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With Further Ado Episode #6: The Haunted Sock Drawer Conspiracy · Presented by Speaking Human

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  Speaker 1: Tell me if this sounds familiar.
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  Speaker 2: You're listening to a podcast, attending a presentation, or watching
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  Speaker 2: a live stream, and after a whole bunch of chatter,
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  Speaker 2: the hosts finally get around to the reason for the
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  Speaker 2: whole shebang, saying, without further ado, it happens all the
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  Speaker 2: time at almost every event going back to the beginning
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  Speaker 2: of recorded history. But what happens at the host never
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  Speaker 2: actually get to the main attraction. What if the whole
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  Speaker 2: thing were just the ado?
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  Speaker 3: This is that show? All right? So I got a
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  Speaker 3: little trivia for your Chad. Netflix just announced a live
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  Speaker 3: action reboot of which classic animated series, marking the first
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  Speaker 3: time it will be adapted as a live action TV show.
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to go with it's just the first thing
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  Speaker 1: off the top of my head. I have no idea
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  Speaker 1: what the answer is. I'm gonna say it's Smurfs.
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  Speaker 3: Mmm, it's a good guess.
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  Speaker 1: The Smurfs movie was, like, you know, it was one
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  Speaker 1: of those people and animation together, kind of Roger Rabbit
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  Speaker 1: combination things.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Is that what we consider live action animation?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah?
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  Speaker 1: Or is live action animation like all people live action?
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  Speaker 3: I mean, it could be live action TV show. I
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  Speaker 3: don't really know, to be honest with you, how much
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  Speaker 3: of it is going to be live and what's if
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  Speaker 3: there's any introductions of the animated characters. But it's Scooby Doo.
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  Speaker 1: Hmm okay, yeah, same era kind.
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  Speaker 3: Of mm hmm yeah exactly. And that's why I think,
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  Speaker 3: you know, it's a good guess because it's kind of
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  Speaker 3: the same vein. But they just announced an eight episode
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  Speaker 3: live action reboot of Scooby Doo exploring the origins of Mystery, Inc.
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  Speaker 3: Which I think is kind of a you know, it
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  Speaker 3: could be a good TV series on Netflix. I don't know.
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  Speaker 3: The show, I guess is going to follow Shaggy, Daphnet, Velma,
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  Speaker 3: and Fred as they solve supernatural murder mysteries during their
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  Speaker 3: final summer at camp. I don't know what that's going
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  Speaker 3: to be like, you know, yeah, how old.
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  Speaker 1: Are they in this show? Are they like teens? Are
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  Speaker 1: they like twelve? What do we what's the audience here?
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  Speaker 3: Well, I mean, I'm I don't know. I'm guessing it's
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  Speaker 3: like summer camp. So they're teenagers, right.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe like fourteen, fifteen or something. I get the sense
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  Speaker 1: they're going to try to make it like a Stranger
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  Speaker 1: things that.
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  Speaker 3: Would be kind of cool. I don't know much more
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  Speaker 3: about it other than that, but I think I mean
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  Speaker 3: that could work, you know, I mean.
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  Speaker 1: Because it's got a good character kind of is the
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  Speaker 1: dog just gonna be like I'm there's.
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  Speaker 3: Just a dog? I don't know, or is it you know,
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  Speaker 3: like ruh, yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 1: That's what I hope. Have we you know, wrong these
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  Speaker 1: things so much where you're like, is there even a
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  Speaker 1: drop left where we're like we need to know the
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  Speaker 1: origins of mystery?
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  Speaker 3: Ink? Do we? No?
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  Speaker 1: I mean, you know, but we're like, God, we got
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  Speaker 1: to find out every piece of information about everything, every ip,
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  Speaker 1: We got to go to every corner of it, anything
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  Speaker 1: we can possibly find, or you know, we got to
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  Speaker 1: just get squeeze every drop out of it.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean they're they're milking the teat of you know.
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  Speaker 1: There's like powder coming out of the teat that they
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  Speaker 1: won't stop milking it.
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  Speaker 3: This is the thing. Can it be enjoyable? Yes, it
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  Speaker 3: could be, you know, but it's like they may This
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  Speaker 3: is the argument we always make, is like there's just
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  Speaker 3: no new ideas, so we'll just use an idea. We'll
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  Speaker 3: come at it from a different angle because it's easier
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  Speaker 3: that way, maybe because we know people love it. They
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  Speaker 3: loved it, you know, fifty years ago, they'll probably love
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  Speaker 3: it now because it's a timeless story of these kids
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  Speaker 3: and they're meddling and do mysteries that usually are just
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  Speaker 3: pretty solvable, you know, like Nancy Drew right, Like, it's
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  Speaker 3: a mystery, and people love mysteries and people love crime
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  Speaker 3: solving and blah blah blah. You know.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, this strikes me as now that I think about it,
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  Speaker 1: Like Wednesday they did Netflix did that Wednesday show that
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  Speaker 1: was pretty popular. It seems like this is like right
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  Speaker 1: down that terrain.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Do you ever this thought just occurred to me. Do
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  Speaker 1: you ever feel like guilty is not the word, but
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  Speaker 1: like just bad about the stuff you watch? Like how
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  Speaker 1: much dumb? Like this is the show I'll probably like
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  Speaker 1: watch or check out if my you know, people say
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  Speaker 1: it's good or my kids are watching. You ever feel
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  Speaker 1: bad about Like, Man, I just watched so much dumb
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  Speaker 1: stuff and I don't even know why or I don't
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  Speaker 1: even enjoy it that much. I just like watch it.
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  Speaker 3: You can't make me care. I'll never like right there, Okay,
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  Speaker 3: that's weird that you say that because look, now we're
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  Speaker 3: in you Can't Make Me Care, I'll never like Fraser. Okay.
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  Speaker 1: So yeah, all of a sudden we have to do
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  Speaker 1: this segment we weren't planning on, but we're jumping into
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  Speaker 1: a segment with a long title. If you ask me,
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  Speaker 1: you can't make me care, period, I'll never like Fraser. Comma, okay,
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  Speaker 1: question mark.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. So apparently this is a thing the rest of
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  Speaker 3: the world likes that's being pushed on us, right, and
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  Speaker 3: that we refuse to get on board with. And there's
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  Speaker 3: been things like this over our lifetime, shad things that
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  Speaker 3: you and I have talked about, Like do you remember
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  Speaker 3: back in the day when we were just youngsters, we
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  Speaker 3: had this long thing about how we were trying to
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  Speaker 3: get you to watch Dexter.
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  Speaker 1: Right, Uh, I did watch Dexter, but probably maybe in
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  Speaker 1: the beginning I was rejecting Dexter.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it could because it was like everybody thought it
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  Speaker 3: was awesome, and I remember you going, yeah, everybody thinks
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  Speaker 3: it's amazing, but I'm not gonna and then you got
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  Speaker 3: on board. But there's something that everyone likes. It's the
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  Speaker 3: show White Lotus. M Okay. Everybody talks about this show
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  Speaker 3: it's in its third season. People have talked about the
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  Speaker 3: last two seasons. Everybody seems to love this show. I
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  Speaker 3: have watched all three seasons, but I don't like it.
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  Speaker 3: I don't care about the characters. This is the thing
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  Speaker 3: about it that I realize it's very forgettable. I forgot
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  Speaker 3: entirely what happened in the first two seasons. That's how
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  Speaker 3: little I cared about it, you know, but everybody seems
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  Speaker 3: to love it. So you know what, you can't make
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  Speaker 3: me care about this show. You know, I'll watch it,
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  Speaker 3: but you can't make me care because I'll never like Frasier, Okay,
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  Speaker 3: or I'll never like White Lotus.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, that's a good one. It's a good point. I
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  Speaker 1: watched The White Lotus. I like The White Lotus much
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  Speaker 1: more than you. But I get where you're coming from,
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  Speaker 1: and I particularly I think I get it for you.
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  Speaker 1: I can see you like it wouldn't be something that
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  Speaker 1: I'd be like, Oh, you're gonna love it, And I
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  Speaker 1: can even get why someone wouldn't like it. I feel
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  Speaker 1: like seasons one, two, three, are they really that different
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  Speaker 1: other than they're just like new location.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, they're like, oh, we're gonna make it like an
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  Speaker 3: anthology where it's different people each time and it's gonna
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  Speaker 3: be new location, super exciting, and I'm just not feeling
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  Speaker 3: it at all. I feel like it's a forced show.
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  Speaker 3: You know, they're forcing it on me.
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  Speaker 1: This is one of those shows that's, like, you know, buzzy.
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  Speaker 1: I feel like it's better than most shows because at
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  Speaker 1: least it's different. It's got something on its mind. But
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  Speaker 1: I get it. I get where you're coming from, and
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  Speaker 1: you know mine. Mine is similar, but it's bigger and
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  Speaker 1: it relates to this whole like kind of streaming conversation,
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  Speaker 1: which I feel like we're even the shows i'm watching
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  Speaker 1: I feel like are one forgettable and two I almost
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  Speaker 1: like hate them as i'm watching them.
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  Speaker 3: You hate watching?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I feel like they're I don't know that things
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  Speaker 1: were different pre streaming, but I wasn't feeling that way
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  Speaker 1: as much, right, And maybe that's the only difference. So
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  Speaker 1: mine is. And you'll know this one because you've heard
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  Speaker 1: me say this to you. I'm just gonna group everything
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  Speaker 1: together and I'm gonna say original series that are on
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  Speaker 1: Amazon Prime.
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  Speaker 3: Oh yeah, I mean you.
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  Speaker 1: Know I've told you this. You know you'd say something
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  Speaker 1: I'd be like, is it on Amazon Prime, I'd be like,
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  Speaker 1: I'm not gonna watch that.
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  Speaker 3: So which one specifically, it's.
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  Speaker 1: Not as specific one, it's all of them because it's
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  Speaker 1: just generally I feel like if they're on Amazon Prime,
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  Speaker 1: I almost put them in.
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  Speaker 3: A lower level.
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  Speaker 1: I think it's the subconscious association in my brain rejecting
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  Speaker 1: programs that come from the same place where I'm buying
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  Speaker 1: socks and envelopes and toothpaste.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, it's deep.
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  Speaker 1: I think when you're telling me watch Reacher, my brain's
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  Speaker 1: like Reacher is made by the people who are selling
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  Speaker 1: you paper towels, and somewhere in my brain I'm picturing
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  Speaker 1: a guy who's like packing paper towels and he's got
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  Speaker 1: a camera and he's like making a show at the
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  Speaker 1: same time. I don't know if that's true, but everything
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  Speaker 1: just feels like the B level streaming service to me,
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  Speaker 1: and I'm just I'm just rejecting it.
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  Speaker 3: So this is on a psychological level. I get what
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  Speaker 3: you're saying. I see where you're making that connection. The
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  Speaker 3: production quality I think on the shows sometimes is pretty good.
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  Speaker 3: It's just like generally on Amazon Prime you find a
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  Speaker 3: lot of lower rung shows or like old stuff or
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  Speaker 3: like junk.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, we always talk about that with the movie you know,
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  Speaker 1: you want to find a movie from like the early eighties,
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  Speaker 1: it's on Amazon.
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  Speaker 3: The newer stuff that they're producing, I think the production value.
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  Speaker 3: They put a lot of money and a lot of
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  Speaker 3: them honestly. But this is where, like we talked about
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  Speaker 3: the content streaming warrors, that is happening where they're just
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  Speaker 3: pumping money into these shows because they want people to
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  Speaker 3: flock to their streaming services, and it just starts to
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  Speaker 3: flood us with these things that aren't all that original
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  Speaker 3: or good or unique or whatever you pick the word,
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  Speaker 3: and so becomes kind of boring or fluff. It's just stuff.
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  Speaker 3: It's more stuff.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it does feel like stuff, another product on the shelf.
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  Speaker 1: And it's weird because there is so much, and yet
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  Speaker 1: it feels like almost like so little. You're like waiting
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  Speaker 1: for somebody to recommend something to you, or you know,
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  Speaker 1: something that starts getting the buzz online. You're like, Okay,
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  Speaker 1: we need to watch this, or you know, my wife
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  Speaker 1: tells me I'm interested in this or something like that
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  Speaker 1: to get something going. So you end up watching all
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  Speaker 1: these shows that you're not even all that interested in
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  Speaker 1: maybe there's better stuff out there somewhere, but I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: It's a weird disconnect that's happening right now with all
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  Speaker 1: the programming and what I feel like i'm actually watching.
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  Speaker 3: There's quite a few of that those shows out there
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  Speaker 3: that I'm like, why did I even pick this up?
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  Speaker 3: I'll give you another great example, first season of Yellow Jackets.
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  Speaker 3: I really kind of liked that show, and then they
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  Speaker 3: just kept beating that and that it's the it's third season,
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  Speaker 3: and I my wife loves it. I have to force
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  Speaker 3: myself and she even feels this way too. I think
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  Speaker 3: we have this yeah, and I'm like, I would much
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  Speaker 3: rather watch this other show that I've never seen before.
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  Speaker 3: Let's see if we can make this work before I
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  Speaker 3: before I pick up that other episode? Why am I
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  Speaker 3: hate watching this? Like White Lotus, A lot of times,
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  Speaker 3: I'm just sitting there and I say, I.
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  Speaker 1: Object objectionable thoughts of objects? So this is about, you know,
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  Speaker 1: a surprising U turn here. Didn't see this one coming.
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  Speaker 1: So this is an odd segment. I would say, wouldn't
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  Speaker 1: you think objectionable thoughts of objects? Which kind of takes us.
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  Speaker 1: It gives us an in side look at what some
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  Speaker 1: of our objects, you know, just things are thinking this
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  Speaker 1: is offensive or risky thoughts of inanimate objects.
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  Speaker 3: I never thought about it like that, but inanimate objects
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  Speaker 3: might have some thoughts about us or about life or
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  Speaker 3: not being alive. I guess.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, so all the things surrounding you right now could
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  Speaker 1: be thinking, and they could be thinking about you, and
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  Speaker 1: they maybe could be thinking bad thoughts about you.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, so you know, I'm just throwing this out there,
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  Speaker 3: but yeah, what about socks? Okay, yeah, I mean think
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  Speaker 3: about it. If socks could talk, what does that sock
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  Speaker 3: think about as you're opening that drawer in the morning.
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  Speaker 3: You know, it's thinking, oh god, I think it's morning again.
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  Speaker 3: He's coming to take one of us and put a
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  Speaker 3: put his feet inside of us, you know, like kind
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  Speaker 3: of objectionable.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, like I don't want that.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, socks are made to protect our feet, but
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  Speaker 3: our feet are just sometimes sweaty and gross, you know,
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  Speaker 3: in our shoes. I feel like socks have it pretty bad.
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  Speaker 1: You know, you open the drawer, all the socks are
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  Speaker 1: in there, communicating like, oh man, I hope it's not me.
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  Speaker 1: I hope it's not me. I hope it's you. It's
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  Speaker 1: I hope it's not me. It's like, oh no, he
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  Speaker 1: didn't even wash me. He just bob me up and
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  Speaker 1: put me back.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean I don't know. You know, is that absurd? Probably,
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  Speaker 3: But if there was any inanimate object, it would be
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  Speaker 3: between that and maybe like a toilet brush, you know.
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  Speaker 3: I mean think about what we do to toilet brushes,
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  Speaker 3: and I think toilet brushes have it pretty bad, you know.
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  Speaker 1: I mean they're not doing the best job in terms
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  Speaker 1: of household assignments.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, or even like a plunger, because a plunger, you're
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  Speaker 3: sticking its mouth, yeah, making its suck over your crap.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, you don't know that if that's its mouth,
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  Speaker 3: I'm gonna take a wild guess and say that's its mouth.
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  Speaker 3: And when I say that to you, you can never
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  Speaker 3: un see it right in your mind, Zion, you can understand.
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  Speaker 3: Oh god, that is true. You see those memes where
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  Speaker 3: it's like leaf. I saw one about leaf and the
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  Speaker 3: leaf falling off the tree. They personify it, you know,
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  Speaker 3: and they give it like, oh it's falling you know. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: I mean you can never unsee that. You feel really bad.
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  Speaker 1: I actually when I was like in I don't know
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  Speaker 1: fourth grade or something, wrote a I don't know if
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  Speaker 1: it was a some sort of poem or haikup for
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  Speaker 1: school about you know. It was like from the perspective
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  Speaker 1: of the leaf falling off the tree.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, that's wise beyond your years, thinking about how the
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  Speaker 3: leaf must feel.
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  Speaker 1: I you know, I'm deep, always been a deep thinker,
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  Speaker 1: always thinking of the objection of all thoughts of objects,
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  Speaker 1: even from a young age. So I I was thinking,
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  Speaker 1: you know, another object that's get some regular usage at
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  Speaker 1: least in my life, relates to kind of what we
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  Speaker 1: were talking about before TV. So just think of the
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  Speaker 1: remote control. Fortunately, I have some some technology that was
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  Speaker 1: helpful with this. I don't want to get into how
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  Speaker 1: it works or anything like that, but I was able
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  Speaker 1: to actually record the thoughts of the remote control. I'm
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  Speaker 1: I'm gonna play that for you now. Okay, yeah, you
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  Speaker 1: might might be shocking, so some viewers for viewers, listeners,
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  Speaker 1: you know, just turn it off or do what you
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  Speaker 1: need to do to get get through this.
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  Speaker 3: Here we go, Hey, buddy, you.
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  Speaker 4: Know what I can't wait to do tonight get rammed
• 15:48
  Speaker 4: into the couch cushions by your ass cheeks. Seriously, I
• 15:52
  Speaker 4: freaking love suffocating for a half hour under your foot
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  Speaker 4: blanket while getting stabbed with cheeto crumbs because you're too
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  Speaker 4: much of an idiot to put me back where you
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  Speaker 4: found me.
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  Speaker 1: I also love when you spend an hour searching for
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  Speaker 1: me like a.
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  Speaker 4: Raccoon on a coke binge, flipping over furniture and screaming
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  Speaker 4: at your children. For real, that's super entertaining. I'm just
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  Speaker 4: busting your chops, though, in all seriousness, I don't know
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  Speaker 4: what I'd do without your dirty, oversized thumbs mashing into
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  Speaker 4: me over and over like I'm some sort of brain
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  Speaker 4: rot vending machine that's not killing you fast enough. Here's
• 16:25
  Speaker 4: a pro tip for your pal. Lifting me higher and
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  Speaker 4: poking me harder doesn't make me do my job any quicker.
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  Speaker 4: Don't believe me, how about I come to your work
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  Speaker 4: and smash you in the solar plexus and see if
• 16:36
  Speaker 4: you work harder. Just remember when I suddenly dropped dead
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  Speaker 4: one of these days. It's not me, it's you and
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  Speaker 4: your constant frantic searching for the perfect show. Get a life,
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  Speaker 4: you jerk off.
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  Speaker 1: My god, that was little intense.
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  Speaker 3: Don't you think you're remote? Has a tough life, and
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  Speaker 3: it's angry it's angry angry. Yeah, it's objectionable.
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  Speaker 1: Some might say, yeah, those thoughts, I wish it would
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  Speaker 1: actually keep them. Well, I guess I took them from it,
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  Speaker 1: but I wanted to keep it to itself. I invaded
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  Speaker 1: its privacy, but I regret it immediately.
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  Speaker 3: It's funny because, like I think about the remote in
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  Speaker 3: the long history of remotes, multiple remote throughout our lifetime,
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  Speaker 3: you know, yeah, and how it's a love hate relationship.
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  Speaker 3: You know, Yeah, you.
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  Speaker 1: Need it, it's feeding you, but at the same time,
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  Speaker 1: it's you know, when it doesn't do what you wanted
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  Speaker 1: to do, or it's lost, or it's you know, something's
• 17:40
  Speaker 1: not working out quite the way you want it to,
• 17:42
  Speaker 1: you really turn on it pretty quickly.
• 17:43
  Speaker 3: Yeah. I don't know if you've ever done this, but
• 17:46
  Speaker 3: the remotes not working and you're almost twisting the remote
• 17:50
  Speaker 3: to like see if the buttons like maybe there's some
• 17:53
  Speaker 3: sort of circuitry inside that just needs to be pressed
• 17:56
  Speaker 3: really hard and squished, you know, And that's violent.
• 18:01
  Speaker 1: There's not a lot of household objects that take as
• 18:04
  Speaker 1: much abuse as the remote does on a daily basis.
• 18:09
  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's true, and it is daily. Where's like a
• 18:12
  Speaker 3: toilet plunger. That is just once in a while.
• 18:16
  Speaker 1: Yeah, once in a while. But the remote all the
• 18:18
  Speaker 1: time and with very little reward.
• 18:21
  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's not like all right.
• 18:23
  Speaker 1: Now we're gonna, I guess occasionally get some new batteries.
• 18:27
  Speaker 1: You don't get cleaned up or you know, nobody's ever
• 18:30
  Speaker 1: like huh, thank you remote?
• 18:33
  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, yeah. And nowadays, you know, if you've got
• 18:36
  Speaker 3: a remote that you talk to, like ours has the
• 18:38
  Speaker 3: Apple Remote, it's got the serial button on the side.
• 18:41
  Speaker 3: Sometimes you're even like telling it it's stupid because it's
• 18:44
  Speaker 3: not because it's not giving you what you want. You know, yeah,
• 18:49
  Speaker 3: that's not what I said. Search for white Lotus and
• 18:54
  Speaker 3: then it's like searching for Matt blotos you're like, what
• 18:58
  Speaker 3: is Matt Blotus? It doesn't exist this why are you
• 19:00
  Speaker 3: giving me shows? That's a good one, and I like
• 19:03
  Speaker 3: the accent.
• 19:05
  Speaker 1: I guess I would be the Yeah, it sounds like
• 19:08
  Speaker 1: it's I don't know if it came from New York.
• 19:11
  Speaker 3: Heh knows.
• 19:12
  Speaker 1: You know, it's a surprising a lot of surprising information there.
• 19:17
  Speaker 1: You know, we have a little time left.
• 19:21
  Speaker 3: Could this be a segment? Well, well, what are you
• 19:27
  Speaker 3: gonna do? Yeah? Well, on each episode, we typically pitch
• 19:30
  Speaker 3: an idea for a new segment on the show. So, Chad,
• 19:34
  Speaker 3: what do you what do you got? What's uh? What's
• 19:37
  Speaker 3: an idea for a new segment? Per usual?
• 19:39
  Speaker 1: I've got a lot of plates spinning, I got a
• 19:42
  Speaker 1: lot of ideas, but I'm gonna I'm gonna save some
• 19:45
  Speaker 1: for later. You know, I'm gonna throw one out at
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: you that I think is in its final form. What
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: it can be, It's pretty simple. It's called happy Offbeat anniversary. Okay,
• 19:57
  Speaker 1: Happy offbeat anniversary. Now, this can be either something that's
• 20:02
  Speaker 1: having an anniversary in an uneven year, so not your
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: typical you know, twenty five, fifty ten, but something like
• 20:10
  Speaker 1: uneven offbeat or an anniversary for an unconventional or overlooked thing, Okay,
• 20:17
  Speaker 1: or it could be both. So an example would be
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: I would tell you you know, did you know this
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: year is the twenty eighth anniversary of Chumbawamba's hit song
• 20:28
  Speaker 1: tub Thumping?
• 20:29
  Speaker 3: Is that true?
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: That is true? Came out in nineteen ninety seven. Tell
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: you a few facts about Chumbawamba and tub Thumping? This song?
• 20:38
  Speaker 1: What was the band's breakout hit. They had actually been
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: around since the early nineteen eighties. Its title derives from
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: British slang for aggressive political protesting tub thumping, aggressive political protest.
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: Did you know that? Es?
• 20:56
  Speaker 3: I didn't.
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: So that's the that's the idea around and happy offbeat anniversary.
• 21:02
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I like the offbeat anniversaries. That's something that it's
• 21:06
  Speaker 3: an endless well, it's an end yeah, you know. Turn
• 21:09
  Speaker 3: in the corner here. Let's think about another segment where
• 21:14
  Speaker 3: it's a segment about the hypothetical. Okay, we've all heard
• 21:18
  Speaker 3: someone say I trade places with that person in a second,
• 21:21
  Speaker 3: but faced with real opportunity, shad, would you? So this
• 21:26
  Speaker 3: segment would supplant the age old statement with a question
• 21:31
  Speaker 3: and pose a real dilemma for the host of the show,
• 21:34
  Speaker 3: and the segment title would be would you trade places with?
• 21:38
  Speaker 3: And then pick a person. It could be a real person,
• 21:41
  Speaker 3: it could be a fictional character. It could be an absurd,
• 21:44
  Speaker 3: funnier pick. So let me give you an example. Maybe
• 21:49
  Speaker 3: would you trade places with a professional mascot? The benefits
• 21:53
  Speaker 3: you get to entertain thousands of people, Maybe you get
• 21:56
  Speaker 3: to go to your favorite sporting games, but your sweating
• 22:00
  Speaker 3: buckets inside a giant foam suit. You know, So would
• 22:04
  Speaker 3: you trade places with could be Willy Wonka, could be
• 22:10
  Speaker 3: a fictional character. You're a creative genius with a candy empire.
• 22:15
  Speaker 3: You know you have some deep, unsettling vibes obviously, but
• 22:18
  Speaker 3: would you like this weird chocolate covered life, so the
• 22:22
  Speaker 3: good and the bad? Right? Or maybe a house cat,
• 22:26
  Speaker 3: you know how Like people will say that, like, oh,
• 22:28
  Speaker 3: I trade places with my dog and a heartbeat.
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: M h. I think that's a good idea. I like
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: that one, and we could probably go to some interesting
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: places there.
• 22:37
  Speaker 3: I do like the constant segments, the new segments. They
• 22:41
  Speaker 3: keep things fresh.
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: Yeah, just keep them rolling in, That's what I say.
• 22:44
  Speaker 3: Yeah, And hopefully as listeners you get this feeling of
• 22:48
  Speaker 3: like I never know what I'm gonna get.
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: Yeah, the way these segments just drop down from the sky,
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: we can't even control anything. Just kind of like what
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: it feels like,