The Morning Stream - TMS 2072: The Jim Reeves Life Alert

Episode Date: February 23, 2021

From The Top To Phlebotomist. Put Your Sweet Lips Closer To The Phone. Kale in your Butthole Levels of Credit. Right Through, Like Kale in Your Butthole. ERCOT is without honor. I don't like Jim Reeeeeeeeves. Rogue Goose in Denver. Tony the Tiger's a Cokehead, right? Oops, All Crackberries. Scott's got a nice plump one. How's Jamie Lynn Spears Doin... Never mind. I don't Care. Excuse Me, Do you have Jim Reeves in a Can? All the Little Kids Really Hate That Kix. Unfriending the Dead 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.

Coming up on TMS, from the top to phlebotomist. Put your, oh, he's got to sings. Put your sweet lips closer to the phone. Wow, that's like I'm there. Cale in your butthole levels of credit. Right through like kale in your bubble. Look at those two right together. Oops.

Urcott is without honor. I don't like Jim Reeves. Rogue goose in Denver. Tony the tiger's a coquette, right? Oops. All crackberries. Scott's got a nice plump one. How's James?

Amy Lynn Spears doing? Never mind, I don't care. Excuse me, do you have Jim Reeves in a can? All the little kids really hate that kicks. Unfriending the Dead with Justin and more on this episode of The Morning Stream. Betty, I've got it. Why don't you and the other girls put on a fashion show to get money for new equipment for the basketball team? Yeah, Preparation H. This is the morning stream. You're a freak and a cannibal, and you've come to the wrong town.

Good morning, everybody. Welcome to TMS. It is the morning stream for Tuesday, February 23rd. Yeah. Yeah, this is 23rd. 2021. I'm Scott Johnson. He's Brian Ibitt.

Hi, Brian. Hi, Scott. So as you were saying that, I got a call. So my phone, the whole Apple info. structure deal is that if my phone rings, I get the little bz, the vibration on my watch. And because of FaceTime, it also rings on my computer.

So I can actually answer it on my computer and use this microphone with my phone calls, which is kind of fun. Yeah, I have the same set up. The one that just came in was from Red Wing, Minnesota. Oh, Nick is trying to get in help. I don't know. Is he trying to get in touch? Hey, Brian. You don't have to be Brian anymore, he says.

that's what you would do I thought that was really interesting but I don't know I don't know what but it was probably a spam call right I'm sure it's a spam call yeah but it's just funny like out of all places that's a that's a very specific place

in TMS world yeah as far as I know he doesn't have your direct line so I don't know what that is about that's funny I had to put my phone in Kim's hands today because it's this okay so we're refinancing because rates are solo, so it seems dumb not to.

That's a good time to do it, yeah. Good time to do it. So we're doing it. Most of this process has been totally online, docu-signed, you know, all that business, and it's been fine, except for, for some reason. So we have, like, immaculate, perfect credit. Kim is late on nothing, ever. Right.

We've just never been late. You guys did a great job years ago, and, like, you don't carry over any revolving balance or anything like that. No debt at all. Like, credit card debts never. uh we the only so envious we we paid off uh pay off cars as soon as it's possible um hang on to cars way too long that sort of stuff like pretty conservative in this in this finance in the financial space and so we're always very careful about that and kim is on time with everything so as a result we have like

this incredible credit score and our guy was like this'll sail right through don't you worry it'll just go right through just like freaking uh kale in your but hole just It'll be out, right? That's what the guy said. He didn't use that description. No, I may have brought that. I may have made that part up. But let's say I augmented my story a little bit with the kale.

Gotcha. That's all right. That's all right. But anyways, here's the problem. They still are, the underwriters, just because what I do is weird, they have to be weird about it. So now they have this thing today where sometime they're going to make a random call between 9 a.m. and noon to my number, to ensure that it's indeed a business model. Really?

Yeah, because they're just weird out. It's like a surprise inspection by the foster child. Yeah, I mean, basically, that is what it feels like a little bit. Yeah. Like, I've got to clean the kid up, make sure his room's in order, take the blood stains off the wall, that sort of stuff. But no, in this case, it's just like, well, okay, you're just going to call it. And then, so what's happening is Kim, because if it happens during the show,

Oh, I won't be able to answer it. So Kim's got my phone. And when it rings, she's going to go, hi, frog pants. This is Kim. Say mandalay industry. Say, man to the industry. I'm picturing you running out of the bathroom with your pants at your ankles. Oh, man.

Missed opportunity. I didn't even think of that. So she has to do that just to say, oh, okay, we called the number in it. And absolutely they answered it. Like, they don't, they have this weird mistrust of this strange internet job that I have. Yeah. I hate it. It tries me crazy.

Yeah. You know, we're basically in this, in this cusp where we are pioneers doing something. I mean, pioneers, you know, podcasting has been around for 15 plus years. Yeah. It's been a while. In different forms. But we're, you know, industries like that are notoriously a little behind the curve when it comes. to adopting things.

I'll bet blacksmith is still something that they have in their accounting database that they can pull up. That they'd have no problem with, right? They wouldn't even need to call you. Oh, you're a blacksmith. Oh, no problem.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. You're prepping the weapons for war. We understand. That's fantastic. That's right. But no, in my case, it's like, no, wait. You know, I know we actually probably still have people who do blacksmithing

maybe professionally, certainly as a hobby in our audience, because it is a very cool cool like geek hobby I mean that in the good way using the term geek hobby in a good way but they probably you know probably people who

shod horses with their no it's like vinyl it's not you don't have a used to have a blacksmith in every town to keep everybody's swords sharp but that's not a thing anymore so now it's why we have the last name Smith damn it that's right I burped and talked at the same time

and that was a good That was a weird feeling. I didn't like that. But anyway, it's really annoying, and they have to figure this out. The underwriting people are weird, but it should go through fine, but it's just dumb. It's freaking dumb. I also went and got two blood tests today, not for anything to do with this loan, but... They tested two bloods. The problem, well, you're not far from...

You saying that is funny, because I get in there, and she says, all righty. First of all, she says, oh, you like mash, do you? Because I'm wearing this mash t-shirt. Oh, yeah, cool. Oh, what a funny. you wear that intentionally for uh no i just had it on i didn't even think about it didn't even think about it but i said out and she goes do you like mash you go oh yeah i'd love to when i was a kid and she goes oh me too i used to watch it with an 80 year old man that was her that was her answer

and i went oh interesting okay well moving on to my arm i guess and then she watched it i watched it with a television but hey you do you it was projected on the wrinkly back of an 80 year old so she says uh what what arm do you prefer i said usually left but i don't I don't have a preference. That's just usually what you guys do. And she says, okay, well, let's take a look. So she lays my arm out, and she's doing her whole flobotomous little pokey-hokey-hocing.

Yeah, right, got to find the, right, looking for a vein. And there's a vein finder thing that hospitals have that are really expensive that she wishes she had. She kept saying. Really? Yeah, apparently it's super easy to eat. There's a machine that does what they usually just do by flicking it with their finger?

Yeah, it's like a little, like a little device. It's like a fish finder. Is it like a little sonar device that they put above your arm Kind of. My guess is, and I haven't actually seen one, but I'm sure it's like a... Probably something like that. Yeah. What's the thing women do when they go get their babies looked at? Ultrasound. Ultrasounds. Probably like that.

So... Isn't there a sound called... Oh, did you say that? Did you say anything? I did, but you were talking while I said it's so... That might have. Cut me off. Well, here. We'll still celebrate by putting the image up. Here it is, everybody. Nice. Anyway, so here's the deal.

She finds one. She says, oh, here we go. This is a nice plump one. I'm like, sweet. I still got plump ones. let's do this. I'm not a heroin user. I don't have, you know, bad blood or whatever as far as I know. So let's go ahead and do it. So she goes in there with the thing. And it hurt for some reason. I usually don't, these don't hurt for me. But this was like a deep, like all the way at my arm kind of, ow. Like, ooh, what did you hit? But I, but I grimaced and just said, yeah, so Henry Blake was probably my favorite for a while and, you know, still doing the mash talk a little bit. It really went full circle.

We start with Henry Blake. We end with the chicken was a baby. Anyway, she finds it. She gets one full tube full of the blood. She needs three. Yeah, three. Is it three? Four, I'm sorry.

Four vials needed for the full panel they're doing. So she does, you know, we're in masks, of course, so you can't really see their faces or anything. Sure. And she goes to do the next one, and all the little tube does is go, like a little fart noise and I look down it's just like a spatter of blood

in that tube and nothing else and it's not coming out and she goes she goes oh man I'm out I'm like yeah I'm like did we tap out like what happened

and she said no you just the vein left it took off and sometimes they just move out of the way and so what we have to do is go to your other arm like oh my gosh all right so I pull out my other gun

right flopping on the table and I say all right how about it and that one didn't hurt at all and she got three vials out of it without any problem. So I don't know what happened to that first vein, but now it hurts and it's kind of bruisy. And, uh,

gosh. Anyway, it still kind of hurts. It must have a nerve or something. Yeah, I don't know what happened. But anyway, as a result,

uh, I don't have results yet. I'll get those next week. So we'll see what happens. Gotcha. Uh, all of a flobotomist. Yes.

A phlebotomist, a terrible name. Great job. You can spell phlebotomist without mist. That's right. Without blood mist. all right so i was thinking she missed the vein oh that's even better that's even better yeah i was thinking like just like the spray yeah yeah yeah like missed like don't breathe it in

all right i was gonna tell you know like linking books and a giant uh rocket ship and and bring back the red pages yeah like that the book needs to be complete you know what was great about that is the video that's all i have to say i just love that about missed crappy the videos the little A little FMV. Yeah. Did I tell you that I've been playing it on the Oculus? Yeah. And it's great because I've forgotten everything about that game except I remember that the ship has to come out of the water.

And I remember that you have to rotate the observatory and that sort of thing. But once I get to an island, one of the separate islands out of there, I'm like, oh, yeah, what am I supposed to do? I know this thing rotates around like a spoken wheel and you have to get to the four different thing. to get all the codes to get down there. So it's great. It's like I'm almost playing it again for the first time. Yeah. But here's the thing.

They've replaced the crappy QuickTime videos of Robin and Rand Miller with like CGI people. Oh, like actual 3D CGI people? Yeah. One of the best things about that game was the, you know, it's like, oh, these are the two creators. They put themselves into their own game. It's awesome. Well, you can see the problem, though, because like, what are they? they're going to, what are they going to do? The way it worked before is you had these static

renders of like, say, a door and a hole in the door where some, he'd be behind the door. And in that setup, that works because the video's supposed to simulate, there's a guy behind the door talking to me. Right, right. And if you're in 3D and you're moving around. But even the little two-dimensional videos in the books, I mean, I guess, I guess if they have to change it in one place for continuity, they need to change it everywhere. But still, it's just, Might be an ownership thing, too, maybe. Get the guys, get the guys back in. So they look older, whatever.

Yeah, pay those men. They deserve it. They deserve it. And maybe there was a lady involved. I don't remember. Was there? I don't remember a lady in the first one. I remember that one of the brothers played the dad as well.

Like they just made him look older and he was the dad. And he also played one of the younger brothers, the angry. Bring back only the red pages, not the blue pages. You're making me Misty for Mist. I want to play it. Yeah, well, it's worth picking up on Oculus. Even if you only play for a little bit,

I mean, it's $20. So you probably do want to play it for longer than a little bit. But still, it is so, there's so much love and nostalgia that comes through in that thing. It's like, oh, my God, I used to love this game and played it all the damn time. Yeah, it was a hell of a thing in the day. Couldn't believe it when I first saw it. It was like, whoa. It was amazing.

Yeah. And that was back when it was a hypercard stack. Yeah. Just like, click and it shows you another 3D picture. And you clicked and it throws you another. It shows you another 3D picture. Yeah, pretty crazy. All right.

I started that Woody Allen documentary on HBO. I just want to throw this out here. So that thing just started on Sunday. All ready, man. That dude's freaking weird. He's got, I mean, we're not even to the big, we're not even to the major abuse part yet. but I wasn't sure I could take it

but I am interested in it because all I ever saw from afar away was like oh he's adopting all these kids and then there was abuse they were saying something was wrong but then later he's with one of the daughters the adopted Korean girl or something and like I didn't know much about it

but now seeing this is just like holy schmooopers so anyway I don't know if anyone else has started that thing but episode one is up and woof is all I can say. Yeah, we haven't. I'm leading towards the Britney Spears documentary first.

If I'm going to watch any of it. Where is that, by the way? That's a really good question. Because I wanted to see that also. These days, I don't know. I just pick up my little remote and go, and tell it what I want to watch. I was interested in that.

I was especially these words. But I couldn't find it anywhere. So I don't know. Maybe that thing. Who is what people are saying? Oh, is it Hulu? Yeah, Hulu. I don't know how I miss.

that I usually I'm on Hulu Framing Britney Spears Yes And then It's about Putting pictures of her on the wall And using

You know Very ornate And intricate frames Around those Which is that Kevin Federline guy Really liked a nice frame Was my understanding Is that his name?

Kevin Federline Yeah Do you remember It's funny Because this will also be Brought back Full Circle Do you remember who she married before Fetterline?

Yes, she married briefly. Uh-huh. The guy who has the same name as somebody I impersonated earlier. Uh, hold on. Uh, uh, wait, she wasn't married to, um, uh, bringing sexy back guy. Did she? No. Okay.

No, she didn't marry Justin. They were dating. Yeah. And they're all, and everyone's mad at him because of the documentary or something, right? Like he was kind of a turd to a. or something, or something like that, I read. I guess, yeah. I mean, it was enough that he felt like he needed to apologize.

Jason Alexander? Yeah, Jason Alexander. Knock it off. Not the Jason Alexander. I was like, what joke are we pulling here? There's no way in any reality. She married Jason Alexander, but different guy. It's a different Jason Alexander.

They basically were married for two days or something, three days. Oh, my gosh. I didn't know about that. I'm sure the documentary goes into that a little bit. I would hope so. Yeah, I'm looking forward to that. Yeah, 55 hours they were married for. How's that Jamie Lynn Spears doing?

How's she doing? No idea. Okay. Yeah. So it's just, you know, the sisters. Don't ask questions to which you really don't care about the answer. I don't really care, do I? I don't actually care at all about that.

All right, Brian, I found something fun. We did this, uh, something similar yesterday. And because I ran into this other one, I went, oh, we're going to do this again. So I found this thing. Do you know who Jim Reeves is? Is that name familiar to you at all? Jim Reeves. Music.

I know he has a TV show. All right. Anyone else? Is he a coach? Nope. No. It's a singer. He's a singer from an old-timey 60s-70s-era singing guy.

Oh, really? Okay. Wow. Englebird humpabing. That's crazy. So, okay, so kind of in the Neil Diamond, And Inglebert Humperding, kind of... Yeah, that's your vein, sure.

Gotcha, okay. Yeah, you've tapped the vein there. You did good. So I found this commercial for Jim Reeves collection. It was like one of those time-life collectible, get all the, get the albums now on cassette or whatever things. And it played like this. I'm just going to play part of it.

It's been edited down a little, so it's only like 20 seconds. Here you go. Put your sweet lips a little closer to the phone. Yeah, I know this song. A legend for all time. Jim Reeves, for the first time, his most treasured recordings and biggest hits are in this two record come action. To order, call toll free, 1-800-692, 4,000. All right, we're calling this number.

We're going to find out what happened to Jim Reeves. I'm going to make a prediction. Yeah. Because I'll bet you there's a company that owns all these numbers, and you get the same one whether you're calling to order the, the time life presidential plates or the, uh, the, uh, the K-Tel pocket fisherman. Yeah. I think it's not quite that, you know, that many genres all jammed into one, but you get my point. I think it's going to be a lot.

And you just say, yes, I'm calling about the Jim Reeves. Vinyl cassette collection, please. I saw this on the YouTube. I understand. It's still available. Like, if you're an old Jim Reeves fan and you accidentally bump into this video, you'd probably do think it's a thing you can call. Probably would, yeah.

Yeah, why wouldn't you? So we're going to. Here it is. Okay. 800, 692, 4,000. We're calling it now. Here we go. See what we get.

All right. We get a ring. That's fun. I don't usually get a ring. Yeah. Thank you for calling. Are you or someone in your household 50 years or older? Yeah.

Clearly. For yes. Two for no. Okay, I'll do one for yes. Clearly, because we're ordering a Jim Reeves cassette collection. Thank you for calling the Medical Alert Center. This is Jessica our reported line. Can you hear me okay?

Yeah, bye. All right. We're not doing that. What was that Life Alert? Yeah, it was like a Life Alert thing. So, all right. Life Alert now has the Jim Reeves collection. I'm calling about the Jim Reeves collection.

I should have said, I'm sorry. I thought this was the line for the Jim Reeves collection. and see if she gets that a lot. A turtle made it to the water. Oh, I love that crap. All right. Well, anyway, there's another one down. If I run it any more old 8,000, 100 numbers.

You can count on us. That's interesting, though, that I would have thought that that number would have stuck with another, you know, with whatever is selling crap to. people during the judge shows, during the midday judge shows. Because you know, it's going to be one right after another, right? It's going to be. But now it'll be on CD or... Yeah. You'd think so. And then also, I mean, for all I know, that thing hasn't been in circulation since 82 or whatever the year was. Yeah. And so this Life Alert Lady probably never hears from anyone about Jim Reeves. But I should have said something. I should have said,

hold on now. My understanding what? You know, like I could have made a big deal out of it. But we're not that kind of show. We don't prank call people. No, no. We're not into that. We just want to know. Not into that. We're just curious. And hey, there were, at least there were nodes found instead of no nodes found. Yeah, no, we found nodes. There were neither nodes were neither left nodes nor took nodes.

There's a throwback for you. That's great. Okay. Well, we've done it. That means that we can now do this here. Jammer says, I'm sorry, Davey Kora says, you should have said, Put your sweet lips a little closer to the phone. Which is brilliant.

Put your sweet lips a little closer to the phone. I never heard of the guy before today, so there's that. All right. Brian, it's time for the news, and it's brought to you by. Video games coverage done right. Check out frogpans plays.com for all the great video game shows on the network. It's frogpens plays.com. Yeah, I decided to put all that stuff in an easy place for those who are just looking for gaming stuff.

So, Corr and Booper there. The currently in hiatus video news roundup I do is there, but I have news on that soon. But anyway, I can go find it all right there. Are you doing that nightmare game? I am. Little Nightmares, too. Yep. That thing is real bad, real scary.

The game's very good. It doesn't help when family members come and scare the crap at you while you're playing. No, I don't love that part. and they'll do it every time. The reason that happens is because I'm yelling really loud, or it used to be, if I'm yelling really loud, they'll hear that and go, oh, I'm going to go scare them. But now there's an alternative way,

which is one J.K. Grammer, will send a DM to my daughter on Twitter and say, hey, go freak your dad out. So that happens. That's fun. Oh, that's awesome. Good job, J.K. Graber. Well done. Good job, James Kay. You did it. All right. Brian, let's talk about a New Jersey man to begin the show. man that's right what's his power come on now the ability to survive with fumes in the air and not

be affected by it whatsoever because he lives in newark and not one of the better parts of new jersey excelsior how just rolls off the tongue i did clarify no no no that's good because there are most of new jersey's beautiful yeah we don't want to throw them all under the bus sure no no i just want throw newark under the bus yeah it's the place where uh tony soprano did all his dirt is uh that's what we're talking about, you know. Palm. I heard the worst. Carmelah, not parm.

There's a lot of parm, but ate a lot of parm, yeah. There was a, there was a, there was a, there was a, there was a horrible joke. Remember Uncle Junior, the character Uncle Junior in that show? Yeah, character Uncle Junior, yeah. He's sitting there talking to, we'll just call him BP on the, on the couch there. Big P, we'll say. Oh, yeah, yeah, big P.

Big P, yeah. And, uh, liked, like cats, that is what I gather from his name. And at one point, Uncle Jr. says, hey, I got one for you. And he starts to tell a joke. And the joke is, um, now chat room and people listening. This is me relaying something that's on the Sopranos. This is on HBO. It's a thing that people can go see publicly. This is not me agreeing to or saying this is a good joke. Okay. It won't matter. They're going to isolate the joke out and that's going to hunt you forever. Maybe I won't tell it. I mean, what you need to do is during the joke keep while you're telling the joke keep saying again i'm repeating the joke from the sopranos i don't feel yeah i don't know if i can tell it all right basically you know what i'll do instead i will tell sorry don't mean to be a best kill but i just know how this stuff works no you're not wrong and lately i've had a few community poke-pokes in the last few

days and i'm not really in the mood for any more of it so i'm probably going to stay away from it here's the thing go find it just go look for uncle junior eye doctor joke okay uncle junior i doctor joke that'll find you this joke okay and then you can enjoy it in your own time in your own way okay that's all i'm going to say there next thing you know the democrats are going to isolate that chunk of video out and that's all i need i'm kidding all right here we go new jersey man sets himself sorry not himself set fire to his lawn to get rid of snow and Ice. Oh.

According to the cops. Is he a New Jersey man that used to live in Florida by chance? It feels like he may have moved up there. If you encounter a particularly rough patch of ice or snow while shoveling this winter, don't reach for a can of gasoline like a Midland Parkman did this last Friday, according to police. Police and firefighters responded to the man's home in Patterson Avenue, where he had set a small fire to try to melt the snow and ice.

Now, this is funny because when I was a kid, I remember my dad doing this once. with gasoline or just like with well it may have been like lighter there was some fluid involved but I don't think it's gas yeah it was less combustible but whatever he ended up doing he I want to say he squirted it on the driveway and then just like lit it on fire and let it melt away

ice that was like really thick and slippery on the driveway so I don't think this is that crazy I saw my grandpa do that with like a he had one of those welders torches, the, um, the big butane, you know, things he used for welding. And he would, he would just break it up basically so that he could get a shovel in there and pry it off the, um, off the driveway. That sounds like a huge pain in the butt.

It does, yeah. Going around and making, making all the right cuts, whatever. I play shitbreaker. What am I even talking about? I play that game. Pops and recline, by the way, Pops and Recline posted the video from the Sopranos. And a couple of people have said, good thing you didn't read that. I mean, the reason I was going to read it wasn't me going, isn't that a funny joke?

It was going to be saying, hey, I can't believe this joke happened on there. But then again, it's Uncle Junior. He's kind of a racist. Uncle Jr. is a racist. Yeah, exactly. He's a great character, but he's a great character because he's kind of terrible. Anyway. Anyway, so here's the deal.

They called the Hazmat Unit, who used the speedy dry to sop up the gas. That's cool. The speedy dry. Yeah, what's the speedy dry? I don't know. I'm going to look that up. It's like, why would, why wouldn't they explain what the speedy dry? Is that common knowledge in New Jersey?

Well, they gave it capital letters. I assume it's like a proper product or like a... It's a generic term for oil absorbance. Absortance. Absortance? Absortense. So it's basically the stuff you dump on, you know, absorbance. Weird.

Yeah. Okay, speedy dry absorbent Home Depot. So here, okay, it's like a big, it looks like a bag of cement, basically. Right. And you just dump it all over what you're trying to absorb so that you can, you usually see this like after a car accident. Yeah. You see like a bunch of white sand it looks like all over the ground.

And that's basically used to absorb all the gasoline and oil and stuff. So they can sweep it into a bin and dump it. It's also referred to as sweeping compound, apparently. So if you have It's probably what they use at the mall If a kid pukes You just dump some of this on there I always thought it was sawdust

But what do I know Nothing's the answer I don't know I think sawdust Do you do not still use sawdust for puke I don't know I haven't I've personally I've never done it

But my memory is like at a mall Or a Walmart or something You'd see some kid just go Bha ate too much Too many Twizzlers or whatever Too many Too many waffle Waffle cakes or whatever

Oh, there is a goose walking down. One lone goose walking down the sidewalk in front of my house. Hang it, I wish I... Hold on. Does he have gold chains and have a weird? Because I haven't seen Mendoza in years. Mendoza, oh, my God. Oh, and he's out of frame or else I would have, like, taken a photo.

Damn it. What do you have a goose walking around for? That's weird. Just walking around the neighborhood. Like, down the sidewalk even, like, do, do, do, do. He's in the wilderness. This reclocation program or something because I don't know where he went.

That's right. It's been two years. It's been two years. It's been two years since I've seen that goose. All right. Here's, so anyway, the story is don't do that.

According to the police, he says he thought it'd be a good idea to dump some gas on it and light it on fire. Says, Lieutenant John Gibbons. A neighbor called the police after smelling something burning. So that'll get you every time. Did it,

but it didn't get like his, did he get his house on fire? Uh, no. Or did it just, okay. Just burned the, the, the, the, the lawn. I mean, it was just on the lawn. So it's really, this is basically a PSA disguised as a news story. Yeah.

Of New Jersey.com. It's basically like, yeah, nothing really happened, but don't do this because something bad might happen. Yeah, that's basically it. I mean, what is news anymore? I don't even know. We're going to fire shame, uh, this guy to, to fire shame. I like that. Fire shame.

You're fire shaming him. All right. Gritty customers. I think that's a place. Yeah. Or that's a supplier of electricity. Gritty. Yeah. Like gritty. Like we're on the grid. We're gritty. Anyway. Gritty. Gritty customers, Texas electrical bill company place, are facing $5,000 electric bills for the five freezing days in Texas. One grand per day. Yeah. Some Texans it says here are facing another crisis. how to pay these enormous electric bills. The Texas power company Gritty, which sells unusual plans and prices tied to the spot price of power on the Texas grid, warned its customers over the weekend that their bills would rise significantly during the storm

and that they should switch providers. Well, that's freaking weird. Holy cow. So this is like an independent company that's providing electricity. Because the way the grid works, Texas is basically on their own. Their electricity is not. Yeah, because they re-regulated, they voted to have everything deregulated, now they're paying for it, for real. Yeah.

That's so effed up to me. Like, I understand, over-regulation sucks. I'm with you, man. I get it. All those out there who hate regulation, I understand why it can be a problem. But there's a reason why, at the right levels and watched carefully, it makes a difference, and you can be ready for shit like this. Anyway, uh, there we go. Some quickly looked into doing that but found the actual changeover of service wouldn't happen for days.

So that thing took, that process can take, like up to five days, and that's how long the weather was going to be weird. So now customers saying they never dreamed they'd be billed for four figures on five days of service. Karen Crosby said her cost was $5,000 for usage and Saturday for her 2,700 foot square house in Rockwall. DeAndra Upshaw of Dallas said the electric bill for the 900 square foot two-story townhouse was. was also 5,000. Other customers on social media express frustration with similar bills. So, yeah, I mean, kind of like, oh, no, my AT&T isn't working. I know, I'll just get a quick phone from cricket wireless.

All right, that'll be $12,000 for five days of usage. Yep. And here's the thing, that deregulation made it possible for all these weird companies to spring up to do this. Yeah, yeah, of course. fine, I like big open marketplaces, but this is jacked. Like this is no good. Like right here it says,

where is it? Here it is. The spot prices hit $9,000 per megawatt hour. What that translates to is $9 for a kilowatt hour that usually costs Crosby about $0.7. And sometimes as little as $2. So the whole point is it's like a little bit of a moving,

I don't know, it's like the stock market a little bit, like a mini little power I just say, can I use my Robin Hood app to buy some gritty stock, is it possible? Oh, man. There's no way these people are made to do this. This cannot happen. You can't make them pay that. Yeah.

And if you do, you are a shitty state. You can't do that, man. You've got to fix that. The Electric Company Reliability Council of Texas, or Urquot. It's a great cling on. It looks like an office. A Disney offshoot. Ercot.

Urquot. All the rides are scary. They're expensive. They set a cap of nine grand per megawatt hours an incentive for electric companies to add natural gas-fired generating capacity. So anyway, this did not work out. Well done, everybody. Well done.

I feel bad about Texas. Texas is a... Oh, I do too. Yeah. That's a mess. Anyway, but at least it's like 75 degrees. down there that are, they had a rolling, my cousin Rainey who lives down there basically was on a situation where the electricity was on for 30 minutes and then off for 30 minutes

and then on for 30 minutes and then off for 30 minutes. Like a weird rolling blackout thing. That's no good. What do you do? Like, I'm trying to think how you'd function in that. I imagine it took your 30 minutes to go around every clock in the house and reset it. VCR's blinking. Flashing 12.

Oh, now I got to do it all over again. Damn it. Urquot is without honor. Well done, Windmega. I will see that in the titles later. That will be a great title, yes. But yeah, I know we have a lot of listeners down there, and I know there was a lot of trouble and issues for a lot of you.

I hope none of you got saddled with five to ten grand worth of power bills. Like, one would assume, like maybe the thinking here is that, okay, if you had to pay for this wackadoo, unforeseen moment to the tune of $5,000 with the rest of the year and maybe a couple more years after that would it all equal out to be the three cents

instead of the nine bucks and then you would end up making it up in the long run and still be less than you would have paid for traditional power access? Yeah, I don't know how that works or is it a premium that you pay now and then you go just back to normal after the premium is over.

Right. This is what I think is more likely. Yeah, that's my guess. too. So you're probably, there's probably not like a 401k where you're like, well, it's up right now, but it's the market crash, but don't worry, it'll all come back. It's not like that. Different thing. Well, sorry everybody. Oh, okay. Dice Tomato says once the power demand is down, yes, the price should go down. Well, yeah, but it will ever go down to make up that five grand is one of us. It'll never go down to make up for it now. That's what, uh, amazing samurai zero and Aesthesus

and Billy Dush Poodle and Wolfglen 99 say no. Yeah. Lennonade 9,000 or 3,000 gives us the, ha, ha, yeah, right. Yeah, it seems a little cynicism coming out of that. A little bit, a little bit. Gwen said it's supposed to be illegal to price gouge in emergencies. There's no way this stuff depends out in court. True, but this feels like one of those things where they got around it.

You know, like this doesn't feel like price gouging in the traditional sense of like, oh, toilet paper's really popular. Sweet, we'll charge five bucks a roll. That's different. then, well, maybe it's not different than this. It's not different. Oh, you're seeing a demand and you're increasing because you know people are going to buy it. I mean, it's what Schrelli did with the EpiPens, you know.

There's demand. Great. I'm going to hike up the price. Yeah. Yeah. In Texas, they're laughing at your statement right now. Well, I don't know. No, no.

They're Glenn. They're laughing at Gwen Gunn's state. Yeah, they may be, but the point is like, I don't know, y'all need to get just better, just, I don't know. I'm not even saying, I don't even think you have to vote for Democrats. It should be illegal to do that. It should be illegal. I'm not even saying vote for a bunch of Democrats.

I'm saying get better Republican, get better something. You get bad leadership. Better politicians. Yeah, you got one running off the, oh, it's cold. I'm going to Cancun. What a big frosted flake he is. Piece of shit. I like that his new nickname is flying Ted Cruz.

I saw fled Cruz. That was my favorite one. A fledding cruise? Yeah, they're just fled crews. Yeah, because he fled. That's pretty good. That's great. All right, let's do Florida woman.

Yes, I'm glad we're getting to this one. Yeah, that's a good one. A Florida woman, or women, rather, wore granny disguise. I don't know, that's funny on the tone, to try to get a COVID vaccine. So these two ladies, two Florida women, age 34 and 44, dressed up as grannies, wearing bonnese. wearing bonnets and gloves in a failed attempt to pass is old enough to be eligible for coronavirus jabs

according to local media reports. WFTV and ABC affiliated TV station in Orlando reported that the pair had had valid vaccine cards after having their first shots but were denied their second ones. Oh, see, that's a problem. That is a problem. So in other words, no, the problem is that they got through

the first time, right? So it sounds like they got they got their they did this and got their first shot yeah and then they got busted so like the old saying goes oh that sucks like it's kind of like they have to give them the second shots now or they've wasted the first ones right you're right but you don't want to reward that crappy behavior

yeah because what is that like that would be like going it'd be like if you and your friend saw an apartment building in new york that was perfect really close to work and the woman that you really liked lived there but it was a it was a uh an apartment building only for women so you and your friend dressed up as women so that you could live in that apartment building yeah but then the second shot part of this

would be those people in that apartment building saying well we're already in here we already i mean we may as well as we already got in so we may as well just you know what i mean like i i understand like this is complicated but here's the problem it's the problem the problem is with the screening, just ID card these people. Don't just take the fact, oh, she's dressed old and has an old wig on. That's, yeah, how did they get through? That's, that's what I want to know is how they got through the first time, because,

uh, they have to check ID, right? They have to, like, look at your ID and your ID will clearly say that you were born in 1987. Right. Yeah, this is a Hocum, a jocum here. It feels like a, well, whatever, obviously they got away with it, but to a degree. A quarter, but we can. We can tell who's old in the chat room because a quarter of the people did recognize that I was describing the plot of bosom buddies.

Oh, yeah. There's enough of us in there. Starring Tom Hanks and Peter Scolari. Peter Scalari in, well, that guy did not have the same career as Tom Hanks. He didn't. He did well on Newhart. Yeah, he was okay on girls. He was her dad on girls?

Oh, was he? Uh-huh. Yeah, it was all right. But he's probably like, oh, man, I could have been Forrest Gump. You know, he probably was looking at that. Yeah. I didn't even get a bachelor party. He's probably in some of those holiday movies on...

Oh, I'm sure. Yeah, I imagine he's got a few Hallmark movies under his belt. Yeah. I would think so. Anyway. Oh, it says here, it's quoted in the official health officer, blah, blah, blah. He says this, quote, I don't know how they escaped detection for the first time,

but they came with gloves, the glasses, the whole thing. And they're probably in their 20. that's because you didn't ask for ID you dip shits yeah i think it was christin wigg doing promo uh for her brand new movie barb and star go to club med or whatever it's called i want to see that why do i want to see that i do too i don't know why because it's from the bridesmaid uh bridesmaids people yeah writer director whoever you know it's yeah kind of want to see it too when's that that's a thing soon right yeah i think you can probably pay to watch it right now i think he can pay 20 bucks to watch it, but I'm going to wait until it's $20 cheaper.

You're going to wait until it's less than that. That's what it's called, yeah. Hold on, Dice Tomato, you're not 50. Is that true? I thought Dice Tomato was a lot younger than us for some reason. I think he might be impersonating the Molly Shannon. I'm 50. Oh, yeah.

Character from S&L. It might not be. Maybe, maybe. Yeah, who knows? Yeah. We're over the hill, Brian and I. The hell I say. Yes, we are.

The hell I say. Yep. Yeah, you can, right now you can pay 20 bucks and watch it on Amazon Prime video. Oh, okay. I'll wait for it. Yeah. It features, I don't know if you know this, Scott. Yeah.

But it features Richard Cheese making a cameo as a lounge, uh, lounge singer. Great. So you're really excited then is what you're saying. I can't wait to see that scene. I'm sure he was nothing but pleasant on set and just nothing but a, what are these cameras doing? in here, he says. Right.

Nobody has a phone out, right? Nobody's taking any video of this. My God, I don't want to end up on social media. Hold on. You're filming this? This is a TV? This is a movie? I'm going to pick up your phone and throw it on the ground.

Oh, dick cheese. Barb and Star go to White Castle? That's not it. Anyway. That's a different thing. Is it set in the 80s? Because I assume it is. It looks like it is.

It looks like it is from the way they look, but it might be their old bitties who are stuck in the 80s in a modern times, you know, in a resort in 2020. Sure. Or more likely 2019. Good point. When Megas reminds us all that Sonic the Hedgehog is on Amazon Prime right now. And I have to say, it's the last movie I saw in theaters before the shutdown, first of all. Yeah, it was like last February I saw that movie when it came out. And it has no right to be as fun as it is.

It's actually quite a decent movie. It's maybe the best video game movie ever made. It doesn't mean it's a great movie movie. Like, it's not like I'm falling all over it. But yeah, it's all right. I remember, I remember you really liking it. And it's on, so it's on regular prime. Yeah, just pay prime.

No, just good old prime. Free if you pay for prime prime prime. Yeah, free prime if you pay for prime. Free prime if you pay for prime. Yep. Time. PPP, PPP, Pee, P. Yeah, you should check it, actually.

It's, uh, it's all right. It's a fun time. It's like a dumb throwback to Sonic stuff. And I don't know. They pull it off somehow. And the soundtrack is especially good, but that's Junkie XL and he makes nothing but good soundtrack. So,

so that'll get you every time. Cool. Uh, all right. Oh, these. Yeah, I'm looking, I'm looking at the IMDB page for Barb and Star, go to Vista Del Mar, and I still can't tell when the movies is supposed to take place. Yeah, it's for sure that they look like they're supposed to be inhabiting

that, or they're supposed to be who never, they never got out of the 80s, maybe, but I can't tell if it's just set then or not, or what's up at that? Yeah. Oh, chat, we're not to know what else, what else did Junkie Excel do a soundtrack for? Oh, no. He did a little, little small film a few years ago, five, six years ago

now, called Mad Max Fury Road. You may have heard of it. Very good. But he also, he does tons of stuff, like he's got. Yeah, he does. He's got bad movies that he's scored that the only good things in those movies are his scores like Batman versus Superman is his score it's very good

the score the movie's not the Justice League his score bad movie like chat room is like is like the owner a bad owner of a dog that says oh watch I can make them I can make my dog spin around in circles for five minutes if I

if I point to the TV I can make this dog pee on command right exactly well well done guys well they've got my back yes they do final story speaking to dogs oh perfect transition this is good oh wait great good uh segue yeah it was not bad we're like tom merritt somehow uh drug sniffing dog finds cereal frosted with 2.8 million dollars worth of cocaine in ohio they're great yeah they're real great

great great give it rich they're great they're great it is a stimulus Yeah, there you go. U.S. Customs agents made a surprise discovery when a sniffer dog didn't give the name of the dog. Investigated what looked to be a... I know, it sucks. Penelope is the name of the sniffer dog. In a, sorry, to be a perfectly innocent shipment of frosted cereal

only to discover that the sugar coating was in fact a large amount of cocaine. The Cincinnati Inquirer reported that Biko, oh, it is it, they get to give the name of the dog. Oh, Biko. Biko. Or is it Bicco? Bico. Bicco. I would say BICO. Probably BICO. B-I-C-O. Yeah, the owners are big fans of Peter Gabriel. Or pens with an extra O on the end.

Or that's right. Or ballpoint pens, yeah. I still like a good BIC. I'll just put that out there. It's all right. Do you? Yeah. It gets the job done, and they don't dry out as fast as others. I don't love them. They're not my favorite pen, but I know that they're reliable in a pinch. Like if I just need to write something, is there a BIC here? Okay, we're covered. We got it. it there's something to be said for that it's a it's a just a good ass pen yeah if i was ever on pen island that's the pin you'd want yeah yeah Tina's got one that she keeps in her purse that we

use every once in a while if we can do trivia or something she'll she'll pull it out and i keep want to steal it from her and i never think to look at what kind of pen it is but it's good it's a really good one like really smooth writing solid just good uh kim has those too whatever they are and i don't get to have them it pisses me off yeah after the show i'm going to go demand the pen tell me what your pen is uh all right where's the oh uh so here's what happened biko this dog uh detected uh at the u.s customs and border protection thing they uncovered all this this be huge hall of drugs and it was all part of this breakfast cereal but they didn't say it's not like this was branded frosted flakes i think this was like some off

sure sure it was headed to hong kong kirk yeah coat flakes It was headed to Sorry, my brain went weird places just then For some reason It was headed to Kong Kong Which apparently is where they were going to Like deassemble these flakes from the powder that's on me. Deflare de-frost the flakes.

Yeah, exactly. Now here's what would throw me off. The powder on the flakes were grayish. That would throw me off. I wouldn't like that in my series. I don't know if you've looked at frosted flakes lately. I mean, I guess it's white. It's more white than gray, but it's, you know.

They're not appetizing looking. I think I would do, I wouldn't do flakes because that's got to be so hard to separate the cocaine from the cereal. I wonder if you did like, um, this would be a fun exercise. Yeah, how would you, let's do this. Any food stuff, okay, what do you choose to get to get your illicit cocaine drugs over the border? What food do is, here's what I would do. And I'm giving ideas right now to all the cartels out there. All right.

Is that I would, I would dry and press the cocaine into little spheres and have an off brand of cap and crunch without, instead of berries, it's little cocaine berries. And then it's easier, like you basically just say, cap and crunch, Coke berry, Cat and Crunch, Cokeberry, Cokeberry, Cap and Crunch, you just separate them out as opposed to like having to scrape the, to scrape the, or use whatever to scrape the Coke off. But would they be white? They'd be white, I guess. It'd be white, yeah. So you just like, you know, I'd have a marketing team come up with a new friend of the box that says, Captain Crunch, whoops, berries. Oops. Oops.

Oh, that's a shame. Or Captain Crunch, no food coloring added berries. Wow. Wow, that's perfect. Yeah. Yeah, I don't know what I would do. I think that's actually not a bad idea. Or just leave out the Captain Crunch altogether and call them kicks.

oh there you go for all i know kicks is cocaine i never eat them yeah they're gross use those little spears spires dry ass garbage cereal i hate it yeah kicks are kicks yes mom like kicks for what kicks doesn't have or whatever the stupid phrase was but kicks didn't kids didn't like kicks that was a lie that was a lie like mom can we get food loops no you're having this what is this oh little compact balls of dirt thank you mom right thank you for that At least it's not grape nuts, but just barely, barely better than grapes. Some in the chat are saying they liked kicks.

You're all either lying to me or you're on cocaine. Or you dumped a whole bunch of sugar on it to get through it. I guess if you did that. I did that with Cheerios, so I feel, I feel their pain. Anyway, officers said they found all this stuff. And they say the whole thing was estimated to be $2.8 million worth of cocaine dust on these flakes. The flakes themselves probably not worth that much. Richard Gillespie, Cincinnati Port Director, said in a statement,

the men and women of Port of Cincinnati are committed to stopping the flow of dangerous drugs, and they continue to use their training, intuition, and strategic skills to prevent these kinds of illegitimate shipments from reaching the public. Frosted cereals, while ingenious, what? That's hilarious. Frosted cereal flakes, while ingenious, are far from the most usual way drug smugglers, smugglers have hid their illicit product. Oh, I see what they mean.

Ingenious way. Yeah. While these are ingenious. They're far from the weirdest thing that people have done to get drugs in. That threw me for some reason. I like the pair of fake buttocks. Yeah, it was pretty good. Fake Coke buttocks.

Yeah, fake Coke butt. I hear that there were a couple 20-year-olds who dressed up as old ladies to smuggle some coke in into Florida. Nice. And they get their shots at the same time. And to get their shots, exactly. It did say this. One was, or others included a wig, a pair of fake buttocks. As Brian mentioned, inside hollowed out pineapples and even under the habit.

Or, sorry, habits of drug mules pretending to be nuns. Oh, wow. Yeah. Under their little habit unit deal. Yeah, they're little habits, yeah. They're just called habits, right? They're just called habits. Why are they called that?

Is it because you have to have a habit of wearing them? It's like, sure. I think it's, I don't think it's the, I don't think it comes from the same definition of habit. I think it's, it probably comes from a French word, habi or something like that, you know? It could be. I complete throwing out a thought not based in any sort of intelligent background or anything. Well, let's see. According to Answers.com, which I don't always trust. Says, does ask Jeeves have an idea?

I don't know. It says, why is a nun's clothing called a habit? Not just a nun, but all religious brothers, monks, friars, with the sole exception of the Jesuits and sisters, all wear a proper habit. uh it is literally in the form of latin word habitus or habari uh to have and like habit or like a habit proper oh it is saying that it is saying that like if you have a habit um really of doing like you have a good habit of like let's say your habit is um every day i let the dog out to pee well there's that's a habit and and them it's like we put this on every day to remind ourselves it is our habit of doing this.

So it's both literal. So it is. So it really is. Interesting. That's cool. All right. Well, good luck to you, everybody. Clothing slash conduct.

Interesting. And it is French. By the way, you know, I'll take a half a point for. Oh, it is? I thought it said Latin. Didn't it say Latin? I thought it's from Latin to the old French habit or H-A-B-I-T, meaning clothing slash conduct. Very nice.

Look at you. Picked it. So. It called it. well well barely drug serial aside we're now going to take a break

when we come back Justin Robert Young will be here we're going to talk about something called the bird rule which I don't know what that is but we're going to find out I have not done any research on this I looked it up when I saw those in the show notes

oh you did good so you've got more knowledge than I do at this point barely a little bit tiny little bit we can't do any of that though without a song so you want to play one yeah how about something brand new from Tim sells who goes by the name timid the Bray

He's a solo performer, Canadian singer-songwriter, and he has a brand new album coming out called Vujaday, which comes out this spring. Kind of like the old George Carlin joke, Vujard Day, the feeling you've never experienced anything like this before. This is the first single from Vujaday. It's a song called St. Maria. Here is Timmid the Brave. Rose's bloom in mid-November First time that I remember Pink flamingos bright against the gray

Church bells ringing St. Maria Penning sounds like children singing tolling out for all the time of date Everything's a signal fire, a prophecy, a drunk inquire, a holy kiss, a banner in the sky God's left hand in highest heaven Last night I counted seven Constellation spelling out your name The morning comes the second station

A cardinal, a confirmation Breaking loose, polishing our aid and every sign's a funeral pyre false prophets singing in the choir a holy rick a single silhouette let's go back to the beginning and i can't wait another minute been wondering what i'm missing yet I have found out of I have fallen. I have followed flames. in arrows, fought to find the straightened arrow, wound up in the wilderness each time.

The first to fail, the first to falter, pouring water on the altar, burn it up, I need another sign. You'll appear in ancient fire, a prophecy, a new desire, a holy ghost, a pattern in a cup. Take me back to the beginning, I can't wait another minute, late December snow is piling up. You know, I'm going to be able to be. We're going to be able to be. Thank you. I never need a wet. I never need wet chemicals.

My 914 is a drive machine. Powder dry. Sometimes my boss asks me which is the original. And sometimes, I don't know. Buckle up, son. It's the real world out here. It's Harley and me and you in the tree. This is the morning stream.

All right, we have arrived back at our destination, which was, oh, do you want to repeat who the people? Oh, yeah, I will. That was Tim of the Brave, and the song is called St. Maria from the brand new album Vujarday coming out this spring. Fantastic. Now, everyone, join us as we do this. These are their stories.

Oh, I'm terrible with names. The while not yet in Houston, or not Houston, Austin, but still in Oakland. And we have Justin Robert Young joining us from the PX3 podcast. Back home. Well, he's been home for a bit, though, right? You're kind of there until the deal's through and you're done and then you move or what? How's that work? Yeah, yeah. I won't be going down until we're closed and we're like moving there for good. So I think what I'm referring to is that I had to quarantine when I got back and I'm staying at a friend's apartment. And now I am back home, home. On my mic. On your own mic, in your own studio.

Exactly. Did you get any Opsack info or anything while you're at Darren Kitchens' place? Did you get any kind of cool, like, insidery, hackery business while you were there? I think I deliberately left his name out of where I was staying, but, so I have no comment. I think you said it on the air. I wouldn't, I don't. I think we said it here on the show. I think it came in.

Okay. I think that happened. That's pretty funny. We're outing you about where you were staying. Would not be the first time with you, Scott? No, no, no, no, it would not. I have a habit. Speaking of habits, I have a habit of doing that.

All right. Hey, we're going to talk about something today. So, Justin comes on Tuesdays. We talk about politics, and it sometimes takes the form of, you know, recent or current events and things that are pending and that sort of thing. But you mentioned something called the bird rule, which I'd never heard of, B-Y-R-D rule. And I'm dying to know what this is because it sounds like, as much as I love, as I love. Love to get my daily dose of politics. I've never seen whatever this bird rule is.

So explain. Yes. So for the record, this is what politics really is. This is what politics is, you know, for nerds like me who are following it, it is not what Rachel Maddow and Tucker Carlson are hyperventilating over it. It's stuff like this. Find out what you. is referring to this summer on America's Next Top Podcaster.

Yeah. Oh, my God. I swear to go. People are going to hate me. I hate myself. No, love yourself. Love yourself. No, I've been a dick, and I was a dick to Brian multiple episodes, and I'm just, I'm just insufferable.

Just be less dick and we'll be fine. No one's going to like any part of that. Like, just everybody, get ready to hate that. me more than you're doing now. Like if, for whatever reason, uh, four years of people thinking that I'm a Trump defender, uh, is, is not enough to polarize the audience.

Just wait until I'm maliciously mean to strangers, uh, and Brian for no reason. Uh, anyway, bird rule, sorry. Bird rule. Bird rule. The bird rule.

The bird rule. Yeah. All right. So the first things first, we have to understand what's happening in Congress right. now with the COVID relief. Normally to pass a bill, you have to have a filibuster proof majority. In this case, right now, it is 60 votes.

So we have a 50-50 Senate, but because there's a Democratic president, that means that the tiebreaker goes to the Democrats. So the Democrats have the slimmest of all possible majorities. That, obviously, even my Florida math can know is not 60 votes. So, they have a couple choices. They can either try to craft a bill that will attract enough Republican votes. And there are 10 moderate Republicans that have indicated that they want to make a deal, just not a $1.9 trillion deal that the Democrats want to make.

Or they can use something called reconciliation. reconciliation is a part of the federal budget or a maneuver tied to the federal budget wherein you can pass things on a simple majority if you have a simple majority just meaning one vote over the other guys in both chambers both the House and the Senate and the Democrats right now have both so they can pass something via reconciliation. okay this is where the bird rule comes in named for senator robert bird of west virginia who has a colorful history yeah maybe that's even even then that's probably what era what era are we talking we talking like 1800s when when did this guy no he died in 2010 he was a uh uh of a mentor to

hillary clinton um he's a cranky old bird he was brother brother you ain't lying. I'm curious as to if the bird rule came about because, like, he instated it or he was the reason it was created? I believe he instated it. And basically it says that during reconciliation, you can't just tack anything onto the budget. It has to be budget related.

So you can't say during reconciliation, you can't pass during reconciliation, something that says everybody needs to wear underwear on their head. Because that is not sufficiently about the budget. Now, if it were the government needs to pay for everybody to wear underwear on their head or that

we are buying everybody underwear to wear on their head, then it might work, right? But it has to be sufficiently related to the budget. And that leads to a very interesting question. Who the hell makes that call? If the rule is just that it has to be sufficiently tied to the budget. And actually here, let's read the rule itself.

The Senate is prohibited from considering extraneous matter as part of a reconciliation bill or resolution. The bird rule is enforced when a senator raises a point of order during consideration of a reconciliation bill or a conference report. So the question of who decides is answered by the Senate parliamentarian, basically just the walking Robert's Rules of Order, who is there to normally just explain to people how the rules of the road work in this chamber. She, Elizabeth McDonough, will rule either today or tomorrow whether or not the progressive. fight for 15 element of the COVID-19 relief package, setting a roadmap over the next five years, I believe, to get the federal minimum wage to $15 an hour. Whether or not that is sufficiently tied to the budget

enough that it will be able to go forward. And that sets up a couple other roadblocks past that if it happens. Toward the end of this rule, and I'm looking at it as well. there's something, it says waivers. The bird rule is not self-affort, I can't read. The bird rule is not self-enforcing. A point of order must be raised at the appropriate time to enforce it.

The bird rule can only be waived if a three-fifths or 60-person majority vote of the, with that big of a vote in the center. That won't happen because they don't have 60 votes to vote on the, on the larger thing, let alone the other thing that's more controversial. Right. So, so in layman's terms, what do you, I mean, if they, if this, if this rule is enforced and who is it, Manchin is saying he's, no, no, no, no, all right. All right, all right. Yeah, this is the part where I get really confused. Take it back. Take it back. Take it back. Take it back. Focus only on the parliamentarian right now. Okay, got it. Because everything past that is in reaction to one of two branching paths. Either the parliamentarian says, yes, this. is something that is sufficiently tied to the budget and Bernie Sanders has

made the point that the opening up the ANWR drilling for oil was able to be done during reconciliation as were a few other things so this falls into that category or

she says it is not tied close enough to the budget that it would violate the bird rule at which point the Democrats who are eager to make this deal and just get it past the finish line will say

sorry progressives we tried turns out it's against the bird rule we gotta keep this on rolling down the road the the interesting thing with the first scenario if it is going to go down is at that point

Joe Manchin and Kirsten Cinema the two most center Democrats that we have in the Senate, they have said that they don't like this $15 minimum wage thing. We will see whether or not they are willing to lay down in front of the train tracks and not support this package because the $15 minimum wage thing is in there. So they've never had like the minimum wage getting it raised issue is not new, right? Like it's always a thing.

And no matter when it's raised or whether it isn't, it's always, it's always an issue and always ends up in some legislation and doesn't end up getting through or it does or whatever. With my limited understanding of how this stuff works, the reason they're pushing so hard here to make it part of this plan is because they think that if they don't piggyback it on top of something such as a major relief package during a pandemic, that there's no other way they squeeze that thing in there. You can't do it on its own, I guess. Like, is that the general feeling? In the Senate, everything winds up trying to hitch a ride because there's only so much momentum. There's only so many votes. And at the end of the day, everybody wants to get their stuff passed.

So if this is a gigantic, massive, everybody must rally together and get this money to the people kind of moment, then it is simultaneously the, biggest possible opportunity for you to tack something else on it and get it down the finish line. Right. But also at the same time, stall everything out because you've tried to tack it on there, right? Like, they, well, that's the question. The question is who would blink, right? Would, Manchin and Cinema strike down or start from scratch a bill that is timed to basically like get things going again there's a bunch of like unemployment stuff

that expires in March and so this stuff would have to get past on Friday or Saturday which is when they're targeting for that money not to run out and they're not to be a lapse if mansion or cinema if again

and this is why the bird rule is important because if the bird rule comes back the parliamentarian comes back and says $15 minimum wage sorry, that's a bridge too far, then this is a lot easier for the Democrats. If it's not, then, or sorry, if it is going to be a part of reconciliation, then Mansion and Cinema, they're going to decide whether or not they're willing to be bad guys because they believe in this $15 minimum wage thing so much.

So I had a crazy text exchange with a friend of mine who now lives in Arizona but grew up here and we were just he he's no he's notably a sort of very down the line partisan sort of voter it's like if it is if it's not republican i'm not voting that direction regardless it's just kind of him and uh he we were talking or we were talking about our kids or something or car's job and and his son's job or something and i said oh man wouldn't you love that $15 an hour minimum increase. He says, oh, it'd be great. We'd love it. That'd be perfect. It's way overdue. I said, well, do you support, then you support it here? Oh, hell no. I go, why? He goes, I'm only voting for that. And I don't know why he thought to say, I'm only voting for that because he's

not going to vote for it. But I'm only voting for that if it's, if the, if the Republicans pass it, which is the weirdest conversation. I didn't know what to make of that because, A, you don't vote for it. Who would he be voting for? That's what I mean. You don't vote for it. You vote for representatives and then those guys maybe push legislation that the lines with your ideas or whatever but it was it was a very odd conversation i didn't quite know how to end it i didn't know what to say i think we ended it on well anyway hey overwatch two probably not this year then i guess uh probably next year we'll be playing overwatch two you know like kind of just well there is raising the minimum wage a federal minimum wage is is something that is bipartisan mit romney

and tom cotton introduced their legislation uh today that basically would raise it to $10 an hour, but they are trying to make this a more, you know, much in the vein of this kind of new, you know, Republican populism, they want to tie it into increased security for ensuring that employers hire legal Americans and therefore are even complying with federal minimum wage, which many people who hire illegal laborers. don't. That's kind of why they hire them. Yeah. I was hired not illegally, but when I was 15, because I wasn't quite 16 and I went to work for this deli is a long story. I won't tell the whole story, but they got away with only paying me like $3.80 an hour, like $3.80 an hour

because of some rule of you had to be 16 to work. I can't remember what the deal was, but was it also because some of your income would be made up? tips or were you working in the back? I was in the back, so it was no tips. Yeah. So they were just really cheap and didn't want to pay us anything much. And we were just, you know, I'm just high school kid trying to have enough money for comic books and gum or whatever I was doing at the time. And it seems like they, I can't remember the whole story, but they skirted this thing in some weird way. And it always feels like that reminds me of that when people tell me about, you know, people not adhering to current laws about minimum wage. It usually

involves people without proper documentation or whatever. But. that's an interesting take i mean i don't know i don't know how all this is going to turn out but most people are just like oh my gosh can we please just get the stimulus through and can you deal with all your pork belly later but that's just not the way this works is it like it's no no no no i mean because again we have bipartisan support on stimulus checks yeah like uh if if there was a political will to just say two thousand dollar stimulus checks and nothing else. I feel like this thing would have been done. We would have probably had a couple rounds of those. The bigger issue is the Democrats really want money for state and city governments

that have seen a shortfall. The Republicans look at that as a bailout for blue states and blue cities that are by and large the ones with the shortfalls. And, you know, all this other stuff now, you know, that whenever one side has the conch, they are going to get their pet projects through because that is what happens. You know, only a few

things cross the finish line and you want to tack as much as you can on the side of it. Yeah, chat room is correct. There is no such thing as pork belly. It is only referred to as pork barrel. Sorry, everybody. I just am hungry for pork belly. Okay. Pork belly is delicious. Yeah, it is delicious ramen with that.

Oh, yeah. Well, all right. right well i feel like we've learned a little something the bird rule everybody write it down mark it on your calendar can't get used to it well no you just something that you want to keep in mind because you're going to hear about it in the next 48 24 to 48 hours you are either going to hear the conversation past this be uh ernie sanders be very mad that they ruled against him or you're going to now see like all right joe mansion exactly how serious are you about standing up against this because

if you want to be that guy that stood uh, you know, stood between America and stimulus then you can. If you really, if that matters that much to you. Yeah, that's a fun. That's a fun little

I don't know, a little game of a hot potato. And I guess that's politics. I mean, because also the the other, the other big thing is, is that would be huge, huge, huge blow to Biden. Because, you know, Biden came in with the idea being bipartisanship, one country, blah, blah, blah, right? And then this would or will be the first COVID relief package that isn't bipartisan if it passes. So it's got to pass.

Like if you are going that route, then boy, you better be able to get your, get your team on the same page. that is going to be a very bad look. Yeah, I agree. Well, all right. Eyes on the prize, everybody. Maybe checks incoming. Who knows and how soon we have no idea. But I do know that you can follow Justin on PX3.

That's politics, politics, politics, along with other cool projects. Anything you want to mention today? Yeah. Yeah. Obviously politics, politics. Unfriend me is not coming back. I read that in a blog post yesterday. I wrote Never Say Never on there.

I don't know. Maybe one day we figured it out. Yeah, it was just, it was a great. It was a fun news thing that, you know, like that unfriend me wasn't coming back.

So that was a cool thing to read in a blog. You hate finding out that way. Hey, for the record, hold on, hold on. I'm giving him cuff. We were texting about it.

For the record, Justin actually canceled that show. I didn't. So I just want to make it clear. I did. I canceled the show. I did cancel the show. show. I canceled the show because I needed to do Raise the Dead, which I couldn't say at the time, because otherwise people would hate Raise the Dead because they loved on Friend's. But that's why I canceled the show. I canceled because I didn't have time to do that. I didn't have time to do both. That's why a lot of stuff gets canceled because the time. It takes time. I get it. I know. Yeah. And that's the problem is that you can't say that at the time. Right. Right. Because then the thing that you're doing with that time will forever be tied in.

certain people's minds to like, oh, well, you killed this for that. And now, hopefully two seasons into Raise the Dead, people have made their decisions on that. And I can finally reveal the nefarious behind the scenes, mechanations behind all of it. Thank God you gave us Raised the Dead. But, yeah, no, I don't know. I would love, I would still love to do something. That brand is really good. Yeah, it is not bad.

We could figure something out. in the thing. And then the whole reason for that post was actually about other I love that. By the way, I think I think people should do that. I was thinking about doing it, doing a version of it because like I thought that was great. Just having a state of the union where you just go down, especially for people like us that have like 50,000 shows and some of them are for real and some of them are gone and some of them are in limbo. Right. Sure. To me, to me, it was a way, it was a way for me to get work. I don't. I'm terrible at communicating this stuff on the mini level, like on the small level.

I'm just bad at saying, hey, don't worry, you comic dorks fans. We're going to figure this out and get the schedules. We're going to make it work. And I just don't do it. So I'm terrible at it. And I thought, well, let's just, let me just lump it all together and go, all right. Well, it was good for me, too, because I had to list it out and go, holy shit, I make a lot of content every week.

Oh, dude, totally. And so I, wouldn't there be a way to maybe combine and do unfriend the dead and push them together in one show to save some time I mean honestly that's you know it's funny you say that because that's my thought my thought is like okay well if we were to do

it again then we would definitely not do it live because that was insane we were definitely like if we were going to rope in feedback we wouldn't just have it be the feedback of people that are randomly watching on the internet just on the like

on the like most sensitive topics of all time. And we certainly wouldn't make it a weekly show in the way that it was. You'd probably do it seasons. And then I just start thinking of like, oh, we could do this. I was even texting Scott about it yesterday. And I'm like, well, you know, we could probably do like one recording and then I'd edit that down.

And then we would like find out what the cool thing is. And we'd find an expert. And then we'd do an expert thing. And then we'd do another recording. And so now immediately in my head, I'm like, all right. So that means every episode is. three recording sessions. Like,

and, and, and this is so much time and so much work. And we're talking about things that are like really serious and are, are, like, you know, the point of the show is that we are going where few dare to tread.

Uh, and it's like, I think what both of us came to the, the realization in, and talking about it was like, uh, man, that's a really hard show.

to do if it's not our number one show that we do. Yeah, yeah, it's a main thing. Like for anybody else, that would be a thing that they did and that's all they did. And that is not sustainable for either of us, but it's like anything. Like making that list, I went, oh my gosh, how do I even do on, how am I even doing this? Like, how is this even happening every week? I don't even know how I'm doing this. And people wrote me after seeing the blog post and went, I can't even do two shows a week.

how are you doing eight or whatever it is like i don't know i don't even know so at some point this one this one just is you know tms coverville i'm sure night attack is this way you get into this groove where the production of something that you do on a weekly or daily or regular basis px3 also probably like this takes less on less effort the more you do it and it's the thought of bringing something back that does take a lot of effort that feels so daunting and and threatening i mean i just think it's it's time it's just a raw time thing and uh you know they dump the the house stuff for me right now and like i've i've just had like to be honest it's it's the reason why i've been such a dickhead on next top podcaster like i that's that's also that's not a joke

like i i i just feel like my time is is non-existent and i'm i'm writing a five day a week newsletter and I'm doing four episodes of PX3 I was late on the on the on the on the Patreon extra episode that I didn't realize that until people in my discord were joking about it this

morning like uh you know it's this DTNS the streams night attack like adds up and yeah it's it's just it's a lot and And it's, and it's, at a certain point, you know, our, I think, especially from where we came from at our point in podcasting and on the internet in general, there's just a like, well, time is, is, is, is, is infinite, right?

We have all the time in the world. Yeah. Like, we just need the ability to go out there and do it. And then at a certain point, you kind of, it's not your ability to, uh, get through stuff that's the problem it's uh just whether or not it's it's it's coming through uh at at the right quality and and speed and consistency and and then that becomes its own worry and and so that's what that's what i thought of in reading that blog post is i was just like god do i relate do i relate to the idea of getting to the bottom of a list and being like oh shit i forgot these

three things yeah i didn't even there's some stuff in here i just straight up didn't include that aren't necessarily, this is just podcast, doesn't count any like streams or extra, you know, art streams or any of these other stuff I want to do, my YouTube thing I keep on and off again with. Like, it's just, you know, when you want to create a lot of stuff, sometimes you hit your ceiling and you go, well, shit, I can't, I can't go higher than that. I mean, honestly, it's, it's the biggest, the biggest lesson that I would tell anybody that is doing, that is trying to kind of like be a new media creator is no one to kill. stuff and and honestly it's like unfriend me was super super super hard to kill and it was super hard

to kill because it had a great audience yeah it had a very dedicated audience it was awesome working with with scott uh on a regular basis like because you know by and large you know we have you know a fun doing this segment with with you brian and we can text and and stuff like that but That was a great thing. That was a super fun element of our digital friendship. But at the same time, like, man, was it a lot of mind share? And it's like it had to go. And that sucked.

It sucked. It sucked so bad. But ultimately, it was just kind of necessary. And considering all the stuff that not only I have done, but is coming this year, you know, it kind of sparked the, I think. the next phase of my career. So it's very podcasting and new media and YouTube and stuff like that is kind of the worst in that the template is start doing a thing and then never stop forever. Yeah.

Like just until you're 99 and you're still saying like and subscribe and then you're flat like. Yeah. That's so true. Yep, never stop. Well, good luck with that to all of us, really. We all need it. Justin Robert Young, Justin R. Young, go check him out.

And good luck with all this house stuff. I know what a pain in the ass it is. See you. See you. Bye now. This turned into a, oh, jury will now retire. This turned into a, like a therapy session. It did right there at the end.

You feel like we're on a Thursday. Yeah, no kidding. The jury will now retire. We'll get Wendy in for a pinch hit here. We need her for a little Tuesday business. All right, there's that. Now, fun times ahead, everyone. You asked for it, you got it.

The special accent episodes of the TMS mashups is here yet again. This time, German, German. We have some German. Okay, can't wait for this. We have some German listeners. We're going to be hearing a lot of in this thing. Exactly.

And we have German listeners. I'd like to say sorry ahead of time as we play this. And I haven't heard it. I don't know how offensive this is, but enjoy. You are a spy. I don't know why they're German. You will drink this yogurt, and you will like it, yeah. Listen, we wanted to take off the clothes and dance on the pole.

You can do this? Yeah. Yeah. My name is Tom. My name is Tom, and this is all I will say. Did you take the pot? Nine. You shall burn the books.

Exactly. You kind of does. Yeah. Yeah. Get it live. Your whole be like all of us, you dumb shit. I'm working on the Pirates movie. Yeah, it's very good.

Not my best work, but I'm working on it. You will buy the knickers, and you will pay affordable prices. Larry Fersig, yeah. He found a few hundred dollars in coins each year, going along, finding the beer cans, yeah. You want to take the whole thing in your mouth at once? Born in Germany, one of them is 80 years old. The other one is 75 years old. You want to see my white tiger?

Yeah. I started dating a wife, and he was just a baby. I keep the white tiger in the basement. Bites me on the face. Roy has three brothers, Manfred, Alfred, and Werner. Liddle. Liddle? Please go to the Lidl and buy me some McWanhead Bolognese.

Are you saying the lizard was not part of your meal? We will launch an entire investigation thoroughly. You bought the jar of ragu. with lizard head on the label. More chunks, please. Put more chunks. Put more chunks in there. This is not accurate.

This film is a nightmare. More chunks. Yeah, you can publish the pictures of my naked body. Yeah. Just blurs them out for me, please. If my doodle shows, please blurs them out, please. I'm so glad he ran off with that sack.

Now, tell me a little bit more about your mother. Tell me about your mother. Was she naked in front of you? you very often. How do you feel about eating the penis? Let's see. Let me tell you which subreddits I'm a fan of.

WTF, because I still don't know how to unsubscribe from that one. Yes. And cannibalism. Yes, I like to eat some men pots. Would you be interested in helping me, yeah? What is your feeling on backbaker?

Oh, man. I really like to bring out the ya i like to do that i guess yeah the uh here's here's an example of where you and i do differing styles of x impersonations like you go to the the uh leading an army steve carrell yo vel yeah it's totally that hyper tense like super militaristic sort of take and yours is always that like

Loungey. If Mike Myers, Dieta, touch my monkey. Yeah, you want to touch my monkey? Yeah, that whole thing. Well, that's good. That's good, right? Makes a more interesting combination. Oh, yeah, exactly.

Way better than when we do accents, a Russian accent that we basically both do an identical version of. That's true. Coming up next, by the way, let me see what we've got. Probably is Russian, right? Yeah, actually, Russian. I expect that to be very Brian heavy. He's got a great Russian accent.

And then we're going to finish the whole thing out on Thursday with the south oh great yeah so this is this is basically our week to make sure that we offend everybody one at a time equal opportunity offenders right here's right on the show the south one's probably going to get us in a little trouble but i'll use my lame excuse i'm married to a southerner so that's as i got no excuse yeah y'all yeah there's colonel clink very good it's a lot like that yes oh colonel clink that's yeah certainly what was the name of the Hogan's heroes. Hogan's heroes. Hogan?

Yeah, that's totally where that comes from. That's exactly where that is. Yep. Everything we learned about other cultures, we picked up from television. That's right. We were raised on it, folks. That's just how it went. Okay, I want to thank a listener for sending this in.

Service! This is some fan service from Natalie Allen and the Cats. Sounds like a band. Las Vegas violinist street performer. So here's what they say. We both like a good. street performer in Vegas, I think. I think that's a fun thing. Except for that, that nun

with the boobs out. Wasn't really into that. Yeah, it wasn't into that one. No. Anyway, good day S&B, says this email from Natalie, and Alan, and the cats, says this. I want to pass this on to you because I'm really feeling for people right now, especially

the youngers. I bumped into this kid on Reddit at 3.30 a.m. Eastern time and enjoyed his show so much that I couldn't go back to sleep. I could I wish I could do more to help him. So in that effort, I'm giving this link to as many people as I can. This includes you guys. I know you like Vegas and like to go there when you can.

He's 25. He lives in Vegas in the Vegas ghetto and is trying to make a living. He's been playing violence since he was a young teenager, started to play because he was getting into so much trouble. He started streaming because of all the quarantining and usual, I'm sorry, but usually performs and makes a living on the street in Vegas. When he plays in the dark, it's pretty needo. He switches between light and no light throughout his set. It says you will like

They have to turn on this for an audio clip Anyway, Austin Rivers is his name I'm going to bring up this linkie here That you also just linked or grabbed Hold on a second Here we go Okay, I'm going to hit play on this Okay

It's not playing Wow Wow Look at that. He's got like a glowy, uh... This is great. I'd watch this stream. All right, that's awesome.

All right, who you're looking for here. I don't have a way to... This is a Facebook post, so I can't... Oh, no, it's a Reddit post. But his actual Twitch is... Oh, there it is right there. Alex Rivers Music. Alex Rivers Music is also on YouTube, Instagram.

Twitter, Venmo, all that stuff. So Alex Rivers Music is you want to find. And that's really cool to find somebody like that and tell us about it. So we really appreciate it, Natalie Allen, and the cats. Awesome. Yeah, that's cool. I like hearing stories like that. 25-year-old violinist.

That violin is cool, man. And that violin is rad. Like the... Yeah. Oh, yeah, he does some covers, too. Yeah, that's really cool. we'd play a cover on the show if we want if we got one if we could get one absolutely god that thing is so cool the uh the lights inside the uh the deal next next tms Vegas I think we we find this guy and maybe have him oh because he wants to play as part of the show you know

get him to perform hell yeah I'm all yeah I'm all about that um and James can handle it all he can deal with it all yes he doesn't have you know new marital duties or a like or anything like that to, uh, to, uh, what are his marital duties, though? Because they've been together forever. So what's the, what's the, what's his marital duty? I don't know. I can't remember what it was like that first year of marriage, what everything I had to do, but, uh, completing the marital duties. That's fantastic. All right. Well, uh, there you go. Thanks for that. We always love showcases stuff like that, so let us know if you have any of your own self or anyone else you like or admire the morning stream at gmail.com. You can send those there or any other correspondence you feel like. Ask us questions. Whatever it is, we got you covered. Frogpans.com slash TMS is our website, which also links to our Patreon, which is how the lights for the show stay on. So if you're interested in keeping them on, go to patreon.com slash TMS and learn how. That's it, Brian. Why don't we go now with, um, uh, music. Music. Okay. All right. Aaron from Pro Wrestling Junkies wrote in and said, hello, today, yesterday, the 22nd is my birthday, and I'd love to request a cover of a wrestler's entrance song. I'm curious to see what you could find. Thank you so much. P.S. If allowed, I'd like to make a birthday request to the amazing Tadpool. Please check out and like Pro Wrestling Junkies on Facebook. We have podcasts, card breaks, community, and a free virtual meet and greet with a mystery WWE Hall of Famer that is Facebook.

book.com slash P.W. Junkeys. So if you are a fan of the wrestling, then you'll, you'll probably like this. So is it the birthday of the show or a birthday of the person? Birthday of the person. Then I'm playing this. Happy birthday to you. There you go. Excellent. That's actually somebody's wrestling entrance music. I'm sure. Somebody uses that one. Dun. Happy birthday. Anyway, so he wants to hear a cover of a wrestling entrance song. I had to look about it because I didn't know any by heart. I mean, I knew there was something that John Sina, I knew the John Sina, but that's a John Sina song that he recorded. I don't have any covers of that. I even want to say Hulk Hogan's All-American, is that what it is, that he sings that one himself. He comes down and says, I'm a racist piece of shit. No. Right. Exactly. But I've got one that I really like that is a cover, I'm sorry, a song.

that uh c m punk uses when uh he enters the ring and it's amazing i see you actually predicted it yeah it's a cover of the song by living color cult of personality covered in ska form by the scandalous all stars from their 1997 album hit me here's cult of personality see you tomorrow I'm going to be the I'm going to be a but I'm going to be. I'm going to be. I'm going to say.

I'm going to be able to be. I'm going to be. I'm going to be. I'm going to be I'm going to be a lot of it. And so on the I'm going to be. I'm going to be.

I'm a lot of the I'm going to be a ha ha ha ha borkmane I'm going to I'm a bit a bit of

I'm and a I'm going to be the I'm going to be the I'm going to be a bit of a bit of a day and I'm going to be. I'm going to be. Thank you.

Thank you. You know, I'm going to be able to be. You know, and I'm going to be able to be, and I'm going to be. I'm a lot of the M. M. I'ma-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-a-tall. I'm going to be able to be.

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