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33 | Semantics Strike Again · You Didn't Ask For This

• 0:00
  Matt: How are you doing these days, Eric?
• 0:02
  Matt: Doing good.
• 0:03
  Matt: That's nice.
• 0:03
  Matt: I was judged by God yesterday.
• 0:06
  Matt: Okay.
• 0:07
  Eric: Eric.
• 0:08
  Eric: Wait, j which gu Yahweh?
• 0:11
  Matt: All of them.
• 0:12
  Matt: I think all of them.
• 0:13
  Matt: All of them.
• 0:13
  Matt: I think I think Zeus even got in on it.
• 0:16
  Matt: They all formed a council and saw fit to um pass down their opinion of me in one master stroke.
• 0:28
  Matt: Okay.
• 0:29
  Matt: Let me take you back a minute, Eric.
• 0:31
  Matt: Let me take you back to the beginning of the tale.
• 0:33
  Matt: Before the lightning bolt hit.
• 0:35
  Matt: Before the war.
• 0:37
  Matt: Before the war.
• 0:39
  Matt: So there I was.
• 0:40
  Matt: You know, you know how these mornings can be.
• 0:42
  Matt: Some days you get up and you're just not in the mood to go to work.
• 0:46
  Matt: You're just not in the mood.
• 0:47
  SPEAKER_05: All the mornings.
• 0:48
  SPEAKER_05: Yes.
• 0:48
  Matt: Exactly, you know.
• 0:49
  Matt: And so I said, you know what?
• 0:53
  Matt: I'm ordering breakfast.
• 0:54
  Matt: Let's, you know.
• 0:55
  Matt: So we just, you know, I I brought up that grub hub, got a little breakfast sandwich.
• 1:01
  Matt: You know, my driver, Eugene, came very expediently.
• 1:07
  Matt: Excellent work, Eugene.
• 1:09
  Matt: Not his real name, of course.
• 1:11
  Matt: Uh yes, we should.
• 1:14
  Matt: Code, yeah, you know, protect the innocent.
• 1:15
  Matt: So Lindsay and I have our breakfast sandwiches.
• 1:18
  Matt: We go about our work lives, etc., etc.
• 1:21
  Matt: And then as the as the day winds down, Eric.
• 1:26
  Matt: Yeah.
• 1:26
  Matt: You see what you know, I had a work call go a little late.
• 1:30
  Matt: Lindsay had an unexpected call that she had to deal with.
• 1:34
  Matt: So her plan for making dinner fell through.
• 1:38
  unknown: All right.
• 1:38
  Matt: Okay.
• 1:39
  SPEAKER_01: As it does, as as one does.
• 1:41
  Matt: It happens.
• 1:42
  Matt: So I so we did the only thing that we could do given given these time restraints.
• 1:48
  Matt: The day gets away from us.
• 1:50
  Matt: We said, you know what?
• 1:51
  Matt: I feel guilty about it.
• 1:52
  Matt: You double dip.
• 1:54
  Matt: I think we're gonna have to order dinner.
• 1:56
  Matt: Even though we already ordered breakfast.
• 1:58
  Matt: I'm not proud of this actually.
• 1:59
  Matt: It's the way of it.
• 2:00
  Matt: It's the way of it.
• 2:00
  Matt: Sometimes it has to happen.
• 2:02
  Matt: Okay?
• 2:03
  Matt: So we you know we pick out some uh some Mexican food and such.
• 2:07
  Matt: We're ready for our own culinary fiesta for dinner, as it were.
• 2:13
  Matt: Yes, good.
• 2:14
  Matt: Borderline offensive moving on.
• 2:17
  Matt: The but no, we so we put it in the room.
• 2:20
  Eric: No, borderline fiesta was the name of the restaurant.
• 2:24
  Matt: Thank you.
• 2:24
  Matt: Yes, of course it was.
• 2:26
  Matt: So, you know, we make the order.
• 2:28
  Matt: I'm excited for chips, send it over to Grubhub, and Grubhub says, much to my dismay, Eugene is picking up your order.
• 2:40
  Matt: Oh no.
• 2:43
  Matt: And I saw God in that text message.
• 2:47
  Matt: I saw God say, you filth.
• 2:51
  Matt: You swine.
• 2:52
  Matt: You think you can just order out twice in one day and not receive some sort of penance?
• 3:00
  Matt: You will need to face the same driver for a second meal in the same day.
• 3:10
  Eric: Does Eugene call when he's there?
• 3:12
  Matt: Eric.
• 3:12
  Eric: Oh no.
• 3:13
  Matt: Yes, he does.
• 3:14
  Matt: I live in an apartment building, as you know.
• 3:16
  Matt: So I've got to come down and such.
• 3:19
  Matt: And so, Eric, I I kid you not, I thought about shaving just to just to disguise my appearance.
• 3:29
  Matt: Wearing a hat, maybe some sort of chapeau.
• 3:32
  Matt: Just I I I uh uh here are the things I did do.
• 3:35
  Matt: Yeah, I did put on a different hoodie.
• 3:38
  Eric: Okay.
• 3:40
  Eric: See if you could like jar him into thinking that maybe it was yesterday.
• 3:44
  Matt: Like of course I'm gonna have a mask on, right?
• 3:46
  Matt: So like I got that going for me.
• 3:48
  Matt: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 3:49
  Matt: I I took off my glasses, I put on a hat, I I've changed my appearance.
• 3:55
  Matt: Okay, I go down these stairs to meet Eugene, and who so so he gets out of the car, it is the same Eugene.
• 4:03
  Matt: Don't worry, I wasn't wrong about this.
• 4:06
  Matt: That I don't want you to think, uh, turns out just a no, it's him.
• 4:10
  Matt: And he he hands over that bag, and I thought for just a second, we can all be professional here.
• 4:16
  Matt: And of course, me being me on my way to Eugene already having his tip, and Eugene already having his tip.
• 4:22
  Matt: I thought to myself, well, I'm gonna have to do the only thing Matt Shane knows how to do in situations like this make a bit out of it.
• 4:31
  Eric: Yeah.
• 4:31
  Matt: So I'm going down the stairs trying to think of my joke, right?
• 4:34
  Matt: Oh.
• 4:35
  Matt: Oh, Francy She and you here.
• 4:37
  Eric: You know, so you know, we call this this is the bargaining stage, by the way.
• 4:42
  Eric: Oh no, I can make this fit.
• 4:43
  Matt: I can make this work.
• 4:44
  Matt: You know, I'm going down the stairs trying things out, like, you know, uh, you know, we gotta stop meeting like this.
• 4:49
  Matt: You know, doing your tight five seconds.
• 4:52
  Matt: Doing my doing a tight five seconds, yeah.
• 4:55
  Matt: Getting my set ready.
• 4:56
  Matt: But all that went out the window, Eric.
• 4:58
  Matt: When I open the door and he hands me my brown bag, and he gives, he's like, oh, you know, he's looking at the hand, right?
• 5:05
  Matt: Make sure we make the connection.
• 5:07
  Matt: We make the connection.
• 5:08
  Matt: And I think I'm not even gonna need a bit.
• 5:11
  Matt: But I thought about, I was like, I don't think he recognizes me.
• 5:14
  Matt: He doesn't give a shit.
• 5:14
  Matt: You know, he's just doing his job.
• 5:16
  Matt: He's just delivering things, living his life.
• 5:18
  Matt: And then Eric, after that handoff is complete, he gave me the sideest of eyes with a little shit eating smirk, because he didn't have a mask on.
• 5:29
  Matt: Oh gave me a little smirk that said, Yeah, I know you're a piece of shit.
• 5:35
  Matt: Yes.
• 5:36
  Matt: And walked back to his fucking fiat.
• 5:38
  Matt: Oh, damn.
• 5:40
  Matt: Yep, yep.
• 5:41
  Matt: He gave you the fiat walk away.
• 5:44
  Matt: And I I was so blindsided by this that I didn't, I couldn't I was left speechless and bitless.
• 5:52
  Eric: In the in the words of the immortal macho man Randy Savage.
• 5:57
  SPEAKER_06: Happen so fast you can't even talk about it.
• 6:00
  Matt: I truly, I watched him get in his tiny little car and drive away, and I was left literally holding the bag.
• 6:10
  Eric: I think I feel like duels have been fought over less.
• 6:13
  Eric: Like, I feel like that's the kind of shit that would get you like uh a letter of intent back in the day.
• 6:18
  Eric: Yeah, absolutely.
• 6:19
  Matt: And you know, there I so that's that's how it ended, Eric.
• 6:23
  Matt: I I'm there on the sidewalk holding my bag, looking up at the clouds, like that scene from The Simpsons, and seeing the clouds, the face of God Himself say, And now you know your mistake has been registered.
• 6:40
  Eric: But to our mortal ears, all Matt heard was Yes, yes, and then it started raining, yeah.
• 6:50
  Matt: Thunder and lightning.
• 6:52
  SPEAKER_01: Why go?
• 6:53
  Matt: Why and welcome to another episode of You Didn't Ask for This, a podcast answering all of life's least pressing questions.
• 7:12
  Matt: My name is Matt Shea.
• 7:14
  Matt: My name is Eric Poach.
• 7:15
  Matt: How are you today, Eric Poach?
• 7:18
  Eric: Oh, so now you care.
• 7:19
  Matt: I do care now.
• 7:20
  Eric: You're not doing a fucking bit.
• 7:22
  Matt: No, I used you as bit material before.
• 7:24
  Matt: Yeah.
• 7:25
  Matt: Bitbait.
• 7:26
  Eric: Yeah.
• 7:26
  Matt: Damn.
• 7:27
  Matt: I used you.
• 7:27
  Matt: You're not ultimately, Eric.
• 7:29
  Matt: You're nothing but bit bait.
• 7:31
  Eric: I'm nothing but it sounds like that sounds like I I I'm like a prime target for Bitcoin exploitation or some shit.
• 7:42
  Eric: Like I get all my bitcoin stolen.
• 7:44
  Matt: Is that untrue?
• 7:47
  Matt: I don't understand crypto.
• 7:49
  Matt: I like I and I have no interest in trying to learn it.
• 7:52
  Eric: All the here's all all I want to know.
• 7:56
  Eric: All I want to know about cryptocurrency.
• 7:58
  Eric: I want to know what Matt Damon accepted as his form of payment for that commercial.
• 8:03
  Eric: Yeah, like what did he take it?
• 8:06
  Eric: Did he take it?
• 8:07
  Eric: Did he put his fucking dogecoin where his mouth is?
• 8:10
  Matt: No, I think he I think he took cold hard cash.
• 8:13
  Eric: Slip him, slip him one sixty-fourth of a bitcoin for that for that performance?
• 8:17
  Matt: I don't understand how it works or why anyone would want to understand how it works.
• 8:21
  Matt: Take it in cold hard tender.
• 8:24
  Matt: I just don't understand.
• 8:25
  Matt: Isn't it funny that I know obviously at some point in time humans invented money to begin with?
• 8:31
  Eric: Welcome to our cryptocurrency podcast.
• 8:33
  Eric: I'm Eric Poach.
• 8:34
  Eric: He's Matt Shea.
• 8:36
  Eric: No, we gotta stop.
• 8:36
  Eric: We gotta stop before we get too deep.
• 8:38
  Eric: We're the reason you can't get a new graphics card.
• 8:43
  Eric: Oh man.
• 8:44
  Eric: We're the reason Eric is still playing his beloved video games on ultra low settings so that his computer doesn't explode.
• 8:53
  SPEAKER_03: I don't understand that.
• 8:55
  SPEAKER_03: Uh you're running Bitcoin.
• 8:56
  SPEAKER_03: Is that what what is a Bitcoin joke?
• 8:58
  Eric: Oh no, that's the reason uh video cards are like like a$500, what would have been a$500 video card like three or four years ago is now like a$1,500 video card.
• 9:09
  SPEAKER_03: Oh, because it just because of money.
• 9:10
  Eric: A mix of things, semiconductor shortages, you know, vendor like labor issues, uh, and a lot of them getting bought the fuck up by by crypto miners.
• 9:20
  Eric: Yeah.
• 9:21
  Matt: I really feel like we're talking to our prime demo now.
• 9:24
  Matt: Oh yeah.
• 9:25
  Matt: Hey Matt, what's an NFT?
• 9:26
  Matt: Why don't we get into some questions?
• 9:32
  Matt: Uh it's a great what you've asked, Eric, is a great question.
• 9:36
  Matt: I don't know the answer, and I don't care to learn.
• 9:38
  Eric: All right.
• 9:39
  Eric: Did you just tell me to go funge myself?
• 9:41
  Matt: All right.
• 9:41
  Matt: So let's take a look.
• 9:44
  Matt: Uh, our first question of the day, Eric.
• 9:47
  Matt: And this uh this comes from at Sarah Feldman on Instagram.
• 9:52
  Matt: And listen, folks, I think I can hear what you're thinking.
• 9:56
  SPEAKER_06: Yeah.
• 9:56
  Matt: At Sarah Feldman, didn't she just have a question in the the last episode you guys did?
• 10:03
  Matt: And in like the 31 episodes preceding it?
• 10:07
  Matt: Yeah, like pretty much the answer to that is is yes.
• 10:15
  Matt: And she's even been featured, of course, in episode 18, uh Objectifying Bagels, was a guest of this show.
• 10:22
  Matt: And I guess what I'd say to those listeners is when you bring the heat, yeah, you end up on the show with frequency.
• 10:32
  Eric: Look, I and Matt, if I may, um You may listen, champ.
• 10:37
  Eric: And just imagine me, imagine your champ, I'm me.
• 10:39
  Eric: Um the listeners are champ.
• 10:42
  Eric: Oh, I'm sorry if I make it.
• 10:44
  Eric: Listeners are champ, I'm gonna be myself.
• 10:46
  Eric: Uh, just imagine me taking a knee listeners as I say, hey, listen here, champ.
• 10:49
  Eric: So that way I can get down eye level with you.
• 10:51
  Eric: Look, you're here.
• 10:52
  Eric: And I'm and just picture me holding my hand up, like indicating a certain height of quality.
• 10:58
  Eric: I'm like, you're here, right?
• 11:01
  Eric: But Sarah's here.
• 11:03
  Eric: And like you can, did you hear it?
• 11:05
  Eric: Like you could you could hear like how like my my shoulder almost like popping out of its fucking socket to like raise the bar.
• 11:12
  Matt: Eric, not only do I hear it, I see it.
• 11:15
  Eric: Yeah.
• 11:15
  Eric: And that's not a judgment.
• 11:16
  Eric: Like, I like I you know, I'm not gonna judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, you know what I'm saying?
• 11:22
  Matt: Like, absolutely not.
• 11:23
  Eric: You can I can't hold other mortals to Sarah Feldman's standards.
• 11:27
  Matt: No, you can't.
• 11:28
  Matt: You really can't.
• 11:29
  Matt: And you know, Eric, I love a coach poach pep talk.
• 11:33
  Matt: There's nothing quite, there's nothing quite like it.
• 11:36
  Matt: And I'm glad that the the you that our listeners finally got to experience Coach Poach in his full glory.
• 11:43
  Matt: So, but I think, Coach, I think you're right.
• 11:46
  Matt: Like, yeah, you we need these listeners to realize that there are at heights for them to attain.
• 11:53
  Matt: I think we need them to hustle.
• 11:55
  Matt: Heights that they do have to hustle.
• 11:57
  Matt: And if they do, if they work hard, they can one day have the kind of brain that Sarah Feldman at Sarah Feldman on Instagram has and deliver questions to us such as what kind of dog is the downward dog?
• 12:15
  Matt: When you have a brain, when you function at this high of a level, like fucking Christ, like nootropics can't even get you there.
• 12:25
  Matt: How could we deny what kind of dog is a downward dog?
• 12:29
  Matt: Like what come on, like come off come the fuck on.
• 12:32
  Matt: All right.
• 12:33
  Matt: So Sarah Feldman, thank you.
• 12:35
  Matt: Of course.
• 12:36
  Matt: Gold.
• 12:37
  Matt: As always, thank you for the question.
• 12:38
  Matt: Eric, let's get into it.
• 12:39
  Matt: The downward dog.
• 12:40
  Matt: We're downward dog, of course, to the uh popular yoga pose.
• 12:45
  Matt: Yeah.
• 12:45
  Eric: Of which, of which I know for a fact we have both done.
• 12:49
  Eric: Oh, yes.
• 12:50
  Eric: We have both done the oh, we did the oh, we done down some dogs.
• 12:54
  Eric: Wait, okay.
• 12:55
  Eric: I we've done downward dog.
• 12:57
  Eric: The last one implied that I have gone down on dogs.
• 13:00
  Matt: Oh shit, I went much darker.
• 13:02
  unknown: Matt!
• 13:05
  Eric: All right.
• 13:07
  Matt: Oops.
• 13:08
  Matt: Uh I guess I'm just saying, you said uh, you know what?
• 13:13
  Eric: Matt's over here like, this is our comedy question asking podcast.
• 13:17
  Eric: You'll never guess which one of us is a fucking furry.
• 13:21
  Eric: That's not a judgment on furries.
• 13:24
  Eric: I'm just trying, I'm just so the downward dog.
• 13:27
  Matt: So the downward dog.
• 13:29
  Matt: Now, okay, so when the I I just want to say, I do think the downward dog in general is not really a pose that dogs do.
• 13:40
  Matt: Distinctly undoglike.
• 13:42
  Matt: It is.
• 13:42
  Eric: I mean, because when I mean it's I've got all four.
• 13:46
  Eric: I'm on all fours.
• 13:47
  Eric: That's about where it begins.
• 13:49
  Matt: You're on all fours and your butt is in the air.
• 13:51
  Matt: But when the when the dog is doing what I assume this is based on, which is known universally as the big street big stretch.
• 14:00
  SPEAKER_00: Big stretch.
• 14:01
  Matt: Yeah.
• 14:02
  Matt: When the dog is doing the big stretch, they're they're almost doing a push-up.
• 14:06
  Matt: Like their front is like all the way down and they're going, yeah, and they got their neck craned.
• 14:12
  Matt: Yeah.
• 14:12
  Matt: Oh my god.
• 14:13
  Matt: And their butts up in the air.
• 14:14
  Matt: Yeah.
• 14:15
  Matt: But they don't have this almost like uh, it's almost like a like an arc that you're doing when a human does it down with a dog.
• 14:23
  Eric: Well, yeah, well, I think it all comes down to the fact that our back legs don't they don't bend, they don't bend the same way as the dog's legs.
• 14:33
  Eric: The dog legs bend, they go the other way.
• 14:36
  Matt: You know, it's almost like a slope that the dog makes.
• 14:39
  Matt: And we don't make we don't we can't do that.
• 14:41
  Eric: No.
• 14:42
  Matt: Because for one reason, we're you know, we're face basically We do, we're we're like a bell curve.
• 14:47
  Eric: They're just pure quality, just go straight up.
• 14:49
  Matt: Yeah, exactly.
• 14:50
  Matt: Exactement.
• 14:52
  Matt: And what I it's so it makes it hard, I think, to find a starting breed.
• 14:59
  Matt: Because my in my initial um thought was we need to talk about, you know, like the great Danes of the world, the uh the greyhounds, these kind of taller, leaner dogs.
• 15:11
  Matt: But I don't know that that's right because when you think about the ooh, big stretch, the littlest of dogs do it too.
• 15:20
  Matt: Your shits are doing big stretches.
• 15:22
  Eric: Well, we you know what?
• 15:23
  Eric: I'm gonna be I'm gonna get a little brave here for a second.
• 15:25
  Eric: I don't even think we're talking about a specific breed.
• 15:28
  Eric: Oh, semantics.
• 15:29
  Eric: It says what kind of dog semantics strike again.
• 15:34
  Eric: Like thank you.
• 15:35
  Eric: Um what what flavor of dog?
• 15:41
  Eric: Or like what what manner of dog is the downward dog?
• 15:46
  Matt: Well, we already covered in our last episode in the segment that was just for pooches, pooches only.
• 15:52
  Matt: Pooch is only we did establish that all dogs are good dogs.
• 15:56
  Matt: Oh, good the good, good as good as dogs, the goodest of dogs possible.
• 15:59
  Matt: Goodest dogs.
• 16:00
  Eric: Oh, yeah.
• 16:00
  Eric: I think that's the given.
• 16:01
  Eric: That's like the asterisk next to the question.
• 16:03
  Eric: It's like obviously this is a good, good dog, but like what kind of I feel because like what here's what I'm getting at.
• 16:08
  Eric: I feel like the kind of dog, like, the kind of dog that did this so good enough that humans were like, oh, let's base an entire yoga practice on this.
• 16:21
  Eric: I get like the dude vibes from it.
• 16:25
  Eric: Oh.
• 16:26
  Eric: You know what I'm you know what I'm getting at?
• 16:28
  Eric: The big Globowski dude, I assume.
• 16:30
  Eric: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 16:31
  Eric: The the the the dog.
• 16:33
  Eric: The dog.
• 16:34
  Eric: The dog.
• 16:34
  Eric: The dog.
• 16:35
  Eric: That's what we're gonna.
• 16:36
  Eric: What kind of dog?
• 16:37
  Eric: The dog.
• 16:38
  Eric: The dog.
• 16:39
  Matt: Like the the You just keep gripping a fist silently on this audio medium.
• 16:48
  Matt: I don't know what that's supposed to mean.
• 16:50
  Matt: It's the only way I can communicate my feelings.
• 16:52
  Matt: So, okay, so what uh are you saying that when a dog does the ooh big stretch, that they have entered uh a a different a different plane?
• 17:03
  Matt: They've tapped into it.
• 17:04
  Eric: Yeah, they're they're tapping into something.
• 17:05
  Matt: They perhaps oh, it's coming to me.
• 17:08
  Matt: Is that when they have reached nirvana?
• 17:12
  Matt: You know, a a when they are enlightened, if you will.
• 17:18
  Matt: They have finished ceasing and becoming.
• 17:20
  Eric: And it it's only momentary.
• 17:22
  Eric: It's only at the Oh yeah, they're just stream enterers.
• 17:25
  Matt: Yeah, they get there right at that, right when they all go and then let it go.
• 17:29
  Matt: Oh, I was there.
• 17:30
  Matt: I was there.
• 17:31
  Matt: I can that's what it is.
• 17:32
  Matt: They're saying, Yeah, I can taste paradise.
• 17:35
  Matt: I can and now I'm back.
• 17:38
  Eric: And then I'm flung back into reality.
• 17:41
  Eric: So the downward dog is like the closest dogs get to doing acid, is what like what we're getting at.
• 17:46
  Matt: And by extension, is the downward dog for humans?
• 17:51
  Matt: Is that as close as humans get to becoming dogs?
• 17:56
  Eric: Well, there's there's several answers I could give.
• 18:02
  Eric: Ah pick one.
• 18:04
  Matt: Oh, I see what I think I see where you're going.
• 18:08
  Matt: Yeah.
• 18:08
  Matt: Are you now once again thinking of a sexual image involving a dog?
• 18:13
  Eric: Okay.
• 18:14
  Eric: All right.
• 18:14
  Eric: I hate everything about this.
• 18:16
  Eric: Um, so let's no, but like what I do, but I do believe, Matt, is what the idea the string I do want to tug on is when you say becoming like like dogs, not just in shape, but like where we where we give ourselves over to the simplicity, you know what I mean?
• 18:33
  Eric: Just being.
• 18:34
  Matt: Just being dogs.
• 18:35
  Matt: I think I don't, you know, because we, you know, a a question that I was uh just pontificating not too long ago is like, is the dog, or even animals in general, they're not after the same things we humans are after.
• 18:49
  Matt: They're not thinking about a legacy, they're not thinking about what their you know ult how productive they've been.
• 18:58
  Matt: They're just trying to be in the moment.
• 19:01
  Eric: Yeah.
• 19:02
  Eric: You know, they're just trying to nap.
• 19:04
  Eric: Oh, they don't even have object permanence, they couldn't be more in the moment.
• 19:08
  Eric: Like the second they look away from something, it just stops existing.
• 19:12
  Eric: And like every moment is this is just leaping from one ecstatic discovery to the next, even though you've already seen it ten times that day.
• 19:20
  Matt: And no drug could get us there.
• 19:23
  Matt: No, no, it's impossible.
• 19:25
  Matt: It's impossible.
• 19:26
  Matt: I don't think it is.
• 19:27
  Matt: I don't think anything can truly get us to dog level of consciousness.
• 19:31
  Eric: No, no, not until man discovers a way to become dogs.
• 19:34
  Matt: No, and honestly, I don't think we will because I don't think we should.
• 19:37
  Eric: I don't think we deserve it.
• 19:40
  Eric: Yeah, man's man's opposable thumbs exceeds his his paws.
• 19:44
  Eric: You know what I mean?
• 19:45
  Eric: I do.
• 19:46
  Matt: So how do we how do we how do we wrap that back up into the because the question is, what kind of dog is the downward dog?
• 19:54
  Matt: We've established it not we're not talking about breed.
• 19:56
  Matt: We're talking about a I don't know, uh what did you say earlier?
• 19:59
  Matt: The uh what was the word you used?
• 20:01
  Eric: Acid.
• 20:02
  Matt: No, that was that was not it.
• 20:04
  Matt: Uh the bump furry flavor.
• 20:06
  Matt: Yeah, no, no, it's not a big thing.
• 20:07
  Eric: Oh, oh, what flavor of dog, yes, yes.
• 20:10
  Eric: What kind like what what it's it's just it's the personality of the dog, yeah, the the what mental place they are in.
• 20:19
  Matt: Yeah.
• 20:20
  Matt: I think if we're going with the idea that the ooh big stretch is a momentary attainment of Nirvana.
• 20:29
  Matt: Yeah.
• 20:30
  Matt: Then I think one has to say it is an enlightened dog.
• 20:33
  Matt: Is that right?
• 20:34
  Matt: An enlightened dog.
• 20:35
  Matt: Enlightened dog.
• 20:36
  Matt: Is that does it sound right?
• 20:37
  Eric: Yeah, because at that point they move beyond because like we we've already established, all dogs are good dogs.
• 20:43
  Eric: Yes.
• 20:44
  Eric: Like they're good as good dogs, but at that point they move beyond good.
• 20:49
  Eric: Good no longer matters.
• 20:51
  Matt: Okay.
• 20:52
  Matt: Does it no longer matter?
• 20:54
  Matt: Or is when they hit that ooh big stretch, is that when they realize and are confident for just a moment that they know that they know they are a good dog.
• 21:06
  Eric: Yes, that is the kind of dog.
• 21:08
  Eric: It is the goodest dog, and they know it.
• 21:11
  Matt: And that's what dog enlightenment is.
• 21:14
  Matt: Fuck.
• 21:14
  Matt: Fuck.
• 21:15
  Matt: Oh my god.
• 21:16
  Matt: We are solving lifelong puzzles.
• 21:19
  Matt: And again, would be remiss if I didn't point out thanks to Sarah Feldman.
• 21:25
  Matt: Thank you, Sarah Feldman.
• 21:26
  Matt: Sarah! Gosh dang.
• 21:29
  Matt: You've done it again.
• 21:31
  Matt: Uh thank you for the question.
• 21:33
  Matt: And thank you for honestly, Eric.
• 21:36
  Matt: I feel a little bit enlightened myself.
• 21:38
  Eric: I didn't I didn't reach out and grasp the sun, but I did lick, I licked the metaphorical nine volt battery.
• 21:43
  Eric: Just got a ooh, tingle it.
• 21:46
  Eric: Sure.
• 21:47
  Matt: That that all scans.
• 21:48
  Eric: Yeah.
• 21:50
  Matt: Okay.
• 21:51
  Matt: Um, Eric, you want to hit us with uh another question?
• 21:55
  Eric: This is from our our dear, dear friend, still recovering.
• 22:00
  Eric: From the clap back at Dairy King11 on Twitter.
• 22:04
  Eric: He writes Let's keep it simple.
• 22:07
  Eric: Which Ninja Turtles weapon is the best for fighting crime or defeating Shredder?
• 22:13
  Matt: And what intrigues me the most about this question, right out the gate, Eric, right out the gate is the or defeating Shredder.
• 22:22
  Eric: Because there is a yep, yep, yep, yep, yep.
• 22:24
  Eric: It's like, ooh, so it's a it's a quandary.
• 22:27
  Matt: There is an implication there, my friend, that sh that fighting Shredder, that defeating Shredder is not fighting crime.
• 22:36
  Eric: What I'm guessing is they're trying to make the delineation like there's crime.
• 22:41
  Eric: There's like, you know, young punks in leather jackets, mohawks in like sunglasses at two in the morning loading VCRs into the back of a van.
• 22:50
  Matt: Classic example from the original film.
• 22:53
  Eric: And then there's the shredder.
• 22:56
  Matt: I have to say, I want to say this because I um I think I don't know if I've shared this with the listeners before.
• 23:01
  Matt: I'm a huge lifelong fan of the Ninja Turtles.
• 23:04
  Matt: It's what has led me to having a turtle of my own for the past 25 plus years.
• 23:08
  Matt: My question is.
• 23:11
  Matt: Turtles.
• 23:12
  Matt: What?
• 23:13
  SPEAKER_02: Oh, oh, sorry.
• 23:14
  SPEAKER_02: I just turtles.
• 23:16
  Matt: Yes.
• 23:16
  Matt: Oh, turtles.
• 23:17
  Matt: I see what you're saying.
• 23:18
  Matt: You're the full coverage of your Shredder mask hands.
• 23:22
  Matt: Sorry, it's just I I method.
• 23:24
  Matt: Well, what I was going to say is of my childhood cartoons, I think Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and TMNT2, The Secret of the Oewes, are possibly the best live action adaptations of a cartoon.
• 23:38
  Eric: Okay, there we go.
• 23:39
  Eric: I thought you were gonna say that the best live action adaptation of the Ninja Turtles, like the only one.
• 23:44
  Matt: Well, there was the like live semi-live action.
• 23:49
  Eric: Oh, right.
• 23:49
  Eric: Always forget that in the time travel.
• 23:51
  Eric: No, no, no.
• 23:51
  Matt: Hold on.
• 23:52
  Matt: There's nothing wrong.
• 23:53
  Matt: There's nothing inherently bad about Teenage Mutant.
• 23:56
  Matt: No, it's just the the I was referencing the TMT Michael Bay series where it's live action except for the turtles.
• 24:07
  Matt: I hate that.
• 24:08
  Matt: I hate that and I don't support it.
• 24:09
  Matt: But what I do support is, of course, the uh the the scene where your VCR scene is from, uh, the first uh Ninja Turtles film there.
• 24:18
  Eric: Well, to be fair, also it's the same exact crime happening in the opening scene of Secret of the Ooves, too, because I I fucking I watched it the other day.
• 24:26
  Eric: I was like, oh, they just okay, opened the exact same crime.
• 24:29
  Eric: Same fucking crime, just different, different shop.
• 24:32
  Matt: The uh the yeah, exactly.
• 24:35
  Matt: I love Secret of the Ooze so very much.
• 24:38
  Matt: But Shredder, uh the thing about Shredder, though, is the Foot Clan is operating at his behest in all in all aspects.
• 24:48
  Matt: And most of the Ninja Turtles crime fighting is fighting the Foot Clan.
• 24:53
  Matt: Am I wrong about that?
• 24:54
  Eric: I don't think I No, a good deal of it is fighting the Foot Clan, but they also like they they also Batman it up a little bit.
• 25:01
  Eric: You know, just do a little vigilante.
• 25:03
  Matt: Oh, yeah, they got plenty of plenty of villains to contend with.
• 25:07
  Matt: They got Krag.
• 25:09
  Eric: Oh, oh, oh, you mean Krang?
• 25:11
  Matt: I do mean Krang, thank you.
• 25:13
  Eric: Yes.
• 25:14
  Matt: Yes, Krang the the the brain inside a large body.
• 25:18
  Eric: I love I love Krang.
• 25:19
  Eric: They get so they got Bebop and Rocksteady.
• 25:21
  Matt: Bebop and Rocksteady, also who make their film debut in Secret of the Ooze.
• 25:26
  Eric: Well, so here's here's here's wild.
• 25:28
  Eric: And I and uh again, I can only call you on any of this because I just watched Secret of the Ooze, like I'm not even shitting you, like four days ago.
• 25:36
  Eric: Uh it was Toka and Razar in Secret of the Ooze, and they weren't a rhino and a pig in the movie, they were uh a wolf and a snapping turtle.
• 25:48
  Matt: I definitely forgot that they weren't Bebop and Rocksteady in Secret of the Ooz.
• 25:52
  Eric: Yeah, because Bebop and Rocksteady in the fucking show were sick.
• 25:55
  Eric: They had like they had the cool ass sunglasses and fucking like wore like like punk vests and shit, and like, yeah, it was good.
• 26:01
  Matt: I th I have to thank you for correcting me on that for sure.
• 26:05
  Matt: I got you, boo.
• 26:06
  Eric: I got you, boo.
• 26:07
  Eric: I'll call you on your privilege.
• 26:08
  Matt: But you know, there's uh the the they've got tons of them, but I'm without a doubt, Shredder is the uh Arch nemesis.
• 26:17
  Eric: Oh yeah, that's it's him.
• 26:19
  Eric: That's him.
• 26:20
  Matt: And I I have to say, right out the gate, I don't first of all, I don't know what we're talking about right now in terms of answering the question.
• 26:26
  Eric: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 26:27
  Eric: No, it's fine, we'll get there, we'll get there.
• 26:28
  Eric: We'll get there.
• 26:28
  Matt: We'll hone in a little bit by saying I don't see a world where fighting Shredder isn't fighting crime.
• 26:35
  Eric: Yeah.
• 26:36
  Eric: I I I'm just treating it as this is the delineation I'm making in my in my in my in my head.
• 26:43
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
• 26:44
  Eric: There I I'm seeing two separate questions here.
• 26:46
  Eric: Question one is what is the best for dealing with just street level thugs, and which weapon's the best for fighting the shredder?
• 26:54
  Matt: I think I my okay, I have got an initial impression.
• 26:58
  Matt: Okay.
• 26:58
  Matt: My initial impression for just fighting your uh your pick pockets, your you know, run-of-the-mill hull purse snatchers, you know, would be Donatello's bow staff.
• 27:12
  Eric: I knew you were gonna go there.
• 27:13
  Eric: And and I and I want to be clear, this is we we respect all answers here.
• 27:18
  Eric: Uh, this is a this is this is this is why we have discussion.
• 27:21
  Matt: Uh-huh.
• 27:21
  Eric: But I did know I did know that you were gonna go there.
• 27:23
  Eric: Yeah.
• 27:24
  Matt: I'm just waiting for the other shoe to drop.
• 27:26
  Matt: Why do you disagree?
• 27:27
  Matt: Why do you not like it?
• 27:28
  Matt: Why is my answer a sissy answer?
• 27:30
  Matt: But you wanna let me ask you this.
• 27:32
  Matt: Yeah before you answer the question that I posed to you, are you one of these anti-Donatello pieces of shit?
• 27:40
  Eric: No, no, I love Donnie.
• 27:41
  Eric: I fucking love Donnie.
• 27:42
  Eric: I love the Bowstaff.
• 27:43
  Eric: The Bow Staff is is an incredibly versatile uh big ass stick.
• 27:47
  Matt: And that's what I mean.
• 27:48
  Matt: It's not a sword, a sigh, or a nunchuck.
• 27:52
  Matt: It is a blunt instrument with with which you can knock some people around, but you're not actually killing anybody or or doing some real damage.
• 28:01
  Matt: But it's not gonna stand, it's not the best to stand up to Shredder with his dagger hands.
• 28:06
  Eric: Yeah, no, like I absolutely agree with that.
• 28:08
  Eric: This I feel like the disadvantages when we're talking purely about best weapon, like if if they're like this is the tool you're gonna break, bring every single time in this situation.
• 28:19
  Eric: Um Bowstaff is actually my second answer.
• 28:23
  Eric: Okay, what's your first?
• 28:24
  Eric: Um Raf size, man.
• 28:27
  Eric: So let me let me hit you with this.
• 28:31
  Eric: So so the bow staff is great, like amazingly versatile, great, but major weakness of the bow staff, you do need some fucking room to swing it.
• 28:39
  Eric: You need some room to swing that big, big, big, big stick, even if you're really good for it.
• 28:43
  Eric: The psi, much smaller, much compact, about the length of each of like each of your forearms.
• 28:48
  Eric: So anywhere you can fit your forearms, you can swing a sigh.
• 28:53
  Eric: Psy also has a blunt mode.
• 28:55
  Eric: You flip a psi around, you use the pommel straight.
• 28:57
  Eric: Fun fact, I used to learn how to use psi.
• 29:01
  Eric: Um back when you were uh back when I did martial arts.
• 29:03
  Eric: I still have that's what you just saw me looking for.
• 29:05
  Eric: I was actually looking for my psi.
• 29:07
  Eric: I still have them, they're fucking dope.
• 29:10
  Eric: Interesting.
• 29:10
  Eric: Yeah, so so not only can they be used blunt or stabbing, but they're just really well designed to catch weapons and like pin criminals.
• 29:20
  Eric: Okay, as opposed to stabbing people.
• 29:24
  SPEAKER_01: I don't want to stab them.
• 29:25
  Eric: I don't have to.
• 29:26
  Eric: I can just and then I punch them with the metal lens.
• 29:29
  Eric: Great, and they're not gonna, and then I don't have to worry about them breaking.
• 29:32
  Matt: I I well um perhaps we are undercutting the effectiveness of the nun chuck, then, because that I feel similar to the bow staff, not as much room to swing, although you do need the finesse to use them.
• 29:45
  Matt: You do you have to get some momentum going.
• 29:47
  Matt: Sure.
• 29:47
  Matt: I don't feel like you gotta get a ton.
• 29:49
  Matt: Mikey, Mikey just kind of just flings them out there.
• 29:55
  Matt: Yeah, but you're okay.
• 29:56
  Matt: Right now, in your little audio demonstration of flinging a nunchuck around, yeah, all you did was flick your wrist.
• 30:04
  Matt: That's literally all you need to do.
• 30:07
  Eric: Yeah, that is true.
• 30:08
  Eric: And and and nunchucks are really good.
• 30:10
  Eric: Like historically, nunchucks are just really, really good for non-lethal combat.
• 30:14
  Matt: Yeah, that that's exactly what I'm saying.
• 30:16
  Matt: Man, who honestly, who's the black belt here, really?
• 30:19
  Matt: I mean, come on.
• 30:20
  Matt: My God.
• 30:21
  Matt: I didn't need a van to learn that.
• 30:28
  Matt: Is that where you first became coach?
• 30:30
  SPEAKER_02: Matshe is a ninja turtle.
• 30:33
  SPEAKER_02: Matt Shea is a ninja turtle.
• 30:35
  Eric: Would that I would that I were.
• 30:37
  Eric: Would that I were.
• 30:38
  Eric: So for fighting your I I would honestly, I I feel like that's a good compromise, the splitting of the uprights for street crime for handling your VCR thieves, of which there are apparently millions.
• 30:49
  Eric: Many, many in the in the late 90s or early 90s.
• 30:53
  Eric: I feel like nunchuck is good.
• 30:56
  Eric: Nunchuck is good.
• 30:57
  Eric: Okay, so Michelangelo's nunchucks are what we're going with.
• 31:02
  Matt: I think so.
• 31:03
  Matt: What so then for Shredder for Shredder?
• 31:06
  Matt: I'm tempted to say I honestly I would say uh in terms of weapons alone, Leo's katanas are the most effective weapon, period.
• 31:17
  Eric: Like if they're the most lethal.
• 31:19
  Eric: They're the most lethal.
• 31:20
  Eric: They're the most yeah.
• 31:22
  Eric: Right?
• 31:22
  Eric: Or the or the most pu like when I say most lethal, I mean like in terms of what their purpose is.
• 31:29
  Eric: The katana has one purpose.
• 31:30
  Eric: It is to kill.
• 31:31
  Eric: Like that is, there's no there's no It's certainly to cut at no.
• 31:37
  Eric: Yeah.
• 31:37
  Eric: Like it's not like the Psy where you've got the oh, we can pick which mode we're gonna use and fucking or like the staff.
• 31:44
  Matt: Same thing with the bow staff and the nunchuck.
• 31:46
  Eric: If I hit you with like Leo has to actively miss your vitals if he's fighting you with it with his with his fucking katana.
• 31:54
  Eric: Of course.
• 31:55
  Eric: Because most of the time he's just trying to like, you know, cut your pants down, make a trip over yourself, look like an asshole.
• 32:01
  Matt: Yeah, I mean he's doing I think Leo, as a result, for some for a lot of their vigilantism, uh he has to do a lot more straight up martial arts before he can even call upon his weapons because if he does.
• 32:20
  Eric: We're escalating.
• 32:21
  Matt: We're escalating the situation.
• 32:23
  Matt: And like he has to show the most restraint.
• 32:25
  Matt: But Shredder is just decked out in blades.
• 32:29
  Matt: Oh, he's got blades for days.
• 32:32
  Matt: So to meet that, I think the Psy and the Katana are better suited because you're essentially having a sword fight with his hands.
• 32:40
  Eric: Yeah.
• 32:41
  Eric: And I would, I would, and this is again, I'm not trying to like sound like I'm like a one-trick pony.
• 32:47
  Eric: I do think where the Psy beats out the katana in this situation is Shredder's decked out in fucking straight up metal armor.
• 32:54
  Eric: Katanas, and I know this might come as a shock, aren't really designed to hit other pieces of metal.
• 33:01
  Eric: No, you're not supposed to do that with them.
• 33:03
  Eric: That was ruined.
• 33:05
  Eric: Yeah, they're they're for the katana was designed to cut down peasants in feudal Japan.
• 33:11
  Matt: Like um the Psy was a weapon of the peasant.
• 33:16
  Matt: What I would say, uh another to another uh check in the Psy column.
• 33:20
  Matt: Oh, here we go.
• 33:21
  Matt: When Shredder's coming at you with his his bladed glove in a bladed glove.
• 33:26
  Matt: Gauntlets.
• 33:26
  Matt: Yeah, he's got those gauntlets coming at you.
• 33:29
  Matt: I think it's actually probably more difficult to catch them in a sword fighting fashion with the katana than it is to meet them with the sigh, because it's still a fist-to-fist kind of motion.
• 33:44
  Eric: Oh, absolutely.
• 33:46
  Eric: And like Shredder is straight up wearing like samurai helmet, like armor.
• 33:50
  Eric: Like he really is wearing the optimal armor for fighting being fought with a katana, and it's just straight up made of metal.
• 33:57
  Eric: Like that was not com like most samurai armor was made of like lacquered uh plates and stuff.
• 34:03
  Eric: Like uh, there wasn't a whole lot of metal involved, right?
• 34:06
  Eric: Um, because metal is fucking scarce in Japan.
• 34:09
  Eric: But Shredder just said, oh fuck this man, I'm in the United States, baby.
• 34:12
  Eric: It's 1980, baby.
• 34:13
  Eric: Steel industry's booming.
• 34:14
  Eric: I got I got fucking metal bits.
• 34:17
  Matt: Yeah, and it does say defeating Shredder, and I think one could take that to the broader realm and saying, like, defeat him, you know, once and for all kind of deal.
• 34:29
  Matt: Yeah.
• 34:29
  Matt: But I don't I don't know that that's what we're talking about.
• 34:32
  Matt: I think if we're talking about defeating one-on-one, yeah, in in single-hand combat, if you will, or or single fighter combat.
• 34:40
  Matt: I think Raphael's size have this first of all a distinct advantage over the bowstaff, which could be impaled by the shredder.
• 34:51
  Eric: Yeah.
• 34:52
  Matt: And the nunchucks.
• 34:54
  Matt: They're gonna get tangled on his bits.
• 34:56
  Matt: They'll be tangled on his bits.
• 34:57
  Matt: And the katana, katana, not designed for this kind of fight.
• 35:01
  Eric: It'll it'll break.
• 35:02
  Eric: And not even to mention that like the the shredder, like his armor's pretty like thick, but he does have like little small gaps in it that are perfect for a psi to fucking punch through.
• 35:14
  Matt: A little stab, just a little stab, not a big one.
• 35:16
  Matt: It's so good.
• 35:17
  Matt: It's so good.
• 35:18
  Matt: Yeah, a dagger like stab.
• 35:21
  Matt: Yeah, the sigh can provide.
• 35:23
  Matt: Yeah.
• 35:23
  Matt: I think we got it.
• 35:24
  Matt: I think it's the psi for the feeding shredder and the and the nunshucks.
• 35:28
  Eric: Nunchucks for fighting crime.
• 35:29
  Matt: For fighting your run-of-the-mill crime.
• 35:32
  Matt: Uh so at Dairy King 11, 11th of his name.
• 35:36
  Matt: Thank you for the question.
• 35:37
  Matt: And Eric, I just before we move on, I just want to say, I want to ask really.
• 35:41
  Matt: In in cinema, when you're watching a film, okay.
• 35:45
  Matt: Are you like me, when you see the shot of any movie, when a hand comes out of the ground, out of a mound of anything, do you not think of that as the shredder shot?
• 36:00
  Eric: Oh, every time.
• 36:01
  Eric: Like, oh, when did they bring the shredder into the street?
• 36:04
  Matt: Because that is the ever since the beginning of TMNT 2, The Secret of the East, that is how I think about a hand, a gloved hand coming out and and gripping the night.
• 36:17
  Matt: That is how I think of it.
• 36:18
  Matt: I think of it as the shredder shot.
• 36:21
  Matt: And I always have.
• 36:24
  Matt: Go ninja, go ninja, go, go, go ninja, go ninja.
• 36:28
  Matt: Uh yes, uh, who doesn't love a vanilla ice cameo?
• 36:32
  Matt: Yes, classic.
• 36:34
  Matt: Sign of the times, truly.
• 36:36
  Matt: Uh, what do you think, Eric?
• 36:37
  Matt: Should we move on to another question?
• 36:39
  Eric: Absolutely.
• 36:39
  Eric: Let's do it.
• 36:40
  Eric: Now, this is a big now, this, Eric, you is you've been so excited for this one.
• 36:45
  Matt: We received not long ago an email um from a gentleman by the name of Aaron.
• 36:51
  Matt: And Aaron not only gave us a ton of questions.
• 36:58
  Matt: Oh, just shotgunned them.
• 37:00
  Matt: He also wrote us a poem.
• 37:03
  SPEAKER_05: Oh, yes, he did.
• 37:05
  Matt: So this is what um this is what Aaron had to say.
• 37:08
  Matt: I boarded the Yad train late in the game, but I've now caught up, and my tardiness gives me no shame.
• 37:18
  Matt: Your first thirty episodes have given me much pleasure.
• 37:22
  Matt: As a tribute, I submit this content for you to peruse at your leisure.
• 37:29
  Matt: And then what followed?
• 37:30
  Matt: Listeners, if you would please take note, he gave us several options for an unlikely fight, multiple options for a definitive ranking, and also a handful of questions.
• 37:45
  Matt: Go, Erin, go, Erin, go, Erin, go, go, Erin, go.
• 37:49
  Matt: One of those questions, Eric, honestly, is one I think it's one that has bedeviled man since the dawn of time.
• 37:57
  Eric: Yes.
• 37:58
  Eric: Or since the dawn of 2010.
• 38:01
  Matt: In reference to the song by DJ Snake and Lil John, turned down for what?
• 38:08
  Matt: In what situation am I justified in turning down?
• 38:14
  Matt: Or I think, Aaron, if I may uh simplify, uh obfuscate your question just a little bit.
• 38:19
  Matt: I think what you're really asking is, what are we turning down for?
• 38:24
  Matt: Or even simpler, turn down for what?
• 38:28
  Matt: What?
• 38:29
  Eric: Did you yeah, yeah, you gotta put the italics on it.
• 38:31
  Eric: Turn down for what?
• 38:34
  Eric: Also, and Matt, I think this is really interesting.
• 38:36
  Matt: I I pulled up the lyrics.
• 38:38
  Matt: Oh, yeah, I I also have those open as a reference.
• 38:41
  Matt: Yes, because perhaps we can mine them.
• 38:44
  Matt: Eric, maybe we can dive into these words from from DJ Snake and Lil' John to find their meeting.
• 38:51
  Matt: Eric, please, yeah, please, if you would.
• 38:53
  Eric: Okay, well, I'll give I'll give you I and I don't want to take up too much time, but I'll just give you like the first, the first.
• 39:00
  Eric: Uh fire up that loud another round of shots.
• 39:05
  Eric: Yes.
• 39:06
  Eric: Turn down for what?
• 39:08
  Eric: Turn down for what?
• 39:09
  Eric: Turn down for what?
• 39:10
  Eric: Turn down for what?
• 39:12
  Eric: Turn down for what?
• 39:14
  Eric: For what?
• 39:14
  Eric: Turn down for what?
• 39:16
  Matt: For what?
• 39:17
  Matt: Now, Eric, if I I I I don't want you to get exhausted.
• 39:21
  Matt: Take the next one.
• 39:21
  Matt: Take the next one.
• 39:22
  Matt: Yeah.
• 39:22
  Matt: It's a bit of a callback, too.
• 39:23
  Matt: Oh, okay.
• 39:24
  Matt: Fire up that loud.
• 39:26
  Matt: Oh, okay.
• 39:27
  Matt: I see the callback.
• 39:27
  Matt: That's good.
• 39:28
  Matt: Another round of shots.
• 39:30
  Matt: Yep.
• 39:31
  Matt: Turn down for what?
• 39:32
  Matt: Okay.
• 39:33
  Matt: Turn down for what?
• 39:35
  Matt: Turn down for what?
• 39:36
  Matt: Turn down for what?
• 39:36
  Matt: Turn down for what?
• 39:39
  Eric: And then like it it like it sets it up.
• 39:42
  Eric: Like it sets up this kind of subversion of expectations.
• 39:47
  Eric: You know what I mean?
• 39:48
  Eric: Like because my expectation is that at any point that we're gonna get like a different, like a new A new set of words.
• 39:57
  Eric: A new set of words.
• 39:59
  Eric: But then it just hits you with fire up that loud, another round of shots.
• 40:04
  Eric: Fire up that loud, another round of shots, fire up that loud, another round of shots, fire up that loud, another round of shots.
• 40:15
  Matt: And then to bring us home, to really hammer the point home, six times, they ask, turn down for what?
• 40:26
  Matt: Wow.
• 40:27
  Eric: I mean I mean, like, there's so much to fucking unpack there.
• 40:31
  Matt: First of all, I I actually had to check that that was by DJ Snake and Lil' John, and not a Shakespearean sonnet.
• 40:38
  unknown: Yes.
• 40:41
  Matt: So okay, so what we've learned, I think, is that the lyrics are useless to us in decoding what they what what one would turn down for.
• 40:51
  Eric: Well, we gotta look down what they they can help us.
• 40:54
  Eric: There's a little guidance we got here.
• 40:56
  Eric: It's two sentences.
• 40:57
  Eric: Or sorry, that's generous.
• 40:59
  Eric: It's two lines, one sentence.
• 41:01
  Eric: So fire up that loud.
• 41:03
  Eric: It's one stanza.
• 41:04
  Eric: Another round of shots.
• 41:05
  Eric: So fire up that loud, mean you know, turn up, turn up the music.
• 41:08
  Eric: Another round of shots.
• 41:10
  Eric: Please give us more alcoholic beverages.
• 41:12
  Eric: And then turn over what I'm getting the feeling this is in response to someone saying, Hey, you need could you like you need to turn that that down.
• 41:22
  Eric: And then they are saying, turn turn it down for what?
• 41:25
  Matt: For what?
• 41:26
  Matt: For what purpose?
• 41:27
  Matt: Yeah.
• 41:27
  Matt: Eric, I don't, I don't, I don't want to be too judgmental.
• 41:31
  Matt: All right.
• 41:31
  Matt: Yeah.
• 41:32
  Matt: But maybe you're looking at this a little too surface level.
• 41:35
  Matt: Perhaps your analysis is, dare I say, pedestrian.
• 41:38
  Matt: What okay?
• 41:40
  Matt: Perhaps we need to take it a little deeper.
• 41:43
  Matt: All right, fellow white man, explain it to me.
• 41:46
  Matt: I shall.
• 41:47
  Matt: So another round of shots, of course, could mean on a surface level, you know, another round of fireball in the shot glasses.
• 41:59
  Matt: Of course it could mean that.
• 42:01
  Matt: But maybe what they're really intending is another round of shots at life, another round of attempts to strive forward in this world.
• 42:12
  Eric: God, for like half a second, I thought you were gonna suggest uh another round of shots.
• 42:17
  Eric: Shots here, meaning the song shots.
• 42:24
  Eric: Play shots again.
• 42:26
  Eric: Oh my god, how fucking meta would that be though?
• 42:30
  Eric: Fucking Lil just going like, yeah, no, a song another round of shots.
• 42:34
  Eric: A song requesting another song.
• 42:38
  Matt: Oh my god.
• 42:39
  Matt: No, I'm saying they're saying to fire yourself up loud and strive to to the next station.
• 42:50
  Matt: You know what I'm saying?
• 42:51
  Matt: Shots meaning pure ambition error.
• 42:54
  Eric: Oh, so so so to borrow to borrow a lyric from uh from a another a song of its contemporaries, yes, when it's saying fire up that loud, another round of shots, what they're saying is tonight we are young.
• 43:14
  SPEAKER_00: So let's set the world on fire.
• 43:17
  Matt: Are you looking up the lyrics to be?
• 43:18
  SPEAKER_00: Turn down for what?
• 43:22
  Matt: I can see your eyes moving.
• 43:26
  Matt: Uh no, okay.
• 43:28
  Eric: So, so Or maybe, maybe Eric, you're right.
• 43:31
  Matt: Maybe I'm being too intellectual about it.
• 43:32
  Matt: Maybe I'm going too deep.
• 43:34
  Eric: No, no, I I like this thread.
• 43:36
  Eric: Um, because then turn down for what becomes like, no, we will not lower our bar, we will not set our sights lower, we will not put the we'll not give up this fire within us.
• 43:47
  Eric: They're like, you're gonna have to give me a reason to stop dreaming.
• 43:50
  Eric: And I think that's fucking beautiful, little John.
• 43:53
  Matt: You have to give me a reason to stop dreaming, Eric.
• 43:58
  Matt: You because what Yeah, that I I I I'm really getting uh sorry, I my heart is getting so warm right now.
• 44:07
  Matt: Yeah that I was distracted by this inner peace I'm receiving by little John asking me, Why would you settle?
• 44:17
  Matt: Why the fuck would you why would you give up?
• 44:19
  Matt: Why would you ever when he when he says to us, when he asks us, when little John asks us, not once, not twice, but 16 times, turned down for what?
• 44:38
  Matt: What he I think what they're trying to hammer home is like, why would you give up now?
• 44:44
  Matt: Why?
• 44:45
  Matt: Why you've come this far.
• 44:48
  Matt: We draw the line here.
• 44:50
  Matt: This but okay, so but so what it but Aaron's question is yeah, to what is he justified in turning down?
• 44:59
  Matt: And something that's hitting me right off the gate.
• 45:02
  Matt: Yeah.
• 45:02
  Matt: I don't like saying it necessarily, but I remember when the pandemic first took hold.
• 45:09
  Matt: As an actor, I felt a little bit of relief in knowing I think actors and artists in general get into, you know, there's this there's this culture of the grind.
• 45:22
  Matt: Oh, everyone, you gotta be looking for the next audition, you gotta be prepping the next monologue, you gotta be just this, that, though.
• 45:30
  Matt: You have to always be on your game.
• 45:33
  Matt: And when the pandemic first took hold, there was a little bit of a relief in knowing I could pump my own brakes, I could take a break and know that everybody's doing that.
• 45:44
  Matt: I'm not losing guilt-free.
• 45:47
  Eric: That was the best part.
• 45:48
  Eric: And and and this is not in any way to diminish the harm and impact to the industry.
• 45:54
  Eric: Like the like it goes without saying, people were devastated.
• 45:57
  Eric: Like, I knew people like like like uh a friend of mine was fucking playing uh Prince Hal.
• 46:04
  Eric: And like opening night happened, and then the next day the state shut down, and they had been rehearsing for six months, like yeah, like destroy like but there was a mental health relief.
• 46:16
  Eric: Yeah, for any performer just going, Oh shit, I can just stop for a fucking minute, turned out to be two and a half years, but I can just stop.
• 46:27
  Matt: Turns out it's still going.
• 46:29
  Matt: But in that moment, Eric, I do feel as though when looking at it in this context, I felt myself turning down.
• 46:40
  Matt: You know what I'm saying?
• 46:41
  Matt: Taking just bringing the level down a little bit, resting.
• 46:46
  Matt: Oh a respite is what it was.
• 46:48
  Matt: A respite.
• 46:49
  Eric: So it's still kind of like the five I'm getting is you turn well, what the kind of what one of the lessons the pandemic kind of forced us to learn.
• 46:58
  Eric: Yeah, and that I hope we take we take into our lives from here on out, sure, is you turn down when you fucking need to, fam.
• 47:07
  Matt: You turn down when you need to, when your body and your your spirit tell you you have to.
• 47:13
  Eric: Because this the big turn down that we've been experiencing for two years, no one got an option.
• 47:18
  Eric: That's true.
• 47:18
  Eric: It was handed to us.
• 47:19
  Eric: But the lesson we need to be fucking taking is don't wait until the world forces you to turn down, because then you might not be able to turn back up again.
• 47:27
  Matt: You're absolutely fucking right, Eric.
• 47:28
  Matt: And I because that is, I'm being 100% real with you here.
• 47:33
  Matt: That is a lesson that I took from this is wow, I'm really like pushing my nose to the grindstone all the time.
• 47:41
  Matt: 100%.
• 47:43
  Matt: Like I could not not like when I was not in a show and I was, you know, done with my full-time work job for the day, and I'd be watching TV or something with Lindsay.
• 47:55
  Matt: Part of my brain would always be like, I should be looking.
• 47:59
  Matt: I should be looking for auditions, I should be recording an audiobook audition or something.
• 48:04
  Matt: You know, it it's this it's a very toxic mindset of like you have to always, always, always be going.
• 48:12
  Matt: It's toxic to myself or a toxic work environment.
• 48:15
  Matt: And and in doing so, you don't take the time for yourself.
• 48:18
  Matt: And I think one has to judge for themselves where the line is that one turns down.
• 48:25
  Eric: And as long as you always remember that it is always, always, always in your hands.
• 48:33
  Eric: Like you can you have even when you are so fucking sure you don't, you do have the option to give yourself permission to turn down.
• 48:44
  Eric: Your hand is on that dial.
• 48:47
  Eric: It's on the fucking knob.
• 48:48
  Eric: You've got it.
• 48:49
  Eric: Because the hand that knows when to turn down knows when to turn the fuck up.
• 48:54
  Matt: Knows when to turn the fuck up.
• 48:57
  Matt: So when when DJ Sneg and Lil John ask, turn down for what?
• 49:03
  Matt: The answer is you.
• 49:06
  Eric: Turn down for you.
• 49:07
  Eric: There it is.
• 49:08
  Eric: There it fucking is.
• 49:09
  Eric: Turn down for you.
• 49:10
  Eric: Turn down for you.
• 49:11
  Eric: And for no one else.
• 49:13
  Eric: Fuck everybody else.
• 49:15
  Eric: No one else.
• 49:16
  Eric: God damn.
• 49:17
  Matt: Man, I feel so fucking good right now, Eric.
• 49:21
  Eric: Fuck.
• 49:22
  Matt: We got dog enlightenment.
• 49:24
  Matt: We got dog enlightenment.
• 49:25
  Matt: Ninja Turtles!
• 49:27
  Eric: We got fucking Lil John!
• 49:30
  Matt: I'll tell you right now, Eric, right now, I feel only like turning up.
• 49:35
  SPEAKER_06: Oh.
• 49:36
  Eric: Well, I'm just happy someone finally analyzed it.
• 49:41
  Eric: I want to make I want to make like the longest YouTube video where it's the song turned down for what, but every time Lil John says uh another round of shots, it immediately plays all of shots by little John before going back to Turn Down for What?
• 49:58
  Matt: I'd be fascinated to learn how long that rendition, like time-wise, if you played an a whole round of shots each time he says that, how long this track would be?
• 50:09
  Matt: Oh.
• 50:10
  Matt: Oh man.
• 50:12
  Matt: Someone should figure that out.
• 50:13
  Matt: Someone tell me the answer.
• 50:14
  Matt: I don't know, like a few seconds after the closing music of this episode plays.
• 50:19
  Matt: Maybe it's the number will just appear.
• 50:22
  Matt: Yeah.
• 50:22
  Matt: Who can say?
• 50:24
  Matt: It'd be cool if someone could make that.
• 50:25
  Eric: That's how we'll know.
• 50:26
  Eric: Matt, that's my new official barometer for like what level of clout we have.
• 50:30
  Eric: If if we can ask a question on the show and then get like an answer within the next business day.
• 50:36
  Matt: Oh no, I yeah, I I was just saying it'd be it'd be great for the listener, even if you know we asked this question and then I don't know, say uh 10, 20 seconds after our closing music is over, the answer just appeared to them somehow.
• 50:50
  Matt: You know, that's all I'm saying.
• 50:51
  Matt: Who can say?
• 50:52
  Matt: Who can say?
• 50:53
  Matt: Who can say?
• 50:54
  Matt: Well, anyway, thank you for the question, Aaron, and the poem.
• 50:58
  Matt: And the poem.
• 50:59
  Matt: And like I said, Aaron stuck this qu this email full of questions.
• 51:08
  Matt: So we will be back to that.
• 51:09
  Matt: We'll be visiting that email again, no doubt.
• 51:12
  Matt: No doubt in my mind.
• 51:13
  Matt: Uh, but for right now, Eric, I think we should move on to some weird news.
• 51:17
  Matt: What do you think?
• 51:18
  Matt: Oh, I think we should.
• 51:20
  Matt: Now, Eric, um, I I don't want to sound expectant, but I feel like I know the source of your weird news.
• 51:31
  Eric: Matt, I want to take you and our listeners.
• 51:33
  Eric: You want to take us back?
• 51:35
  Eric: Back to I think back to a a simpler time.
• 51:39
  Eric: I realized for the longest time I was saying a better time.
• 51:43
  Eric: Yes.
• 51:43
  Eric: Oh, let's just stick to a simpler time.
• 51:46
  Matt: We I think we called that out the last time you took us to this uh clip, if you will.
• 51:51
  Eric: And Matt, I don't know how to say it.
• 51:53
  SPEAKER_02: I want to take you back for the last time.
• 51:57
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, I think it's about time we uh put on our boots.
• 52:02
  SPEAKER_02: We we get up on our on our horses, we ride off into the sunset with Canistota, South Dakota at our backs.
• 52:10
  unknown: Oh my god.
• 52:11
  Eric: So this is I never thought this day would come.
• 52:13
  Eric: So for the last time, I will I will bring you an excerpt from the Canistot Clipper of Canistoda, South Dakota.
• 52:20
  Eric: And I will be reading, as is tradition, from the tail light.
• 52:23
  Eric: That's the elementary school news.
• 52:26
  Eric: And for one last time, we hear from the second graders.
• 52:30
  Eric: And what year are we in now, Eric?
• 52:32
  Eric: Well, this is from 1964.
• 52:36
  Eric: So this is the last year they they did this before they re or at least in the archives, the next year is like 2008.
• 52:44
  Eric: Wow.
• 52:45
  Eric: So uh and again, what happened?
• 52:47
  Eric: What happened?
• 52:48
  Eric: We don't know.
• 52:48
  Eric: If you're from Canistot, South Dakota, please contact us.
• 52:51
  Eric: What happened?
• 52:52
  Eric: We have so many questions.
• 52:53
  Eric: All right.
• 52:54
  SPEAKER_06: From the second grade, Cheryl Ewart has brought us some beautiful peace roses and some other roses too.
• 53:03
  SPEAKER_06: Tommy McKillop bought a big bouquet of lavender mums.
• 53:09
  SPEAKER_06: In it was one pink snap dragon.
• 53:15
  SPEAKER_06: We have put up some of our Halloween pictures.
• 53:18
  SPEAKER_06: Our favorite is a jumpy skeleton who turns and jiggles.
• 53:23
  SPEAKER_06: We have made witch pictures using triangles.
• 53:28
  SPEAKER_06: They look pretty too.
• 53:32
  SPEAKER_06: We are studying Roman numbers, days of the week, Roman numbers of the year, and money in our arithmetic.
• 53:42
  SPEAKER_06: We have a new arithmetic workbook, quote, Modern Arithmetic Through Discovery by Morton.
• 53:53
  Eric: I didn't realize there was more to the name.
• 53:55
  Eric: Uh by Morton.
• 53:57
  SPEAKER_06: It uses many new ideas like number lines and pictures for problem solving.
• 54:04
  SPEAKER_06: Denise Ortman brought us a foliage plant slip.
• 54:08
  SPEAKER_06: It has many roots.
• 54:10
  SPEAKER_06: So we will plant it soon.
• 54:14
  SPEAKER_06: And with that, the sun sets.
• 54:18
  SPEAKER_05: We're not even going to third grade.
• 54:19
  SPEAKER_05: No, no, no, no, no, no.
• 54:21
  SPEAKER_05: I opened with these kids.
• 54:23
  SPEAKER_05: I'll close with these kids.
• 54:25
  SPEAKER_05: Oh my god.
• 54:26
  Eric: I it did read like the end of like a war memoir.
• 54:29
  Eric: Like the fucking it was so good.
• 54:31
  Matt: You Eric, I I I am so proud of the journey you took us on with the Castoda Clipper.
• 54:38
  Matt: And I I I don't know if I've expressed this on the show before, but it's always reminded me of something I did a number of years ago on Twitter.
• 54:47
  Matt: Uh, what underscore Shay said uh on Twitter.
• 54:50
  Matt: I would fire up an emulator of the original original game.
• 54:56
  Matt: Yep.
• 54:56
  Matt: And I would send out tweets as I played, tagging a number of friends, but always you.
• 55:03
  Matt: Always me.
• 55:05
  Eric: Not for long, but always me.
• 55:07
  Matt: As my companions.
• 55:08
  Matt: And I could go back and and find the but i I tweeted as if I was doing journal entries, and I did it as a live tweet of an emulator that no one would like this is my favorite use of Twitter ever.
• 55:20
  Matt: It was before like Twitch or any of this.
• 55:23
  Matt: So that I could have nowadays I could easily be streaming this, but instead, I was just putting these tweets from nowhere out of with screenshots.
• 55:31
  Matt: You should share them to our Instagram.
• 55:33
  Eric: I I think people, if they like if they're listening to this, they'll love the tweet, the Oregon Trail diaries.
• 55:41
  Matt: Yes, I will throw up some Oregon Trails uh in this week's uh photos from the episode for sure.
• 55:46
  Matt: So go check that out when they drop.
• 55:48
  Matt: Uh well, Eric, thank you for bringing us on this journey.
• 55:51
  SPEAKER_05: Yes, yes.
• 55:53
  Matt: Um, and you know, all good things, of course, must come to an end.
• 55:57
  Matt: Uh, but folks, listeners from Canister, South Dakota, if you know the mysteries of where the children went.
• 56:06
  Matt: What happened to your town?
• 56:08
  Eric: We would love to know.
• 56:10
  Eric: I could just look it up.
• 56:12
  Eric: I could probably just call someone who lives there.
• 56:15
  Eric: I'd prefer, yes, you could do some investigative journalism.
• 56:18
  Eric: Oh my god.
• 56:18
  Eric: I might actually reach out to like the fucking, I might see if I can get like, could we interview it if they have a mayor?
• 56:25
  Matt: That's a circle back follow-up following.
• 56:27
  Matt: I would love to have.
• 56:28
  Matt: Okay.
• 56:29
  Matt: Oh my god, if we get to interview the mayor.
• 56:30
  Matt: Wow.
• 56:31
  Matt: Oh my god.
• 56:31
  Matt: What a get what a git.
• 56:33
  Matt: What a git.
• 56:33
  Eric: For us and them.
• 56:35
  Matt: For us and them, quite frankly.
• 56:38
  Matt: Um, what uh I'm sure this is exactly what their um tourism bureau wants.
• 56:43
  Matt: Chamber of Commerce just frothing at the mouth over this one.
• 56:47
  Matt: Oh my god, you daft is calling.
• 56:49
  Matt: Oh.
• 56:50
  Matt: Uh the the dream the dream every be still my feed.
• 56:54
  Matt: The call everyone dreams of.
• 56:56
  Matt: Similarly, Eric, um, I would like to uh go on a journey uh as well today with my weird news story.
• 57:03
  Matt: And the journey is just in the headline, really.
• 57:06
  Matt: Okay.
• 57:07
  Matt: When I saw this headline, Eric, I knew I had to do it because every word builds upon the last.
• 57:13
  Eric: Okay.
• 57:14
  Eric: Okay.
• 57:14
  Matt: This is uh this is from AP, actually, so it doesn't get much more official than that.
• 57:19
  Matt: Advanced placement, hell yeah.
• 57:21
  Matt: Camel beauty contest rocked by Botox scandal.
• 57:26
  SPEAKER_06: Oh, Matthew.
• 57:27
  Eric: Matthew, Matthew, Matthew.
• 57:29
  Eric: Oh.
• 57:30
  SPEAKER_06: Um nom nom nom nom nom nom nom nom nom nom.
• 57:33
  Matt: Dubai.
• 57:34
  Matt: Saudi authorities have con I'm too winning.
• 57:43
  Matt: I know.
• 57:43
  Eric: And those just weren't the word.
• 57:45
  Eric: It's every every word of this so far is just, yup, they're involved.
• 57:51
  Matt: Saudi authorities have conducted their biggest ever crackdown on camel beauty contestants that have received Botox injections and other artificial touch-ups, the state-run Saudi press agency reported Wednesday, with over 40 camels disqualified from the annual pageant.
• 58:16
  Matt: Now, Eric, you might be asking what pageant that is.
• 58:19
  Matt: It is, of course, Saudi Arabia's popular King Abdul Aziz, I hope I'm saying that right, camel festival, which kicked off earlier this month and invites the breeders of the most beautiful camels to compete for some sixty-six million dollars in price.
• 58:45
  Matt: What Botox injections, facelifts, and other cosmetic alterations to make the camels more attractive.
• 58:56
  Eric: Please tell me hump implants are a thing.
• 59:00
  Matt: Are strictly prohibited.
• 59:02
  Matt: Jurors decide the winner based on the shape of the camel's heads, necks, humps, dress, and postures.
• 59:11
  Matt: Postures.
• 59:13
  Matt: Judges at the month-long festival.
• 59:17
  unknown: What the fuck?
• 59:18
  Matt: Are escalating their this says clamp down on artificially enhanced camels.
• 59:26
  SPEAKER_06: Oh, Jesus.
• 59:28
  Matt: The official news agency reported using quote specialized and advanced technology to detect tampering.
• 59:37
  Eric: They poked it with a stick.
• 59:38
  Eric: I don't know.
• 59:39
  Matt: It don't feel right.
• 59:40
  Matt: It could be this camel with the duck lips.
• 59:43
  Matt: Yeah.
• 59:44
  Matt: Uh this year, authorities have discovered dozens of breeders had stretched out the lips and noses of camels, used hormones to boost the beast's muscles, injected the camels' heads and lips with Botox to make them bigger, and inflated body parts with rubber bands and used fillers to relax their faces.
• 1:00:07
  Matt: Jesus Christ.
• 1:00:10
  Matt: This is horrifying, isn't it?
• 1:00:11
  Eric: This is horrifying.
• 1:00:13
  Eric: It started off goofy and then it just got horrifying.
• 1:00:17
  Eric: I hate this.
• 1:00:19
  Matt: The club is keen to halt all acts of tampering and deception in the beautification of camels, the SPA reported, adding that organizers would quote impose strict penalties on manipulators.
• 1:00:35
  Matt: Manipulators in this case meaning people who are physically torturing camels, I would assume.
• 1:00:41
  Eric: Yeah, see, this is why we can't have nice things.
• 1:00:44
  Eric: Because I'm sure when this started, like it was just, hey, bro, that's a pretty camel.
• 1:00:49
  Eric: You win.
• 1:00:49
  Matt: Here's a here's a ribbon.
• 1:00:50
  Matt: Camel breeding is a multimillion dollar industry, and similar events take place all across the region.
• 1:00:59
  Matt: Not just this one festival, but my God.
• 1:01:04
  Matt: I mean, is that not a horrifying tale?
• 1:01:07
  Eric: It's it speaks it speaks to the horrifying effects of the human brain on boredom.
• 1:01:16
  Matt: And uh in in this very podcast, we have previously talked about how just how fucking nasty the inside of a camel's mouth is.
• 1:01:24
  Eric: Like, I'll talk shit about camels all day.
• 1:01:26
  Eric: I don't want them to fucking get hurt.
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  Matt: But we never suggested you try to do something about the nastiness.
• 1:01:34
  Eric: Yeah, I feel like the overarching theme of our talks about camels up until now is just leave them the fuck alone.
• 1:01:42
  Eric: Just leave them the fuck alone.
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  SPEAKER_02: You know.
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  Matt: As I think the wise words of Dr.
• 1:01:49
  Matt: Ian Malcolm once went, your scientists were so preoccupied trying to figure out if they could.
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  SPEAKER_02: They didn't stop to ask if they should.
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  SPEAKER_02: And uh just to add on that, another uh uh line from from Dr.
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  Eric: Ian Malcolm.
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  Eric: Thank you, Eric.
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  Eric: I feel like we're we both contributed equally to that moment.
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  Eric: Thank you.
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  Eric: Yeah.
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  Eric: Thank you.
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  Eric: Thank you so much.
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  Eric: Yeah, I don't feel like Jeff Goldblum would stand for this.
• 1:02:32
  Eric: No.
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  Eric: Does he know?
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  Eric: Has he been informed?
• 1:02:35
  Matt: Uh uh no, Eric.
• 1:02:37
  Matt: I sorry, I'm just still taken back by your wisdom.
• 1:02:40
  Eric: Yeah.
• 1:02:41
  Matt: Um, which could probably also be summed up by yet another Dr.
• 1:02:44
  Matt: Ian Malcolm quote.
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  Matt: That's one big pile of shit.
• 1:02:51
  unknown: Yes.
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  Matt: All right.
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  Matt: So speaking of one big pile of shit, that's gonna do it.
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  Matt: That's the episode of You Didn't Ask for This, number 33.
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• 1:04:30
  Eric: I mean, we are just permanently in the top ten of the leisure.
• 1:04:34
  Eric: Yeah, I mean, even Amelia's excited about it because she she won't shut up while Daddy's recording a podcast.
• 1:04:42
  Matt: Amelia Bedelia, your cat.
• 1:04:44
  SPEAKER_02: Yes.
• 1:04:45
  SPEAKER_02: Amelia.
• 1:04:46
  Matt: I don't think you've ever told the listeners you have a cat named Amelia Bedelia.
• 1:04:49
  Eric: I have a cat named Amelia Bedelia, and she is a loud, loud, loud kid.
• 1:04:54
  Matt: She's fucking unprofessional, I'll tell you that.
• 1:04:57
  Matt: Well, she's a bit of a diva.
• 1:04:59
  Matt: I'll tell you what, I d she'll never work in this town again.
• 1:05:02
  unknown: Oh my god.
• 1:05:04
  SPEAKER_01: Matt blacklisted my cat.
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  Matt: All right, now that we're getting into our own animal shaming, I think it's about time to wrap this thing up.
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  Matt: For all of us here, you didn't ask for this.
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  Matt: My name is Matt Shea.
• 1:05:17
  Eric: My name is Eric Poach.
• 1:05:19
  Matt: And listen, you didn't ask.
• 1:05:21
  Eric: But let me hit you with this.
• 1:05:22
  Eric: Teenage mutant ninja camels?
• 1:05:29
  Matt: What how how would that even camels?
• 1:05:33
  Matt: How would Ninja camels?
• 1:05:38
  Matt: Okay, is your whole argument just the name?
• 1:05:41
  Matt: Is like what what what if?
• 1:05:44
  Matt: Okay, so okay, let me so they've what would be what would be the teenage mutant ninja camels' thing?
• 1:05:54
  Matt: What would they be fighting with?
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  Eric: They would be named they would be named after famous Canadian musical artists.
• 1:06:02
  Eric: So we'd have Celine.
• 1:06:05
  Eric: We'd have Canadian musical artists.
• 1:06:08
  Matt: Yes.
• 1:06:08
  Matt: For camels.
• 1:06:09
  Eric: Yeah.
• 1:06:09
  Eric: We did Italian Renaissance painters for turtle.
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  Eric: Like, I don't feel like people appreciate how fucking out on a limb so much of that mythos is.
• 1:06:19
  SPEAKER_03: What's the theme song?
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  SPEAKER_02: Teenage mutant ninja camels.
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  SPEAKER_02: Teenage mutant ninja camels.
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  SPEAKER_02: Don't go near 'em.
• 1:06:28
  SPEAKER_02: They'll spit on you.
• 1:06:30
  SPEAKER_02: Teenage mutant ninja camels.
• 1:06:33
  SPEAKER_02: Teenage ninja camels.
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  Matt: You went to turtles there at the end.
• 1:06:38
  Eric: I I I said Tamils.
• 1:06:40
  Eric: It was Tamils.
• 1:06:41
  Eric: It was it was kind of real so embarrassing.
• 1:06:43
  Eric: I kind of wanted to die a little bit.
• 1:06:45
  Eric: Do we need to redo this outro?
• 1:06:47
  Eric: No, I actually love this.
• 1:06:49
  Eric: Okay.
• 1:06:50
  Eric: It just is just slow.
• 1:06:52
  Eric: It's just like they're so like, well, we're just gonna let them stop.
• 1:07:13
  SPEAKER_03: Twenty-five minutes, forty-five seconds.
• 1:07:15
  Matt: Aren't you glad you stuck around?
• 1:07:17
  Matt: This is just like a Marvel movie.