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Thank you. It is March 1st, 2022. I'm Trey Crowder, and that's Mark Aegee. What's up, Mark?

What's up, Trey? So you sent me an interesting text over the weekend. I guess you got anti-mask protested.

Well, I mean, I didn't. They didn't show up at my house to complain about how I kept wearing a mask.

But yeah, on Sunday, I took my sons to Hollywood for a little VR action. And we were standing in the lobby and I heard some screaming and whatnot. And then an anti-mask mandate protest came through and they were being pretty aggressive.

You know, like, and I was, me and both the boys have masks on and I was just, I was preparing myself to get real pissed off.

You know, if they, like, if anybody said anything.

Because it was specifically geared towards kids too, like unmask our kids and all this shit. And I just knew somebody was going to, like, say something. It was going to be a whole thing. But, like I said, we were kind of off the street in the lobby. And then they let us in to where we were going. And by the time we came out, they were gone. So I avoided any, you know, over-the-top bullshittery. But they were out and about, for sure. Did anyone bother telling them that there is no more mask mandate in California? Yeah, you know, I didn't even, I wasn't even thinking about that. Like, I texted you and then you said that. And I was like, oh, right, what the, dude, I don't, I don't know. I mean, maybe they had it planned already

and they didn't want to, you know, didn't want to backtrack. It's like, well, we already made the signs. I don't know. It's so funny. It's like, what if we, like, what if we didn't protested like Elvis swinging his hips on TV? Just like, let's pick some old shit to keep protesting about it.

Yeah, I don't know.

But yeah, we've got just like just pick some old shit to keep protesting the vote yeah i don't know but uh yeah we got

we're gonna we're pre-game in here for the big state of the union right yeah starting right now right

it starts right when we're done i believe i thought it was at eight but i don't care to watch it

anyway i feel like it's a when trump was I think we moved the show last year so we could watch it or something. We did, we moved. I think there was a debate that was. Oh, yeah. It was that first debate was going to be up against the skewers. So we, we back down. What a shit show that ended up being. but yeah, State of the Union, you know, I'll at least get the cliff notes. I don't know. But what's, what are we going to expect from it? Well, well, he's definitely going to say the state of the union is strong. That's when, it's what's a fun. Spoilers, Mark. Come on now. Yeah. I, like, we should really go back to, because it wasn't until TV age, they started

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