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🗓️ 4 August 2022
⏱️ 73 minutes
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The man behind the curtain. The fifth Beatle. The ace up our sleeve. Max interviews UNFTR’s ultimate secret weapon, Tom McGovern. Tom is the genius behind the show’s myriad theme songs, signature parodies like Oh, Canada and Independent Platform Man and the musical touches sprinkled throughout our episodes. We convinced Tom to come out of the recording booth long enough for us to praise him. Then he saw his shadow and went back into the booth. Max and Tom have a wide ranging discussion about musical influences, acting and where the fuck all the baby pigeons are.
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0:00.0 | Hey, unfuckers. As you know, the team is currently on vacation, but through the magic of pre-recording, |
0:06.0 | we made sure to keep the feed active and alive, and today we have a very, very special treat. |
0:12.4 | You've all come to know and adore our little trio of characters on the show, two incognito, one real-life person in the world. |
0:19.8 | I am, of course, your basic white guy, Miami Vice, Billy Joel, and ketchup-loving host, Max, |
0:25.8 | responsible for the content of the show. |
0:28.1 | Behind the glass, we have the inimitable engineer and sound design maestro mani faces, |
0:33.6 | and the great and powerful 99 responsible for literally every detail that helps us connect with the unfucking audience. |
0:42.4 | So today, we wanted to introduce you to the fourth member of our little troupe, the unsung hero, who may or may not wear a cape, I don't actually know. |
0:51.9 | Though we mention his name and sing his praises at the conclusion |
0:54.8 | of every single show, he's remained somewhat of a mystery. Until now. As we've done during |
1:01.1 | breaks in the past where we just kind of sit around the proverbial campfire and break the fourth |
1:05.1 | wall to talk about how the show comes together, our crew thought it was important to bring this |
1:09.8 | person out in front of the |
1:11.5 | curtain. |
1:12.7 | Unfuckers, it is my sincere pleasure to introduce you to the musical genius behind so many |
1:20.1 | of our audio features, the one, the only, Tom fucking McGovern. |
1:29.2 | It's kind of funny. I'm very close to changing my legal name to fucking |
1:32.4 | So to hear you say it sounds good |
1:34.5 | It feels good |
1:35.1 | We are we are prescient |
1:37.0 | In all ways |
1:38.6 | So Tom thank you so much for being here man |
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