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Warren, Chris, and Tori discuss what's to come next from Metal Gear Mondays: Revengeance. Will 2021 bring guests to the conversation? Will there be some interesting new merch involving the likeness of Warren? Tune in to find out.

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Here's to you dear listeners and welcome back to another episode of Metal Gear Monday's

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Revengeance where you'll find your favorite conversations around Metal Gear and Kojima

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related content delivered to you through tactical podcast action.

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Today's episode is going to be a what to expect or a sort of state of the podcast for 2021.

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I certainly don't want to do this alone.

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So with me is Tori Cortez.

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How are we doing?

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I'm so good.

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I wouldn't dream of leaving you alone, Warren.

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Thank you so much.

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But also we're joined by Chris Hampton.

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What's up man?

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Yo, how's it going?

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So not much, not much.

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So 2020 is behind us.

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Almost.

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I hope that that's a good thing.

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So yeah, we just wanted to get sort of something out early on in the year just to be as upfront

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and transparent as we can since that seems to be our brand.

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And I sort of like that.

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We obviously can't tell you guys what we're doing for the entire year just because if

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2020 taught us anything, we can't make promises we can't keep with everything going on.

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But the good news is that we have a lot of pre-production done that we basically can

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probably tell you the next six months, which is really cool.

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So we released our portable apps season teaser in early December and that will be dropping

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pretty much early February and it will run all the way through the end of June, we'll

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just say.

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So it goes pretty much all the way through July.

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Same exact format is Metal Gear Solid 3.

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So we're going to do some gameplay and story focused episodes.

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We are going to do character focused episodes as well.

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However, I would like to say that there's as many sort of meaty characters and portable

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apps, but we're going to do basically like a good guys and a bad guys episode.

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So to break it down that way.

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And we actually had a great conversation with Ryan Payton, who sort of has a lifeblood

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as being producer and sort of helping with the Westernization with portable apps that

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he sort of dropped the bomb on us that he wants to come back for multiple conversations

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around the game.

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So we're actually going to drop those with the episodes and just make sure make it part

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of it as opposed to being like a separate interview.

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So you'll kind of get that there.

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Now the good news is those are not the only interviews we've done, at least so far and

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hopefully to continue that tour.

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Do you want to talk about some other fun stuff we've been doing?

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Yeah, interviews galore hopefully for 2021.

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Keep your fingers crossed.

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At this juncture, we've recorded a few of them and you can look forward to hearing those,

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you know, here and there.

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We have no set schedule for them, but as it as it works out and as it feels right for

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us to drop those, we will.

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And hopefully we'll get more scheduled here soon.

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I'm looking forward to and quite pleased to be getting back to this part of the show.

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So hope y'all are just as excited about that as I am.

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Yeah, and that would actually be part of why we're going to do the Portable App

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season to drop in February.

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So we already have a couple of interviews.

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We're going to introduce for January just because I think something that we can all

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agree between our crew is we they're recently recorded and we don't want to sit on

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interviews for months and bring them out when it makes sense.

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So we're sort of using that to get them out as fresh.

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So the conversations feel a little more timely.

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I think fingers who sorry, just dropped the name of who we interviewed, but he's talking

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about the holiday break and things like that.

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So obviously that wouldn't make any sense in April.

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You know what I mean?

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Yeah, we want to keep the yeah.

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So right.

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Yeah, exactly.

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That's why we don't want to cook.

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I like that adjective.

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It's not bad, especially for an interview.

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I like it.

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But yeah, so and then also, I think it's just pertinent that something we bring up is just

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we know 2020 was like wild for everybody and anybody that has been a listener through

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2020, a lot of changes happened in 2020 between sort of a lot of changing of the guards, a

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revamp, like a reboot of the show.

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And, you know, we just wanted to take the time to make sure that we were at least efficient

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and confident enough to give you guys a quality product so that now our our sea legs are sort

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of behind us and our boots are on the ground.

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Hey, Warren.

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Yeah, are we guards now?

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Is that what I heard?

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I feel like we're the guards now.

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Huh?

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What was that noise?

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I'm so sorry.

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I was I have had a couple too many of these holiday.

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That went right over my head until the punch line.

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You're welcome.

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Yes.

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So, yeah, so, you know, Patreon, I got to say the patrons have been like super supportive,

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and I will say that the feedback from the listeners and everybody just with a lot of

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the changing over of everything, it is just been super great to hear that.

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And we are planning on, you know, getting back to making sure we can release timely

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quality audio organized.

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Just even if we like or don't like a game, we at least did our homework and explain to

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you why we do or do not like a particular video game in the Metal Gear Solid sort of

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saga.

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And with patrons, so we've been doing extra stuff for the patrons.

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We had some timed exclusive merch.

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So some merch you might see, guys, it might not make a lot of sense because sometimes

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it's inside jokes, but part of that was because if you were a member of Patreon for a certain

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time at a certain tier, you got free stuff.

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So I think we're going to try to do a little bit more towards the merch side as well.

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I definitely got I got an interesting picture from Sean that if you listen to the MGS three

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season, you kind of all coming.

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Yes, absolutely.

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We are. We already promised that at the end of the subsistence season.

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Y'all are nuts.

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Look, all I'm saying is it includes me and I won't say how else, but look for that.

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It's sort of look for that at bit.ly slash MGM store.

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Yeah, I have no shame.

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I don't care.

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So I'm just accepting it now.

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But yeah, feel free to give that a look.

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But as far as Patreon and stuff, Chris, do you have any any fun stuff you want to bring

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up at least as far as some new Patreon stuff?

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No.

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Ever the precocious one.

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Yeah. So yeah, we got a few things, I suppose.

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So if you're in the Discord, you know, if you get the monthly game club and patrons

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vote on a game that we all play through as a group, December 2020 was Final Fantasy

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six. We are about to have our discussion on that as of this recording.

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So if you want to hop in on that, make sure you sign up on the Patreon and seeing

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join the Discord.

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And because of the popularity of this, we're going to start doing a movie club.

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MGM goes to the movies.

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So we'll set up a watch party and release monthly a monthly episode based on the episode

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or excuse me, the movie that is picked by patrons in the Discord.

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If the movie is adjacent to a Kojima thing or one of those like favorite film

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lists of his or we feel it might be a solid influence on Metal Gear Design or

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Story or something like that, we plan to release these in the main feed.

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But otherwise, they'll just mainly be for patrons.

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Yeah. And then, you know, we're still doing our our bi-weekly PCs on the off

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weeks and just trying to find ways to engage.

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I hope everyone enjoyed the trivia episode that we recently dropped.

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I just like finding different ways to engage with people that really help support us,

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because honestly, without the patrons, it would have been a rough year last year.

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So thank you very, very much.

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Thank you, patrons.

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But yeah, so we just wanted to get something out real light and just so that everybody

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knows what's coming. So like I said, we dropped some teasers.

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We dropped some stuff.

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We had mentioned things are going on, but this is basically our our accountability

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podcast that we can at least let you guys know.

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So we're going to again, so Portable Ops will be dropping early February all the

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way through June with some fun stuff sprinkled in between.

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We have some interviews that we've either already booked and had conversations

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around or are already booked and will drop them as they are timely released.

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And we have a bunch of fun stuff for the patrons and we are taking feedback.

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So I do feel like a lot of that listener feedback of sort of rebooting the show

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was a concept, a chronological piece was a concept, more engagement around.

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So something like that, like we do more streams and watch parties like through

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discord, which is like super helpful because sometimes, I mean, personally,

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I'm an old guy in a sense, but Twitch scares me right now.

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I love DMC nonsense.

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And I just don't I don't want to have like, I don't want to put that on us

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and patrons to have to deal with that when we have a platform.

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We can engage and have a good time with, you know, our own means.

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It's worked for us so far.

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So we just want to keep building on that.

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So if more people get involved, it's just more opportunities to do more

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for the people that support the show.

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But I feel good.

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I don't know about you guys, but I think it's nice to have the first season done

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2020 behind us.

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And at least as far as me, I'll say that 2021 at least looks a little brighter

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just because we had a lot of time to play the game, take the notes,

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have conversations about it, get a schedule plan that made a lot of sense for us

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so that everything's timely and stress free.

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And that we can have more fun to do other stuff.

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Like that isn't just necessarily the main line feed episode.

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We do more stuff with patrons and social media and cage where things like that.

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I don't know. I'm kind of excited for that.

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Agreed.

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So, yeah, this will be our first 2021.

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Think it's time to let her ripjack.