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Speaker 1: On location. I'm driven by Victor Dot's Chief Brown. It's

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Bilified the Bill Moran Podcast. Well, hello and welcome. Thanks

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for getting your pot on. Thank you for telling a friend.

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That's how we spread the word about the pirate ship.

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I am coming to you live from my sister's basement

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in Fairfax, Virginia. I brought all the equipment with me,

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and I expected to do something when I was in

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Staten Island, and that turned into something, and then after

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a while, I just realized it's better to be present

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with everybody than trying to race off and do a podcast.

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But since I'm Uncle of the Year, I stayed up

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way late, as did my mom and my sister. But

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they are better than me because we drank a lot

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of wine and we talked some philosophical life stuff, I suppose,

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and my niece had a synchronized swimming event or practice,

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and my mom wanted to go see it, and I

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was going to go see it, and I didn't get up,

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and so I stayed home, and then my sister kindly

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sent me the restaurant they were going to for lunch,

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and I declined, and I went for a walk and

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I just had a panic attack. Because they have this

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very tiny dog the sides of a Chihuahua, but it's

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I think it's got Doberman in it. I don't know

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how that's possible, but I think it's very small. I

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was just barking like crazy, and I went upstairs and

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I'm calling the dog's name and there's no response. There's

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no response, And now I'm thinking somebody either napped the

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dog out of the house like dog napped, or the

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dog ran outside. So now I'm outside, I'm looking all around.

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I come back in. The dog its way in the

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back of its crate with the door open, just laying there,

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minding its own business. So all as well, with all

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as well with that, And I hope you had a

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great holiday, no matter how you said, crate, or at

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least a RESTful day if you're not celebrating Christmas. But

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I got to tell you, my brother in law is

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he has set the bar for how Christmas should be done.

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This guy did everything because my sister had rotator cuff surgery,

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so she's got a bad wing as I call it.

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And man, he did all the heavy lifting from making

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this Yulag cake and cookies, and you know, really they

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made pasta for a Christmas Eve dinner and then Christmas

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Day or durs after or dures and he's serving everybody,

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and I'm going I am the laziest. I mean, stockings

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that were filled for everyone, including my kids, because my son,

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who was with in Staten Island, decided to come down

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and all that. But I want to tell you, and

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this will be brief today, I just wanted to tell

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you some of my experiences in Staten Island. I did

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not know that my son was planning to surprise everybody,

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even though I wounded opinion, surprise everybody to go to

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come to my sister's house for Christmas, which my mother

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was really excited about because she was very nervous about

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him being alone on Christmas, and you know, just kind

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of the depressing thing. But I figure, you, like in

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your twenties and mid twenties, if you have to work,

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you gotta work, right, So I thought, well, let me

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shoot down and I'll see him for the weekend, come

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back up, taking my mom down to my sisters in Virginia.

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And I thought about this around Thanksgimming, so I booked

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a hotel and I did it through Expedia, and I

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thought I was staying at a place called The Window.

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Seemed nice. It's on Staten Island. Seemed like a reasonable rate,

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same as kind of everybody, maybe a little less expensive.

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I don't even really remember. So so I go to

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the hotel and my son is with me, and we

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go in there and I say to him, you know,

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I'll give you some of your Christmas gifts. Come on

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up to the room. So we get up there this

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room and I don't know if you saw it on

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my social media or not, but this room was like,

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really really tiny. And one of the special features of

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this room was that over the eyehole where you would

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peek out to see who's knocking on your door was

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a tissue like lodged in there that no cleaning crew

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had taken out. I mean, the bed was made, everything

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was seemed pretty clean. But that just grows me out.

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And the place itself was not. And I don't mean

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to sound like a snob, but it wasn't like a

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really really nice hotel. So we but I figure, what

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do I care, It's just me, right, a big deal.

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glamping in a way. Right, you got an ice or bed,

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you get stuff. Okay, So we go to I have

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a cousin that lives on Staten Island and owns a

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bunch of different businesses down on the south end of

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the island, and so my son and I go out

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there for dinner that night and he says where he's staying,

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and I tell him. Now, I realized quickly I'm leaving

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this part out that I'm not staying at the Windom.

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I get in an uber after we get off the

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Staten Island ferry and I say to the guy the

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window and he's like, the Windhom and I say, yeah,

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the windowm hotel. And he's like, there's no Windom on

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the island and I said, yeah, there is. I said,

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let me pull up my email and they have the

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address on there. I'll give it to you. And the

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guy goes, Windom, that's back in Brooklyn, and I said no,

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and then I give him the address and he goes, oh,

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days in by Windom. Okay, well there was my first indicator.

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So I show up and the place is like being renovated.

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This is stuff, but whatever. Let me go back to

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where we're having dinner at my cousin's house. This beautiful

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home he has in Staten Island. My son works at his.

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He has a banquet hall called the Old Bermuda. They

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were having a breakfast with Sanna that I went to

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the next day because my son was working and I

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had brunch. It was a fantastic brunch and kind of

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hung out there that day. There were no TVs, so

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I listened to the Bills game via a serious XM satellite.

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I have the app, so that was fine, and talk

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to a lot of people. Guy, it was nice. It

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was perfectly nice, enjoyable, beautifully decorated place. He says to me,

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where are you staying? And I tell him the day's

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in by windowm and he goes, what and I said yeah.

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He goes no, no, no, no, no, no, no no. And his

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wife's like, why didn't you tell us you were coming down?

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You could have stayed here. But they're on the other

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end of the island from where my son is because

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he's up closer to the ferry because he works in

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Manhattan and likes going over to the city. So I

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was like, no, I wanted to be close to him,

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and I don't want to burden anybody's before the holiday,

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you know what I mean? It's like you need one

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more person coming in, you know, crapping up your towels

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and sheets and all this stuff. Is you're gonna have

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family over. So they're like, they let a lot of

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My cousin says, they let a lot of homeless people

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stay there. I don't know. Well, let me tell you.

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I get back to the hotel and I'm on the

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fifth floor. I go to my room and there's a

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lot of yelling. I mean a lot of yelling and cursing,

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and kids running around and a man yelling at a woman,

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fuck you, like yelling and stuff. And I'm like, oh boy, yeah,

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seems to quiet down. I go to sleep. I sleep

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through the night, but I am I gotta tell you, like,

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I was a little weirded out. So the next morning, Uh,

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I don't even I think I was going to meet

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my son. He had to be at work, so I

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was going to go to that brunch and he had

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a one o'clock reservation for me. So I was moving slow,

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and uh, I'm laying in bed and some little kid

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is just singing out in the hallway, just like a

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little kid does. Right, Usually when anybody's happy, they sing.

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A kid is happy. When they're singing side. I didn't

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really think anything, but it was and it was muffled.

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other side of the wall for me starts screaming shut

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the fuck up, shut the fuck up, like really really loud,

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and these walls are super thin, and I'm like, what

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in the hell is going on? And there was a

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time in the middle of the night, like I did

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get woken up by some loud noise at door slamming

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and someone yelling, but you know, you kind of rolled

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over and went to sleep and figured, if I mind

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my own business and my door's locked and my privacy

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thing's on, nobody's getting in here, and no one really cares,

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and it doesn't sound like it had anything to do

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with me, So you know, why am I gonna get involved?

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I would rather pull the stay at a place that

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I didn't have this going on. So now I get

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up and I'm moving slow. It's probably around ten thirty

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and maybe ten o'clock, and I left and they I

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guess they have a breakfast in there, but I was like,

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I don't really want to eat their breakfast. Breakfast. I mean,

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it's fine, it's smelled delicious, and I went out to

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this little place. I picked up a couple of bottles

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of water and a cup of coffee, and I come

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back and I'm gonna get in the shower, and I

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turn on the water and I let it run for

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a few minutes, figuring I'm on the fifth floor. I

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don't know now the water in the sink. The night

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before I washed my face and brush my teeth. I

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have this whole weird night clam ritual life floss that

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had warm water, that had hot water. I could make

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it warm, right, mikes the cold hot. This is just cold.

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I mean it is freezing cold. And now I'm debating

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because I'm I'm like, wow, I don't know how long

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it's going to take me to get to the other

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end of the island. And my son's got a one

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o'clock and now we're coming up on like eleven. So

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the water is freezing cold, like there's nothing happening, and

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I go, well, maybe they have it reversed. I have

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seen plumbers in homes where they have reversed the hot

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and the cold. So the indicator says cold, but it's hot,

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and the indicator says cold, but yeah, hot, but it's

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cold water that comes out because somebody makes stuff underneath, right, Okay,

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So I'm thinking, oh, the way this hotel is operating, Papa,

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could be a good chance that this is the case.

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So I try that, still freezing, and now I'm going

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I really don't want to take a fucking freezing cold shower.

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I have not. I did for a while, and I

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think I'll maybe try to do it again in twenty

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twenty six. But I would get up in the morning

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and try to stand in a freezing cold shower kind

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of moving around, you know, spinning like you're in a

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phone booth, you know, make sure I get my head

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completely wet in free as cold as I could get it,

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and it really does wake up. And you've heard a

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lot of people with cold plunges up, but I haven't

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been doing that consistently for a while, probably since I

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started grad school. And then this is so cold, and

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I'm like, I'm not having to fucking move for this.

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So now I go down to the front desk. And

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it had to be a Sunday, and I don't even

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know what day it is, but yes, it had to

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be Sunday because I arrived Saturday and she's the woman

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says to me, uh, the only thing I can do

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is have you changed rooms? And I'm like, oh, She's like,

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that's the only thing I can do. She said, I

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can't call it plumber. It's a sunday. I'm like, okay,

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but maybe there's a hot water tank, there's a maintenance

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worker on staff. You know what I'm saying. You understand

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what I'm saying. So she says, yeah, you can only

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that's the only thing I can do. So she gives

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me a room on the seventh floor. So I get

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all my stuff and I have a bag with the

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equipment for the podcast. I have a bag with my

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computer and stuff in it. I've got a duffel bag

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with presents and things, and I've got a suitcase. Maybe

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I left the uffel bag of my mom, so I

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had the suitcase. So I'm taking these two bags that's

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what it was, and the and the other one that

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I can roll with me. But I got shoes under

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my arm because you're you're you're sort of unpacked somewhat

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in this in the space you were in. It's like,

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got it pain. So I get up there and I

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get to the room that they're going to put me in,

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and I opened the door and then all of a

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sudden they just jams because the privacy lock had slipped over.

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I don't know how, and so now you can't get

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in the room. So I put my stuff down and

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there are two women who were cleaning the floor up there,

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and I walk over and I said, hey, they just

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gave me a room on this floor, but I can't

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get in. And she said to me, I don't speak English.

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So I say, so, I just motion come with me.

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So she walks with me and I show her and

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so she goes back to her cart and tries to

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get a tool to pry the thing off that's not working.

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The other woman who was cleaning, these two very lovely

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young women, very nice, they just didn't speak English or

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speak it well. So they're trying to get the thing off.

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We're about five minutes in and I go, I'm going

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back to the front desk because don't forget, I got

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on one o'clock reservation that my son made and I

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don't want to be late. I don't want to be rude,

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and I don't know how long it's going to take

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me to get there, So I go back down to

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the front desk. On my way. I got the two bags,

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I got the stuff, and the woman says to me,

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leave leave, meaning leave your bag. She's pointing at my bag,

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my suitcase. Leave leave. And I said, I don't know

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if I can trust you. I go no, trust And

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it kind of funny in a playful way. And she

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points up and says there's a camera there. They'll see everything.

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And I say, okay, So I leave my suitcase on

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the seventh floor, but I take the two bags that

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are on my shoulders because they're already up there, and

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I just go down. I go down and I explain

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to the woman what's going on and she said to me, oh,

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and I said, yeah, we can't get in at all.

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I said, I don't know. I don't even know how

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you guys are going to get in. And she said, okay,

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let me see if I can find you another room.

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So while she's looking, I said, listen, I gotta say

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something to you. I go it was really loud last

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night and this morning, people screaming, And I said, not

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such nice language, you know, all over the place and

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just and she said, oh, that's because I put everybody

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on the fifth floor last night, and I paused, and

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I'm like, I've stayed and sold out hotels. I've stayed

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and sold out hotels that had kids on hockey tournaments

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staying at them, you know, were basketball trip. There was

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never never this level of noise, never this level of

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slamming doors, Never people cursing, and not one guy screaming

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from his room to some stranger shut the fuck up.

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And then he's singing along with the kid, the kids singing.

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He's yeah, I'm like this, this is like insane. So

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she says, I'm gonna give you another So she gives

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me another room. Now I'm on the sixth floor. Okay,

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but don't forget I left my suitcase on the seventh floor.

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I'm like great, so I go back up to the

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seventh floor. Now this place was really tiny. I wouldn't

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say micro hotel. Have you seen these? They're just really

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kind of quick in and out. But they're they're perfect

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for I guess affairs or or or a business guy

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going by himself somewhere, a businesswoman. I don't know. So

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the I figured what I was gonna do. Because the

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elevator was also taken a little while to get to me,

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and I'm like, I'm running out of time. I got

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a one o'clock it's now noon, and I'm going good.

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I think it was eleven fifty five. I get up

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to the seventh floor and I figure, I'm just gonna

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lean out, grab my bag where I left it, pull

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it back on the elevator so I never have to

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get off the elevator and then get down to my

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floor and get in a room and try to take

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a shower and get ready. The doors open up. My

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suitcase is not there. My sphincter gets this tight. I mean, Jesus,

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I could have shitt a diamond. So I get out

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of the thing and I'm kind of going, hey, hey, hey, hey,

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and I the woman who was cleaning comes around the

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corner and I said, I go, I'm looking for my bag,

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and she had kindly put it behind so anybody getting

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off the elevator where I left it wouldn't walk into

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it trip over whatever. She had put it behind her

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cleaning car. But I'm in like full paddic because now

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i know, I'm going, what the fuck this is? Just

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it just fits, it just fits. So I get i'd

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actually I get into a room and it's fine, hot

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water was fine, the room was cleaner. The TV actually

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worked in this one. It didn't work in the other one.

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I was, I was all. I was all set and

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I was able to get showered out. I was out

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by like twelve twenty four and got to my son

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by about twelve fifty five, in time for my one

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o'clock reservation. So the next day, when I'm checking out

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of the hotel and I'm gonna go with my son,

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and that's a whole other story, I say to the

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person there, I go, hey, man, I had to move room.

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I had to. I go, you've had people screaming in yellen.

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So he says to me, oh, oh oh. I said,

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you gotta camp me a night. And he goes, Now,

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I'm not the I'm not the manager. Only the manager

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can do that. And I said, okay, but where's the manager. Oh,

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manager will be here in a little while. I said,

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I think you gotta do something because this is ridiculous.

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I said, moving rooms, leaving my bag, all this stuff.

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It was. It was an inconvenience for me. And I'm

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paying you to stay here. And the guy's like yeah,

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and I said, and then the fifth floor she told

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me she put everybody on that floor the night before

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and it was all that's where all the nuttiness was

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happening in the Yellen. And the guy goes, yeah, I

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know the police came. Okay, now these people they could

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give two flying fox And the guy goes, yeah, let

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me see the police came. So then he said, wait,

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he looks it up and he sees the police had

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been called to that hotel for misbehaving guests. I would

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assume on December nineteenth, which was Friday, but I didn't

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get there till the twentieth. Okay, So the guy's like, oh, wait,

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you weren't here when the police were called. I said,

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I don't care. It was still noisy, loud. He goes, yeah,

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I can't do anything. So I'm like, all right, I

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call an uber. I'm gonna meet my son. He wants

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to take me to Little Ireland, which is up towards Yonkers.

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So I've got now all my bags. I got to

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pull them on the subway. I'm trying to keep up

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with this kid who's six foot six, and he's like,

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you know, he's just his stride. I'm asking him to

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carry a bag. I'm huffing. I'm puffing. I'm pulling through

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things I got. I mean, he had me going through

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Times Square when I first got there. I'm pulling my

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bags three. He wants to take me to this like

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cuban tiny deli and then show me that's just off

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Times Square. There's families, there's people. I'm getting held up.

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People are selling shit on the street. I can't get

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around Jackson's like ninety yards ahead of me. I somehow

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stay calm, but I was getting so frustrated. I was

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cursing and mumbling under my breath back to the hotel.

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So I go back in while I'm waiting for my uber,

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and I said, you have a business card. He goes, yeah,

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it gives it to me, and he said the number

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changed and they in marker wrote the new number. They

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didn't get new cars, they just wrote the new number

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in big letters, so for thirty days ago. I go, okay,

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this is fantastic. So I say to the guy, UH,

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take my number and have the guy call me. He

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goes out, yeah, absolutely, but I never hear anything. I

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try calling from the UH from the Bronx when we're

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up there a little Ireland, and I got a brief

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minute and yeah, they the manager's not in yet. It'll

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be in in an hour, and I haven't called back.

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I'm just here's the thing. I don't want to be

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a pain in the ass in a way, I guess

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I don't care. It all worked out. The main purpose

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was to see my son and hang out with my son.

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But I'm never staying there again. And you know, I

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hear people Matt Reese is, who's so great when he

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comes on the podcast and stuff, always talks about the

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yelp reviews and how annoying the Yelp reviews can be

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and how hurtful and blah blah blah when it's against

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the restaurant. I'm like, I want to give a shitty

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Yelp review to this, although I don't think they care.

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Though I don't think they honestly care. I don't know

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that they're allowing homeless people to say, I have no idea.

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This sounded like families. And if they are opening up

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and giving a discount rate and trying to help people out,

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that's a wonderful thing. Why would you shit on that.

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It's hard enough to sometimes make it in the world.

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You know, as long as people were being able to

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have a safe place to actually sleep and keep hygiene

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and all that. I don't have a problem with because

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just but here's my question. Can you fucking behave just

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to just a little bit? Can you fucking behave please?

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I'm trying. Anyway. That was my That was my big

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adventure down there. And then I came up to uh,

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went back up to my mom's. My mom and I

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drove down and she's a terrible passenger. She has a

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beautiful new Honda Cord that she said to me, I

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want you to drive. So I drove and we hit

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a lot of snow all the way into Jersey on

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the day we were coming down here, and she's, you know,

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white knuckling the thing next to me, and and then

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she's like, the visibility is so bad, Billy, it's so bad.

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I think we're just gonna have to get a hotel. Like,

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we're not getting a hotel. I didn't know. It's not

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that bad. It's terrible, Billy, I can't see. I'm like, good,

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close your eyes, shut up, which is not nice to

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say to your mother at the holidays. I am going

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to try, and I will say this here. I am

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going to try to do a podcast with my sister

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and if I can get these wireless mics that I

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have to work. We will see if that actually comes

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to fruition or not. She's not super comfortable with the idea,

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but I think it could be an interesting one. It

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was suggested by a couple of you fantastic listeners, So

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we will try to get to that and we will

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be back. I should be back at the beginning of

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next week. I stayed an extra day at my sisters

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because well, we drank too much and we're having philosophical discussions,

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and then I was the bad uncle who didn't go

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do the fun stuff with my niece. But we'll be back,

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and then I think we'll get right back onto a

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regular rotation. And I will tell you that I'm really

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looking forward to twenty twenty six. I think that there's

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going to be a lot of cool things happening with

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the podcast, a lot of behind the scene things, and

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they think we're going to see some tremendous growth, and

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you know, and a lot of that's thanks to you

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keep spreading the word my friends about the podcast. You know,

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word of mouth. It's the greatest thing in the world.

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And I appreciate you all listening for me. Bill Moran

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from Fairfax, Virginia, in the basement of my sister's house.

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I'll see you tomorrow. Be in the hotel. Didn't know

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what to do. I turned the TV on Rule A

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letter to you. The Lousi Stout didn't buy the Tagenet

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upon the unter state. You see, they were looking for

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a kind of light with Tennessee