The Morning Stream - TMS 2291: ShawShake Redemption

Episode Date: May 17, 2022

I don't like milkshake peeeeeeeeee. Scott ordered 5 guys and enjoyed every second of it! Urine for a great shake. A Pot in Every Chicken. A Whack is Technically a Stroke. Food Grade Fibrous Scaffolding. All Coked Up on Cans. Black velvet and that little Tiger's fire. Anthony Garcia, famous actor. Chinese Spy Has Can-Do Spirit. Get your Junk in the middle. This disease is annoying. They all go by the name Kevin. Spagettification with Bobby. Embarrassing Balls With Bill 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, I don't like milkshake, pee! Scott ordered five guys and enjoyed every second of it. You're in for a great shake. A pot in every chicken. A whack is technically a stroke. Food grade fibrous scaffolding. All coked up on cans. Like velvet in that little tiger's fire.

I'm glad you got that one. No problem. Anthony Garcia, famous actor. Tiny a spy has can do spirit. Get your junk in the middle. This disease is annoying. They all go by the name. Kevin.

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Good morning, everyone. Welcome back to TMS. It is May 17th, 2020. I'm Scott Johnson. That's Brian Nibbitt. Hi, Brian Nibbitt. Hi, Scott Johnson. How are you?

I'm good, man. You know, look, my wife really needs to come home, really, is what I'm getting at. Yeah. What did you eat last night? What was, uh, we doored ass.

five guys and that's fine except I was like you know what okay normally when I do five guys that hamburger not the double one not the big one but the one they call little is plenty big yeah plenty big but I still yet I looked at it and went

that doesn't look big enough oh no really yeah so I ordered the double paddy one and then put everything on it and that thing was a monster and I loved every bite of it but I'm a freaking disgusting man that's what I am right now oh man what are you doing I know.

What are you doing? I know. It's menuitis. There's like a, there is a, isn't it the thing where like you look at a menu and even if you have your heart set on, nope, I'm having this. I'm driving there. I'm getting this salad. I'm on my way over there.

I'm getting this salad. Leaking the menu. Oh, you know, that does look really good. Is that, is that just deep fried butter? I'll just have the deep fried butter, please. Yeah. And now they do vertical, vertical orientation, high definition, freaking video food. Right.

Carter says I don't think the milkshakes helped either. Did you get a milkshakes, Scott? So here's the other funny thing about that. So we see these, you know, I'm looking at the stuff and I'm like, we got drinks here. We don't need drinks. We can just get the burger and we'll share. We did share an order of Cajun fries, so we weren't being too bad there. But I looked at the thing and it says, you want to add a shake?

I'm like, well, I don't know. What are these now? And I clicked it and it says 30 calories. And I went, my brain. Her sip. per square millimeter is 30 calories right so I said oh that doesn't sound so bad it's I'll just put that on their mindlessly and I get it and Carter goes you know that's probably not good for you and I said why it's it's only 30 calories she's like I think it's 30 more if it's strawberry flavored but there's

like a base there's like a base calorie count that is just the shake just flavoring yes right yeah so I think that's I don't know why I don't know why it was in my head to justify it that way. Maybe it was because of what we were doing. We were sitting down to watch Shawshank Redemption finally. It's her first time. I've seen this movie. I don't know, 30, 20, 30 times. Carter's seen it once, or that was her first viewing. So we sat down last night. It was our dad-daughter. Let's watch all the important movies night. And I was so focused on that. I think I just made some poor eating decisions. But that movie, I'm telling you right now. I'd like to say that five guys burgers came out the other side. I'd like to say that.

that. Traveled through how many yards in a man in the chest? Scott Johnson delivered a mile of shit. And came out disgusting on the other side. Anyway, it was, that is just such a great movie. It doesn't matter how many times you see it. It's a perfect film. Agreed.

I mean, are there probably a list of 10 movies ever that you can call perfect. I think this is one of them opinions will differ but gosh dang man and she loved it I was really happy that she finally got to see it now she's going to make me

we have to do this little like tit per tat so I have to watch some anime thing she's been pushing only fair I forgot what it's called oh mob psycho

anyone else out there hear this this mob psycho anime business she apparently is a huge fan of it loved it and is dying for me to watch it

so oh yeah Chat, chat's agreeing. It's great. Rainbow Bright. Well, lots of people loving Mob Psycho. All right. I'm going to do it then.

I told her I'd start watching it a little bit tonight. I'll give it a taste. And I told her, look, I'm jumping the line here. I got, like, Loki and, you know, I'm in. Parasites a, you know, it's also a very good, important movie in the history of cinema. Right. It seems like, it does seem important. It is the first foreign film or the first Korean film to get best picture.

Maybe the first foreign film to get, there's, there's, some there's some monorific that it has with regard to the Oscars that is more than just I know it's definitely the first Korean film I don't know about foreign though maybe foreign I don't know I don't know if it is yeah well all I know is yeah I got a lot to watch but I definitely want to watch that you know what I really want to watch too is that uh Tokyo vice thing that's on HBO yeah yeah I'm looking at that and I'm looking at the Gary Oldman thing slow horses oh yeah all right which one we start next because, you know, it's like there's two on the list here that I want to check out.

Yeah. Slow horses looks great. It really does, yeah. There's about 10 things I want to see. But, you know, time only allows for so much. So we thought we would throw two and a half hours toward Frank Darabond last night and we were happy to do it. Nothing at all wrong with that. Like, you know, if you're not going to watch Loki or Parasite, you picked why you still chose wisely by picking Shawshank.

And I will say this, like a movie made in 94, which is when Shawshank came out. um it looks as good cinematography wise sound wise uh lighting a dr use this sort of stuff it looks as good today as it did then and that's amazing to me because that movie's only 10 hours 10 years after like you know uh temple of doom and like 84 like the the changes in cinema um tech and the how it looked between during that decade is astounding. But the fact that a movie from 1994 does not feel dated to me at all it helps that it's set in the 40s, 50s and 60s.

It itself is a period piece, yeah. Yeah, exactly. And they did a really good job of not having anyone accidentally have hair from the 90s. Except Andy Frayne's hair is occasionally a little 90s, but not too bad. Did his kids ever finish playing that weird space board game? Basically, he must have you know, left Shawshank and had kids and

got married, had kids, got a divorce. Yeah. Got this gorgeous big house somehow. Yeah. Him and Morgan Freeman's character, Red, got married and later got divorced. That's it. Okay. Yeah, that's how that turned out. But what really got her, if you want to take your, you know, your,

you know, Carter, Carter, how do I put this? She's in a, I don't want to say she's an emotional kid because it can have a negative connotation, but she, you know, she can appreciate a sweet, sad, She wears her heart on her sleeve. She does. There's absolutely nothing wrong with that.

Nothing wrong with that at all. What really got her in this viewing or this movie, I think, was Brooks and his raven, Jack. Oh, yeah. Yeah. That's a sad. You throw an animal in there, and I think that's a button. That's one of Carter's buttons. And we were remarking after it was over, we think the reason that movie is so strong, one of the reasons, there's many reasons, but one of the reasons it's so strong is it somehow,

It almost miraculously pulls off a 30-year time period and conveys how that time must have felt to go by slowly in a prison situation without the movie feeling over long. It's a really hard thing to do, I think, and to have it accurately feel like, oh, man, what a long time that is, without feeling like, man, what a long movie. this is. You know what I mean? Like it's a weird, hard thing to do. And I don't know why Darabon isn't making more movies all day every day, but that guy's freaking genius. I love him. Yeah, I'm trying to remember. I was on some trip, some work trip when I watched it. And I'm trying to remember, it was speaking of hotel rooms. It was a weirdly set up hotel with a little tiny front room living room area with a TV. Usually you get these front room living room areas that are like, all right, we're going to make that, you know, decent sized, and then make

the bedroom small. If we're going to split the room up and divide that. But then it had, like, this really weird, big bedroom. So it's like, little tiny room for two people on a couch and watch a TV, and I was alone. So I watched Shasha and Redemption, you know, instead of going out and seeing what town, whatever town I was in. I want to say it was Bend, Oregon. For whatever reason, that's like, because I remember it being very lodge feeling, the hotel.

And I'm remembering that the hotel in Bend, Oregon was really... Why is it called Ben? Is there some kind of big bend to the way the land lays out or something weird? Must be or a river or something, maybe, yeah. Maybe around the Bend sort of thing. Okay. Maybe, yeah. Interesting.

It used to be, what, wasn't that home of one of the last blockbuster videos? Oh, was that the... It was another... Right. The final Blockbuster or something was in Oregon, but was it... Maybe it was Bend. I want to say it was Bend. That's a great name, dude.

It could be wrong. I want more towns that are just like a single syllable word, you know? Bend. Yeah. Like, Ben, what's the, what do we have here? Uh, uh, uh, we don't have any. No, orm's close. You can say it really quickly.

Orm. Orm. You could say, um, yeah. Or you could say, uh, oh, why can't I think of any? There aren't any. Yeah, no kidding. What is the, uh, no, do we not have a single, someone help me here. It doesn't have to be used.

Utah. Anywhere else? Well, um, Clint. Someone has Clint. Oh, Flint, Michigan. Oh, Flint. There you go. Flint. What's, what do we have in Denver or in Colorado? Um, Bute. Ray. Ray, Colorado. That's cool. Ray Colorado. Oh, we have Roy. We have Roy, Utah. You may remind me with Ray. We have Roy. Ray and Roy. Roy and Ray and Roy. A couple of guys at a bar hanging out trying to, you know, figure out why their wives don't like them, that sort of thing. oh price another one price Utah okay there's a few I take it all back

anyway it was great and I would recommend it and it's freaking fantastic okay what was the other thing I was going to say oh Anthony Garcia famous actor no wait that's not him what's who's the Garcia guy Tony Garcia I guess oh no I can't remember he's from from oceans 11 and Andy Garcia Once you get Tony in my head It's like Tony Garcia

Oh no no it's Tony Garcia no it's Tony Garcia no it's Tony Garcia It is Andy okay Andy Garcia Diffray and Andy Garcia There you should have made that quick connection right there He sent us a video And I didn't know about this Apparently you did and you've actually played this

But I want to show this to the chat Because this is freaking amazing didn't know this was a thing so apparently there's I can't even see your video because it's it's private it's a private video oh it doesn't let you see it oh weird well let me

it actually has him talking let me referring to us yeah let me pull this up here oops I can't unmute it for some reason okay well whatever here we go they'll admit that I've never seen this

Scott and Brian, but I'm just wondering if this is something you're familiar with. Okay, so. Yeah, I've seen that at Texas Pinball Festival, the Colorado Pinball Festival in Texas, probably could have easily been the same machine. As a matter of fact, the Pinball Hall of Fame in Vegas has one of these, and it's two-ended, right? Like, it's a double-ended pinball machine. Yeah, at first when I saw the video, I went, wait a minute, where's the back?

It looks like it's broken or missing a piece or something. but no, it's two-sighted. So you compete, I guess? Did you actually play this? I did play it. George and I played it. So it must have been in Vegas. It must have been at the pinball hall of fame.

Oh, no, George was with me at the Colorado pinball thing as well. But I remember playing against him. And yeah, it is, if I remember correctly, the field even rocks back and forth. Really? There's another one, there are two games like this. And there's one where the field rocks. And so it's, When the ball is on your half, the, like, teeter totters up so that you're going uphill and you have to try and get it back over to where it's past the halfway point so it rocks down for the other player.

No, I don't think, I don't think the Jaws one did. I think the Jaws one stayed put now they think about it. Oh, here we go. Okay, I found some video of it. It looks like it just slant. If you get it over the threshold, then it dips down for the guy on the other side. Right. There's a peak in the middle of the table.

Yeah. Interesting. So what if you don't get the ball for a long time on one side? I guess that could happen where you're just... Yeah, that'll happen. Like if one guy can keep it over there and just keep racking up the points. Because I think it's less about sending it over to the other person and more about keeping it on your side, racking up points, but not sending it the other way. Did not even know this was a thing. I was blown away. I want one. I want one bad. I wouldn't know how you'd even recreate this without an actual one. Like, this is just too weird. you know you can't like make a video version of this i don't think it's uh yeah it's a weird it's a it's a unique it's a unique beast is what it is 82 wait let's see 80 very early 80s this thing uh wow really yeah because i mean the the game itself um when did uh jouse was 81 so for them to come out with a pinball machine based on it here is. So the 81 was

joust, 83 this game. So, yeah, pretty old. I want one now. I'm sure you do. I don't even have anybody I'd play it with all the time. Maybe Carter played with me, but what a badass idea. I don't even know. Maybe it's bad. Maybe it's a bad game. I don't know. But I don't care. It's joust. It's a bad game.

Yeah, it's a bad game, Brian. It's a bad game. Shame on you. Bad game. Well, anyway, I want to thank who, shit. Oh, Anthony. Garcia for sending that in. I forgot his name again. Thank you, Anthony Garcia, for pointing that out. And now I'm on the hunt for my very owned. All right. Nice. We're going to get straight to some news today. Later in the show, we got Bill back. I believe. He's back. I think he was on a

little trip with his wife to see some family for some birthday business. And then we'll have Bobby here with some science. And I forgot. People wanted an update on the COVID deal with my daughter and stuff. She's doing okay. she sounded a little rough yesterday but the concern there isn't so much that she has COVID because I think the COVID would be mild for her given her double boosted you know fully vac status reducing the symptoms yeah but she's pregnant and so it makes it complicated can be harder like even a common cold is rough and there's very little they can give you when you're going through anything even bacterial because they don't want to you know hurt the baby or

whatever so there's that Dylan's feeling a slightly better and van is just bouncing off the walls with no problem at all that kid's fine he didn't got it he didn't get it doesn't seem they'd be bothered she's tested him and he's like hates it but he's fine oh and carter and i tested yesterday totally totally not there just to make sure since you yeah but then again it took them four days uh to get a positive after symptoms started so that's what they're saying with this new variant that by the time you get a positive test on a home test, you're almost over having it. Like you're almost through it. Or it's way worse, depending I guess if it's really bad for you. But see, that's annoying. And I understand that we are trying to keep up with a thing that

keeps evolving. But if these tests are all useless at this point, in terms of their ability to properly say, oh, we have COVID, therefore we're going to lock down for seven days. and we're not going to see any of you. Instead, what's happening is you're seeing everybody. And then you're like, finally getting some symptoms. And then you're like, oh, I better test. And then the tests are negative. And then you're still just sort of hanging out and doing whatever.

And then four days later, oh, shit, I had COVID the whole time. I've been in contact with a thousand people since that. You know what I mean? Like, what's the point of this? What's the point of the damn testing? If we can't, you need early detection, is what I'm saying. Yes. We don't have it right now.

No. So what are we going to do? We need a little breathlight. What we need is anytime you leave a restaurant or something busy, you need to walk through one of those machines. And he goes, beep, beep, beep. It says, oh, sorry, you've got COVID. There you go. Or maybe better on the way in, keep the people from bringing it into places like that.

Oh, I guess we had those where it like checked your temperature. Never mind. We kind of already did. Oh, well. Oh, well. Seems to be the attack line here. So, all right. Bobby in the chat says we'll talk about it in a minute, but they're not pointless.

No, I don't mean pointless, pointless. I just mean you lose a little bit of the reason that they need to be important in and everyone's home that we shipped them to everybody for free so that they had these on hand if we can't do any kind of early detection, you know? And it still seems like the best way of like COVID tracking is like sewer now. That's like that thing we talked about on the show once where they just test all the... Oh, check your poop. Yeah, they do all the water or whatever.

And then you can say, oh, the whole city has an uptick. That's the problem is that it's a... Uh, you know, it's so vague. It's like, yeah, here's a high concentration in this county. Yeah. Yeah. It's like, oh, well, few, good thing I saw that. It's three month old data, but damn, hot damn. Anyway, so Bobby, you'll explain that when you come on. That's what you do. You'll bring some science with you. You come cloaked in science. Oh, he's smothered in science. Smothered in science. All right, everybody. It's a podcast title if somebody doesn't already have it. That's not bad. Smothered in science. Keep that in mind, everybody, with your future. science project okay time for this we're going to do a full days of news and it's brought to you by it's brought to you by play retro it's happening today scott what what are you guys going to be

talking about golden eye so it's all about the golden eye we mentioned it yesterday i'll mention it again me and dunaway are going to go deep into how that game almost didn't get made how important it was that it did and uh it's impact on games in the future but also just all the minutia around what that game is and where it came from. A lot of people yesterday were going, yeah, I prefer, the game I really liked was Perfect Dark. Well, you don't have Perfect Dark without Golden Eye. It's literally the same devs.

And without the success with GoldenEye, you don't have Perfect Dark. So we'll get into all that stuff and more. Interesting, yeah. Today at 3.30 Mountain Time at Frogpants.orgpans. Or if you'd like just the podcast, which is how most people get it, you can get that anywhere you get your podcast.

So go find Play Retro. Okay. Okay. Let's get to the news today. The morning. Fletcher, what are you doing there, buddy? Jeez. It's funny how.

You've already announced us. We're already here, Scott. No need to rehash the fact that we're here. Oh, geez. Michigan woman in the news, making a Flint and short names. Michigan woman convicted of spying. She was convicted as a Chinese spy, and she was stealing trade secrets from Coca-Cola. and a few other people.

Yeah, or something, something like that. Anyway, a Michigan woman convicted of spying for the Chinese Communist Party is using her job as a chemist to steal trade secrets from her employers, which included Coca-Cola, was sentenced by a federal judge in Tennessee on Monday to serve 14 years in prison and an additional three years of supervised release. It's my favorite kind of release is the supervised release. I like my release as unsupervised release.

Supervised. Thank you very much. I see what you mean there. A judge in Greenville, Tennessee, also ordered 59-year-old Zhrong Yu, I think is how you'd say that name. Sure. Also known as Shannon Yu. I don't know what I mean. When I was dealing with China all the time,

and the company I used to work for it because we were always on the phone or traveling there or whatever, every other male Chinese contact I had there was named Kevin. They were all Kevin. just always so weird that wasn't their real names obviously but they all went by Kevin they all picked Kevin yeah I don't know why so you know if you're a real Kevin listening to the show was Kevin James popular at the time or Kevin Hart or Kevin Costner or uh Costner maybe those other two yeah it was a little earlier yeah it was like early 2000s I would say I mean I'm trying to think of like a what would be a pop culture reason to grab Kevin maybe there wasn't one maybe it was just easy to say Kevin bacon sure yeah it could be bacon yeah really weird though of course Zoe of course Zoe if anyone's gonna say come on given bacon it's gonna be Zoe yeah her answer is always bacon don't don't trust her on issues that are unbacon related anyway let's see she's from Lansing or that's where she's lived for a while to pay $200,000 fine following her April 2021 conviction in the federal charges of conspiracy to commit trade secret theft conspiracy to commit economic espionage possession of stolen and trade secrets, economic espionage, and wire fraud.

I think they said economic espionage twice. Oh, one is conspiracy. Well, because it's one's conspiracy. Yeah. Yeah. And then just committing it. Let's see. According to the documents, you, meaning her, not you, meaning you.

It just reads, it reads weird, even though it's capitalized. It's starting to get my passport change. Hold on. You stole valuable. oh wait, I'm sorry, it misses you, still valuable trade secrets related to formulations for bifanol, no, bisphenol a free, or BPA-free. B-P-A-free, yeah. Oh, okay. Which is the coatings on the inside of the beverage cans.

Interesting, okay. So she wasn't stealing the Coca-Cola formula. She was stealing the formula for what they put in the inside of cans. Yeah. The coating that they put on the inside of aluminum cans. But why, to what end I have to ask? It was in the can the whole time. Is there some, you know, military benefit to knowing what the inside of those cans are made with?

Might be, yeah. And what, I mean, is this Dr. Pepper I got right here, the Zero Sugar Dr. Pepper, does it have a different kind? Doesn't even say. I bet it has the same. I bet the, I'll bet it's a canning, not regulation, but kind of a standard. a baseline or like a standard thank you that's the words i'm looking for i don't see and they don't say anything about the can on the can itself so i don't know freaking what you're going to use that for but i don't know it's very odd it's a hard thing to go to jail for 200 paid 200 000 fine

and 12 years in jail or 15 years in jail whatever the hell it was 14 i'll get there i hope you i hope whatever agency you're spying for is going to help set you free shannon you yeah shannon you you should have changed the last name the first name where'd you graduate i went to shannon you. Oh, yeah. In Ireland. Oh, man. Go, what's, wait, what's their, what's their mask?

The Clovers. White and Clovers. You see, the Clovers this year. It's our, yeah, they've got a pretty. That's the purple horsesho. Yeah, they're the purple horseshoes. Exactly. Go purple horseshoes.

You're going to win this year. All right. Well, there's that dumb story. I hope she, you know, whatever. I'm more interested in Bobby, maybe this is a future thing. why would that level of risk be taken for wanting to know what the inside of the can coating is? That just seems insane to me. And also, it's a little insane that that kind of thing gets you in that much trouble.

I guess if you're a spy, that amps it up, becomes federal, becomes all that. I mean, if you work for a competing beverage company in China, that might be something that's like, I don't know, how do they put stuff that, you know, in those cans that doesn't make your drink taste like aluminum once you're, drinking it or something like that i mean there might be yeah like if i go to okay if you and i go to japan or sorry china tomorrow okay we're in china you and i are in baysing okay and we we we hit up one of the local i don't know strip clubs something sure stirp club why not i'm kidding i wanted to throw you off it's totally fine we can go there and we bang on the um sorry we get we put money into a vending machine and we both get two cans of

Chinese I don't know what flavor soda they got some brand over there are you and I going to go oh it tastes like metal like what's our that's what I don't get right oh this doesn't taste like mango blossom it tastes like

aluminum ew yeah and maybe well there's a point in the chat that maybe this is just part of a larger proprietary process that's just this is one part of so it's not just hey what's that coating maybe it's like i don't know yeah it could maybe it's not even for beverages right it could be for something else you know it's yeah it could

be they want to coat the inside of their um their bongs or i don't know what they do what do that's it yes yeah their bong coating everybody needs that uh oh carter did you feed the dogs this morning sorry just hit me did they eat i hope they ate wow with kim's John. We don't, there's things that get left. Wow. Yeah. I think she took it. I door dashed him some five guys. We're all set dad. We're good. Oh, she says, of course I did. Okay. We're good. It just hit me though. I just like, oh, wait a minute. I usually participate in that. And I was like rushing this morning and I missed it. Okay. We're good. Let's move over to Thailand. Not too far from China. Not too far. No. No. It's just a hop, skipping a jump. Yeah. They had to get, or they've decided to then have to do anything. They gave away one million. Oh, speaking of bongs, free cannabis plants to every household, according to the minister there. Oh, nice. Excellent. Yeah. They're like, what do they call that? Look at your seat. You get a cannabis plant. You get a cannabis plant. There's an old phrase here where we say every...

A chicken in every pot or something like that. That's it. Yeah. Yeah. Chicken in every pot. A chicken and every pot. And it's two parts. It's a pot in every chicken is what they're right. A pot in every kitchen. A pot in every kitchen. Wait a minute.

What am I thinking? So it's two-part or though. It's a pot in every kitchen. Or no, a chicken in every pot and a something in every... Is there a second part part to that? I thought there was. I'm looking it up. A car in every garage is not correct.

J.C. Calhoun. That is not correct. Damn. A chicken for every pot. This is the Republican Party slogan like for Hoover. uh really it sounds like socialism to me it does yeah uh parties change let's see or or maybe not maybe this is like let's see chicken in every pot yeah no this is uh idioms here we go 1928 a symbol of wealth and prosperity phrase was used during herbert hoover's 1928 presidential campaign so you're right about that i fear there

are not enough oh a chicken every pot and two cars in every garage that really is what you said that really is what he said yeah two cars in every garage oh this is funny you're gonna have to come clean it out then jacy calvin i owe you an apology oh did you i called him out thinking that was i thought he was totally full of crap there but he was full of truth you were truthful anyway um the tie government

or thigh government as some people still refuse to not say it any other way, but thigh, but it's tied. The Thai government will distribute one million free cannabis plants to households across the nation in June to mark the new rule allowing people to grow cannabis at home. That's according to their health minister. Health minister, a Newton, charn vicarule. Yeah. We didn't get that.

Yeah. Very cool, charn viricle. Uh, you're better. Yours is better. Sounds legit. Well, you just watch the, you swap the K and the R, vicar rule instead of viracle. Yeah, there you go. Everything else you nailed.

It's almost like very cool, but you just say it a little bit different. Very cool. Charm very cool. Charm very cool. Now it's the move on Facebook in a post on May 8th, which he expressed his intention for cannabis plants to be grown like household crops all throughout the country. The new rule which comes into force on June 9th will allow people to grow the cannabis plants at home after notifying their local government. But the plants will have to be a medical grade and used exclusively for medical or medicinal purposes.

Additionally, the cannabis cannot be used. for commercial purposes without further licenses. Wink. Yeah. You know what they're going to do? You know what they're going to do. They're just going to, no one's going to just grow up and go, well. I'm just using this for medical purposes.

What they did out here for the longest time. Oh, I have glaucoma. Oh, darn it. Yeah, they do that here too. You can grow. I don't know if they, the law, okay, so here we have medicinal in Utah. Medicinal is known Utah. Okay.

It's been for a while, right? Yeah, we've had it for a couple of years now, which probably means we're closer, we're closer than anyone thanks to recreational, because that's usually how this goes. That's how those dominoes fall. But they, I think you still can't grow it in your own yard. I think that's still off the... Yeah, I think that's still the rule here in Colorado. Or no, you can grow up to a certain amount, but it's like, you know, one plant of an ounce a month or something like that. Yeah.

They giveeth and they taketh away, basically. That's right. Exactly. So anyway, medicinal cannabis is what they're, that's the grade you're supposed to go, which I didn't realize you could grow a medical grade versus a like entertainment grade. And I, and I, from when, when medicinal was allowed here, but recreational was not, crazy neighbors told me that the medical grade was better, like far more potent than the, recreational.

I would never have guessed that. That's crazy. Yeah. So does that just, hmm? Yeah. That's interesting. Whistle 34 says medical pot has list THC, I think.

I wonder if maybe it's just less of a harsh experiment or less of a clobber, you know, like more smooth and ease you into it or something. I don't know. Yeah, Atomics 11 or Atomics I,I says, trust me, weed from a medical state is weapon grade. Really?

yeah trust him why should we trust you what do you have to gain mr trust seeker this is your name snoop dog my chance yes are you for shizzle yeah I don't know let's see this move by the way will be the latest step in Thailand's plan to promote cannabis as a cash crop about a third of its labor force works in agriculture so this would be a big boon to that particular market actually that's true everywhere the stuff grows anywhere so it's like everybody i this is my take i think the reason utile'll be sooner than people think even though i used to think they'd be last is the money just smells too good man it's just like look at the tax revenue look at the it grows anywhere but it grows better under a velvet uh black

velvet poster with a tiger on it that's that's actually if you want your uh marijuana to grow fast and better. No. What does it say that I legitimately, for real, 100% for real, owned that poster you're describing. I know, I know you did. I totally had that. I thought black lights were the most fascinating, magical thing on the world when I was a kid. Probably junior high era, like here in my car, kind of that era.

Right, right. I would have that, I had a poster in my room, a black light shining on it. It was a big tiger. Now, I don't know. Enough time has passed where I think maybe I was dipping into some. somebody else's culture a little bit there. Somebody else's, you know, maybe their drug culture. Maybe there's, I don't know what that was, but I thought they were so cool, man.

So cool. Which, I'm going to give you a link if this works. Oh, it's not working. How do I share this link with you? Because it just wants to, wants me to give you the, uh, because there's about a hundred different black velvet tiger posters. Oh, they made a lot, did they? They made a lot.

Boy, Spencer's, uh, you know, all right here, which one of these, point to the doll and show me, which one of these black velvet tiger posters you had? All right, hold on. Let's see, where's my, hey, Discord, what are you doing? Oh, yeah, look at that. Okay, so these tigers, let me move this up to the chat, can see it. So only, you know, I'd say half of them are black light. I'm guessing you had row two number five.

I'm looking here, row two, one, two, three, four, five. Okay, it's actually a toss-up between row two, five, and six. I kind of remember the flames. Wait, wait, wait, number six of the flames. Yeah. You did not have a tiger whose head was on fire, did you? There was something, there's something about that that's really, really familiar to me. Space Flame Tiger.

I mean, it's capital stupid, but I love it. A freaking love it. I thought that was so cool back then. Anyway. Oh, I can't even imagine, like, if you're on cannabis, like, oh, my God, dude, that tiger that tiger's in space but he's on fire and there's no oxygen in space so how's he on fire right oh yeah that's right he's surrounded by like comets and planets and planets like a jack kirby painting behind him and it's not even a full tiger he's like it's just the paws and the head

because you can clearly see a nebula behind where his body would be yeah it's a his body's like a black hole man i would love to get one of those again they'd probably make him right they still a thing. Oh, yeah, yeah, I'm sure. Yeah, that'd be cool. I'll put it down here. This goes on to say the region is notorious for very harsh penalties for illegal drugs. They became the first country in Southeast Asia in 2018 to legalize cannabis for medical research and use, and I think that's still true. I think they're still the only ones. Yeah, I think Thailand, harsh penalties in Thailand definitely means something far worse than it

means here. Oh, harsh penalties, maybe a $100 fine. Harsh penalties in Thailand, I don't even want to... I don't want to know. Yeah, I mean, I know they're not savages, but maybe they do like a... I don't know, what do they do? Probably jail, at least. And then the way worse, they're putting weird things under your fingernails. Nobody wants that.

Cained and I think about that poor warm beer kid. Oh, yeah. Because that was Thailand, wasn't it? Was it? Now I just want Thai food. Wow, this puts you in a weird mood. It did. You know, getting whipped with a stick and then want and eat Thai food.

food. Hey, Carter, let's eat Thai. Oh, I'm yelling as if she's, can't hear me on the stream. Let's get some Thai food tonight. I think that's the plan. We're not doing great here. It was North Korea. Warmbier was North Korea. Oh, was it? First it was. Yeah, because he took down the poster. Right. Right. Right. So Thailand's probably, have we besmirched to them? Are they, they're fine. Thailand's fine.

Thailand's, well, Thailand, no, Thailand is the one that, that, uh, where a kid got caned. Uh, like in the 90s. Oh. Let's see here. I don't remember Like do we I know we look at Thailand Teenager caned Let's see here

Yeah there's What kind of government are they They are a Caning of school children in Thailand Like these horrible videos and stuff They are now the unitary government Of the kingdom of Thailand The country emerges

A modern nation state Wayne, I always kill those in civilization. That's not good. Let's see. Singapore, Singapore, too. Oh, yeah, Michael Faye was the one. That's right. The American who was sentenced to six strokes of the cane in Singapore in 1994

for theft of road signs and vandalizing 18 cards over a 10-day period in September 1993. This is exactly the one I remember. It was Singapore. What are the strokes? How much is a stroke do you think? Like, whack, with a cane. They just, you know, the official term is a stroke, but the technical term is a whack. A whack, yeah, a whack.

I don't want to have a different strokes. It's having me killing me. I want different strokes. He was ultimately reduced from six to four after United States officials requested leniency, and then he was caned on May 5th, 1994. All right. Well, caning. Still a thing.

Caning, yep. T.RPW says Thailand is a military dictatorship with a. ceremonial monarch. Okay. Well, there you go. Maybe they're not so good. I don't know what they are. I know they have good food. That I know. Yeah. All right. Well, anywhere, that's the thing.

Also, you can get a bunch of cannabis stuff. You used to be able enough to get there and stuff like that. So get in there. Get in there and get your plant done. Ask for your free plan. Yeah. Dial. And I think anybody who was previously caned for having any weed,

you now can cane the minister of health. Okay? You have my approval. Perfect. Tell them Scott, Johnson, Utah, and American sent you. All right, check this out. A Hopkins student, or a collection of students, rather, students, plural, edited, or sorry, created edible burrito tape as part of a design competition.

Not to be confused with edible marijuana. We're off that now. Yeah, yeah. Now this is recreational burrito tape. First, only legal in Mexico, they have slowly. made their way. Medical burrito tape, but pretty soon we'll yeah. Texas will be the first

state to approve edible burritos. Let's see. This is a for a design competition. A group of students at Johns Hopkins University. You probably heard of that joint before. Or a big deal. Yeah. Yeah. Kind of a big deal.

Kind of a big deal. Has invented an extra for your burrito that might be as good as guacamole. For Tuesday's Engineering Design Day, students at the Whiting School of Engineering developed an edible adhesive that can strengthen the structural integrity of the notoriously messy

burrito. Okay, because when you wrap it sometimes, blah, falls apart, right? I don't have a problem with the wrapping and the flap opening up. The problem are the ends for me. Like what you do, you get your junk in the middle. Yeah. Hello.

Junk in the middle. Yeah. Junk in the middle. You're filling in the middle. You flop the sides over first, and then you roll you basically take the bottom edge and you go past the middle right curve it under yeah and then start rolling yeah the problem is that that uh those sides if you don't go far enough on the sides then stuff goes out the sides when you start eating one end that's right and if you do too much on the sides you end up with a lot of tortilla where you're and not enough filling exactly so this is kind of the hang up i don't know how they do it at chipotle and kudoba where they pack so much

damn stuff in a brito and it feels like way more filling than you should be able to get into a tortilla that size. That's true. This is making me hungry for Mexican food. What are we doing? Boy, are you, when Kim is out of town, the slightest suggestion of food is... You're not wrong. You are correct,

man. I don't know how to deal with this. Boy, that chick-fil-a, that peach shake at chick-fil-a. I don't know what they put in that thing, but... Those are good. They're really good. Oh, wait until you get to our final story today about shakes. Oh, man. Oh, yeah, I saw that ahead of, yeah, okay.

Let's wrap up with, let's wrap up the burrito story. I just, yeah, I guess, I see what you did there. It wasn't intentional. These, uh, it's weird, I did not intend this. Every news article today is about something you ingest, all of it. Oh, Coke, Coca-Cola, weed, uh, burritos, and soon a thing I'm very excited to tell you guys about. All right, so here's what happened.

They learned, okay, so they wanted to stop these burritos from exploding into their laps and they were trying to eat them or whatever. They made this food grade, fibrous scaffold, took them months to design. And they say they're going to, it's there, they're patenting it and they're going to keep it theirs. They're not going to share how they made it. So another secret, the Chinese are going to try to come get. But anyway, they say that all they'll say at this point. is all the ingredients are safe to consume. They are all food grade and are common food and dietary additives.

There's a photo here, but I don't know if this photo is like representative of the final thing. But I'll put it up. It sure is not, it's not tasty licking. Nope. No, it's like a chunk of blueberry fruit roll-up that's been licked and stuck on the side of a burrito. Gross. Gross. Claire

And I wonder if I wonder if I Core posted the same thing But Claire Sent me a link to Oh what do you know It's a Well I guess it's a Facebook reel

As opposed to a TikTok But this guy shows how to wrap a burrito Perfectly And oh my God The problem that I've been doing Is this like secondary Flipup of the sides After he's gone

Halfway Hmm Let me see here I'm going to pull this up Yeah, yeah, pull up Clare's. Okay, I'm looking at Clares, so he's... Yeah, so, you know, the thing we all would do with just the sides in, then you roll. But then, as he's rolling it past the content, he is, A, curving the lip of the tortilla under all the content.

And then as he's rolling it, he's folding the sides one more time to get... Oh, yeah. That's the problem is that I don't do that, I haven't been doing that. I haven't been doing that, uh, that secondary fold in. Okay. And that's a good full burrito. It looks like he's got a packed. That is a good packed full burrito right there.

I don't know what is like noodles. Is that, is that boxy that he's shoving? I don't know what that is. It looks like Chinese food. He's put into a, uh, into a tortilla. Wow. It also looks like shredded beef. Could be.

I don't know. Could be. I don't know. It looks like noodles and then big chunks of chicken or something. All I know is you now smother that, put a bunch of cheese. on it, some onions, and we're, and I'm in. I'm all in on that. That's right. Yes. Oh, I got to get Mexican

this week. Poor Kim McIck. I'm so hungry. I don't know why. All right. So there's that. Watch for that coming soon. Now, the big story of the day, the one that's really there to knock all your socks off. Thanks a lot, Dodd Vickers. Yeah. Arby's manager confesses

to peeing in a milkshake. Well, in the mix. So like not even a milkshake, but the thing that makes like all the milkshakes. A Washington State man who worked as an Arby's manager has been accused of peeing into the restaurant's milkshake mix, which would have been later served to dozens of

customers. Vancouver Police found a video which shows 29-year-old Stephen Sharp, not so sharp after all. No. Urinating into a bag of milkshake mix on Sharp's phone while investigating him for possession of child pornography. Woo, bury the lead. Oh my gosh. Wow.

Hold on. Yeah. Barry that lead, baby. Jeez. What I mean, clearly, that other thing is worse, but still, this doesn't help him the whole thing. No, this is not going to help him at all. Not one bit. Sharp has been charged with four counts, each of possession and depictions of minors engaged in activity, blah, blah, blah, I don't want to get too deep on that. And dealing with depictions of minors, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. Sharp allegedly admits to investigators he had urinated two different times in the mixture for what he called sexual gratification.

Yeah, yeah, this guy needs some help. Would you like a golden jimoka shake? Oh, gosh. Oh, that sounds good. It's golden, you say? Never let them do that to you when you go to war on these. If they say that, drive away. Get out of there.

They, they, I was trying to think of a, I can't think of a good flavor joke. There's not one. I can't think of it. I can't think of it. Well, how about the, we've got the peep, peep, pease. No, we, we, we, we, we, we, we. got the, there's nothing. He got the wits, wheeze.

No. The whee's. He doesn't work. The whee's. Yeah, it doesn't work. We'll have to workshop it. We'll let you guys know. We'll take that one back to the shop. Give it a, give it a once over, and then we'll bring it back and let you guys know what's up. Oh, you're in for a great shake. There you go. Great shake. There it is, Pops and her Klein. All right, pop, turn that, title that up. Well done. Anyway, says here, uh, oh, but he did say he was almost sure. He would say, he said,

I was almost sure that I had thrown away the bag after, is what he says. According to a probable cause affidavit obtained by the Columbian, that's a paper, not a small guy from the South American continent. If the bag was not thrown away, approximately 30 to 40 milkshakes sold to customers would have been contaminated. And they don't have any evidence of that. But anyway, nasty. Nasty. I think that pay added 30 calories to those milkshakes. Thank you, Redfragel.

Very good. Very good call back there. Yeah. Nicely done. Also, this officially has made me not hungry. So I'm good now. Oh, good. So as long as we end with a story like this. Yeah. I'm fine now. Okay. All right. Cool. Oh, well, except I just glanced. I still have that video looping of the guy making a burrito. I know. I've watched that thing maybe a hundred times.

Yeah. It's still going. Stupid reels. It's just amazing. Yeah. Those reels. It's such a TikTok rip-off. It pisses me out. Oh, it totally is. I mean, it's like not even a, it's not even a secret that it is, but at a, annoys me. Sure.

Just try something new, the Instagram. Yeah, I saw that, J.C. Calhoun, the, the,

the burrito funnel that catches all the things that fall out of the side of your burrito so it fills out a new taco, fills a new taco.

That's an onion thing, right? No, it's not an onion, but it's a guy who's every video he makes are unnecessary inventions. So,

it's that guy. Oh, yeah, I've seen this guy. Okay. Yeah, he's great. And his, that one is in particular,

it's almost like, oh wow, that's a great idea, but then you realize, well, no, if you put a small flour tortilla on a plate and just ate over the top of it, you have the exact same solution. It's what I do when I go to a Mexican food restaurant where I get a combo that includes a burrito and a tostada. I eat the tostada first over the burrito so that all the lettuce and tomato that falls off the edge of the toastata when it ultimately crumbles, which is what a tostas for, goes as a topping for my burrito.

Yeah, there you go. That sounds, wait a minute. I'm sorry, the chat has gone into a conversation about how TikTok is a vine ripoff. It's not even close to a vine ripoff. Vine is such a periscope ripoff. Well, all right, let's let's do this real quick. Vines were six seconds. That was the maximum. You couldn't go any more video. Short form, short form video. They were square. They had five. That was it. That was kind of all it was. You could do comments. And there was a little bit of that. that and, you know, that's it. TikTok is, even though it started as a different thing, it was more music-based and all that. When they got bought out, changed the name. TikTok was full-sized videos, number one, all vertical, but full-size.

You can do it in horizontal if you want, but full-size. Up to three minutes, although three minutes came later. It was never locked at six. It was never locked at any minimum. Well, it had a minimum, but the minimum was a minute. And then they did two, and then some people can do three, and now everyone can do three if they want.

do. And there's also a billion features in there that TikTok never even came close to. I don't even think it's comparable. So if you're saying, oh, they both do videos so they're the same, well, I guess YouTube's also. I think the Genesis is just locked, time locked, right? Because other, you know, YouTube, you've got way less of a limit. But with Vine and TikTok, you've got, oh, I've got to think about how much I can show in the allotted require, minimum or maximum time. Yeah. And so when everyone else... Not the only thing that they've got. But my main point is when everybody reels on Instagram, YouTube shorts,

I forgot what Reddit calls theirs, suddenly they've all got vertical video with the exact same four little icon usage things, fills them full of filters, adds a bunch of music you can add. Like, they've full on lifted it. So I don't think the comparison's fair. It's almost as if you love TikTok. I don't know. I don't even have any kind of particular penchant toward it. I don't mind. I like TikTok. I think it's as good a, it might be my favorite social media thing because the algorithm there only gives me what I actually care about. And apparently all I care about are dogs and cats and video games and funny stuff. So it works out for me. But yeah, I don't think you can compare them on the features. That's all I'm saying. Whereas if you took a reel and put it next to a TikTok, it's 100% lifted. You, you, you could be confused. You'd see a reel and go, oh, this is a TikTok.

I saw that burrito thing and thought it was a TikTok. Ding. Thank you. Absolutely did. You just said in one sentence what I was trying to fumble my way through. That's right. People pay by the minute here. It's totally fun. That's right. It's all fine. All right. That's it for today's news. We're going to take a break when we come back. We're going to make some things with Bill or at the very least learn about what he's been making. Although he's been traveling. So I'll be really

curious about what he's got today. So we'll do that. We got Bobby after that. Before that, though, a song. Brian, will you play it? Yes. How about something from Inzo, I-N-Z-O. It's been a while since I've done EDM or really electronic music. I don't know if this is really straight up EDM. This is electronic experimental

music. And this thing's great. It's a song called Blasta, B-L-A-S-T-A. combined Inzo and LSD or LS. Dream with their mind-melting beats and earth-shattering bass lines. This is great. Actually, I listened to this and thought, well, this is different. I like it, and I'm putting it on the show. The song was called Blasta. Here's Inzo and L-S-Dream.

One minute, like, like, like, like, like, like. time like this like this. Like Like, you know, like, you know, like, why it's nice, like, why's this. You ain't hands fuck like this before. I don't know.

You want to be able to be. What? Why? Why? Why? Don't. You know, Oh!

Like, Look, each of this donut. Remember? We're empty and sinful inside with no power to do the things that God wants us to do. Not until Jesus comes and fills up that hole. Oh, yeah. I guess I forgot. got the morning stream don't worry about him worry about me

all right we're back everybody welcome back to the program remind the folks at home who we just heard sure that's a song called blasta by Inzo and L.S. Dream, available where you get all your music. Is that a play on LSD, L.S. Dream? Yes, yeah, for sure. L.S. Dream. It's probably, yeah, I bet his initials are L.S. Like, he's Larry Smith, but he goes by L.S. Dream. I like it.

It's like, you know, the crystal method is kind of like that sort of. Kind of. It's all about drugs today here on the show. It's all about drugs and burritos. Drugs and burritos. Your bat caves open there, Bill. Speaking of drugs and burritos, it's Bill Durand, joining us all the way from the headquarters of Punishedprofits.com, and we missed you last week, but you're here now. What's going on, man? How was your trip? You had a little trip there? Yeah, went and saw some family in Ohio. Oh, very nice. What part of Ohio? What city were you in? Dayton area? Dayton. Nice. Yeah. Aren't they all, I mean, because Ohio, you know, it's one of the old states, right? So it's like a little smushed in, so everything's just like right next to each other. So when everyone always says, oh, what city we're in? I always go, well, gee, St. George is four and a half hours away.

But you're probably like, I don't know, a hop, skipping a jump from Columbus or freaking Cleveland or whatever, right? We ended up in Columbus. Our flight was a bit of a disaster. We ended up landing in Columbus and driving to Dayton. Good times. Nice. So how far of a drive is that? About an hour and a half.

See, that's crazy. That's crazy to me. These cities you think of as big independent cities, like Cincinnati or. you know, whatever. They're just not that far apart. It's just one metropolitan area that blends into the next. Yeah, it's kind of cool. I really liked Columbus, but I guess you probably didn't spend much time there because

you just flew there and drove. I got a good look at the inside of the airport and I cruised past downtown on the way to Dayton. Yeah, I got the F out. Well, it's good to have you back and I assume, I mean, you've been, you know, busily traveling, so I don't know how much time you had to build anything, but what's been on your creative mind and in the world of making things with Bill? Well, today I wanted to talk about e-books.

I have several of them. But also, as a coincidence, the website Humblebundle.com. I'm sure folks are probably aware. They sell video games usually, but they also sell e-books. And they currently have a Humble Bundle, cosplay bundle, with a bunch of books, including mine, right now. Oh, wow. That's awesome. Like, we're talking like 40 e-books, like a ton.

a ton of great information. I'm going to go look for a quick. Cool. I usually only think of them. I only think of them as games. I don't even think about this sort of thing. That's great. Yeah, every once in while they do a cosplay one, and we've been lucky enough to participate.

You get a ton of books. It's super cheap. I think you can get 40 books for like $18, which is bananas. And you help charity while you do it. So there it is. The cosplayers bookshelf. And boy, that's a, let's see,

what do they ask them for this one? 18? Geez. 18 of the minimum. That's crazy. And your stuff's in here. That's awesome. Go check it out.

In fact, there it is. Foam Smith 3. Look at that. That's Bill right there. That's his face. Yeah. Yeah. Very cool, man.

All right. So, e-books are awesome. It's a great way. If you're a reader, it's usually a pretty good way to get a lot of information for fairly cheap. And I recommend if you have a favorite creator, like a YouTuber or someone online that you follow, and they have an e-book of some kind.

that they sell, I recommend picking it up. It's a great way for you to get what would usually be their premium content. So, for example, all of my foam smith books, you can get all that information in my videos, but you'd have to watch hundreds of hours of videos. Are you, do you have further, do you have further foamsmith plans? Like, is three, was it always a trilogy? Are you going to put a fourth edition in there? What's the plan with that?

More story to tell. Yeah. I don't, I have some other stuff I'm working on. I have some more video courses that I'm working on, and I don't currently have a fourth Foamsmith book in the works. Oh, I need closure. A couple of those characters were really, you know, the threads that were never tied up.

It's all right. Look, George R. Martin can put off a book for 12 years. So can you. Don't worry about it. Okay, yeah. Don't worry. 20 years from now, we'll have the long-awated film Smith four.

Okay, sweet. it'll be worth it It'll be worth every minute It will I do like that I've written a trilogy though That's a good word It feels very completionist

Law of threes Everybody likes three Three is good Yeah Nothing wrong with that So if you're If some of your favorite makers Have a digital book

I recommend go buying it It's great Because you can fill your tablet With an almost unlimited number of books You don't have to carry You know The paper books with you

everywhere and independent creators are getting really good at publishing their own professional quality books now 10, 15 years ago it wasn't the case but when you look at all the books in that humble bundle the covers all have astonishing photography the layouts, everyone's getting really, really good so the thought that you might be getting a lesser quality book

just because you're buying it from an independent creator is not the case. No, those days are gone. I mean, as much as I loved the era of like zines, like, you know, skater zines and stuff like that or artists are doing zines and things. I love that stuff partly because it was so low rent and so low quality because it just had this kind of guerrilla quality to it. But these days, I mean, just the tools are just there.

Oh, yeah. Everybody can make whatever they need to and make it look as nice as they want. back my first ebook I wrote I I remastered it a couple years ago I

the first one I made was was text it was a text document it wasn't really formatted to look pretty or anything so I reformatted it recently and we actually give that away

for free on our website now but it's a nicer version it looks a little better I added some new photos and everything but that first one was super janky but it got the ball rolling. It totally did.

Sometimes you got to get the ball rolling and then, you know, and then be embarrassed by your ball and then go back and fix your ball. I'm perpetually embarrassed by my old balls. Sure. They're really embarrassing. I'll just say, is an outsider looking in? Those are embarrassing balls. Yeah.

Very nice. All right. So I'm sorry, I interrupted something and then you were going somewhere. Well, I wanted to point out if you're a creator, if you make content, make videos, or podcasts, consider writing and selling an e-book, especially if you make tutorial content. Like, that goes hand in hand. That's perfect for what we do.

What's amazing is you can make your topic about any niche you want. There's no publisher to tell you what you should be writing about. You can dive, you can deep dive into some wacky stuff and find the thing that your fans want to pay you money to read about. sure uh ebooks are free to distribute this is a huge one no fulfillment required you don't have to mail anything so also by the way they're tearing up our um our porch in the back so you might hear some i heard a couple yeah i heard some noise amenity i'm not hearing it now yeah you might hear some hammering going out over there uh anyway i i love selling digital stuff because

people buy it it gets emailed directly to them they can download it i don't have to touch it yeah makes um it's really really awesome from the seller perspective sure uh and you can play fast and loose with the pricing on your books without losing your shirt since fulfillment is free when you sell physical goods it's easy to accidentally chew up all of your margin by pricing it incorrectly or or having like a really aggressive sale yeah yeah because you like lose it on the the shipping yeah exactly yeah shipping sucks uh ebooks are great thing. Like I said, it's a great thing you could use to give away for free as different types of incentives. For example, maybe if you want people to join your mailing list, they could get a

free ebook when they join, that sort of thing. Yeah, that's nice. And it's super easy to sell digital products at other people's platforms. So, for example, this Hubble bundle was really easy. All I had to do is send them my files and sign something and agree to it and promote the thing. And we get extra sales that way. We also have our e-books for sale on our website, but also on many of our other friends' websites, and we split the profits. So all of that

stuff is just so much easier to do when it's not a physical item. You can just send them the files and agree to split the profits, and we just fulfill that at the end of every month. It's really great. What do you think of the current trend toward everybody making newsletters as a new form of this

sort of idea, at least a way of keeping up with people that's a little old school in a way. But in other ways, it's, you know, they're obviously using modern tools and stuff. But have you thought about doing that there? Oh, we have a newsletter. In fact, in 2013, Nicole Spag told me I should have a newsletter. So I did it immediately and I've never regretted it. Yeah.

Still do it. Yeah. I have an email list full of thousands of names of customers. These are people have already bought something from me. And I can email them directly to worry about algorithms or any of that. I can just drop a note right in their inbox. So yeah, definitely, definitely, if you run a business on the internet, you should have a newsletter. Nice.

And then a little bit of advice if you're getting started, if you want to write an e-book. I wrote my first e-book in Google Docs, and I just exported the PDF, and I sold that PDF on my website. It was not technically challenging, and if you want to get started, all you have to do is just start putting words on a page. You could write the whole book on your phone if you want. then the bit of advice I got this was from Brian Brushwood when I wrote my first e-book he said write the first book quickly

don't waste a lot of time on it sell it for cheap and then write another one basically you have to get your your credibility as a writer jump started somewhere and you don't want to spend forever writing an epic book

that no one's going to buy a read so write that first one quickly don't ask a lot of money for it so that people start buying it and then keep the trend going, right? That's really, that is really good advice. It's good advice. Hopefully the first one, even though you kind of banged it out, you know, quicker to get it going. Hopefully, you know, there is least a semblance of, oh, this guy's, you know, he's good. None of these words make sense.

As if he just. So that matters some, but yeah. I did. Like I said, the content in that first e-book was good. It wasn't very long, but I asked like $5 for it. the content was good and I got it done I finished I wrote it in a week I think and that gave me a place to start from and now our website and our books make up maybe half of our income compared to the YouTube videos and the ad revenue and all that stuff so worth worth it yeah totally worth it

you're kidding that sounds amazing it was it was only a ton of work yeah but that's all it's only a ton of work. The other thing I've noticed is I think society may be finally to the point where the reason that mail rates have gone up so much, there's a bunch of factors involved, but one of them is

we live in a time where almost anything that has words in it no longer needs to be sent in the mail. You just don't need to anymore. And that's also true of a lot of rich content, video and photos obviously and that sort of thing. So

I'm a little surprised we even bother anymore. We're to the point where we don't really need to have a lot of the things we ship physically shipped that way anymore. A lot of it would be just better digitally. So, you know, some people have said to me, hey Scott, I want a Fred and Can you know, first three years compilation

book. And I always think, well, it's got to be a book, right? No one's going to want to have anything but a book. It's got to be a hardbound book. But maybe not. Maybe it's just a e-book thing. I don't know. Maybe it's something like that. I don't know. I mean, I guess the internet is already an e-book and you can go see the strip any time you want, but what if, but what if I compiled

something that was like, here are a bunch of sketches, here are some early concepts I didn't use, here are some, you know, that's what they want. So yeah, I'll tell you what, what we do with our books is we, when I say we, Brittany does the formatting, we use in design for all that. But the books are formatted for print. So they can be printed and we do got our books printed. But that print formatted book, you just export it as a PDF. Yeah. Super easy. And you're good to go. So you can just

start selling that. And then if people ask for a print book, which is what happened with us. We had e-books for a long time. But then people said, I want to print a copy. People were printing out their own Fomesmith book and binding it themselves. So they had something in the show. So that's when we decided, okay, cool, let's just get these things printed. But

you can format it for print without planning on printing it. And then just export a PDF to sell on the internet and then there's a demand for it if there's a demand start print them yeah print baby that's what we're saying it's brilliant it's really smart nice well uh good advice all around as always and um it's probably nice to be back you're probably feeling like ready to creatively hit the hit the rubber to the road here and go crazy right oh yeah we're we're on video done next week and i'm really excited about it oh very nice uh cool uh you always

have a little bonus link with you let's hear what this week's is what do you got i do ClickSpring, my favorite, one of, I don't want to make a new one feel bad, one of my favorite machinists on YouTube, sorry if this old Tony is watching. Anyway, he's been building this antichythera mechanism for a long time. He finally has a new video out making this backplate, doing a whole bunch of bribing, like, letters and stuff in brass. It looks like a ton of work, but it's really satisfying to watch. Oh, brass is cool.

Yeah. It is really cool. I don't know why there's not more, well, whatever. People think of brass as like a late 60s, 70s, aesthetic or whatever. But I think brass has just always been like my favorite looking metal. I'm with you. Yeah. It's right.

Oh, look at that. Dude, this guy. That's so cool. Yeah. So he's trying to use as old school techniques as possible to make this thing. So he made his own marking fluid and he's really going old school on this. It's taking him years. spend months since another video came out,

but it's probably because it took him months just to scribe all of that text. This is a guy who knows how to take his time, you know? This is a guy who would know how to make a Zathura board game. Yeah, yeah, we were just talking about this. We were saying somebody should make that Zethora board game. And Bill, it could be you. But nobody cares about Zathura anymore.

So maybe it's a bad idea. But the point is, like, that kind of. kind of intricate metal, even though it's a toy, but that metalworking kind of stuff is so rad. And this looks like it's just a really hard version of that. Like, man. Yeah. Look at all these little tiny, oh my gosh. That's crazy. All right. My eyes couldn't do it. Even with the best zoomie glasses, I don't think I could do this. Jeez, no kidding. Yeah, that's no good. All right. Very cool. Go check that out. That, of course, is the ClickSpring channel on YouTube. And Bill's is Punish Props. Also Punish Props.com. I'll get you there.

hey Bill thanks for hanging out with us we'll look forward to seeing you next week you got it see you guys okay bye bye bye now let's see you bye bye bye I don't know why I did that alright let's do this

let's get Bobby involved you know him you love him it's Bobby I know him and I do love him yeah I love him too it's a cuddly little southern guy you know that's what he is

science time for some science with bobby he comes on the show and does a little science segment every tuesday and we love having him here bobby welcome back how are you i'm feeling southern are you now good good a cuddly are you feeling cuddly is the question uh sure yeah okay very nice always always down for cuddles how far are you from uh pensacola florida if you had to guess oh my geez let's see you had to drive it you had to drive that eight hours eight hours that uh location. Ah, dang it. Because Kim's going to be there today, and I thought, well, hey, they'll be in the same zone,

but you're eight hours away from there, so you will not be. I'd rather fly. Okay, there you go. She's in Mississippi, so for her, it's like an hour and a half drive, no big deal. Yeah, yeah. It's, uh, Florida's a, is deceptively far away. Places in Florida are, even though it's like only Georgia is between us. It's a big state that.

Well, that'd be like me going to Colorado even. That's a 10-hour drive. but you're right next to us you know so if I want to go to Denver I got to drive 10 hours if I want to go to everything's really far away

over there in the west though yeah yeah we're pretty effed up big swaths of open range that you have to get through yeah yeah well lots of buffalo out there or used to be

I think we maybe killed a lot of them but there's no I don't know there's still buffalo out here I don't know where they run wild though probably somewhere and they're protected now so home home on the range

is where I heard that they yeah where the buffalo Rome. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, yeah. You'd look, you paid attention in school. You know what's up. Or that's deer in the antelope. I'm sorry. That's where they play. Yeah. Purple mountains and all that. They're not as purple as you may believe, the mountains. They're their majesty, but they're not purple so much. They're kind of blue and green. Yeah, majestic. Sure. I'll give it that. Anyway, Bobby, hey, science. Let's get to it. Before we get too far, though, you're going to tell me or tell us why it's still important that we have these tests, COVID tests that don't work for four days until you're already sick. How is that good for us? What's going on? Well, yeah. So the antigen test, which are the ones that you're talking about, so there's

PCR tests and antigen tests. The antigen tests are the rapid at-home tests, and they're really useful because of, so you're right. Let me start by saying that. You're right. It does, it can, it can take up to four to five days to get a positive result. And that's why they're always said, it's always said to wait four or five days until from either first symptoms or from a known exposure right so that way you can know that you're going to be getting a good result

or in a state where you will get a result if you need to but remember if you do test positive you're supposed to quarantine for a good time after that too too, because you can be contagious for a while. So it might take four or five days, but knowing even that late is still good to stop spread. And there's data behind this too. There's been a bunch of data that was collected that showed that in areas where there was a lot of rapid antigen testing was happening a lot in that area,

than it was preventing spread of Omicron and Delta. But you're right about the fact that it takes a while and that seems frustrating, especially when you compare it to Delta. Delta, you were able to get a positive result on the home tests faster. And then that was one of the big changes with Omicron was it would take longer to get a positive test. So this is one of those situations, once again, where we're, you know, as best we can, we're trying to keep up with the way the thing changes and evolves, but we're, you know, we're beholden to whatever direction it goes. And so these

tests may be antiquated already a little, a little bit in that regard anyway. And there's not much you can do. So they're not antiquated. It has a lot to do with just how the virus does what it does. So the antigen tests, they, in the name, it tells you what they're testing for. They're testing for the antigen which are the protein like pieces that are on on the virus so in in in in the case of of COVID we're talking about those spike proteins it's looking for those and without getting into the details about like how the chemistry works and everything it's basically if those spike proteins are in there the test can detect it and causes the the the the strip, the part of the strip that has the line on it that you're looking for has a different

chemical there and it will change color if it encounters one of these proteins in the COVID thing. So the reason I say that is, and explain that is because you have to have enough fully formed and the virus has to have replicated enough for the virus has to have replicated enough for there to be these fully these proteins there which since they're on the surface of the virus itself like the the virus has to form and and replicate enough the reason the PCR tests are faster is because they're looking for something else what they're looking for just little pieces of the DNA in the in the virus and it's not just that they're looking for little pieces but the technology of a PCR test PCR means polymerase chain reaction. It's the technology that's being used. And what it does is it just, it looks for little pieces of DNA or RNA

and then when it finds it, it amplifies it by replicating those RNA. It just copies them over and over and over and over again, and it's a chain reaction that carries. And so it amplifies that signal if it exists. And so you don't need very much of it. for it to be able to detect it. The downside to PCR test is it takes longer to get a result.

So the PCR test is not a practical thing for home, I assume, for many reasons. Like, what are the, is there any, like, big, why are we not doing PCR at home even if it takes longer? It takes, it takes equipment that you don't have any of home, and you need to be specially trained to use. Got it. Okay. So they haven't figured out a way to shrink that down and do something you can buy as a kit and just have. That's what, what's their name with the weird voice was trying to do? Weird voice.

Wait, who? You know, with the, with, what was the, you know, she, she scammed everybody. Oh, what was your name? Oh, Pheranos. Yeah, Pheranos. She wasn't trying to make it so that you could do it in your home, but she was trying to make it. The drop of blood tells you every single thing, yeah. Yeah.

That's right. So, it turns out that it's not easy to do that. Yeah, it turns out she was also kind of lying through her teeth that it was easy to do. Even if you do have Said from Lost on your side. It doesn't work. Yeah, even then. And I always thought, if you had that guy. on your side, you're good.

You got Saeed. You can do anything. Yeah, you're golden. Except get off of this. Red Fragl, Amy in the chat was asking, does that imply that the tests like are looking for something different than what Omicron

has or something like that? No, it's just that maybe, I actually don't know the details about that, but I think what I know is that it just doesn't have as many, just whatever specific chemistry is going on with the tests, Omicron is better at evading it. It just doesn't get picked up quite as easy.

But it's the same thing that's happening. It's just maybe there's another protein on the surface that interferes or something like that. I don't want to say too much because I don't know technically what it is. Right. But, yeah. Interesting. Well, there you have it. That's why these tests differ, everybody.

So enjoy. What did you actually come with today, though? What hot topic is just ripping out of your brain? I actually had a choice for you, and that was one of them, because I just read a whole thing about rapid antigen test accuracy. But also, you know, there's black hole, the we've imaged the black hole in the center of our galaxy. Oh, yeah, I just saw the photos of that thing. That's really cool.

Yeah, it is really cool. So it doesn't look a lot different than the first one that we imaged, if you remember that. But you would expect that black holes would probably mostly look the same. So that's not surprising. But it's pretty cool that we've finally done that because since the 80s we've theorized, physicists have theorized that our Milky Way galaxy probably had a supermassive black hole in the center of it. And just like pretty much any spiral or elliptical galaxy probably does, but we'd never, we all, the only evidence we had was observing the, well, this isn't the only evidence, but one of the main pieces of evidence that we had was observing the motion of stars near the center of our galaxy and how they, they orbited around very fast around something that we couldn't see. In fact, some of the stars were moving at like, I think, like, 14 or 18% the speed of light as they orbit closely to the, which is very fast for a star, by the way. Oh, are they normally slower than that?

I have no idea. They're normally moving a lot slower than that. If you're moving at like 14% the speed of light, like, that's the dream right. there like that would get us to places um but uh that's that's we're not doing that but these stars that are moving very it takes a lot of gravity pulling really hard on these stars to to get it to go that fast but we now have direct evidence that there there is in fact a supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy so that's cool yeah to know muse theorized that too with that song uh did they supermassive black hole yeah oh nice that's how you know they were

Steamed physicist. Yeah, Steemed physicist. Mews. It'd be funny if it was like Brian May and has an actual like doctorate. Right, at an actual degree.

Yeah, yeah, that'd be funny. Yeah. So why is it always so damn blurry when I see it, Bobby? Why does it always look like a big, you know, just an ugly thing? Do we not have the tech to see this better? Or what's the deal?

There's a couple of reasons. Black holes are really hard to see. They are, in fact, by nature, not easy to see. Because of what they are. They capture, so in case anybody happens to not know, a black hole is a black hole because it's got such intense gravity that it captures any light that gets within a certain distance from it.

So you can't, by definition, see it directly because any light that gets into it will not come out. So it's a black hole. So it's hard to see. but also because the way we have basically to see it you have to have

a very very very large radio telescope to be able to see it so large in fact it has to be like as big as the earth to be able to see it so you might be wondering how do we see it then

because we don't have a telescope that big but uh you're able to use some fancy fancy physics and math and and tricks to to combine radio telescopes that are located in a bunch of different places all over the earth and all point them at the same place and and um and then combine all that data to effectively have a telescope a radio telescope, that's the size of the Earth. They call that, what was it called? The Event Horizon Telescope is what they call. That's where Sam Neal gets all cracky and gross-looking.

Well, you know what the event horizon is, right? Maybe you don't. The space of where you're in the sweet spot between two gravitational poles? No, it has to do with a black hole. It does have to do with gravity, though. It's the event horizon is the horizon over which you can no longer see things that are around the black hole. It's the point that when light gets close enough, it can no longer escape. That threshold is called the event horizon.

So theoretically, if you could be near a black hole and see everything behind it, but not see the black hole because of you can't. but you would see a shadow, a dark circle that the edge of that dark circle would be the event horizon because that's when nothing can escape even light. Yeah. And the movie, the concept was when they finally got to observe that, it was a gateway to hell, basically. And then all the demons came out. It's not fun to get that close. No.

It's pretty bad to get that close. And Sam Neal gets all ripped apart. What I was thinking of was that thing in 2010 that kept the... the ships in the synchronous orbit around Jupiter as they were inspecting the monolith, you might be referring to Lagrange points. Maybe that's it, yes. Lagrange. I remember Zizi Top, the noted physicist Zizi Top, talking about the Lagrange point.

Specifically, drummer Frank Beard, famous for his dissertation. That's right, exactly. Famous both for his lack of beard and his discovery of the Lagrange point. That sounds right. Ask your uncles, everybody. When you have multiple gravitational, like, large bodies, the points at which their gravitational forces cancel each other out to where you can have a stable orbit at that point.

Yeah, it's French for the Grange, by the way. That's right. Yes, exactly. So that's interesting. So if we ever want to, the close, we're probably as close as we're ever going to be to a black hole without problems, right? We're never going to just like get, I mean humans. We're never going to get like flying up in there or go anywhere near that.

We're not as close to one. I mean, you can get pretty close to a black hole, believe it or not. Like, you can't get right up to the event horizon. But one of the misconceptions about black holes is that if you're around a black hole, then eventually you'll just get sucked into it, right? Yeah. It's not true. Imagine that our son suddenly turned into a black hole.

It wouldn't, and it can't for many reasons, but just forget that. Imagine that our sun turns into a black hole. Well, it still has the same gravitational force as before it was a black hole. It's just in a smaller package now. So, believe it or not, if our sun just suddenly turned into a black hole of the same mass, we would continue orbiting it exactly the same. Now, there'd be no sunlight, so we'd all die. Yeah, we'd all be dead.

Yeah. But the planet itself would not get sucked into it. Really? So it doesn't... Interesting. Okay. Okay. So Hollywood once again. I thought it just turned in this big massive gravity suck. Like a gravity well, yeah.

No, anything that is currently orbiting the sun without any problems. We'll continue to do that because you have not changed anything in terms of gravity when it does that. So there are plenty of stable orbits around black holes that you could. be at. It's just once you get close enough to it where you can no longer escape its gravitational force, that's when there's a problem. That's pretty close to a black hole. You'd have to get pretty close.

Yeah. So this idea that you get sucked in and pulled apart and stretched out and all that, it's all movies. Well, that's true. It's just again, how close are you going to get? You've heard of spaghettification. Yeah. Oh, yeah. The idea that if you get too close to a black hole, the gravitational forces are so great that the gravity acting on your feet is greater than the gravity that's acting on your head so it pulls harder on your feet and stretches it out

and then it and so you let that's what physicists actually call it as being spaghettified because it would pull you into a long string of person it's a real visual they've come up with their spaghettification of a man spaghettification when you're here it's good there aren't a lot of there aren't a lot of really like good names of things in physics sometimes. They're all very technical.

Like, for example, the star at the center of our galaxy is just called Sagittarius A-star. That's boring. It's boring as hell. It's better than most other ones that are just like MR-43 or something like that. Well, at least those are kind of, I don't know, they sound like not evil, but like, ooh,

an ominous number with a letter in it. Ooh, at least that's something. But when someone goes, oh, yeah, that's the son we call Frank. It's like, lame, dude. I like, I want some sci-fi in my naming conventions. I would like Frank, though, because that, you know, like, I know a Frank, it would give it personality. It would, I start putting personifying it. Like, I could, I could be friends with the Frank Star.

You could be friends with the Frank Star, yeah. I don't think I know. Franksler would probably give you a ride to the airport. Probably would. Probably help you move the couch. I would give Frank Star. Yeah. The best tip I could on Lyft.

Okay, all right, good. Not on Uber because we don't like Uber. Hey, so I just occurred to me. I don't think I know a Frank at all. I don't know any Franks. I don't actually know if Frank. Your grandpa was Frank? My grandpa was Frank.

I don't have any Franks in my life. Yeah. I don't either. I lied to you. Cousin's late husband was named Frank. See, all these Franks. My last name's Frank and Burger. Oh, that's true.

And he's a, yeah, you know a Frank, you know a Franks. I'm a Bobby Franks. I know a Frankenberger. I know. You know, uh, an old man Franks. Old man Franks, which is a fake name, though. It's not really his name. Yeah, that's well.

So I guess I'm out of, I don't have real Franks in my life. You're out of Franks. You need to head on over to the grocery store. You can never be out. You should never be out of Franks. Oh, no, I'm hungry for Franks is what he's about to say. Imagine a big dressed hot dog, Brian, with everything on it. Oh, my Lord.

That sounds good. You can get one of the. those at five guys, too. I know, and they're good there. Don't make me go there two days in a row. My wife needs to come home. Oh, my God. Just. Well, anyway, Bobby, always always fun to go down these roads with you.

Always, always fun to go down the black hole. The old black hole road. It's like that famous song. I'm taking my horse to the black hole road. Oh, I was using black hole road. Oh, that's a good one too. That's better. That's more generation appropriate

for me. Yeah, it is. Exactly. Yes. Bobby, tell us where you can give more science advice on your cool podcast. How can people get it? What's it called? Science advice is where, that's what we give on all around science is the name of the podcast. Me and Mora talk about science news and whatever cool things. We just talked about something really cool yesterday. It's this thing I'd never heard of before called phytomining.

Phyto means plant. And it's plants. Oh, P-H-Y-T-O mining. Yes. Plants that can literally pull metal out of the soil, and then you can extract the metal from the plants. So it's plants that people are working on figuring out how to, they are able to do it. It's just how do you scale it up. Whoa, that's cool.

I didn't know there's metal in plants. Man, plants are so metal. I had no idea. Exactly. Is that, I mean, like a significant amount of metals? Like a lot? Yeah, so mining right now. So I'll give you a little tease for the episode, then you can get the rest of it on all-around science.

But mining right now, the whole process, if you take a big chunk of stuff that you pull out of the ground, the best mining practices are like, I think like, I don't know, like five to ten percent of that stuff is going to be metal. You're going to get metal out of it. But with phytomining, it can be up to like 35 to 40 percent of the material. And I'm not talking about it. Just like literally, you have plant mass. That percentage of it would be metal. So you're not digging in the earth and it's more, it could potentially be more efficient. It could do all sorts of things.

There's other benefits, too, about reclaiming toxified land too. So check out this latest episode of All Around Science when we talk about it. Very nice. I think that'd be a great idea. You guys should all go do that. Do it now. And Bobby, I want you to have a great week and come back here. next time and talk more stuff like this. I will.

Oh, except it won't be next week because I have a dental appointment where my face is being worked on, so you won't be here next week after that. The week after that, you will be. Jake. Oh, I cut them off. Didn't mean to. It was a good one. Yeah. I actually kind of didn't mean to do that. Also, I just closed my browser and I don't know why. What is it wrong with me? Scott, come on now. You've been at this for a while. You shouldn't talk. I'll tell you what's next. Uh, end times.

Oh, good. End times. As what says in our notes? Fantastic. It says in our notes. Yeah. All right. This is loading. it's loading, we're loading. While you're doing that, I'll tell people that on America's Next Top Podcaster.com, as of this morning, you can go and listen to the three entries in the Ali Spagnola interview challenge. Each team had 15 minutes to interview Superstar, Superstar and High Fiver, Ali Spagnola, and then turn that 15-minute interview into a 10-minute podcast.

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just got to read about them. It's over at frogpants, or sorry, over at patreon.com slash TMS. For everything else, if you want to request a song, if you're looking for ways of contacting us, a million other things, all things related to the show, you can find those all at frogpants.com slash TMS. We will now exit the building, but before we do, a song Brian has brought to play. What are we playing? What are we doing? Sure. Well, I had to make up to Talia because she sent a request in a while back for a Kit Boga cover. And Kit Boga is this person on, this guy on the internet that does these amazing um he trolls uh scammers right so he he finds these scammers we're like oh yeah just sent me a uh a gift card worth this amount and i'll do this

blah blah blah you know oh i watch this guy on ticket he's great this guy he is great and he keeps he does this amazing voice that it sounds like an old lady um what do i need to click again I've seen him do it where he's actually gotten money out of these people. Yes, yes. And he's gotten them to sing like Spice Girls songs and all these other songs like, Well, while I'm waiting, could you sing, do you know the first few words of wannabe by the Spice Girls or something like that? I don't know how he does it, but this guy is a national treasure. He's done for scammers what that rober guy has done for porch pirates.

Oh, yeah. We need to clone and make, you know, weaponize these people. Anyway, Talley requested a cover by him and I just couldn't do it. Couldn't find anything that I think would work well on the show without the visuals. It's very important visuals on this show. They do, yeah. For audio podcast, it really matters. Right.

But she did send this cover in and I felt like, well, I have to do this one because I didn't do the last one. She says, hey, cover brain. So the TV show Amphibia is ending this last. weekend or ended this last weekend and i'd like to remember it it's just a kid's show but it meant a lot to me going through a hard time in my life there are a lot of remixes and covers of the theme song on sound cloud that could work or just make sure they're a decent length if not um you know here's a link to one that i really like blah blah blah uh fornicate arts of the electronic variety sign tallia nice i checked out some of this show amphibia it looks really cool it you know all right if it's a

the kids show, sure, but it looks really, really cool. And I kind of want to watch more of it, so I might have to do that. So, she requested a cover of the theme song. Well, I've got one. Actually, there was an episode called Battle of the Bands. And on that, there are two songs that have kind of gotten merged together in this cover. It's a heart stomper and no big deal covered here by Meals of the song from Amphibia. Here's Heartstomper and No Big Deal.

Don't mess you up with me, guys. Here we go. I'm a heart stomper. Stomping on hearts. If you want to get away, you're going to need a headset. I can keep this soap on ever if you're trying to so better. to get out with someone else

You can call it to control off a heart like a roach I'm just looking out for myself I'm a heartmaker taking those thoughts You can tell me that's not made But I'm perfect for the part I can keep this so forever

If you're trying to feel better To get out with someone else You can call it to cut off, don't know, I'm just looking out for myself. Come on, then. On the feet, please, Maasie. I can keep this so forever if you're trying to feel better to get it up with someone else. You can call it, you can't control.

I'm a hard, like a roach, I'm just looking out for myself. I'm a hot-soper! Took a leap, through a box, super weird to a swamp with logs talk. Now I'm stuck, got no plans, just my luck I'll do the best that I can. Making friends and enemies It's weird but they get screwed on me It's no big deal You're no big deal

Find a way to start again We shot the dirt and make some plans It's no big deal You're no big deal That should be ill Crazy sting, really's no big deal Well, it's certainly shocking, I just hope There's a very cool guitar solo about to drop

Here goes Such a wigsite! There's no big deal, yeah, no big deal. Yeah, no big deal. I feel at home in a place that should be real. Kill the fly, but it's no big deal. But it's no big deal. Even flies, but it's no big deal.

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