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I'm Josh, and there's Chuck and Jerry's here, too, sitting in for Dave, which, you guessed it, makes this a short stuff.

And it's a short stuff about a question that will probably never be answered.

What is a McGuffin?

Yeah, I think I offered up a definition of my own recently, and I'm not even sure what I said.

You, you, I think you went with the second definition.

Okay.

That we're covering here.

All right.

But there's, I mean, even though, so there's a couple different definitions.

They contradict each other in certain ways, but there are some things they agree on, and that

is that a McGuffin is a plot device.

It moves things along to some way, to some degree or another. It motivates characters

in a story or a movie. And what it is specifically and what role it ultimately plays in the plot,

that's what, that's where the definitions differ. And so just based on what I just said, that means that figuring out what a McGuffin is,

is the McGuffin of this episode of short stuff.

That wouldn't be the central premise of the short stuff?

I don't know, man.

This is brain-breaking.

This is like economics, quantum physics, and jackhammer

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