Wonderful! - Wonderful! 288: 3:10 to Puma

Episode Date: August 9, 2023

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Starting point is 00:00:00 Hi, this is Rachel McElroy. Hello, this is Griffin McElroy. And this is wonderful. This is wonderful. I wasn't trying to say that like I was like... Yeah, I mean a is wonderful. This is wonderful. I wasn't trying to say that. Like I was like, yeah, I mean,
Starting point is 00:00:28 a little bit. I'm Rachel. I'm so cool. This is wonderful. Shall we talk about things we like that's good that we're into? And it's, it's, thank you so much for joining us.
Starting point is 00:00:42 I'm racking my brain to think of something special to say. Is it okay to just be like this episode's normal? You don't ever hear that on like TV and media when the hosts of shows are like, this is a normal one. We got a normal show for you tonight, guys. It's gonna be a show that we are used to making and you're used to hearing. Some people like that, right?
Starting point is 00:01:10 Like when I watch Top Chef and they're like, today's episode is going to be crazy. Sometimes I'm like, I just wanted a normal one, you know? Yeah, uh-huh. Like in Restaurant Wars, it's like, this is going to be the most fucked up episode of Top Chef of the whole season. And I'm like, I just wanted a normal, can't they just cook i like the cooking and while i'm on my soap box here sometimes on top chef they're like today you're gonna cook outside there's bees everywhere and you can't use any cutlery at all and it has to be a dish we can eat using just our faces and no hands and it's also it's snowing
Starting point is 00:01:45 and there's hungry foxes all over. And all your ingredients are canned goods. All your ingredients are canned goods and you don't get a can opener. And then they eat the food and Tom Colicchio is like, this kind of tastes bad. Yeah, Tom.
Starting point is 00:01:58 Yeah, Tom, why do you think that is, Thomas? This isn't up to the level of quality I expect it to be. Yeah, man. You put a bunch of funny restrictions on them, don't you think? That is part of the problem? Anyway, we're watching Top Chef right now. Yeah, we are.
Starting point is 00:02:12 I guess that's my small wonder. We're watching Top Chef All-Stars. Yeah. It's a good season. A lot of good chefs. It's like World All-Stars or something. Yeah. It's like Top Chef uh airs all over the
Starting point is 00:02:26 globe yeah and so they took winners from seasons uh all over and it's people from different countries that show has really changed we were remarking on on that when we were watching this most recent episode it's very um very posi very like all the all the folks are genuinely very sweet to each other and very kind and supportive and jesus that used to not be the case yeah no there used to be like real conflict there was like a lot of ego and a lot of people that didn't get along and they like didn't want to work together and you don't see that as much i don't remember his name i remember there's a bald frenchman who was on the show who was just kind of a jerk a lot of the time. And you just don't see that very much, huh?
Starting point is 00:03:13 Yeah, I don't know if that's like careful casting on their part or people understand. The chef culture has shifted a bit. Or people understanding like I better be on my best behavior. Yeah, right, yeah. Anyway, that was my small wonder. That was your small wonder. shifted a bit or people understanding like i better be on my best behavior yeah right yeah anyway that was my small wonder i really did yeah i snuck it in there is that okay yeah no that's fine but what do you have to talk about can i mention your gym participation sure sure uh i have been going to the gym since april i joined one close to our house
Starting point is 00:03:43 and i've been talking about it i i wouldn't say our house and i've been talking about it i i wouldn't say incessantly i've been talking about it a reasonable amount for somebody that goes to the gym a reasonable amount yeah and uh griffin joined me uh last week and we have been twice now and it's it's delightful it's cool yeah it's it's very it's very doable we shouldn't say what gym we go to because i'm not trying to get poached out there and poached yeah you know like someone turned me into a rug or a suit or something like that but oh i thought you meant like another gym would be like griffin have we got a deal for you yeah no i don don't think that that's, I don't think they're going to be, this isn't money ball, not like some commodity to be traded around.
Starting point is 00:04:30 But no, it's good. I have been very, it's been kind of worrying that our children have increased in energy level and ability as I have decreased in those same statistics yeah before my time i would say and so this has been it's been nice to kind of remind myself that i you know i can move it yeah no it's it's uh it's impressive i think you're gonna you're gonna get some quick gains
Starting point is 00:05:02 oh for sure i'm already i think feeling it uh i. Oh, for sure. I'm already, I think, feeling it. I mean, I'm for sure fucking feeling it. The soreness is truly next level. But that's weakness leaving the body, from what I understand. Do you know who said that or where that came from? My doctor. I feel like you always say that to me
Starting point is 00:05:18 as if it is a known quote. I saw it on the wall of my high school gym had like a weight room for like the football players to get stronger. Yeah. And I saw that painted on there. I don't know why the fuck I was in there. I didn't belong and I wasn't using it. But I saw that and I was like, wow, that's cool. At my school, you could take weight training as a class.
Starting point is 00:05:44 Yeah, that was, yeah. And get like a credit for it. So wild. So bonkers. That's wild to me. They had like an inspirational saying and that that was the one they chose. Yeah. I mean, it's bonkers to me that you could take weight training as a class, but also like I took piano as a class, you know, is the same.
Starting point is 00:06:03 And I mean, you lift heavy stuff more than you play piano. That's fair. Yeah. Especially as our boys get heavier. Again, the boys are getting so big and strong. Help. I go first this week. Yes.
Starting point is 00:06:19 I do a song this time. Okay. It's a good one. I'm excited to talk about this. Okay. It's a song that has become very prevalent in our household. Oh, wait, more so this could be a number of songs more so than any Danny go any Cocoa Melon, any blippy or kids bop or other children focused music. It is our our two year olds favorite song, which he requests by name frequently, several times a day, at least. That song is, of course, Turn Down for What by DJ Snake and Lil Jon. I thought for a moment you were going to do Skibbity Bop Yes Yes.
Starting point is 00:06:56 No. Yeah, there's some. Okay. God, it's so hard to explain the internet sometimes. God, it's so hard to explain the internet sometimes, but there's like a thing called Skibbity Toilet, which is like a meme from a YouTube video, I guess. And then they made Roblox games out of it or some shit. And then every YouTuber on earth that Henry watches
Starting point is 00:07:17 is all about Skibbity Toilet. And then there's a song called Skibbity Bop Yes Yes. I can't, this rabbit hole actually makes me tired to go down it to say it. I can't imagine what it's like to hear. This is like a reply all episode right now. Yeah, this is not what I want. This is I Want to Talk About Turn Down for What by DJ Snake and Lil Jon. Yes.
Starting point is 00:07:36 I'm not sure I appreciated this song enough in its time. And I'm glad that our son has allowed us this chance to kind of reevaluate it. Because, man, it's just a stone cold banger every single time. I feel like this was, he was on the path. Because last time we talked about this, we talked about the drop and how he gets very excited about the drop. Oh, right. Yeah, we played that clip. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:08:04 And so now we have moved to the next phase, which is he has identified specific songs that have drops that are just impossible not to love. I'm going to play Turn Down for What. You've heard it a million times, but you're about to hear a million and one. Fire up and loud, another rocket shot. Turn down for what? a million and one it is just this song is just kind of three drops when you think about it as
Starting point is 00:08:42 like you could i would i love sort of imagining the line graph of this song the like sort of sine wave uh pattern of turn down for a lot of times i will lose track and i'll be like is there one left or was that the last one uh yeah i the third one always sneaks up on me um this is a song that feels like it's been around since the dawn of time uh it's hard to imagine a time in my life before turned down for what uh despite the fact that it came out in december 2013 which is 10 years ago so i guess it has been out for a grip huh it has been out for a minute that came out like when we got married that song came out the year we got married isn't that weird yeah like the month we got married it's easy to kind of lump it in with the rest of Lil Jon's body of work, right?
Starting point is 00:09:26 Because Turn Down For What came out in 2013. Get Low dropped in 2003, which is 20 years ago. That feels right. Because I remember that that song really had a seismic shift impact on my high school dances when get low came out even though i remember being let me think 16 and hearing till um till sweat drips off my balls and thinking like i'm not ready for this none of none of the people here that are listening to this are ready. Excuse me. I'm going to need to leave. I should leave. Can someone call my parents?
Starting point is 00:10:16 DJ Snake is a French DJ and producer who had been buddies with Lil Jon for several years before this collab. By the way, fun minigame. Maybe not. Maybe you'll crush it. How old do you think Lil Jon is? Oh, 51. 52. Wow. maybe not maybe you'll crush it how old do you think little john is who uh 51 52 wow i'm impressed yeah usually i'm not as good as that as as i was just then so i think if i hadn't told you that get low came out 20 years ago you would have undershot now i'm at an age where i kind of take my own age and i guess based on how old i am this
Starting point is 00:10:46 person would be and that's how i got there um so dj snake put together the beat for turned down for what before it was turned before i have words it was just a beat just this amorphous beautiful thing that existed in the artistic ether of his mind and he sent it to little john to try and get a collaboration going this is a quote from DJ Snake that is very good when I hit up the big homie Jon which like he's not Lil which one is he describe which adjective he probably his friends probably he prefers to his friends he is the big homie Jon yeah when I hit up the big homie Jon and asked him if he wanted to be on the track this song is a pretty balling song.
Starting point is 00:11:26 He heard the beat and was instantly down with the vision. What he sent me back, though, absolutely blew my mind. I knew John was one of the best, but he absolutely killed it on this joint. I am so glad, again, to kind of revisit Lil Jon because there's like what? There's like 11 words in this song. Like fire up that loud. Another round of shots turned down for what? 12 words, 12 words over and over again.
Starting point is 00:11:54 And so you hear that and you're like, wow, Lil Jon really made bank on that. Really got the money and ran on this one. But there is no one else. There's no one else who could bring to this song what little john brought to it period there's not another performing artist alive who could do what he did on this song and can i tell you that until you just said those lyrics to me
Starting point is 00:12:16 i i only i only knew the turndown for what part i didn't i heard the word shots in there i yeah but i couldn't distinguish anything else i thought it for a while i thought't i heard the word shots in there i yeah but i couldn't distinguish anything else i thought it for a while i thought it was like five to nine and everybody shots so it was like we're almost like nine to five but no it's fire up that loud another round of shots uh that is what little john sent him back little john was like thank you for the beat here's what i have fire up that loud another round of shots turned down for what um he just sent that him yelling that in his incredible way about 200 times which is just precisely what the doctor ordered uh and this the that's the lyrics are very good the the beat the actual instrumentation of the song is also exceptional because i feel like it's so deeply ingrained in my mind like i
Starting point is 00:13:06 can imagine every sort of movement of trap drums and like synth warbles uh that that happen in sequence and i feel like they despite that they do hit so right every single time from the buildup to the, to the sort of climate climacies, which is the plural of climax. Of course. The message of the song is also so great. I think, cause it's just, it's a party jam,
Starting point is 00:13:35 right? Yeah. Yeah. And so there's a lot of ways to frame that. And certainly little John has done a lot of that framing in so many different ways. Shots, shots,
Starting point is 00:13:44 shots, shots, shots, everybody, shots, shots. Everybody like more straightforward, like this. Let's party. What this song says is what possible reason could we have to stop partying? And it doesn't provide an answer to that rhetorical question that it might be solvable. Like, turned down for what? What there could be like, I'm sick'm sick today little john and then he would be like that's okay i you're okay griffin is
Starting point is 00:14:13 excuse that's his next track griffin is excused i have terrible new news big big homie john i have terrible terrible news your car is being towed oh okay i will be back in a moment turn down for a set for a bit until i go and rectify this i have to go pick up my kids from soccer practice turn it down until let me see reconvene here at 7 30 and then turn it back up at well yeah at which point the what will be over and we do not have to turn it down. So the song is excellent. Gus wants it constantly. When he shouts, turn down for what? He only gets like every other word and it's very fun.
Starting point is 00:14:52 It's funny because it's really the excitement and the momentum because he will specifically ask for turn down for what? He will say all of the words in that order. But then when the song is playing and it gets to the point where he can shout that, you can tell he kind of panics. He panics every single time. It's very good. Song is great. The music video is the stuff of legends. I don't know that I've seen it.
Starting point is 00:15:18 Okay. I'm going to just put it on the computer in the background. Okay. While I continue to talk about it because it's important. computer in the background okay while i continue to talk about it because it's important you're just gonna have to imagine the the song playing so that's daniel kwan oh from uh the daniels the uh academy award-winning directors of everything everywhere all at once yes that's sunita mani who has been in a bunch of stuff she's in uh mr robot and glow and uh spirited she was the ghost christmas past she's
Starting point is 00:15:53 been in a bunch of stuff so in this video uh daniel kwan is plays a man who starts out on top of his apartment building and as the song goes he humps his way through the through the ground and smashes through every floor using his uh sort of pelvis as a kind of like i don't know like sonic cannon uh and he just just humps his way through the apartment and makes a big party happen and soon everybody else starts humping through the ground and smashing through the ground and it's very powerful and poetic and uh cartoonishly kind of weirdly horny uh it's gonna be hard to kind of continue talking uh while this happens in the background yeah i think i've seen enough um so i think it's very good that the academy award-winning directors of everything everywhere all at once uh created and starred in this music video for turned down for what uh there's a quote
Starting point is 00:16:55 from daniel kwan who said for a while daniel and i had been wanting to explore male sexuality in a really weird way for some reason our brains came up with this image and this other universe where dudes are so pumped up on their own dicks and they're so into their testosterone that the way that they show that is by breaking shit with their dicks. So whatever happens, that would just be
Starting point is 00:17:15 a funny logical progression. You really like planting the seeds for the film that they would go on to make. Yes, of course. Like this alternate reality where things are ridiculous yeah there's a big uh uh hot dog finger exactly to the music video anyway that's turned
Starting point is 00:17:33 down for what great song had that it really has made me appreciate the singular legacy of little john um and dj snake um i saw a great story from the 2016 election, I think, or maybe 2020, when someone asked Lil Jon to endorse Trump for president because I guess he was on Celebrity Apprentice. Oh, yeah. And his response was a tweet that just said, how about fuck no? Anyway, can I steal your white? Yes. anyway can i steal your wife yes you there have you considered listening to the beef and dairy network an award-winning comedy show in the form of a newsletter podcast for the beef and dairy industries well maybe you should and why don't you try our most recent episode episode 99 which features american man paul f
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Starting point is 00:19:27 That's F-A-N-T-I. Come get all this good good. Or this great great. I have my topic for you. Are you ready? Yes. My topic this week is the zoo train. The zoo train.
Starting point is 00:19:43 Yes. Okay. Yes. I guess this is a thing, this is a thing yeah it was difficult to find like one resource i really i like i literally googled uh list of zoo trains doesn't doesn't exist can i say something this is kind of this happens on this show sometimes where we become the source. We are the ones who are like, wait a minute, something's happening here. There's trains in a lot of zoos. Now, all of a sudden, we are the nexus lexus result when you search for zoo trains.
Starting point is 00:20:15 It's like, well, wonderful. Did a pretty deep dive on this. It talked about four zoo trains. So there's got to be at least four. Okay. It's probably the same four that I'm thinking of. So let's see. No, there's a lot of zoo trains. Okay's got to be at least four okay it's probably the same four that i'm thinking of so let's see no there's a lot of zoo trains okay thank god uh when i was searching for this it was just um it seemed like the majority of zoos have a train i love that that doesn't make any fucking
Starting point is 00:20:37 sense at all i love it so much i think i i couldn't really figure out like you can google any number of things like you can find out what the first zoo is or, like, you know, the oldest zoo in this country. But if you Google, like, first zoo train, you will not find anything. So I just thought I would do kind of a smattering of zoo trains. My experience, of course, began in st louis um the st louis zoo line railroad as i knew it um now it is it is uh sponsored by emerson so it is the emerson zoo line railroad um but it is a mile and a half around the zoo uh and there is a like a 20 minute little informational like speech that happens while you
Starting point is 00:21:26 are on it like a little person will sit in the back and we'll tell you about the zoo and the areas you are going through uh and the train can hold like 80 people and it is a great way to get around it is an important way to get around that's a that's a big zoo to try to traverse by foot yeah so the st louis zoo is 90 acres which doesn't even rank it as one of the five biggest. When I was looking, the Bronx Zoo is up there. Of course, our zoo here, the Smithsonian. I don't know how exactly they are counting acreage and what makes a big zoo. Like, is it just the land it takes up or the number of exhibits?
Starting point is 00:22:03 I don't know. It was difficult for me to determine. But yeah, the louis zoo train we took henry on it um once and it's like it's like a bonus thing like you go to the zoo to see animals and then there's also a train to ride it's a hat on a hat and it looks but that both hats look really good. And it's a great way to get around. I think like the nature of zoo is that you have a lot of like open, untree lined, often concrete area. And in the summer it is miserable. So bad. Get on that train.
Starting point is 00:22:39 Now all of a sudden you're on the other side of the zoo and you're a little relaxed. Our small son went to zoo today and big son had the opportunity to go to zoo and was like nope and i was like i kind of get it yeah yeah it's pretty hot out there it is pretty hot so i wanted to to talk about some zoos uh some notable zoos san francisco's zoo train um i just wanted to bring it up because they call their train the little puffer oh that's cool which i just love so much uh it was actually it was the train itself was purchased in 1925 and installed in the zoo in 1941 still going still same train uh yeah yeah it's well it went in storage from like 1965 to 1997 whoa and then that's a long gap. And then was restored. I mean, here's the thing,
Starting point is 00:23:26 and this is why a lot of zoos would not have a train or would not continue to have a train. It is expensive to keep up a train. Sure, all that coal. And zoos, which are focused on animals, not coal. A lot of them are steam. Okay. Some of them are coal, though, probably.
Starting point is 00:23:47 Just like a little kid, like a little stained kid in the front as like one coal like each time just to get it to go around it's just a monkey a monkey shovel it's 11 um got a little tin lunchbox with a banana um i wanted to talk with me Play with me. Play with me. I feel like I did for a little while with my little one coal. Okay, fine. Gets the whole train going. All right. There has also been a move to electric trains, which I think is interesting.
Starting point is 00:24:17 St. Louis just got one in March 2023. Cincinnati has one now. The focus is to save on fuel and maintenance costs uh and cincinnati uh gained status as the greenest zoo in america wow which is part of the reason that they they took on the electric train um the one i wanted to spend a little time on is the san antonio zoo now we have never been there. No. I've heard good things, though. Yes. Yeah, it's kind of embarrassing how little we went to San Antonio, considering we were like an hour away.
Starting point is 00:24:53 We went a couple times. It's cool. I genuinely liked San Antonio every time we went there. I don't think we ever took our children there, though, did we? Maybe not. Maybe not. No. We never took our children there, though, did we? Maybe not. Maybe not. No. I don't think so.
Starting point is 00:25:09 So the San Antonio Zoo has a train. The railroad there was built in 1956, and at the time was the longest miniature railroad in the world. It was formerly known as the Bracken Ridge Eagle. Cool. God, trains have the coolest names um because it goes around brackenridge park uh the thing i wanted to talk about is 1970 when this miniature train was robbed at gunpoint what uh in in 1970 in july so you know we just passed the anniversary uh they have what san antonio calls the great little train robbery wait why would why they celebrated every i'm gonna get
Starting point is 00:25:58 there they celebrated every year which i think is funny because it was an actual crime. Like these people actually went to prison. But it is like so unusual that they celebrate it as an event every year. And so at this point, it was over 50 years ago. And what happened, so there is like a, it's actually a witness testimonial. So the people that were kids at the time were told a newspaper, the story of the experience. The person they interviewed, their father was the manager at the like train depot. Okay. So they were on the train, like his kids, like the family was on the train. And the train stopped.
Starting point is 00:26:44 And then they heard people talking about how the train was being held up was on the train uh and the train stopped and then they heard people talking about how the train was being held up while on the train um the robbers two people wearing masks one had a gun the other had a duffel bag uh and some people started hopping off the train immediately we're just like forget this i'm out, no kidding. At which point the robbers were like, get back on the train because they clearly didn't have a plan. No. Well, except that they did because they robbed a train.
Starting point is 00:27:13 But anybody that's been on a miniature train knows there isn't an elaborate. You aren't contained. Sometimes there's like a little chain that hooks onto the side, but there's not a lot of barrier. What a strange choice uh and then people were just kind of skirting the the issue like they saw it happening and so they
Starting point is 00:27:34 put stuff in their socks they took their money out of their wallet and so by the time the robbers got to them they like didn't have anything available to the robbers because the robbers were trying to move quickly just going from like person to person so you saw them coming down the way you were like oh i better hide all my stuff by the time they got there there wasn't there wasn't anything to get uh so what happened was one uh the person who was being interviewed her dad as i mentioned owned the train or managed the train depot and one of the guys on the train, like got on a walkie talkie radio thing and, and reached out to her dad and said,
Starting point is 00:28:11 there are people robbing the train. And he's like, are you kidding me? Are they armed? And they said, yes. So she said her dad clicked off the radio, opened up a safe and pulled a gun out,
Starting point is 00:28:23 which I, they don't explain why somebody managing a zoo train would have a gun yeah that's another great question but apparently they knew they had their suspicions they knew like this would be the perfect crime i should get strapped if i were a criminal i would rob our small train for sure for for sure. At which point this woman's dad told the person he was working with to lock everything down. They're probably going to double back and try to rob the main office here too.
Starting point is 00:28:55 By the time he got there, the robbers were already gone, but they did get caught. Apparently they were soldiers that were stationed nearby at Fort Sam Houston. Guys. They got away with about $500
Starting point is 00:29:08 in valuables and cash, but they got caught. And train robbery is a federal crime, so they were given 10 and 20 years in the federal penitentiary because of their train robbery. That's the wildest crime. It that's the wildest crime it's not the wildest crime right there's obviously lots of wild crime stories out there and speaking from experience
Starting point is 00:29:32 there's very little that is funny about being robbed at gunpoint yes but the leaps that someone has to go through to plan this heist and not go, should we maybe do like a building instead? Should we maybe not do? No. It might be better. Hey, Rob, I was thinking about this. Maybe we should, you know,
Starting point is 00:29:56 do like a room with walls and a door and not a big long room with no walls and is in a zoo, in the middle of a zoo. Do you think they just wanted to do a train robbery really bad? It's very possible. And I mean, here's the thing.
Starting point is 00:30:14 It is celebrated now. So apparently this crime marked itself in regional and state history as the first time in 47 years a train had been robbed. And the last known train robbery in the state. So they really, they are lumped in now with all these famous train robbers in history. But probably not in the way they were hoping they would be.
Starting point is 00:30:38 So apparently they have, it is not unusual for them to celebrate this at the San Antonio Zoo. Recently, zoo employees dressed as bandits once again walked the length of a train holding out a bag, this time asking for donations towards a new train. That's great. So part of the reason I thought of this is because I have talked a lot about how I really want the Smithsonian National Zoo to have a train. Please. It's too big.
Starting point is 00:31:09 It's not just big, folks. It is angular. It is a downhill jaunt, which then becomes a very rough uphill jaunt. Yes, there are like two entrances, one at the top of the hill, one at the bottom of the hill. Half uphill jaunt. Yes. There are like two entrances, one at the top of the hill, one at the bottom of the hill. And it seems like if you're going to do the whole zoo, you're going to end up in trouble at some point. Either having to spend the whole time going uphill or at the very end having to go uphill to get back to your car.
Starting point is 00:31:36 Pro tip for me, my strat now, park at the bottom, go up at the very beginning, and then you can just enjoy the zoo. Uh-huh. So I was looking like, I was Googling like Smithsonian Zoo train question mark. And what I found was in, and this is an article from 2008, the Smithsonian had a renovation plan that was approved to cost about $1 billion. It was a 20 year plan. So we're not at the end of it yet. It called for a parking garage, which we have not seen yet either, seven new animal exhibits, new plazas and visitors amenities, and then one of the things in there was an aerial tram.
Starting point is 00:32:19 I was thinking like a funicular of some sort or something like that. That would be dope. Part of what was approved was a three-station aerial tram similar to a ski lift that would run the length of the zoo's 163 acres. Oh, I like that. Yeah. I like that. Again, this was published in 2008. It's a 20-year plan.
Starting point is 00:32:40 We're getting close. We're getting close, and I have not even seen signs that this is going to be constructed. Please look forward. Pardon our mess as we make this zoo more traversable. So I don't know if that's still coming or not. But fingers crossed. Okay.
Starting point is 00:32:52 Yeah. Thank you for your service. I'm going to be thinking about this small train robbery for a very long time. Yes. And I was trying to think of like a train robbery pun, but the best I came up with is 310 to Puma, but I don't think that that's any, 310 to Zuma. They might not have Pumas at the San Antonio Zoo is the only issue.
Starting point is 00:33:20 And I don't even know if 310 to Yuma has a train robbery in it. The problem is we don't know a lot of train words. That's not true. Engine. Rail. Locomotive is another word. Yeah. Anyway, there's nothing there.
Starting point is 00:33:41 We are standing on the precipice of a comedy void and looking over it saying like, there might be, we might be the ones to forge this impossible. This is why there's not a lot of trained resources on the internet is everybody sitting
Starting point is 00:33:52 trying to figure out what to name this website and they've got nothing. And so. Yeah. Hey, thanks to Bowen and Augustus for these for a theme song, Money Won't Pay.
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