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This Is How 2026 Starts: Whiskey, Comics & Wild Science · Brainwaves

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  Happy 2026 to our listeners, our viewers.
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  You made it to another year with us.
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  My name is Jason Riley with me as always, Barry Teenix.
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  And Barry, how's your early 2026 going?
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  Because as our regular listeners and viewers know, we are always
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  one week behind our listeners. So it's not quite New Year's
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  where we are, but we we're celebrating like it is.
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  Yeah, exactly. Mentally we're already there,
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  which is nice. Absolutely.
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  It's going fantastic. Jay, you're looking great as
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  always. The hair is looking nice and
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  thick. Sweater.
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  Yeah, you got the sweater. You're ready to rock'n'roll you.
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  You're ready to take on anything that 26 is going to throw at.
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  You I really think so. You know, I will say that we are
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  the podcast with probably the mightiest hair out of just about
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  any podcast. I put us up there in the like we
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  got to be in the top 5% of podcasts with men in a middle
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  age capacity with the ability heads of hair.
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  Yeah, who are not follically challenged.
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  Yeah. But we're not here to pat
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  ourselves on the back about something that is a genetic dice
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  roll. That should really be a high 5
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  for our folks. Yeah.
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  But. Before we get there.
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  But before we get there, Yeah, let's begin the new year the
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  right way, Jay. And it's the same way we've
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  begun every year since we began the podcast and possibly before
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  then with a delicious shot. And I'm going to be raising a
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  toast in your honor with some Bushmills 12 year.
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  Nice. And I will be raising a glass in
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  your honor with some Jameson Triple, triple, Happy new Year.
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  Same to you, Jay, and to our viewers and audience.
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  Cheers. What are those notes?
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  Talk to me about the notes. That first one was a bit, yeah,
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  I got the shoulders moving, got the traps going, yeah.
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  Yeah, yeah. Nice.
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  OK, Well, mine did a leap again over the tongue.
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  Nice. Esophageal burn.
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  I love an esophageal burn. You know that whiskey's going
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  down. You can feel it go the whole way
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  down, which is just utter perfection is what I would say.
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  I love it. You always put a positive spin
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  on even something as potentially uncomfortable as an esophageal
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  burn. I love it.
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  And again, again another year with shots leaping over the
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  tongue. I can only expect that will
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  continue throughout 26. In full celebration, that's how
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  it goes. Yeah.
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  What do we want to start off with?
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  Well, perhaps a quick year in review, yeah.
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  And then looking forward to, you know, what we have in 26, it
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  doesn't have to and no resolutions.
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  I think we've gone down that road.
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  We're not resolutions guys. We're guys who want to continue
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  to do what we're already doing if it's positive.
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  Yeah, and we did touch on life lessons in our last episode that
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  we took out of 2025. But yeah, maybe we did.
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  What do we got coming ahead? What's propelling us into the
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  new year? Are you want to kick us off?
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  Yeah, but well, first, before we look ahead, we must look behind
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  us again. OK, let's do. 25 Just quickly,
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  it's been a great year in terms of travel for myself and my
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  executive producer, Linda LeBron.
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  We were able to do some really fun things this year.
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  We went to St. John's, NL, he went to Salt Lake
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  City, UT Austin, TX and then we also began the year with my
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  sister's family in Punta Cana, Dominican Republic.
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  So it's been a phenomenal travel year for us.
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  We hope that continues. Jay, you had an, I mean,
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  probably one of the greatest adventures any man, alive or
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  dead, could hope to have. And that was when you visited
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  Japan to work on a project that is still very much under wraps.
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  We can't wait to find out what that was.
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  Yes. And I'm excited to go back in
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  April to shoot the remaining days on this project.
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  So that will be very exciting. And I can't wait to find out
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  when it's coming out because it'll be very cool for to be
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  able to see this, which is awesome.
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  Yeah, yeah. Absolutely.
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  You know what I'm taking into 2026 and I wanted to share this
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  with you because I'm pretty excited about it.
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  I sent you an image. You know, we are all about
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  physical media here on the show and what qualifies as physical
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  media is the comic book. And now I have not purchased an
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  individual issue of a comic book in a while, but I was compelled
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  to go down to the local BMV and see if they had a couple of
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  issues of a new comic that has been released.
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  And they did. And I'm going to show it to you.
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  Youngblood, the Image comic Youngblood, created by Rob
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  Liefeld, who has a podcast as well.
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  Pretty popular in turn in comics.
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  What is Youngblood, Barry? Well, I thought it was a
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  musician that Ozzy Osbourne took under his wing and but we're not
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  talking about him, we're talking about something.
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  Else the roots go back differently.
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  In fact, the roots go back to 1992.
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  Look at this, Rob Liefeld, the dark aged blood.
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  This was the very first Image comic.
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  So there is, there are three kind of major comic publishers.
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  Marvel started in the 60s, DC started well before that in the
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  30s. And in 1992, some top artists
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  from Marvel broke off and created their own Image Comics
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  label. Image Comics still running
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  today, still running today. And Youngblood was the very
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  first comic I'm holding in my hand, the very first comic to
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  come out of Image Comics. Very exciting, very 90s, very
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  splashy. Rob Liefeld is bit of a
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  lightning rod for kind of controversy in the world of
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  comics, but I'm just drawn to this kind of kinetic, frenetic
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  kind of energy that he brings to it.
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  His plots are confusing. His proportions are a bit out
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  there, but I just love it. I love a lot of this.
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  Just the stuff that he does. I for some reason, I'm just
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  drawn to it. It's like, it's like candy.
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  It's like eating candy. It's not it's not the Sandman.
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  For people that understand comics, they'll know the Sandman
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  is like something that's a dense literature.
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  This is pure Poppy Handy and I am here for it and I'm here
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  supporting his new issues cuz he just recently he, he licensed,
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  he'd gotten rid of the licensed Youngblood.
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  Somebody else owned it or Co owned it.
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  He couldn't make comics and now he's got it back and he is
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  producing some comics. He's in his late 50s now, and
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  when he first did this one he was probably in his early 20s.
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  Wow. Yeah, OK.
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  Young blood. Young blood.
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  I'm so excited. I'm dripping here.
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  I'm dripping. I'm leaking.
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  I'm leaking. You're leaking.
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  Yeah. It's funny because you are a
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  very kind of, like, ordered. And, you know, your personality
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  is kind of the opposite of this writer that you were just
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  describing, who's kind of hazard and all over the play artist.
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  Yeah. Which is not really your
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  personal style. You're much more of a guy who
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  always knows what's up at any given moment.
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  So it's kind of interesting that you gravitate towards this.
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  But you did say it was like candy, so I get that.
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  It's like a sweet indulgence. It's like look at.
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  This you like to get into. Look at this artwork from 1990
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  too. I mean, there's a lot going on
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  there. There's lots going on there.
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  In fact, the book itself in is like here and then you flip it
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  and it starts there. It's like a flip book, like he
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  pulled out all the stops. So for those of us who don't
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  know who Youngblood is beyond the artist that you also, I
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  think it made your Spotify top list.
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  He did. Youngblood the artist.
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  Yeah, Yeah. That's right, right.
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  So tell us about Youngblood the superhero, because I have no
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  idea about any of it. It's a team of superheroes.
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  Youngblood is a group and they're kind of like superheroes
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  that grew up in the in the media age.
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  So they're very media savvy. They've been media trained.
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  They're they pay a lot of attention to the political kind
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  of leanings of how of their missions and that kind of stuff.
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  So it's it's interesting. It's gets a little confusing.
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  I will say as a writer, he's maybe not the greatest writer in
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  that things are happening, popping in all the time.
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  It can be tricky and it, and it's kind of steep now in
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  continuity. So I, I didn't follow it along.
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  Like it's kind of come back sporadically over the years, but
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  I'm kind of enjoying it. So I'm just enjoying going back
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  and enjoying some of the artistry of Rob Liefeld and
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  Youngblood. So I'm kind of relearning it
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  too, along with our listeners and viewers.
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  So I'm sure we'll be rushing out to pick up their physical
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  copies. You got me into a you.
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  Already hear the footsteps? I'm sure you can too.
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  Yeah, so. That's it.
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  That's Young Blitz. That's what I wanted to share.
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  I'm excited about that coming into 2026.
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  That is exciting. I want to hear some of what
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  you're focused in on, but I want to do that after we do shot #2
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  what? Do you say, yeah, let's, let's
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  stick with our format, which has never failed this, by the way.
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  Never never never 100% success rate on this format. 100%.
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  Jameson triple, triple over here.
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  I've got some Bushmills 12 year over here.
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  Jay, cheers to you. Cheers.
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  Shivers again. You got the shivers again.
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  That's a double shiver. And that doesn't usually happen,
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  but you know when it does, it's kind of special.
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  Yeah. OK.
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  Well, that's nice. I wish I had your ability to
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  have certain shots leap over the tongue.
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  I've never had that experience and I I yearn for it, Jay.
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  In fact, that's maybe something I'm going to aim towards in 26,
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  to try to have that experience, to try to step into your shoes,
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  if only for the briefest of moments.
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  You know, I come by it naturally.
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  I know you do, but what is the technique?
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  There's got to be something. How does liquid leap directly
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  over the tongue? I mean, your mouth is not like
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  some giant cave. I mean, it's like it's a regular
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  sized mouth. So there's not a lot of real
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  estate for liquid to just bypass an important part of the mouth.
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  How do you do it? Here's what you're willing to
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  reveal your secrets right here on the broadcast.
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  We should really run this in super slow video to really get
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  them. We want some.
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  Of it a camera inside the mouth and witnessed it like a cresting
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  wave of an ocean. I think what happened happens is
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  think of the back tail of a dolphin and how it flicks like
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  you know how it flicks. I think as there's exact timing.
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  I think as the liquid's coming in, there's a flick and it just,
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  it's enough to catch it in the right spot that all of it leaps
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  over and it just leaps over the tongue.
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  It tends it bounces off that tonsil thing in the back and
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  that's what sends it down because otherwise.
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  The old punching bag, Yeah. That's right.
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  So that everything's involved in this thing, it's just the taste
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  buds are completely missed. And that's, that's how this
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  works. So you get a bit of the heat at
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  the front. Yep.
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  Then off the tonsil, then you get that burn straight down.
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  None of it's wasted on the on the taste buds.
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  Wasted on the taste buds. I don't know.
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  I've never heard it quite put that way.
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  I wonder if you had to use that when we were at Whiskey Global,
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  whether we would have had as many positive interactions with
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  the vendors as we did had you use that turn afraid because
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  they might have been like, what are you talking about?
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  The the whole point of whiskey is to let it swirl around the
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  old mouth. Not with Jason Riley, folks.
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  No, it bypasses. Yeah, the tongue all together.
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  You get 100% of it right down the gullet.
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  I love it. Yeah, I'm going to work on that.
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  That's that's all of your tale. That's that's a really good,
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  that's good imagery. I'm going to really focus on
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  that next, next time we have a shot together.
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  It's a hard snap. Think of it as a hard snap when
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  you're doing it. So a few of them might, you
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  might send liquid everywhere, but it's a hard snap.
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  Perfect timing 26. OK.
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  I like this for you. I like this for you.
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  I like it for me too and I, I, you know, I'm now your
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  apprentice, so here. We go all right.
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  Here we go. What else is happening in 26 for
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  you, Barry? What else indeed?
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  My wife and I were going to Fort Lauderdale in February, which is
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  going to be very nice. We're excited to do that.
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  What are you most excited about to see in Fort Lauderdale?
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  Dude, the beach culture. But there's something about it,
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  Sam. I love it.
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  Well, you know, I like wandering around.
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  I like, you know, to be shirtless.
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  I like to be the indirect sun for a period of time, not all
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  day, but for a period of time. I like to lounge out on those
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  loungers under the umbrellas provided.
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  It's just like a whole thing. And then, you know, cooling off
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  in the ocean. Yeah.
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  What more do you want? You know, it's it really is
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  great. And then when you get hungry,
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  you go and get yourself some tacos.
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  I mean, that's beach food. You know handheld food is
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  perfect for the beach and tacos, especially in South Florida.
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  That's top of the pyramid. Now when?
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  You go down there, are you going to this year be doing, do you do
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  the the tight bathing suit or do you do the boxer kind of things
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  or do you have a combination of both depending on the date?
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  Good question. Confidence.
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  I'm curious. What you're oh, the confidence
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  is high, but it's I know it is it's that high.
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  The banana sling. Is that where you're going with
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  this? Well, I haven't I.
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  Have the Borat stuff just like are we going is it tight trunks
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  or is it loose trunks in case any of our our audience is down
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  there loose, OK. Yeah, it's loose.
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  It's loose Trunks. Yeah.
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  You got to? Yeah.
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  No, I have. I haven't gone down that other
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  Rd. but I'm not opposed to it. If I were to come across the
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  right I guess design, I don't even really know.
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  I see like lightning bolts on the side might be good.
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  Lightning bolts, Yeah, that'd be good.
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  That perhaps not a bad idea, 2027, maybe that's a goal that
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  you want to get to. I don't know what the goal.
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  I'm sure people do have goals of tighter bathing suits.
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  Women do all the time. I'm sure not to objectify any
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  door, but I think they're, you know, to be able to fit into
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  these. It depends on where you are in
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  your weight loss journey. You know, a lot of women are on
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  that journey. Yeah, exactly.
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  More so than men, I find, yeah. But I bet you that changes.
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  But the I just heard today that yeah, not Ozempic, but what Govi
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  one of the. One of those you have a
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  knockouts. Yeah, is going to be in pill
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  form and they're going to be the first one to offer in pill form.
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  And that is a huge game changer, which we shift to the science
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  portion of our show. Yes, a huge game changer for or
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  get. Your lab coat on, Jay.
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  Yeah, exactly. What do you think?
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  I think pill form. Would you would you go in?
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  What do you have? Pill form?
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  Of it, well, perhaps if I were in need of of shedding some
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  weight, I would perhaps would consider it.
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  But I've heard that as well that the pill is not as effective as
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  the shot. But not everyone wants to inject
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  themselves. Yeah, that's the thing.
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  I think that's a big hurdle for for many people.
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  I think unless. You're already, you know, doing
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  that. Yeah, exactly.
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  If you're comfortable doing it, great.
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  If not, I do see the pill form as being because it's like you
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  said, it's a bit milder. Maybe you have to do it a little
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  bit more regularly or or build that in with more, I don't know,
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  willpower, whatever. But I could totally see that.
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  I see a lot more people getting on that.
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  And why not if you start to get a little out of control, yeah,
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  at at some point, is it? Would you yourself?
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  Would you you yourself if you felt like you were getting 5 to
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  8 lbs out of your comfort zone? Sure.
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  Is that something you would look at?
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  Yeah, I don't think I'd be too nervous to do that because it
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  is. It's like pill form.
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  It's not surgery. It's not anything that's so
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  invasive. Yeah.
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  And like, isn't it amazing to think that in, you know, 10
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  years from now we may look back and go, it won't be complete
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  like this, but let's just exaggerate a bit and kind of go
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  like, remember what weight was a problem and now it's not because
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  everyone we have to have access to it.
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  Yeah, exactly. Watch the McDonald's start going
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  out of business. Like stuff like that'll happen.
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  They may not fully go out of business, but they may right
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  size the number of fast food places.
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  Because maybe you don't need to go 10 * a month, you're going 3
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  * a month. What do you think?
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  I think the only fat people left will be people who can't afford
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  to get on the pill. And that's what it's really
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  going to be. It's going to show it's going to
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  be a bigger class divide. The thin people will be the ones
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  who are a little more upwardly mobile.
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  If you're really big and you don't have the money for what
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  Govi or whatever you're still eating at McDonald's, 10 * a
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  month wouldn't. It be great if it was part of
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  healthcare regimen, if it got approved at some point then even
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  more people like once it gets to be generic kind of like.
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  Right comes all like. Like Viagra was a thing and now
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  it's like short generic. Yeah.
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  Just kidding. Yeah, yeah.
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  Are you kidding? I know Wiener pills.
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  Yeah. I mean, my stocking is stuffed
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  with them. Yeah, if you need some, I got
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  you. No.
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  No problem. Perfect.
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  All right, great. But yeah, those were like a big
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  thing was like they were high-priced and then all of a
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  sudden they came down because they went generic.
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  I love Science Corner. We don't talk.
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  About a life. And I think our audience needs
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  us because if anybody you can trust to get under the covers,
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  so to speak, of these, I like this.
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  You know, breakthrough drugs, That's, that's what they're
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  really tuning in for. It's a shame we don't talk about
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  it more often. It's absolutely true.
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  That's 2020. Let me ask you, just on the
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  subject of pills. If I could give you a pill today
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  and you'd wake up the next day and looking like one of those
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  competitive on stage bodybuilders, one of those mass
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  monsters that are completely shredded, would you do it if it
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  was just a pill? I would take half that pill
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  because I really don't like the look of the absolute shredded
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  that I but I. Super skinny weight.
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  If it's snappable, I'd snap that in half and then I'd be kind of
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  halfway there, and I'm OK with that.
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  How about you? You take the pill.
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  You take two, I would take two. Yeah, I would.
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  I would just be, I would have muscles coming out of my
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  forehead. That's what I would want.
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  That's that's what I've been working on.
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  Really, I can't. Seem to get there.
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  Yeah, exactly. Yeah, it's amazing.
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  As we get further it down into like into the future, it's kind
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  of a wild that all these ideas are being kind of shrunk into.
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  Can we make a pill out of it? Yeah.
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  Now we have this pill that seemingly will melt weight.
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  Will we also have a pill one day that'll grow hair?
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  Will we also have a pill that will improve eyesight?
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  Yeah. We already have pills for the
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  boners, which is great. That was the first thing out of
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  the gate because why? Probably it was a guy working on
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  it. You know what I mean?
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  This is, you know, so I don't know what my point was other
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  than just we want more things to be cured with a single pill or
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  two pills. Yeah, right.
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  Jay Sounds good, Barry, I feel like.
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  That's a pretty full show. That's a kickoff.
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  To 2026. We really had time to get in on
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  the science because that's that's important.
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  We're going to let me just we're going to follow this story.
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  How about that We are follow this story through all year long
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  26 and we'll TuneIn headline only you can guarantee that
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  that'll be a RIP from the headline.
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  We'll be seeking out that headline.
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  Gary, I want you to have a wonderful kickoff to new year.
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  Who's been great spending it with you and I look forward to
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  if this is our first episode 51 more to carry us through 2026
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