The Morning Stream - TMS 2232: Peeza Hutt

Episode Date: January 18, 2022

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Coming up on TMS, Karen, Chads and Brad's, oh my. We're living in peak beer time right now. Nicely done. Pornographic memory. A little goo ball in the middle. A cold corpse that pooped the bed. No fear, no pain, just a solar flare. Taco Bell staff ran for the border.

A dog poop or a testicle. The new tanning sensation, toner chips. Bypass DRM? Okay. Death by topless roller skating women. Quick, unexpected and painless. Donkey sauce. Just what a... Donkey sauce.

just got a whole new meaning. Blinded by science in one eye with Bobby. Emergency squirrel making with Bill and more on this episode of The Morning Stream. Invisible control over women starts with new code 10. The new invisible way to control a man's hair all day. My nut, Zach, was stuck to my tan. The Morning Stream. Better than a straw-tart blueberry pop torch.

Good morning, everybody. Welcome to TMS. It's the morning stream for Tuesday, January 18th, 2021. Still counts. Nope, doesn't count. Okay, good. Doge that bullet barely by one syllable? No, no, no.

I'm saying it doesn't count. Yeah, doesn't I count as a, your streak is, has not started. All right. I'm off the wagon. How many days you can go with the correct year? Yeah, put a zero on the sign, you guys. We're starting over tomorrow. Welcome back, everybody. It's nice to see everybody's little face down there in the chat room.

Of course, Brian's here. I'm here. I'm Scott. It's a show. We're doing it. It's the 18th. I can't believe it. We're almost to February.

What's that about? I don't get it. Does that take care of all of the amazement that we're already more than halfway through the month? Is that kind of the, we just need to like that on auto play? Yeah, crazy. You can't believe it's our. the 18th. Oh my God. All right. We may as well just get over it, right? We may as well just skip over it because I'm just going to be shocked until I'm dead. I'll just be shocked about the passage of time until I fall over dead. And, oh, this is a fun question. Somebody asked me yesterday and someone asked you. Okay. If you could, it's a little morbid thing to start out with, but whatever. Oh, God, one of these. If you could choose. Lose a testicle or have to eat dog poop for the rest of your life.

Okay, not quite that bad. That's the voice of the person who sent that in. So here's the real question. Yeah, no, you did a good job in personating his voice. So here's the real question. If you could choose the manner in which you pass from this mortal coil, what would it be? What preference do you have?

Do you want to, are you in your sleep guy? Are you suddenly sitting there at the dinner table just plop down in your mashed taters? Like, what are you? What do you do? I kind of like the one from Monty Python's, the meaning of life with the guy who gets chased off of the edge of a cliff by a bunch of topless roller skating women. Oh, right. That wasn't so bad. That's kind of how I always imagined that I would go. It's basically a Saturday night at Ibit's house. Yeah. It's also very convenient because you went face down right into the grave and so we don't have to do much work. That's right. They just dug the hole and he landed right in there. I mean, is it is it a cheat to say peacefully in my sleep? No, no. I don't think so. I think that's fine. I mean, I mean, I I mean, I think that's probably what most people would say.

The only worry I have about that is I kind of hope I know ahead of the sleep. This doesn't happen, I know. But I wish I could say, oh, I know I'm going to die tonight so I can say my goodbyes. So my wife doesn't wake up to a cold corpse next door that probably poop to bed because that's what happens when you die. You know, something weird like that. I want to just, I want it to be able to prepare the family. Right. I don't want it to be a shock is the main thing.

What would be, I don't know, do you, though? I mean, that makes those last, like, how are you going to get to sleep? Oh, man, I'm going to die my sleep. Well, I'm just going to stay awake. Screw you, fate. Yeah, give me my iPad. I got a game I can play until I fall asleep or, you know, those normal things don't work for a sleepless night when you know that's the night you're going to die. It's not quite the same.

I don't know. I don't know what I want. I guess I'll just say whatever. I don't want a long, drawn-out thing. Yeah. If we're not allowing the peaceful die in your sleep. leap kind of cheat cheat way

answer then I'd I think some sort of some sort of explosion or something instantaneous you want to be vaporized right just vaporized I don't want to experience falling

I don't want to experience fire I don't want to experience drowning I don't want to experience drowning I don't want I I like this I want quick, unexpected. Painless.

Listen, it's going to be, we all know what it's going to be. It's going to be a Game of Thrones slot machine falling on top of me because I'm shaking it, trying to get my dollar back. Yep. Yeah, but that'll be quick, you know, maybe it'll be so heavy. Well, it'll be, I don't know, it'll be slow. Just watch all the blue hairs coming over and taking quarters out of my plastic cup. They're not there to help you. They're there to get your coins.

Just to like a, yeah, exactly. Oh, that's amazing. How much do you think he's got on his player, come? But like a, you know, like a really nicely placed solar flare. I don't want everyone else to die, but if it could just focus on me, that's how I want to die. Just boof. Is it greedy for me to want everybody else to die when I die? Yeah.

Because what does it matter to be? Well, then you could go supernova. You could do supernova, poop. Exactly. There we go. Perfect. We're all gone at once. And if there's an afterlife, we'll all be hanging out wherever.

and I can watch a couple of my friends who I know we're going south if you know what I'm saying. That's where they're headed. They're going to a very different place. Yeah, exactly. See you later. Yeah.

Bye. Get back some sunscreen. Goodbye, guy, whose name I won't say in the air. All right. Hey, a couple things. So, Jamie informed me over the weekend that he unearthed something

I don't remember us doing. Now, you may remember it because, I don't know, Brian may have a better memory about this stuff than I do. I do have a pornographic or photographic memory. Right, boobs, vaginas, penises, all of it. Thank you for explaining my joke.

Explain what pornography is. Yeah, thanks. The photographing of people's private parts. So he dug up this thing that Fletcher did, Scott Fletcher, who does our intros. You heard him this morning, this whole thing. The morning stream. You know that guy? Great guy. He would love him. He's amazing.

I think I remember. Boy, it feels like it's been forever since I've aged. seen him or heard anything new for any of our shows from him it is a long it's been a very long time he's a very busy sort of man about town i you know he is he's got other things going actually has a real job i might be able to get him and come to Vegas though if we work on it we might be able to get him there but anyway um oh i talked to someone else who if we're if it for sure happens and it's i mean we're planning like it is uh yeah i heard from someone last night who's coming who people will be excited to hear about so i'll tell you here's here's here's my opinion of that

whole thing yeah i'm going i'm going that weekend yeah we're going to vegas yeah yeah whether or not we have any other uh events besides the big one that we know about um whether we have room deals at the plaza whatever that all you know that's all that's all in the works but if it doesn't happen regardless yeah i'm going here's here's how you guys should look at april the end of april Brian and Tina, Scott and Kim, possibly Carter, if she wants to go, are all going to Las Vegas. If we have our 100% way, it will be a nicely planned TMS fun time. Exactly. But if it's not, then it'll just be a lot of masks and four friends hanging out.

So it's happening regardless. So anyway, it'll still be a lot of masks. And it'll either be a lot of masks and four friends hanging out together or a lot of masks. and 50 friends hanging out together. Yeah, either way, masks. Jeannie says she shouldn't ever go to Vegas no matter when it is. We know, we know, Jeannie. And we're sad about it because we'd love to see you there, but I get it.

Vegas isn't for everyone. And J.K. Grammar, yeah, the question, the Dallas thing is still being decided right now by smarter people than Scott and I. Yes, there's some fluctuation there. We don't know on that. But Vegas, we're going to Vegas regardless. By smarter people, I mean, our wives are helping make the decision. Our better halves are having a real meeting. All right. So check this out.

I'm going to play this. I don't remember this. You might. And if you do, you know, you'll say so. Yeah. Yeah, okay. So far this doesn't sound familiar. Fletcher reading some fan fiction is how this is listed.

And I don't remember him doing this. So maybe this is new and we never played it. Although Jamie found it so we must have. So here it is. Something extraordinary was happening to Ted Cruz. As his finger traveled down the sticky, laminated length of Fieri's chaos theory of a menu, he felt something stirring in his loins. Hi, I'm Guy Fierry!

He said, rolling the consonants sensually, not at all obnoxiously, over his wet, narrow sea worm of a tongue. Welcome to Flavor Town, my man. Cruz licked his thin, disquieting lips, attempting to dislodge the widoos that had congealed there in his panic. Little did he know that censored, censored, censored, not saying that censored, censored, fateful night. They knew it had to happen in the dumpster, amidst the ruins Fieri had created, amidst the soft filth beds of over-salted linguine, the dried rivers of donkey and blue sobby sauce covering their thrusting bodies like the flukees. fluid of the womb and thrust they did their censored censored censored censored

sight of horrors that would melt the face of any onlooker with its pasty glare I don't remember this at all wow I don't remember that either so a guy Fierry and Ted Cruz fanfic that's recent enough to cover the white stuff in the corner of Ted Cruz's mouth yeah so that would have been 2016 when that debate happened so it's enough time So somewhere between 2016 and now, this got played. I don't remember this. Yeah, no, I don't either. Was this a fever dream?

Or it sounds like the worst madlibs ever. Yeah, or maybe we got it and never played it or maybe. I don't know. Well, Jamie had to have heard it. I don't know where, yeah, we'll have to find out where you heard it. That's crazy. I don't know what it is, dude. But it's really gnarly.

So we both are in awe and apologize for what we played. we know what we did and we're sorry we're a little bit sorry about it okay yeah moving on uh jay wanted to say something jay fin fantastic guy you're about to see him in a couple weeks i am and uh and before tank girl which is oh nice the first time in 10 years i've seen before tank girl oh my gosh a decade all right well uh he wrote in he says usually i get to listen while i'm at work and uh trying to be in the chat as much as possible but i unfortunately missed the segment on thursday when you talked about dat dog, the place with hot dogs, in New Orleans. Right.

He says, I knew Brian would have his trepidations, but I suggested it because who wants to eat... When I suggested it. Yeah, yeah, when I suggested it. Because who wants to eat a hot dog when they're in a city like New Orleans? Who is world-renowned for their food? So, I thought I'd share just a few items available on the menu. Please try not to drool over yourselves when you read these. All right.

First one. I'm going to say Rougaroo. I would think rouge-roo. Routreux? Like baton rouge, like, because they have a French, French-speaking population. Cajun is evolved from French, so rouge is red. Could be red-reux-red rue or red sauce. Yeah, yeah.

Alligator, sausage, grilled onions, creole mustard, tomatoes, halipinos, barbecues, and bacon. Oh, my lord. I would eat that. Alligator sauce. That may sound weird, alligator meat. It's fantastic. It's so good. Yeah, it is really good. Yeah. If you've never had good alligator, I don't know what to tell you.

Crawfish etouffey dog. Crawfish sausage, crawfish et tufei, sour cream, onions, tomato, creole mustard. Again, these are hot dogs, everybody. I know. And I think that, like, just reading through these, I think that's the one I'm already landing on. Yeah, that sounds fantastic. I mean, that's a lot of crawfish to make a sausage out of it because there's so low, you need those things. Sausage and then crawfish etoufei. Yeah, because crawfish meat.

Yeah, this critter, this ugly mini-lobster, lobsterite. Yeah. That, you know, oh, that's so big. Great. And then you, well, you're not getting anything out of the claws. You rip off the head. You're not getting really anything out of that. You suck it, but you don't get anything out of it.

And then you have this little tiny bit of tail meat. Crawfish is the great sham of the... It is. You love everything about it. A great sham of the sea. You love it, but by the time it's done, you're like, well, wait, that was nothing. Give me 500 more. Exactly.

Yeah. Exactly. Yeah. It's crazy. And don't send your emails. We know they're not in the sea. Okay? Yes, we're from lakes and rivers and stuff.

It's way grosser than what you probably think. I did want to say the great sham of the lake. Right. The sham of the lake. Coming to shutter exclusively next fall. The sham of the lake. The sham of the lake. Here's another one.

A son of a saint dog, aka the spicy son. It is Val Crescent, hot sausage. I don't know that. I don't know what that is either. Bacon, sour, cream, grilled onions, tomatoes, and barbecue sauce. The Guinness Special, Irish Guinness Sausage. This sounds like something you'd like. Anadoli sauce. Am I saying that right?

Endoey. Endoey sausage. Like it's in your tongue. Oh, okay. Yeah, now I know that name. Onion, shredded cheese, cheddar cheese, bacon, and yellow mustard. These are just a few to name, he says. Yes.

The fact that three out of the four of these contained Bacon feels like, all right, well, you know, they've figured out what is fantastic on a hot dog is bacon. Yeah, no, dude, I'm telling you. This sounds freaking fantastic. He also says anybody coming to New Orleans and doesn't want to wait in a horribly long line at Cafe Dumond or Decatur Street with all the hundreds and hundreds of tourists. The pro move is to go to Cafe Dumon in the Riverwalk Mall cafeteria in which there is never a line and you can get your coffee and bignets and sit outside on the terrace and watch riverboats go by. so there's a cool tip nice tip done done and done love the snow globe jason well jason thank you for the tips also please send all that food

here because that sounds great exactly will it keep just you know make sure it's piping hot put it in a thermos yeah i wonder if you could there's probably not a great way to ship it but i would love it if they could it's not like those pizzas that we get from berry they they freeze but these don't so much anyway that's awesome i'm jealous you're going to get to see those guys and hang out. That's a cool town, but again, one street over, you'll get murdered. So just be careful. I know, I know. We're definitely going to be, you know, if we're doing French quarter, it's during the day. I mean, well, you know, Bourbon Street any time of day is fine. Yeah, Bourbon Street's fine during the day. Go there at night. It gets a little sketchy.

And we're not going to make any bets that some kid is going to be able to tell me where I got my shoes. I know that trick. Yeah, that's an old, that old trick. You can be true. You can get, cat trick Brian once that's on you fool me once you're not gonna fool me again that's right this is the place where I saw that dude

or that lady stumble out of her her house onto the main street looking for her needle because she was desperate for another hit and it was starting to get dark and I had kids with me and I was probably 24 and we had Kim's kid's sister

and brothers with her and we were trying to we got lost we were trying to find our way back and the darker get the weird the weirder new orleans gets and uh man i thought we were all going to die that night it was so bad yeah but hell nalins get in nalins yeah they're gonna do what they're gonna do um and maybe you can catch a jazz game oh i'm sorry they moved to utah oh yeah that's a shame that happened or a saints go oh they're no good just kidding's over uh actually the the the it would be cool to be fun to see the saints what's what's their

called? Is it just called the Coliseum? Whatever it is. It's where all the people. They're still in the playoffs. Yeah, what am I talking about? Oh, are they in the playoffs?

I thought they were out. There's still the playoffs. The Superdome. The Sears are super dome. You ought to, I don't know how you'd get in there, but I'm fascinated by that because that was the place where everybody kind of went during the, during Katrina to, you know, to find shelter. Right, right. And it's notorious for that whole thing.

and to see it now or just see it normally would be just a trip. I don't know why. I just want to see that. Oh, yeah. Yeah. All right. There's that.

Oh, the Saints are out? Okay, I thought they were in the playoffs, I guess not. Oh, sorry Saints. Sorry Saints fans. That's too bad. What are you going to do with your flirtily celebration flirtilees? That's right, exactly. Biniezer just funnel cake says Jonathan, well, they are.

Every culture and cuisine has a deep-fried dough equivalent, whether it's soap of peas or bignets or like, what is the dumpling, it's not dumplings, but pierogies or is that? You can do sweet parogis, yeah. Totally can do that.

I like a bionier more than most, probably it's that powdered sugar. Don't breathe in while you're eating it or else you're going to hack away on it. Nope, cough like crazy. Yep, nobody wants you coughing in a public place during this time that we're in. But yeah, bignets are amazing. If they're done right, if they're too, oiled up.

Yeah. Yes, exactly. It can't be too greasy. Yeah, not pierogis. I know those are the potato dumplings. There's a there's another one that's actually dough and I can't remember what it is. My daughter's been steaming buns, Japanese buns. Oh, like bow buns?

Yeah. And there's like a little goo ball in the middle of it. And on the outside, it's that very nice doughy, whatever. And she has the round basket type thing with the lid. Like very traditional way of making it. Yeah. They're so good. Oh, my God.

I'm sure. I feel like I get two pounds on me every time I eat one. I got to stop doing that. Brian, tell me about the Tim Burton, Danny Elfman thing. I want to know about this. Yeah, so it's been a while,

but this happened after the last episode of TMS. So just super quick. So this thing is traveling around. I looked it up and they're going to like Columbus and Chicago and Hartford and other places. but is the music of Tim Burton or the music of Danny Elfman for the Tim Burton films I had forgotten how many Tim Burton films Danny Elfman did the music for it, right?

You remember all the big ones like Nightmare before Christmas and Beetlejuice and Edward Cisorhands and stuff like that, but I forget about things like Planet of the Apes, dark shadows, you know, some of those lesser-no ones, Frankenweeney, of course. Didn't he do it? I mean, he's done almost all of them. Like he did the, what's that one?

and I love so much with Ewan McGregor in it. And the name is... Big fish. Big fish. Music's great in that movie. Yeah, I love it. Yeah. Anyway, there's this traveling thing that's going through, like, the concert hall circuit,

the symphony circuit, and it's a conducted symphony doing the music of Tim Burton films, Danny Elfman music from Tim Burton films. And here's the best part of it is Danny Elfman comes out. for all of the Nightmare Before Christmas stuff and sings all of the jack parts himself and the dude still can perform in front of a crowd

like nobody's business. He is just amazing. He's so good. And he chews up the stage and then for an encore he comes back out after Alice in Wonderland comes back out and does

the Oogie Boogie song. Oh, nice. Which he wrote obviously didn't perform in the film, but he's super proud of that. So, yeah, this was on, I found this out, Jeannie, she's right. This was on PBS 5 or 6 years ago at the Met, I think. I can't remember, but I looked online to see if that was streaming anywhere because it looks like the same thing, right down to Sandra,

this amazing electroviolinist that just tears up the stage. She's so great. But it is, yeah, if you can find it, if you can find it online, Great performances, I think, is the... Oh, so this probably exists somewhere. Can find, track this down. Probably exists somewhere. Maybe somebody's Plex server has it.

But regardless, if it comes to your town, go. Don't hesitate. Just go. Yeah, it sounds awesome. It feels like something to absolutely see. And was this a... This wasn't a mystery date. It was just sort of a date.

Nope. Yeah, Tina had January and I bought these tickets back in, like, September, October of last year, knowing that she'd have January. So she knew about it. I've got February. I don't know what I'm going to do for February, honestly. You're taking her to friggin' New Orleans. Isn't that count?

Yeah, that counts. It's not a mystery, but it counts. But there's all sorts of mystery stuff going on in New Orleans, so it's kind of... There really is. Yeah, exactly. You'll just take you to a cemetery. She'll love that. Well, that sounds great.

I'm jealous of this. I will try to track that on that PBS thing or see it if it comes to town. I don't know if it is. There's probably some tour information somewhere. Probably. This was one of those events where not even, not even like... like a recent test, you had to be vaccinated to get in there and masks the entire time. Yeah.

And they were on it. Like there was, I only saw one person who was trying to get away with the mask under the nose kind of thing. Yeah. And the usher was like on top of it. They didn't have that thing down under their nose for more than like two minutes before somebody was over there. So, you've got to pull that up over your nose. Yeah. That's, that's, you know what I like about that?

That's somebody that's somebody who understands that they are a private business and are empowered to enforce whatever rules they want within the space of their business. Public. I could do it. You absolutely have it. I love it when they feel empowered because they need to. They don't need to tiptoe around Cairns and Brad's and Chads or whoever the hell they are. Just do it. You run it like your business.

Whatever your rules are, you just do it. Exactly. Just follow the rules. Whatever the rules of the place I'm in, whether it's somebody. somebody's house or somebody's business is following the rule it's not the it's not the government's suppressing your speech it's you it's you following it by rule no shirt no shoes no service freaking that's right exactly penis is out and you're out you know that kind of thing is that a rule did I make that up I still like the carons and brads and chads and chads Karen's and chad I'm sorry

Brad's chads and carins really for how you've been treated over the last couple years it's not really fair uh all right we're going to do some news and And it's going to be great. Speaking of PBS. Yeah, don't get. A little PBS music there for you. All right, hey, it's the news, and it's brought to you by. 13 Peppersby Ralph.com is having a sale to move the last of his inventory.

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Speaking of penises out, flea, I still can never get the, as much as I, I loved that 1999 Woodstock documentary, but I can't get the vision of flea performing naked out of my head. I can't, it won't go away. It's just forever in my head. It's this nasty, pasty white, nasty flea on the side of the thing, playing his base like a freak show with his wiener flopping around. Just can't do it.

All right, let's move on to this story here. Oh, you know. Canon, you know, they make the copiers and the phone. Oh, oh, that canon. Yeah, that canon. They make the, mostly we know them for their cameras and stuff, but they also make copiers and printers and stuff like that. Well, they can't get enough toner chips.

So, because of the chip shortage. Toner chips, it just sounds like something somebody would send us to eat on the show. Oh, yeah, toner chips. Oh, these are so good. Yeah, they'll help you slim down and taste great at the same time. Exactly. So they're telling, they're telling their customers, to defeat the DRM that the chips are for.

This is great. For years, printers have been encumbered with digital rights management systems that prevent users from bullying or buying, rather, third-party ink and toner cartridges. Printer companies have claimed that their chip-enabled cartridges can enhance the quality and performance of their equipment and provide the best customer service and protect the printers from counterfeit the third-party ink cartridges. Basically, it's just their way of making you buy the shit through them and not some third-party who's cheaper.

Anyway, they can't get them. And so because they can't get these chips, they have told people how to win and how to make it work and bypass it, which kind of screws them for the future because now you can just bypass the current gen. They'd have to wait for a whole new round to like redo your thing to make it not bypassable anymore. By the way, please download our new firmware. We're not going to tell you what it does. Exactly. Here's their exact thing, they say, due to the worldwide continuing shortage of semiconductor components, Canon is currently facing challenges and procuring certain electronic components that are used in our consumables for multifunction printers or MFPs.

A Canon, this is in German, but they translated it, in order to ensure a continuous and reliable supply of consumables, they have decided to supply consumables with a semiconductor component until the normal supply takes place again. Anyway, here's how you do it. The software on these printers comes with a relatively simple way to feed them. Depending on the model, when an error message occurs, after inserting the toner, you can press either I agree, close, or okay. When the user presses the button, the world does not end. Rather, Canon says that the users can go ahead and use the third party thing, no negative effects.

That's literally the bypass. Hit the okay button. Lame. That's hilarious. Lame. Is there another? company that has something that's like DRM protected that, uh, that we feel like could could do the same sort of thing if they, it was a shortage. The curigs or the, um, uh, uh, oh, the pods.

Nespressopods. Yeah, don't, I think they all have something. Do they have, like, you can't use, I thought you could use third party pods and a currig without a problem. Um, no. Hmm. Let's see. Is that true now? I thought that was, I thought they had to be licensed. Uh, I didn't think so, but maybe. Maybe it's just the curig too, because the curig, the cureg one you could use whatever and then let's see uh curig DRM I'll look for oh there we go yeah Eric Prime confirms yeah with your older ones you could use any pod but now the newer ones require the like specific currig well and here's the thing that says here's a super easy way to get around their DRM description uh restrictions see your old pods and K-cups don't work but

now you can fix that it says special ink hold on um okay there's some okay you have to put a little tape on something it looks like it's easy though is the point you probably just put one of like put print uh the uPC code on a piece of tape and then just put it on whatever pod you want to use then take it off put on the next pod you want to use yeah there's probably yeah that's funny do you uh you know those coin star machines uh that you find in like grocery stores and um kmarts and targets and things like that where you take all your change dump it in there and then they give you cash but they take like a 7% cut or if you do an Amazon gift card then they do they give you full the full amount right there's a the way to

get around those if the cord that goes to the nearby phone port because these have a modem in it that talk back to the mothership so if you once you put your money in it says okay would you like cash, it's going to cost you 7%. You unplug the modem cord and say okay. And then when it can't communicate with the mothership, that it gives you the full amount like it would on an Amazon

gift card for cash. No way. That's great. That's great. Who knew that if you just unplug it from the server, that thing's that dumb. The modem. The phone, the

phone port. Can't talk to. I haven't seen one of these in ages. Are they still around? I guess they probably are. I think they are, yeah. They're probably more important than ever because the Bitcoin shortage that we had last year, these guys probably pay you more. They probably give you a 7% bonus if you bring your change dollars.

Oh, yeah, I couldn't even thought about that. I'll bet the newer ones like the store, the ones that are in store, they probably started doing Wi-Fi or something, you know? Probably. You'd think that they'd have to figure out some alternative way of doing it. Yeah, and it wouldn't cost them much more to do that. Well, anyway. It's like the old, well, the quarter to a piece of stiff wire and keep playing Pac-Man as much as you want.

Yeah, we had people, so when my dad ran arcades in the A's, he used to have, we'd open them up. Sometimes the machine to get jammed or whatever, right? So you'd have to go fix it. And most of the time jamming was just like, oh, there's just a quarter that fell weird or this guy put a Canadian. I got stuck to it accidentally or something. Yeah, sticky or, you know, a Canadian quarter to. doesn't work or whatever and he'd go clear him out sometimes you'd walk up to the machine and you'd see a wire like sticking out of the coin thing sticking out of it yeah so you'd have to open that

all up and extract it it was always really hard to get those out sure but uh you can still I think they probably still work in some cases I think a lot of those mechanisms are a lot more sensitive now and even now if you go to any arcade now it's all it's all put your money in a machine and get tokens so right or a card swipe your card to play this Oh, yeah, the card swipes, yeah, I forgot about that. Kind of makes me want to go playing an arcade. Me too. Here's a, we like lists, right?

You like lists? You into that? You like lists, Scott? We'll go playing an arcade and in Vegas. We go to the pinball museum. Oh, hell yeah. The brand new location. Yeah, isn't it closer to the strip or something?

Or where is it now? It's right. Yeah, just a little bit south of across the street from Mandalay Bay. Oh, I'm super into that. Let's do that. Okay. these are the top 50 food chains in America, ranked by popularity. Ranked by what?

By popularity according to eat this, not that.com. Okay. All right. So, like we know Subway has the most locations, but they're not highly ranked. Correct. They're highly ranked. Correct. So it's not about numbers or availability.

It's just, like you said, if people like them or not. So number 50 is one I've ever heard of. I'm just going to rip through these because there's 50 of them. But checkers and rallies, do you have that? Is that a thing? Oh, we don't have checkers and rallies out here. That's an East Coast southern thing, right? All over Georgia and Florida and...

Sounds really good. The Carolinas. It's like burgers and wings and, you know, stuff like that. Number 49, Jamba Juice. Number 48, Einstein Brothers Bagels. We have a bunch of those here. We had to call Jamba Juice a fast food restaurant because... Do they have more than just smoothies?

We got like a, I don't know what else they have? Boles. We can get an assayee bowl. Oh, okay. I don't think it counts. I don't think it counts. I don't think it counts. I think it shouldn't be on this list. But whatever.

Yeah, I agree. Yeah. Einstein Brothers Bagels, Carvel. It's ice cream shot. Oh, Carvel, yeah, where you get your fudgy the whale ice cream cake. Never heard of this. That's a new one. Carvel.

Does that they have those in Denver somewhere? Nope. No, no Carvel's, I think Carvel's another East Coast or Carvel as another East Coast. Orvel as another East Coast. thing. All right. Sabarro, the big pizza joint there in the mall. Oh, I like Sparrow.

Yeah, right. When are these guys going to expand beyond malls, right? Well, there's an image here of one that's... Looks like a street corner. Yeah, I can't tell where that is. Maybe that's just a street corner in a mall because there are, there is OSHA approved fencing on the very top of that image. Yeah, there's another restaurant up top with seating.

Yeah, I think that's... That's probably what that is. Number 45, Shake Shack. We got our first one of those two years ago. Wingstop, they're okay. Waterburger, still don't have one of those. They get the Wonder Woman logo. Look at that logo.

They're ripping off Wonder Woman. It is. They really are ripping off Wonderweger or something. Yeah, how do they, what do they, well, there's a school too. What's the school? Is it West Virginia UVW? There's a school that uses that stack of Ws as well.

The Stripey W, I don't know. Yeah, shoot. University of Wisconsin, where weaners are us. I have no idea. Yeah, J.C. Cahillan, West Virginia. Yeah, they're confirming West Virginia. All right. Firehouse subs, number 42.

Church's chicken at 41. I'm just thinking about how much Claire loves us talking about food. I'm really enjoying this. None of these are vegan in place. Well, maybe jamba juice is amazing. Maybe jamba, yeah. You might be able to not have meat in your smoothie. Jersey Mikes is on here.

We like them. Should we jump to the top 20? Yeah, you know. I used to get time. We can talk about a few more. I don't know. Some of these are weird. Like Long John Silvers.

Jack in the box should not be on here. We don't have those out here anymore as far as I know, Long John Silver's. We used to, but we don't anymore. Nathan's famous and, oh, in and out at 33. That seems not as high as you'd think. The way people talk about it. It seems appropriately high. It does to me, too.

I think they're overrated. We've talked about that. I'm glad we haven't gotten to Freddy's yet. so that's good i've gotten holding out for freddie's being high uh yeah okay now i'm going to jump down to the top 10 and and and this will really be the ones we care about here so according to this number 10 taco bell bring run for the border all right by the way how many tacos have you gotten with your taco pass four total okay all right yeah i think i'm a three so you're doing all right kind of tired of them if i'm honest i don't want to run out i don't want to run out and get another one today

I think I'm good for a bit. I don't know. Oh, I didn't even tell you this story. This is so funny. Good. All right. So we went to get another one. I guess it would have been my fifth on Saturday, I guess.

Uh-huh. And we did it on the app ahead of time, right? Like you're supposed to. Yeah, like you have to. Had a reward and some other stuff. So got it all in the app. It said, great. Congratulations.

Come by the location, blah, blah, blah, and pick it up. And so we did. And we pull up there. And there's a giant cone that's blocking. the drive-up. I'm like, well, wait a minute. It says drive-up only. Go check the door.

So we check the door. Lobby's closed. Drive-ups open. It says, yes, we're open. But nobody's in there. It's like completely abandoned. Like, no one. And so we still don't.

To this moment, I still don't know what happened. Like, was there an emergency? Did they have a shutdown because some employee exploded? I don't know what happened. So there was nothing you could do. Oh, no. And the app didn't know. The app's not, their systems aren't talking to each other.

So they don't, the app has no idea. So we have to cancel that. And then it's like, why would you cancel? We're making it. And I'm like, no, you're not. You're don't, there's no one even in there. There's nobody there. So that was really weird.

So we went to Del Taco because I was in the mood. Got that instead. Did you get to a del Taco that's like, hey, do you guys accept Taco Lovers pass from Taco Bell? I'll bet somebody's asked him that. You know someone has. And that was a bad. day for everybody when they asked that that's that sucks but anyway whatever they did they left and that was it and it sucked so uh we were annoyed uh let's see chick fillet get your uh your rewards back

oh we did they they they finally let the cancellation go through but it like it took a while and it was like looking weird like we had to like call them and say you know it was it was weird uh chick flea number nine number eight pizza hut yeah pizza hut yeah pizza hut they're in there pizza the hut pizza the hut seven are You got a little Arby's on you. God, I wish we had an Arby's closer. Do you not have, I have so many here close. It's way too close.

Yeah. I wish they were further away. It's about 15 minutes, probably 15 minutes away. I wish they were further away from me. Number six, Duncan Donuts. Yeah, I don't know how you call that a fast food place because all they sell are donuts. Well, they do donuts. Don't they have other, they got other junk, right?

Like other desserty things. But you're right. It's not really, it's not a food chain. And I would say, what are you? The next one in the list has the same damn thing. Yeah. Sandwiches by analogy? Okay.

Cinebun. Cineabon. Do they have anything but cinnamon buns? Cinnamon doesn't have anything besides buns. Come on. Yeah, and it's all sweet. It's not the book of pizza. What?

How the pizza and all these guys are talking about other things? I think bagel sandwiches are still are still Dunkin' Donuts talk. Oh, well, if that's, okay. Well, that's fine there. But cinnabun, you'd have a hard time. convince me there. That's a weird one. Wendy's, fine, whatever. Number four. Square burgers, okay? That's what you get there.

And Bacon Fest, whatever Bacon Fest is. Crispy Cream, number three, again, what are you getting there? Pretty singular focus there. You're definitely not getting anything besides donuts and coffee there, right? Yeah. No sandwich is a crispy cream. And a logo that looks like the 50s called and won it back, you know? That's right. Yeah.

Baskin, Robbins. number two again it's ice cream man now the last one I guess I can kind of get and I do like a good place like this or I like a good dairy queen but dairy queen number one they got burgers and you know and they got everything I was really

hoping I was holding out for Freddy's somewhere on this list I'm doing a search there's no Freddy's to be Freddy's to be found nope eater nope or eat this not that dot com what what is the day what helps us no Fridays

there's no McDonald's either hold Don. Yep, they didn't put McDonald's in here. There's no Burger King. Yeah, there was in the 14. Oh, there was? Did I spell McDonald's wrong? Yeah, you probably did. I probably did.

Oh, I did. I spelled it. I put McDonald's. Yeah, that's the problem. There's no A. Yeah, you're right. That was number 14. We were looking for the golden circles.

What's the, it's looking for McDougalls? Mrs. Fields is on here. I guess they, yeah, McDowellels. It couldn't find it. Um, A and W, KFC, Burger King is on the list. Sonic's on here. can't believe freddies isn't on here and also five guys deserves to be way the oh five guys should be up here so what the way that they figure out the popularity

you can't you can't use this this algorithm whatever algorithm they're using because they're basically saying oh when you're in the mood for ice cream dairy queen and baskin robins are the number one places people go yep but fast food is you know you get your tacos burgers your your subs, your whatever. Yeah, it's whatever food you can make fast. Fried chicken, et cetera. Yeah. I don't know about this list.

I don't know about this list. I'm not sure I'm a fan of this list. Yeah, this list. Yeah, this list. Yeah, that's sure. Here's what I am sure about. We're going to take a break. When we come back, Bill Duran will join us.

I have an email for him, which I really like. And then he'll tell us some other stuff. So it's making stuff with Bill. And then, of course, Bobby will be here with a science segment. So stick around for all that fun. Coming up right after this song break, hey, Brian, won't you tell me what song it is? Sure. Well, we may not have Brian Dunnelly on today's show, but South Carolina is getting represented

as well as Equal Vision Records, big thanks to them for sending this over to me. An indie rock quartet called All Get Out, you know, like, oh, I'm hungry as All Get Out after that last article, ALL Get Out. They have a brand new couple of songs, first ones that they've released since their album No Bouquet in 2018. We're going to listen to the second one that sounds like, you know, initials that are short for something. Here is DFR by the band All Get Out. We'll be back in a moment.

I don't feel right about it. less than you deserve shaking hands in the dark it happens all the time and i don't feel so good take you home to fix you up just need to sit and dry watch you talk to the books they know you more than not exchanging hands in the dark they pass on who you are and what you've meant to me patient let me burn on the pavement waiting my turn all year got me thinking I was somebody's savior out on behavior I'm pacula got me here instead I'm sitting parked on the sidewalk yelling at mall cops me I'm a small talk he's leaning like a drunk on a lamp post nobody knows so no one

addresses me and I don't feel right about it now Start the day without the alarm She tracks it's who you are Not to break both arms They're sleeping though you're not waking some up the night Did anything you said that I can never hide I'm pushing through a wound response You remember every valve of the world closed out

You're speaking out actual whistleblowers a bird Your heart is known to fact And most of us in time And some of us don't know They treat you like a summary patient But you burn on the pavement Waiting my turn all year Got me thinking I was somebody

savior, out on behavior, I'm packing what got me here. Instead, I'm sitting parked on a sidewalk, yelling at mallcocks, me yelling small talking, leaving like a drunk on a lamppost, nobody knows though, no one addresses me. I don't feel right about it now. I don't feel right about it now I don't cry about it now You treat me like a summary patient I burn on the pavement

Waiting my turn all here Got me thinking I was somebody's savior Out on behavior I'm packing what got me here Instead of sitting parked on a side of Sidewalk yelling at mall cops Me, I'm the small talkie Standing like a drunk on a ramp post

Nobody knows though No one addresses me I don't feel right about it now I don't feel right about it now I don't feel right about it now I don't feel right about it now I was supposed to do everything that I could do to encourage and support the children in the telling of these yucky secrets. And the more yucky secrets they were able to tell, the more stickers they got for that day.

So the kids were real motivated to do this as well. What the f***le was that? Peckernack. This is the morning stream. And we're back. Please tell me one more time what that indie in the middle was. Or that is the brand new song DFR from the band

All Get Out. All Get Out. Man, I'm Tired as All Get Out here. Exactly. A.L. Get Out. I did kind of sleep all right last night for the first time. feel like a month. I don't know what was going on there with me, but... Yeah, I woke up at, uh, I woke up at about 4.15, 430 this morning. Yeah? Never got back to sleep. Time for milking. What'd you do? Do you get up?

For milking. Time to make the donuts. Uh, that's... I had to go work at one of the, the top donut fast food restaurants in America. Well, according to this list, that would be correct. Yeah. All right. Well, none of that matters. What matters now most is that we get old punish props boy himself in here. Mr. Bill Duran. And when he answers, we... I want to know what he's been making lately.

What's he been making? Probably some things. Your bat caves open there, Bill. Bill Duran from Punishprops.com. Hello and welcome to your Tuesday slot. How are you? Oh, I don't hear it. Oh, no.

We do not hear Bill. Bill needs to make a microphone. Now we do. You're unmuted now. Hello. There we go. Mutation. I'm going to plug my microphone.

Oh. Uh-huh. I blame a cat. Mark! You got your... you got your wife and your cat and that's all you can blame yeah it's always always blame the cat uh hey bill it's good to have you here now i got to start things off today with a question we got from a guy who calls himself father dorcas okay all right i like it and i didn't

warn you about this question and it's it's not one that i don't think needs any warning but i love it so here it is uh hey bill if you ever had to defend your home from invaders which of your replicas would you use to do it says father dorcas yeah so what do you think of that what do you you think there? What would you do? What sword or which device or whatever would you pull off that wall and then fight to the death with? Okay. First of all, I'm under no illusion that that would ever happen or that I would do anything useful. However, in the closet next to my bed is a small replica of the sword sting from the Hobbit and Lord of the Rings. It's a real metal sword. It's not a good one, but it's there. And it's, I haven't thought about a plan. But if,

something goes bumping the night that's the first thing I'm grabbing okay so you get a little short sword and it is metal like it's it is yeah and it would hurt if he got clobbered with it but if I sword fought someone with it it might break it's like a it's one you would get at the mall let's say oh I like it one of those uh the Asian mall replica store things sure okay yes I like those places to a monkey that spits incense I like those places because um I don't know why actually. I just kind of like window shopping there. I never buy anything there, but I just love looking at all that stupid stuff. There's definitely something fun

about those places. Something about it. It makes me, it reminds me when I was 15, and that was my world. Poitie metal of the thing, swords and daggers were the coolest thing ever. So when I see a shop like that, that's what I think. A 15-year-old Bill would love this place.

Of course you would, yeah. Well, that's awesome. All right, so this guy was probably hoping you were going to pull some like fallout gun off the wall or something like that but uh nope just the sword no i've had this plan for a while yeah you've had this plan your plan seems to be put sword next to me grab if needed yeah yeah that's that's that's the entirety of the play i like it well bill uh welcome to the show hey you probably got a little making stuff advice for us today what's going on sure do got a new video over on our website uh you

guys played inscription yet yes it's awesome oh you're gonna like you're like the new video Yeah, it's very good. It's like, so Brian knows, it's like a slay the spire, but very different. It's one of the most unique stylistic takes on like deck building and card battlers I've seen in years. It's crazy. Right, yeah. So I would describe it as like a card game with some puzzle elements and a lot of mysteries to discover. And I recommend the game and I recommend going into it without looking anything up and just figure everything out as you go.

Oh, I love that kind of thing. Weird. It's a little creepy, but there's a lot of, there's a wacky story to unfold. And I really enjoyed it. Brittany and I both really enjoyed it. And there are a lot of objects. So you have this card game that you play, and there are a lot of objects associated with both the card game and the puzzles. So we made the squirrel in a bottle. It's a squirrel card. You use squirrel cards in the game. Every once in a while, you need an extra squirrel. Grab your squirrel in a bottle and break it open and you get another car.

Yeah. It's a very weird mechanic, but it works. It is. Yeah. And as soon as we saw it, we had to have one. Yeah. So we made one. Oh, that's awesome. I don't see the video on the site yet. Is it not up yet? I'm not sure. It's over on our YouTube channel for sure. I don't see it there either. Your uploads say it was, oh. Hold on. Yeah, the latest one is a EVA foam deal. That's weird. I see it. I see it. I don't know why I don't see it. All right. Well, I'll figure it out. Anyway, all right. Continue on. date added oh no that's oldest hold on date newest i'm gonna find it no it still says your eva phone from nine months ago you could just give us a link either at our discord oh yeah yeah you could do that that'd be a good idea i don't know why i don't say it's funky so we started the whole thing i'll grab a link here in a moment we started the whole thing with a real glass bottle brittney found one on an amazon that was like perfect was the right size the right shape uh and then of course we needed the card art and someone on youtube not YouTube, just the internet here, link and chat, there we go. Oh, there we go, cool. Someone on the internet grabbed all the card art, put it together, so that you could print it out in case anyone wanted to play the card game at home,

which is another thing you could do. I thought that was really, really cool. But of course, we decided to just use that card art, print it out, and make our own cards that look real. Sure. So we have this really nice parchment paper, really fancy for, like,

you know, fancy letters. we printed it out on that front and back and then I used the spray glue Super 77 is a really good spray glue it's like a rattle can of paint only it sprays out you know glue oh interesting okay yeah so sprayed a thin layer glue on the back of the paper that we printed out and glued the front and backs together

to make the full card and that also made it the card stiffer more like a playing card less like a sheet of paper which was really cool and that's how we made the card just cut them out and then we had to get them in the bottle that was we probably spent the most time on that i'll bet because this is i was going to say you either have to roll it up and jam it down there and then fiddle or you got to pop the bottom out like to do with some of those ships or this seems hard difficult yeah we went with option a which was to roll the card up stuff it in there and then spend

a while with some tweezers just sort of massaging the card back into flat so it didn't stay rolled up Yeah, it took a little while, but it worked out really well. And the card's a little, a little disheveled, but that really helps sell the look. These are supposed to look old and gnarly. I suspect, by the way, some people in the chat are like, hey, where do I get this game? Right now, it's on PC. It's coming, there's rumors it's coming to tablets and some other stuff, but as it stands right now, it's a PC game. Sorry, Bill Go ahead and continue.

Oh, yeah, yeah. And then the other thing we wanted to do is to make this thing look nice and old and dirty. The first thing I did is I took some pigment powder. We have all these different colored pigment powders I usually use for dirtying up clothing and stuff. I took a brown, and it looks like dust, right? Like dark brown dust. And I dusted the inside of the bottle a little bit to make it look like it's been filled and refilled and emptied a whole lot of times. There's just some grime stuck in there.

And then the outside of the bottle, we wanted it to look all old and cloudy. So we used Mod Podge, which is a PBA. glue kind of like elmer's glue sure we just um wetted that down or thin that down with little water and then dabbed it on with a paper towel to make the outside of the bottle look all cloudy and dirty i put some of that pigment powder in there too to make it look a little bit tinted a color and it really once it dries it really sells the effect that this bottle has been sitting on a shelf for like 50 years oh yeah it did definitely it looks ancient um and i see there's a part here where you're explaining how you achieved it with a slight with a slider of glass or of the plastic or something

and you're basically like yeah that's really cool I like it when you do that in your videos yeah that's awesome I wanted to figure out the right mixture so I added some baby powder to the mod pod to make it it a little more matte and I needed to figure out how much to add so we did some tests on a piece of clear acrylic there so we know what the final product looked like that's awesome I was able to dial it in and look at you throwing just a little color in there oh yeah yeah yeah yeah Yeah, that powder, the inside powder, pigment powder, looks like spores of some, like some plant that your mom told you not to mess around with. Oh, definitely.

Yeah. And if you sneeze near it, it's just going to cloud through the whole room. That stuff's so gnarly. You got to, yeah, you want to wear gloves most of the time for you working with that stuff. It gets everywhere. That's really, really cool. Oh, my gosh, I want one of these. And it's for this, like, you know, small-ish indie title that not a lot of mainstream knowledge about.

I know a lot of hardcore gamers that love it But it's not like, you know This isn't the hot new thing on your hot new console or anything But just what a, if you're a fan of that stuff What a cool thing this would be to have just sitting there by your PC And it's still really cool if you're not familiar with the game Like what a weird piece to have on your shelf That somebody's going to come over and look and say

Why do you have like a squirrel card in a jar? Yeah, what's this ancient card in an ancient jar you have there, Bill? They would ask. Right, exactly, yeah. You guys ever been to a shop that's like a kind of like an antique shop, more of like an oddity shop? Yeah. Oh, yeah. Yeah.

We have one in Seattle. Totally. And I feel like, like I hope this ends up in one of those shops someday. Right? Yeah. Totally. It would be perfect for that shop. I think I bought a one of those wooden, those wooden boxes that you have to do a whole bunch.

Like it's a puzzle box kind of thing. I think I've bought one of those in Seattle last time. Oh, yeah. That's cool. I think if that's the same shop that we're thinking of. There used to be a TV show on some cable network. I don't remember who, but the whole thing was, it was basically like the Pond Stars model of, hey, I'm looking for a weird thing or, hey, I found a weird thing, what's it worth sort of model of the show.

But it was this weird shop. And it was all like, oh, I found a cat skeleton. Is it worth any money? Or I found a one-eyed snake or, you know, that sounds wrong. But you know what I mean? I'm not one of those, too, Scott. Yeah, that might be. I guess anybody could show me their one I'd take, but, but yeah, like, there's,

uh, maybe not everybody, but, uh, there, there's, what was that called, though? Ah, I don't remember the name of it. It was fascinating, though, because they had like, you know, here's a shrunken head, a real one, uh, or here's, um, a dinosaur bone that we found in someone's backyard or just weird oddity type stuff. And I found that show fascinating, even though it was probably, you know, fake like pawn stars as far as people coming in and, and all that, um, or edited to be more interesting. But I thought it was very, really, it was really cool. Is it called Audities? We may have found it here, Captain Kipper. Maybe. Oh, that's it. That's it. Oh, awesome. Yeah, that's worth seeing. The 73 episodes of that thing,

I don't know where you get it now, but it was on Discovery and Science Channel had it. Anyway, if you ever get a chance to see it, it's great. Audities TV series. Oh, yeah. And Ye old Oddity Shop, which is on Alaska Drive, is totally the place I was thinking of with like, shrunken heads. Right. Oh, yeah, this is totally the place. That's cool. Animals under glass.

Yeah. I'm fascinated by that stuff. I think that's just really cool. Have you ever done one of those, Billy should do the human head in a jar thing where they take a picture basically. Oh, yeah, yeah. The way they wrap it around and then fog it upright, it looks like there's your actual head in a jar. It's pretty awesome.

Sure, sure. Yeah. Not an actual head in it. A piece of paper. No, that's a much better idea. Yeah. Let's not put a real head in there. I feel like he could get in trouble for that as far as where you source the head.

There's a scene from the Zorro movie with Antonio Mandaras with a head in jar. I was thinking of that. I think they probably used a prosthetic head for that one. Oh, yeah, they probably did. I would hope. Yeah. The one I saw getting made look really convincing and it was just a photo. Yeah, those are bananas.

Yeah. I want to make one of those. It's kind of like the John McLean Christmas ornament. he's crawling through the thing and it looks like he really is in there so yeah you know we're not far from one of these like Vegas kiosk things you know the ones that make the paper weights that have a 3d image inside them that they use with uh laser curing uh imagine you know you you come up and there's like a bottle and there's the resin block already in there and then they put your face on the resin block inside the bottle because through the glass they can they can do

that curing technique i feel like we're not too far from those yeah oh yeah we're good there we're creeping up to it brian uh excellent go check out their latest video which apparently for some reason is cashed funny on my browser but is there uh so you can find it at punishprops com or the punish props uh youtube channel which you should subscribe to anyway bill uh you always leave us with a little bonus thing what do you got today i sure do um this is a video from my friend he used to work on the king of random but he doesn't work on that channel anymore and he has his own YouTube channel called Nate from the internet, and he made a

stainless steel carving knife. That looks like he's gotten into knife making, and I know a lot of folks are really into that, so you might want to head over to Nate's channel and give him a follow. Nate's a really awesome dude, a really fantastic maker, and he's kind of starting his own thing now.

Very excited to see where he takes it. I've yet to get any of these videos from you where the person involved does not have a beard. Is that just a rule for you, people? Oh, the women. And women, no. Oh, yeah, the women don't. Sure.

Sure. But you know what I mean? Like, maybe it's because I say that, but we're all having beards here as well. So maybe it's just men and beards. Yeah. It could be that the last year, everyone was just like, nah, I ain't shaving. Yeah. We're living in peak beard time, I think.

Yeah, totally. If I was to guess. Your name is even chin beard on Twitter. Everybody, follow him there. That's right there. Bill, have a great, great week. And we'll see you next time. Well, thanks, guys.

Bye. Yeah. That was a very jaunty way of him. leaving usually he just goes okay then he's that kind of yeah that's true yeah but he hasn't had a very nice uh you know cheerful yeah yeah he's got such a great demeanor he really does he does doesn't he sure does

all right we're gonna add bobby to the call and uh share some time with our favorite science correspondent bobby franks uh which will happen now if i can find his damn thing here it is Science. Hey, look who it is. It's Bobby Frankenberger. All about science. This guy.

He's all around science, too. Hey, Bobby, what's going on, man? Welcome back. Nah, not a lot. I spent all morning trying to get in touch with the FAA on the phone. That was weird. Oh, really? What for?

What was that about? Yeah. Well, what was weird about it was that the person who kept telling me that their phone lines were busy sounded exactly like Billy Bob Thorne. Well, wait a minute I like mustard and taters Not like a sling blade one Just like just him talking his normal self

But no no I'm trying to learn how to I'm trying to take flying lessons But I have to get a medical certification For it and I'm blind in one eye So I have to Like I have to go through a bunch of Jump through a bunch of hoops to do it

And one of the hoops is a really important hoop That involves the FAA, and they just haven't been getting in touch with me. Well, it seems like what you've proven here is that government entities and organizations aren't all that efficient. It turns out. Turns out sometimes they're just slow, you know? Turns out. That's true, yeah. But it's okay.

I was in a good mood because I was doing it with my America's Next Top Podcaster's shirt on. Yeah. Oh, yeah, look at that. Look at that sweet shirt. Yeah, that's a nice shirt. I like that shirt. What kind of new information do we know about that? dang show, Bobby. I don't know. I think

I saw an episode drop in my feed today, didn't you? That's right. Yeah, I'll talk about that more in the end-of-show stuff. Actually, I'll also talk about the fact that if you want to be content on American's Next Top Podcast for season four, now is the time to do it, but I'll talk more about that at the end of the show. Okay. Yeah, yeah.

Hold on to your butts. There's more coming, everybody. That's right. Well, that's awesome. So, one other question about the flying thing. If they Yeah. If they say to you, like, how blind are you in one eye? I'm completely blind in one eye.

I've been that way in my entire life. I didn't know that. My right eye. Okay. Was that since birth or is that, did you say your entire life? Yeah, okay. Yeah, I've had, I was, I have a congenital condition called morning glory syndrome in that one eye. It's just, it's just, it's named based on how the, what the retina, apparently, not apparently, I've seen it.

The retina looks like a morning glory flower. It has to do with the optic nerve is not attached in the right place in the back of my retina, so it doesn't transmit any signals from my eye to my brain, so I can't see out of that eye. And because it's been that way my whole life, it doesn't really impact my depth perception for long distance. Like right up next to my face, I don't play sports because of that, for example. But I can drive and everything because I've lived my whole life that way. And so I have to convince the FAA that I'm able to fly. So I'll have to go up in a plane with an FAA person and demonstrate that I am safe.

Yeah. Well, that's super interesting. I had never heard of that before. We did it last night with one of Tina's cousins who, as a kid, as a four-year-old kid, threw a stick up in the air, looked up to catch it. missed it. Stick went into his eye. He pulled it out himself. His eye looked like

when they took like 11 surgeries at one point it looked like a little raisin inside his head because it shriveled up and is now able, but now has now has sight and is doing fine. He's about our age and he's okay now.

So they got it working again. That's resilient. They got it working again. That's amazing stuff. He's from Wyoming. It took a lot of flights to Denver where there was a specialist that could get things. So I have a terrible story about eyes. Let me tell you this real fast. So my cousin who served in Afghanistan, the first, the early 90s one, or not Afghanistan,

sorry, the Iraq, the Iraq conflict thing that we had there under George H.R.W. Old man Bush. Or whoever's. Anyway, old man Bush. And anyway, he went there, served. and during his time there some grenade or something went off and little bits of shrapnel went everywhere

and he ducked and didn't get hit anywhere except one little piece of shrapnel that was like a curved flat piece of metal went into the side of his eye right where this ocular bone meets your eye on the outside of his left eye

went into that ocular bone or into that space between them rounded the bone and on its way cut the optic nerves so just chunk just completely severed it and then rolled all the way through and popped out the other side of the ocular bone imagine like a ring out of something

like a hoop or a ball just going you know wow and it was that precise in terms of where it hit and how it exited and you know blinded him obviously in that eye immediately but super intense and his eye you look at him now he just still has his eye in there

healthy eye the eye looks fine no you know it doesn't have to put a false one in there or do any kind of surgery to get rid of it or whatever this thing just cleanly went in there and sliced that nerve and then popped out the other end yeah it was gnarly anyway okay

I torture a discussion yeah we're now we're not done with I yeah I body horror now complete we're now moving on to Bobby horror instead let's do some Bobby horror some Bobby horror Bobby, what did you bring in the science world today for us? What's going on? I learned about something reading some science news that I didn't know existed, and I thought I'd talk to you guys about it and the news that's about it, which is you've heard of anemia, right?

You know, anemia is this condition where you have a low red blood cell count, and so, well, that's the most common cause of it, but really it's just that oxygen is not being transported. by your blood very well so you have low oxygen usually caused by low red blood cell count there's also a thing called space anemia oh yeah I heard about this the other day yeah well it was in the news because they just found out that um that space anemia persists past um like uh like they thought it was a thing that would happen to astronauts while they were in space and then your body would regulate and when When you came down, you were good. And they just found out recently that the space anemia persists after you get back for up to at least a year they've seen so far.

Jeez. Your body continues to engage in increased levels of... So let me explain. So the reason space anemia happens is because when you go up into space, lots of things happen to your body that are, crazy like bone density loss and muscle atrophy and stuff like that. But one of the things that happens is pretty quickly when you get up there, your body loses a bunch of fluids. So like 10 to 25% of fluid is lost from the body.

And much of that comes from blood vessels. So your blood has less fluid in it, which means it throws off the ratio of fluid to red blood cell count. You have way too much, way more red blood cells. ratio-wise is that fluid just like floating in the air and everyone's breathing it in or where the hell does it go i don't know if it's just peed out or what i actually tried to look because i that's a question i have is not only where does it go i assume it's probably peed out somehow that's probably the best way to get rid of it yeah but but my question was why does that happen and i couldn't answer i couldn't find an answer to why your body loses all that fluid

I know that fluid gets just generally moved around. Our body's evolved on Earth where there's plenty of gravity, right? So our body functions, like if you were engineering our body, then it was engineered in such a way, assuming that there would be gravity, right? So your heart pumps your blood, but kind of the way it works is it's pumping it to the upper parts of your body in a way. And it doesn't have to work as hard to get body to go back down to your lower extremities, like your legs and feet. Sure. So when you're up in space where you're in microgravity, a lot of that fluid ends up collecting in the upper part of your body.

And that's why if you've ever seen astronauts, their faces always look puffy is because fluid kind of floats up in their bodies. Oh, that makes sense. Well, I mean, basically this all just comes down to the fact that we're not evolved to be in that environment. We're involved to be where we are, and that involves Earth's gravitational pull at the level that it is and everything else around us and our atmosphere and the way we deal with oxygen and all that. And then suddenly we're put in this place that we don't. I mean, you know what this reminds me of. This reminds me of like in the expanse and the way the belters, their bodies changed. Yeah, they're lanky and gaunt.

And you take them down to Mars or Earth and they almost get crushed. They have to be in special tanks and all that. Yeah, even the Martians in there, isn't it, they go back to Earth and they have to deal with, like, they have to take special medications to deal with the gravity and oxygen levels and stuff. I love that kind of stuff because it's such a great realistic take on that in a science fiction setting, but it's really true. Like, we don't think of this. If we go start exploring other planets and we find something inhabited and let's say it's the size of Jupiter, it's going to F us up, right? Yeah. And they're all going to be humunculuses, and we're all going to just fall on the ground in the puddles.

It's going to be bad. A little goop people. Goop people. Goopal. Yeah. So for whatever reason, our body gets rid of it because of all that extra fluid because I guess it doesn't need it or whatever. There's some process. But to compensate for that, because there's less fluid in the body, your body goes through a process of what's called hemolysis,

which is, it's basically your body's destroying its own red blood cells in order to lower the count. Your body does this all the time anyway. It just increases the rate at which it does that when you're in space. It's almost like a little over 50% higher rate because it's trying to get it down to that equilibrium point, that normal ratio, right? And so it used to be scientists thought, well, that just happens. And after about, you know, a week and a half or so, then it will level out and it doesn't continue. But they just found out that that process, your body continues to destroy red blood cells at a higher rate than normal. It continues on throughout the time that you're in space.

Also, after you get back down to Earth, the anemia happens when you get down to Earth, by the way, because now your body holds on to more fluid and then the offset of the ratio goes in the other direction. Now you have more fluid and less red blood cells. And so that's anemia, right, when you have lower. So eventually that gets corrected, but your body continues to destroy red blood cells at a higher rate up to at least so far they've looked at at least a year after it in some cases. And that has a lot of implications for what you need to look at. and what you need to know and correct for and account for when you're sending, potentially sending people up into space for a long period of time.

Like, we're gearing up now to send people to space, you know? So we need to know these things. I mean, we're going to be on the moon, going to Mars maybe, perhaps. Oh, we got all kinds of potential weirdness. You know, like if we keep getting better and better at reaching out, we're going to have to get better and better at adapting to that and knowing it, knowing what to adapt for and uh i don't know artificial gravity is going to be important like all kinds of stuff because we're not going to evolve in a week it's not going to change that quick

if there's anything less uh accurate about the way the expanse treats is i think they crammed a lot of belter evolution into a short amount of time yeah exactly yeah so they would it would probably take a lot longer but it is a couple of hundred years i guess that they've been out there so i don't know i don't know if that's enough but we just don't know and that's fascinating stuff um and there's probably other stuff we don't know about like ah next thing you'll tell me i got what do you got oh i got the space aneurisms what are those ah that's just in space you just have a different kind and oh no i got space diarrhea oh that's the worst oh yeah listen we already know there's space madness we've seen a billion different movies yeah so there's the yeah we get the psychological stuff we got

the physical stuff you know we're going to have space cramps you know i don't know sure Space cramps. Space cramps. Yeah, I got a bad space of space cramps. There was a case of space cramps, and they've lasted two years. Oh, no. My favorite Michael Broderick, or Matthew Broderick movie, was Space Cram. Oh, he was so good in Space Crams.

Yeah, no kidding. I wish they'd remake that, anyway. And, I mean, but in all seriousness, there's likely going to be, I would imagine, specialty medications that are going to be having to be created in order to prepare people's bodies physiologically for these types of things like like yeah it makes sense that we think that our muscles would get weaker because there's less gravity right um but these sorts of things about the blood um aren't as obvious when you just think about it because they're it's like oh yeah of course okay your blood is not being pumped in the same way your heart is working differently

and your body's reacting to changes that were unforeseen and so it's really good for us to be paying attention to all these things so that we can eventually escape our decaying dying earth yeah yeah exactly no that's that's fascinating um i i have too much i haven't right now i have a i have an excess of red blood cells and they want me to go give blood like three four times a year for for that reason oh wow um i don't it's not like a massive amount but it's enough where they're like yeah you should probably you know donate some blood that'll help keep it in check. Maybe you just need to go spend some time and space.

Maybe. Maybe. That's the new answer. Use up some of those red blood cells there. Yeah. The cause of it, she said, was probably those, they have me on those T shots, you know, for the low T, the low T. Yeah.

And that increases your red blood cell count, which I think makes me more of a man somehow. I don't know how that works. But anyway, hey, this is great. More great scientific coverage by our good pal, Bobby. Now, Bobby, why don't you tell people where they can get more, even more, on another podcast called All Around Science? Where is it? How do they get it? Yeah, my podcast, where I talk about science every week, is called All Around Science.

That's how you find it. Just type all around science into something, and it'll pop up. Type it into your speak and spell, and it'll pop up there. Yeah, put it in your Googler. Yeah, that'll get you there every time. Awesome. Well, what are you guys talking about here on the next one or the most recent episode? We just put out an episode yesterday, and my brain is failing me because of all my time on the phone with Billy Bob Thornton, so I can't remember what it's about.

It was really good, though. Oh, yeah, yeah. You should check it out. Was he a lawyer fighting hard for the working man, or was he a hit man trying to find? It was astonishing how much. I really wondered if they hired him to do the. should record it and send it to you maybe they did that would be hilarious oh my gosh billy bob thornton doing fAA work uh fantastic bobby i hope you have nothing but a great week

between now and next time we see you uh take care and we'll see you then thanks bye bye bye bye now bye bye bye bye bye bye all right we're done uh real quick a couple of quick things we got some show stuff some show news here uh play retro happened yesterday we did a deep dive on donkey con Donkey Kong Jr. and Donkey Kong 3 as three very important arcade games in the history of video games and what they led to, what they inspired, all of the legal stuff that happened around them. The rip-off game called Crazy Kong. They got people in big trouble. Oh, yeah. I forgot about Crazy Kong. Yeah. Really weird time. Definitely worth your checking out if you like retro games and are into that sort of thing. Get play retro wherever you get your podcast or go to frogpants.com slash play retro and all those links are there, including Spotify, Google, play. Apple podcast, everything, all of it. It's all there. Brian, tell us about America's next top podcaster all stars. I will do exactly that. We had an episode go up yesterday, the episode. So it's a self-contained one week or two-week challenge episode.

Really it took place a lot longer than that because of COVID. We had one of our contestants actually get COVID and had to extend things out. But we bring back some of our comedy, well, the contestants that got eliminated during comedy week of the past three seasons. and we give them a challenge to create something serious. They had to create a series podcast, but we gave them one more requirement. They had to include 11, or no, eight lyrics from All Star by Smashmouth in their serious podcast.

How well did they do? Well, find out by going to America's Next Stop Podcast. Podcaster.com. Now, while you're there, sign up. We're starting the next season of America's Next Stop Podcaster at the end of February. and we want you to be a contestant for this next season. Got a lot of great stuff planned. I need to confirm with all of the judges,

but so far the ones I've talked to have confirmed, Scott, we'll need to chat because, you know, it's the same night as Play Retro. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. I want to figure things out. Yeah, yeah. But anyway, go visit America's Next Top podcaster.com and sign up, become a contestant.

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I think that's it. Let's get out of here. Why not do it with song? Yes, I will do that. Joel and Milwaukee rode in and said, hey, Scott and Brian. My mom passed away on January 1, one day after her 74th birthday. She struggled with several

health issues over the past few years, so my siblings and I are sad she has left us, but we're happy that she's no longer suffering. Lucky for us, the hospital relaxed their COVID restrictions on visitors, giving us all a chance to say goodbye to her in person. While this song wasn't my mom's favorite, it does have special meaning.

The lyrics were printed throughout my mom's senior yearbook, and the reverend of her funeral without any prior knowledge, quoted much of the song in his eulogy, which gave me the chills. My siblings and I have relied on gallows humor to keep our spirits up. But for me personally, TMS has also helped bring smiles and laughs. Thank you both.

And let's test the ship's phasers sign Joel and Milwaukee, Duke, 9883 when in the chat. Oh, let's give them a phasers. Let's test the ship's phasers. There you go. I'm sorry about your mom. That sucks. That does suck. All right.

So, well, this song, it's interesting that you bring up the fact that you're, uh reverend quoted it because technically the song came from i want to say ecclesiastes i i should have pulled this up in my notes beforehand but i think it is uh it was adapted from ecclesiastes by pete seger who wrote the first version of it the song is turn turn turn or with the required exclamation points it's turn turn turn turn which sounds like tini giving me directions in the car uh the version i'm going to play is by a former lead singer of the band Jellyfish, one of my favorite pop groups from the 90s, Andy Sturmer. A bunch of demos of Andy Sturmer's music surfaced in the last several years. And this was kind of a highlight for me as this

amazing cover of Turn, Turn, Turn, Turn, that never got an official release. Here is the song Turn, Turn, Turn, Originally by Pete Seeger, most famously covered by the birds, covered here by Andy Sturmer. Do everything turn, turn, turn, turn, turn. There is a season turn, turn, turn, and a time for every purpose under heaven. A time of love, a time of hate, a time of war. A time of peace A time you may embrace

A set to refrain from embracing To To everything Turn turn turn There is a season Turn turn turn to turn and a time for every purpose under heaven. A time of love, a time of hate, a time of war, a time of peace, a time you may embrace, a time to refrain from embracing.

Turn, turn, turn, turn, turn. This show is part of the Frog Pants Network. Frog Pants Network. Get more shows like this at frogpants.com. At last.