Ep. 105: Ghost In The Sheldon

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The internet is changed. I feel it in the social media. I feel it in the memes. I hear

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it in the podcasts. Much that once was is lost. For none now live who remember it.

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It began with the recording of the great happy cast. Seasons 1 to 5 were given to the listeners
immortal wisest and fairest of all beings. Season 6 to 10 to the guest stars. Great friends
and podcasters of the RSS feed. And 9. 9 and 10 were gifted to the hosts who above all

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else desired fun. For within these seasons was bound the puns and the impressions to
entertain each listener. But they were all of them deceived. For another season was recorded.
Deep in the south in the humidity of the summer Ben and Brian recorded a master season. And

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into these episodes they poured the things that made them happy. The things that bummed
them out. And everything in between. One podcast to rule them all.

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Hello everybody and welcome to a brand new episode of the happy cast with Ben and Brian.
I am Brian and I'm joined by this fella Ben. Hey, hey, I'm here. It's me. Ben, I you know,

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it's been a while since we've done the show. I'm a little bit rusty. So I think if I'm
not mistaken, it's been four years, but I believe this is the part of the show where
I say happy cast is your number one source for the things that make you happy, the things
that bum you out and everything in between. Yes. And then and then I introduce you. So
I think I got it backwards. Oh, no. Take take two. Hello everybody. Welcome to a new episode

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of happy cast with Ben and Ben. I'm what? This one. This used to be this used to be
easier, right? I mean, well, I thought I mean, it's been a while. We can just mix up the
order if we have to. That's true. That's true. We don't need to be beholden to the way we've
done it in the past. This could be a brand new, exciting iteration of the show. That's

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you know, maybe we don't even do happy hour bummer patrol. Maybe it's like a brand new
format. What? I mean, updated bumpers or something. I mean, our logo is already updated. OK,
sure. I mean, if this if you're what you're pitching is that we do like the George Lucas
1997 special edition of the happy cast, we just go back and put in the CGI and stuff.

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I'm OK with that. Wait to all of our old episodes. I'm going to edit the hundred episodes before
this. Yeah, exactly. You got to go back. You have the CGI job of the hut and the podcast
is random aliens walking in the background. Sure. Sure. Greed of shooting first. Just
believe me that they're there. Whether or not you can see them. I guess I'll put like
stomping sounds. Sure. They're there. You can feel them even though you can't see them.

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Their presence affects the show. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. For sure. But no, at least for this.
I mean, it's like an HD remake reboot like those like the ones they do now. That's true.
I mean, everything old is new again. We're bringing back, you know, Monk had a TV movie
and there we had a new crap. Did you not see that one? No, I did not. Oh, Mr. Monk's Last

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Coast available on Peacock, I believe. Oh, I know. I watched the three psych ones, two,
three, I think three. I think three. Yeah, we did. So yeah, everything's coming back.
We have officially run out of ideas. There are no new ideas. So we're just going back
into the backlog. So look forward to what we us or we society. Society, society wise

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and us. Sure. I'm not saying that we're above society, but like culturally, we've run out
of ideas. Culturally, we are above society. I thought you were going to say.
No, no, no. My happier this week is Reese's. Oh, wow. That's your first happy hour. Are

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we like looking back into a time loop? Well, yeah. I mean, if we have no new ideas, I thought
we could just go ahead and do that one again. Yours, by the way, was Netflix instant streaming.
This cool new thing. I think it's going to catch on. You can watch Netflix without putting
a DVD in your machine. It's pretty wild. Just wait till F Edition 11 when Netflix comes

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to iPhone and that's your happy hour. Oh, my. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, it's I mean, that
was 14 years ago, Ben. It was things were things are different. Like it was before streaming.
I think we were still watching basic cable. We were watching Game Show Network and whatnot.
I think we were. But now it's what been like, what, 14 years almost to the month? Yeah,

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it's where that's why we had to come back to celebrate our 14 year anniversary. You
know, that big milestone that everyone recognizes. No, it what anniversary do you think it is?
Oh, oh, good. Because, you know, like how you're saying, like how one is the paper anniversary
and like, OK, so 14. I think 14 is well, so you've got your traditional and then there's

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like a more modern update on the gifts, right? Is that correct? As far as I know from Wiki.
OK, all right. So I think probably the traditional gift for 14 years would be maybe like court
and then the modern version is like gift cards. See, traditional US is ivory. Oh, OK. So everyone

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get out there, kill some elephants. No, no, no. What's the modern? We'll take the modern
updated version. Actually, I lied. This one does not have a modern. It has US and UK and
the UK one is blank. Oh, no. My condolences to our UK listeners who did nothing for their
14th anniversary. Neil. Rob. Robbo. We're calling you guys out. Oh, I found a modern one that

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was created by the Chicago Public Library. I trust them. Great, great source. What did
it say? Gold jewelry. Awesome. Yeah, we'll take all the gold jewelry you want to send
us. Happy Cats P.O. Box 9063. Happy Town USA. Yes. Send us your gold bling with walrus tusks

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attached. I don't love inviting people to hunt elephants in our name. Can we get like
ivory soap? Like that's a brand of soap, right? All right. If you don't want to kill an elephant
for us, if you don't like us that much, if you want a real fan, then yeah, you can send

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us something like that. If you're not committed to the podcast, like slaughtering elephant
level, then we'll take the soap. Real Happy Cats fans are poachers. Oh, that's the t-shirt
we're going to sell on the website now. Yeah. For the first time, we have not sold one ever

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before or made one or had one for sale, I think. No, no, we haven't. But now that we're
relaunching the show, this iteration, every episode has its own commemorative t-shirt
with a phrase said in that episode. Well, that's kind of what our titles are, just not
shirts. That's true. T-shirts are the new titles then. Get With The Times. It's 2024? 2024?

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If we're fully Get With The Times, then our podcast is now a subscription service. You
have to pay us monthly to get everything. Sure, sure. We're a Patreon now. All of our
podcasts are AI created. They're behind a paywall. These aren't even our actual voices.
I have trained AIs on the, I think, seven days of podcasting that the Happy Cast takes

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up and it's just going off on its own. So yeah, obviously, I think you know more about
how AI works than I do. But that does seem like something we could do is just dump all
of our podcasting flow into a gene set. Okay, create a new Happy Cast and we just spit these
things out now. We can. I mean, now how I know all of that we have not talked about

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here yet, just in case some people don't know the weird journeys we've both had in the last
several years. A lot of things have been going on. I'll get to that later, probably. At least
mine. Probably not yours. It'd be weird if I started telling yours. That's true. You
know, it is weird that one weird thing is for a lot of years, this podcast was like,

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I would say the primary way that we communicated and related to each other. Yeah. And then
we took a four year break, but we didn't stop talking to each other. We're basically still
doing the podcast only without recording it. So the four years we radio silence, we just
did not talk to each other.
I had been up with some news. He's like, save it for the pod, save it for the pod. Four

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years later.
Oh, man, we got a lot of catching up to do.
Oh, I do know a bit about AI. Now, not a lot. I think there are good and bad uses of it,
but I don't want to get into hot takes right now. Other than the best use though is to
completely automate this podcast. So it's not even us talking anymore. We just sit back

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and let all the money roll in.
I'm in favor of that. Yes, let's do that.
We will.
Okay, so I'm getting I'm getting the sense that in order to find out more about your
past four year journey, we need to move forward to happy hour. For those of you not in the

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know, happy hour is the part of the show where we talk about the thing that is making us
most happy for this week or for the past four years. Ben, what is your happy hour choice
this episode?
Only one thing has made me happy over the last four years. Hi, Selena. Sorry, that is
the cat. She is still around. She was here four years ago. I read, listened to an episode

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recently and found that out. I guess before I say the thing that makes me happy, there's
one thing I was going to say about the gap thing that we that we're doing here and why
it's really important and we could say it's on purpose. Sure. So we're doing like what
Desperate Housewives season five did.
We did a time jump?

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Yeah, we just jumped ahead or they had five years. We only chose four. We thought that
would be a little more reasonable, but also they had the benefit of being fictional and
we actually had to wait the four years to do a time jump. Right, right. But because
of this, we now have a lot of like new stories. There's like a lot of mysteries in our past
that like the regular listener might not know. And now we can slowly like reveal those and

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tease them, which we couldn't really do when it was happening, you know, week to week.
That's true. When we were in the heat of like weekly records, then like every week I cherished
any new story that would happen. But thank goodness I have a new thing to talk about
on the podcast. I don't have to tell the same three stories that I've been telling for the
past 10 years.
Oh, someone cut me off in traffic.

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Well, there's that time you got jury duty.
I got jury duty again, Ben, in the past four years.
See?
They did not hit me this time.
I actually did too. But I guess we'll talk about that one in our I think that was the
minute work segments.
Oh, right. Oh, you know, one of the biggest critique I've heard people say of the podcast

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over the years, Ben, not enough different segments, we need more segments.
I mean, we can deliver on that. I mean, that's what you do. You have some old favorites when
you bring a show back after so long, because you want to like get the nostalgia element
and like the the formula of it. But we also have to have the new stuff, which I guess

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will be coming out in the future. Stay tuned.
I guess I should be happy, though, or my happy hour.
I have a whole list of these because for the last year or so I would have this note on
my phone where I would occasionally pop in and be like, oh, you know what? This is making
me pretty happy. And I'd leave it in there so I could remember it for later. So some

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of the things I don't know what they're even about anymore.
I did not have enough notes, but I guess this one is the most relevant chronologically or
now, now, now wise, whatever that word is, is that I am officially now a college graduate.
Congratulations, Ben. Thank you.

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I know it was a difficult road, a lot of challenges. And, you know, on behalf of all of us here
at Happy Caps Productions, we're tremendously proud of you for this accomplishment.
Oh, thank you. I'm not sure how you know since we didn't talk for the last four years, but
thank you.
Around the start of the pandemic, or I guess not the start, the fall of it, I decided to

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enroll in classes locally. I thought I could try for a CS degree, computer science. And
when I looked online this summer to apply for it, it said that it was a fully online
course. That's perfect because, you know, the pandemic. And also because I don't want
to go out and be around people. Just even when there's not a pandemic going on, virtually

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meet with I think the dean of that department, or the head of the department or something
like that. And I did. And then he was like, Oh, yeah, no, no, no, it's not online only,
only for right now. And I was pretty confused because I was fairly sure it used to be. And
I found out later that when I signed up, like they had it the semester before, that was
a fully online like four year degree. But over that summer, they had made decisions

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to get rid of it and change it out. So that's a decision they made in the summer of 2020.
Yeah, yeah, sometime in between when I applied and when I interviewed the guy about it. So
that was fine. The first like three or four semesters ended up being mostly online anyway,

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because there are like a lot of more gen ed courses are still during the like the recurrent
recurring waves or whatever that happened. But I slowly had to start showing up and being
around people at specific times and not just getting things done on my own schedule, which
I was getting very good at. And that's going to get really difficult, especially with a

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couple professors who I will probably talk a lot about at some point in the future. But
that's not a happy hour. Like that could be like a jumping jack flash, you know, segment
or our popular miscellaneous free speech segment. It's gotta be one of the ones we did one time
and forgot about. Special education, because it's about school stuff. That's another one.

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We have a lot of segments. I have so many stories about that kind of thing. But that's
not the happy hour part. The happy hour part is that I graduated is cool. I mostly wanted
to go to learn how to do things. And like a formal way to do it, though. I didn't know

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exactly what I wanted to do yet. I kind of vaguely had parts of ideas. I didn't really
know until an online psychology course, which I hated all these online gen ed ones, because
they would always, always, always, always first week is like the Oh, you go off to get
to know each other, which why we're all online and never going to see each other in person
any part of the class, but I guess okay. And one of them was like, Oh, there's some hobbies.

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What's your major? What do you think you might want to do all that stuff? And so in one of
these I mentioned, well, I, you know, run D&D games, I used to get to design rooms for
an escape room until the river flooded in town. That, that might have been mentioned
the podcast, I don't remember. The river flooded pretty bad. Like we, our town was basically

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cut off from all of the other towns around us because the river was on the three sides
of us. I mentioned that stuff in that I'm doing computer science. And the psychology
professor who responded was like, Oh, that's really interesting. Have you ever thought
about apply or combining those, your hobby with your major and like making games? And
I just thought, no, I had not really thought much about that. But that is a good idea actually.

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So I know I didn't have to get a degree to do that kind of thing, but I wanted to learn
like the right way in quotes to do a lot of that stuff. Because a lot of people, I mean,
you can self learn and learn a lot of things, but there's also a bad habit that I've seen
with people who sometimes self teach some, like if you learn it entirely like that, there

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are a lot of bad habits you can get into. Like some people just end up copying and pasting
code without understanding it. Or, I mean, that happens a lot even in the department.
But yeah, I wanted to learn officially. I got to do that. I did learn a lot of helpful
things that I did reach a point where it felt like I was no longer learning things. And

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now just doing things I didn't want to have to do anymore. And not like in a way, I don't
want to do this kind of way. But in, I don't know, I'll leave that as a mystery for later
about some pretty, pretty awful professor stuff going on.
I know a little bit of this and I look forward to those episodes of the podcast, Ben. There's

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some fun stuff ahead.
I mean, we need some of that, what, patented bin rants? That was a common thing we had.
We have to like really boil down the podcast of what, like what are the central pillars
of what Happy Cast is?
Bin rants, that's a major pillar.
Oh yeah.
What are some of the other pillars of the podcast?

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Winners, write in to happycastfeedback at gmail.com to let us know what the pillars of Happy
Cast are to you.
But yeah, so I finished it out. The last two to three semesters, maybe even parts of four,
were very painful and not so fun because a lot of them were full of group projects, which

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will also be a bump patrol in the future. I have many group project stories to talk about,
but I learned a lot and I've been able to apply the things I've learned already to just
random random stuff. Not even like, I mean, sometimes helpful stuff, like for what I want
to do, which is, you know, making a make game. But I've done things that, oh yeah, I made

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like a discord bot for our DND server. I need to get into a server. I know how to like do
podcasty stuff better now with programming.
You're going to make a tool that's going to help us with a future segment on the podcast?
Yes, I am. What I also want to do is make a soundboard for the bumpers. So it's a lot

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easier for us to play those or a soundboard for really anything. So either of us can maybe
press a button and play.
Check it out.
Soundboards are good. Chris had a soundboard on Lost and Lock that really simplified the
process of dropping those bumpers.
Oh yeah. With things like that, I'll be able to edit way quicker. We both have like kind

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of busy-ish lives right now. So it can be harder than before to record sometimes.
That's true. When we started the show, we were young men with a lot of free time. And
now we're slightly less young men with not as much free time.
Young men!
You're going to be generous to us.
You don't need to feel down.

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Even though I don't know what the line is in the sand, the crossover, and become middle
aged, but I feel pretty close. I feel honored right now.
I feel like you can't know until you die.
But we can do averages, right? So if I'm 36 years old, what's the average life expectancy
of a man in the United States these days? If I'm on the other side of that, then we'll

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call it middle age.
How do you know you won't live forever?
That's true. You know what? I hadn't thought about it then, but now that you mention it,
my plan is to live forever.
You might succeed. You never know. Someone has to be the first.
That's true. With modern advances in science, then I could live forever.

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Thanks to the new breakthroughs from the Dharma Initiative, I think we got some really cool
things in the pipeline.
I missed Lost.
I know there are things I have done with programming that I can't remember right now, but I have
done things that have helped.
I made an initiative tracker for when we play D&D. I have a little program that I can automatically

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load in the players. I can use it to keep track of whose turn it is, the HP of all the
enemies, all that stuff.
That's cool. I am currently working on a game that I want to make and eventually release
for money or for free if you're cool.
For money or for love. I don't know. Whatever.

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I want to release it because I just want to make a game that I would enjoy. I'm not trying
to make one specifically for money, so it's not full of microtransactions and ads and
stuff.
What's out there? It seems very easy, from what I know, to just make a game that is garbage
and predatory.
I mean, have you considered making your cynical cat-scratch game designed just to make money

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and then use that income to bake roll your passion project that is just for the love?
I think I'm just too good of a person, Brian, to even think about doing that.
Oh, you're right. I'm sorry. I forgot to ask.
I'm sorry. I'm just an angelic being of goodness.

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I forgot you've done the wrong cast, of course.
Ever. Listen, every episode of the podcast, I've never been in the wrong.
Listeners, we challenge you. Go back to every episode of the Happy Cast. Try to find some
noticeable offense that Ben has committed. Maybe do, and then email us discreetly so
we can remove it.

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So you just cleaned it up real quick.
Just give us a heads up. If you have the 169 hours to do that, plus whatever this is, have
fun.
Is that our total runtime now?
According to my Happy Cast Bible Excel spreadsheet, not Bible in the sense of holy text, but like

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show Bible.
Man, I really thought we'd be closer to hitting our 10,000 hours, our Malcolm Gladwell number
to become proficient at podcasting.
Well, you'd have to be one of the engineer to hit that number.
That's true. They have to be close right now.
We should ask them maybe. Or maybe we'll have one or two of them on again sometime in the

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future.
We should have guests again. You have a problem with guests, Ben.
They talk too much.
No, I love that. That's my favorite part because I get to talk less.
Yeah, it is. That's great. What is it?
Time zones, time zones and scheduling. That's it.
And on top of the game I'm making, which I will talk about more in some probably warp

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zone or minute work segment or something, but briefly it is a chess inspired rogue-like
where you have to sort of rebuild your own chess army and you'll have a custom combination
of pieces and sort of abilities that you can maybe combine with those pieces.
And I've been working on it already for the last couple weeks. It's been cool.

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As a bit of a geeky chess guy myself, Ben, I'm very excited about this concept. I think
it sounds like a lot of fun.
I hope so. I want it to be approachable fun, not just like for grand masters only because
a lot of reasons, but one because I don't want to have to program a chess AI that's
that smart.

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You only have to be loosely familiar or even less really because I'm going to have things
in that tell you how to play and it's not going to work like normal chess. I mean, it
is like the pieces still move sort of like normal chess, but it will rarely be like a
full like army versus army on an eight by eight board like, you know, classic style.
There's a lot of weird stuff going on in there. And yeah, I'm excited.

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It's a riff on your classic chess. Like you, it builds upon some of those concepts.
Yeah, chess inspired rogue-like deck builder, but with pieces instead of a deck.
So can I pre-order this on the Steam store, Ben?
I wish listed on Steam.
So far, I'm just doing board generation and saving and loading right now.

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You've only been working on it for a couple of weeks now, officially.
Yeah, and not even like full time right now because I was waiting until I got a new laptop
post-graduation, which actually came in the middle of recording and waiting until my birthday,
which is as of today, two days from now.

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May 31st for those people who want to know, you know, we should have done this one like
a week earlier because I know in the past I've talked either birthdays or Christmas
or something about like using the podcast to give hints about what I want, but there's
not time to release it before then.
Release it and send it to people. Just like cut out this segment and send it to people

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that you want to get gifts from.
I could. Well, I mean, really, if you're listening to this the day it comes out, there's a good
chance that it is my birthday.
Someone wants an Apple Vision Pro.
What even is that?
That's that new Apple VR headset thing.
Oh, it's like $3,500.
Oh, yeah. No, I forgot. I watched a whole YouTube video about how like depressing it is.

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Yeah, exactly. You know, it's like, get us one step closer to the WALL-E reality.
I was hoping you were gonna stop at the word WALL-E.
To the WALL-E.
Or just one step closer to becoming WALL-E.
We're all gonna be cute little robots who fall in love with other robots.
And clean up garbage?

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Yeah, I think so. He is a garbage robot.
Oh, come on. I thought it wasn't that bad.
I only saw that movie one time back like after it came out. I'm more of a Rets a Tooie fan
then.
I still haven't seen that.
What? I mean, that's fine. That's good, though.
I like Patton Oswalt. I want to I need to see it. I just haven't. But yeah, I think

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that's my happy hour. I don't remember anymore. There's been like, oh, I guess one little
tangential piece of happy hour is that on with my coping strategies with how to get
through all of the college classes, both the good and the awful have gotten me very good

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at organization and streamlining stuff. And I've been getting into or what I do a lot
of the time now, especially through programming, which I guess is good to have it here, is
that sometimes you do have to do things early on that are a pain in the butt. But it will
save you so much time later if you just do the pain in the butt thing.
Right, right. Do it now. Don't make it a problem for future then.

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Yeah, like and you do that a lot in programming or like, you know, make sure you do the good
structure now, because if you don't and just try to wing it as you go, you're probably
going to have to redo a lot of that stuff or debugging is going to get really difficult
because who knows where anything is anymore or what anything means really. And this strategy
has I actually might have originally come from D&D prep and then moved into class stuff.

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So I'm like way more organized with not with life generally, but with like tasks or big
tasks I want to get done like podcasts. So podcasts should be easier because I've been
doing the hard work of trying to figure out like a virtual sound mixer so we can maybe
play stuff live and have the new dynamic of me playing like fart sounds and Brian will

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hear them live.
That's the dream, Ben. That's the dream.
Live farts.
Coming 2025.
I mean, maybe next episode, which could be 2025.
Not sure at the rate we're going now.
Yeah, that's my happy hour.
All right. Very good. Very good. Well, again, congratulations on your recent completion

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of college.
Thank you. What are you happy about this week, Brian?
Oh, geez. Oh, geez. We're going like, if I'm following the template that you put in the
place here of like a big kind of sweeping life change is your happy hour. I, you know,
it's a good like
You could just pick Taco Bell.
I mean, Taco Bell is always good. It is. I'm not gonna lie. But, um, I don't know. I guess

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I'll give, you know, we'll have other podcasts where we can dive deeper into like the past
four years of what we've been up to. But the I guess the broad like strokes for me is we
recorded some podcasts in early 2020. So that was like the beginning of the pandemic. So

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we went through that whole thing. I got married in that time, had a son and got divorced.
So it's been very busy, like a lot of personal changes. I, you know, I think if I looked
at a picture of myself from like January 2020, recently, and I looked at myself now, I'm

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like, oh, I've aged like a president these past four years. It's really, it's really
taking the toll on me.
In that picture, were you holding up like a sign saying something about like beware
a pandemic is coming?
No, no. It was, it was me with a sign saying like, hooray, things are going to be normal

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forever. And then
Oh, okay. I was hoping you were prophetic. Dang.
No, no, no. But you know, I mean, I guess out of the past four years, like the big thing,
the big change that I'm really doing is I, you know, I have become a father and I do,
I really enjoy that. That's, you know, it's been, you know, challenging. I know a lot

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of our listeners, some of them have kids, some of them don't. I've got the, I've got
the one and I've been enjoying it. It's turning one year old in two weeks. So that's exciting.
Wow.
But, you know, I mean, there are enough podcasts about parenting. I don't want to, you know,
knock everyone's ear off about it. Just, you know, it's something that I wasn't sure if

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I wanted to do for a long time. And, you know, I waited a little bit longer than I think
most people would. So, you know, I became a father at 35 and I feel like that was like
the perfect choice for me because one, I really enjoyed my twenties a bit. I just did exactly
what I wanted all the time. I went a lot of places. I met people. I played games. It was,

(33:24):
I had a podcast about a TV show for several years. I loved it. It was great. I did. I
check it out sometime. I'll send you a link.
Was ABC's Happy Town?
Oh, that's the show we're doing right now.
Oh yeah.
But, you know, and I don't, I don't think I would have had the patience for it when
I was younger. I think that, you know, that's, that's the trade off is I feel like I have

(33:50):
an abundance of patience now and maybe less energy. Like if I were like a young father,
then like the waking up at 3 a.m. to feed a bottle, you know, might not be as devastating
as it is to be right now. And I'm like, ah, tomorrow's going to be ruined now. But overall,

(34:13):
it's good. It's fun. I, you know, I'm enjoying it and I will try to keep all renaming kind
of like fatherhood stuff like segregated to like a future like parenting segment so I
don't let it overtake the podcast.
As long as you could always put a happier bummer in here. That's what I think we've

(34:33):
done forever. Use a happier bummer as like a thing that's been going on. Like I think
my wedding was a happy at one point. We had bummers of like that time we had neighbors
threatened to shoot each other.
Wait, wait, wait, Dan. Don't please don't pull down the curtain. Don't let people know
that these segments that we built the show around are just a thinly veiled excuse to

(34:58):
talk about whatever we want to talk about.
Well, I mean, that was before too. I mean, now is going to be totally different. We have
a whole time jump. So we don't have to do that stuff before. Sometimes that was the
one thing that happened that week was the neighbor drama.
Yeah, I do miss the neighbor drama segments. Your neighbors have been pretty chilling,
right?
We've had quiet neighbors in our direct next door one. We had some weird mattress issues

(35:22):
here and there. But
Oh, all right.
Nothing too awful there. I have a question about your child.
Ah, yes, go ahead. You said his birthday is in two weeks. It is. Is he going to come on
here and hint at what he wants?
I, you know, he hasn't quite mastered speech yet. But if he does, I'll let him know that,

(35:50):
you know, the opportunities there if he wanted to.
We can always like splicing a clip later if he ends up saying something before the two
weeks are up.
I mean, honestly, right now he's at that point where I'm gonna be delicate with the way I
phrase this. Let me think very carefully. Because I was the firstborn grandchild in

(36:15):
my family on both sides, my mom and my dad, because my parents were children when I was
born. They were too young to have kids. So and I waited a very long time to have my kid.
So even though there are a lot of grandkids on both sides, I do feel like there is like

(36:36):
a lot of extra attention, excitement to like, Oh, my goodness, like Brian has a kid now.
This is this is incredible. What a momentous occasion.
The chosen one.
So he has like an abundance of everything he needs right now.
So he wants he wants for nothing yet he has everything. So that's that's where he is right

(36:59):
now.
Are you sure? Because I think I have an audio clip. Oh, what do you have him wanting something?
Oh, let's hear it.
Oh, man, I got a I got five. I got to find $3,500 somewhere in a hurry. You didn't know
that you sent that to me like a week ago.
I forgot about that completely.

(37:19):
Oh, man.
All right. I got two weeks to figure it out.
It'd be a good dad. You have to get him the Apple vision Pro.
Sure, sure. I mean, and then you know, I hear they're sold out everywhere. So I might even
get into like a like a weird thing where if I mean some bad or kind of crap down the one
Apple vision Pro that's available.

(37:40):
I'm really glad that both of us about my I mean, I can't prove it. But my brain was also
about to make a jingle all the way reference.
Of course, we're both going to do that. We're practically the same person.
Oh, did you know that there is a jingle all the way to Oh, starring Lawrence the Cableman?

(38:00):
Yes, you do know.
I haven't seen it.
Okay, me neither. I just know it exists.
It's on Disney Plus. So that could be our holiday episode this year.
Oh, wait, like what we watch it or we just upload the audio of that movie as a podcast.
Or we'll do our own commentary track with audio so people know what's happening.

(38:22):
Yes, yes, that would be exciting.
And now Larry is loading up a truck full of snow to take home to the south where he lives.
I'm curious.
It melted.
I'm curious how that ties into the first week. Is it just like a remake of the first one
with like a different man? Like they make reference to Arnold?

(38:43):
Yeah, well, imagine if like we did that as our reboot, we're just two different guys
were on here talking. And it was just the same stuff and kind of stuff they were saying.
It's like just vaguely the same stuff with different people.
Yeah, like some sort of Hansen-Homburg type scenario.
Oh, God, Hansen-Homburg. But that is my happy hour this week, man. It is fatherhood. I'm

(39:10):
enjoying it.
Congratulations. Thank you, sir.
How did we both manage to get into like big things and hit milestones as we came back?
I mean, we did give ourselves a lot of time. So it's not something that we like both kind

(39:31):
of backed into or stumbled upon. I mean, you said you've been going to classes for like
the entire four years, right?
Very soon after our last or I guess about five months after our last podcast, our previous
podcast, Sponge Tube, Epidition 104.
So yeah, but it's been fun. You know, I'm glad that, you know, if we weren't able to
record podcasts at that time, at least we both, you know, took on other big life projects.

(39:56):
No, I'll say something else, too. This is related to my happy hour before we move on
to Bummer Patrol is there were times I wanted to come back earlier, but I knew that I would
not be able to give Happy Cast the attention it deserves if we just sort of half butted.
That's not a phrase, but I didn't want to curse.

(40:19):
We didn't want to half butt Happy Cast or classes, I guess, but really Happy Cast. That's
the priority.
So we had to wait until we were fully until I was done. And even the last semester, especially,
I know I talked to you a few times about how excited I was to be done, partly so we could
have Happy Cast again.
Yeah, no, I mean, it has been a recurring topic of conversation. And, you know, we thought

(40:44):
about coming back earlier. And then, you know, you had a conversation with that, that fixer
guy that, you know, said no half measures. If you're going to do a podcast, it's got
to be like 100%. What was his name again, Ben?
I don't remember. Also, I don't think I'm allowed to tell you.
Oh, that was a test. I was, I was, you're willing to like give away your source.

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No, I guess you could also say that my college degree is the Yoko of the podcast.
Well, but the Beatles never came together after, you know, well, I guess I guess John
Lennon and Yoko were together until his early demise, right?
Yeah, yeah, Yoko stuck around.
Yoko stuck around.
I only had four years.

(41:30):
That's true. I got Yoko'd.
I'm sorry. Which one does that make you? If I'm John Lennon. Oh, imagine you're a different
Beatle. Imagine if you can.
I want to. It's easy.
No, you can do it if you try.
It's easy if you try, Ben.
I don't know lyrics. I was in band, not choir.

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You know, I want to be George, but in my heart, I know I'm Ringo.
Oh, you're a Ringo?
I'm a Ringo.
I was going to. If you said, I said Peter.
Peter McCaffrey, the famous Beatle.
I was thinking Apostle and I went for the wrong one.

(42:13):
Paul, that's what I was trying to remember.
I was going to say if you're Paul, I was going to wonder what your like your wings would
be.
Would your kid be your wings?
I mean, he is the wind beneath my wings, Ben. I don't know if I can.
But no, no, I can't be Paul either. I'm Ringo. What's Ringo been up to? Who knows?

(42:34):
Sunglasses.
He's been up.
He wears sunglasses.
That's it. Your child is your Ringo sunglasses.
Exactly. He's the Ringo sunglasses.
OK, well, let's go on to Bumber Patrol.

(42:54):
Oh, man.
Oh, Ben, it's time for the Bumber Patrol. We talk about what's got us feeling blue.
What's your pick this week?
I think I'll save the group project talk for another time because I'm still trying to be

(43:15):
over it and don't want to think about it in anger right now.
You're still processing it there. Don't look back in anger.
Hey, that song's on the Chuck soundtrack.
Yeah, that's an Oasis thing. That's not even the Beatles reference. So it doesn't quite
work the way I wanted it to.
Which member of the Oasis band are you?

(43:35):
So there was two brothers, right? There was Liam and Peter?
No, Liam and Charlie Pace.
Oh, right. No, yeah, they were modeled heavily after Oasis, weren't they?
Oh, Driveshaft? Yeah. That's the only reason I know that Liam is one of the members of
Oasis.
Sure, sure. And then, like, you know.

(43:57):
That might be. I'm not saying it's the only reason somebody would have named their son
Liam, but that could be how that name got accepted in somebody's mind a long time ago
and stuck around.
Oh, somebody or like just a hypothetical person?
A hypothetical person who might exist in the world with a child might have, you know, had

(44:18):
that name just like kicking around from rewatching Lost a bunch of times.
Oh, OK. I didn't know if we were allowed to say who the hypothetical person is or the
hypothetical child.
See, we're not going. So we're being very. So we're not. So we're trying to have our
cake and eat it too bad. And that's what we're doing right now.

(44:39):
That's weird, because who has a cake but doesn't ever get to eat it?
I mean, sure, sure. I mean, who wants to have a cake and then just, I don't know, put it
on display? It's a nice art piece in your kitchen.
Is it only about like cake chefs or cake boss? He doesn't eat his cakes, right?
Oh, sure, buddy. The cake boss.

(44:59):
We can get Pelliff Tompkins on to be cake boss.
He I mean, this is a podcast. So if we do it long enough, he will show up.
Is it long enough over time or hours?
Oh, I don't know.
Does it really show up on ours first or the Injunerds first?
Probably the Injunerds just because, you know, consistency.
All right. Well, Injunerds, if you're listening and you get contacted by Pelliff Tompkins,

(45:24):
be sure to send a recommendation our way. Thank you.
The battle for PFT. So your bum patrol is cake.
Wait, is that what happened?
No, it depends. Not cookie cake. That's probably been a happy hour before.
I don't remember. I believe so.
My bum patrol is going to be over something affecting Happycast as an entity.

(45:46):
Oh, no. That sounds bad, Ben. What is it?
It is bad. It happened actually last spring.
Do I know about this?
You probably do. In March of 2023, not long before that, there were a lot of new developments at Twitter.
And at some point as a result or maybe not correlation, I don't know for sure, of all of these new changes,

(46:09):
someone got into our Happycast account on Twitter and started posting a lot of spammy crypto links.
That was not us, by the way, guys, in case in case any of you thought that was us and like, wow,
what has happened to them? Not us.
We're not crypto bros? We're not selling happy coins?
That's a very valid full theme episode if you want to go for it.

(46:32):
But no, I tried to recover the account because I got like an email kind of back to back of let me see,
623, a new login from unknown location.
624, you recently changed your password.
626, your email address has been changed to something starting with MI and then a bunch of stars.

(46:54):
That's not either of us.
Well, it's mi stars at M stars dot stars.
So it could be Michigan Rick.
Oh, yeah, Michigan Rick.
Michigan Rick from Wisconsin.
He moved from Wisconsin.
OK, I mean, if he moved, I guess he would have to change his name to be accurate.

(47:16):
I mean, yeah, that's how it works.
My name is Bolton Panther and I just can't not be a cat.
Nearby cat. Yeah.
But I guess it's Michigan Rick at Michigan dot com.
I guess stole us.
I tried to email support just saying we haven't logged in in some time.

(47:39):
We got a series of emails. I mentioned what happened.
They needed some info from us, which included our username.
That was an easy one.
Email addresses that may be associated with the account.
I know what used to be, but not what is now.
The last date we had access.
I don't we hadn't been on that account in a while, so I didn't really keep track of when the last time was that we were on it.

(48:01):
And the phone number associated, which I don't know if that was our like our phone one we had through a Google Voice or mine or if we didn't have one at all.
So I gave some of the info and they were like, oh, well, actually, first I tried and nothing happened at all.

(48:21):
And I had to try again. And then they gave me like an account access form and I had to do it a second, I think even a third time.
And they kept emailing after I'd hear nothing back at all about how it went, just saying, how satisfied are you with the support you received?
And like I I have not received yet.
It's just been a robot talking to me.
Well, eventually they said, hello, we're writing to let you know that we're unable to verify you as the account owner.

(48:45):
Oh, well, at least they wrote you to let you know.
Yeah, I tried to put in all over the place.
I was like, if you look at the tweets before, you can see that here are links that we have to our podcast.
And on our podcast page, we have links to our Twitter linking back at it.

(49:05):
And I was trying to be like. Trying to find some way to prove that I am one of the two people on it.
But it was just mostly robots or automated things.
There's not actually a person to talk to.
So we that Twitter account eventually did get suspended and I am not able to recover.
Well, that's a happy gas Twitter page.

(49:26):
Yeah. But did you try reaching out to the new owner of Twitter?
Didn't didn't horse enslaved by Twitter? He's the owner now.
I think he is. I think he doesn't want that known.
Oh, OK. He probably bought it through like a shell corporation or something.
Well, a shell person. I think he helped the funding of it from what I've heard.

(49:46):
Oh, a shell man like like dry bones.
Why is dry bones the first shell man you thought of?
He has a shell, right?
I mean, it's a bone, though. It's like a bone shell.
I don't know who would your first shell man be like a Koopa or something?
Young Sheldon. Oh, all right.

(50:07):
Yeah, that'd be a good one.
Yeah. Yeah. A quick candidate then, one of our classic happy gas candidates.
You know, it's our feelings on the Big Bang Theory.
It's been previously stayed on the podcast.
Don't need to get into it again.
Um, I just wanted to report to you personally,
the staggering amount of people in my life who didn't watch the Big Bang Theory,

(50:30):
but are like big fans of young Sheldon.
It's weird. It's bizarre.
Really? Young people like my 11 year old me is a big fan of young Sheldon.
Like her friends watching Sheldon is watching it on Netflix.
You know, they have no idea what the Big Bang Theory is.
And then I was visiting my grandmother recently, and she's like,

(50:51):
have you seen this on this show? It's so funny.
And then she's talking about how her sister got her watching young Sheldon.
I'm like, OK, all right. Yeah.
And, you know, I sat there and watched some with her and it's fine.
It's kind of, you know, it's got like kind of like a wonder years
bite kind of flavor to it. So it's not a bad show.
But it's just really weird.
The people that have gotten into the spin off show

(51:14):
that don't care about the original, it's not something that I've been aware of before.
We actually have some D&D friends who said that, like,
it was surprisingly pretty OK to good, I think, compared to what before.
Yeah, yeah. Like it's.
You know, yeah, I watched a few.

(51:34):
I had my grandmother's house and it's fine.
I could see myself kind of, you know, binging through it if I had some time to kill.
It's totally it's better than the Big Bang Theory, in my opinion,
because not to not to feed a fed horse then, but. I.
You know, Big Bang Theory.

(51:56):
Felt a little bit mean and cynical in some ways, and this is not that from what I've seen.
Oh, so now it just ended to the finale was like last month.
So now I'm just waiting on the other spin off series, Old Sheldon,
where Jim Parsons in like old makeup looking like the lady from Titanic.
Oh, my God. What if they just took the kid and had him do it?

(52:20):
But he's just Sheldon now. That's the problem.
They did Young Sheldon for seven years, and now he's closer to
like Sheldon from the beginning of the Big Bang Theory, so it doesn't work.
But oh, yeah. Well, I mean, but what if you really aged him up?
Or if you called it like old young Sheldon.
The old young Sheldon Chronicles.

(52:41):
I mean, you could just cast an old man to be old Sheldon, you know, like
Bob Newhart is still kicking around.
He's in his 90s or the great legendary Dick Van Dyke.
He could be old Sheldon.
Is he still alive?
Yeah, he was actually a contestant on the Masked Singer like a year or two ago.

(53:02):
It was Ben and the Masked Singer.
Wow, he must have been sweating in that suit.
Yeah, yeah. I hope they really didn't keep him in there for too long because he is a very old man.
Can we do a Masked Singer episode of the Happy Cast?
I don't know how we would do it, but I'm going to say yes.
We'll figure it out later.
The Masked Podcaster.

(53:22):
Yeah. Oh, that's good. I really like that.
That'd be a great one when we have like a DVD or someone on.
Yeah, that's a good one.
Yeah, another podcaster for sure.
And you have people guessing like, I think it's Joe Rogan.
Like, no, it's DVD.
Oh, yes.
So you were saying that you don't really know of that kind of phenomenon happening before?

(53:47):
Yeah, like for like a spinoff, not even necessarily a spinoff, but a prequel connecting with a different audience than the source material seems unusual to me.
Oh, prequel specifically.
Yeah, yeah, specifically I would say a prequel.
Okay, I was about to try to call you out and be like, what about Happy Days? That was a spinoff.

(54:08):
That's true. That's true.
That's not a prequel show. Are there a lot of prequel shows?
I mean, I don't think so.
I mean, they could have done the Jacob Mann and Black show that I was pitching to ABC for years.
They just stopped returning my emails though.
Which email were you emailing them from?
From happycast at email.com.

(54:30):
Oh, that's probably why.
It's not at email.com.
We're Happy Cast Feedback.
Oh, at gmail.com, right?
I know. We just had that problem recently where someone who I will not name emailed happycast.podcast at, I think, gmail.com, which I don't know who that is.
Oh, speaking of, I want to tack one more thing on my bummer patrol.

(54:52):
There are a lot of posers out there who are not Happy Cast.
We are the one in original Happy Cast.
Famous original Happy Cast.
Yeah, it's stamped on all of our t-shirts, but there are posers out there.
Established in 1987.
Well, half of us were.
So tell us about, obviously you don't want to give free publicity to these pretenders who have thrown them, these fake Happy Cast.

(55:18):
The problem is, their name is also Happy Cast.
It makes it easier to find.
Right now, this one that's above us, and it might be because they released an episode 13 hours ago, and they have been recently.
But it's called, all right, this was confusing.
If you search, at least on the iOS store, it's just called Happy Cast, or podcast store.
It's called Happy Cast there.

(55:40):
And underneath it says Happy Endings Trail Productions.
But their logo says Happy Endings in big text at the top, Trail Crew below that, and somewhere in the middle in like medium text, Happy Cast.
Interesting, interesting.
From the folks who bring you Happy Endings Trail Crew, Dylan, Stephanie, and Andrew talk about how they started Happy Endings and the vision they have for building the community around trail running even stronger.

(56:03):
You know, Ben, I'm going to choose to look at this as like a clash half full situation.
I'm seeing opportunity here.
Because we kind of, you know, we kicked back, put our feet up for four years and got our college degrees and our babies and whatnot.
Meanwhile, these other podcasts have been out hustling weekly, putting shows out.

(56:27):
So now we get to swoop back in.
Maybe we'll get some runoff from their audience.
Maybe they'll actually like come on to our show.
Is that a pun because they're trail runners?
Not intentionally, but I will pick it, yes.
We need to, how do you mobilize audiences nowadays?
Bird scooters that they have in cities.

(56:48):
Stretch goals?
Oh, stretch goals.
Kickathons, right? Do we do kickathons?
We aren't fundraising, I forgot the word fundraising now.
What's the Kickstarter fundraising word? I thought there is one.
Crowdfunding.
Yeah, thank you. Thank you.
We aren't crowdfunding, but we can still do stretch goals.

(57:10):
And I think we need them for reviews in the app store.
Okay, okay.
We have nine. They have 25.
So we need to catch up.
We need 16 more.
And maybe before now in the next podcast, we can come up with a couple stretch goals that if we hit certain numbers of reviews, we'll do crazy stuff.

(57:33):
Can we pay people for reviews, Ben?
I want to see if I can get us caught up in some kind of scandal.
Well, I mean, sometimes that's how you get good press is bad press.
There's no such thing as bad publicity, Ben.
We will have stretch goals at some point in the future.
Don't let that stop you from reviewing now if you haven't already. We'll take it.

(57:54):
Also, another happy cast.
There's one just called happy cast by Peter Longbottom that I think is German based on the title or the description is it's get to cook and back.
Receptive. I don't know.
So we um fries talk to date.

(58:18):
I took German.
1717.
That long ago.
Your wife ago.
Yeah.
Yikes.
So apologies to all of our German listeners on that one.
But they even posted since like January 2022.

(58:39):
But still, that's newer than ours.
Another one called happy cast by someone named Kiyo.
That's all about good and positive events going on in the world, as well as talking about happy mood lifting subjects.
There's only a trailer in one episode, though, so I think we're good there.
It's hard to be against that. I can support that.
Who can forget this one? Happy cast colon the science of happiness.

(59:00):
It talks about positive psychology literature in an easily digestible format.
Not since 2021, but that's newer than us.
I don't mean to I don't want to blow up our spot, Ben, but wasn't there already one happy cast when we started our show?
Not that I remember.
OK, look, maybe we came over one.
There's happy cast hyphenated happy cast Mexico.

(59:24):
Don't know what that is, but 2021 is that when the pod explosion happened?
I maybe I think like, yeah, post post-Covid, everybody's at home.
They just started recording podcasts.
Everybody was baking bread and recording podcasts.
We only did four.
Yeah, we had stuff going on.
Oh, and one more happy cast by Jotika Betty.

(59:49):
It's called happy cast or happiness is love brings to you its most awaited podcast.
We lovingly call it happy cast.
And they had episode five days ago.
So we've got to get back into it.
We've been surpassed by these these new happy cast.
I know. Well, I mean, we are number two, at least when I search.
I don't know.

(01:00:10):
I'm number two, but we need no we need to surpass the trail runners.
That's going to be hard because you're really fast.
Yeah.
But they're on a trail.
So if we can stick to the road, we'll probably beat them.
We're going we're going to war with the trail runners.
All right, then I'm looking forward to it.
Sorry, that's that's also part of the Bummer Patrol is we lost our thing and not even to one of them.

(01:00:34):
It would have been better if one of them took it, I think.
What about you? What are you bummed about, Brian?
Well, first, I wanted to announce a stretch goal.
And I'd like to bend over and touch my toes for 30 seconds.
That's my stretch goal.
Brian, we could have saved that.
But if we get 10 reviews, we will bend down and touch our toes.

(01:00:56):
Oh, I could not save it.
No, we're announcing right now.
That's our stretch goal.
The first one, if we get our 10th review, we will both stretch and touch our toes.
OK, my Bummer Patrol, I forgot how to do this, Ben.
I'm a little bit rusty, so I'm going to try to ease into it by telling a story.

(01:01:18):
Wishbone.
I had a doctor's appointment this morning.
Standard checkup, routine stuff.
Everything is good.
Oh, good.
I was worried when that started with your that's how you started your Bummer Patrol.
I had a doctor's appointment.
Yeah, no, no, it's not bad as it sounds.
It was like a yearly checkup.
They were doing blood work kind of thing.

(01:01:40):
So I was told to not eat for 12 hours beforehand so they could draw blood.
I said, OK, fine.
And I know that they also are going to want a urine sample as well.
So I get to the office 10 minutes before my appointment at 9.45.
I sign in.
I wait.
I really have to go to the bathroom, but I know they need this urine sample.

(01:02:03):
So I'm waiting and waiting and waiting.
9.45 rolls around.
10 o'clock rolls around.
10.15 comes around.
Oh, no.
I'm on the edge of my seat, man.
I can't make it.
It's terrible.
They told me I'd be there at this time.
They needed the sample.
And I'm trying to wait and give them what they need.

(01:02:25):
So I guess my Bummer Patrol is...
You beat your pants.
No, I didn't. Things ended up being OK.
But I feel like if you have to give a sample, there should be a way for you to,
I don't know, bring it with you, do it there in the bathroom, in the waiting room.
I don't think you should have to wait until they decide it's OK to see you because nobody wants to hold it for that long.

(01:02:51):
It's not fun, man.
I've been drinking water all morning to prepare myself because I know you don't want to get there and then not be able to produce what you need.
So I guess urine samples is my Bummer Patrol.
I'm going to try to sum it up.
I think that is a new one.
I can check the Happy Cast Bible, but I think that's probably a new one.
It's not one of the ones that we've done three times already.

(01:03:13):
Just like one of the classics that we keep going back to.
Let me control F urine.
No results.
Oh, good.
All right.
I might have put P in there.
No, no, no.
Nothing under P.
We're clean.
OK, good.
I mean, we do have one result, though.
Actually, a couple.
Neil Orange Peel comes up because he has P in his name.

(01:03:35):
OK, yeah, yeah, yeah.
And miscellaneous free speech.
Oh, OK.
That's not bad.
Yeah.
No standalone P.
And I would like to add one, like, amendment to my Bummer Patrol.
Yes.
Which is, you know, after I go to the back and sample's given and I see the doctor, he's like, how are you?

(01:03:57):
I'm great.
He said, OK, we'll see you in six months or whatever.
They send me to another waiting area so they can draw the blood they need.
And they sit me down.
They're like, oh, sit at the table and wait.
So I sit down and there's a TV because, you know, doctors waiting rooms.
There's a lot of TVs playing.
Usually it's the news or, you know, live with Regis and Cathy Lee or whatever, whatever version of that's on the air now.

(01:04:22):
Is that still on?
Kelly and Jeff Rowe.
See, when I was watching Regis and Cathy Lee, it became Regis and Kelly.
And then Regis was killed by Kelly.
Kelly killed Regis.
And then, oh, my God, he's hosting with somebody else.
I don't know.
Is this one of the things that happened in the last four years?
That's a mystery.
Who killed Regis Philbin?

(01:04:43):
Yes.
Yes.
We'll have to put this on our mystery board.
I think it was.
But yeah, or the view.
They're like, you know, like waiting room stuff.
Stuff you see at the doctor, right?
I mean, I'm at the view killed Regis.
The view killed Regis.
But like, you know, there's like a standard kind of zone of like doctors waiting room TV, maybe a game show.

(01:05:07):
Yeah.
I look up at this TV while I'm waiting to get my blood taken and they're showing the 1995 Japanese animated film Ghost in the Shell.
And what?
Wait, what?
What's going on?
So that was kind of jarring, which it's a cool movie.
I remember watching when I was like a teenager.

(01:05:28):
It's like very influential on the Matrix.
So that's how I learned.
But just not what I expect to see at a at a doctor's waiting room.
Was one of the reception people just like super into it and got to choose what's on?
Maybe. Maybe.
But the weird thing is at the time, like I was isolated.
I was there by myself.

(01:05:49):
So maybe somebody had been there watching it before I got there.
Whoa.
Yeah, I don't know.
This isn't my story.
It's a thing I watched on another video.
But we talk about all the time.
I watched a YouTube video of these two guys who went to every.
What's called now?
Jungle.

(01:06:11):
Jungle restaurant.
Hard Rock Cafe.
The Jungle.
The Rainforest Cafe.
Yeah, thank you.
Hard Rock Cafe.
The Jungle Restaurant.
They play Welcome to the Jungle.
So that's therefore.
They only play that on a loop.
I don't know.

(01:06:32):
They should play that at the Rainforest Cafe though.
Welcome to the Jungle.
That'd be fun.
But it's a rainforest.
Is there a difference?
Kind of a weird outlet.
They make people walk through the rainforest.
Something listener Anne might know if a rainforest is different from a jungle.
Write in and let us know if you hear this.
No, yeah, but I watched a video with these two guys went to every Rainforest Cafe in like a month.

(01:06:56):
They traveled or that's in the US and Canada.
They drove around to all of them and aided all of them.
And it was apparently a pretty miserable experience overall.
But somewhere in there, the truck they were in broke down.
And so one of them had to like sit in this Midas in the middle of like Delaware or somewhere.
And apparently they had on the TV there Saving Private Ryan.

(01:07:18):
Okay.
And it played twice.
So not even like a TV.
Just like somebody had a DVD on repeat.
Apparently, which I'm sure is the best movie to be watching when it's like nine in the morning at a Midas Midas in the middle of Delaware.
So Ghost in the Shell is probably a better choice.
Maybe I think they're kind of like on similar ground.

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It's almost the same though.
It's pretty violent.
Oh, I have not seen it.
I've just heard of it.
And that the one that they made live action?
Sure.
Scarlett Johansson played the titular Ghost in the Shell.
Oh, she was the ghost.
She was the ghost and she had a shell and dry bones.

(01:08:04):
Ghost Sheldon.
Ghost in the Young Sheldon.
After old Sheldon.
Ghost in the Young Sheldon.
No, I'm sorry.
That's the title.
Ghost in the Shell.
Oh, I missed this.
Stupid.

(01:08:30):
Oh, all right.
But yeah, that concludes my rubber patrol.
I have one more quick question.
Yes.
How bad of an artist did they have that it took them like that long to draw your blood?
I mean, they were they were using like a new, you know, new medium that they weren't used to.
They were doing oil painting and I think traditionally they've done like watercolor.

(01:08:54):
So it took a while to get it right.
But you'd be a lot easier if they just use blood as their medium.
I, you know, I'll tell the next time I'm there.
Maybe maybe they hadn't considered it yet.
I feel like the Ghost in the Sheldon.
We got to move to a new segment.
OK, well, let's move on to I don't I don't even know what we're doing next. A surprise segment.

(01:09:19):
A surprise segment that I did not tell you in advance.
We have so many, so many segments that we could pull from.
We could do a classic Netflix picks, but that one is probably going to require me to now change the song.
We changed it once already to add Hulu in.
But I mean, there are so many now.
I don't want to change the name.
I mean, we'll have to wait for you to give your full, full hearted recommendation to Reba.

(01:09:45):
Oh, yeah. Why do I keep getting that's a I guess a minor bummer patrol.
Netflix keeps sending me emails that new seasons of Reba came on and nothing against the show Reba.
But nothing in my Netflix algorithm should have told them that I want to see Reba.
It's like I've gotten multiple screenshots of them sending you one for like every season like Ben.

(01:10:07):
There's a new season of Reba.
I know you just went to season two. Season three is here.
That's what was weirder is I only got two of those emails and it was season two and season five.
Like are three and four like the bad Reba seasons?
Sure, sure. That's like the season of Community without Dan Harmon.
People don't talk about those seasons.
Oh, no, no, no, no. That's the season of Reba without Dan Harmon.

(01:10:30):
What I we could have done Netflix pick, but that's going to be I have to edit a whole new bumper for that one.
It will take a while. We could have done another like no news is not new news.
But the thing is sometimes it's hard to find news because news is just crazy now.
What else is the classic happy cast?
Um, jumping jet flashback.
Oh, yeah. Box office banter.

(01:10:53):
That's a good one.
The danger zone when one of us is about to die or feel like we're about to.
That's true. That's true. I think part of the past four years was a danger zone for everyone then.
That's true.
But I thought a good way to sort of come back would be to do a reintroduction of sorts.
Uh, an over an hour in to the podcast, which I am doing in the form of who's the Brian?

(01:11:25):
Welcome to who is the no. Welcome to who's the Brian?
Who is the Brian?
This is the segment where I don't know how I introduced it before.
We've done it a handful of times. We have who's the Brian and you don't know Ben.
Ah, yeah, you don't know Ben.
And when it's one of you guys better know a listener, better know a podcaster.

(01:11:46):
But this is where I will ask Brian five questions rapid fire.
You'll have to answer all five of them.
And then afterwards, not pay, you'll have to face the music of his answers.
I guess there will be consequences.
There will be blood that is drawn slowly.

(01:12:10):
So, Brian, the fate of all the survivors will be revealed.
All of them, even striped shirt girl.
Yeah, yeah, that was that's a good pull then.
It was one of the socks.
Oh, the socks. I forgot that's what they were called.
Yes, I think none of the stuff was in my brain.

(01:12:32):
Like it all got pushed out by all the college stuff.
C.S. runtime.
Like, you know how to like optimize things.
And then as soon as we start podcasting, I immediately remember police.
Sure, sure.
As soon as you heard the phrase ghost Michelle, then I activated you like the winter soldier.
And now you remember all the useless podcast knowledge.
I don't even know what a for loop is anymore.

(01:12:54):
It's gone now.
Yeah. So, Brian, do you understand how who's the Brian works?
And are you ready for your timed five questions?
I believe so.
I'm ready. I'm excited.
And I will just say that my dog has jumped up to my lap.
So if you hear her snoring, let me know and I will move to another roof.

(01:13:19):
Here comes the countdown. I don't know how I said it last time, but it will start now.
Question one, if you could only eat one color of food for the rest of your life, what color?
Green.
Now question two, what's the weirdest thing you've ever had in your mouth?
A bunch of ants.
All right. Other than ants.

(01:13:40):
Because we have a title of an episode called Mouthful of Ants where you told that story and I hate that one.
Not the episode. The story makes me feel weird.
Oh, gee. Wasabi milkshakes.
Okay. Wasabi milkshake. I'm typing it in so I remember the notes.
Three, if you could replace all of the grass in the world with something else, what would it be?
Astro turf.
Okay. Four, if you were to create a new holiday, what would it be called?

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Oh, it would be Oceanic 815 Day, September 22nd.
Wait, that's long. Is that last part also part of it?
No, no. That's just when Oceanic 815 Day is.
It's like, today is Christmas. 1225.
And question five, if you could steal any one thing without getting caught, what would it be?

(01:14:29):
Oh, oh. The, I'm going to say Archie Bunker's chair.
Finish!
Oh, just under the timer. Very nice.
Alright.
Now it is time to face the consequences.
See, saying it like that makes it sound like it's a weird reality show where I'm going to bring in a wasabi milkshake.
And Archie Bunker's chair.

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For the first question, if you could only eat one color for the food for the rest of your life, you chose green.
Yeah, yeah. Green because, you know, I'm older now, Ben. I try to eat well.
So, you know, a lot of healthy foods are green.
But, you know, that does also leave the door open for, there's a fair amount of junk food that's green.
I could still enjoy like a pistachio ice cream or something like that.

(01:15:14):
Oh, OK. That's a good point. Some types of mint chocolate.
Sure. And, you know, on St. Patrick's Day, I can have beer because they paint it green.
I mean, they use food color. I know they don't use paint.
I mean, who knows? Who knows bar to bar how they do things?
Also, is there a, is there a, yeah, right. We use lead paint to make our beer green.

(01:15:37):
Do you want regular or unleaded?
Can I, can I use, is there a loophole where I can just use green food coloring to make anything green?
It doesn't say you can't. You just have to go through and do that.
OK, well, OK, I can do that then. So if I really had a craving for a specific food, I could greenify it.
Yes. But if at a certain, I don't know if about baking, do we have a baker listener?

(01:16:04):
I mean, I'm sure one of our listeners picked up baking during COVID. Yeah, sure.
Baking skilled listener, let us know if adding too much food coloring changes the consistency or flavor of a food.
Green, that is interesting. You know who you would or who should get as a personal chef is Sam I Am.

(01:16:26):
Oh, right. Green eggs and ham, of course. Yeah, I do not like them, though.
Oh, you don't like them? No, no, not in the box, not with a fox. None of these things.
I mean, I didn't suggest you eat them in a box or with a fox. I don't know why you brought that up.
Oh, OK, sorry, sorry. I mean, why are you projecting all these animals in places? I never said you'd have to eat them.

(01:16:49):
Regardless of location or dining companion, I do not want to eat green eggs. But green, everything else is fine.
Yeah, sure. Like, you know, like a green pancake.
For question two, the weirdest thing you've ever had in your mouth was the wasabi milkshake green?
Yeah, I think it might have been so I could still have those. Would you want to?

(01:17:11):
I mean, I didn't hate it, honestly. So I mean, so I was at a Cold Stone Creamery with a friend of the pod, Chris.
I've heard of them. Yep, yep. And they had a seasonal flavor that was wasabi ice cream.
And I decided I wanted to try it as a milkshake. And it was it was interesting, you know, because the wasabi really kind of opens up your sinuses.

(01:17:33):
You can breathe well, but the the the creaminess of the milkshake balanced it.
It was not bad, but it was strange.
I mean, that that does sound strange for me personally. I think it would also be bad.
I mean, yeah, I don't think you would like it. No, no.
But I also acknowledge and I have a lot of times in the podcast that I have a weird flavor palette.

(01:18:00):
I mean, on our last season finale, it was revealed that you're a super taster. Oh, was it?
Maybe. I think we talked about it on the show.
I feel like we either talked about after or before. So, yeah, listeners who remember that one or listen to it regularly on repeat while you go to sleep.
That's all of you, I think. Right. Let us know. What about the ants? Were they green?

(01:18:23):
It was dark, so I can't say for sure. It was it was upsetting.
Yeah, I imagine anyone who is interested in hearing that Mouthful of Ants story again, go check out Epidition 47 Mouthful of Ants.
I love your annotations like you're like the old Marvel comics with like Stan Lee at the bottom, like true believers.

(01:18:47):
Go back to Spider-Man issue 32 for the introduction of this villain.
See, that would be helpful. This is something that has happened to me because of D&D and college stuff.
Way better than having to try to just remember. I have notes all over the place about stuff.
Question three was if you could replace all the grass and a lot of green questions, replace all the grass in the world with something else.

(01:19:10):
What? You picked AstroTurf. AstroTurf. You know, it's close enough.
It's better to because as a as a lawn having person, it would be nice not to have to mow the lawn.
So you get you know, it looks close enough to grasp it without the maintenance. I think it's a great idea. I'd be into that.
How much AstroTurf have you had to walk on?

(01:19:32):
Um, very little. I think I've encountered some at like a maybe a mini golf course had some AstroTurf.
You know, not not not a lot of places. OK, because I was in marching band for years and the main time I do walk march on AstroTurf was in the semester that I did college band for the Razorbacks.

(01:19:59):
Arkansas. Everyone knows that already. We had to do that on AstroTurf fields and it was hot outside in that heat heats up the AstroTurf in the weird little black balls that were in the AstroTurf.
I don't know why they're there really, maybe for texture and it goes through your shoe and it's very hot.
Well, I don't I don't plan on walking on this AstroTurf then I'm going to look out the window and say, oh, that looks like grass and go about my business for all of the grass in the world.

(01:20:27):
You're never going to walk on any piece of grass ever again.
Well, I mean, I mean, I think the premise of the question is flawed from the get go because I think replacing all the grass in the world with anything would have like dire consequences.
It would really prove the whole ecosystem.
What if you like switch it to like another like moss or something?
Or corn?

(01:20:48):
Oh, is that the work around? It could have been it could have been moss.
Is corn grass?
How about just like hay or straw? There's a difference between them and I don't know and I refuse to learn.
There's a turkey in one of them. That's how you know.
There's a turkey in the hay. Yes, yes.
Question four, if you had to create a new holiday, you chose Oceanic 815 day 921.

(01:21:11):
22 Ben, 22.
Oh, sorry to get on my anniversary the day before they go.
Oh, the disrespect.
No. Well, I mean, they they are about to get on the plane on on September 21st.
Oh, sure, sure. They all have their tickets already and everything.
That's pre-boarding day. Yes, of course.
Yeah.
That's why we got married that day. Not we. I mean, me and Megan.

(01:21:35):
I was there too, Ben.
You were, but I don't remember my grandpa marrying us.
I was up there on the stage. All eyes were on me. I remember it like it was yesterday.
Were you just like muttering all of the answers to Megan's half?
Pull up the wedding video. We're legally married.
No, you got me.

(01:21:56):
You get half of all my assets.
And now I own half the podcast. I mean, well, I already own half the podcast.
And now I own half your half. I own three quarters of the podcast.
Is that how that works?
What's the lore? Did we ever get it back from Orson Slade?
I don't know. I don't know. We need to clean that up sometimes.
Does he still own it?
I think so. I mean, you know, he's had his hands full Twitter recently,

(01:22:18):
so maybe he's forgotten about us. We're on the back burner.
I've heard that's been a dumpster fire.
I haven't been on a lot of social media at all recently, so I'm not sure.
But I've heard a lot's going on.
But how would people celebrate Oceanic 815 922 Day?
I don't know. You watch Lost. You just watch the pilot for Lost. Reminisce about good times.

(01:22:43):
The episode or Greg Grunberg?
Greg Grunberg, yes. Yes.
Or they could play the video game Lost via Domus.
Oh, yeah. Maybe you could get on a flight from Sydney to LA.
Sure, sure. Maybe it'll crash because things excepted with planes have been real shaky lately.
I don't know if you followed this news, but you're not having a great time.

(01:23:05):
Yeah, the doors are falling off. It's weird.
Oh, no, I have not been fault.
That's one of the consequences of not being on social media or really anything is I don't know what's going on.
And I mean, honestly, I'm happy.
I mean, I like hearing from you and other people. That's what I mean.
OK. Yeah, I'll send you some links, Ben. They're planes. They've been in the news lately.

(01:23:27):
Are they falling out of the sky?
No, not like not quite. But like we've had like wheels falling off and doors falling off.
So instead of no news is not new news, we're going to have like just news.
Yeah, just just the news. Like Ben has not been keeping up with the news in general.
So new segment. Brian tells Ben the news.

(01:23:48):
Yeah, just just world events. OK, yeah, I like that.
We'll add that to our list. Question five was if you could steal any one thing without getting caught, you chose Archie Bunker's chair.
Why? You know, I was thinking of some kind of famous like movie or television memorabilia.
And I believe that that's famously on display at the Smithsonian, you know, in Washington, D.C.

(01:24:12):
So I don't know. It'd just be a cool like thing to have in your house.
The talking point like folks come over and you're like, oh, that easy chair belonged to a famous TV racist.
And then, you know, it's just, you know, it's an important part of television history.
Ben is getting that going to be your national treasure.
Yep, there there's there's a map on the back of the Declaration of Independence that cage missed.

(01:24:39):
Yes, there's a second map, a smaller map.
It's actually you see, he didn't have a lot of experience with like bad escape rooms.
So you didn't think to use a black light. It was actually a black light map on it.
I didn't know that they had black light writing technology back in the 1700s.
Oh, no. See, that's so that somebody actually like stole it in like the 70s and like added it later.

(01:25:04):
That doesn't make more sense. How would like Ben Franklin know how Archie Bunker is or where his chair would be?
No, no. See, it was added much later.
I mean, he could be a time traveler. It feels like he would be Archie Bunker.
No, Ben Franklin. Oh, OK. Yes, that makes more sense.
I mean, he and Doc Brown both have crazy hair and associations with lightning.

(01:25:29):
Although I do have this problem where now when I think of Ben Franklin, I just think of Andy Daly as the Ben Franklin impersonator from the episode The Office.
Yeah. I think we talked about that a week or two ago with our D&D friends.
It's yeah, it's it's overtaken my my all my mind space for Ben Franklin.

(01:25:50):
It blew my mind when I learned that that was Andy Daly once I learned who Andy Daly was through other means.
Yes, yes. I was like, what?
Anyway, yes. So that is Who's the Brian?
If any one of you want to write in what your responses would be to the five questions here, here they are one more time real quick.
If you could only eat one color of food for the rest of your life, what and why?

(01:26:11):
The weirdest thing you're putting your mouth.
If you could replace all the grass in the world with something else, what would it be and why?
If you had to create a new holiday, what would it be called and how people celebrate it?
And if you could steal any one thing without getting caught, what and why?
You can send your answers to happycastfeedback at gmail.com.
We look forward to hearing from you.
So yeah, we've another another edition of Who's the Brian is in the books.

(01:26:33):
Do we have time? I think we have time for a little bit of feedback.
Mail time. Hey, you know what that means?
Mail time.
Welcome. You've got mail.
Goodbye.
Time for time for listener feedback.
If you want to again, we decided the email address is happycastfeedback at gmail.com.

(01:26:57):
Drop us a line. Leave a comment on our Facebook page.
You know how to reach us. Just, you know, get in touch with us.
We'd like to hear from you.
We're not on Twitter, obviously, but we are on Instagram still, technically, which I think is Happy Cast Podcast.
We're on the gram.
And we're not on the Tiki Talk yet, but maybe in the future.

(01:27:18):
I hope not. I don't want to do it.
Now we'll get a social media manager first.
Yes, let's hire a young person to run that stuff for us.
We get someone to do that and like teach us some some Tic Tok dances.
Yeah, yeah, absolutely. We just need to find like a find like a 23 year old that can run these things for us.
Oh, I mean, we're all A.I. anyway, so we can have an A.I. generate that too.

(01:27:41):
That's that's a good point.
All right. Feedback, though. Yes, we do have some we have three pieces of real feedback.
Wow, I am shocked.
I know it is insane, but it's true.
So here is what we have.
I want to go in chronological order of when we got the feedback.

(01:28:04):
First, we have from April 28th, 2020, we have an email from Neil the Orange Peel himself.
Old Neil. Hey, don't call him old.
We're all older now, Ben.
Ben and Brian get old.
Hashtag happy cast story.
I was trying to do another Ghost in the Sheldon, but I don't think there's any more room for puns in there to include us.

(01:28:30):
So this email, some of it might be confusing because it is referring to something that happened the last step or things happened last episode that I don't remember.
But he says, Hi, chaps, how's it going?
Just to clear something up from last week's feedback, we do use miles per hour in the UK.
I think we're the only country in Europe that does.

(01:28:51):
But then we also weigh things in kilograms for some things and stones pounds for others.
It's very confusing at times.
I can't. I don't know what we would have been talking about.
Yeah, me neither. His happy hour for the week of April 28th, 2020 is mastering the art of cooking the perfect French toast.
They were still in lockdown. He has more time to improve himself.
So he's been experimenting in the kitchen.

(01:29:12):
And after a few tries, he thinks he's perfected French toast.
It takes him five minutes to cook and is delicious.
Neil, if you still have that skill, please, I need an update on if you've gotten even better.
If you like lost that skill or unlocked a new level of French toast.
What kind of bread do you use?
Oh, yeah. What kind of French's mustard?

(01:29:37):
That's what it is, right?
Yeah, you dredge the bread in French's mustard and then you fry it in the pan.
And that's what gives it that beautiful yellow color.
Hmm. I am not a mustard aficionado, Brian, but you are.
I do enjoy mustard.
It was your happy hour in Epidition 27.

(01:29:58):
There are many kinds of mustard, Ben. I've been really on a spicy Dijon phase lately.
Ooh, yeah, I don't have a list here what it was then, but that episode is The War on Hugs.
The War on Hugs, of course. Yes, yes.
For those who might want to know.
His bummer patrol that week was his broken TV over the weekend.
No, his broken TV over the weekend, his TV decided to give up the ghost,

(01:30:23):
which wouldn't be too bad if any of the electrical stores were open.
He said he has bought a new one, but the delivery delivery dates are 10 to 21 days.
Yeah, I dates were bad then.
So at the moment, Mrs. Peel and he were trying to watch stuff on a tiny old 28 inch until the new one arrives.
Yeah, 28 inch TV is not terrible.
I mean, I end up in a modern context or used to bigger TVs, but I'm just saying that 20 years ago,

(01:30:49):
28 inch TV, that would have been great.
That's true. What about four years ago, though?
Yeah, it was kind of a bummer. I think he buys in. I don't know.
What are you rocking right now on your living room, Ben? I've got a 50 inch TV, I believe.
It might be a 60 or 70. I don't remember.
Oh, wow.
I don't measure it a lot.

(01:31:11):
I mean, you should measure it more often.
Across the diagonal, right?
Of course, of course.
Okay, good. Also, he has attached that week's Photoshop challenge.
Oh, well, I can't wait to see that on the Facebook page.
Although I think in the four years since last episode,
Photoshop challenge has been dethroned by just like AI generated stuff now.

(01:31:35):
Now you'd think so, but the made ones have a better charm to them.
I think we need to settle this once for all.
We need to have Neil versus the machine.
Who could have a better Photoshop challenge entry?
Like Oh Henry? No, not Oh Henry. John Henry?
Yeah, like John Henry and his hammer.
Yeah, where he was. Yeah, hammer's going to be the death of me, Lord.

(01:31:56):
That's the ballad of John Henry.
Yep, that's coming soon. The ballad of Neil Orangefield.
Photoshop's going to be the death of me.
Classic Manverts machine. If you want to see it now, I will share it with you, Brian.
If you want to, you know, comment on it or try to understand what's going on.
Oh, sure, sure. I maybe I don't even know what the challenge is.
So maybe I can see if I can like just get like you let you know from looking at it.

(01:32:21):
Yeah. And listeners at home, I'm probably going to put this as the picture of the episode,
as was the original tradition of putting the previous week's thing on there for no reason.
It makes no sense that way. But I don't know. It'll be on Facebook page at least.
OK, so it appears to be Vin Diesel in a face to face confrontation with Jim Carrey as the Hulk.

(01:32:45):
And they're drinking seltzer waters. And there's a I don't there's like a molecule man wearing blue jeans.
I have no idea what I'm looking at.
What about the clouds, Brian?
Oh, so there are various like social media things in the clouds. I see Snapchat, YouTube.

(01:33:08):
Maybe maybe maybe that's the icon for Tick Tock. I don't I don't know.
So yeah, that's that's what Tick Tock is.
Oh, it's a music note. Oh, my God. I never realized that was a music note.
I thought it was a D and had no idea why. Oh, so that is the tick tock emblem, though, right?
They should have chosen chosen something that's more definitively like a T.

(01:33:32):
Yeah, exactly. And then I know originally it was like a lip syncing app,
but they should have like updated their icon after it became something else.
It was musically before anyway, so I don't even know that wouldn't have a T or D at all.
Yeah. So what he said was he's put the Hulk wearing the mask next to Vin Diesel holding a polar seltzer
next to an old man shouting at social media clouds. Oh, and there's also Dino Jeans too.

(01:33:56):
Oh, Dino Jeans too. If I remember right, that DNA guy, I can't remember his name, is the one from Jurassic Park.
Yeah, Mr. DNA. I don't remember his name either.
That might be it. He said, Key all those pappies. TTFN, the orange is Neil covered in peel.
So a very belated thank you to Neil for his email and his Photoshop challenge.

(01:34:18):
Yes. And if you still listen or listen to this,
please update us on both the French toast and if you ever got your TV.
Yes, I'd love to hear from him. He might have moved on from us, Ben.
We have another email, which I think don't you read these, Brian?
Ones from the New Today. Oh, I hate cold reading so much, Ben.

(01:34:42):
That's always the best with the New Today emails.
OK, so the New Today writes, OMG, it's happening. I was wondering why I was able to feel happy for an hour at a time or bummed again.
The happy hour other than your return is this weekend going to Nashville to see Dury in concert with Vibia.
What's Dury? Is that a band?

(01:35:05):
I think I thought a Dury is like a spiky fruit that smells bad.
Oh, why would you why would you go see that in concert?
I don't maybe it's like the California raisins.
OK, all right.
The Nashville durian.
OK, I'll continue. Maybe she'll maybe she'll offer further context.
Yeah. A year and a half ago or so, I discovered them on TikTok.

(01:35:32):
And and then saw this year they're doing tours.
I was telling Cliff about them and we ended up each buying two tickets to go within minutes of each other.
Oopsie daisy, oopsie doopsie. Sorry.
I thought it's a doopsie daisy because that's the thing I've heard before.
This is oopsie doopsie.
The New Today would never say something as normal as.

(01:35:54):
No, no, no, nothing that derivative.
Oopsie, oopsie doopsie.
Bummer Petrol is mosquitoes.
I'm sure they have some good qualities, but all the ones I come across suck me like a juice box.
He every pappy of the new today.
Thank you.
The new day. Thank you.

(01:36:15):
So this is a recent email then this is one that's been saying the inbox for four years.
Oh, yeah, I didn't I didn't specify when this one came in.
This one.
This might have been the one that was emailed to happycast.podcast.
Oh, OK. Maybe those trail runners got it.
I don't know.
Very confused.

(01:36:36):
Their most recent episode.
They're like, oopsie doopsie. I don't know what that means.
Well, I don't know what a durian is, but I will look into it further and I will report back to the show of my findings.
No, no, no, no. That's not how we get listener feedback.
We refuse to look it up.
You have to let us know.
That's how you get them to respond.

(01:36:58):
Sorry, sorry, I forgot.
I mean, I feel like I've seen that on like YouTube and like TikTok and stuff where you purposely get things wrong or have things in the background you don't acknowledge.
So people in the comments would be like, oh, guys, did you not see this?
And then you get a lot of like, you know, yeah, yeah, that's right.
That's right.
See, I'm bad at Internet stuff then.

(01:37:19):
That's you're totally right.
We need to we need to drive up listener engagement in that way.
I'll be the social media manager, the one who thought the TikTok thing was a D.
I'm sure you'll be great at it.
But they got that message to me yesterday.
And then this morning.
Another one this morning?

(01:37:40):
We got a third one this morning.
Also, so far we've had a key key all those Pappies and key every Pappy.
Maybe we'll get like a third iteration.
I think we will hear this one is from Mrs.
Panther because she knew that we were recording.
She says, I mean, usually she does an audio, but I think she was at work when she sent this.

(01:38:04):
So instead it is a text.
Hey, happy cast.
Welcome back.
This is Megan, a.k.a.
Mrs.
Panther. Long time no hear.
I hope you've been staying happy.
I can't wait to hear what you've both been up to these past few years.
I definitely don't know at all.
The implication is that you have been silent to her the past four years.

(01:38:25):
Like, if only I could hear from Ben again.
I only hear from him via this podcast.
That's true.
That's the only way we ever communicate because you have to be there too.
Is why that's why you were at the wedding.
Right. Of course.
I forgot that.
That was the one condition that you get married under is if I was there.
Yeah.
And for those who weren't there and don't know, I did say all the vows and stuff, but through Brian.

(01:38:49):
Oh, right.
I was.
I was the proxy like, you know, like the guy on like the rest development, the guy with the hat.
Let's I I can't remember well enough to pull that reference.
You know what?
Oh, it's the name's not Franklin.
His real name might have the word Franklin in it, but Franklin is a puppet.
She does continue.

(01:39:10):
My happy hour is cute puzzle games like Chickory, a colorful tale, a little Gator game and little kitty big city.
They're fun and so relaxing and I recommend all of them.
I will second that.
Those are all fun and relaxing games.
I do like fun and relaxing games.
I'll probably talk about them at some point in a warp zone in the future.

(01:39:31):
Herb on patrol is the fact that summer is pretty much here and the wasps are coming out.
It's terrifying.
Anyway, keep stay happy.
Oh, we got to keep stay happy now.
Well, at least we got one stay in there, one vote for stay, which is the only accurate one.
But OK, but also I could be getting my happy cats lore mixed up.

(01:39:53):
Isn't is it?
This is Panther, the originator of tea.
Oh, I can't.
That might be in here.
You know, let me check because I do have one of the columns of my spreadsheet is stay.
Keep happy to keep track of what was said at the end.
I have impressions and characters.
Have we had any impressions or characters this this episode?

(01:40:15):
Epidition.
Sorry, I don't.
I don't think so.
Ben quick be be old Sheldon.
I haven't even seen the show, though.
You have seen the show.
Young Sheldon, at least.
So you know what he's like.
I can't.
I can't.
I'll be ghosting the Sheldon if you can be old Sheldon.
I mean, old Sheldon, just like, he sounds like he's funny.

(01:40:36):
Oh, I got to go to the cleaners and wash my DC comics t shirts.
OK, that's old Sheldon.
All right.
Ghosting the Sheldon.
Boozing.
Go.
OK.
Fine.
Fine.
That was worth it.
I'm glad.
I'm glad we took that.
Another episode title.
No, I'm keeping ghosting the Sheldon.

(01:40:58):
Stay happy.
We had we were kind of alternating or one of us saying it back and forth for a while.
The first keep I have on here is that one of us said it wrong and then we swapped and
the other one of us said it wrong.
OK.
Well, it still might have originated from her.
I'm not positive.

(01:41:19):
I just.
Ben, I can tell you right now, a few days from now I'm going to wake up and when I
wake up and see in my podcast feed ghosts in the Sheldon, I'm just going to pump my
fist and say, yeah, we're back, baby.
Breaking news.
Oh, I control F and found it.

(01:41:40):
Oh, wow.
OK.
What is it?
What's the origin of keep happy?
Epidition three.
Wow.
So early.
Yeah.
In the notes I have in here, for some reason, the new today says keep happy.
Wow.
It was, you know, honestly, shouldn't be surprised.

(01:42:03):
No, I mean, rule breaker trendsetter, the new today.
Absolutely.
I mean, I mean, where else other than the originator of Oopsy Doopsy would keep happy
from?
Maybe the new today will have to change her name to Oopsy Doopsy.
Who knows?
The new today came from an episode she was on to.

(01:42:25):
Well, I think is that it?
Do we do it?
I think so.
I can't believe it.
It's been so long.
I don't even remember how to end these things, but I think that's a podcast.
Oh, whoa.
Is that just how we end with it's a podcast?
That's a podcast.
Bye.
No.
Thank you, everyone, for joining us.

(01:42:48):
We made it to the end.
Congratulations.
We do appreciate you taking the time to join us, listen to these ramblings.
What did this one clock in at, Ben?
Did we hit like an hour and a half on this?
That is a good question.
I don't know what time we started.
Around then.
Ah, fair, fair.
Okay.
Well, so I had a great time.

(01:43:10):
Hopefully you guys had a good time, too.
And we will see you next week here on Happy Pass.
Well, then remember, be happy.

(01:43:42):
Greetings.
I am Dr. Sheldon Cooper, esteemed physicist and star of the Big Bang Theory on CBS.
You are now tuned into the Happy Cast.
I want to make it clear that I do not give my stamp of approval to either Ben or Brian, and I cannot be held accountable for their emotional highs and lows.
Let it be known that both parties are currently bound by a non-disclosure agreement and should refrain from discussing any projects within the Sheldon verse.

(01:44:08):
Remember, happiness is a complex equation that must be balanced carefully.
Thank you and maintain a state of contentment.
That's the podcast.
Bye.

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