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Sep 16, 2016 1 hr 28 min

59 - Fields of Nodes

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This week on a show sure to cause mass confusion, we take a break from sports almost entirely to revisit everyone's favourite classic RGS segments: The Taffer Tracker; Loonies, Toonies & Clip-A-Roonies; John's Nü-Metal Nook; Opening Listener Mail! PLUS: Make John Watch A Thing hits uncomfortable new heights. Support the show at www.patreon.com/RealGoodShow & BY DOWNLOADING THIS EPISODE!

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the following podcast was recorded on Thursday, September 8th, 2016. ROGAN. ROGAN. ROGAN.

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Ladies and gentlemen, welcome back to another edition of Real Good Show. It's America's Best Worst Canadian Sports Podcast back again so soon for episode 59, an episode that is 10 away from being very nice indeed. But we'll get there when we get there. In the meantime, Justin Morris with you once again and with me as always is.

ROGAN. ROGAN. John Cullen. That's what many of my lovers have said about that number and we'll get there when we get there.

So great to be back. Justin's wearing a tank top even though it's September and only- JEREMY. It was a bit warm out today though. Well, it's like the middle of the night.

ROGAN. It's ten o'clock. Yeah, exactly. It's like the Fair and White Equival.

It's like 55 here right now. So not so warm. ROGAN. Yeah, I mean, you would know it.

Look, Justin. ROGAN. No, if you looked at Justin, you're like, whoa, it must be July. tomorrow so it must be September.

So it's your first shift back as well. Yeah, I mean, school started on Tuesday, but being a sub I don't work every day. So you would think that there's nobody calling in a sub on day one, you'd hope anyways. I have done day one once in eight years.

And it was because they the school had more students than they thought they were going to have. So they didn't have a teacher available for the first because they just like found out like two days before the year started like we need to have space for these like hundred kids. So I just basically had to babysit kids for like a week while they waited to get like a real teacher for them. Well, is there like a police helicopter at the window or no?

What's going on there? Well, I don't think helicopters fly on the ground. It looked like it was in the sky out the window. No, because the road is far away.

It's like a trick of this kind of. OK, or it could be just on the Canby Street bridge like on the I was really tripping me up for something. What do you look like? Clines are closed.

My apologies. We're just getting the audience prepped for when we do the live episode. We're just going to have a bunch of visual gags that no one, well, not that that was a gag, but we're just getting everyone prepped for us doing a bunch of visual cues that no one will understand. There's just a bunch of K2 before the show.

But speaking of the live show, we did sell out the show this morning. Yeah, so we don't have to advertise anymore. We never advertised. We got the beautiful boy, Matthew Henderson, to make a poster.

And then I don't think we really ever had to use it. Also, visual representation. Tweeted out once, I think. Yeah, that's true.

It's a great poster. I'm sure we'll use it in the lead up to the show being like, yeah, well, you guys can't come to this because you didn't get tickets. So I'm already doing that. Yeah, we've already had people be like, oh, it's like I didn't post like updates every five minutes about how many tickets are left counting up on a person.

Even this morning, I said there's one pair left. And it was like six hours before someone bought the last pair. So that was Jordan Potter at the last time. There was space in there for somebody else to scoop them up.

And I know there were some real disappointed people out there. Real good disappointments. We may be releasing some more tickets last minute. Maybe.

Potentially. Don't hold your breath. Yeah, don't get your hopes up on that. But it's entirely possible.

So if you did miss out, well, you know. I did that. Or you can murder some of the people on the guest list. Here's the current guest list.

Justin's girlfriend, Stefan's girlfriend, Matthew Henderson, Jessica Sands. If you'd like to murder any of those four people, then, in that case, a ticket will be open. I mean, don't. Yeah, don't.

But if you were to, perhaps use a high-powered rifle. Well, and we wouldn't make sure we wouldn't know. Because we're not going to be like, oh, yeah, sure. Maybe it's like Matthew Henderson.

I could be like, the show still needs to happen in the future. In honor of Matthew Henderson. In memoriam. We'll just play all of his graphics for the real companies.

The other thing we have to do, or if you're listening to the show, and we decide to release tickets, what you should do is tweet it out. We tweet at the end, and say, hey, we have a few tickets left. What you should do is wait like six hours and then try and buy them. Yeah.

And then when they're not there, complain. You didn't get it. Express shocking this minute. Yeah.

I mean, they've only been on sale since the middle of July. But I will say, thank you. I mean, it's pretty dope that we've it's two weeks. Like we didn't even think we were nervous that we were going to have like even 10 people there.

Like we're like, is it going to be really bad if we only have like 10 people there? Yeah. And so to sell it out two weeks in advance, the show is pretty insane for us. So thank you guys.

Because we picked an intentionally smallish venue. But not that small. No, because like I've gone to live podcast tapings in the city during like comedy fest or whatever, where like Mark Merren's WTF has been recording at the Havana or like Comedy Bang Bang is recording in like the conference room of the Weston Hotel. Right.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. And these shows drew like 10 to 20 people. And those are like the biggest podcasts in the world. So you're bigger than WTF is what Justin is saying.

In this market, maybe. Probably not still. No, I don't think so. But we were at least able to get the word out a little bit better than they were.

Yeah, I mean, it's pretty awesome for sure. So yeah, it's going to be good. We definitely have some surprises planned for everybody. And it's going to be a good time.

But in the back of my mind, I was kind of expecting a scenario where like maybe we sell 20 tickets. And that's it. That's what I kind of thought. And like in my experience, you sell the most tickets the week of a show.

Like Vancouver has a deserved reputation for the people living in it being horrible. And noncommittal will say. Well, that's what I know. They're committed to be hard.

Yeah, they're committed to the only thing they're committed to being like, well, you know, I know you guys let us know about the live show two months in advance. But it's just impossible to say whether something better is going to come up that night. So I couldn't possibly buy a ticket now. So yeah, just the fact that like in my experience, that's how it's always been like I played the Vogue Theater here in Vancouver a few years ago.

And it seats 1200 and Wes was very, that's the headline. It was very nervous because the show was on a Friday on the Sunday before he had sold 300 tickets. And he sold 900 in the last week to sell it out. That's insane.

There you go. Well, that's what I thought like, man, like five or we'll sell like five or 10 or 15 tickets, maybe. And then like a week of the show, pump it really hard to get to fill like maybe 25 people like get an extra 10. Pump it really hard to fill 25 people.

Yeah, exactly. We've all been there. Yeah, exactly. You're talking about coming.

Yeah, absolutely. Fuck it. So the other thing is, and I feel as though if we had mentioned this like a month ago, we would have sold out a month ago as a Tom Hana is going to take all his clothes up on stage. Oh, he is.

He DM this to me. This is absolutely true. Wow. Is this part of who was harder?

Like, is he trying to say that his penis size contributes to his penis? I mean, I guess. Or just that him being naked and joking. And like I said, he also, so what happened is he DM this to me.

It was very detailed. He's like, I'm going to do this for sure. And then he, for whatever he needed to leave at the DM. OK.

So if we went to look for it now, it wouldn't be there. That's why I can see. Right. But he said, oh, yeah, for sure.

It sounds like something he would say. Yeah, Tom Hana told me I will be naked on stage at the live show in Vancouver. So all right. I mean, two weeks from Friday, ladies and gentlemen, look forward to it.

If you want to see Tom's Hannah, there's only one place to be. And that's was it's every 23rd? I mean, there's probably other times you could see it. You just go to his house.

Yeah, Akron, Ohio, Akron, Akron, Akron, my bad. You were you for now? You're you're going to give it aprons. Are they?

Or aprons or aprons? Yeah, a corn doesn't really work as well. That would be what I would be. Whatever.

Yeah, if you want to see Tom's penis. Well, you can't get tickets anymore. And I don't see Tom's penis checks and Anderson Snapchat. But I didn't show.

But well, no, I didn't mean it like that. I just mean she has already expressed interest in being one of the judges for the whose heart I assume that we would recruit every single woman in attendance on the same. I think there's actually going to be more women than we think. Like I feel like there's going to be like eight or nine.

Yeah. So it's like pretty good. And I mean, two of them are your girlfriends and one of them is Stefan's mom and the other and another Stefan's sister. But yeah, I mean, yeah, we've got area.

Yeah, she'll be there. She'll be there. And there was another one that I didn't even know who it was. But she bought a ticket.

It was definitely a female's name. Well, and Sam Anderson is going to be there and is bringing a female friend. There you go. See, we appeal to the ladies.

Look at that. Wow. I mean, I guess I think now that I mentioned the whole time. Yeah, we will ladies are going to regret their and be like, oh boy, I really should have been on it.

But speaking of Vancouverites, having a commitment to being horrible, committing to Jenny Eve. You guys know Jenny Eve? Oh, yeah. No, that's my friend.

But she bought one for her boyfriend. She can't be there. Oh, OK. That makes sense.

A lot of people after the previous episode, John, heard you demand an increase in donations if you were to continue with our popular series. No, OK. Make John watch a thing. Listen, first of all, I'm watching the thing.

I think it's been well established that it is the least popular segment in history. So to say that, like, it's very erroneous to say this is the most popular. It's currently pulling better than both US presidential candidates. Well, that's not a difficult thing to do.

But actually, that would be a really good debate, actually, instead of having them debate, just make them watch gross stuff. OK, now I see the appeal making me watch gross things, but I don't like it. Well, that's the idea. So all I'm saying is that it's clearly.

If you like it, it would be a segment. It's clearly the least popular segment we've ever done. And so I'm so happy that no one donated. No one did anything to contribute to me having to continue to do it.

So I'm so excited that I can officially announce episode 59. We are retiring that bit. John watches a thing. John, I have some bad news for you.

What? Several people contributed. No, they didn't. They did.

Well, I saw that people contributed, but it wasn't because of that. They were like, oh, where was new metal nook last week? No, it definitely was. Did it take John watch a threshold, though?

Is it enough? You demanded that five people step up their donations by $3. And only one person did. That's true.

Stephen Anderson, hero to all. Thank you, Steve. Stepped up his contribution to. He's coming to the live show, right?

I'm not sure. Oh, they're going to make you watch the live show. Punjibu. He stepped up his contribution from $20 a month to $23.

So I read that specifically for this cause. Yeah, episodes brought to you by Peter Butterfield pretzels. That's like the worst thing you could eat into my car. I know.

It's a crunchy and sticky. Yeah, I love it. So here's my thing. Yes.

Live show. Everyone's sitting at home going, oh, yeah, let's fucking make John watch a thing. Well, guess what? Fuck faces.

50 of you. Then after watching thing with me, how tough are you? Turn the laptop to face you. No, fuck that.

I was going to say you. We haven't made them watch a thing. I haven't made them watch anything. Which is the live show that they've all paid to come.

Yeah, but that's fine. Do you guys know Chelsea Sweeney? That's another girl that's coming. I do not.

We're just like doxing all the girls that are going to go. No, no, no, but just no. That's not a doc. That's just her name.

Yeah, but you don't think this rabbit crowd of Horn Dog men who are coming to take these names and let them talk to us. Wow. OK, speak for yourself. The hell Horn Dog Men.

You're so gross. Jesus. Although I will say we did have a comment about Wells Green on McNeil last week. And he does have tickets to the live show.

So he will be available to sign copies of NHL. Yeah, please bring your copies of NHL. Who was on the cover that year? Wells will be there to Otterk's.

Eric Stoll. Eric Stoll. Yeah, you know what? I think it was Eric Stoll.

What year was it? What year was it? Ginlo, oh six. Again, that was like, oh, three.

Oh, three. Yeah, because oh four was Heatley and then Nasland. Yeah, oh, eight. Eric Stoll.

Very good. Not very good. That's really depressing. No, Eric Stoll was very good.

I obviously I was out of NHL at that time. But yes, you asked for people to step up there. So OK, wait. So Steve, that's not enough.

It's just one thing. Thank you, Steve and Anderson. You stepped up. You're not.

You stepped up. You're not. You're not. One $3 donation.

Randall Bernhoft became a $5 donor. Ah. Yeah, but did you say it was for that? Exactly.

Exactly. Exactly. So that doesn't count. But this next two, I feel like, are not coincidental at all.

You asked for a sum divisible by three, basically. Well, I said five people step up there to nations by $3 to equal $15. And Doug Lorman felt that he would contribute enough to just take care of all of that. But we don't know that for everyone.

We don't know that. I feel like we did. I think that's a pretty clear signal from Doug. He donated $15.69.

Yeah, exactly. So that is not perfectly divisible by three. 69 is a little tip for you. It's a funny number.

99 is not divisible by three. You think 69 is divisible by three? Of course it is. 6 and 9.

What are you talking about? 69 is not divisible by three. 23. Yeah.

23 times three is 69. No. Actually, no. You guys don't know anything about math.

What are you talking about? You're not a good teacher. I almost had 33. But that's 99.

That would be 99. OK, so is that enough? But Doug Lorman stepped up. OK, you tried to cover the $15.

Anyway, that's real. We don't have any proof. We don't have any proof that he donated specifically for that. So that doesn't count.

Our final donor, who pledged enough to join the coming years, Lucas B's reverse moral draft. OK. Good for him. He obviously wants to be a part of the fantasy.

Through down $20. Bro, he's botty. Thank you very much. Thanks, Bro.

We appreciate it very much. Thank you. I'm not your appreciated. But do you not believe that he wanted to do this also?

No, there's no way. Because he obviously wanted to be in the Lucas B's memorial pool. $20 flat, right? Yes.

Clear. I just want to be in the spisa pool. That's clear. All right.

If that's what you believe. I think it's obvious. I think it's obvious. I think you know what?

You know what, John, I'd be right. Maybe the fans don't want to watch. They don't. Is our least popular segment of all time.

Maybe we do need some more people to donate to really convince them. So you know what? Definitely won't do the make John watch that segment. Thank you.

It's not like we're going to bring it up later in the episode. No, no, no. We're not doing it. It's not happening.

Like we said, least popular segment of all time. 100% it's not happening. So yeah. So I guess that's it.

You know what is a popular segment? Opening mail on the show. Let's bring that segment back. It is.

It is. And that will return in just a little bit. But before we move on, we've thanked our new donors. Thank you, guys.

It's time to take a peek at what gets left for us in the iTunes store. Oh, yeah. People can help the show, of course, by voting for the show in the Canadian Comedy Awards. We're up for a Canadian Comedy Award.

We're up for nomination. Yes. Because John put our name in the pool. Oh, wow.

Someone had to do it. Yeah. So people can go on there and nominate us to be shortlisted for that award. That would be very nice.

You're always going to go to Toronto and hang out. Yeah. Maybe do a live show in Toronto. So if you live in that area, you might especially want to put time into that nomination.

Or maybe they'll just nominate someone else because they don't want to hang out. Either way. But there are other ways that people can help the program, of course. And that's heading online to the iTunes store.

Leaving us a review there. That helps us in the iTunes rankings and algorithms and all that good stuff. And every single week, we like to take a peek at the things that get left there for us in a segment that we call review. Too very enthusiastic thumbs up.

Dannin' in. Too very enthusiastic thumbs up. Wow. Five stars.

Whoo. Ha. It's a point yet. Ha.

This is awesome. Ha. You worst episode ever. This week's review comes to us from $20 Donor Rohit Bati.

All right. Let's hear it. It's titled Hot Cakes, Pancakes, and Sappling Trees. Rohit writes, if you want to listen to a podcast that is less about sports and more about making a smug school teacher, watch a blurred out video of a sapling tree with a pancake wrapped around it, then this is a podcast for you.

All joking aside, I started listening to the podcast six episodes ago when I am officially hooked. I bought tickets to their live show and signed up for their Patreon accounts because these guys are comedic gold together. The dynamic of all three of them is perfect. And it usually ends with John Threatman to quit the show.

I am. After the live show, I quit. If he doesn't do it at the live show, I will be very disappointed. I'm doing it.

Live show I've said is the last episode ever. And will never trust anything he says. Also, you asked for five donations of $3. Oh, no, no.

This part is important. This part is a part of a new segment. Near just making this. Of forcing John to watch uncomfortable stuff.

Not important. Well, guess how much I just donated to you guys on Patreon. Oh, no, no, no. This is wonderful.

And then he includes a winky face. And it says, amazing podcast, keep up the hilariousness. I think we can all agree with five stars. I think we can all agree that the winky face invalidates everything that came before it.

So we're not going to get that. No, delete it. It's negative stars. It's true that men who use emojis to such an extent, especially text-based emojis.

Well, that's not an extent. That was one emoji. Do make me mildly uncomfortable. But that was one emoji.

I can forgive this. I gave him a larger context of him using his money to make John feel humble. Whatever. I'm not, like I said, I just out of respect for the show and its audience, it's clearly the least popular segment about like, OK, three people like it, whatever.

I said five. We're not doing it. But you demanded explicit proof that his contribution was for that. Whatever.

That's pretty explicit. I have provided it. And I got some explicit stuff for you later on. So we're not doing it.

We're not doing it. So stick around, folks. I also, OK, a lot of people say that I'm smug. And I don't really get that.

Just because I'm really good at comedy and curling and a lot of other stuff doesn't mean I'm smug about it. Look, John. That's the fact. You enjoy pro wrestling, just as I do.

Is that what I was saying? Pro wrestling is fine. Yes. Then you also enjoy the fact that every story needs to end in a satisfying conclusion.

And that typically involves a shitbag heel eventually receiving their come up. I'm not a shitbag heel. Well, that's up for debate, I suppose. Sometimes, aren't you, though?

Don't you just play it up a little bit? We've had this conversation. I'm a nice boy in person. Yeah.

But on the show, yes, I play it up a little bit because we have to have an antagonist. But you mentioned to be the handsome boy, Stefan. No, I'm adorable. It's not going to be the host.

That's what we mean. You're very good at it, though. Well, it's a wonderful role. And somebody who needs to play it.

But we're opening some fan mail. Listen, let me just say, before we move on to the fan mail, I do look forward to September 23rd being my last show. Well, not mine. Our last show.

We've agreed it's the last episode. Stefan, remember, agreement. I had a whole whispering. Yeah.

Oh, yeah. You can't hear us right now. I can't hear you. We're going to keep doing this a whole bit.

Sorry, I fucked up this bit last time. I was supposed to pretend like I couldn't hear you. Oh, are you guys talking right now? There you go, see.

I can't hear anything. I can't hear anything. What are you guys doing? I can't hear anything.

You're talking? What is he doing here? Oh, yeah. Yeah.

What's he making? Oh, yeah. OK. What was he doing?

I just stopped talking. That was a really good bit. Well, I was really focused on opening this envelope. Hot bits.

So you're actually opening it. That's a nice envelope. We have some fan mail from past guest host, Gronya Downey. And I knew that this was an envelope from her before I even saw her name on the return address because the calligraphy or fucking calligraphy, calligraphy.

The penmanship is out of this world. Fantastic. And she wrote The Boys, that real good show. She did.

This is addressed to The Boys, that real good show. Handsome Boys. You would calligraphy? Was that what it sounds like?

It sounds like a Roman Emperor on Thrift Store. Yeah. You get it? Yes.

Yeah. Yes, I do. I mean, it wouldn't work for a thrift store. It's not free.

It's a free stuff. There's a free store on Hornbei. I love that place. It's the draft address.

Yeah, it makes sense. It's basically the thrift store. People just come and leave their junk. And one man's trash is another man's trash.

Or something like that. I guess on the norm, everything is treasure. I found the LA Law Board game last time. Nice.

When we stayed on Galliano Island, I found the Yuck Yuck's board game, which I didn't even know existed. And it was a precursor to cards against humanity. So the whole... Well, it's probably just apples to apples, right?

Yeah, it was similar to apples to apples, except so what it was was there's two decks. There's opener cards and closer cards. And then in your hands, in your hand, you have all of the closer cards. And then one person plays an opener card and then whoever comes up with the best closer would get to move ahead on the space.

So what was the board itself? The board was supposed to be like a comedy club. Yeah, you're like moving your way up the comedy club. Anyway, it was pretty hilarious because I was like, well, this was like cards against humanity.

But I know apples to apples was probably out before that. Anyway, sorry. I have to say this card. I haven't even opened it.

And just like the front of it is so amazing. Well, you're the only one looking at it. It's gonna be on the blog this week. You can head on over to realgoodshow.com and catch a photo of it.

It'll probably be posted on our Twitter and our Facebook group as well. A lot of different imagery from over the course of the history of the show. I love the show. There's a slice of pie.

There's Harambe with RIP above him. There's little Monty wearing his cone. There's John Taffer yelling shut it down. There's your terrible hat.

Oh, yeah. There's an BB8 hat. There's a hard line curling broom. A sniper rifle roller skates.

A toilet rustle being told to look out. Nice. Thing, baby. I thought that was a talk.

That is a joke. I thought that was a talk. That's a steak or something. Oh, yeah.

That is totally a joke. The roller report, which we really have to bring back. King Baby is on there. The IMDB message boards is on there.

Beautiful. That is fantastic. I'd also like to apologize for speaking a pie, not on 3-4-2. Of course.

Yes. I mean, we're not eating it. So technically we haven't fallen outside of the law. That's true.

Just quite yet. But what a card. And on the inside. Oh, it's a cash donation for each of us.

Oh, there's plenty of money. That's so sweet of you. That's unbelievable. And she writes.

Okay. You always read the stuff. All right. Here we go.

Hi, guys. I wanted to donate some money because I just felt like people would really want to keep this segment going that I really hate, which is make John watch a thing. So what I wanted to do is personally donate $60, $20 each to cancel out anyone that has donated to the show. That's exactly what it says.

No, she says, hi, guys. I wanted to donate some dollars, but I didn't want to commit to anything monthly because my job wraps in a month and I'll be poor again before I know it. Well, I've got some money. I want you to have some and I thought it would be fun to make a card instead of just giving cash.

Thanks for adding so much limp biscuit to my commutes. Grannya. P.S. Harambe isn't actually funny or good and I hate all apes.

Wow. So you could really say that she totally agreed with me because she agreed with me on a rhombae and she agrees with me on all that other stuff. I wonder what happened in her life to make her so strident in her hatred of Aprilated content. Probably are Aprilated content.

I love it. I would assume. That's a fantastic card. That's a really great card.

We do appreciate that greatly. Beautiful. And I think obviously in honor of your card because we really don't know if the money is, I mean, Grannya is a university student. There's no way of telling whether the money is real or not.

She did. Did she graduate? Did she graduate? Okay, maybe she did.

But she did mention my personal segment, New Metal Nook. So in honor of Grannya, I will play some limp biscuit and just in case the money is not real, this is counterfeit. This is a great, I mean, this song is really like what I would say you'd play to really get yourself pumped up or something. Yeah.

I'm kind of thinking that you're actually going to mess. Yeah. Like this is where you start to get like a little blood flow going to school. Yeah.

Oh yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Oh man, can't you just hit someone right now?

God yeah. Before we get too deep in this winter song, which we're already much more too deep in. Hey man, wake up and smell the concrete. Strange to see it change like the LB could be identity crisis.

But I can't buy this reality. But that's what life is given for you. It's the hideous behavior. Hey, what God gave you.

Faking all the flavor. Artificial man. I'm making it through this right now. Sing it like a husband, digging in my called Chuck.

Let me let you punk snow. I'm an old school soul. Chuck with the punk flow. A damn shame why they change yourself because you're sick of yourself.

Well, I'm sick of you too. I'm sick of the bit where they make John watch that. Well, that's so weird. Let's get us talking about it.

Like 2000. Fag. I don't think you should make John watch new bits. That's the only reason I'm.

During this song right now is knowing that you're coming up and just coming. Fag. Great song. Yeah, well speaking of new metal now.

Great segment too. Great segment. Didn't you want to shine light on an album that has been joined in some sort of anniversary. Oh yeah.

Sorry. I don't know. Did you just use your nook for the week? Oh, no.

Hell no. Um, it sounds like a media regretting for yourself. So one of my favorite bands from the new metal era, and I think we can all agree Everyone's favorite is System of a Down. I mean, I mean what a band.

I mean you look at four guys From Armenia very concerned about political issues, right? Hence System of a Down a lot of people thought, you know kind of a Spiritual cousin in a way to to bands like say rage against the machine and So I just thought like you know, obviously there's a lot of political stuff going on in the States right now And I just felt like this would be a great time to shine a light on a band that I think is still very relevant when it comes to political Issues like really heavy hitting stuff. I think a lot of people think like, oh man like really deep It's impossible not to take them seriously. Yeah, exactly right like just really deep lyrics a lot of really hard hitting stuff And I think it's very important to shine a light on that right now given everything that's going on So let's just you know what I'm not even gonna say anything else.

I think I think this song just kind of speaks for itself So here we go. This is a classic track from System of a Down from an album that is turning 15 The album is turned 10 You can already feel like you know politics I mean, I think that's obviously one example Justin as eyes closed the entire time there Yeah, I think that's one example of so the album you're thinking of that turn 15 was a famous album called toxicity Yes, now I'm not gonna play anything off of that album because it's uh sort of like not stupid Um, here's another I mean and again I think this this song if nothing else really speaks to the current presidential situation in america. This is called cigar Oh, yeah, that already sounds like you know like bombs dropping. Whoa My cock is much bigger than yours my cock can walk right through that door I can't wait my shit thinks much better than yours my shit thinks my fan to the floor So obviously we don't really get video for you tonight I just want you to know stuff and that when I've been closing my eyes during this segment I'm like picturing my hand touching a field of golden wheat I believe my wife and children are in the house off in the distance.

I will be reunited with them someday Oh god, uh speaking of segments. Uh, no, sorry. I I don't know if you felt like I was finished. Um, I kind of did Clearly was my mistake.

It was a sports tie-in to sis. I honestly wore a zigmin pal features Yeah, so they were huge l.a king's Really other king's jersey at least the uh, what was his name? No, it was well. No, it was the guitar here.

Uh, what was his first name? Was last name's melacian the dark darko Starts with a D for sure. I think it's darko melacian surge tankian Uh, darren. No, it's not darren.

It is darren. I like how I like how I like it Can I just say something for like a little search tankian's name is the opposite of what the kings did because they were tank and they searched and then they searched nice Uh, and then shav shav. Oh, did Ode J Ode J in shavo Ode J. Yeah, and then john tarkarian Uh, so drummer I have no idea.

Anyway, this is a great this is this last song I think a lot of people would say is the recipe for fixing the political situation in america Walking through the refrigerator doors closed lights are out. What is getting hot? What is my name? Every minute every second by by by by pie Pizza pizza pie every minute every second by by by pie pepperoni and peppers muslims always chives pepperoni and green peppers Much is always chives me therapy therapy advertising causes me therapy therapy therapy that doesn't even make sense advertising causes me therapy You can't cause someone therapy, but still great song you know what i mean, but they're like can we sing the ingredients of pizza?

Pizza pizza pie and then also somehow changing something and they're like, you know what advertising You know what we could just say that this song about pizza is actually about i wore for the record for the record I'm looking at the lyrics actually. Yeah, nothing at all. He knows all he's looking at his phone. No, 100% for this play.

Oh yeah, no, I know all the words. I mean, the songs have like six lyrics to all of them. It's true. Pizza, pizza pie.

I think the message there is that the only reason that they know the ingredients list of pizza is advertising. Right, and it causes them therapy? Yes. Who knows?

Who puts chives? Because how fucked are you? They know the ingredients list of pizza, but they don't know what will stop the tragedies in Armenia. Who knows?

It's very possible. Anyway, you're speaking of let's really come out of new metal. I'm purposely deflecting from that statement. Let's really, you said you were just imagining yourself putting your hands through fields of wheat.

So let's end new metal nook this week. Okay, it's a really nice note. Okay, guys. See, this is more likely.

Yeah, now you can really just close your eyes and get into that field of wheat, baby. Think about many middle-aged couples that fuck to this song. Oh, man. I'm not going to lie.

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