The Morning Stream - TMS 2104: Jeff's Kiss!

Episode Date: April 27, 2021

How many days since a Fury Road mention? 0, Always 0. Sheena Hulkstein. Tiger Based Magicians. Does Kung Fu Count as a Superpower? Who has the Most Wheaties Box Experience? Card Flickers and Gum Slappers. Don Cheeto and his weird English accent. Pull Down Sock Faces. It's Garbage. You Should See It. Fu Man Chu Part Two. Wedding Snatchers. I smell like a woman WHOO. Nerds of the Greatest Caliber. Coming to a ConCENSUS with JrY and more on this episode of The Morning Stream. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Does Kung Fu count as a superpower? Who has the most Wheaties box experience? Card flickers and gum slappers. Don Cheeto and his weird English accent. sock faces. It's garbage. You should see it. Foo Manchu Part 2. Wedding Snatchers. I smell like a woman. Woo! Nerd of the greatest cal. No, nerds of the greatest caliber. Coming to a consensus with jury and more on this episode of the morning stream. Well, if I leave a game, I'm taking a pot with me. In a square game, I don't want it. Duke, take your hands off that money.

Tim, don't act loco. You go reaching for your gun and don't give up hope. The morning stream. It's Toad's fast. Hey, everybody, welcome to the show. It is the morning stream, TMS for Tuesday, April 27th, 2021. I'm Scott. He's Brian. Hi, Brian. Hello, Scott. We're just barreling towards the end of another. month. I don't like it. No, sir, I don't. I don't like it. I don't like it either, although April was a really schedule heavy month for me, you know, with all the things that I have written down on my calendar for the month of April. May is a little bit lighter, but I have a trip.

Oh, yeah, the triumphant return of Vegas for you. That's right. After nearly two years. Yep. I'm going to go striding in. there with big wads of cash and a posse. I'm expecting, here's what I'm visualizing, right? So I get off the plane and there's a kind of tunnel of people representing all of Las Vegas. So it'll be showgirls with their big feathery hats and stuff. It'll be Wayne Newton.

It'll be a couple tiger-based magicians. And they're all going to be like clapping as I walk down the jetway as I come back into Vegas. Tiger-based magicians. If that's not on the... Please submit that its title, because that's fantastic. I will admit that that's a phrase that came from 500 by midnight,

Tiger-based magicians. It's still pretty great. So you're going to burst on to the McLaren scene there. You're going to... That's right, exactly. And it's going to be everybody, just a tunnel of people plotting all the different... Pit bosses, dealers. Oh, man, throwing ships at you.

Croupier with his stick, his croupier stick. His croupier stick. All of it. Every stereotype you can think of. What else? Huckers? Oh, maybe some meth people. Yeah.

Oh, and some people walking behind you with little cards going flick-click-flick as you go. Yeah, the card flickers, right? Some gums. There'll be gum, little pieces of gum thrown out on the floor in front of you, just like the streets. That's right, exactly. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, if it's not that, I'm going to be sorely disappointed.

Yeah, it's going to be a rough May. Rough May, if none of this comes true. But, yeah, May's a new month. for me April's mostly been like trying to just keep up with this Kickstarter but it's almost over we're like seven days away and by the end of the month very beginning of next month will be hot to trot to fulfill that damn thing so

yeah pretty exciting oh it's very exciting yeah it's all going good so the only thing that isn't going good is yesterday after the show I said this during the show I was feeling really just kind of off I slept terrible I didn't know if it was the weather or if I just was like just crank you, kind of headache and just kind of, eh, just felt like crap.

And we got the show done. It was fine. We had a good time yesterday. Great show. Yeah. The show ends. I get it all posted. I go upstairs and I think,

all right, I've got this huge to-do list today. I should get on that. And then my other brain said, but look at that couch over there. Yeah. That looks comfy. Why don't you just lay there for a minute?

And why don't you have the dog with you or something? and then you can just chill out on that couch for a little bit. And maybe that would be the better idea. And then you can get up and do all your giant list. And so I did that. I laid down on that couch and I slept till 2.30 in the afternoon. Oh, wow. You obviously needed it.

I clearly needed it. I never do that. So that was like, it was like, it must have been an imperative, you know, just had to happen. Yeah. And then I was behind on everything and still didn't get caught up. I know. But that's how my day went. So me and the couch, but I'll say it was worth it because you know what?

Today I feel freaking great today. See, that's the thing. And you'll catch up and your clients or whatever projects you had, they'll all understand. It's totally fine, right? It'll catch up. It'll be fine. Yeah. I had nothing that was like deadline going to die if I don't do it yesterday.

That's good. Sometimes you got to take care of your damn self and take a minute. But I hear you had a similar. Yeah, well, we just had an evening. So I was exhausted yesterday, too. And I think it was just, you know, waking up at 4.30, not being able to go back to sleep myself. And so, um, we watched a movie that I'm going to use for recommendals. And then we started watching some episodes of Made for Love, which was Nicole's

recommendal last week. And it is, it is really, really good. It is very funny. That's good to hear. I wrote it down and was hoping that it was as good as she said. And Christine Malati is just wonderful. She's just wonderful. She can do no wrong for me.

I like her. How I mature, mother. Anyway, um, around about nine of the first. clock I'm fading out like to the point where I'm struggling to keep my eyes open I'm doing it I'm like you know keeping my eyes open but um it's it's a struggle we get through another episode it's like nine 35 and I'm like I'm done Tina I'm just going to bed and so I so I go and I climb in bed crash she comes in a few minutes later and uh and I'm awoken uh at 10 15 yeah just a mirror 40 minutes later, whatever it is.

With a, the alarm going off, the house alarm going off, which means that our power went out, which also might explain the router situation. Oh, right. Okay, so no, so you have an alarm set to go. We have a, we have a Yeah, explain how that works.

Yeah, we have an alarm that like an ADT alarm that is tied up to our windows, doors notifies us if somebody if there's a breaking glass sound in certain rooms, then we get notified, or if the windows get opened when the alarm is set,

then we get notified. But the problem is that whenever there's a power outage, it goes off for like a couple seconds, like a really freaking loud. It's to get you up, right? It's to get you up. It's just to, I don't even know if it's on purpose like, like, oh, we got to notify that there was a power out.

outage or if it's just yeah our hardware is weird when there's a there's a power outage our when it comes back on our hardware just makes that alarm sound um but regardless it went off and just as i had like finally dozed off and i was deep in the r ems i was in the middle of losing my religion um that thing goes off and then and then it was the end of the world as hell time getting back to sleep oh i'll bet yeah once you get shocked awake like that what are you supposed to do exactly so uh fell didn't fall asleep until 1130 and uh i hate still i slept in later i mean i quote unquote slept in until 545 so i mean it was a lot better than yesterday but good lord i mean can i not catch a break i know right isn't that sad like 545 is sleep is

what i consider sleeping in these days such a rebel brian with that late sleep in hour You know, I never hear my alarm because I'm always awake half an hour beforehand, so... Yeah, no kidding. Believe me, Zoe, 545 shouldn't be sleeping in, but it is. That's true. Some in the chat are confused about why the alarm system would be tied to a power outage, and the answer is easy. Like, have you not ever seen a movie where they break into the house and they cut the power? The first thing they do is cut the power, yeah, to turn off the alarm.

They're outside with their little, you know, they're pulled down sock faces with the, the cutters going chip, tip, sniff. And that's what happens. When Don Cheathlin, his weird English accent sets off the EMP just outside, just off the strip, it's to kill the power to all the hotels. Dang straight. By the way, this reminds me, my recommendal this week, I'm so excited to talk about it. Oh, are you? Is it a documentary?

No, it's a movie that I paid to see because, I know. usually I'm just like I'll wait for streaming but this one just kept beckoning me I won't tell you what it was except probably people will figure it out because I put that tweet yesterday about it but

I can't help it I really liked it I liked it a lot I'm having a hard time resisting talking about what we watched last night because I loved it so much and here's the weird the weird switcheroo scott

mine is a documentary whoa I watched a movie that I paid for and you streamed a documentary what is going on Did you and I make a wish on like an old artifact and switch bodies or something? We did. That certainly feels like what happened.

It's the magic Tiki in the freaking Brady Bunch episode. That's right. Exactly. Weird. All right. Well, we'll find out tomorrow what we've chosen for. No, TVZ on, it's not more, well, I don't think it's moral combat because that he would get with his HBO subscription and not pay extra for it. Correct.

That's already, and I did see that and really enjoyed it. Let me tell you, let me tell you two things about it. I'm not going to recommend it. Give me two things, because this is one I'm going to have to watch without Tina. She has, like, I can maybe get her to watch Godzilla versus Kong, and there's just a couple of days left to do that. Yeah, yeah. She's no way she's going to like this.

But I'm not going to get her to watch Mortal Kombat. Yeah, I'm surprised a guy came to sit there with me and do it. But I'll, let me say this about it. It is, it is total trash, okay? It's a garbage movie, but, but absolutely see it. Like, it's fun. It's, it's, it's a, it's a video. game movie. And I will say, I think, in some ways, better than that 90s one everyone holds

so dear. Of course, wait. That's a low bar. It's a very low bar. But it's a trillion times better than Annihilation. So there's that. It has an actual, like, decent CG budget. So there's really cool, some really cool effects and stuff. It's rated R as it should be. So there's lots of blood and gore. And that's good. Do you want that in a Mortal Kombat movie? There are a couple of like really great characters. It's just, but it's, I'm not going to sit here and tell. anyone that's a good movie it's not by the measurement of like you know good movie you know but is it a good trash movie 100% it's a good trash movie it's a great no no no christopher lambert though right no no no hell no in fact the guy they have his uh uh raiden is terrible he's a terrible

really uh but there's like lots of other like cano steals the movie fan freakantastic cano's it's worth seeing that movie for cano alone and i'm and i'm not kidding when i say that he's legit funny and really elevates the material. The fights are fun. The choreography for that stuff is good. I'm not, again, I'm not saying this is this isn't a negative

for me. I want movies like this to exist, but I'm not going to sit here and tell you that it's good by some measurement of good. It's just it's trash. And we're just coming off of Oscar season, right? So like we've been doing nothing but watching like

really good, high quality movies. He's a nomad land, promising young woman, the father, stuff like that. Now it's time for a little popcorn. Yeah. Little popcorn. Yeah. Get out some popcorn and get her done. Yeah.

But yeah, like, Cano's a high point. Jacks was a, could have been cool, but was lame. I mean, I don't know. Like, did I regret it at all? Not at all. I had a great time. And I'm laughing. And the minute someone says, get over here.

I'm poking Kim going, oh my gosh, it's so cheesy. This is so great. Like, I'm reveling. in it for what it's supposed to be. And in my mind, they succeeded. It's fine. It's what it is. But don't go in there thinking you're going to get, you know, next level.

Like don't, you know, like the difference between, say, the original Mad Max and Fury Road. You know, like, it's a pretty stark difference. This isn't that kind of difference. It's not like. I cannot keep this sign up to date that says, how many days since the last Mad Max Fury Road reference? And the chat. Erase it again. Get the pen, write a new number zero.

Just had to change it zero on there. Right. Elsie Knight says, would I watch it again? I'd watch it again for FilmSack 100%. God, you know what? We should do that for patrons. We should make a... We'll talk about film sack patrons in Mortal Kombat.

But that's the way we should make for patrons is one of those wipe-off signs that says, how many days since last Fury Road mentioned? that's a great idea oh yeah speaking of which yeah the movie i'm going to recommend tomorrow has a moment of wiping one of those signs off so it's funny oh really yeah and it's really well done like usually in a movie i'm like oh yeah that joke had been done a thousand times yeah it's always oh pull down the old number put up a one or zero ha ha ha this the way this was done chef's kiss it was great so you watched you watched the episode you watched an episode of the simpsons what that happens

in the opening credits. That's what you're going to tell you. That's what I'm going to tell you tomorrow. I'm re-watching the Simpsons. And I fool do this whole time into thinking it was a movie. I see you has, I bet that's right, too. Ooh, I can't wait to hear about this because this is what I want to spend money to see. If I see you is correct in the chat, guessing what it is? Yeah, there you go. Also, TVZ-Gun, for some reason, wrote Jeff's Kiss and I just like that for some of it. What does Jeff's Kisses look like if it's not the chef's kiss? I don't know, but I like it somehow. It's very odd. Um, all right. Also, we got a quick email here from, uh, a leesner. This is from Cody. Um, we'll stay in the, we'll stay in films here for a second. He says, dear podcast wizards, you're a wizard. Did you know that? You're a wizard. I'm a wizard. Good. Oh, good to know. Uh, so it says this. So I saw the trailer for Shang Chi and, uh, have literally no clue who he is. I also know, uh, you two are nerds of the greatest caliber. I wonder if you all could do or could do some info on Shang Chi, mostly because I love listening to you guys, says Cody. Well, Co. Co. This would have been a great. This would have been a great. We just got it. I don't know if he's in there today. If he's in live. He listens every day. I don't know if he's in. He does. Yeah. If you're in live, raise your hand, Stephen, and we'll pull you in. Yeah, we'll pull him for this. But he's an interesting, it's an interesting character because Brian and I will both fully admit we hadn't heard of him either until Marvel announced it was. Well, no, no, I'd heard of him. Oh, you had heard of him. Oh, you had heard of him. Okay. I'm Marvel guy from, I even have some old Shang-she comics from the 70s. Gotcha. But that's it. That's like... Right. And you, and did you know what, I mean, when they announced the movie, that's the length of your knowledge. You knew there were comics. You had some of the stuff. I was like, okay, yeah, the martial arts guy from the 70s that Marvel created to kind of capitalize on the popularity of karate and stuff like that at the time.

Right. I, like you said, until recently, he's kind of made a resurgence and has. had like a appearance in some of the stuff that I have been reading separately, right? Like the spider island thing, battle world. Oh, right. It was in the House of X stuff, I want to say. Probably, yeah, probably.

I know I read something, and I just cannot remember the series I read recently. I may have been that new Venom series. I can't remember, but he's in some of that. But basically, if you would have asked me, I would have said, oh, yeah, that was a character that was in the Marvel in the 70s and you know, they forgot about him and never did anything with him after that.

Yeah. Definitely a thing of the 70s. Like, he's of that era. And the fact, I'll tell you right here, it says the character was conceived in the late 72. So Brian and I were all of two years old when this happened. Yeah. Yeah. Marvel had wished to acquire the rights to the Kung Fu television series, but were denied

permission by the show's owner, Warner Communications, owner of Marvel's primary rival, D.C. Instead, Marvel acquired the comic book rights to Sam Roamer's or Sacks Roamer's Pulp villain Dr. Fu Manchu. Boy, I'm glad that didn't work out very well. Anyway, they developed the character Shang-she, a master of Kung Fu,

who was introduced as a previously unknown son of Fu Manchu. The original character himself, many of Shang-she supporting characters, most notably Fu Manchu, Dr. Dennis Naylan Smith, doctor, who cares about these, where Romer creations,

the no characters from the Kung Fu Television series were ever included in the comic series, Although the character Lus Sun is in an early issue bears a strong resemblance to Quai, Chang, Chang, who is, I guess, the main character in that show. Anyway, it was all just to grab onto the Bruce Lee wave and the whole like, hey, we're all like awesome. And to the dragon and all that stuff. Right. So his powers, let's see.

Are none. He's good at karate. He's just really good at karate, basically. he has beaten numerous superhuman human opponents so yeah for example let's see I've got some examples here he beat Aries

god of war and member one time member of the Avengers oh that's right that's on here yep he also beat let's see for a while he acquired some of Spider-Man's powers and abilities I guess that was part of that spider island

that was that thing you were talking about okay caught the spider virus got it spider virus there's no cure for the spider virus. He was briefly at the Pym particles he used to increase his size. Basically

he was a Nukchuk or Apache chief. Or, you know, Goliath, giant man, sure. Yeah. I thought he had something to do with the Mandarin. I don't know why I thought that. He does, he will now. Like his

his, they're pulling the Mandarin in as the character, obviously the big bad for for the Shenghi movie. Yeah. And it won't be Trevor Slattery. Yeah, no, it will not be. I have a spate boat.

But, you'll never see me coming. Right, exactly. But it'll be kind of their way of saying, yeah, here's the real Mandarin that we introduced, that we kind of hinted at

with the stinger from Iron Man 3. Yeah. And we don't have to mention Fumanchu. No, doesn't have to come up. It doesn't even have to come up. He was part of that Marvel Knights kind of resurgence that happened in the 90s, too, with all the heroes for hire, Jessica Jones, Iron Fist, Luke Cage.

It wasn't the, and that stuff was a little darker, right? The Knights stuff was. Yeah, I wish they did more of that. They don't have any of that or Max, like we talked about Monday with Stephen. None of that's on, I went and double check as we talked about yesterday. none of that's on unlimited and it pisses me off it's like they gotta be so surprised wow i think that's just a disney thing it's like we gotta be all pure for everybody and you think or are you just looking i mean are you looking well i mean obviously you're looking for max which yeah i wonder if it's just not

if it's just not searchable under marvel nights or or max oh possibly maybe i need to look title or something yeah i think look didn't think of that title for title look for hire because that was actually a really good um marvel nights series that had all of those Netflix characters as well as, like you said, Colleen Wing, Shang-Chi. There you go. Well, basically, his thing is really, really good at martial arts. That's his power.

Like, really good. Don't let that dissuade you from seeing the movie because, you know, if you would have heard the description of Guardians of the Galaxy on paper before you saw that movie, it would have been like, oh, really? A bunch of, a tree and a raccoon, uh, joining forces with a... Yeah, it's good that you all went into the Guardians kind of blind, honestly. Yes, exactly. Because that stuff.

Just sit with the internals and all that stuff. Oh, I'm so excited about what's her name doing that movie. I'm so excited. Chloe Zhao. Yeah. Although, what if it just turns out they're wandering around the desert talking to real people? Oh, there's saucy pooping in a bucket again. All right.

I'm disposed. I'm disposed. Don't you see the flag on the outside of them? You guys got to watch that. Nomad Lans, good. That's real good. All right. So what do we got?

What do we have phase? Is all the phase four stuff? Let's see. MCU phase four. What do we have? Supposed to be kicked off. Locked in. I was supposed to be kicked off with Black Widow, right?

Black Widow, right? That was the beginning of that. I'm just looking for, you know, is this one an updated deal? No, because if it were multiverse of madness would be coming out in a week. Oh, that's, oh, here it is. I found it. Do you find a current one? This is current. So July 9th, 2021, Black Widow.

Yep. Shangxi and the Legend of the Ten Rings, September 3rd, 2021. Okay. Eternals, November 5th, 2021. Okay. Oh, that's this year? That's this year. That's actually exciting.

I didn't know that. Yeah, yeah. Spider-Man, No Way Home with Sony, December 17th, 2021. Oh, good. Thor, Love, and Thunder. February 11th. 11th, 2020, which doesn't fill that far off now. No, it really doesn't.

And then Dr. Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, March 25th, 2022. So that's the current, that's, yeah, that's the entirety of phase, well, that's what they're calling phase four on this list. I don't know if that's everything, but I think so. And then T.D. stuff is Wanda Vision, Winter Soldier, Loki, Loki, the what-if series, Hawkeye, Miss Marvel, Moon, Night, and She-Hulk, all of which between now in 2022, yeah. Oh, that's great.

I'm actually looking forward to. I'm actually looking forward to She-Hulk because I was turned around on that. I don't know who wrote the series. I'd give him credit if I could, but I read this not long ago, this short series. And it mostly focused on, well, not mostly, but, you know, it did focus in on that she's this lawyer and she's a hard-working smart lady. And it was just less about, oh my gosh, it's like the Hulk, but a lady. You know, they didn't really lean in that way. And I really liked it.

And she retains her intelligence with the, uh, and her, basically she's like Smart Hulk Ruffalo at the during end game. Yeah, yeah. All the time. Yeah, exactly. It's real good. So I hope, oh, is she savage now?

J.C. Calvon? Maybe she's savage now. Maybe. I mean, that's temporary. It's comics. They change stuff all the time. Yeah. She'll be, if she's savage now, hey, she won't be at some point.

That's right. And Tatiana Maslani from Orphan Black is, is the one who's playing her for that. Oh. Can she get all buff or will that be C.G. How is that going to go? Probably be CG. I don't know.

They're probably going to be, you know, they'll do it the same way they do, uh, Ruffalo, where elements of her features will be part of the CGI strong version of her. Yeah. That Ruffalo stuff toward the end, like when he's smart. It was so good. It was seamless. So they can do that again. I remember how excited we were when we, like in the first,

Hulk movie, the first MCU Hulk movie, not the Edward Norton. I mean, that was, that was, okay. Technically, MCU, right? Like it was Yeah, yeah, no, that was MCU, not the Eric Banna. Right, that one is not. But the first Ruffalo was that, that must have been the first Avengers

movie, right, where we first had Ruffalo as Hulk. And they did, they pulled elements of Ruffalo's face into the Hulk. And I remember how excited we were about that. Like, oh my God, like you can actually see Ruffalo's features in the yeah it was impressive you know what else is weird is in less than a year that movie's 10 years old

the first the the ruffle the Avengers yeah because that was 2012 right do I have that right I think so that sounds about right geez that's pretty weird um yeah and oh a very exciting pick of her in this role let's see here oh really I thought that was just like her on set It is just her sitting around. Thanks, J.C. Calhoun. Sarcasm. Very exciting pick of Tatiana Maslani. Well done.

You interrupted the show for a fake. Wow. She really, really am in, uh, amused the character. Yeah. Um, uh, what is it? She looks like me on the weekend. She's just chilling. Spoiler.

She's just chilling with a pair of glasses on. Why can't I remember she Hulk's real name? What the hell? Uh, uh, uh, Sheena Hulke Hulke Hulkeestein. Jennifer Walters. Okay, that's why I was like, I was saying it's not Jennifer Walters because I'm thinking of Jessica Walters who just passed away.

It's definitely not Jennifer Walters. Yeah, you're totally right. I think Jessica, or sorry, what did we just call her? Sheena Holkstein. Oh, Sheena Holkstein. Yeah, that should stick. Yeah, that should stick. Yeah, that should stick.

Sheena Hulkstein. Yeah, I like it a lot. All right, well, we've done all we can do for your shang-she information. We hope that helped, Cody. If you have questions like Cody, be like Cody and send an email to the morning stream at gmail.com. All right. Time for the news.

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that neither had a boot nor an anus. Don't worry about it. Well, it certainly had an anus. They probably have an anus. We all have anus, right? I mean, some people have had theirs removed, and maybe there was a birth defect for some, where the anus isn't quite right,

but I think most of us have just a straight-up anus. That's true, and Bobby Franks reminds me. That's right. Only the live listeners did get to hear those appearances on TMS. So a majority of you who just get the podcast did not. So this is all going to be a brand-new content. for you. Oh, now I remember who left. And also I remember why

the person who didn't leave did so well. I remember a couple of people really showed their, they were awesome on here. Yes. That was a fun, that was a really fun thing. Some people were able to fit with us like they'd been part of this show for years.

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Yeah. The one that I always thought was Thirteen. Oh, my gosh. I don't have that. What? How is that not in here? I bet that was from my old, that hard drive wreck of 2012 or whatever. Oh, man, what a bummer.

I know. That's all right. It's a bummer for an anus. Bummer. It's a bummer. All right. Bummer. Here's your top story today here in the news.

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is probably pretty good. There's a lot of people who are doing it right now for free who don't have anything else going on. They're just sitting around, nothing else to do, doing it for free. Get paid, yo. Get paid. I do like their description though

kind of clears it up, whatever KTV news comes from. For those who land the job, it won't be as simple as testing the vapor and sending it back with a green checkmark, and I'm sure there's like a bunch of people say, all right, I'm out. Yep, I'm out.

If that's not all there is, forget it. I can't keep track anything else. You lost half your applicants right now. Exactly. They're probably right at the beginning. Oh, man, I'm just going to have to take a vaporizer, put a green checkmark on it, and send it back. Oh, man.

I bought that green pen and everything. Well, it's not like pot grows on trees. Oh, ain't it. It kind of does. No, it grows none. Oh, wait. I thought of that before I saw that hydro panicked. I didn't see your thing.

I promise I didn't steal it. He just barely typed it grows on trees. No, I saw it. You said it before. I saw it before. You said it before it popped up there. That was just real, that was happenstance and very nice happenstance, by the way. We're brothers now.

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I assume you could do this. on your, you know, kind of in your own schedule, like you wouldn't have to be at a desk eight, nine to five, right? No, I don't think, yeah, I don't think you'd have to drive to work. So, Jerry could, probably not want you to drive. So yeah, hey, Bob, yeah, sorry, how are you doing? Yeah, good. I'll love to sit and chat, but I've got to go to my office and smoke pot for the next eight hours.

We were born in the wrong decade. All right. Here's a, here's a fun story that's close to my heart because I used to do this. I've said it on the show before, so this isn't like I'm admitting to this for the first time. I have regrets of some of my youth, but not as much as some people I know, so I don't feel that bad about it. Anyway, I used to go to weddings, wedding receptions on Friday nights with my friends, pretend like we were invited and sneak out of there with gifts that we're supposed to be for the couple. All right, that's what we used to do. It is horrible. I can't believe you did this.

Yeah, it was bad. You are a monster. So like three or four of us would go, I won't use their names. and we would go to like a reception center. One of them was named soup, though. Yeah, one of them left. Definitely that was one of those guys was soup. No, he was later.

He would have been out of high school. But anyway, this is all during high school. So we'd go to like a, you know, we're 16, 17 years old. We'd go to a reception and we'd walk in. And the first one we'd walk in, we wouldn't have a gift. Because it's the first one we walked into. But we would walk in and nobody checks anything. Nobody asks.

You're just, we're dressed up on purpose. And we go through all this stuff. eat all their food is the main thing. That's the main reason we do is we eat the food that's part of the buffet, the catering, whatever. And then we go through the line. And the big joke was to go through the line and act like we knew them. So it'd be like, oh, I've not seen you since whatever, whatever. And they just kind of go, oh, yeah, kind of a Seinfeld moment of like you have to pretend. Of course, like, well, we better, we got, A, we got to keep the line moving. B, we don't want to piss off any of the people who maybe flew here to be, to be part of this. Yeah, exactly. So

We did this, and then the point of it was to not just stop there, you'd get through the line, and then on your way out, you would kife, as we'd say, one of the gifts. So they'd be a pile of gifts usually. This was the tradition at the time. I don't know if they still do. But you just grab one, hopefully nobody sees you do it, and then you walk out of there. And you don't even know what's in it, and you don't actually care because it's not about the gift. Because now what you do is hop in the car and you go to the next place, and people get married left and right.

The next holiday and the next Sheraton. Yeah, they get married everywhere. Like, they're just all over the place. There's a million just wedding reception dedicated buildings all over downtown. So we go to the next one and we walk in and now we have a gift. So we go, point it in the pile. And then we do the rigmarole of eating all their food and going through their line and pretend on like we know them. And then we usually did three a night.

And then we'd leave, take another gift, not the one we brought, but a different one. Leave. Go to the third one. Drop that gift off. off into the new pile, do the same pattern again. So the point was, by the end of the night, we had eaten really good, and we had had our, you know, our fun little troll moment of making them think they know us, but they don't.

But mainly what we did is we left gifts at different weddings that when they opened them, it would say, dear Bill and Sheila, which is not them and would completely F with their brains about who gave them this and why is it here. we love that. Would you consider? Probably not because it's like return to the scene of a crime, but after the last wedding,

going back to the first one with the gift you stole from the last wedding. Oh, that's a great idea just to finish things out. That's what we should have done. You're walking back in and they're like, look, there's the guys that Tommy saw

walking off with one of your prisons. Yeah, so there was that risk. Plus, you know, we'd already had their food. Might be done by, yeah, right, could be done by then. Yeah. Plus go on. through the line you know you wouldn't do the line again because that'd be weird but but anyway um it

it was a thing we used to do but i don't do it now all right so judge judge me for my youth and whatever but we were yeah i mean we used to go holodoming but we wouldn't uh that that uh wait what's a hall what's holodoming tell me about holodoming is uh so you uh you take a boom box and uh swim wearing a towel yeah and you go and and not being a a guest of the holiday in with the holodome swimming pool and hot tub area. You just show up with all your stuff and act like you're a guest there and hang out in the in the holodome. That's great.

It's, you know, compared to yours, it's like, it's like stealing a ballpoint pen versus driving off with a Maserat. Well, maybe not Maserati. Yeah, that's a little bit. Certainly a nice sensible car. Yeah. I mean, the thing we always just. justified in our brains was we didn't steal we ended up not you know in the end nothing was

we never didn't take anything home so no gifts were truly stolen so you wouldn't take one from the last no no last wedding of the night the last wedding just got an extra gift basically never lost anything it's really the middle guy who got the who got the true swap of a one for one right and the original wedding is the one that really got hosed they got nothing or they hope it wasn't something we're really looking forward to. And there were a couple of times where the first boating had really lousy selection of gifts, and if you grab one, you'd know. So we'd have to do, it'd be like the second or third one that night before we'd get one or whatever.

So it wasn't always good. But, yeah. I imagine the size, gift size has to be an issue, right? You have to be, you have to pick something you can easily sneak out. So you're not taking a kitchen aid mixer. It's probably going to be like, you know, a fancy clock or something. Yeah, or some kind of like fondue... Some decorative candles.

Fondue forks with your names on them. Right. Oh, which is even worse. Customized fondue forks. And I'm sure there was some of that. Some of these things had to have been like customized whatever. Because these are not people who are just using the registry. These are people who are like, I bought a gift.

It's a specific gift and I'm bringing it to your wedding. And, you know, Claire asked in the chat, well, wouldn't you report these things missing? You don't know they are. Yeah, right. They don't know. They just said like, it's a big pile. I mean, you'd probably say,

Oh, you know, or a Sheila comes back and says, Hey, did you like that set of napkin holders I gave you, the engraved napkin holders? Oh, I don't remember ever getting those. Or they say, oh, yes, we love them. Your thank you card is on the way. Yep, yep. I mean, I remember at our wedding, we got re-gifted.

Somebody gave something to their wedding, and they just turned around and gave it to us and forgot to take the card out and everything. Oh, man. Yeah. Unless it was one of the... Now, it's entirely possible. Somebody did it to you.

I don't know. But Dan Wally, you're right. Scott's white privilege stories, absolutely. This was us flaunting our inability to be caught. Like, if I'd have gone into those weddings, let me just tell you what would have happened in 1985, 86, 87, if I'd have done these weddings. And I was a person of color, forget about it.

They would have noticed because there was no other black people there. You know what I'm saying? Right, right, right. So yeah, absolutely, it was a little boy. These two guys kind of stand out. Did you invite them? Exactly. So anyway, although my, I did have an Asian friend go with me, but we have lots of Asians here in Utah.

We have lots of everybody. It's just, you're right. I got away with it because we were a certain type. And we did it. Anyway, the point is, now I move us to the story about a serial wedding crusher. Okay. So now we bring it. Cereal, so is Captain Crunch.

It's all Cabin' Crunch. Cinnamon Toast Crunch. All the crunches. All the crunches. All the crunches. Bee. Honey, not Cheerios, B.

Honey bunches of Cheerio Crunch. No, that doesn't exist. Cereal Wedding Crasher allegedly stole gifts from more than a dozen couples in three states. Now, we never went this far. Wow. A woman captured on surveillance camera near an unsuspecting couple's wedding gifts as a suspect in more than a dozen theft since 2017. See, she just didn't know when to quit.

We were done by the time senior year rolled around. Newlyweds, Madison and John Sharkeczak. I don't know how to say that name. Yeah, Sekharzik. Ooh, I wouldn't mess with that. See, that sounds like Armenian mobsters or something. That's the only wedding where the groom is wearing a red track suit and a bunch of gold chains. Yeah, you got to be careful.

Anyway. they this lady's a potion the gift table she stole the stuff this couple's not alone inside addition inside addition they still still exist they spoke to five couples to say the same woman has also targeted their weddings police say Sandra Henson age 54 is suspected of wedding thefts in three different states Tennessee Mississippi and Alabama yeah I you know we'd never do this in the era of like everything has a camera yeah never for sure not that you should do it anyway

I'm telling you it was the folly of my youth all right we were just being dumb nuts everyone is when they're kids and I'm not trying to make excuses but I think we would have been more hesitant if ring cameras and cell phones and all the stuff we have today

sure every hotel camera every hallway and lobby fully fully loaded with cameras you could say that second wedding we neither took gifts nor left gift we only took one and left one you did both

You took a gift and left, you could say the opposite. Yeah, but it's still the, but it's still the plural of the, of the riddle. Oh, you'd correct, because that's the whole. That's the whole thing. If I said now, I neither took gift nor left gift. I'm bringing it all back up again. A terrible, stupid thing. Yeah.

Let's not. Let's never bring up the plums again. Yeah. May it never happen again. Anyway, so this is all, she's in trouble now. I think she probably just did one too many. I mean, if he's doing it since 2017, that's how many years now? Four years, three years, four years? Four years.

Wow. That's weird. Is that weird? Four years. That is four years of stealing. She got caught stealing when she was 54. All right. Well, let's see.

Just a simple fact when I want a wedding gift and I don't want to pay for it. Very nice. I couldn't think of the cadence of that song, but you nailed it. All right. Musk in the news. Now, I'd like to preface this by saying that I tweeted this and said there's this exact story

where he quotes, his quote is about his Mars landing efforts taking people to Mars. He said a bunch of people will probably die. I put a tweet that said, sign me up and what I actually meant by that was I'd go to Mars

like that's it. That's all I met. But the Elon Musk stands. Oh, did people like put you on a watch list? now. The Elon Musk stands out there, dude. The guys and gals who back that dude in a cultish-like way, as if he is freaking South African Jesus, they are jumping all over me going, people die in every major space thing. He's just being honest. I'm like, that's not my point. I'm actually want to go, even if I'm one of the people that die. I get it. And then somebody else says, every, think of the, the, the, Apollo landings. People died to make those. I know, I know. I get it. Calm down Elon Musk worshippers. Wow. Also, people, people worship sucks. They're all a bunch of crypto loving Elon Musk making out people who just can't, you can't take a word of negativity about Elon Musk. I happen to think he's fine. Whatever. He's an eccentric psycho who has some cool ideas, but a ton of money, but that's not enough for me to worship him.

Right. Listen, I want my next car will probably be a Tesla. I'll just say it right now. Same. I love those cars are awesome. SpaceX is awesome. You're, you're, you're just looking for fights. Yeah.

That slow moving car tunnel in Las Vegas is awesome. They're just looking for fights. Yeah. So go, take it somewhere else. I'm not here to fight. I want to go on that trip. That's my whole point. It wasn't me being sarcastic on,

oh, sign me up if there's going to be death. That's not what I was doing. boy, they really got up my cheese the other day. And I got emails and all kinds of stuff. Wow. Elon Musk is not a god. He's not even a demigod. He's a dude what has a ton of money and he's pretty smart.

That's it. All right. Okay. The point is he says a bunch of people will die. And he's right. They will. A lot of people will die. Yeah.

I mean, it's probably a one-way trip. Well, yeah. They're going to die anyway. Like, even if they live to 100, they'll die. Yeah. But, uh, this whole, uh, Mars thing. And it's a god-aful small affair. Yeah.

Dan Wally says he's cunning, not smart. An interesting distinction there. Hmm. Wow. Hmm. Hmm. I just think he's a bad choice for hosting SNL. That's all I think.

I know. What is the, what is the reason behind that? It's hard. It's bad enough when they bring sports. Yep. Uh, when they bring athletes on because, uh, they don't know comic timing. They don't know, um, delivery they can't do anything but read a teleprompter and i can't imagine what it's

going to be like with elon musk we'll see guy who thinks he's way funnier than i than he probably is yeah he think he still thinks uh that's what she said jokes are funny i think he still thinks smoking pot with joe rogan's funny yeah he thinks that's pretty funny no i'm kidding don't send your hate mail to me yeah leave it leave brian out of this don't give him our time i'm already filled in all your weirdness just i'm just saying he's fine i'm not here to take on your your jesus Let him be your Jesus. I'll be over here with not him as my Jesus. Okay.

I do like the, I do like the whole description here, his whole phrase. You might die. It's going to be uncomfortable and probably won't have good food. Yeah. It's a really, it's just a really unusual cluster of things to dissuade you. Well, you might die. Plus, the food's not going to be very good. He may, maybe he's funnier.

So it's kind of like Casa Benita. Yeah. there you go. You might die. It's probably to be uncomfortable and there won't be good food. There you go. Or some of the buffets in Vegas. Some of those are a little sketchy.

Anyway, that's your, that's your news today. And good luck to Elon Musk as he hasn't done it yet. He hosts it next week, is it? Or sometime soon? Yeah, a week from this coming Saturday. So two weeks, basically. Okay. All right.

Him and Miley. I'm sure it'll go well. Oh, Miley, Sive. hey y'all no hey y'all i've got a new song i did hey y'all hey she has such a weird low voice all right we're going to take a break when we come back uh justin robert young will be here we're going to talk about the political science behind redistricting there was some big news yesterday

about what that means and i'm i don't know anything about that so i'm actually kind of curious i have questions we'll we'll find out more when we get to him for our weekly political segment with justin robert young yeah we need a song though before we can do that what do you got Well, I got a song for you. How about something along the lines of old red hot chili pepper style? When it was kind of, they were rocking, they were throwing rap in there, and it wasn't quite as melodramatic as under the bridge. Yeah, exactly.

Let's go back to like stuff like real men don't kill coyotes and higher ground and stuff like that. this is a group called Igloo and Hartley I-G-L-U and Hartley H-A-R-T-L-Y They have a brand new single that just came out last week This is

Cheetah and didn't even think about Our whole Chita, Tester the Cheetah the Cheetah the Cheetah discussion

But anyway This was co-produced by the guy Mark Needham Who did the killer Who worked with the killers Imagine Dragons And Walk the Moon Really, really good stuff

Here's Cheetah by Igloo and Hartley If it's too far away Then it can't have existed Too much to say Then it's too hard to listen to a story Of a few sent on their own past Went through a whole lot I tried to hide away the past

When the memories we made came up for air Had to push him back dad Because it didn't seem bad Had the world in the hands There's such a quick moment And the world took it back And we gotta keep going Got to go down and take some hints

I saw the only clear option Was to change the shit Separate from the love Trading for the Dark Stand up Tuffle Bear Lies From the heart up, we turn it back, but it only took a minute, face-a-face, get a sad best friend, so finisher. But we didn't like the world feeling calm after digging in the whole ten years flew by. Suddenly, it's so clear, the truth's standing together, we know, it's time to finally go.

You and I, oh, we can run like the Cheetahs do. Tell me that you're feeling true. We can run together. We can run like the Cheetah School Tell me that you're feeling to We can ride together I remember back when to the darker days When the world turned cold someone had to pay

Tricked up pitfalls got locked away Fiss up get tough got a love for pain So many years burned by no fuel on empty Had to lay awake dreams made so gently Till there's at the left with the jack in my hand Still a down the train but we back at it again Through stormy weather Not a day went by when we didn't get better

Yeah, bombs fall in between Lovers come and go like bedtime dreams But some dreams don't die No matter how hard you push them by And you're back to play by the light of the moon By the light of the moon High like a bad boom This camp in the end, head up to the sky

Now we're back again Till and I'm back again To run like the G We can run Tell me that you're here It's here and you can find together You can run like the cheetahs do Tell me that you's here

and we can find together Can you Can you Can you Can you run like the cheat Toes too You can run like the cheap does do Tell me that you'll run like the cheap does do

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They mostly come in the morning. All right, we're back, everybody. Welcome back to the program. Brian, that band again, song slash band again is Igloo and Hartley, and the song is Cheetah. Nice. Cheetah. Wasn't he a tiger? Cheetah.

It was a tiger, Scott. The best part of that is your line because it's so, how do I put this? I can hear you say it. I don't laugh at it. I'm able to somehow keep a straight response. Yeah, it's kind of hard to explain, but I do love it. All right, calling up our pal, Justin Robert Young, who I guess has finished his two studios are all like running and looking good. Oh, are we going to see the new studio today?

We play this and we'll find out. These are their stories. Oh, I'm terrible with names. Ladies and gentlemen, welcome Justin Robert Young to the program. Oh, that looks like a new studio to me. Look at that. That's studio sexy. Hello, friends.

Oh, hi. Hello. Hey, that's a beautiful backdrop you got going there. What's that about? It's nice. We are, we're still building, but this is, this is what it is now. Yeah. So we have two sets here, the standing set and the sitting set.

And this is the sitting set. There you go. Sitting there being all city. I like it. And then the standing one, I know we can't look at that right now, but the standing one looked pretty rad. I saw you streaming the other day. It looked real good. So, Gratz on all that.

Yeah, yeah. Actually, oh, you want to know what? I don't have my thing to flip it over. But, yeah, everybody, Twitch.TV slash Justin R. Young, streaming Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, as of now. And we will, you'll be able to see it. Yeah, it's all very cool. I love it. I love it.

What's great is that the shirt he's wearing is like we're looking at his stream with his face and the politics, politics, politics logo to the right. weird so it's it's like it's it's like one of those mirrors where you keep looking yeah i am i am decked out here with my with my own march and my own logo uh it is it is a shameless affair right now which i didn't i didn't mean to do it but now that i'm now that we're here yeah there's nothing wrong with that i'm yeah it's great i like it the chat room seems to be in the i guess i'm not hearing as much as they are but they say you're a little low and they keep saying it over and over it's a little bit maybe you're I just adjusted him.

All right. Turn up a little there, Justin, if you can. Turn up for what? Do, do, do, do, do, do, do, however that goes. Turn up for what? That was a hot song for two minutes. Hot song for a hot minute. And turn down for what?

Oh, much better. Yeah, much better. Yeah, it was turned down for what. You're right. Justin's got the right song. Yeah, of course. Well, anyway, it's good to have you here, and I'm happy to have you back. We had a couple of weeks there.

We missed you. You had a thing two weeks ago. And then last week, the show got shm. mirrored and we ended up doing a whole different thing. So having you back is a pleasant return to normal. Yeah. No, no. Happy to be on here. Yeah, it's good to have you here. So I thought we could talk about a thing. You and I talked last night a little bit about it. I saw on the news that there was some switcheroo going on because of census results, which is interesting because I never really knew what the census was for, but now I think I maybe, maybe I was told yesterday that census, a

What did you think the census was for? I don't know. I thought it was just our way of saying it's like a national roll call. Yeah. Just laughs like just to see what Hey man, what's just checking in. Fred, Fred Jones. I hear. Okay. I thought it was just like

stats like five out of 10 Americans all live in a hut or whatever, you know, like just ways of saying that we know what's going on and then we can base policy around that and I guess districting is that but I didn't know

what actually led to this many more people have moved to Texas therefore two new reps are going to be there and these many people left California so we're taken two from them

and I didn't know that at all like the census I guess I now understand why changes to the census is so controversial because some see certain changes as like oh well that's a racial divide

or they're making this one change so that I don't know, people have to answer it in such a way that it creates divisions and some of those are on racial lines or whatever. And I always thought, why are you also worried about it? It's just a questionnaire, right? It's just like a survey. So I didn't know all this stuff. I said, this was news to me. So I thought we'd have our, you know, resident now living in Texas now has two new representatives, Justin Robert Young, explained this to us. Yes. But then he got up and left. So he's not there. Oh, there is. I'm here. But whatever reason you got really, really

quiet in my in my oh that's weird okay uh sorry it's probably because your intro was going on too long um i i uh so yeah so so basically what happens is the census happens once every 10 years and with those numbers you determine how many house of representative or where the uh 435 i believe House of Representative seats are divvied up. Things that have happened for the past, you know, 60 years, 70 years, are trends that people are moving from the Rust Belt and the northern states, Illinois, New York, Ohio, to the south and the west, Florida, Texas, Arizona, North Carolina, and all that. And that's exactly what happened or continued to happen in this reapportionment. That's what they call it. So Montana, Oregon, Colorado, North Carolina, and Florida all gained one seat.

Texas gained two. They were the only state to gain two seats in the House of Representatives. Meanwhile, Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania, New York, Illinois, and West Virginia all lose one seat. I believe that that also, for the first time ever puts Florida. as having more congressional districts than New York does. Oh, wow. Because they had slowly sort of eroded. But the biggest combo breaker of all of it was that California lost a seat.

And they had not lost a seat since ever. Never has that happened in a census or a reapportionment. And that's because of slowing, not declining population, but slowing population. but slowing population. And that was a trend nationwide. We actually had the slowest population growth since the Great Depression, although some people suggest that that might not be

exactly what happened, but rather, you know, there were some complications with the census last year, up to an including, I don't know if people remembered this, but there was a pandemic that made people less likely to answer the door for door knockers, less door knockers that were out there and less people that were reaching out to record people that they would have otherwise. Yeah, that was my actually next question is how do we normally do this?

And it sounds like it is a lot of good old fashioned hand to door kind of contact with people. To make up for, yeah, I mean, you do get the mailing. And if you choose to ignore the mailing, then they come a knocking. Do they? Do they come if I don't mail it back? Will somebody knock on my, I always mail it back, but will someone show up? So you probably don't get the knock. But in general, look, less of that was happening than happened in previous decades.

The other part about this is that remember, the electoral college is also determined by how many representatives are in each state plus the senator. So if you contested the 2020 race on these new rules, which will guide the 2024 race and the 28 race, it would have been a closer race. Democrats would have lost, I think, like a net six electoral college points. Oh, yeah. So there's no gain for them this time or with these new numbers. And this change happens like now. Do they do like midterm appointments?

Do we wait until the next election cycle until somebody's in those new seats in Texas, for example? Or how does that work? What happens now is redistricting. So this was reapportionment. Now comes redistricting. And so since you're really. really not going to have a lot of big blockbuster political races that will happen in

2021. What I suspect you're going to do is hear a lot about redistricting and a lot about gerrymandering specifically. The idea that these districts are going to be drawn in increasingly comical and ridiculous ways so the party in power can have a safer district where people are more likely to win. This is where you get those ridiculous districts that look like, you know, the La Cost alligator or whatever that don't in any way actually feel like a community, but rather are just cutting out all the suburbs where a certain party's voters tend to, tend to be. And that obviously happens mostly in states with one party rule. And in this particular case, we are going to get more Republican redistricted seats than we will Democrats,

because Democrats aren't great at winning state houses in governor's mansion. Interesting. So, so, them, okay, I didn't realize this. So in my head I went, oh, well, this means that Texas went Republican anyway, so they still would because now there's two more and they still wouldn't have made a big difference. But I didn't realize that, this shows how stupid I am about this. I didn't realize that two more seats meant more electoral votes for the state. Yes. That makes sense, though, I guess. Now, indeed, it's how the electoral votes are decided. It's literally the whole thing. Yeah. So it's what it's based on. Yeah, I guess I had, I had it in my head that it was done differently, but I guess, I guess that makes sense. It's not like buy a pie eating contest. Which state is the best of doing that. I'll bid $100,000 for one more, one more seat. Yeah, I'd be all into pie eating contest.

That's a great idea. Let's do that. I want to see, I want to see Ted Cruz go hard on a freaking cherry pie pile. Colorado would do so poorly. Well, Texas is a very interesting. state when it comes to this, because part of the reason why they do have a growing population is because people from other states are moving into Texas. And that means that you have some of the bluer areas of Texas getting bluer up to an including Austin, Houston, the Dallas suburbs

are getting bluer. Some of the areas are getting redder, including on the border, which oddly enough are majority Latino districts, many of them. But the question now for these district or for these state houses and governor's mansions is how do you determine which district you want to make solid blue and which ones are you trying to shave off of because over the next 10 years you believe that they are going to be solid red. So what you're going to wind up seeing is that like all of Austin will be one district and it's not going to get split up. Yeah. It's like they're playing multiplayer bubble bubble. Do you know that game? Of course. Yeah, I love bubble bubble. It's a little bit like,

who doesn't? It's bust a move here in the States, everybody. But basically, if you're playing multiplayer, you both have a chance to try to get as many of this little chunk here if you can. But if this guy shoots it before you do, now you've got to shoot a blue that's going to head a green, which will not create a chain reaction. Like, it feels like that's the game. How do we, like everyone says, oh, it's one party does gerrymandering. other doesn't but it feels like they both kind of have to go to create like as much coverage as possible and to differing

their goal is and not all states do this. Some states either have mixed government meaning you have a governor of one party and a state house controlled by the other party or you have independent commissions that draw these districts and so therefore that's not kind of done by political actors but those that are done by political actors

are majority a Republican and they are in states that have expanding seats. Although not all of them. West Virginia lost a seat and all of their representatives are from the Republican Party. So what you're likely

going to see is over the next year a Republican incumbent versus Republican incumbent primary. Oh wow. Because they're both, one district is eliminated and so now it's a, uh, a

musical chairs they're both going to fight for the open chair wow that doesn't happen very often right that's kind of an unusual unusual thing i mean i know some very unusual yeah because otherwise like in ohio for example the republicans control the state house and the governor's mansion and they have one less seat so guess which district is probably going to get eliminated one of the democratic ones and that's actually a funny thing too tim ryan is uh he is a representative from youngstown ohio it looks like his district might be on the chopping block, which may or may not have been something in his mind when he decided last week that he is going to run for Senate. So you have a lot of things that are kind of shifting and motivations that are there based on this reapportionment,

which in general, people usually don't give a rat's ass about it. Well, and that's, so that's my question. Is that why I feel like this is the first time I'm hearing about it or is this common every time. Do we always have a shift around like this? And is it, is it significant when it does? Or is this feel different or is different? Well, obviously, there's more, there's more criticism of this census than we've had in a while. And I think legitimate criticism, because again, there was a pandemic. And that is something that, you know, needs to be kind of understood as we go, we go forward. But like, in general, no, this always happens and nerds care about it. The difference is that we're still in a period where people really care about politics. Who knows how long it'll last.

I feel like it's on the wayne. We're at a point now where most people will kind of not care about politics in the next two years or so, until the presidential election happens and then they'll pretend they care again. We just had four years of everybody caring a lot about politics. need a break we need a little bit of a i think yeah in general it's probably healthy you know but it is funny when people pretend that they always care which which i think right you know i think by large we had a lot of people that you know they they liked yelling i don't know how much they cared they certainly liked yelling yeah i like yelling about politics does that count yeah yeah i mean i

i will i think they like freaking out about it i will i will admit prior to you know prior to the the Trump administration, I didn't care much. And then I yelled a lot for four years. So I get it. I'm one of those. I'm totally that guy. And I'm a lot less concerned about daily political things than I used to be. But I like.

Which is funny, because a lot of the same problems that people were hyperventilating about are still going. Oh, yeah. In fact, many have gotten worse. Yeah. Some are worse. Some are better. But for the most part, you know, we're also in a time where, you know, I, I, I, I, I now get to hear everybody who, you know, hates Biden as much as I hated Trump talk like that for four ears.

And then we get to have that whole rig and roll again. And then we probably end up with another party for the next four or maybe the next, maybe not. Maybe it's eight. But my point is like, we got a long way to go until then, though. We got, we got a California recall, which is now official or semi official. there's like one more little technical step. But now it has officially been certified as having enough signatures.

So we are going to see whatever turns out there as Caitlin Jenner has now officially thrown her hat into the ring. And then, of course, we got midterms coming up that will involve some very interesting, very interesting folks. And we might see some really curious challenges, including maybe even Chuck Schumer in New York.

Both Marco Rubio and Rhonda Santis are running in Florida, but that's next year. I guess we also have the New York mayoral race where it looks like, you know, nobody's going to catch up to Andrew Yang, which has become a juggernaut in New York City politics. Yeah, yeah, that's an interesting twist. Caitlin Jenner running again,

and we're sure it's not just getting back to the track and field routes that she was into in her youth. not that okay really running again yeah i don't know i don't know where uh the governor's mansion is on the decathlon but uh uh we'll see we'll see you know that's that's a very interesting um well i don't know i i don't know if it's particularly interesting like kately jenner to me is like probably the third most politically viable person in her own family yeah uh i i i don't quite know uh what her political acumen is And, you know, but the one thing that you have to remember about the recall is that you don't need a ton of votes to win.

The recall is a two-step ballot where California residents will say, I want Gavin Newsom recalled. And then the next page is a gigantic list of names that they choose who they want to replace them. So if the vote is positive on the first question and Gavin Newsom is ousted, now it's just a raw numbers race on that second page. So you don't need anywhere close to a majority of the population. I believe Schwarzenegger won with 4 million votes, which is not a lot. And it's also going to be a fairly low turnout election. Although this will get a ton of national attention because it's the only thing. thing happening this year. Yeah, that's true. Well, if it comes down to, let's say it's a close race

and it comes down to who has the most Wheaties box experience. I think Caitlin Jenner's got this sewn up. I think we're set. You'll be all ready to go. There you go. Everybody, 1980s reference. All right. We had a lot of them too. We went deep up to L and Caitlin Jenner references. We really did, which is great. Today's been all about that. Hey, well, this is super interesting stuff. And if you want more on the periphery of this and everything else going on in the world of daily and weekly politics, check out all of Justin's stuff. Justin, anything in particular, you'd like people to be putting their eyeballs on? Yeah, the new Twitch studio is coming along. So go ahead and check me out, Twitch.TV slash Justin R. Young.

And of course, px3podcast.com is where you can get the politics, politics, politics podcasts, including episodes coming out this week, where we're going to grade Biden's first one. 100 days and do a whole lot more. If you like what I said here, there's more information on this and the leaked audio with John Kerry and the Iranian foreign minister that we're going to get into on the episode that'll come out tomorrow. I miss that. All right. Cool.

Well, I'll be checking you out to find out more right there. Justin R. Young on Twitter as well. Everybody wave to Justin. Bye. See you, Jirbs. Oh, shit. The jury will now retire. I always get to play it.

I forget to play it. You know, you don't have to play it. He's heard it. You don't have to play it while he's on. Yeah, I know. Boy, some strong feelings in there about Caitlin Jenner in the chat today. Yeah. No kidding.

Yeah, some real divisive thoughts from different factions. Well, good luck to her. To me, it sounds like a no way in hell kind of thing because I think she's running as a Republican. I just don't know how you do that and be transgender and, like, get Republican votes. I don't know how that happens. Yeah, exactly. It's, I don't think they, I mean, I mean, I, I don't know.

I don't want to get into the brain of Republican-Californian voters. Right. It just seems like it's not going to happen. I don't know. I can be wrong. Who knows? Yeah, I think I'm with you. I think it's very, very unlikely.

Seems low. But good luck. All right. Hey, patreon.com slash TMS is how you can support this show. You like this show? Well, darn it. Get in here and enjoy it more by spending a little cash. A little cash.

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and we need your funds. We're doing a fundraising thing and we have to raise funds as part of a fundraiser. It's weird how that whole thing works. If you visit tiny.cc slash coverville bike 2021, that's Coverville

bike 2021. You can help raise money or help me raise money for this thing and appreciate everybody who's donated so far and don't worry, I'm still doing the Alzheimer's thing also in June

so keep an ear out for that can be doing another coverthon although what we did last time where basically I just did jackbox for eight hours, that was just fine. No complaints about that at all. Yeah. That time goes quick when you're playing a game.

It does. Not so much when you're waiting for a three and a half minute song to end so you can play another three and a half minutes on. Yeah, it's just a different kind of cadence So I feel you on that. That's right. Like when we play for two hours for playdates, it's so fast. I feel like we barely got there.

But anyway, some more on that as we get closer to it. And let's see, for me, there's the Boob Show today at 3.30. So if you want some good old-fashioned indie game coverage, today will be your day. So check that out at 330 Mountain Time right here at frogpants. That'll be me and Brian Dunaway talking indie games. And I think that's going to do it. Send your emails and your feedback to the morning stream at gmail.com. the morning stream at gmail.com.

Uh, that's it. We're going to play a song now. So I hope y'all plan on that because that's what you're getting. So Brian presented it, please. By the way, I did try to use the, the Mivo to stream on the bike. And this thing is just not geared for the bouncing and stuff of the frame.

I'm going to have to invest in a GoPro or something. This will be a good travel camera because I can throw this in my bag. and have this with me. Yeah, and those 700, or the GoPro 7s or whatever they are, zero seven, those are, they're not so bad price-wise these days. They're not so bad, no, exactly. So probably have to do that. Sure.

Oh, Luke Seidwiker says, I watched that yesterday. You started out good cover, but it went off air after a few minutes. Yeah, the other problem was that I forgot to fully charge this thing, so it became a 10-minute video. I actually never saw the video because I don't retain videos on Twitch, So I don't know how it looked to if they were able to hear me breathing or whatever. If you have recommendations for what camera I should get for my ride streaming, then let me know. They have a Hero 7 for, looks like, you're still going to be paying around 200 bucks, it looks like.

It's not terrible, but. Yeah. Well, Bagheera says, get the 360. I don't know if I want. 360, oh, 360 camera? Like a 360 camera. Yeah, you don't. Oh, that's kind of cool.

You don't want to see me hunched over my bike and bike shorts. Oh, Contrere, I do want to see you punched over. Nobody wants to see that. All right. All right. Let's let's go with this. Oh, thank you, Baguier. Jeez, Louise.

Yeah, I'll click that link after I'm done teasing this song. Sure. Got dual emails or dual requests for the same date from a couple. And it's just so awesome. this one so let's see Tara Hatcher wrote in and said Hi y'all my husband Chad The Drone guy has been an avid long-time listener

It's been a crazy year thanks to COVID and long-term symptoms Chad has been so great through all of it And I want to wish him a happy anniversary on his favorite podcast Thanks so much signed Tara Chad separately wrote me and said I know it's a late request But my amazing wife Tara and I are celebrating 25 years of marriage On April 27th I would love it if you played Chris Cornell's cover

of nothing compares to you. Thank you for all that you do. So you guys are awesome with your two requests, your little secret requests for each other. So we're going to play both songs simultaneously over the top of each other because it'll sound awesome. Yeah, like all, it's all Chad, what's the name of the band? I can't think of the band.

Chad. Nickelback? Yeah, Nickelback music. You can take any of their two tracks and lay them together and they sound great together. Oh, that's awesome. actually, God, it would be really cool to hear a mashup of We Belong by Pat Benatar and nothing compares to you. That actually would be really cool.

However, I'm going with Chris Cornell's cover of Nothing Compares to You, which was chat's request, only because I'd never really plug this album. Last year, they released a whole collection of Chris Cornell covers called No One Sing Like You Anymore, Volume 1. It's all covers by Chris Cornell. Some of them are new versions or versions other than the ones we're familiar with that he also recorded. So it's kind of like getting new versions of things that he record before the past one. Give me the name in that one more time. No one sings like you. It's called No One Sings like You anymore.

I got it. And that's a song lyric from, what song is that from? No one sings like you anymore. Oh, is it actually from another song. Yeah. Oh, here it is. Yeah, I didn't know how much I love Chris Cornell. I'm super into this.

Yeah, so I know. And you're going to love this. This is his cover of a song that was originally written for a band called The Family. And if you go and search out the family version of this, it's really good. It was written by Prince for a band that he was involved with producing called The Family. Then, of course, Shnade O'Connor covered it. But right now, you're going to hear Chris Cornell cover it. And I think it might be my favorite version of the song.

Here is nothing compares to you. Oh, that's awesome. And by the way, Chad, I found one sound file with the name Chad in it. So we're just going to play it. Hey, Scott. This is Chad again. I think that's Chad. I'm pretty sure that's him.

Oh, really? Our actual Chad. Our actual Chad. So, Chad, I can't remember. If that's you. If that's you, let us know. I don't know for sure. Anyway, here's that song.

Oh, yeah, right. It is. Black Hole Sun is the song that the lyric that's got, no one sings like you anymore. Oh, yeah, yeah. Black hole son. Oh, my gosh. Exactly.

I'm going to listen to Chris Cornell all day. All right. Here it is. Thanks for that. Happy anniversary of you guys. And everybody else will see you tomorrow for a another edition of TMS. It's been seven hours and 16 days since then she took your love away.

I go out every night and sleep on day since you took your love away since you been gone I can do whatever I want I can see whoever I choose I can eat my dinner in a fancy restaurant but nothing nothing can take away these rules because nothing compares

nothing compares to you It's been so lonely without you here Like a burn without a song Nothing can stop these lonely From falling to me Where did I go wrong? I can throw my arms around with any girl at you.

But it just reminds me you. Went to the doctor and guess what he told me. He said, boy, you better try to have fun, no matter what you do. But he's a fool because. There's nothing compared Nothing compared to you Yeah All the flowers that you planted now in your backyard

All died when you went away And I'm all living with me is sometimes hard But I'm willing To give it a love A try There's nothing compares Nothing compares

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