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My name is Chris Ryan. I am editor at the Winger.com and joining me in the studio. No way to agree while this week he is out of town right now. So I thought I would go out of town.
At least emotionally. You know, I like virtually go out of town. I wanted to talk to some of R-D-Or staff members at the Winger.com. So I got together a group of Sinister Six from New York City to talk to me about what they've been doing recently.
I wanted to do another Ring of Recommend episode. We did one of these a couple of months ago with a lot of people from the West Coast office and that was really fun. I was thinking, you know, oh, somebody's going to be like, I'm getting into, you know, Wonder Woman or something. But nobody was really, it's like none of this stuff is going to be very like mainstream hot off the blogs type cultural recommendations.
And that's good because I thought we got to learn a lot about the people we talked to and we also got to hear about a ton of interesting stuff that I wasn't even up on. So you're about to hear from Justin Charity, Kate Nibs, Andrew Godadaro, Lindsey Zolad's Dottie Quack and our buddy, Cam Collins. We're going to recommend some Instagram accounts, some documentaries, some books and some good music. So stay tuned.
We got a Ring of Recommend show from our New York staff, six people, six recommendations. Hope you like it. All right, now I'm joined by the Ringers Justin Charity, who's going to recommend, I think something a little bit outside the usual watch grab bag of pop culture, but it's still part of the fabric of our lives, man. It's video games, but it's a very specific kind of video game, right Justin?
Well, I'm recommending a console. I'm recommending the Nintendo Switch, which is the new, relatively new handheld console from Nintendo. Okay, so what give me like, how much has this taken over your life? Because that's always my concern with any of these things.
It's weird. I've actually, I feel that I have responsibly incorporated Nintendo Switch into my life. That's a big part of why I like it. It's because like I own a PlayStation 4 otherwise, right?
And that's a console and it's in my living room. And I usually like plop down and play it for long stretches, but it's weird. I haven't owned a handheld console in a long time. And when I got the switch to play the new Legend of Zelda game, I found myself sort of just playing it in these little sweet spots, right after filing a draft of a story or falling asleep or on the bus.
Yeah, that's how I used to smoke cigarettes. It was like, there was like a reward based system of like, I got through a subway ride alive. Exactly. I'm like, I'm a cigarette.
Yeah. I want to know if with these handheld devices now, like I find that usually like my use of social media is largely to take up any moments that I might be alone with my thoughts. So is that is the Nintendo Switch like taking over that place where you're like, oh, I don't have to like look at Twitter while I'm online or on the subway now, or is it more of like, this is something I actively want to do? So it's interesting that you phrase it that way because when I first bought a PlayStation in January, I specifically made a bargain with myself and it was that I am buying this with the intention of using it to displace all the time that I otherwise would spend on social media.
Right. It's something that's more enjoyable and less toxic. I think I think video game. I like it.
That's toxic. Can you write my wife an email that I can just sign at the bottom that it's just like, do you Chris's wife, this is the reasons Chris needs a PS4 is like far less checking British soccer Twitter and you know, like all the things that are destroying my marriage. It's totally great. I mean, in the sense that the Nintendo Switch is a is mobile, it's certainly larger than an iPhone.
It's like four times the size of an iPhone. Even the sort of like visceral instincts of like holding a handheld device, we are like, I should tweet instead. It's like, I should play a Mario Kart eight deluxe match and it feels so much more fun than tweeting, which is bad. Yeah.
So tell me a little bit about Zelda because I know that we've written about it on the site a couple times. I think Lindbergh did and it sounds incredible. Yeah, it's interesting. I it's my first Zelda game.
Okay. It's my first ever Zelda game. And it's it's a very open ended game, which it makes it interesting to play it on the go because I'm not playing with the sense of like, Oh man, I had to stop at this point in the plot. I was just sort of wandering around this huge open world map and doing the side quests and exploring, you basically spend a lot of time solving puzzles.
And it's just like a good it's a very it's strange because it's got a good story at the heart of it and it's got great graphics and great gameplay. But at the same time, I kind of think of Zelda as just this this thing that I play ideally in idling moments. It's not a thing that I sit and want to play necessarily for super long stretches so much is a thing I'm going to play for an hour and then do something else, which is good. That's how I should as an adult play video games.
Yeah. I think my problem with video games is like I just know that they will take over my life if I find and I just there's no room on achievement oriented. So it would just be such a detrimental part. If I just started playing FIFA again, I know that I would just become so obsessed with it.
What are some other games on the switch that you like? Well, I like Mario so far. I've only really played Zelda and Mario Kart 8 and Mario Kart 8 came out a few years ago for I think the S and I think it's on a couple platforms at this point, but it came up for the switch around the launch time of the switch a few months ago. And actually a couple of weekends ago was with a few friends including a friend Kevin when shouts out to GQ who had a Mario Kart party on a Saturday where we got I think at one point we got a full eight people in across three different switches playing Mario Kart on a TV and it was fantastic.
But I've only recently started playing Mario Kart 8 on the switch solo and it's such a beautifully designed like the level design on the Mario Kart is very good and it looks really good on a mobile device and I actually have to go to Daytona at the beginning of July to cover a NASCAR race and I really look forward to playing Mario Kart in the understands at the Coke 0400. I think that might be the most boring version of Logan Lucky that we could get. Alright, so Justin recommends the Nintendo switch and specifically Zelda Mario Kart on that device. Justin, thank you for joining us.
We're going to have to have you back on again and let us know how NASCAR went. Thanks. Well, thanks for having me. Now I'm joined by the ringer's Kate Nibs and I actually don't know what Kate's going to recommend to me.
I have no prior knowledge. Kate, the floor is yours. Okay, well, I was I just switched my recommendation because I realized that I needed to tell you about something that is an Instagram account and I was going to recommend the keepers because I think it's a great documentary series but I'm currently more obsessed with this Instagram account so everyone should watch the keepers but we also need to talk about night lotion. That's what the Instagram account is called.
The hairpin wrote an article about it. That's how I find out about all the hippest Instagram accounts. It's just reading blog posts about them and so so you've never heard of it. I've not.
No. Can you guess what it is based on the title? Is it like ASMRs of people putting lotion on at night? Not close but it's sort of looking at there's a TV and movie trope in which when women are talking to their husbands in scenes set in bedrooms at night, they put on lotion a lot.
It happens in- Yes, that's the Leslie Man movie. Leslie Man does that in every movie. I know exactly what to mean. They're so well moisturized.
And so what this Instagram account is just like a hyper niche account devoted to like stills of these movies and TV shows of the ladies lubing up. And holy shit, are you serious? Yeah, and it's really, you know, it just inserts a little delightful interlude into my Instagram browsing. I really recommend it.
And it also- Wait, can you give me- Who's the Mount Rushmore of this? Like who are the best lotion people? Well, Leslie Man is huge, but there's been like, there's a bunch of sex in the city lotionings. There was a night lotioning event on big little light or big little lies.
Yeah. And Nicole Kidman. Yeah. Almost any like, there's a lot of these scenes.
902 and 0, the crown, the queen, the queen moisturizers and the crown. Like- What did they have for lotion back then? Was that like actual butter? I think it was like old timey night cream.
She's like patting it on her face. I'm sure it was like made of caviar or something. It's very pervasive, but it also makes me feel kind of self-conscious because like I don't apply lotion in my bed. So I don't know.
It might start. Okay. So it's inspirational, but it's also like an incredible look to this very specific pop culture thing. I'm like kind of blown away.
Like I'm a little bit caught flat-footed here because like now that you've said it, I can't not think about it. But why can you give me like a solid 30 second reco on the keepers as well, even though it's a little incongruous I know with night lotion? Yes. Well, you can apply lotion at night while watching the keepers so that's how it comes together.
But the keepers came out last month. It's a documentary on Netflix and I think it's one of the best true crime documentaries I've ever seen, but it's not really getting as much hype as like making a murderer or the jinx and I think it deserves more because it looks at a cold case about a nun who was murdered in 1969 in Baltimore. And her former students who are now sort of elderly women have been like sort of amateur sleuthing around trying to figure out who killed this nun, Sister Cathy. And it ends up sort of widening out to an exploration of abuse within the Catholic church in Baltimore.
And I think it's really interesting because it sort of comes at you from the perspective of the victims in a way that most true crime documentaries don't. And I think more people should be watching and talking about it. Yes, because like a lot of what I think a lot of what there was some criticism of cereal in the beginning and I think a lot of this explosion of two crime stuff that we've had, there's been a lot of debate about is there too much focus on the investigator? Is there too much focus on the who done it part, which is sort of picking at the scabs of the victims and the victims families in the first place?
But you're saying that this is kind of like a more from the perspective of the people who are directly affected by this crime. Yes, it's I think it's like one of the least exploitative two crime series I've seen. And it's like less of a who done it and more just exploring why these women are after so many years still looking for accountability. Yeah, I just think it's really well done.
And I love two crime, but I've been kind of burnt out on it. That's why it took me a few weeks to watch this show. But I'm just really impressed by how it managed to sidestep a lot of those exploitative qualities of stuff like cereal or, you know, I actually thought making a murder was boring. And I find this one also just better made.
So have you seen it? I haven't seen the keepers yet. I watched murder and I do watch a lot of like true crime stuff, but I haven't got around to the keepers yet. So I'll definitely check it out though.
Yeah, it's really good. I think I think I wish it was like getting paid a little more attention to it, but I don't know. Everyone to watch it. Okay, cool.
All right. Kate recommends what is bound to be probably the greatest Instagram account of all time night lotion and also the keepers which is on Netflix. You can check that out now. You can read Kate Nibs on the ringer.
Thanks for joining us Kate. No problem. All right. Now I am joined by one of the ringer's pop culture writers and editors and go to daro andro.
I don't know what you're going to recommend, but I'm very excited to hear because I feel like you always come with the heat on the site. So what's going on with you this week? Yeah, I'm going to deliver right now because the thing that I'm recommending is out on Friday and it is called 47 meters down. Yes.
It is. It is. Mandy Moore. I thought about the ocean.
Let me give you a one sentence description. It is a Mandy Moore starring film about shark attacks. That's all. I mean, I don't think I need to say anything else, but I will.
I love it when Hollywood. I get it when like, you know, you'll see like Homeland comes out. They make like 10 home shows, but they kind of come out like two or three years later. Or they'll have like a successful like John Wick and now atomic blondes coming out and it's just like you can see this sort of like hyper gymnastics action is in now.
But shout out to fucking Hollywood for being like, you know, it's a good movie. The shallow show. Like to make another one. Um, so have you seen 47 meters down yet?
Or are you just going off with the premise? Oh, no, I saw it. And how's Mandy doing? How's she?
How's her acting? Mandy's great. I mean, she is pretty much by herself in like a little, a little cage, 47 meters down. And you know, she does fine.
It's, it's, it's not exactly a heavy lift. But it's a fun movie and it's 85 minutes long, which is just the best. That's like two minutes per meter. That's great.
How much setup is there a lot of setup? Do we get to know a lot about her motivations for going 47 meters down? Or is it just kind of she jumps right into the water? It's a little bit of both the setup.
I don't think this is much of a spoiler safe, but it's basically like she is going through a breakup and she's in Mexico with her sister who's the wild child and Mandy Moore is, you know, she's feeling like she's not wild enough, which is why she broke up with her boyfriend. And so her, her sister says, you know, like it'd be great if you could get some Instagram shots of you in this cage with a shark. And that's pretty much it. And then she's like, okay, you're right.
And then it goes downhill from that. This is a, this is a movie that I wish, you know, they, they make movies now that are like pretty much available on iTunes immediately. But this is a movie where I feel like they should have made it and released it on cable immediately. Oh, yeah.
And just run it on a loop for like 12 hours a day. And it's just like, oh, my favorite part of 47 meters down is on, even though it's only been out for two days. Yeah, this is exactly what I want from a summer movie. You know, it's like 90 minutes long and I can kind of just forget about it when it's over.
And then being said, don't give away billion dollar ideas because the shark universe is in play. And I don't know about you, but if we could get Mandy and Blake and the two sharks from the shallows and 47 meters down, like whatever their progeny. They just need halfway. They're just in between the death of jealous.
Yeah. And maybe Nandy and Blake go to like a lake and there's like, there's no way a shark could come to a lake, right? And they bonded over their shared shark trauma. And then again, they have to like face down the children of the sharks that they've battled.
Oh, yeah. We can't even. Yeah, we need to start writing now. Okay.
We might have to delete this part of the podcast and get some agents on the phone. Andrew, thank you so much. This is a that's really elite recommendation right there. Go see it.
It's worth it. All right. Take care man. Thanks.
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on HBO. I would like to welcome back to the watch. Lindsey Zolads, who I think is here to recommend some old media, not some new media, some dead tree media. Lindsey, what do you have for us?
I have a book recommendation. Remember books? Oh, yeah, for sure. Come from trees, words on pages.
I want to recommend a novel that I read a couple of months ago, a leaf, a batch of men's novel, The Idiot, which actually was lent to me by a singer, Sapphire, Kate Nibs. So shout out to the Ringer lending library that we do have in your office here. And I know she's a fan of this book too, but it brought me very vividly back to an uncomfortable time in my life, which was freshman year of college, I think in a comfortable time for many people and just a very specific mood. Kind of it evokes like the moment before you find your real friends in college and sort of the weird friendships and relationships of convenience, you might say, that spring up when you first get to a new place and are trying to figure it out.
So it was an emotional read for me in that way. That's the emotional summary of it. What's kind of elevator pitch for the plot? That's the tricky one because Batumen, she is also really good on Twitter.
Some of you may know her from that where her handle is Banana Corinna, which I think kind of sounds like her vibe in a nutshell, which is very brainy but goofy at the same time. So it is not a very plot driven novel. It's more kind of the internal thoughts of this character, Selen, as she goes through her first year at what definitely is Harvard but is never explicitly stated as Harvard, but it's not that hard to figure it out. So it's just her thoughts about the things that she's reading and the people that she's meeting and places that she's going in this very tragic comic, I would say, movement from being really naive to being jaded as you become over the first year of college, maybe just speaking from personal experience here.
But I'm going to ask you a personal question. Yes. Go. What is the best decision you made freshman year of college?
Oh my goodness. Let me... This is where Ringer recommends gets real. Yeah.
I mean, I think I made a really good decision. My second year of college that is immature enough that it could scan us for sure, so I'll go with that. I was for the legend. Yeah.
For my birthday that year, I had my friends stage a pie fight for me in the dorm. It was the year I was turning 20 and I remember being like, I have to do something really childish because this is my last night of being a teenager. So we went to the Safeway and got a bunch of pie making, just like tin foil and we put my cream in them and we had a pie fight and it was great. And we got in trouble, but then I told the RA that it was my birthday and he was like, oh, this is fine.
We'll clean it up then. So I didn't get in trouble at all. College is great. That's a chalore.
He was... Yeah. He had witnessed our for sure of him having some proverbial pie fights too. Okay.
It was all good. Yeah. My son dorm roommate the first night. He was like, hey, man.
Like, you want to go see Guru's Jasmataz at the truck. And I was like, yeah, sure. Let's do that. Shout out to the truck.
Yes. Shout out to the truck, one of the greats, great venues. And I went and we were, you know, after it was over, he was like, you know, that was cool. Do you want to go see fish this weekend?
And I was like, no. I'm cool. Thanks, man. And I just feel like my life could have gotten such a different direction.
I said, yes to that. What a defining moment. Sliding doors. Okay.
I do also want to say about this book, like something else that I loved about it. It's about... And it's kind of about like early email. And a lot of the text of the book is these really early emails she's sending to her crush, Ivan, who she meets in a Russian language class.
And it's such a good distillation of like emerging internet technology too. And the bizarre ways that we use it to communicate with each other, like it brought me back to, like I basically I'm like 10 years younger than she is. The platform is different, but it reminded me of like very early Facebook and just sending like weird messages to people I didn't really know yet, but maybe had like things in common in our profiles, which actually was like how I met a lot of when I ended up becoming really good friends of mine in college, which feels interesting to say out. But also like how I met a lot of, when I ended up becoming really good friends of mine, in college, which feels interesting to say out.
Do you have a super long, edgy college email? I did, yeah. Yes, but that's really like a badge of honor for the internet I think. Yeah, I would recite it right now, but I don't know if it's still active.
No, we can't, not in the stage of weeks, we can't do that. No, no, no. Thank you. So Lindsey recommends the idiot.
What was the author's name again? Ellie's Batchaman. Okay, so you've got that. You've also got somewhere out there, Lindsey's college emails, if you can crack the address and password.
Yeah, the leaks are coming. Yeah, Lindsey leaks. All right, thanks Lindsey. Thanks.
All right, now I'm joined by one of the rangers editors, Donny Quack, who's here to talk a little bit about a doc that's coming out this week. It came out last month in May. Okay. Yeah, so.
And what's it called? It's called Bad Wrap. And if you watch only one film about the plate of Asian American rappers, then I highly recommend this one. Okay, so what was it, you know, you've been writing in kind of like part of hip hop culture for like probably most of your life.
Like, is what makes this like a distinctive documentary, not only in terms of its subject matter, but in like the sort of tapestry of hip hop docs? I think, you know, it's obviously a documentary about wrap and rappers, but more so than that, I mean, I think it provides interesting historical context for Asians in rap and we're going as far back as to live crew and mountain brothers, who I'm sure you're familiar with. Of course, man. And Jin, and just through the years, it has the historical backdrop for this quartet, I guess four different Asian American rappers and their contemporary stories, including Aquafino, you're going to see in the new Oceans movie, Dumb Founded, who many rap fans might know from the battle circuit and two other guys, Rex, Sizzi and lyrics.
So it's those four rappers trying to make it quote unquote, but also against this backdrop of how Asians have fit in and not fit in in rap. And it's in a bigger picture too, it's Asian, the Asian plate in general, I think an entertainment or in pop culture is always being on the periphery. And I think it does a good job of kind of telling their story while also painting a picture of the bigger context around it. I haven't thought about Jenna in a while, what's going on with him?
Jin as far as I know is now doing standup comedy, believe it or not. No way, really? I haven't seen him perform, but I've seen him definitely on flyers. So he's had an interesting career.
Oh my gosh. Yeah, because he was, he signed a Rough Riders around the time of drag on and stuff. He was, he was. And it's a very interesting part of this doc kind of documenting his quick rise via BET, Free Stuff Fridays.
People could remember, you know, he was on for like seven straight weeks defeating all these people. And then he got signed to Rough Riders, basically on the show, Swiss Beats was a judge. And then his first single was a song called Learn Chinese, probably best forgotten. But he talks about it in the doc, how they didn't quite know what to do with him.
And I think, you know, they just basically went with the lowest hanging fruit, which is kind of this Chinese kung fu thing for his first single. And it basically doomed his career. Yeah, they had a heart, I mean, it was hard for people to figure out what to do with battle rappers in general at that time. Remember, please battle, it was so big.
Yeah. And it was like, idea was amazing. And he wound up being more of an indie rapper obviously, and doing like his own thing before tragically passing. But Jin, I remember Jin is like, what do you do with guys like this who are almost like ISO players?
How do you fit them into like a rap song system? Totally, totally, it's a good analogy. And I think one of the subject, the main subject is dumbfounded, who I mentioned before, part of this film tracks his return to the battle circuit. And there's kind of like an eight mile-esque climactic scene, I won't spoil it, but you know, he's at the King of the Dot in Toronto, which is a famous battle, and he's facing off against this guy conceded.
And it's a really effective scene, and the buildup to it is nice. And you know, it's a brisk 80 minutes bad rap that I think is enjoyable. So, and full disclosure, you know, some of my friends made it and are in it. So, but even if they weren't, I'd still endorse it.
Yeah, I mean, okay, when your friends make something cool. Before I let you go, I mean, let me ask you, who was your favorite battle rapper of that time period? Was it Juice? You know what?
Juice is from like back in the days, kind of. Yeah, well, I guess at any time, I suppose like there was that run there from, because I feel like there was like a bunch of guys like always, it was like, yeah, you know, like they might not have the songs or the album or the record deal, but like Juice could take anybody, you know? Yeah, I mean, there was like, you know, freestyle, I mean, battles have taken so many forms over the years. One rapper I've always liked in a battle scenario is Cassidy, another Philia.
Yeah, but I don't know if he's, he went against Freeway for a while. Yeah, the famous studio battle. Yeah. But yeah, I mean, I kind of, I just enjoy it for the sport of it, but I think like you said, it's difficult to translate that into a studio and an album and all that.
I think rappers have tried and failed at that for years. I wonder if any of these new guys can battle. I wonder if any of the freshmen on XXL can battle. They should just practice rapping regularly, you know, and then take it from there.
You gotta crawl before you go. We gotta have Old Man Donnie on again, but talk about the freshmen, all right. Donnie, thanks so much for joining us. The name of the doc is, what's the name of the doc?
It's called Bad Rap and you can get it on iTunes and Amazon, so check it out. Okay, a lot of good doc recommendations. All right, Donnie, thanks so much. We'll be right back with Cam Collins.
Thanks, I'm Nicky. I'm now joined by the Rears Movie Writer, Cam Collins. One of my favorite guests on the watch, so always great to hear from him. Cam, what's going on?
What do you recommend for us today? I'm actually gonna recommend music, which is on my own, but the album that I keep coming back to is the new slow dive album, New-ish. It's a little, it's a few months old now, but I keep coming back to it. I can't stop listening to it.
I like every week listens to whatever came out that week and then go back to slow dive. So the self-titled albums, first out there for a album 22 years, they disbanded a while ago and they're back on the scene. And it is like, for me, the way Beach House is Bloom was the album of that summer, just the darker moody summer night album, slow dive is that for me this summer, I think. So are you a big shoegaze fan?
So for folks that don't know, slow dive was kind of a post my bloody Valentine, like shoegaze band from Ingloom, like Ride, that just makes these ethereal, dreamy, tremoloed out beautiful guitar epics. And were you a big Valentine fan or is this like your favorite kind of music? I am a Valentine fan, but this was sort of like, it was pretty isolated to Valentine and out. And now it's like, this is becoming a gateway drug.
So just a lot of music, older music that I hadn't had at this. I wander a lot musically. I tend to fall in love with particular bands and artists and less so genres. So it's always great when I get to find an album that's really just addictive for me.
And there's really suits and good mood, which is just relaxed, but still thoughtful and still got a lot of tension. And it's weird, but it's also just always in the background in my mind, even when I'm not listening to it frankly. This is great. Because I've listened to it once or twice and then kind of got distracted by other stuff.
But you know what, it's like with Spotify and stuff now, it's like, you can just kind of build your own, the way that you can kind of pursue obsession with this. It's like you don't have to wait to just keep, whether it's playing it back or finding other stuff that sounds like it or finding other things that they've done. Are you into Mojave 3 at all, the band that was sort of the in-between band for Slow Dive? Yeah, so because of this album I've gone back and listened to it a little bit.
Yes, absolutely. But not as much as listening to Slow Dive's newest album and then going back and listening to their other stuff. And I've just been dwelling there. I'm going to spend more time on my 3 soon.
Are you a walker with music or are you a sitting around listening to the music guy? I don't know if you asked that because you could tell that I was a walker. But I'm definitely a walker. Yeah, I love the firing up and going along like kind of aimless walks.
No, I like to make excuses to make excuses to go to the convenience store and take 45 minutes because I'm just listening to music. I did a lot of music when I came up, for example. I just went for a walk. I mean, we thought you were a kid-napped.
It was like, no, you can't even know. The big thing with LA is the way that the car changes it. So you just become, it makes slow music as you've really got to be in the mood for slower, more atmospheric music because you want something propulsive while you're driving. Yeah, that's okay.
And then the traffic in LA is like it really messes it up. Like if you're sitting, listening to punk in traffic, you're about to go full falling down. Yeah, no, that actually makes a lot of sense. I hadn't thought about that.
And I would wonder if Sloane had really played as well on the car for me. I feel like it maybe I would maybe go to sleep and like die. Yeah, that would be bad. Which is not saying anything bad about it.
That would make you the worst driver in LA, though. I'm from New Jersey. I'm sure I'm already worse than everyone in LA. To be honest.
OK, so Cam recommends the self-titled new album from Sloane I was their first record in about 20 years. Cam, thank you so much as always for joining us. Absolutely. You back on soon to talk to talk to movies.
Thanks, man. Thanks to Justin, Kate, Andrew, Lindsey, Donnie, and Cam for joining me today on this special episode of the New York Ring of Records on the watch. Andy and I will be back on Monday. No doubt talking about Twin Peaks.
No doubt talking about Preacher, which we'll be back on Sunday night. And I'm very excited for that. We'll probably wrap up some handmaids. And we ought to talk about the last episode of Fargo, which will be coming up that week.
So full TV slate on Monday. Can't wait to have Green Wall back in the studio. You guys have a great weekend. Today's episode of the watch was brought to you by TJ Miller's meticulously ridiculous special.
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