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Ep14 - Ethan is an Apostate of the Brexit Bus
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Brandon:Hello and welcome to tangent. I'm Brandon illzley and I'm joined by the lovely that was that was very fine and that was what big hello.
Ethan:Yeah, everyone should be wake for this.
Brandon:Yes, I'm Ethan Lee there you are, and if you haven't listened to this podcast before, the whole point is that we just get a random word or phrase and in disgust said word or phrase seeing what tangents we go on. As always, you can find us in all the places you can listen to a podcast, and that's at tangentbuzzbackcom, and if you'd like to submit some prompts of your own, you can do so by emailing us at tangentpodcastideas at gmailcom, or just go to the instagram, drop us a little message which is at going underscore on a underscore tangent. Send us a little message and and we'll see what happens. But anyway, how are you Ethan?
Ethan:yeah, yeah, I'm doing. I'm doing all right, as of two days ago, I was accepted to equity, which means I am now a unionized actor union, unionized, unionized.
Brandon:I've done what all the amazon workers could not well, I mean, as we've seen in America, unionized actors definitely just doesn't mean shit. Apparently they will still dangle you from strings yeah, but that's, that's. America, but good career move. I'm proud of you, buddy.
Ethan:Well done yeah, that's the. That's the land where I found out the other day. Uh, america sometimes uncancells flights. You know how, like when your flight's cancelled and you're not going on it anymore. Sometimes they'll uncancel the flight and then you don't get your money back if you don't get the flight what that's fucking nuts. Anyway, though, how are you doing, brandon?
Brandon:I was fine and I found out America just steals your money. Well, I kind of knew that no, yeah, no did you not know that before? No, I did. I didn't want to believe it.
Ethan:You said um yeah, yeah, yeah, I wait, hang on, hang on, set again oh, and for everyone at home.
Brandon:All right, all right, shush, shush. Now let's stop cease, ethan. Thank you for everyone at home. Ethan's got a brand new soundboard so that you might hear some random sounds.
Ethan:I'm I'm very, I'm very interested in my new soundboard. I'm hoping that comes through. That might not. I can't see it recording onto any audio track if it doesn't funny.
Brandon:I'm gonna.
Ethan:I'm just gonna put in. I'll put in a different, a different thing every so much fun.
Brandon:If it's just dead silent, it's just me going ow, anyway, anyway, yeah, I'm fine. I'm fine not been doing much, mate, not been doing much much. Um, I applied for some more jobs outside of that's caught me, so off guard After I say that as well yeah, fuck off mate, yeah, no.
Ethan:I really hope these sound effects are included, otherwise I'm going to have to go and find a drum and a piano sound effect.
Brandon:And a drum that's like half a second long as well.
Ethan:Yeah.
Brandon:My favourite. Anyway, yeah, no, no. So I'm good. I'm good. I've sort of just been. I had a day off again, so Chid and Max and Relaxin when I can, where I can, where I can. I have been thinking I need to actually contact our mutual friend, mr Benjamin Payne, because I've bought myself some new models and stuff, so I need to get in contact with him about organising a Warhammer thingy.
Ethan:You should do it at his house and then invite me, because I just quite like to watch. Actually, I still, to this date, have his Warhammer book. Wait what?
Brandon:You've got a Warhammer book. Oh yeah, you told me this. You told me this.
Ethan:Yeah, I'm pretty sure we said this last episode. But yeah, ben lent me a Warhammer book. I've accidentally kept it, but I'm giving it back to him next time I see him, because I was giving it back to him the last time I saw him. Then I left it in my car and forgot to give it back to him.
Brandon:Well, that's what they all say, yeah.
Ethan:Yeah, I've got a couple of games. I have gotten him into an amazing game called Cookie Clicker.
Brandon:though what's Cookie?
Ethan:Clicker Ethan Was that. I can't tell if that was just, you were like fuck this, or if you just genuinely don't know what Cookie Clicker is.
Brandon:First off, I don't know what it is, but also it's layered with a hint of what the fuck is this now.
Ethan:Cookie Clicker is a game where there's a cookie on screen and you click it and it gives you a cookie and then, if you get 15 cookies, you can buy a cursor that clicks for you and that cursor will click for you. It's a fucking like do nothing game. It's the original do nothing game, adventure, capitalist copied Cookie Clicker for the record. But Cookie Clicker is the most in depth one Because I'll have you know, right now I am baking, between all of my curses, my farms, my cookie mines, my factories, my banks the banks generate cookies from interest my fractal engines, my antimatter condensers. I'm currently baking quadrillions of cookies.
Brandon:A second Quadrillions of cookies. A second, yes.
Ethan:And this is all whilst the Grand Marpochalypse is happening, and this is with the help of Cromlaw, the Cookie Dragon, who I do sacrifice buildings to to give me various auras that help my cookie baking. There is also there's a stock market, so I get to feel like a finance pro whilst I'm playing this game. So you know, these are the cookie stocks. The Grand Marpochalypse happens when you buy a bingo facility that also doubles up as a research centre, and then eventually there's an upgrade called one mind that you buy and that means that the Grand Marpochalypse will hive mind. And then there are these things called wrinkleers that attach themselves to your cookies and they like suck up cookies.
Brandon:Yeah, stop talking, they get more cookies when you stop. Oh God, oh no, wow, oh, oh, it's a prompt. Okay, conveniently, time to shut you the fuck up. Uh, today's we will talk more about cookie-cook, I'm sure. So today's prompt is Well, I say prompt, it's not actually the stuff. First phrase yes, should Star Wars have more sequels? Hmm Is that from Brandon. It's from our friend Jack Lauder. Thank you very much. Loader, loader, loader.
Ethan:Who knows? It's an eternal mystery.
Brandon:Yeah, I think this is going to be a very short podcast. Yeah, no, no, they shouldn't.
Ethan:No.
Brandon:We're done. Thanks, Disney, for everything you've done.
Ethan:Anyway, so if you like this podcast, no.
Brandon:Well, I mean, it can lead on to a good debate to fit. No, I don't think we should have any more movie sequels. No, I think what Disney are doing with some of the shows is good, and I say some. I haven't seen a Soka. I know, shoot me, I need to watch it.
Ethan:Yeah, I would have thought you would have seen a Soka with all people.
Brandon:Yeah, I've been doing it. Instead, I've just been watching, rewatching Smallville. So what's Smallville? What's Smallville? Smallville my son is a show that aired in 2001,. Went for 10 seasons. It is about Clark Kent growing up in Smallville before he became a Superman.
Ethan:Wait, is it canonically called Smallville?
Brandon:Yes because, he grows up in Smallville.
Ethan:This makes me feel significantly better about every place name that I've ever generated for any fantasy thing ever.
Brandon:Yes, Wait, are you place names around like everywhere. I just crap. Like they're just awful, Like they're just. They're usually just what's here. It's called this now. Yes, that's usually what it is.
Ethan:With the exception of the Algarve Southern Portuguese town, monte Gordo, which means Fat Mountain, which is in a valley.
Brandon:Well, I'm sure there's fat mountains around it.
Ethan:No, the mountains are pretty thin.
Brandon:I Sure, anyway, sure, if you, you're like a cover model, you're like a cover model mountain, you're like a skinny Um, um, but no, yes. So Smallville's, yes, smallville's. It was a show that run for 10 years. It's very, it's very famous. It was very well received. It went for a long time. Um, I watched it like as a child, because it was like on Channel 4 or something, every now and then, and then, as I got older, it was just something that I was very nostalgic for me, and then I went back and watched it and I've been rewatching it Like this is my third run through of it. Um, yeah, how many episodes does it have.
Brandon:Well, it's 10 seasons of 22 episodes a piece, 45. It's old school show, it's when shows had to have like episodes and like, yeah, it's very like it, it, it, yeah, it's really good For the time. It was really good as well, you have to remember like 2001. But if you look at it now, if you watch some of the like, obviously some of the CGI and shit and and obviously it's like CW, like contrived drama in some places, but again, I think I think it's, you know, nostalgia and I think I think it's a fun watch anyway. Um, but anyway, star Wars, for one topic to another, uh, yeah, I haven't watched it. I liked the Mandalorian, I did everyone.
Ethan:Yes, the.
Brandon:Mandalorian was nice. I haven't booked a Boba Fett in Reddivant, Um and obviously most of the animated shows are good as well.
Ethan:The weird thing with with Book of Boba Fett is that Boba Fett right. It raffles me because he is, for all of Star Wars, a villain and pretty chill with being a villain. So why the fuck, when he gets his own show, does he go? No, I'm going to be the good guy now. I'm done with being a bouncy hunter, but I'm still a bouncy hunter. But I'm done with being an evil one. I'm a good one now.
Brandon:Well, he's not a bounty hunter anymore. That's the point. He becomes the new Jabba the Hutt. He becomes the new crime lord.
Ethan:So he's not even a good guy. He isn't, though, because he's. He's like I'm going to treat these people right.
Brandon:I'm gonna he's a good crime, lord. He's one of the good ones.
Ethan:That doesn't exist.
Brandon:That's not a thing. That isn't what I thought you were gonna say about it either. I thought you were gonna say why does the book of Boba Fett, why in the series called the book of Boba Fett have? Why does its best episodes consist of not having Boba Fett in it? Why are its best episodes about the Mandalorian? And also why?
Ethan:does no episode have a book?
Brandon:Why is no one even reading a story?
Ethan:Yeah, Like why is it okay, Brandon? Do you actually know this? Why is it called the book of Boba Fett?
Brandon:I don't know why it's called the book of Boba Fett.
Ethan:I know I'm gonna search this Because I'm keep talking, keep talking.
Brandon:No, but I was going to, but no, I agree. I agree that they should have first off right, first off, first off. Let's start from the beginning of for the story of Boba Fett. For the rate for the people who haven't watched Star Wars nor care about it, boba Fett is about the galaxy Now in.
Brandon:He appears in two of the Star Wars movies and has, I think, a total of two lines for the two Star Wars movies he's in, and I'm not even kidding you, I think it's like he's no good to me, dead and what's the other one? What's the other one he gets? Is it like load him up onto the cargo thing or something? I don't know, I'm not even gonna lie, maybe it's three. Anyway, but from this he becomes one of the most idealized people in the canon of Star Wars. People loved him. He was just a cool fucking guy. And then he dies.
Brandon:In the next film in quotation marks dies. He gets eaten by the Starlack Pit and if you say this is a spoiler, grow up, it came out in the 80s. He gets thrown in a Starlack Pit and he's, for all intents and purposes, dead. And then in the expanded canon he comes back. And then they did when Disney bought Star Wars and they took all of the really good expanded canon that people had written over the last 30 years and threw it all the way, they still decided to bring him back. Yeah, but this time in a lame away. And yeah, now he's. Now he becomes like the Sam people, the Tuscan raiders, and then he becomes a good guy. Ethan, I can tell you're itching with excitement to tell me why it's called the Book of Bob of Thet.
Ethan:I've been staring at this trying to stifle a laugh for that entire thing. Right, you want to know why it's called the Book of Bob of Thet why it's a good book of Bob of Thet. So, Brandon, you know the Bible.
Brandon:I've heard of it yeah.
Ethan:So you know how the Bible has books in it, like the Book of Job and stuff like that which specifically relates to a single person. This is the Bob of Bob of Thet the Bob.
Brandon:Did I say the Bob, the Bob of Thet, as is what you said. What?
Ethan:the fuck is up with me. This is the Book of Bob of Thet in the Bible of the Mandalore.
Brandon:Wow, wow, what's this?
Ethan:Everyone on this is going like I like it. Yeah, that makes sense, I like it, it doesn't make sense. And then one person going because the Mandalorian was already taken.
Brandon:Yeah, pretty much.
Ethan:Oh my God, that's fucking hilarious.
Brandon:Do you want to know why it makes sense? Do you want to know what the most thing about it makes sense is? It explains why the Mandalorians in it more than Bob of Thet yes, that's all that does. It's like New Testament, fucking Bible, where Jesus is in it more than the Apostates are Right. Yes, I think that's right anyway.
Ethan:I think it's yeah I.
Brandon:Apostate, whatever they're called, the followers of Jesus, people who wrote the fucking book, right, apostle. Apostle, apostate's a word for something. Okay, let me get a definition. It's something to do with the Bible. Maybe it's like the people who turned against him or some it.
Ethan:Yes, actually, you're completely correct. An apostate is a person who renounces a religious or political belief or principle.
Brandon:Oh shit, yes, I'm a.
Ethan:So, yeah. For example, all of the people who were on that Brexit bus, who were then apostates of Brexit.
Brandon:I don't think Brexit could be classed as a religious ideal.
Ethan:No, no, it's political view or belief as well.
Brandon:Oh, is it? Oh, is it really?
Ethan:Yeah, so it doesn't have to just be religious, it's political view as well. Oh so yeah, they are apostates of the Brexit bus, that big red one.
Brandon:The apostates of the Brexit bus. That's Random.
Ethan:I think we should have an arrow. That's so tight.
Brandon:That's my bad name. That's my new bad name the apostates of the Brexit bus.
Ethan:Oh, that's very funny.
Brandon:That's so good. We need to. That's our new merch, did you?
Ethan:get an.
Brandon:Israel, it's I'm the apostate of the Brexit bus. That's in the Book of Boris. What do you have?
Ethan:You have the Book of Nigel, which Nigel is just Judas.
Brandon:Nigel is like Nigel is like a character in the Book of Boris.
Ethan:Yeah, okay. Yeah, Nigel is a character in the Book of Boris. The Book of Boris follows You've got the. Book of Cameron.
Brandon:You've got the Book of Cameron. Yes, the short stories of Theresa May.
Ethan:The Book of Boris, and then after that you have the shortest of all the books, so short that I've actually forgotten her name. What? Who was the Prime Minister? That was like, oh, what? Like a week? Yeah, I've actually forgotten her name.
Brandon:What the hell, oh my God, I can't find it. I actually can't find it. Prime Minister for a week, britain Recently. No, that's Rishi Sooner. I know who. Our comment one is Liz.
Ethan:Trust, liz, trust there you go Liz Elizabeth Trust. That's the shortest book and that's like. That's like eight pages. Oh, what's the book of the apocalypse in the Bible? That's Liz Trust's book.
Brandon:Uh, not Exodus. Um, oh, what is it called Revelations? Yes, probably.
Ethan:Yeah, I can't remember. I've looked up what each of the books are and it was actually very interesting looking at, looking at like what each one goes through. So, like, at one point in time I knew the general kind of overarching yeah, revelation, revelation, yeah, it is Revelation, yeah, okay, because, yeah, at one point in time I actually knew kind of like the overarching theme, I guess, or.
Brandon:Narrative yeah.
Ethan:Like the through line of the book of the yeah, which which does change a lot, because I mean it's a compilation. You know, the old test was just a Torah.
Brandon:Oh, they're all just, they're all Okay. I'm not to get too political, but I think it's very common knowledge that, despite what you believe of the people who wrote it, the people who wrote it were still just dudes. They were blokes, they were guys. Yes, completely.
Ethan:They were men, you know, as someone who's religious, you know I do believe Jesus was infallible, but that doesn't mean that his apostles are infallible, you know. It's that. Yeah, they were just people completely prone to error, prone to the fact that a whole bunch of this stuff was told by oral tradition before it was even written down.
Brandon:Yeah, and this actually Maybe I should have asked this question at some other point but like is it true that the first time it mentions Jesus doing anything sort of like beyond, or like mentions him being the Son of God, is it true that that's written in like the book of John, who wasn't even like one of the one of the followers?
Brandon:I'm no clue, right, I'm not gonna lie, I have no clue, I just know that there are so many translations that really change oh yeah, no, I know that, yeah it is Like like the one of my favorite examples is the idea.
Ethan:you know how sometimes people try and justify oh men better than women? Because women, like women, was made as a Adam's rib yeah. Yeah, and he was. She was made as a helper to Adam, whereas the actual translation from Hebrew is closer to like the word saviour. Oh right, like Eve wasn't created to, you know, just help Adam out. She was created to rescue him, you know.
Brandon:Right, and that's really interesting because I also I read something. You know like what don't I read it? Was this read or watched? Oh, I can't remember. I have this information in my head, yes, but it's obviously.
Brandon:Eve was not Adam's first wife, it was Lilith first, and something that I remember somebody say was like well, there's, there could be two, because there's different translations of like that beginning part. There could also almost be two stories, and it was kind of because it was like God says God was man was made, or man and woman were made in God's image, so man and woman were made equally, right there and then right, and what this guy was saying was like that is very much could be a reference to Lilith, who had her own free will and her own agendas and then ended up betraying Adam and because of that, god then made Eve from Adam to be a part of man rather than a separate entity with man, and that's just. He was discussing this. I can't remember where fuck I saw it. It definitely was a video now, but it was definitely. It was something about like, because of all the mistranslations, maybe they're not mistranslations, maybe they're just two separate stories from Genesis.
Ethan:Yeah, yeah. Well, I mean again, you know people twist stuff for their, for their own kind of ideological sake.
Ethan:And a lot of you know, a lot of the stories in the Bible were, were, you know, because I know that those arguments going, oh, you can't say some things are real and some things aren't, but the you know, the the factor of the matter is is that there was a lot of metaphor in the Bible. These things would have been clearer back in the time and also, you know they were, they were, they were there to be presented as stories. So, yeah, of course, some things you know, the people, the people telling the stories, would have decided at some point that, oh, this sounds way better. You know, I tell stories all the time and I make up shit like pathological. You know I'll say, oh, this happened the other week and it'll be something that happened like two years ago to me.
Brandon:Yeah, yeah. You'll just twist certain details without even realizing it, and then, after you finish the story, you'll go. Why don't I say it like that? That? Was not that's about it from a remotely true. But you know what, it was sort of true so it will stay.
Ethan:I love.
Brandon:We now have a special guest on the podcast.
Ethan:Yes, my, my dog has been barking. It's cause this is. It is actually Halloween as we record it. Yeah, that says a lot of people going outside the house. Honey feels the need to mouth off every single time someone passes.
Brandon:And yes we understand the irony that we didn't record a Halloween episode on Halloween. We also did not know we would be recording it on Halloween. It's sort of just. We sort of just decided to do it today.
Ethan:So yeah, if you're upset about that, fuck you. These things take time to edit. I'm not releasing a Halloween episode on the day we record it, thank you.
Brandon:Yeah, in summary, fuck you, but back to our, our, our about religious texts.
Ethan:No, yeah, I mean no, no, no, no I think this is tangent Branjan, Branjan, Branjan. We've gone, we've gone off topic. Now we can't go back.
Brandon:Oh, we can't go back.
Ethan:No, no, no, not, not, not, not anymore.
Brandon:What if I do enough tangents like turning right a bunch of times to, to, to get it back?
Ethan:Have you seen the Wikipedia game where, where you kind of have that?
Brandon:is. That is exactly what I was about to refer to yeah. I was just going to say, should I just? We'll just go for all the blue links and we'll go back to the Bible Wikipedia game.
Ethan:Yeah Of going back to the Bible. All right, Brandon, give me, give me, give me a random Wikipedia article.
Brandon:Oh, wow, wait, and we have to go back to the Bible.
Ethan:I'm going to go. I'm going to go back to the Bible right now.
Brandon:Okay, okay, we're going to do this as far away from it as possible. I need to get away from it as possible. I've got to think, shh, everyone shut up. I'm thinking, yeah, shush, imagine like the countdown clock.
Ethan:We'll, we'll, we'll keep talking as we're doing this, but I am actually going to get out. Oh, okay, we're going to do this.
Brandon:The countdown. The TV show the British TV show the TV show. Yeah.
Ethan:We're going to go back to the Bible. Okay, Do you think? Countdown, or? Um? No, that's just going to be a countdown or the concept of a countdown? No, no, do you think um eight out of 10 cats? Or the regular countdown is is the better version.
Brandon:A R Ken, eight out of 10 cats does count down. Well, first off, I think eight out of 10 cats does count down is the better version because it's more entertaining whilst being educational in a certain way. Um, sorry, original countdown. However, I am one of those liking original countdown kind of people I do. I do just love sitting there going doing a word scramble. That is me, it was a bit of me, so um right.
Ethan:So uh, my first link is Yorkshire.
Brandon:Okay, okay, go on. Now you got to read, you got to read out every single link that you're going to come across.
Ethan:Okay, yeah, brandon, what do you? What do you do? Did you like? Okay, wait, do I have to? I have to read all the links.
Brandon:Well, well, yeah, cause I thought we could do it together.
Ethan:Okay, fun game, right. So historic County, northern England, united Kingdom. Periodic reform cultural region North Yorkshire, west Yorkshire, south Yorkshire, right Cultural region? Uh, yeah, let's go for that. Cultural region in anthropology, easy peasy. Uh, culture, societies, linguists. Uh, cultures, cultures, cultures, yeah, yeah.
Brandon:Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah yeah.
Ethan:Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yep, yep. Uh, knowledge of beliefs. There we go.
Brandon:There we go, there we go we're getting there, religion there we go.
Ethan:There's religion, uh, bub, bub, bub, bub, bub, bub. Religious faith religion.
Brandon:Uh K, let's go, let's just go straight to religion.
Ethan:Oh and then religions. There's Christianity, right there, we're so close, whereas mention of the Bible? Here you can't have a page on Christianity and then I don't have the Bible. Why is it not right at the top? We've been due Links at the top Christianity, god eternal created. Hang on. This is because it's God in Christianity, it's not Christianity. If I click the link for Christianity, take me to Christianity. God in Christianity, that's. Hey, you've just given me fake news. Scripture, the Bible. There we go.
Ethan:Right, so to recap we went from countdown the game show to Yorkshire, to cultural area, to anthropology, to culture, to belief, to religion, to Christianity, to God in Christianity to the Bible.
Brandon:What do you feel about it? Do you feel good for doing that? I do.
Ethan:I love that game. It's actually quite fun Just picking one thing and then a thing that you're like these things shouldn't be linked and then you can link them and I quite enjoy that. I'm sure if we weren't trying to make an episode right now of tangent and I could actually spend some time just silently looking at all the links that I could have done that in way shorter, because I'm sure. Yorkshire probably has some reference in that Yorkshire article to Christianity somewhere.
Brandon:Well, once you were on Christianity, I was like, oh, we could have done, we could have gone through the books and linguists way, because obviously the Bible is the most red book in the world, the most printed book in the world as well, I forget that's a fact a lot of the time. Yeah, I do think that's.
Ethan:You know what's interesting I don't know if you know this, Brandon, so you know where it says and I guess for our American listeners this will be more of an interesting thing but when you say, when you have ye like ye old tavern or something like that, that's not a why, that's a T-H.
Brandon:Yes, I actually do know this.
Ethan:Because of the old letter of thorn.
Brandon:Do you know who told me about the old letter of thorn?
Ethan:Was it me.
Brandon:It was you yeah.
Ethan:I love just language in general. I spent a very long time looking into I was just thinking about this from earlier. I was looking into the like, the origins of place names in the UK and how much is just like. Yeah, this is just what's there, like Bedford it's so I would have thought that was a bed.
Brandon:Someone went, I got it.
Ethan:I thought it was originally like the bed of the river where you cross it like the Ford. So it's a bed of the river Ford, but actually it's Bede, who was some form of a bishop, I think, if I remember right. Yeah, so.
Brandon:Bedeford, I mean. I mean it's his crossing. You are missing a J also. It's very small for a Fjord.
Ethan:Yeah, you can still. You can still call it because it is still referencing crossing water, because in English you can call it. You can spell it f or D as well.
Brandon:Right, yeah, but I'm pretty sure Fjord is like a clear stream, but like massive, it's like a massive river, like Mac, it's like it'll be the size of the Thames, but in between, no, but I'm talking about a Ford is in like a place where you can cross a river, because the river is shallow enough to like go across it. I was thinking of like the Slavic way.
Ethan:anyway, no, but well, I mean saying that.
Brandon:And speaking of fucking smallville, did you know that? I don't know if in the show, I don't know if the show, I don't know if there's even a real place called smallville, but there's a in the show. This called smallville, not because the town is small, but because it was established by the smalls. What's that surname?
Ethan:I like that. I like. I like little inconsistencies like that. It's like in fucking to do our obligatory community reference. Of course it's like the English Memorial Spanish Center. It's named after English Memorial.
Brandon:You're syphilis by the funny part of you, and that's located right above North Hall, which is west of the South Hall. Or like something like that God Ah, Keeney Love it.
Ethan:Anyway.
Brandon:Ethan, have you enjoyed our conversation about whether or not Star Wars should have more sequels, and the answer of no.
Ethan:Yeah, I actually I did. I really quite enjoyed this, despite my dogs barking Dogs, dogs.
Brandon:Woo, okay, all right, chill out, fuck it out. Anyway, this has been that conversation. Shut the fuck up. I'm trying to goddamn outro. Sorry, jesus, what? Once again send your props in to tangent podcast ideas at dmawcom or on the Instagram. It was so fucking annoying Poking on a underscore tangent. And anyway, despite Ethan's best efforts, we'll see you next time. Until then, I am a fjord of a man.
Ethan:And I'm a very manly mothet- We'll see you next time.
Brandon:All right, sorry, I keep hearing like one or two bucks. Hello and welcome to tangent. I am Brandon O'Slee and I'm obviously joined by my dogs barking.
Ethan:Sorry, I'm also being called Give me one second. Yeah.
