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[Assistant] They were just too polite to tell me they didn't like me. That's probably what it was. But no, the countries are clean. It's like, uh, it's crazy. They have the highest quality of life in the summer. Then in the winter, I guess I have to say, unfortunately, they have the highest suicide rate.


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[Assistant] Well, summer is great only because it's not winter there. It's not even that great. It's like 50 degrees. I mean, they live in the North Pole.


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[Assistant] That's good. Viking blood. Viking blood. Yeah. Yeah. Everything that was, yeah, the Vikings were brutal and harsh. Yeah. And then now they're just like...


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[Assistant] Good looking people who like, wear like long coats and Chuck Taylors. It's funny how that...


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[Assistant] Like, if their ancestors could see them, they'd be like, really? Yea, this is what we became. Yea, we used to cheers in skulls so you could walk around and be like, hi, welcome to H&M. Like, we have cheap time.


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[Assistant] Carhartt? Aren't they all wearing Carhartt over there? No, that's Boston. That's Boston. Yeaah. That's like Good Will Hunting. Yeaah. I know that's, I know that's what it's like here. Now imagine your dad. Your dad looks like these blue collar guy, no?


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[Assistant] It's for people like us who are like, you know, have no issues. You went to American, that's a good school. I went to American. I'm smarter than Nate, for sure. Yeaah. We know that. Yeaah. Yeaah. Yannis is super smart. Yeaah. I'm so smart, I know you got...


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[Assistant] You're still friends with a lot of the people you were friends with, you know? You got successful and I told, I warned all our friends, I said give them a year. You gotta give your friends a year to, to adapt to success.


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[Assistant] Because then they start saying things like, you know, you know, you know, this is for, you gotta ride the train, you know, stuff like that. So, but you're loyal, you're a loyal guy. How would you say loyal? You're a loyal guy. I'm a loyal guy. I know him so well, I know the words that he can't say.


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[Assistant] And uhm, Vanderbilt, you were, you were a fan of Vandy when you started comedy. I met you in 2006, you know, when you had the Superman joke, you know, and you used to shave your own hair to cut your hair, you know, and you were living off your wife.


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[Assistant] But the thing is we did nothing right. Like we were recording off a Mac and we bought, eh, you guys would know, we bought like a, what was it? A snowball mic, which they're not great. And a Yeti snowball.


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[Assistant] We did like two years thinking that we were recording out of the snowball. We, we had it plugged in. Just the webcam mic. Just the webcam mic that was recording.


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[Assistant] This was like 2008, 2009. So it was like, I don't even think the iPhone was out yet. Right? When did the iPhone come out?


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[Assistant] We used to do shows in those side rooms, there was a side room, uhm, and it was a dump, and there was a, uh, a


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[Assistant] By the stage, do you remember? That had the heat in it? So it was like, you know.


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[Assistant] When you're working on jokes or you're just not a good comic, which is what I was, you just lean on stuff for support. It was about ten times I leaned on that pipe and just burnt my hand. That's New York heating. It's always, it's all this gas, uh, yeaah. You live in an apartment, it's like,


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[Assistant] You always hear like, it sounds like tea, like you're cooking tea. It's like you're cooking tea and your landlord controls the heat. So it's like you have the window open more in the winter because the heat is so hot than you do in the summer.


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[Assistant] Yeah, he used to make fun of me. He would say, here's Yannis's act. He'd take the microphone and bang it against his head. Remember that? Yeah. Cause I do, I was a physical comedian. Yeah. Yeah. Where Nate would just make him kill them with just like his mouth. I would have to like really. It's with words.


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[Assistant] Remember that Brattleboro show we would do every year in Brattleboro, Vermont? That was back at like the beginning when...


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[Assistant] I've driven, yea, I mean when I started, I remember driving to like Cincinnati, Columbus for like 150 bucks, which sold Joel.


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[Assistant] It was like 150 bucks. And I remember you started making a little money and it was like you drove somewhere for like $500. Yeah. And then that's when you start saying like,


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[Assistant] And you know what the funny thing is? Like those days are over now because we have families and stuff, but those were the best.


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[Assistant] No, I think you realize it looking back. It's like, you know, when you look back at like playing sports and stuff at the time and you're like, Oh man, hanging with the team and the boss was like the best. And then at the time you're having fun.


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[Assistant] And when you look back, maybe it's just like, cause you don't have any money and it's just innocence and like.


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[Assistant] Man, just offstage, the fun we would have, how hard we would laugh, and like, you know, we had good times.


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[Assistant] And then when you do those first road gigs, like it's amazing. Cause you're working, you're grinding in the city every night and then it's like, I got a gig.


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[Assistant] And so you'd go with your friend or whatever and it's like you're on the road, you know, like you're a young comic on the road and it was just like fun. You felt like you were doing something.


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[Assistant] I didn't, I didn't. I was from New York, so the way I really came up was uhm, I did like black rooms, like kinda have their own circuit down there, like, you know, black rooms always like have their own self-produced shows, so I do a lot of those and then I would start my own rooms.


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[Assistant] And then I just kinda got in at sort of the B and C clubs and that's where me and Nate met. Like on the nights where if you were newer you could get up. Like this guy Dustin Chafin, uh, is a good friend of mine still. Dustin Chafin really hooked us both up, got us in.


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[Assistant] I started, uh, doing sets with Donnell. Donnell took me on the road. Donnell Rawlings. Donnell Rawlings, another comedian. That was early on. And then yeah, we would drive and do any gig. Soul Joel would have a lot of gigs, New Jersey and like, yeah.


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[Assistant] He's getting like Seinfeld to do it. It went from like, I'm just saying like all the good comics are doing it now. Cause there's like nothing else going on.


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[Assistant] For you, like, you would not have become the monster you are without New York. And what was always really oppressive about Nate is yeaah, in New York you really had to grab him. Cause in New York they're going like...


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[Assistant] You know, they, they look at you for, if it's a free show, first of all, forget it. They can just walk out. But it's like, they're looking at you going like, hey man, I could be here. I could be doing a million things. It's not that special. And you were like an understated comic. So like you, being in New York, you had to, like if you're making people laugh, if someone who just stands there and like,


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[Assistant] Like Nate does and makes people crack up. That's a dude who's really funny because you gotta really perform to get these guys, you know what I mean?


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[Assistant] Perfect comedy room. Yeah. We got Left Alone up there. Yeah.


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[Assistant] Come on, that word I just said, that's like the marijuana of curses. It's not that bad. People think it's bad, but you can smoke it. How hard is it to not?


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[Assistant] You never curse. You don't curse. And you don't curse in your act, you don't curse in life.


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[Assistant] And it is good not to curse because it gives you a wider appeal, which is good, right?


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[Assistant] As a comic, I just think it's impressive to not curse because I think it's a little harder to be honest with you and there's only a few guys who can do it. You know, it's like Gaffigan U, Seinfeld, Ryan Hamilton, Regan.


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[Assistant] Maybe Sebastian doesn't curse? I don't think he curses. Just a little bit. Maybe he'll do like one or two.


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[Assistant] He could go without him. He could go without him. He does very little cursing. Nobody else.


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[Assistant] I, one early joke you had that I really always thought was good was the, your friends would just tell you, yeah man, just park it there. You're like, is it legal? They're like, yeah, yeah. They don't, you know, cause your friends don't care if you get a ticket. Oh yes. Yeah. They just tell you, and then you'd be like, just pull it over there. You're like, there's a car on fire over there. No, you're good right there. No, you're fine. They don't care.


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[Assistant] You're a very talented driver. A lot of people don't know you drive with two feet. You know that? Yea, I drive, yea. You drive with two feet. Really? Yea.


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[Assistant] Smooth driver, you're really, you're smooth, you're a good driver, and you used to drive professional, like not professionally, but like.


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[Assistant] We were, we were all so poor back then that like, it was impressive that Nate had a house. He had like a, and it wasn't a house, but he had like a, he had like a living room and like, uh, you were like, you had like a grown up living space. Oh, Laura, when Laura moved there. Yeah.


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[Assistant] Yeah. Which was a lot to us. Which was, which was insane. Yeah. I mean, we all, I lived in like a rent control apartment with Jesse, like we were all like living, I don't know how.


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[Assistant] There's a loophole in the law, so it's like, because the market keeps going up, New York real estate is so expensive.


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[Assistant] Well, parks where I lived was always kind of good, but it was kind of good. And then like what, New York's the type of place you go one block, you walk one block and you're in a totally different world. So it was like, we used to like not go below 6th Avenue, which is


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[Assistant] Well, a lot cheaper. His family had a rent control department, so he was one of my roommates. And then he left, and me and Jesse stayed there.


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[Assistant] And so we would just write the check by money order. So the landlord just thought he was still there. And then he sort of found out slowly like, we were there eight years.


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[Assistant] And he found out that he wasn't there because he had him and his wife at the time bought a house in like North Carolina. So then the landlord would come and like knock on our door and we would just hide. We just wouldn't answer the door and not make a noise. We would just sit there. How often would you have to do that?


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[Assistant] Yeah, it was anxious. It was adorable. And it was always more anxious if I was alone. It's funner to go through with someone, like hiding from an authority figure, I guess. I don't know.


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[Assistant] My apartment, our apartment was $900 with a three bedroom.


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[Assistant] We painted the living room, we did everything. And uh, it was 900. So it was, uh, my rent was $300. Which in New York is un- I mean, $1000 is unheard of. $1200, that's an affordable-


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[Assistant] You couldn't rent a bedroom off of someone's apartment for $900. No, you could not. You could not rent a bedroom for less than like $1500.


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[Assistant] So we had a whole apartment. It was a tiny apartment and very old, but it was 300 bucks I paid.


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[Assistant] Yeah, wow. So that's how I was like able to do comedy. You have to figure out a way to do comedy. Like you can't work some sort of job or have a wife with a job or live off a girlfriend or sell, uh, yeah.


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[Assistant] Yeaah. New York is, uh, Colin Quinn's book, which I recommend. It's a really good book he just wrote about all the states. Talking about states.


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[Assistant] His first line about New York is the best one I've ever heard, Colin Quinn. Uh, he said, uh, New York.


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[Assistant] I mean, is that like, so New York City is like, New York State's big mouth. And then the rest of New York is quiet, bucolic, and beautiful. Yeah. Tennessee, it's in every other state.


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[Assistant] That's how America is. It's Nate-land. You go at 5, 10 miles. Everywhere's Nate-land.


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[Assistant] They're everywhere. They're like rats with rings.


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[Assistant] Like knives. Yea, New York is a rough place. Like for, there was a little while where like there was somebody like harming the pigeons. Yea. I'll say harming. They were harming the pigeons. Yea. Really? Yea. The guy had to get caught.


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[Assistant] What made did he get? Yeah, he was like a, he was like a, uh, he was a serial harmer of pigeons. Yeah. I'm doing good producer. I'm doing good wherever the producer is.


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[Assistant] Yeah, they had to find out, like, find him. Yeah. He was like, you know. Were people cheering him on?


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[Assistant] I was like a one year old baby. Yeah, that was the summer of, that was a crazy summer in New York because it was a blackout, meaning the electricity went down. It was a hot summer. You don't think we don't know what a blackout means? Is that what you think? Well, y'all got generators, so.


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[Assistant] Uh, yeah, we had a full blackout and then there was this roaming serial killer who was killing, uh, women in cars.


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[Assistant] Empire State. Why do they call it the Empire State? Does it have anything to do with Jay-Z? Uh, it does not. George Washington called it that.


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[Assistant] Yeaah, you can just go silent on them. Yeaah, they go silent on them. And it'll be fun for the audience. Not even that bad.


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[Assistant] Trump, right? Yeah. Trump's born in Queens. Oh, yeah. Trump, Teddy Roosevelt, uhm. Yeah. Alright, that's fine. I don't know the three, yeah.


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[Assistant] It's, uh, New York is a universe crammed into a city. I mean every, there's countries you don't even know where countries till you meet somebody and they're like, I'm from Bolivia. You're like, what's that?


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[Assistant] Uh, well the money isn't great because at weddings they throw it at you. Dancers, we're the original, make it rain. That's, Greeks are the original. We throw the money if you're dancing at you.


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[Assistant] Where was your wife by the way? Why didn't she come to the wedding? Uh, I forget. Yeah, it would have been nice to have, cause she would have like been- She would have loved it. She would have kept you downstairs. She would have loved it. I mean, that's what comics do. They come to your wedding and then they go upstairs, like they're on the road, like they're doing a gig and they play video games.


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[Assistant] Yeah, because they're not, it's not a real thing. It's like they just like...


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[Assistant] That's a great show. I know a lot of actual comedians who you are ten times more entertaining than. Yeah, I mean, nobody should ever ruin those. You know what I mean? Just like it's funner to be like


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[Assistant] Yeaah. I mean those dudes CRUSH. Yeaah. John Edward, remember how he would CRUSH?


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[Assistant] Yeaah. Cool movie about it. Cool runnings. Yeaah. Cool runnings. Yeaah.


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[Assistant] Yeah. Wow. Wow. Will Farrell. More than Will Farrell.


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[Assistant] That's the thing, that's what I brought up because some people, like it came up recently somewhere I was at and like half the people were yes, half the people were like,


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[Assistant] He was great. He was funny, man. He was like that kind of guy. He was funny. He was funny. There's a couple classics, plane trains, automobiles. His role in Vacation was very funny when he played the


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[Assistant] You know, most people don't know that. I thought Yellowstone was- I mean, that's like a-


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[Assistant] Yeaah. You do everything for the first time there. Read your first book. Yeaah. You know. Yeaah. Yeaah. So, then, uh. Getting the crew laughing again, Nate. I'm crushing. Yeaah.


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[Assistant] I think maybe the Jewish people in New York kind of started that kind of a summer retreat like as they would go to the Catskills where comedy really started. The Catskills is in New York. That would have been a good fact to pull up because we're all comedians, but comedy really started.


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[Assistant] Don't put, I'm sorry, you never put it past. What is the Catskills fact? Bananas.


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[Assistant] And no, back then you didn't move around, there was no internet, you knew your neighborhood and like, he even says he wants, he thinks the world should go back to that, like it was better before the internet went like, you knew people in your neighborhood and like you didn't worry about like, what was going on.


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[Assistant] I would go to Manhattan. Yeaah. Going to Manhattan was like a big deal. You had to have like some reason to go to Manhattan. There's some people who didn't go to Manhattan ever.


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[Assistant] Yeah, you take the subway to the museum, maybe that. You gotta imagine how big and dense New York City is. Long Island alone, which is behind New York City, has 9 million people in Long Island.


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[Assistant] What's, Nashville's what? 1, 2, 3, 4 million?


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[Assistant] Yeah. Has nine million. You're talking about the New York metropolitan area. You're talking 20, 25, 30 million people who probably live like 19.


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[Assistant] It's like, but then you add Jersey. You gotta add Jersey and Connecticut. That's why I call it the New York area. Yeah. Cause people live in like Stanford, Connecticut and they live in Jersey.


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[Assistant] Uhm, yeaah. When I was, my mother was a human rights lawyer. Uhm, so she was always big into like, the moral thing. So like, I remember, yeaah.


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[Assistant] She wrote a seminal human rights for children book. But when you're a young kid, it's like,


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[Assistant] She's like, if someone was like yelling at their kid on the subway, I remember when I was little, my mom was a little woman.


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[Assistant] And there was like this big woman like yelling at her kid and jerking the kid around.


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[Assistant] And, uh, you know, the subway in like the 80s was a dangerous place. But my mom just went over and yelled at the woman.


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[Assistant] And I was like a little kid going like, what's, there's nothing more mortifying.


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[Assistant] When I, nah, I was young, well yeaah, I mean, when I grew up you didn't go to Times Square. When I grew up, this is a true story, you would have, uhm, you would have mugger money on you, which is what they called, you would carry money on you in case you got mugged so they wouldn't hurt you.


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[Assistant] Everyone had mugger money. It was a thing in New York. You had mugger money. That's insane. The windows in your car, you would say no radio, it's already been taken because it was break-in. Someone broke into my dad's car. True story. He had an Audi 5000.


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[Assistant] 80s, I guess. Close to 90, maybe 88 something.


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[Assistant] Somebody broke into my dad's car outside of our house during the day.


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[Assistant] He got so mad my dad punched the hood of the car and broke his head. Because it was like the 18th time someone had. So then eventually he had to just park it in the garage and he parked it in the garage.


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[Assistant] In New York, where a lot of people did that, if you had like a semi-nice car, you wouldn't park it on the street. You couldn't. Couldn't do it, they would take your radio. Yea.


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[Assistant] I got, I, well yeaah, I mean, I got my sneakers taken, I got my timberland boots taken off my feet. And I got my Christmas money stole. Yeaah. We carry around bus passes. So if you were a student, you would have a bus pass so you could ride the subway or the train. So you'd always have like a bus pass folder. All the kids had it.


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[Assistant] And so I had like 80 bucks of Christmas money. I used to work at my dad's office. I'd make a little money. So that was my Christmas money. I was gonna buy gifts or whatever. And so I just got jumped by like 15 kids.


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[Assistant] And they just like, and then they took the money, everything, and then the one kid was like, yo man, what size do you wear? And I was like, oh no.


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[Assistant] And I told the truth, I didn't want to tell a lie because I'm an honest. So you don't want to lie in that situation because that's the sin. So I told him my size and I just walked home in the freezing cold and it was wet with just socks. You just walk home and it's a 15 minute walk.


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[Assistant] No, no. It was, they got it. It was like a, there was a time in New York where that was just, it happened a lot. It would happen, you know.


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[Assistant] And you have mugger money. You have mugger money. I mean, they broke into cars and took things in the trunk.


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[Assistant] They took my dad's briefcase, he had like a very important work related thing in there. It happened all the time. If you had a hat on in New York,


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[Assistant] You know, you just kneel. You just, it was like, you know, you ever watch Game of Thrones when Queen Cersei walked through? Shame. Shame. You're just going through and something's gonna happen. So if someone called you something, you got your hat taken and that was it.


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[Assistant] You take a beating, a lot of times you just take a quick beating, and you run, and yeah, you just took a quick beating, and that's just what happened. And just go about your day. You go about your day, it was so normal, it's weird to think about. Yeah, that is crazy.


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[Assistant] He was a, he was a very tough mayor. It's a tough town, I think, in my opinion. It requires, New York requires a tough...


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[Assistant] Perhaps leaning right. Kind of mayor. It just kind of does. It's a money town. It's a town where people come to live their dreams. A very tough, competitive town.


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[Assistant] And, uh, there's nine million people on a small island. You need like...


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[Assistant] The Clinton era everybody started having money and just things just kind of picked up. What about the mafia?


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[Assistant] The mafia was massive in New York. My dad, my granddad, you know, like a Greek, he owned a diner down on the docks in Red Hook, which is where the docks still are.


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[Assistant] My dad bought it for $28,000 from an Irish family that like didn't have a gas stove, like the Murphy's. You're home now. Yeah. And now it's like, yeah, it's in millions. Millions. Millions. $28,000. $28,000, 1959.


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[Assistant] They didn't look at it like it was all crime. It was like, you gotta think back then...


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[Assistant] You know, cops were paid off. It took a while for cops to get there. Everything was cash. There was no credit cards.


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[Assistant] Robbery was like happened all the time. So the mafia was a way for you not to get robbed. So like my grandfather, like Albert Anastasia, the famous gangster Albert Anastasia, his brother would run Red Hook docks. Like that was his area. They would have areas.


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[Assistant] And so, my grandfather would pay- What year is this? We're talking about like, this is the 30s, 40s.


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[Assistant] So my grandfather would go, my father remembers he would go, sit in Albert Anastasia's brother's car, hand him an envelope, and that was like protection money. It was like saying like, nobody's going to mess with it.


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[Assistant] So it's like you choose the lesser. Lesser by a lot. A lot of people look at it as a good thing.


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[Assistant] Because they ran the neighborhoods and the neighborhoods, they didn't allow any bad stuff to happen.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I mean, the Cosa Nostra was kind of like it had its era. And then, uh, yeah, Giuliani in New York really broke him up.


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[Assistant] Such a big city, it feels like you're your universe.


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[Assistant] That's crazy. Yeah, I mean the population, it just can support anything. We could probably do a third or fourth.


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[Assistant] Yeah. Cause my brother went to school there. Yeah. So probably DC. Yeah.


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[Assistant] I didn't leave, we would go to Greece a few times. So that was Greece and DC because my brother went to school there. Other than that I went nowhere. We wouldn't even go to Long Island. We wouldn't even go to Queens.


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[Assistant] Yeah, well, when my dad went to Ithaca, he played football, and my dad went to Ithaca to go to college, my grandfather, who was an immigrant from Greece, was like, why are you doing that? Why are you leaving?


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[Assistant] Different. They're different. They're like rich. Yeah, you think like a Manhattan, you're rich. Which is always the case.


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[Assistant] Yeah, but Sam Morel is just a good old New York City. Yeah. Doesn't celebrate Christmas.


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[Assistant] Yeah, wow. No driving. It's an impediment to have a car.


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[Assistant] Because of parking and like traffic. And they're stealing it and they're breaking into it. They're breaking and stealing into it too.


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[Assistant] Exactly, and the train is so efficient. You can get pretty much anywhere within a couple blocks with the train.


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[Assistant] The G line came and that was...


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[Assistant] G-Line was terrible. G-Line was terrible, but G-Line would take, uh, all the gentrifying, the white kids who gentrified Williamsburg home. So Colin, it's like, it used to be a bad train line and now Colin Quinn had a great joke where he called it, it looked like a ski lift.


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[Assistant] Uh, grandparents, and then my mother came. My mother was born in Greece. I'm a Greek. Greek Orthodox? Greek Orthodox is how I grew up, which is Christian.


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[Assistant] Our Easter is changes every year and I make the joke always that like, uh,


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[Assistant] I was earlier, I was like the first of our crew to have any sort of that type of ticket selling success.


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[Assistant] Which you convinced me to do, and I was like, this sounds stupid, but you're like, trust me, it's going to be great. I don't know why you wanted it.


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[Assistant] Yeah, there's a lot going on. No, yeah. So what happened was you, and then you'll go, Oh yeah. So we, we had to come up with a few characters to pretend to be Collins. So me and Nick went to this diner on Broadway and we sat down.


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[Assistant] And that's when, so we were thinking of characters. And one of the characters we thought of was like two southern guys who always just say, get off of my property, which I thought was hilarious. And that was your idea. Get off my property. So it was fake radio call-ins. So we'd call in as these characters. And so it was two guys going like, just everything was get off my property. Cause like southern guys are all about their property. And we want you off of it. We love our property.


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[Assistant] And then we were sitting there and there's like, I used to do this like Rosie Perez impersonation. So this was before I created the character. So I just started thinking of characters and I was like, thinking nobody's ever done a trans character. It's kind of like a new thing.


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[Assistant] So I just said like, I just said a line, I riffed a line to Nate, I was like, my name is Maurice, I'm trans, I just riffed it, and he laughed. And he never laughs. You know him, right? Like he barely laughs.


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[Assistant] Part of it's cause he's funny, you know? So if he was, and I was like not connected to why it was funny, but I saw him laugh.


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[Assistant] Cause I was thinking of stuff, I was like, more in my head, but for some reason he was cracking up.


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[Assistant] And I was like, oh, and then I just riffed like another line about socks on her feet and he laughed again.


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[Assistant] And it was like, and then I started working it out on stage. And then one...


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[Assistant] Show I was hosted in New York Comic Club and I was waiting for Sherrod Small, he was running late.


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[Assistant] And they told me to stretch and I was like, let me just try to keep going with this character. Not to joke. So I started doing the character on stage and I just sorta, it really came to life that night. I think I did like 30 minutes or 20 minutes as her.


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[Assistant] And then I did a video with Panos called the Greek Financial Crisis that took off with the financial crowd. Yeah. So I was doing like weird finance gigs. Yeah. I'd like go to Canada, Gram K open for me for work. It's like this big hedge fund guy's birthday gave me a bunch of money and like it was his birthday. So it was like, I did a bunch of those.


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[Assistant] And then I do a lot of Greek shows too. That's where I met my wife at a Greek show, but Morisa was another story. It was like,


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[Assistant] It connected, like it was just people loved it. And that was like when you're going like, that's when you start to go like, the internet's this thing that kind of, I shot that video in my living room for nothing.


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[Assistant] Miami, Miami and New York were the biggest. Sam Fran, Cal, uh, LA. It was a few places.


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[Assistant] It kinda ran its course, like I always knew. The thing about it, like, I, it was, I was 35. Like I got back into comedy, like around 20, like, uh, 2005, 6 when I met Nate. It's really when I started, to be honest. Like I started 2000 and did it for like, huh?


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[Assistant] And I didn't, I just stopped. Like for a while I was like dealing with other stuff. Like uhm, so I didn't really start till 2005-06. When I met you is when I really started. Yes. So I was like in my late twenties or something like that. And then uhm, yeaah. And so that.


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[Assistant] You know, I didn't have, make any money until I was in my mid thirties. So, and so I was older, so I knew, I was like, this is gonna run, of course, let's just juice it. First year, we sold 10,000 tickets in New York City in a year. So it was like, I just kept doing shows because I knew it was like,


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[Assistant] Lightning in a bottle. It was like, you know, there's a character. So we just like booked shows like, and yeah, I did the thing. I went different. I was like, I want a full door deal. People like, that's not the way it works. I'm like,


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[Assistant] So give me an off night, I don't care about a weekend. Give me a Tuesday, I want 100% of the door.


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[Assistant] You know, before I worked in nightclubs, I did the door, I did lists and whatever. So I just got 100% of the door. And I was just like, we just kept adding shows. And then we go to Jersey, add shows. And so yeah, it ran its course. Everything does. Everything has its, you know, everything. Yeah, it comes back down. It comes back down.


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[Assistant] And you know what's funny is the Indians probably thought they were getting a good deal. They don't even know what money is. They're like, yeah, we'll give them this paper and they'll get, we'll get, we'll give them the island, uh, you know, yeah.


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[Assistant] Yep. Remember that? I do know that, yeah. You remember? I did know, I didn't remember, it was the 1700s. Oh, okay.


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[Assistant] We said, listen, I got a good deal. It's a company. It's called, you know, it's called, you know, uh, CBDF, you know, what is it? It's what we do. So, you know, we're doing the creams at the athletes, you know, it's just like, it's a vitamin company. Get in on it. And it's like, there's no company in your body.


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[Assistant] It's like the idea you're like, yeaah. Yeaah, even in the clubs. I mean, let's be honest, I just say it now because we're all getting independent. It's just true. It's like yeaah, come down. You can even hear the voice going yeaah, come perform my club. $25 on Tuesday.


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[Assistant] Same amount of people in there, but you know, it's a $25 site. It's a Tuesday, it's a different day, and you're going to make sense. You're going, wait a second, that does not make any sense.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I mean it's one of those things when you're a comic that I don't know if that arrow will be there after this. I think it might be there. I don't know. It's interesting. Because things are changing so much where like clubs need the comedians in there. Like if you have a fan base now where like


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[Assistant] But it would be, it would be unfair. It would be unfair if you were coming through on a, on a new material night. Yeah.


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[Assistant] I'm not gonna say anything, but any club was like, Nate Bargat, you know what I mean? Yeaah. That's not fair!


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[Assistant] Milk is on the decline because of almond milk and all this other stuff. Like milk is really struggling.


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[Assistant] You gotta be kidding me. Yeaah, I think maybe the first cast was Bronx.


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[Assistant] Yeah, they're New Yorkers. They're New Yorkers. It's gotta be one of the boroughs. It's gotta be one of the boroughs. Staten Island. Staten Island for sure. I mean, you can't get even, that's like the most New York. Yeah. New York is an honest place. Well, Manhattan, you would look.


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[Assistant] Yeah, a little bit, but Manhattan wasn't always like it was when you were there. You know, Manhattan had a lot of neighborhoods and stuff, but New York, even the business side, like we kind of liked that. And everyone likes the thing about New York and it's, New York is a tough, honest town. It really is. Like, um, all these cities are great and stuff, but like.


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[Assistant] You could never imagine another city being the spot where people go to make it.


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[Assistant] Because everyone's too nice, like, hey man, that was great, you know? It's like, no it wasn't.


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[Assistant] New York's just like, so cutthroat. It's like, you gotta be good. You gotta be good.


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[Assistant] The great thing about being a comic too, and it's important to say now because everyone is so divided on these teams and stuff.


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[Assistant] Being a comic, we're like the ones who know the most about how similar people are. Just like everywhere you go. They yell at each other because they don't know each other, they don't see each other, they don't get that, they don't have that.


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[Assistant] We've, we've gone from Elks lodges to big theaters to small towns to different cities to different countries. And at the end of the day.


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[Assistant] You know what gives comedy I think the advantage over music a little bit as far as bringing people together? Like music, everyone has a different taste. Yeah. Everyone's like, I don't like that.


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[Assistant] A comedy, people have a certain taste, but in the room? Yea. No matter where you are, rich, poor.


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[Assistant] You know? We're all the same. Ethnicity. It's like you're laughing or you're not. Yeah. And like a good comic just like will make the people laugh.


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[Assistant] Comedy's the only thing that if you had a live show and there was like black dudes over here who listen to strictly hip hop and then you got like people who strictly listen to country music and are from like rural Tennessee, you know, and then.


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[Assistant] It's the only thing where you would get those people to all like the same thing.


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[Assistant] You know, we have some tours from Norway in there and you throw some California hippies there and a couple of radical feminists, San Francisco people.


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[Assistant] No, but comedy can do it. A good comic can make everyone have a good time. Whereas a band or a movie or something can't do that.


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[Assistant] Cause comedy, like that laughter is like, we're human. It's like saying, I know what you're saying, I recognize it. And the laugh is underneath all that, uh, bull.


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[Assistant] So we're different, but we're the same. We're comics. We're people. Be proud of where you're from. Yeah. And there's nobody prouder than where you're from than you are. I mean, you got Vanderbilt underwear on right now. Yeah. I love it. Anchor down.


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[Assistant] Do you still have to have a piece of Vanderbilt clothing on you at all times?


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[Assistant] Did you guys know that for a while he had a superstition that he had to have some sort of ban? I didn't know it was a policy. Yes it was a policy.


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[Assistant] There's a dude snowboarding in my neighborhood, on the back of a truck, being pulled around.


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[Assistant] Some of the comments were there and just like, man, it's good to see Nate finally talking to some comedians. Yeah. Real comics. Yes. Real comics. How do you think I feel? You know, I mean.


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[Assistant] Do you have a different speed when you're in New York? You know it's so fast, but then you kind of adapt it to it, do you feel like?


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[Assistant] You never lose, you don't lose until you sell. That's my philosophy.


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[Assistant] No, I mean, it will get down to zero. It gets down to zero unless the company.


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[Assistant] You know, the main dude who just testified in front of Congress, he doubled down. He bought, he bought a ton more. Oh, really? Still just still in it, man.


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[Assistant] It's more than 325. No, I brought, not a lot. Okay.


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[Assistant] Uh, you bought it at 325, right? It was 325 each share. Yeah. Each share. Every share. So you bought one share. I bought one share of that. I bought a lot of AMC stock, which is down a bunch too. Yeah.


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[Assistant] I actually feel more, now more than ever, I feel for sure that's what it's called. Reaffirmed. Penguin. Reaffirmed. Nah, I don't have to put so much oomph in the first syllable of it. But it is penguin. That's how it is.


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[Assistant] So this is James Hodges. This is, this is one of my college roommates.


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[Assistant] He's from New York? Yeaah, he's from New York. What's he doing now? Wall Street? Yeaah, he works at, uh, yeaah.


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[Assistant] Uh, maybe not Wall Street. Works at E&Y, I think. Ernst & Young. Oh. Maybe I shouldn't say that. Yeah, I don't even know what that meant. Uh. Is that a county firm? I think it's, yeah, I think it's one of the big four. Yeah.


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[Assistant] Ernst and Young. Ernst and Young. E and Y. E and Y. I think he still works there. I don't know. He's a groomsman at my wedding.


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[Assistant] Yeah. And I'll be like FDR, you know, nobody would let, he wouldn't let people take pictures of him in the wheelchair. That'll be all the wedding pictures will just be me. Yeah. Waste up. You never know.


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[Assistant] Somebody wrote a beautifully written letter for me. Just send that letter. Yeah, I forgot about it till now.


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[Assistant] I think even if you don't remember it, that doesn't mean it doesn't benefit you or change you in some way.


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[Assistant] You told me like the first five years of your life weren't important and fundamental, but you don't remember anything from one year to zero to five.


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[Assistant] Not really, man. You're talking about math? I took a class called Friendship in college.


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[Assistant] It was called Friendship from Aristotle to Facebook and it was just about...


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[Assistant] It's about how we understand what it means to be a, to be a friend in college, man. They taught that in college.


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[Assistant] You can't get a degree in it. You know, you can't get a major in friendship, but it was just a little seminar class.


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[Assistant] It was, you have to pick a seminar and I just chose, it would fill the philosophy requirement too.


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[Assistant] You didn't apply it? I actually did. I remember Aristotle said, uh, he said,


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[Assistant] He said, man can't be friends until you've eaten salt together. That's what he said. In other words, you have to go through some sort of...


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[Assistant] It was, it was, we read through different philosophers and authors and what they thought about what it means to be a friend.


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[Assistant] I took a lot of classes like that. Thomas Aquinas on angels. I took that.


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[Assistant] What is that? It's a class about what Thomas Aquinas thought about angels.


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[Assistant] I don't get how- Why are they walking in the woods? I don't get how it follows from the fact that their house is round. What does that have to do with anything?


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[Assistant] Do you think it's come in and out of fashion? Has it always been a popular thing? I feel like I see a lot more of it.


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[Assistant] And there were no, it was not a mosh pit energy in the crowd. Right. Yeah.


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[Assistant] I can't stop it. I want to do a big egregious phase. Cool. That's a good word. Is that egregious? I don't use it very often anymore. And I know what that means.


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[Assistant] Yeah, okay. Specifically so bad that you need to be cast out of whatever you're in, right? Yeah, there's a little more to it. So this is bad.


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[Assistant] So this is a potentially egregious performance on the podcast so far.


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[Assistant] What's up everybody? Alright, hello folks! Hello folks! Uh, I hear folks, we've talked about that, I do hear it, I hear it everyday.


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[Assistant] It's going to be around. I think we started it. He probably listens. Uh, he's like, I just like to get a break from.


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[Assistant] Uh, welcome everybody, uh, glad you guys are here, uh, as always, I'm here with Aaron Weber, Brian Bates, and, uh, we are, uh,


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[Assistant] Uh, as usual, start with the comments. Uh, we're recording this episode early, uh, so the comments about last week episode on New York will be read on a later date. We're a little...


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[Assistant] Here and there, cause we got, with the states, as you have seen, uh, we're kind of doing it with comics coming in town.


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[Assistant] And so it makes it kind of fun. Good way to have, uh, a lot of my buddies on and, uh, talk about their state and just be funny or whatever. And, uh, we did a long one with The Honest last week. So see, we're good. It was a real long one.


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[Assistant] But, uh, so yeah, so we, so we plugged that in and then we got some other ones, some moving around. We will get back to, uh, normal. I think after this, I'm going to try to get back to normal. Uh, we're going to see. Uh, so just so y'all are up to date on what's going on. Uh, Derek Visser, Vicer.


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[Assistant] I literally had coffee coming out of my nose when Nate said, all right, this has nothing to do with anything but chives. And somehow Biff and Aaron Charbroil


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[Assistant] Managed to steer it to the topic of the day. Nicely done.


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[Assistant] Uh, well, after the chive thing, cause then y'all got it back on. Well, I don't even think we got started yet.


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[Assistant] Yes, they got it back. Sorry, just trying to bring some comedy to this podcast for once. At least, uh, something's being brought to the table. Tim Weigand. Weigand? Weigand?


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[Assistant] W-I-E-G-A-E-N-D. I've never met someone who expresses exactly how I feel about onions and chives and tomatoes for that matter. Until now. Great work, Nate. I like the work you're doing as a food critic. Maybe an entire episode on foods that everyone hates. It's not a bad episode. That is a really good idea. It is a good idea. Might do it this episode. Sounds like you have a...


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[Assistant] Yeah, I think about it, I'm gonna go try it, uh,


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[Assistant] You know, we always, I'm going to try it on stage, see if it works. Cause sometimes I want to be curious. I haven't seen a bunch of stuff here that I think I've done on stage yet. And I want to, that one, I, that one's like fun and silly and, uh, see if it works in the live format. Uh, get a real, get a real taste in.


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[Assistant] Jason Hughes, your chives take is exactly how I feel about lemon and iced tea. Why do they assume I want a lemon in there? I don't want super weak lemonade.


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[Assistant] Assume we all don't want it and save some money. Give it to the people that ask for it. You guys are the best. Uh, I agree that you know a big.


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[Assistant] Lemon, lime kind of thing, it's more up north, diet cokes. You have to go, it doesn't really happen here.


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[Assistant] But when I moved to, when I was in New York and Chicago, they just bring lemon with a, or lime with a Diet Coke and you have to, you have to say it, no fruit. Hmm. Which is like, I feel like they're making you say something. And then as soon as I'll take the lemon out, I set it down next to it as an obvious statement to go, I don't want this.


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[Assistant] And then when I get another Diet Coke, they bring the lemon back in. I'm going, what are you, and then I put the second lemon next to it and then I'll do one more to see.


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[Assistant] Remember those? With a little lemon twist? A little lemon twist. Those are good. Well, that's what a lot of people like, and that's why they do it, but it, I, I shouldn't be the default.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I agree. I agree. I agree. Just bring a plate of lemons and if someone wants it. Uh, but I, I get more, I get tea having like lemon with it. I think, but Diet Coke to me is there's no way enough people, unless they're doing it up North. That's a North thing.


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[Assistant] Travis Antrist, when Nate Bushwhacker Bill and Aaron started the episode of odd jobs, I thought there would be more interesting funny odd jobs. The jobs brought up were just basic jobs. The oddest jobs they ever got paid for was trapping skunks for an elderly neighbor.


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[Assistant] The neighbor lady wanted me to just drown them, but I couldn't do that. Instead, I wouldn't drive them five miles in the forest. Instead, I would drive them five miles in the forest and let them go. And yes, I was sprayed a time or two. Well, yeah, Travis, we didn't live, I don't know where you grew up in just the wilderness. That's very funny.


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[Assistant] I mean, that's that lady just saying, just drown them. I don't know, just drown them. I mean, you know, it's like, she's trying to build a serial killer. That's how I would imagine that's your first step.


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[Assistant] And he was always like, uh, yeaah. It's just kid stuff, dude. I mean, just like kids being kids, you know?


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[Assistant] There's, there's a ton of signs, but that's always like, you never, in the moment.


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[Assistant] There's definitely probably been way more people that have killed animals for no reason. Not become serial killers than half.


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[Assistant] But it is, you know, he's doing it alone. You're like, no friends there. It wasn't a group of kids. You know, it's like, you at least want some friends. The fact that he's doing it alone and likes to do it alone is, uh, kind of the problem. Justin, Justin D. Flitch.


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[Assistant] Being the new guy on the job, I was given the simple task of delivering a moving truck to a building that was just down a few streets. While trying to find parking underneath the building, I rammed through the hanging sign that said eight foot max.


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[Assistant] I mean, just, just to drive it, you have no idea. And as it hits, you just think, ah, and then you probably snug it in there more if you try to back it up. You try to do something and it just kind of gets it in.


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[Assistant] Like he's hitting the thing, I mean the sprinkler system, that's a mess dude. That's a whole thing.


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[Assistant] Might be in charge of bells. They just figured if you go to community college, you're going to be around bells.


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[Assistant] More than the, more than the average person that doesn't go to community college.


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[Assistant] I watched a video this weekend of a guy with a golf cart and he, this old man trying to fix it in a garage and it backed up into this door. He had like a French doors and it just goes through it and he gets it forward.


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[Assistant] And you see him just sitting his hat off, just like, I was like the, he's just by himself and it's like, he's looking at that door, like I gotta go get this door fixed. It's like a whole thing. And then he like touches something else in the car, just shoots off forward and just drives through the rest of the garage. Very funny, like just situation. You're just alone.


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[Assistant] I love when you talk about golf. I would listen to an entire podcast about golf. I was surprised that you didn't mention golfer and super nice guy Brad Faxson. Hell's from Rhode Island. Keep up the good work, Wayne. I would love to, I'm going to start a golf podcast one day.


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[Assistant] Uh, look at that. I like, you got a good one. She likes golf. Brad Paxson. Hell's from Rhode Island. I mean, I can't imagine, honestly, if I mentioned that, anybody would ever.


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[Assistant] Me and Ann are going to talk about Brad Faxon. Brad Faxon is a great guy. He's, uh, one of the best putters of all time. Oh, is he really? Yea. And they always, like, Tiger talked to him about putter. Everybody talked to him about putting. Uh, and, but, uh, I've watched a bunch of videos on putting. Anyway, me and Ann watch.


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[Assistant] Peggy in Dallas, I'm a faithful listener. I have taken time to comment and compliment since episode one, but I have to say, Nate has to stop turning every idea into a golf story.


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[Assistant] I'll start my own golf podcast. A lot of people like that idea.


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[Assistant] I try to get naiteland.com, uh, cause I was trying to do it for my website. So my website, obviously naitbargetzi.com or, but I also have imnait.com. Just cause if you do interviews, it was just easier. And I've always tried to get naiteland.com. Uh, but some guy owned, or maybe Twitter or something, some guy's name was Nathan Land.


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[Assistant] And then he got it. So. You find it now?


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[Assistant] The grocery store and some restaurants and older buildings are too small to have strollers driving through them. I was shocked when I saw two moms that left their strollers outside of a window and just sat at a table next to the window and had lunch. They lived their lives and the babies stay sleepy.


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[Assistant] That's great. I mean, if it works, it works, you know? I'm for it. If that's what they're doing, that's what they're doing.


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[Assistant] Uh, but it is crazy. It's, I mean, I guess we, we don't do it as if we're just having seen babies get taken left and right. Like that's the way we talk about it. We're like, yeah, you can't even, you're lucky if you make it out of Walmart with your babies. Ryan Schick. Schick. Question for Bonanza.


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[Assistant] He mentioned meeting his wife through online dating, but I remember a bit he did talking about how they used to date but broke up because they both could do better. Is there some inconsistency here, inconsistency here, or did they reconnect online like the couple in Pina Colada song from the 80s?


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[Assistant] I mean, why not? Yes. That's dumb. Get it. No. Who wants a- no one wants a .org.


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[Assistant] You want a dot com, are people becoming more aware of the dot orgs and dot business?


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[Assistant] Jacob Braghini. I signed up for a gym membership one time because they had a special monthly price of $10 a month. I felt like it was a good, it was too good to pass up. I never canceled it and eventually the card to the account expired. I thought that would end it. Seven years later, I'm trying to get an apartment and my credit checks are getting rejected.


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[Assistant] Never carried any kind of debt. Turns out that Jim reported me to the credit authorities for delinquency. I had to pay like 500 bucks to some shady company to get my name cleared. Get out of it while you can. It's totally how they make money.


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[Assistant] Get out of it, Aaron. Mhm. We're supposed to do it on the podcast. We need to do it.


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[Assistant] Yeaah. And they can't be like, come on dude. We have to do connecting. You could just put them on speakerphone. Would it pick it up on speakerphone? Yeaah. You wanna try it?


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[Assistant] Susan Taylor, Hey guys, love, love, love the podcast. Keep up the good work. I want to cancel my Netflix subscription, but I don't want to do it until after Nate's special airs. Do you have a date also for Aaron's wedding? I think he should have Nate do a reading.


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[Assistant] Uh, no, next week. Uh, 10th I think. I'll be able to tell you, if you're listening to this episode, you will know the next episode. And it won't be too far off from there. Look at March.


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[Assistant] Michael McIntosh. Hello folks. She said yes. Oh, this is, uh, yeah. My now fiance, Siobhan.


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[Assistant] Went crazy when she heard Nate proposed on my behalf during the inventions episode. I was just happy you got her name right. The biggest. Thank you to all of you, Nate, Brokeback, Munchkin, Aaron, Webfoot, and the whole team. You guys really are the truth.


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[Assistant] You've made my family's year in these uncertain times. P.S. She's already started complaining. I haven't got a ring yet. I said, well, I didn't actually think Nate was going to read it out. Read it out. I love you guys. Michael, get a ring.


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[Assistant] Siobhan, listen, no, he's going to get a ring. He's got a ring. Get a ring. I think you congrats guys.


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[Assistant] Yeah, gotta get a ring. Yup. You know? You have the number?


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[Assistant] I signed up with you for a long time and I imagined our relationship would be much different than it turned out.


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[Assistant] Handwritten is pretty, I mean for them to see the handwritten, they're gonna think something's wrong with you.


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[Assistant] She said things were getting pretty muddy. She said muddy or murky. Murky. Murky. And muddy. Did she say murky the whole time? She said murky a few times.


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[Assistant] Well, she did it, she did enough where, uh, she did enough where, uh, she's had a ton of cancellations, but you could have called in and canceled.


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[Assistant] If you'd have done it sooner. If I'd have done it, yeah. Out the gate. I can't go cause of COVID.


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[Assistant] But then a letter makes sense, cause then it's like, alright, that's fine, just write us a letter.


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[Assistant] I'm clear. What are you supposed to put? How do you know they get it? Yeah. Dear Planet Fitness. You gotta write it quick or you go just pay February.


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[Assistant] 2pm. You're just going, so all we know is you're going to a building meeting. We'll just say it's a high-rise. You're meeting with a high-rise building at 2pm. A man with a cape.


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[Assistant] Oh, it's like private. Wow. I mean, put then, yeah, get that letter written on your calendar. Write a letter to Planet Fitness. What day would you do it?


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[Assistant] Put some time in tonight. So your counter reminder will say 8pm.


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[Assistant] And I'll go write letter to Planet Fitness and then you will go and lick your pen and.


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[Assistant] You give us any form of credit card, you can pound tables and I mean, yeah, we'll let you sign up easy to get out, write a letter. That's how they, they, they got you. That's how they got you. It worked. It worked.


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[Assistant] It's a, it's a, I'm actually not against this system. It's so cheap.


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[Assistant] We're offering it, cause if, if they, they would, they would probably not have a business if you could cancel by phone. Honestly. That's true.


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[Assistant] People are that. I was the same way. I had a plan of his account for a while that I never, uh, canceled.


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[Assistant] But, I had my wife go in there with me. That's what your, that's what wives are for. Oh yeaah. Just to get you to do stuff like that. That's one of the only reasons you have a wife. She went in there with you? She, they go in and fix stuff. Yeah. It's once you get rid of your mom, you get another mom basically that goes in and fixes all your things for you.


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[Assistant] I can still send my mom to get, my mom will go get stuff done.


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[Assistant] Like if you have a tough stain, they had some pickle juice on his shirt recently. She's really good at that. And then, uh, she's always got his, my mom is very protective of us and gets us, gets a lot of things solved. She's our fixer. She knows gout treatments.


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[Assistant] I've, uh, for working out, I've been drinking protein shakes a lot and powder and powder before my workouts lately, but finally I found a way, great way to get my protein before.


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[Assistant] And after my workout, uh, or after magic spoon.


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[Assistant] Magic spoons released a brand new variety pack now featuring peanut butter. They released peanut butter as a limited edition flavor in 2020 and it sold out three times. Peanut butter has gotten so much love that they've decided to keep it permanent and add it to the best sellers variety pack.


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[Assistant] Which also includes frosty, fruity, and cocoa.


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[Assistant] It's a perfect way to start your breakfast. Uh, just nice and easy. You don't think about it. Go pour your cereal, eat it, and start your day off right. That's what it's all about. That's how you get, that's how you lose weight. I'm trying to lose this gut.


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[Assistant] And I'm working out that I gotta start eating good. This is the best way to eat good.


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[Assistant] If you mix cocoa with peanut butter, by the way, it tastes like a peanut butter cup, but you do whatever you want to do. That's a unbelievable way to do it. Go to magic spoon.com slash Nate to grab a variety pack and try it today and be sure to use our promo code Nate at checkout to save $5 off your order. And magic spoon is so confident their product it's backed with, backed with a hundred percent happiness guarantee.


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[Assistant] Remember, get your delicious bowl of guilt free cereal at magicspoon.com slash nate and use the code nate to save five dollars off.


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[Assistant] I promise this is, this is, if you want to start your day off right, if you're, it's hard to eat healthy, especially when I wake up hungry, really hungry.


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[Assistant] And, uh, it's, when I get off this, it all gets off the rails or I'll skip breakfast. Just eat a bowl, five minutes, you've ate something healthy and you feel like productive. It usually helps the rest of your day to eat good too.


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[Assistant] So, uh, remember, Magicspoon.com slash Nate. Thank you, Magicspoon, for sponsoring this episode.


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[Assistant] All right, uh, so this week we got, we did a lot. I feel like we've already done a lot today. This felt like eating healthy. We got, we got your planet fitness thing out of the way. That's right. Kinda. Kinda. Yeah. I mean, at least just step.


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[Assistant] Everybody can do an over under. Did you put it on your calendar? No, no. Don't put it on your calendar. Don't. Let's see.


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[Assistant] When people hear this, you can't, until this episode airs, so you got to at least pay one more month. Then begin to think to write the letter. So when people are listening to this, which is next week, uh,


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[Assistant] You will, uh, then you can start the process of writing the letter and then we will see people can put guesses of how long is it going to take you? Okay. Days. I, I mean.


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[Assistant] I almost don't want to tell you the date because I think you're going to just pick a date for, you're like, make yourself remembered to do it.


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[Assistant] I know. So I'm thinking, how long have you had it now?


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[Assistant] Yeah, three or four years. Three or four years. Uh, but now it's on your mind to cancel it. So could you, you know.


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[Assistant] All right. So I think we could go, I think you could be easily another year. I don't think you do by February, you do another year. I wonder if people can pick days. So starting on what day will this be? 10th, February 10th? I think so. Yeah. February 10th. You can, you can put your days.


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[Assistant] How many days do you think? He can't start canceling it until the 10th. Okay. And we're not going to be bringing it up and reminding you it's just off your memory.


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[Assistant] Yeaah. Aaron the gout weber. Like the grill. It's multiple. Multiple things.


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[Assistant] Yeah, we'd like to see it. But then that, I mean, that, that still won't count as you still got to be mailed. So the, the day it is canceled, I mean.


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[Assistant] 85 days. It's going to be something weird that's going to make you remember it. Uh huh. It'll be, well, you get, when you get married.


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[Assistant] Lucy might, you know, cause y'all get married. We join bank accounts or something. We join bank accounts, like that's where it gets.


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[Assistant] Yeah. So I think it's, oh yeah, May, June. And then I think she gets on, so I think y'all get married in May. She tells you to cancel it in June. You don't. You have a big fight about that. And then she says, July, there's another fight because you still haven't done it. It doesn't matter. Cause you're like, well, it doesn't matter. I gotta wait till the 10th anyway.


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[Assistant] And so I think it's August. I think you have, I think you have two decent fights about it. Of marriage. Cause our mother's going to be reminding her.


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[Assistant] Listened it in. Yeah. How band you can't, yeah. Let's see what he does, Ann.


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[Assistant] Uh, alright, so this week, uh, we have decided, uh, wanted to talk a little bit about, uh, Wall Street stocks. That kind of, you know, I know we don't usually talk about topical things, but this seems like kind of a fun topical thing. I know nothing about stocks. Uh, or a little bit, I try to follow it in Wall Street in general.


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[Assistant] My typical answer when something goes wrong with it, I'm like, well, why do we even need the stock market? And that seems like not a good way to ask. People get upset about that.


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[Assistant] Yeaah, of course yeaah. Uh, so, uh, you know, with the GameStop stuff happening, it was just very, very interesting. It's been very, very interesting and crazy, uh, with...


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[Assistant] All the time, it's unreal, dude. It's fun. It is very fun to follow. It's very fun to follow. Yeaah. And it's, you know, it kind of feels like it's us against them.


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[Assistant] Yeah, very much so. And so there's a lot of us that are rooting for us. So I don't know. I mean, you know, I'm sure someone could be upset. I don't, you know, we always try not to, but I mean, I don't know how you can be upset about this. This is kind of good for us.


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[Assistant] I think you would be, honestly. I think you, you don't like. I think they make some good points. Yeah. I do believe that you're would be on their side. A hundred percent.


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[Assistant] I believe he is, he is pro. He's team Melvin capital, dude. Pro capitalism. Well, no, it's not pro capitalism. He's pro, uh.


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[Assistant] You're, you're very, you're pro just like status quo, like don't mess anything up. Everybody just keep letting everybody do what they're doing. Don't ask questions. Don't try to solve anything. That's what you're pro. So I think you would be pro.


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[Assistant] So wall street, you actually bought some of the GameStop. Yeah.


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[Assistant] Yeah, and you bought in at the very highest. Yeah, I got it. You came in at the very end. Yeah. But is it the end, dude? I don't think, yeah, I think this kind of, I don't think it's the end of, yeah, I'm sure, I think,


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[Assistant] This kind of thing will happen more and more. I think it's the end of your GameStop. Probably. So that's the thing. But I think more of that other stuff will happen more and more. Cause I think people figured it out like, oh, you know, we can go against them. And so more people will buy it. But I think you're, get the GameStop at 325. So you're just fine. Like you're just like waste that money. It's gone. But it's like this, it's the, you're staying for something.


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[Assistant] But if someone did buy it at $4 and then it got to 400 and they sold.


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[Assistant] Does he do, so like with him, I would hope that he would take a few minutes. You want him to.


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[Assistant] Take 40 million out and leave 8 million in. Like go take it. Cause if a guy like that too, he could use that 40 million for something the same way. Cause that's what I heard someone say, talked about.


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[Assistant] What they should do because they're stopping these people from buying these things.


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[Assistant] Is just go start your own trade desk. I don't really know what it means, but it sounds like that. You go start your own kind of app, your own like you trade with, you can trade and you can do your own rules until the


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[Assistant] You know, which then you're going to have, it's going to go nuts. Cause if, if the government comes in and changes laws, people are going to lose it. If they're, you know, it's like you're protecting just the billionaire.


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[Assistant] They've got to beat. Yeaah. And they want some. They've got to beat and they want some. And yeaah, so that's where I hope that, I hope that guy takes.


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[Assistant] They, I would take half, I mean take four, I would say take forty. And they keep eight in, dude. That's still a ton.


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[Assistant] That's a ton. And then you're like, I'll let this 8 go. But you took the biggest risk on earth so you deserve to have a great life and I think he would.


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[Assistant] This guy seems to be a pretty smart guy if he's figured out this, cause he started the movement to get everybody to buy it.


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[Assistant] It's, it's, yeaah, like stocks, we have stocks in, uh,


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[Assistant] Just through our financial guys. Uh, I don't really understand stocks at all or, you know, I don't buy it on like that kind of thing. I do want, I was talking to someone, they said the best way is to do it is to put money into like that cash app or whatever, one of those apps.


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[Assistant] And then that way you can like kind of see it and like, and then do your own thing. And then you just kind of be like, all right, if this money goes, it's going and then it's gone. But you just kind of take chances and you can kind of have to learn it on your own. And that seems like the best way.


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[Assistant] Uh, it's a pretty, uh, but Wall Street in general, I don't, all this stuff seems so crazy to me. Where does this money even come from? Where is this money like, that's what I don't understand with, uh, what is, like, what are like stocks? Like stocks in a company is like you're buying in shares into that company. You don't own it. You're not an investor.


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[Assistant] Yeah. And so then you have stocks, but like everybody's got stocks in Amazon or Twitter, like everybody. Apple. So it's like, I don't understand how are you ever going to make real any money off of it if everybody in the world that buys stocks has Apple. We're all just keeping Apple afloat then. So they, uh, can Apple take this money out? Like this would be like, can people take money out?


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[Assistant] So if everybody wanted to buy their stock, or everybody wanted to sell their stock at the exact same time.


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[Assistant] And then Apple, and is that, and Apple takes money from this, these people?


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[Assistant] So when you pay, if I buy Apple stock, that money goes to Apple to help them run their business?


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[Assistant] I'll do that that would be how on earth.


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[Assistant] That's a business. When you see them all yelling and passing all that stuff, how's that? You're like, there's no way this business could be run legally. It seems crazy. It just can't be. It is just pure chaos. You walk in a room, just, I mean, I bet the excitement of being down there has got to be wild. Like when you get, when you get off from work that day, I mean, you were like,


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[Assistant] You know, and the work's done, right? Cause it's like closes at 5pm. Can't do anything. So the work's done and you're just being going like kind of crazy. And then you're just like, oh.


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[Assistant] It's crazy, but when they're yelling out all that, when you watch like, uh,


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[Assistant] Yeah, watching Wall Street when they're, I mean, they're yelling and they're like, well, hey, they just call people and they're like, Hey, I got two, two, whatever. And they yell something at them and they go, I got another one. And he just shouts it out to oblivion. Like who even knows like what any of it is that you're just shouting out. Like, is there a guy there?


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[Assistant] What if the guy doesn't hear it? That's what I always thought. What if at the end of it they go, you know what, I don't like...


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[Assistant] Uh, I didn't hear any of that. What if some guy just, he goes, he goes, Hey, we did pretty good today. And he's like, I thought you called in sick. I didn't even realize you were there, dude. Like it's, uh, you were yelling at me, dude, dude, 50 people yelled at me. I did not see you this morning. I thought you were sick. I didn't put in any of your stock bets.


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[Assistant] Or whatever you did. I did none of it. It is, it is bad news now.


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[Assistant] But there, it's just so much yelling, I just think, who could he, who's, how's any of this getting done?


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[Assistant] How could you go in there and you're like, I don't know. I mean, you have to be, I guess once you're in it, you would be like, I get it.


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[Assistant] But yeaah, I bet that had to happen. People didn't get stocks and they go, I yelled that. Or they said, no, I yelled it, dude, you're supposed to put it in. He goes, oh, sorry, I'll put it in. Like, or, you know, he does it later and he seems like


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[Assistant] Like, I guarantee you I could pick the one that they go, well not that.


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[Assistant] Well, the end of it should be just figure it out on your own. That's what the end of that saying should be. You know what? Honestly, just learn how to spell stuff and don't use this rule. That's how I'm free of C except for neighboring way and find your own system. This is not.


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[Assistant] A good system. This, we figured this out and there's a lot of new words introduced. That's an old saying.


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[Assistant] I bet there's gotta be some people that had like Google, isn't there famous stories of people selling Google or, uh, you know, where they, they all went, the guy that, uh, I actually heard him on like Howard Stern interview, like, uh, the guy that went public at Facebook, he painted, he was a painter and he painted Facebook's office and they paid him in stocks and they said they would have given him like,


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[Assistant] I'm making this a couple hundred grand or something, or he could just have stocks. And he, cause, cause, uh, he wanted him to paint the whole office. He's like this giant building. And so he took the stocks and then it went public. I mean, now he might have $300 million.


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[Assistant] And those janitor, wow, that's pretty crazy. Just, well, that's like Bitcoin. Bitcoin was, you know, when you, uh,


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[Assistant] The first bitcoin was a pizza and it was 10,000, they bought it 10,000 bitcoins, which would be a hundred million dollars now.


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[Assistant] What does that mean? So whatever Bitcoin did, I'm not sure. What do you mean by pizza? He bought a literal pizza. He paid for it with 10,000 Bitcoins. It was $25. So 10,000 Bitcoins was worth $25 at this time.


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[Assistant] So that's what they do. They, you look at the Dow Jones and that's just a general feeling of what's going on. And that's down.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I mean, it's all made up. Like it's this, this also feels like a job where you can just say stuff. And then people are like, okay, is that, you know, you're like, yeah, how's the Dow doing? You're like, ah, we took a hit today. You know, you just say like stuff like that and you're like, I don't know what any of this means.


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[Assistant] This much in gold or whatever. Yeah. Yeah. It was like, yeah, it was this much. Well, it was gold and silver was the first thing. Yeah. Before money. Yeah. So that would have been traded and that was a value.


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[Assistant] And then it, but then I just really listened to something actually about money. Uh, cause I was trying to learn about Bitcoin and it was like, cause they had gold and it was like, so instead of having all this gold and you had to shave off some of the gold to buy something.


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[Assistant] I'm almost positive, I could be saying this is completely made up, but I'd imagine you go, uh, you go get some milk.


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[Assistant] At the store and you just got your gold bar and they're like, uh, two swabs worth. And you're just like, you just shave it off into, onto their little, onto their beeping thing. Yeah.


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[Assistant] And you just, that's a little bit and you get a piece back and put it on your tongue and then stick it back on your gold bar. And then you walk out with your gold bar and your milk. And it was like just two swipes down.


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[Assistant] This could be made up, but I bet it happened.


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[Assistant] Oh God. Yeah. That, that when you flip the blade over, you don't do the blade cause you don't want to dig it in. You want them just some very, you just kind of fairy dust them on their, on their, on their shirt.


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[Assistant] You have to wear multiple coats. That's why they didn't like it. Cause it was, these valet guys were like, you know, we're already parking your horse.


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[Assistant] And now I gotta change coats cause you, most of it gets blown in the wind.


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[Assistant] That's what they, they still tell you to buy gold. Tom Selleck.


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[Assistant] Yep, they all, all of them are still go buy gold cause it could go back to gold.


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[Assistant] It's like a certain age group gets to Wilfred Brimley. It's like no one's on board with the gold and you hit 70, 75 and you're like, all right, I'm here and I'll listen to you. And that's, that's their market for gold. Cause they might have a ton of it. They need to get rid of it.


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[Assistant] I think bitcoin, that stuff is what I'm curious about. Whatever that is.


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[Assistant] Yeah, it's just a number and that's what, that's what always scares me is you go, well, what if they, you know, this cash app or that kind of stuff like that, you have your money in that Robin hood, you know, like went down.


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[Assistant] Or like, but what if the app just goes, well we're not going to give it to you?


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[Assistant] I know, but what if they want to take the money? Like, so if you have money in this, so if you wanted to cash out of that, you could, right? You could say, I want money. You put your credit card down, or something in your bank account.


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[Assistant] And then, so if you were like, hey, I want, I want to cancel this app, like a gambling app, right? Like DraftKings or something, like you just, you get your money back out and then that's what you go with. Uh, so that, that mean, but that's what scares me is like with an app like that, it's like, you could have all this money in this.


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[Assistant] And then if something happens to that thing, then it's like, well now the money's not there.


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[Assistant] So crazy. So people probably made money, like the guys that are in this made money, like in those times.


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[Assistant] So now it's at 30,000. So that's, this is the highest it's ever been.


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[Assistant] Yeah. That's the idea of it. You would go buy a bunch of stock then. Uh huh. Cause then when it goes back up. That's what Warren Buffett, yeah, he does. Just when the, yeah, when there's a collapse. When there's panic. And panic. Yeah.


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[Assistant] Well they say that with real estate too, like if you buy real estate, buy homes, like if you could go buy homes during that time, I mean you could bought million dollar homes for nothing.


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[Assistant] I mean, not nothing essentially, but for people that have money, they would have just went down there and you could just bought a home and then you're sitting on, you know, like 30A, which is always, is a big vacation spot in Nash. It's in Florida, but a lot of people from Nashville goes there. I still haven't been to it actually, but.


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[Assistant] And then now it's like everybody in Nashville drives and that's just Nashville. I mean, that means it's not like it's just Nashville people. Everybody's going there. So everybody drives down there. Now they have all this money.


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[Assistant] Yeaah, yeaah. Yeaah. It's like him, the way he's talking to the camera and all that stuff. It's just a very fun movie. It's great. Uh, I've watched, uh, Margin Call is, uh, a great movie. People might not know it. Isn't that about the same thing from the Banks perspective though? Yeaah. Yeaah. I've heard about that. Kevin Spacey's in it. You can get past that.


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[Assistant] But he, it's a great, it's a, it's really great. Just like what they had to go do. And it's funny as one of them, like the head of the bank or whatever, or something comes in and he tells the person, he's like, so what's going on?


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[Assistant] Cause a guy predicted it, like this was about to happen, and then they fired that guy as well as his layoff, so he was one of the guys that got laid off, but he had like a system in place.


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[Assistant] And, you know, it's the same kind of thing. Like you guys are getting in trouble, but you get bailed out. Which, and they, you know, and, but the guy comes in and he's the boss and somebody explains to him, he goes,


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[Assistant] Explain it to me like you're talking to a five year old. Like Michael Scott. Yea, like Michael Scott. And he says that, but it's funny that that guy's a successful guy. Yea. Or supposedly, you know, but, and he's probably doing it for the...


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[Assistant] That's where hedge funds came in that I was talking to my neighbor Felix and he was like, hedge funds were the problem. Everything was kind of like normal.


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[Assistant] I don't know if Felix gets Felix in trouble. I was like, Felix, Felix started his own bank in his basement. Uh, but he was saying like hedge, it seems like hedge funds were a big problem. They came in, they just wanted to make more money. And so they figured out how to make more money was to do this kind of thing where they short.


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[Assistant] And that's what those people go on TV. That's what that guy did. They go on TV and they'd say, we're going to short this. Cause people like play that game and they're, they're going to on purpose short something. And so it was almost like that guy, the, the whoever the Reddit guy is.


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[Assistant] Yeaah. I mean, because if all of us bought shares, we would make everything go on.


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[Assistant] But it's like what, I just don't, like the money just like, so it's just all, it's like gambling.


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[Assistant] What does it feel like happening? 87, you were rocking and rolling. What do you remember? You don't remember?


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[Assistant] Could be, you are a group of people. Like, like Nate Bargetzi, no one's going, is that a group of, what is it, a flock of 41 year olds?


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[Assistant] Coming at me? And you're like, no, it's a person's name. This guy has a name that we don't know. If it's his name or is it a large group? What was it?


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[Assistant] I was 6,000, 5 or 6,000 at the time. You did this when Ralphie died, you did this and the planet fitness.


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[Assistant] How much did you buy? Do you remember how much the shares, how much it was?


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[Assistant] Bitcoin is just the one that people know about. Uh, is it 68,000? Oh no.


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[Assistant] But a whole, but a whole Bitcoin, if you wanted to buy one now it's like $30,000 to buy one full Bitcoin.


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[Assistant] Do people want to buy bitcoins? Like a full one? Is there any benefit to buying?


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[Assistant] I know, but you can, but it shows like every, uh, it doesn't show your name, but it's, uh, every purchase from Bitcoin I think is a blockchain.


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[Assistant] So, but is it, do some of them say Hitman? And you're like, oh, who did that? You're like, well, we can't tell you who, but I can tell you that there's been a lot of Hitman hired.


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[Assistant] Same way anything, yeaah. If people want it, they will start using it. If I open a store and I'll only sell bitcoin, then that's gonna count as value.


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[Assistant] Like that counts as, if I'm selling pins, you can only pay for it in Bitcoin. Well then Bitcoin's worth a lot in my store. Yeah. Cause I'm only accepting Bitcoin. So if everybody started accepting Bitcoin, then it's going to be...


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[Assistant] Then Bitcoin will be the new thing that we start spending money. Right. Which I do think.


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[Assistant] That kind of aspect is going to, I think it's going to happen.


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[Assistant] I just, I just don't see people becoming less and less trusting of governments and governments come and go and they fall apart and all these things. And so it's like, it's kind of like our own money. If I own, if I want to sell you a car and Bitcoin, no one can stop me.


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[Assistant] Right. I don't think so. Right. Right. For sure. My wife. You don't understand. This is, uh.


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[Assistant] Yeah. So you can either just buy it or you can do it for free. Like mining.


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[Assistant] It's going to be impossible to guess. It's not like, you're not going to be like, it was sparkles two, four, five. It's going to be some ridiculous.


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[Assistant] And so these people that lose their password, it's like they have this giant, wait, this kill switch, you're talking about like if, so like a will? Or like, if everything, if you die. Yeah, it could be like a will, but you could just.


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[Assistant] That only you can get, so you would let the stuff die with you, is what you're saying.


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[Assistant] Is that what you're calling a kill switch? Is it just that? A regular will?


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[Assistant] What happened? We think whatever you want, all your money goes somewhere. You can't, yeah, yeah, that can be part of it.


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[Assistant] So that's all you're saying, that's what you're saying that you wish you would do. But you're calling it a kill switch.


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[Assistant] Yes. Okay, and that would be the appropriate time to use it if you were in some type of situation like that. Now, just for your regular life.


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[Assistant] And the pigeons flew until all my meetings were cancelled by pigeon.


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[Assistant] Yeah. I mean, that's a, that's a, yeah. I don't understand if you're, I think you need to be like a James Bond or something, you know?


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[Assistant] I don't even know what level you'd be at. Even if you had 15 million dollars, I don't know if you need a kill switch.


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[Assistant] Yeah. Now it could be fun for maybe you do have a kill switch that sets off some fun. Yeah. It's like, you know, a guy who delivers a package and the letter that just.


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[Assistant] Then it is. You don't want reality to set in once you get married that your life becomes boring and you're just, you know, you still live in this, you go use all these fancy words, just try to add some spice to y'alls. You know, just to be like, did you get the kill switch signed? And then she's like, it's the wheel. And like, Lucy's just sitting there going.


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[Assistant] Then just one other book falls off at the same time. It's not, you know, you're like, one day I hope that I'll have the, but right now I just want to show you that I am on board with when you pulled this one book.


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[Assistant] They pull it, a heavier book falls and hits them in the head and they're frustrated. You know, it doesn't knock them out, but they are definitely annoyed with the situation.


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[Assistant] I don't, I don't love not going places. I, it's happening with, uh, shopping. I mean, you can't, you know, I walked around the mall the other day and there's just, there's not that many stores anymore. There's not a lot to go to. Think of a kid's toys, like Christmas, you're just not buying. Everything's online. Everything's, uh, you know, like.


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[Assistant] Toys R Us is not there. Like that was fun to go take, you know, you go Target. Target's the only place. And I mean, Target is packed. Target's always packed. People need to go get stuff.


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[Assistant] And you know, grocery stores obviously, but as far as buying clothes and.


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[Assistant] That kind of stuff. I mean, no one's, you're just not doing it anymore. And I still like going to see something. Do you guys still go to the bank?


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[Assistant] Uh, I mean, unless Laura does. Laura, I don't know. Laura, do we go to the bank?


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[Assistant] Is she right there? She's at the bank. She's, yeah, uh, yeah, I don't know if we, uh,


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[Assistant] She worked, uh, Bank of First American, a long time ago when I was a kid, and then Pinnacle Bank for a long time. Uh, and yeaah, she loved it. She's talking to everybody. It's a fun, it's a good, cause Pinnacle Bank is a great bank.


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[Assistant] Stuff like that. I mean I have to write checks for like opening and stuff like that, but I mean now we have a business manager, so they're, they do it.


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[Assistant] We get a cash flow, uh, email from like our business manager. I mean, no idea what it is. I look at it. I don't understand it.


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[Assistant] Yeah. Confuses me. I just want, I think they should call and go, here's how much money you have. And they just, and they tell you and they go there and they go, that's it. They go, that's it. That's all you need to know. That's all you need to know. Here's in like out of, you know, cause money gets so it starts getting so spread out. You got it's in stocks or it's whatever, like money's everywhere.