Ep. 102: Wags To Scritches

Ben sees a holographic ghost, Brian rides a stationary trike, and special guest The New Today vapes a yo-yo.

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Episode Transcript

(00:30):
Hello everybody, welcome to a brand new episode of Happy Cast with Ben and Brian.
Unless you're not listening to it when it's new, in which this is an old episode.
But anyway, regardless, I'm Brian and I'm joined by this dapper gentleman over here

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who some people like to call Ben.
Which people?
Your family and friends.
No, which people do?
Oh, okay, sorry, them too.
Only which people call me dapper Ben?
Oh, dapper Ben.
I'm a dapper Ben man.
That's my pomade of choice.
How have you been keeping?
I've been keeping busy.

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Working a lot out of necessity, but trying to be responsible and keep away from people.
Which, you know, physically, emotionally, just staying away from people.
I know they don't recommend avoiding eye contact, but I've been doing that too just to be safe.
And it's been going really well.

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How about yourself?
Well, I hear it can enter through your eyes, so you should actually keep doing that.
Okay, good, good.
I'll continue.
I had to go to Walmart a couple times.
People wearing masks.
Not always made out of masks.
I think sometimes they were like plastic bags or something.
I was reluctant to use a cart, but we needed enough groceries that we needed to, so we

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wiped that down quite a bit.
You should just bring in your own trash bag and throw your groceries in there.
And then just walk out without paying.
Yes.
Say, oh, it's in a trash bag, that means it's expired, you need to throw it away anyway,
so we'll just take it.
I'm going to dispose of this outside.
Eventually.
In my car.
I'll dispose of it, given enough time, it will all be disposed of.

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But other than that, I haven't had much new happen.
Are you okay?
I think the recording was skipping there for a bit.
Oh, yeah, let me fix that.
Okay.
Megan, she gets her temperature taken every time she goes in because she works in a hospital.

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But luckily she works in records areas, so she sees almost no one, because it's also
second shift.
And she's the only one that works that shift in that department, so she's alone anyway.
Okay, that's good.
Isn't that handy?
I've been checking my temp every day just because I come in contact with so many people
on a daily basis at work.

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I just want to make sure I'm good to go.
We have a thermometer at home, and I've tried it a few times, except last time we both tried
it, both of our temperatures were in the 96 range, which felt like we have a bad thermometer.
That seems low.
I don't know if that's right.
I didn't know if we had the disease and it just worked backwards in us, or if it's just

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messed up.
Well, I'm glad that you're well overall.
It sounds like you're doing okay.
I'm not wearing overalls, and I'm not trapped in a well.
That's good, but you're staying inside.
This is my home podcast studio, which is just our second bedroom where I keep my stationary
bike.
You have a stationary bike?

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I do.
Yeah, it's real ineffective.
I tried taking it to the store the other day, and it did not go well.
Man, it didn't go anywhere.
No.
All right, so a stationary bike, it's upright.
Why not make it a stationary trike?
Oh, or a stationary unicycle even.

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That would be cool.
That would be amazing.
A stationary four-wheeler, like a car that you pedal.
Sure.
Or a stationary hover bike from Return of the Jedi.
I think we should kickstart one of these.
We have some real radical ideas about exercise equipment.
I would ask the engineers to get on it, but I'm beginning to doubt they're even engineers.

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Why are you trying to stoke this rivalry you cooked up between us and our friends at the
Engineerdy show?
It's not my fault that they are lying about that their show is just rerun after rerun.
That's definitely not true.
Oh, yeah?
I think I'm pretty sure they've released more podcasts in the past year than we've done

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ever.
I have proof.
The latest episode, 371, Dvd talks about the Matrix.
Episode 231, he talks about the Matrix.
Well, if that's all the proof you have, I think that we have a lot of reruns too, because

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as you like to point out, I brought up that episode of Monk with the astronaut at least
four times, maybe more.
If you go back and listen to both episodes, they are identical, or at least pieces of
them are.
They cut stuff apart and shuffle them around, but they're all the same.
So what else are they lying about?
I don't think they're engineers at all.
I think they call themselves that because they engineer that thought in your head.

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All right.
Well, I'm sure we'll be hearing from them.
Engineers, if you would like to defend yourself against these accusations that Ben is bringing
against you, not me.
I am distancing myself from this, but we'd love to have you on the show.
We should have guests on the show, right?
If we're going to be doing this, it can't just be the two of us.

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No, let's just continue the show as if no one else were here.
Oh no.
Wait, wait, what was that?
Oh, I'm hearing a different cackling.
What could it be?
They could only mean one thing.
It's friend and sister of the show, the new today.

(06:24):
Welcome back to the show.
Thank you for welcoming me.
Yeah, sorry we made you wait so long.
I think we were talking about, I think we're slandering the engineers for at least 10 minutes
solid.
It's not slander if it's true.
Okay.
I think you got a point there.

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Well how, what about you?
How have you been?
How are you holding up in our current situation?
Almost literally nothing about my life has changed.
Oh, well that's good.
So you're saying you approve.
That I approve of the coronavirus?
Yeah, you're saying you like it.

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The bold stance you're taking.
I know.
No, no, no.
You're denying it an awful lot for someone who says they deny it.
Okay, the words I was about to say are the only thing that has really changed is now
people from the same household can't go get groceries.

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It has to be one person per household and that's what we used to do for months so I
don't know what we're supposed to know.
Is it an Oklahoma thing?
I don't know.
I mentioned it to Grant and she said she thinks that she's heard about that too.
Oh I have not heard that and Megan and I have been going together.
Oh no, you're breaking the rules.

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Yeah, we've heard about it like literally after we got back from the store together.
We've literally never heard that only one person could go.
I'm not sure what it would affect since we've already both been living together so I mean
if one of us is going to get people sick we both would or if one of us got sick we both
would get sick.
We're not going with like a bunch of children also.

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I don't know.
I haven't heard of this rule either but.
I feel like you would know.
As a grocery store worker I am keeping people out, yes.
Let's lower the number of people in there.
I know you mentioned being an Oklahoma thing.
I just want to point out real quick Ben that I think I picked up a strong Oklahoma bias,

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anti-Oklahoma bias review because earlier today I started watching that Tiger King Netflix
show.
I'm like alright I'll check this out and then like in the first three minutes they're
like this Joe Exotic guy from Oklahoma.
I'm like that seems right, Oklahoma.
I buy this.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Oklahoma sucks, it's suck-la-homa.

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It's not an accurate portrayal of Oklahoma at least in Arkansan who lives on the border's
opinion.
And now Caitlin for some reason now lives in the state, a traitor.
I don't claim and never will I.
And yet you're there.
No.

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I heard the first word and the last word.
Those were the only two words I said.
That would explain it then.
So what now, feedback?
Yeah I think we can wrap it up.
Brian?
Okay.
Sorry about that.
Then let's move onward to the happy hour segment.

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Happy hour is the part of the show where we talk about the thing that's making us most
happy for the week.
Ben?
Yes?
How do you feel about letting our guest go first this week?
I feel like that's extremely out of the ordinary.
Okay.

(10:11):
Then would you like to go first?
I guess if I have to.
Okay.
Please.
You do?
I'm mandating it now.
Let us know what's your happy hour.
This is not a mandate.
I have a happy hour.
You have no happy hour?
I have one.
Okay.

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What is it?
Is it macaroni and cheese?
See at one point it was going to be Tiger King, but then I thought-
Wait.
Did it make me happy?
How did you pronounce that again?
Tiger King?
Tiger King?
Oh no.
Tiger King, I thought about, but it didn't really make me happy.

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Some is going to wait until we do a Netflix pick sometime.
Okay.
But you finished it.
You recommend it?
Because I watched the first one and I'm like, yeah, I guess I'll watch more.
Oh, yeah.
Yeah.
It goes places.
It doesn't?
It goes a lot of places.
How many episodes are there?
There are seven.
Seven.
Okay.

(11:14):
Great.
I will maybe watch it tomorrow when I'm off.
I recommend it.
A lot of things happen.
If you do, then we can talk about it next episode when we have the entire cast of The
Engineerds on, right?
Sure.
Sure.
Or at least just a bunch of audio clips they send in for us to repurpose, right?
Yeah.

(11:35):
That's what they do.
That's all they do.
I'm not going to use Animal Crossing because I feel like we're going to talk about that
later.
So, Katelyn, how about you go first?
Okay.
The hour is March.
Is March?
March.

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Oh, you-
My cat.
Oh, you're slightly breaking up every now and then, so I only heard parts of things.
Oh, no.
March the cat is my happy hour.
Oh, see, I also for a second thought you said Mark.
I'm like, your fiance?
You're just going to-
I thought you said Mars, like the planet.
Yeah, all those things are great.

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They're all great?
I can't say cat.
They're all great.
They're all the same.
We-
But-
So, tell me about this cat you have.
We've been thinking about getting a cat.
Do you recommend yours?
Yeah.
Brian and I are thinking about getting a cat.
I don't recommend that you take him from me.
I recommend you get a cat, but not my cat.

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Okay.
Well, we'll get a similar cat.
Tell us about this cat and what makes it special.
So when I go out to the cat store, I know what to look for.
Okay.
Well, it was around my birthday we got this cat from the rescue shelter as my birthday
present because I've been wanting a cat.

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I haven't had one since that one cat ran away out of embarrassment back in high school.
So it's been a few years.
But anyway, we ended up finding this really cute sweet cat.
He was just staying underneath the sink in the little cat room they had.

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And we even took him into the pet store.
He was so cute.
And we got him a collar and all of his goods.
And then one day I was driving to D&D and Mark called me and he said, you will not believe
what just happened.
And I said, and he said, Mars, just use the bathroom, like literally the toilet.

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Like he jumped up on the toilet and used it.
Did he flush?
No, he didn't flush.
Mark had to do that.
Did he use an air freshener afterwards?
No, he didn't.
And then the only time I caught him in by the toilet since was that he'll put his paws

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down in it and he'll drink the water.
I came up with a little song about how he's a gross toilet cat.
I would recommend not using that blue toilet cleaner if that's what he does.
Well, I've caught him doing it three times.

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Each time I pick him up and close the lid.
Probably a good idea.
Every time there's not been anything in the toilet except for water because that would
be extra gross.
Yes, it would.
But he is such a nutcase.
I love him.
Okay.
So that sounds good.

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When we go to get a cat, I'll look for one that uses the toilet.
It should be.
He also loves to watch TV.
He'll get up as close as he can and sometimes he'll try to touch the screen.

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He really liked it when we watched Ace Ventura Pet Detective.
And then on Amazon Prime, I found a video that was just for cats and it was showing
birds eating food and hanging out.
That movie is for cats because as soon as he noticed he loved it, he was all about those
birds.
He's really, really connected with them.

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It's like breaking bad for cats.
We watched like 20 minutes of it, which is a lot to watch birds eating.
Well, you know, maybe you can get Morgan Freeman to narrate it and then make it like a legit
nature documentary.
Oh, that would be amazing.

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Or I could pretend like I'm Morgan Freeman and do it.
Oh, yeah.
How would that how would that go?
Well, you see, these birds here are all peaceful like an eating their little seeds.
That's pretty good.
That's pretty good.
I mean, it felt like it felt like a cross between Morgan Freeman and John Wayne.

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Just no comment.
Well, well, this does seem like a truly exceptional cat.
He's really soft, too.
Is it like a long is like a long hair cat?
No, he's short haired.
He's just he's not he doesn't have cat fur.

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It's soft.
I'll try to get a cat that doesn't have old cat fur or maybe one of those hairless cats.
Old cats need love, too.
That's true.
That's true.
I mean, I have pitched the idea of taking in old animals and then, you know, just caring
for them as the end of their lives.
But Katie deemed that to be too sad.

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It is.
Yeah, but it's no she didn't like it for society.
She didn't like my idea of running like a cat hospice or like a cat nursing home or
people just bring all their old cats to you.
Yeah.
See, it would have been great.
But I guess we'll just get one young to middle aged cat.

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Yeah, Marsh was like six months old.
He used to be a street cat, so he didn't know anything about living in a house when we got
him.
Oh, he's really turned his life around, huh?
Real rags to riches.
Wags to scritches.
Are you trying to pitch episode titles now?

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As soon as I said it, that's what I thought.
This is it.
This is going to be it.
That's one of two wags to scritches.
I want to say it, but I'm not allowed.
What?
You can say it.
Well, Ben will cut it out of the episode.
That would be really good because that's a female dog and that really matches with riches.

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But this is about cats.
Lady cats are called.
Stop saying that word.
Non-salued cats.
I'm sorry.
You stayed away from the tag.
It wasn't that one time that Brian said the F word.
Did I?
I was pretty sure you did.
Oh, right.
Yeah.
Yeah, you had to apologize for it.

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I did.
Oh, it's a video.
Weren't you quoting someone?
Channing Tatum?
Yeah.
Yeah, weren't you quoting Channing Tatum or something?
Or maybe I was talking about Channing Tatum, one or the other.
It had to do with him for sure, though.
And then.
Oh, yeah.
Definitely Channing Tatum related, as is most of our conversations.

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What a hunk.
What a beefsteak, am I right?
Oh, pork chop.
What pork chop is not a beefsteak?
No, what a pork chop.
I think that sounds nice.
Cow pork.
Anyway.
My happy hour is.
Oh, God, I try to think that's quite the whole time to try to think of one, but it's rough

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going.
No, do you need me to go and buy you some time?
Oh, yeah.
Could you go to the store and pick them up for me?
Oh, sure, sure.
I mean, they're putting an item limit on time.
I can only get two packages because of, you know, the shortage on these kind of things.
You want some toilet paper as well?
Well, I was going to ask you if you can pick up some rosemary and sage too.

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At the farmers market down at Scarborough's Fair.
OK, sure.
I mean, like to use as a replacement for toilet paper or what are you using those for?
Are you making like a roast?
No, mostly I just forgot what the fourth thing was in the lyric for the song.
So.
Oh, I think.

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Parsley.
That's the other thing I need.
Oh, I don't think the reference landed on me.
What song are we talking about?
Simon and Garfunkel Scarborough Fair.
Oh, yes, yes.
I don't know that one.
Well, don't don't worry.
It played like probably 15 seconds ago.
Oh, great.
Or I can't wait to hear it.
I don't know.

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One of those two.
My happy hour is Simon and Garfunkel.
Oh, yeah, they're great, right?
No, actually, I know very little about them.
I don't know.
Chips Ahoy.
OK, just like a standard chips Ahoy.
No, I got some Reese's ones.
No, not those.
Oh, here we go.
I'll do this.
This is next to me.
Haribo Haribo.

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I don't know which one.
Gummy.
You know, they make gummy snacks.
Not the sugar free ones, right?
Not the sugar free ones.
Why?
What do they do?
Those give you the poops.
Oh, you get a bad word.
You can't say poop on the podcast.

(21:18):
We can say one per season.
Well, I said it like a couple of times now.
Oh, no.
I have to bleep out.
I'll bleep those.
I have to bleep out all the.
You'll have to do another apology video.
Haribo makes a lot of things.
You all know.
And we also know to eat sugar free ones because they give you apparently.

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But no pun intended.
The one I'm picking is Haribo berries.
Now there is a bear on the packaging and it has bear sort of in the name, but it's not
spelled like that and it's nothing to do with gummy bears.

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They're unlike most gummy snacks in that they look like hard candy on the outside.
They look almost like an actual blackberry kind of wood.
You know, a bunch of like little dudes all stuck to one big thing.
I think it's called a droop, technically.
I think you're thinking of a raspberry.
Well, and a blackberry.

(22:23):
Don't they both do that?
Blackberries for like blueberries.
They're just round.
I don't know.
Either way, I think you're thinking about grapes.
Except small.
Even grapes, much smaller and more compact.
And a different color.
Well these, there's like a darker one and there's a redder one.

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And they're like hard little candies, but then inside is chewy gumminess.
And so the last few times Megan and I have seen them in the candy aisle, we're like,
no, those probably aren't going to be good.
But then we got them and they're very good.
Just like ogres.
And yes, ogres also taste good when you eat them.
Just like ogres.
I'm thinking like hard on the outside soft and chewy gumminess.

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That's what Shrek taught me.
I don't, was that what ogres were about?
I thought they just had layers.
How many licks does it take to get to the center of an ogre?
An ogre.
Ugh.
Those are some questions for D&D time.
But see, normally, as most listeners probably know well by now, I do not like a mixture

(23:30):
of textures in my food.
And that's why I didn't want this at first.
But the thing is, I can eat all of the little hard pieces off first and then eat the chewy
inside so it's fine.
But they're really good.
I recommend them.
It says crunchy and chewy on the outside.
And there's a bear holding a basket full of fake fruit.

(23:52):
That sounds really cute.
I want to see a picture of this bear.
Well maybe we'll get a Photoshop challenge of the Haribo Berry Bear.
Sounds good.
I will keep an eye out for it when I'm at my local candy shop.

(24:13):
How often are those essential services?
No, no, they've been closed for a while.
But when they come back, I'll be there day one.
I'll be first in line to get into that candy shop.
You've just been going to the, should I drop candy shop here?
Yes.
If you want to.

(24:34):
I like it when you add songs.
I feel like that's the thing for this season of Happy Cast is we just say stuff and then
I throw in a snippet of a song.
I really like it.
All right, trigger it then.
Go.
Me?
Anyone.
I'm Shady.
No, don't just like sit.
You have to like work it in somehow.
The Humpty Dance.
I'm the real Sly.
No, see that I'm not going to drop anything.

(24:57):
It's just you requesting songs.
I'm not a DJ.
Do Free Bird.
No, if you worked Free Bird into a sentence somehow that it made sense, then maybe I would
do it.
That pigeon stupid kid.
He's going to free all those birds.
No, see that's not going to work because he didn't have it next to each other.

(25:20):
Free Bird.
It's like how Brian would just or I would use the phrase, it's been it's been and I
would drop the song in.
I really liked that.
But we weren't like, oh, play the bare naked ladies song.
Drop it in there.
I was walking by a pet store that was going out this other day and outside they had a

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sign that said Free Bird.
OK, and what's the rest of the context of that story?
And I filed it away and I was like, I'm going to tell Ben about this later.
This is a story.
I'm not dropping.
No, no, no needle drop there.
OK, well, I'm sure it will happen naturally and organically at some point.

(26:07):
We'll see.
We need to make that a competition.
Whoever can do it the most, like whatever guest do it the most will win a prize.
A tiara.
I mean a prize.
I knew someone in Sierra Elementary School.
Her name was here.
Elementary School.
It was super weird.
I knew her in high school, though.

(26:30):
OK.
So her last name so weird.
I don't know why you name someone that.
Yeah.
Haribo Berry Bears in your local candy aisle, which I was talking about.
I forgot to say Megan.
Megan and I have been frequenting that one when we go into the store because it is the
emptiest aisle during this crisis.

(26:51):
So it is the one that we feel the most safe to like lurk in and browse.
Lurking in the candy aisle.
Also possible episode title or at least one.
I haven't had candy in a long time.
I'm sorry.
I like.
What?
I like candy.

(27:13):
All I heard was I like.
I like candy.
I'm glad that you're informing us.
Yes, I'm making my official statement on candy right now.
Controversial stance.
This is going to really hurt your future political career.

(27:35):
Your political aspirations.
This is going to win now.
Into this conversation right now.
I want candy.
Needle drop.
Needle drop time.
We'll play right there.
There we go.
I did it.
Not at all manufactured.

(27:55):
Can I do it?
Well, if you can work it into conversation.
Go.
I want candy.
No.
You can't just say it.
It has to feel like it's part of what's happening.
I want some candy.
Go get some candy by yourself.

(28:16):
You guys can't shop together.
I didn't get anything.
Didn't hear you.
You cut out.
Sorry.
I want it that way.
You just said it a song.
You're not actually making sentences or context at all.
It's a different kind of funny right now.

(28:37):
It's a chaotic kind of funny.
Not a happy cast on brand kind of funny.
I've never been on brand.
I know.
So Brian.
Yes.
Yes.
What is your happy hour?

(28:58):
Well, thank you for asking Ben.
So my happy hour is from back in December, a long time ago in a galaxy far away.
I was going to the.
Oh, Star Wars reference.
Yes.
Sorry.
I didn't know if other people knew that.
I wanted to make sure everyone was in the loop on that.

(29:19):
OK.
Thank you.
I was at a local cinema house seeing a motion picture film.
Remember those when those were a thing?
Was during the quarantine?
No, it was pre quarantine.
OK.
Making sure you're OK.
Yes, I'm fine.
So I saw a little indie picture called The Star Wars Episode 9, The Rise of Skywalker.

(29:44):
That's a good movie.
Yeah, I really enjoyed it.
I enjoyed it a lot so much so I'm going to make it my happy hour picks.
Oh, the Star Wars.
But this wait, this is the box office banter.
What are you doing?
But I just liked it so much.
OK, I suppose we can talk about it.
But what if we can elaborate expert on the show?

(30:06):
Sure.
Like one of the engineers we can still do.
I'm going to I'm going to leave the door open for a much fuller Episode 9 discussion down
the road.
I just want to talk about a couple of quick bullet points of things that I really liked
about the movie.
OK, that's fine.
OK.

(30:26):
So number one, it opens up with the screen that says a long time ago in a galaxy far
away, far, far away.
And then the music plays.
Terrifying bear faces into the room.
I'm glad that I was able to keep them at bay.
I see them waiting around the corner.
Just lurking, waiting, waiting to bounce.

(30:47):
Like a Tiger King.
No, no.
I really, I really like this one.
So one thing I liked a lot is I like the C3PO had a lot to do in this movie.
I agree in a way that he hasn't since maybe the original trilogy.
Yes, I've been kind of disappointed.
He hasn't done much.
I mean, R2 still was kind of useless, but still, I'm glad you got a chance.

(31:12):
Yeah.
I mean, especially after I think in The Force Awakens, he just shows up for a minute like,
it's me, C3PO.
You're probably wondering about my red arm.
It's like, I kind of am, but I guess I have to read about it on like a bag of Doritos
or something because that's where we're at now.
Yeah.
I was like, I don't care enough to learn about it.
I guess it got ripped off and replaced.

(31:32):
I don't know.
I guess I'll read about it on Wikipedia at some point.
And then R2 got replaced by one of those younger, hotter droids.
Oh, right.
Yeah.
He was napping during The Force Awakens.
But then he like wake up and go beep boop at the very end.
Oh, yeah.
Yeah.
And then he goes, the plot dictates it's time for me to wake up.
Here we go.

(31:53):
And then he still did almost nothing for two more movies.
That's true.
He didn't do a lot.
He brought C3PO back.
What a useless robot.
What he's the hero of the saga, Ben.
C3PO could have delivered that message in the first one by himself.
You didn't need some other little beep boop robot.
You could have a talking one.
We're going to bring back Fightcourt again.

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Strong words.
C3PO versus R2D2.
Oh, yeah.
I think we should do that.
I'd be down for that.
You want the one that rolls around beeping and whistling or the one that can literally
speak millions of languages.
But he can't translate Sith, though.
It's very important.
I also napped during the last Star Wars movie.

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Which part did you nap dear?
Oh, it was kind of a big part.
The end?
I vote near the end, like the middle-ish end.
I didn't want to spoilery anything in case anyone hasn't seen it.
That's a good idea.
But then I...
I was going to go full spoiler.
It's OK, because I saw it the second time and I stayed awake the whole time.

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And then I was like, oh, that person did what?
Because I slept through it.
OK.
See, I think you're making a strong point in favor of napping during movies.
That way you can come back and it's like a new experience.
Like, oh, wow.
Exactly.
And it's kind of like a mystery where you get to just fill in what happened until you

(33:26):
get to go again.
Brian, would you feel the same if she fell asleep during the lost episode Cabin Fever?
Well, only if it was playing in a theater, though.
There's really no excuse for falling asleep watching TV at home because you do it at your
own leisure.
What if you've built a home theater?
Oh, I don't know.

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That sounds like hashtag rich people problems, Ben.
Who can we ask about that?
I don't know.
Yeah, no, no.
Listeners, write in if you have a home theater.
I would love to hear from you.
And then I actually want to hear about how your setup works, because that's really interesting
to me.
So write in.
We'll have you on.
Indeed.

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So for the rest of my points, I'm just going to put it out there that I'm not going to
do full spoiler.
I'm not going to hold anything back.
So if you have not seen the new Star Wars, skip ahead like five minutes.
An hour.
OK.
Just get to the end.
I really like I really like Lando Calrissian in this movie because I was waiting for him

(34:29):
to show up for the past two movies.
So it was good that he showed up.
You found that when I hear sneeze.
He was.
It was one of those I knocked over a framed photo and it hit one of those little springy
doorstoppers.
Oh, that's what I thought I heard.
I thought that was a sneeze.
Yeah, yeah, that was great.
Yeah.
So that ties into another thing I like is that this movie felt like the new characters

(34:54):
really carried it.
They were the focus, which for the and this isn't really anyone's fault other than me
as a viewer is that for the past two movies, I was to like fixated on the old characters
where like the whole time I'm like, well, yeah, but where's Han Solo at?
I want to know where Han Solo is.
Where's Luke at?
Well, good thing those two are dead.
Yeah, now that they're dead and as is Carrie Fisher.

(35:19):
Like that guy's whole ghost showing up.
I slept through that.
Oh, yes, the Han Solo ghost.
I love I don't know how many truckloads of money it took them to pull up to Harrison
Ford's house to bring him back, but it was worth it.
I like him.
I saw him in a movie, but he was a bad guy.
Oh, he so rarely plays bad guys.

(35:41):
What were you watching?
Indiana Jones?
No, it was that I think what lies to me where like his wife.
Well, he killed his mistress and then he tried to kill her because she knew the truth and
he tried to make it look like she committed suicide and was insane.

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It's pretty spoilery, but I'll still put it on my watch list anyway.
Yeah, it was pretty good.
Sorry.
It's good.
So I liked Billy Dee Williams's Lando because I feel like he showed up the right amount
to where they said I'm like wandering the scene sometimes where he's like, I was in

(36:27):
the old movies.
It's like, that's true, Billy Dee.
You were and you're great.
I love you.
And then he leaves.
Yeah.
And he's like, when we bought the Star Wars, this is how it was.
And then, of course, and then like the last thing I want to point out is even though it
wasn't like really surprising how I thought it was very for me as a viewer is very emotionally

(36:49):
effective that scene at the very end where he shows up with like every ship in the galaxy.
Although I do miss I did miss what I assumed to be like a long deleted scene of him just
like flying around and recruiting every ship in the galaxy.
Like we're doing a Star War.
I'm with us.
OK.
Yeah, I was curious how that worked.
Also, did they radio it around?

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And if so, had the bad guys not hear about it?
It was probably like a beacon situation.
I don't know.
But I think the thing I really liked about this movie is that it took things that didn't
sit well with me from the previous two.
And then they kind of gave them more context to where I'm like, oh, actually, this works

(37:30):
because of that.
So I think Lando getting every ship in the galaxy to show up really worked because of
at the end of the last one where they put out the distress beacon and no one came.
Whereas like, oh, yeah, they've lost hope.
It's over now.
Oh, it reminds me a lot of a scene from Avengers Endgame, except that one made a little more
sense on how it would work with everyone showing up.

(37:54):
Well, the thing about this movie is it is so it moves at such a breakneck pace that
it's so slapped together that I'm sure there's a good reason that somebody thought out at
some point that they could include it in the movie, where it's like, oh, if you read the
novelization, here's what happens.
But we don't have time for that in the movie.
Let's just move on to the next thing.
That's actually how a lot of the happy cast is done.

(38:16):
Yeah, that's true.
For those who don't know, we have a lot of ideas for why things are the way they are.
We just will never tell you.
So just trust that there is a reason for all the things you don't like.
It's just for us.
Oh, I can't believe I almost forgot the best part of the entire movie is a new character
named Babu Frick.

(38:38):
There we go.
Yeah.
What's so great about Babu Frick and who is he?
OK.
So Babu Frick is a tiny little creature that is a black market droid smith who is like
a weird combination.
He's like a practical effect, whereas a combination of puppetry and animatronics takes five people

(38:59):
to operate him.
But he's so tiny.
He's so tiny.
And as soon as he shows up on the screen, he's my favorite character of this trilogy
and definitely top five of the whole thing.
Just looking at that little guy filled me with the same sense of excitement and wonder

(39:20):
as watching original Star Wars where they showed like, oh, here's a giant slug man or
here's Salacious Crumb or it's like, this isn't something I thought I'd ever see.
This is great and exciting.
So I want a Babu Frick spinoff trilogy now, please.
Maybe we'll get one.
I bet it'll at least show up in like an animated series of some kind.

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That's true.
I mean, he seems like an expensive effect.
Like I said, it takes a lot of people to operate him.
And then one thing I thought was cool watching the Blu-ray special features is that they
had the voice actress on the set who voiced a Harry Potter character.
Moaning Myrtle?
Yeah, Moaning Myrtle.
That sounded about right.

(40:01):
Yeah, yeah.
So they had her on the set and she was actually operating the animatronics for the mouth as
she was doing the voiceover.
So that was pretty cool.
Oh, that is cool.
Maybe they could do some sort of like holiday Christmas special or something about Babu
Frick and his family and some kind of holiday they, you know, worship.

(40:23):
Sure.
Right.
Right.
And maybe Babu Frick has a son named Chunky or something like that.
They could get Bea Arthur in to do a song.
The ghost of Bea Arthur.
Yeah.
I like this.
We should do this.
Well, aren't we doing holograph ghosts now?
I think so, yeah.
Holograph ghosts.
No, holographic ghosts.
Holographic ghosts.
It's going to shine as you move them.

(40:47):
It's going to be one of the three things in the blurb.
Anyway, Rise of Skywalker.
I really enjoyed it.
Full recommendation.
Check it out.
And the other movies we did too were also pretty good.
All right.
So that wraps up our happy hour.
And that means it's time for a...

(41:09):
Nope, nope.
Close.
We have to close these days, Ben.
Before feedback we have to do a Bummer Patrol.
Oh, man.
Oh, geez, guys.
Oh.
Nope.

(41:29):
Shut up, Calen.
Not yet.
Bummer Patrol's the part of the show where we talk about what's making us sad, Ben.
There's so much to be happy about these days, but I'm sure you can think of one or two things
to be bummed about. What are they?

(41:49):
Well, there are a few things. One, this is not super related. I mean, I don't want to
make this a whole bummer patrol, but we've had to cancel our D&D nights recently because,
you know, safety. But also, like, I think maybe I imagined this or read from another
place, but I think our town now has like a, or police are enforcing the no groups of 10

(42:14):
or more, not with like shooting you or anything. But if they're big groups, supposedly they'll
show up and be like, hey, stop it. Break it up. So that's kind of crazy, but it doesn't
really affect me at all because I'm already stay at home and not around 10 other people.

(42:36):
I think it's the police basically just saying like, don't stand so close to me.
Are you going to do that song thing?
What do you mean? What was it? Is the needle drop supposed to go there? I don't know what
you're talking about.
Okay.

(42:57):
No, my real bummer patrol is so how many of you have an Alexa?
I've talked to one before.
I live with one.
Yeah. Now, if I'm not happy about it.

(43:18):
What's wrong?
I'm just not stoked about it. It's cool though.
What is it you're not stoked about?
I don't like having a robot living with me.
Our robot lives on a shelf. We don't feed her or anything.

(43:42):
I water mine.
Oh no. Well, the main thing we use it for is for another room, we'll say what time is
it or what's the temperature now? What's the temperature at midnight? What's the temperature
in three hours? What's the hourly temperature?
I did make the mistake though of turning on like weather alerts, which I thought was going

(44:04):
to be a great idea.
It is not. It is extremely irritating.
Every now and then we'll hear like a boom, boom sound and to start pulsing a yellow light
and we're like, okay, what does that mean? And we ask her and it's always that the National
Weather Service has issued a flood warning for our area that's been extended until some

(44:24):
day at certain amount of time. And we have been getting this exact message for about
a month.
Wow. That's a long warning.
The National Weather Service like every day, once, twice a day, sometimes three or four
times a day will extend the length of our flood warning, which means I have to see that
ring multiple times a day. I mean, I want it on in case there's like a tornado so I

(44:51):
can hear the bing, bing and then find out, oh, hey, a tornado is here. Go hide. But no,
it's always a flood warning that does not exist. As far as I'm aware, no flooding anywhere
around. I don't know if they'd say that because we live near a river and it rains sometimes
or what, but we haven't had flood level of rain. So what's up National Weather Service

(45:14):
and robot companion? Also, I forgot that you're super Robophobic.
What then? I don't like these that that seems inaccurate. I wouldn't label myself like that.
Oh yeah. Should I pull out a clip from episode 60?

(45:37):
I mean, only if it's relevant to this conversation. I'm sure it'll prove that I'm not Robophobic
at all. Some of my best friends are robots, Ben.
Who? Mr. Robot. Oh yeah.
Rami Malek. He's a robot.

(46:00):
Thanks. I think Christian Slater plays Mr. Robot in the show.
C-3PO is not your friend. I don't know why his arm is red.
Babu Frick. He's one of my oldest friends. He's not a robot.
He hangs out with robots though. He's robot adjacent.
That's not how that works. Yeah, right here in my notes, I have episode 60 slash 27. Fizz

(46:25):
was on. She's anti-Santa or something. I have that written here. Brian needs a podcast walkman
and then Brian is a Robophobe. And now someone is peeing?
Oh, sorry. I was rinsing out a coffee cup while I peed.
Episode 63. It continues. The Robophobia discussion continues as written right here and that you're

(46:50):
okay with Westerns now and that I hate Wolverine. Yeah, okay. So I distrust robots. I think
I have a healthy distrust of technology, Ben. That is very problematic, Brian.
What? How is it problematic? You need to ask millennials.

(47:13):
I am millennials. Go ask some Gen Zers. No, they're probably too busy with their Fortnites
and their TikToks. And their dabbing.
And their dabbing and their yo-yos. And their vapes.

(47:33):
They're always vaping yo-yos. Anyway.
I could send you some TikToks that'll teach you how to vape a yo-yo.
I don't even have TikTok. I've sent you some.
Is this how? You can save it as a video. I've received
TikToks and then sent them to you. I thought it was equivalent to like you've
been tweeting at me if I didn't have a Twitter. Yeah. Alexa constantly reminded me of a non-existent

(47:59):
flood. See? She went off just now.
I've rigged mine up to play the Humpty Dance whenever I say, Alexa, good morning.
You could do that? Oh yeah. You can teach her to do stuff like
that. You should go do that right now.

(48:19):
Well, mine's actually not in the room with me.
Oh. Wait. There's a sink in the room with you?
No, I'm in the kitchen. Oh, is that where you've been recording?
No. I'm confused now.
I was in my home podcast studio with my stationary bicycle.

(48:41):
Then about five minutes ago, I decided I wanted some tea.
So I walked through the kitchen and now I have a kettle on the stove.
I thought your bedroom, second bedroom doubled as a kitchen, in which case it's not a second
bedroom. It's just a kitchen with a bed in it.
No. I very carefully changed rooms, although I have creaky hardwood floors, so I'm sure
some of that was audible. Dot com.

(49:05):
I shouldn't have gone first because Caitlin went first earlier.
So now I have to restart this whole segment. Okay. Well, we'll start now with her.
Caitlin, would you like to share the first Bummer Patrol of the show?
Yes. My Bummer Patrol is Snowboard Candy, which is really weird since you said that

(49:29):
was yours, but not really. Oh, no more D&D?
Yeah. Oh, no more just getting to go out on a whim or like whatever.
Like you can't just go out and see a movie now.
In the grand scheme of things, it's not that bad, but it's not great.

(49:53):
It's definitely not ideal. Yeah. But especially because I was going to
go see Birth of Prey and now I can't. I am disappointed that this will probably
last through. I mean, the movies I wanted to see have already all been delayed, but
there were like three or four movies back to back in May and June that I wanted to see

(50:16):
that are now all disappeared, which means my birthday is probably also going to be spent
trapped inside. And if Great American Cookie stays closed, I can't even get quality cookie
cake. You can build your own cookie cake out of
Chips Ahoy. No, it isn't the same. I need one massive cookie.

(50:37):
No, I need it lightly iced. Yeah, we were supposed to go to a music festival
in May, but I'm betting that's going to be canceled.
Oh, is that the one where Dad was going to stay with you guys in a tent?
He was going to until he heard ACDC wasn't happening and then he kept trying to come
out with reasons why he's not going. He thought we would be mad at him for him backing out,

(51:01):
but we were like, we literally don't care. Not at all.
Geez. Now you have an anti-dad stance? Not in a mean way. I'm just saying we're
going to have to go. Brian, are you OK?

(51:22):
Yep. Yep. I'm good. It's great podcasting right there. Having
a screaming kettle. It doesn't usually get that loud.
That was like a real hard speech. I should get one of those electric kettles
that doesn't make a sound. At first I thought it was like someone started

(51:45):
up a car outside and they need to replace their belt.
And then it got louder and louder and became a scream.
Cars don't wear pants. Some do. Have you seen cars? Some of those cars
wear pants. I really don't like cars.

(52:05):
How do you get places? I mean, I don't like the movie. I like the
concept of a car. Back to where we were.
Oh yeah. But pretty much my bummer patrol is just the very little things
that I would bother to get out of the house for aren't happening now.

(52:26):
Yeah. That's about the same. I should go out if I want to.
You could go for a walk six feet away from people.
Yeah. Oh, we had like a standoff with this lady and her dog.
We were going outside walking. Lillian and Captain, those are our two dogs.

(52:46):
And then we met this lady on the street with her husky and she was like
sizing us up as we were coming up to her, like trying to figure out how far away
she needs to be or which route she can take to not have to walk by.
Oh, geez. The future. Yeah, these are wild times.
It just feels so surreal, honestly. It does.

(53:09):
Keep it light. I I almost actually killed an old man by shaking his hand.
That's oh yeah. Keeping it light, Brian.
Why'd you do it? I didn't.
Well, he. Yeah, well, he kind of went to initiate it.
Like he started like stick his hand out and I started to stick my hand out.
I think we both noticed at the same time, like, oh, no, no, no, we don't do this now.

(53:32):
And I'm like, oh, I'm sorry. I'm sorry. He's like, oh, it's fine.
I'm like, well, old habits. But is that how you laugh to?
Yeah, pretty much. And then I.
Yeah, I put him at ease.
Yeah, my my great laugh often puts people at ease.

(53:54):
It's a shame, too, because I had one of those electric buzzers that shocked him real good.
But I put it back in my pocket.
That was close. The electric buzzer industry is probably doing real terrible right now.
Oh, yeah. No, they're never going to recover from this.
Oh, no. But why were you shaking his hand in the first place?
I thought you hated that.

(54:15):
I mean, I do, but it's the thing you do when you meet people.
It's second nature. You know, I just don't really think about it.
I just wave at people.
I just switched over to finger guns and I go, pow, pow.
Finger guns never come out of style. I love them.

(54:36):
Pistol, rifle, shotgun.
Yep. Yep. Shotgun. Finger shotguns.
Powerful hello.
Indeed.
That's so my Bumptrall.
I'll keep it brief.
Is I saw earlier as I was browsing the Internet that there is a Mountain Dew flavored Dorito on the market, which.

(55:03):
Yes.
That's the loudest you've been this entire podcast, Katelyn.
I'm sorry. I was terrified. I heard about it too.
Which is sounds it's upsetting and it sounds gross.
And are you going to try it?
Well, my actual I would.
My Bumptrall is that it's currently only available in Australia, so I can't try it.

(55:27):
Could you ship one?
Well, if we have any Australian listeners who'd like to send me some Dorito Mountain Dew flavored Doritos, not Dorito flavored Mountain Dew, which they did a few years ago.
This is Mountain Dew flavored Doritos.
I would happily accept them and then try them on the podcast.
But, you know, maybe they'll make it over here eventually anyway.

(55:49):
You know, our tradition is every time we do a live recording, we have to eat something weird.
Oh, yeah. Maybe we'll have it for that.
Maybe when we do.
Yeah, that'd be cool.
So, yeah, I'm bummed out that it exists.
I'm bummed out that I can't try it.
I'm bummed out that I have this defect in my personality where I'm like, oh, this seems awful.
I need to experience it, which is not a great, great trait.

(56:14):
Like how I couldn't convince anyone to go see the movie Cats with me.
Oh, it looks so bad. Let's go see it.
And then nobody would.
I would happily see it when Rift Tracks does it, which I'm sure they will any day now.
They're inside a lot now, I think, too.
Yeah, they're probably bored.
They could probably still do most of their work from home anyway.

(56:39):
Like you guys.
Yeah, nothing has changed with this recording other than the fact that we are back.
I mean, yeah, that's been like kind of a surreal moment listening to various podcasts where
at the top, everybody has to talk about how weird it is recording over Skype, like,
we're not in the same room. This is weird.
And I'm like, yeah, yeah, that's how it is.

(57:02):
You'll get used to it.
We have trained for this moment for almost 10 years.
What would it be messed up if like we like inexplicably we started the podcast back up
and we were just in the same room and just never addressed it?
Like ever?
Yeah, no, it's like, oh, yeah, we're hanging out here and not even like I came to you or

(57:23):
you came to me. But like, like we met up like in like North Dakota, like somewhere that's
not even like in the middle. It's like, let's go to this third location.
Let's go to London.
Yeah. I mean, we have at least two listeners across the pond, so we could do a live show.
Oh, that'd be cool. We'll rent out Buckingham Palace.

(57:49):
Oh, yeah, you can rent it out for a podcast.
I hear we'll have a live show going on. I was trying to think of a place in London,
and that's only one I could think of other than the eye, the big Ferris wheel.
You could go to that alley that Jack the Ripper murdered people.
I think you'd pick more than one alley, probably.
Crime alley.
You could pick one of the alleys.
Yeah, it was crime alley. Jack the Ripper killed Bruce Wayne's parents.

(58:14):
We could podcast from the top of Big Ben.
Trafalgar Square. That's a place, I think.
Harry Potter's room under the stairs.
Oh, I want to go to the actually that's a good place to record podcasts.
I want to go to the set tour you can do there. So that's what I do.

(58:37):
That would be amazing.
Let's go do that, Brian.
I'll go with you.
And maybe we could get the queen to be a guest on the show.
Oh, yeah. I mean, if we're in Buckingham Palace, it shouldn't be that hard.
She's just upstairs, probably, right?
That's true. What do you think that would sound like?
Let's imagine.
Oh, wow, Ben, it was great to be here in London recording a podcast.

(58:59):
Oh, I know. You can just smell the fish and chips in the air.
Indeed. And I mean, let's not waste time.
This person has a very, very valuable time.
We don't want to squander it.
Welcome to the happy cast.
The Queen of England.
The Queen of England.

(59:20):
Don't be shy, Queen. Queen Elizabeth.
Don't be shy, Queen. Queen Elizabeth. Just a second.
Oh, hello.
No, no, Mrs. Daffyre. I want to talk to the Queen.
So what's it like being the queen of a country?

(59:43):
Oh, you know, it's pretty swell.
Well, I got my tea and my crisps and my chips.
How many dogs do you have and what are their names?
I'm curious.
What?
Forgy, Smorgie, Forgy and Clyde.

(01:00:07):
Oh, really?
Yes. Would you like to pet them?
No.
How dare you turn down a queen?
What's your favorite football team?
Oh, you mean football.

(01:00:29):
No. I don't know why you're pronouncing it like that.
Football. It's an F. It also has an F.
I mean, as far as I'm aware, it's just pronounced football.
Football.

(01:00:49):
All right. Then who is your favorite English football team?
The Knights.
The Knights. Yeah. Yeah.
They're I hear that they're running to win the cup.
They win every cup.
Oh, yeah. What's that cup called again?

(01:01:10):
I don't remember.
The football cup.
Oh, oh, yes.
The legendary football cup.
Oh, yes.
What's the name of that cup they win?
The football cup.
Oh, and who are the Knights?

(01:01:32):
Who are they up against this year?
Yes, they are up against them this year.
The fish.
The fish.
I feel really sorry for Neil and Robbo right now.

(01:01:53):
And scene.
Wow.
My hands got really sweaty during that.
What do you mean scene?
That was a flash forward recording.
Oh, wow. Yeah.
Oh, I can't wait to record that episode in England.
It'll happen one day.

(01:02:13):
I don't know why we brought Mrs. Doubtfire with us, though.
Why are we going to do that?
I don't know.
But it's a lot of fun.
Little known fact that that was based on a real person.
Mrs. Doubtfire?
Yeah. I mean, that's why she's there.
It's child, right?

(01:02:33):
Yep.
I think we need to move on to something else.
I agree.
I agree.
Let me spin the big wheel of segments.
Oh, wow.
Looks like we haven't done this one in forever.

(01:02:54):
Looks like we're going to do the Warp Zone.
Warp Zone is our video game talk segment.
What's new in the wide world of video games?
Bran?
Bran?
Bran.

(01:03:15):
The new today.
Well, first, I'd like to say it's been...
We've done this five times before.
It's not as bad as the last episode,
where the segment we did, we've only done one time before.
The latest time was only episode 81.
I mean, that's only three years ago now.

(01:03:40):
That's true.
I mean, yeah, we've definitely done it more recently than other things.
20 episodes, but three years.
Yep.
The math checks out.
Yeah, we should probably...
Should we start or should we end with the new today?
Are we doing one or are we doing separate?
I forgot.

(01:04:02):
Well, I know we're doing a big one.
We'll save the big one for her,
and then we'll all probably pitch in on that one.
I have a brief recommendation slash review that I'd like to do.
And then do you have a game you'd like to talk about, Ben?
Yeah, I got something I could talk about.
Okay.
All right.
And then go ahead and kick us off.

(01:04:23):
Oh, all right.
There is a game on the Switch that I got recently,
and Meg and I have been playing a lot of.
Yes.
It's called Good Job.
Oh, yeah, yeah.
I saw that that came out.
It's a little puzzle game, right?
Yeah, you play as this little tiny, like, bathroom symbol person.

(01:04:46):
And if you're co-op, you play as two of them.
Each of you as one.
You are going through an office building,
trying to complete various goals,
like bring the new projector in or reconnect the internet
or get the workers to show up for the meeting,
which sounds super boring.
But it's sort of like a physics-y game
where you can run around and grab basically anything.

(01:05:08):
You can grab chairs and throw them around.
If you grab plugs and plug them in,
you can use the stretched wire as a sort of slingshot.
So you could, like, grab couches or shelves
and slingshot them through brick walls
to give yourselves better openings to get the stuff done quicker.
If you've got to move people, you can grab chairs,

(01:05:29):
stick them or set them down on it, and then drag them off.
Excuse me.
There's some where you have to water a bunch of plants.
You can find fire hoses,
and you could use them to jet yourself into the air.
You can aim them up high.
You can jet yourself into the air. You can aim them up or down.
Blow stuff around with it.
Or if you don't want to use that,
you can get buckets of water and try to run around
and pour them on things.

(01:05:50):
It gets chaotic in a fun way without being too ridiculous.
But it's also been very funny just the way things have been happening.
And because it's a puzzle game,
there were legitimately parts where we're like,
okay, so how do we do this?
We have to stop and figure out, you know, how to solve it.
It's 20 bucks on Switch, maybe other stuff too.

(01:06:11):
I don't really know because we bought it on Switch.
But it's co-op fun.
Ah, so I'd like to check it out.
Do you think it would be fun in a single player context?
Or is this one of those really you have to play co-op
to get the most bang for your buck?
It's not like Goat Simulator, which I would say

(01:06:32):
would be not fun by yourself for the most part.
I can confirm that it's not.
Yeah, no.
Yeah, unless you're goofing off together,
Goat Simulator is, yeah, you need to be with people or something.
I feel like this would still be fun to figure stuff out
because the puzzle would be a little bit more complicated in a good way.

(01:06:54):
Like with two people, it's a lot easier to solve stuff
because we can do stuff simultaneously.
I guess I've done real quick.
Or like I can have her plug something in while I'm dragging a thing.
Or normally I would have to figure out,
wait, which order do I have to do these things to make this work?
So I think it would still be fun to do.
Okay, well, I'll probably pick that up at some point then.

(01:07:14):
Also, their outfits you can find throughout the levels,
their hats and like torso pieces they can put on just for fun.
It's kind of the collectible of the game.
They give you grades based on like your time to the level,
the amount of things you broke,
and the amount of money you earned through things you broke.
I guess like if you break valuable things or not.

(01:07:35):
I haven't been caring about a grade score because this is on Switch,
so I'm not getting achievements for it.
But it does seem like that's another layer of puzzle
if you wanted to try to figure out how to get an A rating in breaking stuff.
Because a lot of it will require like,
okay, so I need to get that forklift up to the third floor
so I can smash through this wall and then knock all these crates down.

(01:07:59):
It's a lot of that kind of thing going on.
Okay.
And every-
Sounds like a good like, you know,
if I were like playing a game on my lunch break and I had like,
you know, 20 minutes,
would this be a good one to pick up and play for a little bit?
Yeah, yeah, you could do a room or two.
So far every, I think there was like 10 floors.
Every floor has had three rooms and sort of a boss room.

(01:08:21):
Each room could take maybe 10, 15, 20 minutes depending on how you do in them.
Something else cool.
Oh yeah, every floor has also had a few different mechanics,
which I did not expect from an indie like puzzle game.
Usually you kind of just get what you get
and they just change the setting up a little bit

(01:08:42):
and maybe add a little bit of stuff here or there.
But no, like one floor adds in like conveyor belts
and then the next room you have forklifts
and the room after that you have another, you have a crane.
Then the floor above that you are now like having to deal with like water puzzles
or shooting a fire extinguisher to like ice the floor
to make things slipperier, to make stuff move easier.

(01:09:02):
And they also kind of leave the puzzles open.
So there's not just one set way to solve any of them as far as I've seen so far.
Okay, so far.
But yeah, I recommend good job.
I will check that out for sure on your recommendation.
And it is the only Switch game that I recommend.

(01:09:23):
Okay, I'm going to recommend the game
that is I don't think available on the Switch,
but I've been playing a little gem called Jedi Fallen Order,
which is, as you might guess, a Star Wars game.
It takes place between the prequel trilogy and the original trilogy,
I think five years after Revenge of the Sith.

(01:09:48):
And you play a Jedi who survived Order 66,
one of the last Jedi's.
And your mission is you're trying to rebuild the Jedi Order,
which I haven't finished the game.
I think I'm maybe a quarter, maybe a third of the way done.
But I'm assuming it's not going to go well,

(01:10:11):
because once you get to that original trilogy, there is no Jedi Order.
So it'll be interesting to see how this plays out.
But it's a third-person action game.
It feels very good.
The lightsaber is really fun.
You deflect blaster bolts, and it feels powerful.
It looks good.
And I think it's great.
I recommend, even though technically it doesn't run great on my Xbox One,

(01:10:34):
the framerate's low.
It's a little hitchy.
But I think if you have one of those fancier new Xboxes or a good PC,
it'd run a lot better.
But it really nails the Star Wars tone in a way I really enjoy.
And the writing seems pretty, pretty sharp.
So I recommend Jedi Fallen Order.
I might have to check that out when that stimulus check comes.

(01:11:00):
Yes, the old stim check.
OK, I have a question.
Rebuild the Jedi Order.
Now, how?
Is this like make babies or recruit?
OK, yeah, I can talk a little bit about it.
There is MacGuffin.
We'll just call it MacGuffin.
And there is, right now where I'm at, the game's mildly open world.

(01:11:26):
Like there are different planets and objectives.
You kind of choose where you go and what order a little bit.
Not really.
The choices are a little narrow.
But right now, I'm trying to acquire.
There's like an archive of force-sensitive people in the galaxy.

(01:11:46):
And if I could get that, then I'll be able to recruit them.
And start a new Jedi Order.
Oh, good.
So it is recruiting.
I was worried that it was like a dating sim.
No, no, no.
At least not yet.
It might take that turn.
That's like the last act of the game.
Yeah, it gets real weird at the end, I hear.
I am excited about that.
Caitlin, have you played this?

(01:12:07):
No, but Mark has.
And he really liked it.
And it looks cool.
I think you can even make yourself have a yellow lightsaber.
Or you can change the color of your lightsaber.
Yeah, you can.
You build your own lightsaber.
You can customize it.
Different parts, different blade color.
Mine is orange.
Does that also cost a really long time?
It sounds pretty.

(01:12:30):
It doesn't cost as much as the Disney World lightsabers.
So there's that.
That is probably good.
Well, that game sounds exciting.
Everyone, play that also.
Two solid recommendations.
And that's it.
Nothing else to talk about.
No more games.
Worth playing.
Well, I mean, we gave full recommendations, but I think the new today has a game that

(01:12:55):
she's kind of like going to give like a lukewarm recommendation to.
Like, check it out if you need to.
Solitaire, I guess.
Mind sweeper.
Hearts.
Snake on the Nokia phone.
I played that in Bandcamp.
Like, I didn't want to go out and socialize with people.

(01:13:15):
So I stayed in my little dorm and played on my Nokia phone.
Snake for hours.
All right.
And that's a review.
Time to move on to feedback.
Okay.
No, my happy hour.
What?
Like, it's been.
Oh, what?
I mean.

(01:13:36):
Flashback an hour.
My work hour.
Hour is animal.
You broke out.
You broke up.
All I heard was animal.
From the Muppets.
Animal Crossing.
Animal Crossing.
Animal Crossing Wild World.

(01:13:58):
Animal Crossing New Horizon.
And the horizons are so bright, let me tell you.
All right.
So what is it about this game?
What makes it so exciting?
It sounds boring to me.
You're.
I was about to say you're boring.
I'm sorry.
Well, thank you for apologizing and then saying the insult that you didn't say.

(01:14:22):
Okay.
So you're a little person on an island and you're putting it up and you're making friends with all
of these animals and you're getting to design things and just relax and catch fish and
bugs like fossils.

(01:14:44):
But also the meme game is strong.
I've seen so many good memes from this game.
So that's why you like the game.
Are you recommending the meme game?
No, I'm just saying that's a plus.
There's a party game called Know Your Meme.
No, that is not it.
No, you're mean.

(01:15:05):
I have made some pretty good progress so far.
My house started down on the beach, but I really had no yard room at all.
And so I relocated to the top of the cliff to where no one can come get me.
And right now I have a ghost in my backyard.
Does that happen in your game a lot?
People coming to get you?

(01:15:26):
No, but like your animals can roam around and.
Things like that.
So Brian, how would you describe Animal Crossing?
I mean, that seems like a really accurate summary of the game.
I will say that I have a slightly different experience in that.

(01:15:51):
So when we went out and I bought a Switch just to play Animal Crossing because
we didn't have a Switch.
I wanted the full big boy real Switch, but those were sold out everywhere.
So I stepped over the light switch.
OK.
What color?
We got the turquoise.
So your apartment didn't come with light switches?
No, no, we had to buy our own light switches.

(01:16:14):
That's so weird.
Were they all clap lights?
Yep, it's clappers in every room.
How would that work in multiple rooms if one light was on and one wasn't?
If you clapped, would it turn one off and one on?
You'd have to make sure you shut the door when you walk in.
That way that muffles the sound of the rest of the apartment.
I mean, that'd get really annoying.
It did.

(01:16:35):
I just wanted to buy these light switches.
But I also bought a Switch light to play Animal Crossing.
So we have the one console.
And so that means that we have one island that we cohabitate on.
And as my girlfriend put it, it's a little bit of a
surprise that my girlfriend put it so well.

(01:16:56):
She's like, this is one of the only games I play.
So I let her take the lead.
She's the primary account on the island.
So she's doing most of the stuff.
I'll just show up every now and again and walk around like, oh, we have a museum now.
That's cool.
But it's great.
So she's running the town.
So my Animal Crossing game is I kind of show up every now and again.

(01:17:20):
I'm like this weirdo wearing a ninja hood and pink sweatpants.
And I walk around.
And so I had to create my own version of the game.
So one of the objectives is you open this museum and then you donate artifacts to it.
Like, oh, here's a fish or here's some fossils.

(01:17:42):
And since I'm not affiliated with this museum or Blathers, the curator, I'm hoarding artifacts.
My house that belonged to me.
So I'm running a second museum.
So yeah.
So I'm in the I'm two thirds of the way to having a full like Brontosaurus skeleton in my house.
And yeah, I'm kind of I'm running my own private museum, which Katie is not happy about.

(01:18:08):
She's very upset.
But, you know, that's just the version of the game I'm playing.
I'm like I'm like an eccentric billionaire that moved to this island and is trying to drain it of all its natural resources and just hoard them in my house.
Let me know what piece you need.
Maybe if I find it, I can mail it off to you.
Oh, yeah.
If you find like a Brontosaurus butt, I'll take it.

(01:18:29):
OK.
I've got the I've got the head in the middle.
I have to look for.
I'll look for the one that's called Brontosaurus butt.
Yes.
Like I.
He was I he's that ghost I talked about, and he really is in my backyard right now.
I put on my old timey, ridiculous looking ball gown that looks like Dracula's mom probably wore it.

(01:18:58):
I to an old lady and I go out there and pretend like he's my boyfriend and I take pictures of the ghost and I walking around.
So it's a life simulator.
Didn't we talk recently later about the lady that married a pirate ghost?
I mean, defined recently, last few episodes that seem familiar.

(01:19:27):
I feel like it was in a no news is not new news segment.
Yeah, it is so much fun.
I would love to hear about who you guys have.
I have a couple.
Well, I don't know if other people want to hear who we have as our villagers, because it won't mean anything to anyone else.
I will say I've had fun playing the game.

(01:19:49):
Megan and I both have been playing separately.
Sometimes we go to each other's towns.
It's really helpful because it means we pretty much have a twice as big store because we can just go to each other's town and check out each other's store.
So we've been getting some stuff done much quicker.
I already have a house with three side rooms and a second floor.

(01:20:12):
I have 10 housing plots, at least bought or occupied with houses.
I owe about nine hundred thousand more bells, which are the money for those of you who don't know on my house.
That's another part about the game is you're in debt to this raccoon and you pay it off to expand your house.
And then he makes the expansion cost more, even though it's the same size room on the other side of your house.

(01:20:35):
So how could it cost more than the first one did?
But I don't know, maybe it's like a construction union rule thing.
I don't know.
You got bridges.
Now I'm trying to work on getting the singing dog named K.K.
Slider to come do a concert in my town.
Me too.
I'm at two stars because I need more people to move in.
But I also have my attic and tomorrow I'm getting my basement and I put a really cool outside my backyard.

(01:21:03):
Oh, yeah.
I forgot you cheated by dealing with time travelers.
You're time skipping.
I did not.
I did not time travel at all.
Where did those one point one million bells come from?
These people came over to my town because I had super high turnip prices.
And then they gave me some money in turnips as a thank you for letting them come over and.

(01:21:27):
So their turnips, because my transfer selling for like four hundred and fifty something bells per bundle.
So they were making a ton of money and then they would leave me like some money.
And then another girl brought me turnips from her town.
And then I sold them because you dealt with the time travelers.

(01:21:49):
I can't help it.
Oh, yeah.
I had really good prices.
I can't help it that I hang out with Nazis is what you're saying right now.
That's basically what you just said.
No.
Yeah, but people are taking offense to be called out for time traveling, which I don't.

(01:22:11):
It's not the way I would want to play the game personally, but I know that some people like to time travel.
But they also are getting called out for by some people.
And they're like, well, once you pay for my game, you can tell me how to play it.
I mean, they could play that the way all they want, but it's still it's not the way the game was intended to place still.
I mean, you can't beat Animal Crossing.

(01:22:33):
So I don't see the point of time traveling because it's supposed to be a relaxing game that you do a little bit every day and then I feel like they just
the first ones to get everything so that they can show up and be like, look at all the stuff I have that you don't have because you have to wait.
I like the feeling of working on it and then trying to earn my way up to be like, look, it took me a month to get all this set up as nice as I did.

(01:22:59):
And I'm proud of it.
Yeah, that's nice.
Working on a bandstand.
I have a drum set and a microphone out here.
Also, for those of you who don't know, I do recommend the game if you don't have a switch and if you have the money, buy a switch and play it if you can find one.
It's a good relaxing sort of life simulator game, especially right now in today's times.

(01:23:24):
It came out the perfect time for this sort of thing.
Spend your day getting to know your neighbors because you're allowed to be close to them in this game.
Fish, catch bugs, design your house, buy cool furniture and clothes and just sort of chill out for a while.
I feel like I've seen an article on CNN talking about how this game is really helping people with mental health issues, especially now.

(01:23:51):
It probably is.
That's a really nice way to unwind and a little escapism.
Yeah, if any time needed to escapism, it's a time when you literally can't escape.
Yeah.
So I 10 out of 10 recommend.
Oh, we're supposed to do ratings on ours.

(01:24:12):
Oh, I don't know. I just added it because I loved it.
Brian, rate your Jedi game.
I need to finish it before I can give it a full rating, but I give it three thumbs up right now.
I give mine an A out of 10.
Oh, way out of 10s.
Hey, yeah.

(01:24:33):
Like like like letter grade or like a like sponsor and happy day.
Oh, wait, wait.
Does that mean you're trying to summon someone here by saying that?
No, don't say it's the aim.
Don't say Chad Snyder, Chad Snyder, Chad Snyder.
Hey guys, it's me.
I thought you were dead, Chad Snyder, or did we bring you back?

(01:24:56):
Sure I was, but I woke up the other day.
I must be alive.
Oh, it's a miracle.
It's a 2020 miracle.
Yeah, everybody's talking about how great 2020 is because Chad Snyder's back.
You were patient.
Year of the year.
I'm going to hang out for the rest of the podcast.
Nope. All right.

(01:25:17):
I'm sorry, Chad.
Get out. Bye.
Nope.
You can't get rid of me now.
I'll just hang up.
Or is Rad around?
Rad, are you?
Wait, is he in jail still?
Okay, Chad, Chad Snyder left.
Okay, good.
I didn't hear footsteps.
Gunshot, gunshot.
Okay, he's gone, guys.

(01:25:38):
Who killed Chad Snyder part two?
Well, I think that was a great segment where we recommended three equally great video games.
Mine was the best.
Mine too.
Yours three.
Yeah.
All right.
So before we wrap up the show, let's see if we have any feedback.

(01:25:59):
What's this?
A letter for me.
All right.
Time for some feedback from the listeners.
If you want to reach out to the show, we would love to hear from you.
Our email address is happycastfeedback.gmail.com.
Or reach out to us on Facebook or Twitter.
Or, you know, if you know how to get in touch with us, just, you know, reach out.

(01:26:20):
Let us know how you're doing.
How are you holding up?
Most of you probably have our phone numbers.
A lot of you probably do.
So just call one of us up.
We'll record it and air it.
Or send us an email or a voice recording and we can play it on the show.
But we do have some feedback from last week's show.

(01:26:41):
We do.
Right, Ben?
We do, yes.
First up, I have an email from the most architectural guitar.
Oh, the most architectural guitar.
Yes.
Sounds vaguely familiar.
Yeah.
He goes by it.
Let's see.
Let me read the bottom.
Guitar-catech.
There we go.

(01:27:02):
That's what his name is.
Oh, right.
Guitar-catech.
Great.
Yeah.
Old friend of the show.
I mean, he's not like old, old.
Makes it sound like he's like an ancient man.
123 years old.
No, we've known him for a long time.
Great, great, great friend.
Great fan of the show.
What does Guitar-catech have to say?
It starts off with, is that your microwave?

(01:27:26):
Yeah, it's all the way in the other room.
Sorry about that.
That's a loud microwave.
Yeah.
Either that or like someone's backing up a truck in the other room.
I mean, it could be both.
Great.
Katie's driving trucks around the apartment again.
It starts with Ben and Brian.

(01:27:47):
So, Katelyn, you have to shut up during this because you are not addressed during this at all.
Sorry.
Okay.
Sorry.
He just says, Ben and Brian, hello there.
It's me, one of your happy castaways.
Oh, I like that.
Is that what they call themselves?
Well, we talked in the last episode about how we needed suggestions for what we were called.
Yeah, I think happy castaway is the clear cut winner so far.

(01:28:11):
We'll make a poll on Facebook.
So far, it's happy castaways or nothing else at all.
I mean, I think that's the winner.
It's me, one of your happy castaways here with a thankful heart that happy cast has returned.
It's been way too long, longer than a week, that we've been able to enjoy the delightful sounds of your voices in my ears.

(01:28:33):
So much has transpired since December 2018, but most importantly, I have some feedback to share.
It starts with Bummer Patrol leading with this because why not?
Because that's not the way it goes.
It's too sad if you start that way.
His Bummer Patrol is COVID-19 and all that goes with it.
There's not too much of a change, but he says, but I'm sad that I haven't been able to get together with friends as much at church or other activities.

(01:28:59):
For my kids, I'm bummed that they aren't able to participate in soccer leagues, choirs, etc., which they really enjoy.
I'm still in the office all the time, but I'm prepping for remote working if the situation gets worse.
All in all, I can't complain.
We're very fortunate compared to most.
I did have to cancel a trip to LA in May, but I'm hoping to reschedule in the fall.
That does seem pretty unfortunate.
Now, I'm kind of curious if you are now working from home or if you're still having to go to the office.

(01:29:23):
Also, I'm not sure what part of the country you're from, so hopefully you are at home now.
If you were, I thought you were.
He's local to me. He's nearby. We met. We met for coffee.
I don't think we've talked about it on the show. Yeah, yeah, Chris and I met up with Guitar Architect at a Starbucks one time.
He was a lovely, lovely guy.
I didn't know he was in your area.

(01:29:45):
He bought me a flat light.
Aww.
Is it like a switch light?
It's a fancy coffee drink.
Oh, I don't know much about a coffee drink.
Yep, it's my go-to.
But yeah, yeah, he's somewhere in Georgia, I'm pretty sure.
Or he was in town for work.
That's what I thought it was, but maybe he's also there.
I don't know. Either way, happy hour. Also warp zone.

(01:30:09):
Hey, so very appropriate. Good job, Guitar Architect.
The bright side of getting to stay home a little more is that I've re-engaged with my Wii U and I've restarted Zelda Wind Waker.
HD? But I'm nearing the end, so I need to get my hands on Breath of the Wild or some similar game.
My girls have been playing this with me, especially when they get to sail across the ocean with Link.
I agree, the HD Wind Waker, they've made some good improvements over the GameCube version.

(01:30:36):
Some good quality of life stuff.
And Breath of the Wild, I also recommend.
If you really want to play a lot of Zelda games, we use the place to do it.
Because they have Twilight Princess, you can get a lot of other ones on their virtual console.
You can get a lot of the DS ones and the Super Nintendo.
I think it's the console where you can get probably the most Zelda games.

(01:30:58):
Oh, bummer. I don't have that one, so I want all the games to come to the Switch.
Although, we are getting Star Wars Episode I Podracer, so I can't complain about that.
I should have talked about this in our Warp Zone segment.
But there are currently credible rumors about them doing a Mario collection for Mario 35th Anniversary.

(01:31:21):
Oh.
Remastering and re-releasing Mario 64, Mario Sunshine, Mario Galaxies.
Making a new Paper Mario in the style of the original two.
Yeah, I heard that. I'm so excited for the Paper Mario especially.
Yes, and there are further rumors that if this goes well, they might continue this into Zelda.
Oh, I would like that because I have not played Twilight Princess yet and I want to.

(01:31:47):
It is a solid game.
Speaking of, I did find my 3DS.
I told you the other day we couldn't find it.
And it was exactly where I thought it was. It was just further back in a drawer. Anyway.
So you just didn't check. Okay.
Continuing to I've Been Everywhere Man.
He said he's been to some beautiful places over the last year.
Bar Harbor, Maine at Acadian National Park.

(01:32:10):
I've been there in Fallout 4 DLC.
That counts.
It does. It's called Far Harbor then. Megan's been there for real.
He saw the earliest sunrise in the US at 4 50 a.m. one day.
That's early.
But he used to say that his most special place that he's been to was to meet the infamous Chris and Brian

(01:32:33):
for some Java at a particular national coffee establishment.
It was awesome and surreal.
Ha ha ha.
I don't know how to properly say that one.
It sounds sarcastic, but he did write three.
I think it was a good time.
Not a sarcastic ha ha ha.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
That's a good.
That's been a good.

(01:32:54):
It's been a good happy hour.
That was a good one.
I always enjoy meeting up with podcast people in life.
And, you know, who guitar attacked was a good one.
This business in town that once and I got to meet her.
There's another I'm forgetting someone.
I don't think you met anyone else.
You don't think so.
Nobody else.

(01:33:15):
No, there was no one else.
I vaguely remember being in the Wootnader's wedding.
Was I was I know we've never met Brian.
I think you're getting confused.
OK. All right.
Well, we should meet up sometime.
That'd be fun.
Yeah, we can't right now.
We have to stay at least six states apart.

(01:33:40):
Right. Right.
Well, you know, once this thing blows over, maybe we can meet up and do a live podcast in jolly old England.
Oh, yeah.
Let's not flash forward again, though.
Oh, man.
I feel like the Queen was getting ready to speak about.
Oh, I. Oh, yeah.
What was that?

(01:34:01):
Was that the Kool-Aid man?
Don't you mean Rad Snyder?
I think he is a cool. Yeah.
Is that he submitted?
I guess that's nice.
OK, sorry. He submitted a photo Photoshop challenge, which will be one of the pictures for today's pictures or today.
Which the Photoshop challenge was Denzel Washington holding a happy cast T-shirt or am I forgetting?

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I don't remember if we ever said Photoshop challenge in that episode, did we?
We definitely did.
Yeah, we say it randomly.
Yeah, I think it's more implied in most episodes.
And I also really like our nonsensical trend of putting it on the next episode, which has nothing to do with the things we talked about.

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It just makes it really confusing.
It's pretty good.
But he did.
We have a picture that you will see soon.
He says that the problem with that Denzel does not stand still for long periods of time.
It cost him one Moe's nacho meal to coax him to hold a shirt for the picture.
Well, well worth his own share.
Yes, you will see it right now and see what it looks like.

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Netflix picks.
He did.
Where he said where to go.
There it is.
Sorry, I was looking for a present, not the Netflix picks.
I'm playing Animal Crossing right now as we need to play.
That's what you record, I mean.
Netflix picks.
I don't know why, but I've been really into Westerns lately.
So I stumbled across this modern Western procedural called Longmire.

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I have never watched it in the original airing, but I'm very much enjoying his gruff.
There is no nonsense ability to read people and solve the mysteries of a one horse town.
Have you ever seen that, Brian?
I have not.
It's been recommended to me multiple times.
So I'll definitely add it to my queue.
I know that engineered L Dub recommended it.

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Just once, but they just played it over and over again.
No, I think he recommended it on this podcast actually.
And then oddly enough, my father really likes Longmire.
It's like one of the three shows he watches.
I know we're not supposed to speak out about behind the scenes of the recordings,

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but we've never had any of the engineereds on.
They just send us in clips.
Other episodes to play.
I don't know why we're doing this.
What are you talking about?
Telling the truth?
Revealing them for what they are?
Frauds.
Posers.
They're good guys.

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I don't know why we're doing this.
I didn't say they're not good, but they are liars.
They've been very nice to us.
Their mother listens to this podcast.
Oh no, she's great.
I don't blame her for their behavior.
Okay.
I'm sure she's not forcing them to do reruns and just remix all their episodes for each one that they record.

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Record, as in quotes.
You just can't see my fingers.
Right, right.
He ends with, well, that's all that I have for today.
Patiently awaiting the 100th Epidition, which will come, don't worry, of the Happy Cast.
Until then, Key Pappy, yours truly, Guitar-Katek.
Oh, thanks, Guitar-Katek.
What a lovely email.
It's great to hear from you.
Under that, it says, this electronic message and its contents are privileged and confidential information

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intended solely for the use of the addressee.
If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution,
copying, or other use of this message and its contents is strictly prohibited.
If you have received this electronic message as an error, please delete this message and all copies and
practice from your system and notify the sender immediately by telephone or by email.
Delivery of this drawing should not be construed to provide any express warranty or guarantee to anyone
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review and approval of the design professional for any future use.
Any use of the information in this drawing is at the sole risk and liability of the user.
Wow, you typed out a lot there at the end.
I know, I don't know why you didn't get the legalese for this picture of Denzel holding a shirt in front of
Moe's, but he takes it very seriously.

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I respect it.
We have something on the Facebook that we have, don't we?
Yeah, we have some Facebook comments on our last post from some listeners.
The new today, would you be so kind as to read one of those?

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The one that you told me to?
No, the other one.
The one I didn't want you to read.
Okay, Rob says, full English breakfast typically includes bacon, sausages, eggs, black pudding, baked beans,
tomatoes and mushrooms, and coffee or tea.

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And then there's some really nice emojis in a row there.
What are they?
Shall I describe them?
Yeah, describe them.
A pan with an egg, a salt shaker, a cup of a smiley face, a muscly arm, and mustn't forget toast.
Sounds like a pretty good breakfast to me.

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I could go for one of those right about now.
That sounds like a lot.
Mixed up in one, because that's what we talked about.
Like blended up like a smoothie.
Yeah, that's what we were saying, to get a full English breakfast.
Like a V8?
Yep, like a British V8.
Oh, and then Neil responded to that.
And it said, toast, I think you mean fried slice.

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And then Rob said, you're right.
Nope, he said, of course my bad.
I don't know what the difference is or what a fried slice is.
But we do have an email from Neil Orangepeel.
What's his definition of an English breakfast?
His email starts, Hi chaps, it's great to hear you back podcasting again.
My happy hour this week is springtime.

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You know, the time of the year when lambs are in the fields and the days stay lighter for longer.
The weather gets warmer and all the spring flowers start to bloom.
Brian, are there lambs in your fields?
I have not been outside to check, but I'm going to lean toward no.
I want to see these fields.
That sounds very peaceful.

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My bum patrol this week is also springtime.
You know, the time of the year when the weather is warmer and the flowers start to bloom and hay fever starts to ruin my life.
He said no, caps.
Yep, yep, I agree.
Yes, I know that time there.
And then he says the English breakfast drink.
I'm not sure if you can get a full English breakfast in the U.S., but just to clarify what is in a traditional full English.

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Sausages, bacon, eggs, either scrambled or fried, fried mushrooms, baked beans, black pudding, blood sausage, he says, plum tomatoes, hash browns, fried slice and in some places bubble and squeak, which consists of fried cabbage and mashed potatoes.
Oh, yeah, we learned that from Disney World.
We did. Yes.
I wonder if in Epcot you can get a full English breakfast.

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Seems like you would somewhere.
If you could liquidize it down enough, sure, I'd give it a go.
And then Photoshop challenge.
What?
He attached a picture of Denzel Washington wearing wearing a Happy Cast T-shirt on a picture of Denzel on a picture of Denzel on and on and on.
And he says, Denzelception.

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Stay happy, Neil Orangepeel.
But he has no legalese, so we can do whatever we want to with this picture.
Oh, we own that picture. Great.
It's ours now.
Sorry, Neil.
We are taking your rights from you.
Well, thank you for writing in, Neil.
I do appreciate you responding to our Ask a British Person segment.
And Rabo.

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And Rabo.
Two for one.
That's a double double double dose.
I like it.
And also sorry about the stuff about the Queen.
What doesn't happen yet?
What do you mean?
Oh, right. Right.
Well, just, you know, preemptive apology.
Oh, that's always a wise idea for everyone.

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All listeners, we are sorry for the things that we have said and will say.
Yeah.
Just blanket statement across the board.
For sure.
That's it.
That's it for feedback?
That's everything. We did it.
OK. Wow. We did another show.
Two in one year. That's a record.

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Assuming I edit this.
Oh, right. Assuming that it gets released.
There's a little bit of editing this one and I do apologize for my part.
I might have played that.
Well, if you and Kitten would just stop cursing so much.
I only said.
Now I have to bleep again.

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Brian's talking about the poops.
You're saying bad words.
What has become of the happy cast?
We're really in the gutter in this one.
This is a real gutter ball.
Cursing is our happy hour.
It's going to be a new segment where you're all out.
Just cursing.

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We all pick our favorite curse word.
Like your favorite one and then you explain why it's your favorite show and tell but with bad words.
Yeah, we have all the phrases where you can use the curse word.
It'll be educational too.
Yeah, well, we'll do it in the special education segment that we did for Anne of Cure.
So Anne, listen to Anne, write in your favorite curse word.

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Record something talking all about your favorite one.
Just let us know which curse word we should check out next week.
Check it out.
Well, other than all the editing you have to do, I think this was a rather successful podcast.
It was definitely recording with two or more people.

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That's true.
Yeah, yeah.
Well, thank you for joining us on this Epidition the New Today.
It's always great to have you.
Thank you for having me.
It was fun.
Ben, thank you for being a great co-host slash producer slash editor.
Oh, and Brian, thank you for existing.

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Aww.
Thank you for being a friend.
Thank you.
Travel.
Travel.
Your heart is true.
You're a pal in a compass.
If you, you know, I do think, I might be wrong here, but if you threw a party.

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Here we go again.
I suspect, I don't know, I feel like I'm gold blooming for some reason, sorry.
I think this would be from being the card attached would say thank you for being a friend.
Oh, I need to talk about that Jeff Goldblum show at some point.
I love it.

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We'll do that on Netflix picks.
But first, how do we outro?
Oh, I thought we did.
Nope.
Okay.
Thank you everybody for joining us.
We hope that you're staying safe and you're well.
And we hope you'll join us next week.
And remember, keep healthy.

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Wait, now we're saying happy?

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Oh, look, there's our large yellow bird friend.
Hello, friend bird.
Hi, C3PO.
Hi, little R2D2.
Pardon the intrusion, but you don't seem your normal happy bubbly bird like self today.
Is anything troubling you?
Well, I don't know.
It's just that today I can't seem to get my numbers straight.
I can't tell my one from a four or a three from a two.

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I don't know what to do.
An excellent suggestion, R2.
We are computerized robots.
We're experts in numbers.
Perhaps we can help you with your numbers.
Oh, would you?
It really isn't difficult.
You see, if it says one, you go.

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If it says two, you go.
If it says three, then you go.
And that's the way it's done.
Now, I used to get confused about my numbers, like which was one or three or four or two.

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But now I find my numbers very easy because this is what I do.
If it says one, I go.
If it says two, I go.
If it says three, then I go.

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It's as simple as can be.
But now, what if it says four?
I go.
Nothing more.
What if it says 26?
I just go.

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Hey, I think I get it.
Listen, if it says one, I go beep.
Exactly.
If it says two, I go beep beep.
Precisely.
If it says three, then I go beep beep beep.
And that's the way it's done.
Clever bird.
But now, what if it says four?

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I go.
Nothing more.
But what if it says 2,478,693?
Oh, you just go.
You see, if it says one, I go beep.

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Correct.
If it says two, I go beep beep.
And if it says three, then I go beep beep beep.
And that's the way it's done.
Oh, isn't this fun, R2?

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Ah, I think I got it.
Thanks, T-3PO.
Cha cha cha.
Pardon?
Cha cha cha.
Babu babu babu free.

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Babu babu babu big bad for your Rex and evento.
huiure.
Fall in love since you play it.

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BABU FRICKS got his toolbox on
He's fixing droids and he's ready okay
To punch those Nazis in the face
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Fixin' all the droids
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Fixin' all the droids
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