The Great American Arcade + Sitcom Theme Songs

The following podcast is a Dear Media production. I'm Benito Skinner. I'm Mary Beth Brown. And this is Rhyme. This goes out to my girls by embattled service with the rep money. Respect! Kittyberry's riffs in This Is How We Do is so, may they experience the loss of a child. I was just in the car. I was in the car laughing to myself. Going to bed with the ten and waking up with a two. With a two. Ha! Not me. Wait, what's the one where it says, with the cars at the club valet and it's Tuesday. I need to get her in here to do those riffs. I could have never, I could have never, I could have never. You had. No fucking idea I was going to start with the This Is How We Do riffs. Going to bed with a ten and waking up with a two. Ha! Not me. Sorry, sweetie. I haven't laughed like that since SNL 50. Oh, and happy SNL 50 to you, my darling. Well, they let us watch in the detention center because one of the security guards is a huge fan. So, of course. That's actually the only thing we've ever done. Of course. He loves Kristen Wiig's Target Lady. It's his big bit. Well, it reminds him of his mother. He shared with us. There's nothing worse than talking with someone from a different generation. And I'm not ageist, but they bring up a sketch and they have to tell you about the entire SNL sketch. That's been happening to me more than ever lately. And I'm like, I'm so sorry. It's not that I don't need to see it. I have to see it to understand what you're talking about. In fact, I'd rather just have the opportunity to watch it than hear it explained. Yeah. Oh, coffee bean check. Coffee bean check. Oh my God. I move my Tiffany to the left. Whoa, Easter egg. Your t-shirt today. I know. I'm wearing an Easter egg. I'm wearing a gift from none other than Benny Drama. She's wearing a Black Parade t-shirt that I had to be a grailed warlord for that one. Let me just tell you, if you want My Chemical Romance merch, you're going to have to fight for it. It'll cost you. It'll cost you. It'll cost you. It's I was fighta. Respect! When she says that. Your volume is so loud when you do that. That Zoom is actually muted. It's not muting you completely. Oh, that's why. So it's like, no, but I like it because it's like, it's an act out. It's a little mimery. I've only known that to happen with one other person. And that was when you had to do a chem read with a guy who was reading for Peter. Do you remember? And it ducked out. Oh my God, no, I do. And your face. Because Zoom crashed. Do you know how hard it is to be best friends with someone and, but then be in like a very corporate Zoom? Like, because Mary Beth and I are thinking the exact same thing. And it's twin telepathy. Yeah, it is. But everyone else is like. Cool. Like they're all kind of feeling it. And I just desperately, I can't even text you because it'd be obvious where your eye line. It would look like we were recording Ride. We just have to wait. We just have to wait patiently with our, with our mouths shut. But we were in a chem read once for someone who was going to play Mary Beth's boyfriend in the show. And he yelled so loud on it. It shut down Zoom and it, it, it got rid of him. It kicked him off. It seems. Didn't it? They were like, they were like, this person is in danger, unfortunately. Literally. We're so sorry. We're so sorry, but our hands are tied here. It goes against the content policy. Well, of course. Content guidelines. That was a really scary moment. He rejoined us and I think he's fine to this day, but yeah. He rejoined and I won't lie. If something like that happened to me in an audition, I'd just be like, well, c'est la vie. No, you have to give it your all. And I probably would. One time though. Oh my God. So I was pitching all of season one to Amazon and my internet. Wait, wait, wait. This was in the great internet outage of 2024. You can't even imagine. It was shocking. It was really hard to watch a friend go through that and to suffer because it was every single time we tried to FaceTime you in the writer's room, any meeting you were on. And sometimes I'd be at your house when it would cut out and just the, like the fire within you. It was like, I just, as an empath, that was really hard. Some Republican who saw my Cooper, the Gen Z intern video works at spectrum. I can only say that. That's the only explanation I could find. Because it just, my spectrum, anytime something so unbelievably important would be happening, they'd say, get by internets. They'd say, I'm filming you. I'm filming you. Just kidding. You have no Wi-Fi. Have fun. Read a book. I was in the middle of a pitch of season one and it just completely crashed. Like my internet. I had to use Terry's hotspot on his phone for it. I've never been more stressed in my life. Like I almost had to scream in a pillow, which I don't think I've done since I was like six. I was throwing a fit because my metamorphosis. CD got a scratch on it. The Hilary Duff one. Yeah. I think I was probably a little bit older, but I'm going to say six to make myself feel better. And I definitely screamed in my SpongeBob pillow. It was a tough day for me. When CDs would get scratched, that was a form of suffering. And that's something that the current generation will never know. Well, my OCD was like, hey, so that's the worst thing that could possibly happen. Do you understand that? You're going to be sick about this for the rest of your life. But I still am. And you're still talking about it. I'm still talking about it. I did want to say, wait, before I go off on this rant. Do you have clear? Oh, yeah, of course. You do. Can I tell you how mortified I am by clear every time I use it? Can I tell you nothing makes me feel rage, much like your Wi-Fi situation. When I see adults being escorted by their little babysitter in a gingham shirt. We're cutting you. We're filming you. Why do you need a babysitter? You're an adult. And guess who they're babysitting? Yours truly. It is so mortifying. It keeps happening. And then the person I'm cutting is someone who I just I feel. Quite literally so awful to cut. It'll be like the oldest person you've ever seen and is like with their entire family. And I'm just like, please don't cut me in front of this person. Like, it's really hard because, like, I love the service. I don't understand how the service exists. But I don't either. It's such a bad service, in my opinion, if it requires that much human intervention. Like, I get if it's sort of integrated with pre-check where, like, you get in the clear line, you do your scan and then you get in the pre-check line. But the fact that they need to cut you. They need to pay human bodies. I'm like, AI isn't taking over if they can't even figure out how to automate this shit. No way. It's so funny to me. I got pre-checked because I, you know, I used to trust the government. That's how I ended up here. So don't use me as a role model. And yes, Mary Beth is at Alcatraz. That's what they use it for now. I'm in Alcatraz. Oh, wait. Did you know that Roku has an Alcatraz? We haven't even talked about that. There's a Shutter Island. But it's empty. It's a museum. I think someone said that in Ride the Pod. It was some I think someone said there's an Alcatraz and I can't stop thinking about it now. I go, who put this in there? Oh, oh, oh. And that brings me to my next point. The founders of YouTube, they must just be living their best lives. I haven't heard a peep from them. The founders of Roku. I'm like, these guys must just be cashing their millions and just chilling the fuck out. They're staying out of the headlines. Yeah, they're darlings. I think I don't think they're lifting. No, yeah. No, no, no, no, no. They're definitely not. Well, it's a really scary time to be in gyms. Let me tell you, because you'll think a trainer is cool. And then all of a sudden he'll say RFK. And then you have to run for the hills. They'll say, make America healthy. You go, now what now? What? You need to see some more studies, some more data. I'm like, fine, if you want polio. That's what I keep telling people. I'm like, if you want polio, that's fine. That is on you. I don't, I'm like, I personally don't want it. But I guess like if you want it, I don't know. I don't want measles either. Yeah, I'm not going to, I guess, you know. But chicken pox, I did want because I got a Mulan Barbie for it. Whoa. I was one of the rare people in history that got chicken pox and shingles. I got shingles in first grade. I got to stay home for a week. It was very painful. I have several scars from it, but it had scientists stumped. Well, of course. I mean, as you always have. Now there's a chicken pox vaccine. Did you know that? Oh, yeah. I thought it was just like you get it, which I kind of loved about it. It was something like, there was something fun about that. There was something really American about that. I agree and whimsy. You know what it reminded me of? Do you remember that book in Catholic schools we would have to read? It was about someone who like put stickers on their face and it's like how many gold stars you could get. Do you know what I'm talking about? This book like sat with me in a really weird way. The gold star currency, like the how there was a whole currency to having gold stars and how many you could accumulate. But I don't remember that book. Maybe I would if I saw it and it would bring a bunch of memories rushing back. But like I remember this other girl or something in the like world of this book, she would have dots on and it was really different. And I don't know. I'm just going to I'm going to look up this book. There's something to be said for it. I can see it in my mind's eye. Did you see Julianne Moore's post about her book being banned by the federal government? It's called like Strawberry Hair and Freckles. Oh, yeah. And it's about like accepting. Your differences and it's banned by the government. Oh, so we're just there now, huh? You were there. She didn't Instagram post. She's like, I can't even fathom why this was banned. It makes me so sad. Well, I'm sorry. It's just what's happening. It's literally like if we can't laugh, it's like that's the book that's getting banned among many others. But also, I do want to shout out to the detention center for letting me keep the pod because a lot of people here are podcast hosts and they don't get to record and totally no books, - I know. SNL 50. SNL 50, and that's about it. This one goes out to all my kids buying Romani! Oh, my God. I can't stop thinking about it. This is how we do it. I haven't thought about that song in a while. You know, there was a big apology after that song. Well, of course, that tracks. Nails done all Japanese-y. And then she had boxer braids in the video. Yeah. So she was called in. That time was interesting for culture. Well, that was when people would apologize. What I think is so interesting about what's happening now is that once you become a pariah and worshipped by the right, actually, the more bad stuff you do, the more they like you. I know. So then it becomes this impossible paradox of like nothing these people could ever do would be bad enough to get their fans to turn on them. I do think, though, that for Kanye, and I don't want to speak on this too much, but I am just like, someone had to upload all of that to the site. And I'm not going to say what it was because that's just, I just, I can't. It's so insane. But someone uploaded that. And that's where I'm like, it's not just him. I also need to like know all the people who like let this happen. I'm like, I'm into the logistics of it for some reason. Because I'm like, I just can't. There are so many things that have to happen for that to then be up. I want all the people to be held accountable. Well, think about the Doge people. Those like hackers who are just going into government buildings and just like stealing data and like hacking shit. I'm like, who raised you? Like, I was told that if you like run a stop sign, you're going to go to hell. So how do you get from there to like, you're going to hack the nuclear codes. I just don't understand what happens in a person's life to make them think that that's OK. Like in any way. May they experience the loss of a child. I know you guys have been kind of radio silent about loss of a child. They haven't been on Reddit. Oh, they haven't? They actually haven't been. OK, good. I know because it's not it's not hitting in the comments. But as I said to you, I go, they've been radio silent. My kids haven't said a word. I feel really uncomfortable. And you said, I think they just don't want their name attached to that statement. And I get that. Agreed. That's why they'll post it on Reddit. They'll post it on Reddit. Someone said on Reddit, to whoever's leaving their dog shit in my garbage can, may they experience the loss of a child. And on the note of Reddit, and I love that you guys on the Reddit, you feel like it's a safe space to have conversations and start discourse. There was a thread about Picasso and how he was a really bad man and a misogynist. And he like mentally like abused women and stuff. And we aren't smart. We're writing for the art. We're not necessarily writing for the man. No. And here's my thing. We're kind of hard up on finding any men during that time who like really treated women correctly or kindly. Or this time. And this time too. So, you know, we'll see. And like, Sebastian, Stan, I can only hope that you like rise to the occasion. But I am, unfortunately, I'm not surprised that kind of history has taught us that that's kind of just like to be expected. And of course, I'm disappointed. I know. It's a bummer. I just want people to know that like we, I actually, I knew he'd probably like, you know, slept around and stuff, but I didn't know the extent. So, you know, we live and we learn. I thought he was sexual, but not like mean. And you know what sucks? Because, you know, Kanye said this, but name one genius that ain't crazy. I think about that a lot. In dear media, clip that. This is how we do. This is how we do. Should we get a new way to ride for it? Oh, wait. I also want to say that if we ever say like Catholic school teachings and stuff, we are non-practicing. We don't think that any of that was correct or right or like within our world. It's propaganda. Yeah, it's like to be clear. Well, I guess here's how I would sum it up. We, any teachings of the Catholic church that we talk about on this podcast, we don't actually agree with or believe even a little bit. So if we're saying things that we experienced, it's not because we're like, everyone should be on board with this. It's more just like, can you believe we endured that? Yeah. Well, and now you're in a black parade shirt in Alcatraz. In a basement. In an undisclosed location. Sometimes they shake the walls, right? Yeah. Well, yeah. You know, it's a, it's a 4D experience as I said. What do they feed you? They feed you factor, factor meals. It's all factor meals. They're expired. Oh, okay. It's expired factor meals. One time I got a factor package and it was all mushroom ones for like a week. I had to like scrape off mushrooms. It was like a busy week for me. So on that note, I will be writing for the Great American Arcade. And I will be writing for sitcom theme songs. Hey, bronies. It's Mary Beth here back in the submersible with some music. Miss Pinky. 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My eyes are open, you know this. Where is there an arcade in LA? It was kind of random. I can't place it exactly. It was like Hollywood adjacent. I'll find it and take a photo of it. It had no windows, so I don't know if I'm going to it, but Idaho had some fucking fire ones. We had this one that was called Boom Docs and now it's called Wahoos and it was just totally fabulous. They had go-karts, which love. I love being the passenger princess in a go-kart. Think of the square footage to have a go-kart like track. Honey, if Idaho's got anything, it's land. It's land, honey. This is our land. How much did we love that this is our land photo, darlings? This is our land reveal. God, I love that. It was a good day. It was a really good day. We have a lot of good memories together, Ken. So, arcades. And I am really competitive and so I used to take this babysitter. Well, I used to take this babysitter. You used to take your babysitter and I believe that to the fullest extent that you took the babysitter to the arcade. Yeah, it was clear. I went to the front of the line. It was my clear babysitter. They took me to an arcade. They'll take you to an arcade if you ask. They legally have to take you anywhere you want to go. Yeah, you can go front of the line at TSA or to an arcade. To an arcade. All you have to do is show your eyes. I will say, if you ever get mad at the person cutting you, they did just have to see themselves on camera with how they look. And every time I go, asymmetrical, like, it's so scary. Like, seeing your face the morning before a flight, it's so scary. jarring. so just know that at least we've endured that before we cut you in line yeah there's a lot of documentation of how i'm looking before a flight and i really don't want anyone to ever get access to that oh my god but one day i took this one and i was like can i have that so the great american arcade i find that lately i want this i i have been craving laser tag people have sent me a few places and i think i'm gonna go this weekend or when you get here in two weeks I'll pick you up. Like there was laser tag at Wahoos. There was air hockey. And this is what I would do with my babysitter. And I loved her. Shout out, Lauren. I love you, girl. She wouldn't be the babysitter thing who would let me win. I'm like, let's fucking play ball. Like I don't want any of that shit. I'll be here all day. I loved air hockey. And I will say the motocross bikes and any of the games I played taught me how to arch my back. Which is a skill you need in this industry. Well, of course. So those kind of just like electrified me. And then, I mean, I won't lie. Like any of the deer hunting ones weren't really for me. I'm not a guns guy. But get me at any kind of like car racing, cruising USA, like any of that shit. It's so hardcore and it's so serious. I can't stress enough. Like Super Mario Kart. Like it is so serious. But to be on one of those things and to press nitrous, like that to me was like, there was no better feeling as a kid than pressing nitrous. This is a little straight for me. I won't lie. It felt like freedom, I think. Yes. And also like getting like the rewards, like getting the little tickets and then going to turn those tickets in. Were you a ticket queen? Like you were stacking up. Well, I was into gambling also because I would put the little coins in the things that would like, there's that one thing where you keep adding the coins until they all spill off and then you might get a bunch of tickets for it. But I would do all kinds of roulette things like that too. I was a gambler. I was an addict. I was a race car driver. A gentleman junkie race car driver. And then I was a gunslinger. A.k.a. laser tag. Laser tag to me is the most fun a woman and a man can have without taking their clothes off. I completely agree. There's a thrill. There's a rush to it. There's just something like carnal and it's like you're not hurting anyone. Like it's just for fun. I would die to have a ride meetup at an arcade. Let's do that. Is there one in New York? Or is it just Dave and Buster's? But I mean, that could fit a lot of baronies. Well, I mean, also Dave and Buster's like feels meat coated. I don't know why, but here's my question. Do they have laser tag? Like to me, I'm only seeing arcade. I'm seeing like the basketball hoops and stuff. I don't know if they have the square footage for laser tags. That's what I'm saying. Maybe in Times Square where we used to record Ride. That's where we used to record it. We should do laser tag at Podstream. Yeah, at Podstream. No, but I'm telling you like hiding behind something, jumping in front of it and going bam, bam. And it's like, like little laser sounds. Well, it feels like Star Wars. It feels like sci-fi. It feels futuristic. It's very, it captures the imagination. What's character? Play it's role-playing. I was taken in one of my many jobs I had after I started doing comedy, but wasn't working full-time, but still was having to pay rent and things like that. I actually nannied part-time for the child of a CEO. And he took me to Dave and Buster's. It was a little wager that we made. If he did swimming every week without complaining, then at the end of the season, we would go to Dave and Buster's, which we did DMVs. And you know what? I will say like, it's fun for the whole family. And that's what I'm about. I just want fun for the whole family. Also, what's really sad is I think like the great American arcade is, is probably if I, I mean, I'm going out on a limb and saying it's probably a dying breed because one thing I read is that Americans don't have as many like places to meet up anymore because like people aren't super religious anymore. And people are so like on their phones, like they don't go to malls anymore. We've lost community. So that's why there's a loneliness epidemic. So to me, I say more arcades. I completely agree. I can't imagine the boom in the eighties of the fuck you, Nancy Reagan. Sorry. When I say eighties, I have to say, fuck you, Nancy Reagan. It just goes without saying. There's something about arcades to me. It just feels like warm and fuzzy. And you know what? I remember every day I've been to an arcade. So that's what I was saying to Terry at dinner last night. We were having a pork night and I said, I need to go to an arcade this weekend. And then I said, I just texted Mary Beth that I want to ride for the great American arcade. Like I, I love these spots. I think they're so fun. Sometimes they have bowling. I won't lie to there's sometimes a little pins moment, my love, which I love bowling too. I was going to ride for that. But that's kind of the same thing. Like there's this bowling alley in K-town where they have like an arcade and the bowling line was so long that we couldn't go bowling, which devastating, but, and I picked my outfit to go with the shoes and everything. So it was a bummer, but the arcade was there and we were able to do super Mario brothers. We got a little drink, like also just the food, like the nacho cheese is there a little pretzels. It was just so fun. Like it's just pure, wholesome fun. It's fun for the whole family and it's competition, which I love friendly competition. I've said this, and yeah, I want to get back out there. I want to go to an arcade more. I want to know where kids are having birthday parties in the absence of arcades, because when I was growing up in our town, we had, we had a place called the varsity club. And so that was like, it was more games. And like, I think they had like a running track and like a ball pit and stuff. I, I have core memories from there, but I can't remember exactly what all the different stations were. It was a gym where they would just sort of work to you out. You lift weights. You did the presidential physical fitness test. But it closed. And I, I still think about it all the time. I mean, what a great name, the varsity club. Oh, totally. That just appeals to kids. The merch was fabulous. Oh, I can only imagine. You used to walk out with a cup. I can only imagine. I mean, Wahoos and boondocks. I think I like boondocks better, to be honest. Is it near the strip club or no? No, not even close, but it's near the water park, which I also will ride for at some point because there's no one loves a water park like Benny drama. Let me tell you. Well, one day we're going to go to mountain Creek and we're going to fuck some shit up. Oh, one day we're going to go to Roaring Springs and fuck some shit up. You couldn't imagine. I took Terry and he goes, this is one of my favorite places I've been. Idaho does water parks, period. It's not just for kids. These experiences that bring you joy. They're not just for kids or for adults. I know. And I kind of like always ride for those things. And it's like clear that I just like need to get back to that childlike wonder. But I think it's because I spent so much of my childhood in the closet. I can kind of piece together things I did like and then some that I really didn't. And so it's fun now to just like celebrate that. But, this was fun when like boys would have their birthday parties at, at Wahoos or Boondocks. I was like, yeah, I'm game. Let's do this. Like, let's buckle up. I'm ready. I want to say that I participated in a birthday party that was at a facility called Activate, which is like an arcade, but you have these wristbands and you tap into the games with your team. They weigh you. And so then you have to do cardio until you can prove that you've lost three pounds. And then they let you go. And it's really cool. You don't get, you don't get fed or anything, but they have interactive games and it's like, it's, it's, it feels very futuristic. Let's take it to the arcade. Let's make it more communal. Let's bring fun back. I can only imagine how much we could get into at an arcade. So let's do it. Bring fun back. We're not having any fun. That's the issue. So we need to go back to the arcades. We need to play laser tag. And you know what? I think a lot of us, we need to let off some steam and just like get off our phones and don't watch the TV. It's just going to make you too sad. Give yourself a break and don't feel guilty for that break. That's what I'm telling all my babies. Meet us at the arcade. I agree. At 8 PM. Not too late. Meet me at our spot. Yeah. To me, it's the great American arcade, but it probably came from elsewhere. We've, we've stolen everything. And if you tell me that I'm just, just know that like, I, I didn't really look up the origin, but for me, it feels very eighties American. If I'm correct. Agreed. And I love, I can't wait for the Barone's to tell us what the history is. The lineage. Of course they teach us as much as we teach them. I was just going to say that everyone should, should feel safe on the Reddit. Like I've never been on the Reddit and been like pissed off or mad. It's like, we are like truly engaging in a conversation with you all the time. I just look, cause it's fun to like know what people are latching onto. It feels communal to me. That's community. Like truly that's the arc. It's my arcade of sorts. But what I really loved is that someone on the Reddit said they saw you and your new man and they didn't like do a description or say who it was, which that I really respected. There was something about it that I was like, that's like respect. But you know what I mean? Like that is every time you cut out, I just get to watch you do the hand thing. Yeah. Don't worry. It'll be in the tape. Yeah. Yeah. We're going to bleep it. Yeah, no, that's when I know like the kids, like they have, they have good morals, privacy. They do. It's very much. I'm not filming you. I'm not filming you. You do. Hey, live your life. I'm not filming you. Also, they posted a video of this waitress who was like taking away an empty plate. And she was like, you have to pay for this. I'm so sorry. And the patron was like, there's still meat on the bones. I'm not paying for it. And she's like, you ate the whole thing. You have to pay for it. If you didn't like it, you should have said something before you ate the whole thing. And then he goes, you think there's not meat left on those? She goes, let's ask the audience. She turns the plate towards the camera. Real recognize real empty bones. Sorry. That's what I'm like. Stop putting the camera on stars. That's all I'm saying. Quit turning that camera onto a star. Cause they'll act like a star. Oh, speaking of the camera on stars, sorry. You go first. Okay. Just really quick. Claro has my favorite internet moment of the year. She's asked by Taffy. What does she have to say to her? Is it bisexual men who are obsessed with her? And she just goes, um, it's my favorite video I've ever seen. Um, as a full sentence. Exactly. She, and what she manages to do in her face in that moment is some of the best character work I've ever seen. Like she, a star has been born for a long time. I think she's incredible. But I can't stop watching. I'll send to you after. It's so I haven't seen this yet. I couldn't think of what to say to the bisexual men in Brooklyn who love her. And that I think is. think is, yeah, it was very you coded to me. That's a tough question to be asked on the spot. I don't know what I would say. Well, you have a perfect answer now. Okay. Hit me. Sitcoms. So back in the nineties, early two thousands, Nick at night used to be this gorgeous blend of sitcoms from like the fifties and sitcoms from the eighties slash nineties. So I used to start my night with like a little growing pains, something of that nature. Then it would go into the facts of life. Then we're talking about, I love Lucy. And I was such a night owl as a kid. So I would just be up watching these shows by myself and like rolling in laughter. The Jeffersons, they had the great American sitcom on Nick at night. It was, it was like so wholesome. And there were so many life lessons to be learned. And many, many times they were funny episodes, but sometimes they got serious. And for me, the show that really sticks out. Well, so obviously there's full house as well, which then made it onto Nick at night, you know, after our time with watching it so that my nieces could enjoy it. But for me, the sitcom that really sticks out is growing pains. Show me that smile again. Also growing pains had a character on it named boner, which feels very ride the pod. Very ride the pod. Yeah. That's very, um, chase bank. It's very chase bank to name a character boner. So it was show me that smile. Oh, show me that smile. And it had a man's voice and a woman's voice. Don't waste another minute on your crying. Very ride. Very, very ride. And just thinking about all these amazing shows and family matters and just like getting into the show with a descriptive and thematic song. Like they just really don't do it like that anymore. Now they just put the title over the show, which is obviously artistic in its own right. But I love that you can still go back and visit these great American theme songs. I feel like the white Lotus brought it back a little bit. I will say in overcompensating, we don't do it because there's a reason why and you'll all see why. So a couple really stand out to me. Zoe one-on-one was like really vocal. Oh, I know you see me standing here. You sing that to me all the time. I sing it to you all the time. Do I look good my dear? Do I look good someday? Yeah. I fucking love that song. And then friends. I mean, like that's so huge. And then Lizzie McGuire. Of course. And if you believe that you got a picture per plan. What they did with aerobics balls in that. No one has seen stuff like that before. It was just balls. Well, it was it was a wink to the rhythmic gymnastics of future episodes. Activate my love. That I loved. Oh, sister, sister. Never knew how much I missed you. That was so good, too. There were so many. Smart guy. He's a smart guy. Smart guy. Oh, it's a slice of life. Mr. T.J. Henderson. Super intelligent. A fine young gentleman. A 10 year old whiz kid. Bust in high school. A tenacious little shorty with a thousand IQ. He got away with the ladies and he's keeping it real. Your favorite letter study buddy. You know the deal. They say that he's cute. Uh-huh. Very clever. You could say that he's bright, brainy, gifted, whatever. Your brother is smart. He's a smart guy. Jackson just pissed himself. Jackson, can you just say I just pissed. Jackson has excused himself in the recording. They just don't make shows like this anymore. I'm sorry. They just don't. Here's the thing. They're not trying to build worlds. They're not. And I wish they would. So in Overcompensating, we do a thing where each episode is named after a song. I'm allowed to say that. If I'm not, it is what it is at this point. You're going to see it soon enough. The show will come out. That's we have to remind people. So that's why it doesn't do it. But like it almost has a theme song in that it doesn't, if that makes sense. Like each one kind of has its own. It's like, why choose one? Well, it's the first of its kind. Why choose one? I got a TV show. I want to be indulgent. Of course. I'm getting this opportunity. Let's have some fun. But I can only imagine what ours would be. But I really, I love this ride. I think it's so fun. I'll talk more during Ride or Die, but Whatever happened to Predictability, the Milkman, the Paperboy, the Evening TV? I mean, that's In West Philadelphia, born and raised. Oh my God. Yeah. On the playground is where I spent most of my days. That's so me. At the arcade is where I spent most of my days. I'll always tell you that. To have a theme song sort of crossover into culture as a song itself, there's nothing better than that. Ride has one. I'm just happy for everyone involved. Ride has one. I love it. I don't think I ever want to change it. No, we can't. I love it. We can't. Boom, boom, boom. It just brings you in. Let us know your favorite theme songs and the ones that you could just sort of do off the dome. Please. I also think that it's something about it that like gets you into watching. Like it just helps you kind of get into the zone of the show. Or else I feel like you're like, oh, I have to rewind. Like, sorry, I wasn't ready yet for like plot. I feel like there's something scientific about it. It feels very Pavlovian dog. Pavlovian. It's wow. It's so true. Because when you hear the Friends theme song, when you hear the Sex and the City theme song, instantly you're transported. It's evocative. It's evocative. ER. I don't know that one. Oh, I remember Grey's being something incredible. Wasn't it like Death Cab for Cutie? Wait, that actually brings up something important. Death Cab for Cutie? Not that, but the, well, I did see Death Cab at MSG last year. Sick. And they did. They did a Death Cab slash Postal Service tour. And it was like one of the great nights of my life. I might've been wrong. I think Grey's Anatomy might be Postal Service. Okay. I know someone will tell me. I mean. Don't mix those up. Yeah, I wouldn't. I watched Grey's Anatomy in high school and I was so confused by the fact that her name was Meredith Grey. And it was Seattle Grace Hospital. Yeah. Like, why would they do that? And then I had the same confusion in Bring It On. Her name was Torrance and the school was the Rancho Carne Toros. And I'm like, this is too close. I'm like, I'm seeing connections here with my galaxy brain. It's taking me out of it. Yeah, totally. You're like, you're thinking that they did it as a choice, but it actually is kind of just like, it was probably like top of mind for them and it sounded right. But then it is confusing. Yeah. I'm just saying as a viewer, I was confused. I do think I also maybe made some kind of Seattle Grace, like association with that. That show was just so sexual when it started and it really was like, it was so many awakenings for me in a way that I just couldn't, I was like, oh my God. Like, this is just a lot for me. A lot of people also talk about the Twin Peaks theme song. So that's just important to shout out. I mean, the Brady Bunch, of course. Mom was really into Providence. Did you ever watch that show? I don't know. I think it's one of those things where like your mom's watching something and so you watch it and you think it's the most famous thing in the world. But I'm like, I don't think anyone watched this, but they literally had a Beatles theme song. A Beatles theme song? You couldn't, I mean, wow, the industry has changed. And now I think to myself, how the fuck did they? They pay for that. Like, that's just crazy. I'm looking this up. Oh, In My Life. In my life, I love them all. That vibe. Yeah. I don't even know. There are places I remember all my life. Yeah, that show was like huge for me. I used to watch that with my mom. I had like quite the repertoire. Kids at school talking. I'm like, did y'all see Desperate Housewives last night? So you have moms being star makers. I thought my mom didn't like the Beatles. So I grew up my whole life being like, hey, Jude is fine. I like Strawberry Fields. But I just thought she didn't like them. So for that reason, I thought I couldn't like them. And then I just found out literally three weeks ago. She's like, I love the Beatles. I don't know where you got that from. I'm like, so I've been harboring this for my whole life. And you didn't think to just kind of clear that up. You're like, do you know how fucking bad I wanted to like sing Yellow Submarine as a kid? Do you know how badly I wanted to stand these fools? And I didn't feel like I could. Should we get into Ride or Die? You know what you are, Benny? Hmm, I f***ed it. Your words, not mine. Babe, you're my Ride or Die. Ride or Die. I think we should get into Ride or Die. I feel like this episode is very Americana. They have been lately. We're still holding out hope for the old glory here. Oh, speaking of songs and things, I rewatched Hitch with my new man. Which is also the live action Aladdin. I watched the live action Aladdin. Because we talked about it and I'm like, I realized I hadn't seen that one. Wait, so, wait, Hitch is the live action Aladdin? Well, if you watch the live action Aladdin, Will Smith is the genie and he's not not Hitch. Like, it's the same thing. And so I was kind of like, f***, this is like so Hitch-coded. It's Hitch too. These are these big thoughts that hit my brain. They have some amazing songs in that movie where I was just thinking, if you made this movie today. Also, if you made Ingrid Goes West today, both of those actresses would be nominated for Oscars. Elizabeth Olsen and Aubrey Plaza. Completely agree. Holy shit. Powerhouse performances. They should have been nominated then. I still think of lines from it. But now in this current landscape, absolutely. Elizabeth Olsen, I still think of lines from it when she says, Feet in the sand, head in the clouds, Joshua Tree. Or it's like something like that. It's so, that movie is genius. I'm like, it does make you sick to your stomach the whole time, but in a good way. You're so nervous. Also, Billy Magnuson is so good in it as well. He's incredible. And he's also in Aladdin. Live action. Not kidding. Whoa. Yeah. Whoa, the worlds are intersecting. I want us to be in a fight in a movie. Woo! And it wasn't Billy who auditioned for your boyfriend. We should just say that if they're thinking it's Billy. That would be a huge jump. Huge jump. But you know, you never know. But the Baroneys are always putting pieces together. I ride for arcades. Oh, you do? It really reminds me of like having older brothers. Just like I have three, of course, and two older sisters. But like we do a lot of celebrating older sisters on the show. Yeah. And I feel like for me, the arcade is such like an older brother gets to pick the activity. Hey, let's celebrate some men. What do you say, Jackson? Hey. Yeah. Woo-hoo-hoo. Jackson, say, all right. All right. Ciao. I ride for sitcom theme songs. I think this episode feels like home to me. It feels like making memories. It feels like childhood in a fun way. It's the good stuff. It's the things that make you feel like community in a way. You're a part of a community. You're tapping in. And yeah, I think we need to get back to theme songs. Hey, they teach the viewers how to watch the show in a lot of ways. I so ride for this also because I think it's time we watch a little bit more TV. Oh, I'd have to agree. I think the golden age of television is back. I think TV is back, sister. And that reminds me of Mad Men. I'm just thought of the morning shows with the little balls. Talk about balls. The balls. Ah, see, there's so many to ride for. Send us your favorites, please. We're so curious. Send us the ones that you can't get out of your head. And this one goes out to all the girls still at the bar buying bottles with your revenue. And to that. I say, if you want my auto, want my autobiography, baby, just ask me. One, two, three. May they experience the loss. Say it with me, Jackson. You're implicated now. One, two, three. Oh, my exit. Benny, babe, eyes on the road. Benny, look out! Ride!