Time is your most precious commodity. It's the
only thing that when you run out of it, it's
gone. You're gone. So people aren't... It's not
existential. People aren't inclined to waste
their time on something like this, trying to
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Cash Exchange. Welcome. What's up? Not much.
I am transitioning jobs right now. How's that
going? I get to meet a new staff sometime soon.
It's good. The service industry is kind of the
same no matter where you go. It's going to be
the same soup, just reheated. Speaking of, I
just made some... Potato soup last Sunday. And
it was fantastic. It's not soup season yet. It's
still 100 degrees outside. What are you doing?
Emily was sick. That's my good fiance. Don't
mind me. I'm pretty good, you know. All things
considered. Living my best life, best I can.
Just out here chugging away, man. Still, uh...
Still pushing for those... Oh, shit. Whoops.
My current podcast set up because I haven't replaced
my webcam yet. I have to like prop up my laptop.
And right now it's on my new collection of DVDs
because I am tired of streaming services. So
I'm trying to build up my DVD collection again.
Oh, what you got? Currently, it's just a bunch
of like 2000s comedies. Not another teen movie?
Not yet. I haven't found that one yet. I went
to Half Price Blitz and just got a bunch of ones
from the clearance section. So right now I have
51st State, 40 -Year -Old Virgin, The Breakup,
Anchorman, and Rush Hour, which is still in its
plastic with a Blockbuster sticker from 2006.
That's like a collector's item. I think so. You
can't open that. Yeah, no, I don't know what
germs are in that DVD case after 19 years of
being in the plastic. Yeah. I don't remember
what was going around in 06. I was too busy being
7. Well, yeah, yeah. All right, you ready for
today's trace items? What you got for me? What
do New Coke, Ford Pintos, and the Microsoft Zune
have in common? The only thing... And I'm not
sure this is the right car. The only thing that
I think that I know about the Ford Pinto was
that it was the exploding one. Yeah. Because
of a live episode of Stuff You Should Know. Back
when I was like deep on that podcast. Have you
ever seen the movie Top Secret with Val Kilmer?
It was like a Naked Gun movie, but it was spy
based. One of the gags in it is that this Ford
Pinto goes rolling down this hill like at top
speed. It starts to gradually slow down and you
think everything's going to be fine. And then
it just barely taps a tree and then just boom,
explodes. Okay. Because in the designing of the
Ford Pinto, the gas tank was not reinforced and
it was also exposed. And so all it would take
is a little spark and then boom goes the Pinto.
That is genuinely horrifying. They'd made plenty
of cars before then. Why did they think that
that was just like added protection that they
didn't need? They're just trying to cut costs.
And did they? How many times did they get sued
for the? Oh, quite a bit. Quite a bit. And then
all the recalls. But it wasn't. Did you know?
That the Ford Edsel was the inspiration for the
car that Homer built. Oh, I didn't know there
was an inspiration for the car that Homer built.
It's so ridiculous. I didn't think it could have
come from. Yep, came from the Ford Edsel. So
I wasn't sure which one to put on this list,
but I went with the Pinto because it's got a
little more name recognition. But if you get
a chance, look up the Ford Edsel. E -D -S -E
-L. Okay, so. The Ford Pinto. Yes. New Coke.
And what was the third one? The Microsoft Zune.
Absolute failures of products. That was pretty
close. I think that the Microsoft Zune failed
because it just came out at the wrong time. It's
like the twin films where they're just basically
the same thing. It came out too close to the
iPod. I would say that that's kind of fair. I
would also say that the, usually with twin films,
they're the same caliber. It's not like one was
straight to DVD and then the other one was, you
don't consider those twin films. The straight
to DVD is just a knockoff. But if both movies
are in the theaters, they're usually of the same
quality. And the Zune was a total piece of garbage
compared to the iPod. Fair. And. That leads us
into today's topic, which is spinoffs and new
iterations of things that we don't really need,
don't really want, and sometimes all around just
suck. I already have a lot of thoughts when it
comes to this topic, but I need to know before
I go on any kind of rants, is this specific to
spinoffs or are we doing the prequel sequels?
Well. I didn't know. I don't know what is because
I was dancing between reboots and spinoffs. So
what is your definition of a reboot and what's
your definition of a spinoff? I would consider
a reboot something that has been off of the air
for a while or something that was made a good
amount of time ago and would also contain all
of the same characters. So like if you think
of. What is it? Seinfeld and Frasier? No. Cheers
and Frasier. Cheers and Frasier. If you think
of like Cheers and Frasier, that's a spinoff
because it's not the same people. It is a person
from it, but it's not inherently the same thing.
But if they rebooted it with all of the same
characters at the same bar or something like
that, then it would be a reboot of Cheers. Okay.
Yeah, Frasier is in its whole own category because
it has a spinoff. It is a spinoff. And then it
also has a reboot. That's a reboot? Yeah, they
rebooted it, I don't know, last year, year before.
Really? I did not. Yeah, it went off with a fizzle.
I could imagine. There's no Niles in it. Like
it's a yin without a yang. I imagine if this
one ends up in the shorts, I'm going to get grilled
for it again. I've never seen Frasier or Cheers
for that matter. They're both before my time.
I just know that they exist and were culturally
significant TV. I didn't like Frasier. I didn't
like Cheers. I've tried to sit down and watch
a couple episodes and just not for me. It's real
boring. That's where Woody Harrelson got a start.
Yeah. Made Ted Danson famous. Danny DeVito was.
Was that what made Danny DeVito famous? I thought
that was Taxi. No, it was Taxi. Just Taxi. No,
maybe not. Rhea Perlman, his wife, though, is
where she has the most popularity. Yeah, maybe
I'm wrong about the Danny DeVito thing. But yeah,
it's just not for me. But I loved Frasier. Frasier
was a good show. Yeah, it always had like an
air of just being pretentious and haughty. But
when you get down to it, it's a pretty good show.
That is the general vibe that I get from Kelsey
Grammer, regardless of what I've seen him in.
And also his daughter, Spencer Grammer, also
gives off that kind of uppity vibe. Yeah. I mean,
there's probably something there. I mean, it
depends on how far you want to go back with this.
Because in a way, in a sense, 80 % of television,
since the, I don't know, 60s, 50s, have all had
the same formula. They're all rebooted. Different
iterations of one show that most people link
all these back to. Do you know what show that
is? I know. I've heard about it. Borderline alcoholic
husband. the doting housewife the idiot best
friend yeah yeah it's amazing how many shows
you can trace back to the honeymooners and how
many follow that exact same formula yeah I mean
especially in the early 2000s they tried to break
out of it I guess a little bit but like every
sitcom that came out was a overweight husband
who was kind of an asshole. Violent. Bore -ish.
Alcoholic. The wife who was just a step removed
from a Valium every day. The idiot go along with
the best friend. The wives are always way too
hot for the husbands. I could think of like 10
sitcoms that immediately popped into my head
as soon as like the modern day Honeymooners thing
came up. Like it's it's everywhere. It is. Or
at least I've maybe watched too many of those
shows. Or maybe that's just what you're into
and so that's what's top of mind. I don't think
that I've watched a show like that save for like
Family Guy or The Simpsons in a long time. I
don't they don't I don't think make as many of
them anymore because they don't play the same
these days especially the closer that you get
to the honeymooners kind of kind of storyline
oh so i mean pal writing the kisser when you're
talking to your wife isn't doesn't hit as hard
as it used to yeah i don't i don't imagine that
it i'm gonna give you a one -way ticket to the
moon there's a there's a joke and family guy
about that where he says to the moon lois and
she goes to the moon The joke here is that you're
going to punch me so hard that my body leaves
the atmosphere, flies into orbit. You think that's
funny. Well, I don't now. It's wild that that
was the basis for a great deal of our television
these days. Doesn't that show we've made progress
that those kind of sitcoms aren't as prevalent
anymore? Absolutely. It's definitely a good time.
We don't get as many of those anymore. All right.
Well, then there we go. See? We're not back at
the Stone Age. Yeah. A lot of people like to
claim we are, but we aren't. When you think of
a failed reboot spinoff, what do you think, what
comes to mind first? How I Met Your Father. Yeah.
I was going to put that on the list, but I haven't
watched it. So, I... I have nothing to add to
it except just the fact that I think one thing
that always gets ignored whenever these, hey,
we should do a reboot. Hey, our pockets are getting
a little light. How can we inject some real quick
cash without having to do any real work? If the
original product soured people. to the whole
product by the end, then maybe you don't want
to have people relive that because then they're
just going to remember how crappy the last product
ended. Sure. And I remember that being my opinion
whenever I heard that there was going to be a
spinoff reboot, whatever, to How I Met Your Mother.
It was not good. In my opinion, it was A, unnecessary,
like all of the spin -offs and reboots are anyway,
but it, for one thing, if you haven't watched
it, not really worth it. It ends on a cliffhanger,
so you don't know who the father is. They did
kind of a My Name is Earl style ending thing
where the showrunner was like, this is how I
think things would have gone. And at least given
the first two seasons, it makes no plot sense
because the two characters that are supposed
to end up together to create this hypothetical
child that the mom is talking to in the end don't
have like anything together. So it would have
taken probably like a good amount of time for
them to make any of that make sense or it was
maybe going to be like a one night stand thing,
which would have felt cheap at the end anyway.
Yeah. It's just, it's not a good spin. Did not
need to be made. And they pulled in some of the
original cast members. So they had Kobe Smulders.
A lot of Marvel money ran out. I mean, she was
only Maria Hill. How much money do you think
she was making? So they brought back in Kobe
Smulders for Robin Trubatsky. They brought in
Neil Patrick Harris as Barney Simpson. And I
think they brought in one of the other ones.
I don't know if it was Allison Hannigan or Jason
Segel. No schmoesby? They did a couple of one
-off cameos, and they weren't very long. They
weren't just fan service, which, to be fair,
most of this stuff is. But it didn't really try
to establish itself as something else. It was
just like, hey, do you remember? It's member
berries. It's, hey, do you remember how I met
your mother? What if that, but woman? And so
the whole thing just fell pretty flat. It was
just Ghostbusters. More or less, yeah. Yeah.
But I think, especially, like you said, the end
got soured for a lot of people. It's the same
kind of problem, but the rewatch of How I Met
Your Mother now feels a little bit different
because all of the characters suck a lot more
than I think most people realized going in the
first time around. Is that because of societal
differences? Like you just see them in a different
light because of society and how it is now? Or
is it just you are older and so you have more
experience with maybe things that happen in the
show and you're like, this is a total dick bag.
I think it's a little of both. So as far as the
Barney Stinson thing goes, like that was just
a product of early 2000s TV. Especially because
I think they thought that they could get away
with more of it since Neil Patrick Harris was
a gay man. And so they could just play him as
just this monster to women. Yeah. Preying on
the dumbest human beings that have ever walked
the face of the earth. And every woman that's
in that show that comes through is almost exclusively
just The embodiment of a bimbo. Yeah. No shade,
but it's lazy writing. It is. And Ted sucks.
Ted sucks so much. It is a hill I will absolutely
die on. And I think I remember watching it the
first time around and feeling that he was just
not a good guy. But you were supposed to be rooting
for him because he was the main character or
whatever. But he's not. No. He's extremely self
-centered, self -serving, and tries to play it
off as just being a hopeless romantic. It says
something that his idol in the show is Woody
Allen. So, you know. But side note about Schmosby.
I was listening to an episode of Radio Rental.
You know what that is? Uh, it's like, uh, people
come on and tell like the actual, like scary
paranormal stories about themselves. And it's
hosted usually by Rainn Wilson as his character,
Terry Carnation. But, uh, for whatever, huh?
Terry Carnation? Is that from something or is
that just his character? That's just his character.
I don't know. And for whatever reason, he's been
out for this. I don't know, past six, seven episodes.
And there's a guest host. And this one, as soon
as he started talking, I was like, that sounds
really familiar. And then I was like, I know
who this is. This is Schmosby. And it was Josh
Radner. Nice. So that's what he's doing. He's
doing fill -in spots on podcasts. Okay. He also
has a podcast with one of the guys from Time
at Mother, like one of the showrunners. Is that
a rewatch podcast? How I Made Your Mother or
something like that? It's a weird title. I don't
know what the actual name is. That needs to be
workshopped. How I Made Your Mother, yeah. I
think one of the shows that is top of mind for
me when I think of failed reboots is Arrested
Development. Because I caught it in the early
days of Netflix after it had made its run on
TV and it would already have been canceled. And
it is like one of the best written comedy shows
I've ever seen. Seasons one through three. I
mean, it did lose some steam season three because
they knew that they were just having to throw
everything at the wall to keep from being canceled.
But like as far as the cast goes, it's like.
one of the best ensemble casts. And I got real
excited when Netflix announced that they were
making a season four and that it would come out.
And then I watched season four and I was no longer
excited for season four because the problem they
ran into was the fact that everyone in the core
cast was very popular. Had lots of stuff going
on after Arrested Development. And so that meant
that they had crazy schedules. And so in order
to compensate for that, they decided to do a
disjointed season where it ended up being like
vignettes that they just mashed together and
hoped it would work. And it didn't work. Someone
posted a video on YouTube of the entire season
in chronological order where it made sense. So
one thing led to the other and then so on until
the season was over. And I never got to watch
it because Netflix had it ripped down. But from
everything I've heard, it made the season enjoyable
and actually... something that you'd want to
watch, but I'll never know because it doesn't
exist anymore. I'm sure I could find some copy
of it somewhere, but I'm not interested in that
to that extent anymore. Back then I probably
would have, but now I just, I don't really care
enough to go hunt it down. There was talks for
a little while that Netflix would release the
cut in order to where it actually made sense,
but I don't think they ever did that. Which sucks,
because I mean, some of the best jokes on TV
are from Arrested Development. And I'm sure there's
something in, I'm sure there's plenty of stuff
in Season 4 if you're willing to ride it out
and if it didn't have the stink of just being
ruined by what amounts to just greed. I remember
watching Season 4, but I don't think I can tell
you a single plot point in it. But I regularly
quote the at least first season of Arrested Development.
Like the dead dove don't open bag. Jason Bateman
opens it and he goes, I don't know what I expected.
It seems I blew myself prematurely. It's a banana,
Michael. What could it cost? $10? That joke is
about to get a little too real. One thing I'm
banned from doing is whenever we're having finance
talks and... There is a side of the conversation
that's a little more pessimistic than the other
side. And I just say there's always money in
the banana stand. And one, she's never seen the
show, so it makes no sense to her. And two, that's
not what she wants to hear when it's financial
panic time. Especially if you consider what happens
to the banana stand. Oh, man. I wish I had a
money -lined banana stand somewhere. For reference,
don't they burn it down for the insurance money?
Yeah, but then there was way more money in the
walls. But the walls are lined with cash. Yeah.
And then they go back and Michael's like, yeah,
see, I took the hint. Burned it down, got the
insurance money. And then George Sr. strangles
him. God, it's such a great show. Such a good
show. Check it out. Another one that I heard
about afterwards because I was way too young
when it came out to be able to enjoy it firsthand.
But it's always it's been one of those ones that
the show was such a Goliath that you you felt
like anything that would be related tangentially
would just take the take the helm and would just
be. just as great. And that's the X -Files. Have
you ever seen the X -Files? Are you a Mulder?
Scully? I've seen a couple episodes, but I've
never actually sat down and watched it. Well,
if you're... I've talked about this before going
back and watching early 2000s, 90s TV. I'm a
big fan. This is like pinnacle, and it is well
worth it. You'll see all kinds of people before
they got their start. In the X -Files and one
of the spinoffs, it's had a couple and then it's
got movies, too. One of the spinoffs is called
The Lone Gunman, which is based on this trio
of people that help Mulder and Scully with their
FBI work. And in the show, they're enjoyable
characters like they have depth. They're not
just. Hey, nerd, do this. Here you go. Got it.
Let's go catch the bad guys like there's there's
there's nuance to them. But they they can't they
can't handle their own show like they they wouldn't
have been able to for any extended amount of
time be able to carry an entire show through
a season and then to the next season into the
next season. But that's not even what was. substantial
about this spinoff. It lasted for one season.
It aired 13 episodes. One particular episode
came out on March 4th of 2001. You want to hear
the plot to this episode? Yeah. The three protagonists
who are collectively the lone gunman, they manage
a website called The Lone Gunman. That's like
a conspiracy website. Discover that there are
members of the U .S. government that plan to
hijack a plane that is flying into Boston, fly
that plane into the World Trade Center and blame
anti -American terrorist groups or let them claim
responsibility for it in order to start a anti
-terrorist. that they can then profiteer off
of. That's fun. Yeah. Again, aired March 4th,
2001. This actually aired? It aired. Yeah. And
I mean, as far as things for your show to be
known by, it's something that's going to get
them talking about your show for forever. Yeah.
you might get a few more knocks at the door from
some people in black suits. Yeah. Oh, but yeah,
I mean that, that to, to be coming from one of
the biggest shows at the time, and then to have
that be a plot point of your episode. And then
six months later, that thing happens. It's, uh,
I mean, it's one more mark in the, on the, uh,
simulation side. I could see that, yeah. I've
never heard of that show, so it's interesting
that that's... The Lone Gunman. Yeah, check it
out. And watch X -Files while you're at it. Yeah.
It's Disney. I think it's on Disney now. It was
a Fox show. So... Yeah, I mean, there's a...
I mean, there's a laundry list of shows That
have either had reboots or spinoffs that were
just completely unnecessary. Did you know that
there was like four Knight Rider spinoffs, reboots?
The most most recent one was, I think, ended
like two years ago. MacGyver had a reboot. Hawaii
Five -0. Uh, you say, what'd you say? Oh yeah.
Sean William Scott. Yeah. Damon. One of them.
I think it's Damon. Never seen that, but Charlie's
angels, Dallas, uh, charmed. Uh, what else was
there? Just a whole list of, of shows that were.
Unnecessary and not remembered for anything other
than just being a crappy remake of a show that
people liked at one point. I don't feel like
you could necessarily talk about spinoffs in
2025 without mentioning the Taylor Sheridan extended
universe. That one's expansive and near and dear
to our hearts since it films somewhere in the
midpoint between the two of us. Their new one
is filming in Alstrop? Some are like Dallas -ish.
Hmm. I didn't know that. I've seen two episodes
of Yellowstone. That's it. It gets pretty good.
Yeah. I've just seen the memes. That's most of
where my knowledge about Yellowstone comes from.
How many shows does Tyler have? Taylor. Taylor
Sheridan has. So off the top of my head, there's
Yellowstone. There's 1883, 1923. There's about
to be one. I forget what the name of it is. It's
going to be Beth Dutton and Rip, who I think
is like the, he manages like the farmhands, ranch
hands. There's one called Madison. Madison something
that filmed in downtown Fort Worth a couple years
ago. Huh. He wrote the screenplay for Hell or
High Water. That's like one of my favorite movies.
That is a really good movie. Yellowstone, 1883,
1923, Landman, Mayor of Kingstown, Tulsa King,
Sons of Anarchy, Veronica Mars. Okay. Oh, he
also wrote on CSI New York. And has sent several
of his or not spin -offs. No. No, but I'm just
curious. He leans into the cowboy thing pretty
hard these days. Yeah. I mean, he owns Four Sixes,
which is a pretty decent -sized ranch, and they
make wines. Yeah. Those pre -mixed cocktail things.
No, actually, the CSIs and the NCISs and the
criminal minds is, yeah, those all have spinoffs
out the wazoo. Yeah. Law and orders. Law and
order. How could I forget law and order? Whenever
I open up Paramount. I don't know which streaming
service it is. The first thing that confronts
me every single time I open this app is Christopher
Maloney. Yeah. Just beaten up. He's in Law &
Order Mafia. What? No, he's in Mafia. Like, he's
in a spinoff now. He's in Law & Order, I think
Organized Crime or something like that. He's
not. Is he still in SVU? I don't think so. Huh.
I think he left SVU a while ago, though. That's
always been a rich kiss thing. Bless you. Yeah.
I think one of my biggest things with these reboots
and spinoffs is that they discount the importance
of the cast. They discount the I guess the relationships
that people build with these characters, and
they also discount the timing. Because like you
said with How I Met Your Mother, How I Met Your
Mother was fine. That's why it ran for 10 seasons
when it did. If it came out today, it would not
hit the same way. It wouldn't have the same success
because it's a timing thing. You have a spinoff.
That is loosely based on that show, but you don't
have the people. You don't have the same characters.
The people don't have the same emotional attachments
to these new people, so it's not going to be
the same thing. And you think that that's just
built in and these people are going to give it
a chance, but we don't. Time is your most precious
commodity. It's the only thing that when you
run out of it, it's gone. You're gone. So people
aren't existential. People aren't inclined to
waste their time on something like this, trying
to chase a feeling that they had before. And
so I think that that's why in more recent years,
there has been a turn away from that type of
stuff, that there's been a turn away from reboots.
And reimaginings and re -whatevers you want to
call them. Spinoffs or spinoffs of a spinoff
or anything like that. Because just people do
not want to waste their time with those things
anymore. Yeah. I think the existence of a spinoff
is predicated on a couple of things. Either you
are writing that like... nostalgia train until
you can establish your own voice and people forget
that they're watching a whole separate show that's
when you throw in every cameo that you can think
of that's when you bring in robin chabrowski
and barney stenson or you try to make it so different
that it's a completely separate thing and people
are just like in it from the jump but i don't
think a lot of the showrunners put in any effort
when it comes to the thing because it feels like
it's just you get to to kind of rest on your
laurels and just rely on the original source
material and it's just it doesn't especially
in a lot of like how i met your mother or like
cheers and stuff like those kind of like hangout
places like friends you don't really get those
anymore people don't hang out as much as they
maybe did in the the 90s of the early 2000s in
the same booth at a bar or the same couch in
a coffee shop like the thing that made all of
these relationships between the characters so
rich was the thing that doesn't really exist
anymore and so a lot of them try to like overcorrect
and try to make it like remember how long ago
this show was what if we brought it into the
modern age so the thing that they're dealing
with is bitcoin instead of uh like in like in
the futurama reboot they have an episode about
bitcoin in the new season which annoyed the hell
out of me honestly Because it was just like the
whole season felt like they were trying to pander
to 2024, 23, whatever year it came out, people.
Wouldn't Bitcoin have been around for quite some
time? That's why that one annoyed me. The Futurama
reboot was just, it felt like it was trying to
modernize, but the whole point of the show is
that it's a thousand years in the future. Yeah.
It's not present day things that you're... mining
bitcoin in the old west so silly i feel like
if these if these studios gave these these ideas
an ounce more of thought they would maybe move
on to something a little more uh creative and
less lazy but maybe not because i mean they they
still they still get their money people still
talk about these and even if you're talking about
it in a negative light Engagement is engagement.
Yeah. So remember that for anyone on. No, absolutely
not. Don't promote that one. I'm saying from
the creative standpoint, engagement is engagement.
People are going to say what people are going
to say. So if you are the creator. And someone
says some things that are not too kind. Remember,
engagement is engagement. Sure, yeah. And you
can just ignore them. Because that usually makes
those people mad. Oh, why won't you say anything?
Why won't you say anything back? You don't have
anything to say back, do you? I exist in the
real world, unfortunately. Or at least in the
part of the simulation. Yeah. In my humble, humble,
humble opinion, the great Not the great, the
goat. I did two things. I was going to use the
acronym and I was going to say it all the time.
The greatest to do it, the best to take a swing
and knock it out of the park in three towns over
was Better Call Saul. Okay. Breaking Bad was
a great show. It was definitely a show of its
time. I don't think that it would work now. But
during its heyday, it was like peak television.
And I think a lot of people consider it like
the first entry in... No, because that would
be like HBO. I guess outside of like HBO shows
that throw millions and millions of dollars per
episode. I think that Breaking Bad was like the
first entry into like prestige television. And
like movie level storytelling in a TV show. And
in that show. Saul Goodman is a character that
you want to know more about because you don't
get much information. He comes in and then you
just see where it all ends for Walter, but you
don't see where it all ends for Saul. You get
that in Better Call Saul, but not just that.
You also get backstories of these other characters
and how they enter into the story long before
they meet Walter White. And it is such a well
-made show that I would have no problem saying
that Better Call Saul is a way better show than
Breaking Bad. Breaking Bad loses its... Loses
its grasp towards the end, like the whole reason
that he's doing this is to. The reason he starts
making and selling drugs is to provide for his
family once he's diagnosed with terminal lung
cancer. And then like halfway through the first
season, that's just out the window and now he's
just doing it because he loves the he loves the
game. But with Better Call Saul. You know who
he is throughout the whole thing and you see
him slowly progress. And then at the end, he
comes back around and he realizes the missteps
he took on his path. And at the end, he finally
pays for his sins. Unlike Walter, who never did.
He just died. Spoiler alert. If you haven't seen
that show, it's been off the air for like 11,
12 years. I need to get back with a better call
Saul. It was a really good show. I don't remember
why I didn't finish it. Like I made it maybe
like two seasons in. Yeah. But it's a really
good show. Bob Odenkirk does a great job. He
does. He does. And so not only. Not only do you
see him change slowly throughout it, but you
also see the external factors that caused him
to be the way he is. Like his brother Chuck,
one of the biggest a -holes on TV. And yeah,
definitely check it out. Definitely. I'll have
to get back into it. I've been in a kind of vacuum
for shows right now because I've been I think
I have like two episodes left with Common Side
Effects, which is the one I'm watching now, but
it's not another season for HBO shows. What is
that? So Common Side Effects is a it's an animated
show about a guy who finds a essentially like
a cure -all mushroom in the Peruvian forest.
And he's getting hunted down by different players
in Big Pharma. Oh. Oh, no, the Aranyas. Aranyas,
sorry. Not the spider people from Adam Webb.
Oh, okay. Dang it. Thought there was a crossover.
Not yet, at least. Maybe later. But now it's
a new Mike Judge show, which actually. Oh. does
bring me to one of the better spin -offs, or
a better reboot, I think, which is the new King
of the Hill. Yeah? Still haven't checked it out.
It's good. I like it. Need to. It, I think, does
the same thing that Futurama did, which is kind
of the nail in the coffin for a lot of spin -offs,
which is the, like, you're trying to modernize,
but you're trying a little too hard. Yeah. So
much so that you're not actually creating plot,
you're just trying to, like, catch. the audience
up on what's been happening to these characters
in this time frame. And so I think it works better
with King of the Hill because the whole point
of Hank Hill from the get -go was that he is
this old -fashioned man. And it works that he's
in 2025 and doesn't really understand anything
about 2025. It did take a couple episodes, I
think, to get its feet under it, but it's a pretty
solid show. I like the new season. Let's check
it out. I was very hesitant when they announced
it. And that was always one of those shows like
on lists for wish lists of shows to bring back
was always King of the Hill. And I don't know.
I'll check it out and report back. But I don't
have high hopes for it. I still don't. I mean,
I think that it could be like. I don't think
that it's going to be something that I'm just
going to turn off, but I don't think that I would
enjoy it as much as the original series season.
I think seasons. Yeah. I mean, it's impossible.
I think for any reboot or spinoff to capture
exactly what was great about the original. Yeah.
Because you can't really successfully do that
without. either doing that thing where you lean
too hard into the original IP and so you're just
pandering to people with nostalgia bait or you
are creating something like if you have a different
voice in it then it's going to create something
different from the original and if you can kind
of expect that and lower your expectations for
it to be the same as the OG then it's easier
to enjoy things but it's also it depends on how
it's handled. By the people who make it. Yeah.
And the release of that was marred by all the
stuff that went down with Jonathan, I don't remember
his last name. The guy that voiced Jonathan Redcorn.
That's a weird story. I don't know if there's
any resolution on it. I mean, that was like,
what, probably six months ago back? No, it was
more recent than that. It was a couple months
ago. Jonathan Joss. Yes. June 1st, 2025. Yeah.
I know this is not the point of anything, but
I recognize him more as Ken Hotate than as Jonathan
Redcorn. Yeah. Yeah, that makes sense. I think
that that's more because you actually saw him.
There wasn't a voice. But if you close your eyes,
then he sounds just like John Redcorn. And that
allows me to springboard into the main reason
for this episode. Because at the beginning of
September 2025, there will be a show debuting
called The Paper. And I could not be less excited
for it. I've seen the previews now. I hadn't
at first, but I just happened to see it and sat
through it. And I don't know who it's for, what
it's for, why it's for. I don't get it. I don't
think that I could rewatch The Office. And I
think, like... As far as the original goes, I
don't think that I could rewatch it, and I don't
know if that's because I watched it maybe too
much when I was younger, or that the fandom has
ruined it, or the people who made it and are
still, hey, what if Stanley was in this Cheerios
commercial? These people still exist as their
characters, despite the show having ended 12
years ago. Which is funny, because Dwight...
rain wilson uh talks about how people will like
walk up to him and say dwight and he was like
that was a character i played x amount of years
ago like i've i've done other things um so maybe
give those a try and but meanwhile you have all
these auxiliary characters like meredith and
oscar and uh Angela, yeah. Doing a AT &T commercial.
Working in an office. And this is like a recent
thing. It's like from the past couple years.
It's just, it's so oversaturated despite having
ended so long ago that I just, I don't care anymore.
I used to love that show. Well, the show, the
paper, take away the fact that it's just the
office people. working at a newspaper. BuzzFeed?
The show just doesn't have anything. And if you
can't get a rough idea of what a show is going
to be like when you watch an entire trailer for
that show, that's not a good start. That's not
a good thing. And The Office already had a spinoff.
It's called Parks and Rec. That's the same exact
show. Sure, but that's the same thing. It's the
twin films, not a... But these are twin films
by the same people. That's fair. So in all, it
is 100 % a spinoff. Whether the people of Pawnee,
Indiana bring up... Scranton, Pennsylvania or
not. Or say, hey, yeah, I just went and bought
a ream at Dunder Mifflin. Pawnee. But I still
I don't know. And part of it was probably me
just being so put off with the fact that this
show was being made in the first place. But I
don't know what the show's about. And they got
the the dude from. Star Wars, General Cucks.
Yeah. And yeah, I mean. Italian lady from White
Lotus. And Oscar for some reason. Oh. Just Oscar.
She's like the one with the mole lady? The manager?
Yes. Oh. She's the Michael Scott of the new show.
Oh. She's a. I'm pretty sure at least that was
the gist that I got from the preview. Are you
going to be watching it just like out of curiosity
or are you just going to skip it? I'll watch
the first episode just because I don't think
it wouldn't be fair for me to come on here and
say this show is going to be shit and not give
it a try so that I can come back and confirm
that the show is in fact shit. Sure. Yeah. So
I will give it the first episode, maybe the second,
and then I would feel that I would probably be
done with it at that point. That's a fair assessment.
I think you have to give all of these things
at least a couple of episodes to see if they
find their footing or not. Yeah. If they're trying
to be their own show or if it's just just pandering.
Can I give you a list of other upcoming projects
and tell me what your interest level is? What
is your scale for my interest level? We'll make
it easy. One to five. One to five what? I need
a unit. One to five... Rames of paper? Yeah.
Yeah. So if you like it, you're going to give
it five reams of paper. All right. What do you
got? All right. Malcolm in the Middle. Life's
still unfair. Zero reams? The entire point of
the show was that he was a preteen teenager.
Yeah. I don't need to know what he's up to these
days. Especially the background of Malcolm in
the Middle is so sad. Because Frankie Muniz was
going through some things. He was also never
the middle child. So... There was no middle child.
Weren't there four of them? There was four of
them from the beginning of the series. And then
I think they had one more. So then Reese would...
No. No, then... Then it would be Malcolm. Then
he would be the middle. Yeah. So... I've never
really sat down and watched it, but we started
watching it with the kids, and that was the first
thing I picked up on. This is called Malcolm
and the Little because he's got middle child
syndrome, but he's not the middle child. He kind
of is because the oldest one doesn't live with
them. He's not really a factor in the parenting
dynamics. I guess. Yeah, if you want to look
at it that way. I don't know. I mean, when the
series starts, Reese had just not Reese. Whatever
the oldest one's name is, had just recently been
sent to military school. Yeah. And so there's
not enough. There wasn't enough time there for
him to have middle child syndrome. Yeah, that
that does make sense, though, because that's
the inciting incident of the show is that's when
he becomes the middle child. The beginning of
the show is him being the middle child. Maybe.
Maybe I just misunderstood. I don't know. Then
he becomes the actual middle child and they have
a fifth one. Maybe. You might be right. You probably
are. I don't know. It just threw me off. It threw
me off. The show's decent enough. One ring of
paper. They're not bringing back Bryan Cranston,
I can't imagine. I don't know. I don't know.
They did shoot something. It was like an auxiliary
thing for Breaking Bad to where he wakes up next
to Lois saying that he had this terrible dream
where he got cancer and he had to make drugs
in order to support the family. And so I don't
know. Breaking Bad could technically be in the
Malcolm in the Middle universe. And then Dewey
grows up to be. Jesse Pinkman. Maybe. I don't
know. So you're going to give it one? One ream?
I'm going to give it one. Okay. Not excited for
this one. What about a series based on Legally
Blonde? After it got a sequel, and then another
terrible sequel, and then a Broadway musical,
and now a TV series. How do you feel about that?
How many reams? I feel like this game is going
to end up in a lot of ones. That said, if there
is the involvement of either Reese Witherspoon
or Jennifer Coolidge, then I'm going to give
it... In what capacity? If it's just a brief
cameo? If they have actual involvement in the
plot. If it's the same as like a... Hey, remember
Elle Woods? Then no. Isn't Jennifer Coolidge
busy with, like, season 19 of White Lotus? Have
you seen White Lotus? I haven't seen the most
recent season. She won't be involved in the feature
one. Oh, my God. Spoilers. Say why. Wow. Because
she fake drowned in season three, right? And
then came back for season four. She fake drowned
in Italy after bonking her noggin. And then came
back for the Walton Goggins season. She's not
in the Walton Goggins season. Are you sure? Watch
it and find out. Okay. I don't like the Walton
Goggins season. No? I don't like the Thailand
football. Do you like Walton Goggins? I do. Yeah.
My birthday is coming up. I could use a... I
could use a teen -jus shirt. A what? A teen -jus
shirt. Teen -jus. Teenage Jesus. Teen -jus. Have
you not watched Righteous Gemstones? No, we've
talked about this extensively. Oh, man. I've
still not watched the registration. Watch it.
The kids are going to do a rendition of Misbehavin'
at the wedding. Yeah? Yeah. Yeah. With your girl.
I've heard that song too many times. Yeah. What
about Buffy the Vampire Slayer? Did you give
me a ream count for Legally Blonde? Two. Two
reams. Okay. Buffy the Vampire Slayer? Three.
I really enjoyed the OG Buffy Vampire Slayer.
Left be the Vampire Slayer. I like Angel, okay?
Yeah. I would be interested to see what they
do with a reboot. That said, I did just watch
the reboot, sequel, whatever you would consider
it of I Know What You Did Last Summer, and it
stunk. The bees, oh. It stunk. Well, that's a
bummer. Right now, you can get a skin pack on
Call of Duty. I know what you did last summer.
Yeah. Yeah. I'll be sure to let the people in
my life to play Call of Duty now. Is Nate a COD
man? He is, yeah. Yeah. Nice. Me too. Not so
much these days, I don't think. He's been into...
Battlefield. We did Battlefield for a while.
Wow. For a bit. Wow. There's apparently a, I
don't remember the name of it, but there's a
SWAT simulator game that just came out. Guess
we know who he voted for. What about Clueless?
One. As if. One? One. One ream. No interest?
The OG premise is weird. Like, if you think about
it, it's a romance between a girl and her stepbrother.
Hmm. I've never seen it. I've never had any interest
in it. But I know that it was sure popular. That's
weird. That is a main plot point in the movie.
Alicia Silverstone ends up with Paul Rudd, who
is her stepbrother. Oh. How do the parents feel
about that? They kiss in the end of the movie,
so I don't think that it's like a... I don't
think they have enough time to establish familial
dynamics afterwards, but it's an odd choice.
I thought that would be worth a sequel. The Fallout.
Yeah, maybe. From the step siblings falling in
love. I knew a guy. I worked with. That. Yeah.
Yeah. Mm hmm. She ended up pregnant. For some
reason, it didn't work out. Yeah, he was disowned
by the family. So I would say just just my opinion
here. Maybe don't. Don't get with your stepsister.
Definitely don't have a kid. And cannot imagine
what those family dynamics are like. Yeah. I
looked it up because it's been a while since
I've seen Clueless. Apparently, Josh is, which
is all red, is Alicia Silverstone's ex -stepbrother
who is back from college. Okay. better but also
not but they're living in the same house hmm
I don't I'm not gonna rewatch the movie but weird
the dynamic feels oh Cher and Josh were not close
to each other as siblings and this perceived
lack of a familial bond is the key reason why
many viewers don't find their eventual romance
problematic okay well if you have to qualify
with they weren't close as siblings, you have
lost the argument. What are you doing? Huh. That
is something. Last one I have on this list is
little HP himself. Harry Potter. Lots of hot
opinions about this. Four? Four, because you
want to see the train wreck? You want to see
the carnage? Or four, because you're actually
interested in what they will do with the series?
Little of column A, little of column B. I think
because the stakes are so high with Harry Potter
IP. Granted, they did absolutely fumble with
the Hogwarts Legacy game. I think because they
have such a high responsibility and high expectations
around it, that they're probably going to put
more effort into its creation. I've also seen
a good deal of the casting so far, and I really
appreciate that it's not just a slew of all of
these actors who haven't done anything since
Harry Potter, just reprising their roles. like
there's um warwick davis i think he was a professor
flitwick is coming back but like the the kid
casting looks good i remember seeing something
about daniel radcliffe asking him how he felt
about it and if he was going to be like a part
of it he's like no i'm like i'm excited to get
to pass the torch like this is this is their
thing it's not mine anymore and i do really appreciate
that it doesn't seem to be quite as much of that
just like fan service nostalgia bait. What about
rage bait? I think that anything that comes out
of a J .K. Rowling IP these days is going to
be to some extent rage bait. Oh, that's not what
I'm talking about. I'm talking about when the
first thing that they announced was the casting
for Snape. I don't remember. Who is Snape? You
could give me a thousand tries and I couldn't
pronounce his name. But let me try. Yeah. That
was rage bait. And people took it hook, line
and sinker. It was meant to get people talking
about this show. One thing that also came out
was Chris Columbus, who did the first two. And
I guess one of the greatest actors we've ever
had. We have a whole day dedicated to him. We
don't have that anymore. We don't celebrate the
works of Chris Columbus these days. His name
is not Indigenous Peoples. Yeah, so we don't
celebrate anymore. I don't recognize him as a
real holiday. He came out, he saw the wardrobe
for Nick Frost as Hagrid, and he was like, that's
just the same costume that we had in our movies.
Like, I'm not sure what all this is for, even
though he knows it's for money. But yeah, I mean,
that's the sentiment that I have is just who
asked for this and who is this for? I mean, I
think there's probably a subset of people that
will say, well, there's just so much from the
books that they couldn't put in the movies. So
now they can do that. But you know what? They're
still not going to. You're about to irritate
one of our listeners. I think a lot of the reason
that I'm interested in seeing what they do with
this is because it is near and dear to my household.
It has become a holiday tradition to watch the
Harry Potter films. And because, honestly, with
the success of the Percy Jackson reboot, because
I really love the way that they handled it. partially
because of how poorly they handled the movies.
I think that this one has the opportunity to
do something really cool. Will it? Maybe. Maybe
not. I don't know. But I am interested to see
what they decide to do with it. I would much
rather see a series around Potter Puppet Pals.
If they could do all seven books. Seven. Snake.
Dumbledore. Snake. From Weasley. If they could
do all seven books like that, I'd be all about
a show. But no, no one's asking for my opinions.
I got great ideas and no one's coming to my door.
Yeah. I mean, you could make your own Potter
Puppet House. I don't imagine the production
costs are all that high. Yeah, but how much do
I have to pay to get the IP? Do something similar.
Also, with Neil C. Suriga, I don't imagine a
tongue. There are some wild pictures when you
type in Black Snape on Google. So, four reams?
Four reams. Yeah, I would give it a two. Yeah.
All these other ones, I mean, I... I would probably
give Malcolm the middle three. But all these
other ones, I would I would give no reams of
paper. Whatsoever. Yeah. There's going to be
a spinoff that they thank you. Yeah, it's called
Young Sheldon. Where you been? You're talking
about the one with like the comic book guy and.
They're going to Stuart his own show. I think
he's one of the main cast, yeah. It's like four
auxiliary characters that are getting their own
show for some reason. Last thing I have is shows
that had multiple iterations, multiple spinoffs
off of one existing. What would you find out?
The Untitled spinoff is currently in the works
with Brian Posen, Lauren Lapkus, and Kevin Sussman.
Yeah. Which are Stuart and the girl he maybe
ends up with and the giant geologist dude who
maybe ruined Nickelback for all of society. Yeah.
I'll back. So have fun with that one. Shows that
have multiple spinoffs off one initial show.
Did you know that Saved by the Bell was a spinoff?
No, of what? It was a completely different format.
It was called Good Morning, Miss Bliss. It had
Zach, but I think that's where the similarities
ended. But that same character went to Saved
by the Bell. And then Saved by the Bell had Saved
by the Bell, the college years, and then Saved
by the Bell, the new class. We already talked
about all the NCIS, CSI, Law and Orders, and
every spinoff there. But the granddaddy of them
all, Happy Days. Did you know there were 255
episodes of Happy Days? I did not. You want to
know how many? Take a guess at how many spinoffs
it had. Like genuine spinoffs, not like one -offs.
Directly from... Yeah. Eight. Close. Six. Two
of them were animated. The two animated ones,
The Fonz and the Happy Days Gang. And then...
Just Archie? I guess, yeah. Laverne and Shirley
with The Fonz was also animated. But the live
-action spinoffs were Laverne and Shirley. Blansky's
Beauties, which I've never heard of. Mork and
Mindy. Joni Loves Chachi. And did I get a typo
on this one? Because that doesn't sound right.
No, out of the blue. No clue what that is either.
I mean, growing up, we caught some episodes of
Laverne and Shirley. Mork and Mindy. I don't
think we ever watched Joanie Loves Chachi and
these other two I've never heard of. Yeah. But
do you have any fondness for happy days? I remember,
so like I watched a lot of TV with our parents
growing up. And so I watched a lot of the like
older things. I watched, I remember kind of like
Bewitched, I Dream of Jeannie. Gilligan's Island.
Gilligan's Island kind of things, yeah. I love
Lucy. And so like, oh yeah. I was a massive fan
of I Love Lucy. I remember in that watching Happy
Days, too. Happy Days and, like, All in the Family,
Married with Children, all that stuff. But, like,
I don't remember anything specific about it,
so it wasn't one of the ones that really stuck
around, like Gilligan's Island or I Love Lucy.
Mm -hmm. But I also know it's cultural impact.
Yeah, I mean, I remember watching episodes and
being... relatively like way young and still
like hearing uh our parents talk about like the
fawns and how great he was and how cool he was
and i was just like this but you could hit a
jukebox and it would start playing you tell me
that's not the epitome of cool uh one of my favorite
scenes in one of the earlier family guys it might
have been season one was him He has the Church
of the Fonz. He punches the jukebox and his hand
goes right through and he just starts spewing
blood everywhere. But I mean, it's definitely
it's a product of its time because that whole
persona just doesn't work for me. And so much
of the show is focused on the Fonz, Arthur Fonzarelli.
Being like the coolest guy that ever lived. All
you needed was a leather jacket and to say a
lot. That just gave you the coolest. A switchblade
comb. Yeah. But no, I think the biggest takeaway
from that was one, that it had six individual
spinoffs and two, that it ran for 255 episodes.
Do you? Do you think that the term jumping the
shark is still like a part of the zeitgeist?
Like, I feel like I've used it, but I couldn't
tell you the last time that I've actually. I
don't know what it would have been replaced by.
I mean, I would imagine would have just like
fallen out. There wouldn't have been really a
one to one. Well, but what would you like? What
would you replace that situation by? Like, what
would you? say it is like like when something
gets so big and oversaturated that they have
to start the create these create crazy plots
in order just to have something to escalate to
well i mean the point of jumping the shark was
that you get i thought the point of jumping the
shark was the same as like jumping the gun essentially
that you just went like ahead of no no No, jumping
the shark is that when you get so big and there's
nowhere else to go to that the new level you
have to go to is so ridiculous that that's your
dying off point. So something near and dear to
both of our hearts, I think the alternative to
jumping the shark is flanderization. Yes. There
is a good bit of study behind what happened with
the Simpsons. Specifically the characters of
Homer and Ned. With Homer, it's this kind of
stark contrast of OG Homer to new Homer where
he did stupid things because he's an idiot. But
he didn't do anything with malice. He just did
a bunch of things that ended up negatively affecting
the people that he loves. And so he spends the
back half of every episode trying to make up
for the fact that he did something stupid on
accident. Later on, he just does stupid, mean
things to his family because it doesn't seem
like he cares about them or their well -being
anymore. For the same reason that, like, Flanderization,
he was this, like, at the beginning, this well
-rounded, like, very devout person, but he had
a whole family, a whole personality, a whole
existence outside of his belief in God. He was
a straight man. Yeah. Damn. And he had the leftorium.
He had Maude. He had all of this stuff. And then
eventually it just became a caricature of a Christian.
And he lost every bit of his personhood so that
he could be this foil to Homer's shenanigans.
Yeah. Fanatic. Obsessed in the same way Homer
is obsessed with like self -serving tasks that
was the same fervor that Flanders would put into
judging everyone because of his belief, because
of Christianity, and holding himself in higher
esteem because he was a Christian and all these
other people weren't, and schooling Reverend
Lovejoy. To the point where Reverend Lovejoy
just wants nothing to do with him and gets annoyed
every time he has to have any conversations with
him. So, no, I yeah, I mean, you get up to a
point and then once you get to that that pinnacle,
there's nowhere to go but down. And it just so
happened that whatever episode towards the end
of Happy Days, there was a plot point where Arthur,
the Fonz, Fonzarelli. Was was on skis on a lake
and had went up a ramp over some sharks and survived.
And that I don't know what were the what was
the lead up and what was the outcome to the jumping
the shark moment. I don't think most people care
because all they hear is that dude in a leather
jacket, water skiing. Was he in like a leather
wetsuit? No, no, it was a full leather jacket,
water skiing over some sharks. And at the end
of the day, the reasoning for it doesn't really
matter because all people remember about it is
the jumping the shark. And then that became its
own, its own thing. Reason for the term being
used so prevalently now or maybe not now. Maybe
everything is just flanderized now. But speaking
of a nice little bow for the end of this episode,
The Simpsons was a spinoff of the Tracy Ullman
show. And she tried to sue The Simpsons and it
did not work. I think they actually ended up
coming to terms out of court. But, yeah, she
was pretty pissed when they had success long
after her show was over because it started out
as a short on the Tracy Allman show. Man, if
she had won that court case. She'd be rolling
in it. Maybe just take half a percent of the
merchandise profit and be set for life. For sure.
Even these days, it's insane what they're capitalizing
on. Well, you got anything else to add? I do,
actually. One little decent -sized tangent. Do
you know who Tommy Westfall is? Is that from
St. Elsewhere? Yes. Are you familiar with the
extended Tommy Westfall universe? With the autism
and the snow globe? Yes. Yes. But for those not
in the know, could you please explain? So this
is the king of all spinoffs. Tommy Westfall is
in... Well, let me pull up the thing because
I have it in front of me. In the show's final
episodes, the final episode of St. Elsewhere,
it's revealed to the viewers that everything
in the show had happened in Tommy Westfall's
snow globe. The twist raised the possibility
that the entire series was a dream, but because
St. Elsewhere crossed over with other television
shows like Cheers and Homicide Life on the Streets,
those are also considered a part of Tommy's imaginary
world. So by extension, if Cheers is connected
to Frasier, Frasier is connected to Wings, then
those shows are also included. Detective John
Munch, who originated in Homicide, makes an appearance
in Law & Order, X -Files, and The Wire. Which
means that there's just this massive, massive
interconnected web of TV shows that all, by extension,
exist inside of Tommy Westfall's snow globe at
the end of St. Elsewhere. If you pull that thread,
as far as it goes, there is an absolutely insane
amount of gray area. The final takeaway is somewhere
between... 200 shows and 450 to 500 shows that
are all inside of the snow globe which i believe
the basis of the simulation theory but now it
is it's a really interesting theory if you go
into there's a like family tree kind of thing
where it branches off all of the shows that come
from this snow globe it's actually pretty interesting
i won't go into all two to five hundred shows
but That is. It's it's fun. It's funny because
it the ending on its own just feels like a give
up. Like, OK, how are we going to end this series?
How are we going to end this series? OK, just
spitballing here. So. Kid Tommy. Autistic. We
can make up whatever rules we want with that
because it's the 90s. No one knows what autism
means. He has a snow globe. We slowly, last scene
of the show, we slowly pan out from the set.
Pan out, pan out, pan out. Boom. It was all in
the snow globe. Cut to black. And then someone
said, I have nothing better. So I guess that's
what we'll do. Someone else on the spectrum.
And then it turned out to be like this massive
thing that is still being talked about because
of this one throwaway idea that they decided
to go with because they didn't have anything
else. And I've never seen St. Elsewhere. I know
that Denzel was on it for a little while, like
a lot of a lot of bigger people. And yeah, the
only thing I can tell you is about Tommy Westfall.
And his autistic snow globe. If you have an idea,
if you have something original working around
in your brain, do your best to make it. We need
more original things. It's just, it's ridiculous
what we're up against these days. If you have
a weird idea, everything is someone's thing.
Make your weird thing. Take a risk. Within reason.
Take a risk. Not a blanket endorsement. It's
better to take a risk and it pay off than play
it safe and be creatively bankrupt. That's my
thing for the week. I'm glad we came around on
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