Richard
Appearances
Brooke and Jeffrey: Second Date Update
Awkward Tuesday: Ruin A Birthday
And I will cry. You know what? I don't care if she's a jerk. Everyone heard how much of a jerk she is. I kind of wish the girls could have given all the food back, too, and vomited all over.
Brooke and Jeffrey: Second Date Update
Awkward Tuesday: Ruin A Birthday
Well, okay, I'm not the one viral, but my daughter was a part of it.
Brooke and Jeffrey: Second Date Update
Awkward Tuesday: Ruin A Birthday
So basically I had to drop her off at the mall, like in the food court. And what I understood of the plan was they were going to go have lunch and do party activities. And then the group was going to head over to Build-A-Bear.
Brooke and Jeffrey: Second Date Update
Awkward Tuesday: Ruin A Birthday
The birthday girl's mom was taking care of that.
Brooke and Jeffrey: Second Date Update
Awkward Tuesday: Ruin A Birthday
Yeah, it was great. I'll be back in a few hours. It was perfect.
Brooke and Jeffrey: Second Date Update
Awkward Tuesday: Ruin A Birthday
Yeah. So I go home, and I come back in a few hours, and there's my daughter just in tears when I see her.
Brooke and Jeffrey: Second Date Update
Awkward Tuesday: Ruin A Birthday
Well, it was more than my kid. It was other kids, too. They were all upset.
Brooke and Jeffrey: Second Date Update
Awkward Tuesday: Ruin A Birthday
Yeah. What happened? So I got her in the car and asked what happened. She said that the mom forced all the girls to give their Build-A-Bears to the birthday girl.
Brooke and Jeffrey: Second Date Update
Awkward Tuesday: Ruin A Birthday
That's what I was asking myself. So I contacted another mom who was involved, and she couldn't believe it either. She was really upset.
Brooke and Jeffrey: Second Date Update
Awkward Tuesday: Ruin A Birthday
Well, what she said was that the mom wanted each girl to build a bear so that her daughter would remember her. Each one of them by the bear that they built. They built for her.
Brooke and Jeffrey: Second Date Update
Awkward Tuesday: Ruin A Birthday
I mean, we already gave a gift.
Brooke and Jeffrey: Second Date Update
Awkward Tuesday: Ruin A Birthday
Yeah, she did pay for the Build-A-Bear experience.
Brooke and Jeffrey: Second Date Update
Awkward Tuesday: Ruin A Birthday
All these girls had to stand and whine. They had to make each bear, and then all the bears were ripped away from them at the end.
Brooke and Jeffrey: Second Date Update
Awkward Tuesday: Ruin A Birthday
Okay. So I have the lady's number.
Brooke and Jeffrey: Second Date Update
Awkward Tuesday: Ruin A Birthday
That would be a cherry on top. I don't expect it, but I just need her to know what she did was wrong.
Brooke and Jeffrey: Second Date Update
Awkward Tuesday: Ruin A Birthday
This is why I'm calling you. I can't be trusted.
Brooke and Jeffrey: Second Date Update
Awkward Tuesday: Ruin A Birthday
Yeah, I mean, what if she says, I haven't heard anything?
Brooke and Jeffrey: Second Date Update
Awkward Tuesday: Ruin A Birthday
I feel like I see why she did it. She wanted this special moment strictly for her daughter. Okay.
Brooke and Jeffrey: Second Date Update
Awkward Tuesday: Ruin A Birthday
And it's not a teddy bear. It's 12 teddy bears. It's so much more than it's, yeah. It's making all these girls feel bad.
Brooke and Jeffrey: Second Date Update
Awkward Tuesday: Ruin A Birthday
I'm going to try to keep it under control.
Brooke and Jeffrey: Second Date Update
Awkward Tuesday: Ruin A Birthday
Hello? Hi, is this Megan? Megan? Yeah, who's this? Hi, this is Richard. I'm Vanessa's dad. Oh, yeah.
Brooke and Jeffrey: Second Date Update
Awkward Tuesday: Ruin A Birthday
Hi. Good. First off, I just wanted to thank you for inviting my daughter to the birthday party.
Brooke and Jeffrey: Second Date Update
Awkward Tuesday: Ruin A Birthday
Well, I will say she had a really good time, but there was one little issue. And I'm just kind of wondering if you had feedback from other parents.
Brooke and Jeffrey: Second Date Update
Awkward Tuesday: Ruin A Birthday
So I'm assuming what you're talking about is the Build-A-Bear situation.
Brooke and Jeffrey: Second Date Update
Awkward Tuesday: Ruin A Birthday
Right. Cool. You get to make the rules.
Brooke and Jeffrey: Second Date Update
Awkward Tuesday: Ruin A Birthday
And with no regard to the other children's feelings. Was that one of the rules?
Brooke and Jeffrey: Second Date Update
Awkward Tuesday: Ruin A Birthday
So you bought every one of their tears is what you're saying.
Brooke and Jeffrey: Second Date Update
Awkward Tuesday: Ruin A Birthday
You purchased each. Was it build a tear?
Brooke and Jeffrey: Second Date Update
Awkward Tuesday: Ruin A Birthday
It was a labor camp. A labor camp?
Brooke and Jeffrey: Second Date Update
Awkward Tuesday: Ruin A Birthday
You put all these girls to work for your daughter. I'm not the only one who thinks this. All the parents are talking, and they all kind of think you're a jerk. Okay, great.
Brooke and Jeffrey: Second Date Update
Awkward Tuesday: Ruin A Birthday
You should have them make a Build-A-Bear police bear and then just take that away, too. Ooh, burn. Thank you. Ow, that hurt. You know what? The truth is, you know who else thinks you're a jerk? Everybody listening on the radio right now because you're on Brooke and Jeffrey in the morning. What are you talking about? What the hell is going on?
Brooke and Jeffrey: Second Date Update
Awkward Tuesday: Ruin A Birthday
Yeah, you just got outed for being a first-class jerk to the entire country.
Brooke and Jeffrey: Second Date Update
Second Date Update Classic: Incriminating News At 11
Paper covers rock.
Brooke and Jeffrey: Second Date Update
Second Date Update Classic: Incriminating News At 11
Second Date Update.
Brooke and Jeffrey: Second Date Update
Second Date Update Classic: Incriminating News At 11
Well, it's a familiar game to all of you, I bet, but we play it in a different way. Okay. Me and my buddy, when we're out, you know, in a public place.
Brooke and Jeffrey: Second Date Update
Second Date Update Classic: Incriminating News At 11
Where we're around gorgeous women or women in general.
Brooke and Jeffrey: Second Date Update
Second Date Update Classic: Incriminating News At 11
And what we do is we shoot rock, paper, scissors.
Brooke and Jeffrey: Second Date Update
Second Date Update Classic: Incriminating News At 11
Whoever loses is the one that has to go and strike up. Oh, wow.
Brooke and Jeffrey: Second Date Update
Second Date Update Classic: Incriminating News At 11
Yeah, I mean, as you might expect, the rejection rate is pretty high, but you'd also be surprised how often it works. Okay.
Brooke and Jeffrey: Second Date Update
Second Date Update Classic: Incriminating News At 11
Yep, exactly. My buddy's paper covered my rock, and we were at the park one day, and there was a cute girl just sort of sitting on a blanket, walked over and introduced myself, and her name is Hannah.
Brooke and Jeffrey: Second Date Update
Second Date Update Classic: Incriminating News At 11
No, no, no, no, no. This is between my pal and me.
Brooke and Jeffrey: Second Date Update
Second Date Update Classic: Incriminating News At 11
No, not really. You use the same line. It's like anything else. It just gets tired and you're not into it.
Brooke and Jeffrey: Second Date Update
Second Date Update Classic: Incriminating News At 11
I just said, hey, how are you? It's gorgeous out.
Brooke and Jeffrey: Second Date Update
Second Date Update Classic: Incriminating News At 11
The weather. The weather. I know. It's stupid as it is. It works.
Brooke and Jeffrey: Second Date Update
Second Date Update Classic: Incriminating News At 11
Yeah. And we talked for a little while and we set up a dinner date, like a proper date, you know, downtown at a nice place.
Brooke and Jeffrey: Second Date Update
Second Date Update Classic: Incriminating News At 11
It went really well. We were in there for like about close to two, like an hour and a half, two hours. I mean, just taking our time, casual conversation. And she looked
Brooke and Jeffrey: Second Date Update
Second Date Update Classic: Incriminating News At 11
hot i mean she looked so good so it's one of those things where i wanted to kind of prolong the fun for as long as i could but it had to end um of course so we walked outside and uh there's like one of these live remote tv crews doing you know posting on the street interview stuff in a positive way or at a your restaurant just is getting shut down for health violations
Brooke and Jeffrey: Second Date Update
Second Date Update Classic: Incriminating News At 11
No, nothing to do with the restaurant. They wanted to ask people about, like, crime in downtown.
Brooke and Jeffrey: Second Date Update
Second Date Update Classic: Incriminating News At 11
Busted. So they asked me, you know, and I'm a bit of a ham, so I was like, all right.
Brooke and Jeffrey: Second Date Update
Second Date Update Classic: Incriminating News At 11
So did my thing. And then we sort of moved on from there. I didn't get a kiss. I got like a big hug.
Brooke and Jeffrey: Second Date Update
Second Date Update Classic: Incriminating News At 11
I tried to be sincere, but I'm still trying to be lighthearted about it.
Brooke and Jeffrey: Second Date Update
Second Date Update Classic: Incriminating News At 11
And that's why I'm talking to you guys.
Brooke and Jeffrey: Second Date Update
Second Date Update Classic: Incriminating News At 11
I don't know. She kind of got in on it. I pulled her into the interview. And so it was, you know, both of us talking to the reporter. So that's good.
Brooke and Jeffrey: Second Date Update
Second Date Update Classic: Incriminating News At 11
Yeah. Oh, man. Way twisted around, you guys. Yeah, you twisted it. Oh. I'm saying that this is kind of embellishing what happened. I mean, you know, I think I saw the purse snatcher guy. You were right there with me. I mean, and face it. I mean, if there was a guy who was going to be downtown snatching purses and Just look at that dude and think, okay, that's the purse snatcher.
Brooke and Jeffrey: Second Date Update
Second Date Update Classic: Incriminating News At 11
He didn't look as guilty or sketchy or such as anybody.
Brooke and Jeffrey: Second Date Update
Second Date Update Classic: Incriminating News At 11
Yeah, but wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. You were the one that said, look at that dude with, like, the bandana on. You know, like, who wears the freaking bandana?
Brooke and Jeffrey: Second Date Update
Second Date Update Classic: Incriminating News At 11
No, you, Eddie, embellish her. If they brought this guy into your studio and you took a look at him, you'd be like, yep, purse snatcher.
Get Sleepy: Sleep meditation and stories
Mince Pies and Memories (Rainy Day Bakery #9)
Kennt ihr auch diesen einen Freund, der morgens einfach so ruckzuck aus dem Bett und danach aus dem Grinsen gar nicht mehr rauskommt? Der sogar noch vor dem ersten Kaffee unverschämt gut gelaunt ist und mit der Morgensonne um die Wette strahlt? Furchtbar. Ekelhaft.
Ninjas Are Butterflies
127 - UFO Encounters, Mothman Conspiracies, & Giant Exploding Rockets
I'm taken.
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127 - UFO Encounters, Mothman Conspiracies, & Giant Exploding Rockets
He's jacked.
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127 - UFO Encounters, Mothman Conspiracies, & Giant Exploding Rockets
It's like, that's it. It's so weird.
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127 - UFO Encounters, Mothman Conspiracies, & Giant Exploding Rockets
I'm going to eat the brains out of your head! Trust me. Yell louder.
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127 - UFO Encounters, Mothman Conspiracies, & Giant Exploding Rockets
If you're watching this on Red Note right now, it's too late. You're dead.
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127 - UFO Encounters, Mothman Conspiracies, & Giant Exploding Rockets
This is a question.
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127 - UFO Encounters, Mothman Conspiracies, & Giant Exploding Rockets
There's something under the ground. It sounds like a heartbeat. It's like tunneling.
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127 - UFO Encounters, Mothman Conspiracies, & Giant Exploding Rockets
some things watch your bridge i'ma make it collapse don't you forget i'm the mothman i'm the mothman you can find me in your closet just in your coats in your car going real fast going real far i don't care where you're going don't care if it's a beach oh you're gonna hear
Ninjas Are Butterflies
126 - Idols in the Vatican, Haitian Voodoo, and Weather Control
I know this is his podcast, but you can tell the truth.
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126 - Idols in the Vatican, Haitian Voodoo, and Weather Control
Was ist Hades' geistige Überzeugung? Haben sie eine predominante Religion?
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126 - Idols in the Vatican, Haitian Voodoo, and Weather Control
Er ging auf einen Mission-Trip da und er sprach über all die Voodoo, die sie machten.
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126 - Idols in the Vatican, Haitian Voodoo, and Weather Control
Verzeih mir meine ungewöhnliche Unwissenheit. Tortuga, wie in Piraten der Karibik. Ja, ja. Tortuga. Nein, das ist nicht dein... Ist das tatsächlich... Ja, all diese Geschichten.
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126 - Idols in the Vatican, Haitian Voodoo, and Weather Control
Es hat ein hartes Gehen. Mein Bruder nannte es eine der schrecklichsten Erfahrungen, die er gehabt hat, weil sie in einem christlichen Gebäude waren. Jeder wusste, dass er christlich war. Sie standen auf und an dieser Nacht gingen sie auf die Außenseite des Walls. Ich werde es nicht beschreiben, aber es war etwas, was mit Hunden auf der anderen Seite des Walls passiert war.
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126 - Idols in the Vatican, Haitian Voodoo, and Weather Control
Das war seine erste Erfahrung mit Leuten, die in den spirituellen Raum glauben. In einem sehr praktischen und praktizierenden Art und Weise. Ich schätze, Haiti ist reich mit dem Spuken und dem Außen. Aber das ist eine weitere Herausforderung, wenn du versuchst, diese Kulturen zu erreichen.
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126 - Idols in the Vatican, Haitian Voodoo, and Weather Control
Ja, super schwer.
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126 - Idols in the Vatican, Haitian Voodoo, and Weather Control
Ja, oh mein Gott, es ist so, weil er auf dem Kick ist, wo er sagt, dass alle Wege nobel oder gute Wege sind, es ist so, aber es ist dieses seltsame Wasser. Ich mag, dass Mel Gibson darauf reagiert hat, er war so, dass das Nummer eins auf Moses Hitliste ist. Ja, das ist so, wie er es bezeichnet hat. Ja, ja.
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126 - Idols in the Vatican, Haitian Voodoo, and Weather Control
Rogan's genuinely confused. He's like, why would they do that?
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126 - Idols in the Vatican, Haitian Voodoo, and Weather Control
What do you mean?
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126 - Idols in the Vatican, Haitian Voodoo, and Weather Control
basically it's after jesus is resurrected yeah oh man and he said but it's gonna focus almost solely on the spiritual battle aspect so like evil and good at battle i wonder how that's gonna look he said him and his brother and was it someone else does he have brothers there's a group of people that have been writing it for six years they've been writing it and he said because you can't write it in a linear way it has to like go forward and backward and they're trying to make that timeline like
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126 - Idols in the Vatican, Haitian Voodoo, and Weather Control
Ich glaube nicht, dass er es klar gemacht hat.
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126 - Idols in the Vatican, Haitian Voodoo, and Weather Control
Ja, was auch immer er morgens trinkt, wollte ich. Alkohol.
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126 - Idols in the Vatican, Haitian Voodoo, and Weather Control
I texted Josh and Andy when that dropped and I was like, I'm about an hour in and I feel like I never went to Bible college. Yeah, totally. Instantly. Felt like I knew nothing.
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126 - Idols in the Vatican, Haitian Voodoo, and Weather Control
He's got a photographic memory for sure. Even in the debate with Billy Carson, where he's like, oh, you're referring to whatever Sinaticus. He's like, it's in this book here. Yeah. Wow. Das ist einer von diesen Leuten. Ich hatte einen Professor wie den. Es war so cool. Du könntest in sein Büro gehen, wenn du recherchierst. Und er hatte Bücher auf drei seiner Wälder.
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126 - Idols in the Vatican, Haitian Voodoo, and Weather Control
Und er würde das machen und dann holen, fliegen und dann handeln. Du warst so, danke, Mann. Unglaublich.
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126 - Idols in the Vatican, Haitian Voodoo, and Weather Control
Das ist wild.
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126 - Idols in the Vatican, Haitian Voodoo, and Weather Control
In dieser Kultur, ja.
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126 - Idols in the Vatican, Haitian Voodoo, and Weather Control
Yeah, it was budget, water reservoir, and then I watched people saying, we're evacuating, but the same thing they did in Hawaii. You can only go down this route and it led them straight into a gridlock. They were like, you know, I mean, you gotta funnel people out when that many people funnel. It's gonna lock down.
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126 - Idols in the Vatican, Haitian Voodoo, and Weather Control
But they were saying, as residents, like, there were clear, like, let us go that way, and they wouldn't let them go. Oh, wow.
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126 - Idols in the Vatican, Haitian Voodoo, and Weather Control
They're not gonna release the numbers. Same amount of people that have died in North Carolina.
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126 - Idols in the Vatican, Haitian Voodoo, and Weather Control
Ich kann es nicht glauben, diese Feuerzeuge, Mann. Und sie gehen noch weiter, richtig?
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126 - Idols in the Vatican, Haitian Voodoo, and Weather Control
They were the type that does this. And it just kept everything wet enough. And he saved, it was 14 more houses down the street that literally, because his didn't go, it split. Und dann hat er 14 andere Häuser gerettet. Es gibt einen anderen Arzt, der nicht weggehen würde. Es gibt so Bodycam-Fotos, wo man sagt, Sir, du kannst nicht bleiben. Und er hat literally einen Gartenhosen.
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126 - Idols in the Vatican, Haitian Voodoo, and Weather Control
Er ist so, ich gehe nicht weg. Und sie kamen zurück und er hat sein Haus mit dem stinkenden Gartenhosen gerettet. Er würde einfach nicht weggehen.
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126 - Idols in the Vatican, Haitian Voodoo, and Weather Control
Das wäre so schrecklich. Ich würde gerne, dass jemand mir erklärt, wie Sprinkler in einer Gartenhose Wasser behalten. Oh, ja.
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126 - Idols in the Vatican, Haitian Voodoo, and Weather Control
Everyone's seeing it. Yeah, Paige had the scary thought with all the activity on the East Coast that it was a distraction so that some sort of, like, you know, if it really is, the chatter is China. Like, that came out with all the weird orb stuff. Yeah, but if it was a distraction on this coast to pull off that on that coast, That's out of thin air.
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126 - Idols in the Vatican, Haitian Voodoo, and Weather Control
I didn't read anything about it because I was like, that's not real.
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126 - Idols in the Vatican, Haitian Voodoo, and Weather Control
Yeah. So it can, oh, is it fake? Forbes, six days ago, meet the Enron egg, an at-home nuclear reactor, that's totally fake. Okay, so Enron is the company that like, womp, womp.
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126 - Idols in the Vatican, Haitian Voodoo, and Weather Control
The egg-on-egg is a hoax from a parody company of the same name.
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126 - Idols in the Vatican, Haitian Voodoo, and Weather Control
I saw the clip of the female running and there's like a follow car. And she's like, don't follow me. Yeah, she was like, I just pooped myself. Don't film from behind. Yeah, seriously. The car like slowly pulls ahead.
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126 - Idols in the Vatican, Haitian Voodoo, and Weather Control
I'd be like, nope, this is national television. Give the people what they want.
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126 - Idols in the Vatican, Haitian Voodoo, and Weather Control
It's a three-hour show. It's like, how are you not? Yeah, seriously.
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126 - Idols in the Vatican, Haitian Voodoo, and Weather Control
And she's running around.
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126 - Idols in the Vatican, Haitian Voodoo, and Weather Control
Love her or hate her, it is impressive how active a three-hour show is. That's crazy.
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126 - Idols in the Vatican, Haitian Voodoo, and Weather Control
fly yeah well if you have your own private plane you probably just walk right on yeah the take off takes longer that's what I'm saying like just moving to the runway that's Jason Momoa too for one of his premieres in Hawaii he was on the north shore and traffic was shut down so they chartered a helicopter I landed at the event I don't think I'll ever get an helicopter I don't think I will it scares me so much we did it once we had one rockstar moment in our whole career tell us about it only one yeah
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126 - Idols in the Vatican, Haitian Voodoo, and Weather Control
Which venue got your favorite guitar? Oh, that's a good one. That'd be weird to me to leave one rig behind and go to another.
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126 - Idols in the Vatican, Haitian Voodoo, and Weather Control
That has to be there.
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126 - Idols in the Vatican, Haitian Voodoo, and Weather Control
Drop that beat. One or two? Two. Alright, it's different. It's really different. Be ready. Be angry. Okay. You agree?
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126 - Idols in the Vatican, Haitian Voodoo, and Weather Control
That was so loud. I promise the level was where it should be.
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126 - Idols in the Vatican, Haitian Voodoo, and Weather Control
There were so many youth group kids who suddenly started playing shows. It went hard. They wanted to rebel against the normal.
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126 - Idols in the Vatican, Haitian Voodoo, and Weather Control
What do I do? Turn your volume on your phone off. We're going to hear it through his phone. And he'll count you down to click on it. And he'll count us down to hit play. Okay.
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126 - Idols in the Vatican, Haitian Voodoo, and Weather Control
So this says the son is about to sue his dentist. Oh! Taking his wisdom teeth out. Have you guys seen this?
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126 - Idols in the Vatican, Haitian Voodoo, and Weather Control
Oh mein Gott.
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126 - Idols in the Vatican, Haitian Voodoo, and Weather Control
So they're like, let me just see this owl flip night vision on and there's a body under it. That has to be fake. I hope it is, but I thought it'd still disturb you. No, Enron Egg posted it.
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126 - Idols in the Vatican, Haitian Voodoo, and Weather Control
Watch. Okay, go back and watch the beginning. He pulls it and it drops. He's like, because, you know, they fracture the tooth and then he's pulling out bits and the dude's awake and the wisdom tooth falls down his throat. He goes, his mouth is strapped open. He's going... So the guy picks him up.
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126 - Idols in the Vatican, Haitian Voodoo, and Weather Control
That's how you die. That's a way to go. So that was a little horror for each of you. Andy's talking about getting his wisdom teeth done at some point.
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126 - Idols in the Vatican, Haitian Voodoo, and Weather Control
Okay. Ready to fact check.
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126 - Idols in the Vatican, Haitian Voodoo, and Weather Control
Diamond dust. Breathe bright like a diamond.
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126 - Idols in the Vatican, Haitian Voodoo, and Weather Control
red tide will do that but yeah you'd see like dead fish you see all of the red algae and stuff though or the you don't it's not always red sometimes it's like we would surf it does get stinky but but you it definitely kills fish like there's like a yeah it won't be we surfed in it when like the water looked fine a little frothy but it wasn't red at all but i mean it's like don't say frothy
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126 - Idols in the Vatican, Haitian Voodoo, and Weather Control
Es ist ein Chemtrail.
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126 - Idols in the Vatican, Haitian Voodoo, and Weather Control
Or to send a hurricane somewhere.
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126 - Idols in the Vatican, Haitian Voodoo, and Weather Control
I think that's what you said. Will McGinnis thinks Luigi's a hero?
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126 - Idols in the Vatican, Haitian Voodoo, and Weather Control
Ich habe es noch nie gesehen.
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126 - Idols in the Vatican, Haitian Voodoo, and Weather Control
Dude, it's like an epidemic of fear, though, because in my ring app, my neighbors are like, are you guys hearing the booms? Ich sage es dir, aber es ist psychologischer Krieg. New Year's just passed and the amount of people that were like, what is that in the ring app? I'm like, you realize there's a firework stand on every single corner.
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126 - Idols in the Vatican, Haitian Voodoo, and Weather Control
Das ist wie... Nein, das letzte Mal war es wie... Ja, es klingt wie ein Spring River. Metallic. Metallic. Metallic Prop.
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126 - Idols in the Vatican, Haitian Voodoo, and Weather Control
Zuerst mal. Nun, nun, nun.
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126 - Idols in the Vatican, Haitian Voodoo, and Weather Control
Yeah, I want to know, is there like a story that someone's told you, where as a skeptic hearing it, it's like, man, that one unsettles me. Let's give a little preface.
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125 - Bankrupting Zuckerberg, Ancient Map Mystery & Finding Atlantis
But I'll do what I have to do.
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125 - Bankrupting Zuckerberg, Ancient Map Mystery & Finding Atlantis
Don't you dare walk out on me! Oh, what?
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125 - Bankrupting Zuckerberg, Ancient Map Mystery & Finding Atlantis
It is what that be.
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125 - Bankrupting Zuckerberg, Ancient Map Mystery & Finding Atlantis
I like this.
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125 - Bankrupting Zuckerberg, Ancient Map Mystery & Finding Atlantis
What other choice did I have, Richard? You're lying to me. Hats, stickers, wristbands, all types of promotional items. From where? Sunday cool, whatever that means. I mean, what am I supposed to think? You're lying to me, Richard. Why? Why? I did it for me, okay? I did it for me.
Talking Counter
Episode 126: PGL Cluj Playoff results, PGL's Field of Dreams and the CS ecosystem
That's so rough.
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Episode 126: PGL Cluj Playoff results, PGL's Field of Dreams and the CS ecosystem
Yeah, that is from that show as well. Just the hardcore bitch for no reason.
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Episode 126: PGL Cluj Playoff results, PGL's Field of Dreams and the CS ecosystem
I know, but it's made me laugh for a good amount of times.
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Episode 117: Shanghai Major Opening Stage and the Top 16 teams at the Major
I was grabbing those little meat sticks from the well, I mean, once you get used to it, I guess it's better. But like, you know, and yeah, you're back at the hotel for breakfast.
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Episode 117: Shanghai Major Opening Stage and the Top 16 teams at the Major
I grabbed that. Well, I did mostly fasting, but a couple of times one grabbed those little like beef jerky sticks they got done.
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Episode 117: Shanghai Major Opening Stage and the Top 16 teams at the Major
It's plenty of plenty of Snickers bars as well in the studio.
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Episode 117: Shanghai Major Opening Stage and the Top 16 teams at the Major
Good for you.
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Episode 117: Shanghai Major Opening Stage and the Top 16 teams at the Major
It was me, Yanko, Richard, and Seb, producer Seb.
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Episode 117: Shanghai Major Opening Stage and the Top 16 teams at the Major
Mark. Set up the timestamp. 19 minutes and 7 seconds. CS talk begins. Wokey's taking over the world, man. What's going on? All right, that's it. That's the only timestamp.
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Episode 117: Shanghai Major Opening Stage and the Top 16 teams at the Major
Well, he could probably use that. Yeah, that's what we figured when we were leaving as well. And then I think it was Sam, Blair, and Dust at one table. Oof.
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Episode 117: Shanghai Major Opening Stage and the Top 16 teams at the Major
Who's the fourth? And then it was Connor, Launders, Maui, and Dinko at the other table.
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Episode 117: Shanghai Major Opening Stage and the Top 16 teams at the Major
Yeah, you'd think so.
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Episode 117: Shanghai Major Opening Stage and the Top 16 teams at the Major
I mean, they're number 10 right now. Okay. There's no way they drop 20, 23 stars. It would be kind of crazy.
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Episode 117: Shanghai Major Opening Stage and the Top 16 teams at the Major
Yeah, I don't mind them taking a little bit of a break after this. I think the point of so many teams being out in China right now that they'd want to practice against, and I don't know if there's necessarily even a point to trying to grind some Counter-Strike and practice some games until you know who your fifth's going to be.
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Episode 117: Shanghai Major Opening Stage and the Top 16 teams at the Major
I bet there's still a conversation to be had of bringing Device back, as much as it probably is the smart... Well, he said in his statement he was going to come back next week.
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Episode 117: Shanghai Major Opening Stage and the Top 16 teams at the Major
yeah exactly and that's where I'm like you know as much as it makes sense and there's a lot of logic and there's a lot of reasons to say he should be just let go and and if he wants to retire retire but Astralis shouldn't count on having him I think that conversation is going to be ongoing and until that's a deadline for it for sure yeah yeah I think that's probably the key I think I think maybe it's one of those things where maybe you're not going back and practicing but there's probably got to be you know the in-game leader sports director coach and whoever within the company having conversations and looking into options and starting to game plan different ideas if device doesn't come back
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Episode 117: Shanghai Major Opening Stage and the Top 16 teams at the Major
Do you want to go with Bro? Is there a fifth player that you want to go out for? Do you have money to go out for a fifth player?
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Episode 117: Shanghai Major Opening Stage and the Top 16 teams at the Major
Well, I mean, we can either do one Saturday or if for whatever reason we don't want to or it doesn't happen, Janko and I can always do one.
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Episode 117: Shanghai Major Opening Stage and the Top 16 teams at the Major
We'll never know unless... There's certainly some evidence to lean that way when you look at the rest of what he's done. But go on about Groove.
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Episode 117: Shanghai Major Opening Stage and the Top 16 teams at the Major
It was four tables in like the size of this hotel room. So we were all reasonably close to each other.
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Episode 117: Shanghai Major Opening Stage and the Top 16 teams at the Major
Do you think, do you think, how much better do you think Claudin would be if Perfecto was playing for Inter's right now?
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Episode 117: Shanghai Major Opening Stage and the Top 16 teams at the Major
I was really disappointed watching their T sides, like how just basic they were and how just like they, there was nothing going on. And I think that was, that would seem to be a trend for me watching a lot of like the Russian and teams from that region, the CIS region, like Washington, they were all very similar.
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Episode 117: Shanghai Major Opening Stage and the Top 16 teams at the Major
I felt like really uninspired T sides and like, for a region that really kind of pioneered out of the online era, that style of like multiple lurkers, like finding gaps and like pulling the defense around and people getting aggressive lurks going on and sliding into gaps like none of that has been going on these days. Everything was based on defaults into like a trade game into an execute.
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Episode 117: Shanghai Major Opening Stage and the Top 16 teams at the Major
Wow. A mood. A good mood. I was, I was just like, I was awake and I was active and I had energy. So I just decided to capitalize on the situation. You guys went out with trance and it's an off day.
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Episode 117: Shanghai Major Opening Stage and the Top 16 teams at the Major
No team. No current team. Hooch is just hanging out. Okay.
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Episode 117: Shanghai Major Opening Stage and the Top 16 teams at the Major
And even they look shaky at different points in different ways as well.
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Episode 117: Shanghai Major Opening Stage and the Top 16 teams at the Major
I'd like to start with South Korea.
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Episode 117: Shanghai Major Opening Stage and the Top 16 teams at the Major
I don't know. I think there's some interesting parts of that Cloud9 lineup. I think there's potential for a longer-term future with Icy being young, with HeavyGod being new.
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Episode 117: Shanghai Major Opening Stage and the Top 16 teams at the Major
Yeah, and maybe he doesn't for long, but he's signed there for now. And I don't know how long his contract is, but I'm imagining no one signs a one-year contract. It's going to be a multi-year contract.
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Episode 117: Shanghai Major Opening Stage and the Top 16 teams at the Major
But also, I wonder if like, this is where I think the conversation then goes to like the electronic side of things where it's like, you know, you come to this Cloud9 roster from, you know, the god tier Navi, and then it crumbles and doesn't reach any of its potential. And not to give like Groove any kind of a pass, because I think all the criticisms are very, very valid around it.
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Episode 117: Shanghai Major Opening Stage and the Top 16 teams at the Major
But I wonder if there's some like, there's something that happened internally. We obviously haven't heard much of what happened during that era, why it failed so spectacularly. But I wonder if from like a Cloud9 management perspective, they're like, we kind of are giving Groove a pass on that.
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Episode 117: Shanghai Major Opening Stage and the Top 16 teams at the Major
And you just never know. Maybe it was just such a disaster between the players that there was nothing a coach could do.
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Episode 117: Shanghai Major Opening Stage and the Top 16 teams at the Major
Well, the context quote in the headline didn't help him out. Because there was a lot of context to the quote within the interview itself.
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Episode 117: Shanghai Major Opening Stage and the Top 16 teams at the Major
And I mean, he makes that point in the interview as well. Like he mentioned specifically, when you look at like teams like Eternal Fire and Astralis not even making it, like this could have been worse for us. Like we're very easily might not have made it to this stage.
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Episode 117: Shanghai Major Opening Stage and the Top 16 teams at the Major
And then also when you hear the Astralis, like your little Instagram DM of like, Astralis not making the major means they can no longer afford my job. And you realize Cloud9, from an organizational perspective, getting to the major and getting those stickers is kind of the bare minimum. It's a huge deal.
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Episode 117: Shanghai Major Opening Stage and the Top 16 teams at the Major
I'm a man of the people, Chad.
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Episode 117: Shanghai Major Opening Stage and the Top 16 teams at the Major
I don't mind going down there and having a conversation with a common man.
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Episode 117: Shanghai Major Opening Stage and the Top 16 teams at the Major
Yeah, it makes sense. It's a long trip, so capitalize while you're there.
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Episode 117: Shanghai Major Opening Stage and the Top 16 teams at the Major
No, I mean, it was one of those situations where I criticize him for not because we've had this thing with VP all year. We've been denied access to talking to players, denied access of talking about various topics with VP when we do get a chance to talk to some of them. And that was frustrating. And I did come out and say, like, why? Why is Norbert once again doing this losers interview?
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Episode 117: Shanghai Major Opening Stage and the Top 16 teams at the Major
Unbeknownst to me at the time on the Chinese stream, James did go out and do an interview with the Chinese broadcast on the stage. So, I mean, that's my bad. I just kind of mentioned, you know, we don't have that level of communication with Perfect World. We don't have like a rundown of what their show is.
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Episode 117: Shanghai Major Opening Stage and the Top 16 teams at the Major
We don't have communication in terms of who they're going to be getting, which we normally have at events. So it was something in the moment that just kind of tilted me and I didn't know that was going to be happening.
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Episode 117: Shanghai Major Opening Stage and the Top 16 teams at the Major
I still think in essence that my argument and my anger is justified in the sense that this is a team where like they don't owe us anything, but like there should be some accountability throughout the year of this project just struggling and limping along. Yeah.
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Episode 117: Shanghai Major Opening Stage and the Top 16 teams at the Major
Also, it's the only interesting thing about the team this year was talking about that in-game leader clash and the philosophy of styles that they're trying to work around.
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Episode 117: Shanghai Major Opening Stage and the Top 16 teams at the Major
I mean, he did say in the Chinese interview, we still don't know what we are going to do, but the changes are likely. Everything suggests that there will be some.
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Episode 117: Shanghai Major Opening Stage and the Top 16 teams at the Major
Do you think this counts as Counter-Strike talk for the timestamp purposes? I was speaking with Maui and Londres yesterday. They're both avid listeners of the Talking Counter podcast, which is... Unlucky for them.
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Episode 117: Shanghai Major Opening Stage and the Top 16 teams at the Major
And there was, I mean, it was a group of 12 of us as well. So you know how that goes. It's like split up into tables of four. I heard. Yeah, for the Korean barbecue split up into tables of four is quite nice. I love that arrangement for the teams. I love the way that you have all the information as well. Where'd you get the scouting report?
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Episode 117: Shanghai Major Opening Stage and the Top 16 teams at the Major
Shit on American Counterstrike, baby.
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Episode 117: Shanghai Major Opening Stage and the Top 16 teams at the Major
I know. And they are both avid timestamp fans as well.
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Episode 117: Shanghai Major Opening Stage and the Top 16 teams at the Major
Not the heavily detailed ones, but they do like the Counter-Strike talk.
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Episode 117: Shanghai Major Opening Stage and the Top 16 teams at the Major
Before the major. No, after the RMR. Oh, I have no idea.
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Episode 117: Shanghai Major Opening Stage and the Top 16 teams at the Major
Well, because they had they had the they had the two RMRs as well before. Yeah, they had a while, but I thought it'd be I don't know.
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Episode 117: Shanghai Major Opening Stage and the Top 16 teams at the Major
But I mean, look, complexity is just not good enough. They just make too many dumb decisions.
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Episode 117: Shanghai Major Opening Stage and the Top 16 teams at the Major
No, no, no. I'm with you. I only do one timestamp.
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Episode 117: Shanghai Major Opening Stage and the Top 16 teams at the Major
Yeah, but again, I think there is that certain base level where we go back to the groove thing, and obviously with a team like Complexity, top 16 is kind of, you know, we expect them to be there, but from an organization perspective, getting those stickers is a massive deal for the org. But yeah, there's plenty of problems with Complexity outside of that still.
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Episode 117: Shanghai Major Opening Stage and the Top 16 teams at the Major
Yeah, trying to bring sponsors in, especially in the Americas where Counter-Strike isn't as big, and trying to find partners to work with to be able to rebuild and regrow, and
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Episode 117: Shanghai Major Opening Stage and the Top 16 teams at the Major
have options to pivot to when a roster doesn't pan out and who knows where he's going to be able to take things that's the thing right in terms of buying power that's one of the biggest problems he's going to have is is having cash available to try and buy big names around a leash the only thing is if he sells a leash then maybe he can buy another couple of players but then you lose a leash yeah well this is 22 you have a very shit situation don't you yes yeah because i'm with you i have that same philosophy where it's like the only way to get money to get better players is probably to sell a leash he's the most valuable asset on the team but then you're losing a massive piece and a massively talented player
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Episode 117: Shanghai Major Opening Stage and the Top 16 teams at the Major
Yeah, but I think that's how it has to be.
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Episode 117: Shanghai Major Opening Stage and the Top 16 teams at the Major
I mean, from a complexity perspective, I don't know if that's how it has to be. I think from an Elish perspective, that's how it has to be. I think Elish should be the one being like, I want out. I don't know how much longer I'm going to be doing this. I've spent a lot of time in this.
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Episode 117: Shanghai Major Opening Stage and the Top 16 teams at the Major
More, I think. More?
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Episode 117: Shanghai Major Opening Stage and the Top 16 teams at the Major
He's got time, but at this point, if you're Alige, aren't you kind of like, look, I've done this whole thing. We're coming out of COVID. America seemed collapsed. I stuck around because I didn't want to go to Europe. Now it's time.
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Episode 117: Shanghai Major Opening Stage and the Top 16 teams at the Major
But it feels like such... Nathany's out there looking for an international.
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Episode 117: Shanghai Major Opening Stage and the Top 16 teams at the Major
Nathany is out there. Nathany is out there.
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Episode 117: Shanghai Major Opening Stage and the Top 16 teams at the Major
I think the hardest position that Complexity has found themselves in is this team, this lineup kind of sold them a dream in terms of the success early on in CS2. Yeah, and they were kind of like languishing in that, almost breaking into Tier 1. We just need that one little win to get us over the hump, the one extra deep run to get us the confidence to maintain that position.
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Episode 117: Shanghai Major Opening Stage and the Top 16 teams at the Major
meanwhile you had teams like wildcard coming together changing rosters grabbing young talent bringing european players in you had mad starting on a rise young players young talent bringing in europeans and all of a sudden now when you get to the major a year down the road those young players and that experience and that work they put in all year are paying fruition but for complexity they still just never broke through and now you're seeing like all that hard work going nowhere so i think now it's just degraded because it's like what the fuck like we've tried everything you know like
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Episode 117: Shanghai Major Opening Stage and the Top 16 teams at the Major
Yeah, I see what you're saying. And you've missed the opportunity to go for some of the young NA talent that you could have been working on.
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Episode 117: Shanghai Major Opening Stage and the Top 16 teams at the Major
I feel like they had a couple. I mean, I couldn't identify them in terms of like a timeline, but I feel like they had a couple of those events where it was like, dude, a change has to happen. And then they do well enough to keep that lineup just on life support.
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Episode 117: Shanghai Major Opening Stage and the Top 16 teams at the Major
Like, this is a problem. Complexity has no draw power. True.
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Episode 117: Shanghai Major Opening Stage and the Top 16 teams at the Major
I don't think so.
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Episode 117: Shanghai Major Opening Stage and the Top 16 teams at the Major
Yeah, they got Amaranth back there.
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Episode 117: Shanghai Major Opening Stage and the Top 16 teams at the Major
What if you just give wildcard a leash for Sonic?
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Episode 117: Shanghai Major Opening Stage and the Top 16 teams at the Major
Well, not give, not like a gift, but, you know. Because I'm thinking, why in God's name would Stanislaw be like, yeah, dude, I'll go to Complexity. I'll just start over with this team that is clearly a fucking mess.
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Episode 117: Shanghai Major Opening Stage and the Top 16 teams at the Major
Why is the conversation Stan going to Complexity? I know, but think about it. If you're Stan and you're Wildcard, you're like, why? What's our motivation? Our team just made the top 16 of a major. Yours got knocked out. You have clear issues that have been persisting for a year. I don't think that's even a concept that would fly if I'm part of Wildcard.
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Episode 117: Shanghai Major Opening Stage and the Top 16 teams at the Major
No, I think they're going to have to go ground up again. They're just going to have to start over.
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Episode 117: Shanghai Major Opening Stage and the Top 16 teams at the Major
And the way Stan stepped up in the games, like the closing it out on Virtus Pro on Anubis was discussed. Like his last three rounds in that game were fucking masterclass. Same thing with Ancient. Ancient against Passion was unreal. And it's just like, you have the team playing well, you're calling good T-sides. They had two styles.
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Episode 117: Shanghai Major Opening Stage and the Top 16 teams at the Major
I don't know if you guys noticed this against VP, like really fucking brawly, really trade focused, really get into bomb sites quick and decisively don't even allow a retake and against passion. They slowed things down in that series and they played a more default style and they actually worked the map and it was just like, oh, you guys actually have a playbook.
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Episode 117: Shanghai Major Opening Stage and the Top 16 teams at the Major
Stan has one thing that I don't know any other player in North America actually has when you talk to him. And just, like, knowing him and just kind of seeing what he's done over the past few years. Like, this whole – he's got such, like, a good, strong mental game.
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Episode 117: Shanghai Major Opening Stage and the Top 16 teams at the Major
But, like, his mental game in terms of, like, determination in terms of, like, understanding the long game and, like, setting the long goal. And I look at it and I'm also, like, this is a guy who at one point –
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Episode 117: Shanghai Major Opening Stage and the Top 16 teams at the Major
like really focused on his, I mean, this is, this is going a different direction, but he like focused on his own health and he became like a bodybuilder kind of guy, you know, like he's actually been able to go through a process in life of, I'm going to improve my health. I'm going to build muscle. I'm going to set this goal that I want to be jacked. And he's gotten there.
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Episode 117: Shanghai Major Opening Stage and the Top 16 teams at the Major
You're on that ground right now too. But Stan is law. You're able, you're able to bring those concepts over to, over to counter-strike now. And I think when I watch him playing, I'm like, fuck, that's actually the leader of the team. Like that's actually a leader of this team.
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Episode 117: Shanghai Major Opening Stage and the Top 16 teams at the Major
yeah he's calm and poised he's relaxed he's not freaking out when they win rounds nothing more than a ghost of a smile hyping up his boys when they make good plays like everything seems positive out of it and i just i i get that sense because i know from from knowing him in the past over the years and the last time i think i spoke to him in person was in stockholm um but just his demeanor as a person is is really cool to watch i think i spoke to him during epl when they were there
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Episode 117: Shanghai Major Opening Stage and the Top 16 teams at the Major
I actually, I'll even say this. I actually think that she did a good job presenting her side of the argument. I think it was completely fair and reasonable. I think she nailed it. I think she's a net positive for that org and that team and for American Counter-Strike, to be honest with you.
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Episode 117: Shanghai Major Opening Stage and the Top 16 teams at the Major
No cap, as the kids would say.
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Episode 117: Shanghai Major Opening Stage and the Top 16 teams at the Major
or maybe maybe they're the same audience I don't know you know different strokes for different faces I don't know that whole thing I was just watching it it's like I really I really in some level I couldn't I was like this is at one point it just descended to I think both people both Sonic and Amaranth like finding ways to make it feel like a personal attack from each other's side like I was just like guys come on like this is silly like I'm sure he appreciates the fact that you do support the organization not on camera though yeah unless you charge for it that can go on the OnlyFans um
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Episode 117: Shanghai Major Opening Stage and the Top 16 teams at the Major
Yeah, but you didn't tweet it, you know.
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Episode 117: Shanghai Major Opening Stage and the Top 16 teams at the Major
I don't know. I think so.
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Episode 117: Shanghai Major Opening Stage and the Top 16 teams at the Major
in the first game Jason 3D Max MIBR and they both really like Anubis so it's like you know that's a fucking 50-50 game and someone gave the heads up as well unless Mongols beat G2 it's like Navi and Vitality are like playing each other in like every situation unless Mongols beat G2 I did see that I haven't looked into that but yeah
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Episode 117: Shanghai Major Opening Stage and the Top 16 teams at the Major
They do. He's about a week behind from your take. Two weeks behind even.
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Episode 117: Shanghai Major Opening Stage and the Top 16 teams at the Major
I'm really curious to see what FaZe is going to look like. Because all of a sudden, I think with the wildcard, the way they're playing, I feel like there's even in a best of one, there's some upset potential there.
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Episode 117: Shanghai Major Opening Stage and the Top 16 teams at the Major
Right. But we also enjoy when he's brash and he comes out and takes that fight against an org that's kind of screwed them out of money. But then you've got to take the brash angle. You've got to be okay with that when he comes out and says something like this.
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Episode 117: Shanghai Major Opening Stage and the Top 16 teams at the Major
0-3 I went wildcard and game of legion I think the fun is over now we play against big boys game of legion haven't been a good team I don't know if I could put wildcard in 0-3 I would put game of legion in 3D max but then 3D max plays MIBR I might actually put pain or heroic as the other 0-3 but heroic plays big that's the problem then I'll throw pain in there
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Episode 117: Shanghai Major Opening Stage and the Top 16 teams at the Major
And so impressively as well, not just winning, but winning impressively.
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Episode 117: Shanghai Major Opening Stage and the Top 16 teams at the Major
Oh yeah.
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Episode 117: Shanghai Major Opening Stage and the Top 16 teams at the Major
Dunstan Checks In.
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Episode 117: Shanghai Major Opening Stage and the Top 16 teams at the Major
Is there a bifurcating there?
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Episode 117: Shanghai Major Opening Stage and the Top 16 teams at the Major
Why did you think I would know this movie?
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Episode 117: Shanghai Major Opening Stage and the Top 16 teams at the Major
Yeah. Oh, wait, never mind. We covered that. Go on.
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Episode 117: Shanghai Major Opening Stage and the Top 16 teams at the Major
Okay. Yeah, go on. Jason was a teenager.
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Episode 117: Shanghai Major Opening Stage and the Top 16 teams at the Major
That's funny.
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Episode 117: Shanghai Major Opening Stage and the Top 16 teams at the Major
And his ability as an endgame leader outweighs a lot of deficiencies as an individual.
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Episode 117: Shanghai Major Opening Stage and the Top 16 teams at the Major
he's shown to be a good player his brother's a good player as well so yeah a bit of a shame maybe they'll end up together in the future yeah maybe maybe maybe i played with my brother back in the day and we split up on a team we got a big fight so that shit happens must have been his fault yeah it definitely was yeah it was um yeah i don't yeah i don't really have much you know we covered that one spear versus furia heroic versus big who cares
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Episode 117: Shanghai Major Opening Stage and the Top 16 teams at the Major
I'm right there with you.
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Episode 117: Shanghai Major Opening Stage and the Top 16 teams at the Major
Yes, I'm good. Well, you've seen the bitches. I haven't. What pictures?
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Episode 117: Shanghai Major Opening Stage and the Top 16 teams at the Major
I mean, he's on his rebound. I mean, good for him. Honestly, like go out and go out and get the job done.
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Episode 117: Shanghai Major Opening Stage and the Top 16 teams at the Major
Yeah, they could run that city.
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Episode 117: Shanghai Major Opening Stage and the Top 16 teams at the Major
I don't mean I don't expect him to form without saying he has to play better if they want to win but I mean I think there's the quality of the players on G2 to be able to carry another kind of middling performance from him to the playoffs to the playoffs
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Episode 117: Shanghai Major Opening Stage and the Top 16 teams at the Major
well yeah they can't i mean again nico yeah there'll be some there'll be some rough spots there'll be some moments where we're like what's happening right but i mean you have nico and malves and um those i think those guys can do enough especially again it's like once you get into it once you get past it even if g2 is gonna end up playing in a 2-2 game like with the other teams that'll be down there which ones of those are you gonna see them able to like actually beat g2
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Episode 117: Shanghai Major Opening Stage and the Top 16 teams at the Major
I don't think so. We're comatose on Furia. I was actually pretty high on MIBR coming into this and it's cooled off. I was really excited to see them. I was hoping that was going to go a lot better.
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Episode 117: Shanghai Major Opening Stage and the Top 16 teams at the Major
I think we're just baked into the city now.
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Episode 117: Shanghai Major Opening Stage and the Top 16 teams at the Major
But that's a performance out of him that I don't think we get super frequently.
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Episode 117: Shanghai Major Opening Stage and the Top 16 teams at the Major
I think with me, for Payne, it still comes down to Big E's era. Like, he still has to be the guy. For me.
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Episode 117: Shanghai Major Opening Stage and the Top 16 teams at the Major
For sure. I mean, the bartenders are always happy to see us. They see us coming through the doors at the end of the shift and they all like start walking forward, greet us at the door. It's great. Really? Yeah. Oh, yeah.
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Episode 117: Shanghai Major Opening Stage and the Top 16 teams at the Major
They worked on it and it didn't pan out.
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Episode 117: Shanghai Major Opening Stage and the Top 16 teams at the Major
The classic, like it's been going really well for us in practice.
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Episode 117: Shanghai Major Opening Stage and the Top 16 teams at the Major
Things get weird in the domestic ones.
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Episode 117: Shanghai Major Opening Stage and the Top 16 teams at the Major
No, I swear to God. Not like right at the round door, but, you know, they step forward out of the restaurant. Well, they're grabbing your coats and stuff. And they're like, hey, guys, you guys coming down later? Who's getting food? We're going to have some drinks. What are we doing? What can we get you started for?
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Episode 117: Shanghai Major Opening Stage and the Top 16 teams at the Major
Yeah, dude. We can't open any windows in here. I've been in here for literally 26, 27 days straight now. I need something.
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Episode 117: Shanghai Major Opening Stage and the Top 16 teams at the Major
Uh, once a week, usually.
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Episode 117: Shanghai Major Opening Stage and the Top 16 teams at the Major
I think so. Yeah.
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Episode 117: Shanghai Major Opening Stage and the Top 16 teams at the Major
I mean, they, they, they're, they're, they're like neatly tucked and everything. I just kind of assume they do that. They feel, they feel fresh.
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Episode 117: Shanghai Major Opening Stage and the Top 16 teams at the Major
Yeah. The blood's not there.
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Episode 117: Shanghai Major Opening Stage and the Top 16 teams at the Major
Have you noticed underneath the sheets, there's almost like a... It's a protector. Yeah, like the protector. It's that weird fabric.
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Episode 117: Shanghai Major Opening Stage and the Top 16 teams at the Major
In terms of sheets?
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Episode 117: Shanghai Major Opening Stage and the Top 16 teams at the Major
So we have a bed frame. We have a low bed. So we have a bed frame, no box spring, and then the mattress. Um, and then on that we have a fitted sheet.
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Episode 117: Shanghai Major Opening Stage and the Top 16 teams at the Major
Yeah. And then Jane and I just do comforter.
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Episode 117: Shanghai Major Opening Stage and the Top 16 teams at the Major
We don't mess with that one extra thin sheet. Do you have any extra layers? No, just the sheets.
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Episode 117: Shanghai Major Opening Stage and the Top 16 teams at the Major
This one doesn't.
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Episode 117: Shanghai Major Opening Stage and the Top 16 teams at the Major
Usually they have it.
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Episode 117: Shanghai Major Opening Stage and the Top 16 teams at the Major
No, it's too much work to have that sheet.
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Episode 117: Shanghai Major Opening Stage and the Top 16 teams at the Major
Yeah, I can skip that step.
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Episode 117: Shanghai Major Opening Stage and the Top 16 teams at the Major
I think we're done. Let's give ourselves 30 minutes. I'll throw this at it. I can upload it when we go down to the Red Bull thing. It's on the first floor. I can pull my life together in the meantime as well.
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Episode 117: Shanghai Major Opening Stage and the Top 16 teams at the Major
There's got to be something. But I think we nailed a lot of things is why we feel like we're good.
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Episode 117: Shanghai Major Opening Stage and the Top 16 teams at the Major
It felt like we did. Did we ever nail anything?
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Episode 117: Shanghai Major Opening Stage and the Top 16 teams at the Major
I don't think so. Everything's been major, dude.
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Episode 117: Shanghai Major Opening Stage and the Top 16 teams at the Major
I like that there's the old gen Swede duo, like the OG Counter-Strike Swedish duo, and then like the new gen Swedish. I think that's cool.
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Episode 117: Shanghai Major Opening Stage and the Top 16 teams at the Major
I did not vote for all four of these people. I'll say that.
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Episode 117: Shanghai Major Opening Stage and the Top 16 teams at the Major
I don't remember.
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Episode 117: Shanghai Major Opening Stage and the Top 16 teams at the Major
I voted for two of them.
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Episode 117: Shanghai Major Opening Stage and the Top 16 teams at the Major
Oh, yeah. We got to rank one, two, three, because originally we were only going to put three people in, and they raised it. They raised the number that we're getting inducted.
Talking Counter
Episode 117: Shanghai Major Opening Stage and the Top 16 teams at the Major
You voted for Solo?
Talking Counter
Episode 117: Shanghai Major Opening Stage and the Top 16 teams at the Major
That's fair.
Talking Counter
Episode 117: Shanghai Major Opening Stage and the Top 16 teams at the Major
I'll nominate you next time around. Fucking hell.
Talking Counter
Episode 117: Shanghai Major Opening Stage and the Top 16 teams at the Major
Goodbye, everybody.
Talking Counter
Episode 117: Shanghai Major Opening Stage and the Top 16 teams at the Major
Unlike Astralis, we are providing them with jobs.
Talking Counter
Episode 117: Shanghai Major Opening Stage and the Top 16 teams at the Major
It's very kind of them, isn't it?
Talking Counter
Episode 117: Shanghai Major Opening Stage and the Top 16 teams at the Major
Freya's coming in?
Talking Counter
Episode 117: Shanghai Major Opening Stage and the Top 16 teams at the Major
Yeah. She's joined the fucking Dunstan crew, hasn't she?
Talking Counter
Episode 117: Shanghai Major Opening Stage and the Top 16 teams at the Major
Second one should be good. That's going to be all about the Danes and Astralis, obviously, right?
Talking Counter
Episode 117: Shanghai Major Opening Stage and the Top 16 teams at the Major
So you could be a news anchor, basically.
Talking Counter
Episode 117: Shanghai Major Opening Stage and the Top 16 teams at the Major
I would imagine it's relatively similar to reading a book.
Talking Counter
Episode 117: Shanghai Major Opening Stage and the Top 16 teams at the Major
He's got his tablet set up like six feet below the camera. Yeah.
Talking Counter
Episode 117: Shanghai Major Opening Stage and the Top 16 teams at the Major
Yeah, I'm good. How are you feeling? I'm feeling all right. I woke up far earlier than I needed to. I've been awake for a while, which was unfortunate. But I feel good.
Talking Counter
Episode 117: Shanghai Major Opening Stage and the Top 16 teams at the Major
What have you got? Oh, I know where you're going to go with this.
Talking Counter
Episode 117: Shanghai Major Opening Stage and the Top 16 teams at the Major
I don't know. Where are you going with this?
Talking Counter
Episode 117: Shanghai Major Opening Stage and the Top 16 teams at the Major
We were laughing. We were just spamming those stickers and we were having a few drinks and I looked down and see Chad has left the group. And I was like, you know what? That's fair. That makes sense.
Talking Counter
Episode 117: Shanghai Major Opening Stage and the Top 16 teams at the Major
Oh, you're going to do this bullshit and I'm going to get angry.
Talking Counter
Episode 117: Shanghai Major Opening Stage and the Top 16 teams at the Major
I see where this is going. Keep going. Keep going. Come on. Just, just fucking do it.
Talking Counter
Episode 117: Shanghai Major Opening Stage and the Top 16 teams at the Major
Y'all fucking Europeans are so fucking mentally ill. It's unbelievable. Go on. Continue. You're Australians, whatever the fuck you are.
Talking Counter
Episode 117: Shanghai Major Opening Stage and the Top 16 teams at the Major
Alex gave me shit for this too.
Talking Counter
Episode 117: Shanghai Major Opening Stage and the Top 16 teams at the Major
You're gonna just tilt me off the earth.
Talking Counter
Episode 117: Shanghai Major Opening Stage and the Top 16 teams at the Major
Yeah, of course it's going to be the jet lag excuse. I'm seven hours behind. I'd like to see you start your shift at 10 p.m. Having to go to sleep at 1 p.m. Jet lag doesn't work like that. Second of all, the first two days were 5.30 starts. And then the second two days were 3.30 starts. You haven't had any of those 3.30 starts.
Talking Counter
Episode 117: Shanghai Major Opening Stage and the Top 16 teams at the Major
Well, that's your own fucking problem.
Talking Counter
Episode 117: Shanghai Major Opening Stage and the Top 16 teams at the Major
Yeah, I would too, which is why I was angry that I come in jet lagged, unable to sleep, and it happens.
Talking Counter
Episode 117: Shanghai Major Opening Stage and the Top 16 teams at the Major
I had to listen to all of you bitch and moan in Dallas when you came over for one event in a year. All of you. I don't remember us bitching and moaning in Dallas. I'm including the players in the all of you equation.
Talking Counter
Episode 117: Shanghai Major Opening Stage and the Top 16 teams at the Major
There's no hold up. The jet lag thing always works. When FaZe comes over and loses, they're like, oh, they're so jet lagged. They just won the major. It's fine.
Talking Counter
Episode 117: Shanghai Major Opening Stage and the Top 16 teams at the Major
Yeah. What time is it in Malta right now? It's like one hour, the same time, one hour behind.
Talking Counter
Episode 117: Shanghai Major Opening Stage and the Top 16 teams at the Major
I understand.
Talking Counter
Episode 117: Shanghai Major Opening Stage and the Top 16 teams at the Major
What are you talking about? That would be the case if he came from east to west.
Talking Counter
Episode 117: Shanghai Major Opening Stage and the Top 16 teams at the Major
No, what it means is when I'm on the morning shift, I'm trying to go sleep at one o'clock in the afternoon. But you're not at home. Yeah, but my body thinks I'm still there. That's what jet lag is. Am I losing? What is going on? How is this even a fucking conversation?
Talking Counter
Episode 117: Shanghai Major Opening Stage and the Top 16 teams at the Major
Yeah, literally everyone just was like, oh, yes, Chad's gone. All right, well.
Talking Counter
Episode 117: Shanghai Major Opening Stage and the Top 16 teams at the Major
Oh my Lord. Chad, let's move on.
Talking Counter
Episode 117: Shanghai Major Opening Stage and the Top 16 teams at the Major
You also know the other layer. You also know the other layer to that.
Talking Counter
Episode 117: Shanghai Major Opening Stage and the Top 16 teams at the Major
The schedule controversy that happened in Stockholm and then leading to here where Harry Russell just gets to go, hey, I really wanted to be able to have just a conversation with Chad after work one day.
Talking Counter
Episode 117: Shanghai Major Opening Stage and the Top 16 teams at the Major
It's not like anything useful goes into that group anyways.
Talking Counter
Episode 117: Shanghai Major Opening Stage and the Top 16 teams at the Major
I looked at the message. He said, I want to have a conversation with Chad one day after the broadcast. And that turned into the entire swap of the rotation.
Talking Counter
Episode 117: Shanghai Major Opening Stage and the Top 16 teams at the Major
Yeah, because he felt bad for doing it because he, unlike you and your casting partner, understand that it put me in a rough place for the first week. You don't hear me bitching and moaning and running around on week two.
Talking Counter
Episode 117: Shanghai Major Opening Stage and the Top 16 teams at the Major
It would have been fine. I probably would have had a rough week one still, but I wouldn't have been salty about how it went down. Maui's been on the mornings. I haven't heard him complaining.
Talking Counter
Episode 117: Shanghai Major Opening Stage and the Top 16 teams at the Major
Yeah, but they were complaining. They just, not to you. I didn't hear it. Well, because you're never around. You actually left the WhatsApp group. You've just actually disassociated yourself. You're not going to hear the complaints.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 1: Hawk's Lying Uncle
Hey, this is Richard. I just got out of a lunch with my sister-in-law. Bold take. You get one basic modification to your meal. After that, you're an a**hole. You say, hey, no pickle or no onion. Add tomato, whatever the heck. You get one. Anything after one, you're a piece of a**hole.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
#BecauseMiami: Dr. Mufson or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Less Fluoride
You know, we were all, a lot of dentists, we have an annual day on the Hill where we lobby for different things, but we were, I testified before a Senate committee in the afternoon and a representative committee in the morning, and they're pretty much on track to pass this thing. So that could make everything moot in everywhere else in the state, but we'll have to wait and see.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
#BecauseMiami: Dr. Mufson or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Less Fluoride
Thank you for having me.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
#BecauseMiami: Dr. Mufson or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Less Fluoride
How are you doing? I'm in Aventura and greetings and thank you for having me on. And I appreciate the good work that you've been doing over the years. So, so nice to be with you.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
#BecauseMiami: Dr. Mufson or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Less Fluoride
Well, you know, historically, it was realized that early 1900s, 1901, it was discovered that a certain city in Colorado, Colorado Springs, people had brown, ugly teeth, but they also had no cavities. And it took them a few decades to realize there was a reason. It was the fluoride, which was much too high in the water in that city. But
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
#BecauseMiami: Dr. Mufson or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Less Fluoride
That set the stage for some research to be done in Grand Rapids, Michigan. It was a big study, 1945. So bottom line is, without getting too into it, it was discovered with time that a very small, small amount of fluoride added to the water supply
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
#BecauseMiami: Dr. Mufson or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Less Fluoride
It occurs naturally, but a small addition to an optimal level helps prevent decay cavities in children and adults, and it's been proven with decades of literature and valid research studies, as opposed to the crazy studies that people tend to bring up, these fringe studies that are not well performed and stuff like that. Some of the stuff you just heard was definitely a reflection of that movie.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
#BecauseMiami: Dr. Mufson or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Less Fluoride
And this is the day and age we're living in of misinformation. We all know that.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
#BecauseMiami: Dr. Mufson or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Less Fluoride
Right. So I feel like when I hear some of these other studies, I feel like my IQ has dropped precipitously just hearing about these things. But the reality is, yeah, when people quote studies like that, if you take a close look, frequently those studies are either performed in foreign countries, Iran, China, India, not to denigrate those countries, but
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
#BecauseMiami: Dr. Mufson or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Less Fluoride
Frequently, the levels of fluoride are typically way too high, and the nature of the studies are flawed. But if someone looks at the decades of valid, solid scientific research, then I don't know why they need to point to these other wacky studies that demonstrate stuff that's just not true. And our surgeon general, as you alluded to, Dr. Latipo,
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
#BecauseMiami: Dr. Mufson or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Less Fluoride
He's free to gallivant around the state, just purporting misinformation about this. And between him and RFK, it's threatening to ruin the health care of our country, much less our state. So it's really a tough time. I mean, anti-vaccine, let's bring back polio, let's bring back measles. Hey, let's get rid of fluoride. It's a really bad trend that we're in.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
#BecauseMiami: Dr. Mufson or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Less Fluoride
I think according to his family, he drank some can of paint when he was very young, and it affected him for the rest of his life, something like that.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
#BecauseMiami: Dr. Mufson or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Less Fluoride
It's between 25 and 45% roughly. I mean, but it's, it's also well known what happens if you take fluoride away, like look no further than Calgary, Canada, they're putting it back now because they realized that after they took it away, there was,
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
#BecauseMiami: Dr. Mufson or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Less Fluoride
a 700 increase in hospital admissions iv antibiotics serious health problems one misconception is when you hear the word cavity people think of a tiny little cavity in the tooth but cavities become large cavities which become abscesses which turn into facial infections which then can become hospital admissions and even death in a rare case.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
#BecauseMiami: Dr. Mufson or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Less Fluoride
And especially the underserved population are more at risk when you take away fluoride. So Calgary is putting it back. Other communities that have lost it, they see the results and then they go back because they realize this is just a bad healthcare decision to take it away.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
#BecauseMiami: Dr. Mufson or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Less Fluoride
That is a point that some people make, but you might as well say the same thing about other healthcare measures that have helped tremendously in our country, like the vaccines are a clear example. I mean, kids need to have vaccines to go to school. Parents technically can tell their kids, I don't want to send you to school, but
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
#BecauseMiami: Dr. Mufson or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Less Fluoride
then we're looking at higher rates of measles and whooping cough and other things without vaccines. So I compare it to the same thing. Technically, people have a choice in this world. You can move to a non-fluoridated area. You don't have to turn on your tap water. You can buy a reverse osmosis filter. So there technically is choices, but...
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
#BecauseMiami: Dr. Mufson or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Less Fluoride
The government has been in a role, the EPA, whoever, of trying to do what's best for the health of the citizens of the country and the state. Local communities want control. I know it sounds kind of radical, but parents technically have a choice. We all have a choice. You know, so what about the kids that don't get fluoride and they don't have consent over their disease process?
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
#BecauseMiami: Dr. Mufson or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Less Fluoride
They end up in doctor's offices, in hospitals, you know, God forbid, severe infections, especially the underserved. So, you know, you can talk about choice. I know that's a popular talking point, consent, but it all turns out to be BS at the end of the day. We need to all live in a world that keeps everyone as safe as possible. Same with seatbelts and cars. I mean, technically...
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
#BecauseMiami: Dr. Mufson or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Less Fluoride
You're taking away my choice. I don't want to put a seatbelt on my kid. Well, you know, we need to intervene and do what's best for people.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
#BecauseMiami: Dr. Mufson or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Less Fluoride
no question i mean there's a statewide there's a there's a bill called the florida farm bill which includes a bunch of different things but among them is one thing on fluoride that that if it passes will per will forbid the addition of fluoride statewide and it looks like that's on track unfortunately to pass but the prediction is that major communities in our state will fight back with court filings and different things saying wait a minute
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
#BecauseMiami: Dr. Mufson or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Less Fluoride
How dare you take control over our ability to control our local residents? Miami is not the same as Bartow, Florida. It's not the same as the land. We're all different. And how dare you take that right away? But that's threatening to pass the Florida Farm Bill is set to likely pass.
The Ramsey Show
The Road to Financial Freedom Begins With Hard Choices
Hey, guys. Thank you for taking the call. Really appreciate it.
The Ramsey Show
The Road to Financial Freedom Begins With Hard Choices
Yes, we're good. We're very safe.
The Ramsey Show
The Road to Financial Freedom Begins With Hard Choices
So here's what I'm asking. I'm going to be, I'm 50 years old, basically with three children, you know, all toddlers under the age of 10. And, you know, I'm tired of just the day-to-day rat race. My job, you know, pays for our bills, but I don't ever have anything saved. Um, my wife is a stay at home mother. I'm taking care of the kids and we homeschool. Okay. It's very, very important to us.
The Ramsey Show
The Road to Financial Freedom Begins With Hard Choices
We're very religious when it comes to that. So that's a non-negotiable for getting a job. Um, but you know, I'm, I'm, I own my home. I have 300 grand in equity, you know, um, I had been on the job a long time and I'm just You know, I'm just staying above water. Cost of living is just so expensive here in California.
The Ramsey Show
The Road to Financial Freedom Begins With Hard Choices
You know, my monthly nut that I have to pay, pardon my French, is, you know, $8,300 a month. You know, my mortgage is $4,900. I have, you know, one debt, which is my car payment. You know, I owe like $17,000. My wife's car is paid off. You know, so I'm just... Hey, Richard.
The Ramsey Show
The Road to Financial Freedom Begins With Hard Choices
You should move. I want to move to another state. And move to another state.
The Ramsey Show
The Road to Financial Freedom Begins With Hard Choices
My wife's open to it. It's just all her family is all within a 20 mile radius within here in Southern California. So it's a little bit of a challenge. That's what I did. They're older. It's not good. Yeah. It's hard. Yeah. And that's, it is hard. And you know, it just, I could go and pay cash for a house in another state, not have any debt.
The Ramsey Show
The Road to Financial Freedom Begins With Hard Choices
My income's going to stay the same in the next 10, 10 years. It's not going to, fluctuate that that much going up and i make 137 000 a year what do you do for a living uh i do national accounting okay okay yeah travel I travel a lot, and I thought I was getting a second job on the weekends, but then I'll never see the kids because I travel.
The Ramsey Show
Your Future Self Deserves Better Choices Today
It was expensive. We have about $150,000 left on that.
The Ramsey Show
Your Future Self Deserves Better Choices Today
Yeah, that makes good sense. I like that.
The Ramsey Show
Your Future Self Deserves Better Choices Today
Yeah. Thank you so much. That's good guidance. I appreciate it.
The Ramsey Show
Your Future Self Deserves Better Choices Today
Hi, so I was just let go from my job suddenly this past Thursday.
The Ramsey Show
Your Future Self Deserves Better Choices Today
And my question for, we'll make it through. We're on baby step three. We've got our expenses saved up.
The Ramsey Show
Your Future Self Deserves Better Choices Today
But my question for Dave was, what should I be doing during this time? Should I be looking for a job?
The Ramsey Show
Your Future Self Deserves Better Choices Today
part-time job maybe to help bolster that emergency fund make sure it doesn't run on short or dry should we move out of the house are there any special considerations what were you doing before i was the director of music for a large well-known church in the area okay do you see a position opening up and doing something similar anytime soon It's kind of thin.
The Ramsey Show
Your Future Self Deserves Better Choices Today
It can take a couple months, three months conservatively to find a job that's so specific that matches my very narrow field of expertise.
The Ramsey Show
Your Future Self Deserves Better Choices Today
She teaches some piano lessons here and there, but she really likes being a stay-at-home mom.
The Ramsey Show
Your Future Self Deserves Better Choices Today
Yeah, thanks for the advice. Would you push me more in the direction of a full-time job or would it kind of depend on the situation?
The Ramsey Show
Your Future Self Deserves Better Choices Today
Well, the reason I was calling is I just recently changed my Fidelity 401k account, and I've actually brought it up to 75% of my income. And we have a military pension and my wife works. And so, but my question is, we recently purchased a brand new motor home and that is our residence. And so we have no other bills other than the motor home itself.
The Ramsey Show
Your Future Self Deserves Better Choices Today
And we weren't sure whether or not I should be investing like I am into my 401k. I didn't mention that I am I'm 58. I would like to retire at 62 as well as my wife. So we're just a few years out from that. And so we're just going, I wanted to get the money into the market as early as I could in this new year. And so we're, you know, I just, I upped it up to 75%.
The Ramsey Show
Your Future Self Deserves Better Choices Today
I wanted to see if that made good sense or not, if it did make good sense.
The Ramsey Show
Your Future Self Deserves Better Choices Today
I have 117,000 in my 401k. And my wife has about $13,000 in hers. And yeah, I guess that's about it. And then we do have our high-yield savings that we're using for, we have money in there for our emergency fund.
The Ramsey Show
Your Future Self Deserves Better Choices Today
Well, right now, I haven't seen my payslip, but I'm somewhere in the proximity of $1,600 to $1,800 every two weeks is going into that.
The Ramsey Show
Your Future Self Deserves Better Choices Today
And then I'm getting a paycheck of like $390, close to $400. Okay. And I put that into the high yield savings.
The Ramsey Show
Your Future Self Deserves Better Choices Today
And the military pension. That's correct.
The Ramsey Show
Your Future Self Deserves Better Choices Today
No, we don't. We actually sold our house a couple years ago. We relocated to Tampa.
The Ramsey Show
Your Future Self Deserves Better Choices Today
Well, we paid off our car and then we bought another, we bought another camper and we paid cash for that. So that wiped us out of all that. So we, we became debt free at that point. And, and so.
The Ramsey Show
Your Future Self Deserves Better Choices Today
Yeah, our month-to-month budget. And this includes putting, we have money that goes to our grandkids. We save for them. And then we also have extra that my wife has out of the budget. But it's like around $5,500. But that also, out of that, there's $800 of it that goes into savings. Okay. Into savings. So it actually could be a lot. It'd be like $4,800 maybe.
The Ramsey Show
Your Future Self Deserves Better Choices Today
Or $4,600. Yeah, something like that. That's about what it costs to operate. And that includes the payment of the motorhome. And we do use the EveryDollar. We're religious about that. We love that app.
The Ramsey Show
Your Future Self Deserves Better Choices Today
Are you saying that you would recommend that I back off my contribution or would you leave it at 75 and go? Or are you saying?
The Ramsey Show
Your Future Self Deserves Better Choices Today
No, no, I get it. I agree with you. I just I wasn't sure whether or not I needed to back down my my contribution to my fidelity account and then, and then go aggressive.
The Ramsey Show
You Need To “Happen” to Your Life Instead if It Happening to You
So the number after taxes times 20.15.
The Ramsey Show
You Need To “Happen” to Your Life Instead if It Happening to You
So I got into a pretty bad hole of debt, all credit cards. Um, I got a house about two years ago with my ex now and uh, you know, I buy, I was buying stuff for the house and then we broke up and I went down the rabbit hole of spending, you know, not being pretty financial intelligent with my money. So then I got, I'm looking at it now and I'm about 50 K.
The Ramsey Show
You Need To “Happen” to Your Life Instead if It Happening to You
And I was using 0% interest, and now all of them are hitting that mark where the interest is starting to come.
The Ramsey Show
You Need To “Happen” to Your Life Instead if It Happening to You
Ex-girlfriend, because we never got married. But the house was just mine.
The Ramsey Show
You Need To “Happen” to Your Life Instead if It Happening to You
Um, I bought it at $230. It's my mortgage now is at $209.
The Ramsey Show
You Need To “Happen” to Your Life Instead if It Happening to You
Um, I think about $265, $270 on a good day.
The Ramsey Show
You Need To “Happen” to Your Life Instead if It Happening to You
I pay everything raised up from when I got it, but now it's at $2365. I take home about $43 a month, $45 a month.
The Ramsey Show
You Need To “Happen” to Your Life Instead if It Happening to You
Yeah, everything, you know, with all the interest going up, it's going to look scary.
The Ramsey Show
You Need To “Happen” to Your Life Instead if It Happening to You
Smallest it would be for my business I try to go into, it's about $2,800 right now. And then it goes to $4,300. And then it's $6,100, $6,700, $833, $9,000, and then a $12,000. Yeah. I...
The Ramsey Show
You Need To “Happen” to Your Life Instead if It Happening to You
No, but I got a girlfriend and she's staying with me.
The Ramsey Show
You Need To “Happen” to Your Life Instead if It Happening to You
Right, but I'm not expecting anybody to help me. She helps with, like, groceries, and, you know, that's nothing else. I could ask, but, you know, I'm not trying to do that.
The Ramsey Show
You Need To “Happen” to Your Life Instead if It Happening to You
She buys me certain stuff. She'll give me some money for a bill here and there. She'll pay all the groceries all month.
The Ramsey Show
You Need To “Happen” to Your Life Instead if It Happening to You
So that's step one, get her to pay half?
The Ramsey Show
You Need To “Happen” to Your Life Instead if It Happening to You
Probably the minimums at that because the minimums are looking dangerous now.