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I'm eating something.

What are you eating?

I'm eating a Tums.

Did you pay for it?

Yes.

Oh, so it's not a food heist to start us off?

No, it's not.

Oh, dang.

Is Tums food?

I don't know. Is?

This one has like a candy shell.

Oh. And so.

I think anything with a candy shell counts as food.

Right?

Yeah.

You can put a candy shell around a squirrel.

So anytime I travel, this has happened to you.

Tell me if it's TMI.

Okay.

But I get more acid, right?

My stomach's like, you were eating at this time, I think is what it's saying.

When you were on the trip, why aren't you eating now?

Does that make sense?

I get heartburn.

So I only get heartburn if I travel and I just came back from Hawaii.

So the week after I change time zones,

my body is annoyed that I'm not eating at the same times that I did at the time zones.

Does that happen at the start of a trip?

Yeah.

It happens at the end.

It takes about a week after I get back.

So it's really the only time that I get any heartburn is that.

My digestion is always better on a trip than it is at home.

Interesting.

And I don't know what I eat at home that...

ruins it.

Mm -hmm.

Um, and my current, my prevailing theory is cereal.

Uh -huh.

Because I love breakfast cereal, but I never eat it when I'm traveling

because I've never been to a hotel or restaurant that has the milk at the temperature that I like.

And that just kind of ruins the whole thing.

What is the temperature that you like milk?

It's supposed to be cold.

Okay, good.

I just...

Appropriately cold.

I, I, I really thought you might be like, straight from the udder.

Yeah.

Hot milk.

I mean, you like your drinks lukewarm, normally, so.

Hmm.

Okay.

No, but milk has to be cold.

Milk has to be very cold.

Okay.

Well, when I used to have cereal, I liked my milk very cold also.

I haven't had it in, like, 30 years.

Yeah.

30 years?

I remember when I was a kid reading Wrinkle in Time, and in the first chapter,

she and her brother are making warm milk on a pan on the stove.

And I'm like, who in their right mind would ever want warm milk?

That doesn't make, it did not and still does not make sense to me.

No. So Donald, I did eat cereal and stuff when I was young.

And then I went to Korea when I was 19.

And they eat real food for breakfast.

They just have rice and kimchi and stuff.

And I'm like, you can do that?

I don't have to eat this gross breakfast food that everyone always eats, I can just like have a sandwich.

And when I get back, I'm like, nah, I'm going to get up and eat something that I like.

See, here's the thing.

I rarely eat cereal for breakfast.

It is breakfast cereal, but I eat it as a snack throughout the day.

Okay.

If I'm hungry mid -afternoon, cereal.

That's interesting to me because there are no cereals that I just actively like.

They're too sugary.

I don't like sweet things.

See, I don't like sweet things either.

My favorite cereal in the world is Wheat Chex.

Okay, I can see that.

I feel like that has a really good flavor to it.

Hmm.

And it isn't sweetened.

I don't think that I would like

Wheat Chex because when I've eaten them, like, I like Chex mixed with lots of salt and stuff.

Oh, okay.

And so maybe then.

But I imagine that I wouldn't like the Wheat Chex, say, on their own.

But yeah, I just don't like, my family all thinks it's bizarre.

Like, pancakes.

Like, I don't really like pancakes.

What?

Amen, brother.

No!

Oh, you're both insane.

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Like...

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And my wife loves pancakes.

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I'll have them...

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She makes them a lot.

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I'll have a pancake as a dessert.

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That's fair.

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After a meal.

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Like, it's a cake with sugar on it.

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No, no, no, that's totally fair.

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It's like eating a donut, right?

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Yeah.

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Again, another breakfast thing.

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I don't like stuff like that.

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Uh -huh.

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Like, donuts?

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Yeah, I'm lactose intolerant, and I don't like sugar.

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Why would I want to eat pancakes?

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So, pancakes don't really do it for me.

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Uh, eggs on toast get a thumbs up for me.

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Like an egg sandwich.

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But a lot of the stuff people eat for breakfast just isn't my thing.

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I like eggs.

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Eggs with rice more than toast.

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Anyway.

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In all fairness, yes.

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We over here in America have probably the most sugary breakfast ever.

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That said, I think the convenient breakfast over here is sugar.

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But when we lived in Germany, we would make American breakfast for friends and like the missionaries and stuff,

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and everyone loved it.

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I feel like the kind of classic, I don't know what you'd call it, farm breakfast in America.

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Eggs, bacon, potato.

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Eggs, bacon, hash browns, sausage, maybe some pancakes on the side, an omelet.

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I like that stuff.

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We do that really well.

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We do.

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That is a spectacular breakfast.

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That's a lot of work.

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Yes.

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So you rarely have it at home.

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Anyways, that's not what we're here for.

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We're here because, audience, we haven't done a Q &A in forever.

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So we are going to do a Q &A because I have lots of questions from Times. So, yeah.

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If you can possibly remind us which episode it came from.

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I will do my best from all the airheads.

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Because we so stay on topic.

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Indeed.

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all righty um well how apt

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that we have this uh this it comes from naren 25 i don't have the episode

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but he says hello americans what do dan and brandon mean

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when they say biscuits i'm in england

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and what we call biscuits cannot be purchased from chicken shops yes thanks oh okay yeah yeah that is

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that is a legitimate question totally yeah uh an american biscuit is kind of like what in the UK

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you would call a scone.

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Yeah.

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But it's usually saltier.

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Yeah.

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Not sweet.

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Not sweets.

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You don't put, people do put jam on biscuits.

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You do put jam on them.

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You put honey on them.

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But the basic bread itself is kind of dry, kind of crumbly, savory.

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Lots of butter buttery.

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Yeah, so you would eat them.

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They're a lot more common in the South than they are here where we live, but we still make them a lot.

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My wife has a fantastic biscuit recipe.

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Biscuits and gravy are kind of a Southern meal that is really tasty.

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It's very bad for you.

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You should try it when you come to America,

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particularly if you can get to the South to one of the good restaurants that'll do stuff like that.

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Yeah, there's several YouTube channels that do this,

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but there's one I watch where they will take American foods over to a British high school and give them American foods.

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And the episode where they gave them biscuits and gravy was amazing

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because they thought it sounded ludicrous because they think of biscuits as sweet cookies.

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Yep.

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And then when they saw biscuits and gravy, you know, it just looks like somebody threw up on some old rolls.

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But then when they tasted it, it was the best thing they ever had in their lives.

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I mean, the British and their gravy are a thing.

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So I would expect that they would like it.

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Just they have to know what American biscuit is.

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Yeah.

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Well, and the sausage gravy you get in biscuits and gravy doesn't look like a British gravy at all.

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No, it doesn't.

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It's a white gravy with sausage in it.

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It's very tasty.

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Yeah.

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It is a breakfast food sometimes.

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Yes, it is.

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There you go.

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Segways.

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I've had this.

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Does it count as a segue if we come back around to the first thing we already finished talking about?

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Sure?

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We make the rules.

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It's a callback.

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Ah, that's better.

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Alrighty.

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It's a reprise.

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Reprise.

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This comes from an old episode.

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I've had this written down for a while ago.

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But from DMI 5664, they said, you really just blew by Dan saying he'd love to mash two unrelated shows together,

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but didn't come up with any examples.

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That might be a fun topic.

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Dan, do you have two unrelated shows that you would just to smash together and see what happens?

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Unrelated shows that I want to smash together and see what happens.

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Like The Godfather and Little House on the Prairie?

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Movies?

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Oh, that's a movie, you're right.

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Or TV shows?

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Breaking Bad and The Little House on the Prairie.

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I mean, Breaking Bad and The Little House on the Prairie sounds phenomenal.

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I would watch every episode and the After Hours podcast.

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That was the one I thought of.

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Somebody cooking cocaine because they didn't have meth back then, and getting all the cowboys hooked.

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And it's just, that's, that's.

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Yeah.

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Snake oil salesman goes around from town to town.

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But sells cocaine.

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Selling his tinctures.

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He gets people addicted.

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Yeah, that sounds really good.

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That's what I'd watch.

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So that's my answer.

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Thanks for answering for me.

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No way.

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There's a new

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Little House on the Prairie series on Netflix.

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There is?

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And I watched the first episode with my 10 -year -old.

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And we were fairly meh on it.

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So what I would like to do is smash up

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Ted Lasso with an actual sports show

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So you actually have a sports team doing a thing while they're doing all the drama and stuff

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Rather than it being kind of like this

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Like Ted Lasso and Friday Night Lights Yeah Where it's small town football but everyone's nice and happy

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Well I just want

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Ted Lasso to actually have a storyline across the season

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Giving him a storyline feels like it's completely anathema to seasons two and three.

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Right.

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Then season one had it.

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I know.

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And it was the good season.

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And so if they were trying to actually do something with the sports team

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and learn a lesson and have an actual underdog sports story alongside all of the great drama.

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Yeah.

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then the season would have been, seasons two and three would have been good.

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Yeah, I know.

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Rather than season two having some good episodes and then us not even wanting to watch season three.

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Yeah, I'm so glad that you share my distaste for seasons two

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and three because our listeners are going to hate me for it, but this time they have to hate you for it with me.

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I mean, I don't know if this is a controversial opinion, right?

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Like, Ted Lasso, season two, is really well acted.

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There's some really great episodes.

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I love that they delved into panic attacks with him and some of the, you know, like, but it floundered.

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It just, it didn't know what it was about.

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It didn't know what it was about.

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And plus, I just cannot get behind a story about the owner of the sports team

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and the young player having a romance.

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It's a power imbalance that, like, they did it as well as you possibly could.

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But if those genders were reversed, everyone would have the ick and I had the ick the whole time.

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I'm like, you show this powerful woman and she's got a great arc in season one.

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Why can't she find someone that she belongs with that isn't monetarily beholden to her?

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Yeah, that isn't her employee and half her age.

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They spent so much time on that.

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It was as well as it was acted.

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Both actors did a great job.

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I was bothered by it the whole time.

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And they didn't deal with the parts of it that bothered me.

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It just, yeah.

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Okay, so here's my pitch.

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All of the Ted Lasso main characters as the bridge crew of a starship.

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Oh, yes.

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Star Trek Ted Lasso.

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Oh, yeah.

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He's the captain.

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No, he's not the captain.

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He's the first officer.

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No, I think he's the captain.

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And Rebecca is like the diplomat or something.

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No, she's the admiral that's on the ship that you have to cater to.

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So she could overrule you at any time.

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Yeah.

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All right.

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What's Keeley?

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Keeley has to be communications.

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Communications.

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Right.

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I suppose that makes sense. Or doctor.

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Keeley as the doctor, I would love.

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Yeah.

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Roy?

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Roy, security officer, obviously.

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Yeah.

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Jamie Tartt as the helmsman.

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Yeah, sure.

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That makes sense.

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That makes perfect sense.

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This actually all makes a lot of sense.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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First officer would be Beard.

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Yeah.

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And then what's his name?

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Rebecca's assistant.

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Is he engineering?

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Engineering is Nate the Great.

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Nate the Great. Is engineering.

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Yes.

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Oh, I love this.

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Okay.

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This is what I want to see.

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Yeah.

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That could be a lot of fun.

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Yeah.

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That's a good show right there.

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Transpose them.

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Just want to watch it.

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right now.

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All right, make it happen, Dan.

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Okay.

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Make it so.

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We have the power to waive our full point.

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I might commission art of that.

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Because I want to see all the Ted Lasso characters in Starfleet uniforms.

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That'd be awesome.

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That would be great.

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With, you know, the soccer logo just kind of delicately worked into the uniform somehow.

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There you are.

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Yep, I'm on board.

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That's fan art.

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Send it to Dan.

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There you go.

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But not AI art.

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No. No. We don't want that.

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All right.

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Next question.

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Next question.

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From JSwag Audio, what would Emily's wish have been, Brandon?

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This context is from the newlywed game question.

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Brandon gets one true wish.

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No monkey paw involved.

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What do you wish for?

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You were like, oh, I know what Emily would wish for.

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We never circle back around.

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Oh, yeah.

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She would wish for all guns to vanish and no one would be able to make any more.

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No, I'm not even joking.

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Really?

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She's mentioned that multiple times.

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She just, the violence in the world bothers her.

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And she doesn't want to take away people's free will.

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But if she could take away the weapons that they used to make so much damage,

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that there were no guns or anything, you know, gun -like.

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Right.

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If you had to go back to stabbing a dude, she feels like maybe there would be less of it.

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I'm reminded of an Einstein quote.

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That delights me.

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Yeah, yeah, World War III will be with sticks and stones.

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I don't know what

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World War III will be fought with, but I know that

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World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.

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That's it, yeah.

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That's a good quote.

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So, that was Emily's wish.

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She's expressed that to me somewhat jokingly, somewhat realistically.

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She whispers it to me because she doesn't want

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Scar to hear because he would not like all the guns vanishing.

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You know what I would do?

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I have this list in my head of if I were in charge. of America.

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Okay.

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Which is a good reason that I should not be in charge of America.

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Okay.

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If I were, day one, giant trucks, completely illegal.

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If your pickup truck, if the hood of your pickup truck is above like four feet, no longer street legal.

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Day two, no golf courses.

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No golf courses?

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Every golf course becomes a public park.

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Why do you hate golf courses?

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Well, because golf is dumb.

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and also because it bothers me that there's all this wonderful green space

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that is limited to use for a very narrow window of people.

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You know that a lot of, like, there are a lot of very rich person golf courses, but the majority of them are not.

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Oh, I know that.

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Yeah.

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Normal people, lots of people going and enjoying them.

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There's a golf course right by my house, and it bothers me every time I drive through it.

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Okay.

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I'm seeing some of the bias here.

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Giant trucks, gone.

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Okay.

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Golf courses, gone.

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What's day three?

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You've only gotten that far?

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I think I should stop at day two.

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Okay.

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People already hate me enough.

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We'll let people get over the giant trucks and golf courses.

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Cats?

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You're just going to kill all the cats.

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There's no way you could kill all the cats.

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They are nature's perfect urban predator.

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They will outlast us all.

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They will outlast us all.

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I hope Adam does not kill you after this episode.

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I know.

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He's going to be sad.

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And Adam being sad is like the one reason that I would slightly hesitate to nuke all the golf courses.

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Fair enough.

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All righty.

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So this is from a whole bunch of humans.

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I saw this consistently commented.

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Orcs and goblins are separate beings.

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They have evolved into two different things.

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Oh, my gosh. Do we?

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Are these people complaining because we talked about Tolkien's original definition that had them as essentially identical,

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and then D &D has split them into different things, and so somebody's complaining because they think D &D is real?

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Like, you guys know that orcs and goblins are made up, right?

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Telling us that I'm wrong about them is laughable.

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What are they actually mad about?

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So finish I love me finish yes, so most of them when we were doing the Dark Lord episode where Brandon you know Sarah tipsy

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Lee said you know they're the same thing we made a call Uruk -hai same thing a lot of people

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Had taken the position that they are not the same thing

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and that they are different and they want in D &D They aren't but in the real world.

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They are the same thing I I I Yes I've talked to Saruman Many of Brandon's Best friends are orcs

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Yes No Servants Servants They are minions

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It's worse Yeah Ugh Alright To answer the question Lackeys Lackeys is best

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There you go

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There we go

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Okay So the position has not changed

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No the position has not changed

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Like in D &D Yeah they're different things

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Yeah like You could come up with Ten different fantasy properties

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That have orcs and goblins in them and they'll all treat orcs and goblins in a different way from each other.

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But if you go to the historical source in Professor Tolkien's research, he talks about the fact that they are the same.

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And he is the leading authority.

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The leading authority.

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Okay.

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There you go, everyone.

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Speaking of lackeys, David Fryer, 435, says, I think you guys are underestimating slimes.

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Slimes are very powerful, but they're cheap and they set and forget.

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Putting out slimes is like putting up a chain link fence, but without the setup, and it's even cheaper

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They don't stop people who are determined, but they keep out nosy people.

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Has this convinced you at all?

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Yeah, it's a good argument.

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I'll bump them up a slot based on your argument

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Very well reasoned.

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There you go.

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I want a t -shirt

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That says I think you guys are underestimating slimes

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That's my new idea.

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Yeah, I'll give it to you.

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Here's my counter -argument to you.

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I know a lot of really annoying heroes that could not defeat most of the other minions,

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but then because they're slimes that they can go practice on, they end up becoming an actual pain.

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If there were no slimes, if you just started with the direwolves, these people would all be eaten,

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and then they wouldn't be a problem in the future.

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But I will bump them up.

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They're F tier, then they go to D tier.

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They go to D tier.

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Okay.

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Can you have dire slimes?

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Is that a thing?

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Slimes come in all kinds of varieties.

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The problem is some of the varieties, like some for some reason, drop like a full bar of gold.

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I know.

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It's ludicrous.

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It is ludicrous.

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Like I didn't pay them that bar of gold.

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Where did it come from?

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They don't give it to me.

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Then the stupid hero gets a bar of gold and he learns that killing slimes sometimes gives him a bar of gold.

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It's aggravating.

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Maybe they create it like.. pearls.

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Yeah, they probably do.

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I don't pay enough attention to slimes, obviously.

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Is gold bars just slime excrement?

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Maybe.

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If that's the case, I'd put them up to sea at that point.

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They'd become a very useful income source.

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No, no, you can't.

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The Darkler doesn't get that income.

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That's not income we get.

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You're mistaking.

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That's non -taxable income?

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Yeah, for some reason when the minions get killed, they sometimes have awesome stuff on them that they weren't using that I didn't give them.

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Yeah.

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Right? this doesn't make any sense if i kill a thousand lackeys i get nothing but this

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doofus walks in and suddenly there is a vorpal sword on the on

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that knoll yeah and it's like i didn't give him a vorpal sword

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if i did he would have killed you no

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it's just a vorpal sword just there just i haven't figured

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it out yet ridiculous yeah all right what's next what is next we have from

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lost there it is TK mate 14 but what would the Muppets cast be for wake up dead man

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oh my gosh

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wake up dead man uh huh all right this is from the dead man episode if you couldn't tell yeah so

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what's his name Thanos who's in it right he's the dead body so he's the the priest who's the old priest

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The old priest.

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Who's cantacarous and disagreeable.

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Is the eagle.

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Sam the eagle.

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Right?

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Okay.

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Could be Fozzie Bear.

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What about Sweetums?

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No, because he's articulate.

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He has to deliver these lines.

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And some of them are crude.

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And Sam the eagle delivering them might be funny.

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Yeah.

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But Sam is not a crude person.

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He's not.

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I can't see him saying those lines.

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But can you see any of the Muppets?

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Can I see any of the Muppets?

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animal, but he doesn't...

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I mean, obviously Pepe the Prawn would say all of that dialogue.

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Oh, he would.

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Okay.

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And he wouldn't feel bad about it.

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Alright, Pepe the Prawn is cast as Thanos.

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Young Priest is our human, right?

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Yep, Young Priest is our human.

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Okay.

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Miss Piggy as the the matron who kind of runs the church?

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That is the casting, yeah.

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Yeah?

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Uh -huh.

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Alright, who's Benoit Blanc?

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Kermit?

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Benoit Blanc.

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No, he's the Swedish chef.

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You just can't understand him.

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That would be so great.

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He comes in.

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I don't understand what you're saying.

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I know you're a brilliant detective.

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What are you saying?

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I would also love Benoit Blanc as Dr. Teeth.

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Yeah.

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Gonzo would make a good Benoit Blanc also.

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Doing the accent.

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Mm -hmm.

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Uh -huh.

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Yeah.

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That's actually the most funny, because the Swedish stuff gets old after one scene.

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Mm -hmm.

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But Gonzo doing a Benoit Block accent with his chickens, trying to solve the crime, is...

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That works really well.

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That works the whole movie. So, yeah.

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There you go.

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There's some.

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Oh, then Kermit.

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Yeah, where do you put Kermit?

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Kermit...

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Kermit isn't in this movie.

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Really?

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You hear Kermit's voice on the phone.

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Yeah.

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He's the the person he is the gender swapped woman that runs the yeah

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Construction equipment rental yeah, you know there you go.

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We weren't we aren't forcing Kermit to deal with this

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Yeah, the new Kermit voice is not great either.

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So we're just gonna leave him out.

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Okay.

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Okay fair enough

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You got a good Kermit voice.

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You do have a good Kermit voice.

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There you go.

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All righty from X6402.

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Am I the only person who has watched these and thought

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Ben was quiet and in the room for every episode?

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A lot of people, I don't think, know who Ben is.

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We talk about him a lot.

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For the new viewers, who is Ben?

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Who is Ben?

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First of all, I love this question because it is a correct usage of am I the only person who?

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Because so often when you see this online, it's someone saying the most obvious thing that's ever occurred to anyone.

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Whereas this is a genuinely wonderful question and I think is kind of niche.

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Ben is our former roommate.

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Brandon and I have never been roommates, but we have both been roommates with Ben.

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Yep.

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He is a computer programmer.

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And he is a little bit the Sam the Eagle of our whole group, meaning he had a normal job.

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He had a normal major.

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Yeah.

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And then all of his friends, for some reason, are all these weirdos who are fantasy nerds who want to become authors.

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And he's a big fantasy nerd too, but he's not an artist.

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And he has a real job.

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And he dresses nicely.

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He knew how to comb his hair to look not just combed, but classy.

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And so the reason we reference

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Ben a lot is, number one, he's our friend.

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When Dan and I were in college, we started a writing group together and Ben was in it just because Ben's around.

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He doesn't write, but we put him in our writing group.

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He was in the Dave Wolverton class with us.

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I think that some of the only writing he's done.

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He has composed music.

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He used to write music all the time on a little MIDI player in our dorm room.

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But he is the guy that we like to joke with.

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You know how you'll have a friend group and there will be one that's a little more serious.

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And that is the person that's fun to poke.

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Ben is fun to poke.

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And getting Ben to just look at you and shake his head is an achievement.

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Achievement, any day that you do that is a brighter day when Ben is tired of putting up with you.

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There are lots of people who know us both really well.

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Ben is the only one who created a chat group with the three of us to complain about stuff

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we say on this show.

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Yes.

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And that is why we started saying, how's that been?

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Because we knew he was listening and we knew he was going to complain to us.

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Well, and he specifically called out, we don't have an intro or an outro.

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And he's like, you guys need an outro.

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And so the new outro was, how's that been?

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And I'm sorry, I just said that and half of you turned off because you thought it was over, but it's not over yet.

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Not over yet.

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So that is Ben.

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Ben is that friend that is fun to poke.

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Yeah.

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And so he's right now listening to this and being aggravated at us.

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One of my favorite things that

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Ben would do is back when we all played D &D together.

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I remember there was one night when I was going to be able to join D &D,

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which I wasn't often able to do because I had little kids before everyone else did.

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Dan got married when the rest of us were bachelors, and it was this weird thing where, like, Dan has a family.

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Dan has a wife and kids.

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So there was one week when I was going to be able to be there, and Ben was like, great, we're going to get pizza.

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And then you and all your roommates made plans, and you all had pizza, and then I had to cancel last minute,

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and Ben was like, well, then we're not going to get pizza.

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Because the rest of you all still wanted it, but Ben was like, Dan's not coming.

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No pizza.

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All right.

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He is weird himself.

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He's just a different genre of weird than us.

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I think you just described like half the human race, Brandon.

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So one of the, I think the episode that just went up two days ago at time of recording

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is the you and I newlywed game.

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Correct.

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Yes.

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In which we said that my favorite book was Dune.

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Yes.

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And he texted us.

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Both of us.

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Both of us to say, I thought your favorite book was Les Miserables and that is absolutely one of my favorite books.

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But Dune does edge it out.

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There you go.

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All righty.

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Belangrijke woorden in deze video

15 woorden uit de video die het leren waard zijn, met uitspraak en betekenis:

Woord	Uitspraak	Betekenis
trilogy zelfstandig naamwoord	/ˈtɹɪləd͡ʒi/	trilogie, drieluik
tier zelfstandig naamwoord	/ˈtɪɚ/	laag, rang
bother werkwoord	/ˈbɑðɚ/	storen
priest zelfstandig naamwoord	/ˈpɹiːst/	priester, pastoor
villain zelfstandig naamwoord	/ˈvɪl.ən/	schurk, slechterik
pizza zelfstandig naamwoord	/ˈpi.tsə/	pizza
complain werkwoord	/kəmˈpleɪn/	klagen
tragedy zelfstandig naamwoord	/ˈtɹæd͡ʒ.ɪ.di/	tragedie, treurspel
eagle zelfstandig naamwoord	/ˈiːɡəl/	arend, adelaar
sequel zelfstandig naamwoord	/ˈsiːkwəl/	vervolg
rant werkwoord	/ɹænt/	schetteren, uitvaren
topic zelfstandig naamwoord	/ˈtɑpɪk/	onderwerp, thema
pitch zelfstandig naamwoord	/pɪt͡ʃ/	worp
shell zelfstandig naamwoord	/ʃɛl/	schelp
sword zelfstandig naamwoord	/soɹd/	zwaard

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Korte, volledige zinnen uit de video die je in alledaagse gesprekken kunt gebruiken:

Did you pay for it?
When you were on the trip, why aren't you eating now?
What is the temperature that you like milk?
Why would I want to eat pancakes?
You've only gotten that far?

Grammatica in deze video

De structuren die de spreker het meest gebruikt, met de exacte woorden uit de video:

Structuur	In de video
“Used to” used to + werkwoord — een vroegere gewoonte of toestand die niet meer klopt	used to have · used to make · used to write
Voorwaardelijke zinnen if + zin, will/would + werkwoord — een voorwaarde en het gevolg	If that's the case, I'd put
Present perfect have/has + voltooid deelwoord — iets uit het verleden dat nu nog telt	has happened · I've never been · haven't had
Lijdende vorm be + voltooid deelwoord — het gaat om wat er gebeurt, niet om wie het doet	isn't sweetened · cannot be purchased · were reversed

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De spreker gebruikt 171 samentrekkingen en verkorte vormen, zoals don't, I'm, doesn't. Spreek ze kort uit, zoals je ze hoort.

De “th”-klanken: bother /ˈbɑðɚ/, breathe /bɹiːð/
De klanken “sh” en “zh”: shell /ʃɛl/, smash /smæʃ/, controversial /ˌkɑn.tɹəˈvɝ.ʃəl/, gosh /ɡɑːʃ/, essentially /ɪˈsɛnʃəli/
Lange woorden — let op de klemtoon: consistently /kənˈsɪstəntli/, controversial /ˌkɑn.tɹəˈvɝ.ʃəl/, underestimate /ʌndɚˈɛs.tɪ.meɪt/, ridiculous /ɹɪˈdɪk.jə.ləs/, essentially /ɪˈsɛnʃəli/

Klanken die Nederlandstaligen lastig vinden:

Stemhebbende eindmedeklinker — /b/, /d/, /g/, /z/, /v/ niet verscherpen: sword /soɹd/, sausage /ˈsɔsɪd͡ʒ/, remind /ɹəˈmaɪnd/, sandwich /ˈsæn(d).wɪd͡ʒ/, crude /kɹuːd/
/æ/ — opener dan de Nederlandse “e”: tragedy /ˈtɹæd͡ʒ.ɪ.di/, rant /ɹænt/, candy /ˈkæn.di/, smash /smæʃ/, podcast /ˈpɑdˌkæst/
/g/ — een harde plofklank, geen Nederlandse “g”: eagle /ˈiːɡəl/, gosh /ɡɑːʃ/, gross /ɡɹoʊs/, hungry /ˈhʌŋ.ɡɹi/, dialogue /ˈdaɪəˌlɑɡ/

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Luister de hele video één keer zonder te spreken en noteer de woorden die je niet kent.
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