And the Ladies and gentlemen welcome to oral presentations episode 44 field research special the card game spades I

took a long lunch, you know?

What are you gonna do? Yeah, I forgot the clock out,

I took a long lunch, we're gonna write me up.

It's all right, what are you doing?

We're here.

It's been a while since I talked to you, How you been man? Yeah, I I learned the card game Spades which is which is what this episode is going to be about. It's unlike any other card game. I know. I only really know the one card game. I've

I've fucking I learned how to play like Texas Holdham when I was in high school, which is way different than Spades.

It is way different.

But yeah, I took a, you can probably hear it in my voice.

Like I'm having a hard time not smiling like I'm in a pretty great mood dude I needed I was going to take a week off and then

And then I was like I'm taking more time. I'm going to take more time off and then I got a tip off from like a brother

A buddy or whatever that there was like a thing that you can go I took a bunch of like

mental health seminars about like goal setting and a bunch of other shit that was

really useful it was super useful it was over the course of a week and I'm only I'm only telling you guys that and I was like

Because that's where I learned how to play spades that like at and the in-between time of these like classes or whatever is when card games of spades broke out and that was when I saw I learned it.

And dude I got it, oh man.

I'm really excited for this episode. It's the first one, field research where I learned something new.

It is going to be a little bit difficult to describe the mechanics of a card game if you've never played cards before.

If you know what a deck of cards is, it's got 52 cards in it.

There's four different suits, diamonds, clubs, hearts, and spades.

The game I'm going to be describing is the card game Spades.

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