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99. Touched by an Angel: Rock 'n' Roll Dad · Notable Nostalgia

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Two, three, four, God's Daddy. So you be here, but
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see you line, old baby. I'm Ali, I'm Andy, I'm Jeff,
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and I'm Ria. And this is notable nostalgia. It's so nice to
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see all these nostalgial nerds gather together, even if it's just for a short
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time. We're truly blessed to have Ali and Jeff here today. Today we're
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going to discuss the TV show that ran for nine seasons on CBS, Touched
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by an Angel. So before I did a little bit of research. I've
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never watched the show ever. So the little bit of research I did,
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it's nothing too great. So I want to hear everybody's background first on this
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show. Jeff, have you did you ever watch this growing up? Yes?
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I did, Thanks Sandy, Yes, yes, I did watch it
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growing up with my grandma Lolo. I couldn't say her name. It was
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Leah now, god, damn it was it. Who knows? I called
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her grandma love looks. I obviously can't remember anyone's name, And I mentioned
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her years ago on the podcast with the movie that movie, Yeah, that
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that traumatized me Fire in the Sky because she thought it was gonna be a
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Jesus y movie. But then she like doubled down. So Fire in the
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Sky is an alien abduction movie, super fucking terrifying. Don't watch it.
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It was bad, but yeah she doubled down, and that like really traumatized
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me as a child. But yeah, she was all about like touched by
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an angel, stairway to Heaven, all of those, and then the you
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know game shows to match with that. Sure, so no, we yeah
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we watched this and and then like ate her. You know, Grandma made
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food and then I would take a crap on her. She had the uh
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take a crap on her? No, no, no, because older people
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of a particular age have toilet seeds that are like incredibly soft. Yeah.
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Yeah, so she had like kind of a quilted like soft toilet seats.
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So I know it was gross and weird. But anyway, so yeah,
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I go back. I go back with this show so really quick about toilet
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seats. So I'm like super cheap, right, and a few years ago
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we needed toilet seats. I was like, you know what, I'm going
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to buy the most extensive toilet seat there is. I didn't know they made
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different sizes. So I brought it home and it was way too long for
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the toilet, Oh my god. Yeah, and then speak really quick sidebar,
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how did I talk you about this that I found somebody in my life
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that they can remain anonymous? Marissa, she sits backwards on the toilet seat.
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I've seen that in a cartoon before. She does that to proper phone
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real lot. Yeah, So I was to try it and I started to
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and I was like, I'm gonna poop all of the floor, So I'm
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not doing that. Touched my an angel. Yeah, allie, what about
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you? Did you ever watched this growing up? No? No, Ria
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did. And Ria made me watch one episode I think last year or the
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year before, and that's that's all I've ever watched of it. And was
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Ria like, she's all about this show, right, Like, I mean,
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it's not I don't know, like it's not like she I'm not.
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I don't know how to speak for her on the circumstance, but I don't
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think like she's nostalgic for it. Yeah, you know, it was just
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like one that she was allowed to watch. Gotcha. Oh yeah, so
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so do any of you know the Like I know we're talking more about it,
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but like the story of this show because it was very confusing. I
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was going back, Yeah, you don't understand the context of like what's happening.
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It's very confusing. Yeah, And I decided to watch it, so
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I didn't know anything. I didn't do any research about it before. I'm
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like, I'm just going in. So I was super confused watching I'm sure
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I want Yeah, when I was a kid, I was like coloring and
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stuff, while like, I'm sure I was busy and not under a stupid
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little kid. So I don't. I don't know. And I love Tessa
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is the angel's name, older lady, Yes, Like she just gives the
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vibe of like I'm gonna comfort you and I'm gona take care of you.
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And I was like, I want that to be my Angel of death.
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Yeah, she's not technically an angel of death. I don't think. Oh
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she's not. So it's not all the guy is Okay, So they have
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different different tasks that they do. Yeah, gotcha. Oh damn. I
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want to be the Angel of death. Then I want to be the angel
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like happy. It's it's a dumb concept. Yeah. Well. This show
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premiered in nineteen ninety four and it ran for four seasons, ending in two
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thousand and three. But the crazy thing is, actually this was canceled season
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one, but so many people wrote into CBS like Okay, let's try to
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let's try to keep it going, and it went on for another eight years.
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So yeah. Uh. They were nominated for a few Emmys for Best
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Actors, Supporting Actors and Main Actors. Doesn't look like they won any,
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but they did win a few NAACP Awards for Best Guest Actors with Lewis Gossip
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Junior and Rosa Parks Crazy Rosa Parks, I'd assume. So yeah, yeah,
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I saw the picture and she was old enough to be the Rosa Parks
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that we all know. You know. That's so that's as yeah for sure.
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Yeah hmm oh and then amongst the oh, and then Della Reese also
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won Best Actress, So I don't know how I'm with you. Yeah,
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it was like this genre of like Doctor Quinn, Medicine Woman, kind of
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like you know, kind of like pre Hallmark were like people that were like
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that could act ish. Do you know if it was like for like in
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a drama series Andy, do you know, like the category or like anything
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about like who they're up against for the Emmys. Most of it was drama,
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but I don't know, I don't know for if the NAACP does it
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like that, I have no idea. Oh well, an Emmy is completely
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separate from that. So well, that's what I'm saying. The Emmys,
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they didn't win anything, only they were nominated. They were nominated, correct,
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It was all for drama for either Supporting or Best Actors. Okay,
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for that anyways. Cool, Well, yeah, let's just jump in real
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quick. Yeah, Like, I don't it's not surprising that this is like
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a CBS series, you know what I'm saying. Like CBS traditionally has like
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more series that are dedicated to an older demographic. Oh sure, and and
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tend to just be like the most cookie cutter humor, you know, just
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like really really basic writing. That's and I think the only CBS series that
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I was ever like really enjoyed was Everybody Loves Raymond. And even then,
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Raymond is like, it's not it doesn't like do anything that's like exciting,
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like like a Fraser, like a seinfeld Er, you know, like it's
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just kind of still boring and it's like and it's in its topics and stuff,
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and so CBS to me, is just like a really low level intellect
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TV viewing. Yeah, while watching this, I'll go into a few parts
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where I kind of in front of the writers. But uh yeah, while
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watching this, I kind of felt like they they had people that didn't know
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the subject matter right about stuff obvious, you know what I mean, Right,
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Yeah, we don't know what rock and roll is. Put leather jacket
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on them, you know, and that, Yeah, that's rock and roll,
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you know, things like that. It's interesting. Uh, this is
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a fun episode to choose, I think, because you know, I've seen
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the only other episode I've seen. It was just like, okay, okay,
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so we got so with the Emmy's, they were nominally nominated for Lead
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Actress and then Supporting Actress in a Drama Series. And some of the other
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shows you know they were up against were X Files with Gillian Anderson she won
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that year, Chicago Hope Er two people were nominated there, and then for
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the other one supporting the same thing in r and YPD Blue three people for
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er on My word, that's just wild. Yeah, that's that's that's intense.
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That's wild though. That like this series is like considered on the level
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of the ones that you just listed. Yeah, yeah, I wonder if
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they have a certain number they have to hit and they go I try that
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to touch by an angel one. You know. I don't know how any
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of that stuff works, but it sounds like if they were canceled then there
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was like a like a whip or like a backlash that the people that vote
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are pretty colty. Who votes for Emmy? Is that like viewers? I'm
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pretty sure it's like a just people who work, like like the Oscars have
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like a committee kind of thing. I'm pretty sure it's the same thing.
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Gotcha. I didn't know that Emmys and the Oscars were different until Oh I
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knew they were different, but I thought they were both like movies or something
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until we started this podcast, which is crazy. I like the way that
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Emmys look better. Yeah, Emmy has the wings, right, the wings
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and then that globe or whatever. I just think it looks more, you
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know, prestige. Yeah, there we go. So we start the show
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in a cemetery with an older black lady and a younger white lady. Based
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on the cover of the art of the show, I think they are the
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Angels. They are walking around the cemetery and have a good conversation about loss
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and grieving. She did make some great points about the grieving process and the
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two acting they're fine, Like, I don't think it's an anything wrong with
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him, you know, it's fine as of right now. And then I
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put, oh, no, is this gonna be another Seventh Heaven to where
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I thought it was gonna be really really bad, But it was actually pretty
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good overall. So then we hear some rock and roll music and we see
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a dude dressed like a Wish version of bon Jovi singing a song and the
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very first line is God is dead. God is Dead. And I loved
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it so much because I was I couldn't be anymore against what this show's about.
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It caught me off guard. I was laughing so hard. I did
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too. I even put lol in my notes. And then ha ha ha
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at the end of the notes. And now we see another man dancing.
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Look at those moves, and I wonder if these moves in the nineties were
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considered super badass, because now they look very tame, just like that quote
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unquote rock and roll. This other guy is apparently death and it is one
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of the rock stars biggest fans. Seems a little odd the older lady does
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not like this music, and we end the intro with Death being sad because
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he thinks he's gonna have to kill someone here, I guess. But right
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now, in twenty twenty four, there's about one hundred and twenty seven people
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that die every single minute, which means there has to be multiple deaths out
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there. This guy has been here already for like a minute, which means
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if they if they can kill one person a minute, that has to be
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over one hundred and twenty seven grim reapers out there. And that does sound
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like a badass idea for a comic book. So patent pending, patent pending,
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anybody listening, but we possibly get the worst intro song of all time.
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The voice is horrible. Instead of walking with me, I'd rather have
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you talk with me. Just don't sing any longer. Please? Can I
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get an amen? He I will arrive and I will please you Sian sign.
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Yeah. Based on that, like how they're portraying this like rock star
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guy, I'm from on like a cheesy level. I am interested in this
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moment, in this moment, yeah, I thought the rock star is gonna
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die and like that's I was like, oh that's why death's here. Yeah,
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I like he's like someone Yeah, for sure. I did think she
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was making some good points though about the whole grieving process when she's like the
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people it's something that you have to get over and not hold on to.
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But people hold onto the grief process because it feels like they're letting go of
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a love. When I was like, holy shit, that's pretty fucking heavy,
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though, I was like, yeah's all right, Yeah, I get
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what they have to do there, you know, like for the audience,
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But like, why do these angels like need to talk about this like they're
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they're holy beans, like they they know this subject matter? Like why this
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is what they have conversations about, and you know, like it's just yeah,
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true time at the same rate we are. Do they not know the
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future? If so, they don't seem very majestic, you know, being
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it doesn't seem to me like there they've been angels from from the beginning,
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That's what I'm saying. I don't unders like the younger one, who's not
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super young, you know, just be honest, So she doesn't seem like
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she's as as old of an angel as the older one, Like she she's
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still kind of learning. It's so weird. Yeah, So it's like she
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knew angel like and training, and it's not clear like in this in this
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like intro and I and I forgot like how when I watched the first episode,
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like what like can people see them? Are they invisible? Are you
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know? So it's it's a little vague in this moment if you're like still
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new or brand new to this. Yeah, I about halfway through. That's
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kind of when I was realizing some stuff. But when I first saw the
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other guy dancing Andrew his name is gonna be revealed later, I was like,
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Oh, maybe he's a producer, maybe he's gonna die. I didn't
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know that that he's also an angel and they've got to be invisible because how
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the camera was set up. Yeah, get these brads out of here.
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But yeah, no, I'm kind of excited as of right now. My
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notes, I'm like, I think it's gonna be like another Seventh Heavens where
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I thought it was gonna be super bad. But I'm having a lot of
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fun. So we are back now. We see a mansion on a blustery
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day and a table filled with pictures of Sally Fields. When she played the
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mom in Missus doubtfire because every picture looks just like her. Whoa, we
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have that Andrew death God watching a couple in bed. Oh, the woman
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in bed seems to be Miss America, and she says he And then she
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says, the guy in bed is the sexist man alive. So I wonder
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if they met on the modeling circuit. Just when the scene is getting boring,
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he hits us with this classic the man in bed. He wants to
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stay in bed all day, and the lady says, what about the kids.
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And he says, okay, get this, the kids can stay in
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bed too, and she laughs and laughs and laughs. On Saturdays, we
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should just stay in bed all day. Oh yeah, what about the kids.
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The kids can stay in bed all day too. We'll call him on
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the phone. But anyway, but anywhere the man. Oh, but anyway.
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The man gets out of bed and we discover he sleeps in full jeans,
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like tight blue ass jeans, which is fucking crazy to me. The
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woman demands he gets back in bed so they can play. I can only
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assume the grim Reaper, the grim Reaper is still in there, and why
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doesn't God give him an itinerary or at least tell him who he's going to
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be killing. This is not an efficient way to run a business. The
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doorbell rings, and a kid with a mola answers, God. I hope
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the kid is the one that needs to go. Oh God. The older
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lady from the beginning is at the door. Her and the little kid have
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a cue back and forth, and she tells him she is his new nanny.
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I am your new nanny. I didn't have an old nanny. Well
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you got a new one. Now let me talk to your mother. I'm
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sorry if you're making a delivery to this. Her back off, which made
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me laugh out loud. Well, I wasn't like a crazy laugh with like
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a chuckle. How was it that crazy kid? This is what I said.
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Man, This lady seems really uptight and angry. After that, little
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boy shuts the door. Her friend is lightly laughing and the older lady threatens
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her. But I believe they are both angels question Mark. But wait,
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humans can see them? Are these two not angels? Why could they see
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the groom reaper? Hmm, I don't know what's happening as of right now.
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Okay, we were back in the bedroom where they were making out,
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and although we don't see the groom reaper. He is probably watching them while
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choking himself. There's a knock on the door and it's their teenage daughter.
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Their A teenage daughter asks her mom if she can see love this band name
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Zombie Charlie and the Erasables. I was like, all right, that's cool
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name. And then after that they want to stay at her friend's brother's dorm
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and the mom says, no way, Jose And as they are arguing,
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the dad walks back in, now wearing a small robe covering his top half,
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but he still has on the jeans. The parents have a small argument
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about the lyrics, which you're has followed. Am I hearing this? You
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hate my music? Are you telling me you hate my music? I've always
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loved your music. It's just your lyrics lately, what about them? God
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is dead, Hope has died. You said you loved me, but you
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lied. So it's nineties, it's despair, it's it's it's a rebellion song,
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you know, gives kids permission not to listen to their parents. What
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Yeah, but John, we want our kids to listen to their parents.
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Heavy It's just a song. Yeah, but songs get stuck in your head,
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John, and I don't want God is dead, Hope has died stuck
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in our kids' heads. Uh huh, okay, fine, well I'm doing
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what I can. You think you can do better? Be my guest.
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All right, you will good. Maybe it's time you started making some of
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the money around here. You're sure good at spending us. Yeah, like
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the way I spent five bucks a week and kept us eating so you could
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spend twenty on guitar strings. So nowadays guitar strings are about eight bucks a
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pack. So let's say you bought a three pack for twenty bucks in the
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nineties, that same pack would have cost about five to seven bucks. So
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that means this motherfucker is going through nine strings, nine packs of strings a
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week. Something's not adding up here. I don't think he knows how to
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play. The little boy enters the bedroom now and it turns out the mom
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did get a nanny but didn't tell anybody, and they are all at the
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table eating breakfast. The guy in the bed leaves for a concert, and
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in the back of a limo he calls his wife speeper and says, cfg
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the driver that is possibly take out six to pitch my wife. The message
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is c f G John, Yeah, thanks, excuse me? Yeah,
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what does CFG you mean? Oh, it's the perfect chord progression in a
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classic rock too. It's our private shorthand for I love you. You can
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never go wrong saying that. I mean, it's a fine, it's fine,
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but that just means every rock song would use the same chord progression,
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the perfect like nobody knew. Yeah, And he said it like a secret,
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like okay, yeah, But then it turns out it's a code for
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his wife to say that he loves her. The next scene is the mom
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talking on her cell phone while driving, and we get a long ass shot
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close up of her face. She is taking it, she's making multiple calls,
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there's no cuts. It's on her face for like a minute or two,
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and then she starts singing Okay. The scene ends. We are now
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in the TV studio and the dad is waiting for his wife but gets called
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to do the interview. The one minute TV segment was all about how much
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he loved his wife. Glad they had that scene because I almost forgot he
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loved her. I mean, with all the loving bed scenes and the CFG.
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Cody told us about one minute before this interview. Okay, we get
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it. He loves her. Oh no, she died asked she's chum.
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Damn. I wish that little kid with the mullet bit the bullet dam I
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love that one. But when John finds out his wife died, I can
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only imagine that's the same face the very first cave man made when they discovered
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fire er. Okay, we've done a lot, so we're at the point
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where this woman's dead. Now, yeah, I'm about to do the first
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Okay, wow er fire hot wife dead er sad because he looks like a
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caveman y sexiest man alive right now the commercial break. I love that you
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did the you leaned your body into so good. Yeah, there's so much
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going on in this, Like, Okay, I'll just pull my notes really
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quick. I find it, like yeah, so first, I'm like,
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so the angel Death is just a voyeur like weird sexiest man alive question mark.
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Okay, band named Zombie Charlie and the Erasables. And then it sounds
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like the writers have never heard of rock music, but like zombies are kind
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of scary a little yeah, and that sounds like a punk band or like
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like even like a rockabilly band. Yeah, sure, and then I just
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find it so hard to believe, like this guy is a rock star who
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sings God is Dead, but like their family is like strict and wholesome.
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I'm just like what I think, Like we get like they kind of like
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justified a little later in this episode, but I'm just like, I'm not
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buying this ship. There's too many contradictions right now. Yeah, this this
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whole episode just kind of filled with them. It's crazy. Also, there's
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this scene where so, like the Scottish angel is is like the limo driver,
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right, and but then like is like in the house like working,
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you know, and she like makes coffee and she she says, I love
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coffee, Like no one has had coffee before, Like she's the only person
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to have ever had coffee and is introducing them to this substance. I made
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some coffee. I hope you don't mind. I love coffee. It's just
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so it's just funny to me. I don't know. So anyways, well,
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then how long did she have to work with the family, So the
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whole time she knew that there's you know what I mean, Like, so
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if these are the angels and the family, knows them well enough to like
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invite to the house, have a full conversation not feel awkward. Let's say
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they worked for two or three weeks, so what the what the fuck are
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they doing there for two or three weeks before somebody was like that's crazy.
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Why this whole scene feels like less than twenty four hours? Y, Yeah,
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I don't understand, like unless they're doing like some kind of like witchcraft
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where they like make it because like why would they hire a nanny but they
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didn't do any reference checks on her or anything, and like does the driver,
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like the limo driver have a license? It says Angel has a license,
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Like like, I don't mean, let's start doing the like their wizardry
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on it. That's the only thing I can imagine. And then the opening
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scene when they're like in bed and stuff like I don't know about you,
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but like I am not that alert and when I wake up in the morning,
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you have to go bathroom. But here's the thing that I was thinking
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about. So back in the nineties when this came out, when there was
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like regular cable or whatever, your program started at you know, seven pm,
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but the program before you know ended pretty much at seven pm. And
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you had to use the restroom, grab a snack. Grabbed it. If
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you missed the first five minutes of this episode, they give so much info
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away. Fucked. Yeah, that's what I was thinking, Like, we're
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so lucky to live in like the streaming era where we can just like,
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oh, I wasn't pintertin, I'll rewind this. Yeah, that's what I
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was thinking about that. And then I did, like the when the quote
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sexiest man a life kind of thing, when he did make reference to like
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it's the nyeties or whatever he said about like the genre of Yeah, I
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was like, that's kind of self aware of him, I suppose, but
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yeah, I don't know. It was a lot to handle. And then
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the daughter that another thing that set me into orbit. Don't be walking in
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your parents room in the morning when they're clearly there's noises going on. Yeah,
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like she seemed to based on her reaction. She just seemed very aware
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that they could be fucking yeah you know, and luckily they were fucking like
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underneath the blankets. But most people, like I get really hot, I
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can't do that. Yeah. But and then this this girl is in college
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right, oh is she said, I wasn't really sure howl. Yeah,
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maybe not. Maybe maybe she's in high school, because like later there she's
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like the we're meeting college. Oh yeah, okay, yeah. I was
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like a little confused there in that moment. I was like, wait,
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is she in college? Like she should be old enough to do whatever the
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fuck she wants. But yeah, maybe she is in high school. But
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it still is like on that line of just like this guy, like I'd
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imagine like this mom character has no support when like the father is singing like
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lyrics like God is dead, like what That's just like the ultimate out for
25:17
any kid to act out in any possible way, you know, like well
25:21
dad gets to do this and that. You know, like what, why
25:22
are we holding these these standards in this household? It's so silly? Yeah
25:27
yeah, yeah, no, this will uh yeah no, I uh there's
25:32
a lot of info going on. I did. I do like the older
25:34
angel, I you know, I do like her as a character. Is
25:40
it tech could be I don't know who should look at it. I think
25:44
it is she. I thought she was the same person who's sang Fox and
25:48
the Hound like that she was the owl, but I googled it. So
25:52
this is a kind of pointless fact because it's not her. But that's the
25:56
second time I mentioned Fox in the Hound recently because I have a This is
26:00
a boring story, as I prepare yourself. But I had this mail carrier
26:03
for like five years and I thought his name was John or Jonathan, that's
26:07
what I've been calling him, and found out about a week ago his name
26:10
is Todd. And I was like, there's no way your name is Todd.
26:15
So I had him get out of his ID and show me, and
26:15
it's Todd. That's funny, you like got caught, and you just kept
26:19
pushing into the well. I thought he was fucking with me. He said,
26:23
why has he not corrected me in five years? Because I feel like
26:26
I should know my letter carrier person's name, and so then now I'm connecting
26:32
it to Fox and the Hound because he's not going to be Copper, so
26:33
he'll be Todd. No, I got this. I don't correct anybody with
26:37
I get people called They called me Randy so much like I don't get a
26:42
pick. I never picked my name. I could give two fucks less about
26:45
it, Like call me whatever. It doesn't affect me in anyway. I've
26:48
been calling him Jonathan and Johnny and Johnny Boy, and like every time he
26:52
walks by and like picks up the mail, I'm always like heye liked you,
26:56
like the little air gun thing, And he's never said anything like finally
27:00
snapped. He's like, my name's fucking Todd. If there's anything like listeners
27:04
like you could learn learn from trans people. You can just change your name
27:12
whenever you want. You don't have to be like fucking Tyler. You know,
27:17
like, yeah, you can have whatever name you want, like Tyler.
27:22
Yeah, you know, like you can pick whatever name you want and
27:26
you don't have to be trans to do it. Just just within reason though,
27:30
Could I be like Rex, Yeah, you can be any name.
27:33
Yeah, I'm doing I'm so done with being in the box of Jeff remember
27:38
ten years ago? Yeah, Jeff sting. I just want to I feel
27:45
like you should. My name is what's helped me back. You should legally
27:48
change your name to Jeff jaff Yeah. Yeah, so that'd be amazing.
27:56
It would be Jeff listen to get back on track. I was I was
28:03
not paying attention as well. How did she die? Car? A car
28:07
accident? Okay, thank you. I thought it was gonna be the car
28:10
behind scratch. I thought she was what her no scratches, Her body is
28:15
an impacted, like, is not damaged at all? Oh yeah yeah with
28:18
that when yeah, they pulled the curtain and she's just normal. Yeah for
28:22
sure, hundred It must have just been unless maybe the capitated head. They're
28:32
like, I hope he doesn't notice. But uh so they make that scene
28:36
with the with the car behind her while she's driving. I thought like she
28:38
was gonna get kidnapped or I thought they were going to run her off the
28:41
road. Later on, the guy goes, hey, it's kind of a
28:42
sketchy road here, to be careful, okay, even and she kept looking
28:45
back the mirror and stuff. We come back from commercial break and John has
28:49
to identify the body. The coroner says, sorry, we have to meet
28:52
this way, and John asked where he's from. He says New Jersey,
28:56
and John says good crowds there, something along those lines. Sorry to have
29:00
to meet you under these circumstances, mister Damas, but there were no personal
29:04
effects recovered too. I'm sorry to have to put you through this. Were
29:08
you from New Jersey? It's a beautiful state. I got great audiance,
29:12
is there? They showed you on the body, and this part actually made
29:15
me tear up a little bit. But as he was talking to Evy or
29:19
Heavy, all I could think was, er, wake up, Krung No,
29:25
won't be alone. Yeah. At the funeral, death is still hanging
29:30
around for some reason. What a perv. He's like, I can't even
29:33
get hard until I see the body under the ground. I love that.
29:41
We were back at the house and the mullet kid is sitting on a pool
29:45
table when the younger lady maybe Angel comes up and they have a conversation about
29:49
losing his mom and maybe to write a letter to Heaven using his heart.
29:53
The little boy says, that's the dumbest thing I ever heard, and the
29:56
lady fucking snaps. She goes, fine, figure the shit on your own.
30:00
I'm gonna be your new mommy. And when I am, we're shipping
30:02
near ass to boarding school. John the dad in bed earlier, which I
30:06
figured his name out now, so it's not just the guy anymore. But
30:08
John wants to get back to the studio, but his producer advises him against
30:11
it, but they go anyway. John is only writing the same lyrics over
30:15
and over again. God is dead, Hope has died it just in different
30:19
variations, and now he's also pounding some bruce keys. We're back at the
30:25
house. The teenage daughter is going through her mom's things and puts on a
30:27
necklace. She starts sobbing while looking at a picture of her mom. John
30:32
comes home, drunks, rips the necklace off his daughter, and the scene
30:34
escalates really quick, with both of them blaming the other for their moms or
30:38
for the mom's early demise. She runs off, and when she does,
30:42
he yells, get out of here and never come back in this room.
30:45
The writers at this moment were probably like, hey, guys, let's use
30:48
this necklace as a metaphor for his life. John falls to his knees and
30:52
says, I need help. I can't pick up the pieces, referring to
30:56
the shattered necklace if but that's only to the untrained eye. If you really
31:00
think about it, it could also mean his life. Yeah. So you
31:03
know, after they wrote that, the writers were like, all right,
31:06
to go home. Yeah, They're like, we fucking did that, and
31:08
we get another commercial break. Okay, So that writing choice just a weird
31:18
choice to be like, you're meeting the doctors about to like show you your
31:21
wife's dead body, and you're like, where are you from? Yeah?
31:25
Right, and then like I I what I'm what I'm. What I think
31:29
they're conveying is like he's uncomfortable and he doesn't you know. But it's just
31:33
such a strange interaction and choice. Yeah, it would have made more sense
31:38
if he didn't say anything. And then like we get the idea that,
31:41
okay, he's a rock star, so he should be really good with people,
31:45
but like, yeah, no, I thought the same thing in any
31:48
capacity either, you know, okay, and then did let me look at
31:55
my notes real quick? Oh my god? Okay, did you kind of
31:57
like glance over the scene where the old like Tessa, the older angel is
32:04
talking to the young boy or did you mention it? Uh? I think
32:07
that's what are you talking about. Later on he's like sitting on the pool
32:10
he's like sitting on the pool table. Oh yeah, but I thought that
32:14
was the younger slightly younger. Yeah, the angel was talking. Oh you're
32:17
right, you're right, right, you're right. Did you kind of glance
32:20
over that scene? Just I made a joke that she said she's going to
32:23
be his new mommy. Yeah he does. When she says you can write
32:27
a letter to heaven m hm, and he goes, can't say a letter
32:31
to heaven? Sure you can. You don't even need paper. You could
32:37
write it with your hearts, the dumbest. Oh my god, that was
32:45
so funny. It was yeah, yeah, I wish break Yeah yeah.
32:52
Shrink always said that to me, like not about God, uh like insane,
32:57
but about like if you you are pissed off as somebody, write,
33:00
write a letter like fuck you won't whatever. That doesn't do enough for me.
33:06
So that's not because I just want to mail it now, Like,
33:08
so that doesn't work. They're gonna have to go to the post side.
33:10
I have to get stamps. It's a whole big deal. It was a
33:13
sweet scene. Like if I was like a Jesus person, then I'd be
33:15
like, oh, this is like that's sweet. You know. Yeah.
33:17
When I was about twenty twenty one, I started kind of writing in a
33:22
journal and just doing that alone makes you feel so much better. I think
33:24
it's just because you let something out, you know. And so yeah,
33:28
I'm pro writing shit down, you know, if you're mad at someone or
33:30
just in general, because I think it's a good way to get stuff out.
33:32
So no, I thought it was great saying, and they do tap
33:35
like do I hear some of the stuff that they're saying? And I'm like,
33:37
okay, like I've heard that before, Like later on when the when
33:42
the guy is saying like or the sexiest man Livery is saying, uh,
33:46
talking about how anger is more it's easier to be angry than sad, or
33:51
he won't stop crying or whenever. I'm like, I totally get that.
33:53
Yeah, like whenever I have like back pain or whatever, I'm like,
33:55
it's so much easier to lean into being pissed off then feel defeated or to
34:01
cry or feel quote weak. So I was like they really touched on.
34:06
No, they did say is I think that first? See when she was
34:07
talking about like how people have to work through the grievance because after my mom
34:12
died, I would like hold on to so much of her shit, like
34:15
because I'm like one of my earliest actually my main memory of my mom is
34:17
her reading and eating sunflower seeds. So for like ten years after she passed
34:22
away, I kept all her books. I think it's because like that's away.
34:25
But then I was like, what the fuck am I doing? Like
34:28
this? You know, I'm not gonna it doesn't the book isn't gonna make
34:31
me. I don't know how to explain it, but I was like,
34:34
oh, I can get rid of these books. I can still remember my
34:36
mom. So when she said that grievance thing, I was like, oh,
34:37
fuck, I wish I would have watched this. Maybe, you know,
34:40
like two years after you passed, I could have stopped lugging all that
34:43
shit around. But yeah, no, I thought they said a few really
34:45
good points during this episode overall. And then I'm not luckily I've not been
34:49
in a medical examiner's thingy before, but like the guy just sees his his
34:53
wife that just passed away and has to identify her because she doesn't have any
34:57
wallet on her or whatever. He reveals the wife and then he's like,
35:00
okay, you can go now, Like whoa, Like that's that just seemed
35:05
like a little bit of broad Yeah, I was like, oh no,
35:07
no, well, yeah, I guess because what if that wasn't her husband.
35:12
Yeah, he didn't really see an identification either. Just some creep comes
35:15
in and this might be tasteless, but if I ever passed away without my
35:20
ide on me, I'm nominating you to be the identifier. Okay, I
35:23
like it. Okay, anyway, that scene where the dad and the daughter
35:36
are arguing, Yeah, neither of these people can act. Yeah, it's
35:42
bad, and I have a theory as like the why they've been chosen for
35:45
this late you know, but like, uh, really terrible acting overall.
35:53
Also, I'm just like getting Jack Frost energy from this episode. I don't
35:58
know if you all are getting that too, but JF musician disappointing family,
36:06
Like maybe he just needs to become a snowman, you know. Yeah.
36:10
I was like, so this is like kind of like an anthology kind of
36:15
show, Like it has the same like angels for most episodes, I'm assuming,
36:21
but the but there's no other characters that return. So this movie or
36:25
show is called touched by an Angel. It's not the best. So people
36:29
that are just up for a role a week for one spot, like they're
36:32
not going to be top tier actors, no, for sure. Like it's
36:36
like it's very like on the level of like Walker Texas Ranger. Yeah,
36:39
you know, which, we need to do an episode. I've never seen
36:42
a whole episodes. Definitely have to. I can't believe I haven't. That's
36:44
done. Yeah, for sure, you know, I'm gonna do a quick
36:46
sidebar stegment. It's not really segment, but if we did a retro reboot,
36:50
I just cast the three of us as the angels. Oh yeah,
36:53
I think we kill it. Like I would be probably the Angel of Death.
37:00
You'd be the the older one, the slightly slightly younger one, and
37:05
then Alan of course would be the more elder of the group. Okay,
37:13
we would kill it. Oh, we're out. Is There's not really a
37:19
fourth angel, is there is? This is the only episode I've seen.
37:22
She could be God. Yeah, she could be God. Yeah, you
37:25
can just be God because they talk about God is God. Or we could
37:29
do like a Becky from Roseanne thing and Tesla can be swapped every other week.
37:34
Okay, it's a good idea. Yeah done. There is somebody that
37:40
was the director of photography in this and their name is Bob Seaman. Nah.
37:45
Yeah. We come back from commercial and the little boy is talking to
37:50
the older lady about writing to God. She says, if you're write to
37:52
God, you keep your mom safe in the in your heart, and then
37:55
the little boy says he wishes he could keep her safe in his house.
38:00
Fuck almost lost it again. I started tearing up so much when he said
38:02
that, I was like, goddamn it, I almost did it again,
38:07
and I even put and damn Andy is tearing up again. The lady says
38:09
everything is gonna be okay, and then instant cut to guitar being smashed.
38:13
I fucking love those cuts. Don't worry, It's gonna be just fine.
38:15
Smashed. John is throwing a fit, and no one really seems to give
38:22
a shit at all. The producer tells the angel Angel, because I'm not
38:25
sure still if they're angels, that he used to act like this a long
38:29
time ago. Now he's drinking hard alcohol. He asked his uh limo driver,
38:35
I guess for more bourbon, and then he whips the bottle at the
38:38
glass that separates the mixing board and the actual instruments. Happened. It's on
38:45
my back. Nobody's telling me. Nobody seems not a sin. It is
38:49
my life. We're gonna stay here until we get it right. Does he
38:55
do this often? None? Yus. It's like the old old days before
39:01
Evan. All right, one more time from the top, Monica. We
39:08
need some more bourbon in here. John, Don't you think you've had enough?
39:15
No? I haven't had enough. That's it. I'm out of here,
39:19
packing up guys. John then fires his helper and demand she leaves the
39:24
keys. She said, he is too drunk and demands the keys. Oh
39:30
and then he demands the keys. I guess her angel. I guess her
39:32
angel powers are bending small pieces of metal because the keys are normal. She
39:38
closes her hand and when she opens them up, the keys are slightly bent.
39:42
She didn't have to use her powers for that. She didn't at all.
39:46
Or he can just bend them back. It's not hard to bend it
39:51
back. At the house, the teenage daughter is going out at ten pm,
39:53
and then nanny tried to make her stay, but she leaves. Anyways,
39:57
she gets picked up by her friend and they end up at a hotel
40:00
to hang out with some college boys before the concert. It appears she was
40:04
roofied and calls her dad. She then tells her friend, I think they
40:07
put something in my drink, and her friend goes, well, let's go
40:09
see what it was. Oh, that's a bad friend. And I'm pretty
40:14
sure the friend is it almost maybe I don't know, Yeah, because that's
40:16
rude, Yeah for sure, because like why would the friend be like let's
40:21
go back in. Yeah, fully, um encouraging like, nothing's wrong.
40:29
He didn't mean it. Come back inside. Oh, I'm going home?
40:37
Does the matter with making out a little? He likes you. I don't
40:39
want to do this. You don't have to just come back inside. Almost
40:45
drinks like a probly see, let's go ask Do they have an invention for
40:52
people to take to like if they get roofeed for them and not to affect
40:57
them. I don't know, but I think California just pass something to where
41:00
bars have to have drink testers. Now that's a good idea. That's a
41:04
great idea, right, yeah. Uh So, The teenage daughter leaves a
41:07
message using a payphone to her dad saying she needs help, but he's too
41:13
coked out in the studio and not able to read the message. He does
41:15
a line of coke and then instantly falls asleep, because that's what cocaine does
41:19
to you. His daughter wakes up in the phone booth and walks home.
41:22
Hopefully, hopefully she does something smart and hitchhikes in the middle of the night.
41:27
Yeah, oh good, she does. And the first thing she says
41:30
to the truck drivers, I'm roofed in my head spinning, you look like
41:36
you need a ride, miss you all right, kind of I think,
41:44
sell my dream. I'm really dizzy. Really that got me panicky. And
41:54
then yeah, I was like, oh no, he's gonna fucking assault on
42:00
hers. Yeah, and I yep, yes, yeah, like he's he's
42:10
It was like how that was acted out, you know, mm hmm.
42:15
And the truck driver seems like he is going to assault her, but then
42:19
is nice question mark, very weird acting. Uh. They end up at
42:23
the same place at her mom died, and when she finds out, she
42:25
demands to be let out and falls down a hill. The perfect grim reaper
42:30
is there crouching like a ben died. He's wrapper and now we're a commercial
42:34
break. That was a lot, Yeah, it's every scene is really intense
42:39
right now. They really wrapped us up to the cocaine dad, the throwing
42:45
bottles, the multiple times, or she might get sexually assaulted like this sin
42:51
you know, yeah he's bending. Yeah what a weird like delivery line for
42:59
that truck. And then like he's just like a good guy, like but
43:05
you wouldn't take her to like the hospital or you know, or at least
43:10
he's like not he's doing nothing to be like reassuring her that she's gonna be
43:15
okay either, He's just like she's along for the ride. How much?
43:21
Like I know, we haven't really watched it. I only watched it on
43:22
kid. You know, how much do the Angels supposed to get involved?
43:27
That's why I don't understand from the beginning, how long have they been working
43:29
with this family? And later on we'll kind of talk about a little bit,
43:34
but the the older Angels like you're not supposed to tell him to like,
43:39
you're not supposed to help him. I'm gonna keep her warm to fucking
43:43
just do that from the beginning, or don't let her go? Fuck,
43:45
I don't like, I don't get it. It's like like, oh,
43:46
there's ten minutes left where Angels. Yeah, Like that's how that's the vibe
43:51
of the show. But really it really does just feel like though that like
43:53
each episode is a different set of people that they're helping, So like are
44:00
they just transported to this new city? Like do they angel fly there?
44:05
Like what? How? Like I don't I don't know enough to be like
44:09
oh yeah, like God tells them where to be next or like you know,
44:13
they they get their spider sense and then that's where they go next,
44:16
you know, like, yeah, it's just interesting, Like they have like
44:20
a schedule. Oh yeah, I want I want to know more about that
44:23
too, like the scheduling, the time off, travel expenses, and where
44:28
do they sleep? Yeah, where do they get their clothes out? Yeah?
44:30
Exactly? How did you learn how to drive? Yeah? And I
44:32
kind of want my angels to have wings in a halo, like in a
44:35
harp. Like that's kind of the angels that I want. We're the borderline
44:39
cupids. I don't know cupids or angels, but like that that's my vibe.
44:43
So's a lot. There's a really funny line that I wrote down.
44:52
So like when he's starting to like drink and like he's trying to like do
44:57
new songs, he goes, my music is too dark. Yeah, yeah
45:06
for sure. He's like I'm the only one doing music, but he's just
45:08
been whipping bottles of smashing guitars. Oh my god, my music is too
45:14
dark. Oh I know. I was gonna say, Okay, So the
45:16
writing for this whole show seems like the writers are like, Okay, let's
45:22
hint at something, so the viewer keeps guessing because like when you first see
45:27
the grim Reaper there, John like jumps into the grave and I'm like,
45:30
Oh, he's gonna that's that he died there. Okay, now now we
45:34
have to figure out his family or something, right, Nope, didn't die
45:36
there. And then when the mom was driving before she died, that car
45:40
was behind her and I'm like, Oh, something bad's gonna happen with the
45:43
other car. Nope, she's gotten a car accident. Then the teenage daughter,
45:46
Oh, she's gonna get sexually assaulted in the hotel room. Nope.
45:50
Nothing. Okay, it's gonna be the truck driver. Nope. Nothing.
45:52
So it's just they keep adding these little things to like I think to like,
45:55
oh this Nope, not okay. Well it's just I don't know.
45:59
It's fucking weird. Are you gonna wear? Is there any Is there any
46:04
reality where either of you are going to rewatch this episode? I don't think
46:08
so, because I sure I feel like I'm pretty got this pretty much down.
46:15
So this is there. The Angel of Death character, how he like
46:22
talks throughout the episode is normal. And then in this scene where he's like
46:25
arguing with Tess, he's like speaking in her tone and cadence and it feels
46:35
pretty racist. I don't know if you noticed that or not, but like
46:39
how she's talking, how she's talked throughout the whole episode, right, and
46:44
it sounds like he's trying to sound like her and like give her attitude back,
46:47
and but it's not great. Well, if you're going to stand around
46:52
and do nothing, I'm going to proceed as if you weren't here. Okay,
46:57
okay, now, who's crossing the line. What happened to free you
46:59
will? There's nothing wrong with keeping free real warm while you're waiting on it
47:04
to kick in. It felt really gross. Oh that crazy. He's suspicious
47:10
because he only has one ear ring, and I thought that was kind of
47:14
a suspicious thing. He's gay, No, not gay, But like,
47:19
yeah, Harrison, this isn't connected. You were saying, just just really
47:22
afraid of pirates. Remember when Harrison Ford got an ear ring and then he
47:27
kept getting plane crashes? Oh what, No, he gets in so many
47:30
plane crashes and he doesn't stop playing playing. I think he's had one plane
47:35
crash. Oh that's one too many. But me, I agree, But
47:38
like there's that multiple and there's no connection between earrings and plane crashes. I
47:43
don't think well, I mean you could find a connection. I mean,
47:45
if you look hard and if you can find a connection with anything. I
47:49
can't believe he's been married to close to flock cart for so long. I
47:51
did not think that was gonna last. I think Ali McBeal needs Ali mcmeeil
47:54
oh ninety Okay, al right, so I believe we're at the last segment
48:02
here. Yeah, So the teenage daughter wakes up from a fall and all
48:07
this passing out can't be good for her head. She starting passed out like
48:10
two or three times. When she wakes up, she sees a part of
48:15
her mom mom's car, like just chilling there and purse and other things.
48:22
So they didn't clean up the car or the area or anything. But then
48:24
I don't know how long this has been. I'm not sure if it's like
48:28
two days after, if it's a day after, is it weeks? We
48:31
don't know. They don't really touch on that very much. How many times
48:36
five five plane crashes? Five they're not yeah, they're not like explosion ones.
48:43
So yeah, in nineteen ninety nine, two thousand and twenty fifteen,
48:46
twenty seventeen, and twenty twenty, Wow, Like that's so many cars like
48:51
plane crashes or incident from two thousand to twenty fourteen. He's probably like,
48:55
Okay, it's in fourteen years, I poss I can't possibly get another one.
49:00
Regulations continue. Yeah, five plane crashes with a lot. Yeah,
49:07
because if you got like three d uys, I think you lose your license
49:09
for life. How many times crash a plane. I don't know what the
49:14
point of that was, but there's something there, Yeah for sure. Yeah,
49:16
no earrings or both have both ear rings? Yeah, and you only
49:22
have one earring that's suspicious. Yeah, and you can't fly planes because it
49:25
messes up the weight distribution. Yeamn, that's smart. Uh. But so
49:31
she finds a bunch of shit from her mom in this crashed area, including
49:35
part of the car. But she's looking through your mom's perse and finds a
49:37
bunch of pictures of her parents. She starts writing a letter to God and
49:40
is interrupted by death by the death angel telling her the only way to live
49:44
is to write a letter to God. So I was like, yeah,
49:46
motherfucker, what do you think I'm doing? These people are just wanting God
49:50
to get to get mail. But she's busy, let me check this.
49:54
Yeah, he should just give her his coat, but you know, thoughts
50:00
and prayers. So yeah, he says, she has the will, she
50:04
has to have the will to live, and the older angel said, you
50:07
can't tell her that she has to want to live, but I'm gonna keep
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her warm. So what was that then, why I have that conversation?
50:14
It's so dumb? Yeah, yeah, for sure. John wakes up and
50:19
finally sees the message on the beeper and sees that his daughter needs his help.
50:22
But so his keys are ruined, so that means the angel is making
50:27
it harder for him to save his daughter. So that was like, yeah,
50:30
oh, because she wants that. She wants the daughter all the way,
50:32
so she can swoop in boom, then it's gonna be the sun.
50:35
Then it's gonna be John, and then she'll be a rock star. Yeah.
50:38
So John calls and is interrupted by his assistant who is an angel,
50:43
and basically she says, every time you dance in a grave, you die
50:47
a little bit. I love it, and you need to keep living.
50:51
They have it back and forth about Heavy and how great she was. John
50:54
finds his daughter passed out again and saves her and discovers his wife's song from
51:00
the beginning of the episode, which I kind of forgot about, so I
51:02
was like, oh, that's a cool touch. But the song creates a
51:06
paradox because or it just shows that everything is predetermined, and I personally don't
51:10
believe in free will. I think everything is predetermined. We can have a
51:15
philosophy talk some the time if you're interested. The song is about being The
51:20
song is about being found by an angel. They play the song at the
51:22
same talk show they were on before. The song is shitty and the episode
51:27
ends. But before it ends, John stands up and throws a rock out
51:31
a stake of source me hungry. What I love is that you did it
51:37
once. It kind of did it twice. You went you went all in
51:44
all the callback. Baby. Yeah, he looks like a cave man.
51:50
I just kept thinking of Phil Hartman. I'm just a caveman lawyer. I'm
51:54
just like a simple cave man, you know what. I think. It
51:59
was like not a bad actress in this or actor is Evy or whatever her
52:02
name was. Yeah, she was fine. I mean yeah, I was
52:05
like because when she was doing kind of like her like passive aggressive things at
52:08
breakfast or when they were downstairs, I was like, I've seen that before
52:14
I'm speaking about Jeremy myself, the teenager at the time she cried. I
52:19
think she got cast because she is not afraid to make like a like a
52:23
really ugly crying face. You know. Some I'm like, I feel like
52:28
some actors like try to like try to look really cool while crying, but
52:30
she was like all four it. But I think she was a good actress.
52:34
I didn't feel like the ending wrapped up much. Yeah. Not.
52:38
I don't feel like they're gonna be okay. Yeah. I feel like he's
52:42
just gonna relapse again. He'll relapse, She'll put herself in dangerous situations,
52:46
and then the sun, the sun, I think is gonna be fine.
52:49
They didn't really focus on him much because he was like, I got this,
52:52
But this is ninety five, and if he's playing that middle of the
52:53
road ship rock, then he's on the tail end of his career. So
52:58
I mean it's probably about like ninety seven. He's gonna try some kind of
53:00
like mediocre metal album and then just fade away up obscurity and don't make your
53:05
like dead wife come back with your daughter who's like a soso singer. That
53:09
was his comeback. She's not a song. She was a fine singer.
53:14
She's a better singer than he was. It's true. Wait the mom comes
53:17
back, no the daughter, Like he's come back. Oh, I get
53:22
what you're saying. Okay, Like I don't know what level of theme he
53:24
is because they have security issues, but they're doing like a PBS kind of
53:30
like yeah show, Well he's now like a Christian singer, so of course
53:34
he's gonna be on like some publicly at publicly access bullshit. You know.
53:39
I I think the reason why these two are casted and why they're not great
53:45
actors is just because they could sing, you know, so like probably like
53:49
we just need people who can sing for this this concept, I guess.
53:52
And and he could play piano if I was watching his hands and like I'm
53:57
not sure the exact song, but he was doing it in the time.
53:59
He was doing right timing, so you can tell you actually knew how to
54:00
play. So they wrote because this was this is a long episode, so
54:06
they they did the wife's song. Yes, I believe they found it.
54:12
Yeah, that's cool. That's kind of cute. That's kind of a cute
54:14
thing. But that's a nice touch because I forgot about it and he goes,
54:16
oh, I'll never hear that song, and then I was like,
54:19
oh, that's cool. You know that's cool. Callback Yeah, And I
54:22
was kind of nervous when the daughter was going through the wallet and I'm like,
54:24
I hope she doesn't find anything bad. It's like a for her.
54:30
No. The truck driver, he was such a good guy, like maybe
54:36
call the police or like, I don't know, like that's just suspicious.
54:39
Yeah, everybody has cell phones in this I know. That blew me too.
54:44
Like it just was weird because they were all about the pagers and the
54:49
payphones and the who nots. For them to have a I was like,
54:52
what the hell? Yeah, but I don't know. I did get a
54:57
review and I'm gonna read it word for a word. So okay. This
55:00
review came out in two thousand and eight by swim Team twenty four. That's
55:05
a weird name. I think their name is Amber Thurman. One out of
55:07
ten. I'm gonna read this word for what I'm trying to fast. Touched
55:12
by an Angel is a very nice show. It's a little hash knowing Monica
55:16
can't sing, but she had a gift that other angels don't have. And
55:20
I know in my heart that there are other angels who cannot sing, not
55:23
Jess her, It's just God a massage that we all have our own taint.
55:30
Monica has the truth and Tess had got music. Different angels have defeats
55:37
talus, Jess like humans have their own talus. If all the angels can
55:44
sing, there would not be other gifts. Or if we say, if
55:47
all humans were prefect, the world would be boring. God has given me
55:52
a gift, and that's how to write stories, and that to me is
55:59
spacious and show six oh seven. Monica had to learn the hard way singing
56:06
is not one of her gifts and naive well be. She had to have
56:12
the gift she needed, which like the like the like the Halloween, which
56:17
was the voice of Truth. God knows what other gifts. Belge too and
56:22
gifts do not. So for me it really makes you think when she says
56:31
belge too and gifts do not, I was like, what the fuck?
56:37
Yeah? I love it so much. I want that person to be on
56:40
on our podcast. I want to hear them talk. They said that the
56:44
gift that God gave them was how to write stories. But everything's miss I
56:50
want to read. Maybe two thousand and eight. It was so early though,
56:54
I don't know if it really was, but then why give it a
56:57
one out of ten of you enjoy I don't know. Yeah, that's weird.
57:00
Maybe it's a bot Belgie two and gifts do not every He's like,
57:07
oh Amber Thurman, right, oh Man, that's funny. Well, I
57:15
guess before we rate it. I was thinking of a new segment moving forward
57:17
called six Degrees from Andy. So I've met a lot of celebrities and I
57:22
feel I can get to anybody within six degrees of separation, like Kevin Bacon.
57:29
So the very first one we're doing is Kevin Bacon. Rhea suggested this,
57:34
and this one was actually really simple. Kevin Bacon is on the new
57:37
Beverly Hills Cop movie with Eddie Murphy. Eddie Murphy was on the nineteen eighty
57:39
one cast of SNL when Cheap Trick was the musical guest, and I met
57:43
cheap Trick boom. So if you think you can stump me, let us
57:47
know, and let us know who you want me to try to meet or
57:51
who you want me to see if I can connect myself to, and then
57:53
I will let you know if I can do it. On an episode nice.
57:55
Can I do one right now? Sure? Uma Thurman, Maybe I
58:00
should. I don't want it just to be like a bunch of quiet.
58:02
Maybe I should try to think next episode, Sie same like for a minute.
58:13
I haven't met that many celebrity. All the subrities I have met have
58:15
gotten canceled. That's not good. It's not good. M All all of
58:21
the celebrities that you've met have been canceled or died. All right, wait,
58:28
who have I met that's a celebrity? I mean people on this podcast?
58:34
Oh oh yeah, okay, dog cut that out in person. So
58:39
Sally Field was in Smoky in the Bandit with Burt Reynolds. Who was in
58:45
a movie called The Long nine Yards with Adam Sandler or The Whole Night?
58:49
What's the Football one with Adam Sandler? No Longest Yeah, the Longest Yard
58:55
with Adam Sandler. I don't know why they both happen to be all times
59:00
this time. But in nineteen ninety five, Adam Sandlemer was on SNL with
59:04
Patrick Stewart was was a host of SNL And I have met Wesley Crusher from
59:09
and I have a picture of a sign picture on the wall boom. That's
59:14
really impressive. Boo. So yeah, so I just try to stump me
59:16
because I think I can probably get just about everybody within six degrees if I
59:21
really think about it. So next one, the next one, I'm doing
59:24
OJ for sure. Okay, Yeah, but overall I didn't. I mean,
59:30
I'm not gonna go out of my way to watch this. I would
59:34
I would rather watch Seventh Heaven over Touched by an Angel. But I didn't
59:37
think it was nearly as bad as I thought it was going to be in
59:39
my head. So I don't know, for nineties TV shows i'd never watched
59:45
before, probably give it like a five out of ten, Like wasn't the
59:47
worst thing. I don't think it was good, but it was way better
59:51
than I thought it was going to be. How about you, Alli,
59:52
It's like a three out of ten, nothing as exciting, Like, yeah,
59:59
I don't know. There are moments where like the cheesiness is kind of
1:00:02
funny and like the absurdity of like this is like what you know, Christian
1:00:07
people think is bad kind of stuff. But I feel like I want to
1:00:09
dive into Seventh Heaven. Then if we're gonna go this avenue of things exactly.
1:00:15
Yeah, and I've seen two episodes of This Now and two episodes or
1:00:20
one episode of Seventh Heaven and Seventh Heaven had me hooked. So in Seventh
1:00:24
Heaven is there's some funked up stuff in that show, like some fucking weird
1:00:29
shit. I would say, yeah, I would like when I told you,
1:00:31
like the pilot episode, Mary convinces Matt to teach her how to kiss?
1:00:38
Is Mary the sister? Yeah? Wha what? Yeah? Yeah,
1:00:44
so anyways, you go ahead, No, go ahead, It's fine.
1:00:47
No. The thing I think I would watch it as like on the background
1:00:51
while I'm cleaning the house or something like for music or like sound. And
1:00:54
I like the main actress's voice a lot, like her speaking boys and her
1:01:00
cur singing voice. It's very comforting. And there's just some kind of like
1:01:05
my heart I don't know this, Okay, it sounds so fucking stupid,
1:01:07
but like my heart feels good watching this show. And I don't know,
1:01:10
like I don't know what that is, but it's just it's kind of a
1:01:13
weird nostalgia, like subconscious nostalgia for me. So I don't know. I
1:01:15
probably give it, like I don't like a five or six out of ten.
1:01:20
Yeah, yeah, no, I'm about the same way. Yeah,
1:01:22
yeah, I thought it was fine, Like I didn't know when every time
1:01:23
I watch it, don't think it royalties. Yeah, she's like, I
1:01:27
feel like I'm less going to hell watching this. But this just kind of
1:01:34
reinforced my opinion about like CBS like this all this is so cookie cutter mm
1:01:37
hmm and just like really boring writing, low level. I don't know,
1:01:45
I just didn't. I didn't. I didn't find much like redeeming qualities of
1:01:47
this show. Same. I would have been curious to see what commercials were
1:01:52
playing when this show came out, like this episode came out, like I'm
1:01:57
sure it was probably like I don't know if Apple Sauce has commercials, but
1:02:00
Apple Sauce would be a good supplier for this. Yeah. I wonder if
1:02:02
this was like a nighttime at CBS show or if it was like a daytime
1:02:06
show. I feel like it had it had to be nighttime to be Oh,
1:02:10
okay, that makes sense. Yeah, No, that was all right.
1:02:15
Yeah, I was hoping. I was hoping it'd be way worse,
1:02:17
but yeah it was okay. I just wouldn't want to do it anymore.
1:02:21
If I was an angel doing that, I'd be like, I'm so tired
1:02:22
of this. Yeah, but then that's what I'm saying. Do they follow
1:02:25
time like humans? If so, then it's not that like magical, you
1:02:29
know, it's like, all right, well, next Monday, I guess
1:02:31
we'll go to make sure Jim dies. Like if I if I turn to
1:02:36
an angel, I don't want to just be standing. I want to be
1:02:37
like floating and ship. Yeah. So I don't know. I'm just like
1:02:40
I'm hoping if I become I don't know what criteria is to be an angel,
1:02:43
but yeah, imagine you like, do you great your whole life and
1:02:45
you become an angel? And then God's like, all right, man,
1:02:47
you're gonna be a limit driver. You're like like that, I gotta be
1:02:52
a little I gotta be a nanny. Yeah, that worse ship? All
1:02:55
right? Well, when do I get my wings? You don't? You
1:02:58
got to take a greyhound off? Yeah? This is there's some budget cuts
1:03:02
in heabit. I guess I don't know. All right, Well, make
1:03:09
sure you uh tip your pastor or whatever. I don't know, whatever you
1:03:14
guys do in church? Uh? Is that what that is? No,
1:03:19
you don't give them tips? But so kath donation all right, so yeah,
1:03:24
donations. Does anybody have anything they like to like to promote Ali?
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I know you're doing a lot of stand up. What's going on? What's
1:03:30
coming up? Yeah? I am just doing stand up in Portland, Oregon.
1:03:36
So if you're in Portland, come see me. I'm on Instagram at
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That'd be nice. That's about it for the moment. And then,
1:03:52
as of right now, the very first episode of Andy's Murder Radio is out.
1:03:57
It's Charles Manson. Sorry, I didn't know how hard it was going
1:04:00
to be to talk for twenty five minutes straight without any water. So next
1:04:03
time I'm gonna have some kind of liquid with me. But check it out.
1:04:06
The next episode is gonna be fun every Wednesday. What are you gonna
1:04:12
drink? You know? I think I was gonna switch it up every time,
1:04:15
like every episode. Yeah, I think next one, have some wine,
1:04:18
then chocolate milk, and then chocolate milk. I love chocolate milk.
1:04:21
Regular milk that'd be so creepy. Chocolate milk andy, Yeah, legitimately the
1:04:29
best chocolate milk today on the market, Trader Joe's fair Trade chocolate milk.
1:04:35
I just started going to best chocolate milk, Okay, I've ever had.
1:04:40
It is such a god. What makes it so good is like smooth or
1:04:44
what just like it's like, got like this this really good chocolate e like
1:04:48
richness, not like not in a bad but not like dark chocolatey, not
1:04:51
like too overbearing, Like it's just like so flavorful compared to other chocolate milks.
1:04:57
Yeah. I like to have live flowers in my house. So I
1:04:59
just that's why I start going to Trader Joe's because somebody goes they have the
1:05:01
best flowers, Like, Okay, I'll check it out, and they fucking
1:05:03
do have the best flowers. So and I'm out of flowers right now.
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So next time I go, probably tomorrow, I'm gonna go get some fucking
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too and gifts do not so for me, it really makes you think when
1:07:08
she says belge too and gifts do not. I was like, what the
1:07:15
fuck, Yeah, I love it so much.