You know, everyone told me I had to watch The Sopranos. I never. And I think I would have been okay if I hadn't. Not that I didn't hate it, but it was fine, but it wasn't like this groundbreaking thing to me. I guess it would have been at the time. Wait a minute. Did you say, what did you say about the Sopranos? What? Out of your mind, Dave? He could have gone without it. Do not say that. Do not go around and say that, please. The show is amazing. Dave, you've never watched the Sopranos? No, I don't, I don't watch anything that's got darkness in it unless there's like dwarves and dragons. Dude, you, I mean, I'm jealous. I'm jealous.

I do with dark all the time.

I'm jealous that you haven't watched it, man. Oh, yeah. I would love, I mean, I was like when I hadn't watched the wire. I was like. Yeah, I heard that's great too. I'll ever watch either of those shows. Are you watching? Wait, you didn't watch the wire either.

No, I'll repeat my sentence.

Anything that's dark has to have dwarves and dragons or I'm not watching it. Oh. Life is hard enough as it is. I deal with darkness all the time in real life. Yeah. Bad things. I don't have to sit on my comfortable couch and go through the same bullshit. I want to laugh. Do you watch it? It's always sunny in Philadelphia. Of course. That's funny. That's one of the funniest TV shows of all the time. You're the opposite of my mom, Dave, by the way. The total opposite. Being that I'm a man. No, no. It's very hard to get my mom to watch comedy, you know, because she, she likes, yeah, she prefers the dark and twisted.

Well, she must have a hell of a life regularly.

She was a teacher.

Yeah, I like, like both.

I'm the same.

I like, I, I, I, I, I edge towards the way my mom does. I'll do comedy once in a while. Of course, I love Seinfeld, so... You watch Curb, too, didn't you, Jay? Of course. I have a funny Messiah story. Early in his... In his career, we... I forget if I got... It was in Denver. You know, second or third year working,

he used to call me a night because he was West Coast or he'd be in Europe a little bit and it'd be, you know, first in the morning and they'd be traveling. And I had a rule 11, 1130 at night. Like I didn't touch my phone and I was watching inside. I thought reruns. This is back when it was just starting to be rerun, you know? And I did not touch my phone unless someone was bleeding from the head in my house. So he used to call and sometimes he'd forget what time it was where we were. And he would scream my voicemail. Like, I know at the 11 o'clock, pick up the fucking phone. It'll be on tomorrow.

He's always yelling me.

Welcome to the Thursday edition of the Back to Back Podcast.

This is the Nerdder She Wrote Show.

I am Dave before filling in for Tom Haberskrow, hopefully adequately.

Co-piloting the ship, as usual.

Coach David Thorpe, how are you doing today? David,

are you wearing a tank top? Actually, yes, I am. Sorry to say, it's still 80-some-odd degrees in

Florida. I worked out some this morning, so I apologize in advance, but that's why we're on audio.

It's finally chilly here in Texas. I've been dying all summer. Calling in from sunny and beautiful, I actually checked the weather in Denver, Colorado today.

From the Action Network, the man who was introduced to me as being exactly like his Twitter

account, Matt Moore.

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