Hey, all you are you all welcome and listen to us to Keith and the Girl. I'm Keith and the

Malley. And I'm Blaine. It's Blaine. It's my poker buddy Blaine. How you doing, buddy? I'm doing great.

How you doing? I'm fantastic. KeithandleGore.com slash chat every Wednesday about 8 p.m. Eastern

time. We pop in and say hi to each other. We also play poker about half hour after that.

And how much fun is this group? I'm surprised. We started it during COVID, kept it going, I don't

know how many years now. And very lucky with what a great group of people we have, if I may say. Oh, yeah. I have a blast every Wednesday. And, I mean, it's been going on forever. I remember when it first started. I remember the, I call it the dumpster fire chat days where you're up late at night, just talking nonsense. And then it's evolved. And now we all play poker. It's a blast. There's laughter. There's

tears. You know, I've said this before. You don't have to play poker. A lot of people don't.

They just share stories. And it's funny that everybody does understand the vibe. For example,

the government is affecting my job and I didn't save and I'm out of work. Full House!

Sorry, I'll continue.

You were crying?

So that everybody gets it, gets what's going on.

And yeah, there's serious shit sometimes and it's cool as fuck.

Yeah, it's like, I'm sorry and I love you.

But also get the fuck out the game.

That's right.

Now we're up to like two or three games sometimes on Wednesdays

because everybody's developing an addiction.

Last Wednesday was two games.

There's the appetizer game.

We're not even concerned about that one.

Then what I call the entree game,

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