The Morning Stream - TMS 2169: Battery Paranoid

Episode Date: September 7, 2021

Cultivated Beard Unit. Kim Gets Thanked, Scott Gets Flipped Off! Found Unconscious In Shrubs... TV's Three Beards! Homeless Contactless Delivery. The Metabolism Of A Mosquito On Speed. The Sheep Is Judging You HARSHLY! The Dog Licked me. Now I have Pink Eye. Sand and Weed. Don't Epoxy That Floppy! I don't want your swampy butt. Jury Duty 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, cultivated beard unit. Kim gets thanked, Scott gets flipped off. Found unconscious in shrubs. TV's three beards. Homeless, contactless delivery. The metabolism of a mosquito on speed. The sheep is judging you harshly. The dog licked me.

Now I have pink eye. Yeah, you do. Sand and weed. Don't epoxy that floppy. I don't want your swampy butt. Jury duty and more on this episode of The Morning Stream. Now let's take a look at how to open web pages directly. is if we already know their addresses.

First, we type H-T-T-P-Colon double-slash. I chance to fall in love with an earth woman. Hey, everybody. Welcome back to TMS. It is Tuesday, September 7th, 2021. I am Scott Johnson, and I'm joined today by a guest host. Yeah, that's right. Former ANTP contestant and a man with three beards. Welcome to the show. Travis Crawford. TV's Travis. Welcome to the show. Well, thank you for having me. This is really fun. Yeah, I'm really glad you reached out because I was like, all right, who am I lining up for next week? I hate planning. I hate organizing. Like, hey, just letting you know if you're around, you know, I'm around. I'm like, oh, no, this is good. Let's fill a hole. Let's do this. It's perfect.

It was perfect timing. I 100% feel you on the planning thing. Every time I'm booking for my, for my show, I'm always like, oh, oh, I don't want to do this. You know, nobody's going to want to say yes, none of that. And then suddenly I have like two months straight where I have guests lined up for every week. Yeah. Well, that was stupidly easy. Yeah.

I love stupid easy. And here's the thing. It's pretty funny. And nobody saw this because my camera was off of the time. time we were just showing the title card camera like this see this uh right as i was starting the music was playing i feel a light touch on my back and the music's going and i think we're hearing this internet guy now let's take a look at how to that guy right and i feel this touch and i turn around and it's my wife and she says she whispers am i supposed to be co-hosting today she says and i didn't i have

nothing to say except uh no go you know i don't know what to say like no i'm good i got this see this guy with Beard, he's here. We're good. We'll see you later. So now I've got to let Kim know I screw. I think I probably screwed up and didn't tell her what was going on today. But you're welcome here. And I'm glad you're here. And I'm glad we can hang out today. So thanks for being a part of the show, man. Well, thank you for having me. This is a lot of fun for me. Well, the best I can tell, if it's having a good time in Ireland, he spent some time with Claire Gack and got some sort of weird looking drinks and things and been traveling up and down some kind of coastal business looking at stuff like you do if you go there and it all looks

fun so yeah he's he seems to be doing good he doesn't get home until let's see today's the seventh the tenth so he'll be home friday so this whole week we got we got guest host man we got you today uh tomorrow we got i forgot who oh garrett winesurple will be joining us on on wednesday and then uh thursday i think kim's back so uh yeah full a a cavalcade of stars really for the rest of the week's lineup. I mean, obviously the big get is Kim, right? Everybody loves Kim. Oh, everyone loves Kim.

Yeah. Look, she doesn't get, I get to get a bad review for my wife, which I don't know what that means, actually. It feels like I should get at least somebody saying, oh, it's nice and all. And we appreciate the nepotism, but, you know, maybe not have her on. You know, instead, it's like, she could probably take over and you could die and not do the show anymore. I have that happens.

Oh, I don't know about that. Yeah, maybe not that extreme. But, uh, we do what we can. I got to tell you a story. I would normally, this is a thing I would tell I bit in a heartbeat, but I'll tell you in a heartbeat. The dog, I think the dog, maybe the baby, gave me

pink eye again. Now you're going to say to yourselves, hold on here, Scott Johnson. I've heard you say a number of times on this show over the last couple years, dealing with that there pink eye. You sure it's not some kind of chronicy, pinky eye problem that'll go on forever. No, damn it. It's a recent event and it

happened again. And I think it was either from me, wrestling with the boy, and he got his finger in there it's possible because you know your hands in the face and giggling and goofing around and whatever that's how it goes or uh the dog licked my eye and that did happen the dog licked me got got kind of up my face this is the big uh wymer reiner giant dog and it and it went from like chin up to eyebrow and uh since then i've had this horrendous i don't know if the chat can see it you see how red it is there oh yeah yeah you got some redness going on there Yeah, it hurts like a mother effort.

That's the other thing, is right now it's like throbbing and it itches. I just want to take my hand and claw at it really hard. It's taking all I can. It's taking every bit of me to not scratch it. And I think that means it's healing. So that's good. And I'm taking these drops for it and all that stuff. But gosh, dang it, dude.

Could I not get Pink Eye again, please? Like, just one. That's true. It does feel like it's like every few, a couple times a year. At least. I tune in and you're talking about. pink eye usually from the dogs at least yeah now i will i will say this uh up front i don't think i ever had pink eye before uh van came onto the scene so that's why i think maybe it's the baby and

they're known for being little you know they just got the bacteria and they're just you know they're ready to give it and pass it around to everybody um yeah it's entirely possible that you know in the two years he's been on this planet um it's just increased my chances i don't know but all i know is i'm sick of it i would like it to go away and that'd be great if they could do that. It's not fun. I think I can remember having it like once.

Well, you don't want it. And it's horrible. Yeah, you don't want it. Here's the other thing that I learned. And I'm only bringing this up because you got a beard and it's a big one. People at home, you can't see this beard. Travis has got a beard, man.

Here's what I'm going to say about it. It looks like a fine, well-kempt, you know, cultivated beard unit you got there. do you put like you know oils in it and all that smear or what do you do anything uh i i do i do you know obviously shampoo and condition it regularly but i do uh every so often i have like beard balm or beard oil okay so you take care of your damn you take care of your damn beard is what you're saying and that's good i try to yeah yeah all right now i had a pretty thick one going there for a hot minute and i decided to shave it the other day and part of the reason i shaved it is because

i don't like taking care of it i don't like dealing with it i don't like dealing with with it or like is it gets out of control it's like well when i drink a glass of water and if any of that fur gets in the way it's like water goes all over the place uh i don't like when food gets in there you know like all these stupid things so i was like i'm just to shave it and let's just see what happens and it wasn't even that thick it's like one-tenth of what you're sporting but i shaved it anyway and i found under there like i don't even know what one of them was it was like a little a hunk of something right here that just kind of fell off

when I picked out it was like a big chunk of I don't know lasagna or who knows what and then over here it had like an ingrown that had turned into some kind of zit monster

and that thing was a nightmare and they were almost like exactly opposite of each other on both sides of my neck it was terrible like I don't know how you guys do it especially the ones like like I imagine if I go find

some dude living on the street okay and he's got one of those like 12 year beards you know and it's not taking care of it it isn't washing it and you know conditioning it and putting oil in it dude is putting you know nothing in it uh and it's sleeping on it and whatever if you went and shave that guy's beard i'm like what would we find in there we would find oh you would find you might find hafa in there i mean you get some of those because the beard gets going and if it gets knotted up if it gets tangled like and in some of it i think probably would

depend on how thick their beard comes in like my beard is thick enough i can hide pen in here. Yeah, you can. Look at that thing. And, you know, it's just now. Look at that. That's what happens. Nobody knows. You could walk into a bank and somebody could go, ah, my, where's my pen? Is anyone I have a pen? He'd go shling and say, here it is. I actually did that once. When I was working in a store, we had these little plastic pointer picks. Yeah. And I would, I stashed one in my beard and I was helping somebody. And I had to point at something on the screen on a, on a Mac. And so as I'm talking, I just, I just casually pulled this thing out, pointed at the thing and then stuck it back

in my beard. That's great. The reaction was worth it. I love that. Just get this confused look. Yeah. I would be a good place. And then I didn't even mention it again.

It would be a great place to keep my, my apple pencil. So I have this thing with my iPad. I'd drawn that a lot. And I don't mind. Okay, so it has the magnetic like charge, stick the pen to the side and it sits there and charges and stuff. Yeah.

But I don't like to have it on their full time. because I'm battery paranoid. I don't know if I've talked about this on the show before. No matter how good battery tech gets, and honestly it doesn't get that much better, we're sort of stuck in a weird place with batteries. Batteries haven't improved exponentially like chips and memory and everything else have.

And so even though lithium ion, blah, blah, all that stuff's got longer, better charges, less of the drain over time, but you still have so many uses and that sort of stuff. When I leave it on there all the time and it's just constantly charging, drawing from the battery that's in the iPad. I'm paranoid the whole time about how that pen is going to behave one day.

I don't want it in the same way. I don't want it to go. I don't want it to go bad. So I'm just like, gosh, freaking damn it. So I tell you, what I do is I take it off and just lay it somewhere else when I know it's fully charged. And I'll let it just kind of drain on its own. And then when it's time to charge it, sure, I'll stick it back on there for a bit and then take it off. I think I'm doing it the right way.

I'll probably find out later this was the wrong way and that I should have kept doing that you know yeah i who knows i mean there's basically two two types of people when it comes to batteries right it's the people that let the battery drain down to next to nothing where it's like moments from shutting off on you yeah or you are constantly charging you your phone is always on a charging pad or plugged in i i knew people that were like that and i can't i i am battery paranoid too because i'm i am old enough to remember when rechargeable batteries had the memory yeah yeah they were the worst and if you charged them wrong like one time you gave it like half the life that it's supposed to have or a quarter of the life

it's supposed to have and that's the worst so I know that's not going to be an issue now and I know I'm going to get way more uses out of the thing before I sell it and buy the newer model like I get it but it still it doesn't matter I get super cheap about it and lame about it and I'm weird and my kids they're the ones that are letting their phones go down dad can I use a cable why I forgot to charge my phone last night plus it's like at 0.3 percent yeah but also be normal and charge your damn phone is what i like to say to them in a response yeah yeah i mean i try to keep mine in the in that middle zone between like i don't you like to let it get too much below 15 percent usually yeah because that's the thing the 15 to 80

or 85 oh yeah chat room just said 85 is it yeah uh yeah 15 to 85 15 to 85 percent is where you want to try to try to be and i and i appreciate that new phones uh the the the the newer iPhones and the newer Android stuff, they do this thing overnight where they kind of try to keep it all there. Like they don't overcharge or undercharge. They just are like, hey, we're going to keep your phone real happy in here. And then by 6 a.m. We'll stop charging entirely because we know that's about when you're going to be up and that sort of thing. I like that.

But batteries on like notebooks, laptops, that kind of stuff, they still kind of suck. Batteries, man. F them. F batteries. What are we doing? Let's get better. We're good at everything. We're putting people in space now that we shouldn't.

Like rich people, can rich people figure out the battery situation first and then they can go to space? How about that? Yeah, no doubt. I mean, whoever invents the better battery is going to make so much money. That's right. And Zoe, I'll probably use your title today. F batteries. That's a good one.

All right. Also, speaking of homeless guys on the freeway, you know, the guys will hold up signs and they're sort of there to say, hey, I need a, you know, I'm on my heart of my luck. Looking for work. Yeah. Yeah, we always give those guys money because even if they're scamming, we don't care. We're like, you know what, I've got a buck in the car. You know, I don't know one way or the other if the guy's scamming, and it doesn't matter. I see, it looks like he's in need.

We're going to give him some money. And my wife in particular is very good at this. So we'll see somebody like that. We're at the park spot anyway. He's standing there. Easy peasy. Reach out the window, hand it to him. They're always like, God bless you, God bless you.

take the money and you hope the best for them and you know you're not doing anything to really take them off the streets but you're just a little teeny bit right it's a bit so it's something so we do that and uh we did this one we pull up and sure enough we get up to the thing roll down the window he lurches forward a little bit Kim gives him some money I think he had a hat or something that he's just taking it in he's not like he's doing contactless delivery for for stuff during COVID. That is the most 20-21 thing possible. It is, right?

Even the homeless are adhering to certain guidelines. But anyway, so he reaches out and grabs it and does his thank yous. And then as he's pulling away and as Kim is looking down at her purse to like button it up and put it back over here on the floor where I am, I'm not on the floor, but on my side on the floor. He looks at me kind of up, look his eyes like this. and throws me the bird he gives me the bird so he gives me the bird and now we're pulling away and i went that guy just gave me the bird and you know she's like what are you kidding me like what are you talking about i got flipped off by this guy and i don't know why is it because i didn't also give him

whatever change i had was it because was he making a wink and a smile about ah just got your money sucker or something like that like i don't know what happened i don't know how to take it that's that's so weird because you did the thing he's asking you to do and you still get flipped off for it. Yeah. Yeah. And he didn't like go up and like scratch himself with a middle finger or anything like that. He grinned and went like that. I don't know what to make of it. I don't. I'm not sure either. I'm going to go with option B that he's just he's not actually homeless and he just screwed you out of some money. And he's like, ha ha, got you. It does feel like it. I hate to feel that way, but I feel that way. It's how it feels. But you're not going to. You're not going to

stop me, a random guy. I'm going to still give money to the people. The ones that have a baby with them, that's either a really great prop or they're really in desperate need. And it works on me every time. Like, if I got a 20, I'm tempted to give it to you because I can't, I can't have the kids in the trouble. You can't have the kids in the danger. You know, so if you, but if one of those people flip me off, I would start questioning everything in my life, all of it. Oh, definitely. You know what I mean? I don't run into that a whole lot because my town is fairly small. So we have a homeless population, but they're not a lot of pain handling going on.

So I don't see it too long. We're lower here than most cities are size, I think, because in the winter it gets really cold. And same there, I guess. And nobody wants to be homeless in the really cold. So they all gravitate to the West Coast. And everyone is always like, what's going on with San Francisco and L.A.? Why are their homeless? why is the homeless problem they're so out of control right now well you could go real deep

onto all the societal reasons why homelessness is increasing blah blah blah but at the end of the day a practical kind of like right now why answer to that question is it's warm there all year you know they don't have to they don't have to and they're not cooking in Vegas so they're not cooking in in Phoenix they go where you know the weather's okay and that sort of thing yep yeah we have a homeless shelter here that that runs like six months out of the year when it gets cold during the summer they they don't usually run or they're much more limited capacity but yeah because it gets you know negative negative temperatures here claire says it's ridiculous i'm telling you man think about it for a second i'm not saying it's the cause of homelessness i'm saying if you are homeless

all right let's say i'm homeless let's just for a minute say that uh i would want to go where the weather's good so that I'm not freezing on the street or over overly hot on the street. Like, why, of course you'd want that, right? Isn't it the same reason that it's so expensive to go to, I don't know, it's expensive to go to those coastal areas and live there? Like, buying a place in Southern California is very expensive. Well, why? Because it's warmly here.

Because it's desirable. Yeah. It's a desirable place to live. Right. And if climate change has its way, we'll become a tropical paradise here in Salt Lake City, and then you're all coming. Oh, man. Looking for it. That's what you want is more people from California coming.

That's right. But you're in this small, you're in a cool small town. You guys don't have the Flint water problem, which is still going on somehow. I don't get it. I don't understand. What's going on? What's going on with Flint? What's happening?

What's happening there? I wish I knew. I try to avoid thinking about Flint because it just bothers me so much that they can't get that sorted out. And for so long. Yeah. It's been like what since 2012 or something? Yeah, forever. Like the last decade. I don't understand. Anyway, good luck to them. Don't drink the water. And we're going to do the news now. So enjoy this, everybody. Packing your brains and get ready because we're about to inform you about what's happening in the world. This is the info we've been waiting for. Today's news is brought to you by a show TV's Travis does. And I'd like him to tell everybody about it. I've been on this show. And I'll just say this is a hint before you explain to me what the show is. let's just say that there's people out there that haven't seen something amazing. One of your friends somewhere out there has never seen Star Wars, for example.

And you just can't believe it. Oh my gosh, are you kidding me? You haven't seen Star Wars? Tell people about your show and why this can solve their problem. So the show is called Wait, You Haven't Seen. And I love to talk about movies with people. And I like showing people new movies or getting to see something that maybe I missed. And so that's why I started the show.

And it's all about talking about I pick a movie every one. week and my guest usually the guest is the one that hasn't seen it but sometimes my guest likes to bring me a movie that i've never seen before um and we just talk about it and it's been great i just did uh recorded episode 130 on sunday with joe hood we talked about donnie darko you'd never seen it oh it's somehow gone 20 years without seeing that movie i've uh now i've also gone 20 years without seeing all of it i've seen pieces of it never the whole thing so i would be one i'd be like him yeah yeah and it was a ton of fun i have a great time doing it, and I love the breadth of movies that I get to cover because it can be

something weird like Donnie Darko or Mandy was another one that I've done recently. Every August I do all Nicholas Cage movies. Oh, very nice. That's what a fantastic tradition to uphold. That's great. I love that. Yeah, and for no reason because his birthday isn't in August. There's nothing special about it. It's just like, August, sure, let's do Nick Cage. And it's been that way for three years now. Three years running. It's all Cage all the time. Yeah. That's, that's, awesome. Did you see that pig thing he's in? The new, the new pig? I saw that. Actually, that is already on the list for next August. I keep hearing. It's great. I got to see pig. I want to see it. Yeah, I hear it's really, really good. Like, like legitimately a good movie and a good

performance. Yeah. And that's the thing with Cage is he can be. Oh, he totally can. That's the weird thing. What a weird career. Like, that guy can go, you know, on a run of like Oscar nominations to just garbage and then backed up really good stuff again and then garbage again and then some action hero stuff that everyone just popcorn's into and loves and then garbage and then you know and you keep hearing stories like oh he has to pay for his comic book addiction so that's why he does these bad roles is to pay for these million dollar comics he buys and you know all these weird stories but at the end of the day like he just doesn't say no that's the thing he just likes to do different stuff. And sometimes it works and sometimes it's, you know, Willie's Wonderland. I think I,

I think I respect it. Currently, I'm Rotten Tomatoes. Pig is at 97% fresh, which is a very rare number. That is impressive. That's higher. So yeah. Anything else right now. So, wow. Yeah. I just, I just love to talk about movies and I can do it all the time. So I've been doing it for episode 130. I have done 130 straight episodes weekly. I haven't missed one yet. Good Lord. You're committed. that's a non-fading podcast right there well done no i'm crazy is what it is at this point though i feel like a podcasting shark like if i stop i'll just die so i have to keep going uh yeah you do you start doing 20 years of this or close to oh my gosh i can't believe i'm close to 20 years on this but when you get close to 20 years of some form of podcasting you start giving yourself a few days

off you kind of have to or else you're gonna die well yeah i do you know two maybe three shows a week you're doing what a half a dozen shows there's a big difference there sometimes eight I realized that's a lot that's a lot of content maybe too much one would say anyway hey that's awesome

check out his show it's really good all right let's talk about the origins of Oakland's enormous 15 inch super burrito yeah yeah that's right you may not have heard this in the news I hadn't but I did find this story and I thought it was amusing

uh they've been trying to attempt uh chronicle in fact has been trying to attempt, not the film, but the news source, has been trying to uncover the origins of Oakland Super Burrito. This is roughly a 15-inch, two-pound beast of a burrito. It requires two full tortillas to contain its bounty. Sadly, the source of the trend remains a mystery while International Boulevard vets tacos Cineola. I don't know if that means Cineola says. Owner Guadalupe Bueno was the first to serve the gigantic burrito from his truck. around the turn of the millennium, so like 2000. Other site neighborhood business Casas Jimenez as the originator of the trend. Still others say Lake Merit Truck Tacos Me Rancho started the whole thing about a decade ago. But here's the thing. Nobody knows the origin of the giant 15 inch burrito.

And it's in the news again because people are buying these a lot more and staying home due to the rise of the Delta variant. and pandemic stuff. And so I really do want to ask Jerry, who lived in Oakland for a long time, did he ever get one of these mysterious 15-inch multi-pound burritos? I don't know. I mean... Would you eat that? I have eaten something similar to that.

We have a restaurant here in town that had their big burrito was called The Big Juan. And it was... And it was... It was the type of, it was one of those, you know, eat this in one sitting, you get your meal for free and your picture on the wall type, type deals. Yeah, you ever do that? Because it was. Is that the thing you've ever done? I did do the big one.

And that's the only one of those I've ever done. Spend a week on the shitter? How'd that go for it? It wasn't great. I did, however, when I was in high school, I worked at a sub shop called Mr. Goodsense. It was kind of a mini chain, but it was a very subway style place. Okay. And I'm 16 years old, and I'm a track and cross-country athlete at the time.

So, like, you know, I have the metabolism of a mosquito on speed. Yeah, heck yeah. And we, the sandwiches we made were the bread was 16 inches instead of 12. Oh, my Lord. And I made, I had them make me a sandwich that we weighed before I put, like, lettuce and onions and anything else on it. And it weighed about three pounds. Wow. Wow.

And then I ate it. the store before I left. I didn't have a car at the time. So my mom comes, picks me up. And it took an hour and a half to get home. I don't remember any of the drive because I fell asleep in the pack of the car. That's great. All the blood rushed to my stomach to digest this 15 or this three and a half pound sandwich. That's a heavy sandwich. That's a lot of food. It was insane. It was, it was all salami, pepperoni, capacola. So it was all cured. Cured Italian meats in like five different cheeses. So when you were a track athlete, did you have, did you have the beard then or no? Was there no beard? No. Boy, I want to see pictures of this. I got to see this. This is

something I want to see. I will look for it because I definitely am about half the size I am now and no beard. There's two of you and no beard. Fantastic. Yes. Well, anyway, there's still no answer on this burrito. So if you're in Oakland and you have an idea where the 15 inch burrito trend came from reported I don't know but definitely got to ask Jerry about it Yeah he'll he may know we will bring this up today We'll bring this up today when he comes on It'll be a nice little intro to get

You know So soften us up for the big political bomb he's going to drop on us So there we go good yeah good idea A gergerat man I don't know where this is this is this is Hold on Gujarat maybe Is it Gujarat

Where is this? What country is this in I can't find, I think it's India. Not 100% sure. Anyway, he died after using adhesive instead of a condom. Or a condom, as others would say. You know the little rubber thing. You put it on your ding-dong so you don't get the pregnancy. You know what I'm talking about?

You know the one? Oh, yeah. In a bizarre accident, a 25-year-old man allegedly died after putting epoxy adhesive instead of a condom on himself during intercourse. That's, you know, coitus. we get the pedro goes down to virginia if you know what i'm saying just trying to help those at home and maybe don't know what we're talking about right yeah painting a picture yeah painting a visual an image for all those to understand

uh salman mirza a resident of fate wadi um my badda bad nailed it gosh dang it stuck the landing these are so bad for me um anyway checked into a hotel with his former fiance in june 22nd this a little bit ago. As the couple was not carrying protection, they decided to use a strong adhesive to seal off his privates during the intercourse to avoid pregnancy, which became the cause of his death. Oh, yeah, that's right, he died. He was found unconscious in shrubs near the hotel. I should laugh at this man's poor death, but I can't help but laugh. I don't know why. It's funny to find him in the shrubs. Anyway, it says he was found in the shrubs near the hotel. tell. His friend, Faraz Shaqee, found him and brought him home. Following this, he was admitted

to a hospital where his condition deteriorated, and then he died. The viscera samples of the deceased had been sent for forensic examination. They're waiting for a report. I'm sure they'll find out that it was because he poisoned. It basically poisoned him, right? Like, you can't, you can't put in glue. Vicerous samples was my cannibal corpse cover band in high school. I was hoping you say meat puppets, but that'll work. It'll totally. Ooh, I like yours better. Why do they say viscera samples? Can you just say tissue samples?

What are you doing over there? No doubt. Vicerous samples. This is horrific. What is this a horror movie, a video game? What's going on? I mean, long story short, don't cover your ding-dong in epoxy. That's not a good idea.

Yeah, 100% the lesson here is don't put your ding-dong in the epoxy. Speaking of scary video games, what was that game we were playing that was real fun and it had ghosts in the house and stuff? What's that called? Phasmophobia? Yeah, phasmophobia. We got to get back in there. I hear there's some crazy new shiz going on.

Oh, yeah. Yep. They have updated some things and, uh, oof, boy, it was something else. Is it harder? Is it harder? Is it harder? Like, what's the, what do they do to it? It was a little bit harder in that we weren't getting as much evidence it didn't feel

like, but it was also quite a bit creepier. The, the audio they've improved. So things like the spirit box where the, where you have the little radio and then it talks to you. that's creepier now. Okay, great. Well, that sounds like they're making real progress.

I'll play it with you guys, but you might be the only people I'll play it with because freaking forget that. That's fair. I don't want to do that to myself. That game is scary as hell already. It's already. I know.

And if I wasn't with friends, you know, who're all laughing and having a good time, I can't play that. I wouldn't play that game. Not a chance. And those lights, when they start flashing,

that means that someone's after you? Oh, yeah. Oh, it's, they improve that too. so there's like lighting stuff that they changed and and oh it's it's fun but it's also it creep me out like all hell i played it with alex uh recently right after the update and i was like yep okay well not sleeping the night yeah here's my impression of Alex when he plays those games okay because he's got everybody else who's actually scared and dying Alex is going i don't hear anything nothing's wrong and then he winks at his camera everything's fine everything's good and then something terrible will

happen. And Alex, I think it's the funniest thing he ever saw. Oh, yeah. Yeah. That's Alex. He's definitely evil when he plays those games. Yeah, for sure. He's the, he's the, he's the scariest part of them. All right. So condom. Yeah, don't, uh, don't, uh, do that. Get a regular condom is what I'm saying. Okay, folks. Right. I don't know who in there, who is in, in what scenario would your brain have to be in for you to go,

uh, man, we really need protection. I guess I'll, I'll, I guess I just will use this glue that I have. I mean, I have heard of some unique ways of getting protection, usually involving sandwich baggies and rubber bands. But never like the thought of, you know, I'm just going to take some of this glue and kind of smear it over and that'll take care of the problem. What kind of a shit night are you having if it's elastic bands and a baggie? Oh my gosh, that's horrible.

I mean, I guess you get by with what you get by with, but man, that's, that's bad. What did they use back in the day? Like in the, I don't know, 1800s, like sheep's guts or something? What was the deal? Yeah. Yeah, it was, I mean, you know, it's what's used for a lot of different stuff. But yeah, it was definitely like sheep intestines, I think. Really?

Yeah. Or something derived from that, at least. If there's a heaven, if there's a heaven, do you think you go up there and there's sheep sitting there just tapping its foot and you're like hey what's up and they're like yeah you killed me to use my guts as a condom do you remember you know you know what I mean you got to be held to account man yeah yeah there's a sheep up there and he's judging you partially and then goes right in your face all right there's a there's a cartoon for you right there's something I could draw I'll get on that yeah all right uh all right let's get to this uh woman in the

airport this is pretty great uh a woman struts through the airport in nothing but a bikini and a mask. Although the headlines says mask, but it's mask. This is an unidentified blonde woman walking through an airport in only the bikini and mask. And it went viral because that's what videos do on the internet. Video shows the woman starting through the airport terminal with an olive bikini and backpack. Despite her lack of clothing, the passenger was still wearing a mask according to the Federal Aviation Administration Guidelines. Transportation Security Administration announced last month it finds up to 1,500,

would be given to passengers who violate the mask mandate. By the way, I just want to give a shout out to flight attendants. I think that they already had kind of a shit job when it came to dealing with some of the worst people that you can have to deal with. And you're dealing with them at 30,000 feet. And it's already hard. And you already deserve a raise and all of that. I can't imagine now what this is like. trying to enforce those rules

and every other row even people who are just like a little claustrophobic who are just like pulling their masks down or whatever like this must be really hard to enforce and I feel bad because you're going to have some idiot who drank too much at the mini bar before getting on the flight or

you're going to have somebody else you know just who's just completely belligerent or whatever and you're going to have this huge fight and you're not getting that $5,900 fine that's going to the airline or I guess it's going to the F, F, A, A, yeah. I always say FEC, which is wrong.

That's the, wait, what's FEC? There is no FEC. I don't know if there's an FEC. There's FTC. FTC is what I'm thinking of, which is the Federal Trade Commission, right? Right. Yeah. Why do I do that?

Why can't I get my F names? My F acronyms, correct. What's going on with that? It's an alphabet soup. Who knows? FEC or does a federal trade, federal aviation. Oh, federal election commission is the FECC. that does exist oh okay there you go okay well fb i don't know once once that talk gets started i just go

right back to good morning vietnam oh yeah you should do that because you know the vp is such a vipe we should keep his pc and the qt that movie's great it is phenomenal that movie holds up dude i'm gonna watch that movie there's nothing wrong with that movie nothing wrong with it at all except that it reminds you that uh oh what's his name i love that actor who died too early uh he was on city slickers too. What's his name? Bruno Kirby. Bruno Kirby. That guy died way too soon.

He should still be around. Oh, he's so good in that movie, too. Not Robin Williams, you guys. I know Robin Williams' name and I know that he died. That's not who I meant. Who's that guy who is in that movie? Come on now. Give me some credit.

I did not forget Robin Williams. All right. Anyway, so this lady's doing this. viral Instagram post to the Humans of Spirit Airlines account that must be a really good follow Capture the spectacle accruing 10,000 views in less than a day

That's not really that many This news site The Yahoo.com news article thinks that's a lot But it's Yahoo, so what do they know? The account post videos poking fun at airline passengers Often joking that the scenarios are often occurring On Spirit Airlines Sometimes known as the ultra low-cost

Carrier, according to the New York Post. Quote, when you have a pool party at noon and a Spirit Airlines flight to catch at 4 p.m., the video's caption reads. Let's see if we can see it, actually. I don't know if it's... I mean, she's not violating the no-shirt. If she had flip-flops on, she's got a shirt, shoes, and a mask. Yeah, a top constitutes a shirt, right?

Yep. I would assume. Original author, where... I'm trying to find the... I hate y'all. I know. It's really horrendous. And also, I can't find the original video, which is pissing me off. No, because they never post them. That's the worst thing. It'll come up in my news feed, and I'll see it's a Yahoo News story where they're referencing an Instagram or a TikTok or a Twitter video or something. And then you scroll through the whole thing, and it's never there. All I want to see is the original thing you're referencing.

Yep. I agree. It's really annoying. But there she is. She's walking through. She really, she looks like she's legitimately just going to go. She's going through her paperwork. She's got her back. backpack. He's got a purse. She got a dude that's walking a little too close to her, if you know what I'm saying. A little bit. Yeah. I mean, yeah, it does look like she had her pool party at noon. She didn't, you know, probably all that's in the backpack is a towel. Yeah. I'm fine with it. She's ready to go. I would have thought maybe she was making, maybe she is making a statement. It's just her saying, well, if I'm going to have to wear the mask, I'm going to wear the least possible other stuff that is of the rules that I have to wear. I don't. I don't know.

We are living in the times where everybody gets to question every damn thing we're doing, you know? Right. Yeah. It's probably good in the long run, but in the short term, it's going to annoy everybody. Also true. Yeah. A Shojo, it is Spirit Airlines. You are correct.

I don't want to sit in the same seat as she sat in for several hours. No, that's true. I don't. I already want to, like, wipe down any seats that anybody's been sitting in. Right. But you don't want her, her swampy butt. from her pool sitting all day. You know what I mean?

Nope. Not at all. She's been on the beach. She's got a, you got like sand and all kind of like weed in there. Oh, no. Yeah. That's no good. Yep. No, not good.

All right. Let's move on from her to this story. I love this one. All right. A man tried to smuggle $34,000 worth of cocaine under his toupee. And this I do have photos from. So y'all are going to see this because this is great. freaking hear this.

It's got to be a hell of a toupee. Well, there's... Although I don't know how much $34,000 worth of cocaine is anymore. I don't either. It seems low, doesn't it? Oh, that, uh, never mind. That's not a very good toupee. No, it's really bad. You can see, so in the left photo, the toupee's off and they're exposing the bubbled up bag of hooch he's gotten there.

But in the other shot, he's wearing the toupee and it's out of control. It's like a whole other animal or whatever on that guy. Do you think it was one of those? where he put it on and all he saw was from the front. He looked straight on in the mirror. He was like, awesome. It's perfect. No one will ever know.

Awesome. Was his first thought. He looks like that guy. He didn't bother to get a profile shot and realize that, no, it just looks like there's a ferret sitting on your head. Who's the, there's a radio, there's some radio guys. I think they're radio guys. Maybe they're just comedians, but the TikTok channel that they run is really popular. And all he does is do these, these like,

sayings of like can't fix your car throw a wrench against the wall be a man and that's the whole thing oh I have seen that so he's be a man he says at the end of everything

and so it's always dumb stuff like don't know how to change a diaper don't be a man you know some dumb thing like that they're making fun of like overly masculine whatever this looks like that guy

and unless you've seen that guy you don't know what I'm talking about but I think that looks like that guy. I've only caught one or two of those, but I know which one you're talking about. And yeah, I can see it. Yeah, there's something there. Anyway, yeah, chat says,

I think he wanted to go to prison. Thor says, yeah, I don't, I feel like, I feel like this is just about the worst possible cover up for your, your cocaine moving that I've ever seen. Yeah, not even, not even really trying. No. Just like, no, I want to get caught.

This will get me caught. Here we go. You almost have been better off, just with that. that bubblehead thing on the first shot. Or at least have the toupee be like a man bun, right? Like a top knot or something. Get a full samurai thing going.

Yeah. No one would know and you'd be all right. So this is a Colombian guy. It was detained in Barcelona. Bartholona. That's how they say it over there. After he reported, or reportedly rather tried to smuggle about 34 grand worth of cocaine under a poorly fitted toupee.

Police said the man caught the attention of authorities when he arrived in a flight from Bogota. to, or on June 18th, and appeared nervous. Really? I feel like that. No one will know. Don't make eye contact. Don't make eye contact. Let's see.

Officers had the man remove his wig and found a package stuck to his head that had the cocaine in there. It says, quote, there is no limit to the inventiveness of drug traffickers trying to mock controls, said Spanish National Police in a statement. Mock controls. That's a weird translation, I'll bet, is what that is. It is. Yeah. The statement included a photo of a middle-aged man in a wig and his eyes blocked out. The police gave no more details regarding his identity. The man was charged with public health violation.

It is unclear if he is still in police custody or if he was sent back to his country of origin. I think he may not actually be bald. They may have shaved that down to then make this happen. You know what I'm saying? He's got some good stuff there from what I can. I don't know, but he left a lot of the front part of his head, like, empty of cocaine. Sflatten that thing out, contoured a little bit more. Five more minutes a time.

Or hire Travis Crawford, who's got beard room to spare. Because look at your beard. You know how much coke we can fit in that beard? Holy shit. Well, based on the size of the package in that picture, I'm guessing at least $15,000 with a cocaine. cocaine what would happen if we just legalized all drugs would they would we just suddenly not have these stories anymore that'd be the end of it right everybody would just go all right well i don't have to smuggle it anymore now it's just a thing i can buy at a at a walgreens yeah we'd

lose all the smuggling stories we'd just get a whole lot of other stories probably i guess so there's no i mean there's no shortage of of bad human stories i was just thinking yesterday like this hit me i don't i'm not to turn all philosophical on the show or anything this early in the show but it struck me yesterday that I don't think human beings at their current state of intellectual evolution, if you will, for lack of a better way of explaining it. I don't think we should be expected to be capable of hearing all the opinions we are capable of hearing at once about anything at any time at any point. the day. And by that, I mean, like, if I tune in to, I don't know, let's just say it's a, let's say it's a tweet. The tweet is something controversial or late breaking news or some kind of something big. And you go read it. And then if you read the comments or you read the replies or you go

to the article and read the comments, you're presented with the concept that human beings have never had to deal with before, which is, I've heard the news part of it, that we can do. We can do. We've been doing that for centuries. But not only that, now I'm hearing from three, four hundred people I've never met and will never meet. And I'm having to hear what they have to say. I guess you don't have to. You can not read them. But they're all there to say their peace.

And they range from people who have no idea what they're talking about to some people who maybe do know what they're talking about to other people talking about something totally different. Other people trying to hijack the conversation and say, look at my soundcloud or whatever. like there's this blast of stuff and I don't think we're I don't think we're geared for it I don't think we're supposed to do that I think it can cause us to lose our freaking minds if we try is what I'm saying oh absolutely plus it's also the unfiltered nature of it right it's the fact that everybody can reply and a lot of people that will reply are doing so in a forum in a format where there is very little repercussion to what they have to say because they don't have to say it directly in front of another person. Right. I mean, that's a big thing on the internet anyway. It's just you can say all sorts of stuff that you never say to that person directly

to their face. Sure. Because you have the protection of anonymity and you have the protection of being thousands of miles away sometimes. Well, even if they were, even if everybody was being super earnest and on the ball and like not that, you know, we're not, we're not bad actors in the situation.

Even then, it feels like it's just too much. It's too much. Like, it's too much to, who said, Drenched Wildfire in the chat says, the stems from the idiotic philosophy that everyone's opinion is equally valid. Yes. I mean, I, that's a big part of it. I think that's kind of true, but, and maybe it is, maybe, maybe it's true that they are equally valid, but can it also be true that I don't need to hear them all? You know what I mean? Like, it's not just that they're, I'm not saying that what people are saying is dumb or they haven't

it through or anything like that. I mean, in some cases, it's obvious. But if everybody did all their due diligence and it was 100% well thought out and everything else, great. But I can't contain all of your nuances. I can't do it. My brain's not capable of doing it. All my brain can do is be overwhelmed by it or glom on to one or two of the arguments that I agree with or glom on to one or two that I'm really mad at and want to fight. Or, you know, take your pick. It's, it's, you end up having to, you have to go micro, some at some point if you're going to engage and we're meant we are better meant for micro than we ever are for macro is my is my philosophical take so how do you feel about that how does that land

on you no i get what i actually think that that's probably pretty close to it where everybody can have a voice and i think that everybody having an opinion is not a bad thing on its own i think the problem is that if you are trying to have a conversation you can't have a conversation with 500 people at once. Right. In that situation, you are disseminating information. And then from there, you can get, you know, you can get responses, but you're not going to be able to respond to everything all at once at the same time.

You need to be able to break those down into smaller conversations. And that's the tough part about, you know, if somebody puts a tweet up, then it's just, it's just a free for all underneath that. And there's no, there's the definition of due diligence is going to depend on who you are. That's the other thing is nobody's adhering to the same structure or rules. when it comes to discussing these things or researching them or understanding them. Everybody's got a different perspective,

different point of view. Like, it's just, I guess what I'm saying is, I don't know why we do this to ourselves. You know what I mean? Like, that's what I've started to do. A good part of that is we define a lot of things by suffering.

And so we just want conflict. That's true. There's a lot of people that just want conflict. I think that's, I think there's something to that. But also, okay, so in the last, I don't know, week,

I have decided I post to social media, but I think I'm done reading it. And by that I mean, you know, I'll post stuff, questions, thoughts, comments, art, shows, whatever, stuff I put on online. But I stay in that column, meaning I've posted it, and now I'm having discussions and conversations with my followers, with people. And I can have those on a one-to-one basis because

those are pot it's possible there and it's it's a little bit like even at its worst it's like getting a lot of emails in your inbox and having to just kind of go through them but I like that interaction I like seeing how people feel what they're thinking what their thoughts are I don't like to go over to the other public column which is just spew and I'm trying to I don't know I'm trying to rely all that stuff is what I'm saying I don't know why I'm telling anyone this right now it's just been on my mind. No, I get it. I'm realigning all that because I got to.

I have to, man. I have to. Yeah. Yep. I'm with you on that, honestly. That's kind of how I look at a lot of things. Like, I want to have conversations. I want to engage with people.

But I'm going to, I just try to temper that engagement in situations where the engagement can actually happen and is useful instead of just yelling and screaming. Yeah. I used to feel guilty that if I didn't talk to everyone, trolls included, that I was somehow not at least giving it. whatever full effort I could give it. And I've now changed that thinking.

I want to be around people I like, and that's it. So if someone sucks, I block them without too much thinking anymore because what's the point? It's the same. I brought this up on the show before, but it's like robocalls or a dude at my door trying to sell me carpet cleaning services. I don't want you here, so why would I try to reason with you? there's no point to this so I'm just going to say no shut the door you're out of here in the case of robocalls hanging the effing phone up and uh in the case of Twitter or

anything else just say oh you're spewing BS goodbye I don't need to be why why would I want a reason with that person so yeah I'm done thinking that you have to talk to everybody I'm over it I'm over it um it's a it's a good place to be I'm with you on that absolutely life is short you don't I think all that time I spent trying to reason with somebody who sucks. What a waste. Well, that was a fun little detour that we took. Let's take a break. When we come back, Justin Robert Young will be here.

We're going to find out what that Texas law is actually doing and see if I should be as pissed as I am because I'm pretty pissed about that law. And I know a lot of people are. But, yeah, get ready for that. That'll be a fun conversation. That's coming up with Justin Robert Young, a current resident of the great stuff. of Texas. I say that with some trouble because I don't think it's as crazy as they think they are. Anyway, we'll get to that. That's all coming up right after this song. I've chosen a song today. So we split duty here a little bit. Travis actually got to pick our song or outro song today.

So we'll get to that eventually, but I'm really glad he picked the one he picked. And it inspired me to go find another cover to play in the mid show, preferably one with some cool female voices. like metal covers with female voices. I don't know why. I just big fan. Like stuff from the 80s, you get an awesome, like just amazing singing lady doing it. And it just blows my mind. So I found one of those. And it's called, here it is, it's Montley Cruise kickstart my heart. And it's covered by Halcyn Sertian and Zarifkaya. Zarif Secha. I don't know how you say that last name. But you can find this easily on YouTube and it's in various places like Spotify and Apple Music and whatnot. It's very, very cool. I used to love kickstart my heart when I was growing up and why not play it now. So we're going to do that now. When we come back, Justin Robert Young will be

here. Stay tuned. Hugged, hugged, high on speed, because I'm trying to try to me, my minding, because I'm trouble for me, my, my! Kikstar my heart Who's got the gloves coming under me Cause I billed back to 103 My heart Kikstar my heart

Who are you ready girls Who are you ready to know Oh yeah Kicks down my kid this time Whoa Yeah Baby Oh, yeah!

King's down I hope we never stop. Whoa, yeah! Baby, yeah. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah, my heart trying to make it from a narrow plane, overlanded with a body from outer space. My heart,

My heart, except my heart Said I got trouble trouble in my eyes And I'm just looking for another gun time My heart My heart My heart Yeah, how you're ready to go Yeah

How you're ready? No, no, no No Yeah Hexed my heart Get flat a start Whoa Yeah

Oh Yeah Cakes all our heart Hold my lover stops Whoa Yeah Baby Cake's up my heart

When we started this fan All we needed needed was a laugh He's gone by a day Where you can't some is When I'm in rage You're hitting the stage You're trying to think From it fell on veins

And say We're still kicking ice Settle Oh Kicks I'm a heart And I started

A pain We're dead I don't Death to rot Oh Yeah Kicks I'm like

Give it died Oh Yeah Upbb P Oh yeah I can't stop a heart Give it when it starts

Oh yeah You feel like a heart It never stop my heart hope it never stops Oh yeah Yeah Oh yeah Can you some like giving it a stick Oh yeah

Okay boys Let's run the hand I call this meeting I called this meeting to replace misinformation with cold hard fact. I wish to speak. What the hell is that? The morning stream. A little dabble do you?

And we're back. Again, that cover that we just played is Montley Cruise, Kickstart My Heart, covered by Halcyon, Sertian and Zaradiscakaya, or something to that effect. Is there at Sky Eye, I think? Yeah, I think that is correct. And yes, those watching live, we don't play songs live because YouTube and Twitch don't know that we have rights to play these things, but we do.

They'll be on the podcast, though. All right. Let's get Justin in here. See what's going on with him. All right. And, you know, he's probably got thoughts, feelings, concerns. Sure. Complaints.

I don't know. I don't know what he's doing. About to find out, though. Let's see here. Why won't he come up? There he is. All right. We'll add them to the show. We'll have some fun. We'll learn a few things along the way. That's the important thing. So here's this, everybody, right here. These are their stories.

Oh, I'm terrible with names. Oh, I am too, but not this guy's name. You know him, you love him. It's Justin Robert Young joining us once again from his Austin studios. Justin, welcome to the show. How are you? Oh, hello, friends. Always a pleasure. Hey, that was a jolly smile. You were sporting as you walked into the room here. I like that. Well, you know, whenever I'm on with you, with you boys, I'm always very excited and it's good to see a new face here. Yeah. He's got, I don't know if you can, well, you can't see it because it's on Zoom, but the, um, oh, I see the diamond. Oh, you see it back there? Okay. So part of the, well, how do you feel when your cult is getting a flogged like that when it's just, you know, out there and everybody can see it. How do you feel about that? It's a beautiful diamond. It's a beacon of hope. It is a beacon of hope.

That's certainly what that stands for. Hey, it's good to have you here. So there's a lot going on in your state. You're the great state of Texas, the Lone Star State. It isn't just cowboys and, you know, alimos and things. He was there opening the NFL season. Oh, right. This week it is the Cowboys.

Yeah, that's true. Anyway, you guys have all sorts of stuff going on down there politically, which isn't that unusual, actually, if you kind of go back in history. It's not like this is the first time. Texas has been controversial in some way when it comes to, you know, I don't know, going against the grain or kind of having their own ideas or, you know, it's long been the state that every once in a while somebody empowered that down there or somebody down there will start talking about seceding from the nation and having their own, having their own big country and whatnot. So, you know, no. It's not bad happened. It's been a while.

It's probably been. Well, by the way, Keith West did the same thing. Oh, did they? Yeah, the Concre Republic, Google it. All right, I'll look that up. But lately, they're back in the news because now they got issues. They got stuff that's been on the national stage and it's been a big deal. So the one thing that I haven't heard, I've heard plenty of defending it.

I've heard plenty of outrage to it. And I've heard lots of stuff in between. But I've yet to hear anybody. And probably because I don't, I don't know, listen to the right podcast or watch the right television shows. I've yet to have somebody just sort of say here's what's actually happening and here's why it's good or bad and just doing it in a more methodic sort of meticulous

sort of here it is kind of way and I was hoping maybe you could enlighten this if possible. You just want the like just the facts this is the law like that is there. Yeah like okay if I asked you if I said to you

hey isn't it true now that if I if I just suspect my neighbor's getting an abortion and I call it in. I get 10 grand. Like, is that accurate? Can I do that? More so than you could before. So here, let me let me, let me just lay out the law and then I guess we can go questions from there. So the law as it stands now, which was put into play by the Texas state legislature and then signed in by Governor Greg Abbott effectively bans abortions past six weeks. Here's the big difference between this law and other abortion laws. This does not make it illegal to the point where the police need to stand out front of an abortion clinic and

check everybody's pregnancy test dates, right? It effectively makes it legal to sue somebody who is either getting an abortion or aiding an abortion past that window to the two. of around $10,000. Now, that is making the enforcement mechanism on the citizenry and not the government. So that is, for legal reasons, and this gets into how the Supreme Court interacted with it, an important distinction. It's not the government saying this is a thing. It is the government saying, this is now the law, but we're not enforcing it, you, the

citizens are enforcing it. Okay. Is that how they, is that the loophole that got, okay, so let me, from my own perspective, when I heard about the Supreme Court going, uh, yeah, we're, we're going to just go and let that one go because, you know, they, they can do it or whatever. And it had its dissent, obviously, including Roberts, siding with the liberals on it, um, which I guess is kind of unusual, right? He doesn't, he's not known for that.

Uh, he has been more, more, more so, uh, over the last five. years. He has in big cases wound up siding with the liberals, including most notably previous to that on Obamacare. Oh, that's right. Okay. Well, so that guy siding with them still wasn't enough. They had the advantage of more numbers who were like, let it let it go. And it's easy to just as soon as you hear that go, well, that's what you get. Now we got Amy Conan Barrett and that other beer guy and the other dude, Gorsuch, they're in there now. So this is the thing this is what happens when you lose control of the supreme court or whatever and i guess effectively that's true because had it been a majority uh you know the majority been liberal judges

they would have gone the other way i have to assume i don't actually know like if if if ruth bader ginsberg uh had been alive almost assuredly this law would have been stayed like many other abortion laws had. The difference is that the conservative justices basically made the distinction that at the moment that that law would go into effect or had gone into effect by the time that they released their written rulings on it, that no rights had been violated at that point. So effectively, they could not, if they were staying a law that just said, okay, abortion's illegal past this time, and if we get wind that somebody's having an abortion past a certain

window, then we're going to deploy the police and they're going to shut that place down because now you're violating a law at the point, according to the conservative justices, that is an immediate denial of rights. The Texas law is slightly legally trickier, and even the liberal justices say that this is the case and we'll get into where they differ in a second. But at the point that they would have stayed the law, they didn't have a target for which was already denied. Now,

what the liberal justices were saying, because nobody, let me go back to the conservative side, because nobody had yet been sued for $10,000. Right. Right. The liberal justices made the argument that this is deliberately

legally tricky. It just gets you back to the same point anyway. And, that there is an active chilling effect in this law that while it is not outright denying somebody's rights, a lot of these abortion clinics in Texas now stopped taking any appointments with anybody that they suspected had a pregnancy that was past six weeks, so that they did have an immediate harm and they should have stated. Oh, interesting.

That is how I understand. Again, I am not a legal expert. I am out of my depth on so many different versions. of this story. But that is how I understand it. Okay. So the knock on effect is the one thing I'm curious about. Because they found a kind of weird loophole that actually works from a legal standpoint in terms of whether the court stop it or not, it would seem that a lot of like-minded states or legislatures... Let me make this clear before we... Yeah. People might get confused. The Supreme Court decided not to stay the law, which means stop it before it goes.

goes into effect. It did not, and specifically it made very, very clear that this was not a reflection of their opinion of the law in general, that it could still and likely will face very pointed challenges both through the lower courts and then possibly even to the Supreme Court itself. And conservative and pro-life legal experts that I've read on this both all seem to think that this law is not long for this world in terms of it being able to stand up legally, that it does violate Roe v. Wade, and eventually it will be taken away. The larger, the bigger law that will be very, very interesting to watch is one in Mississippi that would ban

abortion. Again, this is a top-down state version that would ban abortion at 15 weeks. And so that's part of the other reason why this Texas law is so pernicious, is the fact that the idea of banning abortion at 15 weeks was going to be the big monumental shoot the fireworks off of Supreme Court decision now with this newly conservatively tilted Supreme Court. The Texas law goes past that by half, right? And puts it at at six weeks, which is by far more aggressive than we have seen, even in very, very pro-life states like Mississippi, which is where there's 15. week a ban comes from.

Yeah. Okay. So in that, so maybe that helps answer, partially answer my question, because it's probably more nuanced than I think. But my, my impression was when this all happened, I went, oh boy, here we go. About 12 states are now going to go, hold on a second. Give me a carbon copy of what the hell they did in Texas. We're doing it. Like, are we seeing that? Are we seeing a scramble to, I don't know, get some other. That's a very interesting case. And now I'm going to take off my explaining as dry as possible. you did a real good job by the way very good dry explanation so far yeah um i think this is a horrifying mechanism for any law yeah regardless of what you think about abortion regardless of

if you are pro choice or pro life uh it is very very very very bad for the government the authority state city county or federal in my opinion to not actually just put forth a law that they are willing to back with the full force of their and authority of their government, but to instead deputize its citizenry. And I don't think that this is a good idea for any ideology or any party. Because I don't think that Republicans would pretty much like it if California put in a, oh, sue your neighbor for $10,000 if they don't get vaccinated or they're not wearing a mask or they misgender somebody.

I think that there's a million ways that we could. use the principle by which this law exists in a way that would infuriate everybody. And I think it's bad precedent. I think it's bad law. I think it's cowardly law in terms of how they are enforcing it. And if you don't have the political capital to do something, then you don't do it in my opinion. And that is a dry version of like whether or not. And I think that many people have looked at this. You have not seen the kind of me too, me too, me too excitement from other pro-life states and other pro-life governors thus far. I think the most flowery we've seen is Ron DeSantis saying that he was going to look at it.

But I don't think that we are probably going to see much more of that because I don't think that it ends well for anybody of any party. if the new way that you want to solve tricky problems is by saying, hey, citizenry, please dog the bounty hunter, this one. Yeah, you're basically describing, you know, the concept of, what's the word? There's a word for this. You're talking about precedent, really. And one that could be real gnarly for everybody involved, including Texans who might be raw-wrying this and think it's great,

flip it to anything, like you said, masks or anything else. Not that Texas is anywhere near mandating mass of any sort, let alone, you know, having their cynicismary go after each other for not wearing them. But, but, but the, but this, you know, it's the same concept. But who states could. Yeah. New York could. Yeah. California could.

Yeah. Hawaii could. Right. Like, there are plenty of places for which this, this particular method by which you are, that they are putting that into place, uh, I think could could immediately become something that they. do not like at all. See, and that's why I thought that this is just my own opinion, but I thought that the court would have stepped in for this reason, not anything else, not about the actual abortion issue itself, but this method of enforcement or this precedent of enforcement seems really

out there to me. And I'm just shocked they didn't stop it on those grounds. Well, and this gets into a question, please, legal experts and Supreme Court watchers that are more into this stuff than I am, you know, write in and illuminate Scott. But the way I understand it is that there are certain types of justices and philosophies of being a Supreme Court justice. And one of them is we are going to just read the rulebook the way it is. And the other is we are going to extrapolate what the rulebook means and make decisions based on that. it is very much a holy war between these two sides

and the conservative justices were on the side of like, well, look, it's tricky, but until there's a law prohibiting this kind of law, then what are we supposed to do? Yeah, okay. Well, do you think it'll get, like whether this stuff stands the test of time or not, like do you have a prediction about how quickly this either goes under?

I think it's a very, very, very bad idea. for Republicans in Texas, I think it will, if you look at the coalitions by which Republicans win elections, one of the things that they have been able to hold on to is white suburban women, although that has eroded, they have been able to hold a portion of them. And while by and large, that group is largely Republican voting white suburban women are more pro-life than the average voter. I don't know if they're six weeks and then your neighbor reports you levels of pro-life.

In fact, I don't really know what the national or statewide numbers on that, if you were to poll just that before this became something that people were digging their heels in, I don't know what the results would be. My basic guess on where these sorts, of issues poll is that they would be less than what you would want to have a winning coalition

what I think happened here is a outgrowth of our modern political meta of just do something. It doesn't matter what you do. Doesn't matter how problematic the solution is do it, do it right now the time to talk is over

stop wasting time we put you into office, do the thing even if it's not perfect. We've seen that certainly on the left and here it came to be on the right. And like many of the solutions that I think a lot of people have said might backfire. I think that this may very well backfire. Now, it depends on how the Democrats handle it. It depends on the kind of candidates that the Democrats run not only for

the State House in Texas, but also in sort of in House districts here in Texas. And, you know, but I think that this is a rallying cry for Democrats. They've raised a ton of money on it. right now it's become a big gigantic national issue and i don't think the law is very good so ultimately i i think this is a a net negative for republicans and i do expect for it to backfire all right well there you go i don't know if we could have gotten a better explanation of the damn thing than we got today that's pretty sure sure it's universal approval in the chat well if you're like me i don't look at the chat while we're doing the tuesday segment uh just because I'm trying not to. I have it right here and I have not looked at it, but I'm sure it's rave reviews.

Yeah, right reviews. Well, I, for whatever it's worth, I think I agree with you. And I think the precedent is horrendous. And I don't know, I don't know that it can stand the test of time. Hopefully it's a short amount of time. But do you think this is the new norm, though, like throw spaghetti at the wall because we're, you know, just do it and deal with the consequences later kind of politics. Is that the new norm? These are loony places. Yeah. Like, state legislatures are absolute crazy pants, stupid places. Like, you got a lot of people that are trying to make a name for themselves. They're trying to get attention. They're trying to get donors. They're trying to make a splash.

And so a lot of wacky stuff happens in state legislatures. Yeah. That being said, we are also at a very look at me moment for governors. Governors are very famous right now. you know, DeSantis, Abbott, Newsom, obviously Cuomo was a household name until he went down in flames. Gretchen Whitmer. There's a lot of people that are big celebrities. They have a lot of television time.

And so now they are more willing to roll the dice if it means that they get to be in the center of the limelight. I think, again, that's part of our political meta. that is just kind of where we are right now. Do you think it's weird that, or maybe this isn't weird because of what you've said made so much sense to me that it must make sense to them too, especially because they both maybe have eyes on a presidential run again, but like Cornyn and Cruz have been really quiet about this. So like while the state is as chairing, the senator seemed to be real silent and not really offering much of an opinion, which isn't really Cruz's MO.

They're both pro-life politicians. I don't, I don't. think that they need to necessarily do a cartwheel to solidify that for their base. I think that they have those voters. Although, you know, Cornyn just got reelected. Cruz has another four

years in office. Well, wait, no, 18... Three, right? Yeah, three and change. Yeah. So who knows where this issue is at by that point? But I don't know if I would read into

their comments or lack of the fact that they've rented a party bus in our spring to mean anything. I really thought, I honestly thought Ted Cruz wouldn't shut up about it once this happened, but he hasn't said anything. So I guess I don't know him as well as I thought I did.

I thought he would be jubilant and over the moon. Again, it's, you know, it's funny. I heard, I caught a little bit of your conversation that was happening before I came on. Yeah. uh about you know how much we are expected to interact with everybody and be fluent in certain issues how mad are we expected to get how mad do we need to get to to show to other people that

we care like there's a lot of different questions but i think part of the the issue that we get in life is when we let anger overcome you know how much uh we understand the world and it's it's at least something that I, I, I know about myself. I'm, I, if I, if I, if I, if I, if I, if I, if I, if I, if I, I, if I, I, I, I'm, I'm, if I, I, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm trying to, a lot rate a little bit. And also, listening and learning a little bit more than, uh, you know, just kind of being upset if my, my, my guest didn't turn out right. You know, be humble if your expectations aren't right and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, going forward and understand that your next wrong opinion is closer than you think. Well, I can't think of a better way to end this segment than that, except to say

hey, Travis, did you have any thoughts with the questions? I didn't mean to keep you so silent during this thing. No, no, no. I don't have really anything on this. I mean, I am never going to have an abortion myself personally. You're never going to have to be

faced with that choice, is what you're saying? I will not be. And I am one of the least qualified people to probably talk about an abortion law because I don't know much about abortions or law. So there you go. I'll just stay out of it. Now imagine you got a text from Scott last night saying this is what I want to talk about tomorrow. I think you did it. I think you're a better man than I am. We were going to, I was I was kind of tinkling around with the idea of talking about like some of the January 6th specific people being pissed that their phone records are getting picked up or taken for January 6th reasons and it's all based on the the Patriot Act and

I wanted to get into that whole mess and then you know I don't know it just it felt like this thing's a little to say about that there's not much to say except a new story it's not yeah it's not really even a new story six thing is like okay I kind of feel like I got a handle on what it is there's there's been a couple there's a great episode of the congressional dish podcast by Jen Briney which I would highly recommend where she goes through all of the Senate and House committees that have happened about January 6th

up till now. And there's really illuminating stuff. It is an episode that you will feel better about the representatives of your government because they are not all caricatures that only exist to get time on cable news. There were good substantive questions

that were asked and followed up on by colleagues across the aisle in terms of the mechanical breakdowns of the Capitol Police and the National Guard and some systemic problems within that up to it, including the rationale for why people were there. I just kind of have a feeling. I get the sense that I kind of know pretty much exactly what happened. I don't have a tremendous desire to get a more, you know,

classic congressional look at me partisan sort of take on it but also it's like if there's something I have less interest in it is in the mechanations of people fighting about it yeah well that's true I guess I guess I kind of have a documentary scratch I need scratched about I want to hear phone calls that are really damning I don't know why because you want to punish the people you don't like yeah you're right I do assume that they are guilty yeah you're right You're right. You're right. I just want I want to hear one with that Jim Jordan guy. I want to hear him say something real shitty. That's what I want to hear. And I don't know why I have that desire, but I do. I want to hear it. Yeah. But maybe it's there. Maybe it's not. Maybe it's not. Yeah. I mean, look, we've gone through a couple versions of these with Trump. And now we're at Trump light, right? This is like the, the, this is like the, the Grand Admiral Thron books. Like after the emperor's dead, now we're still fighting about the things that happened. you know, and our reminence of the empire. Like, I get it.

And apologies for the Grand Admiral Thrawn fans that I compare the January 6th commission to book that I really enjoy because I don't, I've not really enjoyed this process so far. I just, I don't know. It just feels like, it feels like another retread of like, yep, if we just get this file, if we just get his tax returns, if we just get this trans, transcript. If we just this of the records

of when he talked when his son talked to a Russian like it's just I don't know. I feel great. I'll be excited to go through it. But I'm just not waiting at the dock anymore. I get you. I totally feel you.

Everybody wants everybody wants all the president's men moment. And I don't know why we want that. But I do. For some reason I want it. I think I look it's fueled media for four years yeah well it was the reason why people were so excited about politics because everybody just assumed like oh here it is come on down and then kind of never showed up and it's like oh muller well who cares who cares who cares who cares are you

hey before I forget what's the name of that podcast you recommended and um just so people can track I'll send you the the the link in text but uh it is The Congressional Dish, if you've never listened to Jen Briney, she is an extraordinary superstar. She's actually going to be on PX3 on Wednesday, but what she does, her number one job, her main gig, is to listen to all of those boring assy span hearings that nobody can watch for more than five seconds. She digests all of them, and in long form episodes, tells the story of issues as they have been explored. through Congress, both Senate and the House. She's done just an amazing job on a lot of other issues beyond the kind of main focus of politics,

including an exceptional episode about a toy called The Rock and Play Sleeper that was killing young children, killing infants at a very hospitality raid and was only after years on the market taken off, and through congressional hearing, there was a lot of exploration into why that happened, the levels at which the parrot company ignored all of the warning signs, how they hid certain elements of it in international

releases of it and change certain wording on it. So it was exceptional. And so I would say obviously the one about the January 6th thing is something that it has a lot of impassioned opinions on she has an opinion on it but i think listening to her breakdown of what was explored via the the hearings that have already happened was very illuminating at least for me all right well i'm definitely going to check it out it's uh the congressional dish with jen briney and uh did i say that right it's not px theory px3 i didn't show yeah it should be on with you the episode uh tomorrow and uh i was on there like a week ago or a week and a half ago two weeks ago whatever it was um You guys should hear that one as well if you want to hear me ramble about stuff.

And there's always... To do the legendary unrecorded episode of unfriend me where we talk about abortion on me then. He forced an abortion conversation on me now. This is apparently his new favorite thing to do is make me talk about it in public. I guess thanks, Texas. I don't know. I don't know who to thank for this. But well done, everybody.

buddy um all right well uh anything else going on or anything else you want to point people to before we uh head out uh yeah just just px3 um uh go ahead and and and subscribe to that uh and also this is a great week to subscribe to px3 because next week one of my favorite things when i was a kid was free hbo remember when they used to do free oh yeah yeah oh yeah and i never had hbo in my house but i was always very excited for the free hbo week and so what we're doing on the px3 episode or the PX3 podcast next week everybody gets free HBO in that you are going to get all the extra episodes that are normally only out to patrons

that means the Sunday Sunday Sunday edition where I break down all of the Sunday chat shows and tell you the three biggest issues that you have to keep your eye on for the coming week and the Thursday late edition that is the latest news that breaks throughout the week I cover all that on the Thursday show because I record the Friday show early.

So go ahead and sign up if you are interested in it. And also it's a good week to do it because next week is the California Recall Week. So we'll have plenty to talk about it. Oh, right. Yeah, that's all coming to fruition. All right. Keep your eyes on that prize, everybody. That'll be awesome.

Justin, always a pleasure. And we look forward to seeing you next week. Stay safe. Oh, I've got to play your thing. The jury will now retire. There you go. He will now retire. He is retired.

He's gone. He's gone. You hear me, Travis? He's left. He has left the building. We didn't ask him about the burrito. Oh, shit. Gosh, dang it, dude. I, ah. We were going to do that. You got on a roll there at the end. That's the thing.

Yeah. I think we handled it pretty good, to be honest. I think that went all right. I think so. It could have been worse. I was, I was just going to back right away from that one. I mean, it's such a touchy topic. I lack the plumbing for that or the perspective, no. It's just such a touchy topic, and it's always just a little,

whatever, but I don't know. My thing in this world is go for it. And then if I have to amend my brain, then I'll do it after. But we just got to get it out sometimes. The other thing I would say is Texas, your leadership sucks. And they suck. All right. That's all I'm going to say about that. All right, let's move on to this here deal, which is to tell everybody we're done. We're out. This is the show. We're finished. Not forever, but this is it. And that means I got to thank Travis for being here with me, man. You were a really great co-host. Thanks for hanging out with me today. Well, thanks for having me. I had a great time. And if Brian is ever out again, let me know. I'll always come back. That time will come. He bought those Japan tickets,

I guess, back when he was getting good deals on COVID tickets or whatever. So we never know when that'll happen. I should have jumped on some of that myself. It's very nice to have you here. Remind folks at home where they can get all your stuff? You can, find weight you haven't seen at TVStravis.com. And there's also another show I do with Adi Norman, a tadpool member, where we talk about Highlander, the series, every week. In fact, we're recording tonight our next episode. And Audie's been doing awesome artwork for every episode, too. He draws a picture bespoke for each episode, and they're fantastic. Yeah, he's one of the great artists of our community. He's incredible. That dude. He is. He is awesome. And that's

going to be anchor.fm slash let's watch Highlander if you want to hear us ramble on about a show from the mid-90s about immortals cutting each other's heads off for an hour. Nice. Well, I'm a big fan of that series. That series does not get enough love out there. It doesn't. It's better than people remember. Yeah. Like there's a lot of it that Audie and I both routinely are like, wow, they wrote that much better than you would expect for a mid-90s syndicated cable TV show. It's like, that's a real relationship this is actually written by somebody who knows what they're doing there are definitely times where like this whoever wrote this has never met a teenager so they don't know how they act right right but but it's back in the day when they had to do 24 episodes a season and and you just

you know some of that stuff's going to be you know stuff yeah and it's just the way it was but i'll tell you if you go for me highlander goes like this highlander won the film love it great amazing concepts amazing stuff world building all that i love it the tv show is next in line as in terms of like good content and then all the rest of those movies are way down the street way, way down there hanging out with Mario Van Peoples, all right?

That's what that is. Anyway, go check it out. Big thanks for you being here again. Patreon.com slash TMS is how you support this here show. You all know that, but if you don't know, it's a new month. Maybe you do know. But new month's a great time to hop on board.

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He'll be here tomorrow. And then Thursday, it'll be my wife, Kim, again, to finish things out before Brian gets home. So that's the plan this week. And that means I think if he's home Friday, we may have a PM, but we'll see how he's feeling. He might be a little jet lagged. I don't know how that's going to go. Right. We will find out. All right, we're going to play some music. This was recommended by our guest host, Travis, Lincoln Park's Numb. We all know the song, but have you heard the cover by Blue Eye Darkness and Noise Machine remix? If the answer is no, you're in for a nice surprise here. This is really great. Why this song, by the way? Just your own preferences. What was it about this that you liked?

So I really like the song, but Blue Eye Darkness is somebody that I found on TikTok, which by the way, I blame you for. me being on TikTok. Fantastic. But she does cosplay and like makeup. Yeah. And I just kind of, I like the makeup work that she does and like the silly little skits she'll do lip syncing over a clip from a movie or something. But then she put up that she was recording a song and I listened to it and I was just blown

away. I was like, this is really, really well done. So I love a good cover that changes a song too. That's transformative. And I feel like this one does that a little bit. I agree. I heard it for the first time after you recognize. recommended it and it's fan freakantastic so we're going to play it here at the end of the show

we hope you guys enjoy it we hope you enjoyed today's episode and we look forward to seeing you tomorrow we'll catch you then I'm good at you want to want me to be I've become so numb, I can't feel you there, become so tight, so much more, oh, where I've become becoming this, all I want to do is be more like me, and be less like you. Caught in the undertow Caught in the undertow Just caught in the undertow I'm tired of being what you want me to be

Feelings your faithness Lost under the surface Don't know what you're expecting of me But under the pressure Of walking in your Go in the undertone, I'm just going the undertoe Every step that I take is another mistake to you Go in the undertoe

I just go in the undertoe And every second I waste is more than I can talk I've become so numb I can't feel you there Becomes slow time so much more Oh where I'm becoming this All I want to do Is be more like me

And be less like you And I know I may end up you, but I know you are just like me with someone disappointed in the end. I've become so numb. I can't feel you there.

Become slow, tights, so much more I'm aware I've become Make this All I want to do Is feel more like me And we're less like you I'm doing What you want to be

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