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E124: Anal scratcher
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We're just coming off a long weekend celebrating the US's 250th birthday! Come listen how are weekend's went, what's in store for this week and how we can annoy each other!
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Transcript
Intro & Weekend Recap
00:00:16
Speaker
Hey, welcome to another episode of the Triple T for Knife Makers podcast. We're just coming off a long weekend here in the US s and we we're ready to get back to work. Right, Jared?
00:00:29
Speaker
Back to work. Absolutely not. Maybe the retired work, but definitely not real work. What? How was your weekend?
00:00:40
Speaker
Tell me. My week my weekend was great. it was long. I didn't work. I actually was very, very difficult to get moving today. But I was surprised that as much as my reluctance and procrastination to leave the house, there wasn't much traffic. I think lot of people took today off as well.
00:01:02
Speaker
Oh, today you mean? Yeah. yeah So it was pretty good. Good, good. Did you do anything fun? Yeah, Lynn and I did a ah a quick little getaway.
00:01:14
Speaker
um i mean, I say Lynn and I, but she, every now and again, she'll get sick and tired of our shit and need a break from us. So she went and got a yeah a room at the, what the fuck is the name of it, in Lafayette at one of the fancy um little small hotels there.
00:01:39
Speaker
And she stayed there, checked herself in, had room service um on Friday night or Thursday night that was. and And then I met her over there Friday and we hung out, hung out with the rich people, um did a little hiking. that You ever did the, ah ever been of the reservoir over there?
00:02:02
Speaker
i've I've never even been left yet. Oh, yeah. It's old money. It's it's different. Those people got different kind of money than... then Like the different than Blackhawk kind of money? Yeah, older money.
00:02:15
Speaker
So they got they got like, fuck you, Blackhawk money. They had money before Blackhawk was even built.
00:02:26
Speaker
um But yeah, there's a little reservoir there. um And we were going to do a, we hiked. It's like, it's it's a little paved path, but it was like about three miles. And because I've been encouraging Lynn.
00:02:41
Speaker
We were walking for a long time and then kind of as quick as you get away from it. So I was like, we should start doing that. And we we took the kids there when we were when they were young.
00:02:54
Speaker
And I didn't really realize it was a three mile little hike. But it's I mean, by far not not anything strenuous, but it's got some hills and some, you know. And yeah, she was about halfway through it.
00:03:09
Speaker
she was regretting it it was hot too it was like 80 85 we went like midday to like worse timing to go out and then do a hike but uh it was nice we got out and saw a little bit of uh nature and then got in the room dude are you a fan of like super soft feathery down beds and pillows yes okay so i haven't that don't have that much experience with them This is the first time in my life I checked into the room, got in, and I laid down on the bed, and I was like, oh, my God.
00:03:48
Speaker
This is something else. closer As close to a cloud as I can get, that's what I want. I mean, in reality, i think I could do it for maybe like two or three nights max and then my back would be wrecked because I actually have to.
00:04:04
Speaker
I like the like a memory foam topper, but I have to have a firm mattress like the memory foam. We had one years and years ago, but it it tore my back up. so um But man, I sunk into this thing.
00:04:17
Speaker
Oh, it was like instant. Okay, let's not do anything. Let's just stay right here. i fell asleep. I had three pillows, like kind of one behind me and two on the side of me.
00:04:29
Speaker
And I don't really sleep on my back. I'm kind of like a side sleeper. But dude, I was out like a light, like asleep that I haven't experienced in a long time. And I mean, it was so, so comfortable. I actually like started looking at the tags and I think I'll ah start saving up to see if I can get me some hotel pillows for the house because they were, they were insanely comfortable. place was really nice.
00:04:55
Speaker
um Real, real, real cool room. So it was good, man. We got, like I said, just got a little. And you stayed there Thursday, Friday. She stayed there Thursday and then I, we stayed Friday and checked out Saturday. yeah Cool.
00:05:07
Speaker
Yeah. It was cool. It was a nice, nice little, um, little trip. And you do it for July 4th, July 4th. I went over to buddy's house and, um, we, we do that a lot.
4th of July Adventures
00:05:21
Speaker
And I don't know if we did it last year. Um, but, uh, I was reminded that we, we normally go over there. Um, but he's got a real cool pad. Um, and, uh,
00:05:33
Speaker
a swimming pool and and I've been doing a lot of swimming lately ever since what is when Toby was in town Toby was here yeah um I was kind of bummed we didn't swim last weekend or whenever Noah and Yeah, i wanted to.
00:05:53
Speaker
Jaden said he was not a fan of being lowered in the pool by a couple guys. so By some stranger dudes. that
00:06:04
Speaker
Yeah, no, but man, I am digging it. I... there there's been some times in my life where i haven't jumped in the water at all. You didn't fix your, uh, your mega zoom. I'm going back on. I didn't.
00:06:16
Speaker
Yeah. I'm just to annoy you now. Uh, yeah. So yeah. Hung out in the pool all day. didn't see a single firework that's just not i i was asleep by like probably like 7 38 o'clock so yeah we usually are asleep before fireworks yeah but uh um Yeah, we went camping right by you, like 20 minutes from your house, in Sugar Barge on Bethel Island. It was really fun. we had We had my grandson go with us, and then his mom joined us the next morning, and two of my friends joined us that evening.
00:07:04
Speaker
for for two nights. I mean, yeah I love camping with people. It's really fun. we you know I haven't sat around you know with a bunch people like having drinks and laughing around a campfire a really long time, and I realized how much I miss that.
00:07:19
Speaker
So that was really fun. We towed the jet skis with the RV, which is always a bit of a, you know, I wouldn't say it's not a challenge. It's just stressful.
00:07:31
Speaker
I don't know why, but, um but yeah, we, yeah we did that and, um, Yeah, just kind of hung out, went and there's this place that near where we camp where like everyone goes during the day and then you kind of park your boats and then everyone like just When anyone anyone comes near, it's just like a water balloon fight on the Delta.
00:08:00
Speaker
And like um those big soaker um water guns. It's really fun. Like you sign up for it automatically, even though you're not. Yes. If you if you drive if you drive by close enough, you're going to get dredged.
00:08:14
Speaker
Okay. And one point, actually, Dan was really pissed. You've been on Dan's boat, right? He's very particular about keeping it. He should be. Yeah. And, um,
00:08:26
Speaker
This one boat goes by all these people. was like a pontoon boat. And, you know, we're throwing water balloons and each of us, both sides. And then the guy kind of spins around, um tilts his motor up and guns it.
00:08:41
Speaker
And a wave of water just hits Dan's boat, like like knock you over wave of water. He was fucking pissed. It was like two inches of water in the bottom of his boat.
00:08:54
Speaker
ah wow I was not standing on it. There was three of three boats together, like like Justin has his boat. So I was on another boat, so I didn't get drenched. I was pretty happy about that. But, yeah, it was entertaining.
00:09:08
Speaker
but That's funny. Lots of... um Oh, I have three really good boat launch stupidity stories, dumbass stories that were that happened.
00:09:22
Speaker
you're not You're not the star? I am not the star of any of them, actually. I was the bystander. I wish I would have had, like, you know, like point cards. Right.
00:09:34
Speaker
One guy, he goes to launch. I don't know what he was thinking. this is the delta you know the The Delta has levees, right? So you've got to drive up the levees and down to launch your boat. Well, he decides he's going to take two jet skis and try to launch them with a golf cart.
00:09:52
Speaker
Tries to go up the levee. not even He's not even near the water yet. Tries to drive up the levee. Gets like two-thirds of the way up and realizes he doesn't have enough torque. He's not going to make it.
00:10:04
Speaker
And his son jumps out of the golf cart. The golf cart then does a wheelie because now there's not enough weight in the front of the golf cart. So now he's going backwards with no steering because his f front wheels are off the ground.
00:10:21
Speaker
He's lucky there was no one behind him and it just kind of like coasted down. ah But it was pretty funny and I'm pretty sure that guy was drunk. ah The next one, these two kids, I'll call them kids, they're probably 20 and 22, decide they're going to, so you can do a valet launch. Well, they will pick up your ski and launch it for you.
00:10:46
Speaker
And they get on the ski. They don't even have life jackets on They launch this ski. The guy backs the jet ski into the water. The kid, you know, it's already on. The guy unhooks it for him. The guy guns it in reverse.
00:11:01
Speaker
And obviously he forgot to take the straps off the back. Oh, shit. So there's like five of us around, because I'm waiting to launch mine, right? And there's five of us are standing around just laughing our asses off, including the guy, the ballet launched.
00:11:17
Speaker
So it was pretty funny. And then a fight almost broke out between this chick and yeah it was just July 4th. Stupidity. You know, that's that's part of the reason why I don't do that kind of stuff.
00:11:32
Speaker
Because those two things always go together. You know, there's always... way too much excitement for me. um And yeah not only do I not partake, but you know so I get easily irritated when people are obnoxiously fucked up. you know But those- well none of I don't think any of them were, except for the fight, I don't think any of the other guys were like drunk drunk. Maybe they've had a few, but none of them were like obnoxious. They were just stupid. The probability of seeing some some stupid shit. yes the guy I told you my my my sponsor used to- ah
00:12:05
Speaker
live right across from the launch at at the River's End. And he would say every weekend he'd just go out on the ah on the patio and just kind of hang out and watch the freak show and just laugh his ass. I'm kind of reinforced why he stopped using and drinking. It's a perfect example of whatnot, of that kind of stuff. But yeah, no, that's, I'm i'm not surprised there was some excitement say at least.
00:12:31
Speaker
And then just the usual. student like We were watching the the fireworks from like the upper deck at Sugar Barge. And the people behind... So we were there first. We got nice seats. It got dark. And then a bunch of people sit behind us.
00:12:48
Speaker
And what like these fireworks are like three miles away. Like you they're way, way off in the horizon, right? They're not very big. And this lady decides right above our, like but here behind my shoulder, decides that she wants to video the entire thing with her flash on.
00:13:08
Speaker
Oh. Like the flash is going to reach the fireworks three miles away. yeah And it's just annoying the shit out of all of us. Anyway, just stupid.
00:13:21
Speaker
You know, people are stupid. That's fine. we the So we left early from the fireworks, but we still had a good time. Yeah, that's cool. Yeah. But yeah, so July 4th was still fun.
00:13:35
Speaker
had a great time. It was fun taking the jet skis out and jump. I took my grandson jumping waves on the jet ski. He thinks Papa's the greatest thing ever. Love this age.
00:13:46
Speaker
Yeah, that's cool. Yeah, but yeah i was gonna I was entertaining going out that way, but we that unplanned trip the other way.
00:13:58
Speaker
yeah So I quickly ran out of time.
00:14:03
Speaker
The one depressing thing was that Saturday, Canada got spanked by Morocco, so we're out of the World Cup, which was depressing. and Oh, I'm going to give you my World Cup update.
00:14:18
Speaker
And today, just a couple hours ago, USA got spanked. They tied it up for 61 seconds and then shit the bed.
00:14:29
Speaker
So all of the host countries are are now out of the World Cup, Mexico, Canada, and USA, unfortunately.
00:14:40
Speaker
Jared, don't look so excited. This is more interesting than your golf segment. It is 100% not. have the old The only redeeming thing is that England beat my Mexico. So I still have a a team to root for that I like in the World Cup.
00:14:58
Speaker
Okay. Well, good for you, Dennis. I support your... i Look, I'm thrilled that there is a sport that you're following and enjoying. I support this wholeheartedly, even though it's probably the most non-entertaining thing that I can think of. but Oh, next to golf.
00:15:19
Speaker
I love golf. I think i know you love golf. Absolutely thrilling to watch, play, and and do all that stuff. but't yeah To each his own. so I'm trying to be more open-minded and supportive and not be a 1980s teenager and just call everybody a butthead because they don't do what I do.
00:15:37
Speaker
The the you all three of these games are actually a pretty high score. Canada. Well, Canada was three zero, but it was, I think, three to two or three to one. I forget the Mexico England game and then the US game game was well, it was the US game, USA game. I burped in the USA game was four to one. Well, it was three to one until like the last minute of of extra time.
00:16:08
Speaker
I haven't watched a single, as I mean, I have, why i've it's been on here and there, but I'm just like, god no, not for me. I'm like a gay guy in a strip club watching soccer. I just don't give a fuck.
00:16:23
Speaker
It was exciting when Canada tied it up in like the first half and it felt like they had a chance. And then it was like the play turned, Belgium took the ball all the way to the air and it scored.
00:16:37
Speaker
Like, we didn't even barely celebrate. it was terrible. All right. Enough World Cup. well I will continue to give my updates. Okay.
00:16:49
Speaker
um What? Oh, you yeah. Facebook Marketplace. Love it. fake Facebook Marketplace is fucking ridiculous. I'm so excited. I'm so curious what the hell happened. It's nothing like, I'm just annoyed. I put both of that drill press and the WEN filtration unit up there.
00:17:13
Speaker
Sure. And I've had probably fucking 15. Is this available? And I respond almost immediately saying yes. And then fucking crickets. Like, so why did you ask me if it was available?
00:17:25
Speaker
So there is, and so I'm guilty of doing that. And it's, it's unintentional.
Marketplace Frustrations & Family Moments
00:17:32
Speaker
So many times I'll be clicking through the marketplace on my phone.
00:17:37
Speaker
And as I'm just kind of like going through things, checking it out, looking at some stuff, I unintentionally send people messages all the time and I'll get a response back. Yes, it's available.
00:17:49
Speaker
And I'm like, I didn't ask you. Like I didn't, I didn't purposely ask you. So I'm that guy. you're hurt I have no idea. Like I can't, I have no explanation for it because I'm literally just kind of like flipping through and going back and I'll, I'll open the post and kind of look through, see where it's at and what, what the details are and whatnot.
00:18:14
Speaker
I don't know how it happens, but it happens more, more frequently. And, and I'll get some message back and then, I'm like, i hit I'm that guy. i had one guy yesterday, last night, saying, hey, is this available?
00:18:28
Speaker
I said, yes. He's like, oh, look um are you available tonight? It was like 7.30 p.m. I'm like, no, I'm not doing this tonight. And he goes, how about early tomorrow? I'm like, sure, no problem. I'll be up at 7.
00:18:40
Speaker
ah I get a text from, or I mean, a message from right before then, oh, yeah, I can't do this early. Can we do 11? eleven Sure. I get a message from him, oh, I can't do 11. Can we do one?
00:18:55
Speaker
Yes, I'm home all day. And then never hear from him again. That's fine. That, okay. Okay. All right. I can, I can understand how that could be. I don't sell much, if anything, I don't know if I really ever have to be honest with you.
00:19:09
Speaker
Um, but I can see that being irritated. Yes. it's You got to be the guy that puts, will not respond to, is this available?
00:19:22
Speaker
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00:19:34
Speaker
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00:19:49
Speaker
Everything. Everything. Go check them out. they'll get it to you quick. That's right. Especially if you're in Canada. Yeah. Yeah.
00:20:01
Speaker
I just was chatting with him the other day. Hopefully we'll get some updates on on maritime pretty soon. Looking forward to that.
00:20:12
Speaker
Yeah. So what else?
00:20:18
Speaker
Uh, my son had his 18th birthday on Sunday. Wow. All your kids are adults now. How do you feel? They're all adults. I feel old.
00:20:30
Speaker
i kind of I think I was i was talking about a few weeks ago when he graduated. I was kind of going through this weird like finality to the kids being you adults and not having any more in line and all that stuff. But then yeah him turning 18 was something else.
00:20:48
Speaker
ah And you know I think you're you're finally starting to... ah Something happens between like 16 to 18. They change personality. Like they start to become who they are, you know? Like, and you see they their guard comes down and they are they're a little, let they're they're more apt to be who they are with their friends around you. And, you know, so, but I'm, I just, yeah, I'm a big fan of Jared for many reasons, but he's he's ah he's a standup young man.
00:21:23
Speaker
Is he your favorite? Right now, yeah.
00:21:30
Speaker
I always tell the kids, whoever's... but yeah that it's my so my wife,
00:21:37
Speaker
there's no joke. Yeah. It's, it's, it's understood. okay That's, that's her favorite. But for me, it's whoever's in front of me. That's what I was doing. Oh, they can be all right next to me.
00:21:48
Speaker
Both the girls know that Cameron is her favorite. Like she tells everybody it's to the point where it's hilarious now. Yeah. Same for, for them. They don't even, they don't even try.
00:22:00
Speaker
Um, But yeah, we had a nice little, uh, him and I went and golfed on, in the morning. Um, and then, uh, came back home and we did presence and the girls came over. So we had the whole family over here on Sunday, no breakfast cake and hung out. So it was really cool. It was cool to have everybody over and, and hang out and celebrate him. Took him to get lottery tickets. That was, um,
00:22:29
Speaker
It's always something done that with with all the kids. I'll go and I'll give them... Yeah. Oh, because they're peach by large. what you can do when you're 18. Oh. So I'll give them some money and take them and make them, you know, buy and pick them out. Dude, we go to the little... It's called the Tower Mart, liquor store, whatever you want call it.
00:22:52
Speaker
And... um the First time I've ever even seen this machine, but now you just go up to the machine, put 20 bucks in there and start pressing buttons and get lottery tickets to start falling out. I've never seen this before. I've always just been at the counter and be like, huh? Cause I don't play the lottery very often.
00:23:08
Speaker
I don't do the scratchers. I never have in my life. Yeah. So I very rare, but there'll be like, uh, Sometimes it's like a Friday. I'll go and get some monsters or you know something to drink, and then I'll be like, hmm, I always see fuckers talk about winning shit here. I never win anything. So it's not not anything that I do.
00:23:28
Speaker
Just, you know, I'm not a big gambler anyways. But, um yeah, he was pissed. He he won a ticket out of 20. twenty So he picked different values and, you know, scratched them off. That was the most frustrating thing I've ever watched.
00:23:42
Speaker
Yeah, i guess. But it was the most frustrating thing I've ever watched because when I do the scratchers, I read the instructions. So you out your your you'll get the instructions. You'll like scratch off your winning numbers. And then I like meticulously scratch one by one and work it up and like go through this whole rig of morning. You're an anal scratcher?
00:24:02
Speaker
I guess. Oh, that's the episode name right there. Yeah. I've never seen, i've never even seen anybody just like all he, he just grabbed the, the, the little quarter and just scratched the whole thing off. all ah What are you doing, dude? This, what's the fun in this? Now we got to go back and like double check and make, made it freaking difficult for me. Anyways, but I was losing my, my little control freak was going full steam. right I'm like, stop scratching this shit. Yeah.
00:24:37
Speaker
Anal scratcher. Yeah, totally, I guess. Yeah. goes But ah yeah, that was a wasted 20 bucks. He was just like, that's 3.6 gallons of gas in the truck, dad. Hey, at least he's talking like an adult.
00:24:53
Speaker
Yeah, I was like, ah all right, fair enough. But that was my 20 bucks. Whatever. Yeah, Logan had to do his first car repair today.
00:25:04
Speaker
he had the, I don't know, something with the window was jacked up on his car, like the glasses falling down into the door. So he had to go get it fixed and yeah, had to get the estimate. And I'm like, so what are you going to do? You're going to wait? You're going to do it yourself? What are you going to do? He's like, oh man, I,
00:25:27
Speaker
I've worked extra shifts this weekend. I guess it's all going to that. I'm like, yeah, sucks to be an adult. Oh yeah. My stepdad told me a long time ago, you always, you're going to pay for a car for the rest of your life. One way or another, you're either going to buy a beater and spend big chunks repairing shit that breaks, or you're going to get a new car and pay monthly and don't worry about it.
00:25:50
Speaker
So that's, that's what I tell the kids. You you get, you have two choices. Either you buckle down and, Well, there there are times when you get the beater and you get lucky and you don't you don't pay any big chunks for a while. Well, I'm saying, but and eventually it comes.
00:26:05
Speaker
You end up, yeah you know, you're always going to, it's always going to come. So whether you do it monthly and don't worry about shit and just turn the key and go or, and some people like working on cars. That's not me, but yeah, yeah that's funny.
00:26:21
Speaker
Hey, we got a mention on Knife Talk. I listened to Knife Talk today. ah was surprised to hear. Yeah, they, they um Jaden came up.
00:26:34
Speaker
They were talking about Jaden and that he had come to my place for the class. And I, ah Fader said, was it Fader? Who was it? Fader or Marekko? I don't remember who token the phrase.
00:26:47
Speaker
um they They said, oh, he went to see the Big D from Triple T. I'm like, oh I like that.
00:27:00
Speaker
The only time you're referred to as the Big D. Hey, I'll take it. I don't mind. Maraka or Jeff, not that they're listening, thing but whoever said it, I appreciate the call out.
00:27:16
Speaker
Yeah, that's cool. I feel like a ghost through that whole thing. I didn't listen. i haven't listened to the hustle and grind, but like there was, there was a picture of you three there. And I was like, what am I fucking chopped liver here? I was there. like haven't worked on a folder there with you guys.
00:27:33
Speaker
Well, yeah, we took that picture after you left is the problem. Yeah, no, I was just feeling left out. Fucking assholes.
00:27:44
Speaker
Yeah, for me, it's back to work now. i got i got a couple weeks for my next class, so got get some work done now. um Yeah, trying to work on that bowie and that folder at the at the same time.
00:27:58
Speaker
um i did, so yeah when was it? It was Thursday, no, Wednesday or Thursday, whatever it was. Yeah, because we left Thursday. Wednesday, hand-sanded the one whole side of the buoy. I was happy.
00:28:15
Speaker
It was kind of extra work. I didn't think I was going to get done. And I looked at it this morning. i was like, motherfucker. I forgot to grind, I forgot to convex the edge, so I had to like re-sand the whole side.
00:28:31
Speaker
That sucks. Like, why didn't I look at that? So I felt pretty dumb. I had to, at least it wasn't both sides. Oh, you only got through one? Yeah, I only did one side and then realized. it And it wasn't the whole blade anyway, but it was still a pain in the ass. Yeah, it's still more work that you want to do for sure. Yeah, but I convex it with a 220, so I didn't have as much work to do.
00:28:54
Speaker
ah I didn't do anything in the shop this week. And something's died in there again. remember last year I had a freaking... Sammy the squirrel.
00:29:06
Speaker
The squirrel. I had some some we had some, the rats were getting in there, but they they were just, Remy was just hanging out in there. But I had ah a squirrel.
00:29:17
Speaker
somehow get stuck in there and, and died. and And I was just telling the story the other day, that this weekend, I was like, yeah, and something's in there again. Cause something's decomposed. I'm like, God dang it. um And, but I was like, I remember trying to like, it's such a pain in the ass trying to like inspector, you know, go down and try to find whatever it is, where it's at. They could be fucking anywhere. Yeah. You got to fucking get down there. Oh yeah. It's gotta be here. Yeah. And I remember looking and seeing this little squirrel tail and thinking to myself, I've got one of them hats. Like, know I don't own one of them hats. And then I went got got some tongs and I picked it over and there was a dead, dead squirrel maggots all in it. It was disgusting, dude.
00:30:07
Speaker
But ah yeah, so got figure that out. but So yeah, I haven't... i i haven't um I didn't
Sci-fi Knife Challenge Launch
00:30:14
Speaker
do anything. The last thing I did was work on the folder and hand send some stuff at your house, whenever that was.
00:30:20
Speaker
So what do you got left to do in that folder? um Just finish it, right? Yeah, that's that's really it. Like you got to finish the scales and the bolsters? That's it? I got to finish the scales, the bolsters, and then hand sand the blade or do whatever I'm going finish up with that. It's it's almost there.
00:30:39
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All right, come on. what's so So is a million other things. so
00:30:47
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Just the table of unfinished things. Yeah. We, uh, we did launch the, uh, sci-fi challenge on Thursday, which was cool. Yeah.
00:31:01
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So that we got to a listener, uh, reach out and show me their their proposed build and starting to forge. can't The name is escaping me right now. But so, yeah, it's they're getting after it already.
00:31:17
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Yeah. A lot of people were surprised that John Norwood is back. So that's awesome. That's great news. Yeah, that's pretty cool that he's back in it. But nine channel nine channels this time.
00:31:31
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no judging like, well, everyone's a judge. um Yeah. I die ah can't remember how many were. I can't remember how many ch channels were in it last year or previously.
00:31:44
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We had eight and five judges. It's just summertime. I had like, geez, at least six people say, oh, yeah, i got like summer commitments that they couldn't do it this year.
00:31:58
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So we'll see. This is number 10. This is the 10th edition of this. I can't believe that. But yeah. so interesting You that button. you double that button You're doing two or three a year for a while, right? Yeah, we two. We vote we did two two a year for like six years, seven. No, it's not six years. Sorry. Six times. So like three years we did two. Yeah.
00:32:26
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So, while yeah. You owe this wonderful... connection that we have to the to the maker challenge. that's how That's how this all started.
00:32:40
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what If you'd have never done that, I doubt i would have ever met you and you'd have been robbed of all this wonderful entertainment that you've experienced over the last four or five years, whatever we came up with. Wish I was Deadpool. could go back and talk.
00:32:56
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There'd be no double big D for the triple T, bro. Yeah.
00:33:01
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yeah oh But if you guys want to get in as a viewer on the Sci-Fi Challenge, go check out the announce video on my channel. And there's a link in the video description for the viewer entry. And it'll tell you but everything you need to to do. I'm also going to post that in the Facebook group.
00:33:21
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so Which one of our sponsors are participating? We have a bunch of sponsors. Maritime is in there. um Frank from two bastards is giving away two hammers, two peens, two peens.
00:33:39
Speaker
Wow. Yeah. That's going to be, ain't it grand to have a fat peen in both heads. The double dong. You could come out in four different ways. You get two double dingers. Yeah.
00:33:54
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ah Yeah, so if you guys need a hammer and you don't think you're going to win, you should go check out Two Bastards. ah Jared. Check out Two Bastards Texas Smithian Supplies. They got some awesome hammers over there. you know so If you need a peen,
00:34:13
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get Get a peen on the scene. go check them out there. Our friends over at Baker Forge got some awesome gift certificates for anything at Baker Forge, which includes, of course, premium steel.
00:34:31
Speaker
that's right Some of the best steel out there. i Any of the Gator Piss products, still the regular, the heavy, and the Max, Gator Skin, if you want to protect your knives, you can get some Grime Reaper. They got all the stuff over there. so Go check them out again, or you could just win. and Well, you're still going to check them out anyway. but yeah and I think when you use that that gift certificate, you should use the discount code TTT10 and get more value
00:35:04
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100%. Yeah.
00:35:08
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100%. What a great idea there, Dennis. Yeah, and this year we have a new sponsor for the for the Knife Maker Challenge.
00:35:20
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Our friend Matt at Grip Tech Composites has joined the fray. He's got some gift certificates for some Grip Tech goodies. So go get... go go Load up your cart and again use the discount code TTT10 and get some more of that gift certificate value.
00:35:44
Speaker
And this week, what have we got this week? Classic Purple is the flavor of the week over at Grip Tech. So go check them out. um He's got the grepbacks the g GripEx, GripEx 3D in the Limitless color version for those higher finishes. So go check them out.
00:36:04
Speaker
Who else do we have? We've got Mosa. So for the Knife Maker Challenge, two three Mosa is giving away mosaic pins, and we've got Knife Print, who's also giving away. Actually, theirs is, they're giving away cash.
00:36:24
Speaker
Cash. Cha-ching. i I'm pretty sure it's $500 cash to the first place. Wow. Yeah. And then second and third place also get water jet services and knife print like editor usage for a year.
00:36:44
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So major prizes from our friends over at Knife Print. Wow. That's really good. Yeah. Yeah. See, it pays to play, guys. Go get busy. That's right.
00:36:56
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You just got to win. But hey, great prizes all around, and it's just a fun thing. So yeah, go get your build on. Let's see your your sci-fi entries.
00:37:10
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but You haven't let the cat out of the bag? Of what I'm doing? Yeah. No. Not publicly? No. I don't think I'm going to preview mine.
00:37:22
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Maybe, we'll see. You can't hold to it. You can't hold on it. Oh, yes, I can. Yeah. As soon as that thing gets all special, you're going be like, ooh, look at this.
00:37:34
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You know, the the the thing I'm most concerned with on my build is the handle. the then Yeah. It's a sword. the The sword itself is like, yeah, it's cool. I mean, it's it's not it's not what scares me. The handle is what scares me.
00:37:52
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So I got a couple options to to do that one.
00:37:58
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I'm not going to spill the beans. Yeah. But before that, I'd like to get this buoy these folders out of the way. um This week on my Triple T, assuming the parts come in time, I am rebuilding a twisting machine.
00:38:15
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The one going off the side of oh that's right yeah the rolling mill. So I did the collets, the actual bar mechanism. I'm just waiting for a collar to go around the that Yeah, you're going to be like, whoa, the collar that goes around the shaft. the big g shaft um i know you have a mind like an eight-year-old so um the uh so if if that comes in time it should be an easy one i'm still not sure that it's a one horse motor i'm still not sure if it has enough torque with the gear reducer i think it should but it's not like there's a rating on the side of it that i can read that says
00:39:03
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you know, foot pounds, well, maybe the wrist, actually, I don't know, like foot pounds of torque. And I have no idea how many foot pounds of torque you would need to twist hot steel. um So this is going to be like, I'll try it. It works. Or I'll try it. It'll be another failure.
00:39:20
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Didn't you have some other little attachment thing that like enhanced that? No, but that was for the, like the the gear reducer is essentially that. Oh, okay. Okay.
00:39:32
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So yeah, I wouldn't use that. That's like a a super small version. Plus the one I had is broken. Gotcha.
Crafting Innovations & Maker Spotlights
00:39:41
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But excited for that because the reason I want to do that is because the handle for the buoy is ah it's a frame handle and the frame is going to be some twist Damascus. So I need to twist some Damascus to make the frame for that knife, which is why I'm doing this build.
00:39:57
Speaker
Nobody wants to do that shit by hand, that's for sure. Well, this one wouldn't actually be that bad to twist because it's only like five eighths because it's just but the frame for a knife, right? But then it's going to be like, I don't know, 16 inches long that I'm going to have to twist like a million times to get it really tight.
00:40:21
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And I want it to look, you know, the same all the way around. anyway i don't want to have to do by hand. Yeah. So my statement rings true. Yes, it does. I do know. No one wants to do that by hand to try to get it even. But I'm going to try Hopefully in the video I can get some. I want to try if the five eights is a breeze.
00:40:44
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I'd like to go up to like three quarter and then be able to twist one inch. If I can twist one inch. then life is good. There you go Yeah.
00:40:55
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But so that's, what's going to be the rest of my week. um Yeah. i be do.
00:41:07
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um What were you going say? I was going to transition to something. Go ahead. Oh, go ahead.
00:41:15
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No. No. What do you mean no? Don't tell me no. You were saying something. You were in the middle saying something. I wasn't saying anything. I was going to transition something else anyway.
00:41:27
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Oh. Well, go ahead. Because mine's more towards the end. Oh. I was going to say, I was working on... no i was I was warning the guys, Noah and Jayden when they were here, like don't mess up your bolsters for the like on what side they are, because there's one bolster that you drill right through, and there's one that has a recess for the the hidden pivot head.
00:41:58
Speaker
And I had exactly enough 416 left over to do my knife. like Like exactly enough. And I did the other day, did exactly what I told them not to do.
00:42:12
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and put the wrong bolster on, drilled the hole, and did the motherfucking... threw the piece across the room. And now I've got to wait, whatever, two weeks to get more of 416 in order to fix my fucking problem. I was so pissed.
00:42:32
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For fuck's sake. Yeah, for fuck's sake. For the sake of that. But that kind of ties into who I have for Maker Spotlight. So maybe we're going to do those early.
00:42:46
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My maker spotlight this week is Jim Clow. C-L-O-W. Jim.clow. c l o w jim dot c l o w um he's He's got a lot of um his post. I don't know if this is just his personal one, but he's got a couple of knives on it.
00:43:07
Speaker
But a lot of it is like family and stuff. But um the one knife, to it's like five rows down. And it's got um stainless steel bolsters that he's laser etched like a a fancy pattern, like acanthus leaves and flowers and stuff like that. But he did it with a laser.
00:43:34
Speaker
And then actually, we we've been messaging back and forth for a long time. I would file you on that one. Yeah. oh Oh, the file work? Yeah, the file work looks good too.
00:43:46
Speaker
Oh, yeah, he's a great maker. Like, really, really high quality stuff. But when I saw that laser um of those, and he sent me the website to generate the, like, the acanthus leaf patterns.
00:44:00
Speaker
So I was like, oh, man, I got try. Like, it came out way nicer than I thought it would. So, yeah, I think I'm going to try that on this folder and see. You looking at it? you Yeah, you saw it. I think the bolster looks awesome.
00:44:16
Speaker
I do, too. Yeah. Where's he out of? What's that? Where's he out of? He's in Canada. Oh, Canada. All right. Yeah, so anyway, um Jim does amazing work, not just folders, but um but other works as well.
00:44:34
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Just really, really nice stuff, so go check him out. Jim.clow. clo i don't know how you sell his last name. I'm going to say Clow, but um yeah, go check him out.
00:44:47
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Yeah, I actually owed him a follow back because I'm a douche sometimes. So, yeah, ah really really good stuff.
00:45:05
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I want to try that technique is what I was saying. Yeah. Yeah, um I'm interested to see that.
00:45:14
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um I have ah
00:45:18
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one that is a pretty big. Big account. um But I was not following him and it just popped up in my feed. Lou Griffin Knives.
00:45:29
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hey He's got 58.3 thousand. That's all one word. l E W Griffin Knives on IG. um And apparently does YouTube too.
00:45:45
Speaker
He does actually. We tried to get him in one of the YouTube challenges. I just don't think he he could do it or he might not have responded. I don't remember. Yeah. But yeah, I've been sleeping on this this guy's stuff.
00:46:00
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um Beautiful culinary stuff. Damascus.
00:46:07
Speaker
yeah i just guess i'm i'm when i always like when i you know you stumble across an account that's you know where 140 of your buddies follow them and you're the lone dumbass so we all have those once in a while yeah but uh yeah i was really digging all the stuff i uh i was seeing here so um just give them a shout out and if you're like me and sleeping under a rock, who give Lou a follow.
00:46:36
Speaker
them the boys at Trippity say what's up. Yeah, he must be doing a lot on um on YouTube because I don't think his channel was that big that long ago, but he's already got the 100K plaque, so good for him.
00:46:49
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Yeah, he's done a bunch of, I'm seeing a bunch in his thing with the 3D printed Damascus, which I haven't played with that much since the first time I did it.
00:47:00
Speaker
Even though I have one on my desk here that I want to do at some point, but... I like that little star explosion kind of that one he did. Yeah, yeah yeah that looks pretty cool. There's some really cool stuff here.
00:47:13
Speaker
Yeah. For sure. Cool. that's that Yeah, good one. Good one. He's got some good stuff. Cool, cool.
00:47:25
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but I'm going back to you. What the hell else?
00:47:34
Speaker
I'm getting ready to, you're going to need to fill these unfillable shoes next week. Oh, next week.
00:47:45
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Yeah.
Golfing Plans & Personal Choices
00:47:46
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So Jared and I leave Friday afternoon down South um to Carlsbad. to go stay at a resort and, uh, we're, I'm taking them on a, on a golfing trip. So we're going to down, uh, leave Friday, probably golf on my way there, stay at my cousin's house, drive to the central coast, uh, to a course out there, ah play in the morning and then make the trip down to Carlsbad.
00:48:16
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Um, to a resort, I think it's called Omni La Costa, something like that. But ah a nice resort with ah two courses on there, so we're and stay there for three days, golf, and then make our way back.
00:48:30
Speaker
and On Wednesday, I'll probably stop and find somewhere to get something in on the way back there. But I am also going to do my dangdest to stop by and see the makers of the best grinder in the world, Maribraid.
00:48:48
Speaker
um If you don't have Fastback, make sure you remedy that immediately. And you can use the discount code TTT10 for 10% off accessories and the TTT will get you a discount on machines as well. They also the Hyperdisk and a slew of other awesome stuff to do. So I'm going to go try to um go see the place and and go check that out i've been threatening to to do that because that they're for us they are they might as well be on the other side of the world um and it's in the and it's not that far in reality but it's like you know four four hours or maybe four or five hours from us but um wait they're in san diego aren't they uh-uh they're up in um
00:49:44
Speaker
Like Hesperia, Victorville. i think it's... Oh, I thought they were close to San Diego. It's on the other side of the mountain, north of L.A. So you'd have to come through, like, Bakersfield.
00:49:57
Speaker
Oh, okay. Because I was thinking, when you said four or five hours, I'm like, you're full of shit. I thought it was more like seven. No, yeah. It's actually like... Well, I'm going to be up by... a Oh, man.
00:50:13
Speaker
Cross-peen forge and where he's at. That's going to be like four and a half hours to Carlsbad from there. So, um but I'm going to make my way back there and go do that. So, but yeah. um If you don't have ah an Ameribray 2x72 fastback, go take care of that right away because it is an awesome machine.
00:50:34
Speaker
Remember, if he's got one of those scratching dead three horses... I what you're saying. You're going to throw that in the car. Yeah, I don't know what you're saying. Maybe. I'm going to take it... Yeah, hopefully the... Their Marybraid yard sale is not scavenged through by the time I get there.
00:50:54
Speaker
Yeah. But yeah, look really looking forward to that trip. um Nice. That'd be good. And you're going for how? Like, you're back here... Oh, that was loud. Whatever you just did.
00:51:06
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um Yeah, we leave Friday and we'll be back home Wednesday. Wednesday. Okay. That's not bad. Yeah. It's five days, something like that.
00:51:18
Speaker
lot of driving for that. You know who wish was closer? I wish the boys at even heat were drivable distance. Same. But they're they're definitely on the other side of the country.
00:51:30
Speaker
they They are, yeah. there's no We have a legitimate excuse to not go visit them on our on a weekend trip. But if you guys need a kiln, they do ship, so you don't have to drive to them. um But go get yourself an even heat kiln.
00:51:47
Speaker
family owned and operated since 1948 they do make the best knife heat treating kilns available i have two jared has two you don't necessarily need two but why not two is better than one so uh go talk to them in even heat and they will set you up that's right if you're in canada you go talk to lawrence he'll hook you up with them too that's right good we got it all covered here and uh i can officially say now that I sold a knife because used the drop point.
00:52:20
Speaker
Awesome, congrats. Yeah. i had um I had put a but a couple of knives up on the drop point on Thursday. and was it Thursday night or Friday night?
00:52:34
Speaker
No, it was Friday night. Friday night sold two knives, one of which was one of the ones I had posted up on the drop point. I did nothing. i sent I went to the website and filled out one little document of like five fields and got a bunch of eyes on my knives.
00:52:53
Speaker
So if you guys want to sell knives and not just make them, ah go check out the job point, skip all the social media,
00:53:04
Speaker
you know, humdrum, rigmarole, and go get them up on the drop point. They're the makers, from the makers of the SCIF workshop, which I just got my order of new bearings, which I was waiting for today. But go get your stuff up on the drop point so you can make money and spend it on other knife parts like I do.
00:53:27
Speaker
That's right. there's There's definitely an upside to finishing knives, guys. Yeah. Yeah, I was quite happy that those sold.
00:53:38
Speaker
um Yeah. Wait, what else did I have to talk about? Two weeks, uh... Yeah, no, that's all my notes. um You're begging for for questions, beefs, suggestions, and complaints.
00:53:54
Speaker
um We don't have enough. I'm going to needle all of our audience. We don't have enough audience participation. So I want you guys to send in send us some questions, beefs, suggestions, complaints, anything. I want to hear from you guys. um Or send it to Jared. Maybe you're sending it to Jared and he's just sitting on them. I don't know.
00:54:17
Speaker
There is a very large chance that could be the case. Doubtful, but just for Dennis's... enjoyment i think that is the case and i think you guys should all reach out directly to mr uh tyrell himself uh and uh yeah do that you don't have any messages on the account i do i always do but oh so it's jared's fault
00:54:52
Speaker
our All seven listeners have sent some kind of feedback to the Instagram and Jared is ignoring you all. Jared, you're going bump us down to five listeners. Well, that's the goal.
00:55:04
Speaker
And then we'll ramp it back up. No, I don't actually haven't gotten anything from anybody in a while. All right. Well, come on, guys. I want to hear some questions, beefs, suggestions, complaints, anything. Let's go.
00:55:17
Speaker
Talk some shit. Let's go.
00:55:20
Speaker
That's what Dennis likes. He thrives on drama. Let's go. Let's hear it. no Now I'm ready to get back to work. I'm excited to be in the shop this week and get some stuff done.
00:55:36
Speaker
Yeah. And so for the for the love of God, if you don't want to hear a solo Dennis show, yeah reach out to him. And let him turn you down.
00:55:49
Speaker
It will not be a solo show, I guarantee you. Good. right. Have fun, someone. There you go. Yeah, we'll need that. What was I going to say? I am 13 handicap
00:56:07
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this is This is fantastic news. It just keeps going down and down and down. You're just handicapped. You play golf enough. Yeah, you can be handicapped. but I had a bunch, I had a bunch of, i actually had some comments about us
00:56:24
Speaker
unknowingly making some, uh, some comments, uh, with Jaden in the shop that were kind of related to the situation that ah totally unintentional, but they were pretty damn funny.
00:56:36
Speaker
So what and being, it was just, we were talking about, um, Just talking about jaden what a cool dude he was and you know things, but the you could very easily associate some of the descriptions that we were using with with him you know in the wheelchair and whatnot. And I only bring that up because how awesome of of a dude was. and ah when he you know He joined a new club in my mind when he when he called the Noah a cripple. Yeah.
00:57:05
Speaker
I feel totally comfortable with with where that was going. So I can't think of the exact one, but when I do, I'll i'll try to remember it. But yeah, it was it was pretty funny. Unknowingly poking a little fun at him. But I have the most major announcement ever as before we get out of here. The beard is finally going away Wednesday.
00:57:32
Speaker
Yeah. Done. Done. I can hear the cheering in the background. End of an era. It is, yeah This thing is fucking out of control now.
00:57:43
Speaker
And so I'll definitely do a before and after. You're going to look so young. i hope so. i've I've had a lot of comments about like, you got to trim that thing. And no other thing's getting me and then that guy every now and then I'll look i'll look at my in the mirror as I'm walking by. like, who the fuck? Oh, yeah, that's me.
00:58:02
Speaker
I'm starting to look like I'm ready to go pan for gold. and Like that old whiskery freaking gold panner, dude. Yeah, I know. yeah I've made the comment before.
00:58:15
Speaker
but but yeah that's and your hair is probably the longest i've ever seen it yeah it's yeah we're gonna get all cleaned up here back to greg back to two weeks
00:58:30
Speaker
it's been great it was a great experiment and you for not having uh for feeling like i didn't have the ability to have a beard for my whole life uh it's been a great year so but it's time to go so That's it.
00:58:43
Speaker
All right. That'll be the picture. Oh, so you're, you're doing it for the big trip with Jared. Is that why? No, I've just been putting off the the haircut. I, I made the decision before I even went to, to to blade, but I just haven't got my ass in there. I'm a, I'm officially part of team animal right now.
00:59:05
Speaker
It started off at the beginning of when we started this thing, I was clean cut every two weeks in the, getting my haircut and now it's gone to once every six weeks or so if I'm lucky so but yep that's it filthy animal you filthy animal I wish I had that sound bite that'd be a good one alright that think is the show anything else you wanted to mention no I'm good alright soccer's lame no
00:59:41
Speaker
No, it's not. It's a very fun sport and you should get into it. You might like it as much as golf. You don't know.
00:59:50
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No.
00:59:52
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Six something miles those guys have run. I love to run, but yeah, no, it's ridiculous. They're probably some of the most in shape people in the world, though.
01:00:03
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I will give them that. yeah that's definitely a, definitely an athletic, uh, feat to be able to tell you what, there you go. I'm a horrible Mexican, so I don't like soccer. Let's go.
01:00:19
Speaker
Well, Mexico's out anyway. So you're fine. Yeah. All right. We're gone.
01:00:40
Speaker
I need you guys to tell me if that was the loudest intro and outro you've ever heard on this show. That just blew my eardrums out. But that's a wrap. Hey, thanks for listening.
01:00:52
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Hey.