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I need sports to have to clear the room. Stand up and walk now. Hello and welcome to the watch. My name is Chris Ryan. I am an editor at the ringer.com and join me in the studio.

Fresh off his sports illustrated cover shoot. It's a degree. Whoa. Whoa. Yeah. Well, because that's the energy you're bringing. You're all positive. You're all optimistic about the state of content creation. Here's the thing. When we walk into the Faraday cage that is this studio.

There's my notifications off all the negativity goes away because I'm talking to my buddy. I'm not on strike in here. No, no, you're not. You're just giving everything you have to the man here. I'm the man Andy today on the podcast. We're going to talk about a little bit of winning time. Maybe a little bit of Linus. Maybe some other surprise news at the top. And then I think we're going to hit on some fall TV preview. And we I got you to watch a movie. Yeah. One of my favorite films of the year. How to blow

the pipeline. And it's streaming. It hit Hulu. And so I've adopted it as a watch product. Uh-huh. Fantasy is obviously talked about this on on the the big picture. But yeah, it's one of my favorite movies of the year. And I got you to watch it over the weekend. So you're welcome. Yeah. No, I mean, I want to thank you. I also want to thank you for the opportunity to demonstrate once again for listeners that when you ask me to do something. I watch it. Our Miyazaki pod is still not on the schedule. Not calendars.

Honestly, the way things are going, we might as well put it on the board. The drops of God continue to accumulate. Yeah, making almost like a like a bucket at this point of God.

That's there for you. You can swirl and spit anytime you want. You could just swirl and then you could spit and be like, not for me. I'll check it out. Could I give you a roadmap to how to watch this season of lioness since the first episode in like, is it with my hands over my eyes?

No, it's saluting the flag. Okay. Can I can I make a can I make one other just like a top of show kind of comment? Sure. So one thing that I didn't realize, speaking of saluting the flag, speaking of showing up for the man.

Couple months ago, you were on one of your, you know, three to four times per year trips to Europe, where you go to take the waters, you know, just get restorative bath, get your blood changed like LeBron. Yeah.

And while you were away, magic mountain style, baby, because again, everybody knows I'm Mr. Happy go lucky. I'm an easy guy. So while while you were away, Kaya was like, would you do this ad read? And usually you keep me sheltered from commerce, right? Right. Which I appreciate.

Is that what you think it is? Like a gift. Yeah.

Or is it because I've been asked not to do that due to my radical views? Go ahead.

So I did an ad read. I'm aware of your your ad read. So what I didn't know you know this, I guess, but because I hadn't done ad reads a number of years, I didn't know that they really stay in the system for a while. Yes. So basically, I did this ad read like in, I don't know, it was like February March, when my older daughter had a biking trip with her school and I was wrestling as adults often do with with bike racks. And I made it seem like that was a really good advertisement for bike racks. No, it was an advertisement for beer.

Okay, which I love, but the, but the copy was like, give a personal affirmation of something challenging you did recently that deserve to be here. And I was like, I did this yesterday.

Got up in America. I know. Yeah. Hello. Yeah.

Lived in the same country as the kids and how to blow up a pipeline. Yeah.

So now this has been going on forever. And I'm now I'm getting some feedback being like, wow, you really struggled with the bike rack. And I just want to come on the podcast a few months later and say, guys,

I can put on a bike rack. Like I, I, I, that's, that's on lock. So can I make a suggestion drink more beer? Let's say this strike continues unabated. Yeah, Ted seems like Donna, Bob, Bob, all the guys, they're just like, no, we're not going to, we're not going to cave.

You mean what's happening? Yeah. You become task rabbit for bike racks. Yes. Specifically for bike racks. And the only payment you ask for is an ice cold beer, no matter what time of day it is.

I love that. The payment part isn't going to work for whatever. I'm going on task rabbit. And a guy is like, you will take beer as payment. Do they say that? No, I saw a couple guys who probably would have this morning in the last and sparking.

Sure. Yeah. Yeah. Um, yeah. No, I mean, so I just feel like there's something, but the bike rack thing does speak to something deeper.

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