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Palo.
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I'm Pablo Torre and this episode of Pablo Torre Finds out is brought to you by Remy Martin. 1738 Accord Royale. Exceptionally smooth cognac for all your game day festivities. Please drink responsibly because today we're going to find out what this sound is. What? Right after this ad.
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I'm fixating on an old song that I've rediscovered. I can't stop listening to it.
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I mean, what is this?
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Uh huh.
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Something about you by level 42, which I'm fading out for legal reasons.
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Come on.
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I. I would just want to vibe to that.
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It's so good.
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What's it called? Level 42.
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That's the band. I was going to let it get to the chorus so people could know they've heard it before. Cuz I promise you both we can.
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Skip through the chorus.
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That bass is filthy.
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Love a bass. We love a base on this.
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Do do do.
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Is that a share and tell or is that just a snack for you?
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Just a snack. Is this a Sharon?
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It is a literal snack.
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I was told to don't open it.
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What's going on?
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Okay, I'm jumping in here to say that if you Watch PTFO on YouTube, you probably know that the Nintendo adjacent style sound effect, the doot doot doot doot that you just heard visually triggers an actual role playing game style menu with a little animated version of me who explains stuff. Which is why internally the PTFO staff calls these voiceovers that I do RPGs. Anyway, I say all of this because Katie Nolan's question today. What is going on? Is a good one. Numerous Pablo Torre finds out. Observers have observed that we have always chosen the Pablo Explains menu option, but I have never actually selected the second option that is shown right beneath Pablo Explains, which is simply f around. But after repeatedly forcing share and tell regulars Katie Nolan and Michael Cruz Kane to be guinea pigs in what some critics have called the future of journalism and still others have called your stupid Bill Belichick Jordan Hudson episodes. I realized something. I realized that it was probably time to just around. I've somehow explained less about what we're doing here today than I have in previous episodes.
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Which is great.
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Also explain nothing.
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Right.
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Which is not just crazy. I have been reflecting.
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Okay.
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And I think I owe you guys.
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Yeah.
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An episode where we just get to chill.
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Yes.
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With surprises in the center of the table. No, I sent a group chat to you guys and it was just hello. And Katie's response was oh. And I was like I need to. We need to re establish Our friendship.
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Anytime I hear in this group text, I go, oh, Jesus Christ, what'd she do now? Yeah, but this wasn't about. It's not about her.
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Well, so technically.
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Oh, no.
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It has been now 50 days since our many, many, many, many, many public records requests were filed and not fulfilled. Oh, no. So that's. That is happening in a parallel track alongside this. North Carolina administrators. If you're listening to this and come.
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On and raise up.
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Raise up.
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Take your shirt off.
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Heels heels up. What do they say? They must have a thing.
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Oh, what's their. What's their. Like, their slogan?
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Heels up.
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Click your heels.
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What is North Carolina Tar Heels slogan?
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Go, go, blue.
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They have a song called I'm a Tar Heel Born. Do you want to listen to what that sounds like for a second?
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I do.
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That's not as good as something about you.
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Oh, it doesn't have the lyrics spoken.
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Maybe you could sing them.
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You get the gist. I'm a Tar Heel born, I'm a Tar Heel bread and when I die, I'm a Tar Heel dead.
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Nice.
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Wow. Tar Heel. It's Tar Heel because, like, they wouldn't run, right? Like, they were. They were brave. I think that's why they're called. I think that's why they're called.
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I just figured they made tar.
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I thought it was because, like, they were.
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Because it goes into cigarettes, and they made those.
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I ain't. I ain't gonna flee.
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Right.
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My heels are stuck right here.
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Did you Google it at all, or that was just all you put.
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It's all rattling around in here. Instead of, like, you know, information that I need, that's what I got.
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Far Heel State. Okay.
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Here you go.
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In its early years as a colony, North Carolina became an important source of the naval stores of tar and turpentine.
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Nope.
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Which they then put in cigarettes, didn't I?
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Not seeing that quite yet.
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Well, what about heel, though? Heel?
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The troops from other states call us Tar Heels. I am proud of the name, as tar is a sticky substance and the Tar Heel stuck up like a sick kitten to a hot brick, while many others from a more oily state sick kitten to a hot brick and left the Tar Heels to stick it out. This is from an 1863 article in a rally newspaper in which a Confederate soldier from North Carolina is quoted saying, what he just said.
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The Tar Heels stick it out.
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Sick kitten to a hot brick.
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Sick kitten to a hot brick. That's bars right there. Yeah, he was dropping. As they said at that time, some.
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Bars you are appraising a Confederate soldier's bars.
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Whoa, not me. I'm distancing myself from anything he just said.
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Look, I don't agree with stuff that they say, but the rappers from the Confederacy were incredible.
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I don't think that's true, actually.
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So I. I have a snack pack. We have a container of something that Katie does not know. But I know and Michael knows.
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I barely know.
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I just thought it was a. A, A. What's the one, everyone?
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Pickle ball. Yeah, it's not a pickle ball hitter.
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It's a violin.
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Nope.
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Okay.
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It is what it says, but that's not going to. That's not going to explain. That's not going to help you.
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It says.
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Omn.
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Omnicord. Omnichord. Oh, is it a ukulele?
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Nope.
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Okay, sure. What are we doing here?
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So far so good.
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What's the purpose today? That meat's not gonna open, is it?
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Honestly, I'll eat a gusto pack. I'm not afraid to.
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So much of my diet is gusto packs. Small batch artisanal meats.
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Oh, gross.
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Smooth Vontina cheese, Artisanal crackers. Genoa mild salami. Gross Snack pack. Keep refrigerator.
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Is that the one with the chocolate? Oh, it's got a little fruit bar. It's got a fruit bar.
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There's no fruit bar. Just cheese, meat, crackers. Oh, cr.
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Great protein and dairy. And some artisanal crackers.
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No. Yuck.
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This is. This is the adult lunchable.
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Yes, that is very true. We have a lot of those in my home.
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Probably much more expensive.
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Oh, yeah. A lot of salt in there, baby.
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Oh, yeah. I don't want. I don't want to.
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Let me forget. I'm putting this on the ground.
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Okay, okay, I'll try.
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That's a. I'll try to remember place to rest your lollipops.
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No trash in here. Yeah, there's never been a trash in here, which is crazy.
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Where are the receptacles?
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Thank you.
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We're like Japan in here.
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Yes.
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You know what I'm talking about.
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No.
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No trash cans.
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No trash cans.
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But I believe the.
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We're like New York City during a marathon.
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Just peeing our pants.
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Yeah. Walking your dog. And then you realize, like, oh, something must be going on publicly this weekend because there's no garbage can anywhere.
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Is the whole episode going to be what we're doing right now? Because honestly, I'm great with it.
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I guess so. I didn't get high.
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I'm a hyped. Yeah, I didn't get High at all.
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Damn, that sucks.
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I don't usually get high. I don't really get. I don't really get high. I tell you what. The littlest. And I'm so far gone.
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Great.
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I'm absolutely obliterated.
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That's economical.
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But I don't. I never. It's very hard for me to find a place where it's like, I'm glad that I did this.
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Just take one hit. Start there.
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Okay.
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Okay.
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Thank you.
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You're welcome.
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What happens to you?
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What happens to me? Yeah, I kind of. Well, I. What? I often become, like, so far gone. Often. I hardly ever do it, but. But, like, so far gone that I'm, like, paralyzed. You know what I mean? The very first time that I accidentally used a marijuana product.
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What?
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I was at a party and there were brownies, and never even occurred to me that there would be weird weed in the brownies. So I ate, like, a few brownies. I'm the type of guy who'll go to a party and I'll eat a lot of your brownies.
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Be, you know, conscientious towards the chef.
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Yeah, you made all these brownies. I'm going to let them sit here.
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You're the guy that walks in, like, the third time in the room and goes, brownies.
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That's exactly right.
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Well, I gotta eat them. Even though it's your. It's your.
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You put them into a fake shopping cart.
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Yeah, I make a big show out of it. And. Yeah, I'll eat. I'll eat a few. So I ate a few brownies, and it was by a pool, and I was sitting by the pool, and I was like, I feel a little bit weird. And then people were like, you guys want to get in the pool? And I was like, yeah, I would love to get in the pool. And then my arms and legs would not move. And I was like, I guess I'm here for a while. So that's kind of. I rarely get the place where you're like, I'm just a little bit happier than I was.
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I don't think eating a couple brownies was taking it. Eat. Like, that's like. If I ate a couple brownies, I would also be comatose, I guess.
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I mean, I'm not good at. I feel like you seem like someone who's really. You're a connoisseur.
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No, no. Dan is. I just. Whatever he gets. I go, nice. And then I take a hit or two of it, and then I go, I'm good for three hours.
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I got you. Yeah. See, I just don't know what. I don't know what I'm doing. Maybe. Maybe I need like a. A weed sommelier to probably to show me how to.
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Pablo could help.
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I'll be your Sherpa.
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He brought a bunch of weed to my house with athlete names on it.
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Athlete names.
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Oh, you didn't watch the episode, Michael.
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You would have. Well, I did. Gary Peyotian.
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I mean, that's the pun. It could have been. It wasn't that pun, but yeah, that's close.
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So far, you're one for one.
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Just Gary Payton. The glove called Gary Payton. It's not.
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Is that a pun?
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Peyote in was a pun.
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No, but I thought. Okay, but there wasn't one.
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No.
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Good.
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But what about. What?
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The amount of times I come here and I forget to put my engagement ring back on is too many.
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Me thinks the fiance doth protest too much.
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Yeah. I don't. I don't wear my wedding ring, and it's called a Redding Wing, and I don't wear it very much.
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Why?
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Because I have what is called.
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Because it's easier to cheat.
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Infidelity.
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Eczema.
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Oh.
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And so I get a cool little ring of eczema right around my. Right around my hand. And it's not fun to have that.
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Sure, sure.
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As long as I. If I don't sweat at all, it's fine. But if I do sweat, then it starts to accumulate under the ring.
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Yeah.
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And this is also. This is like. How do you track metrics for this podcast? That's the kind of thing that makes going great.
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Yeah. Numbers are going through the roof.
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Yeah. So I give myself a shot.
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Let's describe your finger eczema.
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More.
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No, no.
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I want to get to what Michael brought us.
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Okay.
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Is it food?
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No. And I. And I was told to bring it.
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What? You didn't tell me to bring anything.
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Yeah, I. I assume you're welcome.
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Thanks.
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I honestly, I assumed you'd be bringing like, some kind of obscure instrument. Also, I brought the funk. I thought you'd bring like a wood block or something.
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See, I brought the funk.
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You did. That's true. But people don't even know that we don't soup down.
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Sorry, sorry. We deleted that. Okay. Sorry. It might be free. I don't. It's fair use.
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That's an old we'll fair use sound alike for the fun.
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It's not gonna be the sound we can do. The three of us can do an.
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Acapella on whatever this is.
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Well, yeah, it's not Acapella. If we use this. Can. Can you use. Is the problem. You can't even license. Like, you can't sing the song, right?
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No.
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Yeah. You can't do anything.
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Well, is level 42 litigious? I don't even remember them as a band.
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Well, they're going to be litigious now that you said that. That was nice.
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They're coming for her.
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Is level 42 really going to sue us?
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Right.
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I dare you, level 42.
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What are you going to do? Fire me? And then they very much did.
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Bill Simmons said that. And then next week, level 42 sued him.
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Yeah.
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I'm sorry, by the way, to Katie Nolan, for getting you sucked into a larger Internet happening in which you were asked questions like, which side are you on?
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I've sucked it up and handled it, so I need Simmons to do the same. It's. It's weird. Pablo's investigating it. He's doing a fantastic job. So I'm Team Pablo, and I assume you are as well. Oh, yeah. But I picked you. It wasn't like it. There was no hesitation.
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I noticed.
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It was. He didn't even listen to the episode. I. Let's do it back. And I was like, bro, come on. Pablo got into a media fight with another. With another member of the. His name is Bill Simmons, I believe we just talked about him. He. Bill Simmons took issue with reporting, and then we don't even cut it out. But Pablo went to LA for his. Did you win the. Oh, no, he went for the. What's it called? The Peabody's.
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Peabody's. And What a Boston way to pronounce that.
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Yeah, that is. Sorry, how The Peabody. Sorry, It's Peabody, Massachusetts. And he was out there in la, so he did Simmons's podcast, like, refuting Simmons, saying that it was like, whatever, reporting or whatever. And basically during the episode, he was like, have you listened to any of the episodes that the aggregated clips are coming from that you're referring to? And Simmons was like, well, what I'd like to talk about instead.
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It was a skillful move by Bill. No, it was not immediately.
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You could see right through it. It was like, so. No, then Bill, I didn't realize.
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The Peabody's. The Peabody. It had nominations. I thought you just won.
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Oh, no, there are nominations now. Oh, I know. Because I.
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You have one.
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Didn't win it. I do. I have one.
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We noticed in your house, brother.
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Yeah.
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Dan was like, you know, he's a somebody.
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And I did the thing that Connor McDavid did that everyone Got mad at him for I touched it.
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Oh.
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Oh.
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That might have jinxed it that he touched the cup.
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You should neither touch nor hoist the conference trophies.
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We.
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When those series have been won, because the players, according to this footnoted Wikipedia page, feel that the Stanley cup is a true championship trophy and only it should be hoisted.
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Yeah, it's. We're kind of pretentious hockey fans that way, but it's. It is what it is. It's a known thing.
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I'm just trying to guess further and further away from the fact that Michael has the thing that I. Eczema on his hands.
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Y. Yeah, I. By the way, I don't have it right now. Don't give it to the cup right now. I don't have it.
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Where is it?
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The eczema?
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Where are you keeping it?
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I don't have the eczema anywhere, you guys. I take a shot. I take a shot every two weeks. I'm a pharma. Really.
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Oh, you do? Which one? Wait, let me guess, Let me guess. It's because it's nothing. Is everything. Now is the time to ask your dermatologist about Skyrizi, which is. Oh, yeah.
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Skyriz.
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Skyrizi.
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Oh, it's not that.
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It's not Skyrizy. Damn. That is Skyrizi, though. Have you seen the one?
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Oh, wait.
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We did an episode about this.
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We did do Pixens.
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Yes, I must have. I talk about it all the time.
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I love Dupixix with Dupixon.
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That's right.
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How do you.
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How do you know all of the jingles?
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Because I watch tv.
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The jingles day.
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I watch TV all day. There's a commercial where they have baseball fans in a stadium chanting, farca, Farca, Farca, Farca.
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Ask your doctor about Farsiga.
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Farca.
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Now, there is one from a commercial that I noticed was I with. I must not have been with you guys, but there is a pharmaceutical drug that is supposed to address a bent penis.
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Oh, yeah. For. That's called Peyronis. The disease is called Peyronis.
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Do not stress enough how this was unprepared by everybody.
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I believe it's called Peyronis disease.
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I mean, the level. The level of quickness with you.
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Oh, yeah, it's.
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There's a good one and a bad one.
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Spandura. Yeah, I got that. It is made it up. I don't know.
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Absolutely. Called peyronie.
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Thank you.
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That is the disease when a fibrous scar tissue inside the penis causes curved, painful erections.
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That's got to be such a bummer for Doug Peyroni. You know what I mean?
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Yeah.
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For the doctor to be like, actually, you're gonna be famous on this. And he's like, wait, why?
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What? Please don't.
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Don't do that.
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Name it after anything else.
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Can't you call it just bend Penis disease? No, Doug, we're naming this after you.
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They need to understand how fibrous this scar tissue is.
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Oh, my goodness. Fibrous.
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I'm looking for the. For the. For the. For the pharmaceutical what?
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The what?
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The disease. It's not like, just a splint.
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Zx. I think it's Zex Dam. Otherwise known as collagenase closium ad hist.
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Places to come off the rail.
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What are we doing? What is.
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What are the rails?
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What are the rails?
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Where we're trying to.
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Are we a train?
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Are you saying that you're trying to straighten the rails?
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No, absolutely not.
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Are you saying that there's no fibrous tissue?
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Perhaps if it hurts, you should have it medicated. But I will say, if it doesn't hurt and it curves a certain way, you could just leave it. Okay, that's just advice.
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But just think about how that is advice for me. That's a freebie.
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That's just free. As long as it doesn't hurt, you could just leave it.
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Doug Peyron. Why don't you call in, buddy if.
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It'S going side to side, probably take the.
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Take the Xycaflex. But if it's up, you could leave it.
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My main reaction was like, wow, this must be a common affliction in order for this commercial to be aired during the sporting event.
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They do a lot of centered stuff during sports.
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Yeah. This is like. This is when we're gonna get.
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Remember baseball playoffs used to always be. What's the one that's not Viagra? The one that starts with maybe a C. Cialis.
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Remember when there was Nobody wanted to.
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Make that a big deal? That you knew that right away.
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Took me a second because I almost said Sky Alice. But I knew that wasn't right.
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That would be embarrassing.
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Skyriz. That's when you put them.
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When you take them together, that's when you think is.
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Everything is hard as.
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Hey, you want to get Skyrizy.
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Skyrizzi.
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That's Flirtatious Bird.
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Yeah, we got it. Yeah.
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Creature. So, Mr. Peyroni.
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Yeah.
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Francois Jigot de la Peyroni.
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No.
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Okay.
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A French surgeon.
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Oh, it was the surgeon.
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Oh, wow.
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And this is, I think, a real. A real Problem for the other Peyronis in this. In this lineage, because. Yeah, he's the guy who discovered, as it is described here, induration of the corpora cavernosa of the penis cavernosa.
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Oh, wow.
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You guys want to see a diagram?
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Probably not.
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Yeah.
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But yeah, I do. I do want to see the diagram. I do.
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Wait, where are we? Where are we? What are we looking at?
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We're looking at the constituent cavernous cylinders of the Venus.
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I'm sorry, what's the. Where are we looking at? Is that the mushroom at the top?
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The glands. This is like an old illustration.
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I don't know what that is, and I don't.
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Like, my dad is a urologist. This is totally, exactly what he would want me doing.
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Totally, exactly.
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Wikipedia medical illustrations.
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Red Sox traded Raffy Devers.
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How is it. How is that? Miserable. That must have been a real kick to the dorsal veins.
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It's miserable.
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Let me close out some windows and open that one up.
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Close up some of my penis tabs.
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It has made me so miserable. And yet I brought it up because I don't want to talk about curved dick anymore. On this podcast, looking for a way out. She brought up her own deepest pain. And that is.
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Sounds like there should be a pharmaceutical product for what you're dealing with.
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I know. I think there's a lot of them.
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I think they have. Yeah, there are a lot of.
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Take them all at once.
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Well, let's not do that.
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What if that feels a little severe?
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What if instead, we unzipped something else? Michael, I believe, has been spending his days when he's not around us, doing something that we should enjoy.
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Okay.
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Now that he's here with us.
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Okay. So a friend of mine of a comedian had an omnic cord in her office. Supposed to know what that is, so. And I started playing it, and I thought, oh, this is so fun. And then I bought one.
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How much? Price point.
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It's like 750.
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Okay.
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It's kind of. I love this.
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Hello. A thousand.
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And I got it, like, a week ago.
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Okay.
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And I also. I think since the last time I saw you guys, I broke my elbow. Do you know that?
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No. You seem like you're.
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I don't even know which one.
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Yeah, my left. My left elbow. So I've got some limited motions instead of like.
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How did you break it?
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I was playing B ball with the youths. And I'll tell you guys, I was saucing these kids.
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I bet.
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So I've watched. I've been grinding some Michael Cruz Kane game tape.
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Yeah.
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What I love about Michael Cruz Kane playing basketball is that he wears sweatpants.
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Okay?
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I do sometimes I do sometimes. I'm not afraid to do that. Well, it's just whatever's clean, okay? It doesn't have to be that clean. Whatever's around basketball pants.
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Yeah, common.
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But he's got, he's got a J. I was absolutely.
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Wait, what are you even talking about? Where have you seen me play basketball?
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The same place on Instagram that I saw you play an omnichord.
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I was so your window. Let me tell you this, let me tell you this story because it's worth it for this podcast, okay? I was saucing these kids up, absolutely ruining some 20 skyrising them. I'm feeling so good. So you know what? I do something I haven't done in 10 years. I sprint from one end of the court to the other end of the court and I'm calling to the ball. I'm saying, I'm telling the guy. Me, I'm going, I'm like, send it.
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I'm driving to the hoop.
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I see that. I'm tracking the ball with my eyes. I go to catch it. I'm fully extended.
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Oh, no.
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A much bigger, stronger, faster, younger man is doing the same thing I'm doing.
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Not a good idea.
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I leap off the ground. Must have been 1, maybe 0.5 inches off the ground. Get absolutely mauled by this younger man. My legs go over my head and I catch myself with my arm extended fracturing the radial head of my elbow. I'm kind of rolling around the ground for a little while. Everyone's like, are you okay? And you know, you don't really know how injured you are. Right away I was like, I think I'm fine. So I play one more play.
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No.
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We're down by two, Katie.
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Damn Clay Thompson situation.
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Your boy gets the ball on the wing.
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Wet.
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Game's over. And I go, you guys, I think I gotta go.
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I think my radial head is.
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And then I left. I, I, I think, honestly, I think I, I think I've changed those kids lives.
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Yeah.
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Anyway, I've been spending a lot of time not playing basketball, trying to learn how to play the Omni.
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Great.
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My God.
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So this, that's, this is it. It's right here.
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So you said, you said. Okay, computer.
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Nice, nice, nice. I don't, I don't.
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You called the karma police.
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That's good. These are the, that's radio radial head.
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Oh, the radial head of your elbow. I got you there.
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Give me a second. I knew that it was radio head.
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Of course.
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I didn't get radial head right.
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But you guys sound so different.
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Why it took so long. We thought we just left you high and dry.
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Whoa.
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I don't even know. I don't know what that is. That I know. Of course, man. Well, anywho, I'm feeling like a real creep and that's too much. Is it too easy?
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No, that's good stuff.
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Those are all the ones that I know.
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Best stuff. TV talk show host on mute. Talk show on mute.
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Are you stroking out?
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Yeah, yeah.
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Oh, and of course, talk show on mute.
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That's a radio. We're doing Radiohead songs.
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Is that a radio song?
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I think so, but I can't remember the order of the words.
C
Alexa, tell me if talk show on mute.
B
Talk shows on mute is incubus.
A
Oh, wait, then what's the one I'm thinking of?
B
TV on the radio?
C
No, that's a band video. Killed the radio star.
A
Sorry, can you do this?
C
No. What do we do?
B
Hold on.
A
We gotta describe for an audio audience.
B
As a visual thing. Okay, so, Katie, can you describe actually what this is?
C
She's. She's Googling Radiohead songs.
A
Talk show host. Talk show host. Talk show host. That was the song I was trying to think of.
C
You said like you were trying. You said it like you were trying to make Jay Leno appear thing.
A
I don't think that's who shows up. I don't think that's the one.
B
Candyman Rules.
A
Omnicord by Suzuki.
C
Yeah.
A
It's a motorcycle, by the way.
B
I didn't know this, but the motorcycle company also makes all that other stuff.
A
Yeah.
C
Yes. It's truly, truly wild.
A
What a company.
C
Yamaha, I think, is also the same. Doesn't Yamaha make motorcycles and pianos?
A
Yes, yes. And like water skis. Water jet skis.
C
Water jet skis. Ski waters, maybe. Well, I just think like that.
A
Shaped like a bean. It's a little bean. Like. Yeah, it's almost like the outline of a whistle. One side. On the right side, the smaller the tapered end, we have what appears to be a speaker.
C
Yeah, that's right.
A
I don't know what this ribbed.
C
That's called a strum plate.
A
Okay. There's a strum plate and then we have a couple. Well, that says that's the strum plate.
C
No, these are the controls for the strumplet.
A
You know, what can I tell you? I'd say strumplet is what I would have said. Strumplet.
B
There are like a zillion Buttons, rhythm.
A
Chord, keyboard, strumplet, voice pattern. And then we have major, minor, the seventh, and all the different chords across the top.
C
Sure do.
A
Okay, so this is a push button. This is like a keyboard, but different.
C
It's like a keyboard. I mean, honestly, you know, now. Now you know as much about it as I do. Pretty much.
A
So.
B
So. So this also has an aesthetic of like. What year do you think this was made?
A
72.
C
I. I think it definitely has the look of that and I think it is modeled after some. Some version of itself. Yeah, that was released around that time. But I think this is a relatively new instrument.
A
You paid for it? Better be, at least.
C
Yeah. So.
B
So you bought this on the Internet?
C
I used the Internet to buy it. I said omnicord buy and I went to shopping and then I bought it, and here it is.
B
Wow.
A
Okay. And this is the 108 model. Oh, 108.
C
Yeah. So my daughter and my wife went to El Paso to see Coldplay with my brother and his girlfriend.
A
Okay.
B
And you were not invited?
C
I was neither there nor was I invited.
A
Okay.
C
So I was at home and I taught myself to play the beginning of one Coldplay song on here.
A
Oh, I think I watched you doing this on the Internet and I couldn't watch it, so I changed. I think I scrolled past.
C
Couldn't watch it because it's like so cringe.
A
Yeah, no, it's like earnest. No, it's because it was so good and I was like, not ready for this. I think I definitely.
B
That's what happened.
A
Had a little bit of drugs and was like, I don't think he needs to look in my eyes and sing. I don't think I need to have him look me in the eye and sing personally.
C
So. And then I guess Pablo saw this video, which I think having. Having looked at, I think maybe a hundred people have seen.
A
Nice.
C
It's been shadow banned by Instagram. Rightfully.
A
People can't see this kind of stuff. Too hot for tv.
B
I made immediate direct eye contact with it.
A
Yeah, sick.
B
But I.
A
And then you want him to do.
C
It live, and then for some reason you had me bring it here.
A
You did.
C
But what I. What I wasn't sure about.
B
Just in my defense. Okay, you're saying if, I don't know, some other trio of friends you hung out with, one of them bought a musical instrument and displayed a proficiency with it, you wouldn't have follow ups?
C
No, I sure would. I would, I would.
B
I don't know if Katie bought a theremin. I'd be like, no, I didn't bring that in.
C
That's what I thought would happen. What I thought would make sense to me is you were like, michael, you bring your omnicord. Katie's going to bring her theremin. I've got, you know, a glass kazoo.
B
A pan flute.
C
A pan flute. And I will play it like Zomfir, the master of the pan flute. And together, we'll play together.
A
I'm not even gonna zoogle. Zoogle.
C
Look that up. On Zoogle.
B
We just replay Katie dismissively saying, zoogle that. How are you even gonna zoogle. Zoogle that?
C
Zoogle it.
A
Zamfir.
B
How are you spelling it, George? Zamfir.
A
Oh, it's exactly how you would have spelled it.
B
My God.
A
Wow.
B
I didn't. Flute, I guess.
A
Hello, darkness, mild friend.
B
Zamfir, man. Jesus. Romanian and alive. 84 years young.
A
Capital of Romania.
B
And he's known as. Yeah, he's from Gayesti.
A
That is it.
C
But.
B
Okay.
C
Sorry.
A
Play your thing. Let's go.
B
The master of the pan flute is Zamfir, the master of the omnicord.
C
Well, it's not. I'm not even good at it.
B
I'm not.
C
I've had it for a week. I've had it for a week. I'm better at the piano than I am at this. And I suck at the piano.
A
Yeah.
C
Am I bad on the piano?
B
Did you ever take piano lessons?
A
No. But I had a boyfriend who was super into Billy Joel.
C
Sure.
A
Once taught me.
C
Italian restaurant.
A
It might have been Good Night Saigon. I think it was. It was a doodle. Doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo.
C
I think that is season retaliation.
B
Yes.
A
That's it. Into the. Yeah. I used to be able to do that. I could not do that.
C
Now that feels like a relatively complicated.
A
It was incredibly complicated.
B
This guy sounds like he rules so far and bad.
C
Boyfriend Billy Joel.
A
Yeah. Yes. He was a big Billy Joel fan and his name was Billy Joel.
C
No relation.
A
None. Try as he might, he's really. He's really Qanon. Now, that ex of mine, I recently saw him reposting News Max. And I was like, jesus.
C
Oh, boy. What's his name? We can. We can Zoogle it. Look him up on Zoogle.
B
My Internet search history is whacked out. Is. I'm on a. I'm on a terror alert list of some kind now.
A
So, no, I never took any piano lessons. I played clarinet. Really? Middle school.
B
What was your. What was your go to song?
A
Oh, I don't know. Whatever we were playing that week. But I was second clarinet.
C
I was like, that's pretty good.
A
Yeah, it was decent.
C
How many clarinets were there?
A
I don't know. Five.
C
Two.
A
Four, maybe two. I got to sit in the second clarinet seat. I had solos.
B
Did you. You didn't think of going pro with it?
C
No.
A
I don't even. I couldn't even tell you why I chose clarinet. I don't remember at all. I just. I loved it, you know?
C
It's a beautiful instrument.
A
Like a girly oboe.
C
Yeah.
B
A shiobo.
A
Yeah.
B
I took piano lessons.
A
Nice.
B
I can play one song.
A
Chopsticks.
B
No. I can play well, yes. Two songs. Chopsticks and Fur Elise.
A
Nice.
B
By an artist you may have heard of before.
C
Sting.
A
Not the Police. It's actually the Police.
B
Yeah.
C
Or at least it's. Who? It's Mozart.
B
It's. I think it's Beethoven.
A
I think Beethoven. We go into Ibiza.
C
From the beat hoven.
A
Crazy. I had a. Yeah, I had a little Yamaha. A little white Yamaha keyboard. I wanted to play piano. And I remember once I saw it when I saw Home Alone, somewhere in my memory. Remember that song?
C
Nope. Oh, yes.
A
I went upstairs and taught myself that on my little. But it wasn't knowing piano. It wasn't, like, making it sound good. It was going.
C
But even that. But that's pretty sophisticated, to be able to hear. Hear it and be like, I can play that.
A
I don't think it is.
C
A lot of people can't do that. A lot of people can't hear a song and go, I can match it to this.
B
Is that perfect pitch?
C
Yeah. Are we finding out right now that you're a musical savant?
B
Are you Beethoven?
A
Yes. So that's my Stevie Wonder of my music. And then I tried to play guitar when I was in college, and my hands are too small.
B
What were you trying to play? Billy Joel.
A
No, John Mayer. That was when I was in my John Mayer phase. And so my. The song I could play again, to start, way too difficult than, like, easy chords. There's a John Mayer song called Comfortable, and the beginning of it is, like, this very beautiful, complicated. And I could play that. I couldn't now, but I could then.
C
So I feel like we're learning. You're secretly really good at instruments.
A
Yeah, I don't think that I am.
B
She can accurately describe them.
A
And then I stop them. Now, tell me how this works. I don't understand it.
C
Okay, well, I don't understand it either, so we're gonna find out.
B
Here, let's do this thing where we point your microphone. Katie. At it.
A
Okay.
B
And we'll point this microphone at us.
C
This. People who actually know how to use this instrument are going to be sad about this.
A
Okay, come see.
B
Oh, there it is.
C
Okay. And then. Well, I mean, I'm just going to play it. So, like, cool. It does, like.
B
I feel like we're your backup band.
A
Oh.
B
I love this instrument already.
C
But check it out.
B
What.
C
I mean, is it just fun? And the thing is that a dog could play it.
A
Nothing change, nothing.
B
This is like if Chris Martin was in Zelda.
A
How do I make it funk?
C
That was basically the chords of Fix you. Thank you so much. How did he get funk? That comes. That happens.
B
He's twisting knobs. Ooh, yeah, the dance remix.
C
And then if you want other rhythm in the background. This is the same rhythm. It didn't change. Oh, that's rock, too. This is just an ad for the Omnichord. But you need the chords to be.
A
Playing, so I think, oh, bossa nova.
B
Bouillabas, activate bouillabass mode.
C
And that, my friends, is everything I know about the Omnicord. Now you know everything I know. There are other things you can do on it. See, this button says keyboard here.
B
Yeah.
C
What does that do? Great. Great. That's a great question to ask. I haven't had long enough to know.
A
They're yelling at me that I need to take my mic back.
C
Okay, you have it.
A
That was cool. I don't feel like doing any better. This is. I like this.
B
Can we do that more?
A
And what's the little one for?
C
Oh, the little one. The little. Watch the little one. Okay, wait, little one. It's like, whatever's happening, the little one goes stop. Oh, little makes it all stop.
A
Okay.
C
And you know that. That this instrument was designed by someone who had a child because then at some point, they had to put a button on it to be like, it makes it.
A
It makes it just brilliant.
B
What are your. Oh. So have you unveiled this to your kids?
A
Well, they all saw the Instagram.
C
I would say that my children approached it with apprehension, but have taken kind of. They've taken an interest in it because it is a thing where, like, you go to a song that you like and you see the chords and you're like. And now I can play every song.
A
Now I just push the button. Yeah, you don't have to figure out how to make your fingers do that. You just go, boop.
C
It's a really great intro to playing music.
A
Yeah.
B
There's A whole subreddit r omnicord. Cool.
A
Okay. They post you in it?
C
I hope not.
A
They go, check out this guy because.
C
It'S gonna be people. It's gonna be people in cool bands.
A
Do cool bands use these?
C
I don't know. Maybe.
A
Who uses these?
C
I think the Gorillaz is gorillas. That's a band, right? Oh, yeah, I think. I think to do that. I think they have a song. I don't. I couldn't name a song the Gorillaz does.
A
Yes, you could.
C
I could.
A
Yeah. Feel good, Ink.
C
How's that? Good?
A
Feel good?
C
I don't think I do. Oh, maybe I did when you went down. I knew it.
A
Thank you.
C
But I think they have a song that they made on the Omnichord.
A
Cut that out. By the way, show me somebody wailing.
B
Out on the gorillas. Clint Eastwood is an omnicord.
A
Oh, Clint Eastwood. I ain't happy I'm feeling glad I got sunshine.
C
Oh, I know that song.
A
That's them.
C
Oh, yeah. You can make that. You can make. You can make that. Do that.
B
You have that.
C
I don't. I don't know what chords they are.
B
Okay, well, I'll show you the screenshot.
A
Oh, my God. This is crazy. That looks different than yours.
C
Yeah, this is like an old one. He's got.
B
He's got four lit up buttons.
C
Yeah, that's. That's probably the OG Omnicord.
B
It's.
C
But if you put it on auto mode, it will go through chord progressions on its own.
A
And so this is the podcast.
C
Just you wait until we reveal our Jordan Hudson's here. Mystery guest.
A
She's here, man.
C
I.
B
Okay, so I'm going to buy an omnicord.
A
Oh, my God. Really? Are we all going to buy them? Then we'll have an Omnicord.
B
Yeah. Guys, we're starting a band.
A
Three Omnichord bands where nobody plays anything different. We all play the same instrument. It's crazy.
B
Press the button together. Oh, man. This is rules. Okay. I would like to have Michael, though, perform the song using his voice.
C
Wait, why?
A
You're gonna make him sing for us?
C
Was mid. Yawn.
A
Wait, really? You're gonna make him do the thing live? I couldn't even stomach on my. On my phone.
B
Yes.
A
I have to look at him while he sings. Can I turn my back? It's no offense.
B
I just like the voice.
A
Really? Yes. And I'll spin around if I like it.
B
We can do the voice style.
A
I really don't like looking at people directly while they sing. It makes Me so uncomfortable. I'm sorry about it.
C
Don't you need to clear? Don't you need to clear? Can I even sing the song on here?
A
That's a really good point. I'm turning my chair just in case he's making a really.
B
No, no, no, no. We are going to.
C
I don't want to be sued by Chris Martin for a bit singing this song and also be singing it badly.
B
Well, what if we're journalistically analyzing it such that we are gonna fair use. We're gonna fair use your rendition of this song.
A
So is it fix you?
C
Huh?
A
I think I know somebody who was one of the producers on that album, so maybe we could call him.
C
Maybe they'll hire me or they got.
B
A new that make them more or less likely to live.
C
Hey, you know that sound you've been looking for? Well, this is not it.
B
I would like for you to play it, and then we can figure out if this is a thing we can air or not.
A
But why?
B
Because.
A
Because.
B
Because. Because as Katie Nolan has turned her.
A
Chair around, this is the voice I.
B
Need to journalistically establish that we're going to discuss this, its contents, it's lyrical value, it's musical execution through the lens, of course, of how I intend this, which is as a dedication to Bill Belichick and Jordan Hudson.
A
We try your best, but you don't succeed.
C
Oh, you got. You sing it. You sing. I don't even know, though. Honest to God, I don't know all the words.
A
Look them up, but don't look at me. You know?
B
Do you want me to.
A
When you get what you want.
B
The lyrics on my computer in front of you.
C
Like, I can't believe it's happening.
B
A physical karaoke machine, people. My Filipino destiny sucks.
C
People, listen to this podcast that is.
B
Gonna be more than actually.
A
Oh, my God. This is a moment for you.
C
This for you. This is your. This is your way of going. We got too many people listening to this.
B
Yeah. We were like, what if you jet skied over the shark?
A
Let's call the herd. Let's. Let's have singing happen. Too many people here. Let's clear the room out. Michael, this is true.
C
It is. It really is that. It's like. It's the me bringing my guitar to a party of this.
B
Except in this case, the host of the party will not let you leave until he gets his dose.
A
And girls are turning their backs. It's actually doing the opposite. I like. I feel like the rats that are being driven out of the city.
C
Listen, do you really want me to do this?
A
I think it has to happen.
B
I could not. Do you want me to open this snack pack? That's the backup plan.
A
I can give you backup plans.
B
We got a snack up. Backup up. That's all I got. So, again, this has.
C
This has a lot of, like, long term humiliation potential.
A
Yes, it does.
B
But this is not. It's not about you. It's about the music. Bill and Jordan, now that I'm not understanding. For whom I think the connection. Because I believe. Because journalistically speaking, I believe that this is a song that we can discuss in the context of journalism that allows us to use it for fair use.
A
Okay.
B
And this.
A
I still don't think that's.
B
The contents of this, I think are. I would say this is.
A
But he tried his best and he did succeed.
C
Or.
B
Well, maybe we should let the song decide.
A
You're right. You're so right. Are we doing it or not? Because I'm gonna throw.
C
Is this really.
B
Katie. He's gonna look that way. I'm gonna look directly at Michael.
C
I'm. I am vibrating with anxiety.
A
Sure.
C
Just thinking about all the ways that people will be able to make fun of me forever for doing. I mean, I already posted a video of myself doing this on Instagram, which was cr. Which was kind of a cringe thing to do from the outset.
B
No, that wasn't Grinch.
A
It was bold and brave, just not for me. It just wasn't for me.
C
I. This is gonna be the last time we see each other, probably. This is it.
A
I've had so much fun.
C
This is it.
B
We've had a good run. This is it for us as a show.
A
Five, six, seven, eight. Oh, my God.
C
I don't. Wait, why are there more microphones? Okay, let's just. We really got to do it fast.
A
Yeah, let's just do it really fast.
B
Do it at the pace that the artist intended.
A
What the hell is this show?
C
It's also not. It's not a good key for me. I should probably learn how to play in a different key. It's too high.
A
Also, I haven't warmed up my voice. I haven't had any tea today.
C
When you. When. Okay, let's just start over. When you. When you try. Okay. Me. All right. When you try your best and you don't succeed? You get what you want but not what you need.
A
Oh, that was a nice little run. I'm not turning around yet.
C
When you feel so tired but you can. Can't sleep.
B
Yeah.
C
Stuck in a river. Beautiful.
A
You can sing.
B
This has been Pablo Torre Finds Out a Meadowlark Media Production and I'll talk to you next time.
A
Sam.
Date: June 19, 2025
Host: Pablo Torre
In this lighthearted, off-the-cuff episode of "Pablo Torre Finds Out," Pablo is joined by friends Michael Cruz Kayne and Katie Nolan for a session that absolutely lives up to the “F*ck Around & Tell” title. Breaking away from investigative deep dives and reporting, the trio dedicates the episode to pure hangout vibes—sharing random thoughts, swapping stories, riffing on everything from snack packs to the etymology of Peyronie’s disease, and delighting in an impromptu musical interlude with a rare electronic instrument. Playful, absurd, and extremely quotable, this episode gives listeners an intimate look into the group’s chemistry and comic timing.
This episode is pure hangout chaos: snack packs, medical trivia, old songs, injuries, and a musical instrument nobody quite understands—all laced with the kind of sharp, affectionate roasting that only good friends dare attempt. Perfect for listeners who love sports, pop culture, or just want to eavesdrop on three smart and very funny people goofing off.