The Morning Stream - TMS 2122: Pumping Bee Juice!

Episode Date: June 1, 2021

We Haven't Had A Solid Bee Sting In Years. It's Not Called Oooloo! We Asked For More Fish Cheeks But They Didn't Have Any More Fish Cheeks. Leave the grapenuts, take the cannoli. Don't bother me when I'm dead. I Don't Like Bull Testeeeeeeeeeeees!!! ARE YOU IN?? My foam is now fully erect. Lisa, can I borrow your phone? She's A Small Part Of The Game With Two HUGE Parts! Nuthin' but the Nut. Take That, Chicken Effers! Heart of Hearts and Guts of Guts. A Very Less Quiet Place 2. Opening a brothel with Jury 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.

This episode is brought to you by RISE, a science-based app that makes it easy to improve your sleep and daily energy. Go to RISEcience.com slash TMS and download the RISE app today and try it for free for seven days. Coming up on TMS, we haven't had a solid bee sting in years. It's not called Oulu. We asked for more fish cheeks, but they didn't have any more fish cheeks. Leave the grape nuts. Take the canoli. Don't bother me when I'm dead. I don't like bull testes.

Are you in? My phone is now fully erect. Lisa, can I borrow your phone? She's a small part of the game with two huge parts. Nothing but the nut. Take that, chicken effers. Heart of hearts and glutes. Sorry, guts of guts.

A very less quiet place, too. Opening a brothel with Jerry and more on this episode of the Morning Stream. Let's use some very special photography to compress the whole job of preparing a meal into a few seconds of time. It is another rainy day today in Pennsylvania. This is the morning. This is the morning stream. The day, be the news. Hello, everybody.

Welcome back or two for the first time. TMS, the morning stream for Tuesday, June 1st, 2020. I'm Scott John Smith, Brian. I'm Scott. John Smith, Brian Abbott, Hi, right. Hello, Scott. Welcome to a brand new month. A new month. That's right. Get in there and people who've never done a Patreon before and throw us a buck. Because it's a new month and it's time. Your life has come to this. You've come to this crossroads and you have a choice now. Make the right ones. All I'm saying, make the right choice. Make the right decisions. That's right. Don't go astray. Hey, welcome back, everybody. You're going to be back. We were here yesterday, but it was a holiday. So we played video games with our. with our listeners. And that was nice. Yeah. I enjoyed it a lot. Sometimes that's all you need to do, right? Just play video games. Yeah. Do that. Sometimes you just need to do it. So we hope you had a lovely Memorial Day. I went and visited my dad's grave.

We don't always do that. He was actually kind of opposed to it. Like when I'm gone, don't come visit me. I hate that. And I'm like, oh, okay. Whatever. He really did. He didn't like it. It doesn't like the pomp and the circumstance of all that stuff. He's like, it's just a, you know, it's just a body anyway or his case ashes. So it's like not even that big a deal in his mind. So he was always like not that much for it. But my daughter's like, we should go, dad, we should go.

I said, all right, let's do it. So we went out there. Well, it's not for him anyway. It's for you guys. That's right. It's for us. So we went out there. It's a beautiful day.

We actually went on Sunday because we knew it would be a little crazy on Monday. So we went Sunday. And there were still a lot of people at that plays just, hard to get in and out of there. Sure. Anyway, there's stuff everywhere. And, of course, Van, you know, two years old, never seen a place like this before.

He thinks, like, all smart, normal children should that it's cement hopscotch when you go to the... Yep, yep. And you know what? He has no idea what lurks six feet down from where he's standing. He has no idea. Now, when I was young, my mom would go, get off the graves. Don't stand on them when I was real little, right?

She'd get all upset. But my dad would go, oh, what's the big deal? They're dead. They don't care. That was his answer. So in this case, I didn't say anything. I'm like, go for it, kid. Enjoy it while you're two.

Because soon enough, you'll figure it out and you'll have all the feelings of, you know, reverence around graves. And you won't stand on them automatically when you're an adult. But when you're a little kid, you're two years old, just whatever. Go ahead. Nobody cares. Unless there's people there, like, gathered around a gravestone. Yes. Yeah, you don't want to be on that one.

or any the ones nearby. Right. But it was a weird experience because I've got video of Nick when he was three and we were visiting his same grandpa's grave side, three years after his death. And there was a gravestone with a motorcycle on it

and him asking me, I have video of him asking me, what's this for? Or what does this mean? And in his little voice and I said, oh, well, that's somebody who probably was really into motorcycles. And he goes, really, and do you, you know,

had all these questions, and I have this video of that. Well, that's all great and everything, but yesterday, or Sunday, we're there, and I see that same exact grade with that, with that motorcycle on that. Oh, wow. Okay. That was weird. That was a weird feeling. Yeah.

Yeah. And so I sent that video to heck and, guess, guess which one of you is getting older, by the way? Yeah. Yeah. Oh, and to make it worse, motorcycle guy was born a month before me. So, oh, really? Oh, geez.

He died at like 29 or something. Wow. Yeah. I don't know what happened. Maybe motorcycle related. I have no idea. Maybe he died how he lived. He made on the edge and on a bike. He died doing what he did best. Yeah. What I'm the phrasing. Doing what he loves. Speeding in a motorcycle. Anyway, it was fine. It was nice. It was lovely. Beautiful weather. 72 degrees. Just perfect. A little breeze. Like you couldn't ask for more. It was hotter yesterday and today. It's going to be like 85.

Going to be 97 at the end of this week. Oh, my God. We had, we had garbage. weather over the weekend. I couldn't ride Sunday or yesterday. I was able to get in a quick ride Saturday right after Film Sack. But, and then the rain came in and the rain did not stop for the rest of Saturday, all of Sunday, and all of yesterday.

But today, today we're getting good weather. So right after the show, I'm going on another bike ride. It's nice. Look at you. Prep. I got to get those rides in. Yeah. How far are we now? We're not that far. We are, let's see, 25 days away. It's the 26th of this month. So, And there you go.

Yep. Time to lather up, lather up your crotch with some banana butter and go to town. All right, exactly. Or whatever that is. All right. No bananas are harmed in making. Everything is fine. So the other thing that happened is, you know, my kids aren't allergic or anything, neither am I.

But we haven't had a good bee sting in the family for years. It's been a long time since we've had just a solid bee sting. and uh darn darn that that record just got broken i think it may have been me the last one was me i got dive bombed in like 2003 or four got stung on the shoulder or head or something i don't remember um other than that been pretty good and the kids before that maybe nick when he was real little smashed a bee and then it stung him or something i came or what happened yesterday carter's out in the yard uh hunting down something with the dog i don't know looking for a toy or whatever whatever, and stepped on something.

She wasn't sure what it was. And suddenly felt horrible pain in her foot, lifted it up. And there was a bee on the ground dying, writhing in pain because she stepped on it and left the little stinger in her foot. Now, I had heard that bee sting, the stinger that's left in your body is still moving and pumping juice into you, but I'd never seen it because all the bee stings I've ever had, they pulled out. They pulled out of the last second.

And so I didn't stay in there. But in her case, the Stinger's in her foot. And you got up close. I took video of this. And it's just going. I saw. Yeah, I saw the video of that thing like still moving. It was like, oh my God.

That's so. It was like it was the freakyest thing I've ever seen. But I guess that's normal. I guess that's a thing. I just never heard of it before. And she's fine. No reaction. Good.

A little redness. No big deal. Tina's allergic. In California, we, in California, we were. We're out jet skiing with my uncle. And we're standing in the water. He's got the jet ski, but we're just kind of standing in the ocean. And there's a bee kind of floating in the water.

I'm like, oh, watch out, Tina. There's a, you know, dead bee kind of last legs, right? Like it's basically, it's getting, breathing its last moments of life. And she's like, oh, and she, you know, washes it away or pushes it away with her hands. and then we're not paying attention watching the Jets King this thing got up again close to her stung her and then died

just like basically I must sting someone stung her and yeah or California Lennonate I thought I said that at the beginning of all this and then we found out

surprisingly she wasn't super allergic before but boy she is allergic now not closing up her breathing allergic But big red welt all over that area. See, that sounds like Kim's sushi seaweed problem because the first time, a little bit, no big deal. Second time, worse. Third time, real bad.

Fourth time, that's when she decided to stop eating it because it was just getting worse every time she'd try it. So she may have one of those where every time you get stung, it gets worse. It just increases. Yeah. Yeah, I think that's a thing. I've heard that before about allergies or allergic reactions, but that's a bummer. You know, as much as I'm glad I'm not allergic to bees, I still don't want to get stung by one, you know. No, no, for sure.

I have a mental allergy towards bees. You know, that was the same trip that, so we, Tina and I got on the jet scheme, we went way out to some buoys where some seals were floating. You were just sitting on these buoys floating around. And because we were doing some water skiing from the back, we had a flag jammed in one of the watertight ports that's on the boat that you open with a little latch. But because the flag is slightly longer than the port, or the little bay, it pushes the door open a little bit. Inside that was my iPhone inside a plastic bag. And so we get out there to see the seals.

And I open up that port. We pull the flag out so it doesn't fall in the water. And then I pull out the Ziploc bag with my phone in it. And the bag itself is full of water. And my phone is sitting in there like, well, that's not good. Oh, that sucks. We took it home. We put it in rice.

That doesn't work. No. And then the next day we went to the Grove, Orange County Grove. Not Orange County Grove. Some Santa Barbara or Pasadena Grove Apple store, and I bought a new iPhone. And this was back before they were waterproof to some level. Yeah. Yeah, because the current one would have been totally fine with that.

It was, I mean, it was submerged, but it was, well, I don't know. I don't know. It was pretty, it guess it wasn't deep, right? That's the thing, right? Their IP or I3, FV, whatever. is certified so you can go. I don't know if it's also a thing where if you let it soak for too long, that's a problem or not. I feel like that would be a problem, right?

It seems like a problem. Yeah. Like to me, to me. Slightly, you know, submerged for a minute, not five feet deep, you're going to be okay. But soaking in a bag of water, maybe not so much. The rice thing, the rice thing worked for me for a USB stick and what was the other thing? uh maybe it'll watch or something i don't remember we we had a couple of things at work but they were never soaking in anything it was almost like yeah if you dip it real quick toilet drop

take it put in the thing let it let it you know soak up moisture but if it's just been like soaking in it you're done you're done yeah like an iphone four this is like this is like three or four or something yeah those things were just you know holes everywhere we've come a long way that we have yep what's that old smoke thing where you've come a long way. You've come a long way, baby. Now smoke of Virginia Slim. That's right. You've earned it. That reminds me. I don't

have a picture here to show everybody, but while we were in Midway, there was like a local freebie paper. You know, there's always like a little paper. Oh yeah, right, the little sure. Whatever it's called, sure. Ours is called City Weekly, I think, and it's actually not bad. They have a lot of cool SLC stuff and bands and, you know,

movie festivals and all that. When Pot finally arrives in Salt Lake City, that that newspaper will become two-thirds marijuana dispensary ads. Guaranteed, guaranteed. Just like our westward has become here in Colorado. Guaranteed, I'm 100% sure you are correct with that. It already looks like it should, but just can't yet.

Yeah, yeah, exactly, right. Like, it's just waiting. It's like, oh, when are we going to get the pot ads? When are we going to get some pot ads in here? But sure enough, in this thing, I didn't think you did this anymore. There's a big old cigarette ad in the middle of it with giant cigarette bodies. says, yeah, some all-American something has like an American Indian, Native American guy on there and pure something. And then about 10 warnings, this is not pure or anything.

Sure. Kill you if you do it, all that. But I just thought, I thought those were done. I didn't know we were doing that still. You could get a magazine with cigarette ads anymore. I didn't think you could do that in print publications. I guess independent print publications you can. Yeah.

How does it work? You got like huge, five huge warnings that are. slathered all over your ad and I don't know how you live in that world how do you survive right exactly if you if you create a product that uh cannot be shown without five huge warnings one of which includes the word death yeah not that I feel bad for cigarette makers don't get me wrong here but oh no not at all that's just saying like why I don't know how business yeah how are you doing it I guess it just you count on that addiction just need that addiction yeah yeah all right Let's move on.

We've got a listener who'd like to make Great Nuts great again. Magga. Magga. He'd like to go full Menga. His name is John, and he wrote in from New Hampshire, USA. That's where the Hobbits of America live. Sure. He has this much to say.

Hello, Scott and Brian. You both are my favorite legacy podcasters on TMS. I procrastinated emailing you all about. your grape nut conversation a month back, but I wanted to blow your mind now. Grape nut ice cream is my favorite ice cream. Okay. All right. It says, by contrast, I don't like eating grape nut cereal.

He doesn't put an S on here. Is it grape nut or grape nuts? It's grape nuts. Are we sure about this? A grape nut ice cream. Yeah, the box says grape nuts. Okay. I'm making sure I'm not Mandela affecting that or something.

Yep. Oh. Did you Google grape nut and you have safe search turned off? No, no, no. It reminded me of something. Carter and I had a conversation about Nelson Mandela's son and whether or not he's ever experienced the Mandela effect. And if he has, what does he call it? That's hilarious.

That's a really interesting discussion. I was going to share it, but I couldn't think, I can't remember the details of our conversation. It was real dumb. It was real dumb. Also, I had a dream last night that Justin Robert Young and I opened a brothel. We'll get to that later in today's show. Wow, okay. Yeah, it didn't go well.

Anyway, he says, I don't like... And if you don't want the girlfriend experience, you can unfriend me. Oh, a reference that gets further into the distance as we exist. Right, yeah, exactly. Eventually, no one's going to know what we're talking about. All right, so he goes on to say, I don't like the cereal, but I like to make ice cream with it

and something changes. A great example of the hole is greater than the sum of its parts. Obviously, the grape nuts gets soft in the ice cream as to not crack your dental crown, says to me specifically. But there is some sort of flavor that must leach out of the cereal

that is amazing. I know, my friends don't believe me either. As a warning, you can just mix grape nuts into some ice cream at home. It doesn't work. Or you can't, he says. It doesn't work. I can't.

Try it, you can't. You can't. Prove it. I've been eating since I was, I was eating it since I was a kid when my mom introduced it to me. My favorite brand is a new local New England brand, Gifford's ice cream. It is a rare flavor. I've only seen two or three brands with it in my life.

So it's literally a grape nuts flavor. This is like a storebought. This isn't like he's going to an ice cream shop and they've got, try our grape nuts ice cream. Yeah. How you doing, son? You ever have a grape nuts? It doesn't suck.

How you like a free sample of the grape nuts? It says, worst part is, in the last year, there have been a grape nut shortage due to the pandemic. We've talked about that. That was the whole point of the original conversation. Yeah, that's where everything, all everything stemmed. Yeah. Says the great grape nut famine of 2020 will go into the history books,

L.O.L. Check out the link below for the ice cream. So he gave us this Giffords ice cream flavors link. We're going to have a look at it here. By the way, you know, we've had emails that have, you know, been bad with punctuation or grammar or spelling or whatever. I just got to really appreciate it. I want to pat John on the back.

a number one, a very well-written email, but never, with one exception where it was like grape-nut cereal, probably should have been grape-nuts cereal, but other than that, nailed the copyright of grape-nut every single time with a hyphen, like he. I agree. There's something, I don't know, I feel like we should contact his sixth-grade English teacher and tell him that he's doing okay. John did all right. You did a good job with this one. Yeah, he nailed it. Also a canoli. Oh, canoli. Black raspberry chocolate chip sounds amazing. And cookie dough from this Giffords brand.

This Gifford's brand sounds nice. So I don't know what is the flavor of grape nuts other than pain. I mean, I thought that it was just not. Pain and misery. And misery, yeah. And the taste of your own blood in your mouth. I guess that's the thing his email doesn't get into is what, this flavor, he claims, leeches out, whatever his words were.

I don't know what he's describing. Because wouldn't I have that in the bowl with, you know, milk, which is kind of ice cream sort of in a more liquidy form? I mean, I don't know. I don't know. Maybe they add something else to it. Maybe it's just tons of sugar. Yeah, I don't know.

All right. I'm pulling up Google search, Grape nuts ice cream near me. Let's see what we've got here. Oh, look at this. Let's see what we find. That's ice cream Yeah, this is not going to work Because it's just showing me

Coldstone And oh, maybe cold stone Oh, they just mix it in though, wouldn't they? They would just mix it in, yeah, let's see That's not the same Why Grapenuts ice cream is impossible to find Reader's Digest has a whole write-up on it I've ever wondered why you

I can actually get this at King's Super As it looks like the Giffords grape nuts with vanilla Oh, you should do it Yeah, I'll totally do this I'll do this for the show. All right, yeah, we'll do it for science and for content. Yeah, yeah. There's a whole Reader's Digest article on why it's impossible to find it right now.

And it looks like it does have something to do with, let's see. Yeah, it's the shortage. So there's that. Okay. The great grape nuts shortage of 2021. What will we do, Scott? I know. It feels like the least, the least cool.

shortage of all time, right? Yeah. Like others like, oh, we're, I mean, even toilet papers, like, all these butts, how will they wipe themselves? Like, you at least get excited. But grape nuts? Yeah, right, of all things.

I mean, avocados we had for a shortage for a while or still do. Chicken wings, I think, are still short. Yep. Can't get enough chicken wings, which is weird, because I don't understand. Well, you know what I kind of do understand it. I don't think the chicken wing thing, well, okay,

Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but I think it's just the matter of there are so many chicken places now and or places that are like, hey, we've also got a chicken thing. The chicken's just at an all-time popularity level. Right, like other restaurants that have added chicken wings to their menu kind of thing. Yeah. Or like the, I mean, you remember when the chicken sandwiches were, you couldn't get them at Popeyes or whatever? And that was pre-pandemic. That was like 2018, 2019, whatever? Yeah, yeah.

Anyway, well, thank you, John. Oh, heady days. Remember, remember 2019 and a Popeye's spicy chicken sandwich shortage? You can get plenty of them now. Yeah, no problem. They're throwing them at you if you go near a Popeyes. Hey, you know, this last weekend, Scott, Friday night, I went to the movies. I actually went to a movie theater and sat in a movie theater and watched a movie in a movie theater, Scott. Yeah, but was it a quiet place that you went to?

It was not just a quiet place, Scott. It was a quiet place part two. Yeah, no one saw a quiet place part two in our local AMC, the MC that we usually went to. And number one, let me talk about just the experience overall. Bought our tickets online, and they're still doing the thing where when you buy tickets, you pick your seats and you can't pick seats next to existing purchase seats, right? So you're not going to sit next to anybody. And as a matter of fact, if you even play your cards right, you probably will sit two seats away from other people

because it automatically adds a buffer around you and around the other person. So if you go one seat away or two seats away, then their buffer and your buffer will be between you. So I don't mind that one bit. I don't like sitting next to people anyway, pandemic or not, so having this ability is great. The theater felt clean, like we basically pre-ordered our popcorn and drink, went right up, showed him my QR code, got all that stuff, went right in, didn't have to stand in any lines or anything. I saw two employees cleaning things, like, you know, we were over by filling up the drink, and they were over there cleaning the drink, and they were over there cleaning the, The butter station, one of them was like sanitizing the butter station, other ones cleaning the Coke, which we call it, freestyle machine next to me.

And the freestyle machine, you can now do touchless. I don't have a problem touching the little screen. I feel like we've got Purell so I can touch the screen and then Purell my hand if I'm worried about it. But if you scan the QR code with your phone, then you can just put your cup there and go, I want orange vanilla sugar or Coke zero sugar and it'll fill it up for you and it's kind of cool that is kind of cool that's just cool in general I like that it's pretty it's pretty instant too right so you're holding the little button and the stuff comes out and you release the button and it's not not a quarter of a second later that it stops so when you start getting the foam where it's going to bubble over you're like oh release and it releases in time and so it all works yeah got to our seats uh holy cow You know what I've missed are previews? That's the thing. Oh, yeah, previews.

Those exist, sure. Those exist. And it's just fun seeing those in a theater, especially we saw a bunch that we hadn't seen before. Now, do they jam commercials in between everyone like ours do or no? No, thank goodness. Gosh, dang, I hate it so much. Yeah.

I hate it. But I would say we got at least six or seven previews, and none of them, surprisingly, were any of the Marvel movies. Like, we've got five Marvel movies coming over the course of the rest of the year. And none of the previews were Marvel movies. But still plenty of stuff. And we're like, oh, let's see that one. Oh, I don't want to see that one.

And I think, you know, scary movies and the new M-Night Shummelon, Old Island. He's got something going. I hadn't heard. He's got a new one called Old, and you go to an island, and when you're not looking, your kids get old. Oh, is that real? Is that true? It's true. That's the New Endish Shumelon Twisty movie, yeah.

Oh, my gosh. this one. I'm looking at it up. Oh, who? Was there anybody? Old 2021. Yeah, I'm trying to remember if I recognized anybody or if they're... Oh, it's based on a graphic novel. I didn't know that. Let's see. This is featuring Gale, Garcia, Bernal, and Vicki Creeps. Creeps. Creeps? I know you say her name. Thomas and McKenzie. I don't know who these people are.

Yeah. Gail Bernal, Garcia, or however it was. Oh, Rufus Sewell's in it. He's cool. He's a dark city. And most recently, The Man in the High Castle, he plays the American top Nazi guy. He's great. Love that, dude. It's good.

Ooh, Ken Leung's in it. All right. I'm in. I'll watch this. This seems fine. Yeah. Yeah. We'll watch it either soon or we'll watch it for film sack in two years.

Yeah. So the movie starts. And I'm not going to do any spoilers about the movie. We enjoyed it greatly. It was as good as part one. So no complaint. there. Killion Murphy

and his swimming pool blue eyes. I just, you know. Sexy man. Sexy man, although the rest of him isn't, but in this movie, but you can't

grungy up Killing Murphy's eyes, that's for sure. Did they run into him? You don't have to give away plot points here, but I assume they've bumped into him as another survivor or something and they're working together or some shit because.

That might be what happened. Okay. All right. That sounds right. So we're back in row J. So 10 rows back or nine rows because they don't have a row I. So we're in the back of the two-thirds back of the theater. Yeah.

And about, I don't know, 30 minutes into the film, a bunch of teenagers, maybe even early teenagers, pre-teens, start. running into the theater and like filling up row two or about row two right just like you're 30 minutes into the film 30 minutes into the film they they paid to see another movie and they snuck into this one or some nonsense lame all right lame and they're not being quiet about coming in and they're like chasing each other and and rough housing like already am a little irritated with them and uh so they sit down and and get quiet and start watching the movie but there's still like little snickering and stuff and we're all the way back

right we're you know seven rows behind where these kids are and and then one of them gets their phone out and decides that whatever they have they want to show the person at the other end of the row of kids or maybe have all their friends look at it so they turn their phone on and then they slowly pass it from person to person. Now, I think, part of me thinks that they're doing this shit on purpose, that they just like, let's really screw with all the people back there. Because one of them even was like going, when they were handing it over.

I hate it. Oh, I hate it so much. Do you think that they all didn't have a phone just because they didn't all have a phone and they were all borrowing, you know, leases or whatever? No, I think, I think the most likely situation is let's irritate people and let's, you know, which it's not like you're going to be hard to find. You have eight rows of people behind you all watching you do this and we can get to the exits before you can. Yeah, yeah, that's lame. I mean, when I was a kid, I just don't remember doing things just to be annoying.

I remember maybe I just didn't know I was doing it, you know? Yeah. When you're 13, you're just naturally annoying. on you're 13, you just don't know it? I guess. You just don't care. Maybe. You know, let's have some fun.

I don't care if we, you know, ruin the movie for people who are the theater. Well, okay. So back to the point here, uh, last of us one, I would assume two, a big part of that experience is a very quiet movie theater enjoying the... I've never played the last of us. I picked up the game, but, um... Sorry. Quiet place one and two.

I got to mix up with my zombie video game. But the concept is you're supposed to be quiet because the world is quiet and all of that. So there's a real communal thing. The monsters are blind, but they follow sound. And so the experience, with the exception of these kids, and again, once the phone thing ended and they didn't get the reaction that they maybe were hoping for, probably were hoping somebody would yell at them from the back. But when they didn't get that, they were quiet for the rest. rest of it and were it obnoxious for the rest of it yeah the whole rest of the time just like with quiet place part one it is when when the when the people on screen are silent which is 90% of the

time everybody is silent in the theater and even like i even caught myself kind of holding my breath or breathing light and shallow so i wouldn't you know because i didn't want to get picked up by the monsters basically we've got a pretty rotten review view from Dice Tomato in the chat. I know that's a shock. Get out. Dice Tomato didn't like it? It's a shock to hear it. But how did you feel about this film? In comparison to the first one, I suppose, and all that. Like, do you think, you know, good job, better than the first, same as the first? As good as the first. Still a good, suspenseful story. Emily Blent's great. Character, the kid is, the kids are great. Oh, I had a question about the kids. Are they 30 now? Or what are?

Keep in mind, Scott, this movie was set to be released in early March 2020, and so it was filmed maybe a year and a half, two years after the first one. Oh, okay. So the kids haven't aged, they haven't aged as much as they have now. And it's probably if I would have watched Quiet Place Part 1 right before seeing this one, I said, boy, these kids sure aged a lot overnight. The new movie takes place right after the first one. Oh, I didn't realize that. Okay. Yeah. Again, not a spoiler because as soon as you sit down and the lights go down, you discover that piece of information.

Now, in the trailer, there's some Krasinski in flashback form. Yeah, I assume, right, knowing what we know about the first movie in his fate. So is he in it? Is it flashbacks? Is it? Did you see him in the trailer? I did. Then he must be in it. In one form or another. Okay.

Yeah. exactly like you what do you want me to tell you nothing you don't have to tell me a thing I just assume at one point during the movie he looks at the camera and looks the aliens can shape shift but they can only shape shift into John Krasinski it's a great power but it's very limited yeah and they're really sensitive to hearing those two things though all right well more that's my it's good it's very good and it's worth seeing and uh but overall the i would i give the movie going experience a thumbs up and man uh you know i'll tell you this john krasinski appears before the film yeah to say

he looks directly at the camera and he kind of like you know a deadpan look on his face no he looks at the camera he just says uh hey just want to thank you guys for coming out to experience a movie with other people and be in an audience where you can all react to stuff and can't wait for us all to get back to this as the normal again, and thank you for coming and blah, blah, blah. Now enjoy A Quiet Place, Part 2. Is that what he said it? It would have been great if he would have said that.

Oh, it would have been great. Like you're getting all into it? No, I mean, look, I think he's got a knack for directing this sort of stuff, and I hope it leads to more like it. So, you know, I'm in. I'm all in. Well, all right then. Essential Tremer says, actually a spoiler coverville, since I've only seen the trailer.

I didn't know it started after the last movie. It's not a spoiler. Essential Trimmer, it's called A Quiet Place Part 2. Not a Quiet Place prequel. A quiet place minus one. You are, you are, you're safe and assuming that it takes place after the first film. I think, I think that's a, that's a safe assumption and not a spoiler at all to say that. I agree with Brian.

Uh, all right. Quiet Place part two. Quiet Boogaloo. Yeah, quiet boogaloo. You know the one. I don't watch the news. Oh, that's too bad because we've got news. It's time for the news and it's brought to you by.

Part three of the Resident Evil Village live scream happens tonight at 5 p.m. mountain time only at hollo, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, frog pants. TV. Yep, uh, that's tonight. We're, we continue on. We're done with the castle. We beat, uh, tall lady and, uh, tall vampire lady. is you really yeah yeah she's it turns out she is a small well smallish part of the game which is an interesting bit of uh she's a she's a smallish part with a large part yeah she's huge but she's

not huge in the game i mean she's she leaves an impression no doubt but sure their marketing was smart in making you think oh well this is the end all be all it's not it's just a part and honestly they haven't shown any of the rest of the game so i don't know what i'm getting into and according to john i'm about to hit some gnarly business business. So anyway, that's tonight. Join in the fun at 5 p.m. Mountain. Brian, wolves have scared deer and reduced auto collisions by 24%. Oh, thank you, wolves. I know, right? The wolves among us have finally done their job. This is according to a new study.

Ecologist Rolf Peterson. But what if they scared the deer into your auto? Isn't that, aren't they causing? Oh, I hadn't thought of that. That's a good point. I'll have to ask ecologist Rolf Peterson. By the way, Rolf is a suspicious name when you're talking about wolves. It sounds like a dog name. Maybe he's a human dog.

Anyway, moving on. He remembers driving remote stretches of a road in Michigan's Upper Peninsula and seeing areas strewn with deer carcassi. Oh, no. Carcasses, I guess. Yeah. But that changed after the gray wolves arrived in the region from Canada and Minnesota. The gray wolves have arrived. When wolves moved during the 1890s and 2000s,

the deer vehicle collisions went way down, says the Michigan Tech researcher. And recently, another team of scientists have gathered data about road collisions and wolf movements. Wolf movement or wolves movement. Wolf movements. Wolf movements. Wolf movements.

Yeah, like the wolf movement. Like the movements that are made by the wolf. Oh, I have to call out, okay, sorry to do this, but it's related. I have to call out Brian Brushwood, who doesn't listen to the show, so he's not going to hear this, I don't think. Okay. All right. But he was making this huge deal on Twitter about.

Is Hulu thing? Yeah. Of course, it's a Hulu original, not Ann Hulu original. Yeah. I almost replied and said, uh, the H, it's only if the H is silent. Like, if I were to say, this is a hairbrained tweet, it wouldn't, I wouldn't have to put an N in there. Right. This is an hairbrained tweet.

Or, this is Ann Netflix. original. No, you say it's a Netflix original. Yeah, it's not called Oulu. Yeah. Oh, let me see if, oh, is the new Ann Mades Tale on Oulu? Oh, let's watch it. Hurry. Hurry. Hurry up.

Err. Ears the remote. Yeah, we should make all H's silent. Turns out there's a world of possibilities there. Let's start calling him Swood. Yeah, Swood. Swood. Yeah, I don't know why. He was so confused by that.

Now, here's the fun part of English, though. You could say, let's say it's an Amazon Prime thing. You could say, that's an Amazon Prime video original, and that works with an Amazon. That's an Amazon original. Yes, of course. But if you say it's a prime, if you say N Prime original, that doesn't work. Of course. You'd say A Prime.

So I hope he learned a little something. I know Texas has a way of, you know, rubbing out your intelligence. I'm just kidding. That's mine. I love, you know, like somebody pointed out, he's, he's, he's, he's, he's, he's, he's, He's putting stuff on Twitter for the reactions. He's taking the piss, as the British say. Claire, we're here.

She'd be saying, ah, he's taking the pass. He's taking the pest. Undock your piss. All right. Moving on. Anyway, the point is, hey, the wolves keep deer from coming down to the roads where you will then hit them. Nice. Good.

Well, they're rounding it up. You'd think, again, you'd think that, well, all we have to do is chase this deer into that Buick, and we have deer. Yeah. And we can all eat deer. Yeah, exactly. Deer's not bad. I don't mind a little venison. It's okay. Oh, yeah, no.

Yeah, a little elk jerky. Mm-hmm. The bag, the frozen bag of jerky, it's like we're starting to get to the point where it's like, oh, we're getting low. Yeah, I'm so low, I'm out. You're out. Wow, okay. Jesse, let's talk, I'll pay for the next batch.

Yeah, I will, too. for both the shipping and the manufacturing of said jerky, because I loved it that much. God, that was so good. And you know what? I know not, this is not everyone's bag, but the fatty ones that had just a little little bit of ribbony fat in them? Sure, sure. Oh,

oh, that's so good. Nice. I love a little fat. Oh, you know what I ate this week? Oh, here we go. Why haven't I told you this story? So Crazy Neighbor had us over for Bratz for Memorial Day. We got out the grill.

We brought over a nice thing of hummus and some other friends brought over a salad. And Crazy Neighbor was manning the grill. And in addition to the delicious brots, beer brots and stuff, he also provided two testicles. Buffalo. Buffalo testicles. Rocky Mountain oysters, baby. Rocky Mountain oysters. Now, not deep fried.

these were just grilled spherical and blue and vainy and uh really are they vainy and right on the grill were they really vainy they were really vainy scott I kind of I should have taken a photo before he put them on the

uh you absolutely should have you should have taken a photo before they went on the grill while they were on the grill and then later when you barf them up you should have taken a photo the whole process so how are these I've never had them so when you get them deep fried The deep frying and the sauce and stuff, the dip them in usually covers up a lot of the flavor, right?

When you put them on the grill, you're getting nothing but the nut. You're getting the flavor of itself, which is kind of like liver. If I'm comparing it to anything, the flavor and texture-wise, like a firm liver. I hate liver. Then you would not like this. Oh, okay. I'm not going to eat it then. Okay, let me ask you this.

Sure. Oh, this might be a road too far. Are you going to ask if any sort of cleaning, hollowing out or anything that's to take place? Are they chock full of any sort of, are they cream filled? I don't know else to say it. Are they spent? No, because one of the Kristen, who is there at the party, also asked the same question, like, did you clean these out? because you have to, you have to, you know, remove whatever might be inside them.

And, uh, no, there was nothing to be cleaned out of the, of the testicles. And I guess in, and technically, it's not where you keep it anyway, right? It's all in your, uh, I mean, this isn't science class or anything. It's in the lava tubes. But it's in some other gland or something, right? You got, I don't know how that works. I don't know how my body works, Scott. I don't know how anything works down there.

I will not pretend to know anything. Is it in the prostate? Maybe it's in the prostate. I don't know where it's kept. We keep, you know. Oh, I do trust Nikki. Grunge de Tera. Oh, yeah.

What does Nikki say? That's what she said. She said prostate. Yeah. Or what if she just has Tourette's and yelled? Prostate! I'm not even listening to the show. I was on her show.

The Tales, Granny's Tell ya? I forget the name. Yeah. So are you? are you the old grandpa in telling stories now? Wow. She says I'm the youngest person she's had on there. So that felt good, I guess. But not by much. No. She did tell me that she didn't have to edit very much. And that made her happy. And I said, welcome to the way I podcast. I just, there's no editing. All right. We just go right to the hard drive. And if it wasn't good enough, oh, well, we move on to the next one. That's how we roll. Yeah. Good. So you liked it, though. You would eat another one? I had two slices Because he basically

He cooked him up, put him on a plate And then just sliced him so we could just do slices They were okay I mean I'd you know Between eating that and liver I'll have liver If you were gonna A river of liver and an ocean of fish

Or however that goes Right exactly Okay But yeah Yeah it wasn't It's certainly not something It wasn't good enough to make me say Oh, my God, this is like a delicacy.

I want this for every meal. It was like, yeah, okay, maybe, you know, in a couple of years I'll have another slice. You know, I'm not in a hurry to go back from where. From a procurement perspective, where would one crazy neighbor buy these? Where do you get these? He bought this at the same place. He bought the brats. There's a butcher, Edwards meets close by, and you can get all the meats there.

Gotcha. So I watched one of those better feed Phils with Kim and, or got to feed Phil or how it is, whatever it is. Yeah. Phil must feed. Yeah. Phil needs food. Badly. He was somewhere in the Middle East and he got Oxtail soup and it reminded me of your Vegas place. And it looked, it looked insane. It looks so good. Yeah. It's so good. I mean, you've got one big massive bone in your, in your soup and you're just basically pulling meat off of it. I don't know if that's the way Phil ate it. He did.

Or if they, yeah. Yeah, he pulled it right off the bone. It looked like a tail, like literally like the stump of a back end of your tail. Like a, like a spine, like one of the things in your spine, basically. Yeah, like a little, some small vertebrae looking business. Yeah, right, that's what I was looking for? What else did he do? He had a, oh, it was the same place.

He had a cow cheek soup. And it was like a couch, and the reason they like the cow cheek is because it's full of collagen, I guess. and that's yummy to some people. Yeah, cheeks apparently are huge. Fish, I'm not huge as in big, but like fish cheeks are super popular as like one of the best parts of the fish. But it's not like there's a lot of cheek. I was going to say, how many, I mean, your average fish, I didn't even know there were cheeks in a fish. Yeah.

Okay. Well, you got to have cheeks, about the mouth. Learn something new. All right, well, to this chicken wing shortage, we go. Oh, okay. Well, you were just talking about this earlier. We were. It's a part of today's news lineup.

Soaring demand for chicken has resulted in wing shortages across America, according to the country's third largest poultry producer. The Laurel, a Mississippi, excuse me, Mississippi-based. Did you just say, Yanni? I can't, I wasn't sure. Green Needle. You heard green needle. Is that what I heard?

Yeah. Green Needle. Let's see, the Laurel. I don't know why that's so funny. Mississippi-based Sanderson Farms, Inc. said it does not have enough supply to keep up with the demand, despite recently picking up 40 million pounds per year of chicken, in addition to what they used to do. We cannot supply enough wings to anybody at retail or at food service, says Joe Sanderson, CEO of Sanderson Farms. I told that to the Goldman Sachs Global Staples Forum on Tuesday. Staples Forum.

Okay, whatever. Yeah, I don't know. I know. Global Staples is in food staples. chicken is a staple. Plus, isn't there a place called the Staples Forum that's like a staple zones, like a sports arena? They do in, not in Mississippi, they do in Los Angeles, the Staples Center. That makes sense.

Sanderson said his company each week ends up 15 loads short of wings for both retail and food service. The company plans to allocate wings to make sure everybody gets some. Wing prices have already risen to $3.16 per pound. for customers picking up Sanderson's dock, mimicking strong gains that occurred in other chicken products. Boneless chicken breast prices have climbed to 236% since a fall to 225 per pound, while tenders of spike 77% to $2.43. I don't know what's going on. We're just loving the chicken, man.

Yeah. BW3 is all the way down to BW1 now. Yeah. They just have the whack. Yeah. But like, will we start to, will I go to, I don't know, chicken lickens or some place like that, and they'll say, oh, sorry, these chicken wings are $9 a piece or, you know. They might.

It's funny because I did just get an email from Buffalo Wild Wings pre-show because Tuesday is buy one, get one free wing day. And it made no mention of, you know, due to the shortage, we've decided to temporarily stop by one, get one free wing day. And no, it's like, come on in. get by six wings get six wings free sounds good doesn't it wings it does I had some actually Thursday night no shortage no shortage at kickin wings either

which is right by the trivia place in in Arvada here I didn't even talk about how slim chickens screwed us over I don't think I told that story no no damn it I do have time I do have time here's the quick story Slim chickens

We're at slim chickens It already sounds like they're taking advantage of the shortage Shortage of good chicken names. So we go to slim chickens. Normally it's fine, but they're very, is it slim chickens? I think so. I think that's the name. Super busy all the time.

Massive lines, they're very popular here. I don't know why. They're not amazing. They're okay. But anyway, Kim and I got in line. We're like, yeah, we're going to get chicken and let's do this. So we ordered what we got just a thing for her, thing for me, and some fries for Carter. We're going to take them home.

She doesn't like meat, so no meat for her. Sure. do that it's like 12 bucks or something we're in the the drive up it's a long drive up suspiciously i noticed the car in front of us the SUV in front of us pulled up waited there for a while and then took off never having exchanged anything okay and i thought that's odd anyway we move up anyway get up to the front ladies like all right you had the burp a bit and the kem goes no we had the that was the tender whatever thing and they're like oh well It says right here is the worst customer service.

Well, it says here it was whatever, whatever. And Kim goes, okay, well, I guess we'll take that. And that's fine. They hand it to us. It's crazy busy in there, hand over fist, everything. Cars piled up millions of miles behind us. Just insane. So they crammed it all together, shove it to us.

They hand me a bunch of chicken. I'm like, this is too much chicken. And before it was timed it to do anything, Kim had already run her card, and we were out of the line. We get out in the parking lot. We look at the receipt. $65. oh no and a whole bunch of orders we didn't order now here's the worst part

there was none of what we ordered she ordered chicken and waffles i ordered like some tender thing it was all hot wings and i don't know what all some other stuff but nothing like we ordered the hot wings were all i don't know what they were on the schovel scale but i can tell you on the scott scale they were through the roof they were so hot i couldn't eat him so i couldn't even enjoy the sixty five dollars wasted at this place oh no yeah now some would say well scott get back in line, go back through, tell them what happened. No, this line, it's impossible. It was impossible, this line.

We weren't getting back in. So I could. You could go inside, though, can't you? I could, but same problem. Just stacked with people. So we're just like, you know what I'm going to do? I'm going to get, we'll get home, we'll deal with it. I'll send them a feedback thing.

They'll send me some free coupons. Everyone will be happy. But I just forgot to do it. I haven't done it. Yeah. But it was bad. And Carter probably didn't get anything that didn't have meat. No.

No, there was nothing. There weren't fries either. They didn't include anything. It's just some other person's, there's some other person's order. And we think now is a guy in front of us who took off, never got their order. So now the order's all mixed up. They think we're the ones getting the big giant thing. Guy behind us probably got ours.

Like, all I could think of was how this is just going to domino effect back to Helen back because it was such a mess. But also, it's bad training when you look at the thing, go, well, it says here you ordered it. Well, no, we know what we ordered. So maybe it's on you. Okay, oh, the guy of a front of you. Like, you're supposed to be equipped when that happens. And they weren't equipped.

So take that. Chicken Fers. All right. Damn. There's a chicken shortage is the point. Let's take a break. When we come back, Justin Robert Young will be here. We're going to take a look at the,

why the next jobs report is such a big deal. And we'll see what the political thing is there. But also, I have a question. about that lack of a January 6th commission and what it might mean moving forward. We'll get to all that in a minute for that, though, a song from Brian Ibita. Yes, we're going to Atlanta for this one. A band called, a band called Dim, D-I-M. They have a brand new single that they've just released called Home is where you are.

It's now available everywhere. Dim features members, former members of The Dangerous Summer and Woe is Me, if you're familiar with either of those bands. Hey, look, rock and roll, man, this is on the heavier side. I know a lot of you like that. I like it, and I like this a lot. Here is the Atlanta band, Dim, and the song, Home, is Where You Are. It's a long way up to heaven.

No one even knows what's going on. Do you know the names are your angels? and even knows what's coming on. Ooh, oh, oh, oh, oh, homeless So I'll wake up to have there. No one even knows what's going on. Do you know the names of your angel? No one even knows who's coming home.

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All right, welcome back, everybody. I love that band again is dim the song is home is where you are nice let's try to make sense of this real quick sometimes it's called something else well thank you for all that information put into nothing i feel like we're missing some context probably yeah what's going on there for sure um all right justin robert young making his way today in the world today taking everything he's got here takes everything he's got we need to ask him about his wing experience because apparently he he experienced problems due to this great wing shortage. Oh, the wing shortage hits us right at home.

Let's find out. These are their stories. Oh, I'm terrible with name. Joining us right now from Austin, Texas, where apparently the wing shortage has been a little more harsh. It's Justin Robert Young joining us. Hello, Justin. And no, I'm not there.

Can't hear him. Usually he's got his video on by now. Yeah, hi. Oh, hi. Hey, how are you doing? Hey, there we go. Hello. Sorry, you know, sometimes you get the bear.

Sometimes the bear gets you, am I right? That's right. You're right where it counts. So wait, what's, are you having worse time with the wing shortage there or something? What's the deal? Did you buy some wings recently in the great wing shortage of 2021? The wing shortage, my man. Oh, what, tell us the story.

We've been talking about the wing shortage today, so I'd love to hear your take. How's your wing shortage? went into a place. There's a little restaurant that Brian and I have, on Mondays, go to when before we do the Weird Things podcast and we always

get the same thing. Brian gets a taco salad and I get six wings and a side salad. And they told me, hey, look, you can still get these six wings. It's fine. We've got them. But they're going to come at a dear, dear price. And by that, I mean twice the amount

that they normally cost. Wow. And I'm I'm like, why? And they say the most horrifying three words I'd ever heard in my life as a, you know, as if B.L's above himself was playing xylophone with my spine, chicken wing shortage. And I was, I was shocked and I was dismayed. And then I paid $18 for six wings because I wanted to say. Oh, my gosh. That's a lot.

So, so, okay, that's a lot. That's a lot more than I expected people to be paying. But like Brian says, they're still doing. get buy some get some free at the buffalo wild wings still by one they must have had they must have a slot they're they're the warlords right they're right right in the market on this they're the ones causing the shortage for the rest of the little guy yeah you want some wings yeah okay it'll cost you though and yeah no they're like well I don't see a wing shortage here at B-dubs I love it you guys have a place to if I lived in Denver or Brian lived here we would totally

do like a, that's a great idea. Do like a Monday lunch meeting somewhere. Wouldn't that be great? It's a nice little time. It's a good. That's cool. I would like that. I think that's very cool. Well, we're not going to talk about any more wings because they'll come back. It'll all work out. Welcome to Biden's America. Short of John wings in Biden's America. Biden's America. Yeah. First there's a gas thing. Joe. Biden. Hey, listen, buddy. It wasn't me. It'd say. All right. That's a bad impression. Let's move on. Come on, man. I know. There you.

Come on, man. Swing shortage? Come on, man. Blow wings and dry spice rub wings. I love him. My papa said to me, Joey, get me some wings. And I said, okay, Pa, because he knew a good wing, made a good man, a union man.

That's what he knew. We love, love wings. You know, it's weird. That impression, which is pretty good, tells me that he would do a pretty good impression of you if you wanted to. You know what I'm saying? Like there's enough crossover there. Joe Biden would do a good impression.

You could do a good jury. Yeah. Yeah, I can hear it. This is a fascinating realm that you've opened up. What famous person do you think would do a best impression of you? I mean, of me, I have zero idea. I don't think that's how it works, though.

I don't think that. No, I love it. I love the idea that somebody's like, like, oh, man, Keith Richards would do a kid. killer, Scott Johnson. Yeah. Do you think Queen Elizabeth can do a really good Scott Johnson impersonation? Yeah.

If I can do a good, her yelling Philip, she can surely do me tired in the morning trying to get in the shower, something like that. Well, all right. It's good to have you here. We're going to talk a little bit of political goings on. Specifically, you were telling me last night on text that the jobs report is a, this upcoming Friday's jobs report is a big one. has implications and I thought maybe we could iterate on why that's the current take and

what does that mean for us? So understand that in my philosophy politically, there are things that we care about because they're the topic of the day. And then there are the things that everybody cares about that are outside of the bubble that instructs us what we should care about because it's the topic of the day. and the economy is the A number one King Kong version of that. When the economy is not good and the news gets around, oh, the economy's not good, people can't get jobs, ma-ma-ma-ma-ma-ma, things cost more money. Interest rates become higher.

That's when people begin to say, okay, in my mind, the economy's not good. and then you start assigning blame on whose fault that is. So if we know that, and we know that everything was roaring back even through Joe Biden's presidency up until last month's report, wherein the economic growth was far weaker than we thought and unemployment actually very barely ticked up for the first time since it started to recovering, then that stands to reason that the next jobs report is going to be something to watch because if that last jobs report was kind of a fluke and it's like, hey, man, things are going to be weird because we're, you know, the economy's not all opening at the same

time. There's different states that are doing different things and blah, blah, blah, then, and it is just a herky jerky thing and the economy is booming again, then that last one, don't even worry about it. But if this one is also weak, now all of a sudden once as a fluke, twice as a pattern, you're going to just see a lot more conversation about things like the federal unemployment benefit. You're going to see certain members of Congress and the Senate start to slam other people for how they handled some of the federal benefits and whether or not they are that they should own the fact that the economy is not as strong as it. could be because they, they did X, Y, or Z.

But, but, but, and, and Joe Biden ultimately is going to have to answer for it, regardless of whether or not the, the, the president has the kind of power of the economy that many people tend to believe. So your take, or not your take, but you're, you're, you're, what you're telling me or what I'm hearing from this is this is a more far-reaching, uh, thing that will have an effect or ripple effect politically on both him and the parties and, the discussion and all of that far more than say this not coming together on a on a on a on a on a on a january 6th commission uh at least in a bipartisan way and now you know the democrats

having to decide if they want to go super hardball on this and all of that like that feels like the big ah we're got to get that worked out deal but you think this other one perhaps is i don't know this is more like baked into the thread of the political world that's baked into the threat of life. Like James Carville famously said, it's the economy stupid when he's talking about crafting political messages. If you're going to craft a political messages, the first thought you should think of is, can we win on the economy?

And the second thought you should have is if we're not on the right side of the economic argument, how can we minimize what the other side did on the economy? Like, that is first and foremost, that's what you want to do. that is that is politics 101 because that ultimately matters more than anything else no matter how much we all get spun up in our in our media ecosystem about whether or not this is the most important thing on the planet it's not the reality is even in a world where political saturation is higher than i can ever remember it the vast majority of people live outside that bubble the vast majority of people may have seen some stuff on january 6 and said damn that sucks

and then never thought of it again. So the idea of interrogating it, whether or not you believe it absolutely needs to happen or not, will always be a smaller issue than the economy. Yeah. Quite simply. Yeah. It doesn't matter, right?

You're right. I agree. That's true. You know, everyone always wants to say follow the money when it serves their argument. But this is like the perfect example of just like, yeah, this is what people pay attention to. I mean, hell, it's what we'll make a difference. Let's say this jobs report had a direct effect on, I don't know, all of us.

Like all of the stuff we do, we'd all just be suddenly strained to the limit because of some change and it was all economically related. It would become the number one thing for us. It's all we would be able to focus on. Let me also say that this jobs report does not materially affect much, right? But here's what it does do. For anybody who wants to say the January, January 6, January 6th, January 6th, Trump killed this thing in the Senate. and Liz Cheney and you know

Biden's tan suit and mama mama whatever else you want to talk about that's like in in vogue right now the Republicans can hold up the jobs report and say all you want to do is distract from this and that will be something

that that will cold currency it will the other thing about the January 6th commission is I don't know and I'd be curious your audience specifically the audience that

that you know maybe tolerates this segment because I can speak about politics in a way that isn't you know making you your ears want to bleed but aren't particularly politically dialed in I would wonder how many questions people have about what happened

on January 6th because the anecdotal sense that I get from my listeners and viewers is that I think we got a pretty good handle on what happened. So it's not like 9-11 where, you know, you've got a lot of people that have a lot of questions they need to answer, specifically like the FBI,

the CIA, and the NSA and whatever other shadowy agencies that we pay to spy on us. Yeah. That it's like, wait a minute, none of y'all. none of you all got the guys flying the planes into the towers everybody missed it which eventually led to a lot of reforms

including the formation of the Department of Homeland Security in many ways to force interagency cooperation because as we found out later in large part because of the 9-11 commission everybody had a piece of it but nobody wanted to share it with the rival agency and that eventually led to a big breakdown

that created this this whole situation. I don't know if there's a ton of questions with the January 6th thing, but I might be wrong. I mean, I think you're, I understand what you're saying. In fact, the other day I was thinking, what is the real reason that I and others want to see this commission happen or some kind of investigation, you know, a greater investigation happened? And I'd be lying if I said part of it wasn't that, you know,

what's fair is fair. If you're going to do, you know, if you're going to have a thing happened that ended up killing four people and then you do 35 separate house hearings on it for Benghazi, then you, this feels like you at least should do it here. It's not even that different of a story, actually. It's about, you know, a bunch of unruly armed people taking over a place they shouldn't and people got killed as a result. In fact, five people got killed as a result. So to me, it feels like, well, if you're going to do that, then why aren't we doing this? So to me, I feel like you can do both. Like, you can both acknowledge that, yeah, there isn't as much mystery to uncover as it was with 9-11.

But it still can, you still should just do it for due process. I know it's not a trial. So it's not quite the same as due process. But that's what I, if I'm being truthful, that's what, that's what bugs me about not doing it. You want a Benghazi. I don't want a Benghazi. I think everybody was having so much fun with Benghazi. No, no, no, no, no. I just want, let me, let me clarify. Let me clarify. I want, I can bring it up for every different thing. And I can say, yeah, but what about Benghazi? You're like, damn, that's, that looks hot. I would love to do that. And now you see this opportunity. No, no, no, no. Here's the clarification on that. I don't want anything in particular. What I want is consistency and my own private Benghazi. I want, I want things to be, like if you're going to have, if you're going to have a method.

for for investigation at that level you ought to be it ought to happen across the board all the time let's be clear let's be clear so there was not a bipartisan committee for benghazi right and so it became a house select committee and that's what pelosi will likely do here is continue to hold house select committees uh up until you know 2022 and and possibly beyond who knows depending on on on the will of the the membership or not you know there was a story in politico today that had some democrats saying like look let's talk about health care because we won in 2018 talking about health care let's try to not talk about trump if if trump's going to interject himself into this then then then let them but but we don't need to base our our campaigns on it and the worry is that if this this january 6th commission becomes

Benghazi, right, then inherently a lot of races will be defined by whether or not you believe this is political theater or not, and whether or not you believe that Donald Trump is a bad person or not. Whether you're not, you believe this was a riot and insurrection or a friendly game of hopscotch that got too intense, as some members of Congress have seemed to allude. like they're it really depends on on where you think if you are thinking as a democratic partisan how do you best either stave off the Republicans from winning enough seats to take the majority which right now would seem to be the likelihood or do the impossible in reverse course and gain more seats like that is that is that is what you are trying to do now some believe that

Democratic voters are at their most motivated, motivated because Donald Trump is on the ballot. And we saw that with Joe Biden. Others believe that that is not quite the case when Donald Trump isn't literally on the ballot. And so they should, you know, just as Joe Biden won, the Democrats actually lost seats in the Senate and the House that they thought they were going to win. So down ballot when Donald Trump was not, you know, was not the. candidate. They didn't do nearly as well. And so it's it's there. But it sounds like from your perspective, Scott, you really kind of just would like sort of a pound of flesh here. I don't even want that. I just want, this isn't a revenge thing. I just want consistency. In fact,

I have no problem with those Benghazi hearings. Go for it. I don't know if they really found anything of substance, but if there was cause for them, just like, you know, if a cop thinks he's pulled somebody over and there's a reason to check in the trunk and he does, like you got to do that stuff, but just do it consistently. Like, I guarantee you. I don't think any reasonable person thought that they needed to be that many. Well, maybe not. But my point is this.

Like, it's impossible for me to not know this and my heart of hearts and my guts of guts. I 100% know that if the tables were flipped and it was a Democratic sitting president who riled everybody up and got all that crap going on and there was a, there was an attack on the Capitol building and five people died. if this was flipped, they would be, they would be screaming for hearings. They would, they would already be going. We would already be way down the road on this. That's why I have a problem with it, because I, I know that. I know that 100% that if this was flipped and it all goes to your partisanship and how you're going to get seats and all that.

I understand all that, but I just know in my heart of hearts, in a right and wrong, black and white world, if this was not Democrats, or if it was just flipped, just flip the story. Yeah. They're not going, well, we just, we just need to move on.

We just don't the country. Please move hard. Let me give you a hypothetical, a hypothetical example, right? Let's say that there was a Republican, a fan of a Republican

presidential candidate that came down and shot a Democratic congressperson. do you think that that would be something that that should be talked about in you know that they should have hearings on or would be a gigantic deal in the media it'd be a huge deal in the media sure because that happened there was a Bernie Sanders fan who shot a Republican congressperson yeah yeah and it was it was a big deal in the in the news I mean I think it would probably be a bigger deal and also that's what the Republicans wanted to expand the scope on of the the January 6th commission to talk about a bunch of political violence. I don't think that it necessarily needed to be that. Personally, I think you could have done a bipartisan committee on the one-sixth thing. I just don't know what the will is of the populace. That's what I don't know. I don't know how much this is a

story for people who really, really, really, really, really, really care about politics and have really, really, really, really, cared about politics specifically over the last five years, because in many ways it feels like a culminating action of the last five years and how much people who are really tired of their Facebook feeds being totally dominated by politics want to rehash it again. I don't know. And I don't know my suspicion is whenever you bank on something that's outside of the key interests historically, which I think for Democrats, healthcare, certainly equality laws and, you know, pioneering stuff for gay and maybe be even the stuff that's happening now in terms of

transgender laws. Those to me would be more animating bedrock issues than let's talk more about this one thing. Because those are far reaching. They are changing daily. People are affected by them daily. And if you want to get people out to the polls, then those are live wires in a way of let's examine the past because that's the last. the last Trump will get to run on unless he runs again.

But by 2022, that'll be it. Whether or not those are the issues that you want at the center of this. No, and I understand. I understand how those winds blow. I just, but what it does come down to is saying, well, there were crimes. We'll let these ones go because they don't really push the needle too far on all our political will or our political needs.

And I don't, I just think you can do both. You can do. People are, people are going to jail for it. No, I understand that. But, but if, um, if they, you know, if there's real culpability on the part of the former president, then, uh, and without investigation, then you never, you never get to that.

So then the law isn't served. So my, my point is like, yeah, it may not be politically expedient, but can't they do both? Can't they do two things at once? Is it possible they could push, on all those other issues and do a commission? Yeah. Why not? Do both. I mean, they will. They are going to. The question is whether or not one of them drowns out the other one.

Yeah. Whether or not one of them demands so much press attention that your other messages just can't compete. And historically, you know, off your elections are always weird because we tend to nationalize them. We think of them in national terms like we do a presidential election when really, you know, when you're talking. talking about house seats, ultimately whether or not you're for or against the chick-fil-A going on the northwest corner of Main Street and Market, as opposed to the southwest corner as your opponent thought, is more impactful than, you know, whether or not you were for or against the Iraq War. But, you know, I think from a strategic point of view, the question is for,

for Nancy Pelosi and the House exactly how much do you want to push this and when does it serve your interest and when does it not? And all I will say the only definitive thing

I want anybody to take out of this particular segment is I think that nothing they can do will be more important than the economy if the economy looks like it's not doing great. That will be the issue bar none, that's it. Well, I don't disagree, yeah. actually agree with that because that's just how it is that's the way it'll be people tend to

people tend to plant their flag where they eat and uh even if it doesn't affect them directly they get incited by that in a way that they don't about most things i don't know i just wish there was more um i don't know justice and all this but there they're there probably won't be like i a lot of these guys who are being uh prosecuted slash put in jail slash you know punish for what happened on the six are not really getting all that punished some of them are getting lots of little freebie stay of sentences so they can all in order johnson lock them up and throw away the key johnson yeah i am johnson i am i love it i'm all for is a mandatory minimums that's what we need what i'm saying what i'm saying but again no see again

we're back to we're back to inconsistency there are plenty of people who do very minor things that are given the full breadth of their punishment and some of these guys aren't so and a lot of that breaks down on racial lines and other stuff like you get ourselves into trouble at times in a very large country finding contradictory examples and then matching them up with each other because there's a lot of contradictory examples because we have a lot of examples because we're a big country we also do like to throw people in prison and we throw so many people in prison that we had to have prison reform because an issue that was strangely bipartisan. And a lot of those came from laws that came out of the late, or sorry, the early 90s because you got bipartisan agreement on the idea that we needed to get tough on crime. We don't have a uniform, a penal code in the country because we are of 50 states, and there's only so many federal cases that you can try or that are tried. But, you know, I don't know.

I'm excited that you are, that you are there for people getting thrown in jail. It's not what I mean. It's not what I mean. I just, I don't know, I'd like a more fair, equitable society is what I'd like. And I know that's pie in the sky, but whatever, that's what I want. Well, no, I mean, I think the question is, what does that mean? Right. Like, that's an easy thing to say.

And we can find examples where we find, you know, inequality that can span different judicial systems and laws and enforcements and then you can go even further than that you can say okay well how many people were educated on the same level or have access to a lawyer or a know even on the basic level exactly what kind of problems they're facing is there a history of people going to jail in their family is it is it not any different uh or are they going to have a bunch of people that have a safety net that really want to get them out and they're going to spend a much money to do it. Uh, there are, there are a lot of those, those elements. So the question is when we say a more fair and equitable society, what exactly do we mean and, you know, what,

what, what kind of reforms do we want? I don't know the personal prosecutions of some of these people that have been persecuted or prosecuted so far for the January 6th riots, uh, like it sounds like you do. Um, but, uh, uh, it seems like people are getting reasonable. punishments for trespassing on federal land and breaking things and going around shirtless with hard nipples like the cute time wait how do we have confirmation on the nipple status was that a thing to presume i mean it wasn't exactly a balmy 83 degrees i i presume he had hard nipples but part of that was caused by the fur he was wearing i'm guessing even more so i mean the buffalo skins draping i'm not here to report exclusively

that I believe he had hard nipples because I don't know conclusively. I do think that circumstantial evidence would lead you reasonably to the idea that those were some stiff little buttons. Never to be pushed. Well, all right. Interesting stuff.

And you still hate Handmaid's Tale of the season is the other thing I wanted to get to. Not a fan, right? Just not working for you. I caught up. I caught up on Handmaid's day. Yeah, we got a few episodes left or two, is it? Or whatever.

We still have a... Yeah, I think I don't know. Season doesn't end until. mid-June, so we still have even a few weeks before the seasons. Oh, more than that, okay. Yeah, and I'm sure they'll give her six more motivations by that. I've really enjoyed this season. I don't know. I just, I don't know what the deal is. Yeah.

The simplicity of that show was, regardless of the message that they are obviously, you know, that is, that is woven into the DNA of it, and I would never begrudge the show for it, is that it was an escape show, right? You were exploring this bizarre world through the eyes of June. It's a brutal, awful, disgusting world. Fascinating, nonetheless, because we are constantly in our heads thinking about exactly how likely it is that we would be here, how what is alien, what is familiar, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. You can only keep her there for so long unless you start on some level making her complicit with at least a part of Gilead. so I can understand, what, this is five seasons in,

that now you kind of have to, you have to get her out. My question is, how many versions of her do we need to get out? Let me, a spoiler alert for a handmade tale, but trust me, if you watch the episodes, it's not like this is going to make any more sense. Here are the episodes that I, as I was texting Scott last night, so far. She was running a terrorist organization.

then she went to Guantanamo Bay then she joined a gang then she almost ruined Doctors Without Borders and now she's just kind of hanging out and I will say that Canada is very accurately depicted in the show very boring and obsessed with what's happening in America that is pretty much nothing really happens

in Canada except for a bunch of people that used to be in America saying man I wonder what's happening in America right now Yeah. Sorry. I apologize for this. My wife is sneaking behind me because she's giving me my shot that I get on Mondays normally. I apologize. It just happened. Right here live on the show. It's going to hurt. Are you in? Oh, jeez. Are you in now? Holy shit. That would hurt. All right. We're good. It's because I'm. I mean, I'm not, you have not sent me your video so I can up to you on my partner. I can only imagine. But I can only hear, and that was an auditory experience. Thanks, hon.

Feast for the years. The video just is what you'd expect, except you've got, Kim, peeking around from the side of Scott. Down at the very bottom of frame. I guess she's got to go somewhere. And so she had to hurry up and do it because she's the only one that can aim right when it has to go on my butt cheek. The gift, the gift for the audience is Scott Johnson saying, are you in? Are you in?

Watch that hurt. I say everything I say I regret. All right. Hey, Justin, fantastic. Well, I hope the rest of the season just completely redeems it for you and that we can have you back next week to talk more. It's not a great season. I'm still watching it. My wife and I, I don't know, sometimes they just like to pick apart shows because I'm not miserable and I want to bring everybody else to my level.

Sure. All right. Fair enough. Anything else this week going on you want to tell folks about? Yeah, we have a great interview that I just recorded with Andrew Heaton of the political orphanage. It's going to be on the PX3 episode about the idea. You guys remember this. I'm sure you do the old archetype in politics.

There used to be the old cranky fiscal hawk, you know, usually an old person. And they would say things like, inflation is a death sentence for our grandchildren and stuff like that. And they used to kind of be on both sides of the aisle. There was, there was at least an element of it, if not maybe that one guy. He was, that guy was maybe always a Republican, but there was certainly an element of it that happened on both sides of the aisle. And it's kind of totally gone now. And so we take a sort of a meta, a look at, you know, the life cycle of the fiscal hawk and whether or not that kind of messaging would ever come back around without a horrifying financial collapse. And then at the end, we brainstorm new branding for the hashtag TikTok generation.

How do you rebrand of that idea? Wow. That sounds all right. Well, you can catch that and everything else that Justin's got going on. So go check it out. Justin Robert. I like to eat. The jury will now retire.

Here we go. I get the wrong one. I mean, I like to eat too. Was it, though? I don't know if it was the wrong one. Yeah, maybe not. after a day of Brian eating balls and me getting a shot in the middle of the show. Man.

All right. Hey, well done. Now time for a Monday morning, Tuesday morning mashup. Yes. Because usually we do it Monday, born here yesterday. So we go today to make up for it. This thing's called nervous squirt. All right?

Just let that swash around in your brain a little bit as I hit play. Japanese, sorry, Japolino Jickups. Jalapino. Let me do that again. Jalapino Jiccups. What? The word dick is so satisfying sometimes. It is, yeah.

Don't be a dick. Don't be such a dick. You dick. Dick. Look at this guy. This guy just has had to work a noodle. Good Lord. Is it A, infants.

B, real human skulls. Infants. I've seen this statue and he's naked. He has a wiener out. Infants. I'm just trying to be naked here. What are all these kids doing? Oh my God. Scott's going to love this thing. I thought I would too. And I think it's the length. I think it's just so, which is weird because I actually really like a long, like, you know, don't let your Nicole. Don't let your niche internet fame turn you into a dick.

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. Then I'd only have to do it once. I don't use drugs. Please, guys, don't say that. Really, no cocaine, he says. Boink! What the fret? Gibraltar is living one... Gibraltar is giving 10010%.

When this goes through FEC approval, here are the two rules they're going to have. SEC, yes. What I say? FEC, I didn't mean that. Yeah, federal election commission probably won't have much to say. Good point. I could have said FDC and then, I don't even know where I'd be then. FTC would not possibly be applicable.

Could have said FTP and then I'd have to worry about. out files and I could have said OPP. I could have said OPP. I'm not down with that one. Yeah, I'm not down with O'clock. Boy, am I glad I'm not allergic to vibrations, says Claire Gack. Uh-huh. I'm thinking about it too much. Testicle, or testicle, period, period, period. I don't know why I said testicle. Oh, there was something about kicking somebody in there. Kicking ran out of the testicle. I was looking at it right when I said it. Do you do squid? Oh, squid ink. Yeah. Oh, that's so, I don't have the guts to do it. It's got such a light flavor. You'd be fine. with it.

Oh, but it's the nervous squirt of a freaking squid. It's a squid going, oh, shit. And then leaving the ink. My high school wrestling nickname was a nervous squirt. It was also your finishing move. Just shoot a bunch of ink and then swim away. There you go. It still grosses me out, dude.

Still grosses me out. The nervous squirt. Nervous squid squirt. Squid ink is just, I'm never eating it. You'll have to try it. You'll have to try it. And that Tina voice is so good. So good. She heard that, right? The look I get from her when I do that voice is priceless.

That's pretty great. When you guys meet her ever, if you've never met her before and you meet Tina for the first time and she doesn't sound like that, don't be shocked because she doesn't sound at all like that. But Brian. Not even a tiny bit. Yeah. I don't know what that deal is. All right. Oh, my bum kind of hurt.

She got me right in the meat. Well, that's where you want it. I was going to get these on Monday. We forgot yesterday because it felt like a holiday or it fell like a Saturday. All right. We're going to take our leave. Thank you everybody for joining us. A reminder that tonight at 5 p.m.

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