The Morning Stream - TMS 2225: LikTok

Episode Date: January 4, 2022

Work-Around Pee Device. Lick a Screen for Cleeo. The Pig of Most Angry. They Moved Morbius. Wait Til They Get A Load Of Leto! You Must Wear A Brown Slack! Bob Costas in On Golden Pond. Not getting a food smell here. Put Six in a Bag and Call it Good. I prefer tasteless TV. I don't like tasting my TVeeeeeee. Keep Your Wallet Close to Your Penis. Bringing out the Carrie Coon in all of us. There's Different Flavored Screens You can Get. Size Doesn't Matter, with Bill Doran. Bobby Surprises Us With Science and more on this episode of The Morning Stream. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Coming up on TMS, work around a pee device. Lick a screen for Cleo. The pig of Most Angry. They moved Morbius. Wait until they get a load of Lito. You must wear a brown slack. Bob Costas in on Golden Pond. Not getting a food smell here.

Put six in a bag and call it good. I prefer tasteless TV. I don't like tasting my TV. Keep your wallet close to your penis. Bringing out the Carrie Coon and all of us. There's different flavored screens you can get. Size doesn't matter with Bill Duran. Bobby surprises us with science and more on this episode of The Morning Stream.

There's old gray with her dove wing hat. There's old green with her sewing machine. Where's the bobbin' head? He's toting old grain in a printed sack. The dust blows forward and the dust blows back. And the wind blows black. Hey, do anchovies only go on pizza? I can you eat them loose.

Now it's here, a new force at breakfast. This is the morning stream. Good morning, everybody. Welcome back to TMS. It is the freaking 2,2,225th episode of this show. for January 4th, 2022. That's right. I have to emphasize it.

I'll forget it. I'm Scott, and that's Brian. Hi, Brian. How's it going? Hi, Scott. I can't believe that just realized on the 29th, we did episode 2222, but it wasn't in 2022. That is a bummer.

We should have taken some more days off. One extra day would have done it sometime during the year. Two extra days. Oh, two extra days. Because we did the 30 days. and then we did the special, which was unnumbered, but we still did one on the 30th. I'll do it retroactively and throw my back out again and then miss a day. How about that?

There you go perfectly. Excellent. Perfectly. Perfectly. Yeah, perfectly. Speaking of perfectly, a little report on that whole back situation. So whatever, this stupid injury just is the one that won't stop giving. Like, I've got this sciatic thing that won't go away since then.

and doctor's like well you know stretches this and stretches that and don't worry that you're not you know it's not like at your discs or anything you just got a little thing and it's way down to my low in my leg and you know lots of treadmill and lots of stretching blah blah blah still hurts like a mother ever uh it stinks freaking kills me man oh shojo's husband threw through his back out this morning i'm sorry you hear that i hope he doesn't end up in bed for 24 hours like i did because that was bad that was bad it was bad it was bad except for that cool, uh, workaround P device my wife made for me. That was pretty awesome. I know, uh, you know, I know you're not going to show us using it on, uh, on Twitter or anything, but you should take a photo of it. I wonder if she kept it. I think it's probably tossed because she's the kind of person that would get rid of that. That's the first second she could.

Burned in a fire really is what it should be. Yeah, take it out back and shoot it. Um, yeah, I don't think it's still around, but I, you know, now that you say that, I probably should get at least one photo. To commemorate, you know, to remember. Yeah. Hey, you know what else is, what else has moved around and not in the place where he thought it was? What?

For the seventh, no, I'm sorry. For the eighth time, the upcoming film Morbius, starring Jared Lato. Oh, yeah. Jared Lito, which is French for the Toe, is getting moved. He was in the club. Again, from the end of this month to April 1st. He was in that Dallas Buyers Club. It was.

You got him in that there. he was a joker yeah he was one of the jokers that's right the worst of the jokers of all the bad jokers he's maybe one of the worst he's a bad joker oh man I know I want to be torn too but I don't think he was any good at it

I wish he was no I know and I'm going to say something controversial I don't know if this will be controversial it should be but I think Jack Nicholson was not as bad as leto but down there near the bottom oh I agree he was just hammonded it up Jack Nicholson's Bad choice.

Yeah, I agree. I mean, that's going to be controversial. I love Nicholson. Don't get me wrong. Listen, I almost got to act in major feature film with Jack Nicholson, have him chase me through a hedge maze. But where was I? Yeah, the Nicholson was a bad joker.

He was only going to chase you if you were Jim Backus, apparently. Yeah, right, exactly. Yeah. So I've said this for a long time. I think he was doing a really good Jack Nicholson. and is great at being a little crazy by default, but he wasn't really the Joker. You could have done that without makeup, and it still would have been just Jack Nicholson hamming it up.

Exactly. So, you know, like I've always said, The Departed, 2006 fantastic Scorsese film The Departed, one of the last things I think I saw Nicholson in, that character is basically more of a Joker than his Joker way more sinister, way more darkly weird and humor like humor in a dark way

like if you'd have put makeup on him in that movie he'd have been way more of a Joker in that movie so yes I'm with you look Heath Ledger amazing who else who else do we like do we like the Caesar Romero do we count Mark Hamill I count Mark Hamill yeah we count his voice yeah why not

yeah and I think Joaquin Phoenix was a great joker even though it's kind of a weird I love that movie yeah but it's kind of a weird um is it it's not DCU right it's outside the what we're calling the

DC extended universe or the DC universe yeah it's more like the way they do their black label comic line yeah which used to be vertigo it's like here's here's a real dark thing where we're not so worried about sensors and you know whatever like a little one off you know in case nobody saw it uh when he posted

it, let's see here, where is it? Where is it? Because he posted it like three minutes ago, and none of people saw it, and he reposted, River Phoenix was bad, or Joaquin Phoenix is bad, and people who like it should feel bad. Unfriend me! Oh, I don't feel bad at all. I thought it was great. I thought he was... I mean, it was

definitely a different take, and that's the whole idea. We don't need the same thing over and over. It was an interesting way to do that. And the fact that that script writer, you know, fully admitted, oh, yeah, taxi driver's a giant inspiration here. and then also cast Robert De Niro in a role. Like, part of that is just amazing, just on its own.

That's a great movie. It's great. Yeah, I think it's really, really good. Name another DC movie that ever got Best Picture nomination. Like, there's no such thing. Right. So, I don't know. You know, it's totally fine for you not to like it, J.C. C. C. C.

I really enjoyed it. And I thought it was a very cool take on a character that has been portrayed differently everywhere else. So I enjoyed it. Caesar Romero? Good, good Joker. from the old Adam West Batman deal. He's got his old, that weird mustache under the makeup and all that. That was weird.

I guess I need to see Lego Batman because I didn't realize Zach Galaphanakis, Galaphanakis, ever played? Yeah, he was good. That movie's great, dude. Yeah, I know. A lot of people say that, and I do need to see it. It's up there with my favorite Batman movies. Like, it's better than all of the Tim Burton ones, in my opinion. It's better than Rise of the Dark Night or Dark Night Rises.

Yeah. And I would actually say, I'm trying to think. Yeah, it's right up with the, and I know it's a parody and it's a joke and all that, but it's up there with the Nolan movies. Like, it's really good. If you Google actors who played The Joker, you get a good list of these, right? You get everyone from Leto, Ledger, Phoenix, Nicholson, Hamill, Romero, blah, blah, blah. Alan Tudek didn't realize that he must do the voice for Joker and the current Harley Quinn animated thing,

which I also hear is really good. um yeah i keep meaning to see that about four lines down you get randy spears who played who plays the joker or played the joker in the triple x rated batman uh porn parody oh he's in this wow really randy spears in batman triple x wow who would have who would have thought who would have thought good old randy spears well i wonder if that's a real name a real porn name in the 2010 Justice or Young Justice series, Brent Spiner was, uh, did not realize that either. Was Batman or, uh, sorry, John DiMaggio as a Joker. Yeah, I could see that. Troy Baker's done it a few times. He's another big video game voice actor. Oh, Michael Emerson. Yeah, that's cool. Which one is he in? Dark Night Returns, 2012 animated.

Interesting. Third Night Returns. Yeah, that's the one. You really need to, if you've not seen evil, and I don't, you haven't, because you would have talked about seeing evil if you, uh, if I'd seen it. If you'd watch it. Yeah. You got to watch it. He is fantastic in that.

It's a really, really good show. It is so much better than it should be for a show that premiered on regular broadcast television. Well, I'll give a what is probably a hint about what I might recommend this week. Actually, I can't because it doesn't end until Thursday. But, man.

It doesn't end until a week from Thursday. Oh, a week from Thursday. Two more? That makes me happy to hear that. Two more. Okay, good. I was afraid it was his last one. I'm so hooked on Station 11, I can barely handle it.

I love it. Love it. Oh, my gosh. Oh, I can't wait. So many inches. Is he in that? No. No, it just reminded me of it because Lost is kind of like it. Oh, gotcha. Right.

But not really. I don't want to mislead anybody. It's not like Lost. Here's another take on Lost at all. It's just I'm having some of those initial like, whoa, what does that mean kind of feelings? Like, it's really cool. Station 11 is good. And I know it's like going to be hard for some because the premise of the event of the apocalyptic event of the thing is a massive deadly flu outbreak that like kills 9199 people out of 1,000 chance of surviving. So it's like a little close to home or whatever with COVID and everything, obviously not the death rate.

But it's not the point of the thing. It's just the event that then everything else builds around. It's really very good. I like it a lot. Can you think of a better post-lost, but definitely influenced by lost, television show, than the leftovers? The leftovers absolutely has some lost. Well, for sure, it had its lead writer and everything. Well, yeah, that too, right.

But, you know, also the storytelling style, the format, the... Yeah, the implications, the questions that have... ass i agree i agree with that actually i think the leftovers is because they tried doing so many things like that oh fringe was good what you think fringe fringe was almost like the the x file the next level of the x files like lost an x files had a baby that's a good but i but i but you know what uh fringe is a good one because there were a bunch that came out right afterwards flash forward um the event i think was wasn't it called the event oh yeah the event how was that was that i would even say

manifest, current things like Manifest and that Libreia. Oh, yeah. Yeah. I think there's no there's probably no end to it. Whether people like Lost or not, you have to acknowledge its influence, you know? Yeah. It has a huge influence. I haven't seen that.

And the leftovers gave us Carrie Coon. I'm about to start painting my Proxima Midnight Mini. And it's going to make me just sit there and think of Carrie Coon the whole time. What about the other dude? Who's the other character that's kind of a wizard um uh ebony maw want me grab him i'm he's currently on my uh go grab him i want to see this guy he's one of my favorite things in those two in in infinity war and end

game if you were to ask me who i thought the coolest design characters were was probably him and proximate midnight they are so freaking cool i didn't know you were painting those that's awesome yeah ebony ma is the current one i'm painting right there yeah look at him he's about to just make some shard fly through the air and no one knows it's coming Let's do this and see if that helps. A little bit. I think he might be too close. Oh, there you go.

That's better. Yeah, I can see him. Yeah, look at him. He's always doing that. He's always standing there with his hands going, all right, what kind of stuff can I move with my giant brain? Look out. And here's the one I was most nervous to paint.

I finished it out or finished it yesterday. And I want to take a picture of it, but I'm afraid people are going to zoom in if I do. Yeah. But this was the one I was most nervous about painting, of course, because a favorite character of mine. Yeah, Spider-Man. Yeah, look at him.

He's up on a wall looking like he's about to shoot web somewhere and go somewhere else. And each of those lines, his web lines, you can't see it here. But from, if you're not looking at it with glasses or a magnifying lens or something like that, it looks great. Once you start looking up close, I look like I'm trying to paint it with, what was her name from? from Golden Pond. Oh, I don't know, I'm in you old poop. That's, um, oh, geez. I know, a classic actress.

Sister was in, uh, breakfast of Tiffany's, and her name was, uh. Yeah, Bob Costas, City, and thanks. You got it. Nailed it. It's Bob Costorne Heppert, thank you, geez, why can I come up with me? Bob Costas. Famed sportscaster, Bob Costas in the, On Golden Pond, yeah.

He was great. Oh, I meant you're all pooh. Yeah, so, no, you look closely, and those lines look like I was on a moving subway while I was painting them. Oh, well, look, this is what happens over time. You become an expert, and now you're, you're lowered over all you survey now. So, well done. Yeah, no, I did that yesterday. It's not, no time has passed, Scott, since I did those lines.

Never mind. So by tomorrow afternoon, you will be. Yeah, exactly. I, you know what, I'm way happier with, like, some. of the fine detail work that's coming on on Ebony Ma though I didn't for this one I decided to go against the the packaging artwork

like for all four of the black order I'm gonna go against the packaging artwork and kind of would go closer to the the look from end game Finney Warren Muggen so yeah no this is this this dude's coming out great he's great he's great should have him finished today and move on

to Proxima Midnight Nice She brings out the Carrie Coon and all of us is what I That's right Citi and those are from the The come-on game Marvel United or C-Mond game It's CMON, cool mini or not

But they made a game called Marvel United And it's The game itself is really cool I'm going to be Going to a con I think We'll see In two weeks called Hexicon

At the Omni Hocan At the Omni Hocet hotel here in Broomfield. We'll see again. But it's you know, they're like, hey, people are there. They're asking about

if you're going to be able to come, guest of honor kind of thing. And I'm like, oh, well, here's a good time for me to bring all my minis and force people to play Marvel United. Yeah, load them up. Go for it. Exactly. Yeah. I think it sounds great. Hey, I wanted to remind folks that yesterday, a brand new show called Play Retro happened. Yeah, it did. Me and Brian Dunaway did a game show and it's all about retro games. And we talked in depth about the making and creation and otherwise information around the game joust. And you may say, well, that sounds boring. I don't think so, man. We went places with that discussion.

Not all. It's great. Yeah, I have all kinds of, having grown up with arcades everywhere, my house full of arcade machines, my dad running a whole business based on that era and then losing all of it in 1985. As a result of the great video game crash of 85, there's just so many stories that I can tell about almost all of those games. That was just one. Next week, we'll do it again. If you're interested at all in this kind of subject matter, go check it out at Play Retro, wherever you get your podcast, or you can just find all the links over at frogpants.com slash play retro.

Very cool. Japan food time, Brian. Let's put it in our mouth and swish it around. Take this. It's for you. It's food. Now, as I see it, the tradition of savory and sweet continues. Yeah, we start with savory and then move on to the sweet.

And we don't know. I'm going to load up Google Translate just to have it at the ready, but I'm not going to translate any of this until we've tasted it. The only English on here is this, I can kind of make it out. Okinawa Churician. Churasan pin? Pin? Yeah, P-I-N, I think.

Yeah, unless that's P-S-N. Oh, it could be a slash. It's a little longer than the... It is. Oh, no, I guess in Okinawa, the eye is really long. It's, uh... It is, uh, the child's play fund from, uh, Adobe. Yep.

That's the one. We recognize our typography. All right. So this is a bag within a bag. Oh, that's never good. And then inside that bag is another bag. Oh, these look dark and foreboding. They look stinky.

Do not eat the, uh, silica gel pack? that's in there, keep stuff fresh. Dude, it smells like paint. Oh, really? Yeah. Oh, it kind of does, actually. I'm not getting a food smell out of it. Smells like, no, smells like, um...

Doesn't it smell like paint to you? I get, no, I get a, I get a food smell vibe. Oh. But, you know, but I see the paint. Like, when you say paint, it's like, oh, I totally see... What you're talking about? It's like a little hint of varnish or something in there. Yeah, all right.

All right. All right, you're ready for this? Try one of these sticks. Don't know what they're, what's even in this. Spear, these are, these are, uh, Randy Spears, just like in the Batman Triple X porn. Oh, perfect. Oh, they're sweet. Hmm, these are red bean.

This is red bean? Or a sweet potato, maybe sweet potato. Um, they're awfully dark. What's your translator say? All right, let's, let's fire it up. All right. We're going to learn a little international hoo-ha here. I'm going to run the translator first on the, um, the lettering,

on the clear bag. You can see if that gives me anything. Oh, yeah, at the bottom says Ben Himo and Karikari-Kari, which I missed before. I don't know what that means. Probably brand. Okay. Yeah, nothing translating on the clear bag. Let's try the...

On the old clear bag. This is vertical. Oh, deep red stomach. Red potato crunchy. Okay. So they are sweet potatoes, basically. They are sweet potato. Deep red stomach.

deep red stomach and pause pause pause there we go let's see if i i always like that i can pause the google translate on the worst thing it possibly can say yeah and that'll totally do it it struggles use deep red stomach that's great everybody wants a deep red stomach that i've learned yeah so this is a sweet potato crispies is what these are and uh i'm a fan i like it these aren't these aren't bad i like them they're maybe a little too sweet i don't know if they're artificially sweetened or if that's just how those potatoes come? I think those are just how they come because that's a very it tastes like a very natural kind of

sweetness. All right. Well, now an unnatural sweetness. That's right. Kid cat for coffee break. Yeah, that's right. You heard me at home. That's right. Kit cat for coffee break. Kid cat for coffee break. And it has got a little cup of a clear

mug of coffee cup or I guess, whatever you want to call it. It's what I used to use before I switch to the ember. I prefer the glass, the clear glass coffee. Oh, why, what's that, why is the reason do you think? I don't know. I really don't know. I think I like drinking coffee out of glass over ceramic.

And I don't know. I couldn't tell you why. It's like drinking a Moscow mule out of a copper cup instead of a glass. Oh, interesting. Could just be an aesthetic thing. Could be, I don't know, the feel of, the feel of glass on one's lips is different than, uh, porcelain or ceramic, yeah. Yep.

All right, here we go. Kit Kat for coffee break. Getting opened. Oh, I'll liken this already. This is a Japanese version of the deal. They're always very small. I don't know why. Mm-hmm.

Oh, that's good. That's so they can put six in a bag and call it good. Yeah. Now, see that? That just tastes like a regular Kit Kat. Oh, really? You don't get a coffee vibe from it? I'm not getting a coffee vibe at all.

Hmm. Is that just me? No. it's faint. You know what, now that I'm concentrating on it? Maybe what they're trying to do there is just say, hey, here's a little chocolate treat for your coffee break. Maybe, yeah, maybe. Okay. But it's a, there's a, it feels like there's a hint of coffee, but maybe I'm imagining it because... Well, still, it's definitely better chocolate flavor than an American Kit Kat. We know that. No doubt. That'll be true of everything in here. All right, well, good job, everybody.

Thank you, Tara, once again in Japan, and we will try more weird things. probably tomorrow. That's right. Yeah. That's right. We have one bag of angry pig left. I got a bag of angry pig. A bag of angry pig and a, oh, we have a yellow bag of angry pig and then a red bag of angry pig.

Ooh, you know what a red bag means. Angrier pig. Yeah, angriest pig. Pig of most anger. Also, have a doctor look at your red bag if it's that red. Be careful. Exactly right, foul. All right.

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i love this i do it too little tiny home on wheels i want to see this uh this tiny home they're traveling around and so they're also have a link to their stuff on zillow i didn't realize zillow oh look at these two i know they're adorbs and they're cute little weird little house and look at this out in the desert where I want to be I want them when they come to Colorado I hope they come to Colorado I want them to let me know and I want to come see their little tiny home oh I would love yeah I would love to see this that is so cool I would do this yeah if it made sense for me I'd do yes holy shite that's awesome all right well thanks you guys and clearly you get the show on the road probably a good road show I'm thinking and

glad that we could be there for you so when you have a when you have a listing on Zillow? Oh, no, that says follow. Never mind. I thought if... You think they're selling their tiny home? Yeah, because I think that's all you do on Zillow, right? Oh, you do on Zillow, yeah. Found out, somebody sent me a clip of Post Malone on Joe Rogan show, and Post Malone asked him why he moved to Utah. And he said, he told his whole cool story about when they was out at the Salt Flats performing, they ran out of room, the oversold tickets. So they went from the venue, which is that old, I forget what it's called.

Anyway, salt powder salt, salt air, it's called. It's a lot of concerts there now. Anyway, and it's very cool because it's right there on the flats. And it stinks, smells real bad because it's the flats, but it's beautiful. Anyway, it spilled out on top of the flats. And he was like raving about that and going, it was so cool. And then, so I just looked up on Zillow, found a house, and bought it. I'm like, all right.

Wow. Okay. That's what you do in your post Malone. You just grab Zillow. Exactly. If you're Post Malone, you can do that. Yeah. Too funny. He went on and on about the place here.

He really likes it. Listen, I'm looking at their Insta, their Insta feed. Yeah. I'm seeing a few trips to Colorado. What the hell? What the hell, guys? What's going on? Beard and pretty lady.

Why no visit? Yeah. Matt Logan. Brian's just sitting there. Just sitting there in Nevada, winking for you to come by. Anyway, that's very cool. All right. Here's your top story.

This is one's going to have all kinds of questions. impressions attached to it, so bear with us. Okay. Japan, speaking of Japan, we've been eating some of their weird food. Yep. And they have invented a new thing for us to try. Lickable screens that will imitate food flavors. Imagine the snauzberries taste like snazberries.

That's kind of what it reminded me of. It also frightens me in some ways. Anyway, yeah, I can't imagine you. I can't imagine you even. I can't do it. No way. We're thinking about doing this. No way.

Even if they give you a brand new screen right out of the box. yeah I'd have to see okay so you'd have to clean it yourself right yes I need to know I need to know that it was like hermetically sealed and in every possible way you know before I got it if you can do that then fine I'll lick it but I ain't taking any second hand I ain't doing it after somebody else does like freaking if that but Japanese professor has developed a prototype lickable screen that can imitate food flavors another step toward creating a multi-sensory viewing experience The device is called Taste the TV. Oh, that's so clever. Taste the TV. Taste the TV. Or as they wrote here, TTTV, for short, uses a carousel of 10 flavor canisters. By the way, for short, that is exactly the same number of solubles as just saying, taste the TV.

Yeah, taste the TV. The same number of syllables. They've not shortened anything. Yeah, what's the point? There's no point. No point. No point. now. There's no point, Dave, or Jerry, there's no point. I don't know why I said Dave. There are more

syllables in NSFW than just saying not safe for work. Yeah, exactly. Hold on. Yeah. Never thought of that either. Oh, man, you guys stop it with the shortening of things that don't know it. I guess it saves characters. That's the point, right? Yeah, it saves characters, exactly. But not in this case when they put the full thing and then the abbreviation. Yeah, no kidding. So this thing uses a carousel. It's got 10 flavor canisters that spray in combination to create the taste of a particular food. A flavor sample then rolls on hygienic film over a flat TV screen for the viewer to try. Gotcha. So, okay, the way I'm visualizing this is a roller, a couple rollers, and the thing sprays that's a little magical combination, by the way, let's not gloss over the fact

that Japan thinks that every food, every flavor can be simulated by a combination of 10 ingredients. And if that was the kids, then Taco Bell really will be the last living restaurant in the world, a la demolition man. No kidding. So it brings it on its little film and then rolls that film over Kathy Lee Gifford's face on the Today Show. Yeah, basically, yeah. So you can taste what her makeup tastes like or whatever. There's a picture here on The Guardian where the prototype is being used. This is not your typical television screen.

Oh, no. She looks like she's licking a tanning bed. Yeah, it does. It's built weird. So that little screen right there, I guess the stuff behind it are the canisters and basically the print module, if you want to look at it in those terms. I guess so, yeah. And then that rolls down in front where she's looking and she's like, oh, here's a cooking show I like. I just tasted this cake, the lady made.

But I say this probably isn't going to go anywhere. That's my thinking. I think it probably is, you know. I think that maybe Japan should work on getting people vaccinated so my wife and I can finally go back instead of working on a TV you can lick. That's because we're hogging them all, man. We keep doing boosters and stuff. Isn't there some truth to that? Like some countries have never gotten even the first shots.

Japan, according to somebody who lived there who emailed me when we were talking about it last year, there were two reasons why Japan was a little bit slower with the vaccine rollout than we were here. One is because as a culture, people only trust getting shots from an actual doctor and not a nurse or a PA or anything like that. They will only get a shot from a doctor. Second reason is Japan had a little bit of a pride thing going on where they did not want to get other countries to produce the vaccine for them. They want to produce it themselves. Make their own. It's that whole middle, middle, not middle earth, middle kingdom stuff.

They like the middle kingdom. Yeah. Yep, yep. Well, maybe they'll get on it and get her done. I don't know what they're going to do there. Yeah, who knows. I mean, Omicron just gives them another reason to kind of duck back into their turtle shell. And it's fine.

We'll go there when they're ready for us. And I hope our hotel does not include a TV that you can lick. Yeah, no kidding. Or that the previous guest licked. The weird thing, so not weird, but. Carter went up to, they have in-office meetings and stuff on Mondays. So she went up there to the university where she works yesterday. In fact, when she was in the show, in the chat room, she was up there then.

Oh, she was at work. Yeah, she's actually there working real hard, listening to us. And anyway, she, one of her coworkers had symptoms of something. They don't know what. So they have a rule up there that if you do that, you go straight to the symptomatic testing thing that happened to the university. And she goes and reports back that this thing was packed, like mile long lines, like really bad, which means. She didn't have it before. Yeah, you didn't have it before.

You're going to get in that line. No kidding. That's something I was actually thinking about. Of enough people, and Omicron is as spreadable as they say it is, enough people get in line just to get tested. Even if you didn't have it, you're going to walk away with it. You know? It's such a mess. What a mess.

people people are bad uh well whatever people aren't bad we just got to get our hands around it like some who's the epidemiologist last year said something i never forgot it could never get out of my head he says look we're two it's two weeks behind us at any given time at any given time this entire thing is two weeks behind us and we never deal with it again but because we have a problem of scale there are just too many human beings and they all want to do their own thing. And because of that, you're never going to, you're never going to have that two weeks behind us thing. It's never going to happen. Yeah. It's a bummer. Now, if you had a hundred people on the planet, let's say we're some apocalyptic scenario, there's a hundred of us left.

We could do it. We would do the two weeks behind us thing. Right. Leftover, Station 11, any of those scenarios. Any of those. Exactly. Well, I don't know. Station 11 has a lot of unknowns, but damn, I'm excited for you to watch that. You're going to love it. I can't wait. Yeah. You're going to love it. Mackenzie Phillips is great, but there are, Everybody. McKenzie Phillips, really, all the way from one day at a time. It's great that they were able to get her back for this. Hold on.

McKenzie. What's her last name? D begins with the D. And then there's an A and then there's a V. And then there's an I. Mackenzie Davis. McKenzie Davis. You almost spilled the whole thing before I got it.

She's awesome. But so is everybody else. There's no one on that show, especially this little girl that plays her like, her when she's younger. She's a revelation. She blew my mind. Really? Oh, cool. Like the fanning girls level of, whoa,

you're a kid actor that can act. Like, she's really good. I can't, I can't wait for you to see it. We've been watching so much stuff. I honestly could do a, I could do five recommendals tomorrow. I'm not going to, but I could if I wanted to. Yeah.

Know this, though, everyone out here listening to me. It's very, um, it's, it's, how do I put it? It's very art-artsy. For lack of a better way of putting this, I don't even know how to put it, because the thing is doing stuff I haven't seen a TV show do before. And it's doing it in a tone that's just not what you expect. So some people are going to watch it going, I love post-apocalyptic

stories or whatever. And it is one of those. But it's done in this like really different way. I know the book it's based on is also like this. So, you know, maybe if you've read the book, it's like that. But anyway, I can't stop thinking about that show. It's so good. That's cool. Yeah, and Drencht and Welfare agrees about McKinsey Davis. I mean, her breakthrough in Halton Catch Fire was just such a... She was great. Such a great role and such a great show. I think she was...

She made a good Terminator lady, I thought. She did. Yeah, and a good Blade Runner lady. Yep. Oh, yeah, she's the flesh and blood girlfriend on the... She's the real behind Anand-Diarmus's virtual. Yeah. Anna Dayarmus got a giant and giant pink projection in the middle of the city and showed us one of her boobs. We got to see a boob. Yes, she did.

All right, moving on. Let's go to... Thank you, Mr. Skin. Would you, by the way, enjoy this licking screen thing? Would you not? No, not a chance. I wouldn't even do it. Well, all right, I wouldn't want one in my house because I can't imagine saying, oh, great. Great British Bake Off is on.

Great. Let's taste that five-layer sponge that they're making. But I don't even know if I would try it at like a trade show or an event or something, right? Like if I went to a quote-unquote CES, I can't imagine that I'd want to try it there. Can you imagine in the middle of a convention licking a screen? Freaking no. Yeah, no. How'd a chance?

Right. I don't care when or I'm not even, this isn't a COVID thing for me. This is what the coronavirus actually looks at us and says, God, you guys are just making this too easy. Yeah, you guys are stupid. But even outside of COVID era, COVID era, I never do this. It just seems like a bad idea. You know at some point, they're going to use it for porn. Yeah, no, I mean, that's when everything takes off, right?

If your new technology is going to succeed. A liquidable screen will be used for porn. Yeah, I've always said that VR's big moment will be when that industry finally embraces it. No kidding. That's way it is. The metaverse, all this talk of Metaverse, ain't going to matter. We'll take a quick look at Oculus.com. Is there a Brazzers VR yet?

No, there is not. All right, I'm missing the boat. It's true. Look, our loins are everything because we got to reproduce. We've got to make more of us. It's a huge imperative. We're evolutionarily inclined to just constantly want to be doing it. And that's just it.

It's going to drive everything. There's a reason we keep our wallets real close to our penis is because that's where most of our purchases and ideas for moneymaking come from. Yeah, you're right. You're not wrong. All right. Let's move on to this next.

Yeah, I like this one. A woman finds a window of hotel room opens directly into an operating restaurant. That'd be fun. So funny. I would love this, actually. So, all right. So this basically, it works. She knocked everything over on the table when she opened.

opens the window? Yeah, basically. She says, so it looks like a fake mirror, like a one-way mirror. But what if the mirror was opened and you could take something directly off their table and eat it yourself? One TikTok user experienced this. Exactly that when she discovered the window to her Airbnb rental in a Manhattan hotel, opened directly into a fully operating restaurant. Desire Baker posted on December 20th about arriving in Casa Times Square.

where she was expecting a room with a skyline view of Manhattan is advertised in the listing photos. Instead, she said, I quote, pulled up the shades, and there's no buildings. We're in a restaurant. There is, and there are a couple diners right there. Yep, and I'm going to pull this, I think this video will work.

Yeah. And, you know, it's, you dig a little bit deeper, and it's really because this restaurant had to build on or had to tack on a, quote-unquote, outdoor seating area, even though it's an enclosed, heated, outdoor seating area. But they just basically, like, built their outdoor seating area right up to the wall of this hotel. And didn't think about that being an issue. Yeah, it's crazy.

Like, I mean, there's no room. If I've learned anything from the John Wilson or, yeah, John, make it doing it. Yeah, I could think of it making it with John Wilson. Is that John Schneider? Yeah, that's the one. If I've learned anything, it's that nothing. nothing is there's no room left in new york you're done yeah yeah it's everything's tiny you walk in there your toilet is right by the door to open the apartment like you're just totally same with

japan like they can only build up and down in japan now yeah which i'm cool i'm down with i'm like it i like building up and down i haven't seen the photo you posted in the in uh on the stream yet but the reaction from the chat room is what a messy room oh my god she exploded in that room wow that room like we got a lot of room raiders in here a lot of uh what's that japanese lady that does the room checking marie condos in here how much of that stuff sparks joy uh madhattan does any yeah does any of it the answer is no it's right that's right all right anyway so that's a you're gonna make a ticot clean your room first i think that's what we what we have learned today yeah if we've learned anything clean your room here's a here's a story about uh space colonists

Okay. Scientists are saying, and maybe Bobby can, I don't know if Bobby wants to address this or not later, but space colonists will likely resort to cannibalism, say scientists. Sure. Because if things weren't going to be tough enough, or future space colonists, experts now say they're likely to face food troubles, and that might just turn them into cannibals. Think the movie alive. Was it alive?

Remember that? Soccer players? That was the soccer team, not the Donner Party. Right. But there was also the Donner Party. Yeah, the soccer team on the airplane, and they were, or no, the rugby team. rugby team right rugby okay wait it doesn't not that it matters but yeah and that and the only thing i remember that about that movie i remember it being pretty good but then i also remember when they

when they ate people uh they started they started with the butts yes right and that stuck with me because they're laying face so like a dead person from the flight is laying face down frozen in the snow and they just came up and said well i don't know what else to do and they kind of pulled down that dude's pants sliced off a chunk of that Kit Kat Bar and took it home. You know, it's, I first thought it's like, well, that's going to be, you know, there's a lot of meat right there. It's a lot easier to kind of cut that

without having to worry about bone. Then you've got to think about, well, that's the butt. And, um, yeah, it's the butt. That's right by where the poop comes out. And, uh, maybe that shouldn't be where you, you know, you get that first slice of salami. We get cow meat from, you know, right around the humper.

We do. Yeah, exactly. Rump roast. Sure. I think that's, that part's fine to me. The part that would freak me out is just that first, like, slicing into the frozen butt of the guy you used to play soccer with. It was the first guy has to do that, yeah. Oh, my gosh, dude. I mean, survival is survival, but

holy smear. Anyway, y'all should watch that, by the way, that movie. I think it probably I don't know if it holds up. You know what? Let's film saga. That's what we should do. Oh, I like that idea. I did just get a list of all the movies that are coming to or that arrived on Netflix on January 1st, and I was going to

look through those and see if... There was anything good. Yeah, I know. The never-ending story. Yeah, I was going to say that, and there was one other one that was like a big 80s deal. Crap. But never-ending story should happen. We should make that happen.

Yeah. A giant dog. Still got to do, what should we call, Star Trek 4. We talked about it on film sack when we were talking about the Matrix, but Star Trek 4, Whale, Whale Town needs to be done. Let's get it over with. I hate that movie. Let's do it. G.I. Joe Rise of Cobra?

Sure. I'll do that. I think any of the G.I. Joe films probably should be in there. Snake eyes come out yet? Or is that still a theater thing? Not listed. No. Superman Returns. That's, which one's that one?

That's Brandon Routh. Right? Well, the Routh one, yeah. Which would be a good one to do. I think that could be a good one to do. Yeah, I got a little Kevin Spacey, a bald guy action in there. Mrs. Test Mocker was playing. played by that lady I like from all of the Christopher guest movies.

I can't think of her name. She was in that. Oh, Jennifer Coolidge? No, the other one. Her and the husband that were just so weird about their Reimeriner and making it nervous. Oh, Parker Posey. Parker Posey. Parker Posey, yeah.

Dr. Smith on the Lost in Space reboot. Yeah, which I hear that new season's great. I got to catch up with that. It's great. It is. It's a. I know you like Molly Parker I like me some Molly Parker

She and Carrie Coon Should play sisters somewhere They're very Oh, that'd be great That would be great Have them be on the run from the law That's right You know

Lawbreakers Starring Molly Parker And Carrie Coon That's right And they got it They're getting chased across the nation By I don't know

Chris Hemsworth Yeah He'd be all grizzled He's an FBI agent who's going rogue and chasing these two ladies. Yeah, and they're going to get them, but then those two ladies drive off a cliff, holding hands, and then, oh, wait, that's been done.

All right, here's the story. Oh, yeah, so anyway, we're all going to eat each other is the point. We're going to eat each other when we get to space. Sure, sure. So we get to space. We figure out, oh, this takes more food than we thought to bring, and we can't make poop potatoes like Matt Damon. So let's eat each other.

Yeah. Just give me, break me off a piece of your left. leg. I don't know. Like, as the other day, I was like, laying with the dog, just kind of lounging with the dog. And, um, yeah. As I'm petting her, I realize she's a very muscular breed combo.

She's just really athletic looking and is very fast. You get her in a park and she runs like crazy and jumps really high and all that. This is Rainer, Jim Rainer, the female dog. And she's laying there. And as I'm, as I'm rubbing her like leg, I realize that is a fine if if if all came to the worst if we're starving and we had no options that is a fine

leg of meat she's got right there you know i'd hate to do it i don't ever want to be in that situation ever but if you had to it's not the worst looking hunk of meat it's nice you know she eventually have to do it with you if uh she couldn't get food and and you died she wouldn't she wouldn't even hesitate she wouldn't even hesitate she'd whine a little and then she'd go, num, numb, num, and eat me. Yeah. Meanwhile, Anora takes a bite out of my leg every morning while I'm brushing my teeth just to see if I'm dead, just to see if she can.

Yeah, exactly. Yeah, she's seeing how tender things are. Is this good? It's like a cartoon. Brian looks like a big stick of chicken walking through the house like they used to do in the old days. All right. Speaking of food, our final story of the day, Little Caesar's hot and readies.

You know those things? You just walk in and buy one for five bucks. I'm aware of one. I have gotten one. One. I did this once. I think I did this a lot more in my 20s. I haven't done it a very long time.

I don't remember those. I even worked at Little Caesars for maybe four months. Yeah. And my, oh, what was the guy's name? My boss told me, Brian, you must wear a brown slack. You must wear a brown slack to work. Did you not wear a brown slack? I barely did not wear a brown slack.

Okay. Did they let you go or did you leave? No, I think I eventually just got a couple dockers and warm. But, you know, the conveyor belt is damn handy. Like, basically, you just put the pizza on one end and then the pizza comes out the other end done. It's like, oh, you don't have to check it. All the other pizza places I worked, it's like, check it, lift it up. Is it cooked all the way through? Blah, blah, blah.

No, this thing is like, you know, they've got it figured out to a, They do. And that's why they could be given that kind of production, they could make this decision about having it only be five bucks. That's right. Well, not anymore. Not anymore. Even the Little Caesars is no longer immune to price increases. The chain signature $5 hot and ready pizza now costs 11% more. They're now selling a new and improved version of the recognizable pizza, which has 33% more pepperoni and a new price. $5.55. So it's not too bad. It's the first price increase in 20%. 25 years, though. That's crazy. Wow. That's when they started it. It would have been about then. The pizza went on sale in 2001 and differentiated itself from competitors because it was made ready for takeout without the need to pre-order anything.

Despite the increase, it said it is sold at the country's most affordable price compared to its competitors. Well, that's true. Yeah, no doubt. You're not going anywhere else and getting a $5.50 or a $5.55 pizza. I bet you a subway is eyeing this and saying, let's see how this goes. Yeah, let's get some people on it. Maybe you have a new $5.55 foot long instead of the $5 foot long. Yeah, maybe real tuna this time and not...

Yeah, exactly. Not turkey... Couch cushions or whatever it is. It's in there. Sprayed with Japanese flavor sprays. Yeah, flavor sprays. Hmm. Let's see, Domino's right now is an average of 13 per version of this.

Perversion is correct. Perversion? That's their pizza's a perversion. It kind of is. I like their thing crust once in a while, but yeah, it's not great. Pizza Hut, $16 bucks. I haven't had Pizza Hut in a decade.

No. I used to love it back in the wait long, long days ago. We've just got a Big Daddy's opened up over by Big Daddy's Pizza, which I know you guys have out in the Salt Lake because I signed up for their discount coupon thing while I was waiting for my pie to get made. And all my texts say, hey, today, buy one, get one 50% off. It's Salt Lake City only. Yeah.

It's like, well, what the heck? What's going on? Why can't you do that everywhere? Yeah. There are three locations in SLC, I believe, and then some further out in the valley or down the valley in south, south of me. I'm not sure. But, yeah, they're supposed to be great, and I get to have one. It's not bad.

Yeah. We had their vegetarian pizza, and it was really good, even though neither of us are vegetarians. It was good. Sometimes you've got to try the vegetarian, you know? You do. Just to see. Just to see what's going on there. Now I want pizza.

Jeez, Louise. I kind of want one of these. These are not great pizza. But I really like Little Caesar's dough and crust. I was going to say there's something that they do the crust with like an oil and cornmeal kind of combo on the crust that makes them very, very good or very tasty, probably very extra bad for you. But I did hear that along with this, they're also putting 33% more. Oh, there it is right there, 33% more pepperoni on it. You did say that at the beginning before the.

Yeah. And that seems, that seems generous, I think. It is, sure. There's a third, you know, third more. By the way, this is part of a blossoming, spiking restaurant price increase over the last 12 months in general. We're looking at 5.8% over the last 12 months, which is inflation and probably not good inflation. Anyway, that's according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. The sharp increase underscore the fact that restaurants and food makers are not immune to supply chain and labor pressure is continuing to

push prices across the board. One thing it said here, I wanted to mention was, oh, pizza sales have exploded during the pandemic. Sales more than ever. They're hit all-time highs for all the brands. Everybody's like making. That's because everybody's, before we figured out that with Grubhub and Uber Eats, we could get anything we want delivered to the house.

Our first thought was, just give me a pizza. I don't want to go out. I don't want to leave the house. Give me a pizza. And also pizza, those pizza places usually don't charge surcharges on top of the delivery so you're not paying like the Grubhub extra prices or whatever that's why like jimmy johns jimmy johns does their own deliveries and they don't charge any extra they just bring it and they're freaking fast my gosh they are freaking fast um i'm a block out of their delivery area um but

there's a juice place i really like so i just i just have it delivered to the juice place i get my juice and i wait outside for my jimmy jones that's awesome really you have them like bring it right there where you're at that's amazing yeah so like i just basically say i'm in a I'm in a Kia Soul in the parking lot in front of the juice place, and the guy taps on my window and has me my turkey tom. That's freaking fantastic. I also get the turkey tom. I like that one.

It's a good one. Oh, and if you get it as an Unwitch, it's even better. I might have to do that today. All right. Super healthy. Here's what we're going to do. We're going to take a break. And when we come back, we're going to spend some time with Bill Duran, our resident maker,

and a little time with Bobby also talk about some science that he hasn't warned me about, so I don't know what we're doing. It could be anything. A science warning. Oh, a science warning. People are asking what an unwitch is. An unwitch is they take the bread off and replace it with a lettuce. So it's a lettuce wrap sandwich.

So basically the biggest calorie and carb thing on there is removed and replaced with lettuce, which is nothing. If you're trying to lower your bread intake, that's a way to do it. All right. Let's take that break. Let's play that song. What do you got over there? I've got it. Wow, Claire, not a fan of the description of the Unwitch.

Oh. Her use of the F-bomb. Hey, Jason Robbins emailed me and said, I am submitting a song called Lazy Eye from my band, Fall as Well, for Indie in the Middle. This song was released on Universal Records back in 2004. The song peaked at number 42 on the Billboard Rock and AAC charts, the adult alternative charts. And at the time, we toured with three doors down, the X-E's Cross-Fade and a host of other bands.

Sadly, the band broke up amidst internal fighting, bad management, and then Hurricane Katrina put the final nail in the coffin. Earlier this year, I remastered the original self-titled album and added three more songs that we recorded in Memphis just before breaking up. We titled it, 2020 Special Edition. It took 15 years to get the legal mumbo-jumbo settled, and now we're finally able to self-publish the original album. It's available on all the streaming platforms, Spotify, Google Play, YouTube, et cetera. So 2020 wasn't all that bad, considering. side note the iTunes version of the song is wrong it's wrong and Apple has not been very responsive about replacing the file but all of the streaming services are fine you've got our complete permission to play the song on TMS thank you so much for everything Jason Robbins the drummer of Fall as well this is great I listened to this morning I don't know how I missed it he sent it to me a couple months ago and I missed it then but um God who is I thinking who is I kind of comparing this to like a like if Toad the Wet Spry it was still making... Oh.

Making music today. And somebody's probably an email and say, No, told the What Sprocket had a new album in 2021, and you missed it. But it's got that really good driving rock, alternative rock vibe. I totally dig this. Here is the song Lazy Eye by the band Fall as well. Again, I find myself on an empty road, wondering why I feel like hell right now, just like the way I fell back down. And I keep thinking I could die if I could make you love me just for one mile.

Show my secret alone, I see myself in you, you're lazy eyes. I wake up to see you, standing in the door where you were crying. That was the only dreaming. A day like a day when there is nothing left for me to say I look outside my window and I pray for it to rain my plane away And I wonder why I keep you locked away No one can find you It's because I'm left

You're my secret alone. I see myself in you. Lazy eye. Wake up, see you, standing in the doorway. You were crying that I was only dreaming. Lazy, I love.

Lazy other. Lazy, I'm thinking. Lazy, and you're my secret, alone I see, myself in love. I'll wake up, see you up, you're standing in my doorway. You were trying, I was only dreaming. And I'm not seeing you alone, I see myself, and you are, lazy, lazy. I'll wake up, see you up, you're standing in the door where you were crying I was the only dream

Marbley eye. Marbling refers to the flex of fat interspersed throughout the meat. It adds juiciness, taste, and tenderness to the beef. Wee. That's some sweet weed, man. All right, we're back, everybody. That song once again.

That song is Lazy Eye by the band Fall as well. Big thanks to Jason Robbins, who's the drummer of the band for sending that one in. And I'm going to hopefully get to thank him in person at the end of this month in Norlands when I get to have a drink with him. Oh, that's right. Or get dinner or a po' boy or some etouffé or jambalaya or something. Yeah, just be careful because you can be right there in the French quarter enjoying all the nice, you know, friendly to visitors' business. And then one street over, you get mited, mided. Yeah, it's a weird town.

Because when they met, it was miter. Mighty. All right, everybody sit down and relax and listen to this. Your bat caves open there, Bill. Bill Duran at Punishedprops.com joins us from his studio up in the Pacific Northwest. And it's always good to have Bill here because we get to find out what he's been. making hello professional maker bill hello hello hi nice to see you or have you here again uh how was your new years it was fantastic i played a lot of cyberpunk oh yeah in the last two weeks i've played

about 60 hours of cyberpunk i need to i need to brush that thing off and play it i mean i've got it on pc so you know technically got the best possible performing version and uh it's it's patched to a point now where i just figure the games you know as good as it's going to be I should just play it. Why don't I play? Yeah, I got on PC on the Steam sale for half half. There are some couple funky weird things that happen in the game, but nothing to ruin the experience.

I've been having a good time. Yeah, and they've got a big DLC coming up that may end up being free, given all the weirdness that happened with the launch of that thing. But yeah, it might be time for me to poke in there and see what's up. Well, good. I'm glad you guys some time. Yeah, go ahead. I was thinking about you all weekend as I was working on.

on priming and painting these. This is a Starlord element gun or quad blaster from the toy, basically doing your, you know, following a lot of your thing. I'm not going to do the grip stuff, the carbon fiber grip. Because this one, this isn't the Nerf one, or it's not the one that you did. And this one actually has a really good texture on the handle. Ooh, yeah.

So I'm keeping that. You can see a little overspray on one part. But basically it's time for touch-ups and stuff like that to get this thing going. That's awesome. Oh, it's got a little shooter. It's got a little shooter. And actually, if you turn it sideways, it changes to one of the other gun sounds. Oh, nice.

It's got a little accelerant, cheap accelerator in there. Yeah. So now it's time to rough this thing up and make it look like it's got some battle damage. Yeah, nice and dirty. This is how the element gun looks when Starlord bought it at the element gun store. Yeah, right. Yeah. The element guns are us. It's pretty cool.

It still has that brand new element gun smell. Yeah. Still got that chrome paint smell. Never even fired. That's fantastic. Yeah, that's pretty cool. I didn't know you're working on. That's awesome.

Thank you for inspire me. I needed something. I've got a space on my wall under the shield, which is waiting for these element guns to go. Nice. Well, Bill, having you here is always a pleasure. What's on the table today for Mr. Maker Man? All right. I'm going to start with my recommendation, because I want to talk about a hobby that has captivated me. So I put a link in the chat there. That is a channel called Abandoned Miniatures, and it's an abandoned miniature diorama.

Oh, I heard of this. Oh, is this? Oh, my gosh. Is my daughter watching, she's going to lose her mind? This is her favorite thing on the planet is miniatures. right so this like this opening scene here looks like a dirty old house with like some smoke in it it's very atmospheric yeah that's a that's a miniature that's tiny it looks full scale yeah so cool god looks right out of uh resident evil uh seven like it looks like that first part of the room you start in and there's like that newspaper on the table and the you know what it might be a replica of that is that what he's aiming for i can't remember what he was what he was going for, but yeah. It says right there Resident Evil 7, Brian, you're dead on. Oh, it does. Oh, there it is. It's in his description. Yeah, that's crazy. Really nailed it. Yeah, that game gave me the shits.

Anyway, or sorry, the poops. So, have you done much of this? I've done a couple of little things. Nothing to this complexity, right? Never to sort of replicate real life. This is, like, I could get into this hobby big time.

level stuff right there. Yeah. Like look at the way, look at the work he's doing on just these, um, blinds. Right. And the blinds themselves,

the idea of, of the blinds is not to have them look like nice, clean blinds. The goal is to make them look ratty and like they've been through something. Yeah. He's got pleasers to put a single piece of string on there. Oh, so good.

That's so cool. Incredible. Yeah. I watched a bunch of these videos last night. I feel like he's so yeah. Yeah. That's amazing. You've gone over.

Like that Ghibli, Howl's Moving Castle model a couple weeks ago, some dude was making. Making tiny things is so much fun. But making sets specifically is just a really cool niche. You could make a little set for your action figures, right? Like, let's say you've got all your Avengers. You could make a little shorma restaurant and have all your action figures sitting around having lunch. That's great. one of the things that is attractive about this hobby

compared to what I do is you use so few materials you don't like it's tiny so you don't have to use like you know two feet by four feet of foam or whatever your pieces are like millimeters big there are a lot of really cool techniques to learn to make things look real and to make things look like they're the appropriate scale

Yeah. So, for example, fabric, if you use a normal weave of fabric that you would wear for a shirt that's meant to be, you know, one 12th scale or something, the weave on that fabric's going to be too big. Yeah. So there's lots of fun stuff to dive in there. Yeah. And then the other great thing is, like, you go on YouTube, there are so many examples, so many channels that do stuff like this and they're all really cool. You know what? So if you want to get into this hobby.

Plenty of your resources, yeah. I mean, one of the things that strikes me of this sort of thing is there's a level of patience that's required that, I don't know, maybe is unique to this particular form of art. Because there's things he's worried about here that are things you would not worry about so much in a painting. You can generalize more, you know, you can say, well, I'm making a very detailed painting of a room. But truthfully, the back wall texture is actually pretty grainy and quick because it's not the focus so we can get away. with that or whatever he can't do that here like everything has to be as perfect as you can do it and he's also got to come up with real world ways of doing that of creating the effect he's looking for that is not as easy as like you know yeah you can't just draw it with your magic pencil there

scott right whatever you want without it costing any more money yeah and i can't you know command undo or any of this like you're just stuck with whatever you have i have nothing but admiration for this but i don't think i have it in me i don't think i could do it yeah did you um did you happen to see i'll put this in our discord but there's there was also floating around this dude and see what's his name artist kill cutter basically does what you're talking about with with action figures he takes old discarded well not discarded let's we'll just say star wars because that's all he shows in this in this thing but star wars action figures that um he then poses in some crazy situations and then and then photographs them some of it's done in post processing

like, you know, some Photoshop work later and stuff. But basically it makes these ultra-realistic, very epic, cool images and stuff with freaking seven-inch action figures. And I love that kind of stuff, too. It's not quite the same as this, but, you know, this kind of really detailed tiny work is really fascinating to me. Right. And then if you've made your set, you can throw your action figure in there.

You can even design it. This is where my brain goes immediately, thinking about how they shot the Mandalorian. I could use my television as like my own volume put that behind the set to fill in the deep background then have a cool set and then have my action figures. There you go. Yeah, and then just kind of blur it out a little bit

where you can't tell it's a screen. They've even got an action figure of Darth Mall laying at the bottom of where he fell cutting two pieces. The bottom of that pit. Yeah, it's really, really cool. And some of it, they don't even look like action figures. It looked like this is just a whole stage painting or something. But

anyway, I admire this stuff. I wish I had more time for these sorts of stuff. The thing that excites me is like what you can pull off with just a handful of materials with like set building, miniature set building. Cardboard and foam core can go a long way. You could build all your walls out of cardboard. You can even use cardstock and Elmer's glue. If that's all you have, you can start building sets today. All of your D&D paints, all the materials you use for making D&D minis and stuff, all useful here.

Things like popsicle sticks get used all the time or balsa wood. But even if all you have is popsicle sticks and you need to make stuff out of wood, they're basically tiny little boards, really. You can make anything out of them. It's pretty rad. Yeah, and you can get started with just like an Xacto knife.

That's it. That's really all. all you need to get started. Yeah. But then once you get into it, there's a whole world of possibility. I see anybody who does this, including you, you all have bad backs, right? Your necks are terrible. Yeah, just punched over.

I mean, I have a bad back anyway. It's not because of doing minis. Okay. So true. So once you get started, the sky's the limit. Obviously, 3D printing is like perfect for this. I just got a, any cubic resin printer? One of the newer ones?

Oh, nice. Yeah. Those little resin printers? man they're good now they're so good they're so good there's still a pain in the butt to clean but um if i were getting one 3D printer right now choosing between a resin and a filament i'd go resin yeah yeah it's bananas how good and like i said this is tiny stuff so those resin printers print small to you tell very well yeah so you could print some like like smaller than you think things you could print for for your little diary ramas here. Well, that's an interesting point because most people think when they get a new printer or they're messing with their printer's capacity for bigger is always the thing you're thinking of. Right. Yeah. In this case, you're like, no, we're focused on as small and as sort of refined as possible. And it's a very different thing. I think all these pieces he used here are 3D printed, right? Let's microwave. Yeah, I think so, like the microwave and the stove and all that.

Something else to look out for, though, um, dollhouses. You want to talk about accessories and furniture. Look up dollhouse stuff. At different scales, this is a whole rabbit hole you could dive into. Just dollhouse accessories. So if you get into this, look up dollhouse stuff. And then what gets me really, really excited is the use of a lot of different materials like metal or foil. So for this model, or a different model this guy made, his roof was supposed to look like a tin roof, and he made it all out of aluminum foil.

Oh, that's cool. Totally. It looks great. it bends the way it's supposed to. You can do stuff with real fabric, which is cool. And like I said before, real wood, like your popsicle sticks and balsa wood. See, this is like, you know what this is? This is the modern version of, you know, some old tribe where the tribe, one of the old

tribes elders sits in the woods carving shit out of rocks or whatever stuff out of rocks. And, you know, and then everybody in the place going, oh, yeah, he's our great artist, but this is all he does. It reminds me of that Because what else would you have time for? I'm looking at the intricacies of this And it's just insane to me He's the Minnesmith Yeah, the town minismith

Yeah, the town minismith Yep There you go And the town is YouTube and the internet So nice Oh yeah On the screen right now He painted a bunch of Elmer's glue

On his cabinet there And then he airbrushes over it What happens is when that glue dries It actually splits the paint To make it look like old split paint Yeah That's what I'm talking about. There's so many cool techniques like that.

And it's stuff that probably took him years to figure out that he could make that effect the way you wanted to. Right, right. See, I admire that. Or watch it in a YouTube video. I admire it and I fear it at the same time. Very cool. People's going to go check this out. This dude is called, hold on.

Abandoned miniatures. And it looks like there's a whole lot more than this to check out. I'm absolutely blown away by this. And then what do you do? Like, this is how you make Jerry's apartment, Brian. Ryan. Yep. Oh,

that would be perfect. It doesn't have to be all crusty and destroyed. It can have a few boxes of cereal on the side. Sure. Or make it gross. That'd be fine, too. It's been a couple of decades. That apartment's probably gnarly now.

Yeah. Yeah, right. You could do, speaking of Lost, you could do like the little hatch, you know, the little miniature of the hatch area down below. And there's so many great sets that you could think of have to do with them. That's really cool. I'm in love with this. Do you think he's wearing any eyewear to look close at stuff?

Do you think there's any kind of like magnifiers or whatever? Maybe. Maybe he just has good vision. This is what I do. I take my glasses off. My normal vision, I'm nearsighted. My six inches away from my face, my vision is like amazing. Crystal clear, yeah.

That's how that works. Any further away from that, it's garbage. But I have like Superman vision with my glasses off so long as it's six inches for my face. So I've been peering over the top. my glasses a lot lately i've been yeah yeah i'm trying myself doing that old man in it i like it yeah uh well all right this is very very cool and i can't wait to see anything you ever do in the future like this at this scale i would love i would love to see that process from bill uh bill anything else going on you want to mention before we go nope that's it okay wow all right well look at

you at 2020 ready to rock i haven't done any work for the last two weeks so unless you want to talk about cyberpunk some more i'm good all right well i'm glad the i'm glad you've had some time off there's nothing wrong with that. And we will see you next time right here on your segment. Bye, Bill. Bye. I yelled that loud. Sorry, everybody. Didn't mean to get loud. Bye. Okay. Who's our next guest? Oh, yeah, Bobby. It's Bobby. We go from Bill to Bobby. And then we get all scientific and stuff with him. My favorite comment, by the way, in the chat today is J. Funktastic. Who'd said, I'd love to do miniature stuff, but my cats would eat it. It's probably right. Yeah, probably.

Yeah, cats do that. Bobby accidentally just called me from the A&P thing while you were saying that. Oh, weird. Well, I'll take him in any form I can get him. Speaking of that guy, that name we just invoked, it's Bobby Frankenberger. He joins us all the way from South Carolina to talk about a little science. Hi, Bobby. Welcome back to the show.

How are you? Hey, you remember last week you couldn't connect? That's what was happening. I was trying to call someone else every time I thought I was picking up. Oh, funny. Weird. Oh, because you saw the little phone icon at the top and you thought that would answer. Yeah.

So that's a Bobby thing. It totally makes sense. Yeah. So we blame you for that. And it's fine. It's totally fine. You can be you. You be you.

How's it going? Good, man. How are you? Are you doing all right? I'm doing great. There's this, hopefully you won't be able to hear it. But there's this helicopter that keeps flying over my house and it's been happening like for days. Maybe it's your topic.

You're going to talk? I don't understand, but like, I think somebody in our neighborhood got like a helicopter for Christmas. Is it possible? It's a small remote one, like a remote control? No, it's a full, because I've gone out and looked at it with the binoculars and it's really annoying. As a podcaster, you don't really like aircraft flying over your house. No, I agree. I don't like that.

It's loud. And why are they surveilling you in your neighborhood? You got to know these things, you know? I don't know. There's like a little small lake right next to us, so maybe they're full. line over that. This guy's spouting scientific information. We can't have that in the South.

Just kidding, South. You guys are great. I love you. I do. My wife's from there. I know you don't know, you commented multiple times that you don't know what I'm bringing anymore, and I stopped telling you because you always just said, that sounds good. Like, I feel like we've... Yeah, you're not

going to bring anything I don't like. There's never going to be like, nah, come up with something else. Yeah. That's not going to happen. So I wanted to talk about the weather today. Great. To discipline. I was actually a climate change thing. But I wanted a quick update.

So last week we mentioned Omicron and how it was like 90% of cases. But I wanted to do like a sort of a sort of correction. The day after I talked about how there were 90% of cases were Omicron, the CDC adjusted their estimate down to like 59%. Oh. I just wanted to make it clear. What was that based on? How did they get the revised number? I'm just curious. Do you know what the process is to do that?

Or is it just some guy in the back room going, ah, it's probably closer to 59, and then they went with it? Or what? I think what it is is they just didn't have all the numbers in yet. And then every state kind of calculates that all differently. And I think some of the states updated the way that they were calculating things. I don't know. They're just, everybody's always trying to get information out really, really fast.

And I think sometimes when you do get it out really, really fast, you make mistakes. Yeah. Well, this is the problem, right? You have to balance the speed at which we need things like rapid testing and just stuff to keep people alive, right? Your hierarchy of needs requires that you're doing these quick things for that end of it. But on the other end, we need measurement. We need measurement tools. We need the time it takes to say, oh, this is a new variant. And here's how much the percentage, blah, blah, blah. That stuff isn't stuff you do in a rapid way. So it's this juxtaposition of hurry, hurry, and take the time that's necessary. And unfortunately, I think for a lot of people, that frustrates them, but it's just the way of it. I don't know how else you do it. You know, like what else you're going to do? It is frustrating, especially as a science communicator who's familiar with, this is normal in science in general, right? Is that you constantly, you gather data, you say what you know, and then you get more data and then you update your knowledge, right? And so that's just like the process.

But I don't think that's just not how I think most people think about things. They get information and that's kind of they lock it in. That's the information. And then when it changes, it can be upsetting and confusing. Well, that's because they don't understand that this stuff does change. And they see it as, well, wait, they said 90. how am I supposed to trust them? Well, no, the goal wasn't, here's the number to trust.

The goal is trust in the process of adjusting. Because you have to. That's just the way it is. Like, I get why people get frustrated. I totally get it. But don't, I mean, what are you going to do? Like, are they, the alternative is that they do give you a fake number and say that it's set in stone. Do you want to just lie to me, please?

Yeah. That's what I don't understand. Well, the alternative is really that they just don't give you any information because they're afraid to give you a wrong information. So there's that balance. You either don't get any information because you don't want wrong information or you don't want outdated information or you get lots of conflicting information because you're getting it as it comes out. So you've got to fall somewhere in the middle and where do you do that. That's that's a policy thing and people make mistakes. Humanity is hard at scale. I've noticed. Have you noticed that? Yeah. When the numbers get big,

It's just complicated. If there's like 12 of us, we'd have this all taking care of. We'd be good. We'd have it. But no, there's 8 billion of us, and we have to deal with it. So there you have it. Speaking of us being really bad at large numbers and long-term things and making bad decisions and everything, we just had another climate modeling report come out of the International Panel on Climate Change, the IPCC.

Oh, boy. And so climate stuff is usually always. kind of bad news, but what they did, the news that just came out was that they did a report analyzing the economic impacts of different types of decision making that we can make. And they found out what the impacts of making extreme, like whether or not we meet the goals of the Paris Climate Agreement versus. in time that we've said we were going to versus if we don't

and what the economic impacts of those things are and in particular, they published a report saying that what the impacts of not making extreme changes to reach the temperature goals that were set will be. And there's a lot to unpack there. So let me first of all, Paris climate agreement just to update people if they don't know It was a 2015 treaty, international treaty that was made to set the goal of keeping global temperatures, you know, at or below 2 degrees Celsius worldwide.

And the thing is that there are a lot of people who argue that doing that will be incredibly, like, the things that you'll have to do to reach that goal are going to be incredibly expensive. And they will be. There's no doubt about that. It's incredibly expensive. And this report was put together by these modeling groups that run all these models and statistics and everything. And they just wrote it up and basically showed that it would be more expensive to let it get to 2 degrees Celsius or higher than if we spend a bunch of money now to do something about it. See, now that actually, that concept scales pretty well because you could say I could build this dog house in the summer so my dog's ready for the winter. I don't have an outside dog, but if I did, I'd have them all set for the winter so the dog will be nice and warm in his cozy little dog house.

Or I could say that's too expensive and hope something else works out between now and winter. Someone donates one. It comes out of nowhere. Something falls off the back of a truck. well it's winter dog's going to freeze now what am I going to do like to me that is a scalable

concept that should be easy for all of us to say A number one to say it's expensive is kind of a weird thing to say anyway because we all make up money and money is whatever money is so just spend it spend it on something that will save humanity what's the alternative

not doing it okay well you're all shitheads then bye like I don't know what to say to these people well it's a more poignant analogy that you made than maybe you intended because it's not, they're not even necessarily only considering spending it to do it now or not. One of the things that they looked at was, one of the plans that some people have put forward is, okay, we want all of this, this, we want to reduce our carbon footprint, and we want to have less of a carbon impact, and we want to reduce temperatures, but that's really hard to do right now.

we've kind of passed a threshold and we're just like we're in mitigation mode right now. How do we make it not as bad as it is going to already be? And so some people are saying, well, what if what if instead what we do is we delay doing it immediately? Like we don't drop crap tons of money now to stop it now. What if instead we know that we're going to overshoot the goal and we just start working on plans later, after 2050 or so, to then decarbonize the atmosphere, decarbonize the planet, pull carbon out, and then get back below, like, then pool back and come below what we need it to be.

Yeah. So that was one of, that's one of the alternatives. And this report also addresses that and shows that, no, if we go over at all, it will be worse than if we, if we do everything we can now, economically. it will be worse, which is an important specific distinction that they're looking at is economically because that's in the realm of politics, which is where all this policy gets made, that's one of the big, big arguments that is put forward is that this is how can we make this economically viable and you have all these other alternatives.

Well, economic, it also has implications beyond just how much does something cost or how much will we, be at a loss for once we don't do, or whatever. Like, those are measures or those are metrics to think about, but the main metric is you're talking about billions of, well, at least hundreds of millions of people in certain parts of the world where economic disruption means death, like just you're done. Yeah. And that's definitely an important ethical, I think that's one of the most important ethical considerations to take is that this is, this disproportionately affects different

people in the world. In fact, again, this report looked at. that and said that it will disproportionately impact specifically tropical places like, and they named Brazil, West Africa and South Africa, all places that are tropical and very much rely on the climate for agricultural exports and things like that to maintain their way of life. Yeah, Arizona, we just have to call it quits. Just kidding, Arizona, you guys are great. You don't need to do anything.

You're fine. Now, one of the reasons that they've determined that it's going to cost more is because of extreme weather impacts, like heat waves, speaking of places like Arizona and out in the west, recently there have been a lot of heat waves, and also extreme weather phenomena like hurricanes and tornadoes are getting worse. They're not necessarily getting more. Like some people say, oh, there's more hurricanes now. There's not necessarily more hurricanes trending in terms of the trends, but they're more severe.

And that's a problem. Yeah. Oh, yeah. That's a big problem. Yeah. Severity is kind of all of it. Like if you had, it's like that old story of like, what would you rather do, fight 100 raccoon-sized dogs? or a thousand or whatever it is. I don't know what it is.

However that works, would you rather do the one or the other? I would much rather have a lot of tiny hurricanes than one giant one. Right. Yeah. Right? Wouldn't you? I think I know what you mean. Hurricanes already are really big, so a thousand

tiny ones is probably pretty bad. Yeah, that's pretty bad. I guess if you, because hurricane by its very definition is a certain level of trouble. So I guess what I'm saying is I would rather have, okay, yeah, I'd rather have a million. You know what? Here it is. If it means no more homes or people are destroyed, then I will have, I'll have rain every day. That's fine.

The inconvenience of rain every day if it means no more homes or, homes destroyed or people killed. Yeah. Let's do that. That's a trade I can live with, as if I have the control to do that. That's fantastic. Right. Let's make it happen. But other ways that increasing temperatures impacts the planet economically are, are not just extreme weather. Like, those are the obvious ones you can point to. Oh, crops are going to die because of heat waves. You know, people's entire communities are going to be destroyed because of hurricanes.

Those are obvious. But there are other things like the load on energy systems across countries, like energy grids. You know, fairly recently there was the whole debacle in Texas with energy grids just, being overloaded and shutting down and and there are other reasons to point to why that happened but that's that's a microcosm of what could happen on a larger scale um if these types of trends continue there's also they they even modeled uh had game theory models showing that if we let the the temperatures go beyond where they need to go and everybody starts having all these climate problems that pop up because of increased temperatures, what will the, the cooperative action

between countries, or the lack thereof, how will that impact economics too? They even modeled all of that. Yeah. And so, that's interesting because one of the aspects of this Station 11 show I'm watching that I thought was fascinating, in the early days of it, the Singapore government decided not to, they made a decision to not tell its people what was happening and to make it completely, you know, not maybe not full, don't look up levels of like ignorance, but they want, they basically said everything is fine. This will all pass in a day, you know, just really, really undersold this 999 people dead out of a thousand problem they were having. And it immediately put that country in a place where it had to defend a stance like that, which

means it put it in a place where potential war was going to happen because the people next you are not doing that and you've got refugee issues and like that stuff has just such like domino effects that you have but you have to have that in this model because again humanity sucks at scale we're no good at it right you know right and people make bad decisions selfish decisions and and and just people aren't good at it i think that's a really really um important point to understand is that people all together we don't make we're not always the best decision makers so

you know why it's also frustrating we have a view we have the world view but you and I can do very little like we can do what we can for our own little footprint like I can go well let's keep the lights off kids and try not to have these computers on all the time and you know little things I guess you know recycling or whatever you can do

but it's still just this you are such a microcosm that it's hard to feel like you're blasted with the news of it but you can do so little individually to fix it because you know not everyone's going to be on the same page and I don't know it's frustrating you know in the past we've we've tried to

decades ago we've tried to as policy tried to shift the the responsibility onto individuals you know get energy efficient light bulbs don't turn your lights off don't let your water run

you know get the low flush toilets and stuff like that yeah um but uh but we've learned over time that that not only so it's it's it's it's as an individual you don't feel like you're having an impact so that reduces your sort of motivation to do anything right and so that's just human nature and so collectively as a whole we don't kind of come together to make those changes. And so that's why we've come, I think, very recently, we've started to realize that it's, these decisions really have to be made by companies, corporations, policy decisions by governments. And, and that's where science and, you know, politics kind of intersects. Yeah. And, and you, you, you, you, you, you can't rely on individuals to make those decisions. You

really have to kind of figure out how do we how do we organize society to make it so that collectively we are making the right decisions and that has to come from the top down I think that's that's my opinion but um let's call it macro responsibility how about that right you like that term yeah write that down everybody one day i'll be famous for it better turn that into an nfts and sell it's got we're going to do it right now nfts for everybody look under your seat you get an nfts all right All right. Well, this is a fascinating stuff. Obviously, those, you know, I'm always interested in hearing what projection stuff is. That's fascinating to me. I heard yesterday, or read yesterday a pretty big report someone did, and I wish I could point to it so I could give people a citation here. I can't. I'm sorry about that. I'll try to find it and tweet it. But it was basically the energy impact of all of crypto and its associated. things. So you can throw NFTs in there, but cryptocurrency as a thing and the crypto effort,

however they quantified it, more than doubled its power usage in a year. And erased all, any impact from electrical vehicles or hybrids. Just erased it as if those don't exist. So one of the things you could do as an individual is like, yep, my next car is an electric. Well, that still has issues because electricity comes from. somewhere it's generated by this, sometimes it's cold, you know, like there's that whole argument, but still you're less relying on petroleum or whatever. And so you are making some, some impact. That impact collectively just wiped, done, gone, because all the crypto took over from it. That's got to be reckoned with at some point, because it's doing nothing but growing

that genie's out of the bottle. And I'm not saying the tech isn't cool, but that tech is taking more and more power. And people think it's just magical and it's just going to happen with or without anything and it doesn't you got to have a way to do it and if it's just creating more you know carbon waste and whatever other however else you're you're generating power to run servers and do the stuff you do like we got us we got to do something there's lots of interesting conversations to be had about that i think because there are ways even on a large scale to do crypto stuff without having as much of a even though it requires the electricity like that is that is a fact yeah um but but there are ways to organize it to where you you know there are using organizing it so

that renewable energy is being used instead of um just the energy out of the wall in your garage you know yeah which is so out of sight out of mind money you're 221 whatever it takes it's like beef though i always think of it like beef like i got a steak on my plate and it's amazing it's so good but i didn't have to do anything to get it i mean i had to pay Pay for it, but I didn't have to go kill that cow, raise that cow, then kill it, then gut it, then take all the meat out of it, then, you know, do all the things you had to do back in the day. I didn't have to do any of that for the chicken sandwich I made or for whatever it is, whatever it came from. And we get into this mindset where it's just there so we don't think about it. Electricity is 100% that.

Like it's just there and somehow we got it. And yeah, I pay a bill every month, but I don't know. Like, it's not good. It's good to think about. a little bit more. It's important to think about. Yeah, I agree. Well, hanging with you is always important as well.

Bobby, we love our Tuesdays with Bobby. Don't we, Brian? We just love them. We do. We do. It's a special time. It's a learning time. It's a learning time. That's right. South Carolina's taking over the show, isn't it? Yeah. Kind of, yeah. In a weird way. At least three days a week.

Yeah. And Mondays. Yeah. You guys are the long con of TMS. Well done. Pretty soon the whole show will be done from Charleston. Is it red fraggle in the south to, the southeast? She is. Amy is a... Oh, right, a Thursday.

Yeah, no kidding. Oh, yeah. You guys really are taking over. Yeah. Rutt, Ro. Yeah, it's great, though. I, for one, embrace our southern overlords. Bring it on.

I don't have a problem with it. Just, you know, some of the things you do, maybe drop those. But then it'll be fine. Hey, Bobby, tell people where they can find your show and why they should find it. What's going on over there? So I have a weekly science podcast where we talk about issues like this and things that pop up in the news. It's called All Around Science. Me and my co-host Mora, we talk about it every week.

The episode that just came out yesterday had lots of really interesting stuff. Bladeless brain surgery is a thing that's being developed. Bring it on. Our main topic, we discussed sentience versus sapience. What's the difference? And how does it, what does that have to do with animal ethics? How we treat animals and everything? Also, there was a story about a robot fish that was made that hunts down other mosquito fish. Good. I like that. I like a good robot fish story.

Yeah. Talk in my language here. Fish Terminator. Yeah. Fish Terminator is such a fish. That made my brain go 20 directions at once and now I can't think what to do next. All right. Bobby, as always, the pleasure is ours having you on. We wish you nothing but the best new year. And, of course, look forward to seeing you each and every Tuesday right here. Have a great one. You too. Bye. Bye now. Bye now. Bye now. Now. Why is that doing that? Okay, there we go. Hey, look at us here at the end of the show. Now, before we get out of here, I got a mashup, bonus style. Ooh, bonus. Yep. This is an NTR, which stands for Nailed the reed. It's a new kind of mashup we haven't had on the show before. Yeah, that's a new category. And Jamie put it together. We're going to play it now. The title is The Streak. Okay, the streak. Who knows which one it refers to. Let's enjoy this together.

So pseudoscience with Bobby. Oh, no. Oh, you want me to sing that? All right. I'll do it. So, so, studio. Oh, it's Sue, Sue. Sue, Sue.

So studio. Come on. Sue, Sue, studio. Shit. I got studio in there. Sue, Sue, Sue, studio. Shit. This all stays in, please, by the way.

Sue, Sue, pseudoscience with Bobby on this episode of the morning stream. Coming up soon, the actual read of today's thing. We're going to see if our streak holds. Brian's a little, you know, is feeling great. By talking about a streak. Hot cockles. No, hot cockles. There you go.

Alpha, falpha. Spank. You were supposed to read this one. Cadians? Rocky Road, Colin. Back up your truck and wipe off that muck. It's time for the read. And three, two, one.

Excuse me. We do that again. This doesn't count against the streak, everybody. Extremely prejudicial muting. Nice. I missed it. Oh, you did? Prejudicial.

Instead of prejudicial. You read that one again. I saw it on Tick-Tack. Oh, no, shit. I saw it on the Tick-Tac. Flea. Flea. Flea, flea, flea-flat.

Free flash drive with purchase of a kiss coffin. Pumpkin thieving and ber-ver-Ber-B-B-W-R-B-R-R-R-R. All right, let's try it again. Brian, like the McRibb, is back. What's wrong with us? Brian, like the McRib, is back. Down under. They're just.

Oh, Scott blew the streak. It was me who what done it. I was so nervous. I did it. All right. We do that again. Get all the Thanksgiving Schworma. Wait.

Okay. That's really not what that says. I'm going to try that again. All about the Thanksgiving shworma. The Rankin bass, we're smoking puppet guys. There you go. We'd smoke. We know.

Now we're doing it. All right. Read that one more time. You look at, sorry. You look at her hair, not at all. try it again that was perfectly done for real no goofs no nothing no i know it was like we like we've been working towards this moment our entire lives entire lives wow that's amazing wow we i don't know where the streak's at right or actually no we're good from yesterday right or for show there so far so

good uh for the year okay with just one under our belt okay i feel good about it the one day One day without an accident. We're going to try it again later here when we do reads for titles. People are now going to start submitting titles that are just going to be tongue twisters that are going to be impossible to read. Oh, I can't wait. Just to try to break our streaks. Bring it on, jerks. Hey, Patreon, people.

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Brian, let's get out of here. Do you have a song to play? We can play? I do. I do. This one, not a request, but this week is David Bowie. What would have been David Bowie's 75th birthday? David Bowie, the thin white Duke, would have been.

75 years old this week, and it's also the sixth anniversary of his passing. Of course, Coverville's going to be all about that, and as I get songs together for the show, there are versions that I have to decide between. Can't have three versions of space oddity in one episode of Coverville. So, the ones that don't make it on the show, we're going to make it here.

This one is by the band Kitty. It's from an indie tribute album called A Salute to the Thin White Duke from 2015. Here is Kitty and their cover of Space Oddity. Take your protein pills and put your helmet on Ground control to major toll The convincing downtown endings are Checking ignition

Then may God's love be with you This is well controlled A major tone You really made the break And the papers want to know Who shirt you wear Now it's time to leave the capsule if you dare

This is Mitch tall It's well control I'm stepping through the door And I'm floating And I'm floating in a most peculiar way

And the stars look very different Today For he's For here am I sitting in king Far above the world Let it up is blue And there's nothing I can do You know, I'll pass 100,000 miles, I'm feeling there's still in their smelling that I'm feeling there's snails.

And I think my spaceship knows which way to go Tell my life I have a very much she knows Ground control Major Tongue your circuit's there There's something wrong, can you hear me a major song Can you hear me and make it told? Can you hear me and make your song? Here am I heard or am I to hear?

Pop of the moon Running up this room And there's nothing I can do Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. This show is part of the Frog Pants Network. Get more shows like this at frogpants.com.

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