The Morning Stream - TMS 2079: Conger Adulations

Episode Date: March 9, 2021

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The morning stream, you have chosen, The morning stream, the morning stream, the morning stream. Good morning, everyone, welcome back and to the morning stream. It is TMS for Tuesday, March 9th. 2021. I'm Scott Johnson. He's Brian a bit. Hi, Brian. Hello. Hello. I'm feeling good today. I got lots to do, lots to get through, despite having horrendous evening of dreams that made no sense. I was on the run from a psychotic Michael Chickles from the famed show The Shield and also the thing in the Fantastic Four movies. The first bad thing, Fantastic Four movie. Yeah. Why for whatever reason?

reason he's after me. I don't know, but it was one of those dreams where I couldn't wake up from it and I was scared the whole time. And that dude wanted to put a gun to my head and blow my head off all night. Wow. Yeah. Wow. Yeah. Of all things. And nobody else in this. There's lots of Chickliss. Lots of people in the dream. None of them were familiar to me. There were no friends anywhere, no family. It's just me on the run from Michael Chickles. The commission was after me. Your name was Chickless, by the way. Yeah. How tempted would you be to change? it. Oh, here comes, here comes chickless. Guess what he doesn't have. Yeah, no chicks in that guy's life. No chicks. I guess it had been, he'd have struggled with that more in his, his

formative years. Yeah. But not so much now. Although, and it's not like that rhymes with anything. No. Is there anything that rhymes with chickless that kids in school could make fun of? Yeah. He maybe starts with a P or D. Uh, you could do. Yeah, or, uh, yeah. Mm-hmm. yeah I can't think of anything I can either this is really hard anyway so other than that I'm feeling refreshed because I didn't die in my dream I was I survived the assassins blow

and I'm here to do a show with you all right so we got this email we must read it first thing it must be the thing that we talk about first because if we don't do this then read it and I hope you've practiced so that you're able to read it as it's written I tried

so we'll see how I do I got this email last night this was in response to my telling everybody on the show that my vaccine is scheduled or my first shot for the vaccine is scheduled for the 19th and then one what is it three weeks later you get the second one I guess yeah it depends on which one you get three or four depending on Pfizer-Maderna and I can't remember which is which I think Pfizer is three weeks modernas four I could be wrong okay well we're getting the Pfizer the Pfezor so we'll see we'll see how that happens but it's going to feel like it'll turn to you but either way so I get that thing on the 19th and I tell you guys about it

yesterday. In comes this email from somebody named XC. I will note they left a fake email return address so I could not apply. Oh man. Damn. Yeah, it was lame. It was like poopy pants at gmail.com or some fake thing

that just bounce back. So here's what it says. Congeradulations, Scott. Congeradulations. Conger adulation. Scott. But you're getting the China virus vaccine. I mean, that's probably a sign of where we're headed here.

Yeah. It's a portend of things to come. Oh, yeah. Says, did you know that, excuse me, did you know that they all? And he spelled they'll like, T-H-E-Y-L. They put the apostrophe between the elves. Yeah, between the elves.

Like it's an olive being supported by two chopsticks. That's right. He says, they'll be implanting chips in you. so that you can be tracked no matter what, what you go. Not where, what you go, Scott. Every what I go. They'll be in play, uh, checking you with his chips they implained. Like full house.

Every what I go. That's how that song went. That's right. He says, yep. I bet you were, W-E-R-E-E, okay? So we're like, not wrong word. Oh, no, that's the right word. That's the right word.

Yeah, I think that's the one word he got right, actually. The one case where most people get it wrong and he got it right. I bet you we're not aware of this. Do not believe me, then do your research. Also a sign. It's almost like it's like a, he's giving you an order of operations, right? Like he's basically saying, step one, do not believe me, then do your research with no A in research. Then he goes on to say, so enjoy your life as a puppet spelled P-U-P-E-T-T, so no double-P, single-T.

Pupet Pupet. Yeah, so enjoy your life as a pupet of the leftists and doing their biddings. And there is the rung there, but that's hardly a surprise. It's not a big surprise.

I love the show a lot. Or I still love the show a lot, says XC. That's my favorite part. I still love the show a lot. So yeah, this was a real treat to get. Oh, my God. I wish I got emails like this.

It's so like, what a waste. of your time like don't even wait well i mean i guess it's not a huge waste because here we are talking about on the show but it's too funny not to bring up like you're just going to get ridiculed for such a silly email don't be silly yeah if you have actual point you can make it but also you're i don't know what he's using to send email with but most of stuff i have will put little red lines under words that are yeah well but that's uh that's a tail of the the left or a um a tool of the leftists so they can track your email you don't want to become a pupit of the leftists by clicking on the red underlines.

Look, if your attempts to avoid being a puppet of the leftists, trust me, don't auto-correct anything, okay? Let it flow out of your under-educated freaking grade five dropped out of school mind, okay? Just let it happen. Congeradulations, you're now a puppet of the leftists. I don't know what I'm looking forward to more. Either a follow-up from this person or today's inevitable titles that are coming from this.

There's definitely going to be some titles. There's definitely going to be some congratulations and a pupit of the leftists. Pupit of the leftists. Get those coming. And then, you know, if you want to implant a chip, let me know. I know people. Anyway, that was a fun thing. And if you have thoughts about it, you can certainly follow up to it.

Or if that person wants to send me his real actual email and would like to, you know, speak like an adult with people. Oh, you know, X, C, I hope you continue listening for a long time. We appreciate you. As much as we enjoy this email, we appreciate your listenership even more. Do we? Do we? Do we? Yeah.

Okay. All right. We do. We do. Brian said it. We do. We appreciate it. We do.

Even if I can't reply to you, it doesn't matter. Right. You're one of us. The fact that you took the time out of your day to reach out to us and say howdy. Yeah. I mean, that's literally, by default, makes him not a puppet of the leftists. as a follow-up or a nice little tie-in we got an email from moravina who i think is probably in the chat today uh she's often yeah uh miravina miravina why'd i say more i don't know i don't know why i do

because we always want more of vina we never want less of vina well her name i mean she spelled it m-or is it oh more vina maybe it's a different person than miravina in the chat maybe it's not her yeah good point yeah i didn't think of that all right it could be somebody else that's a weird way I mean, it's a very, very close name to somebody in chat with an I, but she spells it with an O. Yeah, I was convinced as the same person, but you're absolutely right. I would, yeah. Maybe if she's in here, she can confirm. I haven't heard anything.

Because Miravina, I believe, is in the medical field. I think she's a nurse. So this would make more sense with this. I don't know. Let's get to the email. Yeah. We have a lot of nurses. Have you noticed that?

We do. What is that about? That's awesome. I love that we've got nurses. It's very awesome. And Herb is a nurse and she still listens to the show. I don't know why, but she still listens to the show. I know this may sound strange to people, but I like nurses more than I like doctors.

And I know we need both, okay? I know there are important aspects to both of those career choices. But something about the caretakingness of a male or female nurse that that's where my trust is. It's not in the stuffy guy that walks in, looks at your chart and says, well, in my astute opinion, before I go golf and then later expand my swimming pool area, I think I'll say, yes, we're going to do the surgery. And then he leaves, and then it's up to the nurses to make you comfortable. Nurses, man.

They do more, right, they do more to take care of you. And the doctor just does two or three things and gets all the credit. It's really, it is unfair. And all the money. Gets all the money. Anyway, she says this. Good morning, Scott and Brian. I just wanted to stop by and say how much I love the show.

and the talk about the question, which arm for the Pfizer shot to get? So I was always told to do your dominant arm because you use your dominant arm more. So this is interesting. Yeah. The reason for that is the more you work the muscles in your arm,

the faster the soreness from the shot will work itself out. So I would put my vote for dominant arm for getting the shot in. Take care, guys. I hope to see you guys in person as soon as it's safe. Sincerely, Morvina. Totally makes sense. I think, you know, when we were talking about that yesterday,

I suggested the non-dominant arm. I think it's because I heard that that'll be less painful for you, right? Because if you put in your non-domin arm and you're just letting it kind of hang there while you do everything with your, you know, with your drawing arm, your typing arm, your mousing arm, whatever. Right. Then, but there's also,

is there something about like if you get the shot in your dominant arm As you move that arm, it also, the muscles help spread the vaccine throughout your body sooner. That may make sense. I mean, that sounds sense. I don't know if that's really true, but when I did a little Googling, that was something that came up as either a misconception or a fact. It didn't take the time to learn to decide which is which. We'll just let the chat room help educate us. So if I'm using, okay, now here's the broader question.

We didn't discuss this. Let's say I do dominant or non-dominate either way. Is it good to do three weeks later for Pfizer? Do you do the same one or do you do the other arm? Don't think it matters. Shouldn't matter? Okay. I mean, it wouldn't matter as far as like you got the shot in this arm,

so you better get in the same arm. But if it's like a, you know, I think the choice would be dominant arm, non-dominant arm kind of thing. Well, that's what a pubit of the leftist would say, Brian, a puppet. That's true. I guess I'm a pupate of the leftist. I mean, it depends on which arm you want your chips in. And are those tortilla chips?

Are they? Yeah. Oh, when you get your shot, make sure you go, chips, ahoy. Oh, I love that. I will do that. Don't do that. No, okay. No.

My wallet's gone. Just ask what kind of chips they're putting in your arm. Yeah, what kind of chips you're putting in my arm? Yeah, is this one that will track me or stop me if I do something you don't like? What kind of, is this a race-mom memory? And while all of a sudden, do I have a southern accent, see them? Because we like to stereotype our southern accented folk. Hi-ho.

Thank you, Morvina. I appreciate it. All right, finally, this morning before we move on to the news. I had a little spate there for, I don't know, what, two weeks where I was fascinated with old 800 numbers. And couldn't get enough of it. And we were often disappointed because the numbers we'd, call were either gone or no longer tied to Sega's support line or whatever other ones we did. Right. I think we only had one successful line and that was what the video game, you found,

the Easter egg, blah, blah, blah. Yeah. And it doesn't work if that's the deal, right? So what I've decided to do for now on is people have sent more in and I check them first. And so that's good. We don't get the surprise of no nodes available or whatever. it was. Was it nodes? I can't remember. Whatever it was. I think I got the,

I said the wrong word. I might have said the wrong word this time. Maybe it wasn't nodes, but it was something. No. Routes. That's it. No routes found.

Oh, no routes found. Yeah, that guy was great. So that was a fun little surprise. But this, uh, uh, today's is a little bit different. So somebody sent this one in and I,

I wrote in here that it sounds like a cocaine nightmare. But basically it's, it's a thing we've all heard before when we call a number that is no longer in service or the people aren't there or you've called the wrong whatever it's not that that's so unusual it's how it's presented and I'll tell folks the number

just so they have it. It's 845-354-9-9-1-2 here's what happens when you call this number and I just don't know why it's so frantic and such a hellscape but here it is. We're sorry since you did not select a carrier this call cannot be completed in style. You may

design a carrier to handle this type of call by calling that company where you've arrived in business office during regular business hours. To place this call in an emergency, just dial zero. Wow. So why such a freak out? That's like the old FedEx guy. But then it's all crusty. It's kind of fading in and out.

Like it's just like, it's just really bad. Did you call? I think you called another decade with that phone number. That's what it feels like. It feels like some. You called the 70s. You called it. Yeah, this is really weird.

So thanks to who ever sent that. I forgot to write your name down. But that was a fun little trip. And, yeah, I don't know why it was like that. I understand you wanting to have a message that says you've reached this incorrectly or this is not the right thing or this is improper or whatever. But why you got to do it so only, you know, ants can hear you or whatever the hell that was for. Or code.

Yep, people fueled up on Coke. What, I'm curious as to the. person who sent this to you, how do they just have this number sitting around? I don't know. They just said, oh, you got to try this one. You got to try this one. It's crazy. This is one that he like keeps on a post-it note right next to his, the phone mounted on the wall or something. Yeah. It's an odd thing to just have, right? Yeah. Yeah, exactly. Why do you have this? And they did say. I've got to send this phone number to Scott and Brian, which I'm glad they did. but uh yeah no i'm too i mean we we benefit from you guys doing whatever you're doing but i don't know where your stuff comes from oh yeah it's very nice though thank you for sending it in whoever you

were and i'm really glad i gave you such great credit today on the show all right well deserved yeah well deserved all right brian we're going to do a little bit of this oh geez it's time for the news brought to you by the boop show a weekly podcast reviewing and viewing the best indie titles of today on PC, switch, and consoles. Catch it live today at 3.30 p.m. Mountain Time at frogpants.tv or get the podcast in all the podcast places, the apps, the directories, and the whatnot. Yeah, go do it. We got a good one today coming up. I'm going to talk about Loop Hero. You guys have no idea the video game crack that has been

released on the earth. Isn't there a loop game called Something Hero? It's a terrible name, but it's an amazing. A loop hero. All right, cool. It's a steam thing. It's also on Mac. I suspect this will end up on tablets at some point because it seems perfect for it.

Is it a control scheme works for tablets? Yeah, I think you could drag. It's a mouse and keyboardy thing, so those often lend themselves pretty well to, to, you know, you use a lot of mouse control. So I think you could do finger. You could finger it, Brian. You could put your finger in it. Can finger it? Great.

Okay. Good. You could finger that game. You could finger the loop of the hero. Okay. That's where I'll leave that. I'll just leave that there. That's where you decide to leave.

Yeah, I'll stop there. Moving on to some news today. So we just need to do a brief celebration. I don't know if anybody else just got finished watching all of Wanda Vision, but one of the great standouts I think of Wanda Vision was Monica Rambo's amazing hair. Oh, yeah. Tiona Paris. It's incredible hair.

I don't know how she makes that thing work. Whether it's in Brady Bunch timeline or in the real timeline, I guess it's not timeline, but the sitcom world or the real world. Yeah, I think timeline's a good way of putting it. Well, there's a new lady with the actual, a new lady. There's a lady. She's not a new lady. She's been around for a while. She has the new record for the, let's see, the exact record is, Guinness World Records certified Simone Williams' hair as the largest female.

afro on earth in the year 2020 the year we just had so chat room i'm going to show you a little picture here um you'll see why i made the monica rambo reference because there is a bit of a part to it it's got like a little cut there but she's your current record holder for female afros which i didn't know it was a category in the guinness book but apparently it is i didn't either and uh i just wanted to give her a big shout out uh let's see miss william sees her hair which measures nearly 1.5 meters in circumference, so almost a meter and a half in circumference as a symbol of pride.

I think she wears it very well, but imagine measuring that thing with a bendy yard stick, or I guess a meter stick. A, what do they call that? A measuring tape. Measuring tape. That's what they call that. Like some tape, some tape was not masking. I have one here.

Isn't there a tape called measuring something? Oh, do you? Let me see. Pulled that up again. Let's see that again. Oh, it's like a cute little one, like a little mini one. It is. It's a super.

It's a little 10 footer. And I use it for doing packages. So when I have to ship something out, it's zip, zip, zip. And then throw that into the FedEx online deal. Yeah. Slap a label on it out of my printer. Yeah. And then leave it out on the front porch.

And they can take that and take a couple bags of trail mix and a Gatorade or something. Is it always FedEx? FedEx the user, do you have a preference? No, I do USPS for, I use FedEx for the laptop stuff, but I use USPS for everything that I'm personally sending out. Gotcha. And no matter what. If they win a prize on TMS, then it goes out via USPS. And no matter what, they're picking up, almost always, right?

That's how you do it. They pick up there. Yes, with FedEx. Absolutely. Yeah, that's the way to do it. Make you, you're your own personal post office, Brian. Are you, are you in Kim still doing the box of treats out on your porch? Yeah, we have, currently there are peanut butter flavored granola bars, little bags of salt and vinegar, something chips, and water bottles and some Gatorade, and I think that's it. Maybe a couple other things. Yeah. Yeah, right.

I mean, we started doing this because of holidays, right? And it was a nice thing to do when they're coming a lot and dropping a lot of stuff off on the holidays. is the reason you haven't stopped doing it, maybe the same reason we haven't stopped doing it, is it just feels too abrupt to just stop doing it? Yeah, yeah. And all, well, I mean, part of it, you could say, well, I'm going to fill it up

and then just let this one dry out, like empty it, but it feels wrong to stop doing it. And so it's a weird. And it's going to be really sad when there's like two things left in the bin. It's going to look like, all right, the discards, you get a, a bag of animal crackers and a

well I think maybe okay so maybe here's what I think's happening this is so funny because I've been feeling the same way maybe because of the kind of work we do which means a lot of packages coming in and packages going out which is definitely true for both of us so that so that thing is you know it's not like a house where they maybe once a month get a thing from Amazon or something we're getting things almost daily shipping out shipping in so maybe

we are meant to maybe this is a thing we should just keep doing just keep it out there i think so Tina's happy to keep doing it i'm i i feel like this is a this is a very difficult thing to have an exit strategy i mean you either just stop it cold turkey yeah or or you keep going because if you if you let that thing slowly die it's going to look sadder and sadder by the time it's like it's got its next to last remnants of of the least popular snack items be a little bag of pretzels and a like a smart water that nobody wants right i can't help it but if i walk by it and there's a package of nutter butters sorry tina that's coming in with me i did this with it serves you right for getting stuff that i like i'm putting in that man i do this with the granola

bars because they're the ones she puts out there don't have sugar in them um and i just can't help it for you can't help it i see one and go oh that's uh that's for me i'm taking that and then she just thinks oh the fed guy fed guy got it Oh, great. We've done a good deed for the day, and I'm down in the basement, snarffing it down. That's how that works. I don't know what am I to do. I need to 3D print something, design something that holds a lid up, but still allows them easy access when it comes time for, like when we start getting heavy rains. Oh, yeah. Because even though it's on our porch and our porch is covered, if the rain blows in a certain direction from the north, then it's going to moisturize the snacks. And you don't want

We don't want our snacks They probably don't I mean they're all sealed in bags It's not like a big deal But Neisturized snacks Oh Yeah so I kind of want to make a

I think I just need to make a little clip That holds the lid at a vertical Or 10 or 20 degree angle Because that would be the only direction That the rain could come in And get those things wet Every other direction it would be protected but um otherwise here comes the rain again falling on my snacks like a matter

exactly which nobody wants in their life who wants a wet gatorade i guess it doesn't matter right yeah gatorade's fine but if you but nobody wants a wet bag of chips you know yeah for a while she was putting you remember uh the were they just called gems dolly madison gems the little miniature donuts oh yeah yeah she was putting uh tina was putting those out there yeah right i mean it's like a little hard chocolate shell with uh i used to love them though why do i love the i used to love those i did too you go to like a gas station get like a little log of like five of the yeah six of them right it'd be six yeah right you i used to get the powdered sugar they had coconut for a while the coconut ones really suck yeah those are bad um plus they were brown yeah

coconut's supposed to be white yeah come on snowballs yeah what are you even doing but here's the problem with those uh she was getting the chocolate ones and we noticed those would be sitting in the bin for a long time. The problem was that even with the colder temperatures we're having, if they got warm enough that they could melt a little bit, they'd melt and turn into one giant donut log. Yeah, like a log. Yeah, those are bad.

The powder ones, you can get away with more, although they start to look pretty sad after a while. Yeah. But temperatures, that's the other thing. You got summer coming. What do you put out for snacks so that, you know, know, it's got to be non-meltie. Also, drinks are not going to do well.

There won't be cold, yeah. Yeah, powdered sugar donuts are not car food or FedEx driver food because you're going to get to your next stop and it's going to look like you were doing a bender with Charlie Sheen. There you go. Yeah. Oh, I know what I want to do. Kim will never let me do this. What are you going to do?

I want to buy a vending machine. I can't afford this, but I want a vending machine. Yeah. Kim will never let you do this? And I want to put it out. How about your own common sense? I want to put it out in front of the house where they deliver stuff. And I want it to say free for our drivers and delivery people or whatever.

So they just say, oh, I'm going to get a Mountain Dew clunk and a bag of bling bong. You just want them to hit buttons to get what they want? Yeah. So now instead of stocking like six or seven things, you want to have to stock 20. Well, I'd get a small, if there's such a thing as a smaller one, I'd get a smaller one. idea is that that thing would keep the refrigeration and stuff going. Like I wouldn't have to worry about it. Yeah, but you could also get a

cooler that plugs in. Yeah, that's true. And just put the things in a little cooler. But then they, oh, that's true. Can you have a cooler that's like open and plugged in? Is that a thing? Yeah. Okay. Well, yeah, that's a way, that's one way to do it. That's what I mean. I want, I don't, it doesn't have to necessarily be a big fat vending

machine you'd see at a, you know, at a hotel. I just mean like something that. A miniature. They do make those little tabletop vending machines. Yeah, for like... But I don't know, can you put them on free play so that you can... You still have to go and push A7 and the little screw turns and teddy grams fall down at the bottom. Yeah, Teddy Grams.

Brian. Am I killing you with my snack descriptions there? You used to love Teddy Grams. My kids would get them in their little and I would eat them. I would eat them all. They'd have a whole bag of the chocolate one. I'm like, oh, those look great. Here you go.

Nick, have one, and then I'd eat the rest. Oh, yum, yum, yum, yum. Oh, Claire Gack and Dice Tomato. What are they got here? Everybody's putting their massive store links. So Dice Tomato gives us a $250 beverage refrigerator and cooler. So basically it's like a little mini-fridge, but the front is clear. It looks like a hotel fridge, like a mini-bar kind of thing.

Oh, yeah, that's not bad. How much is that? 249? Ugh. Yeah. Only 15 left and stop. Order soon. Oh, gosh.

The demand is now scary. It's too much. Or for 78 bucks, you can get an igloo, 28-quart, iceless, thermoelectric, 12-volt, 12-volt-porable ice chest beverage cooler in silver. Okay, that's not bad. I bet even cheaper.

I mean, you don't need anything. You certainly don't need a 28-quart. I don't need anything fancy. That's too much, probably. Overkill. Let's see. for 74 bucks and that's 26 quarts yeah it's a lot of quartz that's many quartz many many quartz many quartz here we go uh there we go the guai insulated thermal bag cooler and warmer portable thermal electric car fridge

beverage this one that like fits in your car in your car holds either 20 cans of beverage or a mix of beverages and and uh snacks 57 bucks plugs in there you go Do that. That's great. Wait, where's that one? Did you link? That's it on Amazon. Link me. Oh, can I, I'll just, I'll link you.

I'll link you. Link me. Throw me a link, will you? This is good stuff for radio. Good radio stuff. Link me. Any of you next America's next top podcasters are listening. This is great radio right here that we're doing.

That's right. Pay attention, America's next top podcaster contestants. Yeah, don't, don't let this one slip by. Okay. Yeah. A man speaking, okay, we were done with the Afros now. Somehow we went from Afros all the way to that. and I don't know how.

I don't know how we did that, but that's okay. We'll take whatever diversion we have. I don't know what that, how that came out. I really don't know how we got there, but I'm not going to worry because it was still fun. Check this out. A man won $2 million on his lottery ticket after a clerk gave him the wrong ticket. Oh, man. This is a pretty good deal for that guy, though.

It's awesome. Yeah. Man in suburban Detroit was given a wrong lottery ticket, but then there was no mistake in the result. It was $2 million. The Michigan lottery said that the man stopped at a gas station in East Point, Michigan to put air in his tire. That's awesome. He needed change for the air machine and also asked for a $10 lucky seven scratch-off ticket. The clerk handed him or handed me the $20 ticket by mistake.

He offered to exchange it for me, but something told me to keep it. And I'm sure glad I did, he says. The man said in a statement released on Tuesday. The name of the 57-year-old man wasn't released. he decided to take a lump sum of about 1.3 million instead of the 2 million spread over many years. I'm trying to think. I'm 57. I think I'd do that too.

Without a doubt. Yeah. I'd take the 1.3 million, put that in a bank account that's gaining interest and sit on it. And live on the interest. Yeah, exactly. The 2 million spread over many years is, yeah, why make them do the work of creating interest for you? and who knows what your quarterly or monthly checks are going to be. But always take the lump.

Always go lump. Always go lump. He's lump. He's lump. He's lump. He's in my bed. Is that the hell that song goes? Yeah, that's exactly right.

So what we don't know is if he paid for the $20 ticket. Because it looks like the guy gave him a $20 ticket by mistake. Did he only charge him $10? They don't say, but I assume he paid the difference. He probably paid the difference. And if he hadn't, he surely can now. Without any problem. I came back to go ahead and pay that extra $10 bucks on that lottery ticket you gave me yesterday.

Here's an extra couple bucks tip for you. I will have someone else fill my air tire air now. Doesn't need that help anymore. Turkey in the news, not the country. The bird. Oh, the bird. Good. That's my favorite.

Well, we don't care about the country. We care about the bird. We care. We care about the delicious meal. Yeah, the bird meat, the meat of the bird. The bird itself is ugly. Yeah, I agree. Well, a turkey has stormed into and destroyed a dentist's office.

You thought goose were bad, or geese and geese. He was wearing a suicide bomb. Turkey reportedly made it a bit of a mess at a dentist's office in California. Apparently, the animal is known to hang out near the building, although the workers at the office. It just hangs out. here in the dentist's office? That's awesome. I love this so far.

Looking all sketchy out there on the corner, staring at people as they walk in. Finally decided to go for it and fulfill his plan. They said they were not prepared for him to ever come inside. One of the managers of the dental office in Fair Oaks, California, said that when she was having a normal day, suddenly out of nowhere, the bird crashed through the windows of the office. Apparently, the bird entered with so much force

that the woman thought the bird had been thrown into the building. Apparently it threw it. with its own, with its own force. It threw itself into the building. Donna McDonald told the Sacramento B. Do you ever go there? Yes. Yeah, they were a customer.

That sounds familiar. The only reason I've ever gone to Sacramento was to go to the Sacramento B. I think it's so funny how few people have been to the capital of California. Right. Yes. And it's hardly anyone. It's not a, you know, it's nice, but it's not a, a California destination. We actually went to, we did the Reno Gazette and the same.

San Francisco B all in one trip because it was a really easy drive over the mountains through, like, Oh, High, and... Ooh, that's nice. Yeah, it was really nice. And, you know, biggest little city in the world's got that, Reno, Nevada. Yeah, that's what I've heard. Also not the capital of Nevada. Nope. Yell that north ways.

Like, aim it north when you yell it. I will say that to our fellow Canadians. Yeah. Reno is not the capital of Nevada. Thank you very much. that's right but yeah no it's a very nice area up there well uh this donna lady thought it was actually hit by a car and then sent through the window but none of that happened uh she found the bird stuck in the patient waiting area which was thankfully empty at the time according to the shocked woman

the unshocked turkey actually i'm guessing the turkey was freaking out was scratching and clawing up the walls causing significant amounts of damage animal control was called although they reportedly had trouble wrangling the wild bird wrangling the wild bird. The bird was just pissed off because all there was to read was a news week with George H.W. Bush on the cover and the Highlights for Children from 1978. Yeah. How many times are you going to try to find the hidden pitchers in that one thing? Exactly. Oh, what are goofus and gallon up to now?

That is such a thing of our day. Like, is that, can I still get Highlights Magazine? Is that a thing now? I bet you can. I'll bet you can. Let's find out. Yeah. Highlights.

Whoops. I like our dueling Google search. Google smirchen. Here we go. Highlights.com. Yeah. Perfect for ages 6 to 12, it says. So they have high five.

Yeah. Which I can't read without saying like Borat. Yeah. By the way. So we had a guest on, I can tell people this without a spoiler. We had a guest on Merrick's Next Stop podcaster last night named Jill. And as we go through a review. I'll say, okay, Justin, okay, Scott.

And when it came time to do Jill's, I accidentally, without trying to, said, Jill, Jill, but I didn't say it exactly like that, but it was pretty damn close. It was pretty close. I heard a taste of it. And it wasn't even trying to, yeah. Yeah. Well, I mean, you can't help it. If I hear the name Barry or Jill, I'm screwed. That's just how it is.

Barry. Jill. Like, it's just part of us now. It's in our DNA. She was awesome, by the way. I like her life. She was awesome. Yeah.

Three years of highlights for children magazine for $76.68. All right. Well, how about one year 12 issues for 3204? How about that? 3204. Or get your high five. Yeah. High five is what for preschoolers?

Okay, so your highlights are six to 12. High five is preschoolers. And then hello is babies and toddlers. They've got a new one called... Thank you. I can't read. I'm sure it's mostly pictures. Durable wipe, clean pages and stitched binding.

There you go. This one's called Things to Do, the Highlights Book of Things to Do. Ages 7 through 12, brand new. That's a brand new option you can get. Okay, well, you know what? Thriving, it looks like. Highlights still doing well in a magazine, in a digital world. That's fantastic.

Yes. All right. did I tell you a man's favorite song is Circles by Post Malone That's a great song It comes on and he just stops everything And just stares at the Echo or whatever's playing

Is he able to feel his face When that song is on? No but weirdly He grabbed a Sharpie and started writing on himself Which I thought was weird Didn't expect that Excellent Now you need to put some plastic surgery bandages

All over his face And make him run around In a well-lit corridor For three and a half minutes Yeah, and spell weekend without the E at the end of it. I think this is our, no, wait, is that how it does? Week. Yeah, weekend without the second E.

The second E, yeah. Third E, 30, because I guess there are two E's in week. Third Eagle. It all comes around, a third eagle. This is how these things start. All right. How about this story here? We got, oh, yeah, the turkey's fine.

By the way, they saved it. Oh, thank goodness. Yeah, I didn't die. Turkey's fine. And got a free root canal while he was in that. Yeah, why not? I don't have teeth, I hope. Do they have teeth?

Because geese have those weird teeth, right? Like those weird... Geese have those really weird tiny teeth. Do turkeys have teeth? I want to know. I'm not going to Google this one because I'm just going to do the do turkeys have teeth because I like really just wanted to know. All right. Do turkeys have teeth?

The answer is, oh, answers.com. That top answers is kaka, be wish. Wishick. That's not an answer. That's somebody screwing around. How many people upvoted that answer, by the way? Like, let's see. Five. That's too many people. Cockaback, boon. Full set of mouth dental implants. Oh, no, that's for Turkey, the country. Okay, here we go. Turkey animal facts. I must know this. I must know. Yeah. Yeah. I'm with you. Turkey's appendages are like mood rings. That's not an answer. No, that's not it. Turkeys can fly. Turkeys can also

swim. Turkeys can poop. Well, yeah. None of these are the answer. No, none of these are. Let's see. No, Ben Franklin didn't really want to have turkey be our national bird. Was that a thing? I didn't know that. Yeah, there's nothing about the teeth.

I don't think they have teeth. I think they officially don't have teeth. They got their gizzard and their whatnot to digest their shit. I don't think they got the teeth. They don't get the teeth. Anyway, well, that was fun to learn nothing there. Let's move on to this story, Brian. This one will teach us something.

Darn. Ding dong ditch flashers. Oh, wow. It's exactly what you think it is. Masked men have exposed themselves on El Paso Home Doorbell cameras. Oh, no! Oh, no. What does that ring-fish eye lens do to your wean?

Well, this is the thing I'm most surprised about is that this hasn't been a bigger, I would have thought this would happen more just because everyone's got these cameras now and why wouldn't some enterprising young idiots try to go throw their wean up for I think as they know it's being recorded and you just even if you're in disguise

you still got to worry that there's a way that they're going to be able to find you good point. We're too good at this stuff now like body shape AI tracing something something they're going to go that's him our algorithm has proved they'll just

they'll figure out all right well this one occurred at 2.15 a.m. We've got ring doorbell cams on these other houses on the block that saw them drive this way. We can follow it to this. Right. You know, there's a way. There's always a way. There's always a way. It says here the El Paso

County Sheriff's Office is investigating a doorbell incident exposure over the weekend. Saturday night incident captured a doorbell camera at a home in El Paso, northeast El Paso according to the sheriff's office. About 9 p.m. Two unidentified men walked up to a home

rang the doorbell and then exposed their genitals when no one answered the door. Oh, were they waiting for someone to answer the door? That's a weird bit. Well, nobody's home. All right. Pull them down. Pull them down.

Do it now. I guess we got to do it now. It says, the camera image released by the sheriff's office shows a man wearing sunglasses, a face covering gloves, and a light blue hooded sweatshirt under the, uh, with the under armor logo and blue jeans. I have a number of hats with that logo.

Oh, I should say, you know what? Is this my chance to do this? Hold on. All right. Just the right letter. Someone sent me some new hats that fit me and I wanted to tell them that I love it. Oh, very cool. Oh, no.

This is someone else. Someone sent me their giant head. So, yes, they do. My giant head finally fits in something. So, uh, this is actually from Dean, uh, the hunky brother from Supernatural. Not really. Uh, he says, He was doing some decluttering and came across an old Warcraft 3 installed disc.

I thought you might get a kick out of it as it has a DVD with the old cutscenes on it. I hope you and Kim out of it. So there's my thanks to that guy. But I don't know where the other one went. I have something somewhere for a hat guy and I don't know where it went. I'll find it. But he sent me just out of the blue I got in the mail some hats that fit me and they have Under Armour logos on them. Do not be, I am not to be confused with these guys that had their wean out.

I do not do that. Yes. No, that was, right. That was a hudded sweatshirt with the Under Armour logo. Um, doing this in pairs is an interesting dynamic, right? Saying, uh, I was thinking about, uh, going up and doing the ding-dung ditch. And then if nobody answered, flashing my genitals in their ring cam. Oh, Bill, can I join you?

Yeah. Can I, can I come with you? Because inevitably, when they're looking at the video of us doing it, they're going to be comparing our wangs. And I kind of want to, I kind of want to see where this goes. Yeah. I was in the pool, one of you'll say. Right. Shrike edge.

Although I don't know, unless you have a personal vendetta against the homeowners, I just don't know where this is fun for anybody. Like where... Well, they want to see themselves on that high profile site next door. I guess so. Next door, Doc. Yeah, dude. Everyone likes to talk about the weirdos on next door.

Exactly. Yeah, it's going to be on next door. We had that guy up the road walking around naked. We think he was sleepwalking home. Yeah. I don't think they ever did anything with that. that never came. Ambien. It's a hell of a drug. Yeah. Out there with a pillow.

He was hugging a pillow, naked otherwise. It was the my pillow guy. Wasn't the my pillow guy? He had a mustache. Did he have a mustache? He did. It's Mike Lindell or whatever's name is. Was he very good? Was he complaining about Dominion? Those machines were hacked.

My leftist. Hacked, I tell you. Leptic. Pupits. Pupits. They're always behind it. They inflamed chips into my peasant. pillows so they can track every what I go. Oh, by the way, so this was not completely uncontroversial when I pasted it on Facebook or put it on Facebook.

Because I happen to live in a state that is known for its MLMs or its multi-level marketing schemes. Oh, sure. If you go south of the valley. Another stupid initialism to keep track. I know. I hate it. Also, it means something else. MLM is, uh, no, I'm thinking to BLM, which is beautiful.

Bureau of Land Management or Black Lives Matter. It's hard to get, though. I always mess those up. But anyway, so MLN's... I'm never sure when I see it spray painted on the bike path if it's for Bureau of Land Management or... Are there a lot of pro-like pro-graphiness? A lot of pro-Burro.

Bureau of Land Management has quite a following out here. Yeah, they're... Huge. They're big. Huge. Anyway, so I made this statement and I stand by it. And because I live in this place where, like, south of the mountain down in Provo area, stuff,

there's like 30 of these things where it's like essential oil companies and people with like vitamins that are made from a certain fruit from some island you never heard of that supposedly cure everything or whatever just malarkey one end of the other and Arizona too also bad Arizona I thought Arizona had taken the crown but maybe not maybe we're still the worst anyway the point is I believe I truly believe this that you can gauge how poorly, or how do I put this, you can gauge how close to or further away we're getting from conspiracy theories or believing in stupid things by how many MLMs still exist. And as long as MLMs continue to be really popular, then I'm convinced we're screwed as a species.

A society. Because, my gosh, like how many more of these, oh, these oils, you know what they'll do. They don't want you to know this at Johns Hopkins University. This is the thing they won't tell you, but that thing cured me of eight different cancers and threw my hair back.

Really? Cool. Can I sell it for you? Yes. There you go. There's your stupid scheme. It's a scheme. It's a freaking scheme. All of it.

It's a scheme. Yeah. It is not a scam. It is not Utah's top industry, but it's up, it's there. No, that's clearly a warehouse full of dildos. Yeah, come on.

Get your news from the proper sources here for people. That's right. It's a warehouse full of dildos. I love that idea. It's just surveying different states. It's number one export. It's a warehouse full of dildos. You have to say it with warehouse, though, because it's funnier.

Yes, warehouse is way funnier. Yeah, it's like, hey, Montana, what's your biggest business out there? Oh, Big Sky, Country, a lot of beef, you know, cattle and this. oh that's cool hey uh Arizona what about you oh well here it's Utah warehouse full of dildos just picture somebody standing up in a marketing conference seminar in a holiday and express

I don't know why they're house full of dildos it's so funny to me and that and then nobody reacting poorly to that just going oh okay moving on now now and the next guy but how about uh California tech you say okay a lot of tech in California I see Oh, the entertainment industry. Like, we just gloss over this warehouse full of the building of. Exactly.

I don't know why it's so funny. All right. We're going to take a break. When we come back, we're going to spend some time with Justin Robert Young. We're going to find out how you, at the age of the baby age of 18, can run to be California's next governor. And maybe sooner than you thought because they're apparently recalling their governor. And I want to know how that works. So that'll be today in politics.

Check it out. That's after this break. from a song from Brian a bit. This Friday, a brand new EP called You, Y-O-U. It's going to be coming out via tambourine machine records. It's by a band called Epilogues, or an artist who goes by the name Epilogues. This is great stuff. He's from Norwich, England, and started in an empty flat in the heart of Norwich 10 years ago.

But it's been growing, performance. forming in small rooms across England on humble stages surrounded by friends, touring over the UK and U.S. soil, and now finds itself settled in Leeds. So the brand-new EP is going to be coming out on March 12th this Friday. Here is the first single from it. It's a song called 16. They pull out from the shore and I fade in. Two six seas are fording.

The seventh called me yours. You waited. Coats and wardens Couldn't claim my flaws You made it 16 and fallen You join me on my walk And not one

Tide went to waste in your mind because you'd wait up all night just to stay at my side God I hate this just take me where you go if you don't want it I don't you set sail

I'll follow if you set sail I'll wait When I'm broken When I'm broken corner You hand me more And we'll finish I feel it's all roped and board us, and you won't leave it all. And not one time went to waste in your mind, because you'd waste in your mind,

Because you'd wait up all night Just to stay at my side God I hated this road Just take me where you go If you don't want it I don't You set sail I'll follow If you set sail I'll Love 16

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Sit down and listen Punk, this is the morning stream All right, we have returned Remind us again who that was. E-P-I-L-O-G-U-E-S from their brand-new EP called You, which comes out this Friday, a song called 16. Kind of a cool, Ed Sheeran kind of build on this song. Really cool. Is it still, EP stands for what?

Extended play, or no? Oh, there we go. Say it again. I lost your audio there for a minute. That's weird. Discord is being weird. What does an EP stand for? I always forget.

Extended play. It is extended play. Okay. Yes. All right. LP is long play. E.P. is extended play.

which doesn't make sense because it's shorter than an LP. So you think it would be shorter than lung play or medium play. Yeah, medium play, an MP. But then that's a, that's a ministerial, no, minister of, or a. Dwayne, MP or minister of parliament. There you go. Ministry of Parliament or military police. There's lots of MP.

The military police is what I think of. Yeah. Hey, did you hear that voice? Check this out. These are their stories. Oh, do, do, do, do. with names joining us from the West Coast soon to be Texan he's not there yet but he will be Justin Robert Young joining us and it's good to see you Justin how are you oh hello friends

how are you good man hello pretty good when is that move what's the plan not that you have to give us too much info but you know what's the general idea we're gonna close we sign on our closing tomorrow that then get sent down to the sellers they sign on it two days later And at that point, we own the place and we are moving down at the, well, our stuff leaves our place about a week and half after we close. And then we are heading down there about a week and a half after that. Fantastic. I'm very excited for you. It's a fun, moving sucks, but it's also an adventure.

And you're on one for sure. It certainly is. It's going to, it's certainly a multi-phase situation. and it's um obviously more complicated because we have you know a weekly production schedule like like this is not just uh you know me trying to work from uh out of out of a coffee shop or something like that um it is uh uh you know we have studios and lights and stuff like that so are you each going to have your own studio at the new place oh brother i'm going to have I'm going to have two.

Like a guest studio. You have the politics, politics, politics studio, the... No, so I'm in all reality, I'm going to have a, a visually focused studio, and then I'm going to have a podcast studio slash office. Like recording space, the damp and insane and all that. And so that'll be more, like, just optimized for sound, and I'm not going to have to worry about having other electronics there to kind of light it, except for whatever ambient. or anything that I want. Yeah. And that'll be kind of where I work, work.

And then I'll have, there's this whole like game room area that I'm going to turn into my kind of like dream Peewee's Playhouse meets politics, politics, politics, politics set that I've wanted forever. That's so cool. Yeah. I'm super stoked for it. I'd love to move right now with the intent of moving to a place where I can build the studio before I move. into it, right? Like instead of, uh, I got to set everything up and I've got to kind of change everything while I'm consistently putting out shows and all that. Yeah. That's a lot of work. Yeah. No, I mean, it would obviously be nice if I could build it, uh, in a place that wasn't

across the GD country. Um, you know, that that is that adds its own kind of complications to everything. But, uh, uh, it's funny, uh, that part of the reason why that is happening is because the median home price in California is $700,000 which gets us to our topic this week. Oh yeah, it does actually. It's true. So let's actually talk about this. This is a weird thing for me

because I would have never guessed you could even do this. I didn't know you could recall a governor. I thought there was like more to it than just saying hey, actually I don't know what it involves. If nobody likes Gavin Newsom, what do they do to pull him out of there? And also why don't they like him so much? What's the problem?

All right. Well, let's start with your first question. How do you recall a governor? That is a different answer in every state of the union. California has one of the most permissive recall laws in the country, and that is that there is just a set percentage each year. If you can get a set percentage of the amount of people that voted in the last gubernatorial election to say that they are unhappy with the current governor, that means that you can initiate a recall election. And that's, I think it's like a fourth. or something like that it's not that much essentially what the number is this time is 1.4 million and every year because that threshold is so attainable there are Republican forces that

tried to initiate a recall of the now almost universally Democratic governor of the Golden State this year kind of got a double boost and let me let me point that out this recall what when it becomes official and it does go before the people of California will not have anything to do with COVID on it. This recall started before we even knew about COVID. It's just going to be about how California's got high taxes. California is unfair for businesses. California is unfair for homeowners, homelessness, just rank and file, you

conservative hobby horses for California state leadership. That's what's going to be actually on the recall. But what happened was COVID not only becoming controversial in terms of lockdowns, not only becoming controversial in terms of Gavin Newsom's consistency in his handling of it, but also because of COVID, the state allowed there to be more time for them to gather signatures. which is expensive. Yeah. They are now, at least yesterday they announced that they are at 1.9 million signatures.

They need 1.4. That gives them a fairly healthy buffer for anybody who signed, you know, Mickey Mouse or, you know, Bofa on the, on the petitions. Yeah. So if you're, this is a surprise to me to hear that this is zero to do with code or and or the state's grappling with it. Like that, to me, I just assumed that had to be what this is and nobody was happy with the way Newsom was dealing with it, hearing that it was something that was initiated before that. I mean, it had to play a role, though, right? Because, well, I mean, it does and it doesn't, right? Like, it's not the reason why the recall started at all. Yeah. Is it the reason why the recall will be successful? A hundred percent. So, like, that's, that's just kind of a way to sort of explain the process of how this thing initially got started. Right. Well, okay. So now you won't be able to vote in that, well, yeah, because you're going. You're going to. I don't know. This will happen. There is no set date on it, but it would probably be in the fall. I don't know how long, like, if I just wait to get a Texas license, can I vote in November? Yeah. Because I feel like I would like to do it, especially if there's some crazy person on the, on the, on the. the ballot.

I feel like I would like that's funny that you bring that up because that brings me to this other part of this last night you and I were texting back and forth about today's discussion and you had said something about how the laws the laws in California were so sort of open to whoever that you can be as young as 18 to run and well let's let's let's step two steps back before we get to there all right the way that the recall works is you will have two questions essentially and you will and you will answer one if you walk into the booth at least and you will answer two depending on your question day question one the first question is should Gavin Newsom be recalled okay yes or no and if you say yes then you move on to the second

question if you say no you're done right that's it you're quashing the recall you're getting the hell out of the booth you say yes that means you move on to a gigantic A gigantic list, a list that in the last time there was a recall election for Gray Davis, where Arnold Schwarzenegger became the governor of California, there were 300 people that had qualified for that second question list. And I would suspect that there's no reason why it would be any shorter this time. that second question Gavin Newsom cannot be on there in fact it's going to be an interesting play from the state Democratic Party

to see whether or not they put another Democrat on that list which they did last time and did them no favors but the person who gets just the simple majority not over 20% not over 30% not over 40%, not over 50%.

The simple majority of whoever comes out of that twisted metal demolition derby is the next governor of the state of California. Wow. So that's why last time this happened and someone just mentioned in the chat, I was going to bring it up, Gary Coleman, who also died living here near me.

But anyway, it's a different story. I think even other people on the cast of different strokes were up that. Yeah, someone said Top Bridges right after that. Also, I think they were porn stars and stuff. Porn star Mary Carey and Arnold Schwarzenegger. And then, of course, there's always the Republicans that, you know, by and large bankroll this thing and then, you know, wind up not winning.

So in this particular case, though, do you think this stirs up a bunch of that again? Like just kind of the freaky, fringy, you know. I can't believe they're running sort of stuff going on. So here's the situation that we're at now. And this is where we can get to the who is going to run. Gavin Newsom feels that he's not in a terrible position. He feels like he's gotten blamed for a lot of the bad that has happened because of COVID. And there's a lot of bad that's happened because of COVID.

A lot of businesses are shut down. A lot of parents are pulling their hair out because their kids are not going to school. there's a lot of frustration in a very, very, very large and diverse state in a lot of different places. And yeah, he's made some out and out boneheaded mistakes. The thing that has, it surprised me in terms of how much it's been sticky is him going to a fancy restaurant, French laundry, during the time when there was no indoor dining allowed, he went and had a big old fancy dinner with a bunch of friends with no masks inside. Yeah. And the reason why I think that, despite to me feeling like just another, oh, politicians are, you know, of course politicians believe they're above the law. They're politicians that's made it sticky is because it was both a violation to people that were like these lockdowns are ridiculous and you know they're ridiculous, but also a violation to people that were taking the pandemic really, really seriously. Right. And if they're going to freak out whenever somebody posts a pool party video on Twitter, then they're sure as hell going to freak out when the guy who's supposed to be the mascot for this

is not doing anything to bolster the case for people that are trying to stay at home and model good behavior. Right. The situation that he hopes he finds himself in from here is that vaccinations happen. He announced this week that Disney World's going to be back open on April 1st.

You're going to be able to go see a ball game this. summer, I'll bet you he's going to be in his, uh, you know, a fringe leather and ugg boots to go to Coachella. Like there will be all these like California is back baby kind of things from Gavin Newsom, but it only takes one or two things going wrong now to really put him behind the eight ball. And it only takes one or two really charismatic people to start pointing out. things that could go wrong to make this a lot worse.

And that's where we got to talking last night because I was looking at how old you would have to be. Because I was trying to think of the most compelling celebrity that could run. And what I found out is that there's no age restriction on this. You have to be a California resident for a certain amount of years. But other than that, if you are of legal voting age, 18 years old, you can run in this recall election.

And I'll tell you what, I'm going to have to go look up the actual raw votes. We'll have that on PX3 tomorrow. The raw votes for Arnold Schwarzenegger, but I would not be shocked if we're looking at something that is under the YouTube subscriptions or TikTok subscriptions of some of these influencers. I mean, you sent me a joke text that hit me hard.

And that was, how do you feel about, what's his name? I forgot his name. Logan Paul. How do you feel about Governor Logan Paul? And I went, I had like a visceral physical reaction to that. Yeah. That wasn't good. Didn't feel right.

Now, a lot of people are saying that, that I would never vote for an 18 year old. Yeah. But there's a lot of 18 year olds. Yeah. There's, I mean, for all I'm going to say is for everybody who was talking about how we need to lower the age, the voting age to 16 during the Trump administration, because you want to, you want to pump up some of those majorities where we're 16 to 18 year olds are more in your favor. That kind of stuff goes both ways. And it will be very, very, very, very interesting because, again, the threshold here is very low. And there's further incentive to kind of do this for the lulls because the person that comes in on the recall is only going to be governor for like a year and a month.

Yeah. Like it's not like they're putting them in for four years. Even if Gavin Newsom defeats that recall, he's going to have to just reload and start running for reelection anyway. Yeah, that's true. not a lot of time to do anything. I mean, how do, okay, how about, how about something a little more in the Arnold vein? Like, let's say Dwayne the Rock Johnson runs. Yeah, maybe I have a chance. Seems like, you know, like the Rock could do it. Yeah. The Rock could do it. Uh, the question is exactly, I mean, here's the biggest issue. I would almost discount anybody who seriously wants to be a

politician because Arnold showed that going to Sacramento is is not exactly a, you know, a trip to California state government, much like New York state government is kind of a big unwieldly broken down machine that can't really do anything and sort of just lives to disappoint anybody who wants to make significant structural change to it. So while the most exciting thing in a recall election would be to say, I'm the guy that's going to change everything, the reality of doing that is less serious. Although, you know, the rock would have something that Arnold doesn't. And that's citizenship or a natural warrant citizen to America. And that means that he could use it as a Reagan-esque launching pad if he wanted to, even if he was just there.

for, you know, a year and a month and said, all right, well, I did that instead of Hobbs and Shaw, too, to prove to everybody that I could, that I could be a serious guy. And I looked great being the governor. Right. And then maybe he looks to parlay that into something else down the road. Well, and he's, he's said things here and there like, I could, I'd never say no. I'd never say never to a potential future and this and that and the other. And he's, you know, very active in certain. Oh, that's, that's been around since he was still in the WWF. Yeah. Like, like, he is, the, the idea of, uh, Dwayne Johnson being a politician has, has been something that, that has, has floated around for years and years and years. The, the question is for him, you know, he's, he's kind of still at the top of his game. You know, maybe he's slightly past the peak, but who knows?

I mean, every time you think that, that maybe he's, uh, maybe he's, uh, maybe, we've seen enough of the rock he does something else that's gigantic yeah could be siffy in the chat says uh or spiffy rather says rockinomics will be a thing oh i like that rockinomics yeah that sounds good rolling off the tongue even if it doesn't look great on your uh on your tax return uh well anyway it's going to be weird i mean if if uh if that last one is any you know and that was sort of pre crazy internet social media youtube ticot blah blah blah and it still brought out kind of those, not fringe elements, but the outer edges of what people would consider to be mainstream, either entertainment or whatever, you had porn stars and Gary Coleman and everything

in between. It doesn't feel like a far throw here that all this could happen, including that Logan Paul business. Like, it's totally can see it happening, which is probably why I had such a visceral reaction to it. I was like, oh, shit. Well, I think the biggest thing that's different now is that the media, we are a billion years away, it feels like, in 2021, media-wise, than where we were in 2004. I mean, remember, 2004 is pre-i-phone. Like, in 2004, we were still showing off our cool iPods to each other. You know, they're, the, the concept and critical mass of internet, and really, I mean,

geez was Facebook I guess Facebook was around but but just barely just barely they were still hot or not basically for college students or exactly yeah you know we've got ways to communicate

that are totally they're totally alien to to what was happening back then which was still very dependent on newspapers very dependent on television very dependent on radio and the person that could win in a recall election today is vastly vastly uh they've got so many more tools in

their in their tool chest oh yeah even the true even just the straight up traditional candidates like on the gop side that would want to push people forward they they have i mean i'm not saying they'd be ahead in this way but they have access to uh just a whole different ecosystem than existed in o four that's a that's a really good point like i always think of o four is not that long ago because we were starting podcasting then it doesn't feel like that long ago to me but man there's a chasm of change between I mean I was in college

yeah like I didn't graduate college until 2005 I remember watching that Arnold that the moment that Arnold I knew that Arnold was going to be governor was when he was doing one of his first events and somebody threw an egg at him and he gets up on stage and he's got egg

he's literally got egg on his face and he looks at it in the crowd and goes, that guy owes me bacon. And I'm like, he's got it, man. He's got it. Like in that moment,

like that's just next level. It's next level. Imagine a real politician saying that. Yeah. And for those who are like, well, why is California, why are we even making a big dealer

focusing on the California thing? They're the fifth largest economy in the world. Like, they're huge. And it's not just a state in America. There's much more at stake here. So we'll see. I want to see the front show.

Number one, it's the most populous state in the union. There is no state that has more people than California. It is a gigantic massive economy. And also what the hell else are we going to pay attention to until the midterm election? It's like this is a rare. It's not even once a decade. It's like once every other decade thing.

I think it also is fascinating to get out of the kind of rubbernecking media vulture perspective. it is an interesting referendum on COVID leadership. And we're seeing that a lot. Look, if New York State had a recall procedure, you would hear people talking about whether or not Andrew Cuomo was going to stand up to that right now because he's facing, you know, a more than one front of criticism,

including his nursing home cover up and the sexual harassment stuff. They don't. So we won't. So we really have to focus our attention if there's going to be any consequences for Cuomo to his next election because New York State also doesn't have any term limits. If you can take a sense of exactly which of the two states between New York and California had more interest in putting reins on power. But yeah, that's, you know, I think that there is politically coming out of such a bizarre year. and we're coming up on the on the anniversary of a lot of that this week.

I think that there's there is just, it's going to be very interesting to see what the people believe should be behavior and leadership that was rewarded and what should be punished. That's right. Well, I can promise you this from a spanking new rad studio overhaul in Austin, Texas somewhere you're going to hear all about it when it happens from Justin Robert Young.

Anything people should be watching between now and then or this week in particular that you would like them to be looking at? Yeah, politics, politics, politics. Go and check out the podcast. Tomorrow we're going to have a more polished version of this conversation, including facts that I'm like literally writing down stuff that I need to look up for tomorrow's episode. But also, it's kind of a news you can use episode because we're bringing somebody on to talk about all. of the complications that this bizarre pandemic year brought us tax-wise. So stimuluses. Did you know that you can claim credit for a stimulus that you believe you should have gotten that didn't get to you?

Stuff like that, all on the politics, politics episode coming up tomorrow. Nice. Well, as always, this. The jury will now retire. Justin, have a fantastic week. We'll see you next time. See, Brian, I remember you this time, Brian. Well done.

Well done. I didn't have to do any sort of. prodding or or nudging now if i'm completely honest i may have seen someone in the chat say it and then i remember so i don't want to credit goes to uh torrick yes torrick thank you torrick for reminding it says the jury will now recall which is even better that's a great show title oh yeah that's not bad he will now recalling with jury and more or something yeah the jury will now recall uh very nice uh hey that's it for the show we've done it holy cow wow this speaking of all this speaking of all this ANTP. We should probably

let people know. Oh yeah, because the new episode is going up on the free feed today. The Patreon feed has already gotten the first two full episodes and all of the submissions but the, and we're working on some feed issues. You can go to Patreon

and listen to them right now, but there's some weirdness with the Patreon RSS feed because of ACAST and do use ACAST for any of your patrons? I haven't yet. So supposedly they're now integrated directly into like they're going to be the feed handlers. Yeah.

Yeah. So, but I don't think that changed anything for existing people. I think the RSS stuff remains the same. But I've heard of a whole bunch of issues, which, you know, a transition like this probably means there's going to be issues. But.

For sure. And that's what we're running into with ATP, A-N-T-P because of the, uh, those shows that are on Patreon that haven't yet made it into the RSS feed. We're working on it. That'll be soon. But if you're,

If you're just on the free feed of ANTP, the second episode is dropping today. I'm going to be doing that right after this. Very nice. Go check that out, everybody. It's been a very interesting season so far. Yes, yes. And last night was new difference. Lots of unexpected developments and eliminations and.

Yeah. Ruminations. No, no. Celebrations. Yeah, sure. Uh-huh. Sure. It's a good thing. Many, many, many Asians happening with, there you go.

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You can find me at Scott Johnson. and, of course, Brian, over there at Coverville. That's going to do it for us. Let's play a song before we go. Sadly, still no cat. Oh, man. Yeah, I set up all this stuff. That's cats for you.

Middle paw finger. That's the most cat-ass thing in the world, though, is to set all that up, and then the cat just decided, yeah, I don't think I will. I don't think I'll be easier. She walked around her bed for a while, looked at it, and said, no, I'm going to go upstairs and look out the window. Yeah, lame. So if I go set up a camera up and stairs at the window, she'll be here.

So now you know what to do for tomorrow. Oh, I know what to do. Exactly. Simon wrote in Simon Jubinville wrote in, said, hello, Brian. Tomorrow, which is today, March 9th, marks my 40th revolution around our son. Do you have any covers of or buy Frank Zappa? I realize his content may not always be family friendly as far as TMS is concerned, but I leave it to your judgment.

Anything else would be just fine. Uh, cheers Simon Jubanville from Montreal, Canada. Oh, well, uh, thank you, Simon and happy birthday. Happy 40th birthday. Yeah, that's a big one. Uh, this was the last minute, uh, uh, request, but that's all right. I've got something. This is cool.

This is, uh, talk about the crossing of the worlds, like our, our typical hard rock loving audience, and then you've got your Frank Zappa, which isn't everybody's tastes. This is the combination of Joe Satriani, Eric Johnson, and Steve Vi, all getting together. In 1997, they got together and called themselves G3, which I can only assume stands for guitarists three. That's not a generation 30 Mac. It's not a Mac. It could be the IMac G3. They could have been predicting that. In 1997, they decided to cover, My Guitar wants to Kill Your Mama by Frank Zappa. uh here this is great joe sotry and eric johnson and steve by covering frang zappa see you guys tomorrow

I'm no good for you They say I'm dirty I'm from the alley And I don't know what to do And I get so tired sneaking around just so get to your back door I grow past that college and your mama jumped out screaming don't come back, come on, I can't take it

Take it! My guitar wants to kill your mama. My guitar wants to kill your mom And my guitar wants to burn your death And I get through the mean when it makes me mad I don't know what I'm going to be. I'm going to be. I'm going to be.

I don't know. I don't know. Oh, yeah, and I'm going to see. I don't know.

I don't know. Hey, later I tried to call you. Your mama told me you weren't there. Yeah, she told me don't bother to call again unless I cut off all of my head. Hey I get so tired of sneaking around

Just against your back door I promise of coverage In your bubble jump now screaming don't Come back, come on I can't take it My guitar

wants to kill your mama Hey My guitar wants to kill your mama Hey My guitar wants to burn your path Oh I get to real deep When it makes me man

Oh I don't know what I'm going to be able to be. I was going to be. This show is part of the Frog Pants Network. Get more shows like this at frogpants.com. Boy, didn't we just tell you not to do that? You did.