The Morning Stream - TMS 2283: Met Galaga

Episode Date: May 3, 2022

Skid Marks The Spot. I Was Looking for Tractors and Saw Someone Getting Plowed. Smell my sardine fingers. Scott Does Math. Red Robins in Cardinal Directions. No offense to any Jeffs. Racist, but Good Racist. Mickey Mouse is Not a Smurf. I Don't Trust Jeff's Bulgarian Restaurant! Mummifried. There's A Machete In The Other Wall. A Gangly Weirdo. Do You Want to be After Kanye? Bill And The Circle Of Props. Boring Uber Drivers and Earning 1 Star Reviews with Bobby 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, Skid Marks the spot. I was looking for tractors and saw someone getting plowed. Smell my sardine fingers. Scott does math. Red Robbins in cardinal directions. No offense to any Jeff's. Racist, but good racist. Mickey Mouse is not a smurf.

Don't trust Jeff's Bulgarian restaurant. Mumma fried. There's a machete in the other wall. A gangly weirdo. Do you want to be after Kanye? Bill and the circle of props. Boring Uber drivers and earning one star reviews with Bobby and Moore on this episode of The Morning Stream.

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Yeah, they're okay. Good morning, everybody. Welcome back to TMS. It's the morning stream for Tuesday, May 3rd, 2022. I'm Scott Johnson, and that is Brian Abbott. Hello. Hello. Yeah, yeah. Hey, do you see any of that met, that met gala?

I didn't. I haven't even seen like, oh, Blake lively, wow, people with her amazing, whatever. Did not see. I didn't look at a single piece of news from that last night. And I'm usually really curious about, I don't really care what they wear. I care about, like, what, uh, defying the laws of physics, comfort. and being able to only have to take up one chair at the Met Gala or Gala. Gala, Gala. Gala. Gala. Gala. Gala. I don't know. I always say Gala, but I don't know. I hate the word. It's a terrible word. Gala, Gala, it's bad. Either way. Gala. Gala. Gala. The Met Gala. Oh, that would be a place. I don't go. Oh, man. That one just, it's a cartoon that draws itself, isn't it?

I know. I may as well not even worry about it. It'll just be drawn by the time I look on my iPad. But, yeah, so that thing happened. And I just, all I would say is Hollywood, they're weird about their cosplay. That's all I'll say. They are, yes. Yeah. A lot of stuff. We're really like strange, like, well, it's always a little weird, right? It's the whole point is it's meant to be.

But whatever. That, what's her name, though? You just mentioned her. What's her name? Blake Lively. She was kind of cool. She had, so the theme was supposed to be Americana or something. Okay.

And she had this dress that was colored. if she twisted one way it was the color of the Statue of Liberty when it was new which is kind of that weird peach mauve color yeah yeah

and then when she swirled the other direction it turned the green that it is today and it had like patterns of like New York streets and stuff on her it was actually pretty cool

so I will give her oh Gilded Age that's what it was Gilded Age thing Gilded Age okay I'll give her props I'll give her Prise

oh now I see yeah I totally see Blake Steele. Oh, that looks really good. She looks great. Yeah, it was all right. Her and Ryan Reynolds are the freaking king and queen of the prom. I mean, should any of us make babies anymore? Should we just let them do it? Yeah, but they walk in and then right behind them is one of them there, Kardashians and Pete Davidson looking like a freak show. And even Pete Davidson, like, is it a tux? Yeah, right? But look at him. He's a gangly weirdo. I am telling you something. He's signed a deal with the devil on a different planet.

Because that guy is as dorky as me and you. He's just a dork. But look at Mr. Hollywood man. He's in all these movies and whatnot. Kate Beckinsale with Ariana Grande. Wasn't he with somebody else too that was like, I can't remember who he was with, but I don't know. How would you want to be, would you really want to be after Kanye West?

Do you know what I mean? I don't mean in a sexual way. I mean like, like just. Maybe not right after. I mean like in a in a pop culture sort of way it just feels dangerous I don't know why it just seems like you're going to get so much I mean well I just not this isn't always apply but everybody's after somebody yeah that's the truth uh wait Alessandro Michelle and Jared Leto oh yeah they dress the same like identically okay yeah for who knows why and then

there was another there was another guy that everyone thought was Jared Letto who was dressed as a basically a broken slinky is what it looked like. Really? Okay. He was able to go down the Met Gala stairs, but was he able to go up? No, he couldn't go up. Not even alone or in pairs. No, but in the right hand, you could really do some wicked juggily stuff with him. He was pretty cool.

How beautiful is Tessa Thompson? Frickin' Valkery and Water or not West World and... You sound like the red carpet guy. You should do the coverage on the night. Should I? Should I do that? Yeah. How beautiful is Tessa Trompson? Just look at that dress, you guys. Before we go to commercial. How freaking handsome is Jared Lotto, everybody?

Look, it's two more people I don't recognize. Are you a Schwarzenegger or a Baldwin? I don't even know. The word is. Oh, there's the broken slinky. Frederick Robertson. Oh, okay, yeah. Everyone thought it was Jared Lotto for like the longest time.

And then there was all these. Yeah, he looks like designs I used to make on my Spirogians. graph. Yeah, yeah. He definitely looks like that. There was one guy that looked like a light bright. There was another guy that looked like a, the other guy looked like he just like fumbled through his mom's old like Hollywood clothes, you know, like up in the attic. Mom, can I go through this box? Sure. Whatever. And then wore that. That's what it, that felt like. It's fine. But there were some people online that were so fiercely into this. I witnessed an argument about which was better this year and whatever this year was and 2018 which i guess is considered like that

considered be the best year yeah so i don't know why you know it makes sense because it's not like anything else happened yesterday that could cause arguments or or discussion or controversy no not at all not no no no um nothing you know it's as if it's as if it's a quiet little uh you know internet town Yeah, yeah, exactly. I mean, you know, nothing happening on this internet. Yeah, nothing going on. Anyway, we're going to have a good show today. I'm very excited.

Yes, we are. I would like to start things, though, by registering a complaint. We went to the zoo the other day, as you know. Yes. And the zoo is lovely, you know, like zoos are. They're fine. Zos are fine. There's nothing, you know, crazy at the zoo.

Getting a chance to get up close. with our animal friends. And we had a listener, I barely missed. He sent a picture of where we were just standing after we left there. He sent several pictures of our backs. Yeah, of our backs. And then somehow inside the car, which, you know, the trunk, the interior of my trunk. I don't understand.

No, I don't know. I forgot his name, but whoever that was, I'm sad I didn't get to meet you. But anyway, we were at the zoo having a great time. The boys having a blast. That's the reason we went. Also, because it was Carter's birthday. And she wanted to go to the zoo for her birthday, even though she's freaking 25. A quarter of a century old, so she's still into these things.

And so we did that. And then we're like, all right, afterwards, Carter, you get to pick where we're going to go to lunch. And she says, I want to go to Red Robin. And the reason she wanted to is because Taylor was craving Red Robin and Taylor is pregnant. And Carter wanted to do what Taylor wanted it. It was a very nice sisterly thing. Yeah, it was very nice. And plus, you know, Red Robin's fine, whatever.

So we go to Red Robin, we find this one. I've been there before, no big deal. Pull up, park, get out to the thing, get up to the front. There are going to be a total of eight of us. So it's Nick, his girlfriend, B, me, Kim, Carter, Taylor, Dylan, and Van. And so Van made nine, I guess. Wait, is that the right math? If I got that right?

Hold on. Who am I missing? That's not nine. That's six. Hold on. This is going to bug me. All right. How many couples?

You and Kim? Me and Kim. Taylor and Dylan. Nick and B. Carter, Van. Okay, it's eight. That's close. It's eight of them. I mean, eight? No, it has to be an odd number. No, no, no, because Van and Carter and anyway, it's eight. Do you do the high chair? I need the high chair right now. So anyway, we go into there, we go to the front thing and the guy says, hi, how many? Just like they always ask. Sure. And we said, I always ask that. We go eight and he goes,

sorry. And I was like, sorry, what? And he goes, sorry, but we can't do groups any larger than four right now.

And we're like, oh, what's the matter? And he goes, we're short staff today. And it's only at four o'clock, which is like five hours from then. Four o'clock,

we'll have more here. And then we'll be able to do more than eight. Or more than four. said, well, there's eight of us. What if we came in separately as two groups of four? Oh, I really hate to tell you this, but it's because I, you know, he's basically knew that we had eight and wasn't going to let this happen, even though. But even, I mean, but he couldn't put you in two tables of four? That's the part that I'm irritated about. Like, I can't understand why they couldn't have done that. Like, what, I, okay, I want to show some empathy here. I know that

there's a labor shortage. I know this is a super first world problem. Look, I understand. And it's not that massive of a deal. But you're, I don't know why a place is even open if you don't have the people in there. You know what I mean? Right. Like it's just weird. You know, that's a, that I can understand. Like not having enough servers, you know, even if you go in there and say, oh, there's tons of tables available.

Yeah, but there's probably enough servers to, to fit all those tables. Yeah, and there were a ton of tables, like tons of them. So that made, that made me think it was like him and another dude or something. yeah it might be might be so so we didn't you know we weren't rude or anything but i was just annoyed because i was like well i you know if we came in with four of us it would have been fine oh and then i'm sorry the group that came after us had five they got a table no way really yeah no problem i forgot to mention that yeah they they waltzed in after and i and i felt like turned to them going good luck they're only taken four and under her and then they

took him anyway that's my complaint it's not a big deal we ended up going to understand why they of taking you as two separate groups of four. It seems silly. He seemed like majorly relieved that we didn't a pitch a fit and three and two left, B left. Like the fact that we took off, it just seemed like he was relieved, like, oh,

I don't have to deal with eight more people or something. So he was clearly having a bad day. I don't want to, you know, make assumptions. I'm mostly talking about those people who, I'm talking about the franchise because this is now the second time I've been to a red robin,

there was something weird going on the last time i was in there meeting with a couple that wanted me to perform their wedding back in 2017 2018 whatever it was and i think i told you the story in the air but they just left us they never came and got an order and when we finally said hey what's got up oh 14 people revolted today and left in protest and we had a mass uh mass robin exodus yeah it was a bummer robins have left the nest yeah so i don't know what's going on is that particular store, that particular location. No different location even. Different locations, wow.

We have two Red Robbins that are almost equidistant from us, almost three, like all in different, you know, cardinal directions. And depending on where we're going, we'll pick one of those. But all three of them have been really, really good to us. Now, you know, there's other restaurants that I'm trying, I'm struggling right now to come up with them that we've gone to. in the same area that are like horrendous. I mean, it is a, it is a crapshoot. And sometimes you pick him on a good day. Sometimes you pick them on a bad day.

But it sounds like you've been picking bad red rather than bad days. Yeah. Plus, I guess it's not a, you never see. It's always a chain. I never have these problems when it's not a chain. I mean, I know not, no one's perfect. But it seems like the little mom and pop places, just don't have this problem.

And now, okay, here's a racist side of Scott. Guys ready for this? This is a racist thing I do, even though I don't think it's bad racist. it's, I think it's still, you know, it's still a little racist. I'm about to tell you a weird thing, okay? Here we go. Okay. All right.

Okay. When I walk into a restaurant that is run by, like, I like this fah and bond me place up the street. Sure. And it's run by entirely family-owned Vietnamese family. Uh-huh. And they're not, you know, not super English speakers or any of that, a lot of broken English, that sort of thing.

The minute I walk in there and see that they're, They're all from Vietnam, hear all their accents, hear the broken English. I immediately feel like I'm in the best possible hands at that place because I know, it's hard to explain. I just really like the work ethic and the, I know how hard they're working and I know how much they want to please everybody and I know how much they want to do a good job. It's totally me going, oh, an Asian-owned restaurant with a bunch of Asians, sweet. We're good, everybody.

I know that's a little weird, right? No, but, all right. So I don't think it's, it's, you're basing it just solely on where they come from, but also the fact that you, you know, it's family owned, right? This is their livelihood. You know, they're going to do as good a job they can because they, you know, it's not like, oh, well, you know, if this person fails, we'll just fire them and bring in another family member. It's probably, you know, this is their family. This is like, you know, paying their, keeping their lights on, paying their bills, that sort of thing. Yeah, and someone in the chat says, is it a culture or race, it's probably more culture.

Like, but even this, okay, this happened in Vegas. The first day I got there and met you at the World's, whatever it was called. What's the name of the new one? Oh, resorts world. Resorts world. Oh, that place, God, what a great concept. Oh, it's awesome. I just never remember the name of it.

Food Court is, whatever. Food Court's obviously not a new concept. But this place had like 20 restaurants. all with different specialties, but you walked up to one order screen, one, like, tablet touchscreen thing, placed your order for all of them, and then you'd get a little text on your phone saying, hey, you're, your brisket fried rice, I can't remember, we didn't have that, but you're, this is ready. Oh, the clay pot, what was a clay pot thing you got?

Claypot rice. Oh, that place was, that was fantastic. It was. The bowel buns, the pork belly bow. Yeah, all of that was really good. But what I loved about it was, like, the, like, the little. lady that Kim bought the ice cream thing from? Yes. I'd trust her with my life. Why? Because she's this nice little Asian lady who just is so

nice. Like I can't explain it. I don't know why I feel that way. But when I walk into a place that's like, yeah. But if I walk into a place that's like, welcome to our Bulgarian, whatever. But it's just like a guy named Jeff, you know, I don't trust that as much. So anyway, no offense to any Jeff's. Man. Or Bulgarians. Yeah. But I know what you're talking about. I mean, it almost is more of a, like, you can tell right from the get-go, if this is somebody's job for today. Like, you know, you walk in and it's like, hey, welcome to Red Robin.

How many? You know, like could care less. If you went to a family-owned Red Robin, right, that got the franchise and it's like, oh, yeah, we've got, you know, cousin Bill working the grill. and we've got so-and-so, and I'm, you know, mom, and I'm going to be seating you guys. You'd say, oh, you know what? I feel like I'm going to be taken care of it, this Red Robin. Yeah, same thing happens at our local. We have a very close to us, Chick-fil-A, and this place is family, you know,

it's a family-owned franchise of the Chick-fil-A, you know, chain. But it's different there because these people go all out. They're so into it. They hire gay people, by the way. So they go contrary to whatever everyone thinks of the founder, but they got like, you know, LGBTQ plus people all over that place and it's great and they're all super nice.

And it's like a cut above. And there's a reason why their cars 400 miles stacked to get into there. Part of it is because it's just freaking Chick-fil-A and everyone craves their chicken fortnightly. But it's also because they're so nice to work with. So I guess what I'm saying is you can tell when people have passion for what they're doing and you can tell when it's a guy getting paid too little to do what he's doing and doesn't really like being there.

Or just, you know, feels like, you know if i leave here i could get a job somewhere else like that so yeah what do i care and uh we all we all raised uh smart kids that don't feel that way that like say no you know when i'm committed to a job i do that job and sure blah blah sure sure uh so anyway that's that's my complaint do with it what you will uh red robin get your poop together let's move on to this email from bronco we haven't heard from jeff sire in a while so we're No, no, we haven't. How's he doing? He seems fine. Here's what he says in this email.

He sent to us at the morning stream at gmail.com. Brian and Scott, your discussion of animal mayors. Remember we talked about the mayor that got voted in? Made me think of something you guys may find amusing. Tommy Douglas is considered the father of Canadian socialized medicine. He was the premier of Saskatchewan and introduced it there in 1962. He had to overcome the resistance of the socialist boogeyman. I also think I need to elaborate on what socialist boogeyman is considered.

You guys are, because you guys are American. To demonstrate his point, he repeatedly told the Mouseland story. It says I've included a link to it. So Scott will appreciate the old time you feel. On a weird note, the clip is introduced by Keith for Sutherland. Kiff Settling. Who happens to be his grandson, which is pretty trippy. So I'm going to play a little bit of this.

Okay. And I do appreciate it's old-timey nature. I'll be honest. Is Mouse Land? Is that where the shirt I'm wearing came from today? Oh, that's a good question. Oh, I like your shirt. That's a very cool, but Disney shirt.

Yeah, so Mickey's wearing green pants and he should be wearing red. I thought they were white, like a little diaper, no? What am I thinking of? Oh, I'm thinking of a smurf. I think a smurf. Oh, okay, yeah, smurfs? Well, I think they just wear like long white pants, don't they? I don't know.

I mixed them all up. I'm picturing short little diapery smirfs. I don't know why. Except her smurfette who's not wearing anything. No.

As you know, she is something else. All right, here's the... Smiths around. Oh, it didn't... This didn't work. Hold on.

Sorry, Chad. I'm trying to put it up for you. Okay, here we go. I'm going to play it. Thank you, Jeff, for this. Look at that young, uh, Kiefer Sutherland. Holy cow.

Yeah, look at him. Here we go. Presents. The new Democrats presents. How do you like those maggots. Michael. So he's the grandson? My name is Kiefer Sutherland.

Many of you may know me as an actor, but there's something in my background that you may not know, something which I am very proud of. I am also a grandson of the late Tommy Douglas, a premier who brought enormous change to Saskatchewan and the rest of Canada. He was also the first leader of the New Democratic Party. Using his voice in a recording that he had made in 1962,

we'd like to share a story with you, a story that he made famous as early as 1940. It's a story of a place called Mouseland, and it's as important today as it was many years ago. It's not just a piece of history. My dad was a match. The best explanations you'll ever hear about why Canadians like you and me...

Like you and me. And every time on election day, all the little mice used to go to the ballot box and they used to elect the governor. That must be weird having a grandpa that was like all major in like the history. Oh, for sure. Yeah.

Yeah. That'd be weird. Well, thank you for that, Jeff. Super interesting. Yeah, but I'm setting this up to watch later because it's, uh, it looks like, uh, the, it's the political secret of NIM basically is what it looks like. Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, no kidding. Jack Bauer looking young there. Totally. Back when he was, back when he was 24. Yeah.

So wait, does that make, uh, Donald Sutherland, this dude's, oh, maybe it was his mom's side. I don't know. I don't know who's, who's, yeah, I mean, really could be Donald Sutherland's dad, too. Yeah. anyone check on him lately is he good donald hanging in there it's all right right sure he's all right yeah he's been hunger gaming it up i wonder if he's going to be in that new hunger games thing no i guess he won't be because it's a sequel not a prequel he's 86 and uh all right seems to be doing just fine still cranking got movies in the works got a show called swimming with the sharks got a movie called mr harring harringen's carrigan's phone sure uh something called oz he was in moonfall this thing that we just came out, we want to film sack? Oh, yeah, I can't wait to film sack that business. Holy Mackle. He's a busy

boy. Yeah. Backdraft 2 in 2019. I'm sorry. Hello? What? Is that a thing? Backdraft 2? That's not really Backdraft 2. Really? That's what this says. Hold on. Wait, wait. What's the year? Yeah. 2019, there was a rated R. Backdraft 2

directed by Gonzalo Lopez Galeo, sequel to the 91 hit. Oh my gosh. I didn't know. I had no idea. Look at that. William Baldwin. Direct to DVD.

Oh, really? Oh, so they got Billy Baldwin back. They got Billy and they got Donald and that's it. No one else is famous here. Well, all right. I'm sure it's shit. Oh, yeah, here we go. 40% on Rotten Tomatoes.

Yeah. It's not good. It's not good. It seems bad. All right. Well, thank you, Jeff, for your email. It's always good to hear from our Canadian. Canadian fans, listeners, and folks that we've known for so long.

That's one guy I would love to see at one of these future Vegas meetups. Oh, for sure, yeah. Bronco. And Jen, bring Jen with you. She's awesome. All right. We're going to do some news. We didn't do any yesterday, so we really need to catch people up on current events.

So let's do that right now if I can find the damn thing. Hey, it's time for the news, and it's brought to you by. Free comic book day. It's coming up this weekend. That means free comic prints from. Scott and Carter once again. This year's theme is Villains playing sports.

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I wish I had the preview up, but it's not up yet. But Dave will have it up soon. Oh, we can't wait to see it. Can't wait. Ben Jim wants to know, does Jeff have an Asian restaurant? No, he does not. I realized I just slathered Jeff's and then I read Jeff's email

That's pretty funny Well he's not Bulgarian No he's fun All right Check it out Kids and people of a certain age John Hinckley Jr If you don't remember this dude

He was guy what attempted to assassinate Ronald Reagan I just remember he was a fan of Jody Foster Was there anything else about him Just a simple fandom Brian That was it Simple fan of Jody Foster Yeah it just wanted a meet her Maybe your autographs who he's lucky

That kind of thing that's all it was yeah so he tried to kill President Ronald Reagan back in the day in 1981 he is playing a sold out New York concert because he's out of the jail now

and he does music and so this is what we do in America we we weirdly fetishize horrible human beings I don't know why we do this but whatever John Hinkley Jr., who attempted to assassinate

the president in 1981 is now playing a sold-out show. W.A.B.C. reports Hinkley is scheduled to perform July 8th at the Market Hotel in Brooklyn, New York. Tickets are being sold for 20 bucks. The show is now sold out, according to the venue. H. 66 is a singer and guitarist who has been posting original songs and covers of his hits, or of hits by artists like Elvis Presley, Bob Dylan, and Joni Mitchell on YouTube since 2020, which is when he got out of his long-time. I remember we played like early in his tenure. We played something from him on like during the news segment we watched one of his videos yeah it's brief but yeah apparently that's

all he's focused on now he says yeah but uh anyway it says here he only has 26,000 subscribers on youtube but i don't know why this article thinks that's a big deal he has more than 26,000 subscribers well you know it's more than i have well it's more than a lot of people i don't put out content on a regular basis so that's fine he was uh oh weird he was my daughter's aide kinkley was 25, Kinkley, Hinkley, rather. Hinkley. Hinkley was 25 when he shot and wounded

the 40th U.S. president outside the Washington D.C. hotel in an effort to reportedly impress actress Jody Foster. The shooting paralyzed Reagan, press secretary James Brady, who died in 2014, also injured Secret Service agent Timothy McCarthy and Washington police officer Thomas

Delahentie. That sounds like a stereotype police officer from the old movies. Officer Delahentie. De La Hentie, what are we doing? downtown today. Claire, what do you think of that? What do you think of all these Irish policemen in our old movies? What do you think of that? Let's see. He was found not guilty of the assassination attempt by reason of insanity and sentenced to treatment. He was

released from the institutional psychiatric care in 2016. Oh, I thought it was later. And freed from oversight that year. So he's just a dude now. Yeah. And he sold out a venue and people are going to go see this guy play for no other reason because he's John Hinkley, Jr. He's John Hinkley Jr. I think John Hinkley, Sr. felt about all this. You probably said,

do you mind use it another name? Is that right? Do you mind use it? I mean, as somebody with a 25-year-old kid, I'm trying to think of how I would feel if it suddenly was revealed that Carter went and tried to shoot somebody, you know, shoot a president or something.

What would I do? I don't know what I'd do. Like in today's world, it'd be the worst because it's on all the time all around you. Like, it'd be nothing but not. stop coverage. This guy probably ducked the limelight a little bit. This dad, he probably didn't have to deal with it. It feels like you'd still get the news, the, you know, the three big networks at the time, uh, beaten down your door for interviews. Like, how does it feel being the father of

somebody who attempted to kill the president? Oh, yeah. Well, it feels bad. Thank you. Uh, like I've told all of you. I don't like it. I don't approve of it. And thank you for coming. I wish he hadn't have done it, and wish you could take it all back. Thanks for coming over. What else are you going to say? Like, what else is that guy going to say? Yeah. Oh, I love it.

I think he should do more of this. Well, he's my son. I stand behind every decision he makes. Yeah, he's a good boy. All right. Claire, you're 26. Would you do it? Okay, she'll do it.

Okay. Someone get her on a list. She is. Yeah, no, I'm kidding. All right, Neil Parrish. This dude, you may not have heard of this dude. He's a ministry dude in the UK. Big conservative party guy over there in the UK.

He is resigning after what they're calling a porn moment of madness. Oh, that's the new Dr. Strange movie, isn't it? It is. And the porn moment of madness? Yep, it is. And it's, boy, howdy. How's that reviewing? Have we ever reviews yet?

Oh, I don't know. Oh, I'm worried. Don't I never tell me the reviews. Never thought of the reviews. Oh, 84. You're doing all right. I just merged my solo and my Indiana Jones. You're not in the 90s, but 84's not bad?

Oh, 84's good. All right. How many reviewers? 56 reviews so far. No audience, obviously, because it's not out. Sure, that's on Rotten Tomatoes. Let's see. Comitoos.

I love Chita Wealth, Evida Chifor. I love that guy. Sure. What does he play? Mordo? Mordo. He's Baron Mordo, yeah. Anyway, oh, this is interesting.

Okay, here's a review you'd like from the Cleveland Plain Dealer. Okay. Did you ever go out there? I did. I did install it at the Cleveland Plain Dealer. I still have. Oh, do I have it? Your DNA is still on their stuff.

Oh. The thing that I keep my atomic fireballs in, which you probably can't see because let's put a business car. I'll take a business card here and I'll put it behind the logo. Okay. Right here, baby. The Cleveland Plain Dealer. what right there what how do we this is too good it's better than a tom right yeah you're like

tom merit's weird because he always seems like he has everything but he says he has a trick to that but you actually had the thing i actually have a cleveland plain dealer uh glass right here that i keep my my atomic fireballs in well the review from joey marona in the cleveland plane dealer he's their film reviewer uh he just one word whoa whoa he says He starts all his reviews with whoa. And then he said the most inventive, chaotic, and scariest film in the 28 movie history of the MCU. Oh, wow. All right, cool.

Scary. I like that. I like this one here from the fanboynation.com. Sam Ramey didn't make a Marvel movie. Marvel made a Sam Ramey movie. Wow. You're not trapped in here with him. He's trapped in here with you.

Yeah. Let's see. Oh. Let's see. Dr. Strange, the Multiverse of Madness says, let's see, I don't know who this is, pushes the boundaries in a way that enables its audience to get a taste of the multiverse in action.

Okay, all right. Let's read a negative one, just be fair here. Yeah, just for equal reporting, equal balance. Yeah, here's one from Associated Press. Never heard of them. Jocelyn, no. Who the hell are they? Perhaps the Marvel universe is finally starting to feel like

a long-running comic book series, or maybe phase four just hasn't kicked into gear yet. Either way, I was bored. Okay, here's another bit sad one. A film that constantly pushes back against its own possibilities. Both Wanda Vision and Loki look more creative, took more creative risks. Significantly, says Brian Tala Kerkoco of rogertybert.com. Well, anyway, you're in the 84.

You're good. I'll take it. I mean, you know, listen, I enjoyed Eternals. I enjoyed Black Widow, loved Shang. Chi and you know what did shang chi well i guess shang chi ended up with a high 80s or low 90s i like shang chi a lot yeah i enjoyed the hell out of that i know you know aquafina notwithstanding and i like her but she drove me nuts at 91% for shang chi and then eternal's not so high much lower 47% oh much lower tomato meter so there you go that does a bummer do with that what you

will it's a bummer when you go from you just won um yeah an oscar Oscar for Best Picture. Yeah. And then you turn around a year later and everyone gives you shit. And I don't think it's as bad as everyone says. I haven't seen it yet. So I can't even say. I don't even know why I'm saying that.

I have no judgment here. Yeah. Well, a lot of people in our chat room didn't like Eternals. Yeah. That's a bummer. Yeah. I thought it was a beautiful movie. See, Matuba.

It was an introduction to some characters that kind of, you know, both literally and figuratively in the Marvel universe, operated on the sidelines. Sure. Where else are you going to get two of the Stark Boys in one movie? That's right. Exactly. You know?

That was a big deal. It's like a little family reunion. But Tuba in the chat has actually had the opposite experience with Shang Chi as me. He says, I don't care much for Aquafina, but I loved her in Shang Chi. It's a total opposite for me. I like her and lots of things. I really dislike that character. Partly because I just felt like it was so like, oh, we need a character that's like the audience.

and they're with him the whole time. And then they become a fantastic archer. Look out, Hawkeye. Aquafine is coming for you, buddy. With just a couple hours of practice, she's just as good as you. Boo. Michelle Yew isn't that, right?

She in, uh... Chengxi? Toward the end? She was, uh... Yes, yes. She's awesome. Yeah. She's awesome.

She's everything everywhere all at once is what she is. Yeah, she's amazing. All right. Here's your story about it. this porn guy. Oh, yeah, okay, wow. So I got a little distracted, yeah. I don't know, how did I even do that?

Oh, madness. The porn moment of madness. Oh, right, the Doctor Strange and the porn moment of madness. Yeah, that was quite a... That was an early rabbit hole, and it took us a long time to get out of that one. Oh, man. So here's what happened. Mr. Parrish, this dude, who was representing the Tilverton and Huntington in Devon since 2010,

said he had been it had been a moment of madness he said the first time was accidental after looking at a tractor website it was a pop-up right I was looking at a Kubota tractor and I clicked the wrong thing and all of a sudden I'm looking at stepmoms

what's the big one here green what is it? Oh dear John Deer, John Deere Green Oh it's because they're always green Why did I say green that's why? John Green Tractors um it says the but the second time he did it in the house of in the house of commons like on the site there that was deliberate uh he was suspended well you want to see how the movie ended you can't keep that guy hanging like that exactly what happens with the stepson

it's always that i love that we always go back to that the ted cruz it's just such a funny a little niche of those things Does anyone in the world think that Ted Cruz was telling the truth when he said a staffer probably clicked on it?

I don't believe it. Absolutely not. He absolutely is looking at that stuff. Guaranteed he did. Yeah. Freaking, you'd have to boy, you'd have to prove me wrong. But I'd bet money.

I'd bet a couple of grand on that. Anyway, he was suspended by a conservative party on Friday for the allegations. Two female colleagues claimed they had seen I'm looking at adult entertainment or content on his phone while sitting near them. In an excuse, oh, sorry, in an exclusive interview with the BBC Southwest, Mr. Parris said, quote, the situation was that funny enough I was,

it was tractors I was looking at. Then all of a sudden, I'm looking at someone getting plowed. The irony. Oh my gosh. I don't know if I can go on. Good night, everybody. We'll show you tomorrow. He says, I did get into another website and had a very similar name and I watched it for a bit, which I shouldn't have done, he says.

But my crime, my biggest crime, is that on another occasion, I went in a second time. I love how this guy explains it. Yes, right. He admitted the second time it had been deliberate and that it happened in the House of Commons while he was still waiting to vote. Mr. Parr said when he was What he did was quote absolutely totally wrong adding I will have to live with this for the rest of my life

and made a huge terrible mistake and I'm here to tell the world No luck on the tractor I'm guessing No luck I guess Well maybe he'll still get a tractor But he doesn't He won't be a member of the House of Commons They don't give any background on this

But do you think he was like a You know he owns a farm up north or something or, you know, something like that. It would be funny if he didn't, right? Like, no, I live in a small flat above Kensington. Yeah, I need a tractor. I just like tractors, you know? I just like tractors, yeah.

I got a tractor fetish. So there's that. Moving on to this story. Oh, this is weird. Okay, Texas listeners, there's some in the chat here, so maybe y'all can speak to this. Researchers keep finding creepy dolls washed up on Texas beaches. Ooh.

And by creepy dolls. They always follow you? They've got a ruined eye. They got a ruined eye. Man, that's a great stereotype. Follow you home. Oh, is that a song? I didn't realize it was a song.

I just love this. Yeah, it's a creepy doll by Jonathan Colton. Oh, I didn't know that. Another creepy doll that always follows you. That's great. Okay, so here it is. So chat, now you can see it. There's that lady holding one up.

Oh, she's got a creepy doll. She's got a creepy doll. They had, uh, okay, the house. Oh, that is a creepy doll. God, at least brush the, brush the swamp thing off of it the swamp thing

pull the lobster claw out of its mouth there was an entire closet that you go in as part of the hunted museum tour the Zach Begans haunted me

the closet you're walking into is lined head to toe with creepy dolls did he talk we have to keep behind glass because when we had it on display it knocked a picture off the wall and rip the bolts off.

Yeah, whatever. I'm not kidding. Not kidding. Really? This is what they said? Totally true. 100% what they said. Those guys like to milk it, don't they?

A little bit, yes. It was a closet full of creepy dolls and they were all, like everyone, positioned so that they're just staring at whoever is in the middle of this closet. That kind of creeps me out. Even though I know it's all faked up, it's gross. Yeah. Well, it says here, let's see here. Researchers regularly survey the coast for creatures like sea turtles, marine animals, this kind of stuff, right?

Endangered birds. But they don't often, oh, and they sometimes come across debris, because, you know, stuff falls off of container ships or whatever. But right now, these creepy dolls are everywhere. They've been mysteriously accounting dolls washed the shore on Texas beaches. They reserve documents, or the, sorry, the reserve documents. What? The reserve documents. Oh, documents, the most interesting ones on their Facebook page.

I was reading that as if it was papers and no, they meant documenting is what they meant. Okay. And I'm dumb. The creepy castaways are usually in a horrific condition covered in barnacles, missing their limbs, hair and eyes and that kind of stuff. So what I'm guessing here, they don't know 100% sure. But what I think happened probably, because looking at the age of this gross doll she's holding, that's probably like five years or six years ago, whatever, a container fell off a ship and it was

full of these dolls from China or something and then those things got washed up everywhere. And it wouldn't be as creepy if it wasn't covered with sand and barnacles and appears to have maybe a third eye in the middle of its head. Yeah, no kidding.

There's one that A.B. Tech John, is that who did it? Yeah. He just put a picture in there. Look at these things. These are, this is part of the find. Why is the one all markered up. Oh, wow. Yeah.

All right. That's, well, okay, so this is, uh, obviously some kid's toy that got, uh, it's probably more like instead of brand new dolls that were being taken, uh, somewhere, probably like a goodwill kind of thing that just had a bunch of dolls in it. Because that's, that's what some kid does with, if they get a hold of a green magic marker and they, uh, oh yeah, they do makeup. You want to put makeup on that doll. You can't put makeup.

No, what's the phrase? Something about a pig. What's the deal? Doctor, looks like Frickin' Dr. Zaz or something. Oh, it totally does, dude. These are freaky. We get lipstick on a pig?

Yeah, that's what I was trying to do. If you scroll up, by the way, from AV. Tech John's link, you'll see Zach Began's Haunted Museum closet full of creepy dolls. Is that Zach Began? Yeah, it's Zach Began right in the middle of it.

Okay. Look at that guy doing his thing. Let me zoom in here. There you go, chat. This is a little bit weird. A little bit weird. I don't know what, like, next to the Bobby Brady

looking one behind his head. To the right of that, there's like, what just looks like a severed head. Like, not even a creepy doll, just a head. Just a head. A bunch of these are mannequins, or not mannequins. What do you call us? Like, uh, yeah. Ventriloquist dummies.

Ventriloquist, that's it. Yeah. Dang, I couldn't think of that damn word. Ventriloquism. Well, look at the one, the girl that's in the little, like, nice wooden little frame. Yeah, that's the one that is protected because she knocked a picture off the wall overnight one night.

They came back and the picture had been ripped right off the wall. Yeah, and they know that she did it. They know that she, well, she was right next to it. Had to be her. Such bullshit these things. Yeah. I love them though. Yeah.

As long as we, you know, as long as people. It was the haunted stuff, so we have, had to go see it. Yeah. And if you treat that stuff as stupid, as stupid as it is, you can have a really great time with it. You can't, exactly. If you believe in it, I don't know what to do for you, you know. Yeah, you know, hey, as long as you like it. If it makes you happy, well, Brian, how does a, how does it?

out of a fresh bag or McDonald's French fries. Does that make you happy? Oh, sounds delicious. Like fresh, hot and fresh right out of the grease mat covered with their weird salt? Perfect. Right out of the McDonald's chute. I've got some... It's not too early.

It's not too early for some McDonald's fries. It's never too early. A couple found 1950s-era McDonald's bag with French fries inside of a wall. They were doing home renovations. Nice. And pulled out this thing. So it was French fries. And burgers, half-eaten stuff.

Wall fries. It's funny. You should have gotten that from Walburgers. Nice. Anyway, this happened to, let's see, this is an Illinois couple, stumbled upon it during their renovations. Rob and Gracie Jones were doing work on their 1959 Crystal Lake home. Oh, that's your problem.

Oh, uh-oh. Yeah. Careful. There's a machete in the other wall. I never do that right. Anyway. Located 50 miles northwest of Chicago Suddenly they found decades-old McDonald's bag

Behind one wall They had no idea that they were going to find this He says at this point We were both looking at each other Wondering if we'd be calling the police Because we just uncovered evidence from a crime scene We were very relieved to find out It was just old McDonald's bags

If I scroll here, chat You can see the condition Yeah Look at those fries, dude I know You know, they look a little grubby, but the color, there's still the color of McDonald's fries. Yeah, the fact that the, see, and I thought the ones in the 50s were less preservatty. I thought they would maybe be more gone.

And maybe this is, but I don't know, man. And why would you do that? Hurry, put the food in the wall. It must have been while they were drywalling or something. It was easily, yeah, easily like some worker building the house is like, the trash can's way over there. Well, they'll never find this. I'll just put it here. Neighbors across the street were doing reservations knocked down a wall. I'm not lying when I said they found a pair of tidy whitties back there with a poops standing down the back.

Somebody had an accident and they hid the evidence. And somebody had an accident, they just said, I'll just put it behind the wall. Great. And there it sat for, in this case, only like 20 years, 25 years. Oh, that's a nice long time. Wow. Okay. That's an amazing story. Not the crazy neighbors, but that would be enough to drive me crazy.

Like, oh, my God, what else is behind these walls? No kidding. I'd worry about the whole house after that. Yeah, I would too. Well, that completes today's news. Oh, real quick, before we go onto the song, if I had these fries here and I was, let's say we're in Vegas and I said, hey, Brian, what would it take? Yeah, what would it take?

What would it take? Give me what it would take. I won't even name a price. I'm going to start the bidding at $10,000. To just eat one fry, right? One fry. Yeah. Just a bite of one of the fries?

Yeah, just a bite. I feel like they're so petrified or wouldn't do anything to you. It would just be like eating. Yeah, I mean, yeah. I think I think $10,000. I don't think I'd go much lower than that. Nismaroo skid marks the spot. That'll probably make it in the lineup.

Well done. Yeah, that's absolutely fantastic. That's pretty good. All right. Well, without further ado, a song selection, please. What do you got today? What are we doing? Yeah, we're going to go to Arizona.

A brand new album is going to be coming out on June 3rd from a band called The Venomous Pinks. It is an all-women punk rock band. These guys are great. Big thanks to Sabam Records, S-B-A-M records. The new album is Vita Moors, and this is Venomous Pinks with the single, the first single from this album, which is called Apothecary Alment. Poison it fell from the coat of your face. Poison fell from the cold of your face. Another drop, another taste to make you sing.

You're not a bad person. Forgetting your pain away You held up to the secret that you'll never be the same You've drowned your demons to live another day Temptation caught with the heavy brush to pay You drowned your demons to all in our dismay Never given You'll find a way

We'll find a way We'll find a way Fighting battle A world well that's It's enough of damage That's brought us to a day Polish off the suddenness One wall at a time

Sitting here in darkness I've lost my peace of mind You drowned your demons to live another day Temptation comes with the heavy friends who made You drowned your demons to all of our dismay Never give up We'll find a way We'll find a way

I drown my sorrow, but I drown myself instead. Trying to remember all the things I said. Rise of the boat, keep your head held high. There is a fire that burns deep inside. You drowned your demons to live another day. Temptation caught with the heavy friends to bed. You ground your demons to all of our space Never give up, you'll find a way

You'll find a way This is a message from the Arcturians Humans are now exiting their matrix programming and waking up to the real world that has always been behind the scenes There are many other alien species Disguised as humans walking around among you, arranging to timelines and causing mysterious occurrences to unfold.

We will start to realize that we are extraterrestrials. Back to my bunghole. Eye contact. Great for job interviews, creepy while eating a banana. This is the morning stream. All right, we're back everybody. I could listen to that woman speak in this cadence for hours. She has a whole channel.

I'm telling you, Third Eagle move over. This lady goes on and on and on about this stuff. She's got like all these theories about we're all aliens. It's about to be revealed. And she talks like that the whole time. Oh, my God. We are now seeing a new video today called. Haven't used that one ever to describe that.

It's like so right from the 60s. or 70s, but... Yeah, she's a nutbag. I follow her on TikTok for just content like this. Of course, you do. Yeah, because I got it, you know, I need it for the show. It's content, I figure.

By the way, this also, this other clip I played right here. Back in my bunghole. That's President Lyndon B. Johnson. Oh, nice. Recording a conversation with a, with a tailor trying to explain how he wants his pants done. Really? Oh, perfect.

Yeah, that's really good. Anyway, Brian, who was that song, by the way? Yeah, that was the venomous pinks from their upcoming album, Vita Moore, with their first single apothecary ailments, some Arizona punk. Nice. I like Arizona, and I like punk, so. Well, you might like this.

All right. I'm in. Sign me up. All right. Let's get our good old pal Bill on the line here. Yeah, Bill. Bill's a good guy. We haven't talked to him in a week because we were gone.

Right. I missed him in Las Vegas. We did. We did. But it'll be good to talk to him again after I push this button. Your button. Caves open there, Bill. Bill Duran joining us from punishprops.com somewhere up in the northeastern or northwestern part

of this country. Bill, welcome back to the show. How are you? Hello, I'm doing great. Yeah? A couple weeks ago was I quit my job 10 years ago. Oh, it's the anniversary. For a hot second, I thought you're going to say I quit punish props a couple of weeks ago.

No, no, no, I quit that other job to do punish props starting just over 10 years ago. That's right. And that reminded me to go check. I've been doing this podcast with you guys for longer than that. Oh my gosh. Weird. That's weird. Hey, did you, when you left Microsoft, did they, you know, like somebody from accounting, throw like a party and have a little cake and everything? Like, what happened there when you left? So I worked at night. I worked. I would go in at 5 p.m. and leave at one in the morning. We did video publishing around the clock. And because I was there at night, I only ever saw like, five people. So, and none of them threw a party for me. Oh, that's too bad. That's a bummer. I just, I didn't know how that, you know, I was trying to think, well, what would Microsoft do if somebody was leaving like Bill? Like, someone is illustrious and a luminary like Bill Durant.

And it sounds like they did jack shit. So that's a bummer. Yeah. Well, it's a... I remember when I turned in my two weeks, notice, I walked into my boss's office. I was like, hey, boss, I'm quitting. I'm going to go make props for a living. And he looked at me and he goes, well, that sounds fun.

Wow. That's probably a good confirmation that you were on your way. It's good. Well, I'm glad you're here talking with us about the cool stuff you're all into these days. And since we didn't have you last week, I can't imagine all the cool cookie jars you have your hands in. So tell us what's going on. So our friends over at Film Riot, they make movies and they teach people how they make their movies. They just released a short film called Sentry, and they had me make all the props for it.

Oh, cool. Yeah. So I've made several props for them. I love those guys. They're really, really fun. And they've been doing these, like, they call them micro-action shorts just to practice, just to have fun doing, shooting little action scenes. So I made a rifle for them a few years ago, all out of foam. It was really cool.

They made an action movie around it. And then they reused that rifle to sort of continue the story. They also needed a new rifle for another character. They needed a little drone and a shield, like a sci-fi-looking shield, just the handle. And they V-Effects the shield part on there. Yeah. So a couple months ago, Ryan pinged me and was like, hey, can you make some props for me? And I said, sure.

So I made all these things. We did do a video over on our website. at punish props.com for the rifle, the drone and the handle I made separately. It was a lot of things to make all at once. That's pretty cool.

Oh, I see the rifle now. Yeah, look at that thing. Potentially now, you can have people making prop replicas of the real props you made for this movie. Oh, absolutely, yeah. Like the circle, the chain continues. How cool.

Yeah, this is awesome. That would, that's when I know I'll, I'll have made it. That's right. Exactly. And says these guys, go ahead. We have the sci-fi museum here in Seattle. So when one of these props ends up in that sci-fi museum, that's what I'll be like, yeah. Yeah.

Made it. They said, it says here, and I think you mentioned it, they made this film in like eight hours. How did that? That's crazy. So they filmed it in eight hours. A lot of work right in ahead of time. But yeah, they're going for this sort of running gun short story sort of thing. And they, yeah, filmed it all in one day.

That's awesome. I love that kind of stuff. It looks really good. Their stuff always looks like it, you know, why aren't they just making, they shouldn't have a series on Netflix by now or something. I know, right? I'm sure they're pitching.

I'm sure they're working on it. I hope so. Although right now Netflix is trimming like crazy. So maybe not the best time to be pitching to them, but everybody else seems to be doing all right. I don't know what's going on with Netflix. It's weird right now. I know.

Anyway, well, that's cool. So, did they, In this process, do they come to you and go, all right, Bill, here's exactly what we need, or do you go, I have some ideas, are you open to those? Like, how does that collaboration work? Because it's such short notice and no budget, that there's got to be a lot of flexibility, right? So Ryan sent me a bunch of images of stuff he found online. He's like, you know, something like this. And then I did a quick round of designs, sent him a couple of photos, and said, how do you feel about this?

And he was like, sure. And I went with it. The drone, I actually did the most, like, from scratch fabricating. I 3D printed a vacuform buck, and then I vacuform some shells to make the sort of drone thing. The gun was most of the work, and that's what we did our video on. And that was a lot of kit bashing of old toys. I have buckets and buckets of old toys. and I went through them

I found a laser tag gun that I bought at Goodwill for like $2. I found a stock from a Nerf gun and then a barrel some a salitzer toy barrel

for something and I basically just stuck them all together and painted them that's really yeah it was too high that's cool yeah

and it was a ton of fun because I got to just sort of play with my own designs one of my favorite thing about the gun was I kit patch the whole thing together basically glued all these bits together I sprayed it a black primer but before I painted it I took a photo and then I photoshopped three different paint jobs and I sent those to Ryan and say hey which paint job do you want and he's able to just pick those his favorite and then I ran with that one which I thought was pretty

cool get to preview the paint job that way do you feel like you when you have more creative um not control it's not what i mean just kind of like liberty this you know given the time frame and the budget and everything else like you mentioned and they also just sort of trust you inherently to do something cool is that your preferred creative way to make stuff or is there more pressure with that because you're like oh man nobody's giving me any rules so i got a right i ask this for me because i i have the same struggle sometimes when it comes to commissions versus just doing something because someone says hey use what do it you do and then i'm like oh i don't I don't know if this is better or worse.

Right now, I would say I really, I like that kind of challenge, making something from scratch, designing something that came out of my own brain. I don't know. That challenge to me right now is really enticing. Of course, though, there are other, you know, I still want to replicate things. I made something yesterday from scratch. That was a total replication, and I loved it. but there's something about

when I see that these props on screen where I'm like I designed that I that came out of my brain and that feels really good and it was a fun challenge to try and tackle very nice well you guys should be going and checking this video out it's a it's a long one this one yeah a little bit long oh yeah a little bit long

oh it's not on the website but it is on your it is on the YouTube thing I can't find it on the website weird all right well if you can't find it on punish props.com go to go to the punish props YouTube channel and you'll find it there. Very, very cool. Bill, did you bring any extras for us this week? Yeah, I just have the

behind the scenes that film Riot made for Century. So they filmed this short film and it's a couple of minutes long, go watch that and then immediately go watch the behind the scenes and how they made it. Which is really kind of the whole point. Yeah, because that's what they do, right?

Like their job isn't so much. We're making a huge feature film or an important short film that's going to win all the awards or whatever. Their job is like, we're going to make something badass and then show you how we did it. Exactly, right.

So you can do it. Also over at their website, they sell a lot of assets for helping make videos. Like, we've actually used some of their visual effects packs. They have a bunch of beams, just like laser beams,

sci-fi beams, but also they have a Ghostbuster beam. We totally use. that in our Ghostbuster video that's cool so if you're into filmmaking it all and you want to maybe get your hands on like some cool sound effects or um visual effects type stuff that are really helpful uh as well as all the knowledge to use them then go check out our friends over a film right they're the coolest they just seem like they're so into what they're doing i love it for sure and they're just really awesome people i've got to hang out with them and do do some a bunch of projects

with them and they're just the best well and they like you so you must be cool uh hey everybody Well, if you want more of Bill's work and just lots of cool ideas to get you inspired to make your own stuff, check out PunishProps.com and the YouTube channel by the same name. Bill Duran. Good to have you back. We'll see you next time. Toodoo. Bye now. Oh, there he goes. Tuddles. I see him go. I see him go. He leaves. All right, Bobby. Bobby in coming. Yeah. You know what that means. That means our own personal short. Southern Jesus coming on the show. Disco ball Jesus.

Disco ball Jesus here to join us. We've got to play his thing. Disco ball science Jesus. Yeah, science Jesus. Science. It's Bill, or Bill, it's Bobby, Frankenberger, who joins us all the way from South Carolina. And for some reason, oh, you didn't cut your hair.

It's just pulled back. Okay. Yeah. Here, sorry. I didn't mean to scare you. Oh, there we go. I had a moment of like, wait a minute that I'd know what I saw in Vegas. I know what I saw. I can't change that quick.

No, look at you, dude. You're home. How are you feeling? You good? I'm feeling great. It was a fun, it was a fun time. You know, I was thinking about it. Sorry, I just ran to get some coffee, so if I'm out of breath. I sometimes think, okay, I know all these people on the internet, and I'm really good friends with a lot of people, and I wonder,

Do we really need, like, to be physically near each other? Because I have all these great relationships with people online. And then you go to something like this, and you realize, like T.M.S. Vegas. And you realize it's kind of like putting the bread dough in the oven. You need to apply the heat to, like, all the ingredients are there. But the heat kind of solidifies that matrix and just makes everything a lot better. A astute way of looking at it. Yeah, exactly.

Like, you know, we can sit here and put dough in front of you guys all day long, but without, without you providing the heat. Yeah, how are we going to have any bread? We'll just have dough. Yeah. How can you have any bread if you don't make your pudding? That's right. And what are a bunch of podcasters but doughy people? Yeah.

We're just doughy people. With some exceptions, there were some very sveled people this last week, and it made me wish I was a little skinny here, including Bobby here, who's fit as a fiddle, much shorter than I expected. And that's okay. there's nothing wrong with that i'm much taller than people expect so that's the tradeoff right i meet somebody shorter than me they're just i'm just gonna notice it just how it is uh anyway i did not get baked tondragosa i had one half of an edible there's a difference they're not gonna let that go you know i know it should stop but it won't uh hey bobby so let's get into it we got some science to cover this week since we're all back and uh comfy and ready what uh i know this

today's a surprise for me i have no idea what you're bringing so what do you got well Well, speaking of Vegas, so Brian did this whole thing for the live show where we had to be, you know, we had to do something for him. He kidnapped us and locked us in a hotel room. Right. Pretty much. Yeah. But because of that, he did a really good job of keeping it secret. And so I kept asking him, like, do you need, I know I'm going to be on the thing.

Do you need me to prepare some sciencey stuff? And he's like, oh, yeah, sure. It might be good to have something prepared. and I never did anything with it. Yeah, we took a long time to get through that. So I thought I'm not going to waste all that research and we can, there are some things that I, well, first of, there's science everywhere, right? Like, that's my whole thing.

So I'm constantly looking stuff up anyway. But so I thought, you know, what are some of the things? So I'm going to stop rambling my way through this and just get to it. um so one of the nights we were there uh in in Vegas Brian took me to the cosmopolitan there's a what's that bar there called oh yes called the chandelier bar yes yeah and uh and he said bobby you you've got to come with us to this bar because there's this great drink there that i think you would like it's with your sciencey mind it's called a what's called a verbena Oh, right, the verbena night where everybody was like, we've got to go get the flower thing.

Yeah, yeah. So this is a really available on the one and a half floor. So halfway between the first floor, it's like the Flemer building. The first floor and the second floor, there's the half one and a half floor. Yeah, yeah. And I did look it up. This is the only bar where this is, this drink is served. Oh, wow.

Okay. Yeah, it was created by the lead mixologist there at the cosmopolitan. And what's her? Mariana Mercer. Okay. And so, so the deal is, so what's this drink about? It's basically like a margarita, but it's got this flower inside of it called a Seshwan button. And what you're supposed to do is you're supposed to eat it.

And I think you are supposed to swallow it. I was afraid to swallow it. I thought you were just supposed to like nibble the petals. Like you're not supposed to eat the whole. Everything I've read says you just eat it. Really? One of the descriptions, one of the, so next time you've got to really eat it. Because one of the descriptions I read was that it actually numbs your throat as well.

Which might be a really interesting sensation. But be prepared for it because what happens is you chew on this or you eat this flour and it causes your whole mouth to just feel like electrically buzzing. And then it goes numb and then you're supposed to drink the drink. and it's supposed to give you the description is that it enhances the flavor. Makes you almost a supertaster, but not really, because supertasters just have a terrible sensation of bitterness. But that's a different issue.

The point is it massively enhances the flavor of this drink. And I looked into it, and it's because of this alkaloid that's in the flower called Spillenthal, or spylenthal. It's really kind of a toxin. Oh, good. Yeah, but what it's doing is it's activating the similar biochemical pathways as capsaicin.

Do you know what capsaicin is? Yeah, it's the spice. The pepper's spicy. Yeah. Right, it's spicy food is spicy because of this capsaicin chemical. So this flower doesn't have the capsacin in it, but it's activating similar pathways

which are designed for your body to, in your tongue to detect something that shouldn't be there like a toxin. Now, it's obviously not toxic in the way that's going to hurt you because you eat it. And you do with peppers too. But I thought that was really interesting that it's activating those same sorts of things. It is, yeah. I mean, it makes sense, right, that it would operate on that same level, that same frequency. Yeah, yeah, exactly.

And that was the night where I almost had a hangover the next day. But I didn't quite. So that's a great opportunity to talk about the science of hangovers. We're just going to do a romp through science here. Ready? Oh, good. I like it. All liquor-based science.

Liquor-based science. Yeah, perfect. It's not all alcohol stuff I've got for whatever time that we have. You just stop me whenever, because I could go on forever. Well, listen, real quick, before we get any too much. further i want to just full disclosure i was my wrestling name was szechuan button for about three years okay that's out of the way we're good yeah they they call them sushwan buzzing buttons buzzing buttons all right yeah want to know more um so a hangover there's a lot of people that have

all these like like home remedies for hangovers right um do you brian know any that you use do you are there none that i feel are successful i mean i try and i try and i try and i try try and remember to hydrate like crazy throughout the night to have a have an alcohol drink have a water drink have an alcohol drink sing the songs that was that was the first draft of that song and it was exactly where they changed it um however if i if i don't remember to do that then usually usually just coffee clears it up for me coffee and an aspirin and i'm sad yeah yeah So to know, basically, I'll get to the, cut to the chase, there are basically no hangover cure. Real true.

Yeah. Yeah. There's nothing you can. Once you have a hangover. Once you have it, you're, that's it, right? I mean, I always hear drink tons of water. Is that anything to that or is that just an eventual cure? Well, once you have the hangover, that's it.

Okay. You've got to hang over. The only thing that's going to cure it is time. Okay. There are things that you might be able to do that make you feel a little bit better until it goes away but but really not much of anything um but yeah as you were just about to say brian the real thing with a hangover is all about prevention right um and and really the the biggest thing you should do is hydration but why why is that right um and it's more than just watering down

your drinks in your body right right right exactly um it's uh there are three main reasons that a hangover happens right and the first one is dehydration that's one of the biggest things that's happening and that's why water helps a lot because alcohol is a diuretic which despite

the name it's a diuretic is not something that makes you poop a diuretic actually does makes you pee makes you pee isn't that weird it's a weird phraseology yeah I don't like it's spelled differently but it sounds like the other problem maybe that's what this

guy meant when he said diarrhea. Maybe he meant he had the peeps. He had the peeps. They had the peeps. You know. For lack of a better way of saying it. So, so yeah, diuretic makes you pee, but the way that it makes you pee is by suppressing the hormone

in your body that draws fluid into your bloodstream. Right? Because your body has this natural way of saying, oh, we need more fluid in the bloodstream, so we'll release this hormone that draws, will cause fluid to be drawn into your bloodstream to maintain that balance. You're supposed to have a certain amount of fluid for blood pressure reasons and just for sustaining life reasons. But whenever you drink alcohol, it suppresses that.

So whenever it's not in the bloodstream and it's just floating around outside, your kidneys take it up and then it goes to your bladder and you pee it out. So that happens more when you have alcohol. But because you're peeing it out, it's harder to stay hydrated. And so dehydration can cause headaches, can cause you. Because it actually shrinks the volume of your brain. Oh, really? Oh, God. Yeah.

Now, I know that sounds bad, and I said it. I almost don't want to drink anymore because of that. Almost. I almost don't want to start drinking. Man. It's not, so when it shrinks the volume of your brain, it's not permanent. It's just because your brain has so much water in it. And if you are dehydrating yourself, your body's not just going to be like, well, I guess we'll just leave it.

It's going to suck the water from your brain to get some of it. And so when that happens, it pulls on the inside of your skull and just causes your head to hurt. Also, it depletes things like other important elements in your body like sodium and potassium and magnesium that you need. for a cell function and everything and that that's why all that happens so water and I do the same thing Brian I try to do a glass of water between every drink because that does two things first of all it keeps you hydrated but second it helps with the other thing which is it spaces out your drinks because the other reason that a hangover happens is because of toxin buildup because in the process of breaking down alcohol, it produces a toxin in your body called acetaldehyde.

And this is just normal. It's not, your body can handle it. Like, your body clears this toxin easily. Tell me a lot of toxins that I might have. It turns out that alcohol is a, is a poison. Right. And it depends on quantity, right? Like you got a.

Right. There's a dose response curve that we, is what people like to say. Now, when you're on the high roller and you've only got 30 minutes, personally, I wasn't saying, by the way, the next round I just want water. Like, we had a limited time.

It was like, no, no, no. Keep those coming. And that, we had a great part of a group. And I did the same thing. We all did that. We all did, yes. It's okay. We had ice cubes.

That was water. Sure. We had ice cubes, you're right. But so your body is able to clear this toxin. at a rate of about one drink per hour. Now, smaller, that's an average, so smaller people, it would be a little bit, it would take a little bit longer to clear, and larger people would take, you'd be able to have, do more than a drink an hour, maybe. But that's the rate at which you're clearing it. So by spacing your drinks out with water, it also gives your body more time to clear it before, before you have the next.

next drink you know so that well having never experienced this help me understand the feeling is it like uh i don't know it's very much depends on how much you drink and how bad your hangover is okay so it's so it sounds like it's a scale but like like if you've got like a bad headache fluy kind of feeling is that kind of what it is okay yeah yeah yeah it starts with like a mild hangover would just be a headache but uh but if if it's as it gets worse like compression like feels like your head is being compressed yeah and then it proceeds to what i call stomach rot for the next day um which it just you can't eat anything and and you just feel disgusting the thought of right the thought of any more alcohol is uh yeah that is this is nausea yeah that's a

really that that's a really not fun place to get so i try not to yeah um that's the goal um but yeah There's so much science all over, you know. I annoyed our lift drivers all the time when we were driving around. Because all the mountains that were around there are just, you guys are used to mountains. So it wasn't. Mountains, tiny hills way out in the distance. I know. How quaint am I?

We got to get you out to Salt Lake City or Denver and you'll be like, oh, this, okay. These are mountains. Wow. Yeah, and really it probably would be. be that way for me because I saw the mountains that were all around there and it was just fascinating and I read about them and the geology of the area is so

cool. There was like a meteor that destroyed the area millions of years ago and then carved things up and subduction plates and all this kind of stuff. So I bored all of our lift drivers with that.

Well, you were the guy that went straight to the math on the thing nobody's seen yet so we won't spoil what, but That sounds like Bobby to me. Well, all right, then. This is fascinating stuff. Obviously, there's lots more to it. But I'd love learning about this stuff,

even though I've never been subjected to a hangover of sorts. And Brian, you're pretty good at. You're a hold your alcohol well guy. I bounce back. I don't know. I mean, the last time I had hangover was probably the morning after that periscope that got deleted. Oh, yeah. Never forget.

I don't think I've had one in a long time. been a while over at weird neighbor daves Over at weird neighbor days That was a good time Well all right Hey Bobby why don't we tell people at home Where more of Bobby's insights can come from When it comes to science

And what the name of that podcast is Yeah insides where your insides are You can get my insides and my insights On the podcast that I do with my Fabulous co-host Mora It's called All Around Science And it's a fun podcast We're talking about science news from a sort of enthusiast perspective.

We're not scientists, but we love science. But you play one on TV, basically. Yeah, exactly. I play one on the airwaves. On the podcasts. Yeah. The last one we did that just came out, I guess, yesterday was actually we've replayed an episode of we were guests on Rishi B's podcast. Oh, very nice.

Is there a term for that where you, like, you play another person's podcast on your feed? Anyway, that's what we did. Feed jacking or something like that probably. Feed jacking. Yeah, just say jacking. That'll be fine. No one will think that's great. Yeah, so we did some jacking with Rishi.

And it was about conspiracy thinking and what's the science of white people, what causes conspiracy thinking and people to be conspiracy-minded and everything. Yeah, and they should stop doing that. Well, that's awesome. Go check it out all around science. Of course, everywhere, podcasts can be found. Bobby Frankenberger, have a fantastic week. And I'm glad you're home and well, and your hair remains long. We'll see you later.

Thank you. Thanks, Bobby. All right. Well done, Bobby. It brings us to the end of today's show. Now, a reminder, not a reminder, a little bit of news here. At the top of the hour at 11 o'clock our time, myself and John Jagger will be doing a live watch of what this mobile warcraft thing is.

Nobody knows what it is, but they're doing an announcement video in a half an hour. So we're going to co-stream that and try to get our heads around what's going on there. John hates mobile gaming with a passion. Really? Just any of it? Oh, all of it. You should hear him go off, dude. He hates mobile gaming.

So he'll be perfect for this. How can you hate all mobile gaming? It's like... He hates it all. Truly. Truly hates it. Wow. Yeah, he played Pokemon Go for a while, but...

Basically, it's like, no, my phone is just for calling. Man, you basically just quoted him. He has said those words before. Yeah, he's a huge curmudgeon. Hold on. I'm unfriending him right now. Except just maybe just kid pictures are so darn cute. His kid is his boy is so cute.

Alexander's adorable. Anyway, so that'll be in about and a half an hour. So watch for that. Coming up soon in the meantime, hey, if you're not a patron yet, perfect month to jump in, May's here, and it's time. Patreon.com slash TMS. I want to give a huge thanks to everybody who is already there. You guys are amazing and you make it possible for us to do anything.

So it means a lot. Please have your friends come and join the fund at patreon.com slash TMS. If you're trying to track us down, submit song requests, a million other things. They're all over at frogpants.com slash TMS. I think that's going to do it. Hey, Brian, why don't you? One quick thing before you get to the request. A&TP, we just posted a new set.

of a contestant customer contestant submissions this is for the tight format news podcast and the three teams have uploaded those to america's next stop podcaster.com so you can check those out there you have it um all right let's do a song what do you got for me i've got something from don quran we love don quran she moved moved away back to texas for a little bit then came back to denver uh too many weird dolls showing up on the shore. She was like, I don't want. Two creepy dolls showing up on the coast, exactly.

Don says, good morning, boys. We are flying from Denver to London, England tonight for our first real travel since the pandemic. Wow. This trip is built around two Brian Adams concerts at the Royal Albert Hall. In celebration of travel and live music, will you please play Brian's new song so happy it hurts from his latest album of the same name? It's an upbeat feel-good song perfect to send us off to Jolly Old England. Thanks and cheerio lads, Don and Tyler Kwan.

well i can't do that i can't play brand new song from brian adams number one it's a it's a it's a it's not a cover plus it's uh probably there's going to be way more licensing hoops to deal with with that but she did offer a p s if you can't play a new song any brian adams cover will do well there we go that will do so uh this is great this came out on uh his 2014 all cover album called tracks of my years where he played songs that influenced him as a kid growing up when he got his first real six string. This is a Beatles cover. It's Any Time at All right.

We're going to play that now. We're going to be back tomorrow and we've got all kinds of content this week. So strap in. It's only Tuesday, everybody. Enjoy this song. Anytime at all. Anytime at all. Anytime at all.

All you got to do is call and now I'll be there. If you need somebody to love, just look into my eyes, I'll be there to make you feel right. If you're feeling sorry and sad, I'd really sympathize. Don't you be sad? Just call me tonight. Anytime at all. Anytime at all All you got to do is call And I'll be there

If the sun has faded away I've got to make it shine There is nothing I want to When you need a shoulder to cry on I hope it will be mine Just call me tonight I've come to you Anytime at all

Anytime at all Anytime at all All you got to do is call And I'll be there Yeah Anytime at all Anytime at all Any time at all

All you got to do is call and I'll be there Anytime at all Anytime at all And I'll be there Anytime at all All you got to do is call And I'll be there

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