Growing Up Wilson: A Son’s Reckoning

While Amanda and Muffy are off on a girls' weekend, Josh sits down with his middle son Andrew (aka music producer AJCW) for a heartfelt deep dive into fatherhood, family crimes involving decorative sticks, and the surprising power of FOMO. They discuss bad parenting moments), the real reason Andrew started making music, and what it's like to accidentally go viral on the internet. Plus, a rousing round of the Flashbacks Quiz and a new appreciation for Chicken Tom. It's Marriage 2.0 meets Gen Z 1.0—with ambient beats and generational roasts.

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Podcast Introduction

Speaker 1 0:00

Familiar Wilson's Media Relationships are the story. You are made of meat, my friend, all the way down. The following podcast uses words like and and also If you're not into any of that shit, then now's your chance.

Speaker 2 0:19

Three, two, one run I'm super familiar with you. Wilson, get it. Two. One run I'm super familiar with the Wilsons Get it.

Speaker 1 0:32

Welcome to Super Familiar with the Wilsons. I'm Josh and I'm Andrew, and that is Andrew, that is not Amanda. Amanda and Muffy are on a girls weekend. They should be pulling into town in a couple of hours. In fact, they just crossed the Florida border, so I have Andrew sitting in, who is my middle son, and he is also known as AJCW.

Speaker 2 0:58

Yeah, and you know what's interesting? The substitute is also AJW. Oh yeah, that's true, notably that's true, yep.

Speaker 1 1:12

So y'all won't be able to tell the difference. So, yeah, so folks, andrew is ajcw and his music has been on the podcast several times, notably when we have game time. His songs spawn from the power line is behind that thing, a very old one, yeah, yeah yeah, I like that a lot. That's uh, that's like real hitting the dance floor and there's like a drop and all of those things yeah, and so that one is is quite fun.

Speaker 2 1:38

The the drums I think it's. I took the the drums out of a live performance of Maxwell Silver Silver Hammer. I don't know why I had that on my computer.

Speaker 1 1:47

Wait, wait, are you serious?

Speaker 2 1:49

Yeah, I never knew that. I didn't know that. I never brought it up probably.

Speaker 1 1:54

So you stole from the Beatles? No wonder I like that song. I stole from the Beatles, yeah.

Speaker 2 1:59

That's why it's so good. Yeah, you figured it out. It's because of the Beatles derivation. All right.

Speaker 1 2:10

Well, I'm going to have to listen to it, because I'm remembering that you won't be able to notice.

Andrew's Music Background

Speaker 2 2:13

Well, okay, they're just like. It could have been any drop.

Speaker 1 2:18

Very good, anyway. So Andrew's here, and one of the benefits of doing this podcast that's about marriage 2.0 with kids and all the little side quests is we've got one of the kids here. I think you're the first one of our kids to appear on the podcast purposefully and so, like I can ask you a whole bunch of questions about what kind of a dad that I am and you have to be honest, because there's a microphone that.

Speaker 2 2:43

That's very true. You're never allowed to lie in the news, famously. Uh, I'm curious, though hasn't daniel been on the on the cast before?

Speaker 1 2:52

no, no, he never has. Why did you think? No, he never has. Why did you think he had been daniel's the oldest son, by the way? No, no, I'm mistaken. All right, you're the first one.

Speaker 2 3:01

I'm the first one. It's a privilege. I've always wanted to be recognized for my talent in talking. I'm quite good at it.

Speaker 1 3:13

You're so full of crap. Are you comfortable doing this or no? You don't really do stuff Like. You do music, but you don't sing or anything.

Speaker 2 3:19

No, I mean I do, but like no one hears it.

Speaker 1 3:23

It's the best kind of singing, yeah.

Speaker 2 3:24

Very private, very private. I think I've posted a few tracks with some heavily modified vocals in there. You know so, because you know I'll twist up samples anyway. Hold on, this is about what kind of dad you are.

Speaker 1 3:38

Yeah, no, but actually it is one question that I have for you. I've always been into music, right. I've always played the guitar and made music on the computer and written songs and this and that Do?

Speaker 2 3:52

you do music because I did music.

Speaker 1 3:54

Yeah, probably, oh, but not you say probably. So it wasn't an intentional thing like you thought. Oh, my dad's so freaking cool. I want to be just like him. So I'm going to do music.

Speaker 2 4:04

You know that You're right, though Actually that kind of came later. First it was Jacob Okay, Someone else named Jacob who made music. Now that I'm saying this out loud, it's kind of funny that you made music my whole childhood and then I guess it just didn't phase me. And then the moment this kid, Jacob, made music.

Speaker 1 4:23

So this is just like a friend of yours, just a friend of mine from middle school I was like I want to be like jacob.

Speaker 2 4:27

Now that's. That is kind of messed up. Now that I now that I lay it out there, it is a little bit messed up, but you certainly had an influence over the type of music that I enjoyed and the type of production I was familiar with mentally, um, before I ever started, you know. So, like things like passion pit and whatnot, where that I mean that's, that's really electronic, and the, the use of and a lot of.

Speaker 2 4:52

There's a lot of things I could say but, overall it gives you a general sense that, combined with, maybe like the minecraft soundtrack oh and some like house music came out of that. All out of that came my music.

Speaker 1 5:04

So I never intentionally tried to force making music or doing music on you or your brother and then your brother's way into the visual arts which I'm into as well, and I also never tried like, in other words, I never tried to push my interest, like what I like to do, um, onto you guys, never, in fact. I kind of shied away from it because I didn't want to be like the, the little league dad, you know, trying to relive the glory days and all that bullshit.

Speaker 1 5:32

So I was really like intrigued when you started to pick it up, when you started to do it. My memory is that you did it because of, um, you liked video game music, like plants versus zombies, and you were like I, I want to make this music. I think I really like this music.

Speaker 2 5:47

That's how I remember it yeah, so, um, well, so a little bit more detail than that, because that that's. Those are sort of what I pulled inspiration from and that's a good example. You said plants versus zombies. That's laura shigahari. Uh, that soundtrack is is really funky and but it it still has a basis of, like, um, traditional music theory and piano music, um, that you'd hear just played in a bar, you know, uh piano music that you'd hear just played in a bar.

Speaker 1 6:17

Sure, like in a cartoon though. Oh, and a cartoon Cartoon.

Speaker 2 6:20

Bar, great, great, very good. But apart from her, I had mentioned C-418 as well and of course, his music is yeah, you're way into C-418.

Speaker 1 6:34

Oh yeah.

Speaker 2 6:35

And it's heavily Influenced, heavily influenced to me. He himself was heavily influenced by people like Ax twin, um, in terms of their ambience, uh. So there's a lot of piano, a lot of orchestral stuff and and, but still a lot of synth work, uh, and synthesis and cool sounds and stuff like that. So, um, what was the original question though?

Speaker 1 6:59

I just started going off. Yeah, no, no, no, this is a little window. Careful I can, I can, I can talk about this music shit for yeah years and years, little window, careful, I can, I can.

Speaker 2 7:03

I can talk about this music shit for yeah, years and years.

Speaker 1 7:06

Little window into my son andrew. What was the question? It oftentimes happens in conversations um I just remember when you first started, man, you were bad, it was awful it was so bad and I thought it was good too.

Speaker 2 7:19

That's, that's the funny thing about it. Oh, I remember I was gonna say the. The thing that really catalyzed a lot of the music I made early on wasn't actually the video game stuff, like you mentioned, although that was the influence it was. Um, my friend eve made films and would feature my friend jacob's music and I had fomo. That's literally like fomo actually got me up off the couch, you know.

Speaker 1 7:45

Jealousy.

Father-Son Dynamic

Speaker 2 7:45

Yep, jealousy and FOMO, one of the number one points of inspiration for millions across history. Yes, and so I would try to make these, because Eve would make like these jump scare centric films back in the day, because one of her films got a lot of views on Vimeo and it was a jump scare oriented one, and so I just started churning out these stupid tracks where it would have this big jump scare halfway through and I would just send them to Eve and just like unprompted jump scare halfway through, and I would just send them to Eve and just like unprompted and just hope that one of them she would be like this kid has some, has some good ideas. Let me, let me feature this and like one of the stupid videos and, uh, it did happen once or twice, but the result of that is that a lot of those songs were just like really hilariously bad.

Speaker 1 8:43

So let let's I do want to do this, though I want to I want you to mention, like, how people can hear your music, and the thing with with Eve stuff is Eve created this web series, the Monument Mythos. That like is very like popular, like niche popular, but very popular Like. You've had like millions of listens and views on your songs, haven't you?

Speaker 2 9:08

Mm-hmm yeah.

Speaker 1 9:09

That's crazy, and I'm now jealous that you've had millions of people listening to your songs.

Speaker 2 9:16

I think the correct thing for a dad to feel is proud. Actually, I'm very proud of you.

Speaker 1 9:22

This is not some weird Shakespearean thing where where I'm gonna sneak up on you at night and strangle you in your sleep because I'm jealous, yeah, uh, well, I'll keep one eye open regardless.

Speaker 2 9:33

But, um, yeah, so at its peak, uh, the series it had, I think because it went viral, um, a couple of the videos and then a few influencers uh made like explainer videos that got really really even more viral than the videos, paradoxically. And so as a result, and since then for for context, it's kind of tampered off and in terms of popularity it still has a solid audience, but it's not like at its peak. It was like videos were getting like four million plays and whatnot. That's crazy.

Speaker 2 10:08

Yeah, no, it was very interesting and it was very fun being caught up in that. I think that's something that more kids in my generation are experiencing. Is these like I mean, it's not unique to the internet, but it's amplified by the internet the whole like was it 15 Minutes of Fame? Is that what it's? It's not unique to the internet, but it's amplified by the internet. The whole like uh, was it 15 minutes of fame? Is that what it's called?

Speaker 2 10:29

yeah, I guess, these days it's more like 15 seconds because our attention span is so much shorter yeah, no, I mean, it is in some ways and in other ways, like, especially with series like this, if you garner community, that can last years and years. Especially it's analog horror, adjacent content, which is its own whole circle online, and a lot of them skew younger, so there's a lot of it's been like five years. A lot of them have graduated high school while being fans of this series and so it's kind of imprinted into them and that's something that and, of course, that then my, my music, thusly, is imprinted into them I love that.

Speaker 1 11:15

Like to them you're this old guy. Yeah, no, I I've had to think about that more and more as as time has gone on.

Speaker 2 11:24

I've had to think about that more and more as time has gone on the moment, because I watch YouTubers and listen to musicians my whole childhood and so the moment that they started to be younger than me that was before I graduated I remember Tommy In it I Show Speed. These were like huge YouTubers and they were like a year below me and I was like what's going?

Speaker 1 11:48

on. This can't be happening. You just wait. Oh, it's gonna keep happening. Mocking you right now, for, oh, there's some people a couple years younger than.

Speaker 2 11:59

Oh, get out of here, dude. No, don't worry, I get. It was this why everyone was mad at justin bieber back in the day. I don't know, I don't know.

Speaker 1 12:05

I don't know Because he was young and they were like cringe Listen. When Justin Bieber started, I was already old.

Speaker 2 12:12

Exactly that's what I mean. And then I'm sure there was some envy involved with that. I was like, well, this kid is getting all famous at 13. I could have done that, it's not special.

Speaker 1 12:23

I could not have done that, so anyway. So people can go on like apple music and spotify and all these different places, and they look up ajcw which amanda always gets wrong, by the way, listeners that amanda always gets and it's just his initials, it's so, there's that. But just go find ajcw, listen to his music and just enjoy, like how talented and amazing it is. It blows me away, especially when you sit down and you do proper songs instead of just the atmospheric noise stuff, which I recognize is good. It's just my thing. Like I said, I'm old and so I like songs that sound like songs. You know what I'm saying? Yeah, that's not offensive to you, is it?

Speaker 2 13:09

Because it's not at all.

Speaker 1 13:10

Coming out of my mouth. It sounds offensive.

Speaker 2 13:12

No well, I don't listen to ambience. You know I do when I'm doing homework, but if I want to listen to music, I'm not going to the kind of stuff I make. You know, there you go. I mean, I am, but not you, not the ambient stuff. I definitely gravitate towards stuff with a structure, with a beat that's danceable, with good lyrics, just like anyone else.

The Prison Yard Incident

Speaker 1 13:31

But anyway, that's not why you're on. You're on to let the folks know what kind of a father that I was and what kind of a father that I am, and I want to give the opportunity to tell the audience whatever you want to tell them about me, like, for example, the worst thing I've ever done as a dad to you. I'm really opening myself up here, okay Well uh, this is a safe space, Don't worry.

Speaker 2 13:59

Um, I think I'll tell the the one that gets brought up a lot- Uh, the one that I feel really guilty about, yeah. Okay, go ahead. Yeah, that one. So there were these twig things like this fake plant or real dead plant, something along those lines, yes, and it was found outside while Daniel and I were playing indoors.

Speaker 1 14:25

They were found in a container outside, all crapped up.

Speaker 2 14:31

Yeah, and I found them yes, and you were very much displeased to find them in that state outside. And you know, I want to say logically assumed that one of us had done that, and you decided to get to the bottom of it, whether we liked it or not. And so we, you put us in time out in the living room. Uh, I remember this part well, both of our backs were against the wall and we were like four feet away from each other, like I don't even know, like you had lined us up outside in a prison yard or something like that. And um, and you were like no, nothing's gonna happen until one of you confesses. And oh, this is so bad and I knew I didn't do it.

Speaker 2 15:22

So I was like you better confess, daniel. Like I don't want to be here all day. I, I got puzzles to solve, I got coloring books big stack coloring books to fill in. Very busy today. You can't be holding me up like this. And Dale just looked at me like what is your angle? Why aren't you just admitting it? Like what's going on? And so we were furious with each other. You had successfully pit us against each other yes, we.

Speaker 1 15:52

Well, it's the, it's the, the prison yard thing. It's like that's what you do. Is you, you pit?

Speaker 2 15:57

you get in the fight. No, you just. I haven't looked into prisons in a while.

Speaker 1 16:01

I don't know if that's legal anymore and and what did I tell you that? What did I tell you?

Speaker 2 16:07

well, essentially nothing was happening and right neither of us were admitting to the crime we have we obviously one of us had committed I knew that one of you did it, and so our dad had a, a brilliant gambit, which was lying he he claimed that there was a security camera outside that we had no knowledge of, and and that he knew. He already knew. Of course he already knew. Classic negotiating I already know you're guilty. Just admit it, bud, right, just admit it, so which?

Speaker 1 16:44

by the way, it's such a dumb thing like, like I really must have thought that you were stupid, like both of you were just dumb as rocks For me to say I know which one of you did it, just admit it.

Speaker 2 16:56

Well, the fascinating thing about what you just said is that we were dumb as rocks because we were like seven and eight, right, oh God. So we were, and it worked on us. As a result, I was fully convinced that there was a security camera outside. Maybe there was a shred of doubt, but largely I just still thought it was Daniel, and so I was like all right, the jig's up, daniel, there's the cameras Like, come on, you got to admit now. And, shocker, we didn't admit. And shocker, we didn't admit. Neither of us decided to falsely claim that it was us. And this went on for a while.

Speaker 1 17:47

I was like three seconds away from reenacting the Michael.

Speaker 2 17:49

Jackson. Bad video, you know, with the yard fight there. Go ahead. I'm sorry I don't know that one, but definitely show that to me after. I'm sure I'll save my laughter for that. I'm sure it was a great bit. I'm familiar with the song, if that helps. So we come to find out what. We come to find out that, well, our mom gets home and sees the prison yard situation and it's a little bit confused, wants to know like who, what we broke, what we, what on earth could we have done wrong? And uh, our dad explained to her the, the crime we had committed, which was moving the, the dead plant, outdoors and messing them up, and messing them up, and messing them up.

Speaker 2 18:30

Admittedly, yes and um, as it turns out, it was her they were. She didn't want him anymore, so she put him outside, which to be, to be fair, that doesn't really make sense either, but you know I still feel so guilty about that.

Speaker 1 18:51

I just want you to know that I still like I feel like I need to apologize to you right now again, because that was just really, really bad parenting on my part.

Speaker 2 19:04

No, it wasn't great, and I say this a lot whenever you bring this up and whenever you mentioned, you feel bad about it. Uh, I've never felt so much unity with Daniel in that moment. Great when it turned out that the whole thing was BS. It was really. It was class consciousness. You know the kid kid unity. We were right all along and it was actually our dad's fault, and that's the thing.

Speaker 1 19:32

The thing about dads is that they don't make mistakes, generally speaking well, I disabused you of that really early, which actually, then, is a favor that I did for you.

Speaker 2 19:40

Well, this is what I was going to say well, two things. First of all, it really humanized you, yes, which you know we didn't appreciate. I didn't fully get to appreciate that until I was an adult, because I was. When I was a kid, I was just hype. I was like no way, I was right. Yes, we rarely ever win you again.

Speaker 2 19:58

You rarely win against your dad on things. Typically they're right no matter what. But in this instance, we were objectively in the right and that felt excellent. So that's why it really wasn't traumatizing at all, it was invigorating. But the other thing that this story does especially considering we framed it as the worst thing you've ever done it really wasn't that bad. So I think that goes to show a lot about how you were as a dad, that this was one of your biggest mistakes. I think this would be pretty low on the list. For a lot of the dads that I hear about from, like my friends and my peers and just random people online or on TV talking about their parents, it's usually a lot worse than that on TV talking about their parents. It's usually a lot worse than that. A lot of you never punished us physically or anything like that.

Speaker 1 20:55

I was close, though I was really close that day. We almost got there.

Speaker 2 21:00

Okay, well, I'm glad we didn't cross that barrier.

Speaker 1 21:05

Well, anyway, let me just say this we have little Winthrop now and I've learned all of the lessons that I need to learn from you and daniel so that I don't make those mistakes with winthrop. And I still do make mistakes with winthrop.

Speaker 2 21:20

So there you go well, yeah, mistakes, uh, are inevitable. I think if, if you are raised with parents who are literally perfect which has never happened, but theoretically speaking, I don't know I think you'd get a complex as an adult. You'd get thrown into the world and people start acting irrationally and you're like huh, I thought everyone was perfect. I didn't know people made mistakes, yeah, well, you're safe from that. Thank goodness.

Speaker 1 22:07

What time is it? It's time who? What time is it? Game time? All right, that music is by you and that music tells us that it is game time. And, andrew, you are going to play the flashbacks quiz, which is something that we do often here on the old stinking show, and basically what it is is you got to tell me when something happens in history. So I'm going to give you an event that's going to be your anchoring event and then I'm going to give you events after that and you have to figure out where they fit on a timeline. Now to make it harder, when I play this game, I try to guess close to whatever date it was yeah, you don't have to do bonus points yeah, but you don't get bonus points.

Speaker 1 22:55

All you have to do is say it's before this one and after that one okay, so. I'm gonna give you your anchoring event right. This you get this one for free. Now, if you want to guess when this happened, feel free. Okay, okay, sure, okay. Your anchoring event is George Eastman wants an easier way to take vacation photos, so he invents the first Kodak camera. When do you think that happened?

Speaker 2 23:23

1900s, let's say, let's say like the first Kodak camera, yeah, 60s.

Speaker 1 23:34

All right, it is 1888. Wow.

Speaker 1 23:37

So on your little paper there in the middle of the paper, in the middle of the paper write 1888 and then Kodak camera. That'll just help you keep track of where things go. All right, so now this one. You're gonna have to tell me is it before or after the kodak camera ready? Yeah, okay. The actress faye emerson debuts as one of the first late night talk show tv hosts. She takes the radical approach of combining comedy with politics. Is that before or after the Kodak camera? After, okay, so after is correct. Do you want to just guess a date? 50s 1949. Okay, so right.

Speaker 2 24:22

Very good.

Speaker 1 24:22

No, you probably want to write it on the other side of that timeline.

Speaker 2 24:25

This is newer, this is older.

Speaker 1 24:27

Okay, you're doing it opposite. Very good, all right. So 1949, first late-night TV talk show host. Next one Sumerians.

Speaker 2 24:39

Over here yeah.

Speaker 1 24:41

Create one of the first board games where players race around a track. The rules, roll the dice. Squeeze me the rules. The thing just disappeared. It disappeared, yes, the rules are now. I want to know this, though Roll some dice and move something. So when do you think that?

Speaker 2 25:04

happened? That would. My guess is 6,000 BC. It is 2,500 BCE.

Speaker 1 25:11

Do you think that happened? Uh, that would. My guess is 6 000 bc.

Speaker 2 25:13

It is uh 2500 bce 20, so like 250. Okay, all right, no, not 250, 2500 so 2500. Yeah, I, I talk weird, but I know that yeah all right.

Speaker 1 25:23

So so far you're three for three. Of course you've gotten very easy ones. So let's, let's see what we can do here. You're probably going to want to leave a little bit more room between 1888 and 2500 bc. Now you've done it all right. Here we go too late. France declares war on britain. Britain moves troops from its us colonies to defend the territory it cares about even more the Caribbean. When did that happen?

Speaker 2 25:49

The Caribbean, that would be in the 1700s.

Speaker 1 25:53

All right, so you want to put that in between Kodak camera and the Sumerians.

Speaker 2 25:58

Yes, and it's probably actually, if not early 1700s, 1600s.

Speaker 1 26:04

All right, well, you did get the placement correct, but it's 1778. Okay all right. So you were more correct in your first guess. So 1778, British moves troops to the Caribbean.

Speaker 2 26:19

I'll just get rid of Sumer if I need to.

Speaker 1 26:21

Okay, if that becomes problematic, next one A musician writes a song about his friends. Midnight plane to Houston. The lyrics evolve and become Gladys Knight's Midnight Train to Georgia. When do you think Gladys Knight's song Midnight Train to Georgia was written?

Speaker 2 26:35

Well, they had trains.

Speaker 1 26:37

Yes, so probably not Sumeria.

Speaker 2 26:41

Yeah, almost definitely.

Speaker 1 26:43

Or Sumer. I think Not Sumeria, I think it's Sumer, doesn't matter.

Speaker 2 26:49

Let's see, I'm going to say like after TV host.

Speaker 1 26:58

All right, so after 1949,. You want to guess a date? Nope.

Speaker 2 27:03

Not this time.

Speaker 1 27:04

It is 1973. Okay, so you did get that correct. And in the 70s they did have trains.

Speaker 2 27:13

Indeed, they did. All right, you ready for the?

Speaker 1 27:15

next one yeah, to keep invaders out competing chinese states built barriers that later became the great wall. That helps them focus on their real enemies one another. I'm glad that they united to make the wall, and then they could just continue to beat the crap out of each other that that's the story of China is the various warring states periods. Okay, very good, of which there are many, so where does that event go, do you think?

Speaker 2 27:43

Well, that's the thing is, there were many warring states periods and I don't know which one they built the wall in. So if I had to guess, you do. I think it happened before the British troops and after Sumer. Okay, I think it's probably BC.

Speaker 1 28:04

Okay.

Speaker 2 28:05

I'm going to put Sumer over here. It's happening, all right.

Speaker 1 28:09

So the real answer is 400 BCE. Lovely.

Speaker 2 28:14

Very good.

Speaker 1 28:15

Lovely. So you have gotten six out of six so far. You're doing great. This is where I start to screw up, though, near the last couple.

Speaker 2 28:25

There's a lot of dots now.

Speaker 1 28:27

All right, here we go. The Mona Lisa is stolen. It isn't very popular, so no one actually notices until the next day. The theft is what makes the painting famous. Did not know that. When do you think that happened?

Speaker 2 28:40

Well, this was during the Renaissance, okay, and it wasn't famous yet. Gosh interesting, but it would be famous. It would be famous like 100 years after I would think Okay, so, oh, it's either before or after the British troops. That's rough, I'm going to say before.

Speaker 1 29:00

Before the British.

Speaker 2 29:01

Before 1778.

Speaker 1 29:04

I think you might be safe. No incorrect, ah, 1911.

Speaker 2 29:09

Wow, they were sleeping on the Mona Lisa.

Speaker 1 29:13

I know it.

Speaker 2 29:13

That's crazy.

Speaker 1 29:15

All right, so let's see 19, what that was, 1911. All right, here we go as Lewis and Clark trek through the Nope, as Lewis and Clark Nope, as Lewis and Clark trek to the Pacific. A canoe nearly capsizes. The team's papers and tools are saved by its quick-thinking interpreter, sacagawea.

Speaker 2 29:44

Well, so that would be after the revolution. So I'm going to say before 1888, after 1778. All right, let's see.

Speaker 1 29:53

Correct 1805. You ready for your last one? Last one, let's see Correct 1805.

Speaker 2 29:58

You ready for your last one, Last one?

Speaker 1 29:59

wow, okay, you're six for seven right now. You've only gotten one wrong. All right, here we go. President Millard Fillmore sends US gunboats to Japan, forcing it to open up for trade. This helps to later end the rule of shoguns and samurai. This is a hard one, I think it is.

Speaker 2 30:19

Did you name the president?

Speaker 1 30:19

Millard Fillmore Sounds like a brand of refrigerator.

Speaker 2 30:26

That's President Fillmore. Yes, that's a president. Are you sure that's a president?

Speaker 1 30:33

Dude, millard Fillmore, I got it right here.

Speaker 2 30:35

I've never heard of a president, I know the presidents and I Dude Millard Fillmore. I got it right here. I've never heard of a president. I know the presidents and I've never heard of a Fillmore. I'm crazy.

Speaker 1 30:42

Yes, you are.

Speaker 2 30:44

I must have forgotten that one. Now, is that after the Kodak camera is the question, because I think it was definitely before the Mona Lisa was stolen since the United States? Yeah, I'm going to say after kodak before, no, no, no, no. Before kodak camera after 1805.

Speaker 1 31:02

okay, so all right, that's a thin window there. Let's see and correct 1852. Very, very good, so you got got seven out of eight events correct, so that's a score of 24 out of 28. Don't ask me how they compute that, but that's what happens and the oh hang on now.

Speaker 2 31:29

Stop it. How is seven out of eight equal to 24 out of 28?

Speaker 1 31:34

Dude. This is how the New York Times does things. I don't know what to tell you.

Speaker 2 31:37

Maybe the scores are weighted differently.

Recommendations & Closing

Speaker 1 31:40

Probably so. Anyway, there you go. That was our flashbacks quiz. How did you all do out there? Did you do better than Andrew? Hey, no one likes to be told what to do, and now is the time in the program where we tell you what to do.

Speaker 2 32:01

Andrew, what should we do? Well, about a year ago I watched a show called Severance and it was really cool, so watch that. It was a good show. There's an album I just listened to called Sound from the Window by Evan Wright, and that was a really good album, so I recommend listening to that.

Speaker 1 32:15

What's the?

Speaker 2 32:16

style? I don't know. It's like Electronic, it's like folky kind of Maybe, but it's definitely like high production kind of stuff. There's a few electronic elements in there, but just really intricate sounds. It's very relaxing, kind of slow, like kind of whispery sort of vocals. I'm using a lot of descriptors because again, I really don't know what the primaries would be. But yeah, it was, it's good, so listen to it all right.

Speaker 1 33:03

Well, very good, thank you, andrew, appreciate it you're welcome all right, andrew. That's all there is there is no more. What did you think of that mess?

Speaker 2 33:20

It was fun. You know, I think I'm funnier somehow when I'm talking to the microphone. Oh okay, I don't know why and I don't think I was that funny, but I don't know, it's different. Maybe I should be a streamer and live in my room all day don't you kind of do that anyway?

Speaker 1 33:40

no, you don't. You have a job, that's so rude now?

Speaker 2 33:43

yes, a little bit, but people aren't watching me, so that's different. It's one big difference. Um no, I'm not gonna do that. I'm to keep doing what I've been doing.

Speaker 1 33:55

All right, well, very good, well, this show could not be accomplished without the contributions from the following people We'd like to thank Matt, who played John. We'd like to thank Leo, who took the role of Swen. We'd like to thank Josh Scar, who today played the role of Andrew Antonio. Of course, played the role of Andrew Antonio. Of course, played the role of Harold. Danny Buckets played the role of Edward Chicken.

Speaker 2 34:21

Tom.

Speaker 1 34:23

Chicken Tom was Leonard. Monique from Germany played the role of Thomas Refined Gay. Jeff was Carl, mark and Rachel they both played the role of the donkey, and Gavin and Dan played themselves. Of course, we'd also like to thank Joey. Joey, and hopefully you will return to us next week when Amanda will be with us.

Speaker 2 34:47

Yeah, and I just want to say my favorite thing about I forgot his name Chicken John, chicken Tom, chicken Tom. My favorite thing about him I know him well and his first name is Chicken John, chicken Tom, chicken Tom. My favorite thing about him I know him well and his first name is Chicken on his birth certificate. And if we want to talk about bad fathers, oh, no, no, no, no, no, no.

Speaker 1 35:06

Chicken Tom is a friend of mine and he's a good father, so stop right there.

Speaker 2 35:11

Oh, okay, I thought it was a bit. No it's not a bit, we're going to delete that. I thought that was a list of made up names to be funny.

Speaker 1 35:19

Those are real people names.

Speaker 2 35:22

Is his first name really Chicken.

Speaker 1 35:23

It is Chicken. Charles Tom is his full name.

Speaker 2 35:26

Are you serious? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Why is his name Chicken?

Speaker 1 35:31

I'm okay with it, I'm just like All right, well, andrew and I are going to figure this one out. We'll talk to you next week, thank you.