The Morning Stream - TMS 2150: Vaguely Lincolnish!

Episode Date: July 27, 2021

Jewy Duty. Mad Johnson, Fury Keyboard. 2-Hours of Animatronic Yokels. I Don't Worship KISS, but You Might. Chode butter for a beer is a fair trade. There's A Lot Of Attached Tissue There! Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Drone... Corrosive Pooch Pee. That Little Gnome Girl Who Won The Olympics! We Need Youse at the Court House. Zwimming Is Polish For Swimming. Fifty Years of Getting Peed On. Don't Touch That Jolly Bobbit! Roger Rabbit Frantic Car Zoomin' Around Ride. Three Ham-N-Eggers with Justin 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, Jewy-Duty. Mad Johnson Fury Keyboard. Two hours of animatronic yokels. I don't worship kiss, but you might. Chode butter for a beer is a fair trade. There's a lot of attached tissue there. Twinkle, twinkle, little drone. Corrosive pooch pee.

That little gnome girl who won the Olympics. We need you at the courthouse. Swimming is Polish for swimming. Fifty years of getting peed on. Don't touch that jolly bobbot. Roger Rabbit frantic car zooming around ride. Three Hammondeggers with Justin and more on this episode of The MorningStream. Using your speakerphone in public.

I barely want to listen to my own phone conversations, let alone yours in a Walmart. If I can hear you on speakerphone in a Walmart, you should have to pay for my stuff. Okay. The Morning Stream. Look out. Muppets! Good morning, everyone. Welcome back to TMS. It's the morning stream for Tuesday, July 27, 2021. I'm Scott Johnson.

That's Brian Ibbett. Yeah. Yeah, it is. Yeah, it is. Oh, you can feel that it's Brian Ibit. You can feed it. The energy, the electricity coming off of me. And by today's Hawaiian shirt.

Oh, yeah, look at that. Yeah. There's a return to the Millennium Falcon, an R2D2, Hawaiian shirt. I like it. Which two weeks from today, no, not really, two weeks from yesterday, I'll be wearing this to my first experience

in Black Spire Outpost in Batu in Star Wars Land at what used to be Tune Town. Tune Town, right? You're going to heading on to Tune Town. Yep. Everyone's favorite high-velocity excitement moment of Disneyland time, Tune Town. That's right. Wow. Ooh, can I ride the Roger Rabbit frantic car zooming around ride?

Oh, Tune Town is still there? Then what are this? Oh, no, this is, um, right. What was it? Oh, that's right. It was part of Tom Sawyer Island or something. Yes, the whole like wear a cap and there's all the animals and the beavers and shit. Yeah.

Right? I think that's it. You're talking about a Coonskin cap? I don't know. I can't remember what those are called. Bear country? That's right. Yeah, okay.

Bear country? Okay. Bear country. And they moved the train tracks? The bear country jamboree used to be. That's the thing I'm thinking of. Yes. Yeah, this will be better.

Oh, let's, well, can I, can I sit and watch two hours of animatronic yokel humor, please? Well, it's your favorite. Is it air conditioned? Okay. Oh, I'll do it. It is your favorite. So, come on, yeah. You love that stuff.

Yeah, I love that yokel humor. Yeah, big fan of that. Yeah, two weeks from today, as a quick reminder, is the mini TMS meetup, mini because only half of the TMS host host brigade will be there in attendance not that I didn't try I really tried folks yeah it's gonna be good and you got

do you know how many people are showing up like so far so far I think six or seven have reached out to me and said hey I'll be there I can't wait to see it the guy who sent me the tube of chodebutter from the night before my ride like I get a box that has a case of Pop-Tarts minis. Oh, I got those two.

Which are really good. Oh, you got those two? Those are so good. I didn't eat them because I thought they were too sugary, but also we'd save them for the show, and then I forgot. They were here somewhere. Oh, well, we could eat them on the show tomorrow. I don't know where I put them. You don't have to eat all of them.

And your doctor said you could have some shug, just not. Oh, yeah, I can do a little tasty test. Don't go crazy with the shug. Yeah, if I ate a whole box of those, I'd regret it, but I could eat. Yeah, you would regret it. But anyway, so he sent me a tube of chode butter the night before the big ride. And so I'm buying him a drink. Nice.

At Trader Sam's, what I say, 7 p.m.? 7.m. or I see 7.30 p.m. I thought he said 7. No? 7 is what I remember you saying. Yeah, I think I did say 7. A couple weeks ago, so I'm not sure. Yeah. Well, that's great. Chode butter for a drink is a pretty good trade. I think so, too.

How about a nice drink with some rum served in a weird teaky glass? Oh, yeah, and by the way, big thanks to everybody who detailed what a bird's nest drink is. Thanks for that. Boy, howdy, dude. That was worse than I thought it was going to be. The description on Twitter, yeah. Yeah, it's just. No, it's not made out of the nest.

It's made out of solidified bird saliva. Yeah, the stuff they hold the nest together with. So all that stuff congeals and then you run hot water through it and then it drains out. Now you've got thick and freaking bird spit drink. No. Yeah. And guess what? People are,

next thing is people are going to be saying, well, what do you think honey is? Look, I have issues with honey as well, but I usually keep it to myself because I know I'm in the minority. But I think honey is weird. It's weird. Yeah. I'm curious, you know, you always think about with weird food like this, who's the first person who kind of steps off the ledge and tries a drink made from a birds nest. Yeah, who's... Yeah. Somebody looked at that

bird's nest up there and says, hey, you know what? I bet that would be tasty. Mm-hmm. I think about this all the time. Like, you know, who's the first... The first banana. Who went down that road? Yeah. Who died trying to eat a weird mushroom that was bad for you before he found the good ones? Like, I got questions about all that stuff and there has to be...

Somebody somewhere was like the first one to say, I'll bet we could make a tasty drink out of this bird's nest. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. What kind of psycho is that? Who? Yeah, I don't know. Who you are? Who are you?

Yeah. Somebody, somebody crazy. Yeah. And Talley, I know about those bananas, but like the original stuff, like the old, prehistoric-looking, big ass, plantain-looking, seed banana things. Like, who was the first one to be okay eating that or anything? I don't care what? Who ate the first squirrel and said, okay, I didn't die? Like, I don't know.

Who are these people? At least that's meat. You know, at least it's an. animal you can cook and roast and try but uh yeah geez i don't know the first apple the first apple was tried by eve eve ate it from a snake tim apple i believe they named it after him that's right tim apple on his apples tim apple uh i got a quick dream question it's not in this deck i looked oh i know i don't know what to make of this but uh somewhere in this deck uh there well there's probably something that's close enough but i just couldn't equate it but basically i had a dream last

night that I was, for some reason, talking to Tom Merritt. He wasn't there, though, and I don't know if this meant, well, in my dream, he was on like some kind of Skypey thing or something. I just, he wasn't there, but I was having a conversation with him. And while I was doing that, I was typing. And I was typing very fast, very furiously typing, right? Fast and furiously typing. Okay.

All right. Uh-huh. And in the middle of my typing and my middle of conversation with Tom, my keyboard exploded with a pretty, pretty massive force, enough to blow. my hands off to the wrist completely. So exploded my hands left with just bloody stumps and at the end of the dream I'm holding the stumps up

looking dumb like I didn't know what happened and that was the end of the dream. So what do you think that is Brian? Let's apply some thinking to that there. What do you think? Have you had any Twitter wars with anyone recently? None. I've had no Twitter wars. I've had no

run-ins with any other malfunctioning hardware lately, anything like that. God. It sure feels like, I don't know, I mean, it feels like it's got to be related to angry response, typing, dealing with trolls. I don't know. I mean, that's what I would think. And there have been a few of those lately, but I usually just block them and move on these days. But there's like, there's this body parts one we talked about, but it doesn't have any description in there about this kind of trauma.

No, and I don't think, I think the focus of the dream isn't the body is the stump. Because that's just the result of explosion. So there's no explosion card in the deck? No, nothing with... Well, I went through pretty carefully, but I guess I didn't go through really slow. So not that carefully, I guess. But I didn't see anything that was like, you're dreaming of explosions. That just wasn't in here.

There is one about... Here, this one says technology. Okay, so maybe that fits. Oh, okay. That could be, yeah, technology. Computer, laptops, tablets. See, they... Let's see. Often technology malfunctions, let's see here.

Oh, okay, this could be it. Often the technology malfunctions or proves frustrating in some other way. If it's a computer, your files may get deleted or corrupted, you may be able to access and blah, blah, blah, blah. We think of technology as a servant program to obey our bidding, hence devices that malfunction in a dream show that we are not in as much control as we think we are. So maybe that's it. It could be, yeah, because I mean that keyboards aren't supposed to explode.

It's definitely a malfunction. Yeah. That feels like a malfunction to me if it explodes, you know? It does, yeah. I don't know what else you'd call that. Massive malfunction, it's what that is. Right. Anyway, I didn't know what to make of it.

Maybe someone out there can figure this out because it's real. Yeah, that's, man, it certainly seems like it's just a direct response to, I'm so angry about this. Well, you know what? Actually now, okay, so I was going to. to talk about this anyway, but now I'm starting to link them. I did a fairly lengthy email-based interview with a, I'll just call them a large news network because until it airs or prints, I don't want to say it, because I don't know.

Would you say they're like more of a national broadcasting company or more of a... I would call them an international organization. Let's put it that way. But I won't tell you the exact acronym. even you'll even give us the medium right i mean is it uh well internet print online okay internet oh buzzfeed got to you huh no it wasn't buzzfeed no chat it wasn't oh was it did you get interviewed by ariana huffington no i did not so no hufftow darling i want to write an article about you and put 14 puns in the headline um i'll say it this way that is a it's a reputable

non it's not the kind of source that people argue about it's one of the ones where they Oh, we go. If anything, they're boring. They don't pick sides on stuff. But it was all about this blizzard stuff. And they wanted to get a perspective of like someone in the community who's been around for a long time and, you know, sees it from that angle and, you know, what all this means. You're a good pick for that just because of your, your insider on the outside kind of thing. You're like the closest thing to a Blizzard employee without being a Blizzard employee. right because you're yeah there's a bit of yeah there's a lot of attached tissue there I guess so yeah some of it hurts right now why does that sound worse than connective tissue like I don't know you're right it does sound worse it's a little more attached tissue it's a little more it's been stuck to the it's a little more hellraiser pinhead than it I meant it

sound but right yeah um so anyway that went fine it went fine but I wonder if maybe the dream because it was furious typing. That was a lot of, not furious, but it was a lot of very, well, but it was heated, not heated typing. It was, um, it was intense. Emotional. Yes. Yes. Emotional intense typing. Sure. And I wanted to get everything right. Didn't want to overstate something, understate something, you know, trying to answer the best I could, all this. And I think maybe that could have been it. Now that we, now that we talked through this, I think that may have been like the, the impetus for the dream. So, um, what, how, so was this, was this an

interview like by tech or I guess you said it's by email was it like oh here's a question and then you email back your response or was it like here's a list of 12 questions we have about this and you typed in it was a list of questions so they first so the initial email was hey we'd love to to do an interview and we're and we're fine just you know having you answer these via email if that worked for you and I said great that sounds good and then they sent me a list of I don't know 10 15 questions something like that. And then I went through and copy-pasteed each question, put a big answer underneath,

sent them back, and we'll see how it goes, and then dreamt about blowing my hands off. So it all went great. All right, was it, uh, red tube, or was it a, uh, uh, uh, uh, U-Porn. Or porn hub. Which one was it? Uh, geez, sad that I,

that I, that I know these three. I think it was, uh, it's like knowing the turnium, uh, Bitcoin and, uh, Doge. it was adult friend finder Brian adult friend finder yeah only fans wanted to know yeah the aFF the wonderful news network known as the aFF got in touch with me perfect anyway we'll we'll see if it comes out I'll you know I have no problem sharing it but I just don't know if they're gonna they're gonna print or not or you know you know how this stuff goes

they're just trying to get stories so we'll see how that goes uh do you ever have one of those days I know you have because you're a podcaster you had to have yeah where you made a show of any kind of any length and the entire thing got corrupted and lost have you ever done that yes i mean technically it was probably after a major hardware or software change and i recorded an episode of coverville and i think i left out either it recorded uh my my uh songs but didn't record my microphone or something along those lines and so I actually had to go back to the back when I was using the Twitch Vods

I had to go back to the Vod and isolate out my voice and put it over the music Oh it's so much work It's such a pain It really is yeah Oh yeah That's a huge pain

I know it's happened to most people If you've done podcasting for much You've done it Now this show runs on a backup system So I have this Everything I do on this mic is backed up I have a, I have a, I have three backups, basically. I have a video backup, two audio.

Well, so, yeah, so two audio. And then I guess a fourth, because if I do have a problem, I can always go to the VOD. You can always go back to the VOD, yeah. So there's, there's, there's really, we've never lost a TMS as an example. Okay. How do you feel about the word VOT or the, the, the acronym, no, yeah, I guess it is an acronym that you pronounce. It's VOD.

Video on demand, yeah, you're right. Yeah, I'm not sure I like it. I mean, I say it. No, I hate it. I feel dirty saying it. I don't like it either. I don't like pod either when people say pod for podcasts. Oh, short for, yeah.

I hate it. There's a whole generation of, like, Gen Zers who call it pods, and I just want to punch a donkey when I hear it. I can't stand it. Poor donkey. Didn't do anything. A donkey didn't do anything. No, the donkey was innocent.

Yeah, I know, Wabbit Magic. I don't keep my vods because five minutes after that show goes up, it's severely edited, and I don't want anybody hearing the show that way. No, yeah. Not only that, if they decide to go after you, you'll get struck. right right exactly with with very little recourse like they they've got my first i got my first twitch strike for at the five end time no i was going to start singing that i got my first twitch copyright strike played a billy vanilla song it was actually when i you and i did it together we

we did the commentary over the apple event and the apple event dinged me that one got me the tim apple event, yeah. Because I left it up. If I had deleted it right after, it would have been fine. But I didn't. I left it up and I got dinged. Anyway, the point is, so I still have this, I don't know how you expunge those. I have a big fat mark on me right now. I don't know what to do with it. You can get up to three, but I don't want to be in trouble forever. Maybe it's your case. I'm going to be hearing at jury dude. Oh, you never know. Oh, you never know. All right. Talley says we're old now. Oh, Carter says she's old. She feels like, okay, anyway. The point is this. uh what is the point oh i lost the entire uh skim episode i recorded with my wife yesterday and it was a good one oh no it's a good one we're outside this part of the problems i use this app that sucks yeah you're using the phone right to record it yeah and i don't mind the built-in app's fine and there a couple apps are okay but i was trying a new one i can't if i remember the name i'll recommend against it because this is where the problem happened if i find the name i'll really yeah i'll really lay in it over the calls So we did a little remote record

And normally that's fine I used to use an app called Recorder I think is all a simple name And it's awesome And I don't know why I didn't use it this time Anyway, it all looked fine Until I went to go get it Raw file is dead and bad gone

There was like five seconds of audio And then a weird buzz the rest of the time And I was so pissed I read like six emails Gave big fantastic answers to everything Did all this stuff Had great content Great laughs with the wife.

Good times. All gone to the ether. That's a bummer. See, and that's something that, if it's a news show or like a core of the instance, you can go back and say, oh, well, here are the topics we talked about, and we just cover them, bam, bam, bam. Right. There's your, that skim is so spontaneous.

And you could, you could read those emails again, probably even give the same responses, but it's going to be a completely different show the second time. Yeah, you're totally right. it's so much more improv and hang out and say what's on your mind and your mood at the moment plays a role and all that so it really sucks and uh it's only happened to me one twice in my entire podcasting career this time and then one episode of the instance it didn't get corrupted but it just didn't record this is more like yours where you thought it was a recording and it didn't um and that sucked so when i when that happened it was randy at the time he and i turned around and did

another one right after it and it was freaking weird. I hated it. I hated it. So I don't want to do that anymore. I guess what I'm saying is make sure you're recording and make sure it works before you do shit. Yeah, and maybe even have a backup. If you have two phones, use them both. Yeah, use both your phones. That's the trick.

That's what I should have done. See, could have done that. Came out of a phone? Could have done that. Could have. I mean, you know, you've never needed it before. So why would you think you'd need it now? Yeah. And those Zoom H-I-N-4s, whatever, I have one of those too. It's not that I couldn't use that. Phones are fine, too.

It's just, you know, it's just whatever. Those phone microphones actually are better than they've ever been. And it sounds fine. Sounds like good remote recording, but it's just I screwed up. All right. Brian, jury time may happen. You could get the call now, right? You could get it right in the show here, couldn't you?

Oh, wow. It was weird. Like, I didn't hear anything from you until you said the words call now. Oh, no. You know what that's from. That's from the NSA trying to give me my info about the lost recording they have that they recorded for me. Right.

No, your jury duty, your jury duty call, you're supposed to get it. Jewie duty. When does that happen? That could be any second. I don't know. I can't tell for nothing. Oh, yeah.

Jackie Mason died, by the way. Jackie Mason passed away. Did you hear about that? Oh, did he? Yeah. He was like the ultimate Jewish comic. He was. He really was.

What was the, there was the cartoon character that he? It was Krusty's dad, right? Well, there was Krusty's dad, but there was an older one, like a, the, oh, what am I thinking of? Somebody in the chat room is going to say before I can look it up. Crap.

I don't remember either. I know, now that you're doing it and now I can hear it. Yeah, the art vark. The ant and the art vark. Oh, that was him. Was that Jackie Mason? I don't know if it was him or if it was someone that sounded like, like they could do a good Jackie Mason impersonation.

Oh, okay. Well, he was old. He was 93. He was almost 94. Hey, I'm going to pull you out of this. Anyway. Yeah, no, Jackie Mason was not. It was John Biner.

John friggin Biner. Oh, my. Yeah. For the, I'll take John Biner for the win. John Biner, like a regular on Hollywood Squares back in the day. Oh, that guy, okay. You've seen him. If you see a photo of the guy, it's like, oh, yeah, that guy was on.

Oh, this guy. Yeah. Right, exactly. Yep. I don't know who this is. This guy was in everything. he wasn't everything right it was like we need somebody does impressions get uh john biner or rich little yeah and if you have a you know you just have a scene you need uh with a with a dork

he would step in and be in everything he was in mod he was in hwai five oh the odd couple yeah all of it everything oh john biner apparently did both the aunt and the art vark voice that's that's uh talk about making saving your money when you're making a cartoon he did uh he was on the simpsons He played Zorro once. That's cool. Anyway. Oh, really? Oh, he's still alive?

Yeah. Yeah, John Beiner's still alive. It's my wife, or my wife, my mom's age. All right, anyway. My mom. Man, so you were saying, what were you saying? Oh, jury duty. I was talking about jury duty.

So, oh, yeah, Fred Travelina. The third point of that 70s impersonator triangle was Fred Travelina. Yep, yep. One of those three guys. Oh, which one is playing in Vegas right now between those? those three. I'm sure one of, I'm guarantee one of them is. Yeah, if they're not all dead, except John Brown, I guess he's alive.

Fred Trevelyne is alive too. And Rich Little was at the Tropicana a few years ago. Anyway, jury duty, I find out at 3 p.m. If I will have to go to jury duty tomorrow. So, um... Oh, sorry. Breaking news. Fred Travelina died died age 66 in 2009.

Oh, Fred Trevelyne is dead? Yeah. He no live. Well, now he's got a whole bunch of new celebrities that he can impersonate, like George Burns, Rickson. Yep. All the best. All the best. All right.

Sorry. Back to your thing. They're dead on impersonations. Anyway, find out 3 p.m. today if I have jury duty tomorrow. So, unfortunately, that means that we don't know for sure right now if there's a show tomorrow until 3 p.m. Yeah. It's weird how specific they are with you with the time they're going to call you.

Isn't that seem? No, it's not when they're going to call me. um basically i have to call after 3 p.m that's when they know who who they're going to need for the next day got it okay yeah and they'll tell you then you'll know then what's going on i'll know then so i call i'm wondering if i call right at three do you think it's a matter of like well the first you know 18 people that call will take them or do you think it's like oh geez um i don't know but i will laugh if you call and they go, your call is very important to us.

Due to high call volume, you're going to be on hold for a minute. Oh, my guess is there's going to be a recording. I'll punch in my number and it'll say, you are not required for Jury-Duty duty tomorrow. Jury-Duty. Well, I hope that that's the answer

because jury-duty is lame. I say it's lame, but I think it's, you know, it's a good duty. It is. It is your civic duty. I can't, I can't bitch about people who don't get the vaccine and then blow off, um, jury duty, right? You know what I'm saying? It's like, no, I get you. They're both duties. It's a civic duty.

It is like something you do for the greater good and, and. Yeah. Yeah. Get the vaccines, what we're saying. If we don't follow the rules, you get the vaccine. That's all we're saying, really. It really, really went there. I mean, there's no reason for it to go there.

But it's like, I look at it the same way. It's like, you sign up. for the draft back in the day you get your vaccine you attend jury duty yeah those are the big three the triumvirate of uh brian's duties he's got a third fourth duty but we're not going to talk about that one um nope did that duty right after i got up this morning a very very successful oh good a delivery successful delivery well done duty hey uh did you do you um i was going to say to you about a thing it wasn't related to that it was oh you should record this call just to see if something weird happens like you know like just kind of see if it's a funny machine message or

it's not a federal offense i don't know i can i can do it if it's uh i don't think it's illegal would it be all right all right call in for your for your notification it shouldn't be any i'm calling to see if i have jury duty uh tomorrow yeah yeah you're coming in yeah you got it's not at the courthouse though it's over here we need used to be at the courthouse at nine o'clock you better bring a piece Alright, good luck. I hope, part of me hope you don't have it, but if you do, then there's always stories.

So, that's all good. Content is everything, and everything is content. All right, you guys, let's move on to some other stuff here. We got Scott trying to fumble for buttons. Here we go. Let's do this. I don't watch the news. It's time for the news, and it's brought to you by.

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Eh, I mean, the indie game space, it's not like you're saying you're not, you're not, you're not using, A modification of the word sphere, like the indie game sphere. Oh, that's good. Yeah, you're right. You're right. So rest comfortably in the knowledge that it could be far worse. I actually feel better about it now that you said that. All right.

Let's get to this first story. Poland, you know, the big pee. The big pee out there. The big pee. I don't know why I'm calling. They're fine. Poland's great. Poland sent six swimmers home

after selecting too many by mistake. Oops. How do you make that decision? Whoops. Do you think they miscounted or they misread a requirement or I guess we'll find out. It's probably in the article. Yeah, it is in the article. And what's funny is, well, I don't know if it's funny.

But if this story was from the 80s, let's say the 84 Olympics. Yeah. Yeah, it would be a joke. Why did the Polish team send six swimmers back to Poland? Yeah. Because they sent too many to the Olympics. Right, right. But we've gotten past that now because the Polish are cool.

They make the Witcher 3 and everything. They're good. We like them. Poland have sent. Wouldn't that be has or have? Poland, yes, but it's British. It's BBC. Oh, is that why?

Poland have sent six swimmers home. Oh, that does sound better in your accent. Actually, it's funny. Yeah. It didn't sound right. You can make any bad grammar sound good by using a British accent. Those guys over there. Well, anyway, they've sent six swimmers home from the Tokyo Olympics.

They've sent him to hospital. Because they selected too many by mistake. Polittle or Poland. Polidl initially picked 23 athletes. Man, that's what would be. All right. On a roll here. Kentuckworth.

Shit. Maybe do it in English accent. We'll be fine. Ireland initially picked 23. I have to do it in Queens. I can't do anything else. Has to be the Queens English? 23 athletes, but had to cut that to 17 based on a world governing body.

Afina's qualifying rules. F-I-N-A. I don't know what that stands for. Final inside Niagara. Anus. Yeah, let's see. World governing body that has to do with the Olympics, F-I-N-A. Yeah, what do you think it is?

Without looking, we've got to figure this out. I know. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Let's see. The federated... Oh, that's a good word. Institution. Uh-huh.

Federated institution. Got it. Of something athletes. I'm betting athletes is the last word of needed athletes. Needed athletes. The federated institution of needed athletes. That's it. Nope.

Those other six are not needed athletes. Send them back. That's totally it. All right. Polish Swimming Federation or the FZP. Now that doesn't make sense. Well, it's, in Poland, the word swimming is, their word for swimming doesn't begin with an S. It probably begins with a Z. Swimming. Swimming. That's probably it, actually.

Keep on swimming. All right. The president, Powell Slamonski, was, or has apologized, said he understood the anger. anger of those who have been returned home. I expressed great regret, sadness, and bitterness about the situation, he said in a statement, such a situation should not take place. And the reaction of the swimmers, their emotions, and the attack on the Polish Swimming Federation is understandable

to me and justified. So the error was due to a desire to allow many players and coaches as possible to take part in the games. One of the six athletes, Alicia Tchorts! To Chords! I bet you don't even pronounce it that, too. I bet it's Chores. That's probably just Chores. Alicia Chores.

That sounds right. I've been playing a Chinese game for a review on one of my shows. And it's a, it's a really, it's been a really good reminder that cues, C's and Zs are very different in Mandarin. And so hearing them say them in the translation and then seeing them on screen has actually been weirdly educational for me in, and, I don't know, just being more mindful that, oh, right, the way the alphabet works and the way the, and the sounds they actually generate in that country are way different than here.

Anyway. Makes sense. Such a different situation should not... Oh, he already said that. All right. Oh, one of the athletes, this Chores lady, Shores, who represented Poland in the 2012 and 2016 Olympics,

expressed her anger at the mistake on social media. She says, imagine dedicating five years of your life and striving for yet another of the most important sporting events, giving up your private life and work, sacrificing your family and dedication results. In a total flop, she wrote in Facebook.

I mean, she has a point. It's a good point. Totally has a point. Exactly. Yeah. If you knew ahead of time that you're only going to need 17 of us, then, you know, six of us could have just stayed home and spend time with our families and stuff like that. I mean, you'd find out, you know, it'd be like you'd be playing for those 17 spots instead of for those 23 spots. So you'd know, you'd know you'd have to work hard.

By the way, the Fina, Corona BioCow is the Federation Internacional de. natation international swimming federation okay so it's like the international body for swimming rule natation sure that's it federateon international de natation yeah well there it is tally says i got it right welcome thank you tally yeah thanks really oh tally tally says i nailed it she says uh great job that was perfectly uh spoken yeah and now But now she's saying, just stop, Emmanuel Macron is weeping. Yeah, no, I'm... Hey, that video's not true, is it?

That he's got all those lays on him. Have you guys seen this video? I have not seen the video. Oh, my gosh. So they said when hospitality goes too far and he... I don't know even where he's supposed to be, but it's Macron, or how you say his name, at an event and somebody puts a lay on him. And it's all like white floral lay.

It's like, put it on his neck. And then he walks up to somebody else and they put a floral lay on top of that neck. Well, because he can't lays, you just can't have just one. No, you can't just stop with, you can't just stop with one. You have to keep eating him. So then he kept moving, and then by the end he's got like thousands of lays on him. It had to been fake. It had to been fake.

Thousands of lays? Yeah, or maybe not thousands. Maybe 100? Like, can you see his head still? Barely peeking out. Or the lays completely cover his head. He was kind of just peeking out of it. Oh, there's a video.

All right. Hold on the job here. Look at him getting this video. Okay, let's see if this is that. This looks real to me. Oh, it is. Talia says it is fake. It has to be fake, right? There's no way you could do all that.

Okay, yeah, this is it. So I'll show this at home. See at the end? That last shot. Yeah, hold on a second. I got to pause on that last shot. It's freaking funny, regardless. Yeah.

I'm trying to see, like, where the, they obviously use the cloning brush tool in Photoshop. It's good because everybody moves around them. You can see it move in. there's like a weird warping going on if you play it back yeah yeah yeah you can see it's all piece together it's amazing though right it's amazing you just got to kind of think all right if that was real where are the those lays on the bottom hooked on to because it's not around his neck no no it's around his sturdy manhood that's right exactly here jacie calhoun points in your point points to jacie calhoun though he he he is so johnny on the spot with this stuff totally yeah

I don't know how he found that. That was crazy. He's like an AI. He's a machine learning AI. All right. Let's move on to this story. Cops call backup for a drone following her, only to find out it was actually the planet Jupiter and not a drone at all. Oh, Jupiter's following you? Holy crap. That's actually worse. That's actually way worse. An entire planet that's following you as opposed to just a little drone.

Formerly thought unoccupied planet Jupiter following you around all the time. This is a rookie police officer in Glasgow, Scotland, was recently embarrassed to discover that the drone she thought was pursuing her on her way to a shopping center was actually just the planet Jupiter. It just appeared to be following her. Local news outlets, blah, da-da-da. Hey, did I send you, or did you see that video I took of the sun the other night? I don't know if you saw it. All right, well, I got to share this because, because damn it, what a weird. ass thing this was.

Was it just so much haze that you were able to take, like smoke and haze in the air, that you were able to take video of the sun? I mean, yes, but it was, it looked fake. Like to this, to this moment, I'm still unsure why this looks so freaking real. Wow, wow. So chat room, you guys can see it too. Hold on. Look at that.

Okay. It should be in Discord. Oh, you said. Oh, I texted it. I'm sorry. It's all right. Whatever. Whatever.

I mean, look at that thing. like oh that is crazy looking holy cow i'm sure it's some combination of this phone shoots in hdr and um that's and so maybe the sun even looks weirder as a result or or i don't know but it ends up looking kind of fake or like it does it looks like you you know you final cut added a little pink orb to the sky yeah it's really creepy but it's but it um uh was it so much smoke we just that's how the sun looked and it almost you can see it was in the western mountains over there is about to dip down but normally you can see that those mountains clear as day and uh so that gives you an idea of how smoky it was so thanks california blame california do do do do do do

blame fire and the sad properties of fire yeah i blame fire fire is the worst all right uh by the way jc calhoun posted a new video this is the actual real macrone video and um if you go to 55 seconds in the video, although, oh, there we go. Yeah. I love my new square space site. I opened up a square space site and created a... Yeah, there you go. But if you go to 55 seconds in that video.

That's a lot still. It's still a lot, yeah. Yeah, it's still a good, you know, dozen lays on... That's still so much. That's hilarious. It almost works as a joke without the edit. It kind of does. Yeah, exactly. Oh, my gosh, that's funny.

Are we meant to like him? I like Macron sometimes. I think he's a dusty little bugger. I like him. I don't know. I don't really follow anything in France, but I think he's cool. Well, anyway, this whole Jupiter deal. Back to the Jupiter. The drone that turned out to be a planet. That's no moon. That's a planet.

She attempted to lose the drone And that's her quote On her way to a local shopping center When she failed She was afraid Eventually called the general complaints number On the police Scotland thing To report that she was being followed by a drone

And couldn't lose it. Operator working The complaints line told her officer To return to her station where she could meet With senior officers so she did as she was told She thought the drone followed her there It was just a bright white dot in the sky Now, I get it. Yeah, Jupiter is brighter than a star, right?

And it doesn't twinkle like a star does. But, I mean, you know. That's just borderline tinfoil hat territory here because it feels like you got to kind of be looking for a drone to think that's a drone. You know what I'm saying? Yeah. Plus you're not hearing the sound, that tail-tale sound of a drone. Yeah, I haven't gotten the drone out in a long time. I need to go out and fly the drone.

what are your own personal rules about flying that over people's houses how do you how do you do that um it's totally fine if it's uh the fourth of july and some ass hat is uh setting off firecrackers in their backyard when it's when we've had uh dry dry conditions i feel like it's it's okay confirmed that is that is correct i feel like it's warranted yeah uh until they shoot it down with a bottle rocket yeah i think that is actually the correct answer there but uh no usually it's It's like I go into a park and I just try and I try and see how quickly I can kind of zoom it around and keep it several feet off the ground. Like, you know, I want to, I want to, I don't want to go around any obstacles because I know I'll hit them and destroy my drone. Sure. But I like flying it around and doing figure eights and stuff like that.

I have a visual question that only live listeners will know what I'm talking about. Okay. Is it me? or did you put a new picture of, I don't know, I can't think it was name, filmmaker, David Lynch. David Lynch up on your thing there. Is that today? Did you do that?

It is today, yes. So this is an album, a photo frame. I can take albums out, put albums in. Oh, okay. And this is a tribute album to the music of David Lynch films. It was a live concert. And so it's covers of songs from Twin Peaks, all the Julie Cruz

stuff and blue velvet and things like that. And I haven't listened to the album yet but I really like the cover so I decided to put that in there. I had Bruce Springsteen and Sergeant Pepper in there before. I'm going to try and keep swapping that thing out. Nice.

Yeah. He's staring at me is the reason I ask. He is. Looking at me like his eyes follow you, don't they? Yeah. Yeah, I don't know I don't like it. All right. Let's move to this story here. a teen we're to the teen story

you ready for teens okay all right tell me the teen story teen driver swerves to miss a squirrel and crashes into Lincoln's historic family home oh no yeah

oh I mean what's more important material things or a squirrel a living creature right exactly far scorn seven years ago how was the play mr. mr.

uh historic house built in 19 or sorry 1650, excuse me, by the great-grandfather President Abraham Lincoln has been wrecked by a teenage driver trying to avoid a squirrel. The Samuel Lincoln House on North Street in the town Hingham, Massachusetts was badly damaged when a 19-year-old motorist crashed into the front of this historic home on the morning of July 15th. First responders on the scene said they found the 2014 Audi Q-7. That's a nice car. That's a nice house. It is a nice one, yeah. Did I say Adi?

Audi, Audi. You don't say Audi, Audi, Audi. Yeah. Well, we say Audi because of Adi Norman. Oh, that's probably why, yeah. I got him all hooked on that weird crane game that I told you about, the crane machine or what's called. Dude, I've been hooked on, oh, I've got such a great game to, I've got two great games to talk about next time on App Sloppy. One of them all save, but the other one is this rise of cultures.

I was a big fan of Forge of Empires, that kind of building sim, you know, build a village town. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, you play that a lot. And I think I saw a post on Facebook yesterday. You were talking about this? Yeah, totally digging it. I created a Frogpants Guild, but then I got bored with it and decided to join another guild because I need resources. So it's like, ah, you know, if somebody reaches out and says, I couldn't find the Frogpants

Guild, then I'll go back and recreate the Frogpants Guild. But I was just sitting in there alone. So I was like, yeah, I need resources, man. Yeah, you and I share some enjoyment of this kind of game. I should check this out. It is really cool. And the, I like the graphics way better than Forge of Empires. Forge of Empires on iOS always felt like a PC port that they didn't get the graphics quite right for mobile for.

Yeah. Bitmapy and stuff like that. But, no, this one I really like. And there's no, oh, make sure you go fight other people in your kingdom. It's like, nope, you fight, but you don't fight. it's no PVP you fight AI opponents Oh, that's good, I prefer that

I do too So would you say that it You know, it's free to play But how up in your nose is it about micro? I haven't gotten a single I haven't gotten a single Thing telling me to go buy Gems I don't think I have anyway

If I have, they've been minimal And I've ignored them They give you a ton of emeralds at the beginning And so I'm still sitting on a ton of emeralds of emeralds. All right. I'm going to get this. You've talked to me into it.

It's beautiful on the iPad Pro. It is just gorgeous. I bet. Rise of cultures. Rise of cultures. They have a Reddit page and everything. So there you go. Of course they do.

Anyway, this kid in this Audi here, half the car entered the home. According to, honey, I'm home. The car crashed into the historic home and says the Hingham Fire Department responded to the incident and the road was closed for several hours. Teenage drivers suffered only minor injuries. When this sort of thing happens, what happens? Who pays for this?

Do they have to... Yeah, I don't know. Because it wasn't Abraham Lincoln's home. It was a great-grandfather of Abraham Lincoln. It feels like that's even a more historic relic, though, right? Well, it's older, but it's not like the great-grandfather of Abraham Lincoln did anything except have a kid who had a kid who had a kid who happened to be Abraham Lincoln. You know, I mean, that's great. It's great that, you know.

You're relative, but how far back do we need to go, really? I love it. No, that's a fair point. I had really considered it. Like, how far, like, if you go back, you know, 20 generations from, I don't know, any famous person. So what? So. Yeah, exactly.

Just like, you know, we're, what was it, a quarter of us or descendants of Attila a Han or something? Is that the way, isn't that the deal? Something like that. So, ooh. My dad is a historical house because it was owned by the great, great, great, great, great, great grandson of Attila. Because it's vaguely Lincolnish is what's going on. Oh, Genghis Khan. I'm sorry, Genghis Khan, not Attila.

Oh, Genghis Khan, yeah, yeah. Sorry, I forgot my Conquer, which Conquer it was. Maybe it was Kang, the Conquer. Tim Talley, geez. I know. Holy crap. Talia says, yep, Genghis Khan, you guys are correct. Thanks for putting together a great show.

That is the translation. That's why I read that. Yeah, I'd read that that way as well. Well, anyway, yeah, it's a good title, vaguely. Anyway, but yeah, who pays for it? I guess, I mean, I guess you're responsible for the damages. He'd think so. Probably not.

Probably insurance, right? The car is probably insured. His parents' insurance probably covers it, I would think. Yeah, exactly. I would assume. But, yeah, try not to do that. My dad, on my dad's side, we are directly related to Abraham Lincoln. and he's my dad's side goes back i don't know three generations before you hit lincoln or something

like that see there you go so your house should be historical house yeah see this is you're making a really good point like we're in the line you know and on my mom's side no yeah my mom's side were related to the eli whitney family what and they made the cotton gin which made slavery worse the least popular flavor of gin it made slavery worse because it made slavery worse because it upped production and made more slaves have to work harder and longer and so on the one hand we got we got the emancipation guy right we got the guy who ended it all right free of the slaves but work harder but work harder slaves hey slaves work harder but also no more slave like that's a little weird uh that's a little weird uh it's very iconic you're stuck in the middle of

yeah it's really weird stuck in the middle again with you wait what yeah uh final final story a pooch pee dog pee pooch pee pee pee pee pee pee was blamed for a traffic light poles collapse in central Japan oh boy wow yeah 50 years old this

this giant pole and it was a big traffic light pole and they collapsed and I think dog urine is the reason it snapped from its base 50 years they get to peed on I guess eventually something kind of corrods and falls apart this is according to the me prefecture police so if you're out there Brian when you go you know look for this

Yeah, I'll look for a fallen telephone pole. Yeah, I look for a pole that's down. Or traffic pole, traffic pole. Traffic light was installed at a crossroad in the Scara-Skata-Mucci-Macho district. Uh-huh, accurate. Of the prefecture city, Suzuki in 1997, that's when it was first put up there. It was found collapsed in bushes at an nearby park on the morning of February 18th this year. No one was injured.

In the incident, there was apparently no problems with the quality or installation of the post. Otherwise, the entire government would commit Harry Carey and admit they were failed this. Um, anyway, they think it's just because dogs pee on it. That's really the story. Wow. That's the upshot is the dog pee will corrode and destroy your pole is the, is the, yeah, I mean, it's not even like this was in grass or anything where the pee could kind of absorb into the, into the dirt. It's just like corroded the metal right around the base. Yep, which is not what you want for your pole.

I'm thinking, I'm thinking you don't want that. What I do want, though, is a, a break before we get to Justin Robert Young. He's going to, I don't know. Maybe you try to convince me why I'm wrong about being blasé about the Olympics this year or any year. And maybe a little bit more. We'll see. We'll find out before that, though. If your only argument is, well, they're not in Salt Lake City.

If that's the only argument you have, I can't wait for this. I do feel like it's never been as exciting to me since then. But up till then, it was exciting. So I don't know what happened. We'll bring that up. I can't wait to unpack this. There's something going on there. All right.

We'll do that after this song break. that Brian hath prepared. Sure. James Buckman wrote in, he said, this is my band, Hot Apollo's new, Hot Summer Jam.

Is it 90s? Is it punk? Is it glam? It's open to interpretation, but it definitely rocks. It's out now on iTunes, Spotify, Band Camp, SoundCloud, and any other place

where you find music. And we even released a music video for it, too. The song is Bear Arms by the band Hot Apollo. This is great stuff. It reminds me a little bit of the buzzcock, so even going earlier than 90s.

but still staying in that punk that punk genre. Here is Hot Apollo and the song Bear Arms. Should this is shameless, I'll never be nameless. Shared unlike a thousand new songs. It's my time and a rule that I've gotten in the bullets, even if I barely have any guns.

Bet arms, it's a bet on weather, because that's what I'm telling you true. We're arms, let's bear together. You're going to put my bare arms around you. Fly the beach of the power, King Delo Dark, heat is happening in my face. If you scratch me a spark, I'll be making my mouth, we've got time for it's taking twice. Bear arms!

It's a bet on wed. That's what I'm telling you true. We're all that's fair together, gonna put my back, I'm surround you. Yo! Whoa, yeah! While there's green in the lanes, I'll be needing no slaves, some have stepped my own this kind of cults. It's busking in and out of out, till my farm ain't full as false.

Bear owls! It's a bear off wind That's what I'm telling you true Bet owls Let's bed together Gonna put my bed, I'm surround you I'm around you It's a fine day

People open windows They leave the houses Just for a short while I win out of pities The morning stream. Save it for the French. All right, we've returned. Welcome back to the program.

That song, one more time. Yes, that's Hot Apollo. The song is Bear Arms. Find it wherever you get your music and check out more of their stuff. That's glorious. It is. I love it when we get music from Tadpoolers, from members of the community, because oftentimes it's really good. Plus, we got a lot of talented people who, you know, come share your talented stuff.

It's nice to help support them. Yeah, yeah. If you're in a bit, seriously, if you're in a band, submit a song, it's almost guaranteed we're going to play it. Almost guaranteed. I've had a couple where it's like, ooh, that one's a little on the rougher side. Do you have anything else? Yeah.

Or if it sucks, you know, we'll see. Yeah, I'll never see. say that but boy I'll tell you what doesn't suck these are their stories do do do do do de lae oh I'm terrible with names look who it is Justin Robert Young

joining us from his Austin studios Justin welcome back to the Tuesday TMS good to have you here oh it's a pleasure just an electric tingling runs up my spine whenever I get to speak with you two chin wow that's that is something

we tingle too so that's good hey can you turn yourself up just a tiny tad, just a little tiny bit. It's a little, oh, he has to get up. Sorry, I feel bad. And then while you're up, do you mind hugging that behind you? And you hear me. Yeah, it's much better, much better.

Sounds great. Yes. Hey, it's, uh, can you hug the flag, Brian? Can you go back and hug the flag behind you? Just a gentle hug and smile, a creepy smile. You know, just for old time's sakes. Just to remind us of a certain time ago. The time's gone by.

Hey, Justin's here. So here's the thing. I'm going to start this with a, with a comment we got in the chat earlier when we were just talking about your upcoming segment today and start with it. Oops, I totally effed up the screen. There he is. He's now squared off nicely. All right.

Here's what the statement was. This is from J.C. Calhoun. He says, there are too many swimming events. Unfriend me. So he's right, first of all. Second of all, but let's talk about the Olympics because I got this weird thing where up until 2002, I was always excited about both summer and winter Olympics. I thought they were great, couldn't wait.

You got the guy in the 80s who hit his head real hard, Gainis, remember that? That was a big deal. Oh, yeah. Who's that little... That little gnome girl that won the Olympic... Or won all the gymnastics stuff. Can't remember her name.

Oh, Doug? Right? Yeah, yes. And then before her, the other one that... Mary Lou Retton? Yes. Yes. So all these names, these were all ringing bells.

And I was way into it. Nancy Kerrigan. Nancy... So any of like the 80s and 90s, I was super into it. 84 in L.A. was a big deal. and you know whatever the Olympics come to salt lake in 2002 it's a little somber because it's a year after 9-11 so everybody's just kind of ooh and you know romney had to fix the olympics because

there were some problems early on and exactly known as the party capital of the way no not exactly not exactly not always i'm saying it's a fine it's a fine city i've had very good nights in salt lake not known international it's not exactly south yeah no you are not i will not argue that um so you know, we did a good job and we also didn't go into tons of debt and it worked out great. So then something happened. I stopped

caring about the Olympics and I don't know if it was because it was right here and we were like in the venues and you know it's still like a bunch of that stuff is still kind of very present here and if you're going to go. It never goes away. You build all these arenas and stuff and then you just use them for like, you know, high school basketball tournaments. Right. Exactly.

It's a little tourism spot too. Yeah, yeah. So like the speed skating rink is now a well it doubles as the as the grizzlies arena for iHL hockey and and then when when speed skating for whatever reason may be needed they can they use it for that um they converted a bunch of stuff in park city and other parts of the of you know the more rural areas to like handle all kinds of crazy ski events and cross country and all this and so it's all just sort of here now and it's great this intro has gone so in depth on the sport it really has this is an upset this this may be the problem now in its 10th minute and it's eight solid about the Salt Lake City

winner and this is probably part of the problem because since then I can't be bothered so much I even did voiceover for GE commercials in 2012 for the whatever I don't even remember where those were oh yeah with the row I remember the rowing one yeah yeah who was that for where what whose Olympics was that uh what was the year Rio or it was or Barcelona maybe 2012 either Rio or London. I still remember. But then, you know, for whatever reason, from then on, I'm just like, okay, it's fine. It's good.

I've watched a second of actual competition this year. So is it just that it'll never match the love you truly had for the Salt Lake City Olympics and now you're holding it against every other Olympiad? No, here's what I think it is. And then we can discuss what the problem is if we don't think I'm right. I think it's because... It's your personal preference. If you don't enjoy the Olympics,

I'm not here to yell at you about not enjoying the Olympics. I don't think it's anybody's constitutional duty to pay attention to the sports coverage from the national broadcasting company or sign up for Peacock. But my only point is that I do enjoy it. Right.

But let's see if we can get through whatever mental block you have. Okay. And maybe you can now enjoy the rest of these bizarre 2020 Olympics in the year 20th. Yes. Yeah. So here's what I think is going on. I think nearly 20 years on, what happened was because it was all up in my face and it was unavoidable and it was this local pride thing and everybody was stoked and it was just a big parade for however long two weeks that thing

took that now it's like, I don't know, you worship the band Kiss. This is just an example. I don't But you just say that's your band, man. Oh, freaking look at Gene Simmons with his makeup and his whatnot going on. And, wow, I just love Kiss. They're so great. And then one day the band goes, hey, come on backstage and hang out with us. Sorry, Paul Stanley will go, coming backstage and hang out with it. I'm Paul Stanley.

And so they all go back there. And now you're with the band. And you're like, oh, Peter Chris and Ace Freely and all these guys. Oh, my gosh. And then you're like, well, I've just now I've been up close. They're just people. That guy has bad breath. That one farted.

And I don't know if this is that big a deal anymore. I think that's it. I think I just, I got to see the sausage getting made right up close and went, yeah, okay, I think I'm all right now. I don't need to. So then I guess you were really there for the spectacle. Like the idea of the Olympics is not because you were really into the concept of high and technical competition, right?

It was just that, oh my God, here's this gigantic spectacle. Not only is it, is it a smattering of the world's great. athletes. It's all the world's greatest athletes. And they're all gathered and they're all going to do it. What an amazing time. And then you saw what that competition actually looks like, which is a lot more like a very loud

and bright 4-H demonstration than it is the television product that you get when everything is glossy and everybody's three-legged cats that they're dedicating this race to. And now you're like, oh, it's just a bunch of people running

around? Yes, sir. Yeah, kind of, kind of, that's it. The curtain has been pulled back, yeah. Also, it's just, I think it's, I think I don't, part of me thinks that I've gotten so soaked in like genre fiction as my main go-to for what I feel like doing when I'm not working, that if the Olympics has no genre fiction, it's just, it's just plain old like, all right, he was faster than him. She dived better than that guy or that girl. I mean, there are stories that, you know, there are. are some great stories behind some of the participants but yeah you're not going to find fargo levels of of drama behind the uh i mean i don't know i see the the the the meta concept

of it there's there is probably more high drama to the the the orchestration and execution of these olympic games than there's ever been but yeah well that's for sure it's still going on too yeah let me ask you this guy yeah how much in general do you like to leave a thing on in the background. Like, can you leave things on in the background while you do another thing or you can you be ADD fixated

on whatever is happening? He's watching King of the Hill right now as he's doing this show. He's got it on another computer like a screen. So Brian is referring to something very prescient. We just talked about this. So this is funny you bring this up. I do have this. I do like to have stuff going on

in the background. And right now it happens to be King of the Hill. Sometimes it's Seinfeld. Sometimes it's mash. Sometimes it's some old thing, new thing, whatever. But it's always something I've seen a million times. Futurama is a great thing for this. I just love having it on. It doesn't require a lot of attention. Right. I've seen it a million times already. It makes me laugh even remotely. And I'm getting other things done while it's happening. So the answer is yes, I do like to do that. Olympics would be perfect for that. You're right. That's my point. Yeah. You're right. But I don't know why I don't go to that. I think my life is

so streaming now. I don't think of it. I just don't think it's amazing. You should try it because I love the Olympics because I like that background element of it. I just like to have it on because walking through the kitchen and I'll be picking something up. The next thing you know, it's like three on three women's basketball, Lithuania versus Spain. And I'm like, damn, these girls are going. Look at them. Shooting basketballs, boxing each other out. That's nuts.

Anyway, I'm going to go finish working. There, I'm looking. I'm out. I have it on while I'm, while I'm, editing and there's just a little box and people are in kayaks and they're going crazy in these kayaks and I'm like that's nuts

congratulations Russian guy with a last name that is cleverly letters and one and one vowel wow all right it seems like it seems like even you going back and watching

the opening ceremonies would be worth it number one it's there's something cool that they do technology wise every time right with the opening ceremonies This one even had, as the players from the different countries are walking out, it's symphonic versions of video game music to celebrate this being in Tokyo. Yeah, I saw a bunch of that. There was like Final Fantasy music and, yeah, other chrono trigger.

The opening and closing ceremonies. Right. Like, I really don't like that. I'm not necessarily there for the pageantry. If anything, like, the only note that I've actually sat down and watched a closing ceremony, was when I first moved to California and I first became like friend friends like not just like show friends

with Tom Merritt who is also in the bay at that time and he was like oh come on over I think we were recording something else and just watch the closing ceremonies and I'm like cool but if he hadn't invited me to do it him and I'd invited me to do it I wouldn't have because like I don't know rats

and there's people running around and it's a thing and it's like okay it always goes too long and it's kind of like like somebody looked at the Super Bowl halftime show and was like, why is this three hours? Yeah.

They always got to have those two or three countries where it's like one dude and then they got to talk about that for 10 minutes and I'm like, all right, they were one dude for the last four Olympics. I get it. They're all, this one dude comes out of that tiny country.

One person made it. Yeah. So it's like everything boring about a parade, about the Macy's Day parade, but without, you know, Spider-Man. And then a bunch of stuff

that's like very cultural and like look i guess if they did another one in the u.s i'd probably pay attention more because they would have more references to stuff but i remember even watching the london one where like you know in general amongst other countries and i understand that america's pretty myopic and more countries know more about american culture than we know about theirs but the one that we know the most about is is england and even then it was like and there's a jolly Bobbitt from the famous television show. Don't you touch that Jolly Bobbitt? It's like, I was like, all right, whatever.

Who cares? Someone's there, and he's old now, but he's wearing a young person's outfit because that was the Jolly Bobbitt outfit and then, you know, The Jolly Bobbitt. I know that one. I want to watch the Jolly Bobbitt. So, all right, well, okay, so you know what I'm going to do? I'm really going to do this.

And then in a week, because there's a lot of Olympics between now and next Tuesday. Next time we meet, I'll tell you how the background thing went. I'm going to sign up for a free, whatever, trial of Peacock. Peacock. Because I don't have regular TV. So I'd have to do Peacock. And just play it. And then I'll let you know.

Like, did this? Because I'll tell you the one thing I do miss from it. There's a certain feeling during all of the competitions that feels good. Like, oh, look, we're up to something that's. It's everybody's doing it. And it's about the only time the world comes together for anything. Even if it's mostly pageantry and even if it's mostly for show, it still feels like it's as close as we get to like actual global sort of come together kind of moment. So I do kind of miss that feeling.

But then I'm also going to get, what, six months from now, we get the winter ones. So I don't know. Should I get that excited about summer? I like the winter ones better anyway. Like people wipe out and do crazy shit on snowbluges and ice skating and stuff. stuff like that. I'm not, again, I'm not trying to sell you a time share. Like, I'm not, you need to make this decision based on how you're going to live 10 years ago for anything. Like, I'm just saying, I like watching three on three women's

basketball. Are you going to come back to us a week from now and said, no, I watched and I still don't like it. You guys are wrong. I mean, I might. All right. Number one, even if you don't have peacock, um, if you do have a streaming service that is like you're over over the top cable or whatever, it's constantly on. Like, every NBC network is effectively just Olympics propaganda. Like, there's never a time through the, you know, universal family of networks, including CNBC and all this other stuff, that like, they're not

showing something Olympic related. A lot of it is on Peacock and a lot of the live stuff is on Peacock because everything else that you, that is the thing, it's a bummer about the Olympics that you start, You're at like a restaurant or a bar and you're watching, you know, whatever, competitive darts. I don't even know if that's a thing. But it's like, you kind of get invested in these two people. And then you're like, oh, let me, I'm going to drive back to the house. But before I go, let me just check and see what the status of the score is.

And you found out that it was recorded like six weeks ago. One person that you watch like raising their hands with a gold medal and you're like, oh, I guess that's anticlimatic now. Spoiler, yeah, right. Yeah, I would say just put it on the background and see if you like it. I am there specifically for the same reason why I like the World Cup or big soccer competitions like the Euro finals while I don't in general follow soccer at all just because I really do enjoy big competition, world-class competition with stakes. And you get to see that with sports that you.

you really don't understand or no exist. But like when you see these people do it, you're like, no, that's insane. Like that's a crazy thing to do. The only thing that isn't like that is curling, which even at its highest level looks like you can do it drunk with your friends. All right. You know what I do like, I like water polo. I think that's fun to watch because I know how hard that is and those dudes are jacked. Water polo is intense.

I was watching that at a getting lunch yesterday. Yeah, water polo is rough And also apparently very violent Like under the Under the waves There's just a lot of kicking and punching Really? All right, I'm down.

So I'm noticing right now, sorry, while we were talking, I loaded up Peacock and there's some dude hosting something called Tokyo Gold, Rich Eisen. And just is talking about... He's a sportscaster. Okay. So is this a place

to start, I guess. This is fine. That's like a, um, that's like a recap kind of show. I mean, That's just going to be your... Wouldn't be bad to start. It's just to start with a recap show and see what stuff. Just leave it on in the background, do other stuff. And whenever stuff catches your eye, you're like, oh, I wonder if there's more. So, like, all right, to the point if there's too many swimming events for who? Because I'm here for coverage, baby.

I just want there to be stuff on all the time. And so it's like, here's the 100 meter butterfly. And then here's the 200 meter butterfly. And then here's the single-legged butterfly. fly. I don't care. I like, I just like turning on my television. Someone's doing something.

It's beach volleyball. It's 50,000 swimming events. It's a billion track and field events. It is, I just like to do it. And then I like to root for the good old US of A because it's, it makes me feel good good that we can continue dominating the world. Yeah. It does feel good.

once in a while. Okay, well, I just watch this guy. I'm going to choke like animals. I'm going to do it. I'm going to try to be a good citizen. Not to you have to be a good citizen or watch this to be a good citizen. I'm going to try not to be so poopy about it. Show for jury duty.

Get your vaccine. Watch the Olympics. Right. All these things that are important. But I am going to, you know, I'm going to give it a shot. And we'll talk more next week to see how it went. We'll, you know, we'll see. There is a good story, though, on the basketball side, because he's a very good NBA player by the name of Luca Donchich, who is on a team with, like, seven other dudes that I think, like, sell, like, they're all sandwich artists.

Like, they're just, they're just absolute nobodies have never played American competitive basketball, but he's so good that he's, like, beating teams that are actually good and have multiple NBA players on them. Oh, wow. and so like he i think he scored 48 points in his first Olympic game ever against a pretty good argentina team so if you can catch a a Slovenia game which has the same population as new mexico uh just so happens that one of them is lucca donchut that that is that is good just so you could watch somebody just totally demolish a bunch of other a bunch of other people i'm kind of into it all right that's cool so we'll do a little follow up in the meantime i you know you've got sorts of stuff going on while you do these things in the background. For example, that

one six thing started today. So I'm sure you're going to have coverage on that and what comes out of that, at least politically. Anything else going on? You want to mention to the fine folks at home? Here's the infrastructure deal, which is on again, off again, on again, off again. I do suspect that it will probably happen, mostly because both sides have come so far and the upside to canning it is really only on the progressive side in their hope that they would then jam through the reconciliation bill first or only. But I don't think that the Democratic senators who have worked really hard on the bipartisan bill will want that to happen. And so I do believe that we are going to get some kind of bipartisan deal on infrastructure. But then again,

you never know. It could be that everybody's fighting right now really, really bitterly because they know this is their last chance to do it before they make a deal. Or apparently this is a John McCain saying it's always darkest before it goes pitch black. Is that really a thing? He said that before? No. I read in a newsletter, the punchball newsletter this morning that I quoted that,

but I just, I love that. That's amazing. I heard it before, but I didn't know that was John McKay. Yeah, I love that. Okay, one final note that I just noticed this three on three basketball,

so they're doing a little coverage of that, Japan versus America. I didn't know it was half court. That's awesome. That's so cool. Yeah, it's not even half court. You just take it beyond the three point line, I believe. like you are checking it and then you throw it just right out beyond the three point line

and i guess america america on the women's side is good america on the men's side was like three ham and eggers from perdu no uh no actual like like NBA talent because it's a very different game it's a very fast pace game yeah um but yeah i was mesmerized watching u.s versus China women's three on three basketball and I was like damn this rules yeah this is all right actually okay well you may have convinced me uh it's justin robert young convincing people one day at a time uh justin are young on twitter and make sure to check out of stuff justin young give me my gold medal yeah see give him his medal yo oh i forgot to oh i think he hung up on me i think he i think he was johnny on the out there yeah he hung up on me but that doesn't mean i was going to forget this

the jury will now retire i remembered it the jury's self-retired that's right now they're shown some kind of soccer ball here oh you must be are you on like this is so this is probably the highlights is it the team USA highlights or is it the um the it's the bald dude highlights bald dude highlights which uh it sounds like it sounds like a there's incorrect thing to say because he's yeah there's another channel on becock

that's called team USA and it's like highlights from all of their games like water polo sailing oh okay So that's good, too. All right. I'm going to check it. Do you sub to Peacock or do you just do the free tar? Because there's something that Tina watches that's on there that we need it for. Right now, oh, no, I don't want to say because I'm going to use it for recamentals tomorrow.

So never mind. All right, then. Hold that thought. Unless you're in jury duty, then hold it one more week. Right, exactly. Then I'm holding it for a whole extra week. Yeah. Or there's, actually, I don't have confirmation yet.

If Wendy's not here Thursday, we could shift, we could do our own little recommendals that day, maybe get Nicole in if she wants. Oh, yeah, we could totally do that. Okay. But I haven't heard from Wendy yet, so I'll have to wait for that. Anyway, all right. Well, you've all done well. Thank you, Justin. Thank you, everybody for hanging out with us today. We do have one more thing to do, a bonus mashup from our pal Jamie. He sent one called bonus mashup, you shouldn't be dancing.

This is one of the SPTs, which I forgot what that means. Scott plays Spells terrible No That's P-T Scott plays games I'll find out really quick Oh Scott pronounces things

Oh shit This is bad Thank you Thank you Jamie Yes Thanks Jamie I always forget what these categories are All right I'm going to play it now

He's been very busy He's got all kinds of these lined up And here's one of them so enjoy Japanese Sorry, Japalino Jicups. Jalapino. Jalapino Jicups. TikTok teens, Tari, tumbling.

Oh, shit. I don't like naked late, sir. I do like naked ladies. That word isn't in there. All your base is nearly eligible for COVID vets. Do you not Howie men, sorry. Do you, how do you, do not get Howie Mandel wet? I need pro.

some protein. I can't read. I'm going to do that one again. Beavers have chewed. Chune. Past tense, chune. There's no way that's right. Coming. I don't know why I'm laughing. Can I do Flint Frontier here as well, or is that just a Denver thing? I've never heard of it until you told me about Frontier. We've flown Frontier to Salt Lake City. Okay. Did I say Flintier or did you say Flintier? One of us said Flintier. Can we say Fluntier? I don't know. Probably me. I wouldn't doubt it.

Rafael Esposito, the 19th century. Napoleon. Napolit. Sorry, I can't say that without saying Napoleon. Say Neapolitan. Thank you.

It wasn't coming out. I couldn't get it out. Don't let your Nicole. You're Nicole. Don't let your niche internet fame turn you into a dick. Gibraltar is living one. Gibraltar is giving 10010%.

Testicle. Period. Period. I don't know why I said testicle. Oh, there was something about kicking somebody and there. Kicking ran out of the testicle. I was looking at it right when I said it.

A more. Phyllis titanium. Tatitanum. Taitanum. I don't know. Hard to talk with that second word than the first word, but Shelby Hulian, the American Hulahan. Hulahan. I'm wearing a match shirt. Come on. MASH T-shirt guy. I know. I'm wearing a mask shirt and I can't even say Hulahan. It's embarrassing. Hale Satan. We'll see Fus Tatell satin. Sorry, Satin. Professor Andrea Solonoli. Solonolni. Solania. Is that right? Yeah, so you totally got it.

Absolutely. Night fever, tragedy. You shouldn't be dancing. Where do you say shouldn't? What I write? You shouldn't be dancing. Did I say shouldn't? You said shouldn't.

Oh, I meant should. I'd like to hear that version of the song. I was like John Lithgow and footloose there. Oh, and footloose. Yeah, you shouldn't be dancing. Anyway. Oh, my Lord. I'm so much more aware of when you get me started laughing, and I begin with a...

You do do that sometimes. You start with a big hiss. It's like all of a sudden I'm lost air. I'm like a fish gasping for air on the floor. You're winded. Oh, these are so good. They are great. So good.

Jamie, you do great work. Jalapeno. Jalapeno. Jicups. All right. That's it for the show. I want to thank everybody over at Patreon who supports us. I notice some names

on there today that we see all the time, but we don't thank them enough. We just assume they're always here. People like Icor and Jeannie and many others. Big thanks to you guys for your support over there. If you want to be like them and get your names mentioned on the show, that'll happen if you just support us at patreon.com slash TMS. And if you're looking

for more details than that, why all of it can be found at frogpants.com slash TMS, we're done for the day. Hey, Brian, why don't you do a thing here, a song at the end here? Sure. Sure. This one goes out to Nikki Ackermans. Yes, the Nikki that was a contestant on America's Next Top Podcasts this last season. Also now an intern working on Daily Tech headlines over there at Daily Tech News with Tom. She just did an amazing series about older people of tech. It was amazing. It was really well. Oh, that's cool. Perfect. Like right up her alley. It's so perfect. It couldn't be more up her alley unless it had sheep's

brains in it or something. I guess sheep brains. I wouldn't put an ass on there. Dear Spurs and Boots, it's your favorite Talking Telescope here to request a song for my birthday on July 27th. As part of my prize package of second place winner of the season of A&TP, I get to request a song on TMS.

Wait, anyone can request a song? Oh, what a rip-off. I wanted to request a sad, gay cowboy song because what else would I listen to when drinking a nice cold beer on my fire escape in the middle of the muggy city. Still enjoying everything you guys do. And I was so happy to, quote, unquote, meet you both through A&TP. I can't wait to hang out in person at the next Nurtacular or TMS Vegas when that happens. Did you know, I also share a birthday with Alexandre Dumas, Bobby Gentry, Maya Rudolph, and Nicolaj Kosterwaldao,

aka Jamie Lanister. Oh, right. Sending virtual hugs, signed Nikki. Happy birthday to you! Yeah, she deserves it. She's awesome. She does deserve it. She also likes turtles if you have that one, Andy.

Oh, turtles, eh? I do have that handy. Turtles, hey? That's the one you want to keep around, see, because, you know, turtles. Let's see. Oh, come on, Scott. You got it right here, buddy. I know you got it.

Here it is. I like turtles. There you go. There you go. Whatever happened to that kid, you know, we got turtles. All right, she wanted to hear a cover of the song Fancy by Orville Peck. Now, what's interesting about this is that most people think of this as a

um as a Riba McIntyre song but before that it was a Bobby Gentry song who also shares a

birthday with Nikki today I don't know if she knew that if she made that connection but if she did she's

she's brilliant and if she didn't then she's just lucky uh here's the song Fancy by Orville Peck

from his show pony EP from last year 2020 here is Fancy I remember it all very well looking back was the summer I turned 18 we lived in a one room worn out shack on the outskirts of New Orleans we didn't have money for food rent to say the least we was hard-pressed

Mama spent every last penny we had To buy me a dancing dress Mama washed and combed and curled my hair And she painted my eyes and lips Steped into a satin' dancing dress That had a slid in the sight, clean up to my hips It was red Velvet trimming and it fit me good

Staring back from the looking glass There stood a woman where a half-crown boy had stood Here's your one chance fancy, don't let me down. Here's your one chance fancy don't let me down. Mama dabbed a little bit of perfume on my neck, and she kissed my cheek. I could see the tears welling up in her troubled eyes as she started to speak. She looked at her pitiful shack, and then she looked at me and took a ragged breath. She said your paws run off, and I'm real sick, and the baby's going to starve to death.

She handed me a heart-shaped market that said to thine own self be true. And I shivered as a watch to roach crawl across the toe of my high-heeled shoe. It sounded like somebody else that was talking, asking, Mama, what do I do? She said, just being nice to the gentleman fancy, they'll be nice to you. Here's your one-chance fancy, don't let me down. Here's your one-chance fancy, don't let me down. Lord, forgive me for what I'm. do but if you are now well it's up to you and don't let me down now your mom's

gonna move you up town that was the last time I saw mamma the night I left that rickety shack the welfare people came and took the baby mama died and I hanged in bed but the wheels of fate had started to turn and for me there was no way out. It wasn't very long till I knew exactly what my mom had been talking about. I knew what I had to do, but I made myself this solemn vow. Said I was going to be ladies someday, though it didn't matter when or how. I couldn't see spending the rest of my life with my head held down in shame. You know I might have been born just plain white trash, but fancy was my name. Here's Is your one chance fancy don't let me down?

Is your one chance fancy don't let me down? It wasn't long after a benevolent man took me in off the street. One week later I was pouring his tea in a five-room hotel suite. I charmed a king, a congressman, and the occasional aristocrat. I got me a Georgia mansion and an elegant New York townhouse flat and I ain't done there Now in this life there's a lot of self-righteous hypocrites I call me bad And criticize Mama for turning me out no matter how little we had

And though I ain't had to worry about not for now on 15 years. I can still hear the desperation in my poor mama's voice ringing in my ears. Here's your one chance fancy don't let me down. Here's your one chance fancy don't let me down. Lord, forgive me for what I do, but if you are now, it's up to you and don't let me down now your mama's gonna move you uptown. Listen

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