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Still Buffering: They Might Be Giants

Still Buffering

Sydnee McElroy

Comedy

4.71.7K Ratings

🗓️ 1 September 2025

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

This week we're discussing the cross-generational favorite, They Might Be Giants. Whether teaching you geography or about the dangers of capitalism and conformity, it's nice to have a band the whole family can enjoy! Completely unrelated, don't put 600 pound 2 legged tables in your restaurant.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Maybe you change your mind.

0:03.0

Why too many times?

0:06.0

Over and over again over and over again baby you change your mind

0:25.8

oh too many times over and over again over and over again

0:33.2

Hello and welcome to still buffering a cross-generational guide to the culture that made us. I'm Sidney McElroy. And I'm Taylor Smurrell. Taylor, are you caught up with Tablegate? Tablegate. Oh, this is the, what, like the coffee shop where the, the, it wasn't a table. It was, uh... Is it not a table? I mean, it is a table, but it's not called that.

0:56.1

It's got a different name.

0:56.8

It's not meant to be a table. It's meant to, like, lean against a wall. Really? Yeah. Oh, I think I missed that element. I just thought it was a big table. No, it's got, like, a proper name. Now I can't think of it. but the structure that it is, because it's got two legs, not four,

0:54.2

and it is meant to lean against a wall.

0:56.1

Like, think like an entryway hallway, you know, you got a little half table that, like, they're your keys on. That's what it is. So not even a table. Fell over while some mom and her kids were sitting there. And then the the cafe at first told her she had to pay for it and it's like $1,600.

1:29.0

And then they were like, no, we first told her she had to pay for it and it's like $1,600.

1:31.9

And then they were like, no, we're not going to make her pay for that.

1:40.2

But then the question is, should you have even had those giant marble knot tables in your place to begin with?

1:47.5

Yeah, that seemed to me like somebody who was drawn to the aesthetics and did not think about the function, form over function.

1:58.7

I can't imagine making the financial decision opening a cafe and like, yeah, I'm going to buy $1,600 tables that aren't even tables and have no structural integrity.

2:03.1

No. No, I don't understand that either either I take table buying very seriously Justin and I just bought a dining room table for our house for the first time

2:09.6

in our entire life together we have been married almost 20 years we bought a dining room

2:14.4

table it's been about four or five months ago.

2:22.0

Congratulations. I wouldn't have said anything before, but you needed one very much.

2:27.0

Yes, we did. I mean, we had a table. I should say that. That sounds like what have you been doing.

2:32.3

You had that lovely room that had a very small table in it that clearly was met for like a beautiful dining room table.

2:35.5

Yes. And we, we had a table that we had that we had inherited and and i mean it was a table it was functional like we did we did have a table

2:41.8

that's like a good like a breakfast nook table yes but it was not a dining room table it was not

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