The Morning Stream - TMS 2281: Recreational Catnip

Episode Date: April 21, 2022

Hakuna Your Tatas. PILF: Podcaster I'd Like to Friend. Brian Was The Crazy Neighbor The Entire Time! The Ruff is on Fire! The Mayor is an Ass. 50 ways to describe your boobs. Elmo's Glue. Don't talk about Fight Club Soap. Large Fluffy Black Man. Indian Penile Court! The eyes have it! You're Somebody's ASMR! I could do something cool, or I could just eat a bag of chips. Someone DOES have a dog in THIS race! Meatloaf support group. Hanky Panky Reading with Amy 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.

Avoiding your unfinished home projects because you're not sure where to start, Thumbtack knows home so you don't have to. Don't know the difference between matte paint finish and satin or what that clunking sound from your dryer is. With Thumbtack, you don't have to be a home pro. You just have to hire one. You can hire top-rated pros, seed price estimates, and read reviews all on the app.

Download today. Thanks to Trade Coffee for supporting the morning stream. With Trade Coffee, you get fresh, roasted, and ethically sourced beans from America's best independent roasters. And trade coffee ships free to you as often as you like, whole or ground. Right now, trade is offering new subscribers a total of $30 off your first order. Plus free shipping when you go to drinktrade.com slash TMS. Coming up on TMS, Hacuna, your Tadas.

Pilf, podcaster I'd like to friend. Brian was the crazy neighbor the entire time! The rough is on fire. The mayor is an ass. 50 ways to describe your boo. Elmose glue. Don't talk about Fight Club soap. Large, fluffy black man. Indian penile court.

The eyes have it. You're somebody's ASMR. I could do something cool or I could just eat a bag of chips. Someone does have a dog in this race. Meatloaf support group. Hanky, pankey, reading with Amy and more on this episode of the morning stream.

Can we all just get along and forgive one another? Please. Who is out here? out there, if y'all hear this, please forgive me and forgive, forget and forget, please. Holy shit, look at them donut. Good morning, everybody. Welcome back to TMS. It is Thursday, April 21st, 2020. I'm Scott Johnson. That's Brian Abbott. Hi. Hi. How was your 420? How did it end for you? Oh, it was great. Close the windows, keep the smoke, the green cloud, as they call it in Denver. You kept it out of us. Yeah, no, you know what? I didn't even hear anything about the event downtown. It's almost like, you know,

Like, it was a non-deal, right? Like, I know what happened. I know that they had their big 420 event, but, yeah, to my knowledge, it was like, yeah, all right, we're, you know, we had it. It's normalized now. It's just normal. It's normalized, exactly. It was as it should be. They should vacate all, anybody who's ever been in jail or is currently in jail for consuming marijuana, they should all be let out.

Possession and stuff, yeah. Let them out. It's dumb. It's dumb. You may as well, you may as well put them in jail for having a beer. That's stupid. So, hey, we're all here. This is the show.

We're doing it. And as you know, today's the last day of the proper show week. Although we do have a PM tomorrow. FilmSack this weekend, all sorts of, you know, stuff before we leave. So much, yeah, but Vegas is next week, man. This is happening. God, it is. So here's what you can expect.

Don't think about this part. A week from now, it'll be all over. Like, you know, there will be some last kind of fun things that people are doing there in Vegas on the Thursday. I'm going to be probably sleeping in after staying up watching same-sex Mary play and the acid sisters and all that. Sure, sure. Yeah. So don't think about that. Yeah, don't think about that.

Yeah, don't think about that. But here's what I was going to say, for those at home who can't come or whatever, this obviously looks like a dismal TMS content week for you because you're not going to get new shows every day. but rest assured we'll be capturing audio we'll be doing you know some stuff possibly that live show gets recorded I don't know how yet but maybe and if it does

then that'll go up on the feed like we haven't forgotten about you okay no no absolutely we're gonna put up as much stuff Scott and I'll probably just you know we'll grab a corner at some place and say hey let's record five minutes of stuff for the for the feed or something like

maybe we'll even do one like a little chunk of something every day, you know? Yeah. Just a little like, you and I will plan. We'll make, we'll make time, yeah. We'll make time. We'll do something at the, uh, if there's not time, we'll manufacture the time and make it happen.

Yeah, pool time. There's going to be pool time. Well, no, I mean, I'm saying like at the pool reception thing on Monday, we'll have some time to just say, hey, everybody, we're here for TMS, blah, that's right. We got something to put up for, uh, then we get something to put up for Tuesday morning. Yeah, that's going to be a nice warm day that day. Oh, the weather's going to be good. I've not even looked at the weather.

So what do we got? We got 65 low, high of 90 something. Nice and dry, you know, dry heat. It's a dry heat, yeah. It is a dry heat. All right, cool. Yeah, so anyway, lots of cool stuff coming our way next week. And we'll keep you folks at home informed.

Okay, all right. And we'll be in Pacific time, Pacific daylight time. Oh, that's right. I always forget Vegas is back to another zone. It is, yeah, or they is. It always has been. right that's never not been yeah they've always been that yeah for whatever reason i never think of it until i'm there and i'm like oh yeah right we're an hour back but i never it never occurs to me that

they're not in the mountain times right speaking of which uh utah in colorado arizona all agreeing right now saying hey let's push this permanent daylight saving time bill through we're only waiting on new mexico and idaho we can't all we can't uh all do it no we can't do it until we are all agreeing to do it. How come, what's the hold up for New Mexico, for example? What's their deal? I don't know. New Mexico tried to push this through four years ago and it died in the house or something, if I remember correctly, but I'm hoping that, well, I think everybody's hoping that, you know, we've got all of these other states kind of saying, hey. Yeah.

There we go. The New Mexico Senate approved a daylight saving bill earlier this year, not four years ago, earlier this year, but the measure died in House Committee. Oh, so does that mean we're screwed with them? That ain't happening? No, no. Okay. That was earlier. We're going to, we're going to really, you know, we're going to push.

We're going to do the... Let's make this happen. Yeah, the full court press on New Mexico. Hey, New Mexico. We're going to, we're going to canvas homes. We're going to knock on your doors, give you flyers. Don't make us come down there and throw pizzas on your roofs. Yeah, you don't want any more of that.

You've had plenty of that in the past. You don't want more of that. So let me ask you this about, uh, uh, uh, Dave, real quick, back on 420. Did Dave, did Dave partake in 420 at all? Not to my knowledge, but we didn't see them at all yesterday. I've been so busy getting stuff prepped for Vegas that I don't think I've even left the house other than to bike ride every day this week. Oh, well, that's, you know, here's the thing.

Like, Dave, Dave, you told me David kind of chilled out some, right? he has considerably yeah yeah so maybe he's less he's less crazy neighbor right now yeah he's more sane grounded neighbor it's uh it's kind of sad because i modeled um my level of crazy on well at least i'm not crazier than crazy david and now i'm starting to catch up yeah what do you have now now you're going to be the good what if you're the crazy neighbor now might become the crazy neighbor oh shit yeah it might actually might actually come to pass Brian was the crazy neighbor the whole time. I know. I was Tyler Darden the whole time. That was you. You were never Brad Pitt. You were always the other guy. Right. Or no, it's the other way around. You were never

the other guy. You were always Brad Pitt. This is what I meant to say. That's right. Sort of. Yeah. I think it was always Edward Norton. Isn't it? Edward Norton is always Edward Norton. Right. Isn't that the deal? Is it Edward Norton is normal form? Brad Pitt was always imaginary. Yes. I think. But if you were in the room with, quote-unquote, Brad Pitt, you were really in the room with him or with, right, with Edward Norton, the narrator. Yeah, I think that's the deal. And then there's that time he walked into a room and bumped a table and it had a wiener on it, and it shook.

Do you remember that? I think it was on top of a dresser. Yeah, yeah. That was a scene I could not get out of my head. It's just crazy. Like, I could ask you, name five other scenes from that movie. Okay, let's do it. All right?

All right, five other scenes from Fight Club. Okay, that are not him, bang, you know. that are not him banging on a thing and watching the wiener wiggle. With a weiner wobble back and forth. So let's say it's not that. This is a 23-year-old movie, Claire. I think we're okay to spoil it. Oh, yeah, we can spoil it.

It's a long time ago. So in the, okay, here's the scene. They're all in some sort of basement place fighting. Okay, I remember that. All right, sure. I remember there was a scene toward the end with a big window at the top of some building somewhere. Maybe somebody got pushed out or blown out of the window. I don't remember.

There was a big window scene thing toward the end. Do I have that right? You were right until you said somebody went out. Nobody went out of it. Yeah, they're basically standing in front of a picture window watching the bombs go off on all the other buildings, the financial system getting destroyed. Okay. And then I got nothing else. That's really all I got.

I can't remember anything else. But that weaner rocking on top of the dresser is forever in your... Yeah, and I couldn't get out of my head. And now anytime I see, what's her beak... Helena Bonhole Carter. Whenever she's in any other thing, I go, oh, yeah, that movie with the weiner on the thing. I can't think of anything else. I know.

What about the support group with Meatloaf and pulling Edward Norton's head in between his prosthetic boobs? I forgot all about. Meatloaf being even in that movie. Or Edward Norton beating the crap out of himself in his boss's office so that he can pin it on his boss. Oh, I remember that. That is a scene I remember. Okay. Making lie soap and burning themselves with the lie.

Oh, I almost said soap, but I was afraid it would just be the poster of the hand. Yeah, what about the scene where Brad Pitt holds up the bar of soap and it says fight club on it? I do that all the time with movies. It's like that scene in Star Wars where Luke Skywalker is holding a wall. lightsaber straight up and Princess Leia is laying down next to him holding his leg. Yeah, like some kind of freaking, what does that remind me of? Like a Boris Vallejo painting, you know? Right, yes, exactly.

Well, that's all I remember. Weiner on the desk. Okay, all right, fair enough. Dresser, sorry, dresser. I love that movie. That's probably one of my, easily in my top ten, might even be in my top five. I think, I feel like it was the movie that everybody went. Was that pre or post seven?

I don't remember. Seven first. Oh, it was post seven. That's a really good question. Because one of those two movies, I think, are responsible for his big blowout. Yeah, 1995 was seven. Fight Club was 1999, I think. Seven, wasn't it, 97, 98, 97.

98, 99. 99, yes. 99 was Fight Club, 95 was seven. So with my buddy Andrew, he also only remembers the penis on that. thing. Apparently, I... Well, okay. As long as that's the case.

I only surround myself with like-minded individuals, I suppose. I suppose that's what I've done. Right. Anyway, so there's that. Hey, quick email from Canada. We've got to check in with our Canadians play this. Canada!

We got an email here from Amy up in Canada. Oh, cool. Yeah. Is it Amy? A&TP, Amy? Those were the days, Amy. Amy for us? Possibly. They only signed it as Amy. Equalelow Amy? Yeah.

It only says Amy, Amy, so who knows? Okay. All right. Says, I scoot and boot. I feel compelled to defend Scott and Brian's pronunciation of things. If you are local to the area, I understand you pronounce names in a certain way. However, don't go getting all offended when someone pronounces things, not how you like them to. It's not their fault.

Look at this defense. I like this. Thank you. Thank you very much. They don't live there. So, Hakuna, your tata's people, she says. says also with the how to pronounce Craig debate

I just say Craig it's just how I do it yeah yeah it's like do you have different geographical regions pronounce people's names differently so quit getting offended it's all about or should I say all a boot since I'm Canadian

how a region's language and accent develop over time as a Canadian and as a Canadian and pronounce roof differently I think it means and I pronounce roof differently than Brian does what do you say say that word I say rough

rough it's up on the rough yeah there's a hole in the roof I say roof. Do I say roof? Hold on. You say roof. We have to get up on top of the roof? Yeah, I say roof. I think I said roof earlier when I was talking about throwing pizzas on your roof.

Like, for whatever reason, maybe it's a the and the kind of thing for me, even though it shouldn't be. Like how you say the end, because the end begins with a vowel, but the beginning. Oh, I see. And I don't know what would make me say roof versus roof. Roof. If I just say, oh, yeah, I'm going to go put that up on the roof. But I say, I'm going to throw a pizza on your roof. Maybe it's because it's like, I'm making a joke.

I say roof because it's funnier. Because it's funnier. Yeah, I don't know. Or just its context. Like, you'll always say roof for the pizza reference. And that's just how it is. It's just in you. I don't know.

I don't know. My dad said roof as well. I don't know why I started saying or why I say roof and not roof because my dad always said roof. Yeah, if I'm singing the song, I say, the roof is on fire. I'll say, the roof is on fire. We don't need no. water let the ever ever burn

that's awesome it says here or she goes on to say Canadians tend to pronounce roof with a oof as in my as in oof my toe I stubbed it where Brian pronounces it rough I don't

her she says rough but I think it's more like rough rough rough it's different I don't get my panties in a twist about different things it's regional thanks Amy good. So thanks, Amy. We appreciate it. That's the most angry Canada thing. Amy Frost, by the way, I discovered, thank you, Talley, is not from Canada. She's from Boston. But because of Ake Willow, I associate her with Canada because that, that show is about someone who lives on the border between the U.S. and Canada, I believe.

Talley says, rest your chest, calm your, hold on, I'm going to read this. Rest your chest, calm your tits. Hacuna, your tattas. chillow your pillows, soothe your boobs, de-stress your breasts, slack your rack. Wow. Okay. All right. Look, that comes with time. That rack-slacking? Those were all the original lyrics of 50 Ways to Describe Your Boops by Paul Simon. They had to change it. It was a different time. You know?

Just asked your best, Jess. Stack your rack. Jack. I like... Just listen to me. I think slack your rack is funny. I think it is too. Yeah, slack your rack. That sounds made up, Talley. I don't know about that one.

I agree. We also got an email from Nikki, who is going to see us in Vegas and said, Dear Scott and Brian, I have a way to elevate your shakshuka that will blow your mind. This is the stuff Kim made the other day. Get a nice fluffy pita and put the shakshuka in egg in there, make it a sandwich.

Top it with tahini, which is sesame paste. Bam. Delicious. Credit to the place around the bowl. block who makes this for 14 bucks but it's still worth it enjoy and see you in Vegas Nikki yeah man I that sounds good I mean we did have we had well it was non but it's kind of like pita non like small little nons and I did do I did do kind of a taco base sort of oh nice deal so I think I think I got close but I didn't have the

sesame paste I know the tahini yeah sesame paste was my favorite kid show growing up I really like sesame paste can you tell me how to make how to make how to Take some sesame paste. Do do, do, do, do, do. Take some seeds. Mash them up in a mortared pestle. That last part. The last part needs work, but we're almost there.

We almost get it. I'll work on it. I've got a piece of paper. I'll be working on the lyrics, I'll show. Yeah. You know, and we'll present what Brian finally came up with at our. Yeah, perfect. At our Vegas event, okay?

yes exactly all right we're adding if you're listening to this i hope you are wearing you're going to bring those glasses oh we have the photo of you wearing oh yeah though uh where have i i've seen that somewhere where have i seen that i saw some picture of that and thought oh it was uh it was her a ntp photo oh oh that's what it was okay yeah please wear those and we won't give away why just wear them okay oh is there a reason no just because you know i don't want to i don't want to You know, like, I don't want to cast any aspersions toward why or what glasses they are or if they look good or if they don't. You know, I just want people to judge on their own. That's all.

That's all I'm saying. Hey, look who it is. Joining us. Wait a minute. What's this? Oh, that music must mean that Amy Robinson's joining us. That's right. Red Fraggle and our segment called Read This.

Amy, welcome back to the show. Hello. Thank you, guys. What are we wearing? I miss that particular part. Nothing. You don't have to wear anything. There's nothing special to wear. Both hands, you should have those puppet eye things on for both hands.

And that's it. That's all you have to do. You got one for each hand. You're going to walk in there and go, hey, then there's your two friends for the whole week. I would love that. That'd be amazing. Oh, I have so many, so many Peepers puppets. Yeah, like my entire house has taken over with Peepers puppets. They're everywhere.

As far as the Peepers can see. Fantastic. It's a good to have you here. we talk about books with Amy and we do this every Thursday and today's no different. In fact, I have a clip today. Do you want me to play this? I do want to handle this here. Yeah.

Well, like, let me, a quick story real quick, talking about Fight Club and the soap. Fun, fun fact, I have a cake of Fight Club soap. Oh, do you know, it was like a promotional thing from the premiere or something? No. No, I have a friend who lives down near Fayetteville, Georgia. and she has a farm, and she was making Goat's Milk Soap, and she scoured the internet looking for a mold for a Fight Club soap mold, couldn't find one.

So I made one for her. Oh, no way. That's cool. You 3D printed or model it, or what did you do? No, yeah, I sculpted it out of, you know, I got one of those, the things you can get, like at Michaels or whatever that's got a little, you know, bar soap mold things. So I got one of those, cut it out, and then glued on top of it, like the fight club logo

nicely done carved out of paper clay yeah and so she just used that as a mold or whatever and I don't know how that works with soap how do you make it into like I so I used that as the positive and then poured like that rubber mold stuff you know it's that pink ironically

the mold itself is pink but yeah like that that pink stuff that you know turns into rubber i'm sure bill would know exactly totally knows the stuff i know it's like it's what they use for teeth molds and stuff too yeah i forgot the name i know the name of that and i can't remember it it's some some kind of material obviously yeah so it was really cool and so she she sent me a a bar of the fight club so it's sitting in my my front bathroom do you ever use it does anyone like soap it up and use it or is it just there for decoration yeah some of it some it's funny because you know

now some of the my kids friends and stuff they haven't seen the movie or anything so they don't know so they're just like using the soap so it's gotten a little schmert over but a lot of people come in and they're like oh fight club soap nice it's so cool it's so iconic like i could 3d print a mold but i don't know what i would do as far as like i know we have people in the listening audience who do soap making so it would be do you just pour is there a liquid soap that hardens into a regular bar soap, so I could just make my own little soaps? Yeah, I mean, there's all kind of stuff on the internet that shows you how to make soap and what's true.

I could look at a YouTube instructional video. That's true. I'll bet they exist in spades. So what does it smell like? Is it smell like a man? Like, what do we got here? What's the smell of the soap? The goat's milk soap?

Yeah. So it's actually fairly fragrance-free. She doesn't put a lot of extra. flowery stuff in it or anything. So it just gets you clean. Because I think that was a Brad Pitt era where he didn't shower as often, you know, I always got the impression that Brad Pitt. He could have used that so, right?

Maybe not so much now. Now he looks like he's a fine, you know, whatever. But back in the day, I feel like Brad Pitt maybe skipped a few days sort of stuff. Yeah. Well, I mean, I guess when you're Brad Pitt, you can do what you want. Yeah, you're Brad Pitt. Truthfully, you know, if you're Brad Pitt, what do you get to do? You get to not wear a shirt a lot.

you get to flip off Bruce Willis behind his back and 12 monkeys. You get to do all sorts of things back then. Yeah. That's just what you get. Cheat on Jennifer and all kinds of stuff. No your doses. No your doses.

Yeah, no your doses. Exactly. Well, all right. Well, very nice. May your soap ever be never talked about because that's the first rule of fight club soap. I never talk about it. Oh, wait. We've broken the first rule today.

Oh, no. Oh, what have we done? All right. I think it's the Vince Gilligan rules on that one. Two weeks. All you guys need to do is talk about Bruno and then you're just like breaking out. Oh, geez. What if Bruno is in Fight Club?

Would anyone know? Would anyone be able to relay that information? Oh, man, that Bruno reference. Did they know they were going to be so meany when they did the Bruno thing? I don't think they knew. Well, all right. Let's get to this book. Do you want to any setup or should I play it first and then we figure out what's going on?

Just go ahead and play it first and then I'll talk about it after. All right. Here we go. Look, I am aware that you're here for an epic. tale of intrigue and mystery and adventure and near death and actual death. But in order to get to that, unless you want to skip to Chapter 13, I'm not your boss, you're going to have to deal with the fact that I, April May, in addition to being one of the most important things that has ever happened to the human race, am also a woman in her 20s who has made some mistakes. I am in the

wonderful position of having you by the short hairs. I have the story, and so I get to tell it to you the way I want. That means you get to understand me, not just my story, so don't be surprised if there's some drama. I'm going to attempt to come at this account honestly, but I'll also admit to a significant pro-me bias. If you get anything out of this, ideally it won't be you being more or less on one side or the other, but simply understanding that I am, or at least was, human. And I was very much feeling only human as I dragged my tired ass down 23rd Street at 2.45 a.m. After working a 16-hour day at a startup that, thanks to an aggressively shitty contract I signed,

will remain nameless. Oh, interesting. She's saying her name was April May? Yes. Her name is April May. That's a character. I'm trying to recognize her voice to see if I could pull it out. But it's a character in, there's a character in the Ace Attorney Games.

called April May, which is why I asked. Oh, is there really? Oh, that's funny. So I thought, well, that's weird. I don't know if she's named after that or not, but maybe. Who knows? She's in her 20s. Could be. Uh, so who is this? What is this? This is, uh, the first of a series of books by Hank Green. I already did a John Green book back in January. So I figured, right, time to, time to do Hank. Very monochromatic. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Well, you know, John and Hank Green. They get, they get a lot of the, the green stuff. Um, but yeah, uh, so the series is called The Carls. Okay.

And the name of this particular book is an absolutely remarkable thing. And it's really fun. It's, so here's my, here's my, my, my, my, my sort of secret obsession. I love young adult books. Like, um, I, you know, I, I, I, I love reading John Green and Hank Green. Like, all their stuff, I, I love it because I think for a similar reason that Scott, you like, you know, little kids, I find kids. kids' minds to be, I don't know, a lot of times more fun.

They are more fun. Adults are boring, man. They haven't been destroyed. Yeah, yeah. And, you know, so this is like, it's a coming of age story, but it's also very science fictiony. There's giant robots and, you know, weird science fictiony stuff happening and puzzles and just all kinds of cool stuff

and it does a lot of the wonderful things that science fiction good science fiction does which is like make us question the nature of what it is to be human and and also like you know if you get if you get

at one point she really really focuses in on like if you get super hyper focused on you know being efficient or being productive you can often miss like the joyful stuff that's right there in front of you that was often like put there just for you. So yeah, it's great. It's a really, it's a really good book. It also addresses a lot of

the weird parasocial relationships that come with being internet famous. Oh, yeah. There's a great quote on here actually. It says, it's a quote from the book. Being annoyed by carefully crafted internet personas was part of my carefully crafted internet persona. That's a, that's pretty deep, man. Yeah, and it's, it's really interesting because like she, she talked, I keep saying she because the protagonist is a, is a girl and, you know, it's told in the first person. But, you know, she talks about how she makes herself a brand, you know, at one point.

And it's, yeah, she, she's, she's grossed out even telling you. about it. But she's like, yep, this is what I had to do. And she started talking about herself and the third person like, oh, that's something April May would do. Or, you know, like, because they just started thinking of her as this persona that they crafted. And so it's, it's really, really interesting. And it's a really quick read. Now, I say it's a young adult novel, and it is, but there's lots of language and sex and stuff in it. So, like, it's not for younger kids. It's, you know, this is this is for your more mature teenager and on up there's plenty of f bombs and things like that um but the the great thing about this book is or this series actually i would recommend it's a two book

series i 100% recommend reading both of them all at once um i read the first one as soon as it came out and it ends on such a freaking cliffhanger i was angry i was like what i have have to wait. What? You're leaving me like that. That second book is called A Beautiful Foolish Endeavor. Is that the second one? Yes. A beautifully foolish endeavor. Yeah. So yeah, it's funny. Hank has this weird proclivity for naming things like A, adverb, adjective noun. Yeah. So, you know. Sure. But yeah, it's great. And it flows straight into it. The second book is really fascinating because It shifts narrators. The first book is almost entirely narrated by April.

The second book is narrated by all the different main characters. And they did that with the audiobook as well. Like they shifted the actual audiobook narrators, like the actors, the voice actors who did it. The first book is narrated mostly by Kristen C. there is the last chapter is narrated by Hank Green. And then they kind of figured out that like Hank is great at a lot of things, but not so much like being a voice actor for his own stuff. So the character that he that he voices in the first book is narrated by somebody else in the second one.

Oh, interesting. And the second one, the audiobook contains a bonus conversation between Hank Green and Cory Docterow. So. Oh, those guys are probably super contemporary types, I'm sure. Yeah. Oh, yeah.

And, you know, so it's great. And I actually was recently asked this on TikTok by somebody. If they, if I felt like, you know, consuming books via audiobook really counted as reading. And I will say two things about that.

One, in deference to people who that's the only way they can actually consume books because like they're impaired, you know, like their vision is impaired or, you know, they've got some other disability going on where that's the only way they can consume a book. Absolutely 100% it counts. But I will say that I enjoy doing both. And this is a, this book series is one where you get a completely different experience from reading it yourself and then listening to the audiobook. And it's fun to, it's fun to do both.

both. And because it gives you, it does give you a different experience. So, yeah, so that's my answer. I'm not going to gate keep reading for anybody who can't, like, sit down and read a physical book. That's, that's not nice. But, you know, you know, but, but yeah, I think it definitely does count as reading, but it is a different experience to consume a thing via audiobook. So I agree. I struggle with audio books for a whole different reason. I get really distracted and I miss most of it. So a lot of people have the opposite problem. They'll get distracted while they read or they get tired while they read. I can read a book from the page or from a Kindle or from a tablet or something and I'm super locked in. No problem. I can follow it. I don't get lost.

I don't get distracted. But if I have it in my ears and I'm listening to it, I'm always like, oh, rewind. what did he say? I totally didn't hear that part. Okay, go back. Wait, where's food? What's food today? Oh, wait. Why am I thinking about food? I'm supposed to be listening to this book. Like, I don't know why. It just struggle with the audiobook thing. I do too.

I'll even like, you know, try and do it in the car or something. And then I'll be, you know, looking at directions or something and then completely miss a whole chapter. Yeah. Yeah, it's really annoying. And it's funny because it's almost like those drives, you know, when you drive somewhere and you don't remember driving there because your brain was somewhere else. And you know you drove there and you're kind of on autopilot, but you didn't think about it at all. So when you got to your destination, you're like,

was I even aware that I was driving? You know, you have all that feeling. That's how I feel sometimes when I hear an audiobook. I'm like, did I even hear the last 20 minutes in that? I think what I need to do is have, they need to make audible in an Oculus, like give you an Oculus app with Audible and force you not to look at anything else while you're listening to the audio book.

sensory deprivation aside from the audio book. Yeah, actually, that might work for me. You might as well just read the book. Yeah, right, right. That might actually work. See, my thing is, I really, like I say, I enjoy both, but there's a couple different kinds of readers. And I am the kind of reader who I read every word. And in my brain, there is a narrator who is reading every, you know what I'm saying?

Like, I almost, I hear it. I assign a voice to it and I hear it, yeah. Whereas some people can, like, read super fast and they skim through the words and then just visualize and, you know, get the concept. I cannot do that. And so thus, I'm a really slow reader. So a lot of times, if I want to consume a thing relatively quickly, the audiobook is the way to go because it's just going to keep going.

Yeah, it goes whether you want to or not. I also listen to audiobooks like when I go to sleep at night and I put a sleep timer on it so that it doesn't, like, because one night, one night, I, I actually listened to an entire audio book while I slept, and I woke up, but it was like complete because I forgot to turn the sleep timer on. Yeah. Did your, did your subconscious retain any of it when you got up? You're like, oh, I remember everything that I heard during the eight hours of sleep that this book was on.

No, I mean, there were little bits and pieces where I would come in and out of consciousness. And then when I re-listened to it back, I was like, oh, yeah, I remember this part. But like, other parts of it were just completely gone. just like, nope, that doesn't exist. Speaking of which, this is a total side note, but I fell asleep Sunday or one, there was some day over the week or some time over the weekend, I kind of had a like a quick, I don't know, 30 minute nap or something. And I did it while I was listening to some like really heavy duty EDM music.

And that's a weird thing to do because I was still able to kind of fall asleep. But it was to this like fast-paced dance music. you know, techno, industrial stuff, and it made for some really strange, like, dreams and stuff that I don't remember now, but at the time, it was like, whoa, this is a trip. And it was all just because I was listening to EDM. And part of the reason I was is because I was too lazy to, like, turn it off. Like, it was just on. I could have even done it by voice. A word, turn off the music or whatever. I didn't, I couldn't do it. I was just too tired. And so I just let it play. weird thing that like when you're when you're when you're asleep but not fully it's like your brain

doesn't like say you have to pee yeah right but you're kind of half asleep and you're like oh i have to pee but you're like resisting oh yeah getting up because you don't want to wake yourself all the way up yeah so it's like it's it's this it's this really destructive cycle of it's it's completely counterintuitive right you're you're making your sleep worse by not just doing the thing Here's the thing we should normalize. Let's normalize wearing a stadium pal to bed. That's what I want to normalize. Just let's use.

Yeah, trucker's buddy. Yeah, trucker's buddy right there in bed. Let it rip. I'm all in for that. Well, this sounds like a fascinating read. I guess I'd never heard of this dude, but I have heard of the YouTube stuff he's done, which is where I got to start. Yeah. And he's like, he's kind of, you know, he's kind of the sciencey of the Green Brothers, you know.

And he does like SciShow on the Crash Course stuff that I mean like my kids' teachers have actually used Crash Course things. Yeah, they've been very successful. So it's a lot of really good educational content. But yeah, this book is really interesting and fun and it's got a lot of cool social commentary as good sci-fi does and, you know, giant robots. Yeah. Oh, well, can't get that. Right, exactly. Yeah. Well, I like giant robots. I also am looking forward to meeting Amy for the first time in person in Las Vegas, Nevada, coming up this next week. Are you excited?

I know. It feels so weird. I'm like, I'm actually going to meet Scott. And that's really weird. It's weird that I haven't ever actually met you in person. And it's going to be like, Brian, I've met you. Yeah, yeah. We've talked so many times. And it's been since like, I don't know, what was that, 06 or something? A long time ago, probably like, yeah, I want to say like 08 or 09. It was the first time I remember I discovered your podcasts when I was training to do the breast cancer three-day walk because like that was how I got through those walks was listening to podcasts. Yeah. And it was funny because I actually discovered your podcasts because I was listening to manic mommies. Oh, Christen gave you a plug on there. And I was like, oh, okay, I'll check this out.

And then I became addicted to ELR. And here you are. And here you are all this time later. I haven't talked to Kristen forever, but I just love her to death. She's one of my favorite people in the whole world. Yeah. Yeah. She's awesome.

And she and her husband both do like avid cycling stuff. Yeah, they're a little too perfect. I like the teaser when I do talk to her. A little too perfect there. You got your, you know, perfect, you know, they're middle age, but they don't look at it because they're perfectly in shape in every possible way. Their kids are like perfect children. It's like, Kristen, what are you doing?

She used to work for Marvel. How cool is that? Right, exactly. Oh, man. She likes video game. Yeah, it's just, it's, uh, she's the whole package, Ryan, the entire package. She really is. Well, people say that about you, Scott.

Oh, well, they're smoking the crack. I mean, look at, you know, your kids are freaking awesome. They're pretty great. I don't know. This one in the chat room, this Carter person, I don't know about her. She's pretty, pretty screwed up. She's a little questionable. Yeah, you never know with her.

But, uh, all right. Well, there's your book. Once again. just for those who maybe miss the name. Whoops, that's beautifully the endeavor one. Let me go back. You're going to want to read them both, though, you say. So start with absolutely remarkable thing

and then move straight over into the book called A Beautifully Foolish Endeavor, and you will not be sad. And go either audio or read it is our main message today. Correct. Amy, have a fantastic rest of your week, and we'll see you very soon. Well, quick, before you hang up on you, can I plug a thing really quickly? Of course. This is like for the, you know, the do-gooder section of frog pants.

Excuse me. I have a friend who his name is Phil Collins, but he's like the absolutely opposite of what you would imagine based on that name. He can't hear anything. He's deaf. He can't hear anything in the other night. He is like not a, you know, small, pasty white British drummer dude. He is like very large, fluffy black man. but he's one of the most awesome people I know

and he's having a really, really hard time. He had some medical bills and he had like a pulmonary embolism and so his medical bills have piled up to the point that he is in danger of being evicted. So I have, a friend of his has put up a go fund me for him and so I have posted that to the do-go-go-go-Discord discord in the Frog Pants Discord, and I'll also put it up in the chat, but I created a tiny URL for it.

It's tiny URL.com slash Phil Collins Med. And yeah, I mean, and some of you may actually know him because he's the director of board gaming at DragonCon. Oh, that's good idea. If you've ever gone to DragonCon and checked out a board game there and there was a big fluffy black man helping you, that's Phil. Describe the fluffy part. What is it the fluffy part? Is he just real hairy? He's large.

He's a large guy. He's kind of like Baymax, you know. Oh, all right. I see what you mean. Very huggable, very sweet. I get it. Yes, exactly. I was picturing a lot of hair.

I don't know why. Oh, no. A whole lot of hair. No, that's great. And if you haven't joined up over there or are in the Discord at all, if you go to frogpans.com slash discord, you're in. So just get in and check out the dogoaters group and do visit that site. Give it if you can.

It's a place where we try to, you know, talk about helping people and doing more good in the world than not. And this is a good cause. I've never met that person, but he sounds awesome. So that's the point. Go check it out. Very nice. Amy, have a great weekend. And we'll see you in Vegas.

Bye. Yeah, see soon. Vegas, Brian. Yeah. We're all going to Vegas. Oh, it's crazy, Scott. It's crazy. Yeah.

I'm a little, I've got the anxieties a little bit about it. Not because, not because I'm excited to see everybody, but it's been the first one of these since the pandemic started. Yeah, for me. Like, I just haven't gone to any. This is the overpants tournament. Yeah. So it's been a while. And I don't know.

I'm just nervous to see everybody. It'll be in a good way, though. So I'll see everybody there. Zoe's already in the States, right? Zoe, you're in. She's in Minnesota right now. Minnesota. Is your friend coming with, Zoe, or just you this year?

I think it's just her this year. Okay. Yeah. Well, Vegas opens its arms. In a minute or so. a few seconds but there you go uh let's do this let's do we have a little bit of time so we're going to do a couple of news stories before we do our song break um and then we got kind of a a thing that's a bit of a tradition here on the show for the last couple of years so we'll do that

in a second but first let's do some news here you go it's time for the news brought to you by brought you by coverville which will be back at the beginning of may taking this week and next week off next week because I'm in Vegas. This week, because I've got a lot of stuff to do before I can go to Vegas. There's a lot of freelance clients that are like, oh, are you going next week? Cool. Here, and they just, you know, push everything that they've been thinking about doing in front of me. So, yeah, no coverville today.

We'll see if there's going to be a guest to connection tomorrow. I'll post on Twitter. But right now it's questionable. But definitely everything coming back at the beginning of May, first week of May, May 4th, or sorry, the 5th and the 6th for those two shows. So, there you go. May is ready for you. May is ready for me.

I'm ready for May and May is ready for me. That's right. I was talking on the Twitter, or, yeah, it was Twitter yesterday, about how I know lots of Aprils, I know a lot of Mays, I know some June's. Oh, do you know some Mays? I don't know any Mays or June's, I don't think. I know a couple of June's, and then there's some famous Mays and June. But I don't know anyone named July, and so a bunch of people said, well, what about

Julia and Julie and this, these are all, these are all from that. And I'm like, you know, I get that. I totally get that, but it's still not. No one I know is named straight up just July. No, no. I don't even know, is that, are there people named just straight up July? I don't know. If there are, I'd love to hear from them.

We don't, we do know a September. We do. Yeah, 9 of 12, which yesterday I figured out what that meant finally. And Brian pointed out. Brian goes, oh, that night of 12, September, I'm like, oh, really? Okay. Duh. Dirk. Right. I felt like an idiot.

No, no, you know, it's not, it's like once you realize it's like, oh, yeah, of course, that totally makes sense. Yeah, now that I know it, I get it. I just kept thinking, oh, I kept thinking Borg and that's where my brain went, and that was it. Yes, of course. Well, that's the joke. The joke of it, yeah, but it never occurred to me. Oh, it's also the ninth month of the 12 months of the year. Durp.

All right. Check this out. This is not the best story in the world, but I have to do it. Four men have been arrested for raping a Bengal monitor lizard in Western India. I want to thank Jeffrey Hart, our listener, for sending this in. It's your fault, Jeffrey. Yeah, thank or blame, Jeffrey Hart. Yes. Thank blame. Blank. Blank. No. Thangbam. Anyway, four men have been arrested after one of the accused phones. was discovered to contain a video of them doing this to a Bengal monitor lizard at a Sudry

Tiger Reserve in Maharashtra, India. I know I nailed it. Just go with it. CCTV footage from the forest department showed the four men lurking around the forest and trespassing into the Tiger Reserve, which was created by the Indian government in 2008 to conserve Bengal Tigers.

In addition to the video of the men sexually abusing the monitor lizard, I don't know why you know whatever officials the officials found other animals on their phone including porcupines and deer

oh no really also it's also some deer I feel like the porcupines a danger zone but yeah geez yeah no kidding yeah what do you guess it doesn't say it just says photos of various animals on the men's phones but yeah it doesn't say they were engaged in humpham

so this means that that one guy had to suggest this to the the three. Oh, yeah. Yeah. One guy had to, like, open up the conversation. So, you know, I've been thinking about doing. You know, those monitor lizards down at the reserve there.

Pretty hot lizards. Hypothetically, do you think monitor lizards are hot? Well, Phil, let's go find out, down at the monitor lizard reserve and resort. This is the lizards, these particular lizards, monitors can grow up to five and a half feet long, away almost 16 pounds. They are currently categorized as a reserve species into the Wildlife Protection Act of 1972. Is that just here? Maybe over there.

Anyway, forest guards initially caught one of the accused while the others fled. The remaining three were later found in a nearby village. Yeah, I wonder how they caught him. In the act is my thinking. Jeez. The forehounders has been identified as Sandeep Turkum, Pawa Mangesh,

Janitar, Janitar, Janitar, Jandatar, Kamatark. car and Ashki Sunil. We're giving out their names here on TMS. That's fine. If we could pronounce them. Yeah. It's not even a good doxing.

It can't say these names right. Whatever. It's public on Yahoo. The case was taken to the Indian penal penal, penal court. Sorry, not penal. It's penal. Come on. Yeah.

Look, when I'm... Penal court. When I just spent the last two minutes trying to pronounce a bunch of Indian names, nothing else looks right now. It's all wrong. Anyway, they have to discuss proper legal action and charges against the four men, according to the Indian Penal Code, Section 377, states that anyone who voluntarily commits intercourse with an animal shall be punished with imprisonment for life or with imprisonment of either, I'm sorry, imprisonment of either description or a term which may extend to 10 years. I don't know what description means.

I don't either. Also, they have to do a fine. It's been by their description for a term which may extend 10 years. I think each of these guys should be put in a cell with four monitor lizards. Yeah, per guy, per guy, per guy, per guy, per guy. Individual cells for, four, uh, cells for dudes, 16 monitor lizards. Yeah, and, uh, all in heat. Just see what happens.

Yeah, just see what goes down. Have them be angry, rabid. I haven't eaten for a few days kind of lizards. Right. Oh, yeah. Absolutely. Yes, exactly. Maybe don't do that.

Maybe not. Jeez, Louise. No kidding. Maybe let lizards live and let them lie. Okay. I don't lie with them Yeah Nissan

You know Nissan they make the cars Yeah Tina's got one Yeah what does she have What's her what's her She drives a rogue Oh I like those Those are good

It's able to dual wheeled Yeah it's a really nice on a mobile Does it spend a lot of time face down in the dirt While the rest of the boss fight happens If it takes after me it does Well people love the Backstab backstab Backstab

like the new smell of cars, right? That new car smell. Yeah, who doesn't? Yeah. And Nissan actually creates its own and they have now gone on record as to how they do that. Uh, so here's what they do. Uh, for most cars, SUVs, that sort of stuff. It's a mixture of plastic, stained resistant fabrics and maybe some actual leather, that sort of stuff, that combo the smell. Um, here's what's going on here. Uh, but, blah, I'm skipping ahead. It's a bizarre. This is a bunch of stuff. Okay, here we go. materials engineer at Nissan, her name is Tori Carey, Keary, I'm not sure how you say her last name, at the technical center for Nissan in Farmington Hills, Michigan. She oversees a team of odor experts who carefully analyzed smells from everything that goes

inside the vehicles like the Nissan Pathfinder SUV, the frontier pickup, and so on. I think your wife's car probably in this category as well. Probably, yep. This person met this lady at the New York office. auto show. And she was originally hired as a plastics materials engineer, but partly because plastics make it the majority of material inside a non-luxury vehicle. She was soon given the overall responsibility for the way that those cars smell inside. She's literally in charge of how your car smells when you buy it. That's great. Every time we launch a new vehicle, we have to test the odor

in it. She doesn't mean a model. I want to visualize her in like white lab coat and, uh, Oh, there she is. Maybe take John found a picture of her. Oh, she's not sitting there. I want to picture her in a chemistry lab, white lab coat, protective glasses on. Yeah. That's what I want. Yep.

I don't feel like that's what, sadly, that's not how this works. I think probably what happens is in the end, someone just goes, okay, it's good. And then they send it on its way. She says, we put them in the vehicle. We sit in the vehicle, make sure that as we're sitting in the driver's seat and as you're sitting in the back seat, you're smelling that good new car smell. Hmm. Nice. So if you guys just thought it was an accident, I don't think so.

I think they're going for it. It's been, it's a crafted, it's not just, oh, this is what fabric, you know, right out of the factory or the plastic dashboard or whatever right out of the factory smells like. Nope, it's a scent. Kim got me a bottle of fresh laundry scented cologne. Does he smell like fresh laundry? Yeah, yeah. And it does. It smells just like that.

Like if you got a new towel out of the dryer and you just huffed it in, it reminds you of that. All right. Ready to leave for our date. Hold on, honey. I'm just putting on some bounce. I forget the name of it. I don't know what the brand is, but it's straight up just new laundry smell is the thing on the bottle. That's awesome.

Or fresh laundry. And I'm going to bring that thing to Vegas and I'm going to put a little on one day. So if I hug any of you, you'll know. Yes. Perfect. I'm your fresh laundry. What smells like snuggle? it really does it's weird i have to admit it's a little weird it makes me feel a little a little weird

because my laundry's also fresh like i'm wearing clothes that are clean sure sure that should give off the smell but i guess this may be last longer it does a little more strong yeah and you know it's legit so anyway if anyone's wondering why it's strong enough for a man but made for your laundry and for all i know it's in this like baby blue bottle i for all i know i'm using some women's product I don't know. Did be. Yeah. She doesn't say, but she likes it, so whatever, I'll wear it.

Final story for today. Okay. This is a psycho. Lawyers for a man who ate his own eyeball argue who he's too mentally ill for execution. I think I might agree if you ate your own eyeball. Oh, geez. Yeah, that's a good way to prove it right there. Yeah, they got a, so this is a Texas death row inmate, which, you know, usually that means you're done.

There's no vacating that thing. Texas doesn't let people out when they're on death row. Sure. Sure. But lawyers representing a Texas death row inmate who killed is a strange wife and her two children, pretty heinous crime, including her 11-month-old daughter. And that's awful. In 2004, they are arguing this week that their mentally ill client could be allowed to continue appealing his death sentence according to these lawyers. That's what they want.

The oral arguments on behalf of Andre Thomas H-35 were held Tuesday in Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans. Thomas's attorneys have for years argued that Thomas is too mentally ill to. be put to death. This was bolstered by the, by this is what happened. The fact that Andre Thomas plucked out one of his eyes five days after his arrest and ate it. Yeah. Just pop one out. Eat it.

Okay. Yeah. What's the body part you at least want to eat of your own? I think eye is up there. It's right up there. I mean, that would be the butthole, Scott. Yeah. Well, if you took good care of it, you know.

I mean, if we, oh, I'd take very good care of it, but it still would be. So you'd take an eye over that? I think I'd take an eye over that. I don't know. Like, they are all, it is a list that only starts at the very bottom. You know what I'm saying? Like, that's not a, that's not a clever pun. That's, yeah, he also, I guess he was almost the only 21 at the time.

He stabbed himself a bunch of times. Yeah. I mean, you know, really all the lawyer has to do is just, and I'll describe this for the people who are listening to the podcast, just stand next to the defendant and hold his palm straight out and just look at the judge. Just say, look at the judge and say, really, you're going to put this mentally ill patient to death? Yes, exactly. They probably still are because, again, Texas doesn't let this stuff go. No. Good luck.

All right. That's it for today's news. All right. Well, no, I don't have to eat lunch. Thank you. Yeah. Look, our diet is working. Let's go ahead and take a break.

When we come back, we're going to do something a little special. If you're here live, you're going to hear the whole thing. If you're listening to the podcast, you're going to go, oh, they paused it and then came back later. You're going to hear me introduce the final song. Yeah, you're just going to hear us end the show, kind of. But anyway, that's just where we're at. Hey, Brian, why don't we play a song, though, for the fine folks at home? Yes, sir.

Let's go to Louisville, Kentucky. And this is a follow-up album for a band called Native Sons. Now, those of you complaining, oh, Brian doesn't play enough hard. heavy metal on this show. And I don't know why you'd say it in that accent, but you did, and you should feel bad about that. But you've, you've been complaining that I don't play enough heavy metal while you're about to be rewarded with this.

This is a band called Native Sons. They have a brand new album coming out called Shadowhead, and this is the first single. It's called Drama. Here are Native Sons. Oh, zone bounce, spit and twisted tone, at least you tried. No one knows all the things you've done. See you run and you run. A guilty and will twist the fate.

What's going in? No time did he lay All the things down the line It's what you become It's led to this Oh my God I don't want to live this Coming down this whole before

Nobody attached You just have to live with What are you waiting for? Jealousy, the knife that swiftly dug At least you get it a good try A guilty and will twist the fate What's closing in no time delay All the things down the line

Is what you become And it's led to this Oh my God I don't want to relive this I've been down this road before Nobody said you just have to live with I'm shoved in the back Oh my God

I never thought that you do this But a bridge like never before Nobody You tell you just have to live with So what do you want? What are you waiting for? What are you waiting for? Oh my God, I've never thought you to do this,

but I'm bridge like never before. Oh my God, I never want to live. What are in live this? I've been down this floor before. Nobody is down to you just like a live world. A shout in the back. Oh my God. I never thought that you do this.

But it reads like never before. Nobody said to you just like a live world. So what are you waiting for? let's talk about drink and trade and coffee yes those three words let me put them together for you all right let's get excited about this what coffee did you most recently drink that you're like man that was fantastic has it been a while do you feel like it's been too long good news trade coffee's here to help you all right they have an amazing experience on their website site, and you take this little simple quiz, and then when you're done, it lined you up with

the coffee that's just right for you. And people get pretty picky about their coffee, has been my experience. So I think trade is awesome, and they can do all sorts of things for you. Trade coffee connects customers to the freshest and best tasting coffee they've ever made at home by partnering with the country's best craft roasters. These are all independent businesses from big cities to small towns and trade customers are truly impactful for these independent roasters. It's really important to them. This often brings them the largest source of new growth for these roasters. I don't think it's a big deal too. We want to support these companies. Expert tasted coffees. The trade coffee team actually tastes and tests thousands of cups. They keep 450 different kinds live

and ready to ship every day. That's a lot. There's no one perfect coffee for everybody. But But maybe there is with trade coffee. Anyway, their human-powered algorithm will find it. I like that a lot. Trades first match guarantee will give you this. They're so confident they'll match you for the first time and the right time that if they don't, they'll take your feedback in actual coffee expert or work with you to send you a brand new bag for free. They will solve the mystery.

Who else is going to do that for you? I don't know who. Anyway, they're amazing. We think trade is awesome, and I think they can do all kinds of amazing stuff for you. If you're a coffee drinker, trade coffee's right for you. So, right now,

trade coffee is offering new subscribers a total of $30 off your first order plus free shipping when you go to drinktrade.com slash TMS. That's more than 40 cups of coffee for free. When else you're going to get that in your life? Get started by taking their quiz at drinktrade.com slash TMS and let Trade find you a coffee that you love. That's drinktrade.com slash TMS for $30 off.

I don't know why my legs are going numb. My legs are going numb. I think my whole body's gone numb because I'm a numb-num. Everybody steals a cookie. The morning stream. Hit the road, buster. This is where you get off. And we've returned.

Please remind me who that was. Yes, that was Native Sons from their upcoming album Shadowhead and their first single from the album called Drama. Nice. Nice. Yeah. Yeah. It's very nice. Nice.

Okay. So here's the deal. Like I said, people at home, things are about to pause. People on YouTube, things are about to pause, okay? Gave you fair warning. Here comes that pause. And we're back. We did a whole thing for like 20 minutes that no one saw, more than that even.

More like 30 minutes. And you guys at home are like, what? What happened to all that amazing content? Well, you just happened to listen to America's next top podcaster season four to find out. Exactly. Yeah, there's a great way to listen to, to hear everything that you just missed. That's right. It was so much, too.

You guys missed out on all the stuff. Yeah. All right. Thank you all for understanding how this works. And especially the chat room for participating with us today. Going to stop things or end things today with a quick email. This is from, where is it here? Here it is.

Oh, here we go. Pogti is his name. Pogti. Pogti. Also goes by Cormac. Says, hello, Brian and Scott. I just finished an email recommending Meow Wolf's Meowulfs. Omega Mart, right as I was done, I heard y'all chatting about it.

So, there's another reason to go. If anyone goes there drunk, it might be a bit of a performance. Anyway, hope you all have a good time in Vegas, and I'll spend my birthday wishing I was there, sending love and support. Not the only one, by the way, recommending that place, since we talked about it. That place is amazing, and I know you're going. I know you're planning to go. I think we are. It sort of depends, because it's, is it Thursday? Nope, it's Tuesday. Oh, well, then we're totally going. Yeah, you're totally going. Because Thursday, I got to be back at a certain time, but I'm pretty sure even then it was going to be okay. But if it's Tuesday, it's perfect.

I'm all good. Yeah. One other. I'll be going to Area 15 with all of you guys. I just won't be doing Omega Mart again. I did it before. And believe me, it does withstand multiple visits, but I'm going to go, you know, check out some of the other stuff in Area 15 that I wanted to see last time I was there. You should totally do that.

I agree. One final one here. Hold on. Here we go. Divide Colorado Donkey Mayor is the title here. Oh, okay. I thought that was their email address or something. No, I wish. Divide Colorado donkey mayor. Okay. So there's a city, a little town in your state called Divide.

Okay. Yes. Probably close to the continental divide would be my guess. Yeah. And you've got a new mayor of that town. Oh, mayor. Okay. I was thinking mayor is an MA. Oh, yeah. No, like mayor. It's one of those things like we talked about, always say certain words, mayor or mayor. This is mayor or like in charge of local government.

His name is Clyde. He's a donkey. Of course. Here's what happened. Polls closed and the votes are in according to this article sent to me by Dustin. Thank you for this, Dustin. Clyde the mammoth donkey is the new mayor of Divide, Colorado. Newly elected mayor Clyde won by 1,700 votes over his new vice mayor,

Cini and Mesa, who tied for second place. I guess those are also donkeys. I guess so, wow, it's just a... This is, so the whole thing was, it's a race for mayor design to raise, at this point, a record-breaking $41,040 for the Teller County Regional Animal Shelter. And, oh, the other two are dogs. Sorry, the dogs are runners up. Oh, got you. Boy, they, you know, I don't know how many people live in, in Divide, but I'm sure it took a long time to burrow through those votes to get to pick the winner. You're no kidding, right? It seems like a lot. Well, anyway, thank you for that, Dustin.

That's a very fun little email. We've had, there have been other cities or towns in Colorado that had mayors that were animals. I think there was a cat mayor of one, one of our local towns. Oh, the cats are the worst. They're the worst mayors. Cats make the worst mayors. Did it enact a bunch of legislation? No one could stand and just.

Right, exactly. Yes. Scratch posts at every corner or some kind of bullshit. Crested. You, it looks like we had a cat mare for a while, yeah. Oh, man. Big, big trays. People can poop in wherever they go.

That's right. Everybody, clean yourself from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. Yeah, recreational catnip, all those measures. Exactly. Oh, yeah. Yeah, got it pretty p.m. Well, there you go. Send those emails.

Keep them coming. The morning stream at gmail.com. We'd love to get more of them. Like we say, we got a p.m. edition of the show tomorrow for patrons. And then we are gone next week until the following p.m. And that PM edition will be kind of a catch-up on how things went in Vegas. Also, that PM edition, I think, is supposed to be a play date, isn't it? Oh, you're right.

We are doing a play date. That'll be public. That'll be everybody. Also, Monkey bananas. Monkey bananas tells me he's, it's looking real good for a live stream of what we do on Wednesday. Yeah, he's bringing his whole gear. Did you hear that, do you hear me swallow that coffee? I did.

It was not, it was sexy. It don't sound like September's Discord microphone. It, yeah, he's going to be live streaming a lot of the stuff going on. We can't get him on to the high roller, but everything else looks like it's going to be, looks like it's going to work out well. I'm with him. I'll do, I'll stay down off that and do commentary with him at the bottom of the high roller. Totally, totally fine.

He's, so that's great because that means a live stream, but also that probably means some recording will get done there as well. So watch for all that. I got to figure out some of the stuff I got to. figure out how am I going to do any of it from the hotel if I do it at all. If not, it'll all lump in there at the end of the week. But either way, you'll know where we're at. Lots of photos. Follow us on Twitter. You'll see what's going on. Okay? For sure. Yep. The debauchery will be on full display for everyone to see. When Brian gets naked and runs through the cosmopolitan, you'll know it. You'll be the first to see it. Naked. I know about naked, but I have been asked, people have asked to bring that

brokini that, that, uh, Barry and Bobby Ann made for me. I don't, I don't, I don't, I don't, I don't know. Brian, you'll have to be really drunk if you're going to wear that. Oh, you'll have to be comatose if I'm going to wear that. You'd have to be unaware that he's wearing. I have to be completely passed out drunk if I'm going to wear the... You would not, I could not be paid enough to show up wearing something like that. No, even wearing it over a pair of bicycle shorts is still, it's still like, you know, wrapping a tinfoil around a potato.

It's like you can still see everything that's going on. Yeah, we don't want that. I don't want to see it. Maybe that's a little graphic. I don't know. A potato. Maybe that's a little, maybe Brian's a little bragging about the spade. I didn't want to say a hot dog because I felt like that was too on the nose.

He should have said, no, that'd be like a Vienna sausage is what it would be on the nose. A little cocktail weenie. Yeah, as I'm making fun of a small weiner I've never seen. I have no idea. Exactly. I hope I never see Brian's weiner. Yeah, you'll never see it. I don't have any plans for that to change.

Yeah, none of this is going to happen. None of you are going to see mine either. But we're going to have a great time and we'll document it all. So watch for that next week, starting on Monday night when we're all there. Okay. That's it for the show. Patreon.com slash TMS. If you love this nonsense like we do, you're going to want to throw a couple of bucks our way.

Do it over there at patreon.com slash TMS. And for all other things you might be in need of, frogpants.com slash TMS will get you there. Okay. I think that's it. Okay. Let's play that final song we've been holding on to. What do you got over there? Yeah.

Hey, Ryan from Michigan wrote in and said, Hey, it's my birthday and I love this cover. Ryan from Michigan is a man of few words. I'll say that right there. That's all. That's all he said. He wanted to hear this. And I'm so glad he recommended this because I had no idea this existed.

And it's a whole album full of great covers. The band Local H released this last year during lockdown. And it's called the Local H. Local H's awesome quarantine mixtape number three. Wow. Which means I guess there might be two other albums I need to locate. This is Local H and a bunch of covers. The one we're pulling out for Ryan from Michigan is Looking Glass and the song, Brandy, you're a fine girl.

Oh, I like that song. All right, here it is. We'll see you all soon, including tomorrow for many of you. FilmSack this weekend. Plenty of content before we leave. So check that all out. We'll see you then. There's a boy on a western bay, and it serves a hundred ships a day.

Lonely sailors pass the time away and talk about their homes. There's a girl in this harbor town and she works laying whiskey down. They say brandy, they fetch another round. She stirs them whiskey and wine The sailor say, Randy, you're a fine girl What a good wife you would be Yeah, your eyes can see the sailor From the student

Randy, where's a braided chain Made a finer silver from the north of Spain A locket of the man that Brandy loved. He came on a summer's day bringing gifts from far away, but he made it clear he could not stay,

no harbor was his home. The sailors said, Brandy, you're a fine girl. Why good wife you would be for my life, my love, my lady, There's a shud-da-da-da-dun-dun-d-dun-d-d-dun-d-d... Yeah, a friend there used to watch his eyes when he told his same stories. She could feel the ocean from the ride.

She saw his raging glory. But he had always told the truth of the world on his man. And when he does her best, To understand At night When the bars goes down Brandy walks Through a silent town

And loves a man Who's not around She still can't hear him to say She hears him say Brandy You're fine What a good wife you are three But my life

It's a sea Yes it is Please say, Randy You're a fine girl What a good wife you would be But my life, my love, my lady Is a sweet Do do do do do do

Do do Duh Duh Duh Duh Season 3 Now I'll sing that that I'm free This show is part of the Frog Pants Network. Frog Pants Network. Get more shows like this at frogpants.com. Phony mumbo-jumbo.