Ep. 104: Spongetube

Ben edits Happypedia, Brian forms a TikTok support group, and Fzbz teaches us how many blueberries it takes to wake up a rabbit.

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Episode Transcript

(00:30):
Hello everybody, welcome to another episode of Happy Cast with Ben and Brian.
I'm Brian and this guy is Ben.
Hey, hey Brian, is something wrong with your audio quality or something?
Oh no, no.
I tested before the show.
I think I might be a little bit muffled though because I'm wearing my facial protection mask

(00:53):
device, you know, trying to prevent the spread of the virus.
Are you out in public or something?
No, no, I'm in the Happy Cast studios by myself.
Who are you protecting?
I'm protecting myself from, wait, I was protecting myself from myself.

(01:13):
Are you telling me that the mask isn't necessary?
I was afraid I might pass something over Wi-Fi, you know, just the world wide web, you know,
computers get viruses.
It made sense in my head, but now that I'm saying it.
It's your phone, that does make sense.
Yeah, yeah, exactly.
You know how phones are open to these things.

(01:35):
I think even through Skype, we might hopefully be six feet away.
Okay, good.
Well, all right, okay.
Well, I was really worried about the audio quality suffering, but I was willing to make
that sacrifice.
But if you say that we're in the clear.
Health and safety, yes.
I think we can just get this one time.
It is mandated that I wear the mask at work, though, so I become very used to wearing the

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mask at all times.
Well, as long as we, you know, wash our mouths out with soap afterwards, that should.
I use mouthwash.
I hope that's a acceptable substitution.
I don't know, Alexa, is mouthwash soap?
Here's something I found on the web.

(02:19):
According to Cambridge.org, the information leaflet states that it is a concentrated gel
for dilution as a mouthwash and forms a protective coating over the new causal surface.
Alexa, stop.
I don't know what she thought I asked.
It wasn't that.
The return of Alexa, the world's worst podcast guest.

(02:41):
Yeah, she is not good.
That's what we have on today, right?
No, no, actually.
Excuse me.
I heard you say that.
Please do not insult Alexa.
Oh, no.
Now ordering five thousand pounds of cat litter delivering now.
She sent it, Brian.

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What do we do?
Shut it down.
I unplug it.
Unplug it.
Well, that was easy.
Oh, yeah.
Cue the Glados song from the end of Portal.
This was a triumph.
End of the episode, roll credits.

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I like the gaster.
That's your first mic drop opportunity, Ben.
Thank you.
I will throw that in there now.
Oh, it truly is the season of needle drops.
It is.
We have a thing every season.
Last season was a season of Santa.
Yeah, that's the episode season we did.

(03:43):
That was great.
Hey, I think it could have been four.
Maybe so.
I just realized I think I said mic drop.
Oh, yeah.
You know what I meant.
If I did that, my audio would get a lot quieter all of a sudden.
So, Brian, who is this non-Alexa talking?
We actually have not the worst guest in podcast history.

(04:05):
We actually have one of the best guests.
I think she just stopped at that.
We have not the worst guest.
That sounded out really lukewarm.
I'm building it up.
Wait a second.
I'm taking a long walk through this intro.
An okay person.
Not the worst person I've ever known.

(04:27):
No, no.
We're joined by one of the best guests on the podcast.
Long time friend of the show from episode one and before.
It's Ms. Fizzbiz.
Hello.
From the name that originated from this podcast.
That's true.

(04:48):
Way back in episode then.
What was it?
It disappeared.
I'll find it within the next two minutes.
Oh, okay.
Well, we I think we'll have hopefully moved on then, but we'll see.
I think it was the title of a podcast episode.
For zombies by zombies.
Oh, yeah, that's right.

(05:09):
That's right.
I forgot that that's how that started.
Is it so is it weird that we still refer to you using that using a nickname from the podcast
from 10 years ago that none of us really fully remember the origins of?
Well, I also use the name now in Pokemon Go and my local Pokemon Go discord.

(05:34):
So the legend carries on.
Although every time I try to explain it, I'm like, it's like an end joke from a podcast
that I'm on that you probably haven't heard of.
It's about zombies, but I'm not really into zombies.
Just don't worry about it.
Although I have been staying on brand lately because I've been playing back through the

(05:54):
last of us.
Oh, I need to finish that.
I enjoyed what I played of it, though.
I'm very sad, even though I don't have a PS4 or five or whatever the heck it's going to
be on.
And the second one is now deleted.
Definitely.
Epidition six on July 23rd, 2010, Detective Fizzbiz and the Fishus Earworm.

(06:17):
Wow.
It was 10 years ago.
It was.
And I think you didn't take it until the next episode.
That's when you first time you wrote in was Epidition seven.
And then you took that one.
Oh, yeah.
Because then I realized I had to get a cool new name because I couldn't be ICLTNNR.

(06:39):
That was pretty cool, though.
Yeah.
Yeah, that's right.
We didn't we didn't we just read that as a oh, as an initialism.
Ben, I think you call me ice.
Oh, maybe.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Ice was a thing for a while.
Oh, yeah, that's true.
That seems that seems on brand.
That seems like a Chris thing.

(07:00):
I feel like I could see Chris saying that.
I feel like Chris also kept adding and subtracting letters.
Sure.
Yeah, that also seems like probably.
But yeah, yeah.
So how's it going?
Yeah, yeah.
How are you?
How's the how's the the quarantine and going?
Have you been social distancing?

(07:20):
Well, as many introverts on the Internet have been saying, I've been practicing for this
all my life and I think myself some kind of expert in socially distancing because my life
didn't change that much.
I basically just stopped going out for coffee and eating at restaurants and not going to

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thrift stores sometimes.
Well, I still don't go to the many time, but I didn't go to them all the time before.
And I still have to work, unfortunately, slash fortunately, and I don't really work with
that many people.
So it's not like a big deal.
It's just boring because there's it's really slow.

(08:07):
That's about how it's been for Megan from what I've heard.
She works mostly alone or the only thing that changes now she doesn't work any Saturday,
which she's thankful for.
And now she works one hour earlier than before.
So with almost no one and other than that, we actually eat out more but pick up not in
restaurants because grocery going has been a lot more difficult.

(08:29):
We used to go at like sometime past midnight, but grocery stores aren't open that late anymore.
And so yeah, I was wondering about that because like you guys schedule being backwards.
I was like, they probably can't buy groceries anymore.
Yeah, when we do, we have to go like right before she goes to work when people are all

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there and that's when we least want to be there.
So we've been just eating out a lot more than usual.
Supporting that local business of Taco Bell, right?
Taco Bell, Chick-fil-A, Olive Garden, all those local businesses.
Is my personal favorite Fort Smith eatery, Calico County doing curbside pickup?

(09:13):
They are.
They've not gotten it recently, but they have been doing that.
Yes.
Yes.
Well, good.
I was worried for them.
I need them to be still around next time I come to Fort Smith.
Oh, for sure.
Do you guys still have that grilled cheese place or was that not in your town?
It's an hour north of us.
I'm not sure how they're doing, but if this is still continuing in our area at the end
of May when my birthday is, my tradition is usually to go there and eat.

(09:37):
But if they're still, you know, mostly shut down, I'm going to go and try to get it pick
up.
It's an hour north to get pick up grilled cheese and then go home.
No, you should get a smudgy while you're up there too.
Smudgy closed down before all this happened.
What?
Did I not tell you yet?
No.
What smudgy?
Oh, OK.
Smudgy's is this restaurant, restaurant.

(10:00):
It's a sort of a dessert place that was in the city north of me about an hour where you
get a donut, like a hot donut that they cut in half and they fill the middle of it with
ice cream and you get the crazy flavors and mix ins and whatever other stuff you want.
It's just like a and so it's cold on the inside, hot on the outside, like a real ice cream

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bagel sandwich almost.
But they closed down.
OK, I think I remember this now.
It's probably from your wife's Facebook.
That is a good reason.
By the way, I thought the because I've been listening to these.
I like talk back to you guys, even though you can't hear me.

(10:48):
And I kept saying things that then you would say, like when Q was saying about how she
hasn't seen any pictures of your cats.
And I was like, well, you should just be friends with his wife on Facebook because she puts
pictures of the cats all the time.
And then like a minute later, you said that.
Well, sorry to break it to you.
We can hear what you're saying when we record.

(11:09):
So I hear you and then I wait and I say it later.
I'm going to have to be careful, more careful about when I listen now.
Brian, have you been able to hear our listeners or just me?
No, no.
In fact, I didn't realize that that's a gift that you had.
I thought you knew the same thing would always happen whenever I listen to any other podcast,

(11:32):
really, that I've like not listened to.
Whenever I record a podcast, I hear anyone who will in the future listen at any point.
Well, then what's what's let's test that.
What's Neil Orangefield saying right now?
Neil isn't really listening.
He fakes listening.
What?
But he does the Photoshop challenge every week.

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From what I hear, he gets it from online summaries that are written.
Oh, sure.
Yes.
All those online summaries that are written about the podcast.
That makes sense.
I've read a Happycast.
Probably a vulture article.
Happypedia.
Yeah, Happypedia has a lot of theory articles and all sorts of stuff on there about what
our true indie game is.
All right.
Yes.

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I've been asking myself that for a while.
Okay, then what about Woot?
I'm sure Woot still listen to the podcast occasionally.
What's he saying?
He's just laughing constantly the entire time.
No breaks.
Oh, wow.
All right.
That's okay.
He's probably saying something about baseball if I remember correctly.

(12:34):
Oh, yes.
He does like baseball.
Now, Mr. Pold, he is silent throughout most of it.
But now that I can hear him muttering under his breath about while he's trying to edit,
take parts of our episode and put them into their episodes and then remixing their episodes
to make new ones.
Oh, right.
Okay, speaking of this weird thing that keeps happening.

(12:55):
Is this about the engine nerdy guys?
Yeah, Ben keeps insisting on feeling this feud with them by saying that they just released
the same podcast over and over.
But you were on their podcast last week, Ben.
Surely that proves that they're recording new stuff.

(13:15):
They had me in to record one quick bit.
And then after that, they said they just wanted clips of me from this show and I had to supply
them with those so they could remix them in for the rest of their show.
So they're like podcast DJs.
Oh, they are.
Yeah.
That's kind of cool.
I mean, it could be a whole new sub genre.

(13:39):
I feel like the thing that gives you a little bit of credibility is I listened to that podcast,
Ben, and they seem to have lost the first chunk of the episode.
I'm assuming because you were dropping truth bombs on them.
That's true.
Yes, I heard that too.
I guess I didn't hear that too.
The introduction where I showed up and told them all the evidence I had against them about

(14:02):
how I knew they were fake, that somehow disappeared just coincidentally.
Well, your tin foil hat was probably breaking up the signal.
That is true.
I do.
Well, not just my inside.
I take my hat off.
I just have my roof and ceiling are already kind of papered by tin foil.
When I go out, I have a tin foil mask just so the signals can't get into my mouth like

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the virus.
I got the idea from you, Brian.
So I hope you've been doing that too.
But what I've heard, the evidence is in their very own theme song, which I'll play a clip
of right here.
With every nerd cast, there is something new.
Where it says in every nerd cast, there is something new.

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There's a thing new, not things.
It's not an all new episode.
There's one new thing in every episode and that's it.
One new thing and everything else is old.
Is it like a Where's Waldo thing where you have to find the one thing in every episode
that's new?
It is.
It's tough to do.

(15:10):
They have like 300 something episodes, so it can be hard to figure out what's a repeat
and what isn't.
I know that their first segment that Mr. Pold ran, that was new.
And you guys should definitely go listen to the latest engineer, well, the number that
I was in called the Happy Nerd Injured Cast?
I don't know.
It's one that I'm in that's fairly recent.

(15:31):
I'll find the number later.
But Mr. Pold surprised me with a little quiz like I used to run for them when I did the
nerd case nerd downs a while back.
He ran a fun one and I got to participate in that.
That was new.
But all the rest was all repeats.
That was the new thing.
Well, it sounds like you had a lot of fun.

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So I recommend our listeners check out the, you know, any episode of the Injurity Show.
But you know, specifically, if you had to choose one, the one Ben's on would be a good
starting point.
Do you think Anne would recommend that too?
Sure.
I think she would say to check it out.
All right, let's ask her.
Check it out.
Oh, yep.
OK.
She does recommend it.
All right.
Well, wow, this I think this might be one of the longest for segments we've done in

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a long time.
So I think we just need to just head forward to happy hour at full speed.
That's right.
Happy hour is the part of the show where we talk about the thing that is making us most
happy for the week.
And Ben, before I pass the segment off, I'm going to give a mini happy hour here where

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I say that, you know, I've given up soda some time ago, but I missed the carbonation.
So I've been drinking a lot of seltzer water, particularly Polar Brand Seltzer.
I fully recommend it.
Ben, you know, if I if I get checks from these people, it's purely coincidental.

(17:00):
It has nothing to do with this glowing recommendation I'm making on the podcast.
It's crisp and refreshing.
We were just to talk about any advertising opportunities that come up.
No, this isn't this isn't an ad.
This is me just talking about a thing that makes me happy.
Now, you know, after a hard day at work, nothing makes me happier than cracking open a cold

(17:23):
can of Polar Seltzer water.
You can buy it on their website.
If you use the promo code happy cast, you'll get nothing off.
It'll say error code not found.
That's true.
We haven't set that up with them yet, but maybe one day.
It's like that time.
I don't think I told anyone about yet that someone tried to get me to sell the Facebook

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page for alphabet scoop to them.
What?
You didn't discuss this with me.
I said no.
But maybe if it was a lot of money, we could have said yes.
I think it was like 20 bucks.
Hey, that would have been 10 each.
You know how many Polar Seltzers we could have gotten with us?

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How many, Brian?
I don't see.
They come 12 to a pack.
You can usually get a 12 pack for five dollars if they're not on sale.
So you're looking at like 48 cans of Seltzer.
That's a lot of Seltzer.
That could have lasted our whole quarantine.
I mean, it depends how many you drink a day.

(18:25):
How many do you drink a day, Brian?
I try to limit myself to two a day.
I don't know.
That's a 24 day quarantine.
Yeah, I think we're already past that.
Anyway.
Wait, who was trying to buy the alphabet scoop Facebook page?
What did they want it for?

(18:46):
Something nefarious?
Yeah.
No, I don't remember for sure.
I know it was some guy.
He was trying to start a podcast called Alphabet Scoop because Google had recently changed
like their company name to Alphabet and they wanted to do a podcast about the different
alphabet companies and like tech news and all that.

(19:10):
In hindsight, that would have probably had a longer shelf life than our podcast, which
I recently was describing to my husband and suddenly realized, which I don't know if we
ever discussed before, what would happen when we got through the alphabet?
Was it going to be a limited series?
I think we're going to go back to A and pick a new topic.

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The first time was what, Apples or something?
I have no idea.
It's been a while, so I don't remember.
I only think, when did we make it to like G?
I think G, we hit, yeah, because number seven.
Seven is when podcasts pod fades, so we hit seven and stopped.
I think it was because my computer died.

(19:54):
We nailed that.
We can always continue it.
Start at H as if nothing ever happened and then rub it in that dude's face.
Five years later or however many.
Just act like nothing happened.
You can take a long hiatus and come back.
People are usually pretty forgiving about that.
We've done it like seven times.

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It's kind of like our whole thing.
Okay, so happy hour.
Oh, me?
Yeah, me.
Have you ever heard of this TV show called The Office?
It sounds vaguely familiar.
Okay, well.
Oh, you mean the British one?
I have seen two episodes of that actually, and that's it.
Of The British Office?

(20:35):
The British Office, but of The Real Office, the original American one.
Well.
All of our British listeners are just shaking their fists in the sky.
I can feel the flames coming through the internet.
Just from Robbo and Neil.

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Okay, so the American Office, they or there's a podcast now about it, a rewatch podcast
by two of the stars of it, Angela Kinsey and Jenna Fisher, who played Angela and Pam.
They've been week to week just talking about an episode, going through it like Lost Unlocked
would.

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No Lost in 15 or Guess the Title.
They would know those already.
And they talk about behind the scenes facts and invite their costar friends on to talk
about it.
It's been really interesting and cool.
Yeah, I've been listening to it too.
I completely co-signed this Happy Hour.
It's one of my favorite current podcasts.

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But it's not just that one.
I have not listened to enough episodes for sure to be able to talk fully about it, but
there are at least two other celebrities rewatching their shows and podcasting about them out
there.
There's a Scrubs one called Fake Doctors Real Friends.
I almost said Zac Efron.

(21:58):
I'd like to hear his thoughts on Scrubs.
I mean, yeah, me too.
That'd be all right.
I'd listen to that.
Yeah, Zac Efron and Donald Trump talk about it, I guess, together.
Oh wait, no, hold on.
I don't want it anymore.
They love Scrubs.
I didn't know they were great friends, but I guess they are.

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And there's the Darkest Timeline with Kin Jong and Joel McHale talking about community.
Oh, I didn't know about this one.
Yes, I don't think they're episode to episode.
I think they just talk about what the show was like or talk to each other.
I'm not really entirely sure.
But still, where did these come from all of a sudden?
It wasn't just because of all this virus stuff.

(22:43):
I mean, the Office Ladies started several months ago.
I remember those before the holidays.
And I don't know, maybe it just really took off and people kind of saw them succeeding
think, oh, we were on an old show.
We should do this.
What was the Scrubs one called again?
Fake Doctors Real Friends.

(23:04):
Oh, OK.
I can never remember what it's called.
I just refer to it as Scrubs Boys.
That would work, too.
Their first one came out during this, but in the first episode is all I've heard so
far.
They even say that they had this planned before all this happened and now their first recording
was happening separately.
Yeah, I keep getting ads for that one because it's on some network of podcasts that I listen

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to.
The one I want now is a Psych podcast.
That'd be a good one.
Get them back together just to talk about the episodes.
That would be amazing.
I think they're doing another movie.
Yes, unlike the special was like the CBS or the NBC one, like the Peacock.
Oh, yeah, it's called Peacock or something.

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You have to pay for that.
Probably.
I can't keep track of all these things.
I'll probably get like a one month trial to watch that and then cancel it.
But yeah, celebrities podcasting about shows they were on like 20 years later.
That's my head.
Yeah, that's a great trend.
I'm looking forward to the Lost Rewatch podcast hosted by the Smoke Monster and Vincent the

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Dog.
What about a Cheers podcast?
Sure.
Who would you pick out of the cast to do that?
I would probably go, you know, I'd go George Wint and John Rasenberger.
That's what I was going to say.
That would be really cool.
Actually, I saw George Wint.
He did like a really quick bit on Colbert, I think, a couple of weeks ago.

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Like, during quarantine.
Was he doing well?
He looked like himself, but older.
Yeah, he's got to be getting up there.
So just petition them to do that podcast together.
I'm friends with John Rasenberger on Twitter, so I'll reactivate my Twitter account just
to try to get this off the ground.

(24:53):
What about Ted Danson and Woody Harrelson?
Oh, that would be crazy.
They would be like, we're legitimately movie stars now.
Remember when we were on Cheers?
Oh, wait.
I was listening to that, too.
Kelsey Grammer.
Mm-hmm, the Kels.
And Diane.
I can't remember her name.
Sure, but Shelly Wong.

(25:15):
Yes.
Yeah, but then she would have to quit the podcast after four seasons?
Six seasons?
Yeah, and be replaced by Christie Alley.
That'd be a cool podcast thing to do.
I mean, that's what the event is sort of was.
Oh, right.
Yeah, the event is.
I missed that.
We should do that again in the past.
Yeah, four episodes ago.

(25:37):
You should check that out.
Mm-hmm.
That's all right.
So we've got a solid podcast recommendation from Ben.
So I'm going to let the guest go before me.
Fizzbizz, what is your happy hour?
My happy hour is, well, I have a couple specific recommendations, but generally it's people

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putting their pets on YouTube.
So there's a lot of, I don't really know how I stumbled into this section of YouTube, but
somehow, oh, I think it was because it was like a trending video for one of those challenges.
I think it was the invisible challenge where it was like you hold up a blanket and then

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you disappear around a corner and your pet doesn't know where you went or something like
that.
Oh, yeah.
So I watched one of those from a channel that is in Korean, and then I started getting recommendations
for more of their videos, and I realized that they've been doing this for like at least

(26:48):
a year.
And so I started watching more of the videos, and then I started getting recommendations
for different pet videos also in Korean, and I just started watching a lot of them, and
they're all really good and wholesome, and they are like the comfort food.
Like they're the perfect thing to watch, especially now, but anytime because they're just like

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pure.
And now you can speak Korean.
Well, no, not really, although my husband is trying to learn Japanese, but that doesn't
really help.
And there's not like, because I mean the pets don't talk, although sometimes they talk as

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the pets, but it usually has subtitles.
There's one that I watched that has subtitles in English, and then there's another one,
well for the narration.
Oh, yeah, sorry.
Well, and they put like little things like the dog is thinking this, which sounds really
cheesy, but I promise it's good in execution, Wes, at the time, and it's really cute, and

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the dog and the cat.
So like the best, the one that I started on is called Milky Bo-key.
I don't know if that's how you say it, but it's a dog named Milky, and he's like this
huge, I think it's, I don't know how to say the dog breed, but it's like Samoyed.
Samoan, something like that.
You're the dog expert.

(28:17):
He's a big Samoan, like the rock?
No, he is, this dog is the whitest white, and they have to give him a lot of baths because
he gets dirty at the dog park, and they have to keep him pristine white, so he gets a lot
of baths.
That sounds like a difficult kind of dog.

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Although he's fairly easy to take care of.
He's very well trained.
They put his food down, and they'll tell him to wait, and one time they left the apartment,
and he still didn't eat the food until they came back in and told him he could eat it.
Ooh, that's a good dog.
Yeah, better than me, I would eat that food.

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It's kind of crazy, and then they have the cat, which I guess is the Bo-key part, but
his name is, well, I don't know how to pronounce it again because I'm not good with Korean,
but it's something like Gwangbok, so they call him G.B. for short, and the cat is also
really fluffy and also mostly white, but he has gray on him too, and he's also like, they're

(29:27):
like Instagram model animal attractives.
They're very, I mean, all animals are beautiful, but they're like, whoa.
This is the most beautiful.
This is a movie star animal, like a Brad Pitt of dogs or Walton Goggins, movie stars.

(29:52):
Exactly.
Photoshop challenge.
Wait, Brad Pitt of dogs?
I want to see Brad Pitt as a dog.
Has Brad Pitt ever voiced a dog?
I feel like he has.
Was he in Isle of Dogs, or was that just George Clooney?
Alexa, has Brad Pitt ever voiced a dog?
Sorry, I don't know that.

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Oh.
Wow.
Too bad.
Well, it would be cool if she knew that.
Yeah, so anyway, there's another one that I started watching, but she recently had some
sort of weird issue where she had to like turn over her original channel, and she doesn't

(30:34):
own it anymore, so I won't recommend that one, but the one that she switched on to now
that she's just started doing more videos for is called Kittysaurus, and she has like
seven cats.
I'm really worried that Megan's about to start watching all these videos and will never stop.
No, she should.
You'll love it.
Please, Megan, you need to watch this.
You will love it.
Megan, stop listening right now.
Don't listen to that.

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Delete the last 10 seconds of your memory.
She's a robot.
What?
Did I not tell you that?
No, it's some real happy mythology you're dropping on us on episode 104 of the podcast.
That's why I'm always so offended about your robophobia.
I'm married to one.
That's a real ex machina you just dropped on us.

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So these YouTube pets, are they all cats and dogs, or are they any exotic pets?
Like I saw this video once of a guy who made tiny burritos for his hamster.
Is there anything like that?
Well, I don't know if I would describe a hamster as exotic, but yes, there are basically, if
there's any animal you can think of, you can probably find someone who owns it and has

(31:41):
videos of it.
Like I always get recommendations for this rabbit where they like put stuff around, it's
like putting blueberries around my rabbit until he wakes up.
And I've never really like clicked on them to watch them, but I've like watched parts
of them in the little preview video where if you're looking at YouTube in the recommended,
it'll just like start playing it in the little window.

(32:04):
But I've watched some of them that way and they're pretty funny.
Thank you.
So how many blueberries was it?
It was a lot.
It was probably like 45.
I don't know, probably more than that.
I don't know how big that rabbit is.
Or how big the blueberries were.
True.
Brian, how many blueberries does it take you to wake up?
You know, it depends on the day.

(32:26):
For weekends I usually need more blueberries to wake up at least, you know, eight, nine
thousand.
Wow, that's a lot of blueberries.
Is there a blueberry flavor of your polar express drink?
I don't think so.
If there is, I haven't had it.

(32:47):
I mean there are other great flavors, black cherry, orange vanilla.
There's a cranberry lime that's very good.
But I'll write them about this blueberry flavor idea.
If they accept my offer, I'll cut you a check.
Okay, good.
Where can you find more info about them?

(33:07):
Oh, well you just go to polarxeltser.com forward slash happycastpromo and it'll have all the
information you need.
Okay, good.
All right.
So does that mean I get half a check now because I helped out?
Yes, absolutely.
You'll get half of my check, but it's not like a checky cash.

(33:28):
It's like check cereal.
Oh, well you can have my half then.
Just reimburse me in money for how much half of check cereal would cost.
Okay, I'll do that math and get back to you.
All right, I'll let that out so people don't hear it.
Okay.
Okay, good, good, good.
Well that was a great happy hour from Fizzbiz and it ties into my happy hour, which is not

(33:52):
polarxeltser, but witches.
Animal YouTube videos and witches go hand in hand.
They're both things that my wife probably likes, so they do.
That's where they get their familiars from there.
Oh, by the way, I found out he was actually offering a hundred bucks for our Twitter handle.

(34:13):
Oh, you should have taken that.
I thought it was 20.
Is it too late to write him back?
I don't know.
Tell him the price has gone up.
They are still recording, apparently, and releasing like a monthly episode.
Oh, yeah.
Well, I don't know.
You guys hold on to that.

(34:34):
They have a two-star review that the audio episodes arrived so late by the time they
released it's very old news.
Well, that is a problem.
Okay, write them and tell them that you were considering selling them, but then you saw
this review and that you refused to sell the handle to somebody who does not deliver the
news in a timely fashion.
Thank you very much.
I'll do that.

(34:54):
That's the one thing we had over them.
The alphabet never gets old.
Still used today.
I saw our first episode was A is for alphabet.
No, it's a good starting point.
Everyone check out Alphabet Scoop, the one that has an alphabet soup logo, not the one
with two dudes next to it.

(35:16):
Yep, that's not you guys.
Nope, we are not two dudes.
I hate this podcast with two dudes talking about stuff, the boring.
That's why we have guests on, Brian.
Oh, right, yeah.
Good point, good point.
Last week on the podcast, I was talking about getting a cat, theoretically, but I'm here

(35:38):
to tell you that that has gone through.
I have this cat.
It is a real living, breathing cat who is living in my apartment.
His name is Grier.
He is the world's fanciest cat.
He has a bow tie and he's been very good.
Thank you very much.
You seem to really emphasize the living part.
Yeah, a little too much.
Yep, definitely a living, breathing cat.

(35:59):
I'm suddenly concerned, even though I've seen this picture of this cat and mistook it for
my own in a moment of not thinking.
Brian, are you catfishing us?
No, no.
I just wanted to say that the cat is living in the apartment because having a cat, I've

(36:24):
never owned a cat.
I've been around cats.
I've known people with cats, but having a cat is not like having a dog.
I've had dogs.
Dogs are great.
Having a cat is more like having a third roommate who doesn't pay rent.
That's what having a cat feels like.
I mean, it's great.
He hangs out sometimes and he's a lot of fun, but a lot of times he's just kind of off doing

(36:46):
his own thing.
That's accurate.
Can confirm.
That's why I like cats.
Yeah, they're very low maintenance, not very needy at all.
But I've learned a lot about cats.
What have you learned?
I've learned that you're not supposed to give cats milk, apparently, despite what every
cartoon's ever depicted.

(37:06):
Cats do not handle lactose very well.
I heard you can give them goat milk.
Wait, we should ask Mrs. Cat Hat, our correspondent.
Let me call her up real fast.
Oh, no answer.
I guess she's not home.
Oh, hello.
Oh, Mrs. Cat Hat.

(37:32):
Oh, yeah, Brian had a question for you.
Yes, yes.
The question is, what kind of milk can you give to cats?
I hear that they are lactose intolerant.
Oh, yes, very true.
Yes, please don't give your cats milk as it will upset their stomachs and you may smell

(37:55):
something shortly thereafter or they may become ill.
Oh, no.
Okay.
Thank you for telling us that.
Sorry it's been so long since we talked to you.
Oh, no worries.
I've just been living with my 700 cats.
They keep me fairly busy.
Oh, I bet so.
Well, we're busy, so we'll talk to you later.

(38:15):
Bye.
We should have her on the podcast sometime.
Oh, we just did.
Oh, but like as a full episode.
Oh, yeah, we've never had her on for a full hour and a half episode before.
Yeah.
I don't think she has that kind of availability.
Oh, no.
Are you close with her?
No, but I did just Google cat milk and I found something called cat sip real milk on sale

(38:43):
from Petco.
I'm kind of scared to know what it is.
Oh, no.
Well, we are not sponsored by them, so we don't have to worry about it yet.
It is 99% lactose free.
It's only a dollar and 30 cents.
That's suspicious.

(39:04):
For how much?
Like two liters?
For eight ounces.
Oh, that sounds pretty small.
That's not much.
It looks like a little juice box.
Yeah.
For our British listeners, Alexa, what is eight ounces in liters?
Eight fluid ounces is about 0.237 liters.

(39:26):
There you go, Neil and Robbo.
Very good, very good.
This product sounds like a similar product that I did buy that is from the cat food maker
Whiskas.
It's just called cat milk and it's like a lactose free milk for cats.

(39:48):
It's not from cats.
It's for cats or maybe it's both.
I don't know.
FCBC would be a new name for FizzBiz.
Sure.
For cats by cats.
Probably shouldn't say it out loud though because it sounds a little bad.
Try to pronounce FCBC phonetically.
Oh, right.
Oh, okay.
I was like, what's wrong with for cats by cats?

(40:10):
This wouldn't be great to say.
FizzBiz works.
There's no possibly naughty words in there.
Although it would be more on brand.
It would.
For kittens by kittens.
Then people are just going to think it's a Tiger King reference.
Oh no.
Which I haven't seen and probably won't watch by the way.

(40:34):
It's sometimes kind of worth it.
I've heard some negative opinions which I am inclined to believe.
I would like to hear those when we get to Netflix picks later.
Just because I'm curious.
Well, I haven't seen any of it.
This is just me going off of vague internet opinions.

(40:59):
That's the best kind.
My favorite.
Ryan, have you tasted this Whiskiz cat milk?
No, I have not tasted the cat milk and I do not intend to.
Then how do you know it's okay for the cat to have?
He seems to like it a lot.
That's all I know.
I was not able to give him regular cow milk.

(41:22):
My attempt was thwarted by my lovely girlfriend who knows a lot more about these things than
I do.
We didn't have to go through the ordeal of having an ill cat.
You don't want that.
There's all kinds of things you're not supposed to feed cats.
I had no idea.
Mostly you should just give them cat food.
That's true.
What else have you been trying to feed the cat?

(41:44):
Your polar seltzer?
Lasagna?
Sure.
Cats love lasagna.
An entire fish.
I wanted him to stick it in his mouth and pull out just the skeleton.
That'd be impressive.
Do you think that Garfield hates Mondays because that's the day that John would have to go
to work so he wouldn't get to hang out with him anymore?

(42:07):
Did John only work on Monday?
That's the day that you would hate the most because Garfield would have the whole weekend
with John to hang out with him.
Then Mondays comes, oh well, now he's going to be gone on and off for five days.
I know Selena gets really mad on Mondays when Megan gets ready for work.
She suddenly realizes that her time for hanging out is up.

(42:29):
I don't feel like Garfield was ever that into John.
I could be wrong.
That's how cats show their love is with their indifference.
I feel like it was more outright scamming and potential abuse.
It's not Odie.

(42:49):
Now, Odie, he really hated Odie.
Of the human by the cat, not the other way around.
Alexa, how does Garfield feel about John?
Here's something I found on the web.
According to you, Texas Don Etcue, it was actually John Steinbeck himself who suggested
Garfield for it.
Wait, wait.
Is Garfield's owner John Steinbeck?
I guess we just found out.

(43:12):
Wow, what an earth-chattering revelation.
My mind is blown.
In conclusion, I have a cat.
He's pretty cool.
It's my happy hour.
We're going to start a YouTube channel soon.
Thank you.
Thank you for your time.
Well, you better learn Korean.
Yes, my brother lived in Korea for several years, so I'll just phone him up and have

(43:35):
him do on-the-fly translations for me.
That would be an interesting show to watch.
Yeah, I think we would get dozens of views just on the strength of how much people like
cats.
And HappyCast.
That's true.
Sure, sure.
We'll brand it HappyCast.
It's the cats of the HappyCast.

(43:58):
We should let our cats hang out and be friends, Ben.
How are they going to get to each other?
I don't know, but you could probably make a Homeward Bound-style family movie about
them trying to meet up in, I don't know, Tennessee.
But that's the opposite of Homeward.
That's Leaving Home Bound.
Outward Bound.

(44:18):
Isn't that something that helps students or something?
Maybe.
It's an international network of outdoor education organizations.
Oh.
But it could also be a great family-style movie about our cats meeting up in Memphis
at the Bass Pro Shop that looks like a pyramid.

(44:39):
You know the one, Ben.
It's beautiful.
There's already a movie called Outward Bound that came out in 1930.
Well, this is just a remake of that, but with cats.
That movie's about a group of strangers on an unmanned ship surrounded by fog and uncertain
of their destination.
It's a loose adaptation.
Okay.
Sure.
So, that's the end.

(45:02):
Feedback?
No, no.
Before feedback, we should go on to Bummer Patrol.
Oh, man!
Oh, guys.
This is the Bummer Patrol.
It's the part where we talk about what's got us feeling kind of down in the dumps.

(45:24):
Ben, you look sad.
Dumps.
Why the long face?
I'm not doing it again.
Okay.
I've done it so many times.
But it just gets funnier every time.
I am bummed by weather, temperature, vacillation.

(45:47):
Weather, temperature, vacillation.
But this time of year specifically, and again sometime in the fall-ish, it's super irritating
because we go to bed because of our hours, usually around 4 or 5 a.m. and we wake up
around noon or 1, whatever 8 hours is, depending on what time you go to bed.

(46:10):
But what's irritating is our AC.
We have a window unit, so it's not like timed to turn on and off.
And so a lot of times it will be pretty cool at night, so we need the AC off, but then
pretty warm in the morning, so AC on.
So we either have to have the AC on when it shouldn't be on and then it doesn't work great
and is messed up some, or we have to wake up hot.

(46:33):
And it's been very irritating.
Just either stay hot or stay cool.
I don't want this back and forth kind of nonsense.
Yeah, I agree.
When I usually leave for work about 5 a.m. and it's usually very chilly, and then when

(46:53):
I get off it is gone from like, this morning I left it was like 55 degrees, and then I
think it was in the 80s when I was on my way home.
What do you even know what to wear?
I mean, I just wear my work clothes, regardless.
Oh, that works.
I wear multiple jackets and remove and add as needed.

(47:16):
But then you have to carry some of them.
Yeah, not far.
And then also, what's with the rain?
I mean, sure, they rain sometimes.
I feel like you're like, I feel like you're like workshopping like a like a like a Seinfeld
style type five.
What's the deal with rain?
What's the deal with rain?
It should either rain or not rain.

(47:38):
It's wet.
Just make up your mind.
It should be raining all the time or never rain.
Have you ever seen the rain, Ben?
Have you ever seen the rain?
It's just you don't.
All right.
It won't be raining in the daytime and it decides to suddenly rain later.

(47:59):
And then you need your umbrella, but you might not have your umbrella.
It's irritating, though.
Most of the temperature AC issue.
I agree.
But thankfully, I think within the next couple of weeks, I think this will no longer be a
problem.
It will just be hot all the time.

(48:19):
That is also bad.
That is also bad.
It should be cold all the time.
I never want to know a day that's over 40 degrees.
I'd rather have a certain 25 and then it's free.
I mean, in a perfect world, I agree it would be cold more often than it's hot.

(48:46):
It's in Georgia.
It feels like we have a 10 month long summer.
Oh, and around Hotlanta?
Yeah.
Yeah.
I mean, they don't call it Hotlanta for no reason, Ben.
I am determined to squeeze it into a crossword puzzle somewhere.
I look forward to that day.
I will send it to you when I do.

(49:06):
Anyway, the end.
Oh, right.
Good.
Good.
Good work.
I give that a solid A minus.
Oh, we grade these things.
A minus is great.
Wait, what could I have done?
You do reviews as a manager of your department.
What could I have done to do better?
Oh, well, no, no, we don't want to.

(49:26):
I mean, develop the rain bit more.
Yeah.
You need to really tighten up the rain bit.
We got two needle drops in there.
What more could you ask for?
A third needle drop would be great.
Purple rain.
Oh, all right.
I mean, that doesn't really work.
I would have said the name of it.
No.
I mean, I didn't just play then.

(49:47):
No, no.
The chocolate rain.
I mean, you'd have to work that organically in the conversation.
Organic chocolate rain?
Yes.
Oh, I don't know.
If I were evaluating your Bumber Patrol, like I would evaluate one of my work subordinates,
it would just be me trying to give you the highest score that I could slip past my boss

(50:11):
and then give you the most money because, you know, like everybody deserves more money.
Everybody?
I've never met anyone that I didn't want to give more money to.
What if you met a Nazi?
Would you give them more money?
I mean, you know, no, I wouldn't just give them more money.

(50:35):
They would have to be very good at their job.
And then, you know, I would begrudge them for being Nazis, but also have to give them
money for being good at their job.
Okay.
Good job.
You're not discriminatory of Nazis, so good job, Brian.
I feel like I didn't pass the test.

(50:57):
I would take all the money away from them.
So where's, what's the connection between this and rainbows?
The rainbow connection.
Nazis are only illusions.
So that's the rainbow connection?
That's my odd take.
Third.

(51:18):
There we go.
Three.
Now what grade do I get?
It sort of works if you've seen Jojo Rabbit.
Oh, yeah.
Yeah.
I like Jojo Rabbit.
You should check it out then.
Ann says, check it out.
I have it on good authority.
That's an actual Ann, check it out.
Check it out.
Oh, is it?
Well, also, you know, you know who also messaged me on Facebook to talk about how much they

(51:42):
love Jojo Rabbit is a good friend of the show, the Whoopnator also love Jojo Rabbit.
I'm pretty biased against rabbits, so I don't know.
What have they ever done for us?
Then you might like this movie because bad things happen to a rabbit.
Spoiler alert.
Wait, it's a movie?
It is a movie.
Wait, am I getting mixed up with that?
What did you think it was?

(52:02):
Isn't there an anime?
Is that what you got mixed up with?
Are you thinking of Jojo's Bizarre Adventures?
Yes.
There's a rabbit named Jojo who goes on Bizarre Adventures.
Oh, no, no, no.
This is the new movie from Taiko Watiti of Thor Ragnarok fame and also Hunter the Wilder
People and all these other great movies where he plays a boy's imaginary Hitler friend.

(52:27):
Oh, all right.
Is it streaming somewhere?
I don't know.
I'll have to look into that and get back to you.
All right.
Is it possibly rented over streaming?
Well, that's my Bumber Patrol.
All right.
Rabbits.
Rabbits.
They're the worst.

(52:47):
Fizzbizz, how do you feel about rabbits?
Are they your Bumber Patrol?
No, they're pretty cute.
I think they're good.
Not bummers.
What have they ever done for us, though?
They gave us tricks.

(53:08):
They try to steal our tricks.
Well, were they really trying to steal it or were they the ones that discovered it in
the first place and they've been after the patent ever since?
I haven't heard this one yet.
I'll need to research this.
I'm trying to think of other pop cultural rabbits and I just am coming up blank except

(53:32):
for that weird old Bugs Bunny-ish cartoon rabbit that races the hair.
I think he was kind of a jerk.
Bugs Bunny's also a jerk.
Oh yeah, Bugs Bunny is a rabbit.
Yeah, Bugs Bunny is.
Guys, I just realized Bugs Bunny is a rabbit.
He didn't really give us anything, though.
He just gave us himself.
Rabbit from Winnie the Pooh, he's a jerk.
Oh yeah.
See, rabbits are...
I don't know.
I don't know.

(53:53):
I don't know.
I don't know.
I don't know.
I don't know.
I don't know.
I don't know.
I don't know.
I don't know.
You're...
Now maybe I'm swinging around on my rabbit stance.
Alright, new fight court.
You're really bringing up some good points.
Pro or anti-rabbit.
Alright, so what is your bummer patrol for real, then?

(54:14):
Well this may be another controversial take, but my bummer patrol is TikTok.
Ooh.
Ooh.
I know in a time where everyone has suddenly a lot of time on their hands, pun not intended,

(54:35):
but I guess go for it, because TikTok time, whatever, everyone is getting into it now
and I am not a fan.
Probably my husband has started watching it a lot and he'll show me some and some of them
are funny, usually the ones with cats in them.

(54:57):
Of course.
But my issue with it is it's like Vine but longer and more annoying.
I don't know if anyone remembers Vine.
I do.
I didn't know about the annoying part, but I've always described as Vine but a little
longer.
That's all I know about it really.
Yeah, because Vine was like what, like seven seconds or something?

(55:21):
And how long is this one, like 20?
I don't know.
I've seen some that seem to go on indefinitely, so I don't really understand what the metrics
are.
But one thing that I have noticed is they basically all use the same five audio clips,

(55:41):
which is usually a song and it's usually the same part of a song and when someone else
is watching it on a couch next to you, that's all you hear is the same 20 seconds of a song
over and over and over again.
What song is it?
Well, some of them are like made up songs, but it's usually like, I don't even know,

(56:06):
like dumb songs.
You'd love to needle-drop in one of those dumb songs and have it on a loop during this
entire segment now.
Some of them, well, they're all songs like I don't really know what they are.
All Star by Smash Mouth.
Well, maybe.
I haven't seen that one in particular, but probably like, oh, there's a new, there's

(56:29):
a Dua Lipa song that they use a lot.
That's the only one that I've like recognized.
Who is that?
Um, she's British.
I'm too old.
I don't know how to describe her.
She's British.
She's an up and coming.
She just put out like her second album.
She's pretty good, but hearing the same 10 seconds of a song 800 times in a row and also

(56:57):
extremely white people dancing is, oh, The Weeknd.
That was the other song that I recognized.
It was a song by The Weeknd, which you probably haven't heard of either.
Nope.
It's on your reaction to the other one.
Is it like Twitter, YouTube?
Uh, kind of.
I don't know what that means, but it's like people do challenges and dances and they mostly

(57:23):
just like one person does something and then like everyone else does it, which is why it's
repetitive and boring in my opinion.
That sounds like the internet.
Exactly.
So your own patrol is the internet.
You have the whole internet.
Brian, how do you feel about TikTok?

(57:47):
I've had a similar experience to Fizz Vizz with TikTok in that I don't care for it, but
Katie watches a lot of TikTok, so I'll hear the same clips of songs, made up songs and
songs from other YouTube videos.
And there's different genres of TikToks that really, it confuses me.

(58:13):
Like one that seems to really be prevalent is they'll take like the audio from a scene
from a TV show or a movie and then they'll just like lip sync it like it's like karaoke
for the scene.
And I don't understand that.
That's confusing to me.
It really, it wrinkles my old brain.
That's good though.
Yeah.
Well, I think that TikTok used to be called Musically and that it started out as like

(58:41):
a lip syncing app where you basically just took a clip from something and film yourself
lip syncing to it.
Like I think that was the whole point of the original app.
And then somebody bought it or something and it turned into TikTok.
And now it's like still that, but also more things.

(59:02):
Okay.
All right.
Cause that, okay.
So that's like OG TikTok is still in there.
And then there's like some people use it was like a video, like a vlog, but nobody talks
about vlogs anymore.
They're TikToks.
So it'll be like young people like in their car, like, like they just got off work and
they'll do this thing where they'll be like story time.

(59:25):
And then they'll just like tell you like a series of seemingly unconnected events that
aren't really a story, but have the cadence of a story.
Like something's about to happen, but it never does.
Yeah.
I don't know.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I, it makes me feel very old, but there are some that I really like that are like short
little star Wars related sketches and jokes.
And those are pretty funny.

(59:45):
I guess.
Megan's recently gotten into TikTok also.
We're all three.
Oh no.
Is this a support group?
Oh, what are we even supposed to do?
But I think she just does the same.
She would say the thing she does on the Snapchat, not, she didn't like lip sync or have vlogs

(01:00:06):
or anything.
It's just usually look at this cool thing and then I'll put an appropriate song with
it, which is kind of the same thing she already does.
It's nothing too crazy at least as far as I've seen.
I mean, that's, I mean, then there's, that's another sub genre of TikTok.
That's just a normal regular old TikTok or I don't know.
I don't know what you refer to like a single video on TikTok.

(01:00:30):
I've tried calling them talks or ticks or Tiki talkies, but those are all shot down
and I don't know what you're supposed to call them.
Maybe long lines.
I think it's just a TikTok.
Have you seen this TikTok?
That sounds so weird.
It is.
It's like if somebody like, like was sharing a tweet, like, have you seen this Twitter?

(01:00:50):
Look at this Twitter.
I made a YouTube.
Brian in the after show, I want to hear you do a story time TikTok.
Okay, sure.
Yeah, I'll do that for you.
Everyone check that out whenever we get there.
So in short, YouTube, good, TikTok, bad, old man, yells at cloud.

(01:01:13):
Yeah, that makes sense.
I sign off on that too.
Are TikTok stored in the cloud?
Probably.
Oh no.
What if we get into TikTok accidentally?
Like when I kept Snapchatting Brian for a while.
Oh, I, yeah, no, I did.
I did love getting your terrible Snapchat.
That was incredible.
Wait, what do you mean terrible?

(01:01:35):
I mean, I won't buy terrible.
I mean, great.
Are they good?
Snapchat?
I mean, bins are incredible in that you'll take like a selfie and then put like 25 different
animated GIFs and effects and filters on it to where the entire screen is just filled
with nonsense.
I'm in there still sometimes, but there's a lot of opportunity to make the most stupid

(01:01:58):
possible thing.
It's like the dumbest thing where it's like, okay, there's bin, but then to the left is
like a GIF of SpongeBob dabbing and then over to the right is like, I don't know, like.
A break dancing grandma?
Yeah, yeah, it's great.
If you guys aren't friends with Bin on Snapchat, I highly recommend it, even though it sounds
like he's not active.
I haven't done stuff in a while.
I just haven't been in a very Snapchatty mood.

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Yes, none of us have.
But snap me on Snapchat and maybe I'll send you a special one.
So with the conclusion of your guys's Bummer Patrol, I'm going to make mine very short
and sweet.
We have these masks that we have to wear to be safe and protect people and I'm fine with

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it and it's good.
But as a bespectacled gentleman, I don't like that a lot of times, maybe I'm wearing it
wrong, I don't know, but my glasses always fog up and it's very, very frustrating.
But I hear someone told me that if I put shaving cream on the lenses, somebody once told me

(01:03:05):
that the world was going to roll me.
And then also if you put shaving cream on your lenses, they won't fog up.
And I don't know if that's true or not.
But then how do you see through the shaving cream?
I mean, that's a very good question I didn't consider.
I'll report back.
It seems like you're just substituting one problem for another.

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Just wear a blindfold, Brian.
Sure, just have a second mask covering my eyes.
Go bird box style.
But on the upside, if you need to shave off your eyelashes, you're ready to go.
That's true.
I would be ready.
Ah, this was great guys, we had fun.
I'm going to take a sip of my polar seltzer and then suggest that we move on to Netflix

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picks.
Hey everybody, it's the new today back with more Animal Crossing New Horizons fun facts.
So nature day, this happened because, you know, Earth Day was yesterday, April 23rd,

(01:04:16):
I think.
And there are lots of new events you can take part in.
The Leaf, the cute little garden sloth is back and he's selling shrubberies.
My personal favorite are the hydrangeas.
So you'll get to do a lot of new landscaping in your game.
And Red, the crazy fox is back, ready to sell counterfeit and or real paintings, probably

(01:04:42):
counterfeit.
So have fun crossing all the animals.
Let's all go to the Netflix.
Let's all go to the Netflix.

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Let's all go to the Netflix to get ourselves a treat.
Guys, the world's digital.
Everything's digital now.
Little Media is dead.
We're streaming video all the time.
There's not enough bandwidth.
Oh no, where's the bandwidth coming from?
Anyway, don't worry about that.
Now, this is the part of the show where we recommend things to watch on streaming services.

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Like like Netflix and Ulu and HBO now.
Shudder is is when I like to just keep naming streaming services.
I'm going to name them crackle.
Peacock apparently.
Sure.
The upcoming HBO Max, I think is coming.

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Sure.
It's HBO plus other things.
We'll be future Bumber Patrol quibi CBS All Access.
Yes.
Yes.
I signed up for a 30 day trial of that to watch the new Twilight Zone.
I liked that pretty well.
Oh, did they have the whole thing on that?
Yeah.
The whole season's out.

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I've only seen the one with Camille, but I really liked it.
Me too.
Yeah, that one was really good.
Say they have the whole season on there.
And then after the fact, they went back and put up a second version that's all black and
white like OG Twilight Zone, which is a nice option.
So that's why I'm recommending the Twilight Zone.

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Hulu Plus.
Hulu Plus what?
Amazon Prime.
Disney Plus.
BBC On The Go.
I feel like you're making some of these up now.
It feels like that might be one.
Voodoo.
Oh, something on my TV.
Sure.
I use Voodoo a lot, actually.

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My TV shows me a lot of apps.
Some of them are good.
Some of them are bad.
It's a real gamble every time you click on one.
Real roll the dice on that.
Yeah, Voodoo.
I buy a lot of my TV shows and movies on there.
It was owned by Wal-Mart and then just this week they sold it to Fandango.
But yeah, there are a lot of streaming services.
I recommended the Twilight Zone.

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And then also, if you guys haven't downloaded this Disney Plus, it's this little known up
and coming streaming service.
I'm just trying to give it the happy cast bump, shine a light on it because I'm trying
to get word out on this Disney Plus.
Wait, what's Disney?
OK.
So, all right, so like back in the early 1900s, there was this dude who was like a cartoonist,

(01:07:40):
I guess, who made this cartoon rat.
And anyway, Mel Blank?
No, yes.
Well, I mean, he's like Mel Blank, but not.
OK.
Anyway, so that was like the beginning.
He planted the first seed and then the ball began rolling.
And now there's like a huge multimedia conglomerate that they own everything.

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I've never heard of them.
OK.
Well, they they have a streaming service.
Is it a British thing?
No, it's it's very American.
Oh, I mean, it's worldwide, I guess.
There I mean, there is like a Euro Disney.
Oh, maybe that's what you were thinking of then, because I don't know what you're talking
about.
Oh, well, I mean, they own the Simpsons.

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That's notable.
No, Fox owns the Simpsons.
Well, but Disney owns Fox, though.
Oh, that can't be.
They're so huge.
Who would ever buy them?
I mean, Disney, they're going to own everything eventually, Ben.
So we might as well just, you know, accept now that they're going to be like the owners
of every major corporation in the dystopian corporate future that we're heading toward.

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I don't know.
Six months from now.
Who knows?
And scene.
Yes.
All right.
Now we move on.
We're going to make our recommendations.
So there is a show on Disney Plus.
Wait, wait, wait.
Hold on.
You're messing with the order.
Oh, I'm sorry.
You can't go first.
Oh, I'm sorry, Ben.
Please.
You go first.
This is chaos.
You go first.

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I was just really.
I forgot that it begins.
Every segment begins with like introduction followed by a five minute sketch.
And then it's you, Fizzbiz and me.
Every time Fizzbiz is always there in the middle.

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That's why Ben can always hear me.
Exactly.
OK, so have you heard of Stephen King?
Who?
Oh, he is.
That's the pseudonym for Richard Bachman, right?
Do you know about his son, Joe Hill?
That's the pseudonym for Joe King.

(01:09:55):
I guess he didn't go by that name because he didn't want to be like, oh, Stephen King's
son.
But, I mean, everyone knows.
Maybe he just didn't want to be joking.
Or he didn't want to get confused with J.K. Rowling.
Oh, that's a good point, too.
We might hear more about her later.
Or earlier.

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Depending.
OK, so.
It was also written under a pseudonym.
Oh, she has.
Richard Bachman.
No.
It's like the Alan Smithy of authors.
There is a comic book series by Joe Hill and Gabriel Rodriguez that got made into a Netflix
show.

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Partly developed by Carlton Hughes.
It is called Lock and Key.
Lock spelled like Johnlock.
Key spelled like the word key.
And with an ampersand.
It is a Netflix series about this family.
Three kids and a mom.

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They move to this old weird house.
They start finding keys that can do weird things like let you go into your own memories,
let you be a ghost for a while, let you change your face.
A key that opens.
If you've seen a door somewhere, you can open a door and go to that door and kind of travel
wherever you want to.

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And while they're at this mansion, they're trying to uncover the mystery of their dad's
death and past.
And I think it is pretty interesting and I recommend it.
Netflix kept trying to recommend that show to me when it first came out, but I kept seeing
children and I thought it was a kids show.
Is it more adults geared or is it like all ages family friendly?

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That was my problem.
I also did not watch it because I assumed it was going to be for kids.
In episode I think two or three it starts off with a scantily clad woman strangling
a guy after sleeping together.
Well, okay.
There's no nudity or anything, but it's not just for kids.
The show can get sometimes dark, but not uncomfortably dark.

(01:12:10):
It's fun for the whole family.
For the whole family.
It's just a cool mystery.
The kids being kids isn't that big of a deal, especially because I haven't read the original
comic, but I heard the comic is darker than the show is, I think from what I've heard.
Joe Hill had a part in it and if he's anything like his dad, then yep.

(01:12:31):
But Joe Hill does make a cameo in the final episode and looks like Stephen King, except
younger.
Yeah, no.
I was going to say him going by a different name so people didn't know he was Stephen
King's son doesn't work because anybody who's seen a picture of the man goes like, oh, it's
like Stephen King's son.
Yep.
It looks exactly like him.
But yeah, Lock and Key.

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It is on Netflix.
There is one season right now, but from what I've heard they are working on more.
There are people in it and they are good.
There are good mysteries.
There are flashbacks.
There are deaths.
There are slightly spooky parts, but not like full on Haunting of Hill House spooky.

(01:13:13):
Appropriately spooky.
But I approve.
So you've seen the whole season and can you tell me, are you getting any lost vibes?
When I go to a Carlton Q show, I want to know how much of a lost feeling am I going to get?
Well their last name is Lock.
There are flashbacks.

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Someone gets shot at one point.
There is a guy, or not a guy, there is a person who can change what they look like.
Okay.
Yeah, you're checking all my boxes, man.
I'll check this out.
There's a key that can make you kind of be able to tell someone else what to do and they
have to do it.
That's not un-lost, but it's cool on the show.

(01:13:59):
That's like anti-Lock, don't tell me what I can't do.
That is true.
But yeah, I recommend it.
It is pretty good.
Alright, solid Netflix recommendation from Ben.
Fizzbizz, what is your Netflix pick?
Well, my Netflix pick is actually on Hulu and I don't know how long it will be on Hulu

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because it's a very recent release.
But well, it's actually not something that particularly needs a signal boost because it
did win the Oscar for Best Picture, but it is the first foreign language film, I believe,
to ever do so or even be nominated, I'm pretty sure, for just straight up Best Picture, which

(01:14:49):
is the movie, the South Korean film Parasite.
Parasite.
What is it about a parasite?
It's about a family and it's about, I would say, the struggle between classes.

(01:15:09):
It's a kind of movie where you don't really want to know too much about it going in, really
the less you know the better because the plot takes a big turn and then it just keeps turning
and turning and turning and until it just completely pops off at the end.

(01:15:30):
So it does donuts.
Yeah, basically.
It just keeps turning and turning in circles.
Have you seen this, Brian?
Yes, yeah, I saw it and I also strongly recommend it.
It is just an excellent film, top to bottom, great direction, great story, very deserving

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of the Best Picture Oscar, I believe.
But is it better than the Fast and the Furious movies?
It's all about family.
Most of them, but not five, which is the best.
Oh, five is the best.
Real fast, speaking of Fast and the Furious, do you think that when it comes back, they'll
have to edit out all references of them drinking Corona's?

(01:16:15):
No, they can't.
I mean, it's all about family, but then right below that is it's about Corona's and how
much Vin Diesel loves his Corona.
Yeah, but that seems like a terrible thing for him to just talk about all the time.
Yeah, they'll have to edit out all the times when he talks about it in all those movies.

(01:16:36):
It's more than you would think.
It's a lot.
It's almost as much as Brian talks about polar seltzer.
Yeah, you know, I mean, there's two things I love in life, it's family and polar seltzer
water.
It's me, Vin Diesel.
There we go.
They can just they can just sub that in ADR.
Yep.

(01:16:57):
Yeah, sure.
Just rotoscope in a can of polar seltzer.
That was a perfect impression.
It's swinging a little more Stallone-y.
It is.
I mean, who is Vin Diesel if not this generation Stallone?
Who is next generation Stallone?

(01:17:17):
It's actually the...
Zac Efron.
Yeah, Zac Efron.
It's actually Baby Yoda from The Mandalorian.
He's gonna have a huge acting career.
I need to watch more of that show.
Me too.
I haven't finished it.
I need to get Disney+.
I ended up getting a year of it as with part of our stimulus money.

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Good idea.
So Parasite is what you recommend?
Yes.
All right.
Let's see how Anna feels about it.
Check it out.
Okay.
She likes it too.
That's a two for two on that.
Let's see if Ann can back up my recommendation.
It's Disney+, you know, a lot of content, but one shows really, you know, caught fire

(01:18:07):
and it's rose above the other ones.
It's an original thing they produced and everyone on social media is going wild about it.
It's the world according to Jeff Goldblum.
I have heard of Jeff Goldblum before.
Yeah, I know he's great.
He was in Jurassic Park.
You like that movie.
He was that shirtless guy.

(01:18:27):
Yeah, sure.
That's him.
Jeff Goldblum.
And he was in Thor 3 as the blue guy.
Yeah, the Grandmaster.
He was great in Thor 3 as the blue guy.
So what is it?
What is the world according to Jeff Goldblum?
So it's like a docu-series where every episode there is a subject, a pretty broad subject,

(01:18:53):
like one week it was coffee and then another week it was denim.
And Jeff Goldblum just goes around and kind of learns about the history of the subject
matter and talks to people who are like experts in the field.
Like he found he was hanging out with a denim archaeologist who just like searched around

(01:19:17):
old mines for antique denim.
And weird.
Yeah.
Dinosaur genes?
I mean, maybe, maybe.
Then, you know.
That's what Jurassic Park was all about.
You know, nature finds a way.
Wait, I meant the other kind of genes.
It's all about dinosaur genes.
It could be both.

(01:19:38):
He's actually looking for both.
But he just, you know, well, first of all, it's interesting listening to Jeff Goldblum
talk about anything.
Just he has a very particular way of speaking and interacting with the world.
And then he seems to have like a real genuine passion and enthusiasm for learning from these
people about the various things.

(01:20:00):
I like the, if you want to start with one, I recommend the one about tattoos.
That was pretty good.
Okay.
I might have to check this out sometime then.
Why did, or why do you think, or how did the show come about?
Like, how did he get chosen?
How did it even happen?
That's a good question.
I'm assuming that Jeff Goldblum just has a good working relationship with like creative

(01:20:26):
people at Disney and they were looking to do some original content for their service.
And I imagine, not that this is like low budget, like they're making it on the shoestring,
but I think it costs like maybe, you know, like one tenth of what you would pay for like
a Mandalorian or something like that.

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So it's good quality content that's not very expensive to make.
So Disney has that one.
Netflix has that Bill Nye show.
If Nickelodeon gets a streaming service, they should hire Melissa Joan Hart to do one.
Oh, sure.
We can explain it all and their streaming service would be called Splat.
That's actually a good idea.

(01:21:08):
Call them up.
I will.
I've got them on speed dial.
Oh, wait.
Oh right now.
I have their number.
Nickelodeon here.
Yes.
Hello.
Nickelodeon here.
Yes, hello. This is Ben and Brian from the Happy Cast and we would like to speak to the

(01:21:35):
president of your network, please.
You're speaking to her.
Oh, oh, I like that.
She answered the phone, wow. It's very down to earth of you.
Yeah, I don't have a lot going on right now.
You're of the people. Okay, we'll make this brief. People have fallen off of Nickelodeon
in recent years. We think that you're really missing an opportunity to tap into the burgeoning

(01:22:00):
streaming market. I think with your catalog, you could be huge on the internet.
Oh, yeah, honey. We've already been in the works with it. We know everybody who's really
into that SpongeBob.
Okay, I mean, yeah, that's true. All right, well, but I guess the thing that we're bringing

(01:22:22):
to the table is we have a great name for your potential streaming service. Just curious,
I mean, what's your working title? What are you going to call it?
Well, we were thinking maybe SpongeTube.
SpongeTube? I was thinking maybe Stick Stickly.

(01:22:44):
He's no longer employed with us.
What happened?
He signed an NDA. It was not good. It was an HR nightmare.
Oh, no. I'm sad to hear that. What about Face? Is he still around?
Oh, yeah, but he's had a lot of work done. You might not recognize him anymore.

(01:23:08):
Oh, that's so sad. I guess, I don't know, Brian, what do you want to call it?
I mean, I don't know. I mean, I'm so shaken about the revelation about Stick Stickly
and Face. I don't know. I think my heart's really in it right now. I thought maybe you could call it Splat.
But, you know, who cares now? Like, nothing matters now that our heroes are dead, Ben.

(01:23:36):
Our heroes are dead.
Oh, let me hang up.
Man, that was a heartbreaking conversation.
Although I'm a little bit relieved because I, for a second, thought that the president of Nickelodeon was going to tell us that Stick Stickly was no longer with us.
No, he's still kicking. He's just, you know, he's had his me too moment.

(01:24:02):
Oh, my God.
That's heartbreaking news. How do you know about this, Fizz Fizz?
I mean, it wasn't me. She just said it. That strangely woman from, I guess, New Jersey, even though I was pretty sure that Nickelodeon was in Orlando, Florida.
But, you know, there are a lot of snowbirds down there.

(01:24:26):
Yeah. Oh, my God. That's such bad news to hear. I misface.
But at least we'll get to watch SpongeTube sometime.
That's true. I hope they go with that name.
It's an amazing name.
Well, there's just no topping that. So I think it's time for us to move on to listener feedback.

(01:24:51):
What's this? A letter for me?
Listener feedback. If you want to write it in the show, we encourage you to send us an email to happycastfeedback at gmail.com.
That's right. Happycastfeedback at gmail.com.

(01:25:12):
Or contact us on Facebook or Twitter or send us a TikTok or something like that.
Oh, yeah. Official TikTok. TikTok.com slash happycast.
I don't know how TikTok usernames work. At us. Hashtag happycast.
Yeah, one of those. Ben, do we have any feedback this week?

(01:25:37):
Yes, we have two or maybe three. You'll have to look.
Oh, our first one is from Twitter. It says security alert new or unusual Twitter login.
We notice an attempt to log into your account at happycast. It seems suspicious. Was this you?
Oh, was it was it you, Ben? It was. Oh, good. It was me. That's a relief.

(01:26:01):
All right. And that's pretty much all that email.
OK, all right. Email number two. We have one from Neil.
Oh, great. I always love hearing from Neil. What is Neil up to these days?
The title is feedback. Good title. A plus. It is accurate.

(01:26:23):
He says, hello, chaps. Have you both slash all or hope you both at all are safe and well?
Yeah, yeah, we're fine. You're good. OK. My happy hour this week is getting out on my push bike.
Why do they call it a push bike and not a pedal bike? I don't I don't know.
Brian, what's a push bike? I should I Google it? No, Alexa, what's a push bike?

(01:26:47):
A bicycle also called a bike or cycle is a human powered or motor powered pedal driven single track vehicle
having two wheels attached to a frame one behind the other. Alexa, stop.
I think it's just a bike. Yeah, that's not what I wanted to know specifically.
Maybe a push bike is just a bike. I want to look it up.

(01:27:10):
A push bike is when you push your bike up the hill.
Although England is supposedly not that hilly, so. Oh, a push bike is a bicycle when you use pedals.
Oh, OK. For us, it's just default bike. But hey, we learned something new on our unofficial Ask a British person.

(01:27:31):
He says, anyway, with the weather getting better and my belly getting bigger, I do enjoy getting out for a bike ride.
And with a nationwide lockdown in red text, the roads are free from most traffic.
My bump patrol this week is flies whilst out bike riding with the warm weather.
The flies are out in force and seem to be attracted to my face, which at 20 miles an hour, it hurts.

(01:27:55):
Wait, he used miles an hour?
Maybe he did that just for our benefit or maybe he's not a real British person.
Oh, no. Are you planting a new seed for me to obsess over?
I mean, yeah, we have to pivot away from the engine nerdy thing.
I don't know how much more they can take of this. If they can't handle it any further, are we hurting their brand too much?

(01:28:18):
It's just character assassination at this point.
I mean, is it character assassination if it's revealing the truth?
Um, yes.
Oh. Anyway, he says it hurts.
I do wear headgear, glasses and a face mask, but somehow the little kamikazes managed to find the areas of my face that aren't covered.

(01:28:40):
I guess when you're the only face out there, that's what they're attracted to.
Sure, sure.
In the Photoshop challenge, he attached the Space Jam 2 poster and he hopes we like it.
Key all the pappies. TTFN. Neil, Orange Peel.
Oh, and yes, I let out the horse getting clipped, but if you really want it, I can make it so.

(01:29:03):
No, no, please.
But the thing he did send in is perfect, better than I could have imagined with all the Hoopsaw carries basketball team.
Hoopsaw carries.
Oh, sorry.
I didn't think of the oops one until afterwards.

(01:29:26):
That would have been perfect. Oh, well, this with this episode title right now, Hoopsaw carries.
It doesn't even apply to this one.
I don't care. It's what it's going to be now.
I can just edit the feed. Never mind.
I'll retroactively change it.
I feel like he put a couple of carries that we might have forgotten about. Did we ever mention the Riddler or do we forget that?

(01:29:47):
No, I never think of the Riddler. That's always one that I forget. So that's a good catch.
The Riddler.
It's because it's basically the same mask.
Oh, well, they both wear green. Oh, wait.
One's face is green and one has everything else but their face green.
Exactly.
Put them together and you have the Hulk.

(01:30:11):
Oh, no.
A thin, wiry, lanky Hulk.
Is that how you get the Hulk?
That's his secret. He's always carry.
Imagine if the Hulk put on the mask.
Photoshop challenge.
I mean, I think that's the Photoshop challenge. Yeah.
We also have a phone feedback.

(01:30:35):
It looks like it's from Brian.
Really?
Brian, you called in?
I mean, maybe. I don't remember this.
Let's hear and see what that sounds like.
Hey, Ben and Brian. It's me, Brian. Co-host of the show. I just wanted to call in and say,
thanks for doing the podcast. I'm really enjoying listening, even though usually I listen the first 10 minutes and then the last 10 minutes

(01:31:04):
because I usually remember the rest. It's nice to hear from old friends during these difficult times and I'm glad everyone's doing well.
Also, future Brian's not going to remember this, but we did sign up for an experimental study that was very lucrative.

(01:31:30):
We got $82, but there are going to be some side effects that may be a problem in future podcasts.
Something about an addiction to seltzer water and something about thinking that hamsters are exotic.
I don't know, but $82 was great. Keep up the podcast. Thanks. Keep happy.

(01:31:58):
Brian, do you remember recording that?
No, no. It's kind of spooky, man. I don't remember that at all.
Are we going to have to do another very special episode about a drink addiction?
Oh, right. We did do that already.
We did.
Yeah, I was going to say, this is starting to sound eerily familiar.
I mean, we have four podcast ideas and we stretch them out and redo them, which is why sometimes we have to go away for months at a time.

(01:32:29):
Was it called Splat? What was it called?
Oh, what was our thing?
Oh, spew. I found it.
Oh, spew. Okay, there you go.
Yeah, spew. Is this the new spew?
Well, spew is a work of fiction, Ben. Polar is very real. They've been around since 1917, over 100 years, and it's just a quality product.

(01:32:56):
You know, good, clean, fun for the whole family.
Fizzbizz, I think something's wrong with him.
I think we needed an intervention.
Tune in next week for Not That.
Cliffhanger.
Speaking of.

(01:33:18):
Oh, yeah, he wasn't.
I guess that does it for the show.
Oh, wait. If you want to write in, write in at happycastfeedback at gmail.com.
We also have a phone number, 177 Happy None, or just like message one of us and that works too.
That's true.
Or if you see us on the street, just grab us by the shoulder and yell your feedback right in our face and we'll remember it.

(01:33:42):
Right.
Repeat it on the podcast.
Social distancing.
That's illegal.
That's too irresponsible right now.
Do not yell into our faces.
I mean, obviously, I mean, when all this is, you know, blown over.
I guess. Oh, well, well, that's all of our stuff, I think.

(01:34:05):
Yes. Another podcast in the books.
Another another episode of the 2020 Happy Casts reboot with another great guest.
Thanks for being on the show.
Fizzbizz. It's always a pleasure.
Anytime.
And Ben, thank you for being the best co-host.
This wouldn't be a podcast without me.
That's true.

(01:34:26):
You like literally you're the one that makes it a podcast.
You're the one that records and edits it.
So, yeah, yeah, without you, it would just be a series of long Skype conversations between the two of us.
Weirdly organized conversation.
Talking as if we're Dora the Explorer.
Yeah, that's true.

(01:34:47):
That so yeah, when there's not a third guest on the podcast, we do.
It does feel like a kind of Dora the Explorer vibe where we're talking to like this disembodied audience member like, isn't that right?
Listeners, we've literally been doing that with a hand this whole episode.
That's true.
Hey, and how do you feel about that?
Check it out. Oh, check it out again.

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Okay.
I think it's great, too.
We need an end soundboard.
I mean, we should just have her on the podcast proper at some point.
Oh, she's back in the States now, isn't she?
She is.
We'll have to see if she can and she can plug her podcast on here.
Yeah, absolutely.
That would be a lot of fun.

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All right.
Well, I have one last thing to say.
Yes. Speaking of other guests, I noticed when the new today was on recently, she once made reference to something that I had nearly completely forgotten about, which is that I think we are supposed to be running against each other for president.
Yeah, you are. Aren't you? Are you still running?

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Yes. So I would just like to say that I am still committed to this campaign, and I have moved all of my efforts and town halls to online, and everyone will be voted digitally for FizzBiz 2020.

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I, Milton Panther, approve of this message.
I mean, that's gonna be a tough campaign, but, you know, I don't know which one of you is getting my vote, but it's definitely going to be one of you and I look forward to a long and successful presidency.
I say long in that it's going to go longer than your typical four year term.

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It's going to be one of those that goes so well, they give you a fifth year.
Hmm. So a bonus year.
Yes, they call it the bonus round.
If you grab enough money inside of the air tank, they give you that year.
Exactly, exactly. Who's your vice going to be, by the way? Have you had any thoughts on your vice president?

(01:37:00):
Hmm. Well, I was thinking about one of my cats.
But I'm not sure which one. It doesn't say in the Constitution cats can't be president.
Well, they can't be president. That's crazy, Ben. Only vice president.
I think you have to be eligible for president to be vice president, though.
So are they like 35 or older in cat years?

(01:37:25):
Oh, definitely. Okay. They're both like around 10.
And so, yeah, they're firmly middle aged.
Okay, that's perfect then. So Fizzbiz, one of her cats, 2020.
Although I don't qualify for the age requirement yet, but I think the new today is also a little farther off on that than I even am.

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So well, this is the podcast primary, so we don't follow like we follow the podcast Constitution.
And we're international. Like, I hear actually that the new today is still holding public rallies.
That's what I heard. I heard she was kissing babies and everything.
And coughing on them. Yeah, we need the new today to call in a response to that.

(01:38:13):
I also looking at my notes, I think Q and they were also running as a ticket.
Oh, yeah. Wow. I really wish we resolved that storyline before we stopped doing that season.
What do you mean? It's 2020. Now's the time.
Oh, gosh. It has been so long that we're in another election year.

(01:38:34):
This is the whole time we had written it down for 2020.
Oh, was it? Yeah.
Okay, great. Well, then I'm excited to see the thrilling conclusion.
Years in the making.
Well, as long as we can make it to November, we're good.
We need to have a presidential debate at some point to have both of them on to discuss the real issues affecting podcast land.

(01:38:57):
The gauntlet has been thrown. Literally.
Wait, what? Yeah, I threw a glove at my sister.
Well, I'm excited to see how she responds to this gauntlet being thrown.
And the hat is in the ring. And how do we stop?

(01:39:19):
The gloves are off.
And thrown.
The gloves and the hat and the gauntlet have all been thrown. Everything but the kitchen sink.
Not the towel, though.
No, no, I haven't thrown in the towel yet.
Throw the gauntlets and the hats, but not the towels.

(01:39:40):
Idioms are stupid.
All right. That's it. I'm calling it. I'm calling the end of the podcast.
Time of death.
Thank you for listening, everybody.
We hope you join us next week for another episode. Until then, remember that thing we always say, stay healthy.

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Happy.

(01:40:30):
All right, Brian, let's hear your TikTok story.
Okay, so usually it's something like this.
Okay, so story time. So I'm going to the store to buy a pack of gum.
And I look behind the counter and they have the big red, but not the juicy fruit.
So I asked the guy at the counter, where's the juicy fruit?
And he turns around and it's like it's empty.

(01:40:53):
But then he turns around and there's more under the counter and I buy the juicy fruit.
That's my story.
That's it.
It's always it's nothing.
It's like a like a mundane event that happens to them.
And they I don't know. I have no idea.
But halfway in, I thought you were going to read this pancake us.

(01:41:14):
Oh, no, no, no, no. I felt it coming on. I pulled sharp left.
I stayed away from that.
Yeah, we don't want to repeat that.
I mean, that's one of our all time great episodes.
And I think that's how Regis is doing nowadays.
Well, then, you know, Regis is staying in self quarantined with joy.

(01:41:40):
She's making pancakes every day pancakes.
You know, Regis is just having a great time living out his golden years.
And now a New Year's newsflash.
1997 is almost here.
And once again, Nickelodeon wants to hear your New Year's resolution.

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So write to me, Stig, Stigley, P.O. Box 963, New York City, New York State, 101, 08.
Write Nick 97 on the envelope and include your name, age and your resolution.
Like if you're going to try and quit hogging the cookies or learn to juggle your eyeballs,
then tune in to Nickelodeon because all during January I'll be reading resolutions on the air.
And you just might hear yours.
Happy New Year.

(01:42:23):
Guys, could you make a resolution to keep the lights on?

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I'm a big smile who makes you smile and brings you all your favorite shades.
They call me face.
I'm all over the place.
They call me face.
And I'm on Nick Jr.
So watch this face.
One day it's sunny, then it rains.
And everybody finds it strange.

(01:43:16):
But if I'm dressed in spots or tidy knocks, I'm always ready for a change.
I love to rush and spin and whirl.
And live my life in such a blur.
But all I want to do is welcome you to come and join Nick Jr.
They call me face.
I'm all over the place.

(01:43:40):
They call me face.
And I'm on Nick Jr.
So watch this face.
They call me face.

(01:44:18):
I'm talking away.
I don't know what I have to say or say it any way.
But today is another day to find you shining away.

(01:44:44):
I've been coming for you, lover, okay?
Take on me, take on me, take on me, take on me
I'll be gone in a day or two

(01:45:08):
So needless to say, I'm odd-senned, but I'll be stumbling away
I'm slowly learning that life is okay, say up for me
At least I'm ready to be saved, so
Take on me, take on me, take on me, take on me

(01:45:38):
I'll be gone in a day or two

(01:46:08):
Hard things, let me say, yeah, is it a life or

(01:46:32):
Just to play my worries away? You're all the things I've got to remember
Will you shine away? I'll be coming for you anyway
Take on me, take on me, take on me, take on me

(01:47:06):
I'll be gone in a day