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Episode 37th May 2020 • Podcaster Stories • Danny Brown
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In episode three of Podcaster Stories, I sit down with Bob Reed, Communications Strategy Lead at Element-R Partners, LLC, and co-host of The Old Man Podcast.

After shooting the crap with his neighbour Dave, over the years, both men realized they might have something that others may enjoy listening to as well. And so The Old Man Podcast was born, taking a look at life through the lenses of two men as they approach their 60th birthdays.

Bob also talks about why he's so passionately vocal about the political happenings in his country, as well as why he won't discuss religion. He also shares his mean impressions of the characters in the classic TV show, Taxi.

Topics on the menu include:

  • When he and Dave first realized their neighbourly meanderings might make for a good show
  • How a personal tragedy sidelined the show
  • His goals for the relaunch of the show
  • Why he isn't apologetic for his political posts on Facebook
  • Why religion is something he won't discuss online
  • The funniest line he's ever heard, from the TV show Taxi
  • His impression of the actor delivering that line

Settle back for a fun and engaging conversation about two friends making a podcast, and how that's been received not just by older men, but women, too.

Connect with Bob:

Contact me: danny@podcasterstories.com

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Hi, and welcome to Podcaster Stories each week we'll have

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a conversation with podcasts. It was across all mediums and

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share their stories. What motivates them, why they started to

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show up as a group show more and more, but

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also talk about their personal lives and some of the

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things that have happened that made them, the person they

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have to do. And now here's your host Danny Brown

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hi guys. And welcome to another episode of Podcaster. Stories

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where we meet the people behind the voices of the

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show is we listen to it this week. I've got

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a friend of mine that I've known for a few

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years now, Bob Reed over in the U S who

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is the core host of The Old Man Podcast, which

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I fell into Sue set up and set him what's

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the word set in?

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But serendipitously. There you go. Okay. Thanks for that. My

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brand is, I mean, it's the afternoon here now in

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there where I am in Ontario, Canada, but my brain

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still hasn't kicked an edgier. So appreciate that. So Bob

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tell us about the, the, thanks for joining the us.

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Tell us about the show. Tell us a little bit

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about yourself and to end the show and will go

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from there.

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Okay. Well, you know, as you said that it's, The,

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Old Man Podcast and the idea came about just by

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me getting older and looking at demographics and saying, man,

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Man, there's a lot of Old boomers hanging around. Maybe

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there might be a market for a lack of a

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better term, you know, for anybody that may want to

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listen to their peers, talking about everything and anything that

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they may be concerned about, or, you know, like worried

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or just, you know, the, you know, feel like they

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can have some comradery with a, the same kind of

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things that they are going through. I mean, that can

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be anywhere from, you know, from hobbies to a retirement,

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to health of, of relationships, you know, you name it

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and we just want to try to cover it.

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So that's how Lee and the idea came about with

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this. And I was trying to figure out who I

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could actually could have a good You know, somewhat comedic

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foil a for this. And I'm on my phone is

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ringing that we can get that. And there was a

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neighbor, there's a neighbor of mine who I've known for

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gosh, 20 years now. And we were former co Cub

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scout leaders hear in the U S and it was

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like the younger version of boy Scouts, but long story

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short, just when he and I get together, it just

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seems to click, we start laughing, we've, you know, tell

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inappropriate jokes.

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And we both started cracking up. Well, you know, just,

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it, it just goes, and he says, you know, Bob,

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you know, every time I don't have any other relationship,

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quite like the one I have with you when we

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start talking. So that kind of clued me and I

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said, this might be good. And he is funny. I,

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this guy could do stand up or maybe is that,

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he's that quick. All right, go ahead.

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Right. And so you are, are you a physical neighbors

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then? Because I know like we want, but you guys

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have to say,

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We were literally, maybe about a third of a mile

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away from each other.

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Alright. And so I have, so, I mean, you mentioned

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that it sent to a set demographic. I know it's

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called The Old Man Podcast but can anybody else listen

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to you? Or would you say,

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Oh, yeah. I mean, if it's like a guess analogous.

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No, not really, but you know, top gear, you know,

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top here in the grand tour, you know, the, the,

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the three idiots, 40% of their audience is female. So

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it has nothing to do with cars. So it just

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has to do with how they present it in what

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they do. All right. So,

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But I know Ear, but not really. It was, and

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that's what I used to watch the top gear back

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in a UK before we moved to Canada. And, and

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to your point, I think it's the chemistry between the

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three cohosts and then obviously a steak there, the driver,

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you know, who doesn't really get all of air time,

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but he was still a legendary, a part of that

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show. Right. That was great. And especially when it moved

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to the Amazon office, so this is a bit of

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a fall out of it. And the BBC that had

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to move over to Amazon, et cetera.

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Yeah. You know, Jeremy decided to slug a producer, you

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know, because he had a knife.

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So yeah. But now they're getting over to, and it's

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interesting.

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I know, because, you know, they, they, they, they ditched

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the tent. They did, they ditched the scripted stuff. It's

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because it takes a lot of time and effort to

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do it. And now they're doing like two specials a

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year and, you know, eventually it was just going to

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trail off just because he has this stuff that they

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do. And you know, how much physical exertion is for

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three people who are extremely out of outer shape, you

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know, except maybe from Richard Hammond. And, but, you know,

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the, the other two were just like, yeah, we're kinda

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done and dusted.

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Yeah, exactly. I know of, so Richard Harmon had a

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bad accident a few years back. So I think that

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probably limited to, of this stuff, he could do it

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as a touch and go for him for a while.

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Yeah. That's a good show. And I enjoy that. And

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so you mentioned, you know, I think this is a

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real launch of the show, is that correct? Like you

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realized it, but, you know, yeah. We've had some technical,

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The whole issues just because we're, you know, we're old

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and we're not that bright. Yeah. The other issue is

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the pandemic itself, a, the pandemic has really taken any

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kind of momentum out of recording a is simply because

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a Scott had it on for a couple a weeks

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and then a close relative of his had it and

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subsequently passed away last week. So, so yeah, I mean,

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there's definitely a personal story in there and, you know,

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he just says not feeling too funny right now. And

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I said, yeah, well, you've got every reason not too,

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you know, I'm sure it's something that we are going

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to address in the future.

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I hope, but for right now there's only four episodes.

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I was actually, you know, pleased as you want to

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do to reach out, you know, based upon others that

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have, you know, you know, you, years of content, that

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reaction we got from people listening to what it was,

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was quite good. And this is for us just really

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kind of setting up the microphone and picking a topic.

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I do a little bit of research for show prep,

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but then just riffing. I mean, the first show we

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actually even did, we just decided just to say, Hey,

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let's just put it on the recorder and see what

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happens. And we really listen to it and we can

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actually kind of like that ourselves. So, you know, if

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it's pleasing to you and you have an, you know,

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and you know, we're critical about each other, then I

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think, you know, it may have value and, you know,

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in relevancy to other people and they may not enjoy

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it.

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So, you know, hopefully we can continue.

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Well, some of my best to Scott, never, obviously I

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don't know that it is that something you, you know,

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that people will talk about some of my best to

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start and it really started his family member. So to

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your point about the Podcast, I think that's why I

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fell into it. And I enjoy the, as basic as

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that, like less than to two guys, is that I've

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got a beer and a backyard and talking about anything

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and everything. And it came down to amaze me a

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little bit of the tube, you know, and I say

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this with utmost love and respect, and we have the,

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the two guys from the Muppets show that would happen

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to the balcony. Do you never quite sure what it

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is going to go up, but you've got a shadow.

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You've got the order of the friendship between the two

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and the don't give a crap, you know, it's like,

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they're talking about basically what they would talk about.

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And I think that's the attraction of the show is

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certainly for me anyway.

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Appreciate that. Yeah. I think they, you know, there's, there's

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enough content out there that I think it's, you know,

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you, you have to find some kind of hook, ah,

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just to gain interest. And, you know, that was the

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one that I came up with. It has nothing to

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do with the work. It has nothing to do with

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what I do for a living. It, it just sounded

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fun. And you know, these days is a little bit

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more fun. It could be had by everybody, you know?

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Oh, for sure. And I know like, Dan, I'm not

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sure if was yourself or Scott was talking about, we

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are in one of your last shorts about the community

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Jim and the community of gyms. And it was just

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cracking up. Cause you picked up and that's, what are

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some of my favorite comedians are the ones that talk

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about situational humor, you know? And it's the things that

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you can relate to you have every day of life.

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And I think we have the The Old, Man, Podcast,

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that's one of the, the, the cell and features of

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your life that people relate to it because it can

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think of, yeah, I can imagine that.

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Yeah. I guess that's kind of like, you know, that

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kind of a hole point. I mean, anything in everything

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these days have to have some kind of, as I

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said, there has to have some kind of hook, but

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if it's not relatable then, and if it feels as

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if it doesn't feel genuine, then it's not really going

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to gain any traction. I mean, my daughter listens to

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my brother, my brother and me, and you can definitely

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tell all of those, those three guys have such amazing

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chemistry and improvisational comedian, a comedic chops that it just

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works and you tune in. And just because you want

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to see what happens next, because it's not scripted. It's

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pretty darn good stuff.

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So, I mean, I would love, we don't have that

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level of talent, but if you do it more, maybe

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we'll get, and we will get better. She'll go. And

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my brothers and me, my brother and my brother and

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me.

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Okay. So we'll be sure to check that out. Thanks

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for that. Very good. Now, obviously you had mentioned at

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the moment the show's taking a hiatus When, but prior

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to that, obviously you're starting to grow the shore relaunch

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out with new episodes. What are your goals for the

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show and what, what do you think that they would

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be, you know, once you start to get back into

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it

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And we'd like to grow the audience, I mean, I'm,

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I'm not going to lie and say, Oh, you know,

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could this turned into something that you could have, you

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know, a nice following, you know, might it have some

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revenue attached to it? Who knows it, it's kinda hard

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to predict. I mean, you can't, you know, predict a

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viral, viral ability because you have not met and having

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my issues to, and it still morning. But th th

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I think, you know, because what you and I are

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both in marketing, we both understand that you have to

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go out there and promote, you know, one of the

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things that Scott was a little bit hesitant about when

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I first approached him about the idea was he said,

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nah, I don't know about the commitment. I don't know

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about, you know, how, if I'm going to like this,

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I don't know how I'm going to have, like, how

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are we going to sound?

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And once they got into it and he said, well,

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that's not too bad. You know, what are your, and

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he asked, what are your plans for it? And I

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said, I want to grow it if we can, you

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know, if we have enough people and we spread it

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around, but it does take work. The content has to

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be good first. It was like any other product, if

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it's not a good product, no one's going to buy

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it. So we'll see how it will just say, how

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well will we do?

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And what's it been that I know I was looking

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at the show up earlier on Apple iTunes. And I

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know people were asking for more episodes to be uploaded.

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What's the reaction been from people who have either connected

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with your listen to the show and maybe, you know,

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I sent you a feedback afterwards.

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It's been pretty positive. You know, just a few people,

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you know, you know, Scott is giving you some, you

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know, anecdotal things with relatives and, you know, relatives, or

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probably the worst critics of what you do cause they

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know you. And I don't think they're going to hold

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back any kind of criticism about what they're hearing, but

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people, you know, I heard it, you know, I've heard,

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you know, the episodes to date and they said, no,

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this isn't too bad that you guys are actually pretty

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funny. And that's gratifying to here. I mean, even my

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younger brother who is far more comedic in dark humor

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than I am is that he goes, Oh, you know,

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that's not bad. So when you get that kind of

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feedback, it kind of encourages, it encourages you to, to

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do more.

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Yeah, no, for sure. And like I said, I know

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I'm, I try to think, you know, if I let

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my wife's lesson to the Podcast afterwards, because I'm thinking,

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okay, she's going to pick because she always picks out

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little things that I do. In-person a lot of physical,

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a lot of texts or whatever. And if they get

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agitated, I do a certain thing. If I get to

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speak too fast, I do a certain thing. And she's

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always listened for that. I think. So. I hear you

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and let the personal feedback side.

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Yeah. We have a, a family relative, I guess a

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through marriage. It's a, she's she's has a podcast for

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years now and she is a professional comedian, a improv

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actress, voiceover actors, and she listened to it and she

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said that, you know, it's pretty good. You know, I'd

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been mined for a long time and you know, you

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guys sounded like you have something that, that could work

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her issue is, is that she is filthy as he

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goes and promote all her stuff. That was funny. And

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she does it with a former writing partner of hers

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from a, from, from LA. But she has no idea

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how to promote it.

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I think she just does that just to do it

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that way. I don't think I could actually just sit

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here and just do it just for the, for the

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fun of it. I'd want to have a say on

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some kind of objective. There is the marketer in me.

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Sorry.

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No, and I hear you. I know, I, my own

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personal Podcast that I was kind of sunset in the

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way it was like the same. I try just to

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riff off of what I was thinking of at the

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time, but they tend to, to find that it could

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be a hit and miss as I was getting more

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than two, I started to make lots of bullet points.

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I want it to cover that in the show, but

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then, you know, we'll see what happens.

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So I'm, I'm kind of like the I'll do the

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research and then I will write a fee, you know,

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jot a few, you know, things down that I want

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to cover. I'll share it with Scott and then I'll

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just let him go. And that's when the fun starts

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happening.

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And then it gets rid of each other based on,

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And that's an F and the other thing that we,

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that we work to do is we keep it to

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30 minutes. There's a lot of podcasts go on for

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45, an hour, hour and a half. And to me,

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you know, if it's, if there's lulls, if I do,

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I'm not finding that it's not really landing or a

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connecting, I tune out and I I'll shut it off

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30 minutes. I think you can maintain some level of

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attention and a time commitment when people think, okay, I

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will tell you I'll do a 30 minutes this, or,

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you know, I can do that. So we're going to

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try to stick with that format

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When I think the teams, or, I mean, I know

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a lot of people listening to podcasts, we want to

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say, what can I do either at the home Jim

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or the general or anything. And to think to your

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point may be 30, 40 minutes as our sweet spot

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for like a, a, a decent workout, right. Where you

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can listen to one episode and you're done, you're done

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your work cut out for the day.

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Yeah. And you can move on to the, to the

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rest of your day.

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Yeah, exactly. Because you, it is still a phase of

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the new Podcast and some of you mentioned it is

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that both you and Scott aren't real a technical, what

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advice would you give a guest to any podcasts as

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a potential Podcast is looking to start over or have

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just started from what you've learned in a first, however,

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many episodes

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Or a avoid garage band. Do we not go to

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a garage band? You know, Apple for all of the

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things that it does is, you know, even if it's,

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you know, since it, it comes with the, you know,

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the computer that you buy, it is still a very

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powerful yet unintuitive piece of software. I had to look

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at many YouTube videos to figure out how to get

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to Mike's, you know, you know, pumped into the thing

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I would look for, you know, something like SquadCast like

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we're on. Now. In fact, I have to look at

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this a little bit more closely because with Scott and

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my start, we are going to do it through this

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platform or something like that.

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I would look for something simple, a little bit more

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intuitive, a little bit more, you know, directed by, by

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the platform, but go simple, avoid any type of attempts

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to do something more than what you're capable.

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I would definitely agree with you on the garbage bag.

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And I was using a Udacity for the longest time

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and then Apple, Apple update to the rest that, to

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Catalina. And it stopped functionally for the Udacity, because the

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dusty, it is fair to a tuber and Catelynn, and

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he's 64. And that, yeah. So I think it does

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is they have got to walk around it's in the

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forum, but it's not ideal. So hopefully they'll get that

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because I far prefer audacity to someone, like you said,

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garbage band wise. I'll always, you see a good SquadCast

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is very simple. You just plug in and away you

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go.

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So yeah, unlike on this, yeah. This could be a

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need for a way for Scott and me to actually

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see each other, because part of it is, you know,

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were, were reacting, you know, to each other's well, yeah.

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You know, nonsense. So it, it, it, it seems to

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work.

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That's a good for the visual queues. I think that

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that's one of the most difficult things. We've see two

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people on a podcast that, especially with a note in

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the same room, try and understand who's finished a point

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and who's ready start at another point and that kind

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of thing, for sure.

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Yeah. And I'll definitely be looking at this in the

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future.

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So just to change things up a little bit, I

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know like you're similar to myself, a, when we were

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on social media were very vocal about our political beliefs

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and some of us know that that's a lie down

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and write like, do you know? I know what I

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mean. I, I I've had many people paying me and

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say, do it, aren't you, you know, and you can

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say that about people taking this in a long way,

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and that will stop you, you get to work or

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whatever. Did you ever consider that from that point of

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view, or do you get your Facebook or the lockdown?

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What's your take on that?

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You know, I, I, I do not have a public

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facing page only, you know, friends can see it, some

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friends appreciate the things that I post, you know? Yeah.

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Are they political? You bet for a lot of reasons,

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you know, and sometimes people on messenger or text me

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are saying like, you know, Hey, thanks for saying that

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because, you know, I don't have the guts to actually

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do it. Sure. Have people, you know, blocked me, unfriended

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me. Yeah. They have, you know, I've got like, you

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know, for a hundred different friends on Facebook, you know,

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the ones that actually react to this stuff that I

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post are, you know, a lot fewer than that. I

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know, but I do try to temper what I say

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and how I say it. So not to be, you

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know, completely offensive, you know, I don't know how, you

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know, what you think of if I were succeeding or,

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or failing in that regard, but there's just things that

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are, that, you know, around my eyes and, and to

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kind of in my spleen, umm, you know, there are,

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there are certain things that I, you know, I do

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hold back on, you know, anything that has to do

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with religion, I tend not to criticize or, you know,

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give my view.

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I think, you know, where I sit on that whole,

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you know, spectrum probably similar to you, but I, I,

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I try not too, you know, make it personal. I,

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I just tried to use facts. I know we have

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some people, they may disagree that, that my facts are,

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you know, not your facts and I disagree with your

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facts, but you know, I try to be objective,

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Alternative facts are still one of my favorite times of

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threes as it was ever uttered by anybody, anywhere alternative

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facts. So to that point then obviously like you said,

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you're a temporary to a degree as to what you

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share, if you could see, and you don't have to

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say it, you know, public or whatever. But if there

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was one thing or any one thing that you can

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say to anyone person at all, what would it be

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and why? Well, that's,

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That's a bit rough because I actually want to say

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something, but I,

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Yeah, you don't want them to Carol future subscriptions too.

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And you know, I think it's just, can you, you

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know, can we please stay in reality? Th there's just

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so much whether it comes from, you know, day to

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day living politics, religion, I know we all have our

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blind spots, but at the same time people don't, you

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know, there's a, you know, confirmation bias is rampant, you

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know, depending upon us, no matter which side you're on,

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you could be, you know, in the most ardent, you

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know, Trump supporter or you could be the most, you

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know, Verlyn, Bernie bro, both sides do it. Then I

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think the issue is, is that the rest of us,

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you know, the other 80% are kind of in the

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middle.

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And if, if you have the ability to understand what

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you're reading and to seek out sources to verify what

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you're reading first, before you start posting on anything that,

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you know, we'll make, you know, the world a little

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bit of a better place. Yeah, sure. You have to

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show compassion. You have to show love. You have to

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show, you know, consideration, empathy, sympathy, all of that. But

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it does come down to living in reality. And a

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lot of us, you know, on both sides, just aren't

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I think we see that a lot, especially online where

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anybody can pretty much drop a lot of a snippet

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and, and say, yes, that's the, the, the factual statement

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right there. So just the way, I guess, finished things

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off and get people to know what a little bit

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about you. What's one thing that not a lot of

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people that are, it would be surprised to learn about

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you that know you,

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But I'm a fairly decent mimic. I, yeah, I I've

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been, you know, I can listen to something, I've got

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a good Ear and I was in high school in

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musician. I piano of just, you know, but its all

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by ear. So from that standpoint I can, you know,

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listen to something I can try to impersonate it. I

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won't do anything here cause I'd be embarrassed, but it's

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got to be, you know, kind of off the cuff

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top of mine thing that I do, but I just

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have always loved listening to sounds and voices and then

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try to see if I can approximate, you know, what

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I'm listening to, but yeah.

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More and more of that.

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Yeah, no, no it was that. So is that musical

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America or do you do the impressions too? It's more

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voice and you know what to show you one right

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now and I know what are we talking to my

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accent?

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You know, I, I do, I love, I love it.

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And I do love accents, you know, you know, the

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Scottish, it it's just, you know, amazing anything British, but

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there are so many different dialects.

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Did you get it wrong? Well, at least they see,

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or you're not seeing them. Irish are wow. She has

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some value I get that people are asking, you know,

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that's what part of your wheels are you from? Is

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that okay? You know, if you get, yeah,

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Are you really, you know, down into that deeper guttural,

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you know, the type of thing North of me, you

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know, North London, but yeah. Now, I mean there, there

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was, you know, there's things that I've done that I

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think one of the, I guess one of the, the,

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the strangest from television was a, the old program. Taxi

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I don't know if you're familiar with

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It,

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You know, Judd, Hirsch and Christopher Lloyd But Christopher Lloyd

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was great As as Jim Ignatowski, you know, it just

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the stand out, you know, drug to addled, you know,

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a taxi driver. Yeah. But there was a one episode

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with, with him and the late Andy Kalfen where it,

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and he was playing Latka Graviss and he got this

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recipe for Cookie's from his grandmother and he wanted to

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become the next famous Amos. And all of a sudden

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people are, are sampling the cookies and their behavior is

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changing because the cookies had cocaine in them. So so

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everybody's acting like really weird in a really strange or

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whatever, you know, Louis, you know, Danny DeVito, his character

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comes up.

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He says he had people who really, you know, act

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in strange eating all of these cookies. So Jenn takes

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out, you know, and it takes a whiff and he

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goes, well, I don't know about you boss, but you

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was something more of a magical in here. I have

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an oatmeal Danny and he says, so he takes it

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a nibble of it. He goes, hi, hello, 1972, the

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fall of the rains. And it just cracks me up

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every single time that he can, you know, it tastes,

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you know, this cooky and find out the, you know,

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the bouquet here is actually a process that just cracks

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me up every time that that was a great,

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No, but I at least say it was funny to

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think how many great actors would actually end up that

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one sitcom, you know, that went on to do really

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good things.

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Oh yeah. I mean, but if he's got, you know,

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Marilu, Henner, Marilu, Henner, and I'll, I'll loop a loop

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this back to my brother, my brother and me, there

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was an episode that she was a guest with these

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guys and she has an endemic memory. She memorized it.

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She can recall everything and anything that she's experienced, it's

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not photographic. She's like a she's. She is just stores

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away, all her experiences and she can, she can just

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dredge it up. Wow. Amazing, amazing. Line yeah. I'm going

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to be a good goal to be good. To be

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an actor if you're like that.

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Well, yeah, exactly. I have to tell us along your

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lines, that much, just a lot of discipline once you

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have done good to go. Yup. Good to go. So

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Bob where can people find you online if they are,

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they want to connect with you or socially of the

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one that you don't do business with the company is

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the one who knows.

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Yeah. Yeah. The, the company is called the Element R

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Partners a.com. So it's a Element hyphen R dot com

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or you can also get me on LinkedIn. So I

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think it's just, Bob Reed I'm on Facebook, you know,

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if you're so inclined, look me up, send me an

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invite. My Connect might not know that we do. You

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might just say like yeah. You know, but up to

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you or open to anybody in any and everyone.

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Okay. Oh, so I'm going to be sure to drop

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these links into the show notes, along with that, the

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link to the doorman podcast itself. And hopefully, ah, as

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you mentioned, you may, you guys make, get back into

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that as soon, you know, everything, depending on, you know,

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they kind of situation obviously in the world,

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Take it by a day by day, but hopefully, you

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know, sooner than later, I hope so.

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I hear. Yeah. Well, I really appreciate it coming on

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the show today. Bob I hope that the, the lessors

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and joy as much as I have enjoy chatting too,

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in fact,

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It'll show up

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And till the next thing you guys take care of,

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