Parenting Through Grumps, Spiders, Bowling, And AI Relationship Coaching

We wander into the strange promises of tech: an “anti-gaslighting” app. Winter makes a cameo, Florida-style. Bowling humility. Plus, a cryptic song riddle gets solved, our Scottish friend is deciphered, and movies are backward.

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Chapters

• 0:00 Acknowledging A Messy Last Episode
• 1:09 Teasing Quizzes And New Games
• 1:30 Parenting And Kids Overhearing Sex
• 3:23 The Anti‑Gaslighting AI For Couples
• 6:49 Winthrop’s Stormy Phase And Public Grumpiness
• 9:12 The Restaurant Dilemma With Chatty Servers
• 11:19 Tongue Injury, Hangry Kid, And School Fatigue
• 12:59 Bowling Sticker Shock And Bumpers Debate
• 16:18 Arcade Distraction And Bowling Technique Woes
• 18:07 Cold Front And Falling Iguana Alert
• 20:09 Spider Alert And Midnight Rescue Mission
• 23:08 Song Quiz Reveal And K‑Pop Bit
• 26:58 Decoding Scottish: Your Bum’s Out The Windy
• 28:20 Backwards Movie Plot Quiz
• 31:02 Listener Email: Weather, Tracking, And 6’7
• 35:05 Holiday Baking Challenge Appreciation
• 37:28 Closing Banter And Thank‑Yous

Transcript

SPEAKER_04: 0:00

Familiar Wilson's Media. Relationships are the story.

SPEAKER_00: 0:07

You are made of meat, my friend, all the way down.

SPEAKER_04: 0:10

The following podcast uses words like and and also woo. If you're not into any of that shit, then now's your chance. Three, two, one. Run. Super familiar with it.

SPEAKER_02: 0:31

Welcome to Super Familiar with the Wilsons. I'm Amanda.

SPEAKER_04: 0:34

And I'm Josh, and we're the podcast about marriage 2.0 with kids.

SPEAKER_02: 0:39

And all the side quests.

SPEAKER_04: 0:40

Amanda, I have some feedback about our last episode.

SPEAKER_02: 0:44

As long as it is feedback directed at yourself, not at me, I will allow it.

SPEAKER_04: 0:48

It is directed at me. The episode was a little bit disjointed. We were kind of all over the place. We had two quizzes, which we don't usually have. Wasn't our finest uh work?

SPEAKER_02: 0:59

I actually have not listened to last week's episode, but I can tell you that it really wouldn't have bothered me because that is the stream of consciousness that is my life anyway.

SPEAKER_04: 1:06

Well, there you go. So let's get on the stream of consciousness. We do have the song quiz answer. We have the what the fuck is John saying uh answer, and I also have a a new game time for you that I'm Lord more game time. Excited about. We're gonna do a backwards movie quiz.

SPEAKER_02: 1:23

Okay, yes. You texted me about this that are you very excited about this.

SPEAKER_04: 1:26

I should say backwards movie plot quiz. Yes. Um, so we're gonna do that. But first, how have you been this week?

SPEAKER_02: 1:33

Me personally or our listeners? Because you live with me.

SPEAKER_04: 1:37

Yeah, no. How how have you fine this week? I do have a question for you since you know this is something that those with children and children who are getting older may relate with. I have a question for you. How much time do you think we have before we need to be mindful of Winthrop being aware that we're having sex?

SPEAKER_02: 2:00

I don't know. Can we not with the people?

SPEAKER_04: 2:04

Oh no, I don't I don't want to do with the people. I'm sorry, I don't know what you thought this was.

SPEAKER_02: 2:09

Listen, Muffy's friend has already told her we talk about sex on this podcast now. Hi, Muffy's friend that listens to us. She hasn't already told her that we talk about sex, so Muffy wants nothing to do with it. I don't know. I mean, we were having that bed dates when she was younger than him or older than him.

SPEAKER_04: 2:30

Okay, I just want to know at what point do we need to be listening for the little, you know, on the door in in the middle of the action.

SPEAKER_02: 2:39

And oh, I mean, to be fair, you can hear him running. Now when when she was his age, we lived in a one-story house and the bedrooms were completely across different sides of the house. So that was different.

SPEAKER_00: 2:52

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02: 2:53

This is he's about three feet that direction.

SPEAKER_00: 2:56

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02: 2:57

So I I don't know. I don't know, but I don't know what to tell you the solution is because it's not like he's gonna go to anybody else's house.

SPEAKER_04: 3:05

No, I I suppose not.

SPEAKER_02: 3:07

He lives here. This is this is his permanent residence.

SPEAKER_04: 3:10

This is one of those things that uh I want him to, I don't know if we can just keep him in his room. And I'm not saying lock him in this room. No, no, no. But like maybe there's an AI to keep him occupied if he wakes up in his room. He has an AI in his room. There is, yeah, but but I mean, uh, the AI in his room is um the Amazon product, and it's not gonna stop him when he gets up and say, no, don't go in there.

SPEAKER_02: 3:36

He's gonna say, why? You know he's gonna ask a million questions until he gets to the answer.

SPEAKER_04: 3:41

But there is an AI for everything, or as Boris Johnson says, AI. And I saw something today that I wanted to talk to you about. I'm not gonna tell you the name of this product because I'm not recommending it, but I saw a product. The advertisement was they call it the anti-gaslighting app. Couples can now record each other during arguments and get a detailed breakdown of who said what with AI.

SPEAKER_02: 4:08

All right. So basically, this is a plot of a friend's episode because Phoebe decides she's going to do that and she journals everything that Monica and Chandler talk about. And then when they get in a disagreement, she looks in her journal and says, Well, I know who really said it or what time you agreed upon, but she won't tell them what it was. So basically, they've they've created AI to be Phoebe Buffet.

SPEAKER_04: 4:30

Well, this is uh billing itself as your your number one AI relationship coach that helps couples reconnect, improve communication, and understand each other better.

SPEAKER_02: 4:40

No, all this is gonna say is see, I was right and you were wrong.

SPEAKER_04: 4:44

Wait, me being right?

SPEAKER_02: 4:46

Or no, it whoever was right and whoever, then the other person's pissed.

SPEAKER_04: 4:50

Well, here's the thing that amuses me about this. How it works is that you are supposed to get in an argument, right? Well, you're not supposed to get an argument, but you're you get in an argument, you need to have the presence of mind to stop, turn this thing on so it records you, yeah, and then continue arguing. Now, that would absolutely stop the argument as far as I was concerned, because you would reach for the phone to start the recording and I would bust out my ass laughing. Yes. I'd be like, What do you think you are doing right now? Like that that's the dumbest thing I've ever heard. And listen, I am not down for it. I absolutely do not need Skynet telling me that I get too defensive when we talk about the laundry that's sitting right over there.

SPEAKER_02: 5:35

Oh, I hadn't noticed that.

SPEAKER_04: 5:37

Yeah, so this is not a thing that no man wants this. No man wants and and I will tell you that I don't think no women want this either.

SPEAKER_02: 5:47

Or probably non-binary people as well. I just don't think people want this. But I do tell you that I kind of want it when Winthrop starts to argue with me because the other day he was getting so mad about he's really into drawing right now, and he was getting so mad because he was trying to do something, he couldn't do it well. And I said, I remember a couple weeks ago you were drawing and you were getting really frustrated, and then you stopped and you came back to it and and I c commented on that, and you said, Yeah, I just needed to take a break and walk away, and then I could come back and do it. And he said, I've never said that before in my life. And he got really mad when I reminded him. So I need whatever this app is.

SPEAKER_04: 6:21

Well, we have threatened both of our younger children with the next time you behave like this, we're gonna videotape you so that we can play it back for you. And neither of them like that idea at all.

SPEAKER_02: 6:34

That's because they didn't know what videotape was.

SPEAKER_04: 6:36

Okay, you know what I'm saying. What happened to yes and it jackass?

SPEAKER_02: 6:40

Well, no, I wanted to point out that you said tape and it was funny to me.

SPEAKER_04: 6:43

Okay, well, we rind the tape. We need to turn the the AI thing on and and we can see who said what here. But no, Winthrop is absolutely going through a stormy phase right now. He is Mr. Grumpus, and I guess it has to do with the time change, right?

SPEAKER_02: 6:58

I think so.

SPEAKER_04: 6:59

And the um the time change and the fact that days are getting shorter, so there's more darkness in his heart.

SPEAKER_00: 7:08

Heart of darkness.

SPEAKER_04: 7:10

But he is definitely having a moment. And whatever, we can handle most things. Um, I want to know what the people out there think of this situation. So he's getting really grumpy in public as well, and something that we're trying to deal with. We went to a restaurant the other day, and the the person who took our order insisted upon trying to talk to him. Even after it was clear that he was not interested in engaging, this person just kept at, hey, what are you drawing? Hey, you know this, uh, hey, did you do you like this food or or whatever? Um, at some point, like I'm on the kid's side. Yeah, like I always want him to be polite, but this was badgering. This is it went on for quite some time. This was harassment. What do you do when you just want the server? Do you just say, Oh, he's not in a good mood right now? Can you please not talk to him? Well, that feels rude.

SPEAKER_02: 8:08

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04: 8:08

So what do you say?

SPEAKER_02: 8:09

Yeah, and then if you say, Oh, you know, he's tired or he's grumpy or whatever, then you're like dismissing the child's behavior in front of the child. So I I don't know.

SPEAKER_04: 8:17

Well, I do think that he was tired, but I just don't think that that we would have gotten very far with him at that point. It was obvious that he did not want to talk to this gentleman.

SPEAKER_02: 8:28

No, he was also very grumpy at that point in last week because he had fallen and he kept saying his tongue hurt. And I mean, whatever, he's bitten his tongue before. He's been eating a tortilla chip and he jams it and is like gum or whatever. I so I didn't really investigate it. And when I picked him up from school, he said, I bit my tongue, it was bleeding, but it's better now. Like he just doesn't want to talk about it. So two days go by and he's still talking about his tongue. And I I said, Let me see it. And he said, Can you take a picture of it? His entire molar print was on the right side of his tongue. I mean, he bit the mess out of this. And it took him about because he what he was doing is playing gaga and he jumped over the wall and fell and hit his chin on the ground, and his tongue happened to unfortunately be between his teeth. And it took him about a week to be able to eat stuff that wasn't just like soft. So all he was eating was white rice at this restaurant. So he was just grumpy about that too.

SPEAKER_04: 9:23

Sure. And I'd forgotten about that actually. But what what do you do? Tell us, listener out there, if you've got kids and it's clear that the kid doesn't want to engage and the server still wants to engage. Like, what do you say? Like, I'm genuinely asking for help here. Email us at familiarwilsons at gmail.com and tell us what you would do.

SPEAKER_02: 9:44

Clearly, I don't know. I was there and I didn't help it. What I did was I got him up and left with him. I took him to because we were in in in we're nearby a grocery store, and so I took him into the grocery store and got him some liquid yogurt because that was the only thing he could have. So I think some of it is just being hungry, and I definitely think he hits a threshold of hangry real fast sometimes. And then also he's he's just tired, and also he's really over school right now. I think he has senioritis in third grade.

SPEAKER_04: 10:10

Oh, we got really big problems if that's the case. The other thing that I discovered this week is I have legitimately forgotten how to bowl.

SPEAKER_02: 10:19

Oh, you were really unhappy.

SPEAKER_04: 10:22

When I was a kid, I used to bowl, and I'm not saying I was a great bowler, I didn't go on the tour or anything. Um, but I could throw a ball down a lane and and hit a pin every time. Yes. Not so the other night.

SPEAKER_02: 10:36

Yeah, last night, friend.

SPEAKER_04: 10:38

Yeah, it feels like so long ago. I I would get a gutter and then knock down eight, which was really freaking frustrating. But I don't know what it is. I've forgotten how to bowl. Have you ever forgotten like something that you used to know how to do, like a physical thing, and you've just forgotten how to do it?

SPEAKER_02: 10:58

Sometimes when I'm crocheting, if it's been a really long time, I have to remind myself of like the hand movements and stuff. I but that's I mean it's but it's been how long has that been since you've bowled? I don't think that you and I have ever bowled together and we've been together for 12 years.

SPEAKER_04: 11:13

Okay, then 12 years ago is last time I bowled. Oh, because when I worked with teenagers, yeah. I remember the day well. Um the I used to work with teenagers that whole time, and we would take the the kids bowling. That was the thing that we did. Like, I used to know how to bowl.

SPEAKER_02: 11:29

Yeah, I'm sorry.

SPEAKER_04: 11:30

And I don't know if like my body is so different now. They say that that your body renews its cells like what every seven years or something like that. So every seven years, basically you have a whole new body, which by the way, I'm kind of calling bullshit on that because like my cells have been renewing. I'm not getting a new body, it's just an older body, right? Like my cells have fucked up somehow. But this new body that I have is never bowled, yeah, is what it is. Like the body a few cell generations before, that body has bowled. This body's never bowled.

SPEAKER_02: 12:03

Yeah, so Winthrop decided, not sure why, that he wanted to go bowling. I think it started when we met friend of the podcast, Josh Scar and his family at Disney Springs, and we had dinner at what it was it, Splitzville or whatever it's called.

SPEAKER_00: 12:16

Something like that.

SPEAKER_02: 12:16

Um, in in Winthrop wanted to bowl, but you I mean, you had to reserve a lane and all this. So we we took him bowling. First of all, it has been a long time since I've taken and paid for anybody to go bowling. That was really expensive.

SPEAKER_04: 12:30

Well, things are getting more expensive. There's a tariff on pins.

SPEAKER_02: 12:33

It was fifty-one dollars for the three of us to bowl for an hour. That's crazy. That's crazy. And and he can't and I he was arguing with me about putting the bumpers up before we ever got there. I was trying to head it off. It was like, listen, you never have done this before. This is going to be difficult. It's going to be something like when you first started riding your bike, you're gonna have to do it over and over and you're gonna get better at it. But we need to use the bumpers. No, no, I don't, I don't know, I don't need the bumpers. I know how to bowl. I'm really good at it. So then I looked at him and I said, Wait, you've bowled? And he said, No, I haven't, but I'm really good at it. I know that I am.

SPEAKER_04: 13:09

I need the bumpers.

SPEAKER_02: 13:10

Well, so he got the bumpers and he was fine. Look out of the three games we played, maybe four of his attempts did wouldn't have needed a bumper.

SPEAKER_00: 13:17

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02: 13:18

But he was fine once we got there, but then he just discovered there was an arcade and then laser tag, and he got real bored with bowling real fast and wanted to do other things.

SPEAKER_04: 13:28

Yeah, so anyway, there's our bowling adventure. Um, Winthrop needs the bumpers. He did okay, and I needed the bumpers too because I did not do okay. You won't do the games that we played.

SPEAKER_02: 13:40

Well, I I kind of threw the last one and started just like because you were yelling at me that I wasn't rolling the ball, I was dropping it. I don't know that I was yelling at I still got strikes since bears, but anyway, so then I just I decided to try to practice with my technique, and I kept getting gutter balls every time. So clearly, you you're not a very good bowling instructor.

SPEAKER_04: 14:07

Weather alert, weather alert, weather alert.

SPEAKER_02: 14:11

It's cold outside.

SPEAKER_04: 14:12

Weather alert from South Florida.

SPEAKER_02: 14:14

Oh, from South Florida. Iguanas are falling out of trees.

SPEAKER_04: 14:17

Weather update, falling iguana alert is is an actual update that I saw that was a screenshot of a TV screen from South Florida, falling iguana alert.

SPEAKER_02: 14:28

I did not mean to step on that joke. I just was like, oh wait, it's cold. They're gonna fall out of trees.

SPEAKER_04: 14:33

No, you didn't step on the joke because it's not a joke, it's real, it's a thing. And I don't know if if the people listening who aren't in South Florida are aware that this is a thing that happens every year, the falling iguanas.

SPEAKER_02: 14:44

Explain it.

SPEAKER_04: 14:46

Well, uh iguanas are reptilian in nature, they're big too. They are, and so they can they they're cold-blooded, they can't regulate um their body temperature. So when it gets cold, they go into a state of hibernation. So if they're in a tree and it gets cold, they freeze, they fall out the tree. And you gotta be careful. And the warning, of course, is don't touch them, they're not dead. The sun will come out tomorrow, tomorrow, and they'll warm up and they'll park up and they'll go about their their business. And so people like will go and they'll they'll pick them up or they'll take them home or some shit like that, and the thing will wake up and they of course freak the fuck out.

SPEAKER_02: 15:24

So what were they gonna do with it? They thought it was taxidermied, like what did they think? Put it on a mantle?

SPEAKER_04: 15:30

I don't know, or maybe they don't want them to go take it and throw it away because the damn thing's still alive, don't throw it away, just leave it alone. Yes, but I that just amuses me no end. It's like one of those little quirks about living in South Florida is the the weather cools down, the songs of of snow and mistletoe go on the radio, and the iguanas fall out of the tree.

SPEAKER_02: 15:50

Have you ever seen it happen?

SPEAKER_04: 15:52

I've never seen it happen, but I've seen frozen iguanas on you know, on the space.

SPEAKER_02: 15:57

Um, oh my god. I wonder they must fall on people, right?

SPEAKER_04: 16:02

I I would guess.

SPEAKER_02: 16:03

I mean, odds are that would hurt though, because they're not light things. They probably weigh like 10, 15 pounds.

SPEAKER_04: 16:10

Oh, I don't think they weigh 10 pounds.

SPEAKER_02: 16:12

They weigh five pounds.

SPEAKER_04: 16:13

I think that you're thinking of monitor lizards or Komodo drivers.

SPEAKER_02: 16:17

I mean, iguanas are like this big though, yeah?

SPEAKER_04: 16:19

Okay, yeah. Well the cameras aren't on you.

SPEAKER_02: 16:21

That's like a foot and a half long.

SPEAKER_04: 16:22

Yeah, well, they're they they would hurt if they fell on you frozen solid and short.

SPEAKER_02: 16:27

So I wonder, so that just made me think about this. Has nothing to do with winter and falling iguanas, but just thinking about things that should happen more frequently. Uh, you and I both worked at a camp in or two different camps in in North Carolina. There was a guy, he was a counselor or staff. Uh he came to opening session and his face was just clawed, like just clawed up. He happened to be in the crossfire of a squirrel jumping from one tree to the other, and his face went right in the squirrel's path. So the squirrel latched onto his face.

SPEAKER_04: 16:57

Are you saying that the squirrel failed to notice that he was there? Or that he moved and he was jogging in that.

SPEAKER_02: 17:03

He was just that fast.

SPEAKER_04: 17:04

It's like that that YouTube clip, that old YouTube clip of Randy Johnson, the pitcher throwing the ball and a bird happened to so same thing except the squirrel in the guy's face.

SPEAKER_02: 17:14

Yes. And I saw the scratches, so I know that it happened, but that's gonna happen more often than we hear about, right?

SPEAKER_04: 17:20

Yeah, I guess so. So so folks, this has been your weather alert and squirrel alert from the Wilsons.

SPEAKER_02: 17:39

Weather alert from Amanda. Weather alert.

SPEAKER_04: 17:42

No, we're we're done with this.

SPEAKER_02: 17:43

No, no, no. I have one. I got a weather alert on my phone, and I yeah, you I sent it to you because I sent it to the Belsons too. It was the weather channel alert popped up on my phone and it said weather alert increased spider activity.

SPEAKER_04: 17:56

What?

SPEAKER_02: 17:57

Yes, and it said that due to whatever weather systems are in the area and the temperatures, that we will see an increased activity with spiders and to make sure that you're like keeping everything sprayed outside so they don't come into your home. I've never seen a spider alert come from the weather channel.

SPEAKER_04: 18:15

It just goes to show how much this world is on fire that we need next next winter. It's I swear to God, it's gonna be falling iguana alert, followed by the spider alert, and then the locusts. Then the locusts will come locust alert, and then like rivers flowing red with blood.

SPEAKER_02: 18:32

That's right. So last night we're asleep. About 11:30, my phone starts ringing, and I look at it and it's Muffy calling me from downstairs.

SPEAKER_00: 18:42

That's good.

SPEAKER_02: 18:44

Panicked, I need you. There's a big spider down here, and I can't get it. So I get up, I go downstairs, I look, and it is.

SPEAKER_04: 18:52

This thing had better been the size of like a baseball mitt.

SPEAKER_02: 18:56

I mean, no, it was about that big.

SPEAKER_04: 18:59

This is an audio medium.

SPEAKER_02: 19:00

Okay, it was about the size of that's not even a half dollar. It's bigger than that. I like a chocolate chip cookie.

SPEAKER_04: 19:07

Okay.

SPEAKER_02: 19:08

I mean, it was big.

SPEAKER_04: 19:09

And now all I'm picturing is she's calling you panic because there's a chocolate chip cookie on the floor.

SPEAKER_02: 19:16

So it's under the ottoman, and she's just sitting on the ground staring under the ottoman. And so I'm trying to figure out what to do. In the meantime, here comes Winthrop wandering around looking for us out of his bed. Came, I could hear his little feet running around. Came in here, wasn't happy that he found just you here. So then he came to the stairs and she said, We're down here. So he comes down, he wants to see the spider, then the dog comes. So last night at like 11:45, me, Winthrop, uh, Muffy, and the dog are downstairs trying to problem solve this spider. So I go, I get a cup, I move the ottoman, I put the thing over the cup over the spider, I slide a piece of paper and I take it outside, and then I have a talk with the spider. Well, Muffy had to talk first. She told him not to come back. And then I told it to please not tell its friends that were kind and compassionate and didn't kill it. Tell its friends that all the people that go in there die, stay outside.

SPEAKER_04: 20:18

Yeah, and then that's we killed all the other spiders, and we sent one spider back outside to tell the rest of them. I've seen that movie.

SPEAKER_02: 20:29

And I left, I left it with the cup, and I said, I will come back for this cup in the morning. And I came back in the morning and it's gone. Now I think that the chocolate chip spider is wearing this cup like a shell, like a hermit crab, somewhere in our neighborhood.

SPEAKER_04: 20:42

What cup was it? Was it a cup we liked?

SPEAKER_02: 20:44

No, it's one of the solo cups, the recyclable solo cups.

SPEAKER_04: 20:47

All right. Thank you. Well, that's it's our second weather alert. I think that was a spider alert. I don't know what that was. So I've got this book that's got notes of all the stuff that I want to talk about, and sometimes it's just like a sentence. And I don't know why I wrote this, but one of the topics that I intended to cover was just music during sex.

SPEAKER_02: 21:23

It's probably because you were thinking of should we put mus noise on so he can't hear anything.

SPEAKER_04: 21:29

Uh no, but I think we've we've covered that before that I can't, yeah, I can't have music on.

SPEAKER_02: 21:34

Then you try to get a rhythm or whatever then.

SPEAKER_04: 21:36

No, it's it's no, it doesn't work that way. Um, it would need to be asynchronous music. Yes. And I can't have we've talked about this. I can't have lyrics because then um I don't want to be thinking about the lyrics all of a sudden. Oh, that's very interesting. Cake by the ocean. Oh, sorry, dear. Um, so anyway, I really don't know why I put that, so we won't talk about it.

SPEAKER_02: 21:57

Are you recording?

SPEAKER_04: 21:58

Yes.

SPEAKER_02: 21:59

Oh god, I thought you and I were just having a conversation.

SPEAKER_04: 22:02

No. Oh it is time to give the answers to the song quiz. You remember the uh you remember the clues to the song quiz, dear?

SPEAKER_02: 22:25

I I do. It's something about oh god, who was the man? Who is the man?

SPEAKER_04: 22:31

It was just to let everyone know, it's a cryptic clue about a song title and a song artist. And you all out there and Amanda try to guess what song and artist I'm referring to. The um the song title was what you say to Mr. Cheetle When Man United Scores.

SPEAKER_02: 22:50

Yes, Cheetle. I couldn't think of who the person was we were talking about.

SPEAKER_04: 22:53

And the artist or band is The Magic That I Do to Bag Myself a Deer. Did you get this one?

SPEAKER_02: 23:00

I definitely got this one. Right after we recorded, I got this one.

SPEAKER_04: 23:04

Go ahead and talk us through what you say to Mr. Cheetle when Man United Scores.

SPEAKER_02: 23:09

Okay, so Mr. Cheetle.

SPEAKER_04: 23:10

Yes.

SPEAKER_02: 23:11

Don Cheetle.

SPEAKER_04: 23:12

Yes.

SPEAKER_02: 23:12

Famously of the Yorkshire accent in Oceans Eleven, or what was that accent that he did? He did a Cockney accent.

SPEAKER_04: 23:20

Cockney, not even close to Yorkshire.

SPEAKER_02: 23:22

I'm just making up uh areas now. Anyway, Don Cheetle. Yes. So Don.

SPEAKER_04: 23:27

Yes.

SPEAKER_02: 23:27

And then when Man You or whoever you say Man United scores. Scores, you say goal. Right. So it's gold Don, which then becomes golden.

SPEAKER_04: 23:36

Golden is the song. And the artist or band is the magic that I do to bag myself a deer.

SPEAKER_02: 23:42

Okay, so bagging a deer, that's hunting, right? Which I don't don't go do. I don't like it. And then it's if it's magical, then you're doing a trick.

SPEAKER_04: 23:49

Right.

SPEAKER_02: 23:50

So you're hunting trick.

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Right.

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Your Hun Trix.

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Hun Trix.

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It is golden by Huntryx from K-pop Demon Hunters.

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By the way, we've got an incredible amount of listens from South Korea. Have we really? On the two episodes that we mentioned K-pop Demon Hunters. Yeah, no. So it was two episodes ago. Then we didn't talk about it. And then last episode we talked about it. Yeah.

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Do you put it in the title? Like what they're searching and they find us, or what happens?

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I did, and I put it in the description. So anyway, we asked you if you could get the song quiz, and we did have one answer.

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Only one person? Yes.

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Yes. So it's golden by Hunter's. I got it in 30 seconds, and I would like a prize. Belated happy birthday to Muffy and Winthrop. From Kate, our neighbor Kate.

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Our neighbor Kate. Hey Kate.

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Yeah, Kate got it. So there you go. And then I said, excellent. Any guesses on what our Scottish friend said? And she says, Oh, I got distracted and didn't listen to that part.

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It's okay, Kate. No one knows what he says ever.

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Okay, so that was the second part of our little quiz section in last week's episode. We have our friend John Watson. He is Scottish. And so therefore, he's when he speaks, it's unintelligible. So I get a big kick out of quizzing Amanda and you all to see if you can tell what it is that he's talking about. So just to remind you what he said last week.

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Your bum's out the windy. Your bums at the windy. All right, what is it?

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So he sounds like he's saying your bum's out the windy. Like your bum, your bottom's out of the window.

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Your bum is out the window.

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Yes. And I think it means just like like when people say you're talking out of your ass, like I think like you're just you just don't know what you're talking about. You're just making stuff up.

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All right, so let's see what that means. Your bums at the wendy. That means you're talking nonsense.

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Yeah, there you go, right?

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Yep, you got it.

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I did get it.

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No one else got it.

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I get to move to Scotland. Is that what that means? There's so there's quizzes. That's the entrance, right? Like when you come to the US and you have to take your citizenship ship, ship, ship, ship. So hard word to say. Citizenship test, that's what you gotta do when you try to become a citizen.

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You have to understand John. He does not live close enough to any of their major ports of call for him to be the guy to do that.

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I'm fairly certain there are others like him.

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A whole country full, some would say. Amanda, we have our backwards movie plot quiz. Very easy. I don't even need to explain it. I'm gonna give you the plot of a movie backwards, and you tell me what the movie is. You should get all of these. There are five of them. You should get all of them.

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Are these movies I have seen or am aware of?

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Yes.

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Okay.

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Alright, so the first one: a very angry girl eats pea soup and then calms down.

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The exorcism. That's so good. That is the exorcism. That's so good.

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Alright, next. A man loses a big fight, punches beef with decreasing fervency, and then becomes an increasingly unknown boxer.

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I mean, I've not seen this, but I'm gonna go with Rocky.

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That is the plot to Rocky, absolutely.

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I just know that he punches some meat. Um they still cook the meat? Did he like tenderize it, or was it that this is just now his punching bag?

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A couple falls out of love, making the man increasingly angry and reclusive. Prone to talking to household items.

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Okay, so a man talks to household items, he becomes increasingly reclusive or less reclusive, and then he gets angry and falls out of love with somebody.

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Uh let me try this again. You're thinking too hard about it. Again, this is the backwards movie plot. A couple falls out of love, making the man increasingly angry and reclusive and prone to talking to household items.

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Oh, this is the shining.

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Actually, it's funny how some of these backwards movie plots are the forward movie plots of some movie. It is not the shining.

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But but he goes crazy and he talks to the things in the yes, this is the backwards plot. Listen, I can't. Okay. Um So does that mean if they fall out of love, they fall in love?

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All the information's on the task.

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No, no, you're not a looks horn. Um I don't know. I can't do this one.

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Beauty and the beast.

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But they don't fall out of love, they fall in love.

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Yes, but this is the fucking opposite. It's the opposite.

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No, opposite is not backwards.

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We are not, we are not arguing here.

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Okay, so get the app. Opposite is not backwards, friend. Backwards means that because you said that she ate pea soup. Well, she had to eat pea soup to be able to spew it, but they didn't fall out of love.

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I don't like it. Let's let's get Susie Dent in here. Um, you didn't get that right.

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Because you wrote it wrong.

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Next, three film students grow increasingly calm, emerge from the woods with their video cameras erased, and look forward to attending film school.

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Okay, see, this one you did backwards. This is the Blair Witch project.

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That is correct. So you got that right. So one more, ready? A man gives up the family business, helps resurrect many people, and attends a wedding.

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This is the story of Jesus. This is the Passion of Christ.

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No, what movie is this?

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A man attends a wedding?

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A man gives up the family business, helps resurrect many people, and attends a wedding.

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Is that four weddings and a funeral?

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It is clearly the Godfather.

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Oh.

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So you got four out of five.

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I got three out of five.

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Oh, did you? Okay. Just so folks know that the Godfather backwards is the story of Jesus Christ. Jesus Christ. It is email time. If you'd like to drop us a line, send it to familiarwilsons at gmail.com. So we have a a little missive from our friend Leo that is titled Six Seven and Other Musings.

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Six Seven.

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He says, Hey Wilsons, hope you're enjoying some cooler temperatures. We are. We are. It's lovely. It's supposed to freeze tomorrow, and so I've gone into the back garden and covered three plants with some sheets.

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It's the only ones we like.

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That's right. He says the humidity has broken finally here in Ohio. That's a song, isn't it? Humidity has broken here in Ohio.

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You should be on the tourism board.

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He says we are all bracing for our typical Indian summer, whereas we suddenly had a weird stretch of summer-like weather in November. I'm not familiar with that term, but I guess that's what it means. Okay, didn't know that. Before I forget, I also want to give a huge shout out to Muffy and her friends for taking care of that poor girl on the sidewalk. Doesn't matter how or why she ended up in that state. We were all young and stupid before too. I'm just glad social media didn't exist when we were that age. I'm trying to think. I don't think that I did anything that I would have been ashamed that social media caught. Except for, of course, my general just social awkwardness. My existence. That's right. That's enough to be embarrassed.

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If you fall asleep with like a bucket of KFC on your chest one time in your car, that would be interesting. No. I've made that up.

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You have made that a little bit.

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I've conflated a whole bunch of different stories I know about you.

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This, though, is a different boyfriend, is what you're thinking of.

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Nope. Those get electrocuted by lightning.

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Um, he says, kudos to her for insisting that you use location tracking for her. Our daughter balked at this idea. She took it more as we would be spying on her. Our sons, not so much. We use Life 360, and our youngest loves using it against us because it also shows how fast you're driving. He once took a screenshot of our wife driving 90 miles an hour on the freeway and sent it to her.

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Oh no. Yeah, we just do um Apple family sharing location. It doesn't say how fast I am going.

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Not a sponsor. Oh no, no, but we have our our car insurance to show us that. In fact, I think that on our car insurance app that tracks our movements and tracks our speed and tracks all these this different things when we're driving and then gives us a discount based on our score. I believe I have the highest score.

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You do. You have a 97. Muffy has a 93 and I have noffy has a 95 and I have a 93. But we did get a$60 a month discount off of that.

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Yeah, very good. So there you go. I mean, we probably would have gotten 75 if you didn't freaking have a 93, but whatever.

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I wasn't going 90 miles an hour, though.

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He says, Josh, I must say you are a fascinating specimen. Thank you, Leo. You not knowing who Herb Alpert was genuinely caused me to let out an audible gasp. He's been one of the highest respected horn players since dirt. Not that I'm necessarily a fan of his, but he's so well known it's almost impossible not to know of him. Well, Leo, don't know what to tell you. You'd think that I would remember a musician called Herb, but the only Herb that I'm aware of is Herb Tarlick from WKRP in Cincinnati, one of my favorite shows. He continues, as for the strangest thing seen while driving, because that is a question we asked a couple of episodes ago. For me, it was seeing one of those tiny smart cars being rolled over because an old lady tapped its back bumper in a roundabout. What? Me and the other drivers helped the guy out of the car. He was a big guy, so it was pretty comical that he was driving it. He wasn't injured save for a scrape and bloodied elbow.

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My goodness. Like you just tap it and it rolls over. Forget taking that out on an interstate.

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I don't know why they call them smart cars because it's the dumbest looking thing you've ever seen. It has no back half. No, I know. It's just the front half and then it ends. Stupid. To me, like the bigger the car is, the more armored the car is, the better.

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Yeah, yeah, yeah. Especially when you're putting your children out on the road.

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Yeah, that's right. Well, don't don't don't put your kid out on the road. It's very dangerous.

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Put them in a car. And then put them out on the road.

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And then he goes on and he offers another explanation for 6'7. And weirdly, it's one that I've not heard. He said, last he asked for 6'7, a young basketball phenom from Kentucky named Talen Kinney is to blame. He said it, he said it just to be silly during interview. He said he was nervous, and like many of us, humor is his go-to when he's nervous. He admits it means nothing. The rest is meme history. And to take advantage of this viral moment, he's even launched a 6'7 water brand.

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Water?

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Yeah, I guess. Why would you go for water? Good luck to that young man. Last I saw he's gonna play for a university in Atlanta.

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Well, good.

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And he says, no, I don't know the answer to the song quiz.

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Okay, it was golden. It's just because you have to go watch the K-pop demon hunters. Well, thank you, Leo. It's always wonderful to hear from you. And thanks. Yeah, thanks for um the kudos for Muffy and her friends. We are very, very proud of these girls that they are becoming, and I think we can only take very little credit.

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I think that we can take a lot of credit. I believe in nurture and nature, and both of those happened here. So that is a thing. If you want to email us, familiarwilsons at gmail.com. Tell us how it's going. We want to know, and then we'll we'll read it on on the uh the pod, and you will be rich and famous beyond all the dreams of Avarice.

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No one likes to be told what to do.

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And now is the time in the program where we tell you what to do. Amanda, what should we do?

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This is me telling you, this is my annual reminder to you that the holiday baking challenge has started on the Food Network. It is my favorite. I love it. Jesse Palmer, bless him. He was a Florida gator, he was not great bachelor, and um, but I just enjoy him. He's goofy and it's just so heartwarming and lovely. And I'm so excited about the holiday season and like my inner just I want to have all the things. I want all the I want all the peppermint bark and I want all the cozy jammies, and I want a fireplace that I don't have, and I want lots of twinkly lights. I tried to talk Josh into letting us hire somebody to do the lights on the house, and he said no. And I want to go sledding, and I want a Christmas tree in every room, and I love Christmas trees and windows, and I love Christmas trees on the top of cars, and I could keep going and going and going, but just go watch the holiday baking challenge on the Food Network because I hear this might be its last year.

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I'm sorry, sledding?

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Yeah.

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Have you ever been sledding? No, but I want to. It's overrated.

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Have you been sledding?

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I have. Snow in general, very overrated.

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Oh, I love snow.

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Have you ever been in snow?

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Yes, the marriage 1.0 in-laws live in northern Minnesota. I've been in lots of snow.

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Yeah, we saw how that worked out before you, didn't we?

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Right, but no, I want to go sledging as the Brits say. Why do you guys say that? Why do you have to put a soft G in there? Why is it sledging? That sounds that sounds harsh. I don't like it. Say sledding.

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Alright, Amanda, that's all there is. There is no more. What'd you think about all that?

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I'm still on sledging.

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Yes. You you have the tendency to just really perseverate on one thing. Why is that? Is that where where Winthrop gets it from?

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Probably. And also, I was working from home today and I was sitting in the bed and I was doing my work, and the dog saw somebody out of the window because he likes to perch up on that chair. And and he barked, but he kept barking, and I thought, good lord, this person is just hanging out in front of the. No, the person was gone. And he barked for 10 minutes. He's just thinking about it. This is clearly what I do. I'm I'm mad about sledging. This is this is my version of the dog yelling out of the window, the phantom trail the person walking left behind.

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Okay.

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I started out this episode happy. I went on a rant about how I want to or not a rant. I went on a monologue about how I want to go embrace all of winter, and it's ended with me being mad at the dog and the Brits.

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That's not how it's ending. It's ending with us giving you our list of people without whom we would not be able to hand you this audio polished turd that we're presenting to you here. Super familiar with the Wilsons. Uh, would not be possible without Antonio, who is spotted confidently giving directions to a family of penguins at a crosswalk in downtown Oslo.

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That was nice of you.

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Josh Scar currently leading a silent disco for monks atop Machu Picchu. Daniel J. Buckets running a black market lemonade stand on the Great Wall of China, accepting only ancient coins and pieces of paper. Chicken Tom nesting comfortably in the VIP lounge of an international airport, pecking at complimentary peanuts and life advice. Matt still attempting to parallel park a camel outside the pyramids of Giza. Monique from Germany teaching a yoga class for astronauts aboard the International Space Station. Joey. Ryan Baker managing a coffee shop at the base of Mount Everest, where the Wi-Fry is stronger than the air. Leo operating a tiny espresso cart halfway up the Eiffel Tower, serving tourists and existentialists alike. Refined gay Jeff judging a synchronized swimming competition for flamingos in the Galapagos Islands. Mark and Rachel living off the grid in the Scottish Highlands, producing artisanal Wi-Fi from the power of love and fog, and Dan and Gavin running a pirate-themed therapy retreat in a floating tiki bar somewhere off Key West.

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Oh, I could see it.

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Thank you for all of you. I'd like to also thank the executive producer, the unseen hand of chaos, produced by um me, probably. Sound designed by the distant cry of a confused seagull, and this is filmed entirely on location in our imagination. So until next week, you all take it easy.

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Go be kind.

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Bye.

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Oh, bye.