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Season 2 begins the only way WWWS knows how: with renewed confidence, questionable preparedness, and the firm belief that time away has somehow improved everyone involved.

After a brief hiatus spent allegedly resting, regrouping, and avoiding microphones, Big Uke & Tubesox are back refreshed, recharged, and immediately in rhythm - or at least back in the room pretending rhythm was ever the goal.

Big Uke’s Bunch O’ Stuff kicks things off once again, arriving with the usual mixture of conviction, observational drift, and conclusions reached well ahead of supporting evidence. The Future That Wasn’t also re-emerges for Season 2, revisiting failed predictions from the past with the kind of confidence only hindsight can provide.

And, in a tradition now fully embedded into the structure of the show, Tubesox is assigned a new movie - continuing the ongoing cycle of forced viewing, reluctant analysis, and future disagreement.

Of course, 3 Things That Can Kick Rocks is also back for another season, because some grievances simply refuse to remain in the past. Petty complaints, unnecessary hostility, and strangely specific frustrations remain fully operational heading into Season 2.

The break is over. The momentum remains suspiciously intact.
Season 2 begins with energy, optimism, and absolutely no meaningful self-correction.

Keep your expectations low. The show certainly didn’t.

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And oddly enough, his favorite meat? Squirrel.

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I did not see that coming. There were a lot of animals I was anticipating, but I can't.

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He's like a depression-era park ranger. Just making the most of his surroundings.

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We revisit the future that wasn't. Big Uke has a bunch of stuff. I'm assigning Tube Sox a movie. And after that, he's locked and loaded with three things at Kick Rocks.

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I say let's get to it. Season two. Woohoo! We're back. Alright, well. Welcome to what we're saying. That's Big Uke.

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This guy over here, that's Tupsox.

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Behind the camera is Edgar the chairman Lassiter. He's not really, but he is.

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I don't know why a whole season. And and I still don't understand.

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Still trying to figure it out.

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I don't know if I'll ever understand, but it's what he makes us say.

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We're still trying to figure him out. Anyways. And playing us in and playing us out at the end of every episode is Harold Winthrop and the Silver Astray Orchestra. And uh wonder how they spent it. Well, I well I heard back from them on the uh on the Chuck E. Cheese front end. They did get let out. It went very well. And they just ended up hanging out there because they just like the environment.

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You know what? That makes sense. They are kind of creepy.

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So I think they may they've they've taken on some jobs emptying garbages and stuff there. Hey, someone's gotta do it. You know, re-restocking the restocking the ticket machines. So good for them. What do you do, right?

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Keeps them out of that uh dog track.

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Oh my goodness. They love their dog racing. Unfortunately, it's really hard to find these days. They're resourceful though, they source it out. I think they make their own dog race.

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I think they just bet on dogs in dog parks. Just like between them. I'm taking that white dog, you're you're taking the spotted one. I'm taking that one that looks like a horse. Not totally tracks. Just see who can go farthest, fastest. Totally tracks. Yeah, it's pretty sketchy. They're a bunch of degenerates.

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So here we are back after our two-week fresh show hiatus. Of course, there was clip shows in between that uh hopefully you checked out.

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And if you didn't check out, props to you on those, good sir. Wow. Incredible.

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Is uh when you're working with this kind of material, it's so rewarding to put together a clip show of the best of this material, right?

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If you didn't watch them, go back watch them. There it's a funny little recap of what season was. In two parts.

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In two parts.

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And you can see our our journey along the way from episode one to episode 15.

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It has been a journey.

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It's been it's been a journey.

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How did you uh spend your hiatus?

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Well, for the most part, just just chillaxing, relaxing, relaxing out. You know, nothing crazy, didn't go uh didn't go anywhere special. Just did some, you know, did some yard work.

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That's nice. We did have some WS business. We did uh do a brief promotional tour.

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We did. Yes, that was uh good.

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We did do an EST collab where we had to uh you know when you're in this business, you gotta hit the road and hit the locations and plug your plug your stuff.

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Plug your stuff in a chicken shack.

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Right. We're we're getting pretty good at that now because we do like to self-promote.

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And we did kind of force our way in there so it worked.

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Yeah, we we did totally shoehorn our way in. We probably weren't supposed to be there, but we really gave them no uh no option.

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Yeah, but hey, gotta do what you gotta do in this economy. Exactly. Yeah, what about you? How'd you spend your your time that you weren't?

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Well, apart from editing together clip shows, uh it was just nice to well, I wouldn't say it was nice to not be doing this, but it was it was kind of neat to not be doing this, you know. I mean different. Yeah.

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It reminds me of a time before this was a thing.

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Right, it was giving time to clear the old tapes and uh come up with some fresh stuff and just not uh have to worry about, you know, looking my best every uh every week because I could let myself get a little let myself go a bit. I got a haircut. So that was you know You're looking fresh. Feeling fresh.

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What do you think Edgar did?

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I don't want to say it because the algorithm's listening. And I may steer our show into the wrong people, exactly. I did get some season two shoes in the program. So little little pizza.

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Because I don't know if y'all noticed. Same shoes all the time for him.

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So season two, you'll be seeing these lovely brown and gum rubber bottom pumas. I like to think they show off my uh getaway sticks nicely.

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I don't know what I'm gonna wear all season, but for now it's gonna be these.

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You uh you got anything dumb this week?

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I honestly don't. I'm you know, I was I'm always paying attention for for some dumb shit to happen. But this last two weeks I just kinda kinda shut myself off. Shut up, shut down. And I'm like, you know what? I'm I'm on a break here, we're refreshing, nothing dumb's gonna affect me, so I ain't gonna worry about it. So that was kind of my take on the on the time off.

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I did have something dumb that happened during my hiatus. I was driving to work, because believe it or not, this isn't my full-time job. What? Or not big use. So I'm driving through that construction zone north of the old airport.

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Uh-huh.

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And I'm driving through, and I see a uh a truck up ahead, about, I don't know, 20 meters or so, and I see sparks coming out. This is uh like early, early morning, so it's still dark out. I see some sparks coming out of the back, and I think not usually a good thing. So I get up beside him and I look and I see that he's run over a traffic cone. And it's not one of the triangle ones, it's like the really long ones, like the pillar ones, and it's wedged under his truck so it looks like a narwhal tusk at the front, and he starts driving, and this thing's just scraping, and obviously there was some metal at the end of it, and it's just bolts off, and it's just throwing sparks out the back. So we get to the next light, and I thought, I'm a good citizen. Should I alert this gentleman? Put down my window, and he was a vehicle behind me, but so I roll down my window so he can see me, and I'm pointing down at the front of his truck, and he looks at me very angrily and flips me off and then tears off so the light goes green, throwing sparks the whole way. I'm like driving, thinking, well, that's weird. I'm trying to help this guy out. Why am I getting flipped off? Like, one, it's that early in the morning. Why are you that angry? Why are you so you're starting your day just sour?

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Like, I can understand not acknowledging you waving at him and pointing, because you know, some people like it. But I was making a note, I can't see him out of the periphery.

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You gotta, you should, you know, that would prompt me to go, maybe I should pull over and see what's going on. Instead, he tells me to pound sand basically and then takes off like angrier and faster than previously. And then I turned off at the old arena and he went on his I'd say merry way, but I don't think he was having a good day, anyways.

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I just can't imagine what he was thinking when he gets to his destination.

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I like to think that that is still stuck under his truck. And he's just never looked.

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A week and a half.

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He's just so angry and he's just he's just never looked at the front of his truck.

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And he hasn't backed up anywhere.

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Right. So, and it was like seriously, it was protruding like three feet out of the front of his truck and throwing a lot of sparks.

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Yeah, I can I can imagine it would have been. I do I do want to think though, when he got to his destination, then he goes to the front and looks and sees that he's got a big thing.

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Maybe he thinks Oh, that bearded guy wasn't. That's what that cool guy was trying to alert me to.

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That makes more sense now. Yes.

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I'd like to think that if he's got a show, he's got a story that says, so I'm driving to work, and this totally cool guy points out this massive thing under my truck. This massive thing stuck under my truck. And then he changes the story and says, and so I dutifully pulled over, removed it, and put it to the side of the road and carried on my day.

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Yeah, found him and gave him five dollars.

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Right, there you go. Anyways. Wow, that's uh it was not the reaction I was expecting when I was pointing that.

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I know you go to work fairly early, so like who wouldn't like who's that angry that early in the morning?

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That's an early time to be angry. That's a long day if you're angry at 5 30 in the morning.

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Also, you were he must have clearly been half asleep, the fact that he hits that and doesn't.

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I mean, he picked it up on that route because that route was full of them.

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Sure. But you gotta not be paying attention quite heavily to actually.

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Or maybe he was coming home.

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Oh didn't think of that till just now. Damn. That uh different approach. That changes the outlook, makes things a little more sensical as to why he's so angry. Wasn't the start of his day.

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It was no, maybe it was the end of a long, long, long shift.

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That would have been a shift.

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Yes. Alright, well let's uh shall we slide into Yeah, let's get to it. Shall we slide into the show here? We're gonna I got a I got a sponsorship liner here to kick off our first segment of season dos. And the uh sponsorship liner is a return sponsor from the first season.

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Glad to see them.

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I believe they closed out season one and they wanted to open season two. I get it.

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I like that.

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I want to be a part of this. Why wouldn't I? Oh. Cliff Bannerman's All Night Wicker Emporium.

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Maybe that's where this guy was coming from.

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They'd be open. Makes sense. We're open, don't ask why. It's 2 37 a.m. Bad decisions are circling. We've got chairs that creak with authority, baskets that feel personal, and patio sets that suggest everything's under control. Why wicker? You're here, aren't you? Other stores close, we don't. Other people hesitate, we complete the set. Come in, touch something woven. Leave with a story you can't quite defend. Cliff Bannerman's All Night Wicker Emporium. If you found it, it's already too late. Boom. And that leads us into the future that wasn't.

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I'm excited this is back.

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This also actually finished off season one.

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Yeah. I think that was our last episode. This was part of it too. Uh so if you don't know what this is, uh, welcome. Uh, but it's basically a look back into the 1940s, 1950s. 40s, 50s. Kind of popular mechanics type stories of of their predictions for tech and the future.

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How life would be.

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And what what would what what was the Atomic Age Optimism? Atomic Age Optimism. I thought about that actually quite a bit during our latest. That came up in my head a few times. I'm like, that's just such a great, such a great line.

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Uh and there is definitely this is chalk a block with atomic age optimism. Uh yeah. You wanna you wanna kick her off? We got two each. You want to kick her off here? I will start us off. Alright, what do you got?

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Weather control will end bad forecasts forever. Please. Brilliant. By the 1950s, many futurists believed humanity was only a few breakthroughs away from fully controlling the weather. Articles and publications like Popular Science describe giant atmospheric machines capable of redirecting storms, triggering rainfall on demand, and eliminating droughts entirely.

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Wow.

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You know, some there's something to say that they are controlling the weather.

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I know people that say that.

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I have I've uh I've fallen into a couple of those rabbit holes over my time. Uh some predictions even suggested hurricanes could eventually be steered away from cities like ships at sea. The expectation was that nature itself would soon become another engineering problem. Instead, we mostly just got slightly more accurate weather apps.

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Yeah, the uh the redirecting hurricanes hasn't really happened.

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Yeah, I mean, or if it has, yikes, we need someone new with the wheel.

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Where uh where do they direct them to?

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I would assume they would just build an island.

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Oh no, we've been chosen to get the hurricane at us.

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Yeah, like just roll a dice. Right? Where are we driving this one? Sorry, Guam. Sorry, Guam. This one's going to you. Uh, alright. At least you'll be taken out of the die for the next one.

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Exactly.

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Do they do a lottery system?

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It's a lottery system. You get every seven or eight.

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It's like, or is it like uh like the Olympics where you have to like submit a bid? Submit a bid. But it's like the worst bid that actually gets it.

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I guess we'll take the hurricanes. I don't know. Alright, I've got pneumatic tubes will connect entire cities.

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Entire cities, you say.

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Long before the internet, futurists believed the future of communication and delivery would rely on compressed air. Articles and mechanics illustrated envision sprawling pneumatic tube networks running beneath major cities, instantly transporting mail documents, groceries, and small packages from neighborhood to neighborhood.

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So this is like the mail system in an office, but just that's right.

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Right, like the old-timey Yeah, I love it. Some predictions imagine homes equipped with personal tube terminals, allowing residents to send and receive items the way people use telephones. The system worked reasonably well inside banks and department stores, but scaling it into citywide underground capsule mazes turned out to be slightly less practical than advertising.

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Imagine the size of the compressor you would need to send something like that.

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Who's keeping that like 45 miles?

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Yeah.

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Everything has to be tube-sized because you can't have they say small packages.

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Small packages, like like groceries.

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Well, if you can fit it in the tube, we can get it, James.

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You can get it. Yeah, yeah. You go to your grocery store and there's read the regular section and then the tube size section.

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Right. It's all tube size.

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Yeah, imagine getting a jug of milk. But there's no braking system, so when it hits the thing, it just explodes. Fruits, vegetables.

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Tube size is the future. I love the optimism.

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Yeah. Yeah.

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These ideas are great in the world. I could even imagine the time that someone okay's that and someone tries it, and they spend a gazillion dollars putting in all these pneumatic tubes, only to realize, yeah, you know what, this kind of sucks. But now we've got tubes everywhere.

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It's not really gonna work. I would love to see the compressor size though.

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It'd be immense.

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And then the noise it makes because it's constantly running.

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They put in one of them tube compressors beside my house.

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I'm not happy about it.

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Yeah.

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You thought the airport was bad. Oh my god. Alright, what do you got? Atomic highways will charge your car as you drive. Oh, that's amazing. Yeah, and I've seen multiple stories about this highways charging vehicles as we drive, but maybe not necessarily atomic. Uh in the early nuclear reactor era, and I'm assuming this is the same time as when they were like, nah, we'll put them in your homes. And you'll have one in your base will have one in their basement. One in the basement, one on the highway. The size of that desk. In the early nuclear era, futurists weren't content with ordinary roads. Concepts featured in Science Digest magazine proposed massive smart highways embedded with electrical or atomic charging systems that would continuously power vehicles while they traveled.

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That's part of the leisure revolution tie-in as well. There we go. Never have to stop for gas again.

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Probably if you don't have to drive this car either. Right. The roads themselves would do the work, eliminating refueling stops entirely and enabling endless cross-country trips. Some versions even included automated guidance systems so drivers could relax while the car navigated themselves. Just relax. Like, I get it, but also like just no. How are you gonna make an a can an atomic charged highway? That can only be good for everybody. Nothing could ever go wrong when the entire highway is a small bomb.

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Right. It is interesting though that Snippets still actually happen. Like the autonomous vehicle. The autonomous vehicle thing, but they're not charged by the city.

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I've seen this type of idea based off of like uh like bumper cars. With because they're all connected to mesh a chicken wire up top. Yeah. So we they just let's just chicken wire the city. Have mesh.

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Love that idea. And a little plus a tail keeps the keeps the crows out and the seagulls out.

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Right.

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Not the chickens open, funny enough.

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Alright, well, closing things up here, I've got living room furniture will be made of molded plastic forever.

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Ah, yes, because that's that's what we want.

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Post-war enthusiasm for synthetic materials convinced many designers that traditional furniture was on its way out. Life magazine often showcased futuristic homes filled with brightly colored molded plastic chairs, bubble-like coaches, and modular living spaces that could be rearranged at the push of a button.

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Push of a button.

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Plastic was presented as the ultimate miracle material. Cheap, durable, stylish, endlessly adaptable, and forever.

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Well, the forever part they nailed.

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Yes. The living room of the future apparently was going to be a groovy polymer paradise.

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A groovy polymer paradise.

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With the ambiance of a Tupperware Lounge. Parts of the aesthetic survived, but thankfully, not all, not the all-plastic living room.

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The Tupperware Lounge.

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The Tupperware Lounge. That's beautiful.

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Huh. Yeah, I'm glad that didn't last.

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Oh my goodness.

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Because those were also usually the comfiest chairs. The hard molded plastic ones.

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I love that the leaning into the plastic's forever vibe because that's some people's complaint about plastic now. Is that it's forever.

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That's majority of the complaint of plastic, is that it is actually forever.

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Some naysayers running down plastic because it's forever.

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Bunch of non-believable.

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You gotta change your paradigm.

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Yeah. Don't you want your this couch is forever. It's forever, and I think Chesterfield will always be. Change it with the push of a button. Which is like a whole nother addition to that. Yes. Needs to be developed more deeply. Yes. Why are we pushing a button to change this?

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Yeah, but what does the button have to do with anything? Well, you don't have to lift stuff. Lifting's for suckers. Yeah, but lifting's where they didn't the point.

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But I'm putting a butt button and things are just moving around my living room?

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Absolutely.

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Oh. Atomic era optimism.

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Atomic era optimism.

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What a time that would have been.

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Well, where are we going now? We got a we got a we got a movie to assign. Oh boy. I'm getting assigned something. It's homework season. I'm looking forward to this, and yet I'm not.

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Oh you're excited.

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Well, I excited's a strong word.

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What have I given you so far? They've been good. I'll pitch perfect, obviously. And that was more of a a running joke from before the first one.

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I suppose there was only one that was a disappointment, and that was only maybe because I was in a not in the mood. And that was the uh the De Niro one.

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Oh, uh Meet the Parents. Meet the parents. Which is unfortunate because I gave you flight, pitch perfect, and Meet the Parents. I think Meet the Parents is probably my favorite. I don't give you three.

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I think so.

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You gave me four because you started.

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Yeah, and we've we've changed up the rotation now. Yeah. Yeah.

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Huh. Yeah. Well I don't know how you're gonna appreciate this one. But uh I guess we'll uh we'll find out. You ever heard of a man named uh Tom Hanks?

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I'm familiar with Tom Hanks, yes.

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Well, good, because he is the main character in this film.

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Oh boy.

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Do you imagine if it was just like Forrest Gump movie that everyone's seen?

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And I have seen Tom Hanks movies, by the way.

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Not like it's not like Denzel.

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Yes, Denzel. I couldn't think of it.

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And I'm hoping you haven't seen this one. Captain Phillips.

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I've never seen Captain Phillips. I've seen a handful of Tom Hanks movies. One of them, actually, is one of my favorite movies from I think the 2010s. Which one? Catch Me Figin.

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Ah, that's uh you know what? And that's funny that you are a fan of that movie and you use a Tom Hanks film. Because I've never heard anyone refer to that as a Tom Hanks film. Oh, interesting. But as a Leo film. Ah. But yeah, it's equally a Tom Hanks film.

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Yes, it is. That's a great movie. It's a fun movie.

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It's a great movie.

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Great aesthetic. Anyways. You would probably like Road to Perdition. Have you seen that movie? No, I have not. Okay, so what is sorry, what's this movie called?

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So this movie's called Captain Phillips.

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Captain Phillips. It's uh again, don't tell me too much about it.

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It's available on Amazon Prime.

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Okay. Uh I like to go in pretty cold.

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What what what would you think it's about just by that title?

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I would think that it's about a gentleman who's a captain and his name is Phillips.

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This guy.

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Just again, not just a hat rack.

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Um I do have one like little novel. Yeah, give me a few. It's a 2013 film. Okay. Based on a 2019, a 2009 story. It's a 2013 film based in the future. The future that wasn't? The future that wasn't. That yeah. No, sorry. It's a 2013 action drama thriller. Action, okay. Uh it's not like a shoot 'em up action movie. Um it kind of leans more into like the drama drama thriller-ish. Uh based on a 2009 situation. Um it's not a so it's like a real true story. It's based off a true story. And uh he is a captain of a vessel. It's not an air vessel. Okay.

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It is a cargo ship. 'Cause you hit me with you know back to back uh you know, like No, I'm not going back to back planes. You know, 'cause I almost I actually had something picked out for you for the next one and I realized, oh, these two themes are too close together, I've got to spread that out a bit.

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Yeah, no, this is not not airplane related. I'm game. Um yeah, so it's Tom Hanks, Captain Phillips. It's available on Amazon.

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I like Tom Hanks. Everyone likes Tom Hanks.

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How do you not?

unknown

Yeah.

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2013 movie, so fairly recent. It's uh I think you'll uh you'll have some questions, but I think you'll enjoy it. I'm game.

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Well, good, because uh even if you weren't, well, I'm in. You're doing it. The name of this ship is the Maersk, Alabama.

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Okay, well, I'm uh I'm I'm good with that.

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I'm glad. Would be real awkward if you were just super down and negative about it the whole time.

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Oh my goodness.

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You should watch Road to Perdition, though. That's a Tom Hanks film.

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You can't just recommend stuff to me outside of the segment.

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No, I but I can though, because I am.

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You could just save that for a segment.

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No, because it's one of those movies that I don't want you to be forced to watching it. I want you to just watch it, not having to like do homework on it, just like enjoy it. Because it's based off of like an older style of time and their gangsters and drug runners, liquor. Did you see that? Your caps, uh your cap throwing has uh declined as well. Well, there's been a hiatus. Yeah, my card throwing, both of them were really good.

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Oh man. Alright. Oh, I guess I need some notes here because we're That was tough.

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That was tough.

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Okay, so yeah, no, I'll watch that. I'll report back.

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Yeah, you will.

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We're now going to uh Big Uke's bunch of stuff. First of the seas first of the season! What do you got?

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I've got a bunch of stuff here. Ten items to be exact. The uh Big Uke's buncho stuff, ten top ten things about this time of year that are great.

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Ah, you earlier had one about the things that uh sucked. Sucked about that time of year. The brown season, and now that it's becoming the green season.

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I figured I'd switch it up and you know, I I was the last half of the season I was pretty negative on the whole weather thing.

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Yes. Um, for those of you at from the old stomping grounds, we refer to this as the green season, even though you've been experiencing the green season for about six or eight weeks now.

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Yeah, we're not.

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We're we're just starting to get into the I still have not cut my lawn yet this season because that doesn't come till probably June. There's the first lawn cutting.

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So I know a lot of people that actually do a mo no moi.

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I did is that a thing?

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I guess so, because I've seen it like just the last week, I've seen people saying that.

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Wow. I just know that I'm running out of runway in the month and my my lawn's still brown, so there's no there's just no need.

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That's true. But yeah, so top ten things about this time of year that that are good. Number ten.

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I hope one of them's me.

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You're good all times of year, though.

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Thank you. I appreciate that.

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Alright, let's do it. Number ten. The Maylong weekend and the quote-unquote unofficial kickoff to summer. And it is a vibe. It's technically spring still, and I get that. But it's your first It's also barely spring at times. Sometimes it's barely spring. Sometimes it's really nice, though. But it's that first, you know, big camping weekend, first big people going out to their cabins, putting docks in, getting boats back out of the water. Right. So that's it's kind of the kickoff.

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It's the kickoff. And so, yeah, sometimes it snows, but sometimes it's a little chilly to be putting a dock in.

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Yeah, like this last one was Brady Jelly, not gonna lie. I'm still warming up. Uh, number nine, which is uh funny that we were just saying how sometimes it snows, but the weather is tending to level out more. You're you know what your peak is, you know what your minute is. You know what? And it damn well better. It's not gonna be, you know, yeah, we'll still get the huge pluses.

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Because it's uh we're getting we're out of the snow. Tests a man's patience. It's a big youth guarantee. There we go.

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We're out of it.

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We're actually getting to overnights where it's not frosty.

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Yeah, because this frost warning stuff is annoying. We actually had a few of those on the weekend. Up uh, you know, north of Red Deer.

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South of Boyle.

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Correct. Uh number eight. That first big rainstorm.

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Haven't had it yet.

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But it's always great. It's so clean. We had a little bit of rain, but that first big storm, you know, it f it cleans everything up. All that dust and grime, you know, it's just gone.

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Precipitation that doesn't hurt?

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Yeah, it doesn't hurt my face when I'm walking in it. You don't have to shovel it. Or if you do, then that's a separate problem. And that's not right.

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That's another problem.

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That's a whole other issue you gotta deal with. Number seven, mowing the lawn.

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It's coming soon.

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And I know some people who have mowed it a couple times. We've mowed our graphs once, but just getting back on the mower. It's a nice little time to, you know. So I mean, I know you don't have that much. You don't have a big, you know, five foot.

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No, but I am excited to get back to the mower because this will be my first full season in about a decade of actually getting being on the mower, because, you know. Kids and stuff, free labor. Kids have kids have moved on, so number six.

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Everything's starting to green up. Hey! Green season.

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Saw that today.

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Right? You know, the grass is starting to green up, the trees are starting to get their leaves again, you know, the roads aren't covered in season.

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It's a beautiful time. It's uh it's a renewal. Like season two is a renewal.

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Boom. Number five. That first golf game. I know you're not a huge golfer.

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I'm not against golf.

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You might get one in this one in this year. I might.

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I do. It's been about eight years.

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But that first golf game, and that's not in a simulator. Back out in the weather, losing three or seven golf balls in the trees, nothing better. Number four. Being able to put the roof down on the car.

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There you go. That is definitely.

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It's tough to do it when it's snowing out. You mean I've seen it done, but it's better to do it when it's plus twenty two. It is. It's sunny.

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I have the same option myself on my vehicle, and uh I look forward to having the top removed.

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A couple what about a week a week ago? We had like a couple nice days there. That was the first time I was able to throw the roof back. Whew! Got me excited.

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Life-changing.

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It honestly is. It it honestly is. If you have the opportunity, get ready. Number three. The summer sports getting ready to start.

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Participating or watching?

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Watching, for the most part. Well, participating. Such as football. Baseball. I know that basketball is a winter sport, but here in the local, it's a summer sport.

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There's a local basketball team season that starts up.

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Is that local baseball? Always fun to be at. Yes. The local football where this whole shebang got started, was birthed.

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Yes. At a tailgate party at a local professional sports uh football team. Yes.

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So that that's always a nice little little little sprinkling throughout your summer. Number two. The daylight hours and the days getting longer. None of this dark in the morning, dark when you get home. Sun's down by 5 p.m.

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Because I do start work early and I do enjoy actually starting work in the daylight.

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It's a nice feeling.

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And it it Yeah, the the inverse of that is it's lovely sitting out on the deck with the fire table going. Late into the evening, and there's still uh sun's going down.

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Better start dinner because it's you know 5 30. It's like sun's going down. Oop, better go to bed. It's 11 45. Can't wait for those. And number one. The top ten or big youke's number one bunch of stuff about why this season's great. Patio's opening up and that first patio beer.

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It's just tough to beat. It is tough to beat.

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It's a great beer.

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There's few things that beat it, actually.

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And that's why it was number one on the list, because I couldn't think of them.

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You know, it all comes back to drinking.

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At the end of the day, beer's important. It did a thing, but they didn't see it. No, they didn't see it because it's a big thing. It got off camera, which is all that matters.

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That girl get it.

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Yeah. You will. Don't stop. You will. But yeah, that was my first bunch of stuff is that.

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That's got me, uh that's got me jazzed about the season that's uh right around the corner.

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Right? I thought it was a nice little, like you said, renewal as this is a new season.

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As we live in a part of the world that the season is very short, so when it comes, we very much appreciate it.

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Big time. Take advantage of it.

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Make the most of this season.

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It won't be here forever.

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Maybe two months.

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It'll be a good two months.

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Oh my goodness. Well, moving on from that, that was a terrific list. You want to dive into the sponsorship liner for we can. Cruising here. We really are.

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I can't wait. I can't wait to go there. I hope they give us some gift cards so we can collect them all. Well, we can go there and collect those damn helmets. And enjoy that unseasoned food or food seasoned with poison oak and uh hemlock leaves smeared on them.

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Efficient episode to kick things off, I don't think is a bad idea.

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We're uh heading right now into three things that can kick roach.

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Throughout season one was my absolute favorite thing.

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It's become quite a popular thing.

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I think amongst the people, and even from things I've heard out on the streets, is that people just they love because they they sometimes will agree with you wholeheartedly. Like myself sometimes will sometimes also disagree with all three.

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Those who get it are lapping this up.

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And that's the whole beauty of this, is that some of the things that can kick rocks, the collective majority probably agree.

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It's dropping into our common parlance now when we run into people.

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It really it really is. It really is. And it's uh we're hearing a lot about what people think can kick rocks, and it's it's it's an enjoyable thing. That means what we're doing is working. Anyways, Coop, what can kick walks? Kick walks. Interesting. What can kick rocks? Little hemlock on your head. I think they gave us some samples. It must have been the poison ivy.

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Alright, three things that can kick rocks. Number one, Australian accents.

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Are you kidding me?

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They're ghastly.

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Oh my god. What the hell if I want to come back to season three? Two of this season from Oh my god. The best accents ever.

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God, I worked with people that spoke that way.

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I wish I worked with people that spoke that way.

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It's funny. I lived with a guy from New Zealand, and just to piss him off, I tell him he sounded like an Australian, and I just always send him into a frenzy. Anyways.

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Good start.

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Number two, ska.

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I can't.

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It's like Reggae suffered a head injury and found a horn section.

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You're not wrong. That's a pretty accurate description of it, and I can't necessarily say that I disagree with you. Oh my goodness. I mean I don't know if I have a real opinion on ska, though, to be honest.

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There's there's no need for ska. And the third thing, the phrase live in the dream. What? Whether delivered genuinely or ironically, it just it just really boils my butter when I say, hey, how's it going? And I get a live in the dream. Like so art.

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I knew Art stop responding that when you ask me how to do that.

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Yeah, yeah, no, yeah, drop that.

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Okay.

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And it just it just irritates me so much that and then there's this ad right now.

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I was just doing this commercial. Yes. It's a I think it's an investment commercial. Yes, it is. And it's all about the father saying how much he's living the dream, and then the kid gets married and has a kid, and it's all about that. They say it like 15 times in this commercial.

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There's so many other ways you can say that without saying that. Because that's just a bullshit phrase to say. I mean because you're it's just yeah. I hate it so much. More than ska and more than Australian accents.

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What a list! Huh. You know, that's a beauty. I never know what to expect. Coming in hot. I never know what to expect from this from this segment.

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Uh neither do I until the day happens.

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Uh wow. Huh. Australian accents, ska, and live in the dream.

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Living the dream.

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Well, you know now that people are gonna start saying that to you.

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I I feared that. I feared I feared the worst, and uh I guess we'll know. We'll know who watches the show when that starts peppering the internet. That's gonna be the tell friends.

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Yes. If you watch the show, you know how to address tube socks the next time you see them in public. When I give you a sc on a ghetto blaster saying you're living the dream in an Australian accent.

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Checkerboard vans and skinny suits and uh irritating frickin' horn section.

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Yeah, if you can say live in the dream in an Australian accent, I will buy you a beer.

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Oh no. I fear that might be happening at a tailgate soon.

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Oh, can't wait for that first social interaction.

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Alright, well, let's uh let's start to wind this down as we've uh you know we're getting back on that horse and uh cranking out the content here. We'll be cranking it. We're cranking something. So again, welcome back to season two to our little show. Please like, comment, subscribe, um share with your friends, for God's sakes. I can't stress that enough. Share with your enemies.

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Share with your enemies too.

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And you know what? Tell them to say the thing to me in the accent, and then I'll know you're really sharing it.

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That's the good point.

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Right? Like, get that shit spread. My goodness.

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How do you how do you think the show went today there, you for the I mean after a little two-week break, getting back in the swing of things.

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You know, shake the rust off.

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A little rusty, not gonna lie. Uh, but overall I think it went good. Edgar's still alive, which is fun, because I was half expecting him to not be here when we showed him.

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Very high much hiding in the shadows today, which is nice.

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Yeah, it's beautiful when he's not right up in our face. Um, yeah, overall, you know, I think it was uh it was another great episode of what were we saying with Big Yuk and TubeSocks.

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I'd say we're building momentum, but well, we are, but that's the kind of thing we just say to ourselves, so we feel good about this.

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Stop crying at night.

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Um drop us a line, of course, as if you're new, you can get hold of us at biguke.tubesocks at gmail.com.

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It's a great email.

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For anything, business inquiries, uh compliments, compliments, insults, I mean story ideas. Write us letters, you know. We had nothing in the inbox today, so we didn't have anything to share, which we do love to share the inbox with you guys.

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We do, we truly do.

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Um what are you listening to on the drive home today?

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Well, I'm going to listen to some ska.

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Just to Oh my god. Just to Well, the specials, maybe? Little message to you, Rudy? Something like that. Just to really develop my opinion of it.

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Because like I said, I don't really have an opinion. I know it's a it's a thing.

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So you're gonna listen to the specials tonight.

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I'm gonna listen to the specials, let's be honest. Uh and I'm gonna let you know my opinion on it once again.

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Here's my advice. If you're listening to the specials and you're listening to a message to you, Rudy, that's the absolute like Van Morrison, that's their peak. That's the mountaintop. So could you imagine the lousy ska bands? If that's like pinnacle ska.

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If the good ska is also bad, how bad's the bad ska?

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I mean, and please come at me, come at me, bro, about the ska. And oh, the specials aren't really ska or they're not you know what? Just let's hear it. Bring it on. Big you.tubesocks at gmail.com. Let's hear your hot ska takes.

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Send it into our box.

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So you're listening to ska on the drive home, eh?

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Yeah, I'm definitely listening to ska. Okay. I take it you're not.

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No, I'm uh because it's been so sunny and nice and seasonally positive. Uh for you new cats here, I've got about 200 playlists on my Spotify page. And I always really tend to favor listening to them on the drive home. And I've got these, yeah, these carefully curated playlists, and today I'm going to be listening to a playlist called Two Thumbs Up for Bubblegum.

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I have zero clue what that is.

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And it is a wonderfully fun, positive, uplifting collection of the Archies, the Brady Bunch, 1910 Fruit Gum Company, the Partridge Family, the Ohio Express. All nice late 60s, early 70s, bubblegum, feel-good music.

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This checks out.

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I have included some some partridge family stuff in my uh Instagram stories once in a while.

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So, you know, I like the I do love the start the songs uh that are in your Instagram stories.

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It's just a lot of positivity. So yeah, two thumbs up for bubblegum. Who doesn't have time for a little bubblegum music in their lives, right? I got time for it. I mean, it can't always be about rock and roll and avoiding ska. Sometimes you gotta you gotta bring the bubblegum in because you know, Boyce and Hart were some fine songwriters, so there we go.

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If if you say so.

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So, hey, if you guys are uh needing your WS fix, obviously you catch us every Thursday, fresh episodes. YouTube. But you can always go back and back and back. And I'd recommend you do go back and don't start at the beginning because that was a little dodgy.

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And don't start at episode 12.

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Maybe dive in at 13. That'd be the place to if you're dropping in here going. These guys are amazing, and one of them hates ska. I'd like to I'd like to look into more of this. Yes, but anyways, and our our Buzzsprout Buzzsprout page, www.s.buzzsprout.com. That's our audio uh our audio feed home, where you can also subscribe to support us financially. Didn't work, did it? And that's like this. And uh, but you can also catch us on wherever you get your podcasts. Amazon, Spotify, iHeart. Your fate your favorite one? Deezer. Deezer. Please, someone. Deezer, please, someone, for God's sake, someone.

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I want to stop talking about Deezer. Because we we really I feel as though I talk about Deezer more than Deezer talks about Deezer.

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Right? No one knows about Deezer. People say, hey, do you Spotify, Amazon, V? No, I don't know. No, no, I don't know. I only use Deezer. I'm a Deezer guy.

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I'm a Deezer ska guy.

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That's where all my ska comes from. Deezer. Oh my goodness. All right. Well, and also, oh, Saturday afternoons.

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Yes, the EST. 2 p.m. EST audio channels.

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Whoring ourselves out to promote our show last week.

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As we were last week on one of their shows. Hoaring ourselves out.

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Live on location at a chicken shack.

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Yeah. We were at that chicken shack for a long time.

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Which was neat because I'd never done a on location. We're in the, you know, the headset and the felt like a real broadcaster. As opposed to this calamity we got going on here.

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It was a different experience and I thoroughly enjoyed it.

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And there was chicken at the end of it, so that was nice.

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Like how do you complain about that? No. I can't find a way.

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Can't.

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Yeah, Saturday afternoons, EST audio channels. We're also on their website under the Friends of EST category. You can see our stuff there. We're linked to our most recent episode. So yeah, there's no reason you can't find us.

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And in the coming weeks, we'll probably see us out and about at the uh the local football uh tailgate.

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There's a better than not chance.

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That's gonna be exciting and fun.

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We will be out and out and amongst it.

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Well, thanks for coming back for season two, and we will see you guys.

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We have a lot coming up this season, so stick around.

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Oh, some twists. Some turns. Some turns.

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It's nice to have somewhere to go again.

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Alright, plays out, Harold.

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Those two hip cats found something to say. It was a groovy good time. Now they're going away. Now they're going away. Now they're going away. Get the hack on outta here.