1 00:00:19,520 --> 00:00:23,256 What's up folks? What's going on? Welcome to the Spun Today Podcast, 2 00:00:23,368 --> 00:00:27,142 the only podcast that is anchored in writing but 3 00:00:27,166 --> 00:00:30,582 unlimited in scope. I'm your host, Tony Ortiz, and I appreciate you 4 00:00:30,606 --> 00:00:34,422 listening. This is episode 276 of 5 00:00:34,446 --> 00:00:38,198 the Spun Today Podcast and it's the final episode of the year. 6 00:00:38,254 --> 00:00:42,006 The final episode of 2024. In this episode, 7 00:00:42,038 --> 00:00:45,750 I'll break down watching beetlejuice, Beetlejuice 8 00:00:45,910 --> 00:00:49,606 or Beetlejuice 2. For the uninitiated, Tom Papa's 9 00:00:49,638 --> 00:00:53,120 latest comedy special, Home Free, as well as an 10 00:00:53,160 --> 00:00:56,780 honorable mention of a few other comedy specials. Stick around to 11 00:00:57,240 --> 00:01:00,944 find out which those are. And last, but certainly not least, 12 00:01:01,112 --> 00:01:04,256 a new addition to your favorite segment in mine, 13 00:01:04,448 --> 00:01:08,160 Goats Doing Goat Shit. Stick around to find out who made the 14 00:01:08,200 --> 00:01:12,000 list in this final episode of the year. I want to thank, as always, 15 00:01:12,040 --> 00:01:14,912 each and every one of you who take the time to listen, who have been 16 00:01:14,936 --> 00:01:18,656 listening throughout the year. This year has been filled with ups and downs 17 00:01:18,688 --> 00:01:22,410 and unfortunately more downs than ups, at least on my 18 00:01:22,450 --> 00:01:26,266 side of things. If you and yours have had a similar 19 00:01:26,338 --> 00:01:29,946 year, definitely looking forward to 2025 turning 20 00:01:29,978 --> 00:01:33,610 things around for us all. 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You can also shop the 47 00:03:10,342 --> 00:03:14,062 spontane coffee mugs, which has the spontane logo on one side and 48 00:03:14,086 --> 00:03:17,838 the tagline that I end every episode with on the other, which is 49 00:03:17,974 --> 00:03:21,582 start taking steps in the general direction of your dreams. 50 00:03:21,726 --> 00:03:24,478 Once again, for all spun today merch go to 51 00:03:24,534 --> 00:03:28,334 spuntaday.com support and navigate to the merch 52 00:03:28,382 --> 00:03:32,030 section. Beetlejuice 53 00:03:32,110 --> 00:03:35,660 Beetlejuice, aka Beetlejuice 2 was 54 00:03:35,700 --> 00:03:39,164 released in 2024 and is the sequel to Beetlejuice, the 55 00:03:39,172 --> 00:03:41,564 original film from 56 00:03:41,652 --> 00:03:45,004 1988. So decades 57 00:03:45,052 --> 00:03:48,892 later, and I personally thought it was a great watch, it's definitely one 58 00:03:48,916 --> 00:03:52,652 of those sequels that does not disappoint. You know, as 59 00:03:52,676 --> 00:03:56,412 of late, as of the past few years, there's been a lot of remakes and 60 00:03:56,436 --> 00:04:00,188 reboots and things of that nature, some of which hit, 61 00:04:00,244 --> 00:04:03,180 a lot of which missed. I've spoken about something I 62 00:04:03,300 --> 00:04:06,940 enjoyed here on the podcast in the past, and this 63 00:04:06,980 --> 00:04:10,812 one I thought was dope because it was most if not all of the 64 00:04:10,836 --> 00:04:13,980 main characters and from the first 65 00:04:14,100 --> 00:04:17,516 movie. And it was a like, where are they now 66 00:04:17,668 --> 00:04:21,452 all these years later? You know, they didn't CGI it and keep 67 00:04:21,476 --> 00:04:25,080 them all young or, you know, try to do a storyline that was 68 00:04:25,620 --> 00:04:29,282 not consistent with the actual timeline of how much time 69 00:04:29,306 --> 00:04:32,690 has passed between this sequel and the first 70 00:04:32,730 --> 00:04:36,306 film. And it was a cool movie in and of itself. But 71 00:04:36,378 --> 00:04:39,538 here is the official synopsis. After a family 72 00:04:39,594 --> 00:04:42,990 tragedy, three generations of the Deets family 73 00:04:43,610 --> 00:04:47,378 return home to Winter river, still haunted 74 00:04:47,394 --> 00:04:51,138 by Beetlejuice. Lydia's life is turned upside down 75 00:04:51,274 --> 00:04:55,122 when her teenage daughter Astrid accidentally opens 76 00:04:55,186 --> 00:04:58,924 the portal to the afterlife. And as we like to do here on 77 00:04:58,932 --> 00:05:02,636 the Spot Today podcast, because if we don't, who will? Let's shout out 78 00:05:02,708 --> 00:05:06,556 the writers. Beetlejuice Beetlejuice is 79 00:05:06,708 --> 00:05:10,252 based on characters created by Michael McDowell 80 00:05:10,316 --> 00:05:14,124 and Larry Wilson. The story is by Alfred 81 00:05:14,172 --> 00:05:17,532 Go, Miles Millar and Seth 82 00:05:17,596 --> 00:05:21,378 Graham Smith, and the screenplay is by 83 00:05:21,564 --> 00:05:24,010 Alfred Go and Miles Millar. 84 00:05:25,070 --> 00:05:28,246 Shout out to each and every one of those 85 00:05:28,318 --> 00:05:31,958 writers that put this film 86 00:05:32,014 --> 00:05:34,970 together and got it from the pen to paper, 87 00:05:35,310 --> 00:05:38,822 text to script, and allowed it to become what it 88 00:05:38,846 --> 00:05:42,294 became when the iconic Tim Burton 89 00:05:42,422 --> 00:05:45,782 directed the out of it. So the movie, if you're a fan of the first 90 00:05:45,806 --> 00:05:49,582 one, definitely checks off all the nostalgia boxes. Again you 91 00:05:49,606 --> 00:05:53,134 have all the main characters coming back. Michael Keaton playing Beetlejuice, 92 00:05:53,182 --> 00:05:56,350 Winona Ryder playing Lydia Dietz, Catherine O'Hara 93 00:05:56,510 --> 00:06:00,238 playing Delia Deetz. You have a great addition in Jenna 94 00:06:00,254 --> 00:06:03,998 Ortega playing Astrid Deetz which is the daughter 95 00:06:04,094 --> 00:06:07,774 of Lydia. And we enter the world with all of 96 00:06:07,782 --> 00:06:11,534 them, you know, grown and older. Astrid's character 97 00:06:11,582 --> 00:06:15,374 is very similar to Lydia's character in the first film. 98 00:06:15,542 --> 00:06:19,364 You know, like the misunderstood goth ish teenager. 99 00:06:19,542 --> 00:06:23,304 So you see that dynamic replaying itself consistent with the 100 00:06:23,312 --> 00:06:26,376 first film. And then you have the relationship between 101 00:06:26,448 --> 00:06:30,200 Lydia and Delia being in a bit of a better 102 00:06:30,240 --> 00:06:34,072 place than the contentious, you know, stepmother type. I remember if she 103 00:06:34,096 --> 00:06:37,816 was her stepmother or adopted mother. But the contentious type of relationship 104 00:06:37,848 --> 00:06:41,320 that they had growing up. And Delia who was an 105 00:06:41,360 --> 00:06:45,192 artist, like, you know, she used to do sculptures and I think paintings and 106 00:06:45,216 --> 00:06:48,786 stuff as well. But definitely sculptures like these weird 107 00:06:48,818 --> 00:06:52,070 tacky ones in the, in the first film becomes this world renowned 108 00:06:52,410 --> 00:06:55,310 artist. She's big time now. 109 00:06:55,930 --> 00:06:59,506 Delia is also has her own television show. 110 00:06:59,578 --> 00:07:03,282 She still sees ghosts and is able to see folks from the afterlife. So 111 00:07:03,306 --> 00:07:07,122 she has this Ms. Cleo type of, you 112 00:07:07,146 --> 00:07:10,802 know, speak to the dead or help your audience 113 00:07:10,866 --> 00:07:14,658 members, you know, see, speak to their past relatives and stuff 114 00:07:14,674 --> 00:07:18,466 like that. Just like that type of show going on which the daughter 115 00:07:18,498 --> 00:07:22,306 is completely embarrassed about and thinks she's full of essentially. 116 00:07:22,418 --> 00:07:25,310 And then the father from the first film is 117 00:07:25,850 --> 00:07:29,666 noticeably not around in the picture and they address it fairly 118 00:07:29,698 --> 00:07:32,962 early on and you find that they killed 119 00:07:33,026 --> 00:07:36,514 the out of his pedophile ass 120 00:07:36,682 --> 00:07:40,372 in Claymation. So if you don't know the 121 00:07:40,396 --> 00:07:43,908 backstory behind it, the father from the first 122 00:07:43,964 --> 00:07:47,508 film, which is played by an actor named 123 00:07:47,684 --> 00:07:51,508 Jeffrey Jones, was one of the main characters in the first film. He's the, 124 00:07:51,564 --> 00:07:55,076 the principal in Ferris Bueller's Day off, if you're familiar with that. 125 00:07:55,228 --> 00:07:58,852 He back in 2002, 2004, pleaded no contest 126 00:07:58,916 --> 00:08:02,708 and was found guilty of having being in the possession 127 00:08:02,724 --> 00:08:06,474 of child pornography. He also allegedly I don't want to get sued. 128 00:08:06,602 --> 00:08:10,442 Paid 14 or 13 or 15 year old 129 00:08:10,626 --> 00:08:14,110 boy to pose for nude and lewd pictures. 130 00:08:14,850 --> 00:08:18,682 And you know, he's a registered sex offender. You know, pretty much obviously 131 00:08:18,746 --> 00:08:22,554 fell out of the Hollywood scene thereafter. Then in a couple 132 00:08:22,602 --> 00:08:26,346 years, years later moved to a different state, either 133 00:08:26,378 --> 00:08:30,170 Florida or California. Forgot, quote unquote, forgot to register as a sex 134 00:08:30,210 --> 00:08:33,916 offender. So after being on five years of probation, I think is 135 00:08:33,988 --> 00:08:37,804 what he got. Wound up also being sentenced to community service 136 00:08:37,892 --> 00:08:41,596 after that infraction and then moved again to again either 137 00:08:41,708 --> 00:08:45,548 California or Florida, I forget the order of it a few years later and quote 138 00:08:45,564 --> 00:08:49,404 unquote, forgot again to register as a sex offender, so 139 00:08:49,412 --> 00:08:53,260 on and so forth. So that being said in the movie, 140 00:08:53,420 --> 00:08:56,444 they kill him off, you know, he was literally one of the main characters of 141 00:08:56,452 --> 00:09:00,292 the first one. They couldn't just not reference him, you know, from a 142 00:09:00,316 --> 00:09:04,148 story perspective. But it was pretty funny how they did it. I. 143 00:09:04,204 --> 00:09:07,924 I thought. So they made it that he 144 00:09:08,012 --> 00:09:11,652 was on an airplane. As Delia, the mom, is telling the 145 00:09:11,676 --> 00:09:15,444 story to her daughter of how he died. She says that, you know, he 146 00:09:15,452 --> 00:09:18,772 was on a plane, he was gonna go, you know, bird watching some safari or 147 00:09:18,796 --> 00:09:22,644 something like that. The plane crashes, and Lydia's like, 148 00:09:22,652 --> 00:09:24,644 oh, my God, he died in a plane crash. And then the mom is like, 149 00:09:24,652 --> 00:09:27,882 no, actually, he didn't. He survived the plane crash somehow 150 00:09:27,946 --> 00:09:31,114 and was floating along on a piece of 151 00:09:31,122 --> 00:09:34,970 luggage after almost drowning. And then there was this 152 00:09:35,010 --> 00:09:38,234 big explosion and he got, you know, super hurt in the. In the 153 00:09:38,242 --> 00:09:41,818 explosion. And she was, oh, my God, he died. You know, 154 00:09:41,954 --> 00:09:44,730 he burned to death. And then the mom was like, no, he still didn't die. 155 00:09:44,810 --> 00:09:48,090 Then he was almost going to shore or to safety or something like that. And 156 00:09:48,130 --> 00:09:51,818 then a shark came out of the water and. 157 00:09:51,874 --> 00:09:55,550 And just bit half his body off. And then that's how he dies. 158 00:09:56,530 --> 00:10:00,266 So they fucking killed him like three times. And they. While she's 159 00:10:00,298 --> 00:10:04,042 telling the daughter the story, the way they did it in the film was that 160 00:10:04,066 --> 00:10:07,754 she's describing everything that happened to the daughter and they're 161 00:10:07,802 --> 00:10:11,306 showing it visually, but in claymation form, 162 00:10:11,458 --> 00:10:15,098 which was an interesting Tim Burton touch to the whole 163 00:10:15,114 --> 00:10:18,362 thing. So, going back to the dynamic between Astrid and 164 00:10:18,386 --> 00:10:22,164 Lydia, which, again, is very similar to the dynamic between Lydia and 165 00:10:22,172 --> 00:10:26,004 Delia in the first movie. She's a rebellious teen, you 166 00:10:26,012 --> 00:10:29,700 know, once distanced from her mom, I think she's full of shit and 167 00:10:29,820 --> 00:10:33,636 kind of a grifter in terms of speaking to the dead. And the TV 168 00:10:33,668 --> 00:10:37,412 show that she has, she doesn't like that fame and is dealing with 169 00:10:37,436 --> 00:10:41,268 the loss of her dad, who. Who died after 170 00:10:41,324 --> 00:10:45,044 her parents had gotten divorced, I believe. So she kind of resents her mom a 171 00:10:45,052 --> 00:10:48,570 little bit for that as well. And they all come back to the hometown where, 172 00:10:48,610 --> 00:10:52,122 you know, the original movie takes place for the funeral and 173 00:10:52,146 --> 00:10:55,802 arrangements and stuff like that. She doesn't want to be there. Winds up 174 00:10:55,826 --> 00:10:59,626 riding her bike and getting into an accident. The brakes don't 175 00:10:59,658 --> 00:11:02,666 work, crashes into a tree type of thing. And this kid named 176 00:11:02,698 --> 00:11:06,442 Jeremy, played by Arthur Conti, helps her 177 00:11:06,466 --> 00:11:10,282 out, befriends her, invites her over for Halloween so they can, you 178 00:11:10,306 --> 00:11:14,150 know, give candy to the kids together. And they pretty much hit it off. 179 00:11:14,650 --> 00:11:18,338 So now all of a sudden has the. This pseudo 180 00:11:18,354 --> 00:11:22,162 love interest slash friend. And now she does want to stay 181 00:11:22,186 --> 00:11:25,410 in the town. You know, she wants to hang out with this guy. Her mom 182 00:11:25,450 --> 00:11:29,090 begrudgingly gives her permission to do so to hang out with him. She 183 00:11:29,130 --> 00:11:32,594 finds out from a realtor that she's speaking to 184 00:11:32,762 --> 00:11:36,498 in the area that her daughter went to hang out with, with a boy 185 00:11:36,674 --> 00:11:40,482 that she met on, you know, XYZ Street. She says the 186 00:11:40,506 --> 00:11:43,604 name of the street. I forget what it is. Roots is like, oh, I hope 187 00:11:43,612 --> 00:11:47,076 it's not anywhere near that house where that horrible incident happened. 188 00:11:47,268 --> 00:11:50,612 I had her on the market for years and nobody's ever been willing to. To 189 00:11:50,636 --> 00:11:54,132 purchase it. And she's like, what house? She's like, oh, you don't know the story 190 00:11:54,156 --> 00:11:57,972 of so and so. This. This kid essentially murdered both his 191 00:11:57,996 --> 00:12:01,732 parents and then wound up falling out of a tree and breaking his 192 00:12:01,756 --> 00:12:05,604 own neck or some wild like that. And then Lydia. Wait, what's the. The 193 00:12:05,612 --> 00:12:08,640 address of the house? Because she had previously dropped her daughter off at the house 194 00:12:08,680 --> 00:12:12,432 to hang out with the boy. And of course, same address. So she 195 00:12:12,456 --> 00:12:16,220 rushes over there, but is essentially too late. 196 00:12:16,520 --> 00:12:19,680 By this point, Astrid realizes that 197 00:12:19,800 --> 00:12:23,504 Jeremy is a ghost. He comes clean to her and 198 00:12:23,672 --> 00:12:27,504 lies to her, though, becomes clean about being a ghost and that 199 00:12:27,512 --> 00:12:31,248 he found this book that, you know, if he goes with her 200 00:12:31,304 --> 00:12:35,050 to the. To the afterlife, she can help him get 201 00:12:35,090 --> 00:12:38,650 his soul back. And she. He gave him. He gave her this 202 00:12:38,690 --> 00:12:42,474 sob story of what happened to his family, which is obviously not 203 00:12:42,482 --> 00:12:45,670 the real story, but essentially so that she 204 00:12:47,170 --> 00:12:50,362 would agree to go with him into the afterlife to do him this 205 00:12:50,386 --> 00:12:54,058 favor. And she agrees because she likes the guy. She's also 206 00:12:54,114 --> 00:12:57,850 having the mental, you know, dilemma slash realization of, oh, shit, my mom was 207 00:12:57,890 --> 00:13:01,656 telling the truth. She can't see dead people because now I can too. 208 00:13:01,808 --> 00:13:04,904 But Lydia gets there. The kid, you know, takes her into the 209 00:13:04,912 --> 00:13:08,552 afterlife. There's a spell that they do and, you know, draw the 210 00:13:08,576 --> 00:13:12,008 door on the wall and go through. But the real 211 00:13:12,064 --> 00:13:15,912 way for the kid to get a soul back and, you know, become living again 212 00:13:16,016 --> 00:13:19,864 would be to take her soul, Ashford soul. So that's what 213 00:13:19,952 --> 00:13:23,736 he essentially is trying to do under the guise 214 00:13:23,768 --> 00:13:26,652 of, you know, she's just going to help him type of thing. And the rest 215 00:13:26,676 --> 00:13:30,140 of the movie from there on out is pretty much Winona Ryder following them into 216 00:13:30,180 --> 00:13:33,820 the afterlife, invoking Beetlejuice, having to 217 00:13:33,860 --> 00:13:37,564 get him to help her go into the afterlife 218 00:13:37,612 --> 00:13:40,892 to get her daughter back and to prevent this whole soul 219 00:13:40,956 --> 00:13:44,476 swapping thing from happening. Michael Keaton, of course, 220 00:13:44,548 --> 00:13:48,348 steals the show, as he does in the first movie. He's great 221 00:13:48,404 --> 00:13:52,246 throughout there's also a dope character called 222 00:13:52,318 --> 00:13:55,670 Dolores, played by Monica Bellucci. 223 00:13:55,830 --> 00:13:59,330 She plays Beetlejuice's wife that 224 00:13:59,870 --> 00:14:03,510 was chopped up into a bunch of different pieces by Beetlejuice because she was 225 00:14:03,550 --> 00:14:07,398 a soul. Literally a soul sucking monster. 226 00:14:07,574 --> 00:14:11,382 Beetlejuice married her once upon a time and then she just wanted to 227 00:14:11,406 --> 00:14:15,062 take his soul. He winds up killing her and chopping her up, but 228 00:14:15,086 --> 00:14:18,872 keeping her body separate so she could never come back together. She 229 00:14:18,896 --> 00:14:22,408 gets loose somehow and staples 230 00:14:22,504 --> 00:14:26,220 herself back together together in this really cool scene 231 00:14:26,560 --> 00:14:30,296 where her body parts are literally coming back together and she's using a staple 232 00:14:30,328 --> 00:14:34,104 gun to staple herself. And then she just wants to find Beetlejuice to 233 00:14:34,112 --> 00:14:37,416 get her revenge. So he's dealing with that while 234 00:14:37,488 --> 00:14:40,904 also trying to help Lydia get her daughter 235 00:14:40,952 --> 00:14:44,792 back and running his whole, you know, afterlife services. And 236 00:14:44,816 --> 00:14:48,230 he has Bob, the guy with a shrunken head. He had a ton of those 237 00:14:49,010 --> 00:14:52,362 working for him in this afterlife office 238 00:14:52,466 --> 00:14:55,722 setting. They show at the end that Bob dies. RIP 239 00:14:55,786 --> 00:14:59,242 Bob, he lives from the year 1372 to 240 00:14:59,266 --> 00:15:03,066 2024 and dies at the hand of actually Dolores, the 241 00:15:03,138 --> 00:15:06,602 soul sucker. Danny DeVito is in it. He plays the 242 00:15:06,626 --> 00:15:10,442 janitor. He's in it for for a few minutes. Also dies at 243 00:15:10,466 --> 00:15:14,070 the hand of this soul sucking lady. Willem Dafoe is in it, does a great 244 00:15:14,110 --> 00:15:17,606 job and it was just a dope watch. I definitely 245 00:15:17,638 --> 00:15:21,222 recommend it, especially if you were into the first movie. It's a no 246 00:15:21,246 --> 00:15:25,094 brainer. You'll love this one as well. Beetlejuice Beetlejuice Streaming 247 00:15:25,142 --> 00:15:27,290 now on HBO. Max 248 00:15:29,470 --> 00:15:32,742 Tom Papa's latest comedy special, Home 249 00:15:32,846 --> 00:15:35,970 Free was released in 2024. 250 00:15:36,350 --> 00:15:39,702 Tom Papa I've broken down prior specials of 251 00:15:39,726 --> 00:15:43,502 his. At least one, probably two or three in the 252 00:15:43,526 --> 00:15:47,342 past. He's a hilarious comedian, apparently a great baker. I 253 00:15:47,366 --> 00:15:50,370 got into his his YouTube bread baking 254 00:15:51,030 --> 00:15:54,494 show that he was doing during the Pandemic 255 00:15:54,622 --> 00:15:58,414 does these sourdough breads and super nerdy 256 00:15:58,462 --> 00:16:01,806 into that world, which is pretty cool. He is a 257 00:16:01,878 --> 00:16:05,326 cleanish comic. I want to say. I've heard him curse 258 00:16:05,358 --> 00:16:08,636 before. I wouldn't say he's as clean as a Seinfeld or Nate 259 00:16:08,668 --> 00:16:12,460 Bargazi, which are hilarious comics that I that I also 260 00:16:12,500 --> 00:16:16,060 love. So I'm definitely not saying that as a pejorative. 261 00:16:16,140 --> 00:16:19,948 It's a clean comic. I just see it as a different style 262 00:16:20,044 --> 00:16:23,820 of delivering laughs, just as effective as any other 263 00:16:23,860 --> 00:16:27,372 style of comedy. But his latest special, Home Free, which is available on 264 00:16:27,396 --> 00:16:31,164 Netflix, did not disappoint. Here are a few 265 00:16:31,252 --> 00:16:34,766 of the bits or jokes or lines 266 00:16:34,958 --> 00:16:38,718 of writing that resonated with me, you know, he's a family 267 00:16:38,774 --> 00:16:42,318 man, married, two daughters. I want to say maybe three. 268 00:16:42,454 --> 00:16:46,030 I think two has a bunch of pets. And his 269 00:16:46,070 --> 00:16:49,182 comedy is themed around 270 00:16:49,286 --> 00:16:52,974 that lifestyle. And the whole home free concept 271 00:16:53,022 --> 00:16:56,142 ties to the fact that he and his wife are now empty nesters. I think 272 00:16:56,166 --> 00:16:59,952 his last kid just went off to college, so a lot of what 273 00:16:59,976 --> 00:17:03,664 this special is about is around that. And he says 274 00:17:03,752 --> 00:17:06,880 in it that he dropped his youngest at 275 00:17:06,920 --> 00:17:10,528 college and that nobody tells you how hard it's gonna 276 00:17:10,544 --> 00:17:14,352 be to pretend to be sad. This other one I jotted down, but 277 00:17:14,376 --> 00:17:18,016 I do not remember the joke too well. I wrote down that 278 00:17:18,088 --> 00:17:21,664 he said something to the effect of driving at night and mistaking garbage cans for 279 00:17:21,672 --> 00:17:25,184 people, I think being paranoid, being high or drunk or something like 280 00:17:25,192 --> 00:17:28,925 that. He said that as a. As a dad, you have to 281 00:17:28,997 --> 00:17:32,209 pretend to be Superman. You can't just cry. 282 00:17:32,549 --> 00:17:36,125 And then when your kids ask you what's wrong, say everything. 283 00:17:36,277 --> 00:17:39,597 Everything. I can't figure this out. He spoke about inner 284 00:17:39,613 --> 00:17:43,101 dialogue that you have as a. As a dad, as an 285 00:17:43,125 --> 00:17:46,733 adult, and that your brain holds on to insults 286 00:17:46,781 --> 00:17:50,317 and just plays them over and over in a loop in your head. 287 00:17:50,453 --> 00:17:53,942 And you just tell your things yourself. Things like, I'm not gonna get that 288 00:17:53,966 --> 00:17:57,766 promotion. I'm not gonna get a pay raise this year. Everyone knows 289 00:17:57,798 --> 00:18:01,430 I smell like ham. He just slipped that in. I thought it was hilarious. 290 00:18:01,590 --> 00:18:04,902 This one definitely hit close to home. He goes, you know, you wake up 291 00:18:04,926 --> 00:18:08,518 early every morning, you start making breakfast for your kids. It's in, 292 00:18:08,574 --> 00:18:12,374 it's still dark, you're tired. You drive them to school, 293 00:18:12,462 --> 00:18:16,198 and then you go back to pick them up 20 minutes later. @ least that's 294 00:18:16,214 --> 00:18:19,942 how it feels like. And then you take them to all these activities like 295 00:18:19,966 --> 00:18:23,224 you're some sort of Uber driver, and you're taking them to all these activities that 296 00:18:23,232 --> 00:18:26,952 they can't even do. I. I just love the inflection of 297 00:18:26,976 --> 00:18:30,488 his voice and how he. He repeats the 298 00:18:30,544 --> 00:18:34,260 last, like, couple words and sometimes sentence of 299 00:18:34,720 --> 00:18:38,312 what he says often, and you kind of get in. He lulls you 300 00:18:38,336 --> 00:18:42,104 into the cadence of. Of how he talks. Definitely an enjoyable comic to 301 00:18:42,112 --> 00:18:45,240 watch. But yeah, those were just a few My. My 302 00:18:45,280 --> 00:18:48,792 takeaways from watching his special. I definitely recommend it. Tom 303 00:18:48,856 --> 00:18:51,970 Papa's latest comedy special, Home 304 00:18:52,090 --> 00:18:55,270 Free streaming now on Netflix. 305 00:18:57,290 --> 00:19:00,834 I saw a few other comedy specials recently, a few honorable 306 00:19:00,882 --> 00:19:04,418 mentions that I wanted to shout out, starting with 307 00:19:04,554 --> 00:19:07,986 Anthony Jeselnik's latest, Bones and all. 308 00:19:08,138 --> 00:19:11,714 Anthony Jeselnik is the king of 309 00:19:11,802 --> 00:19:15,618 misdirect. You often usually don't know where he's 310 00:19:15,634 --> 00:19:18,820 going. He takes sharp, sharp left turns 311 00:19:19,320 --> 00:19:22,992 in delivering his comedy, you think he's speaking about one thing, he flips it on 312 00:19:23,016 --> 00:19:26,720 his head and then it's usually something just like provocative and 313 00:19:26,760 --> 00:19:30,464 holy. I didn't see that coming. Really funny comic. And I 314 00:19:30,472 --> 00:19:34,112 enjoy his comedy. Even with the shots fired at Rogan, 315 00:19:34,176 --> 00:19:37,728 not so much, but Rogan. Other comedians within 316 00:19:37,864 --> 00:19:41,360 Rogan's immediate orbit that he spoke about actually on Top Papa's 317 00:19:41,440 --> 00:19:45,164 podcast as well as on this special. But he has a 318 00:19:45,172 --> 00:19:48,972 couple funny bits I wanted to mention here. He's speaking to sibling rivalry 319 00:19:49,036 --> 00:19:52,556 and he says that his brother, when they were little, he let his 320 00:19:52,628 --> 00:19:56,140 dog run away. So for 321 00:19:56,180 --> 00:19:59,980 retribution for that, he poisoned his fish. And he said that he 322 00:20:00,020 --> 00:20:03,692 won in the end because he got his dog back, 323 00:20:03,876 --> 00:20:07,500 but his brother died from the salmon. Said a friend of his started 324 00:20:07,540 --> 00:20:11,020 talking about premature ejaculation and erectile dysfunction and things 325 00:20:11,060 --> 00:20:14,858 that. And he advised his friend to start talking about baseball. 326 00:20:15,034 --> 00:20:18,826 And his friend was like, don't you mean start thinking about baseball? 327 00:20:18,938 --> 00:20:22,570 And he was. And he replied, I don't give a what you think about. Just 328 00:20:22,610 --> 00:20:26,298 don't talk to me about premature ejaculation. Then the last one I'll share 329 00:20:26,354 --> 00:20:29,450 is he said that he stopped listening to Kanye when Kanye went 330 00:20:29,490 --> 00:20:33,258 Christian and that his manager used to keep him up on things that 331 00:20:33,314 --> 00:20:37,030 that Kanye would say and when he was in the news all the time 332 00:20:37,830 --> 00:20:41,550 and he, his manager told him that Kanye started wearing White 333 00:20:41,590 --> 00:20:45,118 Lives Matter T shirts and saying anti Semitic things. 334 00:20:45,174 --> 00:20:48,206 And Anthony Jesel Nick's response was, oh, so he went super 335 00:20:48,278 --> 00:20:52,030 Christian. And that is an honorable mention to Anthony Jeselnik's latest 336 00:20:52,070 --> 00:20:55,490 special Bones and all streaming now on Netflix. 337 00:20:55,830 --> 00:20:59,130 The next honorable mention comedy special that 338 00:20:59,670 --> 00:21:03,358 I wanted to speak to is Jamie Fox's what Had 339 00:21:03,414 --> 00:21:07,150 Happened was also available on Netflix. 340 00:21:07,310 --> 00:21:10,462 Jamie Foxx, for those who don't know, is like a 341 00:21:10,566 --> 00:21:14,110 triple quadruple threat. He's a 342 00:21:14,150 --> 00:21:17,822 hilarious comedic actor and dramatic actor so you can 343 00:21:17,846 --> 00:21:21,486 act his ass off. He can sing, he plays 344 00:21:21,518 --> 00:21:25,118 instruments, he does stand up. Super, 345 00:21:25,174 --> 00:21:28,910 super talented dude. I always compare him in terms of just being 346 00:21:29,030 --> 00:21:32,270 multifaceted hyphenate as they say to 347 00:21:32,570 --> 00:21:35,842 John Leguizamo I feel has skills that as 348 00:21:35,866 --> 00:21:39,074 well when it comes to I guess within the 349 00:21:39,162 --> 00:21:42,530 comedic and able to play dramatic roles as 350 00:21:42,570 --> 00:21:46,210 well. The one man shows that he does and things 351 00:21:46,250 --> 00:21:50,018 that never never heard him sing or play instruments or anything that. But 352 00:21:50,154 --> 00:21:53,410 yeah, Jamie's the man and he went 353 00:21:53,450 --> 00:21:57,030 through big medical scare 354 00:21:57,540 --> 00:22:01,340 about a year or two ago where people thought that 355 00:22:01,380 --> 00:22:04,476 he died. People thought that he was about to die, that he's going to die. 356 00:22:04,668 --> 00:22:08,348 And this was the first time that he was going to speak to it publicly, 357 00:22:08,444 --> 00:22:12,188 this special. So it was very much anticipated because of that. And also it's 358 00:22:12,204 --> 00:22:15,260 Jamie Foxx acute. I feel nobody has ever had a bad thing to say about 359 00:22:15,300 --> 00:22:19,068 Jamie Foxx. One of those celebrities that everybody reveres and nobody has a 360 00:22:19,124 --> 00:22:22,972 to talk about. It was a super emotional special. He had one 361 00:22:22,996 --> 00:22:26,642 of his daughters bring him out. He had another of his daughters who plays the 362 00:22:26,666 --> 00:22:30,482 guitar and sings, come on stage and do a song with 363 00:22:30,506 --> 00:22:33,826 him. He detailed what 364 00:22:33,898 --> 00:22:37,714 happened the, the day that he got sick. And 365 00:22:37,722 --> 00:22:41,042 it was super emotional. He was in Atlanta. He had a really bad 366 00:22:41,066 --> 00:22:44,642 headache and he asked for, for aspirin or 367 00:22:44,666 --> 00:22:47,986 Advil or something and before he was able to even take it, he just blacked 368 00:22:48,018 --> 00:22:51,186 out. Then he, he wakes up. It's like days 369 00:22:51,258 --> 00:22:55,104 later he can't walk. And essentially he had a 370 00:22:55,112 --> 00:22:58,864 stroke. And in the special, which is not just like straight 371 00:22:58,912 --> 00:23:02,320 stand up comedy, he walks you through that 372 00:23:02,360 --> 00:23:05,968 journey while sprinkling in jokes, while being super 373 00:23:06,024 --> 00:23:09,664 emotional. You know, him crying, the crowd crying, what 374 00:23:09,752 --> 00:23:13,520 folks watching at home crying, getting all choked up. I'm not 375 00:23:13,560 --> 00:23:17,200 crying. You're crying. He recorded the special in Atlanta, which is where, 376 00:23:17,320 --> 00:23:21,002 where it happened. And he has this ability to bring you 377 00:23:21,026 --> 00:23:24,602 into the moment. He has so much charisma, you get drawn into the 378 00:23:24,626 --> 00:23:28,202 story. He sprinkles jokes throughout the whole thing. He has 379 00:23:28,226 --> 00:23:31,978 this family moment on stage and it's 380 00:23:31,994 --> 00:23:35,722 somehow very intimate while being completely, you 381 00:23:35,746 --> 00:23:39,578 know, out in the open for the audience to see. And 382 00:23:39,634 --> 00:23:43,258 flexes all of his dramatic and 383 00:23:43,394 --> 00:23:46,958 comedic talents through characters that he's played like Willie 384 00:23:46,974 --> 00:23:50,766 Beeman, Ray Charles. And he embodies 385 00:23:50,798 --> 00:23:54,382 those characters to tell parts of the story. And it's so 386 00:23:54,406 --> 00:23:57,758 ill. It's not. Again, just traditional straight stand 387 00:23:57,814 --> 00:24:01,646 up, but it's a dope experience. Definitely 388 00:24:01,678 --> 00:24:05,342 worth the watch, especially to support Jamie Foxx. That's my 389 00:24:05,366 --> 00:24:08,942 honorable mention for Jamie Foxx's what Had Happened was 390 00:24:09,126 --> 00:24:12,840 streaming now on Netflix. Last but certainly not least 391 00:24:12,880 --> 00:24:16,616 in my honorable mentions section of recent 392 00:24:16,688 --> 00:24:20,168 stand up comedy specials that I saw single lady 393 00:24:20,264 --> 00:24:23,992 Ali Wong, who I think I've definitely broken down 394 00:24:24,016 --> 00:24:27,768 her specials in the past, but I think that she is the 395 00:24:27,824 --> 00:24:31,288 pioneer of filming comedy specials. While 396 00:24:31,344 --> 00:24:35,140 pregnant, she did it with her first daughter and her second 397 00:24:35,520 --> 00:24:39,288 really funny comic recently got divorced. You know, she was 398 00:24:39,344 --> 00:24:42,960 married and pregnant throughout her other specials 399 00:24:43,300 --> 00:24:46,844 and this is the first special that she filmed post 400 00:24:46,932 --> 00:24:50,716 divorce. And she's a raunchy, funny 401 00:24:50,908 --> 00:24:54,716 Definitely worth the watch. Comedian and if you follow, haven't 402 00:24:54,748 --> 00:24:58,120 followed her comedic career thus far. You're kind of invested in 403 00:24:58,740 --> 00:25:02,572 what happened. Why'd they get divorced? She was like so spoke so 404 00:25:02,596 --> 00:25:06,380 highly of her, her ex and he made made his 405 00:25:06,420 --> 00:25:10,188 way into her comedy specials and how, you know, he's this big finance guy, but 406 00:25:10,244 --> 00:25:13,656 somehow she's the rich one and wound up paying student 407 00:25:13,688 --> 00:25:17,352 loans. So she feels that she got over in that sense. She's 408 00:25:17,416 --> 00:25:21,112 had stuff like that in the past, but now they actually divorce. Divorced. You 409 00:25:21,136 --> 00:25:24,920 know, those were all jokes. But a couple things that she mentioned that were 410 00:25:24,960 --> 00:25:28,660 hilarious were that she has a divorced mom energy 411 00:25:29,200 --> 00:25:32,952 and all she wants is to just get dicked down and 412 00:25:32,976 --> 00:25:36,456 she doesn't care if you pronounce hors d'oeuvres as horde 413 00:25:36,568 --> 00:25:40,224 devourers. And she said she feels that her heart 414 00:25:40,352 --> 00:25:44,192 is like Swiss cheese and that she needs different 415 00:25:44,296 --> 00:25:48,080 sized bespoke dicks to fill all those holes. 416 00:25:48,240 --> 00:25:51,696 And another one that she said that I thought was hilarious is that she trims 417 00:25:51,728 --> 00:25:55,296 her daughter's hairs every single day. And she said that, 418 00:25:55,368 --> 00:25:59,040 that they're like her little bond. They are like her 419 00:25:59,080 --> 00:26:02,800 little bonsais. And I thought that was hilarious. And that is 420 00:26:02,840 --> 00:26:06,512 my little honorable mention of Ali Wong's Single lady, her 421 00:26:06,536 --> 00:26:09,940 latest comedy special streaming now on Netflix. 422 00:26:12,280 --> 00:26:16,064 Goats Doing Goat Shit. This is the segment of 423 00:26:16,072 --> 00:26:19,920 the sponsored a podcast, your favorite and mine, where I like to highlight 424 00:26:20,000 --> 00:26:23,632 goats within their respective areas that go 425 00:26:23,656 --> 00:26:27,504 above and beyond and do something dope, do something honorable that I like 426 00:26:27,512 --> 00:26:31,088 to credit here in the Goats Doing Goat Shit segment. Things that they 427 00:26:31,144 --> 00:26:34,704 don't have to do but decide to this episode's 428 00:26:34,752 --> 00:26:38,502 inductee and the final inductee of 2024 to the 429 00:26:38,526 --> 00:26:41,650 Goats Doing Goat Shit list, none other 430 00:26:42,190 --> 00:26:45,958 than Mr. Beast, aka Jimmy Donaldson. 431 00:26:46,134 --> 00:26:49,926 For those that don't know Mr. Beast is the largest YouTuber 432 00:26:49,958 --> 00:26:53,766 on the planet. He also has this. He's 433 00:26:53,798 --> 00:26:57,462 gone viral, you know, tons and tons and tons of 434 00:26:57,486 --> 00:27:01,110 times. Again, biggest YouTube YouTuber in the world. And 435 00:27:01,150 --> 00:27:04,794 he does things create his own games, which he actually has a 436 00:27:04,802 --> 00:27:08,070 dope one on Prime Video 437 00:27:08,530 --> 00:27:11,946 as of late that I just saw a couple episodes of. I think they're streaming 438 00:27:11,978 --> 00:27:15,626 one episode every every week or every few days or something like that. And it's 439 00:27:15,658 --> 00:27:19,370 broken a bunch of Guinness World Records for 440 00:27:19,490 --> 00:27:23,098 most contestants on the game show. He had a thousand most cameras on a game 441 00:27:23,154 --> 00:27:26,906 show. Over a thousand. He built a city 442 00:27:26,978 --> 00:27:30,740 to host these games. Literally built from the ground up and 443 00:27:30,780 --> 00:27:33,444 just a ton of records and stuff like that. But he this Is that's a 444 00:27:33,452 --> 00:27:37,172 huge skill thing that he's doing. But he's done things. He gives away like a 445 00:27:37,196 --> 00:27:40,852 quarter million dollars all the time. A million dollars holds a sign on the side 446 00:27:40,876 --> 00:27:44,580 of the road that says house for sale, $1. And people actually stop, you know, 447 00:27:44,620 --> 00:27:48,468 actually sold them the house for a dollar after buying it. Does a bunch 448 00:27:48,484 --> 00:27:51,364 of games. You know, there's a huge circle in the middle of a field and 449 00:27:51,452 --> 00:27:54,084 you know, 50 people will be in it. The last one to leave the circle 450 00:27:54,132 --> 00:27:57,934 gets a million bucks. Like weird, crazy interesting videos like 451 00:27:57,942 --> 00:28:01,710 that that just grab your attention. But he has this philanthropic arm 452 00:28:01,870 --> 00:28:05,502 that I've highlighted in the past, definitely on my newsletter, in the video 453 00:28:05,686 --> 00:28:09,374 of the week section, which folks can subscribe to. Absolutely. For free at 454 00:28:09,382 --> 00:28:13,038 sponsoreday.com forward/subscribe. Where he's done things 455 00:28:13,094 --> 00:28:16,430 like built a hundred water wells in 456 00:28:16,470 --> 00:28:20,046 Africa, paid for LASIK surgery for like a thousand 457 00:28:20,118 --> 00:28:23,864 people that otherwise were blind. And 458 00:28:23,952 --> 00:28:27,672 I'm sorry, not LASIK surgery, cataract surgery that, you know, people that were 459 00:28:27,696 --> 00:28:31,460 blind, they just couldn't afford the surgery for it. 460 00:28:31,760 --> 00:28:35,256 Give them their sight back and just really cool dope, things like that. 461 00:28:35,408 --> 00:28:38,984 But the reason why I'm adding him to the goats doing goat 462 00:28:39,032 --> 00:28:42,632 shit segment today is because 463 00:28:42,736 --> 00:28:45,300 of the play 464 00:28:45,920 --> 00:28:49,700 against, for lack of a better choice of word against 465 00:28:49,820 --> 00:28:53,492 big chocolate, quote, unquote. So 466 00:28:53,516 --> 00:28:57,076 he has this company called Feastables which makes chocolate 467 00:28:57,108 --> 00:29:00,788 bars, which are actually pretty good. And the whole idea is that, you know, 468 00:29:00,924 --> 00:29:04,676 candy bars don't have to be, you know, chock full of and chemicals 469 00:29:04,708 --> 00:29:08,516 and stuff like that. You can make them with just a minimal number of ingredients. 470 00:29:08,628 --> 00:29:11,876 Kids, I believe, just have chocolate and sugar and like sea 471 00:29:11,908 --> 00:29:15,502 salt and then whatever else. You know, if it has peanut butter or 472 00:29:15,526 --> 00:29:19,038 peanuts or almonds or whatever, you know, it doesn't have yellow number five 473 00:29:19,094 --> 00:29:22,510 and Zenith and gum and this and that and the other and a list 474 00:29:22,550 --> 00:29:25,850 of shitload of ingredients. It's a small 475 00:29:26,230 --> 00:29:30,030 company, right, that he has been scaling, it's called Feastables. 476 00:29:30,190 --> 00:29:33,502 And he was getting the cocoa for his chocolate 477 00:29:33,566 --> 00:29:37,246 from a sustainable ethical source, 478 00:29:37,358 --> 00:29:41,150 sustainable farms, you know, family owned farms in Peru. But he said that 479 00:29:41,190 --> 00:29:44,718 70% of the world's cocoa comes from West 480 00:29:44,774 --> 00:29:48,446 Africa. That's where all the big players get their chocolate because they're 481 00:29:48,478 --> 00:29:52,318 such huge companies, they need tons and tons and just a very large 482 00:29:52,374 --> 00:29:56,158 supply of chocolate. His beef with that is 483 00:29:56,214 --> 00:29:59,774 that 46% of 484 00:29:59,942 --> 00:30:03,678 the labor of those that source 485 00:30:03,694 --> 00:30:06,910 of cocoa in the world. So 70% of all the cocoa in the world comes 486 00:30:06,950 --> 00:30:09,984 from West Africa. From two countries called 487 00:30:10,072 --> 00:30:13,856 Devour, Devore and Ghana. And 488 00:30:13,928 --> 00:30:17,680 of that 70 source of chocolate, 46 of them, 489 00:30:17,720 --> 00:30:21,440 so almost half of them all employ child labor. And he said 490 00:30:21,480 --> 00:30:25,136 that he knew he would have to move the operations for Feastables, his supply 491 00:30:25,168 --> 00:30:28,960 chain rather for Feastables, over to West Africa 492 00:30:29,080 --> 00:30:32,500 because it would outgrow what Peru is able to supply. 493 00:30:32,920 --> 00:30:36,696 And that, you know, the sustainable chocolate source 494 00:30:36,728 --> 00:30:40,216 that he was getting from Peru, he can't really say to 495 00:30:40,368 --> 00:30:43,860 the big chocolate players, you know, you should source your, 496 00:30:44,480 --> 00:30:48,136 your chocolate sustainably and not employ child 497 00:30:48,208 --> 00:30:51,992 labor because look, we can do it. He said that 498 00:30:52,016 --> 00:30:55,368 wouldn't be a good argument because from their perspective they'll just say, oh, you don't 499 00:30:55,384 --> 00:30:58,840 know how it works, you're too small, that's good for you, but not, you know, 500 00:30:58,880 --> 00:31:02,642 not sustainable for us. We can't do that at this level. Now 501 00:31:02,666 --> 00:31:06,130 what he's found is that a big reason that there is child 502 00:31:06,170 --> 00:31:10,002 labor is because the farms don't make enough money to be 503 00:31:10,026 --> 00:31:13,618 able to afford to hire adults. But there's this thing 504 00:31:13,674 --> 00:31:17,266 called the Living Income reference price scale 505 00:31:17,458 --> 00:31:21,170 where it breaks down that if a farmer sells 506 00:31:21,250 --> 00:31:24,802 you a metric ton of beans, if they don't get paid X, 507 00:31:24,906 --> 00:31:28,616 then they won't be able to make a living wage which essentially 508 00:31:28,648 --> 00:31:32,168 forces them to turn to child labor in order to survive. Now what 509 00:31:32,224 --> 00:31:35,672 Feastables is doing is using that metric and 510 00:31:35,856 --> 00:31:39,640 guaranteeing farmers that price contingent 511 00:31:39,720 --> 00:31:43,512 on no child labor. So he said theoretically, if they sell it to 512 00:31:43,536 --> 00:31:47,192 him for less, Feastables will pay them a premium on 513 00:31:47,216 --> 00:31:51,048 top of what they sell it to them for and say no, this is what 514 00:31:51,104 --> 00:31:54,534 you need to actually live, etc, and you know, break it all down for 515 00:31:54,542 --> 00:31:58,310 them. They also have form farm coaches that are helping them 516 00:31:58,350 --> 00:32:02,182 get more yield out of their farm. So he says 5 to 10% more 517 00:32:02,206 --> 00:32:05,542 yield of hectares, more yield out of the hectares that they 518 00:32:05,566 --> 00:32:09,270 have and getting them supplies, etc and teaching them how to make 519 00:32:09,310 --> 00:32:12,998 more out of what they have. And you know, he went out there himself, spent 520 00:32:13,014 --> 00:32:16,646 the week on working the farms, figuring out how to do the ethical 521 00:32:16,678 --> 00:32:20,378 sourcing thing the right way. And his long term 522 00:32:20,434 --> 00:32:24,026 goal, which is why again, I'm adding him to the goats doing goat 523 00:32:24,058 --> 00:32:27,870 shit segment, is that he hopes to prove the concept 524 00:32:28,210 --> 00:32:31,770 once Feastables does scale up to the levels of Big 525 00:32:31,810 --> 00:32:35,226 Chocolate, that Big Chocolate can also 526 00:32:35,298 --> 00:32:38,458 be ethically sourced, AKA no child 527 00:32:38,514 --> 00:32:41,834 labor and profitable. It doesn't have to be either 528 00:32:41,882 --> 00:32:45,632 or. And then he can use that proof of concept 529 00:32:45,696 --> 00:32:49,472 as well as his, you know, huge platform to essentially 530 00:32:49,536 --> 00:32:53,024 bully Big chocolate into following 531 00:32:53,112 --> 00:32:56,940 suit. And he said, you know, there are currently over 532 00:32:57,320 --> 00:33:01,072 a million kids in child labor in cocoa farms in that 533 00:33:01,096 --> 00:33:04,896 area and obviously he can't get all million of the kids out, 534 00:33:04,968 --> 00:33:08,384 but he says if he can put a dent into a couple thousand 535 00:33:08,552 --> 00:33:12,180 and then with his influence get one or 536 00:33:12,220 --> 00:33:16,000 some of those big chocolate companies to follow suit or do the same, 537 00:33:16,380 --> 00:33:20,148 it can lead to tens of thousands of kids or 100 thousands of kids 538 00:33:20,324 --> 00:33:24,148 not having to be working in cocoa farms in West 539 00:33:24,204 --> 00:33:27,684 Africa. And for that I'm officially inducting Mr. 540 00:33:27,732 --> 00:33:31,440 Beast aka Jimmy Donaldson into 541 00:33:31,740 --> 00:33:35,572 the Spade Goats doing goat list. Good 542 00:33:35,596 --> 00:33:38,740 on you sir and welcome to the club. 543 00:33:40,800 --> 00:33:44,648 And that folks was episode 276 of the Spun 544 00:33:44,664 --> 00:33:48,472 Today Podcast. Thank you once again for each and every one of you who 545 00:33:48,496 --> 00:33:52,008 take the time to listen. I really do appreciate it. And like I said 546 00:33:52,064 --> 00:33:55,896 in the beginning of the show, this year has had a lot of ups 547 00:33:55,928 --> 00:33:59,432 and downs, more downs than ups for some of 548 00:33:59,456 --> 00:34:02,888 us. But try and keep an optimistic outlook, stay 549 00:34:02,944 --> 00:34:06,350 positive and it's let's all aim toward 550 00:34:06,430 --> 00:34:10,190 a 2025 that is filled with much more ups 551 00:34:10,350 --> 00:34:14,062 than downs and let's work towards making that happen, not 552 00:34:14,086 --> 00:34:17,662 just wish for it. I wish you and yours happy and healthy 553 00:34:17,726 --> 00:34:21,566 holiday season. 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