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Never Grow Up · Brainwaves

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Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to another episode of Two Shot
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Tuesday. It's Barry Nixon along, a man
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who truly knows everything there is to know about life.
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Jay, I've learned so much from you.
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It's incredible. There are men out there, but
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then there is the man, and that's you.
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Thanks for making time to be with me on another week and our
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audience certainly appreciates it.
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You know, Barry, I would argue if I could, but that intro just
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was so spot on that I think it's it.
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I like to think I am the man, although in many ways I haven't
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grown up. So I'm quite the boy when it
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comes to my reading habits, my TV habits, a lot of my habits,
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my eating habits tend to be some.
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Of your dietary choices could be, you know, questioned, but
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yeah, that's not for mere mortals to question.
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Anyway, it's good to see you Jay.
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We have a an absolutely jam packed show.
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But before we dive in head 1st, I believe you and I will be
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doing a shot together, maybe 2 I think.
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So I think we're going to do that.
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I'm going to start with a very manly shot because you know,
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that's one thing only you have to be over a certain age to
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legally drink alcohol. And so tonight I will be
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consuming Bushmills Black Bush, one of my 2 faves that I always
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keep on offer. What have you got?
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Amazing. Amazing.
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I love the the the Bushmills black Bush.
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I haven't had it in a while. I have another Bushmills
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product, the 12 year nice, equally delicious.
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Yeah. See you.
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Cheers, cheers. Oh, oh, it went up into my
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sinuses in a good way. Yes, in a good way.
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Wow. Yeah.
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You know, from from that face, it almost looks like you did a
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somersault in a pool. You know that move and then the
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water kind of goes up as you're going to go on under I.
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Know yeah, I felt that I've been in there.
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I was looking at the LCBO when I was there last because I saw the
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12 year at my LCBO, it's behind lock and key and so I never
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asked for it because I see it and I go oh, that's the one
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Barry gets all the time He likes it.
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But in my LCBO it is under like glass with another aged one.
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I'm not sure if it's a 10 year or anything but it's it's behind
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lock and key and I can't be bothered to bother people to get
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it for me. What do you think about that,
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Shane? They should be falling over
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themselves to open that cabinet for you, Jay.
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That's surprising. It's behind lock and key.
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Mine is just on the open. Shelf really.
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That's yeah, wow. I've never seen it kind of just
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out there. I've seen it either not anywhere
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or at mine. It's behind lock and key.
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I guess there's a lot of a lot of near do wells looking to get
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their hands on the 12 year. It's a It's a good year for
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criminals. I guess so, but I'm wondering is
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maybe maybe you were seeing something like an 18 or because
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usually they lock up the stuff that's really, really it's I.
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Checked it and it's like a $64 bottle.
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It's not the cheapest bottle of 12 year.
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Yeah, like the the black Bush is like a 50 something dollar
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bottle. 55 maybe. Yeah, this one's up, step up.
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And then there's one next to it, which I bet you is the 18 and
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they they keep them together. Interesting.
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Yeah, yeah, I would have thought 64 bucks, while expensive and
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certainly not. You know, good quality, yeah.
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You wouldn't think that would have to be locked up.
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That's. It's not that big a step up, I
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know, from the black Bush. Like that's right there.
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Why are you locking up the 12 year?
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And really, if somebody's stealing whiskey, they're going
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to just steal whatever they can get their hands on anyway.
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You're thinking it's mostly to be consumed.
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I guess it could be resold, but you know, yeah, the free, the 12
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year, I say, that's what I say. LCBO at DuPont near Spadina,
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Free the 12 year please. Dude, let's get that trending on
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X. OK, free.
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The 12 year, I love it. Yeah.
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And I will say they do have ample black Bush, Jameson black
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black barrel, sorry, Jameson black barrel as well.
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So that I'm happy about. They've got several facings of
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that. So nothing to complain there.
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That is good. That's something I would love to
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see returning to my LCBO. It's so inconsistent I really
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don't understand who does the ordering.
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I don't either. Anyway, Barry, you've been very
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vocal in the last several episodes as you've taken us
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through World Cup fever. I'm wondering what you've got
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for us today to talk to and, and I'll, you know, do my best to
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keep up And, and really, I've been carrying my fair share of
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the load. I, I want to be able to do that
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in this episode. Hence a little bit of a chat
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about how we lock up our boots. Right.
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Yeah, exactly. Well, that's thread.
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I can certainly update you at the time of this recording, you
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might notice that I'm wearing an England shirt.
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England has made it ratted through to the quarter final and
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they will be facing the Norwegians this Saturday at the
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time of this recording. So just a few days away.
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And it's do or die as it all these matches are now.
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They're all one and done eliminations.
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But I don't remember ever England and Norway facing off.
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And if they have, I don't think it was ever this deep in the
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tournament. So it's super exciting and let's
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go England, let's go Lions and hopefully they can come through
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and move on, be super exciting, yeah, if they could.
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I've got to tell you, I've been watching as well.
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I'm getting caught up in the fever now ever since the Canada
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game, the most recent Canada game where they lost and then I
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watched I think it was the. Morocco, that was.
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Yeah, France and Mexico, basically.
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I watch all the host countries get put out.
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Was it France and Mexico? Yeah.
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France is not a host, but USA. And Mexico is so as I meant, and
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Mexico lost. So France beat Mexico, Canada
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got beat. And then of course, the US just
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got beat. So all of the host countries are
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now out of this. That's right, actually was
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actually just to correct you quickly, it was England that
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defeated Mexico in Mexico City to send them home.
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Yeah, that was beautiful. An absolute stunner of a game.
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It was just incredible. Yeah, that and that stadium was
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incredible. Like that stadium in Mexico was
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like, it kind of puts BMO Field a bit to shame.
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But that thing's built, I think, for soccer, right?
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The Mexico. It's purpose build for soccer.
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They call it the Azteca, and it's a legendary facility that
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has probably, I don't know, like 90, maybe 80,000 in the seats.
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Like, it's enormous and apparently it gets super super.
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Loud I could see, because that's a lot of people excited about
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the same thing. So, yeah, that's true.
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Yeah. So what?
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OK. Have you got a pick then?
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I know England is the jersey you're wearing, so that would be
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your pick. OK.
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That is my pick. I truly hope that they can make
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it past the Norwegians. And then who's to say who will
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be next? But this has been one heck of a
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tournament. Jay, everyone will always
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remember the 26 tournament, not just because it was in our own
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backyard. I what am I saying?
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Of course it's because it was in our own backyard.
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Everyone's going to remember the 26 tournament, but there's been
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so many surprises, so many upsets.
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It's just been so entertaining today.
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At the time of this recording, the yard continuance were down
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to nothing in their must win situation against the Egyptians
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and they came back and 132 like nobody's out of this out of any
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of these matches it seemed even with just like a handful of
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minutes left at the end of the match.
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So Argentina is through at the time of this recording.
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Executive producer Aldo Roma looked up a stat and it was Who
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has won the most World Cups? Can you tell me, Barry, who's
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won the most World Cups? I believe it's Brazil with five,
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five of them. You're correct.
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I thought it was 4, but it was. It's definitely Brazil.
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They're of course out. They were put out of the
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tournament. Thank goodness.
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I know this. Look, I'm talking sports.
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With they are dangerous. Yeah, dangerous.
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Yeah, so they were like #1 and then he made a separate comment
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going it's, it's amazing. You hear a lot of these teams
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with a lot of bluster that have actually never won the World
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Cup. But there's a number of teams
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that are like, they're talking like they want it.
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They're acting like they want it, but they've never won it
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yet. So they're thirsty for their
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first World Cup. And they're.
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Yeah, not humble. Out of the 100 years almost of
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this tournament existing, only eight countries have won the
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World Cup, which is incredible. Right.
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Only every four years. Yeah, that's true.
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OK, So be 40 tournaments I guess in in 100 years?
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Well, almost 100. It'll be 120, 30.
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But regardless, only eight nations have won it.
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And like you said, there's been many other teams competing in
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it. They they talk a big game.
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Maybe some of them will have won European Championships, CONCACAF
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or tournaments in South America. At the World.
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But the World Cup is the World Cup.
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So it is the you know what, nobody has said it world, nobody
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said it better than you. The World Cup is the World Cup
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and I think on. That truly is.
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We should do our second shot. Let's do it.
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All right, you know what? I'm drinking the black Bush and
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and you. I'm sticking with what's
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working, Jay, and that's the Bushmills. 12 year behind Lock
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and Key. Here's to you.
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Cheers now. You sent me an interesting text
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earlier today on a new item that has changed your life almost
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from the outset. Yeah, from on from the unboxing
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to this moment, your life is different.
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Tell us how. Barry, I always read at night,
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as you know, and a lot of that is comics.
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And I read before I go to bed. And so I'm always reading on my
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iPad and it's comfortable. Well, and it's nice, but it's,
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you know, it's, I have, as, you know, behind me, you can see
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physical copies of giant omnibuses and things that I buy
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and like to have in my collection.
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But I don't always, you know, I'm reading at night.
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So I don't get a chance to always read these physical books
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that I love so much. Well, suddenly I was reading in
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the chair in the living room, and I turned on the light over
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me and it was very bright. And I was like, ah, this is too
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bright. And then I thought, this must
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exist. And I went to Amazon, which is
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where you always go when you're not sure if something exists
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because they will have it. Yeah, and it was an on book
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clipped reading light. You clip it on the back of your
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book. It has to have a heavy enough
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spine. It can't be like a loose comic.
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I can't do that. It's got a little little wire
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and then it's got the light and like 8 LED settings, dimness for
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days. It now charges up with a, with a
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regular charger, kind of like a phone would do.
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And I'm reading in bed. As I said to you, it turns every
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physical book into an iPad basically.
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Because I can now read, I'm flipping pages.
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It's not disturbing. Executive producer Alda Roma,
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who's right next to me. And I took it on its maiden
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voyage last night. And I have to tell you, I really
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enjoyed this. It's so lightweight, you can't
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even feel it on this book. Like you, it does not add really
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any weight at all, maybe not not even an ounce to this book.
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So I'm loving this. So I'm going to be able to now
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alternate between iPads and physical books.
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And as you know, I don't sleep so good.
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So I'm also trying it because I know screens are kind of bad for
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you at night. So I'm kind of going to go on a
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little quest and see if it works where maybe post 7:00 PM
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onwards, I'm going to go to the physical book and just, you
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know, check in on my phone if I need to, but go to the physical
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book and read off the physical book.
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So I'll this will be a journey that my our listeners and our
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viewers, viewers and you can come on with me as I see if it
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helps improve my sleep. Right.
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Well, that's very, that's a very good point that screens have
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been linked to some sleep interruptions, especially before
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bed. So this is a kind of a cool
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experiment. What was the first book that you
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took to bed last night and watched or read rather?
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Yeah, what was it? My God, Barry, this is a story
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in and of itself, but it's called all.
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Right, let's go. It's called X-Men Else When and
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it is by a creator named John Byrne who is a legendary comic
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book creator. He had a legendary run on the
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X-Men and this is in the 70s. He left the book in like 7980
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due to disagreements with the writer and he went off and he
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did a big run on the Fantastic Four.
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Anyway, during the pandemic, he started doing fan fiction where
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he would post one page on his website of just penciled pages
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of this is what I would do if I had continued my run on the
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X-Men. And he posted one page every day
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or so for a couple of years for nothing.
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He paid nothing, although he has sold the pages and made a lot of
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money, I've heard like through selling original artwork.
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So he's not starving, but it was something that he did for a
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couple of years and he and so just this past year they made
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they decided they were going to ink it, color it.
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So they got an anchor over his pencils.
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They're colored it and they bound it.
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There's the empty spine because I take it out of the slip cover.
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It's behind me. And so they've they're not
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publishing it in three volumes of John Burns X-Men else when,
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and this is if he would have continued now he stopped doing
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that too. So I know it's going to end on a
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cliffhanger and he's already said when we published the third
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volume, I'm just I don't feel like doing anymore.
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So I'm just going to write out what the rest of the story would
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have been. I'm going to tell you how it
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would have ended. And that's great because this
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guy is he got me into really collecting comics with his
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Superman run in 1986, the Man of Steel, which I will be getting
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an absolute addition when it's comes available later this
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summer. And you'll be the first to see
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it anyways, John Burns X-Men else when is an alternate
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reality of how the X-Men would have gone had he continued on
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the book and taken over the writing chores.
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So that was my I just got it about a week ago and it's what I
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was excited to read it and I started reading it last night
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and it's great. It's just a lot of fun classic
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comic book stuff, classic comic book art, not a complicated
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story and really kind of a cool story of how he at a time when
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he just felt like doing stuff like he's older now, he's in his
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80s. So he, he just started putting
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out, putting out these pages and rough pencils.
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And people over the years have kind of grabbed the pages and
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ink them and collected them themselves.
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So Marvel decided, hey, let's make some money out of this, and
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they've put them together in a book and approved this this
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publication. So he's not only an artist, but
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a writer as. Well, yeah, he he was he wrote
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and drew the Fantastic Four for like a number of years.
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He wrote and drew Superman. In 1986, he relaunched Superman.
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So a lot of the elements of Superman that we know today, he
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came up with or was a Co creator in like Lex Luthor being a
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businessman, you know, as we saw in the latest Superman movie and
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has been that way since the 90s. He, a guy writer named Marv
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Wolfman came up with that. They work together on this.
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Superman's parents not being dead, but being alive, like
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stuff like that. We're all stuff that he he came
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up with as part of his run. And it was that Superman comic
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Superman #7 that I saw at the newsstand.
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And I was like, how can Superman only be at issue number 7?
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And then I bought that and I realized that he relaunched it
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and anyways, done lots of other stuff.
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Big runs on Wonder Woman, the New Gods, all kinds of
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characters you have no idea of. Like your eyes are like super
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glossed over now. As they should.
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But he is a legendary creator. Bit of an attitude, a lot of a
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chip on his shoulder and a lot of interviews he does.
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But he was so popular in the 70s and 80s especially that he he
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could basically say and do anything he wanted because he
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was bringing in a lot of money for Marvel and DC.
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Where does this chip on his shoulder come from, do you
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think? He's just.
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You know, so successful. Well, that's it.
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I think, you know, sometimes when you're driven to success,
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you're driven to, I don't know about a chip on his shoulder.
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Very strong opinions. Definitely bought into the hype
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of him being because you know when you're the number one star,
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like think of an athlete when you're the number one star,
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you're driving, you're putting the bums in seats, you're making
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things happen for a giant company and then that starts to
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turn. You're a little bit past your
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prime taste change. You know, it's hard to kind of
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let that go like he's a competitor.
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I would say he's probably. Sure.
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Yeah, that's a good, that's a good analogy.
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And yeah, I guess at that level, you're probably drinking your
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own Kool-aid on how good you are.
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And you're being, you're surrounded by people telling you
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that all day. Long, that's right.
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And you're seeing your other people come up like there were
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other comic book creators at that time that were like getting
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attention. And so you're always trying to
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kind of one up each other. Yeah, it was a big time in the
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90s was a big time of that. There's we'll talk about this
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another time, but there's like a whole other sets of creators of
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different eras that come up. Like there's there's a podcast I
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listen to by a creator named Rob Lightfel.
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He's a huge fan of John Byrne collects his original art.
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This guy. So the Rob Liefeld created
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Deadpool and a bunch of that's his real big claim to fame.
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But he's he's had a lot of success.
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He loves John Byrnes art loves it, but John Byrne hacks on him
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because he was one of the creators of the 90s.
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John Byrne was one of the 70s and 80s.
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So the 90s creators kind of supplanted them as being the
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superstars. And so that's where some of this
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chip on the show, he's just like, there's a lot of fights.
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So John Byrne has taken shots at him.
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But Rob Liefeld can separate the art and the and the kind of
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personality and he's he owns a lot of this individual, this
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kind of original art, I should say anyway, it's kind of and Rob
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Lightfeld on his own is also a very polarizing creator.
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He's also will talk up a tough game and remind everyone that
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always that he created Deadpool and he'll say, I'll do it
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because nobody else is going to. So I have to hype it up.
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And he gets he also gets royalties for when they license
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out Deadpool. So it's in his best interest to
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keep Deadpool as a popular character.
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Right. I think Ryan Reynolds is
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certainly helping in that regard.
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I don't think he has to worry so much about that character being
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relevant or going away anytime soon.
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No, that shouldn't be brought to the forefront.
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Yeah, exactly. That's pretty cool.
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I can imagine you in an alternate universe working as a
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comic book writer slash illustrator.
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I mean, I think that in an alternate universe you would be
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right at home in that environment.
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Yeah, I used to. Well, when I was a kid, I used
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to write and draw my own comics I had there in my basement.
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I'll show you the next time I'm at the mini mansion.
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I'll show you some of the classic from the Yes Yeah Yeah
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from Jr. Comics.
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How? Was Jr. being revealed now you.
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Didn't know this. My mom would know this.
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Yeah, Millie knows this. There was.
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So I've actually, those are one of the few things I've kept,
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which is like collections of of comics that I created as a kid.
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There are some titles you might recognize, like The Amazing
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Spider Kid, the Incredible Kid, Super Kid.
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There were a lot of, lot of characters that were a theme
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here. Yeah.
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Similar to characters you might think you know, but they're not
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exactly that. You don't the.
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The Amazing Spider Kid just happens to look like Spider Man
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and have similar adventures. They fought a lot of classmates
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that I was that I went to school with.
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My classmates would be like, draw me in your comments.
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So they would be, they would kind of fight.
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Wow, Yeah, that was kind of a thing.
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You didn't definitely want to see this and we should have
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Millie on the show to. I cannot believe that this is
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just being unearthed today on episode 299.
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I was saving it for this. Yeah, I was saving it.
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All right before we go just really quick Jay, I have a quick
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4K corner for you and I did preview this disc even though
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you and I do have a a plan to sit down together and watch it,
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which I am happy to do because this movie I'm I'm here to tell
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you right now I. Think I know it up.
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Beastmaster. The Beastmaster.
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After seeing it too, I feel like I understand you better.
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Why? Because this lead character,
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DAR, he doesn't wear a shirt the entire movie and there's only
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one scene where he pops on like a tarp just to like the disguise
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of the commoner. It itches his skin so badly.
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It's only on him for about 20 seconds and then he's back to
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being the boss. Sweaty guy.
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So you as a young man figuring out who you are, this I can
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completely get the appeal of of the beast faster for you.
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I was like, OK, I think I understand Jay more.
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This guy, obviously he's working out, he's doing what he needs to
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do. And it's just hilarious that no
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matter what scene, what circumstance, this guy is just
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oiled up and ready to go. Yeah, I think everybody goes a
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little gay for a Beastmaster. That's just how it is.
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That's just how things. Got exactly?
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Yeah, totally. This is and it's Mark Singer.
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Am I right? From V, From the show V, Yeah.
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And yeah. I remember when I first watched
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it, like as not a child, I was like, Oh my God, Mark Singer.
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Mark Singer is really well put together.
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But yeah. Yes, yeah, good.
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Is good for him. In those days he was holding it
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together. Yeah.
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The Beastmaster, Yeah. The Beastmaster also with Rick
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Torn as the the main baddie, the main heavy in the movie along
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with some like really disfigured witches that he has that have
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fantastic like supermodel bodies but their faces look like
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they're wearing ham sandwiches on their face.
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It's a terrible. But anyway, the movie holds up,
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Jay, and you'll love the runtime.
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It's very lean, so I look forward to revisiting it with
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you. I thought it was good.
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It held my attention the entire time.
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I thought it was. It clipped along nicely.
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And the animals in there, of course, you know, you got the
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black tiger, you got the eagle. Yeah, it's pretty cool.
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Yeah, amazing. I enjoyed it.
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I enjoyed it very much. Thank you for 4K Corner, that
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will be our next watch at the mini mansion when we get
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together. Speaking of lean runtimes, we're
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running out of our time. And next week we got a huge
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episode 300 episode 600 shots are going to be having been
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consumed. We're looking forward to it.
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Join us for an extra special episode next week.
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You don't want to miss it. He's Barry Nixon.
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I'm Jason Riley. We'll see you next week.
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Have a great 1. See ya.