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Wonder Woman nineteen eighty four is rated PG 13 Wonder Woman nineteen eighty four available to stream on HBO Max for thirty one days from theatrical premiere. My of the holiday season is rapidly approaching, and I was wondering if you had any ideas for what the listeners could maybe get the kids in their lives? Listen, I'm trying to keep my head above water. I don't know if you realize this, but I have four kids.

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That's 50 percent off your first month at Kaixi WIC Dotcom Promo Code Zackham. Welcome back to The Future, I'm your co-host, Daniel Driscol, joined today by Bayside auto enthusiast Mark Goslar. Hello, Mark. Hello, Daniel. You know, I'm not even going to do the pleasantries this time. I'm going to blow right past. And we've got a guest. We've got a big old episode. Let's just get into it. How does that sound? Paul, this is a great episode.

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I'm so excited to see what I did there. I did for my next for our guest. Our guest. Thank you. It's our house. Yes. Yes.

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I'm learning. I'm learning that this isn't just my show, my podcast, my learning. It is, though. But yeah, that's OK. Sure is. Kind of. But it's really not. I mean, honestly, like I the amount of work that goes into this podcast every single week, if I didn't have you, I don't know what I do.

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I wish people could see what was going on before we even like we were just we are like it is there's I guess in the background laughing. Yeah.

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Because he actually saw, you know, he peek behind the curtain and he saw the the tech issues that we have every week and every single day. That's sort of the that's life, the charm behind the show, the guest we keep talking about who's real and a human who exists.

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Rutledge Wood, Rutledge, welcome. We are we are happy to have you with us. And I give you a brief intro. As soon people hear your voice, make sure you're ready. Oh, yeah, of course. Yeah. Hey, thanks for various. Well, if you're not familiar with Rutledge Woods, I keep saying hostas running it just tree, not a forest.

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Stachel come on. I know if you're not familiar with Rutledge Wood. He's one of the host of American Top Gear, former host of NASCAR trackside Netflix. Netflix is the floor is Lava and the American Barbecue Showdown. Roj, I feel like I could go on and I think that's why I was stumbling. I you have a lot of host credits, Southern and Hungarian Cooking Channel Hyperdrive on Netflix. Let's talk about the stuff you cannot find on Wikipedia, your fandom.

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I'm saved by the bell, which is why you're here. It's huge.

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I just want to know, the first time that I met Mark Paul, I think we were at the Toyota Prius celebrity race in Long Beach. And like so many other people, when they meet someone that they've watched for so many years, I had that thing where you immediately you're star struck in its second. Second, you're like, be cool, man. He's just a normal guy. He loves cars. And I can't believe I get to do this with you guys to be friends with Mark Paul and to see this podcast happen, to see the actual you're doing it after Zach Worchester and I like it just is so full circle to amazing to to be on here with you.

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So thanks. What a treat.

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Thank you for joining us. Hey, and Daniel, I know the next question is, is if I did my homework, but not only did I do my homework, but Rutledge has done his homework as well when I called. Why do some people say I call? You would. Yeah, but you seem to call you Woods. I was I kept reading the word hosts.

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I kept reading the word hosts as I was trying to say would, and it messed with my brain.

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I'm sorry, guys, but when I could. But is it OK if I refer to you as a word or two people say rutt or like when most people say Younus.

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I'll be honest, Marquel, you can call me whatever you like.

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You can call me MPLX. I mean, Empey is like what what I usually go for, so. Oh, great MP and Rudd, that that sounds pretty good. That's like my new show, my new podcast.

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I like that. Especially since you're wearing six pairs of headphones. I think we got some we start a musical group. We could really make this happen.

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To give an insight into why he said, I'm wearing six headphones. I had some headphones, technical difficulties this morning and I'm wearing actually my son's headphone for his virtual learning. And so I'm wearing that underneath my other headphones, which would be for my recorder hooked up to my microphone. Yeah. So there's a whole bunch of headphone action going on here. But what I was saying about the homework is that I asked Rut if if he was familiar with his episode.

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Not only is he familiar with this episode, he watched it with his daughters the other night. And I thought that that was a really cool thing because, you know, not too many of our guests take this seriously.

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Oh, my gosh. I think Daschle and I had a chance to talk for a minute before. I'm such a big Sabai fan. Any time that we would have kind of any gap, more like three minutes saved by the bell trivia was something that I really played the board game. And as you probably know, it's a little unfortunate. The board game was always geared more towards the female audience. That didn't stop me from owning it and knowing all the questions.

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But you said you should. You said, as you should know, I have no idea. I've played the board game. I haven't.

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Yeah, no, I haven't it there was there was one in the writers. I think Tracy had one in her office on the reboot like I saw it. But I had never experienced that as a child either. Yeah, no, I've never played it.

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Rose actually you were amazed that I've never watched this. Show completely never. Yeah, that's what we built this whole podcast on, was I've never watched a show in its entirety. I watched this episode, Driver's Education, about two hours before we started this podcast. I make my notes and that's how we do the show.

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You know, it's it's funny. I've seen different actors and actresses in my lifetime and then say things like, oh, I never really watch this, but a lot of times it would be one movie. This show was something that you lived for years and people like that. I lived for years and years because of syndication. I mean, I remember getting up early so I could watch two episodes before school. Then there was a time period where they played them in the afternoon.

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Like, I just I, I developed so many of these things that I saw in the show notes. And in my mind, like when we moved to Georgia, I think I took like a pinch of Zack Morris, a pinch of Ferris Bueller, and then maybe like a little bit of what was the guy who had the locker that was magical in the hallway. It would lead to like the Parker Lewis, Parker, Lewis can't lose.

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I think I gore them right.

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I mean, I think I took all these things in a blender. And when I showed up to start school when I was 15 in tenth grade, I would tell people like, hey, I'm going to be your class president next year. My name's Wood. And I just was this goofy kid from Alabama. And I think I took all of that. Like you were in there with me is like Dick Morris has my back. I got this. I'm going to I'm going to go places and then turned out at work.

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And I was a class president junior year and senior year. So, yeah, this is it's so wild to me that you didn't watch, but I absolutely get it because you lived it every single day and then you heard about it for years, I'm sure until one day you're like, oh, this is part of who I am. It'll always be these memories. And even so, you all reference the other day what Jimmy Fallon being a fan and seeing the way that you guys brought it back there, I don't think there's any chance peacocke show happens without those moments, without someone like that show and Funny or Die.

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So this is just this podcast is tremendous. The stories are awesome.

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I love every minute of it, but I'm always trying to kind of thread the needle here like you were a fan. And then how does that impact your later life? You became a host of multiple television shows, which was like Zach Morris's whole thing at Career Day. So maybe some little egg nestled itself in your brain and attached all these years later. Now you're hosting a dozen TV shows.

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That's that's kind of neat to chew on.

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It totally is. And what was cool is that I think that you saw in this story, to me, it's a little bit like The Simpsons. Every Simpsons you learn something there. There's a moral there is a turning point. And the character of Zach Morris was, I always thought was an inherently good dude. He was, of course, selfish and was really the only person that existed on this planet. But if we look at that character today, the reason I can watch that show with my three daughters is because if you look at like the Instagram stars and the notion of influence and everything else, guess what?

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Those cats don't exist without an archetype like Zach Morris. And he did. He had a good heart. You would do the right thing. It just to so many times it would take him getting ridiculed in loads of trouble and everyone else going, like, seriously, dude, everyone saw you steal the muffin just like it was always that. But it is funny, I think that it definitely helped me and so many other people kind of develop those things.

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Right. I want to take the good things that I see. I don't want to roll those with me, but I think I think a lot of us did that. On that note, we might as well just get into the summary this episode, in case you didn't watch it, because we have so much episode to talk about. So let's just dive right in. It's driver's ed week, Zach, who just gave Kelly a friendship ring, despite her not being sure about going steady, isn't taking this absurd class seriously and is threatened by Slater, who just bought a car to take out Kelly.

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Zach plots to get Slater to flunk driver's ed, but it backfires and results in Slater crashing the school car, giving Kelly a head injury. Screech tells the gang about Zach's plan, so they trick Zach into thinking Kelly has amnesia. So he confesses then when Kelly and Slater are going to take the heat from building, Zach steps up at the last minute and takes his punishment. He fails. The course will try again next year, but wins Kelly's heart.

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And we're in act one just like that. So there's a lot of banter work here I feel like I can contribute to is I don't believe I feel like we're in a good zone here. The banner in the background there says Kapre Club. And I Googled it because I had no idea what a Kapre club is or was. I thought it was interesting. The only club I could find are auto enthusiasts dedicated to the nineteen sixty nine to nineteen eighty seven Ford Capri Cofferati Club exists.

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They're still active on Facebook, even in a pandemic. And but I don't think that's what Pretty Club meant there. I just thought that was thought that was a little neat, tiny tiny thing. It's a nice shout out, I'm not sure that in the Palisades that there could have been a club for crappy Fords at that time, but I highly doubt it.

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Who knows? Who knows? Now, the Capri Club didn't get jumped off to the mid 90s anyways, so. Yeah, Mark, Paul Zak offers a friendship ring. Doesn't seem like he's interested in friendship here. It seems like he wants a little bit more. No, no. I'm a bit concerned by Kelly's reaction. She's like, Zac, we're. Oh, did I just make a Freudian slip there?

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Yeah, I think you did it. How much how much time we got here this week?

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She does like older men. We do. She does. Yes. OK, it's. You made her. Yeah, I get it. You're compensating for her. Correct. But she says, Zac, we're just dating. I'm not ready to go steady with what she literally says. I don't see a ring on this finger as you're like trying to put a ring on this finger. But help me understand that. So she wants to keep her options open, even though we're dating.

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I mean, isn't that like that doesn't seem like a thing you do in high school? I mean, did you have that right where you were in high school?

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And like the women or the girls, they're not women. They're girls would say, I want to keep my options open. This is where we came from, the last episode where we kissed at the prom. And now she wants to I mean, I don't know, I have a problem here outside the prom, right?

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Yeah, yeah, yeah. Well, what a great one. What a great one. Oh, my goodness.

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Well, it's interesting because I also was watching it. I thought, wow, is there a difference? Like, back then I felt like you were going with someone. That's that's what people would say where I was from. Like, Oh, well, you go with me and you're like, go where? No, like, go steady with me. So I thought that was kind of interesting. But then I started laughing. MP Did you ever hear of like a promise ring?

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Were you familiar with those when you were growing up?

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Kind of. I think it was I never gave one or it's no one ever gave me one.

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Oh good. OK, we heard about those from the Jonas Brothers. Really. All right.

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That's right. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

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It was like a weird notion of like one day we're going to be something and maybe it's like one day we'll be engaged. Whatever the thing is, I, I embarrassingly gave someone a promise ring.

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So that turned out for you. Not great. She's our realtor but that's the joy of life. Yeah. Yeah. It turns out it's totally promising a good deal. Yeah sure. Get a big six percent. No it's funny cause that was immediately you're like wow, you give her a ring but then she's like we'll see. And the cash wouldn't she show it when your show in the ring, it just that was brilliant because it's such a good turn for her to be like, do you see the ring?

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I love that part.

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I wonder if Kelly's like, hey, my family is starving. My dad got laid off. Can I, like, take this ringing and my food, please. Like, our lives are melting. You're buying me jewelry. I don't want the ring does produce, say, the iconic shot of us kissing though. That's yes we do. The ring leads. There is a lesson here. Yeah. Even if he has to mull it over whether or not he wants to go study, you're still going to get a big old smooch in the hallway because it is a nice gesture and the crowd goes wild.

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Speaking of mull it over at the moment, that camera goes into the classrooms later and that other dude, it is y'all. It is mullah riffing. Hair was just so big. And what my 12 year old is like, Dad, their hair looks like yours when you have a shower. I was like, OK, that Koslo.

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I've got a little action of that going on right now, but that's for my show. Mixed ish. I still have it like sort of longish in the back short up front. I can't wait till the season is over. I think I'm cutting it.

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Yeah. Just, just shave it all off. Who cares. It's fun. I just wanted to point out though at the twenty minute thirty five second mark usually wait twenty, thirty five remaining. I see what you're, you're counting backwards. Don't, don't question. I said it's confusing, it's confusing for the viewer because twenty, thirty five is like two minutes left when you're twenty thirty five I think. Twenty minutes, thirty five seconds into the episode where you're counting down is twenty, thirty five left in the episode.

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Listen that's all right. I'm just, I'm, I'm just saying it because it's, I want every I want our viewers to.

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Well here's the thing. I'm playing this off of Hulu. I know when if you mouse over the little dot on the thing, it shows whatever we can.

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Look this right over here in the right hand corner. It says twenty, thirty five net negative, twenty three point. OK, you just want me to throw in the negative, I'll throw in the negative. Sure. Please do it. Thank you so much. It means ok. It means the world to me. That's my gift.

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No negative. Twenty, thirty five for the listener, not the viewer. But if you're viewing it on Hulu with us I get it.

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OK, there's a there's a there's a background guy here and he's, he's one of our regulars. But I just want to point out what great background work he is actually doing. He's actually using the locker like a human being. Would not like the the cast has saved by the bell, but he's actually turning the knobs as if there's a. A nation which these locks would lockers should have locks, we've talked about this in the past and then also he's doing great background work because he's open it very softly.

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Do you know why he would have to open it very softly? Well, I do, because if he makes any noise at all, we're gonna have to do this whole scene over again. And lunch is we're 30 behind. So so please do not slam that locker. That's correct. So he opens it, he gets something out of it. He's talking with another background artist. They can't really speak because, again, they can't make noise. So he's probably just moving his mouth to make it look like he's speaking.

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Then he closes his locker, but he doesn't actually close it. He leaves it ajar. You know why he can't close his locker? Because it would make no noise.

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And we're 30 minutes behind when his lunch. Guys, I got to go see my kids places. Amazing background work by this artist. That's why they're called background artists. Artists. Yeah.

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I just want, you know, listening, listening to the podcast and hearing those kind of nuggets or when you're like, oh, this isn't our normal skateboarder. You'll see, I'm I you know, those gyms for ultra fans like me are so awesome, man, to know that depth of it and how much you were interacting, pay attention to everything else. That stuff is huge. And like, wow, I mean, seriously, why everyone was always on the paper.

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That paper was empty twice ever.

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It was hopping also. Wait, there is something I will I mean, I do agree that that's very good background artistry to factor in the fact that we're rolling sound here on this thing. But it is kind of funny that he goes through all the effort to use his lock, then leave his locker open, like maybe this one with a head injury.

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No, no, no. He's actually next to his locker. He just doesn't. He just does. Got it. Yeah. He doesn't close it all the way just to not make sound great work. Yeah. And that's why he is one of our regulars and kept coming back week after week because of this type of, you know, dedication to his work to the crowd. I salute him.

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That's exactly the future official salute for Nameless Locker man. So now we're in the classroom. Yep. Mr. Tuttle is back, played by Jack Anjali's, who we learned from Bennett. One of the writers was just a dude who worked in a I believe it was legal affairs or accounting. He was not an actor. And they just picked him to be one of the teachers and one of the standout teachers. He's great. We love Mr. Tuttle. So welcome back, Jack.

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I love that.

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When you when would it be when you said it's in the drivers driver's ed episode? I was like, oh, Mr. Tuttle, this will be awesome. I knew immediately Mr. Testability was probably my favorite name because it was just so fantastic. But at our high school Baktash High School in City, Georgia, our driver's ed teacher was so similar to Mr. Tuttle that it was kind of weird for all of us. It was coach. We'd Richard. He went by Dick.

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Dick, we did Digweed next week. True story, coach. We was both in shape and humor. So much like Mr. Tuttle, I think I think it really hit home with all of us.

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Isn't it funny you remember the teachers with the funny names? Eitam Mr. Wainer, who is like a slightly portly math teacher, never, never once will let go of the fact that I was taught math for several years by Mr. Weener.

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Funny every time because I I'm a child, so I think that's pretty funny.

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I'm an adult baby. That's why it's funny to me every time. I mean, you can't you can't forget that it sounded like Ed taught you a little bit of driving in the parking lot. Did you ever take a driver's ed class?

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I did. I remember having to take a driver's ed class when I was going through the process of getting my license.

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And then because of the Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach, my first time doing it, I think was a ninety four that sort of sparked my journey into racing cars. And I got into SCCA racing two liter cars. And then I got into a series called the The Barber Dodge Pro Series. And in between my times of being on a track, you know, you just want to see time. And one of the instructors from the Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach, you know, because we train out Willow Springs.

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Sure. He had an advanced driving course for recently acquired teens who had recently acquired their license to feel more comfortable behind a car. These advanced driving lessons would teach them, you know, what to actually do in a skid, not just turn into this. Like, what does that mean? Right. I have to turn into it. We've actually put them in that position and they could see how to to properly get out of a skid or to or to like, you know, parallel park and have the confidence to do that anywhere.

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And I, I because I was trying to look for sea time, I actually was one of his instructors and we would train these kids out in a parking lot in Anaheim like an Angel Stadium or something. And little did they know that the guy sitting next to them as. A driver and instructor was Zack Morris, I had brown hair because I wasn't working, and it was between the time, I think when the show wrapped in ninety four until like 97, 98, something like that, that I would that I would.

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Wow.

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Yeah. Wait, how so. So that's that's insane.

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And did anyone, did anyone ever turn you would be like this is going to sound crazy but are you like did that ever happen. I think it may have happened once or twice but again. Oh my God. Is the show. You know, the show was syndicated in 96.

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And I think that that's when it really took off. Right. If you if you were my age or I don't even know if you watched it on the original Saturday morning.

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You know, when I went to when I did said, OK, so but very few people actually watched it when it aired on Saturday morning. It didn't really take off until after it was in syndication where it would play after school and things like that. So, you know, and I didn't have blonde hair. I probably wore a baseball hat and weren't holding a giant cell phone like Kelly wasn't there.

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It was like there was no context here. Context and understanding is. And also, if I was in that seat as a student, I would take one look and be like, you're you're being your brain is being stupid right now. Just just go through the cones, do the skid turn, whatever it is. I'm like, let's get on with the day. Yeah. You know what it was like?

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It was like a autocross course for these kids. You know, we'd set up all the the cones and things like that and just get them really comfortable behind the wheel. I think it's super important for I mean, I have a 16 year old now. And, you know, once this whole pandemic lifts, I'd really like to take him like Shifta Cardine or go carting them and get him into a car so that he doesn't he's not afraid of the limits of a vehicle, because once you know the limits of vehicle, you don't need to push it and you're also afraid of it.

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But I think that's really important for for for teenagers and people in general to understand, you know, what what a car's limits are and not be afraid of of, you know, getting behind the wheel.

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But OK, let's get back to the show, because there's something interesting in this that that Jesse says Mr. Tuttle asked her what the what the speed limit is.

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And it's fifty five miles an hour.

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And I think I mean, I don't know what it is in Atlanta, but here in Los Angeles, the speed was moved up to sixty five miles an hour on the freeway. I never drive the speed limit and I'm going to throw it out there. I mean, I try to do five miles over, but, you know, I mean, I'm. Do you really is it what's the rule? No, I'm not going to tell you. All right.

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I'll tell you. I'll tell you. Mine, mine mine is mine is nine nine nine nine. And I will I will go.

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I will tell you why. Nine because I got a speeding ticket in high school and something that stood with me in driving school was a a cop was teaching this driving school and he said, you know, almost all the tickets I gave are because someone is ten miles per hour over the speed limit. So if you're nine miles an hour over, I'm probably not going to give you a ticket when you hit my radar. And that that's stuck with me.

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So I will routinely not go more than nine over.

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Yeah, I if I see fifty five, that tells me the bass speed here is sixty five. Say if it's six seventy eighty is going to be the limit of traffic. The funny thing is you don't have to, you're both in California talking about traffic like there's every chance you can really open it up.

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Yeah. Just open it up all the time. Those six seconds when someone is not camped out at that raptor, I'm sure it's flying. But it is funny because we forget that there was that national fifty five mile an hour speed limit probably at the time when that was written. But then it just keeps getting changed.

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And can you imagine driving fifty five miles an hour on a freeway that is that's not painfully slow.

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Yeah, it's dangerous. There were there were people that did it in Atlanta. It's like a college project and they ran on two eighty five and they all did the speed limit. There were six cars wide. Fifty five and people were passing them in the median. I thought they were going to get shot at. It was crazy.

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Sammy Hagar has that. The famous song I Can't Drive fifty five. It was enough of a thing to write a national hit about it. I am convinced that the speed limit fifty five, sixty five, forty five even wherever are all adopted by people who are high. Because I have been a passenger having taken a Gumee or two and I swear to God, no matter what the speed limit is, it could be thirty five.

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That is way too fucking fast for wherever you are at shows like you're in the Millennium Falcon, no matter what, you just my God, the lights are just flying. Yeah, sure. Right. We've all been there. Yeah. Slow down. So you're saying a bunch of people very high are riding the speed limits in America? I would love to, I would love to hear that podcast. I would love to be in the room where a dozen high people are like, it's it's what should we what's the Maple Street like?

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I don't know. Thirty five feels right, but I think I'm going to die when someone's driving it. And here's another thing. I'm a motorcycle riders, so I ride on the streets. I commute on a. Motorcycle, so I split lanes, it's legal here, it's not legal in Atlanta, by the way, when I was filming out there, I rode a motorcycle exclusively for the Trainline split here.

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No, no, no, no, you can't.

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Which is I mean, would just drive me nuts because there's traffic deals with it.

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They have to two fifties here with, like, the towing mirrors. Those guys are just they wouldn't know what to think if they saw you lanes. But in California, it's so normal.

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But the first time you see it, you're also like, who is Evel Knievel running to the front of every traffic light?

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It doesn't make any sense, but it is it's real fun for me as a as a motorcycle rider. I feel safer in the in the split lane as long as you're going.

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I think the the recommended speed limit between, you know, if you're if you're going with traffic is no more than 10 miles an hour faster than the cars around you. You know, I that's what I have in my head. But I feel safer getting to the front of the line, taking off first off of a stoplight. But speaking of weed and driving, when you're on a motorcycle and you're on the freeway and you're in traffic, the amount of people smoking while driving is.

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I mean, you get a contact high if you're on a motorcycle splitting lanes here in L.A., it's actually so bad.

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There's like billboards about there's like an ad campaign about like, please, southern California do not drive as high as we all smell.

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You're driving constantly. And those are also it's funny you say that like there's a lot of senseless marijuana technology. There's all kinds of vaporizers. And you mentioned gummies. These are just the people still like burning like joints in a car that you can. It takes a lot of hard work at rush hour to make the one on one smell like that. And yet there we are every day.

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Johnny Dakota would not have known what to do with that kind of information or he'd love it. Yeah, he'd be very weird.

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I think you're referencing the show, correct? Johnny Dakota.

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Yeah, he's a guy from the show. There's no hope with dope. You know that. It's funny because in this in this in this episode, Slater is the only one who knows how to drive out of all of us. When did you know how to drive?

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But I learned to drive when I was 13 in New Mexico with my grandpa. He taught me how to drive on a dirt road. And clearly, I had watched this show when Screech was wearing the helmet, because when my sister Jenny learned to drive, I wore a helmet in the back seat to be funny. And I'm not sure she has forgiven me yet for that. That probably was probably a little bit damaging. That's a funny studier. This dude's hair, for the record, you see it in the classroom.

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But when he walks by you again, it's I hope his hair had an agent separate from his own talent agent. It was so good.

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This is the max after driver's ed, one of our background artists with just a a luscious main focus.

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Where on that? I mean, is he auditioning for. He's on another show. Did Pirates of the Caribbean I mean, is is he a poet? Just walked over here. What what is going on here? He doesn't go to high school. I'll tell you that. It does not a high school student, at least he's wearing a belt.

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I watched your outfit so many times in this and I thought, I mean, no one all had a waist that was like eight inches wide. Yeah, I don't know. Talk about our get these two stand next to each other. Darcel, correct me if I'm wrong. The pant technology alone there is it's really next level.

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Yeah. There's there's a lot of I would imagine like a lot of elastic going on in there and maybe they just made the fabric smaller at the top. But yet I've been eyeing the pants, too. There's it's certainly a very Kaveri still around. Is that. No, I don't think they are, but I don't think so.

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Absolutely. Also just tracking the fact that is rich in case you couldn't tell, because he bought a ring on a whim. He didn't find it in a box of cereal.

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Zack reveals that his dad drives a Porsche, which Zack expects to drive himself a fully loaded Porsche 911 in the year 1990. That would run you seventy eight thousand dollars or a hundred and fifty five thousand dollars in twenty twenty currency. The Morris family is rich just tracking that. So here's a question for our car expert this week. Zack says, My father is driving a Porsche or a Porsche. I can't tell. But what is what does Zack say?

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Right. And what do you think he says here?

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So this is an interesting thing because and in the show, there's only a couple of times when name brands are mentioned, like Lisa's mom has a Benz that you all wrecked, of course, after a little too much drinking. But we never I don't I don't even think they refer to it as a Mercedes, but they still has the emblem. So I grew up again in growing up in Birmingham, Alabama. There was like two people that owned nine eleven and they were both dentists.

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And so I didn't really see them a lot of times. And it wasn't until I was doing Top Gear that I got the education. I always said Porche. But apparently the E on the end has a sound. So it's actually Porscha is the correct pronunciation. And then I built one. But because I'm a little bit of a redneck, I stuck a GM five hundred and twenty five horse great motor in the back and made it this crazy wide body called innertube.

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And it's still funny because I'm supposed to say Porsche, but I made the Porsche crowd so mad when I built it. But now I kind of you can call it everyone. Of course I tell them it's a beetle with extra cylinders. I really drive this crazy. But I did think it was baller that I think it was baller that you said I was driving my dad's sports. I mean, it was like, man, what did he he was stacking the cash up.

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Yeah.

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I mean, he was selling he was definitely selling some computers in nineteen eighty nine, nineteen ninety back when those things would cost like fifteen grand. Good time to sell a computer.

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What, what was your first car. What did you when you turn sixteen. Do you remember.

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The first car I ever had was the same one I learned to drive and when I was thirteen it was in nineteen eighty one Volkswagen Rabbit pickup diesel for speed with no options, no air conditioning, no radio.

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Wow. That sounds like a great car. It was a car certainly where I still thought it was cool. I wash it every day like I put rainbow window on the back window because I thought that would be fun.

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But you know, a first car is a first car stuff, especially if you believe in your mind, like you've got Zach Morris panache, except you've got screeches wheels. It's a tough it's a tough place to be. But what about you guys?

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Well, we all first got my first car was a Mazda three. It was a gee whiz, I think there was twenty four. And I went to school in Los Angeles with a lot of like the it was a private school. A lot of rich kids in the parking lots were like full of like BMW three series and like there was like a a kind of a crazy world in retrospect to be in, or when my parents very generously were like, we'll help you buy a Mazda three.

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It's a brand new car. It's got a bunch of safety features, which was their big thing.

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And in my head, I'm like, but why?

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But why, Mommy, am I not driving like a German sports car like the other fifty kids I go to school with? It turns out because my parents aren't crazy. Now, with little hindsight, I can say that.

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Yeah, let's see my I, I bought many cars before I actually bought one for myself. How about that. That's a classic Oldsmobile that I bought for my, my parents. It was for me guys. I mean it had a license plate that said for NPG, so I knew it was for me, but I bought it for my dad because that's what you do when you're a child who works in the in the business.

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I think there was a prelude that I once bought. Wasn't for me yet. We're getting to the point where I bought a car for myself. I had a motorcycle before I actually had a car. We talked about this on an earlier show out of our six hundred. And then when I finally bought a car for myself, I had a I think it was a nineteen ninety or ninety one Ford Mustang, GTE Tutone Gray.

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Wow. Cool car, a fox body. Fox told it with the slotted tail light.

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Yeah I believe so, yeah. I was like the slope back kind of right thing with like that little spoiler on the back.

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Yeah. That was actually it was with, with a slotted. That's right. If you look back. Yeah yeah yeah. Oh man man that was. You were. I was, and I felt like I was crushing it, and I know that Mario actually had a convertible, but I wasn't a convertible guy. Like, I like that. What does that called? Just like a hatchback. Is that what they call those or.

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Yeah. Yeah. Because they had the notch back and then they had the hatchback on those. And I'm sure that's what that but that was like that they didn't make it total. Those are cool. And just that car had such a good time with it because Vanilla Ice.

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Remember he he talked about that car 5.0, like everyone was talking five points, you know. And I remember I had a 5.0. I was like, oh, I love the way at it.

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Like, I love the way the the stick shift fell to my hand. It was just I don't know, it just felt loosened.

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And I had a lot of good memories in that car.

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It probably felt like a huge engine connected to that stick shift. That's probably what you were experiencing. Yeah. But, you know, I remember being on this show Saved by the Bell, the one that we're talking about. Yes. It's still on the show. Yeah. But before I got that, that Ford, I was looking through AutoTrader for a Porsche, probably like a nineteen eighty four eighty five C.

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Oh yeah. I remember this vividly, like looking through the AutoTrader and highlighting things. Nowadays kids can just go online and look at pictures. But all that was, was like a description. And then you would have to call, you'd have to find out, you know what I mean. How many cars have you have you bought through that process? Right. Oh, so many.

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I mean, The AutoTrader now is an amazing website. And for the record, if they're listening, would be a great sponsor for this sponsor. But it was a it was a magazine that you would buy at the gas station. And it was yeah, it was amazing because it was kind of like comic book. It was like a comic book for cardboards. And we could sit there and dream about. Yeah, an old 9/11 and see what the price looks good.

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But you could always tell if it did call for price, you knew it was going to be too expensive. So that's still the rule today.

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We look at those as teenage boys, you know, the year 2000 to 2003 as well. We were we got the idea for a three hundred Zhaxi. I was like, well, for this budget, I could probably get one of these, like, crazy Nissen's with, like, removable roof like that. That seems like a good use of my my time in life. Absolutely.

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I will say saved by the bell is pretty lucky with the exception of when we see Slaters Chavel coming up. Could have been a but I can tell from the side. But you know, the only other stuff we had to really do for cars was like nine oh two one. Oh, and let's be honest, when Tiffany ended up over there in a black Acura NSX, my my blue because it's like there's my dream woman in my dream car. What's happening to the world?

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I was a crew. You guys lived it too. That was pretty crazy.

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And just the end the scene in the max. I do a spit take. Yeah. That would never fly nowadays.

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I mean even it's even pre covid. This is disgusting. Usually speed takes you do away from everyone. I give zero fucks here, I do it right down the middle. I spray everyone in my path. I mean if you want to freeze frame it, you know I think it's at negative seventeen twenty.

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When you say it like that it's like, it's a problem for you know, it's just you can look I was just pointing out in case anyone's confused at home but at negative.

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Seventeen twenty eight. Yeah. You could, you could, you could see the look of disgust on my fellow actors and rightly so.

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It is. Oh yeah. I would be disgusted too if anyone did that to me, whether the cameras are on or not.

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And I don't think this is the only I don't think this is the only spit take you do in the serious. For the record, I think it's like just a couple more.

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Visit audible dot com ETF or text ETF to five hundred five hundred. And that takes us into Slater's garage with his his beat up old car here, looking real sad. I kind of wondered how they triggered the license plate frame to fall when Jesse walks by, like I was like, did they use like a magnet? Was there some guy under the car who just, like, let it go? Like, I was there a string. I was it's a tiny, tiny little effect.

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But I did wonder how did they how they do that? I don't know. I mean, it could just be a fishing line. It could be a magnet. You know, the plate is on a magnet and somebody's behind the car and they just give a tug.

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You know what I learned from listening to this podcast? I think the guy's name was Chuck, who was probably in charge of that because it sounds like Ed was was very good friends of the art department. Really. Krushchev, though, you would not have thought this is the same car I think it was. You would know better, but I don't know better.

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But I would assume that this is I don't think they can find two shovels, you know, that look alike. But if I was the owner of this car, I mean, I would flip out, right? I mean, covering it in like rocks and sand, I'd be like, is that going to help? Can we bring this thing back around and repaint it when we're done here? Well, I think that stuff on there, I forget what they call it.

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It's like talc or something or like, yeah, looks like baby powder. They put a couple of extra headlight bezels and then they look like they took the left kind of trim piece from the headlight and just sort of hung it sideways. But boy, I was really excited. You did. And I love what you do for me style Toyota.

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That's what it was. Dashiell, I asked you this before the during the pre show that we don't want to. Yeah, no, I couldn't, I couldn't do it.

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That was like a pre show hanging out where you talk about things before you do.

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We have like just seems like there's points of clarification and plus we just love each other's company so much that honestly an hour plus a week isn't enough. So we, we try to get more time and I get it.

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But going back to that, what was what was the slogan for that for the Toyota thing. Yeah.

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There was that campaign where I love what you do for me, Toyota and people do that. And they had the first one was, oh, what a feeling. Right. And people would jump.

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And it was remember, I just sold the I had a eighty four Toyota bandwagon, that's what they called it. But it always seemed like it was with those where the pickups were, where you would see the people jumping the boats. But I was pretty sure that was what you were channeling there.

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No, that's exactly what I was channeling. So just for the audience, they understand what we're talking about. Zach sees slaters beater of a car and and Slater as Zach, you know what he thinks. And Zach goes, It's everything I hoped it would be. And then he does like this tiny little jump and he goes and more. And so that was in reference to the Toyota. Yeah. The Toyota commercials that we kind of grew up with.

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And I wrote that in my notes. And I asked Dashiell, I said, you do know what that's from. And being the young pup that he is, he had no idea.

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When I saw tiny, tiny pup, I just I just don't Google me, big baby.

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We we babe. You know, to be fair, you missed out on I really think some of the best commercials we've ever had were like mid eighties to to kind of early nineties because they were just technology had only gone so far. We didn't have crazy visual effects yet, like it was kind of just how imaginative we need a little more pizzazz.

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Can someone just just jump up and down and move your legs next to the car and someone's like, yeah, you know, let's try it, let's try the job. And bit like that's one of those things that we remember.

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It's funny because it plays. It plays now, not knowing the context. What you like when more people ask me is like, yeah, I don't I don't know every commercial from the early 90s, like, I think there are some references and say by the bell that are like very clear concrete screeches dressed as Robocop. Got it. Check no questions. And then there's stuff like that. We're just like, oh, that joke feels a little flatter.

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I don't totally like it'll just be it's lost to the ether. So I'm glad we could we could pin it down in this episode. So but this this particular model, this nineteen sixty seven Chevelle, is this a cool car now.

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Oh yeah. It was a cool car to give Slater's character some credit there. It was a pretty cool car back then. It's different because in California there were way more of those than there were where I grew up in Alabama. But to know and I don't know what kind of car products he would have used in this window of time change, would it instantly blink to quote, let's just watch it and now it's super dope. I was impressed. I would, but I don't know if it was Armorel, maybe his mother's.

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But, boy, it sure is. And you got to restore it looks like it's covered in vegetable oil. That thing is just like glistening and is worth noting in that last scene. Real quick, Slater and Jesse's dynamic of like that is still kind of happening of the, you know, sexist back and forth kind of thing and a not so great Mike. Jackson's doctors reference, which is just which seemed early, right, like it was early, not ahead of its time.

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Well, it was it was both early in Michael Jackson's journey of having a lot of surgery and doctors, but also like the you know, we all know how that story ended. So not great. Just going to say it anyway. The car gets the car gets magically restored here. I also had my notes, like, I get there's a rivalry. I get Kelly's on the line. Zack should still be happy. One of his people in his friends circle is getting a car.

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When you were in high school and someone around you gets a car, the whole team gets a car like everyone does one. It's a big it's a big deal. So I thought the way Zack plays this is being so selfish, like he should be. He should be selfish and be like, wow, I'm going to get to do so much more stuff, whatever. That's my own little thought on Zack.

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Yeah, I figured you would you would think that Zack is trash right at that negative fifteen thirty three mark where he gives a time out and basically says natural way to talk about time codes.

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And can I point this out Mark. Paul, I know that you realize that, but I just can't think of another time in history when someone like I'm going to commit my time and my brains to make fun of an entire series. And it was so well received that a group is like we should hire that guy to help us write the new. And the fact that Daniel did that is just it's so cool to me. It's brilliant. You're you're so damn smart and you stop watching it.

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At first. I'm not realize at first it was hard for me to watch it like you're picking apart this show I loved. And then I was like, oh, you're not insulting me. You're just pointing out some really funny things.

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It's also a pretty cool story to look. Anyone could listen to a conversation between two people and say either one is the villain. So, like, it's really about perspective and to pull away. But thank you. I, I do appreciate you coming on and saying I'm very smart. So I DaShawn that's fun for once.

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Was this was this one of the episodes that that was in the trash. Yeah.

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And I think, I think I'm trying to remember, I always try to find like the most salacious headline, but it was like he almost like killed his friend in a car accident. I think I almost killed his like framed his friend for vehicular manslaughter was like it was probably some lunatic lunatic thing like that. But yeah, this did get covered.

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And I enjoyed that. This was this was to correct me if I'm wrong to see Zach and the teacher. They didn't always like they always kind of I feel like the teachers kind of like Zach didn't even sort of spice up the day, but they knew he was a pain in the ass. But this was one of those few times where I really felt like Zach and a teacher like, yeah, we got this.

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He's going he collaborates with Tuttle. Um, we're in act two. That brings us to act do is a we learn Zach is is scheming to to make Slater fail. And yet it's a fun little pair up to see like Tuttle and and Zach link up.

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And I had it also here, like Zach's like all these adults are so easily manipulated, whether it's by a sense of ego or a sense of like like whatever like like Zach has a real skill, but sort of all the kids are beside him just like immediately getting under their skin and in a real way, like, you can do that to adult humans.

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It's called manipulation.

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It's just that usually children aren't so well versed in this area as they are.

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Bassat, I agree. And I I kept thinking that especially for someone that appreciates continuity as much as MP, I feel like if I had been on the cast or crew, I there's a schematic like a felt picture in the background and it looks like a car in the intersection is on fire. But I feel like I would have just moved one or two of the cars every couple of minutes just to see who was paying attention.

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But I think we actually did. You know, when I saw that felt background, I thought something just came into my brain where I feel like we were manipulating those those cars in the background. Yeah. Why we would do that. We've talked about this as well as that. Dennis Haskins really liked his his office to be perfect, his his pencils in the holder.

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Those specifically, they all leaned the same way. Everything that was a character choice.

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And I would always go in there and just mess with them. And that would really irk Dennis. And then it would actually it would translate into working, you know, Mr. Belding. Yeah. But yeah, those are those are things that and there's a guy in the background to the guy that the poet.

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Are we going to call him like I feel like we should call him Mr. Moulay because he was obviously French at French. Like, thank you. That that is that is how you're so good. Patrick Moulay, Patrick Miller. I love it. Oh my God. He sounds exotic. And he got like a Sweezy thing going on here. It's like a Patrick Moulay.

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And I know you have talked about it because it's in the cover art for the podcast. But the artist who created the golf cart in there, it's so good. But I this really hit home for me because when I moved to Georgia, we moved to Peachtree City, which is the land of golf cart drive into town that's built on three golf courses and there's one hundred miles. Golf cart path that connects, so right now at the high school, there's like a three hundred spot golf cart parking lot.

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Whoa, where if you're 15, you can drive a golf cart school.

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So it's OK before you turn 16? Yeah. So it's crazy that it's going to feel like really hit home with my town.

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That's probably way better for the environment. No one. I mean they're all electric, right. Catalina Island is all golf carts. Exactly.

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But also if you're if you're 15 years old, that is prime time real estate to do dumb stuff. So put them in a thing that doesn't go faster than 50 miles an hour. You're still going to have a ball. Driving a golf cart is exhilarating at any age, especially when you don't have a license. I love driving a golf cart. It's fantastic. That's I like that. More 15 year olds and golf carts. I think that's a good initiative.

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Parallel parking, too. I giggled thinking, I don't know if kids are going to really know how to parallel park in 10 years because now so many cars have like a parallel park assist on them. But it was still impressive nonetheless. And the bicycle double date, come on.

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That was a door right in the fuzzy pink fantasy of a Slater and Kelly at the drive in which drive ins, by the way, one of the only like dated technologies and saved by the bell that has made a resurgence in twenty 20. There's not a lot of stuff that we see is like a holdover from an old time or is back, but a drive ins are.

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I put that in my notes to put that in your notes. You're taking notes and doing homework. Holy crap. You're going to host this show. I need this. I need this one.

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I want to be the person with someone when someone calls and cancels like an hour before, I just want to be the first maybe the second person. Mike knows this episode we can clean.

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OK, all right. Also, just worth pointing out here is this is a plot about, you know, Zack and Slater competing over Kelly. This is the last episode in Saved by the Bell where Zack and Slater will rival each other for Kelly's affection. The writers put it to bed after this. This is it. So enjoy it while it lasts, folks. It's a it's it's done.

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Thank God. Thank God. Right. Why are you worried Kelly might look around and start adding some things up?

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I'm like, if she were to add things up, he's like a he's an amazing dude for her. He's got a car. He's he can play the drums, he can dance, he's got muscles, he dresses well. He's well liked by his fellow students. You'll see in the next scene he actually cares for Kelly. Zack is is Zack Zack.

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I mean, now I think I think you've watched my my my Zack Morris is trash about this episode, because I did remember noting that, like, when you get in an accident, it is funny when only one person, one one of the like is like, are you OK? And the other was like, wow, like angry. Like everyone was like, let's get out of here. Yeah. Everyone should be like, are you OK?

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Um, but yeah that what, the way you described him is like a it's like Wayne Campbell and Russell and Wayne's World. It's like suddenly your girlfriend's around this guy who just like categorically a step above and you're like, oh, I better get her away from this.

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So I talk to the writers and I said, hey, do me a favor. Hey, we got to please give it a rest. But that also made room for Slater and Jesse's relationship. And, you know, that's the show, folks. And we're back in the driver's ed class. Zach gives Slater twenty bucks to give him a private lesson, which, you know, why not? I would do that if I'm Slater. I'm sure this this chump wants to give me 20 and I'm going to date his girlfriend.

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Yeah, I'll take it.

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Tell you. Can I ask you a question as a fan here, MP, I've heard you talk about on the podcast kind of how tight this set was and where everything was, where was the bathroom position.

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So the bathroom position, if you're sitting if you're seated in the audience and again, we've talked about this, you know, the north, east, southwest kind of thing. So dead ahead of the audience would be north and that would be the hallway. Just to the left of that would be Mr. Belding's just the left of that would be the max. But if you're in the audience and parallel with you to your left, which would be dead, e would be the bathroom.

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So it'd be right next to where the end of the audience would be, the end of the bleachers and the bleachers. We've said in the other episodes is where we do the movie scenes when we're in the movie theater. But so that would be right to the left of the audience. It wouldn't be your, you know, your forward vision. It would be sort of to the left.

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You couldn't see inside that set because it's a three walled set with, you know, to allow our cameras that there the fourth wall.

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So you wouldn't see that. And sometimes, like, I'm not so sure about this scene because there wasn't a lot of visual effects or anything like that. A lot of these would be pretaped. I'm not sure that this one was pretaped.

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And was the girls bathroom in the boys bathroom the same? They would decorate one thing slightly different.

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Yep. And the the the classroom, like Mr Tuttles classroom for this one would the hallway would be dead center of north. That classroom would be just to the right. And so that would be sort of north northeast if you were, you know, right smack dab in the middle of the audience is interesting because I want to point this out. And the other one we didn't even use like the bigger classroom for Mr Tuttle's driver's ed. That seems like it's a normal size classroom, which is why we probably use the one wheel golf cart.

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Yeah, like there's one wheeled golf carts. You don't see those too often are those like don't they use those sometimes in like on sports fields and things like cart would mean they were, they were earlier in like the first golf carts had.

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Rebels like that, a lot of them had like a center steering because sometimes you'll still see one on the town here, but they had a crazy turning radius, but also they would flip over. And this one doesn't have the little casters that would help you like on the front where you can see like the front of the body comes down and goes underneath you. That's normally where they would have this little wheel like a just in case you don't flip over and die.

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This one did not have that on there, which I was because I'm a nerd. I was like, oh, I wonder if you can get it fast enough to really know. But yeah, it had a crazy turning radius. It was super typedef. That was the same classroom that was used for so many of the other classroom scenes. Right.

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If you use for everything. Yeah. And I'm wondering if that's the reason why we use that single wheel so that we can make those types of crazy types.

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I mean you can totally. Yeah, I'm sure someone brought that up. Yeah. That's a really good point. And also, just to rewind a little bit to that classroom, it is worth noting that would not we've talked a lot about like other driving schools that would not prepare you to be a driver, to be in a classroom, in a golf cart, like nothing they're doing there is actually helpful in the world of operating a motor vehicle. Like it's like and it is funny, as a kid watching this, I did not realize how far away this was from learning to drive.

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I thought this was like I would do this, which also I never took a driver's ed class in a school like we went to a different school. It wasn't like a once a year. If you flunk it, it's gone forever, correct? I mean, insane.

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But just pointing that out before we before we were away from it really felt like as a viewer, if you don't pass driver's ed based at home, I know you're getting a license.

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No way you can get a license in the state of California unless you pass driver's ed a bayside. Just insane. Back in the classroom here, Zack's phone is back in the bathroom, not the classroom. I bathroom classroom, folks. It's all just blurred together here as we close out. Twenty twenty zone has evolved because zone phone will continue to evolve. It gets cooler and smaller as the years go on, like your cell phone in your pocket at home.

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Listener probably, maybe, maybe your phone gets bigger every year. I don't know. But yeah, this is also the last time we saw Zach and Screech committing phone fraud in a bathroom with building was Season one, episode three, The Gift. They did a very similar phone fraud thing to building a tweak on an old.

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Still a good gag and I just couldn't get enough of these. I know you have talked about the high top guns, but the shoes made a real solid appearance again in this one. Do you know what music video these were most famously seen him?

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No, I don't tell me. So this is going to way back it again because I was super stupid. So Axl Rose was wearing a pair in a video call. It is strange when he jumped off this ship and was down in the water and he was rocking those same high top. I don't remember the number because I'm a big I'm a big sneaker guy, so I don't remember what number Konza is, but they weighed like fifteen pounds.

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They look heavy. Which Daschle if you don't know a lot. Yeah. A lot of these ones exactly like NPIs, make them seem like those suckers weighed ton. But yeah, they're in a strange video. So I just couldn't get enough of that style because they weren't for the record, they weren't really that stylish. They didn't totally make sense, but they were also kind of cool at the same time because it just was like the characters look so holy.

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Yeah, you don't have much to do that day except be cool in your big heavy shoes. That's the statement you're you're saying we put those on in the halls of Bayside Zach. Zach brings around this golf cart. He's bad at driving. It's he's he's really stopping and starting this thing around the turns.

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I thought this plan makes no sense. He is like doesn't make any sense. I was going to ask you now I'm just going to say it. He has screech on the phone with Belding to keep him busy until he goes outside and catches like it is. It is crazy in a world of crazy schemes, which is Bayside and we love it. It makes no sense. Don't get it. So what is what is my plan? My plan is to get Belding to go get the keys for the cart, but Slater's going to be in the car, the car.

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That's what's going to get him in trouble.

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That's how I understood it. But what at what point would Slater not just immediately say Zach gave me twenty dollars to like and then it's just my word against your word thing. Like does Zach establish an alibi at the max. I don't know. I don't know how far, but I don't think Zach is ever to put it in car terms. Thinking more than two feet in front of the hood of his vehicle. I don't think he's really like like looking down the road at what's about to happen because it makes no sense.

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It doesn't seem like good plans.

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Well done. Plus, as you pointed out, Father, who would ever learn from watching from the staircase, like, oh, I'll just move four feet over here and you can show me how to be a better driver, right?

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Again. Again, not. Yeah, like, it's just it's just cuckoo bananas. But that's the that's the world we're living in. And here comes Kelly. She's she's late to the volley. All practice three feet away and going to hitch a ride with Slater and this this part also is a little confusing to me because it's like, do I get the way it's shot? I get it. I know what's going on with television, you guys, but it's like Zach distract Slater.

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So he hits a lot like. This is slaters fault. You can say all the stuff you want about, you can say all the things you want about Zack Morris, I will be the first to to admit that person, maybe not the best role model on television, but if you're going to press the pedal of a car, make it go forward, it's on you. At that point, you immediately. It has nothing to do with Zack, is my perspective now, because I watched the episode two hours before we did this podcast.

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I thought that I had rigged the cart to like to not have any brakes or something. And that's why I'm telling Kelly did get out of the car because me too. Slater just crashed when I originally was going to do the the Zack Morris is trash about this episode.

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I originally was like positive in my head that this was he like, cut the brakes, which is like a standard movie device here. Everyone knows about cutting the brakes. But no, it seems more like he distracted Slater and he crashed the car, which is like, again, this is slaters fault.

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Now, I didn't distract Slater. How did I distract Slater?

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Well, you're holding on to your own car, to Kelly. Right. And so immediately as you're watching it, I was like, he's going to pull her arm out.

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That's what I did. And I wrote I said, I almost rip her arm out.

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Yeah, absolutely. So I guess he's trying to, like, say, hey, let go. Obviously, they're in a hurry. You got to go full throttle now on this nineteen seventy four golf cart. So it's going to just take off down the hallway looking over, as you know, on a racetrack. You drive where you look. Right, right. And so he's looking right over his shoulder. Turns right boom goes the dynamite.

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I can't tell right here but I think when they crash at the negative nine thirty one. Yeah.

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You're saying. But now, you know, it's ridiculous. I think we've turned the corner on the field, but I think I think Zach is about to break there. I couldn't I watched, I watched a few times. I'm not sure that I wasn't going to break character at that moment because it's kind of ridiculous. But this is ridiculous.

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They also what you what you saw, Mark Paul, I'm guessing that day out of the corner of your eye was a cameraman. Shake his camera up and down really fast like it would probably look stupid to you then. So you're like you're like Steve's got to shake the camera. That's pretty funny.

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I thought you might be thinking who's got so many loose pieces of paper in a locker as if it's somehow organized. But the moment that it falls, it just it looks like graduation day.

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If only they would have like that. Like that wonderful background artist. Yes. And we talked about it.

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But worth noting, again, Slater is concerned about the well, if you folks if you're listening at home and you get involved in an accident of any kind with a head injury, please, please, please seek some kind of medical treatment or advice beyond if if the person is like, I feel great, definitely go to a doctor and Slater cares and Zach is just like cheese it the feds like we got to get out of here and they run down the hall, obviously never flee an accident that is against the law adversely, though.

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If you're in a minor fender bender, pull the fuck over. Oh, you can. Yeah, he totally forget the saying out loud. Go somewhere safe. There is a whole lane for you to pull over to use it if you can. Obviously, if you're incapacitated or your vehicle, the airbag went off your your radiator. You know, there's fluid everywhere. You stay in your car, wait for help. Don't get out in the middle of a freeway and try to figure this out right now.

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No, not talk to me here. We have this all the time here in L.A. If you're in a minor fender bender, pull over and the rest of the traffic to move through. It doesn't back up the 405 for another two hours just because two people tap bumpers. Right.

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Also safer. Right. It's safer. Like I wouldn't say at the at the core of everything is just safety. If you had a little accident, you've got to get off the road because there's an 18 wheeler that is three quarters of a mile away that doesn't know and they're not going to find out what just happened. So you got to move over. I just was having one of those moments. So I feel like you must have those all the time.

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I'm just listening to Twenty Twenty Me on the podcast with one of my favorite actors ever telling me to get the F off the freeway fender bender.

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Well, I watch this show so many times about drivers, but I just had one of those moments of like what a fantastic life we have this both wait till I break out Ludacris and I start saying, move bitch, get off the road, please.

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Yeah, get out the way. Get down. Here's a weird thing. When I was in driver's ed, when I should have been, I didn't get Ludacris was on the radio in Atlanta as Chris Love Lover. Well, because they didn't think Ludacris was a good name. They're like, mad, stupid. You need to come up something better. We're going to give you Chris Love Belova. So we've just come completely full circle. You would do this thing every day.

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I think it was Tuesday's hot car phone. Check in and people would call in. They be like, yo, what's up? This is called the guy driving that ninety seven Lexus and they'd be like, I know you're going to go that hang out, go to the next car.

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But that was the biggest deal we always try to get. We never heard it. But, yeah, this is just this is magical. You're right. Get out of the way. Like Luda said. Yeah, it's not that hard.

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I want to horn that plays that. That's one of my life goals as a horn player.

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Horn You can get them. You really can't. I met I met Dennis once at a Chiang's in Nashville and I was is when I work for country music television, which was my first job out of college. I did mobile marketing for them. And I remember walking into my friends that I were with, they saw this really funny look on my face and they're like, what's the matter? And I was like, That's Dennis Hanschen. And they were like, what is.

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I don't know what you mean. Like, what's a Dennis Haskins?

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Do you not do you guys not know? The greatest principal of our generation is right over there having lettuce wraps. So I did I worked up the confidence to kind of wave and that I didn't go over until he was done because I was trying not to be a weirdo. And I find that was so great to me. You're going to get a picture. Yeah, that's that was a real moment for me, guys.

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Real well, I think Mr. Haskins is from Chattanooga, Tennessee. How about that? Look at that. How about that? Also enjoyed I enjoyed the dynamic of the vibes here between Mr. Tetlow, Mr. Belding, especially after hearing that Ed said that he kind of felt like as an actor in this series, the this didn't really want anybody else to be like an adult vibe. And I totally cracked up thinking like, oh, well, Dashiell just said he just was like an accountant or wherever he was in the bar.

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But they're like, this guy would be fun on camera and did all of his lines are basically like, I'm coming for you, bro. And this was supposed to be my job. Yeah, it is.

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It is. So we're in act three here and in buildings office with Belding and Tuttle squaring off, not the last time building in total will square off. This is a fun dynamic and say by the bell will return to this bar.

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That is kind of funny to be like, hey, Dennis, like, look, we found another adult who can act.

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He's not even an actor.

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He just crunches numbers. But he's pretty funny, right? I feel like you also have to remember I thought about that one when Ed referenced how there was maybe a little bit of attention or something like Dennis was on Good Morning, Miss Bliss, where the only other starring adult had her name in the title of the show and she was let go, which has got to create a feeling of like long term uncertainty here, like, hey, any time they can just they just swap me out for another one.

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Like I would I would kind of protect my seat also. I would. So I kind of get where maybe he was feeling in that. And I feel like the writers took another swipe at them by, you know, the Mr. Balding joke.

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And there's a back there's a real look of hurt from from Mr. Haskins here, I feel and I don't play it off.

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I love the Daniel knew that the previous reference was to buildings in the same building. One day I got a little callback, but yeah, it's it's crazy to think about because I loved Milo. I thought he was one of my favorite characters on. Good Morning. Well, at least when I saw it as rebranded and saved by the bell. But it's funny, you know, the insight that the Mark Paul gives people who watch the show for those that don't understand, like TV seems awesome and movies and entertainment, all the it's the least secure line of work of all time.

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And to be successful at it is so it's so rare and so crazy. But I can't imagine what it would have been like to see this show today and for us to think like Marvel would end a season. Very cool, guys. I hope we get to do the show again one day. Have no idea. Meanwhile, like it goes on to just grow in infamy and become this cult classic that it has.

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But that's coming from the guy who once bought the whole set on VHS off of eBay and back in the halls of Bayside Building emerges with a, you know, a threat when an adult talks about troubled kids. And yeah, like the thing happens, which happens all the time at Bayside. So I'm getting ahead of myself first. Like, Zack tries to tell Slater he should take the heat for this one and kind of cackles away, but he should take the heat for this one.

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He was in the closet. I agree. I'm OK. I'm I'm the first person to be like, hey, Zac did some things we need to revisit. But I will say this is this is slaters fault. Like it's his accident. That's just what it is. And also there's a Yizhe that be a woman and cook line. Not good. Had that in my notes to be a screech, spilled the beans. Like if I were Zach I'd be giving screech misinformation at this point I'd be seeding him with information for my enemies to discover knowing they would and that would be how I'd win the day every time if I was back.

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I'm not.

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Does make you wonder if Slater wasn't trying to to make nice with Kelley. This dynamic, this whole thing could have been different because it could have been like, oh, I'm going to the gym, I'm late for Bible, I could see, you know, that didn't happen. It was it was Mr. Shilbury, I'll give you a ride on the golf cart, because, let's face it, the gym is three feet away.

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So it's like he was really just trying to get, as Mark Paul put it, a couple more minutes of seat time with Kelly through that and one in the max, you know, for this like. I mean, I think you could hear it, my voice, when I say for this, like this like let's trick Zach into thinking Kelly has amnesia, you know, like, what the hell are these? Can these kids read a book? Can they, like, do some homework for what's really good, really good stuff?

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It jumped out to me the most, the sleeves on that shirt. Was that like a four X? What is that they tucked in and was that the style that I just did because I didn't grow up in California?

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Was that like once thing where I just remember now Patrick Moulay was my stylist. See who he was like he was like, let's take a chance today. It's like a square. It's like wearing a square of fabric on your upper torso, like I drew you when I was five.

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It's just the body.

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It's like the body of this shirt was a medium, but the sleeves were a for X and so it just all together again. I grew up in Alabama, so that's not something we saw there a lot. But I always wondered, like they were telling you guys like, hey, what do you think? Or they would just be like, this is what you're wearing today.

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I really don't remember a lot, but I really don't remember doing wardrobe fittings. That's what we call them, you know, like to try on certain things. Sure. I know that I despise them now. And I think I broke our our wardrobe designer on mixed because I basically flat out told her that I don't get paid as an actor. I get paid to do wardrobe fittings and it's the truth.

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I just look on your eyes when you say this, like, OK, yeah, you just take it.

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I take I feel terrible, but I mean, honestly, I hate trying on clothes. I really do. I just want like just put just put anything on me. I'll make it work and I feel like that. Right. I feel the same way about this particular outfit is that I would just be like it just whatever, whatever. As long as my hair looks good, I'm cool.

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You guys looked cool for the time, like let's face it. And there were some choices that are have age differently. But like the net result was the choices they made with your wardrobe were cool and have stood the test time. Just that those sleeves are absurd. That's a camping tent.

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The rest of it is good for people they don't know, like modern day industry. What would be to say? They will call you. You'll spend thirty minutes on the phone with something like so many people. Tell me, what what do you wear on like a Tuesday? What do you like. Really cool. We're planned. I wear blue jeans and sneakers and they're great. OK, we'll see you on Tuesday and then you show up and it's like Brooks Brothers shoes start shirts from JC Penney and they're khaki slacks that have like lines on the front.

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And you sit there and you're like. But did we have a phone call and then this is everything that I'm not, and then I guess you just try this on for the next four hours for us to not only have you try them on, they have to take photos.

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And I guess they tell you that these photos are going to do higher ups are going to make decisions based on these photos. I've I've had this I never like to look into the camera on these photos.

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I always look to the side.

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I don't you know, you just have these weird quirks that you adopt.

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I don't know why, but this is what I do. But I've had instances where I will take a photo for the wardrobe and I will hear like, well, well, we'll cut we'll flash forward to the episode and say, hey, what happened to that? One thing that I wore that I actually like the go? Well, the producers didn't think you looked very happy in that photo.

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And so they think they didn't they didn't think you wanted to wear. Nick, what are you talking about? Well, you weren't looking at the camera. And, you know, your face has that you know that look that it always has that you're an asshole. And so they did. They just didn't take it. And I'm like, oh, man. So I've asked, you know, a lot of the times and now we have to wear masks during the of fittings, which is great because they can't see that.

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I think you should just be like, that's my new thing now. Well, but I've said like, can you just drop my head out? I mean, when I when I get when I make it really big, you guys, I'm putting this out there now, I will be like, no, I will when I make it this big, I will have somebody who does my wardrobe fittings for me. Got it.

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OK, that sounds like a good that's a good thing, isn't it. Like the Rock's like cousin is his stunt double. Like you might not want to just throw the work around like that. Like, yeah buddy. Like you're my friend. We're the same height. Try on these blue jeans and smile and just just just throw it out there. I feel so fortunate to be able to be in this business doing the things that I get to do.

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Super gracious. There's only one or two things that I just can't stand. And one of them is being wardrobe fittings. And maybe the other one is is a thing they call ADR. I don't really know what that stands for Audible Dialogue Dialogue.

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That's probably direct replacement better because you're not always Eyring and see how this would go full circle.

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Full circle would be if a background or someone on the crew would make a noise on my line, I'd have to go to ADR to sort of insert that specific line or word and in the same feeling it's in a studio.

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It's it's all right.

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You have to match it with the beeps they play the scene or the that that specific line on screen. And then there's these beeps and they go, beep, beep, beep. And on that, you know, invisible fourth beep, you say the word and you're supposed to match it with your lips. And it's a real art. I actually am pretty good at it, but it's something that no one wants to go do, right? You never you never go like, oh goody, I get to go to ADR.

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Yeah, it doesn't stand for awesome day recording.

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Hey, no, there should be waterslides and popsicles and gumiho. We should, we should point out because I am the reason I want to bring to life that is a lot of people don't understand what is the only thing that's more awkward than people like you or I. Doing a wardrobe fitting is that some sweet person has to go and shop for us and that is a whole like that dynamic. I can't imagine how difficult it is for wardrobe because especially on a show like this, when you've got these these teenage actors who are all at different points of development and their style and their vibes and everything else, and you're trying to be like cutting edge and cool.

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I like the Zik averages alone. Like we did not I had never heard of those before watching this show and seeing them take off. Those people need so much credit for what it takes to do that for one person, let alone a whole show on a whole high school.

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We just have shouted out to reboot a couple of times. The kids in the reboot are dressed like phenomenally well and the wardrobe is all incredible from like the stars to the background. So, like, when you do it right, it looks next level absolutely. Anywhere in the max. And they yeah, the plan works. They trick Zach into confessing because he thinks she has amnesia. Don't think about that one too long. We could be here all day, but it means nothing because then they're they're back at Bayside and Zach is like not going to confess like a confession doesn't mean anything if you tell your friends you murder the guy.

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But when the cops show up, you're like whistling and don't make eye contact like that means it's weird.

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He was dead the whole time thing. They can't.

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Zach, Zach says a version of something we used to say when I was in high school, which is not true, which is they can't get us all in trouble. They can they can get all of you in trouble at any time if they really want. It's not a big deal. They can do. They really can. Whoever they is to you, any it takes Kelly and Slater standing up to confess before Zach does the right thing. So you know what?

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You were kind of talking about the beginning. It's like he does do the right thing, it's just boy, does a lot have to transpire to get to that. Yes, it really does. Plus, Dustin's character gets called Tom Cruise. Next, better than anyone's captain, even though it's fake amnesia.

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I still appreciate that the Tom Cruise references here and saved by the bell is Tom Cruise and really, by the way, still very famous. So he he's stood the test of time just like just like drive ins, apparently. I also like Slater's delivery on I was in the seat. I'll take the heat. Felt very cool. Cool. Right. Not as cool as the the dude with the hair actually still revving up.

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And to be fair, the to person through the door gag made me laugh out loud because it just is so sometimes the low hanging fruit that might just be the sweetest. It just was so stupid. We totally did come through the door together.

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I just they're just, they're lying. They're like vying for each other's spots. It is it is funny. And knowing what I know about how Dennis thought about adults on his set of kids, that is funny that they're like they created a little tension between them in a demented way. This is the idea of a romantic gesture, and I mentioned it earlier, but like Kelly's moved by it, they do deserve each other, not in a negative pejorative kind of.

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You deserve each other way. It's like, no, they've like their they're synched up. They're they're they're drinking the same brand of crazy.

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I like that he gave the wait for me like you're going off to prison for ten years. Yeah.

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I mean he's going off to be he apparently can't drive for a year because this is the DMV is where they go to school.

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That's right. You're in big trouble. Wait for me.

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Wait for me. I thought that was so funny. But they love each other. Are they high school. Love each other. They like like each other. She's moved by Zach's complete lunacy, which may have injured her. She still hasn't been to a doctor. If you're keeping score and thank goodness I carry that friendship ring wherever I go so that in cases like this, I can just pop it back on her finger. Oh, I would would guess Zach has a deal with someone in Chinatown where he got like thirteen of those things for a bargain and just he has one in each pair of pants and he's just like ready to go at all times.

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Absolutely. And again, it's fun to see even though he's mad, there's there was a head injury. We stole the car lockers were wrecked. There's still a lot of crime. There's still the like. Well, this this is Zack Morris. He's my guy. No, seriously, I know we're going to the office now. We're leaving right now. Get over here. I still I just couldn't get enough of what an episode.

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What a great, great episode. You know, we talk a lot about these episodes. It's kind of mostly what we do around here. But this is a great one. And I'm glad we got to spend so much time on it. And and what a great guest. But I'm telling you, if I can call you right, I really think you you brought a lot to the table here today. And I. I see why you hosted thirty seven shows at the same time.

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And we're all very we're all very happy for you. Your success.

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I have a I have a question for you. Your show on Netflix, the barbecue show was did they come to you or did you come to like what was the process? Are you a big barbecue guy? Are you a green egg kind of guy?

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I grew up as a toad in Alabama. My dad was always really into cooking and he always wanted to open a barbecue restaurant. And he did about eight years ago and little town called Soniya, Georgia, where they shoot The Walking Dead. So it really has been great. It's called Katie Lewis Cafe. It's named after our two oldest daughters. But what happened was I did a show for Netflix called Hyperdrive, which is like Top Gear that I used to do, meet American Ninja Warrior and everybody put their own car on the line, go through these crazy racetracks.

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And so while we were doing that, they came and said, hey, do you want to do something else worse? I said, Yeah, of course. And they said, well, what kind of what kind of ideas do you want to talk about? And I just on this show Southern in Hungary, my buddy guy, he produced and it was my friend Damaris Phillips and I kind of driving around the south eating good food, which is also, by the way, like a good way to gain like fifteen pounds each and just eat stuff all day.

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It just it's not good for you at all. We just started running, jogging back to the hotel when we were done at the end of the day. But we wanted to make a show that could show the idea of competition shows are so kind of dried up to me and hackey. And it's well, this person said this. It's all this kind of fake drama. American Barbecue Showdown put eight contestants from all over the US together, gave them these incredible tools.

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We shot it here in Georgia. And it was just really it was a beautifully done show, like visually stunning. But the people were awesome and they all help each other. They wanted each other to succeed. And I think we shot this last year, September of twenty nineteen. So it came out this summer and especially this year. You know, so many of us, we're just missing that connection and love and friendship that we all need. And so it was.

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Really cool to watch this show, find an audience and people go, oh, my gosh, these people are they're passionate about food, they love cooking, but also like they love people. And that's kind of always been, for me, that sort of glue that holds all these different projects together. But, man, delicious.

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I've told you this. It's my cue. And as soon as I finish the last season of Killing Eve, I'm moving on to your show. But will I learn things like will I learn like when I have to make ribs? Is it better to put them in foil for that last two hours or is it better to put it in butcher paper for the last two? I like will I learn things? Absolutely.

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Yeah, you totally will. And what's cool is that we have lyrically this for maybe bio's, my co-host. And then we had Kevin Bloodstone, Melissa Cookstown, who are barbeque legends. Bledsoe's out in Compton and he's got one in Texas to make his stuff is so good. But he and Melissa are so different and they're kind of sides of the world. Kevin is like, let's kick back, we'll get the smoker going. Pour me a little Hennesy.

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We're having a good time. Melissa is like the smoke queen with her Mississippi drawl. And it's it just is really fun, the stuff that they teach you. But you're learning about these incredible people along the way. I went to the University of Georgia and there is a former UGA football player named Rasheed Phillips who's on the show. And Rasheed just loves he loves barbecue. He loves cooking. And at the time he was in, I think it for Apple.

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And two weeks after the show, he quits and starts doing barbecue full time. And so when you can see something like that have this effect in people's lives or they go, oh, my gosh, this is the thing I've always wanted to do, I'm going to go do that. It's it's really special to be a part of something like that, especially in the same summer that I got to do floor is lava. We shot that after American barbecue showdown.

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And so we did. We shot it before and they er they were trying to kind of go back and forth and figure out what's going on er and so they er it and we had thirty seven million viewers in the first month and I don't know if everything I've ever done, you could add it up cumulatively to get half of that is the craziest thing. And it's all over the world and it's this crazy game show that doesn't have anything to do with everything.

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But they built it up. It's like, oh if, if you win you're going to get a chance to meet me. And it's we're, of course, being satirical, but there are a bunch of people like who the hell that guy like was. So that's why I have I know people can see it, but I have these gigantic paintings of me behind me that were on the set of floors lava. So I just can't say that I wouldn't be here truly.

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I think without this show, without you doing what you did and being able truly to watch your success over the years and your tenacity to always dig to to fight for the roles that you wanted. Man, it's so cool to know that to be one of your buddies and to see that when I got to see you at the celebrity race or at CMA any other times, you've got to hang out. You are as genuine and as kind as they come.

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I've been able to call you before and ask for advice, and there's just not a lot of people out there in the world like you. But to see how you can take a person like Gasol is brilliant and as funny as he is and say you were somebody that we need to work together, we need to go make this thing happen. What a treat, man. Thank you guys for having me. This is just I can't say it enough.

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I love you guys is awesome. Thank you.

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So we can't thank you. And you know that you always have an open door to the show to to me, to Dashiell now. Right.

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I mean, you're not to be a guest, but not to be a full replacement co-host because that would be insane. No one's opening that door and your schedule.

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So, Mark Paul, his schedule is so busy. It's like I just I think we have a good thing. I know I tripped over the intro a bit, but I can get better, I promise. And, you know, we'd love to have you back soon.

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Your name is in the artwork and it's are very small and replaceable.

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Yeah. OK, well, thank you so much for joining us, Mark. Paul, thank you for being here, per usual. Thank you, the listener, for listening. Next week's homework is called House Party by Paul. I think, you know, this episode called a hunch. It's the one where we do like the the little thing in our tank tops our brand.

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We are non Scott Gale musical performance of Barbara Ann, which I would love to learn more about how they license that one and landed on that is like what the teens were bopping around to in ninety nine.

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And it's all about a Elvis statue. Yes, I know this Elvis gets mentioned in this episode, but it happened so quick. Wasn't even worth getting into. But he did. He'll be back next week. The king will return. Thank you folks.

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We'll see you. Oh no wait. We won't see you next week. Oh my God. We won't be back until the new year. I just realized. So be safe. I have a wonderful into your year and we'll see you in the New Year. Zach to the Future is a production of Caden's Thirteen. It's executive produced by Michael Goslar. Myself and Chris Kaufman. Production in. Direction led by Terrence Malinga own editing and mastering by Andy Jesuit's, engineering and production coordination by Sean Cherry, artwork by Kurt Courtney with illustrations by Jeff MacCarthy.

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