WEBVTT - Mini Crush #143 0:00:00.200 --> 0:00:02.960 Welcome to Movie Crush, a production of I Heart Radio. 0:00:28.600 --> 0:00:35.520 Hey everybody, and welcome to Minny Crush with Noel and me. Man, Chuck, 0:00:35.560 --> 0:00:38.040 you almost had like a rap kind of quality of me. 0:00:38.080 --> 0:00:40.680 He's like, Hey, everybody, welcome to many crushed with a 0:00:40.720 --> 0:00:45.720 Knol and me orchestra hit. Well, I'm old school, so 0:00:45.960 --> 0:00:49.000 mine would go more like, uh, well, my name is 0:00:49.080 --> 0:00:51.360 Chuck and I'm here to say I'm gonna crush it 0:00:51.360 --> 0:00:53.959 out with Noel in a movie kind of way. That's 0:00:54.000 --> 0:00:59.720 all right, Yeah, orchestra hit. You know that sound class? 0:01:00.120 --> 0:01:02.640 Is that the Uh yeah, I think I know what 0:01:02.680 --> 0:01:08.280 you mean. It sounds like an entire when when Yeah, 0:01:08.280 --> 0:01:11.680 Originally it was on this sampling synth called a fair Light, 0:01:11.840 --> 0:01:13.680 which you might have seen, has like a little touch 0:01:13.720 --> 0:01:16.399 screen early touch screen with green letters and numbers on it, 0:01:16.480 --> 0:01:19.080 use a little pen and it was actually a sample 0:01:19.200 --> 0:01:23.040 from Shastakovich's Rites of spring and has said has sense 0:01:23.160 --> 0:01:26.119 been through many many iterations, but the original orchestra hit 0:01:26.200 --> 0:01:28.440 was from one of those big stabs in the rights 0:01:28.440 --> 0:01:31.520 of spring Boy. And then it's been on just hundreds 0:01:31.640 --> 0:01:34.720 of hip hop songs since then, Oh dude, and and 0:01:34.760 --> 0:01:36.960 now it's coming back actually like I don't know if 0:01:36.959 --> 0:01:39.160 you're into like grimes at all, but she uses it 0:01:39.440 --> 0:01:42.360 lots of this like hyperpop stuff like one hundred gets 0:01:42.640 --> 0:01:45.520 like all this weird like uh kind of meme culture 0:01:45.600 --> 0:01:47.880 type music uses it a lot. It's definitely back in 0:01:47.920 --> 0:01:49.640 a big way. Well, I'll tell you what we'll do now, 0:01:49.760 --> 0:01:52.760 since people probably it's hard to do that sound as 0:01:52.800 --> 0:01:55.200 a human being, So maybe if uber producer Seth can 0:01:55.240 --> 0:02:00.960 insert one of those right here, that'd be great. I 0:02:01.080 --> 0:02:06.760 was great, what am I saying? Wow? And maybe uh, 0:02:07.000 --> 0:02:10.240 just throw a throw eight o eight in there so 0:02:10.280 --> 0:02:15.200 everyone knows that classic beat. You know. I've been being 0:02:15.360 --> 0:02:17.959 super prolific lately, Chuck. I think we played a little 0:02:18.000 --> 0:02:20.640 bit of the Sparkle Girls song. It's a big hit 0:02:20.720 --> 0:02:23.639 already with the movie. It's a bob. Yeah. Well let's 0:02:23.720 --> 0:02:26.760 it's not it's not quite there. Yeah, the video will 0:02:26.800 --> 0:02:29.280 becoming sooner. Keep a lookout. But I've been making I've 0:02:29.320 --> 0:02:32.360 been buying all these like old seventy eights and like 0:02:32.440 --> 0:02:35.519 forty fives and like weird like junk records at the 0:02:35.520 --> 0:02:38.519 thrift stores and just starting songs by like sampling weird 0:02:38.520 --> 0:02:40.520 little parts and then building a song around it, but 0:02:40.720 --> 0:02:44.000 I've become obsessed with um. If you do any thrift 0:02:44.040 --> 0:02:47.079 store mining and Georgia you you will will probably come 0:02:47.120 --> 0:02:52.799 across these very regional Christian country records you don't talking 0:02:52.800 --> 0:02:55.720 about where It's like they all look the same. Yeah, 0:02:56.400 --> 0:02:59.120 it's like a family band. All the men are wearing 0:02:59.120 --> 0:03:02.160 matching whites, and women all have these big hair dues 0:03:02.760 --> 0:03:05.520 and they're posing in front of some sort of picturesque, 0:03:05.639 --> 0:03:09.119 you know, Sylvan scene. And yeah, they all have names 0:03:09.160 --> 0:03:11.600 like the Christian Echoes or something. And I've been loving 0:03:11.639 --> 0:03:13.560 again and they happened to be by a creek bank 0:03:14.040 --> 0:03:16.440 under an oak tree. That's exactly right. And the funny 0:03:16.440 --> 0:03:19.160 thing is is like they're all from like Smyrna or 0:03:19.240 --> 0:03:22.960 some kind of more rurally part of Georgia, but near Atlanta, 0:03:23.080 --> 0:03:25.040 near enough that we've ended up with these because they 0:03:25.080 --> 0:03:27.120 probably only made like a hundred of them. Sure you 0:03:27.120 --> 0:03:28.440 know what I mean. I mean, I love it. It's 0:03:28.480 --> 0:03:30.639 such a neat little treasure hunt it is. I love 0:03:30.680 --> 0:03:33.960 that little niche. Uh So, no, I saw you yesterday. 0:03:34.400 --> 0:03:37.880 I r l again at the office you wandered by 0:03:38.080 --> 0:03:41.800 and nol I have to let everyone know once again. 0:03:42.640 --> 0:03:46.960 Soft shorts. Uh. Yeah, that's I was wearing soft shorts yesterday. 0:03:47.200 --> 0:03:50.280 But I gotta tell you I have pivoted I what 0:03:50.000 --> 0:03:54.680 you can wear. There's something against that. Well, I just 0:03:54.680 --> 0:03:56.680 heard you touting the hard pant and I have still 0:03:56.760 --> 0:03:59.760 yet to see a hard pant. Well, you know, chuck 0:04:00.080 --> 0:04:03.960 the thing. I forget that. Other people sometimes wander through 0:04:04.000 --> 0:04:06.960 that office, and so I thought I was safe from 0:04:06.800 --> 0:04:10.080 the prying eyes of look you lose, such as yourself. 0:04:10.120 --> 0:04:13.000 I'm there every Tuesday, my friend, and I also need 0:04:13.040 --> 0:04:17.839 to tell everybody about uh the Uh, well, I'm gonna 0:04:17.880 --> 0:04:20.919 solve the mystery of the beheaded parrots. Knowledge was me? 0:04:21.480 --> 0:04:25.360 It was you? It was you, Yes, But I asked 0:04:25.360 --> 0:04:28.080 you about it, and you seemed indignant. I know, I 0:04:28.160 --> 0:04:31.640 was playing it off pretty good. Oh you literally said, well, 0:04:31.680 --> 0:04:35.279 I wouldn't know anything about that, nol. Well, why don't 0:04:35.279 --> 0:04:40.520 you tell everyone would happen? Yeah, holy sh it. Wow, Okay, 0:04:40.839 --> 0:04:43.839 I should have played it out longer. Maybe the mystery simmer. 0:04:43.920 --> 0:04:47.360 But oh this is gold. Oh my goodness. So yeah, 0:04:47.400 --> 0:04:49.880 I went to the office over the weekend with my daughter. 0:04:50.640 --> 0:04:52.680 Uh there's another funny story writ up in this too. 0:04:52.760 --> 0:04:55.480 But I go to my desk. I'm looking for something, 0:04:56.200 --> 0:04:59.240 and there we have these little squishy ball parrot things 0:04:59.240 --> 0:05:01.520 and you know what, I'm talking stress relievers, but they 0:05:01.520 --> 0:05:05.040 look like little parrots. And on my desk, lined up 0:05:05.320 --> 0:05:09.000 like serial killer style, there's like six of them, and 0:05:09.040 --> 0:05:12.560 they're little parrot faces have been like cleanly snipped off 0:05:13.120 --> 0:05:16.240 with clearly like a scissor of some sort, and they're 0:05:16.279 --> 0:05:19.520 placed in front of them, lined up, you know, in 0:05:19.560 --> 0:05:22.080 a row. It's like a scene out of like seven 0:05:22.200 --> 0:05:26.120 or something like, but with cartoon squishy parrots. So you 0:05:26.160 --> 0:05:28.320 want to know how that happened? Well, how did that happen? 0:05:28.360 --> 0:05:30.599 I was pacing the office on my on my phone 0:05:30.600 --> 0:05:33.400 call and I picked up one of those squishy things 0:05:33.400 --> 0:05:36.680 and I was squishing it and and I flicked his 0:05:36.720 --> 0:05:39.080 little head off by accident, and I was like, well, 0:05:39.080 --> 0:05:42.240 that came off very easily. And then I put it 0:05:42.279 --> 0:05:44.240 on your desk and put the little head in front 0:05:44.279 --> 0:05:48.080 of it, the beheaded head. And then I thought, man, 0:05:48.120 --> 0:05:50.960 these things are everywhere and nobody gives a shit about 0:05:51.000 --> 0:05:54.960 them because they're still in the office, and so I'm 0:05:55.000 --> 0:05:59.960 just gonna do a little art installation slash Godfather message 0:06:00.680 --> 0:06:03.719 and uh, I beheaded what like six or seven of them. Yeah, 0:06:03.760 --> 0:06:05.800 I don't think you. Maybe you don't follow me on 0:06:05.800 --> 0:06:09.480 Instagram or you didn't. I didn't see it. I did 0:06:09.480 --> 0:06:12.200 a whole story about it, and I said something like, 0:06:13.720 --> 0:06:15.440 came to the office for the first time in a 0:06:15.440 --> 0:06:19.080 while and arrived on this murder scene on my desk, 0:06:19.240 --> 0:06:22.640 and then I said, what kind of monster would do this? 0:06:24.480 --> 0:06:27.800 I feel threatened. Oh boy, I can't believe I missed that. 0:06:28.440 --> 0:06:32.279 I'm not sure miss that. You. Yeah, it was done 0:06:32.279 --> 0:06:35.320 the stories. Wow, Oh my god. I actually thought it 0:06:35.400 --> 0:06:38.680 might have been Nathan, who's our social media guy. He's 0:06:38.720 --> 0:06:41.480 a bit of a prankster, but he hadn't been in 0:06:41.560 --> 0:06:43.599 the office at all in like months, and he didn't 0:06:43.600 --> 0:06:45.160 know anything about it, but he loved it. He was 0:06:45.200 --> 0:06:49.400 a fan of your work, twas I twas. I wow, okay, wow, 0:06:49.480 --> 0:06:51.279 it was really really really quickly. This is a movie 0:06:51.320 --> 0:06:54.120 related In the same trip. I was digging around in 0:06:54.160 --> 0:06:56.960 my desk after being, you know, terrified by that whole scene. 0:06:57.160 --> 0:07:00.240 I found this package under my desk that hadn't been open, 0:07:00.240 --> 0:07:01.400 and you know, we get a lot of mail at 0:07:01.400 --> 0:07:03.200 the office, and I don't know how I missed it, 0:07:03.200 --> 0:07:05.320 but it was from like two thousand seventeen. It was 0:07:05.400 --> 0:07:09.480 from my ex girlfriend, a woman who I dated from 0:07:09.720 --> 0:07:13.160 like fifth grade until I was like nineteen twenty years old, 0:07:14.000 --> 0:07:16.400 like this was my first love kind of, and it 0:07:16.480 --> 0:07:20.160 was his package from her, unopened, like yellowed the box 0:07:20.280 --> 0:07:22.560 kind of, and I'm holy shit, how did I miss this? 0:07:22.600 --> 0:07:25.280 And so I opened it up and it's like ten 0:07:25.920 --> 0:07:30.560 really pristine, beautiful, awesome, high quality DVDs some of my 0:07:30.600 --> 0:07:32.720 favorites in my collection over the years that I just 0:07:33.040 --> 0:07:35.280 she had ended up with and she sent back to me. 0:07:35.880 --> 0:07:39.000 One of them was a Criterion Memento, the really cool 0:07:39.000 --> 0:07:42.920 one that looks like a like a notebook. Notebook. Um, 0:07:43.080 --> 0:07:45.360 the first two seasons right there, only two were two 0:07:45.360 --> 0:07:49.960 of the British Office, Uh, the Anton Corbin Directors series 0:07:50.040 --> 0:07:54.640 music video DVD, and my personal favorite is not Think 0:07:54.640 --> 0:07:59.480 you Can't even Get It Anymore Wonder Shows in That's 0:07:59.480 --> 0:08:01.720 a nice old treasure troue. It was so cool and 0:08:01.760 --> 0:08:04.240 like a little Christmas card from her, like talking about 0:08:04.240 --> 0:08:06.120 our family, she's got kids now and stuff. But I 0:08:06.120 --> 0:08:07.960 immediately hit her up on Facebook and I was like, 0:08:08.320 --> 0:08:10.200 I'm so sorry, I don't know how I missed this, 0:08:10.280 --> 0:08:13.760 And it was so thoughtful and uh like most of 0:08:13.800 --> 0:08:15.840 my other DVDs I've either gotten rid of or sold, 0:08:15.840 --> 0:08:18.800 and these are like pri posh, pristine condition, not a 0:08:18.840 --> 0:08:21.840 scratch on them, all the inserts and everything. Fully there. 0:08:22.480 --> 0:08:25.080 Love it. What a great end of the story. And 0:08:25.120 --> 0:08:29.360 now you're having a secret affair. Yes, also true. Alright, nol. 0:08:29.400 --> 0:08:33.360 So what we're doing today is we are um, we're 0:08:33.400 --> 0:08:36.720 not doing any little mini segments because we have a 0:08:36.760 --> 0:08:40.800 very special guest coming in to play pop quiz hot shot, uh, 0:08:40.800 --> 0:08:42.679 and also to talk about a little thing this person 0:08:42.800 --> 0:08:46.959 has been working on in way of promotion. And then 0:08:46.960 --> 0:08:49.120 we're gonna finish up with a little stream this with 0:08:49.160 --> 0:08:52.120 this human and I think that that will probably take 0:08:52.160 --> 0:08:55.400 up our whole episode, so I didn't bother with any 0:08:55.400 --> 0:08:58.160 other segments. I really hope it's Dennis Hopper, just not 0:08:58.200 --> 0:09:00.400 Dennis offered that would be great because he is he's 0:09:00.520 --> 0:09:04.840 quite dead. Oh that's right. That would be weird and 0:09:04.960 --> 0:09:08.200 be very weird. So we are going to admit now 0:09:08.400 --> 0:09:12.640 into the room, Noel, are very special guests that you 0:09:12.679 --> 0:09:19.720 don't even know, ladies and gentlemen. John Hodgeman, Hello, Hello, 0:09:21.240 --> 0:09:24.920 I know my Chuck. What are you doing dude, just 0:09:25.000 --> 0:09:29.520 joining my my Beard my favorite Beard club soon. Yeah. Man, 0:09:29.559 --> 0:09:33.360 we're all gray and black Beard. Eid. I'm in a 0:09:33.360 --> 0:09:34.880 great I'm a great moved check. Let me tell you 0:09:34.880 --> 0:09:38.000 why a lot. There's a lot going on. It's a 0:09:38.200 --> 0:09:43.880 hard time challenging moment for and it's a challenging moment 0:09:43.920 --> 0:09:48.040 in our in our democracy. Are representative democracy? You said it. 0:09:48.160 --> 0:09:51.400 We're dealing with a continuing moment of reckoning with our 0:09:51.480 --> 0:09:56.200 national moral conscience. Yes, and we're all being we're all 0:09:56.240 --> 0:10:03.080 really having our natural and chemical mood stabilizer stockpiles tested 0:10:03.200 --> 0:10:07.280 by these times. Yeah. But I I'm telling you, I 0:10:07.320 --> 0:10:08.959 just get the pangram on the spelling bee on the 0:10:09.000 --> 0:10:12.800 New York Times Crossword website. So I'm very happy. Oh wow, 0:10:12.840 --> 0:10:16.120 things are looking up? Is this live? Is going out? Live? Well, 0:10:16.240 --> 0:10:19.080 not live? I mean how podcasts work. You record them, 0:10:19.120 --> 0:10:21.760 but we're live with each other. No, I understand. Have 0:10:21.800 --> 0:10:24.720 you done the spelling b yet today? No? Is that 0:10:24.800 --> 0:10:26.640 Is that some sort of like trophy you get for 0:10:26.800 --> 0:10:29.160 being really good at the New York Times cross Word No, 0:10:29.280 --> 0:10:32.520 it's a separate it's a separate game within the New 0:10:32.600 --> 0:10:39.880 York Times cross Word constellation of nerd distractions extended universe. Yeah, 0:10:40.720 --> 0:10:43.520 verse and it's spread. It's spreading. It's spreading like an infection. 0:10:43.600 --> 0:10:48.240 A little bad, bad choice of words, people are it? 0:10:48.320 --> 0:10:50.719 U was the perfect choice of words. It's look, this 0:10:50.800 --> 0:10:54.199 is this is the disease you want to catch. Spelling 0:10:54.200 --> 0:10:59.880 b get that, stay home, stay safe, do word game, 0:11:00.440 --> 0:11:02.960 spell more, spell better. Emily would be good at that. 0:11:03.040 --> 0:11:06.840 She's a great speller and was a in her school, 0:11:06.840 --> 0:11:10.800 a champions spelling Bee um person. But I I don't 0:11:10.800 --> 0:11:12.600 think she went on to like County or anything like that. 0:11:12.640 --> 0:11:15.160 But I'm a notoriously poor speller, and now I'm always 0:11:15.200 --> 0:11:17.680 having to ask her and she always nails it. What 0:11:17.760 --> 0:11:21.240 about you know? Are you a good speller? I once 0:11:21.559 --> 0:11:25.880 got to the semifinals in a spelling bee of indeterminate 0:11:25.960 --> 0:11:28.960 grade origin. I have a very distinct memory of making 0:11:28.960 --> 0:11:31.280 it out of the stage and then whiffing on a 0:11:31.320 --> 0:11:34.800 particular word which I don't remember. But I'm fine. I 0:11:34.800 --> 0:11:37.640 would not say I am superior. Look, I'm middling best. 0:11:37.640 --> 0:11:40.080 I'm not. I'm not getting well. I do get paid 0:11:40.120 --> 0:11:41.600 by the New York Times because I write the Judge 0:11:41.640 --> 0:11:43.120 John Hodgman column once a week in the New York 0:11:43.120 --> 0:11:46.920 Times magazine. But I don't get a bump for for 0:11:46.920 --> 0:11:50.120 for talking up the spelling Bee on a podcast. It's 0:11:50.160 --> 0:11:52.440 just this is something that my wife Catherine got me into, 0:11:52.880 --> 0:11:55.360 and it's just being passed by hand to hand toward 0:11:55.440 --> 0:11:59.480 nerds everywhere as a way to not to take a 0:11:59.480 --> 0:12:02.520 break from the news in the full knowledge stres an 0:12:02.520 --> 0:12:05.520 English teacher. Right, so, yes, that's correct. Her personal details 0:12:05.520 --> 0:12:08.959 you want to reveal about my life? Check sure. She's 0:12:09.000 --> 0:12:12.600 a lovely human, that's true. That's nothing private about that information. 0:12:13.080 --> 0:12:15.680 She's good at scrabble, right, So this is a scrabbly 0:12:15.760 --> 0:12:18.520 type game. I just I'm just gonna put it out 0:12:18.559 --> 0:12:21.240 there so people can listen to this. If you haven't 0:12:21.280 --> 0:12:26.160 done Wednesday's spelling be this will be all new to you. 0:12:26.520 --> 0:12:29.400 The deal is you have you get one too. It's 0:12:29.440 --> 0:12:31.199 not you don't have. You're not tested on how to 0:12:31.240 --> 0:12:34.679 spell words. You get one to three six seven letters 0:12:36.679 --> 0:12:38.679 and you try to make as excuse me, one to 0:12:38.720 --> 0:12:40.520 three seven letters. You try to make as many words 0:12:40.520 --> 0:12:43.520 out of those letters as possible. It's boggle. Yeah, but 0:12:43.559 --> 0:12:46.520 you have to use there's one letter you have to 0:12:46.600 --> 0:12:50.240 use in every word, okay, and that's the center of 0:12:50.240 --> 0:12:54.080 this little you'll see when you go there. I know 0:12:54.120 --> 0:12:55.400 what you're talking about. Yeah, it looks like it looks 0:12:55.440 --> 0:12:58.160 like a little honeycomb. And the middle and the middle 0:12:58.200 --> 0:13:00.160 cell is the letter you have to use is to 0:13:00.200 --> 0:13:02.960 count to all the others. So the pangram is when 0:13:03.000 --> 0:13:06.440 you use all seven letters. And you nailed that. I 0:13:06.600 --> 0:13:10.320 just just as you would admit me into the zoom room. 0:13:10.320 --> 0:13:11.920 So I want you to take a pen and paper, 0:13:11.960 --> 0:13:16.640 you guys, okay, and write down these letters. Well, hold on, 0:13:16.640 --> 0:13:18.360 I've got I've got I've got i've got a thing. 0:13:18.400 --> 0:13:20.960 I've got a pen and paper special for this. Is 0:13:21.040 --> 0:13:24.360 very excited because he just started writing with terrestrial instat 0:13:24.440 --> 0:13:27.400 I just learned to write. I just learned to write. 0:13:27.400 --> 0:13:30.840 Hang on one second. You can never seen somebody so excited. 0:13:30.880 --> 0:13:35.000 I'm typing it all right, I really. He's literally leaving 0:13:35.080 --> 0:13:38.120 the room everyone to go get it this podcast off 0:13:38.120 --> 0:13:43.559 the rails. Uh all right, well you I'll tell everyone 0:13:43.760 --> 0:13:46.520 why you're here. You're here to play for a couple 0:13:46.520 --> 0:13:48.200 of reasons. You're here to play a new edition of 0:13:48.200 --> 0:13:51.640 Pop Quiz Hot Shot, which is fun. Um. But before 0:13:51.640 --> 0:13:56.240 we do that, and after we do the next thing, 0:13:56.520 --> 0:13:59.679 with this pangram, we're going to talk about your your 0:13:59.720 --> 0:14:04.320 TV show Dicktown. Yes, which here, let's just hold on that, 0:14:04.360 --> 0:14:06.079 all right. Just write these letters down. And if you're 0:14:06.640 --> 0:14:09.199 and if you're listening, play at home, right, if you're 0:14:09.240 --> 0:14:11.960 listening at home, if you're driving and listening to this 0:14:12.080 --> 0:14:14.720 right now, take your hands off the wheel, grab a 0:14:14.720 --> 0:14:19.920 pen and paper, accelerate and write these letters down. That 0:14:20.000 --> 0:14:22.080 is bad advice. No, don't do that, Do not do that, 0:14:23.000 --> 0:14:29.280 all right? What do we got? Seven letters? D yes, I, yes, 0:14:29.480 --> 0:14:34.320 E mm hm C h U C K d I 0:14:34.360 --> 0:14:39.280 E die Chuck die Happy Halloween is all a bit 0:14:39.640 --> 0:14:44.280 oh no, no, no do It's in keeping with the 0:14:44.320 --> 0:14:47.000 bit we just discussed before you joined. John Chuck did 0:14:47.040 --> 0:14:51.080 sort of a very maccab murder scene kind of threatening 0:14:51.120 --> 0:14:53.200 thing on my desk at the office where he beheaded 0:14:53.240 --> 0:14:56.120 a bunch of stress balls shaped like parrots and lined 0:14:56.200 --> 0:15:02.840 them up into like seven style. So got your getting 0:15:02.840 --> 0:15:06.360 spooky in the studio, all right? Are we really doing this? Yeah? Yeah, 0:15:06.480 --> 0:15:09.280 just write this down? D I E right, M O 0:15:09.560 --> 0:15:14.960 L see. And those are the seven those are your 0:15:14.960 --> 0:15:19.360 seven letters. And see is the letter that has to 0:15:19.400 --> 0:15:22.720 be used when you're making words, and then what are 0:15:22.720 --> 0:15:24.680 we supposed to sit around and play this in silence 0:15:24.680 --> 0:15:26.920 for ten minutes? This is perfect. I thought this was 0:15:26.920 --> 0:15:32.360 a fun game for you, this good podcasting away at 0:15:32.360 --> 0:15:34.640 the end of all, at the end of the at 0:15:34.640 --> 0:15:36.760 the end of the episode, or whenever I am muzgered 0:15:36.760 --> 0:15:40.560 off this stage or get the hook. I'll tell you what, 0:15:40.680 --> 0:15:42.840 like molded? Could you do molded? You know what? I 0:15:42.840 --> 0:15:45.200 didn't get that one? No, real good job. No, you 0:15:45.240 --> 0:15:48.280 couldn't because it doesn't have seen it. I'm so sorry. 0:15:48.320 --> 0:15:52.200 That's okay, that's so cold cold? Did that? Is that 0:15:52.240 --> 0:15:55.280 a thing? Though? But cool is you couldn't do molded anyway? 0:15:55.360 --> 0:15:57.360 You could just do mold. No, you can. You can 0:15:57.440 --> 0:16:00.200 use the letters more than one. You can. Yeah, that's 0:16:00.240 --> 0:16:03.080 the key to it. Oh, okay, I got You'll let's 0:16:03.120 --> 0:16:05.120 leave this alone and I'll reveal it. I'll reveal the 0:16:05.160 --> 0:16:09.240 pangram that I got. And so what is what is 0:16:09.280 --> 0:16:11.040 the pangram? When you do what? Now? When you use 0:16:11.080 --> 0:16:13.360 all seven letters in one word? I thought you had 0:16:13.400 --> 0:16:15.600 to use all No, no, no, you just build. You 0:16:15.640 --> 0:16:19.640 build as many three letter words, don't count four letter words. 0:16:19.640 --> 0:16:23.560 You get one point five letter words. The longer the word, 0:16:23.800 --> 0:16:26.480 the more points you get. So you can't do two 0:16:26.600 --> 0:16:30.160 or three letter words, asked to ask me four or more. 0:16:30.520 --> 0:16:32.280 And if you make a word that uses all seven 0:16:32.320 --> 0:16:35.600 letters at least once, that's got a pangram and you 0:16:35.640 --> 0:16:38.680 get a bonus. Well maybe when this episode comes out 0:16:38.720 --> 0:16:42.920 on the Facebook page, we will take submissions for listener answers. 0:16:44.240 --> 0:16:46.720 And because I'm going to reveal it at the end 0:16:46.720 --> 0:16:50.920 of this episode, I'll spoil it. And so far that 0:16:50.960 --> 0:16:56.760 I found, I found seventeen words so far, and I 0:16:56.880 --> 0:16:59.520 just had a good run of them. I can't find 0:16:59.520 --> 0:17:03.800 it anymore, but I have something like ninety three points total. 0:17:04.960 --> 0:17:08.160 But to hit the genius level, which is your goal, 0:17:08.320 --> 0:17:10.720 like the gold, you have to hit two D points. 0:17:10.760 --> 0:17:12.320 It's very high point levels. There are a lot of 0:17:12.320 --> 0:17:16.280 words that I have not gotten yet, so amazing. Anyway, 0:17:16.480 --> 0:17:18.760 that's the thing to do to distract yourself. What's another 0:17:18.800 --> 0:17:20.840 thing to do to distract yourself? Listen to a podcast. 0:17:21.280 --> 0:17:23.560 Listen to a podcast, or watch a TV show. So no, 0:17:23.760 --> 0:17:25.520 while you stepped away for a minute, I told everyone 0:17:25.600 --> 0:17:27.960 John was going to play pop quiz hot Shot, but 0:17:28.000 --> 0:17:31.960 he's also here to promote his television show that he 0:17:32.000 --> 0:17:35.120 does with David Rees called dick toown Yes, And if 0:17:35.119 --> 0:17:36.800 I may just set up the show John before we 0:17:36.880 --> 0:17:40.200 chat about it, please. It is a wonderful animated show. 0:17:40.440 --> 0:17:45.920 That is the premises. John and David are two former 0:17:46.560 --> 0:17:50.520 enemies from high school. David was your bully and you 0:17:50.560 --> 0:17:55.320 are now grown up the middle aged men and Dickstown, Richardsville, 0:17:55.880 --> 0:18:02.280 North Carolina, and you solve crimes for you solve small 0:18:02.359 --> 0:18:07.199 mysteries for high school students, Allah Encyclopedia, Brown as a team, 0:18:07.240 --> 0:18:09.240 and David's kind of your muscle, and you're kind of 0:18:09.280 --> 0:18:11.720 the brains. And you live on this fun house boat 0:18:11.840 --> 0:18:14.520 which I really want to live on in real life. 0:18:14.760 --> 0:18:19.040 And it's a great, really fun show sort of Archer 0:18:19.080 --> 0:18:21.640 style animation. If I may say that, you should say 0:18:21.640 --> 0:18:24.000 that because it's it's created or you know, it's our 0:18:24.040 --> 0:18:27.640 Our producing partners are animators are Floyd County right there, 0:18:27.640 --> 0:18:30.320 and it's right there in Atlanta, Georgia, and they are 0:18:30.359 --> 0:18:34.240 the the creators of Archer. So tell us a little 0:18:34.240 --> 0:18:37.080 bit about it. Um. I watched it on Hulu, which 0:18:37.119 --> 0:18:39.919 you can just dial up by typing in Dicktown. But 0:18:40.280 --> 0:18:42.160 tell us where you can find it and how this 0:18:42.240 --> 0:18:46.240 was created and just give us a little backstory. Yeah. So, Uh, 0:18:47.000 --> 0:18:50.600 David Reese is our friend. Uh. He is the creator 0:18:50.720 --> 0:18:54.840 of the political clip art cartoon from the two thousands 0:18:54.920 --> 0:18:58.080 called Get Your War on Um that was ran in 0:18:58.160 --> 0:19:02.920 Rolling Stone. Was a huge, huge catharsists every week, Uh 0:19:03.000 --> 0:19:05.320 for those of us um suffering under what we thought 0:19:05.400 --> 0:19:09.000 was going to be the worst presidency of all tim Yeah. Uh. 0:19:09.040 --> 0:19:14.520 And then uh, David turned to the crafts. He became 0:19:14.560 --> 0:19:18.199 a professional artisanal pencil sharpener. Uh. And he wrote a 0:19:18.200 --> 0:19:20.359 book called How to Sharpened Pencils. And then he went 0:19:20.400 --> 0:19:22.760 on TV to host a show for two years called 0:19:23.320 --> 0:19:26.160 Going Deep with David Reese, which explored the same thing 0:19:26.240 --> 0:19:29.600 it showed. It showed you how to do the simple 0:19:29.640 --> 0:19:31.280 things you think you already know how to do, like 0:19:31.440 --> 0:19:35.159 sharpened pencil or tire shoes or freeze you know, make 0:19:35.200 --> 0:19:37.520 some ice cubes. But by going into a very deep 0:19:37.560 --> 0:19:39.680 dive on the history of those things and the manufacturer 0:19:39.680 --> 0:19:42.679 of those things is really fun, very fun show. David's 0:19:42.720 --> 0:19:47.240 just He also does a great show called Election Election 0:19:47.280 --> 0:19:52.040 profit Makers, Election Makers, Yeah, the po the election theme podcast, 0:19:52.119 --> 0:19:54.600 which is very funny, cathartic that he does with our 0:19:54.640 --> 0:19:58.879 friends Starley Kine and John Kimball look David and like 0:19:59.040 --> 0:20:03.359 me is a a person of many trades, a person 0:20:03.400 --> 0:20:08.760 who has many enthusiasms and chases all of them, often 0:20:08.800 --> 0:20:11.400 to the confusion of people who would like to like him. 0:20:12.960 --> 0:20:15.040 It's a good way to say yeah, like no, no 0:20:15.080 --> 0:20:17.880 one no like. He's like me. He's a person who's 0:20:17.920 --> 0:20:20.679 brand is fucked like no one knows like I have 0:20:20.720 --> 0:20:23.280 a podcast, Judge John Hodgman. I write books Medallion Status 0:20:23.320 --> 0:20:26.000 out down Paperback. I do this column for the New 0:20:26.040 --> 0:20:29.760 York Times magazine. Sometimes I act in stuff. I forget 0:20:29.800 --> 0:20:31.879 all the things that I do and then, but the 0:20:31.920 --> 0:20:35.080 one thing I am that I do not forget is 0:20:35.119 --> 0:20:36.760 that David and I having known each other for twenty 0:20:36.880 --> 0:20:40.440 years and finally got together to create a project together, 0:20:40.480 --> 0:20:44.399 and that is Dicktown. This short form animated show that 0:20:44.680 --> 0:20:50.680 ran on f x X is anthology show Cake and 0:20:50.720 --> 0:20:55.199 now is archived all ten episodes at Hulu. And what 0:20:55.359 --> 0:20:58.200 Chuck said was true. Uh. It is a funny cartoon 0:20:58.920 --> 0:21:03.520 someone in the Archer style, someone in the Scooby Doo style, uh, 0:21:03.560 --> 0:21:08.480 in which I play a private detective who named John Huntsman, 0:21:09.119 --> 0:21:15.480 who used to be boy detective Encyclopedia Brown and yeah, 0:21:15.520 --> 0:21:19.119 in this town called Richardsville, North Carolina, which the locals 0:21:19.160 --> 0:21:25.080 called Dicktown Richardsville, get it. Uh, My hunchman used to 0:21:25.359 --> 0:21:29.600 was famous for solving mysteries in town for his little 0:21:29.600 --> 0:21:34.560 friends and sometimes helping at the police. Uh. But now 0:21:34.800 --> 0:21:37.119 my character has grown up and failed to thrive, And 0:21:37.119 --> 0:21:39.800 I'm a sad middle aged man living on a shabby 0:21:39.800 --> 0:21:43.199 house boat in college town Lake and I'm still the 0:21:43.240 --> 0:21:46.560 only clients I can get our teenagers. Still, it's really depressing. 0:21:47.359 --> 0:21:52.199 And meanwhile, David Reese, as you mentioned, plays my former 0:21:52.960 --> 0:21:56.159 arch nemesis slash bully in high school, who also has 0:21:56.160 --> 0:21:58.600 failed to leave town. He's now in his middle age 0:21:59.200 --> 0:22:02.240 and he's still living with his parents, and I have 0:22:02.640 --> 0:22:05.199 hired him to be my driver because I do not 0:22:05.280 --> 0:22:07.959 have a driver's license for reasons that get explained later on. 0:22:08.600 --> 0:22:10.159 And the episode is a little bit of a mystery 0:22:11.320 --> 0:22:15.040 and um, and he's the only person I still know 0:22:15.119 --> 0:22:19.000 in town, and he becomes my driver and my hired 0:22:19.080 --> 0:22:22.679 muscle and my unlikely friend as we solve mysteries for 0:22:23.480 --> 0:22:26.440 all these Dicktown teens, some of whom were played by 0:22:26.440 --> 0:22:29.080 teens at the North Carolina High School for the Arts. 0:22:30.480 --> 0:22:34.919 Others were voiced by people we know like Jean Gray, 0:22:35.080 --> 0:22:39.680 zach Alifanakis, Kristin Shawl Griffin Newman from The Tick, John Blazer. 0:22:39.800 --> 0:22:42.719 Not all these people played teenagers, they also played other 0:22:42.760 --> 0:22:48.480 adults in Dicktown. None were played by you. But if 0:22:48.520 --> 0:22:54.919 this podcast has the sway you say it does and 0:22:55.000 --> 0:23:00.800 people go because because because right now we're on the 0:23:00.920 --> 0:23:03.320 we're on the tipping point of whether or not we 0:23:03.359 --> 0:23:07.000