The Morning Stream - TMS 2180: Hey Mr. Tambourine Monk

Episode Date: September 28, 2021

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I'm coming for you, you son of a bitch. The Morning Stream, it's Toad's Fat. It is Toots Fat. Welcome back to the show, everybody. It is a Tuesday edition of the morning stream, TMS, if you will. It's the 28th of September 2021. I'm Scott Johnson, and that's Brian Abbott. Hi, Brian. Well, hi, Scott Johnson.

After his whirlwind trip to California, yes. That's right. clip you just played of Super Friends, of Wonder Woman. Remind me that I always felt like Wonder Woman's voice was a little too old for her, for her art, for her body. Oh, yeah, totally. Actually, I would argue almost every character in that iteration of Super Friends was like that. Yeah, they get too old voice actors, yeah. Like Flash.

Flash sounds like he's 65 years old, and, you know, I don't know why they did that. It's weird. I guess Superman maybe sounds the youngest, but everybody else. Hey, Batman, we're going to go after Mr. Freeze before I get down to the top 40 countdown. Yeah, holy this and holy that. That's the way they ran back then. And drive the mystery machine to go check out some more spooky artifacts. Oh, see?

That's a good reference. But anyway, we're back. Hey, you probably yesterday went, wait, where was the show? And then you got a show, but then you're like, this isn't the normal show. Like, what is going on? What happened? And the answer is, Brian, Brian got home at like 3 o'clock in the morning. Okay.

You want to explain this? Tell everybody what the hell happened. Yeah. Yeah, so my buddy Chris Brown, this was his birthday. As a matter of fact, today is his actual birthday. So happy 60th to Mr. Chris Brown. Yeah. So this was his brother's trip.

They basically said, hey, come out to California. Oh, no, I should do the Bruce Willis, right? Come to California. We'll have a few laughs. Yeah, get into an air duct and try not to get killed by Germans, right? Exactly. And they said, hey, we will pay for your flight. Also, invite Brian.

And so he did the invite Brian thing. They took a little bit longer to arrange his flight. So he said, ah, screw it, I'll just do it. And so we went on to Southwest's and said, ooh, what a great deal. $59 each way to San Francisco from Denver sold. And then he told me the times and the flight numbers and I booked the same thing. Now, what you don't take into account when you pick the cheapest flight is what time you're actually going to be flying. Our flight was scheduled to leave San Francisco last night at 8.30 p.m., which is 9.30 Denver time, 930 Mountain.

It got delayed 30 minutes, so it left at about 9 o'clock local, at 9 o'clock Pacific, 10 o'clock here. then you've got a two-hour flight and then you've got to figure out how you're going to get home from the airport because there's no there's no friend I'm going to call upon to say hey do you mind picking me up at midnight from the airport yeah because that's I mean friends are friends and they'll do what they can for you but oh boy that's like exactly and our plan was always just going to be you know we'll just take we'll just get an Uber and will split the cost of an Uber, and it'll be about 40 bucks. Well, about 40 bucks if you're traveling during normal times of day. And also, you know, Uber and Lyft are both very short on drivers right now,

so they can charge whatever the heck they want. And so getting off the plane, walking towards the train to baggage claim, we didn't have any bags to claim, but it's, you know, it's what you do. Sure. And I'm looking on Uber, and it's like, oh my God,

it's 80 bucks right now well all right we'll just you know split the cost 120 bucks to fly to san francisco and two-thirds of that cost to get a ride back from the airport oh oh my gosh that's a lot so but you know we're we're not yet on the train and the train is running really really like they've only got one car on the service at dia because it's so late they're disinfecting all of the other trains so i think only one of them was running one of the the six that they have going at any given time And so we're waiting and waiting. Finally, get on the train, get out to where you can pick up an Uber or a Lyft.

I looked then at the prices. They've shut up another $40, $120 for an Uber. And Lyft is saying, well, you can try us. We'll be about $60, but we don't have a lot of drivers out right now, so you probably won't get a ride. Like, you actually have a thing in their app that says, yeah, right now you probably won't get a ride. Oh, that sucks. so uh how long of a drive are we talking here we're not talking like we're driving about a 40 40 minute drive okay um so so it's not miles from here it's still it's a fair it's a fair

distance for it's a fair distance and um uh so i'm like oh man it's 120 bucks i don't want to pay the same amount uh that it took to go to san francisco to go to take an uber so i'm like oh well all right here's the deal there is there is now light rail that goes from the airport to downtown. And at normal times of the day, I've even taken the light rail all the way back to Arvada, but the Arvada trains, that's not running this late. But I think it'll be cheaper to take the light rail from the airport to downtown, then get an Uber and take the Uber from downtown to Arvada. Sure enough, we get on the train, I start plugging away at doing the scheduler ride, which is way, way better because

you're saying, well, I'm going to need a ride in about 45 minutes. And then that way, you're not waiting and watching a bunch of drivers say, oh, I'll take your ride. Ah, cancel. And then they cancel out. That sort of thing. So I got it scheduled. Sure enough, 25 bucks, which is great. So the $10 each for a ticket on the light rail, and then $25 total to take us the rest of the way to Arvada. And here's the thing. Uber's got this new deal where when you look at who the driver is and what car they're going to be arriving in because you want to make sure you get in the right car, there's a little fun fact that that that driver has put into their profile, a little icebreaker, if you will. Oh, I'm nervous about what his said now. Well, his said, I lived with monks in New York City for three months. And I know it's meant to be this sort of like, so you lived with monks in New York City.

for a few months. Tell us about that. I'm sure that's what it is. It's like a way to opening conversation. Neither one of us really cared to even talk. We've been talking all weekend and it was late and we're both tired. We just didn't want to do a conversation and the driver seemed to

kind of respect that. So we got in the car, this nice little Hyundai Elantra, and he had some really cool lounge music, kind of like modern electric piano know, but good kind of lounge music.

I'm trying to think of, like, something you'd hear in an upscale restaurant in Las Vegas while you're eating food that's really tiny on a big plate. Oh, okay. I get it. You know, I'm talking about it. Sure, sure. Like, all right, yeah, this is good. We'll be home, you know, home in about 30 minutes.

So this will be great. Well, that song ends. And a new song comes on that I can only describe as, probably, performed by the Hara Krishna's, I'm not sure so it's like his playlist all of a sudden

jumped to monk music probably, you know, maybe from his buddies in New York City. Oh yeah, from his time there. Yeah, and the song is

alternating, what I'm guessing is Tibetan and say, yeah, and then, and then, so it's one guy

who sounds like he's about 94 singing these incoherent verses, followed by a choir of people singing those same incoherent verses. Oh, wow. And this is, again, give me a time? This is like 3 o'clock in the morning? This is about 2.30 in the morning. This isn't the right music for 2.30. All right. Continue. No, it is not. And, yeah, it's like, oh, I got to, if I fall asleep in the back of this

Uber. Yeah. And it just alternates back. him forth. And again, um, we are just leaving downtown on about a 40, 30 to 40 minute drive, because we've got to, we've got to go to Chris Brown's house first drop him off and then go the, the remaining 15 minutes to my house. Sure. That makes sense. Um, each stanza of this song is that deal. Repeating 94 year old man or, yeah, 94 year old man and then the choir sing the same bit of music that he is. But they keep adding new instruments. So, oh, here's a little sitar added to this one, and now we've got the sitar, and now we're even adding some tambourine to this one, and then some kind of, you know, that drum that George Harrison tried to put in

every Beatles song after 1967. Yeah, he was into it. He liked that a lot. He was into that. This song, Scott, lasted, and basically, as soon as soon as the song started, Chris Brown looks over to me, and he pulls down his mask just to mouth the word. Icebreaker. Not even saying it, just mouthing it even better.

It's mouthing the word icebreaker. And I was like, yeah, yeah, it's exactly what this is. Was it a bit like this, hold on. I got some, wait, this is a good. I want some. I'm looking for throat music. Was it like that? Oh, wasn't Toove and Throat singing.

That would have been great. Because there's a great, nothing else matters, Tuven Throat version, Metallica. Nothing else matters done with Tuven Throat. singing. I would be there for that. That sounds all right. That's right. Yeah. Well, it, uh, uh, continued on. We dropped Chris Brown off. Continue to my house. That song was at least 23, 23 to 24 minutes long, based on my, my guesstimate. He got like some kind of meditation track that goes for two hours and he just plays it kind of thing. I don't know. I don't know, but, uh, hey, thank you for the ride.

No tip for you. No tip for you. Namaste. Yeah. No tip. You need namaste. It's too bad it wasn't. Oh, well, like that Mongolian stuff.

Oh, yeah. Do you have a didgeridoo track that you can play after? No. Maybe a didgeridoo duet with bagpipes. Do you have that? Could you play some of that for me? No, but now you're making me want to make a new playlist after the show today. Sure.

Well, we missed having you. We weren't, we had no show yesterday. Yeah, so I showed up at the house at 3 o'clock, got to bed at 3.30. You know, just basically got enough stuff out of my bag to be able to hook up my CPAP and all that sort of thing. But, man, what a great weekend. It really was just a fantastic weekend. And the Brown Brothers took such good care of us. Friday, I'm sorry, no, Sunday, during the day, we went to Bolinas, as we talked about on TMSPM, this place called Bolinas.

town called Linus, which is right on the coast of the Pacific Ocean, you've got the Pacific Ocean, and then this bay to the east. And on the way there, we stopped and picked up bags of oysters, freshly caught oysters, still, you know, sealed up in their shells, took them to their friend DJ's house, and DJ has this view from his deck of the entire Pacific Ocean, San Francisco, off in the distance, the mountains between us and, like, Sausalito, obscuring the Bay Bridge except for one little tip of the bridge that you can see on the horizon. And we sat out there. And he's a billionaire or something, right? He's not.

He got, he got, I mean, he's probably a millionaire, but he, a millionaire, but he got in on this house. and he's refurbishing it. The house is maybe three or four rooms. It's teeny tiny. Two people will be fine in there. Three people might be a little crowded, you know, two people and a parents and a kid. But one of his neighbors is freaking Francis McDormand. Oh, wow.

And she lived in a van and pooped in a bucket. So how much space does she need? She's out in the back. She's right next door in an open field in a van taking a dump. Exactly. That's all she needs. but we get some extra smalls and he shook those put those on the half shell with some uh we threw some cocktail sauce and some um horse radish in there and stuff and then the other ones still sealed he put on the grill for a few minutes they pop open then you shuck the you take the top part of the shell off you put a little maybe barbecue sauce or a minionette or something like that put them back on the grill and it cooks them and these were freaking amazing.

And we just sat out on his back deck for hours listening to Alexa play some gin blossoms and some Toad the Wet Sprocket eating oysters and what a great capper. That sounds amazing right there. The only time oysters are not good. I don't like a raw on the, I'm not a raw oyster guy. Oh, I like those two. The first ones we had, we split a dozen just raw on the half shell, which I love. It just feels like you're horking down bugs.

I don't like the feeling of it. Yeah. Yeah, for everyone. Definitely not for everyone. One of the worst, worst single food poisoning events of my entire life in my 20s was after a bunch of oysters. Really? Oh, that would do it then. That would be, yeah, that would be the thing that would be like, yep, yes, I won't be having these ever again.

Yeah, like cook them all the way through. I'm in. I'm always in. Give me a raw one and I'm like, yeah, probably not anymore. I'll text you a photo really quick. Oh, yeah. You can share it with the chat room. You got pictures of yourself horking down bugs? And not of me horking them down, but certainly of what the grilled ones look like.

I'm going to see it. You'd probably like the grilled ones because they don't taste. They're not bugger consistency. They're more like, you know, when you get like a chepino, you get muscles. Oh, yeah, yeah. And that kind of consistency or clams or that sort of thing. Oh, these look nice. Yeah.

All right, chat, here you go. I'm going to see this. These are beautiful. Hold on. I want it open up. They're not opening. Great. Hold on. I'll put it right here. Okay. Check this out. It's kind of going over Brian's face. That's all right. That's all right. Put it over my face. Yeah. We'll put it over your face. How yummy those things look. Shrink them down. They look really good. Yeah. A cooked like oysters like proper, proper cooked oysters. That looks really good.

And you can, you know, you and Kim could do this. Just go to the seafood store, get a dozen oysters. then just cook them like that, put them on the grill, wait until they open, pop the half of the shell off, put some barbecue sauce or some shiracha, even some, I don't know, kimchi or something in there, and then cook them the rest of the way, and they are fantastic. Well, I'd eat them now if I could. Do you have anything to say about this dude in his Batman costume? That's why I forgot about that, dude. Yeah, I never want to see the Dark and Hight Rise

If that's If that's what he's going to be wearing Yeah, we were just, we were walking, we were driving Back through San Francisco on our way to the airport And we saw this guy and And he's just out using his phone just walking around, just out Just out using his phone. There was a

So this is near the Castro district of San Francisco, which is probably a good concentration of LGBT-Q-plus people. It's kind of more of a center for that. And already a town that's very supportive and very, you know, very equal in its treatment of LGBT. Just to head off the chat, that is not Leo Lipport, guys. That is not. No, by the beard, it's clearly Justin Robert. Yeah, it's clearly jury coming back to his stomping grounds for a weekend or something. Exactly.

Anyway. So there was some festival that was going on, and I imagine he was dressed like that because of that. Although we didn't see anybody else in any sort of weird get-ups or costumes or anything like that. But it was, oh, there it is, yeah, Folsom Street Fair is. Oh, okay. C.S. Pond, that's exactly what it was. Fulsome Street Fair. Was this after the thing had ended?

And he was just a... Yes. And he was just walking home, checking his... Checking his... Checking the Instagram. Checking his Graham messages. Yeah. He was the dregs at the bottom of the festival teacup.

That's right. Kind of hanging around. That's great. I was starting to chafe. So I used to be, I was starting to chafe. So I had to get Alfred come pick me up. Well, awesome. That guy looked great when you sent me that.

Well, actually, he sent me this picture. It was a much bigger photo. And he's like way off. Yes, that's what I wanted you to do. This is, like, I sent you a large picture because I'm not going to zoom in. I want you to be like, oh, what's this in the middle? Whoa! I have a tendency to do that anyway.

Someone will send me a thing, and I'll notice something that I'm not even supposed to see. Yes. Yeah, you look in the background for stuff. Yeah, in this case, he was obviously. And you send it back to them with a picture of what was in their picture that they might not have realized. Exactly. And in this case, that was obviously who I was supposed to see. But still, it's a thing I enjoy.

I wanted to go. I know. I checked that Oyster's picture to make sure there was nothing on the table that you'd focus in on and zoom in. Oh, yeah, you got to, see, that's the thing. I could find, like, an address or somebody. Right, exactly. Somebody's a little weed bowl or whatever. Credit card number sitting on the table, yeah.

Yeah, we don't want that. So I got a, I have a, you know, once in a while, life gives you a good ending, all right, and a happy ending. And I'm going to tell you about one I had. Okay. Real quick here. I just think it's a, this was a heartening moment for me, so I thought I would share it with TMS because it's also a show this person listens to, but. Oh, good. Some time ago, I don't know, it's been maybe a week, a couple weeks maybe.

I was getting all snarky in a post or something on, I came over what the post even was. But anyway, I'd put it on Reddit as well as Twitter and other places. And somebody on Reddit, like, reacted really, really angrily and was like, oh, I see you're still the worst. And when I met you back in, you know, 2015. you were really rude and all this stuff. So it was just like this altercation that I didn't expect. And I was like, whoa, what is this? And there was like a half second where I was like,

well, I'm just going to shut this down. I never talk to this person because this is dumb and why are they trolling me or whatever. And then for, and I almost did that, almost just kicked him off the thread. And it was our Reddit page so I can, you know, moderate all that if I want. And instead, I decided to reach out with a PM, a private message and just say, did you really have like a bad experience with me in 2015 because I don't remember any of this like no memory of this so I did that and uh he explained what it was and it was while we were blizzcon and we got into the uh it's a long story but we've gotten to the the meet up late

because of all the stuff that was going on because I always am it's always busy for me there and yeah you pulled in every direction of blizzcon I'm like even when when I'm there with you it's impossible to really get any time. It's hard to get anywhere or have any time or stop and smell the roses. It's just kind of a hard thing. So anyway, that was part of it, but it was also just, I was a little flustered. The next morning was all this stuff. And, you know, I always got a million things playing.

So anyway, it was a bunch of that. And then some of the shows had rubbed him wrong and some other stuff. Anyway, so he's just kind of mad and sort of had put the, show and us behind it and so anyway we had this big long conversation and I kept going back and forth trying to understand his point of view and I think he made some decent points and and uh and I was able to explain myself in terms of you know uh where my head was at or where my head's at now or you know all these sorts of things and um by the end of it I real this guy's awesome he's a really nice guy he's back listening to the show he might be hearing this today and going on crap I shouldn't

I hope I'm not out of turn talking about that interaction, but I just wanted to put it out there that occasionally online altercation slash, you know, moments of grumpiness can find resolution if you really want to find it. And both parties kind of have to be reasonable human beings. Right, exactly, willing to say, listen as opposed to immediately say, ah, you're crazy, I'm not even going to listen to a word you say. what I'm you know yeah that's basically exactly right and so if that happened here and I was just really it was really cool to to go through that and he and I've chatted since he seems like a totally cool dude I could totally hang around with like totally nice guy and just a string of misunderstanding the sort of time we were in like just a lot of factors there and it was a huge relief to just get that one of these you know smooth So, I wanted to say to, I don't know how you say is this, this username, though, Shachabe, was that how you'd say it? That's how I would say it, Shesh, Sheskabe. Syskabe.

Because S-C-H also could be Skah, Skis-Skabe. I'm sure I'm getting it wrong, but anyway, if you're out there and you're listening, just thanks for that. It was a heartening interaction, and it wouldn't have been possible if he hadn't have been open-minded to it, and I tried to be as well, and I think there's just a lesson in there. So, you know. Well done. Yeah.

Sometimes you ever see that video that those two dogs that want to kill each other and all that's between them is a little teeny fence and they're going, hey, right, right, hey, right, bark on their teeth are bared. And then they slowly pull the fence back. And then the dogs get all normal and just sit there and look at each other. Really? I haven't seen that. That's really funny.

It's got a term, barrier something, barrier aggression. And basically, the internet is a form of barrier aggression or it can be. So, yeah, that's what it is. Barrier aggression. So the idea in dogs and maybe other animals, I don't know, and I guess in people, if there's, well, like, think of road rage. You're separated by cars, and that's it, right? There's a car over here. He cut you off.

Now you're flaming mad and you just assume that guy fall off a cliff and die. You don't know him. You don't know a thing about him, but because you have these barriers, your aggression can just go off. And that's like that with those dogs. And I think that there's a version of that online for people. and and yeah he and I got over Captain Kipper just put it

oh yeah that video's great I should show this yeah it's just the fact that like oh then once they get to this opening they're like old chummy although their tails are wagging I guess that's not really always a not always

not always a like oh they're just being friendly you'll still get your and this is the different one that I'd saw the one I saw was a tiny little wooden gate and they slid it open they would stop barking they would shut it they'd start barking again they'd open it up like they could do it over and over this is more like the the funny aspect of these dogs that are like really wanting to go at it don't realize that three feet to their right there's an opening that they could get to each other if they wanted to dogs are kind of stupid as it turns out yeah yeah anyway so thanks thanks

shaheb for uh being a source of uh i don't know renewed yeah yeah yeah i hope right that that maybe this could be a maybe the world could do this maybe both sides can finally just say hey you know i didn't agree with you on your whole choice for a stupid president uh four years ago or your choice your stance on uh keeping the world from dying but uh but you do like this thing that i like too so i guess we have some similarities after all yeah we're both raiders fans or whatever it is exactly uh do you lose any money in football this week do you have any uh yes i lost a lot of money that I never got to bet because when I got to San Francisco and started trying to place my bets, my app reminded me, oh, betting's not legal in California, and we can tell you're in California. So, sorry, even though your account is Colorado, you can't place bets in... I didn't know that about California. I thought you could there. No, they have some gambling, but they don't allow sports betting.

And it was just such a, it was such a bummer because I looked back at all the bets. I would have made, and I'm sure I would have done better. Like, I'm sure I would have made more than I would have lost. And then last night, I was just too exhausted to get some money in on the Cowboys game, but I would have won that one, too, because I would have picked Cowboys for the over. Yeah. Did Green Bay end up winning? They did.

Oh, and what an exciting finish to that game. I missed it. Holy cow. I keep hearing all the primetime games so far this year have been insane, like really good games, which is unusual for the. this early in the season? It is. Your first week or two of games are usually not this exciting.

And it bums me out because I haven't watched any of it, but I keep hearing it's like, this is the time to be watching some football. Oh, it totally is. It's a good season this year. They've got a lot of good characters. And they've really, they've got some new writers, so the action's a lot better. Yeah, yeah. It's really believable this year.

It's really believable. Yeah, they've, yeah. Excellent. All right. We are going to do, we haven't been able to do this for a while. So we're going to do some news, and you're going to enjoy it at home, whether you like it or not. It's time for the news. Brought to you by.

Brought to you by brought to you by raw oysters on the half shell. If you think that they're really good, it's not. Brian improv did all that, by the way. Well done. I did. Thank you. Thank you very much. You can tell by the poor delivery.

I think it was all right. Because I went plural to singular because they're not, would not have had the joke of it's not. Right? If you think it's tasty, it's snot. Yeah, very well done. That's what I should have said. It was very good. All right.

Check this out. The world's fastest accelerated roller coaster had to close. Now, when you say accelerated, it's like the ones that are, you know, they really push the speed. Right. As opposed to just letting gravity pull you through the ride. They've got built-in acceleration, maglev or whatever. Yeah. Well, they close it because they have been breaking rider's bones.

Riter is not one guy. It's a multitude of people. Oh, geez. Oh, I've seen this. Oh, yeah. It's, I don't recommend seeing it if I were to make a recommendation. I mean, I've seen this sort of in person from a distance. Oh, I think you meant you saw a video of people breaking their legs.

I would recommend not doing that. No, I've not seen that. But when we were in Tokyo, we were on our way to Mount Fuji on a tour bus thing. And we went right by this. And I took a picture of it. It's like, oh, my God, that ride, I don't know if I could do it. And now I won't. Yeah, I can't do it.

Did you see the, the esports kid that was celebrating so hard on stage that he threw his, completely dislocated his shoulder, just fist pumping? No. Yeah. So he gets up. So he's playing, right? Whatever it was, it was super intense. I don't even know what the game was.

He wins. he's on some sort of stage he kicks his chair back flies up just jumping in the air reach him for the sky with his fist he's so excited that he won and he's literally just swing punching into the air and on like the third or fourth swing punch you see his entire shoulder just pop out just and flop down to the floor it was a gnarly moment oh did danny glover have to kind of push him against the the top of a car to get him to uh to relocate it yeah and then he said I'm too old for this shit. Pop it in? Not pop it in, pop it in, pop it in, pop it, pop in, pop in, pop in, pop in, pop in, pop in, pop it, pop in. Anyway, let the lesson be, don't play esports. No, that's not the lesson. I don't know what it is.

Maybe calm down is what the lesson is. Anyway, known as the world's most terrifying amusement park ride, or at least one of them, the do do do donpa roller coaster. Do do donpa. I'm sure that's right. The do do donpa, yeah. Dudonpa. Doodonpa. Something like that.

This is in Japan's Fuji Q Highland, located near the very base of Mount Fuji has been shut down by the region's prefecture government. Cozier comes after several passengers sustained fractured bones while on the ride. Although the exact cause of the industry has officials a little bit stumped. The coaster known as the super death, or sorry, known for its super death speeds. It's not known for super death.

That's a whole... is the fastest accelerator roller coaster in the world going from zero to 112 miles per hour in 1.5 seconds. Geez. Wow. Do you have to like, I don't know what you, do you have to have to have like a health check before you get on that thing or what? That's crazy.

Yeah. So this is, okay, this is, oh my God, look how fast this thing is going. So the one I put in chat is the wrong one. That's the one that's just got this insane looking drop. Okay. um this one this one is flying i mean i'm picturing roger moore sitting in the front seat with his face rippling uh as he's as he's writing it oh this is one of those all right yeah it's it's less about the yeah the one and you see it like it about uh 30 seconds

and you can see the other one to the right of it is the one i was thinking you were talking about all right copy i got to see the video you posted let's just take a look here and see what we got. Yeah. This is fun for listeners at home. Can't see it. Yeah, but you can hear our reactions to it, which is just as important. Yeah, it's a reaction audio podcast that we do here.

Okay, so this thing goes up first. Oh, here's the gnarly drop, right? Right here. Oh, geez. Are you looking, you're not looking at the, no, you're looking at the one I posted, which is the wrong one. Oh, that's the wrong one? Yeah. That's the one with the insane drop, which, yeah, you saw it.

Is it the pops and recline one that he put? It's the pops and recline one, yep. And you can see right from the get-go that this thing is... Oh, yeah, it's like a bullet train. Oh, geez. It's a bullet train, yeah. Okay, and then this... Ooh.

Ooh, you're going to lose an arm. You put an arm out. You'll lose an arm. All right, well, so there... Oh, there's Fuji. That's a pretty shot. Wow. Yeah.

Yeah. I mean, it's... It's in a gorgeous location. Yeah, that's really cool. I would go there if I was near Mount Fuji. No, I wouldn't. I hate rides like that. this. What am I saying? I'm not into it. Well, anyway, so they don't know what's going on.

They don't know why, but the coaster known for its super death speeds is the fastest accelerating coaster in the world. It goes from zero to one, like I mentioned, 112 miles per hour in a 1.5 seconds. The air launched ride, so it's some sort of air compressed. Interesting. It's how you get launched. Has the world's largest loop as well, so it's got the record for that. injuries prompt of the ride suspension these injuries happen between December of 2020 and August of 2021

although the precise number of people has not been said four people have broken bones it says there somebody else said there's at least six victims but they don't know how they're breaking them so they still don't they still don't know it's like is it I mean it's just got to be your own weight pressed against that seat

yeah is just just snapping your bones in your body when you're yeah it's gotta be right what else would it be yeah it looks like it would kill kill you if you did if you did something wrong you sat wrong or yeah four of them said they broke their neck or back oh my god yep not uh not interested yep not taking that ride well i guess it's offline so it doesn't matter maybe it'll slow it down yeah yeah slow it down here's uh here's a fun one uh men this is a story about men men men men Okay.

Men take a vehicle with free car sign. Somebody just put that, like you do with a couch, you know, put a little sign on it. Yeah, put it on the side of the road with the word free on it. Yep. In Britain and Zoe can confirm this. Don't they call that tipping? I think that's called tipping. Oh, really?

In the British Isles, yeah. You do like mattress tipping and things like that. I don't know why it's called tipping. Yeah. You tip something up against something maybe, or I don't know why. If they do it with livestock, is it cow tipping? I don't think so. as I know. I don't see Zoe even here, so maybe

we can't get confirmation, but there's something with the term tipping. Yeah, I never heard that haven't heard that phrase before. Anyway, oh, Zoe says, yes, something like that. It's because you never, she's never left a mattress out for the world to take care of. She takes responsibility for her garbage. Don't you, Zoe? Yes, see, there you go. That's right, damn it.

Where was I? Oh, yeah. These guys took a car that had a free car sign on it, and then later found a body in the trunk. a human body. Oh, my God. What a great way to dispose of a body. Just let somebody take it and drive it away. You were struggling for ideas on how to get rid of that body.

I got an idea for you. Yeah, there you go. Exactly. It's not bad. According to Copia County Sheriff Brian Swilly, I love that name, and it makes me want to do a stereotype, but I'm not going to do it. I won't do it.

A body was found outside the vehicle in Copia County. I don't know where that is. Inside, inside the vehicle. Copia, yeah, I don't know. Copia. Copia. Let's see. It's also, there's Jackson's referred to, but there's a million Jackson's. There's a million Jackson's.

Yeah, I don't know. WLBT. W. LBT. I'm looking it up right now. Yeah, let's see what that is. Jackson, Mississippi. Oh, geez. Oh, no, I'm sorry. Yeah, Jackson, Mississippi.

I spend time in Jackson, Mississippi, so I should know this. Really? Yeah, especially that name, Sheriff Willis. I knew some swillies down there. You, did you go there to mess around? I went down to mess around, mess around, measure. Wait, this is a song, right? I'm going to Jackson.

I'm going to Jackson. Yes, I'm going to Jackson. Look out Jackson Town. I almost got, I got chased by Crips in Jackson, Mrs. Did you really? Yeah. Whole long story, I'll tell a different day, but I got. Were you dancing on a pony keg?

No. Sorry. No, sir, I was not. Let's see. He was, I, oh, wait, okay. The body identified as this dude, Anthony McCrillis. It's been there for several days. He was naked in the car.

They don't know, they don't know why. They were identified through his, or they identified through his tattoos and confirmed to his immediate family to get his identity. Say the victim's vehicle. Oh, it was his vehicle. Let's see. It was seen in Jackson the last few days. Did he put the sign on the car before he got into the trunk and died? or uh i guess they don't i mean honestly i don't think they know yet it's possible well i mean

would assume foul play right i'm kidding yeah they assume foul play he's not saying well i think i'm pretty much uh i think i'm pretty much done uh i'm gonna go and put a sign on my car and then just get in the trunk uh take off all my clothes and can't really afford a coffin and all the normal amenities i've always wanted to see the countryside yeah why not and then let's not have this tour. Let's not have this car go to waste. Let's put a free car sign on it so that someone else can benefit after I'm gone. Yeah, I'm sure that was

exactly it. Damn, that's rough. Imagine that, dude. I would not go, if there was a car on the side of the road that had a free car side on it, I think I'd call the cops. Yeah, I think I would assume, as far as, as weird as it is, before

even seeing this article, I think I would assume that there was a body in the truck. Or at least some kind of dastardly something, you know? Yeah. I'm not going to... I'm going to check those pull-out couches from now on, too, that I find on the side of the road just to make sure there's not a hooker stuffed on them. Oh, my gosh. I would never do that either, I guess.

No, no. When I think about it, there's very little I would pick off the side of the road. Yeah, no. You'd have to be... All right, if there was like a little... If there was like an eight-year-old kid lost and waving you down because they can't find their parents... Yeah. Something like that, I might be...

Of course you would. Yes, exactly. I'd be tempted to pick him up and go and see if I can help. But if it was like, if it's a dude though, like if there's some dude on the, on them, I know, I, have you ever done a hitchhiker? Have you ever picked one up? I've never done a hitchhiker. No, Scott. But I've seen my share of Brazzers videos.

No, like, but have you ever stopped to pick up some guy with his thumb in the air? No. Okay. I feel like that's a thing people did back in the day. Right, exactly. And my buddy, when I was a teenager, I had a buddy named Donnie, and he was a hitchhiker. He'd hitchhike regularly. And once when I was with him, we hitchhiked.

It was the only time I've ever been on either side of the hitchhiking transaction. Gotcha. Was it, I mean, an eventful? You just got to where you want to go? It was like, hey, where are you guys headed? And we got in the car and took us, I can only take you as far as long a month. That's okay. That's where we're going.

Okay. It's like free Uber or Fruber. as I like to call it. Right, Fruber, yes. Back in the day. Brian was on to something. You should have, you know, patented it and made it huge company. I could have.

Oh, man, if only. Iber, you would have called it. Iber. Well, anyway, so that guy's dead and they don't know what's going on. So there's that story. It's a fun one. Yeah. Park that in your brain, let it live there for rent-free.

Here's a fun one about another driver. This is a Tesla driver. You know the Tesla's there. You've got the fancy battery-operated electric cars. That's right. My next car will probably be a Tesla. Probably. It'll definitely be an electric car of some sort.

Same. Maybe Tesla, maybe that new Volkswagen or the Kia. Yeah, the new Volkswagen actually has me super peaked. It looks cool. It really does. It's not out though, right? It's next year it's out or something. That's right.

Yep. I expect that to sell like crazy and it'll be impossible to get one. Yeah. I don't want to buy another gas car whenever it comes around to, oh, we got to turn in the thing or buy. I don't want to do gas again. Oh, it is out. It's the TVZ gun firms. It is the ID.4. Oh, is it out? Yeah. Okay. That's the, yeah, that's the electric car. I don't have got some hybrid stuff going on, too.

And that van does look cool. That VW van redo thing looks real. Yeah, I don't want the van. I don't want a truck. I want, I want a core. I want to get an electric core. So the ID4, Independence Day. Yeah, exactly. 24. Every time you start it up, it gives you a Bill Pullman speech. It's great. Yeah, the horn goes, welcome to Earth when you push it. That's right. The interface is all done with Hypercard, which is interesting. Oh, wow. That's fantastic. There's a big button in the middle. It says release virus with a skull and crossbones over it.

Do you have to reinstall OS 7 or whether the hell it was called at the time, I think? Yeah, it was even pre-OS 7. I don't know. I don't what it would have been in 94. System 7. Oh, yeah. Good old system 7. Yep. Good times. Only Jeff Goldblum could pull that off. But anyway, so this Tesla driver was arrested for allegedly using autopilot while he was drunk and unconscious. It's not what that's for. A woman, by the way, not a man. Oh, did I say a woman?

Woman. No, you said a man, but it is a woman. I always assume these things are dudes. It's weird, right? Yeah, because all the videos you see of people misusing their Tesla autopilot are dudes. This is the first one I've heard of that it's a woman. I don't know why. My assumption is always that whoever is doing dirt in a story, it's almost always a dude. And quite often it's not, but I always assume it is. Exactly.

More often it's men doing stuff in these stories than, yeah. I don't think it's unusual for me to assume that. Well, my whole life, it's always been dudes doing the worst stuff. So I understand it's everybody. So keep your emails to yourselves. if you're going to, I don't want you going off on this. I mean, when we're hearing about somebody put a dead body in the trunk of their own car, you're not thinking, man, that had to be a woman doing that.

Had to be a lady. I'm going to be a dude. And while I agree that you, until you know, you don't know, if you're going to jump to conclusions, you know, I'll put some money down. It's probably a dude to put the person in the trunk. Exactly. Yes. I mean, I've seen Monster. I know some crazy ladies exist.

I get it. But it's usually not them. That's right. Okay. Where was I? Oh, yeah. A California wo-man. Well-man.

Suspected of driving under the influence was taken into custody after apparently using her Tesla is in self-driving autopilot mode. The Tesla hit a roadside wall on the freeway shortly after 11 p.m. Thursday and kept going. This alerted the California Highway Patrol. The driver was unconscious. Wait. Now, how did this alert?

Did the car alert them? I bet the, no, I'll bet the police were just behind her and saw, oh, she just hit the wall, but she's still going. Okay, maybe she doesn't realize she hit the wall. I mean, it seems like those cars are certainly capable of announcing their status, you know, in some sort of way. But I don't know if they do that or not. Anyway, let's see here.

Troopers tried to pull the Tesla over, but the only way they could stop the pursuit was to perform a pit maneuver. The self-drawn car then stopped itself automatically. The drivers identified as 31-year-old Carol of whatever last name is. Villanueva. Villanueva and was arrested on suspicion of DUI. Yeah, you're not supposed to use that setting or that mode for just... Right, it's supposed to assist you, not replace you. You can't say, car, take me to Vegas.

I'll be taking a nap. I did last trip to Vegas see a Tesla owner in autopilot mode sleeping. I did see that. Did you really? Yeah. Now, he had a passenger, and I don't know if that was, I don't know if that's enough or is okay. I don't know how it works. No, I mean, yeah, if he has to wake you up to stop, that's probably going to be too late.

Oh, hey, Bill, wake up, wake up, we're going to hit a. Yeah, we're dead. Yeah, probably. Well, I mean, he could reach over and grab, you know, Jesus take the wheel. Jesus take the wheel. Jesus in the passenger seat. take the wheel. Yeah, yeah, why not?

I was driving behind somebody the other day. I put it on Twitter, in fact, there was a... Somebody had a sticker on their car that said, Jesus is my airbag. And I said, well, you can't hardly take the wheel if you're in the wheel. Come on now. Right. That's really funny.

Alex says, remember when we were in Vegas coverville? We almost got in one of those autopilot lifts. And I do, Alex. And then we later, or Tina and I later did get in one of those. And it was like being tested. It's funny, because they... They gave us this whole demonstration. I think they were trying to sell Tesla's.

And so we got in and they're doing this whole demonstration of, now, if you look on this screen, you can see what the Tesla is recognizing with the street lights and other cars. And it's recognizing the red lights and the brake lights on the other cars and adjusting. And it was really cool. It looked like Terminator HUD is what it looked like. It was cool. I'm all for automated everything.

I just think we're far, enough away from it that there's still some gnarly stories that will come out of it before we're there. Sure, but if you had an, I mean, but if you, if you heard as much about regular car accidents as you do Tesla autopilot accidents, yeah, it would be like 90 to 10 kind of thing. It would be, you know, 9 out of 10 are these just horrible regular, I mean, it'd even be more than that, probably 99 to 1. Yeah.

You know, humans are, are dumb, and we're, we'll make mistakes. on the road. We're close. We're getting there with autopilot. Not enough for me to fully trust it, but they're still probably better than me, you know? Like, I'm a good driver. I'm a good, rain man over here. I'm a good driver, but it's, how do I put this? Like, I have that thing where if I'm going a long distance and I know that I'm going a long distance, like if I know something's 45 minutes away, no problem. I'm there. I drive just part. But if I know I'm going to Vegas or, or anywhere like five hours away and I go yeah that's five hours I suddenly at about 20 to 30 minutes in feel like I'm going to fall asleep at the wheel it's so bad oh my god really is just some uh my whole

life some mental thing of like this is going to be a long ride yeah since I got my license so this has been a thing with me at that time I went to California and shut my eyes for a second open him up and the overpass that was in front of me is now a mile behind me right no one autopilot I guess Jesus did take the wheel that day I don't know so when you go long distances when you you like make long drives to um st george or vegas or whatever it's always kim driving right most always because she thinks i'm going to fall asleep and so she doesn't i wonder where she got that idea yeah and she won't let me like a 12 hour trip to california i'll be like honey you've been driving for five six hours let me let me drive no you'll fall asleep like honey you're going to

fall asleep she really doesn't she doesn't like the idea that i could even come close to like even shutting my eyes for more than a blink you know so she can't she can't stand it And it's not like narcolepsy or is that the thing? Narcolepsy? Narcolepsy, yep. It's not like that. I don't actually fall asleep or anything. I just, I just get so tired and I have to pull over.

You get paranoid about not falling asleep. And that almost stresses you to the point where you might not off, you know? I don't know. Yeah, it's a weird thing. It expends extra energy. I don't need to be expending. And then even if I take a bunch, you know, if I drink a bunch of caffeine or take no-dose, you know, caffeine boosters or any of that, doesn't make any of. It doesn't make any difference.

I still get droopy-eyed and tired. I don't know why. I'd be a terrible, terrible, like, long-distance driving companion. Nobody wants to be with me. Next time Kim's driving, you guys are going a long distance. Make sure just to bring your Tibetan monk tambourine playlist and see how she does with 25-minute tambourine songs. Tampops and her clients says pull your nose hairs out real fast.

That's not a bad idea. Oh, geez. Yeah. Give yourselves one of those wax, nostril things. But you only do two of those. You got to spread it out, man. Yeah. The same buddy, actually, that did the hitchhiking said, no, if you start getting tired,

roll down the window and crank your music as loud as you can get. It's like, well, maybe just pull over and take a little cat nap. Maybe that's better than, like, man, that car sure slammed into the wall hard. Yeah, but boy, he had his window open and sure was blasting the Metallica. Sure. Why not? Master of Puppets was the last thing he heard. master.

All right. Hey, one more story here. Yeah. Utah town. Oh, you know what that means? Hold on. It's a Utah connection. Hang it.

Utah connection. All right. It's a Utah connection. Check this out. Utah ghost town reappeared. As a result of our drought. We're having, you know, kind of a historic drought throughout the entire west and southwest. And Utah did not get spared from this.

So this is pretty crazy As Utah's reservoir levels have dropped this year There have been some interesting discoveries And areas that have been covered by water For a really long time Glen Canyon Has reappeared as a result of declining Lake Powell levels in southern Utah

That's crazy to me Because when I was a kid There were, the water was always rising First of all, it was always on the up pattern It was never going low And there were places that we could walk around When I was a kid that if you went there 10 years ago So, you know, there's a hundred feet of water on top of you.

Now it's back to lower than when I was a kid. Oh, geez. Crazy. Anyway, where was I? Lake Palestine, Utah. Northern Utah, several old cars were discovered at the bottom of Hiram Reservoir. That's pretty cool. But how about this?

They found a town. Rockport Reservoir, a place we used to go skiing all the time when I was younger, a teenage year's party up there was great. This summer, as its water levels have now fallen to just a quarter of its total capacity, as the reservoir which was constructed in 1950s has dropped in water volume. Pieces of an old town that once existed between Park City and Colville is visible again. It was really interesting you stand and overlook the reservoir and see faint traces of foundations of old homes and roads below, says Devin Dewey. That's kind of cool.

Yeah, it actually is cool, except I hate why it's happening, but it's cool. Maybe if climate change gets a little more out of control, we'll finally find the lost city of Atlantis. Yeah, that's how we'll do it. the climate change get on it look at that isn't that rad though old foundations

I love stuff like this that's really cool I kind of want to go out there and see it it's only about an hour yeah I might do that I might take the boy and we'll just go check it out

all right well that's your news that's all the news that was fit to use uh hey that rhymes it is we got a new name for the second rhymes better than what the New York Times

have been using there you go well I'm no will shorts but I can make it happen when I need to. Hey, look at this. We're going to take a break. When we come back, Justin Robert Young will be here. He will try to help us make sense of the government shutdown that's pending. It's been quite the freak out this week. So we'll find out what that's about. Teach ourselves a little something about

economic political machinations here in the United States. And then after that, well, we saved our Monday morning mashup for Tuesday. So that'll be good. Yeah, that's right. All right. Let's throw it to Brian who brought a song with him for a break. yeah uh let's go to uh these guys um band called mutant thoughts they've got a brand new single they've just released called summer storm comes out this friday officially but i got an extra early copy of it and i'm really happy to play it these guys remind me a lot of radio head who also just released something brand new which is crazy something new from radio head um but this is a little bit more melodic a little bit more uh has a little bit more of a hook to it they are from bristol uh bristol alt ruck Trio Mutant Thoughts with their song right here called Summer Storm. Painst and disguise The awkward faceless mass Where's a colonel of the nation?

Where's a coal machine Just feel so unreal First, I feel I can't forget. Then I feel I can die. I can see a chosen dust. And I will leave my summer star behind If I could shrink my dreams To a wonderful disaster

Please. Don't sleep it's over. After these are... Let's not clean it's offering. Please. Please. Please. Don't please.

Please. Dr. Dr. I'm not going on. Don't please. And I can see you, I can see our chosen gods. And I will leave my son a stone behind. storm and I will leave my summer storm behind.

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That song was Summerstorm, Perform. by the band Mutant Thoughts. Not like Summer Storm Makes me feel fine. No, it's definitely not like that. Not like that? Not like that. They just heard it. The people just heard it, Scott.

That's right, they heard it. Also, of course, we just heard the song. Just now. No, we just heard it. Nobody didn't not hear it. All right, Justin Robert Young entering the fray and a glorious light

shines about him. And here it is. These are their stories. Oh, I'm terrible with name. Justin Robert Young joining us from Austin, Texas, where my wife is right now, right now. I don't know if you do. I'm in Austin or just in Texas? She's in Austin right now today.

Oh. Yeah. Now, you might say to yourself. That's what I told her. I said, look, you know, Justin's down there, Schwed's down there. Bonnie would probably love to see it. Like, you know, you should go. And she said, here's the problem.

As soon as they get there, because they drove for two days. Yeah. in my niece's car, taking her down there for her big move, and then she's there to get her all settled, all her stuff figured out, moved in, got to go buy a bunch of crap and all that. And then she's straight to the airport. She's got like no time while she's in Austin.

So we'll rectify that next time we're down there. But anyway, I don't know if you can feel her presence, but if she could, she'd make you all jumble a lot tonight. I can't. You feel the radiating warmth. Yeah, you can feel it. That's what happens when she answers your steak. You're just like the rumble of your stomach because you've probably been doing nothing but eating gummy beer.

Not quite, but not far from the truth. We have not been doing so. Listen, I went so far as eight at, and some people are going to, people like Panda Express. I don't like Panda Express and yet I still did it because it was up the road and cheap. And I thought, sure, I'll do that. And then I spent, I don't know, an hour on the toilet the next day. freaking F. Place is gross.

I'm never eaten there again. I like Panda Express. I mean, it really depends maybe on the Panda Express you go to whether or not there. Amazing sense. Because initially it sounded like you wanted credit for eating Panda Express.

Then you wanted sympathy because you pooped a lot. It made me feel gross. We saw all 12 pages of grief in one moment. Yeah. It was just an amazing and amazing thing. But also the confusion of that statement really just highlights the fact that Kim regulates

your diet. So I think it's definitely she needs to hurry back. I'm glad she's not seeing anybody here because she needs to get back. Yeah, she needs to. We're all going to die. I mean, Carter's here with me. She's doing better than me. She made this some nice homemade stuff yesterday. But man, I got to do better today, although I really want a pizza today. So let's see how that goes. Anyway, hey, it's good to have you here. Boy, howdy, Justin, is there, there's a lot of confusion among the populace about how government works. yeah and uh in particular this week there's all this like they're shutting down the government they're not shutting it down they're pushing through some kind of bill they won't let it happen

oh no we're shutting it down again and i think most people are just like what okay let me know when it's over or how it affects me sure um i don't know maybe you can give us a little uh i don't know closer look at what's actually happening so that we're not confused got i'd love to So effectively, there's three different things that are happening at the exact same time. Number one is really the meat of Biden's agenda, his domestic agenda, and that is what used to be called hard and soft infrastructure, hard infrastructure, roads, tunnels, bridges, internet, soft infrastructure, a gigantic, really the most significant bill that has been put forth in terms of social safety net in America. reminiscent scope-wise of great society and the New Deal. This includes climate change, expansion to Medicare. It did include a pathway to citizenship.

But, like, pretty much if you are on the red side of the ledger, everything you've heard complained about on Fox News, if you're on the blue side of the ledger, everything that you've heard demanded on MSNBC. Gotcha. That's what the second bill is, the soft infrastructure bill is. Right. Now, those have gone by different names.

And so now you might hear those more referred to if you are mixing it up in political Twitter as the by the bib or the biff that is hard infrastructure. And then BBB is soft infrastructure that's built back better. So without getting too far into the weeds, the Republicans who voted to advance the bib, the hard infrastructure bill out of the Senate. That was a bipartisan thing that actually included votes from both the Senate Minority and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and Chuck Schumer. So it was about as bipartisan as things get in the year of our Lord 2021 into the House. The Democrats, including leadership in Nancy Pelosi, didn't want to vote for it because they believed that if the moderates voted for that bill and got that to Biden's desk, then it would now be unlinked from the BBB bill, which is the big wish list that Democrats and Democratic vote. voters have really wanted for many, many years. And so everything

needed to be kept together. Everything needed to be linked. And that big was, that big ones what? That's the three point, whatever I almost a terabyte trillion. Now it's 3.5 trillion. It likely will shrink below that because

there are senators, Democratic senators in the Senate, obviously, that do not want it to be that big and want it to be smaller. So we'll get to them in a second, but just know for right now, that's stalled. And now the House has to make a decision. Do they vote on the hard infrastructure bill, which again is bipartisan, or do they continue to wait for this for this other bill

from the Senate that's going to have to be passed on party lines? The problem is that the party can't line up and decide exactly what they want out of the second bill. And what Nancy Pelosi decided on Monday yesterday was that they were officially doing something they had not done up until this point, which is decoupling the two. So now on Thursday, there will be a vote on the bib or hard infrastructure, and

then they're just going to let the chips fall where they may with this other larger bill as they go forward. The question now becomes, do the progressives who have said consistently that they will not vote for the hard infrastructure

bill until the build back better bill comes to the house? Will they now, relent will they vote for it or will they go against party leadership and the presidency and say no no no the plan was the plan was the plan we want it all we want it now okay so in your predictive with your predictive skills that you've built and and polished over the years how do you think this ends up does both things happen does only one happen uh do we avert any kind of i guess the decoupling already averted the shutdown part right no oh by the that's just one thing that's happening.

Totally separate is the fact that the government will shut down on Thursday if it doesn't get funded. And totally separate from that is our debt ceiling, which the Treasury Secretary just said today, that America will officially be a signal to the world that politics will indeed get in the way with us paying our bills and will trigger a global financial crisis if we do not raise the debt ceiling by, October 18th. Either of those two things have anything to do with what I'm talking about. That is why it is congressional apocalypse, because we have three different stories that in their own right would likely be the number one political story, but they are all happening at the exact same time. Did nobody see them all coming at once? Or did everybody know we were going to have

this crossroads and it was all going to be, you know, everything bad happens in three sort of thing? From my perspective, there were a lot of people who were loudly yelling their position for months. And then there were a lot of people in diametrically opposed positions, be they within their own party or across the aisle that were saying, nah, you're lying. And now we're here. Wow. So, like, the, uh, the, the, the, the, the, the Republicans have been saying, you've got to pass that debt ceiling by yourself, because you don't want our help on anything else. So why do you need her help on this? You've got the votes to do it by yourself. Go do it by yourself. And the Democratic, uh, the Democratic,

have been saying to Mitch McConnell, no, you're lying. You'll eventually raise the debt ceiling. We don't have to do it via reconciliation. And now we are, you know, whatever, 19 or 20 days away from it happening. Don't they always, it's always raised? Like they never, that's never, as much as it's always like, oh, we're going to have to raise the debt ceiling. We always do. I mean, it is like.

It's a foregone conclusion. It's shooting the world in the foot, really, because it triggers international financial crisis and quite possibly a permanent loss of the United States being in the poll position of the fiduciary world. So, yes, I would imagine it gets raised. It's who raises it and how much the Republicans want to make the Democrats do it themselves. That is the question. Now, in terms of funding the government, that's been on the Democratic side because the Democrats have said, all right, cool. Here's a bill that both funds the government, which the Republicans have said we will be on board with and raises the debt ceiling. And that's the only bill you get.

And the Republicans have said, no, no, no. You do the one yourself. We will do the other one. So split that up. The rumors today is that a clean government funding bill is allegedly brewing in the House. But a lot of things are happening very, very quickly. I don't think it's a total shocker if for a small. amount of time. There is a government shutdown from Thursday at midnight to Friday at 5 o'clock in the

morning or something like that. But I would not expect it to be a lengthy thing, mostly because both sides of the aisle have agreed that they will do it. It's just a matter in which that they do it. That is the question. Here's some fun trivia for you real quick here. Of all the modern presidents, how many times did they raise the debt ceiling in the two terms of President Reagan, 17 times Bush senior only four times let's see

under Clinton one two three four times so they matched four and four Bush did it one two three four five six seven times Obama seven also looks like seven or eight and then Trump twice

during his four years I guess that's why I had that feeling of like I feel like we're talking about this every five minutes there's always a debt ceiling raising and everyone acts like it's the end of the world or the sign that whatever party isn't isn't sort of in charge of the time did their thing right or do their thing wrong right but they all do it they all do it right everybody raises the debt ceiling yeah so why again why is it so partisan the reason why is because to not do it is the end of the world like it is a very bad thing if the united states signals that that we will have a political

fight that will stop us from paying our bills. That's very, very, very bad. So everybody does do it. But much in the same reason why infrastructure never gets passed, except for where we are right now, the reason why is because it's a slam dunk. And anything that's a slam dunk in Congress means you can staple other things on it or use it as leverage for other elements of your agenda. So that's really what we're seeing right now.

Not necessarily a disagreement that raising the debt ceiling is, in theory, a good or bad thing, but in the process of governing and in the process of brinksmanship when it comes to all this, it is the sure things that swing with the heaviest weight. Yeah, that makes sense. Okay. Actually, I literally, first time I've ever known more about the debt ceiling than was today. Today was that day. So thanks for doing that. All these years into my life, it took me this long to understand the very basic. of what the debt ceiling is and why it's a problem if we don't raise it.

And by the way, the report today was that Biden was now floating the idea of possibly pushing through a debt ceiling raise through reconciliation, which is what the Republicans want, largely because it may or may not complicate the Democrats' ability to use reconciliation to do the BBB bill. Gotcha, the triple B. Which the Republicans hate. Again, it's everything that is complained about on Fox News. The BBB has something in there for everyone. Yeah, it's massive. It's huge. You know, on tomorrow's politics, politics, politics, we have Bill Scher, who writes

for Real Clear Politics in the Washington Monthly, who deserves a big home run trot because he called this Pelosi move months ago on our show. But he makes the argument that this is the biggest bill in American history that is there to expand the social safety net because great society and the New Deal were all piecemeal. This is one big chunkus. Yeah.

And chunkus is hard to manage us sometimes. All right. Well, this is fascinating. Boy, am I wary of do yourselves a favor out there. If anybody saw that turning point documentary on Netflix was basically

the day of 9-11 was the first episode, but the rest of that series is like sort of aftermath or stuff we've done all the way right up until troops are withdrawn like two, three weeks ago. It's really good documentary. First of all, I highly recommend it and did on the show already. But one really interesting episode went into this audit team that was hired. End of Bush during most of Obama and a little bit of Trump, their job was to basically audit the spending in Afghanistan. Every program, every third party, every contract.

or everything, everything had to be accounted for. And they came away with some gnarly stories of waste. It blew my mind some of these. But the biggest one was the overall averages was like 30% or 32% of all spending, which is near trillion dollars or whatever, on Afghanistan alone. 32% of it you could count as either waste, fraud, someone stole something, whatever. 32 freaking percent of that money. It's insane number.

I'm shocked. I know. I shouldn't. be shocked by this but now it's got me in that brain where I'm like ah shit that's a lot of money and a lot of people and no one's good at this at the macro and we're going to just misspend a ton of that and that's bad and we should be careful and I don't know that's where my head's a right cause right there's a right cause that uh you know people sang songs about we're very passionate about and if you brought up any opposition to it then you were shouted down so uh you know you're a dixie

chick whether you know you didn't know exactly or or a chick. Yeah, just a chick. Now they're the chicks. Right. Yeah. They lost. They lost their dixies.

Some of their songs still, there's still some bangers in their catalog. I'm just telling you. So, some politics aside, some of those songs are still pretty snappy. It's pretty good stuff. All right.

Oh, yeah. I don't know. I liked him. I liked him good enough. I bought tickets to go see Ludicris. Oh, ludicrous. Are you,

now you're going just, you're going just because of the connection to the fast and furious, right? You don't care about his rap or his music. Ludic is the good. goat, baby. It is awesome. I love Ludacris.

I'm very, I am unironically, very, very excited to see Ludacris. I actually saw him open up for Outcast. The first time that I saw Outcast touring behind Stankonia, he, I believe, was touring behind his first album. But it was a great, great concert. And that man's got hits. he's got hits on hits I think this is this is

going to be very excited I got a VIP area because I'm old and I don't want to be general admission anymore like this was a very thrilling moment for me that's great no he's still he's still kicking it 44 and still touring and this is happening in Austin I guess is where you're going

yeah Grand Cafe which is actually like literally across the street from both Brian and the the studio so like perfect i could go and pregame at this at the studio and then retire to the studio afterward it could be you know just and they just fall asleep in one of the rooms it'd be great great that's totally great i'm going to be irresponsible this is great well uh you'll have to report back when is this is it before we see you again or is it ways off oh it's a ways off okay that's

all right well everyone has something to look forward to now he's 16 uh well uh the the pleasure is ours as always having you here hanging out learning stuff talking things uh Do you have anything else going on? You'd like to find folks at home to check out? If you want to know more about what we talked about, the congressional apocalypse week, there's going to be a lot of news coming at you. A lot of it is, we're in this very confusing world in politics

where a very arcane system is going to get a lot of attention. You're going to have a lot of messages kind of flying at you. If you want a shorthand, if you want to know what the hell is happening this week, because a lot is changing very fast, then get on the politics, politics, politics, podcast train. This episode is going to give you a very good primer of what is going on

and what may indeed happen throughout the next few days. Very, very nice. Go check it out. Justin R. Young on Twitter. We'll see you soon. See it. Oh, I've got the best thing.

The jury will now retire. It still counts if I got it in. Still counts. As long as it's during the show, he doesn't need to hear it. Everything counts in large minutes. Exactly. He knows.

He knows what's going on. Yeah, yeah. All right. Let's now move over to this. Why is that up? Oh, my gosh. I have a tab up that I don't need. Okay, there we go.

Brazzers. Because Brian mentioned it. I had to, you know, log in for my daily login. What's this brazzers thing you brought up with the hitchhiker story, Brian? Why would hitchhikers have anything connected to a Internet information website? Why does this site come up when I look for good gifts for my stepmom? Mother. Weird.

No, what I really want to do is play this mashup. It's called Everybody Loves Morrissey. So we know what that's going to be. Expect a little Brian singing here in the tone of Morrissey. But anyway, this is from Jamie. Big thanks to TMS mashups, Jamie, for all his awesome work. He's pumping out all the time. And we'll play it now.

So enjoy. Bobby Frankenberger Stein and Hyman. Whatever. He added a Steinman and it's perfect. It's great. You know what they say? I've got a big penis. Jakey grammar, I have a big bottle of Jameson upstairs.

What's his little bottle business? Is that his way of saying, I got a little something, but really he's got a big something? Maybe that's what he means. You know what I mean? No, I don't mean like weiner, but I mean like, you know, when you the hyoopster horticola. Refreshing on a hot summer day, a horticola. The dog butt is cove-e-e-er. I'm going to start over.

Yeah, stick that in there. Slide it in the sleeve. Not to be confused with what alpha male or alpha dog or Project Alpha. Yeah, there's a lot of alpha. Alpha flight. Alpha-falfa. Wait. Alfalfa.

Al-falfa. Alpha, yeah. Alpha is what I meant. Alpha-falfa. Oh, I loved little rascals and that character, Alpha-falfa. Not to mention Spank Enki, he's great too. And Buckak-wheat was great too. Buckakweed.

Yeah. Buck-Awee. They all had a crush on Darlarla. Yeah, Darlarla. Man, you know a lot about the little rascals. Who left the seat up? She'd be like, I... Brian. Yeah, she did Tina would as well.

So Brian would do... It scared of crap out of me. But I was ready to support whatever you wanted to you. Whatever you wanted to. It was fine. Yeah, it's an old joke. It's exactly what she sounds like. 100%. Yeah, it's not even exaggeration.

Oh, honestly. Honestly. Who does that? Oh. Honest me. Lots of dicks. Lots of dicks. All sorts of dicks. Therapy is easier when they're all.

B. All along for the ride was a bacterium that's there as well. Walbacia. Pippinitis. Pippantis. Pippantus. Pippantus. Increases susceptibility of the parasitic wasp.

We'd be taken over by the tiny parasitic wasp. M. Stigmaticus. This concludes Scott's reading of Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Asgabam. Thanks for tuning in. We'll see you tomorrow. Oh, honey. Everybody loves me. Oh, my brother's a jerk.

That's the one that I just can't do, is Ray Romano. What do you do, Rayleigh? It sounds like her with the frog or something. Morrissey, it's Morrissey. Everybody loves Morrissey. I would watch that sitcom right now. Oh, that's the record. That's what it was, yeah.

I thought for sure that meant we were going to get like a load of you singing Morrissey. No, no. I don't know. It was our Ray Romano. Yeah. It shows what we know. Jamie could completely troll us if he wanted to. He could send a mashup that is nothing but horrible ethnic, you know, slurs or whatever he wanted. Right. Right.

Because I don't preview the file. He could edit words, take words out of context that we say and make us say horrible things. He has the power. And I wouldn't know until I played it live because I don't preview the content. So now I'm starting to wonder if I should, but no, I won't be paranoid. I trust Jamie. It's all good. It would sound like this, though, if he did, you would go, up, up, up, up, up.

Yeah, we've been working together long enough for that to be the case. That is correct. Yeah. That is totally correct. All right. Man, the show's 10 years old. You believe that? That's weird.

10 years old. 10 plus years. Like we're almost. 10 plus. Let's see. Almost to our 11th. Yeah, January. Right.

Yeah. We're closer to our 11th. 11th and we are to our 10th. Start a lot of shows in January for some reason. That's the thing with me. The instance started in January. Christmas break, you're like, oh, I could totally do a show on NCIS. I'm totally going to start that.

Oh, my gosh. Finally, we can get an NCIS weekly round of. Finally, the NCIS podcast. Yeah, all this time and what a waste. All right. Hey, speaking of wasting your time, we're done doing that today. And we hope you really enjoyed us wasting your time. I think it was a good waste of your time.

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Okay. Hey! I guess we've come to the part of the show where Brian plays a song to get us out. Exactly what I'm going to do. This one's going out to Kyle. You might know him best as the husband of Stephanie and her as a pets, because that's Stephanie backwards. These two got to meet a couple of years ago back in Chicago when we're up there for Geek Bowl, and they are the most wonderful people you could hope to meet. Kyle says, it's my best friend Stephanie's birthday. Oh, and she's also my amazing wife. I can't forget to add that. Stephanie, you will always be my mermaid and you will always be the best.

Happy birthday to you! I had to sneak it in. Well done. Her birthday is on the 28th and we'll be on vacation in Florida. It'll be such a blast and I can't wait to be in my natural habitat again. Brian, since you're about to be rewarded with churches, I want Scott to embarrass you a little bit. So, Scott, could we get a bunch of funny brine clips? Oh, yeah.

This is not a problem to even ask. Hold on here. Let me get to where I can get them here. So I always put Ibitt because it's a very unique identifier. Yeah, yep. There's only one ibbit. Here's one here. We pulled one off.

Okay, there's one. How about this one? We lost a remote. No, this. I would like. Oh, you know what I realize. Some of these have your name in it, but they're film sack prom night. Oh, like prom night things.

Yeah, sure. Yeah. I can find another one, though. Here you go. Fuck it. I'm out. Okay, there's one. Wow.

Should have warned you guys. I guess that's that one. How about this one? Okay. We're doing Falcon. That's a great one. Does the Falcon burp? Here's some old ones.

Let's do an old. Let's go back to 2013 here. Here's a weird laugh. All right. There's that. Here's you going, hmm? All right. There's that.

And then finally, not that there's anything wrong with that. Yeah. see, see? Perfect. Oh, Ben. Oh, wait. Who did bum? Bum, bum, bum, bum, dum, dum, dum.

It's like a different microphone back then. All right. Totally, yeah. I don't know what I was using. Wasn't the Hyle, PR 30, whatever this thing is. That I love so much. Kyle wants to dedicate one of their favorite bands, songs to Stephanie. This is brand new.

Brand a spanking an new. We all love churches. Church is fantastic. Um, great, great honey smooth vocals layered over some, some awesome electronic music. Great chicken. A whole bucket of chicken from them. Oh, wait, you're talking about the band churges. The band churches. The one that spells it with a V. Ah, cheverchers. Yeah. Yeah. Very different than the chicken place. That's right, which spells it with a silent E. Yeah. Um, they recently covered Gerard

McMahon's cry little sister. You know this song is that song in the Lost Boys. Um, I picked up the whole Gerard album, Gerard McMahon album or Gerald McMahon album because of this song. And I was like, eh, this is kind of lame, but this song's good. But churches cover it, and they are, they rock it. It's so good. Here is churches with their cover of Cry Little Sister. Nice. One final, Brian sound.

Peenum. All right. Here we go. That's it. Thanks for being here, you guys. We'll see you tomorrow. Last fire will rise behind those eyes Black hats will rock

Blind boys don't lie Immortal fear That voice so clear Through broken walls That scream my ear Cry, little sister Come to your brother Them shall not die

Unshamedee's sister Love is with your brother That shall not care Blue masquerade Strangers look on When will be learned This loneliness Temptation

He beats like a drum Deep in your veins I will not lie Cry Little sister Come, come to your brother Then shall not come. Untrain me, sister

Love is with your brother That shall not come My shenry love, I can't forget why you were mine, I need you now. Little sister Come Come to your brother I'm sure Oh

dream me sister Love Love is with your brother Love Shown again Cry, little sister Come, come to your brother Oh, show, oh, change me, sister

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