The Morning Stream - TMS 2254: Jambalaya Towels

Episode Date: March 2, 2022

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Coming up on the morning stream, the morning skim. Ladies' privacy units. Good old uncle bacon grease. The stoner zone. Like the Pentagon, but round. Boobes, bread, and beads. The John Sina Space Test Center. No cousins for old brides or seven brothers.

Is LaCroix? No. What doesn't burn in Mississippi? Owls are dicks. No bunchy jumping platforms with Tom and more on this episode of The Morning Stream. Actually, you see, I'm a robot therapy. Huh? Specializing in robot psychiatry and robot synaptic stimulation. Well, what do you mean, therapist? I sent for a mechanic.

No poops, no whoops. The morning stream. This is the morning stream. Good morning everybody. Welcome back to the morning stream. It's Wednesday, March 2nd, 2022. I'm Scott Johnson, and I am joined today by guest co-host. Kim Johnson. Kim Sones Johnson, located at, I'm giving too much information. It's my wife, everybody. Hi, Kim. Hi. I'm going to try not to look over there because the way we're arranged in here, I'm facing this way. If I look this way, I see where you are. Yeah. But to them, that looks weird. It looks like I'm, no, it does look like I'm looking. at you. Actually, I'm here too. Anyway, we'll see how that goes. I'm doxing my own wife because she is co-hosting today and she's here. It's nice to have you back. We haven't done this in a while. It has been a while. Yeah. How does it make you feel to be back in the, and Brian's,

I'm happy to be here. Brian's capable shoes while he is out. Feels all right. Feels all right. So we were talking to the pre-show just a little bit about a whole bunch of things. And by the way, if you're a patron, you get all that stuff on the on the feeds. Also, if you show up early for the streams, you can also get it that way. But the important thing that I wanted to mention here was I made small reference to the fact that a listener doesn't like it when I'm on shows with you. That seems really odd specifically. Yeah. They don't like you on our show.

He was doing, yeah, he was doing this thing. He was talking about skim. He says, not really a fan of skim. And I said, why? I'm just curious, you know, I'm just wondering. fine you don't have to like everything no not everything is for everybody uh but i asked him why and he says i don't like how you are around her are you different around me than you are other i mean i don't think so i mean i might be i might be more relaxed or something i think more relaxed makes

you more um snarky maybe with me maybe but kim and i are about to have you know our 30th anniversary yeah gosh you know like some kind of we work well together don't worry even when you snarky. I'll punch him later. Yeah, she'll hit me later or she'll pinch me during the show or something like if I've gone too far and whatever. Maybe that's what it is. Maybe, but I don't think I mean, how? What have I said? I don't say

anything too untoward while we're doing shows or anything. So I can't figure it out. To this day, well, it's only been three days, but all three days I've scratched my head about this guy's comment. It's like, I don't know. See, they're disturbed angel says Scott is 100% different with Kim on the show. Is that true?

So the whole show? Is it because he's... I don't know. Honestly, maybe it's... If you can answer the question, please let us know. Maybe it's just that I'm chill. I think I'm chill. Okay, Jynx says my snark level goes up.

That's interesting. I get more snarky. That's because you know me well. Is that why? That must be why. All right. I don't know. He likes to tease me, and I'm assuming you don't do that to your other co-host.

All right, Bobby, who's opinion I take, I take not lightly, you definitely have a slightly different tone, but it's not all that different. Well, then that's probably about right. Yeah, you know me better. I think that's all it is. I mean, I know Brian really well. I've known him for a million years, but I've known you for two trillion years. I'm not exaggerating. It's how long I've known. I think also part of it is I'm just, I know, there's probably a combination of I want to also, you know, having your wife as a co-host where that's not a regular thing. There's a comfort level there. There's a comfort level, but also there's probably a tiny part of me that's like don't you guys say anything mean about my war you know what I

mean there's probably some of that so I'm probably a little more like combination of relaxed and heightened awareness I don't know maybe that's what it is I don't know can't really explain you're not worried about anybody else's feelings but mine yeah kind of right and when I and you get snarky because you know me really well and you know I know that you're being just snarkey we're just having fun you know I'm not going to take anything personally oh Yeah. That may be part of it, too, is people aren't used to the sense of humor we have in the house or something. Maybe. Part of, let me tell you something. I'll tell you something. Here's some marriage advice for everybody.

You want to have a long, fruitful marriage? We have fruit, right? We got lots of fruit. We got all kinds of fruit. We got three big pieces of fruit out of this deal. Kids would love to know they were referred to as fruit. Carter will probably tune into this today. She does most days. She has a meeting this morning. Oh, that's a shame. So I don't know if she's listening today. That's a real shame. But anyway, part of, I think, making a long-term commitment, like a marriage work, not for, maybe it's not the same for everybody, but I think part of it can be, you need to be able to joke with each other in a way that's like a little teasy, you know what I'm saying?

Yes, without anyone getting mad. Yeah, of course. Yeah, like not mean or like, I don't know, not belittling, but just be able to say, uh, Kim and her dumb shows on Hallmark Channel. Ha ha, ha. And I just am like, I do. Yeah. Kim's like, whatever. But I'm not going to be offended by that. You're right. Yeah. Yeah, yeah. So, so that's my whole point.

Oh, no, that's crazy. Walkmar says we've been married nine years this July. They've known his wife, known his wife since 93. That's the year after we got married. Yeah, I'm married to think of that. 92. My gosh. Genesis Super Nintendo era, man. Genesis was the first gift I bought you after we got married. It was for Christmas that year. Yep. Kim got me a Genesis. Genesis with a Sonic 1 packed in and it was the old Genesis and here's the thing. Oh my gosh. That sounds so, such a long time ago.

You know what? Here's what really makes you think about time. I'm now doing a weekly show all about retro gaming that basically is including that era. Talking about the game. Yeah. From just the first few years of our marriage, which is totally insane. Well, it is what it is. We're glad you're all here, though, to hand.

out with us and be a part of today's happenings, and we got a lot to talk about. I thought it might be fun to get it a little bit into your past, Kim. Okay. I haven't told her. I haven't told her about this. So, Marty Grau was yesterday, and we had a little get-together at her sister's house. They don't live too far. They're like 10 minutes, that direction.

And anyway, we went over there. They made red beans and rice. Kim made a giant batch of jumbalaya. which I thought I wasn't going to like as much because you put all that oil in it. And I was worried. It wasn't. It's just that I put some olive oil and some grape seed oil. I usually just do grape seed oil.

It's a much cleaner oil, all of that. But I just added some because I wanted the flavor of it. Yeah. And it wasn't bad and it didn't like causing any problems. But my first thought was, oh, that looks like it might be. Because it kind of just floats on the top with all the tomatoes in it. Yeah. And so it makes it look like it's really greasy.

It's not. No. It's not at all. And it was fantastic. And we had, you know, multiple bowls too much. I ate too much last night. They had, you know. That happens every time I make Joplai.

I ate too much. People have big fresh French bread things all torn apart and you're like dipping that and everything and I'm supposed to be eating less bread. Yeah. Bread makes me fat. So I'm trying to. There was Cajun Ranch with all the vegetables. Oh, it was very good.

It was really good. We didn't really do the boobs. Show me your boobs. Here's some beads thing. We didn't do that. We didn't go to a parade. No. That's all it takes.

No. And the kids, you know, the little kids. There were kids there and stuff, so no one's going to be doing that. I thought we would anyway. Never a part of the deal. It was more about the food like everything else. More about the food. It was never going to happen in the first place.

However, it was a really good time. It was a nice time. As Sarah or Steve are listening, thank you for your hosting of that. It was fun. Now, it got me to thinking about, you know, you're from down there. Yeah. She grew up like, what, 30 minutes from New Orleans? 60 miles east.

60 miles east. Right at the border of Mississippi. She was in a little town called Bay St. Louis, which was also, was Killen the same city? It's Waverland and Bay St. Louis and Kiln. And then they're all kind of touching each other. So when you went to, let's say, the grocery store, it was in Waverland. My home was in Bay, St. Louis. My high school was in Kiln. So it was kind of, it's very close-knit there. Right. Yeah, yeah. Everybody knows everybody. There's like three family names. But I mean, close-knit location-wise, it was a small area.

Yeah. Plus all the cousins. get married and stuff. Oh, stop. See, there's some of that good-natured married ribbon. Married ribbon. We are ribbon each other for our pleasure. Oh, wait. Where have I gone?

What have I done? No cousins married each other. Stop it. No, but you did have, seriously, it was like three names. There was Sones, like you guys, Jones with an S. And then. My grandma was Ladner. Ladner's.

And what was the third one? Wainwrights. Wayne Wright. And the, um. What was that? I know. It's been so long since I've lived down there, so I don't... Quavis. Not Quavis. Quavis was one. Is it Quavis?

I was related to all those different families. Yeah, because the cousins are married. Far away. Well, I mean, years past. Oh, I see. Yeah, no, there's a, there's a very close-knit little community and they, you know, they're not, they're not free of their issues. Kim's grandfather was a, some kind of high up in a local chapter of the KKK. Do we have to tell everyone that? We do have to. I feel like we need to bring that up because Kim is the furthest human being. I told someone that.

They're like, I'm sorry, I have to laugh at that. I'm like, I laugh at that. I can't believe that I'm related to people. It's just not that far away. Yeah. It wasn't like Grand Dragon is like some other name. But anyway, he was this racist old dude and, you know, came from a very different era or whatever. For whatever reason, Kim just none of them.

that stayed in your family. None of it. So that's good. Well done. Thank you. Yeah. Her grandpa, my favorite thing about her grandpa's used to stick to this chair. I don't know if I'd told this story, but he had this chair he loved. I think Nick has it now or somebody? We had it for a little while. It got flown out here. Yeah. Or driven out here. Driven out here when my parents moved out. Yeah. It's this old-ass chair that was made of leather and dead skin. I don't know. Well, it was the South. So you're like super humid. So when he'd peel himself out, this thing you'd hear it yeah he'd like sit on it and then he'd get up and go and then you just hear and peel you know it was leather so it kind of cracked anyway just kind of this old yeah and he used to say or no he used to

get up and he'd go I'm going out for a minute or something but everyone knew what he was doing which was he was going out to his truck where he would both smoke and drink his moonshine that he made I don't think he made it but his cousin did oh I thought oh was his cousin I couldn't remember who did it. But somebody, yeah, he'd go out there and drink these things. And these were, these were, I remember seeing it because we were there for our wedding. And I remember seeing one of the bottles. And it was legit, like the cartoon kind that were like big round at the bottom, little spout on top.

Like a jug. Yeah. Like with X's on it. Like a ceramic jug. Yeah. There were, I mean, after a while, it wasn't necessarily ceramic ones. But yes, there were. That was crazy. But anyway. It was after his quadruple bypass heart surgery that he sat in his truck and smoked in my grandma. I'd go in and she'd go, yeah, he thinks I don't know. He's not out of smoking because he wasn't supposed to be anymore.

She pretended and she was, you know, she was a sweet lady. She was very nice. And my grandpa was fun and funny. And when he would come to the Christmas parties, which, by the way, I had 51 first cousins. It's a lot. We had a lot of people in the family. So wait, that's a hundred and two marriages out of that. That's a lot.

Yeah, and they all have kids now. It's a really big family. But he would come and he would tell us. his pretty racist jokes or really racy jokes. Oh yeah. A very uncomfortable, racy, awful. Yeah. Or at Christmas, he would come to the party, or no, is it his house? So he would be there, but he would be just drunk off his ass and just two-stepping with all the cousins doing all this country music everywhere. It was really, he was fun. Yeah. But. Full of bacon grease that guy. He had to have bacon every morning.

My grandma did make full southern breakfast every day. Eggs, grits, bacon. Biscuits. She made the best biscuits. Oh, man, that sounds. Kim makes those same biscuits now. I try. They're not as good, I think, because of the humidity there. Yeah. And it's just dry here.

So I've got to find a better recipe. I keep playing with it. But none of it's ever a recipe. I just kind of chop the butter up and move it around, see how moist I can get it. See how it goes. It all sounds so good right now. Are you hungry? Yeah.

I am. I'll make breakfast. I'm usually not hungry by this time of morning. It's because you're here talking about food. That's the problem. Yeah. Well, anyway, I thought it would be fun to learn a few more things about where you're from. Okay. So we're going to do a little bit of that. Here are some facts. Oh, first of all, do you know your own state song, Mississippi state song? Do you know it?

I don't. I mean, I haven't lived there in a very long time. It's been many, many years. But when you were there, did you have to, like, go to school and they make you get up and sing it and go? No, we had, you know, you had your high school fight song, things, but we never sang the state anything. Did you, do you remember this high school fight song? No. You were class president. What's going on? That was also a long time ago. Yeah.

She went to Vernon P. Whirl. I went to Hancock High School. Oh, Hancock High School. That's it. Vernon P. Whirl. It was Hancock North Central, and then they moved it to Hancock High School. They moved, my senior year was the first year in the new high school. Were they the Hancock Cox or what were they? Hawks.

They really were the Hawks? HHS Hawks. So the HHS Hawks? It sounds like Cox. Only when you say it It sounds like a really bad thing We were the Hawks All right

Well okay So that's cool I'm gonna read you some of these lyrics Okay From the state Mississippi song It's called Go Mississippi It was adopted as the state song In 1962

It was written Well that's a problem 1962 I agree That's probably not the best time For the South It was let's see 1989 or sorry oh that's from okay I'm trying to see what it was written but I guess it was just

adopted in 62 anyway here's some of the lyrics I'm not going to sing it so chat room don't get excited uh this called go Mississippi Houston Davis wrote it you know who that is no that sounds like a guy you might know I don't know sounds like yeah you might know I don't know all right okay everybody knows each other go Mississippi all right here's the words states may sing their songs of praise with waving flags and hip ho hip ho hip who raise. Let symbols crash, let bells ring, because there's one song I'm proud to sing. And then it goes, go Mississippi, keep rolling along. Go Mississippi. You can't go wrong. Go Mississippi. We're singing your song. M-I-S-S-I-P-P-I. Go Mississippi.

Well, that just doesn't roll off the tongue, doesn't? No, none of it does. It's a bad song, I'm going to say. I'm just going to put it out there. It's fine. Maybe when you put it to music, it sounds, it might just roll right along, but I don't... We have listeners. I don't think I've ever heard that song of my life. We used to have... The only reason I remember my high school song is because it was a... Our high school was a circle.

They just tore it down recently and rebuilt it and it bums me out. But at the time, it was unique because it was one big ring. The halls were round. Yeah, it was like the... It was like the Pentagon, but round. And then there was no upper floors. It was all one floor. So all the inner lockers were just a circle of lockers,

the outer lockers, circle of lockers. You never had steps anywhere. Weird. Yeah, it was a weird, it was a weird high school. And our song, the only reason I remember is because the first line was within these circled halls that was like part of the songs. Do you remember any other lines in that song? No, hell no.

I don't remember Jack. It's been a long time. I spent a lot of time in those circled halls, but I don't remember our kids high school because they were the Westlake Thunder and Thunderstruck was their song. Oh, yeah, they can't really go wrong with that. That's awesome. up just kifed the song and said, this is our song now. Yeah. That's pretty cool. And Thor was their mascot. Yeah. I drew Thor. Taylor made a Thor hammer and put it out in the yard.

Yeah, she got to design the bronze hammer. Yeah. They attached it to a rock. They kept getting stolen. And they had to buy a new one. Multiple times had that thing got stolen. Freaking sucks. Well, by their, their rival school. Darth Marquis wants to know, Marcus wants to know if we had a. stoner hall i mean we had we had stoner zone oh yeah we all this everybody had a stoner zone right it's true you had one right oh yeah yeah you never were part of that stoner zone well i hung out with one kid that was part of that stoner zone behind the trailer out there smoking i wasn't you weren't but you're but you were nice to people that's that's kim for you i've friends in all the groups to this day

that's what she does yeah she doesn't care who you are no seriously you could be um i don't know you could be be a prostitute in the middle of the act of fornication in the back seat of a car. Why would I be there? I'd be driving him around. Do you need snacks? You do. You do what you need to. You need water snacks. And you want to go to McDonald's? Let's go get some fries. Get some nuggets. I'm not kidding. That's the level of Kim. That's what Kim does. I know I talk about it all the time. You guys have no idea. That's very nice of you. Well, last night I noticed the back of the car there's all this like these food packages. or like stuff with a mix of like wipes and a can of soup and all this.

I'm like, what the hell are? Oh, right. Kim, Kim's mission is to find homeless people and give them this thing. That's my mission. It's when I see them and I recognize that they need this, this is usually is a, it's a big Ziploc bag. They have three of them. Yeah.

They have peanut butter jelly, cans of soup, new socks. If it's for the ladies, there's like some privacy units there. What's that called? What are they called? Privacy units. I like that. What do you call the lady stuff? I know they're tampons.

There are some lady products in there. Yeah, but you call them feminine products, that's the word. I couldn't think of the damn term. I do keep those in my car because you do run across people downtown that need them. Yeah. And you can recognize which people really need this. Need help, yeah. And they've always been very grateful and they, you know, they seem very nice.

And then there's word. Oh, that's the other weird thing about this. Word has gotten out in the homeless community. Not about necessarily mine, but in the homeless community, they know what these bags are. They're like, oh, this is great. Thank you so much. I heard about some other guy got one. I heard like there's all this rumbling and talk about these bags going around.

These homeless bags. Yeah, it's pretty cool. Sorry, my nose is that you have allergies. Yeah, what's going on with your allergies? I have allergies. Is it allergies or is all the onion in the air still? Because we did. The Caj and seasoning gets pretty.

up through the vents of our house. Yeah. Like I got towels that'll never smell right again. And that's okay. I like it. Once I wash them, they're fine.

But if there are any towels hanging in the house, they smell like Jumelaya. The day I make it. Well, maybe it's dust in here because this isn't the cleanest space down here right now.

They can't see it, but right in front of you is a total nightmare. Look at this area. Oh my gosh. All right. Anyway, so that's your song and there's a bunch of dumb words to it.

Okay. Any other questions about my upbringing? By the way, go Mississippi. The top is the goal, it says here. Now, they've really never reached that in the terms of education. I'm just putting it out there. They're number 50. Okay. I'm just saying. I mean, we kind of... Top is the goal. Forty-eight to 50 is usually where we land. I mean, they've had since 62 to get this, you know, going. It's all right. It's all right.

It's fine. It's all good. All right. So look at this here. Some fun facts about your home state. This is interesting. Some Mississippi facts. The French established the first permanent settlement the present-day Mississippian in 1699. Now, you probably knew that because you have French Cajun blood. My grandpa was French Cajun. Yeah, absolutely. I am from a place called Bayou La Cros. Yeah.

That was my, I guess, neighborhood. I lived by the bayou there. All of my family did. So my grandpa had a certain amount of acres, and he gave each of his kids five acres, and we all lived near our cousins. It was kind of fun growing up. It's actually really cool.

You're out in the middle of nowhere. It's the middle of nowhere. Yeah, there's nothing out there. I mean, there's more now, but... They just put out an article in the Sea Coast Echo, which is the hometown paper down there, that talks about the history of the Bayouacross Cemetery. Oh, I bet that's weird. Which is really cool to read, because, of course, all the names on there, I'm like,

there's Ladner's and Wainwrights and all that in the article, and I'm like, okay, that's family, and talking about how they were intermingling with all the Chalktown Indians that live there also. Oh, right, yeah. So I have some of that in my background. Yeah, Kim's got a little bit of Native American blood. She's got a little bit of African-American blood. But the percentage we knew it once.

It's like 16% or no, 6% or something. I don't remember. But they've been able to trace that back all the way to Jefferson and his dalliances with his, at the time, the girl that was a slave with him. Something like that. Yeah, right down that line. I think they did some family history. Someone did, and they found that out. And I remember my mom just...

Oh, your mom bristles. Just shaking her head. Your mom, see, so it's a weird generational gap. Your grandparents, like, really institutional racism. Just built into them. They weren't mean people. No, they weren't mean people, but they had that in them. It's where you're from.

It's where you're from, a tie grew up. I get it. The 60s. Progress takes a while. 50s and 60s in Mississippi. Yeah. And then my parents grew up with it, but they're extremely nice people and they're, they're a lot more.

Oh, yeah. Your mom just still has these little remnants once in a while that crop up in, in like uncomfortable ways, but not like... She talks about remembering in high school the first African-American girl that came to her school and was police escorted to her school and people were in line and yelling. And it was just this awful, very interesting time, of course. Yeah. But she remembers that.

Yeah. So she was around for that. She also had what she calls a mammy who used to clean the house. house and make the food and all that stuff. So when I tease her and say, you're kind of racist back in the day, huh? And I'm just teasing her. And she'll go, I was not.

We had a mammy. I am not a racist. We had a mammy and we loved her. Like family, she said. And I was like, okay. So it's not racism in the kind of like overt. I'm going to burn across in your yard, but I'm going to be, I still have this like built in these things that are hard to get rid of.

And then your generation comes along, nothing. We don't have any of that. Well, I shouldn't say your generation. It was a different time too. But you, you don't have any of it. It was the 80s when I was. when I was in high school. It's totally different time. Yeah. All we know it now is

it makes... Here's the bottom line of that entire discussion. All of that French Cajun blood, that Native American blood, that black blood, all of it makes Kim never sunburn and has amazing skin until she's dead. And I resent it.

And I will always treat everyone equally. I resent it. Because of it. Oh, come on. Because look at me. Scott. That's because... Kim, these lights are giving me sunburn. You're from... What is? is it? Sweden. Sweden. And Scott literally sunburned in the shade in Mexico. Yeah, I did. I got in

the shade on purpose to avoid the sun. We were in the shade the entire time. Yeah. The equator is just lashing me from all directions. It was gnarly. I got so sunburned and I never was in the sun. Ever. Never was in direct sunlight. We would go find shady spots to sit and read. Yeah. And he would still get something. She has this amazing olive skin. The kids all got lucky and got it so they can they can tan up pretty good. Although, I don't know, as they got older, they got a little more. That's because no one's out tanning anymore. As little kids, they would run around the neighborhood, climbing trees and things, and they were just, they had great skin.

They were just bronze little kids, man. And they didn't look like my kids. I was the ghost in the house up the street. Well, anyway, so there's some fun there. And you're right about the Indian tribes that inhabited the place before the French arrived were three groups. The Natchez, the Chickas, the Chickasaw, Chickasaw and Choctaw, yeah. And Choctaw is the, you're kind of... Well, that's the ones that were in the Baye La Cray area.

Right. That makes sense. So it does make sense. In 19... or 1861, Microsoft. I see MS. I think Microsoft. I can't help it. Mississippi became the second Southern state to declare its secession from the United States of America. So, well done. Number two. Number two.

Yep. Number two in... Number 50 in education, number two, and leaving the union because we want to keep our slaves. On the 9th of January in 1861, it became the second southern state. Oh, I already read that. Why am I reading it twice? Well done, Scott. The name is derived from the Mississippi River, duh, makes sense, right? The settlers in the region named the state after the OGBW word.

I assume that's another Native American tribe. Mizzibsybby. Mizzizzibsybby. meaning great river. So when people couldn't say it, they just said Mississippi. Mississippi. Oh, can you confirm also, no one should say New Orleans, right? New Orleans?

It's New Orleans. Right? Or if you're from down, it's New Orleans. New Orleans. Norlands. Just shorten it every time you live there. It's Nalens, yeah. Nalins, yeah.

I'm driving over to Nalens before I head over to. But that comes with the thick accent. So you have to, that's why it sounds like that. Yeah. There you have it. Uh, here's, uh, uh, let's see. I'm going to skip down here a little bit. I have a question. Yeah, go. Should we be calling the drinks lacraugh? Oh, instead of lacroix? Because everyone calls it La Croy, but I'm like, I, it's exact same spelling as Bayou, La Cray, where you grew up. Yeah, that's weird.

Lecroy's any good? What are those? That's the flavored water. Oh, yeah, those aren't good. I don't mind them if you're mixing them with things. No, they're the devil's anus. They're bad. I mixed them with pomegranate juice the other day and you were like, oh, this is really good. Oh, okay. Well, well, because you, because you, because you, you put a real drink in it. You know what I mean? Pomegranate juice being the real drink and this is just like bubbling it up. Yeah. That's all it's for really. That's true.

I mean, I don't mind them. Did you know this? On average, Mississippi is affected by 27 tornadoes per year. I remember seeing one once was when I was a kid. Two of the five. Far away from where I was. Oh, yeah. Five of the deadliest tornadoes in U.S. history or two of the five in the U.S.

history occurred there. So there's that. When I was a kid in elementary school. we had one during a basketball game, my sister played basketball. Yeah. And I remember we didn't see it coming because there were, you know, there's not a lot of opportunity to see it ahead of time. Sure.

But it lifted the roof on the stadium we were in. I mean, I call it stadium, but it was the gym. The gym. Lifted it up and set it back down. Like it suctioned it up enough to feel the difference and then put it back down. We were like, oh, great. Wow. scary that is scary yeah then the hurricanes and everything you know yeah did you ever live through a hurricane

or did you dodge that bullet i lived through hurricane elena that's right we stayed in our home and then we didn't have electricity for two weeks and i remember cooking grits over an open fire and i was 14 years old nice what did you burn what did i burn you can't burn wood down there yes you can you it's all wet and moist but we had a wood shed that kept it dry okay i'm like what it's a very How much wood did you chop down there while you were down there? I didn't, I didn't chop any wood, to be honest. I didn't know you could. I figured it would be just one of those giant bugs to dry out a bug.

We had a woodshed and it would dry out there. You'd have to do it every year and put it in there and then it would dry out all. Because they had roaches the size of like Rimerwiner's down there. We had flying roaches, which are horrible, horrible. It's not a lot of fun. It's jungle. It's jungle town. Everything down there is like a big giant horrible creature and at night you hear them going,

Like in the night. Kind of, yeah. And then you'll find, you'll see your first one and you'll be like, it's going to pick me up and take me somewhere. Like those owls do in Arizona, if you have a tiny dog. They pick up people's tiny dogs and leave. Yeah. My brother's dog.

The hawks. Or they're eagles. Both the hawks and the eagles do that. Not owls? I mean the owls, yes. Owls are dicks. They can be. There's pretty and everything.

But then have you ever seen their legs? You ever seen an owl's legs? No, not really. You need to. It's a nightmare. I haven't really paid that close attention. Somebody, chat room, find me a picture of an owl's leg so I can make my wife's day worse because it's bad. I don't want to make your day worse.

Don't make my day worse. Did you know the first human lung transplant happened in your home state of Mississippi? Really? Yeah. This was Dr. James Hardy at the University of Mississippi Medical Center in Jackson on 11th of June, 1963. One year after their song got approved. Well, let's see. However, the recipient unfortunately survived for only 18 days, but it was still the first one. Very cool. Big step. And you know what? Utah had nothing to do with it. Utah home with the first artificial heart transplant.

And then we're married somehow. Look at the medical miracle. It's a miracle. Elvis Presley, born there in 1935. Yeah. Significant uncultural icon of the 20th century, born in Tupelo, Mississippi, which I've been to. It is a dirtwater, nowhere, backwater, dirtwater town. Maybe it's better now. It's been a long time since you've been down there. It's been 20-something years. 30? How about 30 since we've been there? Yeah.

Oh my gosh. Well, I mean, we visited a few times. But we didn't go to Tupelo, I don't think. No. Okay. Oh, this is cool. Memorial Day and Declaration Day, or Decoration Day. What's Decoration Day?

I don't know. I didn't celebrate that. We call that the day after Thanksgiving here America. I don't know what that is. It's probably another military thing. But anyway, someone in the chattel note. December 1st.

I don't know. Is that a thing we, well, anyway, finds its origin in Columbus, Mississippi. I've been there. 1866. And, oh, you decorate the graves of both the Confederate and Union soldiers and Friendship Cemetery in the city, marking the beginning of the celebration of the day in honor of those who lost their lives while serving in the United States Armed Forces.

Okay. Cool, right? So it's that kind of decoration. Yeah, yeah. Okay. And then finally, oh, these are both good. Should I do that one? More questions?

I don't know. I don't know the questions. Let's see. All right. You know what? We'll do two more. Did you know that established in 1884, Mississippi University for Women, was the first public college for women in the United States?

Did you know that? No. That was a hardcore deal back then. Yeah. For the ladies. Yeah. It's like a hallmark. That surprises me a little bit.

It does me. lot. I mean, women couldn't vote then. Wait, when did they get to vote? We're really bad at history. Yeah. My history is combined. Yeah. It turns out Utah's not number one either in education. All right. We're a little hard and do well in state history, apparently. More than 50% of the area of state is covered by wild or cultivated trees. That's true. You go down there and it's just a very beautiful. Oh yeah. It's awesome. No mountains, though, which sucks. No. But beautiful, beautiful trees and swamp areas and stuff like that. It's really amazing. All right. Here's your last one. It's noteworthy that I keep seeing this as Microsoft.

MS is home to NASA's largest rocket engine test facility. I have been there. I have as well. It's very cool there. It's cool to be there when they're testing a rocket. It's so loud. Yeah. But you could hear them testing rockets from my home where I grew up because I lived right across the street from the buffer zone. called it, so it buffered homes and people from the NASA sites. Yeah, you couldn't be that, and you'd crawl closer than that or else you'd get caught in the glass.

But it would just like, shake everything. Yeah. Just like this rumbling sound. Yeah. And you were like, oh, they're testing rocket. That's really cool. You'd always see them driving those big freighter things that had like rocket cells on them and just seeing them move very slowly down highways.

So you go to NASA, the site, sit in the stadium chairs there or the bleachers and be there for it. Um, I recommend earplugs. or headphones. Really cool, you can go do it. But I could hear it anytime they did it from my house. Yeah, it's pretty rad. It says here, it's called the John C.

Stennis Space Center. Yes. That was right next to my high school. Yeah, in Hancock County, it says. So that makes sense. Hancock High School. Go Cox. And anyway, when I saw it said John C, I thought John Sina.

John Sina. John Sina. Yeah, Space Test Center. Well, anyway, we've learned. a little something today, haven't we? Mm-hmm. You know? Do you feel reconnected with your home state and, you know?

Yeah. All that from our brief discussion about it. Well, good. Well, on that note, let's do some news because news is important and we're doing it now. Yes, that's right. It's time for the news and it's brought to you by five minutes on that bed thing at Steve's house. Let me explain.

I should probably show the chat this. Do I have it handy? I do. Okay, so chat room. Yesterday we were at my brother-in-law, Steve's, and he bought a massage chair thing. Oh, I heard about it, but I didn't see. Have you not done this yet? I haven't. I haven't seen it. I was upstairs. It did things for my lumbar that nothing has done before. And I'm not kidding. It was awesome. I'm trying to see if I can find it here. I did, okay, here it is. Did they send you the video? I got to turn the music off on it. Okay, so here you go, Chad. Let's take a look at it. Um, this is me. Can you see that?

No. I don't even see that. Um, I'll send it to you in a bit. It's way over there. I can kind of see it. I can see about half of it. So why is the music on? Oh, I can see enough of it.

Oh, my God. I can't get the music off. There we go. Yeah, you can see enough to know. I see the, you see the, you see the, the, right now for those listening at home, I appear to be magically sort of humping the air. And they all had a good laugh, of course. This was filmed by our friend Josh Fitzgerald, who was there as well.

Anyway, there's this machine that Steve bought that I guess chiropractors buy these. They're normally big industrial put in a chiropractor office. But Steve's got back stuff like a lot of us and decided to get into this thing. Anyway, it's this great big beds, like doctor bed style. And it fit me, which surprised me. It's pretty big. So probably like a massage table. table.

Kind of, yeah, about that big. A little lower, though. And then it had a controller thing on the side of it that looked like the joy or the flight stick for a viper on Battlestar Galactica. Oh, wow. It's awesome. And that let you change speed, height, blah, blah, blah. Anyway, these giant rollers underneath this thing, which you can't really see from the

video, are just going, er, back and forth on your spine is so good. I didn't want to get up. He made me get up. I'll have to go check it out. Yeah, that's really great. And it had, it didn't have like super speed changes, but it did have height changes. So at one point, he had it on the maximum. And it was just making me do like full on, like, roll.

My whole body is just like, it was really cool. I should have seen this. You should have seen it. I thought you were down there, but I don't know where you're at. You're upstairs talking all my friends. All the ladies about lady things. Does it have any dongles? No, Claire.

There's no dongles. I know where she's, I know her head's out there. Nice. All right. Hey, Aaron Rogers, you know, football guy. You're familiar with his name? Probably have heard his name here and there. We're not really huge football people in this house. Not really.

Not really your jam. Okay. Well, that's okay, because it doesn't matter for the story. That's okay. He's your dude what plays quarterback. He was the NFL MVP quarterback for the Green Bay Packers. Okay. My favorite team.

Yes. Right? I haven't had that right. Did I screw that up? Why is my brain saying, no Scott? No, Scott. No, that's right. He's with the Packers.

Okay. right what's wrong with my brain my memory hurts anyway someone's because I don't care until I don't care until playoffs I don't care I'm not I don't have that kind of time yeah anyway it is the Packers so anyway his go-to cleanse right a lot of people do a cleanse yeah you know they're like oh boy I've been eating bad or whatever I need to fast for four days or I need to drink nothing but water for a month or or whatever your thing is right his go-to cleanse and involves oily enemas, yeah, bloodletting. Ew, what? And vomiting. None of those seem to be healthy. Imagine them at the same time. All at the same time.

What may be the worst bait and switch in the history of bait and switches? Sports fans tuned in to the Pat McCaffey show on Tuesday in anticipation for one of his regular guest, NFL MVP quarterback Aaron Rogers, might deliver delightful news or significant news on the future of his career, but there was no such news. Instead, Rogers gave a hearty endorsement of a horrifying 12-day cleanse that can sometimes involve oily enemas, bloodletting, and forced vomiting. There will be no news today, Rogers said to McCaffey on the show.

No decision on my future. As I was texting with you yesterday, I just got out of a 12-day panchacarma, he calls it. That's what this says, this cleanses. All of that at the same time? Yeah. Well, I don't know the same time, but, you know. Like the same, you know, same, I don't know, week of time, you're doing a combination of these things. And by the way, duh, I know who this is, of course, he replaced Brett Farr of who you went to high school with.

Yes, I did go to high school with him. Yeah. Well, for one year. I mean, I was. Right? He was a senior, you were a sophomore. Yes. Or freshman or something.

Two years ahead of me. But his dad, I've told this story before, so forgive me. But his dad gave you. um driving lessons he was my driver's ed teacher yes he was your driver's ed teacher he gave me and i'm like keep going clemedia i wasn't going to say that but i was going to say something i know see is that is that what you guys are talking about is that what i'm different scott johnson behave yourself he was my driver's ed coach yeah okay now that's cool and he and you pass all roll our eyes together God. You flat. You flasked. You passed flying colors. Yes. No problem. I'm a good driver. You are a good driver. I'm as good as you. I only have one ticket. Right? Yeah, one ticket.

It's been so long. I don't know. I have one ticket and then one time a guy, a lady or dude, I remember who ran into me. My rear-ended me while I was at a stoplight. And so it was their fault. But they didn't want to do anything about it. It didn't hurt your car. I felt bad for them because they were clearly a mess. Something was up. up in their lives, and I was like, dude, I'm not going to. We're fine. It didn't damage the car, so it was fine. And it never, like, and everyone always says, oh, you never know, 10 weeks later, your frame falls out and you, now you know why. No.

Your frame falls out. Or whatever, like your tire fell off or whatever. But it didn't do it. It never, it didn't fall off. It was clear they had no, they had no insurance. It was clear they had, they were in a rough place. And the frame of your car falls out the bottom. I figured I wouldn't have that car much longer.

It was, it was, it was. fine. Yeah, but if your frame falls out of your car, seriously, have a, have a mechanic, look at that, please. Yeah, don't take that on face value. Something's going on in your car. Anyway, he says, it's a thing that originates in India. It's thousands of years old, this process. Yeah, I know. Look, hey, sometimes the old ways, Kim, are the ways. Okay. Right? If you say so. No, I mean, like, your doctor could come to you and go, I want you to, I don't know. take 15 of these pills and basically destroy your liver doing it, but at least it'll save you from whatever.

Is my doctor on Yellowstone? Now what you need to do here? I can't even do it. We like that. That wasn't very good. We like Yellowstone a lot, though, that show. Can we do a little quick interview of it? I know what you need to do here now.

Oh my gosh. What? I don't know what to say. I don't know how to respond to that. I'm not good at that. Who was that supposed to be? I don't know. That wasn't Kevin Costner.

I can't do it. You're old. That show's really good. We got to watch 1883. We got to watch that. Yeah. It's got a, what's his name? Sam Elliott in there.

All right. Dude abides. Anyway. I'm shocked that Scott likes a TV show that is a Western. No, I know. I know. I have a type. Okay.

And there's a lot more soap opera going on in that show than I care about. Yeah, there is. But that's true probably of, like, If I look at Deadwood for really what it is, if you modernize Deadwood, it's kind of the same. It's just a modern version of some soap opera elements. But because it's set in the Old West, I forgive a lot of that. I don't know. It's weird.

I have a weird thing with questions. But then you watch Justified and you have the same feeling for that. I love Justified so much. And they're coming back with eight. Timothy Oliphon is the man. I know. You'd swap me out for him anyway. You would.

I think he's too young. I'd swap you out for him. he's a hot he's a good looking dude um he's in uh he's very funny on curb your enthusiasm i gotta get caught up with that i do need to get caught up um but also they're making eight new justifies directed by or there's talk that tarentino is directing a couple of them which is weird right but i guess he was a big fan yeah um i'll have to watch them to see what's going on it kim's not really she doesn't like tarantino movies not as much i like them do yeah but mostly the westerns like i really But I will watch them with you.

Yeah. Yes. But it's not my favorite. Django and A Hateful Eighth or two of my favorite. I love those movies. Oh my gosh. But they're Western, so. There you go.

Everyone else loves Pulp Fiction. Not my favorite. Everyone else likes, I don't know. That one that came out two years ago. It was fine. But I put a cowboy hat on it. We're all good. Let's do it.

Anyway, it's described as a cleansing and purification technique. which is long-standing pseudo-scientific Indian medicine system, which means probably not proven. System is not based on any kind of science, has very little scientific evidence backing it, according to the National Institutes of Health. The best that can be said for it is a tiny amount of data suggests that herbal mixtures may help resolve,

or excuse me, re, that's spelled wrong. It says relive, it means relieve, osteoarthritis pain and managed type two diabetes. It's because you're flushing your whole system, so it's going to... Yeah, so you have no sugar in your blood. You have nothing in your blood. You have no blood.

Anyway, would you do this for any reason ever? No. It doesn't matter how, like, if something got real bad and nothing else worked and doctors like, we are all out ideas and you're like, well, I got to try something. Still don't think I would. He wouldn't do it. Aaron Rogers, you're on your own, bud. I mean, I think you can, there are cleanses that can help you.

But I feel like those are all extreme. Yeah. and extremes never necessarily the answer. Yeah, moderation in all things, dear. Exactly. That's what I see. Utah Connection story.

Let's play this. Hold on. Our next story is this. Where are the hell? Utah Connection! Here it is. A four-year-old, you know about this story. Yeah.

A four-year-old opened fire on police officers after his father told him to do so during his arrest. This is pretty gnarly. Four-year-old opened fire a police officer and his father told him to do this when he would be taking into custody, according to Utah police. A man received an incorrect order after going through a McDonald's drive-thru Monday,

then brandished a firearm at the employees. The United, sorry, the Unified Police Department said on a press release, the Unified Police Department? I've never heard of that here. You've never seen the cars that say Unified Police Department. No. What does that mean? Who are they? How are they, who are they unified with? You don't know?

No. I don't either. I just know Salt Lake City Police Department or Sandy there is a unified police department too so they're like probably all working together how it all works because I don't really know any police officers to ask yeah it's crazy well anyway I should look that up you should look that up

we're all going to learn something new today the employees let's see called police which you would do police said they tried to get him out of the car refused to exit the vehicle had to be pulled from the car while taking the dude into custody an officer turned backward into the vehicle and saw gun pointing out from the rear window

the officer vocalized to the other officers. There was a gun while swiping the gun to the side as a round was fired from the gun. So a kid pulled the trigger, shot up into the roof. Yeah, four-year-old kid. I can't even imagine. Sounds like that ashtray kid on Euphoria. Anyway, the officer who sustained a minor injury in the arm realized it was a child and had fired and alerted the other officers. Boy, I'm glad they didn't over-over react and shoot the kid.

Oh, my gosh. It's not his fault. His dad's in nightmare. Dad is being charged with it, though. I read that. Yeah. The child who fired the weapon was four years old and was in the back seat with his three-year-old sibling, information collected during the ongoing investigation, indicates the father of the child,

told the child to shoot at the police when he saw the police, according to the press release. Jeez, jeez, you're a bad, I'm just to say it. I'm going to say this, and I'm going to mean it. He is a bad father. To have his four-year-old shoot a gun. Anywhere. Anywhere, at anything. At anything.

It's just too young. It's too young. It's so scary. You want to take him to the shooting range when he's 12 and start teaching him the safety tricks. Even eight, eight or ten, but four-year-old with a firearm is, I mean, he could have shot the sibling or himself or, I mean, four years old, they're just. He could have shot all three with one lucky shot. Like, that's an awful thing. And what's this four-year-old's, what's his life now?

I don't know. That's a good question. Oh, man. That's dad. That's bad dad. Bad dad. That's what I say. All right.

One more story. Okay. Should I even do this one? I don't know. I don't know what it is. You guys, I really don't know when Scott's doing. She doesn't have notes in front of her. Here's the thing.

I would do this story. It's a weird story to do with my wife, but I'll do it. All right. Bees, you know, bees, like bees. Like, bzzeeas, you know. Bz. They're explosively ejaculating to. death because of a heat wave.

Explosive ejaculation from bees. What's black and yellow and ejaculates until it dies in the heat wave? Male bees, it turns out. It says this article. Yeah. Scientists disturbed as they may be. The heat wave. The heat wave is in...

Right now. Because I feel like we have blizzards and storms going on here in the U.S. But do we have heat waves? I'm trying to find it here. Oh, it's not happening now. They're planning because they have a fix for this and it happened last year. They're planning ahead. Yeah, North Carolina is where they're doing this study.

They're planning ahead for... All right. Everyone plan ahead for ejaculating bees. Do your best you can to stay out of the way of those jackulating bees. All right, so here's the deal. They have a solution, so that's why they're doing these studies. Well, that's good. Yeah, I don't know if the bees will be happy about it.

But when the males get too hot, they convulse until they explosively ejaculate to death. and a phallus, the size of an abdomen, bursts from their lifeless body. It's kind of an awful way to go. That's a terrible way to go. I hope it never happens to me. Since we can fix it, says UBC experts. One solution is to keep the hives cool during extreme heat, perhaps by using polyester. I mean, this is just another, like, it's a global warming problem.

Yes. Like higher temperatures mean that we're now seeing bees ejaculate to that. What happens, I mean, they're talking about cooling the hives. But there are some beehives and our bee nests that are naturally, you know, in nature. No, in nature, there's not a box. They're not inside a box. They're in a tree. What happens then?

Well, the ones that are in a tree, those are the ones that want to try the cool the hives of. Because normally that's fine for them because for thousands of years, they just live in that tree. Yeah, that's true. They've evolved to be there. But what is kind of sudden on a global scale, to us, it may take. years, but, you know, on a global scale, this is very quickly, the temperatures are rising. And a degree makes the difference for a bee. A degree makes all the difference.

And the B's just like, oh, no, I'm going to ejaculate all day and die. All right. Does it take all day? I mean, I don't know. Oh, that's terrible. I have no regrets sharing the story today. None. Okay.

Zero. Anyway, they're fixing it. They got a solution. They're working on it. They have a solution. That's what matters here. They're going to cool the stuff. down and everything will be fine in the end.

All right. I am going to play some music for a break today before we bring Tom in and do a quick tech segment. And so yesterday I played the, you know, the Aces here, the local Utah band, The Aces. I played 801, which I love and I played the camera of the other one yesterday. Anyway, those are really great. And I thought today I would continue the tradition of playing music from bands that are from

here. Okay. Because why not? So I'm playing a song from Chuck's band. Yeah, that's right. He's even in my family. My nephew-in-law. Is that how that works?

That's your nephew. He's my nephew, right? Yeah. I mean, it's nephew. My brother's son's husband. No. No. Brother's wife.

Brother's daughter. Ah. Your niece's husband. My niece's husband. This isn't that hard. I know. This is like me figuring out what team Aaron Rogers play for. Oh yeah, right.

My favorite team. Anyway. The band name is brother. Brother. Brother. Brother, period. That's the one thing that separates them from a couple other bands

that also unfortunately have that name. Our named brother, right? So it's got a little period at the end of the brother. Anyway, they make amazing great music and they have new album out. I'm actually going to play something from their original album,

which I love the most, called Volume 1, or the album's called Volume 1. And the song is called Greys. And I think you guys are going to really like it. I've played it on the show before. So some of you with a memory for this will go, oh yeah, you've done that.

Well, I'm happy to play it again. It's one of my favorite songs he does. Kind of fun. The album cover, Taylor, did the photo. for, and it's Carter and Nick. Yeah, having a... On the cover of that song.

Milk fight or something. No. What was it? It was a... She's holding her finger gun and he's flying back. Oh, right. Like he got shot. What am I think?

Oh, there's a picture of Nick upstairs where he's getting splashed with milk. Yes. Okay, that's a different thing. Different thing altogether. Anyway, no wonder my brain hurts. It's too much going on in there. There's a lot going on. Anyway, this is Chuck, my nephew Chuck and his band, Brother, with their song,

Graze. We'll be right back. Start the fear what you're not right Thinking you won't make it pass a year We all know he is not real. He's not real. Did you ever see your face in love? Did you ever see your face in love?

Don't go change your mind. He was never a long side of the life. coming back Never knew he was out of time Out of time Did you ever see a fix enough? Did you ever see your face in time? Did you ever see your face in time?

In time Start the future not right Thinking you won't make it pass a year close your eyes and you see him there, we all know he's not real. He's not real. Well, now I've seen everything. grown man actually kicking a poor defenseless robot. Kelly says, if you like to climb on things and get high, this is the place.

This is the morning stream, where you get to be the man. All right, we're back. Once again, that was the song. Gray's from the volume one album by Brother. Go check it out. It's on Apple Music. It's also on Spotify and wherever you get your music. They're on tour right now. They are on tour. Where are they? I don't know where they are today. In the States? Yes. I thought they were, I don't know, that was the last year. They were somewhere in Asia or something. We're playing some gig over there. Yeah, they're doing really well. They ended up getting to open for, who are they opening for?

Oh, the plain white T's. Plain white T's. Yeah, that was a big whoop for them. I'm excited for Chuck's a very talented. Really talented, weird as hell. I love him. Just love him. Yeah. He writes it all.

He writes all the music. Yeah. And the rest of his bandmates are great. They're just very cool. So go check him out and see what you think. I think when you're looking for him, it's Brother Official. Is it? Mm-hmm.

Oh. Okay. So look for Brother Official. But the band name is Brother. Yeah. I think they were not good marketers in the early days. They're getting better. Like right now on the streaming service,

they have the volume one album and then they had the volume two album for a while but for some reason that's not there now and the volume three albums there so they have these two albums that are like up front and prominent album you know volume one volume three there's no two so I got to ask chuck what he's doing but doesn't matter they do it for the music that's the thing they're not trying to be masterful internet markety people they're just trying to make music they want to make they played at our last Vegas TMS Vegas they did they got a a little record deal out of it. Yeah. That was a lot of fun. Which is why they're on tour now. Speaking of Vegas, I don't know if I told you, but Scott Fletcher and Christine will be there.

Oh, very cool. I didn't know that. I haven't seen them in a long, not since then. In a long time. I think it was since that first TMS Vegas that we saw them. So, very excited about that. All right. What am I doing now? Add and Tom, that's what we're doing. Oh, I haven't even opened Discord because normally, normally that's where Brian is and I don't have someone in the office with me. So hold on a second. Everybody. Just hold on to your butts. I got an update here to do. I don't know what I was thinking,

but it's all working out great. Hold on. I take down my humping on a table pitcher thing. Oh, my gosh. I still. You got to try that though. I need to go watch you do it. It was so good.

I can't even tell you how good it was. I wanted to, my back right now is going, please go back over there. All right, I'm calling Tom. It's incoming. And we'll see what's going on. You haven't talked to Tom in a while, have you?

It's been a really long time. It's been a long time. Oh, my. Making something from here. You don't want to hear me sing? No. Oh, that's unfortunate. With the computer, as with any tool, the concept and direction must come from the man.

That man is Tom Merritt. He comes on Wednesdays and joins us here where we talk about the tech news of the day. Tom, welcome back. And also, it's nice to see my wife and Tom within the same vicinity. Hey. It's been a while. It's been a long time. Yeah.

Well, it's been last decade. Yeah. No, he's right. Wait, hold on. That's so weird. It was in the 20 teens. I haven't seen you since the teens. Old man.

Well, Tom, it's good to see you as always. Hope you're well. And you're probably very busy tracking down the hot stories of the week. What is going on? Tell us more. Well, if you don't want to talk about the war in Ukraine, there's a bungee story that will make you as angry as someone fighting something less important. Bungy put up a help page without much fanfare saying,

nope, you can't run Destiny 2 on the Steam deck, not even in Proton, which is the Windows compatibility layer. If you try to do that, you'll just get sent to your game library. And in fact, if you keep attempting to bypass it

to get Destiny 2 to run, we'll ban you. So I read a bunch of stuff about this night. I haven't had time to really dig in deep, but is there a security reason? Or what's their claim? Usually the claims, like Tim Sweeney has said this about Fortnite is like Linux is just really hard to support. We don't want to have to support that audience.

And you can argue whether he's right or not, but that seems to be the opinion is there aren't enough players doing this to warrant the support expense so we don't want to do it. And even if I disagree, I at least understand that reasoning and like, okay, so you don't want to do that. What's weird with Destiny 2 is that they have a Linux version that runs on Stadia. And in fact, someone at the Verge got Stadia running on the Steam Deck, so it was able to play Destiny 2 that way. But I suppose it could be support. It might be anti-cheating, although the Verge points out that the Battle Eye anti-cheat software runs on Steam Deck. So, you know, you could do that. And Destiny 2 apparently supports Battle Eye.

So we don't know. bungee hasn't really explained why this is the case they just put up the help page it's very odd to me given that this thing is all anyone wants to talk about this week because they're finally starting to ship and people are getting their hands on them and generally you know reviews have been favorable there's some issues with the software but you know whatever it's generally going okay if this takes off as a you know as a as a viable platform and really at the end of the day it's just a PC that's portable it's kind of like a notebook all smushed together with a controller attached to it yeah i don't know why they care.

They do make it clear in the help text that if you have windows running on your Steam deck, which people can do, then they're fine with it. They don't have a problem with the Steam Deck hardware. It's, it's Steam OS. They don't want you running it on the Linux version. That's interesting. Well, I mean, that is, that will be, if it's not already happening, it will be happening soon where people are going to be able to load windows on these things.

I'm sure it's already happening. Which makes me wonder why they don't want you to run it in Proton, because then you're just running the Windows version. So there must be something else. There's your clue, right? It's not just Linux. So maybe it's not just support, or maybe it's supporting people running in a compatibility layer

because that introduces its own issues. I don't know. Maybe it is the support. I can't decide. It is quite obvious. It does seem a little weird. They haven't explained it more, but I guess maybe they've got time to explain their position.

But that's a big one. That's one that everybody was, or a lot of people were looking forward to taking on the go and having it a portable format like that. I don't think I was planning on playing Destiny 2 on an eventual Steam deck if I do ever Yeah, this is definitely about the principle

of the thing. I don't think even the people who are most enthusiastic about the Steam deck are considering like this is the only way I'll play any game. Yeah. You know, so that would really be the only way this would be harmful if you're like, I can't play Destiny 2 any other way because I only play on the Steam deck.

There might be a few people out there doing that. I'm sure you'll hear from them if they're in your audience. But most people aren't. Most people are using the Steam deck as another way to play games in addition to what they already have. If I had to take a guess here, it would be that this is a device that on its surface looks like people are going to have a heyday with hacking it. And I don't mean in necessary and nefarious ruin a game kind of ways. But people are going to make this into a really great emulation device. People are going to turn this into a million things.

Hacking in the true sense of the word, which is just coming up with cool things to do with a thing. Yeah, 100% that's going to happen, whether people like it or not. Maybe they see that as like, well, let's let that suss itself out a little bit before we make a decision. Because there's a history of devices, PSP, for example, Sony PSP famously, very hackable and very DRM breakable and kind of made that device pointless. If you know how to hack it, you could get whatever you wanted from a million things and play it on there and never have to pay anybody a dime. It had really, you know, bad security in that device. The Vita was much better. But I think maybe they're a little worried about that.

So let some time pass. Then what's the harm in later saying, okay, we're ready to bring, you know, Destiny 2 to the Steam Deck natively. So thanks for being patient. Here you go. And they just kind of want to see how this plays out. I don't know. That'd be my guess.

But, yeah. Or they just, you know, they're like, it'll never grow. Why waste resources trying to support it? We wasted all those resources porting it to Stadia. Look what that did for us. We don't want to spend any more money. I think both of us might be beyond to something. It's a little bit of each.

Are you excited that one day I might be in bed up too late, keeping you up playing a little tiny new screen? Be excited about that? Totally. You're ready? I'm ready. All right. Pass an approval for my purchase of a steam deck.

You guys all heard it. It's on its way. Yep. Sort of. I think I'm a quarter two guy, I think. Or whatever it is right. What is it right? This isn't quarter two we're in.

So this is quarter one shipping. And they said they've got two waves. The big second wave is where I think I am. I think for my pre-order. I gave him five bucks to hold me one. We'll see what happens when it comes around because now this gives me lots of time to see how this thing performs.

They should be giving you a preview. I agree. They should be giving you a review unit. Come on. I agree. Look at the vast reach. I've got. I could imagine what I could do.

There are probably plenty of other people to deserve it before I do. But anyway, that and so much more will be on deck today, deck. For a daily tech news show today at 2.30 Mountain Time. Tom, why don't you tell people either more about that or anything else you feel like telling us today? What's going on? Yeah, sure.

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I like that Dan Carlin stuff you're recommending. I mean, he's awesome anyway. but it was great to be reminded that a lot of cool stuff might come out of his particular podcast. I've been waiting because he's been talking about NATO and Ukraine for decades, literally decades about this exact

scenario. And so I was very excited that he came out with an episode giving his perspective on it. It's certainly not the only word or even the last word on it, but it's very informative because he's been following that area of the world very closely for a long time. Yeah. Yeah, it's very cool. So do that, everybody.

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I'll see you this afternoon. Bye. I'm on there too today. I should have mentioned. I'm on the Daily Tech News show today. It'll be fun. We'll talk about this bungee bull crap in more detail when we get there. Did any of that make sense to you?

Not even a little bit. Not even a little bit. Okay. The non-gamer wife. That's what I should be called. Yeah, the gamers, non-gamer wife. the game widow do you there's plenty of you out there I'm afraid

yes there is I've talked to a lot of them have you heard of the steam deck no I haven't talked to you about that nope okay that's okay it's like a little you'll see it and go oh it's like a big fat switch but basically it's a device that would let people play all their computer steam games okay that's really cool that pretty neat right yeah Nick wants one I'm sure he does $800 or something whatever it is anyway he'll have to borrow yours Yeah. There goes Tom into the end of the wind. We always like having him on.

We're ending the show a little early today because I've got an appointment with somebody. Let's just say I'm recording something that's going to be playing on core on Thursday. There you go. Yeah, I have an interview. So I'm going to be doing that right after we're done here. Boy, it was sure fun having you on. Well, thanks. I always like being on. Do you like doing this when Brian's away? Okay. Well, then you're on the list to stay in. Well, a nice will play. when you're when when the list comes up again or he's gone for some reason and I need to sit in we'll always make sure you're in yeah you're good you better call me in tomorrow tvs Travis will be joining us so that'll be cool and looking forward to that he was on last time did a great job so we are having him back and I believe Wendy will be here and she's coming to Utah in a week and a half

no this weekend is when they're all together I mean not sorry you're right in a week next weekend not this week but the following right? I think so. Oh, I hope I have that right. Next weekend. I think Misha confirmed that for me. Hold on. My sister Misha, who's a Korean but has a Russian name, let me see what she said.

Why are the dogs freaking out? I don't know. It doesn't take much. Let's see. March 13th, yeah. So she'll be here that week. That week and we'll maybe do a little something with her live. I don't know.

That would be cool. Yeah, it'd be all right. All right. Before we get out of here, another song. Another one from Brother, okay? Because we like the brother. We're fans, and I'm... Huge fans, go to the concerts.

Yep, when we can. Killing time because I'm trying to pull it up and I'm having a hard time doing it. There we go. The song I'm going to play is one that he wrote for my niece, which is adorable. It's called Good Night Girl. And it's really sweet. Have you heard this song? I have.

It's really nice. That's all I'll say about it. It's just a very nice old song he dedicated to his wife and really his band manager. She's like Yoko Ono for the Beatles except not terrible. or not breaking the band up. She actually helps that band with promotion stuff. She gets some gigs. She's amazing.

She's really, really great. So anyway, we're going to play that song. Again, the album is Volume 3 from Brother. And the song is, what did I just said? It, Good Night Girl, which is the fourth track on that album. Don't forget, patreon.com slash TMS is where you can support the show. Frogmanx.com slash TMS is where you can find everything else about the show. And if you're trying to email us, you have,

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You've ever tried In every life you made me lose My mind You are my good night You are my ride or die And it all waste me Now we'll say I'm going to

It's always said that what goes round We'll surely come around We're living till we're skin and bone And even though before I met you I was by myself We're lucky that we're not alone Let's go and take a ride love a child

In every life you made We lose My mind You are my goodnight girl You are my ride or die And it always

Me Never say you could go Thank you. You are my good night girl You are my ride or dark And it are always sweet Never saying good-bye See ya.

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