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Speaker 1: Right before this episode started.
Speaker 2: Whatever happened to h Town?
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Speaker 1: Do you see the clip of Otown recently performing at
Speaker 1: no not not that they're the same band, but wait,
Speaker 1: are you for real? Somebody for me a clip of
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Speaker 1: sparsely attended.
Speaker 2: Oh you hate to see it. You need to see it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I am Jack, that is Miles, I am back.
Speaker 1: Thank you for holding it down for me while I
Speaker 1: was out.
Speaker 2: Oh of course, you know they call me a paperweight
Speaker 2: because I hold it down.
Speaker 3: That's right.
Speaker 2: Mm hmm.
Speaker 1: Did not feel good for a couple of days at all.
Speaker 1: Was not was not consuming, getting slowly getting over it,
Speaker 1: slowly getting back.
Speaker 2: Look, it's a hard week on the show. It's been
Speaker 2: a hard week on the show between my back and
Speaker 2: Jack's fucking wild illness. We pulled through. We pulled through
Speaker 2: for as I can so I got full custody.
Speaker 1: All right, Well, these are some of the things that
Speaker 1: are trending big news in the world of nineties movies.
Speaker 3: I guess.
Speaker 1: A guy posted a video on Twitter of Jennifer Garner
Speaker 1: freaking out in the Michael Bay movie Pearl Harbor, and
Speaker 1: in the background among the frantic wounded soldiers, John McClain
Speaker 1: wanders by. Wait, undeniably John McClain from die Hard. Yeah, now,
Speaker 1: some might say it's definitely John McClain from the original
Speaker 1: die Hard, but Eagle Eyede listeners and one Miles Gray
Speaker 1: pointed out.
Speaker 2: Telling you, I think it's die Hard with the vengeance.
Speaker 3: I think it's Diar with a vengeance. He's in daytime.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he's in sunlight, in a tank top. He's bloody.
Speaker 2: Although I've been looking closely right in the movie, he
Speaker 2: has a lot of like injuries to the left side
Speaker 2: of his face, so maybe they inverted it, but his
Speaker 2: arm is very bloody at a certain point when they're
Speaker 2: on that ship. I'm not joking, bro. Right before like
Speaker 2: we got on this, I scrubbed through the movie really
Speaker 2: quick because I tried to find it. I couldn't quite
Speaker 2: find where this may have come from. But just with
Speaker 2: like the lighting and knowing that in the original Diehard,
Speaker 2: we don't see him in the in daylight looking messed
Speaker 2: up in a tank top right.
Speaker 1: Now he is he is unmassed up when the night falls. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so unless it's the scene where the FBI shines the
Speaker 1: light on the building.
Speaker 2: But yeah, they just so for anybody.
Speaker 3: Wondering what the fuck we're talking about?
Speaker 1: All sorry, he's very strange. People are debating, Like people
Speaker 1: are like, oh, this is this is just a you know,
Speaker 1: a fake coincidence aibs or like the guy looks like him,
Speaker 1: but you can, like when you go and watch it,
Speaker 1: and it's very clear that they have clipped a scene
Speaker 1: in which Bruce Willis is wandering past the camera badly injured,
Speaker 1: and just used it to cover up some cut or another.
Speaker 3: Like that, like some weird editing trick.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and because Michael Bay features fifty four edits per second, roughly,
Speaker 1: the brain just like doesn't notice it unless it's like
Speaker 1: isolated for you, right, but it's wildly noticeable if you
Speaker 1: just want.
Speaker 2: Yeah, people been talking about it for years. Apparently there's
Speaker 2: like a fourteen year old YouTube video or like, yo,
Speaker 2: you see that? You see that? Yeah, And I don't know.
Speaker 2: So a lot of people are like, well, what does
Speaker 2: this mean? Like, what what's the message here? People like
Speaker 2: it's an Easter Egg. Other people are like they worked
Speaker 2: on Armageddon, like right before that. Potentially I'm looking at
Speaker 2: this as a warning about nine eleve. Interesting this movie
Speaker 2: came out. This movie came out in May of two
Speaker 2: thousand and one, Yes, and it's about it's about an
Speaker 2: attack on America that maybe America knew a little bit
Speaker 2: about but just kind of let it happened.
Speaker 1: America didn't see coming, didn't see coming at all coming.
Speaker 3: Just like read the reports that were like this is
Speaker 3: about to happen.
Speaker 2: Yeah, then in New Yorker, New York Cop there, you know,
Speaker 2: just as a as a fore warning. I don't know,
Speaker 2: but it's just it's just like so odd. I Like
Speaker 2: every time you read people try and explain it, it just
Speaker 2: seems weird. Either Michael Bay is being a dick or
Speaker 2: he wants to put him in there. People speculate that
Speaker 2: like there was like a beef potentially that Bruce Willis
Speaker 2: and Michael Bay had because like Bruce Willis wasn't a
Speaker 2: isn't a big Michael Bay fan, and he's saying that
Speaker 2: he potentially would have like he said he didn't want
Speaker 2: him directing Diehard four, and then Michael Bay was like
Speaker 2: I was never gonna I was never gonna direct do it.
Speaker 2: I didn't even like, Oh that movie was even though
Speaker 2: he spliced it into my other movie.
Speaker 3: Do you want to Fight?
Speaker 1: Right here starts taking a wedding ring. It's yeah, it's interesting.
Speaker 1: The nine to eleven thing, very interesting theory, Miles. I
Speaker 1: think even put it together that the Pearl Harbor came
Speaker 1: out right before nine to eleven. Yeah, Also, Pearl Harbor
Speaker 1: happened in December. Who is more likely to be at
Speaker 1: the wrong place at the wrong time yea in December
Speaker 1: than John.
Speaker 2: McClain involving the Japanese Yeah, Nakotomi.
Speaker 3: I mean we shouldn't have to connect all the dots
Speaker 3: for you.
Speaker 2: No, no, no, I don't even have my red string out.
Speaker 2: It's that easy. Yes, it's laid itself out for you.
Speaker 2: But yeah, if anyone else has interesting theories about it,
Speaker 2: I would love to hear it, because it's just honest,
Speaker 2: it's so weird. If you want to cover a cut
Speaker 2: in post, there's so many ways to do that, but
Speaker 2: this seems intentional. Or I'd love to hear the thing
Speaker 2: about their like no, like, that's just some dude who
Speaker 2: looks like Bruce Willis right, or was it Bruce Willis?
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, I'm pretty sure it's got to be
Speaker 1: like it. I'm certain they just took like it.
Speaker 2: I as a Diehard fan to know when Bruce when
Speaker 2: John McLean is on screen, and.
Speaker 1: I've never seen Pearl Harbor before, so I don't have
Speaker 1: the baggage that a Pearl Harbor fan might have, right, Yeah,
Speaker 1: but yeah he might. Apparently he has been known to
Speaker 1: reuse shots from his own movies pretty pretty regularly. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so it's like I basically made this. I mean, I
Speaker 1: just made a movie with Bruce Willis, So why not?
Speaker 1: So he just grabbed grab some Johnny McLain, Yeah, anyway.
Speaker 2: Why not? Why not? Well, anyway, that's just doing people's
Speaker 2: heads in on the internet right now.
Speaker 1: Yeah, there's some interesting fan theories here though that I
Speaker 1: think people should should think about. Like, because so Diehard
Speaker 1: three happens in the summer, Pearl Harbor Day has the
Speaker 1: beginning of December. What's in between summer and December?
Speaker 2: Don't make me get out of the calculator, like how
Speaker 2: many days? Okay, hold on, hold on now, don't think.
Speaker 3: That I didn't do that, Miles, because I did.
Speaker 1: So if you went from Christmas Eve back to September eleventh,
Speaker 1: and then went the same number of days back.
Speaker 3: It would be May thirtieth, I.
Speaker 1: Believe, which is entirely within the realm of possibility of
Speaker 1: when Diehard three takes place, because schools are still in
Speaker 1: session in New York City, I believe, if I'm not mistaken, right,
Speaker 1: isn't there a scene where all the kids have to
Speaker 1: be taken out of the school. Yeah, So I don't
Speaker 1: think they ever specify a date in that one, because
Speaker 1: they were like, all right.
Speaker 2: Summer ish, because yeah, why are the kids in school?
Speaker 2: We don't know, we don't quite know.
Speaker 1: Yeah, hot time, summer in the city.
Speaker 3: All right.
Speaker 1: So we've got this news story that falls under the
Speaker 1: category of is this a news story or is this
Speaker 1: a like some sort of tease for a Super Bowl ad?
Speaker 2: Yeah, there's something afoot.
Speaker 3: Here, right, Maybe I don't know.
Speaker 1: So Snoop Dogg posted that after much consideration in conversation
Speaker 1: with my family, I've decided to give up smoke. Please
Speaker 1: respect my privacy at this time, posted next to a
Speaker 1: picture of him prayer hands and I don't know.
Speaker 3: People people are speculating.
Speaker 1: Like, was it he's talked about You know, he told
Speaker 1: Jimmy Kimmel back in two thousand and three that he
Speaker 1: had stopped smoking. Back in March, he said that he
Speaker 1: was cutting down now that he's grandfather.
Speaker 2: That makes sense. This all makes sense.
Speaker 3: It's yeah.
Speaker 2: The reason I'm a bit dubious is just the esthetic,
Speaker 2: the way this is being presented. There's a there's a
Speaker 2: black and white image of him looking like he's like
Speaker 2: got his hands clasped together, like as if he's in prayer,
Speaker 2: and he looks conflicted, like really in an overly dramatic way,
Speaker 2: and then this text is on there after much consideration, conversation,
Speaker 2: I've decided to give up smoke. Please respect my privacy.
Speaker 2: At this time, it feels like too big of an announcement.
Speaker 2: I feel like if you were seriously trying to stop
Speaker 2: using a certain substance or whatever a bad habit of
Speaker 2: advice you have, you're probably not going to announce it.
Speaker 2: And if you are, it either reeks of some kind
Speaker 2: of weird like weed cessation thing. He's gonna try to
Speaker 2: start fucking hawking or just something like I don't know,
Speaker 2: it just doesn't doesn't sound right.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's probably like not uh not the favorite post.
Speaker 1: If it turns out to be like some sort of
Speaker 1: marketing stunt like he's launching some non smoke weed product
Speaker 1: or you.
Speaker 2: Know, like vasile.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, Like then it's probably like I would say,
Speaker 1: that's probably a bad taste for people who are struggling in.
Speaker 3: Addiction, like to be like psych Yeah right, it's a bit.
Speaker 1: But yeah, at the same time, like I don't know,
Speaker 1: I think we should grant him the oh, and I
Speaker 1: hope that he's actually, you know, doing whatever is best
Speaker 1: for him and and not a marketing stunt.
Speaker 2: Calvin, we hope you're on the We hope you're on
Speaker 2: the right path. And if this turns I mean, here's
Speaker 2: the other thing is that Snoop Dogg has sold his
Speaker 2: identity to so many brands over the last couple of
Speaker 2: years that like I know, like I just know he's
Speaker 2: he's making money, right, you know what I mean, Like
Speaker 2: I think he's doing something to make money, like he's
Speaker 2: in them Corona as he's been so many things like yeah,
Speaker 2: he's like he's honestly very successfully turned his thing into
Speaker 2: like Marta was the case that they gave me to
Speaker 2: being like hey, like I'm just like this meme like
Speaker 2: lovable guy.
Speaker 1: So we'll see what if it was just a corona
Speaker 1: hours Like instead I do alcohol?
Speaker 3: Now, alcohol? Have you heard of it?
Speaker 2: Yeah? Beer better than weed.
Speaker 1: Yeah, all right, let's take a quick break. We'll be
Speaker 1: right back, and we're back.
Speaker 2: We're back.
Speaker 1: And it is a very specific genre of story that
Speaker 1: never gets old. Cheats, cheating on a specifically cheating on
Speaker 1: a distance race by jumping in a car.
Speaker 3: There's so many examples.
Speaker 2: Of this is so wild, this like I believe this,
Speaker 2: this I think is a Scottish marathon runner in this
Speaker 2: like Ultra Marathon basically has been banned for twelve months
Speaker 2: for using a car during a fifty mile race and allegedly,
Speaker 2: apparently and not allegedly, she's admitting to it. In the race,
Speaker 2: she hopped in the in her friend's car and then
Speaker 2: like finished somewhere up the road and placed third in
Speaker 2: this marathon. And then officials, after looking at the tracking
Speaker 2: data where they're like, this is kind of you five
Speaker 2: for a whole strift, what's going on here? And she
Speaker 2: later admitted that it was quote a massive error to
Speaker 2: accept the third place trophy, something she attributed to fatigue
Speaker 2: and jet lag having arrived from Australia the night before, okay,
Speaker 2: and then said quote, I would never purposefully cheat, and
Speaker 2: this was not a target race. But I don't want
Speaker 2: to make excuses. M lady. You got in the friends
Speaker 2: your friend's car. What the fuck did you You didn't quit?
Speaker 2: I mean, if you've got in your friend's car, like, yo,
Speaker 2: I'm done, Like I'm cooked, Like let's just go home.
Speaker 2: That's one thing. But then you're like, hey, drive me
Speaker 2: out for her driving. Okay, cool, Yeah, you have the
Speaker 2: reception later. Oh man, third place? Huh wow?
Speaker 1: Yeah, not even first, Sorry to my haters. Yeah, how
Speaker 1: close your friend's car. You know, you didn't even come
Speaker 1: in first.
Speaker 2: You couldn't come I guess that's probably how you do it,
Speaker 2: to not bring suspicion towards your performance. It's like, I'm
Speaker 2: not gonna win the race.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: But one of the people who got caught doing this
Speaker 1: was one of the major marathons New York and Boston,
Speaker 1: and like hopped in a taxi and came in first,
Speaker 1: and everyone's like it's wild because like we've never heard
Speaker 1: of them before. Yeah, And they came in first by
Speaker 1: a lot, and they didn't even seem like they were
Speaker 1: in great shape.
Speaker 2: I think it was Rosie Ruiz who that Boston and
Speaker 2: New York City, Like, I think the next marathon just
Speaker 2: got found out immediately.
Speaker 1: Yeah, they were like, uh oh, yeah, keep an eye
Speaker 1: on this one. Yeah, let's talk about some polling that
Speaker 1: Republicans are going to ignore.
Speaker 2: Absolutely. We were just talking this week about how they
Speaker 2: just can't give up abortion, like, you know, going after
Speaker 2: abortion rights. They can't give up attacking trans people. It's
Speaker 2: born out in the fucking results of their elections. We
Speaker 2: talked about how unsuccessful they were, like seventy three percent
Speaker 2: of candidates that were like running on homophobia or like
Speaker 2: healthcare rights denial. Uh, they lost seventy three percent of
Speaker 2: their races. And now you're looking at a national poll
Speaker 2: asking about what do y'all think of people just going
Speaker 2: after you know, LGBTQ people, content whatever. Over half of
Speaker 2: American's fifty opposed federal legislation banning public schools, libraries, and
Speaker 2: hospitals from having programs, events, or literature that mentioned gay
Speaker 2: or transgender people.
Speaker 3: Huh.
Speaker 2: Fifty three percent are against federal legislation banning all federal
Speaker 2: agencies and facilities, including the military, from having programs, events,
Speaker 2: or literature that mentioned gay or transgender people.
Speaker 1: Well, how many of those people opposed the interns that
Speaker 1: the GOP had, because that was the theory that I
Speaker 1: heard them working with, that they just had the wrong
Speaker 1: interns and staffers.
Speaker 2: Oh oh yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 3: They that's why they were losing elections.
Speaker 2: I haven't seen the crosstabs on that, but I'll look
Speaker 2: into it. I'll look into it. But it's like, I
Speaker 2: don't know clearly they there. They see the evangelical side
Speaker 2: of things as being like a huge driver of like
Speaker 2: their support. But now you're it's fracturing in a weird
Speaker 2: way because you're like, I don't know, people, we live
Speaker 2: in a slightly more accepting society than thirty years.
Speaker 3: Ago, but hey, huh, turns out keep.
Speaker 2: Making it easier for people to not do anything about it,
Speaker 2: maintain the status quo. If you're running against a Republican.
Speaker 1: All right, when you check in with LA after the
Speaker 1: horrible fire that damaged the ten freeway was going to
Speaker 1: take months to.
Speaker 2: Repair, the day week, say hey, hey, come on, don't
Speaker 2: make Gavin Newsom look bad.
Speaker 3: Oh is that right?
Speaker 2: No? This is like it's just funny because a lot
Speaker 2: of people are like for someone who has political aspirations
Speaker 2: this some people may fucking point at this to be
Speaker 2: like and what happened down there? Just like you know
Speaker 2: how in Pennsylvania there was a huge fire and everyone's like,
Speaker 2: oh shit, this might fuck the roads up. They kind
Speaker 2: of fixed that. They fix that thing like way ahead
Speaker 2: of schedule, and there are a lot of props being
Speaker 2: given to the governor there. But what happens with Gavin
Speaker 2: Newsom with this part where three hundred thousand people transit
Speaker 2: this part of the freeway at the time. Can he
Speaker 2: get it done in time?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 1: So what one of the things they're offering is a
Speaker 1: push for better public transportation, free rides, faster.
Speaker 3: Trains, more buses. Actually the faster trains.
Speaker 1: One is the one that I'm interested in.
Speaker 2: It's hilarious because yeah, Mayor Karen bass is like make
Speaker 2: the train that one train the E line go like
Speaker 2: ten percent faster. Is that that's what it is. They're
Speaker 2: going to boost the speed by ten percent and then
Speaker 2: like what they are doing is like adding more train cars.
Speaker 2: But it it has like I said, like on Tuesday
Speaker 2: they had a ten percent increase, like more people are
Speaker 2: I mean because the delays are obscene, like the streets
Speaker 2: around downtown or grid locked?
Speaker 1: Have they like looked into what was going on, Like,
Speaker 1: I know that there was a whole bunch of wooden
Speaker 1: palettes underneath the ten that we're not supposed to be there.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it was just it's like the story's wild because
Speaker 2: this was a program that the Department of Transportation caltrans
Speaker 2: like had initiated, I think during the pandemic where they
Speaker 2: were allowing companies to like use overpasses as like storage spaces,
Speaker 2: and this one company was like delinquent on all their
Speaker 2: payments to like maintain this space, started subleasing it. So
Speaker 2: there was a ton of wooden pallets there and then
Speaker 2: apparently a ton of like leftover hand sanitizer that some
Speaker 2: company couldn't unload, So they basically had just fuel and
Speaker 2: fuel chilling there, and it was just a perfect mix
Speaker 2: for all that should happen. So yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: hard times, hard times.
Speaker 3: Yeah a superducer Brian pointed out, it was a lot
Speaker 3: like that. Where was that explosion?
Speaker 2: Yeah, it was just yeah, old fertile lier also storing
Speaker 2: fireworks there equals yeah, catastrophic shit, Yeah, this is I mean, yeah,
Speaker 2: I'm really curious to see how this plays out, because
Speaker 2: I know this could be like a real this, this
Speaker 2: could turn into a political thing, you know, or when
Speaker 2: people are like campaigning, and just in general, I just
Speaker 2: for everyone in LA's sake, please please fucking fix it.
Speaker 2: At least they don't have to tear any part of
Speaker 2: it down. That was like the big worry.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so I guess it's three to five weeks is
Speaker 1: what they're estimating, so not months month.
Speaker 3: Maybe we'll see, Yeah, we'll see.
Speaker 1: And finally we have a report from rage room owners.
Speaker 3: What a what a crew.
Speaker 1: I always like to check in with them every once
Speaker 1: in a while, who are saying that growing number of
Speaker 1: customers are engaging in sex acts and intense makeout sessions
Speaker 1: in their rage rooms.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so people are smashing shit and then wanting to
Speaker 2: literally smash smash after or in the room one person
Speaker 2: one and the said quote. Every once in a while,
Speaker 2: people do get a little handsy. I've had some customers
Speaker 2: lay down together in a room filled with broken glass,
Speaker 2: so maybe there's a danger aspect to it.
Speaker 3: Mm hmm, I'm sorry, what speaking laid down to?
Speaker 2: Is this a pastor who owns this ragel laid down
Speaker 2: to these customers. Were they laid. I had them lay
Speaker 2: down together. I caught them lay down together.
Speaker 1: I don't know what they were doing, but they were
Speaker 1: trying to carnally know one another while also risking knowing
Speaker 1: the broken glass, right, which, yeah, you don't.
Speaker 3: There's to know that glass.
Speaker 2: In some cases, there's like some like they had some
Speaker 2: like sex therapists like also chiming in on what they
Speaker 2: thought was going on, and they're like, I could be
Speaker 2: like this, you know, safe form of domination where you're
Speaker 2: like dominating these inanimate objects, and then that carries over
Speaker 2: into this. Other people were like, I don't know, man,
Speaker 2: people just get fucking hornies, smash and stuff, and then
Speaker 2: you're in a room with someone you I guess are
Speaker 2: attracted to, and then that shit happens. I don't know.
Speaker 2: I I've not explored the idea of breaking ceramic plates
Speaker 2: as an aphrodisiac.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but the pictures of people like doing it, they
Speaker 1: have like full on like head coverings and like because
Speaker 1: it's just all about shredding.
Speaker 2: Dude. Those are body condoms, dude, so hot that I'm
Speaker 2: fucking seeing and then all those gases that are released
Speaker 2: when they're smashing up e waste that's so hot when
Speaker 2: it carcinogenic particles get into your fucking ones.
Speaker 1: But it is like, when I first care about this,
Speaker 1: I'm like, have they not heard of you know, boxing
Speaker 1: gyms or like something that allows them to hit something
Speaker 1: but doesn't require them to expose themselves to you know,
Speaker 1: e waste and broken glass and and horrifying chemical danger.
Speaker 1: I feel like it's the destruction in the same way
Speaker 1: that America responds like a war crime has been committed
Speaker 1: when somebody damages a bank. You know, Like I feel
Speaker 1: like this is them committing one of the ultimate transgressions
Speaker 1: in America, in the American psyche, and so like that's
Speaker 1: why they to.
Speaker 2: Like destroy the chains of consumerism.
Speaker 3: Yeah hand destroy. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Like one of the pictures of them like breaking a copier,
Speaker 1: which obviously is a potent image from off of space,
Speaker 1: but you know that seems like this is a lot
Speaker 1: of what they're doing is just breaking machines with hammers.
Speaker 1: So I just wonder if that like breaks something inside
Speaker 1: them and what comes out is just like all the
Speaker 1: shit that they've been bottling up in their day to day.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, yeah, I look, I'm I am now
Speaker 2: I'm I'm intellectually excited by the prospect of this. I
Speaker 2: will say if I become physically excited. I don't know
Speaker 2: how they have around LA though. I feel like it's
Speaker 2: the things I think of immediately, like those axe clubs.
Speaker 1: Right, what if he's just like move into office depots
Speaker 1: like after they close down.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, they do, like they're like actually rather than
Speaker 4: like shipping this stuff off, Like we can make a
Speaker 4: lot more money just letting people into the warehouse and
Speaker 4: breaking it a bunch.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Producer Brian points out copiers are full of ozone, carbon monoxide,
Speaker 1: nitrogen oxide, and volatile organic compounds.
Speaker 2: Okay, well that's just like your opinion, man.
Speaker 3: Where would you rather lay with someone?
Speaker 2: That's interesting? Because I can only get aroused unless I
Speaker 2: have a lung full of ozone, carbon monoxide, nitrogen oxide,
Speaker 2: and volatile organic compounds. So yeah, yeah, my own all.
Speaker 1: Right, Well, those are some of the things that are
Speaker 1: trending on this Thursday, November sixteenth.
Speaker 3: We are back tomorrow with the whole last episode of
Speaker 3: the show.
Speaker 1: Until then, be kind to each other, be kind to yourselves,
Speaker 1: gip vaccine, don't do nothing about white supremacy. We will
Speaker 1: talk to you all tomorrow, Bye bye,