FINNEAS Rates Baby Yoda, Taco Bell, and James Bond

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Hm, my predominant memory of CDs

as a 22-year old in 2020,

is that we had an apricot tree in my backyard

that squirrels and birds alike

would chew all the apricots up in.

So my dad hung our entire CD collection

in the backyard in the apricot tree.

Instead of the birds and squirrels going,

all right, we'll leave this apricot tree alone,

they would see their own reflection in the CDs

and attack the CDs.

What we ended up with was like a Christmas tree

skirt of broken CD shards at the bottom

of the tree in the backyard,

and then many crescent moon-shaped discs

hanging from the tree.

Then a bunch of squirrels and birds

still eating all the apricots.

They got exactly what they wanted

and we ruined our CD collection.

Overrated for apricot protection.

Underrated if that was the medium

at the forefront to the music industry

for a period of time.

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Okay, I've never gotten to say this anywhere,

but I'll say it here.

When I got the TV show, Glee,

when I got the audition,

I had never seen the show Glee,

and I was jumping on the ship

in the sixth season.

And I thought, well that's a lot of episodes

for me to catch up on and get really current,

so I think I'll just not.

I remember being on the show and the writer

coming over to me and going,

You're familiar with the show, right?

I was like, Yes, of course!

Listen, I was like on four episodes.

I was barely on the show, really.

But it ended up being like two months

of shooting anyway.

So for four months I was just asking

anybody that was willing to tell me

what was going.

I was like, What's going on?

Me being on the show Glee,

was like the same as when your dad,

for no good reason, sits down next to you

in the middle of a movie and he's like,

But why are they trying to smuggle

the diamonds in there?

And you're like, Dad, you have to go back

a full two hours to understand this.

I'd go rated, in term of Glee's

cultural impact, it was really good

for theater kids.

I appreciate what they did

for the gay rights movement.

That was exciting to me.

I'm gonna go overrated in terms of

whether it was actually good.

It wasn't good.

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I mean, who are you polling?

Me or the United States Health Board?

On a personal level, Taco Bell is underrated.

On a global scale the beans are gray,

which isn't the color of beans.

And every couple years some announcement

comes out where they're like,

Hey, just wanted to let you know

we're no longer putting high-fructose corn syrup

in our beans.

And you're like, whoa!

There was high-fructose corn syrup in your beans.

I went to the Taco Bell headquarters recently.

Flex.

I was there and I said, How do you guys

make the cinnamon twists?

They said, Check this out.

And they put a bunch of pasta

in a frying pan, and dipped it in oil.

All of the pasta exploded,

and then they poured cinnamon all over it.

That's how you know we're in the Roaring Twenties

again, because that's just innovation

at its finest.

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Underrated?

I mean, you know what?

I grew up watching the Grammys every year.

My defense mechanism when I had no idea

if we were gonna win any or not

was like, well a lot of my favorite records

never won Grammys.

Kendrick Lamar didn't win for DAMN

and didn't win for To Pimp a Butterfly

in the best album category.

It was like, if you know what?

If we didn't win, we'd join a club

of my favorites.

Then we won all of them and I was like,

perfect, wonderful!

I didn't complain about it at all.

So I'm gonna continue not to complain about it.

Super underrated.

Grammys have a bright future ahead of them.

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Overrated, oh my god.

So overrated, it's crazy.

Brain damage isn't overrated.

Brain damage is serious and we should

take it seriously, and the treatment

for it, especially, is underrated.

But I think it's weird to watch

the same amount of head trauma and concussion.

It would be like watching Shibuya Crossing

in Japan, just only cars crashing into each other.

It's the same as watching the Super Bowl.

It's insane.

And then Shakira comes out.

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Overrated, that's an easy one.

I was a huge Vine fan.

Vine was an incredibly important platform to me.

In the video realm of platforms,

I'm not a content creator, I'm only a consumer.

I just would watch vines for hours.

The TikTok culture is so disturbing to me.

There's an amount of 14-year old

and 15-year old guys on TikTok

that have a level of self-confidence

I have never achieved in my life.

A lot of like.

Like a lot of just crazy smolder.

And they're all basically pre-pubescent,

or at the very least, pubescent.

There's so much swagger coming off of those guys.

Maybe just because of my own insecurity

I vote TikTok overrated.

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Hard to rate.

Let's go couple's therapy underrated.

Marriage probably overrated.

But they should walk hand in hand.

If they walk hand in hand, they're both rated.

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Extremely overrated, and I really like that show.

I think Yoda's cuter than Baby Yoda.

Original Yoda, old Yoda.

With the hair coming out of the ears.

That was a good touch on whoever

designed that puppet.

Babies are cute, but I think if there's

a cute old version of a thing,

oftentimes just as cute as the baby version.

You know?

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All seltzer is overrated.

Seltzer is lesser than soda,

and also lesser than water somehow.

The great tragedy of seltzer

is unscrewing a regular bottle of water

and taking a hefty thirst-quenching gulp

of seltzer accidentally.

It's oftentimes the low point in my day.

I hate seltzer, and I hate spiked seltzer

because I hate people talking about it.

And no one shuts up about it.

Oh my god.

That whole White Claw thing this past summer?

Jesus Christ, so annoying.

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Overrated.

My managers got me this for my birthday.

My birthday's at the end of July,

and every year somewhere in mid September

they go, We got you a birthday present.

[laughs] And I'm sure they've been

thinking about it since my actual birthday,

but it is always a month and a half late.

That's fine.

But it fits me and it's made of actual gold,

which is really nice.

It's a font that I chose, so I'm a fan of it.

If there was a person who I felt

competitive with in my life,

or jealous of for some reason,

or if somebody stole my girl

and they had a ring with their name on it,

I would think they were a preposterous douche-bag.

Does that keep me from wearing it?

No, I'm still wearing it.

But I'm aware of how it comes off.

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Hm.

I'm gonna go with underrated.

That being said, I have not worn it in years.

There is an actor who is on The Morning Show,

who has the most phenomenal set of eyelashes

I've ever seen.

I was convinced for the first episode

that he was wearing eyeliner, or guyliner,

and that it was gonna become a plot point.

And then at some point later one,

I just realized he just has the most

beautiful eyelashes of any man.

I think if you hope to achieve a similar effect

with guyliner, you should feel free to do so.

I find that I look like a dude who would

have his own name on a ring on his finger,

if I wear guyliner.

So I abstain.

But to each their own.

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I'm gonna go rated on James Bond,

especially since announcing that

we're doing the theme for this movie.

And seeing how much people care

about the franchise, I'm gonna go rated.

'Cause I love the franchise.

I don't think it's overrated at all.

I don't think it's underrated.

I don't think it's an underground thing.

I think people are pretty aware of James Bond.

Really, really opinionated about it.

There's been a lot of comments on Twitter

of like, aw, it should be the song Supremacy

by Muse from nine years ago.

It's one those, you halfway through

a Twitter response to a question,

where you're like being educational.

Then you're like, this is a waste of my time.

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Super overrated.

But so is recording in a bedroom.

To me the whole reason and the whole

philosophy beyond it, is that

you can make music anywhere.

It doesn't have to be in a bedroom.

We did songs in a hotel room,

and on a tour bus.

Oftentimes in interviews I'm given the question

of like, Yeah, are you guys gonna go

back to the bedroom to make this next record?

I'm like, I don't know, probably not.

It's just a room.

Yeah, I think both are overrated.

Recording music yourself, underrated.

Thinking other people have the solution, overrated.

Fancy studios, oh my god.

What a huge waste of time.

Every time I'm in a fancy studio

it's like the whole first hour

is me going [snaps fingers]

The mic's not picking up anything.

Why isn't the mic picking up anything?

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Overrated. [laughs]

College is rated.

I think college, there's so many career paths

that require higher education.

I don't necessarily want a doctor

who's like, Yeah, just fuck college.

[laughs] Didn't go to college.

College for the arts, I'm gonna go with

overrated, because I think art

is fully subjective.

If you're an artist of any kind,

you shouldn't be relying on the judgment

of teachers who feel that it's their

obligation to critique your work.

But college, if you wanna be involved in neuroscience,

probably completely necessary.

So I'm not anti-college,

but I'm definitely anti-art school.

Holy shit.

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The mall is overrated for grown people,

and underrated for kids.

As a child, you're by default a pedestrian

at all times because you can't drive.

I think a mall is a good example

of a place where you can navigate

with your other 12-year old friends.

Hang out at and not have to drive

from one place to another.

But as a grownup, so depressing.

A mall is like an airport,

but you can't go anywhere.

I get a lot of scented candles,

and a lot of hand lotion,

just to make my hands feel nice

at Bath & Body Works.

And Bath & Body Works is always in a mall.

Every time I go into a mall I'm like,

I gotta get the fuck outta here.

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Underrated.

People go smell-blind to their house.

I think people think their house

smells regular, and your house just

smells like you, whatever you smell like.

Sometimes that smell is below average.

So I'm a big believer in scented candles.

Although, sometimes people, namely my girlfriend,

get scented candles that I find fault with,

because the scented candle is like...

What scent is this candle?

Chocolate chip oatmeal cookie,

dunked in pumpkin spice latte.

And it'll be like that candle.

For four days, I'll just not know

what's going on in my house.

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