The Morning Stream - TMS 2211: Dude, where's my show?

Episode Date: December 2, 2021

Grazing the Nuts of Jimmy Stewart. Fetching Foreskins. Her Bosoms are Fantastic. One skin, two skin, blue skin, fore skin. Colonoscopy Watch 2021. Dickens N Chickens N Foreskin Bags. Casual Shirtless Santa. Our time of the month with Gidgit. Down Under, They Just Send in Poop Samples. The Rankin Bass Weed Smoking Puppet Guys. Heretic Palindrome. Nothing was odd until I heard the door knock. A combination of Uncle Joel and a guy from the mall. Sinbad Life Choices. Therapy Thursday 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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One skin, two skin, blue skin, foreskin. Colanoscopy watch. Dickens and chickens and forskine bags. Casual shirtless Santa. Our time of the month with Gidgett. Down under, they just send in poop samples. The Rankin' Bass weed smoking puppet guys. Heretic palindrome.

Nothing was odd until I heard the door knock. A combination of Uncle Joel and a guy from the mall. Sin bad life choices. Therapy Thursday and more on this episode of the morning stream. Those freaking Doritos just put me at the end of one end of the table, set me up with a great big shovel and just shovel. it in my big damn mouth I'll be happy

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on a bong ladies we heard you this is the morning stream Good morning, everybody. Welcome to TMS. It is Thursday, December 2nd, 2021. I'm Scott and he's Brian. Hello. Hello. Hey, it's a true, serious, true palindromic date today. So let's do the numbers here, 12, 02, 201, 21. Now, if I look at that.

Oh, I just saying, yeah, okay, if you do the, right, with the O2, Sure. Yeah. Yeah, look at that. So we still have, we yet have another cool date that we can remark on. No, wait a minute. 12-0-2-21. No, because that's not palindroma, because it would need be 12-202-21 to be palindromat. Let's do it like the British do it. So they go two, no, how do they do it? Yeah, they would go to 12-21. Does that work? No. 2.12, 2021. Wait, 2021. Wait, how can this isn't? I just saw this. You know what? If you do it as 12-0-2, 20-21. Yes, okay, that's it. If you fully spell out the year, 2021. Yeah, yeah. I was thinking that. You'd have to do that. You have to go and you have to put a zero for a digit. So, yeah, that is palindromic, right? That is palindromic. 1-2-2-021. All right. We did it. We figured it out. Yep, it totally works.

It works. You're all better for knowing it. All right. Hey, what's going on? Sorry, I was seeing 1220, 2021 or 1202.21 in the chat. I'm like, no, that's not a true palindrome. Nope. It's not as palindrome.

Or even a false palindrome. No, it's the untrue. It's the false. That's the, it's the heretic palindrome. All right. Hey, check this out, Brian. You're in my dreams. All right?

You're in my dreams. Yeah. Do you like to hear about this? I don't know if I do. Just because of what I'm already reading in the in the show notes, but please. All right. So this was a very, very weird one because here's how it worked. It felt as real as anything ever because I wasn't in a strange place.

I was at home. Kim was there. Dogs were there. It felt normal. Like nothing weird. Like some of your dreams sometimes you're like, well, it's all normal except there's a giant monkey living in the bathroom or whatever. You know, like there's some odd thing going on. Sure, yeah.

Nothing got odd. until I hear the door knock. So, kink, kink, I hear the door knock in the stream. I go to the door, and again, real as anything. It's like mid-afternoon, sun's out, I can see it through the windows. Here's where things get weird. I open the door. And now I'm in, what I can only describe is, you know, San Francisco houses downtown.

They're very close to each other, and they're all kind of like that tall. That tall, like, you, the, what is it, the painted ladies, the famous ones you see at the beginning of, any show that takes place in San Francisco, I think too close for comfort. Use those in the opening titles. Yep, and the full house, I think, did it as well. Like townhome looking, but all stacked together in multicolors like you're talking about.

For some reason, when I open the door, if I look to the left or I look to the right, as far as the eye can see, I mean, literally off into the horizon line, we are all in these kinds of homes. Okay, all right. On the other side of the street, same thing running parallel. So it's just endless, though.

Just a road. Infinite, infinite row of those houses. Forever. So I just try to imagine that. It's kind of intense. It's like, whoa, that's a really, and I remember in the dream feeling that this is unusual. Like, whoa, that's really weird. Here's where things get weird and how you come in.

I open the door, and it's you. You're there. Yeah, yeah. And you're standing there. And I'm not kidding. In like some brown khaki pants. Burkinstock sandals with socks on. Okay. Okay.

All right. No shirt, but you're wearing suspenders like, you know, like casual Santa Claus looking kind of guy. You got suspenders on, but you're shirtless. And you have one of your hats on that you do for game shows and stuff, like a goofy hat, like a funny hat. A silly, funny hat. Yeah, a funny hat.

Yeah. So that's you, and over your shoulder, left side, I guess, doesn't matter. You're holding a giant bag full of something. Oh, God. And you're at the door, and I go, oh, hey, what's up? And you say, I'm here for the four skins. That's exactly what you said. I'm here for the four skins.

They're all four skins. And in my dream, I went, oh, hold on a second. And I ran back to get wherever I got four skins, this doesn't make any sense, but I got some four skins. plural, by the way, plural. Yeah, yeah. Came back to the door and threw them in your bag, almost like you were a trick-of-treater or something.

And then you moved on to the next door. Knock, knock, knock. Hi, I'm here for the four-skins. They gave you some four-skins. Right down the Long Grove houses collecting. Yeah. And in the dream... You're playing way too much animal crossing.

Maybe. There's some collecting thing going on. I don't know. But you went down forever, and the way the dream worked, it was as if I watched to do all the houses, even though it's not possible, but in the dream somehow. And it was just so repeated.

Brian at the door, knock, knock, knock. I'm here for the foreskins. People bring you four skins. They put them in your bag. You keep moving down the thing. And this is about the time I woke up. After all of this transpired, I wake up at about 2 o'clock last night. And I'm like, oh, I got to pee and whatever.

I get up and do my thing and come back to bed. And I couldn't go back to sleep because of this vision of you, you know, shirtless in these things. collecting four skins, just really, really, really stuck with me. And to this minute, it's very vivid. This is one of those dreams I cannot forget what I saw. Bring out your skins. So if you had to, I'm not even going to let Wendy have a crack at it. If you had to try it.

Oh, I was going to say whatever we had planned for Wendy, I think we're pushing that off a week. What do you, what do you think it is, though? Like, what do you think I'm thinking? All right. Well, let's kind of break it down. I mean, because I think the, um, the, the, the, row of houses all looking the same is

something we can analyze in and of itself, right? It's like it's kind of got its own little thing. No pun intended. It was so matter of fact, by the way. You weren't like, oh, I'm here for those four skins. Or I'm here for four scans. It was just this. Right, right.

It's like, yeah, hey, it's Tuesday. Here for the fours skins. Yeah, yeah. Very casual, very normal. The whole row of houses just ready. with their foreskins, and they can get it going. Good Lord. I have no idea. Actually, that might be, yeah. You know what? Where's your book? Oh, uh, not both. The cards or the dream cards. Because let's start with the, I mean, I'm pretty sure there's not a card in there that says

four skins. No. There is probably body parts, somebody collecting or, or seeing body parts or something like that. But, uh, um, there's, um, but the repetitive houses, like being in a like a row of repetition Let's see Transport That is a word flying without wings No At a glance

Nothing here about repetition There's accidents Aliens Sexual nature Unable to find a bathroom Hold on here One more try down this list here Okay that looks

Oh buildings Oh buildings all right all right let's see what this means if has any connection here it's as close as i've got uh buildings tend to represent your sense of self oh okay the plural do you feel like you're just a a cog in an endless spotify 2021 machine feels like it man those things are ugly aren't they those things people posted freaking ugly yeah nice geocities art um anyway right yeah say pay attention to what kind of building it is if you're uh if it's a home or a house this suggests that your personal life is your paramount concern at the moment.

If it's an office or factory, a professional life is what, okay, so if you're inside on the ground floor, generally the main floor, blah, blah, blah. Okay, being outside the building may convey a feeling of being detached. Well, I'm not out there. You were inside the building. Yeah, you were out there. It wasn't me. Any stairs now?

Yeah, this isn't it. Okay. I don't know, dude. I don't know. These are hard to... Yeah, I couldn't even begin to analyze that one. That feels like, I mean, Forskins, what were you, uh, I mean, I know I've been watching Big Mouth and, um, so right before that, it's just like watching an hour of cartoon, people talking about dicks and vaginas and stuff like that.

I have not seen anything on that show for a long time. Yeah, I like to, uh, is it Jocelyn on there? You guys. Yeah, well, uh, I don't know our name. Fuglio. Whatever her name is. I love his Nick Krull's version of that woman. Totally.

Yeah. How she ends her things. Noah. There's like a huge, ah, at the end. Is it Lola? Okay. Lola, yeah. Anyway, I said that like three times.

Of course, Claire knows. Oh, you said Lola? I said Lola like three times. Well, on air light. There you go, folks. There is. So, anyway, I have no idea. I have no idea what to say about it.

I don't know what happened. Just you're getting Foreskins. What you're going to do with them? You didn't say. As far as I know in the dream, there's no indication. Apparently, I'm probably going to use them for stem cell research or... Maybe. Yeah.

There's some good genetic code in them for skins. So, yeah. All right. If anyone has any thoughts, your email challenge for today, we need an email challenge. If I rub that bag, does the bag get bigger? No. No. The bag remains the same.

Okay. No, I don't know. Actually, that's a good point. The bag you were carrying, though, I will say this. It did seem big and heavy and hefty. yeah we did talk about sausages a lot yesterday so maybe that's that oh that could be it um so your email challenge today everybody is to send me an email telling me what you think uh what you think it is or you know where you think this is from and why why the hell it got said the way it said there was

why things happen in the dream that that it happened so send me your emails let me know and uh we'll let you know here here here's a sound for it hold on speaking of rude no that's not it. Let me see your identification. No! We don't need to see his identification. What? That's a lot of Star Wars, but... That's not it at all.

Send and receive email. There you go. There's our... There's the email. Send us your emails. Tell me what you think of this dream. We'll try to make sense of it together. All right. All right. Cool. Brian, what else is going on over there?

Oh, you? Oh, my gosh. You're fasting now. Oh, no. I am. I'm 24 hours away from the cold. Pellinoscopy. So, you know, it'll be a whole different bag of fun in about 24 hours. So I've begun. The breakfast this morning was a lovely beef broth because I couldn't find the chicken broth. I was like, oh, God, this sucks. I hated that already.

Followed by some jello. I just wanted some jello, really. You can do jello. Sure. I like jello. Totally did some jello. And now I'm drinking instead of coffee, I'm doing Harvest Gold. from Gwen's tea shop.

Oh, nice. A clear tea. The orange rhubose, rubos with the cinnamon. Nice. Man, this is awesome. It is a good tea. Claire, I can have coffee, but I can't put any cream in it. It would just be coffee black with Splenda.

And I said, you know, I'll do tea today. Yeah. And for folks at home, Claire is in our chat room. That's who he is. Oh, yes. I'm sorry. There's not a third person on the show that he just yelled out, ad and said to Claire.

uh so how do you feel because i know that's not your normal routine you're probably a little uh you know a little weak a little um hazy you know like uh yeah hearing you have a microphone issue issues before the show and stuff like he's like yeah i feel like i feel like that's just gonna be numb to rigor for me today i feel like it's going to be uh uh uh in the cards but um so yeah no You know, we'll see how it's great that we have Gidgeton with trivia today because, boy, do I feel like I'm going to be in a big disadvantage. No kidding. This will really be to my side if I can take advantage of it. Yeah, exactly.

Or maybe you're just like me normally now. I don't know. Maybe we're equal and we'll be just as done as each other. We'll find out soon enough. But, well, good. So 24 hours from now, you'll be. 24 hours from now, I will be out cold. My procedure is at 9 o'clock.

our time, mountain time. So that is 24, just 23 and a half hours from now. You got Tina taken, she needs a recording equipment. Yes. Oh, she is not recording. That is the... Tina, send me a thing. We'll hook up and you can, we'll do this.

We got this. We got a, you know, that guy in Twitter lied. We need some equivalent out of right. Yeah, we need some more of those. I don't know. I just need to know what you say. what does Brian say when he is completely

knocked out on fentanyl or whatever it is they get people now? I want to know. I want to know what you say. I'd be afraid. Well, you know, as long as I get first edits before anybody hears him. What if you say? Because I don't want to be talking about how I probably could have had that anesthesiologist if I wanted her.

Well, what if you said, what if you went? Oh, Tina, I need to go get all the foreskins. Get my bag. I don't Scott know about my secret forskinned fetish. My secret forskin bag. How did he know? Yeah, I keep telling us you have a whole room for 3D printing,

but what the truth is is there's a whole room full of foreskins. Right, yeah. All right. Mush potatoes in the chairman probably says it. It has it right. I'll come out of my fog or be in my fog going, you know that first album released by the Beatles was actually supposed to be intended for just a U.S. release, but

they added three tracks to make the U.K. release. It would be great as if they played like one of those songs that no one knows as a cover, but you know what's a cover. And they play it during the procedure, because you know, doctors have music going, and then you come out and go.

That was the Stray Cats, that's a cover and Stray Cats did it, but it was originally right. Right, yes. That'd be great if you corrected the doctor. Anyway, well, good luck. And may your insides be like your outsides, shiny and bright and ready to rock. Oh, well, I hope so.

I hope there are no beans where they're not supposed to be beans. Well, the nice thing is, if they catch any beans, they take them while they're in there. Yeah, right. And then they're good. Analyze the beans. Sure. And they'll look at the beans. But, you know, you'll have no beans.

Sure, sure. All right. It's a good reminder. I've probably, they told me 55. was my next one. Yeah, yeah. I'm still ways off, but... Yeah, so far, I mean, you know, it is what it is.

It's not fun. The whole broth thing, I'm, you know, I'm a guy who likes to eat, obviously. I like to eat. You like food. I do. I like food. I like tangible food. Take this.

Yeah, you want to eat food, and why wouldn't you? Why wouldn't you want food in your mouth? That's what people want. So, yeah, I'm hoping this quick and easy, and you don't. have any any issues. All right. Speaking of issues, we're going to bring in, we're going to bring in our old pal gidditch.

Speaking of issues. In the best possible kind. Let's see. Great group. Here we go. All right. We're calling her. It's that time of the month.

And we're going to do some fun trivia. It's going to be a great time. So everybody sit back, relax. While I wait for her call to be answered, she might have to call the colonel. Nope, there she is. Trivial things. Hey, everybody.

Welcome to the show. Gidgett von Leroux. Hi, Gidgett. Well, we can see you. Hang on, I got to meet you guys. Hang on, wait. Oh, there's the chat open. There we go.

Hi. Hey, what are you doing? Hi. Hi. Listen to us in Discord at the same time. That's right. I know, it's weird. It was, yeah.

Yeah. Yeah. Welcome. How the heck are you doing? I had a huge fall down the back stairs onto concrete. Oh. A week and a half ago. What?

Oh, no. That's not good. Are you all right? Yeah. We've had heaps of rain and we've got, we haven't done the back of our house and we've got this huge line of stairs that we go down into our backyard and it's got a concrete block and I just took one step and I actually tumbled and hit every part. So I hit my head.

I split top of my lip. Oh, geez. I've got my first broken bone in my toe. Really? Oh, no. Did my arm. I literally hit every part of my body. But apart from that, I'm.

I'm great. Okay. Oh, God. Other than that, everything's fine. Holy Moses. Oh, and I chip my tooth. Hang on.

Oh, yeah. Look at that. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Wow. So I hit everything, but the only thing I broke was my toes. So that's my first break. I'm 51, and that's my first break I've ever had in my entire life.

Dang, dude. That's, you should have been filming. You'd be a viral hit on YouTube or something by now. I know. I know. That streak is broken. now oh no oh no what are we going to do um did you have a head injury earlier this year too or was it last year yeah yeah yeah uh i think it was last year yeah i fell at my mom's mom's place and split my entire

head open and she was too drunk to take me to the hospital so she just put me to breath to bed which is what you do when someone has a bad head injury and and actually passes out yeah you put them to sleep sure they lay down yeah exactly if there's anything i've learned from all the movies it reminds me of that Robert Altman movie where her son, Annie McDowell's son gets hit by the car and she's like, oh, just put him to bed and the next thing you know, he's dead. Yeah, that's what happens. I've never seen a movie where they didn't say the words,

don't go to, they always say, don't fall asleep on me, don't you go to sleep. Yeah. So tell your mom, well done. Your mom apparently didn't watch any of those. I won't, I will not let that bitch forget that. Hold that over ahead till, yeah. She makes me pay for giving birth to me.

and I will make her regret ever just putting me to bed after a bad hand injury. All right. Well, good. Someone has to do it. Well, it's good to have you here, of course. And as always, you've come to us bearing trivia. We're going to have a little contest here. My understanding is these are going to be Christmas movies, given your cinephile status.

So that'll be fun. Let's do that. Why don't we do that? Yeah. Yeah. I think so. And we sort of gave up on the whole multiple choice thing. So I'm going for your throats on this one.

Can I say, Scott, because I was like listening beforehand. My basic explanation of dreams, and I think I've told you this before, because I have the weirdest dreams. Like even David Lynch should be like, shit, girl, you are messed up. But basically, for me, dreams are insanity of all our memories. We cannot control our thoughts when we're asleep. Oh, okay. So you think, okay, that's interesting. so do you think that

I'm so okay we'd be insane without the we are all we are all insane because people people like serial killers and and psychos they don't dream

so that's weird so if you don't dream you're probably going to kill somebody yeah it's our if you don't dream it's over yeah it's our it's our nice brain if you have if you have dreams

it's basically your brain while you're asleep I missed it sorry No, no, I got it. I said, if you don't dream, it's over. Yeah, dream it's a, hey now, hey now. All right.

So, well, good. I'm glad because I dream a lot, and that means I might be a complete psycho in my real life if I didn't dream so much, so that's good. That's exactly right. And the other thing that I heard is you never dream about new people. You always dream about someone, whether you've had them in your life,

you've seen them in a movie, seen them in a TV show, encountered them in a supermarket, but you actually never make up real people. people, but you can combine people. I think I've done that. That could be a combination of people. Yeah, that makes sense.

Yeah. Like an amalgamation of everyone I've ever known. Like those streets in my dream this morning. Correct. People had their head poking out and stuff. They weren't people I knew, but they were probably some combo of, you know, that's Uncle Joel and a guy saw at the mall, you know, together. Combined.

Yeah. That's it. But you probably when you were sleeping felt they were familiar to you, but you couldn't quite pinpoint it because they were actually a combination or they changed during your dream. They, they were, I mean, eat your uncle and next minute, some guy you met in a supermarket. So, science, science correspondent, TMS science correspondent, Bobby Frank says it is a myth that psychopaths don't dream. There are many reports of people with psycho, psychopathy. Psychopathy. Can't get it out of my ass or my mouth. Oh, that's the problem. It's not in my ass. It's in

my mouth. Anyway, that's interesting. Also, Talley says weed suppresses REM sleep. I didn't know that. That's interesting. So, Brian, slow down on the weed, man. It's weird. It is legal where you guys live, right? Where I live, yes. All the states next to me are legal mostly, except for Idaho and Wyoming. But everybody else down here on this curve, 100% legal. And then states beyond, you know, I can go to

Oregon, I can go to California, Nevada. They're all good. They're all good. Nope. We'll be the last one, dude. when state number 50 finally rolls over, it'll be us, I promise. Anyway, it's crazy because that time I was in Vegas for you guys for TMS, and you guys all finished, and I had another two days there, so I went to, like, the shooting range,

I went to the mob museum, you know, I tried to get around and, like, do all these different things just by myself. And then when I went to bar my cigarettes, they were just selling them, and it's not usually my thing. but I was like, well, it's legal, and it's there. Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah. Yeah. You and cigarettes as opposed to going edibles. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, I went a doobie. Yeah, you got a doobie. You want to pass it on the left-hand side. I get that word.

I want a duby brothers. That's right. Well, here we go then. And good luck, Brian, by the way. Before I forget, good luck with your operation. Oh, great. What is it, Colin Ospre? Yeah, because I know in Australia, you guys just,

what, send in your poop samples or something, right? And they analyze it every year or something like that. Yeah. Yeah, no, this in America, we like to just get our hands in there and really get in there. And look, it's a camera going up. My butt is basically what it is right up your hooter. Oh, my ex-husband had that done, but that was way, way back in the early 90s. But now they just send out this kit that the guys can just do it.

And all I can say is it's payback for us women having to get periods every bloody month. They have a kit. Hold on. There's a kit. They send you a kit. You poop in the kit and send it back. Yeah, Tina's got other friends in Australia who are telling us about this. Oh, wow.

You just take a swipe and put it in a test tubey thing. My partner colonel hasn't done it because he doesn't want to know. Yeah, but that's different. But that's different than like exploring the organs. Like, I don't know if that's the same procedure. I think that does a whole different. That checks for other stuff, right? I don't think it's like.

I think it has to. Yeah. I mean, it has to check for those stuff. Yeah, but they're not. Well, I think you do want to know, so if you catch it early, you can not have it. That's the idea. Yeah, I don't know how poop is going to tell if you have a polyp in your colon or something. I'm going to burn out and fade away like the Kug, and I just don't want to know.

You know, you know that stuff. Then you're like, oh, I'm doomed. And it's like, no, that's fine. If, you know. That's why you do it early. That's why. I'm just going to burn out. That's why you do it early.

It's preventative. So you go in, they go, oh, we found a polyp that would have developed into this tumor, but we got it now you're all good and see you later see in five years like that's what you're hoping for you're if you put it off forever then you go in and they go ah there's a thing the size of a gopher in here and you're gonna die like the you want to go in early but i just wouldn't go in so then you don't know so i got that you're like washing the dishes and you just fall over dead and you're like well that was my life yeah yeah yeah that's one way looking at it i guess i know it's insane but i am blonde so you know well that's you know there's something to that

you know guys uh typically are known for putting off going to the doctor as long as possible until their arm is basically falling off hold on by one tendon so it's kind of along those same lines like oh no if i if i need to go i'll go but i don't need to go yeah yeah they're yeah i can't get colonel to the doctor to save his life yeah um literally on the other the dentist to fit to fix that that that yeah that chip there sure yeah sure yeah sure I got you. Okay. All right, trivia.

So, I don't know who won last time and I don't care. So I'm going to kick off with Brian. That's fine. That's fine. I won last time, but Brian should start because I won last time. I'm hiding the chat room, so. Oh, yeah. There we go.

Get rid of it. All right. It's gone. Sorry, chat room. I can still read you. Don't worry. Yeah. Okay.

I'm ready. And I read all of you after I finished recording. So don't worry about it. She writes down your names and what you said about her. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. All right. So, Brian, all right, so this is just flat-out answer. All right, what is the name of the Christmas celebrating village in Dr. Seuss's How the Grinch Stole Christmas with Jim Carrey?

That would be Whoville. That would be correct. Congratulations on the quick answer. Very nice. I could have played it up and said, well, let's see. There's, you know, the Cindy Lou who. Let's just get on with things. It's just like, get that camera up there and look for anything. Yeah, you've got some anal plate coming up. So you're just like, just get on with it, right?

That's right. Okay, Scott. Yeah. Okay, in planes, trains and automobiles, what does Del Griffith, John Candy, sell? Shower curtain rings. That is correct. That is exactly the right answer. Nice.

That's right. Nice. Not technically a Christmas movie, but I take it. It's still very festive. So, yes. Well, I sort of did, well, that was Thanksgiving. Yeah. Yeah, yeah.

It still works. It still works. And we don't do that stuff here. Yeah. It still works. Holiday season. Yeah. And when they get home, when he gets home and they're carrying the thing and he sees his

wife and it's all weird and everything and they're playing that horrible cover, that's that they got lights up. When he's on the train and he suddenly realizes he puts all the pieces together and suddenly realizes how lonely, because Del keeps talking about his wife all the time. And if you don't cry in that part, there's something wrong with you because it's just So, and then he goes back to get him and, oh, it's amazing. But the point is when they get there, there's lights up. So it's kind of Christmas, is my point.

So you're good. Correct. Oh, yeah, good point. Yes. Okay, Brian. Yes. In trading places, what report are the Brothers Duke trying to obtain early to corner the market? Oh, crap.

I've only ever seen this movie once. Once. Oh, really? Oh, it's so good. I know it is a really good movie. Oh, it's not that I didn't enjoy it. Jamie Lee Curtis's bosoms, they're fantastic. I think those are the reasons I watched it.

That's the reason anyone watched it. I don't care, male or female. You're just like, they're outstanding. So what report? I know it was a stock market thing. I'm thinking it is cattle futures. No, Scott? My memory serves it was orange juice or oranges?

Orange juice. Frozen concentrated orange. juice, that is an absolute correct answer. Well done. I've seen that movie a lot, so, yeah. I knew it was... I'm going to write that down. Steel.

It's a very good steel. Thank you. Okay. Scott, what breed of dog does cousin Eddie and Catherine own when they visit the Griswoles in National Lampoon's Christmas vacation? What breed? What breed? Well, he's like a little...

Oh, geez. He's not little. Isn't he? So there's the cat and there's... the squirrel and what breed of dog. And the dog peed on the sandwiches, right? No, that was the first movie. That was

vacation. Yeah, and that was... Christmas vacation. Right, that was Christmas vacation. Got it. Rottweiler, then, I think. That is correct. That is correct. Snott, I believe, is his name. Yeah, I think of the one in the first one. He was a little tiny furball dog that peed on the sandwiches, and that's a totally different thing. All right. And Clark ends up tying it to the back bumper bar and tracking. He probably kept up with you for a mile or two.

For a mile or two. And then Chevy Chase is acting, so all the cop is explaining it. It's just great. It's just like, oh, but he's part of him. It's just like, binky. Yeah. That was his own binkie. I think the colonel's downloading Netflix or something.

Something's going on over there. I think so. Yeah, you got an old choppy all of a sudden. Coming in all choppy. Yeah. You're fine, though. Keep going. Yep. Okay, Brian.

Yes. That was, oh, yeah, that is, that's right. This is, yeah. Yeah. All right. Yep. So number four. Who plays Claire Phillips?

Frank Crosses, Bill Murray's Long Loss Love in the film Scrooge. Oh. Scott's favorite movie of all time, his favorite Christmas movie all time. That's why I made sure you got this one rather than Scott. Yeah. Okay.

Is she asking actress or the character? The actress. The actress. Who plays her? He plays Claire Phillips. It's been a long time since I've seen this one too Because Scott's worded me off of it for the last several years Oh

You sheep you It is For some reason I think I remember blonde curly hair I'm going to say no Okay well You're thinking of me For some reason I'm seeing blonde curly hair It's because I'm looking at her

Yeah I'm going to say, I know what's wrong. I'm going to say Glenn Headley. No, she was dirty, right, and scoundrels. Okay, Scott, you want to give her the go? Of course she was, yes. All I can think of is, um, Groundhog Day lady. Oh, it's not her, is it?

Andy McDowell? It's not Annie McDowell. Is it Annie McDowell? No, okay. No. Raiders of the lost art. Karen Allen. Oh, Karen Allen.

Oh, right. I forgot she did that. Oh, the poor thing. That movie's bad. All right. Continue on. Ah, you're weird. Okay.

Scott. Yeah. Okay. In the 2003 film Elf, where does Santa Slay crash in New York City? Um, oh, geez. Don't say Twin Towers. No. Definitely not that.

Plus, this was post-9-11, I think, that movie. It was very much. Yeah, let's say, I mean, Times Square, maybe? I don't know, actually. Okay, Brian. Central Park. Oh, shit. It's a steel.

I should have known that. It's a steelorama. Yeah. I should have known that. That's a movie we watch every year. Yeah, that movie's great. Elf is lovely. It's just a charming film, and, you know, we'll,

Farrell was perfectly cast and I think that's what made the film and John Favreau directing it as well. Yeah, yeah. It's good. It's very good. Okay. By the way, Ed Asner's Santa is like inspired idea. It's an amazing idea. Absolutely. Yep. Yeah. All right.

And Zoe Deschanel, is it Zoe Deschanel in that as well? She got a very lovely voice. She has a blonde. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. She does the singing. And then you got the, you got your, your Bob Newhart there is the else. Yeah. James Khan. Yeah. You got your Peter Dinklage. Yeah. You got your whole.

the whole deal, the whole smear. The whole deal. He's an angry elf. You know, the secretary is, what's her name? Oh, crap. Her brother's the famous NPR, this American Life commentator guy. Oh, right, Cedaras.

Amy Cedaris, she's the secretary of it. Yeah. Look at all the things I know except for the Central Park bit. Look at that. I know. Because he gets chased by the rangers in the black coats. Yeah. Okay.

Brian. Yeah. What is the name of the town? Jack Skellington and various monsters and supernatural beings live in in a nightmare before Christmas. I think it's, well, my head is telling me it's Halloween town, but let me think if I'm jumping too quickly to the wrong answer. No, I think it's Halloween town.

That is correct. Yeah, okay, all right. They're all town, Christmas town, Halloween town, all that stuff. Just watched it with... Easterberg. Yeah, I feel like I would have been Easterberg. That would be great. For a hot second.

That would be confused with Westerberg. Yeah, exactly. For a hot second, I'm watching the other day with Van, and for a hot second, Jack Skellington looks at the door that would be the St. Patrick's town. Mm-hmm. And right at the moment, I went, man, I'm glad you didn't open that one, dude.

That would have sucked. No offense. No offense, Claire, or anybody from Ireland. I'm just saying it would have just, but what kind of movie is that? It would have been awful. Right, yeah. Scott hates everyone from Ireland.

No, all of them. You're going to come from me, she says. Well, he won't friend them on, he won't friend them in Animal Crossing, so it's proven. Yeah, there you go. The Irish are too drunk to rise up, so don't worry about it. It's all fine. It'll be fine. In high Ireland.

Okay. So this is Scott. Yeah. Okay. Where are the McAllister family going to spend Christmas in the film Home Alone? They are going. Oh. hold on

I think they're going to France city Paris yes okay good job Paris France I almost said New York but that's the second movie that's the second one yeah and it really

threw me in for a second but yes Paris France that is correct okay Brian what actor plays George Bailey in Frank Capra's 1946 classic Christmas film It's a wonderful life. It's hard.

You want the moon, Mary? You want the moon, Mary? I'll throw a lash all around the moon and get the moon for you. You want the moon? It's James Stewart, Jimmy Stewart. That is correct. Yes. Let me tell you about my dog.

I wrote a poem about my dog. Home cooking soup. You're very good at doing voices, Brian. He is. He's a great impressionist. You may not be after your cloth. Oh, no. I'll be, I just will only be able to do higher voices.

Yeah, you might be speaking like this all the time. Yeah. Okay, Scott. All right, number 10, in the film, Gremlins, Mogwis have three rules. Do not expose them to light, especially sunlight. Yeah. Number two, no contact with water.

What is the third one? Oh, geez. I forgot there's a third one. Three rules. that make no sense whatsoever they are the stupidest rules known to mankind. Oh, it's a fun baby. Oh, shit.

You, uh, oh, you feed them, you can't feed him after midnight. You can't feed him after midnight. Yes, damn it. Correct. Hoo, that hurt coming out. That was close. Oh, talk about your colonoscopy.

That's what I felt like. Oh, yeah. Get that out of my sister. Oh, I was hoping. I was hoping it wasn't going to come to you. Oh, my gosh. We just saw that one last. Number 11, what is the one thing Ralphie wants for Christmas in 1983's A Christmas Story?

How detailed do I need to be? Because it's a Red Rider BB gun with like triple pump action. That'll do. Yeah, you got it. Nicely done. Hang on, I can prove it to you. Nice. Oh, look at this.

It's all handwritten. Oh, my gosh, dude. Yeah. Wait, wait, wait. Hold on a minute. I type it out. I know you're from the 80s and you love the 80s, but are you still there? I like writing.

I like writing. I think it's one of those things. If you give up doing it, you end up writing like a three-year-old. You're 100% correct. You have a really good handwriting, so it shows that you haven't lost that art. You're 100% correct. My wife's the same way. There's the previous questions.

Beautiful handwriting. Nicely done. Oh, look at that. Yeah. It's very good. That's readable. I can read those words. I don't do that when I write.

It's like a manifesto or something. I'll be doing my manifesto later Okay, Scott 12, what is the toy Howard played by Arnold Schwarzenegger and Myron, played by Sinbad, are trying to purchase for their sons in the film Jingle All the Way.

All right, well, this is a bummer because I have never seen Jingle all the way. I don't know why I never saw it, I just never did. I saw it once when it came out and never felt like seeing it again. I know enough about it to know it was some kind of action figure.

You're probably not going to give me for that. So I'll just say action figure. You got half of it. I'll throw it to Brian. It's a superhero action figure that I'm never going to remember the name of this guy. He's red and blue. Captain. This is what stumped Colonel, because I tested on Colonel.

Oh, no, he's like something man. He said the same thing. Action Man. Action Man. I can see it. Oh, it's not action man? No, no, no, it's something, something action man. Before you said it.

All right. So does that mean neither of us got it? Is that what this means? It means new us got it. It's Turbo Man. Turbo Man. Now, let me show you the integrity right here. So last week on just the connection, the prize is, the prize was.

Price is was. This pin right here, this Turboman action figure. Oh, man. Which is sitting next to me on my desk. Yeah. And I know. I knew it was there, and I purposely did not look over to see it. You're a better hero than Turbo Man.

You know what it is for? Schwarzenegger and Sinbad should be fighting over me. That's right. That's right. You're just hungry. We might be. You're hungry. You're delusional.

You don't know what to do. A little dazed. Is that on our film sack you list this month or not? I can't remember. It is. We are. That's right. I think it's after Alien 4.

Okay. So we're doing Alien 4. this weekend and then we're doing jingle all the way, which I've never seen. So here we go. Yeah, me neither. Hey. Give me that action figure. What would Simbad say?

My career's over. I'm just kidding. Yes. Who am I? What am I doing here? All right. Welcome to McDonald's. Can I take your order?

Oh, he's fine. He's got a new tour. Everyone calm down. Don't say. Oh, but it's funny. Hey? All right, Brian This was the other one that's Stumped Colonel

Oh God, okay What Muppet character plays Charles Dickens In 1992's film The Muppet Christmas Carol It's easy Oh right, yeah, because it's Because it wasn't Kermit Even though you think Kermit would be the central I think it's

My head's telling me Gonzo, but hold on a second I'm got to really I want to make sure I'm not Because it was that recent Hunton Mansion thing with Gonzo is the central character and so I don't want to

come back on that I think it was Gonzo You're right It is Gonzo. That is correct Gonzo the Great Yeah good job And I like in fact

Because he plays Charles Dickens And Gonzo the Great likes chickens Yeah Yeah Deckons and chickens Whoa! Yeah I know Blue you mind

Yeah I think not We love that movie here We love it so much we're going to watch it maybe twice this year we love it nice imagine it's got to be on disney plus right it is yeah good really good transfer there too it's like the best version i've seen um i have it on dvc in australia like we've got a quite a few we've got amazon prime and amazon prime in australia has like really um collected a whole heap of streaming services because australians small population we don't have the access got netflix and then we had

disney for a while to watch the mandolorean and then we canned it because we actually found that the least effective streaming service I'm just waiting for Mickey Mouse to come through the door and beat me over to hear with a poll. Well, if you're not huge into Star Wars and Marvel and stuff like that, then yeah, then it's probably

you're going to use that the least. I think we use it. We probably use it the most. At least right now we are because that Beatles thing is on there. Hawk Eyes on there. Yeah, yeah. We'll probably sign back up just to watch that, the Peter Jackson one. Yeah. Yeah, they are. The Jeff Goldblower

one's coming back, Brian. Jeff, Jeff Goldblum. We're all going to, you know, there's two. See, now I don't, it immediately goes into my Jimmy Stewart. My Jeff Goldblum touches, grazes the nuts of Jimmy Stewart. I love that first season, so I'm excited about that. That'll be great. Yeah, me too.

All right. So who do you reckon they've been asking this a lot on Twitter? So if they were to remake the Jimmy Stewart movie, who, I mean, I'm not big on remakes. There's been some good ones, but who would you cast now as a modern I asked. Tom, Tom Hanks, 15 years ago. That's what I would have done. Yeah. Oh, good call. That'd be good. Yeah. I mean, actually, boy, we were talking Jim, or Jeff Goldblum, it's like, I can actually see him being...

I want him to be the angel, though. That's what I want. Every time, the bell rings. Yeah, you're going to, you're a lesson. People love you. Those glorious wings. Look at these beautiful wings. Look at these beautiful wings. Look at the way of the wings are. Yeah, like, don't say. Chris Pratt chat room, please don't ever say that.

Is someone saying that? Hold on. There it is. Yep. Don't say, Andy Sandberg. Oh, Andy Samberg. No. Because he could do serious and funny. All right. Who? Oh, I watched that pop star one last night with him for the first time last night. The never stop stopping. Yeah. Hold on. And look, there was a couple of moments that I laughed at it, but I just went, this is, this is just basically, this is spinal tap done for the modern ages.

and not as well, yes. Oh, the guy that played Nick on New Girl. Have him do it. Oh, that's not bad. Jake. Jake something. Yeah. Schupenheimer, whatever it is.

He should be in there. All right. Anyway, sorry, you were on a question. Jake Johnson? I think he's Jake Johnson. I actually said, someone said who would you cast as the Bert Reynolds character in Smokey and the band and the cannibore run? And I actually said Chris Pratt.

Oh, well, that I could see. Sure. Maybe. Yeah, because he's got that sort of cheeky, quipy, you know. Can you say or Ryan Reynolds? Or whatever.

Yeah, Ryan Reynolds. Oh, Ryan Reynolds would be good anyway. Ronald's. Actually, Rand Reynolds would be your great Georgia Bailey. Yeah. Uh-huh. Yeah, I like it. Yeah, actually, yeah, you're right.

I just re-watched Deadpool, too. And, uh, man, like, I can't do any, you can do no wrong. I still haven't seen two. Oh, Great Lantern. I know. I know. I don't know why. My wife's seen it.

I don't know how she saw without me. You've missed one of the greatest cameos in a non-marvel Marvel movie. not MCU Marvel movie I need to just watch it I want to see I wasn't that big on Deadpool 2 I really love Deadpool 1 like love love love

but Deadpool 2 to me I just think it lost the charm of the first one I don't know I disagree I think having rewatched it recently I feel like it it breaks the wall in so many great ways that

I have to rewatch it I'm willing to do that I'm willing to rewatch it to see if maybe I was just in a crabby mood or something, I don't know. Can't get that MCU or on Disney Plus. They don't have that one on there. Not on Disney Plus, but it is on Hulu.

Is it? Okay. They've got it on their Touchstone Network over there, streaming network. Yes, right, exactly. Sorry. Our wicked stepchild streaming service. I love that they do that. All right.

Sorry, where were we? We're somewhere. We're almost done, aren't we? We've got two minutes. We're on 14. How many more are there? We're just a few minutes away from my colonoscopy. yeah let's do it yeah okay oh it doesn't go that long all right uh scott yeah all right um willie t soak

played by billy bob thornton has a job as a department store santa but what is his real profession um oh i love that movie but i've only seen it twice and i don't oh it's real i mean you don't love it that much then do you? Was he a... Oh! He's not like a hitman or something, right? And what am I thinking of?

Nope. Okay. I don't... Just tell me when you want to throw it. He did something bad. It was something illegal. Like, uh... I don't know. I give up. I don't know that one.

All right. Brian? I don't know it either. My guess is taxi driver. Both wrong. He's for a burglar. Okay, so Skel was right. No, it was a burglar. He runs the team with the little guy that plays his, is.

Right. The little person and a sidekick. Gosh, dang, that movie is classic. That's a big no. So let's just call it even. I think I won that game. Did I win? Hey.

I don't think you did. Because we each had one steal, I think. Oh, you're right. I think we equal that. All right. So this is the first in, because I like doing the first in. This is for both of you. This is where Scott's brain breaks and he just goes, oh, oh, oh, oh, I'm going to go, I don't know.

And then we both break our brains and she can't come up with freaking Stanley Kubrick. Yeah, no kidding. Oh, my gosh. Yeah. All right. This is the tie bracket number 15. What is the name of the production company known for its seasonal stop motion animation television specials in the 60s and 60s? 70s. That is the Rankin' Bass.

That is correct. Shit. All I could think of was the... You know what I was thinking of is the... The weed smoking one. The live... The puppet guys. Oh, the Croft. Cardi Croft.

Yeah, the Croft one is what I was thinking. Brian wins. That was a quick. That was good. Your brain just went off, Scott. Just went... No, I did. I couldn't think. And I didn't want it. I was actually forcing down my tendency to go... I'm glad you. I'm glad you. Imagine it because halfway through there, I'm like,

Banking, Brick, Bracket, Greg, you would have completely broken me. That's awesome. I watch them all the time growing up. We got them in Australia and they were just so charming and lovely. Yeah, Arthur Rankin Jr. and Jules Bass. There you go. There's a great kind of tribute in the new season of Big Mouth to the Rankin Bass Christmas specials. Yeah.

I read an interview with... I actually pay a tribute to it in Elf. Yeah. Well, yeah, very much so on earth. You know, and there's the novel. Well, also the snowman, you know, the narrator is kind of the... Don't forget, too, the whole Henry Selleck, I read an interview with him once, the director of The Director of Nightmare Before Christmas.

Everyone always thinks Tim Burton directed that movie. He did not. He wrote it and produced it. Those characters are his. But the, anyway, Henry Selleck, points at those Rankin Bass things as like the the point of inspiration for him

that's what got him where he went had it not been for those he probably wouldn't have got into it so there you go I understand that because if you grew up with them they were just iconic and wonderful songs and you know they're roped in Bill Ives and Fred Astaire and people like that to do the voices

and they were just part of Christmas to me you know a Christmas story the movie was not big here in Australia that's why when we podcasted that it did really well overseas especially in America didn't do well here in Australia at all because people just didn't know that movie but I grew up with it we got it on VHS so you know we were very Americanized growing up yeah my I love the heat miser he's my man

yes yeah totally yeah oh yeah he's Mr. Fun or wherever it went well all right hey tell people where your show is I'm trying to think of the songs tell people tell people where your show is so they can it on the internet? Oh, where is my show? Well, I've been taking a break for the last week, but we are the retro cinema podcast. You can just type us into Google. You find us on every single one of your platforms. Our episode 238, we did UHF or video from UHF, which I love. Our next episode was the top 10 funniest films of the 80s, and that was a hell of a challenge, I had about 25 of them, had to riddle them down to skin.

And out tonight, I was off. So it's my neighbor, Torito, with angry. Oh, my neighbor Totoro, yeah. Yeah, Toroto. Toroto, that's it, yeah. Yeah, Toroto. Toroto. Yeah, no worries.

Have a good one. You're all, oh, I lost her. Oh, wow. Yeah, she was breaking up something bad there. She was having to tell her know that we didn't just hang up on. Yeah, that was. That was not going well toward the end. I don't know what happened to her internet.

I blame the colonel. Also, Mark, this is the day I learned that she was divorced. I had no idea. I didn't know. She had a husband before this. I don't know why I didn't know that. All right, we're going to take a break. When we come back, my sister Wendy will be here.

We're going to talk some stuff. So be prepared and get ready. But we got to do a song before that. Can you play that song before we go? I can. As a matter of fact, that song, I even introed yesterday accidentally. I gave you the wrong song yesterday. Oh, everyone thinks I screwed it up.

Okay. No, no, no, no. It was absolutely me. It was totally me. I gave you, I don't want to go to Mars by a band called White Lies from their brand new album as I try to not, or as I try not to fall apart. It all worked out because I've heard from three people who really liked the song, even though they were confused. They loved it. Yes, good. Well, now they know who it is. It's white lies. I don't want to go to Mars from there as I tried not to fall apart from yesterday. So, today, we're going to play the song I introed yesterday, which is. hooray for the riffraff from her upcoming album Life on Earth. Here is Rhododendron. That sounds awesome.

Let's play it. We'll be right back with Wendy. Stay tuned. Rhododendrine I can hear you speaking You can feel me breathing Break my head open Morning glory

Naked voice Lime's don't ever glade rhododendron oh I can't look back I lost it all on this one-way track Don't turn your back on the mainland Don't turn your back on the mainland

Don't turn your back on the mainland Road in the Dray! Wake up in a field of corn, staring at a field of corn, staring at a sky reborn. Spirit find me Oh, the spirit guide me Addicted to the Higher violence

Fuma maple Chamico perfume Wrap your limbs around me This won't be over soon Don't turn your back on the mainland Don't turn you back on the mainland the mainland don't bring you back on the mainland

road in debt tree Everything I had is gone. I don't know what it takes to carry on. And everything I have had is gone. And I don't know what it'll take to carry on. And I don't know what it takes to carry on. And I don't know what it is days to carry on And I don't know what your days to carry on

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I did just hear from my gadget. They had a blackout. Well, that would explain it. That turned out. Yeah, really good timing, I would say. Yeah, I think somebody finally figured out how to end that segment. Yeah, no kidding. All right.

Well, good news, everybody. My sister Wendy, who I assume you're back from Tennessee. Yeah, you were visiting. Yes. Okay. Now. You're back. That's good because your internet there was bad.

You had bad internet there. I know. And you know what? It's embarrassing, but I just couldn't, we couldn't find the internet to the house and the password. So I was just using a phone. Oh, you're using phone. Oh, that's hilarious.

And the second we were done, we found it. I mean, the second on the same. Beautiful. That was. Yeah, I was on a. Thank you for joining us. That was really fun to have you. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

It was really fun. We, Wendy had one under real steps, kind of all hands meetings with everybody. And it was super, super fun to do that. I really enjoyed it. We should get Brian in there sometime. He really, I think, kept up time. Yeah, Brian, you can come. You should probably use it.

It's really cool. Well, good. And then Thanksgiving in Tennessee is all it's cracked up to be, or what? Yeah, it was a really lovely. That's a very beautiful city. It was only two degrees warmer than here. Oh, that was a waste. Yeah.

Yeah, they had a little cold snap. Yeah. You were planning to go on there just for the heat, though, fortunately. No, I mean, I kind of figured it. would get something, but they were like, oh, sorry, this week's terrible. We're like, oh, you're kidding. Well, I'm glad.

Nobody got, nobody got Omicron while you were there, right? Everything's fine. No, Omicron? You're good? No. But we, just this morning, there's a case of Omicron in the Minnesota. Oh, no. Yeah, it's probably everywhere and people are just now, you know,

that's how this stuff goes. Two weeks ago, somebody got it, and now they're just finding out they have it. Stay safe. Zoe brings bacon. Holy cow. Yeah, she's traveling here from Europe. and hopefully she'll be okay. Real quick here.

So everybody, we went to Misha's house for Thanksgiving early. And I don't know if you've heard about this, but Thatcher's kids both had like RSV level illnesses of some sort. Oh. Not COVID, but just, you know, some awful kid thing. And I think we were all like, yeah, no, they're kids. We're not going to catch whatever these kids got. Everybody got really sick.

Mom's been down for like 10 days. She's doing much better today. I know. I heard her voice is awful. Yeah, she got pretty banged up. I mean, she's 82. That's what happens when you're 82. But my, I got really sick. I'm just now feeling better. Kim last night started to get it. The carter's still okay. But like Ken, Misha, most of the kids over it, most everybody got this thing that was like the worst stupid cold. And then, you know, people are getting tested for COVID because they don't know for sure. And then they're coming back negative. And it's just a bad cold because those never went away.

and it's been real fun. It's a good time to be alive. It's great. Yeah, glad I was in Nashville. Yeah, no kidding. But you know how those, you've got some good stories about family get-togethers

where then everyone gets sick. It's usually everyone barfing that weekend, but. Yeah. Oh, yeah. I will not do that ever again. Nope. Bad times.

All right. Serious trauma there. It's good to have you here. We're going to do our usual therapy Thursday thing, for those that don't know. I know you're here for the first time. There's always a few of you. Wendy is an actual therapist.

She helps people with real problems all the time. Comes on Thursdays and donate some of her time to help you with your questions. Like this email, we got from, um, they didn't say we, if we could say, they, they used their name, but they didn't say we shouldn't, so I just won't. I'll air on the side of no. C&M is what we'll call them. Hi, Scott, Brian and Wendy. My husband and I have started the process of fostering children. Part of the process is learning how to work with a child with trauma, recognize their triggers and promote a safe environment for their special needs. It is a pretty, uh, it

is pretty full on, but I feel we have the tools to succeed with these children. My question for you guys is this. After diffusing and settling down a breakdown slash tantrum, what can we do to settle ourselves down? We're both empathetic people and feel other people's pain. So what tools can we use to avoid us taking on their trauma, reset, and be 100% present for the kid? Thanks for, thanks so much for what you guys do, C and M. Well, first of all, I think it's rad that they're doing this. for sure more people should or if they can they or could it's not for everybody but people who are

in a place where they can do this i think is a really noble uh thing to do for kids and teens especially so part of that part of what you're going to say they may even depend on the age here i assume age always has a big factor in this stuff right with these kids yeah they don't mention they don't say yeah they don't say did they mention how many they just said Start a process of fostering kids plural, but they didn't say how many plural they mean. And also... Right. And it comes and goes, right?

Like, I assume what they're referring to. And I don't know for sure. But it's sort of like you are ready and open. And then when a kid comes up in the system, they ask you, they see if it's a fit. And sometimes that's more than one. Sometimes that can be a variety. So that was kind of what I was saying. Yeah, I assume so.

But it would be good to know if like they're bringing in a 16 year old first or if they're, if this is a three year four year old or you know it's because it's so different yeah the requirement on them will be very different i think um and and they didn't say if they had other children or children previously or anything none of that no well so i think i think what's tricky is if i okay that's that would be an interesting thing because i'll speak to actually both if if you've had your own children or you still have children at home um that is a that's kind of a whole other bag you've learned to not take care of yourself very well. So you're ready.

You're fine. No. And it would just be like an added layer of needs and stress and management stuff that you just maybe hadn't, haven't done before. And so, you know, the learning curve is going to be steep no matter what. But if you have not had any children, that's kind of the sense I get that there are no children previously. But is that you go from like quiet, peaceful. you can read a book when you want to not. And regardless of the age of the kids coming in,

you're going to still feel that, especially if you're very empathetic, right? You're still going to feel they're in the house. You're going to be wondering if they're okay and checking in the, you know, doing all sorts of things. And the first thing to go, ask anyone who has ever had deadlines or stress or, you know, lived a life is that the first thing to go is just what usually you need to balance and ground yourself.

And so, you know, kind of starting with that idea that you need to build in before any kid shows up because every kid's going to acquire something different, right? You might have a kid who's sullen and quiet and sort of, you know, you're trying to draw them out or just trying to help them connect. That's a very different requirement than a kid who's breaking stuff or, you know, angry or just like emoting. out rather than emoting in. And so, you know, all sorts of options are going to be thrown at you. And so before any of that even occurs, I think often it's like catch up after it starts is to kind of think, you know, and I'm sure they're getting some training in this too, but just how to prep the both of you in where is the space and time to ground yourself,

to reset, to take a break, that kind of. thing. So sort of think of it, you know, you have to have a timeout for yourself. And what does that look like? And most people only finally get to a timeout space when they're desperate for one, but to build one in when before anything occurs could be really powerful. So that might look like, you know, sort of sitting down and asking each other, what are, what are the things that help you feel stable or grounded. And, you know, maybe one of you, it's, you know, practicing yoga or going out with some friends playing cards

or, you know, whatever those things might be. Like, draw an exhaustive list of all the things that feel good and, you know, keep you calm or whatever. Because, you know, you might say, oh, I'd love to sit down and watch a series, you know, together. That may be totally disrupted. So you can't just have one option, is what I'm saying, right? Like, every night I think, oh my gosh, teenagers, like, why don't they sleep?

Like, what's wrong with this? I just want to go to bed. They're just up late, always, always, always, always up late, you know? And so you stuff to get up early. So if you have just, oh, we like to watch a show together, you're in big, big trouble. So get an exhaustive list of what you as individuals enjoy that feels calm and soothing. and then sort of figure out how to plant those into the week no matter what, right? And we've said this on the show a thousand times.

Everyone's heard this where you, you know, you're in the airplane, you put the mask on yourself before you put a mask on someone else. That's what we're talking about here. Like, and it has to be done in small increments. It has to be effective. And most people don't plan for this usually. It's like, I got it, I got it, I got it. And then this stuff will get difficult and, you know,

you don't have a prepaid on the calendar massage. Like, you might need that. And so if those were in place, it can just really ease the transition. And then how they interact with one another. So there's kind of twofold here. One is individually, what does, because they're different, right? One might need more outdoor time. The other one might need more alone time or what?

whatever it might be. So kind of coming up with and how to support each other and getting those individual needs met. And then the other being the couple energy that's going to come at them. So I'm still going assuming they have not had children of their own. I don't know if they're familiar with that face most parents make. It's called your soul is being sucked by a child. And that's hard to partner in the same way. Right. Right. And you guys are being thrown in the deep end. This is not, we're starting with sleep deprivation with a newborn, which is also being thrown in the deep end. Let's be honest. But yeah, so there is some, what is the couple going to be doing as a couple to make sure they're grounded in their relationship? And it isn't all, all about kids all the time. That is so tempting, especially when these kids have been traumatized and needs so much. This is true if your kid is like boring, happy, go left. lucky. And if this kid is a traumatized foster kid is the couple will suffer. And so it's figuring out how to minimize that suffering. And usually it's because of time or whatever it might

be. Right. And so what, what do you guys need to do together to make sure you're still solid and okay? So do you guys have any thoughts on that? You both don't bring up that couple energy. So that's like keeping the kid from not feeling ganged up on, right? Is that? Yeah, it could be. Or just, it could also just be that the kid splits the parents. That's very, very common. Oh, plays one against the other kind of thing.

Yeah. And so the gang, there's so many versions, right? So there's one gang up on the kid. Now, a united front is kind of the best policy here, which is like we both agree and we're both repeating the same thing, that type of thing. But then also, like, I mean, the real concern is more of the dividing of the two because one of you is softer than the other. It's just true.

Yeah, it's good cop. And usually it can even take turns. It doesn't have to be the same person. It's like bad cop, good cop, except a natural version of that sort of. You don't have to fake it. You just are that, right? Yeah. Yeah.

I don't know. I mean, to me, the United Front sounds like the best policy and the one that you should focus on trying to create. And I don't mean that because that can be taken as we're both ganging up on the kid and that's going to be the opposite of what a certain kid needs or whatever. But if you're not united, then... I just feel like that leads to problems. It totally does.

No matter what's going on. Let's discuss something really quick. So your own child who has a huge vested interest in you staying married to its mother or its father is weirdly effective at splitting parents. Right? And I don't mean it's the kid's fault. I just mean there is some natural inclination to survive that's like, I need to get this candy, dad. I'll say yes, mom will say no, I'm going there, you know. So I don't think it's conscious in any kind of a weird way.

I just think it is so ubiquitous with children and parents that, you know, something's happening there that you sort of have to manage. I mean, jokingly, we went with some friends to Nashville and I was asking the kids, their kids, like, which parent do they go to for certain reasons? It's fun to travel with a therapist because I asked way too inappropriate questions, right? in front of in front of my friend of course she was laughing but but they were like well I always pick my mom because my dad no you know he's scary I'm like okay why is he scary and they're like well if he's distracted he'll say yes I mean the detail with which they could tell

me the temperaments of their parents and what they ask when I mean you tell me that they don't know what they're doing they kind of do okay anyway but that idea of like you know that's happening now you take a kid who does not trust you at all because this is the baseline. I'm going to be harsher than I need to be here. Just there's a reason. Right. I get it.

This kid is going to come in and think that you're going to ditch him like everyone else has. And if I get close to you, I'm going to get really hurt. And you're going to come at him with so much love and openness and attention and affection and all those things you have to bring to this table. And they are going to spit at it and throw darts at it and not believe you. That's hard. Really, really hard. And so the more training you have, the better. The more understanding of trauma, the better.

Recognizing that trauma is, trauma creates protection in another human being. The other human being will do whatever it takes to not get hurt like that again. So if you think of what the very nature of a kid in foster care is, is that someone has literally abandoned them. Now, whether that person chose to or not, or all the excuses are extenuating circumstances, and like legitimate compassionate reasons doesn't matter at it you know we can feel abandoned by very small things but this this is a kid at a young age that does not feel wanted and the irony is we think okay make them feel wanted that's going to work and maybe for some kids that'll that'll get through but you do need to be prepared that most of these kids are going to think you're full of crap

and you're just doing them for the money or that your intentions are wrong and that just is a sign of how much pain there is. So if you're very sensitive, it sounds like these people are, and I think anyone who does this and has a heart big enough for this and is open and safe and warm enough, this is going to be difficult because it will clash with that, for sure. And then this is where it can get problematic with the couple. I don't even say, I'm not even saying this kid is trying to divide the two of you.

It's that the two of you are then going to be faced with a lot. of feelings and experiences and you're going to have to communicate 10,000 times more than you ever have before because parenting is tricky and foster parenting is the trickiest form of parenting. So I am scared and I don't mean to be scaring them. It's just this is real. And so the more prepared and it truly is, the more prepared, the better you're communicating, the more self-care you can implement. You'll make it and you'll do an amazing job. I have no doubt of that. I just think sometimes like all things right we're we can be naive um and we're hopeful and we're excited and that's all good and it gets us to do stuff and then reality always you know is is a little trickier so

and again they may get the sweetest foster care kid and be like wanda's full of crap and i hope so i hope that's what happens yeah well i might i mean the so um the thing i was thinking of is this like i was trying to think of my own life like are we did kim and i have a pretty united front when it came to each of the kids, and we did. But there was this other nuance to the relationships where Nick knew if he really needed to have a heart to heart with somebody, he'd go to his mom. The girls knew that they'd come to me. And it wasn't because they didn't trust her or he didn't trust me.

It's not that. It's just for some reason, the relationship was just that way. the girls liked to come to talk to me about stuff and Nick liked to go to his mom to talk about stuff and I'm not even saying this is normally just sort of down gender lines I don't think it is I think it just depends on the kid but my my takeaway from that was that it was a good thing that I could offer a different

sounding board for them when they needed it and by that I just mean a different personality I guess to approach or whatever than Kim's and then the same same with her and Nick and it didn't make us any less united because we weren't like oh yeah your mom she's the worst i'm glad you're talking to me about we didn't do that you know like we're still still in this together there's probably a little room for that but they don't have that relationship yet right like they're going into this raw so they don't have a they don't know who the good cop is yet

they don't know who the bad cop is or they don't know the person that has maybe a special understanding of where they're at in their life or whatever my brain keeps assuming they're going to be teenagers and i don't know why i keep doing that um well you're picturing like the hardest case right that's really difficult and the hardest to reach you know you'll have better bonding capacity with sort of younger kids and there's another question here that they didn't answer which is is this foster care to lead to adoption or is this foster care only and those are very different things in the in the sort of long term outcome or goal right so foster kid high risk foster parenting is ultimately that you're taking these kids they're

usually younger you know often they're siblings and the ideas that you'll adopt them and you run the risk of bonding creating the safety and then the courts giving the kids back to the parents and then you're out of these kids you've been open up to and early in my training I did a lot of work with kids in these situations and so I would be the therapist to the kid we're doing play therapy we, you know, sort of working through while they're, they're actively in this, you know, high-risk foster care situation and had a couple of really cool experiences, both in a child being reunited to its family and then another child being adopted by this foster couple that was just the most amazing humans I've ever met. And just watching this four-year-old, you know,

just her shoulders drop and breathe for the first time in her four years of life that she was okay and now she was safe and you know like some just really amazing things and so you have some advantages when they're younger you also have the disadvantage that is is taxing physically um and just kind of relentless i mean hopefully they'll go to bed by seven or eight um but like it's it's a really tough stage whereas teenagers you know i think your mind's going there because it really is you you have a lot less influence um and you're you know can be really hard. Teenagers are hard generally. So yeah, it's, it's tricky. I think going back to your stories though of parents talking to different kids, I think that's another piece to this is

nobody thinks they're a bad cop. Yeah. No one's run around like, you know, until they know they are, sometimes they realize in the end, like, yeah, I guess I'm the bad cop. But anyway, the two of them, you know, might just be like, yeah, great loving. And you may just like my dog decided he has favorites in the family, that's what kids will do. They will, they'll sort of lean towards someone they click with or, you know, whatever it might be. And so, you know, being prepared to sort of handle that, I, you know, I love to recommend everyone go to therapy, but like having someone designated outside of the couple for you to talk to about your stresses with this would also be really helpful. Yeah. Yeah. Could be a friend, could be a family member, somebody who's just good at hearing

you and not needing to do anything about it and not going to hold it against your partner or the is not going to go, well, you should just not be doing this. Like, that's not the person you need. Or, well, I'm going to run and tell your parents everything you just said. Yeah. Just like, cool, get a, get a nice neutral therapist that has. Yeah. Not to be the guy who's the, you know, it sounds like I'm just being cheap here, but part of the process of doing, being a foster home and working with the state in this regard, um, you do get paid for it. It's not a profit industry or anything. But you get paid for it and you know it's it's a it's a thing the way i would look at it as i'd go well why don't we make part of whatever we're getting paid for this part of that is our therapy money like right

just make that part of the project and that means that you've got somebody you're seeing regularly that united front is happening there and it's also then happening on the ground where the kids are and i feel like that would create some positive um i don't know just some positive vibes build it in also i mean i'm sure there's partial funding it depends on what state we're talking about here some states are more generous than others but um that's true that there is money for the kids to be in therapy and probably are mandated to some extent to be in some type of care treatment something it depends okay of course there's all levels here um sometimes you're you're literally rescuing a child from imminent death right and and so there is so much going on there

And so you're going to have it based on different needs and different situations. But yeah, to really utilize whatever the system is offering, they've done it a long time. There's a lot of good people working in that field who have done some good work and the resources. You know, just tap into them. I think there's a lot. And I mean, think about any parent, right? You just drive home with a baby. You sat through like a 15 minute, don't shake your baby.

video at the hospital. And that is all that is required is kind of horrifying. And so, you know, I assume that is not the case with foster parenting. And there is a lot out there. So to really take it in. Yeah. Let it be your guide. Let other people's experience help you.

You know, I guarantee there are support groups. I guarantee there's four million Facebook groups that where you can just not be alone as you are doing this really important work. And that includes your your normal support system, just like getting everybody on board and, you know, the, yeah, just the way of getting your own oxygen mask on is going to be individual for everyone. But it will be more than what you're used to. You're going to need more oxygen than you're used to. This is hiking to the top of the mountain. Like the air is thin there. So, you know, finding, cushioning as much as you possibly can. building in breaks where you're you know before you even need the breaks make sure the

brakes are in there and and this is ideal right what I'm describing is ideal and this isn't real world for everybody but you know even just small things to make sure you're taking care of yourselves is going to be important yeah yeah and that therapist can kind of play or or the friend or whoever just take some of the burden off the partner of needing you know you'll need to talk about things but also just it's a lot you know yeah for sure it's amazing i want to support him i don't know how what can we do i don't know i i'm super into families to do this i know there's probably some examples out there where people are pushing the limits and have 15 kids that are doing it strictly for the money and

just have some big wrecked house they don't care about it yeah i'm sure these exist but for the most part uh people that do this have good hearts about it and are you know really want to help people and, you know, I feel that way about adoption and other stuff, too. So I think it's really cool and should be encouraged. And there's something that this made me think of that is something I would like to do one day. I don't, I mean, I have kids at home right now who make me think I should not ever be parent. No, I mean, you know, it's a humbling moment. So I don't know how I could be helpful yet.

There is a big need, and I find this fascinating. This really appeals to me, I think, because I don't want. want to be around kids, is that you can, you can foster, and it's not in the same way, of course, but you just sort of, there's organizations that connect you to kids who've grown out of the foster system and are just trying to make it in life. And, you know, maybe they're in school or college or they're trying to work their jobs. They're just like, they just need family. And so you can adopt an adult foster kid and just have like mentorship kind of or just like connection and anyway so there's different organizations that do that I thought it's all relative to however

old my kids are because I'm like oh I can foster babies and then I had kids I'm like oh no I could foster teenagers and then I have teenagers I'm like oh okay I could I could take on adults the adults is good yeah right and then one day I'll go back to babies maybe I don't know right well it's it's an interesting thing. I would really like to hear back for them on how things went. And not just that, but like, what's the difference? Like, if they're going to be some sort of rotation, was it different having a five-year-old versus a 12-year-old?

Or is someone, a kid who's brand new to the system versus being in the system a long time. Yeah, yeah. And, you know, what, I don't know, what they're, more importantly, like at the end of it all or during it all, I just want them to be as non-regretful as possible. You know what I mean? You never know quite what you're getting into until you get into it. And I'm just worried it's going to feel like a lot at first.

And maybe that therapy is a good way to soften that blow, whatever that blow may be. But yeah, let us know. We love follow-up and hearing how things went. Speaking of so Real Steps, I was there for this thing and it was great. And I really enjoyed it. And it was after that, I went, man, everybody should do this. It's really great. You should.

It's really cool. So go read Real Steps. Org, everybody. Check it out. Oh, real quick, before you go, you got to do a fast interpretation of a dream I had about Brian. Okay. This is real fast. Okay. With their nudity. There were sort of. He was shirtless. I'll give him that. Anyway, the short of the dream was he was going door to door, house to house, in a long row of houses. One of them was mine where you answer the door. Brian's there with a big bag. And he's saying, I need all your foreskins. And then you'd go in the house. And all felt very normal in the dream. And you'd give them, you'd give him your foreskin. he put him in his bag and he move on to the next house and do the same thing and it was like very routine like picking up garbage or you know the recycling guys here or whatever it's how it felt in the dream what's what do you think any of that was about yeah good luck yeah good luck with this one so what do you think brian collecting foreskin means what's that about wow you are weird yeah i have weird dreams i can't help it they're weird they're always good that is interesting

um i mean it probably means nothing right it might just mean I ate, we did have pizza later than we usually would want to last night. You know what I mean? Was there crack cocaine on the pizza? No, as far as I know, it was mod and it was delivered. It's possible the driver was, you know, fiddling with. Yeah, I have a question. All right. You can't talk about pizza. Keep going. Move. Was Brian like his cheery self in the dream?

He was just, yeah, it was normal. Like, hey, but it wasn't like, hey, I haven't seen it so long. It's like he does this all the time. It was like a very like, oh, there's Brian. Here's your, here's your foreskin. See you later. kind of thing. Yeah, my diagnosis is, don't eat pizza late, and you're weird. What's that skin, new skin? Did you work for new skin? No, I did not.

New skin is a multi-level marketing bull crap company here in Utah that says that if you put lady placenta on your face, you'll live forever or whatever. And baby four skins. Yeah, baby four skins. I'm just wondering if it was connected. No, no. I don't think so. No, no, that's...

I haven't seen any weird movies. I haven't watched anything that would, like, spawn any of this, like... Okay, so let's say you were my client, and I had to take you seriously. Yeah. I would... I would ask just, like, generally about life, like, you know, what's going on and, you know? And you can sometimes tie some dressers to certain things, right? Like, it doesn't ever make total sense.

Sometimes they're right on the nose and hilarious, you know, like, someone's like, What does this dream mean? I'm like, wow, it's exactly what your life is. And it's not as easy to see it, but this one obviously is harder to see. So I would ask you, you know, so for example, and this, people may notice this too, at different times of their lives, when they're extra stress or feeling particularly vulnerable, they may have a dream that has a particular theme to it. So that's why we have the very common ones of you went to school naked or you go to a class

that you didn't attend all year and now you have to take the test. or so whatever it might be, you know, so the real question here is not that there's Brian gathering, foreskin around the neighborhood, like recycling creeper. It's that what is the feeling in the dream? Yeah. Is the feeling that it's normal? Yeah. Or is the feeling distressing?

What's, you know? No, it felt normal. It just felt like, oh, Brian's back. Quick, go get the fourskins. Just day again. Forskin day. Fourskin day. Go get it.

Oh, my God. Forskin day again? Jesus. It wasn't like a medical procedure. I had to go and, you know, produce the foreskin from me or Nick or any other male members of my household. It was just... So where did you get it? Just, I don't know.

Hopefully out of the fridge. In the other room and grabbed it and gave it to him. Like, that was very nondescript in the dream. It just sort of was, oh, yeah. It's a good junk drawer. Hold on a second. Yeah. It's a little like a junk drawer.

Yeah. Kind of like that. Hilarious. Okay. So if there's no feeling to it, then there's probably no meaning to it. So that's usually the, the, the, the therapist bowls of like, okay. I mean, like, you're. Like, you're really bothered, right?

Like, people don't usually go to therapy and be like, hey, let's talk about my dreams. And they're just like, I was driving on a road and nothing happened. I didn't feel anything. Like, you know, that's not interesting and they don't notice, right? Versus nightmares versus themes that don't are relentless or, you know. So then you can really use. Very distressed or angry or scared. You guys just lean so heavily on the, well, how did that make you feel?

I know. Where do we get this from? I don't even know. Yeah. Weird. So instead, it's like, what does it mean? Well, Freud might have some ideas, but I don't. Sometimes a foreskin is just a for skin.

And sometimes a guy carrying a bag of them shirtless and Birkenstocks and brown pants. He's just a normal. It's just nothing. It doesn't mean. Yeah, he'd have nothing to say about anything. Yeah. I mean, the thing that made it, if I wouldn't even probably brought it up, maybe I would have because this show likes dumb stories that I tell. But if it hadn't been Brian, I think it would have been less significant because I just don't know why it was Brian.

Like, why is Brian picking up everybody's force? Brian's so reliable. I mean, he comes on every third day and talks to me. That might be it. He is the least maintenance of anyone I've ever had to work with in my life. And I don't just mean podcasting. Like, I don't have to do anything to work with Brian that's hard. And so maybe that's it. Maybe it's like, even in a world where you got to pick up foreskin every week, Brian is just there. Brian's still consistent. All right. I'm going with that. I'm going with that. He's a compliment. That's what it means. It's just a thing. I'll take that. That's a twisted-ass compliment that's based around force. See, you're welcome. Now pay me. Well done. Just kidding. Yeah, pay Wendy. All right. Well, this has all been great. RealStops.org, of course. And Wendy, I hope you're having a fine holiday season and that you guys don't catch any kind of colds or Omicron. Don't get it. Okay. No, I'm going to try not to. Try your best. All right. We'll see you next time. Bye-bye. All right. There she goes. There she goes. There she goes. there she goes again hey brian speaking there's going again there is no coverville

today because you're working on stuff yeah basically today I'm going to be shipping a lot of the CD sets that people have been ordering and it's still I think it's still I need to double check my quantities and see if it's still available so seven seven CD

Andrew Allen set up on coverville.com slash shop but also the other thing I'm doing is prepping for the two big end of the show or end of the year shows that I do, the Coverville Countdown, the 40 best covers of the year. So, so today's prep on that. It's, you know, the no show.

Plus, I'm feeling hazy and weak and I really just want a taco. You're running on nothing right now. I know. I shouldn't have brought up pizza. I feel bad. That sounds really. I know I want a pizza. Really, I want anything salty, like tangible pork and rice and whatever.

You need to replenish. Even a bag of salad right now sounds so good. Yeah. Maybe even a nice Gatorade. Oh, you're going to hate those by tonight. Oh, yeah. Yeah, I got lime cucumber. I never heard of cucumber lime Gatorade.

Oh, I haven't either. What number that's like? It looked really good. You're going to find out how that is. I'm going to find out. And really, you know, if it's the worst thing ever, great. I never have to drink lime cucumber gatorade again. Oh, man.

All right. Well, I feel for you. I've done this and I hated it. All right. Let's get out of here. Patreon.com slash TMS is how you can support this business. If you like doing that, then keep doing that. That'd be awesome.

We don't know about a PM tomorrow because it depends on how Brian's doing. We'll see. We'll check in with them. I will keep everyone post on how I feel. Yeah, if you're feeling all right, we'll do it. If not, it's okay. We'll skip a week and be good. That's going to do it for us.

Send those emails in if you've got dream interpretations or anything else you want to say, the morning stream at gmail.com. We will now leave you. But before we do, a song selection from Brian Nibbitts Fast Library, Brian. Yes, this is interesting. This is sort of, well, this harkens back to those early days of TMS when we didn't play covers. We played something else to close out the show. Demandrin, aka Andrew, wrote and said, hello, scotch and bourbon.

This can be played whenever you have a space for it. I know many people don't like this song, but I can actually tolerate this version. Thanks for all you do, signed Dem, aka Andrew. Now, I happen to be a fan of the Band-Aid song, Do They Know It's Christmas. But only a fan of the original. I think every version that they've come out with since then is unlistenable, um, pandering crap. Wow. All right.

That is a review if I've ever heard one. Wow. All right. Yes, exactly. Um, that said, uh, this is a mashup done by DJ7 is a combo of do they know it's Christmas is the power

of love. So obviously it combines do they know it's Christmas with, uh, the Huey Lewis track. Now, I will say this. Um, I don't know what version they used for this mashup, but it ain't the good version.

It ain't the Band-Aid version. This is like the, I don't know, like maybe the 2000 version, the 20-year anniversary version. I don't know. It's horrible, though. But, hey, it works in a mash-up. So from the very booty Christmas, volume four, here is, do they know it's Christmas is the power of love. Ah, this is so great. All right, we're going to play that now.

And then we're going to leave. And then we'll be back Monday for sure. Maybe tomorrow. We'll see. Wish Brian Luck. We'll see you then. G-N-A-N-O-R-U-S-E-M-A-N-O-R-U-S-E-G-M-A-M-A-N-O-U-S-E. R-O-U-S-E-G-L-A-N-O-R-O-R-U-U-S-A-R-A-A-R-A-R-A-R-A-R-M-A-A-R-A-A-R-A-A-R-A-A-L-L-L-L-L-L-L-A-V-R-L-E-V-E-V-BOR.

More than a feeling That's the power in love Top and the nabins Rich like creep Stronger and harder Than a bad girl's dream Make a bad one good Make a roll and rain

Power of love It keeps you home in night You don't need money Don't take fame Don't need no credit card ride this train It's dark and it's sudden And it's cruel sometimes

But it might just save your life That's a power of love No, no, love I want your love That's a power of love That's a power of love No, no love I want your love

That's a power of love First time we beat it It might make you sad Next time you feel it might make you mad But you'll be glad, baby, when you're found That's a power makes the world around And it don't take money, don't take fame Does you need no credit card to ride this train

It's strong and it's sudden, it can be cruel sometimes But it might just see a lie That's a power of love I want your love That's a power of love That's a power of love No, no love I want your love

That's a power love I want your love And I want your revenge I want your love I don't want to be friends You don't have more I wish you for don't know You're going to hold on your own night

Don't take money Don't take fame Don't need no credit card to ride this train I live in diamond Stronger than steel You won't feel nothing Till you feel in love You feel the power

Just feel the power of love That's the power of love Feel the power of love This show is part of the frogpants network Frogpants Network Get more shows like this At frogpants.com Wear it on your dominant arm

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