It's a mean age.

But it is going to be a beautiful future as long as we don't get up.

I'm Brian McWilliams, and this is Mean Age Daydream,

where I bring you unfiltered comedy, criticism, philosophy, and politics with a mean age daydream.

Welcome everybody to Mean Age Daydream, the show that you dream about your waking hours and your nightmares.

And I am joined today with a very special guest, a man that I have done many shows with,

although many of them behind the paywall.

Of course, we can talk about our different pride memberships, the Downer's Club, of course.

But that is the one and only Dan Smots from The System is Down Show.

Dan, hello.

No, I don't know about this, Brian. I think we're going to get in some trouble.

Hey, what's up? Um, yeah, sad day. Sad topic. Sad to hear, but fuck him. Who cares?

It is. Yeah. What is Dan is referring to is that, uh, he had made me aware of the firing of Justin Royland from Rick and Morty. And Dan and I have had a long, it's got to be a couple of years at least. We were doing recaps over at, you know, we called it Rotten Potatoes, which is your film and TV review aspect of the system is down.

But we do our Rotten Potatoes.

We were doing South Park recaps back when South Park was on regularly and not just on Paramount Plus, which I have no idea if it's coming back in Comedy Central or not.

But we also would do Rick and Morty.

And we started getting into it. I think after I did some early reviews on my show, talking about how Rick and Morty. And we started getting into it. I think after I did some early reviews

on my show, talking about how Rick and Morty was, in my opinion, at the time, the most libertarian

show on TV, or at least had the most libertarian character, which was one Rick Sanchez.

It was so short-lived and fell off so quick.

And then we fell off so quick at actually paying attention to it.

Yeah.

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