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Hi, Tom Beaudette.
Thinking about all the different sandwiches my mom used to make for our family road trips.
Bologna and Cheddar, turkey and cheddar, ham and cheddar.
I like Cheddar as a kid, but as an adult, I think I like saving cheddar more.
That's why I book at studio six for extended stays with the kitchen.
It lets the family make more than just car sandwiches like Mac and Cheddar.
I'm Tom Bode for studio six.
Or you get more in your room for less jitter.
Mom, what are we doing here?
Your father's laundering money for a mexican drug cartel.
I shit you not.
Ray.
Is Ben Bailey Smith here?
And Sasha Bates.
And you are back in the place where we explore our favorite fictional tv characters, working out the way they behave, why they do, sticking them into therapy.
So here we are again.
Sash, tell us about that clip at the top.
That was 15 year old Charlotte bird getting the rundown from her mum Wendy about how they ended up in a rural lakeside town in the Ozarks, like Schitt's Creek that we covered a few weeks ago.
It's another story of a family stuck in a town away from what they know.
But it couldn't be more different.