The Morning Stream - TMS 2139: Darth Vaper

Episode Date: July 6, 2021

We All Have a Shelf Life. It's The BETTER Dakota! Want to try my Movie Theater Pickle? Vape CBD Ev'ry Day! Come On Down To Randy Rental. Getting Some Weed & Shasta From The Kroger! Worried about limited heart beats. Plays Resident Evil and screams. Random person yells into the void, more at 11. What's The Dill About Movie Theater Pickles? Ireland Where they Sing Ditties And Eat Clovers. Walk Towards the Wood Chipper! Stuff that down your green pipe! Occupying Different Spaces Together. Much Pain In Butt! Press F9 For 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.

Coming up on TMS, we all have a shelf life. It's the better, Dakota. Want to try my movie theater pickle? Vap CBD every day. Nice. Come on down to Randy rental. Getting some weed and shasta from the Kroger. Worried about limited heartbeats, plays Resident Evil and screams.

Random person yells into the void. More at 11. I'm sorry. What's the deal, dill about movie theater pickles? Ireland, well, there sing ditties and eat clovers. Walk towards the woodchipper. Stuff that down your green pipe. occupying different spaces together.

Much pain in butt. Press F9 for jury and more. On this episode of The Morning Stream. You have got to destroy that mattress. You have got to destroy that mattress. Can I get a fish sandwich? The Morning Stream. in it.

Good morning, everyone. Welcome to a Tuesday edition of the morning stream for Tuesday, July 6th, 2021. I'm Scott Johnson with Brian Nibit. Good morning, Brian. Good morning, Scott. Hey, man, it's, uh, we're back. Everybody, it's, uh, we're now day two of being back and that means, boy, are we ready

for you people today? Yeah, I mean, I'm looking ahead of the, uh, the old calendar. And I think, I don't see any, no, no travel for me in July. So I think we're good. I think we're safe, Scott. Yeah, me too. July is looking good. I don't have anything until August, really.

And even then, it's only, I think it's a weekend or, you know, maybe. Now, it'll be great if you're, your Vegas thing, because that's what you're talking about, right? It's a Vegas trip. Yeah. It'd be great if that timed perfectly with my L.A. trip. Oh, we could cross over. We could cross the streams. Oh, man.

Cross the streams, exactly. Oh, my gosh. Occupying the same space, we turn into Ron Silver. No, we're not occupying any of the same space. You're going to a different place than I'm going. Yeah, but maybe we could, oh, you'd fly probably, right? You're going to, you'd fly. Hell yes.

Yeah, you're not going to drop. Oh, hell yes. Yeah, it was actually the cheapest part of my trip is the flight compared to Disneyland tickets, hotel. Oh, yeah. Cars are ridiculous still, right? Because during COVID, none of those places made any money, so they didn't buy new cars. And I think they even sold some of their old. cars to help keep afloat and now if you want to rent a car from like budget you know budget and

dollar where my usually go-toes yeah it's like uh 70 to 80 bucks a day if that if if that cheap yeah those two companies need to change their names from dollar there's no budget or dollar it's it's right yeah call yourself bitcoin and uh not budget i don't i don't know what the other one to call it's really dumb it's super super not dumb i understand these you know market conditions do what they do but that's that's a that's a bummer plus you know randy let me uh rent his car for 20 bucks a day yeah like just leave it at the airport uh i wonder if they've started it put the keys inside i don't know if that car's been started since uh since back in the day who knows oh right yeah randy rental that's right jeannie perfect name randy rental yeah come on down

to randy rental where we'll get randy budget deluxe there you go perfect Well, anyway, yeah, so it'll be, because otherwise, that'd be, what, like a 15-hour drive for you or something? Something horrible? Yeah, to Orange County, yeah, it'd be, because it's 10 hours to Vegas and then another six or seven to L.A. Yeah. And Orange County, I mean, depends on how I come in, but yeah, no, it would be a ridiculous drive. It'd be unworth it. For me, solo, that would be much gas.

Yes. Much, much, much gas, much tired behind wheel. Much, much pain and butt. I would say much pain in butt correct my sister yeah and I'd be half tempted to just say I'm in Vegas want to just stay here just never leave yeah because then you're only four hours away from LA or whatever you can say oh Saksera says it's a four hour drive to Disneyland from Vegas I guess so because Orange County's a little more inland than oh yeah it's than where I usually would go so it's not bad at all 14 hour drive but still no yeah that's why I meant Zula likes to hop in his car

and go down there all the time. Just head right over. Good point. My sister came for the reunion and she's still here technically. She's in town until, I mean, they're seeing some of his family, her husband's family in Provo and stuff during the week. And tomorrow, the reason I bring her up, she drove 20 hours to be here because they drove. Oh, they drove.

Well, they had a bunch of kids and. Yeah. They got a van full of kids. They got other stuff they wanted to see and do on the way, some friends to see on the way. So, you know, made sense for them. But 20 hours, dude. Boof, yeah. That's one way, by the way.

Right. Where was their halfway point spend the night? Wyoming. We're for one night, and then I want to say one other place before that. It may have been... Oh, really? So they did two stops. Yeah, might have been a Dakota stop, maybe.

One of the Dakotas, south, probably. Probably the south of the Dakotas. Yeah, yeah. Of those two Dakotas, south's where you go, usually, if we're driving. It is the better Dakota. I mean, it's got your Rushmore and Crazy Horse, and uh yeah deadwood and sure all your fun stories come from what you got north dakota fargo fargo yeah blame lame yeah anyway so uh they're here and as a result tomorrow's a little

weird uh the show tomorrow will be normal normal time everything else but instead of tom and Nicole my sister will be live here in the studio for her segment so she she won't be here the whole show but she'll be here from you know her her time on like like a normal Thursday except it'll be on a Wednesday and she'll physically be here. I'll have her on camera. And then Thursday, Tom and Nicole have shifted to that day. So just a little programming note. If things seem a little weird tomorrow and Thursday,

it's because we planned it that way. Okay. So that's how that's going to go. It'll be great, though, because their boys are going to be over at the lake, fishing and doing the kayaki thing. And what else? I got video games here.

They can play if they want. It'll be a good Wednesday for those. Oh, they'll have a great. time yeah and that gives me an extra day to uh to tease my recommendal and also to record the audio for my recommend actually i'm going to have two recommendals yeah oh two oh two i'm already teasing i'm going to have two a movie and a show i'm going to have one it'll be a show and that's all you're going to get out of me but all right but yeah it'll be good uh i wanted to make a quick shout out to mark listener long time listener of the show um i got this email from him i'll just read it says

Hey, Scott and Brian, I'm writing to say how much my wife and I appreciate the show. My wife and I had a windy question answered before our bakery closing during COVID. Do you remember the bakery? Oh, I totally remember that. Yeah, absolutely. Because talking about the bakery, I wanted to go to their bakery and eat all the stuff. Yeah, I want to go there now and eat all the stuff. But anyway, he says, where is it?

It says, now we are evacuating our home due to the lava fire up here. And the morning stream has been a shining light during all of the chaos. I just wanted to thank you all for what you're doing and keep up the amazing show, Mark and Jen. I didn't know about this lava fire business. Is it just called that? Northern or is that Southern California? Where is that?

I'm looking at it right now here. Law fire, hold on. It is. I didn't realize they were calling on. So north of, wow, just south of the Oregon border in California. So even north of Redding, which is the most northern I've ever been in California.

Latest update. Well, the most northern I've ever stopped in California. We did the 101 drive years ago, and so we've been. I've been past this at some point, but never in there. So it's now, by the way, a quick update from 30 minutes ago. The fire is 25,000 acres have burned. 71% contained, though, so that's good. And it looks like they're making.

in progress. So I guess I don't know what their status is now. They probably had to evacuate and then maybe you're back by now. But Mark and Jen, we just want to let you know that the feeling's mutual. We love good listeners and we hate to hear when people go through hard stuff. But you guys have had a heck of a couple of years and I hope things get better because... Oh, no kidding. Can I, by the way, can I point out so right, right by there, you've got Mount Shasta. Yeah. And then northwest of Mount Shasta, you've got Lake Shastina. Oh, Shasta and Shastina? Shasta and Shastina.

It's like the mountain and the lake. Together at last. Right, exactly. And then a little town off of the five called Weed. Oh, nice. Weed and Shasta. It's my favorite combo. Weed and Shasta.

Exactly. Yeah. Let's head over to the Kroger and get some weed and Shasta. That's right. And by the way, that's a Safeway had Shasta. Oh, okay. Yeah, it was a Safeway thing. I think we had them kind of everywhere here.

We had a lot of Shasta available. Oh, did you? Okay. but this reminds me it's a perfect transition perfect segue as the as they say yeah i vaped brian what i vapeaked i forgot to tell you this yesterday because it was all the other stuff but at the family reunion i vaped and i'll explain it's not quite what it sounds like uh okay so i've never vaped i don't know anything about vaping or vape culture or smoking or any of that it's never been my jam you had a record you had a record of not vaping i can't wait to find out what

made you break your record about vaping? Well, my main record was smoking, but vaping, you know, whatever, it's kind of connected. And I still have no record of nicotine inhalation outside of secondary, you know, being at a concert or something. Sure. But having never smoked or any of that, just never been a thing for me. It seems like about like the last thing you would expect to find in my mouth is a vape pen. However, this happened over the weekend. So a relative said, you need to try this. I'm like, well, that looks like. Well, that looks like. a vape pen. And I'm like, I'm good. And they're like, no, no, no, this is, there's no nicotine in this. This is, it is a vape pen, it's a vaporizer. And it's a portable,

or not a portable, the disposable one. So you get like, 1,500 puffs and then you throw them away or whatever. All right. It's got, this was in somebody else's mouth before years, right? Oh, yeah, yeah. Well, it's someone who do, and they, we wiped it down real good. It was fine. All right. Okay. This is the guy I think even Purell the brand new Oculus when you pull it out of the box. But okay. Yeah, right. Right, as soon as I get that box open, I'm not letting some manufacturing tester guys gooby inside of my eye holes.

Anyway, so I get this thing and it's like banana flavored, some kind of mint thing in there. And then on the side it says 100% CBD oil, 715.000. milligram, CBD, something. And so there's CBD. It's a CBD vape pen. And I'm like, now you're sure, this has no, I'll try this, but I don't want to do it if it's got nicotine. No nicotine.

Yeah. I don't want any of your addictive chemical nicotine times. And honestly, I don't want to, if it's pot, because that's illegal currently. But, you know, I'm cool. I'm cool trying your little CBD stick. Sure, sure. That's what it is.

And they confirmed that it was and looks it up online and everything. And I'm like, all right, I'm going to give this. a shot. And so I horked down some CBD business. And just like all the, you know, the old TV shows when some kid would take a drag on his first cigarette, I coughed like an idiot because I didn't know what I was doing. But then breathed in a couple of drags and blowing them out of my nose, right? Oh, you went fancy. Nice. Oh, yeah. Looking like a total like just a, I don't know what I would call myself. But I have to tell you, as someone who in the past, CBD in the form of like,

oil and doing like the sublingual use of the oil and that sort of things. Never done jack for me. Just nothing. I don't feel a freaking thing. None of the relaxation effects. None of the, it doesn't get you high. It's just like a, you know, like a... A mellows you a little bit. Yeah, it just meels you out or

whatever. It never does anything for me except that thing. I immediately feel it. Like my arms loosened up. I just felt looser and less I don't know, pent up or something. And now it makes me want to go to a

smoke shop and buy a stick. So here's what's going to happen. Nick is going to catch you and he's going to say now you're going to take this vape pen in the closet and you're going to smoke all 1,500 puffs out of it. Well, this is how I'll think of it because

I get really, you probably know this of me, but I get really if I know something has like so many uses like the first time, I wish I would have never ever heard this. The first time someone told me that an SSD drive only has so many read-write chances, right, right? Like, SSDs are amazing. They've changed my whole life in terms of storage and, you know, speed and everything else. But the minute somebody told me, well, you'll get about,

you know, 50,000 read rights to the drive. Right, right. Then my brain goes, oh, how many have I done? And how many am I doing it? It's a ticking time, bomb. Yeah, I get to think about it all the time. And I hate that. I hate knowing that there's a limited number of anything in a thing. like a limited number of charges your phone can only be charged that's the thing right it's like oh my laptop has it has like 375 charges full charges from empty to full and whatever you know then the percentages uh before the little battery flag comes up and says check your battery service recommended right yeah yeah in a practical level like luke's in the chat saying s is the only lasts a set amount of time is this for real it's not like an expiration date it's just

an overtime thing. So the truth is, practically, I'll never run into it because I've got the way my work goes, I do upgrades every couple of years. You're going to be fine in that time range. This is for people where it's like 12 years later, oh, my drive's acting up. That's, that's who that is. So it doesn't even really affect me, but I still think about it. And I wish I would have never heard it because I like this fantasy. I know that everything degrades and dies, including me. We're all going to die. I know that. We all have a shelf life. Right. We all have some kind of shelf life. A hit rate number. Oh, you're going to get about two to two and a half million heartbeats out of this thing. So, you know. Oh, I hope more than that. So somebody once told me they said you get a billion heartbeats for your whole life.

Billion. Okay. And I wish they wouldn't have told me that. I wish they would have said, just you get some number. We don't know. Just live. You know, live. Don't think about the number now as a result. This is why we don't, why we don't run so much is because, no, those are, those make the, the heartbeats come faster and, uh, yes, take a year off my life, right. That's exactly my, my brain is weird that way. I don't know why I see this scarcity. I think it's because my sister thing is because when my dad, his business crashed when I was a teenager, it just left these like weird markings on me that make me really, I don't know, I get kind of cheap in situations where I don't need to be. Yeah. It's like, Are you really going to supersize that meal, really? Because do we need to spend the, you know, like really nitpicky on dumb stuff? And I think it's from that, man. And I'm the other way, I'm like, well, you mean, it's only 50 cents for me to get the Coke Zero I can swim in here at the movie theater? Well, sure, 50 cents, I'll might as well get that. I'll never drink, you know, even the smaller amount out of that thing.

But if it's only 50 cents, I might as well get it. Me as well, yeah. Alright, so here it is. I apologize. I've got the wrong number. It is. Estimated lifetime beats, 3 billion beats, if you live to be 80 years old. 3 billion beats, okay, yeah. Yeah, if you live to 80, let's say. You're looking at an average of 3 billion beats. I was about a thousandth. It should be a new Dead Mouse album name, 3 billion beats. There you go. 3 billion beats. Yeah, I'd buy that.

So what about the sugar content of that banana flavored vapor? oh yeah i looked into that it's uh this the one i had was a uh was a fake it's vape zero babe zero babe zero it was some kind of artificial flavor like you'd get in gum uh okay sugar free gum so it's probably like some kind of sugar alcohol or something in there um so yeah i did ask it because i have to i have to ask these dumb questions but anyway i'm not going to be like sucking on this thing every day or anything weird like that it just was a nice little moment of like oh, this is how I can do it. Maybe there's some other way I could do CBD, like inject it to my bum or something

or something that would make it work for me because it doesn't work as just putting oil in my mouth. That didn't work. Chewing on the gummies or anything like that, yeah. Yeah, I never noticed any of the... They taste terrible. Those gummies taste terrible. They totally taste terrible. Oh, my gosh.

It's like eating a rotten, a little piece of meat or something. It's really bad. But yeah, have you ever done, you ever got the CBD in your blood? you get the uh just just through the dummies or the um uh the oils that's it i've never never tried the vaping never um i don't know what other ways you'd get CBD the pills I guess there's CBD um pills you can take but that's it did you get a do you get a sensation of calm and nothing all that nothing other way that's kind of how I felt any other way but um yeah I wonder if I've been desensitized by just being around crazy neighbor for as long as I have to

where I'd need to like really amp up the CBD to be able to feel something because I mean there's you know breathing the secondhand marijuana smoke you get the the minor levels of THC and you probably would get minor levels of CBD as well yeah I would have said so I have no idea someone in the Maro Prime in the chat says you know you realize there's sugar and jerky no I know like when I buy jerky when I eat his jerky. I don't care because I think Marl Prime's jerky is amazing. Yes. Oh, my god, that

pineapple habanero terriaki is just freaking amazing. That's insane. But this weekend, over at Trader Joe's there, we got some sugar-free jerky. Had no shug in it. Jerky zero. Good.

Just try to keep it low. It doesn't have to be zero. I just try to keep it low, man. Keep it low. There you go. Well, that's all we got there. All the CBD vaping I can do. Well, let us know if you do end up going to the smoke shop.

Oh, yeah, I'll document that whole thing. You betcha. Some banana. I wonder if you could get it like the zivia, where you get like a variety pack of fruit flavors in one 12 pack of vapes. I don't know. Like, they do. Oh, black cherry.

The word is these $1,500 sticks that run out eventually, or $1,500 draw sticks. are 20 bucks a piece and I'm trying to decide if that's a good deal or a bad deal because 20 bucks is 20 bucks but is that I don't know I guess if it works it's worth it I don't know

sure I don't know sure well but you also have to refill them right or is it 1,500 puffs on the same one oh that's a good question without a refill yeah I don't know plus you know we're still like I don't know 10 years away from really good studies on how vaping did things

like did it screw up your lungs did suck it in bubble guns Jule just had to pay out, what, $40 million because of their marketing to, like, basically it was found that they were marketing to kids. Yeah, yeah. Well, no, that's not, that doesn't affect light. That's not saying, well, it's bad for you. Yeah. I mean, we know the effects, but certainly bad, worse for kids if there's nicotine in it.

Yeah, there's just a lot of questions still, you know? We don't know yet. Is vaping a healthier alternative cigarettes? Maybe. Can it cause cancer? Maybe. We don't know yet. We don't know. Pulling shit into your lungs that doesn't belong there other than air. You know, it doesn't seem right. But we don't have the numbers yet. So we'll see how things go. Anyway, I guess what I'm saying is it's not like I'm going to vape head now, but I came away going, yeah, you know, I get it. I get why this is, I get why even if it's just a stick in your mouth that you do a thing and you get a little bit of whatever, I get why people are into it.

It's why we put pens in our mouth when we're working on stuff, Scott. Yeah, I probably both do it. Yeah, we do. I got this exact one if I do it with all the time. And that's dangerous. Yeah, I know. I hope you do that end. Well, I have, one time I put it in the wrong end and cut my lip like a dumbass.

And then sometimes if I put it in this side, I accidentally nick a screen or something while I'm leaning forward. So I got to stop doing that. Like of all the things, why? You've got pens, Scott? You've got pencils? Chew on a pencil. I do. I have within reach, though.

All I have is that. a pair of very sharp, sharp scissors, and this thing that would pinch your nipple off if you wanted. Wow, all right. Yeah, get right in there. All right. If I wanted. If you, well, of course you want.

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the time but it means you might yeah and it's a good way to always get invited to the surveys for what's your nerd yeah not what's your nerd sorry uh tadpooley feud because that's where i post stuff like that yeah i need to figure out um you know maybe once this massive project is is done i'll be able to get back on doing the what's your nerd stuff because i really enjoyed doing those where you find somebody's what they're an expert in and then ask them 10 questions. It takes forever to write those questions. Yeah, it's a beast. Forever.

Yeah. Plus you have the whole production of like, you've got to call them and you got to have the right time and schedule a thing and then you have the discussion. Exactly. And we have a listener who offered to write questions saying, you know, if you need help with that, Brian, I could totally do the questions for you. I said, all right, well, here, let me give you one as a test and see how you do. We'll see what you do. That was the last I'd heard from them. Oh, wow.

I've not heard from them since. They got a taste of the work, and they said, nope, not for me. That's right. It's someone who frequently e-mails us about stuff, and I don't think we've heard anything from this person since they offered to do that. Well, if they hear us now, they'll know what's going on. You know, if your alternatives out there, you know, if you want Discord, great. We've got a whole big Discord thing.

You like, you know, I don't know. Twitter, Tumblr. There's a. Friendster. We're on Friendster. We're on Friendster.com slash frogpans. Yeah. We got Reddit.

You can go to Reddit. Geocities.com slash frogpants. Yeah, that's how GeoCities worked. They definitely had slash frogpants. We had the Frog Pan City in GeoCities. I keep hearing Tumblr's going to have a comeback. Someone told me. Oh, really?

Yeah, like they got ideas over there that are going to bring them back to the, I don't know. It's hard to do once you lose your people. I don't know how you do it. We'll see. All right. Let's get into the news here. Let's talk about everyone's favorite billionaire man, Elon Musk. Sure, sure.

He's a billionaire man. And as you know, he's in a current space race with two other billionaires to get to space first, and that's fun. That tells me those guys aren't taxed enough, but whatever. We'll get into that later. Anyway, a bronze Elon Musk statue in downtown Manhattan was unveiled. but to a wave of mockery, says this headline. As it should be. Yeah, this thing, I don't know what to even say about it,

but chat will put it up so you can make your own judgments here. It's funny because, well, I have a thought on this. Let's read a little more of the story, and I'm going to tell you, or is there more to it. All right, well, there's a little bit. Some people wrote, for example, thank you. It's getting hard to find public toilets. One user wrote.

Another said, I'm going to wreck it. I'm going to wreck into it with my Tesla model. platt edition electric vehicle another commented let's see it says oh that is actually all there is so what were you going to say about this all right so do you remember uh like what five years ago they had the lucille ball bronze statue that was erected yeah that barely looked

human let alone looking like lucile ball right where is that I'm gonna find that because that was weird I think we talked about it here Yeah, well, we talked about it here. It's been since we've... Oh, yeah, that's so bad. Yeah. Oh, my gosh, I forgot about this, you guys. Look at this.

Right. This is supposed to be Lucille Ball there. Right. Wow. And they did eventually redo it, and the new one looks great. Yeah, the new one looks like her. But now here's the thing. I'm going to argue that, because you see bronze statues of

folks like Lincoln and Washington and, you know, people that were around before we had thousands of photos of them for us to be able to say, that doesn't look like Abraham Lincoln. So I'm going to argue that bronze statues have always been relatively bad. Now we've got a lot of pictures of Elon Musk and Lucille Ball and Henry Winkler and 100% agree, 100% agree. They're all really freaking bad. I mean, even the one that's better of her, even the one that looks like Lucille Ball, it's still weird.

It's still not a hundred percent, you know? I think you almost have to go, because that one's almost stylized, cartoon-y, uh, yeah, look up the Henry Winkler, uh, bronze statue that's in Milwaukee. Hold on. Really? Henry, I'll give you a link. Ler statue. Right here.

Oh my gosh. In Discord, yeah. that's so bad. Oh, there he is standing with. I found one of them standing with it. Yeah. That's really bad. Yeah, so, but you know, you go to Caesar's palace.

There's that big bronze bust of Julius Caesar. Guess what? We got nothing to compare Julia Caesar to photos or anything like that. So sure, it looks just like him. Why not? Yeah. I don't know. It's just kind of bad art.

I don't know. I don't know. Yeah. Like the one that Lucy's ball in. Oh, is there going to be a Janeway statue? No way. Like Captain Janeway? Captain Janeway.

Hold on. I think you'll even argue that this doesn't look like here. I'm going to give you a link. Just go to janewaystatue.com or click the link I gave you. And thank you, uh, J.C. Calhoun for this one. I mean, it's a little better. Kind of looks like. It's certainly not as, um, insulting as the Lucille Ball.

Part of the reason it works It's a little better, I think, is because it's a little more stylized It's a little more stylized Like the Lucille Ball, the new Lucille Ball one And I think that's what you got to do You got to kind of do a Borderline caricature of Of the person

To make it not look garbagey Yeah Oh, is there a Freddie Mercury one? Is it in Zanzibar or wherever? Freddie Curie. How good can this be, right? That's bad.

That's really bad. That's not too bad. Oh, it's terrible. Are you looking at the same one? I'm looking at the same one. I might not be looking at the same link. Let's see here. All the ones have the faces relatively shadowed.

Maybe it depends on the angle. The angle I'm looking at. Yeah, the side angle is not good. No. There's a couple of. shadow, like if you put it in shadow and put it out in front of everybody, that looks pretty good. But, boy, from the side looks like, uh, looks like trash. He's going to sculpt every one of us.

Yeah, he looks, uh, but from, but like the, the, the, in front and kind of below looks great. Like, uh, like this link right here. That view. Jeez, Louise, this has got to be a better way for me to give you a better link. That's all right. This will work. Whoops. Got a redirect notice on it.

Like that view. Oh, here, I'll do it this way. It's far better. That view looks pretty good. Yeah, that looks all right. Although he looks a little like some guy in the, I don't know. It's like Walt Disney cut in a rug, you know. There's something about his face.

Because of the mustache. It's not quite right. But, well, it's been, listen, everything you've shown. me is better than that lucile ball nightmare that was her yeah the lucile ball when is the is the worst it's the the greatest offender so back to this this uh elan musk thing it's also bad it looks nothing like elin musk now if you would have showed me that photo before you told me who it was um i wouldn't have been able to i wouldn't have gotten it in 50 guesses that looks more like the ned bady statue like i get more i get more ned badie out of that like he just died so maybe they're putting

If you just said, hey, they put up a Ned Beatty statue a little more in his prime, I'd say, I'd believe you. It's also a weird pose to choose. I mean, I find, I see the, I see the photo that they kind of based it on. But maybe, you know, I don't know, have him holding a truckster, like a, what was it, to the cyber truck. Have him, like, holding a cyber truck model in one hand and a baseball in the other. and a baseball? Sure, why not? A rocket ship or something, because he's going to space.

A rocket ship, there you go, yep, exactly. There you go. Is there a Melania statue? Oh, please tell me. Let's see it. How can you tell which one's the Melania statue? Yeah, I know. Oh, come on.

What is this? That's stupid. Look, did you see that link? Yeah, it's on People magazine, though. I think this is real. Oh, my gosh. How is this possible? It made this wooden face.

That's really stupid. There's others here. Ariana Grande. Well, that's just her wax sculpture. There's the Lucille Ball. Yeah, why don't they get, they should get the, whoever does the, uh, Madam Tisodes, wax sculptures to do the bronze sculptures.

Yeah. Because those are great. Yeah. Well, sometimes they're bad, though. Sometimes they, they miss the mark. Oh, do they? Okay. Cristiano Rinaldo's is really bad.

Oh, yeah, he's the one who's like with the, with the hair, the Dairy Queen hair on top, right? Yep. Oh, the Rick Flair one's pretty cool. Oh, who's this? Cape Moss? What the hell's going on there? Why, really, this is a fun, this is a fun.

Yeah, yeah, the Cristiano Rinaldo one is goofy. This is a fun, oh, the Colin Firth is horrible. The eyes like don't match up. Oh, there's a Colin Firth front statue? Yeah, it's really bad. Yeah, it's really bad. All right, well, I enjoyed that. Thanks, People Magazine. You've done your job today.

Those were definitely people. Why is there a Colin Firth statue? That's crazy. I don't know. It's just floating in water, right? Yeah. I mean, I like Colin Firth, but I don't know why he's got a statue. It seems like that's the thing you'd do later in that dude's life.

I love that you can see Colin Firth's nipples through his white shirt on his statue. That's pretty hot Yes I need to shower after this All right Let's move on to this here story Let's talk about something for the podcast listeners Something people don't have to see to get

Police called to stop exorcism Happening in a Pennsylvania Home Depot Oh no right there in the paint aisle Yeah you got to watch out People not normally associate the words Home Depot And Exorcism together says this article From the Pittsburgh CBSlocal.com website.

But that's exactly what happened in a Home Depot in La Cawana County. You ever been there? Lackawana County. Yeah. I might have. I don't know counties. What's the city? Is it just Pittsburgh in?

Pittsburgh, I would assume, since it's Pittsburgh. Let me see. Lackawana County. It's like a suburb or something. Yeah. I might have been, I've been to a few. few places in Pennsylvania installations. Allentown and Pittsburgh and Philly.

I live in here in the island town. I listened to a bunch of... I haven't been to... Oh, it's Scranton. Nope, never been to... We had Scranton as a customer, but sadly I never got to go to Scranton even before the office. Oh, man. That's too bad. Hey, it sure be a chat room. What was the name of... What was the Scranton City, but the one in England for the British office? I remember this for some reason.

Can I say it? Can I play? Yeah, you can play. It was slough, wasn't it? S-L-O-U-G-H. Yeah, I think it was Slough, right? Slough. Slough, pronounced slough.

Yeah. I love crappy. I love names that people just think are crappy by their name alone. Right. I think that's amazing. Sorry, Claire Gack, you lose. All right. Anyway.

You get nothing. You get nothing. Good day, Claire Gack. The Dixon City Police Police Department, rather, said around 3.30 p.m. On June 21st, they responded to people holding an exercise. in an aisle of the Home Depot on Commerce Boulevard. Please say the ritual was in the lumber aisle. Oh, the lumber aisle.

Oh, sure. Okay. Okay. Yeah, I tried to find this exorcism. I got in there. I couldn't find by way around. There was nobody around to help me to find the exorcism. Is anyone work here?

You'd say. Are you on break? Whether you're wearing an orange shirt. Do you work here? I hate that. Anyway, it says the demonstrators were doing it for the dead trees. Quote unquote, the dead trees, meaning the lumber itself. The very high-priced lumber right now, by the way.

It's very expensive. You know, do you see what, like a two-by-four went from a buck 57 to $12 in the last year? Wow. Holy cow. I wonder, so I guess people staying at home, they're deciding, well, I guess it's time to redo the bathroom. I think what it is is it's more of a builder's thing, like building, you know, new builds for homes, office, commercial, whatever. all that stuff is up by some huge percentage, and now there's just a shortage of lumber.

And, you know, it's like anything. All this chip shortage and all the other shortages is just, the pandemic just effed with the supply chain in a major way. And now everything's way too expensive. Crazy. Anyway. We were actually in both a Home Depot and a Lowe's this weekend, buying, looking for bathroom mirrors,

because we are eventually going to do our bathroom, but we had the opportunity to get rid of our eight-foot, mirror that we currently have in our bathroom that we were we weren't sure how we were going to get rid of it when we did eventually get time to redo the whole bathroom sure and we knew we wanted to replace it we knew we wanted mirrors like uh like the ones in Vegas where you've got an LED um outline in the mirror like the mirror's got a light in it kind of around the outside of it sure so we picked those up at home depot and lows we'll pick them up at lows after after trying to find what we wanted at Home Depot, which we couldn't. It's like those, I'm ready for my close-up, Mr. DeMille, kind of mirrors. Yeah, right, because when you're looking, if you, like, look at your eyes, you actually see, like, the cool outline, almost like a ring light in your, in your eyes. Those are old school. Old school, but LED as well, which is cool, because the old ones are old hot, hot lamp.

Right. Gina says, well, there's one over here that's got a Bluetooth speaker in it. And I said, oh, cool. Are you going to let me listen to that Bluetooth speaker? in the morning when I shower before you? Well, no. So maybe we don't need to get that. Plus, I have about a thousand Bluetooth speakers.

We're lousy with them as it already is. Yeah, exactly. Yeah, I'll kill you. I have anchor now ships from my house when they need to fulfill orders. You're an anchor distribution center? Exactly, yes. That's awesome. An anchor anchor, they call you.

An anchor anchor. Well, so this is the deal. Did they tell the trees to walk towards? that luck towards the wood chipper. They did. Getting the wood chipper then, they said. The people involved were escorted out of the store. The information was given by a blotter-style post.

I don't know what that means. And the Facebook post has over 700 chairs and 300 comments. I don't know why they always say that. 700 chairs and 300 comments, which also, by the way, is not a lot. No. It's kind of low. This is news, and here's the news about the news and how people are reading the news about the news.

One Twitter user was quoted as saying, it's like, stop doing that. It's my least first. favorite trend in all of journalism. Yeah, exactly. Yes. Who cares? I can click on the link and find out how many shares and comments it's got. Yeah. Because I bet that number goes up after this news article

that you just wrote. Yeah. I mean, I've even been featured in a couple of these, like a BuzzFeed post once where one of my tweets was called out. But I hate it. I was doing a tweet. It's not the same as confirmation. It doesn't confirm anything. It's just a man on the scene. No, man tweeted.

Yeah, man tweeted. Oh, man. Stop the presses, everybody. A man tweeted. Lame. I hate that. All right, moving on. Texans, we got a few Texans in the chat, I know, and who listen to home. Quite a few, actually.

They eat pickles in the movie theater, and they're surprised to know that nobody else does. Wow. Yeah. I'm surprised to learn that they eat pickles in the movie theater. Like, that's a thing you can at the concession stand say a bucket of pickles? I mean, I assume it's like just get a, A, B. big fat pickle. Oh, kind of like what you get at the fair, where it's in some sort of weird, partially

water, brine-filled plastic bag. Yeah, like a wrap of a papery, kind of butcher papery brap that's like collecting all the juice in the bottom. But apparently this is a thing. So this person in this article wrote in southernliving.com, no matter how long it's been since you've last visited a movie theater or even a drive-in movie theater, we bet you that you cannot remember, or you can remember still how it smells, that largely is thanks to

the concession stand, and in particular things like, you know, popcorn and stuff like that. Anyway, says, well, you might be familiar with the usual suspects, like boxes of candy, big cups of Coke, tub full of popcorn. There's one unconventional concession food snack that is found that Texans have been ordering for decades.

Pickles. And they love them. They call them movie theater pickles. I know that's a fancy name for your pickle you got in the movie theater. They call it a movie theater pickle. What do you call these? Wow. No.

Where'd you get that? I done got it at the movie theater. What do you call them? A movie theater pickle. We don't call it movie theater popcorn. What are eating? A movie theater popcorn. What's that?

Movie theater goobers. Movie theater raisinets. I can't stop coughing and I keep, I keep thinking, was it the vape? Was it the vape? You're already scarred. You never know. Anyway, what a horrible thing. I'm glad we don't have those in Colorado because last thing I need is to be next to somebody who's going, crunch.

Yeah. Yep. Yep. And smelling like a stinky pickle and, you know. Right, exactly. Pickles are wet and juicy and they make noise when you eat them because otherwise they're in your lap. Yeah. That's a really odd.

It's really odd. If we have any Texans, can you guys ride? Can you guys ride in and explain it to us? Tell us why you like it or why you don't or to you why it's normal or whatever. I know that there's always localisms that you're always surprised someone does and somebody else doesn't do. For example, in Mississippi, when people do their fries with ketchup, they put ketchup in a pile and then they dump a ton of pepper on the ketchup, just a ton of it. And then you mix that in, you basically got pepper ketchup. like I'm talking black pepper

like flex of black pepper and you dip your fries in it it's actually quite good but I've never seen anyone do that outside of the state of Mississippi maybe Louisiana as well but that's the only place I've seen it up here we got that pink sauce

that nobody else seems to do the fry sauce where it's like yeah Colorado movie theaters have deviled eggs and I don't think any other states have that see deviled eggs sounds like a pickle adjacent to me doesn't it? I'm totally kidding we don't have double eggs oh do you not okay

I wasn't going to be, I was going to be surprised. I just wanted to see how far I could go with that. Yeah, well, you went right to my believe in it is what you did. Even look at the chat, Talley in the chat went, what the F? Like, they believed you for a second. I don't blame them. I believed you. You're a believable guy, Brian, is the problem.

You're a believable guy. Yeah, I'm a very believable guy. Yeah, pretty believable guy. Anyway. Pretty and I'm believable. So Texas, speak up. Let us know your deal. I'll probably ask Justin to do it.

Here's where I would do it. If it came in like a nacho boat, right? And you got a bunch of little pickles that you eat the entire pickle and not bite in it and slurp as you're eating the pickle. Right. You could see that. That's when I would do movie theater pickle. Okay. Yeah. I think you, yeah, I'm with you on that.

Little dills or little bread and butter pickles or a little sweet pickles. little, you know, whatever they call those. Oh, the little, um, the little mini ones that are, yeah, I don't like the sweet ones. Those are gross. I like sweet pickles, but not those, not that kind. Yeah. They're like the little corns, you know, the tiny corns you can get, the corn cobs or whatever.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Little mini corns or whatever they are. Yeah, I like those, you know. Oh, you don't like those? Really? Yeah, I can't eat them. Gross. Can't do them.

Baby corn, that's it. Yeah, baby corn. Speaking of, uh, speaking of, uh, you don't know, Utah and Colorado had a funny, I learned a thing over the weekend. All right. Looking at education rates and who has the best rated education for K through 12 in the country. And as usual, the reason it came up is because it comes from Mississippi. And as usual, Mississippi is at the very very dirt bottom floor of this list.

They always do the worst. And I don't know what's your problem is. What's going on down there? But come on now. Get it together. Quit being last. Anyway, it's always them and like then Louisiana, then Alabama, then Kentucky. Like, it's all these southern states.

and I hate that it's true, but it is. And they have all these problems. But then as the states go on, I'm like, all right, let's see where we're at. Let's see where we rank. And I'm happy to report that I thought Utah would be like middle of the pack somewhere, but we were 11th just out of the top 10. Colorado, third. Wow, really?

Well done, Brian. Look at that. Nice. Well done. Number one was Massachusetts. They attributed that to, like, you know, MIT and higher standards for younger, younger pre-college stuff and all that. It's probably all the, I would picture like all the New England states kind of being up there.

Yeah, they were, they did all right for the most part. But there were a couple like Virginia, way up on the list in the top 10, West Virginia, third from the bottom. So the Virginia's never the twain shall meet when it comes to education. Anyway. Is there a Mississippi Institute of Technology? I mean, there are, they have colleges, but it makes me feel like I could go down there and breeze through them like they'd be easy or something. No offense, everybody. No, not at all, not at all.

Her whole family's from there. They're all very smart, educated people. My mother-in-law has a degree. My father-in-law has a degree. They are smart and good folks. It's not that, you know. Absolutely. And there's dumb folks in the Northeast, too.

Like, it's, you know, we've got dumb folks and smart folks everywhere. That's right. And as Greg says, yeah, Greg, you live there. You're wicked smot. Wicked smot. Wicked smite. Not all clear. I don't know how it is in Ireland.

I assume you guys are just taught how to sing ditties and eat clovers and stuff, right? Is that your whole deal? I'm making stuff up about the Irish now. Do you live in the Shire? Is that, uh... All right. Let's see. We have.

time for one more here. Kiefer Thutherland. Kiefer Thutherland. Yeah, he's in the news. And he had a bunch of gardeners equipment stolen from his house. Somebody took his stuff. Yeah, it's a real bummer. Anyway, he's famous, of course, for the Jack Bower roll and all that.

You guys know who keepers. Sure, sure. According to a law enforcement source. How do you like those noodles, Michael? You like that hoe and rake? that you took up mine. How do you like that rake, Michael? Yeah, no kidding.

At some point, while he was gardening, or his gardener was working, he doesn't do it himself. He's kidding. He pays a guy. Sure. The suspect was said to be, or see, the suspect was said to be worth $1,500. Huh? The suspect was said to be worth more than $1,500 using his and other tools. At some point while Sotomay was working, the suspect was said to be worth more than $1,500.

I think he just took me. Using his and other tools. This is bad. It's written bad. Yeah. The Florentine, the Floridian News Times. Hey, Florida was pretty low on that list, too. I think they skipped a word, right, right?

The suspect was said to have stolen stuff worth more than $1,500. Using his and other tools? I don't. Especially weed whackers and hedge trimmers. Yeah, it's a bit's bad. Boy, this is poorly written. It's really bad. Again, Florida was on that list pretty low.

I'm just saying. Anyway, the Kiefer is more and more angry by the incident and planning to get Justice J.B. style, Jack Bauer style. I don't know how TMZ knows this or thinks this, but he's like that. No, they're just saying in the meantime, imagine. Oh, okay. I'll bet he has no idea. Oh, my gardener stuff is stolen. All right.

Well, we'll buy more. Yeah, that's fine. I'm just in this. I'll have it here in the next 24 hours, thanks to Amazon. Brian. Thanks to my, the incredible value that is Amazon Prime membership. All right. We're going to take a break and come back in a minute with Justin Robert Young.

Please stand by because we got stuff and that's coming up here in a minute. Brian, will you play a song in the meantime? Sure. All right. So, you know, you're familiar with the band Outfield. Sure. Love Outfield. Well, this is not them.

This is Rightfield. They're Right Field, whereas Outfield is more. Hold on. Outfield. Joseph's on a vacation far away. That's the one. All right. I like them.

Yeah. They're no relation at all. This is Wrightfield. Thanks to Claudio Records for sending this one over. These guys are from somewhere. I was like finding out where they're from. And I don't see it here. Oh, well.

Darn it. Anyway. These guys are great. They have a new album that they've released. called boy, it's almost like I didn't do any research. Oh, here we go. Rightfield 1 was their debut album.

They've released the deluxe version, and they have a new video and a new song. The song is their newest single. It's called Baby. Again, thanks to Quadio Records for this one. Here is Rightfield and the song, Baby. I was thinking we're making we make it farther. I was thinking we'd make it farther.

Maybe I'm a bit pre-Madonna and my engine lights are gone. But I still be a game If you're gonna stay here for longer Oh, it's cool, baby Knowing you, baby, I'm an early morning Start with you around Oh, it ain't too crazy

Knowing you, baby To be dancing in the dark without a sound Thank you. Delicate breeze in your blonde hair. Filling our glasses with water. Pardon me, please, for the long stair. I would be okay just to spend the day in this place. in this moment

Oh, it's cool, baby, knowing you, baby, I'm an early moment starting you around Oh, it ain't too crazy, knowing you, baby to be dancing in the dark without a sound If having a screwy family made a little bit more than a person crazy, then. Breakfast.

Americans can be very useful. This is the morning stream. All right, welcome back, everybody. Brian, that song again was. During that song, I had so much time to research. That song was Wrightfield from their album. right field one with a song called baby

these guys are from Arkansas Ah, Arkansas Yeah, home of the The Red Stick And no, no, sorry That's Baton Rouge Oh, that's Louisiana Yeah, yeah

Arkansas Home of Magnolia I went to a place called Magnolia Arkansas There are probably red sticks Yeah, they probably are And they've got this amazing They have this amazing flower It's the state flower

It's the Magnolia It's a beautiful flower And I don't know why I'm mentioning that I was in a city called Magnolia, Arkansas for a little bit, and it was very nice. Oh, yes. Now, Texarkana, which is where Texas and Arkansas meet, the little corner there, that's where former presidential, hopeful, and now dead businessman Ross Perrault was from. Oh, he was Texarkana?

Yeah, and I was there once, and it was weird because on the Texas side, it was really clean. It was literally a street where the states were divided down the middle of the street. On the Texas side, clean, well-kept, you know, patched roads, very nice, whatever. Arkansas side look like Mad Max Fury Road over there. Don't know what was going on. I don't know what their infrastructure plans are in Arkansas, but they clearly do not match up with the rest of the world.

All right. Very interesting. I've been to Little Rock. I've been to Fayetteville. I've never been to Texarkana. But I like the, I like the REM song. That's good, right? Yeah.

Yeah. He's, they know, they really know how to get their R's out. They know their, they know their songs about cities, border, border cities. Yeah. And if you want to, you want pronounceable R's, get Michael Stipe on the, on the job. He'll take care of it. Stand in Arkansas. Now jump across.

Now you're standing in Texas. Jump around, stand. All right. Here's this, everyone. These are their stories. Oh, I'm terrible with names. Look who it is. Justin Robert Young joining us as he does most.

Tuesdays from his beautiful Texas-based studio. Justin Robert Young, welcome back to the program. Hello. Well, hello, friends. It's always an enchantment. Is it? It is. It is.

For sure. I'm just making sure. You missed your last couple weeks. Yeah, we missed you last week anyway. Yeah, we missed you last week. And I want to say, or I guess we had you the week before that. We had to the week before. Tuesdays often get dinged and I don't know why it's always Tuesdays.

Tuesdays get hit. It's not on purpose. It's not because of you. Two weeks ago I was in New York. so it's been a little bit since I've been in the studio. Yeah, that's right. Yeah, we were in your hotel room with you. Yes, we were.

You were in my Long Island City den. Yeah, I keep forgetting you were there. Did anything else significant happen? Like, would you do any wacky story to tell about coming home from New York or was it all, you know? No, no wacky story about coming home from New York, although that election has become a fiasco of the highest order. including the New York City Board of Elections, totally botching their first ranked choice election, and now all the candidates are suing,

and maybe at some point within the next seven years, we'll know who the mayor is. Yeah, I saw somebody added, mistakenly added, 135 test ballots, and they were marked as such, but they were in there, and they had to, like, yeah, they ran a test of the system, and then ran another test, but, look,

I know this becomes a sensitive subject because of our modern political climate, but I do think that everybody should just presume that the people running the elections are overworked and maybe we should have more transparency. Yeah. That's all I agree with that. It just depends on your definition, I suppose, of any of those things. But yes, I actually agree with that. You and I are in full agreement. Hey, quick question here. When you go to movie theater since you've been in this great state of Texas, the Lone Star State, do you?

have uh do you get pickles because apparently that's a thing you get a pickle at the movie theater yeah is that true i've no i love pickles i'm a big pickle man myself yeah sure that being said never in my life have i had a pickle while inside of a movie all right good i mean you haven't it's not like you've been there too long yet um despite all your many visits over the years uh there may have been an opportunity i've been to plenty of movie theaters in texas i have never gotten a pickle. Now, that being said, I don't know if I've been to many independent movie houses. Maybe that is a thing in independent chains. That was more of a way to go about things, but not in the draft house, nor any of the AMCs or regals or cinemarks that I have been to in

this, the Lone Star State. Have I ever been handed a pickle and said, please enjoy the film? Now, maybe they were there. You didn't see him. Like, have you seen him behind the glass? was there a jar on the on the but i mean if you're going to describe it as a as a uh a trend yeah then it would be defined by the fact that i would be the odd ball out not munching and crunching on a pickle delight uh you know it would be like walking around and seeing a bunch of popcorn nobody has to tell you that popcorn is popular at movies in america right you just see a bunch of people walking around with gigantic tubs of popcorn right right well we're going to get we'll end up with feedback and emails from Texans and I'm excited about this because we always love to learn about

what other what other people do, you know, what they're up to. Sure. Yeah. What's the others. What's happening beyond the world. What's popular in other states. Yeah. Beyond our walls, beyond our view. What's going on? Speaking of which, there are things happening in the world of political things. They're not super exciting, but we had a new jobs report, very positive jobs report, which, by the way, just a side note on that, you did say some weeks ago that was going to be important because he had a bad one. He had a bad

one two months ago. He had an okay one a month ago and this one I would describe as good? Yeah. It was 100,000 jobs more than they were expecting but because people are not returning to work as fast as

economists would I guess hope the the unemployment number ticked up. So 100,000 jobs more, very good. Whenever the unemployment number is going up and not down, that is bad. But still on par. Good for Biden and enough for I think the wolves, the economy is crumbling wolves to be kept at bay for another month. Yeah, well, yeah, sure.

Some of them. Some of them don't care. They'll just make up whatever. But, yeah, I think there's like, you know, the opposition has to have talking points every day. So they're not going to say, everything's great. Never going to happen. But in terms of things that they would legitimately have to worry about and Marshall resources on, I think that they are, they're okay for another month. And really, the worry will be more labor shortagey stuff as opposed to the fundamentals of the economy

are broken. Sure. And that, that combined with, you know, turning a little bit of a corner on COVID, although the Delta variant doing some nasty business, you know, causing some, some, I mean, it was what, 99? The Biden administration wants to turn the page. Yeah. Like it was actually kind of funny on the Patreon for the politics podcast. I do a Sunday, Sunday edition of the program where I watch the Sunday political talk shows. And it was amazing how much the Biden. administration really, really, really, really wanted the topic to be how much we are done with

COVID. Like, it was a lot of the same people on a lot of the shows with, you know, the news is good. There is like 67% of Americans that now are vaccinated with at least one shot that fall short of the Biden administration's goal of 70%, but, you know, whatever, squint and it's, and it's okay. we are seeing a continued steep drop in terms of both cases and deaths and even with the Delta variant the people that are getting sick are the unvaccinated. And so there's there's also the thought that,

hey, look, whether or not you get there through science or frontier medicine antibodies are being created at a very big pace. So the Biden administration is moving past COVID. I think that they wanted to use July 4th as that date, which is why there was so much talk of it over the weekend, which is odd because it's not like July 4th is any kind of anniversary of COVID. Like, it's not an anniversary of the lockdowns. It's not an anniversary of when people first started getting sick. It's just kind of arbitrary from hot dogs and, you know, kid rock.

But, you know, that's what they, that's what they wanted to do. I do think that that is where Biden is going to go. That being said, Biden is viewed as handling COVID very, very well. If he is going to turn the page, then the question is what he focuses on. And there's nothing, at least in terms of public opinion, that he has handled as well as COVID. And I think he's going to look to change that over the next few weeks a month. Okay. Well, you may feel after these two discussion points, jobs report, turning the page on COVID,

what that means, the overall effect on the economy and the people of this country. You may think that there's no third, maybe more important thing to talk about here, but there is. And that is, you went and saw the fast, is it just F9? F9. So they're going full function key on your keyboard naming for this film. Finally, finally, the adaptation that the function nine key on your keyboard is waiting for it. Because it's always been a bit of a red-headed stepchild that F-9 key. I use it to capture or I can, so an Nvidia car to let you do like continuous stream

capture of whatever game you're playing. But other than that, F-9's kind of lame. It's not great. On my magic keyboard, it jumps to the next song on iTunes. There you go then. See? I would have liked, my review of the movie is it could have used more people hitting the F-9 key. For a movie that does a lot, it does not do that.

So from a historical perspective, this film series is weird and old, and its origins are quite different than what it's turned into. In a lot of ways, that series is basically the Avengers without uniforms or costumes and using cars for their superpowers. Well, let's track exactly where it came from, right? It's Fast and the Furious, which is a good movie. The first movie, I do still stand up for that one as like, you know, a, you know, much like diehard and rocky. Eventually, these movies become parodies of parodies, a parodies, a parodies of parodies. The initial movies are good, and Fast and Furious is a good movie, but it's essentially point break with drag racing. Right. Yes.

It's almost exactly point break down to the idea of an FBI agent. that needs to infiltrate a scheme and winds up insinuating himself within a Southern California subculture. In this case, it's drag racing and not surfing. And then eventually winds up making almost the exact same choices, except for the fact that everybody survives. A spoiler alert for a point break. Sure, sure. What's fascinating is that at that point, the ascendant Vin Diesel decides he doesn't want to

be a part of the franchise anymore. So they do a Paul Walker focused version, too fast, too furious, which introduces both ludicrous and Tyrese, who are now the comic relief. They are

a huge part of this franchise and a huge part of this movie, F9. They just write these scenes. Now, Tyrese is basically just like the Greek chorus for how ridiculous the movies have gotten. so he'll just stop a scene and be like

wait a minute you're telling me that we're gonna drive a 1989 Dodge Charger into the belly of a humpback whale and then set off a nuclear bomb like that's his job his job is to just loudly say what is clearly ridiculous

in the movie so the audience laughs and ludicrous is smart and you know is is kind of the the brain to his pinky and in a lot of ways. Yeah. Then the the whole franchise was totally thrown off in Tokyo Drift, baby, my favorite is my favorite one. It's my favorite one. I'm going to just say it now so I can get it out of the way and everyone can make fun of me, but I love Tokyo Drift. That's my favorite. The movie. I like Tokyo Drip, too. They have no, none of the original cast until the credit scene. The credit scene has Vin Diesel as, you know, like he's about to race the main character in Tokyo Drip.

Yeah. That apparently was only done because they were going to do a DVD box set of the first three movies. And it was so well received that it was so well received that it. got traction for them to do a Vin Diesel a reboot that would get together more of the original cast. And that is essentially, that and the decision to not make this about drag racing, but instead make it about heist, therefore bringing it into a whole

another genre effectively begins the modern franchise, which has done nothing but continue to employ better and better actors for silly and sillier roles and play more and more reggaeton while they crash more and more cars, which to the credit of the movie and the franchise in general, no matter how much you can be high-minded or high-falutin about the Fast and Furious franchise, what you can't say is that it is not absolute pop art when it comes to escalation. The thing that just happened will never be bigger than the thing that is about to happen five seconds later and you are never

far away from it or Tyrese saying, wait a minute, that's really big and far bigger than what just happened in the previous scene. Well, so, all right, if you're going to, we're heading toward a two-part finale for the whole series, 10 is apparently going to be two movies. Yeah. And then they're done. They're going to say, this is it. We're hanging it up.

We're done. And that makes sense. This is a big long run. A 10 movie franchise is a gigantic deal. It's a giant money making. machine. You got to say well done to a series that just completely crapped the bed with two. Two is so bad. I was sure after that, well, they're not making any more of these. This will be into this. And then I went, oh, well, if they're going to make one, I guess it has to be a weird

offshoot. And sure enough, Tokyo Drift is a weird offshoot. But, oh, the main guy dies. And he's awesome. Oh, shoot. How is he dead? Don't worry. This movie will freaking Captain America, him right back into the story as needed. And now he's not dead. So they're not afraid to just, you know, know go nuts on this thing how do you think history will treat at this 10 you know 10 film franchise in the future are we going to look back and go oh man are you are you aware of the rumors of what they want to do with the final movie no what what what so fast and furious is owned by universal yeah oh they're going to merge it with the universal month monsters franchise no no even better For a franchise that already has established itself as being very excited to have American-made muscle cars rolling over the emerald tropical greens of various different forests.

Imagine, if you will, Fast and the Furious meets Jurassic Wars. Shut up. Really? Yeah, that's the rumor. Oh, that's awesome. I love that rumor. Yeah, I guess, you know what? I wouldn't turn that down.

Like, why not? No, I mean, come on. I might see my second Fasted the Furious film, if that's the case. Yeah. Like, dude, who owns Transformers? Can we just get all these dumb ideas in one place and get it up there? I don't know. I mean, it reminds me, I don't know if this was universal as well.

I think it might have been, but they've been, they've been into the idea of combining franchises before like there was a an idea to combine 21 Jump Street that franchise when it was Jonah Hill and Channing Tatum with Ghostbusters

that was apparently like well on the way to happening really and then they wound up going with the Paul Feig a Kristen Whig idea but I they have been into that it feels like something i mean all right spoiler alert for uh uh fast nine number one han from tokyo drift is back and just retconned back into existence yeah why not

and two tires and ludicrous go to space so like if we're checking off all the things that like you're you're running out of the list of things that very late-in-life franchises need to do. You know, eventually you go to space. Eventually, you bring back all the characters that died in the previous movies. So this is, and I guarantee you whether or not you've seen the movie, that does not diminish your enjoyment of the Fast 9 movie if you are indeed going to enjoy it. But I feel like it's a good call.

Like, who doesn't want to find out what is my best? more powerful, a Tyrannosaurus Rex or family. Yeah. Yeah, right. Well, I, I mean, yeah, I feel like at some point in my lifetime, I don't know when this will happen, but I probably ought to do like a Tokyo drift and forward rewatch of everything. I'm good on one and two. I've seen one a million times and two is terrible and I know it and we did film sack for it and everything. I don't need to do it. But I think I could do Tokyo drift through nine as a like, you know, a few weekends in a row just have a little bit of a binge and enjoy myself i'd have a good time anything past tokyo drift is really where this franchise begins yeah yeah like because that's

when they're about robbing banks and and characters coming back to life and and uh you know we are elevated to a level of like but by the time that we are into fast nine not only are they in a multi-movie relationship with a shadowy version of the CIA as typified by Kurt Russell. But also,

we are now into full James Bond moonraker territory. Like with armies of henchmen in the hundreds of thousands rockets being launched. John Cena's there. It's just a lot.

There's, there's a lot going on. John Sina is on a zip line in this movie that considering how long the scenes go and how much

he is still just Mary Poppinsing through Edinburgh has to be about a three-mile long zip line. It is the longest. The longest

I don't know if Edinburgh is really even that big compared to the zip line that John Sina is on in this movie. Yeah. Well, now you got me, now you got me wanting to see it. Uh, you saw this in theaters, I assume. It's, it's a, it's a big Mac, right? Sure. It's a, it's a, it is there to be crowd pleasing. Yeah.

It is not complicated. It doesn't pretend to be complicated. It doesn't pretend to be deep. Like, yes, there's power creep to all of these characters. We're not exactly sure why the sister of a guy who was good. at drag racing is now Jason Bourne level, you know, Brazilian jiu-jitsu expert. But she is. And at some point, Dom Torretto, Vin Diesel's character

is going to love family so much that he will just erupt laser beams out of his eyeballs because that's just where this franchise goes. Yeah. You know, whatever. I know there's some... Love family so much in this movie.

He rips down an entire silo. Wow. With his hands. Whoa. Like he's Frankenstein. He just grabs chains and he's like, ah, and he doesn't scream family, but in my head he did. Yeah. He just is like, ah, family.

And he just rips down an entire silo killing everybody but himself. He just goes into an extended dream sequence. So he's, of the three big wrestlers in Hollywood, the rock, him and Dave Batista, he is considered the least of the acting talent. Do you think that's still true? Because I think he's doing all right. Seems to be. John Sina? Yeah.

I keep hearing that. He's like the low end of that tree. And I'm like, I don't know. I think he's fine. I don't know if, if, you know, in terms of the roles that they've tended to get, I think John Sina is the most capable comedic actor with range. Like Dave Batista, much like in the world of wrestling, is at his best when he's playing Dave Batista.

and that's like perfectly channeled into drags. Sure. Like that is the best version of Dave Batista. Yeah. But because he is kind of quiet and there's more behind the eyes, I think Dave Batista is better as a dramatic actor than either the two of them were. And I think, you know, Blade Runner, where he's standing, you know, across from Ryan Gosling in that in that initial scene is enough to kind of prove that, wow, you know, you put him with good writing.

and like a good actor, you can read a great story into him just being there. The rock is Arnold Schwarzenegger. He's just a movie star. The concept of acting for him is just showing up. Not even a thing.

It's like, now the rock's on the jungle cruise. Now the rock is like, you're not going to see him in a Paul Thomas Anderson movie. Yeah. John seen, I think you could. Yeah, I agree. I think you could see him in, you know, he's, he, he fit well into, oh man, I can't remember the Tina Faye.

Oh, the, the, they had a big party. Yeah. He was great in that. Yeah, I saw that too. He was getting it. Yeah, he's got the comedy side of it. That would be my worry about him and I'm more dramatic roles. I feel like everyone's about to crack up any minute when that guy's like reading a line or something.

Not because he isn't like he's just got kind of a natural smirk. and the natural sort of, I'm about to say something funny. He could be somebody that is also a little dangerous. Like, I could see him in like, you know, like maybe a comic relief role in like a Wes Anderson movie or something. You know, where he's like a waiter who just happens to be jacked. Oh, actually, no, no, you want to know what? No, nowhere he would fit.

He would be great in a Cohen Brothers movie. Oh, yeah. Yeah, I could totally see that. able to be earnest, but also be able to be dumb in the way that the Cohen brothers just feast on. Yeah. Like all of your, you know, this would be like, throw John Sina and like, oh, brother, where art thou? And I kind of feel like that. I could see that.

Also, you said, you said earnest and it made me want the Cohen brothers to make an earnest movie. To do an earnest movie? Yeah, just a movie about Ernest. Ernest goes to, I don't know. That's all right. I don't think I need that. Thank you. I feel like I might need it.

All right. Well, it is also very funny that famously the Rock and Vin Diesel did not get along. They were not friends. They were very much at odds. That led to the Rock getting his spinoff franchise with Jason Statenstein. And now they just immediately. just put in another famous wrestler. They're just like, out with the old, in with the new.

Welcome, John Cena. Yeah, I'm just kind of excited to see it. And I'm more excited to see the new Suicide Squad where he also is there and plays that peacemaker. And also has that spin-off series. It's already wrapped, I guess, for HBO. Yeah. You know, they had a Suicide Squad trailer

in front of this movie that I liked a lot more than the one that's out. Oh, really? Interesting. Okay. I like that initial one with the, with the song, the, the, the, uh, Steely Dan song, if that was all right. But the newer, the newer, like, mainstream. Oh, dirty work. Yeah. The dirty work one's awesome. I think this is, I had not seen it before, but I don't know if it's out on the internet, but, uh, I, I, I, I, what I suspect this movie is doing and I don't know why they're not marketing it is that my guess is that is that when James Gunn comes in and they say like, hey, we want to do another suicide. Squad, but we're just, it's going to be basically a full reboot that one of the first

things that James Gunn would say is, okay, cool, I need 50 supervillains because we're going to kill 25 in the first five minutes. Like, that's the fun part of Suicide Squad. Right. Just throw a gigantic wave of supervillains at these problems. Yeah. And then three or four of them are alive by the end. Yeah.

The ones you can't kill. You can't kill Harley Quinn. You can't kill the other guy. he was name. Can't kill. Well, you can't even kill Deadshot

except that Will Smith didn't want to be in it. But yeah. What's the Joe Kinnaman character? Not Frank.

Jake. Ah, shit. Anyway, I'm never going to remember. I'm not even going to try. I just read the coolest series or the coolest comic adaptation of that flag.

That's what it is. Oh, flag. Right. I just read the coolest Suicide Squad run from 2019 that I hadn't read. And I just barely finished.

It's so freaking good. If they can just get half of that feeling on screen and I think they can I'm very I'm very excited I thought it was it was good this was a lot more the new trailer's a lot more

dead shot focused yeah well oh is this the one where you you learn that the reason he's in prison is he shot Superman with a kryptonite bullet is that the one is that the trailer or no yeah yeah okay I have seen that that thing is floating

around it's good it's a good trailer You're right. And we'll see how, you know, it is John Cena asking if Project Starfish is in reference to a butt hole. That's the one. Yes. Again, again,

to speak to John Cena's comedy chats. It's just very funny. John Cena earnestly asking whether or not we're talking about a butthole. Yeah. Yeah, that's what he's good at. You're not going to make me style. That's right.

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Yeah, I can tell from the. production that yeah i can tell from the production this was not uh uh you know none of that was easy so uh oh i'm sorry it is twitch dot great night dot uh tv uh to get uh to get the stuff oh okay cool yeah i didn't get it didn't forward for some reason head on head on over there that's uh tonight we'll have uh bret the m trekker roundseville joining us live from austin and uh and it'll be a really fun time you want to know what what's that You know, what would it take to get you guys into Austin? What would it take to get us into Austin?

Wouldn't take much for me. I'll tell you what. Like, I know we've always kind of wanted to do a big crossover stuff. And the only time that ever normally happens is Nurtacular, which God knows when another one of those is going to happen. I may have news on that soon, but keep going. Keep talking. All right. Hey, but, you know, we wouldn't have to meet anybody.

You could wash your hands 50 times. you wouldn't see you tell everybody at Schwitz compound please don't look to talent in the eyes everybody would just walk around with her heads down

you can just come on in do the show and then get you back on your private jet private frog pants jet that we have that we definitely have yeah yeah

well we'll talk let's talk I like that idea I'd like this idea as well I really like what you guys did with your set and all that looks like fun fun little reboot over there

so yeah I think it would be a great time in all seriousness, part of the advantages of having that set in that facility is that not only is it a place where we can have guests stay, but, you know, it's a, it's a great little thing. But I'll, now that I publicly pressured you, I'll, I'll, I'll, in private and then ask whether or not it's actually possible. Well, there you have it. Justin Robert Young, publicly pressuring, but privately pontificating. I don't know what I'm trying to say. A lot of P-words is what I may even at.

Have a fantastic week. Justin R. Young on Twitter, of course. find them there we'll talk to you soon yeah all right Brian we're we're near the end here oh where's the shit publicly pressuring but privately pickling pickling his pickle for his next pickled pickle let's see here okay there it is I found it all right hey that's the end of the show that means we're done a reminder tomorrow my sister will be in studio that will be our therapy Wednesday for the week because Thursday we will not have her but We will have Tom and Nicole that day.

So just a little switcheroo this week. Nothing too serious. But you can expect all the same stuff. Just different days. Oh, I forgot to play this. The jury will now retire. Sorry, he's retiring. There we go.

I know. Right right under the wire there. Ooh, boy. All right. That's going to do it for us. Speaking of patrons, huge thanks for keeping this ship afloat without you. It doesn't. So big thanks.

And continued support is welcome. Also, if you haven't done it yet, please check it out at patreon. dot com slash tms i'm going to start mentioning names on the show people who are in our have been long time supporters of the show so tomorrow i think i'm going to start doing that look for your name to be read if you are indeed a supporter of the show uh that's patreon dot com slash tms frogpans dot com slash tms for everything else and send your emails to the morning stream at gmail com brian let's get out of here with a song we'll do a quick note also uh next month i've nailed down the date august 10th is going to be the date for the

mini meetup. It's just me. Sorry. No, Scott. Sorry. Just me. Sorry. I'm going to apologize enough that it's just me. Someplace very close to Disneyland because I'm not renting a car for the aforementioned reasons earlier in the episode. So walking distance from Disneyland someplace in the evening 7 p.m. is going to be when we do some sort of meetup thing. I know there's a nice bar that Tristan and I have gone to that's further south on Harbor Boulevard that would be out of the general public Disneyland area.

It's like on the way to the hotel that Tristan I usually stay at. Sure. That's a possibility. Or I could walk to that bowling alley that we always did for pre-BlizzCon. Yeah, that's not too far.

That's a little walk, but not too bad. Not too bad. You know, I'm only going to be walking all day at Disneyland, so what's another little bit of walking? Sure, knowing what June and July we're having, maybe it'll only be 112, 120.

Right, exactly, yeah. It'll be fine. No worries. All right, anyway, so more details about that, but we've got a date nail down and a rough time. It's going to be 7 p.m.-ish, so I just hope I can get into Avengersland

early enough in the day to where I'm not like, oh, Avengers Land from 5 to 7, Okay, great. Maybe we do the meetup at eight. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So, all right, let's do a request. This one comes to us from Dustin, who says, I just ran across this song while listening to Disturbed

and Five-Fingered Death Punch on YouTube. It was released in 2020, and I hadn't heard it before. Just thought I'd like to share it with a group. Here's my request, say Staf, sign Dustin. Oh. Now, it's funny because we haven't played this one before. We've played a lot of the other stuff from Disturbed. This one was, this one came out of left field because, you know, disturbed covering Genesis, sure, disturbed covering Simon and Garfunkel, totally makes sense.

Disturbed covering Sting, for whatever reason, felt like a weird direction for their cover choices. It's very odd. And not a, and not like a rocker, like Roxanne or, I don't know, it just was a weird choice. Here are disturbed covering, if I ever lose my faith in you by Sting. All right, cool. We'll see you guys tomorrow. Come on back then. You here?

You could say I lost my faith in science and progress. You could say I lost my faith in science and progress. religion You could say I lost my sense of direction You could say all of this and worse but if I ever lose my faith in you There may nothing left for me to do Some would say I was a lost man in a lost world You can say I lost my faith in the people on TV.

You can say I'd lost my belief in our politicians. They all seem like a game show host to me, but if I ever, Lose my faith in you If I ever lose my faith There need nothing left for me to do If I ever lose my faith Lose my faith in you Could be lost inside their lives

We're not a trace But every time I close my eyes I see your face I never saw no A miracle of science I didn't know from a blessing to a curse Never saw no military solution It didn't end up worse

If I ever lose my face in you If I ever lose my face with you If I ever lose my face There mean nothing left for me to do If I ever lose my face If I ever lose my face If I ever lose my faith If I ever lose my faith

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