Ep.44 | Texas Two-Steps, Tooth Talk, and Philly Dreams| July 28th, 2026

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About the gummies now, it's a little different now for me.
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I am now.
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I don't know.
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Well, so Alex, I wanted to ask you.
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This is a great thing.
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Welcome to going yard! I wanted to ask, I wanted to ask you now, is it melatonin gummies or is it a like one-a-day vitamin gummy?
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Great question.
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We'll say that again.
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Double ripping gummies?
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Jake, it's my little treat to myself.
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Come on.
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You do both.
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Yeah, I have a set.
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I don't always do the melatonin gummies, but if I can sleep, I'll do the melatonin gummies and a strawberry, and they're great.
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But then also I have the one-a-day gummies that I do once a day.
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And I just happen to do at the end of the day, not the beginning of the day.
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And I didn't know that that was not normal until the last episode.
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And people seem to think that was funny.
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And you know when I'm back, taking it on the top.
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I feel like I feel like you gotta like if you eat it, and then your body can then use the vitamins throughout the day versus going to sleep, and then it's like storage, right?
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My body's a temple, Jake.
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Right.
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Which I know that.
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Which I know that.
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I don't know.
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I don't know.
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I was gonna go on some silly rant.
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And I put it there.
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I store it in this part of the temple.
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I don't know.
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There's a gummy part of the temple.
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The temple.
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Yeah, the temple has a gummy uh section.
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Department.
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Yeah.
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Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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Oh gosh.
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Well, this will be fun, Alex.
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We're gonna actually now call me crazy.
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Uh we might even talk sports on this podcast.
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Oh Alex is going yard.
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Come on.
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I don't know if you heard this or not, but LeBron James is a 76er.
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What are we talking about?
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Come on.
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James.
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Come on now.
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Come on.
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Okay.
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There you go.
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There we go.
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So we'll get into it a little bit.
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Really excited.
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Um, we got a couple other things.
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I got I was getting cut off left, right, and center.
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Alex, it was a nightmare to edit that last episode.
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I kept in, I don't know if you listened to the edited episode, uh, but towards the end there, I kept in some vamping, could some good vamping.
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But if you're a loyal listener, that was maybe a third, maybe a fourth of the actual vamping that was done.
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It was difficult to pick, Alex, because you had some fantastic vamping, but then it got to this point where it's like, it's so much, there's so much in and out.
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So I had to limit it just for the sake of listening.
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Uh well, once we have a paywall and a Patreon, that'll be like the uncut stuff.
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It's like the director's cut.
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It's like Alex Vamps.
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You get you get the the solo Alex Vamps for a while while Jake's Wi-Fi goes crazy.
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Yeah.
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Or Alex.
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It was my whole power.
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I promise.
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I paid the bill this week at Pico.
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They got in advance.
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I paid, I paid for August.
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I paid for the whole thing.
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I am I'm ahead of schedule now.
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Um proud of you.
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But me and the listeners don't buy it.
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We don't think you pay.
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We don't think you paid.
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That's right.
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That's right.
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It was coming in and out.
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So there's something to be said about that, hopefully.
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Uh, that's on them.
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That's on them.
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I'll get my laurels to see their lawyers.
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Other than that, Alex, we've got a couple of things.
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You and I, we were talking pre-show here that we we have seen each other.
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What has it been now?
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War.
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We've seen look at us.
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We're just ripping.
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We're ripping.
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We're gonna say, listener, this is gonna be a tasty episode.
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We got a big week.
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Big, big, big week.
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We uh I went on a I went line dancing?
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I went that's why I'm wearing this shirt here.
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I should have to dress this shirt.
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I wore a denim shirt and I and then like a hat.
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I don't have a cowboy hat.
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I should get a cowboy hat.
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But I went line dancing, and now I I get the song Choose in Texas stuck in my head.
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And um Alex, I've been telling you, loyal listeners who know, I've been telling you for weeks.
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Look, I'm at a big planted that seed.
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Jake, you planted that seed, it germinated and it grew and it's blossomed.
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It's blossomed now.
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Honestly, this is the same thing that happened with our girl.
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And um gosh, what was that?
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Uh it's Olivia Dean, and you're thinking A Man I Knee.
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Yes.
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And then also Dive is a great one.
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That's right, that's right.
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But I feel like that took a couple episodes for me to finally turn around.
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So I feel like this is a similar thing here.
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It did.
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And um we also had some fun fun updates.
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I mean, obviously the Braun we said, but we also have finally we can get to talk to you about your dentist.
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And I don't know.
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Yeah, this was I was gonna talk about it was he the moment, it was the day that we recorded, and the power was going out.
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So I was very fresh on the details.
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So this will be a fun recounting because I do have some thoughts, and I do want to ask you about something, and I'm curious of everyone else's thoughts as well, because it's something it's something pretty close to me.
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It's a little personal, but I do want people's opinions about it.
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Um I'm curious.
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Really interesting.
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So that yeah, we'll dive into that.
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And then we also got I um I I think everybody should see the Odyssey.
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We saw the Odyssey today.
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Oh my gosh.
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Um I was just gonna say, I I will go on record, we did not see it in IMAX after.
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We didn't actually which was the intended viewing format.
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I still loved it.
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I thought it was great, still enjoyed the whole thing, but um something there's a part of me where I'm like, do I go back?
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Do I go back?
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Interesting.
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Do I watch it in IMAX?
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I don't know.
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Six hours of that, basically.
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Six hours of that.
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When you say it like that, it's kind of it hits.
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Didn't it sound like it was an IMAX?
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It was loud, wasn't it loud?
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Dude, that theater.
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I know.
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I uh we can get into it when we get there, but we'll get there.
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We'll get there.
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That's what's on the horizon.
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That's what's on the horizon and the escaping sun.
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I know.
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Look at that.
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Alex foreshadowing.
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That's fantastic.
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Alex, you can say yeah, and you're getting it.
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And you're finding it all cylinders, which I love.
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Anyway, anyway.
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You're doing cliffhangers, you're doing foreshadowing, you're all over the place, Alex.
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It's crazy.
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It's it's something you start to pick up on when you when you study ancient civilizations.
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You understand the power of putting together a long plan for your enemy to fall prey to.
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Artabore is an artifact.
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Ardebor.
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Artibor.
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And we're back, baby.
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We're we're back to our so back.
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We're so back.
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By the way, the fantasy group chat, Alex, did you see that popping off a little bit?
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Can I look at Powdy in there?
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Fellas.
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Particularly one fella.
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That's right.
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Settled that.
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That's right.
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It was the season hasn't started yet.
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I get it.
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We're all excited.
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Training camps around the corner.
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Loving it.
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It was really, really feisty.
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It's fun to just sit back and watch it, huh?
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I I I texted Casey on the side and I said, uh, buddy, thanks for being Kamish and thanks for handling this.
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So uh I think he deserved that because you know you never know.
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You never know how everyone you you just you're overseeing a big group and they're all across the country, and you don't know how people are coming across via text all the time.
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So uh he did a great job.
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Texting is only a small way to communicate with people.
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You know, so much of language is you know, had to give you a quick little update because um I actually went, you're never gonna guess this.
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Lisa and I went on a double date this past week.
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Can you believe it?
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Can you believe it, Alex?
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You guys are setting the land speed record for speed double dating.
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It is absolutely out of control.
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Who was the lucky couple this time?
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And are they gonna stick around on this week of Doubledate with Jake and Lisa?
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Doubledate 2000.
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Oh, what a deep pull.
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Alex, oh man, I don't want to tang it too much, but do you remember Doubledare 2000?
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We'd come home with soccer practice and they work summers.
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Yeah.
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I know you were doing fantastic.
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And then do you remember Temple?
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Was it Temple Run?
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Jake, remember we applied for it?
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We had applied for I I think Alex, I think that was on me.
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I think that was my fault.
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I think I something in the physical, I think I didn't I didn't pass.
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I think that's what did us in.
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I think it was it the steroids that you tested positive for?
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That's right.
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That's right.
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I I was trying to.
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We should tell the listeners.
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We we it it's easier to get on game shows when you live in LA.
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They're just close by and they just need warm bodies sometimes.
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And casting, casting people.
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Once you know some casting people, you're on the list.
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They will hit you up multiple times.
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We were on, I mean, guys, look it up if you're a loyal fan.
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Uh we were on Let's Make a Deal.
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We were on Brady with Wayne Brady.
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Uh we What was that other show we did?
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We were the like extras, we were the props for Brain Games.
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We were on Brain Games, which wasn't a game show.
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Human man ironically, ironically, not a game show.
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We were human mannequins, basically, because we're twins.
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Yeah, we were and we dressed you up and down to try to match how I was dressed, uh, based off their memory, and that was the brain game.
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Like, why uh why do you need live people for this?
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Can't we use a rack?
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Like, just TV.
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Alex, you remember we met Michael Key, Michael Key?
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We were we were booked, Alex.
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I told him their first month in LA.
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It was it was Keegan Michael Key, and he heal, that's right.
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He was the host.
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I told him that he dropped his uh his pack, his uh sound pack.
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So like you have like the earphones that go to your ear and it runs down, the wire runs down.
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Love the ear, Michael.
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The live mic, yeah, and it's the ear.
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Okay.
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But then the the in his back pocket he had the the like pack and it had like fallen out, and I it was like right by me.
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And so I say, oh man, you drop me, bro.
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I'll help you.
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And like it was like this brief interaction I had with him, and I was like, Oh, Kiki Michael Key.
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It was Do you remember the lady?
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Do you remember that lady who was doing wardrobe and she dressed us up and then she goes, You boys are gonna make it.
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I like what you're doing.
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You this is your first, this is your first month here, you boys are gonna make it.
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A lot like my real estate agent, it sounds like.
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Yeah.
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And it was a little Jake smoked a fake cigarette right there, and that's pretty accurate.
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This woman did not have a cigarette, but she she had the energy in smoking a cigarette.
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Yeah.
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Thank you for getting that.
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Thank you for getting that.
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And you're down.
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Yep.
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And so, because of all that, um we did Doubledare 2000.
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Double date.
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We're doing a double date.
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Thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, and I'm back, and I'm back.
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And so um, we end up going this double date.
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We go into Philly.
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Uh good friends Jared and Brittany, listeners might remember.
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I've I've done an episode from their old place.
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Um, and so great, we love them.
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They were in the city.
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We went down.
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Actually, technically, this was a triple date because it was another couple.
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Uh so six people.
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You guys added a third?
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Wow.
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A third, yeah, to the mix, uh Adventurous.
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Um went there.
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Ended up going to this uh really cool it was called uh Zahav.
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Have you heard of this, Alex?
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It's in Old City.
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It's a like an uh Israel, like Israeli, Israeli, like hummus was fantastic, uh family style, um, where they just came with dishes and dishes and dishes.
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A lot of pita.
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Um lot of pita with olive oil on top.
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They were coming.
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But the the you gotta be careful though, because it's a lot like the breadstick model at Olive Garden.
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They try and fill you up, they try and fill you up, and that way you're not eating the rest of their inventory, and they can kind of sell that off.
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Unless you get a little thirsty too, a little salty, a little little thirsty, and then you're buying more drinks too.
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That's right.
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That's right.
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And so, um, Alex, when we were getting ready to go for this, we're gonna go to the city.
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It's a little bit of a drive, 30-40 minutes.
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We had worked.
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It's a Thursday.
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So it's uh it's not like we have a bunch of time to prepare.
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I get off work.
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I end up, I walk into the bathroom, I'm gonna trim up, I'm gonna get ready to roll.
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And I I did this mistake.
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Now you're you have you always I think you're always clean shaven reasoning, right?
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You're a clean shaven guy?
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Yeah, the last like last like two years, like definitely since I started working, but probably the last like couple years, I don't go more than like a three millimeter, five millimeter on the guard.
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Yeah, that's that's about where I'm I'm maxing out at right now.
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And so this is what I wanted to bring up to you because I'm in a rush.
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We gotta go.
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Lisa's finishing up work, I just finished, I'm in the bathroom, I put on the three millimeter, I start trimming up, and I I go, that doesn't look right.
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And right up my chin, right up my chin, and around, it was one millimeter.
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It was as close as it gets.
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I'm sitting there with this huge thing, and I go, Well, I've got to commit now.
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And so then I go around and I am the whole now.
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This right here, which you're seeing for you're seeing the thumbnail, if you're seeing if you're a video person, this has been me growing it back out.
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So this has been a little bit longer.
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It it was very close, and um, I had to just commit, and then the rest of my beard, I had to like accommodate to that.
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Now, I because I was already in this situation, I ended up committing to it.
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It was a look that ended up coming up around the honeymoon.
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If you're if you recall, we had talked about this on the pod slightly, but I did the the mustache around October.
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Do you remember this?
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True.
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And so when I did the mustache around October, we went on the honeymoon right after, and then it kind of came into like a five o'clock shadow.
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So it was a mustache with like five o'clock shadow.
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It's like a magnum PI kind of thing.
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So I was like, I'm just gonna try and replicate that.
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And so that's what ended up happening.
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I kind of replicated that.
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I I did a razor to kind of shape it so it didn't look as, you know, like to give it a little bit more different.
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But you're in a rush.
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You're in a rush at this point, right?
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I'm on the rush.
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Lisa's coming in halfway.
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She's going, hey, I need the bathroom in like five.
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And I'm like, okay, you got it.
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But um luckily I cleaned it up.
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I didn't say anything.
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Didn't say anything.
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We're driving there.
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We go through on the drive home.
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We had a lovely dinner, good dessert, did the whole thing.
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We're driving back.
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This goes, by the way, your beard looks great.
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I go, oh, pulled it off, Alex.
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That is pulled it off.
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Excellent.
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So yeah.
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Very happy.
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Can I say something?
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And I don't want you to get offended by this, boy.
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But it's it's about you and I with the beard.
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With your sort of level of beard now, I feel like we're a lot closer to the Property Brothers.
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You know what I mean?
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Okay.
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If you could pull up one of the, I think you'd really get what I'm saying if you pulled up a picture.
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It's been a while since I've had delved into the Property Brothers.
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Thinner beard.
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One has like a thinner beard, and the other one I think is clean shaven, or it's like a long beard, shorter beard kind of thing.
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But when you hit your level of beard, is it Are you getting it?
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Yeah.
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Oh yeah, I see it.
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You see what I'm saying?
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Well, they both, they b okay.
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Okay.
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Shorter shorter beard guy.
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Right, right.
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Because they both they kind of go back and forth, they fluctuate, but there is one guy that kind of anchors to a thicker beard, it looks like.
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And then the other guy goes a little more.
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I think it's because it's like the level of beard that you then change to is closer to these guys as all.
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And they're twins, and you know.
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No, I get it.
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I see it.
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I get it.
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I um but dude, that's a great feeling, you know?
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You just were like flying by the seat of your pants, faking it till you make it with your uh your whoopsie beard, and then turns out it turns out great luck.
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Yeah, it turned out, and maybe who knows?
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Maybe I'll keep rocking it.
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It's a little bit untame right now because I was like, do I do I just grow it out, get it back in?
00:18:12.880 --> 00:18:17.599
But um, I think I'm gonna I think I might try it again, go back to it.
00:18:18.960 --> 00:18:19.599
Yeah, you should.
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Yeah.
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Why not?
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I mean, we'll see.
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We will see.
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Um any other um any other, I don't know, physical um changes you're making to your uh your face or your body.
00:18:50.319 --> 00:18:54.480
Alex, I I can appreciate you're looking at the rundown, and I've got the whole thing.
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I'm trying to make the transition.
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I really appreciate it.
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I appreciate Steve Nashing, and I appreciate it.
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You're really good to the assist.
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I went, I went last week, um, and I I had a lot of thoughts.
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I I'm I'm excited to revisit this because in the moment I was going through a range of emotions.
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Because I do you remember my whole dentist experience?
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I think last year, it was like early on the pod.
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I went through this.
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I I had the the dentist, um, my old dentist was hitting me up.
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Do you remember that?
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We talked about on the podcast.
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It was probably one of our first, it's on our first 10 to 15 episodes.
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Wow.
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Um was this like an X kind of hitting you up?
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Is that what it felt like?
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That's right.
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That's right.
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Right, right, right.
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This was this was I I went to this one dentist.
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We're so over.
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Like I'm I'm getting my toothpaste from other people.
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That's right.
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I think I had I had changed insurances at work.
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They had changed insurances, and so I ended up changing dentists, and I then went to this new dentist for like a year or two years, and then the old dentist like hit me up and texted me and was like, Hey, are we are we on for your annual checkup?
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And I go, Yeah.
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Wait, I thought it was October.
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And I go, oh no, this is actually the wrong number.
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New T.
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Why don't you lose this number, pal?
00:20:29.440 --> 00:20:35.839
So anyway, I um since moving East Coast, I I've I finally got settled in.
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I got on the It's not it's not you, it's not you, it's my provider.
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It's not you, it's my provider.
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That's right.
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So I'm doing this, I'm doing this again now.
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Where because I'm in Pennsylvania, I got new new uh insurance and stuff and whatever.
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And so I'm going in and um I'm just I was nervous because I got some reviews.
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And look, I'm not I'm no saint, Alex.
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I've had cavities in the past, okay?
00:21:04.799 --> 00:21:04.960
Sure.
00:21:05.200 --> 00:21:07.440
I'm sure I'm a bad boy, all right?
00:21:07.519 --> 00:21:14.000
I'd like to yeah, your your ice cream, your ice cream uh intake is well documented.
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Yeah, and you know what, Alex?
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I lean into it on the pod.
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It's not that bad.
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Scratch my neck.
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Oh, he's scratching.
00:21:23.359 --> 00:21:23.680
Uh oh.
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But um, so anyway, because of that, I I've really that was that was in my past, Alex.
00:21:30.880 --> 00:21:31.759
That was years ago.
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I've cleaned it up.
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I've not you anymore.
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I've really picked up the flossing more regularly.
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I get in there, I get I get really into I have this Listerine mint, mint scented floss.
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I really like.
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I have hard opinions on the floss these days.
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Um and so anyway, I've got that, I feel good, I'm confident, but in the back of my head, there's a part of me that goes, you still Had those cavities in the past.
00:22:02.640 --> 00:22:03.440
You still have that.
00:22:03.599 --> 00:22:10.880
So with the new dentist, there was just I had this nervousness of like, oh my God.
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I I gotta impress them.
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I gotta impress them.
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I've got this new beard they're gonna be all up in.
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I don't know.
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I don't know what they're gonna think about it.
00:22:20.319 --> 00:22:20.640
Sure.
00:22:20.960 --> 00:22:27.599
And I I'm going through and they're asking about dental habits, you know, as they do.
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They go in, they go like I got the best dental habits.
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I got the best.
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Yeah, the best dental habits.
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I got the best.
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I got the best.
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I got I'm flossing.
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I I do the mouthwash.
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I do the I got fluoride, all kinds of fluoride in the toothpaste, in the mouthwash, in the water, all of it.
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All of it.
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Everything's no fluoride.
00:22:50.799 --> 00:22:53.440
Um they're asking about that.
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It's a little bit nervous.
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They go, um, they give me, you know what, you know what I get, do you get this at the dentist, Alex?
00:23:00.400 --> 00:23:02.559
The uh open wider?
00:23:03.359 --> 00:23:04.799
Could you open a little bit?
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Could you open a little bit?
00:23:06.240 --> 00:23:07.920
I got I've got a little tight jaw.
00:23:08.000 --> 00:23:09.039
I've got a little tight jaw.
00:23:09.119 --> 00:23:10.960
I got like, I'm I'm doing it.
00:23:11.119 --> 00:23:11.599
Yeah.
00:23:11.839 --> 00:23:13.440
It hurts after a while.
00:23:13.599 --> 00:23:13.839
Yeah.
00:23:14.240 --> 00:23:14.559
Right.
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It does.
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And and I don't know.
00:23:16.640 --> 00:23:22.799
Sometimes there's a part of me, maybe I should just ask directly next time, but it's tough because they got shit in my mouth.
00:23:22.880 --> 00:23:24.000
So I don't know, I can't ask them.
00:23:24.079 --> 00:23:25.279
I can't talk to them as much.
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But sometimes I'm like, is it easier when they've got that thing pulling in my gums?
00:23:30.319 --> 00:23:31.759
Is it is should I go limp?
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Should I go limp?
00:23:33.039 --> 00:23:34.640
And then now are they can pull?
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Or do you want me to ah I really pull it open myself?
00:23:39.680 --> 00:23:40.240
You know?
00:23:40.480 --> 00:23:41.119
I don't know.
00:23:41.279 --> 00:23:41.599
Yeah.
00:23:41.839 --> 00:23:43.839
So anyway, I'm going back and forth.
00:23:44.319 --> 00:23:50.240
You're kind of like a you you're like a fish on a hook right there, in a little in in in some ways, you know?
00:23:51.200 --> 00:23:52.880
And sometimes the fish just lets go.
00:23:53.440 --> 00:23:53.839
That's right.
00:23:53.920 --> 00:23:54.160
You know?
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And now to complicate things, um the the woman that did the x-rays, minimal English, wasn't wasn't speaking a ton of English.
00:24:04.559 --> 00:24:06.640
So I'm still I'm new.
00:24:06.880 --> 00:24:11.920
I did the whole I did the whole thing that you do in the waiting room.
00:24:12.000 --> 00:24:14.559
You gotta fill out your whole history.
00:24:14.720 --> 00:24:16.960
You gotta go through it, you gotta remember.
00:24:17.440 --> 00:24:23.359
Thank God I can like search emails and I like I contacted my dentist before they sent me some stuff.
00:24:23.440 --> 00:24:29.680
So I had some cheat sheet stuff, but still, it is like I'm in the I know.
00:24:30.079 --> 00:24:30.559
I know.
00:24:30.799 --> 00:24:32.160
We're on good terms though.
00:24:32.400 --> 00:24:35.519
I think they realized it was providers, it wasn't them.
00:24:35.759 --> 00:24:39.759
He's like, Why but why why do you need to know if you're not gonna come in?
00:24:39.920 --> 00:24:40.480
I don't understand.
00:24:40.720 --> 00:24:42.319
I was like, I'm on the other side of the country.
00:24:42.799 --> 00:24:46.319
It's distance, it's not you, it's not you.
00:24:47.680 --> 00:24:48.720
I'm on the other side of the country.
00:24:49.440 --> 00:24:49.920
I left.
00:24:50.079 --> 00:24:54.799
Um so I had to do the whole thing.
00:24:54.880 --> 00:24:58.799
I fill it out, and I'm still nervous, and then I go, I go directly to the x-rays.
00:24:58.880 --> 00:25:01.920
I go directly to the x-rays, and she doesn't speak that much English.
00:25:02.160 --> 00:25:05.279
And then so that's I'm trying to get some rapport.
00:25:05.440 --> 00:25:06.480
I'm trying to build some rapport.
00:25:06.559 --> 00:25:08.400
This is a new relationship.
00:25:08.480 --> 00:25:10.000
I'm trying to do some small talks.
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She's not a little bit hot cold.
00:25:13.279 --> 00:25:21.119
And she had this machine that I was so excited because, like I said, I don't like opening the mouth.
00:25:21.599 --> 00:25:22.400
I get tired.
00:25:22.559 --> 00:25:28.319
The x-rays, when you got a bite down, they move it, they move the thing, they take the x-ray, they move it.
00:25:28.480 --> 00:25:29.599
I don't like that thing.
00:25:29.839 --> 00:25:36.000
I end up going into I stand up, I bite on this thing, and this thing goes around my whole head.
00:25:36.160 --> 00:25:37.920
This whole thing, it's this new machine.
00:25:38.000 --> 00:25:39.119
I've never seen it.
00:25:39.279 --> 00:25:40.160
And I was like, oh.
00:25:40.319 --> 00:25:42.640
And then she showed me the x-ray, showed my whole mouth.
00:25:42.720 --> 00:25:43.920
I was so excited.
00:25:44.240 --> 00:25:45.759
It's like, this is incredible.
00:25:46.240 --> 00:25:47.200
We don't have to do the other thing.
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We don't have to do the other thing.
00:25:48.319 --> 00:25:53.839
She goes, and she doesn't understand, but she was excited that I I saw and I was excited.
00:25:53.920 --> 00:25:55.119
So she kind of matched.
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And then later we go in, we go into the other room.
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We go to the next room.
00:26:00.319 --> 00:26:03.440
And uh, I had to do that same x-ray.
00:26:03.599 --> 00:26:07.440
That was just that was just that was a flyby.
00:26:07.519 --> 00:26:12.079
You know, on on Zillow when they give you the flyby, they gave you the drone shot.
00:26:12.160 --> 00:26:12.880
That's all that was.
00:26:13.279 --> 00:26:14.559
But it's not a full appraisal.
00:26:14.720 --> 00:26:16.160
You won't you won't get that appraised.
00:26:16.319 --> 00:26:18.640
You won't get that appraised on the bones.
00:26:18.720 --> 00:26:20.319
We still have to look at the bones of the house.
00:26:20.559 --> 00:26:25.279
So they gotta get in there and they gotta do the whole thing.
00:26:25.440 --> 00:26:30.880
So I I was so excited, and then I went back down to being like, ah, okay, okay.
00:26:31.039 --> 00:26:32.480
Same old song and dance.
00:26:32.640 --> 00:26:35.039
I thought technology had saved me on this, it hasn't.
00:26:35.200 --> 00:26:35.759
It has not.
00:26:36.160 --> 00:26:47.279
So I still have to do, I got the drone shot, and then I get the the real up close and personal, you know, top, bottom, bull thing.
00:26:47.519 --> 00:26:48.400
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:26:48.640 --> 00:26:52.000
Go through that, and I go, okay, great, okay, great.
00:26:52.160 --> 00:26:53.680
She goes, yeah, the dentist is gonna see you.
00:26:53.759 --> 00:26:54.880
And I'm like, okay, great.
00:26:55.039 --> 00:26:55.839
She walks away.
00:26:55.920 --> 00:27:02.319
I'm sitting there, I'm twiddling my thumbs, and um she comes back and she goes, you know what?
00:27:02.559 --> 00:27:08.880
Actually, the cleaning assistant's gonna see you first, and then the dentist.
00:27:09.119 --> 00:27:10.799
And I am still nervous.
00:27:10.880 --> 00:27:13.519
In the back of my head, I'm like, is there a piece of meat stuck in?
00:27:13.759 --> 00:27:15.519
Is there is there something stuck in my teeth?
00:27:15.680 --> 00:27:18.960
Is there spinach wedged in my molars that I I missed?
00:27:19.119 --> 00:27:21.039
And I'm like, oh, I've got caffeine.
00:27:21.279 --> 00:27:25.279
It's kind of like it's like it's like a first date, but for a dentist, it sounds like.
00:27:25.359 --> 00:27:27.359
And and and you're getting nervous about it.
00:27:27.519 --> 00:27:28.559
What am I wearing?
00:27:28.720 --> 00:27:29.039
Exactly.
00:27:29.440 --> 00:27:30.079
It's okay.
00:27:30.319 --> 00:27:34.000
And like I hold my mouth open, that's right.
00:27:34.079 --> 00:27:35.039
It's wide enough.
00:27:35.279 --> 00:27:36.720
Everybody thinks that in a first date.
00:27:36.799 --> 00:27:41.519
Everybody that first and I'm thinking in my back of my head, this x-ray person, she doesn't she can't understand me.
00:27:41.599 --> 00:27:44.960
She probably went over to the dentist and goes, You gotta clean this guy's mouth.
00:27:45.039 --> 00:27:45.759
It's gross.
00:27:45.839 --> 00:27:46.640
You don't want to go in there.
00:27:46.720 --> 00:27:48.079
Yeah, you don't want to go in there.
00:27:48.319 --> 00:27:49.759
That's a story that I'm telling.
00:27:50.000 --> 00:27:50.880
That's I did.
00:27:51.039 --> 00:27:52.880
I flossed, I did the whole thing.
00:27:53.039 --> 00:27:57.279
I did the mouthwash, I had intense mint.
00:27:57.680 --> 00:27:59.119
That's what I came in with.
00:27:59.359 --> 00:28:03.839
I go in there, I I then I get moved to another room.
00:28:03.920 --> 00:28:04.880
I go cleaning.
00:28:05.039 --> 00:28:07.119
Cleaning person, new person.
00:28:07.759 --> 00:28:09.279
We start chatting.
00:28:09.680 --> 00:28:11.920
She speaks middle, minimal English.
00:28:12.079 --> 00:28:14.000
I go, okay, all right, all right.
00:28:14.319 --> 00:28:14.960
Not a lot.
00:28:15.920 --> 00:28:17.279
I think she was Ukrainian.
00:28:17.440 --> 00:28:18.079
I just wanted to.
00:28:19.599 --> 00:28:19.759
Yeah.
00:28:20.079 --> 00:28:25.359
She cleans it up, um, goes through, and dentist finally comes in.
00:28:25.920 --> 00:28:30.000
And I'll tell you what, I Alex, you can attest to this.
00:28:30.160 --> 00:28:34.000
When I was younger, at one point in my life, I said I wanted to be a dentist.
00:28:34.400 --> 00:28:35.519
I stand by it.
00:28:36.000 --> 00:28:37.839
This dentist because of the Alex.
00:28:39.039 --> 00:28:40.079
He came in.
00:28:40.319 --> 00:28:40.960
He came in.
00:28:41.039 --> 00:28:43.759
I had one lady do x-rays, twiddle my thumbs.
00:28:43.920 --> 00:28:47.920
I go over to the dentist, she's just pressure washing my teeth.
00:28:48.160 --> 00:28:53.200
She's going in there with the the other stuff and giving me the nice flavor.
00:28:53.359 --> 00:28:54.319
She does all that.
00:28:54.559 --> 00:28:58.640
Dentist comes in, comes in, looks at the chart.
00:28:58.720 --> 00:29:00.720
He doesn't, it's a power play as well.
00:29:00.880 --> 00:29:02.799
I'm sitting there, I'm looking forward.
00:29:02.960 --> 00:29:04.319
He's behind me.
00:29:04.799 --> 00:29:06.000
Goes, Jake.
00:29:06.480 --> 00:29:08.079
Is this Jake Yardley?
00:29:08.160 --> 00:29:09.680
I go, yeah, yeah.
00:29:09.920 --> 00:29:11.680
Great, great to meet you.
00:29:11.920 --> 00:29:14.640
He's just looking at the x-rays behind me.
00:29:14.880 --> 00:29:16.079
So he's over there.
00:29:16.319 --> 00:29:20.240
He's looking, and I am still nervous this whole time through.
00:29:20.480 --> 00:29:22.319
He's squinting at the charts.
00:29:22.480 --> 00:29:24.240
He goes, Root canal.
00:29:24.319 --> 00:29:27.759
I go, yep, root canal a couple years ago.
00:29:27.920 --> 00:29:29.359
That was it's been a while.
00:29:29.440 --> 00:29:30.160
It's been a decade.
00:29:30.319 --> 00:29:31.039
Got the root canal.
00:29:31.119 --> 00:29:32.400
He goes, Yeah, I can see.
00:29:32.640 --> 00:29:33.440
I can see.
00:29:33.680 --> 00:29:35.599
He goes, Looks great.
00:29:35.839 --> 00:29:36.480
Looks great.
00:29:36.640 --> 00:29:38.640
A lot of good household cleanup.
00:29:39.359 --> 00:29:42.000
Walks around, gives me a firm shake.
00:29:42.079 --> 00:29:43.599
He goes, You got any questions?
00:29:43.839 --> 00:29:48.640
And I go, uh, not not really.
00:29:48.799 --> 00:29:50.000
I don't, I don't think so.
00:29:50.160 --> 00:29:52.559
I think I'm pretty good.
00:29:52.880 --> 00:29:55.279
Um he goes, all right, well, I think that's it.
00:29:55.519 --> 00:29:58.319
And then like he's ready to leave.
00:29:58.480 --> 00:30:05.200
We barely, we barely he had a mask on, he pulls the mask down for a moment and just goes, great, great to meet you.
00:30:05.440 --> 00:30:06.880
And then he's about to leave.
00:30:06.960 --> 00:30:08.880
And I was like, I did have a question.
00:30:09.119 --> 00:30:13.119
Um, I've got um some gaps in my teeth.
00:30:13.279 --> 00:30:14.240
I've always had them.
00:30:14.400 --> 00:30:23.200
I had a previous dentist, I talked to them a little bit, but I'm curious, is there anything that like, will this lead to any issues in the future?
00:30:23.359 --> 00:30:27.039
Would there be anything like the way the bite is going?
00:30:27.279 --> 00:30:30.559
Is there any wear and tear that's uneven because of this?
00:30:30.799 --> 00:30:32.720
And he goes, it could potentially.
00:30:32.880 --> 00:30:35.759
I'm like, okay, is it that or is it mostly cosmetic?
00:30:35.920 --> 00:30:40.240
He goes, uh, I mean, it could potentially lead to that in the future.
00:30:40.480 --> 00:30:44.559
Um, but we'd have to just monitor it over time.
00:30:44.799 --> 00:30:46.799
If you're interested in it, I could get you a quote.
00:30:46.880 --> 00:30:49.759
We could do like in like Invisalign, I think is one of the brands.
00:30:49.839 --> 00:30:51.039
There's another brand.
00:30:51.200 --> 00:30:53.359
Um, but if you're interested in that, we could do that.
00:30:53.599 --> 00:30:55.200
And so I was like, okay, all right.
00:30:55.279 --> 00:30:57.920
He's like, all right, well, great, I'll send you home with some stuff if you're interested.
00:30:58.000 --> 00:31:10.079
So, Alex, I want to ask you, I also am curious, anyone listening, is it worth it to get and now by the way, this is like an 18-month thing.
00:31:10.240 --> 00:31:13.680
I'd have to have like adult braces.
00:31:13.839 --> 00:31:16.559
Now, it's not braces, they do the invisible thing.
00:31:16.880 --> 00:31:18.240
So it's a little bit better.
00:31:19.279 --> 00:31:21.039
But uh, is it worth it?
00:31:21.279 --> 00:31:21.920
I'm curious.
00:31:22.079 --> 00:31:25.119
Like, is it worth going through it, do you think?
00:31:26.640 --> 00:31:46.319
Um, well, I I I mean, i if uh if he said it's not like structurally too uh precarious, like there's not uh a huge um chance of of it getting worse and and it hurting your gums and like your health in any way.
00:31:46.480 --> 00:31:52.319
Um I think it's more of like your own personal thing um of of like cosmetically how you look.
00:31:52.559 --> 00:31:57.440
I mean, for me, if you're asking me individually, I love my uh my gap in the middle.
00:31:58.640 --> 00:32:02.319
My little gap, or I feel like David Letterman or Michael Strahan.
00:32:02.559 --> 00:32:08.480
I I kind of uh and I could do the the David Letterman or I could uh you know I could do that.
00:32:09.440 --> 00:32:14.400
Um and I just it's so much kind of ingrained in what I look like now.
00:32:14.799 --> 00:32:21.599
Um for me, I I I have the thing is the difference here, maybe this will be the thumbnail, who knows?
00:32:21.680 --> 00:32:28.000
But I I got the bottom there, the bottom one.
00:32:28.240 --> 00:32:28.799
Right.
00:32:29.119 --> 00:32:34.079
The bottom, those teeth are basically they're going, they're going the opposite ways almost.
00:32:34.160 --> 00:32:36.240
It's now the only thing the thing I would have to do.
00:32:36.400 --> 00:32:46.319
I always forget, I forget you have that because your bottom the lip covers it 99% of the time you get like this.
00:32:46.480 --> 00:32:56.480
Yeah, but the the thing that bothers me day to day is it's difficult to floss because when you you it's difficult to get in there.
00:32:56.640 --> 00:33:03.440
I'm shredding through floss sometimes because you gotta squeeze it through, and sometimes it'll it'll anyway.
00:33:03.759 --> 00:33:07.440
So I'm contemplating it, curious people's thoughts.
00:33:07.599 --> 00:33:08.799
I've never, I don't know.
00:33:08.960 --> 00:33:14.799
I I knew one person that did it in my life um that didn't visaline, but otherwise, I'm so curious.
00:33:14.880 --> 00:33:16.079
If anyone has any other thoughts.
00:33:16.319 --> 00:33:19.039
Now I will say, Alex, I did get quoted.
00:33:19.119 --> 00:33:20.480
I don't want to share the exact price.
00:33:20.559 --> 00:33:28.319
If anyone wants to, if they're curious, I don't mind saying it privately, but uh I don't want to make it a money thing on the podcast.
00:33:28.480 --> 00:33:36.720
But I will say that um I got it quoted in LA and then I got it quoted here, and I was like, oh, this is this is more reasonable.
00:33:37.039 --> 00:33:42.559
Like I might actually consider it for this price, um versus the LA.
00:33:42.720 --> 00:33:51.920
Where it's funny too, because I feel like LA, you got a lot of people that are in front of the camera, so it happens a lot, and so it's just a little bit more expensive.
00:33:52.079 --> 00:33:53.279
But um, yeah.
00:33:53.519 --> 00:33:56.400
Anyway, that was my that was my dentist.
00:33:56.480 --> 00:33:57.920
And by the way, I was going to leave.
00:33:58.079 --> 00:34:02.400
I was going to leave, and I I wasn't sure, kind of felt like a little bit of a cold experience.
00:34:02.559 --> 00:34:03.599
The dentist was cool.
00:34:03.759 --> 00:34:06.640
We had a nice little chat, and then I would go to leave.
00:34:06.880 --> 00:34:16.800
The lady at the front desk, she uh she's like, oh, by the way, here's like some some notes like here's a package or whatever, like if you want to see the pricing on that thing or whatever, here it is.
00:34:17.039 --> 00:34:20.320
Uh also here's here's some information if you ever need it your first time.
00:34:20.400 --> 00:34:22.880
So if you want any information, here's this packet.
00:34:23.039 --> 00:34:33.280
And then uh the lady behind her, and the two of them are having a little bit of a chit-chat, and they go, uh, hey, hey, Deborah, are you going to Avalon?
00:34:33.679 --> 00:34:35.840
And uh like down the beach.
00:34:36.079 --> 00:34:37.119
And they go, I don't know.
00:34:37.280 --> 00:34:38.719
Are you going to Avalon with us?
00:34:38.800 --> 00:34:40.639
And like kind of ropes me into the conversation.
00:34:40.719 --> 00:34:42.559
I go, I'll go to Avalon, sure.
00:34:42.960 --> 00:34:47.280
And so like he's going to Avalon, we're going to Avalon together, he and I.
00:34:47.519 --> 00:34:52.480
And so she had a little bit of a kind of like sassy fun kind of vibe.
00:34:52.719 --> 00:34:59.119
So I'm a little bit that that honestly was a really nice cherry on top for me, where I was like, I like this.
00:34:59.280 --> 00:35:02.079
I like the energy that's going around here.
00:35:02.320 --> 00:35:02.960
Kind of like that.
00:35:03.280 --> 00:35:09.920
Yeah, you should follow up very seriously and say, excuse me.
00:35:10.159 --> 00:35:13.920
You should say, what about like thank you so much?
00:35:14.000 --> 00:35:16.320
Uh we get quoted for the Invisalign.
00:35:16.719 --> 00:35:19.280
Uh, you know, thank you for the checkup.
00:35:19.360 --> 00:35:21.519
Uh, you know, this question here.
00:35:22.239 --> 00:35:26.000
Also, when are we thinking for Avalon?
00:35:26.239 --> 00:35:27.360
What dates?
00:35:27.679 --> 00:35:34.800
Because I can take off my PTO on this time window.
00:35:35.119 --> 00:35:37.840
So I'm eyeing the end of August.
00:35:38.000 --> 00:35:40.719
Is this good for you question, Mark?
00:35:40.960 --> 00:35:43.360
And how about you, Tabitha?
00:35:43.679 --> 00:35:44.239
Or whatever.
00:35:45.760 --> 00:35:47.119
Tabitha's it, yeah.
00:35:47.360 --> 00:35:48.239
That's right.
00:35:48.480 --> 00:35:50.000
So, I mean, yeah.
00:35:50.159 --> 00:35:52.159
I I that'll be uh very funny.
00:35:53.360 --> 00:35:56.480
Maybe I could get maybe I'll get a discount on the Invisalign for that.
00:35:56.880 --> 00:36:00.719
Maybe you get wasted and they give you Invisalign uh down the beach.
00:36:01.119 --> 00:36:06.239
They're like, you're like all at Avalon and and they're just like, you know what?
00:36:06.320 --> 00:36:08.320
I just got some in my purse.
00:36:10.159 --> 00:36:10.719
I don't know.
00:36:10.880 --> 00:36:14.960
I don't know really what I think you have to get fitted for it and it's a whole process.
00:36:15.039 --> 00:36:20.159
But yeah, how funny would that be if they had that in the The vendor's a close friend.
00:36:20.320 --> 00:36:21.360
You just hand them out.
00:36:26.400 --> 00:36:29.519
He goes down oceans, he goes to Wildwood.
00:36:30.480 --> 00:36:31.280
Loser.
00:36:33.199 --> 00:36:36.880
But um Yeah, so that was my dentist experience.
00:36:37.039 --> 00:36:38.880
Um I don't know, we'll see.
00:36:38.960 --> 00:36:40.480
It was a first it was a first appointment.
00:36:41.360 --> 00:36:41.519
We'll see.
00:36:42.480 --> 00:36:43.360
First dates are weird.
00:36:43.519 --> 00:36:44.880
It was a first appointment.
00:36:45.199 --> 00:36:47.599
I'll have to see if I'm calling back.
00:36:48.639 --> 00:36:49.440
Got a follow-up.
00:36:49.599 --> 00:36:50.159
Follow up on the street.
00:36:50.400 --> 00:36:50.719
Don't ghost.
00:36:50.880 --> 00:36:52.320
Whatever you do, don't ghost.
00:36:52.639 --> 00:36:55.840
We'll just we'll just be wondering what happened.
00:36:56.159 --> 00:36:56.480
That's right.
00:36:59.119 --> 00:37:01.920
Now, Alex here, do we want to dip in?
00:37:02.079 --> 00:37:05.679
Do you want to dip into um a little sports chat?
00:37:05.920 --> 00:37:08.719
Do we think it's uh I think it's time.
00:37:09.199 --> 00:37:10.000
Dip on in.
00:37:10.159 --> 00:37:12.559
We've got now, this is probably a good time, man.
00:37:12.719 --> 00:37:13.519
We waited.
00:37:13.760 --> 00:37:17.440
A lot of people want to hear about the Jalen Brown trade of the Sixers.
00:37:17.599 --> 00:37:19.039
People were talking about it.
00:37:19.519 --> 00:37:20.719
He said, no.
00:37:21.599 --> 00:37:22.000
Wait on it.
00:37:22.159 --> 00:37:22.880
There's more.
00:37:23.039 --> 00:37:24.159
There's more to come.
00:37:24.559 --> 00:37:28.159
This is clearly a multiple uh moving parts.
00:37:28.400 --> 00:37:30.400
There's multiple moving parts happening here.
00:37:30.559 --> 00:37:34.000
We we could identify that as veteran Philly fans.
00:37:34.320 --> 00:37:34.880
Oh yeah.
00:37:35.039 --> 00:37:35.679
Oh yeah.
00:37:35.840 --> 00:37:48.079
Calm before the storm calm before the storm, dream team, we're about to assemble, and um we were rewarded handsomely with um the greatest player of all time.
00:37:48.400 --> 00:37:49.440
There I said it.
00:37:49.840 --> 00:38:02.559
There I said I am so mad that I am not, I haven't been recorded making the case prior to him coming to Philadelphia because he's always been our generation's greatest player of all time.
00:38:02.800 --> 00:38:06.719
Now, some of you might be saying, oh, it's only because he's on the Sixers.
00:38:07.039 --> 00:38:07.519
Maybe.
00:38:07.840 --> 00:38:23.280
But also I have always felt like the league that he had to operate in was a much different league than the league that Michael Jordan had to operate in financially.
00:38:24.079 --> 00:38:31.519
The I would say the the actual talent level across the league was very different.
00:38:31.840 --> 00:38:35.920
And the size of the league, there's physically more teams after expansion.
00:38:36.159 --> 00:38:39.599
And so much harder for what LeBron's done.
00:38:39.679 --> 00:38:48.719
And and he's navigated it perfectly because he's now gotten to Philadelphia at the end of the process.
00:38:49.440 --> 00:38:51.599
The end of the process here.
00:38:52.400 --> 00:38:54.480
It is it is crazy.
00:38:54.639 --> 00:38:56.480
I I have I have a lot of thoughts.
00:38:56.639 --> 00:38:57.840
I have a lot of thoughts.
00:38:58.159 --> 00:39:05.119
I I wanted, I had, I wrote out, I was on a run, and you could probably see it in the in the notes here, Alex.
00:39:05.199 --> 00:39:11.119
But I I went on this huge analogy about what his changing teams has been like.
00:39:11.280 --> 00:39:26.480
And the analogy I wanted to use was it's a lot like getting a tattoo, uh, where the first one, he's in Cleveland, he's the hometown kid, he was the chosen one.
00:39:26.639 --> 00:39:27.679
It's this big thing.
00:39:27.760 --> 00:39:34.639
And now the first time he's going to look for a different team, it is it's a big deal.
00:39:34.800 --> 00:39:36.480
A lot of thought goes into it.
00:39:36.559 --> 00:39:38.559
It's a big decision.
00:39:38.800 --> 00:39:39.440
Anyone?
00:39:39.599 --> 00:39:40.079
Hello.
00:39:40.800 --> 00:39:41.840
Big decision.
00:39:42.079 --> 00:39:44.960
He has the decision, a televised event.
00:39:45.039 --> 00:39:46.079
It's a big deal.
00:39:46.239 --> 00:39:47.360
What does he go for?
00:39:47.519 --> 00:39:48.960
What's his first thing?
00:39:49.280 --> 00:39:53.360
He goes almost literally to the villainous.
00:39:53.679 --> 00:39:56.800
He's got his college rebellious years.
00:39:56.880 --> 00:39:57.840
He's got four years.
00:39:57.920 --> 00:39:58.639
He never went to college.
00:39:58.719 --> 00:40:00.559
He went straight from high school to the NBA.
00:40:00.719 --> 00:40:01.840
He goes to college.
00:40:02.000 --> 00:40:06.159
He has his rebellious, he's he's literally donning a black jersey.
00:40:06.320 --> 00:40:09.280
He has now become the villain of the NBA.
00:40:09.360 --> 00:40:10.639
He's on a super team.
00:40:10.880 --> 00:40:13.920
He's exploring, he's figuring things out.
00:40:14.079 --> 00:40:16.639
He's at the peak of his athletic powers.
00:40:16.880 --> 00:40:20.400
And to me, that is like a lion kind of tattoo.
00:40:20.480 --> 00:40:21.760
It's your first one.
00:40:21.920 --> 00:40:22.719
It's powerful.
00:40:22.800 --> 00:40:24.079
You're in college.
00:40:24.239 --> 00:40:32.559
You're like, this is gonna be something, uh, it's gonna be awesome, it's gonna be crazy, it's gonna be bold, it's gonna be big.
00:40:32.800 --> 00:40:37.440
I'm trying things, I'm trying out a new identity because I'm in college.
00:40:37.599 --> 00:40:38.480
This is what I'm doing.
00:40:38.559 --> 00:40:39.760
I'm experimenting.
00:40:40.000 --> 00:40:42.880
So that's that's the kind of thing that's going on.
00:40:43.119 --> 00:40:46.159
He then goes, what's he do next?
00:40:46.400 --> 00:40:49.119
He goes back to Cleveland.
00:40:49.360 --> 00:40:50.159
What happens?
00:40:50.320 --> 00:40:53.199
Now, a lot of people, first tattoo, difficult.
00:40:53.360 --> 00:40:54.960
Alex, you're a tattoo guy.
00:40:55.039 --> 00:40:56.639
You've got one tattoo.
00:40:56.960 --> 00:41:06.239
Second tattoo, it's a little bit more thoughtful, only because the first one, for him, it was very big.
00:41:06.400 --> 00:41:10.159
It was very, it was, it was towards his experimental.
00:41:10.320 --> 00:41:12.239
So for the second one, what does he do?
00:41:12.400 --> 00:41:15.920
He goes more thoughtful, more family, more rooted.
00:41:16.000 --> 00:41:17.519
He goes back to Cleveland.
00:41:17.679 --> 00:41:26.559
This is like, you know, in those tattoos you see, you've got like the family crest, or you've got like the, you know, the the like emblem or the thing.
00:41:26.719 --> 00:41:29.119
This is that's that tattoo, right?
00:41:29.440 --> 00:41:35.519
So he's kind of got that second stage where he's kind of been like, all right, I went crazy.
00:41:35.760 --> 00:41:41.199
Now I'm going into a like a different type of thing.
00:41:41.519 --> 00:41:42.880
I give you a long leash here.
00:41:42.960 --> 00:41:44.079
I give you a really long leash.
00:41:44.239 --> 00:41:44.639
I'm still going.
00:41:45.440 --> 00:41:48.719
I know, I know, but I just gotta eject here a little bit.
00:41:49.199 --> 00:41:51.599
You you don't have a single tattoo, right?
00:41:51.760 --> 00:41:53.360
You don't have a single tattoo.
00:41:53.599 --> 00:41:54.400
I shouldn't.
00:41:55.039 --> 00:42:00.639
And this this is an analogy that I am doing my very best to try to follow.
00:42:00.800 --> 00:42:00.960
Okay.
00:42:01.199 --> 00:42:06.320
But you are generalizing everybody's first tattoo and second tattoo.
00:42:06.639 --> 00:42:10.639
I'm just talking about LeBron's symbolic tattoos.
00:42:10.880 --> 00:42:17.519
I'm talking about LeBron's symbolic tattoos and the way that he has put them on.
00:42:17.760 --> 00:42:24.480
This is this is unique to LeBron, and I've just used the analogy, which I think is a fun thing.
00:42:24.639 --> 00:42:26.880
Now, the third one, I'm doing my Colin Coward, Alex.
00:42:27.039 --> 00:42:27.280
Get in there.
00:42:27.360 --> 00:42:27.760
Get in there.
00:42:28.480 --> 00:42:29.199
Starbucks.
00:42:29.360 --> 00:42:30.239
This is yeah.
00:42:30.400 --> 00:42:32.559
Anyway, um, third one.
00:42:32.719 --> 00:42:38.079
What it now he he's gone, he's done the college thing, he's come back.
00:42:38.239 --> 00:42:39.679
What's his third one?
00:42:39.920 --> 00:42:43.679
He now, now he the floodgates are open a little bit.
00:42:44.159 --> 00:42:45.599
He's got a little taste for the ink.
00:42:45.679 --> 00:42:45.920
Yeah.
00:42:46.159 --> 00:42:48.159
He's got a little bit of taste for the ink, right?
00:42:48.239 --> 00:42:52.320
And now he's kind of going, okay, I have done it.
00:42:52.400 --> 00:42:57.039
I've done the college thing, won championships, went back to home, won a championship.
00:42:57.119 --> 00:42:58.400
Now I don't have to prove as much.
00:42:58.480 --> 00:42:59.440
You know what I got to do?
00:42:59.679 --> 00:43:01.119
I, it's showtime.
00:43:01.280 --> 00:43:02.880
It is showtime Lakers.
00:43:02.960 --> 00:43:04.000
I'm in LA.
00:43:04.159 --> 00:43:05.840
I gotta tie this whole thing together.
00:43:05.920 --> 00:43:07.440
We're talking sleeves.
00:43:07.599 --> 00:43:11.679
We're talking, Alex, we're talking, we're talking the story.
00:43:11.840 --> 00:43:13.760
We're tying things together.
00:43:14.000 --> 00:43:15.440
We are flashing back.
00:43:15.519 --> 00:43:17.039
He's turning into Alex.
00:43:17.199 --> 00:43:23.360
He led the league in the bubble, won the championship, and led the league in assists.
00:43:23.599 --> 00:43:25.840
A la Magic Johnson.
00:43:26.400 --> 00:43:35.440
Alex, this next tattoo is a throwback, a tip of the cap to everybody that's been there before.
00:43:35.760 --> 00:43:40.000
This is now a nod to the OGs.
00:43:40.320 --> 00:43:42.239
This is that's him in LA.
00:43:42.400 --> 00:43:52.800
This is him pushing himself out there further and saying, I have actualized, I've won the championships, I am now, I am doing the things I have done.
00:43:52.880 --> 00:43:54.960
He played with his son, for God's sakes.
00:43:55.119 --> 00:43:55.840
Holy shit.
00:43:55.920 --> 00:43:57.119
That's a full sleeve.
00:43:57.199 --> 00:43:58.000
That's a full sleeve.
00:43:58.159 --> 00:43:59.840
He handed the ball to Karim Abdul Jabbar.
00:44:00.159 --> 00:44:10.639
And passed the all-time leading record for scoring in a Lakers uniform, which was previously held by a Lakers, Karim Abujabar.
00:44:10.800 --> 00:44:11.119
Yeah.
00:44:11.440 --> 00:44:12.079
Similar thing.
00:44:12.400 --> 00:44:13.039
Excellent.
00:44:13.199 --> 00:44:13.599
Excellent.
00:44:13.760 --> 00:44:21.119
It was a it was a tip of the cap to the league, to the Lakers, to everybody, fans of basketball.
00:44:21.440 --> 00:44:24.400
Now, he comes to Philly.
00:44:24.559 --> 00:44:25.599
What is it?
00:44:26.000 --> 00:44:29.440
This is a drunk dive bar.
00:44:29.840 --> 00:44:31.760
I'm talking barbed wire.
00:44:31.920 --> 00:44:33.599
I'm talking barbed wire.
00:44:33.760 --> 00:44:35.280
I'm talking iron.
00:44:36.239 --> 00:44:38.880
I don't know how I like the hole.
00:44:41.760 --> 00:44:43.440
I didn't like it in the beginning.
00:44:45.440 --> 00:44:47.760
This is the end of it.
00:44:47.920 --> 00:44:50.480
This is I don't give a shit.
00:44:50.639 --> 00:44:52.000
I got so much ink anyway.
00:44:52.159 --> 00:44:53.039
No one's gonna see it.
00:44:53.199 --> 00:44:53.519
Here you go.
00:44:53.840 --> 00:44:58.880
Buy one, get one off on this concert.
00:44:59.119 --> 00:44:59.599
That's right.
00:45:00.000 --> 00:45:03.679
He's hammered, he's drinking wine with JJ Reddick on the podcast.
00:45:03.760 --> 00:45:04.559
He doesn't care.
00:45:04.800 --> 00:45:06.079
He's the game.
00:45:06.480 --> 00:45:08.559
He's on the end of it.
00:45:08.719 --> 00:45:09.679
It's an island.
00:45:10.000 --> 00:45:11.440
He's got like a sailor.
00:45:11.679 --> 00:45:13.199
He goes like a like a mom.
00:45:13.440 --> 00:45:13.840
What is it?
00:45:13.920 --> 00:45:17.920
You know, like that little heart with the mom through it.
00:45:18.000 --> 00:45:18.239
Yeah.
00:45:18.400 --> 00:45:20.880
Anyway, that's the end of my tattoo rant.
00:45:21.039 --> 00:45:24.800
But um I'm definitely gonna talk about basketball.
00:45:25.039 --> 00:45:31.840
When he's talking about tattoos, Alex, when he's getting them, he's getting not one, not two, not three, not four.
00:45:32.000 --> 00:45:33.679
He's gonna keep on getting them.
00:45:33.840 --> 00:45:37.679
An ode to his decision days where he talked about championships.
00:45:37.840 --> 00:45:39.360
But um really good.
00:45:39.519 --> 00:45:39.840
Yeah.
00:45:40.000 --> 00:45:42.960
So anyway, that was the tattoo analogy I I came up with.
00:45:43.039 --> 00:45:44.480
That's my my sports writer.
00:45:44.639 --> 00:45:47.519
If I had an article, this is what I'd write it out as.
00:45:47.599 --> 00:45:52.000
This would be my my template, and I'd I'd really, really tasty stuff.
00:45:52.159 --> 00:45:57.199
I did not love the beginning, but you really, I'll be honest, you won me over by the end.
00:45:57.360 --> 00:45:58.559
You won me over by the end.
00:45:58.719 --> 00:46:00.800
I thought it was it was messy.
00:46:00.960 --> 00:46:01.760
I didn't know where you were going.
00:46:01.840 --> 00:46:02.880
I think you're offended.
00:46:03.760 --> 00:46:04.880
A good edit there.
00:46:05.119 --> 00:46:08.639
This is a LeBron tattoo thing.
00:46:08.880 --> 00:46:11.360
This is like his journey with tattoos.
00:46:11.519 --> 00:46:13.280
Anyway, I digress.
00:46:13.440 --> 00:46:17.199
It's just a little bit of storytelling to talk about how we got here.
00:46:17.360 --> 00:46:21.360
Now, having said all that, this doesn't fit into the analogy.
00:46:21.599 --> 00:46:23.119
A couple of thoughts I have.
00:46:23.199 --> 00:46:25.760
And now I know we're not talking about basketball.
00:46:25.840 --> 00:46:29.840
We're talking more about the like the legacy, the story of it.
00:46:30.079 --> 00:46:32.239
Um, because we're very off season.
00:46:32.400 --> 00:46:34.719
We have plenty of time talking about the basketball, I think.
00:46:34.800 --> 00:46:36.960
So we'll talk about this again.
00:46:37.679 --> 00:46:38.960
We'll sink our teeth into it.
00:46:39.039 --> 00:46:40.800
The the lineups that we can do.
00:46:40.960 --> 00:46:42.400
They got Coldwell Pope.
00:46:42.559 --> 00:46:42.960
Did you see that?
00:46:43.199 --> 00:46:43.760
Coldwell Pope.
00:46:44.079 --> 00:46:48.159
Fun little pickup, the rotations, the positional change.
00:46:48.559 --> 00:46:49.519
Very, very exciting.
00:46:49.599 --> 00:46:50.159
We'll get into that.
00:46:50.480 --> 00:46:51.119
Very exciting.
00:46:51.440 --> 00:46:52.239
Legacy talk.
00:46:52.800 --> 00:46:54.079
We just got LeBron James.
00:46:54.159 --> 00:46:57.760
So we got to talk about James.
00:46:59.920 --> 00:47:00.800
Thank you.
00:47:01.119 --> 00:47:05.760
Now, yeah, let's I like this X this note that you're building towards here, because this is interesting.
00:47:07.760 --> 00:47:08.800
I got a couple more thoughts here.
00:47:08.960 --> 00:47:10.320
But do you want me to go in?
00:47:12.079 --> 00:47:14.239
Much like LeBron, Alex, I can assist as well.
00:47:14.400 --> 00:47:17.440
Do you want to go a little keys here?
00:47:17.760 --> 00:47:20.639
As a teammate, I can see when someone's on fire.
00:47:20.719 --> 00:47:24.559
And you're a bad teammate if you take a shot while somebody else is on fire.
00:47:24.639 --> 00:47:25.360
Do you know what I mean?
00:47:25.840 --> 00:47:29.360
You don't call a timeout when you got a player on fire.
00:47:29.519 --> 00:47:31.360
You let the hot hand ride.
00:47:31.519 --> 00:47:31.840
Okay?
00:47:32.320 --> 00:47:34.960
And I see what you got coming up here, and I'm excited about it.
00:47:35.039 --> 00:47:39.199
So I kind of want to, I'm more curious about what you're about to say here with this next bullet.
00:47:39.519 --> 00:47:48.880
I'll cross some T's, dot some I's, because as far as the legacy is concerned, you phenomenally brought up the Kareem Abdul Jabbar.
00:47:48.960 --> 00:47:55.199
Now, a little bit of basketball history for anyone that's just, you know, casual listener, doesn't really like sports on our podcast.
00:47:55.599 --> 00:48:03.599
But LeBron James was drafted into the NBA at 18 years old in 2003.
00:48:04.559 --> 00:48:05.519
We are going.
00:48:05.840 --> 00:48:06.639
We are going.
00:48:06.800 --> 00:48:08.800
This is nuts, you guys.
00:48:09.039 --> 00:48:11.360
23 years playing.
00:48:11.519 --> 00:48:14.960
He has been in the NBA longer than he hasn't been in the NBA.
00:48:15.039 --> 00:48:16.880
And that's been for some time now.
00:48:17.199 --> 00:48:26.400
And he's not just been in the NBA, he has been an all-NBA player, which is a top 15 player for majority of those years.
00:48:26.719 --> 00:48:28.400
He's like literally an all-star every year.
00:48:28.559 --> 00:48:29.119
It's crazy.
00:48:29.519 --> 00:48:31.039
Every yeah, pretty much.
00:48:31.199 --> 00:48:35.039
And on top of it, the longevity is the important thing.
00:48:35.199 --> 00:48:37.519
Like the most impressive thing, I would say.
00:48:37.760 --> 00:48:42.480
Now, I think that makes him one of the one of the all-time GOATs.
00:48:42.639 --> 00:48:45.920
Now, when we talk about GOATs, there's only a few.
00:48:46.880 --> 00:48:49.119
Greatest of all time, acronym GOAT.
00:48:49.519 --> 00:48:50.239
There's only a couple.
00:48:50.559 --> 00:48:51.280
Obviously, Jordan.
00:48:52.239 --> 00:48:53.440
LeBron is up there.
00:48:54.079 --> 00:48:56.480
Another one, Will Chamberlain.
00:48:57.199 --> 00:49:01.840
People, if you don't know, Will Chamberlain was 7-1.
00:49:02.320 --> 00:49:03.679
This is pre-MBA.
00:49:03.760 --> 00:49:12.400
He he walks into the NBA early days of the NBA, is going against Bill Russell and the Celtics and their 10 championships.
00:49:12.559 --> 00:49:16.400
He is the colossal, absolutely strong man.
00:49:16.559 --> 00:49:18.719
He was in a couple movies as well.
00:49:19.280 --> 00:49:26.239
He is a Herculan type figure that happened to play basketball.
00:49:26.480 --> 00:49:31.679
And he was on the Philadelphia 76ers.
00:49:32.000 --> 00:49:40.639
He was on the Sixers and ends up being this incredibly huge figure that lost to great teams.
00:49:41.440 --> 00:49:47.440
He then goes to the Lakers to win championships because he couldn't.
00:49:47.760 --> 00:49:56.320
He wanted to go with, I think it was Jerry Wess and Elgin Baylor, I think, was some of the teams as well.
00:49:56.800 --> 00:49:57.679
Some of those players.
00:49:57.840 --> 00:50:02.639
Anyway, to me, this feels like a reverse Wilt Chamberlain.
00:50:02.719 --> 00:50:06.239
We're going now from the Lakers to the Sixers.
00:50:06.320 --> 00:50:18.559
This is like a like a full circle with the GOAT ending his career and hopefully winning championships in the career.
00:50:19.199 --> 00:50:20.239
In the documentary.
00:50:20.960 --> 00:50:30.960
Now, Jake, what if what if he's able to score 100 points like Wilt once did in a 76ers uniform?
00:50:31.119 --> 00:50:32.719
Now that would be crazy.
00:50:33.119 --> 00:50:37.599
The NBA, the last couple of years, the scoring has gotten crazy, especially in the beginning of the regular season.
00:50:37.760 --> 00:50:41.760
People have scored like like and Bede scored 70 one game.
00:50:42.159 --> 00:50:45.119
Against Remignana, and he didn't play the fourth.
00:50:45.440 --> 00:50:50.960
And Bam, Bam uh scored like what, 83 this past year or something like that?
00:50:51.119 --> 00:50:51.360
This season?
00:50:52.719 --> 00:50:52.960
Yeah.
00:50:53.119 --> 00:50:53.920
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:50:54.159 --> 00:50:57.039
And so it's not like crazy to think.
00:50:57.119 --> 00:51:01.280
What if LeBron just like plays, we play like an awful team.
00:51:01.440 --> 00:51:02.400
A really bad team.
00:51:02.480 --> 00:51:03.119
It's life for him.
00:51:04.159 --> 00:51:05.280
They just try and get it in everyone.
00:51:05.599 --> 00:51:10.000
All force feed him the whole game to get on the record.
00:51:10.320 --> 00:51:12.800
That would be nuts.
00:51:13.039 --> 00:51:18.559
And also, I cannot wait to go to these games.
00:51:18.880 --> 00:51:21.119
I am so excited.
00:51:21.280 --> 00:51:25.039
The price probably minimum.
00:51:25.199 --> 00:51:25.599
Minimum.
00:51:25.840 --> 00:51:26.079
Yeah.
00:51:26.559 --> 00:51:27.280
Oh man.
00:51:27.519 --> 00:51:28.400
He just bumped us.
00:51:28.559 --> 00:51:33.199
He just bumped us from uh like second row to like the bleeders.
00:51:33.280 --> 00:51:33.599
But hey.
00:51:33.920 --> 00:51:34.480
Standing room.
00:51:35.119 --> 00:51:36.159
I don't care.
00:51:36.639 --> 00:51:36.960
No.
00:51:37.519 --> 00:51:38.159
Yeah.
00:51:38.480 --> 00:51:38.960
Not at all.
00:51:39.599 --> 00:51:51.519
I mean it's a very cool thing to see like the um to have like just a bigger impact in basketball because I don't think he plays after.
00:51:51.679 --> 00:51:55.599
I mean, maybe he could do like a Tom Brady played a 45.
00:51:56.400 --> 00:52:00.159
But um this is his last decision.
00:52:00.239 --> 00:52:00.800
He said that.
00:52:00.880 --> 00:52:01.119
Yeah.
00:52:01.519 --> 00:52:01.679
Yeah.
00:52:02.000 --> 00:52:05.519
So he's gonna retire a sixer, Jake.
00:52:06.400 --> 00:52:07.119
Kind of crazy.
00:52:07.760 --> 00:52:08.639
Nuts to me.
00:52:08.800 --> 00:52:10.960
And it's crazy because he's still good.
00:52:11.280 --> 00:52:18.000
He averaged like 26 and 6 last year, like 18, something like that.
00:52:18.320 --> 00:52:21.199
He beat the Rockets in a series last year.
00:52:21.920 --> 00:52:23.199
He beat them in the playoffs.
00:52:23.360 --> 00:52:30.159
He beat, he took it a good team, the Rockets, out of the playoffs pretty much by himself because Luca was hurt and they had a lot of injuries.
00:52:30.320 --> 00:52:32.320
I think uh Austin Reeves was kind of hurt.
00:52:32.400 --> 00:52:39.440
So by himself, he dragged together the rest of the Lakers team to beat the uh the Rockets last year.
00:52:39.679 --> 00:52:44.400
I mean, dude, like we could each round go, okay, Embiid, it's your series.
00:52:44.480 --> 00:52:47.199
You knocked off the Celtics last year, do it this year.
00:52:47.360 --> 00:52:50.880
Okay, this next series, uh Jalen Brown, your turn.
00:52:51.039 --> 00:52:53.920
Okay, this series, okay, now it's LeBron's turn.
00:52:54.079 --> 00:52:59.840
And they just like are like these like superheroes, just kind of like, okay, your turn, my turn.
00:52:59.920 --> 00:53:01.440
It's like the Justice League almost.
00:53:01.599 --> 00:53:01.920
Yeah.
00:53:02.079 --> 00:53:03.679
Uh I heard uh assembled.
00:53:03.920 --> 00:53:24.719
I heard some reports that he might play point guard, which would kind of be awesome to have all of these other players and be like, and he's like, I think one of the things that makes him so great is he's he's such a great basketball mind, and I think he's he's very smart, especially in his older age of like putting people in the right positions.
00:53:24.800 --> 00:53:26.000
I think it'd be awesome.
00:53:26.159 --> 00:53:30.639
If like Maxie does not take the ball up, he just gets open corner threes.
00:53:30.880 --> 00:53:31.280
Do you remember?
00:53:32.559 --> 00:53:33.280
Remember James Harden?
00:53:33.519 --> 00:53:37.119
Remember James Harden led the league in assists with Embiid and Maxie next to him?
00:53:37.199 --> 00:53:38.880
And Maxie was great off ball.
00:53:39.039 --> 00:53:40.079
Maxie's awesome.
00:53:40.239 --> 00:53:46.880
He he had to go into the role of like primary ball handler, but that doesn't mean he has to do that role.
00:53:47.039 --> 00:53:52.719
And he's actually probably better suited off ball on catch and shoot and coming off of screens.
00:53:52.960 --> 00:53:54.480
Dude, he's so fast.
00:53:54.960 --> 00:53:59.599
He is going to be flying around the court with, I think, really good gravity.
00:53:59.679 --> 00:54:09.599
And then also the the threat of that shot, if he's hitting a high clip of catch and shoot threes, then he doesn't even need to do barely a pump fake.
00:54:09.679 --> 00:54:14.639
And when he catches it from LeBron, barely a pump fake, and then he's gonna be into the paint.
00:54:14.800 --> 00:54:17.280
People are gonna collapse wide open threes.
00:54:17.440 --> 00:54:19.760
Or they might not even awesome.
00:54:20.400 --> 00:54:21.519
They might not even collapse.
00:54:21.599 --> 00:54:23.920
They might respect everyone else, and you we might get some.
00:54:24.079 --> 00:54:31.920
I mean, Maxi might just be driving and taking his man off ball, first step, and taking it all the way, just because what are you gonna do?
00:54:32.159 --> 00:54:34.559
Sag off of any of the other guys?
00:54:34.719 --> 00:54:37.039
Because all of them can make their own shots.
00:54:37.119 --> 00:54:37.920
You don't want to get off of them.
00:54:38.079 --> 00:54:46.960
Now that's the craziest thing is um LeBron, even though he is what 42?
00:54:47.360 --> 00:54:48.159
42 now?
00:54:49.199 --> 00:54:49.920
42, yeah.
00:54:50.880 --> 00:54:55.840
He last year was third in the league in fast break points.
00:54:56.639 --> 00:55:04.159
The craziest part about that stat is number two was Jalen Brown, and number one was Tyrese Maxie.
00:55:04.880 --> 00:55:15.519
It's it's bonkers because I feel like ever since the team has been built about uh around Embiid, it's been like a slow, lethargic team.
00:55:15.840 --> 00:55:21.199
And now you have three of the best fast break scorers in the league.
00:55:21.760 --> 00:55:29.199
Vijay, Vijay Edgecombe is like 13th, I think, but he's also young and might be the most athletic of all of them.
00:55:29.599 --> 00:55:31.679
He's just the youngest, you know?
00:55:31.920 --> 00:55:36.480
And like he can jump out of the gym and uh he's nuts.
00:55:36.639 --> 00:55:37.119
Yeah.
00:55:37.440 --> 00:55:38.079
Yeah.
00:55:38.400 --> 00:55:52.079
It is gonna be an incredible the whole thing is gonna be trying to manage the workload and getting everyone in position and also probably defensively, what everyone's doing and making sure.
00:55:52.239 --> 00:55:55.039
Like obviously, Embiid's health is gonna be the biggest thing.
00:55:55.280 --> 00:55:57.760
Backup center, who do you have?
00:55:58.000 --> 00:55:58.960
It would be great.
00:55:59.119 --> 00:56:08.400
I wouldn't be shocked if before the trade deadline they trade for a backup center that's like a real veteran that can be.
00:56:09.440 --> 00:56:13.599
I was thinking it could be a point guard, too, because what if phylon doesn't work out?
00:56:13.679 --> 00:56:14.480
I hope he does.
00:56:14.559 --> 00:56:17.679
I'm optimistic he will, but that could be another thing.
00:56:17.840 --> 00:56:22.239
Uh he's a rookie, LeBaron, Phylon, and now we have LeBaron and LeBron.
00:56:22.719 --> 00:56:23.840
That's gonna be fun.
00:56:24.000 --> 00:56:28.639
Um and then also Caldwell Pulp is interesting.
00:56:28.719 --> 00:56:31.039
We talked about Dean Wade a bit.
00:56:31.199 --> 00:57:04.719
I mean, Dean Wade's an awesome backup three or backup four, and a shooting guard as well with Simons, I think really rounds out a good uh separate, diverse group of skill sets off the bench, like really interesting chess pieces you can enter into the game and mix in with the other group and add different things for an opponent to think about and have to change and adapt to.
00:57:05.039 --> 00:57:19.280
And if Embiid is unhealthy, Hakporti and Adem Bona, I think they're going to look the best they ever have if LeBron is playing point guard.
00:57:19.599 --> 00:57:23.360
I think he's gonna make them look better than they ever have.
00:57:23.440 --> 00:57:29.599
They're both young, close to seven footers that are athletic and can run and like rim run.
00:57:30.079 --> 00:57:35.199
And I I loved Bona Minutes as far as effort and hustle.
00:57:35.519 --> 00:57:38.400
It was just like, yeah, he just wasn't polished.
00:57:38.480 --> 00:57:40.400
He's not like a polished player, you know.
00:57:40.559 --> 00:57:48.400
Yeah, he's not gonna like shoot very well or like even putbacks, he wasn't great, but blocking, he was great.
00:57:48.639 --> 00:57:53.920
He was great at like he's so athletic, jumping up, timing the shot.
00:57:54.159 --> 00:58:00.320
People don't expect his athleticism, and then he was getting some really nice blocks throughout the season.
00:58:00.559 --> 00:58:05.360
That was one of my favorite parts, along with him running the the the um the court.
00:58:05.760 --> 00:58:07.360
He that'll be really fun.
00:58:07.519 --> 00:58:23.039
I think it'll be interesting too if even if you take off, think about if you take off Maxie, he's like a Mono Genobli sixth man, and you put on Dean Wade and the defensive ability of everyone.
00:58:23.360 --> 00:58:34.400
You keep VJ, maybe, just because of his athleticism, and then you've got Brown, Dean, LeBron, and then B, that's like a really strong defensive.
00:58:35.280 --> 00:58:51.840
Hell, put put um put um put Bona in there on defense too, and take off, you know, because because then you have like a big defensive group too, and LeBron, Jalen Brown can play two.
00:58:52.400 --> 00:59:00.159
Um it could it could be crazy, or you could run run it small, Jalen Brown is a four, like the flexibility too.
00:59:00.559 --> 00:59:21.039
You could you could do like an entire like a um like a hockey lineups where it's like run out the first where you just split up the starting five and do like a two and three, and do like a this five, that five, and just that way you could really do a lot of running and keep everyone fresh.
00:59:21.360 --> 00:59:29.840
They kind of did it last year where it was like embiad team versus the young, run and gun young guys that started the year.
00:59:29.920 --> 00:59:37.440
And then when the embiad came back, it was like, okay, and they were kind of already flip-flopping, so there's like some continuity in that with the core of the team.
00:59:37.679 --> 00:59:44.239
Now we add like two superstars, three or four like really quality role players.
00:59:44.400 --> 00:59:46.800
Like this is gonna be fun.
00:59:47.280 --> 01:00:01.039
What I love too is that um I don't know Dean Wade as much, but I think I think of him as like a big, like power forward forward that can kind of play multiple positions, even like a small ball center.
01:00:01.360 --> 01:00:04.960
And then I think Jalen Brown can play one through four.
01:00:05.280 --> 01:00:07.599
LeBron can play one through five.
01:00:08.000 --> 01:00:17.360
I think VJ can play one through three, and I think Tyrese can play one through one or two, maybe one through three, probably one through two, though.
01:00:17.519 --> 01:00:22.239
And like there's so many options of how you set the lineup.
01:00:22.320 --> 01:00:25.039
And I would actually, we never really did it much.
01:00:25.199 --> 01:00:44.480
I would love to see him beat a power forward with Bona at center and getting embied some matchups on like his power forward scoring on some of those guys where he could take some smaller power forwards down and do some like big man post-up stuff and really take advantage of some of the smaller lineups.
01:00:44.639 --> 01:00:47.679
So there could be a lot of fun, interesting stuff.
01:00:47.760 --> 01:00:54.320
The the most cool thing about this whole thing is how versatile they all are, all of them play multiple positions.
01:00:54.559 --> 01:01:01.440
To me, also it'll be LeBron communicating on offense and defense of organizing everybody.
01:01:01.679 --> 01:01:13.599
And so I think the team will look a lot better on defense because I love Embiid, but he's flawed as a communicator and as a leader on on defense.
01:01:13.760 --> 01:01:24.000
He's very like, but like if LeBron is leading and Jalen Brown is leading this team defensively, oh man.
01:01:24.159 --> 01:01:27.039
And then the like you mentioned the fast break.
01:01:27.280 --> 01:01:30.079
Play good defense, run the fast break.
01:01:30.320 --> 01:01:32.960
That wins a lot of games in the regular season.
01:01:33.039 --> 01:01:37.920
And then when it comes to the playoffs, fine, we'll play matchups in half court.
01:01:38.639 --> 01:01:39.920
They can do that too.
01:01:40.079 --> 01:01:42.639
Last thing I'll add, I want to add one last thing.
01:01:42.880 --> 01:01:43.920
Saw this today.
01:01:44.079 --> 01:01:48.159
Guess who they added as a player development person?
01:01:48.559 --> 01:01:49.760
Did you see this?
01:01:50.079 --> 01:01:54.079
No, I saw they added somebody to the coaching staff.
01:01:54.320 --> 01:02:00.960
They added somebody to the coaching staff to be an official player development coach.
01:02:01.199 --> 01:02:04.239
His name is Alan Iverson.
01:02:04.480 --> 01:02:07.519
Is officially on the team.
01:02:07.679 --> 01:02:11.760
So if they win the championship, he gets a ring.
01:02:12.159 --> 01:02:16.960
And that would be the most poetic Philly thing.
01:02:17.599 --> 01:02:20.400
That would be nuts.
01:02:20.559 --> 01:02:24.000
And it goes, it kind of goes along with what you're you're gonna say here.
01:02:24.079 --> 01:02:26.320
The the shot you want to call.
01:02:26.559 --> 01:02:26.880
Yep.
01:02:27.119 --> 01:02:32.480
It would be a it's the 250, the year 250.
01:02:33.119 --> 01:02:37.760
Like this year in Philly is just something's brewing.
01:02:38.000 --> 01:02:38.639
Something's brewing.
01:02:39.760 --> 01:02:40.000
Yeah.
01:02:40.159 --> 01:02:45.119
I mean, between hosting the home run derby was very cool.
01:02:45.360 --> 01:02:48.719
There was obviously the World Cup, the All-Star Game.
01:02:48.960 --> 01:03:00.719
Um, then you have yeah, the 250th anniversary of the country starting in Philadelphia and it in having that celebration, and then having a couple of things.
01:03:00.800 --> 01:03:25.119
I think now, before I call this, Alex, I I do want to say from LeBron's perspective, I think there is another legacy element to this where he has now gone from he's captured Cleveland, Miami, the Lakers, all of these people.
01:03:25.280 --> 01:03:38.159
I think, I think going to the Lakers and being there, it flipped a lot of LA fans on the MJ, LeBron kind of debate because they gave him, he gave them a championship.
01:03:38.239 --> 01:03:39.920
And that's a massive market.
01:03:40.000 --> 01:03:48.880
That's a lot of people that were like big NBA fans that now have a little bit of an edge to LeBron.
01:03:49.119 --> 01:03:56.559
You have people in Miami that's like there's this whole era, it captivated this whole big market.
01:03:57.039 --> 01:04:01.360
Then you had Cleveland, you had all the hometown people, you had this.
01:04:01.599 --> 01:04:17.840
I think Philly is such a crazed sports fandom that if when he retires, he has Philadelphia fans in his back pocket on top of all of these other people.
01:04:18.239 --> 01:04:29.280
I think he will have sports fans clamoring for him to be the greatest of all time for decades past him retiring.
01:04:29.519 --> 01:04:37.599
I think it is another group that will then be like these crazy neurotic fans for him.
01:04:37.760 --> 01:04:50.880
And not only that, this city put a statue for a guy who left the team, came back, and was on the team for like two years in Nick Foles.
01:04:51.599 --> 01:04:57.599
You know, he was here, he's a folk hero because he delivered a championship.
01:04:58.559 --> 01:05:03.519
I think LeBron, it's been since what, 83 since they last won?
01:05:03.840 --> 01:05:08.639
If he there is there are 50 some years, yeah.
01:05:08.880 --> 01:05:10.000
50 years, yeah.
01:05:10.400 --> 01:05:15.119
If he delivers a championship, I this is like Babe Ruth.
01:05:15.360 --> 01:05:22.559
When you look around all of baseball, there's like Baltimore has a small claim to Babe Ruth.
01:05:22.800 --> 01:05:26.480
You've got the Red Sox have a claim to to Babe Ruth.
01:05:26.639 --> 01:05:29.039
You've got the the Yankees have a claim.
01:05:29.280 --> 01:05:46.320
It's like Philadelphia, if he wins a championship, I guarantee we'll make a statue and they will say the greatest player of all time played here and ended his career here and had a hundred point game here.
01:05:46.719 --> 01:05:59.760
This guy, like, he if he wants to really put the cherry on top, he has an opportunity with a very good team to like hit all of the things, like he'll deliver.
01:06:00.960 --> 01:06:07.840
To a massive audience, this incredible thing, and everyone will say this is the greatest player of all time.
01:06:08.159 --> 01:06:10.159
Plus, he will have won in all these different places.
01:06:11.280 --> 01:06:12.719
The king is campaigning.
01:06:12.800 --> 01:06:14.800
Yeah, the king is campaigning.
01:06:15.280 --> 01:06:24.639
And uh and the the seems like the king, honestly, if you're playing like an RPG, if like you're a video game nerd, you you're getting close to completing it.
01:06:24.800 --> 01:06:26.239
You're getting close to completing it.
01:06:26.400 --> 01:06:28.800
You've done a lot of side quests that you kind of went over there.
01:06:29.119 --> 01:06:31.199
Playing with his son, for God's sakes.
01:06:31.519 --> 01:06:35.760
That was pretty pretty wild side quest.
01:06:36.079 --> 01:06:36.559
Yeah.
01:06:36.800 --> 01:06:42.800
There was a few years there where he's lobbying to play with his son, which he did for a year or two.
01:06:43.280 --> 01:06:49.039
And now I think this is gonna bring me back to I am calling it now Alex.
01:06:49.280 --> 01:06:50.000
Clip it.
01:06:50.239 --> 01:06:53.119
July 28th, 8.22 p.m.
01:06:53.760 --> 01:07:02.480
I think Philadelphia has a chance to the Phillies, they gotta, they gotta pick it up post All-Star Break.
01:07:02.880 --> 01:07:10.719
If they can get hot at the right time, they have a chance to sweep the major sports.
01:07:11.519 --> 01:07:13.199
They have a prime roster.
01:07:13.280 --> 01:07:14.960
Everyone is in their 30s.
01:07:15.119 --> 01:07:17.199
This is a Phillies roster.
01:07:17.360 --> 01:07:29.519
They have everyone, if they can get hot, win a World Series, then go and have the Eagles very good team, sleeper.
01:07:29.679 --> 01:07:31.440
I think the pressure's off.
01:07:31.679 --> 01:07:32.880
Very good roster.
01:07:33.039 --> 01:07:41.280
If they can get hot, win a Super Bowl, and then have the Sixers come in and win the NBA finals.
01:07:41.360 --> 01:07:42.800
I think they have a chance.
01:07:43.119 --> 01:07:46.400
Alex, July 28th, 8.22 p.m.
01:07:46.800 --> 01:07:55.760
I think they have a chance to do the three major sports sweep and win all three in this year.
01:07:56.320 --> 01:07:58.400
2026 into 2020.
01:07:59.280 --> 01:07:59.760
Book it.
01:07:59.920 --> 01:08:00.559
Book it.
01:08:01.119 --> 01:08:01.840
Book it.
01:08:02.719 --> 01:08:03.280
There it is.
01:08:03.840 --> 01:08:06.079
That would be absolutely insane.
01:08:06.320 --> 01:08:14.719
I think that would be like the closest I could come up with is like when Boston was winning all those championships, where it was like the Bruins in hockey would win.
01:08:14.800 --> 01:08:15.920
The Flyers are pretty good too.
01:08:16.079 --> 01:08:16.800
Flyers are pretty good.
01:08:17.279 --> 01:08:19.680
Celtics had the the KG victories.
01:08:20.960 --> 01:08:22.640
Red Sox are pretty good.
01:08:22.880 --> 01:08:24.960
Um pretty, yeah.
01:08:25.119 --> 01:08:25.680
Pretty good.
01:08:25.760 --> 01:08:28.560
I mean, the Patriots, of course, were in a dynasty.
01:08:28.800 --> 01:08:29.279
Yep.
01:08:29.680 --> 01:08:30.000
Yeah.
01:08:30.319 --> 01:08:31.680
Yeah, those are great.
01:08:32.079 --> 01:08:35.920
Late 2000s, early 2010s, Boston.
01:08:36.640 --> 01:08:39.600
I think might have been the closest to a sweep.
01:08:39.680 --> 01:08:42.159
Because even hockey, too, is crazy.
01:08:42.880 --> 01:08:43.279
Yeah.
01:08:45.840 --> 01:08:46.800
Yeah, I think so.
01:08:48.159 --> 01:08:48.960
Yeah, I think so.
01:08:49.039 --> 01:08:52.479
That would be pretty pretty awesome for the city.
01:08:52.720 --> 01:08:57.439
It's been a nuts year already, with like we said, with it with everything that's already been gone on and everything.
01:08:57.840 --> 01:09:00.000
But um that would be awesome.
01:09:00.319 --> 01:09:01.439
That would be really, really cool.
01:09:01.520 --> 01:09:04.319
Those would be those are my three main sports to watch.
01:09:04.640 --> 01:09:11.439
Um I don't watch too much hockey, but I will say it was very fun with the the Flyers being good this year, even just briefly.
01:09:11.520 --> 01:09:12.319
That was pretty fun.
01:09:13.439 --> 01:09:26.079
The uh it was funny with the LA guys in the group chat texting and saying, uh I moved to LA in 2019 and then now I move back to Philly, and LeBron's following me.
01:09:26.159 --> 01:09:30.000
It's a little a little suspect.
01:09:30.239 --> 01:09:31.600
A little suspect, LeBron.
01:09:32.000 --> 01:09:34.079
It's like, dude, it's obsessed with me, dude.
01:09:34.800 --> 01:09:35.439
It's crazy.
01:09:36.479 --> 01:09:37.279
Craziness.
01:09:38.239 --> 01:09:40.000
Um all right.
01:09:40.399 --> 01:09:42.079
I think we're getting towards the end here.
01:09:42.159 --> 01:09:43.600
There's a couple things though, Alex.
01:09:44.239 --> 01:09:47.199
I think you got a couple things you wanted to uh to chat about.
01:09:47.520 --> 01:09:51.199
Yeah, I'm looking at it here, and I'm looking at the time here.
01:09:51.359 --> 01:09:53.600
I'm also gauging my sleepiness.
01:09:53.680 --> 01:09:55.840
And I'm thinking why don't we why don't we close it?
01:09:55.920 --> 01:10:00.319
Maybe we could do a little couple uh a couple more of your patent cliffhangers, Alex.
01:10:00.399 --> 01:10:01.359
What do we got?
01:10:01.760 --> 01:10:05.359
Well, I told you I did line dancing already in the beginning of the episode.
01:10:05.439 --> 01:10:08.399
Now I think we should get to that at least.
01:10:08.560 --> 01:10:17.119
Um I'll do at least that, and then we can kind of get get get on to maybe a dinner party I went to.
01:10:17.439 --> 01:10:18.960
That was pretty fun.
01:10:19.359 --> 01:10:25.439
And uh and and a couple other things, but at least for this one, it was our friend Cassidy.
01:10:25.600 --> 01:10:28.800
She does the chaotic singles parties.
01:10:29.199 --> 01:10:40.640
So this is four singles folks to go out and have fun, get together, and this one happened to be now.
01:10:41.199 --> 01:10:46.640
Reason I went primarily is uh is your wife.
01:10:47.119 --> 01:10:54.720
We appreciate it if my wife shout to Lisa working the event goes and hooks Alex up.
01:10:54.960 --> 01:10:59.439
Yeah, she got me uh free, she got me in for free and told me about it.
01:10:59.600 --> 01:11:02.000
And um it's like sure, I'll go.
01:11:02.079 --> 01:11:05.279
We go we go to the city uh to Fishtown area.
01:11:05.439 --> 01:11:21.840
It's at this place, it is called Second Hand Ranch, and it's like a Western bar and it's line dancing, so like kind of Texas style, kind of two-step, little Texas two-step.
01:11:22.079 --> 01:11:24.479
And I I put on that's why I wore this shirt.
01:11:24.560 --> 01:11:28.399
I put I wore denim, all denim, Canadian tuxedo.
01:11:28.880 --> 01:11:33.119
Little uh little white undershirt to kind of rock in it.
01:11:33.199 --> 01:11:34.800
Well, we'll have the in the social stuff.
01:11:34.880 --> 01:11:36.720
Maybe we'll put a picture up or something.
01:11:36.880 --> 01:11:39.119
Um thumbnail, baby.
01:11:39.439 --> 01:11:42.319
But I go get uh get my name tag on.
01:11:42.399 --> 01:11:44.479
Now, the name tags you could do by age.
01:11:44.560 --> 01:11:47.680
You could do like if you're in your 20s, it's like a uh yellow one.
01:11:47.840 --> 01:11:49.520
If you're in your 30s, it's a blue one.
01:11:49.600 --> 01:11:51.119
If you're in your 40s, it's a red one.
01:11:51.199 --> 01:11:54.479
If you if you don't want people to know, you say, don't ask.
01:11:54.640 --> 01:11:56.479
That's a color you could do.
01:11:57.039 --> 01:11:58.960
Umsterious.
01:11:59.680 --> 01:12:05.920
I um I go there, I set up, I was at the bar for a little bit.
01:12:06.000 --> 01:12:06.880
I got a call from Mr.
01:12:07.039 --> 01:12:08.960
Carlos, and I was at the bar.
01:12:09.199 --> 01:12:12.560
You get a shot and a beer was the deal if you have the name tag on.
01:12:12.640 --> 01:12:19.359
So I went in, I kind of came in like they're already doing one of the lessons, and so I was like, ah, I kind of missed this lesson.
01:12:19.520 --> 01:12:25.119
So I put the name tag on, they go back out to the bar and I get my shot and a beer, and I'm talking to Carlos on the phone.
01:12:25.359 --> 01:12:33.920
Um, so not what I expected to do, but I was really garnering some attention from some folks, I think, because they're like, who's this guy?
01:12:34.239 --> 01:12:34.800
Picard.
01:12:35.039 --> 01:12:35.760
Who's this guy?
01:12:36.000 --> 01:12:39.600
He's look at him, he's here, but look at him, he's busy.
01:12:39.680 --> 01:12:41.520
He's a busy, he's a popular guy.
01:12:41.920 --> 01:12:43.520
Shot and a beer guy.
01:12:43.680 --> 01:12:46.880
And um so I got I get a little lathered up.
01:12:46.960 --> 01:13:01.119
I get, I get, I get my shot in a beer, and I then I walk in there, and I can just tell there's a lot of folks a little nervous, a little awkward, and I'm I'm lathered up and I feel good.
01:13:01.279 --> 01:13:07.760
I just talked to Carlos, and I'll be honest, I'm in a place in my dating life, letting it come to me, baby.
01:13:07.840 --> 01:13:10.000
I'm not chasing it, it's coming to me.
01:13:10.159 --> 01:13:12.079
I'm just gonna have a good time.
01:13:12.319 --> 01:13:29.680
And I go in there, we start, we start the beginning of the like setting up of where to stand, where everybody stands and everything, saying hello to some of the guys, saying hello to the girls, just like what's going on, making friends.
01:13:29.920 --> 01:13:34.560
Met a guy, and he wants to, he does a podcast.
01:13:34.720 --> 01:13:38.720
He wants he wants me to be on the podcast and said maybe he could come on our podcast.
01:13:38.960 --> 01:13:39.520
Look at this.
01:13:40.560 --> 01:13:42.720
That was the only number I got for the night.
01:13:42.960 --> 01:13:43.840
You're always working.
01:13:44.159 --> 01:13:45.039
You're always working out.
01:13:45.439 --> 01:13:46.079
Turn it off.
01:13:46.239 --> 01:13:47.199
Turn it off tonight.
01:13:47.439 --> 01:13:47.840
Jeez.
01:13:48.399 --> 01:13:56.880
But you do we did this like line dancing where like you like you switch up on every partner, so like every everybody gets to dance with everyone at a certain point.
01:13:57.039 --> 01:14:08.159
Like you just like you go around the room, you do you you do the little two-step, you kind of do the moves, and then you switch partner, like you rotate around the room, and so you kind of get to dance with everybody.
01:14:08.399 --> 01:14:13.279
Um I found myself just trying to pick up the nervous people.
01:14:13.439 --> 01:14:16.000
Like, there's a lot of like kind of nervous people.
01:14:16.159 --> 01:14:18.159
I'm like, you're doing great, like you're doing awesome.
01:14:18.319 --> 01:14:20.399
We're doing a little two-step, you gotta kick your feet together.
01:14:20.560 --> 01:14:25.039
Like you, I I it's like a high five with your feet where you're kicking, kicking each other's feet.
01:14:25.199 --> 01:14:32.560
And I'm like, oh, it's best, you've done the best spin, best spin, you know, like and I just I just like gassing them up.
01:14:32.800 --> 01:14:33.920
Gassing people up.
01:14:34.079 --> 01:14:51.520
I felt like I was just positively reinforcing folks that I felt like uh uh were maybe nervous, maybe just kind of feeling a little awkward in and stuff, and um and just walking around the room and just meeting as many people as they can.
01:14:51.680 --> 01:14:56.399
Like I said, I don't no one really fit my fancy, so to speak.
01:14:56.479 --> 01:14:59.039
No, no one really kind of jumped out at me.
01:14:59.439 --> 01:15:09.199
But I did I Lisa was like, I couldn't tell if he was uh if he was into somebody talking, or he's just really nice.
01:15:09.359 --> 01:15:15.760
He's just been very Yeah, she said, it's tough to tell with Alex, because I asked her, I was like, hey, did that like how'd it go?
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Do you need like find anyone?
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Or how to and she was like, it's always tough because Alex is so nice, he'll just talk and uh you know they could be talking for a while, but it could just be because he's just a nice guy.
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And I was like, Oh, yeah, it sounds about right.
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I did get locked in.
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I did get locked into one conversation where it was pretty interesting, and and like she was she was pretty cool to talk to and um and had like an interesting job and past and everything, but um but I did get locked in there, and really the only girl that I was thinking about talking to was like on the other side of the room, and so this was literally the first conversation after the line dancing, after the like choreographed like lesson.
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You go out, you talk.
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This girl immediately approaches me and starts like talking to me, which that's great, awesome.
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She was really talking my ear off for a while, and I couldn't find a good exit.
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Eventually I said I have to use the bathroom, was how I got out of there.
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That was my exit.
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Um, but then when I came back from the bathroom, I couldn't find the other girl.
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Like I couldn't, I couldn't find the other girl.
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And I wasn't crazy about that one, but I just was like, oh, that was really the only uh I don't know, potential maybe that I kind of saw.
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Um after that, kind of got connected with uh with Jared and uh or cousin Jared, he lives in the area.
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He was like a block away.
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He was like, dude, me and my buddy are out right now.
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We'll come and meet you.
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I'm like, perfect.
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This is great.
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He comes by.
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We start, yeah, we start catching up, having fun, then we go to garage after that.
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I go I go to garage.
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I'll tell you what, you gotta have good friends when you go out that care about you.
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And I went into the bathroom of garage, and this guy is hunched over an open stall.
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He's clearly going through it.
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He's he's he's sitting on the toilet facing outside, but his head is down.
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But his friend is not helping necessarily, but he's shit talking him to the rest of and he goes, this is this is why he goes to Planet Fitness.
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He's like talking about like how he goes to Planet Fitness and not some other gym.
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And everybody else in the bathroom were like all like, you know, like dick in our hand peeing, like, uh what?
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Like what, man?
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Why are you like what are we why are you trying to engage us right now?
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Like, and then one guy that was washing his hands, like, oh come on, man.
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And then after that guy said, Come on, man, uh we uh there's a couple of different people that kind of was like, no, that's all right.
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I'm like, let's get him a water.
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We should get him a water.
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What do we think?
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Water?
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Maybe we should get him a water and some bread.
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And then eventually he left and got a got a water for his friend.
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Um, but it was a pretty ugly scene in the beginning there, where he's kind of uh is he's kind of down and out for a little bit.
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But um but but I will say that uh the rest of the night, Jared and I we we gabbed.
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We we were talking about the uh the the namesake of Yardley and the uh the Yardley uh the Yardley land and and and the the the old like you know uh story of the family and and how they settled there and and um had had gotten some of the land kind of they had bartered off and then bartered off more of the land and then eventually A lot of farming land, yeah.
01:18:55.520 --> 01:18:57.920
Yeah, a lot of farming land and stuff like that.
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Um so we're we're kind of getting tuned up, talking about I'm like, oh, we're gonna buy back the land.
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We're gonna get the land back.
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You know?
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Um but so it was fun.
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It was a fun line.
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Like we went to another place, it was called the Frankfurt Hall.
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Um, and so that was pretty cool.
01:19:14.159 --> 01:19:16.159
That would have been great to watch a game at.
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A lot of like international flags, and like we had like steins of beer.
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That was pretty cool.
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It's outdoors, it's like a courtyard outdoors with trees and stuff outside, but it's like that was very cool.
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Um, but yeah, so it was like a fun night out.
01:19:32.159 --> 01:19:34.880
Um, really, really fun weekend.
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Um, again, I will save most of it, I think, for the next podcast, though, because I myself am getting a little sleepy.
01:19:43.439 --> 01:19:44.880
I'm running out of batteries.
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Go with ourselves.
01:19:46.399 --> 01:19:47.520
Alex, you know what?
01:19:47.680 --> 01:19:48.880
We kept you too long.
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Get to that gummy.
01:19:50.239 --> 01:19:51.680
Why don't you get to that gummy?
01:19:51.920 --> 01:19:52.079
I know.
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I gotta do my little routine.
01:19:53.920 --> 01:19:54.880
It was been a long time.
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I didn't get any sleep then, and we golfed and we did the we had a whole big weekend.
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Alex, Alex, Lisa and I, weekly appreciation, my wife.
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I love her dearly.
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We are on the hunt for those lavender nasal strips you talked about.
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We cannot, I got a we had a vapor, we could not find it.
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We were there.
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TV.
01:20:14.640 --> 01:20:15.920
They didn't have them, Alex.
01:20:16.079 --> 01:20:18.479
Oh, it must have been right after I got there.
01:20:18.640 --> 01:20:20.319
Oh, cleaned them out.
01:20:20.880 --> 01:20:24.399
Did you buy like do you Costco it and just buy the whole lot?
01:20:24.640 --> 01:20:29.199
Yeah, you can buy some, but they're uh twice as twice the price you might see.
01:20:29.439 --> 01:20:30.640
Do you Harry Potter it?
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We'll take the lot.
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We'll take the whole lot.
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Take the whole lot.
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We'll take the lot of it.
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That's what you did.
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You're gonna get sick with your chocolate, Mr.
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Harry Potter.
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And then last night we saw the Odyssey.
01:20:42.399 --> 01:20:43.439
We saw the Odyssey last night.
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So it's been a string of long days for me.
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Do you want to save that for next week?
01:20:51.039 --> 01:20:52.479
I would love to talk Odyssey.
01:20:52.880 --> 01:20:53.920
I would love to talk Odyssey.
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But the Odyssey, talking about the Odyssey is an Odyssey.
01:20:59.039 --> 01:21:01.439
It's it's a long conversation that you need to have.
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Love that.
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Love what you did there.
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Alex, I love you too.
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Great episode! Not a episode of going yard! Going yard! Thanks for listening.
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See ya, love ya.
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Bye.