The Morning Stream - TMS 2266: There's No Place Like Gnome

Episode Date: March 24, 2022

Bed, Bath, and Beyond Beef. We Don't Talk About The Return Of Bruno. No. No. No. Dutch Ovening My Poor Wife. That Was A Dumb Thing To Do! That's not how you turn off a monitor. Bar. Floor. Teeth. All The Jimmies. You ever lose your teeshh. He's Rubbin' Those Shoes! Adam is basically a Mark. Jambalya Dreamin'. Rosanneville... Like Rosanne... the show... get it? Floor Teeth Back in the Mouth. To Say Nothing of Read This with Amy. The Effervescent Wisdom of Wendi and more on this episode of The Morning Stream. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Coming up on TMS, bed, bath, and beyond beef. We don't talk about the return of brew, no, no, no. Dutch ovening, my poor wife. That was a dumb thing to do. That's not how you turn off a monitor. Bar, floor, teeth. All the jimmies. You ever lose your teesh?

He's rubbing those shoes. Adam is basically a mark. Jambalaya dreaming. Roseanneville. Like, Roseanne, the show. Get it? Floor teeth, back in the mouth. To say nothing of read this with Amy.

The effervescent wisdom of Wendy and more. on this episode of The Morning Stream. On hands and knees, thrust your tummy, you don't have to ask your mummy, up and down, re-energize, this one's hard you'll realize, stomach back is what this is for. Do it right, you will score. I hate this place. It smells like 19th century ass. This is the morning stream. Good morning, everybody. Welcome back to TMS.

It's the morning stream for Thursday, March 24th, 2020. I'm Scott Johnson. That's Brian Abbott. Hi. Hi, Scott. How are you? You know, I'm actually doing pretty good this morning. I have energy.

And I didn't expect to have pure energy when I woke up. Pure energy. I usually a lot more tired lately. And I think maybe the weather's changing. It's getting warmer, you know? Sure. A little less. Oh, it's so nice.

You know, it's like, uh, we, 30 degrees when I get up, but it's going to be like 60 today. Yeah. It's almost, it's almost like, oh, let's just get out. Oh, 63. It is, that is going to be after TMS. I'm getting on the bike for a little bit. Ah, see, there you go. Where are you going to go?

After Coverville. Um, I'll probably just do a loop that has a, um, like a 40 grade, 40% gray or whatever hill in it to get some hill practice. What's the recommendation on the, on the grade? Is there a thing that you're supposed to hit and do? No. No. It's just like, what can you take? Yeah.

What can you do? Do everything you can take. Do whatever you can do and then push harder the next time even, right? Exactly, exactly. Yeah. All right. Just keep, right. Like, always push further, always go harder.

Yeah. Always go harder. That's what I say. Always go harder. Yeah. I got a, we got a theory email. So we talked about Bruce Willis the other day and why is he in all these crap movies, you know? What's going on there?

I hope this is not the case. but yes, let's get to this. I do too because I don't know why this would be the case for him, but then, you know, when Nick Cage was doing this for three, four years straight, what were people having the same rumor there? But anyway, here's what he says. This is actually a comment on the blog, but it came from CH for our episode, TMS 2264 called Bruce Willis needs to fart. He says, there's a growing rumor that Bruce Willis has dementia. And so he's been doing these movies where he makes a million dollars a day for one to three days max as a way to set aside as much money as possible

for his family when his condition forces him to retire. These films require very much or very little of him. His lines are fed to him in an earpiece and plenty of the gaps are filled in with the use of body doubles. So I don't have any way to confirm that. But if that's true, that makes me horribly sad. But, uh, it is really sad. Yeah, I don't know.

There's, there's, you know, there's a lot of, You do a search for Bruce Willis to mention, you get a lot of stuff, including a Reddit post from four days ago, titled, Stop Making Fun of Bruce Willis. He's legitimately disabled. How do they know this? He says, where is this? I learned this from a close friend who did his makeup on one of these trash movies from the last couple of years. So he's still a little backhanded compliment there, like, you know, one of these garbage movies that he's been. Yeah, yeah, be nice to Bruce Willis.

I talked to someone who made one of these pieces of shit he was in. That's a weird, that's a weird tone that guy has. Yeah. So, but does it, I mean, is there any, I need more than that. I can't have just somebody going, oh, I got a friend who knew somebody who did a thing. Yes, exactly. It's not enough. Look, if it's true, that's horrible.

You know, and he should do whatever he wants to do. He should do what he wants to do anyway. This is the thing. None of us control Bruce Willis, regardless of his condition. And if he's experiencing this stuff, well, then he should do what he wants. And if he's not, he should also do what he wants. Do what he wants. It's Bruce Blitz.

It's fine. Yes. I feel like, you know, if this is the case, man, power to him and his family for doing this sort of thing. But if this is some ugly rumor somebody started, then really, shame on them. Yeah, that's what I say. Yeah. I'm starting rumors about something dumb like that. Exactly.

Exactly. All right. Brian, we must know. We have to know. how did the 3D print go last night all right so i started it i started pretty close to uh no i started during the show yes no i take that back i started after the show yesterday because i did the um so right no i think i did start it i started i started right before tms yesterday because it would be 13 hours or 14 hours when i went to bed it was still going okay and uh so i had to i had to go to sleep

thinking all right you know is the vat full the vats full Is there anything else I need to worry about? Was it so far so good when you went to bed? Like it was working? So far so good when I went to bed. All right. I got up. Uh-oh.

And Scott, it looks awesome. And I'm going to, uh, I'm going to take out, turn off the lights here. Let's take a look. I'm so excited. Look, I predicted that. I put, Scott predicted perfect. You did predict perfect. You totally did.

Yeah. Here is lit up. This means someone stayed up too late. I, Matt, I painted it, or I did, uh, primer black primer on there let's see if i can i'm gonna put my computer to sleep so that you don't get screen um yeah we're getting secondary light oh no if there you go i think do you there can i hear you i don't see your camera now no you know uh that was a dumb thing to do yeah if you yeah if you put your computer to sleep i think that sleeps all functions of your computer

i think is how that works yeah it doesn't just dim the uh doesn't just dim the uh doesn't just dim the screen it turns everything off doesn't it you got to do one of those uh hot corner things where you uh yeah oh that's right yeah put it into like uh let's see which which corner do i have as my do i have a corner set up here yeah yeah sleep was a bad choice uh i thought that i just put it into like screens oh you could just turn your monitor off that would work too because you're running on a mini so i'm on a mini yeah i don't know i don't know where there's a button to turn this thing off, honestly. I don't know if there really is.

There may not be. There is no button. All right, well, in any case. So there it is. Check this out. The light sensor works. So if I take this one out, you can see the whole thing lights up.

Oh, that's cool. Yeah. Dude, that's cool. And you don't have to, you're not going to do any kind of labeling or anything. It's not going to be like, this is where, or not Han Solo,

this is where the purple one is for Jane. No, no, no. know, James Jackson. What's wrong with my brain? Samuel Jackson. For Mace Window. So you can see the lights now coming through on this thing. Oh, yeah.

That's cool. I'm not going to do labeling like that. I might do like a Black Spire Outpost logo on it. We'll see. But, yeah, I don't know. I might just let it be as is, you know. I think it looks really good like this. I'm sending you a photo of it because I'm sending you a photo of it.

The photo I took is far better. Oh, yeah. The screen really is making it blur out. This would be nice to see it without it. Let's see here. Yeah, I'll send it to you via text. Give me one second. I just had to turn lights back on to my studio.

No, no worries. That was really funny. Yeah. The Rath 86. What monitor has no power switch? I'll tell you it is the LG, LG, whatever this thing is. No buttons that I can feel along any part of it that I can

No edges, no, nothing in the rear, just to the rear of the side. Maybe something in the rear. No, nothing in the rear with the gear. This LG over here has got a great big button in the middle. Every other monitor I have has like a button on the side or on the bottom or on the front. That's weird. Yeah. That's really weird.

It is weird. All right. Well, there you go. All right. Sending your photo. Hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on. Photo coming. Photo coming.

Photo coming. Photo incoming. It's incoming. It's incoming. It's coming. I feel it. coming now? There you go.

Yeah. So this is, and I'll send you two of them. I'll send you one before I, um, um, painted it with the primer, before I primed it.

Because then you can see, there was actually some light bleed coming through with the primer. Oh yeah. You can see it at the base of the rings a little bit. Yeah. Exactly. But, um,

so what do you do there? You put in just extra, you thicken that up and make it opaque or whatever? Well, the primer, the primer covered that up. I guess. Oh, okay. I see it.

Oh, yeah, I guess even with the black one, you get a little bit of light bleeding. Look at the second one I sent you, though. That's without primer. Oh, that's your, oh, look at that. Yeah. Which kind of doesn't look bad either. It does look cool, right? Kind of.

Yeah. I actually don't mind that. No. Either way is cool. But those, yeah, that's rad. I love it. So now I have, you know, this is my base unit. Now I can look at Black Spire Outpost.

photos, things like that, and say, okay, here's, you know, here are some elements, kind of Star Wars universe elements that really work well for this shape. And I was thinking initially doing like a, like the front of the light speeder, but I don't want to have this be like a rounded front of a vehicle kind of thing. Sure. That makes sense. Yeah. So, uh, I don't know. I don't know. I get, I get do some design work and see what I think. I think it's badass looking. I think It's really. It really came out great, and, uh, uh, yeah, I'll throw these up on Etsy or something and let people. Most of these people come home and they throw those crystals in a drawer somewhere. Right. Exactly. Not Brian. He makes a damn display with lights in it and a sensor and all that. Look at this. He's a true Star Wars fan. Got to make this thing look, got to make this thing look fricking. Yeah. That's right. All right. Well, the, the seven or eight year old in me that saw Star Wars in the theaters for the first time is losing his mother effing mind inside my head right now. So there you go. All right. All right. Real quick. Before we get to Amy, very fast. Last night had a weird dream, but it wasn't as weird as the previous dreams. This dream was all talk shows. Sorry, nighttime talk shows in the history of the medium were all in the same room. So it was like Letterman, Johnny Carson, all the new guys, Colbert, all them. All the talk show people. All right?

Brian, here's the question. And this is when I, when I woke up from this, it wasn't even unique. The dream was just a dream about all these people in one room. But when I woke up, I thought of all these people, Conan O'Brien and that Ferguson guy and all the late night talk show hosts, if they were all in a room. Yes, if they were all in a room, if they were all in a room, yes, Arsenio Hall was in there. Chevy Chase was not. That thing only lasted a week. I was her?

Was she there? No whoopee. No daytimeer types. Oh, no. I take that back. Ellen DeGeneres was there in this dream. But anyway, so they're all in this dream. And it got me to think him when I woke up. How were they like, what was the situation here? Was it like a convention or something? Hard to say. They were just all collected in a single space talking. It was just a loud room full of talking. Which is what made me think of this when I woke up. I thought, and I would ask you. In fact, first thing I woke up was this, you're going to ask this on the show tomorrow. in that room

if it was dead silent for a second like nobody was saying anything for a second and these are all people that are trained to fill any possible opening of sound with sound to talk right they want to fill every time there's any kind of blank you fill it with discussion because that's what these talk show hosts do yeah who would be

the first one to say something in a situation where it got quiet and awkward I think Leonardwood would make some joke that's why I'm not doing this anymore. All right, you give it to Dave. That's interesting. Okay.

What we think about this? Like, all right, he'd be the first to make a joke about it. James Corden, I think, would be the first to complain about, like, he'd be awkward about it being silent. Being quiet. That's actually pretty good. He was there also. So was, um, uh, Jay Leno was there, Fallon was there. Sure.

Um, who, oh, even, um, Jack Parr, who I barely know in my head. is there. Steve Allen there as well. Didn't see Steve Allen, but he could have been there. You've got to stop eating the checks mix. I know, I know, dude. I'm telling you, actually, yesterday it was too much jambalai. Kim made vegan jambalai yesterday, and it was so freaking good that I went back for, like, three trips.

Oh, geez. Okay, well, vegan. That's all right. It's all vegetables and stuff. So no. Mentui sausage, no. None of that. No meat.

Yeah. It was good, though. Her vegetarian thing is fantastic. when she makes it. It's very good. So I wait too much of it. And I think that contributed to this. I was impressed that you spelled jambalaya correctly on Twitter. Oh, you like that? Yeah. That one I can spell because we eat it

a lot around here. Oh, I don't know. Last time you put it in our show notes, it was jambolia. Oh, did I get it wrong in there? Oh, that's right. Famously we did one episode. Jambolia. Yeah, everyone likes a hot bola jambolia. Who doesn't like some jambolia? All right. Red fragling coming. I'm sure we're going to talk about some book stuff. This will be exciting. I hope so, because read this wouldn't work for video games.

No, it would not. So check it out. Hey, do you all hear that? That's the music we used to introduce Amy, who comes on the show and talks about books and stuff she's reading and things she'd like to recommend. Hey, Amy, welcome back to the show. Hey, friends. How's it going today? Good.

Welcome back to read this, your very own segment. I was thinking about you yesterday because I opened up my iPad and I was like, this is later last night. And I'm like, ah, what I want to read? Do I keep reading Stormlight Archive, book one? Or do I flip over and read some comics? And I flipped over and read some comics. So there you go. I don't know why I thought of you, but I did.

I thought of you and I thought of reading. And then I chose the easier of the two paths. And that has made all the difference. Yes, it did. Sometimes that's what you do I was actually saying recently I have not been reading nearly enough lately

because my nighttime routine has sort of changed a little bit and now that I've been introduced to the Calm app I have these like I don't know if anybody's familiar with that little app but it's got like all these

meditations and it's got sleep stories and stuff so Killian Murphy puts me to bed every night Oh really? Yes. Reading me a story about Ireland. It's fantastic. How can you sleep thinking of those dreamy blue eyes? Careful. But his voice is super soothing. Like I never get past the first, you know, a couple

of paragraphs. Those things I tried calm for a couple months and, uh, because I was having a hard time sleeping. Those things, it's, it's borderline ASMR because they've got those microphones pretty close. It's like, all right, you're walking through a very calming forest. Yeah. And there's a mist hanging in the air. Hold on. Let me take a drink of coffee. The difference, though, is I can't hear their mouth noises. That's the thing that bugs me about ASMR. Is it like, and you know, this is from a former voice actory person, like mouth noises drive me bananas. You and me both. I don't get most ASMR. There's certain like object things that you can do. Like Nick works for a local YouTube company here where he brings in old

shoes and restores them on video and they have mics like super trained on it and so you can hear the brushing and the the scraping or the whatever leather treatment he's doing on these boots and stuff and it's really cool and that stuff chills me out but when it's someone going okay now I'm in your ear and I'm gonna freaking I hate that dude yeah no I'm with you that makes me I mean that makes me creeped out like you know so I just yeah yeah I don't like I don't sorry I also like I likely If I'll be listening to a podcast and somebody's got really dry mouth, like where they're, it's like they've got a mouthful of maple syrup, like that sort of thing as they're talking, I have to turn off. I have to leave. I can't do it. Can't deal with it. Yeah. Yeah. I hate that too. So listen to this real quick. I got a tiny little bit of audio of this. Listen to this. This is Nick doing shoes. Hold on.

Oh, yes. He's rubbing those shoes, man. Oh, I thought we could hear him talk. Is that it? No, he never says it. anything it's all it's it's intended to be not a smr necessarily i guess it is kind of but it's for this uh so he's working for this channel called uh rose anville some people may have heard of this they're like 500 000 subscribers or something that was my that was almost my podcast talking about the connor family uh on that sitcom uh and i almost almost did it and i never did it yeah it's it's pretty interesting rosanville yeah rosanville i get it that was good yeah okay uh but it's uh it's really it's really good scot it's so good No, it's good. I wrote it down. I'm going to use it later. It's going to be great.

Always great when you have to explain the joke. I know. Exactly. I agree. That's a strong one. Anyway, hey, so we got some reading to do. What should we be doing with our reading time right now? So I am actually really excited to recommend this book. I read it for the first time ago, and I'm actually going to start reading it again now because it's one of those books that, like, you can forget the details and rediscover them, and it's wonderful. It's called To Say Nothing of the Dog by Connie Willis. Okay. And if you've not read any of her stuff, like a lot of her, it's, it's time travel, but it's hilarious time travel. So it's, it's all, we don't have enough of that.

We don't have enough hilarious time travel. I agree. It's very sort of like comedy of errors. And then like, you know, so something gets messed up. And then the more they try to fix the thing, the. the more things get even more messed up and it's just yeah it's um so in this world time travel exists but only you know historians essentially go back in time to literally observe things in the first person so they're trying to get a very very accurate historical record and then

something comes forward in time from a past time and mayhem ensues. So I don't want to give away too much, but it's because it's really fun and hilarious to discover it. But the title is an homage to the Jerome K. Jerome book,

which is three men in a boat to say nothing of the dog, which it ends up happening pretty early on in the book. There are three men in a boat and a dog named Cyril who's like, in my mind, just this hulking, goofy

bulldog and it's the whole and they're headed down a river in England and in like the 18th century I think and it's it's really it's really funny and there's a there's this concept of

the more you go back in time as a historian you can suffer from what's called time lag and so you start hallucinating and things like that and the book is written in the first person so after a little while you start to wonder if Ned is an unreliable narrator or you know what I mean like

is what he's saying happening really happening or is he time lagged and hallucinating I'm not really sure but but it's all really fun and hilarious and each chapter uh sort of starts out with a quote from you know from some other author and they almost remind me very over obliquely of Brian's guess the connection clues. Oh, weird. Because they're like, you only, you only understand why they're there after you understand why they're there. Good.

Okay. Yeah, which is exactly how I write those because I want, I wanted to be a confirmation, like, once you think you have the answer, you can look back and say, oh, yeah, okay, that confirms what I think it is kind of thing. So it's interesting. Her list of books is pretty varied. She does a, it's obviously a ton of science fiction. She's specifically a science fiction author, but I'm seeing all sorts of takes here that aren't necessarily all comedic on various themes.

So this is, would you, would you compare it to anything like close to, I don't know, Douglas Adams style stuff or what? Is it in that vein? Yeah, I mean, so it's British for sure. So it has some dry British humor, but it's not quite as tongue in cheek as something like a Douglas Adams or a Terry Pratchett. Like it doesn't, it doesn't quite break the fourth wall quite as much. much as they do. Yeah, it's a little, it's a little more subtle. And thus, that's why I didn't include a clip from the audiobook today. Not, I mean, the, the narrator is fine, you know, but like, they just read some from the first chapter, which the first chapter is him excavating, like, these

old ruins of a church from immediately after the Blitz in London. And they're trying to find the bishop's bird stump and I'm not going to tell you what that is because you don't know what that is in the book until you know and it's you know so it's a whole thing basically the bishop's bird stump is a as a McGuffin and

you know you're you spend the whole book looking for it and then you're like oh weird okay but yeah so the whole first chapter is just him digging through rubble and then sort of establishing that and so I was like eh the audio from that doesn't really

grab you and make you like super want to read it. So I'll just get on and talk about it. It describes it as a companion to the doomsday book, which I guess was a previous novel of hers. Yeah, it says that's book one, right? It says right here part one is doomsday book and then part two is to say nothing of the dog. Do you have to read it in the order? If this isn't technically a sequel,

it's just a companion book, same universe kind of thing, right? Like you didn't need to read Doomsday book to enjoy this? I did not, and I did not read Doomsday book, nor did I need it to enjoy it. I just enjoyed it. But yes, it is the same universe. And my understanding is that Doomsday Book is super depressing. And this is very light and fun.

I like that. I like this better already. Super depressing. You did the audiobook, you said? No. No. Oh, you got it. I heard a sample of the audiobook because I was considering taking a sample to send as a clip.

but I was like, eh, it's just kind of a dry British narrator reading it. And, you know, so I was like, eh, it'll be more fun. I'll just, I'll just jump on and talk about it. Yeah. Don't come and sit down. The drop isn't scheduled till noon. That's, that's the voice. That's interesting, because it says it's Stephen Crossley.

So, I don't know. I was going to say that was different than the sample I found. So apparently your mileage may vary. I don't know what's going on there. But she, someone in the chat says she is not British. No, we know. She's an American author, but she, but this fits in that. The story is British, yes.

So, my, TRPW, it's, yes, good correction there. Yeah, yeah. Well, sounds great. I want to check it out. And I'm glad to hear, I don't need the first one. It's rated, well, the first one's rated the highest on Goodreads, doomsday book, I should say. To say nothing of the dog, very close second, only by like a point two.

rating or something. If you're saying I don't need to read the first one at all, I'll just start there. I'll start with two. I don't think you do. Put this way, I haven't read Doomsday book and I very much enjoyed to say nothing of the dog. In fact, I was a little disappointed that we, I was going to do this book back in February for, because there was a show that we were supposed to have that was on Groundhog Day. And I was like, oh, I'm so going to do to say nothing of the dog for Groundhog Day, but then we

didn't have a show for reasons. Oh, right. You know, so somebody was at the doctor or something, I don't know, something happened. We didn't have a show. So I saved it. But, yeah, so it's a lot of the time travel things kind of end up like that where you're like, wait, we've been here before. What are we doing?

Wait, what, what are we doing? Hey, Brian, where's Greeley, Colorado? She lives there. Oh, really? It's about an hour and a half north of here. And it smells horrible. Really? horribly. Yeah, there's a slaughterhouse.

Monfort is the, not Munford and Sons, but the Monfort Slaughterhouse is there. Tina went to college and Greeley at University of Northern Colorado. And Wednesdays was Slaughter Day. So the whole town stinks. The whole town stinks. The whole town stinks. Yeah, Greeley, not a great place, you know, go up the way to Fort Collins. And you're way, way better off than Greeley.

Yeah, it says here her husband's a professor of physics at the University of Northern Colorado. So maybe you're, I don't know, maybe Tina took a class from, uh, maybe. Oh, what was the, what was the, uh, he's a professor of what? It doesn't say his name, but professor of physics, it says. Oh, physics. No, she wouldn't have taken that. She did she had her, uh, criminal justice degree. Oh, gotcha. Yeah. Just packing heat. Watch out. That's right. Exactly. Uh, well, this is great. Watch out for her, everybody. This is good stuff as always. Go check it out. Again, that's Connie Willis. The book is, uh, to say nothing of the dog. And she has a whole.

list of other books. I'm sort of interested in hearing about all these now. Fantastic stuff. Amy, anything else you want to mention? Where can people find you and talk to you? So I'm, you guys are talking about Vegas. I'm super duper excited about that. I'm also, I'm sitting here like, I'm hand-making. I'm also going to be handing out random swag and whatnot. And so, and I'm hand-making some things. I'm not going to tell you what they are, though, because surprise. So, but yeah, and I have a question about the pool bar thing. For the first night, is that, is it like one of those pool bars where there's like a swim up bar or is it just like a bar that's near a pool? It's a bar. Yeah, it's a bar near a pool. Yeah. There's no swim up. The plaza pool, although it's very, very nice, is not like there's no blackjack tables inside it or anything like that. It is a it is a very nice rectangle because this is old Vegas. Keep in mind. This is original Vegas. But it has.

a great view. It's one of the best views you can get of downtown from up there. Yeah, it's up there up high. You can see all around. It's awesome. I like it up there. You can see the really weird decor, the painting on the wall of the one of the plaza towers that has a woman about to get killed by a blue monster. Yep. Yep. What else can you ask for? Yeah, what else do you want? There's nothing else. You need nothing else but that, I'm telling you. Plus, you can see that nugget guy that looks like he's holding a bowl of kicks he's supposed to be nuggets can you still is that guy still around i think he's still up i think so i'm not 100% positive he's still there as of last time i saw but i love that guy anyway uh well there you go hey amy have a great week

and we'll look forward to doing this again real soon cool you owe me a word and scrabble scott oh i do i'll get in there and get that done by now all righty there you have it you owe her a word I do all her word. I would like to have many, many triple words with you, if I might. All right, we're going to do a quick bit of news. Here at this port of the show, part of the show is what I meant to say. So enjoy this. All right, it's time for the news, and it's brought to you by.

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morning hours on Sunday when they found a full set of dentures on the floor in the bar area of the eatery. Emma Waylon, owner of the establishment, posted a photo on the business Facebook page showing a bag that employees labeled teeth. Those might be mine. Do you mind if I try them to see if they're mine? Yeah, could I put them in just briefly?

Just briefly. Just for a moment, please. Oh, no, they're not. They don't fit it all. Someone else's teeth. Thank you for letting me try. Oh, I thought they were mine. Why do they taste of fish? Ew. Oh, man. That's gross. My poor wife, speaking of gaggy things, my wife this morning, the dogs ate, and Rainer ate a little too fast, you could tell.

And when she was walking through the house, all happy and whatever, she suddenly stopped and, like, had a burp that brought up a little bit of breakfast. Not too bad. Just kind of a... And I've dealt with it. It's no big deal. I'm going to go clean it up. Kim goes, oh, my gosh, I can't even look at it. And I go, what? She goes, the dog barfed on the thing. And now she said, she's trying to eat it. I go, let her eat it. It was just in her guts. Who cares? It's dogs don't care. Let her eat it. And she goes, uh, uh, and he was running through the house

like she was going to hurl. I feel bad. I feel guilty. Anyway, we got a lot of things left behind on that night in the barclay. We have had house keys, phones, even a shoe. But this one is new, the post said. Let's see, the teeth were found on at the end of a particularly busy night. we had a party upstairs and it was busy downstairs as well we didn't find the teeth until the end of the night she told the evening news our supervisor Cameron found them they were up on the or they were on the floor in the bar it's a full set of teeth I particularly wanted to post it

because somebody is definitely missing them so who do you think is at home going you know I feel like I'm missing something I just yeah exactly what's different some people are different here the fact they're on the floor too means that like somebody was plowed right like uh just overserved too much prosceco and uh oh that sounds so bad yeah can you imagine floor teeth back in your mouth bar floor teeth yeah you need to put those through

like supersonic ultrasonic cleaning methods or something i don't even know if there's enough boiling you could do to make me want to put those back in my mouth those are really bad humann said it right shun of a bish i forgot my tish nice You ever lose your teesh? Your car teesh. All right. So there's that story. Check out Chipotle.

We got Chipotle in the news. Okay. Chipotle, sure. We just got a new one over the not far. By the way, I had a breakfast breto from Ziggy's this morning. I've got Ziggy's coffee, as you can see right here. Oh, look at that. Yeah.

Inspired by Carter. Yeah. What did you think? The, so the breakfast burrito, I get the one with chorizo. And maybe I didn't let her finish. Oh. Because she was saying, let me get two breakfast burros because I was bringing one back for Tina.

She's like, oh, okay, great. Yeah, we've got chorizo, bacon. And he said, oh, no need to go any further, chorizo. Now, I maybe should have waited because I don't think there was any egg in this. I think it was chorizo and beans and cheese. Oh. I don't know. I don't know, like refried beans in a breakfast brewers.

It was an odd thing. But I don't think there was any egg in this. And I'll bet she was about to get to chorizo. an egg, bacon and egg, blah, blah, blah. You stopped her. I stopped it too soon, yeah. Yeah, they have, I really liked the one I got, but it definitely had egg in it. Yeah, I think that's what happened.

Yeah, I'll bet, I'll bet I should have waited. How is the, how's the corphy? Is it good? Coffee's great. Yeah, I just went with a straight drip of the day or daily brew or whatever it's called, and it's a medium roast. It's their forte. Oh, nice.

Forte blend. Yeah, the Will Forte blend. It's very good. The Will Forte. blend yeah yeah yeah the photo i'm looking on on their website for sure or website has for sure has uh uh eggs meat cheese potatoes and yeah i think she stopped short because you didn't because it sounded like you didn't want anything i think i should yeah i said i should have said uh yeah please tell me everything instead of instead of oh you had me a chorizo oh okay treizo and dog shit great

here you go here you go here's some dog shit terrizo for you uh well all right Here's the deal at Chipotle. They got a robot named Chippy, and it makes tortilla chips for them. And it turns out they make them – some people didn't believe it because there's a lot of variety in the chips. They don't look uniform like a robot made them. And that's because Chippy makes them imperfect on purpose. Oh, clever. Check this out.

Could you tell the difference between a tortilla chip made by a human and one that was made by a disembodied robot arm? Well, robot arms. Robot arms. Chipotle Mexican Grill is putting the question to the... test. Earlier this week, it announced that it's testing an AI kitchen assistant called Chippy to see if it can replicate the flavor texture and crunch of its signature side dishes.

Chippy, which was created in partnership with miso robotics. They make good soup, too. Love a good miso soup. Miso robotics. Yeah, Miso Robotics. Miso horny.

That's all I remember about that movie. That and what's his name shooting himself on a toilet? That's all I remember. Full metal jacket. Vincent Dinoffrio. Yeah. Vincent Dinoffre shoots himself with a gun. I didn't know they stack shit that high. Come on, the whole early, Ermi bit.

Yeah, he's big in it, of course. But like those two moments are stuck where he shoots himself on the head. And then later, me so horny. Oh, me so horny, Joe. That whole thing. Yeah, yeah. We just watched a movie last night. I'm on the fence as to whether I'm going to recommend it.

But it featured Vincent Dinoffrio, and I didn't recognize him until he started talking. I said, oh, there's the kingpin. I love him. But he's, uh, but he's, uh, um, Jerry Falwell. He plays Jerry Falwell in this. What? Yeah. I need to know more.

Vincent, Dinoffrio is Jerry Falwell. Are you gonna, is this a recommendal probably or what? I'm trying to decide. I mean, some people, if somebody's seen this, they know exactly what movie I'm talking about. Oh, I bet I know it. You're Googling it right now. No, I bet I know it. It's the, there's a blonde person involved.

It's, she's married to a guy. Yeah. Yeah, that's exactly. All right. I haven't seen it, but I've seen, popped up and, like, told me it to watch it before. But I had no idea he was in that. That's great. Yeah. Boy, did they, some amazing casting with, uh, I'm just going to say right now, Andrew Garfield in the third movie he did in 2021. Yeah. Busy boy this year.

Busy boy, which is fine with me. He's great. I'll watch him in whatever. But my God, is that perfect casting, uh, him is, uh, I'll just say, is Jim Baker. Baker. They didn't have to do a lot of makeup on his face to do the Jim Baker, weird little grimace smile that he always did, which I think is the face you'd make if you were married to Tammy Fay. I would. I think he probably made that face a lot. He's still weird, that guy. So that's the thighs of Tammy Fay. The thighs of Tammy, the thighs of Tammy Fay. Got it. Nailed it. All right, great. Part of her anatomy, I hope I'm never subjected to. Moving on. Well, you won't be, she's, she dead.

Oh, yeah, she died. Yeah, she died. But Jim Baker still around selling barrels of bullcrap. Still around selling, exactly, selling, uh, home depot tubs of, uh, weird oatmeal or something. Mm-hmm. Stuff for the end times. Forever food or, what is it called? It's, uh, Armageddon box?

Armageddon. Is it, is it, is it Armageddon? Jim's name tub? Oh, that's amazing. I want all these names to be correct. So, I don't even want to know the real. I got to see what it's called. I got to see what it's called here.

Yeah, let's clear it up. Survival foods, I think, is what it is. Let's see. Where is it? She did. Apocalypse Chow, is that it? Really? That's not it.

I think that's what... A doom loot crate. Doom Lute Crate. Doom Crate. NPR calls an apocalypse chow, but I don't think... Oh, God. The photo of Apocalypse Chow. I'm putting it in the chat room.

Oh, no. I'm kind of nervous. This is the food that Jim Baker is uh oh yeah look at that this survival food sampler bucket this is his really i can tell you what bucket that'll go into i don't like any of that that all looks bad i mean unless you're telling me this is guac and that over there some kind of cheese dip maybe this is some some broccoli cheddar cheese over here and over you got a i don't know what this is but knowing that's jim baker survival food f right out of the door yeah uh prepared pantry 60 meal food supply

And this is, this comes in the same kind of container that you get full of kitty litter, fresh-step kitty litter at Costco. Wow. Wow. I agree. It looks like all of that. I don't want any of it. Yeah. Yeah.

It looked like excretions from Jim Baker. Oh, you know what I was going to tell you? I totally forgot about this. The guy in brand new cherry flavor that plays the producer's son, the Eric Lane character's son. Oh, yeah. Jonathan. Jonathan is the spitting image for Andrew Garfield. And for a hot second, I thought, is he in this? Is he cameoing in this? Obviously, it's not him. But that dude looks like Andrew Garfield. And it freaked me out the whole series. That was weird. Speaking to Andrew Garfield. Anyway. Yeah, totally. Moving on. Oh, yeah. So the whole point is this chippy robot makes chips look good. That's the point. That's the whole story. The chips look like regular people chips. And so next time you go to Chipotle, you'll get some. chips and you won't know the difference you won't know a robot made it all right yeah so it's like you know it's like uh if mcdonald is going to press their chicken nuggets into weird shapes you know it's

basically for the same reason it's like well we just don't want to really advertise the fact that we've got a machine making pressing this chicken into yeah if they were all the same shape you would not want to eat them and if they were like a perfect circle or a little square or whatever you wouldn't want to eat them i'm trying to think if they were If lab-grown meat really takes off. Yeah. And it's good, let's say steak, okay? Okay.

And it's legitimately as good as real steak. I'd love to do my Joey Pantaliano impersonation, but I'm not going to do it. Not going to, okay, you're going to hold off, all right. I want to hold off. So if they get to that point where it's that good, I'd wonder if I would care if all of them were identical. I don't think I would. No. I think I'd be fine with it.

Well, and, you know, chips you're eating a lot at a time. You're eating a dozen chips one right after the other or whatever. With steak, it's not like you're eating four steaks one or after you there and saying, wait a minute, this is the exact same shape as the last steak I ate. Very good point. Same with the nuggets. They're the same. It's in quantity.

And so when you've got multiples to compare right in front of you, that's a problem. Right. But if you've got one steak per meal, who cares? Yeah, I'm ready for the lab grown meat. I'm so into that. I'm fine with that. Yeah, I mean, you know, totally. Bring it on.

I don't care. Impossible steaks. Let's have them. Yeah, let's get there right now. I'll try an impossible steak. Hell yeah. I'd do that. I don't love the bean. What's not impossible? The other one. There's another popular one. Beyond? Beyond beef. I don't like that. Beyond beef. Because it truly is beyond beef. It doesn't taste like beef. It's bed bath and beyond beef.

Yeah, bed bath and beyond beef. I don't know if I've tried beyond. I think I've had impossible that I don't think I've tried beyond. Oh, Taco Vend. Venti, you make a point. Pringles. we're okay with Pringles. Oh, yeah, right. But that's a, is there an assumption there that's like, yes, these are weird potato sticks cut into the same? You know, I don't know, maybe, uh, I mean, they are. They are, but you know what I mean?

Like, why are we okay with that, but we wouldn't be with the nuggets? Yeah. And why, you know, I think I wouldn't complain about Chipotle's chips being perfect triangles every time either. Like, whatever. I wouldn't either, actually. I wouldn't bother me. but that's the whole idea that's what they're doing good luck to them we're going to take a break when we come back my sister wendy will be here we got an email to read she's back home safe and sound in

minnesota uh so we'll catch up with her and see what's up uh before that though a break and a song hey brian you have to do the song your sister's close enough she could actually go see today's artist Rafaela, excuse me, R-A-F-F-A-E-L-A. She is sharing a brand new single called Blonde. She's born and raised in New York

City, but now she lives in Minneapolis. And this is a great kind of indie pop song inspired by, you know, she was inspired at a young age by Ella Fitzgerald, Billy, Holiday, and Saravan.

So you get a little bit of that classic jazz kind of sound in it, but this is great stuff. This was actually a number one hit. on Spotify's viral 50 U.S. or her last song, sorry, was a number one hit on Spotify's viral 50. Here is Blonde by Raphaella.

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Then I'm going to pop off Like a wild one We can bye-bye Norma Jean Turn the light on I can't sleep till my hair's all bleached Now all I need to keep me Clean's for oxide and false ashes In a house in calabasas

But if it gets me, they're the fastest Like the wild one You would be a lot sluggier If you were gone You'll kiss somebody And they're gonna get mad of you Sticking out like a sore thumb At the bar, if I'll pick the foot

I'll take the shots Everybody's gonna ask how much cost How much when I got the hook up My neighbor girls can do it for pretty cheap He used to do bad bad bad drugs But now he's gone clean My mama's going to be so proud of me Then I'm gonna pile off

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Like a wild one I know I won't be embarrassing For too much longer If I have some Oh, you're having more fun Leaving by Bye by Norma J

turn the line I can't sleep To my hair's out bleached Now all I need to keep me Cleans for outside of false lashes And a house in calabasasas Where it gets me They're in the fastest

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You're in my As in my eyes in calabastas And it gets me the fastest, like you all ones That's right. That's right. That's right. M. A little softer.

Me A. Little less. That's right. Those eggs look like shit. This is the morning stream asking, Do dogs have brains? Because I really want to know.

All right, we're back, everybody. Hey, who was that song again from? Sure. That was Raphaella from her brand new single, Blonde. Check out more of her work coming out soon. Okay, I don't want to let a question from BioCow go. He says, is it possible that you could take mashed potatoes?

and make pringles out of them, out of instant mashed potatoes. I don't know. This would be a great, like, someone's probably done a YouTube thing. Like, you could probably roll them out on a sheet pan or something and cookie cutter them and bake them and maybe make, I don't know. I don't know. Let's see. I'm going to do. Some of the else I forgot to bring up at Ziggy's Coffee, the drive through woman I spoke to and who handed me my food said perfect every time I said something.

So, hi, welcome to Ziggy. what can I get for you? Let me get a large coffee. Perfect. Would you like that to be medium roast or dark roast? Medium roast, please. Perfect. And would you like anything in there?

Yeah, Splenda and a little bit of splash of cream. Perfect. And can I get you anything else? Yeah, a couple breakfast brunas? Perfect. And we have, blah, blah, blah, you know. That's why you cut her off and stopped at Teresa. She was like too many perfects.

Right, exactly. Wow. So if I ever do another on location drive, somewhere we do a ziggies uh a ziggies run and i uh see we we make bets on how many perfects i can get out of her i love that that's great yeah we you know these we all have her vocal crutches sounds like she's got hers we do but i do love the idea that i don't want to make fun of anybody no but i do love the idea that everything you said was perfect you know exactly part of me was hoping when i got to the window that she'd say okay your food will be just a minute

i was going to say that's all right you can't rush perfection But do that on tape because we need it here. It's part of the show. All right, I search. And I get spit in my breakfast bread. That's the missing ingredient. Oh, yeah. I didn't think about that.

Maybe don't do that then. Real quick here, I did a search on YouTube. Make your own Pringles. There are a ton of videos of people making them. Okay. So you will not be wanting much by looking up on YouTube this thing that BioCow asked. So yes. So the answer, BioCow, you can make your own Pringles.

quite, and by the looks of some of this video, quite well. These look like cringles. Not hard. Not hard to do. I don't know if they're, I mean, maybe they're hard, but the end result, they'd look, I wouldn't be able to know the difference. They'd look really good. All right. Let's get Wendy all up in it.

She's probably very patiently waiting to be added to the call here. She is up in it, is what she is. Yeah, she's up in it. Ah, look who it is. A recent visitor to you, is now back in her new state of Minnesota. Hello, Wendy. Welcome back. Are you there?

Oh, crap. Are you muted? You might be muted. Might be muted. Do you do a little cheek mute? You got Adam messing with your stuff. You got one of the kids screwing around there. Something going on there. And we wait and we see and we wait. Yeah, yeah. And we get nothing yet. She's probably frantically pushing buttons, clicking on stuff. Button's yelling.

Adam, get in here. What'd you do? Probably is what she's saying. Adam's like, what? It's what she's, yeah. Yeah, it's basically the mark. She continues to be muted. I'm going to pause the recording.

What was it? Did Adam screw it? But you're really good at that. You describe exactly what to do with like, and not made me stupid. Yeah, we've had to do that many times. And Brian and I, you know, we've spent some time in some form of tech support. And, you know, mom still is here in Utah.

Somebody has to help her with her crap. I'm sure you have. I have lots of experience. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, thank you. Sorry, that was very odd. Yeah, it was very odd. We're glad you're here, though.

How are you? Yeah. Yeah, but the trip home was fine. You guys drove the whole way. Did you do another kind of stopover places, or what? What did you do? We drove and we stayed in Rapid City, South Dakota. Oh, very nice.

Just the night, got some good rest and drove home. Yeah, did you meet any of those Fargo types, you know, with the accent and all that? No? No, but I did. I have some sad news. The world's largest candy store has closed. Oh, no. I know.

I don't know how, I mean, I went there at least once or twice during pandemic times, and it was crowded. Yeah. I'm not sure what's going on. The good news is another one has just risen to take its place. There will always be the world's largest candy store. It just changes from place to place. Yeah, that's true. It may not be as conveniently located for you, but that's unfortunate.

I didn't know they had that. So tell me, what does that look like? What is the largest candy store look? like. Is it a huge? Well, it's a giant, it was a farm right next to kind of a main road where people, you take it going out of town to get, to go west up on, I think that's I-70, or that area up there.

And so everybody passes it and everybody stops. And this thing is like huge. I mean huge. It's bright yellow. And so you can't help it. And you go and you buy all the stupid things. And it's candy from all over the world. It's just, oh, it's heaven.

I'm so sad. Yeah. But, you know, times are tough sometimes. So there we go. Yeah, you never know. Well, it wants candy, apparently. Candy is no longer the draw it was during the height of the pandemic. Well, all right. It's good to have you back. And it feels weird that you were just here a week ago. That's weird to me. But whatever, really, really fun seeing everybody. I keep bringing this up. But I had so much fun hanging out with Peter. That kid, if he ends up moving back here at any point, Peter's coming over all the time. We're going to have uncle, nephew time all the time, and he's just a blast. He's just a fun freak show of a kid in all the right ways.

He really is. He's a good kid. So much fun. Did you, you got the picture I sent you as the gnome. Yeah, can you explain this? This gnome is, so he brings home a gnome from where? Was it school, a friend? I don't know.

He has the weirdest experiences. But anyway, he somehow found out someone's aunt or someone makes gnome. Yeah. So he takes some money. None of us, Adam and I had no idea this happened. He goes to school, apparently, purchases two gnomes. Yeah, bought two gnomes. It feels like, is that even real?

But anyway, and then he comes home the other day with this giant gnome that's got this tie-dye hat and a painter's little kit. And it's an artist, and he's named it Scott. Yeah, which is really sweet, sweet and strange. And also, I still can't get over the fact that the kid procured gnomes. homes without, you know, I'm like, what is that? That's a really odd thing. Never heard of such a thing. It's a strange skill. He has. He can get things done that make no sense. I love it. Brian, I'll put it in our text or something so you can see it. Yeah. It's very,

very cute. It made me happy to get it. All right. Well, let's get to today's business. Wendy's an actual therapist, by the way. Helps people with real problems all the time, but comes on this show and slums it with us and helps you with yours. And we're happy. to have her here as we have for the last almost 12 years, which is insane to say. Let's get to this email. This is one that, well, that's a good one. So we're tackling it. Here we go. This person wants to be called freak, by the way, or tattooed freak. Says, I kept wondering if I should see someone. I never knew any of my grandparents. The only memory of any grandparent is not a good one. And it was when I was about eight or nine years old. My parents divorced

when I was six or seven, and I have very few memories of anything earlier than nine to ten years old. My mom got custody, and I saw my dad every other weekend. I don't remember much of our interactions. He never taught me how to throw a football, ride a bike, or really anything. I've never even shaved with anything but an electric razor since I had no one to show me how. My mom, that's an interesting one. I want to come back to that one. My mom did all that she could, and I was a mama's boy all my life until she died in 2014. I have twin daughters, but their mother and I were completely incompatible, and I wasn't in their lives for the first seven years. And then only saw them once a year after that for several years until, or since I lived a thousand miles away. Jesus, that's a long ways.

Most of the time I couldn't even call them because their mother would just scream at me over the phone. They are in their 20s now. I'm married to a wonderful woman who has two kids before we got married. We've been together for nine years and married for coming on eight years. April 14th is the day. Even though I've been told by my wife that I am a good dad, I do not see it or feel it. I feel as if I don't know how to be a parent and I don't, and I know that one of my daughters is married and wants to have kids. I'm realizing that I don't know how to be a grandparent either. Even though I have four kids, I've never changed a diaper. I feel like my life has been full of wishing, hoping, and building towards things.

that didn't or won't happen. And now that I'm halfway through my lifetime, there are, here on this planet, I don't see what I have accomplished. I probably should talk to someone, but I wonder what the difference it will make. Rant over. Now let me behold your effervescent wisdom

as it washes over me. Says freak. I like that idea. But this email got right to the meat. Like there's no preamble. It's just like straight up, here's what's going on and how I feel right now. And I kind of like that.

enough information by jumping right to a good question yeah questions that you normally have like oh well how was your you know father's life like or i mean obviously that yeah that did get answered but yeah no he he covered a lot i'm actually surprised yeah surprising amount so what do you where do you want to go with this one it just it seems like um it's probably a weird feeling of numb like i'm the feeling i get from this is almost like a numb feeling like you stuff happened but he missed it. Yeah. And just didn't affect him. And so now he's like wondering, wait, did I actually happen? Did that happen? Did I have those children? Are they actually in their 20? Like, I don't know. I think a lot of people can relate to this because time is also a factor here if time is

weird. Right. Well, and the stage, right? So halfway through his life on Earth is what have we put it, right? Yeah. He's halfway done. So I assume he means somewhere between 40 and 50. Yeah. Somewhere there. Yeah. Which is a sort of normal time to, evaluate what's happened before and think about how you're going to handle what's coming up, we should really normalize that as a really important time for people. Like, you know, when you think about, okay, I'm going to ask both you this, what is the most important developmental time for a person? Yeah. If I had to guess, you're going to rank it. What would be first? Probably pre-teen, like maybe nine to 12. I'd argue, I'd argue five to an eight,

18. Oh, big, big range. That's big. That's a big range. Is that too big? Okay. So, so yeah, right? Like why and why? Brian, I like yours particular because you're on to something there. Why do you think that's the most important time? It's when you really start learning, like things are not being done for you as much and you're starting to learn how to do a lot of things for yourself. And so you're watching the people around you as to how they do things. And, um, and kind of adopting the mannerisms and the tools of the people around you. Right. So that the modeling starts to... Right. Has an impact. Whether the kid is rejecting what's being modeled or not is another story. That's why adolescents is so fun, right?

And preteens are the new adolescent. So you're right. And there is something actually about the brain's size, development, and, you know, the stage it's in at that age that's different from the stage before. Stage before is black and white concrete thinking. So it's a good example is smoking is bad, people who smoke are bad. It's just very linear, very black and white. Why they say the most hilarious things and they don't know they're saying the most hilarious things. That stage is also incredibly important, right? Because the brain is growing and you're learning that you're safe or not. You're, you know, all sorts of things are happening in those younger years that are really

crucial for long-term well-being. But the sort of as your brain shifts to abstract thinking, which is what happens around 9, 10, 11, you can hold two different thoughts in your head at the same time. Cognitive dissonance becomes a thing. Like all of the nuances of brain developments start to kick in. And that's when you go, oh, smoking's bad. That person smokes doesn't mean they're bad. Right? They can now handle that thought and get, that, you know, and they're going to see the world differently. This is why it's difficult for parents to raise kids at that age because suddenly they're new creatures in literally their brain is

morphing into something new, right? And then as we keep going and their brains are still misshapen. That's not the right way to put it. What I mean is so the part of the brain that is thrill-seeking and novelty-seeking is bigger in a child era. an adolescent's brain, then the part, then it will be is there an adult. So about 26 is when your brain gets sort of full size developmentally. And that thrill-seeking part kind of shrinks to its regular adult size.

But it's bigger when you're younger. And then the part of your brain that helps you know if something is a smart idea or not or safe or physically okay, that's smaller. So that's why you have a lot of teenage insanity is, you know, the thrill-seeking, without the part saying, hey, it's not a great idea. So that all kind of gets to the adult size about 26. So anyway, the reason I got distracted was because developmentally, we never talk about 40 to 50 is a developmental stage.

No, we call it midlife crisis. Yeah, you've already locked into your rut by that point. Your brain's developed going on 25 years. When someone's 45 and they're like, I'm leaving my wife buying a fast car and trying to sew my oats again, we see that as like this, oh, that guy where there's a But really, maybe what we're witnessing is like a natural phenomena that we don't address very well. Is that what you're going to get at here? And so the new wife and the new car is the treatment for the undiagnosed dilemma this person has been facing, right?

And then it just becomes sort of a given that it looks like that and we mock it and like, whatever. And then until you turn 45 and you go, oh, my gosh, I want a Tesla, you know? It happens. It happens. Okay, so I wanted to just put that out there as like, okay, it's normal. This is really normal. And in fact, very healthy. It's just painful, right?

To really look. And so the difference, like I love his first sentence is like, I keep wondering if I should see someone. The answer is yes. And the answer to the person getting the sports car and a new wife, the answer is yes. And there's a reason because if you're not working through some of these existential questions, these evaluations, of the life you've lived, you know, if you, if you don't go through that process at all, then it's going to come out sideways on a yacht, you know, or, or, you know, running away from something or, you know, can be so many different versions.

You know, being in Utah, I sometimes am reminded that it's, you know, shooting your butt up with different hormones and being obsessed with how you look, right? Like, and fill in your face with Botox or whatever, like there is, everyone does, does this differently. It's really hard to age and it's really hard to hit this moment where things are different and changing for you. Your body's changing. Lots is happening and you're just, it's like adolescence 2.0. Yeah. Except you don't know what you're supposed to do because you're the one in charge of the mortgage or you're the one in charge of raising adolescents or, you know, whatever. So it's an incredibly difficult time. We need to be nicer to 40 to 50 year olds.

I agree, you guys. Be nicer. Amen. And over and beyond 50. It's not in that window. We're all different. I think it starts, you know, a little younger, in fact, and goes a little longer. So we're talking a good 15, 20-year spam. We need to be nice to those people. Okay. So I'm basically talking about Gen X and elder millennials.

Let's be nice to those folks. Yeah, the older millennials. So that's what's happening. You're at this moment. Lots of things have happened to this guy to get him to this point. Parents are divorced. Custodies, tricky, gets no real father figure. He has no modeling, at least how he's described. There's no modeling of what a dad does, right? And so like that, just like, how do I live my life all the way down to shaving or tying a tie or something like, you know, what is what is it that I'm supposed to have learned? And lots of kids just learn by osmosis. They learn by watching you. They learn by this is just what people in my community do, and it all just sort of comes together. But if you don't have that, so, you know, some people don't feel it as acutely growing up as they will later when it is asked of them to father or mother or, you know, be in a position of helping somebody developmentally when they didn't themselves have it.

So it's not fair that he then has to go father and not know how and probably, have ensued. And, you know, this is where a therapist would be really helpful for him, I think, is to help him sort of plot out his history and understand it and have some compassion for himself to see that he was dealt a pretty rough hand of cards. And then what he has done with those cards is way better than he should have. And he's done it without any help, which is not great. I mean, we want everyone to get help, right? But this is, you know, he obviously has a great wife and he's doing his best and now we have grandkids coming. It's like this awesome moment for him to get some maybe healing and some closure and some understanding of his past that led to

some of these feelings. And then it's kind of like taking out the trash so he then has space and room to learn something else. Right? So you can learn how to be a grandpa. You can learn how to be a dad to adult children. I'd like to venture and, you know, both of you can speak to this. You guys didn't know to be a grant or a father to an adult child until you had one right yeah no yeah none of that did either of you take a class on that no no school of hard not yeah baby right texting each other back and forth going our kids are weird you know that's that was it that's all we had right and and here's the thing like yay and your kids are fine you know that works out but when you have when you start with a bit of a deficit in this modeling which neither of you really

did in the same way we're talking about with him. Sure. You have to have someone teach you and show you. So though you're in your 50s or 40s and you're like, I don't know how to do this, well, how does anyone learn? Well, they take a class. They read a book. They go to a group. They talk to a therapist. You find ways to learn to understand this. So you don't have to spend the next 40 years wishing you were a good grandpa or wishing you were a good dad. You will, because your wife isn't wrong she can see that you're doing all these good things

you can't see it and you can't recognize it and that is it's a you problem that only you can do something about but there are ways to learn this and ways to do it differently so chain breakers I always you know I love to talk about the chain breakers

because they are incredible human beings and they're all over the place if you talk to anyone long enough you'll find a chain breaker probably works with you or is in your family. And it's somebody who, what was modeled, what was taught, what was brought to them, it's like the package handed to them.

Like, this is how your life's going to go. And they refused to do it. And they figured out, I can do it this way. I got to do something different. It's incredibly taxing and difficult. But it changes the course of everyone after you, breaking some of that sort of, you know, generational trauma and sort of in our family,

we do this. etc. Right. So he's a chainbreaker. He's doing it here in the middle of life. And he's done it without really knowing it sort of already. But he really can just, I don't know, really dive into this. And it's, you know, I don't think he would have sent this email if he wasn't ready to listen to, what did they call it, our imminent wisdom? Our, uh, something washing over. Effervescent. Effervescent wisdom. Yeah. Because now Wendy, it's windy, but with Retson. That's what's going on. Remember that? That was the thing they told this was good. Oh yeah. Sertz was all full of that stuff, whatever the heck it was.

So I guess one thing that will probably happen to him, everything you said is obviously all true. There's something magical about the first grandkid. And I can tell you from experience that that magical thing can be described to you before it happens. And then when you get there, you're still not prepared for it or the feeling of it. And the beauty of it is you don't have to be a parent to that kid. You have to be this different role, this other role. And that other role can be hugely influential in all of that. It's not that that stuff's not important or that a grandparent's role can't be, you know, can't even make or break a child's upbringing. But what I mean is there is, it's a different kind, you know. And so you're going to, there may be a tendency to

want to throw yourself at that now and go, well, now's my chance. You know, now's when I can really go for it. But then you're running to maybe some other issues like the daughter that you didn't see for so long and that maybe you don't have the best relationship is like, yeah, come on, back off dad. I got this. I'm the parent now. You know, you don't need to. You don't need to have an opinion about everything we're doing. You know, like all those things that are definitely things that come up. And for whatever reason, I've been wary of that and don't want to be the guy in my daughter's life that goes, well, you know, back in my day or, well, the way we did or when I was your,

you know, I don't want to do that to her. She's having her own now young adult life and she's having her own experiences and she's a wonderful parent anyway, but she doesn't need me second guessing. anything she's doing or all of that. My job is to be that guy that he loves to see and can't wait to come hang out with and sit on my lap and play that dumb dino game we play and and watch a blueie. That's what he says. I want to watch a blueie. He says. So we watch a blueie together and all of the fun stuff when he's little and all the fun stuff when he's going to be older. That's my job now is to just make love happen when he's in the room and not to be the guy that

says, oh, I don't know. I think cloth diapers would have been the way to guy. I mean, that's not my job. We're Kim's, for that matter. So we're trying really hard to break that pattern of old people button in going, here's what you should be doing. I just throw that out there as just like a general piece of advice so that you don't catch yourself overdoing that or trying to, you know, take lead in a thing you're not meant to lead in. And then once you realize that, freaking enjoy it. Let that. Let that. wash over your effervescent self because it's great. It's amazing. He goes home. I think that's really good advice. I don't know if it applies to this person.

It may not. It may not at all. But I do think everyone else listening take that in because it's crucial to building a good relationship with everybody. But for him in particular, I wonder if it's almost the opposite of if you've never changed a diaper. I mean, I changed a thousand diapers, guys. And then recently I had to help someone, and I was changing the diaper, and I almost barfed. And I was like, I forgot how the strap things work. Like your brain doesn't maintain its former skills when you stop using them. It just doesn't. Or like, how does this stupid car seat work?

You know, I haven't had to work on one of those in a long time. So having never done it, feeling probably really self-conscious about being around a young baby or a young child, you may not feel natural. You may, you know, where I think, Scott, like, you love kids and spend a lot of time with kids that this was not, this is a new territory to have a toddler come over to your house. Oh, yeah. And if it is, which I suggest, I assume for this guy, it might be, just not knowing what he's doing. And so this is why I'm a big fan of parenting classes or group parenting sorts of things or grandparenting courses, which they do have, where you, You can learn some stuff, see that you're not alone, get support, understand that it's okay. It's okay that you don't know how to do this.

Like it doesn't mean you're a bad or good anything. It just means you haven't learned yet, and that's okay. So learning is going to make you feel a thousand times more confident and really it's just exposure. I had a client the other day say literally all of life is exposure therapy. And it is. you have to go do a thing you have to learn a thing you got to practice a thing

you have to try a thing a thing that scares you you got to move towards it or it will always scare you might still scare you after you move towards it who knows you know like

it's just a it's a lot of effort to live life like that and I'm sure what's easy and what's sort of maybe would come naturally

to this person is to avoid stay away pull back and be stuck in their head about that they're terrible at this etc. And that is a lack of learning and pushing yourself to do a thing that's hard for you

to do, which is why the 40 to 50 developmental range that we ignore really is important for this reason is that you've got to decide what you want to do the rest of your life. You can evaluate, you have time to, you know, not you have time, but you have the time that can be evaluated because you've lived it and spent it. I think everyone should just automatically be enrolled in therapy when they hit 37. Oh, that's an interesting age. And just chalk it through. We'd have a lot less cars on the road that are annoying.

And, you know, or whatever thing people end up doing as their midlife crisis to just sort of feel alive again or whatever it might be, right? Like, actually dealing with this stuff. So I highly recommend. I didn't have a chance to, I was going to Google like, grand parenting courses. There's stuff online. There's just no endless amounts of good information available to like improve your skills at this. Go, you know, work at a daycare for six months. Your life will be changed. Oh, yeah. Maybe don't do that. But if you want to, you know,

like finding ways to like expand your mind and your horizons. It's painful. This is why the therapist is important here is we're not just saying, hey, go learn to skateboard. That would be painful to. But if you don't have any trauma around skateboarding and you're just like, yeah, let's do it. It's much easier to go try to learn to skateboard. But if there is trauma around parenting and being around small children and not knowing if you're a failure or not because of your previous life, you know, like you don't, you haven't sorted through all of that. Like you have an obligation for these little humans coming into your life to do something about that history. It's not easy.

and I know I'm making it sound like, I'll just go do it and figure it out. It will be work and it will be worth it. I truly can guarantee that. Yeah, it'll totally be worth it. Do you wonder sometimes, like I'll watch a video, some viral video of a Karen type or something, you know, freaking out in a store. And forget, you know, it doesn't even have to be COVID related. Just somebody who's just like, mid-50s, losing their minds, that's definitely a wig. they're dressed like their daughter

you know this is just a small example I'm not trying to you know I don't want to blanket this too much but my point is when I see these I'm less I'm more these days less seeing somebody freaking out in the very specific context of that moment or day

instead what I'm seeing is like this is somebody who this is somebody at 37 or when they were 37 could have used that mandatory thing you were talking about do you know what I mean like is they're expressing themselves in a place where they're they're not losing their relevance as a human being,

but they're losing their prime. They're going out of their prime. To contribute to a community in a productive way. Yeah, maybe their prime is passed and they're going in a new space and they don't want to let that go. So instead of like seeing those changes and understanding those changes, they're fighting those changes. And as a result,

they're fighting everybody in front of them to maintain that control. I'm going to do a little short segment defending Karen. You ready? do it go okay so uh we were skiing uh when we were there visiting right and i was sitting on the lift with my brother-in-law and i as we were about to get on the lift i asked him i just said okay observe what's happening right now in front of us and so of course he did and then we had the time to talk about it and what it was was two young girl snowboarders were getting on the um lift and the three dudes who work there you know how they like shovel the snow and they say hi whatever

we're all joking with them and laughing with them. And the girls you could see are like, like, why are you talking to us? And it's all this little banter back and forth. And then when we got up there, I made a joke. I tried to engage with the dude with the shovel. He straight up ignores me. And so we get on the trail, or get on the thing.

And I say, so what do you think just happened? He goes, I don't know. What just happened? And I was like, so when you are a young woman, you have a certain power you don't know you have. Yeah. Right? Yeah.

Men will pay attention to you. People will just talk to you and listen to you and think you're, whatever, because you're at a certain age range. I'm not going to use the verb that would explain this. And then when you get older, they're just like talking to their mom or their grandmother or just whatever. And I had a friend put it this way. She's like, I'm a white woman who's in my 50s.

So when people hear me talk, they just hear. white noise. Right? And this, so it doesn't matter your level of attractiveness at some point when you're younger, there's some attractives that will, you know, society has deemed for young people and worth, you know, whatever. So we've talked about on the trail or on the lift and he was just like, does that happen?

I'm like, have you met a Karen yet? And that is what I think is at the core for many situations is that you are. losing people treat you differently they just do so like at the airport i was at the airport recently and something like my box got stuck you know when they go underneath and you can pull it up anyway it's so annoying and some young 30 year old see i have to say young i thought we were the same age anyway she helped me as it like fell out all awkward and she fixed it and i was like oh that's so nice thank you yeah and she looked at me like oh you're welcome i was like oh my gosh you think you just Helped an old lady.

Exactly. I mean to get a merit badge for this. That's amazing. It was so clear that that's what she just thought. Did she think this was you right here? Yeah. Some white noise? Yeah.

And also help me because my legs don't work as well or whatever, you know? Right. But it was so clear, her tone, her face, and what just happened. And even how I said, oh, that was so kind of you. I was like, I'm the old lady in this story. and you can feel the difference. Like, we aren't peers anymore. I don't feel any different.

She doesn't know any different. And when she's 50, she'll also know, oh, I'm now there, right? So this is the great universal equalizer. It just takes a long time to get to, right? Like, everyone you ever see who's young will one day feel like you guys. So anyway, but I do think there is this huge amount of loss in having sort of unknown power you did have, you don't have anymore. You can't flirt your way into something like you used to,

and you didn't maybe even know you were doing it. Or just they're not really going to give you attention, but someone else walks up, they're going to give them attention. And this, you can draw these on racial lines, too. People have experienced this their whole lives. And so you just, I think there's an entitled, blonde version of this that likes to get, like, before seeing the manager really worked and getting what they needed happen.

and then it stops working. And so they're pretty in their power, so they kind of get, uh, yeah, right. And so instead of like morphing to something different or figuring this out or grieving some of that loss, I think every, so when you, you know, you're critical of women who are like, and I did it already in the show with Botox, right? Like you're critical of that, but you got to think of what they're trying to hang on to. Um, and then obviously there's a lot of nice women who do not do this. So there is some other. special things. But that's been my empathy for Cairns is like, oh, they have any power anymore and they are demanding it. That's what's happening. I can have some sympathy. And it's really easy for us to lump it into the big giant stereotype that it is. Obviously, we've given it a name.

We've given her a name. And at the expense of anyone named Karen, we have given her a name. And it's kind of, it's kind of lousy. And my friend Karen does this. It's so funny. She's not a Karen, but her name is Karen. She just loves to make sure her name is written on stuff, like when she orders things. And she always just like, hey, I'm Karen. And I'm not yelling at you to do something for me. I love that. It's just scary enough.

I love that. That she has embraced this thing. There's something also very cathartic about that as well as just owning it. Well, all right. I hope this helps send him in the right direction. Let us know tattooed freak or freak, if you'd prefer. I want to see his tattoos now. Now I'm all curious about what his tattoos look like.

But we hope nothing but the best for you and all of this. And I'm telling you right now, man, little baby grandkids, it's the best thing on the planet. It sounds stereotypic. They all say it. They all want to whip out their photos and show you. But when it happens to you, oh, man, it's amazing. Like, it's just amazing.

Anyway, Wendy, anything else going on? You're in the thick of a run of Real Step, so nothing to really add there. We are in the thick of it. It's going really well. Oh, good news, everybody. I'm joining the next phase. I'm in the next phase. Are you going to announce it?

All right. I'll announce it now. This is how I commit. I'm going to do the next phase and see what this is all about. And part of it is curiosity on my part. Part of it is like, well, we talk about it at the time. I may as well experience what the heck's going on. And part of it is I just want to, I like watching Wendy in her natural habitat.

It's fun to watch her doing her thing. And the biggest part is you need to heal your relationship with food. Yeah. And that's the other. Yes, that's the other thing. We had a whole conversation while she was here. Like, I've lost 14 pounds. I'm on the right.

track like I'm doing good that way but my relationship with food is still an abusive one and I need to figure out how to alter alter that and pray I don't alter it any further but anyway. Yeah. So if you want to be in a real steps group with Scott and understand his deepest darkest demons, which we haven't probably discussed all of them on the show. No, there's no time. We've only been doing the show for 11 years. Yeah, that's all. I mean, here's I'll give you a quick example of my relationship with food. I've been, so last night, Kim made vegetarian jambalaya. It was amazing, one of her best batches ever, huge pot of it. Carter loves it, obviously, because it's vegetarian, but I like it just because it's amazing. And I, in my head,

I went, well, normally I'd get a bowl, you know, when it's got the chicken and the, and the, and the, and the, and the, and the, maybe some sausage in there or whatever. I'll get a bowl. That'll do me. Last night, I was like, I'm not going to do rice, but I'm going to have three. three bowls of this. Because it's so much better for me. Why not go three bowls instead of the two or the one? And, you know, spent most of the night Dutch ovening my poor wife. So I guess what I'm saying is, what I'm saying is like I really do want to kind of

get my head around why I do that, because I do that. And so instead of me going, oh, I've lost 14 pounds, I'd less bread, less rice, less sugar, really going a long way. So let's see how many apples. I can eat in a day. You know, like I got to. Oh, I've earned this. I've earned the right to do this.

Yeah, it's a weird, it's a weird psychology. So I'm going to actually try it out. And then I can, you know, when it comes time for people to join up, I can actually say, oh, man, you need to do this. Or maybe I'll have a terrible time. I don't know. Yeah, and you'll be like, run for your lives. We will stop advertising.

Yeah. But whoever hasn't, whoever hasn't done it or will be doing it then, I look forward to hanging out with you as well because that'll be fun. That'll be sometime in the summer. No, when will this be? Yeah, no, we do a fall one. All right, that's right. Fall and spring, basically.

Start like October-ish sometime. Yeah. Very nice. It's Wendy Dunford. Have a great week. And I'm glad you're home and safe. We'll see you soon. Bye now.

Bye now. I can't find her to hang up on her. Bye. There she goes. She's left. She's left now. All right. Well, that was great.

Let us know, tattooed freak. How things went for you there, bud. For sure. Set us some photos. We want to see the tattoos. I agree. All right, as a reminder of how much stuff we overdo here on the show are in our podcasting lives, I'd like to recommend the following programs to you tonight.

Well, let's do in the right order. Coverville today at one. Tell people about that. 1 p.m. Mountain Time. Yeah, Billy Corgan is turning 55, so Smashing Pumpkins as well as some weird stuff that he's contributed to. I'll bet you never knew that Smashing Pumpkins did a cover of My Blue Heaven, the old Kruner classic, My Blue Heaven. No. I did not know this.

That's amazing. Billy Corgan got together with Marianne Faithful for a cover of, how's the chorus go? Something tells me I'm into something good. Really? Weird. Yes. Billy Corgan, who you probably don't associate with Happy at all,

does that happy song. Plus a bunch of great covers of Smashing Pumpkin songs. I found some amazing stuff. So that's coming up 1 p.m. and you can watch me play Pokemon Archieus. I'm going to place it, Pokeyman, Archeus. Keep getting tempted to grab that, but with Kirby coming, I got to wait. I got to hold off.

Because I love me Kirby, Brian. I love me some Kirby. Love me some Kirby. So that's coming up 1 p.m. Mountain Time, Twitch.tv, slash Coverville. I'm going to call out an emailer who pissed me off. I'm not going to use his name. Here's what he said. Here's the exact quote.

Scott, I know you're excited about the new Kirby game, but you do realize that game is made for little kids, right? Oh, jeez. See these two birds? These birds are for you. These birds are going to nest in your nest, take a big dump on your house. These birds like you, buddy. Exactly.

Screw you. Kirby rules. Kirby rules. All right. My thing tonight is Core, 5 p.m. Mountain Time. If you like video game, speaking of that, we are going to have one of them episodes. And I'm telling you, man, something about Core right now. There's some special sauce over there.

It's growing like crazy. people are loving it if you like general video game discussion news topics type stuff reviews of games we're playing uh you want to get your gaming fix i swear core is on a role and i i want you all to be a part of it so if you haven't checked it out already do so that's tonight at five live right here at the same channel but if you'd rather just get the podcast that happens right after so get that wherever you get your shows just look for core uh film sack this weekend we're doing the losers yeah we are the losers chris evans in yet another comic book character role.

That's right. And liking... Sixth or seventh or something. I think we liked it maybe a little more than the world liked it when it came out. I think so. Yeah. We saw some real potential there for sure. Yeah, I think it's worth checking out, though.

The episode is one of my favorites, though. We had a lot of fun recording it. We pre-recorded it, if this isn't obvious. That's why we're talking about it in the past tense. But that comes out this weekend, so check that out. Then on Friday morning, tomorrow morning, Carter and I'll be doing a Friday morning stream. We'll continue our run through an adventure game.

found that we like quite a bit. So check that out if you want to see that. And there will be dungeons at 2 p.m. on Saturday. Again, my schedule is this too much. I've got to cut things out. It's too much. And if you're anywhere near the Dallas area, please come visit me at the Dallas Pinball Festival or Texas Pinball Festival. I'll be there all day Saturday, a little bit Friday night, a little bit Sunday morning, but really all day Saturday. With the lovely Tina by my side, we're doing a meetup at the Cypress Lounge at 2 p.m., which is in the embassy suites at the hotel where the event is being held. But if you're not able to make that time, because I know that the seventh doctor is going to be signing stuff at that very same time, there's a new doctor who pinball machine. And so he's there for the promotion of that.

Oh, wow. But message me in. We can definitely figure out a way to hook up. I can buy you a drink, and we can hug or shake hands or whatever. Well, maybe not whatever. Those are the two choices. Those are the only two choices. Hug or shake hands.

That's really funny. At the pinball festival. So is this Sylvester McCoy? Is that the doctor? That is exactly who it is. Okay. That's cool. I was like, wait a minute, which is the seventh?

I lose track. I know, yeah. No, he's one I was now familiar with it. Yeah. I have to admit, I'm not super up on who that dude was. I guess he's 90s, late, early 90s guy? Maybe. That's what this looks like.

80s, maybe? When did Scarf Boy stop? Well, that was fourth, yeah. Oh, he was four. Okay, so it's got to be 90s, though, right? Early aughts. Scarf boy, by the way, I like that. But now I can't remember what the hell of his name is.

Jeannie says 81. 81, oh, all right. Yeah. So he was 87 to 89, and then he came back in 1996 as the doctor. Okay, did they rip through a bunch between Baker and him then? that must have been what happened because if you go from four to seven and it was only 81 they must have hauled ass there huh that's a really interesting let me see here uh let's see

da da da da actors come on show me show me actors show me actors for 10 points uh show me actors no nothing oh here we go here we go fourth doctor tom baker 74 to 81 peter davidson not not pete davidson but peter davidson but peter Davidson, Davison from 82 to 84, Colin Baker from 84 to 86, then Sylvester McCoy from 87 to 89, Paul McGahn for one brief year, 96, and then we had like a big gap, and then Eccleston and Tennant Smith-Capal. Right, right, right.

And now the lady, she's cool. I like her. She seems great. And then there's some word of, is this a rumor true that, oh, handsome 90s British man? Got in trouble for getting a beege by a hooker in Hollywood. Oh, Hugh Grant. Hugh Grant is rumored to be the next doctor I keep hearing? Really?

Oh, wow. I haven't heard that at all. Interesting. Hold on. Let's see if this is. I might be conflating something. Let me just make sure. Okay, Hugh Grant, in the news.

Here we go. Hugh Grant. Oh. Hugh Grant, oh, there's an update. Damn it. It says, Hugh Grant would very much like you to know that he will not be the next doctor who. Thank you very much. All right.

So apparently the rumors are false. He's not doing that. Yes, we don't need, we don't need him getting trouble with his companion. No, no. And another beege. A beege. I like the term. Hey, Beech.

Hey, Beech. Cradle Potter wants us in the officer's mess in like 10 minutes, bege. It's like Adam Scott. Just kidding. All right. All right. Because it sure wasn't Ellen Alda. Nope.

All right. We're done. Oh, real quick. Patreon.com. slash TMS support us. We need it. The show survives upon your good graces. We need you there. Please, please. If you haven't yet, be a patron. You may get your name mentioned next week, and I'd love to do that. So patreon.com slash TMS. Okay, song time. Brian, play a song. Song time. So a couple of the people I'm really excited to see this weekend are Bobby Ann and

Barry Folk. Barry wrote in and said, Hi, Scott and Brian, and wonderful Tadpool people. I wanted to request a song for my awesome wife's birthday on March 24th. That is today. Happy birthday, Bobby Ann. She's looking forward to seeing half of you in Dallas and then all of you in Vegas. Thanks. Is it too early to get a Canada fish sandwich? Never. Kaneda.

Okay, there's the first part. Hold on. Condida and then where is it? The fish sandwich. Oh, that's not it. Hold on. That's the wrong sandwich. Hey, too early get a fish sandwich.

There it is. Excellent. Got it. He wants to request any Billy Joel cover. I've got a really good one that I'm amazed I haven't played before. This is by the Diamond Family Archive from 2009, from their album The Wanderer. This is one of those covers where if you're not paying attention, just based on the melody, you would not recognize this as she's always a woman.

But then you start hearing the lyrics, and it's like, oh, this isn't the way this song normally goes. And so it's like really cool. She's always a woman by the Diamond Family Archive. She can kill with a smile She can wound with her eyes She can ruin your faith With her casual eyes And she only reveals

where she wants you to see She is always a woman to me She is always a woman to me all ways She can lead you to live She can take you or leave you She can ask for the truth But she would never believe you

She would take what you give her As long as it is free She steals like a thief She steals like a thief She is always a woman to me She is always a woman to me All her way Oh, she takes care of herself

She can't wait She can't wait if she wants She's ahead of her time But she never gets out No, she never gets out No, she never gives in. She just changes her mind. She just changes her mind.

She will promise you more than the Garden of Eden. and she will carelessly cut you and she will laugh while you're bleeding but she'll bring her the best and the worst that you can be blame it all on yourself Blame it all on yourself

She's always a woman to me She's always a woman to me Always She is frequently kind and then she suddenly crawled she can do as she pleases she is nobody's fool but she can't be convicted

she hasn't had a degree and the love she will do is throw shadows of you she is always a woman to me she is always a woman to me but she is always a woman to me is she is always a woman to make, always. This show is part of the Frog Pants Network.

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