The Morning Stream - TMS 2327: Stop, drop and collaborate

Episode Date: August 2, 2022

Calories Don't Count On Birthdays. 25 Footlongs in the Office. They are still not popular with the gays. Five guys, Five Dingdongs. The Denver Turd Nuggets. Be careful where you drive your balls. Give me the Thirsty Gas. Peter O'Toole is Huge right now. Pulling Robert Frost out of my butt. Cold, stinky rain and spilled nachos for you! When some legos come along, you just brickit. Just Leave Iris in the Mirror Universe. Send painted nudes. Never Forget Fat Larry. Star Trek Communications with Bill. Building Satan's Claw Machine 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, calories don't count on birthdays. 25 footlongs in the office. They are still not popular with the gays. Five guys, five ding-dongs. The Denver turd nuggets. Be careful where you drive your balls. Give me that thirsty gas. Peter O'Toole is huge right now.

Pulling Robert Frost out of my butt. Cold, stinky rain and spilled nachos for you. When some Legos come along, you must brick it. All right, I'll allow it. Just leave Iris in the mirror universe. Send painted nudes Never forget Fat Larry Star Trek Communications with Bill

Building Satan's Claw Machine with Bobby And more on this episode of The Morning Stream Hey mister, you don't look so good Hey mister, you thirsty Hey mister you thirsty They give me the gas the morning stream the next best thing since sliced bread hello everyone welcome back to

tms it's the morning stream for tuesday august 2nd 22 i'm scott johnson with brian nibit hi brian hello hey man um it's tuesday and uh you know we gotta do a thing Oh, it's not just Tuesday, everybody. Here, hold on. Oh, I was going to set this up pre-show, and I forgot. Hold on. Okay, watch this, everybody. Watch this.

We're going to celebrate with style. Should I watch the stream? Yeah, yeah, you should. We're going to celebrate with style, and I'm now going to play for everybody. Every short birthday clip I have. Okay. All right.

Oh, then I don't need to watch the stream. This is in video. Oh, it's not video. Just audio. So here you go. So check this out right here. All right. Okay, we know this one.

We're used to her. We know what's up with her. Here's another one. I hope you had a very happy birthday. Brian himself doing one of those. Here's another short one. I don't know what this is. Happy birthday to you.

Oh, yeah, we love her. She's great. How about this one? When's your birthday? When's your birthday? It's today. Yeah, how about this one? Hold on.

I can't believe this. They fucking forgot my birthday. No, we didn't. We got it. Oh, poor Molly. Yeah. Poor Molly. worm. That was some kind of, I don't know what that was.

Brian, happy freaking birthday, man. Thanks, man. Brian's older now. So that just means wisdom and, uh, yeah, something. It means, uh, prowess, you know, muscles and, and joints and bones don't work as well as they used to. That's right. Officially on the birthday, that happens. One more joint will give out each birthday. It does. Exactly. You can actually hear it. It's like a, it's like a, it's like a, it's like a, a thud the sound. You're like,

ah, man. Exactly. Well, I didn't need my left leg. Well, thank you very much. And thank you, Happy birthday. Tadpool for all of your kind, kind words.

I'm so excited about my gift, but it got delayed, and I'm annoyed. They changed the dates on me, and I'm like, you bastards, I thought I was going to get there on the day.

Today should have been the day. It's totally fine. You'll still get it, and you'll love it. I hope you like it. I actually prefer it, because, you know, like, all right,

well, today actually got some stuff over the weekend got a really cool wallet from tina over the weekend this thing's like a cool little extra wallet and like you push a button let's see if i do this right here nope okay you push a little button on the bottom and he goes jip and like all of your your cards and things get kind of splayed out so you can pull the right one out nice pull the right one out it's my favorite japanese horror film yeah it was really good vampires and all that so so getting stuff next week it's like oh well it's not just today my birthday, it's all

month. Yeah, it's a month. It's a month of celebration, really. It's a month of celebration. Let's celebrate August. You know what I didn't know, though? I didn't know you shared the same birthday as my nephew Luke, who we've met in Vegas a couple of times. Oh, wow, I didn't know that either. Bam, all the times we've talked to him and about him.

Watched to perform a couple years ago at the... Yeah. Always surprises me. I'm always like, oh yeah, right, Luke's birthday is today. I got to call or text him or something. See how he's done. Yeah, totally. also Kevin Smith one exactly one year younger than me nice Kevin Smith's still rocking it's 52 today yeah keeping it going keeping it

keeping it moving Brian joins me in the 53 club and that's right you know water's warm it's nice in here Mary Louise Parker yeah Edward Furlong oh Edward Furlong He's had a real easy time in Hollywood no problems everything was great Exactly anyone else you got any other famous I remember seeing a bunch of other their names today, but I can't remember who they were.

Like it was, let's see, Peter O'Toole, I think. Because, you know, everybody cares about Peter O'Toole. It's Peter O'Toole. He's hot. He's big with the kids. You know, he's big. Yeah, he's huge right now. Yeah, they love that guy. Oh, here we go. I found a whole list. Let me.

Here's some obscure ones, too. So you share birthday with Theodore's Winger, the Swiss physician and scholar, who was born in 1533. on this day. Okay. All right.

But he was famous for doing all kinds of cool stuff. So there's a guy. How about this one? Nicholas DePagie, French classical builder, who's born in France this day in 1723. And then how about this one? Here's a good one. Oh, shit.

Hold on. How about music? I could tell you a few music ones. Oh, yeah. Give me music. I like it. Butch Vig, producer, garbage producer. And produced Nevermind by Nirvana.

produced that album. Produced a lot of garbage, right? Produced a lot of garbage. Andrew Gold, he had that song, Oh, what a lonely boy back in the 70s. There's a yacht rock classic. Yeah, love that one. Jim Capaldi, who was with the band Traffic,

drummer, singer, songwriter Jim Capaldi. Nice. Nice. Not related to Peter Capaldi. No Peter Capaldi. No relation whatsoever. Well, I don't know, maybe. Maybe they are.

That's a good point. Zelma Davis. who sang the things that make you go, hmm. Things that make you go, hmm. That's the only song I know. Joe Nixon. That's all they did, right? That one song, that was it.

They also did get to make you sweat. The CNC music factory. Maybe we can get Bill to talk about his CNC music factory today, and that'll be a, there's a little connection. There's our little thing. Yeah, Fat Larry, it's true terminus, 1961. I saw that. I don't know Fat Larry, but Fat Larry was born on this day in 1949.

Fat Larry. died in February 2000. Never forget. 1920, Bill Scott, American voice actor and producer and writer. He was Mr. Peabody and also played the voice of Bullwinkle in the old Rocky and Bullwinkle show. Oh, that's cool. All right. Hey, Rocky.

Let's be pulling rabbit out of my head. We found you a good one. Let's see. I'm trying to find a more recent here. Okay, here we go. Yeah, I found somebody more recent. How about this one? The rapper Motto Boy.

Probably don't care about that. Um, great. Oh, good. Motto boy. Excellent. Yes. All right. Uh, I'm trying to find one that I recognize. Uh, let's see. It's getting to the late, there, the early 70s here. Like, you got to move into, because the minute I hit the 90s. Charlie X, X, X, X. I hear she's fancy. I have no idea. She was born on this day. Is that who that is? I don't know who that is. That seems. I'm so fancy. Oh, okay. Oh, that song. Okay. Yeah. Another one hit. Charlie X, X, X, kind of deal. Well, anyway, you're famous, Ryan, look at all these famous people. No, I'm not. But that's Jose Ding Dang Dantes, the Filipino actor. Oh, wow. Jose Ding Dong Dantase. Yes, happy birthday.

Yeah. Oh, Sam Worthington. There's a good one. I was just going to say, that's a really good one. You know who else? Wes Craven, American film director. Oh, look at that. There we go.

Why don't those two get together? Yeah, that's a deal there. Yeah. Stop dropping collaborator or whatever I said. What does he say? I forget what he says. Stop. and listen.

There you go. My son's neck with something... Missing. But something's missing. Real quick, you are... Okay, the very first person on record that we have for your birthday.

Yeah. Of note is 1455 was the year. All right. The man was Johann Cicero elector of Brandenburg. He was born in 1886, died in 1499. Wait, how can that be?

Hold on. oh no no i'm sorry 1486 died in 1499 sorry i have that wrong he was the elector 13 years old he was the elector position thing from 86 to 99 and then died 1499 same year he was okay so he was serving when he when he died but anyway he lived a nice long life and brian you're be like jonathan or johan let's hope i can be like johan yes do all you can to be like that's uh you know i've been put a bumper sticker on my car that says w w jose J.D. and it'll be, what would Johan do? Finally. People will know exactly that that's what that means when they see that sticker.

Finally, finally. All right, a couple quick things. I don't think, okay, the stores, okay, we live in a time now where Brian's like, hey, I'm hungry. We want DoorDash, grub, guber grub, or what are the hell is? Brian doesn't do that. Scott does that. I go out and get food. I do it occasionally. I don't do it that often, but once in a while. um we did a lot during the pandemic but not so much now or you know when things were crazy uh and so we go to firehouse sub yesterday yum what you get what you get i got the hook and ladder i think which is like a hot sandwich

with like ham and turkey yes a melty cheese is really good freaking great sandwich anyway we get in there and the first words out of their mouth when we walk in is hi welcome to the welcome to the uh what's it called firehouse welcome to firehouse welcome to firehouse welcome to fire subs um yeah you okay wait in 20 minutes we're like oh oh my god that was the first thing they said first thing out of their mouth and we're like you know what yes because whatever stress you're under we're we don't we want to be supportive we're not going to be jerks sure no problem we'll be happily just make our order and sit and wait and they were very glad that we weren't jerks um but the place was packed not with people but with door dash and uh uber eats and grubhub

people waiting for orders and one of them was there for 25 footlongs oh geez for some office thing and it's the they came to the wrong location to pick it up so instead of going all the way to that other location they said no just have them make it just have it make it at this location yeah which disrupts everything and lunch hours about to start things are like bananas and they had these just stacks of like stuff to make it was a it was ridiculous And they were all trying to coordinate. You could tell they were frustrated. New people would come in.

And they go, hi, sorry, but we're about 20, 25 minutes, you know, before we can do, get to your order. And people are just going, well, I'm not bad, bad, and you just leave. Yeah. It's like, you peeing his heads. Anyway, so this is going on. They might have an hour for lunch and they might. They might.

I just don't think they should all act irritated. So there's nothing you can do. Just leave. Like, don't be irritated with life. Yeah, I guess so. So it's not their fault is my point. But anyway, so they go. they're in there just working like crazy they took our order and then you know now we're on the

list or whatever and kim and i are just kind of chilling eating chips and whatever weird diet drink i got yeah and then these uber eats people are all acting like the most princess of princesses just like everybody owes them something so what i i think what i came away with the reason i'm bringing us up is this just had this thought that as convenient as this sort of gig economy thing became for customers where they pay a little bit more and have the convenience of a delivery or an office doing that or whatever it brings a ton of business to a place like this but i don't think they actually freaking like it i think you know they loved it during the pandemic because it was the way a lot of places who couldn't who couldn't didn't have the facility to allow people to social

distance or eat outside right it was the only way they could survive right it was like okay we have to have a delivery component but yeah i mean do they still like it is the is the uh the guild off the lily as they say right it felt like it shine off the apple exactly it felt like the sort of rank and file that have to deal with the wackadoo that happens every single day with this but it just seemed like a lot you know they looked really stressed like and i i can't believe i forgot to tell this story but i think it was it was one of the uh weekends where we didn't have a show monday and we had a couple of those and so i'd forgotten to talk tell the story on tuesday so tina I went to Chipotle and got there

like at about 1145, close to noon, walk in, we're like oh my God, this is awesome. There's only two people up in the counter, up at the counter about to order. There's no line. This is fantastic. So we get up there and it's a couple of women in

like hospital scrubs. And we're like, all right, cool. They'll place the order. We'll place ours. We'll be eaten and it'll be great, nice and quick. Sure. She pulls out the smallest post-it note that you can get you know those ones that are like smaller than a matchbook it's it's not like here's a standard one it's like a quarter of that right it's like a quarter of that exactly yes they're tiny you guys and she's reading from that maybe like eight nine orders

for people back at whatever medical facility she works at which is fine you know it's great oh yeah send somebody to go out and pick up the food bring it back that's great but she's doing it in the absolute worst way so it's like okay the next one is a burrito and so they get out the toward they put the tortilla tortilla in the t-shirt iron and then they pull it out um black beans okay they put black beans what what else rice okay they put the rice on every time she has to look back down at the little post-it note yeah and uh chicken and chicken, okay. And the salsa, they get that one down the end.

Then it's like, what's the next thing again? Same thing, another burrito. And she does the whole thing, black beans, white rice, chicken salsa is like, oh my God, you could have said make four burritos all with black beans chicken, but no, she has to keep looking down at this thing. And even if they're, even if they're slightly different, like let's say one guy says, I want this on it, but I don't want, I want, I want guac or whatever. fine then say I want

four of these they're identical two of these identical and then this one has guack duh exactly or just like say yeah I'm getting six brittos great a little t-shirt machine going over time then put the rice on and put the beans all of them black beans yes all of them black

beans great bloop bloop bloop bloop bloop bloop bloop bloop yeah exactly they make a point about how they have to read doctor's writing maybe that was it I don't think so because you wouldn't you certainly wouldn't pass around this tiny post-it note for everybody to put their order on. She went around to everybody's office or wherever and said, okay, I'm going to Chipotle. And so, you know, they told her and she wrote

it down. Instead of like, you know, a big piece of paper or something, or I don't know, use the Chipotle online ordering system and then go pick it up because they have that. And it's easy. They do. I agree. They should do that. I don't know, man. Like, it just looked hard. And these poor guys you could tell they were just like dreading if a new person came in they were going to have to tell them you know we're slammed with this and we can't do anything for a minute yeah and those you know i just felt for him i was just like oh you poor guys anyway it went great because they got to my thing 20 minutes later and that was a damn fine sandwich so good yeah boom nothing wrong with that yeah i like a good i like a good uh um firehouse sub the hook and ladder

man i usually try to get mushrooms on it but then it's almost identical to another sandwich that doesn't have ham so I'm always torn like should I just get that or should I do a calorie calories don't count on birthdays right like I can eat what I want on my birthday oh yeah they don't even your body doesn't even know the difference doesn't even sure okay no register yeah you just eat like a whole cake you're fine you're good yeah okay good all right good that's what I'm actually gonna go that's a good suggestion I'm gonna go get a whole cake yeah get a whole cake yeah I'm gonna go to mod pizza get a mini mod of my favorite kind of pizza and then get one of their little fake knock-off ding-dongs.

Oh, those are good. Those are good. They're no-name cakes. Yeah. They're really good, though. They're like a fantastic, like, rip-off. They are. I loved it when they had the pride ones, right?

With the pride colors. Oh, yeah, I didn't eat my, I'm off the Shug now, so I can't do it. But back in the day before all this happened, like pre-2019, I would kill a couple of those in a visit. Murder a no-name ding-dong. No kidding. For some reason, your story about the hospital lady ordering burritos. For some reason, I picture them as nuns. Why do I keep doing that?

In my head, they're nuns. Because you're forgetting what scrubs look like, apparently. You think they're black with birds. Isn't that weird? Or I'm thinking of like, oh, it's like a church, you know, the hospital of Sister Mercy or whatever, and it's all a bunch of nuns running the place. I don't know why. It's just in my head.

Something wrong with me. That's hilarious. You know, maybe I'll just go to five guys because it's right by, right by, uh, uh, uh, uh, I'll go to five guys.

And then afterwards I'll get a couple ding-dongs. Perfect. I think that's great. Yeah. Some five guys and ding-dongs. Yeah, five guys and they're ding-dongs.

You heard it here first. Just turn that pineapple upside out, Brian. You'll be all set. That's right with that. Yeah, exactly. Uh,

tell me about trivia last night. How'd that go? Oh, yeah. So we went to, there's a local place, Colorado Tap House that does trivia. They do, they do their own trivia,

uh, as opposed to having one of the many companies that are now doing bar trivia that come to your bar with questions and prizes and all that. You pay them, but they bring in a bunch of people, they're doing their own questions. I thought it was all everybody's own thing.

I didn't realize it was like a... Geeks Who Drink is one of the big ones that put stuff on, and they're fantastic. They're my favorite of the bunch. And when we were doing the Geek Bulls every year that would take us to Chicago and Seattle and Boston, it was the Geeks Who Drink Company putting those on. And so our $10,000.

check and our, you know, $8,000 check and all that stuff came from them. Anyway, so we went last night, had some good rounds, had some bad rounds. It was a, it was a, there was some tough questions. There were some easy ones. I pulled an answer out of my butt. Like, who read their own poem on a camera on what it was called at JFK's inauguration? Oh, gosh. Yeah.

I don't know that. That's hard. Yeah. I'm thinking, all right, well, who would have been alive? Maybe Robert Frost? Let's say Robert Frost. Sure. Turned into, yeah, Gwen, got it.

It was Robert Frost. Oh, it was him. Okay. So, pulled that one out of my butt, and that one actually got us to second place. So we won second place, right? And there was a guy from Coors there. They'd never had a decent set of prizes other than their little gift card of house cash. But Coors, the guy from Coors was there, and he's like, all right, I've got Rockies tickets for

first place. I've got this nice set of pint glasses for second place. And these are really cool like embossed Kour's pint glasses. They're kind of, they have the Rockies embossed on them. That's cool. Yeah. And then he says, yeah, and I've got a few t-shirts and things

like that. So if you want a t-shirt, just come up. You don't have to win them, et cetera. It's like, oh, well, this is kind cool. All right. Excellent. Well, we really want those Rockies tickets. Yeah, I bet. So there were four or five of us last night, me and Tina and the neighbors. So we, we play our Hardest, we come up short, we come second place. Now, during the game, he goes around, he says,

hey, I actually found a bunch more of these glasses, so I have enough that I can give everybody playing one of these glasses. Cool. All right. Awesome. So he goes around every table, gives them glasses. That was going to be the second place thing, but worked out just fine. We got those anyway. We are battling head-to-head against this team called Banana Grand. or something like that banana grams what is that even manna grams or banana they're banana something just irritated the crap out of me so yeah they you know they had first place when the first scoring break then they slipped down to second we slipped up to third and then you know like we traded places at the very end they

took third we took second and then another team bee dogs uh took first place the bee dogs of course guy goes up to bee dogs all right here let me give you your let me take your information i'll send you the Colorado Rockies baseball tickets. Great. That's cool. And then the team that took third is the table right next to his and they start whining like, oh, we were so close. We just, you know, we just, I can't believe we screwed up. And I answered, I answered the last question wrong. And I knew the answer and I didn't get it. Me. And we started whining. And I'm standing there next to him to go up and say, hey, before we head out of here, anything else for second place, or should we

both? But I want to let this table, you know, finish their little whining pity party. Of course. Coors guy says, well, tell you what, I've actually got a couple more Rockies tickets that I can give you guys. Oh, what? Don't tell anybody, but I'll give you, you know, they'll give you these.

Nice. I'm standing there right next to the table listening to all this. This is more karma from Vegas, except it's not directed at you yet. Anyway, he's... Yeah, exactly. No, this is anti-carma. Like, this is like, what are these jack and apes dude. All they did was complain.

Those bastards. Exactly. So the guy gives them their tickets and then I walk over still right next to this table of winers who just got some tickets for taking the third place. Say, hey, we're getting ready to take off. Just want to make sure nothing else for second place is like, oh no

it was going to be the glasses, but we gave all those out. Okay. Thanks. Thanks. You know, I don't know. Maybe if you had a couple of spare Rockies tickets, oh, I don't know, maybe you could have giving them to second place per team. Maybe. Maybe that

you could have done. That's a bummer, dude. Jackass. I would have been annoyed, too. I feel your pain on this one. That sounds like an annoying thing. He's like, come on. I'm a little annoyed that they didn't, I mean, I don't know.

Right. If you were you and Kim, you totally would have said, oh, well, you know, we'd like them, but maybe offer him to the second place team first. Yeah, we would have done that. That's what we would have done. 100%. If he had come over to us, we absolutely would have said well do you have something for second place because maybe they should get those yeah but uh yeah no these these were uh these were all adults acting like little five year olds

who didn't get their way and and pounded and maybe they got instant karma maybe they went out to their car and immediately shit themselves and didn't know why i'm hoping i'm hoping that uh that it pours rain on them at the rockies game like yeah i hope it rains nothing but sour grapes on them that's right time they're cold stinky rain and like Like after some kind of fire happens, there's a bunch of smoke in the air, and then that rain hits it, and then it's all on them. That's what we hope for them. We don't want them to die or anything.

We're just saying, you know. I hope a fly ball, a pop fly knocks their nachos over. That's what I hope. And then the diarrhea. All right. And then the diarrhea from the nachos. Yeah, always the diarrhea. All right.

That's awesome. Or sucks. I shouldn't say. I should say. No, it's, yeah, whatever. That's too bad. Yeah, Rockies tickets right now are cheap because the Rockies are not doing well. Oh, they're not great, are they?

No, no. Well, look at all those fair weather friends only supporting their favorite team. It's like, oh, we love the Avalanche right now, and we're really excited about the Broncos with Russell Wilson, but oh, no, no, no, the Rockies, right? How are the, what's the basketball team? I always forget. The Nuggets. How are the Nuggets last season? I don't even, I didn't pay attention.

They're okay. I mean, they were, did they, I don't even think they made it to the playoffs. So I think it's like, yeah, they're fair. In the 90s, we enjoyed a little Western rivalry with you guys. It was fun. Oh, yeah, jazz and nuggets, man. And we were always fighting for that seed. And then, you know, one of them would go past the other and we'd be like,

but it was always pretty friendly. It always was. We just wanted to beat the Bulls and so did you. Exactly. We had a common call. Just wanted to beat the Bulls. Hey, before we get to this email, and we hadn't even thought about bringing this up. but I have this, I've been saving this tab because I did want to tell you about it.

I'm going to tell you about it on the show because holy crap, is this a cool thing? Now, the only bummer about this is that, that I think it, there's a level of it that the cost money, but whatever. Okay. There's a thing called Bricket, B-R-I-C-K-I-T. You're thinking yourself, man, that sounds like a horrible thing because I don't like things getting bricked. Yeah. I don't want my phone to get bricked. I don't want my iPad to get bricked.

Yeah, who wants to brick their electronics? Nobody does. Nobody does. No. This is an app that you use with Legos. You probably, after assembling a ton of Lego things, or maybe just from Van, you've got a big bin of nothing but Legos. Definitely do. Just loose Legos.

Oh, yeah. Tons of. Right now it's still kind of the big fat Duplo looking stuff, but. Oh, sure. Yeah, not the actual little bricks. Yeah. This thing is so cool. You take a picture with your phone, so you download this app, and you take a picture of,

your pile of bricks splayed out across a table. Oh my gosh. I know where this is headed. Keep going. And it scans and figures out all the bricks you have. Blu-l-l-l-l-l-l-l-l-l-l-l-l-l-l-l-lid. It probably makes that noise.

If it doesn't, it should. Yeah. And then shows you things you can make from those loose bricks. What, dude? Yeah. That's what I thought you were going to say. That's crazy. That's so cool.

So have you done it? Did you try it? I downloaded it and I tried it. And I even like, you know, I was going to do something on the show. I brought over a little bucket of bricks and splayed them out because we have a massive rubber-made bin of bricks that Tristan left when, you know, when he moved out. Oh, that's awesome.

And this, I dumped these out onto the table, spread them out, and it wasn't enough. It's like, I think you need more bricks. Wow. Because you take out weird stuff like these things. right like these custom oh yeah the bits that are like pre-built and ready to snap on whatever exactly like you know your your

tie fighter pieces and stuff like that you take those out and you just scan like the regular bricks but um oh this thing is so that's so dang I never even heard of that that's really cool yeah I kind of want to you know splay them all out over the poker table later and try this out

and just see what happens yeah just see what it says so I so I assume it's like oh they've got it you have enough bricks to make these three cars or exactly that's the same amount for this large plane or whatever it is haunted house or right exactly they do anything with the minis or just the bricks I assume it's just

probably the bricks probably just the bricks but you know then you put your minis in there and say all right I mean I guess you could say you know you've got enough to build this haunted house and put a ghost mini in front of it yeah maybe it will that's so cool I had no idea that existed I may miss with that as well later because

I think there's a free level and then there's pro and I don't know what pro gets you but pro is like 44 bucks a year and it feels like that seems man that doesn't feel like it's in the the the lego uh you know world that much money that's a lot it is a lot but i guess if you're you know if you've got a little kids in the house and you need stuff to occupy them rainy day stuff oh so then it even says like all right so once you've splayed them out and taking your picture and it tells you what you can build you leave those bricks where they are because then as you're building it says oh yeah you want this little red six peg brick which is

right here and it shows you in your photo exactly where it is. That's really cool. That's actually really cool. I didn't know that existed. That's awesome. See, sometimes technology is great, you guys. That's what we've learned. All right, well, Legos aside, we are going to read a quick email.

This one from somebody. Send and receive email. This is from Cappy, who said... Cappy. Oh, hello, Cappy. He sent it to the morning stream at gmail.com and says, Dear Superman and Batman. Oh.

I never thought of that before. We got... How has no one done Superman and Batman? What made you say that name, Capi? It says, I know how much I'll dislike the CW versions of the DCU. I don't know if that's true of Brian, though. He's had some he's enjoyed, right?

Yeah, I was constantly watching Arrow, Flash, and Legends of Tomorrow before they turned into the the you know the iris show the felicity smoke show and yeah and the freaking longingly in each other's eyes freaking love story shows exactly it started turning into let's focus on the girlfriends too much instead of the superhero stuff yeah i guess flash is getting one more season and they're out they announced it yesterday one last 13 episode season and then they're done yeah but does that make you want to catch up at all or what do you think of that no okay

I never even started it. I hung on there as long as I could, and then they had a whole season of Iris trapped in the mirror universe, and it was like, oh, my God. Boo, boo. Yeah, maybe just, maybe just leave her. Plus, you can, you'd argue, too, or I would argue, that those, what's that guy's name who produced all those? What's his name? Berlante. The Berlante stuff, and he's still doing some of that for HBO Max, but the Berlante stuff on CW is vastly inferior to what they're doing so far.

far with both his and other stuff on HBO Max with Warner Brothers stuff and therefore DC. Titans is fantastic. Doom Squad is Doom Patrol is great. Yeah. Doom Patrol is great.

And he's got a hand in both those things, I think. I know for sure Titans is his deal. It's definitely produced. I don't know if it's written or director or anything by that. Sure. But I just think that's so vastly superior that I think the other, the CW stuff just needs to die on the vine and be done.

Or, you know, move it over. Like, give us flash stuff that's as good as Titans and Doom Patrol. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I agree with that. I need to watch the new, the first three episodes dropped for the new, um, uh, Harley Quinn. Yeah, I love the series so good.

I still have, I still have four or five episodes of, uh, the last season. Brian, you need to catch up on that show. I do. Well, that's, see, that's a good thing for filler. It's like, oh, no, uh, better call Saul comes first. I gotta get me some better call, Saul. Why won't anyone spend time with me? Their bane on there is so great.

Oh, really? Have I seen Bain yet? I know I've, uh... Oh, he's so good. Because right, because she gets, when she gets her invite into the justice, or the, uh, the, uh, what's the villain equivalent? Oh, uh, I forget what the Legion of Doom. Legion of Doom. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

She gets her invite into the Legion of Doom. Uh, headed by Lex Luthor, played by Giancarlo Esposito once again. that guy. Boy, what an agent that guy has, right? I still never, oh, that reminds me. I still never picked up that new Far Cry that. Oh, I didn't either. There was some talk it was hitting game pass, and so I was kind of waiting for that. I'll bet it hits Plus, PlayStation Plus, or PlayStation Extra or whatever it is pretty soon, so I'll just wait for that. Yeah, something. Oh, get that cat game before they pull it. Yes. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. That's right, because that's PlayStation Plus, right? That's like Carter, it's on Steam, but if you have it on,

If you have a PlayStation Plus, middle tier. No, I guess it's even basic tier. You get that one. Yeah, I want that. It looks so, like, you're playing a cat running around Japan. What's not to love? Yeah, and they're all robots. There's no peoples.

It's all a cyberpunk weirdness. And Carter played the whole thing, beat it, and won't stop begging me to play it. She's just freaking out about it. So apparently it's great. Did she cry at the very beginning when the cat falls off the pipe and lands with a thud? It is limping all over for the first few. No, but when she came in and said, I finished it, and I said, oh, did it, because I always want to know what makes her emotional, because she's such an emotional kid. So I say, ah, to make you cry at the end, and she immediately just, like, looked at me in her eye twitch for a minute, and she's like, about to cry again.

So apparently, apparently a very emotional ending to the thing, and it's very good, so. Oh, okay. All right, good. I'm excited. Talley says that she cried so much. Oh, I know. I watched, like, the review I saw that just played that beginning part with the cat sliding off the pipe and it's like, oh my God. I know that was enough to make me go, eh. Yeah, yeah. You're going to yank me around. Talley cried, now that is something. That's,

that must have been very emotional. They must have shown EA or something. Yeah, somebody killed EA in the cat game. Anyway, he says, I know you guys don't like those versions very much. But please check out Superman and Lois. It is gritty and a great story

and truly brings me back to what Smallville was like. It has a direct connection to small ville and almost has no connection to the, the, I don't know what that means. I think... To the the, the, CWDC averse. I think he probably dictated this of his voice. Oh, to the, the, of the... Yeah.

I think he means the universe. Yeah, and averse is not the right word. Anyway, of pretty people only. At least for me, I felt the Old West vibes that Scott loves so much for a good portion. far. I love the show, Kathy. I've heard similar things about Superman. I watched the first five episodes of that and loved it. And then they had like a break. And I haven't gone back to to continue the series. But it is really good. It's that Tyler Hochin, I think is his name, who played

Superman in the other Burlante shows when they do their crisis and stuff like that. Oh, I didn't realize he carried him over. I thought he was a new thing. Yeah, they carried him over. So this is, you know, this is in the same universe, Burlanteverse, as those other shows. I think that's what he also meant, right? The CWDC averse is what he's trying to say, short for universe. Yeah, sure. But those shows are great.

They're really, really well done, and it's, they go back to Smallville. And they're just, you know, it's Superman and Lois hanging out in Smallville with their teenage sons, um, uh, raising them, uh, back in Smallville away from the hustle and bustle of Metropolis. I didn't know they had multiple sons. Is that a, that's not comic current, I don't think, right? because I thought they just had John, and it was it. No, yeah, they've got two. Yeah, I don't think, I think that's right.

I think in the comics they only have, or they only have one, but in this show they have two. Oh, okay, thanks. Dice to me have clarified. Well, that's what I meant. C.W. is the Bralanteverse, yes. Gotcha. They don't call it.

But then so is the stuff that's not on CW. That's, because they've had crossovers, the, the, um... In Titans, they did? Titans, I guess Titans and Doom Patrol have had their crossovers, but never, nothing with the... Yeah, you're right. I guess none of the C.W stuff.

I got to catch up on all that stuff. You just reminded me of how much crap I'm behind on. I love Titans. I watched like five episodes and then just got busy. And now I'm so behind. How do I? We live in a time of, we're buried in it. Yeah, yeah, it's true.

We're just under all the nerd stuff now. Remember a time when we couldn't get enough, like, comic book and geek culture television? And now it's like, oh my God, there's so much out there. When you and I were in high school, we had to go to comic book shops. It's the only source we had. It's all we could do. And what do we have on TV and other stuff with comic book stuff? Terrible iterations of like Spider-Man and Captain American.

It was all bullshit. It was all bad. And now, I can't breathe. There's so much of it. I can't breathe. Anyway. And you don't get, and who you want, Minka Kelly. You're missing out on your Minka Kelly fix.

Oh, I love Minka Kelly. She was great on, she was on Euphoria. Friday Night Lights. Yeah. She was on Euphoria this last season. very good oh was she really yeah she plays somebody's mom oh i was just about to say she's not up to playing somebody's mom yet is she but she totally is but she's like somebody's very hot mom somebody's milf is what she yeah she's very very she's beautiful but uh yeah she is what you get

when you got your uh wait who's her dad it's not um uh how's it go i can't think of the band loving an elevator. Who am I thinking of? Erosmith. Stephen Tyler? Not Stephen Tyler, the other guy. Oh, right, right. It's the Joe Perry or something.

Joe Perry, I think, is her dad. No, no, I'm sorry. Rick Defei. Was it Rick Dufei? The guitarist, yeah. Forget which one of those guys are. But yeah, she's gorgeous. And then I would argue that, you know,

what's her name? Arwin is still very beautiful. What's with this band? Oh, you live Tyler. Yeah, what's with these ugly dudes and this ugly band? Because they're music. and they attract women who are so beautiful their jeans override the ugly rocker jeans.

I guess so, man. I guess so, because they're beautiful people and you look at their dad's going, oh, my gosh, how did you, how did the seed come out of that wiener? You know what I mean? All right. Hey, real quick, big thanks and shout out to Serenics in September in our community. They have a video game show. They do. And I was on it.

week and i had a great time and i'm an idiot because i forgot the name of the show i want to give him a little uh uh props for it and tell people about it and i forgot so if one of you is in the chat please tell me the name i had a really good time on there though did they did they know each other and work together before a and tp because they're two people from the most recent season uh they are i think they hooked up uh they told me this they said they met each other i think in tms chat okay before all of this i think for ntp okay okay cool It wasn't geek grills. The other show she does, which is excellent.

Or Gamer Grills, it wasn't that. I want to be on there with that, her sometime. I know you've all been on there, but me. I don't know why I haven't been on there. Oh, you haven't been on Geekrills? No. They've had Tom. She was saying they had Tom like multiple times.

They've had you. They've had like jury a couple of times. Yeah. Like, I've never been asked September. You got to ask. But anyway, that was really fun. I had a good time. We talked a bunch about stuff.

And it was great. They did a good job. Cool. All right. We should do a little bit of news here this morning. Yeah. You know, get people caught up and what happened overnight.

And here you go. It's time for the news. And it's brought to you by. Brought to you by the Colorado Rockies, disappointing whining trivia players since 2012. I mean, you know, why are they so bad right now, by the way, the Rockies? What do you think the deal is? It's rebuilding your stuff.

Scott, it's rebuilding year. Oh, rebuilding year. They've been telling me that about the jazz since 96, so. Exactly. That's fine. I'll get it. Although we did get some kind of crazy draft pick stuff this year or something. I haven't followed it really closely, but I guess there's like four big draft.

Something's happening with the jazz. I don't know what the hell it was. So we lost what's his name, who we loved, even though he was Patient Zero for COVID. Oh, gosh, really? Yeah. Yeah, he was famous for the whole NBA. When they shut down, it's because this dude got it. Rudy Gobert, that's it.

Really? And so he took a ton of shit for that. But I can tell you on the ground level, this dude did more in the community while he was here than almost any jazz player has in decades. Like that guy was like super charity-minded, always up for something like that, helping kids, showing up at the hospital for some kid whose wish was. to meet him, like stuff like that. He was a really good dude. Just a little sloppy on the COVID. Hey, one of our trivia questions last night, this is a good one for the chat room. I'm curious to see if anybody gets this. What entertainer has given the most, has given the most wishes for the Make a Wish Foundation? So what, what celebrity, entertainer,

A person of note has, have most, like, been the most wished upon to meet or, or. Living or dead or both? Do you know if it's? They're living. They're living. Yeah. Okay. My God, how do so many people in the chat room know this? I'm not looking.

I want to guess this. Yeah, take a guess. Don't look at the chat. I'm thinking of recent years, just because I can't help it. Robert Downey Jr. maybe shows up his Iron Man at Children's Hospital. and stuff. It's interesting. That was one of the ones we came up with. We also, we went older because we thought, well, this person would appeal to both children and teenagers and, you know, sadly, not appropriately with children. But we thought, oh, Michael Jackson probably would have been really into the Make a Wish Foundation and would have probably been cool with, like, providing, you know, showing up at hospitals for kids who needed, who made a wish. But no, the chat room completely flooded to the right answer. John Sina. John Sina. John Sina. That's amazing, really.

I didn't know that. Yeah, yeah. He seems like a kind of guy that would do that stuff. It does. Peacemaker out there doing the... Making peace. Yeah. Making peace.

Tell me you've seen Peacemaker. You've watched that. Brian, I'm embarrassed to tell you this. I loved him in Suicide Squad. My fully intended to just go all in. And I just haven't. There's no reason. No reason.

I have zero excuse. I need to watch it. No reason at all. Oh, my. Once again, it's those things where it's like... You haven't seen the dance. You have seen that, okay. I saw that and that's actually one of the things I was like, oh, I'm so excited for this.

And then I just didn't. And then part of me went, oh, Scott, you know it'll be there forever. And then a little voice behind that going, but you're not going to be here forever. So now I got to watch it. I got to watch it. Because I was going to say, if you hadn't seen, if you hadn't seen the dance, we'd have to force it into TMS Couch party. That'd be fun. But if you've seen the dance, then it's like, no, watch, watch that series on your, on your own time.

It's great. It's really cool. Lennonade in the chat saying peacemakers way better than Parasite. Okay, all right. He's using, he told me, he's trying to use reverse psychology on you. Is that what he's doing? Okay. Well, it didn't work there, buddy.

It makes me just want to watch Peacemaker. Anyway, Chick-fil-A in the news. You know them? Chick-fil-A, I do. They are still not. popular with the gays appropriately so or the gays are not popular with them

I guess I don't I don't know well that's true it's actually yeah it's from a corporate level I don't know where they're at with that now I can tell you I love our local franchise because they're all franchisees you know locally owned by people who own a franchise and these people are awesome

they're so nice so personal it feels like a mom and pop restaurant when you go in there because they remember you which is weird right these people to own it their employees love them. They have hired multiple LGBT people. I do it slowly because I F that up all the time. You start selling like somebody dumped a scrabble bag.

Yeah, a little bit. If I do it too quick, it makes no sense. But they, oh, I forgot the plus, but they're real good at that stuff. And I love that because to me it kind of flies in the face of the bullshit from corporate. But anyway, this is not about that. They are asking for volunteers, that's in quotes, to work for five chicken sandwiches per hour. Okay? Okay.

So this is weird. I already see so many problems. Yeah, there's issues with this. A Chick-fil-A in North Carolina posted a job opportunity on Facebook that offered to pay volunteers in chicken, not money. So they want to pay, and the currency is chicken. That is, first of all, that's freaking lame. Yeah, it is lame.

Super lame. Sheep. Cheap. Yeah. But also, you know, one location, so, you know, you don't expect this from your local. Oh, is it? So this is just, this isn't coming from corporate.

This is, uh... This is just them. Yeah. She's. Apparently they have, according to the local, the couple that owns ours, they are, or the one near us, they say that corporate actually has very little to do with anything except for.

The main menu items, promotions that are national what else that's kind of it like you're you know you just kind of I mean according to them I don't know if everyone's the same who knows but that's what they say anyway you eat five chicken sandwiches of theirs in an hour like would would you feel like like that is you know adequate sustenance you know I'm trying to say like you're not going to eat five sandwiches in an hour so they're there you certainly shouldn't right you certainly shouldn't so number one that's costing them what like three dollars worth of food yeah if that total and then you're not even going to eat more than two of those if you do yeah if you eat

five this is what you get diarrhea right after at the end of that don't do that don't be eating five anything um but no I don't this is a terrible idea I mean I guess if you're starving and there's a You're not going to be able to pay your rent with a freaking chicken. Do you have a, do you have torches, tacos where you're at? No, but you're always telling me they're awesome and I want them. They're awesome. Yeah, the thing that came from Austin. They're an Austin thing that moved here.

And I drove somebody, but I lifted somebody yesterday. God, they need a better term. Oh, I have a new, wait, you're bringing up lift. Hold on. Oh, live story, yeah. Let's see if this plays. Drive at sensible speeds. Be courteous and obey traffic regulations.

There you go. There's your new one. Cool. So wait, so what? So tell me, what happened there? I drove somebody to work. They work at Torchise tacos, and they said, yeah, so in addition to paying us, they're now starting to do a thing where they used to give us 50% off whatever we wanted to eat while we were working there. But they said, well, since the people in the back can just eat whatever they want when they want, they're going to extend that to the front of the house too.

So basically, they get three full on tacos per shift. And that's on top of their pay, not in place of, but on top of their pay. Good for them. you know and they've got you know they've got like 20 different kinds of tacos on their menus so if you work there you're like you're you're you're gonna have something different every single time right it's not like working at dairy queen we get the same damn hot dog and hamburger to look at every day right exactly yeah i think that's great you know what take good care of your people they'll take care of you you won't be you won't be a victim of

this silent strike everybody's having and screw you chick filet yeah chick fillet yeah chick fillet Filet your own chicks. Through you and the rap you rode in on. They ended up deleting the post, by the way, because they got a whole lot of shit for it. I'm sure they did. Good. And they, I mean, basically people are like, you're asking people to work for free. That's actually illegal in the state, like all kinds of stuff.

And they were like, oh, shit. So they pulled it. But their chicken is sure tasty. Yeah. Their excuse was, we get people all the time that want to be a part of what we're doing. This is just designed to be an opportunity for that. Yeah. no you don't do

say they want to voluntarily work for us yeah you don't do internships for freaking chicken preparation sorry you just don't because that's what this sounds like an internship with a perk exactly exactly bull crap uh that's it for today's news that's a really important stuff the rest of this

will hold uh we'll save it for tomorrow but in a minute we'll be bringing our old pal bill in here got a question for him from a listener as well it was whatever he's doing this week and also bobby frankenberger will join us for a science segment after that. Before we do any of these things. I'm going to learn so much today.

I know. I feel like I'm going to... You're going to be soaked in it, Brian. So, you're soaking in it. You're soaking in science. Anyway, that's all coming up. Yeah. Go ahead.

Yeah, how do you like your Americans? I like them nicer and less divisive and also less manifest destiny based. Okay. All right, good. Well, if you like your Americans rare, then I've got the band for you. It's a band called Rare Americans, and this is from their brand new album, which is called You're Not a Bad Person. It's just a bad world. It comes out, it's a great title.

It comes out August 19th via Empire. Look at that. There's finally an Empire Records. Awesome. Good to see this. They are, they're donating a dollar from every presave. So if you go to Spotify or Apple music or whatever and pre-save, and pre-save, you're donating. their album, then

they'll donate a dollar to Pink Shirt Day, which is taking a stand against bullying, which is really really cool. Yeah. They, uh, in addition to having a really cool song that you're about to hear, they've also got a very cool video for it too. It's animated and it made me think of, uh, you and Carter.

I think you guys will really get a kick out of this. The song is called Moving On. Here's the band Rare Americans. We're fighting every day. I've got no words left. to say, I think I'm moving on. We try the best.

These words have been on my chest. I think I'm moving on. We're too young to have this many problems. 204, all of the drama don't know where it went wrong. I love you too much. you too much to drag this out farther i hate that we're not meant for each other it's better now than to carry on i think we're moving on i think we're moving on i think we're moving on i think we're

In a couple years, I'll see you out having beers With someone you belong He'll treat you right Give you cuddles every night He will hold you tight Like I would always fly It'll be all right It'll be all right

We're too young to have this many problems Too old for all of the drama Don't know where it went wrong I love you too much to drag this out farther I hate that when are meant for each other It's better now than to carry on I think we're moving on I think we're moving on

I think we're moving on So close no one So far from no one knows me any better So far from my first days to Staying up dust till dawn Can't believe we're moving on Can't believe we're moving on I can't believe we're moving on

Valentine's Day's coming Oh crap! I forgot to get a girlfriend again. The kid gives him stink-eye. The Morning Stream, you have chosen poorly. We are back. Once again, that band and song was. That is the band Rare Americans, and the song is called Moving On from the upcoming album.

You're not a bad person. It's just a bad world. I love that. It's true. You know that? It's true. Yeah. Yeah, the album covers a really good.

cool drawn artwork as well. Nice. But it's got some boobies on it. Oh, I can't have any boobies. There are hand-drawn boobies on the cover. Speaking of which, I found a story today that was about a lady-artist lady. Back in 1830-40-something, like way back in the 1800s, who some widower, his wife had just passed, and he was some rich widower guy.

and when his wife died this other lady, this artist lady did a self-portrait of just her milky white boobage and they're notable for that and I've seen the painting before I just didn't know the story behind it and so it's just these breasts it's fine whatever

she paints this she takes the painting she ships it to this guy and says you know here this is me these are my boobs here's the painting I made of my boobs and I realized it's the first nude that anyone sent anybody. It's the first sexting. Yeah.

It's like a booby thing that you would normally do on Snapchat, but you did it with the slow way, the old way. That's kind of cool. Look at that. Wow. All right. Nuts. Anyway, it's a very nice painting.

I mean, to be honest. Well, sure. All right. What are we doing? Oh, Bill. It's Bill. Bill time. for some reason

Discord is not coming up. There it is. All right, here we go. We're adding Bill, and it'll be great because he's always got cool stuff to say. We've got a question for him, like I mentioned. Oh, good. Yeah, that'll be a lot of fun.

Oh, good. So here's this. Your bat caves open there, Bill. Bill Durand from Punishprops.com, joining us like he does every Wednesday, or Tuesday, whatever the hell day it is. Yeah, whatever this is. Yeah, whatever this is.

Bill, welcome back. How are you? Hello, I'm good, and a very happy birthday to Brian. Oh, thank you, Bill. I appreciate this, man. Very nice. Nobody doesn't like a nice...

Oh, actually, I kind of hate it. I don't like being... I was going to say, somebody here doesn't like a nice, happy birthday. I don't like getting older, so every time I have a birthday, I'm like less and less inclined to be jovial about it.

But you know what? I don't want to take that joy from other people. Yeah, you're not going to. You're not going to take it for me. No. I'm going to enjoy it. I'm going to revel in it,

and I'm going to appreciate it. I'll take it from your cold dead hands. That's how the phrase goes. You can have it. My happy birthday when you buy it from my cold dead hands. That's right. Hey, Bill, so we're going to start things off with a question for you today. How's that sound?

Awesome. That sounds fantastic. All right. Well, our resident maker, Bill, about to answer this question from Thomas from Missouri, who wrote in, says, hi, Scott, Brian, and Bill. I recently watched a video on YouTube where Adam Savage basically said when he goes looking for a technique, he finds it on Bill's channel. So here's a link to the video.

I was wondering how Bill feels about that. I assume it's pretty great. I also wanted to ask if having a YouTube channel helps or hurts his making because I could see that knowing that a lot of people are going to see your work would make you want to make it the best you can and put more effort into it, but can also see how pressure would make it more difficult to finish a project and know you are putting it out there to be judged. Do you feel one more than the other? I just wanted to say I enjoy Bill's work and I hope he keeps making it for a long time, says Thomas in Missouri. So, at first question first obviously you know Adam even mentioned you in his book yeah recent book uh so there's a lot of that

going on where he's like impressed with your shit how how does that make bill feel when that happens uh i i always tell myself that external validation is not i can't fuel everything i do external validation it has to come from from me yeah but boy does external validation feel really good It feels really good. I hadn't watched that video yet. I think it came out earlier, like last week. So I went and watched it, and then I watched it two more times. Yeah.

Because Adam's a hero of mine. He's a friend as well. But, you know, I've been watching MythBusters since it came out. And when he says something that nice about things I make, that makes me feel really terrific. And how could it not, right? Yeah, he specifically, so yeah, specifically pointing out that when he looks for something,

he ends up. on one of his, my videos, validates a lot of things like all the work I've done for the last 10 years. But also, our videos are tutorials and they're meant to be evergreen as much as possible. And the fact that people searching for techniques are finding them, whether it's Adam or not, means I did a pretty good job of making them searchable. So if you're making a YouTube channel, everyone, by the way,

yay SEO, fill out every single tag. As many tags as you can fit on your video and fill out the entire description with lots of words that describe it. It actually works. Yeah. Yeah, it does. Because it's not just Adam that's fine. If Adam's finding these videos, then lots and lots of other people are. Yeah.

So, yeah, that was really super validated. But I'm also just honored whenever any of my other content creator friends watches one of my videos. I know I don't have enough time to watch all of my friends videos. so when really anyone watches my videos I'm like I'm just so honored yeah I feel that way when I hear somebody I really like or admire listens to the show even other podcasters and we find out oh they they're TMS listeners or they like film sack or whatever it is that is always like a sometimes a little bit of a shock because I get like an email out of nowhere like I remember the time dead mouse emailed the Diablo show I could not believe that or need an email he sent

it a voice thing and he said a voice yeah that's right he did it with his original name his his real name, which I can't even remember now, but he did this whole thing. And at first, I didn't register. So I just answered it like, well, thanks for writing in so-and-so. Here's what I think about, yeah. And then later, someone's like, dude, Dead Mouse sent you a thing

and you acted like it was nothing. I'm like, oh, shit. Whenever that happens, like, you know, I find out Liam O'Brien listens to this show every day or whatever. At first I'm like, oh, did I say anything so dumb, it would embarrass me. You know, like I think of that, but also it's very

validating when someone likes your work. Or even, so we just put a video out and yesterday, Brant, the editor for the Modern Rogue and a buddy, he tweeted out a clip from it that he thought was funny. And I saw that, I was like, wait a minute, Brandt watches my videos? Because he is one of the best editors on YouTube. He is so good at what he does and that he's wasting his time watching my videos.

Yeah, I know, right? pretty great. It's great. And it's weird because you don't, but I even do this with, like, personal friends when I hear like, we were joking about yesterday, but when we know that Christine Fletcher listens to the show, just Scott Fletcher's wife, her claim to fame is, you know, she's awesome in her own way, but she's got Fletcher's wife in terms of the, you know, how people here would know her. But she, but knowing she listens every day, I don't know. I find that both great and also makes me just slightly nervous because these are people I like and care about as individuals. genuinely care about. Yeah, yeah. It's really weird how that plays out. All right. So that's question number one. Question number two was the whole thing, and I think we've talked about this before in different contexts, maybe even with Wendy, but knowing that a lot of people are going to see your stuff, what actually does that do to you? Does it make you more nervous? Does it make you lesser, more motivated, like that kind of stuff? Yeah. It's interesting because back when Dolan was watching my videos and I didn't care, I felt like I was a lot more

loosey-goosey with the how I made my videos and that was really really fun now with a lot of people watching I feel more responsibility to make both the props and the videos good yeah um but it's that's more just my own personal um quality bar right uh I I I Brittany and I both have a level of production value that we each want to hit with our videos I personally have a level of quality I want to hit with the props that I make and I have always been striving to do that even since before I was making videos so it's it's less to do with knowing how many people are watching or knowing who's watching and more to do with my own personal bar but a little of both no I think that's good as long as the personal bar is there then everything else can be fluid right you can you can you can use the the pressure of how many viewers or listeners you have as a way to enhance that but ultimately it's still down to whatever your personal standard is going to be right i can always see i can say as your podcasting perspective and i think brian probably shares us because everything he makes sounds great as well but for me sound is key if it's bad i don't want to do it i want to fix it and yeah like if somebody calls in or we have a guest or something that's really bad volume or whatever it may be either i need to be able to fix that and usually i can uh or or something or else it's just not worth doing like i can't i can't do an hour and a half of bad,

unlistenable content. Sure, yeah. So there's a certain level where if I'm hitting that as a minimum, I'm happy. And then, you know, everything above that, hopefully you can reach new heights,

but that's, for me, that's a baseline. It sounds like a similar thing to what you're doing. If you're, you know, it's one thing to make a really cool prop,

but it's another thing to maybe film it poorly or have bad narration or a shitty mic or something. Right. And you don't want to do that, right? You want the full package and have it look good and sound good.

Or take, or with making stuff too it's taking the time to film all the steps correctly without cutting any corners there's so many times where it would be easier to say all right we'll just finish this thing up here we don't have to film it yeah it's like nope we do have to film it we do it we have to finish it correctly we have to let it drive for a day and then we're going to film it tomorrow right it's making decisions like that instead of going nah let's just slap some pain on and call the video done today yeah yeah that's hard because sometimes you do want to just be done right you see it all the time.

Yeah. You're like, it's cat time. I need to be with my cat. What are we doing here? All right. Well, that's pretty cool. And then didn't he say one other thing? No, that was it.

That was his thing. And he loves your work. So that's nice and validating as well. Thanks, Thomas. Bill, anything else you want to talk about today? Yeah, a new video up on our channel. We also have a summer sale going on this week over at Punished Props.com. So if you want to get our books or any 3D print files or my new Fusion

360 course those are all on sale nice uh but uh for the project video uh we made uh star trek badges i've never made a star trek prop at all ever so really not even like uh i guess the guns that we got were were from darrell so you've never made uh wow that's in that's surprising yeah i don't know why you're not like a big star trek based on are you not a big star trek fan or what's the why why do you suppose you've never done it i am i was more more into star wars though, growing up. Sure, sure.

But I was into Next Generation and DS9, and Brittany was into Next Generation in Voyager. And fortunately, Voyager and DS9 have the same badge and same outfits. So that's the one that we made. But we made it two ways. We 3D printed one on our resin printer. And I machined one out of brass and aluminum on my CNC machine. And it's really good.

It's metals. It's got magnets in it. do you have a thing that when you tap it it goes blip blip or anything like that not yeah not yeah but that would be a really great vision when then yeah that's cool that's a really cool I'm looking at your 3D now did you what did you base this on do you find something did you have to make it from scratch or what'd you do I found a screen used prop a photo someone had of a screen used prop and I found the scale for it and then I was able to basically just trace that in fusion 360 to make the 3D model the 3d model is available for free over on our website as well

We have a free blueprint section with tons of free stuff. If anyone hasn't gone to our website and they're interested in that, go over there. There's dozens and dozens of free things that'll help you either make something out of foam or 3D print something. Did you say brass on the one you machined? Oh, yeah. Brass and aluminum. Oh, my gosh, that's so cool, dude. That's really cool.

What's your address? I'm just going to rob you. That's the fastest way to get them. I'm never going to get them anyway, so I may as well just go rob, you know, stealing. If that got you to finally visit Seattle, Scott, than I would be for it. Look, Kim and I were, well, actually, there's a thing coming up where I'll be in Seattle shortly,

but I won't be there very long. But I don't know, we'll talk. But this is too cool for school. And so of the two, I mean, obviously the brass one's going to be your favorite, but do you feel like they look, you know, from a distance, you could have either one of these props on your shirt at the convention and everybody would be equally impressed or? Sure.

Actually, so the painted 3D printed one ended up with more of a matte finish. which I think is actually closer to the way it looked on the show. So the 3D printed one is fine. Like it looks like it's from the show. The metal one is so shiny. It reflects a ton of light and it actually doesn't look like the one in the show. But I don't care because it looks awesome and it's on my refrigerator right now. Oh my gosh.

Look at that. So that's interesting. So you cut it. So the aluminum bit is the actual symbol. But that insets. in the brass oh I want this so bad right cutting out the two parts

and having them just sort of lock together so satisfying all right well that's a rad video you can look at now on YouTube or their site so go to punish props.com or the YouTube video it's called Star Trek Badges done two ways Badges? We don't need no stinking badges

Yeah and in this case I do want a stinking badge Yeah we'd need some stinking badges Those are very cool bill So check those out you always leave us a little bonus link before you leave. What do you got there, man? You know it. This is a YouTube maker named Alexander Chappel. He is

building or renovating an apartment in an 130-year-old Oslo, Norway building. Oh, wow. It's been really fun to follow. The video I linked is he's waterproofing his bathroom with some really cool new materials I've never

heard of before for doing that kind of work. So if you're interested in home renovation, this build series is right up your alley he's so much to this apartment it's amazing i just watched him tumble through a drywall yeah that was awesome uh is it is it weird this kind of work it makes me anxious because i feel like i'm the worst at it and i watch him smiling and doing it and rocking it and i'm just like that is not me man some people are made for doing this sort of work some people aren't there's nothing wrong with that my brother-in-law steve is very good at this stuff and

I am the opposite. So when the zombies come, he'll save us all, and I will be good at hard drives or whatever the hell's going on. Bill, well done. Always good to have you here, man. And don't forget, PunishProps.com is your destination, everybody. Also, chin-beard on Twitter. Bill, have a great week. We'll see you next time. You got it. See it. Bye, man. Always good to talk to Bill. Always, yeah. You're sitting. Bill. All right. And if that wasn't enough for you, how about some scientific knowledge, coming at you at warp speed in order to enjoy that conversation

we have to play this a little intro here Science Yeah, that's right, science with Bobby Frankenberger who joins us all the way from South Carolina here in the United States of this USA Hello, that doesn't make sense Hey Bobby, what's going on? Welcome This USA, not that one

Not the other one Not the other one you guys are thinking about The Deep American South Bobby, it's good to have you back. Of course, one of the hosts of All Around Science, fantastic science podcast you should all be subscribed to. It comes on Tuesdays and talks about scientific topics. Yeah, you know what?

You're right. You should be subscribed to all around science. I agree. I am. I'm subscribed. Are you people? Are you? All right.

Well, if they're not, they will be after whatever magical thing you're going to tell us about today. What's going on out there? Well, I thought we needed a bit of a COVID update. but before that, since everybody gets down about COVID updates, I thought I would tell you about a grad student at Rice University who made a claw gripper arm out of a dead spider. Oh, God, yeah. Okay, the zombie spiders.

Yes, great. Let's get this over with me. Here's the thing, though. Isn't it like, I'm always annoyed by the articles about this because the actual thing is just inflating its joints with air or something. Well, that's the cool thing about it to me is how it works because... So this grad student, Fay Yap, at Rice University, just saw like a dead spider on the ground and saw it...

Everybody's seen a dead... I guess we should warn people who don't like spiders. Maybe you want to tune out. Maybe jump ahead a few minutes, yeah. My wife wanted nothing to do with the story when I told her about it. freaked her out completely so I feel you so um you know so you've you've seen dead spiders they curl up right they like they fold their legs into the center of their their body yeah exactly so this grad student like a great science student great sciencey person doesn't just walk by this and then accept it

they say what why does that happen like that's that's strange why why do all spiders do that so they investigated it and found out so the legs of spiders you and I all of our appendages we have we have a muscle set up that's um it's called uh what is it called

it's antagonistic muscle pairs you've got one one muscle that flexes and then one muscle that allows you to stretch your arm out again like tricep bicep right kind of like that yeah exactly yeah front and back or whatever sure spiders do not have this Spider legs, and I imagine probably other arachnids and many insects also maybe, they have just one muscle that is a flexor muscle that allows them to contract the leg, and they use hydraulic pressure of fluid movement inside their bodies to create pressure that causes them to be able to extend it again.

and so there's a gland or an organ inside the spider which handles all this pressure but when the spider's dead it doesn't it can't control that hydraulic pressure anymore so the muscles just take over and just and just cause all the legs to to curl up because that's all that they do um and and so it's right so it's almost like having like the um those uh trying to think of an example right where you basically you can only pull from the inside to contract something as opposed to pulling from the outside to have it go open like those um like those little giraffes where you push the button on the bottom of the base and they go there it's it that's it yeah yeah i was like my head was swimming about what that reminded me of and then you said it that's it yeah i hate those things

where you squeeze them and they go but it's that idea right the the the like when you squeeze your hand if you didn't have muscles to reopen your hand and you squeeze those tendons and how it forces your hands to do a thing, it's a bit like that I guess, right? Right, exactly. That's wild. Interesting.

Never realized that, but that makes total sense as to why they curl up. It's just those little muscles going, so they just stuck a syringe of air right into that gland that when it's alive does all the hydraulic pressure and just applying a little bit of air into that gland sends the pressure

into all the legs and allows it to open up and then close it. Yeah, it's Satan's claw machine, really. Yeah, it really is. It's really creepy. Especially when you see the video, yeah, it totally is. It really is something. Now, let me ask you this, like, from a practicality standpoint, what does this maybe give us?

I mean, I understand it, like, helps us understand how it works and they can lift so much more than their body weight and all that. So they're claiming that this would be useful for what they called delicate pick and place microelectronics, but I don't know. I think maybe they're just doing something cool, and you kind of, if you want to research more, you have to convince people that it's worth researching, and so... Yeah, yeah. But there is a whole area of research into understanding natural engineering systems and

natural ways that that the natural world does does all sorts of different things that we we might just over engineer and figuring out how does it how does it work in the world you know there's this whole um soft robotics movement you might have heard of oh yeah yeah uh where they if you've ever if you've seen it in the news you've seen it in in the uh the tube robots that they make that you can inflate with air and they can dig underground and they look like sandworms and stuff sure um okay but uh but the the point is like oh that sounds terrible anyway it sounds horrible i know it's like oh i haven't heard this and maybe i was better off not hearing about this the point they're very small robots they're certainly not that big okay um but uh the point

is that it's worse actually now that i think about yeah yeah you know don't worry about it they can get under your house they can go inside your uh it's totally fine i don't worry about it Brian, it's fine. Totally fine. We would move on. No issues. The idea being that if we can take advantage of some of these nature-inspired systems, then maybe we can expand how we use robotics instead of, like, imagine what it would take to engineer

leg, a claw arm that does spider legs exactly the same way, but using all, you know, like metal and wires and all this kind of stuff, is there, is there a way that we can, you know, figure out How does the natural world do this, and is there a better way for us to do it? Well, even science fiction has always, I think, presumed this idea that the more realistic, you know, that when you get to data versus some metal robot that's building cars, but you get to an actual fleshy humanoid type robot, that the way we get there, or even aliens, a good example, is with synthetic organics. They're not necessarily meant to match human organics, but they're like similar in the way that they wore it. there's tendons they may be made out of some other material and there may be a form of blood but it comes out all like white paint or whatever in those original movies i think i think that assumption's always been there so now it just sounds like science is like well yeah of course we got

to start making you know rubber feet and stuff that isn't giant clumping metal chunks and things like that makes well our technology is catching up and making it easier for us to do those yeah then they'll put the dolly brain in there the dolly uh not many but the other one that's making insane, realistic AI pictures. They put that brain in there. And then this thing takes over and murder-Dolai Lama? The Dallie's brain in there? I thought you meant Dolly the sheep.

No, Dolly the D-A-L-E thing. The AI painting comes up with what you describe and artwork for me. And not the many one everyone's doing online, but the real one that you can't get into right now, that shit is crazy. Then you could walk up to the robot, give it a phrase for instance, and it will invent a dance for you that, that, uh, boom. Oh, God. Boom.

Yeah. You've described everyone's nightmare. Well done. All right. Well, assuming we survive, uh, the next variation of a stupid virus, uh, maybe we'll get there. But tell me about how that's going. Where are we at?

What's the update? Well, so there's not a lot of update for how the virus is going. We all know it's spreading and it's spreading faster. It's because of that BA5 that's going around. And we know a lot about that. But I, I thought, um, I know, I was wondering this, and then I saw an article that helped me understand what's going on. I kept wondering, you know, a little while ago, people 50 and up were able to get boosters over the summer, right?

I don't know if, didn't one or both of you guys get your boosters recently? I did. We both of us. Yeah, we got the same day, didn't we? Or day apart? We did get same day or day apart, but he got his shingles booster on the same day, which way laid him. Yeah, and the same arm. Oh, my gosh, those bastards.

They hurt so bad. Yeah, it was very cute that you guys both got it on this. I know. We were COVID twins. It was great. COVID bodies. I hope when we finally get COVID that we get it the same day. That would be cool.

Oh, I do too. Because then neither of us could hold it over the other one and say, me. You got it. I didn't. Right. Plus if we need like, you know. It's like the 2022 version of two best friends getting pregnant at the same time.

That's right. That's right. That's right. And in a way, you are pregnant just with a virus. so yeah exactly um but i thought why isn't it i i thought we any day now we'd be getting that expanded up out to to everybody being able to get their booster i haven't been able to get my booster yet um and i kept wondering when is that going to happen any day now and it turns out according to um i guess some sources who know the i saw this on a ars technica article there um

They're basically decided that the summer booster is not going to be opened up to the general public. And that they're going to wait until the fall to get everybody their boosters. And there's a lot of debate about whether or not, you know, experts are debating about whether or not this is a good idea and whatnot. But that's the, that looks like what the decision is. The CDC and the FDA believe that this is the way to go is to wait. and I thought it would be nice to say not only that so that people know but also explain what their reasoning is

behind that which is that basically the idea is that in the fall there will be just like every fall with these endemic seasonal viruses in the fall and winter there's going to be

another surge of whatever is out there. It's going to be the flu and this. It's just the way things go. And so the idea being, if we can wait until the fall to get everybody their booster, not only can it be closer to when the surge is going to be, but also the main reason they decided to go ahead and wait is because now they're going to be introducing a new next generation bivalent vaccine. Bivalent means that it's just got two. It's attacking two things at once. The flu, the flu vaccine, for example, is a multivalent vaccine. It attacks many strains of the flu all at once. So this would be the first

bivalent vaccine that is designed to, or the first bivalent COVID vaccine that is designed to target both the ancestral strain, which we talked about not too long ago, means, you know, the original strain and the new BA4-5 variants that are going around right now. Interesting. So hopefully... Is it still based on that technology, though? The MR. Yes, it's still going to be an MRNA vaccine.

It's not next generation in the sense that it's a new technology. It's just a next generation in the sense that it's going to be covering the current variants that are around right now as well as the original one because most of the vaccines that are out there are attacking the original. one, because COVID is, at its core, it's essentially, it's still COVID. It's still the same idea. And you can, and, and, and you still have some protection against it. It's just with these new vaccines, protection is waning, um, because of how, how the virus is changing. So they want to update it. And that would be the idea. They're going to, if it ever becomes endemic,

they have to update it. Like we, we have to get out of it. It's more or less endemic. There's, there's nothing. I don't know if it's, I don't know if they've officially stamped it with the endemic seal. Yeah. Yeah. But, but, um, but that's, it's, it's endemic. It's like the flu now where we're going to have to every year do, there'll be a vaccine every year. And that makes sense to me. I hope to, I mean, I feel like we're heading that way, right? Aren't we? We are. Like every year. You're going to be getting this. The question is less about whether or not you're going to be getting it every year and, and more about. are you going to have to get it more than once in a year? Oh, I see. Yeah. Yeah, we're still figuring that out. The virus is still changing all the time, and it may continue to change like this. And slowly you're probably going to stop hearing about all the different variants, just like you don't hear about flu variants.

Yeah, it'll be, you know, those people in the early days are like, man, it's just like the flu. Well, now you're getting close to being correct, just in a way you weren't thinking. You know what I mean? Well, yeah, and because early on, it's very different from the flu and the fact that it's a different virus. but the reason those comparisons are so bad before is because we didn't know how to deal with it like we knew how to deal with the flu. But some of the debate that's going around,

like, so some of the other reasons that they have for wanting to wait is that there's, basically, in the realm of public health, it can be confusing. You have to think about how the, how the, how the, general population is going to receive the information that you give them, right? So some people are wondering, well, why don't we just offer up the current booster that's

here now and then allow people to again get the booster in the fall? And it seems like a reasonable alternative. And some people, like everybody's favorite epidemiologist Anthony Fauci, he thinks that that's the way that you should do it. Everyone's favorite. we should be doing it. Yeah, there's some people who would, let's put it this way.

I've heard, I know someone personally who said, if I could, I'd go to his house and murder him. Oh, my God. Yeah, that guy's, he's convinced that he. He is no stranger to people hating him. You know, he's been around, this, this, I feel like this COVID thing is what everybody knows him for now, but his claim to fame was having to deal with the HIV and AIDS epidemic.

Yeah. Yeah, and there was a lot of who-ha back then. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So he's no stranger to literally death threats. Yeah. Because of the way that he's, you know, advised and handled those kinds of things. Sure, sure. But, yeah, he thinks, yes, we should go ahead and get it now because right now we're in the middle of a big surge.

It's, if you look at the transmissibility map on the CDC website, it's all red again. It's all high spread right now. Yeah. And so he thinks, well, while that's happening, we should go ahead and get him. But other people say, well, if we give people access to a vaccine now, if we tell them to go get their boosters now, and then in a couple of months we tell them to go get their boosters again, it's going to cause confusion. Sure. Like, why are you telling me, you just told me to get it, and now you're telling me to get it, and you might actually have less uptake of the booster in the long run. And that's what the FDA and CDC seem to think in terms of, you know, trying to analyze how socially, how people are going to react and respond to these types of messaging. Just wait, get a better vaccine and give it to them then. That's because we're simple-minded do-heads and we don't.

Yeah, I tend to lean that way and what I think is probably the right way to go because of those reasons. But there are other people who think that, well, by the time we get there, some people are saying, well, there's no guarantee that the current BA4 and BA5 variants are even going to be, like, if you're waiting because it's going to have the new variants protection in there, there's no guarantee that that'll be the dominant strain by then. We could have another variant by then, which is a valid concern. It's true. I mean, at the rate they're going, it seems likely we'll have a new variant by then, right? Yeah, yeah. There's none on the map right now. There's none on the radar. currently and usually we have a little bit of a heads up before they start to get to get big but um but there's no we don't know um and that's another reason that some people are saying let's just with what we have now just give people boosters now because work with what we know and not take why take this gamble sure do you think the recent i know you've probably seen it but there was this

recent release of this massive study to try to finally get to the bottom of where did this thing night and they they're like 99 point something percent sure that it was one of these wet market animal trade things yeah uh i'm no pita guy or anything i'll eat i'll eat a steak okay but do you think this has any movement toward shutting that kind of stuff down not that we have i don't mean we have the power to do that but i mean as a world are we ready to go ooh maybe those things aren't so great because we got you know that's how bird flu kind of comes out of that stuff like shit jumps from animals to humans in these wet markets. Is there a way to shut

that stuff down? And my guess is probably not. It's like too big of a deal or it's too hard to control or I don't know how that goes. I think, and we're firmly in my opinion territory now, the, I think it's really easy for us in our

particular US-centric position and where we sit in the world economy to say, shut it all down because we don't rely on them as much. Yeah. But there are other places in the world which it's an ingrained part of their economy are these wet markets.

They're very important culturally and economically. So I doubt that that's going to. I mean, it's raising awareness and maybe, maybe they'll, if I had to guess, the more likely thing is that there will be more of a focus on trying to make them safer and more sanitary. Interesting. Okay. But, but I don't, I don't, I don't think it's great.

It'd be great if you could just shut them down. but if they can't do that, if they can at least get some standards going or something. Right. I don't know what they would be. Yeah, exactly. Because the open-air markets are just, you know, they're already difficult to keep safe and sanitary and everything like that. So just, I don't know. I don't know.

I don't know much about it. So, but if I had to guess, I would say that that's more likely what's going to happen. Down with wet markets. More dry markets. More dry markets. That's right. Get it dry. Whatever you got to do.

All right. Well, this is fascinating stuff, as always. Oh, the last thing I didn't mention is just real quick is that they're looking at, originally they were going to say, an October, November rollout for these new vaccines that they're focused on now. Apparently, there are unnamed officials in the Biden administration who told some New York Times reporters that companies are saying that they can probably get it out by September, but they're, you know, who knows what that. Like, they're unnamed officials. I don't know what that means. Yeah. But it means, it means probably.

It's the almost equal of many people. Yeah. Many people tell me. Yeah. Yeah, we need some hard sources on that. But, yeah. If that's the case, that seems, I don't know, I'm all about get this stuff going, man, let's go. Yeah.

Yeah. But I'm also the guy that says, you want to put it. If it were just for me, I'd say, please, let me just go ahead and get the booster. Yeah. Like, that's what I want to do. do, but if I'm thinking about the population as a whole, it might be better to make the messaging less confusing. Yeah, I agree with that. Going into the fall.

Totally can see that. Give us some visuals showing the boom of everybody getting the vaccine at the same time and then the virus disappearing slowly. Yeah, that'd be great. Let's eradicate this shit. How about that? I always hate that thing. And I know it's true, but it's never possible because it just isn't, there's just no way. at scale, this works.

But this idea that we're always 12 days away from that virus being gone forever. Oh, really? But it would mean everybody, every single human being locks themselves in a room, doesn't do anything for 12 days. And truly does that, it goes away. You're done. Whoever had it is now through them and they're done. Anybody else? They don't have it.

They're done. You're done. But we can never do it. Even you could say 30 days. Like, let's give us a little buffer space. We're always 30 days away. But try to get 8 billion people on board. Not going to freaking happen.

No, no. Well, two things to say about that. First, if we can't convince a fraction of 1% of the world's population to just end world hunger by giving away their money, I doubt we're going to convince everybody in the world to stay in their house first. Exactly. It's just not possible. But isn't that annoying to know that like that can't get everybody in agreement on how to wear a

mask. But the idea, the idea that it's just that, it's that close, but we can't, but human beings. The second part is, and some people in the chat room are already saying it, is that there are animal reservoirs for, for these also. Well, yeah, but then, you know, there's a way, technically we just wipe out all the animals. Yeah, just kill all the animals. Everybody stay inside for two weeks. You don't even have to watch the animal.

You'll be in your house. I'm sure I won't mess with any key parts of the ecosystem or anything. Just wipe them all out. No food chain issues. No, no of that. Exactly. But it's just humanity at scale, it's impossible. It just, this is just what it is, man. Right. I mean, hell, somebody just got polio and got paralyzed the other day or whatever their deal is.

And I'm like, polio, freaking. Polio coming back in New York City is going to be a thing. Yeah, it is a thing. And it's so annoying. And why is it? Because some people decided not to get vaccinated. Not just some people. Apparently, there's only like a 60% vaccination rate. in New York right now? For polio? Wow. Geez. Man. That's me remembering a headline that I saw, so nobody quote me on that. I don't know if those numbers are true. I got the polio shot and I had a dream that I was Franklin Delano Roosevelt that night. Delano. What was his name? Delano. I said Delano. Oh, I'm thinking

to Eleanor Roosevelt's what I'm doing. Delano. Brian. A little emerging there. I like it of the names. I'd just like the way you said it. You're like, Delonore? Like a question?

That's great. All right. Well, there you have it. We'll talk more next week about other cool science stuff. But in the meantime, All Around Science is doing stuff. What's going on this week? Well, this episode that just came out yesterday of All Around Science, we went deep into all that James Webb Space Telescope that I gave everybody a preview on last week. And we talked a lot about all the different things.

some of the stuff we've seen in our solar system, planets we've seen in other solar systems, as well as like galaxies. There's a new one, even younger now, that I just saw yesterday, they found another one that's only 233 million years after the Big Bang. So it's just amazing. Tons of cool stuff coming out of James Webb all the time. So check that out. All around science is the name of the podcast.

Nothing in that way. James Webb Telescope is actually anti-Semitic, just the guy it's named after everybody. The actual telescope freaking loves Jewish people, for real. It's just the guy they're named after for a little trouble. Oh, yeah. I don't know about anti-Semitic. You might be right about that, but I know he was also apparently not really didn't have some great views about sexuality and gender either.

Oh, yeah. Oh, geez. Yeah, he's a turd, the web guy. He's long dead, right? He's not around anymore. Yeah, thank goodness. Yeah. He's a dead dude.

But, you know, guys of a certain generation. Good. I'm glad he's dead. Fine, we named a thing after him. Anyway, that's it. Hey, Bobby, have a great week. And, you know, it's my hope that between now and then, you'll have some amazing new science to tell us about us next week.

So be here. You know it. All right, man. We'll see you later. Bye, bye. Sweet. All right. That's it for the show.

Quick note, tonight, 3.30 Mountain Time this afternoon. There will be a Play Retro episode of Play Retro. It's a podcast. All about old video games. We're talking about the Strike series, like Desert Strike, Jungle Strike, the other ones whose names escape me at the moment. Pizza Strike. Pizza Strike. Dining Strike.

Third Strike. Angry Strike. Angry Strike. That was my least favorite spice girl. Glad they got rid of Angry Strike. Anyway, Strike series is one of my all-time favorites. I played all the Genesis games back in the day. We're going to look at that series and what it brought.

brought to the future of games, because there's a lot that you don't know about that whole thing. So that's today, 330 Mountain Time, and wherever you get your podcast, if you can't watch live. Brian, you got anything today coming out going on? I don't. I think it's just me prepping for Coverville this week and maybe, you know, maybe putting on a little party hat and going out and doing some lifting. I won't put on a party hat. That's kind of silly, but... You should do it.

Wear your fez. Do the feds. I don't want any... That's an area, you know. I love all you guys saying happy birthday and stuff. I don't want strangers. Well, what if you wore the fez hat? The fez hat would be cool, though.

Oh, that's true. I do have a good fez hat. Is it too tall for my car? It might be. I don't know. I don't know either. Boy, you get into a lift ride with a guy wearing a Bob Ross Hawaiian shirt and a fez hat. Are you going to just hop out immediately, or do you feel like you're going to get a good ride for your buck?

I feel like, you know what? I think I would actually, I think I would be positive. some of my original music. I think I would be positive on that. If I saw somebody with a Fez hat, I would actually go, now this seems like a cool dude who's like having a good time with this job.

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There's nothing to do but play a song, I guess. So you have one. It's all we can do, Scott. Hugh wrote in, said, hi, Scott and Brian. Here's an easy any day is fine request from me. I was watching guitar demo videos and came across this amazing band called Hot Crazy, who do a great cover of wannabe that I think everyone, or that I think will appease Brian's inner Spice Girls fan.

Oh, there's nothing inner about my Spice Girls fan. It is, I wear that on my Bob Ross covered sleeve. Yeah, it's an iny and an Audi is that thing. It's an I think it'll appease everyone else, too. This band is so great. It's totally worth checking out their other song, Manly and Heels. They deserve all the recognition. I'm not sure if they're indie.

Don't know how to check, but if they are, that would be great. And in the middle track someday, too. Thanks, signed Hugh. Yeah, this is, it's my birthday. And I say it's time for a rockin Spice Girls cover. This actually, this really does rock. And the video that goes along with it is a hundred shades of crazy as well. This is a band called Hot Crazy.

This is one of two singles they've released online. I want to see more from these guys. It's a cover of the Spice Girls W wannabe. Go, I'll tell you what I want, what I really, really want. So tell me what you want, what you really, really want. I'll tell you what I really, really want. So tell me what you want, really, really want to pat, I want to, I want to, I want to, I want to really, really want to take a sick. If you want my future, forget my past.

If you want to get with me, I better make it fast. Now don't go wasted, my precious time, and get your act together, we could be just fine. Oh, I'll tell you what I want, what I really, really want. So tell me what you want what you really, really want. I want to put, I want to put, I want to what you really, really really want. If you want to be my lover, got to get in with my friends. Making us forever Granching never ends

You want to be my lover You have got to deal Taking is too easy But there's no way it's What you think about that Now you know what I'm feeling Say you could handle my love You for real

I won't be a step I'll give you a try If you really bug me then I'll say good bye If you want to be my lover Better get with my friends We can't last forever When dream never is If you want to be my lover

You have got to be Taking is too easy But there's no way So here's the story from hot crickety You want to get with me You better listen here, but then we got zip in the place and likes it in a face. We got sealed like a single life. Sit on easy teeth.

Doesn't come from break. He's a real lady after me. Buy your seat. Somebody down and winding all around. This show is part of the Frog Pants Network. Frog Pants Network. Get more shows like this at frogpants.com. Oh, that sucks.

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