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50. Dads Are Just Like Us
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(Apologies for Gem's mic quality!) This we we're talking Fathers day fact, cloud seeding, teeth tales, book to show adaptations and a pastry based AITA!
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Introduction and Playful Banter
00:00:14
Speaker
Hello and welcome back to Dropping Shit with Yank and Brit. I'm the Brit. I'm the Yank. She's the Yank. Okay. Why am I getting like Dame Judi Dench vibes? I don't know, it just came out. We have Dame Judi Dench today on our podcast. Hello everybody. and Or maybe like Mrs. Doubtfire, Robin Williams, hello vibes.
00:00:46
Speaker
yeah yeah If we had Dame Judi Dench on this podcast, I would say we could probably just call it quits after that. Yeah, that's peak. Nice Dench. So Dame Judi, if you're all listening. No, she sure is. She's our biggest fan. Oh, yeah, cool. She loved her poop episode. but a
00:01:15
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Anyway.
50th Episode Celebration
00:01:17
Speaker
Anyway, onto this week's show. So, this is actually episode 50. Holy shit it is.
00:01:30
Speaker
We've made it. Oh my God. I can't believe I just totally ignored that milestone. Go for ah go us. Go us. Look what we've achieved. So much talking shit. talking about shit and shitting ourselves. It's come full circle. I mean, over 50 hours worth of yeah you and I talking about all the things. All the things and all the stuff. And I'm proud of us. Well done. Unfortunately, we don't have a very special 50th episode planned for you. It's just going to be more of the same, other than Dame Judi Dench being here. Yay. Yay.
00:02:12
Speaker
I'm so pleased to be here. Thank you so much for having me, Gemma and Catherine.
00:02:21
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um How are you? I know we just spent 45 minutes doing all of the shit talking off air, but how are you?
Weather in England and Unusual Theories
00:02:29
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I'm doing all right. Yeah, doing okay. um it I mean, you probably we can't see it. It's like the sun has come out. It looks kind of sunny. They're far sunnier. still here it's Oh, that was your second of sunlight. Yeah. This has been the shittiest summer I think I've ever known. It's just raining and gray constantly. It's cold. It's like 13 degrees, Kate. 13 degrees Celsius. Fucking cold.
00:03:00
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I don't know how, I don't know how cold that is or what that degree is compared to a Fahrenheit, which is the only kind of measure of temperature that I understand. Cause I went to public school in America. So it's 55. Oh, that's like a spring. That's like a spring temperature. It's fucking June. Um, that can't mow the lawn cause it's always fucking raining. It's like a forest out there. It is, it doesn't feel like it, but it's 71 here. Woo. Yeah. Well, that's good. Lucky you. It's kind of overcast and shitty today, but we've had plenty of sunshiny days today. Yeah, I looked at your weather the other day actually and was like, you bastards. I'm sorry. It looks very sunny and warm. Come visit, like I said. Okay.
00:03:48
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My weather app is giving me rain and sadness though. So not today. well don't Don't come to i comes today. I have a theory though about why you guys are having such a shit summer. sure Do tell. Because you chose to have your summer start in fucking March. With British, summertime begins daylight savings time. That is a good point. Don't do that. Wasn't didn't the gopher say it was going to be nice though?
00:04:21
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Yeah, and we had the mildest winner that I've experienced in a long time to a point where I was like, oh yeah, the world's definitely ending. I was worried about like how like shit was going to grow, but then we ended up getting so much rain that it was fine. like We have a gorgeous lawn.
00:04:41
Speaker
I'm not going to lie. dream I mean, we had really, it was really bad lawn. So we had to like pay a significant sum for people to come and fix it, but it worked and it looks really great. In fact, the pizza delivery guy the other day was like, your lawn is perfect. I was like, thanks. Oh, like he complimented me. Well, and try so hard but I learned the other week. People probably know that this is a thing, but I didn't know this was a thing until I found out that it was a thing. That like in like really hot countries like Dubai and places like that in deserts, they do cloud seeding where they fuck with the atmosphere and the weather and make it rain. And I'm wondering whether someone has done that over here and that's why it's fucking raining all the time.
00:05:31
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some little assholes in his tiny little Cessna too when going up and going, yep. Do you think that's mental? Have we learned yet not to fuck with nature? Now I have absolutely no knowledge or understanding about this other than that it is a thing. And I remember when I first learned about it, I was like, that seems like that probably the long-term effects of that is not great. no i reckon that's like hey crap There was a massive flood, wasn't there? Yeah. oh yeah So then that unintended consequence, but
00:06:14
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Hey, you know people at home, if you know anything about cloud seeding, tell us what the ramifications are on the climate and whether it actually does more harm than good, because that's my suspicion. But what the fuck do I know? Yeah. any What are they called? me Meteorologists? They're the weather people, aren't they? Yeah, climatologist, meteorologist, the weather woman, the weather lady. Oh, weather lady. Someone could get in touch and just explain how cloud seeding works. then I can probably Google it to be fair. but we're not goingnna We're not gonna, because we don't do that here. Okay. Nope. mostly Only if I care enough while I do it.
00:06:49
Speaker
Well, what are we talking about today? Good question. We've not decided. Well, here, I have some fun things for you.
Beer Day and Historical Context
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Did you know that today, June 15th, is beer day in Britain? I did not. Yeah. So go have a beer. I don't like beer. What the fuck? Why are we friends? I just can't. I keep trying. I just don't like it. Well, this is what I base my friendships on. So we're done. Sorry. Occasionally, like on a really hot day,
00:07:28
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I don't mind a very cold, light lager, like a Bud Light or something like that. Yuck. But I'll get halfway down it and as soon as it gets slightly warm or slightly flat, I'm like, this is disgusting. I don't want it. I'll have a cider or a glass of wine. Thank you. It's funny because like your beers are typically served kind of warm and flat. So no wonder you don't like them. That's why I don't like them. But then even worse is like the ales, which are usually warm and very heavy and peaty and don't like it. They're peaty and earthy and dirt flavored and penny flavored yeah and blood flavored. yeah
00:08:12
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over those things. I don't like IPAs and EPAs and some ales. It's really the I or P and the EP or the P. I don't like that. Ales are okay.
00:08:30
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Fair enough. Fair enough. Fair enough. But about today, though, beard A, the origins of it are ah thus, because it's also the day in history when the Magna Carta was signed. Do you know what the Magna Carta is? No. I do, but I don't. I mean, yeah, right. We know we've heard this word. We know it was a thing from a long time ago that did a thing and it was like a kind of a a thing for things. so um But it was the pact that a group of English barons negotiated with the King of England. and
00:09:04
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I don't know, I think King Richard or Tommy or something. ah Tommy Shelby. um
00:09:12
Speaker
The King of England, that curttailed the that kind of was the kickoff of the, no, curtailed the universal rights of the monarchy. so these other rich dudes were pissed at the top rich dude about all of his power and rights, I guess, I don't know. So they did the Magna Carta, but what the Magna Carta also included was it standardized standardize the measurement of beer, ale, and wine. ah Very important. I'm sure there's probably a lot of financial ecological, sociological, psychological, zoological reasons why they needed to do that. But I thought I was just like, and you know what? We want our beers served in pints, and we want our wine served in pints. Yes, I was about to say, we want wine in pints too. And that's the standard you get everywhere. So apparently, like today is a day when people like to go to the the pub and celebrate beer and ale and wine. So you can have wine today. Good, OK. I'll have a wine.
00:10:10
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um If it was a sunny day, then there would be approximately, I don't know, 10 million people doing that sitting in a lovely but beer garden during British summertime. Not today, though. Sorry, folks. Well, it is also Dog Dad Day. so So, her dog mu day I doubt it, but maybe, should we, I will Google that. ah Jess was 10 the other day. ah She's reached 70 years old. It's not the equivalent, Jesus. Okay. mom Dog Mom Day is, we missed it, second Saturday of May.
00:10:50
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oh I see it correlates with maybe mother's and Mother and Father's Day because tomorrow is Father's
Father's Day and Its Origins
00:10:56
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Day. happy And I suppose is Mother's Day the second Sunday in May? No, you guys have a different Mother's Day. I have a different one. yeah I don't understand why this is. I think we we've already talked about this. Let's go back and listen to that episode. I've already forgotten what what we discovered and what we discussed and the results of our conversation. Mother's Day for Cat Moms is May 30th. So miss that. Thanks, cats. Really appreciated that card. Cheers for the call, guys. And Cat Dad Day for inquiring minds at home. October 29th. Oh, obviously. It's National Cat Day and National Cat Daddy Day. Oh, Cat Daddy.
00:11:44
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I don't know what my obsession is with the the today is this day, but it just is. You just love it. What day is our Saint, whatever what was the name? St. Colin? St. Colin of Morovia. roll over There we go. It was in November. Oh yeah, we put it in our phones, didn't we? Yeah, put it in the calendar.
00:12:10
Speaker
No, that's my dad's birthday. Oh, happy birthday, dad. 13th. Okay. Yes, that's what I, that was, that's what I thought. Um, speaking of dads though, Father's Day is tomorrow for both of us, our countries, right? That's the same. Yeah. So I figured we, to be fair, should share some fun facts about Father's Day since we did that for Mother's Day. Right? Okay. Yeah. Did you know that the oldest Father's Day card, when do you think the first or the oldest known Father's Day card is from? I would say 1735.
00:12:54
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Well, I only have that it's 4,000 years old. So let me do some math real quick. Let's see. ah twenty twenty 2024 minus 4,000 is negative 1976, so not right. um it I guess a Babylonian tablet by a boy named Elmesu, like I don't know how they know that because I didn't do any research. Because he said love from Elmesu. Yep, much love Elmesu. Dear Pops, I wish you a long life and good health. Love Elmesu is basically what it said in his language, but he carved it so you know it took him a full year. um That's what you call a homemade card, isn't it?
00:13:46
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Yep. So not so much about Father's Day, but a fun father fact. Ismail Ibn Sharif fathered 888 children in the late 17th century. So he just had a lot of wives and concubines and fucked a lot. He fucks. He fucks. He fucks good. His soldiers are swimming. Yeah. Maybe he was like a sultan or king or something and just was like, I do what I want. And it's good to be the king as Melbrook said in ah the history of the world part one. Yeah.
00:14:30
Speaker
So we're probably related to this guy. Do you know that all people with blue eyes are related to the same one person? Who? Fucking millions of years ago. Don't know. Who? Do we know the name? Buzz Aldrin, the first American on the moon, is it him? Yeah, probably him. I feel like I have heard something like that or some other kind of similar fact tidbit about people with a certain genetic trait, but that is interesting. But why not? Is it just because it's
00:15:06
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Just like a recessive gene. Yeah. But like people with shit colored eyes or green eyes like me. eyes um What I've learned about myself doing this podcast, Kate, is i I read facts. I take the bare minimum amount of information and just fuck off all the rest. So I can't give you any more information on that. Of course. But I like to quiz you anyways. Then I panic and I start googling. But here's the thing, you could just make shit up. That would be fine with me. Well, actually, what it is is... Yeah, like, it's just the whole episode is just wrong answer only. Yeah, that's just my life. I had a really funny wrong answer question, but that was prompted by what my answer would be. um
00:15:56
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So I'm going to say it and therefore we can't ever use it again. But like something like what would be your favorite or what what would you like have your first dance to or walk down the aisle to? And mine was immediately smack my bitch up or I got hoes in different area coats. I just think that'd be a really good wrong answer only. Yeah. um Okay, sorry, I kind of got sidetracked. A couple more couple more tidbits. Ooh, yeah, give us some tidbits. So we talked about from others day kind of like how that became a national thing, the origins of it. And I saw that apparently Richard Nixon, who was one of our presidents, like who was kind of a piece of shit and got impeached because of Watergate, right?
00:16:42
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Uh, but he did and sign father's name. Yes. Dick Nixon. dick Yep. Um, I mean, there's, um, that movie with, I want to say Michelle Williams, maybe it's called Dick. right And it's about, cool they yeah, it's just called Dick. Um, and these two teenagers who like it's fictional, but based on the Watergate scandal, like helped crack. ah ah The Watergate scandal, it's pretty funny. um Let's see. Oh, so yeah, Michelle well Williams, Will Ferrell, Ryan Reynolds.
00:17:22
Speaker
Kirsten Dunst, like a lot of famous people. It's a pretty old movie though. Yeah, 1999. Yeah, I recommend it. I watched the other week. Docma. Have you seen that? Yes. Yeah, I haven't seen it. I really enjoyed it. It's been a while. Alanis Morissette is God, right? Yeah. So anyway, I read that Richard Nixon was the one who actually signed Father's Day into law as a permanent holiday in 1972. And then as I was continuing to search for Father's Day facts that weren't just funny dad jokes or gifts for your dad, um I came across another factoid that said, like, Lyndon B. Johnson or Woodrow Wilson were the ones who did it. And so I was like, well, what the fuck is the right answer then? Because if anything, I want to be accurate. Just kidding. fakeke news So what actually, based on Wikipedia, which we know is the source, no
00:18:14
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um Woodrow Wilson wanted to make it official in 1916, but kind Congress was like, no, we're worried it's going to be too commercialized. So he wasn't successful. And then Calvin Coolidge in 1924 was like, we should do this, guys. And didn't, yes. But he didn't go as so far as to like make it a national proclamation. And then a senator Margaret Chase Smith in 1957 proposed it and accused Congress of ignoring fathers for 40 years while honoring mothers, du thus singling out just one of our two parents. That was her soapbox. quality Then Lyndon B. Johnson issued the first presidential proclamation honoring fathers for in the on the third Sunday in June and six years later tricky to excite it in the law. So am I right in thinking then that like National Bagel Day is also in law?
Environmental Impact of Beavers
00:19:11
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no i don't know I mean, there are probably some weird ones that are signed into law by someone, you know, kind of like as an honorary shit, but um a lot of those are not so. It's a shame. And then did you know that beavers are one of the few male creatures in the animal kingdom that stick around after mating to raise kids? And sometimes they're even single fathers. Oh, I didn't either. Isn't that cute? That's really cute. they've reintroduced beavers into our rivers in England um and they're doing a wonderful job because we killed them all, obviously.
00:19:49
Speaker
Oh, why? Because people were like, well, they're making dams and it looks horrible and it's redirecting the water. We can't do that because it will make our homes flood. Okay. We got rid of everything, didn't we? That's what we like to do, rape and pillage in England. um But yeah, they've reintroduced them and Anna actually went paddle boarding the other night. in a river near him and saw loads and sent me a video. of the little people my load's really cut But apparently they're doing wonders like they're really sorting out the ecosystem. Turns out that they had a purpose that benefited things. Weird. Shock horror. Yeah. I thought that was funny though because you
00:20:33
Speaker
You don't really see that. I mean, we can talk about how seahorses are the ones that like carry and fertilize and give birth to, you know, the baby seahorses and all of that and how male good ones. Yeah. And pale goods as well. They make for wife. They don't stick around to raise the kids though. Dad's fucking off to the bar.
00:20:58
Speaker
So happy Father's Day tomorrow to all the dads out there. I mean, at the time that this comes out, it would have been last Sunday. Happy Father's Day last Sunday to all the dads out there. I hope you had a lovely day. I hope you got a card and maybe an ugly tie and breakfast in bed that really probably wasn't that good, but you acted like it was. And then I hope you got the nap that you wanted because that's all dads really want. They just want a nap, yeah. Just like moms. And a nice pair of slippers. Yep. Dads are just like us.
00:21:38
Speaker
So I know you had a fun little doctor's appointment today. Yeah. I went to the dentist and I sat there for four hours with my mouth open.
Quirky Facts and Gruesome Stories
00:21:50
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First of all, dentists on a Saturday. hey I was shocked. That's weird. But I was happy about it because I didn't have to book any time of work. Yeah. I mean, that's cool. i just That's weird. um And so I wanted to talk about some like dental teeth stuff. And like if you Google like facts about teeth, you're just going to get a bunch in the US, you're just going to get a bunch of dentists.
00:22:14
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web pages that say. missed me of there Anyway, um but I did find an interesting little factoid. ah Did you know that John Lennon had to get his tooth extracted and he kept the tooth and he gave it to his housekeeper because her daughter was a huge Beatles fan and they kept it in the family for 40 years and it was sold for $31,000 at auction. yeah So someone out there is like, I got John Lennon's tooth, which is weird. Should've kept my extractions. Actually, I think my mum does still have my baby teeth in like a little pot. Oh, your mum liked you then.
00:22:52
Speaker
Did you know? Yeah, I knew that was something parents do and I i thought it, it's kind of weird, but whatever. Yeah, I saw a quote, I think it was today actually, weirdly, where it was like, like kids don't appreciate their milk teeth. Like I could really do with an extra set of teeth in my thirties. So, fuck you. I feel like I read something recently or someone was telling me a story about how like parents keep teeth or like their parent kept their teeth too. Like this is not an uncommon thing at all here. But then like proceeded to give it to them. Like, oh, I was cleaning out, here's your baby teeth. And it's like,
00:23:32
Speaker
No, I didn't ask you to keep those. Yeah, I'm pretty sure my mum did that for me as well. She said, do you want these? I was like, no. What are we going to do with them? Make a necklace? You absolutely should. I so should. I souvenirs from my enemies I've slain. Yes. These are the people that killed. Ignore that they're very small. They weren't children, I swear. They're also testing a new drug that regrows adult teeth. Oh, interesting. They've just started the human trials. But good how do they know where to grow? Well, this is it. I've got a tooth in my ear. Gross. Okay. Yeah, you know what? I'm probably good, but I hope it's effective and the people who are trying it out don't end up having teeth in their butthole or something.
00:24:29
Speaker
Yeah. I mean, i I remember, you know, when you're a kid and your your milk teeth fall out and the pain of a tooth coming through your gum. Not far. I'm sorry. I guess I didn't have that experience. I didn't think it was that painful. I know teething for babies is really hard. Well, I just think I know what's fucking going on, do they? That too. But like, I guess I don't remember in particular feeling like I lost my teeth like a normal person does, I swear. And I don't, I feel like I don't recall anything that bad. No, I think the thing is though, when you're a kid, because you've lost your wobbly tooth, you've kind of got an open hole, haven't you? Yeah. But like. Your gum's not like. If I was to grow a fucking tooth in my gap now, I reckon that fucking hurt.
00:25:17
Speaker
Yeah, it will be like when you were baby teething because it literally is erupting through the gum. Yay, teeth things. Yay, teeth. um So one story for you that I read that I thought was pretty horrible. I mean, I read so many horrible ones, but this one was not lily so horrible that like we needed to go we would need to go like shower um in a short. so This person on Reddit wrote that, my girlfriend is a dentist. She worked at a kid's dentistry for a few months. One day, a mom came in with her son. The mom was clearly not the cleanest person. Apparently, she looked, and this is in quotes, cracked out, no right which I don't love that, but you know use your imagination. It paints a picture. Yeah.
00:26:03
Speaker
ah They bring the son back who's been complaining about his gums hurting extremely bad. Thought it was an infection or a really bad sore and wanted to get it checked. Inside his mouth was an apparently disgusting cyst, which I learned today, cysts in mouth are a thing. um One of those nasty pulsing ones that you see in an alien movie when the protagonist gets onto the mothership and finds the incubation room, yeah another nice picture for you, right? Like I'm really visualizing it. Anyway, so after some discussion, they decide to do the procedure in a semi-normal way, numb the kid up, ahem, it says, deinflate the cyst, then remove it, easy as can be, sorta. So they numb the kid, prepare for an incision and cut away, out crawls a larva. No, no, no, no, no. I thought it was gonna be something like this. Yes.
00:26:56
Speaker
This thing from this cyst outcrawls a larva thing from the cyst it had been living in. Honestly, i had hert I had to tell her to stop telling me about her day at work right then. I don't know what happened after that as I was desperately trying not to puke while driving as she told me this. She had a bit more detail. No. How did it get in there? Exactly. I saw another one where a dentist was like a patient came in and a live bug flew out of like one of the holes. Or a woman, a woman who super glued fake French nail tips onto her teeth.
00:27:38
Speaker
because she I guess she thought it looked better than actually just going and getting her teeth fixed. And like she did it for years. and then finally Yeah, but I'm also trying to envision like what that looked like. so But then she finally went to the dentist and was like, I need you to actually use like dental glue. And the dentist was like, I'm i'm not doing this. And she has like years. Well, exactly. And she had like years of dental glue and like shit stuck to her teeth because of it. And like he was like, we need to clean all of that off and I'm not going to be gluing them back on for you. That nail glue is like toxic as well. So imagine the state of your gums. Just burn it away. Yeah. Oh, man. Jays. Take care of your teeth and don't do weird shit to it, folks. Yep. Closs.
00:28:28
Speaker
Yeah, apparently flossing is actually, but if you don't floss, it's like the quote I read was, it's like wiping your butt cheeks, but not your crack.
00:28:38
Speaker
which Continuing on from last episode. Continuing the butt humor. Yeah. Yeah. I think there's like a, like, not a problem, but I don't remember like the dentist telling me to floss when I was a kid. Yeah, your dentists hate you guys. like That was every single conversation for and like every single time. um Now I use teepees. Yeah, I have a water pick. Water pick. Oh, fancy. because I'm not a super consistent flosser. I will floss too, but like the water pick is the daily thing and floss. Like this is what my dentist told me.
00:29:21
Speaker
The water pick is great, still should still should floss, but like can do it probably a couple times a week instead of or seven times a day as they advise. Yeah. My earphones really hurt in my ears this week. It must have got bigger. Yep. They're growing. Yep. um You have an article for me? I do, yeah. So I came across this a little while ago and I just thought it was quite juicy and sort of into the drama of it. So it's- Spill that tea. It's people sharing how they caught their partners cheating. Oh yeah.
Partner Cheating Stories
00:30:07
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So a Reddit user recently asked, for those of you who caught your spouse cheating, how did you do it? And here's some of the tales. prepare for the juice. ah So I found a message on his phone from a mutual friend of ours that read, I can't stop thinking about all the things I want to do to you when I see you again. We'd been together six years and I was four months pregnant at the time. ah
00:30:36
Speaker
So, like, saw a text message that pretty much clearly, yeah, which is, I think, probably how a lot of people find out. But I wonder what the response was. Yeah, yeah. And then that's got her. Yeah. Another one said she had done some unexpected personal grooming and packed lingerie to take to work with her. When we got home at the end of the day, she went off to get ready for bed, clearly not intending to sleep with me. I pulled the very used lingerie out of her bag and confronted her. She invaded initially, but ended up confessing that it was some guy from her work that she'd only met a couple of days earlier. So she just was like perfectly fine being like packing for work and pulling out.
00:31:22
Speaker
like her corset and boot, like, garter belt and just like, oh yeah, just taken to work. Okay. So that was three weeks ago. She's still sleeping with the new guy while I've moved out. I'm trying to figure out how we sell the house we bought together seven months ago. So fun times. Oh, sad. dude Interesting. Okay. Oh yeah, what account? Yeah. I say interesting like, hmm, interesting. But I also just can't get over how dumb dumb she is.
00:31:59
Speaker
but She might be purposely making it obvious. I was just gonna say, could have been intentional. Okay. um My ex used to run a construction business with a childhood friend. They were very close. And his friend was at our wedding. ah My ex started stealing money from the business and lying about jobs. We didn't know this until his friend showed up at our home demanding that we pay him back. My ex refused and told him he was going solo in the business. The friend looked to me dead in the eye and told me the woman's name. No other info but just the name. I immediately knew what he meant by the look in his eye. He then gave me the address. The house was built by my husband four years prior.
00:32:47
Speaker
Yeah, I suppose that's, I mean, it's petty, but yeah. That's what you get. Yeah. A lot in treatment. Yeah. But also like I was willing to keep the secret until he started stealing from me, which I was watching a reality TV show and one of the questions that was asked of the contestants was like, if would you keep a secret a secret for your friend effectively of that? And I think the majority of people said yes, which I also understand, but it's also still like, well until he wrongs you and then it's like, fuck it. That's it. Okay, another one. He told me that he was at his parents and would probably be spending the night. I was over at his parents for dinner.
00:33:34
Speaker
They had seen me on my way home from work and invited me over. I was about to ask him when he would be finished with work so that he could meet me there. Then I saw the message. Wow. What an idiot. So he actually was like, I'm at my parents and I'm staying the night rather than I'm probably going to stay the night at my parents tonight. Yeah. She's like, Oh, she's like, so I'm sitting here. Yeah. Oh God.
00:33:59
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i So, we've talked about me like having a TikTok so I can watch TikToks, and there's this one that comes up every so often, and it's like a radio show. I think it's a radio show, might be a podcast, but it's like people in a room a couple, and it seems like it's a radio show. And what they do is they have like a segment where people call in who are like, I think my partner's cheating on me, and so then they give them the partner's phone number, and someone calls to be like, hey We, you're randomly selected to send flowers to any person of your choice for free. Who would you like to send it to? What would the message be? If you' in like just a bunch of stuff, like acting like a company calling and saying you were randomly selected, you know. yeah And the people who agree, obviously they don't show, I mean, I wish they would show the ones where the people send it to their spouse because that would be nice, but they, it's always like, I think he's, he or she's cheating on me with,
00:34:51
Speaker
So and so the one I just saw recently was like his student, I think adult student, but um and he was a Spanish teacher. And so he sent it to the person, this woman thought, he maybe was having an affair with and then the message was in Spanish and I was waiting for them to translate it and they didn't. But then what they do is after they get it all, after they get all the proof and the spouse is on the like on the other line listening, um they say, okay, so you are on a radio show, we're here with your wife and we just she just heard you basically or he just heard you basically send flowers to another person. Yeah. no yeah
00:35:29
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Oh, it's devious, but I love it. It is, yeah. oh Fuck. Got any more? Yeah, I got more. This guy says, she said she was ah a friend studying. I had suspicions about a guy she was working with, so I drove 30 minutes to his house and found her car there. I parked out front and called her. She picked up. And I just let her bury herself as hard as I could. I asked her what she was studying, what the girl's name was that she was studying with where she lived and everything I could, everything I could think of to make her fumble about. Then I told her to look out the front of the house that she was in. When I saw her peek through that blind, I waved and told her to come find a new place to live and get her things. Well, I mean, I suppose you want for sure evidence, right?
00:36:26
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Yeah. Oh, this was quite good. I was rubbing her stomach in bed and she made a joke about not being pregnant, assuring me that she'd had a pregnancy test two weeks before. We hadn't seen each other in three months because she'd been studying in Scotland. Oh. so Oh. Oh. What a weird thing to say, too. Yeah. I'm not pregnant. Definitely. Definitely not pregnant. I've tested it. Don't worry. OK. People are weird.
00:36:58
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um maybe she just likes to take pregnancy tests randomly for fun just just to be sure yeah we all do that don't we yeah yeah it's like uh you know waiting for your period it it's also just fun to be like still not pregnant yay that's a party you need a reason to celebrate in this day and age Okay, my boyfriend and flatmate went out for drinks while I stayed at home with the flu. I fell asleep on the sofa watching TV and woke up to noises upstairs. It sounded like moaning and kissing. My heart sank and I felt like throwing up as I silently crept to my bedroom to peer in. my flatright My flatmate was on top of my boyfriend, half naked. She saw me and leapt off, then ran to her bedroom and shut the door. I yelled and ba banged on it, but she ignored me.
00:37:52
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I went to him to yell to get an explanation, but he pretended he was asleep, completely ignoring me and denying it the next day. Okay, very shaggy style, wasn't me. It wasn't me. I was going to say, if that person like invited someone to her house while she was asleep, that is quite a pair of balls, but the fact that it was the flatmate, still ballsy, you but at least at least they were already, should be there like living there.
00:38:24
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intended to be asleep. what What happened? She was. I was asleep this whole time. um No idea.
00:38:40
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Oh, she left her diary on the lounge floor when she went to work. I debated reading it, but eventually gave in. It was then I found out about her screwing my brother multiple times while I was working night shifts. Dear diary, I had sex with his brother again today. I just can't help myself because he looks so similar. They're twins. I got confused. You know, I, people, you know, I get that people journal and and stuff like that, but also just
00:39:12
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i don't Like, if you don't want to get caught, that seems like a really dumb idea. Yeah. Really fucking dumb. Yeah. You said, when I confronted her about it, she called me out for reading her diary and if for working the night shift, therefore not being home when she was horny. Uh, classic. Classic victim plane. I'm not gonna lie. All done you.
00:39:39
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oh Yeah, there you go people. Oh, it we laugh because like sometimes just like this, cheers. People are interesting. I'll say that. Yeah, people are horrible, aren't they? You know, and like, I, yeah, and in my, so this is something that comes up a lot and in my work and I, you know, like it is also like, It is unfortunately just like what but it happens in relationships far too common. And so people will come and talk about like infidelity and and stuff like that, that resulted in ultimately separating. And and I want to empathize, like I do empathize because it sucks. It's hurtful.
00:40:26
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But I also am like, you know, I'm not the morality police here, though. So I, I can't really like that in and of itself isn't I can't base base my work on that, right? So, but I hear so many, so many different stories about that kind of stuff, too. And some are similarly bonkers. Or just like, wow, dumb. Yeah, well done. h You ready for an MIT also? Oh, you know it, baby. Oh, you, baby.
00:41:01
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you
00:41:04
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I thought this would be nice, nice light-hearted one, really. Oh, good. After talking about weird gross teeth stuff and infidelity, that's perfect. Just bring it round. Yeah. Am I the asshole for not getting my girlfriend a pastry because she's on a diet?
Relationship Debate: Pastry Dilemma
00:41:24
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Yes, yes you are, I don't even need to hear it. Girl is hungry, deserves a treat every now and then.
00:41:33
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No, go on. okay My girlfriend of two years is absolutely gorgeous, a stunning woman. I love every inch of her and don't think anything needs to change. Over the past few months she went through a really rough time with some family and work stuff and as a result ditched a lot of her exercise and healthy eating habits. As you do. yeah As a result of overeating junk food, she put on about £10. While I tell her every day that she's beautiful, and I mean it too, she is uncomfortable and two weeks ago started talking about how she wants to cut out junk food, start exercising again and go back to her baseline weight. I support her efforts to return to healthier habits.
00:42:17
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So last week, on my way home from work, I often, as I often do, I stopped in my favourite bakery in the city. I usually stop at least once per week, and while in the past I would always pick up something for myself and my girlfriend, this time I only got something for myself because she's been vocal about how she wants to cut out pastries. I got myself a big cinnamon roll with cream cheese glaze.
00:42:45
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When I got home, she saw the bakery bag and asked, hmm, what did you get? I had to admit, but I didn't get anything for her since she said she wants to cut out pastries. She got upset and said I should have texted her when I'm at the bakery and asked if she wanted anything. I said, I just didn't think she would since she's been so vocal about not about wanting to cut out certain foods. She then said, I shouldn't have gotten anything from myself either since now I'm just flaunting it and making her feel fat. She cried a lot and she's been a bit cold towards me. I'm genuinely confused. Am I the asshole? Oh, okay. So like my first thought even before you really kind of started getting into it was like, you could have just asked her, you know? oh And she pointed that out. I think that that would have been the very easy choice, right?
00:43:39
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um but also I understand his perspective of like, she's been saying this. um And so, you know, I don't want to basically, enable is not the right word, but like, I want to support her and me texting and be like, do you want a donut babe? And she probably does. And you know, in a moment of weakness, but like, I also think unless you guys talked about the, I want to get, not have junk food in the house or, you know, I know you, you know, kind of like set, cause sometimes people can, you know, she can make her own decisions. Maybe she does have the willpower to be like, I don't want to donate, but thanks for asking, you know, or maybe.
00:44:16
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maybe she was like, Oh, I'll have like a little bit and then maybe you know, I can whatever like or I've been doing well. I think that unless that conversation happened, like he shouldn't have just assumed for her because that's, that that's just kind of not fair. But do I think she should make him out to be this big asshole about it? No. Now her saying you shouldn't have any, you shouldn't have gotten anything and you're flaunting it. That is, unless again, there was a request that, and he agreed to, we're not going to have junk food in the house because it's too tempting. And he agreed to that. like He's not on the diet. If he wants to have a cinnamon roll, he can. If you guys live together, like that's a little unfair. So she's being a little bit of an asshole with that. But however, as someone who's um
00:45:04
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at times been uncomfortable with my body and my weight like and being uncomfortable on your skin. It can have an emotional toll. So while I do think she's being an asshole, I also bet it that's a big part of it and it's sad, but you know really just fucking talk to each other. you know yeah don't Don't impose your dietary restrictions and like kind of body lack of confidence onto him and to have him expect to do the same thing, but talk about how he can support you. He could have eaten the cinnamon roll in the car. He could have actually.
00:45:36
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If so, but i I mean, I suppose he probably didn't know that she really felt like there' we just need to not have it in the house at all. And then in which case, let me just eat it right now. Yeah. Is Buzz throwing himself at the door? Yeah. You must come back in now. He was like, I want to hear about the cinnamon roll. Alex, cinnamon rolls. I like the talk comment went on this, basically sort of saying what you're saying. It says, you're not the asshole, but you fell right into that trap. No matter what they say, always ask the question. I'm at the pastry store. Would you like anything, dear? Trust me on this one. Save yourself a headache. It isn't about the pastry. It shows you're being meaningful and taking her possible needs into consideration regardless of how bad she felt about herself. On, say, Tuesday, she wants the option to say yes or no to the pastry. Yeah, like if he stopped by and just brought it home for her,
00:46:30
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without asking every time before and did it again, then I would also be like, dude, she's on a diet and it's trying to cut out junk food. Like now just picking something up and bringing it home for is also kind of ignoring that and a little bit rude. Assholely behavior even if you think you're being nice. So like the the right move here would have been, I know you want to lose 10 pounds. I want to lose three three pounds. I want to get cheese fries. You could have just been like, I'm getting my weekly cinnamon roll. Do you want anything? Do you want it? Bakedly, I see what he's coming from. like
00:47:05
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Totally. Like, no offense to guys, but sometimes they think they're doing the right thing. Whereas the way women's crescent brains work, it's not the right thing. So he thought, she's on a diet. I'm not going to tempt her with nice food because she's on a diet. She's told me she wants to stick to it. I'm going to help her out with that. So he thought he was doing a nice thing. um And I also, like when I was trying to eat really healthily and clean, like I have like no willpower. Yeah. Like if Keith or someone was to say to me, do you want to get a takeaway? I'd be like. Go on then. Yep. So, you know. But you express that. I mean, I assume, you know, cause it's not Keith or Keith's responsibility to please that for you either, you know, but like, that's why it's like, I, this is what I need to do. Are you comfortable doing this or are you like, if you're going to get a takeaway, just don't even ask me because I'll say yes.
00:48:03
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yeah fine. But I agree with you. I think in this case, um probably she was going to be upset no matter what. The only right answer would have been if he didn't come home with anything because it wouldn't have started a fight, right? yeah I don't think she should have reacted the way she did, um but I can understand because it is hard when you're not feeling confident about yourself. but like whether he brought a donut home without asking, asked her, did what he did, like she's probably going to be upset because she feels bad about herself and that's being projected onto him. And so I'm not inclined to say either of them super assholey, particularly him, I think is right, but like could have done a better job, right? But her a little bit assholey, but also just
00:48:52
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maybe communicate rather than get mad, you know. I don't think there's any else else here, but maybe you should split your syndrome and roll. Yeah. Or just give her a little nibble. That's fine. A little little treat now and then is fine. A little bit of your cream cheese. Yeah. um Any other, are there any ah controversial comments? Like you are a fucking prick mate. You're an absolute asshole. Someone said, you're the asshole mildly. This was thoughtless of you and you should have been a bit more sensitive and not brought big pastry home to enjoy in front of her while she's going without. That is a real girl's girl and I can appreciate that, but I still think that's a bit extreme.
00:49:43
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Wow. Okay. So I said, you can make your dietary changes while also indulging once a week. I guess you don't understand your doubly bad choices. You not only did not text her and assumed she wouldn't want it, but then you brought yours home to what? Eat in front of her? Eat it in the car or at work? You're the asshole. I think moving forward, dramatic readings of comments are an absolute necessity. Did that person write anything in all caps or was that just you? No, I just went for it.
00:50:17
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perfect.
Period Dramas: Bridgerton vs. Downton Abbey
00:50:18
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That was, without the I mean, that's exactly how I would have heard it. it so
00:50:28
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Oh, that's funny. i I love this section and I love those brett subreddits or yeah, those those Reddit communities, but sometimes I'm just like, you guys, it's not that deep. No. Yeah, it's really not. It doesn't need to be, yep, you're the asshole here, she's the asshole. And I know there's like nobody's the asshole option, but also it's just kind of like, yeah, you could have done better, she could have done better. I'm guessing you guys aren't breaking up over this. Yeah, if you do, well then you probably were meant to be. Yeah, it wasn't meant to be. Now you can have all the cinnamon rolls you want. Do you know who the craziest thing is? I don't know whether you're into it, but Bridgerton came out this week, the final section of season three. Obviously, I binged it in one evening. Oh, I didn't know you were such a Bridgerton fan.
00:51:18
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I'm not a fan of like period dramas and stuff like that, but... You mean you don't love Downton Abbey? Well, this is what I want to say. so I accidentally got into Downton just because I i was feeling really... Oops. Oopsie. Oh, I've watched five seasons. Oh, no. and I just wanted something like, oh, I'll just put it on. And everyone fucking loves Downton in England. I don't know why. I don't think anything happens. Isn't it just like six years of preparing for the king and queen to visit?
00:51:50
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about um But I put it on and you you do just get into it. There's just something lovely and charming about it and like homely and I ended up fucking watching all of it and the fucking films as well. I don't know what it is. It's just, it's, yeah. It's a comfort watch. It's a comfort watch, but it's also, there is a bit of drama and you know, relationships and it's the rich people. and like the servants servants as well. Yeah you just you do get hooked into it. So then when Bridgerton came out I was a little bit intrigued because it looked sort of similar. Modern and sexy. ah So yeah watch that um that's even better because it's like it's
00:52:37
Speaker
it's like a period drama on steroids. And it's like, it's taking the piss out of itself. It's very extravagant and like all the music is like modern tunes, but. Which I actually really love that juxtaposition. I've seen that in some other shows and like, ah when the music, I can't think of an example, but it was, you know, just for hypothetically, like a really old timey medieval thing. And it's got like, ah my dick bigger than the Eiffel Tower by J. Cole or whatever, playing in the background. Yeah. But you can't quite work it out, you're like, I know this song, but because it's like an orchestral version of your life. Yeah, well, because they have, I was going to say they have instrumental, don't they? And it's like, is that, is that vitamin string quartet playing? That's it. I believe in a thing called love by the darkness. Yeah. But it's also
00:53:28
Speaker
Very sexy. Heard. I've seen the first episode. Sausie scenes. Yeah. Ooh, saucy, saucy beans. And you get really into it, you're like, oh, tattoo, little Bridgerton people. And also, like, in the recent series, you've probably heard of the carriage scene that everyone's talking about. I haven't. Mm-mm. Okay, well. Is it like the Titanic scene with the hands lighting up? Sort of, yeah, it's more about- Oh, sexier. But yeah, it's two characters who they've been in the show the whole time and they've been friends and they finally... Will they? want She's been in like love with him forever. and And then he fingered her in the carriage. Fingered her in the carriage and the song that was playing was Pitbull. Which one? I can't remember. She's going down. I'm yelling timber. I think that's Pitbull. That's it. So pit Pitbull and Kesha.
00:54:24
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um Ooh, ooh, ooh. Give me everything. I don't know it. Wait. Give me all of you tonight. No. Sing it. Sing it for me. You're the singer. I don't know it. You have to cut out all of my singing. I don't know it. But yes, sorry. Going back to my point is it's just finished and like the Reddit sub for Bridgerton is just people just take it so seriously. And they're like, looking into every little detail and how they're disappointed with the show runners version of this. And that's not what the character should be like. And I'm just like, guys, just enjoy the show. It's nice. Was it a book or a book series? Yeah. is okay I didn't know that either. Yeah. So when you have that too, people do get really upset. Like, well, I know you love Harry Potter. Yeah. So.
00:55:23
Speaker
Were you ever disappointed about the books and how it was translated into movies? Yeah. The movie? Yeah. But you didn't read the books, so you were able to kind of enjoy the series truly. Very true. But there's one thing they're getting really pissed off about is there's a couple in this season and they're quite sort of neurodivergent and it's quite cute to watch. It's not like the normal steamy passionate romance that we used to in Bridgerton, but then at the end, they introduce his cousin I think it is um and there seems to be implications that the girl is going to have a lesbian relationship oh with his cousin and everyone's kicking off because in the books like they're such a beloved heterosexual couple and they're just forcing queerness into it for the sake of there he got it over there
00:56:17
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She's like, guys, just chill out. It's a fucking TV show, isn't it? It's not even real. Yeah. Go read the book if you need to like reinvigorate that storyline. but like there's a like I think very few translations from book to you know video or whatever movie, film um TV. Yeah, it's very rare that it's actually as good. it Well, or just that they'd follow it exactly because like it's difficult. like I don't know if any of those people have ever written a screenplay, but as I understand it, having also never written a screenplay, it's very hard to fully translate exactly everything in a book. And sometimes you have to mix it up because either um you want to keep the storyline going because the book series undoubtedly ends. right and um And also in a book, there's so much more detail because you you're often
00:57:08
Speaker
given an insight into that person's thoughts and how they feel about everything. So it's very difficult to translate that into an on-screen, unless they're an incredible, incredible actor and can do it with the face. Like it it doesn't work. And also putting the whole of a book into a movie is very difficult because you don't have timing. Yeah. You have to cut a lot of, and like just plot points are hard to, I think, share in his linear a way. I don't know. There's probably a whole masterclass on like how to write a screen screenplay and what are challenges about it. Yeah.
Harry Potter Movies vs. Books
00:57:48
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Having said that though, I will never get over the fact that Harry and Voldemort just flew around fucking Hogwarts at the end and then he disintegrated into fucking ash. That did not happen and it shouldn't have happened that way. So what happened? Well, in the books, they're like circling each other in the Great Hall. Everyone's watching. This has been building and building for
00:58:07
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All the books. Seven books. Seven books. He's got rid of all the Horcruxes so it's which is the things that are tethering Voldemort to life. So it's just Harry and Voldemort and they're circling around each other and basically Harry just tells him like all the mistakes he's made and why he's going to die and even then like Voldemort is like, ha I just don't have to lie, I watched me kill you. um But because Harry is the um oh no no as I was going to say, there's no spoilers at this point, I don't think.
00:58:40
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but So earlier on. Oh, it's very complicated. But so, Voldemort. Do we save this for another episode where you basically explained to me what happens in New York? Because I don't, yeah I mean, I've seen some of the movies, but I haven't really read any of the books. Oh man, you need to read the books. But he does something and kills him, but it's not like what happens in the movie. No. So the reason he dies is because one, he's a normal fucking man. He's no better than anyone else, no Voldemort. Oh, okay. But the wand that Voldemort is in possession of, Harry
00:59:16
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basically technically owns it because the the wand chooses the wizard and it's all to do with like who took the wand off who so he's like so the question is is this this wand going to respond to me or you and then they're like do their spells and it fucking obeys Harry and Voldemort dies just like a normal man and everyone cheers and it's amazing and I was so looking forward to seeing that and then in the movies they just like grab each other's faces and they're just like flying around Hogwarts and then Voldemort dies and just disintegrates into ash. No one sees it. I'm like I'll never go over it. So that is an interesting like choice because it seems to me like it almost would have been easier to do the scene that was in the book. yeah I mean obviously CGI these days you can do fucking anything but like weird. That's what I didn't understand. Yeah I was like what a weird creative choice.
01:00:08
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Well, on that note, weird creative choice of this podcast is that we talk about what we
Podcast Reflection and Farewell
01:00:14
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fucking want. Yeah, we're just talking alike. Yeah, we're creatively. And that's why it's called Talking Shit with a Yank and a Brit. Exactly. Ta-da! See what we did there on the 50th episode? We finally tied that together. Ah, you finally learned. That is the secret. That's our secret sauce. Yep. Well, happy 50th. Happy 50th. You look great for 50. Thanks, man.
01:00:41
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but pretty working on a not your s sir Not going to say the same thing to me. Fuck you then. We're both 50 today. You're looking okay. I'm joking you look gorgeous too. Yeah happy 50th and if anyone wants to celebrate with us and send us congratulations then get in contact by emailing us talkshittousatgmail.com or on social media and stuff which is at t-s-y-b pod. Let us know how much you love the podcast.
01:01:20
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Yeah, I've enjoyed this journey with you and I'm looking forward to many more.
01:01:27
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On channel four. Have a good rest of the weekend. And you you. Have a nice one. Tell your dad happy Father's Day. I will. Okay, bye. Love you, bigger bye.