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With Further Ado Episode #10: The Corduroy Conundrum · 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 1: This is that show chat.
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Speaker 3: I have something really good for you today. I think
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Speaker 3: it's going to make a lot of sense as we
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Speaker 3: go through the episode. But it's a random fact slash trivia,
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Speaker 3: I think, and it's pertinent to something that we're going
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Speaker 3: to discuss. But I thought i'd ask you and see,
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Speaker 3: you know, listeners, do you know this? Maybe you can
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Speaker 3: chime in and say, man, you guys are giving way
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Speaker 3: too easy of these trivia facts. Okay, you gotta really
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Speaker 3: spice it up next time, which we will just let
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Speaker 3: us know. All right, So this is about Huey Lewis,
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Speaker 3: all right, So Huey Lewis and the News, of course, right,
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Speaker 3: since we all know the News was the band that
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Speaker 3: Huey Lewis played with contributed the song back in Time
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Speaker 3: to back in.
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Speaker 1: The future, Back to the future.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, back to the future, but it almost wasn't used.
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Speaker 3: What was the original pitch Huey Lewis turned down for
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Speaker 3: the film? Do you know the original pitch for the song?
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Speaker 3: I can give you multiple choice if you want, let
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Speaker 3: me do that.
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Speaker 1: I the only thing I would guess was it's hip
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Speaker 1: to be square, but I think that was a later
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Speaker 1: Was that a later Huey Lewis song.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, well, the multiple choice will help you. You'll get
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Speaker 3: what I'm after here. Okay, So the original pitch that
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Speaker 3: he turned down for the film was either a re
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Speaker 3: recording Chuck Berry's Johnny B. Good B appearing in The
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Speaker 3: Enchantment under the Seed dance C playing Marty McFly's music teacher,
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Speaker 3: or D writing the theme song directly about time travel.
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Speaker 1: I'm gonna say, since I believe Huey Lewis appears in
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Speaker 1: the movie, I'm gonna say it's C as his music teacher.
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Speaker 1: Either that or it's D. I'm on the fence there,
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Speaker 1: but I'll go with see.
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Speaker 3: Okay, You're right it would have been D not C.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, definitely where I was going.
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Speaker 3: D Yeah, so writing the theme song directly about time travel,
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Speaker 3: he did not want to write a movie song, so
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Speaker 3: he just gave them the Power of Love, of which
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Speaker 3: worked out to be the song that was known to
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Speaker 3: go hand in hand with the movie, right it the
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Speaker 3: big song, power Love Love.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I think it worked out way better for all
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Speaker 1: of us. I'm actually glad you mentioned this. I forgot
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Speaker 1: to share this with you. You know, I told you
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Speaker 1: recently about my vacation. I was just on one of
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Speaker 1: the places I was. I was in Toronto where with
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Speaker 1: my family, I saw Back to the Future the musical.
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Speaker 3: Oh yeah, you left that out, I.
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Speaker 1: Know, I don't, you know, it's talking about other things
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Speaker 1: that slipped probably a reason I left it out. Not
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Speaker 1: good at all. It was real bad. It's one of
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Speaker 1: those things I was watching. I'm like I had almost
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Speaker 1: an epiphany where I was like, this nostalgia train has
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Speaker 1: gone so far off the tracks. We're just out of
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Speaker 1: control with this stuff. There's no reason whatsoever this needed
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Speaker 1: to become a musical. I don't know whose idea, you know.
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Speaker 1: We're like, ah, maybe this would be fun mm hmm
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Speaker 1: or cool. And there was some cool things like the
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Speaker 1: sets and the like set design and some of the
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Speaker 1: stuff they did on stage was pretty cool. Everything else
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Speaker 1: was just super dumb. Yeah, you know, it was like
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Speaker 1: kind of like, why there's no reason for this to
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Speaker 1: be in this form?
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Speaker 3: Mm hmm. But you know, I feel like they make
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Speaker 3: musicals out of everything. It seems like or plays, which
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Speaker 3: transitioning from one format to another doesn't always work, but
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Speaker 3: somehow like it gets greenlit by a lot of people
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Speaker 3: to make it to a Broadway play or musical. I've
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Speaker 3: heard the sets are really awesome, That's what I've heard.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, there are things that happen on stage, and like
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Speaker 1: the way they used kind of projection and different levels
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Speaker 1: of rear projection mixed with sets and with front projection
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Speaker 1: on top of it, that I thought was pretty cool
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Speaker 1: and it was almost like WHOA what am I looking
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Speaker 1: at right now? I thought that was altogether pretty cool
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Speaker 1: and kept me entertained. But anything that was happening with
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Speaker 1: a human being, I was kind of like, this is
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Speaker 1: lesser and stupider than the movie and nothing like you're like,
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Speaker 1: oh man, I really am interested in this person and
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Speaker 1: what's happening to them?
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Speaker 3: Is it just the same storyline? Like what's up with
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Speaker 3: the musical part? Like is it the music from it?
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Speaker 1: Essentially they try to like change it, and it said
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Speaker 1: in the thing like it was written by one of
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Speaker 1: the people who wrote the movie. But the music's like
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Speaker 1: not good. There's not one song where you're like, oh,
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Speaker 1: that's a good song, which is kind of what you're
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Speaker 1: hoping you know. Again, it's like, why put it in
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Speaker 1: this format other than to make money? And there are
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Speaker 1: examples where people are like, oh, man, this is an
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Speaker 1: interesting way I could take this and adapt it into
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Speaker 1: this other thing. I think of like Fargo the movie
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Speaker 1: and made it into a TV show and you're like, ah,
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Speaker 1: why are you doing that? But then some of that
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Speaker 1: was pretty good, and I think some of the musicals
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Speaker 1: that have been made of things, you know, I can't
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Speaker 1: think of any examples out the top of my head
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Speaker 1: because I don't know theater all that well, but I
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Speaker 1: think there are examples people would be like, oh, that
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Speaker 1: was actually pretty good and that added probably something new
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Speaker 1: to it or a new element.
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Speaker 3: Oh maybe like Wicked, which was you know, based off
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Speaker 3: of the Wizard of Oz. Yeah, but it also takes
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Speaker 3: it to a different level. It tells a whole kind
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Speaker 3: of news story about it.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, different story. And I don't know if that was
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Speaker 1: Was that a play first or a book first. I
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Speaker 1: don't know, but you know, it's like taking it over
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Speaker 1: here and doing something else with it. There should be
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Speaker 1: a reason for it other than like nostalgia or cash grab.
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Speaker 1: I didn't totally find that here.
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Speaker 3: I'm not gonna I was kind of curious, what did
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Speaker 3: the kids, What did your kids think of it? Like,
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Speaker 3: because you know, my kids loved Back to the Future too.
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Speaker 3: They're a little bit older, but not Back to.
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Speaker 1: The Future Part two. Back to the Future too.
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Speaker 3: Yeah too, yeah, yeah, yeah, I'm glad that you mentioned.
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Speaker 1: I think they enjoy you know, the parts of it
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Speaker 1: they thought was cool. They enjoyed the experience of watching it.
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Speaker 1: When we were like talking about it afterwards, it'd be like, well,
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Speaker 1: there was this, well that wasn't you know. It's kind
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Speaker 1: of like when we go in when we actually like
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Speaker 1: dig into it a little bit, you start to like
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Speaker 1: tear it a little.
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Speaker 3: Bit, poke the holes.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, you know, because like anything, they're still at
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Speaker 1: the age where you ask them how'd you like something,
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Speaker 1: They'll be like it was good, and if you probe
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Speaker 1: a little bit, you know, then things can start to
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Speaker 1: unravel a little bit if you try to dig in.
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Speaker 1: So they were kind of like, well, this wasn't that good.
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Speaker 1: Why did they do this? This part was I didn't
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Speaker 1: like that that much.
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Speaker 3: So what you're saying is, if you want to go
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Speaker 3: see this Broadway musical Back to the Future, you should
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Speaker 3: probably be on drugs.
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Speaker 1: Maybe you would even need a new drug for that.
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Speaker 3: I want a new drug. So yeah, So speaking of
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Speaker 3: the Huey Lewis reference.
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Speaker 1: Shad, Yeah, now it all makes sense.
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Speaker 3: You see how that's making sense. Now everything's coming together.
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Speaker 3: Took us a little while to get to the payoff.
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Speaker 1: As it sometimes does.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, and the payoff may not it might not be
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Speaker 3: that great.
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Speaker 1: I mean payoffs on this show are you know, they
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Speaker 1: don't pay a lot. Not a lot comes out of
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Speaker 1: the machine. It's like a single coin.
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Speaker 3: It was a nickel.
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Speaker 1: It was actually less than the money I put in.
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Speaker 1: Is that possible?
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Speaker 3: Yeah, m m yeah. So this segment, I Want a
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Speaker 3: New Drug is the segment title. Great title, but it's
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Speaker 3: not from the song, to be clear, it's not. It
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Speaker 3: has nothing to do with the song, right, No, I
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Speaker 3: mean you can't copyright the phrase I want a new drug.
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Speaker 3: Anybody could say that.
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Speaker 1: It's just a feeling.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, I want a new drug.
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Speaker 1: It's just something people say all the time.
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Speaker 3: People say it all the time. So you came to
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Speaker 3: the cast. Was it the last podcast of with further
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Speaker 3: Ado or was it yeah, one.
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Speaker 1: Or two ago in our you know where we could
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Speaker 1: this be a segment? This is fairly fairly recent though
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Speaker 1: fairly new.
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Speaker 3: Addition, what's the stipulations here? What's the segment about?
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Speaker 1: So the crux of this segment is is, you know,
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Speaker 1: we share an idea for a new pharmaceutical that could
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Speaker 1: solve a problem or give humans a new ability that
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Speaker 1: has to be for humans. So for each pharmaceutical, we're
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Speaker 1: going to provide a brand name, a tagline, some key
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Speaker 1: benefits you know why it's on the market, and you
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Speaker 1: know we got to do it to fine print some
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Speaker 1: potential side effects.
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Speaker 3: I love this.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, So do you have a new drug that you
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Speaker 1: can share with us today that maybe we can get
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Speaker 1: out onto the market and help some people with I do.
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Speaker 3: It's a fine drug. You're gonna like this, Okay, Okay,
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Speaker 3: I'm pretty proud of this. Pretty easy. Sounds like most
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Speaker 3: pharmaceuticals today. It's called Levestra. Oh, Leavestra has the word
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Speaker 3: live in it. The key benefit as long as you
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Speaker 3: take it, you'll continue to live.
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Speaker 1: It's good.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's simple, right, it's a simple, simple drug. The
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Speaker 3: tagline for it live for as long as you want.
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Speaker 3: So the potential side effect, of course is death. You know,
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Speaker 3: like most pharmaceuticals, there's a disclaimer. Yeah, that's what I
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Speaker 3: loved about. When you came with the segment, I was saying,
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Speaker 3: this is supremo time for disclaimers. I don't know if
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Speaker 3: you thought that way, but it actually uh encapsulates all
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Speaker 3: the goods and the bads of the product. So important
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Speaker 3: safety information for Lavestra, which could be considered life continuance tablets.
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Speaker 3: Continued life requires continued use. Do not stop Leavestra unless
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Speaker 3: you are fully prepared for permanent discontinuation of existence. Mist
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Speaker 3: doses may result in immediate and irreversible mortality, including but
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Speaker 3: not limited to death. Do not take Leavestra if you
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Speaker 3: are already immortal, currently deceased, or allergic to living. Common
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Speaker 3: side effects include birthday accumulation, existential dread, tax obligations, and
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Speaker 3: outliving your group. Chat Rare side effects include witnessing the
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Speaker 3: heat death of the universe and knowing too much about trivia.
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Speaker 3: Leavest may interact with time, fate, and your savings account.
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Speaker 3: Ongoing payments required. Failure to pay may result in service termination,
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Speaker 3: including death. Consult a physician, philosopher, and lice account before starting.
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Speaker 3: Results may vary after the sun expands. Live as long
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Speaker 3: as you want, terms, conditions, and cosmic laws apply, so
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Speaker 3: anyway you keep paying or you die inevitably. This is
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Speaker 3: what I think all pharmaceutical companies want. Right, you're kind
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Speaker 3: of taking drugs to live longer, healthier most of the time.
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Speaker 3: But could you imagine a drug that as long as
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Speaker 3: you keep taking it, you live, you live? Levestra.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I think it's a great one, and you could
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Speaker 1: charge a pretty penny for that, because what's better than life?
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Speaker 1: You know what greater benefit?
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Speaker 3: And you know that there's like pros and cons to that.
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Speaker 3: I mean, is it going to be great quality of life?
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Speaker 3: Here's one potential side effect I thought of this was
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Speaker 3: depending on when you take it. Because if let's say
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Speaker 3: you're twenty and you start taking it prematurely, right because
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Speaker 3: you're not old, you have to take that then as
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Speaker 3: soon as you start taking it, you have to continue
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Speaker 3: to take it or else you could die. So you
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Speaker 3: don't want to take it too prematurely because then you're
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Speaker 3: just taking this thing and you're forced to just keep paying.
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Speaker 1: So the situation is not if you stop taking it
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Speaker 1: you might die, it's if you stop taking it, you
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Speaker 1: will die.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, I think I don't know. That's what I think
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Speaker 3: is an interesting potential side effect, be cause you know, like,
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Speaker 3: I think that works in line with what you expect, right,
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Speaker 3: The side effects are always the worst. It's like or
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Speaker 3: rectal bleeding, you know, and you're like, what is that
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Speaker 3: what it's supposed to be curing? Why would you have
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Speaker 3: that as a side effect.
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Speaker 1: I think it's great, but I think it'll be off
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Speaker 1: the market pretty fast. Here's why. Okay, someone's gonna take
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Speaker 1: it and they're gonna get hit by a truck and
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Speaker 1: they're gonna die, and then their family is gonna sue
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Speaker 1: and they're gonna have to they're gonna like pull it
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Speaker 1: off the market and be like it didn't work, It
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Speaker 1: did not work. Is there some sort of like stipulation
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Speaker 1: of like, well, you know, you can't stop you from
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Speaker 1: a pitchfork to the throat or something.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, that's got to be part of the disclaimer, as
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Speaker 3: I imagine that was left off. Or worst case scenario,
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Speaker 3: you get hit by the truck and you continue to live,
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Speaker 3: but you're not in a great shape.
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Speaker 1: Like a living pancake.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, you're like, uh, you know, your eyeballs hanging out,
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Speaker 3: your you know whatever. And they're like, don't stop taking
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Speaker 3: a daddy.
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Speaker 1: You must live. Please let me go.
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Speaker 3: Let me stop taking the drug.
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Speaker 1: Well, you have taken it to the highest level. Let me,
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Speaker 1: of course take it to the lowest possible level. I'm
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Speaker 1: talking about a drug called tableinol.
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Speaker 3: Tableinol I like that too.
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Speaker 1: Their tagline is close with confidence. So when is Tablena?
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Speaker 1: Why is this on the market. Tablenol is the first
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Speaker 1: cognitive support supplement designed for people who have forty seven
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Speaker 1: open browser tabs but no memory of why. Whether you're
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Speaker 1: hoarding articles you'll never read, vacation plans you can't afford,
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Speaker 1: or recipes that require seventeen spices you don't own, Tableanol
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Speaker 1: helps you let go with once daily uses. It boosts
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Speaker 1: decision making clarity, and gives your brain permission to close
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Speaker 1: tabs without guilt or fear of losing quote unquote important
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Speaker 1: information like that one Sourdough blog post from twenty twenty.
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Speaker 1: Potential side effects sudden urge to organize your desktop, unexplainable
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Speaker 1: productivity boost, mild paranoia that you just close something important,
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Speaker 1: and temporary nostalgia for that one tab you kept open
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Speaker 1: for six months. MM, tableinol close with confidence.
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Speaker 3: I like the fact that it, you know, it's helping
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Speaker 3: you let go.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, not of your life, ye, just of all those
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Speaker 1: tabs you got, We're like, well, I'm not going to
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Speaker 1: look at them, but I don't want to close them.
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Speaker 3: I like the name. The name is great. It's very easy. Yeah,
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Speaker 3: it's like leavestra tablein al or like tablinol. Yeah, there's
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Speaker 3: probably gonna be some.
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Speaker 1: Uh, there could be a lawsuit there.
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Speaker 3: When you said let go, though, I kept thinking you
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Speaker 3: could probably take tableinol to let go. When somebody takes
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Speaker 3: too much lavestra, you.
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Speaker 1: Know, can you take too much lavestra?
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Speaker 3: I mean you might what happens if you overdose on lavestra?
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Speaker 1: Can you overdose on life?
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Speaker 3: I would imagine you could, just like you can overdose
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Speaker 3: on too many tabs open in your browser. You know,
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Speaker 3: tableinol is like, just let go of them. You're like no,
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Speaker 3: or you take too much tableinol, and then you have
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Speaker 3: no open tabs on your browser, Like you go to
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Speaker 3: work and you're like, what are you what are you
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Speaker 3: even doing here? I can't bring myself to open up
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Speaker 3: any browser tabs, like, but you need one open.
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Speaker 1: I was actually thinking you take too much tabletol and
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Speaker 1: then you stop taking your leavestra because you've let go yeah,
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Speaker 1: so much. You've let go of everything, you know.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm just letting go of everything really, Yeah, including
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Speaker 3: the vest that seems dangerous.
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Speaker 1: How long do you have after you stop taking that?
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Speaker 1: No one knows.
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Speaker 3: I think those two things go together really well. Marketing
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Speaker 3: Mascherie dicky.
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Speaker 1: Ah, marketing mascherie. Wow. I just they just pop up
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Speaker 1: on you, uh so quick. Sometimes you can't even catch
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Speaker 1: your breath.
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Speaker 3: Most of the times I don't catch my breath. So
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Speaker 3: this is the fine and absurd art of mash up marketing.
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Speaker 3: And we just came up with this one on Could
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Speaker 3: this be a segment not that long ago too?
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Speaker 1: Yeah, a lot of newbies coming into play today.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, good ones too, because I liked I want any drug.
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Speaker 3: I think that's a that's a keeper. The example I
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Speaker 3: gave in could this be a segment was The Fast
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Speaker 3: and the Flaming Hot, And that was like Fast and Furious,
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Speaker 3: the movie franchise with Cheetos Flaming Hot Cheetos. Kind of
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Speaker 3: a weird combination, but you know, could work, could work.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't remember it quite offhand. I thought you
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Speaker 1: had a good tagline too, about something about family.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, what was that? Oh yeah it was.
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Speaker 1: Uh, didn't mean to put you on the spot.
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Speaker 3: Oh, here it is. It's not about family anymore. It's
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Speaker 3: about flavor. So thinking of two things to mash up.
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Speaker 3: It could be anything, right we were talking about like
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Speaker 3: movies and the snack food, or it could be whatever, right,
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Speaker 3: So that's the beauty of it. What did you come
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Speaker 3: up with for marketing, Mascherie?
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Speaker 1: So my marketing Mascherie took me a while. I was
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Speaker 1: playing around with some different ideas. Maybe some other time
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Speaker 1: I'll talk about Gene Hackman jeans. That one didn't quite panised.
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Speaker 3: Was that because it's too soon.
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Speaker 1: I feel like it's too soon. Yeah, we'll come back
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Speaker 1: to that at another time. But I did you know
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Speaker 1: another kind of celebrity tie in? I did go with
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Speaker 1: Stephen King Stanley cups. Okay, so you may be familiar
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Speaker 1: with this hot trend. So it's dying off a little now,
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Speaker 1: these Stanley cups. You know, the kids would love them.
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Speaker 1: They're a big thing. Buy them at Target and other places.
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Speaker 1: Is a cool thing. It's cool and off now. But
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Speaker 1: you know, I thought this thing that the kids love
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Speaker 1: a lot of, like teen girls and stuff, what if
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Speaker 1: you brought the Master of Horror into that, which could
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Speaker 1: really especially ruin it pretty quick now that he's like
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Speaker 1: eighty years old. So we've got the tagline thirst dot
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Speaker 1: dot dot for Horror. The collaboration Stanley Cups, the viral
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Speaker 1: hydration staple of suburban teens, collides with the unrelenting darkness
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Speaker 1: of Stephen King's literary universe. What began is a joke tweet.
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Speaker 1: What if a Stanley cup was haunted spiraled into a
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Speaker 1: real crossover with the King of Horror. The limited edition
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Speaker 1: Drink and Dread collection is born. Let me tell you
19:27
Speaker 1: a little bit about the product line. We've got the
19:30
Speaker 1: Overlook Redroom tumbler, blood red gradient with tiny type written
19:37
Speaker 1: red room etchings around the lid. We've got the Kujo
19:42
Speaker 1: Spillproof model Bite marks etched into the silicon grip. We've
19:49
Speaker 1: got the Pennywise Float Cup, which comes with a balloon
19:53
Speaker 1: shaped straw and a foggy white finish, and the it
19:58
Speaker 1: glows down here Glow in the Dark edition, which is
20:02
Speaker 1: lit from beneath the base, slowly flickering like a storm drain.
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Speaker 1: Each cup includes an exclusive QR code linking to a
20:12
Speaker 1: King narrated audio book, and creepy hydration reminders like you
20:17
Speaker 1: haven't sipped in thirty minutes and it's going for you.
20:22
Speaker 1: So some related marketing efforts, you know, tie ins. I
20:26
Speaker 1: thought of we could have some TikTok teasers of teens
20:30
Speaker 1: opening their haunted cups to find mysterious condensation messages, some
20:36
Speaker 1: pop up installations like creepy haunted hydration stations at hot topic,
20:43
Speaker 1: and you know the hashtag Stanley King challenge, a TikTok
20:49
Speaker 1: trend where you take a sip and recite your favorite
20:52
Speaker 1: King quote while being jump scared by your dog in
20:56
Speaker 1: a clown wig.
21:01
Speaker 3: The whole thing is stupendous.
21:05
Speaker 1: That is the word stupendous is correct.
21:09
Speaker 3: It's glorious. I love it.
21:10
Speaker 1: It's It's the end of a trend. This is how
21:12
Speaker 1: you know, you're like, this was cool and this is
21:16
Speaker 1: when you know it's not anymore.
21:18
Speaker 3: The funny thing about this and it might not be funny,
21:21
Speaker 3: it just might be really sad. Listeners are gonna be like,
21:24
Speaker 3: come on, man, I knew this as you first started
21:27
Speaker 3: describing it. In my brain, as you were saying Stanley Cup,
21:32
Speaker 3: I was thinking about hockey. Oh yeah. Every time he
21:37
Speaker 3: said I was like, is this a trend like the
21:40
Speaker 3: Stanley Cup? Like what's going on with the hockey? I
21:42
Speaker 3: didn't realize that was the thing in my head, Like
21:45
Speaker 3: I couldn't connect the two things.
21:47
Speaker 1: Two things that also have nothing to do with each other.
21:49
Speaker 1: What if Stephen King just popped out of the Stanley cuff.
21:55
Speaker 3: Like Stephen King inspired Stanley cuffs and they're like, I don't,
21:58
Speaker 3: I don't get it. You know, it's cold, it's icy.
22:02
Speaker 1: It's like we just love hockey, eh eh.
22:05
Speaker 3: I love the descriptions though of the Stanley cups with
22:08
Speaker 3: like you know, the Kucho bite marks and stuff like that.
22:10
Speaker 3: That stuff, to me is pretty cool though, as like
22:13
Speaker 3: a franchise IP collab mashup.
22:16
Speaker 1: I mean, King never gets old, you know, this guy
22:19
Speaker 1: keeps going.
22:20
Speaker 3: Yeah, two things I didn't think would go together. Also,
22:22
Speaker 3: I'm kind of curious about the gene Hackman jeans.
22:25
Speaker 1: I'll tell you about them later. I got it all,
22:27
Speaker 1: I got it all mapped out, just you know, saving
22:30
Speaker 1: it for another time, tucked it away in my slacks.
22:32
Speaker 3: I will say, yours is very organized. You have like
22:36
Speaker 3: a whole methodical list.
22:40
Speaker 1: I based it on your you know example.
22:43
Speaker 3: I know which was great, which is great. I was
22:47
Speaker 3: a little bit more like Helter skelter.
22:50
Speaker 1: There's no rules in this game, but I saw.
22:53
Speaker 3: This mashup of two brands that happened a little while ago.
22:56
Speaker 3: Is a marketing collab from Milk Bone and Jeff Peanut Butter.
23:00
Speaker 3: And that's natural, you know. But this isn't as natural,
23:05
Speaker 3: I don't think. But I think it's pretty good. So
23:08
Speaker 3: here's mine. It's called super Loom Bros. So it's a
23:13
Speaker 3: wear and wash collaboration between Super Mario, Nintendo who's actually
23:18
Speaker 3: the maker of that, and Fruit of the Loom. Okay,
23:23
Speaker 3: so it's made for kids, but adults want them even more.
23:27
Speaker 3: They've found wash where power up Okay, everyday undies unlock
23:34
Speaker 3: Mario power ups, coin quests, and level progress with every
23:39
Speaker 3: care cycle and step. What do you mean, Patrick, What
23:42
Speaker 3: does that mean? Well, I'll tell you Star Power Undies
23:45
Speaker 3: have a tag that tracks movement and wash cycles, so
23:49
Speaker 3: it teaches kids about healthy movements, you know, being active,
23:53
Speaker 3: and teaches them how to do their own laundry. Each
23:56
Speaker 3: tag logs a star streak, you know, like Super Mario
24:00
Speaker 3: you hit five in a row to unlock what they
24:02
Speaker 3: call an invincibility ar filter. Right, just something cool for
24:08
Speaker 3: the kids to play around with and adults. The tagline
24:12
Speaker 3: super Loombros, Fruit of the Loom and Super Mario It's easy,
24:17
Speaker 3: Super Easy wash where Power Up is sort of like
24:20
Speaker 3: a campaign slogan, and they have really cool things that
24:25
Speaker 3: they're going to do in social things like prompting people
24:28
Speaker 3: to show their highest flagpole jump in their undies. Now
24:33
Speaker 3: this works only for adults of.
24:35
Speaker 1: Course, of course, but I can't wait to see how
24:37
Speaker 1: that turns out.
24:38
Speaker 3: It's going to be like the Ice Bucket Challenge, but grosser,
24:42
Speaker 3: you know, very product based and grosser. Yeah, but the packaging.
24:47
Speaker 3: I like the idea of the packaging. It's going to
24:49
Speaker 3: be like a cartridge style box, you know, like the
24:52
Speaker 3: old Nintendos, the original Nintendo cartridges with an inside flap
24:57
Speaker 3: and then basically has like care tips and level hints,
25:00
Speaker 3: you know it just like you're playing a video game.
25:02
Speaker 3: And then the end caps where you like buy them
25:05
Speaker 3: in the store and stuff would be like the green
25:07
Speaker 3: warp pipes, yeah, you know with the ambient coin sounds
25:11
Speaker 3: in motion like as you walk by, like did so
25:14
Speaker 3: super Loombros. Finally underwear with boss level energy.
25:19
Speaker 1: I mean it's pretty good and I think it's pretty fun. Now,
25:22
Speaker 1: what was the you said you got to do with
25:24
Speaker 1: five five days in a row? Is it like wear
25:27
Speaker 1: them five days in a row? Mm hmm, but not the.
25:30
Speaker 3: Same pair, yeah, so not the same pair wash cycles,
25:34
Speaker 3: so like it knows when you've washed them. The tag
25:38
Speaker 3: like senses water and soap, because if if you were
25:41
Speaker 3: just sweating in your undies and it thought we were
25:43
Speaker 3: washing them every day, that wouldn't be great. But then
25:47
Speaker 3: you get a star streak, so you hit five in
25:49
Speaker 3: a row, you know, so you wash your underwear every day,
25:51
Speaker 3: you get an ar filter or whatever.
25:53
Speaker 1: Who's washing their underwear every day?
25:57
Speaker 3: Who's washing their underwear every week? Is what I'm asking.
26:00
Speaker 1: At first, when you were talking about it, I thought,
26:03
Speaker 1: I'm like, oh, man, is this going to be like
26:06
Speaker 1: there's some sort of power up button and that just
26:08
Speaker 1: automatically cleans your underwear while you're wearing them, so you
26:12
Speaker 1: never take off your underwear.
26:13
Speaker 3: Oh that's pretty good.
26:15
Speaker 1: I got to power these things up. They're getting really crusty. Uh.
26:21
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's the opposite of a star streak. Yeah, like,
26:25
Speaker 3: are those streaks? No, that's a star streak. It's different.
26:29
Speaker 1: I also was thinking, I was like, is there going
26:31
Speaker 1: to be like on the ass of these underwear, like
26:34
Speaker 1: a warp zone.
26:36
Speaker 3: Oh, I don't know how I feel about that, do
26:40
Speaker 3: you know? I feel a love that, So I don't know.
26:44
Speaker 3: You know, I think it's a I think it's a
26:46
Speaker 3: fun It could be a fun thing. It actually has
26:49
Speaker 3: potential to be something that would also be beneficial, you know,
26:53
Speaker 3: teaching kids. But you know, obviously, like all things like that,
26:57
Speaker 3: then you give the adults. The adults really want them
27:01
Speaker 3: because they're kind of like retro and kitchy and stuff.
27:05
Speaker 3: You know.
27:06
Speaker 1: I almost like it more as a play for adults,
27:08
Speaker 1: you know, with the social efforts, you know, the kind
27:12
Speaker 1: of challenges, and they maybe not quite adults, but those
27:16
Speaker 1: people in their like twenties or something like that, and
27:19
Speaker 1: the packaging, which I think is really cool.
27:21
Speaker 3: To your point, I could see like this catching on
27:23
Speaker 3: with like young people are like, just like young.
27:27
Speaker 1: Adults as like a retro thing.
27:29
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's weird and goofy enough because it's underwear, you
27:34
Speaker 3: know what I mean that people might might actually enjoy that.
27:38
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's kind of like a mullet coming back. It's
27:41
Speaker 1: like this is so ridiculous, and then people are doing
27:44
Speaker 1: it at first in an ironic way, and then it
27:47
Speaker 1: becomes like non ironic and people are like, well, I
27:49
Speaker 1: just like it, and your wife's like, you're seriously doing
27:53
Speaker 1: laundry for one pair of underwear.
27:56
Speaker 3: Every day, You're actually doing more harm did the environment
28:02
Speaker 3: than any And it would be like you know the
28:05
Speaker 3: cured cups, the cacops, you know where they were, Like,
28:08
Speaker 3: there's so many of these going into the landfill and
28:10
Speaker 3: you're like washing one pair of underwear, like and there
28:14
Speaker 3: millions of people are doing the same thing, actually starting
28:18
Speaker 3: a movement the earth. Global climate change is you know,
28:23
Speaker 3: it's the planet's heating up.
28:25
Speaker 1: We are killing the environment so much faster just because
28:28
Speaker 1: of these underwear. Could this be a segment?
28:34
Speaker 3: So the last two segments came from this segment.
28:38
Speaker 1: I mean it's a breeding ground for new ideas, new material.
28:44
Speaker 1: As you can see, things from this part of the
28:47
Speaker 1: show do make it into other episodes, sometimes pretty quickly.
28:52
Speaker 1: Like these newbies we just got kicked up to the
28:55
Speaker 1: top here. You don't have to earn your keep around here.
28:59
Speaker 1: You can be that good that you jet right up,
29:03
Speaker 1: you know, you become a regular. So yeah, could this
29:06
Speaker 1: be a segment pretty you know, straightforward? This is where
29:10
Speaker 1: we pitch an idea for a new segment on the show.
29:13
Speaker 1: What do you have this week?
29:15
Speaker 3: Patrick? I, I really I have a hard time this
29:19
Speaker 3: week because I was trying to think, Okay, what do
29:21
Speaker 3: I want to add to the segments? You know, and
29:23
Speaker 3: I tend to probably do a lot of the same.
29:26
Speaker 3: But then I looked back and I was like, oh,
29:29
Speaker 3: maybe maybe I have some variety in here this time.
29:32
Speaker 3: I wanted to keep it kind of simple, and I thought,
29:34
Speaker 3: this is something that I think people ask themselves all
29:37
Speaker 3: the time. Or it's like a touchy subject for some people,
29:41
Speaker 3: because some people love it and some people hate it.
29:45
Speaker 3: What am I talking about? I'm talking about condiments, specifically
29:49
Speaker 3: one kind of condiment. Catch up, Okay, the whole segment
29:53
Speaker 3: title is called would this be good with Ketchup? Believe
29:57
Speaker 3: it or not? There are tons of articles and websites
30:00
Speaker 3: they're out there trying to answer this very question. So
30:03
Speaker 3: this would be what the segment's about, essentially, on a
30:06
Speaker 3: much smaller scale, you know, like it's not life or
30:08
Speaker 3: death kind of stuff, you know. But I'll give you
30:10
Speaker 3: an example among the many. If you just typed in
30:15
Speaker 3: in Google, would this be good with Ketchup? You'll get
30:18
Speaker 3: tons of results from this. But Reddit, as we love
30:21
Speaker 3: to go to for advice on life, I pulled a
30:26
Speaker 3: couple things that I saw on there which I thought
30:29
Speaker 3: was appropriate for this segment what goes well with Ketchup?
30:33
Speaker 3: Some people said things like pepperoni pizza hot out of
30:36
Speaker 3: the oven with cold Ketchup on top. I don't know,
30:39
Speaker 3: yeh is that be good with Ketchup? When my kids
30:42
Speaker 3: were little, they would answer simply a spoon, Yeah, ketchup
30:47
Speaker 3: on a spoon. Another person wrote craft dinner and if
30:51
Speaker 3: I had a million dollars, I would just eat more
30:54
Speaker 3: and buy really expensive ketchup with it. That's right, all
30:57
Speaker 3: the fanciest dijon ketchup. And then and then.
31:03
Speaker 1: We'll play on the bare naked ladies.
31:05
Speaker 3: But my favorite, of course was something that was adjacent
31:08
Speaker 3: to the ketchup was you know, there's a whole subculture
31:13
Speaker 3: of people who love ketchup, love and hate right, yeah,
31:17
Speaker 3: but love ketchup. And they said a woman at my
31:20
Speaker 3: work asked if she could use my ketchup, then cried
31:23
Speaker 3: when I told her to kill herself so much just
31:29
Speaker 3: verson loved their ketchup. Yeah, So I thought it would
31:33
Speaker 3: just be kind of fun to say, you know, like
31:35
Speaker 3: just come up with some ideas, a handful three one,
31:39
Speaker 3: I don't know whatever it is, and just say, you know,
31:41
Speaker 3: would the speak with ketchup? Because it's an existential question,
31:44
Speaker 3: it seems like because of whether people love it or
31:47
Speaker 3: hate it, you know what I mean? Like some people
31:49
Speaker 3: say no about eggs and ketchup. Some people love that.
31:53
Speaker 3: I don't know, what do you think?
31:55
Speaker 1: That's a pretty good one. I think there's a surprising
31:57
Speaker 1: amount of places to go with it. Where do you
31:59
Speaker 1: land on ketsh? I guess where's your Where do you
32:02
Speaker 1: sit with ketchup?
32:03
Speaker 3: I like, I mean I don't. I don't generally eat
32:07
Speaker 3: just ketchup.
32:09
Speaker 1: Well that's good. You're not a You're not a ketchup
32:12
Speaker 1: on a spoon.
32:12
Speaker 3: Guy, No, I'm not ketchup on a spoon, but like
32:16
Speaker 3: for like fries or something. I actually kind of like
32:18
Speaker 3: a mixture of like ketchup and mayo. It's got kind
32:22
Speaker 3: of a taste to it. I like that, or like
32:24
Speaker 3: barbecue sauce and mayo. I make concoctions all the time,
32:28
Speaker 3: So I'm like, I think I'm okay more than most.
32:31
Speaker 1: Yeah, I probably am at the same place. I just
32:33
Speaker 1: want to make sure all our answers aren't going to
32:35
Speaker 1: be no. Yeah, I'm like, I have no beef with ketchup,
32:39
Speaker 1: no pun intended. You know, I'll eat on certain things,
32:41
Speaker 1: but I don't. It's not my like go to condiment.
32:44
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's not either for me. I would probably do
32:47
Speaker 3: like a barbecue or something like that over a you know,
32:50
Speaker 3: straight ketchup.
32:51
Speaker 1: Yeah, even like on a burger, I probably prefer like
32:53
Speaker 1: a mayo or a must even mayo and mustard mustard
32:58
Speaker 1: to some respect before ketch But I have no problems
33:01
Speaker 1: with ketchup on most things. I'm not grossed out by it.
33:03
Speaker 1: I would never eat it on a spoon, though.
33:05
Speaker 3: I mean, I don't know if this is a great segment,
33:08
Speaker 3: would we have fun with it. We probably could, you know,
33:10
Speaker 3: go in all kinds of directions. Then I thought like,
33:13
Speaker 3: is it too close to would you eat that? You
33:16
Speaker 3: know what I mean, which was another segment title I
33:18
Speaker 3: came up with. And I don't know, like, am I
33:21
Speaker 3: food focused? I don't know anyway, I'm just throwing that
33:25
Speaker 3: out there.
33:26
Speaker 1: Yeah, no, I think it works, and I think, you know,
33:29
Speaker 1: you could throw other condiments in there, but yeah, it's good.
33:32
Speaker 1: Neither one of us hates if somebody was like, I
33:34
Speaker 1: would never really catch up on anything. You kind of
33:37
Speaker 1: killed the segment. Here's what I got. We like games,
33:41
Speaker 1: we like Yeah, the price is right. There's always been
33:44
Speaker 1: a touch point for us. So I wanted something like that.
33:47
Speaker 1: I was looking for a kind of game. Here's what
33:50
Speaker 1: I came up with. It's called Amazon price Check. Oh okay,
33:55
Speaker 1: so you know Amazon, the world's most popular online retailer.
33:59
Speaker 1: We would each take turns sharing a real Amazon product.
34:03
Speaker 1: Could be tiny, could be massive, could be common, could
34:06
Speaker 1: be bizarre, but it should always be you know, interesting
34:09
Speaker 1: enough that you're kind of like, Oh, so, the presenter
34:12
Speaker 1: of the product would describe their item in some detail,
34:15
Speaker 1: what it is, you know, what it does? Any notable features,
34:19
Speaker 1: share a couple reviews of the product. You know, they
34:22
Speaker 1: can be funny, they can be honest, they could be
34:25
Speaker 1: unhinged if you want, you don't say the price of
34:27
Speaker 1: the product though, Okay, So the guesser, based on the
34:30
Speaker 1: description of the reviews, has to make their best guess
34:33
Speaker 1: of the price. If they guess within ten percent of
34:37
Speaker 1: the actual price without going over, of course they win. Okay,
34:41
Speaker 1: So that the product costs ten dollars and they guess
34:43
Speaker 1: between nine and ten dollars, they would get it right now.
34:47
Speaker 1: I was trying to think. I'm like, well, what can
34:49
Speaker 1: we get for winning? And maybe it's nothing at first.
34:52
Speaker 1: We could either play a few rounds within the segment,
34:55
Speaker 1: or we could, you know, play it repeatedly over time,
34:59
Speaker 1: and maybe after you win three times, the other person
35:04
Speaker 1: has to send you a random prize from Amazon.
35:07
Speaker 3: Oh I like that.
35:08
Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't know.
35:09
Speaker 3: Yeah, I was hoping you were gonna say that. I
35:11
Speaker 3: was hoping you were gonna say that that sounds fun.
35:13
Speaker 1: Yeah, and then you could like find something because obviously
35:17
Speaker 1: the world of Amazon encompasses so much.
35:21
Speaker 3: I like that a lot. I like that way more
35:24
Speaker 3: than would this be good with ketchup. I think that
35:31
Speaker 3: is far more entertaining.
35:33
Speaker 1: Well, I think they can both exist in this world.
35:36
Speaker 3: They could, Yeah, they both could exist. But I think
35:38
Speaker 3: it's far more entertaining. And I love the game element
35:41
Speaker 3: to it for sure.
35:42
Speaker 1: Yeah, so it's got that game experience. So what do
35:45
Speaker 1: you think about the prize? Do you think we should
35:47
Speaker 1: have to do multiple rounds of it? Do you think
35:48
Speaker 1: we should just do one round and then you get
35:50
Speaker 1: the prize? But do you think we should have to
35:51
Speaker 1: play like three different times on three different episodes then
35:54
Speaker 1: you get the prize.
35:55
Speaker 3: I feel like that's a long time to play it.
35:57
Speaker 3: It would be I think who wins you get the
36:01
Speaker 3: prize that episode. I don't think it's over time. And
36:05
Speaker 3: I think it would be fun to like send and
36:08
Speaker 3: also would be fun to receive a prize, you know,
36:10
Speaker 3: like even if it's like thanks for the one pack
36:13
Speaker 3: of pen that you sent me. You know it's just a.
36:16
Speaker 1: Pen, thanks for the amish hat.
36:19
Speaker 3: Well, I didn't realize they sold singular paper clips, you know,
36:24
Speaker 3: stuff like that. I think it'd be funny to get
36:26
Speaker 3: that in the mail or to give it in the mail.
36:28
Speaker 1: Yeah, and then we could, you know, the next time
36:31
Speaker 1: we do it, you could talk about what the prize was.
36:34
Speaker 3: Yeah, see that that that's I also think that would
36:37
Speaker 3: be more fun that way, especially for listeners because they're
36:40
Speaker 3: not like, well I gotta listen to those three times
36:42
Speaker 3: till somebody gets fried.
36:44
Speaker 1: It's been a year and a half with Oh that's right,
36:47
Speaker 1: there was a prize with them. Yeah, probably one time,
36:49
Speaker 1: is right. You know though, to take it back with
36:52
Speaker 1: the ketchup, we could actually eat the thing with the ketchup.
36:57
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, we could.
36:59
Speaker 1: And then you know, report back on that.
37:02
Speaker 3: We should do that for everything, like would you eat
37:05
Speaker 3: that too? All those we got to do it? No, yeah, no,
37:09
Speaker 3: that's a good idea. You could. You could do that.
37:11
Speaker 1: So you're in on Amazon price check. These are both
37:14
Speaker 1: passing through to the next round for sure.
37:16
Speaker 3: Amazon price Check, I put in, would would this be
37:19
Speaker 3: good with ketchup?
37:20
Speaker 1: But we'll see that one's mid we'll see if it
37:23
Speaker 1: makes it to the big show. You feel like Amazon
37:27
Speaker 1: price check might be there quicker.
37:29
Speaker 3: I think I think I'd be open to play that
37:31
Speaker 3: the next time around.
37:33
Speaker 1: This is the thing. We do like playing games. We
37:35
Speaker 1: like little competitions.
37:37
Speaker 3: And whispering walking still in there in the mix.
37:40
Speaker 1: I forgot about whispering walking.
37:44
Speaker 3: And reading Reddit reading red it.
37:48
Speaker 1: That one's actually pretty good. I think sometimes there's an
37:51
Speaker 1: idea whispering walking and maybe reading reddits like that too,
37:55
Speaker 1: where they just need a little bit of honing. They
37:57
Speaker 1: got good tales, but they need like how they work,
38:00
Speaker 1: might need a little bit of you know, finesse.
38:04
Speaker 3: Maybe in reading Reddit you have to read it like
38:07
Speaker 3: LeVar Burton in the show. Maybe I used to do
38:11
Speaker 3: that as walking, Like I would read people's Facebook posts
38:16
Speaker 3: that were like real bizarre Facebook posts, and I would
38:20
Speaker 3: read them in a walk in voice.
38:22
Speaker 1: What if whispering walking and reading Reddit combine?
38:25
Speaker 3: Mmmm, they're both alliterations. Yeah, how do we combine those
38:30
Speaker 3: two things, whispering walk and reading Reddit? Yeah, whispering walking
38:35
Speaker 3: reading Ready, it.
38:36
Speaker 1: Could just be us doing walk in reading Reddit books.
38:40
Speaker 1: It's just a pretty entertaining segment.
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Speaker 3: That might be the next one right there with would
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Speaker 3: this be good with or I'm sorry Amazon price check?
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Speaker 1: I mean that's a show.
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Speaker 3: We're giving a glimpse in to our brainstorming process here
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Speaker 3: with if the
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Speaker 1: Show hasn't already ended by now, if we haven't gotten
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Speaker 1: faded out, Yeah, we might have got your favorite autis