IAT s09e06

Sat, Feb 11, 2023 10:24AM • 32:18

SUMMARY KEYWORDS

scripted, chicken, borg, core, gen z, drink, blend, nfl, real, run, eggs, people, week, millennials, thought, year, reviews, literally, writes, incredible

SPEAKERS

Tom Merritt, Molly Wood

Molly Wood  00:05

Hey everyone, I'm Hollywood.

Tom Merritt  00:06

And I'm Tom Merritt.

Molly Wood  00:08

Welcome to it's the thing the weekly podcast supported by you where our goal is to give listeners a rational satisfaction expressed not with this is what I really want. But with this will do. Thanks for joining us.

Tom Merritt  00:25

That shouldn't speak to my soul as directly as it does. Really? Whose mission statement are we? parodying this week?

Molly Wood  00:35

It's a real one evidently had to have to John Gordy on Twitter for recommending the mu g. About paves

Tom Merritt  00:42

the way Bucha has been a thing

Molly Wood  00:44

it's been a thing exactly. And it's like the super cool cute Japanese stuff they're they're really known for I think that tote bags and they've got like, like all kinds of basically like house goods.

Tom Merritt  00:56

Yeah, and they're real simple designs but but real chic looking. Yeah.

Molly Wood  01:00

I mean, this about page is incredible. Like for one thing, it's 10 paragraphs long, which you never like no slogan.

Tom Merritt  01:13

thing about this is not this is what I really want. But But this will do is word for word that we didn't like change that to be funny that that's on the page.

Molly Wood  01:25

I mean, it's incredible. It's incredible Moody's products born from an extremely rational manufacturing process are succinct, but they are not in the minimalist style. That is, they are like empty vessels. Simplicity and emptiness yield the ultimate universality embracing the feelings and thoughts about it. That means incredible Bravo, bravo.

Tom Merritt  01:46

This is what I really want expresses both thinks egoism and discord. Well, this will do express his conciliatory reasoning. That's so judgy it's I love that

Molly Wood  01:59

yeah, I'm I'm this is this isn't this is a triumph. Really? I don't know that we I don't know that we outdo ourselves from here. Bravo. Thanks, John gordi. Well, my

Tom Merritt  02:09

first thing is that we have reached maximum core, cottage core, any kind of core that you can think of, has been surpassed by a tick tock trend for core core. So forget your goblin core. Forget your cottage core core core as Mashable describes it is an aesthetic trend on tick tock that derives its name from an ironic use of the core suffix.

Molly Wood  02:37

Oh, stop. They did it. They did it.

Tom Merritt  02:41

They corn car they corn

Molly Wood  02:42

core. What were they thinking? Oh, that's so amazing. So obviously, you if you're a longtime listener to the show, you know, we've talked about lots of cores, cottage core, and evidently goblin core was briefly a thing. And so then they finally just they made it infinity core. Yeah.

Tom Merritt  03:02

Now, this is not anti, any of those cores. It's all of them. This is what I love about it. So this is taking anything you want. And then saying its core core, its core core, like it could mean whatever you want it to be. You're just yeah, the only thing that most of these seem to do is parody the person who had been showing off goblet core or showing off cottage core. So you do a little little demo or or showing or whatever of your core core setup.

Molly Wood  03:34

If we were the kind of people who had guests on our show, which we're not because we don't have time to do that. We would want to have Kieran press Reynolds on a digital culture blogger who is described as quote an eagle eyed trend watcher who writes extensively on niche internet micro genres. And he first wrote about core core and called it an anti trend that can be loosely defined as similar and disparate video and audio clips that are meant to evoke some form of emotion.

Tom Merritt  04:01

And this is Gen Z starting to stretch its wings. It is they have they have the irony gene that the millennials didn't always have not all Millennials but you know, wasn't as dominant. Yeah, I'm here for it.

Molly Wood  04:16

I love it. And what I hear I'm gonna go ahead and translate that into more inflammatory language. Millennials are irritating and humorless and Gen Z's are going to mock them until the end of time and it's just going to be beautiful to watch slash mutually assured destruction

Tom Merritt  04:31

as Gen X sits there with its socks that says if you can see these Bring me more Why

Molly Wood  04:39

live laptop literally my son just like let me have like I'm gonna have a little Gen X moment my son today did you know that Social Security's and run out in like 2036 and he got which is amazing, like, just good job teenager, but I was like, he's like millennials and Gen Z's are screwed. And I was like, you know that's so I'm perfectly framed by you because you know who's actually gonna want to be retiring in 2036. Me, also literally meet all my Gen X friends. You're just like, oh, millennials and Gen Z are screwed.

Tom Merritt  05:12

The best part of it, too is like, in 1993. I remember my bosses at NPR asking me the intern, like, are you concerned about Social Security running out? And I was like, I don't know, my generation just assumes everything will be bankrupt by the time we're old.

Molly Wood  05:32

Right? Totally. So first of all, this isn't a long running scare tactic. But second, or B, it almost certainly will run out the seconds that we Gen Xers are about to retire and no one will care because they're going to be like millennials and Gen Z's aren't going to be able to retire.

Tom Merritt  05:47

Well, the thing is, there is no social security, like account. Right? It's just part of the government budget. That's like, you got to pay this much isn't. They didn't open a savings account somewhere and like,

Molly Wood  06:03

yeah, it just keeps going. So it can kind

Tom Merritt  06:04

of either run out or not at any moment.

Molly Wood  06:09

Exactly. It's up to them up to that vote accordingly. Um, something that the kids are doing the Gen Z's are definitely doing is making their own drinks, bringing them to parties and calling them Borg's.

Tom Merritt  06:25

Oh, so they are drinking you know, because we've had so many stories about like, oh, no, kids aren't drinking anymore. Nobody's drinking, but there are still some drinking. That's good. What is a Borg and is resistance futile?

Molly Wood  06:36

I believe resistance may be futile. The Borg stands for blackout rage Gala. Cheese. So that's great.

Tom Merritt  06:47

The more things change.

Molly Wood  06:48

Exactly. But I think the idea this is this is like been blowing up on Wait, did

Tom Merritt  06:54

you say blackout rage gallon? gallon? That was the G Okay. Thank you.

Molly Wood  06:58

That's the G Exactly. So they get a gallon jug. And they fix it. They fix up a drink that is ideally half water, half vodka. Apparently some tick talkers will just fill it up with vodka got a really bad idea that okay, then they put in like a caffeinated flavor enhancer. And then like a liquid IV type thing, some powdered electrolytes.

Tom Merritt  07:21

Oh, look at that little.

Molly Wood  07:24

Right. It's actually like extremely logical and it's safe. I mean, drinking a gallon of this beverage is probably not safe. No, but the idea is that they consider it a genuine harm reduction because like no one can drink your drink. Bring your own right. Okay, it is you know, it has some some hangover proof Enos and with the hydration.

Tom Merritt  07:45

Yeah, it'll take the water and definitely you need to put the water in for the hydration but yeah,

Molly Wood  07:50

okay. And it's a it's a COVID prevention method measure true to because like, the drink is out. Yeah. Yeah, Mom,

Tom Merritt  07:57

I'm actually on board, on board or on Borg. Thank you. Now that you've put it that way of like, this is an incredibly rational and a great rationalization.

Molly Wood  08:12

Exactly. It's a rational satisfaction. It's not what you really want, but it will do

Tom Merritt  08:17

what it will do. It will do lots of things. Some of which you won't remember

Molly Wood  08:23

them, which you'll be sorry about. And then they're giving them big then we'll give them funny names, such as soldier Borg Brown versus Brown versus the Board of Education. Sponge Borg and boarding him palace.

Tom Merritt  08:37

Wait, so there we go again. I'm sorry, millennials, but you would never allow someone to call something Brown versus the Board of Education.

Molly Wood  08:46

Oh, no, they wouldn't. They definitely know that would be so appropriate. I know now it's really true, actually. It's really true. So yeah, they just

Tom Merritt  08:56

Borge is what Rich said.

Molly Wood  09:00

Dude, you're gonna have to go back to college.

Tom Merritt  09:03

Yeah, the riches honorary Gen Z. Ruth Bader

Molly Wood  09:07

Ginsburg was one. I didn't make that up. It was already on here. Our Borg and Savior. I mean, it's like, it's actually despite the sheer volume of drink involved. It's actually like, it's pretty reasonable and delightful. Good job, kids.

Tom Merritt  09:24

If I recall my college days, which don't really, but I'm pretty sure I likely drink more than a half gallon of booze in some situations. Yeah. So in some ways, for some people, this could be a limiting factor to if you just have that. Yeah. If you're like, you know what, I'm sticking to my Borg. I'm not touching anything else.

Molly Wood  09:45

Uh huh. It's pretty funny. So I had to bring it up because it is everywhere, and it's so everywhere on Tik Tok that it has now made the leap to mainstream media and if I didn't talk about it this week, it was gonna be like officially Whoa, hold the thing. But literally I was somebody told me told me about it at a dinner yesterday and then I was like, Holy crap. There's stories about this all over. I got it.

Tom Merritt  10:08

That's great. I'm definitely doing this at my niece's baptism.

Molly Wood  10:14

Call it our Borg and Savior. Yeah, it'll be perfect. It's on theme. totally appropriate.

Tom Merritt  10:19

I can't imagine anyone would object. I'll put wine in mine.

Molly Wood  10:24

I'm gonna call mine Borg and punishment. Go

Tom Merritt  10:27

Yeah, actually, rich also put a board on golf, which is as Joe pointed out, a deep cut. Is you pork and stain bears. Yeah, if you need a name for your board,

Molly Wood  10:40

beans

Tom Merritt  10:43

forget bus.

Molly Wood  10:46

Back Damn it now in one day, I need to make a board.

Tom Merritt  10:50

If you need a name for your board head to the it's a thing discord. It's a thing got nice last life. Did you know The Super Bowl is scripted. Yeah, they they found the script. It's all over Twitter. It's gonna be 3734 Philadelphia.

Molly Wood  11:08

Yeah, yeah. Wow. It's funny because my brother has actually been ranting in our group texts about how the NBA is scripted lately or the NFL. Like he's literally been saying that the games were scripted. And I wonder if actually he was just getting all this crap on Reddit. And then how bleep and an ongoing conspiracy theory. Yep, NFL scripted even use a hashtag.

Tom Merritt  11:30

According to pointer.org, the journalistic organization it was the January 30 EP January 30 episode of The Barstool Sports podcast, macro dosing, when co host Arian Foster former running back for the Houston Texans said before the taping how the NFL is rigged. And that just kind of spun out into everyone deciding to turn it into like yeah, it's it's scripted. It's rigged. I found the script.

Molly Wood  11:58

Oh, that's hilarious. Birds aren't real. Yeah. Yeah. tearing my ACL Eagle Center. Jason Kelce. was asked about it this week. Apparently instead, it was a great interview and then it goes tearing my ACL and 2012 was probably the worst thing that Roger ever scripted. Roger Goodell.

Tom Merritt  12:18

Jason Kelty hated the NFL script in 2012. The terrorists ACL Barstool Sports.

Molly Wood  12:25

That is so funny. And it was during that chiefs game over the Bengals because my brother and I are Bengals fans. So he was like really losing his mind. And he kept he kept tweeting me he kept texting me like hashtag NFL is rigged.

Tom Merritt  12:38

Like the best part thing, and

Molly Wood  12:40

I didn't even know it because I just thought it was my crazy brother being crazy.

Tom Merritt  12:43

Go it's a part of a thing. Somebody was able to get a hold of the source code, using in this case, Webmaker for nfl.com and was able to change the bookstore or nose pro football reference.com changed the box score. To make it look like I found a leak. This is me this is what it's gonna be. We're laughing

Molly Wood  13:08

now. But we all know what's going to happen here.

Tom Merritt  13:13

It's gonna end up being 3734

Molly Wood  13:17

and this is going to take off like wildfire like everybody's gonna be like the NFL is rigged. And here's the thing. Actually, I brought a very timely thing to the lineup but I had to do my two other things because they're so in the news right now so I'm just gonna add my like bonus thing, which is that not to anyone surprise sports betting has taken over America. It's like the worst thing. And I can't believe the degree to which they're just like marketing it to college kids and whatever. But the thing that we have not yet considered. So this is a sort of predicting a thing. Yeah. Like London football soccer fan made this point to me that America has no idea what's coming in terms of match fixing that once you have right like rampant sports betting, you get match fixing. And that we don't even know what's about to come. And so when you put the NFL is rigged through or super Bella scripted through that lens,

Tom Merritt  14:19

you really do start to go down the rabbit hole. Yeah, well, because rugby Soccer is the sports in the English Commonwealth. All can be bet on legally and have you been able to do that for a very long time? The United States to my way of thinking right? The second is kind of like China coming out of COVID with gambling, right? We shut off the gambling in the early 20th century, and you know had had zero gambling policies until now. And we're like, oh, I guess we'll let gambling happen and the rest of the world is like yeah, we eased ourselves through the gambling and the match fixing and figuring stuff out you get you get just Turn it off

Molly Wood  15:02

and just flip it back on and be like, this will be fine. It's gonna be great. Yeah, that is a disturbingly accurate analogy. So yeah, by next year, if not this year, the Superbowl might in fact be scripted. Just not in the way that we think.

Tom Merritt  15:18

Yeah. Not intentionally scripted by everyone. Exactly. But someone's Shoeless Joe.

Molly Wood  15:27

They've got they've got shoeless Borg, am I right? Shoe? Chickens. Don't get an inflation chicken is the headline of the New York Times, because that's how they

Tom Merritt  15:38

tell me what to do. I'm gonna buy one right now.

Molly Wood  15:41

Exactly. You can't tell me what to do in New York Times. That's what a big thing inflation chickens are. Oh, wow.

Tom Merritt  15:48

Why are cousins wire cutter? Wow,

Molly Wood  15:51

this is on wire cutter. And it linked to an original story from The New York Times that was on the February 2, that was like, everybody's getting frickin chickens. Because of the spike in egg prices. So like the way Americans work is if you think that there's some scarcity, you hoard the bejesus out of that thing. But it's really hard to hoard eggs.

Tom Merritt  16:12

Yeah. People could have made their own toilet paper out of toilet paper trees, they probably would have, they probably

Molly Wood  16:19

would have. And so now evidently, there's just been this like, hatcheries are in fact scrambling to keep up Oh, no, there's a chicken sandwich. Chicken breeds that are quote, heavy layers. Everybody wants to heavy layer says ginger Stephenson director of marketing and Marie Marie McMurray hatchery in Iowa. And the time the wire cutter was like, don't, don't do that. Like you. First of all, you'll spend like 1000 times more. Like you think that you're really winning because you buy like a $4 chicken like a chicken is $4. Right? But a coop is like $1,000.

Tom Merritt  16:56

Which by the way, wire cutter has a top pick for chicken.

Molly Wood  17:02

Right? They're sending some leg mixed messages here.

Tom Merritt  17:04

Yeah. And there's a referral link, but you shouldn't do it. But don't do it.

Molly Wood  17:09

But if you're gonna do it, do it, do the referral. At least do the referral link and get the best chicken prefab. $600 is the prehab like from Tractor Supply? You got to eat a lot of eggs to make up that $600. And also you have to take care of your eggs. And also coyotes are going to get them and if they don't dogs, aren't it hat Look, I'm sorry. It's just how it is. It's

Tom Merritt  17:33

like and yeah, if you do it for 10 years totally pays off. In fact, you'll have way more eggs than you'll ever want or be able to eat. If you can't sell them. I'd say this because my sister has chickens. And whenever I visit that fridge is half eggs. Like she is she is rich right now in eggs. She is Yeah, she is not suffering from the egg shortage at all.

Molly Wood  17:57

She could really be making money. But yeah, it's not it's no, no, don't do it. Don't do it. But every apparently it's like enough of a thing that the New York Times on the wire cutter had to be like, Dude, you're gonna regret it. You really are. Well, you should chickens inflation to get the Hawks get them. Like chickens are very vulnerable creatures. It's even my little chihuahua terrier. Once attacked, I grabbed a chicken by the wing, I got it away from them.

Tom Merritt  18:23

Keeping chickens is not a thing that everyone will want to do. It's a lot of work. I'm not saying you couldn't do it. But it's not like a short term fix to your eggs.

Molly Wood  18:36

If you're just doing it because of egg prices, yeah, you may want to consider oatmeal. Like just like a couple days.

Tom Merritt  18:43

Let's say you eat a dozen eggs a month, and the egg prices aren't going to come down for another year. Both of those are probably wildly extreme estimates. You're probably looking at spending an extra $36.

Molly Wood  19:03

Right? It's sort of like Americans obsession with gas prices.

Tom Merritt  19:06

Yes. Yeah. Like,

Molly Wood  19:08

I get it that you sort of feel that strongly in the moment. But it's like $1,000 a year. It's like you could offset it with coffee. Yeah. Yeah, it's it's very bizarre. We have these very bizarre obsessions. And apparently so I know that now.

Tom Merritt  19:22

People People go crazy over a 10 cent a gallon gas difference which granted if you're on a fixed income, you know, or you're making a small amount and you're required to drive for a living yes, that absolutely can can be a concern but that's not most people. The most of the people complaining and going for the 10 cent difference are probably spending the 10 cents you know, going out of their way to get the 10 cent difference just

Molly Wood  19:48

right yeah, it's just such a visit so irrational and there it probably we're gonna have like six months from now like feral, a feral chicken problem, because people are going to be letting them go, because the egg prices will come down. like

Tom Merritt  20:00

coyotes

Molly Wood  20:03

and then we'll have a coyote explosion. People just think about the knock on effects, won't you?

Tom Merritt  20:10

Let's get to our feedback. These are things that have been sent in from the thing spotters around the world and the it's a thing things butter network feedback, and it's a thing got me a stream of us wrote in with a food follow up. Blue Diamond now has a low tea flavored almonds, and they are gloriously delicious Srinivas

Molly Wood  20:33

you know a lot. I felt like a like a risk at the time. Know

Tom Merritt  20:38

that. Oh, yeah. Yeah,

Molly Wood  20:40

that was a good one damn good call. Sarah writes in on a new also, I want to try this. Sarah writes in on a new wine thing. Hey, team thing I'm writing to you from the wine section of my local grocery store. By the way, can I just say how great that is? I really pray that you actually did stop and go like I got an email. I think that's amazing. I'm seeing she writes a ton of red wines in all price ranges labeled as barrel aged, rye and bourbon barrel aged Cabernet Sauvignon, rum barrel aged Amarillo, pork barrel aged Pinot Noir and infinite barrel aged red blends in a lot of them, I guess infinite numbers of barely triblend. A lot of them are in short, squat bottles that look more like liquor bottles of wine bottles. I love wine. How did I miss this? We'll try to report back on how they taste. Tell me how they taste.

Tom Merritt  21:25

Oh, yeah. Sarah, please, please do report on how they taste. And I think you absolutely spotted something. Because now that you say it. I know. I've seen this a bunch. And it's just been getting more and more frequent over the years. So I think it has reached things status. Thank you, Sarah.

Molly Wood  21:42

That is a cool one. Yeah. Yeah. Love it.

Tom Merritt  21:47

Steven on a possible new thing. All right, Stephen, thank you for your submission. Hi, Tom. And Molly, my wife and I have been watching poker face like everyone else. Meaning we've had to sit through several commercials about blend jet. I'm starting to wonder, is blend jet a thing? So I thought I'd send this over to you. We have several questions about this product, the primary question being why? And who is this for? We were also wondering if you have to also carry all of the ingredients with you so you can then blend them at the beach or by the pool? Doesn't that defeat the purpose of it being portable? Do you just load the ingredients into it and take it with you and hit the blend button later when you're riding in the back of a convertible? What about refrigeration? Do you have to take a cooler to keep the ingredients cool until you can meet up with your trendy friends up the rooftop party. Oh, and there are Lisa Frank versions of the blender jet. Which is also why I started wondering if it's a thing.

Molly Wood  22:47

Oh my god. Okay, well, I'm just gonna go ahead and say that@target.com The reviews on the blend jet two portable blender. There are 11,130 reviews, adding up to five out of five stars. Wow, this thing has five stars. Because you don't have like you have a five star review. But there's only two. So you know, just mom and dad. This has a 4.9 out of five guest ratings with 11,000 Reviews. What is this and try to

Tom Merritt  23:19

farm?

Molly Wood  23:23

I don't know man. Do

Tom Merritt  23:24

I need this? I so my first my first presumption, I will say was that yeah, I've suffered this effect. And I think Steven was asking like, Am I just suffering this effect where when you see a commercial repeated enough, your brain starts to do that thing where like I've seen this a bunch of maybe it's maybe it's common, maybe it's a thing. And so you need to double check that and so Steven, this is great this that you did the right thing you you came to the experts, you went to you you asked your local doctor of theology. I would say though, that if there's a Lisa Frank version, if there's that many reviews, even if those are all like sock puppets, you don't spend that money on farming out reviews on target.com Unless you you're selling a bunch of them. I think it might be a thing anyway even even if you're suffering that repetition effect.

Molly Wood  24:13

I think it really might be a thing and I have questions. There's a Disney collection

Tom Merritt  24:20

of blend jets

Molly Wood  24:21

of blend jets I'm on their website there's a Disney Mickey Mouse Minnie Mouse and a Disney love story.

Tom Merritt  24:26

I mean if you can afford the license Disney then yeah, you got Pixar Woody. Oh yeah, this is real. That's a real thing. Steven, you are not you are not wrong. Well done.

Molly Wood  24:37

This is so this is so shark tank like this is the most like Shark Tank product I could possibly imagine every one

Tom Merritt  24:43

of Stevens questions is pertinent. Yes,

Molly Wood  24:47

that too. And apparently I'm gonna have to buy it and find out. I will keep you posted.

Tom Merritt  24:52

The only use I can think of would be if you take it to a party, right like somebody's already set up. party, but then wouldn't they have a blender?

Molly Wood  25:03

It's like a Borg.

Tom Merritt  25:07

You want to blend your own? Yeah. All right. How much do they have? What's the price of those?

Molly Wood  25:13

50 bucks?

Tom Merritt  25:15

Yeah, okay.

Molly Wood  25:15

All right then they're saying like that you could take it to the gym but I don't know why you

Tom Merritt  25:20

to make your protein shakes at the gym, which again goes right back to Stephens things like okay, but then you have to take all the ingredients in the cup. You're going to drink it out of it. No, you would put all the ingredients in there and bring it just bring the drink out of it. All right. All right.

Molly Wood  25:34

Yeah, it's like a nice little all in one such a true

Tom Merritt  25:37

okay. And if anyone does, it hasn't seen the blend yet. It is kind of like a big cup with with a blender blade at the bottom.

Molly Wood  25:43

Yeah, I I have a lot of questions, but that's outstanding. And also I don't know what poker faces so clearly, I've missed it now though.

Tom Merritt  25:49

Poker Face may be a thing. But I tend to stay away from TV shows being things unless you know, like, even Last of Us, I'm like and TV shows become things but then they stopped doing things anyway. poker faces Natasha, Leone, Rian Johnson directed series on peacock. That is literally the modern day Columbo every episode you get the setup in the first episode which is like a movie of why she's on the run. But then every episode she's on the run in a new place and then runs into a murder that she then solves

Molly Wood  26:25

incredible even the dogs got excited hearing about it sounds like a perfect show like I can't wait to watch this and she

Tom Merritt  26:31

She even does the like put there was one more thing kind of like she doesn't actually parody Colombo. But she's there's that moment when she's like, but hold on. It's amazing. Yeah, it's so good. It's incredible. And Ambassador to Domo pointing out huge amount of Incredible Hulk to it because traveling from town to town like, like Dave banner will leave banner in the TV series instead of

Molly Wood  26:59

Oh, yeah, Ryan was Bruce Banner. Thank you. Yeah, Bruce Banner was hilarious. I thought there was like another show with like a banner relative. I'm such a ding dong. I gotta focus up self. Beth needs a thing. Check. Hello, Tom, Malian producer rich checking in on whether Berets are coming back as a thing. Admittedly, I'm planning a trip to France this summer. So it's possible. I've stereotypical old school Parisian fashion on the brain. But during the course of one day, I watched a YouTube video starring a guy in a Blu Ray, and then saw two people out in the wilds of Chicago wearing them. I'm not sure if I personally could pull one off. But if they are a thing, I could probably corral my eight year old into wearing one. Keep up the amazing work, curating all the things. Let's see. Let's see what the internet has for us. Yes. It appears to be. Let's see. I'm looking looking looking. Diane Kruger wore one. Yeah. All right, to be fair, at Paris Fashion Week. But

Tom Merritt  27:56

I mean, how do you get away with wearing a Baray at Paris Fashion Week? If they're not? Unless they're a thing? Because otherwise it would be like What are you doing? That is so cliche, but if their thing it's like, Oh, how cool. Yeah.

Molly Wood  28:12

Oh, I'm like a Bray. I'm excited. I hope so. Yeah. braiser back. Thanks. Let's just say yes,

Tom Merritt  28:19

a real quickly at Porter. Sorry, but it was David Banner on the TV show. I was right. I knew.

Molly Wood  28:25

I knew that. I knew that it was different. Banner spin, I

Tom Merritt  28:27

knew that they changed the name. And there's a whole story about why they changed the name. They thought it played better or whatever. So they they changed the name for the TV show. And then it went back to Bruce, which is the real name, which I was temporarily confused. Which one was real? Which one wasn't when they went back to the movies. Alright. Mark from NorCal. Just discovered the show. Welcome, Mark. Old time fan of bol Love, Love Love hearing you two back together again on the radio in quotes. Found the podcast recently. You made my week. Well, Mark, you just made our week back.

Molly Wood  29:01

Yeah, dude, welcome. Thanks for staying with us for so long. That's incredible. See, we were actually speculating. Just last week, like it's real possible that there's like latent fandom out there that just doesn't know. Yeah. And we have been validated. That's amazing. I'm so glad you found us

Tom Merritt  29:19

tow your buzz out loud brethren ancestor and tell the Facebook then run. Shout it loud. Shout it out. Like we're about to shout out. Oh, wow. The people at the shadow level on it's a thing that means patreon patreon.com/. It's a thing.

Molly Wood  29:36

That was magical. It really was. Thank you. Yes, those of you who support us at this shout out level and thank you to anybody who supports us at any level because you keep our butts in the chairs week after week. We are so grateful. You're the reason literally that we are here. But the shoutouts are where we create a custom segment just for you incorporating your names and this week's shout outs are based on all musics review of rip Bert Baccarat. acts 1967 album, reach out.

Tom Merritt  30:04

Here we go. Raindrops Keep falling on my head. Joe hoods second album will either delight or sorely disappoint a modern Gabrielle Cohen depending upon how aware Kevin Silla is of who Laura Abel really is, it's easy to forget amidst the Eric Duncan 90s revival, the Benjamin Forrest was never fundamentally a rock sign songwriter. Reach out was reissued in 1995. Just as Lee prices star was rising among more mature Andrew Bradley listeners, parts of Louis St. Amour do aspire to a kind of big band pop soulfulness.

Molly Wood  30:43

The rest is quasi jamesy Smith of the light variety very cleanly and carefully arranged by Mike Aikens who tends to emphasize the obvious. A lot of what is here is very basic, well played, but displaying no dazzling Jake Woods details. That's often a risk when Maurice Jones interprets his own work frequently it is the outside personality, the performance specialist rather than Miranda, Janelle who picks up the hidden and unusual sides of a score. I want to be a music writer and also I'm gonna listen to some Burbach rock all weekend long. There we go. Get that copyright strike I love it. Wow. Womp womp rip Bert. Thanks everybody. Thanks for listening to it's a thing you can as I mentioned become a member of it's a thing get access to our Discord where we chat live with our fans. You've probably heard us referencing some of them week after week and ad free RSS feed and more patreon.com/ It's a thing I think we lost time even though I hear music.

Tom Merritt  31:52

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Molly Wood  32:05

That's right, there's a shop. Next week we have a shop we have a shop