Good morning and welcome to a melancholy Monday.  Today we have to talk about Ted and why we can't have nice things and happy endings even when we reward the early creation, Roy Kent speaks for us.  Today is a mix from The Guardian and The Atlantic's weekend sections and a good mix of intellectual itches and silly chuckles.  Investigative journalism tracks down the truth about health remedies – and we determine you can age out of the dinosaur match game.  Finish with The Atlantic’s photos of the week and a new tune for the playlist.  Fingers crossed – have a good day!

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The title of this piece comes from the 80s teen coming-of-age story by John Hughes called Sixteen Candles.  The character played by Anthony Michael Hall is listed in the screen credits as "The Geek or Farmer Ted."  He didn't even have a name, so the other characters called him Farmer Ted.  In the third season of Ted Lasso, it seems Ted is on his way out to pasture.  What started out as a sweet, silly, and charming show is becoming complicated, leaving many fans wondering why. 

The massive popularity of Ted Lasso is in part due to the desperate need we all felt for something sweet and silly.  Sprinkle in some conflict and even a few challenging subplots, address mental health, relationships, and even some backstabbing as long as it stays in the background.  Farmer Ted needs to be the butt of the jokes and the hero in the end.  If this is the end of the series, end it the way it began, the sweetheart wins, and the cast of cynics cannot break him because we all B-E-L-I-E-V-E.

The first two seasons of Ted Lasso clocked in with 20 episodes; the argument that it's time to change things up would be tough to make; after developing some of the most fantastic characters and stories within the new streaming world of shows, the third act with less surprise would have been a great way to end the series.  The Atlantic has a deeper write-up on the little show that made us all so happy and perplexes us as it gets ready to close the door.  What say you, Roy Kent?

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Tracey Ramsden from The Guardian researched several household remedies to determine what might work and which one's are total bullocks.  The good news is chocolate does NOT cause acne, and gum does NOT stay in your gut for seven years!  The bad news; peeing on your jellyfish sting doesn't work (maybe that's good news?), and Oysters are only good for Rockefeller; they won't do anything for your sex life. However the wonderful artist Edith Pritchett illustrates the “oyster aphrodisiac” in the best way…

If you are part of a family, especially if you've raised one, you will be in front of one of those toddler memory games again.  The match games you played with kids years and years ago are still as popular as ever, and now that you are 10, 20, or 30 years removed from your first game played with the kiddos, it sits before you.  It could be a grandkid or niece, a family friend, or even a volunteer opportunity; whatever it is, you are playing a match or memory game with a kid and his or her undeveloped brain.  And you will wonder how they do it.  Tim Dowling from The Guardian wonders the same thing; his story is even better.

The Atlantic starts our week in pictures, and the photos of the week are a melting pot of the small planet 8 billion of us call home.  They touch on all basic emotions; love, tenderness, anger, grief, and everything in between.  Just ask Baby Sumo.

Tim Armstrong and the ska punk boys.

Click on the Apple Music image to listen to the song on Apple Music or on the Spotify Image to listen to Spotify.

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