The Morning Stream - TMS 2064: Bubba The Gripper

Episode Date: February 9, 2021

Hey There, Chisel Tip! You will have NO McFish, NO McShake, and NO Lieutenant Yar. Tell Darth Vada. My Romance with a Chemical Morning Jacket. Ibbott and the Tale of the Manufactured Meet Cute. Parking Lot Tacos 2: Mom Wants a Bite. Masks Have the Higher Ground. Rectal Monster Drink. Spinach Vagandle. The Darma Initiative and Greg. You need Weiner in the Wind. Masks don't work? Tell that to Batman, ya chode! You never go Full Noodle. The Jamaican Graffiti Team. Jury Duty 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'm Scott Johnson. Brian Hibbett over there. Hi, everybody, hello. Rahnemeter. Yeah, I need my walk-on music. Do you choose some rock-on music. My walk-on music would be Everybody wants to rule the world by Cheers for Fears.

Okay, that's pretty good. That's pretty good. I'm trying to think what I would use. If I could use anybody, if I could use anybody, without any trouble, right? Like, we're assuming we can just take some of these songs. We're not limited to just YMCA

by the village people. Okay, good. Oh, my gosh, I hate that. Personal Jesus, yeah. I don't know. I don't know what my walk-on is. Destroy them with lasers because my voice is in it.

There, I did it. Oh, there you go. That's a good one. Yeah. We'll go with that. Cool. That's fine. Okay.

Hey, welcome back, everybody. It's a new show. We're here. You're here. We're all here. We're all here. So we may as well make something of it. um took my mom home yesterday and uh that went that went well it was a little nutty uh because

it kind of carved a giant chunk out of the day and it was a little concerned about whether i was going to make it back in time for some other stuff and anyway it all worked out everything everything was fine big part of that is because she's doing great like she's just passed all their little last minute cognitive tests and she's being sharp sharp as a whit right now she remembers everything she was talking about how cuddly nick was when he was a baby and he was and it's just these funny things. She's got all these, like, really strong memories and all of our worries about, you know, her brain going south after the surgery kind of seemed not to have happened. She's charred another, so all that stuff's good. We get in the car, finally. They take forever to

check her out, right? And we get her, we get her home, but she wants Taco Bell. She is like, she's like turned into the fast food maven after her time. She's so sick of that hospital food that anything else sounds better. Did she ask you to drive her to an office max parking lot? No, we didn't do any of that. Although we did go to an office max parking lot the same day or yesterday because there were some prints there we had to pick up and they do curbside delivery. So we did pull into the parking lot of office max after going to Taco Bell.

So it was almost one of those, but didn't quite work out. That's funny. Anyway, got her home. Everything's good. So for all, everyone asking, thank you for that. that it was really sweet we got home and and her husband john was there sitting in a chair just waiting for us and we got in there and he kind of scared us because we're like john and he goes i'm right here oh geez he's just like in the room and uh anyway he gets up and hugged my mom and

cried like a baby he just cried and cried so if you've not seen an 88 year old man just ball his eyes out while he's hugging his wife after she's been in surgery and in rehab for three weeks. It was a scene, man. It was great. That's really cool. I mean, really, you know, you don't think about that, right? It's like he's been without her for a month, basically. Yeah. Or three weeks. How long has it been? Three, three and a half, almost three and a half weeks, yeah. Three and a half weeks. May as well be four, effectively for her. And he's been down for a lot of that because it was back, so he couldn't even see her for the last week and a half. Yeah. Yeah. So, he doesn't like being alone. I can tell you that. He hates it. So it was, it was nice.

And she was like, all right, give me those Taco Supremes. And we, you know, hung out there for a minute. Then Kim had an eye appointment. So we had to leave and get heard of that. And then get me back here for A&P. So it was just like a little bit of running around. But it all worked out. So thank you, everybody.

But I did want to mention this. Yes. Some Yehu, all right? With a big, thick, fat Sharpie or Marks a lot. I don't know what. Permanent marker. Big fat one, though, right? Sure, sure.

With the weird, uh, geometric head, you know the kind, I mean, those kind of markers. The chisel, chisel tip? There you go, chisel tip. That sounds like a great, sounds like a jerky boy's insult name, doesn't it? Yeah, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, chisel tip. It could be a band as well. You could be able to start using that. Hey, hey, hey, hey, you doing.

I played, I played a, I played a, uh, double-necked guitar for chisel tip for three years in the late 90s. Anyway, so, uh, we're, we're, uh, so the elevator there. has a problem in that someone has done some graffiti with a big fat marker and it must have just happened because the people there didn't know when they were told but in the elevator in giant fat marker writing it says

masks don't work exclamation point and it's in a hospital where obviously masks are mandatory everywhere only one person can go up into the rehab center to help her pack her stuff can't have two of us in there like all that all these precautions, all this stuff, they're a hospital, they know, they know what they're doing. Clearly, this was written by a, by a virologist, right?

Like some sort of scientist who's done the research, conducted and done tests and didn't just find, didn't just see something on Fox News or something, but decided really to do the research and the legwork to. Yeah, clearly some tenured professor who was just, just, you know, just, you know, just, just, you know, was just blowing off a little steam while he was in a long elevator ride. That's the other thing. This rehab center is only like four floors. So there's not even a lot of time to write it. Like, I don't know when they wrote it. Because seriously, it's like hit floor, number one.

And they don't let more people in them than you're supposed to. So you can only have like whatever it's four or whatever. So, bing, you'd have to go, eh, mask don't work really fast. And then be ready at the other side. I was just annoyed. He probably has a sheet of drywall in his garage. that he's been practicing on for a while.

Like he's got somebody sitting there with a stopwatch. Go. That's no work. All right. Nope. You need you to tighten it up there, Bill. It's still. Yeah.

Can you, I think we can shave another couple. It's like freaking, games done quick or whatever. They're just speed running. It's John Candy and silent running and cool running. Oh my gosh. Nope,

we're going to need to take a little more time off if you get it. If you think you're going to have a chance. Yep. I picture it montage style as well with the music and everything. maybe he had help maybe he had two friends who each wrote a word simultaneously so that so that they could each you know be writing masks and then he writes don't and then the other guy writes work okay yeah yeah so yeah will he work uh darrell the don't master darrell don't i like how how his friends have to have the same initial as the word that they're writing in the elevator i don't know why it makes it better but somehow that's better it does it absolutely does make it So they, that was dumb. And then the people there were just like eye rolling like, oh my gosh, okay, thank you for letting us know.

Underneath it, could you have written, told Darth Vader? I love it. Change the meaning entirely of the message. That's how we fight this. We fight it on their own turf. Exactly. Exactly. Yes.

Well, it was dumb. And I'm glad we were, we were able to report that and somebody can fix it. I mean, what's wrong with people? Come on, man. Look, I even get that it's super inconvenient. And I get that some people feel like, this is overblown because it hasn't affected me. I understand your brain set. I understand where you're at.

But you're there at the hospital and they got these rules. So not only are you defiant of said rules, you're also literally committing a misdemeanor at best in a hospital with freaking permanent marker. Like, you can be arrested for that. Like, what are you doing? What are you doing? You want to go to a place where you're going to for sure have to wear that mask while Bubba the Gripper or whatever his name is in the holding cell is staring at you because he thinks you look cute.

Like, what are you doing? What are you doing? Yeah. I do like Bubba the Gripper. Wow. Bubba the gripper. We've invented a whole new casting characters on today's show. We're ready for our spin-off basically is what's happening here.

Hey, Daryl, Daryl, don't. Be careful. You end up in prison with Bubba the Gripper. The Gripper and Daryl don't. Yeah, Daryl don't. watch out. Anyway, so that's how that went. Everything went fine. Yeah. We got an email that I think is appropriate to both of us because A, we're dads, B, we both enjoyed dumb puns. Sure. Which are often referred to as dad jokes. So we got this one from Kevin. He calls himself Dad the Joker, Kevin, Father of Three, so also a dad. He says, hello, hosts of the morning

stream and anyone else who hears this. Oh, he forgot the end. Anyway, Why do you think dad jokes are called dad jokes just because they are wholesome and often not filled with innuendo and swears? Is that enough to just shove them to the dad joke corner? I think we need to have a serious conversation about destigmatizing dad jokes for good. What do you think, Brian? Wow, okay. Do you think that's, because every time I say something dumb on the internet, people just go, oh, your dad joke is showing.

Oh, yeah, I rip on Hammond all the time because he's, the king of dad jokes. Yeah, he does a lot, doesn't he? Yeah. I don't know. I guess it's fine. Like, if we're going to call him that, whatever. Is it really a negative stigma?

Or is it just, we're like saying, oh, elbow in the ribs, look at you, dad joke. Yeah. I don't think it's, uh, I don't think there's any sort of negative. It's not what we're calling Karen jokes. No. Right? No. No, I did see a great thing where, I saw post it.

I don't know if it's real or not. I know what, nothing on the internet is real anymore. It's the information, misinformation, super. highway these days. Yes, exactly. But there's a, there was a guy that went to a McDonald's and he asked for a McFish. Okay. And they said, we don't carry the McFish.

And they say, but we have the fish filet. And he's like, well, what happened to the McFish? And these kids who are like in high school, like, I don't know. I've never even heard of that. And he, somebody in there ended up calling him a male Karen, one of the other customers. They go, get out of here, mail Karen or whatever. So the guy leaves in a huff. I don't know if that story's true, but he's pissed because there's not.

not a McFish on the menu anymore? When did you last go, 1978? There's never been a McFish. It's always been the flay of fish, right? Was there ever a McFish? I don't think there ever was a McFish, but it's, you know, it's easy to assume that there would be because it's McDonald's and it's a fish sandwich. Did they ever have a McFish? I'm trying to look.

Oh, there it is. Fact check. Did McDonald's take the McFish? Did McDonald's permanently ban the McFish sandwich? Yeah, that's Snopes. I don't think, oh, here we go. Okay, the filet of fish, when it was originally introduced. Was it called the McPhish?

Uh, I'm not seeing it. What a sad sandwich that is. I know, filet o fish. Is it Irish? Is that the deal? It's a flyer fish. Filet, oh, fish. Yeah, what are you going to do with your fish?

I hope you fillet it. All right, here, look, Chad. I don't think, uh, look at that sad sandwich picture oh what an ugly sad seriously it's so sad this the sandwich it reminds me of my grandmother uh hungarian grandmother because that was that was her uh sandwich of choice at macdonald's and it always it always operated like this she'd get the foyer fish she'd open the paper you know it was wrapped in paper yeah she'd take the bun off yeah she'd scrape off all the tartar sauce and then eat the flaya fish oh my

man could she never thought never thought to say could i get that without tartar sauce maybe she just wanted just the the hint of tartar sauce well just the just the film of it just a little bit of yeah like mr burns once said let them have their tartar sauce exactly so so in other words it's uh always been too early to get a mcfish sandwich apparently okay so so i'm still not sure is there a there is no there was never a mcfish never Yeah, Snope says, McDonald's has not taking the McFish off the menu because the McShit, McShit. McShish has never been on the McDonald's menu.

I mean, you're not wrong with your mess up there. It's kind of a mix up. It's a gross sandwich. And there's cheese on it. Come on. American cheese on a McFish. What are we doing? But I think any, any, that should be like, one of the first things you learn when you start

working McDonald's, if somebody orders a McFish, you tap. a little fillet a fish button and and give him a filet of fish what's the you know is it time to argue semantics no give the man his meal he obviously wants a fish sandwich that's why that's why i'm concerned that this may just be all made up or blown out a proportion to troll people because nothing's real anymore man right do you think if you go in there and say i'd like a milkshake they're going to say we don't have a mishake sorry what that is what is that sorry Male Karen. Exactly.

Just give them a shake. They're going to say, would you like chocolate or vanilla? And you're going to say chocolate and you're going to get a shake. It's like my dad, my whole teenage years, we'd go to any burger place. It didn't matter. What it was called or where it was, he ordered a deluxe burger everywhere. No matter where. It didn't matter.

He'd go, get in the Wendy's line and go, yeah, I'd like a deluxe burger. And they'd go, what? See, now that's confusing. Because they have a lot of burgers that have a lot of stuff on it. I agree. That's going to be the toughest one. I agree. It was real stupid.

And Dice Tameda does point out that I might get a confused look from the kid behind the counter because there is the McFlurry. Oh, yeah. And me asking for a McShake, he might be like, well, does he want a shake or a McFlurry? Right. And some kids aren't going to ask. I'm just going to give you the flurry. Right.

It's like going to a record store and saying, I'd like the new album by My Chemical Jacket. Is he saying you want the new album from my chemical jacket? Is he saying you want the new album from My Chemical Romance or My Morning Jacket? Which one do you want? I didn't know there was a band called My Morning Jacket. Yeah, it was my morning jacket. How are they? Are they good or are they dumb?

They're, uh... They're Hammondy? I put them on every once in a while. They're not Hammondy. Dad joke! Closing it out! There it is. Look at that.

We close the loop. You know what we call that closure, that's what we call that. It's a bad one. I put it on every once in a while. But come on. Yeah, I like it. Well done. Anyway, so there's that. We hope that helped you there, Kevin, father of three, dad and Joker.

And we hope to bring more dad jokes as time goes on. All right. Here's an important note. Important notice for me, you and the audience, Brian. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, all right, I get something to say after you say this. Okay, here we go. It's your important notice.

Last night had a conversation with my sister Wendy. She hosts the Thursday Segment Therapy Thursday here on the morning stream. And she says we have homework, and here's the homework. We are required to watch on Hulu. If you don't have Hulu, I can't help you. But if you have Hulu, you need to watch in and of itself before this Thursday's Therapy Thursday. No idea why. She just said, you've got to do it.

Now, I've heard of this. Somebody was recommending it to me outside of this saying, oh, you got to watch it. You got to watch it. I think it's a documentary about a magician. I'm not actually sure. I watched the trailer this morning. And I don't know the story, but it looks, it looks, I don't know, it looks like it's meant to broaden my horizons. Oh, good.

Well, then broaden those horizons. It's like it's meant to, yeah, it's directed by Frank Oz, which is kind of cool. Oh, I didn't know that. That's cool. Thank you for the 48 hour notice, Wendy. I know. I got it last night. Well, this is not going to be, this is going to be, we're only two days away from that.

But so, yeah, you got a little bit of time. If you guys can, it looks like a bunch of people in the chat. I've already seen it. That's great. Yeah. And they're saying it's really, really good. I am sci-fi says it's not a documentary. It's a performance, but it's a, it's not a fictional performance, right?

It's a... Right. It's not a dramatic... It's not a drama with a script and stuff, right? It's... Right. I label all that shit documentary. Yeah.

All that shit. Sorry for the big shit. One more time. I guess that's two more times. I like your mix. Okay, I'm done. Maybe it's just too much coffee this morning. How much have you had, if you had to guess?

How many cups? Oh, this is light. I've had many cups. Yeah, I probably have had three cups. Oh, my gosh. That's a lot of caffeine in the day, or is it low-caf, or what's that called? No, it's a regular strength. Sirens call being French press ground Starbucks business.

I think you are immune. I think so. Well, I'm developing a tolerance to caffeine, although clearly my surliness would say otherwise. If you ever quit caffeine, I wonder how it'd go for you, if you'd have a rough time or not. Yeah, I don't know. That would be interesting experiment, right? Just to see. We could watch it.

We could watch it unfold on this very show. Yeah, you guys want to have a rough Wednesday, TMS. No, we'll say March is Brian goes caffeine-free for one month, and we just document. Oh, my gosh, dude. We're on day 18 of caffeine-free Brian. Yep. Decafra Brian. He's only murdered three people and eaten four or four of the fish.

Exactly. Yeah. I'll see what happens. Whenever I know anybody who's like super into whatever it is, like, let's say they drink 44 ounces of diet Coke every day or whatever. And then they quit and the caffeine drop is just massive and they get like migraines. And it's like, yeah, see, I already get those with the caffeine. All right. Well, then there you go.

Or that's your tolerance. You've hit the tolerance wall and you need more, Brian, you need more. And I'm coming down the other side. Oh, I see. Yeah. Put a tube in your bum and do a rectal monster drink. It's like I'm already on my decaffeination experiment. Yeah.

And I'm already getting the migraines. Yeah. So just be careful out there, everybody. Don't overdo it is what we're saying. All right. Hey. Yeah. It's time for us to actually get some news done around here.

All right. Here's that. Let's do the news that's brought to you by. The Boop Show tonight live at 3.30 p.m. Mountain Time at frogpans. TV wherein Brian Dunaway and Scott Johnson review indie video games for your enjoyment. Get it where you get your podcasts or by going to frogpans.com slash boop. this is all true and it'll be a good one so check it out that's today at 330 mountain if you want to be there live I will be streaming some some ship breaker before that as well ship breaker that's right I had a massive

haunted freighter was a ghost freighter really yeah they have a haunting they have an option in there where a thing will show up and it'll say haunted possibly haunted unusual activity alien this and that You don't know what's going on. And you get inside the ship and there's these weird nanobots that are attached to things. You've got to destroy those. Did it turn out to be old man Jenkins from the abandoned amusement park? No, it didn't. He would have done it too if I had with those damn kids.

But I was in there and this is the scary bit. So I'm in there and working away on stuff and all of a sudden one of the door shuts. And that doesn't happen in the normal shit. shows her ships and then I couldn't get in there without cutting it open I cut it open and it decides to spew a bunch of metal out of there and it shattered my helmet and killed me so oh my gosh watch out for the go ships the what are you supposed to do in a case like that just say uh I'm gonna leave that room alone and just cut around cut around it like it's a moldy piece of cake well what I should have done is backed up away's cut it from a distance and then let that stuff blow out of there

and it wouldn't have hit me. Also, if you get hit and it's not too bad, it's just leaking, you can get back to your station and buy a patch real quick, and then you're good. But the reason you'd want to even do a ghost ship, because you choose to do this. Sure. Is the money.

There's way more money in it. There's more money in a ghost ship. Yeah. That ghost ship metal sells for far more. Yeah. Well, at the very least, you have a couple of goals in there that would give you a ton more because you got them done. Like you kill a little nanobots and stuff like that.

It's so good. Gosh, dang it. It's good. All right. I'll stop talking about it now. No, that's all right. I've been enjoying Immortals Phoenix Rising. That's my, while Coverville is, while music is playing in Coverville, I play on the stream, Phoenix, or Immortal Phoenix Rising. And I've managed to make my character look exactly like a really buff young version of me. Oh, nice. Yeah, mustache and beard and all that stuff. That's very cool. The game has some great customization stuff in it. It really does, yeah. I love that game. You know, that was my game of 2020.

was it really i didn't know that yeah i loved it i need to i need to figure out where to get more like where to get my quests uh because right now i've got a a time trial that i just can't do just yet i need more i need better wings but uh need to get more quests well that game will give you plenty um all right anyway first story speaking in nanotechnology i didn't need to do this this funny nanotechnology allowed chemical signals from spinach to send emails Hmm.

This is like a science story. I should have said for Bobby, but no, we're going to do it now. Yeah. Take that, Bobby Franks. Frankenburgers. Franks and beans. Anyway, researchers at MIT, that's the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, if you didn't know. Mm-hmm.

Have devised a way to allow chemical signals from spinach plants to transmit an email. So if you're not already getting enough spam, you might also get some. Great. Yes. Spinnage. I'm a spinach prince with a fortune. I need you to deposit some money into this account. Help me.

Someone tried to use your account. You need to give us your login details right away. Hold on, let's make sure it's you. Click these pictures of kale. Spam and fishing from your freaking spinach plants. Here's why it matters. The system could help provide an early warning system for explosives or pollution, but really we just know, you know, we kind of just want to know what the spinach is thinking.

But here's how it works. And a study published this week in Nature Materials, researchers engineered the roots of a spinach plant to contain microscopic nanocensors that are capable of detecting nitro-aromatics, which I assume means like tiny smells. I don't know. Tiny smells. Chemicals that are often found in explosives and man-made industrial chemicals.

So when these nanocensors detect those compounds, it basically can send an infrared signal to an infrared camera, which can then shoot out an email alerts, basically a way of wirelessly sending an email notification. So you could be on the receiving end, and you'd boop in your inbox, and it would say, hey, spinach plant number 14 over here, detecting a little bit of shit going on here in the soil here.

I love that. What are you going to do? And, you know, like that sort of thing. It's pretty cool. Spinish plant number three just sent me a link to Pornhub because he smelled Gwyneth Paltrow's Vag candle. The candle. The candle. Yeah, Vajandal.

Yeah, Vajandal. There you go. That's better. Vagandle. Yeah, you guys are all, I'm seeing a lot of good titles today. Yeah, we're just handing them to you. Yeah. You're welcome.

You're welcome. All right. Let's see here. Oh, I guess DARPA is interested in this Defense Department's Advanced Research Wing, you know, DARPA? Sure.

They came up on the New York Times Crossword puzzle a lot. Oh, do they really? Is that, oh, that's interesting. DARPA's a good five-letter word. Lots of letters you can build on. I feel like my first, yes, Dice Tomatoes right on my thinking here.

My first memory of DARPA is in Metal Gear Solid 1 and you end up in the cell of the DARPA chief. Oh, really? Okay. Which is their way of just kind of insinuating that this guy's in charge of DARPA. He's the DARPA chief. And he talks like that.

I'm the DARPA chief. You need a solid snake. You need to get this thing done for the DARPA chief. And I just, that's my only memory of DARPA. And then later I'd see, I don't know, I saw some documentary. It's like, oh, they're real? That's a real thing, not just made up in a video game? I had no idea.

That's funny. Wolf Glenn and AZ Gaming Man. or both bring up lost. And for whatever reason, I didn't make that connection, even though... Oh, Dharma and DARPA. One of my favorite... Oh, Dharma is what they're connecting it with, right, the Dharma. Yeah, Dharma Initiative and DARP, that's their DARPA.

As far as I know, there's no DARPA in the Dharma. There's no Dharma. There's no Dharma and Greg, but no DARPA. That sitcom was not called Dharma and DARPA. Oh, we need a new Lost crossover called the Dharma Initiative and Greg. don't tempt me to like a thing that sounds bad. I love that idea. I love that idea.

Yeah. All right. There's that story. Hey, look at this. That streaker. Yeah. Did you see that? I did with his little Borat onesie.

Yeah. That seems like less streaking and more embarrassing. Yeah, that's not really streaking. It's just mayhem. Yeah. Why don't you just go full man-weener on the field? What was the problem there? Great.

It's redundant. It's Florida. As Tom Brady approached his seventh Super Bowl win, a streaker caused havoc on the pitch. Oh, I got to clear something up about Tom Brady. Real quick. I want to acknowledge two things. So, well, I have one question. I think it's weird that we're all, I am constantly this week being told,

forget about Tom Brady's politics. It's about what he's like on the field. Okay. That's fine. Okay. But no one tells me. that about Colin Kaepernick. No one ever says, oh, ignore his politics.

It's just about what he's like on the, no one's ever told me to do that. Right, okay. So it feels like a little bit of a, um, a little one-sided argument. A little one-sided argument. So, F that. And then the second thing I wanted to say was, it is possible to have, because I've been taken to task for thinking he's such a good football player. And I don't know how you deny that he's not a good football player, but he's, he's an

amazing football player, probably the greatest of all time, I would argue. And he can be that. and a penis at the same time, okay? So I just want to put it out there that it's okay to acknowledge that this dude is like probably the best the game's ever seen and also maybe kind of a weener. Yeah, you can be both. And you can argue.

If there's one thing in America we've proven is that you can do it all. You can be the greatest football player of all time and you can be a dick. Yeah, you can be both of those things with a stupid face. Exactly. And, you know, my own personal feelings, side. I don't know why it's such a big deal. Everyone can just calm down. They won the thing. Good job. Tampa Bay. You know, you got your thing. Good job. It's your second Super Bowl ever. Well done. I don't know what else to tell you. You're good. 10th Super Bowl, right? Yeah. Right? No. Oh, for him. Ten Super Bowl. Ten Super Bowl. Ten Super Bowls for him. No, no. Wait. I'm sorry. Buccaneers have been there ten times.

No. Tom Brady's been there. Oh, yeah. I just meant. I meant the Buccaneers have only ever won twice. Oh, got you. Okay. Fucking here's second time, yes. Yeah, because Brady's won seven. And then you're right. I think it's 10, 10 trips. 10 times there, seven. Yeah, it's crazy. It's a flight cake.

Yeah, that came up in a few emails. I guess I'm just, I'm just saying, don't, you know, everyone wants to throw all their sports, sports buggery all over me this week. And I don't know why. Sure, sure. All right. Where the hell were we? Oh, yeah, the streaker. That's for the streaker, yeah.

Said the streaker was causing some havoc on the pitch. It's not what we call it over here, but whatever. The pitch. Oh, yes. The pitch. I've done the pitch. Tonight, the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, or this is the other day. Went up against Kansas City Chiefs, many believing it to be a generational matchup for the ages,

a war between Brady the goat and Patrick Mahomes, the new possible goat. That guy's awesome. While the game, although he didn't play, whatever. The game isn't quite live up to that tale. there was some inexplicable throws and all of that. But anyway, as the game progressed through the fourth quarter, the chiefs were trying to get up to the Buccaneers again. At brief, he came to a halt when a streaker ran onto the pitch.

While the TV broadcast cut away, people present at the stadium kept filming the unnamed man as he led the arena's authorities on a wild goose chase around the players. Of course, it ended in the way it only could. He was tackled to the ground without much grace. Now, I would argue, I'd like to go to the tape and call the time out, because it looked like he may have been over the line and gotten a touchdown in his borat suit. Part of his body was over the line, but were his balls over the line?

Because that's what you've really got to measure is the front edge of the end zone. Go to the slow-mo cam, Brian. Did his balls cross the line? Yes, exactly. Yeah. With number one, we got to quit calling him a streaker because it wasn't a streaker. I think he had his butt cheeks might have been exposed because of the borat one. Lunsie, but it was only because they pulled his pants down as they were tackling him.

That's true. That may have been what he just wears all the time. I don't know. It might be. Now, somebody said, and it's scrolled way past it, but that he won like $775,000 because he bet on there being a streaker at the Super Bowl. Is this? Oh, is that true?

It sounds like completely made up, but. Snopeskin on this and let us know the deal there? Yeah, exactly. I would like to know. I'd like to know for sure. Super Bowl streaker charged with trespassing. Super Bowl Mankini Streaker won $374,000 from betting on himself. Oh, my, but that doesn't count.

If your bet is, oh, yeah, I'm betting there'll be a streaker. No one, you can't be the streaker, right? I don't see, I don't think there's any reason. There's nothing, he's not going to get kicked out of the streaking Hall of Fame because he bet himself. They bet on himself. Here you go. This is from a sportsbible.com, so I don't know.

I don't know what that is. Maybe they're legit. I don't know. But why, I mean, it seems like I'd jump onto the field. Like, whatever fine he got. Yeah, whatever he incurred. It's certainly less than $375,000, right? Did he?

So then that brings to the. question, what is streaking? Because Right. Well, if you look at the link, then there's a, butt cheeks are exposed. That's all you need. That's all you need, apparently. Oh, man, you need Wiener in the wind. That's my favorite Elton John's son. Yeah. Boy, look at him. Dodge that dude down there. Wow. All right. So if you won $374,000, then he had a fine of $1,000. He had a fine of $1,000.

Okay, that's all that was? He made more than most of those players. So that's not an arrestable offense. You can't, like, charge somebody with trespassing or something weird like that and have them have them have to go to court and all that. I don't know. I don't know if that's, uh... I hate that onesie. I hate it.

Oh, I hate it. It's just gross to look at. Um, all right. Well, good job, I guess. That's a lot of money. Also, who else was betting? Like, who? I got to read this.

I mean, that's a bold bet, right? Because he bet $50,000 on a prop bet that there would be a streaker. If you, for whatever reason, are making your attempt to do it and you don't make it out on the field, like you get tackled before you even make it out onto the field, then you're down $50,000. Oh. And you're down $51,000 because you'd probably still get the. the jail the fine so wait his buy-in was 50 grand yeah his he bet $50,000 on my gosh dude yeah that is a that is a risk I feel like he may have a problem a gammon problem who does that he's got a $375,000 problem to solve wow all right yeah well done you weirdo that's insane to me

yeah uh all right speaking of money this is a great transition here as well look at this oh good excellent uh 53 years ago this is before we were born just just just yeah about like a year before we were born no wait two years uh two years a wallet lost 53 years ago and in the antarctica was returned to its owner i'm gonna sneeze i have a button for that okay all right oh i think he lost that guy's wallet i think he lost that guy's wallet i think he lost that guy's wallet. Not wallet, wallet, wallet, pop-eye. All right.

A California man said he was shocked when the wallet he lost 53 years ago was returned to him after being found in the place where he lost it, Antarctica. Paul Grisham, famous author of books such as The Client. And no, that's not true. This is a different Grisham. That would be different Grisham. Yeah, yeah. This is Gil Grish.

His brother, Paul, who can't write worth a damn, especially not without his wallet. he's in San Diego I'm freaking gut allergies today or something Oh my God He doesn't He doesn't remember losing his wallet While serving as a meteorologist

In the U.S. Navy in Antarctica in October of 1967 But the wallet found during the demolition of a building in McMurdo Station The southernmost Southmost town on earth Definitely used to be his

His daughter Sarah Lindberg reached out to Bruce McGee of the Indiana spirit of 45. I don't know. No of that makes sense. Anyway, they contacted Gary Cox of the Naval Weather Service Association. You're not supposed to emphasize the last name like that, but I did.

No, probably not, yeah. I apologize, everyone. Especially Gary. Gary, if you're listening, got a cool last name, dude. It's like the cable service. Cox. Cox. Okay.

They wanted to find the owner of the wallet, and they were able to put some stuff together and figure out that it was him. And he's still with us, still alive, and got his wallet back. So didn't say whether the credit cards or the money were still in there. We don't know. Yeah. But that story.

I hope he closed his diner's club card. 53 years ago, his May DNF. Yeah, what they had back then? Because it wouldn't have been like... It wouldn't have been much in there, right? Right. In the 60s, your wallet probably had a little cash. Probably cash, but your driver's license, your Social Security card maybe?

I don't know. Maybe, I guess that'd be it. Yeah, that'd be it. A crack at Tua in the chat says cold cash, proud dad joke. See, there we go. Well done. And a cracketow. Yeah, and a cracketow.

And a cricket towel. A dude or lady? No, it's going to be a dude. I don't know. Proud dad. It could be whatever. Proud dad joke. Yeah.

I learned a long time ago not to try to figure out who's one. All right. We have a final story that's not a very happy one, but a cautionary tale. Okay. A YouTuber. Uh-huh. This is, this is, I've made the argument for years. The worst thing that YouTube brought to the world is massive amounts of pranking.

I hate it. Oh, I thought it was the name YouTuber. Oh, that too. I don't like that either. Yeah, it sounds like the starch you have on the side of your plate. You need to have a starch. I'll have an order of steak and YouTubers, please. Yeah.

Do you want those mashed? Yeah, smashed YouTubers. That'd be awesome. Yeah. well uh yeah the word influencer all those things suck but here's the point uh i don't like all the pranks i hate it it's like there's there are people with million dollar careers based on the fact that they video themselves being dicks in public i hate it i just wish it wasn't a thing i wish it was discouraged i wish you two is like i wish they had a policy that just said hey on our platform

we just think it's not cool to scare old ladies in a bus or whatever yeah i mean basically they need to do what the what cbs did and uh not not focus on the street not give them any attention or any oxygen, just let them, you know, let their, their videos dangle in the wind. Well, this, this happened here and it got real bad. A YouTuber was shot and killed while attempting a prank robbery. A 20-year-old, my freaking Knicks age. Oh, my gosh.

Was shot and killed in Nashville, Tennessee on Friday night and what police say was a YouTube video shoot gone wrong. According to a report by local news affiliates, Timothy Wilkes, was shot by a 23-year-old man named David Starns who was claiming self-defense. This other guy was like, here's the other thing. There are places in this country that have open carry laws. There are, you know, we have this thing called the Second Amendment, which love it or like or or hate it.

It's a thing, and, you know, you just need to know that there are more guns out there than you think. Yep. So I would never do this prank. But anyway, he's also, so he's claiming self-defense, Wilkes and some friends were apparently trying to pull a prank on strangers in the hopes of making it a viral YouTube video. The shooting took place in the parking lot of an urban air, a trampoline and adventure park in a strip mall in Nashville's Hermitage neighborhood. Police say Wilkes and a friend approached a group of people, both of them wielding butcher knives.

So the YouTubers are wielding the butcher knives. Oh my God. And they didn't think that this could possibly go wrong? I know, man. Gosh, dang it. Stames was among those people and not realizing that Wilkes was filming this prank, shot him. Stames sold the effects as he was protecting himself on others from this perceived threat. Yeah, yeah, it was.

Yeah. I mean, if I saw guys coming at me with a knife and I was packing heat or had a piece, as they say in the seven days, I might react the same. Like, that's my whole point. The line between prank and threatening people or whatever is so blurred now. Right. And it's all for the lulls and for the views. Yeah, and how is that prank going to be? Oh, my God.

You're going to kill it. me. Just kidding. It's a real butcher knife, but we're just pulling a prank. See ya. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, I hate it. I just truly, truly hate it. Anyway, it says, let's see, Metro Police say that no charges have been filed yet, but an investigation is still underway. Wilkes video was apparently supposed to be a fake robbery. It's not clear that he and his friend would have faced criminal charges as well or not, that sort of thing. But I don't even know who this is. Like, this may not be a popular YouTuber. This could be just some copycatter who loves one of those, brothers that everyone hates uh yeah and the sad irony is that i'm sure his channel is getting a ton of views right now oh i hated well i don't i hope that video's not up there shouldn't be no no no i'm sure it's not but i'm sure people are like oh who's this guy i don't know him and they're

looking him up and watching his other videos to see if he's i mean did you ever when you're growing up did you ever like what's the worst prank you ever pulled uh I mean, the most potentially harmful, I mean, you can't really call it a prank, but, you know, firing snowballs at the, at the busy street that went by my mom's house. It's a ride of passage if you grow up in a snowy. It kind of is, right? I mean, it's, you know, but you could easily, like, scare the crap out of somebody. They jerk the wheel, hit another car. I mean, there's so many.

so many bad things that could have happened from that but I mean that's you know dumb kid stuff that yeah the only other things I've talked about

on this show is like getting two people at my work to think that they were had unrequited love for each other well wait a minute I've told this story I don't think we've talked about this all right all right so

back that truck up and tell this story. All right. Here we go. Pull up a chair. So this was at the company that the software company, can I use your phone company? Right. And I would usually be the first one in the office.

I'd get there at 630 or 7. I'd work until 4.4.30 come home and do podcasting. Yeah. And we had this thing where when somebody had a birthday, you'd take a card around. and you put it in a manila folder, you'd tape it so that basically you could hide it, and then you could go around and have people sign it. It just looked like you were doing regular work. Okay.

So I went to the store, I picked up the sapiest love card I could find, and it said something like, thinking of you every day makes my heart warm, or some nonsense like that. And then I bought a big happy face sticker. and I put it in Manila envelope, open the card, and then, like, taped it so that they'd only see the inside of the card, right, and not the front of it, which had a, it was a beach scene with a guy holding a woman up in silhouette and, you know, frolicing on the beach. Okay. And then I took the Happy Face sticker, and I, like, put it on my skin a few times to get it to where it'd be easily removable, but wouldn't fall off automatically, and covered up the saying. waited until the first person showed up,

which was a guy named Dan, who worked in our production department, and said, Hey, Dan, it's Amy's birthday. Do you mind signing this card for her? And he's like, oh, yeah, no problem. And he signs it. And so I took it back to my office,

peeled the happy face sticker off, took the tape off, took it out, put it in the envelope, put Amy on the front of it, and left it on Amy's desk. Amy comes in, and basically I make sure that I'm around her office

door so that I can see her reaction when this happens. And she comes in, she sees the card, she is not her birthday, by the way. She comes in, she sees the card, she opens it up, reads it, looks at the front, looks inside it again. And then she sees me walking

by outside the door and says, Brian, come in here for a second. Yeah. And I'm thinking, all right, she's just figured out it's a prank. She's like, I just got this from Dan. What do you think it is? And so I decided I'm going to play to it and I say oh you know what I'm sure it's just a joke what you ought to do is play back at him like you're taking it seriously oh compounded interest is what we call that it's like a multi it's like the inception of of pranks oh man how long did this end up going did she it didn't last

long at all she was like okay yeah all right and so she goes into Dan and says hey I just want to talk to you about this card you gave me and he's like what card and she shows him the front and his name inside i that's not the card i signed she's like no it's okay it's all right i've been thinking about it too and you know it basically plays into it and but it only lasted like a couple minutes and so do they did it dawn on them they're like oh ibbit it's ib it's good ibid yeah yeah pretty quickly i mean because all dan had to say is no brain hand me that card to sign earlier that's some dark that's some dark dirt dude yes that's pretty good i mean for me mine's the filling those twinkies full of mayo

and feeding him to that a 400-pound guy that worked for us and he didn't know the difference we used the syringe and everything so the bags were sealed still sort of he didn't see the little dot we filled we sucked out all the middle stuff as best we could and then filled him with mayonnaise

and then he gave him one and he liked it and he wanted more or he ended up eating like three or four of those and we said do you notice anything about those that seemed off and he's like no these are good I love a twinkies Oh my God. Yeah he just kept eating him And we eventually told him We're like, dude, those are full of mail.

And he's like, oh, it's not that bad. And then the next month he went and spent $400 on lap dances in Vegas and had to. He had to call his mom and get an emergency money transfer because he spent all his money on lap dances. Really? Yeah. His name was Marshall and he was 400, 380-something pounds. Big huge guy.

He ran our message board or bullet board because it was like 92. or something, so it was, no, it would have been later, 93, 94, something like that, but we were running a, you know, like a BBS. It was those days of the internet, you know, slow modems and all that. And he ran that for us, and it turned out later we found out there was a huge bunch of porn on there. We didn't know about, but he was running it for the company. Anyway, Marshall was weird. Marshall, if you're out there, have a Mayo Twinkie on me, buddy.

All right. We're going to take a break. When we come back, we're going to spend some time with our good pal, Justin Robert Young, today. Yes. Who would define your prank as far worse than my prank because of the mail involved? Yeah, because there's mayo. Yeah. If you said...

Somebody said, I think Free Rangers said, it's not cool to mess with people's emotions like that, Ryan. Well, look, we all do dumb stuff at some point in our life. Exactly. That was one of Brian's. Oh, I would do that. You know what? I would do that again in a heartbeat because it didn't hurt. anybody. They all laughed.

But what if they love? What if they secretly loved each other? Right. See? Then I'm creating a love connection. Yeah. Yeah. You know, what's wrong with that? Cleo gets points for. And then Brian spent the afternoon, rest of the afternoon in HR, watching sensitivity training films. Yeah, I wondered about that part. But Brian worked for a company like I did. Small, local, you know. You can do it. It's like the old-fashioned one. way you get to prank each other and it's not quite the same you don't have a whole department coming down on you for doing something done like that all right we're going to do that break

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and he has played a prank where he's got some kind of, you know, like, fart spray, except this spray is, it's supposed to smell like there's pot in the room. Okay. So it's not actually marijuana. It's just fake marijuana pot spray. Yeah. Look at all these transitions. It's a prank. She's literally playing a prank.

And we just talked about pranks. Anyway, he plays a prank on his mom. She gets in the car and he's filming it. And she says, oh, Jacob. It stinks so bad like marijuana. I freaking love that lady. She is the best. Marijuana. Is that on TikTok?

Yeah, I got it on TikTok. Once in a all, TikTok will bless me with something fantastic. That was one of them. All right. Just in time. Just in time. Yep. He's coming in, coming in hot.

And we'll see what's up here. If I can find his deal,io. Here we go. All right. He's ringing. He's ringing. Rings of ringage. We got rings of ringage.

Rings of ringage. No answering of answers. but when that happens you'll know it because we'll know it it should be any moment now okay and we know he's we and you have you still haven't heard from him confirmation but we're just assuming right i assume yeah i should always check the night before i should never assume because as uh what's that guy's name i can't remember here it is these are their stories do do do do do do dee dee dee oh i'm terrible with name hey it's tuesday that must mean that justin robert young is joining us from his place i don't recognize Where are you right now? Where is this?

I'm in Austin, Texas. Oh, were you there yesterday, too, last night? Yeah. Oh, that's why you were kind of frazzled. It would have been a pretty quick flight this morning. I don't know you were out of town. I had no idea. No, when I said that I was looking for houses, that's where I was looking for houses. Is that your real estate agent that just walked behind you?

Yeah, who's the freaking nightstocker? It's scary looking. No, it's your real estate agent that's just staring. at you on that back wall. Oh, I thought you met the hoodie guy. Oh, no, that is a full suit of armor that I wanted to make sure it got into the background. Oh, wow, that's fantastic. Yeah, very cool.

Well, that sounds like fun. I hate house hunting, so I hope you're enjoying that. Oh, it sucks. It sucks ass. Yeah, I hate it. I say this, 37 years old, ain't never bought a house before. And I am in the process of trying to get that process going now. boy like the austin housing market is crazy because a bunch of california a holes like me and my wife

are coming down here with money that like in the bay area buys you a burned out doghouse uh and here buys you a single family home right but that means that when we all start battling uh for these places like mothra and godzilla uh you know it just just sort of leaves the locals holding the bag while we cast, you know, Harry Potter spells based on stock options that were given to a random job when you first started working there five years ago. And that was cool with you working for a boat. Yeah, that sounds right.

We're having the same problem here. And I don't know what to say about it, except there's, I have a lot of new California neighbors, like 14 new neighbors in and around this area that all moved here from various parts of California. And everyone's house values are skyrocketing. as a result, which is good for us because ours is way valued at the moment and we, I think we only

we owe like a third or less than a third of what the value is so we could sell it and make bank but then there's that whole issue of like do you sell it and then buy another one and the other one is affected by the same factors so you're just trading up to more like just stay is what I'm saying everybody.

I would say yeah, see how All this settles out. I think that the one thing I would say to anybody who's in a housing market that is being infused with Californians is it's probably going to keep going up. Yeah. Because I don't think California is going to be the California that people are leaving for a little bit. Yeah. Like, I think that it's going to be about a year plus before it's back to what it was a year ago. so you know we'll we'll see though who knows uh i know that uh it uh sucks competing with a lot of

other people now so i can only imagine what it's like if if uh you know this was going to be the year last year was going to be the year that you really wanted to buy a home and you were local here and then all of a sudden when you had projected to be a down payment now is like blown out of the water by but holes like me yeah it's a little weird we'll see you out all shakes out but i'm uh I'm glad you're well and you're down there. Are you able to keep up with all this trial business today? Do you know much about it? I was going to ask you if you thought.

It is my job. Like I do still need to do my job. Otherwise, I won't have money to pay for this house. That's a good point. I mean, what do you think of, I mean, I don't even know, I don't know how this works. So what are they even doing today? Is it just a, it's not a... You should.

We literally just did this a year ago. Yeah, but they didn't do anything. It got to the Senate and they just went, and they pushed it out they didn't do witnesses it was like really dumb are they doing do we get witnesses this time are we going to have like some meat to these bones or what you'd literally just answered your own question like we did it we already did it so you're saying they're going to do the same thing faster this is going to be the the the in the space balls term terms the short short short short short short version uh they're going to say their thing

then the Trump people are going to say their things. They're going to take off for the Sabbath because Trump's lawyer requested that. That was granted during the agreement between Schumer and McConnell. And that's it. Oh, there's a dog here. Brian is here. Oh, is it Brian Brushwood? Yeah, Brian Brushwood's here.

Oh. Come on over. Is that Rimeriner there? Oh, look, he's got a bag of something. It's a fish sandwich? Is it a fish sandwich of some sort? Yeah, this is Brian's dog, Joy. This is the Wymer Reiner.

Look at this. Yeah, we got one of these. Love that dog. We bought them about the same time, me and, me and Brushwood. About the same week. Scott's saying that you guys bought dogs at the same time. Yeah. So you have, you have, yeah.

And I also want my hair to be as long as Brian's. That's a different thing. I know. Look at how long his hair is getting. Holy cow. Oh, yeah. The COVID haircut. The COVID pushed the phone.

Brian is now either somebody who, who makes multi-million dollar software or sells drugs at a multi-million dollar. There's only two things you can do. All right. So you're saying that it's just there, we're not going to get any cool bombastic witness stuff. It's just going to. No, for this reason. Number one, it's fade accompli even more so than the last one was because a more than the

margin that you would need to convict Trump voted that this trial was unconstitutional. before it started. Right. The argument from the president and those that the senators that voted on it are that you can't convict a president when he's not a president anymore. You can't bring a private citizen in and impeach them. The Democrats are going to obviously make the opposite case. But if you already know that these senators voted to say this entire thing is a sham and it's not constitutional, then they're not then going to go back.

and say, but also we're convicting him. So that plus, the last time, the Democrats could just waste time because what else were they going to do? Like, let Mitch McConnell do whatever he wanted. So sure, them dragging things out as much as they could was, you know, just something to do. Now they hold the wheel. They control the levers of Congress for both the House.

the Senate. So any more time that they spend in what is going to be a fruitless endeavor is up to them. Right. So do you, do you, are we hoping for any particular side shows, though, from this? Like, are we going to get, you know, what's her name, MTG, Magic the Gathering over there? What's her name? Marjorie Taylor Green or whatever the hell her name is. Her getting pulled off assignments and all that side show. Are we going to get more of that? kind of stuff around this? Do you think like Ted Cruz is going to make a big stink? Like, what's the political, what political

maneuvering do you think will come around this? Because there always is, right? Somebody's going to do something that plays to their base or does a thing. No, they're all going to talk. Yeah. They're going to do what senators love to do. Talk in front of a television camera. They're going to go and they're going to say

like, I'm a senator and I really love being an American senator and that a thing that's great, and Trump is, insert, based on party, an unconstitutional victim of this slash an insurrectionist who tried to topple democracy, and, you know, that'll be that, and then it'll be done. I honestly think this is, you know, without any expectation.

you. The only reason why this was something that was interesting before is because of language from Mitch McConnell and some other Republicans that made you think, uh, maybe, maybe this guy is going to get, uh, impeached, uh, or removed rather. And then, you know, then he would lose his benefits and stuff as a next president. But that's not the case now. So. And it would have to be two thirds, you say? Is that the rule? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So you might wind up getting more Republicans voting. for it. That might be something to watch. You might get a Ben Sass or a Lisa Murkowski or a Susan Collins to vote to convict. They did not last time. It was only old Pierre Delecto Mittens Romney who voted on splitting the baby on one of the two charges last time in a positively Mittens move. So you might get more. There's only one impeachment charge now. They rolled in both him talking at the rally before the riot and what he said to the attorney general of Georgia into one thing.

So it's not like there's two things to do. You're either all in or all out. So you might see that. But other than that, I don't know what strategic worth there is for the Democrats. in making this go any longer than, you know, letting all the senators talk, which has to happen whenever any, you know, a trial like this goes on. So you what, give it a, what are we looking at here? More?

Two weeks. Two weeks. Yeah. Because they are going to take off for the Sabbath. So that is, you know, Friday through Saturday. And then I think they reconvene Monday. And then at that point, it'll be a vote. And that'll be that.

But look, the Democrats have a lot on their plate right now. And so far, they're doing it fairly well. You're seeing some splintering on the House side in terms of the $15 minimum wage, which the centrists are always kind of viewed as a hood ornament that they were very excited to get rid of so they could say that, oh, look, we're bargaining with the right, even though they're not going to get any Republican votes on this bill, which is why they're moving it through reconciliation. But the progressives are pushing for the $15 minimum wage

and trying to eliminate any means testing for, or at least further means testing on the direct COVID relief. There's a fight over the child tax credit. That actually is another thing that Mittens is involved in. So there's a lot of stuff that the Democrats can focus on. I just don't know strategically beyond, If the reason why you're doing impeachment is to have a noble gesture to say there are consequences for these actions, at what point do you just say, well, there we go. Those were the consequences.

We did the thing because practically it's going to be two weeks where Donald Trump's going to get the last word in a victory. Yeah. And so the- Again. Yeah. So the strategy is probably we have to do this. so we're going to do this and it shores up well you'll you'll everyone will know the names of all the senators who voted not to convict and that's at least some sort of win for them I guess

because in their minds you know now you got a list of senators who who thought that thing that happened on the 6th was okay you know that's how they'll sell it and then and then that's all you can do what else you can't do anything else uh the downside of all that like you said is. I mean, they have, they have that now. Right. Right. Because all those guys already voted that this was unconstitutional. Right. Which is a, which is a question that legal scholars can debate. Uh, uh, I've, I've read arguments on either side. And as a dude who got a high school education of Florida, I render my judgment as seems legit for both. Because I don't know, man. Like, yeah, that seems cool. And I read the other side. And I'm like,

Well, you make a good point. I don't know, legal scholars. Why don't you throw books at each other? Well, that's what they're going to do. I mean, they, look, I've long given up on it on the idea that anything, there's anything more or anything less than just pure partisanship going on. You have your occasional Romney and your occasional somebody else crossing lines or whatever. But at the end of the day, like they were, they were ready to eject a president in a Senate trial, which was never going to make it through. But they were going to push it anyway for a BJ.

in the 90s, but they're not for this? Like, yeah, it's partisan. Of course it is. Of course it's partisan. I'm both sides. Everybody, everybody... Well, I was lying under, it was lying under oath with the other time, but still, whatever. Like, I think the larger points. Lying about a BJ under oath.

There we go. That's what I'm saying. The BJ itself was fine. It was lying about it. Yeah, yeah. If he was under oath then he's like, dude, that beach, man. A plus. Like, or he could have said, you, he could have been like, like, eh, you know.

Was it the best? Wasn't bad. Wasn't bad. Wasn't bad. It was okay. It was all right. As Beges go. I don't know.

I actually regret to even joking about that because the more I read about the Lewinsky stuff, the grosser it truly is. It's super gross. No question. But my point is. I think that there's a lot that kind of got swept under the rug and how we talked about that of like, it's a blow job. And not like the most powerful man on the.

a planet exploiting a relationship with a very young girl like that is you know I think we we look at that differently in 2021 than we do in 1998 if we literally just make them a CEO and an intern and not a president where we're wrapping our our political allegiance to survive it yeah but I don't know it's easier again it's a partisan act to say that's just a blow job versus yeah what it really is and this is the same as saying Larry David by the way hey hey Yeah. Da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da. I'm starting doing the music.

All right. But no, I think the other big thing is the child tax credit. And that's going to be part of this COVID bill as well. A real quick primer for folks who are not up on kind of the mechanations that are happening right now. What's happening right now is called reconciliation. Reconciliation is a budget maneuver, meaning you're not actually passing these laws or these bills that will become laws in the way that you normally do it, which is a 60-vote threshold. the Senate. What you are doing is saying that, oh, no, these are part of the budget. And the budget is so important that all we need is a simple majority in both houses to move

that forward. Both parties have used this to their advantage. The Republicans used it to pass tax cuts. The Democrats are going to use it now for COVID relief plus whatever else they're doing because nothing that is almost certainly going to pass gets to pass without everybody trying to staple a bunch of things alongside of it. And one of those things is the child tax credit. This is something that Mitt Romney actually made headlines by saying should be bigger than what it is right now, which is $2,000. The other movement there is they want to have it go from a $2,000 tax right on to a benefit

that parents would get per month. So you would just get that money in the mail from the government. per month. And Mitt Romney wanted to go from 2,000 to 3,600. So that would be a $300 per child benefit per month. That has moved the Democrats. And now the Republicans are actually not against the amount of money. The fight now is about whether or not there should be a work requirement to it. Oh, I see. That sounds like a, yeah, whatever. So my, uh, my, uh, my kids are all too old so too bad so sad for me for this benefit not going to happen exactly yeah so justin you've got time hurry up get that uh no yeah we got i mean i'm trying to trying to

get these get these little ATMs working so i can uh funnel it into my gundem collection i love it um all right well i wish you nothing but the best of luck uh house hunting i hate doing it on a local level i can't imagine doing it across the country but uh it's it's man it's crazy So just to give you a sense, we went to an open house, and it's me and my realtor, and the open house starts at noon. We get there at 1145, and as we pull up, another realtor pulls up. And when I tell you that, well, here, I'll just say this, they pull up after us, we watch the couple whose house it is leave. And it is seconds after they are out the driveway that the other realtor who got their out, after us and their client just bum rush the door to run it.

And I'm talking to my realtor and I'm like, hey, is that like bad? Is there like a realtors code that you don't go in before the open house is technically supposed to be there? And everybody's on these apps to get the keys out and everything. So it's like, they know the timestamp of when people went in. And they go in and she's like, yeah, no, there is like kind of a code. You shouldn't go in before noon. Doesn't matter.

They're in. So we go in after that. And we're like, ah, five minutes early, right? We get out, it's still not noon, and there is a line of no less than eight people. What the three? With their realtors waiting for this house. And when I say that they are all different versions of me and Ashley, like sometimes I'm a little fatter, sometimes Ashley has longer hair or it's red or something, but it's just like all the same people. And that was one house we went to.

Another house was listed as active the night before. And then we get there. And there's just a handwritten sign saying contract accepted. And there's no key. Like, it is, it is kill or be killed out here. And it's, it's crazy. That sounds miserable. But in the end, I'm sure it'll all work out.

Wind to your back, as they say. Is there anything content-wise people should check out this week? while you're away. Yeah, you want to know what? Check on Night Attack, because Night Attack is going to be me and Brian live, and I would say, yeah, yeah, the Night Attack Night Attack, Night Attack.

No, that actually was a character on the show. That is the Night who might attack Night Attack. Wow. But he will not be active today. because the guy who does it is not living here. But we will, we're going to have a great show and, you know, this is sort of going to be the beginning of a new phase. So if you were into NSFW show, you were into BB Live show, you were into Night Attack, for

whatever reason, life, you know, moves on, you want to, this would be a great time to get back into the show because we are going to kind of change a few things and it's going to be me and Brian live in studio more than ever starting very soon. Yeah, this come hell or high water, which is the name of your realtor company you're working through, I'm sure. Yeah, blood money, ink. Well, best of luck. We'll see you soon and stay safe.

Bye now. All right. He has left the building, Brian. Elvis. It's left. Like a fart in the wind in Austin, Austin, Texas. That's right. That brings us to the conclusion of today's episode, which we were very happy to bring

to you today, and we would like you to head on over to frogpants.com slash TMS if you're confused by anything. You want to request a song. You're trying to find links to Patreon. Do you want a transcript of today's show? All of it. Yep. We do live transcripts.

All right there. Oh, wait. I'm typing it right now. Oh, yeah. Brian does it in real time the entire show. That's why it comes out wrong sometimes. It's just a little bit. Exactly.

Oh, jury. now retire. Damn it. The jury will now retire. All right. Keep forgetting to do it. All right. That's it. We're done. Tomorrow will be a Wednesday edition of the show, which means recommendals and Tom and all that fun stuff.

So come on back for that. I think that covers everything. Brian, we should probably exit with a song in our hearts. Do you have one that we can put there? I do. This one's a little bit late as well. This one came in over the weekend. But it's for one. of our one of our favorite tadpuller, someone who's in here day after day, and we always look forward to seeing her because as she, as we know, she brings bacon.

She says, hi, sausage and bacon. In February last year, I sent you a message with a song request for my birthday. I'd been feeling a little sorry for myself as I was recovering from shingles with the strongest medication my doctor could give me. Luckily, I wasn't suffering too much and was feeling very upbeat because I had the TMS Vegas trip to look forward to. unfortunately yeah we all know what happened and how that story ended i'm staying positive though with a big trip plan to visit lots of american friends as soon as we're all allowed to travel again please pass on my happy birthday wishes to peter fisher and tina who share their birthday with me and she gave me three song request suggestions yeah i didn't realize zoia at the same birthday

and tina that's amazing all june 6thers yeah very cool uh you guys are the best and is it too early for a fish sandwich. Never too, well, for a McFish, maybe. But for a regular fish sandwich? Yeah. Hold on. Where is it? Well, too late and too early for a McFish. Is it? There it is. Hey, too hard. I get a fish sandwich. We love you, Zoe, and we can't wait. We can see you in person again. Happy, hope you had a happy birthday. And, of course, no show on Saturday. So we couldn't have done it sooner. That's true. So she had a couple ELO requests. And I, uh, I, uh, uh, I, uh, uh, I, uh, uh, uh, I, uh, uh, uh, I, uh, uh, uh, I,

wasn't nuts about any of the choices of those covers that I had in my library. For whatever reason, the two ELO songs that she picked were both very sound-alike, both the ones that she recommended the ones I had in my library. So I was like, I'm going to go off the board with this one. But I didn't go off the board, actually, I should say. I went to her third choice, which was a cover of You're My Best Friend by Queen, covered for BBC Radio 2 by Mama's Gun. oh wow

a band I was unfamiliar with until now but really really dig here is mama's gun with our cover of Queens you're my best friend happy birthday Zoe yeah happy birthday Zoe may all the bacon be free so that she can bring it

so she can bring it so she can bring yeah so that she can bring yeah see we'll see you guys tomorrow we'll see you guys tomorrow Who you make me live Whatever this world can give to me It's you, you're all I see Who you make me live now, honey

Who you made me live Are you the best friend that I ever had I've been with you such a long time you're my sunshine and I want you to know they're not feeling so true

I really love you you're my best friend you make me live but I've been wandering around but I still come back to you In rain or shine You stood by me, girl I'm happy

Oh, you're my best friend And Who you make me left Whenever this world gets cruel to me I got you to help me For give Who you make me little Wow honey

Ooh, you make me live Oh, you're the first one When things turn out bad You know I'll never be lonely You're my only one And I love the things I really love the things that you do Ooh, you're my best friend

Yeah Who you make me I'm happy my love. I'm happy. Relieved. Oh, you're my best friend. Sing it. Oh, you make me live.

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