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I need support staff 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 TheRinger.com and joining me in the studio. Also canceled after one season. It's Andy Greenwald. He had a different cadence that time, but I stuck with you man. I never, I never, I always had your back. That's true. When the, uh, when the internet turned

against me, you were like, no, he's good actually. Yeah. When everybody was just like, get this true detective hating dude out of my face. I was like, that's my guy. I appreciate that. Greenwald, great to see you. We were joined again by Kaya McMullen who's back producing us. So I just feel like the vibes. They're all corrected. Yeah, she states that again. Wonderful to see. How's your week been since I last saw you. It's great. Um, when does school start? Dude, it's back. I, I, you know, I was just saying to you, it's like now. Yeah. So I, I don't know what's going on with me. Got to get this checked out.

But I've dropped. I have like a, I buy these coffee makers that are like for single bachelors, even though I'm a married band. Um, but they're really easy to like make counter space. You can just pick it up and move it over. So it's like a five cup coffee maker. Right. And they come in these cool colors. They're like 30 bucks. All right. I have now dropped two of them in the last month and broken them. Are you, you freezing up like Moscow. I was wondering about this too. I have, I, it makes me feel empathy. You know, uh, but I dropped mine today. Like, bring it up.

What it was in the car off shatters, you know, the shattered glass. Yes. First thing in the morning, shattered glass at like 8 a.m. That's chill spent 15, 20 minutes sweeping it up, then was like, I'm getting in my car. I'm going to go get myself a couple of mocha joes and, uh, it's just gridlock traffic outside my house because every single child is being dropped off by an individual Audi e-tron. Yes. And they've just like turned my, my, my street into Times Square. First of all, thoughts and prayers. Yeah.

Thank you. When you're palsy, like, I just dropping stuff. Yeah. I might need to go to like alone. Yeah. It's fine. There's no, I have no concerns, uh, broader concerns. My children aren't in school yet. Yeah. So it's been a lot, uh, a lot of dating. I would say, and it's, and look, I love it comes with the contract. I love it. I call myself doing something. I'd like to get your, and we'll talk about TV. Yeah. We got a bunch of stuff to talk about today. Um, I'd like to get your opinion about this.

Is this, is, is what I'm about to tell you? Like, very, very dad in like a charming way, or like, uh, okay, buddy, you're an onion headline, right? Which is to say, I played the new Olivia Rodrigo single for my daughters. What's that one called? It's called bad idea. Right. Okay. It's very good. Yeah. I've heard some songs from this, this new LP. Our old buddy Karen Gans wrote a great profile in the New York Times. People should check it out.

Very good song. Very funny. A hundred percent about rebound sex with an X, um, don't think my six-year-old picked up on any of that. I heard her in the backseat when there's a line where Olivia is like, uh, you're the hottest guy I've ever seen. Yeah, she was like, he must have been sweaty. Yeah.

Because it's 90, 90 degrees here. And so she thought, so I appreciated the innocence. But anyway, I played that song. And they liked it. By the way, this is another cool move. My older daughter has this thing that I really respect because I think she knows in her bones, who heard what her dad is her dad's project. Uh-huh. So if I play a song, she sits in absolute stillness, no reaction and makes me turn and say, uh, so.

In this case, I knew she was going to be like, I loved it. Okay. So you were like, you were out scouting Rodrigo for your kids. Like, you were like, I've, I've ascertained. I heard this song and I was like, they'll take this. It has the right combination of angst and Broadway. Super cool.

You know, which is what they, what they want. But here's my point. Here's what I did. This is the thing I want your opinion on. Uh-huh. Then I was like, you guys like that.

You know what it makes your old man think of. And then I fired up L7's pretend we're dead. Oh my god, which it sounds like. Yeah.

So you're that guy. I became that guy. I was like, you guys like this. You should tweet about it. You should be like, just jamming on some L7 with the kids this morning. Love being a hashtag dad.

Dead strong.

Cash tag L7 dad.

Yes, a little elastic. Yeah. We're trying to connect the dots. They don't care. Do you think it this?

I think it's just a little early for them to understand the alternative music cannon and like the trajectory of.

You know, from the velvet undergrad and the stooges to now.

But then I'm like, waiting to get on the 101 and I'm like, you know, funny story. There's a band called wire.

And people in the 90s thought elastic are ripped up. But is this like, is this bad? Do I need to stop?

I mean, not for me. I think it's really funny. I think maybe for your relationship with your children.

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