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Just a quick note, this podcast contains some explicit language. So Sheldon, there's this song.

I kind of need your opinion about it.

Let's hear just a little tiny bit.

Maybe we should start with the chorus.

These beautiful things that I've got.

Please stay.

I want you I need to walk on. I'm playing you beautiful things by Benson Boone not only because it is a massive global hit that has been on the charts for several weeks and was a viral Tic-Toc sensation before then, but because I cannot get this freaking song out of my head and I also cannot tell if it is

awesome or awful. Can you help me out here, Sheldon? Yeah, I certainly

I'm not well-versed in the Noah-Kahn

extended universe.

And we must say Benson Boon is definitely an extension of the Noah Khan

phenomenon. He's outdoorsy, he's young, he's cute, he cares about emotions, all those things.

Exactly.

And I likely would not have heard this song

if you hadn't brought it up to me.

Sorry.

Yeah, I'm not sure if I should be thanking you

or like wagging my fist.

But you know, I feel like this is sort of kind of the wide

empty song that you can project nearly any of your feelings into, which is why it seems to appeal to such a wide swath of people.

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