IAT s08e32

Sat, 8/20 2:08PM • 40:03

SUMMARY KEYWORDS

people, patron, summer, colors, korean food, gray, kidding, tick tock, wrote, song, kimchi, rich, crackle, week, instagram, talking, thought, big, pictures, good

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Hey everyone, I'm Molly wood. And I'm Tom Merritt. Welcome to it's the thing that weekly podcast supported by you where every day our extended family of passionate things spotters provide our listeners with genuinely friendly expert service and quality craftsmanship. They are the heart and soul of everything we do. Thanks for joining us. I've realized that now that rich writes us an intro based on a company's mission statement, I have become an expert in how good a company's mission statement is by whether it applies to our show. And that one did I was like, pretty good. Like, really genuinely did now I will say however, it is also so generic that it could literally be the mission statement of almost any company through that involves Yeah, customers or making anything so I on central tivity not on specificity not on specificity. Exactly. And that is an IP if I gave you 100 Guesses I still think that most of you would not know that this is the about page for the Bass Pro Shop. Yes. Some of you may, however, have nailed it because your Bass Pro Shop, because you're just that big of a fan one way or another the Bass Pro Shop. Well, welcome to the things, folks. But if you're wearing color you're left out because gray. According to Hue data is the most common color in the automotive industry in branding logos, and the second most popular in fashion shows after Black. Wow, we are living in the era of gray, you may have seen sub thing, the meme going around of like the world has gotten less colorful.

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I did see that the world has not gotten less colorful data is not a peer reviewed study is a small sample size.

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In fact, this Fast Company article that I found talks about the fact that there are actually brighter colors and more colors available now. But Gray has risen in popularity according to this article partly because risk averse companies narrow the color palette on the assembly line. Because you know what doesn't offend anyone a gray

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there nobody goes like oh green nuts. I don't like green no blue. Gray always sells and and we are so obsessed with resale, that risk averse consumers are like Oh, gray, that's a safe choice. I won't offend anyone. I'll be able to resell that car that house that whatever. That is so fascinating. And this article is so interesting, because it's like yeah, an 1800s most objects were made of wood. Everything was brown. Then came plastic and I suppose is when we got the green you know cabinets and things and fridges today, aluminum is king. So presumably some of this is springing from the kind of like stainless steel extravaganza because it's cheap to not make something a color. Right? It's pigment LIS Yeah.

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Oh, my goodness, that is so fascinating. There are 200 separate shades of gray just from Benjamin Moore. Yeah, so we have way more colors than ever before. And yet, most often, when choosing gradeup Gray, I mean, I do like I'm not gonna lie, I get it. There's a metaphor. They're Spoiled by choice. You just abandon all choice. You just literally go gray. I've actually been very into this family of colors that and I'm embarrassed to say this and yet here I go. are referred to as grage. Oh, like a slightly brown or gray. A grayish I'm into it. I'm here for it. Let's go. It's a great era

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distracting you from that? This Fast Company article introduced me for the first time to the purple craze of the late 1880s When the first synthetic dye that could stick to fabric fueled everybody wants to buy purple because up till then you had to be royalty to afford it. Oh, that is fantastic. There's a lot of good stuff in here. Yeah, a lot of good stuff in here. You know what we should we should give a little credit to Ellis avetta em Brandon who wrote that Fast Company article. Good job. We really shouldn't because it's a really good piece and I love how it's just so interesting and has so many interesting things in there about various colors like the 200 Shades of Grey. Digital Pantone has 15,000 colors 13,015 Bow wrap your head around that people can't It's too big. And everyone's like I just like gray. I'm just sending that grayish, you know if I'm feeling adventurous. Yeah.

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At least one person on this podcast is going to have a jaw drop moment.

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That Hey, you know, it's kind of a thing right now. Is Korean food. No, no.

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Oh.

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The good news is you are so far ahead of the game here. No, actually, this is good. And I've kind of seen it coming as things got easier to get. I think that's partly what happens. But I remember years ago, and I'm actually looking this up. I remember years ago, reading an article that was basically like, no one likes Korean food. It's just the food that is like, among the most hated. Wow into it. Yeah, because of kimchi. I guess so and

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acquired taste. I understand that some people like fermented cabbage doesn't maybe. Yeah, and maybe they you know, they didn't like the like,

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the goat or something. I'm not really sure. I mean, it's got a I guess the flavor profile is on the sour side.

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And so maybe previously, but I personally, I think it has that like kimchi has that amazing savoriness underneath. Yeah, that's delicious. It was so good. I shout out to Eric Kim, who wrote this Yahoo. story about the rise of Korean foods. Starting the paragraph with de Bock and giving you a pronunciation guide de Buck is kind of means awesome. But it's like a slang word in Korean that you just mean to say something's great. And then going right into the dungeon jig, a stew as a recommendation because it's one of my favorites. And then I think it's not widely available. It's really not but I think that might be the first so what happened is that I have been and I would just like to point out that this article was written that front and the independent and republished by Yahoo. August 15.

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It because what I have noticed is that BuzzFeed tasty, had a little video recipe for that stew. I have been seeing a ton of different variations on the seaweed, breakfast thing. Seaweed, seaweed, rice, eggs and seaweed. It's just like literally like some dried seaweed and eggs and white rice, which yum.

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And then the New York Times and then so I'd been seeing that a lot. And I was like okay, Buzzfeed tasty is really into Korean food right now. I get it. And then the New York Times had went to the New York Times cooking Instagram. And I was like, I I think that Korean food might be like the next frontier. I somehow take care, right? And then this frigging article showed up five days ago.

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And I was like, You gotta be kidding me. And it even refers I think, oh, yeah, steamed white rice and fried eggs with the toasted drop of sesame oil. Yeah. And then a little bit of seaweed. I mean, this is going to sound like I'm being like that. But we did this last year, I think. And the reason I bring it up not so much to point out that we did it last year. So I guess I shouldn't have mentioned when, but it's so easy. Again, it's really good. Like, no wonder it catches on. Totally. And it just is and I think it is i i like have a million theories about why this is and it's probably because like every other food has been done. And Korean food has been sort of like off to the side it was like if you're really adventurous, maybe you'll like it. But also I do wonder if it's related to the millennials in being more into this our flavor profiles, there's a confluence because it's all of those things plus Tiktok right where like a simple recipe really catches on people are like oh, that looks good. And all I have to do is those four steps put in the rice put in the seaweed put in those sesame oil put on the egg done. Looks great.

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Also just haul you in general, the Korean Wave propelled by squid game and parasite etc. Yeah, I was just kidding. You're into BTS. You're like, I want to eat like that. Yeah, I mean, I think there is just this sort of like

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a greater aware I was about to say normalization, but that's not right. But it's a sort of a great it's a greater creeping of Korean influence into American culture. And everybody's like, okay, I guess food is also a part of that. What's this do that has the American cheese on top? That's the first one I saw. Oh,

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God, gosh, it's the military suit. Yeah, exactly. The military suit where it was like during the Korean War, people would just make whatever and it would be like some kimchi and some of this and some veggies and like, then there'll be like a hot dog and like some American cheese. What did you get? What did you get? Exactly? And I was like, I want to make that.

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Oh, yeah, it's an it's fun to bake. Because you just find yourself like just throwing stuff in. I mean, what a delight. So I'm thrilled by it. And I'm super excited to start making all these foods because I love Korean food. But also it's just sort of like a Rando like, yeah, that's the thing.

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Listen, man, don't be mad. You're ahead of the game. It's great news. I've I am pleased in the end. Because Korean food is really good and twinge on GK is really good and you should eat it and it's not

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There are some like any cuisine, there are those areas where it's like, oh, they use tripe. Oh, they you know they do this or Yeah, right. Like that's not just Korean food, that's any, any any area. And so, you know, they're their corners For the more adventurous eaters, but but there's plenty of stuff that's like yeah, that's just tofu or fish. You know, it might be different fish might be like Pollock, maybe something you're not entirely familiar with. But, but yeah, the the flavors are unique enough to be interesting, but I don't think that's so far off the modern palette, which includes sushi tacos, and you know, all kinds of stuff that yeah, that that people can't adapt to it. No. And there's there are these kinds of interesting, like, bulgogi is sort of like sweet and spicy. Yeah, and kimchi, like we're saying is both sour but also savory. And then there's just like, great textures like the little

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fish cakes. Oh, yeah. And chewy rice cakes. There's something about the chewiness of that. That's just like my absolute one of my favorites.

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For dinner talk. Balki is just like round rice cakes, and a spicy red sauce and fishcakes and a little bit of kimchi in there. And some people put cheese and you can get it with other things, but it's just so good. And I I first ate it in Seoul.

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And it was it's just street food. You just go to a vendor on the street and like, oh, yeah, give me some taco key and you eat it with a toothpick. That's great. Ah, so good.

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Yeah, it's a it's a thing. And I'm stoked about I'm glad it's a thing.

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Yay, good. You nailed your date. You noted it.

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It's true. Because if you did, it would have been like, that's just your algorithm, bro. Yeah, no, exactly. It makes it's like no, it's really a thing. It's not. It's not my own bias that I'm gonna go to the Greenwood cafe right after this in order. They're dwindling jiggy because it's so good. Exactly. It's not that it's not bad at all. It's not.

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My other thing is of the week, it probably won't stick around for very long. It has the potential to be the like, woman looking at the guy looking at the woman, you know? Sure. But it's the photo of a woman yelling in a man's ear while pointing out. That is usually the alt text that describes it. And it's, it's usually accompanied by something in all caps. So for instance, there's an example from parallax Stella. So basically Titanfall was way ahead of it s time. And if it had launched in 2021, or 2022, it would have done so well, because now you have major FPS games coming out with no campaigns but Titanfall had the best movement in FPS mechanics could people didn't give it a proper chance

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for this one, that was sent along by our very own producer Richard Stroffolino. So basically, Tom tuned out a shuttlecraft so that it could break the warp 10 threshold and that allowed them to be everywhere in the universe at the same time, but traveling that fast cause Tom and Janeway to mutate into giant axolotl, and then they had babies. Oh, my God, or my absolute favorite that I retweeted today from Charlotte Jones voiceless who is the granddaughter of Madeline L'Engle.

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So I'm assuming that she wrote a test her act is not in tiny cube, it's the fifth dimension of cube cube Did you could travel across space in an instant like Amazon's but it's really hard to leave once you get there.

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I actually saw one from Chris, aka Missoula, who works as a in the, you know, setting odds business in Las Vegas. That was, you know, again, it's the woman leaning and shouting in a guy's ear and pointing that was like, so what I do is I bet on every single team at the beginning of the year, and then when it gets close to the end, I bandwagon one of them and then tweet out the receipt to make myself look like I'm a genius. Oh, that's hysterical. That is hysterical. Yeah. It's so funny. And it's funny because we've been actually sort of like talking about it all week.

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Because there's also a dude, lecturing a woman version. And so it has all become such a meme that we actually made three separate This Week in Startups fake album covers.

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One of which is this like, little buff guy like, looks like you know, Jordan, Joe Rogan's number one band, kind of like mansplaining to this poor girl who's cowering in a corner who's a lot taller than him. And then there's this one of obviously this woman screaming this kid's here at the festival and I was like, this is literally our show, just depending on the day, it just we just switch it up.

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But this one is hits so hard somehow and it's just so amazing.

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You know, I didn't I never tried this today. I didn't find the actual Know Your Meme on this. And I feel like that

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Maybe I should, you might have to because is I feel like the person in the, in the picture at like, commented on what she was doing. She's like, Well, what I was actually doing it. Here's what I was actually saying.

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I mean, who cares? Yeah, I'm so sorry. But oh no, no, I was fascinated. I was like, you never get to hear from the people in the beam. So

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are you actually saying Did I actually read an article the other day about the the Erber girls burps girl gave Oh, yeah, yeah, armor girders for that. She was like the, that picture was like meant to be a costume all along. But it didn't matter because the girl explaining name first became popular on the Spanish language internet. The meme emerged and became highly popular in February 2019. That's been kicking around. But it's just hit this week. For some reason. I don't know why. Or I will say the tweets from this week that are on the New Year meme page are hysterical such as Okay, so Reacher's researchers say they approve with some bizarrely timed avalanche, but like no traces of an avalanche is found by rescuers. Right. Plus, how do they explain the really traumatic injuries or the fact that two of them were found barefoot in only their underwear?

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That like from last like, anyway, it's amazing.

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I also was going by the name of bro girl and girl splaining. Girl. splaining. Interesting.

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The original girl actually points out he was my boyfriend at the time. And now he's my axe.

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Which No kidding. Yeah. And she was just singing. I don't know. I'm looking to see what she

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said. I don't know. Anyway, it's funny. The thing is, usually when you get to the explanation, it's like, oh, yeah, I wasn't doing what it looks like I'm doing yeah, like I want to know.

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I always want to know, I'm definitely the person who's like, oh, wow, what really happened? I'm curious. But it's always disappointing. Exactly. So it's just better not to know because it is, however, meet your heroes.

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So, it is possible, I would like to say that we are going to enter a dark time.

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Okay, and that dark time is? What if there are no things? No, what the? That's ridiculous. It evidently is a thing will always be things that we had a thing last summer. Well, I think we have proven that wrong. But go, go. I would argue that also I was like, we had lots of things for you if you were only looking.

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But I do remember that you brought a song to this thing and said this could become the song of the summer. I did. And it did not. And in fact, no song arguably became the song of the summer. And there was a theory on why but carry on. Okay. Yeah. And then I was reading and I had noticed, noted that and then like, yeah, I really thought that that

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the Gangnam Style guys on was going to be designing some but it wasn't and there wasn't really one. And then I was reading my morning brewed newsletter this weekend, I think and it said,

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New York Magazine has declared that also unlike last summer, when the Aperol Spritz, and before that the Espresso Martini, were the drink of the summer that 2022 apparently also does not have a drink of the summer.

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There's no song. There's no drink. I'm not even sure there's a specific fashion thing other than not wearing shirts if you're ladies, but like,

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is it? Is it a thing? Black Hole?

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thing out a thing out

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thing sabbatical? Is this actually the singularity? Right? Where the things collapse into nothingness? When the thing you Liberty occurs? There are no themes. Oh, no.

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What do we do? What hath we rot? Well, we took them all, I have a theory on the on the song of the summer. And it might apply to the other things as well. so hear me out. Help, Help Help. There were too many songs this summer.

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Because no one had made any because everybody held their releases for so long. And then suddenly, everybody came out with a song. Everybody released an album and everybody was like clamoring, like, oh, people are about to be you know, going out and going to clubs and buying records. Let's, let's finally put our thing out there. And so there was too much. And there was just no way for one thing to catch on. Yeah, I could actually see that being the case that makes a lot of sense for the drink. It could be that everybody was just so happy to be able to go to a bar and not drink at all like you

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No, they were watching their back the entire time that they were like, yeah, no, I'm just gonna drink what I like, I'm not gonna follow a trend. Well, nobody had spent the prior six months like mixology it up and trying to, you know, figure out what it was. Well, I also though, this is a slightly darker theory related to all right, I wonder, because like, clearly no one listens to the radio. A lot of people are still remote only. So not commuting. A lot of people are commuting. Don't get me wrong, but a fair number of people are not so there's not this sort of like drive time thing. Yeah, radio is dying streaming just replaced cable. And so you're not hearing like songs and commercials, the way that you used to and the stuff you're getting fed is via your algorithm. You would think tick tock would create the song of the summer in that scenario, right. You could also imagine that it wouldn't, because it's diffusing because everybody's getting a different experience. Yeah, yeah. And everyone's getting a different cocktail recipe. Like honestly, my song of the summer is that stupid thing where it's like D did he did he did he did he did he did like the TIC TOCs I'm gonna hear in my nightmares because it's behind every dog video. And I like to watch because that's all I know. I I have a corollary to that.

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I actually might not even be a corollary I'm not sure I have another thought. Possibly.

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Somebody on block. Isn't gentleman. The one song that I know. I've heard in lots of different situations is Harry Styles as it was.

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You know, that's on. Nope.

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Okay, so that that's, that's a key key point. Although I bet if I played it a little you might recognize it. I might.

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Have you heard that new Harry Styles album?

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Okay, okay. It is like number one on Billboard. It does everywhere. The fact that you haven't heard it means one of two things either it just missed it or there are no songs. I mean, it could be the most popular song in the world and nobody hears it. Literally all I ever listened to is my awesome key changes playlists like I haven't heard writing music which which further goes to your point right of people living in silos. But as it was is not what you would think of as a song of the summer this is this is definitely one of the most popular songs out there right now according to Billboard and it's all over tick tock and everything yeah

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it sounds like the cure

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Exactly.

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But that's the that's never gonna summer and then that's just like a nice like chill. That's our mood is like you know, it's not there's no song of the summer because we're all bummed

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backyard and drink drink whatever the F we want. Right exactly like you know what I'm having a Sauvignon Blanc yeah like I'm not trying to I'm not trying to be fancy open here I just want to add rank in you know why I'm having it because the bottle was open right? But you know what? Shit is hard. The end yeah there there was there have been arguments or been sort of like a half hearted arguments made that maybe it's about damn time by Lizzo

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but doesn't really do it for me it does. The chorus is not separate certainly the closest it's the closest yeah the fact that Beyonce is

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break my soul did not like just become a super bomb is very telling.

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I mean I think you might be right that there's too much and then tick tock is picking for you depending on who you are. It's a it's a confluence of it's all of those things right these things? Yeah, yeah. Fascinating. I like that Harry Sass on those very cute I'm gonna listen and listen to it

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um so yeah, this is our last show because

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it's been a great run everyone but

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eggs yes or no more things no more things stay tuned for our successor show nothing is a thing

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if only there were things yeah might look like this. We lot we kid of course we just because you are out here spotting things for us galore feedback and it's a thing.me is where you can email us your things and you have and I'm so excited because we have a new patron Tony just joined us on Patreon and sent us a nice note said glad to be supporting you guys.

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It was too loud but then I thought Tony deserved it so I know exactly sorry Tony. We blew your eardrums out but it's all in love and said glad to be supporting you guys much love to you both. Thanks for doing what you do. I got my thing glasses on now.

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Very nice. Welcome, Tony. Yes, Manny has a new pet thing. Hey, i a t team. This email has been overdue on my part pets.

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So the most eternal of things, but I have the next evolution I'm sure we can all agree we're treating pets more and more like people. And now that extends to pronouns in the before times you see a cute new cat Dane know if it's a boy or a girl and ask, what's its name, but now I've been seeing it and a whole lot more their pets really just becoming little humans. So know it a whole lot more. They're really

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THD Manny, that's actually really sweet. I kind of like that. It's lovely. It's funny. I remember talking to a woman is better than it. Maybe like the flu was pre pandemic So probably you know, three years ago

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and they called Sawyer a girl and I was like, wow, he's a boy but he doesn't care. He's open about his pronouns and she laughed and you know, but yeah, maybe it's it's time to just be like yeah, there's just a dog I guess unless you're breeding them then that's

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right there are times when it probably matters and times when it really does not Yeah, or Yeah, or if they're not fixed then it's yeah, it because like you do encounter someone out in the world and you're like, oh, he and then they're like she it always feels weird anyway because it's like I mean that's not that's the weird thing really doesn't matter. So you might as well just go with a because it's sex and gender right so the the you know sex of the of the dog is important for health reasons but we really don't know what the gender of the dog is because they can't tell us right

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oh less love it Alan indicate and by the way, Manny also sent me pictures of his super cute cat awesome. So keep the pet pictures coming love that Darren wrote in with an email that actually off the RIP. I'm quoting from rich there because I've never heard that phrase before, but I love it and I'm stealing it. I thought it was spam. And says thank you all three for a fantastic podcast. I wish to offer a thing that I'm seeing on Instagram. I am finding that some of the people I follow have completely removed pictures and only have reels. I am unfollowing them as they no longer give me what I want the fact that Instagram has totally screwed over its original base has been talked about on other podcasts. I'm surprised that people have been so are so sheepy that they're just like okay, I guess I have to do reels. Now. I guess what we're doing is real. So I better reel it up. Well, it's one man show up is a another person's This is how I think my money I guess depends. I was gonna say like, I'm not trying to be out here making money on Instagram. I can't even get them to verify me. But they keep sending me these pop ups that are like, Dude, you can make money on your reels. And I'm like, do I want to make plenty of my rules? I mean, I don't know. Do I

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care? Yeah. So I guess I can sort of they're they're basically bribing people. Darren, that's what's happening. Yeah, yeah, exactly. And Darren, you are well within your rights to unfollow if you don't like that content anymore. And that will send a message to Instagram I guess.

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Allen in the kingdoms united with a new bike thing Hey, Tom Malian rich I can't remember if you mentioned these on the show before but I had a coincidence today that makes me want to thing check. Ready for thing check. Molly. Thank you check. I'm ready. Check ready had a brief excursion into the real world today and was overtaken by not one but two cyclists on really fat tires. Not

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the actual time the ones for sand and snow only I wouldn't know where to find the nearest bit of sand to here and snow seems very unlikely in the midst of the Met office's current Amber's extreme heat warning. Thinking back I think I've seen a couple of these around before I just can't work out why have people decided that if cycling for exercise, they should make the rolling resistance as high as possible for the best workout. Can this really be a thing? Loving the show? As always keep up the great work, Alan.

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So I don't know that much about bikes. I'm not a bike person. But I have seen the fat tires. I didn't know that they were that there was more resistance. I sort of thought they might be all electric bikes with fat tires, but I have definitely I can at least confirm that even though I don't know why it's a thing. It's like for sure thing. So these are different than just like a Fixie, right. Oh, very. Yeah, like they they're like a half a quarter to half a third to half the width of a car tire like well spotted Allen. Yeah, good one. Good one. So if anybody out there is a bike expert and can tell us why. I have too many hills for that kind of thing. And I don't understand.

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THD Shannon K wrote in with summer thing, random things and bullpen feedback. Maybe she's got a song in the summer.

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She says all right. I noticed this thing back in April meant to write in about it sooner. Hopefully this makes it to you while there's still some summer left. The thing is swimsuits with sleeves. When I started shopping for bathing suits to take my kids to the beach during spring break. I noticed that some had sleeves this went beyond

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rashguard top I saw one piece suits with sleeps both short and long. I was really sold on this as a thing when I saw a bikini with cute little puffy sleeves that seemed purely decorative. When I did go to the beach with my family I saw a few little girls wearing swimsuits with sleeves fascinating. I can tell you that this summer I bought not one but two UV shirts. So I wouldn't have to do that so maybe that's where I was going with this is like oh maybe people are just you know more concerned with health and the sun but bikini was decorative sleeves doesn't care about your health episod so yeah, hmm. So anyway, she says I'm now wondering if this is related to the statements leave thing, which can be one of the other. She says also half sticks of butter. I'm not sure if it's the thing but I thought everyone should know.

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Welcome to the world of half sticks of butter. They are the anti apology world's digression she says you may also like to know that bluee Season two is season three is now on Disney plus. And then she says just before listening to her. I just kind of want Shannon to be my best friend like she knows everything. And then says just before listening to your bullpen episode I saw a Book Riot Instagram post about dark academia and I didn't know what it was and now I do and then she says could it Lottie be some kind of latte and then finally I had a friend who helped mason jar salad making parties in the 2016 range and beige on beige she says is I think related to the matching set trend. Thank you Wow, Shannon Kay you know you don't have to defend your THD anymore but no, I love it when you do exactly it is a true she is a compendium yeah of things right. A true companion. My son told me by the way, okay, one I think it Lottie was Italy. Okay, because I think that I knew a crap ton of people who went to Italy on summer vacation, and then I was just out to dinner with some friends. And she some of these friends had been to Greece over the summer. And she's like, I feel like everyone I know went to Greece except actually more people. Everybody else went to Italy. So I was like, Maybe I really did mean Italy, maybe Italy. Yeah, that would make sense. I could see Italy after dinner. And then I finally found and bought a beige on beige kind of tracksuit set from Athleta. And then my son told me it came from Kanye

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beige on base. Okay, the beige on beige tracksuit. There. Yeah, pretty much.

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Brian with a follow up on a car thing on the latest episode, you mentioned new old cars. Just this week, Ford announced that they would be offering a heritage edition for the new Bronco, which makes it more look more like the original Bronco. This is the Bronco that my fellow students, basketball players at the University of Illinois were accused of getting as inducements for playing basketball at the University of Illinois. That's exactly what those Broncos look remind me of when I see that. That's amazing.

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That's incredible. I love it. And then finally Alex wrote in with a tick tock thing and he had a set foot cool. Hey, Ray, he had rich at football. Let's be real here. That's what we're talking about. Renting intros that are in his voice he just straight up is he's like, You know what, I'm just talking to you guys. I'm talking directly to the fans. He's like, I'm cutting out the middle people.

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Hey, rich Tom and Molly. I'm emailing about a tick tock trend and overall life changing force. That is Bama rush talk.

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As the name might indicate, it centers on the rushing process for sororities at the University of Alabama, which takes place during the week in August before the official start of classes. Last year saw the birth of Rush talk with videos mainly focused on the O T dS outfits of the days of pn M's potential new members in rush vernacular that heavily featured previously noted things such as shine, but also seemingly southern sorority specific staples such as the pants store and love shock fancy this year, however, Rush talk as hugely expanded not only have we seen the expected diversification of videos into the realm of political pandering see Pennsylvania gubernatorial candidate Josh Shapiro's video talking about what's in his rush bag, the oversized bag often in the lung shop ancillary thing family use for karting essentials from house to house this is like a Florida level email by the way, no kidding. But also, we have seen Rashad veer into less expected directions such as those videos noting its connection to camp culture. See notes on See also the wildly underwhelming 2019 Met Gala theme or examining it through the lens of fucose Indian analysis and the panopticon. In short, it's a thing.

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From humid Boston and Mike in the snow, so thank you thing firmed thing. bermed Ding ding ding.

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And now friends, it's time for our favorite part of the show. Week after week. The shout outs you dear patrons who support us at the shout out level. Get your own custom artisanal hand crafted shout outs by producer rich for us to read this week's

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it It angers me that an actual firework display says frighten the neighbors and and as we all know in parentheses unwritten is dog. Oh, I'm so mad. I am mad Ray is bad. From Mike Aikens reveal. Don't you dare. But this was an excellent, excellent shout out. This was a star spangled shout out Richard Stroffolino. Well done.

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