Yeah. Or I'll try to con my thirteen year old in to bring you in over again and leaving it for a couple weeks from time to time. So we'll see what happens. The la well, actually, two quick things. One, we've been to watch the show called Outlast this week. It's a reality show on Netflix, which really enjoyed, actually. It was not what I expected, but it's a survival show. So it's kinda like survivor without all the gimmicks and game functionality. They basically take a group of people, drop them in the Alaska wilderness and say go. And there's the only rule in the entire game is you must outlast, which is the name of the show, and you have to be a part of a team to stay in the show. But it's I mean, there are a lot of survival shows or whatever, but this one, I don't know, there this one highlighted some of the best and worst qualities in humanity in a in a few episodes. So there's some real things. I'm like, ah, I had trouble just stomaching as I was watching it. But Oh,

yeah. Well, we watch something similar, thanks to Victor's recommendation that, showed the worst qualities of humanity as well, but we'll get to it in the start.

Yeah. So it it was if you like outdoor stuff and, I mean, as a reality show, but it felt less reality more just survival. I quite enjoyed that. And then all that, aside, we're getting ready. I'm, I don't think I've ever actually mentioned my age, but I'm crossing the forty mark in a week and a half. So kind of moving moving into the next Oh, man. Decade of my life and and a little bit. So, yeah, counting those days down, but, you know, it is what it is.

What you got planned?

Well, I'm I I know what's going on. My wife's planning stuff, but, we're we're getting together a bunch of friends. And I think you guys have gotten invites. I don't know if you've except at all, but, yeah, I know invites were sent your way.

I, I don't know what you're talking about.

I really don't know what you're talking about.

That's that's

totally fine. That's totally fine. But it's gonna be fine.

We're gonna never gonna listen to this anyway.

On a surprise party. Let's just put it that way. But, she's doing the planning because I'm useless. So she's been put she hasn't told me every detail, but, we're gonna have a good time. So counting down to forty. There you go.

Nice. Not good for you.

Victor.

While I'm still a little bit shell shocked over that intro. So, let me gather my thoughts. So, I was on a podcast. Oh, possibly.

You forgot about that.

That one's

about Is it your daughters?

So that was fun. And, I got a prize for attending We

all did.

Past Everyone,

which was a lasagna. But mine was special because it said to cook it for fifty minutes, but it was only half ready at fifty minutes. So I have to No.

It's a it always takes over an hour.

Well, you're supposed to thaw for twenty four hours.

I I did in my fridge.

Okay.

Yeah. Anyway, what else? And and, I've we discovered that there was a third season of the morning show that we didn't know about. So we start watching that. It's a little it feels kind of weird watching it because it's so it's it's it's dipping so much into the whole COVID time.

Mhmm.

And it's like I kind of been there, done that, not interested in watching shows that are talking about COVID anymore and stuff like that. So

Yeah. Who wants to relive that? Yeah.

So it's kind of a a bit of a kind of love hate. Well, it's not a it's it's a it's it's a good show. But not loving kind of the the reminders of that. But if, you know, if if you watch the first two seasons, you gotta, I guess, continue watching. Yeah. That's about it.

Okay.

You didn't plug the podcast that you were on there, Victor.

Well, I'm gonna plug the night. So what's my time? You. Yeah. Victor's being cagey, but, basically, all the four of us were on the Toronto Mike podcast last Friday. He had us on to talk about this podcast. So, Mike's Mike's a good guy. He's a really good guy. And, when he heard the clip of Victor, predicting our award from, like, three years ago. And and then me saying, oh, I'll I'll have I'll feel like I've arrived when Toronto Mike interviews us. He reached out immediately and said, alright. You guys are coming on. When do you want to come on? So, that was nice of him. And what Victor's alluding to Toronto Mike, he's got a bunch of sponsors. Mineris is one of them. So everyone everyone who appears on his podcast gets a a large frozen lasagna,

not from Manara. From Palma Pass.

That's from from the his pasta sponsor. Great lakes beer, from his beer sponsor, Bluetooth speaker from Manera. Like, you you you bay basically come away from his podcast with a with a swag bag, but but a really good swag. Like most of this stuff is really useful.

Matt, did you regift the lasagna as a family, present for Christmas to celebrate.

We're having it tomorrow.

Oh, nice.

Oh, and Gordon is reminding me here. Matt won the podcast. Mike was flirting with him. And and also, if if you if you haven't listened to it, it's a funny episode because basically Mike toronto Mike ran the gamut of Victor. He started off loving Victor. And by the end of the episode, he didn't want to have anything to do with Victor. No.

No. He went out at all. And then he came in to love again.

That's right.

It was

it was pretty hilarious. So if you

haven't No glitch. Perfect score under sixty seconds.

It was amazing.

Yeah. Because I think at one point, he said, Oh, Victor, you and I could do an amazing podcast or whatever. And then the five minutes later, I was like, I could never do a podcast. Yeah.

It was, yeah, he ran the gamut of emotion there, but So that was fun. That night was the Canadian Podcast Awards and on a on a less fun note. We went zero for four on at the awards, which sucks. You know, I mean, you know, congratulations to all the winners and all of that bullshit, but it sucks that we did.

It was an honor to be nominated.

Yes. It was an honor to be nominated. It was. But, yeah. Okay.

And you said that was such a straight face. You were such a fucking actor.

We We went from the high of being on Toronto Mike to, the low of watching the entire award ceremony and not hearing our name called, which

I didn't get to do a shot I had my shot ready to go, and I didn't do it.

There's always next year.

This is part out.

Well, see the great thing about shots is, right? They could be celebratory or they can be ciliatory.

Yeah. In this case, it was a spiteful decline. No. I'm kidding. No. Spide, but it was definitely a privilege to be Yes. In the running, but And

hopefully, next year we'll be on the again.

The fact

that we were even on there Mhmm. Is is a hot like, it it's huge. I think. Alright.

Oh, I think it is. Lose again.

Day, Sharzee. Yeah.

Okay. You gotta

pitch it up a couple.

We need some tough natives on our podcast in order to never

lose interest rate. Yes.

Yeah. Tobias said he fucking loved Victor on Toronto Mike. He said he was so good. So

Nice. I have a one fan.

Yeah. One fan.

To combat that other fan, the anti fan that I have.

But yeah, it has been, like, two weeks. It's been since the A call social that we've done something, and and like, podcast wise anyway.

Everything went down.

So everything went down.

I I

got I got COVID

I You had COVID on that because I was I was in the other room.

That's right. I was in quarantine. I came out of quarantine on Christmas Eve, which was too late for me to go to my parents fiftieth wedding anniversary, which sucked, and they made me feel plenty bad about not going, even though I was COVID positive and, anyway, we won't get over there. So it was a quiet Christmas and New year's eve or sorry, Christmas day Christmas Eve and Christmas Day with just the four of us here at home. Tanya had pink eyes.

It boxing day.

Yeah. It was just a, like, the whole week was just a a mess. We didn't leave the house. It was it was kinda it wasn't fun. And then The Toronto Mike thing happened Friday, which was a lot of fun. And and then, New Year's Eve, we had, people over.

We finally had people.

Yeah. We played games and we had a good time. So New Year's Eve was, was a lot of fun. Yeah, that's been our two weeks, Tim. Oh, and sorry. One last thing. On Victor's recommendation, or were you gonna talk about that?

I was gonna.

Okay. Never mind. You go ahead.

I was gonna add to your rough week and and encounter that with, okay, so you were in quarantine, but I was still cleaning and sanitized the house. Because because you were out and about in the and I was trying to keep us from getting it. And then our daughter, the very, two days later came up with, pink eye. So then I sanitized the house again, and then you came out of quarantine so I sanitized your room. And then, boxing day, I woke up with pink eyes. So I had to sanitize one more time. So I my hands were raw, by the time Christmas, came and and and went and, yeah, just really not a fun time. Haven't actually even have At

this point, you've got the cleanest house in nine counts.

Oh, man. I think so.

We haven't And I can recommend marigolds. Seriously.

Marigold?

Investil some marigold. The flower?

The the love No. She works.

From that from poker at door.

No. The rubber gloves.

I I just got myself a really nice pair of, it's sad that I'm happy to

go up, like, mid bow.

They they are really nice. And they're and they're like felt inside, like, not just like plasticky. I'm I'm really excited to, like, get get to some more cleaning. Not that I'm excited anytime soon. No.

But You have a miracle of flowers. Right. As well. Right?

It is.

Yes. It's a thank you. Yeah.

Amerigold is a flower. Thank you. It's edible. But, yeah, no, I got eczema on my hand. So when I do the washing up, I, you know, slip on the marigolds.

I'm gonna have to take a look at what marigolds are.

Not the flower.

It's just little rubber gloves. It's a brand name for the rubber gloves.

Yeah. Yeah. That's it's a doll.

But they might be an even nicer. Anyways. There's a few patterns and colors. Yeah. So it was rough, but, yeah, we made it through, and we made it to, New Year's and got to play some cards with our friends. And, then we played minute to win it games all Christmas or sorry New Year's Eve. Which was a blast. We had, games and prizes and food, and it was fun. So that was great. And then, we binge watch, like, really binge watch. The whole season of squid games, game show, on New Year's Day. Yeah. We just the whole day. We just and the kids both kids were like engaged in it and could not we couldn't stop watching it. So, yeah, we watched the whole damn thing and just veged and did not. And It was good. Yeah.

It was really well done.

It was it was really well up, but we were yelling a lot at the TV because, as you kind of referenced, Matt, society and and people.

The worst of humanity was on display. That's why I don't like these reality shows too much because it does kind of show the ugly side of people. This one here, I just enjoyed watching it just because it was so creatively done. Right? Like, the way they were.

Very well done show.

But you know what? It also shows the stand up people. Like, there was a in one of the, references of somebody kind of doing a shitty thing. There was a a a deaf woman and she was like, I feel sorry for you for looking at the world that way. And and she was a stand up person for like, why you gotta be like this? Why are you taking this this stance on things. So I I, you know, it kind of shows that that good side too that, you know, you don't have to to go down that dark bad path.

Yeah. But the good people are usually limited pretty quickly, sadly. Yeah. No. But it's well done. I don't know if I'd watch another season of that, but, just the whole dye pack thing and everything. It was just really creatively done. Yeah. Kudos there to the producers. Awesome. How have you been?

Bired. The kids don't go back to school till Monday. So I've got, like, a succession of niblets that I've been watching for their parents in between terms. And then, of course, you know, all the packing up and shit after the Holly bobs, people gotta put stuff away for the rest of the three hundred and fifty days of the year. Mhmm.

We haven't put our tree, away yet.

Well,

we haven't had our my family Christmas yet. Right.

Yes. So we're having our family Christmas this weekend. The tree still up.

Yeah. I've been doing so much family stuff. It's been ridiculous. My New Year's is pretty fucking restful, though. We decided we were gonna have a bonfire and make Kosta and watch a movie. So that is what we did.

What do you want to watch? That

Princess Bread.

Nice. Oh, classic. Yeah.

Yeah. So we went over to my sisters. We started day drinking in around two. We made Kofta. We made we had charcuterie. We got in the hot tub.

I have to ask what is what what is Kofta? I don't know.

It's it's like a skinless sausage. It's just like, Grand meat with, like, spices, and then you roll it up into, like, you know, sausage shape. And, I like to wrap it in plastic to get the shape real quick and then throw it in the fridge for like an hour to let it chill out and then just grill it. Nice.

Meet stick.

I love myself some sausage.

It's often on a stick. Right? Middle admit is big and middle eastern cooking, isn't it?

Yeah. Yeah. Because I don't do mine on a stick. Yeah.

I I think I have had that. I didn't know the name of it though, Kfta.

Some people would yeah. I I mean, I do lamb because I fucking love lamb.

But,

yeah, it's just like, you know, chili powder, garlic, onion, thyme, salt, pepper, etcetera.

Sounds delicious.

Yeah. Throw it on a bun with, like, some baba ganoush and some parsley and onion.

It's just fun

to see. Baba ganoush

from baba ganoush Ababagun.

So Yeah. I cheated. I didn't make the babagun. About it.

How dare you? So you're here today to help us with, season twelve. The first episode of season twelve. Thank you for joining us.

Thank you for having me. Once again, I could not not be on the last series.

I agree.

Yeah. So that's that's why we had you on, and we appreciate you in in having you on. Before we begin though, I gotta do the, dreaded Twitter roll call. So here we go. Welcome to not so new Twitter followers. Steve Harryman, gas laws and pro pofol. Propropofol? I don't know. Isaac Stockians, Charles Chapman junior, Mosheriff Houshan from Bangladesh, Chris Murdoch. Two of Jackson from Jacksonville, Florida, Jonathan Stubbs, Ryan D from outer space, Mark from Irvine, California, Nope train, just suffering, from Saugust, Massachusetts. Eric denial. Oh, by the way, speaking of, Massachusetts. Our buddy cutler is actually on the live stream. So, he could have done that live if if we had him on. Anyway, Eric, from denial, the dude from Lynchburg, Virginia, Glenn Vaughn from Huntington Beach, California. Fifty four forty, the the great Canadian band from Vancouver, Mike Hills from Pittsburgh, Jeff Altman from chal Chalmers Indiana Thompson Bailey Hamed Ali Abdallah. Daniel from Buffalo, Nick Hirschman, deliciously Dope TV, weight loss tips, surgeon, r x from Connecticut, bearded Beast from Two to towson, Leah Skye from Little Rock, Arkansas, Savannah from El Paso, Texas. Jason Arrenberg from Dallas Richard McCorkle from Fontana, California, Mac from Boston, drown, fellows, Borrowgard, Napps, John Meyer, Gothnique, so deaf, podcast overlord from Portland, Oregon, the broadcast podcast in gaming from Australia that blonde pod from your speakers, Melanie Brando from LA, New York, or Toronto. She can't make up her mind. Chris bought bossworth from Nashville roughing it, Coke or coxie, zombie moms from Phoenix, Arizona, b, Harry, and Brian from Ocean Tree created Saint Paul, Minnesota. Thank you for, following and hopefully for

listening. Previously, on Letter Kenny.

Last time we got together, which was a few weeks ago, just before Christmas. It was our festive ag hall social fun was had by all and we crowned our fourth trivia champion Jay from Edmonton. So I'm looking forward to that showdown between our four trivia champions. This week, we begin our coverage of the final season of Letter Kenny, beginning with episode one, live at Odine's. Have you done your homework, Matt?

I have.

Victor, have you done your homework?

It is.

I've done my homework, Tanya. Have you done your homework?

I did my homework when it came out.

That's right. So it's been a while. You're gonna need a refresher.

No. I I I I did a fast track today too.

There you go. And awesome. Have you done your homework?

I have done my homework multiple times. I've done everyone else's homework.

Oh, of course. Here we go.

Well, don't bore us. Get to the chorus.

We open. With one final game of alpha alphabet aerobics. This is the cold open that was released weeks prior to season twelve to get to get everyone's tear ducts ready for the end. So let's just listen to it one more time.

Allegedly.

Absolutely. All activities, acts, and ag hall antics.

Businesses.

Bussles, bar nights, fit Bakindones.

George.

Campaign, chronicles, contracts, and commitments.

Dirty DANGles.

Donny Brooks. Deeds, duties, doings, and dealings.

Eventually. And

Fucking embarrassing. It's all for

fuck's sake, friends,

of your balls to talk.

Get glad. Gogren. Gather glee.

How are you now?

Have happiness. Hoots and haulers. Hearty he he's and howling haas. Have a hernia.

Heck initially idiotic and infinitely immature. It's interprovincial, international, and interconnecting influential and impactful indeed. Infamously intelligent, isn't it?

Jacked. Judge are justified, but joy is juicier, jostler, jollies.

K. Kindly rekindle Ken chips and kiss kittens because it's cookie, kind hearted and a little bit kinky.

Letter Kenny. Legend dairy. Magers.

Not tuggers and no nets, not Saks, nicotine and nosebleeds numb not snow needless negativity or unnecessary noise up north.

Ostrich.

Obsessively observe and outwardly obscene, organized an original Outlandish and unorthodox. Occasionally, offensive top position, overprotective.

Pitter. Patter.

We're pertinent perfectly patient and proper particular, but if you poke in prod Paul.

Weird? Questionable? Really?

It's Gordon.

Scute us.

Today. Turn off Twitter and take the time to treasure town.

Understood.

We're unkempt and undercooked, but not up at a year untoward, united unconditionally. Virtuous. We're violent and venomous, but not vultures or vagrants got value. It's got vertebrae. Why? We will whip your watchamacallit. But well, we'd rather work wordlessly in worthy weather without wrath. We're well wishers. Wise crackins, how we're wired, but warmth and widespread wealth is the way. Whether you're weird, wondrous. Wayward or witless, You're welcome. Exactly. Expecial,

you. You you.

After zillion zippy zany zingers were zapped. God Zilch zero Zipola. So now we

zip it.

Yeah. I had to play the whole thing because I didn't know where to clip that one, but, that's the cold open alphabet aerobics the last One will ever hear, Matt. How did that make you feel?

All kinds of ways. I loved it. I I know this isn't I mean, I you know how I feel about the alphabet aerobics. I fucking love them. This one, in particular, I feel like they spent extra care in writing. I I, you know, at a face value, they're talking about Letter County, this the town, but in reality, I took it as they're talking about them, the people, the creators, and speaking to the fandom behind it all. That's how I'm interpreting it. I I took a couple excerpts that really stood out to me the letter I. So when I got to I, it says, initially idiotic and infinite, infinitely mature. It's interprovincial, international interconnecting. Influential and impactful indeed, infamously intelligent, isn't it? Very aware of where they started, and where they've come. Mhmm. And then when you get to w, I really like this one. It says, but well, we'd rather work word wordlessly in worthy weather without wrath. Where well wishers, wise cracking's how we're wired, but warmth and widespread wealth is the way, whether you're weird, wondrous, wayward, or witless, You're welcome. And as a real, oh, to anyone is welcome, we're all here doing this because we love it. It's just how we do things maybe a little different, but we're having a great time. So I think they really spent a lot of time, perfecting this one, and I think it paid off. So I really enjoyed this take. Great way to start the season.

That pause too, near the beginning there was was

Oh, letting it

hang there on e was really good. Victor, what'd you think? Yeah.

It was really good. I

Also had a similar thought, on on the eye. However, I have got a grievance with that one, which we'll get to, I think, at the end of this episode. K. So we'll let that one marinate a bit. And and I also didn't like what kind of them promoting Twitter. So

They're not promoting it. They're telling you to get off of Twitter.

They've they Peter is a cult.

Yeah. They they they called it out. Nice. Feel like maybe they could have done without that.

But Well,

I mean, here's the thing though. First of all, this was written over a year ago.

Yeah.

And also, I mean, at least they didn't fucking call it X.

Nobody calls it

X, though. Nobody calls

it Yeah. The site formerly known as Twitter.

They should have said turn off your fart book. That would have been maybe more apropos Maybe.

Yeah. But that wouldn't have fit the the scheme. Would it?

Yeah. Yeah. I I know.

That

brings any point that I should have probably asked before we started this. Have I know Victor, you're going episode by episode. Right? You haven't gone past episode.

No. No. I'm gonna go episode by episode. Matt, have you?

I know I've only watched the first one. I don't actually necessarily have an intention on staying that way, but that's just what I've had time for. Okay.

And just so y'all know, Tanya and I have seen the whole thing front to back already.

So yeah. And and

I have I feel like awesome has probably watched it front to back. What? Two, three dozen times?

Spout right?

Yeah. Sorry, Victor. I just because, yeah, go ahead.

No. No. I I that that's I think that's it. Yeah. And so it'll be fun to come around back to the eye later on, but, it was really well written. Almost almost as good as, the the one we had, a few minutes earlier. Right.

Yeah. May may they should've sent it maybe to, Tate and Wed for for a punch up or two.

That's right.

Anyway, yeah, it was great. I mean, this is a classic I feel I mean, this is a classic letter Kenny thing that they've done in the past and they're doing again. And but to great effect, and it's it's it's basically thanking everyone for watching and and and making them feel good about the end or trying to anyway. I loved it. Yeah. That that that pause, Gordon called it out in the in the live stream. It it was really impactful. But, then following it up with coaches, fucking embarrassing was just perfect. Like, snap out of it people. This is still a comedy. We're still gonna have fun fun on our way out from this. Ten?

And Shoresies give your balls a tug here

too. Exactly.

Tim?

So without wanting to say, anything, I didn't like it as much as you guys.

You're doing it.

I didn't like it as much as you guys did, but you know what? It's because that goes so fast and I don't get it all. Like, I It's

not a competition, Tanya.

My the hairs on my the back of my neck rose when Matt just read it. I loved when I could hear it and and and feel the words. It jumps too fast for me, and I don't get it. And then I zone out because it's like it's too too fast and it's too like, jump from one person to another and I I get that. Like, I like seeing everybody. I like that everybody's participating in it, but it takes away a little bit from the words that are being said because I can't get it as fast. Yeah.

That's called out by Liz too. She loves that all the main characters were in it. So, yeah. Yeah.

But I I truly heard it when Matt said it. I was like, wow. That that that's what they would said. Like, I didn't know.

Watch it again with captions for the things

in the past.

Maybe I do. Sometimes

I need to read it. Subtitles. And and it's, like, subtitle it. And I I don't know how how did you get the words, Matt? Did you

Close captioning.

Oh, is it? Oh, okay.

I because I I I listened back to it. Like, I rewatched it until, like, three or four times because there was a couple things I I caught. I'm like, Hold on. I need to slow that down. I really wanna hear what they're saying, and that's why I took the time to understand.

But that's the thing. Okay. So there's the question. Should they slow it down so that you re No. No. So that you really appreciate

the words. It's like listening to it's like listening to

it's like listening to It's

the fact that you have to slow it down or put the closed caption on

to the freezer. What it is

is you have to watch it over and over again. This letter Kenny is a show that awards people who watch it over and over and over again. Yeah.

It the pacing in the delivery is just so critical to their identity as a show. Yeah. If you slowed it down, that's half the magic gone. Yeah. Yeah.

But, Tanya, I agree with you. Like, if you're watching, if you're a one and done kind of a person with with these shows, And your pro I'm sure there's lots of people, you know, not not like the diehards, right? But there's people that watch the show. They don't need to see the same episode again. And and for those types of viewers, I think that you're spot on that you're it's it's gonna go, you know, some of it is gonna be, oh, that's cute, and a lot most of it is gonna go in one year out the other. Yeah. It's like listening to a new song for the first time. You're not gonna be able to sing along with it you know, the next time you listen. Right? It it will take a little while. And and eventually, it's, back to the extreme album. I didn't love it the first time we listened through it. But now Sure. You did.

Of course, you did.

I don't

believe that. Well, I I I I

I just I liked it, but I I I didn't love everything. Now I everything.

Al, you should cut that one line and said the new extreme album. I didn't like it and then stuff. Yeah. And just just play that

on Put a tweego going Victor thought the new extreme album was crap.

I did not like it.

And I'm gonna send it to new No Bettencourt because according to Toronto Mike, because he's Portuguese and I'm Portuguese, we somehow know each other.

Your cousins.

I'm sure. Anyway, awesome. What do you think of this?

As has been pointed out, the hang on e, just letting it soak in, That was good. I've alliteration is my favorite literary device as well. Like, so I just I love an Abasadarian. They're so fun to read.

Bless you.

I got hooked on them. Well, so when you run through the alphabet like that, right?

Well, Abba is very I I get

it now.

I get it now.

Abecedarian. Anyway,

Is that, like, an abacus

of letters? It's just the ABC is all set as a word.

Yeah. No. That's a different that's a Sesame Street song. An abbasid arian is just a, b, c, d, e, arian.

Yes. Gotcha.

Okay.

There's a racist alphabeta. That's controversial.

But back to w, the the use of your welcome is a pun because it works both ways. Right? Like, Okay. So cold opens often will break the fourth wall, and the audience will be directly addressed in the intro and outro.

Mhmm.

But with these the, you know, alliterative cold opens, everything is sent directly to the audience. There is no fourth wall. We are being addressed by white. So when he says you're welcome, He's like, yeah. You're welcome in to the club, but also, you know, you're welcome. I've All

he assumes

thank you.

And here's my life

Yeah.

Work and I did it to share it with you.

Yeah. Totally agree.

For sure. Alright. Let's move on to the after the credits, scene one, we open with a musical montage, set to the song, you gonna get it by coachwhips, The montage starts with Wayne, squirrely down in Dairy hanging at the protostand like usual. The skids in their lair doing a bunch of sneaf like usual, note that Coke is laid out in on the mirror in the shape of a penis.

I did notice that.

Right. Riley and Jonesy headed to the arena to play hockey, like usual. Gail and Bonnie McMurray at modine's busy setting up tables and chairs for an event, Rosie sitting and reading as per usual and Katie stepping off a bus with a suitcase. Wayne, scrolling down in Dairy, are, are there to meet her. They rushed over to Katie. Wayne grabs his sister's suitcase. And squirrely Dan and Dairy give her a big welcoming hug. It seems like she's just gotten back from somewhere. And then everyone, including the hic, skids and hockey players head over to modines for whatever is happening that night. It turns out what's happening that night is a comedy night called laughter Kenny. Featuring two comics, Alex, and olive played by Ali Pierce and Olivia Stadler respectively. Both our real life comedians and writers on letter Kenny will get to them a little later. Both Alex and olive are from let are from letter Kenny. It turns out they're both Riley and Jonesie's former Billet sisters. And Riley and Jonesie wanna smash them so bad. Riley and Jonesie think funny girls are the best because they're fun to be around even when you're not smashing them because, well, they're funny. Raleigh and Jonesy decide to take a run at their Billet sisters. And then case, this needs to be said, production note, Billet families, are families that take on, take in young hockey players playing away from home. They they basically set up as the parental influence for the young players while they're away from home. A few years from

It's like a host family. We're in exchange.

Yeah. They're basically

We did that. My parents did that for years. I think those are always my parents' favorite kids, by the way.

Of course.

That's why you hate sports now.

So when when, Riley and Jones are talking about Build's sisters, they just mean they're the daughters of the families who who were were watching them. So they're not really sisters.

Question.

Yep.

So Shoresy definitely smashed their mums. Mhmm.

A letter.

So they're from Letter Kenny. Mhmm. So why the fuck are they billoting with families in Letter Kenny? Like, billoting on the road I can get.

Right. Right.

But why the fuck do they have Billett Family in Letterton? At their moms.

Saw a question. Yeah. It's a good question. I don't

know. You're asking your portal type questions. I feel like

Yeah. This is equivalent to where did Wayne get that cheese from? You know? Yeah. And, in the series three.

It's a it's a good question.

What stuff too?

You you can add it to, part two of our interview with Keesa.

Maybe at one point. Maybe at one point of their hockey career, they went somewhere for a little for a year.

Yeah. But the girls are from Letter Kenny. So if they lived in Letter Kenny and they're his their beloved sisters, then

Oh, then I don't.

Yeah. It's a good question. You may you may have found a a flaw in the the much much like Victor's flaw of the three team league in in Shoresy, but, we'll move on. At another table, we learn about where Katie just got back from.

Are you glad to be home from your vacation to Mexico, miss Katie?

Yeah. It's always good to be home.

All I can see you never wore your sunblock.

Well, neither did this guy sub squirrely tan.

Who's your favorite part?

Oh,

doozy. You have a question, Gary. Sun, the beaches, the ocean, surveys, siestas, and the margaritas. It was all like one big beautiful dream. Kinda thinking about a lot since I left.

While you better wear your sunblock, your skin will look like an old saddle bag.

Then we cut to Allian Jonesie who approached their village sisters at the bar.

Alex, All of. Ry guy, Jojo.

Isn't it crazy that we lived in the same house for so long and never like, succumbed to it.

Succumb to it? Yeah.

I think it was

like pretty nutty. We lived in the same house for so long. I never like surrender to it.

To what?

July ten.

Never mind.

Are you guys trying to smash your Billett sisters?

I'm trying to smash my Billett sister.

Yes. Yeah. We, talked back there and we both decided we'd both try to smash our village sisters.

First of all,

no. But second, I'm curious. We lived in the same house and you never took a run of Why now?

We weren't as cocksure at that time of our lives, boys, but I'll

have you know I was

in my bedroom across the hall wailing on it to you, to four times a

day. Yeah.

I wouldn't want you to worry

about that. I was hammering on it to you three to five times a day in the bedroom next to yours.

Three to five, two to four. Yeah, but I was only wailing

on it to you two to four times a day because I was wailing on it's my billet mom, your real mom, one to two times a day.

In addition to hammering on it to you three to five times a day, I was also hammering on it to my bill at mom. You're a real mom one to two times a day. And often an additional

one to two times, it's complicated. My real. Seriously. Thank you.

Back at the Hicks's table, Squirley Dan tells the others that watching the comedy or reminded him of when he did his observational rumors that the talent shows ways back when. Katie reminds Gary that it wasn't such a fond memory for him. And we flashed back to when Dairy got up to do the dance at the talent show and was so nervous he almost choked before the others stepped in to save him. Back to Riley and Jonesy who are still shooting their shot with their billet sisters.

So let's say we, finally succumb.

Dog shit line, Ry guy. At least be funny. When? Always preferably.

And we're funny? Unintentionally.

What's so good about funny guys?

They're still fun to

be around even when you're not thing.

They're just like

That last that last line

was They're not.

Riley and Jonesie realizing that the girls are just like them. Back to the Hicks, squirrely Dan is contemplating taking his observational humors out for another spin, just then Riley and Joanzy joined the Hicks at their table licking their wounds. They heard about, they heard, screwy Dan's idea and they decide they could do stand up comedy too. Katie's skeptical. Jonesy thinks they'd be good at it. Wayne doesn't think so. Then their Billett sisters would think they're funny, and they'll go they'll be able to smash them. Katie tells Riley and Josie that stand up comedy doesn't look easy. But Riley says neither do their village sisters, but that's not going to stop them. The skids join the crowded table. They think Raleigh and Josie should definitely try it. Katie asks them why they don't try it. Stuart says he'd rather be a master of one trade than a jack of all. Oh, what's going on here? Come on. Really?

My job. Yeah.

I just I feel like I'm being edged.

My sound board is

cracked. Here we go.

He'd rather be a master of one trade than a jack of all.

What are you a master of?

Thank you. Hey. Every comedian needs an audience. Every audience needs a heckler.

We should all give it a try.

Hard no.

Oh, come on, good buddies. You like chatting with people at the grocery store, and the banks, and whatnot. Used could be at Cradwerks' comics. Do it. And, miss Katie, he likes to say that skids are.

Reasy.

And then hockey players.

Grab a monkey by the tit if they could.

Used can be as a rough comments.

Do it.

What about me?

No. No. Why? Talentcha.

Darry, besides from the time I seen you singing Beyonce in the car wash, You're not much of a performer.

You get the yips butt. How do

you make people laugh all the time?

Unintentionally. Don't worry, buddy.

I'm totally do that too.

Dairy comedians have to be cool.

And now I'm not cool?

Well, now don't everybody answer all at once.

Poor, dairy looks hurt by this. Then Wayne piles on commenting on how even by his standards, Derry's barn closer, particularly right today. Katie Addson.

Oh, no. He says part particularity.

Particularly ripe to the. Katie adds a wee bit spicy. As for the end, brings the subject back to the comedy saying they'll need a host. They all look over to Alex and all of sitting at the bar, except for Dairy who's still sitting there looking hurt. Seeing three, another musical montage, this time, set to the song, north end life, light life from by the headphone activists. We see everyone working on their stand up routine. Katie, at her laptop, Darry, speaking into an ancient looking recording device, squirrely Dan sitting in his armchair with a notepad. Riley and Jonesie just standing in the middle of the arena parking lot, with their hockey sticks, blades staring, staring blankly into the distance, weighing on his back porch with the puppers sitting in a in quiet thought. They all look like they have fun funny material, scene four cuts of laughter Kenny, laughter Kenny comedy night, Alex and all of our hosting.

Welcome to modine's. I'm Alex, and I'm all in. Some circles may know us as Riley and Jonesy's old Village sisters. Unfortunately, you know, it's such a cliche to hook up with your Villa Brothers, which is why we've never done it. But that didn't stop our old Villa Brothers from trying to hook up with us last weekend. They actually told us that they used to masturbate to us.

Used to.

Hey, Alex. Who do

you go clam digging into?

Oh my god. Norm McDonald's Chris Farley, George our land. Wait. They're all old. It's my daddy issues showing.

Ali introduces the first comic of the evening. The next King of crowd work, Wayne. Wayne takes the stage.

Are you not?

Good. And you?

So, is your beard? Pretty good. Yours?

It's not

too bad.

So if you hold the bottle by the neck there rather than the body, she'll stay cold longer.

Right on.

How's it all been? Pretty good.

He's a good guy.

Oh, he's a

real good guy.

He's a great guy.

Cut to two minutes later. Wayne's wondering if Debbie's still smoking, but she quit when she got pregnant. Wayne finds this amusing because she used to smoke all the time in high school. Hilarious. Cut to another two two minutes later, Wayne talking to someone else about a quad versus side by side vehicle. Stuart has Stewart has had enough heels out. When did the joke start cut to two minutes later again. Wayne is talking to someone else about their friend hitting some loose gravel and almost going into a ditch After another bad joke about car insurance, Wayne stands on stage awkwardly and quiet, then utters the words too much fun. And ends his set by saying, well, we'll talk to you and leaves the stage to a smattering of applause. Alex and all have returned to the stage, about that crowd work? It was actually work for the crowd. Between comics, Dairy goes to the bar for a shot of Gusenbro. Gail comments said, Dairy seems white as a sheet. He says he's fine. Down the bar from Daria guys drinking a puppy. He too is wearing co coveralls. He watches Daria as he takes a shot and returns to his table. The next comic up is squirrely Dan with his observational humor.

Thank you, Alex.

Thank you, Alex. It's great to be here guys. Dad. Does that ever's notice? Never needs to ask your gal if she hungries? She always says, no. So you go as a head, make yourself up a plate? She ends up eating half of it. Kinda makes a fella wonder. Donuts.

Scirley Dan is killing it once again, much the confusion of Alex and all of. During squirley Dan's, set, Daries back at the bar. The guy from down the bar goes up to Dairy and introduces himself as Mickey Jabralter. He's played by Canadian actor Morgan Baddard, known for aura, purgatory Jack, and the boy, and the boy in the woods. Mickey offers his hand for Dairy to shake, but Gary says his palms are pretty sweaty. Mickey says he's pawned worse today and, calls Dairy Super chief. Dairy introduces himself. Making things Dairy could use another shot of Gusenbrue. Derry agrees, but Gail's nowhere to be found. So Mick offers him an extra shot of his. It was for his sister, but she wasn't there. So, Dairy can have it. And they both do the shot. Mick asks Dairy if he's going on stage. He is. Mick says, well, now he's excited. Dairy strikes him as a cool, funny guy. He's going to do great. There he appreciates Mickey's encouraging words. And the background, spoiler Dan is still killing it and steward is heckling him with the when did the joke start? But the crowd is eating squirrely Dan's act up. He gets a rousing applause when he's done. And as squirrely Dan walks off the stage, once again, he comments how easy that was. He doesn't understand why people make such a big deal of it. Next up is Dairy with his act that he calls Letter Kenny Problems. He gets on stage and looks nervous. The crowd braces themselves for Dairy to choke, but Dairy sees Mickey who's giving him encouraging thumbs up. Derek clears his throat and begins.

You seen your ex sweetie holding hands with a guy who kicked your ass one time in high school, and that's just about enough to make you wanna drown yourself in a potted plant. But it's okay because your ex sweetie used to look herself in the mirror every time after she took a poop to see if her tummy was any flatter.

I'm sorry I'm sorry, everybody. She's not coming. I wasn't ready. I kind of pictured a girl looking at herself in the mirror. After when she's laying, Kayla, I'm sorry.

Your second cousin put her toddler in a onesie that said, to snatch and kisses and vice versa. Your third or fourth cousin was the only one left to fuck at the end of night. And when there's no more firewood, sometimes you gotta burn the axe handle.

When did the jump start?

It's funny. This one's actually about you Stewart. You saw a skid one time and put his name wrong in the computer at Bowling, and he always figured that the nickname Stu rat would stick.

I'm surprised it didn't.

The government tried to bust you for switching plates on your four wheelers, and as stuff shirt could suck cold shit through wool socks. Okay. Well, that's gonna do it for me. But like your second cousin always says, liquor before beer, poker in the rear.

Dary's given a standing ovation as he walks off the stage, Wayne and Katie looks super proud. But instead of returning to the Hicks table, Dairy makes his way to the bar where Mickey awaits still laughing and keeping praise on dairy and offering him more beer. Darry's loving the attention. Wayne Katie and Swirley Dan sit back down and look concerned. The next comics to take the stage are Riley and Jonesie. They ask all of analytics to stay on the stage because they wanna practice some funny pickup lines on them. The first few attempts backfire as the girls turn Raleigh and Jonesie's lines against them, but then Raleigh and Jonesie try something different. They try self deprecation, which seems to work.

Hey, girl. If you were small words on a page, you'd be fine print because I can't read you and I'm not even gonna try to understand you.

That a self deprecating humor. Okay?

Hey, girl. My name's Microsoft. Can I crash your place tonight?

He's named after my

I can handle this angle.

Give him some runway.

Let's give him some runway.

You must be a wet suit and I must be the sun because you are tight and I'll make you dry.

Hey, girl. This condom in my pocket's gonna expire tomorrow. Do you wanna help me use Oh, wait. Never mind. It's it's way too big.

Yeah. Wayne, Wayne's set was crack and egg. Cutler called that out. I completely agree. Same kind of, quote, unquote, humor, full circle there with, at the end there. I mean, when we when we start letter Kenny, Wayne wasn't fighting because Angie convinced him that he didn't need to. And now we have not Rosie trying to convince Wayne not to fight, but asking him, is it really that important to you to still be the toughest guy in letter Kenny? And he even said, well, I've heard that before. So something there. Like, again, a kind of a full circle moment there. And, obviously, at the end of Wayne, when he said too much fun. There's a callback to Letter Kenny versus Penny. So I'm loving all this. Like, some of it is is like actual flashbacks, but some of it's just like calling back to previous seasons and, like, yeah, the nostalgic trip that we're gonna be on is gonna be crazy. Okay?

I am a little kid and I am, like, kicking and screaming, don't want this to go. So I I my back is up. My back is up. I know that this is the last season, and we watch the trailers you know, we saw Katie coming off the bus. We didn't have any text to it. We thought she was getting on the bus and we're like, she's leaving. She's going somewhere.

Oh, yeah.

Yeah. That's

right. And we were like, guess, like, it was like autofill. What what's happening in these in these scenes.

Mhmm.

So to hear and to see that she's coming off the bus, and that she had just had a trip. But the whole time watching it, I was like, okay, where is everybody going? How are they gonna end this? And it was just like, I feel like I was pro trying to prepare, but at the same time, trying to hold on to everybody and keep everybody where they should be, where they need to be and and and leave them in a happy place in my mind. And I was getting upset watching it because I was like, okay, who's this new guy?

No.

What are you doing with my dairy? Like, what, like, what what's happening and why are we breaking up the the group? Is that where we're going with this? Cause I don't want the group to break up. Like, I was I feel like I was getting my feelings hurt

Mhmm.

Or very concern over every little thing because I didn't I I've just fear what the end's gonna be and, if they're going to end it where they're all splitting up. You know, I saw Rosie and Wayne and they're talking about, you know, do you have to be the the toughest guy? Her going out to to the dog, to see the dogs. And I'm like, oh my god. She's going to BC. Like, like, everything is just I think that I I just am. I'm I'm pulling a little kid. You know, I don't want anything to change. Yeah. Everybody just say where you are and let's just end this happily. And, this episode isn't lining up for that. It just it got me. And then when I saw Katie do what she did to dairy, I think that's why I got so upset. It was like, no. Like, you know, Gary, you're friends with him. He's gonna get upset with this, and you should know his body language, his behavior, and you should go and have a conversation with him.

Well, so this is episode one of six. Right? So I mean, the the the resolution you're talking about might happen, you know, in five episodes.

Well, and and I I don't know

where this

is. No.

No. No. No. No. No.

No. I'm not giving anything. I

don't think it could be a murderer and Could be. Gary might not get a chance.

I'll talk about Mick like that.

No. No. I'm not giving anything. It's a good guide. There's nothing, there's nothing in my my contact. But that's just how I felt watching this first episode. It's like, know, like, what is happening? And and why is all of this happening?

Sure.

That all being said, you know, the the laughter Kenny was, really funny. I I liked that they did that. Riley and Jones and Jonesie, I thought was hilarious. Them being in unison saying that they used to masturbate to, the girls. That that was an ever reference. And I really wanna hear feedback as to, how how it was delivered. So when the girls said before Katie went up to start roasting. And and that delivery of nowhere in a small town, there's bigger things Like, why was it delivered that way? It was so in unison and deliberately stopped.

That was blatantly a message to anybody who watches this and gets and gets offended easily. And I mean And

like the flat monotone delivery too. It's like this is a line that they have had to drag out previously. And it's the the town line. Right? Like, the party line that they're all gonna tow.

Yeah. Like, they're they're more important things in life to worry about them being offended by a a few jokes is basically them saying to the viewer. And, as the town. Yeah.

Well then

They're they're they're talking Tanya to you, watching Al watch the show for the first time. That that's that's who they're talking. They're they're not talking to the regular viewers. They're talking to the, you know, fly buyers. What's the fuck? For you. Yeah. What the fuck are you watching? Mhmm. They're they're talking to, Matt's poor kid that walked in on on him. That that you know

It's on him to Toronto Mike. Actually.

That was a core memory for him. Okay?

That's gonna be a masturbating memory for him. That's it.

Walking in on your parents.

Okay. Awesome. Initial thoughts.

Oh, okay. So I need to preface this. I have had to really work to separate like, my general malaise and disappointment that twelve is the last series of a letter, Kenny.

Mhmm.

From what I actually think about twelve as a story.

Sure.

Right? So, like, I'm trying to be objective and fair when I evaluate these episodes based on what actually happens on fucking screen.

And also try not to be spoilery, please.

Yeah. No. I definitely try to avoid that. Mhmm. But like so without spoiling anything. The precedent of the letter Kenny is that these episodes are, in fact, quite episodic. Right? Like, they're it's not until we get to, like, series five that they get to be more serial. Like, there's a plot line running through the whole series that drives everything and is addressed in every episode of the series.

Right.

So For me, that's classic letter. K. That is what I like about the show is I like the episodic nature of it. I like that everything returns to the status quo. I like that we're just getting, like, these these moments, these slices of everyday life.

These random days. Yeah.

That is what I like about letter k.

Mhmm.

Right? So twelve is very serial. So you can't everything that we're talking about today in this episode is going to come into play.

Mhmm.

There you can't separate this episode from those that follow.

Right.

So just bear that in mind.

Yeah. But I think, I mean, I mean, Victor hasn't watched ahead and he he can tell. I mean, I think anyone who's who's watched TV knows. Yeah. Think it's pretty easy to see that they're setting up a story here.

Yeah. There were I've said it before and I'll say it again. God lesson. I love the boy, but Jared is not particularly subtle as a writer. And I think that's one of the shows mean virtues. Everything is just right there. You don't have to fucking guess. It is literally in the text. Okay? If there is something going on, you fucking know what's going on. Everything isn't just saying it. It's screaming it at you. So let's go on.

Quickly.

Alright. So when when Katie gets off the bus and the boys are standing there, Wayne immediately launches himself at

her. Mhmm.

And Danny Darier, like, a step behind. And then Wayne grabs up her suitcase because that's he shows rather than tells.

Yep.

I bet you a million dollars Wayne has only ever said the l word, like, maybe twice in his entire life once to his mom and once to Katie, and that's fucking it. Like, he is that type of prick.

Letter Kenny.

Did you say leakage?

Letter Kenny. Is that it? You went with leakage. Leakage. K. Just wanna be clear.

Keep going. Keep going awesome. Don't don't let him just derail you.

Okay, guys.

That point. Okay. My next point, so headphone activist, his, his song in there.

Mhmm.

The classical piece that he samples is Johan Sebastian Bach

Thank you. I couldn't I couldn't name it, but I was like, that's a sample for sure. What a banger.

Good job, Matt.

Yeah. I I like classical music. I'm a I'm a nerd. Yeah. My my next point was that Wayne thinks that the lounge lizard shtick is charming. That's so funny to me. So I wanna talk us a second about, you know, quote unquote, Alex, and Allive's stand up routine. Mhmm. These women are really accomplished stand up comics. I've seen some of their shit, but their characters are doing like the most cliche tropey fucking stand up shit. Yep. And that is definitely a hundred percent on purpose. Like

Sure. Well, they're also tag teaming. Like, you don't Yeah. They're not a team generally. They're they're like

the blatant calling out of, oh, my daddy issues. Nearfner. Yeah. Right? Like,

Yeah. They were w scaled back versus who they are.

Pretty small, if you know what I mean. No. No. No. So it's it's funny to me. Have, like, they They basic their act.

Mhmm.

Right? Like that that is the most you know, stand up one zero one. Everybody goes through that phase when they're first starting out comedy. And then they've got the fucking audacity to look askance at Dan's Act, which I get why it is fucking mystifying, but that's small town shit. Right? It's a hundred percent relatable it's familiar, and that's why it's amusing.

Oh, he's he's got the catch phrase. He's got multiple catch phrases, and and everyone loves that shit. Yeah. So that's For notice.

Yeah. Yeah. Exactly.

Like serious comedians hate catchphrase comedians.

Right. But again, again, their act, Alex and Olives, their act is so cliche. It's like, okay,

whatever.

Ask judgment if you like. So Mick. He comes on so strong. And, like, okay. Matt, yes, everyone needs hypeman. But Nick is so fucking creepy. Like, he is dressed identically. Too dare.

There's some weirdness for sure. Don't get me wrong. But

And once vibes are just off,

and what's with him bumping into Rosie?

I think it was legitimately an accident.

That looked everything everything

he does There is a level of plausible deniability. Every single fucking thing he does. And the fact that it is so ambiguous immediately pings my radar. Right? Like, my antennae are up and they are quivering. And I'm like, This is a man to watch. Yeah. Not in a he's gonna be entertaining kind of way, but in a I need to know where that person is at all times, and they need to never be between me and the fucking exit.

Yeah. Have your suspicions high. I get it, sir. But to to my the only I'll say is we've always talked about Letter Kenny, especially being a caricature of people. So Yeah. Jibril or whatever, he is an exaggerated version of a hype man to me. Yeah. So that didn't throw me completely off knowing Although I completely agree with you're saying Yeah. Didn't throw me completely off because that's the tone of the type of people that enters.

When you go to a resort, you're the one that gets condent to seeing those timeshare property.

I don't see.

No. I

will. No. No. No.

Matt Has anybody ever slipped you a date rape drug?

No.

Because, yeah, that's something like right now.

What? No. No. What I'll say about the the timeshare? Hundred percent. I have been to timeshare, but I am very aware of what I'm doing. And all I'm waiting for is that free shit at the end. Yep. And then a hard nope.

Yep. Yeah.

That's what you convince yourself by halfway through. At least I'm gonna get something out

of it. Well, I lapped it one really quick size. Sorry. I got invited to one of those one time, and they were trying to sell me on shit. This was like, at when I just started my career, I was barely making bank to to even rent an apartment, and they're pushing this shit. I looked at the lady and I laughed. I'm like, are you kidding me? You think I could afford any of this? Give me my vacuum or whatever they're giving me. I'm out of here.

We got free j's tickets for one that we went to.

Oh, yeah.

I was laughing in their face and they were so mad. I'm like, you're insane. You need to do a better vetting job before you bring people in because there's not a chance I can afford even your basic package.

Yeah. So

It's the people that can't afford it are the ones that typically get conned into it, unfortunately.

Yeah. Yeah. In terms of Mickey though, he's exact what Gary needed at that time. But, yeah, you're right. Yeah. He he came on very strong.

And it's like so wrong, it's suspicious. Like, I don't know if it's just, like, twenty something years of hanging out in bars and, like, college campuses and library and having to get to know the warning signs. But for me, Michael Gibraltar was fucking waving more flags than a com more red flags than a communist rally.

Okay? He targeted scary. He targeted him.

He really did.

He targeted. And I'm on like, who is he? Why is he? Why is he doing this? What's it? What's up?

He and it's just He creeps me the fuck out and he did from the first fucking second. Because when remember, when Gary's, like, ordering his first shot of Gus and Bruce from Gailer, Mick is staring right at him. Mhmm. He's like drilling into it. With his eyes.

And it's like

and if Gail's not there, where do you get those two shots?

Well, he he he he explained the shot.

Like front loaded it.

Yeah.

Yeah. He had ordered previously ordered the shots. I don't know if his sister

There's no sister. There's no sister.

Yeah.

I don't know if she's ever gonna show up or whatever. I think he deliberately ordered two shots in order to get at Daryl.

It seemed deliberate.

But there's gonna be a sister in his basement.

Alright. Awesome final point before we move on to ratings.

Oh, god. I have so many more. Okay. So when when Gary, if during his set, Katie and Stewart starts chirping him when did the fucking joke start? Katie smacks him down. Yeah. Katie slaps the table and tells him to not get the fuck off. Mhmm. Right? And her and Wayne were the first ones up and clapping and supporting

her and everything. K. Well, anyway, we'll get to to ratings in a second and and I'll Yeah.

And then and then so alright. When, Wayne Gibraltar bumps into Rosie. Again, plausible deniability, it could have been an accident. Dance floor's credit, whatever. So Wayne's about to haul off and Rosie puts the pause on it.

Mhmm.

And then after that, Wayne looks at Katie to double check. Like, Rosi has made her feelings clear, don't fucking do it. He double checks with Katie to make sure that that's the correct thing. Right? Because, like, if if Katie had said go ahead and get him, he would have done it even though Rosie had said not to. So that's and that's actually not the first time that that's happened.

Didn't, Terry also come in?

Yeah. He's he was the first one to

say Gary. Also came in.

Cool it.

Yeah. So when when Rosie is having the conversation with Wayne by the truck. Minor point and then major point. The fuck pork chop around your neck, Is it not an albatross around your neck?

Yeah. I didn't quite understand the reference. I thought it was just their way to get to board shops eventually I thought he was talking about Portuguese.

I thought he was like Uh-huh.

I thought

it was a Portuguese reference to.

I thought it was like the big dog, the alpha male, the port lady.

Maybe it was a shadow hell.

Oh, it was definitely a shot

at me. So, like, I can imagine, like, okay, in terms to being a big dog, right? Having a pork chop around your neck. That's bait. Right? When you're the best at something, you have a target on your back. Everyone's always gonna come at you. Right? An albatross around your neck though is a burden. Right?

Yep.

It's something that you carry with you that weighs you down. It's it's a bad luck charm. So I don't know which way that was supposed to go. And then The big point, Wayne immediately makes that leap to Angie, like, once burnt twice shy. Right? Mhmm. When she asks him if it's still important, it's okay if it is. But is it still all that important to you? Yeah. Yeah. It fucking is. It has been low these eleven fucking series. Why would that change down? Especially after the note, we ended on in eleven. Right. Yeah. That was It would change because of the eyeballs.

And and that's where I was going from beginning. It would change because they said you know, initially they started out this way, but now they've they've grown and then now they're intelligent. Well, no. You're still the same Mhmm. Mud that you were. You know, eleven seasons ago.

Alright. Let's move on to ratings. You're also be here all night.

One last thing, though.

Okay. Quickly.

Yeah. Quickly quickly. So, Tanya was talking earlier about, like, I don't want this, you know, and feeling like, why are they doing this? And, like, I swear to Christ, in twenty goddamn nineteen, I literally wrote on the subreddit, Jared, you do not have to play with my emotions in order to get me to watch your fucking show. Okay? And that was in reference to, like, the serial cliffhanger endings that we had gotten that were all, like, big, what the fuck is gonna happen? Notes. But Yeah. No. Like, this, because this is the final series, and because you're watching everything with an eye to, like, insulating yourself and protecting yourself from the separation that is going to happen, like, the thing with Katie on the bus. Right? Like, we all thought she was getting on. In reality, she's getting off. But we're all watching it with the perspective that something is going to happen. Like, that you don't need to have any spoilers or anything just to know that because by virtue of the fact that this is the final season.

Yeah. If Dean were

here for yeah.

If Dean were here, he'd say they're playing with tropes, but they're they're they're reversing them. Right? The trope that everyone

leaves it.

They're they're they're subverting the tropes. Yeah.

Yeah. But again, it's like You don't need to jerk me around, to get me to watch your shit. Yeah. I'm gonna watch it. I'm gonna think what I think about it, I'm probably gonna like it because I'm very heavily biased. But, like, I just I don't know. It's narrative misdirection is one thing and I get that. But The advertising around this was such that everything looks like it is ending. And, yes, okay. Again, series twelve, final series.

Yeah. No. I think they're playing with the tropes. I think they're they're playing with our emotions and, but in Jared, we have to trust. Alright. Let's move on.

Sorry. Before you move on, I do have one final question