The Morning Stream - TMS 2239: Holy Spit!

Episode Date: February 1, 2022

Am I eating a Hot Dog or a rusty penny? I don't like freezing BEEEEEEEANS! (for journeybleu). A Questionable Hot Dog. Weird Old 80s Screws. Alexa had a stroke. The Cops were not Her Only Fans. Fig Newton Juice. Nobody wants to see Carl. The Devil's Eyes are Made of Cheese. Mash-up Catch-up. Making a Bigger Hole, So it Hangs Properly! Road Meat only for Dolly. Organized Religion is a load of Phlegm-Flam. Watching the Science Sausage Being Made with Bobby (not Bill). Wormtongue in his ear with Bill 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 questionable hot dog. Weird old 80s screws. Alexa had a stroke. The cops were not her only fans. Hold on. It's my fault. I set off my echo. Sorry, do your thing again.

Do the cops again. The cops were not her only fans. Fig Newton juice. Nobody wants to see Carl. The devil's eyes are made of cheese. Mash up ketchup. Making a bigger hole so it hangs properly. Road meat only for Dolly.

Organized religion is a load of flam flam. Watching the science sausage being made with Bobby, not Bill. Wormtong in his ear with Bill and more on this episode of The Morning Stream. Satan has come back. back to haunt us. Lucifer, the devil, the Antichrist, overlord of hell and all demons. This creature, who is so real and so frightening to our forefathers,

but who withdrew in more enlightened times, has returned with a vengeance. Well, what's next? Garbage. What's up, Harry? Nassified oil on Uranus. This is the MorningStream with Scott Johnson and Brian Ibbis. Good morning, everybody.

Welcome back to DMS. It is the morning stream for Tuesday, February 1st, February. Gosh, dang. It's that first R, right? I mean, we all know it's there. It's not hiding. It's not invisible February, but it's just so hard to throw a brew. February. Who is in charge of that? I know it's like based on like, I don't know, ancient Greek

gods or whatever. Let's see. It was the, um, those A-Holes. Manchurian calendar. Not Venturian. Manchurian Candid. Gregorian calendar. The Gregorian candidate. Every time I see the Queen of Hearts, it makes me think of June. I don't know what it is. It makes me think of, wait, not Kim Carnes, who playing with the Queen of Hearts. Who does that? Music question. Now the, uh, Juice Newton. Juice Newton. Yes. Not originally, though. Dave Edmunds recorded it before Juice and Oh, my lord. The knowledge bomb you just dropped. I had no idea. Dave Edmund's version is far better. He wasn't the first, but he was, in my opinion, the best version of this. Well, I will say this, growing up, hearing Juice Newton, her name being mentioned for things.

I remember thinking that was a real bad combo. I used to think of orange juice and Fig Nudens. Yeah, that's bad. That's a bad combo. Do you like Fig Newton's anyway? I like them okay. They're all right. Once or a while you bite into like a... I have not had a fig Newton in a really long time, but I would think, you know, No, orange juice and fig newtons would be fine. Oh, I think that sounds just like a, whoa, I don't know why that sounds bad. Doesn't that sound bad?

It's like toothpaste and orange juice kind of combo. No, because they're still, they're on the same kind of flavor profile. It's not like, like a junior mint and orange juice, right? There's another good one, yeah. Like, I guess it is Girl Scout cookie time, a thin mince and orange juice. Oh, yeah, we ordered a bunch of those. A very nice little girl and her dad came by the door, and, you know, we're suckers, so we went ahead and did that. We have not had any Girl Scout cookie solicitors come to our door, even though, I mean, we've got a, you know, solicitor's sign.

But the people who, the people who've come in the past, the Girl Scouts that have come in the past have ignored that sign, we hope that they continue ignoring that sign. But, yeah, we got to get some. like when the kids have something to do, you know, get them out there, get them going. It's nothing wrong with that. That's good. Exactly. Catalyst Puppanero in the chat room says, those pictures on the far left of Coverville screen look like porn, but it isn't. I think it's an ad for shakes, and believe me, I got really close to the screen to check. All right, another music lesson for you. Brian, explain what that is for... That is the album The Who Sell Out. And it's, you're seeing Pete Townsend and Roger Daltry

before they got old Roger Daltrey in a bathtub of ice cold Heinz baked beans he had to sit in that freezing that bathtub with those freezing beans makes you feel alive Brian alive that's right but you will notice it is

hanging right it is in the it is in the proper place yeah I noticed what did you do oh you went ahead and got I forgot you did this whole thing I got the hooks he's got the hooks what in the world World could keep his hooks from being hooks.

That's what it looks like right there. You stick some command strips on the back. You stick it on. Nice. And nice little hook. The, I will, this is probably more information than anybody would want. But we did talk about this on the show, so it's kind of like a follow-up. Yeah, why not?

So you see, on this hook, you see the top of that nail, right? The head of that nail is big and wide. Yeah, yeah. Wider than the hole that's on the back of the. album cover frame. So I had to take a drill yesterday and make a bigger hole in the drill in the album cover frame so that I could put that over the nail and then lower it down because it's, you know, you get a long, let's just, let's just let Jamie have all these. So you've got a long slit and you've got to put the nail in the bottom of the slit and then let the nail go to the top to hang it there. Right, right, of the slit.

A slit. I mean, that's what it is. I guess it's a slot. Yeah, slot, slit, slit, I don't know. What do you call them? You don't play the slits in Vegas. Actually, you kind of do. You can't. You can play the slits and the slots. You can play both, yes. Yeah, the slit slots. Well, that went places. Hey, very nice. So there you go. Brian puts an album there. And it's not always the same album, but changes here and there.

No, it's going to change to something else tomorrow. You'll have to see what it is. So is it a daily switch up, or do you do it? Oh, God, no. No, it's a switch up whenever I pick up something new that I'm listening to. I've got a turntable here on my left, and every once in a while I'll put on an album as vinyl to listen to just to get the fun experience of having to do stuff after I listen to four songs, to flip an album over manually after I listen to four songs. Nice. Hey, I got a question. This sort of goes with what you were just saying, because you're talking about drilling holes and stuff and trying to make it work with the hangar you bought and all that.

um trying to figure out what i'm going to do with this sit down cocktail uh oh yeah machine that my dad made in the 80s and i'm trying to rebuild so i put some video up of it some people i think probably saw it on twitter but the whole the whole deal there is is uh i just a regular cocktail table right yeah except he he he hand or he built it with his own design so it's like oh that's cool yeah the whole the whole thing is like completely not what you think like if you think of a cocktail sit down the, you know, a arcade. Yeah, you would normally see it as like

flat and long almost kind of like the table and then you'd sit down there and your controls would be kind of down below the table. This thing is more like a I don't know, it's more like something you'd see in front of somebody in Star Trek like a weird console.

So is it angled? It is, but it's also, but it's on both sides so it meets in the middle. So you have it. It's two players. So you have somebody on both sides. but it's less designed to be a table where you could put beers and drinks and food. Right, right. With a tiny screen in the middle. This is a big 19-inch CRT with nothing but screen space,

so it's actually really not for anything but playing games. Anyway, he built like a whole ton of these on his own. So it's really two CRTs then, right? Like one on each side of the single thing? No, it's just one CRT and it flips the orientation flips. Yeah. Oh, wow. So let's tell you're playing a single player or double,

a two-player donkey Kong would work this way. So you'd play Donkey Kong on there and you take turns. So oh, my jump man has died and the machine would go, and now you're player two. Oh, that's really slick. Okay. It's pretty neat. Anyway, so it's this old thing. He built

these by hand. It was before when he was just trying to figure out what he was going to do and these went in like pizza huts and arcades and all kinds of stuff back in the day. Well, I ended up with one of them. I wish I had more, but I only got the one. Most of his stuff was lost in a storage auction that no one knew about after he died. Piss me off. Anyway, because I would have had access

to 300 or so CRTs, brand new, never used. Stand up, sit down models, all this stuff, and it all got, this makes me sick. Anyway, so the point is, I'm working on that thing, and there's a bunch of weird old 80s screws in this thing. What is it like 80s screws, like what they've got the three, the triangular? Yeah, yeah, you know the one. You know exactly. what I'm talking about. There's a few of those. Then there's some regular Phillips flathead. And then there's some that are just like rivets. I don't even know how you get them out. So there's all these questions about

how I'm going to do it. And I'm going to have to figure it out. I don't know what I'm doing. I'm really bad. I'm looking at the video right now that you put on Twitter. I like that you have the propane tanks placed not hazardously at all directly next to this thing. Not a problem just right there. And, you know,

actually those two tanks are actually, I think they're empty. I'd have to ask him, actually. So, I mean, you know, your first thing, really, you're just going to take all the guts out and put in a new monitor, a new flat screen monitor, put in a retro pie, um, uh, raspberry pie, uh, box. Yeah. Yeah. That's the plan. I'm going to tear it. And probably, I hate to say, you're probably going to change out the controls, too, because oh, hell yeah. You need more than left, right and fire laser. Yeah, it's not enough. It's, uh, those are, those are absolutely getting inked out. Um, I'll probably keep one. Um, I'll probably keep one. of them and kind of a mounted something because it's just a you know he made this and had it printed that way i'd love to ask him why fire laser like did you think it was going to be galaga until the end of time like what we're doing here what about jump what about games where a jump is

required yeah and these were early early on in the business when everything was a space invaders rip off in fact i think i'm pretty sure the the board in there which doesn't work anymore but the main board in there is like galaxian or something which you know back and forth and shoot and that's all you had uh but anyway yeah that's all got to be torn out and then sort of redone so there's work to be done but i want to preserve the homemadeness of it you know the console itself yeah which totally makes sense i forgot what the point of my whole screw question was though i had a screw question well you can get you can get screwdrivers uh you can get bits for a cordless screwdriver that have the triangular deal on them okay where would you go to your regular hardware store

I'd go to, I have an ace a block away. That's where I would go. Get them online too, I guess. Home Depot, Lowe's. You could get them online. You could get them in Amazon. Yeah, I'll see what I can do there. And, but the rivets you'll have to drill.

You'll have to drill those out. Yeah. We'll call them drivets after I've done it. Drivets. Sure, exactly. Yeah, that'll be no problem. How about this? You have any experience dealing with old CRTs that are heavy and still hold a charge.

In fact, have a greater charge over time, and they'll shock. Yeah, where the capacitors actually still have some power of them. Because apparently Carter touched this exact thing, not a year or two ago. Didn't know, just put her hand in there. Like, oh, look at that. And it zapped her hard. She was like, whoa. So I don't want to do that again.

No, get some work gloves when you take that out. And then just gently, very gently set it on the doorstep of a neighbor that you don't like. Okay. I'm going to do that. In the middle of the night. All right. Next door, I'll check the next door app in the morning. Make sure. Exactly.

Figure out who's got the ring doorbell and then do that. Oh, speaking of which, I'm sorry, I have to bring this up. Sure. The next door app. Oh, by the way, hold on a second. Let me just show, you know, we're talking retro. Let's let me show off my shirt here. Oh, look at this.

Oh, that's very nice. Atari shirt. Like Ryan Gosling's ship could fly over that. And I would go, yeah. Look at that. I love that they kept that into that new movie. That was great. It's like Atari's all but dead and they still use the logo.

They still have the logo. Yeah, that's great. Anyway, so, um, next door app. Kim's reading something on there and there was a thing about somebody stealing a package or I don't know what it was. That's not even important. What's important is they were having this huge threaded conversation where like, I don't know, 20 people had dove into this combo going back and forth.

and at the very bottom some guy pipes in and goes you guys have too much free time and I went isn't that the guy with the ultimate amount of free time because he doesn't even need to be here at all he doesn't want to be here

this is talk he doesn't care about this conversation doesn't pertain to him oh I hope you did I hope that was what you commented I went back in there and said well I said well, somebody in this thread has more time than anyone else, and I just kind of left it at that little winky face, you know? I don't know if you'll get it. He may not be that bright.

I don't think that might be too subtle. Annoying. Here's the other annoying thing. And I don't know if this happened to you, but the Amazon A word, let's call it the Echo, had an outage for like a chunk of time. Oh, really? Yeah.

And you were gone, I think. No, this was a couple days ago. I think you were still gone. Okay. And so you wouldn't have experienced this. Which is, it really, I really hated it. So this made me question whether I want, and now the chat's going to go off about whether you should have one or not,

and Jeannie will never own one and all that. Okay, I got it. I'm not looking at the chat. Here's what happens. 1145 or so at night, I'm finally drifting off to sleep. And here's what I hear. I'm sorry, I can't understand what you're saying right now. Please check later.

And I look over at it, like, really? What the frick, dude? And it was loud. It was like cranked way up. Yeah. And it just yells of this in the middle of the night. And I thought, whatever that was, I'll just go back to sleep. Go back to sleep.

Try to. Yeah. 10 minutes later. I'm sorry. I'm still having trouble understanding what you're asking. I'm not prompting it. There's nobody saying the A word. Anyway, so apparently this was part of some outage, glitch, freak out that,

The whole system, the entirety of the A-L-E-X-A, however you spell it, was having kind of Amazon-wide. And so everybody with one was either having trouble. Oh, the other thing is the lights in my backyard, which are like we have strung up kind of Christmas-y-looking, but it's just meant for ambiance in the summer. But anyway, those are outside. And those are going on and off rapidly for no reason.

And they're connected to a smart plug or a smart outlet, which is connected to the echo and we control it with the echo. So if we're putting the dogs out to pee at night, I'll go, A word, turn on lights, and it will do that. And they'll go, you know, now they have light outside. Well, it's just out there going blip, blip, blip, blip, blip, blip, just on and off, on and off, on and off. And no one's asked it to, no one said anything.

So we were having, like, this maximum overdrive problem in the house. It sucked. She has become self-aware. Yeah, and I wonder if anybody else had that happen to him, or if we were the only ones. I talked to a couple people online. They were like, yeah, ours was being weird all night. Mostly it was people trying to get things done with it,

and it wouldn't work. It would say, I can't do it right now or whatever. But this, like, blurting out, I can't understand you. Look, personally, I don't bind to the conspiracies that these things are listening to us all the time and that we're being spied on. Because they have to hear us say the A word, but they're not, you know, I don't think that this information is being recorded and sent to, anyone outside of Amazon, it's just like when, you know, when you tell her, no, that's not what I want, do this.

It's like, okay, that probably does trigger something that gets sent to Amazon QA for, so they can figure out what's going on. And even if that, even if they did, so here's the thing, A, I don't believe that they do anything weird and nefarious with it. Now, yeah, B, even if they did, I really don't care. I don't say anything that's like that. I'm not going, my credit card number is, I don't do that. my, what's the worst that's going to hear me say? My mother-in-law is kind of a cranky bee today. Like, I don't, what's it going to do? Like, maybe I get me in trouble there.

But anyway, I just don't care. So anyway, the point is, they're very useful normally. But not then. That sucked. Yeah. No, that's irritating. Mine still Friday is at 5 p.m. And I just, I just need to finally turn it off.

But she started doing this on her own saying, would you like me to start a whatever they call it not what do they call an activity whatever she calls like a talent or whatever a skill a skill a skill thank you

that's the freaking word I was looking for would you like me to start a skill for Fridays at 5 to help get you into the weekend no like no no because really when we're done with TMS PM that's when my weekend starts maybe it starts earlier than this 5

PM, archaic 9 to 5 job BS. Yeah, no kidding. Yeah, I don't like when she starts going. Or if I'll say, hey, A word, clearing my notifications. And she'll go, okay, clearing your notifications. By the way, did you know that I can bet? It's like, no, no, no, no, no.

I've told you what I want to tell you. You're done. Stop talking, you sentient monkey. Don't do it. Right, exactly. Anyway, also, I think maybe part of the problem last night, I wasn't feeling very well. Let's just use this clip to explain.

Diaree. I had a weird hot dog, a questionable hot dog in the day. A questionable hot dog. All right. Cool. Just going to mention this real quick. So older beef dog in the fridge, been in there for a while. Don't know how long.

Thought, well, that's not going to eat itself. Questionable hot dog is my Frank Black cover band. Nice. Very nice. Frank. I thought, I actually did think Dog Rito at first because I thought, well, do I have tortillas, but I didn't. So I didn't make one.

Instead, I just got a regular bun, and those were fresher and new, so those are no big deal. But the dog itself, maybe a little sketchy, didn't really think about it, didn't trace back my memory as to when these were purchased. I just, you know, threw it in the microwave, heated it up and went for it. Kim made these amazing pickled onions. I put those in there. Like, it made a nice, like a good, well-dressed hot dog, but I'm pretty sure that beef dog was past its prime. Yeah, so anyway. Like, did it taste funny, or I guess you couldn't tell, right, because of all the stuff you put on it?

Yeah, it didn't taste funny or bad. Maybe there was a hint. This is going to sound gross. There was a hint of rust, you know? Oh, interesting. Like, you know, in a penny? I don't know if you ever had a penny in your mouth when you were a kid, but that kind of a taste of a penny. There's a little bit of that.

So that was like a toddler vaccine, basically. Yeah. Like, you put a penny in your mouth and you're... You were prepared for any diseases, any viruses, bacteria, anything that comes your way. Yeah, you were inoculated immediately. So, yeah, kind of the taste of blood a little bit there, Sabin, in the chat. It was weird. And I remember at the time going, oh, well, that's, that ain't good.

And then by, I don't know, by 8 o'clock for diarrhea. So don't do that. I'm just warning people. Let my mistakes be your lessons today. There you go. Good. Okay. So take that.

it could have been worse right i mean yeah it could have been way worse some some ferts whatever yeah i could have i got i got a broken my barf streak oh no kidding yes yeah and it didn't even i wasn't even like nauseous or anything but uh my barf streak still stands 2005 july let me ask you something yeah if you were to break your barf streak yeah would you tell us oh hell yeah i would totally you would okay oh yeah we'd have to share it of course i mean for the show absolutely i would have to tell us about your no alcohol streak oh yeah yeah yeah yeah Yeah, I'll lie. Yes. And it's still, that one's still just an international broken streak. I have the national streak. Except I guess, you know what, technically. It's broken in the Americas, Scott. That one trip to Vegas. This was before, before any TMS Vegas. It was just us going out there. And you were there. I was there. I was there. I was there. We were picking up a, we were there for the podcast awards.

That's what it was. Todd, Todd and his fantastic PowerPoint skills. That's right. I show the winner. Anyway, your nominees are. Exactly. So we were there, and I remember Randy had got some cereal-based shake. It was like a Captain Crunch shake or a fruity pebbles shake with alcohol in it. I tasted that. So I didn't drink anything, but I did taste it.

And it was, you know. I didn't inhale it, but I drank it. It tasted like bad cereal is what it tasted like to me. It did. I don't like donuts with cereal stuck on them. sorry voodoo donuts not into it and i don't like milkshakes based on cereal but i do like everything else i've had at that restaurant that's holstein's in the cosmopolitan and oh my god the best burgers there oh yeah those are good right really good we went there uh a second time with uh tsetsemi

and mccala and uh the whole family um for another trip out there it was just great i am surprised J.C. Calhoun. Yeah, he says, I'm surprised nobody's ever been tempted to slip some alcohol into my drink. I mean, maybe they have. I've never noticed. Yeah. I would notice, though, I think. I think I'd notice. Wouldn't I? Also, I think you would say this, this Pepsi tastes weird

or something. Yeah. Right, but also if a friend did that, that's like you're spiking, you don't want to spike your friends. That's bad. I don't do that. No. It's like, because I don't want to be, I'd want to go and say, Hey, you know, that drink you just had, that booze in it? Yeah, and I'll be like, damn, dude, where all my milkshakes bring the boys to the...

And that was the last episode of TMS ever. Now the new chapter. What's great is Sam Jane is in the chat room, and she was there for your little alcohol sampling in Vegas, and she says it was indeed a Captain Crunch milkshake. Yeah, which sounds great until you... taste it and then you I didn't I thought it was gross but it's whatever

it's it tasted like wet cereal like cold cold-ish wet cereal that was left out I didn't like it yeah my cap and crunch milkshake brings all the leprechauns to the art oh that's well that's good because they're right and no how's the song go

they're like it's better than yours damn right it's better than yours I can teach you but I have to charge I saw a really great tweet about that and said this idea of my milkshakes bringing people to the art is great and everything, but it makes the assumption I can afford the yard to begin with.

I know exactly who said that. That was Claire Erston. Oh, was it? Oh, I saw it on somebody, I don't follow them, but I saw it. Somebody retweeted it, I guess, yeah. It must have retweeted her. Yeah, she is one of my favorite. I'm sorry. Oh, no, Emily Bernstein. Sorry, it was Emily Bernstein. I don't know who that is. Because I follow Claire. That's who you retweeted. oh well no i retweeted the retweet from uh you retweeted emily bernstein no it well yes but kale salad retweeted it oh gotcha and then i retweeted it i only see scott johnson retweet and they guess that only shows me the original yeah yeah i get it from kale salad like does all these like gotcha okay what do you call them uh viral things that's what they do you should uh you should

follow. I'll send you a link to Claire Oskine because she is she's great. Is she a hoot? She's hilarious. She's a hoot. What would I know her from? I have no idea. I only know her from Twitter. Oh. I only know her from, but I think she is a stand-up

comic or something. Okay, I'm in. Yeah. Sounds good to me. I like humor. Humor makes me laugh. I would be happy to have more humor in my life. Let's do it. You need more humor in your life. Less NFT, more humor. More humor. All right. Also more news. which we're about to present in full Technicolor and Joy.

It's the Tuesday edition of the news, and it's brought to you by. The patron called Family Podcasts Network. I host a podcast called I Thought I Know How. Okay. That was a weird place for a break in the sentence. I host a podcast called I Thought I Know How that I used to talk about knitting traditions around the world and promote the use of wool and other natural fibers over their synthetic counterparts. I traveled a world to talk to fiber artists and learn about how wool crafts have shaped their lives and culture.

It's a niche subject, but people who get it, get it. My podcast is everywhere. Audio podcast can be found, including YouTube. I'm also at I Thought I Knew How on Instagram, and there's a website at I Thought I KnewHow.com. Very nice. Do you say niche or niche? I say niche. Yeah, I should say niche or niche.

Niche, yeah. Yeah, but I think I do it wrong. No, I think, I think, you know, I think it's one of those you can say a bunch of different ways. How do you pronounce F-O-R-T-E? Oh, Forte. Yeah, we'll like to win it's the last name of Will Forte. Yeah. But the original pronunciation is just Fort, F-O-R-T.

And Forte has evolved into a secondary pronunciation of it. Oh, that's interesting. Yeah. I'm going to say furt. That's it I'll say for a moment. Yes. I'll say that for naught. What a lovely human.

I just looked at the web page. That's a nice human being. Very lovely. What human being are you talking? Oh, the family podcast network. I thought I knew how.com. Yeah. Just looks like a nice person and a very nice website.

Nicely done. Well done. All right. Let's move on. Dolly Parton in the news She's You know her She's pissed at Jolene

What else? She begged She begged for her not to steal her man Yet she did it I feel like that's the worst kind of friend If you can't beg a friend and have him respond What kind of friend are they? Well anyway she's in the news

And she thinks this is important Everyone pay attention She helped make Moderna happen Right remember her whole deal She was like Yeah She, uh, she funded, uh, helped fund the Moderna and sang, uh, vaccine, vaccine, vaccine, vaccine, vaccine, vaccine, put it in my left boob if you can.

Just kidding. Yes. I mean, she has big, fleshy. Can I correct myself? Blair Erskine. I was looking for her Twitter account to send you and I've been calling her Claire Erskine and she's Blair. Oh, all right. Well, it's because there's clear on the brain.

We have too much Claire in our lives. Too much Claire in our lives. You brought clarity to what you were doing, though. You brought clarity. Well done. Yeah, see that? All right. So check this out.

Dolly Parton. Yeah, Dolly Parton. Did not get her vaccination in her boob. She got it on her arm like the rest of us. She thinks Taco Bell should bring back the Mexican pizza. Here, here, Dolly. I already liked her. I really like her now.

Yeah. Here's what she says. I will always love you. It's a beautiful song to love, about love, loss, yearning, and devotion. This is a song that Taco Bell fans probably remember. They still remember. Mexican pizza. I don't know why they're making this intro

on this article, I hate it. Because, you know, they've got visitors to talk. They've got SEO to fill. They got word counts. They must hit. Their quotas. All right. So Dolly Parton, a woman behind those famous lyrics, told insider

that she's a big fan on the beloved Taco Bell item. She thinks it should be brought back to menus. Let's see. Dolly Parton loves to cook at home, but she revealed that she still enjoys going to fast food joints with Carl Dean, her husband of 50, Carl Dean, Carl Dean, 55 plus years of marriage. Good Lord. Wow. That's amazing. That's great. That is great. Good for them. Do we ever hear from Carl Dean in any other context? Is this all we know him?

We do not. I think he's the right kind of celebrity spouse that isn't competitively popular, you know? Doesn't interfere with her Her trajectory He doesn't get in the way That's right Oh here's a rare photo And it's also I guess it's rare to see what Carl Dean looks like Yeah

I'm looking at a video here Oh this is back Wow I mean there's an article right here Country Living why Dolly partner and husband Carl Dean keep their marriage out of the limelight So they actively do that Yeah There's an old picture here in the 80s that I will share

Okay He looks like just one of us Just some schleb looking dude here I'll put it in our Discord here. The Canary Discord. Here it is. Sure. Okay.

So, yeah, he's a normal guy, you know? Yeah, cute. You know what they met? She was 18. She was doing her laundry at the wishy-washy laundromat. Amazing. When Carl drove by in his white Chevy pickup truck, he stopped to tell her she was going to get sunburned in her revealing outfit

and then chatted her up as she went indoors to fold her clothes. Wow. And that's magic right there. right exactly skin-shaming her lead to a 55-year marriage yeah she says uh oh i love to get a good burger on the highway and french fries like everybody else you wait where are you getting a burger on the highway i guess she just means on the road yeah yeah like when they're going from place to place sure but not like a road burger tour what's that on the floor what's that on the turnpike yeah uh she says we like to get you guys have those things um in uh in utah on the high

highways, and I'm trying to remember what they're called, but it's like where the overpass is a bunch of fast food. No, no. So, like, it's, I don't think so. This thing's called. So, like, you're driving down the highway, and there's actually an overpass where you get off on the exit and the overpass itself, it's more than just a rest stop, Captain Kipper. Yeah, no, rest stops don't do that anyway on our overpasses, but I know what you're saying. I think it's an oasis. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Oh, okay. I've never seen anything like that. And it's like, it is literally on the road, right? You're basically, you are not leaving to go into a McDonald's that's a few blocks off the highway. It is a McDonald's that is sitting above the highway that you're about to drive under. That's actually pretty cool. And they have a view in there, I'm guessing. They can see over there highway. Yeah, but you can see the highway, yeah.

Yeah, yeah. Oh, Carter says that you do have one. It's on the way to St. George. Oh, we do? Carter, where is that? like what part of the is it Cedar City they might have one

okay Oasis yeah I forgot that that's what those things are called I did not know that was a thing it's got a it looks like it's got a an Arctic circle and a Wendy's huh okay well when we go down there in April

we pass right through there we'll make a point of this yeah yeah why wouldn't we oh my gosh look at that link all right thank you Terry Z yeah she's Louise I think is humongous All right

So that's where Dolly Parton could You know Get a burger on the road Okay there we go We've cleared that up thank goodness Yeah that's why that came out She says she likes to go get hot donuts now and again And their 55 year of marriage

We'd love to get out in that little camper of ours And drive through restaurants Parton says Just hear her saying that We just love to get out that little camper of ours And drive through restaurants That's right Carl, stay out of the camera view, Carl.

Don't come out here, Carl. Nobody wants to see Carl. She says she visits Taco Bell when she craves tacos. I like soft-shell tacos, so do I. I like the others, but they fall apart so bad because if you're writing around, it's so hard to keep a taco supreme with the sour cream and all that in the soft shell. I love that, she says, or it's easy to keep it in the soft shell. She says, I get an order of rice and beans, she continued.

I get mild sauce. I don't like to get too hot and ruin everything. I'm going to ruin everything. I wonder what that means. Probably this. Anyway, she's just, you know, she's all about the Mexican pizza is the point. She is. And I, you know, apparently she, the rice and beans, I don't remember, that must be a newer thing.

I remember they had the pintoes and cheese for a long time. Oh, yeah. Right. I don't know if they still have that. I bet you could. Yeah. Maybe do that. Hey, how many tacos have you had?

I have had, oh my gosh, what is happening? Why is the spreadsheet freaking out? Did you see this? Yeah. Weird. I don't know what happened. It's like you deleted our articles. I don't know what happened.

All right. We'll leave it there. Anyway, sorry, ask that question one more time. What are you going to say? How many free Taco Bell tacos are for taco lovers past tacos have you had? So I think I'm still only at five total. And our time's running out. also right aren't we do like a week from now or something we're done um think i bought it on

the 10th okay that's same day so we still have we still have a week and a half all right there's still time we've we've we've paid for our tacos i mean we've definitely um hell yeah yeah i mean you could that's true we could walk away from this and go we spent 10 bucks with the tacos yeah just walk away we just want the mexican pizza just walk away um all right here is a fun Colorado story for you here. Yeah. Colorado deputy with an only fan's account retires after being discovered by female officer. This is a sheriff's deputy up with $30,000 separation agreement instead of facing an internal

investigation over a OnlyFans page. She owns, quote, I was a really good cop. I was a really good cop and I was a really good leader. She said two of that twice for some reason. She did. Well, I was a really good cop. I was a really good cop and I was a really good leader. Okay.

I guess it kind of works. I don't like when people say things twice. It's like, we sure do, Bill. We sure do. Like that? I don't like that. Bugs me. Anyway, she's 48 years old.

She told KDVR. Is that a local deal for you? It is. It's our local Fox affiliate. Gotcha. They told this to their problem solvers team. F that. Every freaking

I hate that. Local newscast, problem solvers. Have you got a problem that you can't solve? Send it to us, the problem solvers. Hate it. Hate it. It's my least favorite thing about local news. Oh, really?

Oh, I think I could name another. I'd name a thousand worse things. There's a whole list of reasons we shouldn't like our local news. Williams was in law enforcement for 28 years. That's a long time. Spending the last 11 with the Arapaho County Sheriff's Office and most recently served as lieutenant in a detention center. She had this only fan's account for 18 months without any problem, but then workers found out a female officer in a near- by a police department filed a complaint.

I think some people viewed what I did, or viewed as what I did for fun as being a sex worker, but I'm the same as anyone else's neighbor, their friend, mom, daughter. I'm still the same person I was for the 18 months. The page existed and nobody knew. Well, okay, well, anyway, here's what happened. She still operates the page.

Subscribers play a monthly fee as they do on OnlyFans to see Williams nude, nude, or in sexual encounters with her husband. I'm the dude. Williams said she posted the content when she was off duty. She never was in uniform in any of the content she posted and never identified herself as law as law enforcement officer. I don't know how I feel about this. I don't know that this should matter and she should get fired for this. Why?

Why? Yeah. If it's not, like it's like saying if I work to. She's not doing it in in uniform. She's not, you know, flaunting the. She's not making it sound like, hey, look at me. I'm a salacious sheriff's deputy.

Yeah. I just don't know what the, I don't know. Like I guess I haven't been in the work a day for a long time, so I guess you have policies and it's whatever. But you have to adhere to whatever, but I don't know. I feel.

I mean, if I had an only fan's porn page, Scott, would it affect my podcasting career? I don't think it would. No, it would affect my ability to not, laugh it all the time.

I'd have to laugh all the time. I'm trying to think, like, can't you do, you can do an only fans page where you're just talking to people. Yeah, totally can. In fact, I think they're original... It won't make any money, but you can totally do that. Yeah, that's true. Because I think the original plan,

their original, like, business idea was, hey, there's a lot of people on social media. What if they had a place where you can only hear their thoughts and feelings and stuff if you pay to hear it? So it's just like, you know, it's like, bonus content on a Patreon or you know any number of other paywall style things and then people just went well this is a place I could show my doodle and they did and that's what happened exactly yes it's a vibbit.com where does that go right now is that available monkey bananas i hope so nope can't

be reached damn it oh darn it but that means it's probably available brian that means it's available yeah exactly well if you're like me you've got a bunch of domains you'll never use so why not add one more to the list. I really need to clear out my domains. There are too many of these effing things. Do you have that? Do you have like a load of domains you're never going to do shit with? Um, yeah.

Yeah, although some of them I've got because I want them to redirect to Coverville, but, um, um, there's a couple on there that's like, that are like, uh, oh yeah, you know, that is a website I would like to eventually do. Yeah.

And it's just like, oh, no, when am I going to find the time to do that in addition to all the other stuff that's a valid point scott i'd have to i'd have to stop playing astraneer is the problem oh no one as soon as i finish astraneer and i don't even know what the how do you finish astroneer i don't even know i guess having bases on all the different planets and turning on all the the portals and stuff but um once i'm done with that then it's on to Pokemon rseus that Pokemon game is getting braves did you pick it up no i'm still I didn't. I need to beat I need to beat freaking

Zippity dood out over there. What's that called? Oh, the ghost of Shashima. I need to beat that. Oh, yeah. Okay. I need to get through that first. And then I need, I mean, then they got this Forbidden West coming out in like two weeks. We're screwed. Video games. What are you going to do? I know. Yeah. Hey, Pastor Mike Todd

in the news. Final story today. Mike Todd, two first names. he apologized for rubbing spit on a churchgoer's face what gross Scott out the most this week this is it oh my god just the description of this I don't like any of it whatsoever here's what he said or here's how it goes religious services Sunday in Tulsa Oklahoma went viral

after pastor Michael Todd was recording spitting into his hand and then rubbing it all over the face of a parishioner do not want nope do not want no thank you In the clip, Todd, the pastor of the Transformation Church. They should call that Spittown USA. I don't know.

What would you call? Our Lady of the Holy Saliva. Yeah. That's it. That's it. That's it. Also, perfect title. Someone write that down.

It's good. He cupped his hand and wiped a large glop of saliva and phlegm on the face of a man. Yeah, they lost me at glop. Oh, really? Yeah. Before the phlegm, huh? Well, glop implies so much. And phlegm is just there in the glop.

I don't know. I don't want anything to do with glops of anything. It just proves that that organized religion is just a bunch of flam flam. People were mad because, you know, also you did this during a pandemic, but whatever. Transformation Church, Michael Todd, has apologized for doing that and did it from the sermon. And the video posted Monday on Twitter. He apologized for his actions. caption reads the following quote it's never mind tension to distract others from god's word

and the message of jesus even with illustrations i apologize for my example being too extreme and disgusting i love everybody he says uh yeah i love the capitalized i love everybody i love everybody yep i can't hear i can't see this text and not hear it in like jim baker's crying voice you know like It's never my intention to distract others from God's word and the message of Jesus. Hold on. That wasn't Jim Baker. That was... Oh, it was Fallwell. It was a Falwell? Jerry Falwell. Jerry Falwell. Yeah. Remember that? And then what's his name on?

An SNL did a really good version of it. Phil Hartman. Phil Hartman, yes. Right. So you'd come on church lady as Jerry Falwell and fake cry on the church lady. that's right yes yeah that was a time oh jimmy swagger was it not jimmy swagger it was yeah swagger who might fall well i mean it was another one of those dudes but i don't remember don't remember uh who is the one who is said i've sinned in my heart i thought that was uh baker no well maybe but the one that cried is definitely not baker though okay was it swagger it must be swagger was it jimmy swaggered man those guys all suck freaking eff all every one of them eff them they

suck. You guys suck. Your bad examples. You fleece everybody for every penny they have. You freaking suck. And now Jim Baker has some show where he hawks barrels full of survival goo or whatever. Survival food. It's like Home Depot barrels of survival food. It's like goop for idiots. Who does, who want? I hate those people. I really, really, truly, truly hate those people. sorry I'm not you're not supposed to hate people but yeah they're deserving

can't stand them can't stand them they just prey on dummies and weak people and old people and it's just we're part of the problem sickening

anyway he's not going to do it anymore he also went on to say quote that was a distraction to what I was really trying to do says the video I was trying to make the word come alive and for people to see the story but yesterday it got too live

and I own that I was blowing COVID away That guy And some spit came out That guy's the worst He's the worst He's the absolute worst What's his name?

Okay there it is Benjin found it It was Jimmy Swaggart The whole I have sin in my heart Here let me Why not enjoy this in a modern context Sure Let's put it up here

And let's get a little audio out of it Okay here we go Here's Jimmy Swaggart I think I can get him on screen This isn't going to break any copyright, I don't think. Okay. All right, here we go. I have sinned against you, my lord.

Oh, that's what it was. And there are people in the back going. And I would ask that your precious butt. Precious butt. It's real to me. He's the wrestling guy. And cleanse. Oh, my gosh.

Shut up. How long between this and the next time you put your wiener where it didn't belong? like five minutes, ten minutes maybe, a-hole. Screw these guys. They drive me crazy. Jessica Hahn passed away, didn't she? She's not still around. Jessica Hahn?

I don't know. She was the whole the Jim Baker thing. Oh, I think she... I can find out. No, she's still alive. Okay. Yeah. She's not too old.

59. All right. She's not too old. I mean, she's 10 years our senior. here. I guess she was connected for a while to Sam Kinnison, wasn't she? And, uh, uh, oh, was she? Weird. Yeah. Well, he was a preacher too for a while, right? Before he went to comedy or something. Didn't he start out as a preacher, Sam Kinnison? He really? Yeah, I think so. That would make sense. I think I, uh, here it is. Yeah, that voice, you know that's where that

former Pentecostal preacher. Yeah. Yeah. Exactly. There he is. I know he passed away. So maybe that's the connection that I was thinking of is, is, uh, you had the cocaine. Sam Kinniston and Jessica Hahn. So where's this, uh, Jimmy Swaggart fella? Where's he at these days? Jimmy, what's he doing? Yeah, another guy's got no talent.

You know he's got sin. Let's see, Jimmy Swaggart. Okay, Jimmy Swaggart is still alive. Still alive. Yeah, born in 35, very old now. I have sin. I forgot he's related to. He's a cousin of.

Jerry Lee Lewis. I have put my penis where it didn't belong. Jerry Lee Lewis, that's funny. Yeah. Because that guy married a 13-year-old or whatever. Married his 13-year-old cousin, yeah. Nice. Well done, guys.

So I guess he's related to both Jerry Louis and his first wife. Yeah. Yeah. I wonder what Thanksgiving's like at the Swaggerth house. No thanks. Yeah. Forgive me, I have sinned against this turkey. Put my penis where it didn't belong in the turkey.

All right, that's it for your stories. We're going to come back in a minute with some time with Bill DeRam. We got some science talk today with Bobby. Before all of that, we got to play a song. Brian, did you bring one? Yeah, we got a singer from, well, she's currently from Berlin, but she's originally from Ireland. Her name is Wallace Bird, and she has nine and a half fingers. She's also got a brand new song, two singles that she's just released from her upcoming album, Hans, which is she named after her.

nine and a half fingers uh let's see the actual album title is hands nine and a half songs for nine and a half fingers which comes out may 27th nice you'd never guess she sounds like she's got ten fingers in this in this track what's wrong with changing here's wallace bird all right we're back in a second stay tuned yeah i want to know what's wrong with changing in the 10,000 and When I was 18 years old, still in my uniform, educated, uninformed, a war raged out in front of me, showing me racism and lies, and I began to see the world through different eyes. Then I moved to London, by the age of Cameron, I was stood at Brixton Station, holding the phone against cop's faces. a black child just for running for their bus and it was then I knew we had no one to trust yeah I want to know what's the wrong with changing yeah I want to know

Let's move forward a little bit, a little a little it'll be forward to 2015. The island of Ireland is making a real big scene. Gay marriage folded, yes, potty bliss is the queen. And there's no need to stop in there. It broke the church from the state to repeal the eighth. And now it's moving in a positive way. And you love to see it. And yeah, I want to know.

Yeah. What's wrong with changing? Yeah, I want to know Whoa Yeah, I want to know What's not changing, whoa Oh, what's not changing Oh, what's not changing

What's not changing? What's not changing? There's a nothing not changing. That's a nothing not changing. There's nothing not changing. There's nothing not changing. It's a nothing not changing. It's a nothing not changing.

There's a nothing not changing. There's nothing, not changing. Nothing, not changing. What can you do with a trophy? Trophies don't spend, collect dust. That's about what all you can do with a trophy. Trophies are nice. The guy at the bank doesn't care how many trophies you got.

Oh, you're going to put a trophy up for collateral. Yeah. Well, the guy at the bank doesn't think so, and I don't either. Have you ever had for a number on a jump, Penn Lee, for Potea. The morning stream. It's what's in the yogurt. All right, we're back, everybody. That song

once again. A song is called What's Wrong with Changing by Wallace Bird. I follow a guy on TikTok that has a thumb a middle finger or a finger that's about the size of your first two fingers together and that's about how thick it is and then a pinky and that's it so this is like so he's like he's kind of built for the shocker yeah he actually is now that you mention it hadn't thought of that he is like oh my gosh you know I only learned what the shocker was about 10 years ago that was news to me I had no idea until someone said hey look it up on Or a Dictionary?

Like they always do. They always send me there and I always end up disappointed. Never happy when I go there. No, no. It's like WebMD. It's, you know. You never walk away feeling better than when you, than before you looked at that site.

It's kind of hilarious because that site you'd think WebMD was probably founded as like, hey, a resource. You know, we're going to learn how to take care of health issues and I'm going to learn. No, you just go there going, I've got 18. kinds of cancers and they're all in my butthole, you know? Exactly. It's no good.

All right. Bill incoming. Got Bill swooping in like he does. Swoop. Swoop, Bill. Here's the proof. Your bat caves open there, Bill. We have opened his bat cave and we now peer in once again to the workings of punishprops.com and its own Bill Durand, curator, founder, and all-around talented guy. Bill, welcome back to your segment.

Hello, good morning. Hey, man. Good morning. Good morning to you. We got a new video out over on the website, on the YouTube and everything. I saw the hilt of a sword, but I have not watched the video. Oh, my goodness. Yeah, tell us more about your, I mean, you know, you're not, it's not like you're unknown for sword making, but what hath you done?

So a while back, I made a Highlander lightsaber, one of my favorite things ever. Yeah. And at the time, we purchased the electronics for the lightsaber. We purchased two of them. I got one Britney got one Time to make Britney her lightsaber

Oh she made She made a Lord of the Rings themed one It's Aragorn's Sword of the King As a lightsaber Oh that's so cool Look at this

Yeah so wait She went purple With her light Right we were thinking That was a good Kingly color Yeah it's also very Sam Jackson

Mace Windu That's right business right yeah very cool all right so his is the his is the lightsaber with the handle it says a bad mother ever on it yeah exactly yeah so uh so tell us why this why this why did she choose this over some other sort or design britt's super super into lord of the ring she has been ever since i met her um over 20 years ago and uh we were trying to decide right like there are a lot the Lord of the Ring swords you could go with. But the sword of the king

is just so imposing, so iconic. We had to do it. Yeah, that's awesome. We've seen other people do different versions. I've seen a sting out there. Actually, there's a teffin props, T-E-F-A-N, I think. They made a bunch of different ones. Like the, what's his name? The horse king.

Oh, uh, the, oh, what's he called? The, the. Rohan, dude. Who's in my mind? Um, shit. Thiodan. Thadden, Thadden, Thadden, Thadden, man. The one that, the one with wormtong's tongue in his ear all the time.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Theo Dan. So they made his sword as a light taper. They made all of them, but, but the sort of the king is just so, so cool. And it's also gigantic. Um, so the website that we bought our electronics from, you could, uh, order a blade in various lengths. And we got whatever the biggest one they had. So it's just, it's just massive sword.

Yeah. That's cool. I'm looking at, like the, the guts. You're going to have to go to Disneyland and get the Savvy's Workshop guts. Yeah. So, yeah, and I believe it was Sabreforge. That's the company we went with for all the guts. And it worked out awesome.

Nice. For the actual sword handle part, we have a new resin 3D printer. The company, AnyCubic, reached out a while ago. They wanted to send us one of their printers to play with. So we got the Photon MonoX. and that the new this is sort of the new generation of resin printers that have come out the last couple of years

are so much cheaper than they used to be and they are really, really good. I was blown away. I did some test prints of very small things and it just does an extraordinary amount of detail. Is that a new huge Washington Cure station? Like a larger size one? Yeah, it's the same size of the whole printer.

And I wanted to talk about that, Even more than the printer. The washing cure station is the MVP. It is. It totally is. Yeah. So working with this resin, it's sticky, it's smelly. Everything you touch ends up getting some resin on it.

And when you finish your print, it's still got that film of resin on it that you've got to wash off. The curing station, it has a giant bucket that we fill with isopropyl alcohol. You dump your fresh print right in there. You hit go. Yeah, fresh prints. in there. And it's got a magnetic stirer in it that agitates it and cleans it all

off. And then you swap that bucket for a little plate that rotates your model and shines UV light on it, right, in the same unit. If you're going to get into resin printing, like get the washing and curing thing as well. See, I upgraded my printer

and got a larger model printer, but I have not upgraded the wash and cure machine. So, like, if I'm doing a small print no problem it still fits in there but like the stuff i did the batman that i did for scott i had to manually wash and cure as opposed to being able to use the like the cure station for this like stepping back into the dark i know exactly what a tupperware tub full of isopropal alcohol yeah here it is still unpainted i got to work on this but yeah our setup is it's great you can take the entire print bed right off of the printer and just dunk it right in that vat without

even take it the... Yeah, that's what I need. It's bananas. How big is it? How much space is it going to take up, I guess? The machine is like a foot and a half by a foot and a half by like two feet tall. Oh, that's not that bad. Yeah, it's not too, too big.

It's just a little bit smaller than the printer itself. When people call things stations, I always in my head, I picture a giant thing, but I guess... Right. Yeah. So that's what we used. Brit 3D modeled all the sword parts and the original design of the sword hilt was modified a bit so it could fit all of the lightsaber parts in it

and obviously the blade is a different shape so that had to be accommodated for Yeah, all of the parts were printed It went pretty well We still have a lot of, we gotta figure out our recipe For our prints with that machine We kind of overdid it on the supports We just put a ton of supports in there

to make sure that it would successfully print. But that meant we had a lot of cleanup to do later on. We'll dial that in. Lots of dimples, or not dimples, but... Pimples. Yeah, goosebumps. Right, right where the support pops out, it leaves a little indent or a little protrusion.

Can you tell me about the runes on the bottom of the thing there? I know that's part of the design of the sword in general, but did that, I guess, the resolution of the printer's good enough to make that look good? Yeah, it really is. some elvish text in there. I'm not exactly sure what it's meant to say, but it's teeny tiny little text detail. And the printer was like, yeah, no problem. Got that. Yeah. I think it says, I can now recede into the West and remain Bill Dran. I think that's what I mean. Well, that's cool. We ended up having to do a bit of filling and sanding like we do

on most of our props. In fact, if you watch the whole video, which of course I recommended, We do a sexy sanding montage in the style of the pottery scene from Ghost that I think was hysterical. Wow. Wow. Oh, you'll find it. That's awesome. That's amazing. Oh, yeah.

There it is right there. Six minutes. Six-22 seconds. Oh, I got to find this. Hold on now. I considered doing it shirtless as well, but I don't know anything like Patrick Swayze. And it was very cold down there. Well, now we were talking about Onlyfans earlier.

We got an idea for you, Bill. Yeah, we have Bill's only film. Oh, new first video. Yeah, we'll have to do a different cut for only fans. That's awesome. Look at you two smiling and just knowing that. Aw. Look at that.

That's cute. That's a happy couple right there. Yeah, we had a lot of fun with this. We took an extra hour just to film that. That's awesome. That's amazing. Well, all right. This is really, really nice.

I'm jealous of everything you make, but this in particular is pretty sweet. I mean, do you have any, you guys have arguments? about who's is cooler now or what? How's that work? I mean, I think we both have our favorites. Okay. All right. That's a good answer.

You want to both feel good about whatever hill you're dying on. Right. And also, they compliment each other very well. The gold blade and the purple blade, they just, they compliment each other very well. Yeah. Well, it's... Of course, we jammed all the electronics in there. We had to put the buttons and plug in the sword, but it took,

turned out great. I'm so stoked with how it looks. Yeah. And it's just the coolest thing ever. It's pretty great. Go check it out. That video's up now and doing brisk viewer business here, it looks like, already. So be one of the counted views and check out the video at punishprops.com

or the YouTube channel Punish Props. Bill, do you have any bonus content for the week? Yes, another maker YouTube channel. This one I just recently stumbled on. It's called North of the Border. He makes what he says, is he makes tiny nerdy things, little models and stuff.

And he made the house from Stardew Valley. What? And I... Brittany and I just recently in the last month or so, put another 60 hours into a play-thru-thru-valley. So we're really into it. That game's great. It's so good.

Yeah. I did everything. I did everything in the game, and I know I will do it again. I caught every fish. Yeah. And I know that sometime in my life, probably in the next two years

I will go and do all of that again. That thing blows me away in the it's a single dude made that game. It's crazy to me. I can't wait to see what he does next. He apparently is working on whatever's next. Oh yeah. Something chocolate factory or something it looked really cool. From what I've heard

it sounds really cool and just different enough to not just be you know, oh here he is doing the same thing again. But yeah, that game is awesome. It doesn't have been too different. I'll tell you what. I'm so into that game. I agree. It's very good. Well, this is crazy. I love miniatures and stuff. Carter, if you're watching this,

this is your jam as well. She loves little stuff like this. And I love, like, recreations. Like, I don't know if you saw my, I'm not trying to pimp my own thing here, but I did a thing with a SNS controller the other day. And this scratch is the same it for me. It's this feeling of like nostalgia for the thing you're making it about,

but also like scale, making it, I don't know, bigger or smaller than it normally is. There's something about that that just, draws me to stuff. Oh, yeah. Make a thing. I've been playing with the augmented reality on my, I have a 3D scanner on my phone. So I 3D scanned a 10-inch robot model and then in augmented reality I can blow them up to be 100 feet tall.

Yeah. When you change the scale or something like that, or I scan my car and then I shrunk it down to matchbox car size. Nice. Like there's something about making something either really way too bigger or way too small that makes it so much more novel. Yeah. Yeah, it's very cool. uh we'll check that out that is sorry north of the border uh where you literally that's what taco bell is it's north of the border not south uh so anyway go check it out there is that full video and of course spanish props.com for everything else bill have a great week and thanks for hanging with us once again you got it friends bye now see you bye bye all right it does not look like it'll fit uh so the uh the length of the uh the building you

plate that I have on my frozen Sonic is larger than this new Wash and Cure station. Oh, man. Is there another kind that would be closer? Not yet, but we'll keep my eyes out. I just need one that's 200

millimeters wide. All right. I believe in your chances. The one he has is 192 millimeters wide. Dang it. I like your chances. All right. So you're saying there's a chance. Let's do some learning, everybody. Yeah. Science. Bill Duran joins us for our science segment as he does each and every Tuesday right after Bill comes on the show. And it's great to see you. Bill Duran's here? Yeah, can you believe it? Well, he was. He just left. He missed him. He's a star. Missed him by about one scat click.

Yeah, one click away. And my clicks are often abrupt and without warning. So you never know what you're going to get. Bobby, welcome to the show. It's nice to see you. How are you doing? Doing good? I'm doing great. That's great. It's a nice, brisk day here in South Carolina. Yeah, you got the birds chirping, the rednecks doing stuff. Did we call? I think we called you Bill Duran. Is that what you're saying, Bobby? Yeah.

Did I call you, Bill? Did I do that? Oh, shit. What am I doing? Sorry. Hey, hey, look, it's me. You know what I'll blame it on. Don't be Duranberger.

Welcome, Bill B. Duranenberger. A diarrhea. It's the diaryer. Let's build some science. Sorry. I don't know how I did that. Hey, so it's good to have you here. Why don't you tell us, regale us with knowledge about science. What do you cover in this week? Well, I've been thinking a lot about science as one does when you're a science podcaster. And I've been thinking a lot about how science has been on the mind of a lot of people during all this pandemic.

Indeed. In the forefront, a lot. We're hearing a lot about scientists, the process of different types of science, or particularly. medical science, but people are talking a lot about science. And one thing that I've noticed is that a lot of people are sort of have the wrong idea about what science is. They sort of think that science is this like monolithic thing that or institution that just hands down or facts in the truth, right? and that perspective of science can be problematic when you're faced with a thing like a

pandemic where the process of science ends up being very transparent in a lot of ways and you get to see it and hear about it every step of the way and people see opinions change and things happening along the way and and it can confuse people because they think oh, science is supposed to tell me what's true once and for all. And I thought, not long ago I was talking about how I've sort of rechecked my mission as a science communicator and thought, I think it's important to talk about, you know, critical thinking and what science is more, right? And so I thought it would be worth starting from the basics and just talking about what really is science. So I wanted to ask you guys, if you had to define science to somebody, how would you define science?

There's no wrong answer. Okay. So this feels like one of Wendy's questions. Go ahead, Brian. The truths that shape our world, the facts that shape our world, our biology, our knowledge, yeah. I would say science, that's a good one. So that would do. But also, I would probably say, that'll do, Brian.

That'll do, Brian. I would say it is the methods by which we try to understand the world around us and I would probably sneak something in there about how it's ever evolving, changing as we learn more and more. That's a really good definition, I would say. It definitely involves facts. We definitely engage with science, especially in school, in terms of facts. That's how it's presented to us, right?

here are all the facts but i think scott your definition was very i think is very close to what i would call a a complete accurate definition of science what i tell my kids is that science is the process we use to learn about and understand the world around us yeah it's a it's a method of exploration it's and it's um it's definitely very iterative like you were talking about and it's never ending that's an important aspect to it and it's uh So when I'm defining science more thoroughly, I would say that it's a method of exploration that aims to explain the way the world works by starting from a guess about how the world works and then systematically using facts and observations to attempt to prove that guess wrong. Right. And then if any guesses that survive, that process are added to our current understanding of. of how the world works,

but it's our current understanding of how it works, because that can change. Right. It's like the study of, or the origin of the double blind test. I don't know when that happened or who's in charge of when that happened.

But when that happened, that was obviously a monumental step forward in testing methods and must have at the time been seen as, whoa, look, this is great. There's probably a whole history on this I could find somewhere. But that's the idea. Like, that's at the area.

of this thing. So at some point, someone looks in the sky and goes, I see a giant round, white object. And someone else goes, it's the devil's eyeball or whatever. And you go, well, no, I think it's probably not, but we need to see if we can figure out what it is, because right now I couldn't tell you.

It's made of cheese. And so you have to listen to all these people everywhere saying all their dumb shit. And then you have to say, well, okay, we can only observe so much. There's that guy in Italy, he's got a telescope. That's new. Let's see if we can get anything closer. Oh, it's some sort of heavenly body. We know that. So is it just sitting out there?

Why does it change position? Like, it's that process of like, ding, ding, ding, ding, think, and working your way into the middle of whatever your beautiful scientific sculpture will eventually be. Right. And I think the way you're framing it right now is really important because it's, it's, you're talking about it as science. Science is very closely related to philosophy. And I don't think a lot of, I think sometimes it's easy not to forget that or not really fully appropriate. how science can be very closely related to philosophy because there's an entire realm of philosophy called epistemology, which is, it's the, it's sort of like an exploration of what we know, but not just what we know, but what we can know, the philosophical understanding of what is it possible to know. What is knowledge and whatnot? And science is born out of that. You were talking about how like the creation of the double blind study, right? This is an This is an epistemological method to say, okay, if we want to know something and we know that by the very nature of the flawed nature of our brains and our senses and stuff like that, if we know that we can only know what our brains are capable of letting us know, so it's inherently flawed, how can we, given that knowledge of knowing there's this filter between us and in the real world, how can we,

figure out what what is really going on and so in in certain realms of of of science like medicine and whatnot we come up with these double blind things because we science also acknowledges our faults as humans knows that we have biases and we have preconceived notions and the process of science tries to cut through all that and and push that aside as best as we can knowing that it's impossible for us not to have these biases. So how do we approach this as objectively as possible? Right. Yeah. Yeah. And so, but another thing you mentioned was how you touch closely on is this idea of proving things wrong. That's a fundamental, a key fundamental aspect of science is that science cannot prove anything true. And it doesn't attempt to prove anything true, right?

right um because you can't know something is 100% true this is just a again it's epistemological idea this philosophy of knowledge idea that um that's the realm of faith is is to is to to to accept that something is is true uh beyond like like uh faithfully and and without accepting that it could be false so so science says if we can't prove that something is true, then what we want to do is we want to do it. You said, we want to chip away at everything that's around. Like, the truth is in there somewhere. So we want to figure out what are the things that are not part of this sculpture of truth, and we want to chip away at those things. Right. And so that's what the method

of science does. Sure. Yeah. That's what it should do. Unfortunately, some people think it's um if they don't have an immediate answer then then it's all wrong and uh i hate that that makes me want to smear my own spit on their face at a church gathering right they create their own science when they're when they don't find the science that they want they just create their own yeah and it's super circular too right circular and iterative you learn something about the world and then that new knowledge you have to use that knowledge to go back and update what you knew about the other thing which then gets you further and then now you know something new or you have a new tool. And so you have to use that to go back and explore everything again.

The astronomy telescope idea that you mentioned is a really good one because every time we learn new things and develop new tools, we go back and look at the same things over again and see what new things. It's very iterative. It reminds me of like, oh, I saw something about this not long ago on a camera where it was, but there's this famous use case photo of something happening. And when you have a certain angle on the photo, it looks like this guy is trying to steal somebody's purse. But then you find out later, oh, someone else has a photo of it from the rear. What's different?

Oh, actually, it looks like he's not stealing your purse. He's chasing somebody else, but why is he chasing this other person? And then they have this wide shot where something's falling off of a building and this guy's trying to push this lady out of the way to save her, completely different result of that observation of the exact same setup just from these other views. And so I think that's a lot like this. You're just, you start with what limited view you have. You know, for us, let's say it's a black hole. We know as much as we know about physics and interstellar stuff as we can know, but nobody's been in a black hole. Nobody's been floating around out there.

Nobody has direct observation outside of telescopes and that sort of thing. So you have to fill in the blanks the best you can until eventually they'll figure out a way to send some kind of device out there that's capable of making its way through the hole and still broadcasting back what it saw and experience. And then suddenly, we go up a level in observation. Like that is it. That's the whole thing. And it doesn't matter if it's space or, I don't know. Brian figuring out the best way to make the Batman's torso. He's going to experiment and play around and go, oh, well, I've learned that.

Now I'll do this because I learned that last thing and now I know this is going to work. You know, like, that's the whole thing. That's it. Right. And then there's this divide between the knowable and the unknowable. And that's another thing that scientists and people who look at the philosophy of science think about is what can we know. And equally importantly, what can't we know? and it touches on this

this very frustrating I find it very frustrating this very frustrating notion that I hear about sometimes that there's this science versus religion conflict and I don't think that that

should exist because science and faith are two ideas that are just incompatible and I don't mean that in a pejorative way in a negative way I mean that just like oil and water, really.

They just, they will not mix because they're incompatible, but it doesn't mean that you can't take liquids and oils and put them together and like make a salad dressing that tastes good. It just means that you're not going to get them to go together because they're fundamentally different things. And they have their places. There are many scientists of faith, and they live their lives perfectly fine,

but it's this idea of understanding what can we know and what can't we know. know right right and that's what science is trying to do is is dig down into what we can know yeah and and and everything we can know about it and and and how do we do that and and it's never ending like you said and that's the important one of the important takeaways is that it's never ending it's always updating and when when we when we say like you remember when it used to be that that you should eat some eggs every morning for breakfast and then the next decade it was like never eat eggs again you're going to die wine has done that same thing where wine is super good for you super bad for you super good for you yeah we're back to eggs are good so that's fun right because we learn something about them right

and we have to update our knowledge and it's just it's important to be humble about science and know what it's there to do it's not there to tell you like to pronounce the truth on you. It's there to help you say, this is what we know right now. Yeah. Yeah. And that's, that's why you have a whole show dedicated to here's what we know right now. In fact, you should have called it. We talked about it weekly. It should be called, here's what we know right now. But instead, it's all around science. Tell people where they can get it and why they should get it. A slightly more confusing title as I have come to find out since naming it. Sure. But yeah, the podcast is called All-Around Science, and every week we talk about what it is that we know in the realm

of science right now, and sometimes we do go back and say we've learned something new and things changed. Do you remember Venus? We talked about Venus and how they thought that there might be life in the atmosphere of Venus? Well, they found out that that wasn't true. Wow, great. It turns out that it was a mistake.

Darn it. Because we looked back at the data. But yesterday we released an episode, and we talked about... frogs, scientists have like, they chopped, I guess they chopped off a frog's leg, and then they re-grew it. Oh. Oh, really? Was there a happy little Frenchman off to the right who got his nail? Never ending. Frog legs forever. I can never. Perpetual frog leg generation. No, that's cool. I didn't know that was possible. I mean, that's not the frog doing on its own, though. They've figured out how to make this happen or what or is this a special kind of they did some sort of they created what they called

a silicone biodome that they put the frog's leg in with a five drug cocktail and they got the frog to grow its leg back almost almost completely functional good lord we go into a lot of detail about why that's amazing and fascinating and very difficult and and what the implications could yeah the human human trials starting soon everybody get ready to get your leg hacked off they'll buy you lunch and pay you five bucks don't worry uh well excellent this is all good stuff as always bobby uh hanging out with you just tells us we need to learn more and do more uh i don't know why i'm telling you that hey have a great week we'll see you next time all right hey there we go there goes bobby that was fun hey brian there was an actual monday morning mashup yesterday but we didn't play

it because we had to play the thursday thing so i'm playing the monday morning mashup catch up today yes we're playing mashup catch up exactly so Here that one is. And it's not titled very, it's not a great title. It's called Vaj Bag. Okay. So maybe it's Vag Bag. I don't know.

Maybe it's Vag Bag or Vag badge badge. Let's assume the best, okay? And we'll play it. Here's see how it goes. I'd rather eat a monkey's asshole with a rusty butter knife. Also, you've got the wrong number. Please take me off your list. Okay, here goes.

Give me a link to some focus-all or something like that. Focus-in. Focin. Oh, ask your doctor if focusin's right for you. This is a fun question. Somebody asked me yesterday and someone asked you. 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. Brian may have a better memory about this stuff than I do. I do have a pornographic memory. Right. Boobes, vaginas, penises, all of it. Thank you for explaining my job. what pornography is. Yeah, thanks.

The photographing of people's private parts. Oh, well, he told me I'm supposed to have the hots for a green M&M. I didn't understand that. Oh, you don't? I mean, those high heels, come on. I mean, they're pretty hot. Who doesn't want to screw a sexy librarian piece of candy?

I rubbed this in my pocket while I was getting ready. Scott, you're going to be playing for Martin in Nanaimo, BC, British Columbia up there in the Canada. It's pronounced Nanaimo. What the fuck is a Non-nar emo. I've seen you be active.

I've never seen you sweat. No, I take that back. I have seen you drink a lot of liquor and then sweat, but that's not really sweat. That's my buddy. Spelling gin. Yeah. Brian figured out how to focus all of his perspiration through his taint, so no one ever notices.

Nice. Nice. Yeah. It's all taint. Is that truck sweat? What is that? We are not giving. We are not going to give you three code.

Forget it. You are a piece of shit. Oh, see there is a penis. See it? Wait. See it? There's a penis. Look, Brian.

You see it. He just moved the bag. That's a pretty good penis. He wasn't there that long. Yeah, it's a very good penis. Of all the penises I've seen, see, look at that. Yeah. Does it make your taint sweat?

No, my taint is good. My taint is ice cold. Ice cold taint. Okay. They put that in the old, we call it a spank bank. I don't know what ladies call it. Oh, geez. Oh, my God.

Do we? I don't know if we should speak for the male population. What? You know what? I was like, oh, I'll save that for the spank bays. No, just, what, you guys, you guys, never teenagers? You guys never had a libido? I don't know about this spank thing.

I'm trying to think of something funny that rhymes with canoe or... The badge bag. The badge bag. The bag. All right. So, Dunaway is in charge of the badge bag. I'd forgotten that Dunaway was the one who coined the Vaj Bag. Yeah.

Well, plus it happened on film sack, so it wasn't even here. That's right. Also, sick burn there, Jamie. Get me back for pronouncing Nenamo wrong. Yeah, well done. It's all right. And Imo. Who would have known?

No one knew until Jamie pointed it out. Yeah. Nobody knew. Anyway, well done. Who's ever heard of that city anyway? Like that even exists? It's totally made up. Is it even a real place?

Not even a real place. Send us your emails that you paid for with your coins with holes in it. It's fine. Oh my God. We're going to hear from the five people that live in that town and angry. Yep. Send us your dois and your louis or whatever you call them up there. Weird Canadians.

All right. Oh, I have to look, I said all this Canadian. stuff. Kaneda. Got to play that. All right. Exactly. We're done with the show and we had fun.

I did. Brian did. Did you? I think you did. Yeah, we did. I had a great time today. So if you had a great time and you're looking at your calendar going, man, it's the first. What do I have to do on the first?

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t brian we should leave but to do that we got a song to play do you have one to play i have one and this isn't even a request this is me requesting a song to play for the show and so dear brian and scott i'm playing a song cool thank you very much good job did you want to hear let's test the ship's phasers there you go yeah that's uh too early get a fish sandwich sandwich did you fish sandwich jill here's ibit doing this Sausage. Oh, look how long it is. Sausage.

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