's got a back hole? And that's who's got a whole
32:52
hog in a back hole? And then let me know and I'll pair up
32:55
the wines there you go. Nice, We'll let you know. But you,
32:58
of course, has always got some new exciting things as far as the
33:00
drinks go. And I brought something that I wasn't as familiar with, but
33:05
you dropped a knowledge bomb on me, so, which is rare. We
33:07
brought these Lover Boy Vacation Vibe Variety pack and and I thought it was this
33:13
new whatever, and Pike's like, hey, FYI, this is kind of
33:17
a big deal here, apparently if you're a fan of Bravo, as my
33:22
wife is very much so. Last night I was sharing you send the email
33:25
with what you're bringing in, and I'm like, oh you do you know
33:27
about this? Oh my god? Because she watches this show Summer House yep,
33:32
which sounds exciting, and I only a guy on the show. I
33:36
started this, this brand, this product. Yeah. So well, I'm
33:37
gonna have to next week. I'm gonna need to get the load on on
33:40
what she thought of them. I will, all right, she'll be very
33:44
excited us down. So this so variety pack hat is called Vacation or Vaca
33:47
Vibes, and there's four flavors. There's a pineapple hibiscus, a white tea
33:52
peach, a mangle pair, and a hibiscus line. That's a heck of
33:58
a lineup. That's a good id pack. Yeah, a real sugar gluten
34:04
free. So, and it's a is it do we designed? Is vodka?
34:07
Is it vodka based? So this would be a malt based Lemmy double
34:09
check here. I'm pretty sure it's a it's a hard I know. She
34:14
says that they drink it in the Hampton's and so if you want to kind
34:15
of feel like you're in the Hamptons, which you know the forecast this week,
34:19
you might as well be Yeah, boat shoes, light colored shirts,
34:22
unbuttoned halfway. Well the bass, it says, is brood tea. Okay,
34:25
gotcha. Yeah, but then a lot of other stuff Okay, yeah,
34:29
well definitely, so yeah, give them a whirl. Next, we
34:32
have from on the local end of it. We have Iceland Brewing has their
34:36
yacht rock, which I love yacht rock. Yeah, I don't know why.
34:39
I love the songs. And then as I got older, like,
34:42
oh I missed those songs. You know, you listen to a song you're
34:45
like, I remember when I was eight, you know what what like who's
34:49
a big yacht rock band? Who would that be? Like flock A Sequels,
34:52
Air Supply and Dan Seals? Uh, I mean Michael, I mean
35:00
any any like soft rock from the seventies and eighties early eighties, like plops
35:05
it right in there. I would even say, like Brandy You're a Fine
35:07
Girl could maybe be a yacht rock Yeah, yeah, for sure. I
35:12
mean that's a song about sailing as well. But in aid brand Girl,
35:17
what a good sorry gosh songbird No no, well, I guess you should
35:23
have some yacht rocks smoothie so then oh yeah, yeah for me, smoothie
35:28
sours are fun. They're they're there, viscosity is sticker, they're they're they're
35:32
energetic. You think of springtime, especially the hall the weather's been, Yeah,
35:36
when the sun's out, just had a smoothie one like yesterday or the
35:39
day before. The smoothie sound yeah, oh really, then you're gonna try
35:44
this spot Rock's gonna be so it's got passion fruit, orange and guala,
35:47
super fun, delicious. And then from Imperium we have the Fallen Angel sweet
35:52
Stout, which I have not had this yet. I'm actually super curious because
35:55
I don't think I've really seen a sweet stout. Yeah, that doesn't seem
35:58
to make sense to my But if you want, if you like those bigger,
36:00
more robust beers, stouts are obviously if if you like michelob Ultra,
36:07
you're not gonna probably want to put your toe in the water with a stout.
36:09
Sure, you're gonna need some steps before you get there. But if
36:13
you want something bigger, more robust, you know, try this Fallen Angel
36:15
sweet stuff from Imperium. They make awesome beers on the vodka based ready to
36:21
drinks. This is the Stilly Vodka Stilly Variety Sampler number two. Oh so
36:29
it's a six pack. There's two of each. There's Cougar Juice, black
36:31
Cherry, there's Aiming Fluid tangerine, and there's Fiesta Fuel Linn. Those are
36:38
just a blast. Yeah, so there's some. Actually, when I when
36:43
the guys put the pack on my desk, I was like, I really
36:46
seeing what was in there. So I saw the first one. I was
36:50
like, seriously, little boy, Well, you know like they have those
36:53
mom waters, you know, they have the Karens and the Linda's whatever,
36:57
there's Dad Water coming out. Now see what the names are? Yeah,
37:00
what would you go with? Just Greg? Top of your head, Dan,
37:04
Greg, Mike, Bill, Bill is good, Frank, Kevin,
37:08
Richard Dale. Yeah, of course as at all time class. And did
37:15
we say Dave. I don't know, we didn't say throw dak or or
37:19
he could be like Taylor and say, you know chads and brads, Chats
37:22
and brads. Yeah, you know that rhymes that would taste more like the
37:24
lover boy. I think it just sounds like a chat and brad Anyway,
37:30
So the you know, the the ready to drink cocktails have slowed down a
37:34
bit. I haven't seen as many new ones coming out. So we'll see
37:37
how how twenty twenty four treats the category. Category is still massive, It's
37:40
still going to do it this thing, but I think the innovation part of
37:44
it may be slowing down a bit. We just had to event at the
37:47
rate it was going, it was unsustainable. I mean these companies that were
37:50
creating these I mean there's so much money they were put into it, and
37:52
they weren't getting you know, years of growth. It was like they have
37:57
these flash blow up in sales and then months later next Now, yeah,
38:02
what you've seen it so many times with what I mean the obviously seltzers and
38:06
then what like teas and I mean I mean even craft beers. Craft beer,
38:09
I mean, there was a there was so many craft breweries that opened
38:13
up for a decade there and now that's kind of readjusted and changed a bit,
38:17
and so it just it goes and ebbs and flows. Yep. The
38:22
final category of things. Now, we have a lot of new stuff that
38:24
came in. We did put a new point of sales system in our stories.
38:28
The last two weeks. So some of the new products that we put
38:30
in we had a hold until the new system transitioned in. So these three
38:34
wines in my talk about are just available at least for this weekend at our
38:37
forty fifth location by home deeople there. But they're super fun. The first
38:40
one is from Germany. It's called Fritz Mueller. This is their pairwine roasted
38:45
troken. So it's a it's a German rose. Trocken means dry, but
38:51
it has like a frizante to us. It's got a little fizz. It's
38:54
dry, but it's not like bone crushing dry. It's just a fun,
39:00
you see, bright energetic rose. So if you're just doing a STRICUDERI trade
39:04
this weekend, or do something light, or having just a warm up wine
39:06
for coming over or having a Grammy party like Pike, Yeah, you know,
39:09
just for Tracy Chapmans, the Fritz Mueller chill it down, pop it,
39:13
open its wine glasses and enjoy the Grammys. Well you're sitting on a
39:15
fun German rose. It sounds good. I mean, in your neighborhood is
39:21
gonna be drinking a German rose. So you'd be like, oh, we'll
39:23
have the neighbors over because I'll be surprised and stunned at what we're sipping on
39:29
value in the neighborhood. Will the skyak exactly out of New Zealand. One
39:32
of my favorite New Zealand sabbi and Blanc producers is Peter Yelands and Peter Yland
39:39
he's like off the grid, like you think of somebody that wants to be
39:45
completely sustainable himself and gives back to the earth and the greenest, most nature
39:52
centric person on Earth, this is Peter Eland's. I'm pretty sure if the
39:55
end of Days came, he could still be making wine because like he doesn't
40:00
rely on anything. He prepared apocalypse. But he makes some ridiculous savvium blocks.
40:05
His classic Savium block, which retails are sixteen dollars, is to me
40:08
is one of the best ones in our twenty. He has this s one
40:10
single block that we have. It might be the prettiest savvium bloc I've ever
40:15
had from New Zealand. It's just bright, energetic, It dances across your
40:20
tongue. It's awesome. He just released a lighter savvium block, so it's
40:22
kind of the trend. Now. As you have you have the na and
40:27
the non alcoholic things. Then you have these lighter wines, lower calorie,
40:30
lower sugar, lower alcohol. This is a lighter Savian block from New Zealand.
40:35
So if you if you want something, you know, seventy calories a
40:37
little bit less alcohol, nice, give us one a whirl. That's a
40:39
good category. With beer two. A lot of my friends have just sort
40:43
of transition to like drinking like bud Select. You know, it's like two
40:46
percent alcohol, so you know, I still I think there's like two point
40:50
six two point six sure, but you know you can have a few and
40:52
still you can you can get there, he can feel buzz, but you
40:55
know you can have ten and probably feel all days when you said complain about
41:00
three two beer in Minnesota, those days are gone. Py are they still
41:04
selling that? Yeah? I think Minnesota might be the only state. Laugh.
41:07
It's kind of a wild concept, but it's gonna gets coming back though
41:13
they held onto it, and now it's going to what's old is new exactly
41:16
right. And the final line, now this one takes me back to This
41:21
is from a wandery called Brittani in Italy, and it's a Valpolicella rosso which
41:25
is a lot of words there. But when we went to Italy in two
41:30
thousand and three, our very first vineyard was in this area called Verona,
41:36
and they're known for their amaronis and their valpol cellos, and they basically take
41:39
this great primary grape is called Corvinia, which nobody's heard of, and they
41:44
harvest it and they put them on these these drying trays in these in these
41:47
I don't want to say whereouse, but kind of like a warehouse, both
41:50
slats so the air can blow through and they kind of dry the grapes out,
41:53
and so they fully drive off for an amaroni, which is a really
41:55
dark, rich, dense Italian red wine. When they partially dry them out,
42:02
the style is called rapassa, and that's what this is. So it's
42:06
just a really juicy red wine. It's classified as dry, but it has
42:08
some sweet tendencies to it. It'd be great with a really rich barbecue sauce
42:14
or if you're doing some fun sharp cheeses arm like that those biscotti cookie biscuit
42:22
things, you could dunk those in this. Really it's just a it's a
42:25
fun wine. It's not for everybody, but we've had trouble getting a Rapassa
42:30
back and we've been out for about a year and so this one came along.
42:32
I'm like, and I mean they're not cheap. It's thirty one dollars
42:36
right, so it's I don't know. To me, that still speels,
42:38
you know what, if you're going to experiment, like if your budget is
42:43
usually fifteen, to go outside of that by double, to try something you
42:45
never had. Some people are like, I don't know if I want to
42:49
do that. Even if he said it's really good, I don't know if
42:51
that's going to work. But if you love Italian wines, you love big,
42:53
rich, explorative kind of things, this Britani vella Pulchella rapass is awesome.
42:59
That sounds Did I tell you we're going to Italy? You did?
43:01
I did not on the air, though, this is me breaking what breaking
43:05
newspike you're going to we're going to now it's our five year anniversary coming up
43:08
to Little August there. Yes, so we'll have to get some response.
43:13
Responso, you're gonna how to say it? Hey, to be fair,
43:16
there's an s there. Are you gonna learn to come back? He's like,
43:19
we had squid ink pasta and we were walking around venice sipping on prosecco.
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My my wife Lauren already downloaded the Duelingo app, so she's trying to
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learn. You're gonna learn some So the beauty is nowadays technology helps you.
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When I was there, we were off the kind of grade. We were
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in the tourist areas, and so we were in these villages where they didn't
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speak a lot of English. So one morning I wanted some water and it
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went down to the lobby and the guy there's no greets me and said do
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you have a new water And he goes Agua and I said yes, and
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he goes gizz No gas, so sparkling water breakers, Okay, I said,
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no gas. I don't want a really nice warm water anyhow, you
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know, I wish I would have had an app because we could. I
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was in this old, old village trying to find a golf ball for my
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dad, so I would always buy him golf balls wherever I travel. And
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I'm in this shop in this old village and they happened to have a golf
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ball, and I was trying to figure out what the price was, and
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I'm talking to a woman who doesn't speak English, and I don't speak Italian.
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So we were, you know, using hand gestures, right, and
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I pulled money out on like holl much and okay, so money because I've
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done this too, Like in Florida, there's a lot of people won only
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speak Spanish and so I'm trying to like, you know, you think if
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you talk slower it somehow helps. But it's louder and slower. So having
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an app on a phone would have been really productive for me back in the
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day. It would have been really fun to watch because Italian is kind of
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an angry language too, so it probably looked like this person was just yelling
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at you. Well she was a sweet older lady, so that was that
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was nice. We completed the transaction successfully and I waved and said thank you.
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And what a fun cultured experience. I can't wait, Pike, I'm
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so excited for you. Oh thanks, James. Yeah, you're gonna come
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back. I mean, cured meats are gonna be your jam. Yeah,
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is that their thing? Yeah, You're going to walk in these butcher shops
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and they're gonna just have things hanging on the ceiling and see to me.
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And this is totally being on culture, but I feel like I'm just only
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gonna be ordering the spaghetti and meatballs. Please don't is that they don't even
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serve that there? Oh, come on, they don't. They'll bolon a
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saw this. The sauce will be the prettiest sauce you've ever had. It'll
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it'll ruin you, like well, your cooking game will have to step up
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because no longer will Ajar suffice you. Will you will need to build your
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stock from scratch. Yeah, yeah, I'll give you a dollar if you
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ask where the olive garden is when you get there. Pikes in a park
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himself in our Italian sections that He's like, dust, I need to work
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my way through all of these that what is doc g mean? I need
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to know? Now? Yeah, you definitely do have that in you.
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Oh I do. Well. Thanks, There's a lot of good stuff here
45:53
on the list. So we're gonna post it on Big Ninetea points up its
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facebook page if you want to go revert back to hear what we talked about.
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It will be on our podcast as well. So thank you, du
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justin. Thanks guys, have a great weekend too.