The Morning Stream - TMS 2209: Fun with Tucky

Episode Date: November 30, 2021

I don't want your bong art NFTeeeees. The Omarosa Variant. Not a Baldwin Baldwin. Dave Thomas is Both Dead AND Alive. Next Up, Number A! There Are Many Corona Flavors You Can Get. Paul Hayden Church-amotti. a New York Attitude in a Kentucky Body. Making Tina Cry for Fun and Profit. Hortons Hears a Bieb. Oh My Cron. It's a little money. Not a lot of money. A little money. They don't ask when you're tall and it's Ladies Night. Penetrating Young Frodo with Bill. A little Science with Bobby 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.

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Welcome back to DMS. It is the morning stream for Tuesday, November 30th, 2021. Final day of the month. I'm Scott. He's Brian. Hi, Brian. Hello. Is it really the last day of the month? It is.

It is. It's the end. We put November 2021 to rest. Today we put it out of its misery. it's gone It's done In an omicron-fueled Omicron

It's all I can hear I can only hear it In like really cool Sci-Fi anger tones When people say it's like Have you heard of the Omicron variant I think I accidentally called it

Omarosa last night Omorosa Gotcha The Omorosa variant It's just the lady from the show The Apprentice Yeah there you go Well I guess we do name it

Hey welcome to the show The show that won't but will be named. Won't but will be named. We're here. We're doing it. We got a show. Thanks for being here. It's Tuesday.

All kinds of stuff lined up. Bobby in his science segment later. A little bit of Bill later as well. And lots of stuff in between. We're just going to get right to it. Yeah. So, okay, before we do anything else, what was the thing I was going to do right before the show that I said?

That was going to be good content. Something NFT. You were going to play me something. Oh, that's right. Okay. so here's the deal um brian and i pre-show and if you're if you're a patron you'll hear this conversation as well um that's a nice thing about being a patron of the show uh you get extra bonus content anyway there let's see if i can find it i guess it was under messages um my daughter sent me

she sent me a ticot link yesterday oh that's weird the website version of this is weird let me let me see if this works everyone pay thank you for your patience ahead of a time. Okay, not that one. That's definitely not the NFT. I'm looking for it. This is, this is what happens when we, uh, we come up with something we want to talk about during the top of the show that we didn't plan on talking about during the top of the show. Normally we like, you know, we have a little prep time or whatever. Oh, I found it. Okay. There might be a swear in this. So, so just, you know, be worn. Uh, but, uh, keep your hands close to your children's ears, but you don't have to press them over the ears just yet. It's like dialing 9-1, but not the last one.

exactly right. So now the trick here, let's see, I can probably even show this for the chat. There we go. So it's a TikTok video where a guy's showing off the new NFT he bought. And at home, I just want you to imagine what you're used to seeing for these. If you've seen a lot of people talking about NFTs, they often look like this thing, this dude showing on screen, which I'll send Brian a screenshot of so he's not oblivious to it. It's a, it's the style that you always see, it seems like, is this weird style. And why? this is the prominent thing when you hear about NFTs, I don't really understand.

But some kid perfectly encapsulated my confusion about this. So you see it, right? You see what's going on there? Yeah. All right, so this guy's talking about his NFT. We'll pick up right in the middle of that, but it's what the kid says at the end of this that matters. So here you go. But you know what I'm

saying about this art, right? You've seen, everybody looks like this. Totally. Okay, so here's what that looks like Jamie Hewlett, is that the guy's name that did the gorillas? Oh. Oh, yeah, the guerrillas are. Yeah, it's very similar style. Yeah.

Oh, my gosh. I wonder if the guerrillas are just a giant NFT opportunity. Anyway, so here we go. I'm going to play this. Let's check out this audio. My profile picture. Let's check it out. So here we are.

Why does every NFT look like it should be a sticker on a bong? Why are they so ugly? I think that kid has a damn point. Totally. Yes. You know what I mean? like why is it all look like weird stoner art bong art maybe even a skateboard uh yeah yeah bong bong is probably the best

he's right though he's totally right and i was right there was a swear sorry sorry everybody who's watching live i'll bleep it out for the folks at home did you mark the time i did i hit the m i hit the m button that's oh that's right it creates a little marker yeah it's very nice it's very convenient so you know brian ever drops an f bomb or whoever it's usually done away by accident or what's her name? Jocelyn? No, Gidgett. Yeah, Jocelyn's pretty good.

Jocelyn swears like a sailor. I mean, come on. I've hung out. I've had dinner with her at BlizzCon. It is like, F this, F this, F this, F that. She lets it fly, dude. She lets it go. Yeah, it's probably better for you to let it out. Probably. Yeah, I hold it in. Yeah, I hold it in and then my back goes out.

That's what happened. But anyway, the point is, yeah, they all look like bong art and that's one of my problems with it one of my major problems with it is everybody like look at this nfti i got and i'm like dude did a kid in seventh grade detention draw that on his desk like what's that on a peachy folder is that originally yeah next to the dudes playing basketball on a peachy folder yeah and congratulations why did they why didn't they ever change the artwork on peachy folders why was it always dudes playing basketball i don't know i don't know why that was my entire time In the education system, it was those dudes playing basketball. Wow, we had those stupid things, too.

Yeah, and why were they? What, man, they really pushed the basketball. Why peachy? I don't know. Don't know. That was really weird. Listen, chat room a lot of you, you are too young for this. Okay, you don't know what a peachy folder is.

You just don't know. And it's okay. It's all right. I'm curious, was it just a play on the words peachy? That's a peachy folder because it's peach colored? I don't know. I don't know. Who knows what they were doing?

The adults in the 80s, they were effed. Because it was even spelled P-E-E-E, like P, like urine, P-C-C-Folder. Yeah, yeah. And all those people with those great ideas, they're all in their 80s now. So what does that tell you? Oh, if that, yeah. I guess they just get old is what it tells you. All right, let's get an email response from a listener here real quick from HenderTucky.

We got Robert. I don't know what, what does it mean Hender Tucky? I get Kentucky. Probably on the border of Kentucky. and Henderson some state, right? Yeah, like Henderson, maybe it's Henderson, Kentucky. I mean, there's, I guess, Pensatucky,

but there's no shared border between Pennsylvania and Kentucky. So, Dice Tomato says it is Henderson, Kentucky, but Dice Tomato, he could be, he could be leading me down, you know, you never know. They just shorten it. Oh, he isn't. You're in Kentucky Dice Tomato, I didn't know that.

Why did I think Dice Tomatoes in New York? Why did I do that to my brain? Because he's seen, he's got a New York, Attitude in a Kentucky body. I don't know why I had that in my head. All right. Anyway, so Robert, we'll call him Bob. No, we won't.

We'll call him Robert. Wrote in says, Scott and Brian, this is about the charging in a doctor's office for emotional reactions. We talked about like the extra $10. Somebody got billed or whatever. And it seemed a little crazy to me, but he's here to tell us what's up. He says, so just some insight on the story you talked about,

the woman who was charged $11 for a brief emotional reaction. during the removal of a mole. I think you're misunderstanding what we are charging for, what they're charging for. I work with CPT, and IDC-10 codes work. What does that mean? I don't know what that means. IDC-10 is like compliance, I believe. Maybe that's what it is.

CPT codes are used to code for procedures and diagnoses. She wasn't charged $11 for flinching as a punishment. The doctor was charging the insurance company for a diagnosis of brief emotion. Well, that seems even worse, though. because we're already... Yeah. So it's like the Dewey Decimal System of the medical world. Yeah.

Yeah. Standard system of codes to describe medical conditions. But we already charge... We nickel and dime everything. I think that's just... Whatever. Anyway. Well...

He says, I'm unsure that the 11 was her portion of it, so her bill would have included all diagnosis and procedures for that visit, meaning it could have been $100. Her payment was $11. The insurance company pays $99 or something. I don't know. Uh-huh. Uh-huh. He says, one mole removal may be in hypertension.

tension diagnosis may be a fatigue diagnosis and quote brief emotion will all get billed to insurance the doctor's office is taking advantage of the coding system to charge a little more it has nothing to do with the patient's reaction during the procedure that's interesting it's kind of like when a district attorney plies or piles a charge or charges to a suspect they've charged them with murder already in the first kidnapping evading arrest and double parking at the scene of the crime the double parking being a little bit like this right exactly they flinched

the officer grabbed them they flinch either way I would immediately get a different doctor because they are obviously only about the money says Robert from Hender Tucky yeah my takeaway from that is as worse than the original takeaway which is this is them nickel and diming

it is yeah and I hate that I hate that like if they actually had to prescribe some prescribe something or they had to you know it required some additional treatment that's one thing And makes sense you charge for that. I charge when, you know, somebody gives me an ad to build.

I build it out. Send it to them. And then they say, oh, sorry, we got the wrong phone number. Could you put this new phone number on there? Sure, sure. I charge them to change one number on an art file, but of course I do because it's that extra little time. I just think that the current state of privatized health care is bad. Yeah, our health care system is bad.

It absolutely needs work. It's bad, yes. I'm not saying it's the worst thing on the planet. I'm not saying it's the best. I'm saying it's got problems and we should do surgery on it, you know? Sure. Well, don't say that to one of my relatives. I'm not going to say who.

Don't say that to one of my relatives because she'll turn on and say, well, then maybe you should move to Canada. Yeah. I wouldn't mind. And don't think it was, by the way, don't think that was Tina just because I did the similar voice. That was an older voice. If you guys haven't seen it, go check out the.

either our feed or Brian's feed. Oh, yeah, the Twitter feed, yes. Yeah. Yeah, I played some of the mashup yesterday. I played the whole mashup yesterday for Tina and I recorded her reaction to some of it. And she was laughing by the end of it, and I stopped recording too early. But by the end of it, she was laughing so hard she was crying. See, that's good.

That's what you want. Yeah. Not just, so better than just crying. She was laughing. No, yeah. Yeah. You only charge her $10 for that emotional reaction. Right.

Oh, I'll check. Yeah, I'm a star. Brian has ways of charging people, if you know what I mean. I have ways of charging people. You're going to pay me back whether you know it or not. Thanks, Robert from Hendertucky. The morning stream at gmail.com is the email he used and you all should use as well. A quick reminder.

On that same note, you know, the Hendertucky thing, would you ever consider abbreviating, when you tell people where you live, would you say, I live in Sluuta? Sluuta. Saulta, Souta. Souta. Let me think about that. Sluta or Salta, Salta, Salta. Salta. Salta. Salta.

Saluta. So if you did Arvada, Colorado, you could Arvado. Arvado. Arvado. That's not bad. Arvarado or something like that. I mean, there's, depends on how much I want to abbreviate it, but yeah. I think there's just fun with Tucky, you know.

Yeah, there is. There is. Yeah, because it's a great starting point for a new word. Because Pensatucky sounds great. Pence of Tucky is a great name. Yeah, she was great. Tender Tucky. Isn't there a something-tucky fill?

Oh. Paxatani Phil is what you think of have. Pensatucky Phil. Pensatucky Phil is the groundhog that's on meth that always sees his shadow. Yeah. Even in complete darkness. Orange hedgehog is the new black hedgehog or something. It's a hedgehog that looks like gritty.

There you go. She was great, by the way. Yeah, the actress who played Pensatucky and orange is a black. Yeah, I'm pretty sure she was the highlight. for me for that. Kim watched one of her dumb Christmas movies. It was actually a Netflix one. It was pretty bad.

This one had a hell of a cast, though. It had all these great British actors, including John Cleese, and I forgot the other lady's name. Anyway, and for some reason, Kelsey Grammer's in it. Was this a Hallmark one, or was it one of the new ones on Netflix with their competing? It's a Netflix one, and it's called... They've got the money to get some... Yeah.

To avoid having to use a form. full house and uh designing women stars it's a home home uh father christmas comes home or something like that okay and the whole thing is that this guy who left all his kids when they were a little comes home and he's played by kelsey grammar and their last name is christmas so he's literally father christmas coming home it's dumb anyway it's a great cast it's a shit movie it's not good but one of the sisters in it is the lady who plays like the presentation robot in Westworld the blonde one that's sort of in

the dress that's like welcomes you to Westworld and shows you around. Her and she's great in it. I really like her and I don't know why that just came up other than I just I've got a list. I have a short list of actors female actresses actress. Do they like actress or are they

cool with actor these days? How do they want it? Both right? I mean it really probably depends on the actress but they still have best actress categories at, you know, all the major award ceremonies and nobody's complained and said, no, we need to just

call them actors. But some some actresses say, yes, I'm an actor. So I think they're It's probably, it's a little confusing because it does feel like wait, not waitress, yeah, like waitress or what were they in the sky? Flight attendant slash stewardesses?

Stewardess, yeah, stewardess. They quit doing that and now it's flight attendant. Anyway. Yeah, waitress versus server. Sure. So I don't know why they haven't done that yet. Maybe just because it's hard. Fortune teller versus fortune tellist.

Maybe they should stop splitting them by gender. Anyway, whatever. Yeah. The point is postman versus postal workers. Women who act. I have a short list of who I think the future is. I think she's one. I think Florence Pugh is probably head of that whole pack.

She's amazing. Sure. I was watching somebody last night who I went. Oh, yeah, she's amazing. I can't remember now. Caitlin Deaver, who's on Dope Sick and was in that unbelievable. It was so good. I think Haley Steinfeld probably fits in there.

Maybe a little more mainstream, but there she is. And then one other one I was thinking of on a Taylor, eyes are a far apart part. On your Taylor Joy. Yeah, I can't think of her name. The Vivitch. It's really the ones that have three names because Chloe Grace Moritz. makes you stumble and Anya Taylor Joy. Yeah, I struggle.

I struggle. Yeah. Well, anyway, that's all there is there. A reminder, if you all want to get those Christmas cards I made, it's really time because you're not going to have, here's something I've learned about the mail system. Whatever dissection they were doing to it last year, it's really come to fruition now. Like, everything's late. Nothing's on time.

There's already a shortage of workers for, like, trucks and deliveries and everything else. and so nothing's on time right now and that includes mail stuff so if you were going to get those cards so you could get them and then get them filled out and sent to your loved ones I think maybe make sure you do it now okay because I don't think any of this is trustworthy moving forward so frogpass.com slash store you'll find those cards there there's four of them in the collection that come with envelopes I'm very proud of them they're cheap it's a cheap thing to go by and you can send them off to whoever you like, okay? So do it now before you run out of time, is all I'm saying.

That's frogpants.com slash store. Speaking of deals, Brian, you found a Cyber Monday deal or Monday. I have a Cyber Monday that's scooching over into Tuesday. Here's the thing. It's probably scooching into Wednesday, too. I did this over the weekend for Black Friday, and I forgot to talk about it on TMS. So here's the deal. Andrew Allen and I have put out five CDs, technically seven discs because two of them are

double discs, secret identity, which is Mark. Marvel and DC movie TV themes, and the jazzness, which is jazz covers of all of the music from the original N.ES games, the 33 games that came out with the NES. Plus, Star Trek, Star Wars, video game, arcade games in general. What else? Basically, the five amazing discs. Here's the deal. I'm selling all of those. And it comes with digital files because guess what? It's 2021 and nobody has a CD player anymore. That's fine. You have this great artwork, this collector artwork. It's like your own little paper NFT.

As well as the postcards that Brian Dunlowy did. The difference between the paper NFT and this is that you will actually own this. You will actually own that thing. You will have an actual physical ownership. So, yeah, it's better than that. That's right. Plus a set of cards that were designed by Brian Dunaway postcards that you assemble together to make giant posters of all the free play video games.

characters and the secret identity, Marvel and DC characters. It's really cool. All of it shipped in the USA, all of this, all of everything I described, shipped in the USA for free for 15 bucks. I guess I should say all of that, including shipping in the USA for 15 bucks. 15 bucks that includes shipping, the entire collection. The entire collection. I got to clean this stuff out and this is the only way I'm going to be able to do it. The rest of this stuff, I'm putting in a box and mailing it to Andrew Allen to give out at shows and stuff.

because I got to get some of the space, reclaim some of this space that these things have been taking up in the basement. So go to coverville.com slash store, and you'll find it all right there. It's a lot of great music, and the digital files include all the bonus tracks that he did for all of those albums,

stuff that wasn't on the discs. Oh, very nice. You know, he does our PM edition of the show is his theme. He did that. Yes, it is. Yes. So much. so much stuff around the network.

America's a next top podcaster is him. I know some other things that we've played are his as well. I think the guys at Giant Bomb still use his alternate intro for when they do their end of year best picks thing. They still use his jazz version of that, which is pretty cool. Yeah.

He's awesome. Go check it out. Coverville.com.com slash store. And while you're at, get those cards, frogpast.com slash store. Spend all your money at once. Small amounts. It's not even a lot of money. It's a little money. It's barely in. Yeah. Get some cards Get some discs, get a whole bunch of stuff that you can give out his presence. Hey, look, the old people in our lives probably still have CD players.

They might even still have, like, VHS players. So, get, you know, get these, give them as a gift to the people you know who have CD players, then keep the digital files for yourself. It's a, oh, it's shop, coverville.com slash shop, sorry. Oh, oh. Coverville.com slash shop. Shop, not store. Shop.

Shop. There you go. Mine at store, Brian's a shop. Thank you. Everybody who corrected me. The British probably figured it out immediately because they all like to call things the shops. Shops. Oh, the shops.

We're going to the shops. Yeah. Oh, you've been all over the shop, they always say. Right. You've cleaned out the entire shop. It's never store. All right. I was going to ask you a question about, oh, did you ever look into, you probably did.

So that's why I'm curious. But have you ever looked into pressing a vinyl? Like, what does that take these days? That's pretty expensive. We did look into doing one of the Andrew Allen things is vinyl. I think it might have been secret identity. We've done a two-disc vinyl set. It's really expensive.

You basically have to have all of your discs committed to and do a run of 100 limited edition. Even them, what's the, do you know what the price was like per? I don't remember. I'm curious. Because it's got its nice little niche now, but it seems like it'd be ridiculous to have to make them, you know, like just expensive. But I don't know. Some people are into it.

My daughter has a bunch of vinyl. She loves them as a record player still. It also lets her output and make MP3s, but, you know. No, I have one right here behind me. Yeah. This guy right here. There's a whole generation of kids that are coming up that are like, I like the old weird things. It's not plugged in so I can hold it up.

Yeah, look at that. No, I really, I totally dig this one. And it does do the same thing. I can put a USB thumb drive in here and it will. Oh, just poops them out to a drive? That's cool. Just poop them out to a drive. It's got built-in speakers and all that stuff.

I'm sure the needle on it is garbage, but. You got to put the needle on the record. Put the needle on the record. What song is that? Put the needle on the record and it goes a little something like this. It's a fat boy slim thing, isn't it? Put the needle on the record. What am I thinking?

have put the needle on that record. Sabin 1001 says, did you know, you can just buy it as an MP3 to begin with? Guess what? Not a lot of my old vinyl albums, I can't. Yeah, no, there's tons you can't. There's plenty. Yeah, I have a large collection of

vinyl, old vinyl albums, a lot of which has not been digitized you know, by the studio, by the labels, so. How about that one behind you there? Well, I guess the dark side of the moon has been, I'm sure. The dark side of the food for sure has.

Yeah, I think all the ones in this stack probably have. Oh, I think we found it. Nice Tomato. Thank you. Let's play it. Is this what I was thinking of? YouTube. Hey, YouTube.

Don't pretend I'm not doing this. YouTube. Oh, yeah. Put the needle on the record. Put the needle on the record. When this thing go like this. Dude, I'm into that. That's cool.

Who is this? Pump up the volume by Mars. Yeah. Pump up the volume, pop up. This background I was going to dance clubs in high school. Yeah, the music of David Lynch, this double album I'm holding up right here. It's like a live concert. All these people got together for a charity and performed covers of songs from like Wicked Game and the Twin Peaks theme and blue velvet and all that stuff, Laura Palmer's theme, all that.

Not available on MP3. Oh, it's the only way you could do it. Okay. So I have to, this is, I have to do. Is there an interest, is there a forward on there where it's him going, who would watch movies on their phone? I'm sure, yeah, I'm sure. Don't listen to this on a, an MP3 player.

Only listen to this on a fully surround sound turntable system. Anything else is effed. And then the music starts. That's right. He's got, right now, he just does like a daily weather. checking. Right. Is he still doing that? I know if he has, he's been doing that forever. Yeah, I think he's really

into it. And he's also reading, he's studying some, I don't he's, I follow some account on TikTok that tracks all these videos. It's really an odd phase in his life. I don't know if he's just like, chilling and just let, you know, he's in his declining

years and he just doesn't care or what his deal is, but it's funny to watch. I can tell you that. And yes, chat room, I used to go to dance clubs. I used to go to this place called Xenon, and I went, I've told the story before, but I got in there when I was 16, you're supposed to be 18 or older, and I got him from 16 on because I was so tall, they never asked. They never card-checked me. That's awesome. Yeah.

I was tall and I got asked. It sucked. I don't know. What's the deal with that? That probably means your clerks were more, they actually did their job and mine did not, as probably would happen. Not clerks. What would you call them? Clerks.

Good doormen. Dorman. Door people. Door people. Door people. Door people. But they didn't have drink in there because you couldn't be 21 or older. It was all, you know, whatever. But you had to be 18. And I had a couple of friends who would always get carded. And I never did. I don't know why. It just never did. And we go on ladies night, which was Thursdays. Oh, yeah, baby. That's when the ladies were there. Because they could get in free. And you'd walk in and you'd hear that song. Put the needle on the record. Put the needle on the record. You can just hear it. Oh, that and Blue Monday by our, uh, Blue Monday, Blue Monday, or Blue Monday, or, you'd walk in.

true faith by New Order. Typically Blue Monday. Yep. Do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, dint, ding, ding, ding, ding, tune, tune, tune, tune, exactly. And then they had the other, what was the one, uh, spin you right round baby like a record baby? Oh, dead are alive, yeah.

That was always on. And then the, the cover of the, the thing in the sky with the, the sky by, uh, Norman Green, by a doctor in the medics, probably. Doctor and the medics, yeah, before I die. Yeah, that was great. That was our prime, man. Prime teenage years. Good stuff.

Totally. All right, anyway. Let's get to the news. You want to do the news? Let's do the news. I want to do the news, Scott. I do. I do.

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do you have a podcast all about a marvel future revolution no i i felt cornered on that felt like someone cornered the market on it a while ago yeah somebody did it wasn't me yeah i don't remember now But I was reading a list, by the way. So this is a funny thing you bring up. I was looking up, I was trying to find if there are any good gotcha games, G-A-T-C-H, whatever. G-A-T-C-H-Ga-C-Ghares. Yeah, Gacha. Which is just any game where you collect a billion, heroes, cards, characters, whatever, you level them up and their powers and blah, blah, blah.

That Marvel game is one of those. Star Trek has a couple of them. There's the Star Wars one, you know, everybody makes one. And then there are an endless sea of games made in Asia, mainly, some Korea, some in China, some in Japan that are just, there's millions of them. Oh, there's one coming out that I'm kind of excited about. What is it? What's it called? Awaken Chaos Era.

Oh, my Lord, these names. Currently only available, it's currently a soft launch only Android, but it is going to be out for iOS at the beginning of January. Okay. Um, who's made, anyone I know making it, like a, is this? Oh, let's see. Century Games, publishing role playing, uh, probably nobody I know. Century Games publishing looks like the maker. Century Games publishing.

You know, Century Games publishing. But it looks like a, um, a really cool mobile, uh, like a Final Fantasy or original Final Fantasy kind of stuff. Yeah, and Final Fantasy themselves, they've got like two or three of these. Like, everybody's got one of these. And they all, you know, they all kind of do the same thing at their core. But I was looking around the other day, trying to see, like, are any of these any good, like, good, good, like, really good. Yeah, right. And I found some top 10 lists.

And in every single one of those lists, it's all nine Asian games you either haven't heard of or maybe Genshin Impact is on there or whatever. But one of them is always the Marvel one. The Marvel one always in the top ten. Yeah. It's good. It is a gacha game, but it's, there is so much content for free to play. Like, you can, um, you can take all eight available characters, level them all the way through and have a, and get through all the content without spending a nickel.

Yeah, which is kind of cool. It's what you want. It's what you want. It's what you want. What you want. It's what you want. Did you ever, did you ever spend a dime in there or no? Yes. Yes, I spent times. All right. I probably spend, I think I spend 20. 99, 99, early on just for a big, a big box of cores that I've been, really, technically I've

been adding to and spending from ever since. Right. Like, I probably didn't need to. I'm, I'm at less than the number of cores that I bought, but, um, uh, yeah, no, it's, you know, and I'm fine doing that because it supports the, it supports the developers and. Yeah. If there's anything Marvel needs, it's more money. So you're good.

Right. Well, I bet a very little of that goes to Marvel. I'm sure a lot of it goes to Net Marble. Oh, is that who made it? Net Marble? Yeah, they do good stuff. Yeah, they make some decent games. In fact, actually, they make that Star Trek one that's in...

Yes, they do. Apple Arcade, which I quite enjoy it. They do. I haven't, who's a J.K. Grammer in our chat room? He's managed to get every single character. It's unlocked to everybody. Yeah, and I'm not even close. I need to get Gowron because I am without honor.

until I get him. Anyway, here's the first news story. Hey, Justin Bieber is in the news. The Bebes? Yep, the Bebes. You might be familiar with him. His current hit with that Kid LaRoy song is still big on the charts there. It's pretty good.

It's an air wig, man. It stays in your head and you can't get rid of it. Earwig? Earworm. Sorry. Earworm. Yeah. With Bieber, it's probably an air wig.

It's probably a little something. He doesn't wash his hair enough. It's definitely. Airways. Yeah. Dude with his little porn stash ain't the little fresh-faced kid from the you know from back in the day. Looks like

the kind of guy who he'll steal your truck if you even parked in the wrong place. Didn't he, um, who he marry? It's like Alec Baldwin's daughter or something. Some Baldwin girl. Maybe maybe she's not a Baldwin Baldwin, I don't know. Haley Baldwin, that's who it is.

Haley Baldwin then is that is a Baldwin? Is that the one he was yelling at on the phone? Yeah. Oh, geez. Yeah, calling her a fat pig. Yeah, that wasn't nice. Well, does she call him now and go, wait to shoot somebody by accident and Texas dad or whatever? Oh, geez. I mean, now she's got ammo to come back at him, I guess. Oh, I didn't mean that way. Bad choice of words. It's a bad choice. I feel bad for everyone involved. All right, moving on. Totally. Justin Bieber and Tim Hortons have announced a collaboration to bring new menu and merch items to the restaurants in Canada and the U.S. starting with limited edition, Tim Beeb's Tim Bits.

Oh. Yep. I already hate it. I love Timbits, but I kind of already hate this. Yeah, I hate this, too. He is a Canadian, so it makes sense that he would join up with a, you know, another Canadian favorite, I guess. There's a lot of other Canadians he could pick, though.

Many other Canadians that Tim Hortons could have picked. Who would you have got? If you could pick a Canadian, who would you do? Oh, wait. We're talking about Canada here. Hold on. Canada. All right.

Who do you pick for your Canadian? Mike Myers. Mike Myers. all right he's uh you know so you got your you got your shrek bits or your uh austin power bits or something like that there's a way to do it there's a way to make it work yeah katherine no who am i thinking of uh oh geez i can't think of anybody can you name a canadian scy uh eugene levy there Eugene levy there you go any of the any of the shits creakers right yeah or the kids in the hall those guys are You see TV folks.

Yeah. All them. The corpse of John Candy. Get him in here. Yeah. Oh, Ryan Reynolds, exactly. Shatner. He'd be good.

Yeah, there's all sorts of. Oh, who's the, yeah, Bob and Doug McKenzie. Is their way to work Bob and Doug? Because Bob and Doug McKenzie would have eaten timbits. Oh, hell yeah, dude. Yeah, there's got to be a way to work those two. I mean, if. Dave Thomas, Rick Moranus.

If there's been one truth in my life for the last 30 plus years, it's that there's not enough great White North slash Bob and Doug in my life. I loved them. I loved them. All right. Let's say Rick Moranus announces he's coming out of movie retirement to partner back up with Dave Thomas to do a new Strange Brew sequel. I'm all in. Yeah.

I mean, it's going to be bad. No question will be bad. Right? It won't be good. It's a bad idea. It won't be good. But I support it. And no Dave Thomas is good.

I would see it. I would spend money and see it on opening night, but... Dice Tomato in his usual positive form. I thought Dave Thomas was dead, or isn't he dead? No! He actually might be, isn't he? No, no. You're thinking of Wendy's Dave Thomas.

Wendy's the old-fashioned, Dave Thomas. Yeah, he's old-fation. He's dead. Hold on. Right. Actor. I know. I know.

I just want to double check. He's Mr. F. Yeah, he's here. He's still with us. Good. Yeah, he's still with us. Let's see. Oh, he was on the blacklist.

Oh, as a writer. that's cool oh really that's trippy yeah 72 years old he's out he's bones yeah bob and dug tv series what what what 2009 what oh yeah there was a was that the animated one they tried to bring it back 2009 yeah i think so i think they animated oh it totally was animated yeah oh i remember this yeah it was all right i think it would have served i would have done better today like on a streaming service or something but no they had dave cooyer instead of uh rick moranus They did? Yes.

Why? That sucks. Because Rick Ferrandis doesn't want to, you know, he's retired. Oh, my gosh. You know, Dave Cooier, he and Lannis Morris had some fun in a movie theater here. Did they really? Is that part of that documentary that came out? I don't know if it's part of the documentary.

I haven't watched that yet, but she said that he's the one that she wrote that song about. He's the bitterest pill? I'm sorry, the. Jagged his pill? Jagged little pill is the album, but you ought to know is the song. Oh, you ought to know. All right. I didn't know that was about him.

That makes that song less impactful for me. It does, does it? It's like, it's about the guy from full house, really? He's kind of a dork. Like, what's the point? The bitterest little pill, that's the chat. I can't get that right, ever. All right.

No. No, and the jam is very disappointed. Paul Weller is hugely disappointed. Oh, my God, Robin Sparkles for Tim Bits. There you go. Move Justin Bieber out. Move in Robin Sparkles. That's exactly who needs to do that.

I'm sorry, this is embarrassing, but who is Robin Sparkles? That is Kobe Smolder's character's character from How I Met Your Mother. So the character that she played and How I Met Your Mother played Robin Sparkles because she was Robin Chofsky, Robin Chinovsky, Robin something. Yeah. And she was on a kids TV show or was a Tiffany, that's right, it was a Tiffany-esque singer named Robin Sparkles. And she had a song called, Let's Go to the Mall with Alan Thick. Wow. Alan Thick. Shabatsky.

With Alan Thick, not Robin Thick, but Alan Thick. Alan Thick, yeah. They were both pretty thick. Those too. Thick of thieves. Yeah, he was an okay thick. I mean, he was great. He was funny.

He was America's dad. Of the night. I used to watch that Thick of the Night. No, he is dead. Yes, he died a long time. Oh, yeah. But that Thick of the Night was a great late night show. I don't remember that all.

But I'm not surprised that you watched it at all. It sounds like something Brian would like. Brian was a specialty like TV watch. Yeah, I didn't watch garbage TV like Dukes a Hazard and Night Rider. Yeah, the rest of us were watching just garbage TV. I watched highbrow entertainment like the Love Boat and Fantasy Island and Thick of the Nights. and thick of the night. He was one of those.

Oh, let's see if Charo is on this episode. Can I have another glass of Flutopia? Yeah. I guess I was a little bit later than Love Boat. Maybe. Moonlighting, though, you're into that. You were into the moonlighting. I was into Simon and Simon.

Yeah. Oh, yes, I like Simon and Simon. It was all right. Didn't he, he became Major Dad? And then later was a bad guy in Deadwood. He's great. That's right. Meanwhile, the others, oh, such a great bad guy in Deadwood.

He's amazing. But no other guy from Simon and Simon, right? No, not really, right? He didn't go on to. Ed Rain was the other Simon, the Simon that was in Deadwood, not Ed Rain, something like that. He was supposed to be the handsome one, right? Wasn't he the handsome Simon? Right.

Yeah, he was the blonde. The blonde. The blonde, good looking, Simon, all the ladies. The blonde, good looking, Simon. Yeah. But then he... Gerald McRaney. I had Rains.

I had Rains and I had Ed. I just missed a whole bunch of the other letters than Gerald. But Gerald McRaney, or Gerald Raney, not McRaney. Gerald McRaney. Oh, it is McRaney? He's not, he's not the other guy. He is, he is major dad. No, no, no, that's what I'm saying.

We were trying to remember the other guy's name. That guy's name was Jameson Parker. Never heard of that dude. Right, exactly. Like, all right, what has Jameson Parker been up to? Booz and buddies level of career fall off. Hey, hey, don't you? Did I show you this?

Yeah, you did. I love it. Look at Brian. Look at his fandom on display, you guys. Look at that. I still haven't ripped the episodes. I need to rip the episodes. You get those up on a Plex server and share with all your friends.

Heck, yeah. Yeah, I'm looking through Jameson Parker. His most popular, most famous thing is Simon. He was in a movie in 1987 called Prince of Darkness. Did we watch that? We might have watched that for film sack. Maybe Prince of Darkness. Donald Pleasance.

Oh, I think we did. Alice Cooper? I think we did. Didn't we? Hold on. Prince of Darkness. It sure sounds familiar. 87.

Yeah, we did this. The sideways warped head on fire movie. John Carpenter movie. Yeah, yeah, yeah. We saw this. Yeah, okay. All right, well, there you go. That's Jameson Parker, the, the better-looking, or the supposed better-looking Simon and Simon guy.

What did he do later? Okay, so he's in stuff up to 2004. He was in JAG. Jag is now off the air, so you could say JAG off, you could say. You could say that. But he's in not much else. All 80s and 90s things.

Oh, poor guy. Gerald McCraney better than he did. But what are you going to do? All right. Anyway, this is Tim Horton things. I haven't even mentioned much of these are you. Oh, yeah, that's the news, everybody. Thanks for...

I forgot to do this. So on the 29th, which was yesterday, starting then, you'll be able to get these. Tim Horton's just to be proud to announce a partnership to collaborate on menu innovations and co-branded merchandise, all inspired by Justin's fanatical love of the Tim's brand. Let's see. They'll be able to get their first taste of the collaboration yesterday with the launch of limited edition Tim Bebes, Tim Bits, and chocolate white fudge, sour cream chocolate chip. That doesn't sound good.

Sour cream chocolate chip. Why does that sound bad? Um, you know what? It, it sounds bad if you, um, if you haven't had a really good ice cream flavor. My wife raves about sour cream poppy seed, um, ice cream made by, uh, the candy shop up in Georgetown. I haven't had it. I wanted to bring back some, um, yeah, some, like a pint of it for me to try, but it sounds, sounds awesome. Yeah, I don't know why that sounds wrong to me, but maybe I'm wrong.

Um, he says this is what Justin says. He says, doing a Tim Horton's co-lab has been a dream of mine, says Justin. I grew up on Tim Hortons, and it's always been something close to my heart. And then he says, is it too late to say I'm sorry and then left? Just kidding. No, he didn't say it. If you did. What's amazing about working with Justin is that he's an authentic lifelong relationship with Tims,

and he's always so invested in working on Tim Bits and our future plans together, says, Bagozy, who is the chief marketing officer, Tim Hortons. Hope Bagozy. Begozy. Begozy. Omacron! All right. I think that takes us to current, even though we missed these last stories.

It's fine. We'll do those tomorrow. We have news for the whole rest of the week now. Yeah, it's all good. We got a little sidetracked how we roll. Let's take our break. When we come back, Bill will be here first. And then after that, we'll have some time with our good pal and friend Bobby,

who will shed some scientific knowledge on us, which will also be great. So stick around for all of that. Before all that, we've got to do an indie, In Zimmittal. That's right. This one, we're going up to Victoria, British Columbia for this for an experimental art rock group called Pastel Blank. Now, these guys have figured out the French pop formula. This thing is like, if you like the band Air, this is some remnants of Air, Phoenix a little bit, the band Phoenix, some great French pop in this thing.

Give me a song Phoenix does, just to see if I know. does 1901 um oh my god take it away look it away look away hey oh oh okay yeah no i know them but you got it from that little bit i'm glad because that's all i could come up with uh totally got it you're good you're good that was great uh anyway uh this is the band pastel blank from a brand new single that they've released this is picture perfect oh this sounds great all right we're going to take this break and uh scott forgot to push a button so now he'll do it all right hey we'll see in just a second, don't go too far, because if you do, you'll miss out. then yourself

Oh my eyes Then yourself Picture perfect Color correction Picture perfect in love with an in love with a new name in love with a picture of her Well in mind To human place

Or hers not quite The memory of sad outweighs We wake of her touch Picture perfect color correction Picture perfect in love without him Protections online Wish she provides for your station The distance between all that you desire but do not know.

Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Keeps your person. Make sure perfect Make sure perfect Color correction Make sure perfect

In love with the new Projections none I wish improvised For you're such a low In the distant space we know That you desire But do not know Oh, Cricot

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We're back to the program. As a public service, we'd like to remind you what you just heard. Brian, what was that song again? You just heard. The song that you just heard is pastel blank and their song, picture perfect. Nice. Music freaked out when you talked. I don't know why.

It did. I heard it my ears. I don't know what that was about. All right, we're going to get our old pal punished props.com's own Bill to ran in here. We're going to talk to him. See what's going on in his life. You know, we're in the thick of the holidays. Probably got some gift ideas that you can go out and lathe.

or something, who knows. Yeah, got and lathe it. So let's find out. Your bat caves open there, Bill. Bill Durand joins us as he does each and every Tuesday to talk about the world of makers, making things, props, costumes, and more foam quite often. Resin.

Yeah, he's mostly foaming resin these days. Bill, welcome to the show. Foam, resin, and super glue finger tips. That's right. And occasionally just a little piss and vinegar, just a little bit in there. Right. Yep. That's right.

Hey, it's good to have a potato chip. That's right. Ooh, they'll sound good right now. Bill is here, joins us, and happy to have you back. What is going on these days? It's a holiday. So I don't know what you do as a maker during the holidays? Do you make a bunch of holiday shit or you just go,

I don't want to make anything because it's the holidays. What do you do? I'm probably going to make some stuff. You know what I might do as I might make something and not film it. Oh, a little change of pace. Just like a little project for yourself. Yeah, wouldn't that be? nice. Yeah, you're like, it's like a ninja playing Fortnite for fun. That's a joke.

You know, not screaming. Me listening to a cover album with no intention of putting any of the songs on the show. Yeah. Right. Yeah. Weird. Me reading weird news off of Reddit and not putting it in the lineup. Just reading, reading weird news out loud alone in your basement. Yeah. Yeah. No, this is actually, I'm glad you brought this up and I don't know if we're going to go this direction or not, but I have this with, uh, this thing once in a while. where I'm, everything I draw, I show. I'll put it on Twitter, I'll post it on Facebook, whatever. Even if it's just a sketch, a doodle, a quick thing, not a project or, you know, anything

that costs, you know, cost money, just a drawing and I'll put it out and share it. And I realize that I very rarely now just draw to draw. You know what I mean? For me only, no one else will ever see it. I just, I don't do that anymore. And I think it's important to maybe do that once in a while. So maybe that's what you're talking about, right? I agree.

I agree. What I've been doing is my still photography. I've been taking lots and lots of photos and none of you jerks get to see them. Oh, man. That's right. You got like a whole foam like I don't know, Death Star we've never seen or something like that.

No, mostly just photos of birds and stuff. Still photos of wildlife and my cats. You're an animal guy. We like that about you. Well, cool. Well, let's dive into whatever you got today. What do you got on. So most years, including this year, are a community, the Prop Tarts.

They do a secret Santa. So everyone who signs up will receive a gift, but they must also make and send a gift. That way everyone who signs up gets a thing. And when you sign up, you fill out a form and you give three options for the types of things you would like. So I got an email with my giftee's name and email address and mailing address. and three things. So it was brave, Lord of the Rings, and the Mandalorian. So as the maker, I had a few options of things to make.

And I went with the Nazgool sword from Lord of the Rings. So I built that for a person, and then I'm going to get something. Now, when I fell out the farm, I just said surprise me. So I have no idea what I'm going to get, which is very exciting. But I ended up making, like I said, a sword from Lord of the Rings. Of course you did, yeah. And, of course, we made a video because I made a thing, so I got to film it. Put it on the internet.

It seems like some kind of Nazgul business, just from the thumbnail. Is that what we got? You know it. So I already actually have a costume and gauntlets, NASGool gauntlets and everything. So I was able to sort of wrap that into the video, too, which is really fun. Yeah. The sword was mostly made out of wood. We went kind of old school on this.

No 3D printing. just went to the hardware store and got some pre-cut lumber. We went with quarter-inch poplar for the blade. Just pretty thin. I was able to get a blade that looks quite a bit like an actual real metal blade, but it is, in fact, all just poplar wood.

One of the advantages here seems like, in doing this one with wood, is the Nize Gould swords all had kind of a, haven't been sharpened in a thousand years kind of quality time. And so you can be a little chunk. you're right without having to create thin edges and that sort of thing right and it didn't need to be you know sharp enough to cut anything it's it's a you know prop sword it just needs to look the part too right now the wood uh using uh wood with a grain was really important um with the grain running the length of the blade it actually made it quite strong and flexible uh so uh it's not gonna break or snap on you unless i wouldn't i wouldn't smash this like wouldn't sword fight with this thing It just needs to penetrate young Frodo, right? Right.

Just need to be able to poke a hobbit in the chest at all. Gotcha. The shapes, most of the shapes are cut out using a bandsaw. This is totally the kind of project, though. You could use a hand saw if you don't have a mechanical saw of some kind. And then the bevels on the blade were made using a belt sander. Got that sort of diamond-shaped cross-section. So we were able to make a whole lot of dust and sand that thing down.

to its shape. So what's this cartoon? Did you start with this cartoon-looking plastic sword that you're showing? Oh, no, that was just an example of another sword that I made out of wood. That's my Lego sword. Oh, right. Okay. I was like, whoa, you turned that into that?

I was freaking out. All right. All right, we're good. So the cross card was also made out of wood, but it was just a little bit thicker. And there's little thorns on the blade. And to get those started, I actually cut out the profile. of the thorns out of a thin sheet of plastic and glued those on. And then I used epoxy putty to sculpt the rest of it.

But because I already had sort of the outline of the thorn shape on there, it was really super easy to sculpt that in. That's something I like to do. I'm not like an amazing sculptor. I can get by. And I like epoxy clay because once you've sculpted it and you let it set up, then you can sand it, which is when I'm better at, sanding than I am at sculpting.

So that's how I made the cross guard. And then the blade, like you were saying, Scott, it's old and gnarly. I wanted it to have like a texture to it, right? Like a pitted texture. The way metal looks, if you leave it like a metal blade, if you find a historic sword, none of them have shiny blades anymore. The surface of the blade is all pitted. Sure, yeah.

So to pull that off, I use some mod podge. There's all sorts of stuff you could use But I just wanted to stipple a texture on there So I went with mod podge because I have a ton of it And I stippled the texture on there So it had this really neat sort of gritty texture And then I went and sanded it once it was all dry I sanded the blade flat again

But I left a lot of the spots behind that have that texture And I feel like it did a pretty good job Of making it look kind of old and pitted I think I could have even gone more overboard with these blades They're supposed to look at it, like you said, thousands of years old. Yeah, they're ancient and they're horrible and evil, and they're just, they're made of death. And, yeah, doing all the distressing in the world is probably still not the thousands of years that the book would require. Right. And I only took, like, you know, six days to make this thing.

So I didn't have thousands of years to let it rot in the bottom of a crypt or wherever they, wherever they, where do they keep their sort. I don't know where they keep these. Yeah, I don't know either. Each other's anus. I have no idea. Right. They just show the NASCAR, like, coming out of their, uh, their, um, I can't remember the name of the place. They're castley thing. Yeah, the castley thing there. Are they, are they sitting there and they're like, oh, all right, time to go find those hobbits. Where's my sword?

Yeah, where's my sword and my gloves and my hood? Because that's really all. And the, and my horse that stinks and looks like it's falling apart. Where's that? That's great. Uh, it's always fun, it's always fun watching your very first, like I'm watching you with the Sharpie right here. doing your first layout or your first cut of the of the thing. And I don't know why, but that to me is the most fascinating part of this process.

Because I feel like once you get to a place where it looks like a sword, Ben's starting to paint it, mold it, distress it, carve it, sand it, all that. That all makes sense to me. But this initial dive into this board where you've got to now cut this out just seems like the, I don't know if I'm wrong about this, but like the danger part. Like if I don't get this part right, then everything after this is going to be suburb. par. Do you know what I'm trying to say? Like your sketch. Kind of like your sketch. Your original

pencil art needs to be what it needs to be before you ink it and color it. Right. Like there are a lot of things you've got to get right at this stage because the next steps are counting on it. On it being right. Yeah. I would say that doing the bevels on the

belt sander was a pretty critical step and it was difficult. In fact, this particular blade has a, the real sword has a hollow grind in it. Yeah. And I did not even attempt to do that. I have flat grinds on mine because I was sure I was going to goof it up. Yeah.

Let me ask you something about the Hilt. What is that material you're using to cover? So you've got underneath it, you have the rings that give it the protrusion, which is really cool. But then what is this material you're using? It looks like thick tape or something. Yeah, so that is a faux leather vinyl. It's actually a fabric. it's a two-way stretch

so it stretches in really in one axis and we just use some contact cement to glue it down over those rings to give it that shape and because it has that stretch to it was able to accommodate the rings

so yeah it's just a fake leather fabric is really cool and it just really added to that and then the what really I think really sells this sort of is the paint shop on it. We started with a shiny metallic lacquer for the base coat, which made the whole thing look bright silver,

which is not how it looks, but it was a really good sort of foundation. And then I did several passes of acrylic paint over the sword. And I would stipple the paint on with the sponge, so it would leave a bit of a texture, and I would let it dry for a little bit, and then I would wipe most of it off using a towel. And I did that with different colors.

It did like a little bit of rust, a little bit of like a darker metallic. color, a little bit of black, did it with several passes and several colors to make it look like that old abused metal. And I think I did a pretty convincing job. Oh my gosh, this thing at the end of the Ghostbuster stuff. Yes, that was fun. So in the NASGAL suit is my lovely wife, Brittany.

So we can take photos of like beauty shots. We love doing beauty shots at the end of all of our videos. And then we thought it'd be fun if a Ghostbuster showed up and caught the yeah that's cool and a ghost trap that's pretty great your your effects uh for shrinking you and sucking you in there actually aren't bad right yeah yeah that's actually better than the what they did in 94 or 84 i'm thinking that's really good you say that but i've watched the movie again recently and the hand animated effects that they did in that movie are still they're pretty great yeah they're pretty great in fact all the new stuff the 3d stuff uh or you know

computer-aided things seem like they're in service of trying to recreate that look. Exactly. Which is cool. If you're spending a lot of time trying to make your CGI look like a practical effect,

I'm always down. I think that's pretty cool. Well, very nice. The whole video's up. I just watched most of it while we talked, and people at home should go check it out. It's up at Punished Props Academy on YouTube or punish props.com.

We'll get you there as well. Bill, any bonus content this week? absolutely my friend simone yetch uh the queen of crappy robots made a new video so she hasn't seen her mom in two years what because of the pandemic and her mom is in sweden so her mom came to visit and she needed a place for her mom to stay so she did a camper renovation and it's really charming oh oh yeah look at this i'm trying to remember her robots like i know we've her name's so familiar i know we've talked about her before her robots are amazing her alarm system for example is a robot that just smacks her in the face? Okay, yeah. Yeah, yeah. She's just, all her stuff is ridiculous. It's so good. Yes. She's, uh, she has much, much deserved success on YouTube. She does Oh, yeah. And she's an absolutely wonderful human being. Yeah. She seems as legit and genuine as anyone you'd ever meet. Uh, well done, Sweden. All right. Hey, Bill is, uh, Bill is the man. Uh, you can find

them over there at Punish Props.com like I mentioned. Uh, Bill, anything else you want to mention before we go today? Sure. We have a Today's last day for our holiday sale. So if you want FOMSmith Books, both digital or printed, now's the day to get it. Sales ending tonight. Nice. Get out there. Get it. Get on it. If you don't, then what are you? Who are you? Bill Duran, everybody, punishprops.com, and Jinbeard on Twitter.

We'll see you. See you. All right. I want that sword hanging over my bed. No, well, maybe not directly over. your bed. I don't know. I want to wake up and just see it there and hear that how my alarm be that screech they make. Sort of Gamelis right above

your bed. Where all the magic happens. Mm. Oh, everybody, Kim says thank you for the nice birthday wishes yesterday. Oh, I was going to show it on the show and I forgot. She, okay, so Kim, Brian actually called it. She was

out for her birthday, had lunch with a friend, some other stuff yesterday. While she's out, she gives, she sees a homeless person, pulls up, gets one of these bags out and gives it to this lady. And it's got all this stuff in it for, you know, winter or getting ready and all that. And gives it this lady and she looks at it, gets kind of teary-eyed, reaches in her bag, and Hans Kim pull a torn out coloring book page that was just a picture of a lady in some trees that she had colored. and said, I don't have anything, I don't have much to give you, but here's this coloring page that I made. I colored it myself.

And so she got to, I was going to show you guys. Kim hates that I'm talking about this. Of course she does, yeah. She doesn't want you guys to know, but I have to tell you. It's altruistic. She doesn't do it with any, or not altruistic. She does it with any, with zero expectations of gratitude or, or acknowledgement. Yeah, especially me yapping about it on a show.

She has no expectation of that. Altruistic. It is altruistic. That's the, I'm trying to remember if it's the good, like, inflammable versus flammable. It is altruistic. Yeah, altruistic is a good, that's a good motivation, right? Is that that it is? It is.

It is, it absolutely is. Roman pa. She does it for the glory. How come she didn't pick up one of these homeless people, take them to Denny's and give them her free birthday grand slam? Oh, I see. That's a, you know what? No.

For next year. She needs to do it for next year. it for next year. All right. We're going to call who's next. I don't remember. Oh, it's Bobby. It's Bobby. Well, science time. Still getting used to the new Tuesdays. Yes, I know. It's a...

They throw me. It's quite a change. It's a change. Yeah, it's a change. We're going through the change. Science. All right. You guys didn't pay attention in class. So now you have to listen to this extra credit. Okay. Science with Bobby Frankenberger. Who joins us from South Carolina?

Probably didn't run today. Did you run today? you run today? No, not today. My schedule's moved around just a little bit because I'm getting close to the race and you have to make sure that everything lands right. So you're not, you don't have too much time between your last run and your race and you, but also you have enough time. You didn't run the day before and you're exhausted. Yeah, exactly. I'm guessing you're feeling pretty good about all this, like just physically feeling good these days and, you know. I am. I'm getting more confident as we get closer, which I would have expected. it to go the opposite way so i guess that's a good thing very very nice uh well it's good to have you

here um we're going to talk to bobby about some kind of science topic i usually i know before now but i don't know because we haven't uh talked so i don't know what we're doing but i'm excited about it anyway so what are we doing well i originally had something lined up to talk about which i think i'm i'm thinking next time we will because you know in the news all right now is is omicron Omicron. Percy I8, Blur, and all that. Yeah, that's happening.

Yeah. So I thought it might be worth talking about what we know about it, what we don't know, and just chatting about Omicron. So, okay, let's just get to the bare bones of why it's named that. We're doing this through what's the number system?

I forgot what it's called. What do we call that? Yeah, the Greek alphabet. They switched. That's the number system. Yeah, the number system known as the Greek alphabet. Yeah. English letters.

Number A. I'm not as far away from numbers as you can get. But, but, no, they don't name every variant because really what qualifies is a variant. Like every time a mutation happens,

they're not pointing out like, oh, gosh, that's another variant. They have variants of concern and variants of interest. And so the variance of concern are the ones that that they name. That's where you have significant, significant mutations that are something to be

worried about. Okay. So Omicron came, came as one of those. Like, people are very concerned about it. The problem is we don't really know if it or, you know, is it any more severe or contagious or anything than the Delta variant, which is kind of the current flavor, right? Yeah, the current, current, the Current popular flavor of COVID is Delta right now, and Omicron's the new kid on the block. We actually missed the Mew variant. We didn't miss it, but it didn't make a big splash. They weren't picked for the top 40s and stuff like that.

I mean, I actually kind of wondered about this. I mean, what happened to Ada and Theta and Iota, Kappa, Lambda? There was a Lambda variant. It was a Lambda variant. I remember the Lambda variant. There was a discussion about the Lambda variant. I guess COVID Kappa would probably cause some twitch conflicts or something.

They got sued. They got sued. Yeah, I noticed they didn't use the G or Zai or whatever it is, XI. I think my speculation on that is that that probably would have been really close to some Asian names. That's what, yeah, officially came out, is that they avoided new because they don't want to call it new COVID. And they avoided XI, which is pronounced what, Chi or Zai? G in China, but I don't know how it said in the Greek. Because of that, because it is a very common last name in China.

Including the current leader slash president slash whatever he has of China's last name is that. So anyway. So, okay, why this one. So you want to talk about what we do know about? Yeah, and why? And will it help me forget that Futurama every time I hear it? Will that help me? What you're going to tell me?

It's possible. The jury's still out on that. First, we should talk about that I don't really care. how you pronounce Omicron. Just, I'm, I'm tired of seeing news headlines about, how do you pronounce? Really? It seems like one of the easier Greek letters to pronounce. Apparently, everyone's pronouncing it differently.

And you've got Omicron, maybe. Amicron, Omicron. Jeez. Oh, my, oh, my, cron. Oh, my, cron. That's what, that's what, that's what, Windows server, Windows server, Windows, server administrators talking, oh my cron job.

Nice, nice. Nice deep cut for the system admins out there. Well done. Yeah, those are the real people that I aim to please when I come on the show. They're the real heroes. System admins. So what we do know about Omicron is that it's a virus that seems to have originated out of South Africa. It's got a lot of previously unseen mutations. That's why it's become a variant of concern

is because it has an unusually high number of new mutations and some of those new mutations are on the spike protein, which is if you remember your two years long lessons in virology, the spike proteins are how those are how the virus attaches to, and gets into the cells in your body. And also the spike proteins are what are targeted by the current vaccines. So changes in the spike proteins are concerning? Because are those changes going to either make the virus better at doing what it does,

i.e. infecting you and making you sick. Or are the changes in the spike protein going to make it harder for antibodies in the vaccines to do their job? And we don't know yet, right? That's like, neither of those answers. We don't know yet. And that's what is the scary thing and the anxiety-inducing thing is that we don't know. Everybody wants to know what can we say about Omicron. Is it more dangerous?

And the science is still out on that. Everybody's rushing to figure out what we, to answer these questions. But it takes time to do that. Right now, they're, they're. So what they can do is they can get this virus. They can replicate the virus and they can expose it to plasma from people who have high amounts of antibodies. So like donated plasma from people who have vaccinations and high amounts of antibodies and see if it neutralizes the virus. If it does, then that means good.

The vaccine seems to be effective against the Omicron variant. But if it doesn't, that means it's entirely possible. that the Omicron variant is able to bypass the current vaccine and that's not great. No, that's bad. That's bad. Especially if it's more virulent or easier to transmit

like some are saying, then you've got a double problem and then then what do we do? Like do we just you know, keeping out of this all the people who see this as a conspiracy theory, I'm not even giving them oxygen today. It's created by the government. Yeah. This is their new version

because the last one didn't do it. whatever um what i'm getting at is uh uh or what i would like to know is it would that then mean just like because i know so little about how mrna works would they be able to react to that and say well this one attaches via the hoo-ha protein so we got to just go re-engineer and now okay here it is it's called fyser two the reckoning and then you get that yeah well this time it's personal This time it's personal. Pfizer and Moderna are both talking about how they're ready to start working on a new booster or a new vaccine to deal with Omicron. One of the great things about these new types of MRNA vaccines is you can crank out a new version of it pretty quickly.

And the testing of it might be simpler too because we already know a lot about how the vaccine technology works in general and everything. right um so that's good but the definitely the reality is if if this is more virulent and it can bypass the vaccine like that's the real thing is if this thing is not able to be targeted by the current vaccines then that's kind of that's in a way very close to hitting like a reset button on the pandemic um now when we reset this time we've learned a lot about how to get through the video game levels already, so we'll get through it faster. The speed run will be better the second time through. I like the comparison. That's good, yeah.

But still not a great situation to be in. Yeah, yeah. Actually, so we scheduled boosters, even though I've got doctor friends that were like, you really don't need one, but I still scheduled one. We're getting Pfizer boosters on the 16th of December, or 13th, something like that. that. And it'll be a real bummer of the other end of that. You're like, man, we've been careful. We got vaccinated when we were meant to be. We got the two and then the three and we're doing the there, and then they go, and Omicron doesn't give a shit. Right. Now you need a new vaccine just for Omicron. Yeah. So the good thing, so that's great that you're going ahead and

getting the booster anyway. A lot of people I hear saying things like, well, if this new variant is going to come around. Maybe I should hold off on getting a vaccine or getting a booster. And absolutely, do not wait. Still get your vaccine. If you haven't, still get a booster if you haven't done that. The reason is because, first of all, we don't know if this can bypass the vaccine yet. Also, it's not like installing windows and then later you need Linux and you found out you got to reboot, you know, reformat the hard drive. It doesn't work that way. Right. Yeah, because Delta is still out there. And also, even if it's more effective at, even if the vaccine is less effective at stopping Omicron, it's still, there's still a good chance that having the boosters will have some sort of an effect.

And then there's another reason altogether why even if the vaccine that currently exists has zero effect, you still need to be vaccinated. And I'm going to tell you why. The reason is, because the reason that we have so many variants is because we are, okay, in order for a vaccine to mutate, it has to have host bodies to mutate in, okay? You mean a virus, not vaccine. Yeah, yeah. So in order for the virus to mutate, it has to have bodies within which to replicate, therefore, causing mutations. if there's no it doesn't just float around in the air and mutate it has to go inside a body infect a cell produce more virus and then that's when the mutations happen if everyone is vaccinated or if a ton of people are vaccinated and there are less people for it to infect the the the

mutation rate will go down COVID has a lower mutation rate than say the flu but the reason we're seeing so many mutations is because COVID is inside so many people. And so the more we get vaccinated, the slower this mutation will happen. And I've been really, I don't know, I've been really kind of empathetic in everything with people who are apprehensive about vaccines, but I'm becoming very impatient with it. and I'm starting to get to the point where I'm just like, everybody just needs to be vaccinated because we will not stop this unless that happens. Here's what I've learned. I watched the guy's video yesterday who, it was a TikTok video once again.

There was a guy sitting in a hospital with oxygen all over him and, you know, tied up to a million machines and everything. Just look at a wreck. You'd already been there for three weeks. He says he was looking at months probably being there. and that he was one of those people that just was like, I'm not getting this thing. And he now, you know, 100% regretted it,

is encouraging everybody he knows to get it. He ended up passing away like a month later, but the video was taken in October. And during the, but during his little sort of, you know, discussion on this video, he said, um, the part,

the problem is he sees it is that we are so, I mean, the fact that we have as high a percentage of vaccinations that we have is actually really impressive, considering this fact. And he says that so many people do not ever want to be told what to do, even when they know in their heart of hearts, it's the thing they should do or they would want to do anyway. But because they're being told to do it or because somebody else is saying, well, you better do this or you're not in the, you know, your problem or whatever. boy howdy is there nothing that'll make people dig their feet in hard and not do a thing. Even if it's absolutely in their best interests

they can't stand being told what to do. And it really stuck with me because it's easy for me to call that dumb or it's easy for me or whatever, but I understand it too. I don't like being told what to do when some other adult comes to me and says

you know you're really ought to. I'm like, freaking you really ought to get out of here. I'll do what I want. You know, like, you're getting that whole attitude everybody experiences that at some level and this is just that writ large on a kind of international scale for a lot of people and i i'm not saying i feel for that attitude i don't mean there's sympathy there for it but i understand the psychology of it and i don't know how we get over some of that like i don't know how you get past that you know and you know when i feel the most like i want to push back when someone tells me that i that i need to do something is the when i

feel the most like I want to push back is when I already have like concerns about the thing that someone's telling it. Because it feels like they're ignoring those concerns that I have when they say, just get it and who cares what you think. So I do have a lot of empathy for people. But you know what? I think I think me understanding why people do that is why I am so in favor of just mandating vaccines for everyone. Because you know what? I get it. It's hard, and there's a lot of apprehension. So, you know what? Let's just take the decision-making process out of your hands and let's just do it. Right. And, you know, like, because I do understand. So that's why sometimes you have to just say, here, you have to do it anyway. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. You know.

Sorry, I have a little, I have a little boy with me. I want him to say, I want him to try something. Say, hi, Bobby. Hi, Bobby. Oh, that's cute. Oh, my gosh. My heart just explored. Yeah. Now say, say, say, say, say, say, say, say, say, say, say, say, say, say, say, say, say, say, say, say, say, I'm Brian. Okay. Works for me. Oh, love you, buddy. All right.

Sorry, they wanted to make a quick care. Get your vaccines for Van because Van can't get a vaccine. He's the future. Yeah, that's right. He still can. He guess he's, what, three years out of the window now, whatever the new window is. Yeah, and he gave me my nasty cold,

but the nice thing was that he got over it in a day and it took me a week. So that says something. And this would be your way of getting him back. That's right. Getting the booster, so he can't because he can't. Because he still can't. Take that, kid, and he won't even know. Anyway, sorry, I didn't mean to interrupt.

Well, this is interesting. So, so if you had to guess, are we, there is a feeling right now of, oh, Omicron, worthy of taking seriously. We don't know all the answers yet, but we know enough to be concerned. How much of that concern should translate to, like Japan just closed again.

those kinds of measures obviously are going to be a lot of criticism one way or the other on that but do you think we've learned enough in the 2020 thing that we can make better decisions regarding closures like your speed run comparison which I actually think is pretty good

is pretty apropos comparison because we've been through this for a bit we've learned some things do you think we're going to make I don't just mean the U.S. Like is the world going to handle this potential better than we did the first run? Probably right, because at least we have vaccinations,

whether they're effective or not, again, still we don't know. But like, what do you think about all that? I think I think public health officials who are the types of people who aren't just making, you know, one end of the spectrum decisions. The public health people are often trying to weigh what people's actual behavior is going to be in a situation. And so that's that they try to factor that into these sorts of decisions. They have to, right?

If they know that a decision is the best possible decision for 10 people, that doesn't translate for 10 million people sometimes. That is absolutely, that is a great way to put it because that's the truth. And that's what public health officials, like public health, people who study public health and public health policy, that's what they think about. And I think we have learned a lot. throughout these past two years. My concern is that and is that politics are going to get in the way anyway.

Yeah. Well, that's just a given. Yeah. And that if you, one of the things that they have, that you have to consider is if you give, if you give everybody an inch, are they going to take a mile? And it sucks because, because I think that for most people, we do need to give a little bit of an inch because if you just tell everybody, at this point, If you tell everybody we have to lock down again, who knows what's going to happen. Yeah, I don't know if that would go well. I mean, not go well.

It didn't go well before, but before it was like, well, people didn't really know what to do. This is the first time we've experienced this in 100 years. Nobody really knew if this was the right thing or the wrong thing. I think at this stage, people are feeling like, I don't know. I don't know what the temperature is. There's definitely some COVID fatigue. Oh, 100%. And this would go over like a lead balloon, basically.

Yeah, if you told me this Omicron thing is going to mess with Vegas for TMS, I'm going to be pissed. Now, I'm going to do what is right, but my attitude is rough right now, you know? Like if they said it was so bad that, yeah, I don't recommend this or this, this, we would probably err on the side of safety. But we really want to do this. Like, we really want to do this and we're all tired of it. And so I understand feeling that way, but I still want to try to do the right thing when it happens. So, yeah, it's going to depend a lot on how omens. Omicron shapes.

How the vaccine does with Omicron. Yeah. And I hate to say it, but it's not looking great. We can't say anything yet because it's going to be at least a few more weeks before we can say for sure. But apparently the Omicron variant has a high reinfectivity rate in South Africa, which what that translates to is it's infecting people who already have antibodies it looks like, which means it's got some, they think it means it. It has some mutations that can bypass that stuff. Also, reinfections are bad in another way. It's not like getting a minor cold twice a year that was the same virus.

It's, you've already got to, if you were wrecked by the first run, you'll probably die from the second run. Yeah, it's not, it's not great. It's a lot of reports are exactly what you're talking about that. When people get it a second time, it's worse than the first time. but but you know it's everybody's different and it really you just have to wait to see how things some of the chat i don't know it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it makes me exhausted yeah it is a little exhausting someone in the chat says Vegas is one of the last places i'd want to be someone else said i can't believe you even thought it would be a good idea to be honest yeah no we get it like

we're being optimistic we're trying to say we're you know as a people I don't think this is a political thing to say. Maybe it is. People will have to let me know. But I just think you can be two things at once. You can be responsible and honest and straightforward about what's best to do in any certain circumstance, even when it's hard. So if the right thing to do is shut down the school, well, then that's the right thing to do. And you try to make the best decisions you can and you do everything you can.

But you don't want to say, well, that's it. We're all in a cave forever. We want to think to the future. part of that future was let's say there were no major scary variants coming the idea that things would be in a decent and enough place in in uh march with enough of us being vaccinated even triple vaccinated that we could make Vegas work we want to have optimism about that or else what are we even freaking doing it can't just be it can't just be not thinking about what's possible we have to think about this thing so and you started talking and you started

talking about Vegas before this variant. Way before Omicron. Yeah, exactly. Yeah, you know, and no plans that we make in this thing will be uncancelable. You know, it's, uh, we'll have

it out there. And if things look good, great. If they don't, it's totally fine. We'll postpone it and, you know, wait until things are looking hopeful again. And, yeah. And one of these times, it'll work out. Yeah, the Red Fragon went to DragonCon. And that was a, I was worried about that one just because everyone's in cosplay and they're heavy

breathing everywhere. Sweating everywhere, yeah. Although everybody's in masks, whether or not they're wearing your standard ones. That's true. There's always orgies and stuff. I always worried about that. There's not always one. Dude, nerd orgies at these events.

I got invited to stuff at BlissCon, I've never told people about and didn't go. But holy shit, the thing on that list. Holy shit, what they wanted this to do. So I wouldn't put it past them. But the point is, like, there were no major outbreaks out of, out of DragonCon. That was a really good sign, you know, that, and also, people were tested before going in, tested on their way out, like they were really smart about the procedures. And that's, you know, the more we can do that and the less just stupid fighting

we can do, the better off our chances are of a nice, peaceful Vegas trip in April. And here's the other thing about that. There is no reaction to that, to the Vegas plan, the TMS Vegas thing that we will say is the wrong reaction to it. If you're uncomfortable about it, if you want to wait a couple of years to attend one of these, 100% on board with that, we support you, we respect your decisions and we won't say, oh, come on, you're overreacting, anything like that. We'll never, in a million years, say that. And guess what?

If we canceled it last minute because we felt like it was too much, there will be a fair number of you who are like, thank you for doing that. And a whole bunch of you are going to go, I can't believe you have canceled it because you're afraid of that. I mean, we're always going to get all this. It's always going to happen. Exactly. Yep. So we just do the best we can.

And we miss you guys and we want to see you. That's all. That's all it is. That's all it is, Brian. That's all it is. And also, think of this. By April, Timmy and Tommy will stop telling us about their sale they're having there and Animal Crossing over the last three days.

All right, anyway, that's a side note. I need to open up. I haven't even been in there. If you go into the store from Thanksgiving until today, it ends finally after today, they have to tell you about their sale before you can do anything else. And they do it every effing time. And the sale's great. time to stock up on some tools get some cool stuff going pay less for that piece of furniture you don't have yet

yeah 30% off it's great i've been scared to get to check out animal crossing again because i got into that it's too hard this new update is amazing it's so good do they do they tell you we've got a sale going on sale going on sale going on i'm going to bug you about the thing forever thing forever yeah you're right um animal crossing is very good this update is very good it's got me it's got its hooks I mean bad, but I still only crack it open in the morning before the show, just kind of do a quick little morning chores, check the prices on turnips, that sort of stuff. And then later at night

when I'm in bed, I go do all my island crap and go do the design thing for the DLC and all that. It doesn't take that much time. Feel super casual. I'm loving it. I'm not saying, Bobby, you should just like headlong again. I'm just saying you'd be all right if you did. Maybe after the marathon when sleep is

not as important as... There you go. That's a good, yeah. Think about that after the run, for sure. He used to remind me of the pandemic this this new content has brought me out of that so it feels pretty good uh well all right then um more as we know it on this stuff and in the meantime there is the all about science or all around science i keep saying about all around science uh podcast which bobby co-hosts and puts out every week what do you guys got brewing for the next one uh well we just did a episode that just came out yesterday we talked about that russian satellite that got shot down where they were they were trying to recreate the

plot of gravity, you know. Oh, right, yeah. Right, all the stuff zipping around, yeah. Yeah, yeah. Why did they do? Why, do we know just in a basic answer way, why they were doing that? Yes, we do. They were not shy about saying that it's because the United States is trying to militarize space, so they decided they need to start testing missiles on satellites. Oh, man. They don't like our new space force is what they don't like. They don't like space force. They think it's really headed up by Steve Carell, don't they? Yeah, they do. I think so, yeah. But I thought that was hilarious that they were just not, they weren't even shy about it. They were like, yeah, that's why we're shooting rockets into satellites.

You're right. All right. Interesting. Okay. But we talked about, we talked about that. And we also, some other things, talked a little bit about marathon. If you're not sick of me talking about marathon training, then check out this episode of a little bit more there. Yeah, that just released yesterday.

That's okay, though. I like your, I like your little journey you're having right now. It's fun to watch. Yeah. I admire it. I wish I had the gumption at the moment to do that level of anything. And I kind of don't. I'll admit it.

But anyway, don't shoot out. Hey, Vladimir Putin. Try not to shoot out any more things. Okay? Vladimir Putin. All around science is the podcast. Check that out. All around science.com or just, you know, where podcasts are found all around science.

Yeah, they're everywhere. Leave a review for him, too. That always helps shows like his to get a little boost. Bobby, it's always good to talk to you. Take it easy, have fun, and we'll see you next science day. You too. Bye now. All right.

The word on the street is people quite like Bobby's segment, so I'm glad that we did it. Yeah, good. A lot of people are. Well, I like it, and that's all that matters. Honestly, at the end of the day, it is. It's all matters of what Brian says. So you guys can have your opinions, but really. Your opinions are fine and all, but, you know, it comes down how I feel about it.

Yeah, we don't care really at the end. Just kidding. We love you guys. All right. Hey, Brian, and we're done with the show almost. Except I wanted to call out some patrons. Oh, no, no. Before we do that, I almost forgot. You know that little marijuana thing I played the other day? Everyone's like, where'd that song come from?

Let's see if I can find it. Do you have it again? Yeah, here it is. Smell this. I love smoking marijuana. It makes me feel fantastorific, so I do it when I want it. All right, it's pretty great, right? Fantastorific. Trey wrote in.

and said, hey, that marijuana song on Monday's show is from the artist Muck Sticky. Muck Sticky. He's a local to me in Memphis, so I instantly recognized him, says Trey. So a Memphis musician named Muck Sticky, I looked it up, sure enough. In fact, I'll show this with the chat. Here you go. There's the video. There's nothing really happening in the video.

It's just the singing. A few people in chat, by the way, did mention that when we were playing it. But sometimes we can't see chat when we're going through the show, especially if it's like, During top of show stuff, it'll go by really quick. A.B. Tech, John, I did not see you guys talk about it. Sorry about that. But anyway, Trey's email came through and we got it. And there it is.

If you're looking for that entire song, plus a bunch of other stuff he's got, it seems like he's an interesting musician. You can find him on YouTube under, for the name, Muck Sticky. It's probably on Spotify and Apple Music. I don't know. I'd have to look. Anyway, thank you for that. Trey. We love it. Let us know if we said anything today, you want to tell us about the morning stream

at gmail.com. Patreon.com slash TMS is how the show is fueled. Literally doesn't exist without you and your commitment to our Patreon. So a huge thanks to everybody who is in there, including some recent patrons I'd like to call out. Dave Gare. He's at the grade A plus level. It's one of my favorite levels. Sven from baseball camp.

Did I mention him last time? I might have. Maybe not. I don't know. That does sound familiar. Baseball camp sounds familiar now that you say it. Yeah. Just Sven from baseball camp.

He's a grade A supporter. And also, Annie Martin, also at the grade A level. Thank you, Annie, Sven, and Dave, and many more for your support. If you want to hear your name set on the show, a great way to do it is to sign up on Patreon, but there's plenty of other benefits as well. You'll learn all about them at patreon.com slash TMS. Brian, you got anything else?

One time at baseball camp, one time with the flute. I'll never forget that with the flute. That was gross. Anyway, just a quick reminder, cards, Christmas cards, get them at frogpants.com slash store. go to coverville.com slash shop

if you want to pick up a whole stack of Andrew Allen music and a whole bunch of goodies that go along with it. Great deal too

so get on it. Both of them are. You weirdos. Help me clear some of this space out. Yeah, no kidding. What are you going to put

in the place of it? I have to start charging rent. Tina's stained glass leftover stuff. Brian, I have all this

leftover stuff. I don't think I'm going to do any more I asked this year. So, can we put that stuff in a cabinet? In one of our IKEA cabinets? Maybe the... I didn't know she did stained glass. That's cool. She did.

Yeah? That's not so much now. Really? What was it just too? Just not her thing anymore? What happened? Yeah, just took a little bit too much of her time. I'm always impressed by it, that stuff. Yeah, it's cool. She did some great stuff. That's really cool. All right. Well, maybe one day. She'll return to her.

One day she'll come back to it, but probably not. Probably not. All right, that's going to do it for the show. Thank you all for listening and watching. We're going to get out of here with a song. Okay. Well, this one's going out to Chris Kay. Says, Dear Shibuya and Budakon.

This November 21st, again, this is one from last week that we missed because of the holiday. Marks my 39th Emergence Day. In addition to your show, the thing that helped me keep sane-ish during the pandemic has been my dive into Japanese hard rock. I've listened to Baby Metal, Love Bites, and Ningin Isu, to name a few. But the band that has dominated my world has been band-made, a four-woman band that contrasts their driving hard-rock sound with their traditional maid outfits. Finding covers for a Japanese group was tough, but fortunately one of their songs was covered by band Maiko, a four-woman band that contrasts their driving hard-rock sound with their traditional geisha outfits.

Nice. And before you say it, they are two totally different bands. They've never been much in the same place at the same time. Band-made also did a cover of Honey by the Japanese visual K band Maku on their world domination album. As always, I bow to the covermaster's wisdom, but I hope you can defunded why I like it. Hope you can defunded why I like it. Weird. Defunded?

Seems like a autocorrect mishap right there. Well, here. I can definitely see why you like it. As close as we've got, the defunded, so enjoy. Defunded why. Okay. Anyway, hey, let's get to the second part of his request. This is by the band, Bandmade.

I listen to the two songs, and I like this one a lot better. This is their cover of Honey by, again, the Makku. Or Maku. I guess he usually put the emphasis on the first syllable. Maku. A song called Honey, get ready for some Japanese metal. Here you go. Here's the band Band Made.

I'm sorry-bye-up-and-stress-a-law-ma-ha-ma-stress-a-ma-stress-a-might-a-ma-stress-a-ma-stack-a-ma-stack-as-a-stack-a-mise. We're sing Nance-sne-s-s-na-scent things are Oh Aweckxed We're Awee

Bucan got caught and we're co-reter Dyeamond was two- What? This is what?

This is what? What are what? What's the sense about it? Honey,

honey, that was you know and you don't a way to

laugh at it, honey, honey, honey, honey, What kind of yass was done, you? That's not

that's in inside see that see that funny, funny, sadistic of a

d'n't a manifest or can't, I'll up again, oh oh

Oh Honey, honey, honey, honey, I'm in the head in the middle to get it, no. Hello, honey, honey. Allie, honey. All right, all right, all right, and then, c'nless, and it's just,

it's less, no, oh. Oh. Backdowns got off course, all of course, all of course, all of Quarerata

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