The Morning Stream - TMS 2320: For why?

Episode Date: July 19, 2022

Nips for Tips. Wedge: the Basic Bitch of Salads. 1 sex worker, 2 sex workers, red sex worker, blue sex worker. The Squeaky Bean is my Wrestling name in High School. Flicking the Nut. We all live in a drone Submarine. Mansplaining Shadows. Dark Phoenix The Broccoli People. Watching the Stupid icon running away. We Interrupt Today's Story for a Mess! Super Liberable. Don't set the magnet to impale your brain mode. I'm kind of a big deal on Relp! Joystick Generation with Bill. Overwhelmed with Bobby and more on this episode of The Morning Stream. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Coming up on TMS. Nips for tips. Wedge, the basic bitch of salads. One sex worker, two sex workers, red sex worker, blue sex worker. The squeaky bean was my wrestling name in high school. Flicking that nut. We all live in a drone submarine. Mansplaining shadows. Dark Phoenix, the broccoli people.

Watching the stupid icon running away. We interrupt today's story for a mess. Super Liberable. Don't set the magnet to impale your brain mode. I'm kind of a big deal on RELP. Joystick Generation with Bill. Overwhelmed with Bobby and more on this episode of The Morning Stream. To John, his first pot party looks exciting.

Everyone seems to be having fun. Now's the time to introduce the joints. So, how do you like my swimming? The Morning Stream. It's what's in the yogurt. Good morning all, and welcome to TMS. It's the morning stream for Tuesday, July 19th, 2020. I'm Scott Johnson.

That's Brian Ibid in the bright shirt. Hello, Brian. Woo! This shirt is so loud. I'm going to have to turn my gain up. It literally might be making, this side of my face might be a little brighter. Because I'm looking at you over here. It's opposite of what the chat sees when I'm over here, even though Brian's over here.

Anyway. I imagine if I were to, and I might go drive for Lyft this afternoon, but I imagine that everybody's first comment, God, it would almost be worth recording it. Everybody's first comment when they get in the car like, wow, I like that shirt, or holy cow, that's a loud shirt or something like that. Hey, what are the, actually, that's a really good question. What are the rules for either Lyft or Uber when it comes to a car, inside car cameras? Do they have a thing with that? They don't, I mean, I think if you've got a dash cam that clearly has a camera facing back as well, Well, I don't think that's an issue.

Okay. You know, I think, I don't think you need to say, hey, I've got a dash cam that's going to be recording you. So, um, you don't have to write, they don't have to sign a waiver or something weird like that. Right, exactly. Yeah. So that's interesting. I don't know what I would have thought there. If you had guessed, if you had said, Scott, your life depends on your answer.

Do they have a rule that says you can't have a thing filming inside the car? I would have probably said, yeah, because it just seems like something a driver or a passenger would be weird with. It really depends on what you use it for, because I can't, I wouldn't necessarily be able to record video of the passengers and then just put that up on YouTube and say, look at this dumb guy. Oh, look at this guy. Look at this guy. I mean, can't you? Maybe you could. I don't know. That's my whole thing is maybe you could do that. You wouldn't. I mean, like, you know, legally can you do that? From a legal standpoint, you think? Because I think it's just like a, a safety thing. Like, all right, you've got the camera for your safety. So it's like, oh, look, here, now you can see the guy pulling the knife out before he jams it in my neck. But see the C insurance company, officer? Yeah, it feels like it didn't help that much because you would have had to look at the video later, right?

You wouldn't have seen it when it happened. Oh, and somebody points out, yeah, like, you know, blurring faces. Navarine says they usually blur faces, though. I don't know. I just know what the legality is. You know the person's image of recording without their express prior consent is prohibited and may result in your account being disabled. That's a YouTube thing, though, right?

Not a... Is that a car rule? Is that a Lyft rule? Yeah, that's what I'm curious about. Or is that a YouTube rule? Because people film each other all the time in public and nobody has to sign anything or blur their faces out. It happens all the time.

Technically, here we go. Drivers are permitted to record rides for security documentation, but may not broadcast or publish the footage. Broadcasting a person's image. Oh, and that is actually what pops and recline copy and pasted was the was the Uber and Lyft rule about that. That makes sense. Okay.

Yeah, I figure they had something in there. But having the camera for, like, just exactly what you said. They're for security or otherwise, but not for publishing. That's the thing you agree to, I guess. It's probably part of some gigantic Yula agreement that you agreed to forever ago that you didn't read through. One of those long pages of like, yeah, yeah, yeah, let me start picking up random strangers and putting them in my car and giving them lens crows. afters. Yeah.

Except, except, except, except. Okay, I started saying, upset by the end. That was bad. Anyway, well, that's interesting. Welcome to the show, everybody. We had a lot to talk about, a lot of stuff going on. I just wanted to thank everybody for the nice birthday wishes over the weekend. Had my birthday on Sunday.

Yeah. Went out of town with Kim. We went to, we were kind of quiet about it because, I don't know, I just don't like telling everybody I'm leaving town, but went out of town to a place called Midway. I've been there before, talked about it on the show before. We just love this area. it's like a north east of park city near heber it's this beautiful beautiful valley with just like amazing stuff in it including these like ancient volcanic holes full of spring water everywhere

um it's just kind of weird looking because it feels like another planet plus everything's swiss themed because the place was founded by a bunch of swiss immigrants and so everything is dirka dirk it with a lot of like it's hard to explain just like a lot of that gingerbread style housing like the oh yeah and they're all making cheese and stuff it's like it's just one of those things oh that's awesome yeah it's the city that they went to and sideways and i i keep saying it's solvang but they went to oh no they did go to solvang there's the other there's another city by there that is like um that is the split pea soup capital of the world oh right yeah that's see that's great that's the this place is like it's all about cheese curds and weird cheeses and then all the hotels

are themed like these Bavarian castles and it's really weird but we we love it there. It's super peaceful and nice except we had a weird monsoon kind of a storm thing come in just like out of nowhere totally uffed up our barbecue plans. We were trying to make steaks and had all these plans and it kept blowing out the pilot light and the barbecue thing and so we ended up having to go into town, long story, ate at this cheesy bar. that it was not it was not let's put it this way you know some bars it was rated really high on yelp relp on yelp but i think sometimes um that stuff is because you're drunk while you're rating it because the food was really basic like yeah like i got uh salsa and just as a starter

i got salsa and and chips and they brought out these chips and they were just round tostito. Basically the tostitos right out of the bag and stale I should admit

I should say they also they had their very own homemade salsa but it was so onion heavy

that it gave me heartburn all night so that was cool um they had hot wings but they were just the kind of thing

you'd get it like a Walmart um what else oh these wedge salads I was thinking hey a wedge salad sounds good

it was the most like bottled dressing Wilty. It was bad. It's bad. Those are, those take some work to make unique. Because it is basically, it is the, it is the, um, basic bitch of salads, right? I mean, the wedge salad is I'm cutting, uh, an iceberg head of lettuce in quarters. Uh, I'm putting it on there and then dumping ranch and then hopefully like a, um, thousand, not a thousand island, but a blue cheese.

balsamic, yeah, blue cheese crumbles, balsamic vinaigrette, some bacon. You know who, I hate to say, you know who makes it perfectly is Outback Steakhouse. They do. They do. Although, none of you all have had my wife's, and it is killer, because she puts this chili, she puts this chili paste thing on there. It's going to sound weird, but she puts, like, just enough of it on top. I don't even know what it's called. You know the little bottle, it's, like, covered in Chinese writing?

It's a jar. it's kind of a dark red I don't know the name people will know this because you see it everywhere anyway you put a little bit of that on there unbelievable unbelievable

turns the thing and she just puts it loose on the salad doesn't like mix it with the dressing or anything like that you just put it in there and you kind of mix it yourself just by eating it but oh it just adds this little

but tuba says a chili crisp is it the one that's got like the crispy like the grilled almost charred chilies in there Yeah, like how you see how they're like little dark flex. It's definitely that. But it's not, everyone's saying saracha in the chat.

It's not saraja. It's not that. Not characha. No. Although that might work, but it's like a chilly, I don't even know what. I'll figure it out because it's worth sharing. It's so, so good. And it turns that thing into like a fancy, I can't believe this is just here in my house kind of salad.

It's so good. Wow. All right. They did not do that at this bar. At Melvins. Melvin's public house, it's called. And I will give them credit for having a really amazing service. The girl was so great.

She was so awesome. And we tipped her well and she was really nice. And they had all kinds of cool sports stuff. The ambiance is great. Like, none of that's a problem. The food, though, I think they count on you being a little drunk when you eat it. And we were not. That's a bummer.

That's all right. But it went really well. And I will say this, bars and coffee shops, you know, this whole thing we were talking about before how the whole service industry seems to be in a bit of a funk and they're short-staffed and all that. Anywhere we went that was like a restaurant-y kind of place, including this red rock,

which is normally super rock-solid reliable in Park City, because we spent part of the day in Park City, the red rock there, food's great, all that stuff's fine, but they were just so short-staffed, like you could tell. They just weren't enough people there. So it was just stressful and everybody's running around and getting orders wrong and all that stuff.

Every restaurant we went to seems like it was like that. every bar and coffee shop not at all like that like the bars and coffee shops i think are either paying their people better or they're just not having a shortage or that's the preferable job i don't know interesting i wonder what it is about coffee shops that are able to um keep and and and pay their people enough to to not lose them you know probably the probably the pay i mean when you're charging seven eight bucks a latte you're probably you're probably making bank if you've got regular traffic so maybe that's it maybe it's the how many

employees do we need to turn out a product that makes profit whereas with a restaurant you need obviously kitchen staff you need servers you need bussers you need host host in the yeah and you need more management

like you can't just let the the minions run the place but at a coffee shop you could you could have six 20 somethings running your little hipster copy shop who cares they're all doing the same job, it's all good. So yeah, there must be something to it, but I definitely felt that all weekend. It was a really odd, really odd thing. So I don't know what it means. Here's what it probably means. I think here's Scott's grand prediction for today. Okay, everyone write this down

and hold me to it. I think we're heading toward, I mean, this is probably obvious overall. We're heading toward an economic recession of some sort. I know that's happening. However, I think specifically in the food service industry, we are heading toward a recession of its own. and by recession, I just mean a shrinking of it. We've got way too many restaurants, way too many places to go, way too much choice, and there's going to be a retraction as prices go up, and it's impossible to hire employees and pay on a living wage, you're going to see places start to close down, and we're going to reset a little bit. And those employees are going to move to other places, and then those places finally are going to have enough

staff to be able to support it. Yeah. Yeah, I just hope, that's right, they did joke about this a couple weeks ago saying this is going to be the great fast food wars where Taco Bell finally reigns supreme. Yeah. But yeah, I just, as there, I guess the only way to ensure that the restaurants you like are the ones that survive this are to keep supporting them during all this. I guess so. Yeah. Well, part of it, part of it is, is if they're kicking butt, like, like this place near us called the break, it's small in that it's singly, it's one place, it's owned locally, it's not a franchise. Yeah. And they play, they pay all their people. well and it's packed wall to wall and the people that do work there seem to love it there like

they all just rave about being there they love working there they're super happy all the time those places will thrive i'm not worried about those but i am worried about franchisees and i don't know places that don't have the right attitude or that or or don't value their employees like there's just going to be a pulling back a culling of the herd if you will and then it'll and i'm not saying this is good, it's going to suck. I'm just saying, I think it's coming. That's all I'm saying. We'll see. Hey, Brian, while I was out having fun, I guess you did a little bit of lifting. How'd that go? I did a little bit of lifting. And let me just say, it wasn't planning on talking about this one, but yesterday, so like, oh, no TMS. I've got a, you know, I've got a

bonus this week. If I can get 66 rides in, I get a, you know, several hundred dollar bonus. Like, all right, I'm going to go for that. And since we don't have TMS on Monday, God, what a great day for me to just go bam, bam, bam, get a bunch of short rides and get this in. I start my day by going to Boulder, which is usually like all of the college kids who live there over the summer and eating rides to the squeaky bean and the king supers or whatever.

Please tell me there's a, is there really a squeaky bean? Yeah, there was a restaurant here in Colorado called the squeaky bean. I love that name. That's an incredible name. It does sound like something you'd find on Urban Dictionary though, doesn't it? Oh, yeah. No, there's, I'm sure there are alternate definitions of the squeaky bean. I love that name, though. That's great.

So I drive up to Boulder, and on the way up, I turn on the start finding me rides, and immediately I get, all right, person in Boulder, five minutes away, go pick them up, take them for a thing. And I think it, you know, I didn't see any modifiers that say airport drop off or 45 plus minute ride or anything like that. So great. Head up there. It's good. You don't want to end up like last week where you were 400 billion miles away from everything.

Right. So as I'm heading there, it goes, but dunk, which means that they've changed out that ride. Or no, I guess it's a little noise that means, oh, we've changed out that right. And it says, higher paying ride now available, rerouting you to do passenger. I'm like, oh, all right, cool, fine, whatever. I see the person has a bag. As I pull up, I see that they've got a suitcase. I'm like, oh, all right.

well it's a it's an airport run there goes you know 40 minutes and now i've got to find my way back from the airport sure so i i pull up i hop out to open the back door for them and i say hey looks like you're going to the airport he says nope colorado springs and i and and i don't know what my face would have must have looked like but it was probably something like a bit a bit what wait can they do that i thought they couldn't do that and like like you're You got tricked. You got duped, kind of. I mean, I don't have any sort of restrictions saying, nope,

give me a chance to turn off automatic rides or anything like that. So it was my own fault. So for people who don't live in Colorado, Boulder is half an hour north of me. Colorado Springs is about an hour and 15 minutes south of me. So this was a two-hour, 100-mile ride. Oh, my Lord. Well, further than the one I took last week where I said, where I was like, at least I didn't have somebody with their moldy, mildewy clothes, wet clothes, and a bag in the car. This guy was really nice.

We talked, he was French, talked the whole time about all the different places. He's lived Switzerland and Miami, Florida, and then Colorado and London for eight years. Do you have a cool accent? He did have a very cool. It was a, you know, it was a Patrick accent. And he at one point did say really, really. And I was like, oh, wow, listen to that. That's good. I really brought it back home for you. That's awesome.

But then I thought, oh, my God. All right, great. Now I'm stuck 100 miles away in Colorado Springs. And fortunately, I did get a ride back up to Denver. I just basically set destination mode. Also, and I probably won't go too far into this, I either drove two, one, or zero prostitutes yesterday. wait a minute I need to know more Those situations were a little And I based this You know purely on

What they were wearing And how they were brought to my car By the person whose name was on the Lift order Like in both cases The person who brought them to the car Was the person whose name was on the Lyft account Had the little photo of them

do they have a cane and a huge fur coat and a hat no no no I think they were the I think they were the Johns I think those were the oh they were previous clients I see they were the clients yeah just wrapping up their time one of them was in a trailer park next to a house and you know just what she was wearing and the whole situation and the the apartment that I was taking her to I don't know I could easily be reading way more into it than uh and that's why i say it to one or zero yeah brian won't get it brian won't get in any trouble at all for saying that how they looked it'll be fine no one will send emails not how they looked from a um from a facial features kind of perspective but uh how they looked from what they were wearing was like oh these this kind of looks like what i see um prostitutes wearing in Hollywood films with the, like, shiny pink hot pants and the belly shirt and that sort of thing at 7 o'clock in the morning, 6, 8 o'clock in the morning. Oh, yeah, previous nights work being done, sure. Yeah, who knows? It's not like they're going to

tell you. Right, exactly. I mean, you know, maybe they will. It's like, uh, so am I driving you to work? Yeah. Yeah. My, my, where? Nope, you're driving me home from work. Okay. Oh, boy. So, anyway. Interesting. Um, yeah. So, so, that's all that's neither here nor there and that's like in my note the show notes I actually have two different stories I want to really quickly tell uh and here's the first one comes with a be nice to your lift driver request okay um when you place your order when you play when you punch up the app and say I would like a ride and a ride is accepted stay the F there uh I got to pick up over the weekend at um uh the Rockies at

Coorsfield, the Rockies game ended, and there was a ton of traffic. It was bumper to bumper. And if the person would have stayed where they ordered the ride, they could have actually walked down the street that was bumper to bumper and gotten in my car and we would have been on the way. Sure. But, no, this guy drunk and three people, all three of them drunk, they decided they were going to start walking the opposite direction around.

around the ballpark, which is all bumper-to-bumper traffic, every direction. And I'm texting and saying, hey, come back to where you were when you ordered the ride. No response. I call. Hey, I'm Brian. I'm your lift driver. Can you do me favor? Turn around and actually walk back to where you were when you picked up the lift drive.

And if you walk a little bit further than that, you'll actually see my car. You can get and we can go, oh, okay, dude, yeah, no problem. Which side of the ballpark you on? Oh, I'm on the northwest side. Just come around on the northwest side. And I watch his little stupid icon Go do do do do do do do like it's like Like I'm one of the ghosts and he's Pac-Man

And I'm just chasing him around the maze That's amazing Yeah How annoying I'll show you I could actually send you I decided because I wasn't doing anything I could pretty much take a picture while I was sitting in traffic So I think what I'm sending you is

where yeah is where I am I'm the the arrow you and your arrow like that song

like that song you and your arrow right I'm the arrow exactly me and my arrow straight of an arrow the pushpin is where he requested

the right and then the little dude down in the bottom right corner is where he was continuing to walk and he continued past that anyway just frustrating so stay put yeah stay put oh yeah look at that you guys were in a you were in a

permanent little loop there and if he didn't one of he's got to stop exactly you're never going to me i don't see him walking towards me so i've got to i've got to him that's uh also picked up a couple guys uh from a um they were they were at some sort of uh tennis match or something they were just watching a game i don't know what game they were watching but australian and i happen to be wearing that Australian Hawaiian shirt that I've worn on the show several times. They've got kangaroos and echidnas and castaways

and stuff like that on it. It's very Australian. Coala. And they're chatting and then all of a sudden one of them goes Hey. Oh shit. I like that shirt, mate. What did you just pour all over yourself? I just dumped everything everywhere. Hold on. Sorry if I've interrupted Brian's story for a mess. All right. All right. So we're back. Scott's cleaning his mess. Brian was in the middle of a story.

Okay, go ahead. Right. All right. So I'm wearing my Australian Hawaiian shirt, which, like I said, has a kangaroo, has koala bears. What's the dog, the Australian dog? Not wall. Dingo.

Dingo. Dingo. Thank you. All right. Dingo. And the guy, the guy takes a, you in the middle of his story, stops talking and says, Hi, mate. Is that a Hawaiian shit with Australian animals on it?

I go, yeah, man, sure is. And I joke, I said, I know, I knew you guys were going to be in the car, so I wore this specifically for you. Yeah. And he says, mate, I'll give you a hundred bucks for that shit right now. What? Did you do it? And my first thought is, oh, my God, do I, you know, do I just sell it to them and then end

my day driving? Do I, so I'm like, my first thing. Did he swap shirts with you? Is that what happened? You'd have to wear his shirt to get out of there? No, no, I don't think so. I think he would just take my shirt. Wow.

So I'm like, oh, man, no, thanks. I appreciate that. I think, because this was one of Tina's Australian friends that sent me this shirt. So I was like, oh, I can't do it. And I'm glad I did. And I found out later that it's their Australia Day shirt. And they only make it. And once they're sold out, they only make it for that year.

Australia Day and then once they make it they're done with that design so it's it's gone but I'm like the more a hundred bucks is not probably not even that good of a deal is what you're saying hundred bucks is I think a pretty good deal and and and so my initial no thanks man I appreciate it but I probably get in trouble he's like all right all right but if you change your mind and then he pulls out his phone he goes hey remind me in one hour to look up Australian Hawaiian shirts on Amazon. He's going to buy one. So I'm thinking, you know, if he pushes it again, if he offers the deal again, I'm

going to take it because, yeah, I'm losing a shirt, but I'm getting a hundred bucks and a story for TMS. Oh, yeah, no, this is all content. Are you kidding? Such great content. Then I won you. So as he's getting out of the car, he says, all right, last chance, 100 bucks for that shirt. I'm like, well, okay. He's like, no, I'm just kidding. See, have a good day.

He was kidding the whole time. Jackass. Jackass. That's what happens when you, when you wait too long, you know, you could have, you would have, you would have had to ride home totally shirtless, right? I would have gotten home totally shirtless, which isn't a, you know, it's not against the law. I would have had my, you know, my, don't need to be hanging out in my car. No, no, I feel, yeah. I, I, I'm trying to think, what would I, I've done. I mean, if he just said yes, what would I have done? I think I would have probably done it. Just drive home. Yeah, I would have driven home. A hundred bucks, uh, a hundred bucks richer and with a great story. I think I still ended up with a good story, but, um, yeah, almost,

it's almost better from a like, how do I, how do I put this? The fact that he was never serious is both irritating and great. You know what I mean? I, I think if I would have said, yes right away he would have been I think he thought about it more and was like turned it into a joke I think if I would have said yes the first time he did it

I would have gotten a hundred bucks and I would have taken my shirt off driven them the rest of the way and then he would have realized what a dumb idea it was because also I don't know I didn't get a good look at him but I think this shirt would have

my shirt would have been a little snug on him more snug than it is on me yeah well I'm I love that story That's freaking great. But at the same time, look, you came home with both things. A good story.

The only thing you didn't come home with is the extra hundred bucks. Was the $100. Yeah, exactly. You know what? Worth it. I got the story out of it. And I get to keep the shirt. And like I said, Tina says that our friend Vicky would have been really pissed if I would have sold that shirt for $100.

Story or not. I'll bet. Yeah. No doubt. All right. Can you confirm something for me? I want to know if this is the sound that Lyft makes when you get a drive thing. Hold on.

Okay. All right. Let's see. Oh, why is there no volume? I don't know. You know, YouTube, if you're going to do your TikTok rip-offs, if you're going to make these shorts, it's fine. Oh, there's some sound.

That's not it, though. Okay, well, freaking F it. I hate these. If you're going to have them, fine. Make them work so I can use it. All right. It's doodoo-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-l-d-l-d-l-l-l-l-. There you go.

All right. Well, let's do some news. We got news. We've got a bunch of this right here. So let's do that. Good morning. Good morning, everybody. In the news this morning, good morning. It's time for the news, and it's brought to you by. I'm looking at my feet, Scott. Did play retro get moved a bit this week? What's the deal? Well, only this week. Tomorrow we'll be having the show because today I'm on DTNS. We've swapped days. What? Crazy. Today, formerly of tested fame and a bunch of other stuff, Will Smith, not the actor, but the

as white as me guy. One of my favorite tech voices in the world is going to be on today. And I said, well, hey, I want to be on when Will Smith's on. They said, well, that's cool. We'll totally make that happen. So I'm on DT&S today.

And then tomorrow we're doing Play Retro. It's just we're swapping days. That's all. Real simple. No big deal. All right. So if you're into Play Retro and you want to hear all about Legacy of Kane,

which is our next big thing we're talking about, then be here tomorrow for that. All right. 3.30, same time as usual. Just a different day this week only. Next week, it's back to Tuesdays. and everything's normal. Play retro.

All you have to do is find that wherever you get your podcast. All right, check this out. We're going to start with a Colorado Springs man, which is perfect since you were just driving around up there. Yeah, since I just was in the conservative prostitute-filled town of Colorado Springs. That's right.

Oh, I always forget. So Boulder's the super liberal one. Well, there's super liberable. Liberable. Liberable. Liberable. Well, wait, where does Bobert hail from? Is she anywhere near Colorado Springs?

No, further west by like appropriately rifle and parachute Colorado by Grand Junction. Oh, she lives near somewhere called Rifle. Is that El Paso County or even further? It might even be. Oh, no, El Paso County is southeast. Yeah, it's a. Speaking of which, and nobody should look, it's, you know, no shame here except that she's a hypocrite. But she used to be a, do a little prostitutiness back in the day.

Oh, did she really? Yeah, there was some talk that she was like a professional. escort for a couple of years. Oh, wow. And, uh, oh, and that also she's had a couple of abortions. Again, totally her right. And so she shouldn't be such a hypocrite about it and try to take it from others. She got to choose whether or not she had those.

Weird, right? Weird. Weird. Yeah. Whatever. Bobert. Freaking bobert. Uh, let's get to the story.

Colorado Springs man hopes to buy a shirt. Oh, this is weird. Just kidding. I didn't. That would have been great. Um, that would have been great. Colorado Springs man hopes to be fourth person to push a peanut up Pikes Peak with his nose. Well, it's really striving to be the fourth person.

I mean, you know, who wants to be first when you can be fourth? It's a poorly worded, it's a poorly worded headline, right? Hopes to be the fourth person to push a peanut up Pikes Peak with his nose instead of like hopes to join the ranks of people who've pushed a peanut up Pikes Peak. Yeah, I feel like this, I feel like the writer of this article is actually kind of, kind of throwing a little shade on the guy. I think so. Because like, why would you do this? Here's what he has to do.

Lying on his stomach in the red dirt at the base of the bar trail and Manitow Springs. Manitou. Manitou. There you go. Mametou. Bob Salem wears a device affixed to his face that looks like both a homemade gas mask and the trunk of a very skinny elephant. A peanut in its shell rests on the ground in front of him. So now we've painted you a visual photo here, visual picture.

it says basically I'm going to sit here and low crawl all the way here or all the way up here and flick the peanut up the mountain he says laser focused on the task at hand the homemade contraption on his face is actually a mask from the CPAP sleep machine with a black plastic serving spoon duct tape to it with its help Salem hopes to be the fourth person to successfully climb Pryke's peak on his hands and knees while pushing a peanut with his nose yeah I wanted everybody to see what but this guy looked like, so I'm going to put a photo in the chat. Why is he put... They say he's pushing it with his nose, but he's pushing it with his contraption. Well, it's, right, that's a good point, right? It's a contraption that's attached to his nose. Yeah. So look at that chat.

But it's not technically with his nose. I guess his nose is where the spoon bit starts and goes down. We'll allow it, I guess. Whatever. This guy. Technically, it's an extension of his nose. He looks like he might smell bad.

I'm just going to put that out there. Anyway, I put a photo in our Discord of his, you know, with the whole contraption on. Yeah, the article here has him. He seems pretty excited. You have not looked at my photo. Oh, no, I'm sorry.

Where's your photo? Never mind. Oh, there you go. I like it. Yeah, yeah. Remember that thing? The Moss Isley Spy. I love that voice.

Hold on. Here, chat. There's the guy. This is what? This was much cooler, by the way, if this was happening. That would be way cooler, yeah. Although it would be really hot in the temperature that we've had. Yeah, I'd prefer that.

Anyway, he says, from what I can tell, I should be able to get up in about a mile, or get up, get to about a mile an hour as he moves the peanut. The peanut rolls backward down the trail, so he lost some ground, but he shimmies toward it and starts over, noting that the entire 12.6 mile journey has three miles of steps, It thinks that will be the most difficult part.

I don't know. I think the most difficult part is how somehow you have the time to the freaking do this. I think that's difficult. Yeah, like 12 hours. If he's going a mile an hour and it's 12, 12 miles up, 12.6 miles. It just feels like, I don't know, if you can't be the first, why do it? Yeah, what's the point? It's not like the Guinness Book World Record says, by the way, the fourth strongest man in the world is.

no there's not name a contest where fourth matters there isn't one there's nothing after bronze you're done at the third place you're not even you're not even on the podium you're like standing off to the side going oh yeah you're lamenting your loss at fourth yeah so now that you know that the work's already done by three others go home dude right don't be doing this go see wouldn't even be the wouldn't even want to be the second person it's like oh somebody's already done that well shoot okay it'd be funny if his grandpa's at home wheezing to death at night because his grandson took his seatep

and grandma can't stir her soup because he took her spoon this guy who knows what he's like I feel like he also could have done a lot better like he's only flicking it a few feet I feel like you could get it up in that spoon and then go shoo and like really huck it up there

then stand up walk to where it is you're basically playing peanut golf up a mountain is what you're doing. Yeah, because the job is not to get yourself up there as much as it is the peanut. The peanut is the key crucial object. So when he gets to these steps, for example, like shown in the article, do like Brian says, heave it up there. It doesn't matter how sloppy it is. Get up, walk up, do it again. Yeah. Or don't because you're fourth. This is so dumb. Biokai on the chat says, well, what about like radio, they say,

we'll take out the fourth caller. Totally different. You could, say that about any number you say we'll take the 18th caller we'll take the 6th call you know it doesn't matter but this guy I think he needs a better hobby that's all I'm saying I think you and and uh do you think you could get more attention if you just didn't use a peanut used like a um I don't know like a like a carrot or just trying to make something random something that wouldn't roll you wouldn't want to do a golf ball because then you've got some like then it's one bad roll and it's it's down the mountain good point three fourths the way up

yeah with a with a peanut I assume you've got at least a 50% chance of roll because if it's you know if it's turned this way it may not but if it's this way it's a silicon implant there you go like a silicon implant of pike's peak bingo that would work or just anything like a little block you know

yeah you know what a 20-sided die how about that? Ah too rolling too really that thing again hits the edge of one of those stairs and it'll roll back down and, uh, critical, critical fail. What about a, do we have anything square we can think of? Like a, I mean, uh, big, uh, a, uh, six side of die. Six-sided die.

Yeah. Fuzzy dice. I like that. One fuzzy die. Okay. Yeah. Um, whatever. Wish them the best.

Hope it goes okay. Yeah. Here's a story about erecting things. Sure. Hey. Albuquerque is erecting statues of Walter White and Jesse Pinkman. not the actors, but the characters they played. Oh, gotcha. Okay. Oh, so please tell me it'll be pantsless Walter White.

I mean, that's what I want, but I don't think that's what they're doing. It says here in a move to reveal what is likely the first ever municipal statues honoring the meth manufacturers from the city of Albuquerque's unveiling statues dedicated to Breaking Bad characters, Walter White, and Jesse Pinkman. According to the press release, the statue's originally commissioned from sculptor Trevor Grove in 2019 by series creator Vince Gilligan who is donating the statues to the city along with Sony Pictures Television

they're also part of this quote over the course of 15 years two TV shows and one movie Albuquerque has been wonderful to us I wanted to return the favor and give something back says Gilligan Oh Gilligan These they're

They're larger than life bronze statues of Walter White and Jesse Pinkman These exist thanks to the generosity of Sony Pictures television and the artistry of sculptor Trevor Grove and I love them. It makes me happy to picture them gracing the Duke City for decades to come, attracting busloads of tourists. I would go see these. This would be cool. Oh, for sure. I don't know. It's amazing that if those statues already exist,

why there are no pictures online of what those statues look like. That's a really good question, including this article. There's no. Yeah. I would think that, all right, cool. There's a photo. It's not in its place yet, but here's a photo of what it's going to look like, but... Yeah, I guess that... So there is some notes here toward the end of the article about it being... They're doing it indoors. Oh, interesting. Okay.

Because something Cranston and Paul said, they said, we also appreciate the statues will be indoors and therefore protected from pigeons depositing their critiques on our heads. That's pretty great. Anyway, you know, that's cool. Whatever. I'd see, you know what, if I was going to Albuquerque, I'd look that up. and you were down there.

You got some blue meth and pizza roof and all that. I did. I totally did. Somewhere is all that blue meth. I might have tossed it. But yeah, you got to take a little, a desk clerk bell with you when you go see it and go,

bing, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding. And just slobber and, like, make a face. And then shit yourself in the police station. Oh, man. That guy. Freaking. That's his name.

Not Tuko. Salamanca. Salamanca. Salamanca. What a character, that guy. Yes. I guess we get him a whole bunch more of him this season in Saul, which I'm not started yet. You do?

Oh, you haven't watched it yet. Oh, last night's episode was so good. I hear it was a very Wexler episode yesterday. It was, yes. I love her. If she wins that Emmy, I would be very happy. That would be great. Yeah.

She deserves it. Rea Seahorn deserves every bit of that Oscar. I agree. All eight inches. Don't worry. I'm not saying a single word. I'm not saying anything spoilery about that episode whatsoever. I'm not, and I have no idea, so I can't spoil it. I have no idea. All right. Let's move on to this here story about genetically engineered pig hearts are being transplanted into dead people. Oh, okay. Yep.

For why? Well, here's the deal. For why? For why? For why? I want to say that more. often when someone says, Scott, take out the trash. For why? For why?

Oh, I'm going to drive Kim crazy with that. I'm excited. All right, genetically engineered pig hearts. Let's go here. Researchers successfully transplanted genetically modified pig hearts into two recently deceased people connected to ventilators. The New York University team announced a few days ago now. The surgeries were the latest step forward in the field of animal to human transplants

or xenotransplantation. Ooh, that's a scary term, isn't it? Zeno. Zeno. If you're xenophobic, you may not want this pig heart. Anyway. Much better than Xena transplantation. Oh, yeah.

No, I don't know. Lucy Lawless. She seems pretty great. Genetic. I'd take her heart. Oh, yeah, if you don't want to give her that. But I'll take her heart. She's got a strong heart.

Sure. I don't want Hercules's heart because he's a pud. That guy. Anyway. Flouries of success is so far this year, raising hopes for a new steady supply of organs to ease shortages, which you're having a problem with right now. The only thing different about these heart transplants from normal human to non-human, or

to, sorry, normal human to human transplants is the organ itself. The research team said in a statement, quote, our goal is to integrate the practices used in a typical everyday heart transplant only with non-human organs that will function normally without additional aid from untested devices or medicines, says Nader Mosami. Who are you? I am Nader Mosami. Nader Mosami.

It's a great name. Director of Heart Transplantation of the NYU Long Gone. I'm sorry. Lengon Transplant Institute. That's an unfortunate faux pa there. Anyway, the idea is though

even though they were dead, their bodies are still functioning because they're on life support basically. They're on, you know, ventilation and all that. All right. So they're technically. The brain dead, but... Not with us, but functioning because you're keeping them alive. Right.

And, okay, that makes sense, then, that they're able to experiment and... Yeah, and see what the other systems of the body do and what and what and all that. So it's actually a really big, big deal. So I guess the pigarts came from biotechnology company Revencore, Revencore, Revivacore. Revivacore. Revivacore, probably. Revivacore, probably. produces genetically modified pigs, and also funded the research.

The pigs had 10 genetic modifications, four to block pig genes, and prevent rejection to six to, and six to add human genes. So basically they're, they're trying to make them more compatible. And I don't know, I'd take a pig heart if I was going to die. Bring it in. Let's do it. For sure. Yeah. My heart stops working.

Pig heart. No problem. Zero issue. And if I start craving like, what do pigs like? mud fine whatever right i'll go laying some mud final story it'd be some pig it'd be some spider writing that up above your head there you go jennifer lopez ben affleck got married again and here's how they did they ever get married the first time or was it just uh that they dated for a really long time you know what that's a really good question i guess they weren't actually

married before i don't think they got married before i think you're right i think that correct so uh they did it through your favorite method brian a las vegas drive-thru now if it's if it's with uh with an elvis you know on the way through then that's great that's even better oh yeah elvis has to be in the window yeah yeah he's only been married to jennifer lopez so only been married to jennifer garner and now jennifer lopez so all the jennifers was where he's all the jennifers all the jennifers all the jennifers look out jennifer walters oh oh that's a shame What about Jennifer Aniston? They never went out.

Jennifer Aniston, Jennifer Beals. Jennifer Beals. Jennifer Lawrence. Jennifer Lawrence would be a good choice. Jennifer. How about Yenifer from? Jennifer Love Hewitt. Oh yeah, Jennifer Love Hewitt.

She's a horse talker or horse whisperer or whatever. So many Jennifers. Holy cow. I'm sensing a Tad Pooley feud question in the future. Oh, man. Well, anyway, they went through one of those things. It was on Saturday, and now they're married, so well done, you too. Good for them.

Good for that. I think that couple's really going to make it. I'm sure this time will stick. I have no doubt. I'm sorry, I have all the doubt. Is she now going to be J-Laff instead of J-Lo? She's J-Laff. Well, that's how we refer to the coupling, right, is J-Laff, I think.

Or Ben-Low. I mean, it's been Benefer. Oh, Benefer, yeah. I hate that. I like Ben Lowe. Do Ben Lowe. Ben Lowe. No, way.

Ben Lowe. That doesn't work, does it? It does. Because she's J-Lo and he's Ben. He's B-Lowe. All right. Well, enough celebrity news. We're going to take a break.

When we come back, our very own celebrity Bill Duran will be joining us. And he's got a little surprise up his sleeve. I don't know how this is going to go. He's going to un-make something is what he's planning on doing. Possibly. That might be a way of saying it. I don't think it's exactly what people will take from your statement, but it's close.

Oh, really? Okay. I was just, that was just, yeah, you were just winging it, but it's kind of true, weirdly. Anyway, so that'll come up then, and then Bobby after that. So stick around. We need a song right now, though. So what do you have? Yeah. Oh, how about some, some peace and love music from Austin? This is a band called Golden Dawn Orchestra. They spell it with an ARK at the beginning, orchestra, and start an orchestra. They've got their album coming out. It's called The Gold Album, August 12th, digitally, but also on limited edition, 180 gram vinyl, which ought to be really cool. This is going to be released in partnership with Space Flight Records, Eye in the Sky, and Terrorbird Media. This first song is great. It's called Golden Limousine.

Here is the Golden Dawn Orchestra. Down dot the disco When I saw you Standing right there We were talking Everybody's rocking Ooh baby It ain't fair

I was walking Down by the disco When I saw you All right there Shines talking Six and jeans Come on baby Let's get

Come let's ride Plastic astrophysical Step inside Now I couldn't ever see Come let's ride Let's get astrophysical Step inside by Pull and never see

You see You see You see Lonely You see lonely Staling in the corner Let me hold you Fill you with desire

Lipstick smoking It's better for to-key I know you see me standing right here I'm going to fucking Down back is gone When's for you All right down

Shams' Tuckins Six in cheese Come on, baby Let's get out of here Come, let's ride, let's get astrophysical. Step inside, golden in my dream. Come, let's ride. Let's get astrophysical.

Step inside, all the never see. Come, let's ride. Let's get astrophysical. Step inside, call them in the sea. Come, let's ride, let's get astrophysical. Step inside, call the memory see. Come, let's ride. Let's get astrofysical.

Step inside, all the never's knee. Oh, let's ride. Let's get it. Stand inside. Oh, the memory. And here you have a planer. A blade is very thin. Be careful when you use it, or you'll plane off all your skin.

What does katana mean? It means Japanese sword. They are all that is man. This is the morning stream. And we've returned. Hey, tell me about that band whose name sounds like the way my dad would pronounce it. Sure, it's the Golden Down Orchestra. The brand new album is called The Gold Album, comes out in the middle of August.

But that is the first song that's called Golden Limousine. Enjoy it. in anticipation of the new album. Nice. It's interesting spelling. What are why they did that? There's probably some story, you know? I think it's like a foreign spelling, like a German.

Because I've seen other orchestras. Oh, interesting. Certainly with a K. I don't know about with an A, but... Every day, learn something new here on the show. That's what we do. Your bat caves open there, Bill. Check it out, everybody.

Bill Durand joining us all the way from beautiful, the Seattle surrounding area. And he's joining us to... I don't know if it's beautiful. It's probably really hot. there too like everywhere else right now you having a heat wave bill what's going on actually quite pleasant the last few days really that's good yeah we had a pleasant couple of days I mean if you count 90 plus plus pleasant but it's normal for our summers

but everybody else man London 104 today highest on record yeah oh never had a higher thing I think that's what for uh that's over 40 Celsius I think something like that anyway I don't know how those people are doing it how you how y'all doing it Claire says she's sweating her beeps off, which is... I'm sure she is. That's Irish for breasts, I believe. Anyway, Bill, it's good to have you back. I'm always happy to be talking to you.

And honestly, I have no idea what today's going to be like, although I have a hint because of some stuff you sent me. So how do you want to proceed here? You tell me. Well, today I want to talk about making music. Oh. That's a different thing. Absolutely.

Definitely counts as making, though. making something from nothing. That's true. I wanted to bring it up. We talked about this a few weeks ago and I let Flyeth believe that I had some recordings of me singing in a band from the early 2000s. Oh, yeah.

Oh, yeah. So I've been into music my whole life. In first grade, I took piano lessons. They didn't really stick, but, you know, I got started. And then in elementary school, I was in the chorus, but there was also a select chorus called the children's choir. I was in that, too. So before puberty hit, I could sing.

Everything changed in seventh grade. In college, I got a guitar. Both my twin brother and I got guitars, and we used to play at Open Mic Night's in our little town of us. We go New York. We play like Green A and Goldfinger covers, which was a good time. Sure. Nice.

And then when I was in college, or just after college, actually, a bunch of buddies from college and I had a band. And we played a couple of shows in Oneonta, New York, including... What was the name of the band, by the way? Just curious. The band was called The Joyistic Generation. Okay. And the slogan was, we change our band members, just like we change our underwear every couple of months. Because it was...

Nice. People would come and go frequently. as a college band so if someone would graduate then when they needed to fill that spot sure uh and that's how I got in they needed someone who could both play the guitar and sing and I could kind of do both so I was

suddenly the front man for this band we played at our college in the gymnasium we played at a couple of bars in town and we played on 5505 that's right we played at Smokey Jokes and Oneeon to New York and we recorded it nice that's where that's where these came from That's where the recording happened?

Was the smoky shows? Okay. This was recorded off of a high-8 video camera, and I ripped the audio out at some point. Okay. Sweet. So we're looking at top quality studio recordings here. Oh, yeah. And I want to point out, too, that we were paid in beer, and we were paid ahead of time,

which was probably a mistake. It took a couple hours to set up, and we were drinking the whole time. Oh, no. So how did those negotiations go? It's like, how do you guys like to pay beer? Okay, when do you want it up front? No, cool. About half up front and half.

Yeah, right. The monitor wasn't working, so none of us could hear ourselves. So everything went a little bit off the rails, but let me tell you, it was a really, really fun time. So I sent the songs to Scott. Okay. Maybe beer is a good song to play. But it's also, by the way, we mostly played real big fish cover, so it's a lot of Scott. Is the one called Bob about you somehow?

No, that's a no-effect song. Okay. I just just curious. I don't know why I thought that because Bill and Bob are nothing alike. All right, here we go. Let's play beer. This is called beer. It's track number 10 from joystick generation.

We'll just hear a little bit of this and see what we think. At least I know there's a solo in the song before I start playing. I hear Bill. It's a new work in the crowd. This is great. Do crowdwork. I love it. Oh, yeah.

Are you still working? Where do you grab my beer? Probably. It's our second to last song. We're still warming up. You might want to jump forward a hair. That's it. That's it.

That's a song, we might know. We'll probably. Here comes. 50% chance, people. Okay. You start this one, Bill? Yeah. Is that you on guitar?

There is. This is very scoff, very cool. Oh, yeah. Which one of you was responsible for picking it up? Oh, everyone has to a little bit. Everyone had to pick it up. Oh, here you're a second. Dude, that's awesome, dude.

I love it. Yeah, right? I love it. Look at you guys. And was it, I mean, I assume this was a very, joyful good time back then yeah we had a ton of fun yeah it seemed oh listen to this car really do what was going on singing about beer that's so good yeah I was probably 23 at the time 22 23 yeah and it was just super super fun I remember being completely well I was a little drunk

but I remember just being completely on cloud nine in front of a crowd there's like 20 people there Brittany filmed this Yeah And as you've still got Did you convert those too as well So you got digital versions of the video? I don't know if I have the video I've looked and I don't think I had the video anymore

Is those super rates corrode man They go to the grave Those things That's unfortunate Well that's awesome Love it My hope is that What people take away from this is

Like I'm There are things I'm good at Making music is Not really one of them I'm okay but I'm not great but it doesn't matter it doesn't matter at all yeah one of my favorite things to do if I'm in the car by myself is just to turn the music on real loud and sing as loud as I can again it doesn't matter if anyone hears me and it doesn't matter if it's good it makes me feel

great so there's a real there's a catharsis to that right like just letting it rip and blaring your favorite song we did a bunch of this driving this weekend with uh kim has a new playlist just full of old 80 songs and stuff would come on like princes let's get nuts or let's get crazy or whatever the song is i don't know what the title is let's go crazy let's go crazy yeah that thing comes on there's no stopping me i'm gonna ruin everyone's day right car i'll the freaking you know what song gets me going don't stop me now oh man oh nice by queen yeah yeah in fact there's a vandal's cover that's really really good too i'll bet brian has that cover if i got i have that one tell me about this tell me about this one called chick magnet real quick what's that what's the

deal there. Oh, that's an MXPX song. Oh, so this, okay. Let me just hear a little taste. I'll skip the head a little. So that's not you singing. No, that's the bass player, Nick, who is actually still playing music. His name is Nick Hongs. He's in a band called Gimmy Gimmy that is a tribute band to the world's greatest cover band,

me first in the Gimmy Gimmies. Oh, Brian loves that. So he's still doing it. He's still living the dream. That's great. Yeah, that band is like an amalgamation of a few different punk and ska bands. But you love, you've always raved about them, right? They're always doing.

They're great. They figured out their formula and they stuck to it. And I don't care if everything they do is that formula, they have figured out, they perfected that formula and listen to it every album they put out. And I feel like the whole gist of the Me First and Gimmie Gimmies is they're all in their own bands. And they formed this other band to play covers so that they wouldn't really have to try very hard. Right. But it kind of feels like.

Right. Exactly. They haven't put out anything in the while, too. It's been a couple years. Yeah. Pandemic, man. I got everybody. The, um, this version of Brandy is this the song I think it is?

Yeah. Looking Glass. Yes. Yeah. It's probably also the, the song that we practiced. least. Oh. Well, this is perfect, then. Let me see if I can get to a part here and play it. Here we go. You need backup. Wasn't everybody else doing the backups? I don't know. I don't know if that's me singing either. I don't know if that's me singing either. I'm not sure.

I don't remember. Because the leads aren't supposed to go, you're a fun, and then the backing vocalist goes, such a fun girl. Oh, yeah, yeah. Yeah, that's how that's supposed to go. Sorry, I'll let my bandmates know that they mess up.

They let me down, is what it was. They let you down, and in doing so, they let me down. Yeah, we're all let down a little bit. That's awesome. Music is a hobby. I think anyone can enjoy, and I recommend anyone try any instrument or singing, and especially if you're in college age,

join a band, it even if it's for a little bit because it's super fun. Yeah, like what a great memory and what a, you know, none of you were trying to be the next freaking, you know, you two or anything. You were just having fun and doing a thing and. Oh, yeah. Who knew where it would take you?

But who cares? Because you're at this stage of your life where it's perfect for that kind of stuff. I agree. I never did this. I never sang in a band or played in a band, but I always wanted to. I just didn't, I didn't think I had the any of the chops. And so I kind of have, if I had no regrets about that, it'd be like I never just went for it and said,

Yeah, you guys, he plays a guitar. You guys have a keyboard. I can sing bad. Let's go. Yeah, get yourself a tambourine. You can keep rhythm. Sure. It's never too late to learn an instrument either.

I mean, you know, you think that, oh, I'm too old to, like, learn guitar and that sort of thing. No, I mean, you could, you could pick up guitar or ukulele is a good easy one to start with. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, everyone loves a good ukulele guy in his 50s who plays that. Who doesn't? And a scoban can always always. some that doesn't. I'm going to say a scoban could always use another member.

Yeah. They can use their 17 horn player. Exactly. If they've only got nine, they're maybe like halfway to what they need to be. I keep hearing that Skah's on its way back. It's clawing. It's way back up to prominence. Is that true?

I don't know. I have anything to do with it. Which wave are we up to? Hard to say, but it feels like there's like a little bit of a resurgence, or at least interest in old ska music. I don't know if there's new bands or not, but that's never a bad thing. Scott was great.

It is great. There was no was. It didn't die. It is great. Yeah, it lives. It lives today. Well,

this is fantastic, Bill. I love seeing under the hood here a little bit on your life. When you're not making things, he's making everybody dance in a bar at 2 a.m. Any ancillary bonus content for us today? Sure. I got a video here from a channel called R.C. Life on. He does a lot of radio-controlled vehicle type of things.

He's making an underwater drone. It's like a submarine, but it's using drone parts to basically fly a drone underwater. And I think it's making cool. Oh, he printed the housing. That's cool. Oh, yeah. Oh, look at that. Brian, you've got to make one of these.

Look at that. I know. Well, there's not, I mean, obviously I've got lakes and rivers and stuff near me, but not a lot of stuff that I feel would be interesting for a 3D printed underwater. water drone. Well, don't go chase in waterfalls, though. Just stick with the lakes and the rivers you're used to. We'll do. I will. Thank you for that. That's what you should do. That's really cool. Now, this reminds me of a quick story.

While I was out of town and we were in Midway, which has, again, all these prehistoric volcanic holes full of spring, full of like natural underground water stuff. I watched a little kid with an RC truck, like one of the little four-wheel ones. Well, they all have four-wheels, but four-wheel drive ones.

And he's ripping around and doing this stuff and his dad's watching all proudly. and then the kid drove one right into the hole and that was it that there's no way they're getting that thing out because it's it's like a 20 feet drop or something in this one I'm like why was he did wait a bit and I saw the dad go no no no no no it was a sad moment for RC fans everywhere I know I would be so pissed well we just got me just have the controller yeah what do you do with that thing yeah what are you going to do away but you can't repurpose it I guess you could maybe find someone on eBay if you got another one of those

you could probably reprogram it, but it's going to come with one anyway, so what's the point? If eBay has somebody who's selling just the car because they lost the controller, you're in luck. Stranger things have happened. Bill Duran, it is always good to have you on.

Punishprofs.com is the place to go check out all his fine work. He'll be back here next Tuesday. Like always, Bill, have a fantastic week. See you next time. Bye now. But, uh, well, all right then. So jury's been in your, in London and what if he's there in the heat

one of that's a thing wasn't he he went to Amsterdam I know is he going to London on this trip too yeah I think he started there so maybe they missed the heat by starting there and then going to other stuff but when he when he texted me he was in London and sent me a picture of a they had a this was so weird they were in some historical historical historical historical part of London historical didn't sound right for some reason hysterical

hysterical was so funny Anyway, it was this Harry Potter Museum performance-y thing. I don't know what it was. They were doing something at a big, big venue. And then right across the street, they were eating at a wing stop, which I think is great. I think that's freaking great. Yeah, I love that. All right, Bobby and Coming, prepare yourselves for what that means.

I'm ready. I don't know what he's prepared to do today, but I know it'll be exciting. So sit back and relax as I play his intro. Science. Hey, it's science time with Bobby Frankenberger, who for some reason is not wearing his glasses, and that is freaking me the F out. What's going on? I'm wiping them.

I'm cleaning them. Oh, you should always wipe. But do front to back, always. Always front to back. Bobby, it's good to have you here, man. I feel like, I don't know why. I feel like I haven't talked to Bobby in a freaking age, but I guess it's only been a week. So I don't know why I feel that way.

For the first part of the year, we talked very frequently because of A&TP, I think we're just coming off of that. Yeah, it's all the, yeah, it's the, the lull ever since. We were overwhelmed with Bobby at that point, but now. Oh, so much, Bobby. Now it's just a special weekly event. Anyway, Bobby comes on the show as the host of All-Around Science and talks about some kind of science scientific story or another. And I have no idea what you're going to talk about today. So fill us in.

What do you got? Well, I've got two things. We can either pick one or we can do both of them. I'm pulling a Tom Merritt. Doesn't Tom do this all the time? He doesn't, well, usually gives us a choice. Yeah, you'll give us a choice and then just does the one, but then sometimes sneaks in a little about the other.

You're welcome to do whatever you feel. So we've got a giant raft of space bubbles being thought to block, used to block the sun, or shape-shifting microbots to brush and floss your teeth. Okay, hold on now. I can't resist either of these, but I have a question about first one. Is it our bubble thing, or did we discover someone else's floating around? well well why don't I just tell you

why don't you just tell us about the space bubbles all right so the idea here is a group of MIT scientists that are they're exploring ways to help with you know the the troubles we're having with climate change and global warming and so they're exploring a bubble based solar shield concept that would reduce incoming radiation from the sun It's meant to supplement current strategies, but the idea is to construct a raft of basically,

if you see the images of these things, it just looks like a sheet of bubble wrap. Okay. And you would put a giant one out in space to block some of the sun's radiation as it was coming to the earth to kind of like half-shade. So it's not as intense, right? That's the idea here.

Now, let me ask you this. I just thought of something. Yeah. This could be finally a way for us to get proof of God. And here's how. Oh, can it? Yeah, this is how. This is how you do it.

I'm pretty sure I've got the answer. You put giant bubble wrap in the sky. Yeah. Everyone knows that not even deities can resist the temptation. They can't resist the temptation. So you're going to see two gigantic hairy knuckle hands come out of nowhere and go, Mmm, what's this? Pop, pop, pop, pop, pop, pop, pop.

That's how that's going to go. And it'll hear this. You hear this in space. Here we go. Oh, come on, pop it. Oh, I picked an ASMR channel. Those guys just tickle everything. Here we go.

This is the one we wanted. I'm going to start popping the bubbles now. Here you go. Yeah. Keep going. Come on. These are lame. Oh, these are so lame.

All right, YouTube, you've let me down. Anyway, the point is... Well, if this is the plan, then I think that's a poor plan, because, as we all know, in space, no one can hear you pop bubbles. That's true. We're never going to see it.

But now we've got that microscope that we can see right down to God's nose hair. So I'm pretty excited. So this will basically be in like a geosynchronous orbit with Earth. Look at the brains on Brian. Yeah. Well, you can't just blop it in the middle, like right between Venus and us and hope that it's going to see.

So not geosynchronous. I believe that geosynchronous. That would mean it moves with the Earth's rotation. Maybe it's solo synchronous. It would, though. It's at what's called, they would have to put it and suspend it at what's called a Lagrangian point. We've talked about these before. They're gravitational points between two massive objects.

I was going to say, that's where Zizi Top hangs out is the Lagrangian point. It's where that's awful is. And they're key gravitational points between two massive objects that were, gravitational forces cancel out and things can remain stable there. And this would be at the L1 Lagrangian point between Earth and the Sun. And that's like a space that's sort of basically directly between the Earth and the Sun where the force of Earth's gravity is canceled out by the force of the Sun's gravity and you put something there and it'll stay there stably.

Gotcha. This bubble wrap thing would have to be the size of Brazil. it would be up there for like 50 to 200 years and it would block it would decrease the sunlight by 1.8% which is what they calculate would need to be done to sort of offset some of the effects of to cool things a little bit to cool things off yeah okay before you go further

so it's going to be the size like having it the size of Brazil and in the place that they're having it put the distance from earth it's going to be enough to block all of earth from what a distance it is right? So the idea is not to put earth into a constant state of eclipse Oh okay, all right

The idea is to Because these are going to be semi-transparent bubbles Yeah So some of the light will get through Some of it will be reflected They've specifically chosen Some sort of molten silicone To make the bubbles out of

because it will allow a wide range of wavelengths of light to get through. It's just to just sort of put like a, you know, like a... Like a filter. Like a lens filter. If it's not going to block... So like, you know, when you put your hand in front of a light bulb, you cast a shadow on the wall, right? And you've got that shape.

Obviously, it's way bigger than your hand, because your hand is closer to the light source. Well, gee, Mr. Wizard, thanks for mansplaining shadows to us. If it's not big enough to filter, I won't say block, filter the whole Earth. Then what's the point of having just focused on a specific area? Is it doing polar ice caps? Is it doing a specific problem spot first?

It's just for white people. We're only worried about white people because, Not because we don't like it It's just that we don't It's not that we don't love everyone It's that we're all going to burn up and die first So cover us You're saying

The most vulnerable The richest countries The most rich Yeah It'll block Ireland, Norway All of the places We're most susceptible to sun damage Everybody up in the Scandinavian countries

Are first in line here Yeah I see what you're saying Brian, I think it must be that that size is enough to that the filtered area would cover the earth. I think you're right about that. Yeah, that's what I was wondering.

They, one of the other... To be resilient-sized and be that, depending on, you know, however... It feels like polarization. Is this polarization kind of? Like you do with sunglasses? Well, no, polarization is something else entirely, well, it's not something else entirely, but it's doing something else. It's filtering out light, but maybe in a different way.

You know how polarization is filtering out light that is that is essentially this is not exactly right don't email me physicists but it's it's filtering out light that is vibrating in a certain direction right um so that so that it uh it's the uv razor trying to not get into your corneas and your retinas sure yeah yeah so this would be one of the benefits of doing this raft would be that it could be it could be constructed in place Like, this is an adaptation of, based on an idea of, that was, like, thought of a while ago about sending a swarm of small spacecraft to deploy a bunch of small shields. But you would have to build all of those spacecraft. Yeah.

So this, you could presumably send up much fewer, and they would just, they would just blow little bubbles. So what's the warranty on this thing? Is it going to last a long time? Well, it says it would have to last 500 to, somewhere between 50 and 200 years to help do what it needs to do. Well, that covers us. We're good. What's you say? I said, that covers us.

We're all good with everybody on the show right now. We're all good. That's what you always see with these disaster level technologies is they're like, yeah, we just need it to last for how much? How much longer do I have? About 50 years. Right. So the significance of this, though, even though we're talking tiny percentages, which is really all we're talking about with all of issues regarding global warming or climate changes, these tiny increments, is that 1.8% enough? I guess it is if they've studied it. They've calculated that any sort of what they call solar geoengineering project,

because there are other ideas that people have come up with, like putting dissolved gases in the stratosphere that would reflect light and stuff like that. Any solar geoengineering project that would reduce the amount of light hitting the earth would need to be somewhere between, I think it was like 1.3 and 1.8%. So to have the impact that we need. Who's funding this? Do we know who's doing this? Nobody's funding it yet. This is like a feasibility study that MIT is making.

So I don't even think they know how much this would cost at this point. It feels like a last resort kind of thing. Yeah, we're bouncing all of those harmful rays back out to some other planet and destroying an entire race. Oh, man. I'm not cut up on the Orville, but that's a perfect episode of the Orval. I guess we just Phoenix those guys. Sorry.

Oh, well. Sorry. Phoenixed them. Dark Phoenix those guys. That's a great way of saying the broccoli people up. We just dark Phoenix the broccoli people. You've been Phoenixed.

That's horrible. One of the things I like about, they said it needs to be reversible, right? So it can't just have to be there forever. They need to be able to get rid of it. And I love the language that they used about how this could be reversible. They said, this is a quote, it said, it would need to be

intentionally destroyed by breaking their surface equilibrium. And that's like such a science way of just saying they need to be able to be popped. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. We just got to pop them. Yeah. So there really are bubbles. Like, if you looked at this thing, at least in its proposed form,

it's bubbles. It looks like a sheet of bubble wrap, doesn't it? Wild. Okay. Yeah. That's amazing. Well, I hope that works. That'd be great. Yeah. You know, and quick. Like, you can't spend the next 10 years building it. You've got to build it now. Like, go. Yeah, well, that's what's going to happen. Just let's be

honest. They're just going to be like, all right, we figured it out and then they'll come out of their you know basement office and then look around and everything will be a smoldering ruin yeah that very well could happen at the rate we're going it seems like stuff's accelerating um i you know not trying to be alarmist or anything but i saw a really interesting piece of visual data today that was a way of seeing climate change that i've never seen before which was this top down view of the percentage Celsius that we need to be in like the ring of everything's fine and inside of there there there's like this every year is represented by a almost like a handwritten scribble line that represents how that year did and if it goes out toward the line

a little or down toward the cold little it's you know you could see it do it and it's just like this and they start in the 1800s when they first have any tracking data for this and they keep going and going and going all the way up to 1930 something and it stayed in the ring 1940, when do we drop the bomb? Whatever that was. 45, I think. 45, yeah. That's the year this line makes a freaking hairy jump.

It goes, and like way out here. And then it comes back in. And then we're okay for a bit. Then we're good right up to the 1980s, my favorite decade. Or so I thought. And it starts to go,

we're going out, we're going outside. And then by the time, we're here it's this nightmare of we're way outside this what are we doing so then they take the whole thing which has been this top down 2d view and they rotate it and it's 3d and time is represented by depth and the shape of it is now it's basically a bar graph on its side so now you got the the line down here going out and it shows how quickly it funnels from the 80s till today and to this red zone it's really striking that animation i wish i had it so i could show it and i have to explain it it but um yeah really that's a it's it's it's it's it's cool to be able to visualize data like that

because it helps to tell the story of what's going on right yeah i'm i'm a huge fan of that sort of stuff visual data visualization yeah even when it's like super nightmarry and terrible um anyway so i'll try to find that and share with the chat if i can dig it up uh well anyway oh yeah here it is you know what i'll share it now because i'm a sharing kind of person uh this is sharing sharing is caring sharing it's also scaring a little bit Okay, here we go Chat room, here's your link

Someone probably already found it Ethan Kane, did you find it? I think Amos found it Okay, I'm sending this to you guys as well on the Discord just so you can see it It's really something I kind of have never seen data represented this way before

and that's partly why I like it I don't know, it just seems neat Anyways, so All right, well there's that Now you've got to give us just a taste of the other thing What was the other thing? Oh, shapeshifting Shapeshifting microbots to brush and floss your teeth.

I'm ready for this now. When do we get my own? It's a proof-of-concept study from Penn State. Their school of dental medicine teamed up with the School of Engineering and Applied Science, and they're showing they've come up with a proof of concept for a hands-free system involving self-assembling, shape-shifting nanobot swarms that could effectively automate brushing and flossing your teeth. Oh my gosh. Can I have it now?

Can I get it? I don't... I'm kidding. Maybe you shouldn't... Maybe you guys shouldn't be so eager. I'll beta test this. I'll do it. Why not?

What could go wrong? Robots in my mouth. What, uh... I don't know. Sometimes I feel like... I feel like you ever get the feeling that people are just using technology to try and solve problems that don't need to be solved? Well, do they do a substantially better job with the cleaning, is the question. And if they don't, well, then...

Not yet. yet, but this is early on, I don't know, because... Is Wesley Crusher involved? And forget it. Because he almost killed everybody, that guy. They're using the line that I hear all the time that really kind of like makes me roll my eyes, which is, the design of the toothbrush has remained relatively unchanged for millennia. It's like the Dyson commercial, right?

Yeah. Change the vacuum in forever. I changed it. Oh, this is interesting. Some things I don't think need to be changed. Like, that's like me saying, like, the design of the basic chair has not been changed for millennia. Like, and does it need to be? No.

Like, it kind of does the job, you know? Yeah, sometimes stuff just works. We've reinvented the wheel. Yeah. The wheel hasn't changed. And it's still is it. It's now a square. It's a square.

Inefficient and terrible. Anyway, I'd be, I'm just, I think nanotech is so super fascinating. So I'm always perked when I hear about it. The real quick explanation of how this works is it's basically iron oxide nanoparticles that can be controlled with magnetic fields to be a toothbrush sometimes, sometimes be floss, and you just put it in your mouth, and it moves around for you, scrubs your teeth, and flosses your teeth, and also the nanoparticles themselves sort of have catalytic reactions

that create hydrogen peroxide, which is essentially the active ingredient in most toothpaste. right um and so they did test it on uh model teeth and and and animal teeth and and and stuff like test it on steve bushemi then get back to me then let me know oh geez i mean no shape yeah no shame yeah but you know whatever no what so what's to stop these things from working right down my throat or whatever try it on kirsten dunst yeah kirsten densed exactly and maybe when uh fat damon kisses her he can get a taste he can get a bit but anyway for like What was I going to say? I forgot. Oh, how do you stop it from going like into your brain or into your bloodstream or down your throat or into your guts or whatever?

Well, I assume you just don't set the magnet to impale your brain mode. So that's the trick, right? You have to rely on this stuff like you do anything. Like what's stopping my oral B electric toothbrush from just freaking out one day and, you know, jamming up through my... Exactly. Because they did program it that way at the factory. Um, they've got their, they've got their hands on the kill switch. So think about that every time you brush your teeth with sonic hair.

Yeah. But what if you have a plate in your head? Will all these little nanites just go slink up to the thing and stay there? You know? I, I don't know that they've, uh, thought about that. Hopefully they will. I'm like that, I'm like that dumb politician where, uh, the lady was explaining to her, to him.

Uh, how you can take a pill that has a camera in it. It will, it will basically do a colon. style exploration for you, and then you'll look at the data later, which is true. They exist. And the guy raises his hand and goes, could this also be done with a pregnant mother? Could she take the pill and have it? Like, no, those are two different systems. You know, you'd have to go up through the J, you dumbass.

It doesn't go through your stomach. Where do you think the baby gestates in your freaking stomach next to the beer you just drank? You idiot? Yeah, anyway. So maybe this will be, we'll all have nano-toothbrushes eventually. Yeah, not yet, though. Not yet. What do you think comes sooner?

Bubble-wrapping space or the nanobot face? Oh, jeez. Nano-teeth, probably, because the bubble-wraping space is just a drawing on a whiteboard right now, right? Yeah. And the nanobots are, it could make money, right? So look where the profit is. Yeah, also, there aren't a bunch of politicians trying to, to prevent the nanobots because they want to deny global warming, you know?

Yeah. And real quick, chat room, somebody wants to try to say maybe this politician was just trying to say this. He says, I could see the meaning, is it safe for pregnant women? That's not what he said. He said, could they take this pill and go down and check on the baby with it? That's what he said. Could they swallow it and have it go down? Or just want to punch that guy, elbow.

them in the gut and then a knee right to the friendlies. Wow. Jeez. I'm annoyed the hell out of me. People like that are on board or on like committees to try to figure out reproductive health. Freaking get off the committee. What are you doing? Have some basic idea. I know enough to know that you can't

take a colon pill and have it meet the baby in the middle somewhere. It doesn't work. All right. Sorry Bobby. You had to hear that. It's good to have you here as always. People should check out your show all around science. It happens on the weekly. What are you guys talking about? on this next one, or the one that's coming out. Yeah, all around science, our weekly science podcast.

This past week, we talked about, the main feature was all about quantum particles. The large Hadron Collider, the LHC, you know, the big underground loop that smashes particles together over in... Oh, yeah. Switzerland and France. Yep, yep. That's been in the news a little bit lately. Some new particles were discovered, and I thought, what a great time to... talk about what these particles even are and how the LHC works.

So we talked about that, why you have to smash things together and how the LHC even manages to accelerate protons to 99.99991% the speed of light. Whoa. So very close to the speed of light. Yeah, we don't want to, it's one of those cases where you don't want to average it up or, you know, round up, do you? Because it's so specific about a thing you're doing. Yeah, yeah, well, because as we know, as we all know from Einstein's, as we know, from Einstein's theories, nothing can go, the speed of light, nothing with mass. No. Get to the speed of light. So it's, it feels like as you get really, really close, yes, you want to brag that you're as close as you can get. Yeah. But we talk about that on the show. Check it out. All around science. there every week. So subscribe.

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Bobby, it's always good having you on. Have a fantastic rest of your week, and we'll see you next time. Bye now. See it, Bobby. GM Funky Town. That's funny. Where do you get your really good science from? With GM Funky Town. Oh, that sounds reputable. Thanks, I'll just go back to Facebook.

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So we're going to go in, we're going to give away a prize, and then we're going to go in and have some fun with TMS Couch Party. That's a brilliant idea. We'll let you know what that's going to be saying. Maybe Loki this week. I'm really excited if we do Loki. I can't like you. You should do Loki. two parts two episodes of loki i think we just say we're doing it what um let's see loki episodes um length

oh somebody already looked up this question uh run time of each loki episode loki loki it's probably 40 minutes or something right somebody oh my god read it just give me the answer i want please it'll be about the same time we spent with the full movie last week i think i think the first episode is probably an hour. Oh, here we go. Episode 143 minutes, episode 242 minutes. We can do two episodes. Easy. Peezy. Yep. It'll be just like when they launched the series, they did two episodes at night. It'll be like that. I don't know if they did a lot of people do. All right. So that'll be that. Also, I hear you those out there saying, well, wait, no, us audio only people got Jack Squad out of this change. I hear you. I hear you. And because of that, I have a couple of ideas.

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Send us your emails at the morningstream at gmail. dot com and uh we'll get to those on the show as well that'll do it for us hey brian you probably brought a song why don't you play it well all right um this one uh all right so little i'm gonna just tell you right now go if you are offended by language you probably want to stop listening uh when we're done when when i'm done announcing this song because like spanish german like oh square yeah that that language yeah right uh there is an f bomb just not even you're Just, you know, one little appearance on the song. It's in the title.

It's in the chorus. It's not the Seleau Green song, but I just want to get you set up with that. Audrey Baker wrote in, said, my dad is a patron, and we listen to your podcast every day on the way to school. Keep making people laugh. Okay. And Audrey wanted to hear Hell and Back by Self Deception. Now, that's an original, and I can't do originals. I can only do covers.

There are no covers of that song. As a matter of fact, self-deception, as far as I could tell, has not been. covered and they've only ever done one cover song oh it's this one right here it's a cover of a song by pink it's uh effin perfect i want to say it's a song that uh it's her it's one of her uh fight women's anthem kind of songs not not fight women's anthems no but fight comma women's anthem uh thank you thank you for that clarification you're glad i glad i clarified that before i got an email uh so this is effing perfect it is by Self-Deception, it's a single that they released a few years back.

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It didn't slow me down Mistaken, always second-guessing Underestimated Look, I'm still around Pretty, pretty, pretty souls you ever, ever feel Like your last man Fucking perfect

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Change the voices In your head Make them like you instead So complicated Look how we all make it Feeling so much hatred Such a tired game It's enough

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The only thing I should be drinking is an ice-goat beer. So cool the line, and we try, try, try, but we try too hard, and it's a waste of my time. It's wasting my time I'm looking for critics Because they're everywhere They don't like my genes They don't get in my hair Strange yourself

And we do it all the time Why do we do that? Why do I do that? How the fuck do I do though? Yeah Yeah Whoa Oh

Oh Pretty please Don't you ever ever feel like your last man fucking perfect if you ever feel if you ever feel like you're nothing

you're fucking perfect yeah bravely be don't you ever feel like you're left than fucking perfect bravely be

if you if you're if you're if you ever have a feel like you're nothing fucking perfect like you're nothing. Like you're nothing. You're fucking perfect.

Breeze, ready, breeze breeze, if you ever have a feel like you're nothing, you're fucking perfect to me. This show is part of the Frog Pants Network. Frog Pants Network. Get more shows like this at frogpants.com. Bye-bye.

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