The Morning Stream - TMS 2068: THE CAKE WAS A BABY!

Episode Date: February 16, 2021

Do I like Ted Cruz's haircut? Let me mullet over. Nobody Puts Baby in a Cupcake. Lack Of Chair, Lack Of Hair, Lack Of Clare. Weezer's weird right? Did You Put An Egg In Your Ginger Hair? MANY Naked Meth-heads. What Do Strong People Rip Now? You KNOW How To Earn Some Beads. Floridian Rhapsody. One of the Seven Numbers. Somewhere There Is A Phonebook! Lars Vandalay: Importer & Exporter Extroidinaire! Meat from Down Under, if ya know what I mean. Reconciliation with Justin 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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exporter, extraordinaire. Meet from down under, if you know what I mean. Reconciliation with Justin and more on this episode of The Morning Stream. Look at this Christmas tree. It's perfect for a gay person or a straight person. Look who I have on the video phone. This is the morning stream, and I feel fine. Welcome to TMS, everybody. It is the morning stream for Tuesday, February 15, 2021. I'm Scott Johnson with Brian Abbott. Hi, Brian. Good morning. Hello, and welcome to the second half of February.

Yeah. February. I'm glad, because I hate this month's name. I just want to know, I want to say March. We can get through it the better, right? I want to say March. March is fun to say. Yeah, it's short.

It's easy to say. It's pronounceable. You see it on a piece of paper and you don't go, is it February? I don't want to do that anymore. This month sucks. Let's get through February and move on. Okay. It's okay.

Horrible. Uh, listen, uh, real quick off top of the show, I know there's a crap, we have a lot of listeners in Texas and in and around that area. Um, also other parts of the country, I guess there's Portland's having a bunch of outages and stuff. Anyway, Louisiana had some weird freaking storms with like, uh, oh, did they? Yeah, like, like balls of electricity. They showed a video of somebody that somebody took in, uh, Louisiana. And it was like a ball of electricity zipping from line to line. It looked like, um, oh, I saw that. I wondered what that was. I thought that was just. Michael Bay Special Effect or something. It was some rando thing from a long time ago, but I didn't realize that was recent or part of this weird weather pattern thing. Oh, it's crazy. It was crazy.

That is crazy. Well, wherever you are, if you're out of power, I know a lot of friends in Texas have been out for like 25 hours or something. That's bad because it's also really cold. And some people's pipes are frozen, plus some water services just straight up off. So I'm just saying if you're hearing us somehow, you're catching us later on the podcast.

cast feed, whatever. We hope you're doing okay. And send in your, uh, your, your experiences to the show. We'll talk about it. We're thinking about you. Um, can't really send you electricity, but if we could, we would. We could. I'd send it in the form of a big throbbing ball across a line like Brian just described if I could, but I don't know how. Yeah. I told Wadden Magic that, uh, I'd send um, he man's power sword because if you have that, you have the power. Oh, that's true. As a song says, You have the power. Hey, look at this.

We also have a thing to do, an email to read. Now, I took a lot of heat yesterday in my own head, not because of other people. Oh, okay. But I was hard on myself because this idea that hotels aren't full of phone books like I thought really threw me.

And I was having kind of a Mandela effect sort of day afterwards. Like, it wasn't quite this serious, but there were multiple times. in the day where I rent, well, if I thought that was true, what else do I think is right and is wrong? Like, you know, start having this existential kind of thing happen about what you think is, what you're actually noticing and what you're not. I swear, every hotel I've ever been in at a phone book, not necessarily a big fat one,

maybe a medium one, but some kind of like local directory of businesses and other stuff that isn't part of the little thin packet you get, but a large tone. But basically like a, like one of those half size, you know. yellow pages. Maybe one of those combo ones that's half white, yellow page or half white pages, half yellow pages or something similar to that I thought was in every hotel that I'd ever seen. So here's a, here's a, uh, like Daniel J. Newman, just give the man appointed, but he's suffered enough. Oh, I got. I will, this, this is absolutely an argument that I will never win because I fully believe that the major hotel chains have phased them out. But I'm sure if you looked around, there's, there's absolutely going to be smaller hotel chains or independent hotels that absolutely still have phone books. So there's no way that I can win an argument by saying there is no, no hotels have phone books. So I will actually concede that there are probably some hotels that have some hotels somewhere as a phone book. I will also say that I'm sure that that's true.

Yes, but let's continue with this. Yeah, we got this email. This came from B4Tank Girl, who we deal with us a lot on the show. She says, Scott, you're not crazy. Phone books are definitely a thing in hotels. If you're new to a city, you use them to find local restaurants, stores, etc. Trisha. Now, I got, I don't know, 50 emails just like that one saying, oh, I know these.

So then I didn't feel alone. I was like, oh, okay. I'm not making this up in my head. The only way for us to be sure, though, is we are going to right now, and I haven't done this before, so I have no idea what they're going to say. We are going to call a major. hotel chain location. This one is in downtown Columbus, Ohio.

Is this the one you stayed at when you went to Columbus? No, we didn't stay at the Hilton. This is a different hotel. And that part, this is partly why I'm doing this because I want to see if, you know, I want to go to one that I haven't been to in a long time. The only Hilton I've been to lately has been in Anaheim. So we're going to call the Hilton in Columbus, Ohio, right now on the phone. And we're going to ask these people.

Now, I put in a different phone number. It's still the same Hilton, but the number you put in there is an 855, and I'm sure that's going to get you, like, their hotel main phone number. Yeah. The one on the right there is the Hilton on High Street in Columbus. All right. That should get you right to the front desk. All right, I swear it's not, I didn't have a plant out there that's like, all right, you're Art Vandalay, you're an important. exporter and uh yeah we're not going to get a yeah i'm not too worried all right let's see what

happens when we go into this here all right we're going to call it i don't know why this thing's we're muted but thank you for calling the hilton columbus downtown we can't wait for you to experience our hilton clean stay program clean stay is an industry leading program that brings elevated cleaning practices to every aspect of the hotel experience that's great please be advised that some of our amenities and operating hours please hold I hit zero it usually works thank you for calling the hit the Columbus downtown I'm a be of assistance yes I was calling to I had a quick question for you guys do you guys you guys keep phone books in your in your rooms for your guests like no we do not you do not do that okay no all right well you

you help settle a question we've had and I really appreciate your time. Thank you very much. All right. Damn it. I'll be staying at the Hyatt, sir. Yeah, that's the last penny I spend at a Hilton. You tell Paris to go make another midnight sex tape. I'm not interested. All right, well, I guess that at least says something. That says the one hotel doesn't have it. But like I said, I think my guess would be, and I gave you a link to an article from the Raleigh News and Obserner. from 2008 that

lists a bunch of hotel chains that are phasing out their phone books as of 2008 and I'm guessing it's probably like you said you're going to have your your Sheraton's your Hylton's your Hyatt's your Homewood Suites I mean I'm trying to think of other ones those are probably they probably

all phase them out because it cost them money right if they've got a 300 room hotel yeah they've got to buy and maintain phone books in all those hotels yeah I think you're I think your theory is right. The big chains, it's an initiative to say, are we going to keep doing this or are we not? And then they stop at a national scale or even international scale.

It's like United deciding not to have that one olive that they put on when they were serving meals on planes. They took the olive off of the chicken or fish dish and all of a sudden they saved $3 million a year or something. Yeah. They found the money they needed to stop putting that olive on there. You're absolutely right. So I totally agree with you. And this is, and I'm, and I'm happy to come to this place where I will, I understand it now. I think what's happened is I'm conflating also a lot of old memories, newer memories, a book that may or may not have been a proper phone book was more like the hotel's version of a, here's our menu, plus these local things, plus our partners, plus the best, like it was probably some of that.

So some have them. They're small, like you say, a smaller place might have it. I might get one at a, at a chain, a small chain that hasn't decided to eliminate them. And for whatever reason, I save money when I go there. So, therefore, my memory is that I always see one there. But if I go to a Marriott or a Hilton or whatever, they have probably wisely decided to dump the damn things because who wants a phone book? Nobody does.

Who needs one, right? Nobody needs one. Look at this thing we have. Look at this phone book I have right here, my pocket. Right, exactly. And guess what? It's accurate. If a business changes their phone number yesterday, it's probably fixed in that device you have right there.

Yeah. At least last week if they changed their phone number. Moving train media has a good question, though. What do strong people rip in half now instead? Old phone books. I mean, there's got to be a stockpile of those somewhere. Yeah, someplace. These are like CRT monitors.

Eventually you won't be able to find one. But for now, get them on eBay, whatever. You'll find one here and there. But it does make you worry like, all right, so they're phasing out phone. phone books and then probably you know somebody in the chat room suggested they'll probably phase out if they haven't already the the gideon bible and the nightstand it's going to be kind of like frontier like remember how frontier uh airlines oh yeah well we're deciding we're going to phase out um uh full size trays right so now you have like a little postage stamp size tray that you can flip down and put a phone on right because they also don't they've also phased out the little video screens and the seats in front of you. Yeah. And they've moved those seats back a little bit.

My knees can attest. Another couple rows in there. I don't fit in coach anymore. They're trying to force me to do freaking first class or business class because I can't, I can't fit. Like, ask my wife, every time we fly, I've got to be aisle because my one leg's got to be over here. I'm six four. It just doesn't work. And then when those carts come by and I'm not ready for it, gunk.

Oh, sorry. We've freaking destroyed your knee for no reason. I hate it. Yeah, I do too. I do southwest because if I can get on early enough, I can usually snag one of those exit row seats and the prime exit row seat is the one where it's right next to the bulkhead and there's no seat directly in front of you so you can just stretch your business out all the way.

That's the way to do it. And sometimes you say, well, like you say, you can save a little money on that slot, right? Because nobody else wants it or am I thinking of the right thing? one of those they that's a coveted seat that's usually that's gone with a with people who board in the a group so if you're not in a you're you're not getting that seat what am i thinking of i think i'm thinking of a specific plane that delta buys that has a like halfway down the aisle there's a divot and that divot cuts over and the chair right there is perfect because i can get my legs out there uh but i

think that's just a certain plane like a whatever they're called right or the dream liner or something like it's it's not that one but it's something like that yeah one of the seven seven numbers i don't know what they are but anyway well we've learned a lesson today i'm glad we did it and thanks to uh the nice man at the hilton columbus for uh yeah exactly hilton columbus uh for helping us out with this horrible query all right uh i want to do a special birthday shout out i actually got this a week or two ago, and I promised I'd do it. So I want to do a quick shout out to the following person. I got a message that says, hey, thanks so much for replying.

Sorry, my reply is a bit tardy. It's totally fine. It went to junk mail. Oh, man, I hate it when I go to junk mail. Anyway, the name of this person is Corey Jones. He lives in Brisbane, Australia, and his birthday is on the 16th of February. This is from Angie Hale, his significant other. Thanks again.

I'll be sure to pick up a cute gift from your store as well. I hope you and your families are both well. Well, thanks. And happy birthday, Corey. That's awesome. Yeah, it's over now, right? Because he's in Australia. So there's probably like a couple hours left of his birthday.

That's true. I hope it was good, dude. I hope you had a good birthday. Yeah, your little dingo meat and whatever you do down there. But here's the thing. I have a meat pie. Celebrate. Kind of meat they like down there.

Beef. They're like big on cattle, right? They like the beef. Yeah. Do they... They eat kangaroo, dingo meat? You can. We've talked about that on the show about eating kangaroo. I think Gidgett said it's really, really good.

I don't know if you dingo meat, though, or wallaby meat. Wallaby meat. But I figured... You know, they eat nothing but bloomin onions and Victoria's fillets as far as I know. Oh, yeah. They wash it all down with a fosters. A wallaby darned. Yeah.

A fosters beer, which is, you know. Australian for beer, is what I heard. That's what I was told. By the way, you share a name. Corey Jones, you share a name with a guy used to work at Blizzard who now runs. Oh, what's the tabletop game brand? Shoot. Anyway, they made the World Warcraft.

Oh, small world, the Small World Warcraft? No, they can't remember the name, but they have that CCG game called Hex that a lot of people really like. Oh, yeah. Yeah, yeah. Anyway, that's Cory Jones. He's really nice. Different guy. Not cryptozoic.

Cryptozoic, that's it. It is cryptozoic. Okay. Yep. Well done. My brain. Thanks. It's no worky today.

Anyway, so yeah, there's your morning breakdown. Oh, I have one more thing to say. I forgot what it was. I forgot. Yeah, there you go. That's it. Man. Yeah, it was good.

And now I don't. Oh, happy Mardi Gras. Oh, happy Mardi Gras, everybody. Yeah, is Kim making Jambola tonight? She is. And we got something else she was going to make that she doesn't usually. And I forgot what she said. I'm forgetting everything today.

But she's making something else and it'll be a very small affair. Usually in non-COVID years, we make a big deal out of this and usually go to her sisters, which is like eight blocks that way and just have a huge party and all these friends come over and everybody eats like idiots and eats king cake and all that. But I don't think that's happening this year. It did happen last year. because things were fine last February. Well, they weren't fine, but we weren't in lockdown yet. They were just on the verge of being not fine, but they were, yeah.

Yeah, so it was great. We throw beads at each other. I show my boobs. Do you? Uh-huh. That's the only way to get beads, people. That's it. That's the only way.

Yeah, if you have to ask me, you have to say, show me your boobs, and then I'll show you my boobs, and then I'll throw you some beads, right? Isn't that how it works? No, they throw me the beads. I forget. Yeah, my plan today is to make king cake cupcakes. Because that, if you can make them smaller and then not gorge on like a, you know, a massive slab of cake. Oh, right.

Yeah, that's a good idea. Just have a little tepcakes. And if you use monk fruit instead of granulated sugar, you know, then really you just got, you know, it's basically flour, cinnamon, butter, water, salt, yeast. That's it. Yeah, it's not too bad. No. I'm not going to hide a baby in there either. I'm not going to do that.

That just feels like a chip tooth waiting to happen. Well, especially in a cupcake. Well, I guess if you put it in one of a... You just put it in one of the cupcakes, right? Yeah, exactly. I can see that. I'm not going to do that. I'm still not doing that.

But then people could just be really gingerly, you know, bite in slowly and not too gregariously and try to be careful. It's really a 50% chance because it's just teen and me in the house. We know one of us is going to get the baby. It's like... We could just play the flip a coin game. Ah, heads, you got the baby. There you go.

It's like the rouletteista there at the ib at home, pulling that gun out and trying to figure it out. Anyway. Did I say ginger? I didn't need to say ginger if I said ginger. Cinnamon, butter, sugar, flour, salt, water, yeast. Oh, I thought there was a redhead in the chat room and you called them a ginger. I mean, people do that. Yes, I did, I don't know why I said if I said gingerly.

Oh, I said gingerly. Oh, you gingerly eat the cake. Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's a little. Real quick, do any redheads want to fill me in on this? Is it, is it or is it not? Do you feel offended when someone calls you a ginger? And does it depend, I guess, on their tone of voice or their, you know, like their stature toward you. Like, no, says Clarkeach.

She says it doesn't bother her. I don't know if she's, well, she might be answering the question. Do you add an egg to that mix? Because she said no right after that. No, she says, I'm Irish and Scottish. It's my hair. Okay, she is talking about the hair. I wasn't sure.

I wasn't sure if it was like, do you put an egg in that? I love that. This is how war start, man. People get confused about what the question they're answering. This is why Lag, Twitch Lag, is such a bad thing. Because we don't know if you're answering the question that we just asked for the question we asked 12 seconds ago or 24 seconds ago

or now BioCow adds the right follow-up Ginger's now that we've established you're not offended by the term are you offended when somebody points out you don't have a soul is that the thing with ginger I don't know how that works I remember of all this gingerness

my most prominent memory is just the South Park episode they did about it and that thing was all over the place and I don't remember half the jokes they told but anyway, I guess what I'm saying is we love all our people here at the show. We love all our people. Claire Gag clarifies.

She says, no egg and no offense to being called Ginger. And then she asks, do you find it offensive when people call you bald? Me, meaning me. Yeah. Do people call you bald? Do they go, people don't call me bald, but they can

and I have absolutely no problem with it because it's, you know. I'm trying to think if anything would offend me right off the bat. Most things won't offend me personally. But I'm more than just my baldness, okay? There's more to me than just a lack of chair, a lack of hair. A lack of chair.

A lack of chair. What? I don't know what I was about to say that I merged into hair to make chair. We got Claire, chair, hair. I am at a standing desk, so. Yeah. Maybe Claire's name was throwing you off. That's what I'm saying.

Maybe. A lack of Claire. A lack of chair. lack of Claire and a lack of hair. It's a Claire show today because we got a thing at the end of the show. She's going to freak out about it. Or it'll offend everybody and we're done. This is our last episode ever.

It's possible. That's right. Exactly. Entirely possible. So we'll see how that goes. All right. We have not been able to do this in a couple of days. And so now is our chance.

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I mean, it just makes it. So now when I hear it, I'm going to think of it every time. Like, he's still your guy in SWAT. What is your, what is your favorite LL Cool J movie? Oh. That's a good question. I really like his role in that 20 year anniversary they did some, now some years ago

for Halloween. Do you remember that? They did a Halloween remake and it had Jamie Lee Curtis coming back and he played a security guard in that old cool jay was in there yeah and he was great in that um yeah Halloween h2 oh okay it was called yeah toys for me identity four has it has my favorite toys which is that really weird Robin Williams Joan Cusack oh yeah what was that called uh toys wait wait wait I got the wrong one in my head I don't think I've ever seen toys toys is the Barry Levinson film I never saw yes yeah I love Barry Levinson seen

everything he ever did, never saw toys. I think people said it was bad and don't go, I think is why. It's weird, and I think it was right. It was one of the first Robin Williams movies where he said, yeah, I'm not going to be doing that thing you know me for, for everything, right? Because it's like what dreams may come and dead poit's a centennial man and, yeah. It's weird. It would be a great film sack because I think it's. highly contested as

whether or not it's it's good or not it definitely is very it's not subtle at all about the message it's trying to convey war is bad toys are good

mibbid mibbid b'n 11th had a run of movies like that and like wag the dog and some other stuff where he was super into like anti-war stuff well all right but it does have a great soundtrack

somebody pointed out that it's got a great Tori Amos song it's got Thomas Dolby doing the song with Joan Cusack. I mean, you can't beat that. I've never, have I heard her sing? I don't think I have. No, and maybe something you just only want to hear once.

I'm Michael Gambone. That reminds me. Gross Point Blank is currently on Prime, I believe. So if none of you have seen the greatest film of 1997, possibly of the entire 90s, go see Gross Point Blank on Prime right now. It's very good. She's in that. Cool.

Toys is on H. B.O. Mac streaming. Just saying. Just saying. We may want to, you know, just, you know, we're just saying. Slip it in. Should I slip it in? I'm going to slip it in. I'm going to move Catwoman. I'm going to slip it right in. And, um, please move Catwoman again. Guess what? There's nothing anyone can do about it. I still think, I still think that might be the worst. Catwoman might be the worst, uh, technically supposed to be mainstream AAA movie that we ever did because it was sold as a big mainstream movie it was budgeted as one but it was so bad I don't think we've seen anything worse at that level do you know what I'm saying like you could

say oh well uh freaking you know that Dolph Lundgren thing um whatever it was called is worse well yeah retrograde yeah but they had the budget of like nobody expected anything good from that right it had no budget it had nobody involved in it except for Dolph Lundgren that was any good like we knew what we were we were getting a bill of goods there and we knew But Catwoman was sold as this big major DC thing and with an actress who had won best actor or best actor actress in her role in her role in Monster and all this other stuff like that was supposed to be a big deal. And it turned out to be one of easily one of the worst movies I've ever seen. So be freaking bad. Yeah.

Until we see like Ishtar or trying to think of big like just bombs where there it's not just it's it's, you know, there's so many expectations for. The cast and crew The Catwoman for film sack is probably The biggest one Oh, Captain Kifter, do not say Waterworld Do not I love Waterworld Those fightin words

You want to fight me, Captain Kipper? Fight me, fight me! Hey, look, I like Hudson Hawk, but that does it make it a good movie. Oh, what's the Travolta? Oh, Battlefield Earth. Battlefield Earth, dude. Yeah.

That's a close second, maybe even first. What a piece of shite that was. All right, anyway, moving on. There's Jakey Gramer asks, which was worse. Catwoman, Suicide Squad, or Wonder Woman 84? Catwoman, for sure. Oh, 100% Catwoman. Suicide Squad wasn't great, but actually, of the three of those,

I had a better time in that movie than I did with the other two. Yeah, yeah. People always bring up sucker punch. it again. Icor is? Yes. Yes. Sucker Punch. Don't tell Dunaway that. He loves it. Donaway will defend sucker punch to his grave. But he loves it. Visually, it's a gray movie. Everything

Elsely, that's a bad movie. Crystal, Curse of the Crystal Skull. Wait, is that called Curse of the Crystal Skull? Indiana Jones and the I thought it was just and the Crystal Skull. There was no curse. Indiana Jones and the Crystal Skull?

I thought it was just... Oh my God. Have we completely have we decided to just erase that from our minds so badly. Legend of the Crystal. Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. Which makes just as much so much. That's a really, there's another high, that is maybe the highest

level of disappointment I've ever had to. Yeah. Yeah. And a movie that was supposed to be a thing. Even Phantom Menace didn't, didn't have as much disappointment as Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. I'd take 20 Phantom Menaces over one Kingdom skull. Or one crystal skull.

Anyway, moving on. Hey, check this out. You know, those PPP funds, they're like those temporary or these forgivable loans that the government gave out to businesses to get them by last year. Well, they went out to people, everybody from small businesses to the larger ones and some in between. One dude who got $7.2 million from a PPP loan used it to buy a mansion and a bunch of luxury cars. And now he's in trouble because you don't, you should. shouldn't do that. They do check on this stuff, you know. It's got to go into the business.

Wow. A Bradenton, I don't know where this is. This is Orlando. Bradentown, Florida, yeah. Okay, so Florida, man, rich Florida man. And he's in, it's Seminole County Mansion, it's Seminole County, a nice county with, like, big mansion, he peeped things. I don't know. Yeah, I don't know my counties. I've been to

Bradenton, Bradenton Harold, installed there. Nice. How was that? I think it's on the West Coast. It's west of the, on the peninsula. Were there any, like the Sarasas. Soda side and the Tampa side. Any naked meth heads running by or anything weird like that? Many, many naked meth heads.

I only know Florida from the news, so I can't, you know. It's only people cheating on their P-P loans or naked meth-hats. That's right. Don's sister-nino was indicted on two counts of wire fraud, three counts of aggravated identity theft, and three counts of illegal monetary transaction, record show. that he established some company called Magnifico. Magnifico. I guess it's more like Magnifico.

I'm just a poor boy, please give me a lot. I need a mansion, 1050 cars, please. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. Let's see, this company is as old as 2014. The first one writes itself. There you go. Brayden to the Rhapsody. Yep.

Let's see, it's listed as a consulting company. with few or no employees, according to records. He applied for the Paycheck Protection Program loan, established as part of the Federal Cares Act Relief Bill. He is accused of saying that he had 441 employees with an average monthly payroll of $2.88 million per month. Records show that after the application, they issued the funds to him.

Prosecutor said that Sister Nearn, Is Sisternerno, is accused of using the money to buy a Maserati, an $89,000 Lincoln Navigator, a $251,000 Mercedes-Benz and a $3.1 million home in Chaliotta. Okay, I think I've got it. Ready? All right. I'm just a poor, but with 400 employees, you're just an idiot who's going to buy a Maserati. It's close. Yeah, it's close.

I need to work on the syllables. Way too many syllables in that second one. Yeah, we're getting there. You're going to use it to buy a Maserati. There you go. Maserati's a fun. It's in this loan and... We just need to work shop of it.

It'll be fine. Yeah, it's really close. Yeah, this is like, like you said, this is, it is almost done. It's so, it fits so perfectly. So this dude's busted. He bought a lot of stuff and now he has to answer for it, which probably means federal time in prison. So enjoy.

Oh, and those things will all be repossessed. The government now owns. your navigator, your Maserati, and your Mercedes-Benz, as well as that $3.1 million house that you purchased as well. I don't know what he was thinking. Who does this? I can totally get away with this. They'll never find me. Yeah, they don't give that kind of money. Dude, they go after poor people with a small infraction on their taxes last year. You think they're not going to go after a $7.5 billion? Well, I don't know. Maybe the government favors the rich, but I'm just saying, you have to, you have to. up. The problem is you're not actually rich. If you were rich, you can get away with all sorts of stuff. But you don't, you're not, you don't really have any money.

You stole it all from the government. Government. Government. Government. Um, all right. Here's a story that's kind of weird. Ooh. Um, I know, unusual. It's unusual for us, I guess.

A man has turned his dead uncle's skeleton into a guitar. So uncle, you know, you got an uncle you like a lot, you know. I do. Yeah. Would I turn his skeleton into a guitar? Only if I'm only going to do Grateful Dead cover songs. There you go. That's the only again. Then he's a Grateful Dead guitar. A man has turned his dead uncle into a guitar. The man known as Prince Midnight. Oh, geez. Probably his real name, I'm guessing. Named Prince. Last name, Midnight. Sounds like a DC supervillain. Sure. It really does. An old one though, like 68, 69, something like that.

like a really old, crappy, silver-aged comic villain. Anyway, he has constructed this functioning guitar from the skeletal remains of his dead uncle. In midnight's native Greece cremation is frowned upon with the nation's Orthodox Christian church. They don't like the cremation. They figure that here's how it goes for some, some religion, some religious beliefs are,

especially in the Christianity realm, if you are cremated, then it's harder to get you, when the resurrection comes around, it's harder to get all your little pieces and parts together, which just sounds crazy to me. So the reason I have a problem with this, this is going to piss people off. But I have a problem with this because I also have a mother-in-law who believes this.

I want to be created, as you know, and put into people's brownies at an old folks home. I know. It's only like you said created, not cremated. Yeah, cremated is what I mean. Yeah. but they're thinking is if you if you're a body and you're just in the ground that's easier to resurrect because you're all in one place right it's that you don't have to go to multiple places right well some of them is in this lady's urn and some of them is in this urn over here and yeah right but my thing is let's say that let's say they're right and that that day happens you still had worms that ate part of that dude and went off somewhere else it's not sure it's not as simple as you think like you've got a really simple idea in your head about what that body's doing in that in that coffin anyway it's not super

self-contained uh first of all second of all it's a much cooler concept that if i fed my remains if somebody fed my my ashes in brownie form to like 300 old folks in a home somewhere and then the day comes where i have to be reassembled imagine how rad that is even if some of those people are still alive they'll just something like and like a little bit of ash come out of that guy I've pooped you out. I mean, you're floating through the, you're in the... I'm everywhere, man. Right.

I'm ever, I've been recycled. I'm like fertilizing... Golden rest sewer system. That's right. I'm fertilizing, you know, crops in Africa or something. I don't know what. Bill Gates is using me for his new poop converter he made. It's going to be great.

It is funny that, you know, they think that... And forgive my use of the word they in this. sentence, but they think that God can do all this stuff, but he can't assemble you from pieces that may be in different places? Yeah, it's a weird thing to get hung up on, is what I'm saying. Yeah, it's like, come on, he's got Superman powers. And we all know that Superman just creates brand new powers anytime he needs a new power. Yeah.

So this idea that the cremation is a problem, whatever, I'm getting cremated, is what I'm saying. That's what's happening. Yeah, it's like, yeah, it's like, yeah, I can do a visibility. I want a smoothie. I want, you can put me in whatever you want. I don't care. Feed me to people is what I'm saying. That's not weird at all.

Anyway, let's see. I'm not going to worry about that. That's an argument that I'll never, that it's okay to feed yourself to old people in brownie form. I'm going to do all I can to try to keep convincing you, but you're probably never going to come around. Exactly. That's literally a hill that you could die on.

A hill of brownies. Yep, a hill of brownies. Anyway, so this is a big no-no over there. Anyway, so his uncle Flip, I'm sorry, Philip. Philip, Philip, it's Uncle Philip. Not Flip.

Who died in the car accident 20 years ago had requested that a skeleton be donated to a local college for educational purposes. After the college, no longer had need of the skeleton. We no longer have need. We've educated everybody. Everybody knows skeletons.

now, so we don't need the skeleton anymore. Yeah, no more students coming in new. Take your skeleton and leave. That seems hokey. It does to me as well. Yeah. His family refused to have him cremated, even those remains. So midnight filled out an extensive

paperwork thing to have Phillips' bones sent to his home in the U.S. rather, then pay for cremated, or crematory space. He then attached to guitar neck, pickups, volume knobs, and a jack, strings, and electronics to the bones of Phillips' torso. So, to make it a fully functioning electric guitar, you can see a video of the instrument in action here.

I'm going to put it up. Okay. I don't know if we can actually hear it. Maybe we can. Let's see if we can. It plays like, oh, that's kind of rad looking. Look at that. It is rad looking, but you could easily do that with a resin skeleton, you know?

Yeah, I mean, I would. There's no reason to use actual human bones. I don't think I'd do it for sure, but all right. Oh, no. Captain Kipper found that this might be a... This is fake. This might be a hoax. Is it a hoax? Uh...

How do we know that? Well, it's funny. A story about Florida man's skeleton guitar appears to be a hoax, say local reporters. However, the Prince Midnight stands by his claim that he turned his uncle's bones into a skellicaster. Oh. So what is it? Just people saying, ah, we don't think it's true. And he said, yes, it is.

is that's all we have uh the reporters saying a florida musician who claims to have built a guitar from his uncle skeleton bears a quote striking resemblance to a known local prankster oh well then then the jury's not yeah yeah the important thing is this is not some site that does joke posts and though i got suckered again that's the important thing no it's new musical express it's nm yeah i mean it's a yeah this isn't this isn't me falling for the freaking baby or some bullshit. In 2018, he was listed in the

Guinness Book of World Records for having the world's tallest hat and longest acrylic nails. The same dude? He's, yeah, same dude. Back then he called himself Odilon Ozare. All right.

Let's hear some of this. Is there music? Hold on. I don't hear anything. Yeah, I don't know. He may as well just have a guitar. Yeah, exactly. Do you really need the bones? Whether this is real or not, like, what's the point?

All right, well, it may not be real. That's funny. Oh, and he also sold a picture of a two-headed crocodile to the Tampa Bay Times in 2014. So this guy is absolutely, he's like the Joe Exotic. of of Florida attention, newspaper attention. Wow. Well, well done. I didn't even realize we had two Florida man stories today.

Yeah. T'was not my intent. No, we didn't mean to. Didn't mean to. All right, we got more Florida stories. Here's one for you now. All right. I didn't mean to do this at all.

Seriously, this is totally new. It's all Florida all the time. This swings us back to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers win in the Super Bowl a little bit. Porn viewing in Florida spiked by 15 full percentage points after Tampa Bay Buccaneers Super Bowl win. We'll try to figure out why in a second.

I honestly don't know. Somebody ordered a Heisman trophy. I'm kidding. In the Tampa Bay Buccaneers Super Bowl spanking of the, did they have to use spanking? They probably did. Of the Kansas City Chiefs made you horny. Then you're not alone after Sunday's game.

Strip Chat updated its old blog with data showing how traffic to the adult webcam platform went up and throughout the big game. So wait, adult webcam platform, that's different than just, you know, something going to some pre-recorded stuff, which makes me think, I mean, what is that? That's like ladies in football uniforms doing all weird stuff on the camera or something weird. Well, it could just be good, you know, one woman sitting on a bed in front of a Surface Pro 3 taken off her Brady jersey for

$12 an hour or whatever. I don't know how this thing. It could totally be that. That's exactly. I think that's exactly in line. That's probably more like what it is, yeah. Oh, I see.

Okay, see, this is also misleading. Traffic dropped 12% at kickoff as folks tuned into the game and then shut up about 6% during the halftime show. On the weekend really put people off there. Like, yeah, I don't know. Um, it says maybe some people decide to ditch the weekend's performance. I can't feel my junk when I'm with you.

But I like it. Uh, anyway, so what they're saying is it dropped 12 and then went back up to 15? So what they're saying is, uh, Florida people turned off porn for two hours to watch the Super Bowl and then turned it back on. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Lame. He, Luke, he was fine. There's nothing around with the weekend.

He's fine. Yeah. He's fine. Yeah. He's fine. I mean, it wasn't. the, it wasn't the greatest half-time show I've ever seen, but I don't put that on the weekend. I put that on audio issues and...

He puts that on till Tuesdays, or till Tuesday. That's right. The weekend opening for Till Tuesday. Yep. Or that Wednesday girl from the Adams family, one of them. Right. A different day of the week is what we're saying. Hey, speaking of which, I realized, I didn't know this, but I guess the weekend got a start just posting tracks up on freaking SoundCloud.

Like, he's one of those guys. Oh, really? That's cool. That's so cool. I love to hear about that. And the Daft Punk said, yeah, we'll do it. Well, we can work with you. Yeah, yeah.

Post Malone, I think, same thing, I think. I'm 100% sure on that. That's how, you know, that's how the music world's changing. Yep. We don't need big labels anymore, people. Nope. I mean, they're both on giant labels now, but yes, to get started, you don't need a big label. Are they on big labels now?

Are they on, like, Sony or BMG, Universal or something? I assume. I mean, they've got to be, right? They're huge now. Not necessarily. I mean, Weezer's on their own little indie label. Well, they're weird, though, right? Aren't they weird? They're weird. Weezer is weird, yeah. But, uh... Okay, Post Malone is with Republic Records. Okay, which is probably a subsidiary of one of the big ones. Yeah, and the weekend, who's missing a E, he is with XO, whoever that is.

Good, all right, small indie labels, presumably, unless these are like, again, a subsidiary of Canadian record label co-founded by singer of the weekend so it's kind of his deal as well so yeah very very indie very small good all right well good for him

and his cool sunglasses and bringing that afro back man there we go Republic is owned by Universal so post Malone is just one Kevin Bacon away from Universal Music Group so he's like what's that like

that's like search light pitchers for Fox isn't it like little yeah that's a good comparison yeah Okay. That's cool. Well done, everyone. Well done. Also, porn is up in Florida, but it was also just down for a game and then it was up again. So it's a game story. That's right. Exactly. Apparently, people in Florida don't have two devices that they can watch a game and watch porn on at the same time. You all need to learn out of multitask. All right, moving on to a thing that Brian should appreciate. Picture in picture. Because Brian likes his 3D printing. So here's a story about that. The world's largest 3D printed home could be your. for a mere $200,000 or $200,000.99, which isn't too bad, actually. It's not too bad.

I mean, unless we find out this thing's just made of porous resin and can't take a brainstorm or whatever. Tell me what level of infill I'm getting for my money there. No kidding. The world's largest 3D printed homes for sale in Riverhead, New York. The three-bedroom, two-bathroom home features 1,400 square feet of living space plus a 750 square foot garage. it is printed on a quarter acre plot of land or it was printed there rather 299 grand

let's see took eight hours to print over an 88 day period that doesn't make sense just no Lane took just eight hours to print over an 80 for an eight day period which how's that possible

took just eight hours to print over an eight day period do they mean it took eight days and eight hours just eight hours over eight days either way that seems crazy yeah and too short yeah see there's video actually i want to see if there's like time lapse eight hours a day is maybe what they mean i don't know that seems oh yeah took eight hours to print over an eight day period i think they're trying to say eight hours a day yeah so there is video of it of it i mean basically it is a like

galley you know like basically they've got the infrastructure over it and this thing moves over it like a traditional filament 3D printer I can't tell what I wonder what's using as oh for materials and stuff for material yeah it doesn't say

it does say it can robotically build foundations walls utility conduits and more system reportedly reduces on-site labor to as few as three people and it counts up to 44 or 41% of the construction of the home. So there's still a lot, you know, you got to put in there, but it's kind of your basics. That's really cool because then you can, you know, this is cheaper to print and you can just basically design it and be there to fix a problem if it comes up, but you don't need, you know, a dozen contractors. Yeah, I mean, we're all picturing a big PVC freaking looking house, but I'm sure this looks, you know, really.

Yeah, the video on the page is actually kind of cool. Like, it shows they're doing curved walls and corners and things like that. And it's actually kind of cool. That's rad. Yeah. It's cool on the outside. Yeah. Who's that guy?

I don't want to look at him. Who's that guy? What's that guy doing there? Who I like that. I mean, it's, you know, it's, uh, this looks all right. Yeah, I mean, the outside is still going to be your typical siding. There's still a rough on. top that's not 3D printed. It's just, it's really just the frame of the house is,

is 3D printed. Yeah, that's interesting. Let's check. This is my favorite part. Stephen King, the listing agent. That's what it says, is the, in a press release says, at 299.999.999, this home is priced at 50% below the cost of comparable newly constructed homes in Riverhead, New York, and contains three ghosts and a couple of vampires, he says. Just kidding. Should have been in Maine. Yeah, you should have been in Maine. Castle Rock 3D printing company.

It says here, it's a major step towards addressing the affordable housing crisis plaguing Long Island. So, there we go. Yeah, if you can use recycled materials, because whatever they're using, they have to have water jets constantly spraying it. I don't know if that cures it. Or what those jets are spraying on as it's laying down each layer. But it's really cool. Yeah, it's pretty neat. The median house price in Long Island is $540,000.

So that is a massive savings. And it looks like a pretty cool little house. I'd buy that house. It looks okay inside, too. I don't know if I like that marble floor or not. I can't tell if I like that. Yeah, the marble floor looks a little like 90s. I have too much money kind of cribs.

level like things have been filmed there you don't want to know about and stuff like exactly don't don't put a black light on that marble floor in a few years yeah uh dice tomato is 1400 square feet so plus 750 square foot garage it's pretty good dice tomato's in the market he asked me how much it was where it was what the square footage is yeah yeah yeah pretty cool uh so now you know what you got to do to get your printed house let's now do what we need to do. And that is take a break with a song before Justin comes in. Brian, what song are we playing today? What song indeed? We're playing a song by a group called, Yo, Kinky. That's the name of the bad. And if you get a chance, I do want you to check out the video because it's really good. They have a

brand new single, so they've got someone I used to know. And now their second single is this one right here, resistance. It's a duo made up of Laura Wright, and I can't see in this list who the other person is, but she is, the video is great, right? It shows Laura going through a bunch of different movie trope disasters, like a flaming kitchen that she's just calmly drinking coffee in or a weird torture water tank that slowly rising as she's singing or tied to a train track. It's really cool. Anyway, these guys are good. Check him out. Yo, Kinky from Ridgewood Queens. Here's their new song,

Resistance. in my days never feel too near pick me up swing me off my feet to whirl around love is all I breathe everybody's just

turn a corner now everything in me there's just a short walk down the street Psychopath, I feel different I took her in the distance More like you More like him More whole sense resistance

Psychobot I feel different It took her in the distance More like you More like him More home assistance. Hey, I got the heart right here. In this day's, I never felt so clear. Pick me up, swing me off my feet. Troll around, love is all we breathe.

everybody's just around a corner now everything I need is just a short walk down the street Psycho bet I'm feeling different of a single little distance more like you more like him more heart of some resistance Because I got that You know to bring in a

Frickering distance More like you More like him Or home Sense resistance Ooh Everybody's just around the corner now Everything I need is just a short walk down the street

Psychite through the different distance Say I've got back, I feel different, and quicker in the distance, more like you, more like him, more home, signs resistance, side's got back, I feel different, and thicker in your distance, more like you, more like him, more home, sounds resistance, oh, Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh. Hey, guys, time to talk about Blue Chew. Yeah, that's right. This episode is sponsored by Blue Chew.

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The morning stream, lights, camera, Kong. All right, we have returned. Whoa, what was that? Do you hear that? No. Hold on. Weird.

Oh, it's no scraper people outside. Ah, okay. By the way, that was Yo Kinky and the song, Resistance. Nice. I heard this horrible like, gurg! Right behind me, and I thought, uh-oh, something. Wait, there it is again. Oh, yeah, they're really tearing it up out there.

Geez, Louises. All right. Well, wish me luck, everybody. Woo-hoo! All right. Let's call Justin. Do you think that's okay? I think it's okay. It's all right.

It's all right. We don't have anything else. I don't know. I mean, you know. He's in quarantine. You might be in quarantine still. Yeah, it probably is. Let's find out. These are their stories. Oh, I'm terrible with name. Justin Robert Young joining us from Looks like quarantine to me.

Hello, Justin. Hi. Hi, friends. How are you? I'm good. Good. Oh, you sound much better today. You're on a mic. What do you mean? What do you mean, Brian?

I mean AirPods yesterday. No, no, compared to two months from now. Yes. Yes, the episode that people hear. If we can't, if we have to lie about when we're recording this, then you have to lie too. You can't. Okay. You sound much better than you will sound in about three weeks or four weeks when that episode.

No, it's probably about. Yeah, probably closer to six or eight weeks. We're time lords. Time lords, man. That's what we are. Hey, so Justin's in quarantine after a trip to procure housing in the great state of Texas, which is now covered in snow and ice and bad power problems. Which is Minneapolis now.

That's fun. Yeah. It's a fun thing that happened. Real good. Did the area that you found the home in, is it being hit by all this pretty bad or what? I mean, it's in Texas. It's in Austin. So, yeah.

Yeah. As far as we know, it didn't lose power. But certainly a lot of snow on the ground. Yeah. Well, it's a rarity. Hopefully. Hopefully it's not a trend moving forward. But I guess. No, I'm actually pretty excited because if it's a once every hundred year things, I'm glad that they're getting that nonsense out of the way. Yeah. Let's be done with that. I want to clear the way for another hundred years for you boy. Good idea. That's how I feel about pandemics as well. Let's get that. Let's get that. out and over with and done and then we'll save it for the next 100 years. Anyway, hey, it's good to have you here. We're going to do what we do on Tuesdays with Justin, a little bit of political talk, talk about what's going on in the world. And in particular, we thought today we might

focus in on where we're at with potential stimulus checks or add on. Basically, it's that 1400 effort to get, you may be able to explain this better than me, but my understanding is they passed something that was like 600 and now everybody's like well we're going to add more to that and now we get to see whether they really want to work together to do that well i guess yeah the question is when you start in the timeline right right right so uh when i was down in georgia the conversation was not for 1400 dollar stimulus add-ons yeah the conversation was for $2,000 stimulus checks. Right.

Then they won. So they kind of got what they wanted. And then it became, no, no, no. It'll be $1,400 that'll add on to the $600 that we got last year that was passed by a previous administration. And that'll all count for $2,000. Basically, the Biden COVID relief effort is a $1.9 trillion package to give you a sense of scale that is going to be double what the previous one was that was passed in the waning days of the Trump administration, the question is exactly how they get it passed. And increasingly, it looks like

the answer is something called reconciliation. So you're going to hear this a lot, especially now that we are past impeachment, and this is kind of the main event politically. Reconciliation is when you You don't have to pass something in the Senate by a 60 vote threshold. So right now, it's 50-50. You need 10 Republicans to sign on to anything to make it bipartisan. Reconciliation, you can get around this. But a bunch of things need to happen. Number one, the same party has to be in control of both houses, both Senate and the House.

Second, it needs to be a budget maneuver. And that's effectively what this is. that they are tacking things on to the budget and saying this is all necessary for the budget. There's a lot of regameral that goes in past this, including the House passing a similar bill to the Senate, and then they got to hone it down to make sure that they are exactly the same thing that they are talking about. Everybody gets to try to tack on random stuff that they hope to either poison the well or shake loose on votes. And then at any moment, especially In the Democratic side, and especially in the Senate, one person, including Joe Manchin from West Virginia or Kirsten Cinema from Arizona, moderate Democrats could say, no, this one part of it is going too far and spike the entire thing.

And that's where they're at right now with the Democrats put in a pathway to a $15 national minimum wage that looks to be. DOA in part because of there are people in the Senate that would not vote for it on the Democratic side. I know people get infuriated by the idea that a COVID relief package or any kind of like effort in the history of this country where money and relief is needed for whatever it may be that pork belly happens like this concept of like we're going to tack all these things on here and try to push it through with this thing. they seem like they're not even related, although you could, I guess, make the argument that a bump in the minimum wage is, you know, could be part of a quote-unquote relief package. But a lot of times it's other stuff. Like, we're sticking a thing in here that makes it illegal to play your music on Twitch or whatever that was a little while ago. That really frustrates people, like just regular folks. But there's a long history of this, right? Like this is since the dawn of all of this, this is how this has gone. well let me let me put it this way the reason why we are having this fight is not because of the direct money to people if anything that actually has bipartisan support before josh howley was the guy who was uh giving the power to the people signed to people that would eventually storm the capital and and and setting his flag in in that element of our society only days before he was arm and arm with bernie sanders

trying to get $2,000 direct payments to the people. So that has bipartisan support. What doesn't is money to states and city governments, which conservative or Republicans see as a boondoggle to largely misrun blue states and blue cities. The reason why we're having this fight is because whenever something has a shot to pass everybody gets on that train because you're because you're never you want to glom on to the things that are popular to get the things that are not so popular through so yes that does happen what we're going to see is it happen even more and specifically in something that had been

phased out in our federal government and that is earmarks what what we used to call you know the the pathway to pork belly politics or pork barrel politics where everybody can tag on their own little money to their home state, their own little money to their pet cause. That was not allowed for, I think, the last eight years. And it was announced earlier this week that under the Democratic leadership, it's coming back. Wow. Yeah, I haven't heard of that in a while. Also, this term reconciliation is an interesting one because it means something totally different politically than it would in a personal sense. Like if you're like, I haven't talked to my dad in 30 years, but we're going to go, we're going to golf this weekend. We're looking for

some reconciliation. That's not the, that's not the usage you're talking about. And it's, it's easy to hear that. Also, what a very weird conversation that you're, like, apparently you live in an old West town. You know, me and me and Paul are going, we, we ain't seen each other since the last migration. We're looking for some reconciliation. You're going to reconcile this weekend we're going to reconcile yeah like but but conceptually it is it isn't that right it's not well no because it reconciliation that you're talking about here is a reconciliation between both houses of congress on a budget right um certainly not on our modern uh political lines where this isn't them going oh yes those four years of trump were very divisive but now let us find we're in the middle

we shall meet, shake hands, and forever be brothers in arms. It's not going to happen. That's not what they mean, is what I'm saying. Well, I mean, certainly that was Joe Biden's point of view in his speech initially. I think the reality of it, regardless of his actions, are going to be a lot harder. And it's going to mean finding deliberate places where there is bipartisan agreement. I think our problem now is that we see. a lot of issues that we definitely don't agree

that we're now trying to find you're basically trying to broker the worst kind of peace where you're finding an issue that people are very divided on and then saying all right now both of you be unhappy right now go both of you disappoint your bases immediately

that's what reconciliation I guess not let's let's separate these terms, but that's what a dividing of this bipartisan strife would be, as opposed to saying, hey, how about we find a new issue that we both can agree on and let's push on that, right? But at the same time, we have a very active political scene right now. And active political scenes mean you have a lot of observers and supporters that want what they want and they want it now. So if Joe Biden, let's say, were to say, okay, well, I know that my base cares about, you know, climate change and, and, you know, this other stuff, or student debt cancellation, let's put all that aside and let's, let's focus on, I don't know, some bipartisan school choice, even though that leans more right. But in the areas where that does overlap with Democratic or suburban voters, you say, like, all right, let's do this.

Then all the progressives are going to be super upset with you. And now you're denying something. You're like, wait a minute, you got all the way to the dance. We put you in the White House just so you could do a thing that we're not going to be happy with. You know, that's hard. It is a tricky line to walk. Even the whole, like, during the trial, I thought this is sort of interesting. And I kind of pulled back and tried to look at it from a as non-charged position as I could.

But when the votes, well, when they had all voted that, yeah, we'll allow witnesses. And they got a bunch of Republicans on board for that, or at least some of the usual suspects of Republicans that that have, you know, gone against the Trump grain over the last four years, Romney and the rest. When they did that, I went, oh, okay, so they're going to do witnesses. That'll be interesting. they decided not to call any witnesses. And I immediately witnessed the public outcry of Democrats and left leaners everywhere being really, really pissed. Yeah. That they didn't, you're going to get that vote and now you're not going to call witnesses. Left leaners everywhere, I think would probably be best described as Twitter. Yeah, Twitter, sure, Twitter, Facebook,

whatever. I mean, Facebook leans more right, maybe, but I saw this in the places I frequent. And so they were. I think, yeah, because mine was the same. And I live in a very liberal area. And I didn't hear people in the streets honking their horns about the witnesses. But I did see a lot of people pissed off on Twitter. Yeah, they were mad. And so my takeaway was, or my take was, it was, if I dare simplify it, was this. They said, hey, do you think this is a thing? And the other side said, no.

Is there anything we can say to change that? No. But what if we brought witnesses? in. Would you still vote differently? Or would you vote differently? No. Well, then, all right, let's just do this and take a vote. Like, that seems like that's what that was. Am I wrong in that assumption? Because at some point, having witnesses, all that rigmarole, an extra week or two of the trial, I don't know how that changed the bottom line. It's not like you were going to suddenly see a swath of Republicans go, well, now that we've heard. That was what we're looking for.

Yeah. Now that we've heard from so and so, I'm flopping on this now. I'm definitely. going to go the other direction. Well, I mean, the other thing was who they were going to call, which is a representative who said she was informed of a call between a House leader Kevin McCarthy and Trump during the riot, wherein it was a very heated conversation. And at some point, Trump said to McCarthy, it looks like the people that are there are more upset about the results of the election than you are. Now, that would have been, I mean, that certainly was a headline that went around, it also would have immediately become a literal he said she said because Kevin McCarthy said that that was an inaccurate description of the call, whether or not you

believe him, we know how this goes, right? We literally went through a whole other Ukraine thing where there was a like, no, you didn't, you misunderstood the meaning of that where we were arguing about the different call. Yeah, the perfect call. Yeah. Well, and also it's like, and then arguing with at least then in ukraine we had transcripts so you could have you know somebody say like like oh oh i hope you have a nice day and uh you know the democrats read it's like i hope you have a nice day and then like cox a gun you know motion or whatever uh and and republicans would be like i hope you have a very nice day and then everybody kind of goes along because context is lost in text.

It's even further lost when you have two people saying two different things. The ultimate reason why they didn't go forward with witnesses is A, because they had already agreed to not do it. This would have been a certain break in their discipline. And the reason why they agreed not to do it is because they actually have stuff to do. The Democrats run things now. It's one thing if you were just wasting cocaine Mitch's time, now they're the ones that have to do what they need to do.

And, you know, if there was a real possibility that, you know, going through that entire witness situation would have put the monkey wrench into this COVID-19 stuff because unemployment benefits lapse on March 14th. So if you don't get this, again, very delicate, very risky reconciliation. maneuver completed and law by then, then you have these benefits lapsing on your watch for what? So you could call one witness that was already going to be disputed, and then the Republicans get to call, you know, 50 million people and the guard who was guarding Jeffrey Epstein

and Joe Maltanado the Tiger King, like that's what's going to happen because they then have the incentive to waste time. Yeah, I think I agree with that. That's why I couldn't quite understand the anger, but again, it's the internet. So, of course, there's anger about everything. I think ultimately also, like people were just kind of biased

toward a thing happening, you know? Yeah, and I was, I'm all for stuff. I'm all for stuff just coming. out like get it out and so i you know i would have been fine with witnesses personally because i knew the votes weren't going to change but i think there's some value in being on the record and being under oath and saying it out loud you know there's there's some value to that but it's not going to change the votes they but ultimately it's it's it's a political process it's not a real trial right they called it a trial and you call it evidence and you call it all these and you call them jurors

they're not they're they're jurors as part of a trial in the way that I was a hipster Aladdin for Halloween like I'm not I'm not really I mean I might be a hipster but I'm not Aladdin no no you know so it's like it's just the thing that that you say because it's a political process you knew walking in what was going to happen which is why the most successful impeachment maneuver was the one that didn't happen with Nixon because he you know the right on the wall way before you actually have to go through it. Right. So are the only, this is one other question today. Do you, are you surprised that there hasn't been less distancing? Like I, I think there's been more doubling down on the Trump

platform or Trump like platform for a lot of, uh, the right in Congress. And I expected more distancing. I expected more statements like, whether you think he's being genuine or not, but I, you know, Mitch McConnell literally after voting to acquit the president, turns right around and makes a statement about how it was all Trump's fault. was all a big mess and it was awful and everything. I thought we'd be here more of that, more often from all the ranks. And I feel like it's been more doubling down or even if it hasn't been, you know, specifically the way that like Marjorie Taylor Green does it, where she calls out Trump's

name and said he's the leader of our party and just doubles down on that. But like others like Ted Cruz and others, they're all kind of acting kind of Trump-like. But I thought there'd be more distancing. I thought there'd be, this was the chance for them to go, all right, we don't have to pretend anymore. We don't have to hold the lines quite so tightly. And instead, it feels like we're seeing less of that. Is that just my perception? Or what do you take there?

What do you think? I mean, I don't. It's hard for me to say that I would expect things to go one way or another because they're politicians. They're going to go where the heat is, right? I think that what you have seen in the polls is that Trump is. diminished amongst Republicans, but he is certainly the largest force, singular force there. So nobody

is going to necessarily want to give up a bird in the hand for two in the Bush. Well, I guess Bush might be the wrong way to say it when we're talking about establishment Republicans. Or maybe it's the right way to say it because the idea that we would go back to, or the

Republican Party would go back to a more establishment perspective that it was before Trump showed up. So nothing particularly surprised. me. Do I think that Trump is all of a sudden popular amongst these congressfolk? No, I don't. Do I think that some of them see their future in his coalition? Yep. I absolutely do. And I think that's ultimately what you're talking about. There is an argument to say, and I don't think it's an incorrect one, that the future of that party, the Republican Party and what Trump revealed

was that this is a more working class party, that as the Democrats become more city-focused and coastal-focused, they are giving up blue-collar voters. And Trump spoke to those blue-collar voters. So I think that the candidates that believe that's the future for them getting elected, especially nationally, they're going to be, you know, non-confrontational

to complimentary of Trump, the ones that believe that the hemorrhaging that Trump did with suburban voters is a major problem. And you're not just going to make up your coalition with a group of people that has not historically gone to the polls for Republicans. They are going to distance themselves from Trump because he was the reason that a lot of suburban voters and suburban women didn't vote. I mean, look, suburban upper class white guys won this election for. bite. And traditionally, suburban upper class white guys vote Republican. And that's where like the Ben Sasses and the Mitt Romney's want to go. Right. I guess perfectly described them. Well, it's been an interesting transition. We'll see what the future holds. And hopefully it

holds some immediate help for COVID and the messed up stuff happening in Texas today. I just want everybody in Texas to be okay. All right. That's all I'm saying. Stay safe. That's no joke. Yeah. For real. want you guys to be safe, you know, it's in the early goings, it's really easy for us northerners to go, you ever ever seen a snow before? That's not snow. And we get real cocky about it. But the truth is, we have infrastructure here. We have methods. We have stuff. We have standards that are built around knowing that every winter we're going to have a ton of snow in places that don't have that. You don't have that. Just like we don't have hurricane safe stuff here as an example. And so don't take any beef from people just be safe and I hope you guys are all right and uh for those

who can't hear us because they have no power just be just stay warm and I hope your car batteries are good and all that stuff all right Justin anything else going on this way I know you're crazy busy with all this move planning and everything else now you're in quarantine while you do it all what what should people be looking forward to this week from justin robert young uh just the politics politics politics podcasts head on over there on on uh wherever you get your uh wherever you get your podcast uh this week we have a look ahead to the trumpless congressional world which is something that we have not obviously been able to say many many years and uh i don't know whether or not i'm going to get all up into the lincoln

project this week or next week or oh that that's such a mess what a freaking what a freaking cluster ref that is anyway i'm excited to hear you yeah i i've got i've got i've got something for them and uh also i want to take a look at ronda santis the governor of florida who has under the radar become a possible stealth 2024 republican nominate oh stealth i like stealth uh fantastic uh justin robert young everybody uh just an r young on twitter go follow him we'll see you soon bye see you chirps he's in darren Kitchen's house. Darren Kitchen is a trusting, trusting man, is what I'm saying. Is he in Darren Kitchen's the kitchen, though?

Yeah, that's a good question. Wouldn't it be funny if Darren Kitchen doesn't have a kitchen? That'd be amazing. That'd be the best. He just makes food in his microwave in his bedroom or something. Exactly. That'd be great. All right, guys, good news.

We've come to the part of the show where we have some bonus mashups, a few in a row that are really insane. All right. So apparently Brian and I would like to do voices on the show. And sometimes we like to do accents. And whether it's Brian's Australian accent or I'm pulling some Irish thing out of my butt or doing Philip or doing the freaking German thing or whatever. The truth is we never quite stopped doing that. And we don't even realize how much we do it. Well, Jamie knows. So he started making these mashups. And here's our first in a series. This is called the accent specials Irish. And he specifically called out Claire Gack for this. uh i haven't heard this yet but i'm nervous so enjoy i just feel like i'm the one always spouting off the offensive irish stuff so this is if this segment gets anyone in trouble it'll probably be me and then we'll get around to whatever brian offended somebody we'll get to him later but i'm just little nervous today i offend people equally who just haven't gotten to me yet equal opportunity offenders here we go the accent special begins now so now we go all the way overturned no no actually

Since, uh... None needed here. Nobody needs to talk like they're from Ireland. Why's your cheese so stinkish, Amos? Follow me into the bathroom and I'll show you my lucky charms. Look at my blue banana. We get all sorts of new flavors, new marshmallows, pink sack. It's just a thing that people have these extinction events in their lives.

It could be psychological or it could be physical, Bono said. We've got to get in there and see what the stink is all about. I like to drink this shit and then poop it out and brine to drink it. You just have to have a spank, that's all. That's all you need. A little spank. What do you get at doing? The problem solves itself. There's a lovely man down the road just waiting for me.

Spank him, daddy. You'll come in here and watch Attack of the Clones with me or else we're done. Mesa got something in my eye. Hold on. This is the one where he doesn't like sand. It's gritty in his fingers. It gets in everywhere. I've got the high ground, Anakin. Eh, Sean, oh, here I'll be your lawyer today.

Did you slip when you're trying to. to grab the watermelon out it did you already have it in your possession. We're going to win this case. We're almost to the end of me rainbow. All the way from Ireland and we're cutting cheese.

All the way from Ireland. We're cutting the cheese and we're distributing it to all the other people here who want the cheese. You ever had good Irish cheese? I'll tell you right now. It'll go to your belly

and then before you know it you'll be sitting for a week. I've got to go somehow save these virgins. You'll all want to get out on the pitch. We're about to start the game. Oh, Donald, what do you do in,

Donald? Donald, what's you doing out in the backyard? Donald come in the house. Put your... Pull your pants up, boy. Go guard that pot of gold, Donald. Yeah, what are you doing? These lucky charms aren't going to eat themselves.

Tess a bit soapy, but I'll take it. It's not quite what I'm used to, but I'll take it. This sandwich tastes clean as a whistle. Look out there, Luke, you're going to fall. Grab me hand. Grab me hand, Luke. Grab a hold of that pot of gold right there on your way down. I am your Lipprecon.

Oh, thank you very much. We like to tell each other how we're doing on Facebook. Just drink a gillis. Oh, love. I hate your post. Go learn to do it differently. This is shite. Ah, we're the police open the door.

Open your effing door. We're coming in. There's a bobby at the door. Let's in. That's right. If you don't open the door, we'll say shit, but it'll sound like shite. Ah, fellow me knows. It never knows.

I mean, that's not, that's fruit loops. That's not an Irish bird. I don't know what's wrong with me. I would like to ask him, how many episodes does that represent? Like, how often were we doing? That's just one episode. Oh, that was just one? Okay.

It was all just one episode. Great. I'm sure glad he stuck to just one then. Oh, man. That was weird. All right. We have more coming. I don't even know what the next one is.

I know one of them is Southern accents. I'm a little worried about that one. Yeah. I'll tell you. We're going to have to leave our, temporarily leave our jobs as hosts of the Bachelor once that one gets out. Yeah. But just temporarily.

That's right. We got one coming up called Action Special, some info for you. Oh, no, no, that's never mind. He didn't, he isn't, that's a, that's a follow-up thing. Never mind. Forget about that. So anyway, there's no info for us. So TMS mashups, Jamie, big thanks.

That's awesome and you made me laugh. So nice job. All right, Brian, I think we're about done with the show today. That's, what else? That it? I think it's it. A reminder, if you like this show that you can go and put your money where your mouth is and stick a dollar our way.

That's right, just shove it in there over at patreon.com slash TMS. And for everything else you may be looking forward trying to track us down at, you can find us at frogpants.com slash TMS. And keep those emails coming, the morning stream at gmail.com. We love hearing from you each and every day. So the morning stream at gmail.com. All right.

We should go. Do you have a song? I do. But please, people, for the sake of your own safety and the transmission of harmful viruses, is please don't put your money where your mouth is. No. Thank you. No, good point.

Why did I even say it? Don't literally do that. Hey, Christopher Hansen. Chris Hansen? What? Wait a minute. He's here to catch a predator. He is.

What did you think was going to happen when you asked for ice tea? What did you think was going to happen here? Christopher Hansen wrote and said, hey, suds and bubbles. While I know 2020 was terrible for everyone, it was the year I had the most medical issues ever. The highlights of the year being left shoulder. surgery to stop dislocations and then a fracture to my right elbow for my birthday on the day after valentine's day February 15th which for the record kind of sucks I would like to request a cover of pink Floyd's comfortably numb I'm an Amazon delivery driver and the

Frogpants podcast have been a boon on the long shifts the first ever podcast I subscribed to his film sack and was immediately hooked thank you guys for all you do signed Chris oh that's awesome Chris thank you for doing what you're doing and you're you know the house to house kind of stuff and uh the crap weather you have to deliver in and the fact that you don't get days off like like you know other companies do even even the usPS you know still takes sundays off and holidays you guys are out there delivering every freaking day so thank you for doing what you're doing christ yeah you come to my house take some of that granola bars we got too many of them got a whole bag of yeah we got we're doing

the box now too and right now we've got uh chocolate hostess donuts those little it's like uh you remember they used to come in six packs now they just come in three packs and uh uh those uh what's the company that makes the really good pretz pretzels with like a dusting of oh uh mustard yeah i love that brand um golds um oh they make the they make the buffalo uh wildling flavor sniders yes oh they're so good so good anyway so if you deliver at our house you get your choice of those and a Gatorade to wash it all down. We want our delivery drivers to get fat is the problem.

Anyway, a cover of Pink Floyd's Comfortably Numb. We've played quite a few on this show, and I do try to always play something I haven't played before. This is a great one. I'm surprised I haven't played it before, because one of the angry young men of the 80s, you had your Joe Jackson, who was angry, you had your Elvis Costello who was angry, and then the third of those angry young men was Graham Parker. didn't have quite the success that Joe Jackson and Elvis Costello had here in the U.S.,

but you're probably familiar with a song he did called Local Girls or Don't Mess with the Local Girls. He did a great cover on a tribute to Pink Floyd's The Wall called A Fair Forgery of Pink Floyd. It was a two-disc set and one album was called Us, the other album was called Them, very clever. It came out in 2003. Here's Graham Parker with a very cool live. acoustic take on comfortably numb. Oh, awesome. Love that song.

Can't wait to hear this. That's going to do it for us. Thank you all. Be here tomorrow for a Wednesday edition of the show. And don't forget, check out my wow panel on Friday or Saturday at whatever time it is. I really should know that. I keep forgetting when it is. But it's when the thing launches that day.

Anyway, thanks for listening. We'll see you then. Just not if you can hear me Is there anyone at home Come on now I hear you feeling down Well I can't use your pain Get you on your feet again

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And when I watch As a child, I had this feeling. My hands felt like two balloons. Now I've got that feeling once again, I can't explain. You will not understand this is not how I am. I have become comfortable enough. Okay, just a little penknit. There'll be no more, but you might be no more.

But you might feel a little sick. Stand up, yeah. It's working good. That'll keep you going for the show. Come on, it's time to go. There is no pain you are receding. The sisterships will come to the horizon. You are only coming through in ways.

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