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Al Borealis, End of 2020 Show |479|

01.06.2021 - By Alex TsakirisPlay

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Al Borealis, this time we actually do an end of year show.

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Okay. I know I’m a little late in getting the end of year show out.

It was supposed to come out last week, but Al and I got so wrapped up in another discussion that it didn’t come out.

So what better way to kick off an end of year new year’s show Then with a good old fashion from comm clip.

Ah, come on, man. You know, that’s not gonna work. Here’s a clip from my interview with Al Borealis.

Alex Tsakiris: [00:00:39] Here’s a good one for you. What topic do you feel? Was left unfinished for you that you plan on finishing in 2021,

Al Borealis: [00:00:49] In known history, there’s never been one incident that has affected the whole goddamn globe. I mean, go back to the black, right. Go back to the black plague. There was one corner of earth where, you know, you could be like, no, no, I’m an enlightened Buddha.

I’m just sitting here in my cave doing my own thing. I don’t care what’s going on. And Maya Ellucian globe. But now it’s like if the earth was like 50 different video games, all sorts, you know, from seems to axis and allies to all sorts of video games in one Now it’s like the whole earth is forced into becoming one big video game.

Alex Tsakiris: [00:01:30] Let me just roll into it. So I, you know, my understanding of what we’re going to do here and which I think is really going to be fun. And a great idea is the classic kind of end of year. Wrap-up where we each look at.

Some of our shows that most kind of inspired us or changed us, or it changed us in some way from, uh, 2020. So this is going to be fun. Right?

Al Borealis: [00:01:54] I love the concept. Never done it before. We’ll probably start doing something like this every year, just for the website subscribers, of course, because it doesn’t fit the format.

Alex Tsakiris: [00:02:09] You know, I’ve never done it either. So that’s kinda cool, but I think I’m going to start this as a, as a tradition too, because as I was writing out the questions, I like this is great. This is really awesome. So let me start with the first one. It’s an obvious one. I’ll tee it up for you.

What was your favorite foreign Borealis show from?

Al Borealis: [00:02:29] Yeah. And I’ve had that question before, just not the 2020. And I don’t mean to be like, uh, what you say when you have something up your ass, like, uh, anal about it, but it really depends on what you put in, in, in the world. Favorite. I mean, you could have, like, which show did you think was came out as the best one, despite everything like, just at the production end of thing.

Which one had, did have the most exciting topic? Or the most important topic which guests do are your favorite guests, which one did you surprisingly, you know, you’re coming to you and you know this where different people, different chemistry, some shows you wouldn’t expect them to go so well. And they, uh, you know, they just surprised you how, and some shows opposite you, you have great expectation and you become disappointed.

So it all really boils down to how you’re, what you’re going to single out as the good thing,

Alex Tsakiris: [00:03:30] buddy. C’mon you just laid out a bunch of them. Tell us any one of those which would apply,

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