The Morning Stream - TMS 2289: Thiquid

Episode Date: May 12, 2022

How many licks does it take to get to the center of a Buick? For the Love of Metallica. I don't like dryer cheeeeeeeese!! I name all my Colons: Powell. Racks, Ball Hitches and Luuuuuuuuube. There's a hole in the roof rack! I could lick a car for hours. Panic while Scott jiggles it. Perkins: We have GILFs. Kia Cilantro. Dojo Cat. I Don't Have a problem with Ryan Shaving His Privates. Spicy, Sexy Books with Amy. 6 Month Headaches with Wendi and more on this episode of The Morning Stream. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Coming up on TMS, how many licks does it take to get to the center of a Buick? Oh, for the love of Metallica. I don't like drier cheese. I name all my colons, Powell. Racks, ball hitches, and lube. There's a hole in the roof rack. I could lick a car for hours. Panic while Scott jiggles it.

Perkins, we have the gilfs. It's Kia cilantro. Dojo Cat. I don't have a problem with Ryan shaving his private. Spicy, sexy books with Amy. Six-month headaches with Wendy and more on this episode. of the morning stream. Hundreds and thousands of people descended onto the nation's capital today

in protest of the government's new crackdown on drink driving. Intentions rose when the minister for alcohol announced a 12-pines driving limit to be put in place in a bid to reduce the number of deaths on Irish roads. And Mexico will pay for a did-a-da-da-da-da. This is the morning stream. AM! Good morning, everyone. Welcome to TMS.

It's the morning stream for Thursday, May 12th, 2022. I'm Scott, and he's Brian. Hi, Brian. Hi, Scott. Hello. We're rushing headlong through this week, and we're almost in the middle of May. How is that possible? I don't get it.

I don't get it. Time moves at a different rate for us. And I don't know. Like, are there any bored 12-year-olds out there can tell us what that was like to be bored? Right. Exactly. To like feel like days couldn't come fast enough. You're just sitting there going, oh, why can it be tomorrow already? Yeah. They say, your mom would say, hey, we're going to Disneyland in a month. And you felt like that was a thousand years away. Yeah. Yeah. And I hear that. And even if I got excited about something like that, it would still feel to me like it was too soon. and I had too much to do before that day got here. Like, I want to go back to when I was 12. I wonder what was the day? Like, what was the year that that switched from you, like, you know,

pushing against the calendar to get it moving faster to sticking your heels in the ground and being pulled along like a cartoon rabbit? I don't know. I want to know when, and then I want to go reverse it. I hate it. I don't like it. Yeah, I do, too. Like, I think it is probably just some sort of, hey, you turn 25 and you're never bored again.

I don't know. But all I know is there was a time in my young life where I was fantastically bored sometimes, and it was great. Yeah, I don't know how that is. Hey, yesterday, I didn't put this in the show notes, but yesterday, a couple things. I was on open micers with our friend Jason. Oh, nice. And Derek. You've done a couple shows with him or been, I guess, on a show with him.

Brian Dunaway was on his other show last night, too. It was a cavalcade of Brian's last night, apparently. Oh, my gosh. Oh, there is right there. There's Jay Fung-Tastick. That's the man. Yeah. He's a good man, that Jay Fantastic.

There's a lot of fun being on that show. Prior to that, I was in Boulder, Colorado, former home of John Benny Ramsey. I don't know why that's a thing, but. Former home of Jessica Beale, I think, or Jessica Al, but one of the Jessica's. Anyway, went to a, so Trek Bicycles was having this thing. They're doing this thing for the entire summer called Ride and,

oh, I thought it was alliterative. I can't remember. But basically, you go on a short ride and then you come back to a trek bicycle shop and they teach you some sort of bike maintenance thing. Oh, okay. I was like, what the heck are they doing? But that makes sense. So let's say one of your clips did something weird or something, right?

Well, yeah, or it doesn't have to be something that happened on that ride. So last night specifically was how to loop your chain. And I'll be honest, and all you cyclists out there are going to hate me for this, in the 40 years that I've been riding bicycles, I've never lubed a chain. You've never lubed the chain? I've never lubed my chain. So, right, you know, the current bike I have is brand new. I obviously haven't lubed that one.

Haven't gone 100, well, now I've easily gone 100 miles on it. You're supposed to loop every 100 miles. Yeah. But the previous bike I had, the Raleigh that I took, you know, many times on many MS-150 rides, never looped that chain. I did take it to get tune-ups regularly, and I'm sure they looped the chain for me. Oh, yeah, that's part of the fix-up when you take it in. So maybe we're doing that regularly enough that, you know, you were basically lubing the chain, you know? Somebody else was doing it.

No, no. No, definitely wasn't frequent enough. So now I know how to do it. They even gave me a free bottle of lube. They gave us all, like, a bag of stuff at the end of the ride with a bottle of chain lube. I'm saying that carefully because I know it's going to, you know, you've got to be careful with this crowd in the chat room. Normally, you get chain lube for, it's an orgy product. That's right, because, you know, like a human centipede situation.

A lot of people, yeah. I also got a little thing of, like, an energy goo that you're like, oh, man, I'm on this long ride. I need something to keep me going and you rip off the top of this and go and you squirt in your mouth. And it's like espresso flavored energy gel. Ew. Yeah, I know. Was it thickened? No, it's thick.

It's like it's the thickness of peanut butter, basically. Oh, ugh. Why does that gross me out? So it's more than, it's more than, I would say it's thicker than a thicken liquid, which there's a, there's a, like, an apex that I, you know, sucks on the way up. But once you get over that, it's still liquid, but it's thick. And you get under the other side where it's like, all right, well, that's like peanut butter or cake frosting or something like that. Yeah, you're heading toward being okay with it. You're heading toward solidification.

Right. I think pancake syrup might be just like just on the other side of the hate one. There you go. That's it. That's the first thick and liquid that I'm okay with is pancake syrup. But I wouldn't drink it. Oh, my God. I don't know if it.

Yeah. Oh. Anyway. So the whole thing was run by this woman who works at Trek Bicycle, and she's an older lady, you know, maybe high 50, high 50s, like you're talking about the weather. Upper 50s, lower 60s, something like that. It still sounds like the weather. With a cold friend coming in from the west. But this woman produced more saliva than I've ever seen a human.

ever seen a human produce as she was talking like one sentence she'd be telling all right so when you're lubing oh my lord and she'd swallow and then she'd talk again and the white things were forming in the corners of her mouth and sometimes they'd fly out and like like a little trail would swing back onto her chin as she was talking and chats calls it a wet talker would you oh she's a wet talker yeah she didn't spray at us when she was talking or maybe we just weren't close enough but uh but you know like she was great she was so so cool and i'd never cycled in boulder before and um uh and my god that city is i knew that city was was bike friendly i didn't realize that city really is like better if you're on a bike than if you're in a car

you can get there's so many tunnels under all of the major roads you can get anywhere in that city without ever having to even cross a street it's so damn cool how how far is it of a ride for you to ride there to then ride more? Is it a lot? Yeah, it would be 23 miles or maybe 20 miles for me to get up to, well, no, maybe lower, 15 miles for me to ride up to Boulder and then ride around Boulder and then ride back. So it might be a situation where I, I, and there's a lot of, there's a lot of unfriendly road between where I live in Boulder. I'd have to ride on Highway 93, which is like, I think they've, It once was the deadliest highway in the United States.

There's just no, there's very little shoulder, like, cycling would just be a nightmare. Or I'd have to go McCaslin. I mean, it just would not be easy. However, there are other ways for me to get into Boulder and then ride around Boulder. And I think I might do that at some point. Just park in El Dorado Springs, for example, and then ride into Boulder, right around Boulder, and then come back to El Dorado Springs. You have a good rack sort of thing on the rear of the top of your car kind of thing? I have one that attaches with straps.

It's like a removable one. I'd love like either a a roof rack or a I'd have to get a ball hitch, but there's great ones that like hook on to your ball hitch and ball hitches and lubs people. Let's get jamie as much material as possible. We're giving them racks. We've got all sorts of words today.

I think I'm going to wait until my next car and then bike it up like make it super bike friendly it's you know i've got plenty of cargo space if i flip the seat down i don't even have to have to take the front wheel off i can fit my bike in the back um so i'll just do that but if tina and i go up there together then yeah we've got to use the rack i watched a um uh one time somebody had one of the roof racks and they had four bikes up there these people are obviously serious i know where you're going with us i won't say it but I know where you're going. They were so serious about it.

And it was so, it looked like so official. And I think the car was like a, this is in like Park City or somewhere. And it was like a Subaru, of course. And man, were they ready to go riding? And they took a road that had a very low bridge. And I watched them destroy their bikes. Oh, no. They drove under it and crunched them.

Yeah, it was a real sight. I can tell you that. And we were in a van that I was also. afraid was not going to make it. It did, but the bikes were too tall. So be careful out there with your bridges and your bikes. Yeah, exactly. That's probably why I wouldn't

do a roof rack. A roof, roof, roof rack. Roof, roof. Hold in the roof rack. I say roof. You say roof. Uncle George did that once. He forgot that his bike was on top of his car and he pulled into the garage. Oh, shit. Yeah. It damaged to everything, right? Did damage

to the bike, the garage. I think even some to the roof of his car from it from it pushing the bike down into it slamming down yeah probably dent to the roof that's a bummer so riff racks are are kind of the worst i think i'll stick to the uh the rack i can just attach to the back of the car yeah or just drag him through the dirt that'd be fun do that just attach them yeah how great would it be if you could uh like put some sort of some sort of a segue gyroscope on it and just like basically lash with a bungee cord the bike to your car and just drive around the bike would stay up right just going yeah exactly you

you want to make uh so if if rivian hey hey rivian if you're listening your next truck your next truck should have some kind of cool like bike holding uh space perfect yeah that thing's already pretty rad that would make it radder um we got an important email from a listener here uh that you might be familiar with her name is christine fletcher oh yes yeah christine fletcher uh she wrote in this is good morning. It was so great to reconnect with Tina and Kim last week. You too, you too, of course, ready to do it again. Could you please bring back Scott Fletcher's, you're a winner, at least occasionally when someone wins a game? And here's the part I love. It makes my toes tingle. And the winner-winner chicken dinner does nothing for me. Thanks. Love you both. Christine Fletcher

says, I'm not a fan of winner-winner chicken dinner. Yep, that's about it. So here. Here's what I found. I can't remember if this is the one we used or not. So I know it's the one that goes, you're a winner. Yeah, but I don't know if this is it. So I'll play it. This is like a two-part chunker thing. And I don't know.

Let's see. Here we go. Congratulations. You're a winner. Is this the one? Yeah. That's the one. Yeah, for sure.

Okay. Then what's this? Hold on. Oh, I know what that is. That's the thing I used to use back in the ELR days, 2005. Yeah. Long time ago. That's when someone would win something.

All right. you know what christine for you congratulations this is going to get you're a winner played every time for a while when people win how about that there you go nice uh listen I'm waiting for the emails from her by the way

about the uh about me using the Tina voice on her man oh right yeah how many she's probably replacing having to replace an iPhone right now because she snapped it in half when I did that yesterday I'm actually going to look real quick and see if we have any more Fletcher

Emails. Any more emails. That one she might email me directly. Yeah, you may get... I might get... You'll get some direct consternation from her, I'm thinking. I'm sure. Yeah, I don't see anything from recent.

I did have the weirdest thing yesterday. Jeff Sire, who I know listens to the show, Bronco, listen to the show. He sends me this email directly to me, reminding me how much we disagree on saving private Ryan. Just usually he sends it to both of us. Yeah, that was a weird thing. And I don't know what he's talking about. I like Saving Private Ryan a lot.

I think it's great. Does he hate it? Is that what it is? No, he thinks I hate it or I don't like the beginning of the end or something. And I don't have it. I cannot actually think of a problem I have with Saving Private Ryan. I think it's an amazing film. It's worthy of all the praise it had at the time and since.

I think it's an important movie. Like I don't know what he's talking about. So, Jeff, I replied, but hey, get back to me, man. I have no idea what you're. talking about i sometimes say shaving ryan's privates but it's just as a joke you know oh yeah i mean we all say that though yeah it's nothing is this a joke you know anyway he's a military man he may have some other reason so hey jeff come on now get get your get your northern uh business together and let me know what you want to do right all right uh we are going to spend a little time

with our good pal amy yeah it's me this time yeah why not um i gotta pull her in though here we go and that uh that means we got to play her a little theme here which goes us a little something like this welcome everybody to read this with amy uh amy robinson joining us red fraggle three as you know her in the chat and other places hello amy welcome back good morning friends how are you doing good morning good morning hello how is your anniversary do you have a good anniversary yes i did we had lovely steaks that chuck cooked in the suvied and Big potatoes and brownies. And I even carried into this morning because we had nice espresso drinks with brownies for breakfast.

Brownies are, you know, there's very little DNA separating brownies from donuts. So I think I think brownie for breakfast is just fine. 100% approved. Yeah. I think it's totally fine. Were they chuck steaks by chance? No. No.

That's a shame. No, no. They were excellent steak. sound really good. That's the way to do it is sousvied, man. A lot of people, I'll extol the praises of suvied steaks from here to every mountain time. Yeah, same. Everything.

Put all your everything in there. Let the suede do your life, all your life's cooking needs. I love it so much. You need a cook an egg, put in the suede and eat it in two hours. For real, man, I'll tell you what. No, that's what we did with, we did that with our ramen eggs. Yeah. And it was amazing.

It was so good. And I don't even like ramen eggs. I don't know why I'm talking like this. All right. You laugh, but like, I mean, we, when I was trying to be really, really disciplined about eating breakfast every day and like eating actual protein for breakfast, we have these little small mason jars, like little teeny tiny four ounce mason jars. And we would scramble up like 10 eggs and then put like some roasted red peppers and stuff

like that into them and then distribute them into those little bitty jars. seal them up, suveed them, and then we have egg bites all week. It's great. In Vegas, there's a place called, in the cosmopolitan, called Egg Slut, and that's... Is that real? The Egg slut? Oh, my gosh. I have not heard of that.

That's fantastic. And it's great. Little jars, sometimes they have, like, um, hash browns on the bottom, like an egg cooked on top, hash browns, like bacon and stuff. It's, uh, it's great. I don't know why I don't do that more. I really should. Um, yeah, it makes things really easy.

almost like a it's just like a different version of slow cooking really yeah yeah so for some reason my main display just died and it's black and I'm trying to figure out why so hold on just a second nobody nobody panic I think I just got to jiggle this a little I don't know what to go can we can we talk books while you do well I don't know if it's still I think it's still recording oh I'm just want to make sure it didn't like close to sound like you're going to disconnect stuff so so Brian did you finish out of range no not yet oh my gosh God, I tried to. I'm on, I'm on episode seven in episode seven and, holy cow.

Oh, man. Is it good? Is it good? I was really good. It's really good. I actually, when I listened to yesterday's episode, Scott, I was shocked that you hadn't seen it because when we started watching it, I thought, oh, for sure, Scott, like, this came out and five seconds later, Scott had binged the whole thing, I'm sure of it. Yeah.

Because, like, it just looked exactly like the kind of thing. Yeah. Josh Roland. Like, everything about. this scream scott. Imogen poots. Imogen poots. I like the image and poots. Big time fan. Yeah, no, look, this thing is made for me. Why I haven't started it yet? I don't know, but

I'll get there. I mean, it feels like it's everything I've ever, I'd ever really want in a show like that. Yeah. Yeah, and everyone who's talked about loves it. Now that you finish the season, and I think you did kind of already telling me this over text, but we'll get it official over the air here. Did it stick the landing for the season? Oh, yes. And it begs for a second one. But that's all I'm going to say. Good. Good. All right. Good.

My gosh, dang it. This thing isn't working. I can't see anything. Why? Why can't I see? Hold on. Okay. So. Yeah, I just had the incredible Lily Taylor episode with her, uh, her crisis of faith kind of thing. I can't believe that she's old enough to be playing, you know, that grandma character. Right. But I mean, she's great. And I, but I just. You know, my little Gen X heart is just, you know, I want her to have a guitar and be like, It'll never be me. It'll never be me. Exactly.

Your lies, Joe lies. When he cry. Yeah. That's what I'm picturing when I see Lily Taylor. So, yeah. But she's fantastic. So, yeah, I'm really, really digging it. I just watch Scott Peeke's just head into frame

So there's another thing And I don't know if Scott can still hear me or not But I'll tell him about it later Oh look maybe okay so Can you hear us Scott? No his headphones I see his headphones On his Giant chair what is that thing

I guess it's just like a Puffey thing sitting on top of his chair I guess. I'm going to fix this. Oh, man, Zoom just went green for a second. Anyway, tell me what you're going to tell me that you're going to tell Scott next time you tell Scott. Yeah, so I actually tweeted this to Scott this morning. There is this YouTube series that I'm absolutely hooked on, and it works great for Therapy Thursday because it's called Cinema Therapy.

And it's these two guys, one of whom is a, his name is Alan Seywright. He's a filmmaker. and the other is a guy named Jonathan Decker, who is a licensed therapist. And they watch movies, and the therapist talks about it from, like, a therapist point of view. And the filmmaker talks about it from a filmmaker point of view. And it's so good. And they just, the reason I mentioned it to Scott was because, like, they just did an episode about Mad Max Fury. Oh, yeah.

There's our mention. It wasn't even Scott doing it. That's right. I did get that. I haven't looked at it yet, but I definitely bookmarked it and we'll be watching that after the show today. Yeah, cinema therapy is great, and it's really fun. Like, they do, they've done an entire series on a bunch of Disney movies, both classic and new ones.

They talked about, you know, all sort of the, yep, tangled, and they did an entire series on Marvel characters, and, you know, they do psychology of a villain and psychology of a hero and all that kind of stuff. It's really, really, really good. I haven't even watched one of their episodes, and I'm smashing that subscribe button as we see. speak there we go it is now smashed oh did you smash it okay should i ring the bell should i ring the bell too oh i've smashed and i've rung the bell ring the bell all the things the kids want you to do today brian you've done them well done yeah my monitor's back have no idea what the hell caused that that was weird uh so i heard you guys because i had you on speaker uh let's talk about this week's recommendation uh no no no audio for this one though uh which is interesting tell me what we got here what do we

Oh, yeah, sadly, this week's book does not have an audiobook, and I have had a week with a capital W, so I didn't have time to freak Scott out and make my own this week. But, so it was actually inspired by Bobby's All Around Science episode from this week. So if you're not listening to that show, what are you doing? You're silly. You're silly. Yes. Go subscribe to All Around Science with Bobby. It's great.

But this week's episode, one of the topics they talked about was Egyptologists are working on trying to recreate ancient smellscapes. Oh. So, which I thought was fascinating. And it is. And they do, I'm not going to mingle it by misrepresenting what they talked about on the show. But I found it really, really fascinating. So just go listen to it and get that info there. So by smellscapes, you mean like, uh,

like not just a smell you're talking like hey what did ancient rome smell like in the middle of you know i don't know the city or something is that the idea well yeah except it's except egypt but yes oh egypt right yeah you said that so okay that's interesting i have to check that out all right so anyway that apparently inspired something in you so let's hear what you guys like sad i hate sand yeah so and then and then you guys had had gwen on and she talked about uh bergamont being an ingredient and tea, and it's often described as being very perfumy and floral because it is a big ingredient in women's perfume. And so I thought, okay, I don't need any more message than that than this week's book is going to be jitterbug perfume by Tom Robbins. Now, if you've never read Tom Robbins, this is a departure. This is not a YA novel.

There's lots of spicy sex in this book. I'm in, I'm in. Brian is now smashing that subscribe button. He's ready to go. Just put that out there right away. This is a grown-up book. But there are four different storylines that over the course of the book all sort of come together. And they all converge around this one particular scent of perfume that is essentially, it has to do with immortality.

and whatnot, you know, the god pan is in there. I don't want to give too much away. But at the very beginning, you meet an aspiring perfumist, who's, she's a chemist, and she's trying to recreate this one particular scent. And everyone in the book seems like they're just obsessed with this one particular smell. And there are reasons why and whatnot. But it's a really, it's a really cool book. It also goes into the nature of gods.

and how the power of a god actually resides with the believers, and how the ancient gods and the pagan gods and whatnot sort of got pushed out by Christianity and things like that. It's really, really, it's really interesting. So, yeah, it's a fun ride, and I recommend it. And again, it's kind of about perfume, but perfume's just kind of the McGuffin, I think. Yeah, that sounds interesting. So why jitterbug?

What's the jitterbug connection? the name? You know, I don't know. I read the whole book and I came out of it and I, because my husband recommended it to me and I was like, why is the title jitterbug perfume? And he's like, I don't know. So just like, you know, just just a spoiler alert. Sadly, that part of the title does not get plain. You are going to have a jitterbug and you're a jitterbug. And you're a jitterbug, aren't Tom Robbins always reminds me of Tim Robbins. And so I screw him up and I always think, Oh, the actor is writing a book. That's not who that is.

It's a different guy. Oh, he's the only thing like Tony Robbins. No, Tony Robbins has got giant teeth and is probably lying to everyone all the time. To be fair, Scott, I do the same thing. I kind of picture whenever I read a Tom Robbins novel, I always picture Tim Robbins just because. Just because, yeah. They're so familiar to each other name-wise. So he's a famous author guy, right?

He's done a ton of stuff? Not just this. So there's this. Even Cowgirls get the blues. You know, the, oh, woodpecker, what is, oh, the thing with, is that there a book with woodpecker or something? I can't remember. Oh, uh, still life with woodpecker, it says.

Still life with woodpecker. There we go. Yeah, so several, another roadside attraction, um, yeah, he's, he's a pretty prolific author, but I think jitterbug perfume is a good introduction, uh, to some of his stuff, so. Oh, I know who this is now. Maybe. So there's an episode of Faulty Towers where there's some people in there talking about, I think they're in there talking about a Tom Robbins book. And John Cleese's character, Basil Faulty, is ripping on it and saying, oh, it's total tripe and trash. And then he finds out his guests like it.

And then he changes his tune and like, oh, Robbins. Oh, yeah, he's great. I think that's what that is. I think that's who they're referencing because this guy's been working for a long time and wrote books in the 70s. think that's maybe the guy. I don't know. Who do I know? How do I know? I don't know things. I don't know. I know. I know you. That's it. That's all I know. I don't know. Well, this sounds like a good time. His book's also very color coordinated. Have you noticed this? They all have like his name, a nice little square photo or a painting in the middle and then the name of the book. And it's all like, I don't know. I don't explain this. He has a theme. He has a thematic publishing. Yeah, there seems to get his name on the cover. It's really weird. Yeah, it's weird. Yeah, it's weird. That happens. But color-wise, they're all, like, coordinated, you know?

It's adorable. Yeah. Whoever does their graphic design for his novel art, or his cover art, rather, is probably either the same person or was told to stick with one thing. A chat room corrects me. It's Harold Robbins and Faulty Towers. You're right. Oh, Harold Robbins.

And that's the romance novel. Yes. Yeah. I think. Old school romance novel. guy. And it was very funny, but I had it wrong. So there you go.

So I can get this anywhere. Yeah, this is Amazon looks like everywhere. You just buy this book. Yep. Yep, Amazon, everything. Like, again, as I say, there's no audiobook version, at least not that I could find. And it wasn't on Audible, I'll put it that way. So, you know, it wasn't going to make it easy for me if there was an audiobook.

So, you know, if you're more industrious and really dedicated to, you know, to getting it as an audio book, good on you. Oh, he's been around a while. Born in 1932. Lots of books. Is he still making books like new books today? Let's see. No.

His last book was a jitterbug perfume in 1990. Yeah, that's crazy. All right. Maybe he's dead. I don't know. Maybe he just retired from writing. Yeah, I don't know where he is. Maybe he's not here anymore.

I don't know. I don't want to speak ill of the dead. All right. Well, there you go. Very good recommendation this week, as always, coming out of Amy. And you also handled my stupid monitor outage very well, I thought, as a guest. So thank you for doing that. Oh, I'm more than happy to sit and, again, this is why I do this segment and why I used to call in for the games all the time.

I just want to talk to you guys. Yeah, see? Just want to have a little chat. Oh, I was supposed to check in on your dog. Did he finally get out of the way so you could finish your laundry or what happened there? I saw this on TikTok. Yeah. Yeah. So what I did was I moved to the other side of the bed and I folded Chuck's laundry first. And he came out of the shower and I was like, congratulations, your laundry's getting folded first because your dog is laying on mine.

Ah, he's your dog now. Your dog, yeah. I know, Tina, I do that stuff with the cat and the dog, too. Oh, yeah. Quick update. Chat says he's alive and well at 89. So he's still a good guy. Oh, good on him. Well, good job. Tim, Tom. Bill, Harold Robbins. Whatever Robbins you are, whichever the Robbins clan. Well, Amy, it's good to talk to you, as always. Tell people where they can find you and poke you in the Twitterverse and that sort of thing.

Oh, I don't know if I'm up for being poked, but, you know. Yeah, so if you want to find me on Twitter, I'm Red Fraggle 3, also on TikTok. Again, we are planning a Southeast meetup in the fall. the survey for such is in the discord so September and Chuck are being very industrious and trying to plan all of that so please if you think you might be interested please come join us we'd love to you know just hang out

and have a good time what part of it's that you guys are right now considering somewhere in um in Georgia right no it'll be Asheville North Carolina North Carolina okay oh that's cool that's a nice place maybe you get Dan out there He'll bring a... Dan should bring some of his board games and give him more.

Oh, yeah. I would love that. Yeah, absolutely. I forgot, that's right. I forget Dan is in North Carolina because he doesn't sound like he's from North Carolina. No. Sounds like he's from,

you know, New Jersey or, yeah. Yeah. He's got that long island accent that just will not leave him, the poor guy. Well, anyway, that sounds awesome. We'll talk more about it as we get closer.

It's Amy, everybody. Have a fantastic week. Yeah. Is he? I think he is. That's what TV's Travis just saying. I trust TV, Travis. He knows a lot of trivia about a lot of things.

You should be called true. You can hear that New York kind of seeping out. Yeah, for sure, yeah. Travis, you should call yourself Trivia Travis. Trivia's Travis. Trivia's Travis. Very good. Amy, have a great week.

We'll see you next time. Bye. Bye. All right. That was fun. Asheville. I could see Making a little. I don't know.

I get some Southwest miles that, you know, burning a hole in my pocket. I wonder if I could get to, Well, Asheville's probably not one of their things. Oh. Or their hubs. So I probably would have to go to Raleigh or Charlotte or something. Yeah, I don't know how they...

Do they have hubs on the eastern side of the country? I didn't know if they did or not. They do, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, hub, basically, you know, they have destinations out there. It's not so much a hub as much as like a, yeah, we fly there. You just, you know...

Yeah. Salt Lake to, um, Georgia or, um, I guess, I don't know where in Georgia, but the Delta has hubs here and there. Like their major hub, they're basically their homeland is Georgia. And they have a major hub here in Salt Lake City. So getting from here to Georgia is like a piece of freaking cake. It's like the easiest Delta flight you'll ever take. But then I don't know how it gets when you go up to the other place.

So maybe, I don't know. If you got miles, though. Might as well, right? Maybe we'll spend them. Use them or lose them. Spend them on something. All right, we're going to do some... A lot of trips already planned for the fall.

Yeah. We'll see. I got a big one for the fall. All right. Here we go. Let's do the news right here. It's time for the news, and it's brought to you by. Brought to you by Coverville.

Yeah, there will be at Coverville today. David Byrne, he of the talking heads, what houses burned down, is celebrating his 70th birthday. And for sure, we are going to stay up late. and listen to some slippery people make some music during wartime. I don't know. Anyway, talking heads of music today on Coverville, Twitch.tv slash Coverville 1 p.m. Mountain Time. Is this your beautiful house? Are we going to hear something?

Exactly, yes. This is a once in a lifetime episode, folks, so don't miss it. Yeah, can you believe that? David Burns, 70 years old. Once he hit gray, once his hair just. turn white. Yeah. It's all downhill from there. Yeah, no going back. Can't wear those big shoulder pads anymore there, David. Got a little big suit. Yeah, it's a big suit now. All right, here's your first story. We actually carried it over. Speaking of music, a baby was born at a

Metallica show in Brazil. Wow. That's adorable. At a Metallica concert on May 7, the fan who was 39 weeks pregnant, went into labor near the end of the show and gave birth inside the stadium to Baby Boys, the band closed out the night with Enter Sandman. Joyce M. Figuero. Figuero. Figuero. How would you say that? Figuero. Figuero. Figuero.

All right. That was close. Although there's an accent on the O. Figuero. Figuero. That's how you do it. Let's see. Documented the event on Instagram and her story posts.

We're even re-shared by Metallica, by the band. who helped spread the news on the now viral moment although medical personnel arrived with intentions of taking her to a nearby hospital via ambulance that was out of the realm of possibility as the baby was on the verge of arrival

and the delivery had to be carried out in the venue while Metallica played on they just kept playing now I lay me down to sleep with a bag of peanuts at my feet or whatever they say and the baby was born during Enter Sandman

Yep, pretty great. That's crazy. Well, name him Sandman. Nothing else matters. Yeah, Sandy, they should call him. Oh, I get it. Nothing else matters. Yeah, yeah.

That was like a hand-fisted joke right there. Wait, I have a question about that phrase. It's always been ham-fisted, right? Not hand-fisted. Never hand-fisted. Okay, growing up. That's a, look at one up on Urban Diction. Yeah, that's another one you don't want to know about.

But I remember growing up hearing, I always thought it was hand-fisted. and so it wasn't until adulthood that I finally heard somebody kind of say ham more clearly and I went ham oh ham okay because because if you say it's a ham fisted joke it's a big needy. He's got a big old ham for a hand and it's yeah it's big and obvious and forced forced inside of you wait a minute what? I don't know I don't know if I want to know the origin of that phrase now they think about it yeah it's all right yeah we

don't have to look that one up oh the captain Kipper says lacking skill and physical movement, especially with the hand. So like, you know, Klinger wasn't a surgeon because he was too ham-fisted. He was too ham-fisted. Okay. But if you say in 2022, if you go search for fisted with a ham, you're going to find something you don't want. Something completely different. Make sure safe searches on it. Yeah, do that, please. Please. For the love of Mike, do that. For the love of Metallica, please. The baby was born Luan and was born at 11.15 p.m. to the sound of understand man and entered let's see who entered labor three songs

before the show was set to end likely meaning that the birthing process had started around the same time the encore did as Metallica returned to the stage with the master of puppets opening track battery talk about smashing through the boundaries yeah wow anyway there you go

baby that is a dedicated Metallica fan to not say you know what my baby it feels like tonight might be the night or my water broke during the opening act Maybe we should go. It's like, no, hold on as long as you can. There's only three songs left. I just think that far along pregnant.

Let's see, 39 weeks. You probably, I don't know if a concert's a good idea. Yeah, especially a metallic concert. My God. I mean, you have a nice story now, but that's a massive venue with too many people. I don't know, man. Let's check in on that kid in like 10 years. See where he's at.

Make sure everything's okay. Yellowstone. We turn our eyes to Yellowstone. The TV show or the The National Park Let's call it The National Park, okay, all right A Yellowstone Bison

Licked a car for nearly an hour Wow There's not much of the story Except here's the total of the story Tourists at Yellowstone National Park Were shocked by a bison Who walked right up to their car To have a lick and did so for one straight hour

The beauty of this is there's some I could lick a car for hours There's some That's a good bison voice I like what you did there. There's some good video. Nicholas Cage as a bison. It's pretty good.

So he just is sitting there licking this car. And they got video of this. We're looking at it now for the chat. And he's just licking the car. Wow. Just, you know, give this car a lick. Keep going. Probably the worst breath of any animal on the planet, is my guess.

And, yeah. I'm trying to think of like what, oh, there's got to be some great car name. Oh, was it a. blank and they'll be kind of like funny like oh yeah what would that be it had to be a salty car right or you know like is it a um uh salt i can't think of it uh salt lick city that doesn't work that's not a car uh salty boy that sure is a salty car i don't know i don't know my my pun work My pun. Could they feel it in their soul?

No, no. Hold on. I'm working on this one. I'm working. Yeah, yeah. Good thing it wasn't a bolt. Uh-huh. Oh, yeah, because you don't want to put your tongue on a battery.

Wait, that doesn't work. He wouldn't have done it if it was a cayenne. Ah. That's good. I'm working. You're getting there. You're almost there. I don't have anything

Yeah All I know is if it was a car From one of our states And they don't wash it very often That bison was probably happy Because their cars get full of salt From the winter stuff What did you do for an encore?

Oh There it is Is there an encore? Is there an encore car? I didn't know that Buick Encore Oh is that really a car I didn't know that was a car

Yeah Yeah All right Kia salantro For a second there, I thought you had, of course there's a key of cilantro. Like for a millisecond. Yeah, yeah. It sounds right, doesn't it?

They're running out of names. I've said this for years. When you start calling your car juk, what are you, we're all out of names. What else are you going to do? Like, you're going to have to start recycling names. Go back to like shit that's been canceled and say, ah, it's like a fiat. Here's the brand new fiat. Like, how are you going to do this?

You're going to run out of names? We're all out of words. For sure. Name your name your, name you have to do. That's why they have to do Zs and model three and model five and, you know. Sure. What is the one that's like cilantro? Oh, Sorrento.

Sorrento. Sarento. Are there people that only some people like Sorrentos and then there are others who don't know why, but they just don't like serentos. This Sorrento, I don't know. For me, it just looks like wax. Yeah. Yeah. It looks like soap to me.

That sounds right. Well, anyway, this, poor, this bison. it's fine he just you know getting a little lick before he moves on yeah uh dolly parton to star in a musical about the return of taco bell's mexican pizza cheese louise what is happening my favorite headline oh today is the return yeah today's the day right i think i don't know if it's national today oh no week from i'm sorry a week from today 19th may 19th is it everywhere then because we're gonna do that we got to do like show report on this um sure sure sure absolutely hold on mexican pizza Utah.

Because we're always late with this shit. No, I think it's going to be in every Taco Bell on May 19th. Okay. That's cool. And it's returning for good is what they're saying. It's not like, for a limited time. So get in line right now for Mexican pizza. Oh, this is saying that, what day do you, is this says the 26th?

Is that not correct? This article says that the musical will premiere on TikTok on May 26th. The menu item comes back to Taco Bell for good. Oh, gotcha. Okay, so this is going to feature Dojo Cat or Doja Cat. Yes, that's who taught me Jiu-Jitsu was Dojo Cat. Yeah, Dojo Cat, you know, from the dojo. She'll be there doing her whole...

That's how she sings. And then you got Dolly Parton there and TikTok influencer Victor Kunda. No idea who that is. He hasn't influenced me. He's influenced me to stay away from his channel. is all he's done. I know who this is. This is the guy. Wait, let me play him. Uh, I have audio here. Don't, oh, no, this is okay. Manzay, a little as stank on that. Okay, we're not doing the asanteau right now. This is yes, I eat, because I don't care when the clock hits two. Clock hits two. Okay, he's a guy.

He's doing stuff. He's clearly entertaining the hell out of us. He's really on the deal. I feel influenced, don't you? I feel very influence, so influenced that I'm going to rush right out. and grab that. Yeah. Smash that subscribe bell. I mean, I don't know what they mean by musical. There's a three minute limit,

total three minute limit on TikTok videos. Which is about as much of a Taco Bell Mexican pizza musical as I'd be able to take. Yeah. What a weird combo of people, though. Dolly Parton and Doja Cat. That's going to be.

Yeah. All right. So she did Jolene for the vaccine. Yeah. What's she going to do for Mexican pizza? All right. I can't think of any. other songs, except 9 to 5, and you could take a pizza and have hands on it like a clock.

Adding beef and chives, what a way to make the pizza you can. I love that. And then have a big pizza in the background with a timer on it. Well, right, exactly like a little arms sticking out of a little Mexican pizza. Yeah, there it is. There it is. It's done. Done.

We have that. Complete. And then Doja Cat can do some rap in the middle or something. Adding cheese and chives. What a way to me. Delicious Mexican pizza It's something There's a lot there

A lot there to work with You can work with that song pretty well I think And Doja Cat will just talk about her vagina Like that's all she does anyway That's what she does If you go I've heard her album's albums Oh have you?

I've never heard maybe one Doja Cat song It's a lot of vagina And talk You know It's just it's fine And I stumble to the friar Pull out some cheese from the dryer and assemble it into a

why is it in the dryer? Why is it in the dryer? I don't know because it read with friar. Where do you keep the cheese? The dryer, duh. Dyer? Duh. Duh. Get it in there. Duh. All right. We're going to take a break. When we come back, we'll hang out with my sister a little bit. My sister Wendy will be here. I believe. I'm trying to ping her all morning and I haven't been able to. So I hope she's around. If not, we'll come up with something. But anyway, that's coming up right after this break. featuring a song that you will now tell me about.

Yeah, this time we're going to a brand new single from Hi, H-A-A-I, featuring John Hopkins, not the hospital. This is a brand-new single that they have released. It's called Baby, We're Ascending. Here they are now. Hi, and John Hopkins. I cannot escape, but it's only temporary. Caught up in your way, I'm swaying side to side. Would it be the same if I wait patiently?

your way they're crashing right on time me we don't need We don't need We don't need your time We don't need your sympathy.

Steady it's life. It's a state of mind. I could be the whole symphony. Steady it's life. Why am I still complaining? Baby, I'm ascending. let it slide you

who learn in time baby where we're sending where we're sending I can I skate but it's only temporary Fall into your way, I'm swing side to side.

Call on your way They're crashing by the time And we'll be, we'll be, we'll be there. So, I'm going to be able to be. So, I'm going to be able to see. So, you know, and we're going to be. So, you know,

I'm sorry, We don't need your time, we don't need your time, we don't need your sympathy. state of mind I could be the whole symphony steady it's like while I'm still complaining

baby I'm understanding that it's like you're learning Baby, where is sending? Where is sending? The pockets when you sit down the knife and your money comes out, so I need it, So I need it at least another inch in the pockets. Another thing that crotch down where your nuts hang is always a little too tight.

So when you make them up, give me an inch that I can let out there. Let's see if you can't leave me about an inch from where the zipper ends around under my back to my bunghole. Number one, are you ready? Are you ready? I love the smell of polyurethane in the morning. This is the morning stream. All right, we're back. Hey, who was that, that man? That is hi, DJ High, H-A-A-I,

real name Teneal Thrasall from Australia, releasing a brand new single, which is called Baby We're Ascending, collaborating with John Hopkins. This is the title track of a new album coming out, May 27th. I spent too much time trying to think of Dolly Parton lyrics before the song to actually get my information together for the Indian in the middle track that we were about to play. So that's why you're getting it all at the tail end and not at the beginning. Well, either way, they get their credit and it's all fine now.

Exactly. Yeah. Dojo Cat can still talk about her privates. You can still get Dolly Parton. Oh, hi. Oh, hi, Wendy. Hello. What?

What are you? Hi. Hi. Oh, there's a whole story. So I'll tell you the brief thing. Do you remember growing up We had If you went to Taco Bell

I could get Mexican pizza Do you remember that? You say growing up It just they just took it off the menu Two years ago I always feel like it was such an old thing Like it hasn't existed for years So they're bringing it back

And Dolly Parton And this Doja Cat lady Popstar And somebody Oh, an influencer guy They're all going to make a music video About Mexican pizza coming back Because they're all big fans

Of the Mexican pizza So that's where that was coming from And the reason I was talking about Doja Cat's private parts, it's because she always sings about them. Oh, what did you seem about Dolly Parton's private parts, aren't you? Never mind. No, no. Hers are, well, hers are renown, aren't they?

Anyway, hey, it's good to have you here. How are you? You're doing all right? I'm good. Yeah. Good. Yeah, you guys, we had my first official Midwestern tornado warning. I don't know if it touched down anywhere.

I haven't looked, but it was it? It was freaky. Was it today? Yeah. Really? No, last night. Oh, last night. Yeah.

Yeah, it was everyone's phone all of a sudden just was screeching. It is so alarming. I mean, I guess that's the point. Oh, so like all your phones have the emergency alert thing. Yeah. Okay. Uh-huh. And then it says go down to your bathtub, basically.

Like, it tells you, like, what to do immediately. And you're like, we all like, oh, okay. We get on stairs. And after a few minutes, my kids are like, well, what do we do? One kid's like, I think I'll practice the trumpet right now. I'm like, okay. Hold on, let me guess. Can I guess who that is?

That was, that's got to be Peter. That was Peter? Now it's Elliot. Elliot, really? Elliot wouldn't practice the piano and the trumpet and probably done some homework. Like, that's him. And then Peter is just jumping around, so excited, trying to look out windows. I'm like, I don't think we understand the concept here.

It's to not be by windows. Yeah, it's not to be, you don't want to see this up close. You don't, you know. It was, I've never, I mean, I did look at. out the window at one point because I was like what I can't I cannot my brain cannot wrap around thousands of lightning bolts happening at once like I've never seen anything like that my life I haven't either that's intense okay so that's your first uh is that a common thing out that direction I was I never think of Minnesota for that for some reason I don't know I don't think it's all

that I mean it happens it's not like as common as certain places but it does happen and in fact they have that like a full community siren that went off that was outside that It was so loud. And anyway, there's just no way to not know it's coming unless you can't hear because when we were down in, or do you remember years, it was like 90s, I think, but there was a tornado that hit a building in Salt Lake City, which was like. Oh, I was there. Yeah.

I was downtown. Were you? I didn't know that. Oh, that's crazy. Well, I wasn't down downtown. I was kind of just kind of the industrial area near there because I worked at a roofing company. Yeah.

Oh, I remember. And they did not know I would be a therapist. And I was reading all there. But I just remember very vividly, everyone in the office just went outside and watched it, like, go up State Street or whatever street, North Temple or something. It's very weird and very rare. To this day, we've never seen anything since that just doesn't happen here. Well, and it was, I mean, we were at a warehouse full of roofing materials. I was like, we're all going to die.

Yeah, this is where. It was scary. It is scary. Freaking giant funnel of air and wind coming down out of the sky. It freaking sucks. Oh, it's so unpredictable and terrifying. I was thinking, what's worse? Fire, yeah, fire's worse.

Tornado at least is over pretty quickly. Yeah. Like hurricanes, feel like they last for months. I don't know. They do. And then the earthquake, it's like, well, I don't know. Earthquakes, I am kind of torn on because most of the time it's you sitting there while the furniture's moving. You're like, is this all this is this is going to be?

Still have never been in an earthquake. Oh, man, we got to get you in an earthquake, Brian. Let's get this done. Let's make it happen. I don't know how to do it. That sounds like a bad idea. How can we, how could make this happen, Brian? Just need to experience it.

Hopefully a mild one and not one that hurts anybody. Anyway, all right. Well, let's get to it. My sister Wendy is, of course, a practicing therapist and helps people with real problems all the time. No longer works for roofing. No, no longer in the roofing business. Keep your roofing questions to yourselves. Okay.

We're not answering those. But I did get a brief email. By the way, we need some more emails. You guys, send us your stuff. We're running a little low. please yeah we're running a little bit low but I did get one from somebody who I've asked since I sent you this message Wendy and this person said it was okay if I said their name their name is Colin okay I assume it's Colin not colon right that's not Colin that's not Colin all right well

there was a colon pal remember that guy he was a famous colon yes it was Colin Powell no it was Colin pal it was colon pal it was colon pal right hold on a second really what has it been that long that we that uh is it spelled colon no it spelled colin it's spelled like you'd spell colon colon colon hold on i'm gonna that doesn't seem oh co colon pal yeah yeah yeah you're right absolutely right colon pal and every time somebody said oh look it's secretary of defense colon pal they would say that thing yeah why would you allow that why would you let the first person get away with that well then because one day i'm not saying that the statistics, you know, he's recently passed and all that, but, you know, the statistics

are not horrible or are not great that you couldn't one day get colon cancer and you don't want to be a guy named colon who has colon cancer, right? Because then your colon, colon's cancer, or colon's cancer. This sure is like, I feel bad for all this before we get to this person's email. Sorry, Colin. We're going to call him Colin, though. Colin, he says this, hi, all things TMS. I think he means the Thursday crew. It says, I will cut to the chase. I'm pretty sure my wife is cheating on me with someone in her office.

I have no proof and no confession. Just a really intense feeling that I am correct. What the heck do I do? Colin. So we don't get a lot of info here, Wendy. Is it enough to kind of broaden that discussion into what one would do if they have these

suspicions and if they do what's the most prudent way to approach it? what's the right without going completely overboard yeah not without showing up at her office start with overboard sure what is the worst thing to do go to the office with a bat with a bat your hand and threaten the guy or something probably not do that um the other would be just bald face like she walks into the house and you go are you having an affair like doing it that way going right to accusation uh you know uh stage is probably bad where

Whether it's at the office or not, a defcon level one kind of thing. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So those, see, those seem dangerous. Like, don't do it in the car on the highway. Right. But I mean, yeah, like, you know, what's the, what's the opener? What's the, how do you start that conversation? What's the, how would you do that?

I don't even know how you'd start. I mean, well, let's start with the hunch. Okay. All right, hunch. Yeah. Because usually people have hunches for reasons, and they could. could be misreading something and that my hunches have always been right on everything everything ever brian's a 100% are on the hunch front 100% hunter yeah he's a hunch you know what he's he'll back

your hunch we call him in the hunch back oh wow okay that took that went places yep it took you could see it coming down the road anyway but uh i feel like i'm bad at hunches so this is going to be a good discussion for me because i don't think well okay so so often you know again it's the spectrum of intensity of different feelings we all experience right yeah feeling paranoid or anxious or you know we can have lots of feelings that are protective and kind of show up and make sense or don't make sense logically that we can call a hunch right yeah so let's start with a really common really basic thing everyone experiences you get a text you send it exchanged a text with somebody and you're not on this most solid ground so this isn't

like a close friend or someone you've had a lot of experience with maybe it's a new friend or someone you're like hoping can be a friend or you know there's some vulnerability there it can be small and they respond to something I'll give an example that would bother me which is they put sure period mm-hmm no tone you have no idea what their tone is just like The abrupt, quick, sure. Sure. Or just a K. I don't love those either.

I do that all the time. I do it all the time. There's nothing to read. Except, here's the difference. So you could do that to me any day of the week. I'm going to think nothing. But when I'm a little vulnerable, yeah.

Is someone, I'm going to go, ooh, what does K mean? Because I don't know. You start reading into it. Yeah. So is that a hunch that this person hates me? Oh, good point. Is that enough for a hunch? Or should it be the answer probably not.

Only if your mind has already gone there, right? Like that alone, that on its own wouldn't do it. But, you know, if you feel like, oh, man, you know, they've been kind of short with me all week or they've seen preoccupied. And then they just respond with a K. I feel, I feel blown off. Whatever. We're storymakers. We're puzzle fixers or finishers, right?

We want, you know, puzzle fixers. But we want to, we put it together. We put it together. And we come up with a cohesive. Uh, you know, full proof. Narrate. We build the whole narration in our minds. A whole,

and a way we say this in therapy a lot is, you know, the stories you tell yourself, right? So what is the story you're telling yourself? So here is this guy who's like, my name's Colin. And I have this hunch, something intense inside me is making me think she must be cheating on me. Yeah. Right. And so the questions I would ask would be things like, tell me about your history with hunches, right?

when else have you been right about something and when else have you been really wrong about it but you were pretty sure and like you know kind of pull it apart like what is that right do you have a tendency for this or that and and a lot of times people just don't know themselves well right so i think i've mentioned this before but we have a friend who he always hates people on the first time he meets them. And if he likes you, like he can like someone, but then he'll also just really be iffy about someone else. But his pattern is he's dead wrong the first time. He's always wrong. The people he didn't like at first will always become close friends and he really cares about them. The people he likes initially end up being lame. And he's like, why am I broken on my

first introduction? But what really helps is that awareness, right? He's aware that it's backwards. I'm aware I have my inner compasses backwards and if I should, I feel like I should go right. It's definitely left, right? Yeah. So I just know that. I've been alive long enough and can accept that my, my vision of things is incorrect sometimes in that particular way, right? So sometimes people have this with, you know, they can blow up their lives over just assuming something. There is a key and pill episode that is perfect for this if you need to watch a text exchange where they're both just thinking very different things. Have you seen this one? No. He's just like, oh, should we hang out? And the other, in Peel or whichever the other one was, Keith, I don't know.

The other guy is saying like, oh, you think we should hang out? And he's totally offended. By the time they meet at the bar, he's got a bat full of nails and he's ready to kill him. And the other guy is just thinking they're having a good time hanging out, right? So it's So what is it that's triggering that matters? And so I think often people don't do a great job, especially as they're younger, because they don't have a track record yet of like, okay, I know myself here. I'm probably doing this or that, right? So that's what I would ask, Colin, are you 20 years old and you don't have a track record or have you been around? And what is your track record with suspecting or being paranoid about something or having a hunch or making a guess?

You know, it's just like, what's your jam there? and then then let's look at the situation like what is what is cluing you into this a human doesn't make up a story unless there's a clue i mean i don't know raise your hand if you've been paranoid before and paranoid is the wrong word if you have thought you had secret information um because you're part of a full group online that's going to solve a mystery how about all you white ladies trying to decide you know serial killer murders right right like everyone has this in them to do everyone is a blood hand a little, you know? Yeah. Yeah. So anyway, like, what's his deal, if personally, and then what are the clues he's picking up on? And then can you talk to someone who isn't you about some of those things? Which is obviously what he's doing. He's asking us. Yeah. Yeah. Of course, we don't get to know the clues. But let's just say the clue would be she's working late more often. She's doing,

you know, the after hours where everyone meets. Is this related at all to she's now back in the office and hasn't been in an office for two years. And so it's feeling the disconnect is happening a little. You know, there could be lots of explanations that are not, she's cheating. But it feels like it. And that matters. It matters how you're feeling about it, right? So I'm going to get to what to do with the feeling.

But really, if you look around, what are the signs? And if it's something like, I mean, what are you guys giving me? You can explain it a different way. Yeah, I mean, do we go 70s, a lipstick on the collar or, uh, 70s? I love that that's a seven, that's how I think of it, a total 70s thing. Big fat white collar, yeah, big old lips on it. Totally, dude. Yeah, like, why would any have done that?

Yeah, so that or he smells like someone else's perfume or. Right, exactly. Yeah. So, yeah, like you've got a, you've got some maybe more obvious things that you're putting together. You know, they're secretive about their, protective about their texts or something like, you know, they're. Yeah. they jump when their phone rings or a text comes across and they don't let you see anything right right weird or they they giggle as they're responding and then they hide their phone okay there's one

but like it's always it's usually more subtle right like they're just not they seem a little distant or they don't laugh the way they used to or how come we haven't had the woohoo for about a month or you know whatever it is. That's what we call it around here. The woo-hoo. You need other help. Hey, HUD,

how about a little woo-hoo tonight? If she's had a headache for six months straight, then yeah, probably. Okay, so then here's where, I think I briefly threw out Occam's razor last time,

but just this idea of like usually the simplest explanation is the truth. But that is not what our brains love. brains love an elaborate plot, you know? Right. We want that, yes, we want the Sherlock level. Ah, well, he did this with the, uh, the window.

And then he left the fingerprints over here to throw us off and da-da-da-da. Yeah. And then we're like weirdly amazed when that stuff happens in real life. And it's because it's like a fantasy. It's so rare that anything is ever that kind of crazy or elaborate, which I think is why all those like serial killer podcasts and stuff are just because that stuff's so nuts, you know? It gives you this sense of control and protection when you don't have it. Otherwise, and so you, you know, you're like, I'm ready for an axe murderer to move in next door.

I'm like, okay. I'm prepared. I don't know exactly all the signs to look for. Good, good for you. Anyway, so that idea of like, all right, maybe you are not, the simplest explanation is she's now back in the office and commute is longer and stress is higher and like, she's not feeling great or something. But she's not relying on you and talking. talking to you about it. That would be my next question. Is there a significant difference in your communication and connection? A lot of people say, oh, I would always know when my spouse was cheating or, you know, because it melts our brains when we find out someone didn't know. And we are always like, oh, come on, you knew. The signs were all there. And that's because we've been making up

entire stories about stuff without any facts for our whole lifetime. So of course, someone should get it and no. Now, sometimes we don't want to see things. There's that. And then other times there has been enough disconnect in the relationship. It's not obvious. So that would be my other question. Like, okay, what's the state of your relationship? Is this a sudden change? Is this totally like par for the course? And now you're just feeling like it's going too long and now she's back in the office or there's a new attractive person that now works in the office. I mean, it could be lots of things. I always, whenever Adam has new women that he works with, I'm always like, all right.

Oh, no. How young are they? He likes old ladies. I'm not kidding. The older I get, the better things are for him. He likes, when we got, we were dating, he's like, I can picture you with gray hair and I am so excited. I'm like, wow. Do you have a thing? Weird. He's like, no, but young is not his game. But if she's, if she's tall, I'm going to go to the Panera at 4 p.m. and pick up some.

Brods. What time does Perkins open? Yeah, totally. So you know your spouse and you know what is a threat, I guess. And so you can, you know, check or you don't check or something. But, like, you know, there's a sense of like you never talk about the people you work with. Or there's just ways to make this look fishy and your brain will fill in the gaps. So here's the actual advice to this person.

Well, let's see what you guys would say. I want to hear what you would tell them to do. oh geez um see i'd be bad at this because i've the only time i've ever had that hunch and rest assured everybody was not about tina um uh it turned out i was exactly right it was somebody i was living with um uh they you know i'd figured out that they were kind of messing around with my best friend at the time and and kind of put two and two together and said okay hey, that, that's pretty much what I think is going on. And sure enough, that's exactly what was going on.

So I'd be a bad person ask. I'd say, yeah, act on it. Cut it loose. Like, make a break for it. So, you know, it's very personal. You don't have to share. But, like, did you just confront? What'd you do?

I, how did I handle it? Well, there's still a body in Reno somewhere that nobody has been found. I think, I hate to say. it, but I think I, I mean, I did confront her about it, but I did it in a very like, like, you know, so I noticed that, you know, when I've been working the last few times, you've been hanging out with so-and-so. And, you know, is there, is there something else going on there that I need to worry about? I think is how I phrased it. I probably did a lot, you know, more, let's use the phrase, ham-fisted than that. But, uh, uh, uh, She said, well, yeah, kind of. Wow. There was no, like, oh, no, you're crazy. There was none of that sort of thing.

It just went right to, yeah, okay, sure, like, you figured it out. Well done. Wow, she just gave you the ring and said, see ya. Yeah, exactly. Fortunately, there was that we hadn't gotten to ring stage, but, yeah. So, and then I have somebody I know, and I won't say, I won't even, yeah, I'll stop there because they might even listen to this show, so I'll stop there. Stop and walk away. Walk away.

What's your advice? I never really had this problem. I never had anybody I was either dating or and Kim's the only person who had been married to where I had that feeling. So I don't feel like I can relate to this very well. You're unbelievable. Look at you. Well, I mean, I don't know if I'm just bad at the cues or if it. Just I got lucky with the people I'm around.

I mean, when you have a girlfriend in high school or something or whatever and they and you, and you feel like a breakup's coming. I mean, you can kind of get feelings about that like, oh, I don't know. It's going to work out or whatever. But it was never like, someone's cheating on me. I can just feel it. Like there was never, I never felt that way. So really hard for me to say.

I've definitely had the feeling that somebody was, it's more like, you know, a friend. friend or somebody is like talking smack behind your back or something like that. That's a different deal, though. So it's not so much. But it's still a hunch thing, right? Still a hunch, yeah. Yeah. And in those cases, you know, what do you do?

You just say, hey, you've been talking about me? Yeah, as you said, did you confront them about it or did you? Oh, I don't remember. It was so long ago. And it was, did you confront me about it or did you just let it? Did I just let it slide? You know, it's kind of like, you know, today we do text, but we really haven't changed that much.

back then we were just passing notes or letters or whatever and it was kind of the same thing you were trying to read the tone of a note or a letter and you weren't really sure what any of that stuff meant and it just hasn't changed that much like we're still the same human animal

trying to deal with it but I mean what's changed is just like times it by 10 billion for misunderstanding yeah yeah because body language way less chat says chat wants me or is asking about the guy who owes me $89,000 that's that's different that guy just straight up swindled me

So I don't think that's the same. It's not like I have a sneaking suspicion that I never got paid for that. Yeah. I know. You're actually right. You never got paid. Yeah. Yeah.

Well, and here's what I would say is kind of, you know, Brian's example is a good one, right? Is, you know, if you feel like you don't, you can't say anything to her until you have all sorts of evidence, then, you know, the strength of your relationship is interesting, right? that there isn't just a conversation that can be had. And so that really goes back to this question of like, where are things at? You know, people don't cheat usually just because somebody's there. It's not usually a crime of convenience, right? It's often, you know, that can happen, I guess. But I think it's more about just unmet needs that sort of often, you know,

people are telling themselves their own stories, right? like, well, this person understands me, like, no one's ever understood me, right? Let's all just be clear. Second marriages, I have a 60 to 70% divorce rate. So it isn't, it's kind of an escapism thing and some other things that can happen and it can build over time. Sometimes it really surprises people. They're just like, oh, I'd never thought I would do this or be in this position.

I really, you know, no one ever thinks it's going to be them, right? But clearly, people are doing this. So, you know, it can sneak up in one way, but it is. is also usually something, and this is not about blaming anyone. It's just about understanding maybe there's the lack of closeness or stress or there's a kid or there's, you know, things that can make a relationship strained. There might reveal a crack that you didn't know otherwise, right? And the other partner would never have done that.

That doesn't, that crack doesn't show up for them. So everyone's different. But again, shame is a big piece of this. So if you're feeling embarrassed, like, you know, what if she's not? And I accuse her, like, that's so crazy. Or what if she is, I don't know if I can handle that shame. And so I get it. I get why paralysis might be an answer for a lot of people or just not knowing

and just, like, hoping it works out. But I would suggest talking to her, sort of, you can, you know, you can investigate a little further if you want. Just sort of generally check in on the state of your relationship with. Yeah, but what do you say? Like, hey, Bill from HR is kind of a good-looking dude, didn't he? You could do that. Yeah.

You could also just say, let's talk about us. Yeah. And, I mean, there are people in couples counselors where one is actively cheating. And that is one of the jobs of a couples counselor is to figure out, is everyone actually here? And is fidelity the thing we're all agreeing on? This isn't secretly polyamorous or something, right? Like, you have to get that clear because what you then work on, I mean, it just doesn't work, right? Obviously, if one person's keeping that type of secret and the other person doesn't know.

So you're not a fool. You have not, you know, this is a long line of people who don't know the answer to this question and have to figure it out. But I would suggest talking to her about the two of you if you have concerns about your connection. Or if it's like, we're doing really good, but I just still suspect. she's that she's cheating well then talk to her about that right but you know maybe start first with a sit down take her to dinner and she's like yeah i can't i have other plans i have to go to you know work things i mean if she's avoiding ever sitting down and talking to to be more evidence in one file right yeah um yeah i mean there's not a lot of info to go on here but like you know what what's

your support system look like you know is they're friends to rely on are you do you feel like you're jeopardizing your relationship if you talk to someone, maybe go talk to someone privately or professional or, you know, someone who's not going to then, you know, tell you what to do? This is really hard, right? Because if I said to Brian, Brian, I'm suspecting this. He's like, you know what I did. And then that's Brian's like bias or take. Yeah, exactly. Like you, yeah, I'd be, you know what I did. Anybody has the potential of staying you're wrong only because of their own track record, their own experiences, and they might even say, ah, yeah, it's nothing. You're, you're fine.

And then it turns out not to be fine. So, yeah, exactly. Right. And I don't, I don't ask Scott and I this, apparently, because, like, we both have very different. Yeah, well, and also, like, you can look the number. I forgot to look this up, I ran out of time, but just the, and maybe it's not, like, publishable, but very common, at least in the trainings I do, and word on the street among

therapist is that a large percentage of couples stay together even after infidelity. You'd be surprised. So next time you're talking to your neighbor, you could say, you guys made it through, good job. I mean, it actually is a pretty common thing that people are seeking help for and they make it through. So this isn't a deal breaker either if you want to stay in the marriage. Some people find it as a great excuse to end things or just can't. They just can't do it. But there's plenty of people getting support and services to help them stay in marriages where there was unfaithful.

I remember there was a situation, and I've been sitting here thinking about this a little bit more, there was a situation probably 10 years ago where we had a neighbor, really good looking dude, has since moved out of the state, good looking, handsome, rugged guy, you know. And he was, when he was around Kim, he would get a little weird. he would she wouldn't she didn't even seem to really notice but he was like I could tell he was just like he just kind of had a thing for and I remember feeling like you know you're ready to stay on your side of the fence you know like this feeling of defensiveness and all of that um right and I did talk to Kim about it one night I'm like yeah you know he's kind I think he's got a shine for you

or whatever word I used I'm not I'm not shine because you're an old man because I'm a guy from the 40s apparently yeah if he knows the shine he's got a real shine for you um but he and she was like well really and i'm like yeah i think so and she she didn't she hadn't really noticed she says well you're not worried are you i'm like no i'm not worried about you but still don't like it so there still is the feeling of just like her just to keep away i don't like this or whatever and you know kim says she felt like that a few times where when i worked somewhere a girl would be overly flirty or something and she you know she worked there at the time kim and i worked at the same place

And she would get, she's like, if she talks you one more time, I'm going to, break, right, so we had moments like that, but they were never like, we need to find out if each other is on board. It was, it's always the other person. These other people are being a problem. And that while, I don't know, I guess there's some similarities in emotional response there, it's not quite the same because I'm not, the trust issue wasn't with each other. It was with other uncontrolled factors, people around us. Anyway, just to

Right, and I mean, one way to think about like just fidelity in a marriage in particular is just like recommitting to those things over and over again, right? Like there are different phases and stages of life where you pull apart and you have to work to get back together. And, you know, this, it's, I wish we could normalize that. What we really have is just like the movie version of like just the beginning. And then chaos later. Like, we don't have a lot of, like, let's watch a couple for 50 years. Make it through the ups and downs. Like, it's super boring.

But it is also, like, real. That's what it might take. And sometimes people are mismatched and things don't work out and cheating as their escape hatch. And, you know, it's just complicated because it's a human endeavor. And some may argue, oh, just humans aren't meant to be monogamous. So these are other options. Well, whatever, do your thing. but if that is your thing and you you know monogamy is what you had planned on and that's what your

vows are about and you know this is painful and difficult and and so that support is important you know finding out it's hard because you're like straight up I'd rather this not be real but this intense feeling of suspicion is just not going away so I suggest now this is my bias see here's my bias. My bias is action, is move towards a conversation, move towards checking on the health of your own connection, and then seeing what arises. But that means getting out of denial. Hunch is fun, right? And it's not fun. But it's a safe place. Sure. The facing reality can be incredibly difficult. But just know, I mean, I didn't look this up either. I keep giving assignments to the chat if they're picking up on my hints.

is that Esther Perel has this great podcast of Where Do We Begin? And she records couples counseling sessions. She does, she meets people in New York. She's incredible gifted therapists. And she'll meet them in her office in New York for four hours. And then that's it. She does never see them again. It's because she's so freaking good.

She just gets it done, I guess. But anyway, she gets permission to record them. So she records them. And they are. Real. If you want to know what couples counseling looks and sounds like, that's it. It's amazing that people are that brave and she's published them the way that she has, which is really cool. But there are a number of them on infidelity. That's kind of one of her subspecialties. She has a book called mating in captivity. That kind of talks about how, like, how difficult it is actually to meet the same person for your whole life. Anyway, so her stuff is good. Maybe that's another start is to read up on some things, to listen to a few of those podcast, maybe get some inspiration from someone else's story. I didn't look up any one particular. I just know that there's many in there. And you could Google it by topic, I guess. So anyway, yeah, to recognize you're not alone. This isn't the first time this has ever happened.

There are people to help you. Where you're at right now, it can be a waiting station for a while, but it can't be the rest of your life probably because it's not, this party is not going to leave you alone that's suspecting something might be a deeper part of him too that's worried that he's wrong and there's something much worse going on like meaning that she's just not happy or doesn't like him anymore or whatever yeah and sometimes yeah it would be kind of far worse to to not be able to blame it on another person and kind of just blame it on yourself yeah yeah yeah like if you're the problem then suddenly this becomes a serious crisis of identity and you know what did you think this relationship was i i hear this

every so often of I wish he would just hit me or I wish he would cheat on me. Just that it's a good thing. Which sounds so weird to hear, but, but that's the thing. Like either, because what you want is some definitiveness, right? You want some, something to hold on to and go, okay, well, here's the truth. And even if it's a bad truth or negative truth, at least it's the truth. Right. But that is, you know, I mean, you're cracking someone's world apart. And, and that is, you know, everyone's sort of choice to do, sometimes our world gets cracked apart without our permission. But here's a question I don't know if he's asked himself in all of this is how do you

actually feel about your marriage? Like, how happy are you? Is this what you wanted it to be? Even just take slightly before you started to suspect anything, you know, are you okay? Because so often, you know, it's like mama's only as happy as her least happy child, right? and so maybe it's all turning towards what this person is doing but like I don't know check with yourself here too and and when you can humans have this incredible ability to just like not actually see stuff right or you know choose what they want to acknowledge or not it's it's kind of crazy and

we've all run into it when we're trying to get someone else to see reality and then we think we don't do that but we all do yeah so yeah i mean good luck to you this is this is heavy stuff i mean i wish we could be more sort of helpful in the do this exact thing and that's tempting to want to hear this exact thing just don't do no no guns ablazin in her work no that's the one thing we don't do literal and figurative oh yeah sorry i forgot that's i'm in america yeah you're in america now you've uh you've invoked all sorts of outrage Congratulations. All right.

Well, Colin, thanks for sending that in. If you are like Colin and just have a thing going on in your life, and you're like, I could use a little advice. That's what Thursdays and therapy Thursdays are for. So send those in the morning stream at gmail.com. Wendy, anything else going on you want to mention? Just a request. When you send an email, send a fake name if you don't want to use your real name

so we can use it one million times like Colin. Yeah, like Colin. Yeah, and do another one this. We might even pronounce it one million times. Who knows? Yeah, exactly. And then, you know, we'll go on tangents about if it's colon or Colin and we'll never really know. Please send us the weirdest form of the name.

Yeah, please do. Yeah, no, nothing going on except for tornadoes and kids ending school, which is always stressful. Oh, yeah, right. You go, wait, Abe's not graduating this year. No, but he's taking all his big old tests and, you know, kids are burned out. You should see all their faces like, is this over? I know. Oh, man.

It's so bad. It's like, I feel like they're, this, this, in particular, Abe's generation and the kind of high school kids his age, they're heading toward a different kind of burnout than most kids get. Because I think a lot of kids are just like sick of it by the time things end for them. But they just went through a lot over the last few years. They did. They did. And they're also way more informed. So they're like, all right.

So is this the grind they have to do to be a cog and a wheel to make man more money? And you're like, oh, you're 16. Yeah. Yeah, I mean, it might be good in the long run, right? They're going to be the ones that go, they're going to be the ones that see some of our, the folly of our modern day and, and maybe pull back some and figure out better ways. I don't know. I have a lot of faith in, faith in that generation. Okay, this is not some quick story.

So, Abe said Jimmy Johns, he knows more about marijuana than anyone should. His boss is a straight-up drug dealer. I do love, though, how those two phrases are connected because they totally are. It's so true. Anyway, and he, one day the boss is like, oh, guys, I got to, I got to run out. do a deal, like straight up a deal, like a drug deal. And he's like, so, Abe, could you, okay, you watch the store and then, Abe, can you just deliver? Abe's like, okay, I'm 16, I have a license, but Jimmy John only lets 18-year-olds drive or whatever.

So he's like, it's okay, it's okay, do it. And he had the funest night of his life. He got tips. He was so excited. Anyway, I was like, what are you working? It's crazy. Anyway, long story short, he's really nice to this lady when she comes in because his mother taught him well. And he is being very pleasant.

and she writes a letter to corporate. Oh, wow. That just goes on and on about the nicest young man who looks like a Jonas brother. That's cute. He's just like the nicest young man and he served me this way. And I just, you need to know that this kid is fantastic. And she didn't, of course, know his name. So she described him as the kid wearing the striped shorts, which I don't know if you've been doing Jimmy Johns, but that's not the uniform.

No, it's not. It's not. They have to call the store and they're like, so who wore striped shorts? They're like, is he in trouble? Who's going against our thing? Both were proud of him, but also could he not wear striped shorts? It was pretty awesome. You could mistake that kid for a Jonas brother, for real.

He's got the look of a Jonas brother. It's weird. And he could always say, well, I was wearing striped, striped pants that night, but they weren't shorts. I mean, you can get away with it. I was behind the counter. She wanted to thought they were. shorts but they were definitely pants besides his boss his boss was off procuring weed i know i was like isn't

this ironic that you would say oh i guess i won't wear striped shorts to work when the boss is a drug dealer yeah right i think he'll i know and you're like why would you let your kid work there and the answer is you need these kind of stories to get you through life people let your kid do stupid stuff let him experience things yeah he's it he's it's part of what makes him a good kid is he he doesn't So I will tell you right now, he does not want to live the way any of these people live. And he has learned so many lessons I could have never taught him by being around. So the same drug dealer likes to give people financial advice. So he's telling this other employee, he's like, okay, what you got to do?

You got to lease a car for this amount. And then what you do, she trade it in. And then when they repo it and he's giving her car advice, and Abe says half his shift is he walks around and tells people after the boss talks to him, like, don't do any of that. whatever he just said just let that go yeah let that go that's that's not let that be a blip in your day do not pay attention to it or enact any of us yeah i mean scott chimmie cheechees chiches think of all the life lessons you learned in a oh tons of it like it's you hear about all those life lessons it's it really is it's an invaluable time it absolutely is and and if you

if you hide your kids or keep your kids from that experience it's it's not good for them you got No, and I'm telling you right now, I had three clients in a row. I was like, okay, are we going to be all right? Everyone has anxiety partly, partly because of their parents' anxiety and trying to stop them from getting hurt. So then they just kind of miss out on some good old fashioned chimichongas. I don't know what. Chi-Chi's. Is that what it was called?

Chee-chis. Yeah, they had chimichongas there. They did have Chi-Chi-Chi-Chichichichichichichichichichichichichichichichichichichichichichichichichichichich. I bet. I bet, Scott, you learn Don't be cool to waiters Or there's going to be spit in your food Yeah, I did learn that

In first hand Oh, hi! Sorry, a little boy just walked in Oh, look at that guy Aw, fun little boy Wendy's on here Say hi, say hi, say hi Everybody Hi, hi, hi buddy

Say hello Say, say What the time? Should we get him to do it? Hey, Van, what the what the what the what the what the what oh we did it oh geez

I thought he was doing heck now oh geez all right well potty mouth that's so cute I don't know where you got it anyway well there you go Wendy have a good time with your Jonas brother looking son and tell them all high

miss them all terribly and don't have any tornadoes okay okay sounds good do your best see you later bye bye I thought we had trained him to say what the heck but yeah no apparently not nope he still has it in him what are you going to do you need to have the jury talk with him what's the jury thought is okay but that is the good jury I still have that clip somewhere I love that I know you do it's one of my favorites because there's two things going on there it's this very like matter of fact question it is it is it's like yeah here the rules And here's my favorite part, though, is that you are like 12 hours into a 24-hour thing, and you can hear in your voice how freaking tired you are.

You are so tired. He also got to appreciate your. He's like, oh, okay. Yeah, I know. He was like, okay, whatever. These are the rules. Okay. That sounds good.

That's our jury impression. Real quick, before we leave, an email from Dave, this is not your neighbor. This is about the Rivian truck talk that we had. This is not my beautiful neighbor. He says, if you want to see a cool, what is this Rivian thing? all about, unquote, check out the show on Apple TV called Long Way Up. It's Obi-1 Kenobi, Ewan McGregor, and his buddy driving electric motorcycles from Argentina all the way up to Los Angeles. It's a pretty chill watch, but their support vehicles are prototype

rivians before they were fully fleshed out. And those things are pretty rad. It also gives you some insight into how serious the company is about their product. There were two episodes, or sorry, there were two previous escapades that they did too, long way around and long way down, which are worth checking out as well, but aren't required to enjoy this one. Also, side note, that EV Hummer had to be tuned to down when they first tested it. It would do wheelies. It was so fast. Wow, really.

Yeah. I'm telling you, they figured it out. That torque thing, they got that worked out. Imagine that thing being up on two wheels. That's hilarious. Jeez. Yeah. I want one of those after talking to Garrett.

That thing is a sexy hot little beast. Anyway, yeah, I will watch that. I actually meant to watch that. I saw it. I marked it as a watcher. later thing and I just haven't gotten around to it. I'll tell you what's happening right now. So there's a bit of a, there's two things

going on. HBO Max has the best movie selection. I don't just mean originals. They got great originals. But they have the best like, oh, this movie's now out. Where is it? Oh, it's on Max, of course. And that's been great. I love HBO Max for that reason.

They just got movies I want to see. Apple TV Plus, who I think had a slow start, you know, they hit the with a few shows. It's fine, whatever. But it felt like it was like that morning show and what was the other thing early on?

Mythoclast. Yeah. These were the, I mean, so they had one or two things, but then about the time Ted Lassow happens, things just start popping over there, and they're having a moment. Like, I'm having a hard time finding anything on there that's just, that isn't great.

Like, it's all really good. So props to them, and I feel like all of that is contributing to some of what the problems that Netflix is having with like losing their subscribers and they've got a lot of original content but some of it's just sort of like what is this I don't know it's just sort of thrown in here

their movie selection's bad right now like I don't know why I'm bringing this up but just hit me last night I'm like this is your problem this is your problem Netflix you got actual competition doing actual competitive things even Paramount right now is a good time to jump on Paramount

right remember when that was CBS All Access and nobody cared Nobody cared. It was like, oh, I guess we're only going to watch Discovery on there and then reruns of Alice or something. Right. Or last night's Survivor or something like that. Yeah. And it's so much better now.

It's so much more. So anyway, it's an interesting phase to be in for these streaming services. Thank you, Dave, for the email, email address, the morning stream at gmail.com. I want to thank a patron real quick. The person's name is hugs. That's it. Hugs. Oh, hugs.

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That's going to do it for the show. Let's get out of here. You got a song that we can play to go? I am. And I'm also going to really quickly promote the, I haven't promoted the bike MS thing in a while. Jeannie just reminded me. I'm getting on a bike in about a month and a half,

a little under a month and a half, to ride for 150 miles for MS, to stop the spread, stop the flow of MS, to finally, you know, come with a cure for MS. I am like $23 away from hitting $2,000, thanks to Claire's generous donation earlier this week. So, and my goal, my ultimate goal for a month and a half from now is $2,500. So if you have not donated and you've been saying, oh, yeah, I do want to make sure I do that. Hey, do it now. why not just go to tiny dot cc slash bike coverville 22 that's bike coverville 2022 and make a donation and and i'll regale you with stories of uh chode butter chode butter maybe if that's not what you

want then i won't do that and that'll be a good way to prevent me from oh there you go yeah that's great are you guys so are you feeling you feeling pretty prepped you're feeling like you're on right on track and all that i feel like i'm on track yeah um big thanks to i mean bobby's segment this week has been was fantastic i probably should have started doing what i'm doing a little bit earlier but that's all right um i'm you know i'm hitting the bike every single day i'm increasing the uh the the duration of the rides that i go on and i'm feeling fine like i'm doing i'm doing hilly rides that normally would kick my butt like they're nothing and i want to say part of that is the lightness of my new bike but i'm sure a lot of it is just the preparations that i've

doing so interesting okay so yeah i'm excited about that and uh uh i feel like i'm i feel like i'm ready for the ride i feel like you're ready for the ride too and i really have no reason to feel that way except i just sense that you're ready you sense it yeah yeah exactly i can feel your readiness all right well then we're ready to go uh let's play a song do you have a song yeah i have a song and what's amazing is that i had two requests for today but they both wanted the same band so holy mackerel this is great uh first up James wrote. Hi, Brian and Scott. Been a listener for many years of all things.

Frogpants. Today is my birthday, and I'd really love to hear something by Hailstorm. They picked a different song, but whatever. If not, any cover by Hellstorm, ding, or a cover of the Hellstorm song would be amazing. Thank you for the laughs over the years. My wife is also now a listener. And as my personal financial situation is slowly improving, I'm really hoping to become a patron soon. Best wishes from your friend, James, in Southern England.

Very nice. We love the English. So, this will be, we'll do both these and then get you a happy birthday here. Second one came from The Berm in the Tadpool. Hello, Shots and Beer Bung. On May 14th, I'm turning the slightly overripe age of 39 pause for birthday drop. I'm trying to get pumped for a high energy entrance into that weekend. Could you play this rock and cover of Lady Gaga's Bad Romance by Hailstorm? Thank you.

If not, I believe in a thing called Coverville, just listen to the rhythm of your heart. Yeah, he's playing up like that. I love that. Well, this is for both of you all, by the way. There you go to both of you. Perfect. All right. So, yeah, the Berm and James Hailstorm right here,

a cover of Lady Gaga's Bad Romance. This is from Reanimate the cover's EP that came out in 2011. This rocks, and this will get you right into the weekend. If you're not a patron, you don't hear tomorrow's show. That's a good point. Speaking of which, there will be a PM tomorrow. Come join us, Brian and I, for an hour of private. showing oh my goodness that sounds so yeah yeah if you're a patron you'll know because it'll show up

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