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Before I get started with the Meatweed Podcast, this week I want to say Happy Birthday to Princess.

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Happy Birthday, Princess. Anyway, welcome back to the Meatweed Podcast where I discovered something

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entirely by accident. So, I've never worked too well or close with PVC piping when it comes to

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stuff such as sewers and water mains, stuff like that. I'm not the best at it, okay, but recently

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we had a problem with our water and we had to fix it. Did you guys know that there's some plastics

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that are...plastics? There are some glues that are so strong that you have to use it in a well

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ventilated area? I didn't. I'm okay though, we use it outside. But, you know, the coincidences

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were just that, coincidental. It could have been way worse if we were doing stuff inside, but, you know,

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we're smiling in the Meatweed Podcast. We're doing great. Anyway...

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This week's been nice. I mean, compared to last week where a lot of stuff was happening,

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this week has been pretty good so far. I'm not gonna lie, I'm recording this pretty early in

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the week. The reason being is because I'm gonna be busy this week. Work finally picks up. It does

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that. My job picks up, slows down, picks up, it slows down. I don't mind it though. I get a lot of

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free time to do things. It's also one of the first jobs I've ever had where I get the weekends off,

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but I still make good money. So, I can't leave it, man. This job is too good for me. Anyway,

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welcome back to the Meatweed Podcast. This week has been interesting, but more specifically,

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I've been noticing a single trend that... The thing is, right, I already talked last week about

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the pink sauce and stuff. Things that tend to trend, but with a certain type of demographic.

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It's not a big trend, you know what I mean? It's a big deal to a small amount of people,

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but regardless, it's still a big deal. There's been a lot of controversies regarding video games as

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a whole, the medium. A lot of the things are circled around people downloading video games

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onto the console or even onto a PC, and because you no longer have a physical version of the game,

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it's no longer yours. It's the same thing Apple was doing, or it's very similar at least,

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to when you would purchase an Apple product and you weren't able to tinker with it or open with it

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in any way, shape, or form. Unfortunately, that's the nature of video games. There's always been

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this controversy behind it where ever since you could download games, it's always been that way,

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where if a game is no longer online and it's download only, well unfortunately you can no

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longer play it. You won't really own the game anymore. Me personally, I have always been a fan

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of both options. The reason being is sometimes I do get bored of a game and I don't want to play

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it anymore, but there are other times where I play a game that I love so much. I'm not a collector

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of video games, okay? But there are some times where I play a video game that I love so much

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that I'll buy the physical copy whether I'm going to play it or not or even have the console in a

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few years. The reason I'm saying this is because I still have a copy of the original Fallout 3

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and Fallout New Vegas with the DLC and another CD. And I absolutely love it, you know? I paid for

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the physical version. I mostly play the vanilla one where I don't have any DLC, but it's still

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fun on either one. Fallout 3, Fallout New Vegas, they were both incredible. I still have Fallout

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4 on my Xbox. I'm a big fan of the series. Up until 76, I did not play that one. No one plays

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RPGs to play the horrible combat, okay? If this topic for a lot of you people doesn't stick,

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to be honest, it doesn't for me either anymore. The thing is, I used to be a big gamer and I was

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into the news, but unfortunately, it does have this side effect where gamers are very toxic.

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I'll say it right now. A lot of gamers are incredibly toxic and they think it's fine.

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And I just, I got tired of it. The older I got, the less cynical I became. The more I viewed the

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world as, well, the world is what you make of it. And if you're just constantly surrounded by people

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like this, then yeah, it's not going to be a good thing. Having said that, I think there are a lot

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of wholesome video game players that aren't constantly berating each other, yelling racial

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slurs, chewing out people based on their race, stuff like that. Just, well, you got to understand.

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I see that now and I'm just, it's not as appealing as it used to be, but there are those that do it

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as a joke. And I understand that a joke is meant to be funny and people laugh and you know, not

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everyone agrees with the same jokes over and over again. I guess the thing is, I don't know if I

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become more tolerant or if what's going on is I just hear those jokes and I think if someone was

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offended by it, you know, whether or not it was a joke, then that's, that's not on them, you know?

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Like you just, you just hurt someone's feelings for no reason. I don't know. It's, it's hard to

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explain. Okay. It's just, it's very difficult, but at the same time, I'm not going to sit here and go,

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Oh, you can't make a joke. There's a fine line. Okay. There's a bunch of stuff. It's a bunch of

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nuance and I don't know. It's just, why risk it? You know? So my girlfriend got me this really nice

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body wash from Bath and Body. I, I have this weird habit. Okay. Where if she gets me something that

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I really like, I'll just smell it, you know, like I'll sit there and I'll enjoy the fragrance and

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everything. I even bought a candle from it the other day. I think I mentioned the previous

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episode, but it's, I don't know, man. I have this growing appreciation for the little finer,

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fine details of life. I don't know if it's with age coming or if it's the fact that, you know,

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I'm feeling romantic because the cold weather is here and I absolutely love the cold weather.

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You guys know this already. Okay. And if you don't, you should know this cold weather is my

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absolute favorite. Summer is okay because you can go out and do more stuff, but during winter,

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I just love having, like, I love, I love going shopping for sweaters. I think I look good in

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cold weather gear, you know, as opposed to me wearing like shorts or something. I'm, I don't

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know what it is about my legs. I, I'm kind of self-conscious about them. There's nothing wrong

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with them. They have a good shape and everything. It's just, I never wear shorts. I've just never

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really grew up with it. In fact, it was kind of like a thing where if I wore shorts, people would

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point it out and go, Oh, look, we can see your legs. And it's like, can you not, you know,

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it's always fun being on the receiving end of shit, but still it's, it's just kind of,

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eh, it is what it is. I just prefer cold weather and I don't know how to explain it. Right. I'm

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the kind of person who, if it starts snowing somewhere, I don't care if it's inconvenient

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to drive there or it's dangerous. I just want to go. Like I've always been fascinated with snow.

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The first time I saw it driving down Oregon, the entire mountains surrounded by snow and it was a

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beautiful white blanket. It was just silent. I, I fell in love instantly with that kind of weather.

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There's something romantic about stillness and silence, whether or not it's followed by a

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blistering cold, but regardless, I'll deal with the cold because I just want to sit there and look at

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the snow. Of course, there's always that thing that, that people need to realize about snow is that

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you have to wear some sort of eye protection because UV really bounces off that stuff, but

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damn, is it worth it? It's so worth it. I'm not sure if I mentioned it last week in the podcast,

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but I recently tried a sport that I thought was expensive at first, but I absolutely love.

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I tried golfing for the first time, but like an actual full course, you guys got to understand

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when it comes to golf, the one thing that I was really good at was mini golf, the putting and stuff.

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I kicked ass at that. In fact, me and my brother, my little brother, we've, we've gone to putting

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courses quite a few times. We have a history with it. We just love going. It's like really cheap

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anyways to go. Of course with my gas, it's not the way gas is right now. It's just a pain in the

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ass to drive anywhere, but still it's like very wholesome fun. But what we did, right, my older

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brother, we got his clubs, which were really expensive and we went to a driving range. At least

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that's what I think it's called. You know, it's that area where you just kind of set up the ball

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and you just hit it, see how far you can get it. It's a great practice and it's perfect for me

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because I've never really hit a legitimate golf ball with the club. There's a whole stance you're

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supposed to do. You got to angle it just right. And if you miss, don't feel too bad about it.

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And don't do what I did and try to aim lower. Cause if you hit the ground, you can break the clubs.

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I did not know that there's actually quite a few rules to it too, where like you can easily hit it

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in the wrong direction, right? If you don't know what you're doing. I did not. I would actually hit

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it and it would drift immediately to the left. I almost hit an electrical pole, but apparently

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it's a common thing. Like the place that we went to anyway, but it was not as expensive as I thought.

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The thing is you can rent clubs and everything in total. You'll spend maybe $45 there.

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If you don't have your own clubs. The clubs are the expensive part. Okay. That's that I will agree

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with my brother on that. It's like, yeah, a set of clubs is going to cost you a bit, but when you go

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golfing, you need a single glove, which is like $12 and a bunch of balls, depending on what you're

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going to get a little teething. It's nice though. It's nice. I would absolutely do it again.

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It's just, there's so many sports that I want to try too. I still haven't gotten the damn kayak out.

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Okay. There's this lake nearby. It's really far up in the mountains. It's kind of tedious to get

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there, but at the same time, it's not a hard drive. It's just, you have to go out there. It's like a

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30 minute drive. If you guys know anything about driving up a hill for 30 minutes, it's not pleasant

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and your car's got to be built for it. I don't know if mine is, but I'll try it anyway. Why not?

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It's, it's not, I don't know. I just, I like trying new things. I'm a very adventurous person. I need

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a lot of energy to get this done. You know, a lot of energy to pick up my, my kayak or my golf clubs,

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anything really, and just get going. Okay. I want to go back to something real quick before I,

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before I continue, I want to go back to the video game thing, right? I mentioned earlier that there

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was, there was me trying to leave the community of games, gamers, whatever, because of the toxicity

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and stuff, right? But there is one that I absolutely love. It's not, it's not the most wholesome,

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but they're the most helpful. The Monster Hunter community. If you guys know anything about me,

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again, I love Fallout and Monster Hunter. I love those two games to death, especially Monster Hunter.

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I grew up with that game. I played the ever loving shit out of every single one of them,

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except for maybe the region locked ones, but that's it. Well, they recently released a new game. As

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I'm speaking, I'm downloading Monster Hunter now. Okay. Like I set up everything and it's basically

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Pokemon Go, but with Monster Hunter. And if you guys don't know, like if you guys have never played

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it, I highly recommend it just, just to give Monster Hunter the attention in the United States

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that it needs. Monster Hunter is big in Japan, but it's not big here. So the market's kind of small

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here because of that. Again, I recommend get Monster Hunter now and just, just fiddle with it,

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you know, show some interest in the game and maybe Capcom will finally give us Monster Hunter, you

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know, a new game on a console. I'm so looking forward to that. I don't even have a PS5 or Xbox.

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So I don't know. Okay. I'm embarrassed to admit this right now, but I'll be the bigger man and

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admit this. I opened the app while recording and it is currently 20 minutes later. Like I,

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I just been playing it now. Like that's kind of embarrassing. Like I was going to talk about some

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stuff too. I don't know. I just have so much energy right now. Now you already know I have energy,

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right? Of course you do. It's Magic Mind. Of course you know Magic Mind. They've been mentioned in the

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podcast before. They sponsored us in the past. And I'm telling you right now, the reason I keep

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mentioning them is because they're so good. Okay. Let me tell you something. Okay. There's a thing

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that I used to take separately. What is Magic Mind? Let me tell you right now. It's a little energy

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shot. It's got everything you need in it. Okay. But what do I mean by that? I mean, literally,

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if you want to get off caffeine, if you want to just stop drinking coffee, if you want to feel

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better, just in general, they got you covered. Seriously, it's that easy. You just take one

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every morning. And if you want to reduce the amount of caffeine you have every day, drink it

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with your coffee and slowly wing yourself to drinking Magic Mind. That's what I've been doing

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right now. But the thing is, there's a thing in it, right? Ashwagandha. I absolutely love that

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ingredient. The thing is, I actually used to take supplements for Ashwagandha. I don't need to

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anymore because they're in Magic Mind. Magic Mind's got you covered. I'm telling you. And when I say

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they got you covered, I don't just mean with all the precious ingredients that are high quality

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and good for you in the bottle. Okay. I mean, your wallet is going to thank you too. Especially

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Anytime after the 10 days, it's going to be 20% off, but it'll still work. Remember that code again,

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go ahead and check it out. Get yourself some Magic Mind. By the way, when I was going out to the mail

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to actually get my Magic Mind from my mailbox, something else came in as well. And perk your

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ears up because... It's probably sounded horrible in the mic by the way, but that was a copy of my

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book, The Tale of Gabriel. I remastered the cover and I made it slightly bigger text so the older

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crowd can read it. The thing is, I know some people are hard of seeing, they can't see too well, small

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text. So I made sure to make it just a little bigger so that the elderly could read it without

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having to need to strain their eyes because I really do care about you people. Okay, seriously.

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But what I'm going to do, right? I brought one... Okay, I brought one of the books with me right now.

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The others are in the other room. We're going to do a bit of a marketing tactic. An ancient marketing

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tactic, one might say. How ancient? I'm just going to go to a few libraries and give them out.

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That's it. That's literally it. I'm literally handing the two libraries so that they can have

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a copy of it. You know what I mean? It's not that hard. I mean, my books will be out in the world.

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The thing is, these are the new prints. There are some people out in the world that have my old

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copy of my old book. You know, The Tale of Gabriel, part one. I'm working on part two, okay? I'm still...

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It's been six years, but yeah, I'm working on it. Sorry. It's been a busy life, period. But yeah,

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at least I'm working on it. You know, one of those side projects that I'm really excited about.

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And because of my girlfriend always hyping me up and always being there for me. Thank you, honey.

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Because of that, she's just motivated me to start writing again. You know? She's literally my

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motivation. Isn't that sweet? Side note, is everyone else getting sick or is that just my family? Like,

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I don't know what it is, right? I've heard rumors. I mean, I hope they're just rumors, right?

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That in 2023, the COVID vaccine or the COVID pandemic might actually make a resurgence and

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a comeback. I really hope it doesn't, but whether or not it does, I'm vaccinated, so I don't know

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if that's going to do anything for me, right? But it still worries me that we really didn't eradicate

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the thing. We just kind of ignored it. You know what I mean? COVID-19 is still around, but people

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are thinking there's trying to treat it like it's a common cold in the hopes that it becomes a

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common cold, which it won't. But far be it for me to, you know, put words in people's mouths.

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It's just the fact that where I'm at, it's a very confusing spot in California where

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people are either highly conservative or they're highly liberal. In fact, there's a strong mixture

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of the two. It's gotten to the point where no one really cares. Like, just by looks, they'll be like,

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yeah, this guy's a liberal or this guy's a Republican, you know, stuff like that. Again,

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I don't want to get too into the politics that we don't do that on this channel, but where I'm at,

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it's a mixed bag. Like everyone has every opinion. That's, that's me putting it lightly too. Oh boy.

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Hey, you guys remember last, last podcast, right? I, I'm not previous, but the previous previous one,

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right? So I'm pretty sure, I mean, I'm just saying the, the whole alien thing from Mexico,

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right? It's pretty much been confirmed to be a hoax, which sucks. It really does. Because

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the person who brought it up, like, see, I, I called it before, right? I called it thinking,

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I just can't believe this because you know, literally I can't, I couldn't accept it as fact.

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The thing is your, your intuition, your ideology of things can't cloud reality, you know, you,

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you can't just go up to someone and say, this is a real thing with something that looks like evidence,

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but is it? The problem is the person who brought it up, I mentioned his name in the previous episode,

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I forgot his name already, but the guy who brought up the aliens has a history of doing this.

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Unfortunately, there was one incident that really, it shot up a red flag, okay? For me,

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a red flag so big China pales in comparison. This person found two mummified children,

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okay? This isn't regarding the aliens that you guys have heard about that were supposed to be

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thousands of years old. This is a previous incident, something that already happened,

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where he passed off two children who were already dry, you know, like they've been dead for a while.

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He passed it off as they were aliens. The man just really, really wants to believe. Unfortunately,

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that's where I bring that in, confirmation bias again, just because you want to believe in

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something doesn't mean it's true, okay? I'm sorry, but that's not how the world works.

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The world is not a Disney movie. Speaking of Disney, you guys already know how I feel about it,

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right? I made it clear in the past. I'm not a big fan of Disney, but I hate to say this, right? I

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really do. That might change. This is big news for me saying, and it just sounds weird for me saying

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it out loud. The thing is, my father, when he first came to this country, he didn't have anything. He

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didn't have, he had the clothes on his back. He had a housing complex that he shared with 10,

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12 other people. They were really cramped in there, like sardines in a tin, just a lot of them.

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And he told me something. The other day I went to Anaheim. There was a hotel that we were staying

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there. My girlfriend and her family, sister's birthday, happy birthday princess. And the thing

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about Anaheim, right? I was there and I didn't think too much of it. Like, don't get me wrong,

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the apartment was, the apartment, the hotel we stayed at was absolutely gorgeous. It's just

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the town itself, I thought it was nice, you know? It's just, I didn't know it held such a significant

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side of my father's history. And I guess as my, as his son, it's my duty to bring up, you know,

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just a bit of his history. Again, my dad came here for three or four years lived there, right?

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And he told me the thing that he would do once, this was a father-son bonding moment, right?

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He would go to the Disneyland that was nearby and they would let him watch the waterworks,

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you know, the water shows. The thing is he would look at that and he would also see the water,

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the fish going around. And what got me, right, is that my father, this was before he met my mom,

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this was before any of the kids, this was my father as a young man. He looked at the fish

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and he just looked at the water feature at Disneyland and he just wished and he saw

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his future. He wanted a better life. That's why he came here. That struck a chord with me.

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I don't regularly talk about my family on this podcast, but the thing is every now and then,

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sometimes your family will bring up something, you know, specifically for me and my mom and dad,

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my dad in this case. The way he mentioned everything, the way he talked about it,

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with such energy and so excited about it, it made me rethink a lot of things. One of them being,

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why did I even hate Disney? The truth is I believe that I didn't hate Disney. I was just,

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I guess the term is sour grapes, which there's a sad part of my past that I guess I should mention.

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I wanted to be an artist for Disney. I wanted to go to CalArts. I wanted to go, you know,

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study it in depth, go and animate, you know, study animation. It never happened. I never

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went to animation and now that I'm at the age that I'm currently at, it's not that it's too

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late. It's just now I look back and I think it would have been a nice dream, but it wasn't really

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a dream that I thought about in depth because the more I looked into it, the more I realized

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the industry is horrible. Like in general, I blame the industry for being horrible.

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In general, I don't, I blamed Disney. The thing is it's not just Disney. It's a lot of big companies.

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Okay. Just working with a big company in general, you're going to, you're going to see some

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practices that you don't really agree with. But why did I single out Disney? The truth is I wanted

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to work with them. I wanted to be employed by them. When I was a kid, I had a Bambi blanket,

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like a little blankie. Okay. I was like three or four years old and I still remember having it.

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I still remember having pictures of me with it. I remember because this was shortly after my dad

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left Anaheim and he went to another spot in LA. It was in Lakewood. And I don't know, man. I,

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I, I've been, I've been too hard on Disney. You know, maybe I should, maybe I should mellow out.

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It's hitting hard because how critical have I been of Disney? Listen to the previous episodes

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where I mentioned anything tagged with Disney, you'll see what I mean, but they're just a big

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company. You know what I mean? But every now and then people are, people are touched by animation.

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They want to believe in magic. It's okay. You know, it's okay to believe. It's okay to wish.

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I just, I never knew that about my dad and it hit hard that he, that he told me about that, you know?

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And I don't know. It's, it was a beautiful moment. I guess the reason it was so hard for me to talk

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about it was that I'm finally admitting that I was wrong about Disney, about big companies in general.

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Okay. You got to understand. I'm always critical about things. And I realized now the other day,

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in fact, me and my girlfriend were talking and it just hit me really hard. I critique and I critique

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and I critique, but I never really enjoy anything. Do I? That's when I realized I've been focusing on

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the wrong things my entire life. And as an adult, it's time to leave that shit behind. Instead of

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telling you guys what I hate, I should tell you what I love. And honestly, there's quite a few

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things. It's quite a lot in fact. I don't know. I don't know how to put this, you know? I guess

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the simple way to put it is I love wine. I love cheese. I love a lot of stuff. In fact, that wine

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thing is, is something that I should mention because now that I'm on keto, there's a lot of

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wines I cannot drink. However, I decided to make my own wine again, this time with a lot less sugar.

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In fact, I want it with, I want it with, I guess the term is dry, very dry, which would mean that

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the yeast consumes every single bit of sugar, leaving absolutely no sweetness. And it's a very

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tart drink, but it would be something that I can drink. And because of that, I decided to go right

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through with it and fermentation began a few days ago. So I'm actually quite excited about that.

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This one's going to taste like cinnamon and lime. Interesting mix. I know. Let's see how it turns

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out. I'm actually quite excited about it. Instead of leaving it inside, I have in the other room.

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It's actually cold fermenting right now, which is good because, because of the weather, I don't want

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to rush things. Okay. The weather right now is perfect for fermentation, but not for aging. So,

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so to speak. How do I explain this? You want the perfect temperature. You don't want it too hot,

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otherwise it'll like boil over, kill the yeast. You don't want it too cold. Otherwise the yeast

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will go into hibernation, which is, I think it would have to freeze the bottle. Actually, you know

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what? You know, I'd be fine. I'd be fine. The current temperature is fine. I'm going to go,

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I'm going to go and taste it in about two weeks just to make sure that there's alcohol in it, but

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I'm not going to finish until the final product is done. Actually, I'm actually doing it as legit

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as I can. I've sterilized everything and I have the readings for it. All kinds of stuff. Okay.

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I'm excited about that. I'm very excited. Also, wow. Last week was so full of news that we didn't

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even talk about everything, right? The only problem is, well, the week passed, so it's already

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relevant. Oh, I was going to mention something. I'm going to upload something on Patreon, but

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for those who are interested next week or this week, I'm not too sure when I'll be able to,

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I'm going to try to make a video on Patreon that's free for everyone. Like,

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anyone can watch it, patron or not. So, I got the idea from people on Twitter who were saying,

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you're not advertising the Patreon properly. You're supposed to put free stuff there as well.

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You have to offer something to everyone. Not just people who pay you, but people who are interested.

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You know, maybe they want to see what you can offer. So, I like that idea and I'm going to do

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some goofy stuff. I saw a lot of memes, okay? I see a lot of memes on Instagram and I see one

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in particular that made me laugh really hard. I'm going to try this thing where it just says,

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it's just me doing karate for like five minutes. I thought that was brilliant. And the best part is,

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I have a karate dummy outside. I just need a tripod or someone to record it. So, let's see

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how that goes. I know that kind of spoils the surprise, but at the same time, it's going to be

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free anyways, right? So, whenever I send links out, it's all going to be free. So, that's the

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best part about it. Speaking of which, there's also a very unusual phenomenon going on on my Twitter.

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Can you guys stop trying to get me to buy crypto? I don't want any, okay? Thanks. And there was

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another thing. I just have to clarify it just in case someone does try to do this. If you're going

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to send me any money like on over the internet, I don't want cryptocurrency of any kind, okay?

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Please just don't. I don't even want Bitcoin. I don't want any, okay? Because I was given a very

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generous sum, but it was in Bitcoin and I'm going to be honest, I'm incredibly stupid. So, I can't

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figure it out. Okay? It's as simple as that. I wish I could help. I wish I could accept it. I'm just

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going to say thank you and that's it really. That's all I can do. It was a lot of Bitcoin.

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Oh well. All right, fine. I'll talk about it. I've been mentioning it a few times.

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Previous episodes of the podcast, I had mentioned that I was on keto. How was that going? Your boy

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lost 12 pounds. Your boy has 25 more to go. So, thank you. Thank you all for that. Also, recently

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I've been doing more exercise and I've been going out and moving a lot with my brother. So, we're

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doing that now. Sorry for the brief cutoff. I don't know how to explain this, but I burped in

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the weirdest way possible. It didn't sound like a burp. It sounded like a squeak.

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I'm sorry about that. I had to cut that out, okay? Like there was no way around editing that out.

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So, I'm just, you know, I'm sorry. The squeaking was so unusual. I had this thing, right? I

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discovered a rabbit hole the other day on YouTube thanks to people on Twitter that mentioned that

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there's a lot of sardines and how to eat them and how long they last, how shelf stable they are.

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Some people have mentioned this sardine is so shelf stable that you can leave it there for

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three or four years in direct sunlight and unless water touches it and rusted, then you're fine.

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Or if you open it and it's all, it's incredibly strong fish smell, then don't eat it, you know?

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There's a whole bunch of stuff, okay? A lot of subtlety, a lot of nuances. Should the skin go on?

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Should you eat the bones? All that kind of stuff, okay? But the thing is, I just like my pretty

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standard one, you know? Just fish meat and in a tin. It's very simple. I like sardines, okay? I've

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been eating a lot of them. Keto has helped me lose weight, but you do pick up interesting eating

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habits, which is what I've been doing. I've been eating more pork rinds as well, as well as peanut

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butter sandwiches with keto bread. Keto bread is just high in fiber. I guess this is the thing I'm

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learning too about net carbs instead of just not eating any at all. It's very important to learn

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these things, but at the same time, I think I'm doing okay. And the thing is, I've been getting

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attention about it too, because my eating habits completely changed. The thing is, right? I've done

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this before. Like every now and then, whenever I feel the need to lose weight, I just do it.

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It's not hard for me. It's just, it's kind of annoying. That's it. The way I could put it is,

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I'm losing weight just because. There's no real reason for it. I'm just like, hey, I feel like

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looking thinner again. And then I do it, you know? It isn't difficult if you're not constantly

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thinking about it. That is a thing too. A lot of people overthink it. They think, oh, I gotta do

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this. I gotta do that. I gotta plan this. I got a meal prep. I gotta do all this. It's like, no, no,

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just go with the flow. It'll come to you in time. Okay? Anyway, that's gonna do it for this episode

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of the Meat Weed Podcast. I will see you all next week. Be sure to use that promo code in the

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description and check out the link tree. There's a lot of stuff there now. The thing is, I've been

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posting a bit less on TikTok. I'm sorry I've been working for it, okay? But yeah, keep an eye out

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on the Patreon for that free video. I'll see you guys next week.