Quick Question with Soren and Daniel - The First Date Playlist

Episode Date: May 20, 2022

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I've got a quick, quick question for you, alright? I wanna hear your thoughts, I wanna know what's on your mind I've got a quick, quick question for you, alright? The answer's not important, I'm just glad that we could talk tonight So what's your favourite? Who did you get? When do I be remembered? What's it all good? Where did all the good things go? Oh, forget it.

Saw a movie, Daniel O'Brien. Two best friends and comedy writers. If there's an answer, they're gonna find it. I think you'll have a great time here. I think you'll have a great time here. So hello again and welcome to another episode of Quick Question with Soren and Daniel, the podcast where two best friends and comedy writers ask each other questions and give each other answers. I am one half of that podcast, senior writer for Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, author of How to Fight Presidents, and LaCroix drinker who consumes, on average,

I crunch the numbers on this, eight cans a day, Daniel O'Brien. Joined, as always, by my co-host, Mr. Soren Bui. Soren, say hello. Hey, everybody. I'm Soren Bui. I am a writer for American Dad. And since I've been out of the writer's room, I've really kind of drifted towards spin drift. Oh.

Do you know it? I'm sure I've seen it in the aisle at the grocery store but i couldn't be more basic it's such a shitty can it's like a it's two-tone it's there's no fancy new frill to it it's just one white on top and then whatever color drink it is on the bottom but it's got actual juice in it so like if you get the grapefruit with one for also i'll say not pomplemousse because there are no frills it's been drift it's grapefruit you pour it into a glass you will see some of that little grapefruity residue in there thanks to hawthorne for supporting quick question hawthorne is a premium grooming brand that tailors your personal care routine to your unique profile with skin care and hair care made just for you

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For a free 14-day trial and full access to Shopify's entire suite of features, go to shopify.com slash QQ. to Shopify's entire suite of features, go to shopify.com slash QQ. There's something very frustrating to me about how similarly designed the boxes for a lot of these products are. Like once something takes off and a bunch of competitors pop up, I understand the game.

I understand that they're trying to sneak in there and trick me, but it's very frustrating when I'm looking for LaCroix and there are a bunch of these other lesser LaCroix's positioned around it with similar color schemes. I feel that way mostly with... There's these protein bars called No Cow that I get a lot because they're one of the only like protein bars on the market that doesn't have dairy or egg so i can have them and the the labeling system for protein bars

it's just that they're all so fucking similar it's crazy that if you're especially if you're in a new grocery store grocery store and you're just like quickly trying to scan for it and it's like uh life crunch and and and one bar and one thing and one cream they all are like very similar kind of stark designs they all clearly went to the same design school and like i just i i'll never find my thing now yes it's i think that's true of every new industry. They've been taking advantage of it. It's like the grandparent phenomenon where they're like, they know that your kid wants this particular movie or this particular game. So they're going to come up with six more that look kind of similar that are going to

confuse the name. Your grandparents are going to get confused and be like, is this the one? The man at the store said this is the one you want. this the one the man at the store said this is the one you want and so i like the white claw any sort of uh hard seltzer now they all have the exact same marketing yeah if you go to the store it's impossible you're like okay let's see here which one is the one i like yeah especially i never got into white claws and i have a bunch of friends that did uh and i think i i can i can spot them now but i went to a summer party last year uh and i wanted to contribute something and i just grabbed a case of what of like hey this is what it looks like you all drink all the time they're like this isn't it this is fucking half

moon or whatever whatever wrong thing that i got i was like i don't know there's it all looks the same i can't it does all look the same uh it's not fair it's just designed to fool anyone who's not deeply familiar with the industry and i don't i think that just happens everywhere i think that's true every time there's something new every somebody out there is like okay well let's fucking let's let's throw one over on some of the rubes uh so how you how you doing we're gonna get into the show but just like what's up how's it going it's been a minute yeah i mean it has actually we don't even talk on text in a while uh yeah you know things are good i went to tucson arizona you familiar with it

i'm i'm aware of it i've never been i went for a wedding um colleen's best friend from growing up and at this point in their lives i mean she met this girl when she was six and they uh this girl was so nice to her because she was the one who showed her around when colleen came to a new school and everything and they just became really good friends but at this point in their lives they don't have much in common i will say that this woman and i have a tremendous about more in common. Like she's, we're not, we're very different people in that she's kind of like an introvert and very quiet. She's a great person. And like, and is interested in a lot of the same things I'm interested in just

by chance. So at their wedding, one of the first songs, when everyone's just sort of like milling around, getting ready to sit down and everything, a ween song comes on and i'm like i have never heard ween at a wedding before yeah i was so pumped and i was like how i'm gonna talk i have to talk to her about that and i was like this isn't the right time she was like coming down the aisle i was like thinking in my head i want to talk to you about stay forever you played stay forever earlier and i was no soren don't don't do that and then uh it came up and also like soren prepare for the possibility that there won't be a right time at this wedding you just might have to eat this one we the it was a very small wedding so we all sat at the same table to eat and as we're

talking somebody had made in the speech i think the best man's speech he had said that she was a, um, oh, he'd made a joke because her vows were on her phone and the, the man she was marrying, he had done his vows on paper. He is like deep into computer science and everything. And he had done his vows on paper and she was a, I guess a literature major. And she had had her vows on her phone. He was commenting on how funny that was. So I agree, but I didn't know she was

a lit major. And so I was like, at during dinner, when everyone's eating quiet, I was like, I didn't know you were a literature major. And she was like, yeah, yeah, yeah. Uh, here are the things I studied. And I was like, I studied those as well. And then, and then this other woman who I was sitting next to, she's like, you were a literature major. What do you, what do you do now? And I was like, I'm a writer. She's like, I want to be a writer so bad. And I was like, what? And she had just, I think she had been writing on her own. It was sort of like asking, uh, questions in terms of like, Hey, ask me now, ask me what I write. And like, cause she wanted to talk to somebody about her writing. Cause it's an inherently lonely thing to do. And, um, and then it came up that uh she's like so what do you

write what do you write for and i was like i told her the show and she for the rest of the night i think i guess she really likes the show because for the rest of the night her and her husband were just on like they were like doing jokes they were doing bits like jumping in on other people's conversations when they felt like, Oh, I got a good, I got a good one here. Buh-bye dropping it in. And, uh, it, it, the wedding just took this turn. Cause it was before it was very quiet. Not a lot of people knew each other.

A lot of people that had maybe like met once or twice. And then all of a sudden, like this one couple was the life of this party and, and like, and everyone else was like oh i guess i guess we're allowed to step it up and it just and the energy of the whole place changed it was really interesting that's fun are you gonna are you gonna uh you're gonna talk to seth about this couple see if we can get them get them on the show i would love to talk to seth about getting me on any show like just getting in in Seth's ear at all would be the boon of a lifetime.

Just walk into his office. Hey, man, you know what you should do? I should back up. Hey, my name's Soren. I've been writing for you for a couple of years. You don't know me. You don't know me, but I've been writing all those words you say. Surely the ones you hate because you never mention the show anywhere.

He's just so consumed with a... Orville. An album of lounge standards that nobody asked for. You're not off. I think that he's really into his crooning and he's into Orville, which that's his baby. And he's got his new Ted series coming out. So I think that he's well-occupied. Hawthorne is a premium grooming brand that tailors your personal care routine to your unique profile. Hawthorne uses data from hundreds of thousands of customers to recommend perfect products for your body chemistry, skin type, hair type, and lifestyle. We like to

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including one month free of Xbox Game Pass Ultimate, one month free of Apple Arcade, two months free of Google Stadia Pro, and three months free of Discord nitro find your next adventure at playbackbone.com slash qq i want to return to something you said uh early in this story about uh colleen and and this woman being friends when they were kids but not really having too much to talk about now because that i think they still have yeah they just don't have anything in common yeah yeah i recently my college roommate came to visit me in this beach town and we we got he was one of the best roommate i i've only had one roommate he's the best roommate

a person could ask for we got along so well throughout college it was such a a gift that we found each other and just like locked in and became good buddies and spent all of college talking to each other and we would meet up a couple of times after college and go backpacking or camping and uh would try to see each other as much as possible but you lose touch over time and uh so when i saw him here in town i was the first time i'd seen him in maybe six or seven years and And again, even before that, it's once every couple of years that we're seeing each other. And we hung out two days that he was here. And the first day it was great. We caught up, he's engaged now, really excited to

hear about his life and his, his, he, he stayed in academia the, this entire time he is he is almost going to be done and then he'll be like a doctor of history or law or something like that and then he won't have to go to school anymore and that'll be nice for him but we we chatted and we talked about all the stuff like everything that you that two people could reasonably uh talk about to fill to catch each other up on the last seven years of our lives and then he was like I'm still in town so you want to meet for coffee and lunch tomorrow I was like yeah of course I

do I could talk to you forever this is great and the next day it was really just like so remember college that weird kid Will we almost lived with yeah yeah yeah Will sucked so remember the

remember college the bar that we went to it's closed now I heard yeah shame lots of places are closed and lots of places are open that's true man hey you should probably be hitting the road, huh? Like coffee.

I just drank it in three sips. This is crazy. Yeah. I think that like, they're still good friends. She's such a good person too. Both my wife and her are, they're like the same. They shave it. They share an energy wavelength.

It's like very similar people and also really good people. Yeah. And it's like on that front, they just inherently energy wavelength. It's like very similar people and also really good people. Yeah. And it's like on that front, they just inherently get along. But when, just in talking to her, she's a very quiet person is like comfortable with long silences and stuff. And I'm not. So like when I'm,

when I'm with them, I'm always like, Hey, what's this over here? You got a D and D board. What is that? I play D and D. Oh,

that's awesome. Let me talk to you about Skyrim. Yes. I love Skyrim. Yes. Perfect. This will be great. Let me talk to you about horizonrim. Yes. I love Skyrim. Yes. Perfect. This will be great. Let me talk to you about Horizon Zero Dawn.

Is this a game I should be playing? And like, these are like, it's me carrying a conversation, but realizing along the way that she's interested in all these things that I'm interested in where I'm like, okay, Colleen, she likes video games and D&D. This is not your scene. She likes Ween. And she likes Colleen. I think Coll colleen just like i think this joke's on you that she just like yeah found her best friend in you and was like oh yeah i could just i guess

just this is an easy transition for me yeah yeah the fact that she and i are both so drawn to colleen i think probably says something. But yeah, so anyway, I got on a plane and went to a wedding. I gave myself every opportunity to get COVID. So we'll see how that shakes out. You've been feeling okay? Yeah, I feel great. That's good. I thought about little else since the podcast where I joked about how I wanted you to get COVID. I really been thinking about that.

And that's just poor form, like bad friendship stuff and bad just like energy to put out in the universe. I don't want you to get COVID. Yeah, but imagine if you had that power, that if you just said something and it happened, there's something nice about that. That would be if you... So the idea of having powers is of

course very um attractive yeah and so here's the thing you're the only one in the world who has powers it's very special this thing that you have but your only power is you get to just give covid to someone. How do you feel that that's your power? I turn bad so fast. I do it. I give it to everybody for petty reasons. Like anyone who, I mean, I wouldn't do it for like the way you do.

We're like, oh, Soren hasn't had a turn yet. He deserves a fair shake with COVID. i would do it where there's like i see somebody on my ring and their dog shits in my yard and then they just walk away and i'm like oh that guy's getting covid i think i would do it uh to like because there's a lot of schadenfreude with anyone who was loudly uh dismissive of covid like joe rogan getting covid and giving it to his kids was like oh this is this is such a gift because you were so proudly wrong about this for so long and now you have covid and you and it hurts when you breathe and that sucks for you i think i would find someone like that like a a joe rogan or a jordan peterson or a uh what's dilbert's dad dad's name scott adams scott scott adams yeah someone like that and i would just give

it to them a a comical amount of times just like because they'll get covered the first time and be like all right fine it's real but i beat it and it's not a big deal and I'm healthy and the doctors say it's gonna be fine. And then the next day, okay, fuck, alright. So this is now, I'm now entering week 18 of my 18th

different COVID. Doctors are really stumped by this. I get one day off of not having COVID. It's not a false negative. It's true. And then I don't, I don't, I didn't even leave my house this time. I didn't even leave my house to hand Dilbert to the mailman. I stayed inside and my stupid Dilbert shaped house and I got it again.

I don't, I don't understand. And then like, I would wait, I would let like months go by and for everything to get quiet and then for him to just get it randomly. I think that's a great idea. I think that if you could ensure that you also weren't killing people, you'd be like, yes, yes, yes. Yeah. Yes.

Okay. This is the safe COVID. This is the just annoying version of COVID. There are so many people I would like to give that to. Anytime Dilbert's dad wanted to get on a plane, no, it's COVID, buddy. For the rest of time. The problem is with those people is I think that they would do it anyway. They're selfish from the jump.

And then anytime, like, he would just stop testing at a certain point. He'd be like, I think this is just how I always felt i think i'm just always this bad uh and i can't breathe when i walk upstairs yeah i'm sure it would make him worse it would radicalize him in some surprising way where it's like not only am i never gonna get tested again i'm gonna use this strange peculiar trait about myself and use it to form a cult around my personality. Now I'm a cult guy. Right. I didn't ask about you, Dan. How are you doing?

I'm good, man. I got this vacation coming up in a few days. I'm very excited about Costa Rica with a mutual friend of mine. It's going to be lots of fun. Mutual friend of ours. I forget which side you're going to. Are you going to the Pacific side?

Yeah. Are you going to try and surf while you're there? No, that's the one thing. Uh, not one thing that I'm, I, I was something that was on the list only because lots of people told me to try surfing while I'm there. I've never had any interest in surfing. It seems like something that I would be bad at and I would be like, like frustrated with myself and not have a good time.

But so because I have terrible balance. But so many people just saying, like, just do it. You're it's Costa Rica is a great place for that. And they have these classes that are like tailor made for tourists where it's like you take this class. By the end of two hours, you will be standing on top of a surfboard riding a wave guaranteed kind of thing. of two hours you will be standing on top of a surfboard riding a wave guaranteed kind of thing but they require two people to sign up with classes and my travel partner didn't want to so i'm like great i just won't do that then okay kind of looking for a reason not to do it anyway are you going are you going to like monteverde are you going up to yes monteverde is sick dan

zip lines and rope bridges and hiking and exploring and hot springs and mud baths and fishing for me. We're doing a lot of volcano hiking, exploring stuff for most of the trip and then two days of just straight beaching it at the end. Okay. That's a good way to do it. Yeah. The jam-packed beginning of it and then give yourself a breather. Hey, Soren, in your opinion, what's the worst way to do it yeah the the jam-packed the beginning of it and then kind of like give you so what would you in your opinion what's the worst way to do costa rica uh don't don't go down there and then on your birthday throw up blood all night god so yeah we did We were, we were on a beach town when I did that just to see what it was to be like, just like give it a shot and got very scared, got worried.

And then we, the trip was not over. I mean, we were, that was before we were about to head up to the jungle. And so there was an eight hour bus ride ahead of us. And this was two days after I'd been throwing up and could only stay in bed and dreamt about Gatorade the whole time. And finally, I was like, I think as long as I take some like diarrhea medicine and some anti-fond, like stomach settling medicine before I get on that bus, I think I could make it. And so we did it. And like, we rode this bus up to Monteverde for eight hours. And it was, it was so hard. And the entire time that we were there or on the way up, sitting across from the aisle from us was clearly a situation in which a man had followed a woman down to like an ex-girlfriend or like, well, I don't know what their relationship was. She was going to Costa Rica. He showed up there and now he's there and like he's like he to like prove himself to her it was like a cinematic thing where when it happens in

real life it's not so fun yeah and so she's staring out the window looking like like she wants to just smash it and jump out and he's talking to her and he has a six-pack next to him and he's just drinking beers as he's talking to her about how much he loves her or how much he and uh buddy yeah and it was they were young they were probably like early 20s and it was just rough it was like it wasn't so rough at any point where i was like gonna step in and be like i don't think you should be doing this. Oh, God. But it was still like she didn't want to. It was so clear by body language. She just didn't want him there, and she was ruining his trip.

Yeah. It was tough. But anyway, we got there, and then the very first day, there was a sloth on our hotel, and it was curative to me. It was really nicking. I was very excited. And then the, whatever room we were staying in, there was something big slithering around along the top of this room. So I think there was like a giant snake out there or something.

Oh, neat. It was very cool. That the guy showing up and ruining the trip reminds me so much of this two week European bus tour I did with my friend and like you're with a giant tour of like 20 and 30 something just people who all sign up strangers who all signed up for this tour and then became friends and you're doing this like whatever whatever it was 12 countries in two weeks kind of thing and a guy had clearly fallen in love with one of the other strangers in our tour group and uh there was just because that's certainly like a romantic idea for anyone going on vacation if you're single

is like and and now i'm gonna have like like either meet the love of my life or have like some kind of vacation fling and i i think no matter who ended up on this tour there was no talking this guy out of it he was gonna fall in love with someone didn't matter who was just clearly in love with this english woman that was there and she was not having it and word had spread to all of the rest of this tour over time it was like hey we lily does does not want Pete to be around her and we didn't want to like no one wanted to fully ruin anyone's vacation and we also can't like we can't leave Pete in Amsterdam or whatever like he's part of

the tour so we all just like created bubbles around Lily for this entire trip. And Pete was always just like trying to be drunk and trying to find reasons to be alone with her and would pull one of us aside. Everyone's like, I'm trying to be alone with Lily. And we're like, I know you can't. No one wants to tell you why, because we don't know you. And we don't know what you're like

when you're super depressed. So we all have to pretend that this is an accident every single time and it's exhausting. God, that only fuels his narrative, I'm sure too. Yeah. Where it's like, the world is telling me I need to go out on a limb. Yeah. I need to get her. I kept trying to get her alone every night

maybe let's see what's our what's the last night of this trip oh we're gonna stand outside the eiffel tower at midnight that's probably what the universe is telling me to do look man i know how this looks it does look very romantic and magical yeah just pick a different target, Pete. Anyone else in this city. It's not her. Yeah, that's rough. Ha-hing! You know what that sound is? It's a sound that I love. It makes me

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which was put together a playlist that you could run to that was going to be contained within 24 minutes. And it's going to make you faster and make you enjoy your race. This is a slightly different playlist challenge. The challenge is you are on a first date with a person you want to be on a date with. I'm putting our ages for this at like high school to college and a little bit outside of college, I think. Is that what I said at some point? Yeah, but I forgot that part, bit outside of college, I think. Is that what I said at some point? Yeah, but I forgot that part, but go on. It doesn't matter what, the songs are not tied to any years. The songs could have come out anytime. You have five songs that are gonna be playing in your mix CD in your car while you are driving your date to your destination. Any songs, it's a mix CD you made and you have any

reason in the world for putting them on there. And I'm very curious. This is certainly a thing that I did in real life. I would never cater a mix CD to a specific person on a first date, but I would have very meticulously put together mixed CDs, or I would have one CD that I thought was an oddball or interesting choice. And I would try to be very subtle about it. I wouldn't have them move into like, hey, I'm picking you up for our date.

Listen to these songs. I'm going to talk to you about them. I just wanted this safety net of a CD that I could talk about in the background. I love this. I love this challenge so much. Oh, good. I'm glad. Because as you're making it, you realize the traps and you realize what you need to be doing along the way. I learned a lot about myself putting this together.

The traps are... I mean, okay. So what you're trying to do yeah you're trying to create you want songs that are not super well known i think you want songs but they also feel like they should be like songs that feel like the minute you hear them you're like oh this is good what is this you want that reaction but you also don't want you can't oversell yourself and be like well what's like how do i prove that i listen to cool music? Which is like the immediate trap. That's the pit is like, is you want to show off your music. And that's always like the worst instinct in the world. Yeah. I can't, I can't be on a date and someone say, oh, what's this? I'm like, oh, you haven't heard? Oh, I guess. Yeah. They really only play bass mints out in Rhode Island.

No one's, I'm not, I'm not surprised you haven't heard of them. They're called the Garbage Butts. There's never been, everybody wants that. One of them is just a guy who screams at a bandsaw for a while. I'm into it. Everybody wants that for themselves, that somehow they are like the arbiters of esoteric music, but has never been an irredeemable quality in another human being. Yeah.

Even when they're right. Even when a song is good, it still puts you off if there's somebody like that. Yeah. And so it's so clear. As I was making this, I was like, don't do it. Don't be that guy. And so the songs that I was really- I'd do it anyway.

The songs that I was hunting for. You also don't want, I think the other side of the coin is that you don't want a bunch of songs that are like, you don't want gimme shelter by the rolling stones or something this is like classically good because it's so boring it's like there's nothing there there's that's milk toast everybody knows sweet child of mine gets played on every single classic rock radio station don't put that on your mix yeah and so you want to find songs that are good that maybe they haven't heard of that are just like but like poppy have like a poppy element to them that are good enough that on merit like just on listening alone without even listening to the lyrics necessarily if you catch

some of them it also helps yeah but you're you're just jumping into the middle of a song where you're like oh oh this is kind of nice that That's the feeling you, that's all you want. And then on top of that, if you can achieve it, you want that like, like a flirty sexiness to the song, which is so tough. And I love this challenge. I love doing it. Yeah. I almost, I thought about doing a gimmick for it where I would just do Elvis Costello songs because he is a, like a like a Muppety twerp with glasses and a janky voice. And I'm a Muppety twerp with glasses and a janky voice. So every time I played an Elvis song and she liked it, I'd be like, yeah, and people have sex with him. Can you believe it?

So keep that in mind. I did consider just bringing in the first five songs of 40 Ounces to Freedom by Sublime. But like, doing it as a slow roll. Be like, play the very first one, and then be like, and then I thought I'd jump into this, and you'd be like, huh. Yeah. Okay. Another Sublime, huh? And then we get to like

number five, and it's ebb and change. And you'd be like, okay, this is too much. We should go one-to-one right back and forth. Yeah, absolutely. This first one is a weird one. I wanted to have a Ben folds five song on because Ben folds five is my favorite band. Please tell me brick is the first song for a date.

It's not, it's not. It's a Ben folds is, will be a part of our life together. if if we fall in love uh i've seen the band more times than i've seen any other band the song i picked it's called the theme from dr peiser uh it's definitely the most obscure pick on here uh but i like it because a it lets me do a lot it lets me mention ben folds and ben folds five something that i could talk about and i and i'm a lot of these songs for me are conversation pieces if we have nothing else to talk about uh i can talk about ben folds five because i've been to see ben and that band more than any other concert i've been to uh it's also it rocks it's I picked a live version because I think

the live version is best like there's a studio version and I can explain on the date why and the other part of it is it's crucially one of the only Ben folds five songs that is instrumental so I think it's important to start out this date that way to not get distracted by talking. Like we have an opportunity to just have some background noise right in the beginning that sounds cool while we're chatting. you know what i'm realizing now yeah um go on it might be aggressive to occasionally have screams i mean it's a live version so you're gonna get you're gonna get screams Yeah. Go on. It might be aggressive to occasionally have screams. I mean, it's a live version, so you're going to get screams. Here's what I'm realizing.

I'm pretty sure that that's the Pulp Fiction riff. Is it? Oh, it might be. But yeah, you're setting it up nicely because it's exciting. The energy's upbeat, which is kind of what you want. And kind of, it is what you want. And I mean, obviously you don't know this about mushrooms because your parents listen to this podcast, but the way that mushrooms work is like, they set you up really nicely at the beginning for an adventure. Like the feeling you get at the very beginning is like this euphoria. And I think that's kind of what you

also want to achieve on a date is you're like, I'm going to set the mood and it's going to be fun. And here, look, isn't this fun? Yeah. Okay. So I've got a song for you, Daniel. I'm doing the same thing. I'm like trying to set it up. This is also the live version of Theme from Dr. Pizer by Ben Folds 5. I have chosen a song that I think is so fun and like fun in a bunch of different directions and also very kind of poppy and good that it really walks that line of like, why isn't this song more popular? This is a song and I'll tell you about the artist afterwards. An artist named Paul Williams called Nothing on Me. Oh! This is a song I absolutely love. Like, it always puts me in a good mood.

Do you know who Paul Williams is? It sounded familiar. Doesn't it? The name sounded familiar uh the name sounded familiar but uh i can't connect that to any song or voice i've ever heard me neither so the first song i heard from him was not that long ago and it's a song called surf music and i was like this song fucking rules who is this and i started like listening to more of his stuff and it was all really good and i was like what how did this slip past me and uh then i looked him up and he is he's the alex horn on taskmaster in new zealand whoa yeah so he is a comedian first like when you try to look him up you're like paul williams paul williams there's a lot of them paul william comedian, that can't be it. And then you go back and it's Paul Williams, the comedian created an album back in like 2017. And it,

it's so good. It's unbelievably good. And like, if you look at the reviews of it, everyone is like, uh, so it seems like he just made like a really earnest pop album and it's, he does it. It's great. I was. So how did you first hear this person i found it on spotify i had like a happy mix that i was just like going through and then i burned through it and so obviously spotify that starts adding other songs that are similar in tone i feel like we we covered uh data brokers on the show recently uh for anyone who doesn't know this like if anyone has ever had fears that like your iphone was listening to your conversations or your or your your smart speakers they're not but they don't need to because they've so much data has been collected about you yes the

companies know everything they need to know like like no one needs to activate the microphone in your phone because you you you just freely google and maps and email and and your information's out there so this is very much like an algorithm that is so highly attuned to you specifically that they're like oh yeah the band fronted by the guy who is the host of taskmaster new zealand this is right up Soarin' specific alley. They just, yeah, they got me so good. This is one of those circumstances where I'm like, yeah, AI rules.

Yeah, good. We should be targeted to it more often. Yeah. Don't ever let me pick my own artists again. We didn't even get to it, but like you're gonna love the verse of, I mean, the chorus of this, Dan, like the whole song is really, really good. He's got another one called, um, number one that it's, he's like,

let me be your number one. Let me be your Anthony Bennett. Uh, and Anthony Bennett was, uh, the first draft pick of the Cavaliers back in like 2017. He got in the middle of the song. He's like, I wrote this song straight after the draft and it is sort of like a funny song, but like Anthony Bennett shouldn't have been chosen everybody agrees like he was a terrible first round pick because nobody knows who anthony bennett is anymore and uh and he's like that's me like i i'm not the first like i know you don't you there's other people out there there's other people you'd maybe want better but let me be anthony bennett to you like let me be your number one fantastic um anyway his album is wonderful and i think everyone should listen to it.

I was worried about that pick when it started, because the beginning of that song, I'm like, man, sorry, it's a first date. Are you gonna dump her on the beach at night? What's happening here? And then it really picks up. Oh boy, does it. And that's what I'm thinking, is like, at the beginning, you're going to pick somebody up, you start that song

ten seconds before they get in the car. Okay. Oh, I feel, I'm feeling good about this so far. Let me hear number two. Here's, so there's a couple of parts of this.

I hate to do it. It's a really shitty behavior. Hold on. It's a show tune, isn't it? No. I think, uh,

I think you'll really marvel at my restraint with show tunes on this, this five song album. This song is from my rock and roll band, Lunch Money Criminals. Oh my God, Daniel! The band that I played in high school and college. It's called Last Song and it's awesome. There was that time when I wrote all about our lives It took me years and that's alright There was that time when I wrote all about our lives.

It took me years and that's all right. And you got a real business and I'm wasting all my time. And now I think it's a fun song. And it's so it's that's not necessarily a thing I would I would do on dates. I wouldn't like have my band playing in the car when I pick people up, but I very much, I think this, this honors the spirit of me when I was younger, that like,

if I, I would not miss an opportunity to mention being in a band. And if I would meet girls, I would definitely be like, Hey, come see my band play. Come watch me play music and, and,

and sing and dance and be a rockstar for a while. Here's what pisses me off about it. I think hold on i'm not done okay all right go on talking go on go on about this amazing time in my life when i was a rock star i think the reason i would put it on a mix cd now is a i'm still very proud of being a rock star and b i think there's something corny and earnest and really uh like putting it on there as a bit to impress another 36 year old we're like oh oh this this is just uh that voice you're hearing on the oz in the background that's a little person i like to call 17 year old me. So what don't you like about this,

the rock and roll band with me and my brothers? That's not what I don't like. What pisses me off about this selection on your list is that it checks all the boxes and I hate that about it. Like it's good. You listen to it and you're like, yeah, this belongs. It's like, it fits. It's got the right energy. Yeah.

It's optimistic. And then it also is like, if the circumstances arise where she's does say something about it, where she's like, this is, what is this? This is good. If you say me, that's's it and so it's making me mad is all because i didn't want to at the beginning i was like no you shouldn't do that don't put yourself on there of course not no but it's an objectively like it belongs on the list so good one dan okay so anyway this is my band uh the next song i have on here is a song that I've actually played for you before

the circumstances were that we were all in, um, Austin, Texas for South by Southwest. We're getting a ride home from an Uber or a Lyft and I'm in the front and the person's like, Hey, do you want the aux cord? And I was like, sure. And Michael and you, I think from the back, chord and i was like sure and michael and you i think from the back were like it better be good don't this up like it better you better pick the best song you have and so i was like i know exactly the song to go for and it was a song that i listened to frequently i've never gotten tired of that i think is like a really great song that that rocks and it has like a really cool feel to it and it's a song by the Alabama shakes called always. All right.

Are you familiar with this one? Do you remember it? I don't remember it. I know Alabama shakes. Here you go. She really goes for it, you know, cause it's Alabama shakes and like, it's such a fun, cool song.

That's a blast. Yeah. And I can, I certainly don't remember the first time I heard it, but it definitely, it was the right choice to play in Austin with all of us sitting there. That's absolutely the right answer. That big guitar at the beginning of it. You're like, oh, this is, yeah, yeah this is right this is the aesthetic for here um and that was a song that it's a song that like i've never ever i listen to it frequently and every time it comes on i'm like yes yes i love

this song and i think that it covers a lot of different genres too it has like a feel to it that's not it's not like aggressively rock it's also not it has like a bluesy element to it it's just it runs the gamut and i feel like it's a great song that there is the chance that your date in the middle of a conversation would stop and be like this this is good what is this and that's oh that's the dream yeah okay um it reminds me a little bit of of my next pick not the song at all but but uh you've got a a female fronted song you picked yes oh that's by the way yeah that's very intentional yes yeah so my next song is is uh the game very classic fiona apple feel it's just like driving piano it's a little dark everything that i

love about fiona is like felt in this song and i i not accidentally will mention fiona apple or like anita franco or alanis morissette anything i could do very important for me to be like, hey, I have heard of women. In retrospect, it's like not the most clever trick in the world to just be sitting in the car and be like, oh, yeah, I like Fiona Apple. And let's see, books, Charlotte Bronte. Favorite actor. She's a book, right? Charlotte Bronte. Witherspoon.

Oh, good piano. I forgot that this is also a sexy song. You get some horns in there it's fun and it is it's like yes it is undeniably sexy yeah um that's a that's another thing that i didn't bring up yet is it too early is it too early for for sexy no because it's it's on the album. So it's all about these layers, right? Like you can... Each one of these songs should have a layer, a sexual element to it. Yeah. Because you don't just want like good songs about suicide.

That's like the worst choice you can make. But songs that feel like I could either just have a conversation with you to this song or maybe we can make out to it and it wouldn't... Like it would work well in both circumstances. That is a good song. That's a good choice. It has good pianos, has good horns. It's nice and fast.

And it's Fiona Apple. So you know, my feel. Wait, is that not Fiona Apple? No, but go ahead. What's your next one? Who is who is that? What's up? Who was that?

Wasn't Fiona Apple? No, it was the game.'s up? That wasn't Fiona Apple? No, that was The Game. The Game. Yeah. Okay. Okay. Well, I've also chosen several women artists on mine. And for good reasons.

I mean, you're not going to bring it up in the middle of a conversation or anything. I assume that it's nice for a woman to be on a date with somebody who clearly listens to mute to female led groups on their own time. Yes. Does that make sense? Like, yeah, yeah. Seems important. Uh, and not in a way that's like I'm, I'm gaming the system or anything. I genuinely like these artists. I also recognize that that must be comforting. So my next song is by Christine and the Queens. Have you ever heard of Christine and the Queens? No. Okay.

This is a song called tilted, which is a song that every single time that I've played it somewhere where there's other, there are other women present. They're like, this is really good. And I've listened to other Christine and the Queen songs and been like, no,

it's not working. I don't like any of these other ones, but this one rules. And then the chorus is like, can't help it if we're tilted. I'm actually good. Can't help it if we're tilted. It's a very good, like very chill. It's very chill. Like chill is the word

that springs to mind. Kind of a sexy song too. Kind of sexy and like kind of, you feel safe listening to it when you're driving. Yes.

That seems important. And it seems like there's a lot of repetition in it and even like, not just in the words of the song, but in the, lyrics is what they're called,

not just in the lyrics of the song, but also in just like the core progression. Not just in the words of the song, but in the sounds of the song but also in just like the core progression not just in the words of the song but in the sounds of the song the noises and the words um also the then i as i was listening to these songs trying to figure out what i wanted i listened i watched the music video for it and it's it's just dancing it's a bunch of

people dancing up on a cube and it it's so good it's it rules it's uh it's worth watching the music video for as well tilted tilted yeah but christ Tilted, yeah, by Christina and the Queens. Alright. I have a bad quality. And I don't know if I still have it. But I definitely used to have it. A thing I used to do a lot that I know is bad is I would have a song where I had

a pre-planned story associated with it. And I think it must say something about me that I'm planning for a date to go so poorly that i need to to take over and start talking for an extended period of time like i would do a thing i would a song would play and i'd have like a canned like essay about the song that i would foist upon whatever woman was my hostage. Like, hey, you're in my car. Here's a six minute anecdote. I used to do it. I would pick a song with like a story behind it that I knew, like Layla. I would do it for Layla by Derek and the

Dominoes. That was very rich for me because there was a lot of like opportunity for me to talk about things uninterrupted. I could talk about, it's called Eric and the Dominoes by accident because the band was actually Eric and the Dynamos, but they were introduced and the person introducing them said the wrong name at a show. So they just rolled with that. There's also like two very interesting stories

associated with, one associated with why this particular song was written and another about like a really uh dark but kind of interesting postscript to the song it's just like very rich in terms of a song with ancillary stories uh and i would like find reasons to play that song around people so i could jump into these stories as a way of like, like proving that I'm a good storyteller and also like managing my own anxiety of like, okay, I'm going to just jump into something like here's some familiar territory.

I think that's not crazy. I think that's a really good decision and a smart thing to do. Especially you can't guarantee that the other person is going to carry their end of a conversation either. It's, I, I, I wonder if women would agree, because it was definitely something that I subjected several women to. And like just delivering these prepared essays. There's actually a modern song that speaks to the kind of thing that I did.

It's a song T-shirt tucks by the whole study. One of my favorite bands. They have a lyric in the song that goes, there's a boy and a girl who were draining their beers. He said Stalin was a weather man to start his career. And Johnny Cash was in the service when the news came through the wire. And it's weird how you feel when bad people die. She said, yeah, I guess whatever. All your fun little facts are never going to keep us together. And as soon as I heard that lyric, I was like, oh no, it's that thing I do. My personality, it's a series of facts accumulated over time that I hope

will please people. And it's a recognizable enough personality trope that there's a whole fucking lyric about it. Yeah. And why it's bad. But I've mentioned two songs here. Both Layla by Dark in the Dominoes and T-Shirt Tux

by The Hold Steady. This is neither of those songs. This song is called Enough. Enough. One golden summer they drove this town With the windows down of this 88 celebrity Just another great song. Yeah, so here's the thing that I'm just now noticing, and I'm a little worried for you, Dan.

What's up? All your songs so far are very piano forward in the beginning. Okay. What is that a worry for? Because you are, like, you're playing all your cards right off the top you she knows your genre she knows a lot about you that i don't think you're meaning to necessarily give away okay i think that you think i've i've you think the thing that i've given away is that i like piano too much i'm giving that away yes yes i think that you all these songs are like like if i was the to listen to these few songs and be like

i can get this guy like i know what this guy wants hey hey let me play this uh if i could think of a single song to begin piano heavy that's not done i mean like name a billy joel song name an elton john yeah that's true yeah i'm gonna oh new york state of mind this is gonna blow his mind hey should we listen to new york state not mine next and you'd be like yes we should um i i think that they all begin kind of similarly okay and i'm worried about that for you okay well it's too late i burned the cd and the dates tonight oh man i can't believe you have a place to play a cd uh i was driving my friend uh bernadette around a couple weeks ago we were coming back from the city and in my car with my cd player and she was just so i take for granted how shocking it must be for someone in their 30s in the present to see

the same massive cd wallet that i've had since 2003 right because there's just no reason there's no reason for anyone to have those anymore and i'm not buying new cds or burning new cds so it's like the exact cds that i've been carrying around since 2003 just accumulating and she sees like my high school handwriting scrawling you know seussical on a clearly burned cd with cool. Like names that you thought would be really fun and neat. Oh, yeah. Yeah. You said the song was called Enough, but you didn't say who it was by, did you?

No. Who is it by? Can I hear it? Do you want to hear the song again? No, I want to know who it's by. By this New Jersey band. Okay, hold on a second. Hold the fuck on. is this song enough by the

lunch money criminals uh-huh that's weird you fucking asshole you tried to sneak that right by you told a story about some other fucking bands and like really set it up. Oh, here's two other songs by two other groups. It's not by either of them, but here it is. It's called Enough. And so I was like, try to do the good, the journalistic thing and be like, well, people are going to want to know who this song is by in case they like it. Dan, who is this by?

And I didn't realize I was putting my thumb on you, but Dan, you don't get to. I don't? Okay. No wonder it was K-On! Forward. It's the same band. Yeah, I couldn't interrupt you. Like, what am I going to do? Lead with a bass solo?

Come on, Soren. Pull your head out of your ass. We didn't have guitar, buddy. Do you sing on this one? Yeah, backing vocals for all of them, yeah. Yeah, good. So what happens? Let me just hypothetically be on the date with you.

I get to the second song, and I do the thing you want, which is... This was the fourth song. We were on the fourth song now. I know, but I mean, I get to the second one. Your second one is a Lunch Money Criminal song. Oh, that's right. Yes, yes. So I get to that one and I say, who is this?

I like this. And you say... Tell me what you say. I'm this age? Yeah. Say, oh, thank you. That's my rock and roll band from when I was a kid. Oh, cute. Oh, that's really roll band from when I was a kid. Oh,

cute. Steer into it being a joke. And I talk like, yeah, it was a really great time. My life's like me and my two older brothers, we were playing all over the state of New Jersey and like winning competitions.

It was like, it was super fun. I, I look back on it and smile a lot. Cause my relationship with my brothers is, is one of the strongest things in my life. And it was just like a fun time. Who gets to be a little rock star for a while? That's really cute.

It's dorky. I'm not going to make you listen to the whole song. That's really fun. Did you put that on here for me? Yeah. That's really cute. It's like a goof. Yeah, it's a fun little joke. Alright, now let's fast forward until we get to the fourth song. We're talking and at a certain point I stop

and I'm like, no, I don't want children. And then I say, and then I say, this is good. Who is this? That's us again. You need to know that I'm also like a comedian. So like, I'm going to do bits. Well, hold on.

This is your bit. This is the exact same band from you in 17 you put two songs yeah separated by very different songs the first one the first one you heard was was last song which is like like kind of a fun spiteful snarky song and this one enough is about uh falling in love in the summer on the jersey shore okay it's different two different flavors so you've put two the first one was cute and jokey this is now a second song this you genuinely listen to your own band is what you're telling me i mean on a date yeah when i'm trying to when i'm trying to get hard sure to when i'm trying to get hard sure here's here's what i'm worried about i'm gonna be so

mad if i did all this work and your third song is a lunch money criminal song if i mean if your last song yeah if your fifth song if your fifth song last song titular moment for the song called last song that's pretty fun soren is a new fan join the street team all right let me let me play you my fourth okay uh and then we'll we'll determine how mad i need to be because you are a comedian and i if you tell somebody that that's like checkoff's comedian you better have your comedy in threes at that point. And if there's no third Lunch Money Criminal song, I don't know how I'm going to feel about it. This is my next song is not by a woman. And it's actually a cover. Do you remember there's an old I don't know if it's Motown or do up, but it was a song called This Magic Moment.

Yeah. Well, Lou Reed does a really cool, greasy guitar cover of it. That is not the name that I wanted to hear oh you don't like that's fine uh just listen to it this magic moment so different and so new was like any other until i met you all right so this one is a admittedly a dark horse on there also very on the nose in that this magic moment is exactly what you're hoping for like you're like you're really forcing it down their throat how to feel uh it's it's a cover that i think is very cool and i really enjoy i think that he his voice is so weird and i think that the guitar in it is so rad and there's one

point in it which says everything i want i have and the way that he says it there's like a lot of feeling behind it and it's also a song that gets that makes me feel good in the same way we're like you're trying to like psych yourself up a little bit uh yeah this is a song that when it comes on i'm like i feel very confident i feel very cool when i'm listening to this song and i need that maybe at this point in the day because now we're into song number four we're getting close to dinner and so like this is a song like helps me you Oh, fuck. You made dinner reservations? Shit. I just did the CD. We're going to, we're just going to walk. I know the area that's got a lot of restaurants and we're going to kind of like walk around

and see how we feel and like check out some menus. She doesn't know yet that I've made reservations at all six of the restaurants there. Just whichever one she lands on, that's where we're going. We will definitely have a table. Yeah. So Lou Reed, it's not somebody you enjoy from what I get when I gather. she lands on that's where we're going we will definitely have a table um and yeah so lou reed uh i it's not somebody you enjoy from what i get when i gather i mean i i i don't dislike him i just i you know like a lot of greasy grungy songs about being strung out on heroin is that really

my cup of tea yeah he's got a lot of sad songs. This cover won me over because I do like an interesting cover. And especially when it's not super recognizable as the original. Like earlier today, I had Mountain Goats going on Spotify. And they have a cover of FM by Steely Dan that just has absolutely no interest in honoring that original song. And it's great. It rules. That's good. It's good to hear you say that.

The same was as Lou Reed, that it really, it convinces you, oh, this guy wrote it and he had a completely different motive behind writing it. Like the words are all the same, but it still feels like a completely different song about a different thing. This song, I'm not sure if this is what it's actually from. David Lynch, I think, is maybe one of the best people at picking out really good music for his movies. And this song is from Lost Highway.

And there's a moment where this mechanic sees Patricia Arquette in a car. And Justin seeing her starts to fall in love with her. It's great. It's a beautiful scene. It's very slow motion um and it's a song that i feel like evokes that really nicely of like seeing somebody for the first time like yeah and it's not lovey-dovey it's not cloying it's very um it's like this is a weird way to put it but it's ma it's mahogany it's a mahogany song This is a weird way to put it, but it's mahogany.

It's a mahogany song. All right. Number five. Do you know the band The Dead Weather? No. It's a super group. It's Alison Mosshart from The Kills, Dean Fertitta from Queens of the Stone Age, Jack Lawrence from The Raconteurs, and Jack White. Holy shit.

Yeah. It's a fucking incredible supergroup fronted by a woman. This song's called Away To You. It's by Lunch Money Criminals. Fucking dead. Looking out the window to a rainy day Well, it's not like I have to be anywhere anyway I'm going to skip ahead a little bit

because these guys really rock out at the end. Okay, go for it. guitar solo It's like that. It's like that as a song. It's like that. It goes like that. Like really just instrumental stuff and hits at the end. We used to close out shows with it. I'm mad at myself for giving you so much credit of the first song. It belonged on the list. I'm angry at myself for saying to you, this checks all the

boxes. This is really good. Because you really fucked me here. How so? I spent so much time thinking about how to make this perfect. And like, you want to know what I called mine? What?

I called mine Daniel's first date, thinking maybe he'll want it. Maybe he will take this and he'll use it. So you're- Not only would this be good for me, this is universally good. Mm-hmm. Your issue is that you don't think that all you did put any work into it no my issue is that you put all that work in in 11th grade and that's where all the work went and you and then you just and and now you've picked out some songs. How many did you have to choose from? 14? 20?

And you picked these songs so that you could be like, at the end, you could be like, she's reeling at this point because get through number four and then you get to number five and it's laughter again. She can crack up because same voice. She knows that voice now at this point. She knows there's that lack of guitars. She knows what she's listening to immediately.

You don't have to say anything. It's interesting that you think only three of these five songs are Lunch Money criminal songs. Are all of them? Yes, sir. Do you have any idea how hard it is to slow play that? Do you have any idea how hard it is to slow play that? Especially after you put the idea in the air with that sublime thing. This was a fucking tightrope walk.

The YouTube cover in the beginning with girls screaming in the audience. That's us live. The song is called The Game. I never said it was by Fiona Apple. I thought you said song is called The Game. I never said it was by Fiona Apple. I thought you said it was called The Game. I thought you said some band called The Game, and I was like, crazy, because there's already a hip-hop artist named The Game. Oh, well.

No. Check the tape. The Game is the name of the song. All five, baby! You listen to an EP, you stupid fuck! Gotcha! What was the number three song? Number three

was theme from Dr. Pizer cover that we did, then last song by Lunch Money Criminals, then The Game by Lunch Money Criminals, then Enough by Lunch Money Criminals, then Away to You by Lunch Money Criminals. Okay.

Dan, you had a great band. The songs are great when i said tonally they all sounded a little similar maybe it's because they're coming from the same fucking band this have you done this before tell me you've done this no okay this was Okay. This was all the whole... The only reason I wanted to do this episode was to do this to you. This could not have gone better for me. I've been thinking about it for months. You don't deserve my last song. I'm less stressed now. Like I'm lighter. A weight has been lifted because I was so worried you'd be like, hold on a second. Is this like the second song you would know what

was up or the second iteration of this you would know what was up? You weren't playing enough of them. It wasn't like there wasn't enough of the song for me to ever, but then like, I should have known. As soon as I was like, but then like, I shouldn't know. As soon as I was like, Oh Dan, I'm a little worried for you that these all sound so similar. I should have fucking known what you were doing. And then,

and then I was so stupid thinking, Oh man, he put two of those songs on here. That what a big mistake. That is a huge mistake to put two songs and to try and like hide them by scattering them in the middle somewhere. Oh, Daniel, you fool. And then when you said, uh, I'm a comedian, I was like, okay, there's a chance his third song is one too. All right.

So that's the bit. He starts off normal, puts one in, get something else. Then you get two more. I was like, I, yeah, this is a waste of my time, but I didn't realize what a colossal waste of my time. This was.

Yeah. And that's really, I have to appreciate that. I guess. It's also, it's like, it's like one of our longer podcasts now. So it's a waste of our listeners time. This is,

this is, they're all on YouTube. You said at the beginning, they're all on youtube you said at the beginning they're all on youtube uh-huh ah i should how of course you have spotify yeah why did i think this was going to be anything other than this i'm i'm angry and so i a thing that's great about this podcast is that we encourage each other to feel their feelings. So like be angry, but also be professional. Finish it out. What's your number five date song?

Come on. It's going to be so humiliating now. Maybe it'll be good enough that she'll give you a smooch. What is it? Humiliating. All right. Here we go i picked i picked a song that i thought ah this is the turn this is like this song is going to be clearly different than the others

and it's a little slower it's still very oh god i'm so angry at myself just trying to describe it it's a song that's maybe, it's another cover. It's maybe the sexiest lyrics of any song I know. And it's dark and a little like, it's just a little freaky. And I want her to know that I have that going on. Crazy. This song is called The Game by Lunch Money Criminals. This song is called, this is originally money criminals this song is called this is

originally by tv and the tv on the radio which is a song called a wolf like me but this is a performance by lira lynn and shovels and rope we could jet in a stolen car where we wouldn't get too far so the song is about somebody turning into a, yeah, bust that box, gut that fish. Bust that box, gut that fish. Yeah. She's super wet. It's a song about somebody turning into a werewolf. But it's like my body, it's all these things that are happening to my body. My body's strained.

My mind is pain, but God, I like it. Like it's, it's, and then there's like a whole part in it. And it's about like like open my heart and bleed onto yours and like it's really goth dan it's very goth but in a way that like it feels like a bluegrass song almost and so it it's like hitting on a lot of different cylinders and i'm just gonna shut up now because no man i think that's really i think that's really sexy i think you really got her i think uh i think that's a real romantic and and uh it's a good thing you did man it's a really good thing this is the point of the drive where she's like i'm pretty sure downtown was the

other way and we're just like driving out to uh a cabin because we're gonna go we're gonna go have sex in the cabin yeah yeah awesome yeah you got a cabin too it we're going to go have sex in a cabin. Yeah, yeah. Awesome. You got a cabin too. Six dinner reservations and a cabin. No, I didn't. This isn't mine. I know what happened to the family that lived there and they're just no longer there. Hey man, you took this assignment seriously

and I really appreciate that. You knew I would. You knew that I was going to try my hardest at anything I had to put my name on. And I was like, maybe we'll share these afterwards. I've listened to his running mix before. If I look back on this and those were all Lunch Money Criminal songs, I'm going to be very upset. I've run to your mix. I thought, maybe dan will want this

the icing on the cake will be he will get it and realize the name of it is is for him and and now i've just got if i asked you for years i just have a bunch of fucking lunch money criminal songs and you'd be better for it you started so happy about this assignment. You were so thrilled. I could hear it in your voice. This is the best day of my life. I'm gonna, God, I'm gonna fuck you up somehow. I just, I'm gonna figure it out. I know, I know. That's the other thing that I knew,

the other seed that was planted in this is like, well, I've drawn first blood now. Pranks are on the table for the show. I did make you sift through a lot of sports roundups. That's true. To be fair. All right. Well, I think we can end the show.

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