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[Assistant] My teacher is trying to get a day off of school. I guess that didn't happen. In June. Yeah. Well, that's, that's true. Oh man. Yeah.


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[Assistant] Yeah, a little backfire. Good point. Uh, good joke either way. You still got in-service days and stuff. Yeah. Yeah.


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[Assistant] What scientists think they look like. I don't like that they're pinning this on Hollywood. I never thought I'd defend Hollywood, but don't act like that's not how every dinosaur in every museum looked. You know what I mean? It wasn't just Hollywood taking a lead.


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[Assistant] And you reconstructed it the way they did dinosaurs, that's what it would look like.


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[Assistant] This is a zebra skeleton reconstructed like a dinosaur. It looks a lot like a Thestral from Harry Potter, if anyone's interested. And then there's a cow, looks a little bit like a gazelle.


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[Assistant] So it's saying, you know, we found the skeleton of the dinosaurs as we just reconstructed it, but you know, there's so much.


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[Assistant] These are all examples of, you can't just go off the bones, cause there's all the skin and fat and tissue and everything else. But our bones look...


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[Assistant] Now here, we're gonna end it on, at the very end, it's, this is what, here's a Python.


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[Assistant] But they have the human being. This is what it would look like if we just found the human skeleton. Oh yeaah. Yeaah. Looks a little creepy. Looks like an alien almost.


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[Assistant] That's what he's saying. That's the point of this.


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[Assistant] If they try to figure out what these things look like just based on the skeleton, this is what we think they'd look like. But we know that they don't.


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[Assistant] But the biggest animal ever is alive right now. It's a blue whale. It's the biggest animal in the history of the world.


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[Assistant] Yeah. Uh, I had a lot of fun making that. Yeah. Laura sent me that video. Uh, there it is. That's a foul. She's also


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[Assistant] Boo! I have a theory that that, that, that guy did that on purpose.


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[Assistant] Yeah, cause I saw a TikTok he made about, about it.


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[Assistant] Or he was like, oh, I guess I messed up. And then if you watch it, you're like, that looks a little intentional. What do you mean he messed up what? The first pitch where he tripped. Oh.


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[Assistant] Yeah. I mean, look, it really made me laugh when I first saw it, when I first saw this video. And then I found out who the guy was and I was like, that kind of.


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[Assistant] Oh, I like it. There's alliteration there.


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[Assistant] Look that up, there are 1,393 lakes in Tennessee. Oh, okay. So there's a lot more in Minnesota.


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[Assistant] And I looked this up because I think we talked about this on the podcast before, the difference between a lake and a pond. It's about depth. It's not necessarily about.


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[Assistant] How big? How wide or long it is. It's about how deep it is. How deep is it?


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[Assistant] I don't think now Johnny Appleseed was like a real guy, right? At one point.


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[Assistant] Be a fun hang though. Yeah. Johnny Appleseed and Paul Bunyan.


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[Assistant] Oh, he's a Frenchman. Yeah, I think everybody was. That's why they're calling him a pig. Yeah.


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[Assistant] So they had more of these in Minneapolis than anywhere else?


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[Assistant] So, and that's short of time, 34 years ago.


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[Assistant] Yeah. Do you think they were just named after? I had no idea. Yeah.


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[Assistant] That does look fun. I like the McDonald's where it still has the number on there of how many people they've served.


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[Assistant] It says over 1 million people. They probably eclipsed that. Oh.


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[Assistant] Well they're probably losing a lot of eaters too. You don't see these signs. I've seen them say billions and billions served. Oh really? I've seen that, yeaah.


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[Assistant] They don't have to go recalculate when people die. It's a tote board.


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[Assistant] Still got the original, original packaging on all the food. That's cool. With a single arch.


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[Assistant] That's true. It's that efficient. You could in a lot of ways.


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[Assistant] Yeah. As your family? Yeah, our family. We go to McDonald's and then we went to Dairy Queen on Fat Tuesday. Two in one day. We double dipped. Wow. And then we never had fast food. My mom cooked every meal. So I think that that was actually a problem later in life.


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[Assistant] When I was on my own, making my own money, I was like, every day can be fat Tuesday.


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[Assistant] But I actually, I believe in that theory. I think you should let kids eat a little fast food. They'll want to eat it less when they're an adult.


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[Assistant] Well, don't you think, man, I'm not going to appreciate feeling good if I'm gonna feel bad from time to time. You know what I mean? I got to appreciate feeling good. That is true.


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[Assistant] That's crazy. It is crazy. Were you running out of space in the fridge?


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[Assistant] My mom used to just put right no on stuff.


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[Assistant] Growing up. She didn't want us to eat it. With a sharpie. Yeaah. But it's in there. That's almost a little bit of a torture. Yeaah.


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[Assistant] Well, we've talked, we know, we have a relationship outside of the podcast. Oh, okay.


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[Assistant] 45, so young man. Forced to retire at 96 at age 36 due to loss of vision and one eye from a central retinal vein occlusion.


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[Assistant] Yeah. Sort of your energy is the same. Your voices don't sound alike.


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[Assistant] We'd also listen to car talk on NBR too. You ever listen to that?


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[Assistant] So, that's when the dollar menu is hot.


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[Assistant] Maybe my parents did, but we weren't thinking about it.


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[Assistant] Well, we're about to, we're about to go into 40 days of limp.


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[Assistant] Okay. So it's kind of, yea, you live it up before Ash Wednesday, which is the day after Fat Tuesday. It's like a day of fasting.


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[Assistant] So the idea is you go in on fat Tuesday because you got 40 days coming up where you're supposed to.


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[Assistant] Uhm, I know my mom would, I remember watching it.


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[Assistant] Bonanza's great. I remember this girl in the top left. She looks familiar.


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[Assistant] Is she the main character of the show? Yeah. Okay. And this show four kids.


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[Assistant] Is she really? That's why she's looking a different way than everyone else in the picture. She becomes blind on the show.


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[Assistant] Is this supposed to be in the 70s? I don't- what time period is this?


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[Assistant] She was named after the city she was in? Yep. It's a weird move.


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[Assistant] That's one of the best filmmakers of the 21st century. He's great.


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[Assistant] Yeah. And he did the new, some of the new star war stuff to Ron Howard. He's got his hand in just about everything. Yeah.


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[Assistant] Yeah, it's really great. Yeah, I like it. Yeah, I'm back there in February. Oh, there's a side by side.


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[Assistant] Yeah. Yeah, I mean, it's just facial shape. Everything is.


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[Assistant] Well, tradition of excellence in Minnesota football.


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[Assistant] This probably feels like... It'd be the blue oxen, right? Or is it just the singular ox?


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[Assistant] Oh, the actual thing that dances around over and over. Let me look it up. Yeah.


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[Assistant] Okay, but Alaska's not going to have a team anytime soon, I think.


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[Assistant] Okay. Never heard of this guy. He was a state senator. That's the way he likes it. And he's a billionaire.


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[Assistant] Uh, is it a cheer spin-off coach was, but there's a guy on cheers named coach.


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[Assistant] I think every hockey movie, there's at least one scene in Minnesota.


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[Assistant] I also were genuinely trying to get to the bottom of it. I didn't know. Yeah. And now we know.


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[Assistant] It was an odd way to say it in the moment for sure. Do you say that a lot? I do say it, you know, maybe once a month I'll say that. Oh, above zero? Yea, there's an above zero.


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[Assistant] We were talking this, uh, this past, the Bridgestone weekend, I was in a room with Eric and Tony who works, I think, does he work with Outback?


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[Assistant] And, uh, Tony made a joke. He said, I get the numbers mixed up. I think I have.


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[Assistant] Yeah. That's dyslexia for numbers. Wow. Did not know that. Yeah. It didn't need to be said in the moment, but.


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[Assistant] It depends on what you're doing with it. You know, if you were using it to get a, a look.


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[Assistant] Yeah, but I was not watching YouTube. This is, this is like the Superbowl I think we were talking about. I don't think they're targeting ads during the Superbowl to me.


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[Assistant] First woman to cross in Arctic solo. I've never felt so alone.


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[Assistant] 59 days. She was in the middle of Antarctica and started hallucinating, started smelling fish and chips from a pub.


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[Assistant] That would be a grand total of negative 40 Fahrenheit.


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[Assistant] She said, I realized I was absolutely petrified. I wasn't scared of dying or injury. It was just that level of aloneness that was instantly frightening. Just the weight of the amount of time on my own.


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[Assistant] She said she cried for the first 15 days. It wasn't until day 15 that she started, she stopped crying.


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[Assistant] Yeah. I do, she did have to probably get some paperwork done to do this.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I don't know if there's another like community right there. Yeah. Where she landed or she had to turn around and walk back.


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[Assistant] It's a Bridgestone show to go to a funeral.


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[Assistant] When the next one will show, it'll show, so I'ma sing my soul, I'ma sing my soul. Yeah.


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[Assistant] I don't know if it's about a guy in denial so much as a guy choosing to just press on.


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[Assistant] He lost his job, his wife and his child, his friend just sued him. So he's got a lot going on.


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[Assistant] Yeah, it'd be tough to have just conversation.


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[Assistant] He's from 250 years ago, Ben Franklin. So you have nothing to talk about. You have no overlap in your life experiences. What's that dinner like?


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[Assistant] No I didn't. That's pretty neat. Oh good for me!


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[Assistant] See, that's the difficulty. Think about all the things in this room that Ben Franklin couldn't even, he couldn't just ignore all of this and have a conversation with you. No. In the summertime.


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[Assistant] Yeah. Oh, for sure. I don't know about America. I think you're, if you're talking Ben Franklin, you're, you're thinking old man, Ben Franklin. You're not thinking 15 year, 16 year old. You better hope. Yeah. You better hope.


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[Assistant] So it's just kind of fun. Have you seen the Nashville sounds finally came out with their, their theme night? They're the Nashville hot chickens. The uniform, I think the uniforms are garbage, but the hats are very cool.


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[Assistant] There's still the Nashville Sounds, but every now and then they wear this alternate jersey.


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[Assistant] Where they become for the night, the Nashville Hot Chickens.


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[Assistant] Oh, are they? That's nice. When they played the Cubs.


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[Assistant] MLB world up in arms over incredibly tacky promotion.


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[Assistant] That's where the guy tried to catch a foul ball and messed up the game and then the whole city of Chicago.


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[Assistant] Is there any, is there any kind of uh, archaeological evidence that there was a massive flood? I think so.


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[Assistant] Yeah, we did a, we're run together years ago through.


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[Assistant] All the way up through Michigan, we drove from Nashville all the way up through the UP.


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[Assistant] Yeah, part of it. So I do like it up there. It's a lot more like the South than they want to admit.


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[Assistant] Yeah, they're not condescending about this.


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[Assistant] That's right. Remember that? I do. Yes. He's Mackinac Island, Mackinac city. Yeah.


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[Assistant] But that's the bridge right there that connects the UP with the rest of it.


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[Assistant] Really? Yeah. Geez, why not just do it right there? That's big money though.


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[Assistant] Yeah, no cars. Yeah. Okay. This looks way better than I thought.


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[Assistant] Oh wow. Yeah, I've heard of like. I mean, this looks like where they filmed the Truman show. I mean, this looks like. That's in seaside Florida. I know, but I'm saying this looks like it.


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[Assistant] They have a population of 583 people live there. I'm guessing most of them probably just work, work in the, you know, hospitality.


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[Assistant] Oh, that huge house, I'm guessing. That one that we saw.


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[Assistant] It looked like the White House, but it really stretched out left and right. Anyway, I can't find it. This big one.


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[Assistant] And you know what they call people from the bottom.


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[Assistant] We were there in May and this Lake Superior was frozen. Still huge ice blocks on the shore.


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[Assistant] So you can imagine the animosity the Hoopers have to the trolls, you know, they're sort of second-class citizens.


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[Assistant] Well, I don't think they look down on it. I think they're resentful that they're being looked down on.


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[Assistant] The UP is part of the same Great Lakes ecosystem as Wisconsin's North Woods, and there's a water boundary between it and Michigan's lower peninsula.


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[Assistant] The border dispute led to Michigan's ownership of the Upper Peninsula. So, there was a war. There's bloodshed.


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[Assistant] They got nothing else going on. They always try to ruin everybody else's stuff.


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[Assistant] So Michigan and Ohio were fighting and then Congress stepped in and was like, all right, Michigan, let's cut it out and we'll just give you, we'll give you the UP.


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[Assistant] Wisconsin, they didn't even let them, they didn't even give them a seat at the table.


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[Assistant] Ohio shares a border with, with Michigan right here. So Toledo is right, right between Michigan. Okay, pull it out again.


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[Assistant] They're not. They're fighting over this. They just got, Michigan got the UP as a compromise. Okay, so it wasn't a fight over this.


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[Assistant] Yeah, imagine, imagine one day, Toledo, people used to fight over it.


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[Assistant] So you know what? You know what? Tigers have had some, they're terrible now, but they've had some good years. It's just more of a Lions problem.


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[Assistant] God, the Browns, they've been around forever too. Right now. Oh man, that's terrible.


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[Assistant] Actually, you know what? Look at this. Yeah.


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[Assistant] Do they all time? Do you know what the record, do you see what the record is there?


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[Assistant] We recently had a bunch of winds vacated.


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[Assistant] No, no, no, I'm not saying it would change it, but it would, it did change all time winningness.


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[Assistant] Uh, teams, it really affected that.


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[Assistant] Uh, I, I can't remember what we've self-reported to the NCAA, some violations and, uh, you know, we're Notre Dame. So they came down hard on us. Obviously they want to, you know, they want the big guys to fall.


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[Assistant] I know. Well, we learned the hard way. I guess you're not supposed to, we did with everything you're supposed to do self reported and they came down hard.


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[Assistant] It's, it's sunken into the ground, a lot of it. So you walk up and it doesn't look too overwhelmingly large, but when you walk in and then it's.


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[Assistant] Yeah, that's what, which it's all Kansas there. Their minor league team is wind surge, which is pretty morbid considering the amount of death and destruction that tornadoes cause their state every year.


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[Assistant] Oh, I would have got that. He did a reel on the nose.


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[Assistant] Oh, they're doing it on purpose. I don't think so, no. The Gerald Ford library is in Grand Rapids too. Pretty sad one.


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[Assistant] Raisin brand and all the pebbles iterations. Yeah. Fruity pebbles. So I don't know if that includes cocoa pebbles.


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[Assistant] It kinda brownish black. Yeah. I don't think so. What about a sprite? What color is a sprite? White.


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[Assistant] That might've been the Greg Warren episode where Dusty was not here. If so, my apologies.


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[Assistant] Apple jacks dude, corn flakes. We're talking corn pops, raisin bran.


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[Assistant] Special K, Frosted Flakes. Oh, you got a load. I actually like, uh, like Crispix. Oh, Frosted Many Weeks. Fruit Loops. Fruit Loops, Frosted Many Weeks. Kashi!


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[Assistant] General Mills, they might actually be the leader here. They've got Cheerios. Well Cheerios is like, that's like the Coca Cola of Cheerio.


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[Assistant] Oh dude, General Mills takes this. I mean, I don't even think it's close.


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[Assistant] I don't know, I'm still with Wheaties. Wheaties is terrible, but Wheaties is not good, but it's iconic.


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[Assistant] Now these are the 2014 market share breakdown. So who knows how things have changed in the last nine years, but Kellogg's at a slight lead over general mills. 32% versus 31.


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[Assistant] They might be, they might be the Dr. Pepper. Now they're from Quaker Oats company. That's the dark horse.


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[Assistant] How about this? Quisp. Yea, they're crunchy. I mean that is a weak looking cereal. I don't like that.


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[Assistant] And they were king violins, how about that?


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[Assistant] I mean, it's enough to keep them competitive, but I don't think it puts them over the top over General Mills or anything else. No, not even close.


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[Assistant] But was a football star at the University of Michigan. So beloved. Where was he born?


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[Assistant] It's a famous picture because the paper erroneously reported.


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[Assistant] So there's Truman. What'd you say, erroneously? Erroneously.


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[Assistant] So there, there's Truman holding up the signs as Dewey defeats Truman when that did not happen. That's a famous picture. You've never seen that?


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[Assistant] Man, there was like two or three years where she had a British accent.


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[Assistant] I should have known this. I was just there in Syracuse, New York. That's where Tom Cruise is from. Syracuse, New York.


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[Assistant] Yeah, it was kind of like a girl in a leather jacket, that type of girl.


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[Assistant] It's like you can't see it from, you know, a couple hundred yards away, but it's pretty big.


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[Assistant] It's a figure of speech in which a concept is referred to by the name of something closely associated with that thing or concept. It's like calling, an example they give here is like when you say the Pentagon, when you really mean all the US military.


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[Assistant] Yeah, go there. Uh, tomorrow night I'm in Napanee, Indiana, Amish country. If you're in Northern Indiana, come on out and see me at the Round Barn Theater. And then the next big thing I have coming up May 17th and 18th.


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[Assistant] I'm at the Irvine Improv and the Ontario Improv. I've never done any of those clubs. So come on out.


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[Assistant] I want to believe in aliens because it shows that some civilization didn't blow themselves up and were able to get out in space and have some fun. Is that a hopeful thing?


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[Assistant] New baby. Yeah, I had vertigo last week, but I'm back. I'm still spinning a bit, but I'm here. I feel good. I felt like I woke up on Sunday and I was like, maybe the earth is spinning.


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[Assistant] Wow, you know, I have a hurt toe as well.


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[Assistant] It's like when you look at something, it's like it moves and then adjusts and then moves and then adjusts. And then, and you just can't, I got so dizzy, I threw up.


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[Assistant] Uh, Sunday I could not even get up for most of the day.


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[Assistant] Other people go to the chiropractor and he adjusts the head and...


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[Assistant] The deeper you get into Vertigo, the crazier it sounds, but apparently there's crystals in the ear canal that can


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[Assistant] So there's a maneuver you can do that's supposed to get, slowly work those back into place.


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[Assistant] And as I got up, I set the phone on the toilet paper dispenser and it started to fall in the toilet and I swatted it midair so it didn't go in the toilet, but it landed straight on the toe.


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[Assistant] Oh yeaah. Oh yeaah, it's nice and dry. Yeah, it was worth it. I just got a new phone.


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[Assistant] I had vertigo all day. On Monday I was still shaky. Later that day my wife goes into labor. So I drive my wife to the hospital, uh, post vertigo.


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[Assistant] There's nothing I can do for her. So I was like, I gotta go get some stuff out of the car and then I could see Kroger in the distance. So I thought, well, I'll go pick up some snacks here. I'm going to be here a while. They'll feed her, not me.


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[Assistant] So I went and got some, you know, a bag of popcorn, and it was funny that it ended up being popcorn, because as I told my wife, I go, you mind if I munch on some popcorn over here?


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[Assistant] Well that was sad news. That is a bummer. Wichita looney bin clubs. A looney bin, excuse me.


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[Assistant] Samuel. We like the, we like the sound of Sam Slay. I like Sam Slay. And also in the Bible, Hannah, that's my wife's name, gives birth to Samuel. And I thought that was fun.


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[Assistant] I just couldn't bring myself to tell people that my, I couldn't bring myself to name my son Duke. I wanted to, but I just, it felt like more for me than for him.


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[Assistant] You can travel more. Daisy was born in the US, right? So she's an American citizen. Automatically. She's got a passport already. Yeaah. Cause we went to Canada with her.


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[Assistant] So, I got a passport for the first time at like 26. My daughter already has one.


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[Assistant] We were just like, well, not a lot of people have signed up. I mean, we're fine, but not a lot of people had signed up. But Hannah was like, we were talking, we were like, why not just share it on social media? See what happens.


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[Assistant] So we did and then someone messages me, like an hour later, maybe don't share your home address.


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[Assistant] Well, people will sign up and then bring us food. They drive it to you? Yea, Brian brought me some food yesterday. Oh. Eh?


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[Assistant] My sister's like a professional mom and she has been knocking it out. I mean, we've got the house is cleaned. You got, we got, she cooked all these soups and froze it and we got meals for weeks now. I mean, we're gonna, we're set.


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[Assistant] Well, you know what though, uh, we tore that up yesterday. It was so good. Oh good. Yeah. We tore it up. Daisy appreciated it. So I did not bring anything.


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[Assistant] Well, you know, but the, you know, I'm not too confident everybody can narrow things down these days.


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[Assistant] Well, yeah, I mean, that's the, you know, electro, that's where you got the copper wires that you make these antennas that's supposed to be collecting energy from, from the atmosphere to bring it down into the garden.


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[Assistant] Yeah. I'm trying. Oh, that's into your actual garden. Yeah. Yeah. No copper wire goes down and runs into the ground.


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[Assistant] Uh, and, and you can see the whole track the whole time because it's such a smart, it's wild.


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[Assistant] But so, oh, so you just represent the crowd.


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[Assistant] It would be amazing. But then you also could get shoulder blocked.


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[Assistant] Well, I'd not been able to keep up with it, but I always think it probably just didn't happen. Oh yeah. That's what I always think. Yeah.


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[Assistant] I didn't, I didn't get to, you know, it's hard to watch stuff when you got vertigo and a baby. I can't be like, hey.


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[Assistant] Keep the baby down, I'm trying to watch a video on the submarine. But that's always my thought. And also I thought, you know what, maybe have NASA build you some submarines.


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[Assistant] They've been down a bunch. Can't seem to figure out this water thing. We got space down pretty well. Let's get NASA working on these submarines.


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[Assistant] There's like a National Geographic video where this guy talked about going way deep down and he was like, they got so far down that they were like underwater lakes.


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[Assistant] And I don't even know how that's possible, but he, he did, it was a National Geographic thing where he talked about there being underwater lakes. It's so wild. That's why I'm like, always like.


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[Assistant] The ocean seems so much more interesting to me than space.


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[Assistant] I just don't know why that's not our main exploration.


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[Assistant] I don't think it's funny if people die, but I always question every, uh, if, if, if that even.


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[Assistant] Who was, what was Robin in? She was in 90210? Sure. Uh.


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[Assistant] That is true. And, and thanks to our friends at Helix Sleep for sponsoring this episode. Now, I bought a twin size Helix mattress not long ago, uh, for my daughter. We're going to transition her into that mattress, but because we bought a, brought a new baby home,


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[Assistant] My wife has been kind enough to really do all the baby stuff at night and lets me sleep. So I've been sleeping on this Helix Twin mattress. And I gotta tell you, it's been good sleep.


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[Assistant] I have not slept on a twin mattress in a long time and I did not think it would be good, but it's been great. Not that I didn't think the mattress would be good, but I'm not used to sleeping on a twin mattress. Yeaah.


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[Assistant] Plenty of room. I've been sleeping like, like I'm on a cloud up there. Those pillows, I rave about the pillows. I'm not even making this stuff up. This is great stuff.


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[Assistant] Helix Sleep is a premium mattress brand that provides tailored mattresses based on your unique sleep preferences. The Helix lineup includes 14 unique mattresses, including a collection of luxury models, a mattress for big and tall sleepers, and even a mattress made just for kids.


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[Assistant] And that's true. They've delivered it right to my house. I didn't even see them.


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[Assistant] Unlike a lot of mattress companies out here, Helix owns its own manufacturing company.


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[Assistant] Each and every Helix mattress is made in the USC, USA by a team of skilled manufacturers and shipped directly from their facility to your door. Helix supports military first responders, teachers, and students by giving them a special discount on the site. That's big time.


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[Assistant] The first four or five minutes of Ace Ventura, um, uh, the second Ace Ventura.


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[Assistant] When I read this earlier, I didn't realize they were talking about Brian. I thought that you guys were mentioning the guitar player, Buckethead. Oh, is it? Yeah. And I was like, whoa, what happened? We brought him on.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I feel like he played with, I don't know, I don't know his whole history, but yeah, Buckethead's a- Is it Slash? I don't think so.


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[Assistant] So people were buying those five finger shoes and going and running on concrete. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, there should be some, you know, some, some laws in there for just people's own stupidity. You know what I mean?


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[Assistant] Like you're buying these and you're like, oh, there's not a lot of cushion, I'm gonna go run on concrete.


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[Assistant] It is Will Barrow. I got into this because a children's book had that in there like that and I had no idea. I've always called it a Will Barrow myself and it is a Will Barrow. Wow.


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[Assistant] I would think cause it's like half of a barrel almost, like you turn a barrel over, cut it in half.


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[Assistant] Oh, I think of a metal barrel that you could burn, put a fire in.


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[Assistant] Like, like Aaron's family had cars before everybody else did.


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[Assistant] Now what nest is it you have in your front porch? Uh, doves. Oh, dove nests, yeaah. They hatched, gro- grew up and flew away. Oh. It was amazing. That's, well. I watched these doves grow up. They flew away and the next day I had a baby.


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[Assistant] Maybe Josh didn't have good service.


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[Assistant] Now I'm on team Jordan. As a server, you know, I was always honest when people didn't tip me well, I got to, I would ask myself, was that service good? I don't think it wasn't.


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[Assistant] This guy had everything and he had an opportunity to give me something and didn't.


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[Assistant] I like, I like that she says, uh, I felt terrible for you. And then she said, we were all chatting with friends. Like not they were, we were.


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[Assistant] The worst part about those gigs is like, when people in the audience actually think that there was a chance that you could do well in that setting. Where they're like, what happened? And it's like, this was not set up for comedy.


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[Assistant] This looks like a casino in Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan. There's a dance floor in between you and the audience.


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[Assistant] Uhm, well yeaah, well that's why I, that I like Duke, right? Because it is like a royal kind of name and then his middle name is Richard, right? That's my middle name. So do, and then Richard is also like a, you know, an old British king. So it's like Duke, Richard. I thought it would be great, but.


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[Assistant] But, uh, but, you know, we have like John Wayne was called the Duke and, uh, Duke's of Hazard. So Duke has taken on more, uh, a different tone now. I like Sam a lot. Yeah, I'm a big fan. Yeah.


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[Assistant] But you gotta like differentiate people from it. Everybody can't be like, hey, dude, guy, buddy.


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[Assistant] That's always been confusing to me. Well we talked about it on here. Yea I know.


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[Assistant] Sitting Bull died at Standing Rock. That's interesting.


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[Assistant] It's a family trait. They had basket type wheel barrels back then.


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[Assistant] The, uh, the old spellings that I've seen as they go back into England, they would spell it S-L-E-I-G-H. Yeah. As you go back. Like a sleigh. Oh, like uh, yeah, like Santa Claus. Yeah.


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[Assistant] We pulled into the mainstream. Well, until you posted your address for all the words. Well, that's just a, you know, that's, that's the.


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[Assistant] And that's not the real address. That's, that's where we spend some time. Yeah. Yeah. They don't know. We don't live. They don't spend some time. Yeah.


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[Assistant] What are some examples of those names though with a daughter name? We're all familiar with some. Bill.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I mean, it makes a lot of sense. Like, let's keep it clear. Yeah. Clear with a K.


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[Assistant] It would be tough to do, that's for sure. In America, to be like.


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[Assistant] I mean, we got a lot of names here. We got some wild names.


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[Assistant] Bob is short for Robert. But it shouldn't be though, that's what I'm saying. It's short for Bob. Oh, okay.


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[Assistant] Uh, oh really? Is it James? Wow, Jim. I would think John.


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[Assistant] But my initials are DRS, uh, it seems very doctor oriented. Yeah.


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[Assistant] Alright, I'm still off, uh, you know, tending to the baby, but uh,


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[Assistant] Starting July 14th and 15th, I'll be at the Albany Funny Bone and then I'm back. I mean, every week after that, it is go time, so.


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[Assistant] I just did a show in Pontavedra outside of Jacksonville and they had a big sign in the green room that said


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[Assistant] Don't worry, they're not booing you. They're just yelling. And it was like a whole explanation of that.


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[Assistant] That's fun. That's good stuff. I was in Denver, Colorado. Comedy works. Just great club. Perfect weekend. Uh, all the shows are great. They gave me a headline in date there. Comedy works. It's a big deal. August 6th. The downtown clubs. I'm pumped about that. That is a big deal. Great club. Thanks.


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[Assistant] You know, and it's bobbing its head at you, and it's got...


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[Assistant] You would draw a line in the sand and say, I gotta be able to do the podcast every Monday.


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[Assistant] I don't think you'll remember that on the podcast. He did. Okay.


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[Assistant] No, no, no, no. I'm talking about now. Okay. Like, but I'm talking about this. I didn't know this. This is not on his Wikipedia page. Don't get mad at me. Get mad at Wikipedia, you know?


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[Assistant] What? I didn't graduate on time technically.


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[Assistant] Cause I failed a class my senior year. So I walked out there and they gave me the diploma. There's a fake. There's nothing in it.


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[Assistant] I feel like a real fraud doing that. And then anyway, you're like, I want to just go back and get it. I had, I finished two credit shorts, so I had to go back to summer school, but they were like, you're going to walk with your class, but you'll walk up and you shake their hand and they hand you the booklet and you open it up and there's just nothing inside of it.


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[Assistant] You know what, I like to see it. I'm sure that happens probably constantly, right? Yeah, a few of my friends would do the same thing.


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[Assistant] No, I don't even think they have a ceremony for the summer graduates. I could have walked technically the next year. Fake. I would have yelled fake. A logic. Fake. A logic? A logic. Oh man, I could have told you that.


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[Assistant] It's the hardest class I've ever taken. I filled it twice.


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[Assistant] Logic. Formal logic was the name of the class. So what's the logic? It's almost like math. That's the only class I would have passed. If A is B, then it's all written out like math. Why'd you take that? Because it was a...


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[Assistant] Well, it's just, it's how arguments are structured and how, uh,


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[Assistant] These are variables, so they can mean whatever.


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[Assistant] So you can plug in statements for these, you know, for any of these variables. The triangle means Delta. It's the change, you know.


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[Assistant] A is Dusty has a dog. B is the dog is, is brown. Yeah. So it's B does not follow A because you know, they're not related at all. I mean, it was a horrific example, but that's the kind of stuff you plug in statements like that and then.


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[Assistant] No, I failed it twice and I was like, so I had to take, uh, classes over the summer and I just took other classes.


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[Assistant] Uh, not many. I didn't go to this class very often.


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[Assistant] That's not how you would do it but you got the, you got the idea.


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[Assistant] But I remember thinking this is what I'm taking philosophy to not do classes like this. That's just math.


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[Assistant] Oh yeah, cause it's, cause a lot of it is how arguments are structured. And so, yeah, so there's a little bit of a parallel there. Okay. You're right.


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[Assistant] Oh boy. Well, who needs to take a foreign language class in college when you have Babel? It's my go-to travel hack.


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[Assistant] Whether you're a seasoned traveler like myself or you're going on your first adventure, communication is key to fully experiencing a new culture. That's where Babbel comes in. It's the language learning app that sold more than 10 million.


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[Assistant] Subscriptions. Thanks to Babel's easy bite-sized language lessons.


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[Assistant] There's still time to learn a new language before you reach your destination. I've told y'all I'm going to Brazil in October, then Argentina. I gotta brush up on my Portuguese.


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[Assistant] You know, dabble in a little Spanish so I can talk to some people down there. It's very exciting. You only need 10 minutes to complete a lesson so you can start having real life conversations in a new language in as little as three weeks. Think about that. Wow. Three weeks from now, you can be talking to people in a different language.


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[Assistant] Spanish, French, Italian, German, whatever you'd like. There's so many ways to learn with Babel, plus it comes with a 20 day money.


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[Assistant] Yeah. Oh, this thing, yeah, it does kind of charge at you.


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[Assistant] And it's got no arms, you know, obviously it's a bird, so it looks a little odd when it lunges at you. This one's all caged up.


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[Assistant] Clickbait YouTube titles today. This is Cassowary Fights Leopard. It's not happening. Oh, that looks like a dead cassowary.


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[Assistant] Yeah, a lot of people, uh, said something about that to me. And you know what? I feel like I've matured on this podcast over the last few years and part of maturing is admitting you're wrong. You're wrong. And I was wrong about that. It's a big thing. People just want to hear that out of you. Is that the first time I've done that on this podcast? Probably. I thought about.


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[Assistant] That's true. That's true. We need to ask a farmer about this. How do they paint it white? Just like spray paint?


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[Assistant] Yeah, I don't imagine they have like a, is there a special kind of fur paint?


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[Assistant] Cause there's stuff like that for like, uh, dogs and stuff. You've seen that, people paint their dogs.


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[Assistant] Well, Brian was in a mood putting these together.


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[Assistant] Exactly. That's the point I'm trying to make. You say they're aggressive, they would be great in this fight because they were used and manipulated by human beings back in the day. Yeah, they got them drunk. Yeah, I'm talking about the opposite. I'm talking about something that can't be manipulated, can't be used by human beings and is just a warrior out there.


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[Assistant] Yeah, so there's one particular elephant that had vengeance in its heart. Yeah. So that, but that's a different argument, I think.


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[Assistant] No, just because we have that book doesn't mean we read it. But, uh, that's not really in all of them.


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[Assistant] Cause there's, they have disagreements with each other about what should be in there.


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[Assistant] Seagulls are vicious and there's a hundred of them. I don't think you're grasping how many that is.


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[Assistant] I don't know, but I think this is a lose-lose. I don't think the singles is gonna be easy.


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[Assistant] So if you're just listening, it's a continuous shock moving through a bar. Right now we're seeing shameless.


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[Assistant] Uh, the wrestler who's a very cool guy, very nice. Very nice. And then he's at the bar and then he's going to approach us, the four of us just hanging out at this bar.


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[Assistant] And then they go downstairs after us. That was filmed at a different time.


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[Assistant] We were only there when the upstairs peop- there you go. Shame is bumps in the night.


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[Assistant] And, uh, Nate and James have a moment. We were cracking up because it does.


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[Assistant] Well, the only way I had, the only reason I had to run that way is because I ruined, I think four takes bumping into the camera.


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[Assistant] Because they'd be like, hey, everything was great except for, uh, yeah, Aaron bumped into the camera. Well, they would call you out.


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[Assistant] Yeah, really very cool to be a part of though. And then all the cameos down here on the bottom, Keith Urban, Marcus King, Jelly Roll, Jeff Fisher. I mean.


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[Assistant] To see it after is very, very cool. Yeah. Honestly, once again, you're in it, dude. You're in it. You're right at the beginning.


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[Assistant] We wrestle. And I don't know if there are many people, Dusty, that could be recognized that blurry from that distance. That's true.


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[Assistant] So you, we run away from Seamus right here. And then it'll pan to the stairs and you can see.


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[Assistant] See, there's like a moment where there's no people in the shot, and they can change it right there. So it's like right when that guy walked by.


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[Assistant] But it's done really seamlessly, really well. It looks like we're all at the bar at the same time. So good. But this was probably filmed in like four different kind of time blocks.


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[Assistant] You know, I don't think Jelly Roll was here the same time Keith Urban was, but it sure looks like it all happened at the same time.


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[Assistant] I never made the connection. I was like, why is everybody tagging me this creepy dude sucking people's toes? You know the story, Dusty? No. It was at the hotel next to the...


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[Assistant] They have a way of doing it, if they have to, you know?


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[Assistant] Yeah, hold on, hold on. That's a robot? Hold on, a what? Roomba? I said Roomba, but Roomba?


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[Assistant] And I don't know if that's technically a robot, but robot is in the name, so it felt good not to stay. What does it do? It just cleans it on its own? It scoops itself, it does everything itself. Yeaah. It changed my life. Does your family like that you have a cat?


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[Assistant] We had a cat growing up and it was, it never came inside. It was an outdoor cat named cow. That was its name. And it got hit by a milk truck. Wow. Okay.


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[Assistant] We had a cat named Cal and a dog named Yipper that, uh, we had to keep chained up to the basketball goal because it kept biting the kids and it lasted maybe a month.


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[Assistant] Mayor Bill de Blasio is quote, glad the digi dog was put down.


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[Assistant] It is creepy, alienating and sends the wrong message to New Yorkers.


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[Assistant] Yeah, it looks like a bread maker. Just kind of rolls up to you and you speak into it.


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[Assistant] Yeah, it's currently, they currently have these at malls, warehouses, hospitals, airports, casinos. I haven't seen these before.


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[Assistant] Early enough that there's still a novelty to it. I bet people are like amused.


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[Assistant] 20 years from now when you're used to it, I bet your reaction's gonna be a little different. You're gonna be annoyed.


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[Assistant] It's happening so quick now. Isn't Domino's delivering pizza with robots now?


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[Assistant] Yeah. If you're a chart, you should be concerned. Yeah, for sure. That's maybe one of the first jobs to go. And it's like in most States, it's like the number one job in the state.


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[Assistant] Yeah, it's all happening super, super quickly and it's kind of, uh, unnerving to think about.


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[Assistant] But you gotta give it, let's give it a little bit of direction here. What do you want it to create? I say there's no direction. Like an oil painting. Oil painting. Let's see what it does. Let's do an expressive oil painting.


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[Assistant] Acrylic. Now you wanna give anything else, any other kind of... Nah. Descriptions? No. How do you spell acrylic? There it is.


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[Assistant] But yeah, the trick is, you see people that are really good at this, they're so good at entering the prompt. Look at that.


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[Assistant] As if to say I will be annoyed if you buy something and ask for it to be shipped.


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[Assistant] Stuff you like that, those things hurt those seats at the airport, those kinds of things.


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[Assistant] One employee there making sure this place doesn't get burnt down.


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[Assistant] There's a lot of AI now. I mean, look, you read an article that's written by AI. Probably a lot of the ones you read, you don't even realize it.


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[Assistant] Like a chat? Like the chat? Yeah. Like on the website?


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[Assistant] Oh, I've never seen it that well over the phone. I always know. You know right away. I just read an article the other day, AI is taking a lot of voiceover jobs. Because now...


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[Assistant] They would get these voice actors to come in and it would just learn their voice and then they can have it recreate anything. So it's weird, it's a lot of creative jobs that are going to go first.


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[Assistant] What are these, what are these laws? And this is just the code of ethics.


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[Assistant] Why would it need to protect itself? I don't want it to fight for itself. I just want it to do what I program it to do. And then if it goes down, it goes down. I don't want to give it a will to live. Yeaah. You know, that's the scary one.


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[Assistant] I want it to be okay with dying. Because I'll turn it off every now and then.


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[Assistant] ChatGBT cranking out some, uh, some laws for us too.


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[Assistant] This is such a good movie that I can't pronounce it. I know Ex Machina. Oh, Ex Machina. That's a good one.


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[Assistant] But there are some actors where I feel like I only see the actor in the movie and I don't see the character.


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[Assistant] They can drop it into places that no other type of robot could fit into.


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[Assistant] That thing just crawls around on the ground. It's kind of creepy. I don't really like it. I don't like looking at it. And then. Yeah, that's what would be crawling in your backyard.


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[Assistant] I think this is, I'm guessing this is super energy efficient too.


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[Assistant] Yeah, it's a person. It's social robot that can mimic social behavior and induce feelings of love in humans. So. Not good. Not good at all, dude.


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[Assistant] Some old people that probably have no family. Like, uh, Ben Stiller and Happy Gilmore. Yeah, yeah.


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[Assistant] Wakamaru. Oh, this thing. Oh, well, they know that's a robot. I've seen this. Yeah. Cause they remember this from the Jetsons. That looks like the mage from.


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[Assistant] But who has an incentive for us to, to get rid of all those things?


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[Assistant] Yeah. You know? Well, they're led only so much of, that's true. So I don't know who exactly has an incentive. It'd have to be a truly altruistic.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I'm at the Irvine improv tonight.


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[Assistant] Oh wow. If you're listening to this, and it feels silly to say it, but at shows people do come up and go, I heard last minute today I'm gonna be here. It is true, yeah. So it does happen if you're in the LA area, Irvine, and then Ontario, California tomorrow. Alright.


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[Assistant] For me to be at some theater dates, so do check those out. Paramount. Look at that. The Walker Theater in Chattanooga is awesome.


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[Assistant] Do you think people had to wait out in Amsterdam, like go see Nate, tickets to the Anne Frank house, Nate, Anne Frank house.


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[Assistant] I told Harper to go to school today and go, I'm sorry I'm late, but I was in, uh,


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[Assistant] Europe. All weekend, so, I don't know, maybe you guys have heard of it, but I was actually there, so why don't you.


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[Assistant] It's like you're just walking down the street. It's like coliseum here. These things that are like, you know, a couple thousand years old.


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[Assistant] And the streets are like cobblestone. It's like, you know.


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[Assistant] But they have enough sense to preserve it, like we would've turned the Anne Frank house into a Buffalo Wild Wings by now. And just been like, I'm sorry, it's progress.


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[Assistant] So that's real special sauce. But what about their sprouts? Isn't that their main thing? At least that's the way we see it. You know what? I didn't have it.


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[Assistant] The bike lane thing is interesting because in New York, I don't know if you guys know, but all the bike lanes, there was, the bike lanes were popping, they had the, made it a priority. But then during COVID, they put restaurants in the bike lanes.


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[Assistant] So there's like the shack rest, like, you know, the part of the restaurant in the bike lane now. Are the restaurants still there? Yeaah. Yeaah, they've kept them. They've kept the outdoor. Well, cause it's fun.


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[Assistant] When does that become indoors? You know, that's like indoors too.


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[Assistant] But you have to do the same thing. I'm sorry. You have to do the same thing, which is put it in water, I think.


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[Assistant] Characterizing somebody as a madman is great. That's not a label we put on people now. He's a little bit of a madman.


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[Assistant] Well, the casino sucks you in with the bright lights and the dinging sounds. It's just like, it's a stimulus. It just draws you in, doesn't it? I left.


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[Assistant] But Dusty does look like a guy who would grab a tree. He looks exactly like a guy who would grab a tree.


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[Assistant] You don't want to be in Florida inside with a shirt on, you know, because you're overdressed everywhere you go then.


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[Assistant] Well you need a singlet and rollerblades. Okay. If you're gonna be in Miami Beach.


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[Assistant] That's what they wear. That's what they wear. Yeah. It's pretty hot down there. Everybody's sexy. Everybody is sexy.


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[Assistant] Where was I? I was outside of, uh, Boston, Beverly, Massachusetts, off Cabot.


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[Assistant] And Beverly is a great town. It's 35 minutes outside of uh, Boston.


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[Assistant] And the only problem with the town is everybody goes to bed at nine. So uhm, but other than that, it's really great. Shows were light.


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[Assistant] Early morning and uh, they turn in, uh, pretty early.


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[Assistant] The Energy Surge, it was great and thank you to all the people who came out. It was really a lot of fun. And they have a mall with only three or four stores. And I find that refreshing. A lot of these malls are cocky and they have just like 28, 30 stores. Three or four stores in a mall is enough. I think it's refreshing.


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[Assistant] Like a food court? Is that all they had? They had three and yeah, but there was room for a lot more. Oh yeah. And uhm, like what you're saying is sad, I find to be refreshing and good, you know, three or four. The food court had two restaurants. Like I don't know if you would call it a court. But room for ten?


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[Assistant] I never see a Sears anymore, but there's a, there was a Sears I think there. It's great.


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[Assistant] You needed the ovens. But do you ever been to an ice cream place? I was, uh, I think it was in Minnesota where they take the ice cream and then they, they put it on a,


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[Assistant] And then they take it and they put it in the cone and give it to you, but it's, it's like a weird, it's a, seems like an unnecessarily long process that they take it.


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[Assistant] Yeah, one, one scoop is equal to two scoops. But apparently I don't feel that way overseas.


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[Assistant] Yeah, yeah, you can see. I mean, I thought I should- Oh, that's a good thing to go on and write a review. This guy only gave me a little bit of ice cream, not even above the rim. Is this traditional here? One star.


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[Assistant] I've seen Joe work out though, and it's interesting to, uh, assess someone, because we've been on the road together, and uh, the way that Joe works out, Joe gets it in. He does get it in. Joe, Joe goes pretty hard, pushes himself pretty hard, so I do not think he's a pushover in


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[Assistant] Uh, physical contact sports, which he probably has never played. But uhm, I, I don't think that he's a pushover. I think he's probably tougher than we think.


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[Assistant] You think he would just smack the glasses off his face?


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[Assistant] And I still think you would accept. Would you accept that? I would accept that, yes. So Joe? But Joe, I think Joe is tougher than we're giving him credit for.


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[Assistant] I would take Joe with his golf clubs and bird of his choice versus just Greg Warren. Because Greg Warren is very, very tough.


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[Assistant] Maybe, maybe that's my only saving grace is that maybe I'm in better shape now.


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[Assistant] But in his hay day, I'm like, God, that guy was very, very tough.


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[Assistant] But what is the person doing, putting their cigarettes out into these rants? Does anybody question them? No. You guys are taking the other side. You shouldn't just drink random things. How about you shouldn't put a cigarette out in a Pringles cap?


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[Assistant] Yeah, it was too fast. It was too fast of a jump. Yeah. To DVD. DVD was like, the thing. But what's blu- Blu-ray is a form of DVD, isn't it?


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[Assistant] Yup. Yup. This guy took it real in a great way.


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[Assistant] But it's misrepresenting because you're looking at a bag, you're like, oh, that bag is probably full of chips. That's what I want to eat. I want to eat a bag full of chips. And then when three quarters of it is air, you're disappointed. Does this guy live in the real world or? No, he just lives in measurement land.


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[Assistant] Can I say something? Because I'm a Michael and my sister is Michelle and people mix us up and it does hurt. So I got your back, Michelle. Where am I? At one? We got your back.


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[Assistant] So you're the brother. I'm the brother. So the sisters should be coming in.


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[Assistant] No, I'm not doing a condescending. Do they ever accidentally call you Michelle? Uh, sometimes. Yeah.


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[Assistant] Are you the oldest or are you the youngest? It's my brother John, then Michael, and then Michelle. My brother was named after my father's grandfather. I was named after my mother's grandfather. And Michelle was just a name that my father and mother liked. They picked out of a hat.


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[Assistant] I support you, Michelle. But my sister spells it with one L, so just check up on your spelling.


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[Assistant] What does that mean? It's all animation. Aren't they just showing what?


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[Assistant] It's made up then? Is that what you guys are saying? Then why would they have that? Why would they put that in place? It's to get the thing more accurate. They're trying to get it more accurate, right? Can you just be like, oh, in good faith, they want to get it more accurate.


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[Assistant] But Dusty, he's saying you don't trust any of it and there might as well be dinosaurs in the stands. That's how fake it is.


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[Assistant] Hmm. Well, maybe you have to get, uhm...


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[Assistant] Maybe the friend that you're spending the night at, maybe they have a mouth guard or an extra one.


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[Assistant] I'm doing a clean hour on the road now, so it doesn't matter, like it's not that hard for me. It's, you know, I've done a lot of tonight shows and I have to make it clean for that and that's a, you know, as you know, that's a process of like getting it a certain way, so it really wasn't that difficult to make it. I was already kinda there anyway.


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[Assistant] And I've been getting NateLand people on the road, so thank you. Thank you.


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[Assistant] But uhm, he does raise a good point here because I always used to get confused between the UK. It's like, were you guys aware of that?


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[Assistant] I like this as a steakhouse because people, you go, how many times did people get this confused? And you go, it's rare, sometimes medium rare. Well done.


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[Assistant] You know, uh, this reminds me of something, I don't know if it's related, but St. Vincent's in New York is a hospital, it was on, uh,


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[Assistant] 7th and like 7th Avenue and 11th and uhm, it went out of business. I don't know how a hospital goes out of business, especially a Catholic hospital. You'd think there's some roots there, but it went out of business. And uhm, now it's like a brick oven pizza place.


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[Assistant] I'm bleeding, but do you want salad with that? Do you want a salad with that? That sounds like a terrible place to go eat though.


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[Assistant] Well, you know, my idea is uhm, you know, it would help with jobs if when you got out of high school, they just assign you to a building and then whatever that building is, that's what you do. If it's a Dunkin' Donuts, you work at a Dunkin' Donuts. If it's a funeral home, you work at a funeral home. It's like, whatever it becomes, that's what you do. I think that would make everybody's life more enriched.


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[Assistant] Yeah, you're assigned a building after high school. It's like, you're gonna be with this building now. And it's like, whatever the building is, that's what you do.


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[Assistant] But do you know, you know where me and Soder lived in Queens, you know? And across the street is that Starbucks, that used to be a funeral home.


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[Assistant] That's why I remember that. And Sodor would never go there because it was a funeral home.


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[Assistant] I did too, yea, I talked to one last night. It was unbelievable. Yea. Very, uhm, refreshing.


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[Assistant] When you came back to your helix, did you have like panoramic dreams? Cause if you don't sleep well and then you do, it's like your mind opens up.


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[Assistant] Well no, I'm just like a junkie, I'm just like a casual junkie. It's an interest. I read all the books of anybody who would come out. How we learn about the mafia is like, the guys who cooperate usually write books. So I've read a bunch of the books and now they all have podcasts. So now I listen to all of their podcasts.


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[Assistant] That's pretty great the way that worked out. Maybe this could be a clip.


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[Assistant] Okay, sorry. Get it in post. I'm gonna start, I'm gonna stop pounding the table. Gambino, Genovese, Lucchese, Colombo, Bonanno.


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[Assistant] Uhm, no, it just reminds me of all, every Italian, uh, last name there sounds delicious. You know, it sounds like a kind of food.


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[Assistant] There was a kid, like uhm, there was a wrestler when I wrestled in Northeast Ohio named Genevieve, who was very, very tough, this kid Genevieve. He actually won states in Ohio and I think he was uhm, a descendant of the Genevieve family.


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[Assistant] Yeah. They're supposed to be the highest, the most sophisticated family, the Genovese family. Oh yeah. The most insulated, the most uhm...


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[Assistant] Uhm, high echelon crimes like labor, uhm, racketeering and all this stuff. And they insulate themselves very well, so very few of them relative go to prison.


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[Assistant] Relative to the other families. Like the Colombo family, they had a couple wars and they're just all killing each other in the street. It's like, the Genovese aren't.


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[Assistant] Yeah, they've had like three wars where they've had different factions like killing each other.


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[Assistant] Well, that was back when I was coming up, so there was none of this, you know, social media or press or anything like that. By the way, I would be mortified right now if I was wrestling because I would get pinned. I mean, I was pretty good, you know, I wasn't Greg Warren status, but I was pretty good, but just having the matches taped and put on YouTube is, I mean, it's,


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[Assistant] I mean, it would've been terrible for me. Cause you're already getting pinned in a uhm,


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[Assistant] Uh, gym full of people watching and there's nothing more emasculating than going out against somebody your own weight. And that's because there's no excuses and then he just takes you and manhandles you and holds you down, you know, and then, you know.


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[Assistant] They can just, especially getting pinned, it's like, they can just take you and, like, in college a couple times, I got, uh, beat to the point where I was just getting thrown, oh, physically manhandled. It's like, wow, there's just nothing. If Bush came to shove, there's nothing I, and we just like, we're in an art, there's nothing I could do about it.


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[Assistant] But, but I think- Right, there's no reason, everything's equal. It's not like, he was bigger than- there's no excuses. He was bigger than me, he was this than me, he was that. It's like, no, no, they make sure everything is the same. And there's a ref there to make sure no one cheats.


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[Assistant] Yeaah. I beat a guy one time, it was in Florida, they used to have these in-school matches. So seventh period, everybody would get out and go to the gym and watch the wrestling match.


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[Assistant] I watched the wrestling match and I actually, I beat a guy and it's, you know, in front of his home crowd. Cause that when you're going to that situation, it's an away school. They're all like booing you and everything. And I used to kind of love that because it's, there's no risk then. Yeah. So I beat him and then afterwards watched him.


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[Assistant] Uhm, but my point is, like, having that on social media is, uh, would've been terrible for me.


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[Assistant] So you're Goodfellas? I don't know, Goodfellas was very good. I've just watched it so much that I, you know.


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[Assistant] I thought it was very, very good. But I would have to say, uhm, probably the first Godfather.


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[Assistant] But I'm not like, yeaah, I'm not like that where it's like somebody says they don't watch, they never watch the Godfather jump down their throats. Because there's this, that great family guy clip, have you ever seen, where it's like Peter says he didn't like the God, they're, they're about to drown. And uhm, he says, he, he's like, just cause we're all gonna die, I'm just gonna,


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[Assistant] Because most, a lot of the storylines in there are based off of real things that happened in the history of the mafia.


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[Assistant] Like there was a gay character in there, a gay mobster. It's like that actually happened in New Jersey actually. The guy, one of the heads of the fam- he was the acting boss I think of the family in New Jersey and was secretly gay, but it got out that he was gay.


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[Assistant] Yeah, that's the guy who used to walk around in a bathrobe pretending he was crazy just to establish an insanity defense.


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[Assistant] The actual boss, Vincent the Chin, was sane and a stone cold killer. So he was just faking it the entire time. He would check himself into institutions and stuff just to, so that if he ever got arrested, he would have that as a defense and it would be well documented. He was very smart for the time. Now, like, they eventually got him and put him in jail and he died in prison.


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[Assistant] I mean, for the time, that is a great thing to do. You periodically check yourself in an institution. It'd be tough to convince someone you're crazy these days.


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[Assistant] That was the whole thing, that's the whole thing behind The Sopranos, that Tony Soprano character, it's like we were all kind of rooting for him, even though, because he had an endearing side that you tapped into, and you were like, ah, this guy is, you know, he's fun and a great, he's charismatic.


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[Assistant] But then the dark side, they, the funny thing is they would show you the dark side of it and then you would have that like inner struggle where it's like, uh, should I be rooting for this guy's pure evil on the other side of it? He'll kill, do whatever he has to do.


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[Assistant] But I would argue that that's even nice to tap into like, you know, from a fantasy standpoint when you're watching it, to be that guy who just like, you know, we're all in our heads and all of us are different with confrontation, but just like,


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[Assistant] Well, I'm just gonna, I guess I'm just gonna go over there and just beat this guy's face in and whatever happens, happens. To have the freedom to kind of go do that instead of like overthink, like let me go up there, let me talk to this guy. You just go from zero to, you know, like, all right, well, I guess this is happening now.


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[Assistant] Donnie Brosco, John, Joe Pistone. A street guy, Joe Pistone, to get into the, to infiltrate the family. To take it down. Which he, which he did a good job of.


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[Assistant] It used to be like 24 families throughout the country and everybody had a seat. Most families had a seat on the commission. The boss had a seat on the commission to make policy decisions about the American mafia overall. And yeaah, because of that happened, their seat got kicked off the commission.


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[Assistant] It was called the Windows case where they all conspired to, uh, rig.


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[Assistant] New York City was putting windows in all of the low income housing all over the city and it was going to be millions and millions of dollars. So they rigged it so mob contractors would get the jobs and they would get like two cents a window for


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[Assistant] And they can, they all conspired together to, to do this. The, uh, the other four families, but they left the Bonanno family out of it because of the Donnie Brosco thing. So this thing was, this scheme was like millions and millions and millions of dollars. And because the Bonanno family was off the commission, they got left out of it. Stuff like that, where it's like, um,


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[Assistant] With their racketeering and stuff and setting stuff up, they got left out of.


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[Assistant] It actually ended up working to their advantage because these guys all got busted for that.


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[Assistant] And the Bonanno family had nothing to do with it, so they were able to, like, stay away from being put in jail because they had nothing to do with it.


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[Assistant] I don't know, I don't know if they, uh, I guess there would have to be, but I don't know if they meet anymore.


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[Assistant] It's too dangerous to meet, it's too dangerous to meet because of uh, law enforcement infiltration. So maybe they send messages back and forth somehow, but it's too dangerous to meet, I would imagine now. But, you know, I don't know if there's actually a commission anymore. So they're kind of working together though, so I guess there would have to be.


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[Assistant] Just five in New York. The Italians aren't really, uh, connected to the American mafia. The American mafia is the Italians over here. The Italian mafia is different.


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[Assistant] Yeah, they could've, they, they, they've had connections with them over there, but it's not part of the same organization. Like, they blow each other up with bombs over there, and traditionally in America, that's, in the American mafia, that's frowned upon. I mean, I'm not saying it never happens, but it's against the rules to blow somebody up.


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[Assistant] Very strong, like at least in New York are challenging.


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[Assistant] They're working with the Italians a lot, but, cause the whole goal is to make money, and if you can use each other to make money, that's better than fighting, cause fighting is just...


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[Assistant] I mean, it becomes a standoff type situation. Either the, uh, the Italians or whoever the established family is backs off or they work out some kind of something. I don't know. It just depends, but there have been confrontations like that from what I understand.


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[Assistant] The cartel, the drug cartels. Or a mass crime. Yeah.


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[Assistant] But they're still like, with the Italians, it's like, they, I think all the families are involved in drugs, but the rule, their rule is that they're not supposed to be dealing drugs, just because of the long prison sentences.


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[Assistant] You know, you go to jail forever. And there's also a moratorium on killing now in the mafia. So it's because, not because they're morally against it, but because they'll go to, it'll add a life sentence onto whatever


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[Assistant] They're being charged with, so if you're just being charged with gambling and racketeering, that's like 5, 7, 10 years, 15 years maybe. And those guys can actually do that time. That's not a big problem. But if they're fa- if you add a murder conspiracy onto it, and you go, well now you're never getting out, you're never gonna see your children again, and then that might flip- that will flip them. So it's 50-50.


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[Assistant] He's done, but that was a, that was an amazing thing because you know, he looked obviously terrible for bringing up, bringing in.


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[Assistant] A guy who was an FBI agent, but he kept his mouth shut the entire time and took his, I think he was in, had a 20 year sentence. They gave him 20 years and he just took it, kept his mouth shut and went to prison. And the, because originally when it came out that they inducted or they didn't induct him into the family, but they were dealing with an FBI agent.


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[Assistant] They, the commission put a hit out on everybody who was, who brought him in, who was associated with them. They, they planned on hitting everybody, but because this guy kept his mouth shut and even though he knew he was going to get hit, he kept his mouth shut and did 20 years in prison. He, they rescinded it.


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[Assistant] Which they never do, they rescinded the hit on him. So then when he got out, they just, you know, he was on a shelf, but they didn't kill him.


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[Assistant] But imagine a guy who's just like a notorious killer is bagging your groceries.


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[Assistant] Yeaah. You guys were the condescending Italians that looked down on the South.


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[Assistant] The North and the South. The North is where all the industry, where all the winners are, and the South is poorer.


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[Assistant] We're from the Naples area and my mother's family is just east of Rome. It's a small, small town.


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[Assistant] No, I just went to Rome and didn't move, look, just stayed in Rome, but I actually should've.


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[Assistant] Cause it was, it's not that far from Rome where they were, uh, it's a small town. It was on.


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[Assistant] There's only five in New York, there's one in Philadelphia, there's one in Boston, or there was one in Providence area and they controlled the Boston one.


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[Assistant] Not so much anymore, because there used to be like one in Louisiana, that's gotta be, there used to be one in Cleveland, I was just in Cleveland in Little Italy, and it's like, there used to be a- Did you get in touch? There used to be a- Welcome up? Yeah, well there used to be a full family there, but now it's like,


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[Assistant] From the FBI, it's just, uhm, it's non-existent. So cities like that, but there's, it's still in, uhm, the Northeast, Boston, Providence.


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[Assistant] Philadelphia area. Jersey, obviously. Five in New York. Uh. Minnesota? I don't think I've heard of them. It's too cold. Not a lot of that.


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[Assistant] There was a family in Milwaukee because he, that was with, uhm, Casino, which was another great movie.


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[Assistant] Kansas city with some mafia. Kansas city, St. Louis. Yeah.


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[Assistant] Right, but what are they? Are they, it's usually broken down, like back in the day it was broken down.


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[Assistant] By ethnicity. Like the Irish had a group, the Jews had a group. And then the thing about Lucky Luciano bringing the five families, how that all came together, was he was like, no, we don't need to be all Sicilians. It's like anybody I can make money with, I'll deal with. And that's why he brought Jews in.


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[Assistant] I don't know, but uhm, yeaah, the underboss, and then sometimes what they do is the underboss is supposed to be served, you know, the boss, basically, and be in that administration, but, you know, in some cases, like in Philadelphia, they had a boss, the underboss was more powerful than the boss, and the boss was just a figurehead.


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[Assistant] Yeah, it's like a counselor to the, uhm, to the boss.


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[Assistant] Yeah, they have a crew of like, soldiers.


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[Assistant] Soldiers are made, soldiers are made men. The captains have a crew of soldiers that are made men and then the associates.


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[Assistant] He could not be a made man, but that guy, that true story of that guy is he's, he was a very, very powerful guy. So that you could have guys- Even in the movie he was. Yeaah. You could have guys who are not made guys, but are very, very powerful associates. More powerful than some made guys. Just because of their status.


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[Assistant] In Queens? Yep. We went to that diner. The diner where they shot the scene with when Ray Liotta was being followed by helicopters and he meets Robert De Niro for breakfast. We lived by that diner.


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[Assistant] Yeah, there's speculation as to what took place. Some people say, you know, he just did it. Other people say he was gonna let it go because the guy was really apologetic and sorry, not that it brings the kid back or anything like that. It's still a tragedy. But, uhm, many people were saying that the wife wouldn't let up and really wanted it.


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[Assistant] I think that the guy was gonna leave town. The story goes that that guy was gonna leave. He knew that he was in trouble and that he knew that he was gonna be in danger. He had a family.


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[Assistant] He knew he was gonna be, he was in danger, so, cause he knew who that guy was, back then. So he was gonna move, but they got him before he moved.


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[Assistant] I'll tell you the worst I ever bombed. I don't know if these guys were gangsters, but they were like, it was pretty close, I think. I did, it was at the end of COVID, and I did, uh, a benefit in Long Island, it wasn't a benefit, I was paid to do it, but it was in Long Island, and it was like, sanitation and hauling and concrete, and it was just these guys and their sons.


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[Assistant] And it was in a hall and, and this happened to me before in front of Italians, the worst I've ever bombed.


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[Assistant] The worst to the point where one guy was laughing sarcastically at me and everybody else was just looking and not making any reaction. Because there's a thing I think laughing is showing vulnerability and these guys were just like no.


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[Assistant] I don't know why they would have a comic there, I mean, but they had me there and I guess, uhm, besides the one guy laughing at me, everybody else was just stone-faced to the point where the guy who organized it, one of the heads of it,


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[Assistant] Started walking towards the stage like 35 minutes in and I was like, okay, here we go. And he goes, that's, that's it. He goes, that's enough.


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[Assistant] And I was like, thank you, good night. Did you get paid? Yeah.


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[Assistant] He just left. I just left. I was like, that was, I mean, anything now, it's like something like that bombing that bad is like, that's a podcast story. Yeah. Where they were just like.


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[Assistant] I don't know if we knew what we were getting, I don't know, some, one, that's, the one person has one idea about it and then everybody else is just, uh, of another. They want Don Rickles or something. I think so too.


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[Assistant] But I even did that a little bit and that was even getting nothing. So it's like...


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[Assistant] These guys, you know, and the guy who booked me was a comic, he was, his father was one of the guys in the card company, he was like a young comic, so he was like, yeaah, I want you to do this, he's very excited and cool and nice, and like, to him,


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[Assistant] Uh, it, it, it, I'm funny, I'm very good. But to them, they were like, we don't care about any of this. So it was like, there was some miscommunication there between he thought it would be a good idea, they thought it would be, and everybody else was like, no, we don't.


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[Assistant] Did that guy go up? Yeah, he went up. And he struggled. And then another guy went up. He struggled. And I went up. I had to go for the longest. And I was really struggling to the point where that guy walked up and was like, it's good. It's enough.


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[Assistant] It's terrible and it's like also there was no women. It was all the same kinds of guys with their sons. And it was just like, we don't like any of this and we're not into any of it.


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[Assistant] And then whatever happened happened, but, but it was just like, it was just very, very cold.


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[Assistant] And that's happened to me a couple of times in front of Italians, because you know, Italians, I'm Italian, I'm Italian-American anyway, and I figure, oh, these people, but no, the worst I've ever bombed is in front of other Italian-Americans, especially like in, one time in Queens and like Ozone Park, so it's really like Italian neighborhoods, like, yeah, it was, they didn't want to hear it.


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[Assistant] I didn't, I love Forrest Whitaker, not in that role. I didn't love it.


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[Assistant] And Vincent D'Onofrio is in it too, he's great too, but I just didn't know- Oh, he is great, is that-


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[Assistant] No, uhm. Full metal jacket? The break, yeaah, he said full metal jacket. The breakup, he was the older brother in the breakup.


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[Assistant] You know, Break Up is a very underrated movie with Jennifer Aniston and Vince Vaughn. He's great. But he's great, I mean, there are individually great actors, I just didn't, I'm not, I don't, I tried to watch it, I just, I...


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[Assistant] That's an interesting story too, man. American Gangster is an interesting story of him, Frank, being Bumpy Johnson's driver.


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[Assistant] Well he had the purest over there too. He had connection to get the purest stuff. So he had it over there. But I think that movie's a little bit false in the sense that he would have had to make some kind of a...


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[Assistant] Deal with the Italians at the time because they were just powerful. They were really powerful, especially with like the police and politics. Like, you know, if they, they could have eliminated the competition in a number of ways, including having the police just arrest their competitors because I think they were getting their heroin from Sicily or, you know,


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[Assistant] They just caught him and then what's more interesting is like they had him in jail and they transferred him to a prison, another prison.


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[Assistant] And then he got killed in prison. And he got killed in prison by a guy who got arrested who was indirectly associated with the Genovese family.


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[Assistant] They, they heard that he was coming into the prison and...


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[Assistant] I guess bad security or whatever or the staff there didn't think about what they were doing and wheeled them into the wrong area and left them alone for a few minutes and they snuck in there and brutally, I mean they killed him pretty brutally.