Ted Lasso | S3 Ep11 Part1 "Mom City"

Like the emotional distress he caused me by taking away the like I cannot , anytime I've even tried to watch , like , yeah , sure , I can try to owe the artist different than the art . It's called the Cosby show . It's not even called the Huxbuff show . Yeah , I can't do it . I cannot do it and I was going to do .

I wanted to have 75 stage shows in my head , which clearly I'll have time to perform before I die at the age of 350 . And but one of them was Good Night , bill .

And I was just going to like , almost like , and I thought , like you know , he told all those stories and I was like , almost like a bedtime story , like I'd have to like say good night , like I got to say goodbye now , like you can't , I can't take you on with me , I can't fucking believe this , but I was , I mean , devastated does not begin to capture how

I felt to find that shit out . And then it was even worse that people were like oh , it's not true , it's because he tried to buy NBC . I'm like are you , I'm going to jump over something , so goddamn tall .

We got into this because coach was talking , we were talking about nobody will listening , will be interested in this , but we were talking about how how a boss a boss was saying that she made a list . Every time she goes away , she makes a list and , and a week ahead of time .

And I responded by saying that that sexually arouses me because it gets so excited . That kind of order it's not even . It's not you know . I was like nothing to do with boss . Oh geez .

You know , I think , like humans are a mess anyway . So why it ends up in the realm of , of pleasure or or that sort of area , who knows ? But then coach was saying coach , I'll let you say it about the , the , the Fanny thing .

That was I mean wow , like yeah , that , that , that tour , that that just was hot to my hand holding my phone I was just like , oh my God , fanny , please stop it . I got to get worked on today .

We're working on getting the video version of the podcast up , which is it's going to be a little weird because coach never wears a shirt , but that's not true . Can you imagine ? Can you imagine it's only a shirt ? I don't . I don't .

Our esteemed editor Luke found it to be the greatest episode of television of all time . Wow , boss is covering her mouth in shock and horror , wondering why they allow prepubescent men to talk in the microphones . Boss , you want to . You want to start with your opening salvo , which I'm sure will contain zero information worth anything .

And I just keep it under my bathroom sink and grab it and then I don't need to think about anything because everything is in there and I do want you to understand . Unfortunately , none of the butter cups will be able to see it , but I have this note ready to go . I don't know how much that is showing up Like .

I have notes already and it does include the fact that they misrepresented lame is in this episode Like .

I think that there are a couple of things that they do in this episode that aren't just not good but are actively bad .

Like I think it is bad for society that they put forth a couple of the ideas and points that they included in this episode , and I'm going to have to take , like some pretty strong stances against those , because I think they really fucked up a couple of times . Okay , yeah .

All the time communicates from the Buttercup community , from our listener community , where people say , yeah , you know what you're wrong , coach Castleton . You're wrong , coach Bishop , you're wrong , boss . The first two they are probably wrong , but boss is often wrong .

And I will say that in all seriousness , we all only can see this show through the lens , that we can see it and certain things make complete sense and certain things don't . And listen , it's as simple as the human mind is so wonderful and amazing and sort of poorly conceived in certain ways . Like , why is it when you knew somebody growing up ?

Let's say you have a friend , they have a baby , they don't tell the name because they're smart until the baby's born . And they go okay , yeah , we decided to name him Bruce . And you go shit , I hate this guy , bruce , that I grew up with . So you have a connection in your name , right ?

Or you don't like a name because of an actor that had that name , or you don't like you know , and eventually the child will , if you're close will , take over the name and repurpose the name or whatever , but it's something as simple as that .

We do these things where we have these preconceived notions and we come in with them and , depending on the type of person you are , if you're a person who's judgmental and not curious , you will use those notions to arm yourself and prove why other people are wrong .

When she used to go to a group , she's Greek Orthodox , grew up in the Greek church and they have these dances and things like that , whatever every couple of few times a year and she would be first one out in the dance floor and then she'd go pull other people onto the dance floor with her and she'd get the party going . Really .

Sometimes she would pull , oh yeah , oh , my God , every time Unfailingly the center of attention should walk up and take the microphone from the priest and talk and go . Okay , everybody Like yeah , I'm , yes , I'm saying I get it , I get it .

But also I don't know if I've ever gotten anything more than the faces and body language of Ted when his mom first was in his apartment , kind of looking through his , through his cover . We'll talk about it as we get there . But she's like , oh , look pretty sparse or whatever , and like those comments on Ted , my mom does that .

Now She'll come over and she'll say one little thing and it's got such roots to it . You know what I mean and I know the roots . I haven't , with all my ADHD . I know exactly what she's saying , no matter what she says . So you can say with a smile but those are iron teeth . So we're going to talk about all that .

Boss , before we do this , should we have a safe word , you and I ?

I don't want to ruin anybody's favorite episode . I just have strong feelings on a couple of their choices and I will try to keep that as like , fair and clean as possible , while still calling out the the they misrepresented Les Mis . I'm going to have to talk about it . I don't know , it is like that .

We don't agree with each other , so feel free to write into us , feel , yeah , feel free to you know , hit us up on social media and or whatever , and we'll , we'll , we'll , chat , chat , chat .

And I just it's funny , it's crazy and it's true , oh my God .

We are , we are just doing walking through Richmond , exactly like the walk after Trent's story .

Everybody gets a curtain call and so I went . The girl that ran by . I mentioned the rapid reaction that I was hoping it was Shannon , but I don't know what happened to Shannon , so maybe they couldn't figure it out .

I think it's an Edinburgh right now . We can stop there and then we could go to London , absolutely .

That is like this weird fantasy , sci-fi type stuff . It's like the nerdiest shit that I've done in a really long time . I can send those to you . You will not slander me now . Actually , technically , I oh yeah , no , this is slander .

They say it because I'm time blind . They call it dystempia . It doesn't exist . That's something they call it like oh , dystempia , because I cannot tell you .

I couldn't you say like , like I know , like I could generally tell you when I graduated from certain places and I could generally tell you generally when I lived in certain cities , generally , but I couldn't tell you a month or a day or even a season .

I just need to figure out where that is or I'll reorder a new one , this is no problem . And I spent like five days trying to track back through what I had been doing and then , as I was getting into bed , I thought , oh , you went to that show . Maybe you stuck it in your little purse that you only use when you go to concerts .

You should check there in the morning . And then I woke up in the morning and I checked and that was where my credit card was . Like I thought about it enough that I figured out where it was , and then I remembered over several hours to go back and look for it .

And then it was there and I was really proud of myself and felt like that would be something that you guys might be slightly impressed with me .

So we're breaking this story and my brain's going and I'm trying to track everything and I'm up at the board and someone made an idea and then a couple of the people were building on the idea and then I earnestly repeated the original idea no bullshit . Thank God it was a man who said it , so I didn't have to .

You know , fucking go , no , no no , no , no , it's just my fucking dope of me . And , um , no , literally was like hey , I've got an idea . You said five minutes ago and totally said it .

You know , and there was just this odd silence , and I knew that must be what I just did , and so then I started to retrace it like okay with how I fucking do that , yeah .

Whoever has like a BJs or Costco membership , whatever it is right . And so we're in there and coach is deathly allergic to nuts which I know and he's like , all right , let's get some . Uh , we get some M&Ms and and he's like , yeah , just let's get some playing M&Ms . And I'm like , oh God , I just like peanut M&Ms , so much more .

And and then so I'm looking for peanut M&Ms and we had just said he's allergic to nuts and it just vanished from my brain . It's a ADHD brain , okay , but listen , the other side of that , it's .

It's so fascinating because I remember I was shooting a movie one time and I went up to the director and I said , if you don't get this one shot , you will not have this scene , and because I was able to project forward and start piecing the editing together in my mind right and it was a very , very specific shot he needed .

And oh , I got in a big fight with him and it was a whole thing . I was producing , he was directing , it was a , it was a thing . And he finally like huffed and puffed and did this one stupid little shot . And then you know , seven months later , we're in the room . He's like oh my God , thank God we had right , but only it's so .

It's like it's not , like your brain doesn't work organizationally . It's just that maybe the time thing is . I don't know what time is anyway anyway . So it's crazy , but yeah , so anyway , this is the walk from Ted Lasso . He is a goodbye walk . He walks by the bench , and who's sitting in the bench ? Boss ?

Of course she calls her grown son Teddy , of course . So anyway I like that as a way to get going with her .

But there is an absolutely unassailable thing about moms , and it's not a competitive thing , it's not like , oh , your dads are people too , it's not that , it's just your mom is your mom , and it's such a so these amazing moments where you see you see , in this episode you'll see some of them , and then I'm interested to appeal the onion with boss on those .

But these are relationships that are so foundational to how someone gets launched into an existence on this planet that you almost can't overstate the importance of it , and so we've spent a tremendous amount of time on this show , on this podcast , talking about something that Ted Lasso has spent a tremendous amount of time on , which is , he said , from the mouth of

the creator himself . He said this is a show about bad dads , right , and so it's nice to see the sort of dip our toe into into the world of moms here a little bit , especially since they are a way to understand someone's crazy . Yeah , it's like a map .

They have a little chat about patriarchy obviously a big thing this summer , especially with the Barbie movie and also just the general state of the world .

I don't mind Jade defaulting to that one bit and I'm like where's this Jade ? I wish I knew this Jade was like from the get go . I would have been in a different place .

I don't know , I didn't , unlike everything else where I'm like that's in season one , that's in season two . That was actually kind of a unique moment in terms of the blocking , but I don't know .

Nate comes whistling up from the back and he's like oh yeah , oh God . All right , you guys are here and I'm pushing a broom , so this is where they have a little chat . They said oh God , it's true . Will says how did you go through the money so fast ? Did you get addicted to the limelight ? And Nate's like no , I just wanted to work here .

It's what I'm choosing to do right now . She's spending time with his girlfriend . She's right . Oh well , she was right here because Jade apparently ducked out right when he was trying to be like hey , look at my lovely girlfriend who I get to hang out with all the time at this place , this job that I'm working , and she's gone .

Yeah , I'm not broke , I just , you know , I saw this job and I thought it was , you know , relatively interesting , and I didn't have anything else to do , so I'm doing this , but it's like no , no , no , no , no . You would only do that if you were in dire financial strength .

It's a very interesting like the tone of it is very , you know , everybody's like oh my God , he must have really screwed up his life .

But yeah , I mean to go from one of the top you know managers in the world to waiting tables in tooting seems like a . It's questionable . I want to point out here that Nate does something I really love , which is a callback to when Beard was in his office and said you were weird about calling and he's like now , get out or whatever .

And he says it would ever and then he turns back and he's like it's my office and Beard was gone and I called it out in the rapid reaction . I called it out in the episode but it was . Nate looks for beard and then looks up . I don't know what his instinct is to look up . That's funny . He's been around in this scene to look for Jade .

He also looked up , I don't know where he thinks he's around a bunch of them .

I bet they were like teenagers making sure to swing by here on the weekend . It's all over now . Now we're just , you know , selling three day old lemon meringue by slices , but once upon a time this was the perfect place to be .

Is it the combination of all of those ? I think lighting is big Right .

What he is in in Switzerland , what would , what would he know ? If he's not an authoritarian , he's not a , so it's got to be .

I would posit that some of the best acting from Nick Muhammad and the most subtle acting from Nick Muhammad came in this episode . I really love his facial expressions , his body . Here he's always good . I will you take that to the bank . He is an amazing actor .

We saw him , I think , being directed to go a bit over the top with certain things , walking across the street and throwing the box in the air and huge smiles . Evil Nate versions of himself that were big , but I think the best actors can do subtle very well .

And I think , if you look at his body language , so he holds his shoulders , his I made fun , in the rapid reaction , of the sheer amount of hair dye they put in his eyebrows , which just seems like comical to me . But yeah , but still , he is . He is excellent . No , ted doesn't know about it .

We wanted to ask you to see if you wanted to come back before you approach Ted , and right away he there's this , this glimmer of hope . Which is what does hope do for your coach ? Kills you . Yep , it's hope that kills you . And then , boss , he has this glimmer of hope . And then why does he say , ok , well , sorry guys , right away

. What is that in these personnel ?

So I was going to say , I was going to say that I thought it was interesting that this was such a quick response from Nate , only because , yeah , he has looked for extrinsic validation and he has gone through the ringer . I think we're supposed to understand that a few weeks have passed of him being at the I could be wrong .

I felt like he had learned the ropes at Taste of Athens and that he was sort of settling into a new kind of thing . And we're going to get to how I why . I think that a little bit and some key elements .

I guess , like for me , I said this , I probably got out of my mind when we coach and I said the same thing and I think , boss , you're with us on this where we're , like , until he self identifies as wonder kid and owns it and admits it , I don't have any , I don't have time for I don't care . Like , I don't care about your lies .

You know what I mean . Like once , if you lie about something so basic that everybody knows , right , everybody knows , you can look at a man and you can say does that man weigh two hundred and fifteen pounds ? And everybody knows .

No , that man does not weigh two hundred , and fifty , you can look at you can look at Nate and you can say he said wonder kid on camera in front of millions of people and we have the tape to prove it , and he's as till . He says , yes , I did , I did , I own that . Then there's no , it's like , it's like a sort of a waste of time .

So we're going to talk about this as we keep going forward , but he says thank you .

That was pretty fucking phone headed , sorry about that . And in a way , I think the hope that we saw from Nate in this scene was oh goody , ted's done my work for me . I actually don't have to go eat this bowl of shit that I'm rightfully needing to eat , right , because if Ted said everybody said come back .

Oh OK , ted said come back , everybody said come back , it's all good , everything's fine . So no , no , no , no , no , no . You're still , you like , you still have a bowl of shit to eat . And I think his oh thanks , but no thanks is , in part , him still not being able to say I said wonder , kid , I rip the sign . I spilled the beans . Ted , I am sorry .

It was a good move and I think we'll recognize it for the good move that it was and in the spirit of what it was , and it was signed properly , had a sprig of lavender , I don't . I think it was a masterful sort of move , but you can't argue with the fact that that's where he did the move .

So he must have been longing , even if it's subconscious for some , some beat of .

I want to be back in that place that gave me so much joy and it's not lost on me that the , that the movement that starts based on that , based on Nate's initial sort of inciting action , comes via the players and will , and that that's powerful because it's like , it's almost like a , like a low , low key uprising .

You know it's not coming from man , it's not top down right , it's coming from from people who have been sort of schooled in the lasso way . Right or go ahead , coach , whatever your thought is , go , go .

So , yes , he can come back because he deserves a shot , right , and he doesn't have to explain that to Sam anymore , he doesn't have to explain that to the team anymore , like they now , independent of him , say that's Nate , he's our guy , he fucked up . Let's , let's , let's go , let's go get him .

That's not who he is , that's what he did , let's go get him . And so I think this this has , this is like a step for them as a group , and I will take my tongue lashing off air .

Actually he is abusive to will . He tries to be abusive to Colin the betrayal of Ted is a bit abusive . So there is a very big difference between somebody fucking up one time or even a few times , somebody like having a fuck up , and you saying like hey , jamie , you can like come be with us . Like at the beginning of the show .

Jamie was abusive to Nate , absolutely . We also saw him start from a really terrible point of view . We also saw him start from a really terrible position and then Ted was introduced and this idea was introduced and Jamie took steps in order to become better .

He went to therapy and he stopped thinking of his own emotional needs and started considering other people's and realized that he can't lash out at other people . I have a big issue with the fact that Nate has exhibited a lot of abusive behavior to a lot of different people and hasn't seemed to reconcile any of that .

Like what he did do was make peace with his dad . What he has not done is recognized . He felt like shit when he said wonder kid . So he lashed out at will because he blamed will for his own bad emotions . Like I'm going to be perfectly honest with you at this point .

I think the next step is not that he gets better , but that he starts abusing jade , like looking down his road right now , I don't think he's done enough work where he's going to have a healthy relationship with the team and with her . I think this is going to be a repeat of somebody makes him feel good , that goes away , so he starts acting out .

Somebody else makes him feel good , that goes away , so he starts acting out . Like I'm not hopeful for Nate .

What is to say that ? That isn't Nate's version of the locker room thing ? They have a moment of clarity and then , without doing the work , they go right back to the pattern of destructive behavior . Now I don't think we have enough information to suggest that that is what's going to happen and the show wants us to believe .

Certainly that is not what's going to happen , boss . They are trying to establish , especially by the role that Nate will eventually occupy , as a sort of indicator of his changed persona . But you make an excellent point and let's not gloss over it , because it happens everywhere , it happens across the world . We see it all the time and people get fooled .

So he's all flowers must mean he loves me and he's sorry , like you know we were fooled so easily .

They were like oh shit , yeah , no , that was bad , that was bad stuff , yeah the speech and make Rebecca great again .

sorry . I just want to say I definitely understand that the writers what they were going for and that that is what they want us to believe . I have a hard time with them saying this is how , this is a way in which he would now become a safe person , when I feel like in real life there is no indication that that's true .

But part of that work is also then looking at how that shows up in your life . And it doesn't only show up in how you react to your mother , it doesn't only show right and so so interestingly I would , I would say hearing 100% what you said , coach , about you know they've come back .

You know users will say I love you , I'm sorry , it'll never happen again . I think there is a significant percentage I won't say majority or not , or whatever of abusers who believe the shit when they say it .

They actually can't make Yep , absolutely , but the instinct is to make it .

point , starting now .

So I don't think Jade is in danger and I don't think that's like saying the Gizellic man actually inappropriately touched Rebecca , it's like it's like not on this show . Yes , boss is right that as we discuss these things , we have to be mindful about this very , very common and destructive element of our society .

But it is not , and we have to see the warning signs as they're written by a staff who has the limitation of writing for television , with a limited amount of time and a limited amount of development . But Boss is not wrong on any of those levels , other than I think and this is you're not wrong , boss , but I think that's not this particular show .

But one of the things I have pounded the table about for this show is I do feel that there's an emotional honesty , even if sometimes it has to get condensed into story beats in ways that maybe hey , that's not exactly how that would go . But I could see the progression here .

I think that's absent and I do think it's worth noting that , truly based on what we've seen , even in the context of the Ted Lasso world , there really isn't reason to believe this behavior is gonna change .

Like Jamie goes through some things that make us go , I see that this character would behave differently Even in the context of this universe where things are great . I tend to land on , even in this context , how , why ? You know what I mean Like yeah , anywhere .

In this case , I feel like the lesson they are trying to teach would be bad were it applied to real life . That's my issue with the way that this is going out .

They're like oh , that's a bummer . Isaac says can I have 75 kebabs to go ? No , yeah , no , of course , chicken , polka , lamb , and of course that that actually was pretty good Dumps , stumps , isaac .

When he the great Roy Kent speech , I mean , this was epic , it was gigantic when he was Nate the Great . Right , he can get back to that just by properly splitting up even segments of kebabs . Then that's not a high bar , but I think as a yeah , as a beat , it's a nice beat , I love it too .

No one ever said oh , I went to my locker and my towel wasn't where it was supposed to be . Nate was on his shit as you know what I ?

mean , and I think kind of remembering that part of him , the best of him , really speaks to as much to Isaac as it does to what he's remembering that you know , for everything that's going on , good old Nate the Great solving problems being the smart guy .

The job of working as a waiter has every bit as much honor and there's no lack of morality in working as a waiter as opposed to a Premier League coach . There's no . The things that people in society deem to be quote unquote flawed are because of an absolutely ridiculous perception of what humans should be .

There are , you know , we have body shaming and job shaming and you know parenting shaming , you name it . Everybody's got a position on how everybody else should do everything else and the thing is like , the fact that they are misconstrued as flaws is why people have a hard time owning them and talking about

them . You know . You just , it is so wrongheaded to aspire to a false . You know this sort of amalgam of avatars that leads to the perfect , you know . But the Barbie movie did this fantastically . But it's like what are we aspiring to ? And who set that as the aspirational , like goal ? It's ridiculous . We're all perfectly fine the way we are .

We all should be accepted for who we are . You know what ? Some people don't want to be a motherfucking Premier League manager . They want to be a waiter because it's like in their wheelhouse and they like working in restaurants , like there's nothing wrong with anything that anyone chooses .

And what happens is society gets in and makes this absolute , you know , miasma of expectations that nobody could possibly ever live up to . And then now , all of a sudden , we're all burdened with the concern about whether or not we're meeting up to a impossible standard . So anyway , I think it's .

I just want to point that out before we gloss over it and before we move on , because it's we're all experiencing it . We all deal with it in different ways , and I mean not me , because I'm a middle-aged white man . So the world is moist , but everybody else deals with it and it's .

But it's important because you know , it's something that affects all of us in different ways , but we're all burdened by that ridiculous expectation .

And so I think you have to free yourself , or be freed and embrace that freedom to be able to be that person , to be that waiter or whatever it might be , and just live in that . But one of my I'll just use this as an example , but , like you know , we talked about the coaching I've done with kids and whatever .

Well , guess what I wasn't doing when I was doing all that shit , making money , that's something I was not fucking doing . And there are a lot of ways in life where you know , depending on whose scorecard you're using , I really fucked up . Like what are you doing ?

Teaching kids to reach across to grab a goofy fucking flag when there's money out there to be made ? So I have to be to assess that situation in a way that's at all fair to me .

I have to free myself or be freed on some level from that way , you know from that way to recognize yes , that's the scorecard , that's not my scorecard and that's not the way I choose to look at this piece , or you'll always sort of be in a little bit of a you'll be chasing a tail , cause it'll be . I think this thing is important .

I'm going to do this thing . Oh yeah , I failed because look at my report card .

It's like you just go , okay , all right . So so freeing yourself is fundamental . I love that , coach . There's this . There's this thing that I talk about all the time . I've mentioned on the show before , where Emily was talking about Emily . Who's Emily , by the way ? Who the hell is Emily ?

There's this strange dynamic where you have women . They get to a certain age . They raise their kids first of all . They become invisible on the way to raising their kids . The kids go , the kids go to college and then move out .

Now they're stuck with the man that they chose 30 , 40 years before right , typically , that man has a just because I'm speaking from from you know , friends of people I know and very oftentimes that man has a dependence on alcohol , and so it's , but it's just the two of them left in the nest .

And then , for the first time in that woman's life , she starts discovering who the hell she actually is , and it is transcendent . It is so amazing . Cause she's like wait , what do I want ?

Cause she has to add , she's not saying she's not burdened by getting her kids to school , or you know , as parents you're always oh , should I put my kids in more sports , my kids spending too much screen time on . You know , should I do all the things that ? You know ?

The rules have changed when you parent , but when you're completely freed like what coach is saying from that , that , the burden of that , you just have to decide wait

, who am I ? And then you have women . Start to explore . Okay , I'm going to join a yoga class . I'm going to . You know , I'm going to start to do it . I might , might , travel with a friend to somewhere . Honey , do you want to go to on a cruise with me , or do you want to go experience this thing ? No , I don't want to go . Go with your friend .

Okay , good , now you have women traveling all over the world . It right , and it's like , it's like a awakening . It's Kate Chopin , you know , sort of a awakening moment and you go . This is , this is remarkable . Why can't it happen when women are nine , 10 , where they start that process and then , at 13 , the society comes in , crushes them ?

I don't , I don't get too far down that rabbit hole , but it is something that you know , it's all part and parcel of what you're talking about , coach , and the freedom .

You know , the movie , in fairness , does kind of stop for a character to break down what it's like to be a woman in real life , like just and some people thought it was great , some people think it sucks .

Whatever I thought the most interesting thing about it was , I probably could count certainly without moving from my fingers to my toes the number of times I sat in a movie theater and had in front of me any question or exploration of what it's actually like to be a woman like period .

Choices you have to make for your clothing , choices you have to make for it that men do not have to make , we do not have to make it , we don't have to think about it . If I put my hair up in a ponytail , what message does that send to a man who would think like to sexualize and infantilize me ? It's if you go , oh my God , what like ?

Oh , my dudes , don't have to spend a second thinking about that .

So this woman posts you know some guy on you know some argument thread shares his sincere belief that women who post social media picture they're so all their social media pictures are with their kids are intentionally posting those pictures because they want guys who are going to beat it to images of them to feel awkward about it .

I was like that is the craziest shit I've heard in a long Wait what . Yeah , so I ? I mean , I'm this guy , I meet Renee , make up a name and I go Renee's hot mental note let's go look at some pictures of Renee . Because , hey , god do that .

If I go look at pictures of Renee and all the pictures are are Renee and her kids is because Renee wants me to feel uncomfortable masturbating to images of her . Like , how centered do you have to be in someone else's fucking existence to believe any of that , you lunatic .

Listen , it's funny because sometimes I'm going to do a hiring or things like that , working with writers , or they'll be like , oh yeah , I checked on all your socials and see if we were compatible . I'm like , oh fuck , I just never have incorporated that into my world . I don't kind of give a shit . I go off like , hey , do I like this person ?

Do I get right , feel so , but yeah , and then . But then you hear about like , oh , I met someone , like anecdotally , whatever , and then and then , oh yeah , then that leads to masturbation . I'm like , wow , like here , I think . I know I'm the resident prude on the podcast , but like , never once .

Like never once , never , never even occurred to me to think , to you To do that . But imagine , like you think about it .

So the next level is have the thought , do the thing , but then believe that the choices made on that page are centered around your masturbatory practices Like yeah , no , that's true what most people do Most women have kids and families just to prevent wherever that guy is from from from banging one out Like what is happening . Anyway , I had a family .

He's very understated . He walks back broom in hand , and who's waiting there to watch him go boss ? That'd be Jade over hearing the entire conversation Right , even though she disappeared into the ceiling Right , just quick that way and and so yeah , that's the , that's the sort of opening , the opening vibe that you get from that . I .

I'm going to call it there today because I really want to focus on Dottie in a way that is Dottie centric , and we've been talking about a lot of issues and there's a lot of emotions coming up and if I have any say in the matter , I'd like to try to give boss more time to chill out before she attacks me .

Just a tactic that I'm trying to employ to defang the viper that is slithering toward me .

We're going to be talking about we're going to be talking about when , like , we're going to open on Ted in his flat texting with Beardo weirdo Beardo and we're going to just jump right in and sort of knock out the next three to four minutes of Ted Lasso time frame . But listen , these are important issues . That's why we mentioned them .

They're important , they need to be talked about , and far be it from us to leave any stone unturned . Coach , where do people find you if they want to find you ?

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We thank you so much for being part of this . Everybody is our listener . Community is wonderful and we urge you to keep listening and join us next time when we really delve into the , the dotty part of season three , episode 111111 . One episode after this left guys is crazy , boss is smiling and but yes , coach and I will be will be in tears .