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Cheryl.
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Oh yeah, I'll never read her.
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I would not want my girlfriend to do that in
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front of the bunch of guys bragging if.
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I hadn't, like, imagine the noise and mixed when you're prowling.
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I don't know what what what?
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What?
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Just like sense first ever.
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Sucking mixed strangers. It just reminds me of the beginning
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of every episode. Man, starting nova, you get that, It's
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just like starting Oh.
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So we got today. We don't have the official beer
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of the Chasing Bad podcast, which is which is Conley's Irish?
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Sorry sorry, sorry, Great Lakes.
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Conway's Irish. I we're fans, we don't. We're glad it
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only comes out once a year because it and it's
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got that it's it's a rich, rich beer. Yeah, it's uh,
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it's it's rich, deep, dark, delicious, amazing. But it's made
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to be consumed at certain times a year.
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That's right, and we consume a lot of it.
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Great Lakes, thank you very much for doing that.
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Some of our worst episodes were under the influence.
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Yes, so, Great Lakes. We want to say thank you
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and Frank you, thank you very much and you know, hey, honestly, though,
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what a what a great brewer is one of the best.
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I probably they do everything you can get. You can
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get your I p as, you can get like even Amber,
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you can get Pale Ales Elliot a very good, very
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very very very good beer.
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Yeah. I like that because it's it's almost gold fail safely.
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You could go to that.
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That'll fuck you up too though.
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If you well, because because it's so smooth. That's the
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problem with that beer. But that's the thing I like
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about their beers is they're not brewed to be watered down.
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They boom and they're whenever they come out. That's you know,
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they're consistent on their brewing. Obviously they have to be
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that to put well. They And that's funny when I
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think about it.
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And that's weird because we used to go to like
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the downtown Cleveland. We'd go to the Indians games. Fuck you,
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it's still the Indians. I don't know what this gardenship can.
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Yeah get some bleachers home run, yeah.
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Baby best. One of the best greatest nights of my
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life was with this cat. His cousin Nick, who was
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a very close friend of mine, and our very good
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friend Brett and we all grew up together from the
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time we were six seven years old, you know. And
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then at the time we were adults, we were in
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our thirties.
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And the four we had just been in our thirties,
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had the.
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Four of us, Brett said, figured out that we could
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get into the game with a Pepsi can.
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So six bucks, dude, Yeah, a pepsi empty Pepsi can
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and six bucks. Dude.
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I remember eating like four kosher dogs that were like
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their dollars.
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Yeah.
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Remember we drank. We had that mystic that one beer
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was that it.
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Was probably great legs.
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No, it was, it was there. Remember the one with
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the moon on it.
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I don't remember.
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That was fucking but dude. One of the the ride,
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the ride home, it was was historical, epic, epic history
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for for our inside, you know, for our clique, us
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four guys, because we've known each other for so many years.
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And our good friend Brett was telling.
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Them I couldn't smoke the gunjab because I was going
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to maps or something for the military. Yes, I couldn't smoke, yes,
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and I could drink. But Nick had no right driving.
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Now we were we were We were in a sporty
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Many Dodge minivan.
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Yes, it was a sport it was all whistles, yeah,
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because I had like fourteen kids already. But it was
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hilarious because we're on our way home from Cleveland and
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it's we're an hour west or I'm sorry, yeah, no,
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our west roughly of Cleveland. We'll just say that.
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And Pittsburgh hour of Cleveland wasn't was it was it
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snowing or.
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But something happens it was he might have started raining
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or either way, our friend Brett is telling us about
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and he's drunk, mind you. So it's even funnier because
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this dude's like five foot six. Yeah he's at great guy,
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amazing soccer player, yeah he was, but he could he
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could stretch the truth on the story.
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Oh, he was a storyteller. He was a liar, let's
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face it, until we got our hands on him.
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Well, I'm being he's my friend still, Yeah, he's our buddy.
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I think he's our friend. Hooks up with strippers and
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thinks he can change him, I can change her.
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And he's talking about having an interracial experience, which he
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always did.
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So he's like one of them little dudes with the kickstand.
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He's like a midget with a giant third leg. I
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think I mean little daego guy hilarious though, Yeah, which,
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but we were literally crying that couldn't even drive.
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I don't know how he did it, to be honest
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with he was like, I was laughing so hard I
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hurt myself, like mysel.
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Yeah, it's one of those nights, one of those nights.
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I'm sure you've all experienced something like that with a
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bunch of good friends.
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I hope it brings back a good memory. Yeah, when
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you're younger days partying with your bros.
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Because a lot of you already dead, a lot of
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your friends are gonna die. People you love are going
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to pass.
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It's his reality and here we are so anyway, so
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everybody's gonna die. Joker. Yeah, on this podcast, Mixed Strange
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bring breaks it down for you.
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Cherish those moments, fuckers.
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Yeah, I'm gonna start calling you, uh, the Undertaker, the Undertaker.
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Because I kill moods, I kill vibes, bro boner killer,
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that cock block, happiness, boner garage.
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Remember that Roger you were talking about that last Remember
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we were fucking dying. We were talking about four year
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old vision that girl had.
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Dude, I hope your trunk's big because I've got a bike,
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yeah or something. She's like, oh she's sexy.
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Oh yeah, for sure. All right, So the Great American
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Maple Syrup hes is a thing. Yeah, it's it's great though.
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I love it. There was a thing with the Bourbon too,
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that happened. People from a Bourbon factory stole a bunch
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of cases of bourbon and got the back door. Yeah,
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but it was high end.
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That's probably like the good stuff.
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Yeah, like either like Buffalo trace or something like you know,
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they're they're putting like I can't remember what it was,
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Jack Daniels in it, replacing it with Jack Daniel.
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They weren't even doing that right now. I'm fucking but
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the Great, the Great Jack made in Tennessee. Yeah, Tennessee.
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It's a Tennessee Bourbon Old number seven. They're good to
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their people, That's.
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What I heard. So the Great American Maple the Great
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Canadian Maple syrup heist took place over several months between
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twenty eleven and twelve.
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This plays me away right here.
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Yeah, when thieves siphoned three three and thirty tons of
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maple syrup from a facility in Quebec, it's like why Yeah,
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So in July.
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Twenty twelve, and there's something else funny coming up. Yeahs
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a strategic reserve. Canadians have a strategic reserve of maple
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fucking syrup. The United States has you know, petrol, you know,
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fucking oil, oil reserves. You're gonna need sugar strategic reserves.
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So in July it's like gorilla warfare with fueled by
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maple syrup. Everybody's just chugging it. If you get your rations,
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nothing else but maple fucking syrup, dude, well fight them calmis.
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I left Canada. I wish they weren't just so fucking red.
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Now what it is? That's that just in Trudeau? Yeah,
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they fucking well anyways. So in July of two thousand
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or twenty twelve, an inspector from the Quebec maple syrup
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producers set out to conduct a routine check of the
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maple syrup stored at the Saint Louis de Blafard Strategic Reserve.
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To his horror, he found that some of the barrels
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were empty, and some had been emptied of syrup and
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filled with water. The inspector had just stumbled upon a
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month's long theft of maple syrup, now known as the
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great maple syrup. He was like so well, as investigators
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later determined, a group of thieves had started siphoning maple
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syrup from the Saint Louis de Blamford Strategic Reserve in
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twenty eleven. Over the next several months, they.
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Would think this would have been like a long time ago, yeah,
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like in the seventies or something like when the you know,
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because they had crime families up there. But think about it,
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though they know where the money is, that's obviously gotta
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give me some of that maple syrup money.
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Baby, Take off your hoser. So, as investigators later determined,
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a group of theeves and started take off a tick
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off your horser, take off a maple syrup from the
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Saint Louis to Saint San Luis de Strategic Reserve in
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twenty twenty eleven. Over the next several months, they managed
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to steal more than three thousand tons of maple syrup
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worth eighteen million dollars.
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You've got to be what do you without.
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Anyone noticing how because that they're they're probably they almost
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probably have like a monopoly on the maple syrup game.
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So everybody goes through them because they're not the United States,
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So it's not like an antitrust law, you know what
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I mean, they could be something. They could be the
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only you know, I don't know.
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I don't know that country has obviously got strategic reserves
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of maple syrup everywhere in every province or something.
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Well, I mean, I can't even put it in context.
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How do you even store that in barrels?
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That's I know.
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But if you're stealing it, you have to what do
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you put it?
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In?
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Milk trucks or something?
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Maybe a stainless tank of some type. It's to keep
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the trucks, Yeah, something like a milk truck or something.
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Because it doesn't go bad, right, I.
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Mean, I'm sure it can. It crystallizes, that's honey, thousand
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year old honey. I'm just trying to think of maple syrup, like,
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I don't know enough about it. I mean, we make
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it up here, yeah, but I mean, and it's sure
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it goes through a pasteurizing.
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Nothing like them. Yeah, there's a whole it's almost like
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distilling it or something. It's like a steamhouse. You ever
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see how they do it. And there's big vats and
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ship where the middlefield there's a log cabin. Yeah, in
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the town center and you can go up there and
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watch them make it. Yeah, it's pretty cool. It's like
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this old log cabin that's been around forever just for
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that purpose. So it's like the whole community gets together
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and makes maple syrup. It takes like a hundred gallons
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to make syrup or something something from the sweet maple
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tree necta of the maple.
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Well right up the street.
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Ship.
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Yeah, yeah, okay, because.
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We saw them at farming family and ship. Now little kids,
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that's cool though, I've got sugar maples.
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Maybe we should do that.
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Yeah, ye have taple one.
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I mean we can tap it just to check it out,
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just to do it, just to you know what I mean,
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just for here's here's another valuable resource. If something happened,
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something goes down, we got sure.
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Get that smokehouse going, do half a pig and fucking
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slatter that delicious porker and fucking maple syrup, get all sticky,
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probably doing some weird fucking sex play in the battle
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with maple syrups mouth.
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So anyway, so since Quebec produces some seventy percent of
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the world's maple syrup, that's it was figuring this was
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serious business. So the Great Maple Heights led to a
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years long investigation, dozens of arrests, and an unexpected pop
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culture adaptation.
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Sweet What Yeah, Who's got a Pizze? So how it
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was uncovered? How the heist was uncovered? In Quebec, Maple
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syrup production is an important business. Didn't know that it was,
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but it definitely is. Maple leafs on their flag. I
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guess it would be nineteen sixty six, the Quebec Maple
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Syrup Producers the qMSP was established to set annual klotas
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for maple syrup producers and to oversee the production and
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sale of maple products from Quebec. In two thousand, the
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q Excuse Me qMSP established strategic reserves across the providence
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and because of surplus of maple syrup and twenty eleven
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opened up in an extra facility in the small Sound,
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Small Sound, Yeah, Medello's kicking in, sorry y'all and the
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small town of Saint Louis. However, However, however, while the
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thousands of barrels of maple syrup were worth millions roughly
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thirty million, the facility lacked adequate security. The building had
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no cameras, no alarms, and only one guard on duty.
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You think he was on the take. I'd be like
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that was an inside job. I'm making like ten bucks
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an hour. Go ahead and give me some of that sweet, sweet,
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sweet maple fucking syrup money over. Yeah, and Jemima was
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I just always like I loved the jam. That's not
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even real maing.
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But here's the thing.
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Sure, we grew up when it was like fake.
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Yeah it was just sugar, you know what I mean, basically.
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Uncle Tom's cabin.
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Yeah, threw it in the pan, fucking melted it down.
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But you know, the funny thing is I wonder if
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because like when we used to go over your uncle Rix,
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you and I, he had buckwheat pancakes with that real
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maple syrup. I was like a kid. It was running
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well and it was like you didn't like it. It
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was like watery sugar. Yeah, it tasted like maple wasn't thick. Yeah,
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I was like sweet from my head down to my feet. Yeah. Yeah,
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deaf flipper maple syrup.
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Bam, dame baby, we're gonna get flag copyright flags.
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Maybe all right.
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Over several months in twenty eleven, twenty twelve, a group
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of fucking gnarly badass og thieves started quietly draining syrup
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from the barrels. They either replaced it with water or
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left the barrels empty. No one noticed until July twenty twelve.
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Why inspector came A year? A year?
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Man, I know nothing.
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You got to take this because of Michelle, all right?
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So then and inspector named Michel Gavreaux was conducting inventory
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check when he climbed up the six hundred pound barrels
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and one of them tipped over. According to reporting from
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Today in twenty twenty four, that's when he knew something
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was wrong.
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The barrels of syrup.
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Should have been heavy enough to support his weight, but
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one of the barrels was completely empty empty Gavreau's routine
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inspection revealed a shocking truth. Upon further investigation, inspectors found
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that thousands of barrels were empty or filled with water.
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The syrup meant to stabilize an entire industry had been
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stolen right out from under the from everyone's nose is.
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Bad, so big French noses.
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So who was behind?
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That?
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Passed well? Following the trial of the Mapel Syrup once
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the q MSP realized when it happened, they called in
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Quebec's provincial Police Force Qubec to investigate. According to report
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in New.
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York Times, that wouldn't too bad, that's pretty good. The
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joker sounds like he's traveled the world alone. Joker tell him,
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I want some.
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Crapesppel Michael us w C. May I please use your
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water closet. I took French in in uh.
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For like.
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Was he man e pluribus um.
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Go ahead.
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So the maple syrup heist wasn't a one person operation.
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The thieves were a team of truck drivers, syrup dealers,
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and sugar shack workers, all working together to pull off
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the heist. People with warehouse access quietly moved the barrels
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to other storage sites. From there, they sold the syrup
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to unsuspecting buyers in Ontario, New Brun's Way and the
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United States.
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Not the United States, yes, interstate.
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Yes, yes, intercontinental commerce.
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Yeah.
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So once the syrup was sold, it was nearly impossible
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to trace. Most of it had been consumed or blended
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into legal batches before anyone realized it was stolen. In
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the end, only about twenty five percent of the syrup
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was ever recovered. But during the investigation, police interviewed more
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than two hundred people and twenty six suspects were arrested,
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but they soon narrowed narrowed in on the man they
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believed Orchestra who orchestrated the scheme. Richard Valliere is known
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in syrup circles as a barrel roller for finding ways
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around q MSP regulations. By Vallierez had reportedly been operating
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in the syrup black market for years. Damn this fucking guy.
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Look at French, this guy, he's richer Ris Valai.
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Yes he's a he's a.
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I am French Mexican.
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But the girls I will I would like some huevos
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francherros please. But Valerius had also had motive revenge. In
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two thousand and seven, he had been fined one point
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eight million dollars by the qMSP for selling maple syrup illegally. Indeed,
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Valeries admitted to police in twenty fourteen that he had
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been involved in the maple syrup black market for a
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decade before the Great Marple Syrup heist. He claimed that
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a man named Avic quern was whose spouse co owned
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the warehouse where the barrels were kept had first told
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him about the strategic reserve of maple syrup in Saint
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Luis de Blafar. According to reporting from the Mantreal Gazette
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in twenty twenty two, it was Caron who first suggested
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sealing maple syrup from the facility. Caron was sentenced to
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five years in prison and fined one point two million.
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Villaires was sentenced to eight years in prison to find
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nine point one million. He has ten years to pay
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the fine, otherwise he'll be sent to additional time.
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Sure suck like the prisons you can walk out. Oh really,
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they're like fucking like dorm rooms and shit, they're a
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way to get away from I think be wrong. I
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did watch like a sixty minutes Canada. You know where
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they keep all these cats at It looks pretty nice.
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Well they're so they're so light on crime.
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It's are nice people.
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So three other men were also convicted, though they received
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shorter sentences, but not everyone involved in the elaborate scheme
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was caught. More than a dozen people had participated in
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the Great Maple Syrup Ice, and most of them vanished
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into the wind. But the story of their elaborate theft
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left a definite mark on pop culture after the Great
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Maple Syrup Ice appeared in the Netflix series Dirty Money
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in two thousand and eight. Yeah, it was fictionalized for
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an Amazon Prime series. That's the one I saw, or
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I didn't even see it. That's the one you said
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you saw.
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Yeah, I was, I don't know, like these Americans were
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going across the world pro all right, the seal, so
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the aftermath? Did you did say that? So? In twenty
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twenty three, Amazon Prime released the Sticky at Dark comedy
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based on the crime. The show features fictional characters and
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exaggerated plotlines, but is loosely based on the true story
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of the Great Canadian Maple Syrup Heist. It centers around
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a ragtag tag group of thieves and a small town
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syrup producer trying to take down the cartel that controls
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syrup prices. Show Runner Brian Donovan first heard the story
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of the Great Maple Syrup Heist at a family Christmas
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party and was immediately intrigued. I was at a boring
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family Christmas party, just looking for anything interesting to talk about,
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he recalls, and the CBC twenty twenty four. Unfortunately, my
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brother in law is Canadian. Oh, it says, fortunately, sorry Canadians.
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And he was like, hey, have you ever heard of
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the Great Maple Syrup Heist? And I said no, but
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please tell me everything about it right now, because he
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was born at a family Christmas party. So he did,
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and he told me all about the crime, and then
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he also told me about Montreal and the different mafia
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groups that are there and all the fascinating things about
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the area. The Sticky is a dark comedy, but the
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Great Maple Syrup Heist was serious business in Quebec. It
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remains one of Canada's most notorious crimes. Leave it to Canada.
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That's like their most notorious crime, or one of them.
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I mean.
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They're underwhelming, that's all. This is what happens when you
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make fun of Canada. Right now, right there, instant karma.
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It was sucking on that maple syrup candy.
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So excuse me. I've this weather says it's really sucked.
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It's about negative nine every night, so I've had a four.
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I leave, I'll grab you. I got a tube of vadgicile.
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It's been crippling cold.
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Motherfucker.
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I got him real quick too, Like big Big band.
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I gotta got a big brain. Gotta I gotta get
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quick shot in there. I get one of them little crevices.
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You know, crevice looked like like a piece of look
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you know what look like It looked like a ribbi.
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Looked like a piece of ribbi. That fatty, beautiful fat
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on the outside of it look like a brain.
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You may have to continue, I might have to up
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the clumps. Talk amongst yourselves. Would you do? Oh shit,
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I'm sorry, bro. Well the Sticky is a dark comedy,
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but the Great Maple Syrup Ice was serious business and
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quebec And remains one of Canada's most notorious crimes. Fact
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Over a matter of months, thieves were able to steal
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more than three thousand tons of maple syrup from nearly
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ten thousand barrels, pilfering eighteen million dollars worth of the
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pre precious subsetce it's my precious. Though some of the
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stolen maple syrup was recovered, thousands of barrels worth millions
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of dollars were never found. It was like they were
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like just like boom gone, pancaked, waffled. Fuck, the motherfuckers
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are pancaked and waffled like it was like, how do
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we hide this ship? How do we hide this ship? Well,
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pancakes and waffles, baby, but you know we hide it.
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We get all the churches to have early breakfast eight
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thirty am May. Yeah, give it to the churches. Yeah.
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But in the end, the Great Maple Syrup he exposed
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weaknesses in the QMSPS, which the qMSP Queen something police.
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No Quebec maple syrup police.
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Oh the quick cap.
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It's obviously ridiculous.
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But anyways, the Great Maple Syrup Ice exposed weaknesses in
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the qMSP storage practices, So that's the strategic Reserve. Has
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since beefed up security. But the damage was done, bro,
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I mean, when adjusted for inflation, the Great Canadian Maple
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Syrup p Ice is still the most expensive theft in
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the country's history. And who knows how many people in
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Canada and the United States consumed illegal maple syrup from
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the heist without even knowing. You know what, We're all sinners.
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We're all sinners. We are all sinners. We all bear responsibility.
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I turned tragedy, I bro, I turn a blind eye
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when it comes to maple syrup. Sorry, help it, I'm sorry, man.
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I can't help it either.
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I have to have my maple syrup.
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But I'll tell you what, dude, Bob Evans when they
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make their pancakes and they put the crispy edges on them, yeah, phenomenal.
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But like you know what I like too, the which
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is fantastic. The brioche French toast. I've never tried, dude.
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It's amazing.
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It's thicker because it's yeah cinnamon.
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Dude, I like the I ordered the fucking biscuits and
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I split them fuckers up. Put some butter on there,
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and pour the honey on it. Go for it, bro,
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I love you delicious. There's some sausage patties. They have
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underrated salads, dude. I never had like a garden salad
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from them. Oh yeah, I like the turkey dinner. But
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you're all hung over. You get the fucking turkey and
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dressing dinner.
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Pass out. Smart. It used to be smart.
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He and m would go and Sunday we're going to
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get some fucking Yeah, that's a Sunday. Yeah, it is good.
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Smart and get fan brother right there.
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Yeah, baby, And then I get that crispy. The sounds
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are crispy and cool. They keep them fuckers in like
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almost freezing temperature.
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Chris. I don't think the old had a bad meal
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at dude. I'm telling you they they've mastered, dude, their
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country fried steak te and I get everyone.
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You know all you all need to go where the
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old people eat.
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Yes, follow the.
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Blue hairs know what's up?
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Yeah, I mean, dude, but one thing I love?
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What else to say? I had my first Nashville fucking
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hot chicken there, Dude, that salt is ridiculous. Candy bacon
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in the stand, the little Mason jar. Now my wife
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started making I'm like, this is like in Credle. I'm
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not a big sweet guy, but this is amazing.
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Well you hit that salt from that bad give me
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poor from dude, Dude, you could you could make me
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like fuck dude, you can make me like a goose
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and feed me like fog wah, you know, down my throat.
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Putting the noose around my neck and just shove food down.
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My throat all day long, especially salt my liver like
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giant like like ah Pippin on uh, Lord of the Rings.
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When they're sitting a break first breakfast sitting bat eleven
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zis no But later on when him and Merrick were
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with the tree Beard and tree Beard sat them on
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they found all that food and they're sitting on top
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of the wall and they ran back into Gandalf and
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Aragon and all those guys, and they're like, the stork
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is piling any good? The one they were smoking, they
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were smoking their their weed, yes, smoking, and they were
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talking about because that was like the high end stuff
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that they were smoking. They found a barrel of sticky. Yeah,
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it's sticky icky, no doubt, no doubt. It was funny
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because I was just watching Soup Dog yesterday on Facebook
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doing his his little dance, turns his feet in and stuff,
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you know what I mean, just wow wow. But he
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was he was teaching people. It was an instructional video
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how to dance. I wasn't talking. He was just he
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would like point, like pointing his feet and he'd be
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like boom. He wouldn't say nothing, he's just pointing. And
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then they would play one of his songs from What
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and he just started going out of dude Old. He's
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one of my favorite people ever because he's just so down.
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He's just so himselfe. You could feel it, you know
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what I mean. Yeah, when I was watching. I used
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to watch his reality show, and it was us because
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his wife, she was she wore the pants.
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And some of us just like to be kids. Still, well,
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we have to we have to have to have to
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have somebody putting the guardrails up for us, so we'll
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end up in prisoner Mexico. Or well, here's the thing,
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i'ming guns in the fucking Middle East and party and
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our balls off.
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When I look back, when I look back on my
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relationship with my wife, she's kept me out of jail,
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she's kept me out of rehab, and she's kept me
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out of debt. Yeah, and I would have been in
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all three.
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And you created a couple of really good, outstanding citizens.
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Yeah. I know our boys, as far as we know,
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that's all their mom. That's I mean, I don't get
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me wrong.
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I mean I I dude, the oldest boy calls you
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pop whatever, dude, but we're all I'm gonna fucking start
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playing the fucking criminal funk. Oh do it dot on
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you ready?
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Yeah?
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Here comes some criminal funk byefuckers.
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We love you, God bless us all. Everyone.
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May I have another? Please?
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Oh shit, here comes the mountain funk.
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Oh yeah, half hour. Damn, that's one of the short Back.
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In the nineties when when Pearl jam inducted Neil Young
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into the Hall of Fame, Eddie Vedder Like had one
533
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of the greatest explain, Uh, what's what's what I'm the
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word I'm looking for?
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Speeches?
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Uh no, shit, Uh stoner the fuck is the word
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I'm looking for. It's turned on the tip of my tongue.
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Explanation of what like genreute, what genre like Neil Young
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would be? And he considered. He said, Neil Young's music
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is mountain funk, and I was like, that made sense
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to me. Mountain funk. Now they're all a bunch of
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fucking bitch ass liberal mother va.
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They are the man baby.
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They are the Democrats, not Democrats, but the Democrats. I'm
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I'm I'm coining that phrase right now. Democrats democrats because
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nobody have you ever heard anybody say democrats.
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I've heard him say democrats.
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Democrats like demons, But what about democrats because they're fucking dumb?
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The phrase bro, all right, we should be bro because
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this is when real ship happen on. Heymen, real talkmen, funks, Yeah, yeah,
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and leave the fucking Jews alone.
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You idiots. They're good people. I'm not a big Zionist myself.
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I'm just Hey, I deal with the Jewish people. I
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don't know about the state of Israel.
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Well, that's the Holy Land.
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We can't even let them in the fucking jagg or
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Hoover building or in Quantico because they bug everything and
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steal all their ship. They're resourceful people, they got the
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big noses joking.
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Hey, they smell an opportunity. Hey, you know what, Here's
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the way I look at here's the way I look
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at it. I can make fun of Jewish people, I
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can make fun of Black people, I can make fun
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of Chinese people, I can make fun of I can
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make fun of all these people. Because that's what I'm doing.
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I'm listen to the words are coming out of my mouth.
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I'm making fun. Yeah, I'm making It's a joke where
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I understand where some people were raised differently than others,
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and they may take offense to it. I get it.
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That's fine. I X.
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We loved everybody and we got along with everything.
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The nineties were amazing. We my friend mixed strange right
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across from you right now, lifelonger. We grew up in
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the eighties, late late seventies, early eighties, and then we
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were we were children, were we were young men in
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late nineties and twenties, we were young men in the nineties.
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And where we live, where we're geographically located, it's a
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very It's probably the most resilient part of the United
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States because we've had so much commerce overturn here through
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the years with with all the steel mills and what
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wh ended up reverting. People revert back to they open
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restaurants and they start construction businesses. Everybody gets a ladder
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acko on their truck and because people always need ship
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fixed and they're looking for the best deal. So it
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was easy to make a living doing that around here,
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literally even.
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And we never knew and you put you brought this
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to me one time, you said it's so simple. I
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was like, fuck. We had the two thousand and eight recession,
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the housing you know, debacle, bailing out all these fucking
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walking away from two big to fail companies and all
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them getting all the money, banks getting all the money. Like, dude,
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we don't even understand it because it's never affect at
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us because we've been in a recession since the seventies.
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Literally literally like it was like, damn, motherfucker, no ship
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you were fucking That is so true.
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That's why Ohio is one of the most beautiful places
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in the United in the world for that matter.
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Be one of the weirdest states too. Yeah, I mean
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we're that's a paranormal ship going on down here.
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But that's the that's the beauty of Ohio.
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Man.
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Ohio has always been gritty, overcast. We're scrappers, dude, Yeah, exactly,
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That's that's what it comes down to. Everybody's got their
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nuts broke. One last thing I'd want to do is
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go get into a fight. But you corner me. If
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I'm a cornered rat, I'm gonna end up saying, Okay,
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I'm gonna get my ass kicked, but I gotta make
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my mark.
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You ready for a round two?
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Yeah, let's go all right, here we go?
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What is this criminal funk?
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Are we still recording? Okay, you guys are getting the
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taste of ten to twenty four bass sacred place in
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our hearts over garage, Manny access points hide her on
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the roof.
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We have we got to see some movies.
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We had five hundred access points on my house on
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the five Bays, the garage next door that we got
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the trouble berth vandalizing something that you did to do.
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Remember the boats never did a bunch of cops. Yeah,
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remember they said they saw the.
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Faint strin shoe marks were like a thousand jacks.
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Yeah, that's what it is. But it's of Diggs.
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And I'll be honest with you, that's the only time
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in my life at that time, you know who our
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principal was. I was getting.
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Statists serves the date speakestistus to the p
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Cheryl.
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Oh yeah, I'll never read her.
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I would not want my girlfriend to do that in
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front of the bunch of guys bragging if.
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I hadn't, like, imagine the noise and mixed when you're prowling.
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I don't know what what what?
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What?
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Just like sense first ever.
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Sucking mixed strangers. It just reminds me of the beginning
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of every episode. Man, starting nova, you get that, It's
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just like starting Oh.
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So we got today. We don't have the official beer
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of the Chasing Bad podcast, which is which is Conley's Irish?
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Sorry sorry, sorry, Great Lakes.
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Conway's Irish. I we're fans, we don't. We're glad it
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only comes out once a year because it and it's
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got that it's it's a rich, rich beer. Yeah, it's uh,
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it's it's rich, deep, dark, delicious, amazing. But it's made
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to be consumed at certain times a year.
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That's right, and we consume a lot of it.
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Great Lakes, thank you very much for doing that.
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Some of our worst episodes were under the influence.
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Yes, so, Great Lakes. We want to say thank you
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and Frank you, thank you very much and you know, hey, honestly, though,
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what a what a great brewer is one of the best.
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I probably they do everything you can get. You can
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get your I p as, you can get like even Amber,
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you can get Pale Ales Elliot a very good, very
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very very very good beer.
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Yeah. I like that because it's it's almost gold fail safely.
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You could go to that.
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That'll fuck you up too though.
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If you well, because because it's so smooth. That's the
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problem with that beer. But that's the thing I like
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about their beers is they're not brewed to be watered down.
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They boom and they're whenever they come out. That's you know,
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they're consistent on their brewing. Obviously they have to be
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that to put well. They And that's funny when I
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think about it.
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And that's weird because we used to go to like
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the downtown Cleveland. We'd go to the Indians games. Fuck you,
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it's still the Indians. I don't know what this gardenship can.
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Yeah get some bleachers home run, yeah.
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Baby best. One of the best greatest nights of my
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life was with this cat. His cousin Nick, who was
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a very close friend of mine, and our very good
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friend Brett and we all grew up together from the
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time we were six seven years old, you know. And
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then at the time we were adults, we were in
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our thirties.
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And the four we had just been in our thirties,
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had the.
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Four of us, Brett said, figured out that we could
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get into the game with a Pepsi can.
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So six bucks, dude, Yeah, a pepsi empty Pepsi can
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and six bucks. Dude.
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I remember eating like four kosher dogs that were like
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their dollars.
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Yeah.
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Remember we drank. We had that mystic that one beer
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was that it.
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Was probably great legs.
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No, it was, it was there. Remember the one with
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the moon on it.
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I don't remember.
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That was fucking but dude. One of the the ride,
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the ride home, it was was historical, epic, epic history
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for for our inside, you know, for our clique, us
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four guys, because we've known each other for so many years.
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And our good friend Brett was telling.
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Them I couldn't smoke the gunjab because I was going
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to maps or something for the military. Yes, I couldn't smoke, yes,
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and I could drink. But Nick had no right driving.
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Now we were we were We were in a sporty
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Many Dodge minivan.
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Yes, it was a sport it was all whistles, yeah,
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because I had like fourteen kids already. But it was
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hilarious because we're on our way home from Cleveland and
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it's we're an hour west or I'm sorry, yeah, no,
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our west roughly of Cleveland. We'll just say that.
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And Pittsburgh hour of Cleveland wasn't was it was it
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snowing or.
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But something happens it was he might have started raining
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or either way, our friend Brett is telling us about
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and he's drunk, mind you. So it's even funnier because
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this dude's like five foot six. Yeah he's at great guy,
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amazing soccer player, yeah he was, but he could he
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could stretch the truth on the story.
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Oh, he was a storyteller. He was a liar, let's
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face it, until we got our hands on him.
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Well, I'm being he's my friend still, Yeah, he's our buddy.
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I think he's our friend. Hooks up with strippers and
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thinks he can change him, I can change her.
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And he's talking about having an interracial experience, which he
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always did.
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So he's like one of them little dudes with the kickstand.
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He's like a midget with a giant third leg. I
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think I mean little daego guy hilarious though, Yeah, which,
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but we were literally crying that couldn't even drive.
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I don't know how he did it, to be honest
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with he was like, I was laughing so hard I
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hurt myself, like mysel.
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I'm sure you've all experienced something like that with a
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bunch of good friends.
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I hope it brings back a good memory. Yeah, when
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you're younger days partying with your bros.
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your friends are gonna die. People you love are going
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to pass.
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It's his reality and here we are so anyway, so
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everybody's gonna die. Joker. Yeah, on this podcast, Mixed Strange
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bring breaks it down for you.
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Cherish those moments, fuckers.
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Yeah, I'm gonna start calling you, uh, the Undertaker, the Undertaker.
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Because I kill moods, I kill vibes, bro boner killer,
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that cock block, happiness, boner garage.
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Remember that Roger you were talking about that last Remember
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we were fucking dying. We were talking about four year
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old vision that girl had.
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Dude, I hope your trunk's big because I've got a bike,
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yeah or something. She's like, oh she's sexy.
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Oh yeah, for sure. All right, So the Great American
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Maple Syrup hes is a thing. Yeah, it's it's great though.
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I love it. There was a thing with the Bourbon too,
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that happened. People from a Bourbon factory stole a bunch
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of cases of bourbon and got the back door. Yeah,
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but it was high end.
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That's probably like the good stuff.
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they're they're putting like I can't remember what it was,
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Jack Daniels in it, replacing it with Jack Daniel.
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They weren't even doing that right now. I'm fucking but
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the Great, the Great Jack made in Tennessee. Yeah, Tennessee.
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It's a Tennessee Bourbon Old number seven. They're good to
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their people, That's.
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What I heard. So the Great American Maple the Great
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Canadian Maple syrup heist took place over several months between
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twenty eleven and twelve.
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This plays me away right here.
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Yeah, when thieves siphoned three three and thirty tons of
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maple syrup from a facility in Quebec, it's like why Yeah,
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So in July.
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Twenty twelve, and there's something else funny coming up. Yeahs
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a strategic reserve. Canadians have a strategic reserve of maple
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fucking syrup. The United States has you know, petrol, you know,
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fucking oil, oil reserves. You're gonna need sugar strategic reserves.
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So in July it's like gorilla warfare with fueled by
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maple syrup. Everybody's just chugging it. If you get your rations,
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nothing else but maple fucking syrup, dude, well fight them calmis.
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I left Canada. I wish they weren't just so fucking red.
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Now what it is? That's that just in Trudeau? Yeah,
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they fucking well anyways. So in July of two thousand
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or twenty twelve, an inspector from the Quebec maple syrup
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producers set out to conduct a routine check of the
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maple syrup stored at the Saint Louis de Blafard Strategic Reserve.
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To his horror, he found that some of the barrels
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were empty, and some had been emptied of syrup and
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filled with water. The inspector had just stumbled upon a
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month's long theft of maple syrup, now known as the
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great maple syrup. He was like so well, as investigators
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later determined, a group of thieves had started siphoning maple
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syrup from the Saint Louis de Blamford Strategic Reserve in
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twenty eleven. Over the next several months, they.
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Would think this would have been like a long time ago, yeah,
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like in the seventies or something like when the you know,
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because they had crime families up there. But think about it,
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though they know where the money is, that's obviously gotta
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give me some of that maple syrup money.
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Baby, Take off your hoser. So, as investigators later determined,
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a group of theeves and started take off a tick
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off your horser, take off a maple syrup from the
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Saint Louis to Saint San Luis de Strategic Reserve in
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twenty twenty eleven. Over the next several months, they managed
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to steal more than three thousand tons of maple syrup
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worth eighteen million dollars.
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You've got to be what do you without.
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Anyone noticing how because that they're they're probably they almost
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probably have like a monopoly on the maple syrup game.
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So everybody goes through them because they're not the United States,
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So it's not like an antitrust law, you know what
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I mean, they could be something. They could be the
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only you know, I don't know.
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I don't know that country has obviously got strategic reserves
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of maple syrup everywhere in every province or something.
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Well, I mean, I can't even put it in context.
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How do you even store that in barrels?
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That's I know.
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But if you're stealing it, you have to what do
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you put it?
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In?
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Milk trucks or something?
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Maybe a stainless tank of some type. It's to keep
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the trucks, Yeah, something like a milk truck or something.
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Because it doesn't go bad, right, I.
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Mean, I'm sure it can. It crystallizes, that's honey, thousand
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year old honey. I'm just trying to think of maple syrup, like,
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I don't know enough about it. I mean, we make
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it up here, yeah, but I mean, and it's sure
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it goes through a pasteurizing.
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Nothing like them. Yeah, there's a whole it's almost like
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distilling it or something. It's like a steamhouse. You ever
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see how they do it. And there's big vats and
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ship where the middlefield there's a log cabin. Yeah, in
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the town center and you can go up there and
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watch them make it. Yeah, it's pretty cool. It's like
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this old log cabin that's been around forever just for
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that purpose. So it's like the whole community gets together
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and makes maple syrup. It takes like a hundred gallons
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to make syrup or something something from the sweet maple
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tree necta of the maple.
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Well right up the street.
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Ship.
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Yeah, yeah, okay, because.
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We saw them at farming family and ship. Now little kids,
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that's cool though, I've got sugar maples.
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Maybe we should do that.
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Yeah, ye have taple one.
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I mean we can tap it just to check it out,
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just to do it, just to you know what I mean,
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just for here's here's another valuable resource. If something happened,
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something goes down, we got sure.
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Get that smokehouse going, do half a pig and fucking
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slatter that delicious porker and fucking maple syrup, get all sticky,
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probably doing some weird fucking sex play in the battle
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with maple syrups mouth.
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So anyway, so since Quebec produces some seventy percent of
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the world's maple syrup, that's it was figuring this was
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serious business. So the Great Maple Heights led to a
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years long investigation, dozens of arrests, and an unexpected pop
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culture adaptation.
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Sweet What Yeah, Who's got a Pizze? So how it
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was uncovered? How the heist was uncovered? In Quebec, Maple
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syrup production is an important business. Didn't know that it was,
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but it definitely is. Maple leafs on their flag. I
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guess it would be nineteen sixty six, the Quebec Maple
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Syrup Producers the qMSP was established to set annual klotas
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for maple syrup producers and to oversee the production and
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sale of maple products from Quebec. In two thousand, the
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q Excuse Me qMSP established strategic reserves across the providence
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and because of surplus of maple syrup and twenty eleven
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opened up in an extra facility in the small Sound,
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Small Sound, Yeah, Medello's kicking in, sorry y'all and the
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small town of Saint Louis. However, However, however, while the
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thousands of barrels of maple syrup were worth millions roughly
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thirty million, the facility lacked adequate security. The building had
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no cameras, no alarms, and only one guard on duty.
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You think he was on the take. I'd be like
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that was an inside job. I'm making like ten bucks
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an hour. Go ahead and give me some of that sweet, sweet,
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sweet maple fucking syrup money over. Yeah, and Jemima was
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I just always like I loved the jam. That's not
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even real maing.
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But here's the thing.
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Sure, we grew up when it was like fake.
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Yeah it was just sugar, you know what I mean, basically.
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Uncle Tom's cabin.
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Yeah, threw it in the pan, fucking melted it down.
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But you know, the funny thing is I wonder if
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because like when we used to go over your uncle Rix,
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you and I, he had buckwheat pancakes with that real
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maple syrup. I was like a kid. It was running
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well and it was like you didn't like it. It
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was like watery sugar. Yeah, it tasted like maple wasn't thick. Yeah,
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I was like sweet from my head down to my feet. Yeah. Yeah,
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deaf flipper maple syrup.
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Bam, dame baby, we're gonna get flag copyright flags.
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Maybe all right.
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Over several months in twenty eleven, twenty twelve, a group
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of fucking gnarly badass og thieves started quietly draining syrup
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from the barrels. They either replaced it with water or
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left the barrels empty. No one noticed until July twenty twelve.
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Why inspector came A year? A year?
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Man, I know nothing.
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You got to take this because of Michelle, all right?
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So then and inspector named Michel Gavreaux was conducting inventory
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check when he climbed up the six hundred pound barrels
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and one of them tipped over. According to reporting from
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Today in twenty twenty four, that's when he knew something
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was wrong.
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The barrels of syrup.
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Should have been heavy enough to support his weight, but
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one of the barrels was completely empty empty Gavreau's routine
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inspection revealed a shocking truth. Upon further investigation, inspectors found
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that thousands of barrels were empty or filled with water.
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The syrup meant to stabilize an entire industry had been
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stolen right out from under the from everyone's nose is.
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Bad, so big French noses.
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So who was behind?
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That?
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Passed well? Following the trial of the Mapel Syrup once
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the q MSP realized when it happened, they called in
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Quebec's provincial Police Force Qubec to investigate. According to report
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in New.
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York Times, that wouldn't too bad, that's pretty good. The
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joker sounds like he's traveled the world alone. Joker tell him,
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I want some.
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Crapesppel Michael us w C. May I please use your
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water closet. I took French in in uh.
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For like.
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Was he man e pluribus um.
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Go ahead.
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So the maple syrup heist wasn't a one person operation.
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The thieves were a team of truck drivers, syrup dealers,
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and sugar shack workers, all working together to pull off
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the heist. People with warehouse access quietly moved the barrels
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to other storage sites. From there, they sold the syrup
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to unsuspecting buyers in Ontario, New Brun's Way and the
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United States.
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Not the United States, yes, interstate.
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Yes, yes, intercontinental commerce.
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So once the syrup was sold, it was nearly impossible
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to trace. Most of it had been consumed or blended
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into legal batches before anyone realized it was stolen. In
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the end, only about twenty five percent of the syrup
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was ever recovered. But during the investigation, police interviewed more
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than two hundred people and twenty six suspects were arrested,
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but they soon narrowed narrowed in on the man they
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believed Orchestra who orchestrated the scheme. Richard Valliere is known
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in syrup circles as a barrel roller for finding ways
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around q MSP regulations. By Vallierez had reportedly been operating
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in the syrup black market for years. Damn this fucking guy.
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Look at French, this guy, he's richer Ris Valai.
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Yes he's a he's a.
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I am French Mexican.
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But the girls I will I would like some huevos
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francherros please. But Valerius had also had motive revenge. In
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two thousand and seven, he had been fined one point
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eight million dollars by the qMSP for selling maple syrup illegally. Indeed,
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Valeries admitted to police in twenty fourteen that he had
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been involved in the maple syrup black market for a
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decade before the Great Marple Syrup heist. He claimed that
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a man named Avic quern was whose spouse co owned
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the warehouse where the barrels were kept had first told
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him about the strategic reserve of maple syrup in Saint
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Luis de Blafar. According to reporting from the Mantreal Gazette
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in twenty twenty two, it was Caron who first suggested
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sealing maple syrup from the facility. Caron was sentenced to
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five years in prison and fined one point two million.
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Villaires was sentenced to eight years in prison to find
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nine point one million. He has ten years to pay
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the fine, otherwise he'll be sent to additional time.
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Sure suck like the prisons you can walk out. Oh really,
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they're like fucking like dorm rooms and shit, they're a
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way to get away from I think be wrong. I
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did watch like a sixty minutes Canada. You know where
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they keep all these cats at It looks pretty nice.
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Well they're so they're so light on crime.
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It's are nice people.
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So three other men were also convicted, though they received
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shorter sentences, but not everyone involved in the elaborate scheme
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was caught. More than a dozen people had participated in
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the Great Maple Syrup Ice, and most of them vanished
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into the wind. But the story of their elaborate theft
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left a definite mark on pop culture after the Great
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Maple Syrup Ice appeared in the Netflix series Dirty Money
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in two thousand and eight. Yeah, it was fictionalized for
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an Amazon Prime series. That's the one I saw, or
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I didn't even see it. That's the one you said
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you saw.
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Yeah, I was, I don't know, like these Americans were
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going across the world pro all right, the seal, so
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the aftermath? Did you did say that? So? In twenty
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twenty three, Amazon Prime released the Sticky at Dark comedy
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based on the crime. The show features fictional characters and
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exaggerated plotlines, but is loosely based on the true story
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of the Great Canadian Maple Syrup Heist. It centers around
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a ragtag tag group of thieves and a small town
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syrup producer trying to take down the cartel that controls
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syrup prices. Show Runner Brian Donovan first heard the story
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of the Great Maple Syrup Heist at a family Christmas
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party and was immediately intrigued. I was at a boring
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family Christmas party, just looking for anything interesting to talk about,
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he recalls, and the CBC twenty twenty four. Unfortunately, my
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brother in law is Canadian. Oh, it says, fortunately, sorry Canadians.
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And he was like, hey, have you ever heard of
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the Great Maple Syrup Heist? And I said no, but
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please tell me everything about it right now, because he
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was born at a family Christmas party. So he did,
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and he told me all about the crime, and then
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he also told me about Montreal and the different mafia
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groups that are there and all the fascinating things about
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the area. The Sticky is a dark comedy, but the
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Great Maple Syrup Heist was serious business in Quebec. It
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remains one of Canada's most notorious crimes. Leave it to Canada.
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That's like their most notorious crime, or one of them.
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I mean.
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They're underwhelming, that's all. This is what happens when you
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make fun of Canada. Right now, right there, instant karma.
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It was sucking on that maple syrup candy.
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So excuse me. I've this weather says it's really sucked.
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It's about negative nine every night, so I've had a four.
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I leave, I'll grab you. I got a tube of vadgicile.
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It's been crippling cold.
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Motherfucker.
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I got him real quick too, Like big Big band.
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I gotta got a big brain. Gotta I gotta get
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quick shot in there. I get one of them little crevices.
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You know, crevice looked like like a piece of look
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you know what look like It looked like a ribbi.
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Looked like a piece of ribbi. That fatty, beautiful fat
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on the outside of it look like a brain.
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You may have to continue, I might have to up
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the clumps. Talk amongst yourselves. Would you do? Oh shit,
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I'm sorry, bro. Well the Sticky is a dark comedy,
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but the Great Maple Syrup Ice was serious business and
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quebec And remains one of Canada's most notorious crimes. Fact
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Over a matter of months, thieves were able to steal
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more than three thousand tons of maple syrup from nearly
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ten thousand barrels, pilfering eighteen million dollars worth of the
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pre precious subsetce it's my precious. Though some of the
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stolen maple syrup was recovered, thousands of barrels worth millions
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of dollars were never found. It was like they were
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like just like boom gone, pancaked, waffled. Fuck, the motherfuckers
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are pancaked and waffled like it was like, how do
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we hide this ship? How do we hide this ship? Well,
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pancakes and waffles, baby, but you know we hide it.
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We get all the churches to have early breakfast eight
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thirty am May. Yeah, give it to the churches. Yeah.
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But in the end, the Great Maple Syrup he exposed
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weaknesses in the QMSPS, which the qMSP Queen something police.
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No Quebec maple syrup police.
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Oh the quick cap.
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It's obviously ridiculous.
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But anyways, the Great Maple Syrup Ice exposed weaknesses in
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the qMSP storage practices, So that's the strategic Reserve. Has
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since beefed up security. But the damage was done, bro,
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I mean, when adjusted for inflation, the Great Canadian Maple
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Syrup p Ice is still the most expensive theft in
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the country's history. And who knows how many people in
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Canada and the United States consumed illegal maple syrup from
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the heist without even knowing. You know what, We're all sinners.
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We're all sinners. We are all sinners. We all bear responsibility.
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I turned tragedy, I bro, I turn a blind eye
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when it comes to maple syrup. Sorry, help it, I'm sorry, man.
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I can't help it either.
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I have to have my maple syrup.
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But I'll tell you what, dude, Bob Evans when they
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make their pancakes and they put the crispy edges on them, yeah, phenomenal.
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But like you know what I like too, the which
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is fantastic. The brioche French toast. I've never tried, dude.
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It's amazing.
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It's thicker because it's yeah cinnamon.
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Dude, I like the I ordered the fucking biscuits and
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I split them fuckers up. Put some butter on there,
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and pour the honey on it. Go for it, bro,
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I love you delicious. There's some sausage patties. They have
450
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underrated salads, dude. I never had like a garden salad
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from them. Oh yeah, I like the turkey dinner. But
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you're all hung over. You get the fucking turkey and
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dressing dinner.
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Pass out. Smart. It used to be smart.
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He and m would go and Sunday we're going to
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get some fucking Yeah, that's a Sunday. Yeah, it is good.
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Smart and get fan brother right there.
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Yeah, baby, And then I get that crispy. The sounds
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are crispy and cool. They keep them fuckers in like
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almost freezing temperature.
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Chris. I don't think the old had a bad meal
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at dude. I'm telling you they they've mastered, dude, their
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country fried steak te and I get everyone.
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You know all you all need to go where the
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old people eat.
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Yes, follow the.
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Blue hairs know what's up?
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Yeah, I mean, dude, but one thing I love?
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What else to say? I had my first Nashville fucking
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hot chicken there, Dude, that salt is ridiculous. Candy bacon
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in the stand, the little Mason jar. Now my wife
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started making I'm like, this is like in Credle. I'm
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not a big sweet guy, but this is amazing.
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Well you hit that salt from that bad give me
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poor from dude, Dude, you could you could make me
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like fuck dude, you can make me like a goose
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and feed me like fog wah, you know, down my throat.
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Putting the noose around my neck and just shove food down.
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My throat all day long, especially salt my liver like
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giant like like ah Pippin on uh, Lord of the Rings.
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When they're sitting a break first breakfast sitting bat eleven
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zis no But later on when him and Merrick were
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with the tree Beard and tree Beard sat them on
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they found all that food and they're sitting on top
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of the wall and they ran back into Gandalf and
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Aragon and all those guys, and they're like, the stork
487
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is piling any good? The one they were smoking, they
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were smoking their their weed, yes, smoking, and they were
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talking about because that was like the high end stuff
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that they were smoking. They found a barrel of sticky. Yeah,
491
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it's sticky icky, no doubt, no doubt. It was funny
492
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because I was just watching Soup Dog yesterday on Facebook
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doing his his little dance, turns his feet in and stuff,
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you know what I mean, just wow wow. But he
495
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was he was teaching people. It was an instructional video
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how to dance. I wasn't talking. He was just he
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would like point, like pointing his feet and he'd be
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like boom. He wouldn't say nothing, he's just pointing. And
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then they would play one of his songs from What
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and he just started going out of dude Old. He's
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00:29:34.319 --> 00:29:38.759
one of my favorite people ever because he's just so down.
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He's just so himselfe. You could feel it, you know
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what I mean. Yeah, when I was watching. I used
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to watch his reality show, and it was us because
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his wife, she was she wore the pants.
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And some of us just like to be kids. Still, well,
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we have to we have to have to have to
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have somebody putting the guardrails up for us, so we'll
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end up in prisoner Mexico. Or well, here's the thing,
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i'ming guns in the fucking Middle East and party and
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our balls off.
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When I look back, when I look back on my
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relationship with my wife, she's kept me out of jail,
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she's kept me out of rehab, and she's kept me
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out of debt. Yeah, and I would have been in
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all three.
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And you created a couple of really good, outstanding citizens.
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Yeah. I know our boys, as far as we know,
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that's all their mom. That's I mean, I don't get
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me wrong.
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I mean I I dude, the oldest boy calls you
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pop whatever, dude, but we're all I'm gonna fucking start
523
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playing the fucking criminal funk. Oh do it dot on
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you ready?
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Yeah?
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Here comes some criminal funk byefuckers.
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We love you, God bless us all. Everyone.
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May I have another? Please?
529
00:30:51.960 --> 00:30:54.319
Oh shit, here comes the mountain funk.
530
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Oh yeah, half hour. Damn, that's one of the short Back.
531
00:30:59.200 --> 00:31:06.519
In the nineties when when Pearl jam inducted Neil Young
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into the Hall of Fame, Eddie Vedder Like had one
533
00:31:10.599 --> 00:31:17.279
of the greatest explain, Uh, what's what's what I'm the
534
00:31:17.319 --> 00:31:17.960
word I'm looking for?
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Speeches?
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Uh no, shit, Uh stoner the fuck is the word
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I'm looking for. It's turned on the tip of my tongue.
538
00:31:27.440 --> 00:31:34.400
Explanation of what like genreute, what genre like Neil Young
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would be? And he considered. He said, Neil Young's music
540
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is mountain funk, and I was like, that made sense
541
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to me. Mountain funk. Now they're all a bunch of
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fucking bitch ass liberal mother va.
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They are the man baby.
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They are the Democrats, not Democrats, but the Democrats. I'm
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I'm I'm coining that phrase right now. Democrats democrats because
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00:32:03.920 --> 00:32:05.880
nobody have you ever heard anybody say democrats.
547
00:32:05.880 --> 00:32:08.000
I've heard him say democrats.
548
00:32:07.720 --> 00:32:11.519
Democrats like demons, But what about democrats because they're fucking dumb?
549
00:32:13.119 --> 00:32:18.079
The phrase bro, all right, we should be bro because
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this is when real ship happen on. Heymen, real talkmen, funks, Yeah, yeah,
551
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and leave the fucking Jews alone.
552
00:32:27.400 --> 00:32:31.960
You idiots. They're good people. I'm not a big Zionist myself.
553
00:32:32.240 --> 00:32:35.279
I'm just Hey, I deal with the Jewish people. I
554
00:32:35.359 --> 00:32:36.839
don't know about the state of Israel.
555
00:32:38.359 --> 00:32:40.960
Well, that's the Holy Land.
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We can't even let them in the fucking jagg or
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Hoover building or in Quantico because they bug everything and
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steal all their ship. They're resourceful people, they got the
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big noses joking.
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Hey, they smell an opportunity. Hey, you know what, Here's
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the way I look at here's the way I look
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at it. I can make fun of Jewish people, I
563
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can make fun of Black people, I can make fun
564
00:33:09.759 --> 00:33:12.960
of Chinese people, I can make fun of I can
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00:33:13.039 --> 00:33:15.759
make fun of all these people. Because that's what I'm doing.
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00:33:15.880 --> 00:33:18.319
I'm listen to the words are coming out of my mouth.
567
00:33:18.559 --> 00:33:24.000
I'm making fun. Yeah, I'm making It's a joke where
568
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I understand where some people were raised differently than others,
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and they may take offense to it. I get it.
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That's fine. I X.
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We loved everybody and we got along with everything.
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The nineties were amazing. We my friend mixed strange right
573
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across from you right now, lifelonger. We grew up in
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the eighties, late late seventies, early eighties, and then we
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were we were children, were we were young men in
576
00:33:50.240 --> 00:33:54.279
late nineties and twenties, we were young men in the nineties.
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And where we live, where we're geographically located, it's a
578
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very It's probably the most resilient part of the United
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States because we've had so much commerce overturn here through
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the years with with all the steel mills and what
581
00:34:14.960 --> 00:34:18.239
wh ended up reverting. People revert back to they open
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restaurants and they start construction businesses. Everybody gets a ladder
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acko on their truck and because people always need ship
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fixed and they're looking for the best deal. So it
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was easy to make a living doing that around here,
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literally even.
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And we never knew and you put you brought this
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to me one time, you said it's so simple. I
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was like, fuck. We had the two thousand and eight recession,
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the housing you know, debacle, bailing out all these fucking
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walking away from two big to fail companies and all
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them getting all the money, banks getting all the money. Like, dude,
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we don't even understand it because it's never affect at
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us because we've been in a recession since the seventies.
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Literally literally like it was like, damn, motherfucker, no ship
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you were fucking That is so true.
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That's why Ohio is one of the most beautiful places
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in the United in the world for that matter.
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Be one of the weirdest states too. Yeah, I mean
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we're that's a paranormal ship going on down here.
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But that's the that's the beauty of Ohio.
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Man.
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Ohio has always been gritty, overcast. We're scrappers, dude, Yeah, exactly,
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That's that's what it comes down to. Everybody's got their
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nuts broke. One last thing I'd want to do is
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go get into a fight. But you corner me. If
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I'm a cornered rat, I'm gonna end up saying, Okay,
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I'm gonna get my ass kicked, but I gotta make
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my mark.
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You ready for a round two?
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Yeah, let's go all right, here we go?
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What is this criminal funk?
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Are we still recording? Okay, you guys are getting the
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taste of ten to twenty four bass sacred place in
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our hearts over garage, Manny access points hide her on
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the roof.
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We have we got to see some movies.
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We had five hundred access points on my house on
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the five Bays, the garage next door that we got
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the trouble berth vandalizing something that you did to do.
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Remember the boats never did a bunch of cops. Yeah,
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remember they said they saw the.
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Faint strin shoe marks were like a thousand jacks.
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Yeah, that's what it is. But it's of Diggs.
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And I'll be honest with you, that's the only time
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in my life at that time, you know who our
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principal was. I was getting.
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