The Morning Stream - TMS 2251: Mis-Steak-O Taco

Episode Date: February 24, 2022

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Hardy, hard, hard mode. Nightmare is about mumbles the interns. Sleeping with Kimmy DeVito. Magical shits with Amy. The Cold War II. Less cold. Maybe even hot. I don't like stinky teens. Therapy Thursday without Wendy and more on this episode of The Morning Stream. Are you looking for me?

Hi. My name is Glenn, and I'm sure we have a lot of things in common. Number one, we don't like to write checks. Number two, we don't like to take out the garbage. Number three, we probably don't like to clean the house. And number four is that you purchase this tape, and I'm on this tape for one specific reason, to try to meet the right person. I'm doing this because over the last six months,

I decided that I'm lonely. My phallus is not erect. Many Balthans died to bring you this information. This is the morning stream. Good morning, everybody. It is the morning stream for Thursday, February 24th, 2022. I'm Scott Johnson. That's Brian Abbott over there.

Hello, Brian. Hello, Scott. How are you? Oh, you know, the cold war is back in full force. We're all just dealing with it here, soaking in it. Trying to figure it out. Actually, it seems a little less cold. Yeah, it's a kind of a warm, maybe even a hot war.

Yeah, a little bit, a little hot. Not great. We have some listeners and fans. uh in in ukraine i hope that they are safe and doing okay uh one of which i heard from not two weeks ago or something oh really just let us know uh you know that they listen to the show and that they like what we're doing and stuff and who knew two weeks later they would have uh an invasion to deal with so i hope they're okay uh in fact reach out if you can we just love to hear how you're doing uh out there i don't even know how they get the show i mean it's like

uh i guess i guess i guess ukraine's got pretty good internet but they they're not under the um the the what's the embargo what's the thing it's like a internet uh monopoly kind of thing like china has right oh no no that no they're like full on like you know vote for a guy put him in office kind of democracy over there they're yeah they're fine it's just those a holes in russia who want to come over there and poke them in the butt don't do it russia don't do it oh you're already doing it don't come poke him in the butt yeah don't poke him in the butt anyway hey uh so i was having a interesting conversation this morning I'm not trying to throw anybody under the bus,

but I want to ask you your opinion on this. Okay. You can ask me about a video game that I don't think I've ever played before. No, it's not about, it won't be about the game. Oh, good, okay, yeah. Totally not about that. So the part about this that is about a video game is this. So the Souls games, Demon Souls,

uh, dead, Dead Souls 1 and 2, not Dead Souls, Dark Souls, thank you. Dark Souls 1 and 2 A couple other games The From Software people They make these games That are notoriously difficult And if you've got the time and the effort and the skill You can really

You know hammer those things out And it's very satisfying if you can beat them Very popular There's kind of two camps You either really like Souls likes They call them Or you don't like them Because they're too hard

They're punishingly hard And it's almost like a throwback to like arcade days in a way where it was just impossibly hard but somebody could beat it um think of like bullet hell shooters or any number of genres where dragons uh dragon's uh dragon's lair well yeah maybe that except that you could memorize like this is even harder than that's true yeah those patterns basically yeah and there's some of that here but it's really really hard the boss fights are extremely difficult you'd lose a bunch of progress when you die A huge fan of those.

Yeah, and like I say, like he's, and he's probably, I don't know, I don't know if that's unusual or not. But in his generation, there's probably a lot of people who are really, really into these. And then there are a lot of people who are like, yeah, it's too hard, too punishing. I'm kind of in the camp of it's too punishing. I don't have time to deal with it. If I was 17 and all I had to do was play video games all day, that's right. I would probably love Soulslikes, but, you know, it's just not me. Anyway, not a big deal, but the part I don't.

don't understand is this rabid attitude on that on the on the camp of soul pro souls likes which is there should never be any kind of easier modes like they should never put in a mode that says set it to normal or set it to

easy or anything just so people can experience it and have the world and have it just to be an easier time they are they are adamantly against that concept that you ever do that and make it accessible for anyone else but the hardcore And that's fine.

This conversation I was having with this guy, though, got kind of weird. And I'll just share part of it because I just, I'm trying to understand it. I'm not judging it. I don't want to judge it. Yeah. I said to him, let's see. Sorry, let me get back to where it was. Here he goes.

Okay, so I said to him, okay, I said this is a little bit like an NFL player being mad that eight-year-olds have no tackle rules in their little league games. Like there's like somehow makes, it ruins the, the, the thing for everybody else. Yeah. He says, he says, I just feel like it's okay for some things to be only for certain people. And once you make it so everyone can accomplish something, you take away from those who were once part of a very exclusive group. I said, I don't understand that this is, or I'm sorry, I don't understand this idea that if

you completed a game on the hardest setting that the result is somehow diminished because there are lower difficulty settings you played it on hard you're a badass you did it you you will have always played it on hard no matter what other modes get added to the game yeah i don't understand they don't force you to do those modes you were never once asked to do them and you never did them so why i don't understand the difference he says i disagree that's okay i'm not upset we have different opinions i'll just never be okay with easy modes and i said they don't affect you though. You don't even have to play using an easy mode, ever.

And he says this is probably where the problem. This is new information. It says it doubly doesn't affect me because I don't even play soul's games. Well, then why are we having this conversation? He says, he says, I just feel like it diminishes the value of the games. What's wrong with certain games not being for everyone?

Do video games need to fall victim to the quote, everybody needs a trophy mentality? That's not what I'm saying at all, but whatever. So I said, oh, he says, why take the meaning and sacred idea of soul? Or why take away the meaning and sacred idea of Souls games just to make a select group happy? I said, there's a meaning and sacred idea? It's a video game. Is that covered in the first chapter of the Prima Games guide to the Souls games?

Yeah. You'll sign this so you can understand the sacred meaning. of uh yeah this sacred this idea that some of this stuff is sacred like i probably shouldn't get off this boat and not talk to the guy but my point is actually the question i wanted to ask you was sure if you play a game can make my own mario levels now i'm done i'm out but if you if you play a game brian and you decide oh i just don't have the time to bang my head against the wall i need to make this simpler and easier and you play it on an easier setting do you feel like a lesser human being do you feel like i don't there's an initial there's an initial like

Man, why can't I get, you know, why do I have to go on easy mode? And it does last for like a minute. And then I'm like, nah, screw it. What did that recently happen with? Was it, it was something, dang, where there was just a level I was struggling with. And I think the game even said, hey, it looks like you're struggling with this. Do you want to just go on and do, Brian, basically. How you doing that?

You're okay? You need a... Brian, it looks like you take forever to do this level. Do you want to just play it on an easy mode? You know what it was? It was the mythology, Phoenix Rising. Oh, yeah, that did have a way of saying you're blowing through content. Do you want to up the difficulty?

Do you want to lower it or whatever it is? Yeah, and I think the problem was that I got through an area without completing, well, not complete, without doing a few. things that would have given me higher levels in attack or defense or something like that. And I got to the boss and I started bashing my head against the boss. And then after four times dying, it says, hey, uh, why don't you just scale it back to easy mode? We'll put it back on normal mode when you're done battling this boss.

But for right now, why don't you do this on easy mode? I'm like, you know what? Yeah. Why? What is, what's my, what blows will I suffer to my ego for, for doing this? And for a second, I felt like, oh, I suck. I could play it on easy mode. But after doing that, it's like, what am I here to do?

I'm here to enjoy this content. I'm not here to flop my achievement wean right on the, you know, on the internet for everyone to see and say, look what I did. I'm here to enjoy the content. And if you were, if you were there for that, you have that too. It's there. There is the place for that as well. And that's my whole point is.

the game doesn't exclude these people from their hardy hard hard modes like go do it on hard and now you've got the achievement i did it on hard it's all it's all ones and zeros where we have proof you did it on hard we know you got the achievement it's not like you can't you know you can't lie your way through it or whatever i don't understand that and then when you start talking about how your game is sacred okay whatever yeah yeah we're not having that conversation i love video games but i think it was uh the great prophet uh russell male of the band sparks that's said, nothing is sacred. Yeah, and he's right.

It's all kind of just whatever. You know what? The life of children is sacred. There, I said one. There you go. Well, yes. Okay, sure. Humanity and...

Yeah, the life of people, the welfare of others, the... Sure. Those sorts of things. But your video game, your freaking souls-like? Yeah. Your movie, your comic book, your TV show, your board game,

none of that's sacred. It's, you know, it's... It's there for entertainment and enjoyment, and everyone is going to be entertained and enjoy it a different way than you. So there's no established rulebook of how you're allowed to enjoy that thing. Yeah, and let me flip this around. If I said, I actually think he's got it backwards because if you play a game that has a really hard mode but also has easier modes, aren't you in a more exclusive rad group if you beat it on hard than you would on a game that has no other modes? And everyone who did beat it, beat it on the same mode, now you're just in the same.

crowd you know what i mean like aren't you actually boy i should have said that in my twitter reply you should have oh see this is why you don't tweet five seconds before we do the show take some time think about it yeah yeah i got to workshop it put it in front of editorial see what they say and then i get it out there exactly all right uh what is the do you remember the hardest game you've ever played oh yeah what is the most difficult game you've ever played well it was one of those souls like securo specifically was very very hard and it gave up um but i think, um, besides that, probably, oh, geez, recently, I have, I tried to play one of the Mega Man games. Oh, yeah, no kidding. Those are freaking hard. Those were, and the, uh, even the, even the

original NES ones, man. Like, uh, yeah, yeah, especially since there's the, uh, the, um, save points or, or, uh, whatever you call those where you get to a place and that's your new. Checkpoint. Point. Checkpoint. Thank you. Checkpoint, Charlie. The game had so few of those that you felt like you're starting right at the beginning anytime something bad happened. Yeah, those and all those contra games and that kind of stuff, just ridiculous. Very, very hard stuff. And even those had levels, but even on the easiest freaking Mega Man O'Killia. So, yeah, all we're saying is don't get so hoity-toity about your game. Who cares?

And I love video games, man. I do half my content is about gaming. I love it. It's amazing. I hold that whole thing is very important in my life. But sacred, what are we doing? Yeah. Yeah.

All right, hey, really quick. We'll do this really quick because I know we got Amy here. But do you have your dream cards handy? For like a rarity right now, Scott, I remembered my dream last night. Crap. I don't know. That's all right. I'll just go.

All right. Give me your dream. This is a rare. This is rare. You never remember your dreams. This is rare. I hardly ever remember my dreams. And it was because it woke me up.

And it's going to crack you up. What exactly woke me up? Okay. All right. So, always, whenever I'm in a house, in my dream, it's a familiar house. When I wake up and think about what that house looked like, it's like, I have never seen that house before in my life. I don't know what house that is. But in the dream, it's my house.

It's your house. And I'm listening to the radio. And they're giving away something that I want, some sort of. sort of concert tickets and they ask a trivia question and I'm like oh my god I know the answer to this and the the DJ is almost doing the YouTube thing that I was describing earlier where he's like really like all right so we have you know we have our unique phone number that you need to call because we can only give you the same phone number every time this also for some reason seemed completely natural to me that a radio station would have a new phone number every

time they do a contest and so I've like dialed the first several numbers and I'm waiting for him to tell me the last several numbers and it's like oh my god when is he going to say it and he cuts to a commercial and he comes back and so i have to dial all those numbers again and finally he comes back and says all right so we're going to take the first caller with the correct answer and he gives me the answer or it gives me the phone number or says the phone number i dial it it goes to a um switchboard some some dude answers and he goes are you coming for this and I'm like, what? What?

Are you calling for the gentleman? Like, I like, contest. He's like, okay, please hold. And so he puts me up. All right. And then it rings a few times, and it finally gets to, all right, here, welcome to such and such radio. Who's this? Oh, it's Brian.

All right. What's the answer? And I'm like, scrambling because I can't even remember what the freaking trivia question. was that they asked like this is perfect nightmare for you by the way perfect my nightmare of of my memory completely failing me yeah and and i'm like crap do i say oh you know that was such could you repeat that question just so i can make sure i got a night right and that's when i woke up like oh that's weird yeah that's weird and so no so to this point you still have no idea i don't know you know, your brain does weird things in dreams.

There may have never been a trivia question. My brain maybe told me, you know, in dream, in dream world, that a trivia question was asked and you know the answer to it. And I never actually heard what the trivia question was. See, that's crazy. Why are my dream? See, your dream at least goes to say, all right, well, you know, Brian's very good at answering stuff.

He's on the spot, ready to go. I can ask him a trivia question. He'll know the answer. And so this is a very like, oh, of course, one. of one of the things you would least like to have happen is be caught in that situation where you don't know even the question, let alone the answer. I make sense to me. My dream last night was Kim told me to put a bunch of books in boxes and sell them. And I turned around to do that. And when I turned back, she was Danny DeVito for the rest of the dream. Now, does that have anything to do with anything? Hey, Scott. Like, it has nothing to do with me at all. Like, I don't understand. No. Yeah, that is weird. Mine absolutely says,

here is your fear, Brian. I will lay it out as clearly as possible. This is something you are deathly afraid of. Is your memory going and you're not, you know, not having the ability to recall information that was given to you 10 seconds ago. Yours is like, are you afraid of books or Danny DeVito?

That's what I'm saying. You have practical dreams. Even the nightmares are practical because they have a purpose. They make sense. I have my friend Brian's head on a chair once. Danny DeVito telling me to sell a bunch of books pertaining to me my wife. Like what? Laura Palmer and Arnold Palmer and some sort of weird medical mashup.

Really weird. I don't get it. Dreams are weird, man. That's all I know for 100% sure. All right. Speaking of weird things, not really. Amy's not weird. we're bringing in red fraggle

she's the opposite of weird she's very nice she's the good weird like you know some people like to be weird I think she she likes to be weird and she is the good weird yeah she's our kind of weird for sure

I like our kind of weird hey look who it is everybody joining us for Read This with Amy it's Amy herself hi Amy Hi Amy Hi how's it going Good how are you You having a good week and stuff

Oh yeah you know I actually I have a question for both of you Guys, you have both successfully raised teenage boys. And by successfully, I mean, they're like out of your house without you having murdered them first. Yeah, I'm glad you didn't qualify what you consider successful. Yeah, no, that's true. We've had, you know, I think you could call Brian and I successfully raised a boy and then push them out. We successfully evicted a boy.

Yeah, yeah. Maybe that's... You know, whatever success is measured at, I mean, is he like, you know, a valedictorian at MIT? No, but they're good kids and they're out and they're doing their thing. So, sure. So what's your question about that? Oh, my goodness. Okay, so my question is...

That smell... I know what your question is, and that smell never goes away. Yeah, never leaves. Oh, damn it, that really was my question. Was it really? Yes. Like, can you ever convince them to not be stinky? It depends.

Like, right? So, so Nick hit an interesting stage at 18 and it never left. He got really, really cool with that stuff and started like buying interesting colognes. He bought like fancy soap for men. He's got like he's really into his like leather boot collection that he's got going on. It sounds like I'm describing somebody who's maybe living an alternate lifestyle. I'm not. I'm just saying he just got suddenly really interesting. interested in that like what instead of just hair gel or whatever like what's you going to groom his beard with like that stuff suddenly became popular or important to him same with tristan yeah and i think about like 20 yeah 18 to 20 i think somewhere in that range for nick it was a little younger uh carter will remember more and she's in the chat but he's so when i go like hug nick when i see him now he smells like a uh uh l bean or something like just a nice uh you know for ralph loren is kind of deal going on. But prior to that, you know, Dorito feet 24-7, that kid. For sure. Yeah, exactly. Yeah. Yeah. Well, that's the problem. It's like my kid, he walks by me and I'm like, oh, man, like two-day-old

Spaghetti-o smell, like walking past me. It's like, oh, dude, take a shower. And like, the other day, he had, he clearly hadn't taken a shower and he was super stinky, but I had other chores I had to do. I had to make him do. And so we did that. And I was like, all right. When we're done with this, be sure you go take a shower. And then the next morning, my husband drove him to school. And he comes in and he's like, man, the boy was so smelly. And I texted him and I was like, dude, did you take a shower? He's like, no, I forgot. How the hell do you forget to take a shower? It's a phase. How old is he now? How old is he? He's 17. I think it's probably a little phase. They all got their little dirty phase you know they're all just like gross they don't care i have hope like what you guys

told me is like eventually they'll they'll get into to some hygiene there and usually it's when someone in the chat said it but usually it was sam or somebody but usually it's when a relationship start to be meaningful to them and they don't want to be gross to their significant other girlfriend or boyfriend or whoever they find so they so i think that's part of it they just get to a point we're like oh yeah i better not reek all day if i want to actually take this girl out and I think that'll that'll do it more. I mean, is he dating regularly now and when he does, is he bringing home like an equally gross girl? Like, what's that about?

No, see, that's the thing. He has a girlfriend and she's lovely. She actually came over for dinner last night. And I'm like, she's a very nice girl and very stylish and whatnot. And I'm like, Doniella, can you not smell him? Like, is there something wrong with your name? Maybe she likes it. Maybe she's like, oh, yeah.

She does. Week old Spaghettios. She's really into that. Somebody in the chat asked me if she has COVID. No, I don't think she has. Symptom free except for the smell thing. And then she's the luckiest girl in the world. Nice.

That'll change. It'll be fine. Boys are gross and then they are not. And then they are again and then they're not. They're always kind of gross. Whereas my girls, they always smell great. They just smell. Well, you know, they had a moment there when they were little and had diapers.

Sure. But for the most part, they were like, cute little, you know, Kim made him smell nice. Aw. Yeah. So that's good. And then, you know, of course, men grow up to be 52-year-old guys in bars who smell their waitresses they walk by. So there's that. Anyway, let's get to the book thing today. So you sent me a clip.

Do you want me to play this first? Do you have any setup for this? Or what do you go? A book clip. Since we're talking about stinky things, let's go ahead and play that clip. All right, here you go. Then I had an idea. Why bother with the outhouse at all?

Why not put some newspaper on the floor and do my business like a puppy? That seemed like a fantastic idea. So that's what I did. I took the newspaper, laid it out on the kitchen floor, pulled down my pants, and squatted and got to it. When you shit as you first sit down, you're not fully in the experience yet. You are not yet a shitting person. You are transitioning from a person about to shit to a person who is. is shitting. You don't whip out your smartphone or a newspaper right away. It takes a minute

to get the first shit out of the way and get in the zone and get comfortable. Once you reach that moment, that's when it gets really nice. It's a powerful experience shitting. There's something magical about it, profound even. I think God made humans shit in the way we do because it brings us back down to earth and gives us humility. I don't care who you are. We all shit the same. Beyonce shits. The Pope shits. The Queen of England shit. When we shit, we forget our airs and our graces. We forget how famous or how rich we are. All of that goes away.

You are never more yourself than when you are taking a shit. Wow. All right. So that's Trevor, what, or what's, Trevor Noah. Trevor Noah. So tell us what this is. Why is he telling us this story? So the book is born a crime by Trevor Noah.

And it's basically his autobiography. and obviously that's him reading it as well. And it's interesting, somebody in the taboole actually recommended this book to me. And then when I found out that he read the audio himself, I was like, oh, well, yeah, I'm doing that on audiobook for sure. Yeah. Tina listened to this and loved it. And I was in the room with her for a little bit while she was listening to it. And I was like, oh, my God, I want to listen to the rest of this. He is such an engaging speaker. And his stories are so good. Yeah. Yeah. It is fantastic. And he really does. He weaves the story really well. And the book, it's not his stand-up. You know, it's not like all. I mean, that clip was pretty funny. But like, it's not all that. It's, he talks a lot about, you know, growing up in South Africa during apartheid. And thus the title born a crime. I mean, he's a mixed race person during a time when it was illegal. for that to happen so he like his existence was illegal when he was growing up um and like what that

was like and everything and how you know he kind of for a while didn't feel like he really belonged anywhere you know because he was you know the black kids were like well you're not black but the white kids were like well you're not white you know and so um and and every he had to you know his mom had to pretend that he wasn't her kid because, you know, else she could get in trouble, you know, if a, if a cop ever stopped them on the road or something like that. Yeah. He should have been able to be like a normal kid that his mother's afraid or embarrassed to know him because he pooped on the floor. That's what I mean? Like that's that's the difference between him and me.

And that's the thing you always have to remember as a cis white male these days is that your experience is not that indignant. of others you know like mine would have just been that kid pooped on the floor for him it's like all this racial stuff and he pooped on the floor you know yeah yeah i mean and this book it has it has everything it's got you know it's got some good history lessons in there it's got humor it's got i'm not going to spoil anything but the last couple of chapters are you won't be able to stop because you're engaged and like oh my god what's going to happen here you know and uh and for I'm not going to lie. For me, it was a little bit triggering, but, you know, I was, I was engaged in it at that point.

And I'm like, okay, now I have to see it through. But, because there's a, there's a domestic violence angle in there. So, that's a thing for me. Sure, sure. But, yeah, but yeah, it's fantastic. And I definitely, whoever in the tab pool, and I apologize, because I went back and looked in the Discord, but I couldn't find who, who had recommended this book to me. But thank you for the recommendation, because it was fantastic. And I, so I want to turn around and recommend it to everybody else because it's, it's definitely a good listen or a good read.

And I would definitely recommend checking it out. I'm trying to see source-wise, obviously Audible and, you know, stuff like that. It looks like IBooks also has it on an audiobook. And forever no, I'm just trying to see where his, there it is, his status here looks like, yeah, everything available in every format you could ever want it in. Oh, yeah. And cheap, too. 10 bucks on Kendall, no-brainer. Totally worth grabbing.

Very nice. All right. Well, I like it. He's a interesting dude in general. I can't think of any job harder. Well, I was probably a harder jobs, given today's circumstances. But there's probably no harder job in entertainment at the time anyway to step in and say, hey, this guy nobody hardly knows. You're taking over for John Stewart, who everybody knows.

Right. and loves a job that everybody loves yeah and it was like this amazing run and you're going to take that over somehow and you're still going to make that work somehow like it's almost feels impossible like like conan o'brien impossible when he took over for letterman levels of of change and yet still he pulled it off and it's pretty amazing so yeah no i agree i love i love trevor noah um you know if you haven't seen his stand-up it's also really really good um so yeah he's got a he has a special on netflix right I think it's Netflix. He has a special. It's very good. Kim and I watched it and loved it. And that also had a bunch of this history in there, like talking about his growing up and stuff. So it wasn't like now we all need to get serious kind of moments. But it was enough for you to go, oh, yeah, this dude's seen some stuff. You know, it's not. Yeah. And it's, he's had a fascinating life. And he's not even that old. You know, and so it's like, wow, dude. All right. He's what in his 30s? You got a good story there. 30-something or whatever. Yeah, he's young. Plenty more to do. All right, well, that's awesome. Go check it out.

You guys, that's Trevor Noah's born. What is it again? Sorry, title. I just closed the... Born a crime. Born a crime. There you go. Go check it out.

All right, Amy, tell people where they can find you and, you know, talk to you and give you book recommendations and that sort of thing. Sure, yeah. I'm Red Fraggle 3 on all the socials. And I will be at TMS Vegas. Yay. Go. Yeah.

Yeah, come say hi to me. You're going to bring this, the smelly 17-year-old or no? No. Nope. The smelly 17-year-old will have school, so he will be with his dad. Gotcha. Well, everyone knows dad gets a little smellier when mom leaves. At least I do.

Kind of true, yeah. Yeah, I'm excited to see you in person. That'll be crazy after all this time. We've known each other. I know. I know. I was telling my daughter about that the other day. I was like, I've known these guys for like,

10 or, you know, plus years, many years. But I, you know, I've never met Scott in person at all. I think it would have been like 06 or something. Yeah. Because you were, we were all sending promos to each other for that. What did we call that little podcast network where you're all part of at one point? Brian, I think you were on this too, weren't you? Oh.

Oh, shoot. The something something network. Be-da-da-da. And we all played promos and Amy did a promo for the instance. And it was forever ago. I don't know. I don't remember. It was so long ago.

A long time ago. And it was like back in the ELR days. Yeah, it was Extra Life Radio and Len Peralta was still doing his thing. And he was a part of it. Tripod? Tripod. Okay, that was Lens. Okay, that was Lens.

Yeah, tripod network. We were all doing the tripod network thing. Was that a Lenn thing? I couldn't remember. That was Lenn. Yeah, Len started that with two other people. And I can't remember who the other two people were, but they were the three pods of the tripod.

Yeah, they were the three heads of service itself. Well, anyway. That's awesome. Amy, have a fantastic week. We look forward to our next discussion. Thanks. See ya. Bye now. All right. Cool. And that link is now available on QuickTMSLI. QuicktmS. Lee. Very nice. Check this out. It's time for the news and it's brought to you by. Oh, bam. Upload. What if you live streamed your best friend's secret identity to the entire world. That's the story explored in Super Best Friend, issues one and two.

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Suspicious packages as an Alabama courthouse turned out to be a Taco Bell order. Ah, okay. All right. In today's world, never hurts to be cautious, even when the thing you have to be cautious about turns out to be Taco Bell. On Monday morning, the Tuscaloosa, Alabama Hazardous Device Unit. That's a cool name. Hazardous device unit. Overreaction Grande is what they ordered.

Oh, is that what they had there? Okay. Yeah. Yeah. Hmm. Same seven ingredients, but boy, howdy. The Mistako taco. The Mistako.

Mestako sounds real. It sounds like something to steak in it. That's good. Anyways, called out to check on two suspicious packages located on the front steps of the federal courthouse there. And once the scene, or once on the scene, they sprung into action, according to Facebook post from the Tuscaloosa Police Department with an image of the possibly dangerous materials. Several officers responded, including motor officers, who set up our perimeter around the building,

blocking adjacent street to vehicle and foot traffic. Let's see. Ultimately, the post indicated the packages were discovered to contain an assortment of regular and Doritos Locos tacos, along with four beefy five-layer burritos. Somebody's hungry. It's a bomb, but it's not going to go off until much later. Yeah. You got like eight hours or something before that explodes.

Exactly. Yeah, that's a slower ticking time bomb. Yeah. Let's see, by 20 a.m., less than a half an hour later. The roads were reopened. Tacos and burritos had been safely disposed of in a dumpster. Yeah, they didn't eat them. They didn't do it.

It's a shame. Wasted food, man. Let's see. Is there a picture of this bag? The red zone is for McDonald's only, please. I want there to be a picture. Is there not one? Ow.

Poop. There's not one. Oh, there is. Unblock that post. Yeah, there it is. You found a photo? Yeah, Duck, Duck, Go is blocking it because it's trying to take control of things, but anyway, here it's... Because it's the Today Show, and it's...

Yeah, they're trying to feed me bullshit all of it. Is it in the video, or do I have to scroll down for the photo? Oh, there it is right there. It looks like, you know, it looks like it looks like the aftermath from a Office Depot. Yeah, it looks like me eating on a Saturday afternoon. Look at that. Exactly. So wait a minute, though. If nothing about that looks suspicious to me, who called this in? Not even, was it in, was all this in another bag? Is that the deal? Well, they said two bags.

I assume these items laying out were possibly in the second bag that's now wrinkled up over there. So let's say there were two bags. That one even says Taco Bell, doesn't it? Yeah, and they've got a logo. I mean, maybe it wasn't that. Maybe they thought they were fake devices inside Taco Bell delivery. I would, this, like, they've clearly unwrapped each one to make sure that it is what it says. Yeah, yeah.

You'd think that it would be in something else that looks suspicious, because if I see this, there's nothing suspicious about any of this. I agree. The only thing suspicious is that somebody bought these didn't eat them and left them somewhere. Completely agree. Yeah, I don't. Oh, it was a delivery order.

It was like a, somebody, some door dash. Yeah, like a door dash or something. Yeah. I assume. But I hear, so the only possible thing I could think of is somebody at the courthouse went, hey, there's two bags outside. They might, they look like Taco Bell bags. But if none of you, like maybe, did someone order it?

No, we didn't order it. And then nobody, nobody cops to it. Then you're like, we better. air on the safe side. That's probably how this happened. Probably, although I'd still, I don't know, I'd say, oh, no one, nobody ordered this? All right, I'm going to go throw it away, and I would throw it away.

Maybe I'm naive, and I would get blown up in a case like this, but... Well, you only would if it was an actual bomb, but then again, I mean, when's the Unibon, or when that all end, he's done, right? That's all over. He's done. He and his hooded self are in seclusion after his

his manifesto and all that stuff. So all that stuff, and people this hadn't happened in a while and we haven't had like remember those anthrax scares after 9-11 and all that like somebody somewhere somebody somewhere wants to put a bomb somewhere and have someone grab it and have it explode that's for sure we know that but this wasn't that day and this was actual taco bell and now it's gone to waste yeah you dummies though it didn't look like i mean that's probably like eight dollars with taco bell like five doritos locos tacos and two beefy burritos so they're the ones that all of this is making me really want taco bell today i know dude i know dude i

No, this is a problem. Here's the other funny thing. Taco Bell is so cheap, for the most part, that on DoorDash, when you're trying to get a $10 order because that gets you free delivery, you have to work at it to be like, oh, I'm not there yet. All right. Add two more locoes, whatever tacos. Oh, shoot, I'm still not there. All right. Slender.

It's really, really annoying. Sam, look, I know. Look, I eat too much Taco Bell. I'll admit it. Not all the time, but enough to know how much stuff. cost and they're cheap and it's you know that's why they're partly i think why they're so successful they keep it nice and nice and cheap uh they'll do one more story here this is about a local story so i have to play this this is the rule hold on a second utah connection uh a b yu

student that's brigham young university in provo about i don't know 40 minutes south of me uh tried to make a homemade rocket fuel or make some homemade rocket fuel in his dorm room that's dumb and created a fireball that displaced 22 people nobody got hurt though so we're all okay but he made a giant fireball happened in there like a dumbass it's not brain surgery no it certainly isn't brain surgery that rocket i get what you're saying yeah uh police at brigham young university in Utah had to give an unconventional warning to students this weekend quote

keep your experiments in the lab unquote the warning came after a student living in one of the college dorms attempted to make homemade rocket fuel and instead created a fireball that engulfed the walls. Wow. Yeah. I mean, the dorms are all brick, so I assume there wasn't much of a fire hazard. Oh, but still. Do you kind of hope he walked out of his dorm, like the dorm room opens, and then there's

smoke that comes out and he walks out, just like black stuff all over his face and his hair sticking straight out like he's, you know, Yahoo! Serious in that Young Einstein movie? I mean, if not, what's even the point if he didn't do all that? What did we learn from all of that sitcom training that you got? Yeah. that all for not i ask yeah what do you what do you use to make rocket fuel like how many cans of monster energy drink and uh no kidding dude like how would you get that stuff the fact that he got

whatever he needed in there is kind of concerning you know yeah i want some kid doing that they don't really get into his motives in this article which bums me out because i'd really like to know what he was doing this for um they seem to be the framing of this is well he was just experimenting but maybe he's a psycho maybe get that guy on a list I don't know. Yeah, maybe. The Tedpool, by the way, does get points because they use this as an opportunity to have a fantastic callback to Taco Bell as to what you use to make a giant bomb in your dorm. Oh, that's what you do.

Yeah, you bring eight bucks worth of Taco Bell back to your dorm and a little bit of gas and you're good. It says here, the flames from the explosion and engulf the walls and ceiling around the stove and intense heat tripped the fire sprinkler system. Firefighters quickly secured the scene and were able to put out remnants of the fire. I don't know if that affected. Do you think that hit everybody's sprinkler? like not just that room but like the whole building yep i don't know i wonder if those are on like a little uh uh oh what's on like a segmented way i don't know how you do it right how do you get water past one set of sprinklers to go to the next i'll bet it's all of the rooms on that chain

on that floor yeah it had to be that at least that floor well i mean these and these are old too it's not like some hot new you know setup where the where that stuff's all separate it's old buildings. My guess is everybody got hit. I feel bad for some kid in his room working on his open face PC work. He's putting a new video card in and then and then you're screwed.

Oh, that would suck. Anyway, there's that. I do have one time. I have time for this last okay. Yeah. I'm going to skip ahead actually to the Vegas one. Let's tell this Vegas story. Okay. Yeah, let's kill the Vegas story. Let's give people reasons to think Vegas is weird.

Yeah. Las Vegas restaurant accused of lacing their food with THC. Oh, yeah, baby. Okay. Las Vegas woman says a restaurant drugged her food with THC, the main psychoactive compound and marijuana. Other people online say the same thing happened to them at the same place. Quote, their food is usually really tasty and we've never had a problem before, says Samantha Diaz, one alleged victim, but this was a problem. Some people might say it's not a problem. I'm just saying.

Some people might be happy to have a little weed in their... Maybe, yeah, and it's legal in Vegas. Yeah, it's totally legal. Why the heck not? Dia, we know, don't send us email saying drugging people. We know it's spiking. Yes, we know. Yes, exactly.

We're kidding. We're kidding. We're kidding. People is bad. We're kidding. We're joking around. Oh, thank you, Claire. Claire is the one who feels like she has to clarify.

I think being drugged is always bad. Oh, Claire. If you hadn't said so. I don't know if that's really her because she's, it's not all caps. Who's typing on Claire's account? Because it's clearly not her. Did your, did your caps lock button finally break? Claire. Is that what happened?

Yeah. Are we getting Claire sprained by somebody? We're getting Claire splained. Now it's all in caps. It says, oh, check this out. So they ate at this place is called the Secret of Siam. You ever been there? It's not on the strip, I don't think. If I'm confusing it, there's another place called the something Lotus of Siam.

There's another one that's, that is a really good Thai place called, is it just called Lotus of Siam? Oh, man. Somebody's going to be able to help me with that one. But I haven't been the secrets of Sam. This one's in Northwest Vegas. So probably not strip anyway. Probably not. Maybe they have locations.

But anyway, they were there recently. She says something was off. Ancient Siamese secret, huh? Yeah, exactly. Diaz took a curry dish home and then experienced symptoms when she ate it two days later. It was like I was melting onto my chair. And I got all disoriented and heavy. I thought, what's happening here?

She thought she was having a stroke. I said to my husband, honey, I think I'm high. And he was like, get out of here. We haven't left the house in two days. It wasn't until Super Bowl Sunday that Diaz came across social media posts about other people on the next door. I had the same experience. I said, honey, get in here. I didn't make it up, Diaz recalled.

So they're trying to make you like their food more. I guess, loud. Usually it's so satisfied. I'm going to just sleep now. I remember when people were complaining about MSG, not THC. See. Yeah, Lotus of Sam is the one in Vegas that is known all around the country for being as good as it is. Like, it is really, really good.

I put a link in there. It's a northern Thai food place. And James and Svet have taken me there twice, maybe Mitzula once or something like that. But I know I've been there a couple times, and it is so freaking good. Yeah, it sounds good. Everything you've said makes me want to eat there. So, I shall consider it on my visit there. Yeah, James Beard Award, Best Tie in Las Vegas.

Who's James Beard? I don't know who that is. He's a national food, not critic, but award system. So not the drummer for Zizi Top then, not that guy. That's Frank Beard. Ah, gotcha. And so, yes, not him. It's like a, like Michelin Stars kind of thing, right?

Where it's... Oh, here he is. Born in 1903, died in 85 at the age of 81. He was known, let's see, James Andrews Beard. Yeah, the James Beard Foundation. American chef, cookbook author, teacher, television personality, pioneered television cooking shows, but, but, but, but, widely considered one of the great chefs in American history. All right.

That's cool. Seems like you probably could make a nice egg in the morning. Yeah, for sure. We can get that done. All right, we're going to take a break. It's like a prestigious award, if you get the. James Beard award. That makes sense. We're going to take a break when we come back. We are going to, normally we talk to Wendy.

Wendy is traveling today. So instead, we're going to talk to someone who's done the Real Steps program with Wendy and has had the steps that are real. Yeah, and had an amazing experience. And I want to hear how it went because we talk about it kind of lightly sometimes like, oh yeah, check out real steps.org. But apparently this thing is making like a giant difference in people's lives. So we're going to find out just how much right after this song break that Brian has prepared. A huge thanks to Brendan Burke of the Syndicate for sending me this one. Really, really, really cool.

This is an artist named I Am Snow Angel. Her real name is Julie Catherine, but she performs as I Am Snow Angel. Maybe it's like I Am No Angel kind of thing, but I am Snow Angel. Anyway, she's a multi-instrumentalist. She's a producer, sound designer, songwriter. this comes from her upcoming album Lost World this single is excellent it's the title track from our new upcoming album

which comes out May 6th so make sure you check out that album very gold frat very Santa gold it's my favorite thing electronics with female vocals I don't know why I love that so much but I do too

what is it about that do you think I'm the same way a great combination. I don't know. I don't know what it is. Love it. Chill poppy stuff. Yeah. Churches, great example of that. Anyway, here you go. So here is Lost World by I Am Snow Angel, the title track from the upcoming album. flights are circling Tense and byways bright lights are

Dry stays for me up in sun Remind me baby when we were young Silver linens filling buckets Lost reminders lady love love cruel decided who was the one will life survival come undone Oh it's the most fun Oh it's a lost heart Can you feel it?

Or it's the most world? Can you believe it? Or it's a last night? Can you feel it? Or it's the most world? Can you believe it? No more. Somers skies, you make me cry, this heavy lies, wait one-on-law.

Paid by numbers, pain by rhymes. The pain inside, inside these grounds. Crows dry as days Will we love you, son Remind me baby One million Dry as days Won't me of you blue

Remind me baby what I say Is true What's the last breath? Can you feel it? What are the last one? Can you believe in there? What are to last night? Can you feel?

Oh, yeah. Oh, till all this world, can't believe you. It lost love, came in you, Mama. You got her looking like that, that white guy with the afro, you be painting on TV. Open Batmobile. Allow Harley to drive. 2012. I can't wait to go back and listen to that. You know, I like the chiverch's.

I know you like the chiverch's. And this is very chiverch-like. I am Snow Angel, is the artist and the brand new album coming out May 6th. It's called Lost World. That was the title track. Very, very nice. All right. We're going to bring in one Stephanie Bates to the program.

Okay. I should have said the name earlier. Yeah. And we'll see how this goes. I don't think we'll play Wendy's theme song because that's weird, right? Hello. Oh, hello. Is this Steph? It is. Hi. Oh, my gosh. Hello. Hi. And welcome. How the heck are you doing? Oh, I'm too. I'm pretty good. How the heck are you too? Yeah, we're all right. Hey, I know earlier, her and I've had a little conversation off air and you were talking about how you were going to feel a little nervous or whatever, but we're just dorks. And you sound great. That's good. That's good. It's my people then. Yeah. Totally. Totally. Yeah. We're just. just potato heads here having a good potato time. Outstanding. As long as I can be a total goofess, then we are all good here. Oh, good. There's no, yeah, there's no limit to the goofiness that we can be on the show. Outstanding. Yes. Well, my sister Wendy, who you're familiar with, obviously, tells me that Stephanie is one of the great success stories of the Real Steps program. And that's

obviously a really cool thing to hear. But like I was talking or saying to Brian, we just sort of mention that thing when she's on here we say oh go check it out everybody whatever um we don't make a giant deal out of it and i think we end with it yeah usually end with it's like oh it's yeah it's like her little find me on twitter moment or whatever the real steps afterthought yeah the real steps after that but you've you've actually seen what what she and her partner doing up close and know what the program is and how it affects people and all of that i'd just love to hear your take on it and how it's helped or you know what what you would tell other people about it, that sort of thing. Yeah, I mean, it's, it's totally awesome. I have done

five rounds, I think, of Real Steps at this point. And it's really just, like, if you're feeling stuck in a rut, or you just, you want to start feeling better about yourself, better about your body, better about your mental health. If you're sick of like the diet roller coaster, then Real Steps is absolutely for you. It's basically all. It's basically all. about just making small steps that you can achieve every day that will help you feel better in the long run and improve your relationship with your body and your mind. And with food, I mean, that's been the biggest change for me. Real steps has really, I mean, I'm totally a diet roller coaster person, you know what I mean?

I've been on and off diets for years and years and years. And they only work for, you know, a certain amount of time before you start. going crazy and then you end up you know falling off the wagon and gaining everything back and then some right um and what's really cool about real steps is it kind of like it almost divorces you from that process like one of the first things they tell you to do in real steps is to put away your scale like don't look at the number on the scale the number is not important in feeling healthy and feeling better. Like, obsessing about the number is not going to be good for you in the long run.

And there was something really magical in putting away the scale because it helped me to just focus on how my body was feeling aside from that number. Does that make sense? Yeah, totally does. That's really interesting to me because when I, we always think, or at least in a modern sense, I think that we need to categorize everything and also have metrics for everything. And I think that some of that is true. Like, it helps to have data for lots of things. But in this particular case, the data you want from a scale, which is, did I lose anything? How am I?

This week, whatever. It's so common and so burned into us that that's the metric that we forget all other metrics. And those other metrics being, and this is a lot that comes from my conversation I've had with Wendy about this. So correct me if I get this wrong, because you're on the actual program. But she talks all, you know, talks all the time about how while data is always, good. This one particular piece of data may not be more important than your attitude that day. Like that three pounds you lost is fine. But if your attitude still sucks or you feel gross or whatever, it's, that's not the metric. It's not worth it. Or it's, or it's at least not the

important number. Not working anyway. Right. Right. So, so yeah, like there's, there's something to be said for putting away the thing that is always trying to, the, the, the, the, the, the, the thing that determines your, whether you think you're doing good or think you're doing bad. Because the truth is, you could be healthier one day and a pound over and unhealthy or another day and two pounds down. Well, what should you rather be? Yeah. Yeah, and I think like it's sort of controversial almost to say, but like weight has nothing

to do with health. And when you put aside that number on the scale, it actually connects you back into your body and you can start thinking, well, what foods do I actually like? what movement actually feels good to me? Like, am I doing this because it makes me feel better, or am I doing this because I want the number on this scale to shrink? So if you throw away the number on the scale, it's only I am doing this because it makes me feel good

and it makes me feel healthy and it makes me feel better. And then you actually start learning stuff about yourself. That's nice, right? Actually, no one of the heck's going on in your own head. So is the, let me ask you this about the program, because I assume this is true, but the focus or the combination of focuses where it's about mental health but it's tied so closely to physical health, was that a revelation for you and others in the program to kind of come to grips with

the idea that these things are not somehow separate, that our attitudes and our mental stabilities and all of that other stuff is not so divorced from our physical selves? It seems like that's a big focus for Wendy and what she does. Yeah, it's a big focus. I don't know how much of a revelation necessarily it was because, like, yeah, if you move, you feel better. But I think the biggest revelation is that movement doesn't have to be a punishment. It doesn't have to be no pain, no gain, or go big or go home. It can just be a small walk around the neighborhood. And that will improve your mental health, and it will make you feel better. And that, as long as you can be consistent with it, then that's the important part, not necessarily. like all the weight you can lose or all the muscle you can gain, just, you know, focus, literally just focus on the things that you are doing and how they make you feel inside. Like super easy peasy. The concept of real steps as opposed to just steps.

Like they can be, it doesn't matter how big those steps are. They just need to be meaningful and real. Yeah. Hence the name. Look at me doing, I'm doing all the marketing for Wendy in about her name. Real steps. time those like those steps those real steps are just itty-bitty baby steps and as long as you can be consistent with that step it doesn't matter how big it is like you want to be able to do the smallest

thing that you can achieve every single day and then that kind of is a like boost for your mental health too like look at all the crap that i'm getting done every day when before like i was just sitting on the couch eating potato chips oh and as much as that sounds as much as much as that sounds wonderful. Yeah. Everyone loves a bag of chips on the couch, but it may not be the step you want. So if you had to say whether or not, well, so I always wonder this, like in any kind of program of any sort where people are trying to improve themselves or do new things or whatever, there's always this issue of you're going to relapse. Even if it's like, you know, I don't know, alcoholics anonymous or, you know, what's the drug one, whatever it is. Narcotics Anonymous, I think. N. N.A. Is that it?

You know, the chance of relapse and then of the process of coming back, admitting it, doing better next time. I assume that's part of this program as well, because not everybody's going to have a perfect day where they took all the right, quote-unquote, real steps. They're going to have a couple of steps backwards. How is that? How do you feel like that's being handled? Well, I think it's great. Another thing that we always end up saying is that there is no way to fail real steps like as long as you wake up in the morning and you know get out of bed you kind of win it's sort of there is there's not really a sense of failure like if you don't get all of your goals or

steps done in one day that's okay there's always tomorrow like there's no judgment it's all just about learning learning a lesson like so I ate until I was uncomfortable today that doesn't mean I'm a bad person that doesn't mean I sailed the day that just means you know know, oh, maybe I was hungrier than usual, or, oh, maybe I was a little bit more stressed. Like, I learned the lesson. And now I take from that, you know, all of these things, all of these wonderful, glorious things. You can be able to, you know, kind of step back on and do the littlest possible thing. And then that's also, like, I think what's really glorious about Real Steps, too, is that it's just baby steps. And that makes it so much simpler. Like,

it's not, I'm going to cut out, you know, all carbs all the time forever and ever. Amen, like from here on out. Because that's kind of, you know, that's not necessarily sustainable a lot of the time. It's, you know, I'm just going to pay attention to how I feel before I eat today. Like, just take 30 seconds to gauge how hungry am I feeling right now. Like, am I eating because I'm hungry or am I eating because I'm stressed? Yeah. And that's like, I don't know, for me, that was super sustainable and it led me to you know kind of progress more and now like I feel like I'm more in touch with my body with my hunger cues like I can have potato chips in the house or peanut butter in the house ice cream in the house whereas before I would have been like oh I can't be around

that because I'm just going to eat all of it like I'm going to jam it all in my gullet and then but like real steps kind of helped me to drop those restrictions really kind of focus on how I'm feeling how certain things make me feel and how like I don't even think about the potato chips that are in the house or the peanut butter in the house unless you know I want some and then I eat some and it's not a big deal. I mean that like I never thought I'd say that about myself. Well that that that's I was going to say that alone is like a gigantic uh change like you've got a real mindful outlook on that kind of stuff and I think that's that's super rad. No one out there listening should think this any of this is easy. There's a reason why it's you know,

a thing that you have to stick to and there's accountability and there's all this stuff with the program but but anybody can do it and uh absolutely yeah and it's a practice i think that's that's important too like it's a practice and you're not going to be perfect every day you're you're never going to be perfect like that's impossible but you know you're going to do your best and you're going to practice and you're going to learn lessons about it and that's i don't know to me that's a huge success i agree go check out real steps dot org everybody listening and chat or otherwise and see if it's all everything's kind of laid out there so you understand it you heard Wendy here for the last 12 years however long we've been doing this

so you kind of know what you're getting into there and you know I've heard nothing but amazing things and you know I'm biased it's my sister but I even without that I think she I think all of this would impress me so I think that's awesome well she thinks the world of you I can tell you that she was like all excited last night she's like I'm so excited for Steph I'm so sad I'm not going to be there anyway she's stoked for you It's so nice. Yeah, and she's great. And Elena, it's Wendy, who you all know in love is an awesome therapist.

And then Elena Jorgison, who is an equally awesome registered dietitian who run the program. And the last day to enroll is at midnight on Sunday, February 27th. Oh, get on that then. Yeah, get in there, folks. Yeah, and let us know what you think. It starts on Monday the 28th. Well, awesome. Stephanie, thanks for hanging out with us and giving us a deeper look at how that stuff works.

And this way, Wendy doesn't have to feel all weird because she feels like she's promoting herself. But when we promote her, it's fine. She paid out the perfect way around that. Yeah, she does. She really did. She didn't even know we were going to really do it that hard. But I don't know, I'm proud of the work she's doing it. I'm glad it's working for so many.

You included stuff, so that's awesome. Thanks for hanging out with us. We'll see you soon. Yeah, for sure. This was fun. Thanks for chatting with me. All right. We'll see you again.

She's great. She is. I feel like. she's, so she's been a listener for a long time and she said something to me earlier that I think is okay to share. I should have said it while she was here. She says, I'm totally great for this until I remember you guys have a ton of listeners. I'm like, well, yeah, but Brian and I ignore that every day. We pretend like we don't have listeners. We pretend we're talking to one person. Usually we pretend we're talking to us. Yeah, exactly. 100%. So anyway, it's all cool. And we'll see

Wendy next week. She'll be back. I'm not even sure where she's traveling, but she's coming here the week you're in Dallas for this family thing for the family reunion deal deal whatever even I don't even know what it is yeah good look with it yeah and I know dude all the Phoenix people are coming and they're fine they're great can't wait to see him

all right Brian tell me okay two things we got Coverville coming up today but also I really do think you should promote your painting videos so when are these happening all right so Coverville is happening today that is going to be 1 p.m. Mountain Time Twitch.com Coverville celebrating the 50th birthday of Billy Joe Armstrong of Green Day.

Yeah, the dude's 50. So, of course, a lot of Green Day covers, but also some solo Billy Joe Armstrong stuff that he did during lockdown. You'll get some of that as well. That's coming up at 1 p.m. Mountain time. And then the painting stream, I don't know. I'm trying to do those regularly at 4 p.m. Mountain. So just click the little button that lets see that gets you notified anytime I go live on Coverville. And that's probably the best time to do it or best way to do it so that you know when I go live with those.

But I'm hoping to do another one today and finish up America Chavez and maybe start somebody new. So right now I'm painting Marvel minis from the Marvel United box. And I don't know how many I have left of this box. see. What's my current count? It's going to be some scary, sad number. 44. I still have 44 minis to paint from this original box. That's a lot, dude.

It is a lot. But it's down from whatever it was before, like almost double that. I think I'm at the halfway point. I think it was about 85 or 86 or something. That's actually pretty impressive. You've gone through that much. Yeah. Holy crap. Yeah. I do need to post some finished photos,

especially like the ones you guys see me paint on the stream, you want to see them up close and see what they look like. So I will start putting them in a place where people can see. Very nice. Very nice. If you're home thinking about painting minis, good news. Brian's got your back. Yeah, just jump in and do it.

It's very Bob Ross. All right, so what we're going to do is we're going to add a little peach to bring out the flesh tone of Black Widow's face. That's right. Yeah, yeah. There's tiny little strokes, little strokes. Tiny, happy little Ultron's. That was this reference from Fezco from Euphoria here right here.

You got her looking like that, that white guy with the Afro, he'd be painting on TV. I love Fezco. You don't know who that is yet, but when you watch that show. No idea, yeah. No idea about anything, euphoria. But I know that it's, uh, it's huge right now. Like, so many people are getting into that show. Yeah, it's hard not to, it's hard to avoid it.

And also, it's really rough. But I'm telling you, Fezco, character of the year, maybe. All right. Hey, Brian, we're done with the show today. We're going to get out of here. Before we do, though, quick reminder that patreon.com slash TMS is the place for you, dear listener, to do your thing. So do that and check it out.

Lots of good reasons to sign up, and we'd appreciate it if you did. Even a buck a month would go a long way to help us out. Patreon.com slash TMS. Reminder about this weekend, we're doing a playdate on Saturday after film sack. If we have a film set. Yes. That's currently. Oh, that's right.

That's a good point. Yeah, we might not. We're finding out today if we have a film sack or not. And if we don't, that probably means we could start earlier if we wanted here. But Dunaway's tied up in some funeral arrangements and stuff for some family loss. So we're trying to give him as wide a birth as possible on whatever he needs to do. We're doing a better job at trying to give him time than he's doing. Like, I don't know.

I might still be able to do it. We're like, no, take some time, man. Yeah, take whatever time you need. He's trying to do this thing. And I really admire it. but he's trying to, like, keep everything as normal as possible so that, you know, and it's good. He's doing it for the right reasons, but, you know, we're just like, dude, take whatever

you need. Yeah. We're good here. We'll cover for you. So we'll know tomorrow we'll talk about it on TMSPM. So patrons will get the information, but also keep an eye on Twitter. And we'll talk about it there as far as what time the play date is starting. Yep.

And a quick announcement next week, Monday, or sorry, Monday, Brian is here. So normal show on Monday with Brian, me and Brian. Correct. Tuesday, my wife will be sitting in as co-host. When, or sorry, no, Tuesday, sorry, I got it backwards. Tuesday, Justin Robert Young will be here as my co-host. Right, you get the Jerbs, yeah. Yeah, Jirb will be back.

Wednesday, my wife. Thursday, the return of TV's Travis. Oh, nice. He was a fellow mini painter, as a matter of fact. And he was a favorite last week, your last time this happened. So we thought, hey, why not bring him back? You're doing another stream, Scott? Another evening stream?

Something like the afternoon stream? I don't know, am I? What am I? I don't think so. The more than evening stream. T.E.S. The evening stream. I got to get the music done.

Fletcher's got to do it to work. We're just going to dupe the whole thing. It's like having a second wife in another state. That's how I'm doing it. Anyway, so and then of course, you know, when Brian gets back, we'll get all the great Disney stories. I can't wait for that. For sure. Yeah, I'm hoping. I'm hoping that there's going to be some weirdness with people out there, but none that affects our enjoyment of Disneyland.

Yeah, exactly. Don't know what. Nobody should touch your churro with their penis or something. Please do not. Yes, I'm going to be seeing the lovely Sam Jane and her husband, Randy, something. Anyway, you're going to be seeing them on Friday morning for breakfast. Oh, very nice. That name's familiar. I know, I know. It's like, is it Randy Travis? Oh, Randy Travis. Oh, no, that's not it. Travis Randy? John from the baseball play?

No. Randall Park? Randy. No? Yeah, maybe Randall Parks, no. No, that's not it. All right. Well, good luck.

Don't try to say machete or machete in front of him. Oh, I'm probably going to get some chorizo, though, with my breakfast. Chorizo. Ask for some extra herbs on it while you're there. All right. What kind of herbs do you use in your chorizo omelet? That's awesome. You guys are going to do.

that i'm jealous um all right have fun there in the meantime everybody uh we're done uh so brian let's play a song so we can go what do you got okay uh tim who goes by t r p w in the chat wrote in said hey uh tomorrow's my birthday and i'm in the mood for a jo meek uh possibly a remake uh tell star will also work by the tremolo's thanks signed here at p w joe meek um by name i'm not 100% familiar with but i know he's part of the honeycombs i think he's the lead vocal of the band. But he did ask for a cover of a song by The Honeycombs. And let's see, he was a producer.

Yeah, so he did, he produced the song that we're about to cover, the original of the song that we're about to play cover of the tornadoes, Tull Star, I think it said the Tremlose. Anyway, Jomek is who we're, that's the guy. That's the guy. I'm talking about. Anyway, actually, we're really talking about TRPW. Happy Birthday.

And you asked for a cover of the song, Have I the Right? You're going to love this. In 2010, the band Vampire Weekend did an iTunes session where they did a cover of this song. They're a band not known for doing a lot of covers. As a matter of fact, I can probably count on one hand the covers I'm aware of that Vampire Weekend is done. And those guys are due for a cover album. Yeah, right? I agree.

It's mostly the other way. People are doing their songs. They need to do some others. They need to do some others. So here is Vampire Weekend with their cover of the honeycombs. Have I the Right? Have I the Right? You know, I've always told you that we must know, I've always told you that we must need.

never ever part have I the right to kiss you you know I'll always miss you I've loved you from the very star Oh come right back I just can't bear it I've got this love in a long to share it Come right back I'll show my love.

Love is strong. Have I the right to touch you? If I could, you'd see how much you send those shivers running down my spine. Have I the right to thrill you? You know, I'll wait until you give me the right to make you my mind. you mine

well come right back I just can't marry I've got this love and I'm all to share it Come right back I show my love is strong Oh yeah Have I the right to hold you?

Have I the right to hold you? You know I've always told you that we must never ever park Have I the right to kiss you? You know I'll always miss you I've loved you from the very star Oh come right back I just can't bury

I've got to serve and I'll just share it Come right back I show my love is strong Oh, come right back I just can't bear it I've got this love in a long to share it Come right back, right back where you belong Oh, yeah This show is part of the Frog Pants Network

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