Quick Question with Soren and Daniel - The Guys (Almost) Join Tik Tok

Episode Date: October 1, 2021

Big Daniel wins another Emmy! And the guys talk about how they're now experts on both Tik Tok AND gender issues.  And as always big thanks to our sponsors. Thanks Canva Pro. Get a FREE 45-day extended trial by going to canva.me/QQ45 . and Thanks to Honey.  Shop with confidence — get Honey for FREE at JoinHoney.com/qq

So hello again and welcome to another episode of Quick Question with Sorin and Daniel, the podcast where two best friends and comedy writers ask each other questions and give each other answers. I'm one half of that podcast, author of How to Fight Presidents and three-time Emmy-winning staff writer for Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, Daniel O'Brien, joined as always by my co-host, Mr. Sorin Bui. Sorin, say hello. No, there's no way I can follow that.

Three-time winner of an Emmy. So do you get a little statue every single time, Daniel? I do, yeah. That's so exciting. You have three now. They mail them. So we don't know how quick it'll take to get here. Last year, because of COVID, it was like five or six months before they ever showed up.

Oh. And it was... I don't like that no and as soon as i as soon as we found out we won the second one i gave my first one to my parents as a gift not realizing that i would go like five or six months without seeing one and didn't realize how important it was to you golem with his ring something you can pet each night let's thank Honey for sponsoring this episode these days it feels like online shopping is the only shopping we really do that's where Honey comes in

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Dan, first of all, I didn't say this before, huge congratulations on winning another emmy that's so exciting i was so excited when i found out you won uh i was very very excited to i mean obviously it's better when i get to see you on stage and i get to ask you about your outfit and everything but surely there are lots of things you can tell me about the about actually winning an emmy this time that like where you even were were you sitting at home in the dark yeah we um so the the way the emmys works is because of covid they moved from their normal theater into a smaller situation i heard and reduced the amount of uh nominees per category so it's only four nominees per category and that's

the kind of academy change that really only impacts teams like ours like late night we all have large writing staffs of 10 to 14 writers uh so like when you limit the amount of nominees you're still going to get all your favorite ted lasso actors you're still going to get all the directors that you like and your queen's gambit stars and your the crown stars but it's just these uh unwieldy large writing staffs where we we made cuts and uh i was one of the ones that stayed home this year like we we picked our own four that we were sending because they were writers who were newer to the show and hadn't been to a ceremony ceremony before so we were happy to send them and i spent it my parents were in town so i spent it with them and my brother and sister-in-law we babysat for my other brother's

kids for a while and then put them to sleep and then we all got dressed up and watched the emmys together as a family and i gotta tell you it you, it's really cool to do that. It's a really special thing that I get to share with my family. And I'm happy that the stars align, that we can all be in the same room for it. Because I don't know how to engineer another situation where we're all in the same place at the same time for the Emmys. So it was really cool that we got to share that together. And it was nice to get dressed up it was very silly what did you get dressed up yeah uh you know we had suits and dresses and stuff i wore a tie and vest what yeah with your family yeah it was cute as shit

you can't have sex with any of them. I got hung up on another thing you said, which was that the team got together and decided to let some newer Raiders go to have that experience. That's very, very altruistic and kind of you. I think that's the worst thing in the world. Seniority is a term for a reason.

Like the people who have been there longer, earn it more, let them have the experiences. When those young people, those fresh faces have been there for a while and their teeth are a little longer, then they can go. We disagree on this, but that's kind of you to say um other fun that's

how i treated it cracked anytime there was an event i was going it didn't fucking matter if there were new people who could go there they weren't going i already it was like just should have just been implied that soren's going to this other fun anything is uh we were watching the whole like first hour or so i guess and there's a commercial break and i said out loud to them and to a lesser extent god i said i'm gonna go to the bathroom now our category won't be next and then i went to the bathroom and then i heard my entire family screaming for me while i was in the bathroom that our category was up so i finished my business in the bathroom and i i run back and i slide into the room which uh add some some much needed drama to the event and real opportunity to do a risky business slide

there because you're already wearing a dress shirt and coming out of the bathroom what a would a costume change that would have been go on um but yeah it was uh i think probably better that the our category came up in like kind of surprise to me because it just gave me less time to to dwell on it because it's i think i talked about this last time that uh i have a very i'm very grateful to be part of this team I'm very grateful to be part of this team. I'm very lucky. I work with incredible people and it's nice to get a trophy for doing my job.

That said, it's so much more stressful to me than I want it to be or that I think it needs to be because I'm going to have the that I think it needs to be. Because, and I gotta have the healthiest attitude about it in the world and walk into the situation knowing if we win or lose, it doesn't change how I feel about the work we did last year. It's not going to change how I do this job going forward if we lose or if we win. My life won't materially change.

if we lose or if we win my life won't materially change and anyway i have i i have a healthy enough perspective about it that like it's not this isn't a load-bearing thing and awards are silly uh all that said i'm still stressed i still like spend the whole day i woke up with nervous energy at like five in the morning and went to the beach and did a nice five mile run and had a, had a good breakfast and like do all of my little tricks to, to calm myself down and not stress out and not think about it. And I'm still just like, I'm, I'm sitting there like a ball of stress. I'm surrounded by my family and I'm still nervous about this thing. And I get really in my head about like, why are we, why are we doing this? Why, why, why do we have this ceremony every year? I'm being a real downer. No, it's okay. You have to be humble about it. I understand.

I just, I mean, you, I have to ask this because you won't bring it up yourself because you're terrible at bragging. You just are not good at it. You're the competition was much stiffer this year because you're in a new category, right? We are. Yeah. And that's one of the other things that I don't love about this, this,

this whole endeavor. Again, as cool as it is to, to have Emmys and like being able to take my mom to the Emmys was one of the best things I've ever been able to do in my life. It's again, at the end of the day, a trophy for doing your job. And the longer I stay in this business, the more people I know who I'm competing against. You know, it's not, it's, I'm not the most competitive person in the world. I still don't want to lose.

But then when you win, like we're beating friends of ours, you know, we we're beating peers a lot of these are people that also came up in internet comedy around the same time that you and i did and like it's it's i need to rewire my brain so i can just consume the entire night of the emmys as broadly a celebration of everyone and not these narrow competitions where winning means my friends lose which i hate okay i would hate it more if i lost but your enemies you're fine with them losing though right good so tell me some of the competitors that you had you tell me if you've been in this situation before when you're shopping online you go to checkout and you see that little empty bar that says promo code and you're just you just think to yourself oh why am i not an insider how come nobody's given me a promo code well that's what honey is for

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here so you guys are outstanding writing for a variety series that's obviously the big one for you that one's huge i see your name right here in the middle of it which is very exciting but you guys also won for outstanding variety talk series we did yeah that's the one where we beat conan and that that hurts oh that's so great wait so did the same fucking people get up on the stage each time for each of these emmys or i guess you've got like outstanding technical direction that's got to be somebody that's yeah and we had um we had writers accepting the writing writing award and we had john and our producers accepting the show award. I was saying editing for a variety program. Oh, that's 2020.

That's so exciting. Congratulations, Dan. I know that it's not a big deal to you, that awards are silly to you, and all that, et cetera, et cetera. But you're being recognized as one of the top television shows on television. And that's something like that's a

really that you can hang your hat on that that's very that should feel very very good and i think you should allow yourself to feel good about that because you should be proud i'm proud of you i'll pencil in some time maybe tomorrow or next week to feel good okay good uh so i guess i can ask now what did you what did you wear i wore um shit did i i i wore the the tie you saw me and when i flew out to la for uh that that court thing it's a flower tie right yeah i wore that that flower tie and uh just a vest and suit pants and a and a shirt a pink shirt pink good choice rolled up sleeves i assume with the vest yeah and then your socks are pink too i'm i'm hoping the socks are pink yeah and the socks are actually a pair of socks

that uh my dad got me a couple years ago because originally uh when we thought we could go to the emmys he was my plus one and uh i wanted to have still some kind of some connection to that connection that like socks are from dad it was smart of you to get your parents out of the way first because now what you can do is the next time you're on like a fishing trip and some woman asks you what you do and you say i work at last week tonight she goes i don't know what that is you could be like well fucking come to the emmys with me then you can just use that you have this card now that whenever you want to play it would be a fantastic opportunity i think there can't be i think that would end up being one of the think that would end up being one of the most uncomfortable things i could do if i try to to flex on a new person and bring them to the emergency what if it's terrible what if it doesn't work god it's like six podcasts worth of immaterial if

if it goes really poorly and what it could also go great you don't know it's true the and and then the grandkids have to hear that story while you guys are like you know while you're out uh hunting down cars for gasoline in the future with your grandchildren yeah um you could be telling them that we met at the emmys and they'll go what on earth are those and you have to explain what television is to them yeah and i'll explain that. We had these gold trophies. We've since melted them down to use as weapons, of course, and for trade. Do you have a spot on your shelf for it?

No. Good problem to have. That's exciting. That's going to be fun to think about. Man, if only I knew someone who could, like, maybe build me a trophy case or something i would love to build you a trophy case you know that i'm back on my bullshit dan uh i sent you a picture just now yeah let me pull it up now a little project that i've been working on can you can you see it oh holy shit that's not a leg at all that's a full

picnic yeah and so this is also why i asked about context in the photo you can't tell but that's it's not super big that's very tiny that's a kid's picnic table that's for my children so they have somewhere to actually sit outside because our picnic table we realize is just too after they've fallen off of it six or seven times it's just too tall and too unwieldy for them so I built them a small one and it's not quite done yet I still have to do another sand

on it and then I gotta weatherproof it which will also be like a little bit of a stain so it'll be a little bit more of a red richer tint to it than that but yeah that's a redwood picnic table I made that's uh yeah that's a redwood picnic table i made that's amazing it would survive a tornado like this thing will live 30 or no longer than that i think i think this table will be around for like 60 years i can stand on it i can

jump on it i can it also is impossible to move with a single person because it's not it's not like those picnic tables you usually see at preschools and stuff where they use just like one by three boards this is two by four boards for the most part and two by six for the top of it so it's a very heavy children's picnic table they're not tipping this thing over it looks like like a like a real serious professionally done heavy duty fucking rounded you see the edges are rounded there i was gonna say children so they don't fall in it but also i realized it gave it kind of like a a softer feel to it it feels more like a kid's table when the edges are rounded like that i don't know very happy with it i got a new saw

a uh chop saw or a miter saw which i have not worked with before and now i feel crazy for not having gotten one sooner because i've been doing pretty much everything with a table saw but when you have to do angles that gets very tough on a table saw and a chop saw is much easier for that it's basically just a saw that you put the board underneath it you bring the saw down on top of it you pick it back up like a paper

cutter almost and that it's very easy because you can just swing the it you have a little guide on there, a little compass that tells you like how many, what degree angle you're at. You just swing it over to that. You're like,

Oh, I want this at 45 degrees, lock it in. Then you just drop it on the piece of wood and you cut it. And hadn't had that in the past and really suffered for it. I had some projects that I abandoned that didn't go very well because I was not, I couldn't cut angles.

But if I don't know how I'd even get it to you but if you want me to make you something for your wall I'd be happy to do that I think that could be very fun and very cool um not immediately because I'm moving. Did I tell you that? Oh. Oh. Oh. Are you going to go down to that little town in New Jersey and live there as a local? Here's the thing. Not no.

I don't know yet. So my lease here is up at the end of December and I'm not picking it up again. And then January, i'm spending spending a month in that that quiet jersey beach town where they're trying to make me the mayor uh and i'm gonna see a what that commute is like uh and how often i would need to do it because i don't really know what our work schedule is going to be like going forward in these post-COVID days. And then I don't know.

Maybe I'll stay there longer. Maybe I'll go somewhere else. It's very strange and not particularly on brand for me to end one lease without knowing where I'm going. So this will be a fun adventure. That doesn't feel very characteristic of you. To just like play it by ear with something that big but that's very exciting i'm excited for this new chapter in your life where yeah you are unpredictable yeah and then once i figure out where i'm gonna live i'll i'll send you some specs you can make me uh some furniture excellent yeah so here's yeah you

can tell me like what if you're thinking you want it to be have like some gas piping on it with wood or if you just want it to be full wood and if you want to be floating shelves or like what the space is you want to fill oh this is very exciting for me i can i can do it all i'll give you whatever you want hell yeah i don't know how i'm getting it to you though that's gonna be troublesome i don't even know if you can ship something that's like I don't want to get damaged you know yeah I'll think about it yeah we'll figure it out canva pro is a design platform that empowers you to create and share stunning content in just a few clicks designing with canva pro is fast and it's easy and quite honestly it's fun to use it's a

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Well, Dan, I have a quick question for you. You want to start the show? How do you feel about that? Sure. All right. Are you familiar with TikTok, first of all? Okay, that's not the question. Are you on TikTok? Damn it. Am I on it? No. I would say the only exposure I get to TikTok is when people will tweet TikToks.

I'm not going to migrate over to an additional platform that I find alienating and confusing. And instead, I'll just wait for someone to share stuff on Twitter. Yes, I am the same way. And I will occasionally even catch TikTok compilations when they show up on my right rail on YouTube or when I'm just like scrolling through the videos on Facebook because I still use Facebook.

Yes. And I end up watching a lot of TikToks even even though i'm not on tiktok at all and i have never gone to tiktok but there's one that i want to talk to you about and i don't know if you've seen it um there's there's you know there's trends that emerge where like everybody's going to be doing the same thing where they're all like okay we're all going to do this one challenge or like whatever so there's one that's it's called let's confuse the boys or let's confuse the guys. And it's women. It's they're usually very, very short. It's just women doing something in their room. Like all girls will know what this means and guys won't know. And I thought for sure going into this, I was like, I'm going to know all these,

I've, you know, I've been married to a woman for quite some time and i thought okay there'll be things like you thought your period was over but oh no here it comes again like that kind of stuff there's it's genuinely baffling to me and i can't tell if they're just fucking with me or not there's some things in these videos and there is some of that there is some of like you sneeze yeah and that's yeah there's there's some stuff that is about periods that i that i definitely understand yeah there's and then there's it's period heavy i'll say that but those ones i generally understand and get there are some other ones that i have no idea what is going on and so either this is like really great like they've done everybody's being very smart about what they post and i should maybe be

on tiktok because wow great content or they're just fucking with me and i can't tell which it is um some of the ones i'll give you some examples of the ones that i've seen so there's one where a woman uh says to the camera don't ever tell them and then has the camera zoom in on the edge of her chair it It's just sort of like the rounded edge of a wooden chair and then the rounded edge of her wooden desk. And then she comes back to her and she says, don't ever tell them. And I was like, what, what are we looking at? And I have no idea what that one means. There's another one where a woman is, uh, she doesn't talk at all,

but she puts her hand next to her head as though she's like, you have to be this tall to ride this ride. And she's that tall. She's at least that tall because it's like at her cheek. And then she points up at her ceiling fan. And there are some of these compilations

also have, you know, somebody reacting to them as well. And I watched a react one. This one showed up in a reacts. And this woman goes, this is a site for families gosh you guys so I know that this is a sex one maybe or like a something visceral but a boy I just had a loss have you did I I sent you a couple of these did you have a chance to watch any you did yeah and i watched them and and there are some that uh i i definitely clock as related to periods and there's some that uh nope it makes me also feel very lonely it made me feel like

are i don't know people at all I thought I some of them are pretty straightforward like this one is just this woman owns a lot of clothes yeah and I was like yeah okay I passed that test yeah a lot of clothes a lot of clothes but no outfits I think

is one of them and yeah got it I'm locked in I've seen that in sitcoms before we're good and then all of a sudden there'll be one that's like just a picture of a really nice bedroom and then that's it or a really nice bedroom and and somebody throws a comforter down uh like a different type of comfort there's like one comforter there they take that comforter off and they put down a different comforter and i'm like what what the fuck was that what are we watching why do only women know that it's are you is this intentionally vague and crazy so that i'll think i'm crazy yeah i i wish there was I wish there was, like, I guess a key.

Yeah. I need someone to, I need the spoilers for this. I need the AV Club style recap of this video where someone is like, here's what all of it means. Yeah. Because that's going to help me determine if I buy this TikTok trend or not. Yeah. On cereal boxes, when I would do the tests as a kid, like the mazes and crosswords on the back, on the bottom of the cereal box, when you turn it over, the answers are right there.

And I just want to be able to just pull down a list of answers. And I'd be like, here's what this is. Here's this crazy shit that you didn't know existed. And then I would be like, wow, good you for like isolating that detail and putting it in a video so clearly for everybody who does experience it uh i i feel like some of this is i feel like we would learn that some of this is bullshit i feel like if we brought in an expert there's like yeah some of these don't really fit the the premise of the video how did they get in the compilation then that's going to be the ones where they're like no these are all the good ones this is the mixtape of the ones that really nail it and somehow this woman putting her hand near her

face and then pointing at her ceiling fan i'm sure that as i'm describing this there's somebody shouting at their radio radio when we're out there on the am yeah um they're listening to it and they're like oh you you're an idiot you're idiot it means this or like the edge of a table they're like no women like round edges don't you know women love round edges and i just don't get it or there's one and i think this maybe is a masturbation one where there's like a woman who all it is is it's a shower head and then she flips the shower head from one um spray to like a more concentrated spray and that's it i'm like oh okay so the one you use for conditioner the one that's like harder to get stuff out of your hair with that's that's that's what we're doing or is this like a it's it's a fixed one like it's not like one

that you take off the shower and and you could use for masturbation it's just like this it's a fixed shower head and she's just like did you know these change couldn't that maybe also be about period flow oh yeah i guess it could so anyway i should tell you also also for full context, I found a guy's one of this too. And then I was like, all right, well, this will inform whether or not this is just crazy. And there are actually some really great ones in there. It's just like a guy walking and then all of a sudden he just like stretches his knee out to the side and kind of bends down a little bit. And I was like, oh, okay, great.

Yeah, testicle stuck to the side of his leg. It's a great one. Or there was one where there's like a guy at a water dispenser on a refrigerator and he's getting water out of it. And as water's coming out into his glass, just a tiny stream is like shooting out to the side and away from his glass. And I was like, okay, yes. Okay.

These do make sense. So then I was like trying to watch the, go back as a detective and try and figure out exactly what I'm missing from these other ones. Watching them over and over again and being like, I still don't get it. I don't get what this one is. I have no idea what this is.

Is it possible that I don't know anything about women? Yeah, I mean, it's, I don't have much to say about two aging white guys talking about period flow in our podcast where we don't understand tiktok and we worry that people are going to be yelling at their radios but the one that really made me mad like i yelled at my computer was the one where there's this woman's like uh she personally usually point to the that text that's like let's confuse guys and boys and then she swings around and shows a bedroom that's like it's got this really cool exposed light um situation at the top there's a very nice bed those good pictures on the walls and everything like that and i'm like you don't you don't get good bedrooms that can't just be a

girl thing like i love that bedroom i love it that could i would live there i don't know um well that was that was what I was curious about. I think that you were the wrong person to ask because we are almost identical in that respect. Yeah. But I don't know who else to ask about this. I can't. And even me saying this showerhead thing

might be about period flow. That's mostly, I'm responding to what I feel like is a trend in these videos. Like, I understand what that means. I understand what that means. I understand what that means. I don't understand what that means. I bet it's about periods also. There's another one that's very easy to describe,

which is there's a woman has shaving cream on her leg. And then with her finger, she just draws a line in the shaving cream. And then draws another long line from knee to thigh, just draws a line in the shaving cream and that's the video and i mean well mission accomplished you confused a couple of boys i as i was saying that i don't know what else to ask i i'm just gonna show this to my wife i'm sure that she can carve out some time from from trying to save the planet to help me understand some tiktok videos i just need my daughter to be a little older she could explain it to me yeah

you just got to let your wife know that you you exhausted every other possibility you talked to me that's it i used all two of us couldn, these crack minds couldn't figure it out. I spent all afternoon watching this. And my brain is so big. You know that, Colleen. Okay. I have one more quick question for you. Hell yeah.

We're going twice here in a row. No. Breaking protocol, I think. Not only do I not mind that, I think the show needs it to happen. You're clued into pop culture and what's going on like the latest releases on streaming are you familiar with squid game squid game yeah no first of all I don't know how the algorithm works on Netflix and what gets recommended to who or if everybody they just like do pushes when they release, they have what they think is a big release and they want everybody to see it. But I knew nothing about this. I don't watch a lot of foreign stuff on

Netflix because I usually just turn off when I'm watching Netflix. And, uh, the, I was planning to go watch something else, opened it up. And the very first thing that popped up was this movie called, or not a movie, a series called Squid Game. And I was like, what is this? And the trailer hooked me immediately because it had like this really cool color palette where everybody's wearing these really green jumpsuits. And then there are these guys that show up with masks in magenta suits to describe this game that's about to take place. And it seems very dangerous. And like people are about to die in this game. And I was aha i like this kind of thing let's just watch it see how it goes and i'm riveted by this show called squid game partially came out like five days ago yeah yeah i'm almost done with it that's how much i'm watching it um i don't i don't i won't tell

you the premise and everything but I will tell you that I think I think it's a probably a good show I think I it does a lot of favors for me when it's foreign only because one I can't tell if anybody's a good actor when they're not speaking English sure and even when they are speaking English if they have an accent I'm also very thrown I think that they're a good actor no matter what I I'm just more likely to trust somebody who's not an American. So I think that it's good. I think the performances are good. And then on top of that, it's a show that insists that I don't play with my phone while I'm watching it. And I haven't

watched a show like that in years. i haven't just sat there and watched something and only given my attention to the thing how does it insist that is it just because you have to read yeah i don't speak korean i have no choice and there's a lot of dialogue and the dialogue's important because they're like giving rules to the games and stuff and i have no choice but to sit there and just watch the screen uh I have a new cat, as you know. I can't even play with this cat or pet this cat while I'm watching because I'm like, no, I'm going to miss. I'm so sorry.

I will throw a dried fish to the other side of the room so you don't bother me because I need to see what the fuck is going on. And because it's so immersive in the same way that like uh going to the movies is i just enjoy it more i mean going back to the movies after not being there for a long time when i had my first my son i was like oh my god the movie experience is magical this was the best movie i've ever seen people like i mean rocket man's fine and it's only because i

was forced to watch it and I was forced to be completely present in it. And it made me realize how like not present I am at all for any television whatsoever anymore. Yeah. I think I've, I've been putting, watching shows with captions more and more lately. And I like that a whole lot. And I think it does the

same thing where it definitely keeps me more focused on the tv than on my phone or computer do you find that you have to do that because the action scenes are so loud that you turn the tv way down and then and then you can't hear any of the dialogue i don't think i watch any shows with action scenes oh wow okay like it started with uh when i first was watching ted lasso i was watching it at my brother's house on his tv which has captions automatically and i just really liked it really stuck with it and i thought it was going to be like oh it's just because this guy jamie has a manchester accent and i can't understand a fucking word he's saying yeah um but i've just carried it over into onto my other shows too can i tell you something a little embarrassing sure i watched all the wire with uh captions

because i couldn't understand yeah i want to say it's the baltimore accent but the truth is i don't i don't understand the slang and i don't i needed i needed some help yeah and and and did seeing the words help you yeah very much so oh good yeah very much um but yeah with this show it's there's no choice there is some english that shows up eventually in it um and there are some american actors and they are not good and it made me it hurt a little bit because i thought oh am i just am i blinded by korean uh but i don't know i mean like the here's how it works i mean there's i'm not going to give away any plot or anything when something happens in the show that you feel like it should be going in a very specific direction and you know how they're they have to get to this one they have to like get to the next

game obviously and so you think well then everything will be a sequence to get to that point we just sort of fast forward in these moments these like denouement moments in between and then we get to like the good actiony stuff uh that's very exciting but the show zigs a lot or the show zags a lot like every time you think it's going to be a zig it's like oh no they in the first episode they all get out like they're all they're no longer part of this game and you're just like oh okay oh so the game's over okay great um and then they it's all about just like finding ways to get to where you know it needs to go but that are very surprising

and unique and i'm so pleased with it I feel like everyone should watch this show. Nobody's talking about it. Not a single person. I will check it out. You've converted a bunch of our listeners specifically in the related to me or my friend demographic to watch what show you told me to watch. Alive?

I did, yeah. Alive. I still haven't watched that, but my family has and a bunch of my friends have. They really like it. Yeah, and Taskmaster. Taskmaster, you got me.

We really grew the audience there with Taskmaster. A lot of people want to talk to me now about people in Taskmaster and I don't know as much as they do. It's a very good show. I know they tried to make an American version of that show

and it didn't work. Yeah. But I would like to try to make an American version of that show now. If that could be my career where I'm either participating in tasks and doing exclusively what I'm told or that I get to... Sorry, did I say I was going to make them or just doing them? If I either get to make them, I would be very excited about that. Or if I get to be the person who's doing these things that somebody,

I walk into a room and someone's like, it's very important that you hide this potato somewhere in the room that I can't find. Yeah. I would be like, yes, this is my dream. This is my dream. I'm so smart. You're not going to find it. But anyway, yeah, check it out.

I will. I think it's good good i feel self-conscious i didn't really contribute much to this episode and now i'm gonna wrap it up i think then yeah that will be your contribution is you can do all the the plugs at the end you can find you can find soren on twitter at soren underscore LTD or me at DOB underscore INC. You can email the show QQ with Soren and Daniel at gmail.com. We are on Patreon. If you want to donate, you get exclusive bonus episodes.

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