Episode 598: Chewbacca Credit Union
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4.8 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 29 November 2022
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
Merlin is still on Island Time, so discussion is mostly limited to Columbo, Star Wars, Merlin's playlists, Ellsworth, and, of course, wallets.

Links:
- "Columbo" The Most Crucial Game (TV Episode 1972) - IMDb
- A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again - Wikipedia — "A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again" (Harper's, 1996, under the title "Shipping Out"): Wallace's experiences and opinions on a seven-night luxury Caribbean cruise.
- What purpose does Chewbacca's bandoiler have? - Quora
- The Guardians of the Galaxy Holiday Special | Disney+ Originals
- Vinegar - Tube Cleaner on the App Store
- Quote by Ellsworth: “I’ll tell you what…”
- Jack Cassidy - IMDb — Fact: the great Jack Cassidy played three (3) different characters on "Columbo."
- Spotify – “No More Than a Thought” - A Gentle Introduction to Old 97’s — Some older bangers from your new favorite Christmas band.
- Spotify – “Always Talking to Myself” - A Gentle Introduction to The Police — Were you aware that The Police were once one of our most vital and exhilarating rock bands? No, really—I get it. But, if you never got that into them from THOSE songs, maybe try these.
- Spotify – “Fit Them Where They Belong” - A Gentle Introduction to Ted Leo and the Pharmacists — A band's band with songs so great you'd be forgiven for not immediately noticing how terrific the musicians are.
- Spotify – “The Switchback Will Make You Crazy“ - A Gentle Introduction to Richard Thompson
- Spotify – “In a Nutshell” - A Gentle Introduction to Michael Penn — Getting started with one of the great, under-appreciated pop geniuses of my generation. No, seriously.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | I was born in the back seat of a Mustang Dan Benjamin's here. He's connected. I see how are you? |
| 0:10.8 | I was into a song from a Texas band. I won't be home no more. |
| 0:16.8 | Uh huh. Bow, bow, bow, bow, good, E minor. E minor is such a good chord. |
| 0:22.1 | Did you know they could use it as well? It's a simple chord. Obviously easy chord. |
| 0:27.6 | But you know, make all chords. No, it's not. What do you think is G? |
| 0:32.1 | Uh, wait, I can do this one. Well, depending on how you count it, I mean, you could, |
| 0:38.7 | you can hit the high four strings and that's technically I think supposed to be |
| 0:43.9 | some kind of fake ass nine chord. Oh yeah. It, you know what? I got to be honest with you, Dan. |
| 0:49.1 | I'm hoisted by my own pitar. I know we don't see that anymore. If I have not |
| 0:55.5 | taught people guitar because I don't know how to play guitar. But when I've shown people, |
| 1:00.8 | I've been like, take your pinky finger and your ring finger and put them here. And now you |
| 1:05.6 | just made one of the greatest chords. You know so much more about guitar than you did |
| 1:09.3 | a minute ago. And what I was going to say was when it picks own, you know, young, he's |
| 1:13.7 | not from Dallas, Texas like old 97s. He's from Winnipeg. He, um, he made great use of the |
| 1:19.2 | minor chord. Many of his classic 70 songs, those dirgy, you know, down by the river type songs, |
| 1:27.0 | you know, he minor. Hello, Calgaryl in the sound. And I'll Calgaryl in the, I'm not going to do it. |
| 1:32.7 | I can't do it. Can't do it. It doesn't call like Hello Darkness, my old friend. Hello, |
| 1:36.3 | darkness, my old friend. Hello darkness, my old friend. Is this place about to bend? |
| 1:44.7 | Are you doing? Are you doing happy Thanksgiving? To be on a buck, buck. Now what do you call it when |
| 1:52.7 | it's the last episode before rabbit rabbit? I don't know. I don't care. It's not a bit old 97s, |
| 1:58.7 | highly recommended. Uh, I made a, so Dan is a thing that I do. What do you do? I'll tell you what I |
| 2:05.7 | do. Tell me. May I, may I and then I'll throw to you. And this is, this is your wide open episode. |
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