wellRED podcast - Wellred Xmas 2025

Episode Date: December 24, 2025

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here the whole time. We love you. Bye. don't work. We're talking about the comedy condo. Where are we at? Zanies in Nashville. Yeah, I don't, you know, comedy condos are like, legendary for their shittiness. But, like, I find this one at least in particular

to be shitty in a, in a charming way. I'm not going to say, I'm not going to name names here, but I will tell you, for the most part, it is contingent on the club. You know what I mean? It's not like, like, if the comedy condo, nowadays at least, like if the comedy condo is shitty it's probably because you're in a beer room or something like that most of the bigger ones

i think they got tired of the shit you know but uh but yeah i mean this is this condo's fine when you've been to the one in denver it just sort of yeah ruins them for you that's true but most clubs don't even do them anymore right right yeah just get you have some i mean even the dorfmans i think they own this but they got rid of that one in alabama before they got rid of the club which they eventually got rid of the club yeah the one in alabama was a full-blown house yeah it was sick yeah they sold and like I said, made a lot of money. Corey left.

That's fine. I'm right here. He's running around doing stuff. I had to get my cigarette. I was thinking about that. You just said it having metal room. I've been rewatching Madden and it's, you know, second season when Don and Betty separate before getting divorced or whatever.

And, like, obviously, Don a hitch real hard. And so he's just staying at the Ritz or whatever, you know what I mean? And, like, I assume if Amber left me. me i too would just live by myself but like the thought crossed my mind of like some of my buddies who have gotten divorced and like you know or my age or a little bit older who like now have roommates again and like not trying to be classist i know that's how some people have to live yeah but i haven't done it for so long that i think that would be almost the worst part of divorce is having to live with a bunch of fucking dudes or or living alone or yeah or living a lot

Yes, that too. Yeah. I think you're on to some. Y'all don't think. I think it would. I think sadness is probably the worst part of divorce. Yeah, you're right. But y'all don't think that no part of you would think it would hit to live alone every now and then?

Absolutely. How old's Bain in this scenario? Right, exactly, yeah. Well, obviously, if you lost your child in a divorce or whatever, that would be brutal. I know, but I'm saying, like, if Bain was like, you know, 15 and 16 of them. My sons are almost grown. In five years, my sons will be adults, which is nuts. But when they're adults, if Katie leaves me, and my preference would absolutely be to live alone,

meaning even in like when compared to finding another, especially when compared to finding another woman or whatever, like I'd rather just, I think living alone would hit for me just fine. But that might just be easy for me to say. I might, but I mean, I experience it in some capacity every other weekend or so. And it's nice. Yeah. But it's a change of pace. It's a change of pace when I do it now.

It's the emptiness. I still think a party would enjoy it. It's the context of it too. Did you hear me because of some, you know, because I'm off the rails already? You know what I'm saying? Yeah, yeah, for sure. If your whole life is, like, fucked up around it, that makes it. You knew it was your fault.

That makes it ten times worse. Like, if she did some fuck shit, I bet you could power through and be like, you know, like, I don't want to be alone. But, like. I think it's 80, 20 for me of, like, the 20% of me would enjoy. or I'd enjoy it 20% of the time. I just feel like I very, like one of the most I've ever related to a bit is that Patrice bit when he's talking about men want to be by themselves, but they don't want to be alone.

Like that's me. Like, I want you in the house somewhere. You can be in a, you can be an event. That's okay, you know, like I feel that way because like at home, I do often, just like I've seen to be by myself, but there's life. There's like a heartbeat in the house. When I'm in a hotel, dude, even not drinking, I still am just all day, just like, I'm fucking line.

like this sucks. Yeah. I don't want to talk to anybody. I just want to know they're like on the toilet. Well, they are. They're right beside you. That's right. Yeah, but they don't hit.

They don't hit. There's been like two times in my life where I've felt a positive thing about someone else in a hotel room other than y'all. Yeah. I mean, you're a hotel room, a hotel. Like I'd be seeing people at the hotel elevator and just whatever. I pick one thing out about them and I hate it. When you're in a fucking. They're the worst.

They're the worst. They're the worst. They're the Hilton garden inn outside of shopping center, outside of Toledo. Ohio watching a diners drive-ins and dives marathon in the middle of the afternoon. It's like, it's not, you know, the pinnacle of happiness or self-fulfillment or contentment or whatever. But then I'll see a family, which, and I'll just be like, look at that fucking family in my head, you know what I mean?

No, I don't. Just because they're at a shopping center in Toledo. No, I was just doing a bit. I do that too, but I don't know if this is what you meant, but like where I'll sit there and judge people for doing the same shit that I'm doing. doing i do do that but you're at the fucking cheesecake i have to be here you know what i mean it's right by the phone what the fuck are you live here i guess i do that but i think more first of i was kind of doing a bit but i think really what i was getting at is like because of what we're

talking about what is that word i think it's french just like no the one that's what mean on we the on we of it all i'm like walking to the elevator and everything sucks and somebody woke me up that's just oh nothing matters and something disillusionment and i'm like there's who woke me up you know what i mean that shithead killer what are they doing or whatever yeah i wanted to say something else oh you're talking about that patrice bit what's the patrice bit about being alone he's talking me he's talking about yeah men want to be a lot men isn't it they want to be by they or they want to be they want to be left alone they just don't want to be by themselves okay

as in like either way you hear we just don't want you talking about it's so true all right slight different but related thing what does the phrase die alone like i don't want to die alone or you're going to die alone to you doesn't that mean like no one's living in your house because i want my family no no no living in the house no i think it means no one's there to give a shit when you die right right well like your kids ain't going to live with you right if you die at 75 they're going to have their own shit going they're not going to live with you but if you die they're going to show up yeah yeah so i want my family to come over and then, but I, the idea of them being in the room

when I die, right. For some reason, it upsets me very bad. Like, leave that. Well, I can tell you, don't hear. Dude, hey, what if you. And it almost makes me feel like, and I heard someone else say this, we have this weird thing where death's almost embarrassing. I almost feel like I'd be embarrassed.

I would. Get the fuck out of here. Yeah, yeah, like, this is me and God. Right. I sometimes kind of think that Isbel nailed it and Elefell. phone where he says what i don't remember exactly how the lyric goes everyone does it's something like in the end we all die alone and like right that's right that's kind of that's kind of that's super you know bleak but i but i kind of do think that that's true though well unless he means like it depends on what he means

like if i died right now alone in that room like if y'all went to the club and i died in that bathroom over there alone i wouldn't have died alone i have such a full life so but like i would be alone in that moment and that's what I would prefer and part of the reason too though is if it were Andy I know that like that vulnerability I would be super weak at the end I wouldn't want to leave her with that I wouldn't want

to leave her with like fear on my face for sure that's that makes sense yeah I mean I get you it also like if any of us I'm gonna say Merry Christmas everybody it's the annual Zionist Christmas episode it's either this or we're talking about like statutory right for a fucking I've got something on that

okay good uh I don't but I'll can. Nice. Yeah. To keep the theme of. I'll shift it up because I accidentally organically brought it up. I'm about to shock y'all.

I think maybe not you because you're on Reddit a lot and you're fat. Thank you. You're welcome. And me too. I'm on Reddit a lot. You're not fat. Well, I mean, you're getting there. You're not culturally fat.

I'm not fat. I know you're not. I'm saying you've got a belly. Like, we've both got a belly. This is literally the most in shape I've been. We've both got a belly. That's hilarious. Now our belly looks pretty similar.

Oh, this is great. I'm a funny. Shaped guy. I'm just fatter. I'm a fatter. Drew has that old bit about... He's holding up a hairy bag. He's got like a gut somehow.

Okay, here's my fucking point. Even if Drew all of a sudden weighed 250 pounds, I still don't consider him culturally fat. I heard that, right? That'd be pretty culturally fat. He knew fat. We all fat. I've been like this since I was a baby.

I've looked like this since I was a baby. Either I'm not fat or I'm always been fat. He said if you got to be 250 pounds, you would be no fat. Either I'm not fat or. I've always been fat. My mom used to call me the Ethiopian child.

It's hilarious and racist and funny. It's more just cruel. It's very cruel. Like, look, his belly swell, like them kids that are starving to death. Like, you have a fucking, like you're about to have a fucking Frank Beamer on your fucking neck.

Too late. Was that Goiter? I guess, yeah. From here, too, they're both salt. A Frank. He's the mother. They taught me rhyming.

He's supposed. A front beaming. Yeah, I was trying. I was like, what's a friend? Oh, yeah, yeah, you had to fucking. Literally, boom, yeah. Well, he's the most prominent example of that. Yeah, right.

It's not a picture of someone because they were like, check this board. Wait, he had to have wanted that. We live in a country where, and he had the money where they could get rid of. That was his brother. No, no, he was the old. He was the old. He was the old. He was the old.

He was the old thing to let him go. Yeah. That was, this was the old coach of the Virginia Tech Hokies fucking. I forgot. y'all were here sorry yeah everybody he had and he had a if you weren't a college football fan he had a big he had a big gorder on his neck uh the whole time seem seema always wild i mean he was all frame got the big ass beema is this son still hitting yeah same man no he's okay he's in south carolina right he's getting paid a lot of money and he like wins six to a game to year massively

disappointing season this year oh that's right because that quarterback was supposed to be good Lenora Sellers are supposed to be a high. They were preseason ranked like 11 or something. Even sports fans. They lost like seven or eight sports fans who are listening don't want us to hear. Let's talk about shame being. Sure, but let me take,

I want to get back to the old fat thing, but. I'm so mad you called me fat. I have a problem that. Just because this is the best I've looked. You look right. I look fine, and I acknowledge that. I said it to you once in our whole relationship, and you're just going to be like that.

But now? But I just think That's how bad our relationship is The times I've been fat You ain't said a damn word But even when Drew's If I say even when Drew's Harry basketball is

Popping a little more He's got a little bit more of a gut Even then he's still at worst Like a dad bond Which hits for people Right It hits, yes No, it looks weird

So But his I had some people on Patreon So they're obviously representative Of our entire fan base And listenership tell me that they uh because i'm always apologizing on there whenever sports come up be like i know y'all don't care about sports but told me that um even the ones that don't like sports they they don't mind

it when we talked about it yeah because i mean it's never about the game right it's usually about some so i use these two or three people to like validate or justify anything that i want to do even when i'm pretty sure that it don't hit for 95% of the people listening but okay we all fat he would be new fat if he was fat, but you're not fat. Where were you going with that? So the reason I said you might know this, but if you've gone, I think I'm about to blow y'all's mind. So you know that, like, there's been many articles on it how, like,

all chain restaurants taste the same because basically Cisco completely cornered the market and that's where they get all that food from. Yep, yep. And every, you just know it, every chain restaurant, like, they get their stuff frozen. Cheesecake Factory makes everything in-house from scratch. everything. They do not use Cisco. They have... Well, they had to use somebody. Because I mean, Cisco,

I know that Cisco will do prepared items that are frozen that you heat up, but they also are just... What I'm saying is... Raw ingredients. I get my chicken from Cisco. When you get your chicken from Cisco, when we did, it was like, we got it every now and it was cooked. Like, it was already cooked. But you don't

have to, right? What I'm saying is, they go to the fucking market. Like, they have a person back there de-boning salmon. Their process starts at five in the morning. They have Cisco was sending people to the fish market, or Cisco, sorry, Cheesecake Factory is sending someone to the fish market in Seattle, the Cheesecake Factory at their restaurant. What is normally, I can't remember what the guy said the position was called, but in most chain restaurants, it's not that big of a deal because, again, you don't have to do this. But, yeah, like, his whole deal is, like, making sure they've got enough flour to make the pasta and making, you know, getting everything in stock. So every cheesecake factory has a pasta mama, and I know it don't have to be in a tagana, but they have someone who fucking makes the pasta.

Yes, they make, they make everything there. Like, they don't, they don't, in which, like, I mean, that's doubly impressive, considering how insane in their menu, yeah, ridiculous. And also, like, kind of makes me be like, because look, I've never had a bad meal there. Like, I've never been blown away or nothing, but, like, kind of makes me be like, okay, as a chain, I will, I might start going there more because, like, at least, like I said, all the other chains are just different versions of the same thing, but they're fucking, like, it's real, it's real impressive.

said there if you get tuna there there's a motherfucker back there ripping the spine out of goddamn tuna you know cutting it up man if v y still lived in nashville and no we was going to be talking about this he might have come on the podcast this week he was a big cheesecake factory fan yeah ben chung famously went broke at cheesecake factory i was like who the fuck is v y ben y i don't remember calling him b y yeah v y i honestly thought it was an indian comedian What did you find, Drew? So they sourced their ingredients through a complex, large-scale supply chain, emphasizing scratch-made preparation in large kitchens, blah, blah, blah,

central bakeries in Florida, North Carolina, who make the cheesecakes, while relying on key partnerships with dairy farmers, distributors like Cisco. Okay, so some of it. And specialty suppliers, all managed via event, advanced, Procurement Tech called GepSmart, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, the strong commitments.

So they do use Cisco, but like in a better way than other people are, apparently. Yes. Well, also, I feel like the cheesecake part in particular, if you operate your own cheesecake headquarters, as they seem to be doing, and then I feel like if they're making those cheesecakes legit in that place, you can freeze those and mail them to Dubuque, Iowa or whatever. and I'm fine with that. So like, you know, it all just kind of depends. I am wondering if the place they get their cheesecakes is getting things from Cisco. Right. But that aside, that wouldn't really necessarily matter.

I mean, I think the upshot here is Scratch recipes. Well, doesn't Hardee famously make biscuits from scratch every single day? I don't know that's still the case, but I know at least they used to. They hire a full-time position that's just biscuit maker. Yes, and that's why they don't do it all. all daddy. That's why they, like, my dad was the one that told me this. He's like, the reason that Hardys don't do breakfast all day, even though it's their best thing, is like, it's a very specific mama that even wants to do this, let alone can and will. And like,

they have to get there at four o'clock in the morning. Yeah, right. And so like, you'd have to have a doing it at least. Yeah. And they're like, so you'd have to have another one then come in and there's just not enough of them. And like to meet the, well, not enough of them that are willing to do that. To do it. Yeah. At four Hardee specifically. Yeah. Exactly, right. I... Basically making mammoths are obviously legion, but yeah, but yeah. Because they were always that...

They got more integrity than that. My opinion. He was like, yeah, the demand wouldn't end up meeting the whatever. And I was like, but people don't know that. Like, you don't know what will happen unless you do it. Like, you know, maybe if you did have another paid for an extra mammal to come in, like, people would go there more in that, like, because now, luckily, they do serve it until 12 now, which like... Offer the mammoths $110,000 a year in fucking medical, and they'll work.

goddamn near around the clock But you know what they don't make When I found this out Because I went there to get They don't make the eggs Like them the foldy eggs Like those are Oh

Like I saw on that They said We don't They said on our egg Bistit today We can only do Fried eggs And I was like

If you have the egg What that does hit But I was like You have the egg And you could do it You could make the egg Do anything you want But then I was like

Oh them folding ones they just getting in pre-made things or they're using like that carton of it's definitely that it's probably that and they just ran out of that so they're like we got these eggs so there wasn't a manager back there who's like get a bowl john it's what i said but like you know and by the way deterred me not one bit and here's why i'd rather have a fried egg on it especially knowing that it ain't come out of one yeah right i've been eating that thing whatever the fuck it is for years and it tastes good to me that's all i can't care about like that there's a michelin decorated five-star chef who went viral recently sincerely saying that the best way to make an omelet is to use the micro yes it is he had like he had like four steps involved but like the final one was microwave for 30 seconds is you take one egg you put it in a ramekine about this size one egg one spoonful of mayonnaise uh so and in mayonnaise what mayonnaise you use is important because it's the main flavor thing here because you really don't

have to put salt. I mean, you put pepper in, but you don't, like... You shouldn't put it at first. You shouldn't. Yeah, you shouldn't. You whisk it and it becomes this custard-like thing. I've found in many experiments, in my microwave, everybody's microwave is different. Forty-six seconds is the sweet spot where it doesn't get all rubbery. And what happens is you then take it out. And some of that mayonnaise, it just kind of slides over it like a, and mixes with an egg, like a little sauce, like a little hollandaise type sauce. it is fucking fantastic and yeah I've like

no water or cream or milk no just egg mayonnaise 46 seconds and then I could have swore he said cream I think he said you could if you wanted to but it's a great great headed guy right with a great beard yeah yeah I saw the same thing I put a little parsley on at the end

but like ever since I figured that out like dude yeah there's hardly no reason for me to make even scrambled eggs because it's it's I'm getting what I want Bain loves them so every morning it takes a minute and 50 seconds to make me and him both our own little egg on that thing and they're divining and yeah if

if somebody in my hometown had told me about that I'd be like thank microwave my goddamn eggs but is that guy so I was like shit and no it's legit dude fucking fucking try and it makes that one egg way bigger than you'd think I guess because the emulsifying properties of manna is but yeah really fantastic yeah but just generally speaking everything's getting shitter and it down hit

You know, obviously, and shitification is the word internet came up with for that, but it's very real. Because O'Charlie's, I was working at O'Charlie's when, and I mean, of course, I mean, this has been almost fucking 20 years ago. But, like, I was working there when they stopped doing, you know, the famous role. Oh, Charlie's ain't in all parts of the country, but where it is, they get free rolls and people love their roles. They used to make those in-house at every O'Charlie's. I was there when that stopped. So they started getting them in, you know, now maybe it was a cheesecake factory situation, whatever.

But they also, um, they started like, they did, we had a guy to come in and like would make French fries. He had potatoes and it's just like a thing. You stick them in and it, you know, fries them. And he would do that. They started using those in the potato soup instead of like,

I remember when that happened. I didn't have to be told. I could tell. You could tell. Of course, it's fucking french fries in a bowl. And also, if they didn't cook properly, Sometimes they didn't cook all the way through because used to, they were smaller

and I think they were using the same process and so they would just be like hard little taters. But like, dude, it's like, it used to... French fries in a bowl, not not here. It's just you've got to cook them a little bit longer. Used to, I mean, yeah, still just a potato, whatever it's... In my opinion, that is not the optimal shape for a potato and a potato.

Exactly, it's stupid. But it, but used to, like, companies... Like wanted to hit, because hitting is what mattered. That's how you get it in. And now it's like, very, very few of them have any kind of like pride or whatever and actually hitting it stuff. Well, that's because of when they go public. Rampant growth, right. It has to have to grow.

Like, they care about the shareholder, not the person sitting there. Right. Which you would think that they would be both. If the person sitting there happy that it won't hit for the shareholder because nobody will go, but like, that's not it. and don't hit well and then venture capital firms are oftentimes come in and gut something down and make a shit ton of money and then they they'll hold profit for a quarter or two uh and then drag it all in for another quarter or two and say look how profitable we are hey i made my shareholders happy and look how profit we are buy this from me now that i've completely fucked it up isn't that no i don't think so what's fraudulent what's the lie oh you mean like the profit thing yeah i mean you know you're allowed a certain amount of accounting because it hits for you in other ways but yeah i guess that would be fraud to the shareholder people have well it'd be the buyer that'd be probably more pissed right people have gotten

sued over like hey you made it look like you're more profitable than you are i guess it depends on how you do it but that's a more that's another example of the inshittification of everything merging in my opinion with the wweeification of everything because even the stock market market, in terms of that, when they do that kind of thing, you're like, oh, it was a shoot. Right. Or a work. Work is when it's staged. Like, you just worked.

Yeah. Everybody's, your stock prices. Everybody's working. Everybody's working. Dude, Tesla, I mean, we've talked about it before, but I'm like, it's a good company, but it is so insanely overvalued when you look at how much money is. It doesn't even make any fucking sense any way you look at it. It's like their stock value being more than, like, all the.

other competing car companies combined or whatever or close to it. And it's like, for what? You ever been in a Rivian? Huh? You ever been inside a Rivian? No, they're pretty popular in the Valley. I see them around. We have a Rivian dealership in Burbank, but I've never been in.

Luke from Duke got one. The day I rode in it, I put like $400 in Rivian. It's like, this is, this can't be like, this has to work. Have you ever seen TikTokers get a Chinese electric vehicle? No, but I mean, it's rad. Did you see that they got flying cars now? What? They have a drone program.

The Chinese? And the government is making anything under 100 feet. They're like starting to make roads and stuff for it. And it's automated like a taxi almost where you just put in the destination. You don't even fucking fly it. It almost have to be that way. Because I've seen people say for years, it's like the thing about flying cars is always the go-to, joking. We were kids.

The future way of flying cars. For years, people have been like, Well, it ain't, technologically speaking... Like, you know, I need to stay between the booies, booies is what I meant. Technologically speaking, we could make flying cars, but it's like that is an insane idea because of the, like, the logistics and practicality of it.

Every day a plane fell out in the sky onto a... Right, but also just like people wreck it, people drive like assholes and wreck into each other. So when there's roads, when there's roads, if there was, like, if you just could fly up into the open air and do whatever, it'd be nuts. But... Chasers would rule.

But that's what you'd have to do is what you said They make like lanes where that's the only place So it's just like roads in the sky They could put a governor on it or something And not let people control the thing I was about to say Or they could put like

If there was some insane 5G 8G signal Or whatever to where like They There was governors on it You know what I mean? Like how like my car It's not even a space rocket ship And like

They say somebody would jail break one rob a bag Right But it has lane assist on it. I can just let the wheel go and it'll start to go, but then it'll correct itself, which is, you know, really cool. But, dude, okay, we're talking about investing in, like, how, like, how is Tesla valued this much? So, two things. One, I wanted to save this for POA, but I kept forgetting. So Tim Cook and Apple, Tim Apple, what the fuck ever.

Yeah, Tim Apple. I was reading about him the other day. And, like, they were talking about how, they're like, you know, Steve Jobs was done. the visionary, but like for the shareholders, Tim Cook has been way better than him and he's a better like fundamental leader for growth and stuff. And this is the number. He's been there for a fucking while, right? This is the number that they, and there's no way this is, this is why it's all bullshit and they just say stuff. They said that he has added every day of his, every day of his leadership, he has added $17 million in valuation to the company. Every single single

day since he's been there, which has been years and years and years and years and years and I'm reading about it and I'm like, okay, get to the part where they tell me why or how. The article based family is like, and no one knows how. And I'm like, well, then he doesn't, then he hasn't. Like, they're just saying this. And then this fucking Sam Altman, like with the, they, so Chad GBT, or Open AI made $11 billion last year, but he just pledged $11 billion from chat GPT to be invested in all this other stuff for cancer research and shit. And they're like, well, how can they invest money that they don't have? And then I start reading about, they're like with Amazon and Microsoft both just gave open AI.

They invested $10 billion into open AI. But what Sam Alton's do it is he got the $10 billion from Microsoft and then spent that $10 billion buying Microsoft products, right? That seems like it'd have to be a crime. Like that scene, but they're, they're not, this isn't something somebody found out. They're openly doing it and talking about it. Mm-hmm. So.

It's a, it's a shell game. Right. They're just trading fake money. The last time I read it, I think it was like something like 55 or 60% of the growth in the last, I don't know, let's say six months. I don't remember the number was all related to AI. And if that bubble burst, it's going to be one of the biggest crashes we've ever had. I think that, uh, how could it not burst? It's going to.

What are they even doing? I mean, there's only like three arguments and arguably it's a mix of all. I mean, one is like if you do convince a whole nation and government to put all their eggs in one basket and you're the basket, well, now you're too big to fail. They're going to continue to bail you out. Right. Which they're already talking about that. Right. Then at some point, your tech will eventually start to work now.

And because all the eggs were in your basket, they all bought you, all these companies bought in. now you are like micros you know how like almost every office uses Microsoft in the you know what I mean it's so it's like now we all are having the you know AI is a part of everything so now we are going to finally start making some money back and or third I mean AI is so connected I mean planets here is the number one obvious example because they got a no bid contract with the US government to do defense work but there's a pretty solid argument that like till created altman and he's still investing in open AI and shit so obviously they're not completely competing entities there's a really i think compelling case to make look you can draw a line

i'm going to sound like a tinful hatter but it doesn't matter you can draw a line from like places like gaza or places in africa where fucked up shit happens and then it starts happening in the second world and then it starts happening in the first world it's it's it's what it's also it's just a test that's coal mine and the car canary in the coleman but it's also it's literally R&D. It's literally research and development. I mean, there's a pretty decent argument to make when you see how in bed they are with the people who created Project

2025 and that guy, Curtis Jarvin, the dark philosopher of Silicon Valley, that they're also like, and also once we get all this control, we are going to become the government. Well, yeah, and Sam Altman's already talking about it's like we need to have a global currency and it will be this, whatever the fuck he's

done. And he's like, he's talking about it in terms like a universal basic income. And for the first time ever in the history of that phrase, the people that normally scream at it aren't, for some reason, because he said it, so it's fine. And he even said,

he's like, I mean, we're going to have to do that because nobody will have a job, you know, so Open AI will, like, deposit this. And he goes,

and everyone will be millionaires. And I hate to sound like a boomer, but it's like, well, if everyone's a millionaire, no one's a millionaire, you know, and like,

we just, some people just need their basic food and shit. And I disagree that you're ever going to use that for that. Like, that's not going to fucking happen. Well, They told us like four months ago that we were going to cure cancer, that we were going to have the computational skills to do the most insane things in physics

and, you know, mine amounts of wealth from space. You know, we're going to figure out all these things we couldn't figure out. And so far, all they've done is just like make LeBron James a picture of him getting Osama bin Laden pregnant. Right. And for that money, it's literally just of trying to be, if you say in control of our lives, I think it makes it sound like I'm saying they don't want you to do it's like no like they want to be

so ubiquitous in our lives that it doesn't matter what we want I mean kind of like again the way that Microsoft you almost can't run a business without Microsoft products at this point they want to be like that but for everything in the world your grocery list and

another thing that like Sam Altman and Elon Musk have in common is that like they do say all these things but with absolutely nothing to back up what they're setting. Yeah, they have the idea the way a novelist way. Right. Like, it's all great to say that. And by the way, I

hope that, I do hope, if it takes a out of pure cancer, fucking cool. Great, you know. But that's just a marketing skill. They don't care about that. There's nothing actionable he can do to be, say here, and here's what, like, at least when, like, as Steve Jobs, you know, they'll show you the goddamn iPhone. I'm like, here's the thing we'll make, this what it does

where they just go anything, just it'll do it fucking anything. And we need to kill them in the street. Yes. I agree, but how it don't hit. It don't hit the future. You know what else don't hit about the future is how you have to subscribe to everything nowadays. You know, you have so many subscriptions. You can't keep up with all of them. I think we've all been there. Everything that hits, it's like you have to subscribe to. Again, it's another. You used to just buy something and then it was, and then it hits, not anymore. Now you've got to subscribe. Before long they're going to have cars. Yeah, hell, yeah, air, water, whatever. I was going to say, they already have cars, I think. That's like if your subscription runs up, it just don't. It just don't. car no more. But they'll do that with glasses. I've made the prediction. So your prescription will go out.

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but you never thought about it? You know how we just always assume. If you have like a regular job, a 401k is like generally it's you to use, they take a little bit, it's a retirement account. They take a little bit out of your money and every paycheck that is for you. But a lot of places, a lot of places will match it, you know, if you have like a hidden job or whatever with like good benefits.

And it goes into this account, which is your retirement account. And it's an S for those, usually, I think some other, the company or whoever has some third party that manages that 401k account, which means they use that money to make investments and stuff and hopefully grow it for you. But that's why when there's a big financial crash or something, and people are like, I lost my whole retirement. It's because they had it in some, you know, investment account or whatever that the bottom fell out of or some shit like that. But, yeah, I mean, right, that's pretty much it. Yep. And then, like, the people who are super into the stocks and, like, believe. in our system are like, well, yeah, but I mean, you'll get it back if you just wait.

And some people are like, yeah, I'm retiring in two weeks, motherfucker. Like, how am I supposed to wait? Right. Yeah, yeah. Is that what's your, and it's taxed? And it's taxed. I'm about to say, you don't, do they even tax, some of the retirement accounts, like, that money's not taxed, right? I think that is correct.

Yeah, well, so that's the upside of it, too, or ostibly. If you're an independent contractor can set one of those up. I mean, I have my own. I have a, I have a. I should probably do that. Yeah, probably. I've just been going on the like, I'm going to die on stage anyway, so give a fuck. But I know that ain't the way.

Well, I think in most situations, it's been how you set it up, though. Like, if you died on stage, other people would get it. Like, do you want Amber to retire if you die on stage or you want her to work till she dies? No, work until she dies. Yeah, absolutely. It's progressive. I don't want, no plan should ever be forced to stop working. Right.

You know what I mean? Yeah, she should stay at home. Yeah, women belong in the workplace. Yeah, no, I wish she didn't fucking work right now. Like, She only does a couple nights of wait, but it's still hell. You know what I'm supposed to be in my goddamn house? I'm kidding. I'm fucking kidding.

By the way, I'm sure we talked about this, but I do got to give her the shouts, you know. Amber used to never cook because she didn't think she was good at it. And also because she was like, well, you're so good at it that I just assume I'll disappoint you. Oh, God. Andy needs a new one. I'm so tired of hearing that. Yeah. Especially because it ain't even that true, you know.

I used to think I was a good cook. And then I started thinking about it, I was like, I'm good at like five things. I played it back on her on the laundry, which I was like, well, you hit hard with that. You know what I mean? And she sort of changed your tone a little bit, which she does do it better than me because she does it, which is objectively better than it not being done. You know what I mean? But anyways, she started cooking like six months ago and was really enjoying it. And I thought like, well, this is just a phase.

Bro, like, now, then she's like, she's really unlike something. like she's fucking great she's gotten at a point now you think he's being a mom and now it's like she's getting something out of it yes i really do think it's like yeah don't happen to all of them but yeah that's nice you sure don't no andy actually stay damn she's didn't giving roscow too but she not me she said something real funny when she first started and i was like you know even if it was bad i would have told her it was good but it wasn't good and obviously i wanted to encourage her because it was hitting for me and i was like this is really good and she He goes, well, all I did was follow the recipe, and I was like, yeah, baby, but that's what cooking is, you know.

And she's like, well, and they would be like you where I can just go in there and no, dude, she finally got over that hump. She's starting to whip shit up. Bro, she pissed me off the other day. She made a shrimp alfredo better than anyone I've ever made. But now I don't know who I ain't. Well, anytime someone makes you a sandwich, it's better than when you make the sandwich unless they just completely fuck it up. So as long as she gets close to what you're doing, that's what that is. Yeah, that's true.

Well, you'd be mad when she beat you in a taste test with a. third party it's i'm not i guess i'm not mad i feel bad because i'm like god damn that was such a thing that i brought to the table you know what i mean and like that was you think she's going to be like oh i can do this now she don't want to right when i think she loves me for other reasons i that just escapes me what they would be true you got something to say who no no i mean that just that hits for you it does hit for me but again i've lost a sense of self a little bit i thought you were gonna bring something up because the madness i think i've ever made you is when i told you i was a better cook than you.

Me? You don't remember that? I did it on the pod. No, I mean, that's insane. You yelled at me for 25 minutes and I was like, you're like, are you serious? And I was like, yeah, dude, you think like, because you follow a fucking bacon recipe, you know how to cook, dude. I'm like a fucking artist.

I don't think I went that far because I did a real good job of making anything. I meant it. I know we must have been bombed drunk because I don't remember this. And I know at the time, whatever my, it was hitting for me. There's no way it wasn't. I made you so mad. guarantee it was what was your do it no he didn't already admit it a minute ago he just said he's not that great he could only make like five things he said that about himself already so skiers too though

yeah six things the tour got even started yet we were like it was the first week of the tour yeah we were like it was wednesday on the first week of the tour and was it yes we had done two or three shows and it was we were back in knoxville because we were going then to nashville to do Lipstick clowns, which I'm staying beside right now. Oh, that's it. Yeah. I'm staying beside, and today I drove past it, and I hadn't seen it since we played there, and I've got a flood of just like, wow, like, you know.

They're still gay. They're still gay. It's a gay bar. They're still gay. Primarily lesbian bar, yeah. Well, it's owned by lesbians, but I think, you know, Perry Pinsson in which night you go. You know what made me.

You know what made me. That's half a myth. What that reminded me of, we can go into gay stuff in a minute, but you're, While that night, the lipstick lounge night, we went by my buddy Jared, Jared and Jess, who lived here at the time. I know Jared and Jess. I remember going by their house. Maybe you weren't there, but I think you were because the thing that happened while we were there. While we were there, Corey, we're like talking to Jared and Jess just hanging out of wherever.

Corey's phone rings, and he looks at it. He's like, oh, God, I got to take this. Sorry, I got to take this. And it goes off at the other room. And then like 15 seconds later, 30 seconds, you hear him go, oh, God, damn it. He, like, hung it up and came back out because it, I guess it popped up on his little thing. It was the Chattanooga Times Free Press. And he saw it, and he was like, well, obviously, they're doing a piece on me, you know, whatever.

It's like, they want to interview me. And he answered, he's like, yes, yes, this is Corey Forrestrow. And they were like, can we interest you in a subscription package we're offering right now? And then he yelled at someone making $7 in $20. 25 cents an hour, God damn. And I hung up before I said, God damn it. Because I don't, I do my best to not disrespect anyone just doing their job because I've been there. Dude, that day, the fucking lot, when they wouldn't let you buy that Disney notebook because it was for employees.

Tell them. I mean, we'd definitely tell that before, but we didn't tell that, you know. We were working on one of the failed pilots, and it was at the. at Disney Studios and on the studio lot and they have a store there like an employee store, a Disney employee store,

which like if you're in the studio, you can go in that store and buy stuff. And frankly, I don't, to be fair to you, I don't get why they do this. Probably because they pay their employees so low. They act like it's a fucking perk or something.

Right. But so in the Disney store, there are other items which you can't buy unless you're a legit, full-time employee of Disney. Like, we were there because we were, like, essentially,

we were like contractors. We had to check in every day. We never gave us, like, a permanent badge. I'm a fucking badge. Right. And so, but they, but we, we didn't even know that at the time,

and you found, was like a Donald Duck notebook. It was Donald Duck Notebook. That makes the phone. But he was like, 3D, like, it was like Donald Duck was, not like they stitched him on there,

but he popped out. It was fucking, it was cool. And I love Donald. He is for me. And he went up there. It was like, he just said it down there like, I'm sorry, you can't. Or they were like, can we see your badge and he pulls out. We had, our badges were like temp, temp badges.

And they were like, oh, no, this is, see, this has got this little sticker on. That means you have to be a, you have to work here to be able to buy that. And you were just like, you're like, why, I do work here. And I don't. Like, this is. My office on, don't. Yeah. Yeah.

I think what you said is. What he says? This says I hit or what he says. He says, I hit. I don't know how to prove to you. That's what he said. That's what he said. He's like, well, I.

I do hit. I don't know how to prove you that I hit, but I do hit, no. And of course, this lady's like, what the fuck is that mean? I'm switching my head. He then goes, tell him I hit, Trey. He didn't, for the record. He didn't stand up for me. There was nothing to be sitting up for a fucking idiot.

Yes. And then when they finally shut you down, like, you just, you like bitched the hallway out the door. It's ridiculous. It is. I agree with you. And I was embarrassed. Yeah.

Yeah, and you were really helping that. Exactly. We got like a little bit out the door, and I remember you been like, you had, again, been yelling this whole time. I thought I fucking hit, I thought I hadn't fucking whatever, like the whole way out the door. And as we get out there, you're like, you take like one breath and you're like, whew, I really kind of show my ass right there. And I was like, yeah, you still are, but.

Maybe we shouldn't go back in there for a while. Yeah, that was a, you said this phrase very recently and I hadn't thought of it. Maybe I never heard anyone say it too. It was like someone gave you the, was this your boy look? Yeah, right. Do you like, I know you don't literally black out, but like when you have those like moments like that, you just, it's akin to blacking out. Brown out? It's gotten better since therapy.

Red out. You just, whatever. You just, you just, you just, you just switch. Wait, wait, wait, what's gotten better? You don't do it as much. It's gotten better since there. It's what I was going to say. Meaning you don't do it as much.

Absolutely not. But if you do it. Therapy and age, obviously. I'm just wondering, for a second, I almost thought you meant, you know, since therapy when I do that, I remember every fucking detail. I'm very present while I scream at a wage slave. There's a, there's a common myth that people like me, idiots with short tempers, love to perpetuate, which is like, it just happened like that.

When I get like that, I can't even control it like. And, like, you really do believe that, but it's more like I just, you say that so that it absolves you, I guess. But then my therapist was like, there is a moment right before. And if you just can do these exercises, you'll recognize it and you can. Serenity now. It's certainly serenity now. But do you think before he told you that, if you, like, did you need the knowledge for it? Yeah, kind of.

I think so, too. I mean, and then also do you think there's a, there's that moment, but if you go past it, it's now too late? yes because that's me like that's like i know you can and i mean i mean i can't everybody can there is definitely like a moment for me but if i go past a certain moment there's definitely like i have like sort of come to and then kind of been like still doing it and like assessing how the fuck do i get out of this now you know what i mean that is painful because you're on autopilot it's like you're having no out ofbody experience like well you're embarrassed and then double down while you're doing all these things it's like when you're on

stage and you've got your act down so like while you're doing the bit you're in your head thinking about these other things yeah i'll be doing the thing and i'm in my head going don't we just quit doing this yeah but that thought won't but that but that took it took so long to get there that you're too you're now you're in it yeah it's like you're sprinting and you can't just stop you you have to slowly jog or whatever but yeah like dude most of i'll say this most of therapy is being told things that you should already fucking know when you but you still need to be told them by another person who's not a loved one. You know what I mean?

For you to actually go, it is that sense. Yeah, I think that's called like neutral mirroring or something. Like you'll listen to a professional tell you a thing. But if your wife told it to you got, you know, fucking shit about my life, bitch. Well, I said a million times. Like, I definitely have this thing where, like,

not to relitigate the whole situation we just talked about a couple weeks ago about me telling you in Denver, it's like, you'll just post anything. Like, not to get back in all that. But I have this thing where, like, I will, without thinking about it consciously at all, I'll just make either a reality or all these rules about any given thing in my head,

and I'm like, that's just how it has to be. And then one person, and you're the one that's telling you. One person can just point out that it ain't that. And immediately I'll be like, oh, right, that. That's how people's brains work. Why did I ever think that? Why did I ever think that?

Do you need someone to point it out or to show you? Because I think he proved it too. Right. He didn't just say it. Right. He did it. And then you saw it and then you were like, oh, right, I made a rule up. Yeah.

If I had just told you that, you wouldn't have believed me. And why would you? Well, you would have responded with the argument you had already given yourself that created the rail. It's not really, that's not a rule. That's a rail. You gave yourself a rail. Yeah. And I think you got to see other people.

I mean, dude, that's why the fucking two minute mile, right? Five minute a mile, whatever it is? Four and a million. Like, it took them... Bannister. Bannister did it? Barister, right. Bannister.

And then next year, like 19 people did it? Yeah, right. Well, yeah, I mean, a banister is, I mean, all them words was something else. The words is other words, yeah. But it's... The words is other words, but it is. But you know what I'm saying? Like, the human needs also just a weird side note.

That's part of what makes Usain Bolt so wild. Yeah. Is his record's distance. Now, people did get faster after he, he did that, but they still ain't faster, yeah, because you can't, like, endurance can be, you can level up in endurance a lot, but, like, speed is like,

obviously you can train for speed, but still, you do have a max capacity. Oh, that's that, I don't remember which coach, Chula, or one of them old coaches, but it's a famous quote that gets parroted all the time in the NFL is that you can't coach speed. That's why, like, that's so valued or whatever. It's like, but the other thing was why about Usain Bolt

was that, and I know he, obviously, he was trying very hard, but he was like doubly impressive because he made it look so effortless. Well, and he's kind of slowed up to celebrate. I know, that's what I mean. He would like, he would fucking... He could take off and just hit him.

He looked like he was... He looked like he wasn't even really trying and was still smoking everybody else on planet Earth, which was wild. Getting back to the thing... What'd you say you hit for him? You hip for you saying, Bob. He likes my videos all the time.

Well, that's wild. It is. That's awesome. It is awesome. Dude, hit him up. Let's go Jamaica. Yeah. I don't, like,

Hey, thanks for liking my video. You want to hang out in Jamaica? If he was, like, in the entertainment world and was liking all my stuff, and I probably would have already been with me. Well, you'd have something to say to him. Exactly, but with him, I'm just like,

well, you're off my ass. Dang, you're right now. So, taking it to entertainment, but, like, the same, or similar topic, I think one of the most interesting things I've heard anyone say recently, like in our world, Bargotsi said that the two reasons he's so glad he went to New York

one was like stage time and being around other killers and it started me goes the thing is that he said I needed to see people get stuff right because it made me realize I could get stuff and like that changed my brain and he's like and he said something to the effect of like that's why in Nashville I'm trying to do things I want these people are telling it's like that's so true like you got to like you have to believe you can do a thing or you can't have to and sometimes when you see other people do a thing you also are like it's a similar thing i guess you're known by the company you keep but like if you only hang out with people who are at your level or below you then you don't

you won't inherently strive or whatever like you you need to surround yourself with people who are getting shit so that you will know a what it takes and b you'll you'll be extra motivated because you're like i won't be the only motherfucker here that ain't got shit whereas like well you'll also rest on your loyal lul laurels lorals The rest on your loyals, if you're, like, the best around, whether you want to or not. Even if you know you've got to get better, it's, like, hard to see that. No, I hear you. I got a pee, and I can't hold it, you know, on.

What are we at? Like, we got 50 something? 52 minutes. 52, yeah. So, I thought you were about to fart, but that had to say. I was just twerking. So. But I'm fat.

That. I don't know why I'm yelling. I'm miced up. I was about say, you can still do the podcast from up there. Oh, yeah. Guys, you're miced up. Go better to take a huge shit and fart a bunch and stuff. That'll hit.

Wait, give me the mic while you're dog. No, let him just fart. He's gone, man. They can't hear me, but you guys can. Be better. Well, I come sit over there. They're stupid and dumb. Come sit over here.

Earlier, you sent this IG reel to the group chat where... People aren't going to enjoy how much my body chemistry just changed when you came over here. You're like, hey, baby. These dudes did a funny sketch. It's here, ain't it? It's here, ain't it? It doesn't want me to pay? Those pictures of the funny sketch where it was like...

Banana pudding, a house. When you're hanging out where your boys in politics comes up. Yeah, that was hilarious. And they did like a formal debate, but in like drunken fratbrose style or whatever. And it was funny. It was funny. But the guy said, what came up was immigration. And the one guy goes, he was like, I think, you know, we should be a little lax on immigration or whatever

because, like, Americans won't do these jobs. And the other guy goes, well, I think you're gay and I get more pussy than you. And the judge is like, point this guy or whatever, which was funny. But in the comments, though, there was a bunch of people being like, like, I hate that argument. Like, Americans won't do these jobs or whatever because they were like, they're like, yeah, Americans won't do these jobs for the bullshit wage that people pay for it or whatever. But it's, I'm like, well, yeah, right. Like, I agree with that too. Me too.

Two things can be. Like, y'all, like, stereotypically speaking. Anyone that's super hardcore anti-immigration is probably aligned with the right, right? And y'all are the same ones that don't want, like, people getting paid for or the fucking overlords to be held accountable and stuff like that. Although I guess there's like, I don't really get these people exactly, but I guess right-wing populist or something. There's people that are like, like, when the Luigi thing happened, there's people on the right who are like, who also are like, no, fuck these people, but they don't. I can explain it to you, racism. Right. Right.

It's, we're going to get Nazis. Yeah, I know, but it's like, but that, National socialism only for the wild. You're right, it is just, I know, but it's like, how do you, I don't get how you don't. I don't know. You're like, I'd rather not have it than let them get some. Is that what you mean? Like, why not just vote for the socialism and then figure out the racism later?

Right, yeah. Two things. Hold on, before we move on, back on that, it's, it's a roundabout way for them to like keep their beliefs. point of view when they make all them arguments about it without saying I just kind of like it like this I kind of like brown people doing hard jobs for only a little bit of money and it keeps my groceries cheap I like neo-colonialism yeah I'm hitting for me that's a I'm doing a person go ahead two things on louis one on luigi is that you're like that it that it really is insane how much a big unifier that thing was because where I live my

R.G. Taylor Green's district. I don't know, and I know a lot of people, I don't know a single person who isn't on Team Luigi where I'm from. Like, across the board, my parents were like, well, what are you going to do? I mean, I don't, you know. My in-laws, I mean, they were like, oh, yeah, I guess so. Like with so many other things, I've heard him be like, yeah, I hear you, but guns, violence has never, you shouldn't solve it like that. Like, obviously they did it, or Charlie Kirk, too. But with Luigi, it was like, they were like, what is the other alternative? like when you're like they got there they were like okay obviously yes shooting someone is wrong but like what is the other thing that he could have done the answer is nothing the answer is nothing

it had to happen like that and they all got it with him secondly this will hit for you i saw this dude talking it'll hit for you too but uh you mentioned socialism you know not as much as him i think right it's not about cheese it was about it was about basketball i'm fat too it was Just didn't explaining through basketball and, well, and football, too, salary caps, how those billionaires actually figured out that they do socialism. And they figured out that's the best way for them to all make money because they realized they took away the free market by going, hey, look, you have, I have $20 billion and you have five. Obviously, I could outspend you, but that's not fair.

There should be a limit to where we all spend. And also, we should share profits and we should share losses. That way everything works out for everybody. He's like, these are the richest people in the world. And they figured, in their own little economy, they figured out that socialism works for them. And one of the main reasons they got to that is because of a union. Right. So like, the way of this thing is like, it's the rules for thee, but not for me,

situation. Like, in their world, they love it. The bailouts, dude. Well, Walmart gets more food stamps than anybody, right? Right. Walmart is who getting the food stamps. Like, functionally speaking. Yes, they're paying their fucking employees' wages to go buy in, me, I'm fucking, I'm doing it.

Yeah, which is why you can take an avocado. We run that. Yeah, I do it all the time. Also, I work there because I'm in the fucking self-checkout lane. We work there. We handled the payroll. I made Andy stop, because I kind of feel like they're going to do that thing. Well, no, I do it more than her, I think.

But I think they're going to do that thing where they're going to wait until you get to a number. And then they're going to be like, this is a felony. You've still $2,000 with the stuff for months. It's not worth it for them to check. And I'll be like, $2,000. Took you this long? Yeah, right. You ain't checked my booty hole yet, you know.

Booty hole. Booty hole. Let's go do standing up comedies. Okay, we should do stand-up comedy. I think we can announce it. Merry Christmas, everybody. I think we can announce it. What are we announcing?

Corey and I will be back in Athens, Georgia, at the tail end of Heathen's homecoming. We're going to hang out with the drive-by truckers all weekend and then do our own show. There, I should have the link up in the next week. I'll probably do it right after Christmas. So mark your calendars February 15th. Whatever that Sunday is, I think it's February 15th, Athens, Georgia, Corey and Drew co-headlining. Trey can't come. He stinks.

I'll be at the Stardome in Birmingham as we're all there. On Sunday? Or just that weekend? I'll be there that weekend. Does come over, dog. Trey, I'll be there. Yeah. We'll be together on Valentine's Day.

That'd be nice. Oh, yeah, the day before. I was like, what? Also, Treycrowder.com, because you'd go see them in Birmingham and then come to us. Yep, yep. And Sacramento, California, and Spartanburg, Wilmington, Birmingham, and a bunch. Spartanburg. Where's that at?

South Carolina. Is that where, is there a racetracker? Is that why I've heard of that? I don't know, maybe. There's a Spartanburg sign when we go to. I stopped there to watch a balls game once on my way. It's where the U.S. That's where USC is.

Is it? No, that's Columbia. That's Columbia, South Carolina. Oh, you meant at a bar. Yeah, yeah. What is there? Is that what him? Burdocks was from?

I think it's like a, sorry, everybody's part, but this isn't going to make sense. I think it's like a Jackson level type city in South Carolina. Jackson, Tennessee. Yes, I think. What's the club? I don't think I might like a smallish theater, a mid-sized theater. They got a theater. Well, if you are from or near Spartanburg, South Carolina,

Tell us what it's about. Yeah, send us an email. Well, we already got emails before because I kept saying Spartansburg. Yeah. And I guess I don't hear for them when you do that. What is it? Just Spartanburg. Spartanburg.

Is there an S-N? No, no, no, no. There's not. Oh, you just can't read. Yeah. Yeah. Anyway, traincroutter.com. Corey writes for you.com is my substack.

Thanks to everybody who has subscribed and has kept me in the top ten of humor alongside of folks like Dave Barry and Garrison Keeler. Oh, sick. Yeah. I mean, obviously there's a huge fucking gap. Well, talent-wise, but I think it's just about numbers. Yeah, no, but I'm saying even in numbers, I'm saying like, like, even if he knows. Yeah, but trust me.

Yeah, I know all that. I think you're probably killing Dave Barry. No. I mean, he, you think his readers know how to fucking. Yeah, he, you can look at how many subscribers. Yeah, dude. Oh, yeah. He's fucking murdering it.

They don't use the computer. Damn. Thank you all for listening to The Well Red Show. We'd love to stick around longer, but we got two. Tune in next week if you got nothing to do Thank you. God bless you. Good night and skew. Park. Hey, guys, it's Kamel Anjiani.

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