The Morning Stream - TMS 2346: Sploot Your Beans

Episode Date: September 13, 2022

No one called Saul. Amazing Lace how sweet the sound. Polite British orgasm. I Don't Like Steve Zahn's Weeeeeeeeeeen. Everyone does THAT guy. Tropical Storm Butthole. If you tacos are fuzzy, go somewhere else. These are all bad names for tacos. Rusty Crusty Musty Taco. The Spice World must flow. Six degrees of Wayne Brady. Kung Fu candy is scary. The Colonel's 4 Remaining Spices. Cover Up Your Tunafish With Bobby and more on this episode of The Morning Stream. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Coming up on TMS, no one called Saul. Amazing lace, how sweet the sow. Polite British orgasm. I don't like Steve Zon's wee. Everyone does that guy. Tropical Storm butthole. If your tacos are fuzzy, go somewhere else. These are all bad names for tacos.

Rusty, crusty, musty taco. The spice world must flow. Six degrees of Wayne Brady. Kung Fu Candy is scary. The Colonel's Four Remain in Spices. Cover up your tuna fish with Bobby and more on this episode of The Morning Stream. I am Ariel, and we are Unerius and preparing the Earth people for the great space fleet landing, the Starship landing in 2001. Just looking at a little hole.

The morning stream with Scott and Brian and a caveman. Good morning. Welcome back to TMS for Tuesday, September 13th, 2022. I am Scott Johnson. He is Brian Abbott. Good morning. I am. That is, that's right. And hello. And happy Tuesday. Hey, man, Tuesdays. It's not Mondays. It's not Mondays. It's taco days if you're into that sort of thing. And I am into that sort of thing. I am too. Where do you go for your Taco Tuesdays if you had to, you know? Oh, geez.

You know, the town of Arvada just can't get enough tacos for some reason. In the last five years, I'd say half a dozen taco places have opened up within five minutes of my house. I have no idea why. I mean, Ari, we had a Taco Bell, obviously, whatever. That doesn't count. But we have Teocali tacos and Laredo tacos and Tacos del Lefefe or something like that. Fuzzies in old town. Fuzzies tacos.

But there's another taco place that moved into the old Bella Bistro, and I can't remember what the name of that place is. And of course, Torchies and Rusty Taco. I feel like you have all the tacos there. Oh, Lord, we do. And I still say for my, for Bellows, for. bang for my buck, which means a whole different thing when you're in Vegas, but for banging for my buck, I would say Torchies is the, is the winner out here. Okay.

They fill their tacos. They have a much bigger variety than the other places. And their tacos are chock-a-block full of stuff. I like chocco-block full of stuff. That's how I like my tacos. Yeah, chocolate full of stuff. And yes, people are still hung up on the name Fuzzy's. Tacos, yeah, Fuzzy Tacos. Yeah, that's actually an Austin chain that moved to Colorado, as I think is Torchies, as a matter of fact.

I'm a little more bummed out about the term Rusty Taco. I don't think I like that. Yeah, that was a place that was originally called R Taco, just the letter R Taco. And then they finally said, well, the R stands for Rusty. Let's just call it Rusty Taco. Like, why isn't it Rusty's Taco? Is it a guy named Rusty? Right, yeah, it's just plain old Rusty Taco. Okay, that's just a problematic thing. That is an interesting question because, yeah, I'm looking, they're also kind of a chain. I don't know where they originated. Let's see.

Let's see if their website talks about the history of Rusty Taco. Yeah, where was Rusty Born? Our story, here we go, our story. Oh, fine. Allow them to know where I live, your current location, even though it. Hooray, now they know Rusty tacos. It's the wrong place. They now know where Brian lives.

That's the end of it. That's you're screwed. That's right. Exactly. Oh, well, tacos is a popular event. Let's open another taco place. Our name comes from our founder, Rusty Fenton, who along with his wife, Denise, and partner, Steve Dunn, open the first rusty taco location in Dallas. So, yeah, it should be called Rusty's tacos.

Rusty's tacos, not Rusty tacos. Yeah, but then you get people who might start calling it Rusty Stacos, or I don't know. They're, you know, is there a, I guess there's not really a problem with an apostrophe yes there. Why rusty taco? Well, props to everybody out there who has already gone to Urban Dictionary and looked for rusty taco. Yeah. You know, it is far better than a crusty taco. I'll say that.

That's, you know, if you put, if you're going to add a letter to the rusty taco name, don't make it a C and don't put it at the front. Just put, mood, go all out, say rusty, musty talk. Rusty, crusty, musty taco. There you go. done it's all of these places oh fuzzies fuzzies does have apostrophia so it's not just fuzzy tacos so it's a possessive somebody has somebody named fuzzy okay yeah and that one did start in um actually fort worth was the first one but i've always thought of it as an austin staple it's almost like texas borders uh mexico and they're good at taco food it's almost like that apparently so yeah texas uh sending all their taco restaurants to

Colorado. Nothing wrong with that. Keep them coming, man. Nothing wrong with that. I have nowhere in particular that I go, oh, those, I used to, but they went away. And I'm sure there's great talk. Well, like Red Aquana is amazing, but that's like a full restaurant experience. Like if I want to just go somewhere and get tacos. Oh, Taco Taco Downtown is really good. Sorry. So Salt Lakers, if you're in downtown Salt Lake, there's a place called Taco Taco, which recently just expanded. And they're, those are fantastic. I almost forgot. They are very, very good. Okay. All right. there you go mom and pop place there's not a taco taco yeah talk it's which seems you know a little boring and on the nose a little redundant really yeah yeah but it's it right next to a little

caesars yeah he walks out once in a while stretches and goes ah taco taco and then goes back inside exactly uh anyway we're here it's a tuesday we got lots of stuff to do today i got a fun little plan for brian here uh for for gamers it's a big day uh so if you're like hey are these guys going to talk about all that stuff. We'll do it on the gaming shows on the Frog Pants Network. We'll listen to CORE this week. Big, big stuff from Sony, Nintendo, and possibly others. So

don't expect that here today. We did a lot of that in pre-show anyway. Instead, I'm going to stump Brian. We haven't done that in a while. Okay. It's easy to do, but yeah, it's been a while. But we're going to do it in an area of your expertise. And let's see if I can find a good clip that I want to play for

your intro today. How about this one? it, I'm out. Oh. All right. Well, that was random. I didn't expect that. That wasn't on purpose, everybody.

I remind myself to go bleep that. Anyway. That's time stamp. Yeah, we'll figure it out. So I'm going to stump you with some trivia that, thankfully, Tim, aka TRPW in our chat room, put this together. Cool. It's Spice Girls Edition, stumped Brian.

Oh, God. Okay. Yeah, and I know you're excited. How could you not be? Yes, I want to be getting all these right. Yes, you do. Your true worth as a person will now be determined by your additional or by your correct or false answers to these questions. Hoping my two points become one. No, that's not right. No, that isn't it at all. That's not it. So here you go. I'm just going to jump into these. There's not a ton, so we got, you know, we've got plenty of time for these. Here's your first question. and for those at home are like,

why spice girls? If you've missed it previously, Brian's like a super fan. Maybe, let me remind people why. He's got all kinds of shit. He dreams of it. He lives it.

He eats it, drinks it. Oh, look at this right here. Look at this. Look at this poster. Spice World. Oh. Right there. We'll just set this.

You know which one, sporty spice by how grumpy she looks. That's fantastic. I know. No, no. It's not sporty. It's a posh is the good thing. She's the one who.

She does not love. like to smile soccer wife i always forget all right yes so uh we're going to test your your fandom here please go question number one which early member of what sorry which early member of what became the spice girls was replaced by emma benton binton sorry binton sure um so there was an early member oh you know what it's multiple choice i'm sorry this is good oh good okay thank goodness because i'm hoping kate middleton is on the list she seems perfect but uh here are you're choices. A, peppy Lerner. Don't know who

that is. Pepe Lerner? Sure. Second is Michelle Stevenson. C. Nicole Appleton or D. Mel Coloma. Mel Coloma. Mel Coloma. Because they don't have enough Mel's in the group already. You know what? The name

What was it? Appleton. Victoria Apple? No, what was it? Nicole Appleton. Nicole Appleton? Mm-hmm. That one sounds familiar. I think she's a member of the Sugar Babes or All Saints, Nicole Appleton. You know your shit here. I don't think it was another Mel, because that would be hilarious to have four or three Mel's in the group.

It'd be like having three people with the last name Taylor in your new wave group. Yeah, yeah. What were the other choices? Peppy Lerner, Michelle Stevenson, Nicole Appleton, or Mel Coloma? Peppy Lerner. I'm going to say Michelle Stevenson, because if you were making up a quiz about potential spice girls, Michelle Stevenson would be the name, would be the correct answer,

and you'd make up a whole bunch of British-sounding names for the other answers. See, this is why Brian's good at trivia. He thinks beyond the actual question and into the structure. I do. I think about the question writer. I don't know. I don't know how TRPW thinks. Well, let's find out if you're correct. Oh, you're right about this one. Michelle Stevenson.

Yes, there's a little bit... Err to the McLean-Stevenson fortune. Yep, he left a lot there. Pepe Lerner was the Spice Girl's vocal coach who recommended Emma Bunton. Nicole Appleton is a member of the rival group All Saints. All Saints. Yep, thank you very much. Nicolm.

Nicolmuch. Mel Coloma was replaced by Victoria Adams, Posh Spice, shortly after auditioning successfully. She claims that her voice was considered too good. So there was a Mel Coloma potentially in the Spice Girls. Yeah. Almost made it. My goodness. Question number two.

What was on the back of Jerry Callowell's iconic Union Jack dress. My hand. Oh. What? Here are your options. A, the two-fingered piece or victory hand symbol. You know, this bill.

Yeah, we know it's not used for that. No, but it can't, you know, it can be, I suppose. I guess this way is peace. This way is not. What is this way? Some sort of vagina thing? That's equivalent of the F ball, like the bird in the UK. But you have to do like this.

Bird. Do you have to do this where you jerk it up? Or you do this. Oh. But it's almost like one of these too. Like, you know. For some reason, I can picture Nick Frost or somebody doing that going to work like that. Yeah. Yeah.

All right. So that's your number one. B, the Tao Jitsu or Taoist ying yang symbol. So a little swirly deal. Yeah. Sure. Uh-huh. See, it was a Gucci little black dress with a Union Jack T-T towel stitched on the front.

There was nothing on the back. What the hell? No, I think that's BS. Okay. And then D, a symbol for the group, the campaign for nuclear nuclear disarmament that looks a bit like a pie chart. So those are your options. You got the yin-yang, you got the victory hand, you got the Gucci deal.

Oh, like the peace symbol, basically, is what they're describing, right? Sort of, except it's solid, but yeah, you're not wrong. Okay. It's to sort of. I have no idea on this, and I looked at the back of the poster. on this one, although she's not wearing her Union Jack dress on here. Posh was known for the little black Chanel deal,

so I don't think it was the Chanel tea towel, whatever that was. It's very small. Yeah. I'm going to say it's the two-finger victory sign.

Let's find out if it is. Is it that? No. The correct answer is D, the symbol for the group for the campaign for nuclear disarmament. It was the nuclear. interesting it was the pie chart yeah is the pie chart uh all right i still think you did pretty good there on just the evaluation because that's a hard one here's your next one mel b is said to have come up with the phrase ziga zigzag a and the song wannabe uh what is the meaning or inspiration for this phrase oh okay here you go a that sounded really competent

the meaning is get with my friends first no no doubt so here's number one A, it represents the sound of an orgasm. Okay. Mine sounds like, mine sound, is that normal? Anyway. Mine sounds like, okay. Okay, okay, all right, all finished. All done.

All done. We are complete. All done. We have completed our desired output. All right. There's that. B, is it inspired by, Zig and Zag a pair of popular TV puppets In the UK, okay

Never heard of Zigg and Zag C. C, is it derived from the phrase Shit and Cigars Or D Shit and cigars It's like a weird phrase Why is that even a phrase? I'm trying to figure out how it leads into that

Shit and cigars And Ziggas Shit and Cigars. No, that's absolutely stupid Sounds stupid. go ahead and then d it comes from the newspaper article about the ziggurots of er oh geez louise i was hoping it was be like you know it's some it's some uh girl power thing um i think it just sounds like nonsense shitts shitts shitts no uh zigg and zagg puppets i don't think so either yeah how about that orgasm the orgasm maybe maybe no i'm thinking maybe i'm leaning now towards the orgasm

But who goes zig-a-ziga. Someone who really wants to distract their partner. I guess so. Really ruin their night. You know what? Let's, let's say it's the orgasm. All right. Let's find out.

Is it? Nope. The correct answer is shit and cigars. Really? Shit and cigars. It says the girls had to share a bathroom at the studio with an arrogant 80s pop star who had the nasty habit of taking a dump in the, shared cassey they call it uh-huh uh let's see while smoking on a cigar so they refer to him

as shit and cigars that's the name of the guy they don't say who the 80s pop star was though i would love to know oh my gosh i know i know was it sting and they're going oh i can't come out until i finish me is Andrew Ridgely that's what it was was Andrew originally really shit and cigars of all the 80s pop star how of all the 80s uh stars who would you least like to especially let's let's keep it to british 80s pop stars okay all right which one of those do you least want to be next in line in a in a toilet like who do you want to not follow oh geez and what in my head it's it's bob geld off but geld off gel do god oh yeah he doesn't look like he showers much does he that's a really good uh he take a bad poo just know i think i think i think

I think Billy Eiddle could probably throw a deuce, man. I think he could really, I think he could wreck a bathroom. I would have said meatloaf, but we're talking British artists. Yeah, we're talking British here, folks. Meatloaf would be fine. I mean, meatloaf is a great choice. There's nothing wrong with, you know, meatloaf. And if we want to extend it to, like, all eras, I mean, you could, I bet Tom Jones leaves a real, real bummer in there.

Oh, yeah. Why George Michael buy a cow? I don't know. why? Yeah. I've heard George Michael was very pleasant in the bathroom. Oh, ask your recent relatives if you're too young for that reference. That's awesome. Elton John, yeah.

Yeah, old John could probably... Probably wreck it pretty good. Right. All right, next question. You ready for this? Oh. I'm ready. Yeah. Okay, this is weird. Okay.

Oh, okay. I cut off part of it. So now I have the actual question. Here we go. Which Spice Girl has the most obvious connection to Monty Hall? To Monty Hall of Let's Make a Deal? Yeah, this is a weird thing. Oh, geez. And your options are Emma, Jerry, Mel C, and Victoria.

Oh, really? So we're leaving... We're leaving somebody off. Leaving Mel B out, it sounds like. Who's Mel C? Which one's she? Mel C is Melanie Chisholm. That would be sporty spice.

Gotcha. I know, I can't keep him straight. Anyway, which one of those you think it has a connection of Monty Hall? Yeah, which I will then tell you after, you know, that you need to guess who. I don't know how you'd ever know this one. Yeah, stab in the dark. Let's say it's Emma Bunton. Let's find out.

Is it Emma Bunton? Nope, it's Jerry Hollowell. Really? Okay. Here's her connection. Oh, really? Hollywell, you know, that might have been a smart thing for me to say, well, Hall is in the first part of her last name.

Oh, it's not even for that reason, though. Here's why. Okay. Let's see. Hollowell was a presenter on the Turkish version of Let's Make a Deal, the game show co-created and originally presented by Monty Hall. So that's their connection. So she was, okay, so she's as connected to Monty Hall as,

oh, what's his face? Wayne Brady. Or Mike Brady or any of the Brady's. All Brady's. All right. Here's your next one. uh this is let's see okay here we go in 1997 jennifer saunders the co-writer of the movie spice world put together a spoof spice girl's pop group called the sugar lumps

who played the baby spice slash emma buntan analog in the sugar lumps here are your options i didn't know this existed did you didn't know that either no i know she's uh she's absolutely fabulous she's half of that uh deal and uh french and saunders comedy duo french and saunders okay go ahead Oh, I didn't know that. I knew her, but I didn't know they were, I didn't know they were part of that. Anyway, A, Cilia Black, B. Cicilla.

What I say? Oh, I'm just, like my eyes as shit. I think it's just Cilla Black. You are correct. B, dusty Springfield. C, Lulu, not to be confused with the book publishing website. Sure. D. Sandy Shaw.

So you got Cill Black, Dusty Springfield, Lulu, and Sandy Shaw. All four are... much older performers. So what year did she put this thing together? 97, 1997. 97, okay. 25 years ago. All right, I don't think Dusty Springfield is still alive.

I could be wrong. You know her from the Son of a Preacher Man song. Oh, I like that song. The only boy who could have is a son of a preacher man. That's a great song. It's such a great song. I don't think she's. Lulu, you know, from two

sir with love. Oh. If you're right in the son and a be da da da da da da da Yeah. Yep. Yeah, I can't think of the lyrics to that one.

Sillabla Black, Sandy Shaw, Sandy Shaw, Big U.K. I mean, I'll think all four of them are big U.K. artists, but. Yeah, they're all U.K.ers, I think. Sandy Shaw still doing stuff,

at least as of a few years ago, got sent a cover, a new cover that Sandy Shaw had recorded. I can't remember what it was. But because of the fact that she's still doing stuff, I'm going to say Sandy Shaw. Okay. Let's find out if you're correct. You are incorrect. The answer is Lulu. It was Lulu. Really? Yeah. The rest of the Sugar Lumps lineup was Jennifer Saunders as Jerry. Kathy Burke is Mel C. Don French as Victoria. And Luella Gideon as Melby. Interesting. Wow. And there you. go like uh uh french you know french and saunders both contributing to that one wow and for those who

are like i need to see more about this i'm putting a link to the youtube yeah in the uh the chat there so you guys can see it uh next question i don't know how you're doing i haven't that's the are you sure that's the thing because i thought that that's the video for uh who do you think you are he he included it saying it was this but maybe they goofed maybe he goofed and oh gotcha okay he might have put it in oh Oh, yeah, it does, it looks like it does have all the alternat, alternas spicers in there. Okay. Alternas spice.

I'm putting that in my, in my, uh, cue to watch later. Nice. Nice. Yes. Oh, there's sugar lumps version. I don't know where we're at scorewise. Someone in the chat, hopefully is keeping track. Sucky is where we're at.

I think I've only gotten one right. Well, look, now's your chance to recover. Here you go. Okay. All right. When recording the video for the single, say you'll be there. Yeah. The spice girls came up with alter egos.

What was Victoria slash posh spices altered ego? Oh, jeez. Jeez, that's right. They, like, showed alter ego names at the beginning of the video. Here are your options. A. Okay. Midnight Miss Suki.

B. Trixie Firecracker. C. Kung Fu Candy or D. Katrina High Kick. Okay. All right. Let's see here.

As soon as you said, midnight Miss Suki or something like that, that's the one that that sprung into my mind. I want to say that those were names for all of them and I want to say what Princess High Kick I think was sporty.

I will tell you that let's see High Kick I'm already ruling that one out so if I'm already wrong by saying Princess High Kick then Yeah I won't tell you until you pick Okay all right okay I'm going to say

I'm going to say it's Midnight Miss Suki and I think the other the other three were were like dynamite I think was hallowell I think chop what was it suey what was the oh the other one was

Kung fu candy I think was scary and I think Princess High Kick was sporty All right so we're going with Midnight Miss Suki Let's see if you get it Congratulations you did it Actually some of those others are wrong though Mel C was Katrina High Kick

Jerry was Trixie Firecracker, Emma was Kung Fu. MLC is sporty. That's what I said, was Princess High Kick. Oh, no, no, no, wait. Oh, this is more about me not knowing who these women are. So you're good. Yeah, sorry. I should have said their full names and their fake names.

I can't pick. I can't match them up. See, Trixie Firecracker was Jerry. Kung Fu Candy was Emma. Victoria was Miss Suki, as we said. And then Melby was Blazin Bad Zula, who's not on our list. So I got, I got Emma. and Melby, incorrect.

I don't remember this video at all. Like, I have no memory of it. Oh, you'd love it. They're like in a post-apocalyptic wasteland in there. Oh, then I'm in. It's good. It's actually, I'd say it's the best of their videos. Those names feel like people have done missions for in cyberpunk, which I'm playing right now.

Every one of those. All right, here's a new or another one. Which of these dance-style mix-ups do the Spice Girls call out and spice up your life? Okay. So here are your options. A. Hip Hop the Lombata. B. Moonwalk the Foxtrot. C. Waltz the salsa and D. Flamenco the Polka.

Oh, yeah. Okay. Like it's, yeah, they're doing this whole. Ram, man, ma, ma, ma, ma, ma, ma, ma, ma, ma, ma, ma, ma, ma, ma, ma, ma, ma, ma, ma. It's such a dumb son. I think it's the last one, though. I think it's Fox Trot, the polka. Let's find out.

Yeah, that's the last one, right? Sorry. Oh, well, the polka one is moonwalking one is moonwalking. the fox so is moonwalk to fox foxtrot and flamenco the polka fomenko the polka that's i'm going to say it's flamenco the polka correct answer is moonwalk the fox trot moonwalk the fox trot okay yeah the original lyrics were flamenco lambata but hip hop is harder or hada as they probably said yeah uh we moonwalk the fox trot than polka the salsa uh poca the salsa that's what i do uh when i'm almost done with my mexican food restaurant. Same, same.

People don't like it when I double poke the salsa, though. They want me to just single poke it. That's right. All right. Last of three questions. Here's your next one. Which Spice Girl video is shot in a terrorist street called Carnu Street in Dublin. Oh, I bet I could even

I think it's stop. But I'm going to tell you, here are all your choices. Here are all your options. Say you'll be there. Mama, stop, and two become one. Brian is correct with stop you're going in and out of all the little doors

and it's really fun I do remember that video vaguely stop right now thank you very much sure you know they're ahead of their time if Brit Pop

if Brit Pop was having the kind of resurgence that say K-pop is having right now just imagine how huge that band would be Oh they'd be enormous yeah and there's still you know I'm still holding up Hope for a Spice Girls tour that comes somewhere near me.

Maybe, you know, I'd go as far as Vegas or Los Angeles. Oh, wow. Look at you. That's as far as I'd go. I don't know if I'd go New York or Miami or something like that. Would you go Oklahoma? Would you go there? Oh, yeah.

I'm sure the Spice Girls are really going to hit the Tulsa. Well, I don't know. The Tulsa Arena. I don't know if they've got the chops they used to have, so maybe, maybe. Now playing at the Cheyenne County Fair. Yeah, the Days Inn. Branson, Missouri, Spice Girls. All right, here's your second and the last question.

Which Spice Girl covered the Spice Girl song to Become One with Robbie Williams in 2019? Hmm. I don't know about this. Was it Mel C, Mel B, Victoria, or Emma? I want to say that that was an Emma song, and she put out a lot of covers. let me see here um i i notice you're giving me everybody but posh which is smart because posh really hasn't recorded much since since uh she married bex yeah she just has the she just has soccer sex all day she has the fashion yeah she does her fashion line she does some uh yeah charity stuff

let's see here never smiles that's the deal i feel like that was always an emma song anyway the two become one i'm gonna say emma uh let me see brian i feel like you're on a bit of a roll did he get this one right he did it is emma nicely done final question this is uh i think if you get this one right you've officially won the list okay all right if you get it wrong then every you lose everything oh god yeah that's fine boy no pressure geez here goes in the video for goodbye each of the remaining spice girls get surrounded by falling objects what falling things does mel see get surrounded by i think it's soccer balls but let's hear there's your options uh a paper you ever seen Paper.

Look at it. B, an exploding chandelier. Chandelier. D, or sorry, C, toilet paper rolls, like it's 20-20 all up in here. Sure, yeah. And D, plates. Oh, okay, so soccer ball's not on the list. Not on the list.

Yeah, yeah, this goodbye song was, because Jerry had already left the band, so it was really just the four remaining spice pearls. The colonel's four remaining spices. Right, exactly. It's like when Fifth Harmony became four. Let's see. I'm going to say, all right, paper and toilet paper, I'm going to cancel each of those out because I don't know why. It just doesn't feel like.

It feels like if you're going to create a, again, multiple choice, you wouldn't have both paper and toilet paper because it would be. too easy. Well, paper is a kind of toilet paper or a toilet paper is a kind of paper or whatever. That's right. And in a pinch, I could wipe with a piece of paper if I had to. I have. I've done it. Let's let's go with an exploding chandelier. That one

feels out of place and I love me a good out of place, yes. Well, let's find out of Brian's wild approach to this answer is correct. It is a correct answer. Nicely done. Victoria gets paper. Emma gets toilet paper rolls. Oh, they're both in there?

toilet paper rolls, really? I thought you were going to be right about that, but nope, apparently paper and toilet paper were there. Mel B gets paper plates, sorry, just plates, there's no paper plates, sorry. It's all paper products. This video is sponsored by Chinette. Yeah, there you go. And then, of course, Mel C with her exploding chandelier.

I think he did real well on this list. I think we can stand, and we can now all officially say that Brian is the biggest Spice Girls fan, you know. And certainly the biggest one I know. I don't know. I mean, Claire was up there, though. Claire, Claire was getting the ones that I got wrong. She was getting those correct. We, if we were, if we were Voltron, you know, we could join to form one super Spice Girl fan.

I guess so. So she likes them more than, I know she's not one for the monarchy. She really doesn't. She, whatever she just said, I effing hate the Spice Girls. Oh, well, then, okay, so then they'll take Spice Girls, the Monarchy, and the Pope and all three she hates them she can't stand them effem all lee no kidding what do all those things have in common she hates them by the way TRPW is threatening squeeze next bring it on oh do that one that one I feel like I can do it I can answer up and down

I love that that that was really cool of you to do that Tim so thank you very cool and send me more and I'll be happy to do more of these stunt Brian segments they're really fun okay we are going to take a quick dive into all things. You know, I'm going to borrow recommendals for a minute. Because it's a form of Hollywood, you know? You got the Hollywood types or whatever. Well, it's definitely a form of Hollywood. Sure.

It's not like it used to be. In the 70s and 80s, those two worlds never collided. But now, actors are all over the place because TV's cool. Oh, I see what you're saying. I mean, they still film a lot of TV in Hollywood. But you're talking about like your Hollywood actors, your movie actors, and your TV actor. Yeah, you had your people on Love Boat and then you had real actors.

actors doing movies and it felt like there was a big difference but uh anyway the emmy awards happened last night a thing i did not watch because i don't care about awards that much but i i like i like the sort of who won business and so we're going to get into that real quick i partially watched it while i had the broncos a seattle game in front of me oh how did that end i didn't see the final oh it was heartbreaking it was uh uh they had like 40 seconds left on the clock uh fourth down and five five yards and our coach and his name is escaping me

decides he's going to run out the clock, run out the play clock and try and get our kicker to kick the second longest field goal in NFL history. Hack it exactly. How are you going to

okay now had that worked it would have amazing. Instead you got Russell Wilson there, we can get your first down, call it, and they had three timeouts. Yeah, that's not like they'd even have any timeouts. They had three timeouts. You go for that first down. You get some yardage. You maybe get some more plays going, but you keep hitting those timeouts so that you can, unless you can get them out of bounds. And then once you get closer, then you trot out the kicker. You don't say, oh, let's run this out and just see how it goes. I don't know why you would

ever put that on anybody in the game like that, especially this early in the season to say, you're going to be required to make the second longest field goal of all time. Right. It was just, it was baffling that move. That's really weird. Now, had he done it, we'd all be losing our minds today. It's all anyone to be talking about. So maybe he was aiming for like one of those moments, but boy, that's a big risk, man. It's a huge risk. And yeah, there we go. It's like, it's the 64 yard or the second longest field goal kick in, a field goal kick in NFL history in an outdoor stadium in Seattle where you've got the fans screaming and trying to be as distracting as possible. And to his credit, he had the distance.

You know, our kicker had the distance. It just veered left a little bit. And sadly, yeah. That thick, that thick ocean air, that sea air, man. It's all fishy and shrimpy. Ew. Exactly. Yeah. Anyway, okay. So let's talk Emmys. Here's your, here's your winners. We got the Outstanding Drama series went to Succession, which pissed a lot of Better Call Saul fans off. It's a hard, it's a tough thing because Succession's excellent too, right? I mean, we look at that, that whole list is full of excellent drama. It's really, everything on there is good, yeah. I mean, I was personally hoping Severance would make everyone look dumb, but that's the genre

lover in me. But Better Call Saul, I think everybody just kind of had settled on this idea that it had like 43 nominations over the years hasn't won any of them. Like Breaking Bad, they went to the final season and then you get your you know, you get your return of the King Awards. Yeah. And it just didn't happen, man.

It's bummer. So Zipped. It really is, yeah. But whatever, none of this matters. It's all fluff and marketing. It is. Yeah. Outstanding comedy series went to Ted Lassow. What a surprise. Yeah, big shocker there. Doing pretty good.

Yeah, again, you know, you've got what we do in the shadows and Abbott Elementary, which is just brilliant. And Barry, which is questionably a comedy series anymore. Yeah, that's a weird one on that list because it does veer so hard. This last season was very little comedy. Oh, it was dark. Yeah. Abbott Elementary, by the way, the one show from a network, regular Temer TV, everything else is streaming.

Everything else is streaming. We are in a new world, you guys. Outstanding Limited Series went to the White Lotus. this one over dopesick dropout pam and Tommy inventing Anna all those yes have you watched it yet no I keep hearing amazing things and you've recommended it was you specifically I recommend it in August 2021 and it's time now maybe people are going to listen to me but no I mean Timothy Zon Connie Britton who we both love love her Jennifer Coolidge who danced her way off the stage because they were playing her off and she was the middle of her speech and decided, all right, I'm just going to steer into this. Doot, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do. That's awesome. When she, last night, I celebrated by watching the episode of Seinfeld where she gives Jerry,

or she won't give Jerry the massage. She refuses. Oh, right. She's so good in that. Anyway, that's good for her, because she's great. We love her. Yeah. Your outstanding lead actor in a drama series went to the Jay, or sorry, Li Jung Jay for Squid Game.

That was a record breaker. That's cool. Surprise. Odenkirk and Jason Bateman and Adam Scott for severance, Jeremy Strong, and Brian Cox for succession. Was Bateman on there? You didn't see him on there? Yeah.

Bateman was, uh, Bateman was, uh, this list is screwed up. It says Brian Koch, uh, the lead jing, Jay guy, Bob Odenkirk, Adam Scott and Jeremy strong. They left him off. Yeah. No, Bateman was a nominee as well. That's not very nice than leaving him off there. No.

Not cool at all. All right. Well, anyway, so, uh, whatever. Better call salt. Yeah, it's good. Squid Game got a lot of surprise love last night. Now, here's one I predicted, and I was sure of it when I saw the episode where she was going through withdrawals. Oh, sure.

Because I watched Euphoria, and Euphoria is a weird mix of things, and I'm not sure. Like, it's not the kind of show I'd go, that's the best show on TV, and, like, not even close to being saying that. But she absolutely blew my mind with her acting, especially those couple episodes where they were dealing with her drug art. And, man, I just, at that time, I went, if she doesn't win for this, then we're, then we're effed. Well, she won and then went home to Tom Holland, and he sprayed web all over her. That sounds terrible. That's horrible. Why did I say that?

Why did I go there? Zig and say, ah! Yeah. Yeah, that's the only series in that category that I've never seen. We've, you know, we watched the morning show, Reese Witherspoon, killing Eve, of course, Jody Comer. who I think is who's my next wife Laura Linney

Melanie Linsky Sandra O also from Killing Eve It's a good list man It's a great list Good for Zendaya Yeah she's great I just

She blew my mind Like everyone wants to go Oh she's just another one of these Ex Disney stars Who's this and that No I think she's the real Frickin deal man Plus she just seems down to earth

And cool She's usually She attempts to be in her pajamas As much as possible And I don't blame her yeah uh all right here's here's uh outstanding supporting actor in a drama you got your matthew mcfadden for succession yeah this was a tight one yeah tom wams cans plus you had like three other succession people in that list or something right yeah you had nicholas brawn who's uh uh his foil like

the the goofy oh gregg is it gregg i think Greg yeah uh and then uh curran culkin but then you also So then you had like John Titoro and Christopher Wacken who are like, you know, like elder statesman in that list. Yeah, especially Wachin. Especially walking. I love John Tatoro's performance. I love it. The two, yeah, just the. He blew my mind.

I'm like, oh, this will be fine. He's like a secondary character. I'm sure it's enjoyable. Oh, man. That whole series was, for me, that was the John Tuturo experience. I freaking loved it. Yeah. All right.

We got outstanding supporting actress in a drama series. Went to Julie Garner. for Ozark. She's awesome. Her career will see no bounds. She's awesome. Yeah. Let's see. Outstanding lead actor in a comedy series went to Ted Lasso's Jason Siddakis. Again, not a huge surprise.

I kind of thought Bill Hader was going to get it personally. Bill Hader or again, Steve Martin, Martin is short for only murders. Donald Glover for Atlanta. Again, that was another category, a packed category of great actors. Even Nicholas Holt, who, you know, is in something, some movie or something at some point. He's in a little thing where he had these two tumors on his neck, and he named him Larry and Gary or something. Let's see. That's because we didn't mention it earlier when we were talking about the post-apocalyptic wasteland for the Spice Scrolls video.

There you go, folks. There you go. We put it in, and there's your sign. All right. The lead actress in a comedy series went to Gene Smart for hacks. I've heard nothing but good things about that role. I've not seen hacks. I haven't seen the new season.

It's next up on our list. She's great, though. We already love Jeansmart. We knew this before the freaking academy did. Let's see. Brett Goldstein for Ted Lassow for supporting actor. That's a coach, right? No, he's the, I can't think of his character name.

He's the beardy guy that's pissed all the guy. The beardy guy, yes. Putting in a Herculean effort on to that show, man. He's great. I love that guy. Yeah. He does a cool podcast, which I only have heard a couple episodes from, but he's very good. Sure. Roy Kent. Yes, of course. Roy Kent.

There you go. Outstanding supporting actress in the comedy went to Cheryl Lee Ralph from Abbott Elementary. I keep hearing she got up and sang or something. She did, yeah. She sang, I am an endangered species. I didn't recognize the song, but

it got a standing ovation from from folks. Is she a good singer? Belted it out. She's all right. She was a loud singer. She didn't even need a microphone. She just sent that out there.

Okay. Because, you know, they did something interesting this year that I really approve of, and I'd love to see them do this for the Oscars, is that while they were giving their speeches, they apparently every nominee gave the TV Academy or whoever a list of who they would like to think. And they showed that list at the bottom of the screen. So instead of wasting the other time saying, oh, I need to

thank Frank Martinez and I need to thank Joe Balinski and I need to thank all the folks at Warner Entertainment. I need to thank my agent, Bob Frankberger and Bob Frankberger. I know how you came up with Bob Frankberger.

But anyway, instead of wasting all that time with that stuff, they could You know, they could then talk about, you know, the experience or the role or, you know, why, really it was more like a chance to say, I can't believe I was up against all these great actors and I shouldn't be the one up here. One of them should be the one up here. Sometimes they have a cause. They want to get up there and, you know, do or whatever. So did they, from what I could tell and I only saw photos, so I didn't watch any of this live, there was like a weird circle around the stage, like people are all around it? It was a, yeah, it was a theater in the round. Like, comedians will do that sometimes.

Sometimes it was very, you know, thin in one part. So it was like if you took the circle and moved the center, the nucleus back. So there was really only room for one row of tables behind you and all the important people were in front. But it sure, it made for some interesting moments of people kind of photo bombing removing their heads so they knew they were in the shot in the background. Wow. That's awesome. It looked cool. I mean, from what I could tell, I'm fine with that. It looked different. It was, you know, it was kind of, it was boring as hell. It was, there were no, I don't want to, I don't want to slap every, every award show. But even, you know, give us something like, give us, like a Jack Palin's doing one-arm push-ups kind of moment. And we just didn't have any of that. Like, none of it was. What was interesting is I found the craziest news. story. This year was really low viewing. It was like under five million. Not surprised. Yeah, not a big

surprise, but under five million people watched them. More people last night during the time slot, 5.8 million people watched one of the BTS guys, I don't know what Lynn, I think. Oh, really? Watched him sit in his pajamas and play video games. That got better ratings than the Emmys. Oh, that's funny. Which tells me that traditional media is not prepared. They're not ready. They don't know when these things are going to come, when they're going to happen, and when they're going to explode.

And last night, a completely, I assume Twitch got a bunch of money for this or wherever he streamed it from. Yeah. But they beat the freaking Emmys. It's amazing. That's amazing. What we, you know, the reason, the reason I like these shows is because it lets me know about other shows I should probably check out. Because you almost can't trust Rotten Tomatoes anymore or Paste a magazine saying, here are the five shows that you aren't watching right now on Netflix that you need to be watching.

So this is a way of saying, oh, okay, I really like that actor. I didn't know they were doing this other thing. Yeah, I'm with you. They just need another, they need a Rotten Tomatoes, a vetted Rotten Tomatoes version that just says, hey, here are the 10 best shows of the year. And we don't need a winner. or we don't need a best this or best that. Just give us like, you know,

here are the 10 best shows as rated on by critics and not people who signed up for a free account to cast their phone. Yeah, or people that are, you know, I don't think, I don't know, now I'm starting to get nitpicking gatekeeping, but like, should we let every, if a guy's a blogger, is he a reviewer? Do we let him in? What is the limit?

I think you need to have a, you need to have a degree in critical review. There's, you can get a degree. in critical review. All right. That's just a standard then. Let's do that. And I feel like that should be the standard because then you're able to hopefully factor out,

ah, I had a shitty day. Boy, I really didn't like Abbott Elementary or I don't like Asian people. So, boy, do I not like killing Eve or whatever. Like, you know, anything where you kind of take those other biases out and can give an objective review. Tally, in the chat says, younger generations don't give an F about older generation's opinions. Yeah, Talley, welcome to humanity. It's always been this way. It's always been this way.

I didn't care what my parents said. You don't care what yours said. Hence the phrase, you're not my dad. Yeah. It's been around forever, man. I mean, that's as old as time. All right, let's move on to... And maybe Talley, that's why you haven't watched White Lotus yet.

Yeah, get in there. Get that done. Because I'm an old generation that recommend. It's funded it to you. That might be. Old man, Ibbott and his recommendations. Yeah, come on. Go watch a TV show about a guy who shits in a suitcase.

Come on. Would you want that in your life? I know I do. Don't you want to see Steve Zahn's wean? Come on. Always and forever. I remember watching Saving Silverman going, man, Steve Zon, if you just show me your penis. If I'd only see his wean.

Yeah. Please pull it out. Yeah. Sure. All right. Here's your next winner. You got Amanda Seafried for the dropout. She won for Best Outstanding Lead Actress and a limited TV

series or movie beating out a bunch of people. I never saw that. You see that? Was it good? I did see that. I recommend it and she was good. Hands down for me, Margaret Qualley and Maid. She should have won that category. She had

you saw Maid, didn't you? I don't think I saw May. Or maybe Kim watched it. It's one of the best things I saw last year and it's about a woman who gets out an abusive relationship and goes out on her own and has to become a maid to

make ends meet. Oh, Kim did see this and she loved it and said I should watch it and I haven't watched it. You should watch it. It is so good and made was and Margaret Qualley was just phenomenal in that. When you say her name, I think of

DJ Qualls. Is that weird? A very different, very different person but you do have to tell me if you're a cat, right? Best thing you ever did. Let's see. best supporting actor or sorry best supporting actor in a limited series of tv movie went to murray bartlett for the white lotus feed out a whole bunch of people he's the guy who shits in a suitcase that's right three white three white lotus uh uh on there yeah it did really well steves on set rogan

set rogan's first like that set rogan uh coolidge one for white lotus oh he's in pam and tomm me, sorry. You're right. Yeah, Seth Rogen. Jake Lacey is for the White Lotus. Yeah. But that's got to be Seth Rogen's first nomination for anything, right? I think so. It has to be.

That's kind of cool. Did he just go, I'm not going to win. Right. And yeah, Tully, that is the guy who was on drag race down under. He's definitely it. Yeah, the cast of White Lotus got up on stage for their win. And Alexandria Didario with kind of a see-through outfit. my gosh miss that okay well need to catch up on my uh you go look for that one get my didario on

if you know what i'm saying it's your didario on outstanding supporting actress in a limited series tv movie this thing was so packed with white lotus people yeah uh Cindy Sweeney Natasha Rothwell alexander didario as you mentioned her uh Jennifer coolie Sweeney's uh euphoria yeah uh oh this says Sydney Sweeney white lotus did they really wrong wasn't Sydney Sweeney maybe they did it. Oh, that's right. She wasn't White Lotus. I'm sorry. You're absolutely right. She's in Euphoria as well, though. Oh. Oh, that's her.

Yeah. Oh, I know who that is. Okay. I didn't realize she was in White Lotus. She's interesting, human. Anyway, they got one, two, three, four, five people in this category were all White Lotus actors. And it went to Jennifer Coolidge, who rightly refused to give George or Jerry a massage. Outstanding Reality Competition Series went to Lizzo's Watch Out for the Big Girls. I haven't seen it. Here it's funny.

Good job. Well done. I don't know. I have no idea. I have no opinion on that because I don't watch any of these. So do you think any of these should have beat that or? What was it? Which category was that?

Because I'm scrolling to these, as you say them. Which one? Reality competition series. Oh, let's see here. Oh, I'm looking at the wrong thing because I was saying RuPaul's draglaced. Oh, the series itself. Hold on a second. Structured, unstructured, unstructured competition.

where you go, competition program. And it went to the Lizzo deal. Nailed it, RuPaul's Drag Race, Drag Race, Drag Lace. Amazing Race, The Voice, Top Chef. I mean, Amazing Race has won every year, it seems like. I'm sorry, no, RuPaul is one every year. Yeah. Used to always be Amazing Race.

Yeah. I don't know. I think the voice fails at the one thing that it tries to do, which is say, we're going to pick people and make them successful, completely not based on their looks, but only based on their voice. And it starts out as that, but it definitely doesn't end up as that. I agree. I don't like that show for that reason.

Yeah. So, uh, I've seen nailed it. I've seen Rupal's drag lace again. And the amazing lace. Let's just do all of it. Uh, Brian's not doing an offensive, uh, Asian accent. We promise. Oh, God. No, I'm, I'm, I'm really. Yeah. He's just mixing lace and race. Okay,

everybody. I'm just mixing lace and race and race. So sure, sure, Lizzo deserved it. I don't know. Sure, why not? So I can't really say. I just am sick of her song that I need a man or woman to pump me up with this thing and the stuff and the deal. I'm sick of that.

All right. Outstanding Variety Talk Show went to last week tonight with John Oliver doing great work over there. He really is. Up against some pretty good stuff. How come Jimmy Kimmel laid on the stage? What was that about? No, it was a joke. He and Will Arnette came out.

and Jimmy has been nominated for that category several times for talk show several times. And as a joke, he, Wilhelmette said that he just over drank and so he had to just drag him his passed out body out on stage. And Jimmy Kimmel kept the bit going for, like, he committed to it. He did not, the only time he broke characters when the Quinto or Quinta from Abbott Elementary asked him to hold her phone. So he laid there the whole time Because somebody I was reading Somebody was pissed that he was doing it

Because they felt like it was like They over did it Like they just overstated to welcome I think it's great that he committed to the bit I think it was You know You'd expect something like that From him and Will Arnette

You wouldn't expect it from Martin Short and Steve Martin You know No but I do love that those two old best friends Steve Martin and Martin Short nominated in the same category Yes and got up together And presented

did and with a selina gomez who has definitely shown that she's not just a pop tartlet no i love this i love this in her career she she ran the risk deserved or not she ran the risk of like oh she's just another you know like one of these yeah yeah left over beaver girl whatever things and she's not that she got real talent she's super smart she's great with those two like that seems like and they also seem like they've got like a like a legit friendship between them all and was she she was in that spring breakers thing right the uh oh yeah oh yeah the franco deal i need to see that i hear it's it's weird man yeah that's what i hear i really like the music i shouldn't say i like all the music i really like some of the music in that

movie and i think it's trippy and weird it's almost like miami the vibe of miami vice meets oh it's kind of euphoria a little bit now that i think about it yeah because i was to say doesn't it get really dark with some like prostitution or or sort of well Franco's character is horrible he's yeah that's yeah that's what I hear is that he's he's good in it but he's a horrible person in it and apparently he's kind of an ass in real life so maybe it fits but uh anyway there's that uh final one outstanding variety uh sketch series went to saturday night live what yeah you might be familiar with it Brian it's been around for a little bit for a while And never wins anything.

The category of two shows, the Black Lady Sketch Show, the Saturday Night Live. Oh, well, we really weren't expecting to win this one this year. Yes, I can't do him like you can. My version of him is all broken. Too much listening to fly on the wall. Well, it's because Janie Carvey every chance he gets. Yeah. Oh, anybody, even Spade does that voice.

Yeah, no, they all do. Look, if you worked with that guy ever, SCTV all the way through S&L, all those eras, all of them probably do him. And why not? You know, he's that, he's that guy. Well, there's your, there's your fun list of who won and who didn't, and we're all better for it. Let's take a break when we come back. Bobby Frankenberger will be here, no relation to Bob. Not Bob Frankberger.

Not Bob Frankberger, no. We can't get him. We're too highfalutin for that guy, but we got his non-union equivalence. so we're excited about that. That's coming up for a little bit of science. Bill's out. He's got COVID from the, who knows, from his last trip where he got it, who knows.

But he's doing okay, just getting lots of rest. Talked to him last night and should be fine. Wild, hopefully mild symptoms. Yeah, he's all vaxed up and, you know, this should be mild. Anyway, and he's right to be resting. That's the key. I talked to another doctor yesterday about a whole other issue,

and I said, so this far into the pandemic, Nick, what's the over under on all that stuff? And he says, the number one takeaway is rest like your life dependent on it. Really? It makes huge difference. They say they've got patients who have horrible case, but they rested hardcore and now are doing great. And then they got people with mild cases who just decided to not care and kept going.

And as a result, they've got really effed up long-term symptoms. Oh, God. Okay. So some of that stuff still. Rest bill, please. Geez. Don't try and make any props during this time. Yeah, props to you for not making props.

All right, hey, Brian, let's play a song. Do you have a song we can play? What do you got there? A band called King Buffalo. Big thanks to Jason Sargent for finding this one, a TMS listener, and a person who contacted the band and said, hey, can you, you want to play these guys? Got approval and send it over to me. From Rochester, New York, a band called King Buffalo, it's the trio of Sean McVeigh on vocals

and guitars, Dan Reynolds on bass, and Scott Donaldson on drums. They formed in 2013, and their heavy psych band has released four EPs, four full lengths, and tours with the likes of Clutch, All Them Witches, Uncle Acid, and the Dead Beats, The Sword and Elder. Their fifth full-length album just came out at the beginning of this month, thanks to Stickman Records in this one as well. Here is the song Avalon by King Buffalo. Thank you. In the evening as the sun dims down in opera and the glow, whispers down in awe, rain over and the glow. A delicate breeze to guide the way I won't make it alone

Lights fading as the tide comes Wash it in Buried me to ever long As I'm gazed at least in to the pilot above me floating the way I see the vision in the still

this overhead An elegant breeze breeze will guide the way I can't make it alone Arms open as to die Comes washing in buried me To have belonged

I reach into the twilight Overhead The glow in her eyes rising calling up her head the water rushes in to carry me on I'm hoping to find my way to have the law. You know, We're going to be able to be.

I reach into the twilight overhead, the glowing her eyes, calling up again, the water rushes into, to carry me on I'm ready to find my way to never long I drift into the moonlit sky above I'm counting the memories to the roar of loves the water rushes over

Carried me home I'm ready to find my place in Avalon It's a diorama. It's a diorama, based on Walt Whitman's poem, Cavalry Crossing a fort. We made it for you. Would you like to pet my poopie? This is the morning's dream.

A.M. And we're back. That song once again. That song was Avalon by the band King Buffalo from their brand new album, Regenerator. Regenerator. Starring Jeffrey Combs. Might as well. Might as well be.

What was that one called? A reanimator. Reanimator. Can we film sack that? I think we did. I think we did. If we didn't sack that one, I think we sacked one of the sequels. We definitely saw one of the reanimator films.

Yeah, I think we did. We must have. Because I'd never seen any of those, and I'm pretty sure. Now I know we've seen one. So, how to do that. At least one. I could go for a sequel. All right.

Hey, everybody. Listen to this. Science. Last week's co-host of the podcast on Thursday. is back. It's Bob Frankenheimenberger. Hi, Bob. How do you like your new name? You're cool with that? You feel good? I don't know how I feel about my alter ego being revealed. It's only matter of doing his name. It's a horrible alter ego, by the way.

Yeah, it's not a good one, but we're glad to have you here. It's like Brent Ibbotson or something like that. Everyone really enjoyed your appearance last Thursday. Thank you for doing that. Well, thanks, everyone. Yeah, you held down the fort, kept Brian's little seat nice and cozy and warm. You did. Oh, well, you say that because you haven't figured out what I did. I just changed the height on your computer chair a little bit, just to annoy you.

So not enough for him to notice, really, that it moved, but enough to know something's wrong. Just enough to give you back problems. Sure, well, I stand up for the show, so, you know. Jokes on you. Yeah, plus Brian Fabrizes everything. effort wasted. Yeah. That's right.

Just dumps febrize on there. Anyway, it's good to have you back. We're going to talk some science today, though, because this is your science segment. All Around Science is your podcast. Bobby follows this stuff each and every day. What is going on today in the world of science? Well, I was noticing, so it's August. It's about midway through...

September. I mean, September. Sorry. I'm looking at a chart with... Science good. I never claimed to be a calendrologist or whatever they call them. Sure. I like that name.

That's cool. That's people who drain pasta, by the way. Oh, a colander. I get it. Very nice. Yeah, colindrologists. Yeah, I like it. And they, they're butt doctors, too.

Oh, sure. Tolendrologists, sure. I was looking at the calendar, noticing that it was September and not October or August, and I thought it's midway through hurricane season, right? Oh, yeah, yeah. I don't know if most people, you know, we pay attention to that here in the southeast. Sure, sure. You have to.

The hurricane season, yeah, and it's been a particularly light hurricane season. I feel like by now we would have had, oh, tropical storm butthole is just off the coast of Florida, and we're all batting down to hoo-ha at this point. Like, I feel like we've heard that this year. We usually do by now. We have not, and it's, yeah, it's been particularly mild. There's only been, at this point in the season, there's only been five named storms. Oh, wow.

Yeah. So we're only on E is what you're saying? Yeah, we're only on E. And then when you're driving a car, that's a bad thing. You don't want that. So I guess we got names coming up, Fiona, Julia, and Carl, but we don't have them yet because there aren't storms to name yet. Carl. Carl.

Carl, get back to the ocean, Carl. Get up, get back in the Atlantic, Carl. Yeah. Only two of the storms have even become hurricanes. Okay. And there's been no major storms this year at all. So that's unusual, not only because it's light, but it was predicted that this was going to be a particularly bad year. Yeah.

They predicted that we would over the course of the season have 14 to 20 named storms, 6 to 10 hurricanes, and 3 to 5 major storms, because they're predicting a 65% increase from last year, and that's just not what we've seen so far. They're thinking that it would be really big because of Laninia persisting in the Pacific. Sure, sure. Which is happening. That is a thing. A lot of the coverage says things like the season's just running behind. schedule or the way they're covering it is saying oh it's just it's just going to happen later than usual or do you give any credence to that or is that just a well maybe they're looking at

the same calendar i am um and that's why they're behind a little bit sure they still think it's august they're doing their august you know it certainly could be right because the midwest has experienced a the west and the midwest have experienced a heat wave that we haven't seen in a long time and that could easily have an effect um on on on what we're seeing in the southeast right I would assume so. Yeah, so that's the question, right? Like, why are we seeing such a weak season? And there are some theories as to why. I thought it'd be interesting to talk about them because it has to do with what actually makes a hurricane happen and what can disrupt hurricanes and stuff like that. Sure. The reason they think so far, now, now to be clear, the analysis hasn't been done. It won't be done until the hurricane season over. We won't know. for sure.

We won't have as good of an idea until the hurricane season is over. What might have been the reason why it's been weak so far? Right. But the thing that they're thinking is causing it is dust over the Atlantic that's

coming from the Sahara Desert. So that happens sometimes. We don't want their dust. We don't want their dust. They could keep them. Yeah. Yeah. That's lame. It's the worst kind of dust. is the Saharan dust but it goes uh it gets blown over the out from the desert and over the Atlantic Ocean and in huge plumes I'm gonna let me see I can I'm gonna give you a link here in the oh I like links look at it it just shows you an image of um what these plumes are and how far

they can go over wow oh look at that man oh geez that's pretty obvious to see what the dust is in Yeah, if you're having a picnic, cover up your freaking tuna fish, because this is bad. This is going to come over and wreck you. That's gnarly. Well, the Sahara is pretty big with a lot of sand and dust. So if it gets picked up by the high winds over there, because there's also not a lot of trees in the haras. So hard does it to slow the wind down. It can get really blown over the ocean, and it can go all the way over the Pacific Ocean or the Atlantic Ocean and cause problems.

So why, why would it happen? Why would dust disrupt the hurricane season, right? And they've looked into it. Back in 2020, there was a statistical analysis that was done and some studies that were done to see if this predict, it was always hypothesized that the dust could be having an impact on hurricane seasons, but then they wanted to look at what the links really are. They found that, first of all,

dust blowing over the ocean do you know what the things that are needed are to create a hurricane? No, well you need cold uh wait hot and cold friend hitting each other or something it's a collision of high and low

cold and hot stuff right temperature pressure isn't to Brian you and I are such meteorologist clearly it's like a make DLT where the hot side stays hot and the cold stays cold it's fine yeah So a tornado slides into the hot side

So tornadoes are Hot and Cold fronts coming together Usually in the right conditions Can create tornadoes There is hurricanes are made by By interactions between hot and cold air You're right but but mostly what we're looking at is Is high ocean surface temperatures

Yeah The ocean surface heats up and that can create convective lifting of warm, moist air that causes hurricanes. It's complicated how it happens, but it has to do with very fast-rising wet air going way up into the atmosphere and then getting so high that it falls back down and then the spinning of the earth causes all that wind or all that fast-moving air that's going up and falling back down to start to spin into a hole. very large storm called a hurricane. So the two main things that are needed then are high surface, high ocean surface

temperatures and humidity, moist air, right? Oh, yeah. And so that's what they think the dust from the Sahara interrupts. First of all, they have found that there's a direct correlation between dust storms, dust plumes coming in from the Sahara and lower ocean surface temperatures. So during and after these weeks long dust storms, the ocean temperatures, the surface ocean temperatures drop. So that saps some of the energy out of the ocean

that would be used to create tropical storms that become hurricane. That's interesting. I can kind of, it's weird, my logical, what is left of my logical brain can totally make sense of this because what it sounds like to me is the dust is a particle, it's a cloud of particles that are heavy-ish, that are, it's almost like you're dumping sand on water or fire or anything else. It's just a, it's kind of a heavy disruptive chunk of matter, right?

So, of course it would have an effect. I mean, I don't exactly what effect and how much effect. I mean, I'm not going to be schooled on that, but it does seem like this makes sense. get a little sand in there screw it up it's a lot of dust and even even small amounts of so what I think is happening and is and I don't I didn't read any any explanation like they know 100% why this is happening but I'm pretty sure what's happening is that the clouds are just blocking the sunlight which which makes it so that the sunlight can't warm the the surface of

the ocean as much right right right so that's the one thing and then also the the sand, the dust, is taking some of the humidity out of the air. So humidity in the air is just when the air is warm enough, you've got space between all the molecules in the air and water vapor can live in there and fit in there. And that's what the humidity is. The more water vapor that's able to be in the air, the higher the humidity levels, right? Sure. So if you have other particles like dust going into the air, it does two things. It will combine with the water vapor and maybe drop out. So it actually pools the water out of the air, but also the stuff that's in the air is taking up space. Yeah. It's making it so not as, there's not as much room for water in the

air. Yeah. And so you have less humidity, which is needed to power a hurricane. Think of it as like a kid in Walmart puked all over the toy aisle. And they came in with a big bag of, what do you call it, wood shavings or sawdust and dumped it all over the barf to kind of soak it up and, you know, create a more manageable situation. That's all this is. It's a barf in Walmart. That's what we got. We use kitty litter. Oh, that works, yeah.

Anything that kind of coagulates and, you know, pulls all the. It's non-fleshable barfed up kitty litter. Right. Exactly. So, so do you think, I mean, I mean, I'm not saying that this, so this is nature's, you know, business, right? Nature's doing this. This isn't us doing anything. Does anyone look at this from science? That's what, that's the brand of the kitty litter we used. Yeah, nature's thing. This is nature's thing. Do you think that anybody, are there any scientists sitting around going, perhaps we could harness the dust every year at a certain time of year and artificially throw it over here and that will just slow all this down and create less chance of a hideous whatever? And what's, what's a few? few grains of sand in our egg salad once in a while, you know what I mean? Like, do you think anyone's doing that? I'm sure that some scientists are saying that, but the rest of the

scientists are like kind of looking at him out of the corner of their eye and trying to ignore him as best they can. Yeah, pretending that guy doesn't exist. I get it. Oh, gosh. Yeah. You know, kind of turning away from them at the lunch table, you know. Old Stan Erickson with his bad ideas. He's always there. Yeah. But, uh, so, because you don't want to blow dust around if you don't have to, right? Was that true? I mean, I don't know. I'm just saying, like, if they find a way to stop massively destructive hurricanes, and that way is to inject the conditions that the sand is doing,

but create another way of doing it, maybe less intrusive or less, you know, less actual sand. Or wildfires, like direct the sand over to the wildfires that are going on. Or any of that stuff. Like, it seems like if nature's figured out a way to slow, hurricane season. Well, then why couldn't we with our human hubris? Well, certainly nature's not, you know, doing this with purpose. Sure. Right. Yes.

And this, so I don't know the answer to that question that you're asking, but I would say that it sounds very much like it's venturing in the unforeseen consequences to Yeah, it does, doesn't it? It's like, hey, what if we bring these particular turtles halfway across the world? Those will eat those bugs we hate. Oh, no, we have too many turtles. Well, bring in the... Introducing an invasive of species. Yeah.

So bring in the wolves. Wait, now the wolves are reproducing at too high rate and they're eating our farms. Okay, now what? Shoot all the wolves. Like, yeah, I get it. I don't. One of the other interesting things that they think is happening is that

is a knock on effect of the ocean surface temperatures cooling. So the ocean surface temperatures are cooled off by the dust, but also the dust storms actually have another effect of making the the surface temperatures of the land, the continental surface temperatures get warmer because of them. So they think that the interaction of those two, a warm area

on the land next to a cooler ocean, will create higher wind shears, which basically blow away the conditions that would make it easy for a hurricane to form. Sure. So it blows off the top

of the hurricanes and makes it so that they can't form so well it's interesting and we've been seeing a lot of of saharan dust storms this year the first ones were being reported in june there was one another one in august so it seems likely that that's what's happening were they big ones like you know mad max fury road style huge ones you got avoid at all costs or are they they have really big dust storms there so much so that the coastal cities and and whatnot that are in in line of in line of of them have to, you know, stay indoors for, you know, days in order to, to avoid all the

negative effects of allergies and whatever, you know, respiratory issues. There's Brian with one right there. Good timing, really, on that. Yeah, that was excellent timing. That was a real, that was a beast. I think you got it all out after that one. Oh, jeez, sorry, I should mute it. I thought it was far enough away from the mic.

No, the timing was awesome. Timing was incredible. L.P.30. Yeah, nicely done. Well, anyway, you've instructed us once again in the world of science. That's what matters here on the show. So people are wondering, though, is this going to mean a more intense rest of the hurricane season? Like the latter half?

When the dust settles? That's what we're asking. What happens when the dust settles? Get it? Do you guys get it? Yeah, we get it. I think they got it. So there is a chance that this will have a kickback effect and go into high gear the second half.

And it's not, it's my first thought was when I was hearing people or reading about people asking that was like, no, that doesn't have anything to do. It's not like, it's not like the Earth is keeping track and saying like, well, we got to get our quota in. But then I was reading a little bit more and listening to some meteorologists talking about this. And there is, it's not unreasonable to think that it could get more intense in the second half because of the week for first half. And the reason is that it's only, the cooling effect is only happening on the surface of the ocean. So the whole, one of the things that hurricanes do is churn up the water and actually has an effect called ocean upwelling, which causes cool water from deeper down to be brought up to the surface. and so when that doesn't happen overall

ocean temperatures increase and so that's what's been happening and it has been recorded that ocean temperatures are increasing this this year so it could be that once all this settles down and the dust isn't

blocking the warm surface temperatures that we might see those warm temperatures like higher than average ocean temperatures cause a rough latter half of the season. Interesting. Okay.

So that, which leads a little credence to the concept that this is just a delayed effect. Like maybe it just. It could be. It could be that we're not, we're just prolonging the inevitable, you know. Well, we have a lot of, Kim has a lot of family down in that zone of the country and we'd really like them not to be underwater or swept out to sea.

So, good job, dust. Most of them anyway. Yeah. Speaking of the term dust, there's an amazing book by Hugh Howley called Dust, which I highly recommend. Just want to throw it out there. You guys should read Dust. It's very good. If you hate deserts and anything to do with the idea of big, vast, unending apocalyptic deserts, maybe don't read it.

But I loved it. It was really good. I'm surprised that you like it. Yeah, I know. Really? It's a shock, isn't it? I like these big desert settings. It's weird.

Anyway, well, Bobby, it's been a pleasure as always. why don't you tell people where they can get more of your fine commentary All Around Science and the podcast with that very name. Yep, the podcast is called All Around Science. We talk about science news and just science stuff every week. And this week's new exception, our episode that came out yesterday, the feature, we talked about fatburgs. Oh, right.

The one you mentioned them last week, the big trash heap burg things that we've built. No, this is the one in the sewers, right, is the fat burgs? Yeah, yeah. Yeah, it's gross. Yep, all of, when you rinse oils and fats and everything down your drain, they get, they can cause a gigantic double-decker bus-sized clogs in the sewer. And they're very disgusting, but the chemistry about why they form and everything is really interesting. Because it's not just, I used to think it was just, you know, like bacon grease, how when you leave it out, it coagulates and. It firms up again.

Yeah. And so I used to think, oh, vegetable oil should be fine to go down the drain then because it's, it doesn't do that. Yeah. That's not true because it's not just that it's cooling and coagulating. There's a chemical reaction that causes stuff to happen. It doesn't matter what kind of fat it is. It'll happen. Is there a dystopic future of like cyberpunk future where we're all living on a giant fatberg?

Because there's one big enough out in the ocean that we can just build on it and subsist on a fat bird. Or fatberg mining. operations? Right. Yeah. Because suddenly it'll be like, oh, we're all out of wet wipes. They're the most valuable material on the planet. How do we get them? We've got to mine the fatberg. Yeah, that's how you, because there's a worldwide wipe shortage. Yeah. Everybody, all those millennial men trying to get their balls clean or whatever they're doing. They've got to go mine the fatberg for it. That's fantastic. All right. Well, this is good news. Check it out. All around science, wherever you get your podcast. Bobby, have a fantastic. week and we'll see you next time. You too. Bye now. Bye, Bobby. He's just saying what his favorite band

from the 80s is. He says you too. You too. Don't let Claire hear that. Yeah, don't let Claire hear it. She hates everything we bring up. Here's a thing. Send and receive email. This is an email from a listener named Bruce who had this to say about

our Prius Abundance in Seattle conversation, talking about all the Priuses and the lift drivers with Priuses and stuff. It says, I have a little info to help you understand why. I got in a taxi or Uber in the Seattle area several years ago. I've lived there since 2010. And I asked the driver, why so many Priuses, or Pre-I, he says. Pre-I. I like that.

He said he'd been running a small cab service for years, and on average between the lower maintenance and reduced fuel consumption, his Prius has saved him. I can't remember the exact feature, or sorry, figure. But it was several thousands of dollars per year, three or five maybe. Compared to similarly sized all gas cars in his small fleet, given the number of miles, each one was being driven. He had started with one Prius, and then as each other car needed replacement,

he replaced them with Priuses. There is also a lot of crunchy granola types here, and many of them would drive a Prius. Lots of them are now getting Tesla Model 3s. My kids and I play Tesla. I like, see, I like, like, like I used to play Beetlebug when I was a little, wait a minute, play Tesla like Spot the Tesla? Yeah, exactly.

Did you never play, um, punch buggy, I think it was, or Punch Beetle or whatever. Oh, Punch Bug or Slug Bug, I think was what people called it. And you'd hit your friend, your brother in the arm if you saw one before him. You hit your friend every time you saw, whoever saw the, uh, the first Volkswagen would get to slam, hit the other one in the, uh, in the arm. But he says they quit doing it because they would, they'd start counting six test, Tesla. is at one intersection. Decided it was not as much of a game anymore.

So, yeah. Anyway, it says for a long time there are three types of Prius drivers. Number one, taxi slash car for hire. Number two, normal drivers. Number three, really bad drivers. Often ones who were in competitive mode to just see how many miles they could squeeze out of a gallon, presumably used for bragging rights at the bars. If someone randomly swerved into your lane without signaling, it was generally a Prius driver

checking his MPGs. See you next TMS, Vegas, Bruce. We will see you there. So that makes a lot of sense. I guess the savings alone, though, that part surprised me. Three or five thousand a year is a lot if you're doing gig driving, right? For sure, yeah. So why wouldn't you?

I feel like your Kia and other Kiyas are also in that boat. Like lower, lower... Yeah, I still get just under 30 miles to the gallon in my Kia Soul. So it's not bad, but it's nothing compared to what I'd get per gallon in a high. hybrid or, obviously, no, a gallon in a full EV, yeah. Are you, does that interest you at all? Like, is a... For sure, yeah.

I'm looking at the Kia Nero, either the hybrid or the EV for my next car. I didn't know. They were working on a full electric. That's cool. I guess they've got a couple of Kia does, yeah. Let's see, Kia Nero, all electric. I want to see what these are. So is that a thing I can buy, like now?

It's a thing you can buy now. The thing you could even buy, I think there was a 20-22 model, but the new 20-23s is probably what I'd be looking at. These aren't bad. And then there's the Kia EV-6. I mean, there's, you know, there's a lot of... That's cool. I like Kia's. I used to not, but I like them now.

I want to, I kind of want that, my neighbor has a Nissan Leaf, and I think that car is pretty cool. I hate the name, but I like the car. Yeah, yeah. Leaf is just a stupid name. The Leaf. Leaf is dumb. So, yeah, if you see a couple of them, do you? you say those are Nissan Leaves? Leaves. Yeah. If it's a whole parking lot full of them

for sales at Nissan Leaves or Leifes. It's got to be Leafs. Yeah, I don't know. Yeah, that's a thing. Probably Leafs, but I like your idea. Probably Leafs, but. I like your idea because it's more consistent with the English language. I like it. Right. Right. Well, Bruce, we're happy to have had your email. And if you're like Bruce and would like to send something in out there, it's the morning stream at gmail.com. The morning stream at gmail.com. Quick reminder today, 3.30 p.m. Mountain Time, myself and Brian Dunaway will be hosting an episode of Play Retro where we talk about Zelda 1

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Robert Hillman, also known as Loki Robert, when he's in the chat room, sent this one in. September 1st would have been his 32nd year anniversary. Sadly, lost his wife to MS in November of 2007. So 15 years ago. So sorry, Loki, Robert. That's rough. The song you requested is Time in a Bottle, that Jim Croce, classic. And I've got a great version of that song here.

It's by Leaky Lee, who released this as a single in 2018, has a very cool electronic feel to it. Going out to Loki, Robert, here is Time in a Bottle. That sounds great. Let's play that. We'll be back tomorrow with a brand new episode of TMS. We would love it if you all came back and listened to us again. Thanks for listening, everybody. We'll see you tomorrow.

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I see every day like a treasure then again I would spend with you but there never

seems to be enough time to do the things you want to do what you find there oh I looked around enough to know

that you're the one I want to go through time with a call it If I had a box just for wishes and dreams that had never come true The box would be empty said all the memory of how they were answered by you

But there never seems to be enough time to do the things you want to do once you find it. I've looked around enough to know that you're the one I want to go through the time you're with. This show is part of the Frog Pants Network. Get more shows like this at frogpants.com. I'm in fourth grade. I have a girlfriend.