The Morning Stream - TMS 2339: A Fish Every Six Inches

Episode Date: August 23, 2022

Pull the Squirrel's Nuts. Having a Liquid Moment. I don't like to cleaaaaaan my screeeeeeeen! Denis Miller doing Peter Griffin. Grandma's False Bottom. What happened to Quiznos!?!? Soylent meat is fake people. Finding the Poo-Bag Opening. The whole cartoon was Cringe-r. Wasn't there a guy with a javelin named javelin something? The best kind of rip is RIP TORN. Handsome Rugged Conrad Former Utahn Now Colorado Visiting Dude Making a Book Hyper Climber Guy. Tiny Anvils with Bill. Flying blind with Bobby and more on this episode of The Morning Stream. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Dennis Miller doing Peter Griffin, ch-cha. Grandma's false bottom. What happened to Quiznos? Soylent meat is fake people. Finding the poo bag opening. The whole cartoon was Cringer. Wasn't there a guy with a javelin named javelin something? The best kind of rip is rip torn.

Handsome rugged Conrad former Utah, now Colorado visiting dude making a book hyperclimer guy. Tiny anvils with Bill. Flying blind with Bobby and Moore. On this episode of The Morning Stream. If you tie the nut to a string, he grabs it. The more you pull, the harder he pulls. See how he bites off the shell to get at the nut? He knows how to get what he wants.

A squirrel is a smart little animal, don't you think so? Nothing like a spiky-d-d-d-the-m-S-S-S-S-D. The morning stream, you have chosen poor Lee. Good morning and welcome to TMS. It's Tuesday, August 23rd, 2022. I'm Scott Johnson. That's Brian Ibbett. Good morning.

Hi. Yes. Hi. You guys missed the whole pre-show where Brian described the superfan status that he has for Elvis Costello, and I wish you could have heard it. You know what you need to do. Just become a patron or show up for the live stream. Become a patron.

You'll get to hear it. Yeah. Then you'll get to hear all about it. You'll get to hear me do Elvis Costello impersonates Adele. Yep. Hello from the other side. You have to do that part of the end. Anyway, he's great.

Give me a song. Give me a song. Give me a song. I can't think of any covers. I bless the rains down in Africa. Yeah, that Toto classic. Add a little vibrato on there. Anyway, yeah, Brian's going to his concert tonight.

So we talk about it. We'll talk about it tomorrow, I'm sure. Yeah, there'll be stories. Somebody will, you know, I don't know, do something weird with some pot, you know. I'm sure. You know. No doubt.

Yeah. Because you're, you know, you're in the land of cocaine and pot. It's my understanding. The land of cocaine, pot, and fentanyl. There you go. We got it all here in Colorado. Take your pick. So I'm going to tell you a story today that I think is pretty funny.

Because I'm a very fastidious, fastidious. I'm a very fastidious dog walker in that, I believe. especially because I live in an area that has like dog duty stops everywhere with like free bags and everything. I'm a big, big proponent of pick up after your dog. Sure. Well, any decent human being is, fastidious or not, if you are a decent human being in our society here. Yeah. We live in a society, therefore pick up your dog poop. It's simple. It's not hard. I take bags with me because I have some I bought that I prefer. They just open easier. I look like a weirdo out there trying to open a bag for four hours and then realize I'm at the bottom and I go back to the other side.

I hate that. Really. I mean, only one bag manufacturer has figured out that you just have it printed with a little arrow that shows you where the top is. How come only one company has figured that out? I don't know, especially with dog poop bags. For some reason, they're harder to open the cheap stuff. But anyway, I do it every time I go anywhere. So I'm going around the lake and it used to be there was nothing in there.

The center of this lake, this island was. just dirt but now it is full of multi-million dollar homes beautiful big sprawling monstrous houses really beautiful area it's really nice and you can still it's still a public walk space so you still walk around there so i'm walking around there and i'm admiring these homes as usual and checking out the ducks and the geese and the whatnot and the whatever making sure bendoza is nowhere to be found and all this stuff yeah dog has to has to do uh what i call face two del boca vista which is second trip to the number two, you know, I've got to drop off additional kids at the pool.

And oftentimes... Once those kids are out, I got to poop. Yeah. And oftentimes they are not... The phase two is not a, let's call it, a solid affair. All right? Sometimes we're at the bottom of the barrel and we're sort of, you know, I don't know how this else to put it.

You guys understand. Yeah, you know. You understand. So this comes out... Sometimes the cereal. crunchy, sometimes it's soggy because it's been in the bowl for a while. Yeah, and sometimes it's full on liquid. That's what happened

here. So Rainer proceeds to just have a liquid moment. All right? And it's fine. It's fine. Diarrere, right? That's what comes out of her. Diarrere. And so I go, oh, well, there's no picking that up.

Because it's literally, it's like. Not without a shovel and like cutting the ground around it. Like you're. Yeah. No, no other way to get it. So I'm like, oh, well, all right, I had to put the bag back in my pocket and we keep moving. Now, this is on a public strip of grass that's not actually attached to this lady's yard, but a lady comes out of her, what do you call it, her rear thing, her back porch, no, deck is what I'm trying to say.

The word deck is what I was aiming for. And she comes out and she goes, oh, no, no, no, no, no, oh, no, no, like that. And I go, excuse me? And she goes, you can't just have your dog poop and not pick it up. Don't you know the rules around here? And I said, oh, no, I'm fully aware of the rules. If you want to come take a closer look, though, this is, she did a liquid poopie, I says. I said to the lady.

Yeah, good. Yeah, I like that. She goes, what? And I said, she has diarrhea, I says. And she goes, oh, well, just make sure that next time. And I'm like, she just kind of kept going on, and I just started walking. She wanted to like, well, but I came out here to yell at you, and you came up with a good response, but I still feel like I need to say something.

And you know what? I was perfectly prepared for her to just want. I wanted her to come down there and check out the evidence. Come take a look. How would you get this off this? You could say, look, I've got bags for the solid stuff. There's nothing I can do about this unless you've got some police tape. Right.

And now, by the way, I'm still carrying bag number one. full of dropping's number one because we hadn't gotten to a station yet. So I'm already, I have proof that I do pick up and then over here I have a case where I can't do anything about it and I've got her up there being as carony as possible just overlording over anybody.

I'm like, I get that there's some people that don't and you know what? Go ahead and yell at them. But you got to check first. Make sure it's not, you know, I have a reason. Here's the thing. I feel like I would do the same thing If I'm sitting in my front window or whatever and doing something, I happen to look out, I see someone walk by and their dog poops on the lawn and they start walking away.

I probably would come out. I wouldn't, I don't know if I'd be like, oh, wait a minute. Hold on. Oh, hey, guys, do you need a bag or something? You know, I probably would do that. Yeah, even if she just said, you need a bag? If she just said that, I said, oh, it's, you know, she's got the runs. Oh, okay.

And then we would have had a better human to human experience. Yeah, exactly. So when you come in swinging, assuming things. Gosh, dang it. It's like so annoying. This one is less Frappuccino, more caramel macchiato. That's right. I don't know what else to tell you, lady.

You want to come out here and give it the freaking, I don't know, check it for its pH balance. Like, what do you want? How much do you want out of me? So what was her final, what was the final interaction? It was just, okay, well, yeah, and her talking to me walking away. I didn't hear the line at the end of it. I just kept walking. But now I know which house is hers.

And she has a whole bunch of fifth. Wind So this is like, and when I say a whole bunch, Brian. What's a whole lot? Give me an, I want a rough estimate. I should have got a picture because it's pretty funny. Her entire deck, which is very big and wraps around the house, every six inches is a different colored wind sock that is a fish shape and color and like drawing of a fish on it. And it's like just, it goes all the way around.

There's probably, I don't know, there's probably a hundred fish windsock. Seriously. Oh, my gosh. Yeah, none of them are... What is she, like, a meteorologist? Like, who needs to know she, uh, is she going to be like Thor Hyerdahl and sail the cone tiki to the new world? That's really a great question.

What's going on? I don't know. I have no idea. There's not even wind. It was kind of breezy and the wind's not even making these socks moves. So I don't know what the point is. It just made me realize like, oh. I can't wait for the correction emails that we're going to get about whatever Thor hired all,

whatever the name of Thor hired all's boat, if it was the, I thought it was the Kuntiki. I'm sure I'm wrong on that. The Kintiki, what? The Kanski, hey, Kazma, whoever in the chat thinks you're right. Maybe I did get it right. Is that right? Or hired all sale to the Kontiki.

Okay, all right. Thanks. Good. There you go. Anyway, it was dumb. It was a dumb interaction. I regret all of it. And I hope I poop there again.

Or I hope my dog does. I don't care if I don't want. Okay. We got a battle cat email from somebody who wants to call Brian out a little bit. this is a miramitchie cd in the chat room i don't know if he's there today miamichi cd which i've replaced me on amici cd with streaming versions yeah you know they're just they take up so much room and they're paying to rip and i get it i feel you anyway he says this dear boicestown and st john there are communities in his area he says

okay all right did i hear mr cover vileville i'm going to do it the way it's written here did i hear mr coverville with a space yeah with some battle cat slander at the beginning of monday's tms i cannot stand for this so i will sit and wave my fist not very seriously at all chris well chris he did he'd besmirch the good name of i did and you know listen battle cat was fine it was orco was the problem with that show orco was the snarf equivalent of that show yeah because battle cat was rarely in battle cat or was rarely in um cringer form for very long. Cringer.

Yeah, he was Cringer for a bit, but then always very quickly was Battle Cat. Whereas Orco is Orco, 100% of his day. 24-7. Yeah, and he's terrible. Orco is an abomination, yeah. Do you think, did Prince Adam give Cringer the name Cringer, or did, did, when he picked him up from the, uh, from the rescue, dumb friends league, his name was already Cringer or, I think two man owned him previously.

So he probably was, that's why he was so nervous because two-man used to have him. Yeah, I don't know. They never got into where Cringer's origin story is still a mystery, everybody. Yeah. It's unfortunate. I wonder who gave him that name because that's just mean. Yeah, it is mean because he's a cringy little piece of shit and tell the sword somehow. The sword affects both Beheeman and Cringer at the same time, and he doesn't have to be sitting on Cringer for the transformation to take place.

Right. That doesn't make sense. Why doesn't it affect other people around if it affects the cat that's around He-Man or Prince Adam? Sure. Prince of attorney. Prince Adam. Prince Adam. Prince of Attorney.

And Keeper of the secrets. Hey, real quick, someone in the chat says, Orko is cool in the recent series? Really? Well, I admit, I haven't seen the recent series. I haven't either. I can't judge either. But how do you make Orco cool? Kevin Smith one, right?

Yeah, but how do you make orco cool? How does that happen? How does that work? It doesn't. I don't know. It's literally not possible. All right. Let's move on to this one.

Hey, we talked about that handsome Conrad guy yesterday. Yes, rugged man. Rugged Conrad, former Utah, now Colorado, visiting dude, Mike in a book, a hyperclimer guy, right? Yes. Well, in this email, oh, I forgot to play this. Send and receive email. In this email from Tim, he says, hey, scramble and belay.

these are climbing terms nice is it like belay that order kind of uh is that the use of uh similar it's it's a if i remember correctly it's a a thing you put in the rock that you guide your oh no no no belay is to is to go back down

the rock like you're belaying like you're um you're holding the rope in such a way that you're not just going to go right down the side of the rock face you're holding the your your your your rope is in a belay that keeps a steady descent, a steady slow descent.

I believe. This is going to sound a little odd, but the way Brian went like that. Yeah, yeah. That told me that you have wanted to make that sound. I know this isn't true, but it made it sound like you've been holding that noise for about a month and are so stoked to finally make it.

I don't know why. Finally, I get to use that sound. I don't know why. There's something about your jubilant usage of, you can't explain it. Anyway, well, all right, so there's that. These are all climbing terms. Just listen to episode TMS 2338, and Brian talked about lifting for Conrad Anchor.

Conrad Anchor is one of the most famous modern climbers in the sport, and his story is immensely interesting. There was a documentary on Disney Plus about him called Torn, which is not about Rip Torn, the actor. Or about Natalie and Bruglia. No, none of that. Oh, my gosh. I haven't heard that song in so long. Which is worth a watch if you're interested in all knowing more about his life. the basics of the stories that Conrad's climbing buddy and best friend Alex Lowe died tragically

in a climbing accident leaving his wife and three sons behind. Conrad being Alex's best friend took it upon himself to care for the family as they dealt with the loss. During that time Alex's wife, Jennifer finds comfort in his companionship and they get married. The stories about him having a deal with his best friend's death while living with the responsibility of doing right by his friend and his family and how to best honor Alex Lowe's legacy in the climbing world and his family. It is a very heartwarming story and definitely worth to watch. Fish, sandwich, and all that nonsense, Tim Eckley. Well, that's cool. There's more of that dude. I didn't know he had a documentary on Disney Plus. No kidding. Well, guess what I'm

just adding to my, um, you should watch that. Excuse me, my, my watch list. Yeah. Yeah, after he climbed your, uh, he climbed your Kia Soul. Now he's climbing the hearts of America. That's right. See, here we go. Uh, showing you right now. There it is right there. Torn on Disney Plus. I'm clicking the add to watch list button at there. There is now a little checkmark for added to watch list. Oh, the ghost of Walt Disney himself approves. Nicely.

To all who come to this happy app. Welcome. Except if you're a Jew. All right. I have that right, right? He was kind of anti-Semitic. Wasn't that a thing? I can't remember it because he might have been.

That's something like that. I don't remember either. It always, I don't know why it cracked me up. There's nothing funny about people being horrible to doze. I just something about Walt Disney being that way. All right. Is that true? Or I make that up.

People are like, uh, cyborg dude says no. Nice accusation from. No, there was something. Well, okay, now we got to find it. Was it, there was like an old Donald Duck cartoon where he, no, what was it? It was something like, um. Was that, okay. Was Walt Disney really?

an anti-Semite, according to the Jewish press. Yeah. You read that, and your daughter has instructed me that it's time for me to clean my screen. So I'm going to just clean my screen while you explain it. Is your screen dirty? Oh, your iPad. Oh, she's one to talk. Let me tell you this.

Oh, really? Yeah. Carter's iPad Pro, which she uses to make amazing art and animation. Her iPad Pro is about, you need an exacto knife to remove the inch thick freaking residue on her thing. Oh, is it? Yeah. Oh. Uh-huh.

Oh, well. What do you mean? Well, how about that? Carter, I need to show her screen. It is so foul. Somebody needs to, like, test it for diseases we don't have yet. You think COVID is bad. It's like a petri dish.

It's a petri dish pro. It really is. Okay, here we go. Meryl Streep debate, submit. Okay, I see. Okay, Streep took the opportunity. Blast Disney is a racist and misogynist. Okay.

Oh, Streep said it. overrated, overreactress. Let's see. Proof, it's zero evidence. Disney ever wrote or said anything anti-Semitic in public. Oh, it's more that they think he was a little racist, but again, it was 90% of people of his time. Let's see. Streep's plenty of people.

Okay, well, okay, so apparently he's, okay, there's a whole story here, and I'm not going to read the whole thing. But he was accused of it by Merrill Streep. That's where I must have heard it. I think you you probably heard it from the same place I think I heard it which was Family Guy which is a lot of people in the chat room really did Family Guy do maybe they did see that yeah and were they reacting to the to that it's like it's like it's like it's like it's like going to a bar mitzvah with Walt Disney all right well as usual we know nothing more than when we started so this is good

great all right uh you guys guess what it's exciting because we do a lot of work in our newsroom we got a lot of people back there pounding away lots of people the best people and they've got this to say it's time for the news and it's Brought to you by Play Retro Tonight Live or on podcast. Scott, tell me the rest.

Oh my gosh. So tonight we're talking about the old Sega racers of arcades and early consoles, things like Outrun, one of the greatest arcade games ever made.

I would also argue that Daytona USA was a big deal. We talk about Daytona. We talked mainly about, turns out a lot of it, was Yu Suzuki, the famous developer. of those days at Sega.

Anyway, that's what we're talking about tonight. No, we're not going back as far as like a pole position or any of that. That's for a different time. We're focusing squarely on that. So if you like retro gaming and you think a podcast about that might be interesting, join me and Brian Dunaway today at 3.30 Mountain Time or on the podcast right effing after. Okay? All right.

Cool. Brian, here's your first headline. By the way, Codes from Home gave my, uh, my Peter Griffin review as a hint of Dennis Miller. No, my Dennis Miller was the earlier thing with the, oh, what is she like, or hired all trying to engage the wind before sailing the cone tiki to the new world?

I could hear it, though, a little bit. Do Peter again. A little bit. He's my Peter Griffin. It's like Dennis Miller doing Peter Griffin is what it's like. All right, I'll take that. All right. That's fair.

Sure. What's he doing? in anyway. He's got a podcast probably. Probably, yeah. That's what all the comedians, the retired comedians do. They have podcasts. Yeah, there's two podcasts, one where he talks about the events of the day and compares them to things from the 1930s,

and then a second podcast where he explains each reference that he gave in his other, in his first podcast. Oh, fantastic. Fantastic. He kind of drives me crazy. Anyway, moving on. 81-year-old woman nabbed at an airport with five kilos of heroin in her suitcase. Nice.

So was this the Denver airport? because it sure feels like it sure does with all the drugs coming in and out of there lately yeah uh five kilos of heroin on this 81 year old danish woman she was traveling from africa to canadia canada which uh goes like this canada and uh was arrested at a warsaw airport on suspicion of a legal possession of heroin worth over 515 thousand dollars wow five kilos is worth half a million dollars wow i believe it of heroin sure that didn't seem how much is that that's kilos that's that's That's enough to get all of the members of Fall Out Boy High. I guess that is a lot, right?

Kilos is such a, because I'm not metric all the time, kilos in the weight category. Weight category is my least amount of metric exposure, I think. Yeah, I know, right? Because kilograms versus pounds and that sort of thing. And I think I, in ounces and stuff. So I think I hear, kilo sounds small. Oh, it's a little kilo.

A little kilo. And so when I hear that. So five kilograms is 11 pounds. Okay. That's a lot of Coke, or heroin, rather. It is, yeah. It's a lot of overdoses right there. Let's see.

Customs officers at Frederick Chopin Airport. Yeah, after the musician man guy. I believe it's pronounced choppin. Chopin? Chopin. Decided to check the woman's luggage Saturday or Sunday after becoming suspicious of her itinerary and her uneasy behavior. Oh, that 81 year old over there. Very uneasy.

Oh, no. What is considered an uneasy behavior for an 81 year? Like, oh, she certainly looks worried about life. Yeah, she looks really concerned about everything going on. It says packages with 5 kilograms, again, about 11 pounds of heroin were discovered under her false suitcase bottom. Wait a minute. Are they saying her bottom was like a false suitcase? Or does she have a suitcase?

She has a false bottom. She is like one of those derrieres that you can buy at Spirit Halloween that you can hide heroin in. Hey, isn't it time? Spirit Halloween ought to be kicking into full gear. They are already a little lift thing yesterday. I drove somebody to a Barnes & Noble that is in a shopping strip mall with two Spirit Halloween. Oh my gosh. Cuckoo Bird taken over the, it's like a cuckoo bird taking over the empty nest, ch-chat.

They just wait for your, they just wait for the circuit city to move the last little remnants of Mavis Beacon. is typing out aisle number five so they can swoop in with their dirty minions costumes. See? See? Now that's, that's not Peter Griffin, everybody. Claire seems to think so. She thinks so anyway, eh? Well, anyway, she was detained, retained, she was detained for three months and prosecutors have opened an investigation, so they're hanging on to her. Under Polish law, she faces up 15 years in prison for illegal possession of narcotics. Denmark officials confirmed that a Danish citizen was detained in Poland.

The ministry is providing consular assistance. So they could throw her in the can. But see, this is why I use a really old lady because you think, oh, they'll never stop a nice old grandma in their 80s. Right, right. And there she is with her false bottom and her coat or her hair on that thing. I asked that old lady over there for a hard candy. She didn't have one in her purse.

So I think something's up. Put her in detention. Oh my gosh. I had, this is probably true of you as well. My grandma had an actual jar full of actual hard candy, like those stupid things. Yeah, oh, every grandma does. What was the deal there? Why did they do that?

Because I can tell you... They just never wanted to be anywhere without hard candy. My grandmother, both my grandmothers and probably my step-grandmother also has hard candy at any given time. I need to ask her. Next time I see her, I'm just going to say, just daddy curiosity. Got any hard candy? They call them the greatest generation for a reason, Brian. That's right.

That's absolutely. But they would all stick to each other. You'd open up that jar. You'd have to shake it a bunch and bang it around so that one would go loose. Like how that works in the south. In humid, in humid climates, it's one piece of, it's like a ship in a bottle, that thing. You're never going to get it out because it's all one congealed mass. Chat says Great Depression.

Yeah, some of that. You know, always have stuff on hand. Always have a cheap source of quick energy, I suppose. I don't know. She also did... You know, I guess... I'm a budding grandparent. Look, I've got a jar of hard candy right here.

This is my jar of atomic fireballs. Those are hard. They're hard. These are hard. They're candy. They're individually wrapped. And in my car, I have them in the inside pocket of some of my jackets, my winter jackets. I have them.

It's like, yeah, you know, if I just need a mint or just something to occupy myself, then I'll pull out an atomic fireball. Maybe Kim's version of this is a giant metal pot full of jambalaya always available in the fridge. Maybe that's what this is. Maybe. Maybe that's how it manifests itself first. Gen X decided we're going to take this a different direction. Right.

Now, as she gets older, that jambalaya will move out of the fridge into little individual tupperware containers that will be kept in a purse on the go to hand to people who need them. Just little to go balls, you know, like a little, I don't know. You know, you could do. You could squeak all the air out of this tiny Ziploc. Then zip lock it in. Now you got like four or five of those in your purse. Oh, yeah. Piece of cake.

There you go. Exactly. She's on her way. Anyway, we hope this old lady understands what the hell she did and doesn't go to it. I hope she don't. Look, I don't know why I feel this way. She committed the crime. You got to do the time.

But do they give any leniency for just like, she's 81? Can she do the Uncle Leo and go, I'm old. I thought I paid for you know can she do that maybe she can do that I if any lawyer worth of salt is certainly working on a I didn't know what I was doing defense easily yeah yeah that's what I would do but those Polish man they'll come after you they'll get you all right here's a story about Chipotle yes uh there there I've only ever been to a chipotle once have I ever told you that one time no and not because I don't want to go again I just just went the one time is it's not convenient to you or there yeah I mean

I mean, there's more stuff, there's more stuff closer if I was going for that kind of thing. We still don't have a kudoba either, so. Oh, really? There is a kudoba less than a mile from my house. I can walk there in probably 10 minutes and have a burrito that's bigger than any person really should consume on their own. That's true. That walk isn't going to burn that off, you know? No.

Not that close, not less than a mile. Well, anyway, Chipotle is in the news because they got a new scented candle, which they say is a nod to customers who, quote, accidentally, unquote, fill water cups with lemonade. Well, it's better than a vagina candle. Yeah. Well, I don't know. I have one of those. It's pretty good.

It's all right. In case, thank you, Cleo for that. We haven't seen Cleo in the chat. She was here for a bit in the chat and then gone again. She was, yeah. I think probably work is. is taking a toll on her time or something? Yeah, time toll.

We all have to pay. Time toll. Oh, Talley, please. Selling the chat room with horrible comment. Well. Anyway, it's not that at all. That's the other thing. That vagina candle from Gwen, or what's her name?

Gwyneth Paltrow. Yeah, I was going to call her, I can't even think of her name in the Iron Man now. What's wrong with me? Oh, pepper pots. Pepper pots. J's the ways. It just smells like some flower thing. Yeah, it's a floral thing.

I mean, it's obviously what she, that never mind. She wishes. She wishes. Nah, never mind. I've decided to, I've decided to just pull the ripcourt on this one. I'm going to float safely while you. Let's float the safety together. I'm going with you.

All right. So here's the deal. In case you're wondering, says this article from The Kitchen.com, although the kitchen's spelled without an E at the end and it really bugs me. Kitchen. They have an E in the the, they could borrow the E from the and put it in the kitchen. It's not like they don't have access to an E. That's true. It says, in case you're wondering, Chipotle is well aware that every cup of water they give away is not actually being filled with water at the self-service drink fountain.

It's often been a topic of conversation across the company's social media platforms. and now it's become the clever inspiration for a new lemonade scented candle. This is true of everywhere, though, that gives you a thing of water and self-serve. It's not like Chipotle. It's not limited to Chipotle. I've never done this, though. I haven't either. I would feel guilty about doing that.

I would feel bad. Yeah, that isn't my lemonade. I didn't pay for it. To be honest, I never ask for water if there's a perfectly good Coke Zero or Diet Dr. Pepper fountain drink nearby. That's true. I usually don't either. But if I do get water, I just get water. It's because I want water, you know.

So I feel like if people are going to get lemonade, but they ask for water, that means they wanted lemonade and were too cheap to pay for it. That's exactly what it means, yes. Yeah, lame. Lame. I don't like it. There is no accidentally involved. No.

So here's what this is. Oh, I thought the button that said lemonade was what I was supposed to depress to get the water. Isn't that Spanish for water? I'm in a Chipotle. Lemonade. Is this a reference to the Beyonce album? It says here, okay, so this is the joke of it. It's called the water cup candle.

That's what it's called. But it smells like lemonade. So that's pretty funny, I think. That is really funny. Yes. We'll be available beginning Thursday, August 18th. We're already there then. And we'll have them there until supplies last.

You just have to go to Chipotle, see if they have it. The tongue-in-cheek-a-mage. to fans who accidentally, quote unquote, accidentally fill their water cups with lemonade, priced at $28 bucks. That's a, hey, I'm going to buy this and hopefully sell it on eBay for twice as much. They sell out when they run out of these things. That's horrendous. That's too much.

No one's buying this to say, I'm going to take it home and light it and smell lemonade for $28. And definitely, they're definitely not going after the clientele who do the cheat because they're already too cheap. they're not going to pay $28 for a candle. They're going to ask for... Unless they want to have a permanent commemoration of their cheating. Yeah, that's true.

Have a little homage sitting on your thing. In addition to the cost of shipping and handling, being included in the prize fans can purchase the Watercup candle, who will also receive a promo code to redeem it for free lemonade in stores. So they're really, really piling on here. Oh, when you take the... When you factor in the free lemonade coupon, then it really takes the price.

down to 26 bucks. That's better. Yeah, much, much better. It says it's not the first to release a scented candle based on menu items, though. Let's see. It joins the likes of Shake Shacks Burger and Fries candle and Burger in the Park candles. Ikea's Swedish meatball scented hooverdroll candle. I don't know if that's right.

I've seen the... It takes four people to assemble it, too. I've seen the Northman. I've played a lot of... Assassus Creed Valhalla, but I don't know what that word is. Yeah, I think you speak perfectly, pronounced it perfectly. McDonald's has an innovative six candle scent, or set, each inspired by a different Big Mac ingredient. So you're supposed to burn them all together and you smell an entire Big Mac.

I kind of want that. Yeah. Just because it's weird, and I'll never light it. It is kind of weird. And that, that's recent. Isn't that like within the last six months, we talked about the Big Mac collection? Did we talk about it? I don't remember.

Do we go over that? I don't remember. Sounds familiar. Quiz and those bankruptcy-scented candle. Did they go bankrupt? What happened to Quiznos? I don't think that's... I mean, they did go bankrupt, but I don't think that's a real thing.

Oh, I don't like... Well, yeah, I'm sure that's not real, but I didn't know Quiznos went bankrupt. Yeah. They're gone. At least the one by us is gone, so, yeah. Oh, no. Okay. It's already a pub, a tap house.

Founded. 1981. Let's see. Denver, Colorado's headquarters. Yep. Or was. Are they done? That makes me sad. Yeah. I mean, I like them. You don't have a firehouse where they can make your hot sub. Come on. And the quiz knows is good to us. Remember that weird thing with those funky?

We like the moon. I love that. That act campaign is the best. Oh, it was the best. That wasn't, uh, who was that? Because they also did a video for Elbows cover of Beyonce's single ladies, no, speaking of Beyonce, his elbow's cover of, I depend on me, because they had the little cats that, like, would play instruments. Oh, the cut-out cats. Oh, right. I like the cut-out cats. some early uh it's back when the internet was mostly just harmless memes and not dicks right

uh okay here it is on december 1st duke 2015 quiznos opened a concept restaurant called quiznos grill and this is after their bankruptcy in 2014 they did chapter 11 which is to reorganize right to get better um oh they emerged from bankruptcy four months later on june 30th 2014 and reduced its debt by approximately 400 million dollars Um, okay, so they were in 2016, the concept was abandoned and relaunched to Zep's epic sandwiches. Some of the Quiznos grill sandwiches remain on the menu. Let's see, on June 11th, 2018, Quiznos announced it was acquired by California-based High Bluff Capital Partners. The chain will remain its headquarters in Denver, and that's what's going on now.

That's where we're at. There we go. By the way, Joel Weich is the creator of the, both the Quiznos commercial and that, uh, uh, elbow song with the kittens and I put a copy of that in the chat room or in the Discord if you want to watch it. I do. Let's play it now. Let's get us, probably won't get us in trouble right?

I don't think so. Because it's just weird. Oh, this is so weird. All right, here you go, chat. I'm going to pause YouTube just in case. Just in case. Yeah, good idea. Whoa. I think I just crashed OBS. Hold on. Oh, no.

Damn it. Oh, yeah. I'm looking at the chat room. start streaming all right hanging on chat we're coming back they don't know

they can't hear you say that okay we're coming back everybody now they don't know I mean they will they probably now hear me yeah we're back

all right sorry about that everybody here's the screen and I'll play some of this here let me turn on the audio Oh, gosh. Question. Oh, it's so weird. I forgot about this.

Yeah. So he did the commercials as well? Yeah, Joel H. From Rather good. This is great. Yes. He said, they've done me. These cats are great.

All right, I'm convinced. You convinced me. that's the greatest thing ever man. It's like watching peeky blinders, the cat version. Yeah, get those guns, Tommy. Yeah. Awesome. Well, there's your story about Chipotle and their dumb candle.

Yeah. Go buy one and let us know how it is. Let's move on to some more food items. Sure. Plant-based food company has made a human meat burger. Human meat burger, everybody. This is beyond beyond meat. Yeah, this is beyond the pale.

It says here we all want a healthier planet, healthier lifestyle. We should be consuming less meat. These days there are plenty of meat-free products on the market. One plant-based food company looks to take things further by developing a plant-based human meat burger. In a bizarre twist, the Swedish company, oomf, oomf. That can't be real. The company, why not? I don't know.

Because it looks like. Well, it's like a sentence because there's more to it. Because it looks like the name of, it's the sound that the skipper makes when he gets hit in the gubb of coconut. No, that's oop. Oop, little buddy. Anyway, developed a product, which they say tastes just like human flesh based on extensive research. The company's human meat plant-based burger is made from soy, mushrooms, and wheat protein, as well as plant-based fats and a mix of different spices. Oh my gosh, Claire, your link is too big.

It was developed around Halloween last year, where it was sold from Stockholm. food truck as the scariest plant-based food ever. The short advertisement for The Burger featured scary music, dark scenes, and a sinister voiceover with a disclaimer in the caption reading, no humans were harmed in the making of this burger. I still think oomph is a weird name for your company. Oh, it is. Yeah, I don't like it.

It's umph.net, oh, m-P-H dot net. Umph is here to rock your taste buds with epic plant-based food. Simple as that. Let's see. Taste Bud Rock and Pent-Based food. Bite first, ass later. Umph fajitas, pulled umph tacos, ump kebab. Okay, so this is all alternative meat product stuff. This looks all right.

Some of this looks really good. I mean, they can take a good picture, right? The fajita meat, the tacos, yeah. I think you're right. This is just a, this is good photography is what this is. It is, yeah. Nowhere outside of Europe and, uh, one. little umph down in uh south africa a little umph will get you i'll get you every time

all right well uh they got they're making human meat and i would test it on the show if someone sent us some sure right i don't know how you get it here or how it needs to be kept or any of that but if you can oh god i know it has to be yeah if you can do it in a way that we're not poisoning ourselves plan based or not that thing probably still has to be refrigerated on its on its long journey from Europe to hear. Yeah, from Milan to Minsk. Get it here, man. Right. Yeah. The Book of Eli Tomi, Human Meat

is not that healthy. Yeah, that movie goes deep into that. People get the shakes. Is that true, though? If I eat some of Vibit, would I get the shakes? Is that the deal? You'd get the, at least the last shakes I had, which were from Freddy's. Oh, my lord. Yeah, I get it. I get what

you did. Final story. A snake lover. Shake, snakes. See, everything leads into it. These are great transitions. We went from shakes to snakes. The parcel tongue lover built robotic legs for a snake and it's kind of insane. You need to see this video. So

already, there's no way it's as good as what I'm imagining. Oh, it is. Look at this. It is as good as what you're imagining. So he's basically built 3D printed, mechanized effing legs for this damn snake. I'm going to skip past all his talking. I know. Exactly.

Jeez Louise, he talks a lot. That's a lot of talking. There we go. So basically, it's this tube. I mean, he's turning, he's really just turning a snake into a Komoto dragon is what he's doing. Kind of, yeah. Then he puts his big old bow in there who doesn't seem to want to go in at first. He's like, nope, I'm getting out.

He wants to get out. Yeah. Okay, there it is. I mean, all it is is, it's not like the snake's determining its trajectory. No, no, he's driving the snake. You might as well put a snake on a rumba. Yeah. It's not nearly as cool as you think, but it's fun YouTube fodder.

It's cool to watch. I mean, you know, once somebody attaches some electrodes to the snake or even just like makes it so that the head movements drive the legs. Yeah, wouldn't this be, it's at least possible. Yeah. But you'd have to really, it's got to be more than this freaking this thing. Yeah. This guy in his garage making this weirdness. Oh, look, he's got it on a leash and it is actually kind of moving.

Like a leash. Oh, weird. That's weird. It's so weird. I bet that lady wouldn't come after you if you're walking your weird robot pet snake and it poops in the grass. No, she would have had more words for me. Oh, my gosh. That's great.

All right. So those are your stories. That means it's time for us to take a break. When we come back, we'll spend a little time with Bill. A guy is making all kinds of stuff. I don't think he's making snake legs, but, you know. He'll make other things. Well, maybe he'll get some ideas.

Now's the time. Here's the place. Though that'll be after this song, Brian brought. Brian play it for me, please. What do you? Yeah, it's all High Hopes today on TMS, both songs, referencing High Hopes. This one actually in the title, Philadelphia-based singer-songwriter Tim. Tim.

Just Tim! As releasing his debut single, it is called High Hopes. It's produced by Will Hodge and co-written with Dave Howes, who also, believe appears on the song anyway uh it's uh it sums up uh his perspective on life through the lens of a philadelphian this whole thing is crumbling but let's enjoy it together while we can i can't tell if it's heaven or hell it's probably a little bit of both he says here is tim and the song high hopes all right we'll be back in just a second stay tuned Let's go walking in the pouring rain before it turns to acid.

Texas hold them in the highway lanes before they turn to traffic. I got a ticket for a one-way plane and watched Phoenix turn to ashes. Oh Turned ashes The crowd was singing High hopes Smiling through a broken nose Dancing on a tight row

A tight row I feel a little less alone Cut myself While shaving my face Just to try and find a new habit Losing ground Running in place Like a fat man chasing a rabbit

But an oil bubbling Up on my plate So I smashed it against the granite Oh I need a new habit The crowd was singing Hopes, smiling through a broken nose, dancing on a tight rope, a tie rope, I feel a little less alone. And I can't tell if this is heaven or it's hell, if it's heaven, let's buy, if it's hell let's sell.

If it's heaven, let's buy, if it's hell, then let's sell. The crowd was singing high hopes, smiling through a broken nose, dancing on a tight rope, a tight rope. The crowd was singing high hopes, smiling through a broken nose. Dancing on a tight road A tight road The crowd The crowd is singing

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name the german guy with a spear yeah yeah i can't remember i can't remember either but i think his real name oh there i think that's right tally He is a Fuliburg. Fuliburg. He is an amazing TikTok follow, that guy. Really? Okay. Because he's a javelin.

That was his name. He's just, he does like React videos and like, he's funny as crap. He's so funny. This is my Get Ready video? Shaffed and testicles. He was killing me. All right. Anyway, Brian, hey, remind me who that was.

That song. That song is called High Hopes and it's by Tim. And it's a brand new single. do a search for Tim, High Hopes, and maybe even Dave Howes, H-A-U-S-E, if you're really having a hard time finding it. Yeah. Well, you know, it's tricky. Life's tricky. Yeah. Comes out you fast.

Right. All right. If you don't stop to look around every once in a while, you might miss it. You might miss it, says Ferris Bueller. Is that before or after Matthew Broderick killed somebody? Wait a minute. Do you remember that? He killed, he ran over somebody or something.

Didn't that happen? Hold on. Uh, that I don't remember, but Broderick, but it's certainly possible. Murdered. Oh, God. Oh, 1987 car crash. Was that it?

I think that's it. Yeah, collided with a head on with a Volvo. The driver Anna Gallagher and her mother were both killed instantly. Yeah, but he made it. Oh, wow. He was vacationing with Jennifer Gray. Oh, his sister. Yeah.

Who he had begun dating in semi-secrecy during the filming of Ferris Bueller's Day off. Yeah. Oh, geez. Yeah, it's dark, right? dark business oh that is a dark business yes uh well speaking of dark business let's let's play this your bat caves open there bill hey bill's here he's here as he always is here on tuesdays to talk about the world of makers and making things uh from punish props dot com of course bill welcome back how are you bill bill i don't hear bill oh we lost him he's not yeah he's not in our

discord anymore oh he was there ever so briefly we'll try that again Hello, Bill, is this you? Hello? Hello, Bill. I see him. I don't hear him. No, I don't hear anything. Oh, now we hear you.

Do you hear us? Nope, I'm guessing he doesn't hear us. I'll tell him that we hear him. We definitely hear you. Do you hear me? We hear you. Ah, but you don't hear me. We don't hear you anymore if you.

Yeah, do you hear us? he may not be yeah i wonder if he's even talking he's a maker he's got to make things now he's got to make his computer work up a microphone real quick yeah my guess is here's my guess windows changed to sound sources because he reputed oh oh green i saw a green ring of speakage oh i see yeah there's green ring yeah i think i can hear us on a stream he's like checking to see if we can hear him or not yeah i'm guessing windows changed your input and outputs and stuff because it does it to me all the time on my Windows machine. Never does it on my Mac for whatever reason.

Not trying to start a fight here. I'm just telling you how it works. I never have to do it. But on the PC, for some reason, you reboot Windows 11. Could be an 11 thing. You reboot and it goes, oh, you didn't want it to be your monitor speakers?

You didn't want us to change it to that? Well, how weird. Weird! Who doesn't want to use their monitor speakers instead of their freaking headphones? I don't know. windows Bill de Harris

de Harris bill no bill yes bill shoot kind of bill okay so changing plans everybody we're getting Bobby in first because Bill's got issues with his sound stuff got a little bit of the old 3D printer all wound up in his microphone yes he drops some foam and some resin in there and sure

it happens he drummilled it unfortunately is the problem yeah and when you drummel things well Dremel means trouble. Science. Okay, now it's time for some science. It's Bobby Frankenberger, who, uptell just a few minutes ago, was slated possibly anyway, to be going on to his first flight lesson. Tell me about what happened.

How come that didn't happen? Because that was supposed to be... He's going there now. Oh, nope, he's coming back. He's getting light. He's putting a little light on the situation. So wait, Bobby, so you were supposed to go yesterday and start flying, and then today, because yesterday had bad weather,

how come I got canceled today? same thing it's it's not that the weather was bad today it's that the clouds have to be at a certain cloud level like the ceiling of the cloud ceiling has to be high enough for you to fly yeah so yeah weather is really unpredictable this time of year were they going to let you get behind like the the throttle and all that like actually fly fly or what what do you get to do yeah so so yeah I'm starting those flying lessons I actually went and did what's called a This was about a week ago. I went and did what's called a discovery flight. Yeah. And that's where you, it's where you go and they, it's basically they're just showing you what it's like to be in a plane. And you get with, you meet your flight instructor, your potential flight instructor.

They take you up in the plane that you would be training in. And then, and then let you, you know, they'll take off and land, but they let me fly around, like do a couple of maneuvers out. It was a really short flight, like 30 minutes. Called a discovery flight? It's called a Discovery Flight. Now, if I heard Discovery Flight, that sounds like an airplane that you aim at the HBO headquarters and then crash it in directly.

Oh, I was thinking it was going to be more a... Ripped from today's headlines. Oh, yeah. No, that'd even be better. But I'm ripping it from the headlines, folks. I'm taking the latest Discovery Plus HBO Max dirt and pulling it into the sky because Bobby's telling us a cool story and I decided to derail it. Anyway, Bobby, that's cool.

So the goal here is what? You're going to be flying, you know, big old planes at some point? Or what's your plan? What's the long term on this? No, I'm trying to get my private pilots license. I've always wanted to fly and I'm blind in one eye. So I used to think that I couldn't, but I was, I found out a couple years ago that you can. You can fly, even if you're blind in one eye.

You just have to jump through more hoops with the FAA. So I've been fighting with that for a year or so. And I'm finally to the point where it makes sense for me to start taking flying lessons now. And that's the goal. Do you have to, or do you have to inform any potential passengers that you're, you know, one eye McGee get up there and they just need to know that, getting in? You don't have to, but just like when I'm driving, I often love to, I love to tell people when I, I used to do that in high school when I, when I was, would like drive someone home from, oh, I need a ride home from school. I'd drive him about halfway.

I'd be like, I'd turn over and be like, oh. Have I ever told you that I'm blind in one eye? Oh, man, that's great. That's a great way to, you should do that with dates and stuff. That's amazing. Yeah, yeah. But no, you do not have to tell anybody. You don't have to disclose that as a pilot.

It doesn't really hamper your, especially, I was born blind in one eye. So I've lived my whole life that way, and it doesn't really affect me that much. Yeah, it's all you know. It's what you got. For all I know, it's better, because now you got, I don't know, you've got more. I'll bet you have more situational awareness than I do, because you have to, right? Oh, sure. Except for on the one side.

Oh, yeah. Does it increase your other senses by half? Yeah, I can, I can, I'm blind in my right eye so I can smell in here on the right side of my head. Whoa. My right nostril is fantastic. Yeah. Oh, yeah. That thing's huge.

Look how big that right nostril is. And all hairy in there. Anyway, well, it's great to, to hear. But also sad that your lessons got canceled. I'm sure things will clouds are clear It's expected It's uh

It's it really sucks more that it's supposed to be my first lesson Because I'm like really anxious and excited to do it you know Yeah Um But they get canceled you just have to be prepared for that because You know it's not that you can't fly When the cloud ceiling is low It's just that it's not great

When you're learning how to fly Right Because because you'd be You'd be in the clouds But if you already have your license license and you're trying to go somewhere, you just fly, you just go through the cloud, you go up and go above the cloud. Do you feel like a NASA mission that just keeps getting scrapped at the last second, you know,

because of whether, okay, well, good. That's a good transition into our science topic, although I don't know what the topic is today, but that's what Bobby does. He comes on Tuesdays and we talk about science because he is the host, one of the hosts of all around science, a fantastic podcast that is about, you guessed it, science. So today we're talking about what? uh we're talking about the thylacine you ever heard of the thylacine uh i saw the thigh i saw in high school oh not not the thigh i've seen that's not what you're saying no no oh um but uh the thylacine

it's an extinct marsupial looks kind of like a looks kind of like if a a wild dog and a wolf had a baby and then stuck it into a tiger it's just like this crazy looking animal but it's extinct it went extinct in Australia and in Tasmania

it's often called the Tasmanian tiger oh I have heard of that okay I didn't realize it went extinct because well I mean it was native to mainland Australia and then it slowly died off and it was it was it was only left

in Tasmania, but then, you know, you know, good old colonists came and colonized and they decided we want to grow, we want to grow livestock here and the thylacine was a problem because they would hunt and eat the livestock. So the government put a bounty on thylacine and in a couple of decades, they were extinct. Wow. Because people love money. Oh, yeah. I wonder how many times money has been the chief operator behind the extinction of a species or subspecies. I would say most of the time, at least in modern days.

You know, just follow the money. I don't like that. But the reason I'm talking about it, and I wanted to talk about it, is that last week or earlier this month, I don't remember if it was exactly last week. I think it was,

there's a company called Colossil that has announced that they're going to attempt to bring back the thylacine. They're going to de-extinct. it is what they want to do. Damn. So this is not the same as cloning like a sheep or whatever.

But are we in the same neighborhood? Cloning is one way that you can de-extinct something. That's not one of the ways that they, that's not the way that they're going to approach it, but you could clone some. That's one way you could do it. The problem with cloning is that if you're trying to bring

back an extinct species to clone it, you have to have a completely intact cell. with all the nuclear DNA to, to clone it. Right. And as you might imagine, when an animal's been extinct for, you know, it went completely extinct. The last one in captivity, the last thylacine in captivity died, I think, in 1936, so it's almost, it's been extinct for almost 100 years.

It's been a bit. Yeah, so we don't have any great samples of cells to use for cloning. but what they want to do it's kind of a neat thing this company colossal has been trying to de-extinct the woolly mammoth for a while Oh yeah, they did hear about this Tom was talking about something on Wednesday

but they haven't done that right There's no woolly mammoth I'm aware of They're aware of They've been working on it And they're going to use the same method that they've been using for that So I'm going to explain what they've been doing with the woolly mammoth to tell you this is how they're going to do it with the thylacine. So what they've done is, a woolly mammoth is obviously, maybe not obviously, but you can easily understand that it's closely related to the modern day elephant.

Sure. Right? At least, you know, genetically and evolutionarily, it's related to an elephant. It was about a million years ago or something is when they had the common ancestor. So what they can do, because we have unearthed samples of woolly mammoth, like underneath, you know, like deep layers of ice and everything. Preserved, yeah. Yeah, so not necessarily like entire organisms, but there's been tissue and decent samples of preserved tissue that they're able to get DNA from. Now, this DNA does degrade over time, so it's not perfectly intact.

It's not, we don't have a complete woolly mammoth genome. If we did, then we could just clone it like we were just talking about, right? Yeah, yeah. But we don't have a complete genome. Wait, so since we have the complete human genome, does that mean where someone's making human somewhere and not telling us? It's possible. We were not. Yeah.

I mean, other than the, other than the traditional, you know, get it on, get it out way, you know. Human cloning is certain. certainly a hotly debated ethical science topic. Most people agree that we shouldn't do it. Ethically, it is weird. Yeah. Yeah. But not for woolly mammoths, dammit, damn it's free reign.

Exactly. Screw those guys. We're going to eat them anyway, so may as well make more. Any woolly mammoths want to dispute this, you know, protests? Nothing? Nothing? Oh, okay. You're not here to complain.

Sure. So what we do, we have the incomplete woolly mammoth genome. And so what they can do is they can take what we have of the woolly mammoth. It's from a bunch of different samples, put together as complete a woolly mammoth genome as we can, and then look at elephants, which are their closest modern day relatives, and we can compare the genomes and look at where the differences exist. Because I mean you can, like, mix and match? Can you go like, oh, we're missing sequences 15 through 20?

Just fill it in a, okay. That's sort of, in a way, what that's, they are trying to do is, is you look at where, where things are different, like, oh, there's where the, you know, the woolly part of the genome is. And, uh, and that's, that's different than we're seeing on the elephant genome. So, so you can then take, once you've identified where all the differences are, um, and, and, uh, and you, you see what needs to change. then you take an elephant genome and you make the changes right okay so you what so basically you could end up with a really let's say you match it up pretty well you end up with a very hairy elephant right yeah right and what if the reason that the woolly mammoth died out was because they smelled so freaking bad that the entirety of the planet suffered like everybody suffered from the smell of they couldn't sneak up on any prey to eat it yeah because they smelled so bad they were they were they

that bad. I think they're probably vegetarians. Yeah, they probably were. Well, the plants just fall dead, stink lines constantly killing everything. Stink lines killing everything. I love that. But I mean, I guess I'm not trying to be like Jurassic Parky about this, but do you think, is it possible there's like a reason that these things pooped out that wasn't just man or, you know, we didn't just kill them all and get all their coats or whatever. Maybe there was another, maybe there was a natural.

they evolved the way they did because of a reason and how do we how do we learn that we don't know yeah right no we don't and a lot of people are arguing that i'm trying very hard not to say the the Jurassic park quote that everybody wants me to say yeah um but uh but should we actually do this um that's a very good question that sounded that sounded a lot like the quote yeah you teetered on the edge there bobby that's almost that's what i like to do um No, but you know, you never asked yourself if you could say the quote. You didn't, you needed to ask yourself if you should say the quote, right? Yeah, exactly.

That's exactly what's going on right now. Full meta here. So, so one of the arguments that this company makes for why we should do it is that they're focusing on what are called keystone species, which are species in an ecosystem, which have sort of a disproportionately large impact on an ecosystem. A good example of a keystone species would be like a beaver because there aren't maybe a lot of them in an ecosystem, but through their, you know, dam building and the way they engineer water systems, they have a very large impact on an ecosystem. So removing beavers from an ecosystem would have big, big consequences. And so that's what a keystone species is. The woolly mammoth, apparently, according to them, was a keystone species, and bringing them back, they think could actually, I don't know how, this is very speculative, I'm sure, but they think it could help combat global warming through, because they will, I guess, help spread vegetation, and because this is the part that sounds silly and I think is real speculation, but they're very big and heavy enough that it would, break up the surface like permafrost and um and help things grow again i guess really that's that's

an actual uh that's what they say but this is a company that's trying to sell this technology right they have motives um so who knows the but what they do know is that they've been working on this for a while with the willy mammoth and they want to do it with the thylacine now too and so um that that may be and it was a keystone species in tasmania and they think That, to me, seems like it could have a more positive – it's more likely that it could have a positive impact on the ecosystems of Tasmania because it's not been that long since it's been gone. And so Tasmania might still be undergoing the effects of the change in the ecosystem. Now, the argument against that is, well, whatever ecological niche that the thylacine filled is probably already filled by something else. So bringing something back could cause something else to go extinct.

and you just don't know and that's a risky proposition. So, okay, let me ask you this. We're so good at this now. We can do all this gene splicing and mixing and match and whatever we've got to do to bring back a woolly mammoth. Is it possible? We could make them hyper-intelligent

and mandatory. All of them have to have Ray Romano's voice. Is this possible? Can we do this? Well, that's what they're working on right now. But they're in negotiations with Ray Romano's agent. Okay. His people.

Yeah. He's not doing a ton. He's, you know, he still does stuff, but he's not, like, super busy. I think they can work it out. Yeah. There's no Irishman sequel coming out that we need him for. No, that's true. Oh, he was good in that.

I liked him. He was really good in that, yeah. Real quick here, what was I going to say? I was going to say a thing. Oh, it does seem like progress to say, instead of making money by eliminating animals, somebody's trying to make money by bringing them back. That's something.

It does, but it also, to me, feels like really, like you're getting really excited about something and maybe not thinking it all the way through. I don't want to say, I don't know how much they thought of it. You don't want to poo-poo it, do you? Do you want to poo-poo? I'm not in their, like, discussion board meetings, or whatever you want to call them.

So I don't know how much they have. they may very well have thought all this out. Yeah. But I don't know. It seems like very easily one of these things that in a hundred years we're going to be looking back. I mean, this is like you can't not talk about Jurassic Park because that's exactly what the argument was there, right? No, it's impossible to not to. The only difference here is a hapless lawyer won't be bitten off of a toilet by a woolly mammoth.

The thylacine is a carnivine is a carnivore. Yeah, and by the way, people at home, ask your doctor of thylacine is right for you. Thylacine available over the counter. I'm just spilling all my garbage in the lobby here. I appreciate you doing that. Excellent. So this is fascinating. I really actually am very interested in this just from a curiosity standpoint.

And I remember when the first sheep was cloned. What was the name of that thing? Dolly. Dolly. I remember going, that is some science fiction bullshit. We are way ahead on this. And then I feel like we haven't heard anything. Like, it feels like it's just kind of gone quiet.

I know it hasn't, but it feels like it's like not a big deal anymore. Kind of like the artificial heart. I remember being blown away by that. And now it's just like, me, big deal. One thing, one thing that is good, that is regardless of whether they succeed at this, and regardless of whether or not the scientific community decides that this is a good idea or not, one thing that is great about this is that research into this type of genetic modification and this genetic research, this ecological research, this will have

downstream effects for other areas of science it's helping us understand some people say like this could help with conservation of different animals because you could arguably through what we learn doing this you could arguably

take current modern species like modern elephants which are near extinct some of them are anyway maybe you could genetically modify them to have more genetic diversity, which could allow them to better survive global climate change. Pandas would be good because pandas are always like, even when they're together and you're

making it all perfect, they're just like, yeah, I don't want to have sex. I'm good. I don't want to propagate my species. Genetically engineer a libido into them. Or something. Because they just seem to like, well, when they're in captivity, they get really weird. Like they don't like captivity. But even out in the wild, they're having a hard time getting it on. So you end up with like, two or three pandas left or whatever the crap were with like i would like to see pandas live on pandas are great you know sure they're cute they're cuddly though imagine that you were put in a zoo you and kim were put in a zoo would you and everybody's watching you constantly would you really feel like what's different about now yeah i mean if twitch had if oh no everybody's watching oh

if twitches what are my uh visitor numbers what of my site but side views yeah if twitch wasn't so hardcore about their rules. Who's to say we wouldn't be doing it now? Well, anyway, this is fascinating stuff. Sorry, Carter, you had to hear that. That's it. Bobby, you've got another show that's fantastic. It's all around science.

What do you guys cover in this week and where can people get it? Well, all the research I'm doing about this is for the feature I'm doing this upcoming week. So we're recording later this week and I'm going to be going really deep into this whole thylacine thing and what the company's doing and all the science behind it. And we're going to talk a lot about the ethics of it, whether we should be doing it or not. Yeah. Once again, to not quite quote Jurassic Park, whether we should be doing it or not.

Yeah. That's right. Well, the nature of things discovers a way for these things to happen. Yeah, just reword it. Yeah, just use different words. I like it a lot. Just pull out the the thesaurus and see. Yeah.

Yeah. But we did just do an episode on also genetic stuff, which is DNA or, origami, which was really fun to talk about. Oh, that's cool. I like that. So that episode is already on the feed. You should listen to that. Mora talks all about, teaches me about something I'd never heard of before, which is folding DNA into different shapes to make things out of DNA. It's mind-blowing. That is wild. Yeah. That's cool. Mine's all been out of shape. Bobby Frankenberger, it's always good to talk to you. And he won't be here next Wednesday or Tuesday because there ain't no shows next week.

Scott's out of town. And Brian is for part of it as well. It's vacation. Way to end our segment on an up. It's on an up note, everybody. We'll see you later. By now. I mean, look, I can't not ever go away, people.

We have to have these times where we go away. We've got to take a vacation. We just have to. We have to. It's my anniversary. My wife wouldn't let me not do it. Right. I just wish I could have timed my thing better.

Darn it, Disney. Damn you, Disney, and you're bullshit. Okay. Let's see if, let's see if, let's roll the dice on Bill. Yeah, we'll roll the dice. Here we go. This is a D20. Hold on.

Why isn't it coming up? Oh, because he's punished props, not Bill. All right. So I'm adding him. We've already heard his theme. I'll see how this goes. Oh, it's a very exciting moment here. Bill, are you there?

I am here. Oh, totally can hear you now. Yes, sir, we can. All right. Everything all right? Y'all good now? The problem was solved with an incredibly cheap pair of earbuds. Ah, some kind of a headphoney deal.

Yes. My $350 Sony wireless headphones were not pulling their weight. I don't know what the deal was. Oh, weird. All right. Well, back to the basics. We obviously need to buy more expensive ones. I do.

That would fix it. That would solve everything. All right. Well, hey, it's the maker himself. We'd like to think of him as our maker, but really he's his own man. and does all kinds of rad stuff over at punish props.com. He's everybody's maker, and he's America's maker, really. And he's here today to talk about whatever the hell he's been making.

Hey, Bill, what do you making? We made it. We have a new video out. We made a really cool thing. I just wanted to point out, I'm speaking to you from the extreme West Coast. I am on a balcony overlooking the Pacific Ocean, and there is a bald eagle perched on a tree near me. Geez. Oh, wow.

What the frick. I guess, speaking of vacation. Can we get some patriotic music in the background? That's right. I just wanted to point that out before I told you what we made. Fancy. Because pretty awesome. Yeah, very nice. Well, I'm glad you could get a little time away. That sounds like fun.

Oh, it's great. Yeah. And yet here you are with us. This is fantastic. We feel blessed to have you here. Anyway, sorry, tell us about your new video. So we had a friend in the video, our friend Paige. She used to work for us. And since then, she's gone on to start her own thing doing leather craft, leather working hats and pouches and corsets all made out of leather. She has a YouTube channel. And she does tutorials and she gives out patterns and she has an Etsy store where she sells leather crafting products. So we figured we'd have her in the shop and we could both make the same exact project except she made hers out of leather and I made mine out of foam.

So she designed this pouch, and she showed how to make the pouch out of leather and I did it out of foam because the two materials actually compare pretty well. They actually work very similarly, yeah. That's interesting. Did you have like a battle royale or one of you won at the end? Like which is better at the end? I'm guessing the leather. Or have somebody or even have somebody look at them without touching them and trying to determine which one. It's like the, is it cake?

Is it leather? Is it foam? Actually, an Is it foam series sounds pretty awesome. Oh, nice. That's a great idea. Brian, you should get residuals if this takes off. There you go. Actually, what we should do is I should make a cake out of foam. And then when someone tries to cut into it, they'll be surprised that it's not cake.

Oh, it's not cake after all. Who would have known? That's awesome. Love that idea. So the video was really fun. obviously we're pals of page she used to work for us and we had a lot of fun filming it but I really enjoyed being able to compare the two

and contrast them the foam is actually since it's dramatically cheaper than leather people will use EVA foam to do a mock-up of their leather thing before committing to cutting up a hide of leather which can be quite expensive the other cool thing is that many of the same tools transfer over. So like

cutting tools or marking tools or punching, like punching holes in leather, all those tools can be used for both of them, which is quite handy. So if you've set up to make foam, you're like one step away from making stuff out of leather. 30% of the way to leather

Yeah, you're just one expensive credit card bill away from a big hunt of leather. So Paige showed how to do hers. Mostly it's cutting the leather out and then with leather you want to do all your coloring before it's all stitched up so she did um like leather dyeing and coloring ahead of time and then she stitched hers together uh whereas mine i cut it all apart but i did the assembly first and i did it with glue which was a lot faster

and then i did my painting afterwards um so with foam in that case it actually makes sense to do the color at the end in the case of the leather what is not i think about i don't even know how you color leather, is it the same process? You just using paints or using a leather treatment? You can doping it in a pigment or something? Sure, you can, so I've used, I actually used leather working paints on foam because they work really well. And those are just acrylic paints that dry and stay relatively flexible, which is important for, if you want to color a pair of boots, you need them to stay flexible. Yeah. But there are also specific dyes for dyeing leather. So what pagework

used on hers for this one where leather working dyes. Oh my gosh. I just watched you use. I just used those acrylic paints. I just watched you use a tiny anvil and I want one now. Look at that little guy. So that's pages as well and I also really want a tiny anvil. I think they're like

$12 at Harbor Freight. Like I can go get one right now. Really? Okay. Look at these two. I couldn't tell the there. I mean there's slightly different colors at the end. You know, different what's the word I'm looking for? Actually, as you hold them in the red back. Yeah, saturation, I guess.

But other than that, I had, I'd have a hard time telling the difference. They look, they look almost identical, which I guess is the point. Yeah, I'm really stoked with how, especially how mine turned out because I was trying to copy hers. And yeah, they turn out great. Yeah, that would look real good on a cosplay. You're like, I don't know, you're the Witcher and you got a big old bag of shit on the side of you or whatever, you know. It's useful. If you keep your phone in there, you can keep your, your Gwent deck in there.

Yeah, your weed. All sorts of stuff. your weed your hobbit yeah your hobbit uh what do they call it your leaf uh fun leaf or whatever what do they call out bottom leaf yeah happy fun time leaf something like that that's really cool uh up and available now uh on i assume both your channels you probably cross posted this right um punish props uh academy i'm looking at punish props dot com yeah always go for that sort of thing make sure you do and uh give me her is it redbird makes no what's her redbird makes is her channel. Yeah.

And I'm going to recommend a video of hers. Oh, very nice. Look at this little secondary video of hers. Tell us what you got there. Um, so she made this acorn bag. It's really like if you have a D&D character like a druid. How cool would it be to have this very naturey

looking acorn bag? I would love that so she has a full tutorial and pattern on how to make the whole thing. Wow. That's awesome. Out over at Redbird makes on YouTube. Nice. I thought of you yesterday. Let me tell you how. I watched the premiere episode of House of the Dragon, okay, the prequel to the Game of Thrones. By the way, very strong start, really enjoyed it.

It's awesome, okay? Who knows how they'll stick their landing, but. Right, yeah, sure. The initial episode. How they'll stick their king's landing? Yeah, it's very, very good. Anyway, really enjoyed it. But the reason I thought of you is I was like, all right, I'm going to just kind of check this show out for any things that pop out to me and go, ooh, cool prop to make.

Or, ooh, that'll be a nice replica or whatever. I thought, well, I know they made some changes to the throne, the actual iron throne. And so I thought, oh, I wonder what this would look like if something Bill could do. The iron throne is now the iron throne, but then surrounded for like four yards on each side, more swords sticking up out of everything. Multi-sword walkway. Yeah. So you're not going to be making that throne is what I'm saying.

I don't think you're going to do it. That's a lot of work, man, unless you want to make a little one. I'll preemptively decide not to do that. Yeah, it seems like too much work. So, anyway, we'll see what episode two brings. They look like failed 3D prints when somebody's trying to make the Iron Throne. Exactly. Well, Bill, have fun there at the Oceanside Paradise that you're at.

No, kidding. I will, yeah. We're jealous. My nephew, Simon, here, just showed up to say hi. Oh, well, there you go. Have fun. Be safe. And may all your foam look like leather.

Bye now. All right. There goes, there goes, Bill. Brian, there goes the show. That's the show. That's it. There it goes. Yeah. That's as weird as it feels because usually Bill means Bobby's coming up, but we already did Bobby. So it feels weird to me, but we're at the end. Okay? That's the deal. We're at the end. And that means here's the deal. We got two more episode, mainstream, mainline episodes this week.

And then we got a, we do have a couch party on Friday. No, wait, you're gone. No. No, I'm here. I'm here. Why do I keep moving you up? I keep moving you up. Do you have a calendar, Scott? I do, and it's right here. And I actually literally have it written when you're gone, but my head will not accept it. Anyway, so we're doing a couch party.

We got film sacks galore. In fact, we're not even missing film sacks because we've done a little pre-prep on those. So how TMS is going to go next week? I'm still working on a couple of things, but I'm hoping to have just a couple little ancillary things up on the feed that just show up. Like a little TMS video from your location?

It's stuff like that, you know, it's just so people know what's up. get a little content, whatever. I don't like leaving, as everyone knows, for extended periods of time, but this is happening, okay? It's my 30th year anniversary, guys. Brian has one of those this year as well, or already had one. I did, already did. You and I both already had them.

Well, no, mine's on, mine's August. So yours was June or July. Oh, it's August? It's August 20. Shit. Wow, I thought I thought you got married before me, too. So you're just born before me, but you got married after me. Yeah, well, that was the goal.

Same years. both things in the same years. When I was born, I did two things. I pooped. I screamed and cried and then I said, I will beat Brian to the punch on the birth, but he will be before me on the wedding, I'll say.

There you go. Perfect. Back in 1969. Anyway, that's the deal. So get used to it. All right. Frogpants.com slash TMS is our website. That will lead you directly to patreon.com slash TMS. That is the place to go.

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at gmail.com. All right, Brian, I need music. Can you play some? Well, Dan Anderson wrote in, Dan Anderson wrote in and he said, for my wife,

Laurel's birthday, it's an ongoing joke between the two of us and I missed last year. Could you play a cover of the Pinyacotta song, escape the Pinyacolada song? By the way,

he tweeted out a joke today. that it's funny that Escape the Pinia Colada song is both the name of the song and what you want to do when you start to hear the Pinia Colada song. Yep.

Don't do it on that. Where's that part of Vegas on the strip where you come right up next to his the restaurant that plays that on repeat? No, it's not that. Never mind. Oh, you're thinking Jimmy Buffett.

You're thinking of Margarita. Never mind. Yeah. Same problem, though. I can't stand. Another song. There can just go away. Yes.

yes sorry parrot heads i wonder what the what the venn diagram of tadpool and parrot heads are i bet it's very slim anyway any style is cool but she's also a fan of scott bradley's postmodern jukebox if in case they do a version cheers guys dan p s is it too early to get a fish sandwich nope never too early i have to just find it where is it i can definitely see why you like stop okay hey too are i get a fish sandwich or hey uh is it too early to get a sandwich. Oh, it's a good one. So good. Anyway.

Excellent. Excellent. All right. So, you know, it's a dumb song. Let's just face it. Pena Colada song is a dumb song. It's about, you're supposed to root for a guy who's planning on cheating on his wife through a newspaper ad.

By the way, kids, look up a newspaper ad, a classifieds and before Craigslist. And then while you're at it, look up Craigslist. This is, it's a dumb song. However, I think I might have found my favorite version of the song in a search this morning. I have a couple, Eaton Mirsky, which I've played his version on the show before, does a really cool bar blues version, great version of this song. But this one has kind of a electronic sound to it. It's got great female vocals, and she doesn't change the, doesn't change any of the lyrics,

keeps it as a she and her, and I like, I applaud her. You know, not trying to mainstream it to be cis or anything. Sorry, that was a misclick for me. I apologize. Anyway, Lauren Gold is the artist here. This is a cover of Escape, the Pena Colada song by Rupert Holmes, performed here by Lauren Gold. I was tired of my lady. I was tired of my lady.

We've been together too long. Like a one-out recording Of a favorite song So while she lay there sleeping I read the paper in bed And in the person was column there was the sweater I rise if you like

Pinyacolados getting caught in the rain if you're not into yoga if you have half a brain If you like making love and midnight In the tunes on the cave Then I'm the love that you look for Right to me and escape

I didn't think of it. Lady I know that sounds kind of mean But me and my old lady I've fallen into the same old dawn routine So I wrote to the paper Took out a personal life And though I'm nobody's poet

Oh I thought it wasn't half bad Yes, I like Pinia colottas I'm getting caught in the rain I'm not much into health food I am into

champagne I've got to me about tomorrow noon and cut through all this red tape At a bar called O'Malley's Where we'll plan our escape So I waited with high hopes And she walked in the place

I knew a smile in an instant I knew the curb of the face it was my own lovely lady and she said oh it's you let me laugh for a moment and I said I never knew I'm getting caught in the rain. I'm not much into health food.

I am into champagne. I've got a meal by tomorrow noon. and cut through all this red tape at a bar called Amali's, where we'll plan our escape. Thank you. This show is part of the Frog Pants Network. Frog Pants Network. Get more shows like this at frogpants.com.

How about a little smile? Yeah, how about a little smile?