Welcome back for another helping of oysters, clams, and Canadian islands presented by Bolin Media.

I am Ross Bolin here with Barrett Dudley to discuss and review the penultimate episode of Task.

Episode six of Task on HBO, Barrett.

How are we feeling?

I knew that dang old bag didn't have those drugs in them.

Ah, no basketballs, though. No basketballs either. No pickup to be had. No, no, no, there wasn't a pickup game either. Feeling good on a Monday? I guess this is, this is, it's, it's the only holiday that we have in the U.S. where you get to pick. Which one do you want? Which one do you want? Because it's both and you get either. But only one. You don't get to celebrate both. No. They feel paradoxical in that way. You must pick a side. You have to pick a side. Yeah. Is it Christopher Columbus Day? Is it Indigenous People's Day? The choice is yours.

Just know that if you roll with Tony Soprano and his crew, they're going to expect you to be on Chrissy C's side.

That's correct.

That is absolutely right.

Yeah.

I have a quick short story.

I mean, very brief.

Okay. It's October. Yeah. Today is October 13th.

Ooh, Friday the 13th. It's not. And it's it's Monday the 13th and

We live in Texas though in Austin, Texas where the temperature remains quite high, sometimes deep into October.

Yep.

And so we still get up around 90 degrees every day.

As such, my neighborhood pool is still an option to take my kids to on the weekend.

Now, it has not been excruciatingly hot for a couple few weeks now.

Therefore, the pool's temperature has dropped. Yeah, yeah. And the pool was so

chilly on Saturday that before I got in, I dipped my toe in the water and I went, nope, that's too

cold. I reached down. I took out some water and I dripped it on both shoulders and I allowed my body to acclimate as to

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