The Morning Stream - TMS 2341: Listen to this hole

Episode Date: August 25, 2022

What kind of a Pig Deal? I'm going to install ejector seats after this. Typing like a Pirate Day. Milton goes to jail. The Real Test is Doing The Test. Can I tell you a story Chode Butt-Sniffer? Lyft directly to Jail, do not collect $200. Black Hole Scream. Large Hadron Includer. Pull up and grab a fish. Is gagging a passenger frowned upon? I don't like Meeeeead. Screw that guy and the Lyft he rode in on. Ladies in Space with Amy. Things you doodoo well with Wendi 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, what kind of a pig deal? I'm going to install ejector seats after this. Typing like a pirate day, yarr. Milton goes to jail. The real test is doing the test. Can I tell you a story chode butt sniffer? Left directly to jail. Do not collect $200. Black hole scream.

Large Hadron Includer. Pull up and grab a fish. Is gagging a passenger frowned upon? I don't like me. Screw that guy in the lift he rode in on. Ladies in Space with Amy. Things you do do well with Wendy and more on this episode of The Morning Stream. The time will begin counting down and you'll wake up to the aroma of freshly baked bread in the morning.

Now, I know it sounds silly to remind you, but if you don't push start, you'll be waking up to a cold breadpan of unmixed raw ingredients, which is a poor substitute for bread. Believe me, I've done it. I like putting... Mountain grown for richer flavor. This is the morning stream. Good morning, everybody. Welcome to TMS. It's the morning stream for August 25th. That's a Thursday, 2022. I'm Scott Johnson. That's Brian of it. Hi. Hi. Hello. It's our final Thursday until next Thursday, or Thursday after next. It is our, it is the last Thursday for the next Thursday for the next Thursdays.

For the next two Thursday. Well, okay. So next Thursday we're not here. Yeah. Oh, then you're not here the following Thursday. I'm gone the following Thursday. That's right. Oh, we may have, when I'm back, I'll get a guest. I don't know who. We will dig up somebody. We'll get a, I don't know, we bring in all that hairy Jesus look. guy, Bobby Frankenberger. Bobby's a great, a great, he cleans up after himself in the booth, unlike, unlike some people I could name. Uh-huh, but won't, but won't. Yeah, we don't want to drag their name through the mud here on the show. Anyway, it's good to see you all. It is Thursday, like you said, so we got all kinds of stuff lined up today, including a little bit of a

follow-up with Wendy later, because she had us take these tests. Yeah. I won't, for those listening at home who weren't here for the pre-show, I won't spoil any. anything but boy my test did not go well we'll talk about that later right yeah anyway so all of that plus amy plus other stuff so stick around i got to say something about uh gaming with other people real quick okay now as i've gotten older i think my taste for multiplayer based gaming has waned i prefer solo experiences uh especially when you're talking like i don't mind cooperative with friends that's fun but it's also hard to schedule you know coordinate schedules and get everybody on the same times and it's just hard to get even that done but I'm definitely not in the mood

hardly ever for like competitive PVP sort of you know college issue you know face stuff just not interested anymore but last night I decided to hop back in to guild wars too everybody's been screaming to me that it's amazing right now and it's it just had their 10 year anniversary so they got a big event going and it's uh on Steam as of this week and all these things. So I thought, well, yeah, I haven't checked in in a while. Let me hop. Let me hop in there.

So I started it. I made a necromancer because I like the dark arts, you know. I like that. I like bringing up the dead. Who doesn't? And plus it's got the word romance in it. And who doesn't want a little romance? Yeah, who doesn't want a little techno, or no, the techno romance?

What's wrong with me? Anyway, so I'm playing this game and I'm leveling my dude and I'm having a good time. And it's true. GW 2, Guild Wars 2 is pretty freaking great to this day and it's full of people there's people everywhere

and so they seem to be doing just fine but anyway I'm I'm at this town a little city and I see some dude standing next to a fire a blaze

a blaze you know there's a fire a normal not like something's on fire and that's bad I mean like you know like a fire that's meant to be happening and it would like a camp

fire there you go thank you so it's like a hearth you know type thing. Anyway. Planned fire. A planned fire, yes. Carefully coordinated fire. So I go over there and I'm just chilling around there. And this guy starts talking to me. And he says, hey, and then my name. Oh, and by the way, my name is, oh, I forgot. I forgot what I chose. It's great.

It's something like churred butt sniffer. Oh, I must know. I must tell people. No, it's better than that even. He's like, ah, shit. I can't remember it. Oh, necro. No, not necro. Anyway, whatever it is, I'll find it later. But anyway, so I got this guy, and he's there, and he says my name, and he says, hey, do you have a minute? And I type back, sure, not quite sure what's going on here. He says, I'd like it if I could tell you a story, he says. That voice?

He doesn't say it in that voice, but he writes it in that tone. So that's how I hear. Oh, right, because he's not, this is not audio check. No, just text chat. But I hear it kind of in that kind of, I'm about to hear a tale from a pirate. Tell you a tale. Yeah. So pull on up and grab a fish and let's talk or whatever.

So I go and I sit down, or I stand next to him. I said, sure, that sounds okay. He goes, let me tell you a tale. And he starts to tell me this story. And honestly, I can't remember everything about it except it was like something to do with a father and a son and a wooden boat and a, I don't know. There's a whole thing. But he went on for like, I don't know, 20 minutes of just typing relatively small or large but consistent. consumable paragraphs of a story for me to hear.

And that was this whole point of being there. And when we were done, he goes, that concludes me tale. Oh, there was like a, if you want to hear the final paragraph, click this link and give me your PayPal account or something like that. That's right. If you want to buy gold at an extremely discount price, that didn't happen. He just said, he just was there to tell me a, it was like a little troubadour guy with a story and he just pulls people randomly in the crowd and says, hey, would you?

like to hear a story. And he just tells you a story. That's kind of cool. That's cool. I mean, that's like he wanted nothing in return. He just wanted to tell you a story. That's awesome.

Yeah, there was nothing. I don't know what it is about that part of MMO gaming, I think, is a lost, a little bit of a lost art. And I don't even think you have to be on an RP server to enjoy it. It's like just being in the world, letting the world be a part of your, you know, kind of, I don't know,

getting sucked into it in a kind of an RP kind of way, but not fully RP. because he was still like, hey, thanks for hanging out with me. And then, you know, it sounded like a normal guy at the end. But he just wants to tell these little stories that he's constructed and made. And I thought for a minute, oh, this is some story he's taking from somewhere and pasting it in here. Right, right. So I went and searched for chunks of the paragraph.

I took copied chunks of the paragraph out and went to go find it. Yeah, to see, to find, see if he just copied and based in a. And I didn't find anything. He didn't seem to lift it. It seems to have been original stuff. You might have had it typed up. himself in a word doc or something but oh yeah totally i bet he does that like he'll alter you know whoever will sit with him he's ready to cut and paste and go or mate for all i know he told a story

from the gut right then i don't know could be but it was fantastic how long was it how long was it between paragraphs was it did it seem faster than somebody could type them up or or oh that's a great question i guess now that i think back uh you know it could have gone either way that was enough time for him to type quick or paste it might if i had to guess probably pay if I had to guess. Yeah, yeah. Because it wasn't, there were no goofs, and if you're going to do that live, you're going to have goofs.

Right. Like, I think that's, that's the deal. But he was this cool-looking guy and even had, like, his, his outfit was very pirity. And he looked like a salty old, you know, sea dog with stories. And I don't know, I just kind of miss that stuff a little bit from games. But anyway, these days, it's just too much like, what's your DPS? LFG, we're doing it. You know, it's all just like code talk and MMO talk and speak and everything.

And instead, once in a while, it's just nice to run into a guy who's just like, I'm a simple pirate telling stories by this here fire. You know, it was great. Anyway, Guild Wars 2 is still a great game. Yeah, and I installed this. I know this isn't a video game show, but I installed a bunch of shaders. The game supports mods. So I saw you tweeting about that.

Like there's some new mods and stuff you can install that make things. I wish Wawa did this. They don't let you do this in Warcrafts against the terms. But if you, in this game, you can make basically graphical shader mods that make everything look like it just came out. Like it's a 10-year-old game and shows a little. You know, it's not ugly or anything, but it's not, you know, the most cutting edge or whatever. You add all these shaders like, oh, my gosh, just like a brand-new freaking game. Looks like new textures, new lighting, new, you know, HDR, all this stuff.

It's pretty crazy. There are some games that I look and I say, yeah, there's very little likelihood that I will ever. play that just because of the time and scope involved in getting started playing that. Oh, yeah, it's a huge. Yeah, it's a giant, huge MMO thing. It's big, you know. Yeah, I love that for you, Scott. I love that for you, Scott.

Yeah, you love that for you. I guess I got this weird itch. I was like, I've played an MMO in a while. I'm out of wow now. I don't really feel like going back there. And what am I in the mood for her? And nothing was really clicking. And then I thought, oh, Guild Wars 2.

Yeah, right. I did like that when it came out and played a bunch. and on and off I check in in there and it's free, so it's not like you've got to do anything. Right, pay subscription cost or anything like that. Yeah, no subscription, so it's easy in and out. And it's rad. It's a great game. I'm happy

that's doing so well. Final Fantasy 14's cool. Don't give me wrong, chat. It's just not for me. I keep trying and then I fail, and then I try, and then I fail. It's just something about it. It doesn't hold me. I don't think I want games where I have to sit and chat with a bunch of NPCs.

No. When Tom was describing the chat thing or the voice thing is like, yeah, I would seriously be the guy who's like as soon as, oh, let me skip. Let me redale you with skip. Okay, maybe you would like to bring skip. Skip. Yeah, is there

anything. It sure is nice in our village, skip. Yeah, they'd say, you'd say skip every time you could, and I would too. Right, exactly. Some of that story we don't have time for. All right, we're not in our 20s anymore. We have limited time in our lives, okay? That's the deal. Exactly. I have enough time to to pick an Arnhem Zola card and hope that he moves my Captain Marvel into the other two locations on my game, on my side of the board.

Yeah, that sounds like a snap. Get it? That's a marble snap thing. Ah, it's a real snap. I see, it's a real snap. Yeah, yeah, that's what I did there. All right, check this out. Be courteous and obey traffic regulation.

Brian did some lifting yesterday, and I know for a fact he's got an interesting story, but Brian, tell us what happened yesterday. Yeah, it was a fun day yesterday. I did a lot. I probably did eight hours of driving yesterday because I was trying to hit a goal milestone. I knew it wasn't going to be able to get any time to drive today. We've got Jenny coming into town. We're going to go take her out to dinner. So I wanted to make sure yesterday was my big, my big driving day. So I, you know, had my first repeat pick up, like basically where I pick somebody up, took them somewhere. I drove for another two hours leaving the city and going to other parts of it and came back to the original city, pick them up and took them somewhere else just randomly. It was like, as soon as she walked around the car with this, burke on her face. I'm like, oh, hi, Dana. I guess I'm taking you back to your hotel.

That's amazing. Wait, so that's, when you said return, I thought just some random person from months ago or something, but no, it was the same day. No, it was the same day. Bookended on the same day. Yeah. All right. That's how you get murdered since. That's right. I did at my first, earlier this week, had my first ride where I picked up somebody I knew. It was one of Tristan's girlfriend's friends who used to live with them, doesn't live with them anymore, and I picked her up. She wasn't the name on the little screen that comes up, so I didn't recognize her until she got in the car. I'm like, oh, well, hi. How are you? Yeah, that must have been, I don't know, kind of cool, but weird, a little weird. It was a little weird, yeah, especially like, you know,

be chauffeering them around. It's like, okay, well, let me allow me to take you to your job. kind of the piece de resistance yesterday was me getting a text message or getting the lift thing from someone named Sarah. And almost immediately I get in the little notes thing. There's like a thing where people will put notes like, oh, come around to the back of the building or I'll be standing in the front on the right side instead of where the push pin is. And they'll put those notes in. I have a little button that says, Mark is red or I can reply with an okay or sounds good just by tapping one button. Yeah, that makes sense.

So, but I get the message from Sarah that I'm buying this ride for my client, his name is Ron, he'll be standing out front, and here's his direct cell phone number if you need to get a hold of him. Is that an unusual thing, or is that a, do people do rides for others? People, people buy rides for others all the time. And it's, um, Claire says, sex worker, I will, that is sometimes a little, a little hint. That, that, yes, exactly. Let me get you back downtown.

An associate of mine, someone who I'm a working relationship with is haking a rhyme for me today. So sometimes that is what I'll immediately jump to. I pull up to the location and making his way across the street is a little short dude with a big smile on his face. And he's clutching. He is like holding to his chest. a red trapper keeper with all of these papers coming out of the side like a poorly constructed subway sandwich. So it's not some eighth grade kid or anything with a trapper keeper. This is not.

This is a, I came to learn a 61-year-old man carrying this trapper keeper full of papers. Oh, no. Organized papers. All right. So he gets in. I say, are you wrong? He's like, yeah, I am. I'm like, oh, come on.

talk to me my phone or my watch. Stop it. Put interrupting me. Yeah, what the frick, man. So I say, run. He's like, yep, yep. I think he sits it in, and I look and see it, it looks like I'm taking him to the Adams County Justice Center, which is about a 25-minute ride. It's like a courthouse thing or something?

It's a courthouse thing, yeah. Jail, courthouse. It's way east of Denver, northeast of Denver, kind of far. Armland. J.L. It used to be short for Justice League. I like that. No, I'm saying jail.

Oh, jail. Jail. I think they have courts and jail there. Courts and jail. Yeah. You got your court and then you go right to jail. You go right to jail. Exactly.

Do not pass. There is no go at the, you just go right from court to jail. Do you not collect 200 bucks? No, no. So he gets in. And for the next 22 minutes, he is nonstop talking. And it starts with, you're taking me up to the Adamish County Jail. You know, justice system is just completely screwed up.

My girlfriend, she was drunk and she called the police on me and didn't, like, you know, they didn't hear my side of the story. They just put me in jail for six hours before I even knew what I was being charged with. And I didn't hit her. I didn't lay a finger on her. And yet now I'm getting this like domestic abuse. So this is my lawyer. You're just picking me up from my lawyer.

Then you're taking me to just a sinner. And I'm going to try and get this thing straightened out. and, you know, I appreciate your driving, and, yeah, my girlfriend, and then it kind of repeats, right? And it loops back to my girlfriend and this domestic abuse thing and, and all this. Yeah. And, and I can just feel my right foot pressing harder and harder on the gas pedal to, like, end this ride as quickly as possible. I'm on the highway at this point. And I'm, you know, it's a 65 mile an hour speed limit.

I think I'm like, I'm pushing 75, maybe going into 80 territory, just like, oh, can I get this ride over with faster? So is his traffic keeper full of information about his innocence and all that, do you think? I am assuming that these are papers that either his lawyer gave him or papers that he took up there to prove that he's working or that he, or no, he's, we'll get to that. But papers that, you know, prove who he is and that sort of thing. And the documentation that he probably got from. the Justice Center and

yeah so uh it's like all right uh well let's see if I can I would hate this I'm gonna hear this story multiple times if I don't if I don't uh

you know kind of move things along and say oh yeah well sounds like the justice system up there is in real trouble yeah just a system justice system everywhere is effed it's you know it's all because of

Joe Biden and Joe Biden's not doing anything about it and he's you know people say all these horrible things about Donald Trump but I think Donald Trump was one of the smartest presidents that we've ever had in this country. It's like my puddle going further down. I'm ready for the flux capacitor to start, you know, go, you know, go, phew, chichich, yeah, yeah, yeah.

So did he, so where, and his, hmm. So I don't know how I'd handle this. I feel like you did a really good job as a driver, though, to just sort of listen. All I could do, you know, I, I don't want to instigate and start a debate with a person in my car, especially the person who is seated directly behind me and kind of has an advantage of any sort of, I don't know, physical harm if I push them too far or something, right? I'm sure he was harmless, but yeah, I just don't want to, I just don't want to instigate. And he's going on about Obama and then he starts getting to. And of course, you know, the 9-11, those buildings weren't supposed to topple like that because they were, they're made out of steel.

So obviously, I mean, that just tells me right there. It was an inside job. And a lot of people tell me that it's, you know, confirmed that it's an inside job that, you know, basically the government knew exactly where to hit those buildings to knock them down. Who confirmed to him that it was an inside job? Oh, I'm sure it was the leprechauns that he lives with or perhaps the, uh, freaking inside job, 911. leaveners man that's some old school I'm like oh my god how do I how do I like

elbow the record player to get it off of this song and onto the next one so I say oh well so what do you do for a living love it I'm currently not working I but you know used to be a construction worker and then I got three hernias and some back problems so I'm just kind of waiting for all that

to heal up before I go back to work okay well Sounds like you got a lot of time on your hands. They're a trapper, keeper, junior, with your conspiracies. I could not get to the Justice Senate fast enough, man. It was like, you know, I'm trying to decide which ride caused me more distress. The one where I had to blast an airport toilet or where I had to sit through this guy's, his own version of diarrhea. I'll bet you'd take the toilet.

I'll bet you'd take the toilet over there. I think I would. I think I totally would. I mean, no offense to that guy, and we hope he gets the help he needs. But, gee. And before a bunch of you send me emails in saying, oh, only go after the conspiracy theorist who happens to be a Trump fan. We're not doing that. No, no.

It just happened to be, you know, he happened to have the perfect storm. Yeah. So people are like, I hope he gave him one star and I hope he left a good tip. No, because, and I couldn't, I didn't feel like it was, it was fair for me to give one star because it wouldn't have been him. I was giving one star to it would have been the the the lawyer who I assume said 50 bucks to pay for a lift ride that I don't have to take him up to the genesis just a center so yeah so deal absolute deal okay for a few Europeans in the chat I want to clear something up trapper keeper all right oh yes okay trapper gets it was a explain what trapper yeah so just just you

understand why it's an iconic brand in the history of our our lives it's this loose leaf binder thing, created by Mead. Mead is the original company. It says here on the Wikipedia page that had the Trapper Keeper has its own Wikipedia page, popular with students of the United States and parts of Latina America from the 70s through the 90s. It was featured. Really like, why is it popular with the Latin population?

I don't know. I don't know if they just did a bunch of marketing here or what, I don't know what happened there. But anyway, I had this wrap around flap, Velcro enclosure thing. yeah um that it used to be multiple like peaches inside of it that you could put papers in and a and a notebook three three ring bound notebook that you could write and all that stuff it was kind of it was it was it was school in your in your bag is what it was exactly exactly yeah like everyone had these it was part of your growing up and you drew at least i did i drew all over mine everybody

did you just drew on your traffic keeper you put your favorite heavy middle band logos you draw those all over it oh yeah van halel be a big old fat van halen back yeah so that so there you go it was a big deal for us you i'm sure you guys have your own you know weird shit you did over there and you got your poppins and your whatnot i don't know what that is but you got something there your gubbins yeah you got your gubbins and your um your tip tops and you took them to school but that's what we had all right we had that yeah so uh as a 61 year old you put all of your legal documents in there that's right well i hope his day in court went well, I'm guessing it didn't.

Oh, I hope so too. Yeah, probably did not, though, if I had to guess. I'm guessing it went bad. I'm guessing he was probably held in contempt if he didn't shut up. Indeed. Indeed. Real quick, a little PSA, we're doing the play date tomorrow. That's right.

The TMS play date will happen. Our normal time at three or two? Yeah, normal time. Three to whatever. Three to five or whatever we do, two hours. So, yeah, that's tomorrow. the TMS play date. We're not doing couch party.

We forgot. It's a play day. It'll be a couch party where we play games on the couch. Yeah. Kind of. Yeah, that's exactly right. So if you were looking forward to hanging out and playing among us or whatever it is we choose, that's the day for that. Tomorrow, 3 p.m. right here at Twitch.com.

Okay. Okay. And we don't know we're playing yet, so don't, you know, don't immediately think it's one thing or another thing. We'll figure it out. Stephanie, we're playing. playing mobile games. That's the plan. Mobile games. It's all mobile games. You ready for that? Because boy, howdy.

All right. We're going to bring in the fraggle of the red variety and see where that takes us here. Hold on. Where the hell's this? That's right. That music signifies the beginning of a segment each week we call Read This with Amy. Hi, Amy. Welcome back. Hi. How are you guys doing this? Doing good. How are you?

We're groovy. Yeah. oh my Brian your story just triggered me and I'm sorry but full offense to that guy because he clearly like oh I didn't hit her

okay so what you like choke her did you throw shit at her like you did something he did something exactly we know he did something to that yeah screw that guy may his day in court be hell all right that guy in the lift he rode in a

oh wait wait wait no oh no yeah that isn't and that isn't we don't want that that's not good at all i wish you would have said i did not hit her i did not oh hi mark oh hi mark that would have been amazing uh amy welcome back how was your week everything going good that out of the way yeah it's it's it's been kind of a weird and hectic week i'm going to say so you know my kids are of starting to become of driving age and uh so we just happened to have have a friend who was getting ready to trade in a car and they were like, yeah, they're probably only give us like a thousand bucks for it. But it runs and da-da. And we were like, we'll buy it

from you. Because we need an extra car. And so we're spending the weekend, you know, doing the time honored tradition of helping dad fix the car. Fun. That's a fun time. It's a, it's every young person's prerogative to watch dad change oily things, you know? Right. And, yep. And Like, Chuck posted it on Facebook. It was really funny. Come on, kids, you'll hold a flashlight that'll sometimes work and sometimes not. And you'll learn things. You'll be traumatized.

It'll be great. It will be great. Yeah, you'll get stuff under your fingernails that'll take two weeks to remove. It'll be great. That's right. That's right. Well, that sounds like fun. Yeah.

I sent you a couple of things, one of which has nothing to do with the book. But I had to send it to you because I was, so I was listening to Play Retro the other day. And Dunaway kept bringing up the Piggly Wiggly. And then yesterday on TMS, he brought up Piggly Wiggly again, probably because, you know, the topic was peanut butter or whatever. Oh, no, he actually has stock. I'm sure. He's an executive there. So that just reminded me, you know, back in my days of doing voiceover, I actually did a series of commercials for Piggly Wigley.

Did you really? What? I did. And they wanted the most ridiculous. voice. So if you want to play the link that I, the YouTube link that I sent you, Scott, hell yeah. That you can, you can, you can hear my ridiculous voice that they paid for. This is happening right now, everybody. Listen to this. Here you go. I can't wait. This is awesome. Hold on a second.

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I'm going to keep that. The only pun they could come up with was pig. Oink or hog, you'll go hog wild or. That's great. Wow. And I fully embraced it, too, because, like, when I emailed my agent to tell him, I booked it, and I put the subject header was, I don't know how to put this. And then in the body of the email, I said, but I'm kind of a pig deal. I'm a pig deal over there.

You are a pig deal. Yeah. Oh, God. And it was so hilarious because, I mean, you hear how ridiculous that voice is that I'm doing. It's like, but that's what they wanted. They wanted that carved out of cream. cheese sounding voice yeah you can hear you can hear the smile in your voice but the the like you know father knows best uh bar exactly it was like a like a donna reed era kind of thing that's what i was

trying to think yeah they definitely got what they paid for it check this out i've made a i made a little uh edit here so listen to this right here what kind of a deal it's a pig deal oh okay it's a pig deal Excellent. Nicely done. Well done. Oh my gosh. That's great. Well,

congratulations and I hope you got paid in nothing but food or, you know, food stamps to go to the pigly wiggly. I hope that happened. Oh, nice. Yeah. Well, that was, like I say, that was like 10 years ago,

but it just reminded me of it and I was like, oh, this will be funny. They'll like, they'll enjoy this. That's pretty great. You better huff it on down to the pigly wiggly. There you go.

See, there was. So many things they could have come up with. Yeah. Just pig over. it's just a pig disappointment is what that was yeah it's a pig disappointment that's a good name for a book or something the pig disappointment yeah you know what hang on to that it's a good one it's not bad all right i don't know what we'll use it for but all yours

you'll get royalties as a title like so you know chat put that as a title yeah put it as a title and then later i'll publish a children's book with that name and give brian credit in the in the thing and he'll get he'll get royalties first on the on the on the charts that's right and every time it sells one, you'll get four pennies. It'll be great. Anyway, so let's talk about reading and reading and books. You sent me a clip. Do you want to set this up? I did. Sure. Yeah. So after we had such fun last week being on Mars with Mark Watney, I thought, okay, well, why don't, why don't we just go back to Mars or at least, you know, be on our way back to Mars? So with that, you can go ahead and play the clip. Here we go.

Daniel says he'll pull out his own eye teeth of their Martians. That's graphic. Speaking of, how is he? Good. I pulled the door open. He's been making noises about, um, rocket launches? Laughing, Nicole slid into the Baker Street midtown airlock. Honestly, you two are like newlyweds. I'm never home. You should get him up here again to visit.

She winked at me. I mean, now that private quarters are an option. Yeah, you and the senators should probably put a little more thought into how well, the air ducts carries sound. I started pulling the hat shut. Hold the door. In Baker Street, Eugene Lindholm bounded toward us with loping strides.

If you've never seen someone move in low gravity, it's sort of like mixing the grace of a toddler skipping with the ground eating stride of a cheetah. Oh my. That's some science fiction there, sounds like to me.

Yes. So early on, when we started doing this segment, I recommended a book called The Calculating Stars by Mary Robinette Kowal. So this is the next in that series. It's called The Fated Sky, also by Mary Robinette Kual. And it is read and narrated by her as well. Oh, she's got a grilled knack for the reading.

That was great. Yeah. Well, she's great. I mean, she's a former puppeteer, so she knows how to do voice work and all that stuff. So, yeah, she reads her own. She, unlike some authors, she is good at reading her own stuff. sure uh so but yeah it's it's great and there's there's a lot of that uh that innuendo in there and it's kind of fun you know because it takes place in the 60s so that's why there's some

expressions like i teeth and things like that but yeah it takes place in the 60s and if you if you haven't read the calculating stars i definitely recommend that you do that uh but essentially the the universe that this takes place in is what if a giant asteroid hit Earth and there were basically an extinction level event right at the point where we were just getting our space program started. So the first book is all about, you know, literally getting that up and running, trying to establish a moon base, all that kind of stuff. So at the beginning of this book, what's the Apple TV show? For All Mankind. Yeah, it's giving me those vibes. Like alternate history.

Yeah, like the alternate NASA future kind of thing. I love that stuff. So good. Anyway. Yeah. It's really good. And she does a really great job of, you know, incorporating all the nuance into it. It, you know, it addresses, obviously it's written from the woman's perspective. And she is the lady astronaut. And in this book, they're mounting a mission to Mars. So, you know, most of the book takes place on the ship to Mars. Because, you know, it takes a really long time to get to Mars. so yeah it's it's quite good it's got it's got some elements of a of a who done it's got a lot of a lot of really good social commentary in there um you know and it's it's it's just a great read and i really i really recommend it um so yeah and also i'm also bringing this up because in a couple months she's going to have a new book come out third in the series part of the same series yeah Yes. So, yeah, you should totally, totally check this out because I, you know, I devour everything that she writes.

She's been out for a while because I guess this one came out 2018. So she's, this is her next big release. That's awesome. Yep. Yep. Real quick here, I noticed that, so I have Kindle Unlimited. It's cheap. It's like four bucks a month or something. And it means I get, there's a huge selection of books that you can just get for free and rotate them in and out on Kindle Unlimited. And this is on there. So I'm absolutely going to download this for next week. Yeah, it seems good. Totally do that. I mean, I think you could probably read this book without reading the calculating stars first. But I kind of recommend starting at the beginning and going through because it, you know, the story carries through. But yeah, it's a great read and it's lots of fun.

And yeah, and there's, like I say, there's lots of there's lots of married couple innuendo in there. And that character, Nicole shows up. She's actually the protagonist of the third book, which is called The Relentless Moon. And that's more of a kind of a mystery, whodunit, kind of a situation. So it's really fun. And yeah, I really enjoy reading her stuff and just existing in her world. It's really fun. Well, it seems like she's well received, too.

I'm just reading some reviews. People really like this book or this whole series. People are super into it like this one. says, let's see. Nope, that's too long. I'm not reading that. Anyway, people really like it. People are into it. You want me to read this? It's long. You can. Anyway, so there you go. It's the faded sky, a lady astronaut novel by Mary Robinette Kowal, available now, wherever you get your books, audio or otherwise. So go check that out. Amy, real quick, the big meet up in Asheville. What's the latest, the greatest? Yes. So, okay, so I have a couple things on. that we have had some people back out so we do have available spaces so if you're on the fence

if you want to come please please please do it's it's 160 bucks per person we're staying in a big mansion we're to have like saturday we've actually released the schedule and everything now so saturday we're doing a big breakfast by you know myself and september and chuck and then we're going to have like board gaming and all kinds of cool stuff and then that night we're going to an arcade. We're also going to do a sort of a mini TMS live with Scott. Yep. That has been arranged. I'm going to. Oh, very cool. Yeah, which is why I was bugging you yesterday, Brian, about when you were home and when you weren't, because I couldn't remember. Yeah, so that's going to be the 10th. The, uh... Yeah, the 10th. So there may still be a chance that Brian will be

in the day somewhere where he can do a pop in and we'll make that happen. Yeah. Oh, for sure. If I really like that. I would love to do that. Yeah. I would love to see that as well. And we have sort of loose, you know, I really want to try and be there, but I've got work stuff this weekend, but if I can break away for a little bit, I'm going to try to be there from both Dan and Brian Dunaway. Yeah. But so on the, on the less pleasant side of things, we had a lot of people who committed to coming and hasn't paid us.

Oh. And so I just, I just want to put it out there. like Chuck and this is not a thing where it's like you're just going to you know the hotel or no like we rented a place and we put up the money up front for it yeah so like Chuck and September and I are the ones that are going to get screwed if you don't oh my god I'm looking at photos of this place oh I wish I could go I know it looks like some last conservatory thing and yeah it's an amazing looking place you know everybody you know you want to come come on you know big screen for gaming with that wrap around couch oh like hold oh my god that room is so 70s with the furniture and stuff in the yeah yeah and the grass wall oh that's pretty awesome so get get with amy if you were one of those people when i can't go thanks all sorry you know if we if we do it again we will definitely see if we can check with me yeah check in with brian's schedule please um yeah i'm looking forward to it and i really i really i really

I really hope Dunaway goes. He says he told me yesterday he's fully on, he's full on planning on going. But I hope I hope that ends up coming to fruition because Dunaway needs to be, I want him to be the chief frog panter there that he can get all the cheese and the and the hugs. Yeah, absolutely. Yes, I would like that too. I mean, we tried to get Bobby, but Bobby says he's got too much going on. Oh, Bobby, you and your pilot's license and your science. Put that stuff on hold.

Jeez. We told him, like, bring the whole fam. Come on. like we got space so i know what he's worried about he's worried they won't have hair dryers because i can tell that's a that's a concern that bobby has in any situation yeah i tell you what if that were the concern but i promise i you know i'm a lady i have a good hair dryer i'll bring my hair dryer i'll bring all my hair products all right you got it jesus better show up or forget it this is this is not a non-negotiable uh well anyway 65 inch tv with disney plus hbo max hulu

Netflix, Roku, and standard cable. Come on. Yeah. I mean, it's, it's definitely a swanky, swanky place. And, you know, 160 bucks a person. Come on. That's pretty, pretty cheap. Let me ask you this. If people are out there hearing this and go, okay, sounds good, but who do I talk to? Where do you want them to go? How do they get in touch? What's the thing? So, yeah, so you can email me at Amy Robinson, V-O at gmail. At gmail.com. You can also, I have another email. It's Redfragel 3 at gmail.com, but that's kind of my spammy email that where I send like you know three sign up for stuff yeah yeah I sign up for stuff exactly so I might not see it as well um you can also email um chuck at bared robinson.com that's b a i rd robinson.com or you know you can hit us up on discord

uh send me a message on Twitter you know whatever um you know just ping me and get a hold of me Facebook I'm there you know just however you need to get a hold of me also you can contact september oh there's also our discord i forgot genie points out the discord got a whole group there is yeah there is a whole group and see photos and everything right away yeah yeah if you haven't joined the discord you can do so for free without any issues or approval or anything just go over to frogpants dot com slash discord and you're in so good yeah and under the meetups section like we have we have a bunch of posts about it under other meetups but there's also now there is a temporary channel for just the ashville meetup so and there's there's

The whole schedule is posted there. The pictures to the place are posted there. Everything is all the information you need is there. Yeah, and Chuck's contact information and where you can send where you can send your payment. All that stuff is all in that Discord post. Nice. Nice. Do it, everybody.

I want to see a ton of you there. And I can't wait to pipe in and be a little bit of a part of it that day. It'll be super fun. Yeah, I'm really excited that we're doing that. That was really cool. Yeah, yeah. Super, super. And we're going to have swag to give away.

I've sent a big box of swag to September, and she's going to take a couple things out of it for herself for A&P, and then the rest is all for you guys. Yeah, I got some stuff coming as well, a whole other box. So watch for that. You'll all be swimming in swag by the time this thing starts. Excellent. All right.

Amy, it's always good to talk to you. Red Fraggle everywhere, if you're looking for her, just wherever you're at. You'll find her under Red Fraggle 3, because there's always two more. Someone else has got the one and the two, those bastards. I always say that they're in the one and two are in the museum at the Center for Preparatory Arts.

Oh, well, then that's your way out of the argument. Nicely done. It's Amy Robinson, everybody. We'll see you next. Well, not next time, but the time after that. We'll see a few minutes too. Oh, in a few minutes. Yeah, I'm going to add her back.

So Amy just hung up on her, but we're going to bring you back in Wendy's here because you took the test. and it's a long story but we're going to do that um all right let's uh what time is it uh i got time for a news story so let's do it good morning good morning everybody in the news this morning good morning

this news story brought to you in part by right to you by coverville today 1 p.m mountain time at twitch dot tv slash coverville uh listen every five years i get to do a clash episode all music from one of the greatest bands in the world the clash of course should I stay should I go train in vain guns of Brixton White Riot

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He is All right check this out I just had to do the story because it's so weird NASA released some sound You always think there's no sound in space I got some bad news for you A black hole makes all kinds of

no one could hear me scream that's true no one will ever hear you scream but they will hear a black hole scream all right and that's exciting anyway if you guys would like to hear it along with us I'm about to play it here is the sound of a black hole I don't know why we didn't

do this with Bobby but anyway here it is check it out I mean that you know that sounds like that sounds like in Mass Effect you've got to fight these things called Revers. Uh-huh. This sounds like Revers are coming, for real. Yeah. This sounds like why I don't play Resident Evil.

It is kind of got like a... Like a creepy don't go down in that hall. The sound the house makes in Resident Evil. Yeah, you're not wrong. Isn't that weird? Anyway, this is providing new way for sound of travel. The Galaxy Cluster, so much gas that we picked up actual sound here as an amplified. Mix with some other data to hear a black hole.

I don't know what that means other data. But anyway, wild stuff, man. Yeah, that is, that is some creepy audio. Yeah, that makes me wonder, what's coming our direction? Oh, no. Should have asked your trapper keeper guy about that. Right, exactly. What's the deal with aliens you'd say to them?

It's what I assume sound effects are in the movie Event Horizon, which still not streaming, or is it? Let me check, let me check. Because we're waiting to do. I thought we streamed it, didn't we? Did we do it for a film sector? didn't we already do that movie hold on i thought we did oh not event horizon we did do uh wait was it event horizon a leviathan you're thinking of you thinking a leviathan no or daylight maybe i'm thinking a daylight oh what's the one with the spaceship and it's got the sun and stuff that sounds like

event horizon no uh let's see yeah hey daylight's the stalone deal yeah event horizon episode 180 in 2013 yeah so it's not event horizon it's another one i don't same director or something what was it uh i don't know i'm into it though whatever it is yeah i'd watch whatever it is you're selling what's the one where the the the the wind opens up and fries the dude because of the sun sunshine oh sunshine we did sunshine didn't we do sunshine did we do sunshine i thought you guys told me to watch sunshine because it's not um not sackable oh no it is very sackable uh but it's also amazing i thought we did sunshine hold on did we do sunshine Yes, we did.

$4.98. We did Sunshine. All right. I don't know what the heck you guys told me much. We did it last year. I don't remember. Man, sunshine's so good. It was Event Horizon because I rented the DVD back when DVDs were a thing.

I rented the Blu-ray and it wouldn't play on my PlayStation. That was the whole problem I had with it. So, never mind. All right. Hey, we watched it all. We've seen everything. We've seen everything there ever was to be made about anything ever. Yeah, Killian Murphy.

Yeah, it's definitely Sunshine. Okay. Sunshine's awesome. Oh, I love that movie. So much. Even the part. People don't like the part where the old captain zombie guy chases everybody around. You're all wrong. It's amazing. It's great. It's amazing. The movie's great. All right. We're going to take a break. When we come back, my sister Wendy will be here. That's right. Therapy Thursday. Back on track, everybody. We're going to talk about those tests. How we did. When I say we, I'll explain. And that'll be after this break with a song that Brian had brought. Brong brought. Yeah. Brand new album coming out tomorrow is called Under the Shaped. of green. He comes out tomorrow. It's by a band called The Happy Fits. I think I've played

the Happy Fits on the show before, but I haven't played this song. This is another single from them. This is a brand new single from the album that's called Around and Around. Go see them this winter. They're going to be on tour. Here are the Happy Fits. I've got a funny feeling

We keep going around and around And I think I'm going to be needing A little stable around to hold on Because I can't keep thinking about I keep thinking about it Can't be still anymore No, there's nothing so simple about it, nothing simple about it. Can't be still anymore, I can't be still anymore, I can't be still anymore.

I go round and around, go round and around with you. No thoughts slow me down, no thoughts slow me down will you? And I could see the world with you. And I could see the world with you. I don't know what I'm seeing. When the work keeps spinning around my eyes, I think I lost my meaning, Just another day to survive, and I can't keep thinking about it, keep thinking about it, can't be still anymore.

No, there's nothing so simple about it, nothing simple about it can't be still anymore, I can't be still anymore, I can't be still anymore, I can't be still anymore. All go round and around and around, go around and around with you. No, don't saw me down, no dirt saw me down, will you? When I could see the world with you. And I could see the world with you. When Ted Oxen took off in his jet plane, he was in his jet plane, he was 28 years old.

28. The remains on which the autopsy was performed must, according to certain chemical tests, must have been those of a boy between 9 and 10 years old. This, I regard as proof that Danger B

exists. Perhaps you will, too. Is that your daddy's truck? Yeah. this is the morning stream i'll swallow your soul and we're back hey tell me who that was one more time that was a band called the happy fits from their brand new album under the shade of green comes out tomorrow there's a song called around and around lovely that sounds all right uh let's see here we're add windy to this call. She's showing offline, but, you know, we've learned before that doesn't mean anything. Sometimes she's just, uh, didly. She's like my mom with the technology. I hate to tell her.

She's just a little on the old, uh, I don't know how this works. I don't know how this works. And it's okay, you know, it's all right. Not, not all of us in the Johnson client need to have like hardcore computer knowledge, all right? Some of us can be a little slow and dumb. It's fine. I've also restarted. Uh, I've done all the things that. cleared your cash all that done two oh two different browsers just to make sure okay oh and on a PC and a Mac so I tried you know the chances of being OS related completely not going to ever happen but I tried anyway and that didn't work so so yeah it's all going great everything's great all right Wendy is uh Wendy's ready now she says so I'm going to hit ring and we're going to get ready to play her thing and then we're off to the frickin races here we go here we go maybe maybe she's picking up it's ringing oh come on ring ring ring we're getting the rings ring ring the telephone ring as darrell used to say we're just not getting the rings of speakage that's the difference right right windy on the pot says the chat that could go two different

ways yeah it could be even both could be on the weed she could be on the uh the seat if you know when did you did you did podcasting before like back when those mp3 blogs Oh, yeah, like 99 through, 93, I think, was kind of that run. It was, it's weird that that even existed. All right, here we go. Now we're here. Everyone old is Wendy. Look who it is.

It's my sister Wendy, who was very busy this morning. You got a lot of stuff going on? We're not messing up. Oh, no. Just the neighbors are getting their roof redone, and it is loud. So I had to transfer myself to another location. Oh, oh. And it took me a minute.

Roof redo. My experience is roof redoos are. very expensive and loud yeah oh my god nothing about that is great i don't like i don't like the whole experience although getting a new roof must be nice for them you know because now they're yeah good for them yeah they're up to code for them being ready for winter uh unlike my tires all right hey it's good to have you here it's feel like it's been too long but we're back it has it's been very long so you guys have done your strength finding well here's the here's the quick here's the quick an ugly story. Brian did and he got his results. Amy did, who I'm going to add to this call

and she's going to be a part of this. She's also part of your Real Steps program. Yeah. Nice. Amy, are you there? Yes. Okay. Awesome. So we have Amy for this as well. Now, the reason I'm bringing Amy in, partly, I was going to do this anyway, but I went to go take this test and they had a major screw up on their website side and I'm still waiting for support to tell me where the crap the thing is even though I paid for it. So right now it says, I have no order history with them, and I've never bought anything, even though they have charged my card and all signs point to, yes, I did buy it. And also they sent me, they sent me an invoice and everything, and they still haven't sent me my test. So I'm currently waiting

for support for up to 48 hours to find out what the crap's going on. So the lesson here is twofold. One, Gallup, fixture crap, and two, Scott, take the test more than one day before we're supposed to do the episode. All right. Good lessons. Also, let me say that. I think we sent a lot of people there all at once that maybe they haven't had people coming years. Yeah, it's possible. It's possible. Yeah, but that was two weeks ago. Like, we did – Scott and I both did this yesterday.

Yeah. Somehow, Brian had no problems. He just got in and out. Either I'm real dumb or something went real wrong, and I think it's the latter. That's the real test, by the way. It has nothing to do with the other points. Oh, is this that test the whole time? crap.

I failed it then. And I'm assuming, Amy, you got yours two weeks ago, right? I did. And I was going to tell Scott, like, I actually had a similar issue where I was like, what the crap? I bought this. And, you know, even now, if I sign in to Gallup with my account, it says I don't have any orders. So that wasn't, there was a trick to it. So if you want to, if you want to call me offline, I think I can probably walk you through it. I will because I can't find it anywhere. He's tech support now. Yeah. I think I could probably walk you through it. Which is hilarious because I never, I never need tech support. So this is a humbling experience. to have to need it. Good for you. I know. You need one of those every once in a while.

Yeah, just to remind you, keep you on grounded, you know? It's not intuitive. Like, they did not make it easy to figure out. No, but see, maybe that's a good distraction because you're so annoyed with the process that when you take the test, you're not thinking about gaming the test. You're actually taking it honestly, right? That's what's going on. Also, let's give some credit to this testing that was, you know,

it's been in the making for 30 years, and their first website was, I mean, we're looking at 2007 is the book I have in. my hand. So it's a little on the dated side. However, there's some such good stuff in that I think the test is better than a lot of the tests that I've taken the actual thing itself. I wonder Amy and Brian, could you speak to this? Like some of the questions where you just like, I really don't know what to put here. Yeah. So each question has a 20 second time limit where you've got to give your, you know, oh, this is me or that one is me. Basically, you're given two choices. you're saying which one of those two choices is me or less so or neutral, right?

Those are your, you've got five buttons in between those. And, but those 20 seconds, there was one question that just didn't get answered because I was like, oh, well, that's, they're both kind of me, but which one is more me? Okay, next question. Yeah, same. I had that same issue. And some of them were really unrelated things. It wasn't like it was polar opposites.

It was like it was completely. related things. Like, you know, I don't, I can't remember any of the specific things. You like the color blue or you had cheese for breakfast. Yeah, exactly. Yeah. Which is how they get you is they find out what you really think. Really? So there's a, there's a method to that madness.

Yes, there is. There's many methods. They're messing. So now that these two, these two have like results, right? Do we want to parse that and figure out what the heck at all means? I'm excited to see where they line up. I was just going to try to pull up. Brian sent me his.

Um, so I can have it on you. So do they give. And then Amy, yeah, we'll go through a couple so we can see. And I'll show you what we're going to do with this. Okay. Because here's where this is therapeutic. This is not, this is your business horoscope, right, everybody. And when you go through their website that's jenky and then if you get the book that's old,

and you start to think about it, you're like, oh, this is how I can work well with others in my office. This is, uh, I work really well with people with this style. I like this leadership stuff. but how I like to use it um is differently and so I'm going to show you how I use it with clients and and I'll do it with both of you now first of all I wonder if you could just tell us your five strengths let's start with it so so if everyone hasn't done it or doesn't know it will give you your top five strengths it will give you all 34 ranked if you want but most people just do

the five so um there's a lot of different extra for the 34 yeah yeah exactly So there's 34. I've added it to my cart, but I haven't paid for it yet because I'm really curious as to how it all looks. Like what's next. Okay. So Brian, tell us, let's go through yours first. My top five themes? Okay.

So number one is positivity. That's bullshit. Number two is Includer. I don't think that's a word. Three is Wu. Four is adaptability. And five is developer. Okay.

All right, Amy, tell us your top five. I want to see if any of them collide. They don't. They're completely different than mine. Oh, wow. Okay, so number one is communication. Number two is input. Number three is empathy.

Number four is strategic. And number five is learner. Nice. Okay, so you do not have a single crossover. Right. Yeah, sorry. Interesting. So, Brian, Brian, you and I have, we share adaptability, woo,

an Includer. We have three of the same. No kidding. All right. So, okay. Brian, you're a large Hadron Includer. Congratulations.

You did it. Developer, developer, developer. So here's what I want people to do. If you know what your top one is and you've got the results, then you'll, you have to pull it up and look at what it says about it. But I'm going to walk you, both of you

through yours, your top one. So what's interesting about it too is that, So, Brian, I have those three things, but my number one is woo, which at first I was really irritated by, like, that's the stupidest one. And I hate the word. Right, because it's really like, I want people to like me kind of thing. Exactly. But when I really dug into it, I was like, oh, this is different than what I thought it was. And there's such good things that come with that. And then there's some negative things that come with it that I've become more aware of that's been really helpful. So we could talk about Wu all day because I'm, I've gone down the rabbit

hole with Woo, but we're going to take your number ones because your number ones is really where you shine and it impacts what's following them, right? And so that's what makes you unique is you go one, two, three, four, five and someone else would not have them in that order or have different things. Anyway, okay. So remind me again, Amy, I'm sorry, what was your first one? Communication. Communication. Okay, so we're going to sit, we'll do Amy first. So, so Amy you should have gotten an email that says this but I'm going to read it out loud to everyone else who can you know sort of watch me as we do this and watch Amy okay so what I'm going to do and Amy I want you to write down as we talk as I'm reading this I want you to note what hits you

like what feels right you've heard other people describe you as maybe what feels like it jives with your experience just kind of note those things and so everyone step one is called name it. Okay, so we are going to name the thing that this is. So for her, communication is number one. And you might just think, oh, yeah, that's obvious, right? Okay. So let me explain, or let me read it, and then Amy, I want you to write this down.

Okay. Communication, you like to explain, to describe, to host, to speak in public, and to write. This is your communication theme at work. Ideas are a dry beginning. Events are static. You feel a need to bring them to life. to energize them, to make them exciting and vivid. And so you turn events into stories and practice telling them. You take the dry ideas and then liven it with images and examples and

metaphors. You believe that most people have a very short attention span. They are bombarded by information, but very little of it survives. You want your information, whether an idea and event of products, features, and benefits, a discovery or a lesson to survive. You want to direct their attention, sorry, divert their attention toward you and then capture it, lock it in. This is what drives your hunt for the perfect phrase. This is what drives you toward dramatic words and powerful word combinations. This is why people like to listen to you. Your word pictures peak their interests, sharpen their world, and inspire them to act. Okay. Wow. Did any of that feel like it describes you? Yes. Yeah, definitely. I mean, you know, so it's interesting because the personalized

one that I got that's in the PDF says different things and that also those also resonate with me but the biggest thing is like you know needing to bring things to life and obviously I have no problem speaking in public like I went to Scott

and I was like I'm going to be on your show so you know I'm like yes pay attention to me so yeah but and turning ideas into stories definitely I'm all about telling stories and that's why I do a book segment right like I I love stories and I I feel like we kind of

define ourselves through stories so yeah absolutely nice okay so you so you can name your strengths within these contexts so my my book is old the modern one you're going to get with your email so Brian you'll have the same experience because I don't have access to your written stuff because they're not my strengths except for woo I could talk about um okay so good all right so that's naming it All right. And the next thing is to claim it. And that's kind of what we started doing here. And so when I walk someone through this, it's like, what is that about for you? And what can you really claim and feel good about? So a lot of us are sort of born and bred to downplay our strengths. And then anyone who up plays their strengths sometimes we just think of as arrogant or people are braggy. Like we have some weird

socialized experiences with each other and each other's attitudes about strengths or who talks about what, right? And every family's going to be a little different and every sort of subculture has its own. You know, you do not talk about the good things in your life or, you know, you're bragging or, you know, whatever it might be, right? And so none of this are really good at this. I mean, some people might be more quietly good at this than others, but often it's your weaknesses that are pointed out or you're reprimanded or pointed in a different direction around things you're not doing well versus things you do do well. But then we also have the flip side of just maybe you're getting lots of praise for these things, but you don't really

know where to put them. Okay. So this, this claiming it is really feeling what resonates with you, what feels true to you. And so, Amy, maybe you have a couple ideas there. And then this is the part, Amy, I want you to work on while I'm going to talk to Brian. This last part is aim it. Okay. So we've named it, claimed it, and aim it. I want you to come up with, I don't know, two or three things that you can do to aim your communication skills. So calling Scott and saying, hey, I want to be on the show.

That's an example of aiming your communication strength, right? So it's Amy, aiming. Got it. Amy is aiming. And so, yeah. So think of a couple of things. And then we're going to go through Brian's thing. So no one wants to hear about everyone's stress all day.

All right. Okay, Brian, how about you? So with positivity, did you read the paragraph on positivity? I did, yeah. And it does seem to describe me. And I know there's a lot of people or a couple of people in the chat room, maybe even just one specific person who's like, ah, it feels like a paid horoscope for gathering data kind of thing.

Yeah. These are all positive traits for sure. Like you could probably say, oh, I am this and I am that. This one I do feel is my, is kind of what people would describe me as first and foremost over everything else, if that makes sense. Yeah, yeah. As opposed to any of the other positive things. You want the shared theme description, right? Not the big paragraph about.

Well, the big pair, it's, I'll read this and then you just, or you could read that. I just want people to hear what is. in the positivity and then what you own from it. So let me speak to the idea that I, I mean, I have called this a business horoscope 10 times, right? Like, we all know how horoscopes work. You find your thing and like, oh, Tuesday is my lucky day. You're right. Right.

Exactly. You could, you know, name 18 positive traits. And I'm going to say, oh, I have all 18 of those. Right. Right. But here's why when you dig a little deeper. And this is why I use this in therapy, not in like, now go. to the office and be positive is because people are really bad at knowing what their strengths

are. They have been trained to only work on weaknesses or to stare at their weaknesses all day long. And what happens is if you can use your strengths in more directed ways, what you find is some of those weaknesses bother you a heck of a lot less. Right? You start to go, well, I guess I'm just not good at that. I'll hire someone to do that part and I will do what I'm good at. So, okay, so yeah, Brian, what resonated with you in that paragraph? It definitely, you know, the fact that I have no problem revealing details about my life and telling stories about not just like, oh, here's a great thing that I did or a great thing that happened to me, but also I have no problem saying, oh, yeah, I had to, you know,

negative things, right? Disadvantages like, oh, yeah, I had to take a huge poop in the airport and I parked illegally so I could do it. Like, you know, there's, that's, it's almost the description of that. I, you know, it says that I sense that there's something good in every person I meet. And I do try to, I do try to look for that. Can I interrupt really quick. Yeah.

If people are hearing this and they're like, yeah, most people do that. No, they don't. That is no what's happening. That's right. Oh, my gosh. There's something that immediately try to look at what the worst thing is about that person. Exactly. And when you say, Brian, when you say, I try, do you really have to try that hard?

It's just happening. It just happens. This is what I'm trying to get at is when they get it, when this gets it right, it just gets it right. Like, this is just who you are. Anyway, sorry. Let's see. Driven by your talents, you feel the most content with your life when you're in charge of your own decisions, actions, destiny, and or choice of friends. Again, okay, could apply to a lot of people, but I don't like, like, I bulk at somebody else making.

decisions for me. And I kind of I'm tempted to always go the other way when somebody does that. So it's it is definitely a more content thing in my life. And enthusiasm that is

contagious. I do try to again, not something I have to try to do, but I, you know, my positivity just happens to hopefully rub off on everybody else. Yes. There's one sentence in here I wondered what you thought of. Some Cynics may reject your energy, but you are rarely dragged down.

Yes. Yes, Scott is kind of that way. Whatever. I really want to know Scott's. Is Scott's first one like? I know. We should take bets on what Scott's, uh. Easy now.

It might be just fine. It might be perfect. Who knows what I got. Well, no, I mean, they're all, yeah, none of them are bad. It's none of them are like, oh, yeah, you, you, you, you piss on things that other people like. You know, it's not. You don't. It's not.

Right. They're all, they're like, you know, all positive things. It's just like, all right, which one is going to be the, the prominent one, the leftmost one. Well, that I guess, Mr. Johnson, you're a garbage human and we're going to refund your money. I guess that was my question. Does this thing report any kind of negativity? Is it meant to? Is it not meant to? It's not meant to. Because they're not, because nobody's going to, nobody wants to spend money to find out there an ass, you know? Well, why this was, was a big deal at the time it came out is that no one talked only. in the positivity, it was constant effort on weaknesses. And so their research initially is how much effort and working on a weakness makes a difference, how much does it take to make a difference, takes a ton of effort, and you have kind of not so much to show for it.

But when you pursue your strengths and you, you know, find a way to elevate those things, I mean, the increase is so much bigger, right? So that's the point. That's why they don't go negative. I think each of the positive paragraphs, though, does end with a, not a negative, but a, here's where, here's where that good thing about you is a disadvantage. Like for Includer, you are much less inclined to be solitary or a loner. By nature, you're more sensitive than other people to what it feels like to be left out of a group, a conversation, or an activity. I have major FOMO, so that's definitely a thing.

So, yeah, I mean, it's, you know, each of the positives has this like, yeah, here's the kind of thing you want to stay away from or, you know, is going to cause you problems. Yes. Yes. And I, I mean, as soon as I started reading mine, I was like, this is why I buy everything from anyone who comes to my door. And it's because I have to woo a stranger. And then by wooing them, I got to buy what they're selling. And it's a problem. Misha's hardcore woo.

I just realized our, she's the woo. You know, also woo. Do you remember when we all got in a cab together? It was a nightmare. Oh, it was huge woo. Yeah. How do we get this guy to be wooed? Yeah, how do we, all three of us were working really over time to try to impress this dude?

You're right. It was ugly. Yeah. Okay. So, Amy, let's go back to you. So, Brian, good. All right. So Brian, you've got your names it.

Name it. I think you can claim some of those things. I want you to think about that for a minute. Okay. Really own. I love how you always say, well, I try to, which is not true. You are not trying. It's just happening.

That's the claiming part. Yeah, I know. It says I don't claim things under one of these. We're all, look, I think we all have, and Wendy, you can speak to this, I suppose, but everybody who's actually doing those things tends to want to not brag about them. You know what I mean? Yes. So that's just me.

I do the same thing. I do the exact same thing, but Brian's just like, he's saying things to, they're, they're, like crutch words we all use to not take too much credit. You know what I mean? But Brian deserves all the credit for being like that. It's not a lot of effort or hard, so people don't always think of those things as valuable. Like, it's not that valuable. I had a friend, I was like, I'm annoyed by the woo.

I think that's stupid. And she goes, can I explain three things that I see your woo creating? And I'm like, what? And it's because she's a strategic organizer. So what she said was, I've seen you have really hard conversations that can only, occur because you've already wooed them. Like, whoa. You're right.

I can call someone on their crap, which is what I do in therapy after I get them to love me. Like it's, and they have to trust me. It's something I am practicing without even thinking about it all the time with clients is we are going to get into the weeds. But if they don't know, I care about them and they're safe with me, I mean, I have to woo them. And so, you know, maybe I'd be an awesome waitress fix if I drop stuff all the time.

So that'd be bad. But I could get, I can get someone to trust me, then I can do something else. And I think because it comes so naturally, you're just not going, you know, what's a powerful tool? Instead, you can see someone else. Like, I think of my friend who's so strategic and so organized that I'm like, why can't I have those things? Those are awesome.

And it's because I don't, right? And those would require effort. So that's a piece of it. Yeah, that's part of it. Okay. Okay. So Amy, are you ready to aim it? Oh, let's hear how you can aim your positivity.

I think, I think so. So a lot of this I do already, right? Like, the paragraph that they sent me, it's one of the biggest sentences that stood out for me was, it's very likely that you spontaneously regale people with funny anecdotes, timely jokes, witty comments, or whimsical ideas. Amusing others brings you pleasure. You have a gift for making people laugh out loud. All of that is super true and I I thrive on that and I mean and I kind of side swipe Scott every week because I send him a clip from a book and then I'm like so let me tell you the story that has nothing to do with anything and you know so I I kind of already do this but a lot of times I will use anecdotes to deliver messages like if we're talking about professionally I'll talk about you

know right now I work for I work for a place where the software people are you know it's all internal, right? So we're not, we're not selling software to other people. We're writing our own software. And so I am constantly telling anecdotes about my old job where I did work for a software vendor to say, hey, y'all are letting the vendors get away with way too much crap. And here's why. And I'll tell them these whole stories about how like customers would actually, you know, just, just demand so much from us. So, you know, I use anecdotes to deliver messages. Like, and also, you know, I use it with my kids a lot. Now, my kids, they're, you know, when they hear, okay, let me tell you a story. My eyes just glaze over, you know, but, you know, yeah, like,

that's how I, that's how I kind of, you know, I'm, I'm like ESOP. That's how I deliver a moral message is with a story, you know. And that's why you never put an apple in a pie or something. Right, yeah, yeah, exactly. And maybe if you were like really disgruntled with your job, or things were like not vibing in your life and you could look and see where am I not getting this it scratched, right? Right. It sounds like you've got a couple places that it goes naturally and you can get some fulfillment out of it.

But then imagine you were working in a cubicle and never got to speak to another person. You would be miserable, right? Oh, yeah. And I was. Like I'm one of the people who, you know, I mean, obviously the millions of dead people really sucks, but what the pandemic brought us is it normalized being able to work from home. So I can do things like this because I couldn't do this when I was working in an office. And so now it's like, yeah, so I'm definitely benefiting from that. I'm really loving my, my silly little TikTok channel.

I have very few followers, but I like it that way because then I can actually have a community with them instead of like billions of people. So no one will know her. Right. Yeah. Like, so like, I figured, okay, I can make more funny videos, tell more stories in my videos. It doesn't all have to be like my dog licking my face. I can actually tell stories there because it's my page. I can do with it what I want. And also, I need to like put it on my calendar to join the tadpole chat because, man, that's a place where mostly if I tell stories and talk for an hour, everybody laughs.

And I, so that's what I get out of it. Right, right. And so you can find in your workplace or in your personal life or, like your creative world, ways to aim this a little. And it's sometimes it's just a slight shift in your thinking. So for example, I've been working with a client on her strengths and her number one was context. And context often are historians, right? Like here is the context. It's incredibly important to know all these different things. This is someone who had a degree in history, but has worked in other industries where none of that matters and nobody cares and no one

wants to hear about it. And she's miserable. And so sometimes it's this, you know, if you're miserable in some way, maybe various ways in your life, you can start to look at, okay, my strengths are not being utilized. How can I get, you know, you can say live in your best life or your dream or, you know, you can find them in lots of ways. I just like how it can be narrowed down into some topics that you can then go, all right, where do I put this? So Brian, how about you? With positivity, how can you aim it? And you don't have to try, remember, you just aim. I know, I know. Well, this one's tough.

Like, I can aim these other ones. Positivity is a tough thing to aim unless I'm going to dress up in a minions costume and go sit on the Las Vegas strip and take pictures with tourists. But, you know, it's a lot of benefiting others, which I kind of already do with the shows, like the, you know, know this and coverville that's that's that's kind of inadvertent aiming of of um the positivity as far as like new things new ways that i could is that you're kind of looking for me to figure out a new way i could aim this and maybe you've just you've you've you've done it all for positivity and then next would be some other aspect right because it's oh if we could not be so much easier because include her i could totally i could totally aim right okay yeah includeer like um

you know, I, I, uh, one of the things with Includer is, yeah, I like, I like being around other people during daylight hours. I also like to be, I'm, I tend to be more productive at night, which is, um, totally true. Yeah. Yeah, it is. Um, but it, all right, that's a way to aim it, right? I could actually start producing an evening show or something like that. Or maybe I move my freelance to evenings and I change my schedule a little bit so that I'm lifting and podcasting during the day. and that sort of thing. Yeah. So it's a kind of opening your mind to like, would there be a, a version of my day or my life that can make sure I get some of these needs met? So woo is my number one. And the pandemic was, is difficult.

And the, you know, but I still saw people face to face on my calls, but they're all my clients. I'm not around other people, right? As most people were not. That is a hard thing for a wooer, right? And so mine is really like, I just need to be around more people. So I'm going to maybe branch out and do some stuff for a couple of universities here and just be around more people. And just the thought of that is like, yeah, that feels right.

And it's because it's been missing, right? And so maybe none of these will jump out at you if they're, unless something's missing, right? You might already be getting a good aim out of your positivity or your communication. but where is it maybe not? So, for example, you have adaptability. I also have adaptability. I'm working with someone who has adaptability is a really high one,

and the job that that person has is not allowing that adaptability to function very well. And it can create some misery, but adaptability is a powerful strength in different organizations or different scenarios. And so finding, instead of feeling crappy about yourself about all this stuff,

I think sometimes this focus on your strength can be really, really powerful. Yeah, and adaptability, I mean, there's, we're talking about, oh, is there any weaknesses in there? Yeah, the big weakness in adaptability is one that's totally one of mine, which is that I live in the future, hope-filled expectancy. You know, instead of like, oh, yeah, I really need to get this thing done now, it's, oh, yeah, I'm going to Las Vegas this next weekend. What can I do to prepare for that? Or going to Anaheim in a couple weeks. What can I do to prepare for that? Oh, I can pre-order some Mickey Mouse merch.

Great. Let's do that instead of, by the way, this thing needs to get done today. So maybe focus on the now. Yes, totally. Flexibility means I am behind. Yeah, totally. Exactly. That's interesting.

The whole idea or what I'm gating from all of this is there's a reframing going on here. Yes. You're reframing what you do and why you do it and why you're motivated to do it. And we're not normally faced with why. We're just usually faced with, well, no, I do this because I like, I like people or I do whatever. Instead, you're like, no, no, wait a minute. Let's really think about this for a second. Why isn't you do what you do?

Yeah. I like it also because like, as Wendy was talking about, you know, there was this emphasis on, okay, what are your weaknesses? Let's focus on that and like make it better, make you, you know, rebuild you, bigger. better, faster, stronger, whatever. You don't have to do that. You can actually be the person that you are and use your own strengths in a way. Like, that's going to grease your wheels much better

than leaning into what you already have as a strength because you have plenty, even if you don't realize that you do, is going to be much more powerful than, okay, I'm really weak at this. I really, you know, I mean, if you're trying to build a skill, obviously, like right now, I'm trying to learn how to do pottery and I'm not very good at pulling the walls up so I'm practicing that right like that's not what I'm talking about but like as a person you want to lean into the things that you're already actually

good at instead of constantly beating yourself up does that does that make sense Wendy did I just say a lot of nonsense oh you said exactly right and and if you think about like and so you know I'm a therapist so let's make this about your childhoods real quick when you think about like what were the messages you heard about your positivity, Includer, Woo, Adaptability developer, Brian, or what was the messages you heard about other things you aren't good at, you know, that don't come naturally? And so you can find, and this is very common when you've got like an emotionally,

we call them family misfits. So just like a kid who doesn't quite fit in the family, in the sense of everyone's an engineer and you're a very, creative, you know, painter. And you're like, I just don't fit in their strengths and they see my stuff. And so you can have a lot of psychological difficulties that can come from not having your strengths acknowledged as valuable, your natural abilities as valuable or seen. Sometimes some are more obvious to people and some are less. And maybe you even have a lot of pain around this focus on you doing things wrong.

I can so relate to that. I know Brian can. I mean, Brian, you come from doctors and surgeons and stuff like that. Oh, yeah. A lot of expectations. And nope,

I'm going to be a podcast. You ever just say nerd when you're around them? Because that's how I handle that. Actually, it would be great. I'm going to start doing that now. Wendy does it to me. Actually, it's funny because in our growing up, instead of somebody who was older,

who was like hitting all the notes or whatever, it was always Wendy who was everybody would use and say well why can't you get grades like your sister why can't you're you know she she had pure she had A's her whole time and like all that kind of talk that used to have a hobby that you're drawing but maybe you could focus on a marketable skill yeah I went through that a lot I got told I talked too much yeah like I got told all the time like children are seen and not heard you know right and just imagine for a moment if Scott I was just a bad student and you didn't have that, you know, your younger sister making everyone look bad. Yeah. Which,

by the way, I'm seven years younger. You were like 14 by the time I went to school. No, I know. I know. It didn't matter because it was the older you got.

Like, I remember even in my 20s. I'm freaking married. I got a little kid by then. And people are all like, I don't know why you're, why you had such a hard time in high school.

Look at Wendy. Look at Wendy. That's usually mom, right? Sorry for that. No, no, it's not you.

I think that's a mom thing and she should be sorry for it. The irony is I never heard one word of any of these things. I know. You were always kept from that for, I don't know why. But that's, you know, mom loved labels. She was into it. The answer to that, Scott, is, well, yeah, because I broke you guys in for her.

That's right. That was one of my strengths. My strength was to test you, mom. Yeah, to break down the walls. Okay, but hold on. Like take Amy's thing of being told you, you talk too much as a kid. Just imagine for a moment, there is a talkative. kid, and instead of you talk too much, your children should only be seen, not heard, it was

channeled. And I think this is where, for the parents listening, or people who are leaders in business or in their organizations, right, to see through this lens really shifts things, right? So I asked my kids, I was like, okay, guys, what do you think your strengths are? And, you know, Pete's naming some weird, weird stuff. And I'm like, yep. Your strength is being weird. Yep. But your strength is, you know, like he's like, I just want to solve a thing and I love to, you know, like things you want to hear come out of a kid's mouth because you're like, wow, that's the good stuff. But it's, you know, what happens when you go to school and we're like, hey, bud, you got to write.

He's like, yeah, but what I'm going to do is I'm going to get Josh to write it for me. And I will buy him lunch. And I'm like, okay, that is a strength, but it's going to mean you're going to, you can't write. You know, like, it's not great. But we have a whole set of ideas of what is successful and what is not, what a kid should do, what a kid. And if you're really honest with yourself, you will find when a kid's like, oh, I love video games, you're like, sweet. But if you find a kid who's like, I hate video games, I think they cause violence, you're not going to, see, I know, I know my audience. Yeah, nice job.

Do you know what I'm saying that? Like, if they're not like you're the son of the doctor who likes to draw and doesn't want to go to 20 years of school. It's foreign for you. You don't quite get it. And so you might find yourself pushing them in different directions. Now, this is what we're undoing to some extent as adults is when we can finally figure out what these qualities are and lean into them and be proud of them. You don't have to brag about anything. You can just make sure you're getting what you need as a positivity person or as a woo person or as a communication person. In Scott's case, a, hmm, I I don't know.

Can't get the test version. My strength is effing up the test. A harmony person. There's all sorts of options. Yeah. Yeah. I'll get mine. And when I do, I'll finally know truly what my strengths are.

Yeah. I'm submitting to that right now. I'm going to bug Scott until he calls me and I'll walk him through getting through this process. Because I think I had a similar issue to him. That was a couple weeks ago. So it might take a little bit, which is why we're not going to do it on the air. But like, yeah, I'm going to get Scott to do this. All right. I still, I will be shocked if there's a workaround, but if you've got it, I'm in. I'm all in. Well, all right. This is fantastic stuff. We could go much deeper, obviously, if we had more time. But it's worth everybody checking out. If you go over to the Gallup website, Gallup.com, they have links directly to it. It's like one of the first things on the menu. So you can go check it out. Good luck. And hopefully you don't lose yours like I seem to have lost mine.

Wendy as always good stuff I know you got a new we mentioned it last week while you were gone but new recruitment happening for Real Steps you want to mention anything about that Yes yes please go to Realsteps.org and you can sign up just to get the emails you can also sign up

to participate we're going to do an October session so it'll just be the month of October that will be the next one coming up we are Ellen and I have decided that you know 20 years late we're going to join the podcast community you guys are going to do a show what oh cool we have started recording and uh i beg everyone's forgiveness in the beginning please um yeah no

that's great that's the ideal you start and then you adjust like get that person recording out yeah get it out you can always be embarrassed about it later but just get going knock it out we've already recorded three and here's the thing we would love um um anyone's ideas we have i mean we could we probably have a hundred easily in our heads that that we can do but we really want to meet what people are interested in hearing about so so we they won't be coming out until we can figure out how to make them sound decent but it'll be around the time you know mid-september or something but we plan to have one once a week they're only 20 minutes long i could go on for days but we're only going to go 20 minutes and um our first

couple ones. I'll just give you some ideas of what we're talking about is we're talking about a starvation study that some of you may have heard of before, but how it has taught us so much about our brains. And it's one of those things that happened in the 40s that it would never be allowed now. But it just teaches us so much about why dieting is so bad for us and some interesting things. And then we have one. My favorite one we've done so far is about intergenerational food trauma and how you can have things passed down from your great-grandparents that you had no idea around food and and what food means and size and value and all those different things. So lots of really fun, good stuff and I think it'll be good.

I listen to it. I'm like, well, we're not doing. This is nice. Yeah, I think you guys. I'm literally signing up right now. When you said that, I was like, I was like, oh, there is. There's a new sign up. for Real Steps, I'm in, because I love it.

Hey, we love Amy. So, yeah, please, um, please join us and share any ideas of things you'd like to hear on the podcast and then, um, yeah, all the information is there on Real Steps and Real Steps.org. Scott, you named Real Steps. You are the grandfather of the name. Yeah, I named it. And we need, we need to name our podcast. So real quick, everyone should just be the Real Steps podcast. Oh, don't do that. Don't do that. Don't do that. Do you know what? I just call it real steps. Just call it real steps. Yeah, you do anything else and it'll just confuse people. If you call it real steps, then it's, you know, it's always tied to the name and all that other stuff. You know, maybe one of my strengths is I gave Wendy a name for a website. Maybe that's a website namer. Yeah, I'm a good nameer of sites.

Don't I recall you saying, Scott, that you were going to, you were going to, well, we were going to do the October thing. And we may still, I don't know, Carter and I were talking about it, but now Carter got that art residency thing. And, and, in. in Iceland. I don't know what that's going to do to her schedule and time and everything. And hours, yeah. Yeah, and hours. And then also we got a baby coming like on the 15th of that month. So there's a bunch of, not my baby. Taylor's going to have another baby. I should make that clear. Kim is not well, we are doing another round and some more stuff. Actually in January. I know it's against my cardinal rule to start in January, but there's good reason. So if you have to miss October. Yeah, we may miss October and due January, but we're definitely going to do it coming up.

Um, yes, chat room. I am pregnant. I'm, I'm crowning right now. I'm talking. Uh, all right. I keep calling Scott out for stuff he said he was going to do. Yeah, no, it's good. Someone needs to. Is your strengths? Like the reminder? Yeah. It's like having two wives, honestly. Yeah, I feel like, I feel like a polygamist all a sudden. I got two wives telling me. I need a wife. I need someone to do that for me. Adam's a pretty good wife. All right. Uh, that's going to do it. Uh, Wendy and and Amy, thanks for hanging out with us. And we will see you after my vacation, uh, next

week. By now. Bye, bye. Why can't I remove people? Oh, I made her the Amy, I made you the Lord of the Room. Can you give me room? Oh, goodness. Please again. Room Lord. All the power. It was supposed to be. Let's do a podcast, Amy. I guess you just have to highlight or right click my name and then choose make me the leader or whatever. Okay. I don't know why did that. I meant to remove. That is hilarious. You can't hang up on me. I really can't.

If she wanted, if she wanted, she could own this room. Wait, she still owns it. Oh, no, I haven't now. Okay. That's hilarious. Wow. They're right next to each other. So if you click just where it says remove from group, you click make owner and then there's

no confirmation. They just threw the owner. Oh, man. She gave up control, though. I'm impressed. Nicely done. Place head and guillotine right next to Establish as Lord. Yes.

Establish as Lord. how we look is the headline that I got from this email send and receive email this is from Tommy aka Navar MW in the chat often when he's here says good morning bait and switch oh boy clever so if you ever had a situation where you hear someone on the podcast and form a visual of them in your mind

yeah all the time every time yeah then you see a picture or meet them and they look totally different than the mental image you had well I've been listening to TMS for several years now and I've primarily been an audio-only listener. When I first started listening to TMS, I formed a mental picture of Brian based on his voice. In my mind, I pictured him looking like Jason Howl, without hair.

That's interesting. The first time I said... It's better than Thurston Howell, I guess. That's true. The first time, I would make me lovey or something. I don't know. It says the first time I saw video of TMS, I saw Brian and what he actually looked like.

The voice in the face just didn't match. I don't know what he looks like. I don't know what he looks like, but it is still hard to overcome the mental image. I now know. I now know what he looks like. Oh, yeah. I don't know why I can't read the word now. Anyway, it's different than the thing he formed when he first heard you talk. Scott, you pretty much look the way you sound. I don't know how to feel about that. Probably fine. It's just fine. Yeah, exactly. I don't know. Anyway, says like many others, you guys got me through a lot of tough times. I'm grateful for the consistency and place I can go to escape all the stresses in life. Thank you for all you're doing.

Tommy, aka Navar MW. Well, thank you for that. Nice compliment there at the end. And also, this is not super unusual. And in fact, the two shows that get this the most I hear this most about is this one. And it's usually that Brian looks totally different than they expected. I'd hear that a lot.

And I have hurt before that I look exactly the way they expect to me. I'm way more handsome than people visualize. Yeah, they don't expect the kind of breathtaking beauty that is, Brian. Dreaminess that's about to come to them when they finally gaze upon me. Yeah. It's It's almost too much to bear. However, the other show is core.

Everyone thinks they know what Bo and John look like. They're never right what they think. They look nothing like they expect. I don't know if that's good or bad. But he's right. Like even after you see what that person looks like, you know, like he says in the second paragraph, unless you really spend a lot of time of that person

and now you have them in your head whenever you hear them, you still see the person you visualize. Like Scott Ackerman on Comedy Bang Bang. Listen to that forever before I finally saw what he looked like. And then saw it and like, okay, cool. Now I know what he looks like. But I haven't seen more than just a couple pictures of him. So now he's still back to that looking like how I visualized him.

Oh, yeah. Interesting. Yeah, I did that with this American Life. Can I think he was name? Oh, yeah. I have a totally different vision in my head of what Iar Glass looks like, even though I've seen him a million times now. When I hear him talk, I don't picture the right guy.

Right. Yeah, very good example. Yeah, so it happens. It's what's up. Real quick, show notes about today. Coverville, as Brian mentioned, you got your 1 o'clock today, your 1 p.m. Yes, Twitch.tv slash Coverville. And you're going to be doing a little snap there on the side while you're doing things? I will be playing Snap while I play some music, some clash. Nice.

The Clash of Clans. No, Marvel Snap. That's what we meant. That's right. Core is tonight at 5. If you want to know what's going on, Gamescom, good news. Cora will be here to talk about it. We'll also talk about this weird new voice control Amazon Echo video game control thing. So that'll come up.

And I already know what they're going to think about it. So we'll see how that goes. FilmSack this weekend. We're doing the Transporter 3, which is a long time coming. By that, I mean, we're glad we're done with the trilogy. And we've finished it up for our hot movie summer. I can't wait to see what I talk about with

Transporta 3. It's going to be exciting. Yeah. Who knows what we'll say ahead of time for Transporter 3. Anyway, that's this weekend. Also, our play date tomorrow, and then a quick reminder. We should have a TWBD as well this weekend. So all things look good. Oh, yeah.

And there will be a guest to the connection tomorrow before our play date. So I will be giving away some more prizes. If you can figure out what my songs have in common. Yeah, what are your songs having common? It turns out a lot. So there's that. And then the other thing I was going to mention was what? Oh, so next week, no TMS is going to put a little, I don't know, maybe a little extra something here and there every day if I can from where I'm at.

I don't know what the Internet's going to be like. Anyway, we'll see. You know, don't feel like you got to commit to that. I'm not going to go overboard. This is time for you to, well, literally don't do that. But don't say, you know, I'll try and get something up every day or I'll try and get a couple things up. You know, if you, if you even set those kind of expectations for yourself, You'll be thinking about him.

Just have a good time. You're totally right. You're totally right. You'll all be fine for a week. Exactly. There's something in my gallop strengths that says you have a way of making sure people take time for themselves. I have a gallop strength or weakness that says I hate feeling like I'm leaving people high in the sky. It's Includer.

I think Includer will be part of your deal. Okay. That might be it. I'm an Includer, damn it. Not an intruder. An Includer. anyway so yeah so just that reminder um but like we said like with film sack and some other stuff we've we've we've worked out ahead of time some stuff so you're all good there all right some of

the scheduling a little weird but uh TMS off the air next week it's good to have a little recharge when we come back though we'll be back with more and then Brian goes to to California and then we'll have stories look it's just a perpetual machine and go on forever into this guy I'll have a I'll have Vegas stories in two weeks. I'll have Anaheim stories in three. It'll be great. That's right. You know what we should do?

We should schedule that live stream camera you showed me the other day? Yeah, yeah. We should schedule the thing where I know you're going to walk by that camera and then we'll have it on. Yeah, it's actually, it's my window screen right now. I mean, right across from Park MGM, we'll definitely be right there, you know, at some point. We should do a funny moment where, I don't know how we would do this, but something where, hey, Brian's going to be on the camera, everybody. I didn't even throw it out of everywhere and have everybody look at you dancing or something. It would be hilarious.

We'll think about it. Anyway, that's going to do it for today's show. If you like TMS and want to see it continue and be your favorite morning show, then go to patreon.com slash TMS and help us out. That's going to do it for the show. Brian's going to play a song. Savor this one because you won't get a new song until next two weeks, I guess. The last request of September 20, or of August 22.

Weird. Captain Ed Rodin said, hey guys, last weekend. I turned 52, and this Saturday, August 27th, I'll be participating in the Tour de Donut. It's a local bike race where there are stops along the way with donuts, and every donut that you eat gets time taken off your final time. I want to do this. Talk about FOMO. You just gave Brian a ton of it.

No kidding. Yes, exactly. Yes, I see you. That's the exact cam. That is the exact one I'm talking about. Last year, I rode the mini donut, 19.7 miles. But this year I'm going to go full donut, which is 34.4 miles, which will be my furthest ride to date. Wish me luck, signed Captain Ed.

Nice. And on his other notes, you won. Sorry, that live cam has music. Sorry, my bad. It does have live music, and it's dumb. Super dumb. Yeah, you can mute it, but it's silly. Oh, my God, there's a dude walking.

Are you looking at it right now? I'm looking at it right now, yeah. You see that guy who's about to cross the street? He's wearing nothing but a G-string, it looks like. Oh, I missed him. I must be on a delay or something. Maybe he's not. Maybe I'll still see him.

Maybe you'll see him in a second. I don't know. Or maybe I'm on a delay. Anyway. I don't see any d-strings. And now I'm sad. Super sad about this. No, that's all right.

Don't be sad. Because that was something. Anyway, Captain Ed wanted to hear any cover of Queen's bicycle race. And this is one that I'm really surprised. I haven't played yet. This is by a band called Bloomschen, which is a German. Blumchen. Blumchen.

Blumchen. Blumchen. Anyway, it's from their 2007. six album called for Emma Ong a wig. Oh my lord. All right. There you go.

It's a cover of Queens bicycle race. This thing talked about getting getting you pumped up for bike riding. This one will do it. All right. Here it is. We'll be back tomorrow with a play day and then it'll be a whole bunch of time

and then we'll be back that following week. Oh, and we're off. I forgot. We're off Labor Day as well. I should tell everybody that. Yeah. But we also aren't really off because we're recording film psych that day.

Anyway, here it is, everybody. Enjoy your song. We'll see you next time. Bicycle I want to ride my bicycle I want to ride my bicycle I want to ride my bicycle I want to ride my bicycle

I want to ride my bicycle I see go I want to ride my bicycle I want to ride my bike I want to ride my bicycle I want to ride in where I I say black, I say white, I say bite, I say shark, I say yo man. Talk would never mind, sing and I don't like power.

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I want to ride my bike This show is part of my bicycle. I want to ride in where I lie. This show is part of the Frog Pants Network. Frog Pants Network. Get more shows like this at frogpants.com. It's a pig deal. It's a pig deal.