The Morning Stream - TMS 2049: Off-Brand Megadonors

Episode Date: January 12, 2021

I Could Impeach For Hours. What's The Drag On A Canadian Penny? Extra-Curricular Man-Seed. I Like Ketchup's Umamiiiiiiii. Stick your meat in Dr Pep. Do You Pee On It? Tuesday The Twelfph. My wife can do Four different hand styles. Sperm donors making money hand over fist. Corona 5-O. Erect a Giant Naked Lady. Focused on half a shuttlecock. The Secret Ingredient is the Flies. Falling Down with Fat Russel Crowe. Oakland Hotel Reviews with Jury and more on this episode of The Morning Stream. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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I like ketchup's umami. Stick your meat in a Dr. Pep. Do you pee on it? Tuesday, the 12th. My wife can do four different hand styles. Sperm donors making money hand over fist. Corona-5-0. Erect a giant naked lady.

Focused on half a shuttlecock. A secret ingredient is flies. Falling down with Fat Russell Crow. Oakland Hotel reviews with Jury and more on this episode of The Morning Stream. I think women are becoming a little more frightening to men these days. Maybe because we're freer to do much more But some men aren't intimidated at all They enjoy our freedom

Those are the men I like And you know those are the men who wear English leather cologne I will have a grande Asmoka Frappuccino With extra whipped cream The morning stream. Ah, uh, ah.

You didn't say the magic word. Good morning, everybody. Welcome back to TMS. It is the morning stream for Tuesday, January 12th, 2021. 12th. That's a hard, it's a hard one to say. Think about it. Yeah, there's all those concepts.

and it's all jammed together like they were just trying to see how many they could fit in the box. Yeah, I don't know why it never hit me before. 12th. It's hard to say. You either have to go way on the periphery and say, 12th. I remember when Shakespeare had a problem with that saying, well, I'm going to write a play, and I'm going to call it the 12th night. Like, fifth is cool.

Fifth, fourth, eight. Those are fine. Those are good THs. But nobody says, remember, remember the 12th of November. right no buddy uh welcome back to the show i'm scott he's brian and we got a show to do we got uh we got a guess we got uh content

we do a morning show here uh i don't know if you're familiar with it but that's what this is so sit back relax oh i was reminded sure i had in my notes uh to do list yeah do morning show and i didn't put any further information sometimes it's all you need list than that so sometimes it's all you need dude just a slight reminder that something is happening this morning Speaking of which Gushy notepad right here Oh yeah Looking at that thing

Is that the erasable deal? It is It is this is the one The orbit that they kick started The Rocketbook orbit So like I can I can use water and go And take stuff off

But here's what's really cool This is like a little magnetized deal And they have a little different All sorts of different packs You can come out here And then these flip around And so you've got other You know pages and stuff like that

Everybody just saw my to do list So Oh yeah It wasn't, it was very low resolution, so someone's going to have to do some CSI work to, uh... Plus, my handwriting is nowhere near the quality of Cameron Crows, so, uh, so we're good. Wait, was that his handwriting every time? Oh, it was his handwriting at the beginning of Almost Famous. Yeah.

He has very nice penmanship. Very nice penmanship. Like I'd say, it's, it goes in this order. Uh, Kim Johnson, Cameron Crowe. And then way, way down me. Yeah, the Ks, then the Cs, eventually gets the dental, or the, uh, it's down. there at the bottom right that's right exactly my handwriting is atrocious so yeah uh don't come near anything i write with my hand but my wife can do four different hand styles they all are beautiful

and she can do calligraphy without even thinking about it my wife can do four different hand styles four different hand styles baby oh yeah uh so i was reminded by the way about morning shows because i was in the car a little bit this morning and uh okay had to run a quick errand and um we heard a local morning show, which is a thing I haven't heard in a long time, like a terrestrial in-between commercials, sort of talky, yappy morning show. And it was a nice reminder of why I do this, because they're so bad now. They're so bad. Like, they were bad before, but now they're owned by mega corporations that all own like 50 million stations each. Yeah, there's very few independent radio, you know, radio markets now, and major markets anyway. Right.

You're not going to hear the same. All right. Well, we're going to put our heavy rotation playlist on. You're going to hear four songs by Ariana Grande this hour. Tune in. Right. And so as a result, that stuff just sounded freaking, ugh. It was so homogenous and so, like, manufactured.

And it was a great, it was a nice, I like these occasional reminders that TMS was a good idea. Because you know what we're doing. We're creeping up on our 10-year anniversary. We are. Yeah. Oh, yeah. It's true. It's just around the corner.

What is the date? I should look. the 21st. Gosh, dude, we're not ready for that. I know TMS mashups Jamie knows because he has been like pacing around waiting for us to hit that mark because he's got something special for us. Yeah, he's into it.

Here it is. January 24th, 2011. Wow. It was our very first episode. Oh, no, it's a Sunday this year, so I guess we're not... No. I guess we won't celebrate it. What are you going to do? I guess not.

Oh, well, we'll have to wait. until 20 years if that day falls on a week day. Oh my gosh. You imagine. I guess I can't imagine it. It'll be fine. Anyway, so that's the thing. Radio sucks. It's just really bad right now. So sometimes you need your own little, you know, we're in a weird position because we do this every day and we think we're having a good time. But we don't really know, do we? Do we really know? Because it's hard. We're not the eyes, we're not the ears listening to it. We're the ones making it. So we hear each other. I know we're having a good time. The question is that we think we're having a good time, but we're pretty sure that we are having a good time.

We ourselves are having a good time. And, you know, pretty sure people are, but we, you know, until you get some kind of feedback, you never really know. But then sometimes you go listen to what the rest of the world listens to, like people who still listen to things in their car. And you go, oh, yeah, that's really bad. That's bad. So we're, so we're doing our duty here on the show. welcome to the Blade Runner episode it's episode 2049 yeah so uh let's go to a radiated Vegas and find Harrison Ford okay and drink out of a weird shaped Johnny Walker bottle yeah it'll be a big

naked lady statues all over the strip and uh Vegas actually 2049 Vegas you know do you think will be the first to erect a giant naked lady statue oh man hold on I mean the Hooters casino hotel is gone so he can't use that one that seemed like the obvious one. It feels like, actually, I take that back. What am I thinking? They've already put one between

Park MGM and New York, New York. There's a giant naked lady statue. Is it big? It's not as big as the ones in 2049, and it's a hollow statue filled with lights.

Yeah. But I bet I can find a photo of it. I'm finding some 2049 imagery here as well. Oh, man, look at that thing. Because there's, okay, so there's a hint in there that the, not the Bellagio, the, the pyramid, the Luxor. Geez, I couldn't think of it.

Has been remade. I don't know if you notice this. Oh, yes. It appears to have been rebuilt in this movie. And here, Chad, I'll put it up in the thing and also send it to Brian. But if you look at this thing, there it is. You can see this kind of remade pyramid looking unit. I don't know if that's really what that's supposed to be,

but Future Vegas has a lot of these statue ladies all sticking around. And the whole place has been, we don't know what the exact event was, but pretty much nuked out of living. You can't live there unless you're a freaking replicant. And I like that. That's maybe my favorite motif in the movie is this just like abandoned Future Vegas in the middle of this like horrible orange cloud of nastiness.

I think that would be, you know, I'd be into that as well. I'm wondering, you know, what kinds of things are still working there is the, are any of the fountains still going? I don't think so. I don't think so. I think the, the only thing they got going for him that's working is the actual buildings seemed pretty untouched inside. Like when Harrison Ford, where he was at, that didn't look like it was a non-functional casino. Like it looked like it was clean, you know, had a decent. array of amenities.

All that stuff belongs in a museum. Yeah, all that stuff belongs in a museum, dude. So you see the link I put in our Discord. I also put in the chat room, but it's the... Oh, let me see. It is the current naked lady's statue that's between

New York, New York, and... I'm an idiot. I put these in freaking the film sack group. Park MGM. I'm over here telling you about how. Oh, yeah, look at that. Look at that Luxor rebuild and you're... I'm putting in the right thing. Oh, yeah, look at that. See, that's a That's a step in that direction, dude. It is.

It really is. It's close. Yeah. Why am I getting so excited about such a dumb thing? Because it's help. It's happening. Yeah. It's happening.

That's only 40 feet tall. It's nowhere near the size of the ones that, uh, gosling is walking around in. Yeah, that's true. But still, man, I love that. I love that look. Got to walk. You got to walk before you can run. That's right.

You can't get there. You go zero to 60. Come on. That's right. Baby steps. Anyway, welcome to the Blade Runner episode. Just going to take booby steps. That's right.

Our episode begins with us trying to track down Dave Batista, who will beat the shit out of us. And we will not be able to take him alive. All right. Moving on. If you've never seen that movie, by the way, you're crazy and go see it. Why aren't you helping the turtle? Why aren't you flipping it over? Actually, I should say this.

Had it not been for Mad Max Fury Road in 2015, 2049 would be the movie I wouldn't shut up about. That would be my... That would be the one I would glom onto and never stop talking. So I don't know if that's good or bad. I'm just saying people, be glad I picked one and that I stay there mostly, you know, because I would talk incessantly about 249 if I had the gumption to do it. Right.

It'd be BR49 would be the hashtag we'd frequently see in the show. Oh, yeah, BR 49. That's not bad. Better than BM49, if you know what I mean. Better than WWA4. Oh, boy. Not wrong there either. Okay, we got an email from up north Jeff.

Jeff Seyer writes in. Jeff Seyer writes in all the time. He's from Grafton, Ontario, Canada. And he likes to correct us on some things and, you know, pipe in with some stuff. We know, we know Jeff, nicknamed Bronco, known him forever. And he had this to say as a follow-up to our discussion about dropping a penny from a building and whether that penny would go through your head and kill you or not. We talked about how the Myth Busters busted that myth and all that other stuff.

Anyway, it says just a note on last week's discussion on the dropping penny and whether or not it would penetrate your skull. Here is the applicable equation. He says he cut and paste to this because he doesn't know how to do scientific notation on his keyboard. It's k.e. equals one slash or I guess half m. So one half or not one half, but half, well, I guess it is one half. One half mv2. And it's really, it should be v squared. He just couldn't get the, uh, oh, the pasting script on the two.

So it's, you're right. K.E equals one half M v squared. Yeah. So yeah, even if you cut and paste it, it came out wrong in our, in our, our thing, the formatting. You should have, should have put it, pasted a photo. Yeah. Yeah, should have given us a photo reference. Anyway, it says, uh, KE stands for, of course, kinetic energy.

M is mass for the mass of the object. In this case, the penny and V is velocity or how fast the object is moving because it is one half. um and v squared the main factor that will affect how much damage that penny will do is how fast that it's falling which we talked about terminal velocity and all that yep now brian said that the penny would fall edge first and this is incorrect uh how things move through the air is greatly affected by drag an arrow will travel or sorry an arrow will travel point first and not tumble end over end because of its feathers being at the back and having the most drag the way i guess that's how like a shuttle it's like a shuttlecock

shuttlecock is a great example yeah all the drag is is on one side of it so that will be a parachute yeah right it works for exactly that principle the most drag is caused by the open right so next time you see a shuttlecock remember I just love saying shuttle cock

right oh yeah I love it goes on to say let's keep the arrow pointing first okay a penny or any other round and flat object will have the biggest source of drag on the flat side rather than the edge. This is why when you drop a sheet of paper or an aluminum pie plate, it quickly flips to go horizontal and then flutters to the ground. This makes good sense, right? Like if you do...

Yep. But sometimes things at scale don't always work that way, but I guess a penny does. Anyway, this is what will happen to a penny, which will keep it from gaining too much speed. There's a lot of other factors to consider like air currents, how smooth the penny surfaces, etc. But these are the primary forces that will prevent the penny from going straight through your skull into the ground, Jeff Sire. There we go. We really inspired some scientific thinking in Jeff's brain.

Yeah, no, I like that. And I always love hearing stuff from Jeff, because my first and foremost thought, when you bring up Jeff Sire, when you bring up Bronco, I think, oh, motorcycle guy comes down, rides his motorcycle from Canada all the way down to Nurtacular, down to Snowbird. but we always forget about his great science background and his job and stuff like that. Yeah, he's keeping, you guys don't know it, but if he threw a penny into the stuff he oversees, he could send Canada into the Dark Ages, so be safe. Well, Canadian pennies have holes in them, so they travel at a different speed. Oh, yeah, what's the drag on a Canadian penny?

Or a Canadian hole with a hole, money with a hole in it. What's a, how fast would a timbit fall from the CN Tower? if we were to drop it. Let's not find out. Anyway, thanks, Jeff. We always like hearing from him. And you're right. Hit the brass rail, eh?

Hey. Oh, didn't go through your head, though, eh? We've disproved something with physics, eh? Let's get a beer. Jeff, you're right about Jeff in his image. Like, last time I saw him physically, he was riding a BMW-branded, big old travel motorcycle beast. Yeah. And he's a big, wide dude that looks.

like he could tight end your freaking football team. He's the guy I'd want to have with me in a fight in a dark alley. Oh, 100%. A leather jacket wearing, and then he could blind my opponents with science. Him and Francois up there. Those two guys that travel ran together, I would happily walk into any situation with one on one side and one on the other. No problem. In fact, that's an intimidating bunch anyway with me or you because you and I are both tall.

Those guys are massive. We could run the world. We could, yes. What are we even doing? We're doing the wrong thing. We're in the wrong business. What are we doing? If you guys have questions with thoughts or feelings about anything we talk about on the show,

be like Jeff, send us emails, the morning stream at Gmail. Chatroom seems to be more focused on the word shuttlecock. Actually, focused on half of the word shuttlecock. Yeah, why are they, what's their deal? It's almost as if we cater to a somewhat immature, you know, kind of, well, they're not like, us is what I'm saying. They're like us. Yes. They laugh. They're 13-year-olds deep at heart. So cock. They may be 3 39 and a half years old, but they're 13 deep down inside. That's right. We should all honestly stay as young as you want to. Old people, old people stress me out. So don't be old. Be young. It's all good. All right. We are going to do a little bit of public service here and do the news. So check this out.

Good morning, good morning, everybody. In the news this morning, good morning. It's time for the news, and it's brought to you by The Boop Show, indie games coverage done right with Scott Johnson and Brian Dunaway. Tonight at 3.30 p.m. Mountain Time at frogpants.tv or later via podcast. That's right. Go get it. We're going to talk about cool stuff today. I'm talking about a game called Crying Sons. S-U-N-S-U-N-S-S.

Crying sons. Yeah. Like the sun, like soul. the sun. Right, right. It's a science fiction tale that is also a hot fire down on everybody? Tears of flame. No, not really. I know all there is to know about the crying suns. I'll say I really like it. And it's also free right now on the Epic store, so people should go get it. Yeah. It's normally a $30 game. Okay. Moving on. Let's get to this first story. There is a a bit of a pandemic that isn't related to COVID right now.

It is a pandemic shortage of sperm. Oh, no. Yeah. From your, from your, from the, from the man weaner is where this is the ones we're talking about here. Sperm King mega donors are in high demand. Donor with a D. Yeah, donor. They are in high demand right now.

So Brian, check your emails. You might be, uh, I'm trying to track you down. They've been trying to get you a couple of days now. Not going to track me down. I'm decaffeinated. Oh, well, there you have it. It says here,

these may not seem like ideal. Look to me to repopulate the earth after the Blade Runner virus kills everybody. Right. You'll be in Vegas then when it happens. I'll be in Vegas. I'll be drinking out of a weird Johnny Walker bottle with Harrison Ford. Yep.

Why not? That is what that was. It's like a weird future bottle. Yeah. I've got one. Oh, that's right. You have one. I do.

Courtesy of Scarborough, John Scarborough. That's pretty awesome. Sent me a bottle of that stuff is great. And it is still great. I bring it out for special occasions. Have a sip? Well, more than a sip. I pour some into a glass and enjoy it.

Yeah. Swish it around. Did you, uh, uh, what was I going to say? I forgot. I didn't say. It was a, it was a, it was a fine whiskey question. question. I'm a bad person ask about fine whiskey. Oh, would you call it smooth? Because everyone talks about smooth whiskey.

It's smooth and convincing, like Johnny Walker Black. All right, fantastic. Just what I wanted to hear. Well, these may not seem like ideal times to bring new life into the world, but apparently not everyone sees it that way. In fact, despite all the well-documented difficulty of parenting during a pandemic, it would seem that many aspiring parents have decided to move forward with their reproductive plans anyway. And in some cases, sperm banks can't keep up. Now, this is for people who, you know, need extracurricular manseed because they can't do it, right? They can't

the guy shooting blanks or the lady. Well, or good, well, I guess it would be, yeah, that would be if it's a sperm bank, then the infertility has to be on his side, yes. Won't do much good if she's not able to have kids. Oh, good point, because then the sperm, Well, I guess they still could do I don't know. I have a sister-in-law who I could never have kids. And it was a combination of her and him. And so they adopted three kids.

But my memory is at the time that they were seeking other stuff. And one of them was you could have a surrogate mother and surrogate sperm donor. Never the Twain shall meet. And you'd still get the kid out of that deal, you know. Right. Anyway. nobody had to do it though there was no joy as far as I know right right the way that works you don't you don't do it anyway according to a New York Times story here

sperm banks have had a record-breaking increase in demand over the past several months it says here enter the sperm kings ooh they were my favorite Netflix documentary They were my favorite theme gang in the, what was it called? Warriors, yeah, they were great. Come out and play. Warriors. Hold on. We'll be done in a second.

Give me another minute and a half. Come out and play in about five minutes. Keep it refrigerated. All right. The Times, this is the times the artist or the article writer, Nellie Bowles, has dubbed them the sperm kings. Anyway, these are men who by donating their spream, their sperm, their sperm, their sprem, their sprem, largely free of charge through online networks. You can find them in massive Facebook groups like sperm donation USA, which boasts around 11,000 members and counting. These groups have seen a large and recent surge in new members seeking sperm from these off-brand mega-donors.

Why does that name? Mega-donor. It sounds like something we've said recently. Something about mega-donor. Mega-donor. Somebody was like a fake name we made it for somebody. Something, something, mega-something. Oh, yeah, yeah.

Oh, yeah. I can't think of anything today. Shoot, no. My memory is. That's never going to come back to my head. Can't remember what it is. Anyway, it's easy to understand why these online communities

draw such big groups of parents. They want sperm. And sperm banks don't have enough. So these unregulated online alternatives offer less expensive options with fewer hoops to jump through. But what's in it for the sperm kings? Many who get very little for what they've done.

Oh, I missed that. Won't someone consider the sperm kings? Now I need to know what they would. What is in it for them? Oh, what they get? Yeah, what is it seeking? The satisfaction of a job well done. Okay, here we go.

For some, it might be a sex thing. While most donors reportedly specify they will donate through artificial insemination only. Others offer donations via natural insemination. Yeah, exactly. Also known as an act of sexual intercourse. Exactly. Yep, I'm a sperm donor, but I. I won't masturbate.

Yeah. It's only, uh, natural delivery. Against my religion. So I'm guessing a lot of these, these unregulated options don't have any vetting. Oh, no. Like zero. No. I'm actually kind of concerned about it.

I mean, I'm not, I don't know what you need to do if anything needs to be done. If you're, I think if you're, if you're desperate enough to go to a online, like a Facebook group that offers like sperm donation. services like you're already you're already dancing with the devil in the pale moonlight like what are you even doing right oh my god claire glergak figured it out wolf hard mega norman that was it wolf hard meganorman wolf hard meganormand it was you who said it it was brian yes oh it's one of my favorite thing from stranger things wasn't i like wolf hard uh megan norman that's one of my favorite fake names ever on this show wolf hard me if you ever go to vegas and you're looking for me and I'm under an assumed name.

Just call every hotel and ask for Wolfhard Mega Norman. Mr. Mega Norman, your table's ready. Mr. Mega Norman. Paging, Mr. Mega Norman. Mr. Mega Norman. I don't know why that's so funny to me. I love it, though. Anyway, if you're anxious to get your sperm out there in the market,

apparently it's easier than we thought. So go do that. Here's a Turkish. Wait, your background is not Turkish. Not at all. It's Hungarian. Hungarian. All right.

I always forget. Well, good. I only get turkey in me once a year. Well, you will not be offended at all by this story, then. A Turkish TV preacher was jailed for a thousand years for sex crimes. Oh, someone doth protest too much once again. He's just trying to be a mega donor. Yeah, he's a mega Norman donor. Turkish Muslim televangelist who surrounded himself with scantily clad women on TV

was jailed for more than 1,000 years on Monday for sex crimes, according to local media. I could have seen that one. coming. Yeah, it feels like, I don't know, well, let's see if we think it's too harsh or not.

Adnan Octar preach conservative views while women he called his kittens, many of whom appeared to have plastic surgery, danced around him

in the TV studio. What does the plastic surgery have to do with any of this? That's weird. Many of whom appeared to have plastic surgery done.

Oh, Scandor. But he looks like, looking at the photo right now, and he kind of looks a little bit like Jeremy,

the Mandarin from, from Iron Man. He does, dude. And the guy behind him with the microphone looks like he's holding Parapa the rapper. He does. Punch, kick, it's all in the mind.

It's all in the mind. I like, I think that's what he's saying. Yeah, he does look like, you'll never see me coming. That's the problem. You'll never see me coming. I'm a mega donor. I'm a donor.

he says let's see 64 year old detained he colored his hair for sure yeah yeah detained in June 2018 was part of a crackdown on his group of by the financial crimes unit of the Istanbul police used to be Constantinople

by the way that's right he was sentenced to 1,075 years for crimes including you know what the headline just saying 1,000 and then this saying specifically 1,00075 I understand

if you say eight and then you say 10. But 75 years is an entire lifetime of somebody who lives to be 70. That's a huge chunk to add on your thousand. Once you get over a certain amount though, whether it's a thousand, a thousand, 1,000 to 1,000-705 or 20,000,

it really doesn't matter. I guess so, you're right. But it's like when people say, but it's not like they, you know, it's not like they were trying to save space in the headline. Preacher jailed 175 years for sex crimes would have worked just as well as a thousand years for sex crimes. There you go. Or over a thousand years for sex crimes. It doesn't seem, yeah.

And it's not lost on me, and I'd like to point this out, uh, that this happens a lot here, like a, like a mega church or, or like a televangelist will fall off the wagon and, you know, find out about some horrible controversy. You know, they've been up screaming at gays and whatever, and then they're caught in a hotel room with a gay prostitute or whatever, that sort of stuff. happens all the time. And it's nice to see. But the fact that he surrounded himself with scantily clad women on TV. It wasn't a, it was less of a Doth protest too much and more of a, well, I mean.

Yeah, what'd you expect? Is there a surprise here? But it's nice. Now you can say, you know, maybe Muslims and Christians can get along after all because this guy, this guy screwed up. Yeah, they're just, they both did a terrible thing. We can be equally hypocritical. Yeah. The future's bright for these.

to mega religions, mega donors. Anyway, let's see here. Here's what he was included in his thing. Sexual assault, sexual abuse of minors, fraud, and attempted political and military espionage. Geez. What does that even mean? Some 236 suspects have been on trial in the case, 78 of whom been under arrest, according to the official Nadaulu news agency. The hearings have been, or sorry, have featured lurid details and harrow.

harrowing sex crime allegations. In December, he told the judge that he had close to a thousand girlfriends. He just needs 75 more to make. Exactly. Is it a thousand girlfriends or is it a thousand 75 girlfriends? He says, there is an overwhelming, or so there is an overflowing of love in my heart for women. Love is a human quality. It is a quality of a Muslim, he said, in another hearing in October.

Yeah, he sounds like a bit of a wackadoo. Now, whether or not, I don't know. the exact crimes or how they do stuff over there. But it feels like a 1,075 might be just a little overkill. Maybe you could have said 100. You know, it's not going to matter. He's 65. He's going to die in jail. So what's the point?

I don't know. I don't get that. Whatever. It's just fun to be able to say, and we're going to stack some warriors. Like, it's it's the principal, or not the principal, but Dick Vernon stack in detention after detention after detention on John Bender.

That's a good comparison. just bought yourself another Saturday. And another. And another. You want more? Here come the FBI guys. You're not going to do any of them. That guy, dude. He's great.

Yeah. He shouldn't have died either. Yeah. Show Dick some respect. Yeah, show him some damn respect. Do we ever get like a proper reunion of that cast or anything? I'm sure that's happened, right? Like the breakfast club people all get together?

There was a thing. There was like a, when John Hughes was still alive, there was. was a some awards show brought as many of the brat packers together on stage all at once but this seems like this would have been

the year that we, because this was the year of like, well, we can't all get together in a studio, I know, we'll have Josh Gad get everybody together from certain movies and have them talk about their movie experience. Yeah. And they absolutely should have done that this year and had

you know, Ali She and Molly Ringwald and Judd Nelson and... Because it does look like they did a 25-year one, and it says they were united and remembered John Hughes, but what was this? I think it's what you were talking about. That was after John Hughes passed away. Yeah, and I think it may have been what you're talking about, like that event. Okay, so it was like a...

Because John Hughes wasn't there, and I thought Molly Ringwald said, yeah, he couldn't, he couldn't join us as opposed to, well, we're really sad that John couldn't be with us for this. Ali Sheedy says, now I'm seeing this with my daughter who's here. She is 16 and I'm going to watch it with her. It's very cool. Oh. Yeah, but now you've got to ask them questions.

Like, was that your real dandruff mom? That's right. Exactly. Did you really create a fall on your excellent line drawing? Yeah, your excellent line drawing. It was a great line drawing. It was a great pastoral scene. No, it was.

I just like how you, I like the credit you got it. That excellent line drawing that you did, Mom. It was not a watercolor. It was not a pastel. It was a line drawing. It's so weird to see these guys. Yeah. Look at them all hanging out.

It is. It is. Judd, what's his name? Not Judd Nelson. Judd Nelson. He's, he wears little, little, uh, professor readers. Little glasses down on his nose. Yeah, little glasses.

Yeah. That's a fine look. He's not as rebellious looking as he used to be. I bought a John Hughes documentary a couple weeks ago. It was made for YouTube. Basically, it was a bunch of film students. It's called Don't You Forget About Me. And it was when John Hughes was still alive.

And they are film students that just love his work and wanted to travel across country to his hometown in Illinois where he lives and find him. And they, like, used every method they could to figure out where he lived. They finally got to the pizza place that he frequently orders from. And he's like, oh, yeah, here's what he always orders. And somehow they got his address, maybe through that and a combination of Google or whatever. And so they tried to bring him a pizza and say, could we do an interview? Here's like the first part. They gave him the first part of the documentary that they had shot.

They were in the process of shooting and said, we'd really love to do an interview. and about two weeks later they get a FedEx in the mail after they've gone back home with no interview they get a FedEx in the mail and it's their letter and the DVD that they gave him with no response or anything oh my gosh that's just like oh too bad yeah that's kind of a bummer I mean it cannot be overstated documentary and they interviewed everybody all the Chandler from the Breakfast Club, that dude, and Judd Nelson and McCauley Culkin, and, yeah, it was a really, really good documentary. There was just no payoff at the end.

Wait, McCauley Culcom was in, oh, just as a John Hughes reference? Yeah, just as a John Hughes connection, yeah, because it wasn't just about the Breakfast Club. It was about all the John Hughes movies. Cannot be overstated just how influential he was. It was a filmmaker for our generation, just it was enormous. Like when I saw that movie when I was 15 It was the I'm trying to give an example of a like a different generations version of this

Because since then it's been like almost every generation Feels the same way about Breakfast Club And they watch it at least my kid's good But yeah But like I can't think of anything else I'm sure there's something else for like people in the 50s or 60s Or 70s and they saw a thing And just went this is the defining

This is my generation or something Yeah Yeah, has there been something like that for the current generation? I don't think so. Not that I know of. I mean, there's... Was clueless for that for some people? Oh, I don't know, is it?

That'll make me sad if it is. I don't know. I mean, that's just a decade later than breakfast club. It might have been... But it's kind of bad. It's not that bad. It's kind of bad. It's not bad bad, bad.

It's just sort of. it's a retelling of Emma from Jane Austen. And specifically what I'm looking for is I'd say I was mad at me about this. What I'm looking for here is like a film of a generation

that is about you and your formative years. And that so was Rebel Without a Cause that for our parents? I don't know. I don't know. Was it? Blackboard Jungle or um... Yeah, like what was it for you guys? American Pie? Oh man. Yeah. So, you know,

That's, I mean, maybe, maybe it is. I would argue that Clueless is a better movie than American Pie. Yeah, I'll, you know what, I'm with you on that. Yeah. But see, Ferris Bueller, again, maybe I'm counting everything John Hughes did when he did it when I was a teenager. They all felt that way to me. They felt like anthems to my generation. Yeah, some kind of wonderful 16 candles.

All that stuff. Yeah. And in Ferris Bueller's case, that was just a power fantasy for us. It was like, no, we, we were not. like Ferris and nobody knew anyone like Ferris but we knew a lot of people like Cameron and we knew a lot of people like the girlfriend and we knew a lot of people like the crappy principal and all that so for us it was like oh man to be like Ferris Bueller would be the greatest thing so I mean those things are all I just can't think of a good one for the for all the

rest of you what I'm saying is I feel bad for everybody else we had the coolest filmmaker for our teen years and none of the rest of you have that guy I'm so sorry you had I'm so sorry you didn't have what we had. Yeah, sorry, everyone else. Sorry. Empire Records is a good.

That horrible principle, Jeffrey Jones, I don't know this is a bizarre tangent, but I watched a really short documentary yesterday from defunct land, which talks about rides at Disneyland that either were taken out or never finished or never built or whatever.

And at Disneyland there was going to be the thing, and I think it lasted maybe a month, called extra-terrorrestrial alien encounter. It was in Tomorrowland. It took up the space where Mission of Mars used to be. Okay. And it was one of their typical things that's a combination of a ride and a show, except you're really just sitting in a,

you're sitting in rows of seats that move and rumble and stuff like that while all the action happens on stage. And it was originally intended to be based on Ridley Scott's alien. And they said, no, George Lucas stepped in, well, let's just make it a little bit more friendly or I don't know, because he was already doing Star Tours at the time. And so they had a video that had this like setup of the premise of alien invasion. And Jeffrey Jones played the head alien. Oh, no way. And was this pre all his allegations of like child porn and all that? This was two months.

So the ride opened two months before the Jeffrey Jones bad stuff hit the thing. Oh, I didn't know that. And then they said, yeah, we don't want this in our park. I think we're done. And then they turned it into a stitch ride. Well, Sharon says something about somebody died on it. A kid died on it? A kid apparently died, yeah, which is weird because that was like a, you know, it's like a rumble rows of seats.

There's not a lot of movement going on it. Right. Yeah, I didn't know that about Jeffrey Jones, though. That's news to me. Yeah, the extra terror. the extra-terrorrestrial alien encounter. Here's the other problem. A couple of people in the chat said,

hey, what about reality bites or what about a Kevin Smith movie? Here's the problem. Both those cases are movies aimed at the Grunge era 20-somethings. That was us also. Yeah. We were the 20-year-olds they were talking to.

So we were just moving up the chain and the chain kept moving with us. So that doesn't count. I'm talking about like, junior, you're a junior in high school. what movie speaks to you like no other specifically to that experience and i can't think of anything other than breakfast club oh wow can't hardly wait in the 90s as much potatoes the set green that's a good one jennifer love hewitt that actually is a really good one yeah i'll give

you that soundtrack on that album yeah on that in that movie i'll give you that napoleon dynamite for people oh that's cool i'm yeah and i love who do you connect with you don't you can't say that you connect with napoleon or pedro in that movie we're got to be or kipp Yeah, I don't know who you relate to either, other than if you relate to just being kind of an outcast maybe. Right. With Breakfast Club, it was like IMAC colors. You watch that movie and say, oh, yeah, I'm the Brian in that film, or I'm the, I'm the Claire. Yeah, I'm the basket.

All were represented, at least variations of what you might be or pieces of who you are or who you know. I'm just telling you, I think it's a, I also think it's a perfect movie for when it was and what it was. Yeah, whatever. Yeah, say anything was great. And again, right in our, we were graduating, I feel like we were graduating right around the time that Say Anything came out. I guess a couple of years before seeing anything came out. Yeah. Yeah.

And we're talking movies here. There's plenty of TV shows we get points here. Like I'd say, my so-called life is if there aren't 90s kids who don't feel really strongly about that when they were in high school in the 90s, like I'd be shocked because that thing was really a big deal. So if you're talking TV, that's different. It's just like singular hour and a half, two-hour movie. You just like, bong, there it is, and it sits upon a hill and shines forever. What is it? For me, it's that.

Oh, gross point blank. But see, that's for me. That's for me and Brian again. Right. Again, that was the 10th graduation anniversary. Yeah, he graduated in 87. He was in 97 going back to his 10-year anniversary or 10-year graduation thing back at Gross Point.

Hi. He was us again. It was us. It was exactly my age. I just I I'm not saying we're special Brian but what I'm saying is but every movie is targeted at us it's really weird it's really weird how that stuff followed us through a little bit some of those like hallmark points in filmmaking seem to follow our age group in a way

that I don't know that's weird I'm sure it's about I'm biased and it doesn't matter but I'm sticking to it all right yeah let's move on to this story yeah officers arrest a man suspected of stealing Corona police cruiser Corona the area not the beer or the virus

Is there Corona beer sponsor police cruisers Yeah the new Corona prowler Got a bunch of limes in the trunk Says They oh this is great

Because this reminds The reason I did the story is it reminds me Of playing GTA 5 or something Where you get in an altercation With the cops you wreck the car you already stole and in the altercation you run up grab one of the cop cars

and take off an it that's what happened here right yes is that really what happened oh my god so he just that's basically it says a man's suspect of stealing an unmarked police vehicle following a crash on an

island or inland Empire Freeway has been arrested after he ran into an apartment complex so he wrecked that too Corona police say that after an officer pulled over the suspect ran at him with a gun That's no good. Gunfire was exchanged.

Whenever they say exchanged gunfire, it's like, it sounds too nice, you know? Yeah. Would you like a bullet? Yes, thank you. I'd like to exchange a bullet for your bullet. No injuries reported in the shootout. The suspect left his crumpled car. That's not nice.

That it was involved in the earlier collision. Let's see. And then he took off in this car, the cop had. The officers later found the suspect. She had not been identified in an apartment complex in the Los Sierra neighborhood of Riverside. And it says he barricaded himself in there, but eventually surrendered. They say the man was arrested, and there are no other outstanding suspects. The suspect was taken into a hospital for treatment of unspecified injuries.

Probably not shot because he has a better chance because he's a... Well, Brian, he's a white guy. Okay? Let's just say. Yeah. White guys don't get shot as much. the N-mark patrol car was found in a strip parking lot mall or lot rather

and a photo from the scene shows an abandoned white pickup in the middle of the freeway so that guy's done put a cork put a screw in that one oh you grew up there Begara you grew up in that area nice normally a nice

neighborhood you guys you know fine place to live Riverside Riverside Press telegram, I think, was the newspaper? Riverside, California, yeah. Yeah. Riverside Press Telegram.

I had a friend from Riverside who was a cocaine addict from age 14 until 21. Oh, wow. And then he kicked the habit completely, never did it again. But he would break out in these crazy rashes as a result of his time with cocaine. So he would be, you'd just be sitting there with him. And suddenly his, like the side of his face would turn red and puff out. and it would be like one side and then like his arm would do the same thing

and he just had to have like Benendril to pop with him and it would be fine it would take a few minutes but he would get rid of it but it was all from that it was a side effect of like those years of Coke

I guess God yeah it was bad press press enterprise and I press telegram his name was sui toi tupo was a Polyesian guy I knew

and he had a great yeah we called him Tui Uh-huh. Was it twoy? Oh, it's been a long time. Been a long time. Actually, I saw a Kevin Smith movie with him. So there you go.

Wow, everything all comes back. Yep. All right, here's a final story today. Excuse me. A news study has proven that tomato ketchup or ketchup is literally perfect. Now, you know about my feelings about flies and stuff. So that would be an example of imperfection, the flies. I would.

I would say that. But I guess the actual formula of the flies. The stuff itself is considered perfect. Scientists have discovered that there is something particular in ketchup that keeps us coming back time and time again. As with any good food, it's all a matter of taste. Our perception of taste is made of five separate sensations, sweet, salty, bitter, sour, and the elusive umami. There are many sauces that cater to one or many of these senses, but almost all fail to hit us with all five. It says here remarkably, ketchup is one.

one of the only foods on this planet that does. Hmm. I didn't know that. I didn't know that either. I do crave it if you give me like eggs. If you say, hey, Scott, we're doing scrambled eggs. Pass the ketchup. Please give me ketchup. If you say, Scott, here's French fries.

I have, I need it. I need ketchup. Uh, it says for this reason, uh, some scientists have dud captured the perfect food when we tasted our entire palate is satisfied to the extent where if the manufacturer gets it right, we don't get one particular spike. a flavor, but rather an overwhelming sense of deliciousness. This is why ketchup is the ultimate accompaniment to almost any dish, but, though our four

players of sweet, salty, bitter, salt, bitter, and sour, certainly play their part. It is the mysterious presence of umami that makes the ketchup so remarkable. That's almost impossible to articulate. It is the deep savouriness that is delivered by a well-placed shave of Parmesan and the rich warmth of a bowl of broth. That's your umami. Yeah. It is hard to describe umami as a flavor.

Yeah. It's simply means delicious in Japanese. And it's an indiscernible sensation that makes some foods irresistibly moorish, whatever that means. Hmm. I don't get that. Meaning that you want more and more. Maybe.

M. Twistedfood. co. UK. That's what I'm saying. This is psycho. Anyway. You don't know what to call it.

You just know it's there. It's kind of like that somebody on the Supreme Court years ago in the 60s or 70s or something had that famous phrase of, they were talking about porn, what to owl on, whatever. And he said, I don't know how to define porn, but I know it when I see it. Something like that. So that's what they're saying about ketchup or umami. Anyway, so if you didn't know any better, and forget about the flies for a minute that they're, you know, allowed to. certain number of FTA flies. Maybe that's what causes the Umami. It's, you know, it's the flies. It's the, uh, it's the flies. It's the flies. It's the

untangible, unmistakable, uh, flavor thing. It's a flavor profile. I will say I had Kim bought some sugar-free, uh, ketchup just to try it. And, uh, it is really good. It's just more, it's just more, um, tart kind of tomato-y. Yeah. So that was still fine. I'm still getting most of those flavors. I'm just not getting the sweet, I guess. Nice. Yeah. Anyway, you can always put a little monk fruit sugar. There you go. Absolutely need it. That's right. I found a little sweetener packets that are half monk fruit, half stevia. Oh, interesting. Yeah. You'd probably like them, actually. I probably would. I'll find out what brand it is and let you know. Some cheap brand we got at the sprouts or somewhere. All right, we're going to take a break because news is over. But that

doesn't mean we're done because Justin Robert Young is going to be joining us. What a week we've had since we talked to him last when he was in Georgia, and he'll be back. We'll be talking to him here after the break. Before that, a song, and Brian will now tell us what it is. I will. It's Gus Depperton. Yes, Gus Depperton. He's got a brand new album. Actually, he's got an album that he put out this year called Orca, and he's just released a couple new videos, music videos for a couple of his songs. And they're really cool. There's something very glowy and warm about these that kind of

amplified the songs, kind of like the umami flavor in ketchup. This is Dream Pop for sure. So if you like Dream Pop, you'll like this. The album is called Orca. The brand new single that he's just released a video for is called Medicine. Kind of a little bit of a maybe a Red House painter's

low vibe to this. Anyway, I totally dig it. Here's Gus Apperton and Medicine. Where have you gone? It's been seven solid days strong I just want to know you're unimpaired It's okay Take your time

Our restraints are still aligned But the product of the crowd did you And though I'm vainful of pride Strictly cavalier inside I'll stretch all that I amounted to I've never want to let you go You're the only one who lets me in But every time I try to hold my own

Yeah, I can never seem to get a grip And I don't never want to give you out I always say I'll get ahead of it But every time they try to fix me out I get addicted to the medicine But now I'm sure It's been said It's all in which we've stood

And babe for what I've heard All in it's great Concern Now it's great How are with pride I regret I love to fight I spent milk in

every house of truth You are paid You are bright strictly radiating side I should have worshipped every house of you to let you go you're the only one

who let me in but every time I try to hold my own I can never seem to get a grin and I never want to give you out I always say I get hurt

around every time they try to fix me I get you to the medicine I don't never want to let me You're the only one who lets me in But every time I try to hold my own Yeah, I can never seem to get a grin And I'll never want to give you all

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Welcome back. I don't even know the context of that. Hey, we're back, everybody. Welcome back to the show. it's time to follow through on our commitment to bring Justin in. So stand back. Keep your legs and arms in at all times. It's going to get weird.

I don't know if it's going to get weird. It may not. It's going to get weird in here, people. It may not. Stand by. It might be normal as all get out. Who knows. But I do know this.

We got to play this before we can do anything else. These are their stories. Oh, that was weird. These are their stories. Oh, do, do, do, do. I'm not. It's Justin Robert Young joining us back in a beautiful downtown. I don't know if he's in downtown. He's in Oakland is where he's at. He's no longer in the fine state of Georgia and made it home. We're glad you're home, by the way. How do you feel? How are you doing? I'm doing great. I'm doing great. Got back home out of quarantine yesterday. Yeah. Spent six days in two different hotels and then got two different. different tests, and now I'm back.

What's with the, how come two hotels, not just the, not just the one? First hotel sucked. So I left. Oh, okay. It was just a bad, it was just a, a bit of a bad hotel. It was, it was in an area that I like, and, uh, yeah, I think it takes advantage of the fact that it has a good location. Gotcha.

And, uh, I knew I was into something when they had a sign saying, our HVAC is currently under repair. So there's going to be no air conditioning and no heat. And it's a little chilly down here in the Bay Area. Yeah. And so I said, is it going to be fixed while I'm here? I'm here for three days. And he's like, oh, it's just an old building.

And I'm like, oh, okay. So that's a no. Yeah. It's just saying not really an answer to your question either. So I found out that I actually had two free nights from Hotels.com. And so I used it on a better hotel across the street. Oh, well, not. And your tests were, are these the, you got to jam your nose thing tests or a different kind of tests this time?

I'm curious what the tests are these days. What are we doing for tests? So I actually, I did a little calling around because when I went to Georgia, the UK has approved a test that is basically like a pregnancy test for COVID. You pee on it? Oh. I don't know if you pee on it, but you do spit on it, I think. And then a line shows up and you find out whether or not you have COVID. But it's like, it's a thing that you do right there in your, the privacy, your own home. So I, I, that has not been approved here, but I made a few calls because I was going to be in Georgia.

And I know some people that work in the film world there. Yeah. And I was like, hey, I mean, if anybody's going to have these tests floating around, especially because Georgia has a large, uh, footprint for Pinewood Studios, which is British. I'm like, you know, you know anybody with these COVID tests? And they're like, no, but on Amazon, there's a test called the Dexterity test, DXTherty. It's $100. I got one of those. I used it where I would effectively have seen, I would have been testable from the Trump

rally and you spit in a vial, you send it off, it's overnight. I did it on Thursday. I got my results when I woke up Saturday. morning so it was a very fast turnaround interesting oh yeah here it is uh authorized for asymptomatic and symptomatic testing uh the saliva at home collection kit with prepaid express return label and laboratory PCR testing 110 bucks or so get a thousand of them for um a $10 per per vile discount so oh yeah so yeah if you're doing some big you know gigantic super super crazy testing thing, then I guess they

hook you up. But yeah, so I did that and then I did a rapid test yesterday to double check. And that was five days after me being on the plane, which, to be totally honest, the more I read about the plane stuff, the less I worry about it. I think my last major exposure

event was at the Trump rally. And even then, I was double masked. So, and it was outside. Yeah. And it was cold and those masks are actually kind of cool when it's cold. They actually help. I've found. Oh my God, yeah. No, that's, I, I'm a fan. So when you left that, keep my little face.

You left that event, got in a plane, and while in the plane with about an hour to spare before you landed in SFO, I believe, did you know what was happening at the Capitol then? Did you, had you heard or was there a way for you to find out? Do you get internet on that play? Here's what I knew. Here's what I knew. I knew that there was a skirmish outside the Capitol. Then we took off. I'm getting no. text messages, but I am getting DMs, and I'm seeing Twitter, and that's when I saw all the actual riot and carnage and looting and everything take place. Okay. So you were in air when that was going down. Paid for the Wi-Fi. Did you have a TV in the seat in front of you? You could watch the news on or anything? No, it was one of those where we did not have a TV. In fact, the only thing that I had was a lady sitting next to me who was watching the movie Unhinged and was freaking out about it.

Like she was, like I've never heard somebody yell as loud as she did on that plane about the movie Unhinged. She was just just every moment that something happened. That's the Russell Crow road rage.

That Russell Crow is killing people like a mother and he is running people over and he is shooting people yeah uh yeah how is that i mean did you see enough of it to say whether that was any good like it's do i want to see that i mean certainly was i give it two screaming ladies are i am i am i too low you're a little you're a little on the quiet side i have i've set up so later in post i can pump you up so i didn't want to i can turn it up here now oh there

you go that's better yeah yeah anyway uh did you see enough of it to say oh i'm gonna i'm gonna i'm gonna go watch that whole movie again that looks awesome can't wait to see russell no no no okay I did not, no. All right. No. I mean, it seemed, I don't know. It seemed like falling down, but, uh, but with fat Russell Crow. I do like the idea of saying fat Russell Crow, though.

That is a very fun thing to say over and over and over. It is. It rolls off the tongue. All right. So you get home and you hear about what's going on. Uh, we're not quite a week away from when this all went down, which is, I guess, last Wednesday. What do we know about the, the stuff that's happening in terms of,

like the reaction is all, you know, if anyone's been paying attention, a lot has happened since last week. We're not to get into all of it, but people banned from Twitter, entire social platforms that sort of catered it to extreme views removed completely. Lots of free market action going on where everybody from Marriott down to people's lawyers over to, you know, overseas banks and the PGA tour and everybody just canceling, stopping, no more donations. Bill Billichick not going to accept a Presidential Medal of Freedom Award. Just everything in all things seem to be happening and a 20-point drop in Trump's points. But it is hard to tell what is actually happening.

Like, and maybe you don't know. But like at the legislative level, you hear a lot about, oh, we're going to drop these articles of impeachment. Even one more day in office is too much, blah, blah, blah. But what is actually happening? Like, are they doing that? is something happening? Like, what's happening in Washington? Forget about all I've been soaked in all week is opinions up to my earlobes.

And I can't seem to see anything like I'm looking for that threat of like what's actually happening. And I don't know. I guess what isn't happening? I mean, there's certainly a lot of talk. There is a, we are going to get articles of impeachment and Donald Trump will likely become the first president

to ever be impeached twice. We will, it's unlikely we will see him removed. And I think it is unlikely that we will see the 25th amendment invoked. And there is conversation. I mean, I think there is more realistic conversation about the 25th Amendment now than there ever has been in in the existence of that amendment which was put in in 1967 uh in the wake of

kennedy uh being killed as as a way to to kind of uh basically with with the idea being okay well if kennedy was shot and he was a a in a vegetative state uh would lbj have immediately become the president right and so so the the 25th amendment was put in there for that there is a active legal question of exactly and I think you know it now because we are talking about it now more seriously than we ever have a legal question of exactly how fast this could go right um and whether or not legally acting secretaries can be a part of that majority uh whether or not there would be how fast a legal challenge from the president saying that they couldn't would be resolved and whether or not all of that would happen before Trump actually is scheduled to leave office on January 20th. The other side, of course, is impeachment and removal. I think because 20th Amendment is not going to happen, we will almost certainly get impeachment.

the removal part, I think, is unlikely because nobody wants to swing that axe. If Nancy Pelosi really wanted to swing that axe, then she would just move ahead with impeachment now instead of waiting. The other side of that is the Senate Republicans who don't want to do this, who don't want to impeach and remove. somebody a president for their own party even though he has become odious to many of them more so than than they had before basically saying hey look we can impeach and remove trump or we could go through the motions to remove him but this will cut into biden's first 100 days yeah uh and so if you if biden wants to use his first 100 days to continue the trump show then he can Biden has offered a solution to go every other day. So I guess like odd days they'll they'll impeach Trump and even days

they'll carry forward his agenda. But I think that it's probably unlikely. What we're going to see is is a portion of the country very upset that he is not removed. He will filter out of government and Biden will get a clean first 100 days. Well, I would argue there's no way anyone. gets a clean 100 days as as Trump leaves like there's just depends on what you define as a clean 100 days if the clean 100 days is no I mean I mean that legislatively

okay so legislatively okay that makes sense that's what they care about they care about that on the legislative docket right because the Democrats now run the Senate they will be able to say now we're going to move

forward with $2,000 checks now we're going to move forward with a domestic terrorism thing. Now we're going to move forward with this, that and the other. So that's what they care about and that is within their control. Okay. That makes sense to me. By the way, I don't know if anyone knows this. For a long time, I thought the 25th Amendment was the most recent amendment to the Constitution. I don't know why I thought

that, but that was just in my head. There was also the 26th Amendment of March of 1971, which was one that would deny the right of citizens 18 years of age were older to vote on account of age. So you couldn't deny somebody over 18. No, what was it? I don't know, whatever it was. I don't understand

the 26th, but the 27th was the most recent which was 92. That wasn't that long ago. No. And that was just a law that I would have expected. That law was states, or that amendment was all about, Pearl Jam was only going to be good for about three albums and then the rest of them is weird. No, just

kidding. The 27th is, it delays laws. Eat it. versus it says delays laws affecting congressional salary from taking effect until after the next election of representatives so a really boring one there at the at the tail end but were they like passing that like during the gulf war like while while schwartz cough was getting on the headlines they were passing an amendment let's see it was uh uh oh that's crazy hold on a second what is this category time span oh okay proposed that's crazy. Hold on a second. That amendment was proposed in September 25th of 1789.

202 years later, 223 days, they made it law in 1982 as an actual amendment or 92 as an amendment. That's nuts. The rest of these are all like, two years took him 309 days. This one took 100 days. The 25th, for example, took a year in 219 days. This took 200 years, 202 years. That's bananas. I love that. All right. Well, I learned something today.

I hope you all did as well. All right. So let's say they don't, you know, as much as I think there's a million reasons why the 25th could be and should be. And if there was ever a time to use it now would be the time. I also think that whatever Pelosi does or whatever the Congress does, they can do it quick. If they can get what was her name, Mary Nancy Carter. whatever the hell the name of the new Supreme Court Justice Lady is. I forgot her name.

Amy Coney Bear. That's the one. Three names. If they got her in an eight days, they could do this in 10. Like, they can do this. Well, whether they have the votes. They have the votes, right?

So it's like, whenever we're talking, like, let's be realistic. If there's one thing that we need to do right now in an era where we can all agree that hyperbole and hysteria has led us into dark, awful places, then let's like just try to understand the rules of the game right the rules of the game here is a i think that we were sold the idea the 20th of the men became this catch-all idea that i don't know if it realistically is and it certainly has never been tried this is the closest that i think we've seriously talked about it and i don't think that we need that we we should think about it like it's michael scott declaring bankruptcy in the office right you can't just say harry potter

magic words and then a thing happens there is a process for which takes time now would that time have would there have been more time afforded earlier in the presidency absolutely if if people wanted to use the 25th amendment then uh but let's just understand that not everything is as we want it to be right things can move fast in the senate and the house if you have the votes so the question then becomes if you don't have the votes why don't you have the votes and and that that is i think the conversation that should be had not just us up to the sky and screaming that this should be going faster. But sure, it should. But if you want to put pressure on the people that would move this

forward, then put pressure on the fence Republican senators to say that they will remove Donald Trump. Yeah. Well, I guess, I guess, yeah, I mean, that is the process. Like, that's what we're stuck with. Whether or not a billion people on various social media platforms think they have the perfect idea on how to solve this. I'm having to come to grips. of this or or dickheads on who guest on tuesdays on the morning stream podcast yeah yeah i mean again i'm i this is this is just my my opinion as somebody who watches this probably more than most but uh please just just try god damn do we just need realistic thinking right now i mean more more than anything we need realistic thinking because it's the only way that i

think we can connect with each other on anything that's real. Other than that, if we build these castles for ourselves that where every element of our worldview is reinforced and all biases are confirmed, then I don't think that we can look outside of our gates and see a neighbor. I think we always see an enemy. I agree with that. Every cloud becomes a monster and we get more and more inside of our own worldview. and guess what?

People who got really, really inside their own worldview either for the lulls or by way of domestic terrorism or a coup. I'm not here to suss out their motivations. I'm here to define the actions that there were rioters

and looters that were disrupting the people's business in the capital. And I don't think it came because they were connected with the world. I think that it was the exact opposite. So I don't think we're treating is what we want,

if what we want is the opposite of what happened. Yeah, I agree with you on all of that. But I would add that if for realistic thinking to to start to happen, part of that realistic thinking can be seeking, what's the words I'm looking for? Repercussions for what happened. In other words,

I don't know that we can just all move on and start thinking more logically if we don't also have some justice here. like there needs to be it can't just be oh now you've been sucker punch but don't worry for it's now's the time for healing now's the time for no now's the time for accountability and for those accountable to be held to account why can't that happen as part of that thinking is my take can't we have both i'm i'm not saying you can't right i'm saying how do you want to do it i guess let investigative bodies do their thing and so just so let the process take Let the process happen.

Yeah. I mean, what else can I can't do anything else. Then I'm telling you what the process is going to do. Nothing. It has to do something. Well, okay,

no, but then you don't want the process to take over. Here's what I just dumped tea everywhere. What I'm not saying, I'm not making myself very clear. I guess what I'm saying is, I know people get frustrated with me. And I know that I know that this is something where,

you know, I get even from people that I would consider friends, you know, just, you know, slammed as everything including a racist. But like, I'm all I'm trying to do is explain to you what is what by my by my view I think is going

to happen yeah yeah that's that's it and you can you can be mad at me for for saying that I don't think he I think he's going to be impeached but I don't think he's going to be removed you can be mad at me for saying that I don't think that the 25th amendment is going to be invoked or that it might not be everything that's been promised to us by way of our media But I don't think that that necessarily brings us any closer to the goals that you want. Right. And I guess that's the only thing that I, and I could be a cold, awful person for this, but I try to be objective oriented. And if the objective you want is to remove Donald Trump from office before his term ends on January 20th,

then the pressure you need to put on are the people a nancy pelosi to drop this stupid thing where she's going to try to run time off the clock by asking pence to invoke the 25th amendment which is a total you do it no you do it hot potato she she needs to put forth the articles of impeachment yesterday let alone today or tomorrow because every hour that is ticking off this clock is is one in which uh there it'll be easier for more hours to tick off And then at that point, transmit the articles immediately, not after 100 days like Jim Clyburn wants, and put your pressure on the people that are making noise that they would review articles of impeachment, like Senator Toomey of Pennsylvania, and say, will you vote to remove now in a way that you did not a year ago? Yeah. That's that.

You know, like we can be mad that that the barking dog on the internet. wasn't jumping up and down and screaming that Donald Trump needs to be removed immediately or you can actually try to achieve your goals. Yeah. I don't actually, I don't disagree with any of that. I think that's all, that's all legit. Um, it is, you know, it is a, it is a new kind of practice for, uh, I think people to start to see the process for what it is, accepted for what it is and apply pressure where actual work can get done and not just flame out, you know? and fall apart, um, which is easy to get into that trap. So yeah, I don't, I don't disagree. I think we need to, I think all of that needs to happen. And, uh, accountability also sometimes

can come, uh, can come later in other ways. You know, I'm not, I'm not convinced that that anyone's going to be fully satisfied by whatever happens the next 10 days, but, uh, yeah, spoiler alert. They won't. Yeah, they won't. Like this is, we're not in a particularly unified moment in, in, in, in the country. We don't particularly agree with consistent facts. We have a president for whom pushed a negotiate. What we clearly saw was a negotiation window so far that he not only destroyed an element of faith that people had in the government and his own political career, but also likely a generation of politicians from the party for which

he calls his home, at least temporarily. We, you know, and you know it was pushing a negotiation window forward because he immediately caved the next day. The next day, he knocked it off and was like, a peaceful transition to power. And it's like the day before, he was like, we can never

concede, you can never concede when stuff like that happens, 24 hours later, he conceded. Like, uh, it is, it is, uh, you know, uh, we're just a mess. We're an absolute mess. And we, and we want to find an easy person to blame. But guess what? There's, there's not. Hmm.

It's us. I mean, and this is, this is another philosophical difference. I believe we live in a bottom up society. I believe that every, it is, it is our responsibility. Everybody's responsibility to build the society that we want and that our leaders, mimic that. Our leaders take advantage of the patterns that we start organically. And if we do not take those steps, then our leaders take advantage of cynical elements of our society. And we have seen a festival of that over the past, I mean, some would say more than four years, but particularly

in the last four years. Yeah, I also believe that that's true. And I hope what this all represents is a change in that ground-up method where the ground changes so that the leadership is forced to change or they lose because there are people out there like Holly, Cruz, Gates, just to name three. Colorado's own Lauren Bobert. Yeah, all those people. Oh, yeah, I forgot about that one. They, they, I agree with you. These guys didn't come out of nowhere and go, we've got this really caustic, shitty thing.

to do. They got there because people backed that and said, oh, he's talking like me. And yeah, that's what I think is my grandpa. Do you know how many politicians try to get the Bartman started and can't? They all try different things. They all go through different phases. They all like try to say like, no, now I'm the, I'm the green technocrat that that does the wave. And I'm the, the guy who loves restricting abortion, but stands on his head. head like this is the job of a politician is to come up with different things that they hope resonate with the populace like so whenever we talk about the fact that we are led by our nose by our leaders it seems ridiculous to me when I watch all of these fat idiots flop

trying to do things with thousands hundreds of thousands if not millions of dollars at their back yeah like they have every advantage they have media platforms and they do nothing It is only the ones that resonate with what we want, either latently or explicitly, that get power. Not because they are shedding us of it, because we are giving it to them willingly. And so either we are going to put forth the kind of society that we want to live in,

or we're going to continue to be cynical and stab each other, and we will be rewarded with leaders that say you want to know what you're right to be cynical you want to know what you should stab more people yeah it's uh i hate uh the problem is is how long it takes and everybody wants overnight solutions and there are none so get on the long term i guess i don't know what else to tell people all right well there you have it uh that's us in the shadow of the hideous events of last week uh moving forward who knows what'll happen by the 20th

It's a big day. Hitman 3 comes out. So get excited. Preload now. It's going to be good. I made this prediction in Chap, but I'm going to make it official here. Trump starts his own political party called the Patriot Party and runs. Oh, I think he'll call it the Trump Party. I think he'll straight up call it the Trump Party. You think he'll name it after himself?

Oh, yeah, dude. You know, he would love that. He'll have a boner for a month for that. He'd love that. I would bet against that. Mm. No, no, you would bet against him starting a political secretary. action or a new party. Yeah, does he look like a guy who likes to do work? No, but he'll make other people do it for him. Do you know how much work it takes to start a political party? And by the way, the people that could do that, that would want to do that for him,

I don't know if they want to work with him now. Well, they don't. I think the damage he did to himself is incalculable. Yeah. Right. But he still has a following. Oh, he has a following, but it's going to be Sarah. It's going to be Sarah Palin level following.

Okay. Like that's where we're looking at it now. Like ex presidents get protected and refurbished and re contextualized. Even Nixon. Nixon went out as bad as you could possibly go out. And by the time that he died, he was getting the glowing like, but also he ended Vietnam. right you want to know who doesn't get that failed revolutionaries and that's where Trump is closer to right now than ex-president ex-presidents are protected you want to know why

because presidents make a lot of decisions they make life and death decisions they make the kind of decisions that if a citizen made them they would go to jail for life so ex-presidents don't want to prosecute ex-presidents because they're afraid that that knife will come for them next. And you want to know who really, really, really wants to protect ex-presidents, everybody who's below the president? Because those people get thrown over the side in the regular course of business. Can you imagine how often they would be thrown off if the president was really worried about something happening to them? On the other side, though, there's the failed revolutionary. If you are somebody for whom power is afraid of being disrupted by, then you

are put out to pasture very, very, very quickly. And beyond that, Republican voters more than Democratic voters, but I think Democratic voters as well, almost fetishize safety. And you can read all kind of dark elements into it. You can read all kind of family-friendly elements to that. That safety is the basis of a good, wholesome existence. Safety is the refuge for racism and bigotry and all kinds of phobias. right but they love safety guess what we saw the exact opposite of on on on on on on

on wednesday guess what we saw but when we're talking about the the the government being threatened that is the operating system for which the application economy dot exe runs like the the number one thing that we vote on as americans is the application economy. Economy.exe. If there's a kernel panic to the operating system, the application can't run. That's the core element for which was threatened. And that's why you're seeing these opinion polls. And that's why I believe that his influence is incalculably diminished from where it was

on Tuesday. Tuesday night, he was just a political dingbat who took too many. risks effed around and found out that his party lost the Senate. By Wednesday night, he's somebody that I think does face legal culpability and possible legal exposure for up to jail time, but also will never have the same opportunity in terms of a political advantage like he would have if he just would have did what he did on Thursday and said, you want to know what? It's been fun, but the fun is done, I'll be like, OJ, on the golf course, I'll find the real vote manipulators and we'll see y'all in, in 2024.

He would have been a towering political force, and I don't think that that is the same right now. So, okay, so I agree with all that. I think that the huge diminishment of power and all that, but he's still got this window, and that's, I think, why everybody's a little freaked out. He's got 10 days, a lot of damage and hurt. can happen in 10 days. And I don't mean that he's going to have political power to do damage and hurt. What I mean is he's got people who are willing to put bombs in places and hide

out with guns and do weird shit in the next 10 days. And thereafter, I suppose they're there no matter what. Those are the things I'm worried about. And getting him out early may not be the answer to solving that either. It may make that worse. But I don't know. You got to do what you got to do. Like if I was Congress, I would just push for this because that's their damn job. Like, do the thing that is right in front of you and get it done and don't back down from it. But then what else can you do? Like, if some nut job's going to show up with a sniper weapon on the 20th, then he is. And hopefully we have the security in place to stop that guy.

But those are the things I'm worried about. In terms of the inauguration, D.C. is already going to be locked down. And that was happening. There was going to be no crowd more specifically for the inauguration because of COVID. And that was the decision that was made. weeks and weeks and weeks ago before all this DC will now be locked down by the order of Mayor Muriel Bowser

and that they are urging people to not come to the Capitol this will be locked down. There was already going to be no parade. The FBI announced that they have credible evidence that they're in all 50 states these state houses might be under attack that to me feels a little bit like

a CYA move by them because we have heard precious little from the FBI about what they knew and what they didn't know about the thing that happened on Wednesday. And so it seems to me that they are doing their cover your basis. Yes, all everywhere is under attack on, on January 20th. We will, we will see what happens. In terms of Trump, you know, look, I don't know how much people, how much interest I personally have. I know I have very little personal interest in dissecting the motivations of Donald Trump's most hardcore fans. I will say here, for those that love to roast me, that I certainly can say I will take a massive L in that I did not see what happened on Wednesday happening.

So you can please gleefully rejoice in say, that I was too much of a Pollyanna to believe that that was possible. That being said, many of the places where Trump fandom ran its most virulent were not pleased with the idea that Trump's, you know, in their view, sold out the people that were his most hardcore fans

by saying that it was a heinous act to run up into the Capitol. So I don't know. I don't I don't know the state of the Trump cult right I I I there seems to me by my observation to be a world in which he might have finally sold the bill of goods to everybody in the circle and now everybody realizes that he's only you know your alliance to him is only as good as the next alliance right like he was he was aligned with people that wanted to come out and and be hard to. core for him right up until he had legal exposure for a riot in the capital. And then everything was heinous actions. I just know that there are like two or three people that heard him say, I will not be attending the inauguration who didn't hear a petulant president who's about to be out of power and who's

still mad and would never concede. What they heard is a guy say, I won't be there. So have your way at things. Like that's what I worry about are those people. Those people take that as some weird ass signal from their Lord and Savior. I mean, but at the same time, number one, I don't think that that can be discounted, but we're playing a little fan fiction in her head, right? Oh, for sure.

I mean, that's the problem. I'm worried about it. It's the definition of terrorism. Right? It's the definition of terrorism. That's why that was a terrorist act in my mind last Wednesday. Well, no, no, no, I'm saying what you said right there. Right.

Right. The idea that like, oh, okay, so Donald Trump said, I'm not going to be at the inauguration. By the way, Biden said he was very happy about that. So we have no idea whether or not that's a mutual decision. But the fact that he said that, and your thought was, oh, that's a dog, that's a signal for somebody to blow up the inauguration is, I don't think that that's. No, you're right. That is. That is.

You're right. We're all going to invent in our head what our enemies are doing. You're totally right. And that's my point about that being a terrorist act. What do terrorists, what is the point? of terrorism to terrify people right now i'm terrified somebody's going to take that as a signal and blow shit up on that day so so i guess well done terrorists you did your you did it and we shouldn't negotiate with you because that's what we always say so let's not negotiate with terrorists let's get

it done in the freaking house and let's uh get through this as fast as we can and put that cow out to pasture and let him eat and drink diet coke till he dies and be done with that that a hole that's what i would like there we go there's my exit ramp All right. Hey, we did it. Next week will be, how close are we to the, we're 10 days away? So we'll still have another one of these before all that goes down. And it'll be before the inauguration, which means, of course, 75 things will happen between now and then. Yeah. A lot can happen. That's the weird thing. Is when we last talked to you, it was like, yeah, I don't know how this is, this runoff's going to go. We'll know tomorrow. And okay, we'll see you. Have a safe trip. Like, that feels like a thousand years ago because of all the events that we had. dude i've been floating through a uh a time warp you know since since i left like i i i had new

year's day and then i was gone and now i'm dropped back into the middle of uh january with the world on fire yeah that was that was a hell of a thing um but anyway i'm glad you're back i'm glad you're COVID-free and look forward to more stuff from you. Anything you want to point people to this week? No. Thank you guys. Nothing at all. All right, man. We'll see you later. There he goes. All right. Well, we'll see. We'll see. Oh, shit. Gosh, dang it. Why do I forget? The jury will now retire. Why do I forget that every time? Because it's way funnier if you don't remember than if you do. Well, it's legitimately me not remembering. So I know. This is not a bit. You're literally I don't remember it. Hey, we got an email for you, Brian, although he spelled your name,

B-R-Y-A-N. That's fine. It's fine. You know, you're okay with it. You can't get the spelling from just hearing it, so that makes sense. Yeah, if you're okay with it, then I'm okay with it. Nick Coffert. I'll let it go this time. He wrote it and says, hello people of 2021, wanted to write in and say hello. Also wanted to thank you for all your content as has got me looking into new games and hobbies. I briefly talked to you all on, oh, you know what this is? No, this is still for us. For a minute, I thought maybe he meant done away. I briefly talked to y'all on playdate about how I started painting minis. I regret to inform you that that hobby has now expanded into making terrain as well. I'm loving it so much and I'm

really glad Brian, or Byron, that's what he wrote there. I wrote Byron. That's a spelling that's definitely not right. That's definitely not right. Brought it up. I'm also working to get some new people together to run my first D&D adventure and first time to DM using pieces I've made for my new hobby. Anyways, thanks y'all so much again, and I will be sending Brian my bill that he has created. Send it to B.R. Y, A.N. Yeah. Send it to Byron. Byron.

Byron I bought. P-O-box. That's cool. And I still haven't. I need to photograph my The Iron Man and Spider-Man. I finished Spider-Man too. So I've got Spider-Man and Iron Man. There was so much stress. Because Spider-Man is my favorite character. Yeah. You felt like a special

I don't know. You had to do it right. I had to do it right. It's like that was the most stressful many I've ever painted because I just didn't feel like I could F it up. Did you use that new chrome paint or whatever it was, a silver paint for your Iron Man stuff?

Non-metallic, metal, or metallic non-metallic paints? Yeah. No. For Iron Man, I did a full layer of silver and then I used a semi-transparent cherry red model car paint. Yeah. Which is

like what you used to kind of get that that really cool cherry red vet kind of look to it where it's at a different level it came out great like that's one that um i'm super super proud of well i'm excited to see them maybe on camera soon probably will have them on camera we'll show them off i will i will put bring them to have them on camera although really a just good photography it'd probably make them look better than me holding them up to a little brio kind of thing yeah that's all good uh all right hey big thanks for that email Send your emails to the morning stream at gmail.com. That's the morning stream at gmail.com.

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Jury duty always takes a while, literally, and in our show. But we'll play a song, get out of here, and be back tomorrow with more great content. So come back and join us then. Brian, what do we have at the end of this? We have a request from Luke, goes by a whatnot in chat. says hello Swiss and Bergenost. For the umpteenth time, I'm requesting a queen cover song for my birthday. I'm turning the big 4-0 this year.

Oh, joy, sarcasm. Maybe I can get a certain tender crisp sandwich. I leave it up to the covermaster. You can hunt that down while I do this. Leave it up to the covermaster to choose the favorite cover of a queen song. A big thank you both for all you do for us and for the Tadpool, the greatest community in the world here, here. Very nice.

Thanks for the show, though, Luke, a whatnot in chat. Here it is. There you go, bud. Feels like I haven't heard that one in a while, so I'm glad he requested that. He wanted to hear my favorite cover of a queen song. That's tough to do because I've played most of them on the show before, and I'd always like trying to pull out something new that you guys haven't heard before, and I'm sure pull out something new will end up in a mash-up somewhere.

But this is one of my favorite queen songs getting covered by Rob Tenneco for the horse feathers and animal crackers. So may not make my favorite coverville, I'm sorry, may not be my favorite cover. I just saw a whatnot in chat sing, thanks coverville and frog dance. Happy birthday, man. Happy 40th. May not be my favorite cover of a queen song, but it's one of my favorite queen songs getting covered. And that's got to do it right there. Sail Away Sweet Sister, again, recorder for the horse feathers and animal crackers tribute from 2010.

Here is Rob Taniko. See you guys tomorrow. Hey, little babe, you're changing. Babe, are you feeling sore? Ain't no use in pretending. You don't want to play no more. It's plain that you ain't no, baby. What would your mother say?

You're all dressed up like a lady. How come you behave this way? Sail away. sweet sister sail across the sea maybe you find somebody the love you have to watch me my heart is always with you no matter what you do sail away sweet sister i always be in love with you Forgive me for what I told you. My heart makes a fool of me. You know that I'm never going to hold you.

I know that you've got to be free. Sail away, sweet sister, sail across the sea. Maybe you'll find somebody who'll love you at the bunch of me. Take it away. you wanted when they left you down by friend sail away sweet sister back to my arms again oh child don't you know you're young you got your whole life ahead of you

and know how you can throw it away too soon way too soon Sail Away, Francisco, sail across the sea, maybe you'll find somebody, I'll love you have this much to be My heart is always with you Don't matter what you do Sail away, sweet sister I'll always be in love with you

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