The Morning Stream - TMS 2119: Two Oregon Fish Sandwich

Episode Date: May 25, 2021

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Welcome to the show, everybody. This is TMS, the morning stream. for Tuesday, May 25th, 2021. Scott Johnson here, Brian Abbott there. Good morning, Brian Abbott. Good morning, Scott Johnson. Hey, man, it's Tuesday, you know, which means nothing, really. Just Tuesday.

It's fine. Yeah. Five days left in the month. So hurry up and, I don't know, what do you got to get done before May ends for you? Are you having anything where you're just like, oh, I got to get done? Yeah, just a project.

But before we even go any further, happy real Star Wars Day. Let's say, this is the real Star Wars Day because Star Wars, A New Hope, came out on this day in 1977. That's right. This is your Star Wars Day. Now, when did they call it a New Hope? That was way later, right? Yeah, it was way later.

Well, right, I mean, that was still in the scroll. A New Hope. Yeah, well, I guess it was more of an episode four thing. Like, when did they call it a, wait? Yeah. Wasn't it tell the prequels? And then we're like, oh, okay. Now that's four?

Yeah, I think so. Right, I think, or was it even? like before Return of the Jedi that they said well okay so really they're all Star Wars we're just going to start calling the first one a new hope yeah I think that was about the time that was an odd uh it was an odd change but I'll take it it's fine Star Wars is great and you should celebrate it today everybody I was uh what eight seven eight years old 78 years old yeah that's it seven or eight and uh and uh was in line and was so stoked and it changed my life and I'm pretty sure I saw it, I don't know, five times in movie theaters, something like that.

Oh, geez. Yeah. Yeah. I think I saw it five times that first weekend in movie theaters. Scott, when you're the product of a divorce, divorce family, you can con both of your parents into taking you to see Star Wars over and over to make them the cool parent. That's a great idea. Oh, man, that's a great idea. See, I didn't have that option.

My parents were... God took me to see Star Wars again this weekend. Now I've seen it with him four times. Right. I didn't have that. I couldn't go to them and go, hey, parents who are still in the same room, how about another Star Wars viewing? It didn't work that way. That's a bummer. I don't think it is a benefit to being in a divorced home, one of them, right? Are there any? One of the very few. Yes, exactly. Not normally something we celebrate, but, you know, we'll take the silver lining. Right, exactly. Well, anyway, we got plenty to do and Justin later and all that stuff. So stick around for that. I got, so, okay, a few things going on.

And I had something happen with some geese at the lake today on my morning walk. We've just, we've been walking an hour every morning around the lake. Now that the weather's nice and it's kind of still cool in the morning. It's like perfect walking weather. So we're out there sort of hard walking it around the lake there, looking at all these houses we'll never afford. And, uh, and some of these things, like this one house. it's got to be six or seven million, which in California would be like 40 million. I don't know, but he's just enormous freaking...

Are you saying it's a Utah 6 but at California 12? Kind of, yeah, kind of. Although those numbers are merging lately, so I shouldn't say. But anyway, we're walking around there and lots of things are happening. But the thing that happened to me that I need to tell everybody about is more of like a PSA sort of a warning to everybody. Okay. Okay. So this is my, think of this as my community service for the day to remind people how to, how to be with their trash. Okay. So, all right. Your trash days on Tuesdays or no, Mondays. Wednesdays. Wednesday. That's Wednesdays. Yep. Mine's today. So yesterday is the get ready for the trash day. Right. Yeah. Well, I thought I had thrown something away that I shouldn't have. Oh, no. Oh, no. I've got to go fish that out of the camp.

because I can't throw that away. I won't get into what the thing was. It's not important. But I go out there to get it. And I think, oh, well, it's just down in this corner. So I can just fish around here and get that thing that I need. Sure, sure. Oh, God.

And I'm reaching down, and I'm reaching down far enough. I'm, you know, as tall as I am, I still have to kind of bend way over. And I'm not looking directly into the can. And we're not gross. We have, we seal our bags when we're done. We take them. You know, it's not like it's a big cesspool. garbage can. It's got neatly, you know, packaged garbage bags in the kitchen. Individual bags

separated out. Exactly. So I'm not too worried about it. It's not like I'm going to put my hand in a bottle of goo or whatever. I just need to find this thing. So I'm digging around in there and I hit something soft and a little cold. What's this exactly? So I come back out of the can oh my gosh shut up my echo thinks i'm talking to her Alexa stop why did she think i didn't say anything oh you're talking about something cold and wet

can i help you with that what can i order you now from amazon would you like would you like me to order a frosty from wendies it's so freaking annoying well anyway so i come out of there and i'm like go, what could that even be? And the best I could describe it, it would be like, if you put your hand, close your eyes

or put on a blindfold and put your hand in a pot of cold oatmeal, it's that kind of feeling. Oh, no. Okay. Oh, God. So think of that consistency, you know, that sort of thing. So I come out of the can with this hand, and I look at it in almost slow motion, it felt like. And I am covered. My hand is now a glove.

Yeah. Of Weimariner poop. Oh, no. So one of Carter's freaking poo bags that she does to pick up around the yard or whatever Was it sealed properly? I say Carter, it could have been me. I don't actually know because we both pick it up. But it was, had opened just enough that one of them had, and she, this is a big dog.

She poops like a man, like more than a man. Yeah, yeah. It's like the water bottle like that big, you know. It's like furniture. Anyway, I didn't know it. do. I just kind of stood there going, oh my gosh, a giant, I'm, my hand is covered in dog poo. What, what do I do? And it was kind of, it was cold, but it's like, you know, not old. And like I said, like, like, like, mutt. It was awful. So I didn't know what to do. So all I did was

go, eh, and like shake it off into the thing. Kim. Kim. She wasn't here. So I couldn't, I couldn't rely on her. So I just, I ran in there and I watched my hands like a hundred times yeah yeah don't know what else to do i don't even know like yeah yeah you gotta get the scrubber out you get to go under the nails yeah yeah yeah it's really lame and i never found the thing that i was looking for i'll just tell you what it was i lost a watch and i thought i threw it in the trash oh god like your fifth-bitty kind of watch no it's this one i found it since you know that wooden one that we got that oh yeah yeah i found it it was nowhere in the it was nowhere near the garbage none of that stuff had happened although

I still can't find my Fitbit, so that's still lost. Oh, no. No, it's time to get an Apple Watch. The problem is, well, I had one, and I broke it, or cracked it, and then it stopped working. And I went, I'm like, do I ever want to spend that kind of money on a watch again? For what I use it for? I don't know, man. Like, it just doesn't, I can't justify it anymore.

So unless someone gives me an Apple Watch. I use mine all the time for, for bike riding, for directions. Yeah, see, I don't, I don't, if you don't use it for that kind of stuff. No, and I get that it's convenient for that. Like, I get that, I mean, but part of me actually likes having less notifications. Like, I kind of like having. Oh, yeah. I don't have any sort of Twitter or Discord notifications on here.

Nothing's tapping my wrist if I don't want to tap my wrist. That's good, because you don't want it. But, so I just found myself, like, kind of not missing it. And I went, well, if I don't miss it, then I'm not going to buy, more. I'm not going to buy it again. So for now, I'm off. I'm off the wagon. The point is, though, this watch is fine. Fitbit's gone. And my hand was covered in poo. So, yeah. So to remember that this time you shake my hand or whatever, right? Just remember that I have this right hand. Yeah. I think all of a sudden, you know, I think we're going with a non-hand-shaking lifestyle.

And you've just, you've just confirmed that that's what we need to do. Yeah. I would not recommend greeting me. I mean, that's one of the nice things about it. I still don't know what the new protocol is. Like, when I see an acquaintance, am I to, what am I to do? Am I supposed to? Yeah, well, we met, so when we were in Vegas, we met the gent. So we gave hugs to James and Svet, obviously, and Mizzula, and I did the British side cautious hug with Mizzula. Only because I had a backpack that was holding, because he met us at the airport. but he's vaccinated isn't he he's got both his shots yeah he's vaccinated everybody

everybody that we saw oh yeah if you're vaccinated just hug man who cares yeah show joe you're all in us together yeah um and we hug show joe and no no actually no we did fist fist bumps with uh shojo and danny no hugs for showjo and danny um we we kind of let people initiate

what they what they want right like you and we're like oh hey it's good to see you and then if they put their arms out and say oh come on then we'll hug but if they're like out comes the uh the fist is like no problem we're good with that too we will we will do whatever we will greet you in whatever way you're comfortable yeah aside from the way dogs greet each other uh although maybe i can start i don't know i've i've got my hand covered in it now what's the next step i start sniffing people's butts i'm

becoming right yeah exactly yeah but uh but yeah no it's it's uh i forgot whether we're all that was going, oh, the new protocol. Yeah, the new protocol for us is we let the person we see kind of dictate. The way I'll do it is if I don't know you, I'll fist bump you. Right. Oh, that's where I was going. It was Jen's new husband put his hand out for a handshake. And I think he was the, he's the first person I've shaken hands with in the last 15 months, I think.

Oh, wow. Yeah. See, it's hard to, some people are used to the shake. It's hard. Exactly. Exactly. Yeah. Yeah. Well, I guess what I'm saying, here's my rule.

It's easy. If I know you're vaccinated, hug me all over the place. It's fine. Sure. If you're, if I know you're not. All over the place now. If you're not vaccinated, then, and you come to hug me, well, that's kind of on you. And if I know that you're not vaccinated, I won't probably initiate anything because I would

like you to be safe and vaccinated first because I'm safe, but you're not. So, so yeah, it's easy. It's all you had to do. but with strangers I ain't hugging y'all y'all can buy I don't want to do that in a normal year yeah oh yeah no I mean I think that's also the protocol is uh if I don't know you I ain't touching you that's right and KT data next time I see you know hug handshake none of that stuff we should all do bum bum bumps like a you know a little tink like a like a I don't know what do you call that when you hip somebody give somebody the hip oh they cross check him I guess that is kind of like a cross check isn't it I've been watching a lot of any H. Lately. Oh, have you been? That's nice. Yeah. I didn't know you were a fallout. I guess so. The playoffs. The Las Vegas Golden Knights

are in the playoffs. If they win, then the Aves and the Golden Knights are probably going to play each other. You got any money on that deal? I had some on the Avalanche, but I don't have anything on the Golden Knights tonight, tomorrow night. I think tomorrow night's their next game. Well, I'm glad

I had no money on the Jazz Grizzlies opener because the Jazz, even though they have the best record in the league, they lost their first game of those playoffs. At home. At home. Bastards. It's our first chance.

We got a real chance this year, and we haven't had it since Michael Jordan was the giant freaking monkey in the room who couldn't, we couldn't get past him. He's too good. That wasn't a racial thing, by the way, when I got it about it. I just couldn't think of another animal. Elephants what I was trying to say. He's the goat. You've got the goat in the way, the greatest of all time.

You can't get your ring in the 90s with your best team ever if you got Michael Jordan and Scotty Pippen and the rest of that team, some of the greatest players in the history of the planet. So now's our chance. So don't blow it, you guys. Don't lose to the freaking grizzlies. Yeah.

All right. Let me tell you a really quickly before we get to this first email because we're talking about betting on games. So we're sitting in the, in Mandalay Bay, which is an MGM-owned property. It's one of the MGM group of hotels. And I'm realizing, oh, I need to put a bet on the avalanche game tonight. I'll just do it from my bet MGM app because I don't want to bet.

I don't want to go to the sports book and make a bet there because then I have to go back and collect there. And if I forget, I've come home with tickets before that I've forgotten to collect or didn't have time to collect and had to mail them. So basically $3 of mailing and certification to get. get $6 back from a, from a football win. Sure. But, uh, the big money. It's, yeah, exactly. So, um, so I'm like, all right, I'll just open up the app. I've, you know, it's, it's

legal now in Colorado. So I've got the bed MGM app on my, on my phone. Sure. Um, but no, because I'm registered, because, because my app is registered for vote, or for voting for gambling in Colorado, even though I am in Las Vegas. at an MGM property using the MGM app on the MGM Wi-Fi, I cannot place a bet MGM bet. That's crazy. That's crazy.

Yeah. That's crazy. Yeah, this is something that Mizzula talked about. Yeah, you can't, you know, there are certain places you just can't do that. You just have to go up to a, uh, go up to a betting window to do it. And he knows the, he knows the rules better at anybody, right? He can tell you, whatever. Like if I had any kind of betting questions, I'll go to, that's my guy.

I'm going to him. You too. You often know this stuff, it seems like, but I'm dumb with it. I don't know. I know I can put quarters in a slot machine. There you go. Yeah. I'm trying to see if there are any new slot machines that might entice you enough to want

to put a quarter in. Like if they made a World of Warcraft slot machine, you'd probably say, all right, well, let's just see what it does. Of course I would, yeah. Yes. Yeah, and I do it with all the nerdy ones. I'll put quarters in everything once. But I will never be that guy with a cup and a cigarette with ashes hanging off the end.

Nobody has a cup anymore, though, because you can't put quarters in anything. Because it's all tick it in, ticket. It's all Tito. It's ticket in, ticket out. T-I-T-O. So if I win 100 grand, I take it to the window and then they give me my whatever. If you win 100 grand, you stay where you're at. You flick on the service light and you demand a hand pay, which sounds like a also,

Sounds like a sexual thing you can get in Las Vegas. A hand pay. That's only legal downtown. You have to go to the old strip to get a hand pay. That's right. There's, yeah, there's, we were talking about that there's probably only one place left in downtown. I think the El Cortez that still has quarter machines where you'll sit there with a cup and choo-choo-choo-choo-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-the-L-cortez. The El-cortez, yeah, downtown.

It's a really cool little hipster hotel with just a few machines. I mean, it's more for like, yeah, we want to stay downtown. We don't care if there's machines in the lobby. But that was a place that same-sex Mary was performing quite a bit back in the day. Oh, I meant to ask. Are they able to do, do they have any gigs now? Can they do any of them again? They're just starting to get stuff together.

No gigs currently on the docket, but they've been getting together and rehearsing for a new album that they're working on. Oh, very nice. Excit about that. As a matter of fact, and I'll tell you. Later on the show about something that Svet is working on that is really cool and would be of interest to many a frog pants listener that has an artistic side to them. Ooh. Well, okay, then. I think about that at the end of the show.

Yeah, you piqued my interest. All right. Let's read these couple of quick emails. Got this one from Christina W. who wrote in and says, hello. This is for you, Brian. My husband listens to your show and has heard you all talk about oxtail soup in Las Vegas, Nevada. Which restaurant?

We are in Vegas for a week, and he said he has to try it. Thanks so much, Christina. So where do you go? What's the place? God, it is the best place. This is downtown at a place called the hotel called the Californian. And you have to go to the Market Cafe, Market Street Cafe in the Californian. And I don't know if basically they simmer it all day long.

So I don't know how late you have to go there before they start. serving the ox tail soup. I remember going there at like 10 o'clock, 11 o'clock at night. Let me see if that's still the case here. So they, I remember this place. Yeah. It wasn't too far from our venue that we did for 2018. Nope, it was, it's a cross and down from the plaza.

Okay. All right, yeah. Well, from our. Serve daily, I mean, basically you've got the, you've actually got the ox tail bone in the soup. But the, it's been simmering for so long that the meat just. falls off of it and it tastes so good. Yeah, and don't worry. We all know that that tail was right near its exit hole.

We know. Don't worry. They clean them real good, right? Like they don't. Scotch, you ever eat a rump roast? Well, yeah, the rump roast is the muscle, though, right? It's not like in the, that tails is right there. Okay, exit out, everybody.

Yeah, yeah, okay, all right. I'm just saying, think about that next time you got a hot bowl. Sure. However, Christina, if you're, if you are going to have to take a, the oxdale soup is great. And if you're still there in Vegas, like another recommendation I talked about yesterday was that shang noodle place, um, get there and get some of the soup there. If you guys are into the, the amazing Asian soup, it's so good. I talked to Kim about that place and she's very jealous. She wants, she wants to go there. So next time we're out there. It's now going to be a, like, I'm going there when we go to, uh, Vegas for TMS Vegas 2022. And there will, I think we, we I think we can safely safe. There will be... I don't see any reason why there won't be one in 2020. Barring any resurgence of the pandemic. There not to be a whole new...

There's not to be like a whole new virus or it'd have to have a mutation where it's so bad that everybody's now exposed again and needs... You know, we have to do fresh science or whatever. Like, it would have to be so bad. Because I agree with you. No matter what, early 2022, we're doing it. Yep.

Think like March, April. exactly keep your window open everybody yeah and roll the windows down yes and don't blame the fart on the driver okay check this out uh one more here from jeff jeff sire a friend up north in the beautiful canadian wilderness uh jeff sire wrote in from ontario and says scott and brian uh he would like a word with us after your discussion about things you guys do that annoy your wives i thought i would tell my wife, Jennifer, about it. When I told her about Scott clicking the parking break, knowing that it bugged Kim, I could see Jen did not think it was, uh, that, did not think this was amusing.

So I asked her, uh, what she would do if I intentionally bugged her like that. Her reply, uh, he says that you should probably do this in the Tina voice. In my, in my Tila voice, yeah. Yeah, so do it. Uh, well, they have lots of guns down there. So I bet they have tasers, too. I'd buy a taser and zap you every time you did it. Bet I'd only have to do it once.

I love that she thinks because there's lots of guns down here, meaning America. I can just go get a taser. Vending machine guns and, you know, street corner. Is it hard to get a taser? It probably isn't. Probably easy, right? I bet you, I bet you, well, it's got to be way easier to get a taser than a gun. I bet I could go to Walmart now and get a gun, or, I mean, a taser.

I'm going to look up Amazon right now and just see, can I buy one online? Can I just buy an effing taser? Hold on. Oh, yeah, you totally can. Yeah. Just, does Anchor? Does Anchor make a taser? Yeah, does Anchor?

Or Aki? Ocky? Yeah, do they have one? Oh, there's even a gun, the taser pulse self-defense tool, like one of the gun types with a big yellow front on it, so no one thinks you have a real gun? Oh, there's a flashlight that, doubles as one. Oh, see, there you go.

Yeah. I want one that looks like a vape pen. So it looks like you're vaping, but really you're a threat. You're getting ready to taste. Don't get those two things confused. Geez. All right, well, apparently... KT Data says Aki is banned from Amazon right now.

Is that really the case? No. Really? I just bought some from them. No, they're here. Aren't they? Wait, you know what? They're not on there.

Look at that. What happened? Oh, no. Aki headphones are still there. Five days ago, Amazon and internal messages show the FTC is prodding the tech giant to punish fake review schemers. Apparently, Aki, an M-POW. Oh my gosh. I think I have a pair, or had a pair of M-POW headphones. There's still some listings, though. Aki True Wireless Earbuds are up here still.

An Aki USB, or no, Aki Home 12-in-1 air fryer toaster. So there's still some in here, but there must be some stinker going on, because I don't see most of their stuff. yeah apparently is a weird that's crazy all right fake reviews fake reviews everybody who knew that that would be the problem in this show yeah wow ocky yeah what's going on okey um anyway he says some that's some fun advice to pass on to kim which i will do yours in peace and harmony jeff sire all right jeff well we appreciate i'll bet if kim had a taser handy and you did that thing with the emergency break you'd only do it once oh yeah there'd be no other there's no doovers after that i've never never been tays, so I don't really know what it feels like, but I've talked to people who have, and here's the problem. I'm super skittish around electricity type stuff like that. So you can't even hand me like a 9-volt battery and say, put that to your tongue. I can't do it. I freaking can't do it. I cannot force myself to do it. I've done it before when I was a kid, but for whatever reason right now, there's a million things I would rather do. If you said, we're going to kill your family

unless you lick this battery, okay, fine, I'd do it. You'd do it for that would be it. That'd be about it. I, yeah, deathly afraid also of electricity. Up until about last year or two years ago when I installed an extra outlet into my bathroom after watching like a YouTube video, it's the new way of learning how to do something these days, folks, is just watch a YouTube video. But now it's like, okay, I feel pretty good about electricity and knowing what to do. Yeah.

And then I'm probably where it is or what it's from is when. I peed on that electric fence when I was a kid. Which we've talked about on the show once, but it's just like, you have that experience and you are forever like, I'm not going near any electrified wires ever again. Because that was not nice. Did not enjoy that. But I did find it stimulating.

Just kidding. Stimulating. Let's move past all this and move into the zone of this. why it's the news and it's brought to you by was three's company any good come and knock on scott's door real time on was it any good where get it wherever you get your podcast or at frogpants dot com slash any good do you want the short review where the podcasts are hers and hers and his was it any good no it was it was garbage that's not great it's pretty yeah which which episode did you watch i watched one that was recommended by a listener And the way these work, you guys, is when you listen, I watch it on the air. So think of it as like almost like a film sack watch along, except you're going to hear the audio. Like you actually hear it, it ducks, you know, it ducks when I talk. Like, it's like we're in the room listening to what they're saying.

And it was one where Jack Tripper has to go fly somewhere to help Jan it out. And it's a later season. So Chrissy's gone. It's the new Chrissy. Oh, it's the nurse. The nurse, right. oh that's right she was a nurse um and you had to go with janet to some other some island where this really fancy schmancy birthday birthday party was going on and then they have to pretend they were married

they had to pretend they were together so that was definitely a thing and she was trying to get the favor of the guy who is there and it turns out his sister he she thought him and this lady were were really getting it on but they weren't it's a sister but they didn't know right but the whole premise is that Jack has to take... Was their last name of Lannister? I didn't know. They never forget their debts. That's one thing.

But they, but he didn't, he can't fly without freaking out so he had to take tranquilizers. And so the whole thing is him way over, all tranked up, saying terrible things and reversing his, you know, saying things that he has to fix later and all that. It's just, it's just, it is what it is. It's a thing of its time. And I'll say, you know, John Ritter was a very talented physical comedian. Oh, yeah. Yes. But he was born at the wrong time because that stuff's just bad.

On that episode, had no Mr. Furley, and I was annoyed because I was really looking forward to Don Nauts, but it didn't happen. Oh, right. Yeah. So you didn't even have a roper. You had a no roper and no Furley. No Furley, no roper, yeah. Yeah. I don't know if I would have, what episode I would have suggested. Because was there ever like a controversial episode of Three's company? I don't know. That's usually what I'll hone in on if I can find it. Or I'll find out what everyone thinks is the best one of all time or whatever. And in this case, it was just this guy just thought it was peak Jack Tripper and he's right.

It kind of is. I mean, it's full on, right, Pratt Falls and physical comedy and stuff. Yeah, I was all over, not all over, but my roommate of choice was Jenny Lee Harrison. She was the middle, she was between Chrissy Snow and the nurse, whose name I can't remember. Jenny Lee Harrison. Jenna Lee Harrison. She was the sister, I think, of she was another snow. Oh, right. She was Chrissy's sister. Yeah. That's why in the episode I kept referring to this other ladies.

Cindy Snow, yes. Yes, yes, yes. Oh, yeah. She's lovely. Yeah. She's very pretty. Oh, she's very plastic now. All right. Yeah, not so good these days. Well, you know, that's what they do. That's what happens. It's what they do. Yeah. But my bottom line takeaway is Three's Company is a very mixed bad. and a thing of its time and it's kind of fun to go back to it but it's not the sort of thing

I ever want to binge. Like there are better comedies of that era I would binge before I would binge that. But anyway, I don't know what's next but it's another fan recommended one so watch for that. Cool. Eurovision, the winner,

has now agreed. It was Italy, you know, the Italy's, the Italians won the Eurovision. All right. I don't watch Eurovision at all. The Tedpool got together and watched it over Discord on Saturday and I you know if it were any other weekend

I might have sat there and joined them just because I've never seen it but yeah it's not my cam do not work in Vegas I don't know why I don't like it I don't it's not they don't like it I just can't get interested I try I don't know I tried one year

I just can't listen ABA was a was a winner early on or at least a contender well they deserve that yeah yeah deserve that well anyway this thing happened and I mostly followed it on Twitter, but I couldn't help but notice a lot of people putting up this clip of this dude in the

green room on the Italian team, seemingly leaning over on his table and pounding down a snort of cocaine on camera. Yeah. And everybody's like, I'm pretty sure that guy did it. So here's what happened. And it was the Italian guy who ended up winning. Yeah, the winner, the lead singer of their little bit. Manly skin. So as a member of the band that won this year's year was in song contest has agreed to take a drug test. The events organizer said Sunday after video of the Italian frontman leaned, leaning his face toward a table, raised suspicions of cocaine use. It definitely looked like that's what he was doing, but you couldn't quite see. Oh, man, I wish I would have seen this video.

I know. The link has had the video and then it got removed. Let's see. Yeah. Maybe they put it back. No. Oh, maybe they did. Oh, really? Okay.

Hold on. I'm trying to see. No, that's a news video. They don't actually show it now. Somebody remove the video and that sucks because I've seen the video and it's great. It's great because this guy's like, he's going like, yeah, and then he leans over it and he just, and then comes up and I'm going, yeah. No, he was just looking at it broken glass, looking at it really closely, he says. Anyway, he says he'll take a drug test. He's like, all right, fine.

his name is demonio david it's a weird weird name sure lead singer the glam rock band main skin uh i think yeah was that it's got an umlau i don't know it's got the little circle above the a that's that's one i that's one i don't know that's not a long or short vowel sound i don't know what that is that called not umlout um no it's a not just accent something else ed erisi or something like that uh what are those little pickle tasting things that are like little balls. What are those called? You know what I'm talking about?

They take like pickles. Not olives, no. They're like, you put them in a, you put them in soups. Little tiny things. Capers. I'm going to call that a capers. I'm going to call it a caper.

I don't know why. I'm just going to call it that. Anyway, it won international competition on Saturday offered to take voluntary drug test after arriving home. According to the EBU, the event organized. Quote, the test was requested by them last night, but could not be immediately organized by the EBU.

We were looking at a footage carefully and will update further in due course. He is denied taking the drugs. His ban, management, and the head of the Italian delegation have said there were no drugs present in the green room or David and his ban were sitting during the incident in question. I don't use drugs, David said in the press conference. Please, guys, don't say that.

And really, no cocaine, he says. Claire put a link to the YouTube video in here. And, yeah, it looks like, so they're in there, like, I was thinking that this was, it's funny because it looks like they're in the audience, but they've just got so many video screens around them. Right. But it's the look that the other guy gives while the, the dude who's allegedly snorting.

It's kind of like a little smile. Like, oh, uh-huh, can do that. Have some of that? Okay. Oh, he took one and he passed. We've got an update. He passed the test. He doesn't have co-e did.

All right. Well done. Turned out to be, what is that? That powder, the, comes with a candy stick. Lickamade. He was snorting liqueamade. Lickamade. Is that what it called?

Lickamade. Lickamade? What am I thinking? Dippin' dot, no, not Dippe. Dippin dots, Popeye, Popeye, not Popeye. Synthetic Pee and Ween. Shaved at Maddox. Where are we going with this? Pixie sticks, not pixie sticks. No, not Pixie sticks. It's that other... Fun dip? Fun dip. Fun dip? Fond dip? Yes. Fun dip. Right? Is this a regional? Yeah. Yeah, fun dip. You got the four pack, different flavors. You got that weird candy stick. You dip in them.

Right? Yeah, but... Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. But it was originally called lickamade. Okay, so I'm not crazy. Oh, okay. It was originally called licamade. You're old school. That's what that is. I apparently am. Like, before Wonka bought it, they were licamade.

Hold on, Wonka owns this. It's a Wonka product now, yeah. Really? Okay, so like a Willy Wonka type. Oh, yeah, it is Wonka now. Look at that. Yeah. Where's some trying to see. Okay. So, you know what's funny?

I'm just thinking this last night about you kind of have this old soul sort of stuff going on. I do. I'm watching this TikTok channel and it's all like retro stuff and one of them is the introduction of everybody in the Hollywood squares in 1979. So it's like showing each square

and Harvey Corman's going Hey, right, right, right. Whalen flowers and madame. And I'm watching that going, Brian knows all of these people. I really thought that. I almost sent you that video. I wish I would have now. oh yeah it'd be fun to it's too bad you did it be fun to actually on the air like all right you know play a little bit and then play a little bit and then pause it's like okay yeah that's so you everything about that was you and i just couldn't yeah i used to watch that um all right moving on here yeah so lickamade uh just put a link in the uh licka sticks the lick the uh the candy stick was called the licka sticks boy can't can't understand why they would have changed the name of the chat

any of this shit I'm shocked Those are terrible names Oh look how old that is Wow Lickamed Fun Dip Dip it taste it

Wow That almost sounds like One of your weird translations of Japanese candy It does right Exactly Artificial flavored cherry And they had that stick

Oh that's crazy Plus that guy looks like He looks like one of those I'm only a bail One of those Ray does look like a Saturday morning What's that called Jukebox

Schoolhouse rock. Schoolhouse rock. Schoolhouse rock. All right. Here's the story about, oh, this is kind of a bummer. 20 firms, basically 20 companies are responsible. That's a small amount of companies worldwide, all right? Worldwide, 20 companies are responsible for 55% of the world's plastic waste.

Wow. A-holes. You know, but here's the thing, right? You make your plastic forks, plastic plates, whatever. And then they get re-branded as, like, it's all from one central factory kind of thing, or is it? Oh, I see what you're saying. Like, who's actually making it? I think that, well, in this case, ExxonMobil.

Maybe Solo isn't the problem. Well, it says here that ExxonMobil is the greatest single plastic waste polluter in the world. Wow. So they don't manufacture. plastic goods. They just happen to use a ton of it and whatever. They contribute 5.9 million tons to the global waste mountain.

This is consistent. My favorite ride at Disneyland, by the way, is global waste mountain. I would ride that. Sure. How long is the line for global waste mountain? Yeah. I wouldn't turn that down. That'd be fine.

Australia, by the way, leads in the list of countries for generating the most single-use plastic waste on a per capita basis. Wow. They are ahead of the United States, South Korea and Britain, who round out the other three or the top four. The largest chemical company in the world, McKenzie or Wood McKenzie, which is the Dow, also Dow Chemical, which is based in the U.S. They create 5.5. The least popular but light character.

Yeah, no. Yeah, nobody... Is our new mascot, Wood McKenzie? Yeah, Wood McKenzie. Nobody really likes Wood McKenzie. Nobody likes Wood McKenzie. Just stands there at attention. Anyway, so in China, China oil, that's the other one.

But they're lower than, like, Exxon alone. So these aren't even... None of these are like plastic manufacturers. They're all just wasters of it. Like, you know, they use it in their processes, whatever their processes are. But, you know, it's not straws and forks. it's, uh, you know, just tons of the stuff. Sure.

It's probably, yeah, and it probably isn't those little small things. It's going to be box inserts that hold things a certain way and things like that that can't be easily recycled. Well, they should do better is all I'm saying. They should do better. Agreed. Try to do better, guys, if you can. That'd be good. Uh, all right.

Oh, this is great. Uh, I don't know how to say this county. Outa gamey? Anyway, the Outagamee Sheriff's County Sheriff's Office, wherever this is, let's see. This is in, uh, I don't know where this is. Maybe, maybe, I don't know what it's. I'll look it up while you, um, yeah, see if you can figure out where that is. Because they knew 9-1-1, so it's in the States.

I just don't know where. Anyway, uh, the sheriff's office, there's, they're at, oh, is it? Okay. Yep. They're asking. It's weird cheese people with their names over there. What do you guys do? Um, they're asking people to avoid calling 911 about recent satellite sightings.

So if you see a satellite light in the sky, the sheriff saying, don't call 911. Don't think it's a UFO. Okay. Okay. Uh, according to Facebook post on Sunday, uh, the, the county 911 has been receiving many questions about the long string of lights appearing in the night, uh, sky lately. The lights are satellites and part of a new internet service called Starlink, which I'm signed up for beta because I want to try this. but I don't have it yet.

Altegamy, apparently is how that's pronounced. Outagamy. Otegamy? Okay. Sounds like a cheese, right? It does. Oh, I love a good fresh cut outtogamy cheese. Oh.

It's white. Side. Yeah, it's 99.3% white. Y'all need to go. If you go to Midway, like I was talking about yesterday, there's this. I forgot the name of it. There's a farm that just sells, you can go in there, they have this beautiful shopping space,

and they just sell fresh cheese from the farm there. I've never had better cheese. It was so good. Oh my gosh, it was so good. I don't even know the kind of cheese. I don't know the kind of cheese. I went online and listened to one of those, how do you pronounce?

Oh, were you wrong? And it said, and it said, I'll take you me. So, okay. Screw you, YouTube and people telling you how to pronounce things. They don't know anything. What do they know? Yeah. Yeah.

So it's just out of gaming? Out of gaming. This is all part of Elon Musk's SpaceX program satellite thing. They've launched 1,500 satellites so far and has about a thousand customers testing the services all right now. The most recent launch. Hey, Amazon, I'd like to buy that Mario Odyssey. Oh, I'm sorry, we're out of gaming. Yeah, we're out of gaming.

Sorry. No gaming. No gaming. Brian's really enjoying this out of gaming stuff. really into it. I like it. Final story today. Yeah.

A snake bit a dude at a doorbell, doorbell cam, and they caught it on video, and it's great. Oh, I bet. Now that video's down. What? Hold on. Oh, they pulled it down. Oh, no. Really?

Yeah, I saw it before they did, though. All right. Not that I'd show us to the chat. It's a little, it's a little harsh. Really? He gets bit right in the face. Okay, there is a photo of him. I've got a link.

You want a link? Yeah, do you have it? Yeah. Okay. Let me pull up the actual story. It's on Facebook. Because you see him, you see the before and after. Oh, my gosh, this poor guy.

Okay, where'd you put that? There it is. I put in our... Oh, someone's a Benjin. You got a YouTube link as well. Oh, geez. Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah. Oh, my God. Can you believe that? Oh. Here, Chad. I'm going to show you. he just walks up to this door going to go in and lives there

boink what the frick god oh and it's like you can tell the lower the fangs are stuck in the in his head for a second yeah like it's almost like his eyelid almost got to his eye

lucky it didn't get him right in the eye all right effing snakes dude oh no good thing this wasn't Australia jeez kidding he wouldn't be around it says here that on Sunday, Gerald Haywood, rather, went to visit his friend Rodney Copeland in his home in Lotton, Oklahoma. As Haywood told CNN, the attack happened suddenly, he opened the

screen door. Well, we've seen it. We know. Anyway, at Lungeford, bit him in the head. It was a, it was wrapped around the porch light, I guess. The man could not believe what happened if the screams of horror were any indication. I didn't play the screams of horror. Did he do you make a scream? I didn't hear the scream. I didn't have, I didn't have audio on for that very reason. I was just see. I'm just going to check. Okay, hold on. Here we go. I need.

Oh, fuck. Yeah, fully appropriate. I would make whatever sound, I would make no attempt to sound masculine or, Nope. Tough or whatever. whatever sound I would lose it

I would lose it well anyway I saw a really funny okay another great TikTok account I follow is door ring videos from people's doors and it's always just like funny stuff that happens and it's everything from like yesterday

a FedEx guy was delivering something and he had to kind of squat down to get a picture of where the package was and he sat right on a jumping cactus and then spent like 10 minutes trying to pull cactus off his butt. So it's stuff like that. Okay.

But one of them was, oh, I'm trying to remember which one it was. Which one was he going to tell you about? There's so many. Oh, I know what it was. The caption said, this is the guy hooked up with last night or whatever. And now it's showing like,

it's like two o'clock in the morning because you see the little timestamp on the video. Guys leaving the house. The door, you hear the door, go, he walks out on the front report, stops there for a second and goes, and just lets off the big fart you've ever heard in your freaking laugh. And didn't know he's being filmed.

He's in the clear. Yeah. Yeah. He didn't know he's being filmed. Which just, I laughed so freaking hard. It was like this. Where is it? Do I have it here?

No, yeah. It was like that. Well, we'll be. climax at the end there like a little it finished strong yeah finished really strong anyway just I guess

did you were you did you want to go to Adrian's big birthday party TikTok teen's birthday party out there in California this last week no I heard about that what what no no like

however many what 25000 TikTokers showed up and and whose birthday destroyed a somebody named Adrian. I don't know who. But destroyed a lifeguard tower and I figure you know all those TikTok people.

You don't know Adrian on TikTok? No, I've never heard of him. Adrian Porter. How do you not know Adrian on TikTok? It must be this V Adrian Porter person. Okay, here's some news. Nope. I was going to see if I could find it. No, I hadn't heard of this. So they wrecked something? Something got Yeah, they destroyed a, so like the

thing was, the plan was to meet at this lifeguard tower over on I think Huntington Beach Tribal Donut mom is And so they're all dancing on it It's too much weight on it It collapses, destroys the Lifeguard Tower cops come

Say okay, this is too many people You guys have to break this up No more of this And then they turn into a mob And start throwing bricks and rocks And glass bottles and things like that Oh my gosh That's too many people to control

You can't control that And apparently doing the worm Like a lot of them just started Started doing the worm So hold on the worm is a what A dance? It's a dance, yeah Dance I got to look at this

Sure Because I don't know what the worm is Swanlight canceled Hold on Good right Oh I can't find anything that just shows it Okay Oh that dance

Where you gotta be 15 and have good bones Yeah exactly or none whatsoever. Because you dive forward and then worm up and then, yeah, okay. Right, right. All right. Well, whatever. I have the same problem with TikTok fame as I did with Vine or Vine fame.

Or any of it, Twitch fame, any of it. Sure, podcasting fame for that matter. It's freaking weird, man. I like our little zone in the middle. I like our little happy place that's not too extreme. Right. Right. Yeah.

Don't let your weird internet niche fame turn. you into a dick. That's right. Words to live by it today on TMS. Unrelated. We're doing the worm in TMS, Vegas. Everybody look forward to it. We're going to throw rocks and bottles. I'm getting all excited now about that idea. I want to go. Oh, dude. Yeah.

All right. We're going to take a break. When we come back, Justin Robert Young will be here. Will we want to talk political things? Maybe. Will we talk about Handmaid's Tale in the Utah Jazz? Probably. But you'll have to stick around to find out. Before all that. though, an indie in the middle from Brian Ibbett. Yeah, this one's a lot shorter than seven minutes. This is, boy, talk about your brand new music that sounds like it came right out of the grunge air, which is just awesome. This is a band called Superbloom.

You might have even heard of a band called Superbloom. They're from New York City, and they have a brand new album that's coming out June, I'm sorry, June 14th. No, I'm sorry, June 1st. June 1st, the album comes out, so early next week. Nice. It was mixed by Joe Reinhardt, who did, who's worked with Beach Bunny, Hopalong, and Joyce Manor, and mastered by Will Yip, who's worked with Code Orange, the Mensinger's, and Turnstile. Big thanks to earshot media for sending this along.

Boy, if this song does not make you think of Smashing Pumpkins, then this song is almost, this song almost needs a cease and desist from Smashing Pumpkins. It's so 90s grunge. Get Billy Corgan on the line. man, he's going to be pissed. Oh, yeah, totally. Here is Pollan from the band Superbloom.

My face is warmth I know I know when I'm pretty sure the way I go My king He really bends me out of shape My world is song My gift Is a family name

My girl A tone Burlage while I'm blacked down through the pain Make-head Your set Makes you so that you forget all in Make head Your set

Makes you so I to forget Holland He moves back from a summer cold, Used to breathe, but I want more While I got down through the main Listening in the sound Oh, think about It really bends me out of shape

For now You see you around Make it your sin makes you so hard to forget falling Lincoln your set makes you so hard to forget falling Pull it Hold on it Hold it Oh man

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That song again is Paulin by the band Superbloom. Nice. Yes. You know, that song, not the song, not Paulin by Superbloom, but the song you played at the coming out of the music there. for whatever reason that song makes me want to dance and it makes me think of

I think I told a story on TMS here where Tristan closing up the Walmart the closers were coming in they come in and put on their own music but the first thing they do is go and check all the bathrooms and make sure that there are no customers hiding the bathrooms or the changing rooms sure and

have they ever found any by the way? Has he ever found like a person in one of those rooms? Oh yeah totally has and and this recent time they look under there, they see the shoes that belong to one of the people who come in for closing. So I was like, okay, well, you look under the stall and see the shoes like, okay, well, they're here for closing. And then they shut all the doors, switch the lights over to the cleaning the Walmart for the next day lights, and turn on the music. And all of a sudden, this guy, who they thought was an employee, comes out of the bathroom, just dancing, just like, really?

Yes, that's great. Like, no stealth of like, I'm going to stick around here and steal stuff. It's like, nope, the music has totally taken over my body and I'm going to dance. That's amazing. So, wait, was he, did he just screw up and not know it was closed? Or was he actually there to do some dirt? Or what was his thing? I don't know.

Tristan just got called over there to escort him to the parking lot. Weird. Yeah. That's a weird story. I love it, though. It's fantastic. All right. Well, speaking of weird stories,

Speaking of weird dancing, let's get jury in here. Yeah, why not? Why not indeed, I say? Let's play this here sound when he arrives. These are their stories. Oh, I'm terrible with names. Welcome to the program, everybody. The one the only Justin Robert Young, purveyor of all things political over there at the PX3 podcast. But much, much more than that.

Justin, welcome back to the show. Hey, friends. It's great to be back. Hi, it's good to have you here. You're a little on the quiet side. Can you crank your deal up? a tiny bit. Just a little, just a wee bit. I have you maxed, but, uh, does he have, does he have his lights set up in the right place? Should it be red on the right? I'm already,

I'm already pretty cranked up here. I'm not getting a lot. Much better. Oh, you sound right now. Yeah, right now he sounds great. Much better. I was just wondering, do you have your lights set up correctly? Should it be blue on the left and red on the right? Oh, on my left, it is blue. Oh, right. Your left, but you're, that's only applies to you. What about, what about the thousands and thousands of people watching you. Quite frankly, I don't give a shit. Well, you know, if... Fair enough.

If the world were fair, we'd all know which side the right was on. All right. Hey, we're glad to have you back, of course, and we're going to talk about stuff. Now, the world of politics this week, well, let's just be honest. It's a little boring. It's a lot of stuff like infrastructure.

And are we going to have a commission? Yeah, and Gates, Gates. gate or whatever. Actually, is there anything going on with him? And Lauren Bobert is horrible. And is there any update with him? Is he going to jail? One of his ex-girlfriends is coming forward, right?

For him or against him? I'm not aware. The last thing that I saw was his wingman, who is just a special, special case in Florida, the former Seminole county tax collector Joel Greenberg did formally accept a plea deal but that was that was the last that I had heard in the in the in the Matt Gates yeah I'm guessing he rolled over and now they're just sifting through what that means and figuring out what their next thing so yeah the question is

exactly what he has yeah because he's not exactly the most trustworthy person on this planet Joel Creamberg. So I think it's a wait-and-see situation. You know, the women that he claims was 17, there were people that were on that trip that say that nobody was under 17, so who knows? I will say that anybody trying to suss out the truth from this particular bag of snakes is going to have a very interesting time.

You're going to get bit by the snakes. All right. Well, so we're not going to talk about that even. Instead, I found out that you and I are a bit different ends of a candle on a cultural product known as the Handmaid's Tale, which I have been a gigantic fan since day one and continue to be. And I think this season's really strong. If I had to complain at all, it'll be this last episode was a little hammered through for time. It felt like, but the rest of the season, I felt like they're really on, like, firing on all cylinders and kicking butt. And I thought Jerry would be like, oh, I agree, but no, you don't.

You're kind of meh on the whole thing. Oh, yeah. I mean, I think it's been a mess of a show for a few seasons now. I mean, I guess it doesn't really know what show it wants to be. You know, the only thing that's really consistent about it is that it obviously has a message to get across. It has a political message that it wants to get across, and a cultural message. that it wants to get across. And I think that is effective.

You know, if, if, uh, uh, you want the artful metaphors of both a horrifying man and a literal pig being butchered in the same episode, then, uh, a boy, howdy, will they be here to deliver that subtlety-free metaphor? Sure. But, uh, uh, that being said, I, I kind of like the show at its best when it, it is a very clear on the kind of show it wants to be that season. The problem is that it kind of drifts. And so it's like, I've liked it at its best when it's a dystopian future show.

Like, I cannot get enough of super weird Gilead rituals. I think there was like a season where they just, they were reliably delivering one or two bizarre Gilead rituals per episode. I was very happy for that. I wasn't I mean there's like times where it kind of wants to get into house of cards sort of like political cloak and dagger territory and I always like that kind of stuff this season seems to be a little bit more into somewhere between guerrilla warfare and the sopranos and I like that as well I think that uh you know that they always have good actors that it's a very well-acted show. And so if it is, you know, essentially two warring mob families, then I think that they're going to, they're going to chew up that material.

That's interesting because, you're right. It is trying to be all of those things intermittently. Like, it's trying to, it switches things around and tries to maybe seasonally or maybe even multiple times in a season kind of change, change the kind of thing that it is. And there's a lot more sort of, I wouldn't call it action, but there's a lot more. sort of tense adventure happening in this season and less of the psychological oh my gosh how did we get here yeah and and and all that yeah i mean i don't know i think that there is a a genre of television uh that is kind of message first these days and uh that's that's fine you know i think

if you are into that message being spelled out with exquisite acting and okay writing then you're going to be super excited by falcon and the winter soldier but if you are there kind of for the stories and for the characters I don't know if having your main character just give a monologue at the end of the season that just sort of explains your message is necessarily going to be the most artful or delicate way that you could have talked. I think that's why it's working for me is the acting. And I, you know, I don't, I'm not, I'm not being super critical of the writing so much in my day, in my, in my, in my viewing, I think, because I really like the acting, like a lot. Like, everybody's compelling. If

anything, there isn't enough of some of the familiar faces that we usually get on the evil side of things. We barely seen, um, uh, what's her name, Stravinsky? The, yeah, the two main bad. That's, that's a problem. Spoiler alert. for this season. But the problem with sidelining your two biggest villains is that they can kind of just sort of glower on the sidelines, you know, unless they've got a way to figure it out. But then again, that's another problem that I've had with the show is that for a show for which the stakes are all encompassing, right? We are talking about freedom and slavery and, you know, misogyny writ in the most

draconian levels that you possibly can imagine they've kind of used sort of writery reasons you know sort of tricks to sort of keep the pot boiling which you know at times

has been a little frustrating when you are you don't feel like those decisions are necessarily the things that the characters would do but um you know it is it is it is what it is i like the first uh episode although i i was there are times in which you look at some of these characters and you're like okay well obviously they're the good guys because they're the ones trying to bring down this of oppressive regime you know yeah a dictatorial society um that oppresses uh of one half of

of its population by by gender reasons but also it's like boy she definitely just recruited somebody to do something really awful at the end you know it's it's

I get I get it I guess I get it but that's why it kind of reminded me more of like a mob story where it's like no this is about I mean I guess there's there's a fine line between guerrilla warfare and mob story, but it was like, okay, I kind of get it in the way that

like Tony Soprano would have his little nephew do a awful thing to prove that they're all in this together. Yeah, there is a little bit of that. But there's also just like you've got to do, the general theme of you've got to do a really hard thing during these hard times.

And sometimes those hard things get other people killed or you've got to, you know, You've got to make the least damaging choice possible, but the damage is still there. There's the plight of it. Yeah, but the whole episode was about her shattered innocence. Yeah, that's right. Yeah.

A whole episode, the entire plot moves forward on the idea that, oh, my God, you shouldn't have had to grow up this fast. So the ending being, oh, well, F it. Let's just go all the way. So by ending, so all the episodes of the current season have finally come out? No, he's saying the ending of that first episode of this. he's a little bit behind compared to where I'm at I'm at well I'm caught up we just started it because you've been watching Ozark so we got to the end of season three on Ozark and then decided to take a wee bit of a break talk about a

show that just can't figure out exactly how to keep pot boiling oh ohzark you think really yeah this is like sometimes all right so what really matters here like sometimes it's it's the oppressive overwatch of the cartel sometimes it's how fast they're going to be able to on to the money. Sometimes it's the unpredictability of their partners and like, they just kind of, you rely on them to tell you what you care about this episode, because

then they'll just do things like talk to FBI agents in public, which would seemingly go against the overarching element of the cartel, or just not mention the money for a couple episodes. And you're like, wait a minute, isn't that like what everybody was like pulling their fingernails out before? Was that

like $5 wasn't laundered on time? Uh, So, yeah, that's another one where I'm having a hard time figuring out exactly which shoulder I'm supposed to be looking over. And it's really made me appreciate shows like Breaking Bad and the Americans, which were exceptional at that. Like, you never really felt like, oh, okay, I know where the danger's coming from. Right. I know where this is, you know, going to affect our characters. Well, see, I was going to ask you this question because it feels like we're kind of circling around.

to it. Are there any examples, like Breaking Bad pulled it off? I think Better Call Saul seems to be pulling it off. We'll see how they do in their final season. But so many of these shows, Peter out in their final act. And it's usually like a third season or something, sometimes beyond. But they just seem to be more and more starting really strong and peering out. The killing reminded me of this. I love that first season of the killing. And then it got weird. suspense television is hard to do yeah and it was really kind of pioneered by shows like the shield or um you know breaking bad kind of took it to a new level the americans i think was a very very worthy entry into that yeah uh but it's hard it's hard to to keep your character in a in a corner and then have them escape by the skin of their teeth and then uh have them get back to another corner and that's the problem that ozark kind of fell into was that their solution for getting out of the corner became the exact same thing every time where it was just like

oh what if we just buy the thing oh okay so that's again we're just gonna oh no we have a tax problem I'm inventing a few other episodes buy the federal government like

yeah I don't know it's it's I mean that's a show that's that's also extraordinarily well-acted. Yeah. You know, but the writings kind of... Well, the irony is the last two things that Damon Lindelof did, had amazing endings.

I thought, anyway. I know you're a little more mixed on how Watchmen went, but I think that thing was... I also wasn't a gigantic fan of how it middled or began. Yeah, you weren't a fan of most of it. You didn't love that. But I loved it. And I loved the, what's the other one?

Not the regrettables. What's called? The leftovers? No. That's my, that's my nickname for watching. The regrettables. I loved that show. I loved it.

And I ended really strong. And I just, I guess it's just ironic because he used to be ripped on for how horribly he would end things. For how lost ended. Yeah, and lost and other stuff. And it's, and it's funny that, you know, he had. you know pretty good run here for the last two and everyone else seems to be ending them poorly like as much as i really enjoyed premise wise and i still watched every second of it but i like why was that a good ending i'm not going to let this stand no which movie which movie or which thing

which show watchman watch i like how it ended it was great what happened what was the point it just it the point was did you know you get the watchman and the stuff Yeah. I mean, I don't know. I just, I didn't, it ended fine. And he's not doing any more, you know, seasons. And it left you wanting more. I think that's good. That was my favorite part of the ending was them saying that they weren't going to bastardize the watchman anymore. See, I think that's what you never got past was just them taking your beloved origin. No, it was just a bad adaptation. It's fine if you want it. Look, also I think that Lovecraft Country came right after it and it did genre, uh, television with very similar messages, including the Tulsa riots, better than Watchman did. Yeah.

Like, you know, that was like a leftover, uh, sorry, a Lovecraft country to me was a great example of a message show where the themes fit the genre elements that they were trying to weave into it, where, you know, I think Watchman was a show where they had this thing, this like comic book thing that has like very elemental and rich threads and these characters are important because they're good, right? And then you just kind of totally go away from everything that sort of makes that comic book fine, which is great, right? Whatever, you're adapting it. You can do what you want. But I do think it's, it kind of did what the last few seasons of Game of Thrones did where it's like these characters that we follow that we like

are good for a reason. They make decisions for a reason. That's why we are invested in it. And so when they start making decisions that don't feel good or these things that we are watching the show because we want to see resolved, we want to see push forward, are just kind of thrown aside, then you can't help but think, well then what am I doing here? Why am I watching this? If you wanted to tell a story about a future world in Tulsa, you could do that. And you could write all these characters

and they could act as strangely as they want without the idea of the Watchman. I just didn't think that the show particularly had a lot of, you know, understanding of what made Watchmen great and how do weave that into what they wanted to do. Whereas Lovecraft Country was a show where it's like, you want to tell a horror,

a series of horror, stories about racism, boy, they found awesome ways to highlight that. And sometimes the monsters were the monsters that were literally monsters. And sometimes they were, you know, an ominous cop car, you know, trailing a town with sundown laws. And it's like, that's horror. That's playing into the genre and getting where you need to go, at least in my opinion. I agree.

I love that. I thought that was a really cool series. Brian, did you ever end up watching? I never saw Lovecraft Country, but it is. it's on our list uh you should definitely watch it's cool it was i hope there's more of that i don't know if they're we've said but just wrapping up season two of for all mankind which i think is is a great show oh i need to see i've only seen like episode one and then just lost track of time it's i liked what i saw and i was stoked watched anything on apple tv

except for ted lasso well if you're going to watch one thing on apple tv that is the thing to watch i'd say i'd say mythic quest is another really good i've heard very good things about that. Yeah. I mean, it's, you know, don't think of it as, and I know this wouldn't scare you away from it, but it's not really a video game show. It is an office show. Yeah, an office comedy about that takes place.

It just happens to take place in a video game. But I like that they root it in, you know, they work with, who is it? Ubisoft is the. Ubisoft, yeah. They work with those guys on, like, you know, behind the scene stuff to make sure they get a lot of that talk right and everything, which I think is just kind of cool to know. But I haven't seen that either, so I should probably watch that. Sure.

Hey, just like Scranton had to learn about how to sell paper. Yeah, that's true. For the realism on that show. That's true. I have a feeling that if it keeps going as good as it's going, the show we may be all talking about in a couple of years as being super strong and consistent and hopefully ending well is that mayor of Newtown? Oh, East Town, Mayor of East Town.

East Town, is it? That's not even done with its first season. I know, but it's so good so far. Is it? Yeah, we haven't watched any of it yet because we're waiting for it. We haven't watched any of it. I have heard good. buzz. It's got enough buzz that we'll probably wind up watching it. But

you're going to, you're going to say that it's going to be one of those shows? Well, I don't know. I'm just saying, I'm going to see if it's landing first. No, I realize, I realize it's, you know, I don't have, I don't have the evidence of multiple seasons yet, but I'm saying so far that it feels, it feels like one of those. And it could fall off the rails, I suppose. But it just feels like, I don't know, it's, it feels like in that category of. Breaking Bad, Fargo, Saul, some of those, like, where it's just you can count on it.

It has that feeling. I could be wrong, though. By the end, maybe it'll all fart apart, but. Where are you out on the last season of Fargo? I really like all of Fargo, so I'm a horrible person to ask if you want some hard criticism. No, no, no, no. I liked it. I'm a huge fan of every season.

I felt like the last season was the first one where you could kind of start to see the strings, a little bit that like well yeah to connect each of the seasons you mean the no no no just um you know when when Fargo the show came out you're like how can you take this beautiful amazing movie

this revered movie that put the Cohen brothers of all people on the map and adapted to television and then they did it and you're like what the hell that's insane that's amazing and they did it again you're like that's crazy how do they do it and they did it again and you're like these guys are the best

and then by the fourth season you're like oh they have a crazy person they have a hero they have like all these stories it's like oh you're the you're the super mean one this season and you're the conflicted hero

and you're the pure of heart oh okay I just like that they they made a mob movie and and it really reminded me of Miller's Crossing,

another Cohen Brothers film that I revere. And I really don't have I don't have much to say in the negative about it. It did things I didn't expect. The stuff with Raylan Givens came out of nowhere for me in terms of how it ended. Well, that was literally

just written for you. Oh, it totally was. It might have just exo, exo, X-Johnson at the bottom of it. Yeah, it kind of was. It kind of was. I admit that. At you're playing the super high-functioning Mormon detector. from Utah Eaton carrots

He might as well calling him a gurp or whatever Right Might as well call it Mad Max Yeah Yeah exactly

Yeah Like well My name is Mad Max Fury Road Johnson I'm here to Your case And he drinks

It the whole thing A milk And then eat Taco Bell in his car Yeah You're not wrong It did feel like That was kind of

made for me But I loved All of it And I'm I'm only worried that there may not be, I don't know if there's a fifth, is there a fifth? They haven't said. I don't know what Noah Hawley's doing, but he can't, you know.

I mean, everything's in the crazy town blender because of COVID. So it's like, you know, there was a bunch of stuff like that was shot and some stuff that wasn't. So we're just going to get a weird gap year of stuff. And I think we're probably going to get a lot of rush stuff just to fill the gap. Oh, I don't love that idea, but I guess, I guess that is how it's going to probably go. Well, anyway, I like it when, uh, I like it when, uh, sometimes politics are boring and we can talk about things in the you know the entertainment sphere so yeah you're always there you're always there

i'm a jack of all trades speaking of which reminds me that i have not seen the new season of master of none but oh is that the thing that's gonna be so weird to not have azizanzari be the central yeah he's apparently he cameos in it a couple times that's what i hear yeah oh is that true he's not the main dude uh-uh no oh this is a story about his his friend lena waif uh who was played by lena waif and her wife but it's uh apparently kind of an homage to uh 70s uh marriage dramas like like by like ingbar birman and uh but about a black queer couple and uh aziz and sorry is in it nominally i guess uh interesting apparently they said that they couldn't do another season of Aziz just liking tacos I'm trying to remember

they did that also with another show we watched recently I can't remember the name of it Julia Roberts was the central focus of the first season had to do with a memory drug a memory wiping Oh wasn't that a podcast adaptation? I think it was yes it was

it was a podcast that adapted into a TV series Julia Roberts was the first season and then I think Janelle Monet took over for the second season and both seasons I thought were really, really good but it was a weird it was the same kind of thing although Julie Roberts didn't even cameo

in the second season she's like yeah I'm done that's all the yeah nor do I think Julia Roberts's dating history was scandalously which you know as has happened to Z's Homecoming that's right it was homecoming

yeah that was good well it's been five years since they last did this right the show yeah which one homecoming no sorry master of none yeah although cheers to them for pulling pulling one of the greatest heist of television history and just setting the first half of their second season in italy for literally no reason because the the streaming budgets were we're big enough and just saying now we're just going to do literally the same plots we would have done in New York, but we're going to go to Italy. I think Marvelous Mrs. Maisel did the exact

same thing. Yes, right. We really... Yeah, we're just going to go to France. Pretty much no reason. The characters really aren't going to advance. And then at some point, all the characters are just going to say, we should go back to New York, and they're just going to be back in New York. You know, I think that they do a lot of that because, like,

how can I work in a vacation to some place I want to go? George Clooney, hey, why everybody want to go to Paris for for oceans 12 what do you say let's do it well that's that the Adam Sandler model

right yes yes and shoots the movie in the place they would other ones in the place they want to go yeah yeah I'm thinking of making my next film in a water park I love that that's always the voice I love this impression

it's pretty good Adam Sandler oh yeah it's pretty good all right speaking of pretty good it's okay pretty good. I love it because it sounds like he, like he's a very,

a very curious detective. Like he's on, he's on the game. Like you would be a detective in a children's movie or something. That's right. Yeah, yeah. Speaking of,

but Adamson would have all his friends for that too. Yeah, of course he would. Justin, you're, you're, of course, a busy man. You got a lot going on this week. Why don't you tell people about some of it and where they can get it?

Sure. So politics, politics, politics is the podcast, and we are going to have the great Tom Merritt on tomorrow's episode talking all about ransomware and whether or not the government should step in and do more to kind of protect not only the infrastructure like the colonial pipeline, which fell victim to it and led to gas shortages across the East Coast, but also in some other sectors where ransomware has been a real problem for many years now. it is only getting worse going forward. So you can go ahead and check that out. And then also on Friday's edition of the show, we had a new segment wherein I broke down a old attack ad. So the 1988 ad weekend passes, otherwise known as Willie Horton, which was purported to not only sink Michael Dukakis's candidacy,

also racialized presidential politics. We investigate both of those claims, and I think find them both a little bit wanting, but also get a lot of a backstory and information, including the fact that that ad was not done by the Bush campaign. It was done by a political action committee before we even had the name political action committee. Oh, wow. I didn't know that. Well, you're going to learn a lot. I'm going to learn a lot. If you got download the politics, politics, politics.

You'll get it, everybody. Brian. Justin Robert Young, everyone. Take it easy. Have fun. Play the clip. Play the clip. Oh, the clip. Hold on.

Here it is. The jury will now retire. All right. Bye now. Thank you for the reminder. No problem. Okay. We have a mashup to play, a bonus mashup.

This is a TMS Origins mashup about Tender Crespe Bacon, Cheddar Ranch. Finally, yes. Finally, we know where this came from. So let's listen together, as Jamie helps. us understand. Well, I just got some interesting information that's just in about the term hobo. Boop, boop, boop. The word hobo comes from after the Civil War when soldiers were homeward bound.

It was a shortening of homeward bound. They are different because they were going somewhere. So the difference is this is a temporary state. You've got nothing but the thing on your back and the hat on your head and the shoes to move you forward, but you are heading somewhere. The theory is. But that got more and more esoteric, right? Because that's what that song, Big Rock Candy Mountain is about.

You know, at some point, it stopped becoming like, oh, I'm traveling to go get back to Chantilly, Virginia. And instead it was like, I'm going to this fictional place of drunken debauchery. Yeah, there was a Darius Rucker version for a Burger King commercial. What? It was not exactly Big Rock County Mountain, if I remember correctly, right? It was like the Burger King equivalent, like the Whopper Candy Mountain or something like that. Oh, we're playing this. When my belly starts

A rumbling And I'm jones and for a treat I close my eye for a big surprise The tender crisp bacon cheddar ranch What the hell, dude? Holy, bolly You needed a crow bar to fit that many words in that Oh my gosh

I know tender crisp bacon cheddar wrench Thing doesn't fit but squeeze them all in Hold on, it's not long I want to hear the rest of this Folks don't front you because you got the juice There's a trend of ladies coming with a nice caboose Never get in trouble, never need an excuse That's the tender crisp baking cheddar ranch

This is maybe one of the greatest moments In the history of the show I never saw this I didn't know this existed And that is sexist as hell I'm shocked that that song has not like been the opening Of a TMS I am too I didn't know it existed till just now Also I want everybody who writes Brian requesting a cover

To say whatever they really want Or Darius record Either play me the Avenge sevenfold cover of Kashmir or the Darius record cover of Big Rockinia. I would love that and then it gave the meme. It's just like, or we can always just play the bacon, Krisp and the Ranch. That's just amazing. That's amazing. All right, so the whole thing's Justin's fault.

I would have kept him around for that if I'd have known that. It was all his fault. Yep, yep. Oh, wow. I didn't remember that either. I thought it came up spontaneously. with the two of us, but no. No memory of it. So that was great. Geez, Jamie, thank you for that. It's like you're an archivist. An archivist. That's right.

Archivist. All right. Well done. Brian, tell me all about this poster thing. Yeah, this is really cool. So if you are even slightly artistic or better at you're very artistic, then there's a cool thing going on right now. So every year, this year happened to be virtual, but 2022, it's supposed to be back in person, is the Damn Short Film Art Festival put on by the Boulder City, right by Hoover Dam in Las Vegas or in Nevada. And our friend Svetalina from Same Sex Mary is involved in this and helping promote it, help it, help market it. And so every year, she puts together a contest for the poster that goes along with the historic Boulder Theater in Boulder City, Nevada. And there's just some amazing artwork that goes along with us, some amazing posters that go along with this. It's a chance to not only have your poster get picked and be the poster of the, the official poster of the, what is it, the 18th annual, no, 20th annual.

20th annual, it says here, or 17th annual, sorry, 17. Well, it says at the top of the banner, but I don't know if that's. Oh, right, right, right, because 16th was 20-20. So the 17th annual Boulder Dam Short are just the Damn Short Film Festival. But you also get cash, cold hard cash, and two VIP passes, swag, two tickets to any 2022 DSFF program, and everybody gets something for their time. So check it out. the website is if you go to dam short film and that's d a m because of the dam hoover dam dam dam shortfilm dot org uh then you should be able to get to it let's see if you can get to it right

from that or if you have to go to 2020 poster or contest i'll put a link in the show notes here for people i'm looking right now it looks like if you if you go just to the page the home page can you find the oh it's right away you can just is it okay good so if you go right to uh damn shortfilm.org. Yeah, it's all over the place on this thing. There you go. Yeah. Oh, yeah.

There you go. Yep. So design the 2022 damn short film festival poster. And, uh, yeah, lots of great stuff. Uh, deadline is June 1st. So you've, you've got about a week. But, uh, um, you know, there's some really creative people in the, in the TMS audience. And I think it'll, uh, be a really good, good project.

Yeah, go check it out. And, uh, that's very cool that they're doing that. They're super involved in all sort of community stuff. And don't forget, James is like a freaking, he's still like an alderman or something. What's his deal? He is a city councilman. City councilman, yeah. Alderman.

What am I even saying? He's a comptroller. Keeping track of. I think he told us he's currently mayor pro tem as they're between. Oh, really? Is that right? No, maybe not. He's wielding the big stick right now, is he?

Maybe not. Oh, boy, he's going to hate. me for forgetting for getting this roll wrong but I'm trying to look it up and see if I can find it but I'll picture of those two you sent me when you were at dinner with them it's the most James ass pitcher I've ever seen

Oh my God that and that place That place had their kind of style No Bobby Yates is currently the Boulder City Mayor Pro Tem Okay But Here you guys can see him I'll put them up.

Yeah, that place was so, so their vibe. Like, cool purple velvet couches and weird lights that, uh, hang down from the ceiling and stuff like that. There's like drapes and couch that match. Yeah. The drapes match the couch. Yeah. I mean, look at him. It looks like any second now.

Like those, even those frames they're wearing. They look like they bought them at a freaking hipster shop. I love it. Yeah. I love it. And, and, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, Svet's hair right now is this cool blue. It looks amazing.

It looks really, really cool. Yeah, they're awesome. They love those guys. They are awesome. All right. They're the best people. They truly are. They truly are.

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And if you're trying to contact us, send us your emails. The morning stream at gmail. That and all of this can be found in one simple place at frogpants.com slash TMS. Okay. Well, I think we're done. Do you? I don't know. I feel like I could do one more thing.

One more thing? No, we're going to just leave. Oh, well, you know what? One more thing, but it has to be, I'm in the mood for music. I can't just have talk. So is there a song, maybe? Oh, well, I have something. This might work, Scott.

Oh, my gosh. Okay. Andreas from Denmark wrote in and said, Hi, Brian and Scott in parentheses. Well, geez. Long-term listener, first-time birthday song, Wisher, as I'm turning the not too insignificant age of 38, I would love to get a request in for the 25th of May or thereabouts.

I'm a big fan of 90s rock. I would love to request a song, a cover of or buy garbage. The more obscure and the more rocky, the better. Oh. Thanks. And I would like two Oregon fish sandwich. So he writes two Oregon fish sandwich.

And the way I think it is, I think it's, I think he's saying that if you think two Oregon fish sandwich and listen to the guy saying too early to get a fish sandwich, you might start hearing two Oregon fish sandwich. All right. Let's try it. Here we hear what we hear. So think Oregon. Here we go. Hey, two Oregon fish sandwich. Oh my gosh.

Here it is. Two Oregon fish sandwich. You've ruined it for us. Man. I love it. Man. That's cool. All right.

Excellent. Thank you. Yes. All right. Tell about an obscure cover by Garbage. They contributed back in 2003 to a tribute to the Ramones called We're a Happy Family. And for that, they did a cover of the Ramon song.

I just want to have something to do. This rocks. And you're going to love it. Here's Garbage covering the Ramones. I just want to have something to do. Hanging out on cigarette nearer eating chicken with the litter. I just want to be with you. I just want to have something to do tonight, tonight, tonight.

Tonight, tonight, all right. Tonight, tonight, tonight Tonight Tonight Tonight's Word No Word

No Hanging out of my sin I don't want to be with anybody else I just want to be with you I just want to have something to do to tonight, tonight, tonight, tonight, tonight. We're all right, tonight, tonight. Wait no

Wait No Handing out all by myself I don't want to be with anybody else I just want to be with you I just want to have some energy tonight Tonight Tonight, tonight

We're all right Tonight Tonight Wait Tonight Tonight We're all right With

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