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Sponsored by Pajiba and The Antagonist, join Boss Emily Chambers and Coaches Bishop and Castleton as they ruminate on all things AFC Richmond.
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Producer: Thor Benander
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Producer: Dan Hamamura
Producer: Seth Freilich
Editor: Luke Morey
Opening Theme: Andrew Chanley
Opening Intro: Timothy Durant
MORE FROM COACH BISHOP:
Studioworks: Coach Bishop
Unstuck AF: Coach Bishop's own podcast
Align Performance: Coach Bishop's company
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Mind Muscle with Simon de Veer - Join professional "trainer to the stars" Simon de Veer as he takes you through the history, science and philosophy of all the fads and trends of modern health and fitness.
Welcome to our Ted Lasso talk, the Tedcast. Welcome all Greyhound fans, welcome all you sinners from the dog track and all the AFC Richmond fans around the world. It's the lasso way around these parts with Coach, coach and Boss, without further ado, coach Castleton.
Speaker 2:Okay, welcome back, beautiful people. Today we are talking about Ted Lasso, season two, episode 11, midnight train to Royston. This is part three. We have Keely just coming out of the meeting in Rebecca's office and we're going to pick it up from there. I am your host, coach Castleton with me, as always, is Coach.
Speaker 3:Bishop. So, like my father always said, a podcast hosting white man is still a white man.
Speaker 2:It's a sad state of affairs. It's something. I'll endeavor to change as quickly as I can. Coach With us is our boss, emily Chambers.
Speaker 4:I understand that it's not Ted Lasso, the TV show that we're currently talking about, but I need to mention the show called Ghosts, the UK version that I've been talking about all over the place because I really like it. There is a Ted Lasso connection that I'm not going to discuss because it's not a spoiler, just hasn't happened yet. I find myself attracted to the guy who co-created, co-wrote co-stars on the show in real life, who has dark brown hair and light eyes and a beard. So I did find the British version of Brendan Hunt and decided I had a crush on him. That's one thing. That's one thing I need to figure out about my psyche. But the other is that on the show he plays a caveman and I have found myself having weird feelings.
Speaker 2:That was on your list of unlikely attractive people, or whatever right.
Speaker 4:Yes, Unconventionally attractive people that you were attracted to Prior to this. It was young Daniel Stern, which I can't quite explain either.
Speaker 2:I love Daniel Stern.
Speaker 4:I love Daniel Stern too. It might be a weird wonder year thing. I can't quite explain it Other than, as I explained on Twitter, he feels like the kind of guy that would say like, oh well, we could go to this bar I've been to once and then you get there and he has his own corner in the table but everybody calls him Vince and his name isn't Vince and somehow the night still works out Like that's the date he would take you on.
Speaker 2:There was so much to track. There was so much to track. I was like whoa wait a minute.
Speaker 3:Vince, get back over here. What's going on here? What's the story with the corner bar? What's going on here?
Speaker 2:All right, I came into this podcast thinking I'm going to really just try to get inside Boss's brain and really really vibe with it today and right out of the fucking gate. I have no concept.
Speaker 3:I love the visual of Coach coming like running out of a building just screaming.
Speaker 2:Yes, the building is on fire and Boss is laughing on the third floor and I don't know why. There's something really wrong. I love it, though that's a. That's a. I'm never going to look at Daniel Stern the same way, but or Vince, I mean yeah Well, I don't know, it depends.
Speaker 4:Is he at the bar that only serves breakfast cereal and tequila Cause I imagine that that is on the menu for whatever place he would take limit to.
Speaker 2:So the drugs that you do are not. You're not doing them right now, right?
Speaker 4:No, no, no, no, no no, I did take an edible last night and then I cleaned my apartment, but that's that's. Yeah, no, that was also a very tiny one. That was like we just need to concentrate on vacuuming.
Speaker 2:So just fresh out of hair Centipedes, huh.
Speaker 3:I love that you have that distinction that you make with edibles, because I have more than once truly regretted an edible, Just been like okay, like why am I on my ass though? Like it's fine, I'm happy. Obviously it's not like unpleasant, but where I thought like I was going to go to like a three or four and the edibles like welcome to 10.
Speaker 2:Yeah, welcome to 14.
Speaker 4:Like about an hour and a half past the time you're like what is this setup Is it like?
Speaker 2:and then it's a fucking freight train, yeah, like why is my? Head on a porcelain and what I don't know, I can't, I can't.
Speaker 4:So I can't even remember if I've mentioned that. I don't think I've mentioned this on the podcast before, but micro dosing with psychedelic mushrooms is a thing that is been used by mental health practitioners and is fun. It's a thing I enjoy. So a buddy of mine, when I was hanging out at their place, said I've got some extremely weak mushroom tea, if you would like any. And I thought, oh, I can have a little bit. I'm not working tomorrow, this is fine. And so I'm outside and I'm drinking my tea and I also have a beer, and my friends are inside putting their kids to bed and as they're doing that, I'm like, yeah, this is pretty relaxing. I'm, you know, summer, I'm chilled out, and then I look down to get my can of beer, to take a drink and remember thinking to myself I could climb inside that if I wanted to, but I don't, and that's okay.
Speaker 1:Okay, at which point, I realized that he was not as weak.
Speaker 4:But. But also, I am not going to climb in there, so it's fine, everything was good. I want to welcome all our new listeners.
Speaker 2:If you stumbled across us and saw that the Ted Lasso on the on the icon there, this is a. This Ted Lasso is sort of a. I guess it's just just how we frame the puzzle together and then we fill it in with with tea and beer at the same time, which I'm still would you call it the gateway drug?
Speaker 2:Yeah, oh God, it's for us. For us, it ended up being that, for all our localesiousness, I really can't believe you're drinking tea and beer at the same time. But yeah, no, no, you just like that's a. Can you drink like a, like a fresco, and a and like a chocolate milk at the same time?
Speaker 4:I would never drink either one of those separately. So no, absolutely I'm not going to do that. But number one whiskey and chai. Delicious, delicious combination In tie.
Speaker 2:Yes, yeah, you take, or like a boiler maker, you stick that, you drop it in. Oh, yeah, like a hot, hot idea.
Speaker 4:Like a hot, hot, closer to a hot, yes, but you use chai instead of just plain water. I got you. So, okay, I don't want to say chai tea, because chai means tea, but but like, yes, actual chai. You brew yourself a cup of chai and then you put a yeah, put a shot of whiskey in there, and then you drink it on the cold winter nights and it makes you feel alive.
Speaker 2:This is a you're gonna fit you do. This is you're. You live in the right neighborhood, don't you boss?
Speaker 3:You do. You are giving serious with Connery and the untouchables. I've had a thousand cold nights. What is happening right now?
Speaker 2:I just can't get through a Wednesday without my chai. I'm sorry. Okay, all right. Well, we left off. We had just met the inestimable Mr Akufo. He has was thwarted. Initially I gave Ted Lasso some credit. Boss removed that credit, as she does for all white men who do not have beards, and then and then some of the ones who do wait.
Speaker 3:I'm sorry because the listeners can't always get all the interactions and I really need to share that. When coach made the distinction about white men with beards, I watched boss consider the premise, started like do I want to argue with that? And then go. I can't argue with it because it's true, Like I watched the whole thing happen and I just want to share that because it was. It was delightful. Go on, coach.
Speaker 2:No, no, it's, it's a. There aren't that many hacks like life hacks and dealing with boss, but like having a beard, gets you at least like your foot in the door so that you might have a chance of surviving. That's the only reason I have a beard. I grew it for this podcast. It's good so. So what we have is we have the Twin Towers of Keely and Higgins protecting Rebecca and at the end of the day, the meeting ends with Akufo and Sam walking out the door. From there you typically get some sort of establishing shot or some sort of cut where the people in the in the meeting aren't necessarily in the next scene. But this I thought it was a strange cut. But we open on Keely and boss walk us through this, this scene here where he is walking into her office.
Speaker 4:She's walking into her office, there aren't. Nobody else is around. Her office itself is dark. She turns on the light and Nate is sitting in the dark in a chair with one of the fuzzy pillows in his lap ready and waiting for her to come into work.
Speaker 4:And now I'm not pretending that Nate should necessarily know better, although he should why didn't you wait anywhere else, like anywhere else in the facility would have been better than this. It doesn't make any sense that you would start the interaction by making it awkward, yeah it was, it was definitely.
Speaker 3:I mean it definitely spoke to his whatever is the opposite of smoothness. Right, like it spoke, like it is the. It was the inverse of hey, I'm going to text a woman to rush over to my place and then have her come to the door and I'm standing there swab as hell. Right, it was. Just is the exact like the exact opposite of that. So by that token.
Speaker 2:It's, it's appropriate for Nate, it's the right, but that's what I'm saying.
Speaker 3:It's so on, brand for Nate. Like how, like it's such a clueless move. And, interestingly, I've connected to the moment where Keely is in the parking lot Now that I've said it out loud where Keely is in the parking lot and Roy sort of in his own clueless way, comes up behind a woman at a parking lot. Like are you insane? Like you're lucky you didn't get maced first of all. And but like the not like the cluelessness around, like why would you do it this way, as you're pointing out, it's, it's people do love.
Speaker 4:Terrifying Keely apparently.
Speaker 2:Makes me think of that Sessily, sessily strong character is like and like, no and like don't oh the party you were starting a conversation with. And like no.
Speaker 4:And it's like yeah, that's why I'm like don't exactly.
Speaker 2:If you're a dude, stay out of someone's office, don't walk him up behind him in a parking lot. I go out of my way. If I'm walking behind, like a woman at night or something like that, I either cross the street or I fall away.
Speaker 2:I fall away back so that they, whatever, you know, I just, you just don't want that. You know, bad, bad, bad vibes, bad mojo. So, oh sorry, you got me. Wow, I didn't expect you to be here. No, me neither. What can I do for you? Well, I just wondered if you mind helping me pick out a fancy suit.
Speaker 2:Now there is for those people, the listening audience, who really like Nate. I get it. There's a boyish quality to him. I do like that. He is shielding, he's hiding behind that fuzzy, that giant, fuzzy fellow which is such a vulnerable but also boyish quality. So if you like Nate, right, and you're, you're on, you're invested in him, and most of us at this point, you know, still are, you know, really remember the Nate, the great stuff and his rise through the team and all the stuff you're in. So it is. It is kind of a charming thing and we do this, we do the calculations in our mind with the people that we like, where we go, oh, god, like anybody else, that would be creepy, but it's, oh, it's him, it's what I think of anybody else, god, this would be like a stalker, but it's Orlando.
Speaker 2:So you know, I know it's not, You're never you're never that guy, but you know what I mean yeah for sure we love this guy. He's. He's a little awkward, but he, you know, or, or this love this woman, or whatever. And whatever they say would normally be objectionable or concerning or whatever you're like. No, that's him. So yeah, nate, he just says you know, would you help me buy a suit, If you mind helping me pick out a fancy suit is the exact line, and this has got to be a reaction to what boss?
Speaker 4:The number one, the funeral, where his suit was too light for it. Everybody else was wearing black suits. And number two, the fact that Will specifically said here's the suit type got you.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, that's eating them up. And young master, what?
Speaker 4:How that that's what a child does. It's. It makes you like a child, doesn't it, that you can't pick out your own.
Speaker 3:In fact to Liza. Yeah, I'm trying to lie to you.
Speaker 4:Yeah, so Kelly says absolutely Perfect timing.
Speaker 2:Actually, I got to go pick up some outfits for this photo shoot. I'm doing yeah, come with what now? Now, let's go kill two birds of one stone, which I've had. That moment he says, all right, yeah, let's go murder some birds with a rock. The more you you notice the idioms you say, the more you realize many ways to skin a cat with the fuck, am I? Saying exactly what you're like what, and we've talked about it on the show many times, so we'll glance right past it.
Speaker 3:But so I do think it's worth noting that Nate is sitting there holding the fuzzy pillow, when we've watched Roy specifically go all right the fuzzy pillows too much. Like I'm doing my best, I'm trying to have feelings here, but I'm not going to hold a fuzzy pillow. So yeah, there was definitely. That seemed very intentional. I put it that way.
Speaker 2:Yeah, no, absolutely. It's just two completely different ways of operating. It's funny. We really admire the characters that sort of own their own, I guess traits or they own their own predilections, but only if they know they're doing it. They have to know If Roy was like, yeah, I don't want to do that, but hang on, and then he ran his fingers through the phrase oh, that's really nice.
Speaker 2:You'd be like okay, yeah, so he does like that. You know what I mean If you know that he's conscious about it, but if it's like, oh man, I don't, then it's less of a. I don't think Nate is sitting there hugging the pillow, thinking you know, with sort of a plan in mind. It struck me like he kind of got caught with the pillow. If that makes any sense, I don't know.
Speaker 3:Did you get?
Speaker 2:that, like that. He's a little bit, oh shit, like well, she's here now.
Speaker 3:It's just, yeah, just interesting Right.
Speaker 4:I actually just imagined that the pillow was on the chair and, whereas Roy would sit back against it, nate pulled it up, sat down and put it on his lap, and I don't know if that's a gender thing. I know that I have six throw covers in my apartment, just in different areas, and there's never a cover too far out of reach.
Speaker 2:Throw a cover. What does that mean Throw?
Speaker 4:a pillow, yeah, like a blanket. Oh, throw Okay.
Speaker 2:Okay, like a blanket. I guess this is a throw over the arm of a.
Speaker 4:Yes, yeah, like a throw pillow or a throw cover. I guess I don't know if it's weird that my family says covers.
Speaker 3:Like no, some of that. Most people say blankets, Okay, good.
Speaker 4:Yeah, I'm like hey, can you hand me that cover? And they're like what? I don't like the blanket.
Speaker 2:Well, you get under the covers in bed.
Speaker 4:Oh yeah, there you go yeah. So that's where I think so covers and blankets to me is interchangeable.
Speaker 2:Yeah, what about dinner and supper?
Speaker 4:I'm dinner.
Speaker 2:I don't use supper. I don't care for it, I'm a dinner person but I get it that supper is a thing, but it's never been. If I come to Chicago, will you suck with me? No.
Speaker 4:I didn't think you would If you come to Chicago and we take a road trip to Wisconsin, we could go to a supper club. I would be fine with that I fucking love a Wisconsin supper club. It is the wildest shit.
Speaker 3:Wait, so tell me, I want to hear this. Yeah, we have listeners all over the world, yeah.
Speaker 2:Why don't you explain what a supper club?
Speaker 4:is Okay. So my favorite one that I went to was also when I went to House in the Rock, which is a little bit outside of Madison, wisconsin. It's like 30, 45 minutes west. House on the Rock is fucking insane. I recommend everybody at one point in their life go there. It is like if what's his face, the Architect, why am I blinking at the same? Frankly right. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's like if he was on asset the entire time that he was building a giant house. They've got the weirdest shit. Go to the website.
Speaker 2:There is a You'll put it on the site, right.
Speaker 4:I will put it on the site there is a giant whale model, like not an actual whale carcass or all, just a giant whale in one room, fucking amazing. Either way, the dinner club in Wisconsin. It is not fancy, there is usually a restaurant. Wait, you just said dinner club. Bar part. Oh sorry supper club. I want to make sure this is how much I hate the word.
Speaker 2:I don't give a shit about dinner.
Speaker 4:Moving on.
Speaker 2:I am here for the supper club.
Speaker 4:Fuck a dinner club. Supper club is way better. There is usually a restaurant part. There is usually a bar part. The decorations have not been updated since 1993. There is plaid carpet on the ground. There are full-on bar benches with the squishy cushion part. The food is reasonably priced and pretty good and in absolutely no way fancy whatsoever.
Speaker 4:There is a salad bar and they do have shredded cheddar cheese and the bad kutans and all of the best shit, and they give you a big fucking slice of prime rib with the sour cream or shredded sauce and then a million different other things. If you wanted to get deep fried shrimp to go with that, of course, you could add that on Not a cocktail, but a beer-battered breadcrumb, deep fried shrimp Absolutely. You will get a Bloody Mary. It will have 13 different kinds of vegetables and sometimes a sausage like a slim gym stuck in there Like a fucking brat. Yes.
Speaker 2:Like I would not there's absolutely.
Speaker 4:I am sure that there is a supper club in Wisconsin that will give you a Bloody Mary with a brat. I am 100% satisfied with that.
Speaker 3:I am so excited right now. This is amazing.
Speaker 4:It's so fucking good. You could get an appetizer, salad, bar, soup, the whole meal, dinner, like three different drinks, dessert. All of it is going to run you $68. I swear to God, it's so great, it's my favorite thing.
Speaker 2:And how far out of Chicago is that bus?
Speaker 4:The one that I'm thinking of right now is like two hours northwest of me, got it, but you could probably, should you stay over, you could find, oh, 100%. Yes, I stayed in the House on the Rock Hotel that also has not been updated since 1993. I had a living room and a kitchenette and a separate bedroom and a fucking balcony, and it cost $89 $89 for the night Vacationing in Wisconsin makes me feel like a fucking billionaire. It is awesome 1993.
Speaker 3:It's funny, I reacted to that too, because I graduated in 94 and there's something inside me that wants to protest Like 1993 isn't that long ago? And then I realized it was 755 years ago and I was like oh, oh, that was the Old Testament. Yeah, okay.
Speaker 2:And no, no, no, there's the show Future man Pinpoints of the Height of Civilization at 1985. And everything, really, 9-11 is what kind of ended everything. I think, but it was everything. It was different after that, but I wouldn't mind traipsing back to 1993. And Coach was thinking about bringing his dinner jacket, but I think him and I should get supper jackets. Oh yeah, oh yeah. Which probably have like a Packers logo on them or something.
Speaker 4:No, no, no, it has flannel in the light, that's fine, sign me up.
Speaker 2:Sign me up, that's awesome. Yeah, boss, I have a friend that's moving to Chicago and I never had a reason to go before, so I might pop out to visit. So if you're there I mean whatever what do you say? I mean, you think, you thought that I was going to be a fan of you because you wouldn't come visit me, but it's so dumb that you wouldn't come visit Chicago.
Speaker 4:Chicago, like I understand you're never going to find anybody that loves anything the way that Chicago and loves Chicago. Like we go so hard for a fucking city, this shit. Like people out in Los Angeles complaining about the traffic or whatever else. People in New York that are like, oh, the city eats you alive, it's so hard. You come to Chicago and Chicagoans are like have you fucking seen the bean? Have you seen it? We love that.
Speaker 3:The bean. That's for real.
Speaker 4:I've taken a picture.
Speaker 3:But like that's not bullshit people, that's a thing. The bean is a humongous sculpture in Chicago, and it is what would we call it chrome. Yes, yeah.
Speaker 4:Like extremely shiny metal.
Speaker 3:And so you see this contorted reflection of everything around it and it's a giant fucking bean, like it really is. It's crazy, it's like wait, it's can't mean. A bean Like, yes, like a bean.
Speaker 4:No, we're gonna be exactly that.
Speaker 2:Like we love it. Not big on nuance. Let's go see that. Oh, that must be an allegor. No, nope, just.
Speaker 4:Oh this was already said by somebody funnier than me on Twitter. But one of my favorite things about Chicago is it's like where is your historically, where's the area where you know gays and lesbians historically hang out, like where's the queer area that we could go visit? And they're like, oh, that's called Boys Town. We just call it Boys Town.
Speaker 3:And that's where all the gay guy hangs. That's funny yeah. Because we're not. No, no, castro, for them, we're not big.
Speaker 4:No, no, no, no, no, no, no. The actual area where it is located? No, no, very on culture.
Speaker 2:I love. I caught that. Yeah, no, I like it. I like it. So the lesbians hang around by a giant bean? Is that the?
Speaker 3:Oh, coach, I'm so happy right now.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I do like that. No, no, no, that's like, that's a, that's a code word for for one of my family members who sometimes we're around other family that don't know that she is bisexual. We'll just say like, oh, the other beans, like, it's just our word for the lesbians, that's our. That's not as much of a play on where I'm not, I wasn't stretching, I wasn't stretching, that's it. I'm not showing off my chops. I did get a on threads. They they send you, you know the, the social media thing they send you, you know, like potential people for you to follow, because I'm not following that many pictures of my friends and you know. And they sent me like dad jokes.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah, and I, I want you to know I blocked, blocked the dad jokes like, blocked them with, like angrily and with spite was like how dare you, I love it, you try to try them, though, like it wasn't enough to not follow. No.
Speaker 3:I don't want to.
Speaker 2:I don't want them to exist. Yeah, I want the algorithm to understand. It's like that person Um so Barry down.
Speaker 4:also lesbians live in Andersonville Right.
Speaker 2:Right Coaches, right notes down. Yeah, andersonville got it. That would be real popular.
Speaker 3:This is a big hit with the list, big hit with the list, oh.
Speaker 2:I'm huge. Yeah, he likes murders and birds. Likes Nate's joke that he laughs it's just, she's just a delight to be with makes everybody feel better. Conversely, we cut to coach. Walk us through what's happening.
Speaker 3:So we are, with Roy, walking through an elementary school. I think safe to assume this is Phoebe school. We come up, we come upon a teacher with a horrible, horrible sweater on and it actually has candy attached, which is just wow, like offensive, that's awful. And so she comes up being very, very friendly and says young man, I think you're late for class by about 35 years. She's very amused with her little ice breaking joke there. She asked if he would like a lollipop, to which Roy, being full of social grace, says no and walks past her. That's the end of that interaction. And so it's coach Kent, which can only one sec.
Speaker 2:Hold on one sec.
Speaker 2:I just want to mark the fact there was no social niceties from nothing like, not a nod or smile like like he stepped backwards like she was a threat, like someone this controlled by the sugar lobby could, like they could stab me with one of those lollipops, I don't know. She makes a joke that only she laughs at. He does not crack a smile, he looks, he is frowning at her. The Roy Kent grumpiness is not an act. Like he somehow. No, no, yeah, understand, yeah, like human, like certain humans. He's like what the why would I?
Speaker 3:and but why would I expend energy helping you feel less bad about the fact that you're being an idiot? Like I definitely would have chuckled, I promise you. You put me in that situation. I still would have wanted to get away and move on with my day, but I'd have chuckled him and like no, I just quit whatever. I would have done something that kind of just sort of like Okay, awkward, I got to go, but the fact that he feels no compulsion whatsoever- it's so interesting because I don't see you doing that.
Speaker 2:That's funny Really. Yeah, I guess, right, no, no, I see I know you're right about you. I could tell you what you would do, but it would be wrong, clearly, because you've already informed us. No, but I but I, but I think, um, yeah, right, you would want. The fact that you would want to get away is why you are between me and Bob. I would not want to get away. I would think that was playful and she's a kook. But I kind of like kooks. I like people that are just like unabashedly weird and themselves Boss told the greatest story to me. Before we logged on about boss, let me just please tell the world about your niece and her, her solving Lord of the Rings.
Speaker 2:I've never heard this, and the reason I bring it up is because we were talking about oh, someone's just being weird by themselves and they're not hurting anybody. Just tell them that.
Speaker 4:Yeah, she's nine. She and my sister and my older niece were watching the Lord of the Rings for the first time and the nine year old said I don't understand why they don't just give the ring back to golem Like it's his. It was his ring, he had it first. It wasn't causing anybody any problems when he had it in his cave. When he was just down there being weird with his ring, everything was fine. Then they took his ring from him and then all the shit started. So give him back his ring and then he could go back to his cave. He wasn't bothering anybody. He's weird, but he wasn't bothering anybody and then it would be fine.
Speaker 3:I love it that child is going to write the wicked take on Lord of the Rings and it's going to be very rich. It's going to be like hanging out with Lin-Manuel Miranda like yeah, yeah, yeah, it's going to be like.
Speaker 2:Then we gave the ring back, the end.
Speaker 3:Can you imagine? It's only two paragraphs, exactly, it's a trailer. The whole story is a trailer now.
Speaker 2:What is it? Having it's pockets, pockets. Oh, I have your ring.
Speaker 4:Here you go, gandalf realizes that Bilbo stole the ring from Golem. Finds Golem gives him the ring.
Speaker 2:The gold spilt.
Speaker 3:The end.
Speaker 4:Yeah.
Speaker 3:You know, connected to this, and then we can return to the classroom. But I'm really on this idea right now, like just different ideas to sort of grab a hold of me, and then I'm like and of new, I see new things and I was watching sort of similar kind of like from the mouths of babes thing. So this child, this man's home story about his daughter, and that he comes home and there's absolute chaos going on in his house, which I'm like, got it. And he says his wife is at her with 10 because they've decided to order dinner and as she was talking to the kids, the youngest has declared she wants people chicken and they can't figure out what the fuck she's talking about. And she is getting progressively more irate because they keep suggesting a bunch of other shit. That's not what she wants, which is people chicken. Now, the man cause he tells a story, great. So he's like the first thing I know is I can't Google people chicken. I'm going on a list which I thought was fucking hilarious.
Speaker 3:I was like 100% glad you thought of it, but they go back anyway, fast forward a bit and it's the KFC logo because it's his head, and then it's the fucking tie, but the tie looks like a goddamn stick figure. And she's right.
Speaker 2:Yeah, she's right, it looks like a little stick finger under a giant fucking head.
Speaker 3:Now we have the context of having seen and we know the tie, and so that's what we're seeing. But she didn't have that context and she looked at that image and she's 100% correct. And so I'm on this thing right now of new, I see new things. I'm just on this idea right now and so I just love the idea of watching Lord of the Rings. I didn't think that one time ever it's his ring. Give the fuck a guy's ring back. It's enough already.
Speaker 4:Property laws. I would like to also mention that that same knee said that she wanted pizza, pizza, pizza. My sister was like the fuck, are you talking? About. Why are you? Saying pizza, I mean it's little Caesars. I want that pizza, pizza, pizza. But she was saying it wrong. Is she the one?
Speaker 2:is she the the who's Church one?
Speaker 4:That's her older sister who's? Church is a class Older sister is who's Church?
Speaker 3:I love now that, like I've decided, your life is kind of my life too, I'm like, oh, it's one of my favorite memories. Yes. Oh, what are? You talking about. Well, you're a lunatic, you know this.
Speaker 4:Yeah, well, in fairness, ellen, who was listening to the show, no, I'm sure has mentioned to people before that I will Emily a story, which is where, if I hear a story from one group of friends and I know that my other group of friends are never going to interact with them, I will massage-ish, like I will manipulate that story into being mine and then I will tell it not necessarily that, like I'm the one doing it but like this is my story now. Cause they had it and they're not doing anything with it.
Speaker 2:And I gotta tell it. So, social plagiarism, I got it yeah no, Exactly no, you're just.
Speaker 4:You're just gonna Emily a story, that's good, that's it.
Speaker 2:So yeah, roy has no fucks at all to give, but not in a bad way, just like the lady said here. Here's a. Would you like a lollipop? Like still smiling, still kind. No, he walks by and then that's it. There's no commentary on it. I'm like Jesus Christ, roy, holy shit man.
Speaker 2:Wow, I don't have that gear and a box is like what I do not own, that it is not in my tool Like tool. What's the tools? Tool kit, tool box, tool kit, tool kit, yeah, tool box, my handyman, everything, yeah, no, seriously, I couldn't think of the word, but yeah, I was like, wow, that is, and boss this does not. Could you do a version of this and not have any responsive interaction?
Speaker 4:No, yes, Like today, cause I haven't talked to that many people yet today, but I could fit it in.
Speaker 2:I'm going to the ballet tonight, so possibly I'm going to the ballet tonight and no part of it is like. So I'm like, oh, this lady is like she's just, you know, she's a cook but she's open and she's kind of like she's making play conversation and she's weird. But like God love her, like she's just this crazy, you know, batshit crazy. You know, teacher, that is probably so stressed out. This is how she manages it and good for her and I'll play along. I would, I would have played along. I would be like I'd love a lollipop. Let me give you a lollipop. Well, where would I pick it from? I would just, but then I go. Oh shit, no wonder I liked Ted last time. That's horrific right.
Speaker 2:That's, that's it right? Isn't that like sort of awful when he would do some some song and dance? But I couldn't get through. I would if I, roy, did a Roy in that?
Speaker 2:I remember when I, my daughter, went to a new school and I was, you know, talking to the moms and my daughter came out from this, it was like a just gymnastics thing and the moms and me were talking. I'm always the only dad there. As a writer, you end up like being doing a lot of pickups. You know you can manage your own time, and it's always like the moms. And then, yeah, you coach too, yeah, and so I've mastered the art of being a non-threatening and be, you know, just knowing when to shut up. Like I just mostly 93% of the time, shut up, but I was talking whenever and then one of the moms said something to me and my daughter pulled, you know, came behind me and didn't see her and I sort of snubbed them. I didn't mean to, but she said something and I didn't get to it. So I made sure, like, once we got home I was like hey, you know, evelyn, I'm really sorry, I meant to. I wasn't trying to cut you off. You know, my daughter pulled me from behind and because I couldn't even it would bother me if she had that, if she didn't register, yeah, yeah. So if I had, god forbid.
Speaker 2:I pulled a row when I was like, just, you do not exist on my plane of existence. Whatever you're doing, take your shit elsewhere. I'm here for the other classroom. Why are you in my way? I didn't invite you, I didn't. You know, he's like confounded by this thing and I'm like God, I like I, you operate. You naturally think, oh no, everybody would say he's an anomaly, he's an oddity. But then I met you, boss, and I realized, oh my God, like am I the fucking crazy part? Like it just makes me like wonder how the other half lives. I just really interested in it.
Speaker 4:Well, number one, I don't think it's the other half necessarily. I think that there is obviously a spectrum between this lady in Ted Lasso and Roy, and Dr Sharon will say like there could be any place in between where Rebecca would acknowledge you and then continue moving on or whatever else that Keely would say, oh no, thanks, not right now, but maybe later than leave whatever. I don't think that it's an issue that people have that spectrum. I think it's only an issue when you expect one side should get up to the level of the other. If you expect Roy to be playing along, you are going to be disappointed and Roy is not gonna give a fuck. If you say, like this woman could be kooky and she's fine, she's not hurting anybody, but Roy is saying no, I don't wanna lollipop and leaving also isn't hurting anybody.
Speaker 4:It's for me the implication that if he isn't playing along with her, he's somehow being mean, when he's just trying to go about his fucking day and like just wants to keep to himself.
Speaker 3:It's interesting because I hear what you're saying. I'm probably the way you just described it. I'm probably most in the Keely range. I don't want one of your, but I also wanna make sure you don't feel bad, like in that kind of an exchange. I don't always in life Sometimes I'm perfectly happy for the person feel terrible. But in that kind of a moment, like if somebody, like, if someone essentially does like a what's the you know how's the weather kind of joke, I tend to like you know, like I'll kind of try to do it, although coach has made fun of me because he knows my fake laughs, like he knows when I'm just like, please, god, just get me out of here.
Speaker 2:It's so, yeah, yeah, it's, it's, it's, it's it's I love, I love when I catch it. It's like.
Speaker 3:It's like seeing a hummingbird in the wild, Like, oh, but yeah, I, but I would feel like, oh no, I don't wanna hurt her feelings. That would definitely be on my mind in this moment. Also, I have a very low cringe plateau Like watching the office as much as I love, it, is excruciating, like there are times I pause it and do need a break Cause I'm just like I can't do this right now, so there's okay, I'm gonna, I'm gonna.
Speaker 2:The coach definitely knows this and boss, this might this might blow your mind. But another consideration for me would be okay, because my preset would be when you go in here, no matter where I'm going, I'm looking to build lines of communication and I'm looking to build team teams and I'm looking to build a situation where people feel connected, connectively, okay. And so let's say, you go into the school and then this woman does the thing and you joke around with her and you're like what's your name? I'm blah, blah, blah, blah. And then she says, oh, I'm Mary, right. And you're like all right, mary, now, every time, now I know Mary, now I just know Mary, and Mary knows I'm good people. Mary and I have had a joke about a lollipop. Next time I go on hey, did you see, mary, mary, can you introduce me to the blah, blah, blah? And she goes yeah, sure, now you're building these lines of communication based on kindness, not based on, like, manipulation, not based on anything ugly or unsavory, because in my default setting is good things come from lines of communication, right.
Speaker 2:And I think about how that would appear to you, boss, and you'd be like I don't give a shit, like I don't. Why would I? Well, I don't want to put words in your mouth, but I'm like, oh, what if that's not your default setting? What is it? How does this present in the scope of the grand scheme of things? You know what I mean Because, like Juliana sent me this thing on Instagram the other day what said behind every super extroverted, friendly husband is like an introverted wife trying to stay the hell out of like the neighbor's eye line or whatever, something funny like that.
Speaker 2:And it's like when we go to any school for the kids it's me saying hi to 15, shaking hands over everybody, waving to people I can't get to, everybody that I know at the school and that has paid dividends for my children being treated well, for applications for colleges, for understanding. If in situations where somebody that might have been more obnoxious wouldn't get like a whatever, it's opened up all sorts of lines of communication. So how is it I'm assuming it's not that for you how does it present?
Speaker 4:Oh, so what you're saying is that you're nice to people in order to get things?
Speaker 2:No, no, it's not, that's not the end. No, I just said that it's nice to be able to open up lines of communication.
Speaker 2:It's not the getting things ends up being like, yeah, it saves you from having misunderstandings and things like that, but it's not ultimately for the. I'm nice to be able to be nice to people and so because I think, oh, it's really good when everybody knows each other. I like the community of it. The community aspect of it is better than not having community aspect. And so, yes, it does For you, yes, for me. Yeah, I'm not saying that's why I'm saying how does it work for you?
Speaker 4:Wait, wait, wait, wait. But what I'm saying is there might be people that you are trying to pull into a community that would rather not be part of that community, which means that you are asking them to give you wait, wait. Let me finish the statement. You are asking them to involve themselves in your community because you think that that is good. Now, maybe you're not saying like you have to come here, you have to be part of my community, you have to do it. But what you were essentially saying is you think community and open lines of communication in this way are good things and therefore you're going to try to get as many people involved as possible.
Speaker 2:No, I didn't say that. Now you're putting words in my mouth. What I said was I do think community is good, and if I started out by saying this woman approaches you with lollipop, I play along. Because she's made the approach, I'm fine. I don't poke my hand at every classroom and go, hey, what's going on in here? That doesn't. If someone approaches me, I typically don't do the approaching, but if someone extends themselves to me, I always will extend. That. That's the whole thing, because I'd rather have like a nice interaction with them. And now I, and also I have social anxiety, so next time I won't have to break the ice, so it's like it's already like a done thing, so it's whatever and in my experience it is. It leads to sort of a nice, a nice feeling for me in that situation. And so I'm asking you, someone who, like, has the ability to do a Roy pass the situation, how do you see it as a microcosm of like a bigger ethos?
Speaker 4:I don't.
Speaker 3:Can you say more about seriously? Can you say more about that?
Speaker 4:Yeah, yeah, I'm not sure. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, of all the answers that was not the answer I thought was coming.
Speaker 3:So now I'm like oh well, now I'm even more curious.
Speaker 4:I mean I guess part of it might be that community is not a priority to me. I don't need like I don't have a big group of friends. I have a few very close friends. I usually hang out with them a couple at a time, or one on one or with other people, but like my five closest friends wouldn't call each other their closest friends, it's not a group. I have five extremely close friends that I hang out with. I have enough relationships that I feel like all of my social requirements are being met. I don't long for human interaction, and after that point I kind of just want everybody to leave me alone.
Speaker 2:Let me frame it in a different way, because one of the dynamic I totally get that in a respect, and actually that is what I understand of how you approach these things what about when? With regard, I think part of the dynamic here is the parenting dynamic and having like, oh, it's a reflection on somebody associated. So how do you interact with, let's say, your boyfriend's friends or something like that, where it's like it's not just you? I think that's actually part of the whole context here.
Speaker 4:Well, I should say that before most of them got married and had kids and moved away, I considered myself part of the boyfriend's group of friends. He and I actually met through my college roommate. The two of them went to high school together, so they hung out in the same crowd. I knew a lot of his friends before I met him actually. So, going into that friend group as like I wasn't showing up as his girlfriend, it was like, oh, they started dating so it was slightly different. But I by and large try to not let other people think that my relationships, that they are necessarily a reflection on me. Now that is to say almost every.
Speaker 2:Well, sorry, I'm sorry.
Speaker 4:Well, I was just gonna say every relationship that I have, it's not like. I'm like, oh my God, I'm so fucking embarrassed by this person or whatever. But also, what I would not do is, if you came to me, castle said you and I, you know one of my closest friends. If you came to me and you were like she is being such a bitch, I need you to like can you talk to her? Can you like? I'd be like no, you go talk to her. That's not, that is not my job. She is an adult and you are an adult, and so you guys see it Okay.
Speaker 2:so what about the content? Let's say the boyfriend introduces you to his crazy aunt or you're at a party and his crazy cousin offers you a lollipop and is wearing this sweater. I'm guessing you wouldn't roll it up. I'm guessing you'd be like at least deferentially polite. Sure.
Speaker 4:Okay, so that's the context.
Speaker 2:I got it Okay, that's all I was saying. Yes.
Speaker 4:But context does apply a little bit in that I don't want people that I'm going to need to interact with later to think that I'm an asshole. I don't know how much Roy and this teacher are going to need to interact, or also, if it matters, if she thinks he's an asshole. And I'll also say from the flip side, we assume that because she is outgoing and coo-key and trying to be playful and funny, that she is being nicer than he is being, but she is asking him for a social interaction that she has no idea if he has the bandwidth for at the moment. Maybe he just found out that his niece, that his sister, is in the hospital and he's trying to find his fucking niece so that they could go to that. Like we default to believing that she is the nice one and he is the mean one, without taking into consideration that she is completely ignoring the emotional input he is trying to give her.
Speaker 3:Yeah, that's actually sort of interesting and I'll say I've read stuff about this and I'm sure we've all bumped into it where there's a sort of extrovert not sort of there's an extrovert default, right, like I forget the percentage, but it's like an outrageous percentage of Fortune 500 CEOs are extroverts, despite the fact that the even if you were to make it binary, it's super close to 50-50, but somehow, right, so we do default, excuse me, like you're saying to oh, she's being nice, but there's an argument to be made, especially in the context of this show, right, that if you're going to engage Roy and I will say I think this is one of the ways that Ted is very good at what he does is, if you're gonna engage Roy, this sweater and the lollipop and the giggling is not the way to do it, right, and how much it can be about audience also.
Speaker 3:And I think there's something to be said and maybe we're talking in another way. We're approaching the whole nice versus kind thing that we've talked about, right, because being nice to Roy might just be walking up and going like I see you spent all morning figuring out what you were gonna wear again, right, like he'd maybe be amused by that in a way that someone else wouldn't Look at you and your Heather Gray. That's shocking.
Speaker 4:Yes, no, this is the thing. We just saw an example of Beard saying your eyes aren't crazy, they're psychotic, and Roy saying thank you. He said thank you.
Speaker 3:he said thank you, like that, spoke to him in a way that like, oh no, we all have our own eyebrow, like he would have been like what the fuck is happening right now? That's what. And then two of them have talked about how they get each other in that way. So that's interesting to think about, like how extroversion can be an imposition. My sister has made me very aware of that and I make a point now, even when I invite people to events, especially our virtual events, I make a point of telling people why I even think might be kinder. To that end of the personality spectrum I'll say, hey, you don't have to come off, you don't have to be on camera and you never have to come off mute come hang out and I can hear you, whether the person comes or doesn't.
Speaker 3:I've more than once seen on their face oh, thank God.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yes, and boss, you make an excellent point. I know I have never said that before, but really when you think about no, it comes down. It's fascinating because I was just having this conversation. There's an article in the New York Times recently about there's a culture war around dog training because people I sent this to- college.
Speaker 3:Yeah, it was fascinating. I'm glad you're bringing this up. But go, go, go, go go.
Speaker 2:But it focuses around the concept of consent with dogs, because they're living beings and they should give you their consent and the fascinating concept. You read the whole thing through. There's a school of thought that when you train a dog it's all positive training. And there's another school of thought that can be balanced training or what they call aversive training, which is punishing the dog for misbehaving. So the funny part of it is, in general everybody kind of agrees on the concept of consent.
Speaker 2:They just don't like the word. So when you say to someone who's into aversive training, an old school dog trainer, you shock collars and you spray them or whatever, whatever the things to make the dog uncomfortable, and you say, okay, let's take the word consent out, how does it feel to like should someone approach a dog that doesn't want to be touched and they'll be like hell. No Jesus, that you gotta be mindful of that. But they don't like the word consent. Now we translate it over to this and we say, okay, it feels like a bit of a transgression for someone who's extroverted to push themselves, to force themselves into a conversation with somebody who does not appear on the surface to be like down with that shit, like if you could read him as a dog, you'd be like I don't think his dog wants to be pet right now. So you do make a good point that we default, especially in America, because other countries are not. They don't have the same.
Speaker 2:You know what I mean, Especially in Europe yeah that's a cultural thing where niceness the quote unquote niceness is given a free range of situations like this and thought to be the better side of a papas. You do make an excellent point that it could be an intrusion.
Speaker 3:I'm glad you connected it to that article. I'm not gonna take us too far down that road and again I will share that. If anybody who knew me 20 years ago could have placed a bet on me having very clear thoughts on dog training, you could have fucking retired early Like coaches over there nodding cause he knows it was like, oh, you've got a dog in your house. Must've been lovely to meet you, yeah come in Like that's it.
Speaker 2:Like I'm shaking His body would shake. You would see him tremble like a leaf. I'm not exaggerating, no, no, no, you would see him shake, he's before.
Speaker 3:Real Like I would like it was not good. So this is like so crazy. But I read that it's actually. That article is a great example. Anybody who gets a chance to check it out. There's a New York Times article, so you're gonna find the link. Anyway, I can cause you sent it. So I found myself and I'm a part I've done D-E-I work. I designed and wear a t-shirt that says real men are feminist, like I'm the annoying lefty liberal bleeding heart, all other things that people laugh about. Right, I drink lattes and I like kale, like.
Speaker 2:I'm the whole shebang. Nobody likes kale. Right, right, right I love kale Jesus Christ.
Speaker 3:But there was a point in that article where I was like oh for fuck's sake, and I think it's interesting. I mean, maybe that's why I find myself with this woman Like somehow I'm like you can do the giggling or you can have the sweater, or you can have some lollipops, Like I get. It's your job and you're welcome, but you can't have all three, but holy shit, it's too much you get one.
Speaker 2:It's too much.
Speaker 3:God, save it. Settle down, carol, it's too much. It's too much I would be a bit overwhelmed. My sister probably would like, wanna like, just sink into the ground.
Speaker 2:If, confronted by that, she'd be like Jesus Christ, the writer of that New York Times article. I don't know if you saw the parenthetical she says. When I talked to my friends about it, the responses were one of them said I wish I didn't know that this existed. Like it bothered them to just even be aware of it Like the consent in the world of dog training. And the other person said we deserve global warming.
Speaker 3:Or yeah, like we deserve climate change, yeah, but that was kind of part of my reaction and I think for me, one of the I was a whole other conversation I mentioned to the two of you I was having with one of the women that's on the line leadership team and we. One of the things that came up there is the power of recognizing reality and what we got into for I'm going to try to do this quickly because otherwise we need a little bit of context. What we got into was I have a habit and it comes out of all sorts of stuff about life, but in part also in my sports life where, like on Monday, my football coach would tell us this team we're about to play might as well be in NFL. You guys are dead, and then we practice all week and if we beat them on Saturday, then on Monday they're shit, like it was like, and if you have to play for a few years, you're like okay. I've heard both these speeches before moving on right.
Speaker 3:But at first you're like you know. So there's something about for me where, when I'm leveling up like at a moment like this in my life where you know, got the black storm job I'm doing some stuff with the line that I'm really excited about. There's a line that likes I will decide on a certain level, I'll act like I've never accomplished anything and life has been shit up to this point. And if this next round of shit is that I that I'm going to do is finally going to validate me, because, jesus Christ, when am I going to finally accomplish anything? Right? And so it's like an ongoing.
Speaker 3:So that's how we got to this idea of recognizing reality and we just started talking about the power of it. The importance of it is like just what is actually going on in this moment. And to me, bringing it back to this scene, I get that maybe you're the designated welcomeer because you're the kind of person who would wear a lollipop sweater, and that's fine, right, like everybody, can't be Roy either, but there's an inability to recognize the situation she's in at that moment, even after she start. There's nothing about his reaction to him being late by 35 years that says, hey, you know what you do. Now, carol, to follow up on the 35 years joke, offer him one of the goddamn sweater lollipops.
Speaker 3:Like literally read the room Carol and yes, she just doesn't.
Speaker 4:I love so much that you pointed out that she's not reading them, that she's not picking up the cues that he is giving her. I would say that if this were a slightly different situation and the genders were reversed and there was a guy that refused to leave a woman alone, even though she's just sitting at the bar with her book.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I was up. You're right, Women are awful. All right, I'm going to look. Oh wait what.
Speaker 3:Is that the type of thing Like? Sometimes I feel like, coach, I'm just going to get a call from you, you're going to be like she's outside and I don't think she's. I don't think she's kidding man.
Speaker 2:She's in the house. The call came from in the house.
Speaker 4:She has gotten Juliana. Oh, no, I am.
Speaker 2:I haven't been a long long time ago I got my daughter quoting what would boss say.
Speaker 3:She's like you know what boss would say oh my God, he stole my wife before appetizers, so I'm just done. Yeah, no, it's not a good thing, very dangerous.
Speaker 2:But yes, listen, I'm not going to say we've named her Carol. Now we're not going to say Carol's wrong. I don't think Carol's trying to be nice, she's fine. Whatever, she's harmless. She may be an annoying crow, we don't know yet. We'll find out in the course of the scene how she's viewed among her peers and things like that.
Speaker 2:And I'm like, as long as when Roy walks by, she's not, doesn't give him a look and he's like, you know, like I'm totally fine with her being like and he's like all right, peace, and then she's like okay, and then you know, like the only issue I'll have with her is if she's like hey, you didn't like, but I don't see any of that here. So anyway, he goes past her by it's. It's 25 years, by the way, coach.
Speaker 3:And my bad.
Speaker 2:Yeah, no, no, you should try to have a little more specificity in your career. And so he goes into the Chloe's classroom. It's Chloe Phoebe's classroom. Geez, what's that? Who's Chloe Phoebe's classroom? And we get, we get. This is a delightful interaction Coach, walk us through what happens here.
Speaker 3:So as he walks in Phoebe's teacher, it's coach Kent, which can only mean nobody told him it's a half day and Phoebe's mom picked her up hours ago. And Roy says fun, that's fun, Isn't it? Which really made me goddamn laugh, like I really that was great, okay, see you later. I thought this was. And so then he notices wine and it looks like maybe it's like some light or derby kind of stuff there. I always thought several, several bottles. Yeah, there's one.
Speaker 3:The wine is definitely the star of the show. Yeah, this was what the teachers did when we went home. Which is funny. Art fundraiser. Tonight she explains for a quid you can buy kids art for 20 quid, yeah, 20 quid.
Speaker 2:And if you buy kids art for 40, I'll send it home with you already in a rubbish.
Speaker 3:Which is funny because I am a hoarder and still have artwork I was handed by children who didn't know how to spell papa. So there you go, but at any rate, oh no.
Speaker 3:I'm, I am ridiculous, Like little art fathers they are. There's a styrofoam cup around here that I'm like by any standard that has to go, and I just cannot do it. I look at it, I'm like, nope, it's a, you can go ahead and put it in a casket, that's how that's going to go. But yeah, so that's. And then C says to her that's a solid business model. They are definitely what's interesting here. As we talk about how much he was not on the same wavelength as our friend in the hallway is, they are absolutely on the same wave. Like they get each other's tone, same sort of brand of sarcasm. They're both acting like they don't give a fuck about kids. But she's a teacher and he has shown up to pick up his niece, so like they mean it. But do they really really mean it? Like it's really, it's quite good. Anyway, they have that.
Speaker 2:They have the type of interaction where you feel like they're from the same neighborhood somehow. Like they may not have grown up in the exact same. They're from the same, probably raised in the same type of family 100, 100% they just have that natural affinity.
Speaker 3:I was. It was hilarious. This, actually, this is funny. This was in a Chicago suburb, I don't know which one. The story itself is going to get to the punchline, but the story itself is not the fine one. So I go to a movie theater. It's busy, I forget what movie was going to be, is Daphne and her friend and me, and we get there close enough to movie time. Some will call it late, but I'm black and I don't really want to get into all that right now. No, no, but the movie had. No, but seriously, the movie hadn't started, but it was, like you know, everybody else was fucking in place, and so so we're looking for seats and there's a seat next to this old white lady. This really had, this part really happened. There's an old white lady and I'm like, hey, you know, can we, can one of us grab that seat? Oh, no, somebody's sitting there. Okay.
Speaker 3:So we move on and we end up getting seats like a couple rows back. This is very clear very quickly that that seat is never going to be filled Like, and you know, and you know we are all noticing it.
Speaker 2:It's sort of like are you fucking serious.
Speaker 3:Like like that was my, so it just oh. So, as we're walking out, we're behind them I didn't put myself behind them, but like they were a couple of rows ahead of us or whatever. So we start talking about it full voice, like we're like mm-hmm, whatever you know, like oh yeah, there was somebody sitting there, I guess. And she says she like responds and go to her son who's with her grown man, you know, but obviously that's like the age, whatever. And she goes, look at him. Why would anyone want him sitting next to them? She says that out, the fuck out. So my temperature goes to like a fucking thousand, but I don't say anything else because I'm like all right, I'm not going to do this tonight, but I go into the. I go, this is a real, this is really fucking happy that, by the way, I have to add that Daffy is pregnant. So this is like, this is the seat.
Speaker 3:And so I go into the men's room and the guy comes in behind me and because I grew up the way I grew up, I'm like, hmm, I am very compromised. Right now I'm at a urinal and a guy with whom I have just developed a little bit of beef. He just come into the room. So I'm a bit, you know, nervous or whatever. But okay, he comes in, does his thing, I'm doing my thing, he leaves the urinal and walk straight out as I'm walking to the sink, right. So my dad's fucking gross, but all right, moving on.
Speaker 3:So I see him as I'm waiting for Daffy and he's staring at me and I'm staring at him and he's staring at me and I'm staring at him and finally goes what are you looking at? And I go I'm looking at you. You nasty motherfucker, you didn't wash your hands, oh my God, right. So then we start barking back and forth and whatever. And he says something else smart and I was like well, I'll tell you what. I start walking, you start walking, we meet up, we'll see what happens, so whatever. So then Daffy's come out by that point. So the only reason that me and him didn't end up in a cell at night is because she goes Orlando. I'm pregnant, you're scary. We got to go. And I was like all right, because you just said that.
Speaker 3:I'll go, but like we were going to throw down in front of theater seven, like really, I was like I'll give up. Oh my fucking God, all right, so anyway. So that's that story. So I tell my sister the story I just told you. I had to tell you the story so you could get what I'm going to about.
Speaker 3:So I'm in the middle of the story and I get to the part where I'm like I'm staring at him and he's staring at me and Jesus and he says what the fuck are you looking at? And my sister on Q has never heard the story goes looking at that nasty motherfucker. He didn't wash his hands. I swear to God, I promise you on a stack of fucking Bibles and I laughed so goddamn hard I was like we were truly raised together, like a holy shit. She goes wow, that nasty motherfucker, he didn't wash his head. I just like I couldn't believe it, even in real time, like the exact freezing, so crazy, anyway. So when you mentioned that they were on that like neighborhood, whatever vibe, you made me think of the. You made me think of that story.
Speaker 2:What I made me think of you. You have a part of your stand up routine. It's older set, but you talk about owls. Oh yeah. Oh, old white ladies, yeah, so you've had. You've had a couple of run ins with Listen. I don't want to, I don't want to speak for the Caucasian people, but you, yeah, I mean, I wouldn't want you sit next to me. Give off that professorial Yale vibe. I know I'm like me.
Speaker 2:My challenge me to a, to a game of Jeopardy. And then what would I do? Like she's got to be out of her fucking mind.
Speaker 3:I mean it was ridiculous.
Speaker 2:That's, that is I anyway, but again I. I went because I say what, what do I say?
Speaker 3:Don't want there to be an ass. That's with that person.
Speaker 2:That is a big it. That is a. That is a died in the wall, racist.
Speaker 3:That is what that person is. No, no, no, no microaggression here.
Speaker 2:Yeah, no, no, no, no, no no microaggressions, yeah, but then and then I was laughing because when you did the thing we're walking out and we did, I can't do it as we're not programmed as white people to be able to make that. What would you like that? Like that, like that, whatever the M sound is where you're like, luckily I can on it. I can say that, at least to my knowledge, that is, that sound has never been made in my direction.
Speaker 2:And every day. I think I think my lucky start, because that is more painful, it's more a servant than any. I think anyone can say you make that sound. But but again you guys were like OK, you're going to make sure, we know, we know, we're going to make it, make it. So we, we are trumpeting the fact, we know what you did.
Speaker 3:And then she's so convinced in her in, she just like yeah, unabashed, yeah, yeah, no, no, there was no like shame or like oh no, I didn't mean like no, no, no, no, no, yeah, but anyway. But yeah, it was the. I had to tell you the story so that you would get the second half of the story with my sister. But yeah, that's really what happened. It was pretty wild, pretty wild.
Speaker 2:Yeah, jesus.
Speaker 4:Number one. That's absolutely fucking amazing. I mean, I was going to say I love everything about it. Obviously, obviously, there are plenty of parts that I don't, but I love the outcome. The only other thing that I'll say is Castle, you are correct, and I know how rarely I say that.
Speaker 3:What you're going to want to pay attention. Mark this episode, Jesus. What's happening?
Speaker 2:Wow.
Speaker 4:You are correct in that, with that woman, that bigot, and her son, her bigoted son, there is no us. However, my there's no us would be yelling at her. I would feel like if, in the same way that you think, like you were like oh hey, evelyn, I'm so sorry, I didn't mean to snub you, I wanted you to know, I heard what you said and I just got pulled away. What I think is I want you to fucking know that I do not like you. If I walk away from a situation where somebody has pulled some shit like that and I have not made it blisteringly clear to them that I think they are a fucking asshole, then I feel like I haven't done a good job. What I need to do is say like we are not friends. I need you to know we are not literally in my therapy.
Speaker 3:I promise you this week in my therapy I said I came across this phrase and I want to discuss this why is it that I can't find my peace if I don't say my peace?
Speaker 4:Yeah, yeah, yes, no, no, I get that, that yeah.
Speaker 3:Like those memes that are people like oh, I'm up at 3am thinking of what I should have said in an argument seven years ago. I'm like that is me, that is 100%. I really still want to say it. Like there is a part of me. It's like, well, pick up the phone and tell Jeff from accounting that how he finds out Like what but yeah, so it's really interesting yeah.
Speaker 4:But I hear you on that, I am.
Speaker 2:I love that quality that you have. Yeah, that's something. I wish I don't have that gear necessarily, but because maybe it's just some too risk averse In another part of the multiverse coach died that day, you know like for what.
Speaker 3:No, really, I mean seriously.
Speaker 2:Especially if you're at a urinal. That guy can come hit you on the back of the head and it's over. You go down and hit your head wrong. That's a broken neck, that's it.
Speaker 2:That's it, and there's no justice in any of it. So I'm like I don't, like there's. There's a certain level of I get it and I really appreciate it. I just I think the calculus of my side is is I'm not going to change this person. I want them out of my vicinity as fast as possible. They don't have, they don't know what they have to lose. They don't know like things are not. The things that are precious to me are not precious to them. I don't, I just don't. We are not the same.
Speaker 4:Let me get away from them yeah.
Speaker 4:Yeah, no, you're right. I think, like they, the risk involved. There's always the calculus. This is the same way that I might not actually pick a fight with somebody if I think they could fully beat my ass. I would only pick a fight when I know that it's safe, like I get that. I think my point was more, there are different ways of coming at there isn't enough. It's like somebody years ago when I said that I was not sure about I knew for sure no kids, I was. If you're on marriage, somebody said, well, I just want you to get married because I want you to be happy. I'm like, well, marriage and happy are not the same thing and have, like you could be married and be unhappy and you could be non married and be happy, like so I just I always like to make sure that we are confusing things that are similar with things that are identical.
Speaker 2:So excellent point and you're absolutely right. And you know God, keep going.
Speaker 4:Only that awesome much like how coach bishops meme is up until three in the morning saying I should have said that mine is the guy bent over apparently vomiting. Saying I remember the time when I was barely even mean and I could have been meaner.
Speaker 3:I've seen that and it is very funny. And it's always me every single time I'm like man.
Speaker 4:I was barely even mean I could have been so much meaner if I felt like it.
Speaker 2:I'd put the word camera. This is why ADHD has a benefit, because my mind is a wait. What white lady? Oh yeah, I haven't thought about it since it happened, so yeah.
Speaker 4:Oh, I haven't. I haven't thought about any of them either. Anybody that I was mean to, I don't remember you anymore. I have on my phone back when you could tell Siri to add somebody to your enemies list. For whatever reason my phone won't do it anymore, she won't let me add things to her list. But I could say, hey, siri, add blah, blah, blah to my enemies list. And then she would say Coach Castleton has been added to your enemies list. And I would fucking love it because I could do it in front of people if I felt like it. Anyway, I have people on that list. I don't know who they are. I do not remember them anymore. They're on my list that says Emily's enemies, and I don't know them.
Speaker 3:I didn't know that was a thing. So I'll start there. I love that you not only knew it was a thing, but had such a functioning relationship with it that you know. Like Siri responds this is how it works, Like wow, that's amazing, it's amazing.
Speaker 2:Coach Castleton is a VIP on your enemies list already.
Speaker 4:I think Cow's Milk is on there, wow, wow.
Speaker 2:That's not flighty at all. So which one of these is Phoebe's? Roy says and she says, oh, I won't be able to display Phoebe's artwork, and why not, Coach?
Speaker 3:Why not? Oh no, and she starts to say it and then she's like you know what, maybe I should just show you. And she does. And Phoebe has drawn some breastes, suisse, and as the teacher shares unnervingly accurate charcoal sketches of breasts yes, there were more, but some of the boys stole them and I think they're using them as currency, which made me laugh truly out loud. Boys are stupid. Yeah, that was good, that was very funny to me that's like a next level.
Speaker 2:I think they're using them as currency, as a really, really, really smart joke. It's a very funny joke.
Speaker 3:Because, like I, 100% could see how that would unfold amongst a bunch of young boys. Oh my God, 100%, like. How many comics do I need to hand over to get that?
Speaker 2:But anyway, it's like packs of cigarettes and presents.
Speaker 3:Exactly, exactly so. Anyway, I thought that was great.
Speaker 2:Fascinating, and it makes you like her for saying it. Anyway, keep going.
Speaker 3:Well, that's the thing too, and we're going to see more of this from her. I love the character, but that she, like she doesn't think it's okay. You don't get the sense that she's like, oh, boys will be boys, but you also don't get the sense that, like, she's going to like call, like a parent forum on, basically, boys discovering that they like breasts. You don't even be like, so, anyway, it worked for me, bloody hell Nice. So they're kind of, you know, acknowledging that that's crazy. Roy asks if she needs a hand because she's hanging. She's hanging some pictures. She's not quite tall enough to get them where she wants them to be. She says, yup, his phone beeps and it is Keeley, letting him know she's gone shopping. Does she mention yeah, so he mentions Nate, so they so, yup, that's great, see you later. And he then she's the teacher says unless you need to go. And he says no, I got time. Yeah, which okay.
Speaker 3:Miss Bowen is miss Bowen thank you, sorry, I was searching. I was searching, yeah we mentioned it.
Speaker 3:I don't know if I've mentioned this story before, but when I was, when Daphne and I were engaged we were recently engaged I was at a party at my friend's girlfriend's house, so like some of her friends were around or whatever, and you know, just hanging out and I'm out on the balcony talking to this woman and she's laughing and I'm laughing, it's all very nice. And then there's this pause in the conversation and I was like, oh, I need to go inside now. Like in my mind I was like this is the part where you go inside. And to me, roy, I was like you know what, roy? You do not got time. You do not got time right now because you want to got time and if you want to got time, it's probably time to go. I thought it was a very interesting setup of how this all unfolded.
Speaker 2:Yeah, no, it's true, Right. Huh, that's interesting, coach. That's oh okay, Especially when I know about Daphne, who scares me more than anyone.
Speaker 3:Well, trust me, I went inside, I left Like let's get to the end of that story, right? What?
Speaker 4:did you think I did yeah right. Seriously. Yes, I mean speaking of risky situations.
Speaker 2:Dear God. So boss, we pivot over to. So he helps Roy, helps Miss Bowen, we come away. I think generally it's funny because certain characters in the show you know you don't want to have a rash generalization. I think the vast majority of viewers really done in general Like there's, like she's fucking cool yeah. Okay, now we got we pivot over to the office. Ted. Ted is in the coach's office and he is on his MacBook. And who's he talking to here, boss?
Speaker 4:It's talking to Henry and he's Henry is telling him about being show and tell. Today Should I bring my Jamie Tart Jersey or my Lego Hogwarts? And he says, hmm, I got to go with the Jamie Tart Jersey for fear of how Hogwarts might travel. You know, just fair Legos tend to come apart a little more easily than a soccer jersey.
Speaker 2:And Henry says what?
Speaker 4:It says Henry says good thinking, Abe Lincoln.
Speaker 3:And I just like to pause here to say that in my soul I said is there anyone happier with this piece of dialogue than boss? I don't think there could be, of course.
Speaker 2:It's the line she always wanted.
Speaker 4:I mean, like I guess Abe Lincoln is a good thinker and so it's a little more related than some of the other ones. I don't mind a throwaway joke. I just don't understand, like what was being conveyed in this that Henry is just like his dad, that Henry is still just like his dad despite his dad being far away, or just that his Ted's med flander-ness has infected everybody he knows. Like, does Michelle also talk like this? Does she say that to her coworkers?
Speaker 2:What is this? No, no, I mean yeah, yeah, that's a good question. I don't, I don't know. I certainly hope not, but yeah, there is a. There is some natural. There is some natural crossover between kids hearing the vernacular that their parents use and then adopting it themselves. From time to time, this one does feel like a little bit more than that. He's trying to emulate his dad, but listen, he's far away from his dad. You know, and this is this is so. So in some, in some ways, it's very endearing for those of us who have pop psychology. You know one on one background we go oh God, like Jesus Christ, oh, the therapy that this poor kid. But but you know, it's, it's, it's a sweet, sweet interaction. Ted waves his boss in, rebecca comes to the door and he says all right, buddy, I got to go. And yeah, he says have a great day at school, love you. Rebecca closes the door behind her and and Ted tips down the top of his, his MacBook. And then what happens? Boss?
Speaker 4:Rebecca comes in, says right, I'm just going to come out and say it. I had a tour de ferro with Sam, to which the laptop says dad, I'm still on. Oh, sorry, sorry, sorry, okay, bye.
Speaker 2:Did either of you notice that that at all when he, when he did as soon as he didn't close that laptop, I didn't think it. Yeah, I didn't think it. Oh my God, my I was like I like to. That's funny. I was so on it from the get go. That's funny.
Speaker 4:Close laptop all the way. Make sure that the meeting you have fully left the zoom meeting. Yes, all of those Do fucking double check the. Did I reply all many, many times?
Speaker 3:Yes, yes, yes. Well, you know, I'm a person who said I feel like someone recently in my life said send every email as if it was reply.
Speaker 4:Yes.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I thought so yeah. Yeah, that's it. That's it. You know it's one of those like, yeah, if you're going to have rules to live by, that one is solid enough that, even if there's an exception here and there, you can live by that one.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that goes hand in hand with the talk about a person's if they're if you wouldn't say it to them, like they're standing right there, don't fucking say it so but but yeah, I do want to talk to you about some of the butter cups. I mean, I'll save it for after.
Speaker 4:No, we're not even gonna laugh that. Come on, what kind of? What kind of?
Speaker 1:Are you trying to pull some of these water cups All?
Speaker 2:right, so so so, ted, I like the Ted closes the the laptop and then opens it all the way back up to your seat Right Like okay, it's such a grand grandpa, move, yeah, walk us through what he's trying to wrap his head around, this boss. What does he say here?
Speaker 4:He says you, and Rebecca says and Sam, and he says you will Jackson, okay, and she says you laugh because I laugh.
Speaker 3:I wasn't proud, I wasn't proud, but I laughed on you. Well, jackson, because for me, whereas a lot of these can be a bit goofy, I have to admit the fact that he is trying so hard to process the fucking Bob. She just walked into his office and dropped that he like. Actually, for him it is more believable and easier to process. If it is Samuel L Jackson, then the truth. So I you know, but I wasn't proud, but I have to admit I laughed.
Speaker 2:I laughed.
Speaker 4:I don't remember if I laughed at this specifically, and I need everyone to know that this isn't funny, because making fun of anyone's name is funny Like making fun of our name, unless it's Chester A Arthur, which is just funny, like anybody's actual name isn't funny to make fun of. But for whatever reason, one of my five, my friend Mandy, from high school right around college, started doing a joke similar to this one, where anytime that I would mention anyone, she would either change the name so that it fit into a larger phrase or she would say like, oh, it's a famous person. So, for instance, on my floor my freshman year I was friends with a woman who went by Jay. Her full name is Yagoda, which is Polish, and so Mandy used to ask if her last name was Jewel, as in Yagoda Jewel, as in the grocery store in the Chicagoland area. I'm like Mandy, that's not funny. Mandy, you know that that's not funny.
Speaker 2:You know that's not an actual joke.
Speaker 4:Also next door to me there was a woman in the room whose name was Pokum and she said is it her last name, mandy ass? And I'm like obviously her last name isn't her name. Is not Pokum in the ass, mandy? And then I said we're hanging out with my friend Alicia tonight. She was like Alicia Keys. I'm like bitch if you do this one more time to me and the span of one visit, I am going to lose my goddamn mind and make you go back to Northern. What are you doing.
Speaker 3:I feel like we could charge people, like we could charge admission, to watch coach react to phrases like poke him in the ass, as like a way to make sure he just, he just sit in the shake in his head like why is the world like this? Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 4:I just she did. She did that to me in one weekend, one solid weekend, and then she laid all of those on me.
Speaker 3:I tend to inspire, I think, of my name isn't easily sort of twisted into a nickname, which is what's funny, is? I always kind of wanted a nickname when I was a little kid, so when I finally got one in the middle I was actually pleased, but anyway that's. But I would get like Lando Kauriassian and I like any people really like. I think they thought they were extra clever because my name is rare. But because my name is relatively rare, the chances that you're going to think of when I haven't heard are like not great, just not great. It's fine.
Speaker 3:I don't really care, but yeah, it's not. It's not likely that you're going to say some shit I haven't heard before. Although I will say, my child had a friend named Celia and I tried to. I was like like Celia Cruz and there was just silence and I realized not one kid in this room knows who the fuck Celia Cruz is so you guys take care. Enjoy the pizza yeah.
Speaker 4:So I'm going to just shuffle off the Tibet.
Speaker 3:Exactly, exactly. That early bird ain't going to buy itself. I'll be back.
Speaker 4:Also, I've got to admit, if the meanest thing people said to you was you are a lot like Lando Kauriassian, aka Billy D Williams, that was not an insult. Nobody was teasing you with that information. That's like, oh man, cindy like Cindy Crawford. Look at you. I'm making fun of you now.
Speaker 2:Fair enough, fair enough, so Obesanya right, okay, just checking. Very Ted Lasso, okay, well, you know, I think that's great. Hold on, wait, no, yes, yes, it is Okay, okay.
Speaker 3:So, yes, I like that he landed on. I think that's fine, like he's like really try to figure it out in real time, so it would right, it's fine. Yeah, yeah, but anyway.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I think that's fine. I think I need to end it. Sure, I can see that. I mean, I asked him for a bit of time to figure things out and now we're in a bit of a limbo situation. Great part of game, horrible relationship status, torture. Then Edwin Akufo sweeps in and take him away and I've lost all objectivity, which I just love. That love, that realization on her part. You know it's like when there wasn't the imminent threat of him like being gone. You know she had, she had like a imaginary time, but now there's a barrier. So what does Rebecca say here? Coach, I've lost all objectivity and pick it up from that point.
Speaker 3:So Sam's a really great player, he agrees, one of the best we got. But do I want him to stay because of my feelings for him? Good question, right now, ted is just like I'm just going to let you work through this. Like I, until a minute ago I thought this might be Samuel L O Jackson. I mean, we really were great together. I mean, come on, sam and Rebecca are already one of my all time favorite TV couples. I hadn't done that math until that moment watching and I did kind of find myself enjoying that they had, I don't know Easter egg the right word for that but whatever they did with that laying that in there, I thought that was kind of fun. What?
Speaker 3:was it from, I'm sorry, sam, and Rebecca from Cheers, and so classic, classic. And of course this show, with all its references, would be very aware of Cheers and landing on something like that.
Speaker 2:So I thought that was cool. Also, Sudeikis is-.
Speaker 3:Oh, that's right.
Speaker 2:Went His George went.
Speaker 3:That's right. I wasn't thinking about that Right right.
Speaker 2:So there was specifically references we have that Several several, several Cheers references throughout the show.
Speaker 3:So to have one of them in real life? Yes, please, he does a whistle. Yes, please, rebecca. But if he wants to go, I shouldn't stand in his way. I could not agree more from Ted, but if I let him go I might regret it for the rest of my life. Ooh, turns out I could agree more, which that again got me. I kind of love how Ted handles this conversation. I gotta say Well, rebecca, listen to me, is he judgmental at all here, coach? By the way, he is not, he really is. Like I see how this is very complicated for you and I think I probably would have wanted advice by here, but he's doing a good job.
Speaker 3:Sorry, go ahead.
Speaker 2:Right, yeah, no, he's not lying. He's not saying oh, this is my boss, I better like there's nothing here. But, like you know, he's considering it. He's, I'm great with it, I'm fine with it and I don't want to break it up. I could see that, Like you know what I mean, he's just being a real sounding board for her and she clearly needs to. Just vent.
Speaker 3:Also, yes to what you just said, and I think this is the best of Ted. Like the things we love about Ted, the thing that led him to say be a goldfish, the thing that led right. Like the thing that you know got him to send Jamie, the little army man in the note saying way to make the extra pass. Like that part of Ted that can see you where you are and try to help you get where you're going. Like there's no part of this that's about Ted, and in a, but in a good way, not in a don't look at me, I'll just take care of everybody else. Like he. Like she came in she needed something and what she didn't need was Ted's advice she needed she needed him to allow her to work through her problem and he did it really. I thought he did it really effectively, even if, at the end of the day, she may have even felt like she wanted to be told what to do. But that would never hold the same weight in her life as finding the answer she's looking for.
Speaker 2:We have a friend coach. Yeah, absolutely right. We have a friend who is very judgmental and he would be so mad if he was intense. He'd be like. He likes to use the term Caesar's robes, meaning like you got to be like Caesar's robes, which means like squeaky, absolutely spotless. So, in your situation as head of an organization, I'm very sorry that you have, like you know, a libido, but you cannot play in this particular.
Speaker 3:I just don't give a shit.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it's not a good look.
Speaker 2:Like I'm very sorry, you got to be like Caesar's robes and Boss is nodding because she has this gear. And for those of us who are fallible and idiots, I put myself the head of that regatta. What you, when you do this and you go to somebody like Ted, you can hear him like, understood inside of his responses, is a fact that he knows where the lines are and he knows where you've crossed them, but he isn't giving you shit about it. He's gonna allow you to give yourself shit about it, but there's a space there for right, it's not like this.
Speaker 2:He's not taking that on as part of his job. Well, also, he would never make that mistake either. Like, can you see him like going like well, hey sorry I hooked up with Keely or it's not doesn't have the skill set, like the gear set, to have made that mistake, so it's yeah, the Caesar's robe thing is on a front of mind piece.
Speaker 3:Also, I'll toss in and I think this is significant with everything she's gone through with Rupert, sorry, with everything she's gone through with Rupert.
Speaker 4:Everybody wishes we could forget him yeah no shit.
Speaker 3:But he, but she. I think he knows that this is a turned upside down, going through the storm time in her life and maybe five years earlier or five years later she would have totally been like no way, can't do it, not gonna do it, whatever. So I think he also recognizes, like because of the last time they had this framing in front of us having this conversation in the office, this going through divorce. People do crazy things and maybe one of those is starting an affair with your coworker. Right now in the United States of America we have a little bit of a bump in the road in a case that's going on with the stealing of an election in what's supposed to be a democracy, and it basically boils down to a couple of people who are working on it have slept together. Doesn't seem to be at all relevant to what the fuck's going on, but does seem like it's become a bit of a bump in the road.
Speaker 3:And but I see myself feeling both. I see myself going. They're both adults, they're like you spend time with people. I see how it happens and another part of me goes. God damn it. Atlanta is a big fucking city, man. You couldn't find anybody else you know. But yeah, I like that Ted doesn't bring up what he knows she already knows. She does not need him to say well, that was questionable judgment. She knows that, that's why she's here.
Speaker 2:Yep and good boss.
Speaker 4:Well, I think the only thing that I'll say the squeaky clean robes. I understand I get that perspective and my position is usually not. You need to be. What did they say about Obama? That he, like, walked on ice and never slipped? I think was one of them, something like that. He never fucked up.
Speaker 3:He never fucked up. It's really impressive actually.
Speaker 4:Like. In and of itself, that is impressive that he never fucked up. I understand why sometimes that is required. My position because I fuck up a lot of shit is are you willing to live with the consequences?
Speaker 3:That part.
Speaker 4:And so that is more of it for me. I don't need you to live by any specific morality, but then you need to deal with what comes from it. I also think that this is a little bit yes, I love what Ted is doing here, but also what Ted is doing I have seen friends of mine do all the time, which is you start a conversation and the person who is listening says is this advice or is this fencing? Which one are you looking for? Oh yeah, and sometimes the person just needs to, like, get it out and then they're fine. So like, while I understand that it's great that Ted is modeling this behavior, I'm not going to say he necessarily invented it much the way with a lot of the stuff on the show Love having it as an example that people could reference, not the first time, the last bit.
Speaker 4:I understand that this is like from a show writing perspective. They needed to get this done. She needs to figure out her feelings. It reminds me a little bit of, like, how people can't run to the gate of the airport anymore. Like, just, these are things that, no, when what's her face got under the plane of Casablanca. That was the last time that Humphrey Bogart was going to see her because she was moving to a different part of Europe in the middle of World War II and neither one of them might survive.
Speaker 4:Like now, we have Facebook and cell phones, and so there's a part of me that feels like Rebecca, I know where you're coming from, but you need to see what Sam thinks. You need to see what a Kufo's offer is, what Sam wants to do with it, what you guys are able to do with it, and then pick it up from there. Like right now, you are figuring out four or five steps ahead of what you might be screwing up, instead of focusing on what you have control over right now, which is figuring out if you want to even be in a relationship with Sam. You might have run out of time for that, but then focus on figuring that out. The rest of this shit you can't even control right now.
Speaker 3:I've probably shared this mantra before, but another thing that came up in my earlier conversation I mentioned I was in a mindfulness group and I sure miss them, but at any rate you can add that to shit. Nobody saw coming Orlando. You mean the Kaila Latte guy with the fucking dog. Yeah, he's big on mindfulness.
Speaker 3:Check that out. But anyway, but actually during a sit, once it came to me I am powerless. I am powerful. Where is my power? And I think what you're pointing out is you have no power over most of what just got mentioned, right, and so you're right that she really needs to work on the part she does have power over, which is like okay, well, how do I feel and what am I gonna do about that? Yeah, I think sometimes, when we don't go to the part where we have power over, I'm curious what you think about this we go to things we don't have power over. It's specifically not consciously, but it's specifically avoiding the part we do.
Speaker 4:Yeah.
Speaker 3:Yes, you know what I'm saying. I don't think that's by chance that that happens so often that we, even for me recently, I found myself thinking about the news and going like I don't really wanna deal with it, because guess what? Hamas doesn't give a fuck. What I think Neither does. Netanyahu and I can sit here and obsess over it and feel terrible about it, but they literally, if I had full access to them, starting now, neither one of them gives a fuck. What I think, so like, maybe what I should be focused on is building my business, or maybe what I should be focused on is that I'm, you know, let's be honest like 25 pounds every one. I should be, so maybe you could, you know, hop on a treadmill there, green piece, and let it go. I mean, I went for Nobel Peace Prize and I reached the wrong way. I said green piece, whatever, give to all the groups, but just know that Orlando sometimes just fucks up when he's talking there. You go.
Speaker 3:Come on, nobody else does that Get it together.
Speaker 4:No, I think that that's actually exactly right. I think also there is I know I used to do this a lot more and I have had to train myself on it is I would get preoccupied with how it isn't fair that things aren't the way that I wanted them to be. Yes, I would be upset. Yes. Not about how things actually are, but the fact that it wasn't.
Speaker 3:Yes.
Speaker 4:Yeah, I wanted something else.
Speaker 2:Yes, I don't know how you got through that. I live every day, like because I'm like wait a sec, I saw every movie in the 80s Like I'm supposed to have a fucking flying car right now. That's what I should be worrying about, like where do you park your flying car? Like hold on.
Speaker 2:I should have a jet pack, a flying car, time travel. I'm like what is this? Is really what I'm going to spend my time worrying about the dumbest shit. Oh my God, I never wanted it to be part of my life. I can't believe it. So, yes, I don't know if you've gotten through that Like I get irritated by that every single day.
Speaker 4:No, that's just a radical acceptance which. I think, people confuse with radical approval. It's not that I think things are great. It's that this is exactly the way that things are. So I'm going to start from that point and figure out how to move outside of that. Has anyone ever died from a dope meme?
Speaker 3:overdose. Oh, that's so funny. I'm just asking for a friend.
Speaker 2:Sorry, go ahead. You know, like the this is fine meme where everything's burning.
Speaker 3:Yeah. It's like yeah.
Speaker 2:It's like accepting that.
Speaker 3:I'm joking about that, but I absolutely am serious, though how much that means to me. To keep that front of mind, that it is imperative. It is imperative that you accept what is Orlando Like sometimes I act and that's part of the conversation I was having earlier is like really stopping being like, but I want to stop. That is not what is Like. Okay Now from there. Okay from what is make plans, have goals, fight the war, whatever you got to do, but I don't want that to have happened. Is it's a road to insanity. I mean, it's certainly suffering, but I would say it's a good way to drive yourself crazy.
Speaker 4:Yes, I will talk pretty soon. I'm not sure when I'm going to fit it in, but there's an album by Bright Eyes. They are a band now. When I listened to them it was just Counter O'Brest, counter Oberist. I'm wide awake. It's morning Came out in 2005. Very personal album, but also extremely political. Had a lot to do with 9-11 and the Iraq War and fucking great. I fuck with that album super hard. I haven't stayed on Bright Eyes, but I fuck with it real hard. It's great. Wow. There's a song that says my mind races with all my longings but can't keep up with what I've got. So it's essentially like all the shit that you do have you can't focus on because you're so worried about things that you want to be different and want to have different things, and that just makes you fucking crazy. You're not satisfied. Thinking about all the different things you wish you had, you feel like shit.
Speaker 2:I would love if you share that song in the community site. Boss, yeah, listen, you're right, you can't get.
Speaker 4:Oh, I'm absolutely going to share that song because it's called Road to Joy, which does have the music of Ode to Joy, only he fucking rocks out on it. It's great.
Speaker 2:Okay, I look forward to hearing it. Yeah yeah, we have to deal with what is, which is one of my least favorite things to do. I heard my 10-year-old turn off like the playlist was playing. In another room, I heard my 10-year-old go and turn off the Smiths to put on Ice Spice and I thought I've done a bad job. I was like, oh boy, that would take me a minute.
Speaker 3:What a contrast, though that is great. So my kid turned off Crosby Sills and Nash to put on two live crew.
Speaker 2:Like oh okay, it felt like that. Yeah, it was like a record scratch. That's funny and shit Okay.
Speaker 2:So that's where we are. Okay, I'm going to chronicle that and do my damnedest to sort of nudge her in a different direction, but it's fine. Ted says well, rebecca, listen to me, don't listen to me, don't listen to Edward Cufo, don't even listen to Sam. You listen to your gut, okay, and on your way down to your gut, check in with your heart. Between those two things, they'll let you know what's what they make good harmony, like two thirds of bone thugs, and harmony. You know what I mean.
Speaker 3:The bone thugs. And harmony was definitely pushing it. It was going, I thought it was going great, I thought it was going great and then again I found myself thinking boss must just be having the time of her fucking life Even when I said that, reading it, she just looked at me with like a scowl, like a musky.
Speaker 3:It's rough. I can admit that's rough, but I did like that expression, like I've actually thought this phrase about you know, as I've been dealing things in my own life at different points, like there's something about you know on your way down to your gut, check in with your heart, I don't know. I, I, I, I. That is pretty sound advice A lot of the time in life.
Speaker 2:You know, I guess if someone has, if people are aware, sometimes you know they don't even know the difference between their heart and their gut and then you know it's like hard to tell when you're that, you know confused and and and emotion is like pushing everything up to the surface. It can be hard to delineate. You know heart and gut and that's where it can help to have a coach or a therapist or a best friend or a you know family member who can like at least help you parse it out a little bit. I know for me it gets very conflated and wait a second, and so someone asking the right questions, I think is is beneficial. Bone thugs and harmony. Listen, it's a. I thought it, I thought it was a humble brag, I thought it was like white boy, you know, like you know what I mean.
Speaker 2:Like hey, like there's, there's a little bit of that in Ted Lasso, like a very little. Like I listened to some fucking kick ass shit that most you know suburban white boys would know.
Speaker 1:I want to ask you know it's nice, nice one that happened.
Speaker 2:No, no, no. It's not like a couple of times in college. You know, some some friends come over or someone would look at my music collection, which was a thing a music Can you imagine?
Speaker 3:like?
Speaker 2:yeah, like it's a physical space around you. Take a physical space and someone would like leave through it and then get a sense about you yeah. And then and then a couple of times it would be like, oh fuck, like damn right, you listen to whatever you know. Next, fill in the blank, I'm like, yeah, like you know whatever there was a point of pride. Now, you can't. Can't dazzle anybody, these poor kids today with their, with their questionable dating rituals, you can't show someone your playlist.
Speaker 2:I mean, yes, you can share. You know, they can't see it in a physical space. You know what I mean. It's like, it's just like a different.
Speaker 4:You just, you just send them a list of your Spotify playlists, like you just make a playlist where you're like here, this is the most impressive music I listened to and then you send it to them.
Speaker 2:And then, if you'll get it, that would be like making a tape for someone, that would be like making a mix. Cause like once you do the act of sharing. I'm saying like it's a, it is a um inoffensive, unplanned thing which is a physical layout in your abode right when they just stumble by and be like, oh shit. They look like, oh, I love your movie, like it was same thing Movies. Yeah, I look like holy shit.
Speaker 3:You have this one. Oh yeah, I love that movie. That's a whole conversation, yeah.
Speaker 2:Uh, this is a. I went to play soccer in Europe and got this Wait you did.
Speaker 2:I got I I was younger and I was on a team that went to play in Europe and I remember there was, when we were out there, there was this um, that was like a Beatles remake. God, I can't even remember, but I got like a like a album by a band called Candy Flip. I don't even remember the song anymore. It was like a Beatles cover that everybody loved. And I remember when I went back and was like where the fuck, where did you get that? Like how does this even exist? And I was like, oh, I got it in England. People are like like you know what I mean? It was like some stupid little thing. I'm saying kids today don't have necessarily that the physical space.
Speaker 2:That's all. Yeah, now I'm going to have to look that up. Candy Flip what song did the Candy Flip cover by the Beatles boss?
Speaker 4:Strawberry Fields Forever.
Speaker 2:Yes, yes, that was it. It was great when it was. I don't even know what year was that. To say the? To say the year, Uh, 1927. 1927.
Speaker 3:Seriously, I'm dating, yeah, he was just saying, he was just saying I was like wait, you're stirring, you're stirring something up.
Speaker 4:Um, yeah, it looks like, uh like around 1990.
Speaker 2:Makes sense. Yeah, that would make sense, yeah, so, um, uh, thank you, ted. You know, boss, you're starting to develop a bit of a habit, am I? Oh, yeah, you dropped it in place last year. You dropped another truth bomb on me. Poor shippers.
Speaker 3:Poor shippers.
Speaker 2:Poor shippers.
Speaker 3:Because even I there was like uh, uh, is this? Like I did think I wasn't necessarily rooting for it, but I did think when Matt got said I was like, oh my God, that's going to be the, the final. I love you, I love you, Seen, I thought, or at least that was possible. That became possible to me.
Speaker 3:In this moment I can't, yeah, I did not have that Again you know I was not a shipper on this, but I but I get where someone watches this and gets that bit of foreshadowing and thinks like boss was like super into it.
Speaker 2:She was just like, oh, they're totally going to do it.
Speaker 3:How will we even know they care about each other.
Speaker 2:If they don't have sex, I'm just like boss come on, man, that was one of her core values. Come on, boss. Was like men and women can't be friends.
Speaker 3:This is stupid Go back, listen, check it out. These are facts.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I think I'm just summing up her feelings pretty well.
Speaker 4:I'm not. I'm not acknowledging that. That's about me. I won't hear it and I won't dignify it with you.
Speaker 3:I would also like to mention.
Speaker 4:I don't hate the bone thugs and harmony reference. It's just there's a crossroads joke right there.
Speaker 3:Like give you a hundred percent. There's a crossroads.
Speaker 4:Give me 10 more feet of that.
Speaker 3:There's a crossroads joke right there, I mean it's, and yeah, you don't even. I mean the joke could be three to five words longer, like you're right.
Speaker 4:Yeah, that's the level I'm looking for, and also then I would be singing crossroads for the rest of the day.
Speaker 3:There's that which, by the way, we can laugh about in retrospect, but that was the jam for a minute.
Speaker 4:Oh, I'm not going to laugh about it. I will still fuck with it, okay, yeah.
Speaker 3:I was going to say that song was. You know I wasn't a huge bone thugs and harmony fan. I can get into a whole conversation about that. We're going to do it here and now.
Speaker 4:But yeah, but that song was, that song was on point yeah, no, like I'm not going to stand up here and defend Snow's Informer. That was garbage. But fucking crossroads, yes.
Speaker 3:I feel so bad that there are people who couldn't fully appreciate what you just did. Snow's Informer for those of you who are unfamiliar is just this imagine like a talent show in the whitest town you've ever been to and someone decides, you know, it would be even cooler than me rapping me rapping in a slightly Caribbean, west Indian sort of Jamaican black scent, like it was like.
Speaker 2:Yeah, Looking back it's like yeah, no.
Speaker 3:It was fucking wild Was that.
Speaker 4:So here's what you really need to genuinely imagine. Yeah, watch Walt's that Time.
Speaker 2:Don't. No, no, coach don't.
Speaker 4:Oh no, oh no, chet Hanks has gotten into the studio.
Speaker 2:He's taken over Chet's place. Oh no, let me grab my black face. I'm making a real work of art here. It's terrible. It's also unfamiliar with Snow.
Speaker 4:What I need you to know about him is that he is not just Canadian. He is so Canadian. He is second cousins of the bare naked ladies. Co-founder. Jesus, that is how Canadian he is. And this guy was rapping. Yeah, no, no, yeah.
Speaker 3:And yeah, no, there's a. Yeah, it was, it was. It was a moment I laughed so hard recently because we were looking at pictures from, first of all, for the people who were like, oh, the teachers these days, you know the genders. I'm like, first of all, if you grew up in the vicinity of the 80s and 90s, I don't even want to fucking hear a word from you. That's all anybody was doing.
Speaker 3:Charlie Murphy and I don't usually use this word, but you need it to appreciate the Charlie Murphy of it was talking about when they ran into Prince and he and he made a joke about how it was the 80s and the more, the more dudes look like a bitch and I just a horrible way to say that Like I get. Why, in the socio political context, not to be encouraged. That was a literal spit take when he said that, because I was like he is not wrong, like he is. That is not the way to say it If we want to be nice about it, but he is not wrong. That like I remember. I remember like the, the Jerry curls for some and the makeup and you know, prince, I mean are you kidding me? Dude War heals, like the idea that we just everyone was neatly hanging out in a box and suddenly, in 2020, everybody started, you know, studying critical race theory and, and, and dressing outside of gender norms is like what are you fucking talking about?
Speaker 2:What are you fucking talking about? This is not new. I would, I would, I would love to talk about this because I will add it to your. Your take time on a cultural phenomenon, but like I could talk forever about hair bands, I mean, like I mean, I could come on ever about guys and tight pants with long hair and no shirts. Yeah, and, and and what and what the absence of that meant for society and forced different people to make adjustments that you know whatever. It was like very, it's just fascinating stuff.
Speaker 4:But I want to tell you how to do my makeup. Is all I'm saying.
Speaker 3:I mean anyway, sorry, sorry coach. I know you're like, can we get through some fucking Ted, but but but it makes me nuts. It's the reason that, really sorry, that sets me off.
Speaker 2:No, no, it's correct and it's. It's a, it's a very myopic view of, you know, recent history, or you know, these types of these perspectives tend to self edit in a way that is detrimental. Rebecca leaves the the the office and I just want to point out that they hold on Ted for a good beat to nice frame shot. I really like the framing of it. He's slightly off center.
Speaker 3:I also like when you have two people in a shot and then you do the shot again with one gone, because I feel like you really, when it's done well, you really feel the aloneness, you feel the you know what I mean Like I just saw this with two people in it, so it's like empty now you know anyway, and boss what, when, when, when Ted makes this, what, what is this thought that you think Ted is that he doesn't say anything?
Speaker 2:You don't have it. But he makes a sort of a face. He looks at Rebecca walking away, raises his eyebrows and turns. What is going through his mind here? Any idea, no idea specifically.
Speaker 4:I mean I don't think that he has any personal comparison to make here. It like he maybe has had not a tour of the fair, but he's had a few tour tonight, the tour at nights with Sassy. I don't think he's thinking of Michelle necessarily. It feels a little bit more like he is thinking, well, she's going to have to figure this one out, like she is not to say she's going to have fun with this one, but like okay, so that that is for her Also.
Speaker 3:I don't think he would gossip about it. But I also feel like there is an energy when you find like, when somebody tells you like oh, I've been screwing around with so and so, or I made out with so and so, whatever it is, there's an energy to that and I feel like there's a bit of that. If he had someone who would be a pro, he's not going to go tell beard. But you know what I'm saying, cause that's a different complication. But I think if there was a space where he could put it this way, if Michelle and Henry had come with him, he would get home tonight and be like Michelle, like you ain't gonna believe this shit. And you know that seems that's what I get from him.
Speaker 4:This is why you need friends that don't know your other friends.
Speaker 3:So you feel like listen right, Are you sitting down?
Speaker 4:Let me tell you what Katie did. It's the best kind of gossip, the gossip that is like tangentially related to you only a little bit. It doesn't matter, it's not going to have any real impact on your life, it's just juicy as shit. You're like wait.
Speaker 3:Yeah, they don't know the people, they don't know whatever. You don't even have to share names. I had a friend who like so done. Yeah.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it's great Finished.
Speaker 4:It's fucking amazing.
Speaker 2:It's another thing you guys have in common, and coach loves gossip.
Speaker 3:It is so funny, but I don't tell people secrets, though, but I will listen to all the secrets. You got it.
Speaker 1:If you want to tell it, I will fucking listen, I will listen.
Speaker 2:You're here for it. I know I will listen.
Speaker 3:It's hilarious to me the shit people get themselves into.
Speaker 4:I mean, I'm like it's it's. It is entirely why I read Reddit, because people go on there and they're like listen, I slept with whoever I wasn't supposed to. What am I supposed to do? And I'm like I don't fucking know. Just tell me more about it Right, right.
Speaker 3:Well, it's funny because I specifically because I remember coach told me about Reddit years ago and I checked it out and I was like, oh, no, no, no, I'm not, I'm not safe here, I'll never accomplish anything ever again I specifically was like the answer is no. So every once in a while someone will post something from there and I'll check that out, but oh, I would be down that rabbit hole so fucking fast. Because I find myself like it'll be like oh, I slept with my mother-in-law's best friend. You're like what the fuck, dude? And then you get into the responses of people going back and forth and all of a sudden I'm like I don't even know if these people are real and I'm totally invested in like it doesn't matter.
Speaker 4:Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3:That's the other thing. If you made it up, it's real.
Speaker 4:If you made it up. It's still super fun for me. And then sometimes people are like oh, I found my husband posted this thing. Here's my side of the story and I'm like you know I'm done, this is the rest of my day.
Speaker 3:Right, Right, Because then they go back and forth. It's great, it's really great. One guy this was not a Reddit one, but that made me laugh on the like responding thing Some guy, I don't why would you post this if you know your friends with your mom? But anyway, he said he wanted to find a throat goat and his mom commented and was like what does that mean? And you can only imagine how things went from there. It was, it was one of the most amazing threads and I could not turn away Like I had shit to do and I'm scrolling going. I got to let this go and I could not stop reading the con. I was laughing so hard as his mother you could see like slowly but surely, was putting together what must be happening.
Speaker 4:What is happening. I keep this very quick and I will not name names. I was thinking last night about years ago on Facebook, when a buddy of mine posted a link to something that said that it for women who ejaculate, that the liquid is mostly urine, and so the way that this had become sort of like big, like if you're a big tough guy, you could make women do this thing. And then it's this whole thing and blah, blah, blah. And so it said like actually, maybe it's just kind of an involuntary reaction, it's a little bit of pee that comes out. And he posted this link along with I knew it, which is supposed to be like come on, I've been right all these years. And the first post was squirting Come on, learn how to walk before you could run. And that post was from his mother. The dude posted it. His mom was like why don't you not worry about being that good in bed yet? Oh my. God, oh, my God.
Speaker 4:So brutal, it was so great, I loved it so much.
Speaker 3:I think you actually killed Coach this time. I think it's over.
Speaker 4:I think I killed him. I think he did. Walk before you could run. Oh my God. Mom, I think he was married at the time, even, maybe Definitely. Yeah, it was fucking amazing. She's one of my favorites.
Speaker 2:Well, to everyone, we're going to bid you a fond farewell and thanks for trying us out. Glad we now know the ratio of urine in a female ejaculation. Yep.
Speaker 4:Oh God.
Speaker 2:Yep, so yeah, no, let's. Oh, my God.
Speaker 3:That was great. Why don't you walk?
Speaker 4:We'll be back in 17 weeks when Casselson is recalling.
Speaker 3:Yeah, no he's not going to be okay. This is not, he's not okay. That's so funny. I just like, yeah, wow, wow, that is that is wow. That's amazing. Thank you for that.
Speaker 4:Thank you, hey, thanks.
Speaker 2:Coach. Where do people find this?
Speaker 3:You're on a flight. As you might not guess, as I laugh at female ejaculation jokes, you can find me at Wheel Line where we're trying to help people be their best selves and live their best lives, which I guess fairness we could include that.
Speaker 4:It doesn't sound bad.
Speaker 3:Yeah, it's true. And yeah, this community. Come in, check us out. You know we're going to have courses. We've got the Alliance Circle, which is our subscription area. We're working with folks and really building this thing up. So come through. Wheellinealignpecom Awesome. What about you?
Speaker 2:You can find me.
Speaker 4:I'm on Blue Sky a lot these days, which is Demily Chambers, also at times arguing with Castleton on threads, which is emilychambers.31. And I promise coming up with one of the five or six different articles I want to write, maybe one about being in love with the caveman at the Antagonist, which is antagonistblogcom, also posting all this shit in the community site. You should go there too, yeah thank you.
Speaker 2:To get in the community site, all you need to do is subscribe and you can find the link in any one of our episodes. It's a support the show. Click on that and tell you how to get to subscribe and once you subscribe, you get a link to the community site. We've had a few. There was an email glitch where some of our subscribers may not have gotten an invite. If that happened to you, please let us know and you can get a link to me in the show description and I'll fix that.
Speaker 2:If you want to be people, I think we caught them all, but in case we didn't put a little pin on that, yeah, everyone, thank you for joining us. Thank you for walking through this episode and I think if you're curious, you will think why did it take him so long to get through an episode? And it's because, again, we use entertainment to talk about what's going on in the world and the issues that it brings up. And entertainment is something everybody consumes and it's a way for us to sort of look inside the note, behind the note, if you will, and figure out why things are, why choices are made, and especially with the beloved show like Ted Lasso, it's great to sort of look a little bit deeper. I want to say thank you to everyone for listening, for staying with us, for joining us, for this episode and all of our episodes. If you like us, if you enjoyed it, please subscribe. It's funny because we have people who they give you certain numbers and they say who listens all the time? And a lot of the people who listen all the time don't actually subscribe. So it actually helps our stats and we're really close to breaking into a certain tier of podcast where, if we where, then we become a little bit I don't know how to describe it, but numbers wise, it helps. Every little thing you do actually really does help it. I'm not exaggerating about that. I'm learning about this as we go and we've only been doing it a few years, and so there's always new stuff to learn, but all of the interaction really really makes a difference. Learning is the best thing, but liking and writing reviews and all of the things you do on the outside that don't cost you a dime. They really matter. So thank you for everyone who's done that and everyone who will do it. I really it's funny because I get a while.
Speaker 2:We were doing the female ejaculation story, which is one of my favorite topics. I did get a. I just really, really love it. I got a. I got a. I got an alert on my computer that the Russian opposition party leader, alexei Navalny, has died, and so I want to shout out Died. And quotes right, yeah, it's passed away. Fuck, and I'm like full. You could see my face is a little red and so, yeah, trying to hold back some, some emotion here. But yeah, I just want to. I want to just thank him for everything he did.
Speaker 2:It's important for people to stand up in the face of tyranny and, yeah, really, this one, this one hits hard. We feel like folk. We've taken a couple of shots in the gut lately with certain people who have passed away. This one, this one stings, and so, yeah, wow, yeah, thank you everybody. Please support your local libraries and the written word and continue to come back and join us as we finish Ted Lasso and we want to create other shows. That's all we got for today. Thank you everyone. Until next time we are.
Speaker 3:Richmond, richmond. Until we die with honor because we opposed evil in the world. All right, we'll see you next time.