The Morning Stream - TMS 2173: Ryan Maiden

Episode Date: September 14, 2021

The Dog's Butt is Covid Free! The One About the One-Eyed Nun and the Four Monkeys. Gozer the lockpicker. Dressed Like A Kinder Egg. McGruff, The Crime Burger!! Small, Medium, or Roundabout? 18 Park Places and 35lbs Later. Just Okey, No Dokey. Doin' Half The Okie-Dokie!! Tourette's O'Riley, Road Rager!! She's not as methy as I expected! A Box Of Illuminati Pizza! McRover Value Meal. How-r-ye. 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, the dog's butt is COVID-free. The one about the one-eyed nun in the four monkeys. Gozer, the lock picker. Dressed like a kinder egg. McGruff, the crime burger. Small, medium, or roundabout. 18 park places and 35 pounds later. Just oaky, no dokey.

Doing half the oaky dokey. Toreto Riley, Road Rager. She's not as meth-y as I expected. Box of Illuminati Pizza. The McRover Value Meal. How are you? I knew that was going to throw me. duty and more on this episode of the morning stream.

Good morning. Chilly today. By saying good morning doesn't mean I want you to have a conversation with me. I love your voice. What's wrong with it? The morning stream. Fred goes in, toast comes out. You can't explain that.

Good morning, everyone. Welcome back to TMS. It's the morning stream for Tuesday, September 14, 2021. I'm Scott Johnson. And that guy right there is Brian. A bit of good morning, Brian. Howia. Hoia. Hoia. I'm doing O'Kie, I'm doing O'Kee, as my uncle would say. I'm O'Kee, I'd say. Never say okay. It'd say, O'Kee, I'm okay, he'd say. Yeah, yeah, Oki. Yeah, he's a weird dude. But no dokey. You wouldn't say dokey at the end of that, just Oki. Nope, just oaky. That's which is, I think he was riffing on that and doing just half the okey doki-dokey. And it annoyed me. I remember it annoying me when I was like 16. I'm like, why does he do that?

He just did it. And then he would lay, and then this is the same uncle that would immediately lean into a really dirty joke that he would tell me because it knew it would make me uncomfortable. And he would say it out loud so everybody could hear it. And he go, ah, did you hear the one about the one-eyed nun and the four monkeys? And I'd go, oh, Uncle Joel. What are we doing? Oh, yeah, it's a great one. And then he'd tell me this horrible joke.

And I'd be embarrassed for the rest of the day. That was my whole relationship with Uncle Joel. That was the entire thing. Excellent. Oh, my God. All right. And I want somebody to come up with the best punchline for a joke that begins. Did you hear the one about the one-eyed none and the four monkeys? There's a punchline out there that's going to be perfect for this.

I wish I had the rest of that joke, but I don't. I made that up. It really was a. No, no, no. It was fake. I made it up. completely made it up. Okay, good. That's what I was, that's what I expect. But I have no good add-on. So somebody will come up with a good punchline. Yeah. You guys are all workshoping. Let's get that.

Four monkeys like into a bar. Bartender says, do you see the one I had none over there in the corner? Yeah, that's how that joke goes. Monkeys, don't say anything because they're monkeys. Yeah, they're monkeys. What are you doing in this bar, monkeys? That's right. And they said, E, eat, ooh, ooh, end of joke. That's the end of the joke. That's right. Exactly. So here's the deal. We were talking pre-show and Brian started a, rolling right into a great Ireland story. And then you were like, wait a minute, why am I not telling this on the air? So now we're doing it on the air.

So why don't you do the little setup here as a McDonald's sort of question or something happened? Yeah, the question was, because Claire knows that, well, a lot of the tadpool knows that I kind of have a weakness for the monopoly game for McDonald's. It's definitely less

lately because, number one, it's a scam and I know it. It's never going to get boardwalk. You're going to get 18 park places before you get boardwalk. And you're going to gained 35 pounds in the process. Did you see that documentary that I recommended a long time back, the one about the game and how rigged it was and all the controls? Oh, yeah, the one with the, I think I recommended it to you guys, the monopoly or McMillions.

Oh, maybe you said it and then I watched it. Because I was the one who told you all about you're going to love Agent Doug. Oh, yeah, that's it. You are the one that recommended it. Then I watched it and I loved that documentary, but it made me realize that I never, ever want to play that game again ever right yeah even if they've cleaned it all up it's like freaking eff that dude you guys are all nuts but anyway sorry but agent duck was the best uh anyway so claire asked that and i started to say yeah i have a little confession to make but it realized

the confession about about this really needs the setup behind it all right so i'm going to take you all the way back to uh two or three days before we left for our trip when i did some scramble searching online at all the local Walgreens to find two Abbott Laboratories self-taking COVID tests, right? This is like 25 bucks, you get a box that's got two COVID tests in it. You need to take them no closer together than 48 hours, but for our flight, we need them um 36 hours or through i'm sorry 72 hours before our flight so we need to basically time it so that we take the last one within three days of the flight okay so and these are the nasal deals right these are the nasal deals and

you basically uh just kind of give you an idea you stick the swab up your nose you put a few drops in this in this uh cardboard card in a little hole you take your swab you jam it through down one hole and up the other hole. And you're welcome, Jamie, for that. Is his birthday today, or what are we celebrating? I know, exactly. This one may have a bunch of stuff for you, Jamie, so just enjoy it. Holy crap. Then you peel a little sticker off, you fold the card over, you wait 15 minutes, and it looks like pregnancy test. If there's a red line in the control and nothing in the sample, then that means you don't have COVID. If you have a red line in both, then you have COVID. Okay.

And you don't hold it in your urine stream or any of that. You don't hold it near urine stream or anything like that. All right, good. So we bought these looking online and seeing things that say, yep, these antigen tests are approved for travel. Yeah. And you do them with the assistance of the Navica app, and you basically scan the code with your phone, you take the test, and then you report in the Navica app, whether it was positive or negative. Right. that should be a red flag right there, right?

There's no, there's no confirmation. Like, you're basically hitting a button in the app saying, yep, I don't have COVID. Let me fly. Yeah, that's weird. There's no verification or anything. Are they just really honest over there or something? That's the deal.

Well, here's the deal with that. There are two kinds of Abbott Laboratories self-home tests for COVID. You do the same thing in both, but the second one, somehow you connect. with a proxy who watches you do the entire test via a webcam and makes sure you're not just sticking it up the dog's butt and then putting it in the, you know, the thing to say, oh, no, apparently you don't have COVID and neither does your St. Bernard. Right. So we didn't realize that until we did the second test and said, all right, how do we report this?

How do we get an official thing? And then it says, oh, oh, sorry, you can't. So all of a sudden, we're in cork and we're like, like, oh, this is good. Well, we know that they've got COVID tests all over the place. We can go get one. Sure. It's not a big deal.

We kind of even planned on it as a backup if we needed to. Sure. That makes sense. It makes sense that they would have a lot around there, so you shouldn't have trouble, getting it. Yeah. And we've got like a two-hour drive from Cork to back to Dublin, so we're figuring out, all right, well, there's a place at the airport that you can do it. And, oh, well, no, I take that back.

There's a place at the Dublin Convention Center where you can. can do it. So, great. Okay, cool. So we drive to the Dublin Convention Center, which is on the south side of Dublin. And they have a drive-thru, and then they have another, you know, like a walk-in. We get up to the front, the guy says, ah, what do you hear for? And Brian, please tell me, you got this test while that Dublin Convention Center was holding Leprecon. Tell me that was happening. Oh, that would be great. That would be great. Here's your complimentary protocol. Yeah, come on in. I don't wear the wee hat. Snacks are right over there.

Would you like some blue diamonds or some purple horseshoes? All right, sorry. I couldn't let that pass. Continue on. You were there. So he directs us over. We basically parked the car. We walk over.

We fill out. We show our IDs. We get a form. We're saying, yeah, we're traveling. We need the COVID tests. And they direct us into, like, it's like a mash setup, right? Like a little mobile armie surgical hospital setup where they've got those half circle round, you know, half-cylinder bunkers that you go into with folding chairs and a guy in a

lab coat. Sure. And Tina says, and we'll get these results within 24 hours. This is the quick test. Oh, no, you're here for the PCR test. This is a 72-hour test or 72-hour results. She's like, we leave tomorrow. This might be a little bit of a problem.

Now, none of that was online about it being the PCR-72-hour deal. Sure. uh when we got there so we did all this driving to the convention center winding around waiting in line all this and then they say no but if you go to the airport they've got the the 30 minute results uh antigen test that is approved for travel so you're good with that like all right so plugged in the new address on our phone Dublin airport which is on the north side of Dublin so we've got to go all the way around Dublin we get up there again wait in line show our passports um show our boarding pass information, and they take us through and get our tests. Again, not hugely stressful, but it's time that we would have liked to spend in Dublin walking around and seeing the sites. What it also meant was that our leaving in the morning from Cork after breakfast, it's now getting to be about 2 o'clock, 3 o'clock in the afternoon.

And we've decided we're having boxy for dinner because we hadn't had any boxy. and that's like the last thing on our list of when we're in ireland we got to make sure to have some boxed yeah i would have thought that we talked about before i would have thought that would have been an earlier in the trip deal but uh never got to it no it's we couldn't find a place that uh that had it we were looking for we're looking for uh shepherds pie slash cottage pie we were looking for there that's a whole other story about trying to find that but um i love this checklist it's amazing so you did get your box yeah exactly right you're so uh so uh so we go to the airport, we do the thing there, we're waiting in line, and it's getting to be about two o'clock, three o'clock, we've got our, we've got our, done our tests, we've got our flight the next day, we'll get stuff in time, no problem. But we're hungry, and it's like, well, we don't want a lot, we want just something to tide us over so that we'll be hungry when it comes to six o'clock dinner time. As we're leaving the airport, we see a McDonald's.

We're like, should we just get, should we just get like a cheeseburger, just something to tied us over for a few hours. You're like, yeah, okay, I won't tell if you won't. Of course, I'm telling everybody right now. So we go through the drive-thru, and immediately the first thing I see is, it's Monopoly time in McDonald's. Oh, no. So it's like, great, okay, well, we're still just getting,

we're getting like the two-cheasburger meal. Here's something interesting about McDonald's. You know how everything French fries in Ireland is chips. Yeah, it's all chips. But at McDonald's, still called fries. Oh, interesting. They don't want to... Would you like an extra value meal with some chips?

No, it's... Yeah, like we thought, when we went to the McDonald's in China, I thought it would be just a regular old beef patty, but it was dog, and they just kind of beef. It's a McRover, is what it was called. Yeah, McRuff is what they called it, which was kind of weird. Anyway, so you got in there, you got your burgers ordered. Got our burgers ordered, and sure enough, we did get Monopoly things,

because we did the meal that's got two cheese, burgers, fries, and a drink. And we just ate a cheeseburger each, had a few fries, split the Coke zero. And sure enough, these things had monopoly pieces on them. And we pulled one off, and it said Dublin Airport. I'm like, well, how do they know that we got this at the McDonald's at the Dublin Airport? Yeah. And I really pondered this for a few minutes until I realized that Dublin Airport.

is like their equivalent of the railroads on the Monopoly America, you know, reading railroad, B&O Railroad. So we really just got Dublin, the Dublin Airport Monopoly piece. We just so happened to get it at the McDonald's at the Dublin Airport. And then we won free fries or something. It's like, well, not going to enjoy this, but it's a nice souvenir. Here we go. We've got our winning McDonald's piece from McDonald's.

We're never going to go to. But that's cool to have. That's a cool thing. I would have that. That's great. Because, you know, McDonald's. It's an Irish name. Or it's maybe Scottish.

I think it is Scottish, but yeah. Yeah, I think Scottish. That's great. That's great. I love that. I would love that kind of souvenir. It's like a weird crossovery, weird thing. You're never going to cash in.

Right. It'll probably last less time. It'll degrade before the actual fries will. It will. It will. Yeah. When we're putting together our photo album, that'll, our McDonald's piece will be in there. I was going to tell you about a couple other things

And I'll get to them really quick First off, Hawaii So I said that at the top of the show I said, oh, Hawaii That is the standard greeting in Ireland. It's like, oh, are you going to a store? Hawaii. Hawaii, okay.

It's just, it's basically, how are you? But they say it, they put it together so quickly that sometimes it's just, oh, yeah, bye. And Claire's saying, how are ye? Is it meant to be ye? Right, yeah, it's ye, Hawaii. Hawaii. Yeah.

Almost sounds like they're saying Hawaii, but they're not. Okay. That's interesting. All right. Does it feel like a friendly? It's always a friendly gesture. It's a very friendly greeting. They really, you know, but it's not meant to be answered legitimately.

You're not going to say, oh, you know, woke up with a little bit of a headache this morning. They didn't care about that. It's really just, how are you? I don't want about your business. You say it back to them and that's it. Because I'm hearing, it sounds almost New York, but I guess if I was there, I would, I would hear. Yeah, Hawaii. Hey, why are you?

Oh, why are you? I'm doing okay, you know, that kind of thing. Now, let's get to the other story that I teased on Thursday during the call-in about getting flipped off. Oh, yeah, the one-negative human interaction you had in all of our lines. So I told you about the roundabouts and how I dig the roundabouts, and I'd love to see more roundabouts here, except for the ones that are like a personal pan pizza in the middle of an intersection. But in one of these big ones that had a, you know, a grassy, massy, mass. in the middle of the street in the middle of the intersection

you know basically you'd get you'd come to this would be on the on the motorway so you'd have two lanes and painted on those two lanes you have a left arrow only which means that if you go in that lane

you are forced to get off at the next at the first of the exits on the roundabout if that makes sense like if you imagine a roundabout as a circle with with a northeast west and south point coming off of them if you get in the left lane then and it's got that arrow that single arrow you're getting off at the first exit off of that roundabout the second lane the right lane has a um a straight arrow and a right turn arrow

which mean that all right you get in this lane you can't get off the first but you have to do either the second or the third third roundabout makes sense, makes perfect sense and I love seeing those things. During this part of the drive

and I think it was between Belfast and Sligo, there was this BMW that was just hot on my butt like totally tailgating me. I'm going the speed limit. I'm going maybe actually

a few kilometers per hour over the speed limit, whatever. It's, you know, what I naturally do. But I'm certainly not going to speed, and I'm in the, what would be the slow lane. I'm in the left lane.

He can go around to the right and pass me, no big deal. But man, just, like, wanted to be on my butt. So, finally, we get to this roundabout. And somehow at this point, he'd gotten beside me. He was in the left lane with the two. Oh, yeah, because I went over into the right lane, because we're going to be going straight. He pulled up next to me in the left lane with the arrow. Okay.

With just the single arrow. Gotcha. We start going around the roundabout. He doesn't get off at that first exit like he's supposed to because he's got that single arrow. Yeah, and he's a local. He should know. And he's a local. Assume that he's a local.

So he's like kind of crowd me now in the right lane. And I've got to get off at the second exit of the roundabout. So I, you know, I kind of go. I mean, I basically just go like I'm supposed to go, right? I go from that right lane, then into the left lane, and then into the next street, the next part of the motorway. He zips around me and then rolls down his window, and I get this huge tattooed arm with giving me the Irish bird. Did he say anything, yell anything? No, he probably did, but we had our windows up.

I mean, we had our windows up. He had his down, obviously. But he was like, we watched him for a while. He was a little road rager. He was doing that to every car he came to. Zipping up, dude, tailgating him. Who knows? I mean, you know, just some guy.

Maybe he was known as Touretz O'Reilly, and he just couldn't stop doing it. Maybe. Yeah, maybe. But that was the only negative interaction that we had with anybody there in Ireland was just this. That's a pretty, that's pretty. That's pretty good. That's a good batting average for Ireland. I would agree. It probably prepared you nicely to come home and go to a movie and have a weird lady jump up during the credits.

Exactly. Yeah, that's fantastic. Well, all right. Guy who flipped you off, I hope you're all right and that you're having a decent day. Hey, I thought there'd be something you'd like to. Oh, by the way. So the weirdest game of the year came out yesterday. And I don't mean the game itself.

What I mean is a game, a game. a game owned by Microsoft now. They picked it up for the acquisition of Bethesda, which had already owned... I forgot the name of the studio. Whatever it is. They already owned them. So Microsoft bought the whole thing for $7.00, whatever, billion.

And now they own the people that make Death Loop. Therefore, they own Death Loop. But Death Loop was originally announced as a PlayStation 5 exclusive. It's on PC now, though. So we can get it on PC if you want. There you go. Arcane, there it is.

is now out on the PlayStation 5 and getting rave reviews 10 out of tens in a lot of places people really like it it's now a timed exclusive which means it's no longer a permanent exclusive

it'll end up being on series S and X at some point which makes sense it should be yeah it should be but here's the funny thing there's the weird thing that makes it weird is this is one of the best releases on PS5 this year and it's very likely that that developer's games

either a sequel to this or anything else will never be on that console again. Right, right, exactly. Death Loop 2, not allowed to be on PlayStation. I mean, they might change their mind and do it. There may be a deal to make. I don't know. They've said that they're going to pick and choose which things get multi-platform, but it's just an odd thing. But the oddest thing of them all is that Brian Abbott bought a game, didn't let it sit, didn't let it sit on either a hard driver or a shelf, actually played a game yesterday. I don't even know what to say. The day and he came out. Like, basically, that's how much I've been looking forward to this thing, is that when the, like, I pre-ordered it.

I pre-downloaded it so that at midnight, I could play it. I didn't. I played it, you know, this morning. Sure. But played it for a good hour before the show. And, oh, damn, it's fun. It is, it's, I'm really early on. And, of course, right?

Like, I've only, I've died and done the loop a couple times of, like, starting over. It's live, die, repeat in game form. But you basically, uh, well, What I'm hearing about it is that they've just been ingenious about the puzzle because the puzzle at the end of the day is just like a level. It's like one big level and you've got to kill certain people and you have to unravel all of the clues. This is perfect for you is what I'm saying. It is. It's totally.

This is right up my alley because I love those movies. I like Palm Springs and Groundhog Day and Live Die Repeat. That's a much better name than Edge of Tomorrow. I agree. So agree. Oh my gosh. That was such a bad choice. It was. I think if they would have called it

Live, Die, Repeat, it would have done better at the box office. It would have done great. That was the name of the book anyway. He may as well just have done it. And that's a great movie. If you've never seen it, you should see it. It also features one of the best Bill Paxton performances of his career. It does. Yeah, totally does. And Emily Blunt. That's right, with that chin.

The lovely and talented Emily Blunt in her chin. Yeah, yeah. Anyway, speaking of her, I saw her in that I saw her walking around that Met Galla thing yesterday with all those other freak shows. I heard somebody say, today. The best description I heard of the Met Gala is the Met Gala is

models trying to look weird and weirdos trying to look like models. So the models that are there, they're always models there. And they're all just going for the weird. And then all the actors and everybody who want to look cool on a runway are all trying to look weird.

Right. It's weird. It's cosplay for weird. I have not looked. I'm looking right now for the first time at any of these outfits. And Rihanna is standing with a guy who looks like he's just wearing a quilt. Like he's got a quilt wrapped around him. Yeah, her boyfriend guy, whatever he is now, he's just like in a quilt. She looks kind of normal.

There's a lady with a sword. I forgot who that was. Somebody's testicles were out. There was a... Oh, Whoopi Goldberg, just wearing the color purple. Yeah, Gina. Oh, yeah. What's this one?

It looks like a... She's like a kinder egg. Peaky Lane. I don't know who that is, but she's dressed like a kinder egg. The best thread I saw on this, and that's what I, the only thing I care about at all with this Meggala thing, and it's been two years, so it's been a bit, because they didn't do it last year for COVID, but is the memes. And there's this one thread by this Celeste Lab Eds. She's a, what do you call her?

She's a meteor, not meteorologist. When you're in minerals, mineralologist? Oh, a geologist? Seismologist, I guess. Geophysics, PhD person. really smart she did a whole thread of comparing everybody's outfit to an equivalent mineral and it's striking striking stuff i'm going to share this with you i'll put it in the chat it's amazing uh yeah here chat i'll send this to you guys wow tessa thompson

she looks great she always does figure out what this thing is it's like she's she's wearing a harp yeah yeah it is like a harp it's that weird it's almost like like fleshy down to the bottom it's weird yeah it's really weird and then it like turns into a rose at the bottom so when you get a second that thread is worth your time um excellent you put it there it is it is it in chat okay so it's amazing like it's it's just an entire twitter thread and she found here oh my god no kidding this first one just lucy bointin yep el abate uh this lady here who's this charlie x cx is a sulfur yeah she stinks i guess oh my god hillie porter pyrite whatever, oh, I don't see his second image.

There's another, Laverne Cox's Lamentite. Like, it's, it's amazing. Oh, this is great. Oh, my God. This, Sophia Sanchez, Barrensha, Agit. All right, this is where I'm going to check out the outfits from the MetGale. Yeah, this is the only place any of this is going to matter. Yeah.

She's added a bunch, because as of yesterday, none of these. I've seen about 10 new ones already. So this is, she's on it, man. Anyway, it's great. This is how this stuff should be viewed. these hoity tooty walking around with their thumbs in the air weirdos having their weird cosplay moment whatever they're all doing uh it's fun to look at it through these eyes and not it really is yeah it's amazing did did nicky minage show up oh i don't think she did did she thought

she did with it wasn't there a thing i thought her whole thing was that she i think so i again there was so many news stories about nicky minage yesterday i think a she has covid is one story B, that she doesn't want to get the vaccine because it causes testicles to enlarge. And I don't know. And, you know, it's the media like completely twisting every possible thing she could say. But I think there's some truth or there's some real Nicki Minaj says in the base of all of this. What if she put her, wait, if you inject it into your testicles. She truly is a triple threat, folks.

She's a rapper. She's a, she's a patient. and zero and she's a misinformer. She's just truly a tripled map. She's an infector. Yeah, she's an infector. Not a divider, an infector. Right, exactly.

Oh, that's a hoot. Yeah, it's a weird. I just don't understand it. It's like DragonCon for rich people who are out of touch with society. That's a great description. Yeah, that's how it feels to me. But good luck to them and thank you to Lady What Dud the minerals, because that cracked me. Yeah, I'm going to enjoy that.

thread later. I found a story while you were out of town that I wanted to share. It's short. I don't know why I liked. I liked it because I put Edit Murphy. It's supposed to say you put Edit Murphy. It's supposed to be Edit Murphy. I can't type. It's like your autocorrect is set to

Spagnola or something. Why can't I spell Murphy? Wayne, that's not right either. No, just take the the A out. Why do I want to put an A in there? What is my deal? Don't. Don't do it. There's no A in movie. There you go. I found this video of Eddie Murphy just sharing a little story and he's kind of of our time you know growing up is it is it

when he picks somebody up on hollywood boulevard no no not that one very different story than that one um here i'll play it for you it's uh it's pretty good and it references a couple of uh things in in an 80s comedy that you and i will relate to so uh enjoy i just thought you'd like this here you go years ago and i was doing played the comic trip in fort lauderdale that was uh maybe 17 18 18 17 years old and rodney dangerfield comes in he bumps everybody it's like danger field is here you can't he's going danger field's going up so and nobody wanted to follow him because it was danger field you know he's got but i was really like full of myself back then so i was like mr dangerfield after the show will you watch my said he was like yeah yeah sure kid so he goes

up he did no respect oh hey all that's the danger field stuff the ceiling k's in with laughter you know then i go off and i do my thing and back then i was uh really good dirty and I did you know edgy racial stuff and this 1980 so it's like this kid on stage doing edgy racial stuff and so afterwards Daniel Field sees me

he's like hey kid I don't know where you're going to go with that you know with the language and the race stuff and what are you going to do what you need to do that now that I was crestfallen cut to two three years later I got on Saturday Night Live and it had gotten really successful and I was at Vegas in a in the bathroom

at Caesar's Palace and I was at the urinal and I had a leather suit on and it was all of that thought that period and Rodney Dangerfield comes a urinal right next to me and I look over and he looks at me and says hey who knew

I don't know why I love that story so much but I freaking love it that's awesome I wanted that the whole story to end with err I know and that's the thing about Eddie Murphy and his later age he's not laughing like that anymore no no he's he's

so subdued now. Yeah, so that's a recent, must be a really recent interview. Yeah, it was just barely like some month ago or something, but yeah, I really like that story a lot. Hey, who knew? I just figured you'd appreciate it, given that those two guys were kind of part of our comedy childhood, you know, they were there, they were part of it. We were watching Beverly Hills Cop and back to school, you know, one right after the other and enjoying both. It may have been the same summer for all I remember. Could have been, yeah. One final note before we get to some news. today.

Okay. Albert in Maryland, Maryland, wrote in. He is Mary McChese in the chat room. He might be here today. Okay. I don't know if he is. All right. Mary McChese wrote in.

And he said, regarding Iron Maiden, he put Ryan Maiden, but he means. Ryan Maiden, who's the director of the Force Awakens, if I remember correctly. Oh, I can't wait for the last Jedi, the last Jedi. Yeah, the Knives Out, too. The sequel's going to be real good from Ryan Maiden. Anyway, he says, Bruce Dickinson, battled and survived tongue cancer. Oh, this is because I brought the band up while you were gone. I think it was with Garrett. And I was talking about how, whoa, they got a new album. No way. What's going on?

And I could hear in Bruce Dickinson's voice a difference. Yeah. And so this is a follow-up on that. Bruce Dickinson battled and survived tongue cancer around 2015, although his voice isn't what it used to be. It's still incredible. You should also check out the song Tears of a Clown from their Book of Souls album. He wrote it in memory of Robin Williams. I would also like to hear your thoughts on their video for the song, the writing on the wall. Thanks for all you do, Albert. Well, Albert, I'm going to check all that stuff out. And I had no idea.

Bruce Dickinson had a tongue cancer thing. I had no idea. Yeah, yeah. We covered Iron Maiden on soundography and talked about that and listen to their whole catalog. I became more of an Iron Maiden fan than I was before. There's stuff to like there. I mean, it's not just Eddie the Beast and that cool artwork,

which was all I cared about when I was younger. But the music's, you know, there's some stuff there. It's cool. There is, for sure. I saw this in the notes yesterday, so I decided before the show, I'd check out the writing on the wall as the, or check out the video for it. It's cool. It's an animated video featuring, it's like a, you'll like it because it's a Mad Max Fury Road style. Kind of remind me a lot of heavy metal, the movie.

But it features a president who might be in front. influenced by a certain recent president of ours, and a dictator from North Korea who, I don't know, maybe looks a little bit like that one guy, kind of getting there just as it's the, you know, Eddie, the Beast. The Beast comes in and kind of fixes some things. Oh, look at the style of this. Yeah, it's a very cool animated, animated deal. Oh, you're right about the influence of the mad maxiness of it. Oh, yeah. This is right out my alley.

I didn't know this existed. Holy crap. Yeah. It's a long video, so, you know, tuck you in like eight minutes or nine minutes or something. Why isn't this a whole show that I can watch all the time on Netflix or something? Right. Yeah. Well.

Look at this. It's a whole show that you can watch on YouTube. Yeah. You know, it really would fit as part of love, death, and robots. Oh, man. It would. Totally. This is that style.

Yeah. Yeah. This is my jam. All right. Very cool recommendation. Thank you very much for all of those clarifications and ideas. There, Albert. If you'd like to be like Albert, send your emails to the morning stream at gmail.com.

Now, the news. Let's get to the news. Brought to you by. Brought to you by joystick and mouse. This is a show put together by our friends, Alex Elbisu and Diddy and Tim, who was out yesterday for the show that we recorded, which comes out tomorrow. um brand new episode coming out tomorrow where we go over all of the new the 19 trailers uh game trailers that um sony had in their big event last week uh boy scott i wonder if you could guess which which games i'm looking forward to the most out of that whole list well if i had to guess they're both insomniac titles

and they're both uh marvel uh tie-ins and yeah i'm i'm equally as excited actually from that event i came away most excited about the Wolverine potential. We don't really know what that game is yet. We don't know anything about it, but just knowing how well they did the Spider-Man stuff, Wolverine hopefully is going to be in that same. Insomniac does not make crappy games. They don't know

how to do that. And so even their worst game is better than many people's best. So whatever they do, I'm all in. Did you notice in that trailer, the little Hulk 181 reference in there? Did you notice that? Oh, I didn't. I missed it. So in the background, it's that busy bar, right? Yeah.

And you don't really see his face. Trashed, the trashed bar. If you look past him, there's a license plate that says HLK 181 on it. That's cool. Which, of course, you know, everyone knows Wolverine showed up in issue 181 of the Hulk. So anyway, I don't think it means the Hulk's going to be in this game and maybe you will. I don't know. I have no idea.

But do you have that issue? Oh, you bastard. That's right. Are you referring to this issue right here? Yep. That's the one. How mint is that? Have we talked about this?

We probably have. It's not very mint. unfortunately it's um overall i would say it's in very good condition that's awesome except for one problem uh whoever owned this before me cut out the marvel value stamp out of the letters page now it's a non-artwork page right so the back of it just has an ad for hostess fruit pies or something but um so it's so all of the Hulk and Wolverine page is perfectly fine but that one page has has that little cutout on it and uh it's like i could pay the 75 bucks to get this thing cgc graded but i don't know i don't know what that cut out would do to the value of it what's cover

price on there is it under a buck what's the it's 25 yeah 25 cents look at that i saw your tweet right before the show about the 12 cent comics and then now 25 and then now we're what five bucks average for issue it's insane how much they've got oh i just spilled coffee all over my Hulk 181 oh Oh, shoot. Well, good thing it went through the big hole, someone cut out of it. Right. Just passed right through that hole and everything's fine. No issues. All right. Here's a story for you, Brian. Let me regale you with this news story. This is breaking news. Not really. A Spanish bishop has resigned. Oh, did we make the point that you were on, you guessed it on Joystick and Mouse.

Did we make that point? You were on there last night. Oh, yeah, I think we did. I don't think you mentioned that part. Yeah, I'm the special guest on that. Well, I'm the guest. I know about special. the guest on tomorrow's episode. So we record it last night. You could have seen it live, but now you've got to wait for the show. Joystick and mouse,

Alex Albizu's podcast on the in-cast media network. Go check it out. How did you get past his voice and stuff, though? Did you get, it was that hard? I had to drink a lot before the show just so that I wouldn't keep bringing it up. I'm like, oh, my God, this voice. That's hard, right? You almost have to hum to yourself, kind of mute it.

Just kidding, Alex. You're the best. We think you're great. We love you, Alex. He's in the chat. Second place. Yeah, you're running. up you.

You're that best damn runner-up second placer we ever had. All right. Spanish bishop, a Spanish bishop, that means a dude in Spain. That means that instead of he uses a stiletto when he plays mubble-de-pag on the aliens ship instead of a bowie knife. That is 100% correct.

Well done. It's a deep cut. It's a very deep cut. Holy crap. Spanish bishop has resigned to pursue his relationship with a satanic, tinged, erotic fiction author. Oh, all right. I like the story.

Statetic, tinged erotic fiction author. Okay. Yep. Professor Xavier Novell. They make, what do they used to make? Novell. What did Novell? Oh, Novell.

They were here in Utah. I don't know why I can anything. Yeah, was it, were they rockets? No. Like, software, wasn't it? No, that's Ravel or something like that. Software and it was like. Network operating system, right?

Right, yes, right, Novell networks. Yeah, and Novell, what was the thing called that was like their big communicating, server-y shit? And it was right, their CEO, he left and went and did Android. Gosh, dang it. I can't think of it. Netflix, sorry. Novell, it's like Novell Netware, that's it, Netware. Netware, yes, right.

All right, Word Perfect era stuff, man. yeah anyway tom would have that in five seconds oh yeah he'd be had it behind him probably in a box for all we know anyway says uh this dude's got a hell of a resume says this article um in the catholic church according to the bbc became spain's youngest bishop in 2010 41 years old he's also an exorcist and such a big fan of the conversion therapy uh process an opponent of abortion euthanasia and gay marriage that he was considered extreme even by the church's own standards now because he wanted his rap sheet to be a little more colorful uh he has left all that behind him to pursue a relationship with a psychologist and author of the book, Satanic, or no, the author of a satanic tinged erotic fiction book, Sylvia Cabolio. Let's see, he was,

let's see, he initially attributed to personal reasons for his resignation it came as a surprise last month. Let's see, followed by him meeting several times with Vatican officials as well as the Pope himself. I wonder if they didn't a little car with a glass around it, you know? Oh, I bet. Yeah, right, the little Papa

traumatic trouble pomobile. Yeah, that'd be cool. Let's see. In the blurb of one of her works, I should say this is a lady, he's saying, not a dude. It's a lady. Yeah, it's not...

Sylvia Caballon. Yeah, just in case someone was looking for it to be a little more spicy than it is. It's just a lady. In case the satanic, tinged erotic fiction isn't salacious enough. Yeah, if that's not enough. The reader in her books are promised, quote, a journey into sadism, madness, and lust, and a struggle between good and evil.

God and Satan with a plot to shake one's values and religious beliefs, unquote. Oh, yeah, that's his... Anyway, I like the story. Can't wait to read that. Yeah, it'll be a page turner, Brian. You won't be able to stop. You'll be up all night. Here's a story about speaking of flights.

We were talking about flights a little bit, not much more yesterday, but anyway, a woman missed her flight, and then falsely claimed a bomb was on that plane at a Florida airport, according to the sheriff. So they would come back. she could get on the plane? She was just, like, mad, and so she was like, man, there's a bomb on there anyway. Well, let's find out. This 46-year-old woman, aren't they always,

was arrested on Monday night in Fort Lauderdale, Hollywood International Airport, and charged with falsely reporting a bomb, explosive or weapon of mass destruction, according to Broward Sheriff's Office News release. I didn't know that was the thing you could do. You could report a weapon, you could report falsely report a weapon of mass destruction.

I mean, it's a charge that kind of encompasses all those, right? If you falsely report a bomb on a plane, it falls under the jurisdiction of bomb explosive or weapon of mass destruction. In theory, could, could, uh, would, uh, double you also have gotten the same charge? Yeah, if you falsely claim a weapon of mass destruction, then you don't find one. Is that a, I mean, I realize that, you know, presidents are in a high office. You just won't get fooled again. Here's what's going to happen. It's not going to happen.

I'll catch that shoe if you throw it at me. Throw me a shoe. I'll catch it. He was a hell of a shoe catcher that guy. He was. Say what you want. Wherever you land on. I think he caught him.

I think he just dodged him. He didn't catch him. Oh, that's right. He just dodged out of the way. If you want to caught it and thrown it back, oh, man. We would have figured out a way to reelect him a third time. Heck yeah. He'd be in there now, man.

That'd be cool. I can't like reflexes. I just remember being a little. and blown away by that video. Yeah. Because it was two shoes, right? It was. First one shoe

and then he's like looking and then the next shoe comes and he dodges the other direction. Yeah, that was great. I love that. Who throws a shoe? Yeah. Anyway, so here's the deal. The airline employees told responding

deputies that the woman had stayed to the bomb was in her check-in luggage and then it was aboard the plane, the plane that she missed. So she said it was in her own luggage? It was in her own stuff like she did it. She made the claims after workers told her she and her party had arrived too late to board the plane. So this is her revenge, I guess.

I'm guessing there's alcohol involved somehow. Yeah, yeah. Copious amounts of it. The plane was already taxing on the runway, but had not taken off, and it was rerouted. Passengers were evacuated. The plane was searched. No explosives found. She's in huge trouble.

Yeah, she really thought this plan through, right? Yeah. Oh, missed the flight. I'll just told them that my bag had a bomb in it and we'll all just laugh about it and I'll get on the plane when it comes back. Honestly, I don't know what you're thinking. Like, if I'm that lady, what is she thinking?

Right. What benefit is this? Because in her head, she's thinking, she's mad, so I understand she's in a bit of a like, you guys suck kind of mode. Yeah, sour grapes. Sure. But then to say, there's a bomb in my bag

and it's already on the plane. Like, that's going to help get them. Right. And, like, okay, you'll win. we'll pull the plane back so you can get on it. Yeah, that's just about the dumbest weirdest thing. Oh, awesome. Chatroom's still talking

about Novell. Novel, really they got eaten by competition for Microsoft at the end of the day. Like network stuff just they couldn't hold the line. I don't know what they do now. There's still the Novell building over there. I don't know what they do. Something going on.

People... They make quality footwear. Yeah. I had to look at the site because I wanted to see the mugshot of this woman. And she, I was really expecting somebody to look a little methier. She doesn't look as meth as I was expecting. No, she just looks miffed, you know. I guess she's a Chicago woman, not a Florida woman.

She just happened to, uh, happened to be in Florida. Uh, yeah. The windy, the big shoulders, the windy city. That's right. Let's see. Oh, hey, can I, speaking of Chicago, can I just rave about something really quick? Yeah, go ahead. So, uh, here's to the hell of a town.

Go ahead. It's a heck of a town. It's a toddle in town. So, you know, our friend, friend of the show, Barry Folk, who watched our house while we were gone, sent me, as we talked about at the end of the show yesterday, a box of Luminati's pizzas. Oh, right. You kind of say it fast like it's the Illuminati. But Lomaldi's pizzas that UPS had delayed the delivery of by two days, and it didn't get, you know, it wasn't cold. So I opened up the box.

They were cool. The pizzas were cool. They were in a styrofoam container, and there was a bag. that at one point had dry ice in it. Didn't anymore. I got on the phone to Taste of Chicago, or TastesofChicago.com, and maybe was on the, like basically I said,

hi, I got this, you know, this box a friend of mine, bought me some pizzas, and the UPS delayed the delivery, didn't get here in time, blah, blah, blah. And she says, no problem. Give me the code that's on the top of the label on the box. I gave her this code. She says, not a problem.

problem. The four flavors he picked out for you were this. Do you want to change those? I'm like, oh, no, keep them those same four flavors. Great. A new box is on its way to you. Like, 30 seconds, I was on the phone and they had a new box. I didn't have to go through eight customer service people. I didn't have to take a photo and show them or anything like that. Like within 30 seconds, a new box on its way. They probably have some kind of insurance, right? Like a... I'm sure. Oh, I'm sure they put that they, yeah. So they'll report it to UPS and say, it did it again. Yeah. How much of it, like you said you had to throw the other stuff away, was it a lot? Was it like a, you know, garbage bag can full of stuff? Or how much pizza was that? Oh, no, it was for, it was for, um, it was for Irish, uh, Irish roundabout size pizzas. You have this, you have this new size comparison. I love it. That's amazing. Right. Bigger than a personal pan pizza at Pizza Hut, but only, only buy a little bit bigger than that. And four of them. stacked in their deep dish so they're you know three inches thick so they all fit in a single garbage bag which i gave them their own garbage bag tied it because they're going to sit in there for a few days before the trash picks them up so they're like the ones that uh berry you got the same ones i think yeah that berry sent you uh a couple years ago yeah those are those are

about this you're right they're about they're like personal pan pizzas but bonus like a little bigger yeah and uh the sausage one is an entire disc of sausage hidden under the cheese Good. Gosh, dang it. It's something you really ought not eat, but man, if it's in front of me and it's out the oven, I'm eating it. I'm freaking eating it. I mean, you know, if I'm trying to keep a list of like healthy things for me to eat all week, that's not on that list, but I'd still eat it. Holy crap. Heck yeah. Yeah. You don't have to eat the whole thing, right? You just, you know, have a slice and a salad. There you go. Yeah. Yeah, there you have it. All right, we're going to take a, we're going to take a, we're going to take a, we're going to take a, Take a break. When we come back, Justin Robert Youngman will be here. He's going to try to help us make sense of this recall election in California, which is today. Yeah. The voting was yesterday and the results come out today. Is that the deal? Oh, is it results today? Oh, I guess so. Tuesday would have been, right? I think so, yeah. So we should know today the recall status. I wonder if we know yet. We may not know yet. Probably don't know. That stuff takes time. Let's see. Let me just check real quick. Yeah. Newsroom, tight race.

Oh, Sacks Saris is voting today. I thought it was yesterday. The election, okay. Is it always Tuesdays? I thought it's always Tuesdays. I thought so, too, but I could have sworn on Lester Holt yesterday. They were talking about... Lester Holt.

I like Lester Holt, except his lips are missing. They're nowhere to be found. Yeah, right, and he doesn't move. He doesn't learn much when he talks. No, his lips are gone, and he barely moves. But I like him. All right. That's, that'll...

We're saying that it is Tuesday, and those things usually occur on Tuesdays. That's why I was surprised that it was happening yesterday. Oh, wait. Oh, today is Tuesday. Yes. Oh, you, okay, so they were responding to something you said that I missed. Yeah, I think I thought in my head it's Wednesday. It's not Wednesday.

It's Tuesday today. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You're right. I'm just being dumb about time. All right. Jury will be here. That's the point. Yeah.

He can tell us what day of the week it is. He'll start with that. Yeah, we'll figure out. Hello, friends. It's Tuesday. Yeah. And there's going to, there's going to, I have some questions about how, how, how, I forgot what I was going to say

I have questions. That's what I have. And I'll ask him when he gets here. Ask him about the burrito says Claire. Is there some story about a burrito I don't want to know about? Oh, the burrito from last week. Right. Yeah, the Oakland Big burrito. 15 inch burritos. Yeah, we'll ask him. We'll bring that up. All right. Let's, before we do any of that, though, we got to do

some music. Do you have some of that there? Yeah, I do. This one actually got recommended by a buddy of mine, Phil Keating, who um who does the botched uh table top game d and d podcast is really good really good guy uh he recommended this one to me he's a friend of the band a band called gozer uh are they the keymaster or the uh gatekeeper lock picker what was the lock picker what the other the key master and the gatekeeper right gatekeeper that's it yeah i need to i apparently need to watch ghostbusters again because i've forgotten that uh anyway

It's a five-piece rock stoner rock band from Albany, New York that draws influence from classic bands like The Sword, Queens of the Stone Age, Black Sabbath. I can totally hear that. They formed in 2019, and these guys are fantastic. This is from their album, from their self-titled album, their brand new release this year. This is Gozer and the song My Design. She drowning in sisters, forming new blisters. By name's laws are to a fine. She said to Gaga cyanide.

And it's all by one's design. raise dead eyes from a hook hanging victims from a hook what's your pleasure what's your pain because where we're from it's all the same and it's all by one's designed They'll put you six feet under. Mads, killers in the herd Ripped a pile-five blocks of birds

Tempish drinking blood like wine Hotels that can see you shine And it's all by one's design Trapped in object don't touch took and Vitorious dust research Scared by what

Is it seen Forever Chased within a dream And it's all by once design Streams like Under They'll punch you

Six feet under Thank you. L-N-N-B-L-L-B-N-B-A-L-L-A-L-L-A-L-L-A-L-L-B-A-L-L-T-A-L-L-A-L-B-A-L-B-A-L-L-A-B-F. I don't have any silly I don't have any silly prejudice against computers. I like them. Look what's come. He's an android. The morning stream, I got a middle finger. That's such a weird one.

Hey, that song again was? That song again is My Design by the band Gozer. Gozer. Gozer. And for the record, my Justin Robert Young and my Stanley impersonations are totally different. Night and day. Night and day difference. Totally different, you guys. Quit trying to say that the same.

Stanley would say, hello, friends. But my jury says, hello, friends. There you go. See? Like night and day. Yeah, we know the difference, and the difference is clear. All right, sit back and enjoy everybody. We're bringing a guy in.

These are their stories. Oh, I'm terrible with names. Me too. It's Justin Robert Young joining us from his lovely studios down in Austin, Texas. joining us today, talk a little bit about the political landscape we are all faced with. Not really. We're going to talk about California, but Justin, it's good to have you here. How are you?

What's going on? I'm about being terrible with names. I went to a high school reunion last week. Oh, how'd that go? What? Yeah? That was a rough one. Oh, boy, do I not obtain a lot of names from high school. What year was it? Like, how many years since? 20-year high school?

20-year reunion? Okay. Oh, my Lord. But, South Plantation High School. Big shout out. Yeah. I mean, I guess we would, would have just had our 30 and 17? Jeez, we're old. Holy shit. I don't like thinking about that.

But what, did you see people and go, oh my gosh, look at him? I thought he was going to be a high roller Joe. And nope, he lives in a trash can down by the river. What's a, yeah, you didn't show up unless you were in pretty good shape and have a good. And probably under achieving, you just kind of stayed your ass at home. That's right. That's totally it.

when people asked you what you're doing now what was your description did you say audio producer did you say podcaster did you say a streamer yeah was uh it's gaming recognition enough people were like a podcast like I like a podcast like that Zach Braff show

yeah I'm doing that thing and they go and basically now I've I've had enough that it's like oh I do a politics show and then really the conversation almost immediately becomes whether or not I am I am in their tribe of politics. Oh, yeah.

I try to predict who's winning and who's not. And they're like, oh, that's boring. That's almost worse because then, because that's just, it leads immediately to that next thing, which is, oh, which side you find,

you know, pro, you know, like you have to, now you got to go there. I wouldn't want to go. Yeah. I don't know.

I like talking about the issues, so and the news of the day. So I pretty much just start going into, everybody gets their own private version of this segment. You just go, Jill Stein all the time. I'm all about Jill Stein, you say. I'm all the time. Yeah, Jill Stein all the time.

That's right. Well, all right. Speaking of political things. The chat room's going to blow a gasket if we don't stand with the burrito. All right. We'll start with the burrito. So, okay, a week ago or two weeks ago, not even that, week and a half ago, whatever it was.

On the show, a story came up about a 15-inch. Oh, by the way, you mean the week where you had like a billion guest host and I wasn't asked to be a guest hostess? where you were. I actually have a story about that. For anyone who is usually my call or I would call and say, hey, will you want a guest host with me? All of those guest hosts came to me and said, with one exception, said, can I please be on the show? Can I please be on the show? So I said, yes, that'd be great. Let's have you on. You take this day. You take this day. But they were all good. The Philadelphia Eagles said, hey, anybody want to be a quarterback this week? Yeah, quarterback. I don't know. Just curious. Yeah, I know. It was weird. You're on the list. You're always on the list, but, uh, no, I really felt like it when just the parade of guest hosts were showing up last week. Yeah. And you might say, oh, well, that's just, they're all getting their shot. But then you see, you hear that Kim got it twice and you're like, oh, no, wait a minute. Now, now I'm starting to feel like maybe he could have called me. Yeah. No, I feel like. Kim, I feel like would just, you know, like if you could have Kim just do the show, you would, you would, you would. Well, you know, who knows. If Brian wasn't to come home from Ireland,

let's say something weird happened. I don't know what I'd do, but she'd be the easy fallback. No, I'm saying you just wouldn't be on. Like, if you could just like continue to. Kim,

can you just do it again this week? Yeah, she'll just do it. Yeah, have her do it. Talk to Brian and it's all good. So, so, all right.

So there's this story of 15 inch burritos that is like, but it's Oakland. So you've been away for a bit. So I don't know how much you've retained or lost since you've moved. But there was this story about. these mysterious 15-inch burritos that you could get only in Oakland and they were trying to track down the source of it and there was all this talk in this article about these 15-inch burritos and everybody wanted to know did Justin ever experience one know of one know what the heck we're talking about

is it an Oakland thing or is this like an aberration like what the heck is this uh I have never had a 15-inch burrito yeah I was not aware that 15-inch burritos existed until you brought it up now But what I will say is that especially through the pandemic, you had a lot of ghost kitchens, basically. So like a place that there was like an umami burger by us that like on the apps was four different restaurants. Oh my gosh. Right. A sushi restaurant, the umami burger and then wings or chicken somethings like chicken fingers or whatever. Yeah.

So it does not surprise me. that in an effort to kind of differentiate themselves maybe on the apps or or something like that, somebody decided that they were going to be the 15-inch burrito people. All right. So maybe it sprung out of that. That's my guess, having literally no idea, except while we were waiting, people kept screaming about the 15-inch burrito in Oakland. And I know that there is no, like, famous place. right like you know if people were coming to visit while I was still there I'd be like

you gotta go to the 15 inch burrito right it's not like that but if I were to guess I would say it's probably the product of some Mexican restaurant that is operating either as themselves or as a ghost kitchen out of a burger kitchen or something yeah yeah ghost kitchens that's a I've never heard the term ghost kitchen or the concept of that that's fascinating to me like I mean you might have ordered it I mean I don't know how much you are in the in the uber eats or or postmates lifestyle but certainly uh if you are ordering from those apps and especially during the pandemic that was just the way that you could kind of at least pay somebody or at least pay your friend is you know it takes a lot of money to operate at half

capacity and that's in in many ways for restaurants kind of a death sentence because you have to bring on X amount of people to run the front of the house for any number of people and if you were capped at that, then there was only so much money you could make. Yeah. But if you just got one or two cooks, you can take these kind of, uh, these kind of orders. And if you're running three restaurants, quote unquote, out of one kitchen, now theoretically you could triple your business. That's interesting. It does make me, we did a lot of, uh, door dash during that time. And it makes me wonder if we ever got like a, a burger that a guy at a pizza place made. You know what I mean? Like, now I wonder. There was a

wings there was a some wings place that we knew hadn't opened up a restaurant here but was like oh 15 minute delivery is like well where the heck could they be and it was one of those like a pop-up wings place in another everything for wings specifically all you really got to do is buy wings in bulk make a bowl of sauce yeah fryer like for fries or calumery or anything else so if you're already running a deep fryer you might as well toss some wings in there as well and then you toss it in Frank's Red Hot get it out the door. See, these are the pandemic documentaries

I'm waiting for. I don't care about the... I don't want to talk about how the vaccine came to be and where they rushed it and how got approved and the government and all. I don't want any of that.

I want like behind the scenes weird on the ground stories about just that weird six to eight to ten months period where everybody was scrambling to figure out what the crap to do. That's what I want. That's the series.

Ken Burns get on it. And let us know how that goes. It probably won't be Ken Burns, but it'd be fun if you, funny if it was. And it would start with this. Whoops. See, we go. My dearest burrito. You're 15 inches.

All right. Let's get to this California recall business here. Today's the day. This is voting day, although pre-voting's been happening, I guess, for however long California allows that. A mail-in ballot to everybody, whether or not you were marked as being a mail-in ballot voter. So that is a difference in California, which by and large has been a heavy mail-in-ballot voting state. Like, I always wound up getting a mail-in ballot when I live there, even though I'm a nerd who likes to go to a polling place and kind of have that ceremonial element to it. But everybody got a ballot.

You've had fairly high turn-in so far. Obviously, it's very hard to kind of compare it to anything, since it is, especially. election and something that has not happened since 2003. So far, so good for Gavin Newsom in terms of the amount of ballots that have come in, but of course, election day is election day. So the only thing I've really heard about it in the last couple of days was that it seems to be a bit of a playbook thing, but it seems like Larry Elder is already claiming that there's kind of conceding, not conceding, but maybe saying that Newsom is still. thing, but it's because there's fraud or whatever.

Funny. These stories, you know, evolve. Yeah, of course. Because, like, that is your... So here's what happened. On Larry Elder's site, there is... Or I don't even know if it is Larry Elder's site, because this only popped up today.

There is a group that apparently has funding from Larry Elders campaign. Okay. these packs are or these kinds of groups can be a little hard to track down exactly where the money's coming in. But on the site, there is a button that says report fraud here. And that link goes to a site that is seemingly talking about, you know, basically tomorrow saying like, well, Gavin Newsom still governor. But it's because fraud was. Oh, this is like the, this is like, I don't know, the Patriots having two shirts made. One of them says we're the winner and the other one says, ah, we did good.

We were there, but we didn't win. That's what that sounds like to me. That's weird. That's weird, right? That's weird. Yeah, I mean, and let me plead ignorance on this because I have not done all of my research into this particular thing because I've been writing and recording the episode about the actual election. the what I don't know is exactly what this website's group is because it very quickly becomes

Larry Elder officially said and and that's that's where things tend to get like a little conflated when it's like whether or not all right so is it if it's not as official website which is what is my understanding is and it's a outside group that is supporting him then what is the culpability directly to the candidate for that group. And that is something that right now, I don't know. Let me just make very clear that I've not looked at. The thing I saw was it was some video clip of him talking and a reporter asked him if tomorrow the results are in favor of Newsom, well, you concede.

And he said he couldn't commit to it right now or something like that. So it was one of those things of like, well, you accept the election results. And he was like, well, I don't know how close it's going to be. Yeah. Well, right. And maybe that's all he means. And so, you know. Well, and also there's no recourse for him.

He could say he lost illegitimately on his radio show till the end of time, and he might. But it's like, does that matter? Well, it matters in that they, I mean, is there recourse? Could you say there has to be recounts till whenever at infinitum? Like, I don't know how that stuff works in California. I don't know what their laws are like. I don't know. There might be a recount provision if it's very, very close.

but I don't think that otherwise you can't just loudly declare recall and then everybody has to count the ballots again. Yeah. Okay. Well, so at this stage, does it, is Newsome ahead with the no recall vote or what's the, you know, where we're at? The polling, look, the polling was very, very close at the end of September, or at the end of August. Well, on August 30th, the Real Clear Politics average was recall was yes on recall by 2%. as of yesterday, it was no on recall by 15.2%. So that is a pretty, pretty, pretty big swing.

The Democrats have certainly woken up, at least in terms of the polling. Gavin Newsom at this point looks safe. He had a tremendous ad advantage, especially down the stretch. He had big guns come in and campaign for him, up to an including home state girl Kamala Harris, current vice president, and of course, President Joseph Robinette Biden, Jr., who came out in campaign for him a couple days ago. He, I think, has benefited a lot from Larry Elder

breaking out of the pack and becoming the number one person that Newsom could kind of train his fire on. In fact, Joe Biden came out and during his campaign, you know, explicitly tied Larry Elder to Trump, saying that he was a Trump clone. So that's really what Gavin Newsom's strategy has been this entire time is to brand this as a Republican-specific recall, which is slightly rich, considering there's so many, there's such a tremendous Democratic advantage, photo registration advantage. You wouldn't really be able to muster a recall effort unless Democrats were also mad at you. But nobody has really been able to break through that.

And even Larry Elder, who has, by the polling, broken out of the rest of the pack, he is the most charismatic and I'm going to say the things that nobody else wants to say, which runs right into the caricature of the fact that Donald Trump is puppeteering a recall attempt from, you know, beyond the political grave. Sure. So did that Rose McGowan business push the needle in any direction or another? She was, that was supposed to be a big deal for Larry Elder. Do you know if that made a difference? I don't know. If a celebrity made. makes a difference or not. Do they ever make a difference? I don't even know what the hell you're talking. Oh, so, you know, machine gun, leg, what's her name? From, uh, no, I don't know who Rose McGowan is. Yeah, so she came, she came out and did like a, very elder.

Yeah, she came out to a big presser event thing and, and pushed for elder or whatever. And, and I remember it was, or when I, when I saw it, I thought, oh, that's, okay. Well, now we got, now we got all these, you know, potential celebrities involved. And I wondered who the other side was going to drag out. And then I remember the Met Gallo was happening. And then I went and laughed at those people for an hour. So I lost track of it, that's what I'm saying. I don't know really what happened with it.

Well, that puts you ahead of me who never found it. No, I don't particularly think that Rose McGowan moved the political needle much. Although, if she had come out with a machine gun on her leg, going to win against Gavin Newsom, you had to make this a post-party issue. There's not enough Republicans in California to win on saying, I'm going to bring Republican values to California. They're just ain't enough of them. It is a tremendous voter registration advantage for the Democrats.

And so Gavin Newsom should win this handling. In fact, if it is in any way close, it really is an indictment considering the fact that, again, no Democrats should really ever lose, especially one that's very, very rich and well connected like Gavin Newsom is. The question largely will be after this is strategically, what could an opposition candidate have done? done to tie the frustrations that a lot of California residents have to Gavin Newsom without this being, or to neuter the idea that this is some Donald Trump, uh, engineered plot. Yeah. Because Gavin Newsom is very much painting himself as a totally, uh, you know, it's not like he's saying, hey, it's been a little rough guys. He's saying like, oh my God, this is, this is the worst thing

ever. Look, they're, they're trying to, like, this is basically a coup, uh, that, that, that, the Donald Trump personally is trying to do in California. And so far, he's been able to make that work for him, which means to me that there was no opposition candidate that was able to paint a narrative that was more sympathetic to an average California voter, despite the fact that there are things via polling that people are upset about in California. So are there, so when today will you know? When's the, when's polls close? I guess we won't know because it's always counting, right? Is that true? I don't know for sure, for sure if there is a substantial, like, you know, a 15% lead.

And, like, basically, yes on recall is not going to win via mail imbalance because that has, by and large, been heavily Democratic voters. So if yes on recall is a little bit ahead by tonight, then it probably loses if no on recall is ahead after all the election day stuff is counted then almost certainly Gavin Newsom is safe. The only situation that you would really be a sweated out is if yes on recall was ahead by like eight points by the end of tonight and then we see that whittle away, whittle away, whittle away by mail and ballots being counted. All right.

So if he stays in or if he leaves, the person taking over his term would end in 23. His term ends in 2023. And just one reminder for people who are following this very, very closely. The California recall is a two question ballot. Question one, should Gavin Newsom be recalled or not? Yes or no? And then the second is who should replace him if yes.

Gavin Newsom is officially telling all of his supporters vote no and leave the second one blank. but should yes win should that get even a simple majority so gavitt and newsome could get 49.9% of the vote and yes could get 50.1% of the vote he's gone and then at that point the person who is highest on the who should replace him whether or not it's a majority is the governor for the next year and change how would you feel if everybody put in that line Gloria Young, then how would you feel? What do you think about that?

Because then she would literally take over and be the governor for a year and a half or whatever. That would be challenging since she's not a resident of California. You know, so she would have some, she would have some residency questions that would be, that would be brought up. Yeah.

She would have to do some creative, some creative accounting to show that she never moved from San Diego in 90s. She still has to be. She has my vote, no matter what. So that would be, that would be a question. The one candidate that I was really, really impressed with was a YouTuber who we actually interviewed on the politics, politics, politics podcast called Meet Kevin

Pavraff. Meet Kevin is his name on YouTube. Paffraff is his actual name. He has been polling by Real Clear Politics Average, a second behind Larry Elder. He is a Democrat that is running a very critical campaign against Gavin News. some, but not unlike you or me, just a guy on the internet with a fan base who decided to run in this race and has gotten statewide and national attention in outpacing the likes of actual career politicians that are sitting in either the California State Senate or have

run major cities before, and Caitlin Jenner, whose candidacy was a total and complete joke. Yeah, that didn't go anywhere. and that's probably okay She went somewhere She went to Australia to film a reality television competition She went on his big other show

So it's almost Yeah it's almost like she never intended actually to take any of this seriously And it was all just sort of a She got fleeced by a couple of different campaign people that that gassed her up And said she was going to be the next governor And then just kind of left with the money

Well, that's what you get High stakes politics baby Don't get in there if you don't want to be in there Hey, Justin, you may as well let people know where they can find some of this coverage because, you know, there's going to be plenty of it this week. Where should people go? What should they look for? Two part episode on the recall for PX3 today. You can go ahead on over and follow politics, politics, politics on the podcatcher of your choice. But the episode will be part one that'll come out around mid-afternoon today and then after great night. So I may or may not be drunk. while I record part two the results are that are available

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play music. Brian has brought. Yes. This one's going out to Yavang in the chat room, Troy, in real life. Troy is a winemaker who sent me some awesome peach wine years ago. He says, hello, Scott, Brian, and my Tadpool friends. Greetings from southeast Louisiana.

This place is a living hell at the moment. He wrote this on the third. So, um, A little under a couple weeks ago. The heat index is 100 degrees, and we've been without power for a week now. It'll probably be another week or two before it gets restored. The non-perishable food and water situation is not great. Gas is extremely difficult to find.

After two failed attempts, my car is almost unempty, so I can't even leave town. We have a good community here. I know I won't starve or die of thirst, but it's pretty miserable, and it probably will be for a while longer. Thankfully, I've been able to charge my phone using a small solar pound. My gosh, the stuff you're having to go through. Listening to your podcast gives me a small semblance of normalcy. Brian, I'd like to request a song. Can you find a song that reminds us of cooler temperatures or maybe just something uplifting?

Thank you. P.S., it's a little like Mad Max Fury Road down here. Maybe Scott would like to come for a visit. Bring snacks and gas. Ha ha. I got family down there. I, you know, sure. Why not?

Let's go. Mad Max, Fury Road. Let's go. There you go. Man, Troy, I hope things get better for you. I hope things have gotten better for you down there, and I hope things continue to get better for you. I haven't kept up on how things are going, been out of the loop, sadly. But I wanted to play a cover that should hopefully keep you cool.

It is a song called Cool. It's a cover of the song by Gwen Stefani, which I think was a description of a relationship with Gavin Rostale from Bush after their break, how they're still cool and they're still friends. I don't know. I don't know if that's the case, but that's what the lyrics make me think. This covers by Caitlin Tarver from her album, I'm sorry, from the single she released in 2019. And it's just got that cool, no pun intended, electronic sound with reverb vocals that I really like. Here is Caitlin Tarver and her cover of Cool. it's hard to remember how it felt before now i found the love of my life passes things get more comfortable everything is going right and after all the obstacles it's good to see you now with someone else and it's such a miracle that you and me are still good friends after all that we've been through

I know we're cool oh I know we're cool impossible now you call me by my new last name memories seem like so long ago time always gives the pain remember how we're full little farted dreaming days where the miss was made look how all the kids have grown on we have changed but we're still the same and of all that we've been through i know we're cool i know we're cool yeah i know we're cool i know we cool i know we cool and i'll be happy for you if you could be happy for me happy for me Circles and triangles And now we're hanging out with your new girlfriend

So I'm far from where we've been I know we're cool I know we cool Cool Cool Yeah, yeah I know we're cool I know we're cool

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Mm-hmm.