The Morning Stream - TMS 2353: Taco Hell
Episode Date: September 27, 2022The Snails of Dusseldorf. Chewing on the Boba. I don't like little balls in my teeeeeeeea. Professor Holden McGroin. This Is Just Floatin' Meat. Bring Brian A Bisque. Slap Quitting. Tacos by the Slice.... Don't lick batteries with your body tongue. Warning: This episode contains flashing lights. The Cilantro of Asian Drinks. Cruise ship dumpster food. My Complaint Is Now Dead. A Satisfactory discussion with Bill. Hard Landing With Bobby and more on this episode of The Morning Stream. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Coming up on TMS, the snails of Dusseldorf.
Chewing on the boba.
I don't like little balls in my teeth.
Professor Holden McGroyne.
This is just floating meat.
Bring Brian a bisque.
Slap quitting.
Tacos by the slice.
Don't lick batteries with your body tongue.
Warning.
This episode contains flashing lights.
The cilantro of Asian drinks.
Cruise ship dumpster food.
My complaint is now dead.
A satisfactory discussion with Bill.
Hard landing with Bobby and more on this episode of The Morning Stream.
It just grosses me out.
I don't like soup.
I don't even like to see people eating.
and I don't even like looking at it either
because it's food-flavored water
with just food chunks
swimming in it.
The morning stream.
Good morning, everyone.
Welcome to TMS.
It is Tuesday, September 27, 2022.
I'm Scott Johnson.
That's Brian, Ivitt.
Hi, Brian.
Hi, hi, Scott.
Hi.
Have you ever thought about soup that way?
It's just floating food-flavored water with food chunks in it?
I mean, can't you, couldn't you describe anything?
Like, oh, gelato is just fruit-flavored mashed up ice.
Oh, good point.
you know what that's true it's uh boil everything down to that no pun intended but there's probably
somebody out there though that well like this kid i assume he's real i found him on youtube but some you know
somebody out there looks at soup and goes gross this is just floating meat i guess but it ain't me
yeah it's not me either i like this soup better yet bring me a bisque yeah big me a nice biske oh give me a sweater
that the weather change i'm gonna sit out on the bed deck and i'm gonna eat me some bisque oh i'm gonna hold on
I'm going to pretend it's cold out and I'm going to drink my coffee with my cup, my, both hands on my mug.
Yeah, there's some kind of pumpkin spice in there maybe because that's what you do this time of year.
Oh, okay, Brian doesn't do that.
He doesn't put it out.
I have pumpkin spice boba yesterday.
Tell me more.
Tell me more.
There's a boba tea place right around us called boba boba.
Isn't there a boba place?
Called boba something?
Yeah.
It's called boba boba.
I don't know why there's no boba places.
I'm sure somebody's going to find us a link.
But I don't know of any boba places that are called Boba Fett or something like that.
Oh, why aren't there?
Well, probably because it's copyright.
Probably licensing, but maybe Boba.
I can't even think of a good play on Boba Fett to use.
Anyway, so it's, uh...
Oh, here it is.
Arvada, Colorado, the only location, dude.
For Boba Boba.
Yeah.
Wow.
All right.
They, they know me.
I'm the norm of that place, by the way.
When I walk in, all of the employees go, Brian!
I need to, like, record it.
Oh, you should.
should record that do that yeah yeah i want that i want that anyway all right so uh it was a black
tea with um whatever dairy substitute they they use they don't use actual dairy there i found out
uh with some pumpkin spice and then a little bit of unsweetened um whipped cream foam on top and gram
cracker crumbles and then of course boba in the bottom sounds all right and yeah
it might be a little much
I think it's a little much
because I'm typically
one of two things
or one of three things
I'm either a tarot
Boba I'm a brown sugar
or I'm an almond
those are my three go-to flavors
almond sounds like my jam
I would do that oh it's so good yeah
if I could deal with those little balls
which is the whole point of Boba I don't like those
so you don't like little balls see that is
that is like the cilantro of
Asian drinks basically it's like
you either hate those or you love them those little tapioca balls yeah a lot of people really love
them i understand that i don't want to be smirch there i don't want to yuck they or yum but that just not
for me man yeah no it's it's and i would even go so far as to say if the line isn't 50 50 on people
who hate versus love boba it's it might even be like 75% people who don't want round chunky
things in their drink and 25%
who say, oh, bring them on, bring on
the weird black balls of
chewy goodness. Well, the good news is that
enough people like it that you have
sustainable businesses that sell boba tea all the time.
So many, so many boba. Yeah,
so many boba places. And
for me, it's a drink that lasts a long time
because, like, I'll take a sip,
I'll get a couple
boba in my mouth and I'll, you know, while I'm driving down the road,
go,
um-gum-gum-dum-dum-dum-dum-choo on the boba.
Like a, and I do it like a little hamster.
Like, you know, like in my mouth, it's like the little hamster,
jurbling, like, just nibbling on the, uh, the edges of the boba until it's, until it's gone.
Num, num, num, num, num, num, num, num, num, num, num, num, num, num, that's where you had me.
Yeah, that's where you won me over with that.
Yeah, yeah, if you didn't like boba before and now, you're hooked.
Well, that's good.
That sounds like a real sugary one you had, though, and I don't know if that's good for you.
It seems bad.
It's not.
I don't want that.
I don't want that. I don't want the sugary one.
one and it was because not only did they have everything I described in there but then there was
like a they do before they put the drink into the cup they do the weird Starbucks drizzle
down the walls of the cup oh yeah yeah it was in the glass the whole time
well my wife the caramel the pumpkin spice syrup was in the glass the little time my daughter
loves boba so I don't know if she's listening but she she's probably going to want to go
get one of those now. So good job on that. Yeah.
Oh, good. Well, you know, get the, get the typical ones I get or the, um, the low sweetness, uh, brown sugar or almond or taro.
Nice. Terro is a root, right? It's the root. It's the purple root that Poi comes from, I believe.
Oh, I didn't know that. I thought that was a purely, um, I guess, you know, there's a lot of Asian influence in
Hawaii, obviously, but I thought Poi was purely a Hawaiian deal. But what do I know?
I could be, I easily could be wrong, but I think that tarot is where.
And I've never had poy either.
So I've had Hawaiian dishes.
We've got a big Polynesian community here in the valley,
and there's always cool places and events and things with great Polynesian food.
They always have poe.
I just never tried it.
Should I try poe?
You should try poe.
Yeah, I was, I rather enjoyed poe.
We went to Hawaii to the, to Oahu, and there's a, the, the most boring name for a place, the Polynesian Culture Center, something like that.
I can't hear it. It's such a boring name.
I think that's it. I think that's exactly it. Polynesian culture center.
That is where you went. Okay. Yeah.
Yeah. But you go there and it's like, oh, no, you learn about, like, they've got all these performances and shows of Tongan culture and Samoa and all these other Polynesian locations, and not just Hawaii.
And then at the end, there's a big luau, and they do the fire dancing and lots of pork and poy and...
I'm pretty sure doesn't...
I'll bet you guys did that then, yeah.
I think the LDS Church owns the Polynesian Cultural Center.
Oh, really?
I think so.
Am I have that wrong?
Hold on.
Oh, my God.
It really is, yeah.
It is the Polynesian Culture Center.
I remember the name.
That might be why it's boring because it's a church thing or a church-owned thing.
Well, it's just a boring name.
the actual place is great if you've oh i was right corporation of the president of the church
of jesus christ of latter day saints owns the polynesian culture center it's an lDS deal that's
that's that's kind of funny i don't know why i find that funny but big church population there on
the island there's there's quite the and like i said here in the valley there's so many
cool Polynesian folks also there's this thing growing up now it might sound a little racist but
there's this thing growing up where if you had to pull a tree out i mean i've talked about this
If you have to pull a tree out of your yard, you know, you've got a big gnarly tree going and you've got to pull it or even a stump or whatever.
Oh, yeah.
You always hire the couple Polynesian dudes, the Tongans, specifically Tongan dudes to do it because a many Tongans in Salt Lake.
Oh, there's a ton of them.
Yeah, there's a ton of them.
You never want to have some like business run by a bunch of white dudes.
You want to hire the two brothers that are Tongan who have a truck because they're going to charge you hardly anything and they're going to be really good at.
it. They're going to tear that thing out. It's going to be perfect. They're never going to have a
problem. And you're going to spend less than like a hundred bucks. The Tongans rock when it came to
pulling your, pulling your tree out. That was just a thing growing up. I don't know if that's
still true, but growing up, we were always here that. It's like, oh, hire a Tongan. Don't have,
don't have that guy to it. Hire a Tongan. It was really weird. Really weird. Yeah. Yeah.
That makes sense. I mean, yeah, why not? Isn't the rock, uh, wait, he's not Tongan.
Samo. Is he's Simone? Yeah. And that's the other thing. People think they're
all together having a good time.
The Tongans and the Samoans,
at least growing up, locally
here, did not like each other.
Really? Like warring factions.
Kind of, yeah. So you'd have like, you know,
dumb white guys like me that couldn't tell
the difference, you know? It's like, oh, that's
my Tongan friend. No, he's Simone or whatever.
But those two would just
there was like fights in their high school. And I don't
know what the deal was, but very tribal.
And we love them.
All right. Interesting.
Hey, I got a question.
It's like Australians versus New Zealanders.
Yeah, there you go.
It's a little like that.
Why those two places haven't gone to more war, I don't know.
Or at least early on, like you said, hey, so you sound like you're from Australia.
Now, I'm from New Zealand.
I'm from New Zealand.
You dick.
All right, check this out.
I was listening to a, or I was watching a movie trailer, and I had a question about the state of movie trailer voiceovers.
Now, keep in mind.
this was a horror movie, so it's entirely possible.
This is that, this is what they do for horror movies now, and I just don't see a lot of trailers.
But I'm going to play just a piece of it, so you can hear it, and then we'll talk about it, okay?
So here's what this guy sounded like.
Here you go.
Only in theater.
Special previews Thursday at 7 p.m.
Get tickets now.
Only in theater.
It's so, it's so, it's so nasal.
Yeah, it's just.
Only in theaters.
Are they even saying theaters?
Is it even sound like theaters?
People are out of luck.
This Thursday, at 40.
Only in theater.
I don't like it.
Yeah, no, that's, that's not from the new Pixar film, right?
No.
See, watch onward, only in theaters.
Right, exactly.
So it must be genre specific.
I think so, yeah.
I think he's somebody, when I was talking about this yesterday, a couple of people online said,
that's a dude who does a lot of horror movie bumpers.
So maybe this is a thing now.
This is for the movie Smile, which I,
Oh, God, we've seen so many previews for that.
Like, when we, like, the last few movies we've seen in the theater have all shown us a preview for small.
We're like, oh, my God, just get this over with already.
It was kind of like that for Nope.
We really like Nope, but up until we saw Nope, it was every, because it was like all of the Oscar nominees were showing previews for Nope.
It's like, okay, we get it.
We want to see Nope.
We don't want to see any more previews.
It's easy to overdo that.
They've got to stop doing that.
Yeah, they do.
Like, I get it.
You want to have the word out, but maybe you're over, you know, you can't flood us.
And I don't want to be the guy who, like, times it so that I'm walking into the theater after the previews and having to step over all the people who've got their recliner seats out and stuff like that.
Plus, I like previews.
I just don't want to see the same ones, like eight times.
Like, four times, great.
Sure.
That, that, I'll decide if I'm going to see your movie.
Like that one with, oh, shoot, who is it?
It's called the Beast, or just maybe it's Beast.
Get the one where Idraselba fights a tiger or whatever?
Yes, Idriselba and Charlito Copley, Charlottockeko Cotophony.
That's the one.
There you go.
That's it.
I said it wrong.
You totally.
He turned into a District 9 monster.
Yeah, I know that guy.
Mad Murdoch, mad boy Murdoch, or whatever they call him in the A-Team.
Sadly, it's not a movie featuring Beast starring Kelsey Grammer.
That would be great, wouldn't it?
That would be great.
You know what? I want a movie. Get Nux and Kelsey Grammer together and do like a lifetime version of the Beast.
And let's go ahead and have him when he's young. Nicholas Holt is who I'm thinking of.
I only thought of Nucks for some reason. And then later on it becomes the Kelsey Grammar version because both of those guys played great versions of Beast. And I would like more Beast. You know? There's nothing wrong with that.
To say what you want about the Fox era of X-Men and how it kind of petered out toward the end.
Yeah. Say what you want. But those two guys, great cast.
think great actors nothing wrong with it i'd i'd say that all right and i'm trying to think if there's a
better example but uh fastbender great young magneto and um agreed uh what's his face great old magnito
yeah wanted kid guy uh glass not glass uh fury or whatever the hell he was called uh great
great young and i'michel thank you great uh great young and old and i'd say uh great young and i'd say uh great
young and old Xavier, but other than that, you know, Patrick Stewart and then, uh, what,
McElroy, that's it.
Maceroy, McCoy, McCoy, McGremyg, uh, not McElroy.
McElroy.
McElroy.
Roy McElroy.
No, the kid's name.
Ah, shit.
Played the young, uh, Professor X.
McGroin, that's it.
McGroin, yeah.
The first name Holden.
Yeah, McAvoy.
Yeah, McAvoy.
Yeah, James McAvoy.
Yeah, James McAvoy.
He's awesome.
I like that guy.
That's great casting.
But I'm trying to think, is there any other,
are there any other young versus old X-Men actors where both actors,
both choices were really, really good?
Oh, geez.
And I guess you could say what, Rebecca Romaine and Jennifer Lawrence.
They were fine.
I mean, they're just the same age kind of, which is weird.
I mean, they kind of are, yeah, right.
I don't mean the actors are because obviously there's a difference,
but they play the same age.
Like, it's not really that different.
So that always threw me a little bit.
Um, who else even was there?
Besides Beast, uh, oh, Scott, I guess Scott,
Scott Summers played by, yeah, unmemorable young Scott Summers.
I mean, you know, what's his face?
Marsden was a, yeah, adequate Scott Summers.
And the new one was the, the, the, the VR movie kid, um, can't think of his name.
Right.
Or the movie from, uh, Ready Player 1.
Yeah.
I can't think of his name from mud.
Vicarious ether, I would, I would, I totally are you.
on Gene Gray. I think Famke
Jansen is a great Gene Gray, but
I think that
Stark
what is Sansa Stark was not a great
Gene Gray. Yeah, I didn't like her in that.
Yeah. Just the wrong cast.
Sophie Turner, thank you. Sophie Turner's fine. I'm not
this is not a good choice. Oh, well, she's red-headed. Let's
make her Gene Gray. No, you can, you can, you know,
you can pick the red actress and give them red. Way better
choices out there than that. That's just a bad
for sure. For sure. For sure.
Real quick here.
So the bigger question, the longer question is this.
Oh, yes.
So this guy right.
This guy right here.
Only in theater.
Do you think in his real life, he's like, pass me the salt?
Where's the remote?
I can't find the remote.
It's usually in the seat here.
It's sour peanut cheese on my Chipotle place.
That way he orders food.
Yeah.
That's the only, exactly.
Double calf, extra shot latte with a.
I want to.
spend time with him. I just want to know. I miss, I miss Ray LaFontaine, man. I mean, that's, you know,
that's a voice that we grew up with in movie trailers. It's a Don or Ray? I think it was
Don. I'm sorry, Don LaFontaine. That guy was great. He just established the norm. There's a musician
named Ray Fontaine or Ray LaFontaine and I always get the two confused. Yeah, he's the
beginner of the in the world, in a world, that guy. In a world. Like he is the creator of In a
world. That guy was great. There's a very good documentary about him floating around somewhere that I
don't know the name of, so this won't help anyone. But if he can find it,
it's great it's very good uh all right we got an email real quick here from it's called i know that
voice or something like that that's it that's it yeah and they had a bunch of people but he was like
the core of it it was the core of that movie yeah that was really good um okay so i'm gonna play this
here send and receive email rusty nails and uh 102 in the chat we know him he's always in here
he uh sent us an email regarding the cruise thing and the whole like uh single lane highway at
the bottom of all cruise ships.
Oh, yeah, right.
He said, hey, I watched The Secret Life of the Cruise.
I think that's an excellent show.
Thanks for recommending it to us.
Well, you're welcome.
It is very good.
It's just very informative.
I liked it.
Anyway, in regards to the main transportation corridor that runs through the length of the ship,
it is called the I-95 in the show, but they never said if it was true of all cruise ships.
I believe that the reason that ship would use that interstate name is because it's based
out of Miami.
And Interstate 95 runs through the entire length of the eastern seaboard of the
the U.S. from Miami to Canada, much like that corridor on the fourth deck.
Love the show, though. Rusty Nails. Good point. I thought the narrator dude said common to all
cruise ships, modern cruise ships, that they had something like this. And I wouldn't be surprised
if they all had something like this, especially newer ones. But good point. They didn't really
say that. So I was spreading misinformation, Brian. Well, according to behind the scenes on a cruise ship
on matadornetwork.com.
I don't know what this is.
The I-95 is everything.
While the I-95 is one of the biggest highways in America,
it's also a specific hallway on every cruise ship.
The I-95, as it's really called,
is located on deck zero,
and it's where workers spend their days running beneath your feet.
So it sounds like it's all ships.
It might be all ships.
Who knows?
Maybe it's all ships that are registered from Miami, you know?
It could be, or if they're all,
maybe they call it something different on other ships,
but think about the advantages here.
You're talking about a design advantage
that they would all want to use
because you need to be able to get
from stem to stern,
you know, bow to back,
whatever they call it.
Very quickly, you need food services
to move food, tons of food
to this section really quickly.
If there's an emergency,
you need to be able to get over there
and get up there, you know,
like I think they probably all have it
if I had to guess.
Yeah, yeah. I mean, it is on this page,
which is called behind the scenes on a cruise ship,
secrets from the crew,
Number one thing is the I-95, like talking about I-95.
Two, living situation is dismal for the people who work on the ships.
Three, they nap like cats.
They don't sleep overnight.
They nap throughout the day so that they can put in a full day.
Weird.
They're ready for pirates is number five.
Guests are entertainment.
Wow.
I bet they are.
The food is torture, number eight.
And number 11, sex?
Yes.
Oh.
oh so apparently a lot of uh oh a lot of cruise people maybe it's you know julian isaic or julian doc or whatever but uh they're all yeah julian doc on a cocaine uh bender yeah exactly so if you've wanted to work on a cruise ship before maybe this sways you one way or the other the bad food but lots of sex sure be doing it all the time napping all the time eating bad food all the time that sucks that they get bad food when all the rest of the food for everybody's
everybody else is good food maybe they maybe they get what's it didn't get taken at the buffet or
something that's exactly what says it says the food is torture imagine eating leftovers every
single day this the life of a crew member although there are ways around it the crew mess is full
of guest leftovers that a chef attempts to throw together in a special way I call this food
mush as it's basically a bunch of items thrown into a pot and mixed around you'll often find
workers doing everything they can to hit up the guest buffet because the crew mess is unbearable
oh my gosh that sounds bad
well they didn't finish the
uh peach cobbler and the suck attach so let's just put in a pot and stir it all together
gross i'd feel bad for them now i didn't know this was the case at all that's a bummer
right all right well they they it's only like 180 people or something that crew give them good
food yeah exactly i mean you've you know instead of giving them the leftovers and mixing them together
just giving the leftover stuff from the buffets that you know and don't mix them all together like you know
keep it in the same steamer trays let them i'll bet that's the logistical problem because they're like
all right we're turning over breakfast into lunch we got to do it quick and all of this stuff gets just
dump somewhere and then you mix it up and don't it's all got to go into one pot because we need
the steam trays for other things yeah it's like a big dessert bowl full of mixed dessert things
and then your other food that's awful now that's that's water with food floating in it
there, kid, at the beginning of the show. Yeah, there you go. Exactly.
Enjoy your soup.
Yeah, enjoy your soup.
It could be worse. He could work on a cruise ship.
Well, there you go. That email was great, and we love your emails.
Thank you, Rusty Nails for that. And we have some clarification on the end of it.
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Very nice.
Only in theaters.
All right.
Why can't he just at least say, he can go low, go only in theaters.
Instead, he's, only in theaters, and early moving my mouth.
I need to take a shit.
Only in theaters.
I don't like it.
Jill.
Jill.
Barry.
All right.
There's your, there's your thing.
Now we do the news.
Pizza Hut, speaking of food.
Sure.
They have announced an Italian taco to rival the Taco Bell Mexican pizza.
Bet it won't be as popular.
I actually had Mexican pizza on Sunday, one of those from Taco Bell.
I like those.
Yeah.
That was after, that was my third attempt at going to a Taco Bell to get food, by the way.
Third attempt, what do you mean?
Three consecutive days, three separate Taco Bells.
First Taco Bell I showed up.
I did the order on the app ahead of time.
Yeah.
I get there and the lobby is closed and it's dark.
Yeah.
And there's like a line 20 people deep in the, in the drive-thru.
I'm like, well, shoot, I said I'd pick it up because when I placed the order in the app, it said, you can pick it up from the lobby.
So I guess, all right, I'll get in the drive-thru line.
So I get at the very end of this drive-through line.
As I do this, I see people walking in and out of the front door, not the main side door where everybody parks, but the front door that you have to walk around the building to get to.
So I'm like, oh, cool, back out of the line.
go park
I walk around
that front door
or try to walk around
that front door
and it's locked
but there's like a couple
um
uh
uh
cheese
whatever
the people who go to a restaurant
customers
geez louise
a couple customers
sitting there by the door
and I like show them my app
that I placed in order
they're like oh okay
and they open the door for me
and I get inside
and the person behind the counter says
that's why we lock the doors
quit letting people in
oh my gosh dude
to the people who just let me
And I said, well, I've actually got an app order that I'm here to pick up.
Oh, yeah.
No, it's going to be a while.
Probably like 45 minutes.
You're welcome to sit and wait.
What?
Like, well, screw that.
So that was Friday.
Is this the same problem that I ran into where just they can't hire enough people or something?
Something's going on.
They just close their lobby and create a massive drive-through.
So then Saturday, I'm like, well, I still want to get Taco Bell.
So I do the same thing, but I choose a different Taco Bell.
I go there.
And this time, the order doesn't.
um doesn't fully go through but i'm already at the at the taco ball because i'm doing the
app order ahead of time since some time yeah and i go i go to the again lobby closed
drive-thru open but there was nobody in the drive-thru so i go in and and uh i say hey i'm picking up
an app order for brian guy behind the guy and the other speaker says oh yeah we're not taking
any orders right now as a matter of fact um somebody's sick here and we've called the paramedics
like are you kidding me i'm not kidding they're barely
and just closed things.
Oh, my gosh, dude.
So, third attempt, went on Sunday,
different, completely different Taco Bell.
Again, place the order ahead of time.
Get to the Taco Bell.
Guess what?
Lights are off, the lobby's dark.
Drive-thru's open.
I go through the drive-thru,
and I say, I'm picking up an app order for Brian.
They're like, oh, yeah, we're not taking any more orders right now,
but I think we just made yours.
So I drive up there, I eat my food, and then I drive off.
Wait.
Like three different Taco Bells.
Look, I get it.
Like, I get this soft, what do they call it?
Soft quitting thing or this idea that nobody, here's the problem.
It's compounding itself.
Instead of quitting, you just don't show up until you're finally fired, right?
Something like that, I don't know.
Or they just can't hire people.
I don't know what the deal is.
But whatever the deal is, it's compounding itself.
Because let's say, let's say your Taco Bell.
Right.
And you're like, oh, shit.
Shoot. We can't. We're losing people and we can't get new people. We're going to have to do, we're going to have to do something drastic. How about what? How about we pay people better? Okay, cool. They raise, let's say they raise pay. Yeah, yeah. But then what you're doing is you're asking people to come into that chaos. Yes. Of having to stand at a thing going, the reason we shut the doors to keep new people. Like, why would you ever want to work there? You know? Right. Exactly. It, right. It's a, it's a self, like the snake.
is eating its tail it's a self-fulfilling prophecy if you keep if you have these problems and
expect to bring in new people to work there among all these problems they're not going to stay
and the problem will just continue no this is heinous it's that's bad dude i know we need uh oh okay
i'm sorry soft quitting is just doing enough at your job to not get fired no over time or going
above and beyond gotcha okay that's also a porn uh when you're working in the porn industry
soft quitting yeah yeah you got a soft quit that's just how it works at the end of the day
How about if I just slap you with this thing for a while?
The problem, I mean, I wouldn't mind if this was happening to Burger King or Wendy's or something like that.
But dang it, I like Taco Bell.
And I don't want to see problems like this continue happening.
I agree.
The food is better for me.
I know that sounds weird to say in a fast food context, but it's true.
It's better than other options.
I like Taco Bell here and there, generally speaking.
Yeah.
It's not an every week.
food. It's a every three weeks
food kind of thing. And maybe they're all having this
problem? I don't know. I guess McDonald's pays their
people pretty well. Certainly the three closest
to me are having this problem. Well, I mean
like other restaurants. I have a feeling that
I see what you're saying. I'm not saying
McDonald's is immune to it, but McDonald's
apparently, like, base pays like 15
an hour, which
is pretty good
compared to the others. So I don't know what
Taco Bell's deal is, but it's the same thing with
our local one. I haven't been there in a long time,
mainly because I ran into this problem
you're running into, including twice
where I ordered on the app, it went
through successfully, and then just went off into the ether
and neither location was opened at all.
So it's not just me, it's you, it's everybody.
It's so weird. Right, and it's going to be the same
like, you know, we talked about the employees
and how that cycle will just continue.
The same thing's going to happen with customers.
If I can't trust
the Taco Bell closest to me
is going to have the food that I preordered
and even paid for in one case and can't
cancel the order,
I'm just not going to go to Taco Bell anymore, and I'm going to go somewhere else.
I'm going to go to Kudo or Chipotle if I want,
air quotes, Mexican food.
Sure.
Cheap, fast Mexican.
Alternative Americanized cheap Mexican food, exactly.
Yeah.
Yeah, weird, man.
I didn't know.
I'm glad you shared that.
That's insane.
That's crazy.
That might be the last Mexican pizza you ever eat.
Who knows?
It might be.
So, Mr. Bell, if you're listening, then please see what you can do about this.
I love that the guy's name is Bell.
I assume that it's named, you know, it's named after a guy named Bell.
Yeah.
His nickname in high school was.
Taco and so they
He sang
He's saying putting on the Ritz
It was great
It was an awesome
Yeah
Just parlayed that
into a successful
restaurant chain
Well anyway
Pizza Hutts announced
Anyway
Pizza Hut
Italian Taco
Thanks
Sorry I had to
I had to do my gripe
You know we had the music
Oh yeah
I should have given you
The Register the complaint
You know what
We'll do it retroactively
Why not
Posture
Well I hope not
Possumously
Because you're still alive
You know
I'm still alive
But my
My complaint is now dead because I've issued it.
A posthumous complaint.
I love it.
So anyway, fast food lovers or who love the Taco Bell, if you can get in there, Mexican pizza is undeniable.
So here's what happened.
Let's see.
Let me move here.
I'm going to move down.
The folks at Pizza Hut, who, as their name implies, would know a thing or two about pizza,
certainly seem to think that's the case.
They did not explicitly call out the Mexican Pizza for appropriation.
Pizza Hut has launched a campaign sure to raise some eyebris.
browse. They have announced they have begun to sell a new product called the Italian
Taco. It's basically, if you look at the photo here. Yeah, it's a pizza. This is so
goofy because it's not, it's nothing. It's basically just a slice of pizza. They put the
two ends together. Yeah, it's really not anything. In fact, if anything, it looks like
they just pinched the crust together like you would a New York style pizza, sort of. Yeah,
exactly. Like if you have a wide piece of pizza, you just basically put the two
corners together on the crust side and the whole still the rest of it's wide open it's not like
uh well here's what they say it almost feels like a joke right like they just made those little
boats called italian taco just so they could jokingly say oh it's an italian taco yeah they're
poking fun of their they may even be owned by the same food group they were for a while it was all
PepsiCo foods and then what became yum or oh yum food man or zam or zam or something that
bam foods um it says here let's see there they're
This is what they said. Feast your eyes and mouths on a hand-tossed taco shell.
Stuffed with a classic marinera sauce, mouth-watering melted mozzarella cheese,
and whatever feelings you choose from pepperoni to jalapinos, said a representative.
Even though moments later they admitted the whole thing is just a slice of pizza that folds like a taco.
It is.
Okay.
That's all it is.
That's all it is.
Yeah.
This is such a...
So they just spent a lot of money to make those boats.
Yeah.
I mean, they say nothing burger all the time.
This is a nothing taco.
It's just a nothing taco.
Yeah, it's not real.
It's just a bunch of bull crap.
So I guess I didn't know that at a Pizza Hut, you could actually get a single slice.
Oh, I didn't know that.
Well, I guess you can with this, but I didn't know you could do that before that.
That's what I'm saying.
I didn't know that.
I would maybe do that.
I don't know.
Pizza Hut and I've had a rocky relationship in our lives.
They used to be amazing.
Like when I was a kid, we'd go there as a whole family, get big pictures of root beer.
yeah a couple of pizzas great pizza back in the day now it's just kind of an oily turd it's not great
it really is yeah so whatever that's what happens and you get bought and sold 15 times over three
decades okay and kkatsumi confirms taco bell pizza hut are yum corporation which is a spinoff from
Pepsi co got it and they don't but they no longer are they co they still own pot taco bell under
that banner or no i think probably yeah it's probably still PepsiCo at the
very top of that that org chart yeah um but then you got yum foods and i i'm guessing that
what was it the frito lay was a subset of that something like that also didn't kFC and kfc was
part of it too yeah and w kind of had those combo restaurants which was never made sense to me
but whatever it's all gross now yeah yeah they still do here like we still have uh those the ones
i haven't tried yet from my taco bell uh cravings is the combo restaurants there's two of those
to me too. I'll tell you what, man, if your brand is yum and you have all this gross
fast food, you should change, you should buy the yuck domain just to be safe, just to save.
It's like you're, you know, like what a tryhard call it your company Yum and serving this stuff.
Jeez. I don't buy it. Doctors have, here's a new story. Doctors remove 50 AA and AAA and
triple A batteries from a woman's gut and stomach. Oof. Yeah. And that's why they're not
included in the toy you just got. Damn straight. And also before you go, oh, what's
happening in Florida today. This is an
Ireland, Claire Gack.
Oh, no. We've found
a bunch of batteries in their gut.
Doctors in Ireland removed 50 batteries from a
woman after she swallowed them in an apparent
act of deliberate self-harm. The woman
age 66 was treated at St. Vincent's
University Hospital in Dublin.
After ingesting an initially
unknown number of cylindrical batteries,
according to a report in the case.
This was Thursday, September 15, so it's been a bit.
in the Irish Medical Journal,
which is a thing.
It's the Irish Medical Journal
where we chronicle all the things people put in their guts.
Next ray.
I'm going to give credit right now to your man, Jeff won,
because I was going to make the joke,
was she charged?
But he went so far as to go,
they had to discharge her.
That was a far better joke than the one I was about to make.
So, hats off to you.
Oh, gosh.
It's off to you, Jeff.
I don't know what to say about any of that.
That is all nightmare jokes.
Man, oh, man.
Whatever.
Credit where it's due.
Good job.
Yes.
Our man, Jeff.
I guess your man, Jeff.
Your man, Jeff.
Yeah, it's not my man.
Anyway, where were we here?
Oh, it says here,
an x-ray revealed a multitude of batteries in her abdomen.
Thankfully, none appeared to have been obstructing her gastrointestinal.
trapped. Oh, no kidding. And no battery showed signs of structural damage, so no leakage of
battery acid or any of that. Treatment initially took a conservative approach, which means
no rated our movies. And I'm just kidding. I'm just kidding. Very conservative.
Meaning they observed the patient closely to see if and how many batteries would pass through
the GI track on their own. Over a one-week period, she passed five batteries.
oh wow
but x-rays
taken over the following three weeks
showed that the vast majority
of the batteries
had failed to continue
progressing through her body
by this time
the patient was experiencing
diffuse
abdominal pain
I assume that means
kind of all over
diffuse
I don't know
oh yeah
probably not localized
to one specific part
like the whole
her whole stomach hurts
yeah I would assume
that's the deal
the woman then underwent
a laparotomy
that's laparoscopic surgery
in which surgeons make an incision, access her abdominal cavity.
They found that the stomach pulled down by the weight of the batteries
had become distended and stretched into the area of the pubic bone.
I played bass for pubic bone for 10 years.
Never saw any residuals after they...
No, no. I picked up their anthology release,
but I never listened to each of their individual albums.
Man, what a shame that band.
The team then cut a small hole in her stomach
and removed 46 batteries from the organ.
these included both AA and AAA.
I love that they've got both in there.
No hearing aid.
Those would be the easiest ones, right?
That's where you start.
You do the hearing aid batteries.
Yeah, they move up to the little watch ones,
the Sony watch batteries.
They're a little flat.
Right, exactly.
Oh, yeah, don't do the 9 volts, I-Corps.
Those will totally get caught.
And if they don't, they're going to not be pleasant to poop out.
Yeah, plus the whole time, you're just going to fill a little...
Oh, gosh, yeah, that's right.
Yeah.
It's like a giant body tongue licking a...
Every time it touches the wall of your stomach.
But she stopped short of the double A or the triple A's or no, sorry, the C's and the D's.
The C's and the D's, baby.
You don't even make those now?
Is that a thing I can buy a D battery?
No, definitely can because there's, I mean, there are still devices that require them.
Like a flashlight, right?
They still use those.
Flashlights, well, if you newer flashlights are recharge.
but yeah I've got
how about my black I have a black light here
let's see what we got okay
those are probably C's uh here we go
so let's see what this looks like on camera
ooh ooh oh that's pretty small
it actually might be uh yeah these are small
might be double a's and it's not rechargeable
best I can tell but we're gonna find out
because this is a show where we do dumb shit
yeah so where we learn we all learn together
oh these are
oh okay
it's a little cartridge that holds
four triple a's yeah okay she should have just eaten that consolidated you know yeah exactly oh my gosh
one one big cartridge just eat the whole thing i don't know why it's blinking because uh that's one of
the settings oh in case like uh if i'm just in the hotel looking for uh the seaman yeah you don't
want to use that version you want to use like that's that's if you uh you know you're on the side
of the road fixing a tire and uh you want kim to stand there and hold that and it's flashing
mode to make sure people see.
Weird, I don't even know how I set it.
Let's tell you a story.
It's usually like every click advances it
forward through different settings.
Yeah.
Well, anyway, if you want to see what kind of weird stuff you have
on your keyboard, this thing's awesome.
Yeah, I don't think I ever want to see that.
It's actually pretty gross.
All right.
All right, don't eat batteries, people.
Don't eat batteries. That's a lesson.
Yeah, it's one of those
my strange food obsession
discovery shows or
whatever it is.
See, I could put that
on as easily as I'm watching
intervention. It's kind of the same
same vibe, you know? Maybe I'll do that.
I don't know. I don't know why I'm doing any
of it. Should watch Futurama. I know.
Like, go 70s, 60s and 70s sitcoms or something.
Like, get yourself some, like,
happy resolutions by the
third act kind of stuff. I bet some Andy Griffith.
I could use that. There you go.
The old stuff. Not when they went color.
I don't want that.
That's a weird time.
Shark Jumping Era, don't want it.
I want the black and whites, man.
All right, check this out.
Final story.
A trail of slime leads German customs officers to bags of giant snails.
I love the fact that, you know, whoever's got, you carry these bags, the slime is somehow going through the bags and like leaving a trail behind the person.
And if this wasn't the associated press, I might have thought.
this was the onion, but it's not.
German customs officials say a trail of sline led them to a stash of almost 100 giant African land snails.
Are there sea snails?
Maybe there are.
That implies the existence of sea snails, is what I'm saying.
So I've seen snails in aquariums.
Those are, you know.
I guess that's a sea snail.
That would probably be a sea snail.
Yeah, I don't know.
Freshwater snail?
I don't know.
Okay, there are a chat says.
I've never, don't think I've ever seen one.
Anyway, there were other items.
him's hidden in these bags as well in the Dusseldorf airport.
In a statement,
Friday's authority said officials stumbled over
one of the snails in a bag of
baggage truck and initially
thought it was a toy. I don't know what voice
I'm doing. Yeah, I don't either, but
the Dusseldorf voice, clearly.
Philip at the end, I don't know
wherever we were on there. Anyway,
they followed a trail left by a 20-centimeter
eight-inch snail. That's too big.
I don't like that.
No, sir. No, sir.
That's a...
Ugh. Buh. Yeah.
Like, that's my, I don't have a problem with snails.
I have a problem with big snails.
I don't have a problem with spiders.
I have a problem with big spiders.
Like, it's all size issues for me with bugs and animals and creatures and things.
Anyway, they found this bag with a hole and another snail already peeping out of it.
He was peeping.
Hello.
Hello.
There's a bunch of us in here.
Please let us out.
This is a problem.
Anyway.
The one's on the bottom of her is like swimming in slime.
You may have seen our trail.
Hope you found it.
Possibly preparing for a dash for freedom, it says here.
That's funny.
There's no dashing with a snail.
In total, they found six bags containing 93 giant snails all around that size.
A total of 62 pounds or 28 kilograms, if you're keeping track in space points.
Of fish and soaked meat was also there.
A suitcase full of rotting meat was also part of the acquisition.
They'd all been imported from Nigeria and were destined for African goods store in West
Germany. Snails were handed to the animal rescue service and Dusseldorf and the meat was
immediately eaten. Just kidding, destroyed. And the guy says, never in the history of Dusseldorf
customs office has a trail of slime led us to smuggled goods, yeah.
So the spokesman. All right. That's the end of today's news. We hope you gain something from it.
Here's what we do at the middle of the show. We'd like to break things up and give you a little bit of
audio entertainment and Brian's in charge of that. He brings music, really. Oh, you're saying I
should have actually had something. Oh, okay. I think I got something ready, Scott. Oh, my gosh. Man,
you're so good at this last second song selection. I love it. Yes, it's almost as if when you were
talking about that last story. I was pulling up my notes about the song. Hey, brand new album came out
last Friday, and it's really, really good. It's called Crushed Grapes. And it's by a guy named Jason
Bahada, B-A-J-A-D. So basically you just put one finger on the A and then just go B-J-D and just
keep it in that A every other time when you're searching for this.
If you like Sufion Stevens, Fleet Fox's, Father John Misty, there's like a John Lennon-E-Betles
kind of feel to it that I really, really like. Then you're going to like this album.
Well, first single is Walt Disney. You can check it out right now. Here is Walt Disney by Jason
Bahada.
Do you care to join my army?
I've been staying inside.
Feeling safe, maybe sorry.
Cowering behind, bitter sweetness, come spend the night.
Kill with kindness, rid ourselves of spite.
I've frozen you in time.
Kind of like Walt Disney, a block of eyes
Look a way to feel better
Because any sign of life
brings me back to your bitter lives
Those were definitely darker ties
As I'd drive down Sunset Boulevard
Under this California suns
With my best friend by my side
We end up laughing till we cry
Visit mansions in the heads
She pretends to be my wife.
Belize my bones won't turn to glass.
This kind of love will last a life.
As I drive down sunset pull the far, under far, under the sunsets, under this.
California sun
With my
best friend by my side
We end up laughing
till we cry
Visit mansions in the hills
She pretends to be my life
at least my bones won't turn to glass
This kind of love will last a life
At least my bones won't turn to class
This kind of love will last a life
At least my bones won't turn to class
Don't turn to glass, this kind of love will last alive.
I used to be with it, but then they changed what it was.
Now what I'm with isn't it?
And what's it seems weird and scary to me.
Is there Phil Cosby?
The morning stream, better than a straw-tart blueberry pop torch.
All right, we have returned. Remind me who that was, please.
Yeah, that is the song Walt Disney, performed by Jason Bahada from the brand new album, Crushed Grapes.
Nice.
One might say that's wine.
Hmm.
What might say that?
I haven't heard the song yet, because I'm going to go back and listen,
but is it, is it an anti-Walt Disney thing?
Is it a pro-D-D-D-A?
It's funny.
I listen to the lyrics, and I didn't pick out where he was talking about Walt Disney.
It's more about kind of driving across the country and pretending you're my wife and that sort of thing.
Like, it's kind of sweet.
It's a sweet song.
Oh, well, now I like it even more with this explanation.
Thank you for that.
Sure.
Now you've got some set up.
You'll enjoy it, and you'll be like, okay, I think I like it.
Yeah.
Now I can listen with impunity.
Please, too.
We're going to call our pal from the Pacific Northwest.
You know him as Bill, but we know him as the grand maker of things.
Your bat caves open there, Bill.
Oh, my gosh.
Look who it is.
It's Bill Duran, who we didn't have him last week because we took it off for reasons.
But he's back and he's here and he's got stuff to talk about.
Bill, welcome back to the program.
Hello, did you guys take a peek at Jupiter last night?
No, I heard about it.
I saw it Sunday night.
The way we were facing at the Bronco game was directly at Jupiter.
So, like, when we were watching that messy, messy game, you were watching Jupiter.
Oh, here we go.
Look at that.
Closest pass to Earth in 59 years.
Whoa.
Yeah.
That was before we were all born, boys.
That's awesome.
No, I missed the actual viewing, but I'm looking at some photos now of some telescope stuff.
And my gosh.
It's cool.
It'll still be pretty close today if you want to take a peek.
Yeah.
That thing is a gnarly planet, man.
That thing just, you know that if we could somehow get on the surface, which will never happen, but let's say we did, somehow could survive it.
That must be one hell of a thing, you know?
Like just constant swirling storms that never stop.
I don't know if this is the planet that rains diamonds or that might be Venus, but somewhere just rains diamonds all day.
Like weird, I'd love that kind of idea that we could get there, but we're probably never going to get there.
be so cool yeah uh bill's good to have you back you and brian are uh expat covid buddies uh both
recovered from your covid uh little fight there um how do you feel you feeling good yeah you out of the woods
i'm good yeah i'm i'm feeling back to 100 percent that's good no brain no brain fog no long
covid symptoms any of that stuff as far as i can tell no okay the bullet yeah i always people if
ever get it when people say do you have the brain fog us i know i was always this slow i'll say yeah
Anyway, it's good to have you back.
We missed you, and we can't wait to hear what you've been working on.
So tell us and inspire us.
We got a good one.
We have a new video out over on punishprops.com.
We finished our satisfactory costumes.
We made them for Dragon Khan.
Most of this build was done in the month of August.
A bit of a sprint at the end, but we got it done with 12 hours to spare before our flight took off.
And it was awesome.
It was a really, really fun build.
But the game is satisfactory.
Both Brittany and I played it together, and we'll play it again
because it's just, it's the kind of game that just pulls you in.
Yeah, and it's not even 1.0 when it hits that.
It's not even fully released.
I know, right.
I watched that whole video this morning.
It's just amazing, like the sanding and the gluing and the sanding
and then the priming and then the sanding and the assembly,
but that the visor, the way you got that set,
like everything, seeing everything,
fit together just the way you expect it.
It just feels like such a, you know,
I don't want to use the term satisfying,
but it's a very, it's just such a,
ah, kind of feeling.
Yeah, I love that.
Tell me why this shirt,
this shirt you're wearing
in the beginning of the video,
what's to deal with that thing?
That's pretty normal.
Well, if you'd go on to Dragon Khan a few years ago,
you'd understand the shirt was all about.
It is the carpet.
I get it now.
Okay.
And then you have this t-shirt,
is that from the team that makes the game?
That's awesome.
That's merch from coffee stain.
That's great.
It's the helmet I made, so I had to get it.
Nice.
This is great.
So the helmets were 3D modeled, and I made one for me, one for Brit.
So there are actually two different sizes.
I modeled in tandem.
And also, by the way, if anyone is interested in making these helmets, the 3D files are available for free over at putish props.com.
If you want to print them out yourself.
your scanning of your face using the phone stuff we talked about a few or maybe a month ago
that's cool to see you're using that you're going to do you probably do this for all your future
uh well maybe you only have to do it once because your head is your head right i have it now yeah
we're good unless my head changes in size or volume dramatically in the future
hope it doesn't uh so yeah we did lots of 3d scanning uh me and britt and i um dropped those into fusion
360 so I can model the helmets right around our head. I actually had the in-game model of the
helmet. I threw that in there as well so that I sort of had something to work around. And I also
scan those store-bought visors to drop in there. That was the really satisfying part. Getting
those visors to fit perfectly. So good. That's interesting because the visor part of that helmet
is I think what makes that helmet kind of unique. How did you know what? How did you know
what to get to duplicate that.
I guess you can probably touch this stuff up in 3D, obviously,
before you know, print it or whatever.
But yeah, we really kind of design a lot of the helmet around the visors that we bought
because we found these like medical visors.
It's almost like a pair of sunglasses because it's got stems,
like glasses stems and a nose piece on it.
But then it has this big visor part that covers your whole face.
It was the right color.
It's got that color shift thing going on.
I spruce it up a little bit
I've used some clear
adhesive vinyl and cut out a hexagon
pattern to put on the visor to give it that
it's got that in the game
and it just gives it that little extra bit
of something it makes it special
I really love how those turn out
it looks so cool with that
that hexagon thing on it which I watched
you try and like that's where my
not OCD
but something was kicking in as I was watching
you trying to get it all straightened out while I was
speaking to the visor like oh no
oh it's it's buckling right there oh no it's folding on itself right there but it's hard it's hard to
get so it's going over a complex curve and it's hard to get all that to lay flat so we did a pretty
good job on it and it looks i like i really love how it looked i talked about this last time with you
but that that that the idea of starting with a thing you can buy like the visor is kind of what
i'm doing with the pym particle the pym energy course so i got this uh this light this lantern that
is going to be the center of the PIM Energy Corps and I'm building a 3D thing around it
and my holdup has been well I want to record the whole process like you know video
screen capture record the whole process of me making the the lantern shape that this goes
into and because of that it's like oh I really want to get started on it but I'm not ready
to start that part of it so this thing this whole thing gets pushed off but yeah I'm so
excited to do it. That's fun. I will say screen recording or recording yourself 3D modeling something
is painful. Is it? Because I don't know about you. When I model something, I'm like, and
next we do this part like this. Nope, that's wrong. Let me do that again. Oh, wait, maybe five
millimeters is too much. Let's go three millimeters. Yeah. No, what I'll probably do is just record the
whole thing, edit, and then do a voiceover. Yeah. Yeah. So good luck,
with that, but I'm excited to see it.
It's so much fun.
Yeah.
Our helmets were all 3D printed.
We used as many printers as we could find.
So I have my Ultimaker that's set up with ABS, so I printed a lot of parts in ABS,
which works really well.
We have a photon mono X little resin printer for printing all the little parts on the helmet.
And then we even convinced our buddy, Joel, the 3D printing nerd, to print one of the
helmets on the Form 3L, giant resin printer.
And they're tough resin.
They have a durable resin.
So Brittany's helmet is actually probably a lot more durable than mine.
And then as you mentioned, lots of assembly, sanding and priming and even more sanding.
How big is that Form 3L, by the way?
It's pretty, you can do, how large a piece?
I guess as big as that helmet.
We had to split the helmet in half to print each side separately.
Interesting.
About the size of a helmet.
Wow.
Yeah, they claim, I've kind of followed this one because I'll never afford it.
Maybe I can.
I don't know.
But life side prints of larger than life ideas, they always claim, and then they say
that it's big enough to make human scale models, which I assume is like, all right,
you can do a hand and then here's a forearm and then here's a bicep and that sort of thing, right?
Like if you wanted to.
Have you ever been tempted to do that, just like a full-size dude?
I'm going to make a Bill mannequin.
Yeah, Bill mannequin.
You should do that.
I should.
I have a 3D scan of my whole body.
and also that 3D scan was from a few years ago
and I'm in better shape
so we should scale
you could totally print that one
yeah print that one that's great
well very cool I'm just watching this
this looks like one of your
I don't know why I'm getting this impression
it looks like one of your bigger projects
would you say that's true
yeah it was a ton of work
so there's the helmets and the jumpsuits
Brittany did the painting on the helmets
and she
sewed the jumpsuit
from scratch
came up with a pattern and did some
fitting and then
put the whole thing together
we also have some found parts
we bought boots and gloves and the undershirts
were all found objects that we purchased somewhere
and then we were
we like I said got them all done at
7 p.m. on the
Wednesday before we flew out at 7 a.m. on
Thursday. Wow.
Yeah.
Wow. It was pretty
good. And we even had a couple hours in the evening to chill out before we had to go to sleep and then fly to Dragon Con. So it wasn't even too, it wasn't that stressful, but it was a lot of work. Yeah. Sometimes your best work, though, is under the gun like that. You know, I find that to be true. So let me ask you about this adhesive with the, the, the, um, honeycomb pattern. Is that a thing you buy ready like that? Did you? No. So that was just a sheet of, of, of, of, of, of,
vital and I used my vinyl cutter
to cut that pattern into it. Oh my
gosh, that's so bad.
Using all the tech we've got.
Yeah, although I guess warning to
tripophobians or whoever you are out there that don't like this.
Oh, what is that? Yeah, the
triptophaniophobia?
It's triptophobia, I think. Yeah.
I have a friend who can't, he wouldn't be able to look at this
part of the video at all.
Or even that metal thing you have weighing it down
the big block.
One, two, three blocks? Yeah, yeah.
What is that? What do you get that one, two, three block?
I was watching that.
Yeah, where do you get that?
Is that a thing you made?
Amazon.
Yeah.
Amazon's got them.
They're really useful for weights.
They are exactly one, two, and three inches on each side.
So you can use them to make some measurements.
They have so many uses.
It's very cool.
Well, congratulations on an amazing build.
This is great.
Thank you.
And this thing went.
When does this video go up?
You put this up when?
Yesterday.
Already at 30K views.
Look at you.
Just creaming the crop here.
Look at all these comments.
It was at 29,999 until I watched it.
I know.
And then you get a prize for that, by the way.
Free watching of the video.
That's right.
It's just one of those little.
A free one, two, three blocks.
You get a spider ring where you turn your tickets into the arcade.
Don't worry about it.
Well, this is great.
Everyone go check it out, please.
It is the satisfactory build.
Already some great titles for Bill's segment today.
We got a satisfactory build with Bill.
Some really good stuff in here.
Anyway, Bill, you always leave us with a little bonus extra.
What do you got today?
I got a build video from Simone Yetch and Laura Kompf, two makers that I'm friends with and are awesome.
They got together in Germany and did a pair of videos together that were just really, really fun videos.
Simone is a gift from heaven.
Yes, she is.
I don't know the other girl, but it sounds like somebody I should follow.
Yeah, Laura is out of Germany.
She's currently renovating a 120-year-old house, and it is going, it has become an adventure, let's say.
She looks like the kind of German that would kick my ass, just saying.
Yeah, and she's also an incredibly talented maker in so many ways.
Like, she would kick your ass at sign making and all sorts of other stuff.
Yeah, she would beat me physically and then do it intellectually as well with all her fun.
work. That's what I'm looking for in a woman.
Anyway, hey, Bill, that was great.
Always good to talk to you, man, and I'm glad to have you
back. We'll do this again in a week if you're
down for it. How's that sound? Sounds great.
Okay, Bill Duran, everybody. Punish
props on Twitter. Punish props.com is the website
and, of course, the YouTube channel. Go be
one of these 30,000 plus people who have
already seen the video. All right?
Let's push it to 31,000.
What's going, baby? We'll see you later.
All right. There he goes.
It's good to talk
Bill. It is.
I'm just glad you're both over here. It inspires me
to make, and I just need to
freaking get off my butt and record
my video of me making.
You got to make, man. Make it. Make it or break it?
Got to make. Um, I forgot
who's on next.
Bobby, Bobby would be next.
My brain locked up for a second.
Boy, if he didn't feel bad about you
not checking in on it before.
Look, Brian forgot the term
or he forgot the word customer.
Yeah, customers, and I forgot who the hell Bobby is.
All right.
Anyway, I don't know what's worse.
Here's this.
Science.
It is science.
Science time with Bobby.
It's a Tuesday.
That means we're going to talk about a little bit of science today.
Bobby, welcome back.
How are you?
You didn't check in with me yesterday.
I got who the hell I am.
I know, I know.
But I forgot the word customers, Bobby, so it's all even.
It's even.
Right.
I'm sure the word customers feel.
You were a customer.
Yeah.
It's good to have you here, man.
I hope you're doing well.
Oh, how was your flight stuff last week?
I know that was, we were a little worried about schedule because you were doing a big lesson.
Oh, yeah.
I got back in time.
That was all fine.
Usually I make people think that I'm going to be late when I really, there's not a lot of risk.
It's just I don't like, I don't like springing it on people.
So I just want to be like, okay, heads up.
It is possible, albeit a small chance that something like super, super.
bad traffic could happen or something like that.
Sure, sure.
I was back in time, but you canceling the show did make it so that I could hang out with my
wife for a little bit.
Oh, that's good.
Nothing wrong with that.
So how, just a progress update, the flight stuff going well?
You're, what are you ready to?
It is going well.
Last week, when I did go, it was a really nice, smooth flight, and that felt really, really nice.
The air was nice and calm.
But yesterday was probably the most.
discouraging lesson I've ever had. It was really hard. We were doing what's called pattern work,
which is where you just stay around an airport. You just land and take off over and over again
to practice takeoffs and landings, really. Right. And landing is really hard when you're first
starting off. It becomes easier, of course, once you get it all. But there's so much when you're
coming to, when you're approaching and getting into the traffic pattern in an airport and trying to
land. There's so many things to keep track of all at once. And I was doing really bad and my takeoffs
were worse than they normally are. And it was just really discouraging. But then I found out when we
were done, he said, because he lets, I am in control most of the time. But the last landing, I was
doing so bad, he just took the controls. And he was like, listen, we're just going to land and we're
going to be done. Wow. That's not fun to hear that. I don't like that. Well, I'm exaggerating his tone a
little bit because he's really nice he's a great flight instructor but um but that's what was going on and
we were getting closer to the end of the lesson and then he told me after he landed he
right as he was coming into land the stallhorn in the plane went off which tells you you're about to
stall and he was the one doing it and then he finally lands and he says okay turns out that
and you might not have known this because you're new at this it turns out that there was like a
ton of really bad um shearing wind
like gusts across
crosswinds across the
runway and it was making it really hard
to fly and he just didn't know
how bad it was because I was the one doing most of the flying
he just thought I was doing really badly the whole time
but he said
in hindsight he said given that
those conditions you actually probably were doing pretty well
wow I mean that's you're to be expected
to have some of this be troublesome sometimes right
that's the point of learning how to do it
yeah and it was it was so knowing that that was the case was able I was able to like shake off some of the
discouragement because like okay it's not that I'm terrible and sliding backwards it's that it was
really the conditions were really tough but it was it was the the discouragement stuck with me
for a while because it felt like a lesson where I was going into it I was expecting to make a lot
of progress and learn landings and takeoffs a lot better but that didn't
happen because of the conditions and so but but like you said all experience is good experience
especially when when you never know what could be the conditions when you're flying so at any
time you know so so it's an experience that I had and uh there you go there you are and you survive
still cost the same amount of money though yeah that's true you don't get a discount on a bad day
I get it well uh uh maybe all of that left you open
to learning about some cool scientific facts
so you could share them with us. That's my transition.
So tell us,
a host of All Around Science,
what are we talking about this week?
So you've guys ever heard of the Ig Nobel Prizes?
I have heard of those.
Yeah, so every year.
Did we lose Brian?
Brian, you there?
Oh, Brian left.
Oh, he did leave.
Brian must have to poo or something.
I don't know what happened.
He took off.
Anyway, go ahead.
I didn't want to talk to him anyway.
Oh, his dog is his dog.
One of his dogs, or his dog is pooping, I think, is the deal.
A dog emergency.
We're good.
All right.
So the Ig Nobel Prizes.
They do them every year.
It's yearly awards that, and in their words, to quote, honor achievements that first make
people laugh and then make them think.
Oh.
So it was on, they were on September 15th.
I actually always forget about them every year.
But shout out to our good friend, Nikki Ackerman.
She let me know ahead of time.
She said, hey.
they're about to happen um
i love niki nicky's great she will not only inform you of things but she's also super nice
and people should uh know about her she's rad i like her she's awesome um so they're kind of like
funny awards but they're given to genuine scientific achievements um and that's important right
so they're not like the darwin awards that you hear about where they're just given to
dumb things that people do um so uh they're
They're also given, they're given to scientific achievements that are just weird or funny or something like that.
And once in a blue moon, they'll give them out to, like, to satirically, to stuff like homeopathy, to criticize it.
But that's not very often.
And I like them, because I think they highlight the importance of doing science just for the sake of discuss.
because a lot of these things are just like weird things.
And so I thought in honor of the Igno Bells and to laugh a little bit, I'd go through
some of the Ig Nobel Prizes that were given out this year.
Oh, all right.
I'd love to hear this because I did not follow this year's stuff at all.
I have no idea who won anything.
Most people don't.
And you wouldn't be faulted if you don't.
A lot of it is just like people in the science community laughing.
at the research that scientists do, but in a nice way because, you know, science has to be
done. And even science of weird, seemingly pointless things has to be done because that's
how we learn about things, right? Yeah. So there's a, it's given in a lot of different areas.
We'll start with the Applied Cardiology Award. Ooh. I like heart stuff because, you know,
I got a family history of heart stuff. I'm always happy to hear the advancements over there.
so let's do it
it was it was given to uh the the title of the paper was physiological synchrony is associated
with attraction in a blind date setting um and what it basically was is they found that when
two people are in love their hearts synchronized um so uh this uh basically the when they
approached this uh study they thought well when their hypothesis was that when two people are
attracted to one another, that they're going, that they would synchronize certain physiological
responses, right? And so it was interesting how they did this. They set up the study and said,
they took pairs of people that they found in, they recruited from like conferences and stuff like
that. They would go around and find pairs of people that were willing to do this. And they would take
them into what they called a dating cabin, which sounds really scary and creepy to me. But they're
a dating cabin, quote unquote, and ask them to sit at a table, well, not face to face,
but across from each other with a plastic divider between them.
Okay.
So they couldn't see each other.
And what they would do is they would raise the divider three times throughout the experiment.
The first time they would raise it would be for three seconds for a quick first impression of each other.
And then they would do it two more times for two minutes each, one for verbal interact communication with each other.
for non-verbal communication with each other, right?
Mm-hmm.
And the whole time that they were doing this,
they were measuring physiological responses.
They had to wear eye-tracking glasses.
They would measure their heart rate,
their skin conductance, which is just a fancy way of saying
whether they're sweating.
Mm-hmm.
Gotcha.
Okay.
And other things that they measured.
But those are some of the main things.
They were keeping track of all these responses,
Because their idea was, if two people are attracted to each other,
they expected that there might be some sort of synchrony
between these responses between the two people.
And when they were done with this,
they would ask them separately, hopefully.
So if they'd like to go on a date with the other person.
If you'd like to go on a second date, we'll pay for it.
So basically as a measure of,
this brief encounter, was there some attraction, right?
34% of the women said they wanted a second date.
Weird.
53% of the men did, because of course they did more men did.
Because they're horny, those men.
They're horny.
Right.
We have lower standards.
And they found that only 17% of those people had both people in a pair said that
they would like to go out on a second date with that person.
Okay, so let me make sure I got that right.
The percentages I get for women versus men, but the only time that both sides said yes, that's 17%.
Exactly.
When they asked the people after they were done, sometimes just the woman would say that they were willing to go on a second date, sometimes just the men.
But 17% of the time, both in the pair said that they would like to go out on a date, on a second date with the person.
A second date, as if this was a first date.
Sure.
A second brief window of looking at each other.
A second time in the dating cabin.
They found that, and this is the interesting part,
they found that whenever there was a synchronization between heart rate and skin
conductance.
Now, what that means a synchronization, by the way, is that whenever one person's heart rate
increased, another person's did.
it's not like they're beating at the same time
it's just
the increase and decrease in heart rate
would happen at the same time
between the two people
whenever they found that that happened
it was predictive
of whether or not
both people in the couple
would want to go on a second date
but also interestingly
they found that other signals
like smiling or gaze direction
did not correlate
with whether or not there was a traction between them.
Interesting.
It could be that smiling and looking at each other or looking away,
those could be false signals that are maybe for other reasons
and these unconscious signals that you have little control over
because they're tied to your autonomic nervous system,
like heart rate and sweating, those were better predictors.
Do you know how many people were in the study total,
just for background?
there were a total of 140 couples, 140 pairs.
That sounds about right.
You wouldn't want less than that,
and more than that seems problematic, right?
I don't know, it seems like redundant.
That's probably all you need is that sample size.
I don't know.
You probably want at least around that much.
More wouldn't hurt.
I mean, if you start to get way more
than it starts to get weird data mining kind of,
like, is there really an effect kind of stuff?
The more people you have, the more,
the statistics have to work out, right?
So that was the applied cardiology.
So they got an award for that.
There's another one in literature, which is a fun one.
Oh, that's for reading.
Yeah, I like that.
That's a good one for reading.
Right.
So the paper was called poor writing, not specialized concepts,
drives processing difficulty in legal language.
So what this basically was, a summary was,
is that they were analyzing what makes legal documents so hard to understand.
They decided to attest what there.
So there's these competing theories of legal convolution.
You know, legal documents are really hard to understand, right?
Yeah.
And some people argue that the reason that they're complicated is because the law, it's technical and it's precise.
You need to have technical language in order to get the precision that.
that you need for the law, right?
And that's their argument for why you have all this convoluted language.
Others, though, argue that no, the law is actually built on very ordinary concepts and we
don't really need all this complicated language.
We could explain things in contracts and legal documents more plainly to make people understand.
It's not required.
Interesting.
So scientists decided that they were going to analyze.
this a little bit and see what they could figure out.
So they analyze the text of a ton of legal documents.
Altogether, 10 million words they analyzed.
So gamers, by the way, listen to this because these are your Ula's that you're scrolling 500 miles to sign and stuff like that.
And you never look at because they're insurmountable in terms of having to read them.
They're ridiculous.
Yeah, exactly.
Exactly.
It has definitely to do with these types of license.
user license agreements, yeah. So they found in their results that, no surprise probably,
legal documents seem to be unnecessarily convoluted. And that they could, and importantly,
they probably could be made much easier to understand if they avoided a lot of the features
that they identified as the culprits. They found that there were a few big things that caused
these documents to be really convoluted. Non-standard capitalization. Have you seen that before?
all the time I hate that where you'll be reading like like some sort of legal
brief or like you see illegal and words are in all caps for seemingly no reason
and sometimes it's just one or two like it's like the the complainant has found that the
defendant doesn't have as love as of it like that right why do they do that what is that
about I don't know I'm sure there are people listening like lawyers that are listening right
now who are thinking like no there's a reason we do that um but uh but in this they found that
it leads to further confusion the non-standard capitalization also the use of archaic words that
nobody uses anymore like herein or a foresaid or to wit um so archaic language a legal jargon
that probably could be expressed in in simpler language and the biggest culprit they found was
this language thing called center embedding.
And this is really fascinating.
Center embedding is this process of sort of like nesting phrases inside other phrases
that sort of unfold themselves.
And you have to sort of, in a weird way, unfold them accordion style to figure out what the sense.
Like you're doing an equation, like you're breaking out the,
parentheses in an equation. Exactly, and they're explained off in using it parentheses.
I got some examples that you'll like here. So the first example is, the rat, the cat, the dog
chased, killed ate the malt. I hate that. I hate everything about that. Right. So the breakdown
of that, the easier way to say that would be the dog chased the cat, the cat caught the rat that had
eaten the malt. Like, that's what that sentence is saying. Right. Right. So you can imagine how
impenetrable this stuff is. My favorite example I found here was the dog, the girl, the boy, the
teacher, the mechanic, the owner of the dog uses, lives with likes, no, saw, ran away.
Wow. I hate it. And so are there commas or parentheses in that that at least help you
break it down or how? Not in the ones that I found. But, but.
You know, they were constructed examples I found online.
So they might have left the commas out on purpose to further obfuscate it.
But this is in legal documentation all the time where they do this.
And they, in their analysis, they found that it's quite likely that they suspect that this is deliberate obfuscation of things to make it so that it's not as easily under.
Now, that's maybe speculation.
I don't know.
I'm not trying to call any lawyers out there deliberately deceitful in their legal documentation.
But the point is that they did find that if you did away with a lot of these things,
that legal documents would be easier to understand.
I agree.
I don't know why if it's important that people know what they're agreeing to,
why does the language have to be so nebulous and difficult?
like yeah so that they you can get people to agree to things that they may not realize they're
agreeing to yeah so so all that does is just instill distrust in whatever company or service i'm
signing up for and i and at or it's kind of for me it's just throwing my hands up and going
whatever click like i yeah i already assume i've agreed to a million bad agreements with
video games and movies and a million of the things i may as well just do another one it's fine
when i when i went and got our house and you know you close on a house anyone
one's ever done that. It's just a, it's miles of signatures. Oh my God. For stuff they're like,
oh, you don't need to read this, just sign this. Okay. What does this say? Well, this 400 pages says
basically that you aren't going to default on your payments. Like, why do you need 400 pages that say I won't?
This homepage document agrees that you will not lick the lead paint off the walls. Yes. You agree to not eat
the lead paint. It's really a weird part of our modern society. And I kind of hate it. But on the other hand,
I'm like, eh. Like, it's the way I feel about, don't you worry to govern. Don't you worry to government.
Herman's watching you. I'm like, whatever. Just watch. I don't care. What are you going to see? My fat ass in the morning, like, who cares? But I actually do care. I'm annoyed by it. But I feel like I can't do anything about it, which is part of the problem because they've worn us down with their legalese, you know? Yeah. Anyway. That's the end goal. That's what they're trying to do is wear you down. Well, congratulations. Industrial Complex. You've done it. You've done it. There are a bunch of other, just very funny ones. There was a study that,
looked at whether or not constipation makes it difficult for scorpions to move around as they do yeah
yeah it turns out that it doesn't okay that's good um which i read that uh a little bit of that one
and i didn't know this so scorpions can drop their tails um like lizards can do you know
oh like off like drop off like yeah they can off off um tail uh um but uh
And it's like as much as 25% of their body mass, but they can do it.
They don't grow it back like lizards do.
They will die.
But they die some month or more later, and it's not because their tail is missing or anything like that.
It's because dropping their tail off causes them to become constipated so much so that it kills them.
And I didn't look further into it.
It was just stated that way as if it was a fact that I.
I should know.
Are they supposed to just watch their diet?
Is that because their butt was dropped off, too?
Yeah, are they supposed to just watch their diet?
Like, what are you supposed to do for a constipated freaking?
There's nothing they can do.
They will die from it.
And so, uh, like cut back on cheese.
But they live long enough to mate.
Okay.
Still.
Okay.
So as long as they can get that going and, uh, kept to keep the species going,
then sorry, grandpa's going to die early because of a stupid constipation.
We'll have new, we'll have new scorpions before you know it.
That's such a weird thing.
Yeah.
It is a weird thing.
There's another one that found that this is, again, probably no surprise to anyone,
but that ice cream used instead of ice chips after chemotherapy helps chemo patients
have better pain outcomes after.
Really?
Yeah.
If they just use ice cream instead of ice chips.
Because those ice chips, it's like you hear about that all the time.
And Tina did that too.
And pregnancy, they do it after pregnancy.
like, oh, here's ice chips or surgery or whatever.
Right.
That's crazy.
I could have been given ice cream a whole time.
Damn it.
Yeah.
You drop the ball on that one, Brian.
Yeah.
It wasn't me.
It was the doctors.
How dare you not know about this obscure scientific story?
Right.
Exactly.
Yeah.
There was a study that looked at how best to use your fingers to control columnar knobs.
Basically, how best to turn knobs.
Okay.
Just vertical knobs like the ones on my mixer.
Yep, yep, exactly.
There was a really interesting one that looked at, that analyzed ancient pots that, you know how you have like old pottery that has like art on it that depicts common practices that people would do?
Like, you know, Egyptian pottery or Mesopotamian stuff, you know, that'll show like things that people, it shows people doing stuff, right?
They analyzed some pots that apparently depicted the technique of using alcohol and drugs in enumas and how to administer those.
Wow.
Well, that seemed like good.
And the scientist on this one for science did it, decided to actually administer.
He's the guinea pig, you're saying.
He did the...
Yeah, exactly.
He did that to himself
with some alcohol and or...
And there was another one.
It like would administer an alcohol enema and take a breathalizer every once in all.
Did he get results from that?
Did it actually show up at all?
Yeah, it turns out that your rectum can absorb things faster.
Yeah, but then I guess, you know what?
This shows my lack of knowledge about how breathalizers worked.
I assumed it's because you drank a lot.
so it's on your breath, but it's actually
your lungs are generating
stuff. Yeah, the reason a breathalyzer
works is because you've got alcohol
in your bloodstream and that exchange
of blood in your lungs
includes alcohol. And so it's
actually coming out of, it's actually
accurately depicting blood
blood alcohol levels. Interesting.
I did not know that.
Yeah. So even if you shoot it up your butt,
you're still going to, you're still
going to show up on a breathalyzer.
You think that's still popular with the kids, the
the college freshman, you know, putting the...
Hot-co-soaked tampons and whatever.
Was it ever popular?
Right.
It could be like the whole FDA popularizing NyQuil-marinated chicken, right?
Yeah.
Maybe one person said it, but then the FDA is like, oh, no, here, quick, let's launch
this huge campaign to stop people from doing this.
And I bet you it caused...
Yeah, it caused more people to do it, right?
Yes, yes, exactly.
That's my...
Oh, I'm sure they did.
but like that's the problem is on the one hand you want to warn against it and on the other hand
you don't want to popularize it by warning against it so they're kind of they're in a catch-20
that's why i started eating tide pods yeah i know exactly i think if you if you see one person doing it
you just say uh let them let them you know let them take themselves out of yeah
contention for breathing but if it's a big thing sure you're like oh maybe there's something to
that yeah i remember look in 1993 i remember i started pulling people spines out
not because of Mortal Kombat,
but because they warned me that if I played it.
Exactly.
It was like,
what?
Every time I hear the phrase finish him,
I'm supposed to do this.
I know.
That's my understanding.
Scorpions doing it a lot.
It must be fun.
Scorpion, speaking of scorpions.
Everything comes back to scorpions.
Yeah.
Do you think his tail falls off
when he's constipated?
I don't know.
You'll be going to find out.
I feel like that's why he's so angry.
I'm angry when I'm constipated.
Get over here.
Give me some fiber.
I need fiber.
Get over here.
borrow your anus he has the tools to do it hey bobby having you on is always a treat i love this
stuff um yeah now i want to pay attention to it the site the improbable site to start looking at
some of these yeah unfortunately the cylinder the knob uh turning one is all in japanese i can't
even if i do the translate it doesn't i want the paraphrased edition i want to know wait the turning
knob is all in Japanese so it's turning it's turning Japanese is that what you're saying it's
turning Japanese oh look at my old music reference there everybody ask your parents anyway
hey Bill or Bill hey Bob Bob and Bill Bobby what else you guys you got this show this all around
science show which continues a lot of the threads that you bring up here and I'd love people to
know more about it where can I get it it's a science podcast every week we talk about different
science-y stuff. It's called
All-Around Science. That's just, if you
search for it, wherever you listen to
podcast, you'll find it, all around science.
This past week, the one episode that
came out yesterday, we talked about Saturn's
rings. You've probably seen them.
Or at least seen
pictures of them. And we talked
about where did they come from? Because did you know
that all gas giants
in our solar system anyway,
they all have rings.
Jupiter does, Uranus
does, Neptune does. But
why is it that Saturn of all the planets? It's not even the biggest one. Why is it that Saturns are so
big and compared to everybody else's? They're so dramatically different. Yeah, that's why it was the
recent shot the web got of, oh shoot, what's the planet they did? I think that was Neptune.
Neptune. Neptune. You don't even think of Neptune as having rings. We knew it did,
these dusty, more dusty, finer rings, but because the previous tech wasn't able to show it in the
that Saturn always is, we see these new ones and we're like, oh my gosh, like a whole different
planet. It's like a whole different thing. And it's great. So why, I guess you go into it, why?
Yeah, we talk about why scientists are pretty sure what caused Saturn's rings to be so dramatically
different than the other planets. And you should listen and find out why. Well, I'm going to
and I'll find out why along with the rest of America and the world. Bobby, it's a
great to have you on with us.
As always, do check him out on all that fun stuff.
Have a fantastic week.
In theaters.
In theaters, Thursday.
Thursday.
All right, there goes, Bobby.
There he goes.
Let's do the final bits of...
I want to go see that.
Don't worry, darling, while it's in theaters.
Oh, yeah.
I want to hear a friend tell me if that's good.
Yeah, I know, because I hear mixed reviews on it.
Like, it's more the excitement of the hype over
Olivia Wilde and everybody
not liking her. Yeah, like all
the controversy around the production of the thing
does the movie hold up
despite all that? Exactly. I just don't know.
By the way, a quick check here.
Smile at 80%
currently. That seems like a good horror. Oh, really?
I didn't even think that was
out yet. I thought that didn't come out until this weekend.
Ooh, don't worry, darling,
at 38. That's concerning. But I'll
take what you end up saying.
Audience reviews around 78. That seems
better. Oh, interesting.
Okay. So when it doesn't seem better, it definitely is better.
You never freaking can tell. All right.
No, no, you really can't.
We're going to take our leave before we go.
A quick note that tonight at 3.30 Mountain Time, it will be tonight for some people,
but really just afternoon for many others.
3.30 p.m. Mountain, we'll be doing an episode of Play Retro.
Myself and Brian Dunaway are digging deep on some very cool retro topics.
If you would like to tune in for that live, it's a 330 mountain time right here at frogvance.
tv or get the podcast later um let's see what else probably a new diary today brian you got anything
coming out today we should mention uh nothing coming out today i got to start prep for this week's
coverville and uh and that's about it any hint as to what we're what coverville will be about no i haven't
even looked to see whose birthday's coming up or who it's gonna you know what it's who the subject is
going to be so right now you all know as much as i do you ever have like a last minute contingency
if someone dies or whatever where you're like slip them in
you know what I mean like yeah oh yeah I mean like you know let's say heaven forbid let's say
well let's say some famous musician dies tomorrow then I will absolutely scramble together a show
that's a sign that we're starting to believe what people say about us say the name exactly like yes
we say their name but that's the thing it's like and I break the rules for those shows where
I try in most shows not to play songs I've played on the show before so if I do like a you know
a regular clash episode, for example.
I try not to play songs that I've played on previous Clash cover stories.
So somebody could listen to all the Clash cover stories and have like a six-hour clash enjoyment fest.
But if somebody dies, then I kind of break that rule because, A, I need the quicker turnaround time.
And B, because I want not just to have a good selection of their songs, but I want, if I've already played what I consider to be the best cover,
of one of their songs on a previous show,
I don't want to have to, like, play a different cover
so that I don't, you know, they deserve,
in passing, they deserve a tribute
with the best covers of all of their songs.
Well, you guys just got a behind-the-curtain look
at how Coverville is made.
There you go.
Sausage, right there.
That's the sausage coming out of the grinder.
Look at Brian sausage.
All right, moving on.
Let's thank some patrons real quick.
Actually, so we don't have any new ones since yesterday,
which isn't that unusual,
to do a fun little thing.
When there's no names here, I'm going to do this more often.
So if you haven't signed up at patreon.com slash TMS,
the next three new patrons that sign up at any level,
doesn't matter which one you're at.
You've got to sign up and stay, though.
You can't just be there for a day, all right?
Because it won't count.
Yeah, well, we will yoink your prize.
Well, yoink your prize if you do that.
But you will get a print magnet sticker pack that includes some sort of print signed by me,
some art for me as well a magnet likely based on my own artwork possibly carters i forget what i have
over here and a sticker pack of some sort uh will come to you in the mail internationally locally
doesn't matter we'll cut we'll cover the costs on it it doesn't matter we're sending it
to the next three patrons who signed up and the last guy that signed up was uh let's see mailman
wasn't it i think it was mailman so what i'm going to do is automatically because mailman you know
he didn't know about this opportunity.
I'm going to give Mailman one as well.
So the next three plus Mailman,
they all get a frog pants megapack for me.
Okay?
And galactically as well, codes from home.
I will send it anywhere in the known universe.
All right?
Nice.
You just have to have an address that I can verify.
Anyway, there you go.
That's patreon.com slash TMS for all those details.
Check it out today.
Frogpants.com slash TMS for everything else.
And if you've got feedback, thoughts, and comments, send us an email, the morning stream at gmail.com.
I like the end of the show with a nice little song in my heart, and I can't do it unless Brian brought one.
So what'd you bring?
Well, let's do one going out to one of the unsung heroes of TMS, a person who doesn't always get the credit they deserve for their little secret behind the scenes contributions.
I'm talking about Ice Warm, aka Mike, who wrote in to say, hello, stacked actors in breakout.
That is tracks one and two off of his favorite Foo Fighters record.
There's nothing left to lose.
I'm here in California about to go to the Taylor Hawkins tribute concert.
L.A. represent.
I was supposed to see the Foo Fighters back in August.
However, after the tragic passing of Taylor Hawkins, the tour was understandably canceled.
I was lucky enough to get tickets to the L.A. tribute show.
I'm still shocked I was able to get a ticket because it sold out in minutes.
Definitely a once-in-a-lif-lif-I've ever seen one.
so any cover either by or of the foo fighters would be awesome i leave it in brian's very capable hands to pick a great one love the show though mike aka iceworms the best he does all sorts of little secrety things that none of you know about but he does him without blinking he's amazing and he has the softest ears on the planet i don't know why yeah it's weird they're made out of some material that isn't known to man it's very odd they're like little lamb's ears anyway uh how about this one right here uh a lot of people's face
favorite foo fighters song is ever long i think mine might be ever long i love that track
it's really good um how about a cover by the band first to 11 they released this one last year
on volume 10 of their covers series here's ever long by first two 11 see you guys tomorrow
Oh, I've waited for you for you ever long.
I throw myself in too
And out of the right
Out of the head she's saying
Come down
And waits away with me
Down with me
Down with me
There's no how you wanted to be.
I'm over my head, out of the head she's saying.
And I wonder,
and nothing along with you.
If everything could ever feel is real forever,
If anything could ever be this good heart yet
The only thing I'll ever ask of you
You gotta promise not to stop when I say when she sang
So I can breathe you in, hold you in.
And now I know you've always been out of your head, out in my head I say.
And I wonder, when I sing along with you,
When I sing along with you
If everything could ever feel this real forever
If anything could ever be this good again
The only thing I'll ever ask of you
You gotta promise I'll stop to stop when I say when she's saying
And I wonder, is that we're going to be able to be able to be. And I wonder if everything could ever feel this real forever.
If anything could ever be this good, oh, yeah
The only thing I ever ask of you
You gotta promise not to stop when I'm saying,
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