The Morning Stream - TMS 2229: YOU SHALL TACO PASS!!

Episode Date: January 11, 2022

They Blinked 182 Times!! Those Are Some Big Feet! I've Seen Bigfoot! Gold Fingering. Hello Theeeere Aliens. Maurice Patootie? Erect, Satanic Tail! Come On, You're Big, Food When You Eat! How About A Yellow-Throated Boobie? What's her name again? Digeridoo? Thanos is exactly half bad. Fish are Dumb, Fish Experts are Dumber. Let's Eat The ANGRY Pig! Everyone's a Critic with Bill. Turning Into A Giant Magnet With Bobby and more on this episode of The Morning Stream. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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A lot of singing today. Maurice Batuti. erect satanic tail. Come on, you're big food when you eat. How about a yellow-throated boobie? What's her name again? Did you redo? Thanos is exactly half bad. Fish are dumb.

Fish experts are dumber. Let's eat the angry pig. Everyone's a critic with Bill. Turning into a giant magnet with Bobby. And more on this episode of the Morning Stream. And here is a picture of little cute little Pikachu and he's being energized by an energy ball. And now you notice he's not quite so cute anymore. And his little satanic tail is really a red.

Another grandma. This is the morning stream. And I feel fine. It's the end of the world as we know. Hey, everybody, welcome back to TMS. It's the morning stream for January 11th, 2022. I'm Scott. He's Brian. Hi, Brian. Hi, Scott. Hey, man. I'm okay. I got, um, you know, it's a bit of morning. I've got a lot of energy for some reason. I can't explain it because I slept like garbage. But here I am feeling up and motivated, you know. Good. Yeah. Got some big meetings today. I got some stuff to do. And, but none of it makes me as happy as doing a morning show with you.

That rhyme. Did you hear it? Did you hear the rhyme? Oh, I did. Yeah, exactly. It took a while to get there, but it did rhyme. Yeah. That's my whole life story is it took a while to get there. You could use that to describe a lot of things. Anyway, we're here, and thanks for being with us, everybody. We have a nice, healthy chat room this morning. By the way, I don't mention it enough, so I'll just mention it now. If you're like, hey, man, I want to be a bigger part of the real time.

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very long it's fine hey uh i did that taco bell thing like we talked about yeah the taco the taco pass the daily taco pass now here's the problem i did it uh well i should say kim did it because she had the rewards program so i'm like just use yours let's just use yours and get it over okay all right i don't want to go sign up kim kim does it all she has everything if kim ever like disappeared passed away took off whatever i'm screwed she has everything she has all the numbers she has all the stuff anyway so she i don't want to do a new card she's like well i already have one I'll just do it. So she did it. Okay. And they gave her a bunch of rewards for doing it, which is nice. and then you'd think day one excited got the thing locked in ready to rock ready to go got all these bonus points and we didn't go to a taco bell to do anything we just we didn't even get a taco like on day one what is wrong with us oh no oh see here's where this is where it happens right it's like basically you're you're doing exactly what they want you to do we bought the pass oh well we're not going to work not going to work out today because we've got these leftovers we have to eat or oh no we're not going to be out and about it's snowing, we don't want to go anywhere.

They're counting on, they're counting on this. They're 100% getting what they wanted out of me, which is less use than I was hoping to make of it. Sure, sure. So we'll see. I'm going today. I'm going to day, though. I did go there.

I did get my free taco. I did the crunchy taco Supreme, and I had a free bean burrito because it was a reward thing. Yeah. And, you know, you were worried a little bit, or we were worried. We were talking about this, being worried that. the employees would put pubic hairs in our food or spit or something like that. You know, they really have no idea because you're buying this ahead of time on the app.

And then you're just going through the drive-thru and saying, I have an app order for Kim. And then, you know, they put it together one in the driveway. I guess I've never done that before. So you just say, here's my app order. And they say, oh, cool, pull up to the whatever. Exactly. Yeah, but they don't start making until you're there, which is nice.

So nothing gets gross. Right. Uh, grosser, but, um... Grocer. But, uh, nothing gets even more disgusting. Nothing gets even more discussing. Yeah. Uh, disgusting.

But, um, no, they have no idea, right? So they just see you coming through and, and, and what's nice about the app is that it's so much easier than talking to the person and trying to explain what you want, if you want, you know, changes. I know they don't do the, um, what do they call that? It was great. It was like they were to replace. cheese and sour cream with pico de gallo and fiesta fiesta style or something like that

fresco fresco that was it fresco yeah um and you'd have to go through and say can i get a taco supreme fresco and this and that and you know what the other thing and change this and could you put you know take the blah blah blah off of that um so much easier and there's like an even there's a customizable box so you can say oh well i like I like the cheloup, the black bean chalupa. I like the bean burrito. Put that together in a box and call that a box thing with a free drink. Yeah.

And then having this all happen ahead of time saves you from dealing with a kid who probably barely scraped by in his science class last semester. Certainly barely scraped by in English. Welcome to talk about. Can I interest you in a beef mexy deluxe a patty? No, is the answer always to that question? I almost almost always say no. Hold on a minute. I'm actually going to think about this. I don't think I...

Recently, when you did say yes at Panda, they told you the thing that they were pitching to you, they were out of. They were out of, exactly. So that was the lesson. Prior to that, I barely ever do this. So someone says, would you like to remember it? And I go, no, we're going to do this because I already have in mind what I'm going to do. But at Panda Express, you're right. They hosed me with that deal. They totally did. Like, you know, it backfired. You want to have our always in stock, never not gone chicken? Yes. Oh, I'm sorry, we're all out of that. Too bad.

It was like a movie. That was such a weird moment. I still don't quite have a way to make sense with it. But anyway, I'll get a taco today is the point. And I really waited too long because yesterday we had weirdly warm weather. It was like 52 for a chunk of the day. And the sun was out. It was nice.

Oh, nice. And then today, it's like 13 degrees today. So now I've got to go out and, you know, in the freezing cold and get my whatnot. But, uh... Your whatnot. Yes, go get your free taco. And, uh, I'm going to do it, uh, you know, use some of those freebies that, uh, that Kim earned with her rewards. Yeah.

Um, but don't spend any additional money. Stick it to them. Stick it to the taco man. That's what I want to do. That's what I want to do. I want to try to make sure that there is a zero sum, uh, transaction here, except for whatever gas it cost me to get to the Taco Bell. That's it. Right. You know, which isn't far. They're just down the road. Big deal. No. No. In, and warmer climbs, I could probably walk there. Well, I wouldn't actually want to do that, but I could. It's a little longer than you'd want to walk. But still, the point is, like, you know, I'm trying to screw them. I gave him my $10 this month. Let's see what I can get out of it.

Right. And if you, you know, if you just get the taco, guess what? 170 calories, piece of cake. That's, you know, that's, you know, that's, that's, yeah, that's nothing. It's nothing. I can burn, I'll burn that off just, uh, walk into the car to drive over there. Yeah, picking up a box from UPS on the front store. I'll work that off tweeting on the way to the restaurant as Kim drives.

I'll vigorously tweet something while. Kim drives and orders and picks up and handles everything as if I'm some sort of invalid man. Right. Sure, Joe, no, we're really not trying to screw Taco Bell. We just want to, we just want to teach them a lesson about coming up with a 30-day taco pass. We're going to teach them a lesson. We are. Or we're going to, at the end of this, realize that we were the victims all along.

Right. So it's fine. Maybe all the way through what we might realize that. I mean, the reason that they do test cities and stuff ahead of time is so that they can maximize the value. of the program. And for them, that is maximizing profits. So whatever reason they landed on 10, the thing I read, or maybe you and I read it together, they were bouncing

between 5 and 10 bucks and ended up at 10 for whatever reasons. But these are smart. They have some of those, you know, people to work at that level at these big, multi-chain whatever's, some of the smartest marketing people on the planet. They come up with the right price to match the right usage,

to match the right profitability, all that stuff. I have no doubt that they've done this in a way to make sure that Taco Bell makes a bank ton of money on their $10 a month taco program. Sure. We, Brian and I's goal here is not to deny that or to throw water in that in the face of it. We are going to take advantage of it. We're playing the game.

We're playing the game. We know Vegas has a house advantage, but we're still going to go do things in the casino that will maximize our chances of winning, all right? That's right. Wow. And comparing eating Taco Bell food to gambling, you couldn't have found more appropriate comparison.

It's always a bit of a gamble. Especially that bean burrito. Good luck with that. Later on, the bathroom, just remind yourself, oh, the house always wins. Oh, the house. All right.

Also, I thought this was interesting. Yeah. I'm not like a big proponent of UFOs or alien life is real. I shouldn't say this. I think that the universe is big enough and infinite enough that their life on other planets is almost guaranteed.

Yeah. But this idea that they've come here and hung around and poked us in the butts and everything, I don't think I can with it. You know what I mean? Probably, yeah, probably not the anal probing, but... I mean, how do you think... Yeah. We may have talked about this before, but let's say, all right, definitively,

let's say it's been announced that, all right, we have discovered alien life. Yeah. Or alien life, we know for one way or... another interacts with with earth how do they do it do they do they um stand a safe distance away and kind of shout to us you yell down from their their spacecraft do they land on earth and risk getting attacked do they yeah um or do we find them on another planet that we can see and say oh look there's a alien there's like alien life on that other planet that we'll never get to or or right that's the question like how are they advanced enough to even communicate or contact

us at all are they like us where we send radio waves into the ether hoping they'd land somewhere and somebody picks it up and hears it uh because we're always listening on this end and as far as i know we've never found anything drastically interesting other than some some strange anomalies that are usually chalked up later to like oh this planet died or this sun exploded and we're just hearing that now from a billion years ago or whatever i mean we did find evidence that there was water on Mars at one point. Yes. And then the moon might have a bunch of water turns out

maybe just under the surface. This is what just talked about recently. So we're learning new stuff all the time and space is a big mystery and all that stuff. But I've just never I am not, if you come up to Scott and say, hey Scott, do you think aliens are like here among us or have done any stuff? No, I don't. I think we made

all that up. It's like Bigfoot, we're real good at making stuff up that's impossible to prove. I feel like there's very little benefit to an alien race. coming and saying, all right, let's infiltrate the Earth without telling us or telling them who we are. It's like, no, you know, like come out and say, hey, we're aliens. We have this technology. What do you got? Oh, want to switch? Cool. All right. See ya. Yeah. And everything we come up with is always real dumb. Like, oh, they were gray and short and had big eyes. Okay. Great. Nice job with your imagination. So anyway, all of that being said, I'm more of a show it to me first and let's see the evidence and let's hear a peer reviewed thing.

before I buy into stuff. This is interesting. The former manager of the Department of Defense Aerospace Threat Program, that's a fairly highfalutin position in the government. It is. Yeah. Says that UFOs are real. Now, I have a problem with that line by itself because UFO stands for unidentified flying object.

And I believe that objects somebody has seen that they can't identify, exist but the implication of what they are is the part we don't know about so so it's oh i see what i'm saying like there are there are things we've seen we can't identify we do have real unidentified flying objects whether or not they're aliens who knows yeah they can be in the sky that we have not been able to identify and we're fine with that yeah and i'll never forget andrew smith friend of the program listener and uh uh frequent nerdtacular attendee and creator of the trophy right there it is over there the big trophy for for our many years of never giving it to anyone but me taking it home trophy right even when the other teams won it

you still brought it home oh always that was just going to be that it was just always my plan I didn't care who won it really would it would require separate luggage if somebody flew here won the trophy and had to take it back to wherever they were from yeah it's a big heavy metal sculpture heavy and by that we mean jury yeah is basically what we mean that's really what we He could put it in his beard. There were years he could have hit it in his beard. Not now so much. But anyways, what was my point?

Oh, the year that he made, this is like 2013 or something, 14, he made a UFO or made an object, put it in the sky. And all the news, local news, and all the internet chatter and everything else was like, dude, UFO, salt lake, up above Salt Lake, nobody can explain this thing. And they ran like multiple stories during that week about. Nobody knows. And they had guys on that were supposed to be experts about this stuff. And they were all like, we believe this is a true sighting of an alien form. And they're doing all this stuff. And I'm thinking, and I didn't know this until he told me.

So he writes me and goes, dude, that thing's mine. I put that up there. Which is the best. It is great. It's better like hearing about it after there's kerfuffle about it and him saying, by the way, I did that. Yeah. Yeah. Now the worst part about it, though, is he admitted to it, went on the news.

a couple of channels anyway and they interviewed him and said yeah this is how I made it here's pictures of it here you know this is how I kept it aloft and why it looked like it was further than it was and this you know

you explain the whole art installation trickery of it and people still didn't believe it they just went whatever he's just he's being told to do this credit for something yeah or he's being told to do this by the government

because they need to hide the fact that that wasn't actually UFO like I learned a lot of lessons that day that day was a he doesn't know this and if he's listening today you know write me Andrew and we'll talk about it but that was a day where I went oh this is how people are there's no getting around this yeah even if you fake you you know the guy that faked it and you know he put it up there and forget about you know we could have arguments about the ethical nature of pranking everybody into thinking there's a UFO whatever we'll get past but what I'm getting at is you can put it out there and know that you made it and did it and there are going to be people who will to your face deny that there's no way you did it and

this is all a conspiracy that that's the level people get to with their quote unquote you know call it beliefs or their their whatever it is whatever story they've told themselves they'll back themselves in some gnarly corners to defend what they think is the case even when you say no I did it give them the actual truth yeah and I felt like I felt like that was a moment for me that I'd learn something. Anyway, the point is, this guy at the DoD, former high-level official, let's see, and he's also a scientist with deep black experience, meaning they've seen a lot of stuff, right? He says, these insiders have longstanding connections to the government agencies, which have many programs investigating identified,

unidentified aerial phenomena or UFOs, sometimes called UAPs. Is that what that is, Aerial Phenomena, UAP, interesting. UAPs. Okay, sure. Never heard that before. That's brandy. I haven't heard that one now. I don't let it doesn't roll off the tongue like UFOs.

No. So what's the difference? Unidentified aerial phenomena versus unidentified flying objects. I guess someone's just fancy version. It could be like, it could be sparkles. Sparkles would be aerial phenomena, but an actual thing would be a flying object. Yeah, there you go. Phenomenal.

Phenomenon. do do do do anyway yeah the team includes a 25 year veteran of the CIA's directorate of operations Lockheed Martin program director and advanced system skunk works and former deputy assistant secretary of defense for intelligence anyway this dude says we believe there are discoveries within our reach that will revolutionize the human experience uh let's see but but uh anyway it goes on to say later in this story you see the president by the way president of that that uh company president's CEO Oh, who is it? Wait, I'm missing it.

Oh, Tom. Whoa, whoa. Is that the guy? It's the guy, yes. That is, uh, Fleet 182 zone, Tom DeLange. It's this guy right here. Hello there. Well, one of them. It's one of them anyways. Wow. Wait a minute. Yes. Company present. So, so, so, okay, well, I know he's out there thinking everything's UFOs because that's all he does now. All right. Well, anyway, he says, he says, he says, and agrees that the dude from the DOD says they're real,

and so now it must be real. So everything's real. Everything's real. Yeah. Everybody get ready. Well, look, if the guy from Blink 182 says it's real, then why can you, you can't question that? Right.

No. It's Blink 1282. They blinked 182 times. Exactly. But he's not the manager of the Department of Defense Aerospace threat program. What is he? He's... I left the link off.

Oh, here it is. The To the Stars Academy of Arts and Sciences, a public benefit corporation. That's what he's in charge of, right? Yeah. To the Stars Academy of Arts and Sciences. Or you can brave it to Tatas. Even though it really does it, you think, you know, it's Blink 182. It should be called Tatas.

Well, to that I would repeat. Hello there. Hello there to your Tatas. Well, all right. Anyway, I just thought it. was interesting, and I have to say this, Tom, I still don't quite believe it, so good luck. Convinced me, I'm fine. You know, show me some evidence like Bigfoot or anything else. I have a friend who is, I can't, this won't give in a way who he is. I don't think. I don't think

this is doxing him. He's a professor at a local university. That's all I'll say about him. And you would think, oh, the old professor, ooh, you know, highfalut in position and this sort of thing. 100% believes Bigfoot is not only real, but that he's seen him multiple times. goes on that he personally that he personally has seen big yeah of course no photos or anything but uh you know claims he's seen him he's been up to he goes on these regular trips to the pacific northwest uh some of the forests out there seattle era area oregon forest that sort of stuff and that's where he claims he sees the thing um

and yeah he's 100% sure of it and yet uh i think it's complete bunk and bull crap and there he is teaching at a accredited university so yeah so there you have it. You think he's just maybe seen somebody with really big feet? His wife gets a little shy every time he brings it up to me. Yeah, exactly. He just woke up one morning and went, Ah! I've seen big foot.

Oh, so big feet. I've seen big foot. Those are some big feet. I've seen big foot. That's my favorite thing you've said it all week. That's very funny. Anyway, that's all I wanted to show. there. Hey, do you want to eat a Japan thing fast? Yeah, let's eat the Japan thing fast.

All right, we got Japan things. I got this. Take this. It's for you. It's food. It sounds like Pat and Oswald, or not Patten Oswald. A blue guy. Mr. Meeseeks? No. No, from Arrested Development. I can't think of his name.

Oh, yeah, it does. It sounds like David Cross. David Cross. That's who it sounds. It does sound like David Cross. Might be. I don't know. Because that is from Rick and Morty, right? Well, take this. It's for you. It's food. I have no idea what that's from.

Or is that from... See if I have a date on it. Futurama. I don't know what it is. All right. I just figured out. But, yeah, Tobias Funke. Well, people are...

Johnny Than confirms it is David Cross. All right. Cool. By the way. Oh, Starblazers? No, really? That's from Starblazers? Oh, it is.

You know what it is? That's what we capped it from. Starblazers, really? Yeah. So it's not David Cross. but it sure sounds like him. Oh, it totally sounds like it.

Station 11 features David Cross. I won't tell you how, but he's in it. Somebody said, yeah. Yeah, it's very good. Oh, it feels like, feels like if we're going to eat any of them, after all that UFO and space talk,

it should be the one. Find one that's in a blue. Oh, yours doesn't have all the fun artwork. Huh. What is it? Here's what the bag looks like. Do I have that? It's like, yeah, well, it doesn't,

here's what the individual. kid cats look like oh okay that's what you're that's what you're looking for right there let me see what i got but this is like like an ice cream cone with people uh like a little space ice cream cone geodesic dome city with people floating up into the sky did this uh no that's got a canadian maple leaf on it oh freaking canadians what did they know canada this this one's just straight up blue how about this da da da da die oh yeah here it is that's it that's the one let's see that and then Let's do one of these pig ones again. Okay.

Are these, because I don't know if these are supposed to be different than the big, the big pig one we ate. I think the red one is an angrier pig. You want to do the angry pig? Yeah, let's eat the angry pig. Everybody eat your angry pig here. All right.

We should probably start then with the angry pig. Yeah, start with the angry pig. And then go on to the much less angry chocolate treat. Super, I'm guessing super spicy, which is, you know, okay, I'm okay with that. Seems like the last, it's just, like the last ones, we'll see how it says. Oh.

Yeah, it stinks. I don't like the smell of that. Yeah, it stinks. Yeah. It smells like, ooh, I do like it, though. Hmm. Grizzly. Still grizzly.

Grizzly and pig fatty. Yeah, it's like, um... I like that. What they do with the good part of the pig, do they not use it? In Japan, they have a very serious take on pigs and, uh... Like eating just... pig muscle or something. Yeah, they're like, throw away all the good parts of the pig.

We will only eat the whistle. I'm not very spicy. I'll say that, too. No, more sweet, if anything. Right? Yeah. Yeah. Got kind of a sweet pig thing on the other end.

A sweet chili. Yeah, sweet barbecue chili flavor. All right, so this blue thing, it's got like, um, it's got like twister on the ends of it. It does. Yeah. Yeah. See that? All right.

Old hand red, right hand blue. They're like a, uh, I sure hope you don't feel. my boner twister. Well done, Paul. So these are like cookie, chocolatey cookie. Oh, they do.

They look like cookies and cream. Yeah. See that, everyone? It's already sweaty. There, here we go. Oh. That's just fine. Yeah.

Yeah, it's just cookies and cream, right? I can't tell. Yeah, I think so. well I don't know what else am I supposed to be getting out of that I can't tell

yeah I think it's cookies and cream which would make sense with the ice cream oh yeah yeah yeah yeah it's like almost chocolate chip

ice cream yeah kind of focus flavor wise you know flavor wise all right what did you get on

your translation that's the fun part of this I know forget about eating things that have traveled across the world

we just want to know what they say in Ingrich. The food you eat. The food you eat. The food you eat. I feel like you... Oh, perfect.

Perfect. Ready? Yeah. Send that over. God, I love it when I pause on a great translation. Because it changes if you move too much, right? Like, it tweaks around. It does.

It does. Like, it'll disappear quickly and you'll be like, oh, I missed that one. Oh. All right. It's head to me. Have a look at this one coming through in your... It's text, right? Yeah, here we go.

Yep, coming through. All right, here you go, everybody. I'm going to pull it up here. Come on, you're big. Food when you eat. It's so stupid. Isn't that awesome? Oh, that's great.

I can't tell if that's because it's just hard to translate or because Google Translate kind of sucks. Which is it? It's probably a little bit of both. That's because it's so off. Like, there's no way. It's no way it really says that, right? There's no way. Oh, there's no way. Come on, you're big. Food when you eat.

Yeah, come on. You're big. That's amazing. And what is 74N-S? What is that? Yeah, I don't know. That's probably the chemical we've just ingested. I'm blaming Google for this. Let me see if, I'm going to see if the big bag. Oh, Brian's pulling out his big bag. Oh, here we go. Hawaii cream flavor. Like right off the top, Puma ice cream flavor.

Wait a minute. Puma ice cream. yeah what does that even mean i don't know summer oh oh changing it just scream for help at one point and then it changed pomar ice cream flavor tell me there's real puma in there sir ice cream flavor yes sir it doesn't know what the first word is so i've had puma sir and omar i like sir sir sir ice cream flavor my ice cream flavor yeah i think it's just flat up flat-out ice cream flavor. But it is, it's very cookies and cream. Oh, yeah. Yeah. I feel like I've had this flavor

many times, including other Japanese versions of a Kit Kat that are named differently, but similar taste. That's very good. This one said, Yeah, Klimtaste. Yeah, Klimtaste. Yeah. Someone in the chat sent us a direct link.

What is this? Okay, Kit Kat Chocolates Mini Summer Ice Cream. Mini. There it is. That's exactly the one that is mini. Okay. $9.00.90 for a package of, I don't know how many, you're in there, 12. Have fun answering questions created by the Future Science Museum of Japan written on the packaging of each individually wrapped chocolate bar. Whoa, there's a game.

Flavored with ice cream and fuleteen with cream powder needed between the wafers. Fulatine. I don't know. I don't know. Do I want to know. I feel like we need another translation. Yeah, what's fuletine? It seems bad. Like we shouldn't be eating something called fuletine. Fuletine. I didn't even notice there are little science questions on the back. We should send these to Bobby. Yeah, no kidding. Oh, my God.

You know what? Hold on to one or two of those. Let's use one today and see if you can answer it on the fly. Good Lord. I mean, that, you know. We'll stump him. I have to translate it. Oh, because it's in Japanese.

I don't even know. I don't even know where it is. I don't see any. Oh, it's the, okay, it's the, it's the, it's the, Uh, it's the thing that translated to, come on, you're big, eat when you eat food or whatever it is. That's, because that has a question mark at the end of it. Okay. So, wow, crap, though, we can't get the right.

Yeah, exactly. There should be like a, uh, that's supposed to be like a science question. So we ask Bobby, come on, your big food when you eat. Oh, here we go. Okay. Oh, my gosh. Oh, how can I pause it? Oh, need to, uh, see if I can get it again.

All right. This was good. This was so good. Okay, here we go. Oh, this is great. All right. This says, in the future, you will be on Mars. What is your clothing, food, and housing when you move?

When you move. When you move. This is actually like, it translated well this time. Yeah, that's not bad. Well, done. Google once in a while, you get it right. Good job. Yeah.

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There's like one, two. So these are seeds. like um so grow your own peppers kind of thing yeah it's uh looks like and he's got pictures of his actual grown ones for each one look at that he's got a whole oh this is great what a cool thing i'm kidding um my luck is about pages a lot ohio his our story page is great says eventually i'll put something here about how i got to where i'm at maybe fine my wife says i have to i will work on it l-l sounds like sounds like all of us yeah we all nobody knows how to do those right oh these are all on sale too so you can get a pack of pick a pack of pepper seeds for like under three bucks

in a lot of cases nicely done on the uh some Brazilian red ghost ooh that was my uh I wrestled on Congo de Nicaragua ooh C C C wee wee all right first story of the day let's uh have a let's get our COVID story out of the way because there's all right let's do it yeah there's always one teacher's in trouble uh Texas teacher locked a code positive son in her car boot, or as they call it here in America, the trunk. This is a U.K. story, so that's why they're calling it the boot. Right. Zoe knows.

Zoe, you know what a boot is. Right? She knows what the boot is, yeah. What about the bonnet? What about the bonnet, Zoe, huh? Yeah. And Canadians know all about it. All right.

A U.S. teacher has been arrested for allegedly locking her COVID positive son in the car boot to protect herself from exposure to the virus as she drove to a testing site, says local media. Sarah Beam, H. 41, and is reportedly in charge with endangering a child. The witness called police after hearing someone in the vehicle's trunk on the 3rd of January at the site of Harris County, Texas. The teacher reportedly opened the boot to reveal the boy lying inside. It's a 13-year-old son. So this actually happened in Texas that was reported in the UK. Yeah, they're reporting it in the UK. I think I saw it. There was another U.S. version of this, but I like the UK one because it's so much more prim and proper. Put him in the boot. I put him in

the boot. Uh, let's see. The teacher reportedly opened the boot. They keep, I'm going to say trunk from now on to reveal the boy lying inside. Mrs. Beam said her 13 year old son had tested positive for COVID-19. He was taking, uh, prigden or, sorry, Prigian, Pridgin. Probably Pridgin stadium. Uh, it was a location there for another test to confirm the result, according to local media. She reportedly had placed the teenager in the, in the car trunk because she did not want to be infected herself. Health worker told, uh, there, there would be no coronavirus test until the boy was allowed to sit in the back seat of the car. So they weren't going to go

around and administer it in the trunk and then shut the damn thing. Well, ma'am, you cannot put a child in the trunk of your car. It was, nope, we are not going to test them until you put him in the backseat. Yeah, put them in the back seat or else we're not part of your weird sick thing.

Let's see, the health worker, Ernest Mrs. Beam had been working as a teacher at Cypress Falls High School since 2011, is now on a administrative leave. Imagine why. The police were alerted that a child was in the trunk of a car to drive-through. COVID testing earlier this week, says law enforcement. Law enforcement conducted a full investigation, resulting in a warrant for arrest.

Thankfully, the child was not harmed. Let's see. Sergeant Richard Standfire. Standifer. Oh. I know. It's not as good. It's okay.

It's no standfire for sure. Standifer. It's like. I couldn't decide if your last name was going to be Stan or Jennifer. So we'll just jam them together. Yeah, Standifer. Oh, that's weird, isn't it? I don't like this name now.

Is of the Texas Department of Public Safety told the local news channel that the boy could have been seriously hurt if the vehicle it ended up in any kind of collision. I've never heard of somebody who can put in a trunk because they tested positive for anything, says Sergeant Standerfer. Well, yeah, because you haven't experienced a zombie outbreak. Because if somebody did have a zombie effect, you know, affliction, I'd put them in the trunk. I wonder if they would have been any more upset in Texas or hell even in Utah when I was growing up. You would always speed people just loosely in the back of people's trucks all the time. Kids and teenagers were just. Yeah, mostly getting into drive-ins, drive-in movies.

Yeah, it's super easy to do back then. Now it's like way more, you know, you get pulled over for it now. But in Texas. Yeah, because, I mean, it is a danger. It's like if there's an accident, it's that trunk that saves the people within the car because it crumples first. Exactly. So if they had pulled up in a truck, an open bed truck, would they have reacted differently? Oh, probably not.

Probably would have been no issue. See, that's hilarious to me. I can't remember. I know that that was fine when we were kids. Is it illegal now to? Pretty sure it's illegal in most states. Not all. Like, a Dice Tomato says not in Kentucky.

You can ride in them all the time. When you and I. You're seated. When you and I were kids, pretty sure you could do that and there was no big deal. That's just what you did. Not a problem at all. But people were getting thrown from them and killed all the time. So eventually, you know, the course laws reflect that.

It's legal in Virginia. Yeah. That makes sense. Virginia does a lot of things legally. So, yeah, I guess what I'm saying is, are they being too hard on her simply because, let me put it this way. If she was in a collision, which would be more dangerous, an open bed truck or a trunk? enclosed trunk i don't know um but if she'd gotten away with it in the truck then what's the point

of getting after her for this you know what i mean probably probably uh more danger in a trunk right because at least in a truck there's a lot more room and it's a lot heavier vehicle or a lot heavier um they've got they've got to get through a lot more to get to the people even if they're in the back whereas a trunk man that thing crumples up like a like a soda can that's true i guess the only real downside of the open part of a bed would be you get tossed, right? So you get thrown into traffic or off a cliff or some other. Let's ask you this. All right. So there are states where it's illegal and states where it is legal to have riders in the back of a pickup truck. Of the 50 states, what would be, what's your percentage? Like, what do you think, how many states

do you think it's legal in versus illegal? I'm guessing, I'm guessing every major city on the coast are probably Oh no, that wouldn't be true because I know Mississippi probably is cool with it and they're a coastal town city,

town or a state. Oh jeezissippi is cool with it by the way. Yeah, I think I think I, I think someone, someone told me that or maybe it's because

Kim's brothers were always in the back of a truck and I just... Maybe, yeah. All right, I'll say 30% of places it's illegal.

30% so 50 states, 30% of, that would be roughly 18. 18. Wait, hold on. Yeah, 30 plus 20. So just under 18 percent, 17, 17, 17, basically. So about 17. 20 states. So you're close. Oh, not too far off. Where it is, where it is legal. And of course, those are Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Delaware, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Minnesota, Mississippi, Montana, New Hampshire, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Vermont, Washington, West Virginia, and of course, Wyoming.

Of course. Yeah, they can't have, they can't be not having people in trucks up there. Come on now. Right. Now, the remaining 30 states have laws, let's see, a few prohibit any writing in the back, but some of them have an age limit. So older than 18, you can do it in Florida, Georgia, Maine, a few, quite a few states, actually. interesting 16 is the cutoff point

Louisiana, it's 12 Massachusetts, it's 12 and then Arkansas, D.C., New Jersey, Utah, and Wisconsin and Hawaii and New York, no none at all. No, none at all.

Yeah, I knew it was hardcore here now. Yep. And it's not that long ago because there was a time where back when I was like doing, I was involved in some scout leadership stuff, we used to drive around and do flags on like the 4th of July and the kids would you know it'd be like oh they'd ride in the back of the thing and and do that but maybe we were breaking the lawn I didn't know it

I don't know I don't know wasn't my truck should we start a movement where you know we protest and have signs made about the government taking away our rights to ride in the back of a pick an open pickup truck let's do it let's do it let's cause some false outrage about a thing no one cares about I think that actually seems like the thing to do these days let's do it it does yes Exactly. My body, my choice. Yeah, my truck, my, my, my truck, my body, my choice. Perfect.

Oh, boy. I can't wait. Here's another story here for you about Honda. This is another car story. Automotive story, sort of. Older Honda and Accura models. So if you got an older model, we'll get to what that means in a minute. We're hit by the Y2K-22 bug.

Oh. That resets clocks 20 years in the past. And this actually happened. So it changes it to Y-2002. Yeah. Basically, yes. Owners of older Honda and Accurram models started up their cars on New Year's Day only to find that their vehicles turned into time machines,

according to a report from Jallup, Jalapnik. Jalapnik. Jalopi. Jalapie. Oh, like car. It's a car reference. Yeah, it's a tech car site. It's part of the Gocker media.

set, I think. Oh, right. Or whoever owns those now. Whoever they own? Yeah, right, exactly. No longer got her. Thanks, Holcoggan. Yeah, thanks a lot. What's your real name? Maurice Pituid. What's his real name? His real name's like Maurice Ptootty or something. What is it?

Marie. More, what is it? Oh, shoot. Terry, Terry. Terry. Terry below, belaya. That's it. Yeah. He sucks. Pumba. A pumba. A pumba. Thanks, Claire.

Anyway, so I'll say, they didn't say, it's not clear which cars are affected, but by judging by user reports, it's somewhere with models released in 2006 to 2014. So relatively new cars. In fact, I'll bet my son's 2014 Honda probably is doing this, and he's not paying attention. Oh, maybe, yeah.

It's kind of weird that it even cares what the year is anyway, but I guess, like, when I get, Mike, my Kia Soul has a display on the dashboard, as most cars do, and it tells me the month and day, which is really cool. I like that, and of course, at the time. And I was thinking, well, it definitely doesn't tell me the year. And I should know the year. I should be able to get in my car with the already predetermined with the knowledge that I know what year it is. So why would it need to display it?

But I guess that is important for adjusting the calendar automatically in leap years. Yeah. And then there's so much stuff tied into dates with your maintenance. stuff that happens automatically. There's so much computer crap in those that they all depend on that clock, I think, for stuff. But it shouldn't be that hard to tweak this and fix it, right? Let me just get in there and fix it, I guess. I don't know. I would think. It's not like your car stops running, I wouldn't assume. They said, even if you attempt to manually tweak the date and time, the system does not appear to save the new things, hence it's a bug. America, Honda is aware of

the potential concern connected with the clock display and certain older Accura and Honda models, equipped navigation system, says Honda spokesperson, Chris Norton, he told this to the verge. We are currently investigating this issue to determine possible countermeasures and have no additional details to share at this time. That's their speak for... It has to come up with a... Has to come up with sorry speak, corporate sorry speak, because people's clocks were 20 years.

Yeah, and now they have to decide, are we going to do anything? Because this would cost us a billion dollars to do anything. Right, right. They probably won't do it. I'm sure. Yeah, they'll just send out a USB. USB that everybody plugs in, downloads a new firmware, done.

Yeah, I like my Honda. Or, yeah, or they just say your car is too old, we're not going to fix it. Yeah. It's probably more likely, 2006 to 2014. They should make the Japanese corporate do it, make them be all apologetic and bow a lot and stuff like that.

They should do that. One more story here. Brian, this is good news for men like us. Oh, good. Excellent. I was hoping for some good news for men like us. It won't work for you, though, because you've had the snippy-snip,

but I don't know, it helped me if I ever got out of control. Sure. Turns out, heating up testicles with nanoparticles can work as male contraception. Oh, yeah. Look at this. I just rubbing together to heat them up,

like a couple of sticks at a campfire. It's like that. Just like that. Yep, exactly like that. Actually, that helped me because my hands are cold down here. Oh, good. Yeah.

Anyway, nanoc contraception is based on the idea that nanoparticles hear about 100 nanometers in diameter. It's pretty small. Yes, he did. By the way, he did say constreception. Did I say constreception? I didn't mean to. Yeah, he did call it consterception. Gosh, dang it.

James will find it. So, wait, what's the mix between contraception and consternation? Consternation? Consternation? I didn't even hear it. All right. Oh, constipation. Maybe that was it.

Maybe it was a combination of constipation and contraception. There you go. Ew. I'm sad now that I said it. Anyway, there are 100 nanometers in diameter. That's roughly one one thousandth the width of a piece of paper or a strand of human hair. So very, very, very small. Can somehow be delivered to the testes where they can be warmed.

If you could warm up the testes just a bit, you would have a way to turn sperm production on and off at will because the warmer to get, the less fertile they become. Yeah. That's cool. But it's a delicate process because the testicles can be irreversibly destroyed if they become too warm. The tissue dies and it can no longer produce sperm, even when the testicles return to their normal temperature. So using nanotechnologies to warm testicles was first studied in 2013 on mice. Oh, the poor mice and their little tiny balls.

Yeah. They injected them directly into their mouse testicles then. the nanoparticles were long nanorods of gold atoms so imagine a tube of 120 gold atoms along a diameter of 30 gold atoms very small but that's it's gold you code it with a few long polymer chains

on their surface they looked like oblong bacteria with hair sticking out of it I like gold I got gold in my testicles. Radiation causes to heat lesions on the skin surrounding the mice's testicles, so it didn't work out great. But they're getting there.

They're getting there. Oh, fingering. That da-da. He's a man working on some consterception. There you go. There you go. You could, in theory, chat's making a joke about it, but you could ask your personal home assistant, like your A-word or your Google Home or your, you know, whatever, your

Siri device, that you could ask it to warrant. Hey, you know, hey, Siri, warm up my testicles. Oh, sure, sure. Warm them up. They'd have to be Bluetooth enabled, though. Yeah, it would. It would have to be Bluetooth. Well, they'd have, yes, and they'd need more hardware than they currently can handle

at that size. Oh, man, so many jokes. Bluetooth, hardware. My gosh. It's like, this thing just writes itself. Lester Holt, we're setting you all up for some great comedy tonight on NBC Night Leaning. That's right, Lester Holt. Come in here with your no lips and let's get this going.

An alarming trend With COVID today No one has any lips Finally Here's our final story An album made entirely of endangered bird sounds Has beat Taylor Swift on a top 50 chart Oh man

Did the night attack guys do this? It feels like something in the night attack guys It does doesn't it? They've screwed with some chart And ruined it for everyone else Anyway for the most of December Adele had the top-selling album in Australia, followed by Ed Sheeran. He's the one with a, he looks like a dope, but he's a super sexy singer.

You know him. That's right, yes. Ever since that Game of Thrones cameo, geez. Just took off like crazy. Anyway, then there were collections of absolute bangers that took everyone by surprise. Songs of Disappearance is an entire album of calls from endangered Australian birds. Last month, it briefly perched at number three at the top's top 50 charts ahead of Taylor Swift. Songs of Disappearance.

Yeah. Songs of disappearance, you know. Songs of disappearance. Taylor's version. I kind of want to hear it. I wonder if it's, um, let's see if I, if it's streams. Yeah, let's see if I've got it here. I'm going to find it.

Yeah. Well, YouTube, we probably won't get a, uh, a flag from YouTube by playing songs of disappearance. Yeah, if it's just birds, then who cares? Okay, it's not on Apple Music or Spotify, so we got to try YouTube. Oh, really? Yeah, we'll try YouTube, see if they have it. Okay.

Songs of Disappearance. Here it is. Yeah, they got it. All right, you hear that bird? I do. Let me skip ahead some. It's a yellow-throated booby. Yeah, it's always the booby.

How about a yellow-throated booby? All right, so this is literally just... This is just endangered bird sounds. Yeah. Okay, I could listen to that for a chunk of the day. That would chill me out. I think I might. I might.

starting to get a little we're starting to get a few too many birds for my liking oh too many birds at once you need less birds at once yeah I was expecting uh good evening tonight's that'd be cool that'd be great if there was narration and stuff make it seem like uh what's his name presents tonight's youtube this alarming tale good evening the crow all right uh there's your stories that's your news that's all she wrote but we got a break. Now when we come back, we'll be here with Bill for a little bit. I want to talk about Brian's recent print as well. We're going to talk about all that stuff. Oh, good. Have you done something with it? Oh, no, no, no. Just your, uh, your daredevil. I want to talk about that.

Oh, I didn't print that. I painted it. Or painted it. That's what I meant. Uh, the painting is really good and I want to talk about your methods. And then I'm going to sneeze. Hold on. Okay. Oh, my gosh. All right. There's that. I don't have a, I don't have a push to sneeze button. I only have a push to cough button. So, you know, can't push it for that. Yeah, no. Trying to keep. It doesn't work. Yeah, you got to keep it.

You know, the integrity of the show depends on us being truthful and honest and all the things we do. That's right. Anyway, Bobby after that and more. So stick around. Before that, Brian's going to play this song he brought to the show. Sure. Let's go to the Swedish Lapland for this one. For a band called The Magnets, they are from Pajala.

I think it's Pajala, because I don't think Sweden, do they not pronounce the Js? Do they turn them into H's? I don't know. Pajala, Pajala. Piala. It's probably Piala. Piala. I bet it's a yeah.

Okay. Quick, get Ikea on the phone. They have a brand new single coming out on Friday. This coming Friday, it's called Monster, and it's about the flirty, sexy, excruciating stage where it's like, will they or won't they is the way that Rebecca Diggerval explains it. You're a nervous wreck trying to downplay your feelings, but they're growing and growing. Well, let's hear it. Um, there's a really cool kind of 50s style video that goes along with this. The song is Monster.

Here are The Magnets. Sit, sit and I wait by the phone Oh, oh, we created a monster Oh, oh, created a monster We're just fools, acting cool In the heat of the heat of the moment In the heat of the moment We're just fools

Acting cool The heat of the moment In the heat of the heat of the moment Lime me up with the spark Bang bang take a shot in the dark We were made for each other We were made for each other Zip, zip we are just like a dance

I'm so upset that I want to live in your theater We created a monster You want to wrestle with the past We're just fools acting cool in the heat of the heat of the moment in my heat of the heat of the moment We're just fools acting cool in my heat of the heat of the moment Yeah, yeah, get it up, here we're gonna be my name. I'm here, make it around, yeah, yeah, yeah. Hello, I'd like to talk to you a little bit about Thrive Market.

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That song is The Magnets. It ends with an E-T-T-E-S. And they've got a brand-new single called Monster comes out this Friday. What was her name again? Digger-Doo? diggerie do what was it oh rebecca um rebecca de morne not de morne

no diggerval Rebecca diggerval all right try not to say that too fast you might screw up is what I'm talking uh hey we're back uh we're gonna we're gonna get going here with our guests and uh you know one of them already because he's on here all the time been here for quite a while

and he makes cool stuff uh he goes by the name of bill and he's about to join us and when he does you'll hear this your bat caves open there bill Bill Duran joining us from PunishProps.com all the way up there in the Seattle area. Bill, welcome back to the show. Good morning. Good morning. Good morning. Bill. What time is there? He got the politics to show off. Oh, yeah, he does. You know, we should do this real quick. So Brian painted a daredevil. Daredevil, yeah. Now, the reason I was really interested in bringing this up today is because you did something that I do in a digital painting. sure which is you don't do you don't necessarily go with like traditional

lighting techniques that a lot of people use you went with like different shades of red and I just wanted you maybe explain how you did that and then show it off yeah absolutely so and you probably do this a ton bill so painting an object um you've got to kind of figure out where the light sources are where the shadows are that sort of thing and with minis there's this thing called zenithal painting or zenithal priming where you take black primer, gray primer, and white primer, and you spray the object from a source so that you can kind of see where light would naturally hit it. So, um, good example here is Thor, which I'm holding up to the camera again. And this is, uh, aside from the flesh colored paint that I've

painted, um, on his face and arms, you can see like the grays and the shadows and stuff. Oh, that's cool. Um, yeah. Yeah. Was that with like, uh, an airbrush to do the spray can? So basically, I spray the entire thing black, and then I come down from the top and do kind of like a halo spray in gray so that... Oh, cool. And then just a straight white spray almost directly... Like light would hit it. Like you're doing it like a light direction. Yeah, exactly.

Some white spray in the face. There you go, Jamie. Just a lot of it... No, that's really cool because what you have to do otherwise is rely on actual lighting in a place to even get the effect, whereas this says, hey, I always want to... the light from underneath and from the left so that's just how it looks no matter what you're doing yeah that's something i've seen with a lot of minis they'll they'll like if i'm painting a prop i'm not going to like bake in the lighting right because i wanted to look right in whatever lighting it's in but i've seen a lot of mini painters do that where they'll they'll put a glowing

crystal let's say they're like their character and it'll look like that glowing crystal is casting light on other parts of the mini on other parts oh it's so cool i almost did that with dr strange because he's got two, he's got two little glowy things. Let's see, put a little white thing behind. So he's doing two like little, um, uh, what does he call those? Like his little magic run kind of

the things. His hand runes? Where he's always drawn, he's drawn the portals or whatever with him, yeah. Right. And I made those green and I almost continued that green onto his glove, but his, his cape is a really good example of what I'm talking about. So, let's see if I can get the shadow. So,

um, Dr. Strange's cape is also three three different reds, a solid, like a straight up red and then a light one and a dark one. Duh, of course, right there. Well, that's good, yeah.

You work with your mid-tone and then you got your darker and your lighter and all that. Exactly. But when you do the Zenithal priming, you can, that automatically tells you where those shadows are going to be.

So here with Thor, you can see the shadow parts of the cape. You can see the light parts of the cape up top, and I just use those as my source when I'm painting and uh that's a really great idea it's kind of like tracing basically that's so cool yeah yeah that's really cool

with Daredevil um this one I'm just super proud of it just came out great uh yeah he's got under he's got under lighting that is convincing to me I see that oh yeah Brian's got some perfect light shining down on his figure but it's not it's just now your color yeah that's yeah exactly so it was uh and this is this is the point now where I feel like I'm finally getting

the hang of this mini painting thing after 20 um after painting 20 minis i feel like you're probably getting the hang of it so i don't want to go back and look at black widow and captain american iron man the first ones i ever printed and see oh geez it's almost like uh keep it out it constantly is the way you improve things so that's cool that's very good you think um and then over the weekend or last week i did a painted thanos and everything seemed to go wrong with that like i had over you know know, parts where I was brushing really carefully, but still some paint gun in areas that it wasn't supposed to, and his eyes don't look right, and his chin doesn't look right. It'd be funny if you only, if only 50% of it worked right.

Well, right, he looks half bad, is the problem with Thanos. Thanos looks exactly half, right down the middle. Yeah, that's pretty good. It's good thing you're practicing, though. Practice is what helps. Yeah, absolutely for sure. Practice makes perfect, as they've been telling me our entire lives. And these, for people who are wondering where these came from,

these are from the Marvel United board game. So these are not things that I've 3D printed. I know some people are thinking that these are things have 3D printed. No, these are from the Marvel United board game. I have 87 figures in this current batch, mini figures to paint. And coming sometime in 2022, because I've already paid for it on Kickstarter, is another, like, 112 X-Men, X-Men figures that are coming.

That's a lot. You're going to have to pay us a lot. You'll be a pro by the time you're done painting all of those. Yeah, at the time I get to that last Wolverine, that fourth version of Wolverine that they're sending, I should be a real pro. Yeah. You should do Jubilee and then have regrets about it.

You should do that. Yeah. Well, we all do that. Yeah, we all feel bad about Jubilee existing. Well, there you go. A little update on, some of Brian's crafty work. Hey, Bill, what are you going, what are you doing this week? What you got going on? Today, I wanted to talk a little bit about critiquing art on the internet. Oh. Yeah. Good time for that. Yeah. So I have a theory that the world would be a kinder place

if more people took a studio art class and had to have their own art critiqued in front of the class. Oh, yeah. Now, you two went to, you guys went to art school, right? You've gone to a studio art class you had your easel out in front of everyone else oh yeah we did oh yeah we had uh what do they call those uh critique like basically had critiques every friday yeah oh yeah basically for the uninitiated if you didn't go to if you went to a valuable school not art school like the rest of us basically you have like a studio art class it's like three hours long everyone has an easel in like a semicircle around the subject could be a bowl of fruit could be a naked person whatever you're drawing that day and everyone in the class spends that

that whole session drawing on their easel or painting or whatever it is. Then when everyone's done, there's time to do the critique. Everyone turns their easel around facing inward so everyone can see everyone else's artwork. And one by one, everyone talks about their artwork and other people offer hopefully helpful criticism. Hopefully constructive criticism. Yes, exactly. Yeah, we had that.

It's a similar setup, except the hard part with us as our teacher was a very successful. commercial artist in his own right and during off semester he was getting commissions for news week and you know big illustrations for big publications and was really good so just added to the stress because that dude was also going to give you his five bits after everyone else had their say and it always just felt like oh my gosh I'm going to die in here but it was really valuable like not just valuable as a learn how to deal with criticism boy kind of reason I mean like more of a I don't know what I even know how to put this

just having to perform that stuff under pressure that kind of pressure was really valuable to me it still still helps me to this day so if you're the one getting your art critiqued you learn a lot but if you're the one doing the critique you learn a lot too because I found people tend to be a little more gentle with their critique more thoughtful when their heads on the chopping block next

and their art's going to be judged next on the internet people leave critique about artwork who have never made anything in their entire lives and their comments tend to be a lot more pointed a lot less gentle I've found I don't know if you guys have found this but posting your art on the internet can be kind of scary you drop that on the internet it has to speak for itself you can't be there to defend it and I'll tell you what too it's especially true if that work includes part of you, like maybe your entire face in an entire video, like a YouTube video, it's really hard to separate a critique of that artwork from a critique of the artist,

critique of yourself. Sure. It's very hard to not take that personally ask me how I know. But you know. I bet if anyone knows you know. Nothing like a YouTube comment to get up in your craw. Yeah. Oh, really brighten your day.

Yeah. So here's my philosophy. if I'm leaving feedback on the internet about someone else's artwork. I tend to go with the, if you don't know, if you don't have anything nice to say, don't say anything at all method, tend to go with that. If you see art you don't like, try to think, you know what? I guess it's just not for me. Maybe you don't have to say anything.

Don't have to comment on it. Yeah. Now, if you do see art that you love, say something. Please, for crying out loud, people tend to only speak up when they have a, criticism. But if you love art, tell the artist, and try and pick something specific to compliment, right? Oh, I love how you did the shading on this. Oh, the paint job on that prop looks really, really good. Pick something specific. Trust me, it will make someone's day. Yeah. And then sometimes an artist will post something and ask for feedback, which I think is, I don't know,

not always a great idea. It's a very brave move to do that, I think. But if you see someone doing that and you want to leave feedback, please just be gentle. Be gentle. Put yourself in their shoes. Yeah. Here's one exception I make. If it's, I feel like you're punching up and it's better to be punching up always, whenever you can with your criticisms.

But if it's somebody's stupid NFT board ape bull crap, go ahead and criticize it. it's fine. Okay. Go ahead. With a duby in his mouth. Yeah. And then, oh, here's a version of him with a bong in his mouth. And now here's a version of him where he's pink instead of brown. And it's like, yeah, go ahead and punch up on those. That's fine. Those are stupid. Anyway, anyway, but no, you make a really good point. And, you know, now more than ever, Bill, like everybody who creates anything has an outlet for it, right? It's not hard to do. Get an Instagram account, get a Twitter account, get a whatever have an Etsy store like everybody who wants to can push their work forward and um yeah just know that it's it's a big full place full of a lot of competing ideas and i don't know be nice to

each other i suppose yeah and everyone gets to have an opinion about everything yeah everybody and they all think that it's really important that they share it right yeah there's no getting around that uh so so enjoy our modern nightmare we built for ourselves uh very cool what uh You got anything else this week? Yeah, I have a video for you. I just dropped it in the chat there. If you look up Michael Alm, ALM, on YouTube, he does a bunch of woodworking,

and he's been doing a lot of patterned plywood. Oh, my God. Flywood is several layers of wood, and if you cut them and stack them with those layers facing up, you can use that pattern to make something look really artistic and cool. He's done a bunch of projects like that. It looks so cool. Oh, yeah, look at that.

Wow, so each of these Vs that we're looking at here is made up of two slices of plywood, you know, connected at the middle, right? Correct, yeah. Wow. Yeah, with the end grain exposed, so you see the pattern. Yeah. Oh, holy cow. Yeah, it's really neat. Right?

How much would it cost you to do a whole wall like that, I wonder? Probably a lot. Oh, yeah. Probably be really expensive. I mean, it's about the size of a barbubes. sheet of plywood. It's not the cost of the plywood. It's the time of cutting each of those little

squares and then joining them up. Well, my thinking would be, what would you have to pay a dude like this to make your custom wall? And you'd make some, he'd make bank, he'd have to, because why else would you do this? Holy crap.

Oh, geez, yeah. It's really intense. That's awesome. Go check it out. It's, again, let's see, Michael Alm, ALM. Is that my saying, or right? I probably am.

Yeah, probably. I probably Alm. Anyway, that's up there on. YouTube. So go check that out. Of course, punish props.com. Bill's very own little awesome channel. You go check that out. Punish props.com or the channel on YouTube. Hey, Bill, anything else you want to mention before you go? No. No? Nothing at all? No. All right then. Bill's wearing nothing at all. You heard it from his mouth. We'll see you soon. Bye. See you, Bill. Bill does the show naked. Confirmed. That is amazing looking. Holy Macro.

Yeah, it's really pretty. That kind of stuff blows my mind. Look at all the views you get if you're a smart wood guy yeah that's a thing right it's like uh people want to learn how to do wood stuff they go they go online not a lot of people want to find a video about how to add chapters to your podcast it's just not as not as popular no i've struggled for years to figure out what my youtube play would be and i don't have one i just don't well you you totally do it's your art oh my god yeah i know it's an obvious one it is but is it like i don't know if anyone cares do they care do they want more of that like okay i i will admit last week when i put up the year a couple days ago i up the process of that

Among Us character who's naked underneath with the knife and it's just a short little TikTok style tall video thing and that thing went crazy like on Reddit

I got I don't know it was on the Reddit Among Us page and ended up with like 8,000 upvotes and all this sort of stuff so clearly there's like an appetite for some of this

and maybe that's the format short narrated very quick easy to consume I don't know maybe that's the I don't know I've never figured out quite

what I should do You've got to figure it out. Yeah, I wanted to do some, like, do some painting stuff. At one point, Donaway and I were talking about doing a side-by-side stream, where on his side, he'd be drawing the Marvel character. On the right, on the other side, I'd be painting the mini of that same Marvel character. Oh, that's great. So, like, it'd be a side-by-side thing. I haven't figured out a way to put a camera in a place where it picks up the mini really well and what I'm doing to it.

without it being in my way. Because I already hit my magnifying, a little magnifying light. I hit that thing all the time anyway. Yeah, that's hard. How are you going to avoid that? Yeah. So maybe, I don't know.

Maybe TV's Travis, you do painting streams. Maybe hit me up and let me know if there's a really good way to do it. Oh, Donnway's in the chat room, yeah. Is he? Do you think we'll ever do it, Brian? Do you think we'll ever do that stream? You should do it. you guys should make this i'd watch that hell yeah that sounds like fun it would be fun but

well one day we'll figure this shit out uh hey uh that's uh that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that i don't i don't trust him no i don't it's probably not the story that he's bringing but i'm curious about it's Yeah, tower grades are interesting. But today, we'll find out more once I hit this button that brings in Bobby. Wait in a minute. Hey, Bobby. What's up, science man, extraordinaire, South Carolina, all that business. What's going on? You know what you need for YouTube?

Seriously, if you want views, if what you're looking for is views, you've got to do kids. Opening toys. No, well, yeah. But you could do kids, tutorial. drawing videos. My kids watch tons of those, just like how to draw, how to draw an Among Us character. And you just, and you do it, they're constantly watching those and drawing along with it. Really? That's interesting. Kay Carter, you're in the chat. Let's do this together. Let's come up with a dad-daughter YouTube domination strategy and let's make it up. There's a great channel.

Totally do that. Yeah. It's a great format too. The two of you, because you can chat about it and give each other tips and advice. And if you're, if you're thinking about your audience being kids, then it could be really good. I mean, there's channels like that. Yeah, we really enjoyed our early pandemic. Was it May of 2020? That was great. Yeah, your little, you know, Saturday morning classes or whatever they were.

That was super fun. Yeah, we had a really good time with it. We got to do more of that crap. So, all right, you guys are giving me ideas. This has been good. Bye, Bobby, just kidding. Hey, let's talk about some, let's talk about some sweet, sweet science. There's something going on.

You haven't told me, so let's surprise everybody with what you got. What's going on? So doctors have transplanted... This is breaking news, by the way. Just yesterday. I threw out what I was going to talk about, which was fish, scientists trying to teach fish to drive. What? Oh, yeah, right.

Like, they're in a fishbowl on a, like, a wagon-licking thing. And the way they move around drives the little wagon, yeah. Is that real? That's real, then. That's a real thing. scientists did do that and it's kind of dumb. Well, I shouldn't say that because I don't know what's

What they said we're trying Yeah, let's see you drive from a tank of water, Bobby. Yeah, let's see you get fish. What they said they're trying to do with that is they're trying. They said, we want to see if the brain regions of being able to navigate your environment, navigating your environment is probably a pretty

highly selected for evolutionary process in the brain, right? important to be able to navigate your environment. Yeah. So they said, is this something that is selected for in each species brain? Like, like as you go down the evolutionary branches, does each separate branch then evolve the ability to navigate? Or is this something that is way further back in evolution that is just so broadly applicable

to every environment that all animals were able to use it? So they decided let's take something like a fish who can obviously navigate in the water and see if we can figure out if it can then also navigate on the land. So they put it in a tank with some wheels and then put like a target off on the end. And if they made it to it, they'd give it a treat. But my thought is all it's doing is swimming towards the edge of the tank and then the tank moves in that direction. So that doesn't sound like it's learning to navigate anything but the water. Right, right. Right. He's still, he's just learning, okay, it may learn, ooh, if I do this, I will benefit from doing this.

I will see these. I will see movement or I'll see, yeah, movement this way. And if I do this, I'll see movement this way. Yeah. And if I get, if I, it'll learn that if it does it, it gets a treat, but it only has to swim to do it. Right. The fish already does that. Fish don't know where they're going. No. So I don't know why these expert marine biologist researchers didn't talk to us first. clearly we understand. Right. We must have all the information and why didn't they come to us, those idiots. Right, exactly.

But that's not what I wanted to talk about. See, that's why I was glad to, because we just talked about it. Yeah, no. There's your transition. The other more important thing that happened yesterday and very exciting is that doctors just transplanted a genetically modified pig heart into a human for the first time. Oh, my Lord. I call that the getting porked.

No, that's not what that's called. Let's not say that. Let's back that up and never say it again. So, wait a minute. You go to the record now, Scott. I didn't know pigs. I knew pigs, like, flesh-wise and stuff, they use them for, you know, they use pig carcasses all the time on Mythbusters because they're a lot like human corpses

or, you know, human, if you shoot a bullet through it or whatever, it's very similar tissue and all that. But I didn't know the heart and a pig had anything close to compatibility with us. Is that, I guess that's the truth. Pigs have always been one of the things, one of the. animals that scientists really have wanted to figure out how to transplant organs from pigs to humans because for a lot of reasons they but but some of the main ones are that pigs their organs are similarly sized to us which is of course important and because they have such close proximity to

humans they also there's less of a risk of disease transmission because they should share a lot of the same microbiome as us and stuff like that. The problem is, though, and let me summarize the news item, and then we can talk about why this is amazing and awesome. So it was just on Friday, this past Friday, doctors at the university, it's January 7th for anybody listening later. Doctors at the University of Maryland Medical Center performed that transplant on a living human, which is really important, and I'll get to why in a minute. They need to live. My guess is if they're living, that's a better experiment.

Big heart into a dead human mask and done. Well, what I mean by that is that if you remember, maybe last week or the week before, I mentioned that there was, in September of last year, they had the first pig to human kidney transplant. Yeah. And that was done on a brain dead human, which is still a, like, functioning, biologically functioning body, but it's a it's a non-living person so right like their brain dead so that's that's the

distinction here this person was not brain they were an actual like foot they it was an emergency heart surgery they were either going to get a heart transplant or die and they were not eligible for a heart transplant so so they did this and and so far as of as of last night Monday, after three days, the, the patient's doing well. Do you like awake and like going, how's it going, everybody? I'm feeling good. Was that going on? Yeah, yeah.

I assume that they've been transferred to a mud bath. Yeah, by now. Yeah. I mean, if you, so, but the long term is more of an indicator, right? like how he's 57. I'm looking at the thing right here. David Bennett's his name. Two ill to qualify for a human heart.

They did this experiment. And there's a bunch of questions about ethics going on right now about, you know, whether we should be using stuff from pigs. Whether we should do this to pigs at all. Right. Yeah. I'm sure if you're super vegan minded, you're probably super pissed about this or something.

I don't know. But it seems to me like I eat enough bacon in my lifetime that I'd be okay with one of those being a heart. It's fine. Just sure. You know, be a heart. You heard me complain about the the grisly angry bacon or angry pork that we've been munched on from Japan.

Yeah. It's probably a heart right there. Yeah, Brian probably isn't going to finish his. I am totally going to eat this. No problem. No problem. I will probably finish my... There isn't a lot in there.

Yeah, I really like it. So the long-term viability of this transplant is, of course, the real question. I mean, in any transplant, even human-to-human, there's always concern about rejection and whether that's going to happen after a long time. Just because you've had it for a couple weeks doesn't even necessarily mean that it's going to last. So they have to keep close eye on people. And so if it's from an animal to a human, that's even more of a concern. And the reason why is actually some really fascinating science.

So animals, mammals in particular, have a, they have. have a sugar in their body that's called alpha galactase or alpha galapal is what what they shortened oh yeah the whole star trick episode about that planet they were great anyway continue it sounds like a 1920s uh like alpha galahs yeah hey hey it's it's galactase it's a type of sugar that um most mammals have in their body but primates importantly do not have this sugar oh and so humans being primates, whenever a transplant has been attempted from an animal to a human that is a non-primate animal like a pig, then our immune system attacks that sugar very aggressively, causing almost immediate organ rejection. In fact, when you do it with a kidney,

they say that when you attach a kidney from a pig to a human body and then start pumping the blood through it, it's like almost instantaneously it starts to turn black and necrosis appears on it and you can tell right away that it's dying. The body's attacking it and killing it. Okay. And so in September when they did this with a

kidney and they attached it to a brain dead person whose name I forget but they found out that it didn't do that and they had it hooked up for for I think several days and or

just a number of hours. It had a hooked up for a long time, and it never rejected. And so the next step was, of course, is this going to be possible in a live human? And there are lots of ethical questions for this. So for it to be done in a human, this is a big deal. So the question is, how did they do it? How did they make it so that they were able to, the body would not reject this galactase? and it's they genetically modified the pigs to not to remove the genes that create galactase.

Right. So probably good for hams, but not good for heart transplants, right? Like whatever the... Right. Well, it's funny. The reason they discovered all this is, or one of the reasons they discovered all this is because it was recently found out that, and I say recently, I mean, in the past few years, maybe the past decade, it was found out that there is an actual. meat allergy. You can be allergic to meat. And it's because, it's almost certainly because of this galactase, I think some people have something that happens to them that causes their immune

system to start attacking galactase in the meat that they eat. Yeah. And, but it, it always happens whenever the transplant. So, yeah, they genetically modified these pigs to not have galactase. And it's so far, so good over the past. six months, the couple times that it's been tried, it seems to be sticking. Now, we'll find, we'll know, we'll see long term if this heart transplant sticks. Yeah. But, uh, we still do artificial. Artificial hearts still happen.

I mean, we were, Utah was temporarily famous for. Bernie Clark. Yeah, that guy. That still happens then, right? That's still people get them. Yeah, people still get artificial hearts. Yeah. Why isn't that the dominant form?

Why is it still preferable to have a, uh, either a transplant or possibly one of these pig innovations. Why wouldn't you want just a robot heart? Well, you definitely do want an actual, you have to, your body evolved over millions of years to create a heart that works inside of you. And so there's been a lot of work going into that in nature. So we created one that does the job, a lot of the mechanical things, but I'm sure there are tons of issues with with wear and breakdown and and not getting it just right i don't i don't know all the details but but if you could have a a heart that already is built and does exactly what it's supposed to do and exactly the way it's supposed to do it then you would prefer that but there are

there are lots of like there are last year 3800 hearts were were used in transplants and there were definitely more than that in terms of people who needed a heart transplant plant. So we don't have enough organs to satisfy all the people, I say satisfy, like they're just, they're very dissatisfied. They're just, they're hungry for it. They need it. They have a hungry heart. But to save the lives of people who need organ transplants, we don't have enough organs. So, so having another way will save lives. But of course, there's the ethical issues, genetically modifying pigs, which are, by all accounts, quite high up on the, the sentience spectrum and are pretty smart animals.

Yeah. You know. Well, that's super interesting. I would, it's a kind of story that normally, well, I don't know, for whatever reason, like a science story will come and go for me and I kind of don't hang on and find out what happens later or whatever. I just figure someone will tell me if it's a big deal, but I kind of want to follow this one.

I want to see how this dude does, you know, and can he eat the McRib later and not feel guilty like i got a lot of questions nobody nobody can because if there are any random pig heart parts in that i guarantee or if there's any that floating around it's in a macrib so it's in a mic rib yeah it's made from the same stuff this angry pig japanese snack is from i really like it shaped in a rib stamped with rib marks with grill marks for sure uh well all right then this is fascinating stuff keep your eye on the uh the story and of course bobby will bring us up to date if anything happens between now and the next time we talk, but Bobby, tell people where they can get more of your scientific knowledge. Well, I've got a podcast called All Around

Science, and I do that with my fabulous co-host, Mora, every week. We talk about science news just like this. Yesterday, the episode that came out, the main thing that we talked about was how MRI machines work. Oh. And they're so important. We hear about them all the time. We use them in hospitals all the time, but the way they work is pretty fascinating technology and science. Did you know, to give you a little teaser, do you know, the whole body in the process, what an MRI machine

does is throughout the process it magnetizes your entire body. Oh my lord. You get turned into a giant magnet. I mean, I know that they make sure that they know where any metal fillings and any screws you might have in your knees and stuff like that, but

wow, that didn't realize that You're basically Magneto for a little while. Yeah, you are. Well, there you have it. All around science is where you're going to want to be. Bobby Frankenberger, have a fantastic week, and we'll see you next time. Thanks, guys. Bye now.

You, Bobby. All right. Brian. I have to paint Magneto. See you. Yeah, bye. Get that going. All right, that's it for that.

Quick note that a new play retro went up yesterday. We had a great time talking about finance. did it again. Fantasy Star 4 for the Sega Genesis. That'll be the final time that you call it final fantasy. Yeah, I don't have to do it anymore. Thank goodness that episode's over. But we had a really good time Ian Dunnaway. He was pushed through

his COVID brain and made a show and it was great. He seems to be doing much better today. And come next week we're going to be doing the first three Donkey Kong games. So we're talking old arcade, Donkey Kong 1, Donkey Donkey Kong Jr., and Donkey Kong three. This is Donkey Kong.

No, there was no Miss Donkey Kong, although I would have loved that. They missed an opportunity, and then Baby Donkey Kong and all that. Anyway, those three games are really fascinating. There's some great stories. Is that the one where you're shooting, like, grappling hooks up at them? You're spraying, it's bug spray. So you're spraying. Bug spray, that's right.

And you're not even Mario. You're some no-name dude. Right. It's a weird entry in the series that I actually really like as a game, but it's odd. and so we're going to go through talking about that and then talk about how that stuff all rolled into parlayed into the biggest series of notable

video games of all time. There's only one character on this planet that everyone knows with universal knowledge and that's Mario. Where did that all start? Why was he called Jump Man? Were those games any good? Are they good today? We're going to go deep and I can't wait. It's going to be great. That's next week on Play

Retro here on the Frog Pants Network. Brian, I'm going to play a Monday morning, Tuesday morning mashup because we screwed up yesterday. I played the wrong one. Oh, right. We played a bonus mashup yesterday. Yeah. Well, at the time I looked, it wasn't in there. I swear, Jamie, it wasn't me. Maybe Dropbox effed up. But it's in there now. So we're going to play it. This is called, oh, good news, everyone. It's called turtle

vagina. Okay. Good news, everyone. So if you were worried about it being crappy, well, good news. It's about a turtle in his vagina. Enjoy this story. And we'll see how it goes. You know what I could go for. A jar of somebody's, sealed, bodily freaking fart gas. We technically have two bobs on Tuesdays. No, because Bill is William. Oh, yeah, right.

Bill, what am I thinking of? You're thinking of Roberts, not Williams. A Robert is a Bob, a William is a Bill. Yeah, okay. Yep. Yep, you are 100% correct. In my head, though, it was all wrong. And I mean, like, I was moaning while I was eating it.

That sounds weird. But I was moaning. You don't even have to work hard for that one at all, Jamie. That one was handed on a plate. Merry, happy New Year. Yeah, happy New Year, Jamie. Well done. Do you think his sergeant, by the way, he said,

get on your feet, maggots? I hope he did. He's Canadian, though. Canadians, they're too nice. Do they say that? Yeah. Yeah, they just say, oh, hey, if you don't mind, eh, we're going to go run a couple laps, eh?

Oh, hey, hey, maggots, eh? If you could get us, sorry to weak you up, but if you could get on your feet, eh, that'd be a great. They're just too nice. Yeah, yeah. There's Bernie's hole. That's perfect. That's perfect.

Perfect place for Bernie's hole. Right down there, my 2% butt. My 2% butt with a 4% hole. Yeah. Drinky, drinky, major pinky. That's what's going to happen there. Well, they'll need a lot of drinky, drinky to take the major pinky. I don't know what your Saturday nights look like.

Yeah, Saturday at Johnson's house is not quite the same. Well, we may have to do a little procedure called the Aniba. Oh, what does that involve? A tube in your peen. Tubes. Yeah. No tube in my peen. Thank you very much.

Oh, thanks. Oh, that looks like a vagina. I'm in. Yeah, yeah. Think of it as Diamond Club Television, 21, but shortened. That's the year. Right. It's not Detective Comics Turtle Vagina.

It's... That was my favorite Batman villain, by the way. It was a... Available Batman. Turtle vagina's not overdone with Net yet, Batman. Ah, it takes the whole mashup to find out what the title means. Totally does. I completely forgot. DCTV. Yeah, DCTV. Well done.

All right. We're done. That's it. That's the show. O'Brien, do you have anything going on? I mentioned any programming notes here? Not today. No, Heman and I are going to record a soundography, but that one won't be edited and posted for another couple weeks. Okay. Well, there you have it. Do you want to hint to as to what we listen to for a week? We listen to nothing but surf music. Oh, my gosh. not just your oldies like the safaris and the beach boys and stuff like that, but new stuff like L'Straight jackets, the vivisectors, the Thorsten Lava Tube,

all sorts of great, great surf music that's still popular, still some bands that are doing nothing but doing surf music. Is there really a band called the Lava Tubs? Yeah, the Thurston Lava Tube. It's named after a monument or a thing in Hawaii. that's called the Thurston Lava Tube. Let me see where that thing is. So is it from, it's not this.

Lava tubes. It's not that. It is a trailhead. It's the thing you can walk through, like it's a, here we go. Tropical forest area featuring a log, a long subterranean cave formed by ancient flowing lava. And the photos of this thing is just amazing. It's in the Hawaii Volcano National Park. That's really cool.

All right. Learn something new today. I've learned a lot today. First and love it, too. Yeah, very cool. All right, so that's coming up soon. And, oh, I forgot to mention, I'm on Schlecker's major spoilers podcast tonight. We're reviewing a comic trade that I can't believe I liked as much as I liked it.

Let me just put it this way. I don't like Teen Titans, generally speaking, in the comic form. Yeah. There's some good stuff, but for the most part, it's just not my jam. I don't know why. It just feels like CW comics for some reason. But I just read the coolest little story. and I'm going to talk about it tonight.

Listen, those old, like the new Teen Titans when they first introduced the, you know, the team with Beast Boy and Starfire and Cyborg, the George Perez drawn stuff, that is some fantastic teen Titans. Yeah, the George Perez art alone is worth reading that series. You're not wrong about that. Was Raven in that lineup or not? Yeah, Raven was part of that lineup. And they introduced Tara or Tara, the woman to control Graham. and earth and dirt and stuff like that. Yeah.

I want to be a dirt controller. Death strike. Yeah. Who's the one that controls ghosts? I forgot her name. Controls ghosts. She might be newish. She can call a bunch of ghosts out of the ground and they'll aid her and her fighting.

Oh, really? I don't know about that one. Forgot her name. Damien. Was it always Damien? Was it, was it? No, no. It was it great.

and the new teen times Robin was Dick Grayson's time. Right. Oh, was it? Okay, I didn't know that. Yeah. Yeah. Well, these days it's Damien and he's kind of a weenie. Anyway, there's that. Real quick here, a note about Patreon support. Yeah, that's right. We got to keep the lights on. See these lights that are on? They're not on without your support. So keep them on over at patreon.com slash TMS. Tomorrow we'll mention a few names from there and give them our thanks as we like to do here on the show. Become one of them and get all kinds of benefits for an extremely low rip-off price. And by rip-off, I mean, you're ripping us off. Like, we screwed up. We effed up. We've talked about this a bunch of times.

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Better take advantage of it before we fix it. And you're all and everybody's screwed at that point. That's right. We're going to make, we're going to artificially make you guys feel like you need to hurry up now and go do it. All right, there's that. Frogpants.com slash TMS for all your other needs.

That's going to do it for the show. Brian, do you have a song to take us out with, though? I do. A. What-Nodot, aka Luke, emailed and said, hello, Swiss and Bree. For the umpteenth time, I'm requesting a queen cover song for my birthday.

Q Scott. Oh, birthday. Sorry. Happy birthday to you. In a happy new year. I would like to request killer queen by queen covered by Travis, another band that I'm a fan of. I want to thank the Tadpool for being the greatest, most supportive community there ever was. And also, thanks to me and scary, you and Scott, for all the entertainment and friendship. See if it's too early to get yourself a fish sandwich.

I can see why you would love the show, though. Luke, a whatnot in chat. I can definitely see why you like it. And then where's the sandwich? There it is. Hey, too hard I get a fish sandwich. There you go. Oh, look at you.

You've got them all at the ready now. So his birthday isn't until day after tomorrow, but I was amazed to find that so many of our listeners have birthdays on the 13th. So it's going to be a whole week of birthdays on the 13th this week, the rest of this week. So get ready for that. Anyway, today we're celebrating Luke's birthday on the 13th, and he did want to hear this cover of Killer Queen, originally by Travis. This is on the bonus edition of their album, The Invisible Band.

Travis is great. Great song, sing. A couple really good covers by Travis, too. Anyway, Killer Queen, covered by Travis. She keeps a Norway and shandah in a pretty cabinet. She said, just like Mary Antoinette. Built in a reverendee from Cushab and Kennedy. Any taller invitation you get to cry.

Caviar and cigarettes Well-bursed in any care Extorted in everything else She's a killer Green gunpowdered Tetamide with a laser bee Guarante it's a bowling mind And it's a

Recommended of the price The satia of an appetite On the try To avoid complications, she never kept the same address. In conversations, she spoke just like a baronetts. Been a mad from China went out to getchaumana. She's a killer. She's a killer.

She came naturally from curse. Naturally because she couldn't kill us. She's a killer. We ain't got part of the time. got pot of trillotine dynamite with a laser beam Gallatin to blow your mind laser Travel a hat.

She's as a pussycat. Oh, won't tell the kind of action temporarily Back, nah, da, live out of fear, why? She's going to get you. He's a killer, we get a part of Trinity, dynamite with a laser beam, gallanties a bowling ride. Do you recommend it at the price, insatiable and appetize? I want to try, you try.

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