The Morning Stream - TMS 2310: This Other Garbage

Episode Date: June 28, 2022

Brian's Vegas Residency. Ask Scott to ask Brian to ask Alexa to ask Samuel about snakes. Snakes on a Podcast. Tadpool Is Not Wikipedia. I hear boobs and puppy's are good. Did nothing - Problem solved! It's coming from inside the garbage can!! Callused Tender Bits. Questioning Reality...Shows. I Carried Chuck E Cheese For A Long Time. I Don't Like Rats and Fleeeeeeeeees. That's a Long Way to Travel for a Swim! All Fastidious and Tony Randallish. Florida Man-sion. A Wild Puppy Appears! Not answering phones with Bill! Wormy urethra bacteria with Bobby and more on this episode of The Morning Stream. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Snakes. Snakes on a podcast. Tadpool is not Wikipedia. I hear boobs and puppies are good. Did nothing. Problem solved. It's coming from inside the garbage can. Callous Tenderbits. Questioning reality shows.

I carried Chuck Echies for a long time. I don't like rats in fleas. That's a long way to travel for a swim. All fastidious and Tony Randallish. Florida man. A wild puppy appears. Not answering phones with Bill. Wormy urethra bacteria.

with Bobby and more on this episode of The Morning Stream. Let's upgrade the world together. How will you upgrade your world? Hello, nerds. It's the show that made the Kessel run in less than 12 par sex. This is the morning stream. Good morning, everyone. Welcome back to TMS.

It's the morning stream for June 28, 2022. I'm Scott Johnson. That is Brian. A bit right there. Hey-oh. Hello. Hey, and he's standing today. He's not on his bum.

Standing. All recovered and stuff. That's great. Look at that snapback. You did. You did a snapback. I'm right. I think, you know, really has to do.

I, it was a long struggle of like, like having to juggle freelance projects and podcasting and like say no all right i have to do a two hour ride today have to do a three hour ride today or whatever yeah yeah but i think it's because of that that i did um each day in less than five hours and that i recovered quickly from it and that i was able to go up hills without really killing myself yeah turns out uh training kind of basically right it's amazing right uh training works yeah weird who knew who knew well i'm glad to hear that. I have a story of a haunting to tell. We're not usually, not usually a ghost believing a bunch here on the show. We're not really into, you know, that sort of thing. There's some scary

haunty music in the background. I don't know if I have anything that's scary. Let's see. Oh, I probably do. Hold on here. Let's see. Let's do, here's something mysterious it says. Okay. Oh, yeah. Oh, that's good. Yeah. Okay, so here we go. All right. So this is playing. I'm going to turn it down. Okay, so... Dearest Martha. Dear Martha, I was a vampire today. This is my 14th day in the haunted mansion, waiting for them to start the cars again.

That sounds like a nightmare. I wouldn't want that. All right, anyway, so here's the deal. You know, I complained about it before on the show that we have these alarms in our house that just go off for no reason. Beep, beep. And usually it's battery, but sometimes it's not. sometimes it's just because it's doing it and then the last couple of weeks or i don't know maybe two three weeks ago they just started going off fully going off for no reason at random times and then they

would stop and then they would go off again and then they would stop and then they stopped and we're like okay we're good i guess we don't have to think about this for a while it's a problem solved itself yes we thought it did or we'd hoped it did uh yesterday me moo meoo started going off again oh no like uh Freaking out. Just going off like crazy and it wouldn't stop. Or if it did stop, it would only stop for like 10 seconds, then it would go off again. So Kim and I decided that's it. We've had it.

Got some brand new ones, like whole new devices, not just the batteries and stuff. Yeah. We were just like, you know what? You were going to look for some that were like rechargeable, right? Like that? Like smarter ones and all that. Yeah. Yeah, we ended up not.

We went with the cheap ones. I mean, part of the problem is there's like four of them. And I was like, not in the mood to spend $300 on a bunch of stuff. So I was just like, yeah, we'll just use these. But they're newer and, you know, should be better. So we went and put them all in. And here's the weird part. Okay.

I throw the old one, old ones in a garbage bin. And I leave in there for a minute. And all of a sudden we hear, we're like, where is that coming from? We thought it was the house again. But no, it was in the garbage can. So I'm like, oh, well, the batteries are in there. Duh, what are we thinking? I'll take the batteries out.

So he took the battery out. Okay. Put him on the table. Threw him back in the garbage. 20 minutes later. I mean a good 20 minutes later, we're in the kitchen. Kim's making jumbalaya. I'm doing something.

And we hear this muffled. Coming from the garbage can again. There's no battery. It's like the Twilight Zone Talking Tina episode, right? Yes. Every time he thinks he gets rid of it. I'm talking Tina and I'm going to kill you yeah kind of like that and it just sat there doing its thing open up the garbage

soon as i open the can stops i'm like i ain't having any of this so i took that thing out of the house and threw it in the can outside and put it on the curb because today's garbage day anyway so so that's it we're done with those haunted things eff those things they sucked uh i'm sure there were some they probably retained some part of their power you know like i don't know, like a lot of things. There's a reason I'm plugging stuff for 10 seconds before plugging it back in. You know, there's like residual power. There's a little, exactly, capacitors that can drain and stuff like that.

So it was really, really annoying. Now, if you really wanted to get me, I'm just putting this out there, you know, Carter, I don't know if she's in the chat, but if you really wanted to get me, you would put this thing in my bed tonight or something. Maybe she's already doing this. Maybe, you know, she's already somehow involved in this sort of. maybe maybe this is one long con and she's just keeping a nice straight face about it i don't know but uh that thing sucked the freaking good riddance i's the trash guy came today i watched through the

window and as soon as that can went whir kagong kagong i went just like threw a bird in the air just a just a celebratory bird and said that's it you're out you're done so we're not going to have to deal with that anymore it was a stupid goodness oh my gosh it was a stupid night i have to i have to admit uh anyway so there's that that. What else? Oh, okay, there's this list have been holding on for a bit, and I wanted to make sure he shared it before we forgot about it. We just didn't have time yesterday. So this came from Runtfish, one of our listeners,

Runtfish. I love that name. Rundfish. I do. I do too. It's an amazing name. It's like a Pokemon, right? Like, what does Ruddfish evolve into? It's amazing. Anyway, so set this list you thought this would be interesting for the show. The most featured leading actors in IMDB's top 1,000 movie list. So they have that top 1,000 movie list from 1 to 1,000. It's a million movies.

Well, it's 1,000 movies. But it's a ton of movies and you know them and stuff you expect to be in the top 10 is there and so on and so forth. And so what somebody did is took that data and tried to figure out who is the most prominently featured actor or actress in that thousand movies. So in other words, like, all right, you've got a thousand movies. what actor has appeared in the most of them. Correct. What actress has appeared in the most. It's a little bit like what we do with FilmSack.

QuickSack.c. Or no, is that the one? No, it's the other one. Oh, Sack. Film Sack. Stats. Yeah, that one tells us that Arnold Schwarzenegger is the most common interview or whatever.

Right. So this is a little bit like that. It kind of surprised me, so I wanted to share it. So my guess would have been, I don't know what my guess would have been, honestly. I'm going to pull up the link because I don't think we're, we're not doing a you have to guess Brian no no guessing yeah yeah no guessing uh so it's robert de Niro uh is number one like by far in the top okay gotcha so this isn't just any thousand movies these are the top movies these are the top thousand by i mdb correct so they're

they're rated top 1,000 movies robert denaro is not going to appear he's not going to impair no he will He will appear in hell when we meet him there. So there's Robert De Niro. And then Tom Hanks, a decent distance from him. Now that one I would have maybe picked. I could see that. I mean, you say a decent distance, but it's, oh, interesting how it's by year, too. It's only two less appearances than Robert De Niro on the list.

Correct. But the average year of appearances, okay, so, like Robert De Niro's peak of appearance time is like 1991, whereas Tom Hanks is like, like 2002. So their best movies, I guess is what you'd say. Their best movies are in this, like this centered around this focal point. Yeah, correct. Same with like James Stewart, Humphrey Bogart in the 50s, Clint Eastwood in the 80s, this sort of thing.

Al Pacino in third, and he's peeking right around the late 80s, early 90s. Sure. Matt Damon, Brad Pitt, Leonardo DiCaprio, and Christian Bale tied for right around the Huffering. Yeah, but different, like, different year, like, you know, every year would be like, oh, yeah, well, you know, Christian Bail is the new Brad Pitt and Leonardo DiCaprio is the new Christian Bail. Yep. And so far we know all these names. Here's another one, Michael Cain, peaking in the mid-90s, it says, Scarlett Johansson, peaking kind of still, but in the 2010s. Denzel Washington, right around 2000 with his peak. But I don't know who Amir Khan is. Why do I know not know that name? Probably like a Bollywood star, maybe. Is that the deal? Must be, right?

Yeah, I think so. And just, you know, prolific, let's see, Indian actor, film director and producer works in Hindi films, career spanning 30 years. He's established himself as one of those popular and influential actors of Indian cinema. And I'm looking to see if there's anything like, you know, if he's made an appearance in an American movie or English movie that we might have. have seen and i am not seeing in march he says he decided to leave bollywood and left his ex-wife oh wow just a clean break from all of it yeah wait left his ex-wife wouldn't that be his ex-wife

left his wife turned his wife into an ex-wife he's only 57 weird anyway i did that so that's kind of cool for him i guess i know we've divorced and everything but i'm leaving you i'm out of here well anyway um yeah so he has the record for having the highest grossing indian film of all time and best actor work three times looking looking at his list here i don't think there's anything that we would have would have seen but uh says he's the biggest movie star in the world if you count population because in india they have a oh sure sure um successful career acting comeback directorial debut it's an interesting way to phrase it though right because We don't see many Bollywood films in America. No, very rare. Very, very rare. But I know that our movies do well in Indian markets, foreign markets as well.

So to say that he's the most popular actor by population, it's a tough thing. It's a tough thing to say if we don't watch as many of their movies as they watch of ours. That's a good point. that De Niro would still be big there, too. Yeah, that's a good point. I mean, it feels like, okay, so Hollywood, obviously, is the one that permeates everybody. Right.

Because, you know, I don't know, whatever. We're OG that way. That's the one export we're still good at, I guess. Yeah. But then, but you're right, it doesn't come back the other direction. It's not vice versa.

Yeah, not vice versa. Amir Khan, I thought, for a hot second, I thought it was the dude in, in Temple of Doom going, Galima, Jacques dee. That guy. It's not him, though. It's not him, okay.

No, I wanted to be him. Yeah. He was cool, too. He died, but he's... He was cool. I mean, for all we know, Mirkan could have been one of the kids that runs in, you know, that was trying to uncover the Sankara stones and then got freed and...

Mm-hmm. That's right. Bring back to us. Bring back to us, they said. Exactly. So Brian, you got to tell me about this Emmy thing? I don't know what's going on with it. Yeah, so right now, actually, yesterday was the deadline for Emmy nomination voting.

So first, all the people who are members of the Television Academy get to vote on which shows to include in Emmy nominations. And then after that, then there's a further round of voting of like, all right, well, which one of these nominations should win? And because we have a friend in the movie business, in the television business, whose name I'll protect here, I won't say, I actually got to see the voting process. I got to watch him or her complete his or her votes. Sure, sure. But it's kind of cool. So like you go to a site, it's all done with a site and two-factor authentication, all that sort of thing. and then you get like a huge long list so let's say an outstanding comedy series right and you get a list of every freaking show that came out like abid elementary akapalco the after party american auto uh and just like that api bio etc etc etc and then you go through and say oh yeah this one was a really good show this one was a really good show and and go through like that and um uh it was kind of cool so

like, you know, seeing stuff like Barry. Barry ended up in the Outstanding Comedy Series. And I guess if you base it on the first season. Well, I think you base it on almost all of it except for this last. For this current season. Even the last half of this last season, like the first part. And there were still moments in this season, even in the final episode where I laughed out loud. Yeah.

But it's not, you're right. It's not like. It's not. Exactly. It's no, it's no Abbott Elementary. No. You're not seeing or Ted Lassow or that's. sort of thing.

But really cool getting to see like, oh, man, peacemaker might have a chance of being a nominee or the righteous gemstones or curb your enthusiasm or what we do in the shadows, like seeing some of these, like, and you see this list and you start saying, oh, yeah, I forgot about that show. That show was so good. Or even better. Oh, I forgot about that show. Now I need to watch it because I remember wanting to watch and I forgot about it.

What I really liked about it was that it finally did the thing. for me that helped put a nice, big wall that I made Mexico pay for between an outstanding competition program, which is your show like, your shows like Amazing Race and Survivor, and making it with Amy Poehler and what's his face, Nick Offerman. And separating that from the category of Outstanding Reality Program. And they even break up structured reality program and unstructured reality, unstructured reality program. And those are your things like, so unstructured, unstructured, it's easy for me to say, is your crap like Bachelor in Paradise, Kendra sells Hollywood, the Kardashians, but also some good stuff like Deadliest Catch, intervention sometimes. But a lot of that stuff, you know, all of the Real Housewives stuff fits in this unstructured.

And it's like, okay, there's my, there's my break of like Survivor, not a reality show. It's a competition program. This other garbage, almost all of which I hate is reality shows. And now I can say, yes, Scott, I'm with you. I hate reality shows. Oh, good. Now see, look, man, now we can finally, we have an accord. I can finally say, okay, yeah, Survivor, Amazing Race, not a reality.

show, but a competition show. So does that mean that all game shows are also competition shows? Are they in the same category? Let's see. Those are in a different, and I was surprised to see this too. So let me find that. Oh, no, I take that back. Yeah. So The Chase bullshit the game show, which I loved. If you still haven't

seen that on Netflix, it's excellent. The Cube, that dumb Frogger thing. The amazing holy moly which you still haven't watched. Oh, yeah, holy moly, frick, the golf, mini-golf thing. But all that stuff falls under competition programs.

So game shows, whether their primetime PM game shows or streaming game shows, fall into the same category as like, you know, these amazing race and Survivor and stuff like that. Sadly, there's garbage in here, too. like the Masked Singer and The Bachelor and Bachelorette, which separate from Bachelor in Paradise, which is an unstructured reality program. It's really weird how they divide these things. Yeah.

That's interesting. Yeah. I had no idea. So that's all done. So what happens now? They announce nominees at some point? Now they announce, yeah. They'll tally all of the votes,

and they will, oh, yes, several. I watched this person select and make sure that they selected severance for outstanding drama series. Good. You had to kick them in the butt if they don't do that. That's right. Yeah. Yeah. So now they tally all these nominees and figure out what the final slate is going to be.

I think I think Emmys never doesn't stray above five. Like it still keeps it to five, doesn't it? Unlike the Oscars, which fluctuates. I can't remember the total that I think you're right. It doesn't, they don't have the high. higher limit that the Oscars do as far as I know I'm going to look really quickly at the Emmy nominees they probably should though honestly yeah there's so much good TV now like you you don't have enough room I think right right which is why the film why why the

Oscars expanded because there were so many movies they wanted to get in yeah and when you see this list I mean now that you know of course with all this streaming um no I take that back all right so uh outstanding drama series had Bridgeton handmaids tale pose lovecraft country the boys mandolorean this is us and the crown which was the one that won so that's eight in that category so I guess they can go as

big as they need to maybe they can go maybe they don't have a limit I mean they probably have some maybe not it's like we can't do 50 but right interesting well all right and that's when when do we hear that that I don't know I don't know when the the nominees get announced

the the actual award ceremony is usually in the fall like September so I don't know. I don't know when... Probably late summer sometime. Yeah, exactly. Absalom Jones, if you don't know that I've checked out Taskmaster, UK,

you need to go back and watch video from TMS Vegas. Because not only have I watched it, I stole it. Yep, yep. He full on. That's my first taste of Taskmaster, UK, was Brian's Vegas version of it. And it was great. It made me want to watch that show.

Where is that even showing? Where is that on? It's in your inbox because I think KT Data sent you the video to put somewhere. No, not that, not that. The show. I know where that is. The actual taskmaster. Sadly, not streaming anywhere.

You've got to buy, you have to purchase seasons of it. I bought mine through Apple TV and no qualms about getting my money's worth for that entertainment. Nice. All right. Well, I wish it would stream. Yeah, there's a ton of it. There is actually a Taskmaster YouTube channel, and they show highlights in some full episodes, so that's a really good, uh, that's a really good place to watch it. Sane's art says you can see it on YouTube.

That's interesting. Yeah, I don't know if you can see all of them on YouTube, because I've gone back through all the seasons, and you get one or two, one or two episodes per season, but, um, and some greatest hit compilations. How many seasons does it? There's, geez, like 10 seasons or something? Oh my lord. Yeah. That's a lot. Quantum Phelon, you're finding full seasons?

on there. I got to do more digging then because interesting. I didn't think that I didn't find all of season one on YouTube. So I just like, eh, you know what? I'm just going to spend the money. It's, you know, it was like eight bucks or nine bucks and then I don't have to worry about any problems on the Apple TV and stuff.

Awful episodes they say. They're saying 14 seasons. Geez, it's a lot. Thanks for saving me money after I've spent it, Tadpool. Yeah, where were you guys when Brian bellied up to the bar there with this eight bucks. Season 13 just finished. Holy cow. Yeah, that's a lot.

Well, anyway. Maybe that's a problem I need to search using British spelling. But speaking of, you know, Vegas and TMS Vegas, I have a Southwest, you know, I'm a Southwest Frequent Flyers, Scott. That's where I take, you know, we've got a nice little hub here in Denver. I can

get everywhere I'm going. And because of all the travel I did last year and some other things that I did, I was able to wrangle companion pass for Tina this year, right? So of all, during the entirety of 2022, anywhere I fly on Southwest, Tina can tag along for free, no charge, which has been great for going to Vermont or going to Vegas or going to Philadelphia and stuff like that. But you need to keep earning it year after year.

And I found out that if I do one flight by the end of July, one more round-trip flight, then I can lock it in for 2023. So I'm going back to Vegas for a night, just doing a one-day Vegas trip, kind of like I did a few years ago. This time, you know, I have locked in a hotel. I'm not going to try and pull the 24-hour complete overnighter. But later in July, Vegas will have me back for one night. Hot, steamy July, visit to Vegas, baby.

Exactly. Listen, you know, it'll be pool time in the morning before it gets hot. Then we'll be hanging out inside doing stuff. And because the day I'm there, I should be able to do a TMS in the morning from Vegas, I'm hoping. Oh, okay. Cool. Yeah, we can try to arrange that. Internet willing.

You know where you're going to stay? Did you say? well what the hotel uh mgm grand grand okay because i had a free i had free nights there some free comp nights so it's like oh well if i'm going there for some pool time that is uh one of the best pools in Vegas right there feels like uh wi-fi in the morning last time we did it from the mgm was pretty good i think so i remember correctly i think it worked all right yeah so that's it's just a matter of like figuring out what i want to bring along right because if i'm only there for one day i don't want to like have a whole ton of stuff but um you know a decent microphone and um

and maybe the iPad or something. I know, we can figure it out. We'll figure it out. July, coming at you, baby. Exactly. That's awesome. Very exciting.

I did for a very fleeting moment think about saying, oh, what if I flew to Salt Lake City and hung out with Scott for a day? Then you thought, I don't have any casinos. Then I saw Vegas. Yeah. You're like, well, he may be air conditioned, but there are no, there are no craps tables. And there are no craps tables. There's no pool in the morning and, you know, all those things.

Still hot, but that's about all. all you'd get. All right. Well, that's awesome. I'm excited for you. Kim and I were talking about maybe a late, like, well, I guess it would have been July also, but because we're doing this thing for our anniversary, we're not doing that. All right. We're going to move on now. And we're going to make sure that- Change your mind. I'll let you know the dates I'm going. Yeah, let me know off-air what your times are. Just for the heck of it. You never know, man. You never know. It's not far for me. It's like five hours. And I'm there. Exactly. Yes.

Except Kim, uh, Kim's car, which is kind of our car now. It's the only car we have, because I don't need, we don't need two cars anymore. She, um, uh, her battery, uh, I think her battery's dying. Oh, crap. And it's like four years old, which, you know, is not that long, but whatever. So she's going into the dealer right now, in fact, to see what they say. Because I guess these, this year's Volt, or that year's Volkswagen, Passats have a main battery and a little auxiliary battery. And if you don't do it right, you. You can F up the whole system because they're all timed for something with the computer the way it works and all this. So, anyway, we got to go figure that out. I don't know why I'm bringing this up. Oh, I was just saying, like, that would suck if I was driving to Vegas and had that happen.

Just Uber, just Uber to Vegas. I'm sure it's cheap. It won't cost hardly a thing to Uber to Vegas. Totally fine. It'll be just fine. Oh, the gas to go to Vegas right now, though. It might be cheaper to fly. God, yeah, actually it would be.

It would be a lot cheaper. All right. Well, nonetheless, not with. standing. It's time for the news. It's the news and it's brought to you by. Homemade curry and jambalaya on the same day. Yeah, can you believe that? So we had Kim made both, both homemade curry, her amazing curry and her jambalaya, for whatever reason, just made him the same day. And she's like, yeah, here you go. One of these will go in a big container in the fridge for later and one of them will eat. Which one do you want? I'm like, I guess we'll do the curry. I was just saying, because the

Curry, you know, both of them are great, but the jambalaya has the flavors start to mel together overnight. It's even better the next day. No, you're totally right. Like week old jambalaya is still amazing. Maybe at its finest. It's so good. Anything past that, though, maybe don't eat it. But prior to that. The graph starts high and it just gets higher. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Anyway, it's been a good, good day at our house because of this food. All right, let's get to the story. Your Amazon, a word, your echo. Mm-hmm. Yep. Could soon mimic the voice of any dead relative you want to use. Oh, geez.

I don't like this. I don't like this at all. I think it's weird. Although, I kind of want to try it out. And then the question is, well, what dead relative do you use? Do you use, like, do I use my dad? Do I use, I don't know, my grandpa? You don't have to do one of your dead relatives.

You could do, you know, you do Kim's voice or something like that. You could do a living person, sure. It's basically do the voice of any family member. Right. But everybody's like hyper-focused on the idea that they could be the deceased. The capability unveiled at Amazon's Re-Mars conference in Las Vegas. Oh, speaking of Vegas. Yeah, there you go.

It's in development would allow the virtual assistant to mimic the voice of a specific person based on less than a minute a provided recording. So you need to have that. Wow. And I've got that, you know, from a couple of dead relatives I could use. Sure. you know in theory this would work recordings of dead relatives this would work if you like went to youtube and just got an interview with uh harry morgan you know right and now you're and now your that's true yeah echo sounds like carter interview right just like you know find to find episodes

of mash that had him monologuing yeah i would do this isolate those out and exactly uh play play this song hawk i when i'm mildred and barry fire i love horses Play Horace Hock me. It's going to be 68 degrees. That's right. It's super hot.

Potato buckets or whatever the stupid stuff he'd say. Anyway, so this is, okay, so they did this. You only need a minute of recording. Senior Vice President, a head of science for Alexa, his name is Rohit Prasad,

said at the event that the desire behind the feature is to build a greater trust in the interactions users have with the A word. I just don't want to set mine off. by putting more human attributes of empathy and effect. These attributes have become even more important during the ongoing pandemic,

which is why so many of us have lost, or why, sorry, when so many have lost ones that we love, while AI can eliminate the pain of loss, or can't eliminate the pain of loss, it can definitely make the memories last. So he's the one that leaned into the dead thing. Interesting, yeah, no kidding. Like, you know, it could, you know, you know, it could do any voice you want, Even dead people.

That's right. At the event, uh, oh, this is crazy. A young child asked the A word. Can grandma finish reading me the Wizard of Oz? This is so dark,

man. Uh, the A word then acknowledges the request and switches to another voice, mimicking, mimicking the child's grandmother. The voice assistant then continues to read the book in the same voice. I think a kid would like this. Yeah,

exactly. And they lived happily ever after. Now I'm back off to heaven, Billy. Yeah, see, it gets weird, right? Yeah, right. Like, if you've got like a four-year-old who doesn't exactly understand what happened to grandma, he's going to be kind of confused, you know? Can Grandma read me a Harlequin romance novel?

Yeah. I feel like we just... Robbing manhood unleashed its... his robbing vectoral muscles. All right. You get the opportunity to choose any dead famous, I'm not even going to say celebrity, could be anybody,

any dead person's voice for your Amazon Echo device. Who do you choose? Tony Randall. Oh my gosh, that was so quick. Yeah, I want Tony Randall being all fastidious and Tony Randallish doing all my tasks. I love that. Tony Randall. I love it. That's such a great pull. I don't know why that one jumped out

of me. I'd do that. Or maybe, you know, Norm McDonald's. Felix. Felix. Ah, you're late for your appointment. I guess he was, he was Felix. Cloakman was Oscar. Oh, Oscar. Right, right. Yeah, been a while. But yeah, I could do that. I think Norm McDonald would be fun. I think, Oh, Norm McDonald is another great choice. Holy cow. There's all sorts of them. The problem is you're not going to get, you'll get the cadence of their voice, but you're not going to get, like, you know, if you said Robin Williams, you're not going to get Robin Williams, the manic

comedian. I don't know. I mean, depends on how good it is it, like, you know. It's going to be 72 degrees today with light showers. See, I don't think you'll do that. I'll bet this thing is only capable of, like, getting the normal talking speaking

cadence. Although, if you gave it a minute of audio, and it was just somebody yelling. what is that what you get right like Sam Kinnison just give it a minute of Sam Kinnison oh my lord so the whole thing it'd be just like if it was just somebody just screaming it'd be like you know now playing REM on Apple music like I don't know about that you just go to where the REM is I feel like they just designed themselves a really great black mirror episode and they should pursue yeah what you think because this whole that's a little

little too. It's a little too. I don't know. It's a little too up its own, but I don't think I like it. Yeah. You can already do, there's a few people you can already, that like are kind of built in. Samuel O. Jackson, I know you can already get as your voice. I think it's like 99 cents to download the, the, um, the, the, the skill to do Samuel Jackson as your voice. I didn't know that. Is that a thing? Yeah. That's the thing. We had, we had Samuel Jackson. And instead of saying her name, You'd say, you'd say, ask Samuel, you'd say her name and then say, ask Samuel what the weather is going to be. I'm going to try it right now and see if I can get it. If we still have it loaded.

All right. Hold on a second. All right. Ask Samuel what the weather's going to be today. That's him. You hear that? It's not super loud. Yeah, it's quiet.

But no, it worked. Okay. It worked. It totally worked. I would do that. I'm going to do that. It's only a box. I'll do that.

Oh, yeah, hold on. Here's the best part of it. Hold on. Let's see here. Still talking. Is he done? Okay. I'm going to move the microphone.

Let's hope this works here. Okay. Tell Samuel that there are snakes on this plane. I don't know that. I don't know that. Hold on a second. Now, there's a way to do this. Oh, man.

Oh, you have to set them to... Tell Samuel, ask Samuel if there are. snakes on this plane. No, that's not it. Oh, no, it's it. Hold on. There are snakes on this plane. Darn it. I did it. Like, I did it and I put it on Twitter or something. There's like a phrase you can say, shoot. Someone in the chat says you have to set it to not say for work or something. They have it, have him truly do it. Oh, yeah, and he does it. And hold on. So there's probably some phrase for that. that like yeah let's see here what's the phrase let them be sweary and or something uh let's see uh da-da-da-da where's the dang phrase where's the phrase when you need it here we go

come on come on oh here we uh is this it maybe this is it all right uh but do you have to say I think you say her name or do you just say Can you just say his name? I think you just say, hey Samuel. I wish it was just Sam. No, you have to say, okay. All right. Introduce me to Samuel L. Jackson.

Can't hear him. Well, yeah, bring him closer to you. I'm going to bring him closer to you. Instead of moving, mountain to Muhammad. Yeah, you're going to move Muhammad to the mountain, right.

Hey, Samuel, are there snakes on this plane? You know what? I'll just leave it disabled. You can always say, Alexa, enable Hey Samuel to enable. What?

Enable what, wait, wait, wait, wait, okay, so there's... I think she's losing her mind. No, there's, I need to, I need to enable profanity or something. Yeah, there's a not-safe-for-work setting, someone in the chat says. Yeah, let's see here. Hey, Samuel, what do you think of snakes?

Not working? Hey, Samuel, what do you think of snakes? I get pushed, baby. Hey, Samuel, what do you think of snakes? Here's something I found. Oh, stop it. There's something I found on the web. Exactly.

That old standby. That old chestnut. Yeah. All right. Well, we'll figure it out. We'll figure it out. All the voice assistants get out of jail free card is, here's something I found on the web. They all do it.

Exactly. Exactly. It's like, yeah. I don't like it. Oh, let me add that to my list. It's what the equivalent is. Oh, I'll have to check that out. Yeah, I'll have to get back to you.

It's basically that. It's a horrible excuse. Anyway, there is a, uh, yeah, there is a, there's a, and I found it by accident. I said, I think I said, there are snakes on this plane. And then he starts cussing and it's hilarious. Oh, we don't know how to recreate it. Maybe they took it out. Maybe we're like, oh, we can't do this.

The kids are making it. Maybe. The kids have ruined it for everybody. Yeah, exactly. Okay, well. All right. Well, that was fun. Yeah.

Here's a story for all you rich people in Florida. Okay. A teen or a bunch of teens. A group of teens. What do we call those? Just a group? A, a. A, a gaggle.

Is it a herd? A tapping. of teens. Tapping of teens, got it. Yes, a tapping of teens. I like it. A disinterest of teens. Disinterest of teens.

They broke into an $8 million Florida mansion and held boxing matches during the house party. Florida mansion. Yeah, Florida mansion. Sheriff's office in Florida searching for the young adults who say they broke into an $8 million seaside home through a party, vandalized the property in the process, and post a video evidence on social media, according to WJXT. They're real smart, these kids. Yes. Let's see, the Walton County Sheriff's Office posted the videos from the Open House Party on its Facebook page.

They're around 200 teens, and they asked that they would come clean and turn themselves in. They've requested. Come clean teens. Come clean teens. I don't want to come clean teens. An open house parties against the law, the sheriff wrote. An open house party in a home you break into is a burglary. Mm-hmm.

they found, let's see. Oh, my right eyes being so dumb today. They heard a complaint from a neighbor, and that's how this all got started. But they took off before they got there. The owners of the home didn't know anything was happening because they were out of town. By the way, I've noticed something about really rich people.

What's that? They can afford your $8 million, $10 million, $20 million house, right? Yeah. They barely spend any time there. Yeah. They leave all the time. Right. It's like, well, they're jet-setting,

Scott, they're out on their yacht or they're in Majorca or they're in Trinidad and Tobago or their I get it once in a while, but the point of having a $20 million home should be to live there, you know? Yeah. I don't understand that. It'll never make sense to me.

By the way, September just got her echo to do it. She said I asked if there are snakes on this plane and Samuel's response was, as long as there aren't M and FN'N snakes on this M and Fn plane. You must have some kind of child setting or something.

I think it was just asking the wrong question. I need to ask if there are snakes on the plane. Oh, okay. Well, I'm going to install that today because I want him in my life in a more personal way. It's great. It is the best because he'll tell you the weather. He says, it's going to be such and such degrees today. And later on, it's going to be dark.

So when he dies, is it weird? Will that then become weird that we have his voice in our echoes? I don't know. All right, well, is it weird that we have the President Lincoln Hall of Presidents thing at Disneyland? A little bit. Because all those are weird. Those are all weird. And not because they're dead.

They're weird because they're kind of terrible, you know? They're just all, they're terrible, but then there's some amazing, like the fact that Lincoln stands up and sits down and, you know, like a freaking robot that sits down. I don't think I think the wildest one in this one doesn't talk, but it's the Spider-Man animatronic. Oh, yeah, the one that flies across the thing. Yeah, that flies across and is completely self-contained, automated. I don't think he's a robot, though. Isn't he just a weighted mannequin, I think?

No, no, he's got some animatronic elements because he turns, he bends his body to land differently in the... Oh, I thought that was just the way they threw him. No. Oh, okay. Yeah, I honestly didn't know that. I thought it was just like a well-weighted, you know, and it was done in such a way that it made it seem like it was whatever.

That video, there's a, you sent me a TikTok video, I think, when I was talking about that thing. But there's a longer YouTube video. You can see where they, there you go. Yeah, I think actually Captain Kipper just linked to it. How does that thing? Oh, God. Is that a fail right there where it's hitting the wall?

How do these, yeah, I'm sure this thing took a bunch of different tries. Oh, yeah, no, that's a different. thing this is just a fail yeah that's one where he just stopped working oh my god so but how does it not break every time how does that not break every time every time they launched this thing whether it lands or not how does it not break they have a big net uh that you can't see from below that that he lands square in the middle of and it just catches and boom and then weird does he get up and walk around after that or what no no that's all that robot does, right? Because there's an actor for the other 90% of that performance. He's running around.

He's doing parkour, all that stuff. And then they do this launch thing. No way, Brian K-64. That's a fake video? No, who knows? The chat room, you guys are not Wikipedia. I cannot count on you for anything. I know. I kind of hope it's a fake video because can you imagine kids not realizing that it's a robot watching this guy that his Spider-Man outfit slam his head into the air-conditioning unit that he's supposed to clear. It'd be freaking amazing.

You kidding me? If I was a kid, though, I'd be thrilled that I got to see it not work. That'd be great. Right. Because I'd go back to my friends. There's a Stigma-82 found the real video. Yeah, from Wired Magazine. They explain how that thing changes its position in the air

to make it... So it's a proper robot. It is a proper robot with robot arms and everything. Wow. Okay. That's crazy. I'm going to watch that after the show. Yeah.

Yeah. I had no idea. It was that cool. All right. And I'm glad I saw it before I saw this video because it would have bummed me out. Like, I had the wonder when I first saw it of like, oh, my God, that's such a cool jump. And some dude in a costume is doing that. And I found out it's a robot.

And it made it doubly cool. It was like, all right, I thought it was cool before. Now it's even cooler. Must be creepy to move that thing around, though, you know? To haul, haul that little Spider-Man, like you've got a guy with him over his shoulder, like, hey, Bob, just getting Spider-Man back over to lunch. Yeah, it reminds me of, like, what it would be like to work on in the storage department of Muppets production, you know? Just all these anim-these lifeless Muppets that are usually so animated, just laying around staring into nothing. That's just weird to me.

I mean, you know, there's got to be some dude carrying around Chucky Cheese when, uh... Oh, my gosh, Chuckie Cheese. Someone's in charge of carrying Chucky Cheese. Yeah. What a job. What a, what a CV entry on your resume there. I carry Chuckie Cheese. Yeah, I carried Chuckie Cheese for a long time, which I guess the company who owned them did as well.

Anyway, well, there's your, there's your big story about that. Don't go break into people's homes is the main thing. Okay, that's what we've learned. Yeah, yeah. They haven't caught those. But I'm glad you all are stupid enough to put it on social media, so it's going to be really easy to find out who did it. Yep, that's true.

When you do crimes and then document your own crimes, I feel like you kind of get what you got coming. For sure. I don't know why you thought that would be a good idea. But good job, dumb kids. Doing it for the likes, and then I'm doing it for 7 to 10 on good behavior. We finished today's news with this dumb story, a drunk mayor mayor not a not a female horse no not a mayor no an elected official that's who we're talking

about yeah okay crashed their car after meeting with families of drunk driving victims while drunk so he drunkenly crashed his car after meeting with drunk driving victims oh residents are furious over australian mayor's drunk driving and all of you thought it was like florida or something always jump into americans aren't we no it's happened to australia okay i I admit, if you would have said, where do you think this took place? Brian, Florida would have been my first guess. Yeah, it seems like a fair guess, actually. But you would be wrong.

This is an Australian mayor. He drunk driving crash just one hour after she met with family. Oh, you also thought I was a dude, didn't you? I did think it was a dude. I thought it was a Florida man. Look at us breaking all of our assumptions. That's too incorrect. Oh, my gosh.

What is this? Look at that. That's not Van. No. Hello. Hi. You got a new puppy. Oh, look at your Twitch.

numbers are going to just go up like crazy now. What is the deal here? You are so cute. Are you trying to talk me into something? Hi. Hello. Thank you for the kisses. Oh my gosh, Scott. You're so sweet. You're so sweet.

Oh, can we have it? I'm in love with it now. Is this one of yours? Oh my gosh. Sarah Kim's sister is here and she raises these little guys. Oh, yeah. Is this a boy or a girl? Oh, good. That's the best kind. Oh, hold on. I'm changing my flight now from Vegas. I'm coming to Salt Lake City.

I'm going to come to Salt Lake to see this dog now. Yeah. That's awesome. That is definitely not Van. That's usually why Kim comes down here is to share a man. Yeah. To give you a smoothie, a van, or now a puppy. So now it's a, yeah. A, B, or C. A, B, or C. How much, what's the name? Utah Doodlebug? Oh, they all, oh, because, oh, because, yeah. We should keep. that one it really liked me it licked my face and her tails wagon oh man all right made my made my morning seriously you do that and uh you know your youtube numbers go up your uh which numbers here that's right you know there's only two ways to go you can either go you can go negative and just do nothing but negative horrible stuff on the internet and then your numbers

go up or you can have a puppy either way that way your numbers i hear boobs are a good thing to have Boobes are pretty good. I'm the next Amirath or whatever her name is. What's her name? Right. Aminorath. What's that? Who's the Twitch girl who's always in her tub and sells her pee or whatever?

Oh, really? Oh, the one we've talked about. Maybe she doesn't, maybe it's not the same person. I don't know if it's the same woman or not. Amaranth is what Talley is saying. Amaranth, is that her name? Yeah, she's the redhead. She doesn't sell farts, though.

That's somebody else. Does she sell her bathwater? That's probably. I don't know. I don't know, but she's not her, the other one with her boob sweat. There's so many of these people selling their weird body stuff. Hey, Brian, let's start talking about what part of us we could sell.

What do you want to sell? Sure. What do you got? Use chode better from Brian. You know, I got to say it absorbs into the skin, so it's, I can't really, I can't really give you any of that. How about like, I don't know, you guys want like a little container of some eyebrow hairs or like, Yeah, when I shave my head, I can save the clippings for people.

Yeah, put that dust in a little something, just a little container. Sadly, men are the stupid ones who buy this garbage from women. It's not vice versa. We don't want people that would buy that stuff from us. Do we? No, basically, if you call us or if you write us and say, please send me some of your shaved head clippings, we will put you on a list. Yeah, congratulations.

congratulations you're on the list oh my gosh i want that dog what is wrong with me i have too many dogs that dog is adorable i want that dog too oh all right well it ain't happening start the bidding start the bidding i think these are the ones i think these are the ones i think these is the one she raises that go for like three grand so i probably don't want that dog oh anyway uh that's i know pure bread pure bread uh labradoodle whatever they're called i forget exactly all right clear you're now on the list you're on the list claire um clear wants our you don't want her stuff you you've been the list for a long time, Claire. Yeah.

Hey, Claire, you're still on the list, is what we're saying. You're still on the list. Yeah, you've moved up. Yeah, you just help lock yourself there longer. All right, we're going to take a break. When we come back, Bill Durand will join us. And right after that, Bobby Frankenberger will also join us. It's Tuesday.

Yeah, that's right. So stick around for all of that. But before that, a song and a break, what is the song for the break? We're going to Los Angeles for this one, a duo that goes by the name standards. It makes it hard for you to find. But if you look for the song, then it makes it a lot easier. This is a really cool, God, it's like if the Flaming Lips did Prague, you'd end up with this. This is an instrumental track from their brand new album, Fruit Town.

Oh, Prague Rock, got it. Frog rock, yes. Not the location. Not the location. Not P-R-A, G-U-E, Prague, but. I was like, wait, they can perform there. Why not? Yeah, it'd be fine.

This brand new album comes out July 22nd on Wax Bodega Records. They're on tour next month with the glacier veins as direct support. Go check them out. Standards is the band. Here's the first single from Fruit Town. It's called Cloudberry. I'm going to be able to be. Thank you.

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I know it. And we're back. Hey, who is that one more time? Sure, that's a band called Standards. And from their upcoming album, Fruit Town, it's the lead single. It's called Cloudberry. Fruit Town. I like it.

It's appropriate, right? Cloudberry Fruit Town. It sounds like a little bit of a, you know, a theme, theme album, a concept album, if you Will. Sounds all right to me. Now, hey, once you pull Bill in here, I'm going to go for just a second to go answer nature's call. Oh, hey, look, if nature calls, you've got to answer it. The truth is, the nature's call is coming from inside the house. Bill is showing offline, so we may not have him anyway, but let's see. Let's see if he answers. No, nothing. Okay. All right. Here's what we'll do. We're going to officially take a break.

okay so that you can go do your thing i'm going to go pee because now that you said it i have to pee oh shit yeah hello now you also have to wipe up uh mop up coke zero gosh dang it i knew if i put it on this side i was going to whack it i knew it bring back the dog bring the dog back i hope he's absorbent shit all right so that's what we're going to do we're going to take this break and when we come back yeah so everyone just chill okay we'll be back we'll be back we're We're going to pause the show. Hold on. Okay. All right. We're back. Sorry, everybody. I don't think Bill's around. Let me just try one more time here. Yeah, I don't know what happened there. So, you know what? We're going to bring Bobby in early. How about that? There you go. Cool. Bobby's coming. Yeah, Bobby's ready. Bobby's always ready. He's at the ready.

Somewhere in South Carolina, a long-haired dude is going, oh, crap. Hold on a sec. Hold on a second. Hold on a second. I'm nude. I'm nude. Hey, look who it is. It's Bobby Frankenberger here with a little bit of science on a beautiful Tuesday afternoon morning. It's afternoon for having, I guess. Hey, man, what's going on there at noon your time? It is beautiful here. The high today is only going to be 82, which is really nice. I would trade you.

We're 95 today. That's kind of perfect, isn't it? Yeah, we're going to be hot here. So you want to trade? It's currently 81 here in Denver. Nice. Yeah. I hate the heat.

Let's check out the Salt Lake City, SLC weather. A high of 91, a low of 77 today. 82, high of 98. Oh, my Lord. Why are we so hot today? I don't know, but I may spend some time outside. I like the heat. It's valley heat, though.

It is valley heat, and it's a dry heat and it's valley heat, so we're all good. It's a humid heat. Humid heat where you are, yeah. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah, and your heat is dry as hell. Mine's so dry I'll probably need to put lotion on before I go out there. I just use a wet Coke Zero soaked. Yeah, why not a cloth of Coke Zero and water and my butt stain?

Why not? Bobby, welcome to the show. Thanks for the last minute bump up and hope you're well. What's going on in the world of science? You're our science correspondent. We rely on you for scientific knowledge. Something really cool was discovered in the world of microbiology just recently. A giant bacteria was just discovered.

Uh-oh. when will it be when will it be running for president that's my question because isn't that too late it already had oh it already did oh shoot okay

but uh but no it's the first one or not the first one it's the largest one that has ever been discovered so big that it can be seen with the naked eye oh my gosh

that's how it was discovered I don't want to do I even want to is this a thing we can look at right now like on air yeah let me uh I didn't prepare quite properly I can get you, but here, let me copy this link and put it in the, this card.

I think there are some images you can see there. The comparison image at the top of the article is there's a dime, and you can see they look like they're about the size and shape of an eyelash. And you can see it with the naked eye. Oh, look at that. Wild. So for comparison, for anybody who's like bacteria, that's still really tiny. what's the big deal that's about 5,000 times bigger than the average

bacteria yeah which makes it I don't like I don't like wormy looking bacteria I don't know what it is like if it's just a little dot I'm fine with it yeah things that are

long like that just like yeah you probably see it moving around you don't want anything that can go up your urethra you know yeah exactly I agree it's 5,000 times

bigger than the average bacteria but it's also 50 times bigger than the previous giant bacteria record holder. 50 times, would that have been, would the 50 times one also, that would have been visible with the human eye or no? No, very unlikely. I mean, if you imagine that little tiny thing

and then cut it up into 50 pieces, you probably wouldn't be able to spot that. Gotcha. Oh, good point. So if you put these bacteria sizes in human terms and you call the, and you imagine that the average bacteria is a human, just imagine,

human-sized, this would be like finding a bacteria that was the size of Mount Everest compared to a human. Oh my gosh, okay, that big a difference. That's amazing. That put the perspective. I don't like that at all. So everybody's,

you're freaking out about it, but right, like bacteria, just because it's a bacteria doesn't mean it's like dangerous or harmful or anything. Like, bacteria is just a type of life, right? Do you eat yogurt, Scott? You eat yogurt? I do eat yogurt.

I do. I do. This is not a pro or bad bacteria. It is a neutral bacteria. So where are you going to find this, though? Like, am I going to just flip over a cheese sandwich and there it is? It was found in the mangrove forests of the French Caribbean. There were some biologists there.

They were doing what they do, taking water samples and just looking at things. And they weren't looking for this. And in fact, I said it was visible with the naked eye. That's how it was discovered, actually. They were taking water samples and just looking at it, and they noticed that there were these little hairy things that would stick to the surface of water, stick to other things that they pulled out of the water, and they were like, that's weird. I wonder what that is, and then they examined it under a microscope and discovered that it is in fact a bacteria. Now, this is amazing just knowing that it's a giant bacteria, but there are other really amazing things about this.

first of all, a bacteria is a single-celled organism, right? So that thing is one single cell. Oh, yeah, no kidding, which is huge. Yeah. Very large. Now, there are large single cells that you see. Chicken eggs are a single cell. Oh, really?

Okay. Didn't know that. Yeah, yeah. But the difference is, like, all sorts of eggs that are laid, right? Frog eggs, fish eggs. Oh, right, because they have a nucleus and, yeah, that totally doesn't make sense. Yeah. Um, and, uh, but, but the thing about eggs is that they're, they're what are called gametes.

They're sex cells, right? So the, the point of, of those is just to hold genetic material. It's just genetic material. And then most of the big bulk of an egg is, is like food to sustain it while it develops into an organism, right? Like inside, inside mammals, you don't need all that because you have the mother, the body of, the female that is that is growing the organism provides it with nutrients but an egg like a chicken egg it needs to have everything it needs inside the egg there so it's very large but it is a single cell the reason that this is so fascinating is that this is a single cell organism it is a it is a

self-sufficient life form that is one single cell and it is that big and it's it's very big In fact, it's so big that it's much larger than what scientists thought was theoretically even possible because of, for a lot of reasons. Now, let me ask you this. If I ingest one of these, just by accident, okay? I'm out at the pool. There happens to be a little, I don't know, a little overgrowth of this stuff. For some reason, I hork one of these up my nose and down the gull that it goes. Is it going to be like a grasshoppers versus the ants kind of thing in Bugs Life where the,

The ants finally figure out they can rise up and take it down, or does this get a thing going to propagate? Like, what happens? What do we know? Well, I don't know. They haven't tested it by swallowing it yet. That's usually like a phase four scientific test, right? Sure.

Yeah, you get some sucker to eat it. Oh, we found this thing. What happens when we eat it? Right, because once they try that, they really can't do any more tests on it, sadly. Right. Right. That's a different, a different step in the process.

but maybe you might feel it in the back of your throat and it would like make you go you know because it's kind of like a little hair no we don't we don't know what it would do but the interesting thing about these things so I'm going to throw a couple of science terms at you and I promise I will define them it is a it is it is a type of single-celled organism that is very it's it's not super sophisticated it's It's called a prokaryote. There are eukaryotes, and there are prokaryotes. Prokaryotes are much older on evolutionary terms,

and the difference is you and I, the cells in our bodies, are eukaryotes, which means they're very organized and sophisticated. There are lots of little machinery inside of our cells that help it do things. But a prokaryote is not. It's just like all the crap is inside one big bag of a cell, And it's just, it just, there's not a lot of stuff going on in there. All the DNA is floating around freely inside the cell. And there's not a lot of sophisticated mitochondria and nuclei and stuff like that, which

would be in a eukaryote. Anyway, so the point is that this is a very, it's an older evolutionary organism called a prokaryo. And that's why they thought it was impossible for something that is so simple and basic like this to be so large, it's because it doesn't, because there's not a lot of sophisticated organelles inside of it, it doesn't have a sophisticated, it doesn't have an intracellular transport system, which means when things get into it that need to be like food that it needs to eat, you kind of expect that a cell can only be so big because once it gets too big,

it wouldn't be able to move things around to where it needed to be inside that organism, right? Um, if it's, uh, if it's too big, then the ratio of its volume to its surface area becomes too small, right? Or too large. Too much volume compared to its surface area. Why is that important? Because these organisms absorb all of their food and energy from the environment around them. So if you have, if you're too big, then you don't have enough surface area to absorb enough energy inside of you to sustain life, right? So again, they were very shocked that something could be this big because how is it getting enough energy to even survive? Well, still small. I mean, if it was the size of a dog, I could start to see the problem. But as long as it's small enough that it can reside within other organisms or within bodies of water or wherever it thrives, then your surface area ratio is good, right? like this well imagine imagine a scenario so the short answer to question is not exactly because because you still even if you're surrounded by water or inside of another organism you still have the same problem imagine that it's not a long string imagine it's uh your your your prokaryotic

your your single cell organism is just a perfect sphere right you need to absorb nutrients from from the outside world and you need to get those nutrients inside of the cell into all over inside the cell, even deep inside the middle. So that's not too big of a deal. You absorb it and it slowly diffuses because there are no complex structures inside that are moving things. It just slowly absorbs and then diffuses throughout the goo inside the cell, right? So if it gets bigger and bigger and bigger, then it needs more and more stuff. But the volume, the inside, the goo on the inside is growing much faster than the outside of the cell. And just imagine that the whole outside is surrounded by little tiny mouths,

which are like transport channels, right? Sure. And you're not, you're getting more body and not, at a much faster rate than you are getting mouths that can get food for it. And so this is way bigger than they thought that that could be. But they think they've figured out why it's able to survive even though it's so big. And that's because this thing lives in a sulfur-rich environment. In fact, the way it gets energy is through what's called sulfur oxidation.

And it absorbs a lot of sulfur. And through that process, it changes it into nitrate. These are a lot of chemical names, which aren't super important, but just know that nitrogen is really important for life. and so this thing seems to have a long 75% of the inside of its body is just a giant sack of stored nitrogen or nitrates and and that's that's so that it can hold on to a lot of it to help sustain its life and and the metabolic processes to continue to live but the way that helps it is if 75% of that internal volume is just a storage stack then it can push up against the inside walls and it makes it so there's not as much things that are diffusing into

the cell don't have to go as far. Does that make sense? Yeah, yeah, yeah. No, it does. It totally does. So, I mean, can they apply now that they understand that or have seen this in action and know that it's possible, has this raised the bar on what they predict now? Like, did this make them go, oh, well, now we think there's like worm-sized bacteria living under the ice age caps or something. Like, I don't know. It's possible. Yeah, that's exactly why this is exciting and why biologists are really excited about this is because they didn't think that this was possible. So it changes what they should be looking for, right? Or it updates what they should be looking for and updates what they can understand as possible. So they can start looking for other things

where in situations and in ways that they may have assumed before that it was not possible, right and so you might see all sorts of new things being found you know yeah well that is super interesting i hope i never eat one by accident it's probably too late yeah yeah i mean it already happened it probably already has happened someone in the chat says wouldn't it just die in your in your uh your stomach acid well no lots of lots of bacteria survive your your gut they go down There are some. There are definitely some, yeah. Sure. Like you take a probiotic and you're basically, you know, you're taking in live culture.

Well, your stomach is, your stomach is only one part of your gut, right? Right. Like, your intestines are not filled with all that acid. So there's tons of bacteria in your intestines for sure. And they're very important bacteria that are important to, to, they help you digest food. Talk about. You would die without them. That's true.

Talk about your sulfur-rich environment. My intestines are ready for these guys. Lots of, lots of yummy sulfur. So much I have to let some out everyone. That's right. You can't keep it all to yourself. Well, this is great. I enjoy topics like this.

And I'm glad you've got your ear to the biological bone, as it were. The bio bone. The biobone. Anything cool going on with your show all around science that people should know about? Yeah. So our show, all around science, we do science news every week. And we just, this, yesterday we released an episode where Mora taught us all about the black death from the, from the dark ages. Did you know, the first of all, that thing, A, is still around.

And B, the plague that happened lasted for like 500 years or something. Really? Yeah. I thought it was just like a little blip in time, right? Like, you know, you hear about the black death, the black plague. and it's like, oh, that was a, you know, brief thing, but it's still around. Well, it is still around in some way, and, and it's, it's, you know, it's very small. You wouldn't call it a concern or anything, but yeah, I always thought it popped up in the

1300s, maybe lasted 50 or 100 years, and then it was gone, but no, it kept plaguing people for up until as late as the 1800s. Find out how close it is to you. Right, right. Well, the reason it was brought up is there was some news recently that was up until just very recently, like the past couple months, we didn't, scientists didn't really know what the black death was in terms of the organism that actually caused it, the bacteria. They knew it was bacterial. They knew that it was spread by rats and fleas, but they weren't exactly sure, and they figured it out with some cool, cool processes. So we talk a lot about that on this episode that just came out.

Nice. Also, I wanted to say real quick, I know we're not talking about all the terrible crap that's going on in the world right now, but I wanted to remind people just one thing, which is in terms of all these kinds of scientific arguments that you can be having and just logical arguments that you have with people that you care about in the world, just remember that something that I always try to remember myself when it comes to critical thinking, which is that you really can't, logic or reason someone out of a position that they didn't reason themselves in to begin with. So it just, it's a, as a general sort of, I guess, a public service announcement, try not to argue with your friends and you're not going to change their minds. Your, your mental health will be improved if you just try to let it go. I'm not saying don't argue with the government. You certainly want to do that. But just a little, little, uh, word of wisdom a little word of advice from someone who struggles with feeling like there's I'm

surrounded by people who think stupid terrible things yeah no it's good advice I'm having to give myself some of that advice today I had three I started three tweets on the toilet this morning that I deleted I actually do that a lot as an exercise of helping me deal with those things I will type out a big angry like Facebook comment or or tweet and And I just delete it, right? Like, I've gotten, I, I blew out all the steam by typing it out, and then I just delete it. And it makes me feel a lot better. Well, there you go.

Bobby with some good ideas and also terrifying new bacteria to deal with. Well done today. Bobby Frankenberger, of course, always a pleasure to have you on. Everybody check out his podcast wherever you get them all around science. Bobby, we'll see you next Tuesday. Thank you. Bye now. Bye.

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I'll text him, but I haven't heard anything. So we'll see what's going on. She's working on a big death charger skull, the last I saw on his YouTube channel. So hopefully next week he'll be able to tell us about that. I would love to hear about it. That sounds really good to me. In the meantime, don't forget, you can support our show at patreon.com slash TMS. We've got a brand new month starting soon, and it's a perfect time to get in.

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She's one of Amanda's favorite artists. And then he says directly to Amanda, so as not to confuse that I'm saying this to Amanda. That's why I'm clarifying. Amanda, simply put, you have made my life complete, and I cannot wait for the next first. 40 years of fun and adventure. I love you, blue.

Yes, I said blue. Oh. Oh, here's this for her. Happy day, do you. Happy birthday, Amanda. Cool. I was going to sing Boston for tomorrow so far away. Then I got to say.

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Oh, cool. All right. Well, how about some Wendy Houston, Houston, you know, there's always the greats, right? Like David Byrne covering I want to dance with somebody or Evan Dando from the Lemonheads does There's a girl I know. Oh, how will I know? That's the song. Sorry. Exactly. Let's go to this one right here. Speaking of I want to

dance with somebody. A couple years ago, Scary Pockets, which is another project by Jack Conti of Pomplamus and Patreon fame, because he doesn't have enough going on in his Dame Renaissance world that he lives in. No kidding. From their album Ups and Downs, here is Scary Pockets cover of

I Want to Dance with Somebody. See you guys tomorrow. Still enough time to figure out how to chase my blues away. I've been all right up till now. It's the light of day that shows me how. And when the night falls, my lonely heart calls. Oh, I want to dance with somebody. I want to feel the heat with somebody.

Yeah, I want to dance with somebody With somebody who loves me Ooh, I want to dance with somebody I want to feel the heat of somebody Oh, I want to dance to somebody With somebody who loves me I've been in love and lost my senses sent through the town Sooner or later the fever ends

And I wind up feeling down I am bad who take a chance On a love that burns high enough to last And when the night falls, my lonely heart calls. Oh, I want to dance with somebody. I want to feel the heat with somebody. Oh, I want to dance with somebody, eh, with somebody who loves me. Ooh, I want to dance with somebody.

I want to feel the heat with somebody. somebody oh i want to dance with somebody with somebody who loves me somebody who somebody who somebody who somebody who somebody who needs me in his arms i need a man who take a chance on a love that Burns hot enough to last. And when the night falls, my lonely heart calls. Oh, I want to dance with somebody. I want to feel the heat with somebody. Yeah, I want to dance with somebody

who loves me. Oh, I want to dance with somebody. I want to feel the heat with somebody, yeah, I want to dance to somebody with somebody who loves me. This show is part of the Frog Pants Network. Frog Pants Network. Get more shows like this at frogpants.com. Bye, little turd. Yeah.