THE FISHER KING

I did. Robert Stan. Listen, I know we haven't talked in two years per hour, Greenman. To only talk when we're recording episodes, but listen, man, this is important.

You know I wouldn't be calling you if it wasn't important. Wait, I'm gonna stop you right there. Okay. Is this about the fish tweet?

Yes. Under the outcome, we're with the Steve Rucker. King me! We could have...

Alright, let's immediately pull back the curtain and say, we're not doing the song live, so we could have just done a 3-2-1. Alright, let's do a 3-2-1. Alright. 3-2-1.

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Oily fish. Rich and Omega 3's. The official podcast of destroying your gut biome in the name of rejuvenating a podcast that's been out of commission for... It's gotta be like two years, right?

It is over two years now. Oh my god. It's a... Yeah, yeah.

Just when I think I'm out, Stephen King tweets a disgusting fish recipe. What you heard in the cold open was a dramatization of something that actually happened, I would say. It did actually happen. I did text Rob a link to Stephen King's instantly infamous tweet, I would say.

Disgusting tweet. Disgusting tweet. And listen, Stephen King, he's an old man. He posts cringe.

He doesn't says things that disappoint me in predictable ways. He's an old lib boomer type. And I, of course, am a based zoomer. So we don't see...

I'm a based 30 year old zoomer. Right. So we don't... But this is so debased.

It's debased. Right. It's... Oh, Frank Blackwood, I have a field day with this one.

Yeah. He would. Got me some salmon I want you to know. Slicing up lemons.

I want you to know. Oh, man. Damn paper towels. I want you to know.

That's really... I mean, that's fun. All right. In case you somehow don't know what we're talking about, you have to read the tweet.

Of course. All right. So this was two days ago, April 19th. Two days ago as of this record, April 19th.

I guess three days ago as of the release. Right. Stephen King from his verified account. So this is him.

Tweets. Dinner. Get a nice salmon fillet at the supermarket. Not too big.

Put some olive oil and lemon juice on it. So far so good, you would say, right? I'm editorializing a bit. I mean, I think the olive oil might be overkill.

The lemon juice. I agree. You want a light oil for this. You don't want something as flavorful as olive oil because the fish itself is so rich and so flavorful.

But whatever. Sure. Anyway, so this is where it takes a turn. Yes, because the next instruction is to wrap it in damp paper towels.

Wrap in damp paper towels. So you go to the store and buy fish, which is not cheap. Right. Yeah.

Go on. Yeah. I'm going to turn it on back up. We're not giving anyone any warning.

I'm recouping my fish expenses on this one. Yeah. We're buying this dirty fish to wrap in paper towels. I need somebody else to pay for it.

Yeah. I guess this is good at times I need to advertise the patient. No. All right.

So let's get through the rest of this tweet. Right. So you've put olive oil and lemon juice on the fish. You've wrapped it in damp paper towels.

Then what do you do? Why you nuke it in the microwave for three minutes or so. Next step. This is maybe the most shocking step of all.

The next step is to eat it. Right. And would you eat it all by itself or maybe put it over? Maybe.

Maybe you would. The next because Stephen King, he's not a food fascist. He wants you to have fun with this. This is your meal.

Maybe. And that's why he wants you to maybe add a salad. Maybe. It's just like.

Yeah. So it's when you sent this to me, right? I was like, wow, that's really disgusting. And you were like, I have a great idea.

Let's eat this. You thought I was going to say, let's assassinate Stephen King. Yeah. He has to be stopped.

Someone has to be held accountable for this. Right. You're like, let's eat this and record an episode about it. And I was like, wait, is this?

I didn't realize. So like I read the tweet and I didn't. At first I was like, let's campy for people. Like he's doing this for a dog or something or a dog.

Right. And like, no, I mean, animals don't eat salads. I'm like, yeah, it doesn't make sense. I know.

It's. So, all right. So you were. So you said, let's do this.

Let this be. This should be our comeback episode. Yes. Our grand debut, you and I walking down that grand staircase.

Arm and arm, each holding a plate of freshly microwaved salmon. Oh, God. I mean, just a little background. I do enjoy sushi.

Right. I like some cooked fish, right? Most of the time I would not go for like a cooked salmon because all the time I find it just to be a little like, yeah, it's a little, you know, it's kind of fishy or whatever. And I would really have to be in the mood for that.

That's not like a casual kind of like whatever. I'm just going to not pay attention. No. So to make you not only eat something you don't like, but to go through all the steps of preparing it in the most upsetting way possible.

Yeah. Yeah. This must have been a real treat for you. Yeah.

I will say in talking about this, it took, it took a while. Like we went back and forth talking about it and I'd be like, we should do this for the show and you'd be like, that's a, that's a funny idea. And then you'd be like, man, I can't believe how gross it is. People shouldn't eat salmon nuked in a way, wet paper towel.

Yes. Totally grossed out. Yeah. I'm just going to eat it for the show.

So there was a lot of back and forth where I can't, you'd be like, haha. Yeah. Anyway, moving on. Yeah.

And I had to say at first I did not think you were, you were being serious, which, you know, you take these sorts of things from things very seriously. I should have known. I know. Yeah.

I'm not good for much, but I think like the one, you know, I'm a bit of a wild card. I'm a man, man, man. People hate me. But the one consistent thing with me is that I'm going to eat gross food for a bit.

You've seen me do it. I have. It's, it's always, it's, it's just always funny. Yeah.

Because why would you do this? Yeah. Why was good? And this is the added dimension of why would you cook it this way?

Right. So, right. After a little convincing on your part, I was like, you know what, this is actually a really funny idea. If we haven't released an episode in over two years and our first episode back is a nasty fish recipe tweeted out by Stephen King.

And it's also our way of announcing that we're going to be releasing more episodes. Right. And honestly, you know, people, I don't want to talk too much shop. People don't care about that.

Sure. But like just in terms of enticing people back, what's more compelling, this disgusting fish recipe or like whatever Stephen King movie came out in 2013, you know, this is the way to go. People are going to eat this shit up. Yeah.

You didn't, we should say we should, I mean, people probably read it already because they have this episode in their pod catcher. But the name of the episode is the Fisher King. Yes. Should it be the Fisher King or the Fisher Kings?

Like, is he the Fisher King or are we? I think he's the Fisher King. He's the Fisher King. Yeah.

Just a couple of dunces. Yeah. We are, we deserve the death penalty as well, I'd say. Yeah.

I think when you were telling me about this and you were like, no, no, we should do it. We have to eat it and whatever. I was still like very much on the fence. And then you said we have to call it the Fisher King.

And at that point, I was like, fuck, that's too good not to do. All right. Fine. I mean, now I'm convinced it's got a name.

It's great. All right. I mean, so yeah. All right.

I want to acknowledge about this, this recipe and its origin. So this was concocted by Stephen King, who is very rich. Yes. Very rich man.

Yeah. This was a poor man's meal. This is a man who somebody in the tweets in the comments under this tweet just wrote, sorry to hear about the divorce. Because this is a divorce dad's, you know, crummy meal.

It just, it flies in the face. Like there's a whole philosophy around cooking. Mm hmm. You're a bit of a foodie.

I could say I'm a bit of a foodie. I've been known to, to not. Yeah. What do you want to know?

Ask me anything. What kind of fish goes best in a microwave? Salmon. Grocery store, supermarket salmon, not too big, of course.

Can't be too big. It's important that it's not too big. It has to fit in the microwave. Of course.

Oh, imagine that is the only thing that can make this worse is having to jam the paper, the wet paper towels containing a piece of salmon into the microwave. It's like 40 pounds of just salmon fillets that you've tried to stuff into the microwave. Yeah. It's ever heard of meal prep.

I'm eating this for a week straight. Okay. All right. Just real quick, I'm going to read back that recipe one more time.

Unannotated. Yep. So people know we're dealing with here. So dinner, get a nice salmon fillet at the supermarket, not too big.

Put some olive oil and lemon juice on it. Wrap it in, damn paper towels. Nuke it in the microwave for the three minutes or so. I know I said I'm not going to annotate, but I just got to say nuke it.

Yeah, you can. It's so much grosser. Like that's how you describe food that is gross. Yes.

Like, like mozzarella sticks from a bowling alley are nuked. Yes. All right. So you nuke it in the microwave for three minutes or so eat it.

Be at a salad. Right. So you had a salad? Maybe.

I like it. I like it. I don't know. I don't know.

Maybe I said I didn't. I actually get I know I said I was gonna because we had talked about this before recording and you had said explicitly that you were not going to bother with a salad. Yeah. I knew I wasn't going to like this outside.

So close minded. See outside of it being like a disgusting recipe. I knew this just wasn't going to be for me. I knew I wasn't going to be able to finish this.

So I didn't want to like put it over leaves that I also wasn't going to eat. You know what put it over I would not let this touch the salad certainly had I made the salad. I will say if anyone at home is going to make the sal make the fish definitely don't put it anywhere near the put your salad anywhere near the fish. Correct.

Don't wrap it in paper towels. You could make a salad out of the discarded paper towels like a wet salad. Oh. Yeah.

All right. So you so I went to the store. I did this today. Did you also?

No, I made sure to get make sure to go yesterday so that my fish had 24 hours to sit to age the perfection. Yeah. I'm like you really don't. So I got it was like two five ounce like fillets and they it was like $12.

How much would your cost? You know what I have a picture of it. I can tell you know what yeah give me one second because you got to know right this is important. I mean it is kind of important stuff here.

It's kind of important. I also want to point out that Dan did a much better job here documenting everything I recorded myself like a little like a 10 minute recording of me throughout the entire process unpackaging all the way to throwing this away. Oh my God. Okay.

All right. All right. All right. I just opened up the.

Oh God. Oh. So mine was eight dollars a thirty nine cents and this was for just under a pound. Wow.

Yeah. Trader Joe's baby point eight four pounds. I should want to check your nose. Check my math.

All right. That sounds good. All right. So you get it home you wait 24 hours.

Yep. I I just make sure that the plastic around the fish is bubbled up ever so slightly from the gases of decomposition. Right. So you want to press down and if you hear the hiss of the air escaping and so you know it's that's ready.

Perfect. So I yeah I got my fish yesterday. I had intended to do this yesterday but as you as you well may know the NBA playoffs are underway. Yeah.

And the home team for where I live which is Philadelphia and the team is called the 76ers are in the playoffs. They had a real barn burner last night so I got kind of sucked into that. Right. No time for fish.

No got a hoop. I got a hoop. So we both made this today. Yes.

That's a good question because the recipe is not well written. Sure. How ironic. That's not well written.

That's not well written. Most prolific living authors. Yes. See he's so used to you.

So don't tell and recipes are all about telling. Yeah. For somebody who's just writes chapters on chapters of the tale. Yeah.

The most he can come up with is nice salmon. No way. Not some olive oil and lime juice. Yeah.

Nuke it shut up and eat it. Nuke it. You pig you fucking pig. Okay.

So yeah with that being said how much paper towel did you how much damp paper towel did you put around this fish. So my paper towel they're like those the half whatever paper towel. Sure. Good.

Yes. Good. Same. So I did take two of those dampen it and wrap it up.

Interesting. What about you? Five half sheets. That's a lot.

I was worried about moisture retention. So I want to be damn sure that my fish was going to be moist wet as wet on the outside as possible. Well yeah. So I put again pointing out the recipe.

There are no spices added to this no salt ever right. So it is just so we did we made it with olive oil and lemon juice only. Yes. Wrapped it in this paper towel.

I got it when I so I put it in the microwave for the specified three minutes or so. Or so. Yeah. And there was like a smell coming out of it to begin with right.

Yeah. Which I wasn't crazy about but buddy when I opened that my god the plumes of fish vape. Oh that just it was so bad. Now do you know offhand how many watts your microwave is I don't okay.

For me it's 1k watts. Okay. Is that good? That's a thousand.

I don't think it's I mean it's like good it worked the fish got cooked right. My fish was also cooked. So I was just wondering you know if that is a variable we need to account for here because you know and that's the other thing this is a he has a rich man's microwave I have no doubt about that. Sure.

So I don't know maybe it works. Maybe if you have the Alicia microwave just like the fish beautifully. Right. It comes out with like sides and and and fixings and other things.

Yeah. Well yeah dinner put a meal pill in your lacy of microwave. Right. So right the the fish the smell as soon as I opened that door made me physically sick and almost vomit immediately.

Now can you describe the smell at both stages both when it was cooking and then cooked. I mean it just it smelled like I don't know how to describe besides cooked fish. I know you had a different experience altogether which I did not. Yeah.

Yeah some strange alchemy took place while my fish was cooking. I swear to god it just reeked of popcorn and I don't use my micro like I don't make microwave popcorn. Like residual smell but this thing stung to high having a popcorn I swear. Which makes you think like what the hell are they doing in popcorn.

What that oh do you think that's why they're like you'll want to eat it you'll want to eat microwave popcorn the liners of the bags it'll kill you. Yeah it's just it's just made of you know I've never looked in the empty bag maybe it's just salmon skin. Just gross salmon skin in there. Yeah it was it was very the other thing to when I was a kid my dad used to cook fish in the house and he would all they would think of the house when I was a young boy my father cooked the stinky fish he made me eat the fish.

Yeah that's exactly not he yes that's exactly what he would sing to me every night. Tapping a microphone turn in the PA on it. Yeah just like goth. Sergeant Pepper.

So so while it was microwaving and then that first whiff of the door open just brought back a flood of awful memories from my childhood. Much like Proust's Madeline you were instantly transported back to your dad saying son eat the fish. Yeah the stinky fish. Yeah yeah I remember thinking yes I am exactly like Proust's Madeline.

Well no the Madeline's the cookie that he eats and he's like oh my childhood. Ho ho ho ho. So you're a Proust. I'm Proust.

You're Proust baby. Yeah I'm Proust. So I was Proust the fish is Madeline I'm disgusted I'm about to throw up I can't wait to eat this fish now. And then then buddy I opened up that paper towel and wow did I not expect it to be that color.

Like it's like it had seen a ghost. It was just yeah it was right drained of I don't fully know you know I'm not a man of science. I'm of course I'm an artist right yeah I don't know what happens in a microwave scientifically. Sure it seems bad based on what happens.

Yeah I mean like they say people describe it as nuking food. I mean speaking to himself described it that way. That doesn't sound like something you want your food to experience. No especially a nice salmon filet.

I feel like any sort of like meat in general in the microwave is not going to come out the way that you want it to. What about a steak? Microwaved steak. Yeah what if you microwave a New York strip steak.

Alright well next week tune in for oh what a pivot. This gives me an idea. Oh we're gonna be the doe boys but for microwave gross food different meats. Yeah I mean like when you like frozen food or whatever belongs in microwave like if you know heat up like I don't know fucking pizza bagels or some shit like that.

Like stuff that's in the freezer aisle. No you're not microwaving pizza bagels. I'm not microwaving them but they have to go in the toast or no they have to go in the toast or no. Alright Dan.

Well you have your pizza bagels in your toast or oven and your salmon in the microwave and I don't know. And go to hell. Yeah really. Go fuck yourself alright.

This is exactly what happened two years ago. Yeah so when I took mine out of the microwave yeah did you have a stickage because I despite drenching my salmon in like honestly a quarter cup of olive oil. Yes it's still stuck. Yes mine also not not too bad there were just a couple spots which maybe you think like is this like the Stephen King experience the same thing with this.

That's his favorite part. Yeah sure. Right he likes to scrape off the fish that stuck to the paper towel. Yes I felt like I'll tell you what I felt like I felt like gold member peeling off his own skin to eat.

This seems like gold member would love this. He would have loved this. Rest in power. Yeah he loves fish and gold.

This whole meal feels like something that he would have eaten before he like I don't know before he wrote like Salem's lot or something like that. Right because he grew up in Maine so you got to imagine like salmon that's like buying eggs. Right the cheapest thing you can buy. Right and like it's like we said you know it's I'm sure it was incredibly inexpensive you know for him at that time.

Also it's like you know if you're a ridiculous alcoholic hooked on cocaine and you're like I just need to eat something like that's like easy peasy. This is like stumble in food. You've gone through every pantry you know you're just like I don't have anything I can just like open and eat. Right.

What's the shortest distance between me and eating? Yeah what's going to happen what am I going to be able to eat in three minutes or so? Well all I have is this nice salmon filet I got at the supermarket that's not too big. Some olive oil, lemon, these paper towels.

And I have to eat all of that. I can't leave anything out. Yeah I can't let my wife know that I've been eating this. I picture this him eating this like at 2 a.m.

or 3 a.m. or whatever just like really stinking up the house and like you know the family like knows what he's up to. Yeah kids are crying. Yeah Joe Hill is in his room he's like I'll show you one day.

That's what is a graphic novel the Man Who Eight Salmon is about. Yeah yeah yeah. So yes I did have some stickage with the paper towel and the salmon. That's well.

Can I tell you uh oh can I tell you my theory about sort of the origin of this meal? Please. I think this was him like you know when you get like fancy fish. Sorry.

Yeah go on. You know when you get like a fancy fish meal like a fancy French preparation fish. It'll be like there will be lemon slices like laid on top of it and it'll be wrapped in parchment paper. Yes.

And then baked in the oven. Yes. This feels first of all I don't think he relaps I hope he's doing great. Put down the record.

I think this is him being like oh heck I can do that I don't need all that fancy crap. Right. I mean he's a populist he's a man of the people. He's a blue collar guy.

He's the people's author. Right. I'm talking Tucker Max Tucker Max. I hope they serve this fish in hell frankly.

Jesus Christ. What was the last time anybody thought about Tucker Max? Think about him all the time. Pretty often.

Yeah I read that book all the time. Tucker Max crawled so that Dave Portnoy could run. They do have the same exact slide right face and it's like it's like that evolution timeline of like a monkey becoming a man except it's just the same guy changing hats. It's wearing a different baseball hat.

Right backwards two forwards. Yep. Exactly. Yep.

Maybe the cargo shorts evolved into weird jeans. Yeah yeah yeah. So all right so now we're at the most important part here. The taste test.

Yep. So now is this a pass fail or a letter grade or how are we grading this? I mean all my recording I gave it a star rating out of 10 because that's our typical. Wow.

Yeah. Oh okay so we are we are IMDBing this thing. Yeah I was I yeah yeah I tried to do it. I gave it two out of 10.

When I okay yeah where the two come from because it didn't make me physically sick immediately. I think so all right. I hated the way it smelled. I hate the way that it still smells up my kitchen as we speak.

There's a lingering scent. How long ago did you make this five hours? No. Oh no.

Oh no. So I was not I was expecting to have this touch my my tongue and to be physically ill and when I ate it I was more underwhelmed than anything. Exact same experience over here. Which is good because it means we we followed the recipe to the letter.

I thought like like I said like I thought it was going to be disgusting and then I ate it and it honestly didn't taste like much of anything. Yes yes because there's the thing one as we discussed no seasoning allowed right Stephen King not seasoning this fucked up fish recipe. The other thing is that what little flavor you should be getting from the olive oil and the lemon juice immediately gets sucked up by the paper towels. Yeah that's gone.

It just gets sponged away from the fish. Yeah it didn't taste like olive oil or lemon. No. It's not on there.

Same yes. I really think I could use the season. I would have been happier with a supermarket salmon ceviche. Sure.

Let it sit in the lemon juice. Yes frankly. Yes. This was it was not foul right but it was flavorless and I would imagine this is the same for you.

Really just cooked to shit after three minutes like you know it had that like sticky feeling of like overcooked chicken. Yes. It was mine was very dry bone dry bone dry bone dry. It was dry than a bag of bones.

Yeah. And we're back baby bag of bones. Yeah it was so dry and then right like biting into it and everything it was just like it was like I almost had a hard time like swallowing it because it was so dry and then have to swallow it. Well we're not the rules.

Well I did and then I broke I broke one of the rules so I took two bites out of this just exactly why why what why two well I'm gonna tell you right now I took one bite exactly how it was and gross and then I added a little salt and pepper to my second bite and that one was better because it had flavors in it but I could not see myself ever ever doing this again. No no absolutely not. I know when he tweeted this I know he was like let me give you a tip all right everybody. Yeah take a nice piece of salmon throw it in the microwave you'll thank me later and everybody's like you're disgusting what are you doing and he was like you'll thank me later.

I think we should also mention that he tweeted this at 10 10 pm yeah so at 10 pm he's you know we wrapped up writing 500 pages about a fucking I don't know what's he doing a haunted pillow. Yeah what else could be haunted. All right let me see. He's just like looking around the room what if the smoke detector had ghost in it.

What if a writer had a haunted smoke detector. Yeah and that was like somehow a metaphor for like I don't know either alcoholism or being hit by a car. What do you think? I like I like a metaphor for being hit by a car where it's just like he was hit by a smoke detector.

Someone whacked up with a pillow. Yeah how was your actual eating experience. Yeah I took one bite as small as I could I took it from the fattest part of the movie that I could get. Thinking that would be the moistest.

Boy were you wrong. I was so wrong. It's like a wet on the outside. No it was like it was bone dry the whole thing was so dry the paper towel was so wet.

Yeah it just like sucked all the moisture out of it so I took my bite. I felt the smacking of my teeth as the sticky dry salmon pulled apart and then I gave the rest of my dog it pretty much as soon as it cooled down. Yeah yeah. Bird ate like a king.

Sure. He was like please microwave more fish for me in the future. It's like this is really good. Who came up with this?

That's really good. It's like oh wow I'm not really a hard guy but I might check out some of his books. That's cool. That's really interesting.

He came through his recipe. Oh man I knew it could cook but this guy can really write. Yeah so I had to get rid of it as quickly as possible. I'm worried about bird of course he's gonna get worms.

Actually no he's not. Nothing could have survived that. I mean three minutes in the microwave is a long time. It's fine baby.

That dogs I mean he'll probably get sick in some other way but he'll be fine. No I did I took the two bites that I told you about and then I immediately threw everything in the garbage can and then took that garbage out into the dumpster to get it as far away from my kitchen as possible. Bought a new garbage can. Yeah it was so gross.

Oh wow we suffer for our art. You're not getting your security deposit back either that sucks. That's really too bad. I just think of the whole place.

I have to buy extra microwaves for all the salmon. It should be noted that Stephen King tweeted a follow up tweet the following day on 420 AKA. Hiller's birthday. Hiller's birthday.

That's right. You couldn't see it dear listener but I was sort of waggling my eyebrows. So you're like I'm gonna do it. We know what day it was.

Right? Guys were back. Yeah we're back at a baby. So he tweeted a follow up the next day and said he did address this because like people were mad.

Right. Look where there are plenty of bozos in the comments saying this is scarier than anything you've ever written. Mr. King.

Yeah that's plenty of that. Where there are thousands upon thousands of bozos and if you listen to the show you're one of those bozos. I'm not talking about you. If you're one of those bozos I don't mean you.

I'm not talking about you bozos. You're cool. You have potential. You made that joke because you don't have enough faith in yourself.

You just reach for the sure thing. I'm telling you you listen to this you put this show in your ears for enough hours. You're gonna be the funniest motherfucker in where do you live? Tell me where you live.

Yeah give me your address. Docs yourself. Docs yourself. Get in get in here.

Docs yourself. Yeah. Mexico City. I know right or our.

Yeah we have a friend. We have people in Mexico City. Yeah we got people in Mexico City. Diego.

Yeah we have. That's his name. I'm dead. That's a guy.

All right. Don't laugh at Diego. I'm not having him. What if like everyone.

What if everyone. Ever since the show is above so. What if everyone in Mexico City is like oh there goes that bozo. What's he listening to in his earbuds.

And it's just I was like oh well you shouldn't microwave fish. It would be funny if someone made fish wrong. Wouldn't that be funny? This guy doesn't know how to make a fish.

It's wrong. We should try it. We're well we're superior to him. We know how to make the fish.

Maybe we're the bozos. Everybody else is cool and we're the bozo. We're not back. We're un-back.

Yeah. All right we're going back away. We've de-backed ourselves. Yeah.

No we're back. All right we're back baby. So. Kingi 2022 Redux.

Yep. Do you the re-kinging? I don't know. The re-crowning.

Do you have anything else to say? That's like a birth thing. Yeah yeah. Not like a royalty thing.

We're going back to. We are we are crowning right now. Crowning out our mommy. That's right.

Kingi 2022 colon crowning out our mommy. Do you have anything else to add about the add in about this fish. Yeah. Well I've been in pepper.

Yeah dude. No the absolute basics. I like. Yeah I don't know.

Just to you know sort of put a bow on it. I'll just reiterate that I am a base tic-tac-zoomer. Right. He needs to touch grass.

As they say. Sure. And it's the last. The last one.

All right. Last reference I got. We're done with the fish now. Oh you don't have anything else you want to say.

No I don't. Oh good. All right then we can move right. Let's move on.

So, as we mentioned earlier, we're back, baby. We're back, baby. Right. We have episodes that we've recorded over the past two years.

Yeah. There have been several false starts. Several false starts. I in particular have had a lot going on.

I won't go into it all. But there have been several false starts. I, you know, takes two to tango. It's, you know, whatever.

We're here now. We're eating fish. Everything's great. So these episodes, right?

Over the last like two years, two and a half years or something, we've recorded them. We've just been sitting on them. So we are going to release them though. Yeah.

And look, have you listened back to any of them? No, I haven't. Okay. Sure.

You know, like literally the first one is sell. 2016 sell, John Cusack. I know for a fact that we recorded that before the pandemic. That is pre-pandemic stuff.

Wow. Oh my God. So I hope we don't say anything crazy like, oh my God, the worst thing that could possibly happen is Donald Trump being president and nothing else or something crazy like, I don't know what's going on, but I'm feeling very achy. Yeah, I feel very sick.

My breathing has been a bit labored. Let me go into a crowded area. So we're going to pick it back up with sell of all things. Yes.

That's going to be our first movie back. Dude, it's a real turd fest coming up. I got to say, all the stuff we got banked sucks. Yeah.

Well, it's their sell. What else? The mist, the TV series. The mist TV series.

Absolute. That's all. I should. Did not care for it.

And then the dark tower, which was also terrible. We also watched a Mr. Mercedes, which was good. Ah, Mr.

Mercedes. We have to do whatever. But yes. So, okay, so the release schedule, we're going to be releasing Kingie episodes, the free Kingie episodes in the feed every other week, right?