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Taco Bell and Covid!
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Nick returns to talk about our favorite topic, Taco Bell! Also, we discuss our frustrations with people and Covid. The new Xbox and Playstation may come up, as well...
Let us know what you think by emailing mildlyfrustrating@gmail.com
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Mild Frustrations & Podcast Purpose
00:00:11
Speaker
Welcome to the mildly frustrating podcast, the podcast where we talk about all things, you guessed it, mildly frustrating. So I'm here with my boy Nick and he's been here before, but how you doing buddy? Oh yeah, doing pretty good. You know, ready to be mildly frustrated at some of these topics we got here.
00:00:27
Speaker
Well, I'm like the Hulk. My secret is staying mildly frustrated. Oh. Oh. That would explain a lot, you know. Yeah. Knowing you for as long as... Yeah. For those who don't know, I'm always frustrated. Hence why this podcast was created for an outlet for these frustrations. Oh, that's a good outlet for you. Yeah. Not really. He's still mildly frustrated.
Taco Bell Menu Woes
00:00:57
Speaker
The first thing that I figured we could talk about since it's a issue that's near and dear to my heart. And I'm quite sure is near to your heart and stomach is Taco Bell. Oh, yes. The drunken me is very more than mildly frustrated. But for your sake, I'll stay mildly frustrated. Appreciate that. Let's keep it to do a mild frustration. That's that's got me hyped up in all the wrong ways.
00:01:23
Speaker
So as I'm sure many people know they got rid of or maybe they don't because they don't pay attention as much as we might because it hurts I got rid of like was there beefy mini beefy mini quesadilla chips and salsa which was I guess I don't know Maybe so they want to make them it takes too long to make I have those Fritos in it for me that was so is it and they grow loaded grillers man those Those came what is a loaded griller? It's just like one of those
00:01:51
Speaker
You know, it's like one of their burritos, but they actually take the time to make kind of like half crunchy, half not.
00:01:59
Speaker
You know, I don't know. They got the good feelings. You got the spicy Frito in there. You got ones with the potato. Also, it was a dollar, you know, for a while, at least. Oh, gotcha. And you can get three or four of those, you know, having a nice night and just load off with that and fall asleep. I hear you. The double decker taco, they got rid of the double tostada.
00:02:27
Speaker
Uh, the power menu burrito, which I didn't even know was a thing. I don't know. Like if it had like protein in it, I don't know what the heck that's about. I'm not familiar with the entire menu to be honest, but, uh, the double XL grilled stuffed burrito. That one sounds pretty, pretty good for the stomach. I never had it. And if you put the word stuffed in and I'm down, let's do this. That just means that there's a lot of good stuff in there.
00:02:52
Speaker
Yeah, that's what the stuff is. That's what the stuff is. Yeah, burritos are already stuffed, so if you have to put stuffed in the title, then I'm down. Yeah, that means it's more burrito than other burritos. Well, I guess that's why they call it the XXL burrito. Oh. That would make sense. I will give it to them. It's just a burrito in a burrito. All of the chaos that is fast food, they've never really lied.
00:03:19
Speaker
told it to you how it is isn't just a burrito this is a double stuffed XL all right this is this is what you need it's called third meal for legal reasons at two o'clock and one over they're open to one so you know
00:03:34
Speaker
Gotta get there at 1230. Yeah. And to me, the worst issue of all is they removed the Cool Ranch and Fiery Doritos Locos Tacos, which were the best things on the menu, in my opinion. So when they introduced these things, I went crazy. You know, I've had the Locos pretty good. I've just never really eaten a lot of those, but they are pretty good. Are you a Dorito fan?
00:04:03
Speaker
the the
00:04:24
Speaker
That's what they should do. That's the game changer. Yeah, I can see that the cool ranch I couldn't give her you know, I could leave or take it but the the regular Doritos tacos were good and then the fiery Doritos logos were my favorite because it just adds a little bit extra spice to it a little pepper on it now I'm gonna say this cuz I know we're all thinking and we're all you know, whatever I'm sure whatever they've made changes I
00:04:51
Speaker
I'm disappointed in Taco Bell alright but I feel like eventually I can go over it but if they get rid of that Baja Blast I'm out.
Baja Blast & Taco Bell Devotion
00:05:01
Speaker
No more Taco Bell for me. Oh they'll never get rid of Baja Blast. No Taco Bell if they get rid of that. If they touch the Baja Blast I'm done. They've lost all my support. I mean nobody's going to Taco Bell and getting like an iced tea they need the Baja Blast. You know they even have some Taco Bells
00:05:18
Speaker
or they're serving that as like a mixed drink cocktail, like, they have a little bit of drink, yeah. I don't got that right. That'd be dope. That's because we're in North Carolina, we're not allowed to have that kind of thing. Oh, yeah, you're not allowed to do that. But, you know, but I mean, like, it's, I don't know. It makes a good mixed drink. I've taken it home and used it. It's just, they know the deal on that, but they should never get rid of it.
00:05:43
Speaker
don't touch it. Please don't touch my baby. So they still have the regular Doritos Locos, which is fine. Like it's not bad. It's just the fire was the best one. I don't know. We're spending too much time on this, but it really hurts my heart. It does. You know, well, I mean, is it really spending too much time to, you know, talk about something so passionate? This, this isn't just hurt the heart. This hurts the tummy. This hurts the soul, you know,
00:06:10
Speaker
Well, you can listen to our other podcast, Taco Smell, where it's where we get Taco Bell and then we just smell it and describe what we think. Oh, this is the first time I've heard of it and I'm already interested. Oh, it's pretty good. It's in the top 10 of the smelling category and podcast. Yeah, somehow it's not number one.
00:06:31
Speaker
You'll be surprised how many there are. Interesting. Very interesting. I don't even know if you're serious, but if you are, you know, I could see a world where this could be a thing. I wouldn't be surprised. I mean, it sounds more like a YouTube thing, but we can make the podcast one happen. It's like an ASMR thing.
00:06:54
Speaker
It's like hot water for the nose. You should have something like that, like where you got to smell something crazy. Yeah, it would just be smelling salts every week. Or a dirty diaper. All right, we're done. Moving on. But yeah, so they're streamlining their menu. Pretty sad. I mean, I get it, especially in these times where they're trying to save money and blah, blah, blah, keep everything clean.
00:07:20
Speaker
Yeah, I guess, but at the same time, like, I mean, give me my Doritos. Cause like the upsets, I don't think that those are like the least selling thing. I feel like people buy less regular tacos than any of these. I think they're the more complicated things to make. I guess.
00:07:42
Speaker
uh... should i guess so i guess they don't want to take up any lines to make that the local theater streamlining other ingredients in there uh... assembly line uh... you know business moves as opposed to it very sad very sad for the for the community now for a body that is loyal fans everybody this you know gone to them and trucking time so i think
00:08:12
Speaker
Dude, it's healed my soul countless times. Oh, healed is a strong word. I wouldn't be as out of shape as I am today if it weren't for Taco Bell, and I thank them.
00:08:24
Speaker
Thank you so much for allowing me to buy more talks about. Yeah, thank you for stuffing me full of meal. One meal? Yeah. I've only ever gotten one. They used to call me fourth meal back in the day.
00:08:45
Speaker
that was another thing i had a gripe with the one thing i had a gripe with for the locos tacos was they're so tiny like i could so they had the meal where you can get uh the locos tacos it came with three of them and i could probably eat
00:09:02
Speaker
Nine or ten tacos granted. I like I can't eat that many like regular tacos. It was just they're just like so Barely stuffed with meat and cheese like there's nothing in it. Basically. It's 85% taco like just the shell a Little goes a long way and just that taste and with that you could just eat ten of them And just like but it's so good. You don't want to stop it's like chicken nuggets, but
00:09:37
Speaker
But yes, legitimately, I could eat nine, 10, 11, 12 of those tacos. I mean, they're really good, but also they're just not very. They even they even get to say, you know, like it's dollar each and you're like, oh, just a dollar. I'll get 10.
00:09:52
Speaker
The Doritos Locos Tacos meal was like $5, especially if you wanted Supreme, it was like $5.50. You end up spending like $30 on dinner for yourself just to be full. So what I'd have to do is get the meal and then also get like a burrito so I can actually, so I'd have to balance it tasting really good and then trying to fill up on dinner. So I'd have to get something to fill me after I had the tacos. They're so good.
00:10:22
Speaker
You know what's good if it doesn't fill you, but you still get them every single time. You're like, I'm not gonna, this isn't gonna make me not hungry, but I still have to get it, and I'll get an actual dinner. I still want some of that though. I'll get a secondary actual dinner with this. Well, it's crazy, because ever since COVID and everything, and everybody does the Uber Eats, and I guess things sit through their door.
Xbox Promotions & Menu Frustrations
00:10:47
Speaker
non-contact delivery. I've been getting Taco Bell like a chunk of it so I could eat it for lunch and dinner. So I wouldn't have to go out. I wouldn't have to do any of that. It's kind of crazy. They're going to be giving away, like I mentioned earlier, they're going to be giving away Xboxes. So everybody's got to go back to Taco Bell. Oh, yeah.
00:11:09
Speaker
I guess I'll mention it if people haven't heard. Starting September 24th, they'll be giving away some Xboxes. So it's like a, I think it's like the monopoly thing, but they've been doing that forever at giving away Xboxes and PlayStations. So you buy a medium or large drink and you have a chance to win. This is not an ad. I wish it was because I would take every single dime. They would just pay me into Locos Tacos. They'd have to send me 200 to have for dinner.
00:11:38
Speaker
Give it to Dylan, because he's willing to just tell everybody about this deal so that when I go to frickin Taco Bell and I try to get enter into the Xbox, I now have to go through everybody that's listening to this. And maybe I should. I decided, yeah, well, you know. Yeah, that's fair. I didn't think about that. You are very kind and generous. No, I'm going to cut it. It's fine. I don't want to. I can't have more people entering this contest, this Xbox. Even if I win two, I don't care. I'm going to sell it. I don't want anybody else winning.
00:12:09
Speaker
I mean, you made me realize I hadn't fully thought about the implications of what I was saying, as I tend to not do. Oops.
00:12:18
Speaker
So moving on from Taco Bell, which was obviously the most important topic, moving on to the topic that's pretty much every day in the news and that we have to deal with for the rest of our lives in the new normal is COVID.
COVID-19 Cautiousness & Vaccines
00:12:36
Speaker
So COVID's still around. I don't know. Have you, like, do you have any friends or family? Do you know anybody who's had, who's tested positive for it, Nick?
00:12:48
Speaker
You know, for a while, no. I didn't know anybody that had for, I think, up until maybe June, or no.
00:12:57
Speaker
not even June, July, August, whenever Jimmy, Jimmy was the first one to have it that I knew Jimmy, if you're listening to this, how are you? Jimmy doesn't count first of all he's Jimmy second of all he's in Florida so I almost counted him as having it in like January well you know you could place the bets on it and you wouldn't really
00:13:25
Speaker
feel like you, you'd feel like you were going to be lucky, but I mean, you know, you want one. But nonetheless, not hating on Jimmy. I mean, it can happen. It can happen. I'm pretty much anybody. It was a big thing for a while. A lot of people were getting it, you know? Yeah. I would say. But he's the only person you've known? He was the first person I knew.
00:13:49
Speaker
After that, I mean, I didn't really know anybody for a while. Um, but when I moved to my new place here, um, not my roommates. Well, they, they said that they were getting tested for them, but they never tested positive. But the friends that they hung out with, they tested positive. I later, I later met them. So I mean, technically somebody that I know now sorta had it like, oh, a couple of weeks ago.
00:14:19
Speaker
like even and i was like oh and i uh... quickly skedaddled out of that situation but i mean that they were already over anyway but i i was still uh... i'm not taking chances no i got you but that that uh... that kind of my leave frustrates me that you know you had a couple weeks ago you don't really know exactly what's happening and i know
00:14:47
Speaker
he probably didn't do any research. I haven't done as much research and I still know just not to go out and like commingle all the time and you know just kind of do all that because I mean it's just it creates more like situations where accidents can happen than it has to. Are you, where are you at like so say I invite you to like
00:15:13
Speaker
go to the bar next to your house tomorrow. Like, are you down for that? No, not going to a bar. No. What are like, I mean, there's no social distancing a bar. The bartenders coming in contact with every single person at the bar. Well, I mean, you can say that about like Taco Bell. Like, well, yeah, but I haven't been in Taco Bell and either. I mean, I've been, I've been out and stuff and yeah, I guess I've been going,
00:15:42
Speaker
than that, but the thing about that is with Taco Bell, they're not really the cooks and the people handling the food, not really. Maybe the dry end with the contactless delivery, then I'm not, you know, they're not really coming into contact with every single person, but people going into a bar, you know, everybody touching the counters, everybody touching the tables, even though that they do clean them. But I mean, the bartender, he's still handing out the drinks to people.
00:16:12
Speaker
Yeah. I mean, I don't know. It's a hard spot. I mean, now, when it's becoming less of a threat, yeah, I don't care as much. And of course, before when it hadn't really reached America too much, I wasn't really too worried about it. But once it's just there and everything, I just felt like taking more care. It's just courtesy.
00:16:42
Speaker
I know that I'm not really, I don't care about me so much because I know that I'll be okay. I mean, I don't have any underlying conditions. I'm young. I'm healthy. I'm, you know, I'm good to go. But for somebody else, I just don't want to do like me come into contact and get like my girlfriend say, you know, I know she can handle it too. I don't want to get her sick, you know, and like my friends or like, you know, say I hang out with you and
00:17:11
Speaker
you know, you go to your sister's house and they have babies, you know, they just, you know, I just don't, me going to a bar isn't that important. I mean, I, I can get a lot more alcohol for a lot less cheap or for a lot less expensive. So it's like, you know, I don't, I don't need to go to the bar, you know, and even then like, I don't, I don't go out and sit at a restaurant, you know, I'll get restaurant to go.
00:17:37
Speaker
You know, I'll have it and I'll have contactless delivery. And I know that not everybody does it, but everybody should just cause. I mean, if, if not one single person was able to do that, then we would have a perfect world and no one would be in the situation. So just trying to gauge where you're at. So say you go to a bar that's completely empty. Would you be okay with the bartender making your drink?
00:18:04
Speaker
in the
00:18:19
Speaker
Well, the problem is it's the same issue with restaurants. It's like if you order anything, it's the same thing with grocery stores. There's a line that I guess you have to find of where you're taking an acceptable risk and a lot of things fall under that line. There's a difference between going and sitting at a bar, for your leisure time, and getting food delivered to you.
00:18:47
Speaker
You know, I'm not going out and spreading and touching everything. And, you know, I'm having something sent to me where I'm excluded from everybody else in general, and I'm eating something that I need something to eat. I can go to a grocery store, but that's me going somewhere, touching everything and spreading it around. Having people come to me, that's me staying in my spot. They're not touching me.
00:19:11
Speaker
You know, so I can at least control what I'm doing more where everybody controlled what they were able to control what they were doing more, you know, having, I mean, Walmart has a delivery system where they deliver your groceries here. If everybody was doing that instead of going out and getting their groceries, it was like, it was, it's just, you know, it's, I'm doing what I can to do
00:19:39
Speaker
Like what I feel is the more right thing to do, where I'm getting stuff. Yeah. I'm doing stuff, but I'm not going out and contacting people. I'm not trying to do it. I'm trying to stay in my spot and like, you know, be responsible as much as I can. I can't be completely, but I mean, I can't, I mean, going to the grocery store, getting stuff sent me, I'm going to be going and doing something, but at least I'm not out there.
00:20:04
Speaker
catching it and then also possibly touching stuff and spreading it myself. I'm saying inside I'm doing my stuff. I just find it interesting to ask because there's always a weird fine line of like you're comfortable like I'm not talking about you specifically you're comfortable like somebody handing you your grocery bag but not handing you a drink how is that different. So I'm always curious like where people find that line. See that's that's where the line is for me is
00:20:33
Speaker
the line is where you're going out to do something that's not necessary and you yourself is going out to do it where I'm having somebody come to me where I'm staying in my spot being secluded in my area and where if I do catch something I'm not out there touching other stuff you know walking other places you know using other bathrooms and just kind of like
00:20:59
Speaker
That's mean like that. That's where the line is. I'm not going out there and doing stuff. I'm having things brought to me and I'm taking care of it myself. Yeah. I see what you mean. You can't avoid it. I mean, eventually you're going to have to go out and get groceries because you can't afford to, you know, get Uber Eats all the time. That's like three or 30 bucks a trip, you know, and some people, they can.
00:21:24
Speaker
Even though Walmart does have a very affordable, you know, plan, maybe some people can't get their delivery or they just don't feel safe. Some people aren't, you know, comfortable giving out their information online and having people come to there. So I mean, there's other preferences. And of course that's what we got to account for, which I understand all those, but that for me, my personal preference is to try and
00:21:48
Speaker
just to make sure that I cause the least amount of damage and probably and try to be the most proactive for me. And like, yeah, you know, I believe, like, call it crazy, but I just want to, you know, even people I don't know, I kind of want to take care of them, make sure everybody's cool. And, you know, it's just a courtesy thing for me, you know, just don't go out needlessly. For I mean, yeah, you might not get sick, but there's other people that might.
00:22:16
Speaker
And you, it's just, you gotta think about those people and it's just where we're getting more vaccines now. And like people, it's becoming less of a threat, you know, more vaccines. Yeah. They have like, they've came out with one and then like another country came out with another quote unquote vaccine. They're like doing vaccine. That isn't like a public release yet. Yeah, I know.
00:22:43
Speaker
But that's what I'm saying. I'm not saying it's outer. I'm saying the more that they're coming up with, the less of a threat it is, the more comfortable I would be going out and doing stuff. Yeah. You know, but for now, we don't have, you know, that's why right now I'm trying to be inside and just, you know, hanging around people that I know have like minded and just try to be
00:23:08
Speaker
It's not about being perfect. It's just about doing what you can. You know, just don't be. Yeah, so that's where it kind of it kind of gets into a problem for me is, you know, there's, you know, I'm fine with everybody having their own idea of what their risk is like, you know, I'm fine going into the grocery store and getting my stuff because, you know, I come home and I wash my hands and I sanitize stuff, you know, where some people are like, No, I won't do that. I'll only get
00:23:35
Speaker
the curbside delivery and then people are like, I'm not gonna get like, you know, Chipotle delivered to my house because somebody made that for me. So there's different levels of that, which I get, which is, you know, fine, everybody has their own preferences, but then you get into the kind of the negligent part where it's like, yeah, you know, I go into grocery stores and I sanitize stuff, but then, you know, I come home, unpack it and then I head out to the bar and I'm very careful. Well, you know, I,
00:24:04
Speaker
get the idea of that but also you didn't need to do that is like you said it gets into the area of necessity where you didn't have it's just needless needless trips and needless exposure where especially if you're somebody who is saying you know I accept the risk I go out and I accept the risk if you you know if you're too scared of it then just stay home unfortunately that's not really how it works because
00:24:33
Speaker
Jane Doe goes to the bar and gets a grasshopper and then goes home and hangs out with her husband and then her husband goes to work and then he infects people at work and then those people at work go home and affect their wives and then their kids. It's just it doesn't work like that.
00:24:52
Speaker
If it was guaranteed to only affect those people who were stupid enough to go out to a bar and be like, yeah, I don't care. I'll probably be fine. I don't have any underlying conditions. I'm good. It's not that bad. And that's one thing, but it inevitably affects people. And I told the story the other day, but it was in the news that there was a wedding. I forget where it was, but there was
00:25:14
Speaker
Over a thousand people who got infected from the wedding and there was like three people who died because it was a maskless wedding and the three people who died like didn't even attend the wedding. It was just from people who went to the wedding that came into contact with people who didn't go to the wedding.
00:25:32
Speaker
So like they didn't even do anything wrong. They just caught it from the stupid person who went and we're like, yeah, let's party. I'm probably fine, which they ended up being fine. I'm sure because they weren't one of the people who died, but they're the person that they came into contact with dad. So this it's just kind of inconsiderate and it feels like that was completely. It was completely needless and something you could have avoided it. Now somebody is dead and their family is scarred forever like.
00:25:57
Speaker
It's just not worth it. Yeah. When he could have sat home and had a drink. It's exactly. And that's from like, that's where I'm at. I'm just like, you know, I understand. Look, I'm almost, I'm about to be 29. I'm one year away from 30. Don't you think I want to spend like the last couple of years in my twenties, like not being like at home and being stupid and doing, you know, just staying there, you know, being boring.
00:26:28
Speaker
I want to, I want to go out. I want to do stuff. I want to go to hotels and beaches. I want to go party. I want to, you know, have fun. I want to talk with my friends and like hang out and, you know, do everything and get together. I want to celebrate my birthday, celebrate my girlfriend's birthday, you know, do like a whole bunch of stuff and, you know, have a fun time. I'm, you know, living near college and it's, it's a very high life right around here. I want to experience some of that before I have to,
00:26:56
Speaker
not but I'm I'm I'm not you know I'm doing what I can because I know that like it's a year and even the people that don't die what happens to them is permanent lung damage you know that's that's something you gotta live with and people are thinking that far ahead possible that's yeah that's possible yeah ashtray yeah possible permanent lung damage which is just something I wouldn't want to like
00:27:25
Speaker
you know, risk in myself either. It's just like for, if you're not, I feel like some people aren't thinking that far ahead and it's just like, would you really risk a year? Not even eight, like mostly it was a summer. I mean, most people are kind of over now, which I'm a little sad, but at the same time, you know, I haven't done the full research on how big COVID is right now. And they're like, you know, so,
00:27:54
Speaker
To be fair, I've just been staying inside making sure that I'm, I'm at least okay. I mean, but it's like, would you risk that like a lifetime of just complications, medical bill bills and all that stuff for like a day of partying, like, or like a summer of partying, even I just, it's not worth it.
00:28:21
Speaker
Well that's also part of the problem is it's not even like there's as far as I know right now there's no states that are in like a mandate of everybody needs to stay inside like states aren't closed they're just. Like just be smart like you don't have to you don't have to go to a gym full of people you don't have to go to a bar full of people.
00:28:40
Speaker
Like go to a club that there's there's no reason to do these things like you're just choosing sad truth to about the government is that About society and the government is society wants to be free. They don't want the government to dictate anything And so when the government takes a light-hearted foot as in hey, we're not gonna control you and make you go inside They're doing anything like that. Like we're not gonna make it mandatory. We just ask that you be smart about
00:29:09
Speaker
they go up and like they've ruined it they make it so that we are the laughingstock of the world as we're one of the only nations that still hasn't really gotten it yet and i don't know you know i i'm dumbfounded sometimes cuz like i feel that we're babies that just doesn't want to have mommy and daddy you know
00:29:37
Speaker
give us any rules, but we also don't know how to do stuff for ourselves. Yeah. And the stupid people is what ruins it for the rest of us. Cause like, then they go and do their stupid thing. And then the rest of us that we're trying to be responsible are here being bossed around and having to act like, or being treated like we're the same people that's doing all the wrong things.
00:30:02
Speaker
Yeah. And it's not, like I said, it's not like we're in full quarantine. Like you can still, you know, hang out with your family. I, like I, I've seen you because I know that you've been, uh, like semi-quarantine, like we're all in like a semi-quarantine. Like you can go get your food and get your necessities. I hang out with trusted people. Cause like, I know that you stay at home and you work from home. You're there all the time. And I know you stay safe. I stay safe.
00:30:31
Speaker
I know Anna stays safe, but she stays with me. And whether if I'm not in her room, I'm in my room. If she's not in her room, she's in my room.
00:30:39
Speaker
and vice versa. My wife goes to work. My brother goes to work. Most people I know still go to work, but I still hang out with them because those are necessary risks. I'm not going to not see my family till next year because they went to work. But if they were going onto bars and risking it unnecessarily with other people who obviously have that same mentality, then that's a bit different.
00:31:08
Speaker
It's it's different when you're going to work and taking the proper cautions then if you're. Going out and hanging at a house party and you know nobody is taking the proper cautions it's it's just the different type of people. And the necessary risk it unnecessary risk is exactly what it sounds like it's necessary and we're not trying to not live our lives by not seeing our family and our friends but there's. There's a line of where it starts getting into stupid territory which is unnecessary.
00:31:37
Speaker
I mean for me it's just like, in a situation like this, I would just ask myself, you know, would I do the same thing?
00:31:49
Speaker
to I mean and insert whoever is the closest person to you if it's yourself then you know whatever would you know would I do that and think about that to every other person that's out there because that is who they know as well to whoever you love most in this world somebody else loves them just as much or they love someone else just as much everybody has something
00:32:19
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that is worth not going needlessly out and doing stuff and possibly getting somebody that maybe you're fine, you're healthy as an ox, but somebody else just might not have that kind of luck. And it's not really, it shouldn't be, I don't know, I wouldn't know who you are or who you think you are, that you have the right to decide that that person doesn't
00:32:48
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have a chance, you know, or like that they deserve to have to fight. Yeah, you that they have to fight COVID that their body can't handle because you wanted to do that and you weren't thinking about them. That's the issue in my situation. I have everybody in my situation, pretty much including me, everybody I know, it has underlying conditions of some sort or is taking medication that makes them everybody's at a higher risk, unfortunately. So I have to be extra careful.
00:33:18
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I wouldn't be bringing it into your house when I had dogs. I made sure I wasn't doing nothing. My hands were clean and made sure that your house was cleaned. I wanted to make sure that everything was fine, even though I touched it, it was clean anyway. You didn't have to worry about that because I know you guys have asthma, or at least you do. Yeah, I do. But I think about that for everybody else too because it's just like we're all humans.
00:33:47
Speaker
We're all fighting the same goal of being alive or dead, whichever is your personal preference. I mean, some people live to die. But, you know, I feel everybody should have their own story and you shouldn't be a reason to end it, you know, for no reason, just because you wanted a couple of drinks or even like, you know, it's it's all fun and games until somebody dies. And even though you don't know about it because you didn't hear about it, they're not in the news.
00:34:18
Speaker
You could have possibly done something and you didn't know about that. And I mean, that's not something I want to even think about, but I mean, that's something I do think about and that helps me. I feel be more considerate of other people, you know, because yeah, I mean, we're all trying to do the same thing. You know, it's, it's not up to me. Yeah. Nobody wants to be responsible for that. I shouldn't, you know, I feel it's just selfish, you know, just buy a bottle, drink it at home.
00:34:48
Speaker
You know what some friend if you're doing it with some close friends and afterwards Do a quarantine or you know, just like get tested, you know I've only I only really hang out with my roommates when they told me they tell me that they've gotten tested and they're negative Okay, cool. Yeah, I hang out with you for a day and then after that day, I'm not hanging out until Only cuz they hang out. I mean, yeah, I don't know. They're still new roommates to me
00:35:16
Speaker
Fair enough. Well, I guess that's enough frustration.
Xbox Series X vs PlayStation VR
00:35:21
Speaker
You know, it's just COVID really, really has my gears on the PS5 and the Xbox, which is our next topic. For gears on. Are you going to be buying the... Your keys are on top of it because of it. Okay, cool. Smooth, smooth transition.
00:35:41
Speaker
I really appreciated that, thank you. I don't know, I guess if you haven't seen it, Xbox announced what the price will be. $2.99 for the Series S and $4.99 for the Series X. I don't know how I feel about it. I'm actually happy about the Series S that they announced.
00:36:04
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I mean everybody didn't have that in any previous Xbox releases you know having the the next well not I guess not next but like another a budget series is like that yeah budget version just right off the bat like that you know yeah that is really nice and there's a lot of benefits to it essentially instead of getting an Xbox one hey how about you just buy this and it's the same price and it didn't make sense but I mean at the same time it's kind of like
00:36:34
Speaker
For me, it's almost like a scam, honestly. I mean, I get it, but at the same time, a little bit. No, hear me out. Because you can play most... It's a scam if you're not smart enough to look at what you're buying. I guess so. Well, hey, now hear me out. All right, so you can play all the games pretty much on Xbox One as well. They're going to have the backwards compatibility and cross-platform so you can kind of play. This is why I'm going to wait.
00:37:04
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This is why I'm waiting maybe a year or so after you know when they come out with the next, because you know they're going to come out with a smaller, sleeker style of the Xbox Series X. You know, and it's going to work better, and it's going to be the same price as the Xbox Series X is now. But like, you can, the Xbox One is still good. It's still, you haven't, they haven't even really tapped into the power of the Xbox One fully yet.
00:37:32
Speaker
so I think it'll be able to handle some of these games pretty pretty okay I think they they didn't they don't have to and to it pretty pretty well well yeah but I don't think that they did like I think I can do more I think you can do a little more I think I have some orders but like again here we go so the Xbox Series S I mean is a smaller you know it seems let me let me
00:38:02
Speaker
look at the specs of the xbox one x or like xbox one so insta so you know the p the not the xbox one x is 4k yeah the
00:38:17
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the 1S, or not the 1S, I keep doing that, the Series S is locked to 1440, which is not 4K, so it's lower, it's lower resolution than the 1X. But you get the higher load times, you get the other specs of the Series X that you get. I mean, that's fine, but I mean,
00:38:46
Speaker
For me personally, it's just like, you know, here's a nice Xbox and we know that you're going to not like the price. So here's a cheaper version. That's just like a little upgraded version of the Xbox one. You know, it's kind of, it's like pretty much a midway version, which I guess, you know, but for me, I'd rather stick with the Xbox one, you know, for just one more year.
00:39:12
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you're gonna come out with the Xbox which I feel like they kind of made that like the Xbox Series X like big so that when they come out with
00:39:22
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the xbox the smaller one quote-unquote it's going to be the exact same size as the xbox one is regular and it's going to be just as powerful and i bet that they already have that they're just waiting to come out with it yeah i really hope not so that's going to be the the smaller you know cooler you could fit it in the place you used to be able to fit your xbox one
00:39:46
Speaker
So I would agree with you if they didn't make everything backwards compatible so they made the full Promise that for the next two years there will be no Xbox one X or Xbox Series X exclusives so every game that they make will be compatible back to the Xbox one and obviously all Xbox parties all
00:40:10
Speaker
Everything will work exactly the same. It'll be like if you got an Xbox One X, you know pro essentially is what it will feel like Everything is gonna work exactly the same same dashboards. Everything is compatible with each other So you will just have a super powerful Xbox so they give you the tiers so you can still you can technically in December, you know when Christmas time comes around and theoretically and stuff and prices are
00:40:35
Speaker
You know, up and down and going crazy. So you can still buy an Xbox one. There's nothing preventing you from that. All the games will still be compatible. They will still be selling the Xbox one and it'll be cheaper. So you can still buy one and they will not.
00:40:50
Speaker
Like, it's still going to be there. You can offer that. They make that available to you. Or you can upgrade to the one S, which will be able to play next gen. It will have next gen loading times and will be able to play next gen games. I mean, this is or. Yeah, yes. And then from the series S, you can move up to the series X, which is the ultimate and will be a future proof.
00:41:14
Speaker
Yeah, I never want to like one thing I will give it to them is I do like the monthly subscription if you want to buy the Xbox one X out of you know monthly cost that's pretty dope I am curious to see if they're gonna do interest on that But it's zero. I mean other there. Oh nice Well, I mean that's dope. Yeah, I mean I'd be down to just you know rent out that you know buy to own the Xbox but like though I mean it's just
00:41:44
Speaker
They always, when they create a new one, they always drop the prize. So I mean, the Xbox is going to be cheaper. And when they come out with something that's better than the Xbox Series X, you know, it's going to be, that's going to be the new probably like 600, $500 thing. And then the Xbox is going to go down like 50 or a hundred dollars, which I mean, for me is worth it since I have an Xbox, you know, one, one S.
00:42:11
Speaker
You know, it, it would be worth it to me to just wait a little bit, let them work out the bugs and all the things that's wrong with the Xbox series X is that it's a new generation of gaming. So obviously they're going to have new bugs, new thing, new problems to fix. They're going to. And I mean, if I've, if I've learned anything from buying and I've avid Xbox, you know,
00:42:38
Speaker
I've had PlayStation. I started out with PlayStation, but I ended with Xbox. If anything, I've learned it's that their first console always is good, but it never lasts. I've had my 360. That one lasted, but I got lucky.
00:42:59
Speaker
My day one edition of the Xbox one the release day is still working fine, sir mine So is Jimmy's out like crazy and he's working Jimmy Jimmy's Jimmy's power box is Sounds like yeah, he needs a new plug The console is fine Well, I guess so but I don't know like I said, that's why I said in my experience of having the like You know
00:43:29
Speaker
Good, but also they also have bugs. There's countless stories of Red Ring and Death in the 360, which I got lucky and didn't have that. You know, maybe you got lucky with the Xbox One and didn't have your issues, but mine. Straight up just stopped working.
00:43:47
Speaker
Yeah. It just – it would go black and then it would – it just didn't – yeah, it just stopped working. So I mean it happened. Well, the nice thing is they give you – I think the next one that they'll have after this will be worth it. Well, agreed. It's worth the wait. And that's – but they're also giving you that option which they don't have to do. They're – they make a full guarantee of – they essentially give you two years. They're like, hey.
00:44:10
Speaker
everything will continue to work as it does now. We're just adding the series X and series S for two years. And then after that, the game developers can start making things only for those consoles. They don't have to backport it. Yeah. Also, I mean, not going to lie. It's it's just that like. They usually don't make the best games early in the the console season, like series, they make it like after year three or four.
00:44:40
Speaker
they actually know what they're working with, with the console. And so then they start making really good game space with what they do. Again, me personally, I'm waiting on it. As for the PS5, I am pretty interested
00:44:57
Speaker
I thought about getting both because, I mean, you know, why not? But I mean, now you can't beat PlayStation's exclusive games. That's the only thing it does have over the Xbox. Always, it seems. It's just their exclusive games. So the other thing that piqued my interest again was I forgot about PlayStation VR. Oh, yeah. I thought that, you know, I wonder if they are they going to have that with this?
00:45:27
Speaker
It seems like it they put Sony put in a patent for PlayStation VR 2. So it seems like it's going to be a new version of it for the. It's so weird, just like VR was really starting to come up, but I think it died out mainly because it was too expensive. A little bit too hard to develop games, I would have meant. Well, I don't know why it would, though, because I mean, it's just like a regular video game. You turn around and stuff is there, but I guess they use motion control. So it might just be like super expensive just to make.
00:46:00
Speaker
But I've always been interested in that. I feel like top VR series do a collaboration with PlayStation or Xbox. They need to have Xbox Kinect back, honestly. I miss doing those fun games. Yeah, it seemed like nobody liked it. Yeah, I mean, I feel like that's because they were behind, I guess. PlayStation just had it better.
00:46:30
Speaker
Nintendo took them all out of the race with.
00:46:34
Speaker
like moving and doing like interactive games. Yeah. Yeah, that's fair. All right, well. But I don't know. So the PlayStation right now at the moment, the only pull for me is PlayStation VR, which I don't think it's going to be enough. Also kind of frustrating is they haven't like pretty much they haven't released anything. The only thing they've released and shown off is the front of the console. Like and what like the dimensions of it like what? Oh, like, oh, here's here's a picture of it.
00:47:03
Speaker
I'm well the thing that both does that both aggravates me but also intrigues me and excites me because that means that they haven't shown anything which means that they still have stuff that Xbox doesn't that they don't want to show yet because they don't want Xbox to try to take it from you cannot know that well yeah but I mean that's that's that's why it infuriates me that they do it but that also
00:47:33
Speaker
intrigues me and excites me is because it could be. I mean, why? I mean, there are theories. Yeah. But I mean, why would you show something or why wouldn't you show what you have if you didn't have anything you knew that you didn't have over the other person? You don't show all your cards. I mean, I have to show their cards yet. You know, they're they're waiting. They know that they got something.
00:47:59
Speaker
the xbox hasn't yet they don't want xbox to develop it yet they want to have some time with it which is just my theory but that that's why i'm that's that's me justifying why they don't know why they haven't shown it sounds doubtful but i guess it's possible hey i i'm an optimist alright i'm hoping that they got something to blast it you know i don't know man
00:48:26
Speaker
They're I don't know so they haven't even shown like the back of the console what it looks like they haven't turned off the dashboard like they haven't shown anything other than like I said a picture of it and a Showcase of like what the exclusives will be which you know was a like they do have a ton of exclusives And that's that is another thing that peaks your interest is all those games that they showed off and they do look really nice so that you know
00:48:50
Speaker
That's always, there's only a couple that I had interest in from their showcase, but it's still a couple more than Xbox shut off because they don't have a lot of exclusives that are going to come out at the moment. Other than Halo Infinite, which was delayed. Xbox started dying out with their exclusives. Yeah, they're focusing more on game pass. Everybody's got their platform. You know, I think that that's just it's almost like they all got together like Nintendo, Xbox and PlayStation. They're just like, all right.
00:49:19
Speaker
We're going to have our own niche, OK? And then we're going to go our separate ways so we can all coexist. All right. Nintendo, you get the interactive fun games. All right. PlayStation, you get all the exclusive really good story driven games. But you're going to mostly be single player, OK?
00:49:42
Speaker
Me, I'm getting all the multiplayer stuff. I'm getting everybody's connected, all right? Multiplayer this, you get to play on your freaking computer as an Xbox, go for it. With Xbox Go, let's do it. So that's what I'm doing, all right? Everybody good? All right, break. Well, the people at Xbox have mentioned is that
00:50:10
Speaker
Um, if they were interested in selling more consoles than the PlayStation, then they would make more exclusives. They would make not backwards compatible, like fully all the way through original PlayStation. They would be doing more to like give you a reason to buy an Xbox, uh, series S or X and they're just not doing it. It's not a dumb idea either. And like.
00:50:37
Speaker
And PlayStation players and PC players, they can give Xbox all the shit that they want to. Xbox has done a phenomenal job on taking over the gaming industry, because a lot of people play it, and everybody can use it, mainly because of what they've been doing. It's kind of like they've taken the
00:50:58
Speaker
the system of computers and put it into gaming, like where you can play this regular old desktop. It can play some games, you know, not very good game. You can play like, you know, some club penguins. I don't even know if that game is still around. You can do some of that, you know, do whatever, play some League of Legends or, you know, you can get a
00:51:21
Speaker
Leveled up like even better when you have better graphics you can play more seamlessly You know better FPS and then you can upgrade again And you can you know so they have all these they're putting it in place where you can get the Xbox one Xbox one s Xbox X and then the Xbox series as Xbox X and then the pregnant house, you know
00:51:42
Speaker
Yeah, so on and so forth. So it's probably going to go up in range, but they're going to be more powerful and be able to do more stuff. But you know, it's kind of like, you know, you can get on a computer and play, uh, crisis three. But I mean, if you're not on a decent, uh, like compute, you're, you're not going to be able to play it as well. You know, you're going to have to go on way lower settings and stuff. So I guess that's what they're doing with that, which is, I mean, pretty ingenious. You, you still get the people that don't have the money.
00:52:12
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have some money, have a lot of money, and don't care about the money. Yeah, they're going full-spectrums. And you put people together, so like, people like you say, your friends are, you know, like, you're in school, your friends are more wealthy than you are, their parents gave them the new Xbox, but you still have the old Xbox. You guys can still play Xbox, though, together. You guys can still get in the party and play your Xboxes, which is
00:52:40
Speaker
Which is good because it puts people and makes people want to play, which makes people want to use your product even more. And rather than splitting people up, you know, one person, oh, well, this isn't a couch play game. You know, they're making it more accessible, which I think is good.
00:52:57
Speaker
so that's that's kind of where i'm at is what i'm thinking is so you have the full spectrum of like so you have somebody like me who has an xbox one x which plays 4k and it's you know relatively new i don't have a lot of reason to upgrade uh... you have a 1s so you're like in the middle of the pack where you know you can upgrade if you want but you don't really need to it's more of just a you know how much do you really want it and you have somebody like jimmy who has like the day one
00:53:26
Speaker
Xbox one like and he's having some issues with it because it's so old. It's like seven like seven or eight years old and He's ready for an upgrade. So Everybody gets to make their own individual decision. You know, I could stay with my 1x You can stay with your s, you know if you choose or you can upgrade to the s or the x you know or to the series s or series x if you wanted Jimmy can get the series x and and
00:53:53
Speaker
We're all like it's all gonna be like nothing changed. We all get to continue to play our game and Everybody just gets to make the decision they want so you get the full You get all the options you want. They're not forcing really like it's it's one of those moves that like is an underrated power move like you you can say oh Playstations better with games. I mean technically yeah, you know mean pound-for-pound if you
00:54:21
Speaker
wanted to go ahead, like, you're sitting by yourself and you had to play a game on whatever console, I'd always choose PlayStation and one of the PlayStation exclusive games. I mean, if I had to play it on myself, you know, whatever. And the gaming experience would be better, yes. Like, are they more integrated with their stuff, at least with the PlayStation 4? Yeah, I mean, those controller-like speakers is pretty dope, honestly. That's just one of those really nifty things.
00:54:51
Speaker
But, like, as far as, like, putting games out there, making it a massive, like, something expandable, and throughout, you know, communities, and making people interested, Xbox has it in there. They have, you can go on your computer, on your phone, whatever, you can, you know, dally, you can talk to your friends, your Xbox friends, whatever, you can go through there, you got Xbox Live, you got Game Pass, EA,
00:55:21
Speaker
They make it so easy to just be in the realm of games for everybody. And I think it's just an underrated move. Nobody gives them credit for that. And that's like what it sounds like their goal is to make gaming accessible to everybody. You can have, I mean, like with my example before, with all of us having Xboxes, you cannot even have an Xbox. You can just have a computer and there's still a selection of games you can play with Game Pass.
00:55:46
Speaker
You can just have an Android phone and you can play a selection of games on there through xCloud. They're bringing games everywhere, no matter what your console is, your computer is. No matter your situation, they make it accessible in so many places.
00:56:03
Speaker
which PlayStation is not. They're like exclusives, exclusives, buy a new PlayStation. You're going to need it to play these games. It's going to be crazy, which is good because, you know, which is good for them. And the aspect of they'll have games that are going to look freaking crazy because they're built for PS5 and PS5 only.
Game Pass vs PlayStation Now
00:56:20
Speaker
They're going to the graphics are going to be crazy. It's going to play awesome, but you can only play it for this one console. So, you know, pros and cons to that.
00:56:28
Speaker
If you can do it, but to the majority, they're trying to appeal to the majority of gamers. I also heard that their PlayStation Plus, at least on the PlayStation 4, was a bit lacking in, you know, accessibility. It is. You know, it was a bit buggy. I heard that the party system was a little wack and didn't really have any, like... There's lots of people there. Whenever I say something about Game Pass to a PlayStation player, they're like,
00:56:58
Speaker
What? I'm like, yeah, you can pay like a small fee and you get all these games like, oh, man, I didn't play that. We don't have that.
00:57:07
Speaker
You know, so they have hopefully they get on it better or maybe they have it as they have a PlayStation. They have PlayStation now. They have PlayStation now, which offers actually a lot more games. It's like 800 games that they have on there or something like that. The problem is it's not very intuitive. It doesn't work for a lot of the games stream instead of download. So it just it doesn't work from everything I've read and the people who subscribe to it that have tried both.
00:57:37
Speaker
The pretty much general consensus is game pass works a million times better than PlayStation now does. It seems like PlayStation now was scrambling to get a competitor for
00:57:49
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Game Pass rather than investing in it, which as you can tell by like just if anywhere you look, everybody knows about Xbox Game Pass and the games that are in it and how well it works and what consoles it works on, they're just fully in, it's part of their strategy. PlayStation now, it's kind of like, oh yeah, also we offer this if you want it and hopefully you have good internet because it's a stream game and you know, it's its own thing kind of separate from the PlayStation ecosystem.
Microsoft's Gaming Edge
00:58:18
Speaker
and like I mean I'll give it to play soon because they've been in the game longer than Xbox has I mean they have and in video games you know but what I think it all really boils down to is Xbox is owned by Microsoft which is a computer company they they know computers they know how to get people together they they probably know like
00:58:46
Speaker
everything from front to back, side to side on like, you know, Xbox, you know, what they, what the customer needs from a gaming experience in the computers. Cause most people, I mean, nobody games on a Mac book. Everybody games on, on Microsoft, you know, they, they game on, you know, windows. They, they use that. So they know all the, like what real PC gamers like, but
00:59:16
Speaker
you know, in a, in a console, you know, so people with controllers, they can get there. So at the end of the day, whenever PlayStation puts out something Xbox can kind of replicate it to an extent and, you know, make something viable where when Xbox comes out with something, you know, PlayStation, they don't have that kind of background. They don't have, they might have some people that worked in these, but they don't have,
00:59:42
Speaker
I mean, Microsoft has to have the developers of this. They have to have them in their pocket. Those people aren't going to PlayStation. They're probably working in that domain. I don't think they've been switching from Microsoft to Sony. At least that's what I would think.
01:00:05
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And I feel like just that extensive knowledge of how long Microsoft has been in computers, they probably just have that edge in the end. Which is why I feel like they've been more successful with marketing and bringing more people into gaming than PlayStation. Because PlayStation is a good gaming console and a good gaming company, but they're not
01:00:32
Speaker
They're only known as Sony. They're known for their old TVs and their new console games. They're not known for that much. I agree. I just don't think that they have that kind of experience. Yeah, they're known for their console and their exclusives and their graphics and that's what they're banking on. They've been able to make mean electronics for a while that can dish out stuff.
01:01:02
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Microsoft has been in the business of expanding and just going all out with public publicity since the beginning of time.
01:01:16
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Yep, Sony's gonna have their market for solo gamers hardcore who want their graphics want their stories and their worlds and but Xbox is gonna have I think the majority of People who just want a game, you know with people and on different systems and on the go and I think they're gonna take some most of that market share Sony's gonna take the hardcore people
01:01:43
Speaker
So that kind of plays into like the on the go portion of it that plays into this whole issue with Apple and with their app store policies and Epic with Fortnite and all those. There's a whole bunch of issues there and I have a bunch of gripes and I have a lot of things to say about Apple at the moment. We'll save that Epic versus Apple for next podcast. Definitely. That's a big one.
01:02:08
Speaker
Yeah, I have I have some things to say, you know, as much as I love Apple, I have it's going to come with some, you know, some complaints as well. So we'll
Future Discussions Tease
01:02:18
Speaker
save that for next time. Like you said, we're we've gone on long enough and we've ranted. So we'll save that for next time. But for now, we are moderately aggravated.
01:02:28
Speaker
We've been aggravated for long enough. We got to go take a nap and get some Taco Bell. So we want to thank you all for joining us and we hope you're all staying safe and staying at home and being considerate of others and wearing your mask and getting food delivered to you. Preferably Taco Bell and those Doritos Locos Tacos. They're so good. You don't know how much time you have left.
01:02:58
Speaker
It's true. I mean, they only have the main one left, and who knows how long that'll last until they're like, well, you know, we don't have people don't order them enough. We'll just get rid of them. Come come Friday, I'm going to have a fridge full of aging Baja blasts. Oh, dude, I love Baja. I love anything that I do. Anyways, that's a different podcast about mildly loving it. That's right.
01:03:24
Speaker
mildly exciting. That's a very dim podcast.
01:03:30
Speaker
Anyways, we appreciate you being here. Let us know if there's anything you want us to talk about, and the email address is mildlyfrustratingatgmail.com. I want to thank Nick for being here, and we'll see who our guest is next time, and it's kind of just a rotating door of either Jimmy, Nick, or Alan, or Jacob. So we'll see. We're the only people that will agree to it.
01:03:55
Speaker
Yes, sounds like it. He's asked Ryan Reynolds, but he hasn't really been on the back yet. No, I'm still waiting on that. He just sent me a picture of him and the Deadpool outfit and he signed it, but I replied, I was like, Mr. Reynolds, that's not enough. You think Joe Rogan would...
01:04:16
Speaker
No, he's got that whole Spotify deal. He's sold out. He's too Hollywood for me now. Ever since he went Spotify, I can't get out. I figured he might do charity work, you know? No, he's gone kind of, am I? He doesn't answer. He doesn't answer my phone calls anymore. He's a jerk. But yeah, thanks for joining us.
01:04:39
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I wasn't at that organization and it will only help me Alright well, thanks everybody for listening and we hope you have a good rest of the day and we'll hopefully talk to you guys soon See you later