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And yeah, we are on to Lord of the Rings, the Rings of Power, episode three, Adar.
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All right.
Well, Chuckles McGee.
You know, some things just work.
Little moments come together,
and I'm like, ah, it's fun or clever,
or I wasn't expecting that.
And those things get a chuckle from me.
Editors.
I'm amused.
Keep every time John chuckled.
We're going to play.
We should have a bit.
a head count.
Sure.
John smile.
Yeah.
We'll have a little counter.
Yeah.
That's just one of the ways I react to stuff.
At times I don't understand.
You don't have to understand.
Although if it's rough, I'll stop doing it.
I guess I'll focus in and be very self-aware enough not to do it.
I don't understand what's funny or amusing about it.
It's not always that it's funny.
Sometimes it's clever.
and sometimes those clever moments stand out
because this is a show filled with beauty
and filled with a lot of clear craftsmanship and skill.
Sometimes it's during really dark moments.
That's what I'm like, what?
Yeah, every now to get a dark moment
will still strike me with something clever
or a tonal twist I wasn't expecting or something
and that'll just, I don't know.
Because then I'm like, nice, nice one.
nice one, people behind the camera, or whatever it happens,
whatever context that I'm clever chuckling in.
Clever chuckling?
I guess that's what I would boil it down to.
I mean, you know, it's not a, there's no uniform description for it.
It happens under a lot of different circumstances.
But yes, if I'm, if I chuckle during a moment that isn't clearly a joke moment,
it's usually, oh, there's like a weird little detail that, you know,
called me toward the movie magic or called me toward, you know,
You know, just like some neat twist that I wasn't expecting behind the camera.
It's the best I could describe that.
Can you mean an example?
From this episode?
Yeah.
I don't remember.
I don't log them.
They're natural enough to me that I, you've noticed them more directly than I have.
I'm not challenging you to anything.
I'm literally just asking.
I'll think of one while we go.
wrong
boom point proof
that's how we used to argue
you don't have a concrete example
for the thing you weren't doing consciously
like any good relationship fight
logical rings around you sir
name one time
I'll go back through the rear
this but here's the thing is we have the footage
so I'll go back and review the footage
and then I'll get back to you with all
them I'll sync it up and I'll do the
watch a lot.
And I'll be like, here's one.
Okay, that was like, I
John, I already forgot about this conversation.
No, I have 16
distinct moments.
Way over this.
Where I did.
That was clever because of this.
I thought that was neat because of that.
I'll stop caring about this conversation
in like five seconds.
So that's the difference between you and me
is because, yeah, then I'll take that home and be like,
oh, no, I got to, I got to analyze this for myself and figure it.
I don't care enough about this.
Yeah.
Yeah, that's fine.
so what do you what do you think i thought take it away i thought this was these i don't know
maybe i maybe i have those clever laughs because of the odd experience this has been so far because
there's stuff i really like about the show and let me interrupt too you don't have to explain
it i'm just teasing you i don't have to explain anything to me like no but i i'm using it as a
segue now i'm using it as a segue because i some shows and certain things make me do that more than
others. And this show has an interesting blend, because I'm inclined to want to meet the show
halfway. You know, I'm always rooting for a good Lord of the Rings universe, anything, despite
trepidations. I wanted the Hobbit movies to be unanimously agreeable. And this has, you know,
a lot of things I appreciate, and it does have moments of warmth or intimacy that draw me in.
But it is, to me right now, just here in this moment, and maybe with more consideration I'll feel
different but you know it feels like it's a slow unfolding and it's sort of like it always feels like
it's ramping up towards something big and and some kind of i always feel like um it's like a song that
that never breaks into some kind of cathartic chorus quite where it's like okay i'm interested in
everybody and i kind of i almost feel it's you could have uh i could spend more time
and cut between less things per episode
because I just want to see the life
between these...
You commented when the one elf died
during the fight
and that's clearly supposed to be
an impactful emotional moment
and I was in that moment
but I wasn't caught up and emotionally wrenched
because yeah, like I liked those three actors
together and I liked the actor who
you know had just, you know, bit it
but you know, we don't get
the time spent in this situation beyond okay here's what it's like getting into the slave
camp now here's what it's like just doing the activity and now we got to you know figure
out a way out of it and now here's a big confrontation you know I feel like if we
could spend a little more time that would help but yeah like I'm interested in
everything it's just not yet got that like the pace is moving and everything's kind of
locking together and complimenting each other.
It just feels like we're checking in on different points of a big white map.
Are you...
Okay.
Are you enjoying it?
Yes.
Yeah.
I'm not loving it yet.
There's a lot of stuff I enjoy, admire, and appreciate.
There's stuff I do want more of or, you know, want to become more substantial.
It's not perfect.
I don't love it yet.
but there's a lot I really like about it.
Okay.
I'm happy for you.
I mean, you're laughing your fucking ass off
because of the fact of how much you enjoy this.
That's right.
I'm just like, give me more.
This is absolutely perfect to give it to me.
I just, yeah, that's my shit eating and grin.
When I love something, I just only laugh.
No, I mean.
there's a lot of people who are really enjoying the show i'm really happy for you guys i guess it's
like a two out of three for me i like i like the second episode much more than the first
and then this was right back to the first episode for me okay and uh in all regards
um i don't care that i'm a little sleep deprived i've enjoyed many many many things
this channel very sleep deprived it there's nothing to do with it as a matter of fact i'm still pretty
awake and uh i looked at every second of this screen i give my focus so if you're someone who i
really don't know how accurate this is to tolkien lore incredibly from what i've read and i don't
care if it is or isn't i really don't yep
I can't stomach the thought.
Go on.
I mean, you're just a lot more forgiving than me and more patient.
Sure.
I've been on set.
So I'm trying to be compassionate here.
But I'm also going to be really honest.
Sure.
I've been on set for a I was reminded the reason the back girl cancellation of so much was because of my experience that I actually had on set recently as after the back girl experience is that just it was a reminder that like wow to shoot just a few seconds of a film of a show or a film or something like with a full on crew and I can imagine it's it's way harder for this show.
than what I got to be privy to for a pretty decent-sized show.
It can take like 20 to 30 minutes on average just to capture a few seconds.
Sometimes it takes up to an hour.
I can imagine on this show with the level of thought and production that it must have taken forever to shoot an episode.
Like countless people, these people credited, these are all these people.
working so hard and it takes so long to put one of these together it's a lot of labor so it sucks
when i'm like you know what though the i think the writing of this show for the most part is not good
and that's why his script is so important because you're going to get like all these people
together to bring this script to life and if the script's not good man that could be uh that could
be really boring and you really feel like it's a waste of time for a lot of people so so you can
sit here and i appreciate your patience i do like i appreciate that i wish i had that mentality
of you could sit here and go you know after three hours i'm not loving this but you know i'm liking
bits and pieces and i'm still waiting i'm still like no no for me three hours i should love
something about this by now and i really don't i just don't and uh yeah you can't you can't deny the fact
that that's like one lord of the rings movie right there three hours that's no it's one hobbit movie
and and after three hours of that i don't and and the amount of cutting around of characters
i just find myself slowly slumping and just trying to care and getting bored and i just
really bored. I was very bored
at this episode, other than the occasional cool.
The one thing this show has surprised me on
is the violence.
They kind of push the violence
a little more than I expected them to,
which is cool. Always go
for a little bit of juicy violence.
And I did notice that the one per two people
we did not check in, one were the two I
enjoy the most.
There's nothing.
Ron and Durenne at all in his episode.
I like Nari.
I like her.
And there are pleasantries.
It's kind of predictable how it played out.
This guy from whatever Southland is.
Is he from the token universe?
Is he a, because it just sounds,
seems like ericorne on repeat
it's almost exactly
in a lot of ways
erigorn on repeat
just far less compelling
and way more cliche
it's yeah
it's weird how this has
had so much time to do
what it's doing and yet it doesn't feel like
it's really taking its time
but it doesn't also feel like it's getting that much
done in the amount of time
and there's like you look at those original
Lord of the Rings movies and
I mean, you know, everyone's going to keep harping that. But it's true. Like, with less time,
they manage to give you the right amount of scenes that allow the characters to bond, you to
bond with them, you to care, and you to get invested in all these different things so that it
feels like a big living world rather than like, oh, yeah, that's right. There's this character.
And they're doing that. And there's all these, it's weird. They have all these guideposts and
things to foreshadow and I feel like that that does kind of kneecap them in a way because
it's painting it's it feels like it could easily paint itself into a corner of you just being
the same it's like the fantastic beasts movies have sort of fallen into this trap of like
i don't know we got to have a new Voldemort and a new kind of Voldemorty thing to do and we got
to kind of force this new thing to be the thing everybody knows and I'm afraid that that's
essentially what's going to happen here because I don't know
you're not wrong it's weird like i don't disagree with much that you're saying and my biggest
worry surrounding the entire show was like great awesome i know amazon can make a show that looks
good but uh the scripts have to be great and no they're not great like there are moments of dialogue
that i find pleasant or whatever but yeah like brass tacks it's not great right now and it's
unfortunate to have house of the dragon right across the street because they excel like if they
just if I don't want to necessarily say that Lord of the Rings needs to just be
Game of Thrones far from that but they could learn a thing or two from how they choose to
yeah compliment the plot with actual character tones that really show the sort of
complexity of actually living in this world I feel like the magic of bringing Tolkien to
life is that we get to live in the world rather than yeah feeling like we're just
doing a bunch of plot beats and stuff and kind of pointing and going oh yeah sauron he's coming
he'll be here i think it i think it uh it's focus as as much as they try to simplify a focus
which is the rise of sauron and how these people have come together will come together
to defeat the common enemy to fight him to cut off his
cut the ring off his finger
and cut his finger off
and then it's sealed or not throw it into the flames
of Mordor.
Yeah, I,
sure,
like,
I can find that linear path,
but it's,
it really feels like it lacks a pulse.
It feels like it,
it lacks stakes,
surprisingly.
It feels like it,
it's not exciting.
It's,
it's not,
uh,
the stakes don't feel real,
because,
even like the orc camp feels really detached from everything yes the orc camp does feel
detached from everything and the and the characters are um very planned i think they're very
they don't give them much life the harfoot's the most you get of life in this episode is the
harfoot's having their memorial thing i felt like nor are he's just repeated the same monologues
you know it's like uh it's very it's like i feel like you kind of just said a lot of the same
things you said in the last episode when i really liked you in the last episode
i get it it's out in the open about your secret giant so then you have got to repeat
some of the shit now to your mom and stuff like i understand um and yeah they're they're doing a
lot of world building but i'm like for christ's sake for three episodes of of of
like nothing felt more human more connective than during being being hurt by elron for not checking in on him like that connected yeah and then they have or a mother protecting her son from an orc invading their home like yeah that that that that that that that hits and then here i'm just just like watching people display information to me well yeah and there's also i
I think I've come to start associating this version of Lord of the Rings with the big wide shot that never compensates with doing a POV then.
We enter Newmanore, like the storied city of Newmanore, and we mostly, you know, like there's great production value there that you can't appreciate, but they don't, it's like when you're in Lord of the Rings, what's so great about having the hobbits at the center is they do give you that ground level perspective to be like, wow, this is a truly extraordinary array of places and circumstances. And I feel like we get too many bird's eye views and not enough ground level views on these things.
And that is both in a construction way, but also definitely in a character kind of way.
It's like, yeah, with Nori this episode, pretty much all we developed was, oh, yeah, everybody finds out about the giant.
And I guess that's going to be fine and we're going to keep him.
And now we're moving on.
Yeah.
Guy gets pulled into this orc camp, and then he stages a 300 fight.
And I enjoy Galadriel in the first episode.
so even though i thought that episode was like uh i i did say like i i really enjoyed what the
what the actress is doing and then here i'm like okay now you just seem kind of one monotone
so i i i'm just i'm just a little bit like come on guys you're and i know and i know i i'm just a little bit like come on guys you're and i know i
I'm not the voice of the majority, or I don't know what the hell the majority.
Honestly, I don't know what the majority is with the show.
I don't know what the majority is.
Seems hard to pin a majority because there's everything.
Yeah, I know I'm a part of a certain camp that is not the screw-woke culture camp.
I'm just part of the camp that's like, honestly, I think the show is just a pretty disappointing in a lot of ways and kind of boring.
and it should be more, I think it's got to be,
I just don't care about a lot of the things that are happening.
I really thought we were on an upswing
after the second episode for me.
I thought we were.
And I could be, I could be mine,
like I'm watching this before,
we're watching this before any opinions have been released yet.
So for all we know,
I could turn on social media and be like,
wow everyone thought this was the best one whoopsie but i'll be honest with you this was this was
like this did nothing for it just it just got more new more characters more information and and it's
it's lacking this this very strong directional it's like think about this uh the i mean if you
do think about like lord of the ring i saw some people who who went like
You know, I watch the Hobbit trilogy before going into this,
and I got to say, this is better.
And, okay, that's, that's cool.
If that is the thing you're just going to compare it to, sure.
Do I want to commit to watching a show?
Which is going to be longer than the Hobbit trilogy.
It's, if you look at like Lord of the Rings,
it's something like pretty simple to latch onto a character gets a ring and is now
thrust it onto a life or death adventure where they're going to uncover information as they go
and the ensemble grows the more information they uncover yeah it's not a fellowship until like
two-thirds of the movie in and you're not cutting to a million things by that point yeah and then here
we're just cutting around to a bunch and they keep treating it with this stoic gravitas and that it's the like the most life impending doom stakes in the world when I weirdly feel like it's just not that well it's not as if you're going to go stoic and heavy yeah gravitas all the time you have to back it up with some depth
and some, I don't know, real themes.
Not that they don't have themes,
but you've got to be able to really put the themes in there
and to really make the characters feel vital
so that that gravitas attaches itself to the shit
that you care about.
And if you're detached from it,
then yeah, the gravitas is just going to feel like a filter
and it's going to feel like it's trying to make up
the lost ground of what the writing isn't actually doing.
And it feels master-brative.
in its poetic way.
Well, it does feel
a bit style over
subs. It's like watching
Shakespeare from somebody
who you can tell is practice the lines
but doesn't like
fully understand
the breadth of how Shakespeare
and language works. At times I feel like
I'm watching like a cosplay
or actors in a museum.
It's like watching a play that isn't
that's like has impressive bits and pieces
but isn't coalescing in
to just the transportive play experience.
No, and I think this ought to be.
It absolutely ought to be.
I mean, if, again, like,
for whatever enjoyment I can get from this,
if you want to come right down to it,
like, yeah, this, for the most expensive show of all time,
based on one of the most beloved pieces of fiction
that is inspired so much,
the writing has to be great.
The writing should be great.
So my logic brain is pretty much with you
across all of this.
Dude, you don't have to
agree with me.
No, but it's funny because
I wonder what that
critical element is
because I find this more
pleasant to watch
and I enjoy my time
checking in with this world
but logically,
like, yeah,
I'm not getting
what I was rooting for
yet, and even though
like Galadriel in this episode
for me, there were
little glimmers where I was like,
oh, there's like a mischief
in your eye
and it looks like,
oh, maybe there's some,
there is some joy under there for certain things and good god i wish we would maybe honed in on
those or get a character moment i didn't i i think it's it's tone and pacing is seriously
kind of all over the place yeah it is like when she was riding that horse yes i was like
what the hell is happening right this this this individual sequence is gorgeous and and ethereal but
also it's not motivated well enough by everything around it it's like it's like what i haven't seen
sucker punch but i imagine i'm seeing instead of instead of what i've heard about sucker punch
instead of you know zack snider being like shit look how cool i am it's like
shit look how poetic i look how deep this nerd shit of mine is that's what i imagine i'm watching
it looks cool but it's not just cool it's also important yes um and uh it feels desperate to
capture a sense of wonder without it authentically getting there and that's one of my biggest
issues with it. Yeah, it makes me sad in that way to zoom out from it because, I mean, this is a big
opportunity for all involved. The second episode leaned so much more into horror. It was kind of like,
okay, we're leaning into horror and it was kind of a consistent thing throughout it. And there was
a sort of like dark mood. Just my man, by don't know. And then here they were like,
all right we're going to go to
is that
what becomes Gondor
oh is that the lineage of
I could I
or just before Gondor
I forget
I would who the fuck cares
all right
if you've made it to this point in the video
I think you're inclined to forgive us
a late lapse
then we meet the queen I'm like oh here we go
another stoic ass carriage
and I was like okay cool maybe we'll see
behind closed doors and we'll get like a
sense for who this person is though but but no not yet no just another stoic character
burdened with per everyone's burdened with purpose everything is just so like actually that is
a thought that went off in my head is i i have burdened with glorious purpose i actually had i was
like i'm not going to say it because i was like i know i was a sarcastic asshole in the first
episode so you know what i'm just going to sit back a little bit more
really try to take this in and uh nope not not clicking for me yeah yeah because this is kind
of like my hobbit experience you enjoy the desolation of smock yeah well now that's now that's
the thing is is i'm like okay because right now this is kind of it started out you know
naturally kind of above the hobbit but it's it they're balanced they're beginning to balance
out because while I find
certain aspects of this more pleasing
than the Hobbit, it's also like
I think the Hobbit might have more
intermittent moments that actually
come together, but I don't
know. We'll see.
I'm always rooting for it to get
to get
to rise to this occasion.
But
yeah.
And I'm fascinated to see what everybody thinks.
This should have been strong out the gate.
This should have, no.
I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, a hundred percent, three hours in and I'm like, come on, guys.
Yeah.
No, the, the only thing, again, like, it was like they, you have everything and this is what I, what I was dreading the whole time is you're not, you know, far be it from me to tell you how to choose showrunners and how to choose writers, but so far.
And three episodes in, yeah, like, this is eight episode series.
So, you know, we're a substantial way in.
And yeah, that's not heartening.
to me and that makes me actually sad
because again like this is what I was
dreading and it's funny to watch
again Game of Thrones come back
and in the same amount of
episodes less slightly more time
everyone seems really on
board with that because they managed
to take the sort of
Hobbit movies to the
first several Game of Thrones seasons
Lord of the Rings that became the later parts of Game of Thrones
and actually redeem that and actually deliver
on like oh wait this is actually
like just as intriguing but just
as personal but just as blah blah blah else and I mean you know it's possible it can be done
and it doesn't feel like I like I don't know it doesn't feel like they are as focused on getting
into the nitty gritty of what you necessitate by spending yeah eight hours and change in this world
you know and like almost a billion dollars and almost a billion dollars and all the resource
and that's the scary thing as part of me is like I feel like the most expensive show with
moniker is almost a curse,
especially if that's what you're known for right out of the gate,
because then it's like, well, if this isn't just perfect,
then all bets are off.
I mean, like, not to say it couldn't get to a second season,
but part of me is like, well, if this isn't great
or doesn't get great, you know, a good amount of time,
then, I mean, is this going to tank?
I don't know how much to believe the people who say,
like, there's a lot of Amazon Prime's future
tied up in Lord of the Rings,
and I'm like, well, while I don't expect them to crumble
if this doesn't do well at the same time,
I'm like, I bet this would have an impact
if it doesn't overall net do well
because, I mean, this seems like a risk
even though Lord of the Rings is beloved
and in some ways, surefire,
this is absolutely a risk they're taking.
This seems like more stuff hangs on this than just...
Well, it's just not as that interesting, too,
even in the grand scheme of things,
we're just going backwards.
Yeah.
It's like the Hobbit went, you know, they wanted to tie it into Lord of the, like,
what happened right before Lord of the Rings with Bilbo?
Okay.
Now let's go even further back.
Well, that's what they've been.
And I'm like, you keep building to this fucking sour on business.
Well, that's the, that is a problem.
It's like if every freaking Star Wars property, which already has its own terrible case of repetition,
kept building to
who was the
dark Vader
come to be
and let's
flesh out more
details about that
situation and
I'd rather be like
let's hang out with sorrow
and that's the
that's to me
a lot of what
the Hobbit movies
missed was in doing that
and being like
no no no
like we got to
directly tie this
into the Lord of the Rings
and really make it
like a huge piece
of that puzzle
it sucks the thing
out of the Hobbit
that would have made
it a good idea
in the first place
which is its own story
and yeah it relates down the line
but it's not really about that
and I feel like this could have chosen
to do that again like
and I promise every episode I won't do this
but you look at House of the Dragon and you're like
well you know we're just going back in time
and we know a certain amount of things are going to happen
and this could easily become
the same shape again
just like to me the Fantastic Beast
movies have started to do where it's like
okay we're going back in time we're going to see
a different part of the world but now we kind of got to
do the same structure
and it's like I feel like you can go back
in a world as rich as this
into a middle period and
an explorer
but this doesn't seem
I feel like this should have been a show
arguably where the plot
and the big Sauron machinations
like I wouldn't really want to even hear
about like Sauron
every episode until like season
three out of five or something
you know where I'm like
this is gonna be five seasons
because yeah right now it does feel like
you got your chest
checklist of characters who are
regardless of
you know context and
race and gender swapping or whatever
you've got your archetypical Lord of the Rings
we recognize characters and dynamics
and yeah
I'm sorry
I'm sorry I'll
I'm sorry I'm not you
I don't want to talk about this show
this has been
weirdly
one of the more
unfun fun
discourses surrounding a show because the thing too is everyone's like got a big kind of extreme
feeling and nobody seems unified like it would be simpler if it was just like you know the the
people who want to hate it and then the rest of us but uh nah I mean they're I'm fascinated
because each time ever like some people really love it and I'm like I feel more positive
towards this obviously than you do but at the same time I'm like I want to see what you what what you
see because I don't quite see that and there are people who are like I hate this and it sucks and I'm
like well I don't quite see that but I get most places you're coming from sans you know a small
percentage of arguments we've already talked to them so I can't wait to go on Twitter this
Friday and every Friday for the next five weeks don't worry people hate it and people will love it
And then there's the E-23 and then people just will move on.
Sure.
We move on in two days.
That's that thing?
You get to the end of the episode.
The Last Jedi.
Then you got a few years.
Of the debate, yeah.
There you go.
Put something like this.
I don't know.
I don't know.
All right.
Yes, to a Patriot Day show.
Daniel Gallagher.
We looked your name up on Urban Dictionary.
That way John does not make another pharmacy Scottish joke.
Daniel is a name given to many pharmacists.
See?
It's in the definition.
You're on the right path.
But one of the most popular things Daniels are known for are being Scottish.
Oh, see?
What do you know?
It's in your blood.
Kind and sensitive people who will put themselves in heart.
arm's way just to help and protect people
who are closest to him. Just like
at the pharmacy. That's what pharmacists do.
Constantly, like, when the pandemic was
at its peak, he was going in and still
helping people expose to
people maskless when he
was told to wear a mask, but he
thought it's not real risk if he
has a mask on.
Just saying, do you don't see Batman with
a face-protect mask? Do you?
No, or hockey pads?
Daniels are also people who are willing to
give out advice when they feel necessary.
even if they aren't asked for it.
That's true.
He's constantly imposing us, telling us
what to do with the channel.
I'm like, I'm like,
get it, I don't really want to go
into unboxing videos that much.
Thank you, Daniel.
And Daniels are also shy
and can take a while to get to open up.
Oh, that's true.
Yeah.
It was like pulling teeth.
One time literally was.
And still, wouldn't talk.
Very shy about that accent.
But once they do,
they can be great friends
who can be approached to
for any reason and without judgment.
Yes.
Scottish people, man, they're
accepting people. That's what we like
to hear. That's true. And the pharmacists
are not supposed to judge you, you're supposed to
you know, like patient doctor confidentiality.
I mean, according to the
urban dictionary, I'm what to say is, wow, Daniel is so
helpful and kind, he just knew what to say. This is what
they usually say about Daniels.
And you know what? I got to test
for the longest time I've known Daniel Gallagher.
Yeah.
Yeah.
He is helpful and kind.
He always knows what to say.
say something
Dan
enlighten
do you remember when I was constipated
and Daniel prescribed me some pills
he did
to make me unconstipated
yeah it worked
and then I had to take a week off the channel
because you were so not constipated
it was hard to sit down here
for a reaction to watch a movie
exact opposite scenario
I can't just keep pausing the movie
to go to the bathroom
yeah it was like Casper
it was every time you eat something
just fall right out the bottom
and then we tried one time
where I was just shitting my pants
when we were watching a movie.
That's when we were watching RR.R.
Yeah.
Yeah, yeah.
It's like too long and we can't sit here for that long while I'm pooping.
Yeah.
So we're just getting in the way.
We shouldn't have miced your seat.
You know, I think that was the big mistake.
With a road mic.
Yeah, with the backup lab mic.
Yeah.
Yeah, yeah.
We put too many microphones around the base of your chair in that reaction.
I think that's when we learned we shouldn't do that.
But, hey, you stayed regular and you're looking's felt.
That's all thanks to Dan.
It's all thanks to Daniel's prescriptions.
Because he recommends...
He cleanses out.
He prescribes me stuff without a doctor's prescription.
That's right.
He abuses his position of power.
Give people medications.
They don't necessarily need.
He's a good pharmacist.
Love you, buddy.