The Morning Stream - TMS 2301: Carcalepsy

Episode Date: June 8, 2022

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thing with stuff. Good morning, everyone. Welcome to TMS. It's the morning stream for Wednesday, June 8th, 2022. I'm Scott Johnson, and joining us today in the co-host chair, Kim Soans Johnson. Whoa. How's it going? I'm good.

You haven't been here since last time. Brian was sick, I think. It was a long time ago. He went to Ireland. Oh, it was Ireland, right. That's right. He went to Ireland and you had to sit in. And that was good. And so every time you're on, people enjoy it, I thought, hey, let's have Kim today. I hope so. Because Brian is out sick. If you're wondering why we didn't have a show yesterday,

Brian was pretty sick. It was super last second, so we weren't able to cover yesterday. But we're back. And hopefully he is going to be just fine tomorrow. He has a percentage thing he does where he'll say, I'm currently. at whatever percent, right? And I just saw him in the chat. He popped in to say, hi. He's at 42%. That's not very good.

Oh, no. That's low. I'm at 92%. That's how you're feeling? That's how I'm feeling. I feel, I don't think I'm ever over 90. I think if I'm lucky, I'm at 90. You know what I mean?

Is that bad? Should we be at a higher percentage? Yeah, probably. But it's hard to do. All right. I mean, I'm a morning person, so I think that's why I'm at. a higher percentage. If you asked me this afternoon, I'd be like, eh, 79. So if I ask you tonight at, let's say, 4.30 in the afternoon.

That all depends on if dinners in my head or not, what we're having. Yeah. Because otherwise, I get up and go, oh, I'll figure something out. We might have to have something on an app on a phone. Hmm. No, it's, we hope he feels better and soon. I hope so. Yeah. He'll be, I mean, he usually, he's a quick recoverer. Unlike me, I tend to languish when I'm ill and takes forever or whatever. But in his case, he's usually like, pops right back up. Yeah, because he rides his bike all the time and he's getting ready for the MS-150 and he's, like, way more in shape right now than I am. So I think that's probably to his benefit.

His percentage will go up as a result. And I have no doubt. But anyway, Kim's here. Welcome. Thanks for hanging out. Thank you. Being here. Thanks for having me.

Sure. You know the drill here. We talk about a bunch of stuff. do a lot of morning things. You and I have taken our fair share of Uber's and lifts, although we prefer Lyft, don't we? Do prefer Lyft. Well, I found this thing.

It was actually sent him by Justin, so when I say I found it, he sent me an email, and I found the email, yeah. Good job. Dustin, thanks for sending this in. He sent in this very interesting note about the 2002 Uber Lost and Found Index. These are the most common items lost and found in people's cars. So if you were an Uber driver, you would find this stuff in the back of the car, or front of the car, whatever, that people leave, right?

Okay. Do you have any guesses as to what you think the number one? What is the one thing you think most people leave in an Uber or Lyft by accident? Phone or wallet? Ding, phone is correct. Phone slash cameras is how they list it. Oh, okay. I don't know what other camera there would be.

My wallet is attached to my phone. So I guess that's why I said phone slash. Oh, yeah. Well, wallets number two. That's number two. So you're right on the money. What do you think number three might be? A shoe.

And I only say this because I used to drive kids around a lot, park, school, library, wherever we were going. And for some reason, I would end up with kids' shoes in my car. And I thought, how in the world did you forget your shoes? Well, I guess that counts as number seven. Seven is clothing. Okay. Shoes are in that?

Do you think? I don't know. Do we think our shoes clothing? Different because I feel like people can leave a jacket very easily. shoes, I've never understood. Like, how did you walk out without your shoes on? But when that R&B song says take off all your clothes, he means shoes, too. Right?

Unless you want some weirdos standing there. In order to get a lot of your clothes off, you have to take up your shoes. I guess it depends on what clothing we're talking about. Let me ask you this. Is there anything less attractive than a man completely naked except his shoes and his socks? probably not probably not because we already suffer in this regard we're already problems we have problems right we look already utilitarian yeah we already look bad I don't know why women like us at all or men or anyone of any persuasion I don't get it

I don't know why you like men but standing there with just shoes on what a nightmare yeah it's the worst now if you had some pretty worried I would just laugh if you had some pretty like, you know, I don't know, a Victoria's Secret model, standing there, buck naked, but still has on the shoes. He depends on the shoes. That'd be fine. That sounds all right. She's in her running shoes.

But it doesn't look bad the way it does on a hairy dude. Just a hairy, freaking lumpy dude. Yeah, that's pretty bad. Anyway, what do you think number, oh, you didn't get three yet? What do you think three is? think you got to get I don't know I'm just going to give it away

I was trying to give a good hint without giving it away laptops or computers or is that on the list it's not on the list surprisingly yeah that surprises me I thought there would be third one is keys

really oh I guess so you're not driving so you don't need your keys plus what's the percentage do you think like there's got to be a pretty high percentage of Uber slash Lyft

passengers are drunk or being sloppy or that's a lot of reasons for taking them i would imagine right that's why they're getting picked up at the bar because they got to get home because they don't want to drive whatever aren't as many taxes around sure uh this is my biggest fear if i was so brian does a little bit of the lift driving here and there i don't think i could do it because i just know i'd get some puker somebody's going to puke you just know it's going to happen i heard that they can charge for that though who can the driver who do they charge the the the you charge the the user? Through the app, they can charge. Because the app has the user's information, credit

card, things like that. If you, if someone were to puke in your car, you can charge them that. You do like, barf charge? Probably. And the person who barfed pays, not the company. Correct. Okay. I didn't know that. That's cool. I've heard that. I don't know because I've never thrown up in the car. You felt like it a few times. Yes, I do get cars. Kim gets cars sick. Oh, by the way, Can we make a quick clarification? Everyone always wants to know why Kim is always driving me around, and I'm not the one driving. Can we not clarified this yet? We haven't really.

There's a few reasons of one of the main reason is that you get car sick and you don't like the way I drive. I get very car sick. Yeah. And you don't like how I drive. And I don't love how you drive. I don't love how anyone else drives. Right. It's not like a personality.

It's not a me thing. Everyone who drives and Kim is in not driving, she gets a little car sick. I have to either be in the front. Yep. if I'm in the back I will definitely get car sick I'm that the dog's saying really car sick

there must be oh van must be here oh the boy got here uh anyway yeah like Kim needs to drive or else she feels gross yes I feel gross and I don't want her to feel gross I like to drive also I

I got my dad sense of direction I kind of know where I'm going most of the time yeah unlike me true I'm bad at that so I miss a lot of things I don't even run the phone well when she's like all right give me directions we're in I'm like, now. I need him right now. And he's like, I'm getting it. I'm getting it. And then we miss the exit. Oh, shoot. Okay, we'll get in the next one. It's like that sort of stuff. So that's the main reason. When she's not around, I drive just fine. I have a perfect driving record. I've only had one ticket. Also, if Scott drives for very long, a long drive, he gets really sleepy. It's really sleepy. It's not good. No. If we go anywhere that's longer than 30, more than a 30 minute drive, I'm just about crash. So bad. I don't know why. It's weird. It's like a, it's like a.

form of it's a good setup because i it's not like we're arguing over no it's my turn to drive it's it's i like to he doesn't so is that narcolepsy what's that called you fall asleep narcolepsy narcolepsy i don't have narcolepsy and so again i'm not trying to you just the movement of the car and the sound of the car makes you sleep yeah it's because you know what it is i blame my parents because i'm pretty sure my mom when i would cry when i was little when i was baby i think she drove me around the block to try to calm me down. I think that's what, and a lot of parents do that. I think what you're doing is making your kids poor distance drivers.

I don't think anyone's making anything here. Okay. You can use that for an excuse if you'd like to. I'm making hay out of, what do they call it? Making hay. Making hay out of nothing. What is it? Is there a phrase?

Mountain out of a molehill. A hole out of a monkey butt. Yes, that. Let's see. Next on the list, number four, backpack or purse. okay makes sense it's where you keep all your shiz again you're not using those items when you drive and some of that stuff in your case the purse would have your phone in it because right now you got like a phone purse combo yeah which it would make me really nervous i haven't told you

this but i don't know how you live like that because i now i've got two important things that you lost at once if i lost a purse it would have my keys my phone my wallet and all the other things in my purse yeah receipt everything all your lady things My chapstick? No. What's your problem? Don't you guys carry that stuff around? You got like the little deals in there?

If you need to, yes. It's not necessary. I keep my ibuprofen in my bag. That's good. That's good. Let's see. I know where you're going there, Mr. How about headphones and speaker?

That's number five. What is speaker? Who's taking speakers with them? Like a little portable Bluetooth speaker? That guy's got to be the most annoying human on the planet. Who would take that with them? That's weird. Really?

That's weird. Okay. Whatever. Headphones. I get headphones. You leave your earbuds, your freaking wireless, Bluetoothy business. That could happen.

Number six, this should be obvious. What do you think that is? Let's say, what's the thing I lose the most? Your mind. I don't know. Besides my mind. What do I lose? What am I always going?

Where are those? Oh, your glasses. My glasses, correct. Yes. Yeah. Classes. I've never found a toupee in there is what I'm wondering. It doesn't say, although, well, seven is clothing.

Who knows what that means? It doesn't say shoes. Usually a sweater jacket. I hope it's not pants. They're getting out of the car without. Yeah, if they leave their pants in there, what does that even say? I don't want to know. Number eight is their vape pen or device.

Well, because that falls out of pockets. Yeah. You ever seen vapor? Yeah, so it's a water world reference. but vape is a thing. So people leave those. That makes sense. That's something that can fall out of your pocket.

Kind of like keys. They're like the size of a freaking USB drive or something. They're tiny. And then finally, or no, not finally. Number nine, jewelry. Okay. Earrings. Once again, if you're drunk and fall asleep,

you're going to, your earring could fall out. Yeah. Makes sense. You lose your earrings all the time, don't you? I'm thinking of something else? What am I thinking of? That's your glasses. No. Something falls out of your head all the time. Like a thing. What am I thinking of? I don't know. Or there's a Carter that does that. I can't think of anything. Number 10 is ID, which is weird. The two is wallet. Ten is ID. Some people just go around at night with their ID though. Because their phone, they can use that as their credit card.

But why wouldn't you, okay. Like for some people, not me. They can have. their phone and that's it for the night right and that so in carter's case let's say she was out on the town right and she's she doesn't have a driver's license because she hates driving and she prefers yeah she prefers public transit so instead she has a state issued id which really is weird because it's like it's just a portrait uh orientation of a driver's license just like anyone under anyone under 21's the same thing yeah it always looks so strange and i think some people in places that card her, see it and go, what the frick is that? Hold on a second.

Let me look at that. Yeah, that doesn't look at the date. They have to, yeah. But it gets her into stuff and whatever. I could see her just using that all night and then for getting it into car or whatever. It could totally see that. If it's in your pocket, if you're in a skirt and you're just carrying it around. Yeah, totally can see that.

Now, good news, in the 10 most forgetful cities, Salt Lake City is not in here. Most forgetful cities. The cities that forget their stuff in Uber and Lyft Car, cars the most okay uh they second year in a row at number one Austin Texas really would you lose anything when you were in Austin last year this year last year last year last 2021 yes last summer or last September yeah last fall you were there uh Charlotte North Carolina I had to say that that way it's not like we knew it was South we know it's not South Carolina North Carolina North Carolina Houston Texas okay right up there

Texas is, okay. Yeah, Texas having real issues. They're really forgetful. Yeah, they also, well, whatever, won't get into it. Indianapolis, Indiana. Okay. They always forget them. Dallas, Texas, so another Texas town.

Wow. Texas has got some real forgetful problems. Yeah, what's going on? It's a lot. It's a big state. I guess so. Kansas City. Kansas.

Yes. I figured. Wait, I know that Kansas City was Missouri. This is confusing. This says Kansas City, Kansas, but it's Kansas City, Missouri. Right. Or is it split? Now I'm losing my mind.

It's both. I always forget because the way the team works, Kansas City Chiefs are technically Missouri. I'm going to embarrass yourself. Everyone there is going, what? Are you kidding me? No. Okay.

Chatroom says there's part in Kansas, part in Missouri. Okay. Do they both get to claim it, though? Okay. like many oh it's like st paul minneapolis it's kind of a twin city kind of thing okay there we go uh let's see where were we oh yeah Atlanta Georgia these are all big hubby zones so it makes sense uh Tampa Bay Florida Columbus Ohio we were there I don't remember losing anything there no I don't think it has

anything to do with you being there it's just people my virginity lost my virginity in Columbus, Ohio. Phoenix, Arizona, number 10. So, there you go. You know why that's because it's so freaking hot you want to just get rid of stuff. He's like, ah, get off of me, keys, wallet, and purse. Clothing? I'm too hot.

Oh, clothes, yeah. All right, here's the most unique. This is my favorite part of the list. I mean, we've been kind of waiting for this part. All right. So all this, everything leads to this. The most unique lost items. Number one, some tater tots.

It doesn't even specify like an. If it was in a container, or was it like, are they just at the bottom of the car? It just says some tater tots. I love that. My fingernail is on the seat. That would be acrylic. It's boba time apron. Is that boba tea?

Yeah. Or not boba fat? Is it the boba workers that are constantly using the obers? Freaking no idea. Foldable unicorn kid chair. I don't know what that is. Okay. That's a, that's a beach item.

Wait, for, it is? Yeah. Okay. Like a foldable chair. Oh, look at a concert. So the unicorn part doesn't matter. I'm focused on the unicorn. Correct.

Uh, 500 grams of caviar. I just said 500 grand. I was like, wow. Grand of caviar. Uh, caviar would stink. That'd be a problem. Well, maybe if it's 500 grams, it's probably a can of it. Oh, good point.

They dropped it from the grocery store. Got it. Oh, that makes sense. Okay. Grandma, my grandma's teeth is number six. Ugh. I don't think they mean my grandma. But.

I know, right? Was it on their necklace or did they lose the dentures? Like, what are we talking about? Wait, you mean something like grandma died so you kept her dentures around your neck to remember? Is that you're getting that? Well, that means someone called in and said, my grandma left her dentures. Oh, my lord. A budal, a boodah locket.

It's hard to say that. A budal locket. Okay. A buddle locket. A boo to locket. You like that? Should I keep doing it? No.

How about we don't? Cat litter and a reptile heating bug. Bulb. Sorry. So someone left their cat littered. So they got a lift back from the pet store. It sounds like it. Sounds like it to me.

Okay. Life is tough, but so are you, blanket. That sounds like something you'd buy. Have I told everybody how Kim is so into these freaking cards that have sayings on them? Like, happiness is, uh, oh my gosh, that's not even true. Read me one. Tell me one. What is it?

The cards? Yeah, the little card you buy whenever you go to like a little shop or something. They always get this cards with say. Oh, the ones that come on little blocks. Yeah, and that say things like your mother was a horse. Remember, everyone thinks we're a nice, normal family. Yeah, stuff like that. Yeah.

She's really into that. Uh, a grass cutter and a tree trimmer got left in an Uber ones. That makes no sense. How would you forget those? Probably put them in the trunk. In the trunk, maybe? Got real big, like heated conversation, you know, political conversation in the car. Ah, this and that.

And then when he left, he just completely forgot the stuff he put in the trunk. I also have a little sign that says, if you're going to act like a turd, go lay in the yard. Oh, wow. That's, do we want to talk about the neighbor turd? We have a new neighbor turd problem. It's fine. No, let's talk about it. I've already fixed it.

Because Tesla is not the problem anymore. It's somebody else. I've already fixed it. I'm going to tell them how you fixed it. Okay. Okay. So Kim was. annoyed because this dog's just wandering over and pooping on our guard. Oh, he wasn't wandering.

I drove out of our neighborhood and I see him letting his dog... No, you see him looking to see if you left. He's looking at me. So he's letting his dog poop on his little part there and he looks over and he literally cranes his neck to see when I get far enough away that he walks the dog over to my lawn. Yep. And this is my back lawn. It's the only one that's like, you can see. I'm the only neighbor that didn't put up a fence, basically. It's also the other place where we have any substantial. grass. It's right there.

So he watches to see when I leave. Yeah. So that he can walk his dog over. And that's fine. But I was in a mood. She was in a mood. So you did what? Turned around.

Yeah. Turned my car around. Came back to my back alley. Yep. Drove up to my driveway, went inside and got a dog bag and took it to him. Took the dog bag right out to him. And said, do you need this? And he said, sure.

And then I introduced myself because he's a new neighbor. New neighbor. Yeah. and got to know a little bit about him. His wife, his kid lived there. His wife doesn't know English. The kid translates for her. The mom?

His mother-in-law. Oh, there's a mother-in-law there. Okay. Yes. That's kind of key. I met her because I went to her house to take them a nice welcome to the neighborhood treat and, you know, afterwards. Yeah. But it hasn't been a problem.

So you made friends. I'm trying to not ever have it be a problem. No, see, last time putting a sign out, antagonizing Tesla Man and all that. antagonized. Nick put the dog poop bag tied in a nice little bow on their driveway. And they lost their freaking minds. It didn't go well. 2015, baby. So we're not doing that. He was 2016 because he was 16 years old. 15. I remember it. It was the same years we had an artacular. You remember 2015? Yeah, I do. That was a big year. Do you know why? Nick was 16 years old, though.

I remember that. Well, are you sure? I had the flu, but yes. You were sick because those little kids, because you were teaching kids. And I was still reeling from the magic and majesty that was Mad Max Fury Road that year. Oh my gosh. I think it was 2016. Okay. I'll take it. In any case.

In any case. I didn't want that to happen again. Yeah. Because police were called last time. Yeah, the freaking cops came. Anyway, I took him out a bag and said, I've been meaning to put out a thing, a roll of bags out here because I have to pick up the poop so I can mow the lawn. so I really appreciate if you pick it up and here's a bag and he's like I just do need one because he goes I usually bring bags out I said do you need one though and he said sure and

he took it he doesn't usually take bags out he always was leaving him as which is the problem well I don't know if he was or not the poops that are back there from other dogs people walk their dogs to my specifically to my lawn I think yeah or don't pay attention when their dogs get out and they just poop on you know what it's fine if you pick it up just pick it up I mean, I prefer him not to do it at all, but still. But I think that some of them are even the dogs that, like Parker's dog, who they, it gets out. It just runs around the neighborhood and poops in my lawn on my plants, usually, not even in the grass sometimes. And then I have to pick it all up so I can mow.

And it's really annoying. Well, I love poop. Pooper. I love Cooper. Pooper scooping. Parker. I like Parker. He's a good kid.

I don't think it's his fault. He gets a pass, is what I'm saying. He gets a pass. His dog gets a pass. Um, he does. His dog does not. Fair enough. All right. What do you think about this one?

Okay. Cat litter and reptile heating bulb. Well, we ever talked about that one. It had to have been in the trunk and they forgot. Had to be, right? Had to be. I don't. Because it'd be a bag.

I can't imagine getting out of the car and there's a bag of cat litter sitting there. You were like, oh, I'm just going to leave it. It's fine. I'll go do this all over again. Yeah. It's no big deal. All right. How about this one?

Life is tough, but sorry. Oh, we already did that one. We did that one. The blanket. Supreme underwear. Okay. what is that it's a brand oh it is you know this of course you know this i don't know this uh pizza costume all right okay here's my favorite oh hold on the same the pizza costume's got to be

kind of big well like Halloween or something yeah but it's got to be kind of big unless they stuck that in the trunk entirely possible okay next here's my favorite number 13 lucky number 13 a shitty painting of a moose that's how it's listed so did they go to grandma's will reading got the painting and then went nah i don't know i've changed my mind i don't really want this i do love it though maybe they were to a yard sale could have been uh unicorn band-aid box got a lot of unicorn stuff here a pie yeah this was after thanksgiving dinner and they're like i'm gonna leave it for this guy yeah leave it for my driver a billy isish ukulele that's an odd one Well, she's the bad guy.

Right, but... What are you going to do? That's not something you wouldn't look back and go, oh, wait, that's mine. That is weird. Six pool drains and an employee of the month plaque, a breathalyzer, lost 40 chicken nuggets. 40, they counted them. Bernie Sanders Fanny Pack. That's hard to say.

Burner? Bernie Sandy's... Ooh. Bernie Sanders Fanny Pack. Bernie Sanders Fanny Pack. There, I got it. Oh, harmonica. Okay.

That fell out of someone's pocket. Yeah. A crochet strawberry. My girlfriend made me. It means a lot to me. This is how it was listed on the I can't find my thing. Isn't that cute? Oh.

I know. It made me sad. That one did. Hopefully they got it back. Anyway, it's a ton of other stuff. They even found a metal leg. Somebody's a prosthetic leg. That must have been a drunk drive.

A tube for chugging drinks. Okay. I don't know if that is. Earned with ashes. It looks a lot like the thing I made for you. when your back was out. Oh, my pee funnel. That thing worked.

My dude, oh, I never wanted to do that again. That was the worst week of my life. Let's see. There was an antique cane and sword. There was a pair of snorkeling goggles and a passport from China. Wow. Just jumping around here a little bit. A power washing machine.

How would you leave that? I guess maybe if you put it in the trunk. Oh, power washer like, Yeah. Okay. That's pretty big, though. That makes sense. A diamond grill. Don't know what that is.

It probably is. They don't mean teeth. Is that what they mean? I think it could be. Kim looks at me and just goes. Well, I've got a camera on me. Come on. People can see.

Let me skip down here. A brown live turtle. I don't know why it had to be brown. That's weird. A spray tan machine. And it ends up. Oh, my gosh. It ends up at the end with 10 pounds of burger meat.

Oh, gross. Yeah. Yeah. Nobody wants that. That's a lot of burger meat. And most of this happens, by the way, on holidays, between 4 and 6 p.m. Very high rate of losses on July 4th. That's amazing stuff.

I love infographic or weird info like this. I love it. That is weird info. On the 4th of July, it's bigger. It's worse than ever. Yeah. It's really good. Anyway, if you want to retrieve them, you can actually tap your trips.

on the app like the Uber app and then you can say oh I lost my so-and-so yeah my 60-pack condom bag or whatever the hell people are buying anyway so there's that glad we got to read that fun list there it's now time for the news do you remember that sound from your kid yep uh today's news brought to you by play retro happened yesterday, Tuesday afternoon. 3.30 Mountain Time is when we recorded it. So if you missed it live, you can get the podcast. We talked all about Pac-Man, and it's 42 years.

Kim. That's a lot of years. 42 freaking years of Pac-Man. I'm 49 years, though. It doesn't sound that old anymore. Pac-Man didn't exist for eight years or seven years while you were alive. Think of that. That is weird.

I know. It's weird. We talked about everything from original OG Pac-Man all the way up to some current stuff and it was a big hefty show and we had tons of fun laughed a lot check it out wherever you get your podcast that's play retro or at frogpants.com slash play retro all right here's a story you like a traveler flew to north carolina with 23 pounds of cocaine hidden in his wheelchair oh my gosh it makes it worse doesn't it 23 pounds that's got to be quite the brick that's many pounds of of cocaine

More than I'm used to hearing about, which makes sense they used a device to carry it around. Let's see, a traveler in Charlotte, excuse me, with a motorized wheelchair and secret cargo hidden in its cushions, 23 pounds of cocaine. The passenger arrived Tuesday at Charlotte Douglas International Airport from the Dominican Republic, according to a news release. Officers examined the chair and discovered packages full of cocaine, hidden within the chair's seat cushions. There was a total of four weighing 23 pounds with an estimated street value of 3.5. $378,000 U.S. It's a lot of cocaine. That's a lot.

Although I hear cocaine's cheaper than it used to be. I don't know anything about it. I don't either. I don't know what it used to be. Where did you hear this? I don't know. Somewhere I read that like some street drugs, despite like overall inflation on a lot of stuff in normal public,

that some drugs have dropped. Is that because more are out there? I don't know. I don't know what that's about. Someone in the chat will have an idea. Hmm. Inflation-proof Coke. It'd be a good title.

Submit that. I like it. Anyway, the seizure demonstrates the dynamic border enforcement in which the CPB or BP officers operate at CLT, said Barry Chastain. He's the area port director in Charlotte. Our officers are determined to adapt and respond to these threats in an effort to stop narcotics reaching our communities. And we appreciate that.

around 118,000 people travel from and to Charlotte Douglas International Airport every day, according to the airport's website. I wonder if this person was actually bound to a wheelchair if they were faking it. That doesn't say. Because that's quite the way to get it in. You know what you do? You make, because they're just called mules, right? But you get like an old lady, like a sweet old lady, you know?

That's what I'd do. I'd hire really. I thought you were going to say get a little old mule. Like an actual mule. No one will notice. emotional support animal My emotional support ass Is what it is

All right well that was fun Let's do this one You know we got those dwindling water levels everywhere Everywhere Like Powell looks weird It's got a big band around it Because it's all that exposed stuff That hasn't been exposed before

Anyway That made for another weird surprise though They found another thing An ancient city An ancient lost city Is that a second one? Because there's another, somewhere else there was, I think it was Lake Mead that had found the city.

I think there was another, no, it wasn't a city. They found a, they found some ruins in Meade. It wasn't a city, but it was like, you know, village. Or was that where they found the barrel. Oh, no, yeah, they found the barrel with the dead guy in it. That's what it was. We heard this while we were in Vegas, Lake Mead's so low that it's exposing stuff that no one knew was down there,

including a barrel with a body in it with a gunshot to its head. found a few more since then. Have they? Yeah. Oh my gosh. Not barrels, but other dead bodies and... It's old, like, 60s-era mobster killings. Yeah. Yeah. Kind of crazy.

Somebody crossed the mob and didn't pay their... Whatever you pay. What do you pay in the mob? Your protection money, whatever? I don't know what you do. I don't know. It says here they found the ruins of a 3,400-year-old city, complete with a palace and a sprawling fort.

Oh, I'd love a good sprawling fort. Yeah. Wouldn't you? Oh, it sounds lovely. If we move ever, sprawling fort. Yeah, that's what I want. Where we can frolic. Yeah, nude with shoes.

They've been unearthed in Iraq. This is Iraq, by the way. After extreme drought, severely depleted water levels in the country's largest reservoir. This is what archaeologists are saying, according to them on Monday. The Bronze Age settlement long engulfed by the Tigris River emerged earlier this year in the Mosul Dam. And researchers raced to excavate the city before. Excuse me, the dam was refilled, which they're now done. The discovery, or no, they're about to do.

Anyway, the discovery is just the latest example of how drought conditions fueled climate change, fueled by climate change, are yielding unexpected fines. Last month in Nevada, oh, here it is. Like me, turned up a pair of decade old skeletal remains. That's in addition to the one they think is from the 60s. So I think you're right, there are more bodies. Anyway, the ancient city located in the Kyristan, Kyrgyzstan region of the site, known as Commune was documented by a team of German and Kurdish archaeologists.

The settlement was likely a key hub during the Metani Empire from 1550 to 1350 BC. So 1550, yeah, because it goes backwards numbers, right? Yes, it does. I haven't had to talk about a BC thing in a long time. Like 1,500 years. It was there, though. Yeah, it's crazy. It is crazy. Since the city was located directly in the Tigris or on the Tigers,

it may have played an important role in connecting the core region to that. empire. So that's all interesting. You know what? I'd like reading history right now. Let me tell you why. It's better than current events. Because historically it's better than current events. Well, at least you're like separated from it. Like I was reading about a... Even though it was terrible at the time. And we're not totally sure if it's all accurate if every single person's idea of what was going on at the time. Part of it is just you're just so far removed from it. So when you hear about like, I was reading about a plague in the, in a Greek city that was pretty much in the city only

but they were being attacked by Persia or somewhere and they had this rule that you can't leave the city we have to stay within the walls and that's what caused the outbreak and that's what caused like thousands of people to die and there's maybe only 100,000 people there to begin with and so it was a pretty big deal and it was probably they think it was bacterial

based on some stuff they know now and had it been now it would just been a quick trip to the doctor and you'd been done but back then I was just wiping all these people out. And there's something about looking at it from thousands of years later that just it's almost comforting. It's almost like comfort food for me. Okay. I like history.

They dealt with this too. Yeah, they dealt with it too, but also. But they didn't have the antibiotics and the. Yeah. But I'm a way, I'm separated from the misery, you know, and all I can do. And so from this angle, I can just go, oh, yes, this is a thing. It's kind of like what's happening now, but it's going to be put into a couple of sentences. And you're like, this is stupid.

It is stupid. Because we're in the middle of it. And it's so much and so big. It's your world. Yeah. It's the world we're in. So, yeah. Because I'm sure back then it was also a lot of people yelling at each other and a lot of infighting and a lot of whatever.

After listening to my family's history, as told to me by some of my aunts and uncles while I was in Mississippi this time, I recorded some of the stories. And you realized that it wasn't what you thought. I mean, it was kind of like now. all these little stories, you have, everyone has their own. That's their own story. And they're all little fun stories and what's happened this year or this week or this month. Do they differ? Like when you have the story but your sister might tell it differently or something?

Absolutely. I think everyone's is different. But when you look at these historical finds or these historical stories, I feel like they are this big overarching story. And it's this, you know, here's what happened. But in everyone's daily lives, it's, all very different. Yeah, that's true. Just like it is now.

That's true. I was just thinking the other day, we got to get that, we got to get the audio from your uncle and convert all that because he's got some great stories. But I was thinking the other day just how strange or how short time is because your grandfather on that side, old school, almost cartoon racist, right? Yes.

Just the ridiculous racist from the most basic, like, you're different from me, therefore, Or, you know, just that kind of, not the complicated racism we have these days. Just this like raw, I'm white, you're black kind of racism. And he was horrible that way. But then your dad and his brothers and sisters, they're in the awkward, it's an awkward phase. Like, for some reason, they all named your oldest uncle, Uncle Blackie, even though, well, we know why. he had really dark skin. Turns out it's because he's got some heritage that nobody wanted to admit to down there.

They all do. They called him Uncle Blackie and it was no big deal because that's just what you did. But it's this phase of like less overt but a little, it's kind of embedded but not quite. Yeah. And then there's your generation where none of you are like that at all. Kim's the least racist person I ever met in my life. It's just interesting to me. That's progress, I guess.

It's progress. It's also where the, the time. time that I grew up wasn't allowing for you to be that. I mean, sorry, it still did allow a lot of people to be that. Yeah, there's still people now. But in my mind, it didn't allow me to do that. Right. It's just a different, I don't know. I think it's progress, I think. I think that's what that is. I did go down and find, you know, that still people my age are, if they're there, still some people are, still racist. Yeah. I don't think that's, I think it's the way you were raised and I was raised to be a good person. And that is where it all comes down to.

But isn't that strange that it just went from like your dad who's like regional manager of a KKK unit or whatever? Not your dad. Your grandfather. Sorry. Her dad's not like that at all. He's nothing like that. But he's literally. Yeah, there's a lot of history there.

And it's interesting to me because I, the more history you find out about my family, we're a very mixed race family. Oh, yeah. In the past. Yeah. And so it is amazing to me that you can be racist against people who you are related to to some degree. Well, look at us on screen right now. So both our cameras are up. I'm the whitest human being you've ever seen.

By any stretch of imagination, I'm like a Swiss man, right? Kim over here, nice skin. Tans up nicely. You go and go to the end of the beach or whatever. You come home tan. I go to the beach. I come home with 50 forms of potentials. skin cancer in red like it's horrible so turns out you've got you can trace like Kim's lineage like

back to um Jefferson's slaves and Choctaw Indians and Choctaw Indian tribe and like all of this stuff and your mom's still a little uncomfortable about all that but in a in her generation's way of uncomfortable yes it's different now we're open about it anyway that was a fun little side note Let's do this story. This is so stupid. Arrested Arizona penis man claims there are more penis men like him. I know. Well, I mean to you hear this.

What? I know. It's a penis man. You're going to learn. Many people believe the infamous penis man graffiti artist who tagged dozens of spots in Arizona was brought to heavy-handed justice by Tempe police on Tuesday. But let's see. Containing the spirit of penis. man will be much harder than anyone expected.

According to the Phoenix New Times, a man named Dustin Shomer posted on Facebook Saturday morning that he was arrested in Phoenix in his condo by a SWAT team. It's scary. That would be really scary. He says, quote, they raided my condo and vehicle

and swarmed my entire office complex in West Phoenix with 25 heavily armed SWAT officers and pointed a silenced assault rifle in my face, he wrote. He was booked on 16 counts of aggravated criminal damage, eight counts of criminal damage, and one count wait oh aggravated criminal damage is different than actual criminal damage i don't get it anyway and

one count of criminal trespassing all related to incidents where he spray painted penis man on various buildings and objects the word the words penis man yeah it's separate two words yeah the words not just not a weiner not just painted a penis not like a building no that's why i that's good i'm glad yes i'm glad yes i assumed maybe he was just running around painting penises on everything like every other 13-year-old boy. Well, this guy claims when they said, so you're the penis man. Okay. He says, no, I'm just a follower of the true penis man.

Oh, okay. So apparently, there's another one out there. There's a penis man who has a whole bunch of minions out carrying out the penis man. Are they his minions or are they just followers? Because I think there's a difference. Well. I mean, either he's telling them to do this or they're like, we respect what you do. We're going to go do the same thing.

That's a really good question. Like, does he know? How do they respect it? It's such a weird thing, isn't it? I feel like there's a few different versions of that, yeah. It's hard to explain. But he says he's just one follower of many who did the taggings. Okay.

So we're going to see more of this then. We're going to get more penis man. Are you excited? It's like a sequel to an MCU movie. Penis Man is here and he's ready. Penile conspiracy, that's right, says the chat. Anyway, so there's a sequel to. There you go.

Shomer might be the penis man. He might not be. Who knows? Arizona, good luck with your penis man track down job over there. It seems a little heavy-handed to have that many heavily armed SWAT officers for a tagger. It depends on what they tagged. Penis man. I mean, was it a federal building or was it the local 7-Eleven, you know?

That's a good point. Was it the mayor while he slept? He's got it written across his face. He walked up with penis man. Oh, no. aggravated that is aggravated that is aggravating to have someone put penis man on your forehead yeah it's it i think that that determines what is going on here yeah fair enough um oh chat room you guys want to see something cute sorry just cut it out of the side of my you want kim can't see

this but uh what do you put i mean you can if you want you just can't from where you're sitting uh i found this old picture of her sliding down a one of those big blow up slides with nick when he was four years old i found out this is from o four He'd barely turned four that summer. And look how fun you two are having. And how tan you are, by the way. And how tan he is. Hmm.

Hmm. Apparently my jeans don't matter worth a poop. Isn't that cute, though? All right. Everyone at home didn't get to see it. That's okay. I put it up on Twitter. All right.

Here's a fun one for moms everywhere. Your mom. I'm a mom. Yeah, you know what's up. And you used to, you know, buy tickets and take the kids to things like concerts or whatever. well this mom has regrets a mom accidentally bought tickets to the red hot chili peppers bagpipe tribute band she thought it was the chili peppers oh no yeah instead she got a bagpipe cover band that's very different turns out very different in 2022 uh here's a reminder you want to

play close attention to what you're purchasing earlier this year uh there is a fan who mistakenly purchased tickets to see red hot chili peppers instead got the tribute band uh the bag pipe bagpipe yeah that's even a whole other level of I got it wrong look I don't I don't want to I mean I love the bagpipes don't get me wrong but red hot chili peppers bagpipe tribute band I don't want to go out too far off the road here but I actually think I might prefer that concert maybe it's more interesting depends on what she was doing though was she buying as a gift for kids like that would suck do they have a version of do they have a version of flea in the band will he perform there's a guy that I saw in shoes but naked.

Yeah. In the 20 or the, sorry, the documentary about the 1999 Woodstock, he performed with the chili peppers on stage, nothing on but a pair of shoes and a guitar. There you go. Or his bass. Yeah, you can cover it up. He didn't.

Oh, man. No. But now he's on, uh, he was on the, uh, what do you call it over there? The, uh, the, the Obi-one Canobi. Yeah. That just reminds me of Shoresy, by the way. Shoresy. Oh, my gosh.

Cover it up, buddy. Shut up. the F up at the Senguinette. Dude, we're so, we really like Shorzie. A lot. Like a whole lot. I don't. I've already watched it twice. Twice now. Is that a thing you would ever

name? What are the circumstances? What circumstances would have to exist for you to recommend that to your mother? That's just never going to. They don't exist. There's no scenario. She would not appreciate it. Yeah, there's no scenario. She wouldn't get it. She wouldn't think it was funny. She wouldn't understand what they're saying. So yeah, so.

So yeah, so. Oh, Shoresy's so good, you guys. It's really funny. I can't believe they pulled that off. Anyway, yeah, so the Pipers, the Red Hot Chili Piper's. Do you hear that? Do you get that? Yep.

I get it now. She says, my mom thought she got tickets for the Red Hot Chili Peppers. It was, in fact, the Chili Pipers stated Emily Bennett in the viral video. This is a TikTok that came out on. She later commented, it was actually a great time. Disclaimer, we wore masks the whole time. uh the clip shows a bit of the pipers playing killer classics killers classics so they're playing killers songs okay i don't like the killers you like the killers not a fan should i like some

some of it i like i don't like i don't like him i don't know why i don't like them i just don't it's just one of your things they just don't sound right to me something's weird uh but she said it was okay turned out it was fun they actually turned out way better than the instance or instance of accidental purchase back in april a detroit fan named aaron ended up with tickets to see the Red Hot Chili Peppers tribute band thinking he'd scored cheap tickets for a group under 400 person capacity venue only to realize his mistake and wasn't able to get a refund. So he went to and also had a good time. And enjoyed it. You know what? I'd see the Piper's fine. Set it up. Let's go. I don't mind. What's wrong with the Chili Piper's?

Nothing at all. Nothing at all. Is that Van? Probably. Does he want to come see you? I don't know. I mean, I wouldn't turn it down if he wanted a quick, if he wanted a quick high. Do you want to go see if you want to see it? I can text Carter. All right. Let's just see if he wants to pop up. All right.

We're a family show today, you know. Brian's down with the illness, so why not go full Johnson here? Let's see what we can do. Chili Piper's are the next nerdtacular. See, that'd be perfect for something like that. I don't know how, I don't know. They're probably, see, that's the thing. They're cheap for everyone else, but probably a little rich for us.

I don't know if we had to get the whole bin. Are they actually downstairs or upstairs? Can you hear them? I think they're upstairs because I can hear something rolling around upstairs. Hopefully it's no one in their grave. It's fine. All right. That's it for news, isn't it?

Is that my last news story? Let me make sure I read that right. I can't see any of this. I give Kim no notes. She can't see anything. It's all right. I like being here. I don't.

You like having. She has no responsibilities over there. I like it. Can't even see the chat. The chat's here yapping on, and you don't know what they're saying. What are they saying? Well, things like... They're saying anything about me.

Uh, let's see. Anything negative about me. Chili Piper's next nerdtacular. Oh. Oh, bring them in. What are you doing? Hey, buddy. Hey, buddy.

What are you doing? What are you doing? Are you hanging out? Yeah. What's your favorite? What's your favorite dinosaur? Uh, teary. Okay.

What's your favorite animal? Oh, I love tigers. You like tigers? It changes all the time. You like this one? You like this pops? Oh, I like this pops too. He's pretty good pops.

Who's your favorite, who's your favorite Nana? Right there. Right there. Yeah. How about your favorite Carter? Yeah, is you right there. I'm playing box. He's going to go play box.

Okay, go play blocks with Aunt Carter. You'll see you later. He's all, come on. Come on, Nana. Carter walking around with her blue hair. See you soon. Bye, Nana. Bye, Nana.

He's so cute. I can't stand it. All right. We're going to take a break. When we come back, Tom Merritt will be here. Got a little bit of the old Wednesday, Tom Merritt time where we talk about the Daily Tech News. So that'll come up here shortly.

Are you excited for, oh, you didn't pay attention to that Apple stuff this week? No, I don't. It's mostly like stuff you're going to get for free on your phone. Very cool. Like if you send me a text and you say, I don't even have to worry about that. See, it'll just show up. If you ever say, I want a divorce.

You can say undo and then change it to, I need a pizza. I need a hot dog. Yeah. Or whatever it is you truly meant to say. That was one thing. It was actually kind of a boring event. It's a developer's conference so it's not meant to be the big consumer hair. Everybody's things.

We're not getting new phones and stuff. That makes sense. Anyway, I doubt we'll talk about that today because it's already been talked about. this week, but maybe who knows? I don't know what Tom's got up his sleeve, but we're going to find out together here shortly when Tom Merritt joins us here on the show. In the meantime, I'm going to play a song. Brian's not here to do his magic, so I'm just going to play stuff I like. And it so happens. One of the things I like is a song he played here on the show before, and I liked it so much that I'm going to play it again. I don't even how long it's been, but it's learned to fly originally

by the foo fighters or foo fighters. There's no the. Do you know that? There's no. Do you know that? know that. It was just food fighters. I did know that. Yeah. I'm bad at remembering that. That's okay. We'll let it go. We'll let it slide. Learn to fly. Great song. Amazing song. Everyone loves that song. I think this is David Letterman's favorite song, I think. And that's why he had him play at his last episode. There you go. I think when he was late night guy. Anyway, I think that's right. Anyway, this is a learn-to-fly cover by a cover band called iTunesana, Itunana, It-U-N-A-I-T-U-N-A-N-A. How would you say that? It's a good lady voice singing and some other folks there doing stuff.

I don't know them very well. I just know this song is really rad. So I'm going to play it now. When we come back, it'll be Tom Merritt. So stay tuned. Run and tell all of the angels This could take all night Think I need a devil to help me get things right

Hook me up a new revolution Because this one is alive We sat around laughing and watch the last one die Now I'm looking for this guy to save me Looking for his side of life Looking for something

To help me burn out bright I'm looking for a convocation Looking because I'm tired of line Make my way back home when I'll learn to fly high I think I'm done nursing this patience you can't wait one night

I'd give it all the way if you'd give me one last try We live happily ever trapped if you just save my life Run and tell the angels that everything's all right And I'm looking for the sky to save me Looking for a sign of life Looking for something to help me burn out bright I'm looking for a complication

Looking because I'm tired of trying Make my way back home when I'll learn to fly Make my way back home when I'll let a fly Away with me I can't quite make it alone Try to make this life my own Fly away with me I can't quite make it alone

Try to make this life my own I'm looking to the sky to save me I'm looking for a sign of life Looking for something to help me Burn out bright I'm looking for a complication looking because I'm tired of trying make my way back home

when I'm going to look into the sky to save me looking for a sign of life looking for something to help me burn out bright I'm looking for a convocation looking because I'm tired of trying make my way back home when I learn to fly high It's so nice. It's so nice not to have to compromise, you know.

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But here's my number. Call me maybe. The morning stream. I'm a leaf on the wind. Watch how I soar. All right. We have returned. Once again, that song is Learn to Fly, Food Fighter song, but covered by I-Tunana. I like the way you say it. It's fun to say. It's fun to say I-tunana. All right. We're going to get Tom in here. We're going to talk tech. We're going to find out what's going on in the world of technology. And we'll do that by playing this first.

With the computer as with any tool, the concept and direction. must come from the man. That man is Tom Merritt, joins us here on Wednesdays. We talk about technology and what's happening in the news with technology and otherwise stuff that will end up on the Daily Tech News show later today, which I'll be a part of because it's Wednesday. Tom, welcome back. Well, thank you for having me.

And what's with being early? I am a little early, aren't I? A couple minutes. Weird. Yeah. It's totally fine. I've been working on this story and I was kind of hoping to have it in my substack and I'm like this close.

Oh, you can stop me in early today, but that's fine. It'll go out as soon as we're done talking here about why Apple didn't announce an augmented reality headset on Monday. Oh, that's interesting. You know what? I hadn't even given any thought until right now, but yeah, they didn't. And kind of people thought they might because the developers conference would be a good place for devs to get their hands on code and start messing with stuff and build out beta junk and all that. And it didn't happen. Why?

Do we know? I don't. I'm sure people do at Apple. But there's some good folks out there with some good ideas about this, including Mark German from Bloomberg and Ming Chi Kuo, the analyst. Those folks are very good at this sort of thing. So the Ming Chi Kuo tweets are probably the best on this. He tweeted that he thinks Apple's headset shipping date got posted.

postponed because of the Shanghai lockdown, if people don't know, caused, because China has zero COVID policy, caused a lot of factories to either shut down temporarily or go into slow mode as they moved all of their workers on campus so they continued working without having to go home because China or Shanghai wasn't allowing people to move around for a while. And that really did interrupt a lot of things. It didn't interrupt everything. uh, Foxcon, which, which assembles a lot of Apple's products in Shanghai, uh, said that they were able to, to sort of keep going. I think they, they lost maybe a day or two. But that probably meant that development stuff got put on the back burner, such as a mixed reality headset. Uh,

and so essentially what, what was saying is, we're going to get engineering and validation tests in Q3 this year. Uh, you'll probably hear more from him on that once that happens, because that's when stuff tends to leak out through supply chain partners, and then we might actually get an announcement or some kind of media event in January, an SDK for developers within a month after that, pre-orders in Q2, and buy WWDC next year, you'll be able to get this thing off the shelf at an Apple store. So it feels like this is not like the Apple car or the Apple TV where they've got an idea, but they don't really know, is it ready yet? This feels like, because they've also, back in May apparently showed it off to their board of directors,

they've got the product. They just need the logistics to be worked out so they can get the timing. And Apple pretty much does things when they want. There's a lot of talk out there about, oh, Apple's doing it because the public perception or they want to fool people into this or that. I'll be honest, that's probably in Apple's calculations at the very end. it's the last thing they consider everything else is is it ready do we like it when can it ship and then they back out dates from there sure and and there was talker there was you know rumor of more um or

new hardware coming out of meta this year which still may happen um sure the end of the year and so i think a lot of people are like well be really cool if they beat them to the punch on whatever their next effort is yeah just just like apple really made sure to beat blackberry and trio to the punch on a smartphone. Exactly. The fact that they didn't sure heard of. Yeah. Yeah, exactly.

This is kind of my point. Like, they kind of don't need to. They're in a position where they're, well, they're in the ultimate position of doing it with whatever timing they want to. Obviously, we want to be, you know, smart about it and whatever that means for them, but they're not in any kind of rush. And I think I'm okay with that. But I am excited or I guess anxious to see that space get mixed up a little, you know,

like not just have meta be the only word. reality get mixed up. See what I did. But you know what I mean? Like some meta is doing great with what they've got and that's great. But nobody else has really blown anyone's minds on the retail side or on the consumer side. And there's some high-end options and other stuff going on that's interesting. But I just think there needs to be some, I don't know, I guess I'm just asking for competition.

And I don't care if it's Apple or whoever. I just love to see more going on. Yeah, there was a story we talked about yesterday on the show about Uber Eats. getting into the business of shipping food nationwide in the U.S. So you could order from a sandwich shop,

get a Cubano in Miami, and have it shipped to you in Omaha. That I caused a couple of my friends to like, ah, they're coming for Goldbelly, those bastards. Which, you know, yes, that's funny and it's true. But on the other end, I was like,

I'd rather have competition than consolidation because another one of my friends pointed out, like, you know, they could have just bought Goldbelly instead of competing with them. And so, yeah, if meta comes out with a headset, if Google comes out with a headset, and Apple comes out with a headset, we win because we have three, if not more,

because there's others out there to choose from. Now, Microsoft running into a little bit of a bump on the HoloLens front because the head of their department there is on his way out. HoloLens Group leader, Alex Kippman, leaving the company for toxic behavior. I don't know if that will slow them down, but it's certainly not going to help him.

Oh, he's leaving for committing toxic behavior, not a new company called toxic behavior. Correct. He's leaving because of his own toxic behavior. All right. Because, you know, I've been dealing, I've been trying to get an interview with this company called Super Evil Megacorp. Oh, yeah. And obviously it's very tongue and cheek on their side, but, and they're ex-Blizzard people.

So then, you know, take for whatever you want out of that. Sure, sure. But it reminded me of that and thought maybe there was some foolery going on there. But all right. Well, I don't know. I just want to see this market get competitive. That's all. I just want to see more stuff.

And I'm very interested in what Apple does. I'm interested in HoloLens 2. I'm interested in, do we ever get anything from the leap frog or what are they called? Frog. Frog pants? No. Yeah, the frog pants mixed reality headset that I'm working on. No, magically.

you're talking about magically whatever happened they did that they pivoted to enterprise they are they're still working on it but they pulled a google glass and they said you know you know who can pay the price we need for this uh big companies with big budgets and and honestly i think that's probably a smarter move because the technology was not as much more advanced as the hype they had built around it implied but there was really something there and and so that that's where they're going with it with the idea that eventually they might come out with a consumer-facing product still, but they want to consolidate their gains in the enterprise sector first. That makes sense. Plus, you know, leave it to, they probably know the writings on the wall. The Microsofts, the apples, and the medas of the world are all going to be chasing the consumer market. Let them chase it. Let's focus on enterprise, do our thing.

Yeah. Well, and I think it's a smart move for a lot of companies to say, let's build a product that works in the enterprise and learn what works there. Yeah. And then get the cost efficiencies to be able to come out with a consumer device that's more affordable. Yeah, that makes sense to me. Well, we'll talk about some of that today. And among many other hot tech stories that always land on Wednesday for some reason. We always have amazing Wednesdays. So I'm looking forward to that.

Tom, anything else going on? You want to mention? Yeah, I'm going to press publish on this substack article right now for y'all. This is a TMS exclusive. Man, this is intense. the news that I'm pressing a publish button. But yeah, if you want to get my write-up on what we've been talking about in addition to our discussions both here and on DT&S, you can go to tectom.substack.com and sign up.

This one's going out to paid subscribers, but I do have things that go out to everybody as well. So go check it out at tectom.com. Oh, and Kim, you should say hi to Tom. Hi, Tom. Oh, hi, Kim. Sorry, my wife has co-hosting. Because Brian's down ill, and I completely forgot to ever say anything while you were here. I heard a little laugh, and I was like, that doesn't sound like, Ibit.

No, that's how sick he is. He's got a lady voice all of a sudden. Well, it's good to have you, man. I look forward to seeing you this afternoon. We'll see you then. All right. Thanks, man. Bye now.

Sorry, I meant to, I shouldn't make that more of a thing. I always like saying hi to Tom. There's your camera. Okay. Sorry, you've got to fix all this now. There we go. Okay. All right.

Now, we're going to read an email. How's that sound? Sounds great. Good. Here's Jacob talking about dentists. We don't like dentists. We like our dentist. No one really loves the dent.

Going to the dentist. We don't like going. Yeah. We like the guy. He's a great guy. But I don't like going there. If I never had to see him again, that'd be fine. We'd still send a Christmas card.

Yeah. Yeah, it's all right. Jacob wrote in says, hey, Scooch and Bourbon. We always have the S&B names. It doesn't count for you. What could you be? You'd be Kilimanjaro. I don't know.

It says, wanted to chime in on your dentist story from episode 2295. I had a very similar experience where one dentist doctor told me I need to have my front teeth filed down. I scheduled the appointment, was preparing for the worst, got to the appointment, and the assistant seemed a little confused about what was being done. Didn't think it was needed for such a minor procedure. The other doctor came in and was like, yeah, we shouldn't do this. they were going to irreversibly grind off part of my teeth. What the hell, he says. Oh, my gosh.

All this to say, years ago, I jokingly started saying Dennis are all made up and we don't have a way to actually confirm what needs to be done. We just have to accept their word and pay them hundreds of dollars. Thousands is more like it, for some of us with bad plans. After they torture us, having heard your story and men and others like it, I'm beginning to laugh less at this idea and think it might be a scam. Thanks for all your podcasts and content. I rarely make it to a live show, but they bring a lot of joy to my day-to-day life.

Well, thank you very much, Jacob. I'm not super conspiratorial on it, except that... Like most doctors, they have different opinions. Yeah, and there are going to be some. There will always be some who are like, we sure make a lot of money on x-rays. Let's get some more x-rays done. You know what I mean? There's got someone somewhere.

There will be some, and there will always be all the different doctors that do the same thing. Yeah. We've happened to find a few doctors and dentists that we like for the reason. reason that they do like to do certain tests, but don't like to, they want to make sure we get all the information. Yeah, I like it. They don't just order tests and go. I remember one time a doctor goes, well, let's just do another CT scan.

I'm like, I just did a CT scan. Yeah. And you have to pay for it every time to go. Yeah, I'm like, I'm not doing another one. I can't believe they almost made me do that. I was so annoyed that day. Do you remember that? Yes, because we went to the hospital to get it done.

And she's like, the girl sitting at the desk was like, um, didn't you just recently have one we're like yeah like six months ago not even that like four months they're like why are we doing this today I'm like good question that's a great question yeah so before we paid our money she was like let me let me look at this let me look at your chart and realize we didn't there was nothing new they could have learned from doing it again yeah well my in my case with the I'm willing to chalk up my problem with the other guys younger hasn't seen this tooth before it doesn't really know the best solution and my my main doctor I always see there has been doing this for 30 years. And he's been seeing you for 20 years. 20 years. Well, no. Well, Nick

was four, so 16 years. No, 18 years. The year before I'd last barfed, 2004. 18 years. Yep, 04. So we're first one. That he's seen your mouth. He's been in my mouth. He's looked at it. He remembers you every time you're in the office. Yep. Remembers your name. Like, he's a really good dentist. The other guy, it was a brand new to the office. Fine. He does a fine work, but he hasn't been talking to you and talking about your situation for 18 years. Yeah, he's been putting stuff in my mouth for 16 years. 18 years. Wait. What? Yeah. What? I know. I don't like that. I don't like it. Yeah. We've liked him enough to stay there for 18 years. We've had plenty of opportunities to move to other dentists. We've moved and we're far away from him now and we still go back to him because I like him

that much. But it's only when he does it. I don't want anybody else. I'm going to start saying that. If your chart, I think that you only see Dr. Matthews. Does it? That must suck for that other guy. That's right. He probably sees that and goes, oh. That's okay. He didn't like my idea of charging him $1,600 for a thing he didn't need.

It's okay. All right. Jacob, thanks for your email. Send those emails into the morning stream at gmail.com. All right. And also support the show if you can. Patreon.com slash TMS. It's a great way to show your love for the podcast as well as support its hosts.

We need it now more than ever. Patreon.com slash TMS. Everything else is at frogpants.com slash TMS. All right, we're out of here. A little bit early today, earlier than usual. No recommendals this week. We'll be doing them next week. Next week we'll have me, Brian, Randy, and Nicole doing recommendals.

Wow. It's a foursome. Wait. I would just recommend Shorzie. Yeah, Kim would just recommend Shorzie again, which I recommended last week. Oh, did you? Yeah. I am rewatching.

Justified, though, and I'm really enjoying it's the second time. That's because Justified is amazing. Yeah. Justified holds up. Sorry. I know you weren't going to have recommendals, but I thought I'd throw in my recommendations. Why not? It's all on Hulu, right? And the newest episode of Somebody Feed Phil.

Oh, and Somebody Feed Phil. Yeah. His dad died, though, I'm sad. Sorry, the newest season. Newest season. His dad died between the last one and this one, and that's sad because it used to be this little thing at the end of the show all the time. Now it's various comedians, which is fine.

telling their jokes. It's like Paul Reiser looks like he's a raisin. What happened to that guy? Whatever, we're all getting old. That's it for the show. All right. So, Kim, thanks for hanging. Thanks for having me.

Yeah, stick around. I'll have you do titles with me real quick. We'll read those. It'll be super easy. Sounds great. For everybody else, we're going to leave you with a song. Yeah, that's right. Another musical selection, one that I also quite enjoyed that Brian played one time.

These are both Brian played one time's songs. And I can't find where I wrote it down. it is. Deco, a group that I was actually, I guess, introduced to on the show, but hadn't heard it here because we don't play them live. We'll put them in later. And I must have missed that one. And their cover of Bitter Sweet symphony. You know the song. Yeah. Yes, I do. And Deco had, the reason I ever heard is I happened to see one of their TikTok videos where they covered part of the video for this song. And I thought, oh my gosh, I got to hear this. And I said, hey, Brian, have we done this song? And he's like, totally.

we've done that song. So I went and tracked it down. I'm going to play it again now. It's Bitter Sweet Symphony, covered by Deco. It's awesome. We'll be back tomorrow. Hopefully, Brian and Toe. Hope he feels better.

All vibes and wishes his direction as he continues to convales from whatever gooky gunk garbage he is dealing with right now. Thanks again, Kim, and everybody listening. Have a great rest of your day. We'll see you tomorrow. See you. because it's a bittersweet symphony that's life try to make it sleep you asleep symphony that's life try to make it sleep you asleep to money too money then you die I'll take you down the only road that I've ever been down

you know the one that takes you to the places where all the vans meet yeah no change I can change I can change I can change but I'm here in my mom I am here at my mom And I'm a million different people From one day to the next I can change my move No, no, no, no, no No No

No I've never prayed, but tonight I'm on my knees, yeah. I need to hear some sounds to recognize the pain. me yeah oh i let the melody shine let it cleanse my mind i feel free now but the airways are clean and there's nobody singing to meet now no change i can change i can change i can change but i'm here in my own i am here in my own and i'm a million different people for one they tell me next i can change my lord no no no no no and i've been blinded down

Because it's a bitters And I'm a bittersweet So funny that's life Because it's a bittersweet So funny that's life This show is part of the Frog Pants Network Frog Pants Network. Get more shows like this at frogpants.com God damn respect! Oh my gosh!