Sometimes Welcome to our study What you know, whatever happened to a man's study did it just turn into a man cave Rob? That's the wrong music. No, aren't we the sometimes read. Oh wait.
This is a baby isn't it Wow too many theme songs boy? All right, do over start over yeah, well, all right That's more like it good morning. Welcome to our nursery. Oh, hi.
I'm gonna leave all that other stuff in though Yeah, well not why not a false start Let's see if anyone notices or cares. That's right. Welcome to King me babies Oh, and if you're hearing the sound of the man baby and man, you know, it's time for baby This is our series where we look at dollar baby adaptation of Stephen King short stories. Those are adaptations non-commercial adaptations At part of the Stephen King's dollar baby program where he gives you the rights for a non-commercial adaptation for one dollar Dare me to say non-commercial adaptation one more time Yeah, that's exactly what the dollar baby program is Dan and what are we talking about this week with baby?
What we're talking about how fucking eventual everything is A phrase I never hope to hear again. I've heard it too many times. I've read it too many times much like much like the esoteric symbols Drawn by our protagonists. Mm-hmm.
That phrase has driven me to the brink of self-harm Sick of it sick of it sick of it So everything's eventual apparently Including our conversation about everything's eventual but right before we get into it. I just want to ask how you doing How you sleeping? How you sleeping child? I'm great Dan.
How are you is your car still on fire? The fire has been put out the car is no no longer on fire. It has been parallel parked Mm-hmm. Okay, and there shall sit until he claims the just there comes and says yep That was on fire.
Yep looks like a fire happened here Straightens his tie or her tie Trick question you just there was a woman the whole time. I cannot file the claim this car was my son how is possible? The adjuster was lightning McQueen Dan speaking of fire have you heard the the new we didn't start the fire by fall out boy I have not heard about it. I think I started reading the lyrics and I had to take a break It's too many things you listening everything The the thing about it the thing about the original we didn't start the fire is that it is loosely in chronological order Yeah, this is not in chronological order.
This is not at all rhyming order. Whatever works best never to um Did you ever hear my contemporary we didn't start the fire? Mm-hmm. I don't think so Oh, man, it's so you already did a contemporary version of this song and fall out boy has stolen from you I won't say stolen, but possibly they were inspired by mm-hmm Mine was mine was more like Brendan Fraser, Chris Gattan, John Turturo Rose McGowan.
It was about the cast of monkey bone I was gonna say it's just the monkey bone. Yeah, and the course was this is the cast of monkey bone This is the cast of two thousand ones monkey bone It's really hard to rhyme the names of all the cast. Yeah, but imagine imagine when you get to like the Like the the sort of like, you know when like you really emphatically ends a verse. Yeah, it really does Yeah, I can't take it anymore.
Yeah, mine was Pac-ill Bane Lisa Zane whoopi Goldberg I mean when you get Pac-ill Bane and Lisa Zane, that's pretty good. It's not lucky. Yeah, you looked out with those two being in the cast No, I I heard the song and I was like, oh Yeah, that's the same same kind of song that the Billy Joel song is bad. That's just a list of things and then And now this is also just a list of things.
I saw somebody online was like somebody should make one of these songs like every 20 years Someone should make one of these songs for conservatives Oh my god, Dan, I'm sorry, Dan can we write the conservative version of We Didn't Start the Fire and just sell out already? Please sleepy Joe sleepy Joe sleepy Joe sleepy Joe So I'm looking at the lyrics for this now, but actually before before here's what I want to say in response to someone should write One of these every 20 years two things I guess first is no they shouldn't second of all If you have you ever gone if you ever go on YouTube and you type in we didn't start the fire like 2010 like people have been doing this. Yeah, of course since time immemorial since the because since even the original song anybody could have written that It is not specific to Billy Joel Billy Joel just happened to write that fucking song, but I mean again It is just a list of things. It's like a You know, that's a real song.
It's the end of the world It has like a similar kind of thing where it's just like, you know a list of things, but it's all it's much faster Yeah, that's even something, you know, yeah This one is like also they do it looks like they do a lot of like stretching to right where they'll say something and then the thing right after It will be the same thing like the first line of the song is Captain Planet Arab Spring LA riots Rodney King LA riots and Rodney King are the same. It's like the same thing. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah, and then nuclear accident Fukushima Japan That's all one thing So you're saying that fall out boy did it wrong I yeah, I mean I guess there's no right way to do it, but if you're gonna Look if you're doing the same thing.
Yeah, yeah, and I feel like comedically you would have to it just doesn't work It's not an a to a yeah, so I think there's also a problem with like scale here. We're like Yeah, these are all in the same line right like balloon boy war on terror going on Firefest black parade Michael Phelps Y2K like what are you this is like I think part of the issue to is like no Monoculture right yeah, so just saying any two of these things feels like what the hell are you talking about? It feels way more like randomly selected even then even than the original yep Yeah, I mean I'm reading the original here and that's pretty I don't know we got to go to bat for the original I'm ready to do it. Oh, yeah, yeah, sure I got nothing else going on I mean it goes from Was it Kennedy to chubby checkers to psycho to tell Jim's in the Congo.
Yeah Belgians in the Congo. Yeah, yeah We have a prock British politician here sex JFK blown away British politician sex is one of the one of the worst phrases you could ever hope to hear yeah I don't know what that's a reference to it gets worse with each word right. Yeah Is it just the fact that like British politicians were you know like having having sex parties or something yeah in Britain It's a scandal when a man puts his John Thomas in a fanny his uh his togga He's beau end You put your bell and in her funny So I see slobron James Shinzo Abe blown away Interesting, it's also weird to put a blown away just like in the middle of a verse right like J. No J.
F. K. Gets blown away Yeah, I mean everybody's getting blown away this The original song also feels like such a I mean it feels like such a specific boomer song And yeah, and this is like now This is like the millennial version of this song and I feel like nobody was asking for it Yeah, I think like I can't I'm trying to afford rent. I can't be bothered with right also I mentally ill because I already remember all of these things Right Right with the with the original it seems more like more likely I don't know I'm not a boomer I can't I can't ever put myself in that mindset Maybe you know if I eat a bunch of like insulation out of an unfinished attic.
Yes, I could I could just get there? but to me it seems like the reason that song like the original has any kind of like staying power is Because like Americans didn't really realize how like Sort of like force-fed spectacle short they were yeah Yeah, you know and so like having it distilled into that whole thing or having it distilled into a song everyone's just like holy shit I guess I guess there's a lot going on It was also made in time when right you could if you didn't read a newspaper or didn't watch the news You could litter you could just avoid all news you could avoid everything that's going on in the world what a time to be alive And take me back. Yeah, you know that there's also ignorance absolutely impossible now Okay, well speaking of boomers and their political takes We're talking about everything's eventual here on the show or as the the baby itself is called total is even to all Total is even to all it's a Spanish film. I believe is it from Spain?
No, no No, I think it's not from Spain in fact pointedly not from Spain pointedly my bed where's it from then point it? Well, I had to point in a map, right? Yeah, I don't know somewhere in Latin America I was trying to figure this out and I couldn't do it. I'm so sorry It's oh, it's okay, dude Yeah, there's not a lot of information on you know usually you can you can kind of find this stuff, but yeah I couldn't really find anything on it either But it is on Vimeo you can look it up to us eventually well What is this dance?
Did you like this story? Let's start it there the story or the well the short film the short film Abstracted the story if you average out the film in the short story. Yeah, um, I Once I realized where it was going I was like, okay, this could be this could be pretty interesting and I actually I kind of like how the short story handles it more like there's no crisis of conscience He's just kind of just like yeah, I'm just like a piece of shit I'm basically like a drone operator who never has any any misgivings about my fucked up job Because I get I have cool new magazines and yeah, right because I'm a 19 year old kid, right? I'm essentially a drone operating child soldier And that's okay, and that's okay.
Yeah, and that's okay. I especially I think for the short film format that's the way you want to tell it yeah, and I think it does a really good job of sort of like parallel cutting between the different phases of This kid's life, huh, you know just like jumping back and forth and sort of like Overlaying, you know him killing a bug and him killing a dog and him killing 200 people or whatever. Yeah, um Yeah, I don't know I feel like it's almost interesting. I guess is where I'm at like from just like the Like technical aspects of the the short film.
I thought they did a nice job. I'm great. Yeah, like the the camera movement and work and whatever I think it's all kind of it goes nicely with the story and then like you're saying the interciding with like Different stages in his life and then like, you know somebody I could have done with a little bit less stock footage Maybe but you know what you gotta do. Yeah, I saw the runtime.
I was like, oh great But then when you subtract the credits and the stock footage. It's like five minutes long Yeah, yeah 13 of the of the 18 minutes of this are just stock footage right So yeah No, but I did like it. I thought it wasn't yeah Well, I think the thing I was like I shouldn't say impressed with because like this This is like a guy who like works on movies from what I can tell Xavier Coronel is the director's name. Okay It's I think what I was like pleasantly surprised with I guess is the fact that It's all the story is told in voice over narration.
Yeah, and the sort of like montage nature of the visual aspect didn't like it it didn't feel like boring or Unconsidered I guess like it it really it felt everything felt pretty deliberate and eventual. Yeah, which I mean that is what you want As a filmmaker you want to you want to see that way you want to see my sure you're picking all those choices But hey not a guarantee not a guarantee no Yeah, we we open with it's like the outside of Could be a house or in a state and the gate slides open. It's like this tall sort of a reverse reverse marin Yeah, he's instead of locking the gates. He's opening those gates.
Yes And you see like a like a younger guy walk out with like looks like some garbage He throws a garbage on the curb and then reaches in his pocket and throws a change in his pocket in the sewer Like a drain and then he walks back in and the gate closes behind him and it says total is total is events while These shots of just like the outside of whatever this like building is and whatever like the compound is I was like Oh, they got like a good location here. Yeah, you know the ex-theorators and then you go inside and it's like this fucking It's like a nice mansion and yeah, totally he goes on to say I was it I have a good job something like that. Yeah Yeah, and it goes on to talk about talk about his job, which is I don't know if it's super clear what his What he's doing in like I read the story first right then I watch this so I already knew what he was doing But if I didn't know what was going on, I'm not sure I would Understand piece it together. Yeah, I think I feel the same way like again.
It's like it's not in English It's like not you know, it's not American thing So maybe there are some like other clues that we're not picking up on could be but Just from the dialogue and what's on screen as far as I could tell yeah, it was not super clear and like it really does kind of Plain explanation because it's like a pretty far-fetched idea right it's not as simple as just somebody being a drone Operator like a drone strike operator or something. Yeah Yeah, he's basically like he he's like kind of Programming not Manchurian candidates, but you know what I mean like he's sort of like act He's like creating triggers and then also activating them right to get people to commit suicide Yeah, like a like MK ultra kind of thing. Yeah, yeah and like he you know I don't know how I can't remember how clearly it said in the short story But like the idea is like he works for some like shadowy government. Yeah Cut out or whatever and they just pay him to kill political enemies basically right This like it's clear that What he's doing is like harming other people But it's it really doesn't seem clear how it's it all works Like we see him like sketching out all of those like They're essentially like sigils.
Mm-hmm and I Don't think that's explained at all like not really I mean, there's like I think the closest thing you get to an explanation is the bug walking on one and then dying right? Which again if you don't know what's going on you are not gonna understand right what just happened I don't think it I don't think it's clear when he kills the dog that no right It's just like he scribbles on the sidewalk and then writes the word rutweiler and draws an arrow to the scribble Yeah, and then I we as the audience are supposed to kind of infer that that is lethal to a dog right? With the short story is all told in like the first person so our main character is narrating the entire thing So it's all basically internal monologue or most of it When you take that away, you really have to sort of show or plainly kind of state like what's going on Yeah, just a quick little a little like Like he says never I never thought I'd be mailing sigils to people to get them to commit suicide, but here I am Well, that's me Um and you know despite being unclear a lot of I mean it seems like a lot of an narration is like lifted almost verbatim from the short story Right, right. It's very faithful.
It is But like you know at a certain point he's talking about like oh when I was a kid I always knew that there was like I had I could do something like I knew I just knew I could And then you know the one day He's like and then I put it to the test or something like that And that's the day when he like you know the dog is barking at him and he draws a sigil and writes rottweiler and points of the thing whatever and then It cuts to like the like a shot from across the street of the property where the dog lives And then a woman walking past it looking through the bars and fence and then like gasping and running away which doesn't I You know I know that the dog is dead because I read the story, but that doesn't show You know that that that was that was not it Yeah, so much depends on how you interpret the bug dying in the beginning Yeah, and I saw the bug die, but I did not take it as the bug like walked across this and You know he died because of that ramp. We also see our main character reading some porno mags We do we can get some nice loving shots of the inside of the porno mag I wasn't expecting to see vagina in my Stephen King short films, but here we are I I'll tell you what if I'm Stephen King, I'm seeing that I'd buy that for a dollar I'd sell that for a dollar It's his dollar baby. All right. He wants to make an adaptation of the porno mag that he saw in this look at those bazoomies Yeah, so this kid he talks a lot about how everything in his life is taken care of for him how you know he just has to write whatever he wants down on like a dry erase board and He has people bring it to him and like it could be anything You know he writes down a list of food, but also he wanted the new wheezer album and they brought they brought him that yeah It just seemed to imagine wanting that I know I was I was the short story takes place over it was written in 1997 which like that that all checks out as far as like Yeah, wanting the new wheezer album and whatever yeah Honestly like I mean I guess we'll get into it in the second half, but like that's really interesting that this was written in 97 It's like before before September 11th sure ends It's just like in the traditional sense He's pretty woke on like on like you know like clandestine insurance work That's like clearly a thing that he's very interested in anyway like we read that one goofy story I can't remember the name of like the journalist who gets like captured or whatever.
Oh, yeah Yeah, yeah, I know like yeah super spies his way out of it. Yeah, yeah, we're like in the death room in the death room There's also the terrible poem the worst thing we've ever done terrible poem the terrible poem Yeah, um so he's like and like heart and right heart and Atlantis is like kind of yeah, it's got a component of that yeah there's like I Mean it feel it felt a little like the shop, you know from like the earliest evening King stuff you know this like shadowy government organization that this kid's working for and like It is interesting it is kind of interesting that he wrote in 97 when like But I guess that that is sort of the idea right that like you know, we're saying that oh, this is similar to like like You know somebody who controls drone strikes right who is thousands of miles away dropping bombs on you know people with a drone Yeah But like you know in 97 we still had whatever, you know the equivalent of that like people you know pilots flying planes and dropping bomb essentially Yeah, it's like this level of detachment from you know these horrible things that are happening for sure Yeah, and like I mean again We will get into this in the second half of the show but just while we're on the subject it like he goes to Some lengths to point out this sort of like historical precedence right for what's happening in the story right like he talks about Vietnam Specifically like one of the people that gets killed in the short story like pro is like a former general Mm-hmm, US Army general who like protested the Vietnam war or whatever right? So yeah, there's like there is definitely some awareness of that I think the thing that's like the thing that I'm like most impressed by is like He's taking like in 97. He's like very aware of the fact that like That's kind of like the peak of Everyone's needs being met and the machine just like kind of humming it hyper speed.
Oh, yeah, you know fully like Yeah fully like greased up and yeah Yeah, humming it hyper speed and everybody is just along for the ride not noticing that it's overheating As a it's gonna blow up as our as our protagonist would say everything is eventual like In the in the sense okay, let's talk about that because that happens in the short That's also something that's that doesn't seem very clear to me in the short film is how the word eventual is being used It's like slang for does he say it he does say it in the short film What? Makes it any clearer. Yeah, he just says that yeah This kid used to work at a like a supermarket and he used to work with a guy who instead of saying something was awesome or good He would say it's eventual. Yeah, man those shoes are eventual which Yeah, this is this to me as an example of like a kingism that like that you really see the um The machinery turning it's like yeah much much like the Matt the Matt computers described in the short story You can see all the insides see see what's powering it like it feels totally inorganic and sort of like the like Implications of the choice of word are super obvious.
Yeah, man. I I think it's so dumb and it like you're saying it's that obvious king ism. It's like He's he's really really forcing this. Yeah in the short story.
He says it. I don't know a hundred times one hundred times and what really annoys me is that The character of mr. Sharpton laughs every time he hears it like yeah, he's so proud of Stephen King, which is Also interesting like just in terms of like him as him is like a liberal boomer like his relationship to the government he is like sort of like very What's the word impotently protesting by writing something like this sure? Yeah, you know um But also we're talking about the short story not the short film which right?
We don't do that we don't do that yet. So in the short film though Forgot our main characters name here Well our main character whatever he's talking about the guy that he used to work with nacho who smashed his finger Not sure Varga from Breaking Bad and Better call Saul right. Yes. This is a shared universe situation.
Yeah, it's shared universe no, he's talking about how the nacho guy like smashes fingers in a like a shopping cart and I don't he doesn't talk about like killing that guy but he does Kill him yes. Yes, but he doesn't talk about it, right? No, he doesn't seem to yeah, I don't know the short story is 50 pages long and Not a whole lot happens in it so it is like heavy on internal analog and you know backstory and they they bring it up like several times that he you know Was somehow responsible for this guy's death but in the short film they really don't touch on it at all Everything is very sort of abstract and you know they make mention of like yeah, that's got nacho He was like whatever and then that's kind of it. Yeah, they don't dive into it really and honestly like I think even without mentioning that he kills him it's still like it works, you know, right like if this if this character is just like Someone who's like in his way looking to get revenge on like his bullies and just like right right the personal wrongs of his life Like it doesn't necessarily matter if he kills nacho But it is sort of like I mean in the in the way the short story is told It's like the ins I don't know if inciting instance, right?
But it's like the thing that connect him with the group that hires him to do these murders, right? So it is yeah, it's just like it functions differently. I think it's maybe less um Less heavy or like less integral to the story. Yeah, but um, you know kind of a nice little character detail for This this guy who's just like who doesn't share like the moral quandaries things people right?
That's that yes, it's people yeah, so people is different from dinky who is the main character in the short story in that Yeah, he doesn't have the same sort of like moral qualms really He's just like my shit's all good and I think it's like I don't know I do I do like something about that where it's like yeah I had this like You know, I was like terrorized by the scary dog I had this bully and I have now retreated into this this this job where like not only are all my needs met and no one is bugging me But also I get to kill people and like take some of that power back for right, you know, he's just like a complete piece of shit Yes Right in this yeah, he is just a piece of shit Yeah, he's basically like the short film He's just kind of bragging about how how cool his life is right now how like all his needs are being met except for like You know, they don't buy him porno, so he has to get that himself. Yeah, that's about it And then yeah, everything else is like, you know hunky-dory for him After he tells the story about the dog and like him drawing the The sisigial thing and with the rotweiler and the dog dies then it just sort of like it cuts to him sitting at his computer Just saying like I have a good job. Yeah, you know It just doesn't know qualms about it no qualms. Yeah, you do get some like I don't know you Film kind of focuses a lot more on like how alienated this guy is sure I mean so the short story does too But like in the short story, it's much much clearer like I think really what Stephen King's doing in the short story He's like ringing the alarm bell about the internet being like the most destructive force known to man.
Yeah, he's right Yeah, and yeah, we will get into why any is right But like there's a part in the short film where like he is he's kind of just like he's like he's like He's like I'm thinking about taking a bowling again like I used to with my one friend like and Monu I think his name is yeah, and he's like he says I think I miss him. Yeah, which is like very interesting, right? You know it's the other thing to like he's a 19 year old kid, right? Yeah, which like I don't know man.
I feel like teenagers early 20s like sociopaths most people are also yeah, right like there's so you know And they're all fucked like their hormones are out of control still and like now they're supposed to be an adult So they're either going to school or they're working but like you know, they are just starting out their life and you know nothing can stop them They're invincible. Yeah, and all of this stuff. It was like, you know, I think right like his sort of this this guy's moral ambiguity About like just everything. He's just like yeah, I don't really care like that what I do kills people Whatever and like I think I miss my friend.
I think I don't know think it's all about his mom He's like yeah, I don't really she wants to come over, but I don't want to come over like yeah Yeah, and it's just like something this like both having common is just like the apparent boredom and just like yeah boring Ness of these characters like um, yeah, just like I'm thinking about getting back into bowling is just like if someone told me that I Would like shiver I would be like, oh god We're checking you into an inpatient facility Why it's just bowling no good Dan. No, it's fine But I mean like juxtaposed against uh, you know these targeted, you know like murders is just weird like you know You hit send and they're like I should go bowling. Yeah, I have to connect with people more. I think I'm isolated Yeah, you're all that crazy noise behind me.
Yeah, what is that it sounds like? The teenage dirt bikers of Philadelphia. Oh hell yeah, so it's like 50 of them. It's pretty crazy.
Do you have to go join them or are you okay? Yeah, well, I I think they're wait cuz usually I do my boxing training around this time. Okay, I run down Broad Street and they Yeah, they follow me in pop wheelies. Hell yeah, so they're like, come on.
They just drive around the city looking for people jogging so they So yeah, it ends with him sitting in front of the computer and saying I have a I've got a good job now Everything I need and no reason to feel bad and that's That's pretty fucked up and I don't believe him. Yeah, it's a little um It's a little heavy-handed. It's like when you go online you say having a normal one. Yeah, not Right.
I have no reason to feel bad not not not actually not Yeah, he talks about how like how eventual he feels. It's like I This is the most eventual I've felt in my entire life Yeah, you can't just make one word into another word first off. You can't just do that. Yeah, well, I mean I guess like yeah I mean you can't but if you ignore how annoying it is it is just like I don't know eventual What words are we associating with this inevitable?
What's the actual definition or yeah, yeah? Yeah, and that yeah, like the other the alternate meanings and then there's also like the word event in there So I guess that's like a little irony to where it's like I feel eventual even though nothing is happening to this guy Like he's removed all events from his life basically Dan how besides having to like Kill people via letters. Mm-hmm. How do how do you feel about this guy's life?
I mean it's not great to be isolated like that But like it's nice to have you all your needs meant like that though. Isn't it? Yeah, yeah, but I guess that's kind of the point right like I don't think like it's boring and I mean my personal read on it Is sort of like that seems like a little bit like you're in prison if your meals are basically like coming through a slot or whatever Well, yes, when I was reading the story I was waiting for the turn where he just says like he's in some sort of prison Yeah, for sure but like even ignoring all that like if you because like there is a definite appeal to that and I think there's meant to be and I think the Point is just like to consider like Like there's no convenience exacts at all somewhere right like is it that like having absolutely everything taking care of you like that Right, you don't have to worry about your food or where your weezer CDs are coming from me just like By the way all of my weezer CDs are ethically sourced. All right.
I don't have any I don't have any blood Pinkerton But having all of that taken care of so you don't have to think about it, right like what does that do to you? Is it asking the question I guess what does it do you morally, you know? Yeah, do you since you don't have to worry about like your own survival? That's like taking care of food shelter all of the like necessities of life Are taking care of so now you just you only really need to think about like You know how how you're gonna kill the next person and then what you're gonna do with the other like 23 and a half hours of the day Right, you know, yeah, yeah I mean, I think I think that just drain you mentally to the point where you're like I don't care about anything you just become like very nihilistic because you don't have to worry about some things same way that like You know like millionaires billionaires or whatever They don't have to worry about like where their next meal is coming from so like, you know That's just not a thing that they care about and in And they don't care about where other people are getting their meals from either, you know, right?
Yeah, definitely I think I think there's like there's definitely a bit of that where it's like when Yeah, when your needs are all met like that you whether or not you're like basically stuck in your house or not Yeah, you become kind of like detached from like humanity humanity exactly because you're not You're not aware of what goes into any of any of those things Yeah, I mean if you cut yourself off from other people like that, right? Like he's talking about his friend that he thinks he misses or whatever Like those people that are in your life your inner circle that you know you choose to be in your life They choose to be in you know their life You know, there's no like that's like a reflection, right? Yeah, so like you have these people that you care about and they care about you Then you might have some sort of a moral question about what you're doing totally profession Well, I also think it's interesting right like he talks about nacho his bully Yeah, we don't know if he kills not or not, but you know, we were do remember he writes a letter He does write a sigil and then he writes not right on it. Yeah, yeah, yeah, but even that he's like I don't know he's like when he's talking about his friend He's also saying like I think about nacho too and what he did to me and like God really I'm having trouble remembering the short story, but I mean if there's short film, but in the For some reason I'm having I just watched it and it's like left my mind.
Yeah, it's weird I wonder if it's just like cuz we were reading the dialogue and not hearing it's like we're processing it differently, but maybe maybe we got MK Ultra yeah, oh god, but like he he has the light right he doesn't like he doesn't say whether he feels bad or not But what he does say is like I'd forgotten how much I hated him Yeah, yeah, right and like even that like I feel like there's something to be said for the idea of like Not that like I'm not pro I'm not saying I'm pro bullying but like I think like being Like I don't know part of being alive is like having bad shit happen to you right and that also develops your sense of empathy because if you're Like I've suffered some some bullshit in my life like right when it happens to someone else you're like oh damn I know what that's like yes, so even taking that away from himself, you know insulating himself from the possibility of anything bad happening to him Like it deteriorates your brain. Mm-hmm. Yeah, yeah Which is why I joined a fight club Nice that and I felt like destroying something beautiful, but that's a separate matter Well before we before we rank I see the giz yes gizmo your cat is here gizmo the cat is here So let's let's oh wow looking like a chud with her chin tucked in oh Wow very cute giz watch 2023. What's the last with what's the latest with the giz the latest is she's doing pretty good She's eating on her own I think of her shots every day and she hates it shots of Tequila tequila Elgato Elgiz Well, she looks amazing.
Yeah, she's doing pretty good. She's gonna put on some more weight She'll too skinny there. She when I got her she was 8.3. Oh, which is a lot for a cat Yeah, it's a lot for cat so we're trying to fatten her up with treats and whatnot good good good good good good You hear that yeah a gentle purring a gentle purr of the giz Queen gizzard That's what I say.
Yeah. All right. You want to rank this thing. Yeah, let's fucking rank it okay So we're on to baby rankings baby rankings for some reason even though we don't do this with anything else Yeah, we we're gonna rank we have an ongoing list right yeah It's I feel like it's lost its meaning but we got to keep going with it of course of course so Rob yeah Where do we're gonna put this where do we're indeed?
Will you put it in the top five alongside the woman in the room one for the road the lawnmower men the moving finger or the Revolution the bag of balls in or will it possibly go in your bottom five with here There be tiger's Harvey's dream night sir fungalada's truck in paranoid a chant which is the bad poem earlier That is a bad poem. It's quite bad. Oh I don't know. I think I want to like this a little bit more than I actually liked it I'm gonna put it.
Let's see. I'm gonna put it up Well the I'm gonna put it above grandma and below suffer the little children. Oh You liked this less than suffer the little children I know we just did what was that one? Oh that was with a mmm.
That was with Ann Bobby. That was her name is I am oh Bobby. Did you see I won't point the kid in this short film is watching King of the Hill? I sure did yeah I wonder if I did not notice like the scene or anything if there's like any relevance to the short story But let's assume let's assume there was right Stuff of the little children Where was it's gonna go in number 19 with everything It's apostrophe s right eventual yeah everything's eventual hey 19 Hey gold Well, all right So Dan what about you is gonna be in your top five with the woman in the room a long more man word processor We've got some moving finger and one for the road or really be in my 6-10 Yeah, or will it be in your middle 25?
You know it's a good question. It's a good answer question and think no honestly thank you for asking it That's the truth here. So yeah, I think I think for me personally This is interesting of me. I think what I'm about to do So I have the I have my my murderer block in 19 and 20 and 21 where it's all it's strawberry spring The man who love flowers and suffer the little children.
Yeah, I think what I'm gonna do is I think For its socio-political commentary. Oh, I'm gonna put this also at 19 unfortunately but Yeah, it's gonna go between grandma and strawberry string. It's so good that we do this so that we can see the Barely the almost imperceptible differences in our opinions This is a yeah, it feels incredible It's just so accurate as to like so do you like it? Yeah, I do and I We are we differ maybe 10% on our opinions here.
That's right And that's what makes it such a compelling show is it's like a variety of perspectives, you know, right? All right, so that's our ranking If you are a patreon member you already know you will be right back with the short story if you're in line to hear the second half of the show Stay in line It's a little bit easier on a patreon member. This is where we part ways But if you want to go check it out over patreon five dollars a month gets all kinds of bonus content plenty of plenty of room in the tent refreshments, it's right Sometimes sometimes we play the king of the health theme song by the band the refreshments Hahaha Sorry, Rob, but we'll be right back. I'm gonna ask that we take an actual little break.
Yeah, let's do that Alright, alright. We'll see you in a bit. Bye