The Morning Stream - TMS 2357: Spaceship On A Stick

Episode Date: October 4, 2022

Taylor goes in, baby comes out. Can't explain that! Point me in the Direction of your Schlongsleiger. For room service, press 2. For corpse removal, press 3. Ball-Bearings of Chocolate. I don't like spreadable MEEEEEEAAAAAT! Grimace, ribbed for your pleasure. Who the hell is Tyler?? The Five Dollar F Me. Firm Buns for My Organ Meat. Jabber Jaw Jujitsu Jerks. Fiddle Brian's Knobs! Don't give this man scissors. Buy a Jet and Eat a Pig. Getting Grounded with Bill. Bag O Science with Bobby and more on this episode of The Morning Stream. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Coming up on TMS, Taylor goes in, baby comes out. You can't explain that. Point me in the direction of your Schlongschliger. For room service, press 2. For corpse removal, press 3. Bald bearings of chocolate. I don't like spreadable meat. Grimmis, ribbed for your pleasure.

Who the hell is Tyler? The $5.F me. Firm buns for my organ meat. Jabber jaw jujitsu jerks. Fiddle Brian's knobs. Don't give this man's scissors. Buy a jet and eat a pig. Getting grounded with Bill.

Bag O Science with Bobby and more on this episode of The Morning Stream. And in the foyer, you can obtain leading brands of cigarettes and confectionery. Damn pagans must be living on no-dose. I'll gladly pay you Tuesday for a hamburger today. This is the morning stream. Good morning, everyone. It's Tuesday, October 4th, 2020. I'm Scott Johnson.

That's Brian Abbott. Hi, Brian. Hi, Scott. Oh, man. We had a three-year-old at the house all night, and he's all nervous because he's going to have a sister in a couple hours. Oh, is he excited? Yeah. He doesn't even know.

He has no idea how his life is about to change. He has no idea. He just knows it's excited. and that there's, you know, talk of what's going on. And he's been, you know, talking about this thing that's in his mom's gut for, you know, the last seven to eight months. And now it's time. And he's just sort of having fun here. He's just chilling, you know, watching Bluey, wearing his Spider-Man jammies, chilling.

I saw those cute on Twitter. I want a pair of myself that are so dang cute. I thought you liked Spider-Man with this kid. Man, he loves it. All you have do is like a Spider-Man. I'll challenge him. I will challenge him to a Spider-Man like-off. He does this to you all the time.

He puts the hands out with the things. He's always throwing the goat like he's shooting webs and stuff. I'll bet he doesn't own a Spider-Man fidget cube. I'll bet he doesn't. I bet you do, though. Yep, look at that. I do. Yeah, turn right.

What does I have on it? How many things can I do on your fidget? Well, nine. One on each side, right? I'm sorry, six. Six-sided cube. Cubs have six sides. That's a D-9.

Actually, you take that back. No, because there are multiple things on a couple of these sides. like this side has has spinning knobs and a roly ball. Yeah, yeah. This one has five different levels of push. Like, one's clicky. Oh, yeah.

But then some of them are squishy. One of them's kind of clicky. Cherry switches versus brown switches. Yeah, I gotcha. So actually, my nine might have been pretty close to, pretty close to accurate. It's like a 12-sided fidget cube. Z spins.

Oh, nice. Do his eyes do anything? If I fiddle with those? No. No. No. All right. Well, don't fiddle with super bad.

Yeah, actually, this probably has more than nine because if you count each of these five buttons as different things because they're different levels of clickiness than golly. This thing has a lot. Golly. Golly. Look. People like when I say golly on this show. They sure do. Holy cow.

They like that one too. No, it's just it's like a throwback to our parents' generation. when you talk about that. It's right. I love it. Golly. What are we doing here? What a bunch of malarkey. Well, it's good. I played Colonel Potter at the beginning because he does that as well. Yes. It's very, very appropriate.

You're in good company. All right, so here's the deal. Yes. This is I understanding. Here's my medical understanding. Okay. Taylor goes in. They, you know, they smack her belly around a little bit, just whack, with like a stick or something. Okay. And then they say, all right, get up on the treadmill and give us a 45 minute.

And then she'll do that. And then after that, they make her eat an entire lasagna, a whole lasagna, just work it down. Well, no, you want something greasier, so the baby just slides right out. Oh, I see. It's there to help get that going. All right. Well, and then they layer in this bed, and they put a mask on her and they say, wait. And that's it.

That's the deal. Right. Meanwhile, Tyler is in the other room, smoking, chain smoking cigarettes and pacing back and forth. Yes, except Dylan is the name you meant, but yes, Tyler. Whoever this Tyler is that you mentioned, yes. I'm sorry, not Tyler, Dylan. I like, wait a minute.

I took the Y from Dylan and put into Taylor and made Tyler somehow. I want to meet this Tyler guy. What hell is Tyler? I don't know. Look, it's, you know, it's Tuesday morning. It's early. We don't know what we're saying yet. All right, okay.

Dylan is pacing back. Let's get to my joke about what we learned from 1960s television about the husband, and wading, pacing back and forth, chain smoking cigarettes in the waiting. All right, that's, look, all I ever knew growing up was that that was what it was. Like all the cartoons, all the TV shows. They just paste back and forth. Yeah, that's what the husband did. Lighting the next cigarette with the previous one.

And it turns out the truth was, was always that he's in the room with her. He doesn't have to go out there and smoke a cigar and paste the floor. That doesn't work that way. That's right. Unless you're weird. Like, maybe you're weird and you want to, you know, you want to be outside smoking. Maybe you faint at the side of amniotic fluid. Yeah.

Or cords that aren't there normally. Why is there a cord coming out of my wife? That's right. So anyway, oh, that's the one thing they don't let you do anymore. At least they haven't with her. He doesn't get to snip the cord anymore. I didn't get to snip the cord either. I didn't ask though they didn't offer, but I don't think I would have gotten to.

Did you get two with all your kids? Only one. The other two, they said. no and so something must have changed in the mid 90s or they didn't like how you did the first yeah there was some note in the records that said don't give this man scissors this guy exactly he's going to give the nurse he'll snip the nurse's nipple by accident don't do it anyway we hope it goes well it should go fine everything's pointing to success she's got all the right tests everything's good and she's supposed to be somewhere between the the talk is somewhere

between now and around four, which is about how long it took a van to be induced and then finally get here. Okay. And then we'll know. Cool. And then we got it. And then we're going to, so the plan is we FaceTime him first or FaceTime them because they don't want us at the hospital, mainly because it's still weird at hospitals with masks and stuff with babies. You can't, they still won't let you like go in there like they used to. It's not quite the same as it used to be. Sure. And so until they change however that works, it'll be whatever it is. So what they're going to do is they're going to have the baby, FaceTime us. We'll get to see the little thing, you know, the lizard form of the baby.

And then later, they'll stay there tonight. Actually, I don't know how long they're staying there. We're just going to keep Van for as long as they need us to. And then when they're done, then we take Van over there to the house, meet the baby, get them all settled in and then that's it and then we're good and then the job is complete then yeah then no more work at all that's it uh yeah exactly all the hard part is over and it's just easy smooth sailing you know nothing sailor going forward they're they went from zone to man to man defense and they're going to just deal with it so uh anyway it's all very exciting i'll keep everybody informed

it may or may not affect when we have play retro today if it ends up happening right around them we might push it to Wednesday play retro not the baby and we'll let you know okay so keep your eye on the prize oh I got a thing to ask you almost forgot it's not in our notes

okay ask ask you a wait Scott had a dream about Vegas last night and it's not a weird dream it was just a common standard dream but it was about Las Vegas and there was a lot of Vegas things, lights, and just vagusy things going on. And it felt kind of like the 60s for some reason.

So there's a lot of old cars and yet it was the new strip. Anyway, it didn't make sense. There was a hotel shaped like a weird spaceship on a stick. Yes, spaceship on a stick. Oh, that's my favorite. That was a great one. It was a really good one. So, but I had, but I woke up with this question and I wrote this down at 2.30 this morning.

Because I wanted to ask you. Yes. All right. Because everything, everything happens at that time. I mean, I usually, I'll vet it in the morning. I go, was this any good? Like, sometimes, because I'll write like a comic joke for Fred and Cannes sometimes. And by the time the morning comes around, I'm like, well, that was terrible.

I'm not using that. That's a bad joke. So that didn't happen here. So here's your question. What would you do, Brian? If you found a dead body in your hotel room in Las Vegas. Oh, like, okay. So I check in, immediately open the door and, oh, my God, there's a dead body.

or is it like the next morning when I finally pull the shower curtain open and it's like ah well that's even better but let's say okay so the way I pictured it my head was a little bit more like that four rooms thing we watched the yeah oh god with the stuffed in a mattress basically yeah so under the bed mushed under the bed yes exactly sex worker under the bed and you don't know it's there until about two or three in the morning you just kind of it's like Something smells bad. What is this? I was going to say, like the kids in that, in that segment of four rooms, they're like, yeah.

What smells? Is it my feet? No, it's not my feet. Is it her feet? No, it's not her feet. And chairman's already trying to jump on this and says, well, you call the cops, duh. No, I know that. What I'm saying is, what is your initial reaction?

Like, when you see it, what do you do? I would go, blah, and then, actually, I figured out through a lift ride yesterday that my gut reaction not thought out response to something is saying F me like but I say the actual word

Sure I'm right I'm okay I found this out because I was taking this kid Darius to Union Station and was looking at the lift map and it said all right I mean it looks like I'm turning at the next

intersection turning right I turn right I turn right I see, instead of yellow line dividing the road, I see nothing but white lines, white striped lines, or dashed lines, and a car coming towards me, and I immediately go, F me, and I do a little U-turn, and I'm back on the road. So apparently I was about to take him down a one-way street going the wrong way. Oh, and he was in the car with you and you said F-M. He was in the car with me. Okay. And got him to Union Station, and the dude still gave him. me a $5 to handed me like it wasn't like you just absentmindedly put in the app he actually

physically handed me a $5 bill yeah so well he didn't want to actually F you just wanted to give you some money I know I'm pretty sure he did not no well that's okay so now so you kind of know what your gut what your initial my yeah that is so that would be the first thing I'd say when I discover a dead person in the hotel room yeah and here's what you had to do by the way would you would you if you smelled it at 2 a.m. would you start would you try would you try try to find out what's going on first or would you would you think to say well I don't want to find a body so I'm going to call somebody and then they're going to find like how would you do that oh that's a really good question I mean uh I don't think I've ever smelled a dead body so I don't know if I'd think oh what is that is that like the the you know the toilet backed up is that something coming through the vents through the radiator so I don't know if I'd instantly recognize and say oh that's a dead body do something about it I feel like I I'd be the same. I think I wouldn't know right away, you know. Like I'd just say, oh, this room just smells bad. You know, I'd call them the next morning and say, my room stinks. Give me a new room.

Yeah. It's probably, I mean, I don't know if, I don't know if it would just all of a sudden start smelling it too. If it's, if there's a dead body in there, it's probably smelling when I get into the room. Probably, yes. Unless the maid, you know, you know, Maria was in there a half an hour earlier, really spraying down the place, you know. Like maybe it's just, she forbreezed at top ceiling to full. floor, and it's just like, wonderful when you get there, right? Because she's covering the old, the 70s smoke that used to be in the flamingo or whatever. And even housekeeping can be any nationality or gender or... Oh, yeah.

I know lots of Marias who aren't necessarily Hispanic descent. So, yeah, you know, just Maria. Just Maria. What do you do with a problem like Maria? All right, so let's say just that evening. I come back from from China Poblano or Lost Spirits distillery. after having some rum and I come in the room after this is a few hours after I've checked in.

I'm like, oh, okay, yeah, it smells really bad in here. I probably look for the source and still be ready to call housekeeping and say, yeah, this room stinks. Something in this room stinks. Yeah. And then I would, once I found the source, I would say the prerequisite, F me!

And I would, geez, here's the tough part. is that I'd want to call the front desk, which means I have to use the house phone in my room because they don't usually have them in the hallways until you get to the elevator. You could call the main, you know, like if you were just someone calling to check rates or something, like you could call out from outside.

Getting their voice, their press one for reservations, press two. If you have an existing reservation, there's no way I'm getting to the front desk calling the main number without 15 minutes of problems that's true um so i would do zero front desk uh there's a there's a dead body in my room i'll be outside my room yeah and then you'd probably take all your shes out because they're going to move you right then i would at least yeah i mean i don't even know if i'd wait the the time to to pack i'd grab my i'd probably grab my laptop bag

because who knows how long it's going to be before i'm able to get in my room again. Yeah. But you don't want to be in there again, right? Like, you'd want to be the F out of there. No. Oh, hell no. Yeah, no. I'd move me to a new room for Pete's sake.

Yeah. Like a different, almost a different floor. Almost a different hotel. Like, if it's MGM group, just moving to one of your other hotels is what I would say. Oh, I'd be fine with a different room, even in the same hotel. Even probably on the same floor of the hotel I'm in, I don't care. I think that would bug me. I couldn't sleep or something.

Really? Yeah. I don't know why. Why? You think the ghost of? No. no no it's just something about being there it's like uh owning a car where you know somebody got shot in the head or something like i remember when my dad i told you about that car my dad had where

the bullet was still rattling around the door yeah had blood all in the caked into the chair when he got it and he got such this amazing deal on it and he was like it was such a good deal scott you know you could buy it from me out i could we could fix it up you know clean it all up get it all set you'd have you'd have a pretty new car for real cheap like no i don't want i don't i don't i can't do one where someone got shot? That's a very different. That would equate equate just to the room itself.

Like if they say, hey, we got the dead body out and we've completely, we have a special hotel level febrize that we used in there and there's no smell whatsoever. There's nothing. The room is pristine.

I'd say, nah, give me another room. But I wouldn't say, give me another hotel or even, I wouldn't even say give me another floor, I would say. But the next day at that hotel when they, if they reopen,

whenever that room, gets reopened it's like a hot taco bell after food poisoning it's when you want to go because it'll be the cleanest it'll ever be that's right it'll never be better right yeah let's see claire says new hotel dice station zebra says new hotel rainbow bright says new hotel i just don't know what you know i think they don't trust the hotel dead bodies dead bodies happened to every single hotel on the strip but i'm sure on a daily basis there's at least one dead body in a hotel somewhere in there you so but i'm guessing not shoved stuffed under your bed so that's someone just dying on that is that is the okay so that is the discovered because that means you got some gnarly crime that happened

yeah great so whatever hotel i moved to is the one that the killer moved to because no way is he dumb enough to stay in the same hotel after he shoved a sex worker into the mattress at the mandalay bay yeah no that's a fair point i don't i think you're you're actually more correct that the room down the hall is going to be the better choice if you're avoiding that killer. Right? Because he's moved on. He's not there anymore.

He won't even stay on the same floor. Like if he goes anywhere, he's going to go to a different floor in the same hotel. But my guess, he's going to a whole different hotel or he's just getting the F out of Dodge. But, yeah.

Yeah, Rebel Scum says, I'm with Brian. I think a new room is just fine. And guess what? If I keep at the same hotel, oh, I'm getting treated like a king. Oh, that's true. You're going to get your,

A, your money back if you wanted to make. you'll get it. And still you'll get to stay there. And they'll give you some voucher for something. Like, yes. You know what? I've come around.

I don't want it right next to it, though. Right next to it is a problem. No, no, no, no. Definitely no adjoining rooms. Yeah. I don't want one of those where it's a door just between you. There's a thin wall. Freaking up that.

I want to be far enough away. Yeah, exactly. And I'd probably still struggle to sleep a little, just a little bit. Because it just would freak me out. It's like, dude, by that by that time, they'll, there's cameras everywhere down the halls and everywhere so by that time they'll figure out what they're looking for and probably see oh yeah okay he went down the hall he took the stairs down looks like he came out on floor five he went across to the elevator lobby took the elevator down and and left and now he's at

the link yeah it's steve win it was steve win the entire time no worries i won't see him there there you have it well i'm glad i got that answered that was an important question that was burning yes i'm glad you asked glad you asked it was really it was really it was really making a mess in my mental hotel room. All right, moving on. We got an email from Cappy, who wrote in. And I wanted to read this top of the show just because, and it says this. I don't know if Brian has knowledge of this or not.

I've been a week plus behind on the show due to the hurricane. No worries. I live in Tampa, and it mostly missed us. I remember when Tampa was like the main target. And then it shifted. And then it shifted, yeah. Anyway, he says, so it's fun trash reality show, the circle. that scary spice and baby spice are in the new season.

So this show called The Circle. Can I get Brian a fish sandwich and a mmm sausage? Love the show though. Yeah, I'll play both those things. However, is this the thing you were aware of? There's a reality show. It is. I watched the first episode.

Do you know what the circle is what the basis of this? No. Absolute garbage of a reality show is. Please tell. I don't have no idea. It is about social media. It's about influencers who are competing to be the best influencer. And they're stuck in a super trendy apartment with a touch screen television.

They're alone in their rooms. Yeah. And they touch the screen to get their task for the day. And I watched, I pushed myself to watch one episode. And that was even difficult. I hate everything. I hate everything about what you've said. I hate it.

I don't want to say it. And listen, we watched Love is Blind. We've seen garbage television. We watched a season of The Bachelorette because we wanted to see that train. wreck never again but uh and it's twitter 100% advertiser for twitter says tom norm really so it's not even like all the social media's instagram and and snapchat and i haven't heard a thing about this i had no idea and it's all twitter all i mean that that's they're just twitter influencers they're just twitter influencers okay boring that's boring influencer by the way yeah is is i think it's the only

designation that I hate with a passion, but I wish I could be one. You hate the term. I would like to never hear the phrase influencer ever again unless it's applied to me. But you are one. You are an influencer. You influence people all the time. Where's my free Doritos to talk about on social media? Well, my free Tesla to drive around and say, look, I'm driving to Tesla.

I'm influencer Brian I bit. It's a scale. So if you're talking about those people with, you know, millions of followers, that's a different category, I suppose. Okay. But, like, if you get on this show and go, you guys, I really liked this replica thing I got from Lego for this Marvel thing. People go buy that shit because you liked it. You influenced Brian. Okay. That's true. That's true. Yeah.

Yeah. By that term, everybody here is an influencer. However, I know what you mean. You're talking like these megabuck freaking ninja types who are, you know. That's, listen, the only, it's great. Thank you all for watching stuff like The Outlaws and Paraside when I recommend them and things like that, present company excluded. But, you know, I want the, you know, I want the perks that come with being an influencer. Hearing you guys say, oh, I like what you watch, Brian, and thank you for that recommendation. That's nice. That's a very nice perk, but I want, come on, give me the cash.

Give me the pieces and parts is what you're looking for. Exactly, exactly. I feel you. Well, anyway. So if anyone knows that path to say, here are my 12,500 followers, where do I cash this in for free Pepsi? Well, I'm still confused, though, why these spice girls are involved.

Are they influencers in it, or are they doing something else in it? I think they're judges. I think they're, and that was, oh, and that's the worst part. The absolute worst part. I sat through the entire first episode. At the very end, they say, and guess who's coming in to be a judge this season? And they show Emma and Melby's legs walking down the hall.

Find out next time on The Circle. It's like, nope, I guess I'll never find out exactly who that is, even though I know exactly who that is, but bye-bye. Who's doing this show? Where am I supposed to be watching it? Do you know? Netflix, I believe. Okay.

Well, I'll avoid it, but it sounds like a nightmare. You know what else that I don't ever want to see? I don't ever want to see that Hulu show that's about those two girls that are like mega popular on TikTok, the DiMilio girls. Oh, yeah. I'll never do it. I'll never watch it. Yeah. No.

I can't do it, man. I get it. There's a generation or there's somebody out there. It's like, oh my gosh, I cannot wait to see. Charlie DiMilio and her sister Dixie. What are they up to today? Oh, I don't know. Buying a jet and then eating a pig?

Yay! I don't want to see that. No, can't do it. Can't do it. Give me, you know, give me more knowledge-based game shows. I like Jeopardy. I like The Chase. Give me a few more things like that, not things where people have to pull rubber mallets and giant giant bottle out of a stack of things and prevent that giant stack from falling on top of them. I agree. We're in full agreement here. All right. Thank you, Captain.

be, I appreciate it. There we go, quiz shows. There you go. Column Quishos. There you go. Stacked or whatever that thing is. Like the movie Quisho. Great movie.

I want to give a special shout out, birthday shout out. I would say, do you. To Teresa Ozoa or Ozoa. I always say Ozoa. Is it Ozoa? Ozoa. Yeah. Ozoa.

Yeah. I never call her by her last thing. Let's call her rogue test. Yeah. But anyway, it's her birthday today. And then she rocks and I just love her. and I hope she's having a great day and that she knows

people are thinking about her. So, Teresa, happy to be freaking birthday. All right? For sure. From us to you. It's time for the news. It's the news and it's brought to you by. Choking one's,

I'm sorry, choking on a chicken bone. Oh, who, almost said that wrong. That was close. I misread your message, your note there. Yeah, I had some chicken from a Thai place. that's very good, but I don't think Thai chefs know how to take the bones out properly in certain parts of the chicken. Like there's certain, I don't know what the, you don't even know what these are called. There's like a bundle of bones in certain parts near the thigh and where it connects to the

Yeah, whatever. Like that long, skinny, thin bone that always seems to get forgotten. Always forget it. And then it's tiny and it shatters and you get it stuck in your throat and it's awful if you eat that happened to me yesterday. Thanks a lot, Thai chicken bones. They need to take the time. You know, we know you're producing a lot of meals for a lot of different people all at once, but take the time and get those, get the bones out. Yeah, get the bones out. That's what I say. Check this out. Here's the story about spam, speaking of boneless meat, or I'm sorry, meat with tiny

specks of bone in it. Tiny bones, yeah, which is exactly what spam is. You can always see it. You open it up and you see little white dots. You're like, It is like, mm, more cartilage held together by a meat paste. Yeah, it's not good. Anyway, apparently it's become very cool again. So, Brian, maybe this will sway you, I don't know. Probably not. The 84, excuse me, 85-year-old canned block of meat has undergone a cultural reinvention.

Hormel traded on the stock market as HRL. I'm glad they told us that, so I know where to go. There's five people out there furiously right. writing down that stock code so that they can't wait can't wait to get my put my sell all my IBM and buy Hormel they sold a record amount of spam for seven straight years 2022 is on pace for such another milestone this will be the biggest year in spam sales the conglomerate behind skipian genie Oge turkey genio Genio I don't know why I said Genie O turkey never heard of that never heard of Genio Turkey is that a thing that's a very

What you got there? Some Gen.O. Turkey you've got there? Hmm. Oh, man. Yeah. It's a very, very common brand of lunch meats and stuff. I feel like we don't have it here. Do you like the Genie O. Turkey? It's fine. Tina pretty much sticks to, God, what is the brand? It comes, it's like shaved, thin lunch meats and stuff, shaved thin cold cuts. And I think it's like a, it might be a Kroger brand. Those are good. I like thin. I'm with her. Thin is good. But then lots of it.

I'll make up for it by putting, you know, two or three slices on a sandwich. But then I've got, you know, it's better than a big, thick chunk that rips the bread when I try and bite into it. There you go. See? We all have reasons for what we do. See? Exactly. It says here, they can't make spam fast enough and they are increasing production capacity as a result.

It's a trending ingredient on TikTok and on the menu at fine dining restaurants in coastal cities. In 2019, a limited edition spam pumpkin. spice flavor sold out in minutes. You can buy it on eBay, where it goes for now, about $100 per can. Man, what is going on? What is behind this phenomenon? What does this slab of cooked meat, or why does this slab of cooked meat cooked pork? Is that what it is?

I never even knew it was pork. Yeah, it's pork, yeah. That's what the, oh, no, it's spiced ham is what the abbreviation, like what the spahm, you know, it's, it's the contraction, spiced ham, spas. Is it really? I didn't know that. Oh my gosh, I'm learning all kinds of new things. Now I'm into spam. We're all doing it.

Anyway, it says, why does this long-cooked pork thing? Why has it been stigmatized as the fake meat, linked to wartime rations, and hilariously spoofed on Monty Python, now have cachet with foodies. The popularity in Hawaiian Asian and Pacific Island cuisine has influenced the growth in the United States. That's true. Like post-World War II or during World War II,

we flooded that place with this cheap, easy-to-manufacturer meat. product. Yeah. And then they took it and made it into like cultural phenomenon. Now there's like all sorts of crazy dishes and stuff. I mean, I know you don't want to eat any spam. But in what condition would you, under what conditions would you eat spam?

Like if I was, let's say I was a Pacific Islander and it came to you and said, Brian, my family for 100 years has had this amazing spam recipe. You have to have it. It will change your life. Would you do it? Last time I was in Hawaii, there was a breakfast place we went to that said, oh no, you got to try our spam a suede. and got to try this with spam.

And we, Tina got something, I got something. We both try and were like, yeah, but no. Still spam. You know, it's like better than just spam right out of a can or thrown into a hot skillet. But that's about it. That's like basically just slightly above that. It's interesting, though, like a brand like spam. Yeah.

This is probably a study in why names matter because no one's getting stoked about Ovalteen. Nobody's losing their mind about, um, think of some old, something your parents had to, you know, I don't know. I can't think of anything else other than Novelteam, but, you know, Saspirilla. Sure. Nobody's going, ah, the resurgence of Sasparilla, right? Nobody's doing it. Right. Well, why?

Well, I think it's because spam has got this short, easy to say, recognizable name. It's kind of weird that it exists because it's a can of compressed meat and that's already makes it kind of edgy and weird. Yeah. And it also is the word that we adopted for junk mail. Yeah, exactly. The things did not help at all when we started making spam means something horrible like that. And I don't even, Chats asking if Alveteen even exists, I don't actually know if it does now. I think it does.

My memory, or my strongest memory of Alvaltine is they talk about it in Christmas story, and that's all the connection I have to it. Because I didn't have Alveteen growing up. We had, what was it, Nestle Quick? We had that. Yeah, yeah, Nestlequick, yeah. Cochranet, 100%. I love sprinkling Ovaltine on my vanilla ice cream. Totally the way to go.

Because Ovaltine, like, Nestlequick, fine powder. Like, it's basically chocolate dust. Ovaltine was like little tiny bald bearings of chocolate that were crispy. You put them on ice cream. And yeah, they'd melt and turn your chocolate milk into chocolate. Or chocolate, your milk into chocolate milk. But there's like a little crispiness that comes with. those is like, oh, I like this.

I've never tried it. I should try that. It's a good way to do it. If it exists, if I can still get Ovalteen, I guess. Yeah. Which probably is available, I'm guessing. I think you can. Yeah, you might be an order online kind of thing.

Well, the associate professor of Asian and Asian American studies at Binghampton University, an author of the book, Dubious Gastronomy, eating Asian in the USA. He says, spam has undergone a reputation makeover. a lot of celebrity chefs have been Asian and Asian American and reintroduced spam to a new audience I feel like, here's what I feel like happened. White people force their

shitty block of meat on other parts of the planet and then they just had no choice but to make something good out of it because what else are you going to do? And now it's this, it's got this cachet. It's like, you know what it's like? It's like freaking fortune cookies. We invented them.

Oh, sure, yeah, right. And then they go to China. You go to China. They love them in China. They think they're great over there. Do they really? So they actually do give you fortune cookies in China. Oh, yeah. When I was in Hong Kong, we got, not only do we get them, but the people there were like, oh, we love a fortune cookie. We love a fortune cookie. They kept saying. Yeah. And I'm like, and then I didn't know. I thought it was still the origin. I was like, boy, you guys are sure proud of your fortune cookies. Then I find out, you know, some years later, no, I was made here like San Francisco or something. Yeah, we invent them. Yeah, right. At least, you know, the Belgians did invent French fries.

What's your, one of your thoughts on Braunschweiger, by the way? I don't even know what that is. What is that? That is, it's a meat that comes in a tube, but it's spreadable. It's like a thick, God, what is the consistency? It's, it's like thick like maybe Nutella or a heavier peanut butter. But it's meat? It's meat.

It's like paté, basically. Well, I can tell you right now. It's like sausage, organ meat kind of stuff. I can tell you, I'm not. excited about it but um let's see i'm going to look up a picture so i can yeah oh where have i seen this you probably had it you've probably you know somebody probably you got a tube of it it comes in tubes so it's a spreadable spreadable meat then you spread it spreadable meat yeah it's like okay there you go chat that's what it looks like oh i don't trust that one on the left

here brian i'll send this to your discord this one on the left got some of that that bone business there you go oh maybe but yeah like a little a little bit of uh cartilage in there kind of does look like it yeah

yeah that's Jeffrey Dahmer looking shit I haven't had uh I haven't had Bronchweiger in probably 30 years but I kind of miss it I kind of like Brunchweiger I would try it for yeah the show

it's you've got to have firm bread to eat Bronshweiger like to spread it on a sandwich because again that stuff is is if you're working with Wonder Bread, you're going to rip that stuff up. Well, there's a whole lot of, the pictures I'm seeing a lot of usage on crackers and other stuff, you're right, it's all stiff stuff.

And the breads even are, they show here, like, this might be like a hard rye or something. Okay. You know what? I'll try your Braunschweiger. Yeah. I've never tried it. Oh, L. Funnings says, get on toast with butter. Try sourdough. That sounds really

good. I have no idea. But where's this meat coming from? Do we where this comes from? Yeah, it's organ meat. It's like, uh... Yeah? Like just, it's all the leavings, right? It's like, well, like hot dogs.

It's like, uh... Kind of, yeah. Yeah. Okay. Uh, let's see. Let's, uh... Just put it under a microscope. Oh, here we go.

Brunchweiger has been made from raw minced pork or beef, organ meat, and spiced with garlic, salt, and pepper. You can make it at home with the number of spices like all-spiced, coriander, majeum, mustard seed, nutmeg time. and white pepper. We're going to be including liver, a variety of seasoning stuffed into a sausage casing to easily enjoy. Easily enjoy. Enjoy.

Take some and enjoy it. Nobody's going to eat organ meat unless you make it in this form. So I guess it is easier to enjoy than somebody's spleen on the table. Well, all right. You know what? I'll try it. See, that's the thing. I don't know why I like Braunschweger, but I can't do spam because they're almost, you know,

Spam is just firmer Bronschweiger basically. Yeah, that is interesting. It's not really that different, is it? No, really isn't. Or is it, and I'm just not, I don't know. I don't know if about it. Maybe I'm missing something, but I can go to a store. Spam isn't made from organ meat.

God, it's made from like hooves and pig toenails and stuff, right? No? I do like a little fried spank. Pork shoulder. Okay, so spam is pork shoulder and ham. All right. Wow.

See, that sounds less gross than Schlongschlager, or whatever you called it. Well, no, I know it's made from Hamichor, but Bronschweger is also made from pork. It's just not pork shoulder. Yeah, it's pork penis and pork foot and pork intestines. There's some beef Bronsweiger, but it looks like it was pork is one of the common ingredients.

Well, I may grab a tube and talk about it later on the show. Grab a tube and talk about it. Okay. You know what? I'm going to do it. I'm going down to sprouts today. I'm going to say, point me in the direction of your Schlongschlager or whatever it's called. Braunschweger.

And they're going to go, hey, right over here, buddy, and I'll grab me a big old hunk of it. It looks like, you know, cookie dough, tubes full of meat. That's exactly what it looks like, yeah. Yeah, bring that home, smear that on something. Sure. Good. Sure. And if you're getting it sprouts, it'll probably be really good.

Yeah, I like sprouts. They're awesome over there. They take good care of us. Spam fried rice, diced tomato. Do you have a recipe? Yeah. Because I would try spam fried. rice.

Link it in the chat if you do. I just Googled spam friend rice because I put an end in there for some reason. Oh, you don't want to spam your friend and then throw rice with rice. Spam friend with rice. Yeah. You can spam rice. All right. Well, while we look that up, here's a story for you.

Hurricane Ian, you know, the one that just ripped through Florida and did some real damage. They're still reeling from that. The power just came back on in Florida. from what I heard this morning or from the parts of Florida that had the power out. How are they doing in Puerto Rico? Still everything off,

I'm guessing. We'll toss them a few rolls of paper towels. They'll be fine. That's all they need, right? All they need? Just somebody to go down there and toss them a few rolls of paper towels. Great.

Well, anyway, there's a video of a street shark. Street shark. Yep. It's a dark fish. There's a video game, right? No, what was? Oh, you're thinking a sewer shark. Maybe I'm thinking a sewer shark, yeah.

Is there a cartoon called Street Shark? I know I've seen Street Shark somewhere. Oh, maybe. Could be. So right there in front of you can see this video, Chad. This guy's a horrible film person, but you can see that. Look at that. It's some kind of big fish.

Now, if it's not a shark, who knows, it's got some kind of protruding fin. It looks sharkish. Yeah, that's something, man. I don't know what I'd think if I saw that. Someone just followed the channel and covered it up. By the way, animated series from the 90s. street shark. What was it about? A shark on the street?

It was The Adventures of Crime Fighting Half Man, Half Sharks. Oh my gosh. Produced by Dick Productions. Okay. In Dick Clark's deal. Line of action figures by Mattel. Street sharks. I've never heard of this.

Oh yeah. That definitely is a shark going down the street. It does look like it, right? It totally does, yeah. I would be shocked if it wasn't. I'm looking at Street Sharks' artwork from the 90s. 80s, 90s, I don't remember this at all. That was pretty good about keeping up on like Saturday morning cartoon stuff.

I don't remember this at all. Oh, man, they were basically just doing Ninja Turtles with sharks. They were, basically, yeah, it's kind of. Wow, there's a picture for you, chat. Look at those guys. That's so stupid. Jabberjaws meets the Ninja Turtles, basically.

Yeah, I kind of hate it, if I'm honest. all right well anyway so they find the shark and it's all scary they think it's about four feet long as all so it may not be a big one there's mixed opinion on whether it was a shark or another large fish according to george burris former director of the florida museum of natural history in their shark program said in an email it appears to be a juvenile shark while dr neal hammerschlag who is also a tube of meat yeah he's a tube of meat as well uh director of the university of miami shark

conservatory program, wrote that it's pretty hard to tell. So there's some infighting in the scientific community about what fish that is. Wow. Yeah. What would you do? I mean, I say it looks like it's got a fin, but obviously, you got to trust, we'll trust the marine biologists and stuff, but it sure seems to me like it's a... Well, then you agree with this George Burris guy. I do.

Yeah. I'll go Hammershlag and just say it's another fish. Okay. Go Hammershlag. Hamershlog! Homershlog is my understanding. Here's a fun one for parents everywhere. A shipment of baby wipes turned out to be $11.8 million worth of cocaine.

Oh, wow. Okay. Yeah. That's how we do it here. And they have a nice baby powder. It has a nice baby powder smell. Just don't breathe it in and you'll be okay. U.S. Customs and Border Reproduction officers discovered more than 1,500 pounds of cocaine hidden in a place where you would at least expect it. a shipment of baby wipes.

It's not where I would least expect it, though. I feel like I would most expect it in things like this because they're trying to hide it. Right. Exactly. Yeah. So why would that be the least expected would be in a container marked cocaine? Yeah, yeah. Plately labeled cocaine.

Yeah, that's least expected. These writers, I could be, we could write these articles. Why do we just write our own news? How about that? Yeah, exactly. Yeah. Anyway, happened in Laredo, Columbia, Solidarity International Bridge. Let's see, this is a bridge over the Mexico U.S. border.

Officials say, let's see, Zibba, they stopped a shipment of baby wipes for a secondary inspection following the inspection. Drug sniffing dogs. Made a discovery of what C.P.B. described as 1,935 packages of cocaine totaling 1,532 pounds of the stuff. jeez which is still just a that's just a small takeout order for don junior

anyway exactly right yeah this reminds me of something why why is this remind me of something I'm having a weird deja vu right here

like we saw an 80s movie that something oh I know what it is when we were going on the trip and we were waiting in line outside for an eternal amount of time

to get checked in to get on the boat. A drug sniffer dog comes through the line. Like they do at airports and stuff sometimes or whatever. Sure. So it came walking through there. And it just, it would get to a bag, just kind of ignore it, sort of sniff it, then move on, sort of sniff it, move on. Gets to us, sniffs it, starts to move on, backtracks back to a kid's bag, and sniffed it again.

And I kept thinking, I don't have, I don't have shit on this bag that should be sniffable by a dog. Yeah, no kidding. Nothing. Like, what do you smell her makeup? Oh, wow. No, it had to do a double take. I love it. Yeah, and the guy acted like, the guy was pulling the dog. He's like, come on, and just pulled her away. And I was like, okay, well, that must mean nothing. It must mean this dog's

distracted, but I didn't like that. Oh, I guess, yeah, if the dog just goes back to say, oh, let me hold on, hold on, it smells like fire hot Cheetos or something. Yeah. But if he barks, that means that's what things are bad. It always worries me that

I just what I don't want is to be delayed like our whole thing was like if I sat here for three hours and then your dog thinks I'm packing 400 pounds of cocaine or something and you're going to make me go somewhere undo the bag check all through it and everything and then make us late for this thing I was going to be so pissed you already had tight you know a tight travel time because you instead of flying out the night before you flew out that morning yeah so it's like we don't need your false positive dog sniff it was a cute dog though that I hate that they all have the sign on that says don't pet me i know i just want to pet him come on i do exactly that's you know that's the payment they want nobody asks the dog if they could wear a sign that says don't

pet humans ruin everything they do you do we ruin it all okay final story McDonald's is now selling happy meals to adults uh but it's a twist okay here's what they're doing they're bringing back a free baby wipe of cocaine secret prize is that the new measure a baby wipe of cocaine. I like that. Yes, exactly, yes. McDonald's is bringing back its family of recognizable figurines

to an adult market and in the form of an adult happy meal, which yes includes the toys beginning October 3rd. So yesterday, you can order a cactus plant flea market box. It's a Big Mac or 10-piece chicken McNuggets

with fries and a drink. The meal is collaboration between streetware brand and the fast food chain as it digs deeper into nostalgia. Okay. The food will be served A specifically designed box

It should trigger memories Of Happy Meals from the old days The toys that include Redesign takes on McDonald's famous mascots Including Grimmis The Hamburgerger Birdie Plus a new guy named Cactus Buddy

What the frick? Look at these weird freaking toys What's a cactus buddy though? Do you see these weird toys? Okay, put an image in our Discord, Scott. I'm looking at the link Oh yeah Why is it hamber? Why they all have multiple eyes?

Why do they all have multiple eyes? That is the question. And why does this new thing, this cactus plant dude, just basically look like McDonald's attempt to make Sporky from Toy Story? Yeah. What the heck, dude? Hold on. I don't get it. I don't get it either.

Cactus plant free market streetwear brown cats, the street wear. is it this is it the cactus character is one of those why do they have four eyes nobody's character is the third one that looks like uh joe plato they're just yeah they're just ignoring the they don't address this oh see and explain why we've got uh why do the uh uh donald's mascots four eyes let's see you know what it is somebody has explained this know what they did. Mayor McCheese got reelected for like an eighth term and he said, hey, four eyes. Everyone's getting four eyes, says Mary McCheese.

If I've got to wear glasses, everybody's got four eyes. Let's see. We have glasses. I don't remember. As people begin to purchase their adult meal, they do, uh, uh, their adult meal toys. That sounds bad. The brand is known for the. offbeat designs on one of their signature elements has long been to face with four eyes. The company

who has previously produced bracelets and t-shirts that feature a yellow smiley face with two sets of eyes. This is the, the cactus plant flea market brand is the deal. Oh, okay. I've never heard of cactus plant free market. I haven't either. I mean, they're the streetwear people. Flea market, not free market. Yeah, they're the, they're the streetware thing that are doing this with them. Yeah. Like working with them on this, I think. But I don't know why this cactus peat and everyone has four eyes. That still doesn't explain it.

I don't get it. There's nothing nostalgic about it. I didn't grow up as a kid going, ah, Grimmis in his four eyes. That never happened. Right. No. Hamburgler, he did not have four freaking eyes. I call BS on all this.

And Grimmis is basically a butt plug, right? Can we just all agree that that Grimmis toy is going to be, that's what it's going to be used for. We kind of know. Oh, yeah. Yeah, Grimmis, he's, he's ribbed for your pleasure, Brian. Those four eyes are going to see things that you'll have no nostalgia for, but you'll see him. That's right. Exactly.

All right. Well, that was fun. Let's do a break. It's a $12 happy meal, a whatnot? Yeah. I guess I don't know what, I don't know what value meals or combo meals at McDonald's go for these days anyway. Well, the kids ones, I think, are still in the $5 range. But I think this is all adult.

food, so it's a full Big Mac and all that. I mean, whatever, everything's gone up too much. That I know for sure. Jeez. All right. Well, listen, if it wasn't Taco Tuesday, it is officially National Taco Day, and it fell on a Tuesday this year, I would

do something for the fans and I would go to McDonald's and see if I could specifically request the weird cactus buddy toy in my adult happy meal. You know, I might do this. I got to take Van somewhere for lunch maybe I'll do that oh there you go he'll get a little kid one I'll get the adult one

with the specifically request cactus buddy with the four the four-eyed butt plugs that come for the adult one right right well yeah we can do cactus Peter cactus buddy is that what it is yeah see he must be the street wear mascot he's the streetwear company yeah just looks like mr. bill he really does exactly it's like the how long did that take to come i guess it's their logo their brand but still very weird all right well uh we'll see how that goes on the in the meantime we're going to take a break and uh on the other side we'll have bill here uh with a little bit of making

stuff and then uh bobby we'll be here with some science so get ready for all of that prepare yourselves by listening to this song brian hath brought listen our favorite five nights at freddie's fan uh jack fox a badger aka animatronic badger and discord wrote in and said dear Bring, Trap, and Bonnie. Got another Five Nights at Freddy's song for you. Obsolete is one of the many F-N-A-F songs that I love. Is that the appropriate way to say F-N-A-F, by the way?

F-N-A-F. F-N-A-F? I don't know. F-N-A-F. This one in particular can be completely enjoyed without any connection to the franchise whatsoever. As such, I thought it would see if it would fit on the show. The song is from the Five Nights at Freddy's ultimate connection album, collection album.

While I'm not 100% sure of this, I believe the song itself, is sung from the perspective of all of the Anatrix. from Ultimate Custom Night in which William Afton, the main villain, is trapped in hell or purgatory and forced to be hunted and killed over and over by his creations for eternity. As always, TMS brightens my day and helps me keep my chin up. In a world that relishes and negativity, you are both a beacon in the dark, signed animatronic badger. We're happy to be dark beacons, yo. Yeah, exactly. So Claire says the FLOs into the end.

So FNAF basically is how it. FNAF? So you've got to say it, FNAF? Oh, I really don't like to, though. I really don't like. FNAF. Yeah. I don't like saying it at all.

It makes me uncomfortable. I'm never going to say FNAF. It's all FNAF from now. All right. So from the album Five Nights of Freddy's Ultimate Collection, here is Nate wants to battle and obsolete. I found out I found What you know

What you said I can't To I found my place In a talking room that we could not say Despite what you say

I can suffer to I'm human just like you Now I can't Now I can't run, but I can pull myself apart. It's dead and done. But yeah, we end up back if I start again.

Remember when I said this is the end. And now I'm so far gone. Can you change my name? Can you replace my pain? I'm no, no wrong So throw away my pride It's burned my black and heart, yeah Now I'm broken, I'm scraps, yet I'm a monster

You bring me back to life So you can watch me die You can't tame me, just blame me, make me obsolete There's nothing left to say Just let me fade away Just like we fade away Let's see how many pieces You could cut me into

Let's count all the excuses But you got piled up inside your room Will this be over soon? It's a sweet, sweet town of eternal silence, but you keep it down because all of this is not for you. No one will, no one will play by your rule. Now, so far gone, can you change my name? my name can you replace my pain I'm no no no wrong so throw away my pride

has burned my broken heart yeah now I'm broken I'm scraps yet I'm a monster you bring me back to light so you can watch me die you can't name me just blame me make me obsolete There's nothing left to say Just let me fade away Go on Can you change mind you make Can you replace my pain I'm not all wrong

So throw away my parts And burn my blacking heart I'm making a car move with the power of my mind. Let's meet this evening's pointless celebrities. As Shakespeare said, shit happens. This is the morning stream. All right, we're back. Hey, who is that again?

That again was Nate wants to battle in a song called Obsolete from the Five nights at Freddy's Ultimate Collection. Nice. You know, somebody pointed out FNAF is a lot like SNS when you're talking about the Super Nintendo, so I kind of say you can't hate one without hate in the other.

Or spam, like we just talked about. Kind of. Except spam at least is like a, those are natural letter sounds that go together. SNS and FNAF, not. You don't usually put an F and an N together.

But is FNAF a acronym or initialism or something? Is it just a... What? Yeah. Yeah, Five Nights of Freddy's. Oh, shit. I thought this was a character in Five Nights and That's how stupid I am.

I thought we were talking about, because we went from Merrimich cheese and all these other characters to like, oh, FNAF. He's one of the Five Nights at Freddy's characters named FNAF. That's what I thought. How dumb is that? You know, it happens. It does happen. Every day it happens. You're forgiven for not making the connection because, you know.

I'm forgiven in perpetuity is what you're saying. That's right. Exactly. Check this out. Your bat caves open there, Bill. It is Bill Duran joining us all the way from PunishProps.com. We're currently headquartered in the beautiful Pacific Northwest. He joins us each and every Tuesday to talk about the world of makers and making things. It might inspire some of you. You know, he's a real influencer, Brian. That's who he is.

He is. See, there's an influencer right there for him. Look at him influencing us, us and everyone around us. Bill, welcome back to the show. Hello, happy to be here influencing. good to have you here what do you what are you working on lately that'll make us all be influenced i can't wait to hear well the thing i've been working on the most is playing grounded because i'm absolutely hooked on that game how good is grounded it is so good so good so good i agree it's amazing i you know what when it first came out in early access i thought this looks really interesting

i'm obsessed with the idea of being shrunk and having the world you know represented in a way that felt like oh my gosh this is like real like these these blades of grass are like trees for me. I love that concept, but something about early access made me go. I'm just going to wait. I love Obsidian. Their games are great, but I'm going to wait. We'll see how this goes. And I'm not a huge lover of survival games, generally speaking. But for some reason, that 1.0 version of that game just nailed everything about that concept for me. Absolutely. It's so good. And you get to make stuff. Yep. And I'm guessing, here's what I'm guessing. I'll be, I could be up in the night here. But I'm guessing at some point Bill makes one of those early tools.

You have to make an axe out of a pebble. Right, like the little stone, little pebblet axe. Yeah, a pebblet. And then you use like, it's basically just a sprig of grass. That's not a full grown stock of grass with like some, I don't know, wrapped in leaves or whatever to make it hold together. It's this awesome, beautiful little thing. And I could see that hanging on your wall.

That'd be awesome. Oh, definitely. Yeah. That's cool. I'm glad you're playing that, dude. That's awesome. any of that stuff inspiring you to I don't know

To make something new There's lots of things inspiring me I have some stuff I want to make The next project coming up is something I want to make from the game Or the movie, not movie, show arcane That's all I'm going to spill right now But today I want to talk about 3D printing files So many people are into 3D printing

I want to talk about what's available and where to get them Because like there's a ton out there sure we just finished up our satisfactory build the helmets are 3D printed and I put the files for those on our website we have a section on our website I don't think I promote this enough people go to punish props.com there's a free blue print section and there are patterns there for like foam and stuff there's also 3D printing files quite a few of them and again they're all free and lots of people do this lots of people have free files on their website to go download. We do have a couple of them for sale on our website. Some of the more challenging ones to make my

Blade Runner Gun and my Vashua Stampede Revolver are both for sale. But for the most part, most of our files are for free on our website including those new helmets. Nice. Nice. So cool. Which were printed with a combination of like FDM

and resin. So like, you know, some things work better like those little discs and the detail little parts of it that work better in resin, especially if you're doing like something semi-transparent. Oh, yeah. You know, just these big bulky pieces that just need to crank out, then the FDM

printer is just fine for that. So, I've had a pretty good chance to scour the internet to see what's available out there. This is just a small list of the sort of 3D files you can get. Now, obviously, props and costumes are my jam. There are a lot of them

out there. In fact, my brother built a full Iron Man suit but the 3D files he used to print all the Iron Man armor pieces those were purchased from someone. There's a guy that just makes Iron Man suits. I don't remember his name out there, but if you're looking for an Iron Man suit,

there are several people who only 3D model Iron Man suits. You can find the exact Mark Iron Man suit that you want. Is that like I didn't realize that was such a cottage industry to do nothing, that there were be a room for just nothing but Iron Man

Suits. That seems crazy. Oh, yeah. Is that also true, like Storm Troopers and crap? Probably, right? Probably, yeah. If you want a specific thing and it's a big enough thing that a lot of people are into it, look out there. This particular guy, I think, does most of his 3D files on Patreon. So you can sign up for a couple months and get access to the files and then go print them. And what my brother ended up paying for these Iron Man

suit files was ridiculously cheap compared to how much work went into them. Sure. Like a bargain, like less than, I want to say like 60 bucks or something, something silly. Like if you were to pay a 3D artist to model that,

it would be thousands of dollars. So yeah, obviously props and costumes are out there, but toys, lots of really fun little toys, but also poor accessories. So let's say you want to make a,

or get a wild weapon set for your Ninja Turtle toys. People have been doing this since before 3D printing, but people make custom accessories for their toys so you could modify your toys and what they're holding. Pretty exciting. Yeah, that's cool.

Give your stormtroopers that new that new weapon that they introduced in Force Awakens. There you go. Let them upgrade. There's also things like D&D minis. D&D is huge. There's tons of like people who sell minis.

The thing, other things I like a lot is 3D modeling or downloading models for replacement parts. So for example, I have a bunch of sort chemo cases. I used to sort all my screws and bolts and stuff. And it comes with these one by one

containers. I found someone online that had one by two, one by three, one by four, two by four, like all these different size of custom sort chemo cases. Instead of buying them, I just printed the ones I needed. perfect. That's really cool. Yeah, that's awesome. I also printed in a flexible TPU. I printed the leash for my gas cap on my car. Oh, no way. Yeah. Wait, the little

thing that holds the gas cap keeps you from having to set it on top of your car and forget it. Interesting. So wait, I guess that PVC stuff works for that? I guess it's flexible enough. TPU. TPU? Yeah. Okay. A little flexible like a flexible printer. I mean, I guess that makes sense, but that's interesting. Can you do that? And Brian, do you have a printer that can do it? Is it swaffable? Can I just do that on a standard, like, Ender 3 kind of printer?

I'm not sure about the Ender's. You need one that's got a direct drive, so it's got a motor near the printhead. It can't be a Bowden tube that has the motor at the back end of the Bowdoin tube, because it'll exactly what I have. It'll just jammed that stuff. That rubber, the rubber will just get jammed in the Bowden tube. Yeah, yeah. I had to buy a different printer head for my Lollsbot machine to print in TPU, to print in flexibles.

Some flexibles you can print are not so flexible that you can print down, but if you're interested in that, you'll have to poke around a bit yourself. Sure, sure, sure. But yeah, there's tons of stuff around the house that I've replaced with 3D prints, and a lot of them are things I've found online. Someone else had that same problem, they printed it and made a model. printed it and put it up on uh on the internet how far do you think we are from things like oh my CPU fan died here's a way to 3d print your CPU fan that fits that exact model of the motherboard or whatever do you think we're getting there one day where those kind of parts are electronics and stuff are the yeah integrating integrating electronics into your print all in one go we're not there

yet but but we will get there i'm sure of it like that's we already have printers that can do multi-material, and I can totally see when printing traces and stuff inside your print. Yeah, I mean, they have stuff that will print steel. They're big industrial monster machines that aren't, you know, they're not for your basement, hobby room, but yeah, like, it just feels like we're on the way. I like three food printing. There was pretty sure they used it on the cruise ship we were on because that documentary I watched, they were 3D printing some of the pastry.

stuff. Oh, yeah, the food 3D printing. Yeah. That is so cool. That is so rad. And candies and stuff. Yeah. Which I'm all for that because think of the manpower savings you would have. Think of all the jobs you'd lose. I guess I don't know if this is a good thing or not. Anyway, well, that's fascinating. Yeah. And you, is there like, is it still Thingiverse? Or where does everyone just go to like, I wonder if this part exists. Where do they go? So I've got a list, a good list here. Thingiverse is still cranked for three, free, three files. There's one called Thangs, T-H-A-N-G-S. There's My Mini Factory.

Prusa has their own called Printables. So those are all like collections of 3D files that you can search. And I'm sure there are several more out there. Colts. Cults is another one that I kind of like. Yeah. Cults. Colts. That's cool. I like that. Oh, this thing's.com is cool, man.

They got a viewer so you can rotate stuff. Do they all do that? I don't think so. That's cool. This could be useful for other things. And then if you find a 3D modeler that you like, if you follow, I follow a 3D modelers on Instagram.

They'll have, hopefully they'll have their own website where you can go. Gumroad is a great place where you can go to buy files. Same with Etsy. And then I found a lot of 3D modelers support what they do on Patreon. So you may be able to find them there. Yeah. Oh, look at this. Eastman is one of my, like there's, there's a,

couple clock spring and Eastman or two developers or artists that I support on Patreon because they put out such amazing stuff. This magneto that I showed off. Oh, that's the Eastman guy, right? This is Eastman, yeah. Yeah, look at his work, dude. He just does these incredible busts. Yeah, and if you find a 3D artist, even if they have free stuff and you like printing

their free stuff, you know, throw them five bucks here or there. We're on a little dash. Yeah. It's a lot of work, I promise you. Yeah, I guarantee that. That magneto bust did not poop out in three, you know, and a half an hour on a Saturday after. Yeah, exactly. There was a lot of work behind that.

Well, this is great. Great way to send people to some proper resources. I like this, I like this thing's place. This is great. Gitpol Xander asks, has the LiDR sensor on Apple devices, improve the ability to scan objects and use them to make a 3D model. Oh, totally. Like, you can speak to this as well, Bill.

But I just watched Uncle Jesse just did kind of the opposite. opposite of what you usually think about with 3D scanning, like instead of scanning a model or scanning something small, he used it to make a floor plan of his office. So then he has this little miniature 3D printed floor plan of his office with his desks and the pillars and all that stuff. It's really, really cool. Who's Uncle Jesse?

Uncle Jesse from the show? Duke's Hazard? No, he's just a, just a dude named. named Uncle Jesse who has a weird gray spot in one of his eyebrows that distracted me for the first five videos that I watched of his. Also, his name is Clayton. Oh, it's Clayton. Oh, really?

It's not even Jesse? It's not even Jesse. Oh, I want my money back. He's just a big fan of the Duke boys. I get it. Yeah, exactly. It's totally fine. He could be called Boss Hogg and then we're in real trouble.

And he laughs at everything that he talks about. I've just printed out this great Cyclops bust and let me tell you. resonant just looks amazing. Oh, I love it. I love a guy who can laugh at his own jokes ridiculously with his eyebrow. Well, all right. Great advice, as always, Bill. And I can't wait to see what you're making next. I hope it's just a cool little axe made out of a pebble in a spring. That's what I want to see. Anything else you want to drop on us today? A little bonus something. Yeah, a little video from our buddy Bob over at. I like to make stuff. He made a Graflex lightsaber. This is the Anakin

slash Luke original lightsaber and the Graftlex flash handle is the original piece that they used to make them and he got his hands on one. They ain't cheap I know that and he modified it to turn it into a very screen accurate looking lightsaber

and I thought that was really cool. That is cool. That's really cool. That's awesome. I have a couple of those versions of that lightsaber but not one made from the original stuff and I think that's pretty awesome. I agree. Oh, man, you guys all need to go.

When you go to your conventions and stuff, is it also, is it double for a beard convention? Because you all have the beard. You should go to one of them, Scott. I'd love to. I'd love to see you guys in your element. I'm not going to, I'm going to cosplay as myself and a nice, comfortable pair of jeans and a t-shirt.

I hope that's all right. But yeah, I wouldn't mind. But look at all these beards. And I got a beard. Oh, yeah. I could fit right in to the beer. Oh, yeah. Beard culture.

We'll put a grinder in your hands. I've got a photo. you grinding to metal with sparks and everything you'll still be perfect. Yeah, and the whole world I think I'm good at a thing that I'm not good. You'll be an influencer, Scott. Sure, which is really what I've been, well, I've been trying. I've been looking for a way. Finally, yes, exactly.

My boat has come in. Bill Durand, everybody, Punish Props.com, of course, Chinbeard on Twitter, he posts a lot of the stuff, so he's a good follow over there, go check him out. Thanks a lot, Bill, and we'll see you next week. Yeah. Bye. Bye. Bye. Had to hang up on him.

All right. We did it. Wait, Claire is fresh today. She is on fire. How many, how many gens have you had? Jen and tonics. How many gins and, is it all gin all the time? Why did Talley yell vagina? Oh, I'm so scared of the chat room today.

You guys are scaring the hell out of me. All right. It's not something you whisper. No, you don't. It's something you definitely have to yell. Yeah, you have to yell that. Like fire. Check this out.

Science. Hey, look who it is. Bobby Frankenberger joins us for a little science with Bobby here on the show. Bobby, welcome back. How are you? I'm doing right. How are you? Pretty good, man. Are you weathered the storm? Anything smack you guys in the head? Did you do okay? No big deal?

We did fine. It's usually always fine here in the middle of this state. And we just get some heavy rain and we had some limbs fall down from the wind. But no trees toppling over or anything like that. Nothing horribly, life-alteringly bad, that's good. Yeah, occasionally, occasionally if the storm is slow enough, we'll get flooding here in this area. In Colombia in particular, it's not necessarily something that happens all over the state, but because we have just three different rivers and a bunch of reservoirs and dams

that are just in the area, and so if they get overflowed or overfilled, then it can cause problems. Sure. Well, I'm glad to hear you were not in its wake. I know we had a lot of listeners who were and are all just getting power now. We hope you guys are all doing good out there. Bobby, you probably brought a bag of science. What's in that bag? We look. We see. Open that bag. What's in there? Here's my science bag. Have you guys gotten your flu shots yet? Yes, I got mine on what day was it where I had that horrible dream that night. Yeah, didn't you do both of the No, that was COVID and shingles That was shingles and COVID

That was two months ago I have to get the shingles one again The second one in the next few weeks And I haven't scheduled yet But no, I just got flu And flu never bugs me And it didn't really with like any flu symptoms But for whatever reason, whether it was related or not

That was the night I had that heinous dream About me and Brian and whatever else had I don't remember what all happened I don't even remember the dream now Whatever we talked about on the show And it was Was that eating skeletory, eating my toes? Was that the one?

That's the one. Yeah, okay. And it was... That's a common side effect. That's a specific dream. Yeah. I noticed this year's burned a lot more going in, but other than that, no big deal. Like, just normal.

Yeah, I know what you mean by the... It doesn't feel like a burn to me, but you can feel it. You can almost feel like it's pushing into your muscle sometimes, some years. Right, right. And, yeah, I haven't got mine yet. We usually, my wife being a pharmacist, We're lucky. She just brings one home, and I don't even have to go anywhere. I'm spoiled. But I got sick right around the time that we would have had them, and you just don't want to do it at the same time, you know?

No. Recommend not doing that, actually, if you can help it. Yeah. So do you remember that one of the touted silver linings of the COVID pandemic was going to be the MRNA vaccine technology, right? and that it would be helpful in developing flu vaccines. That's what I remember hearing, and I remember thinking, that's rad. We got a new tech, and from now on, all shots will be based on that. But I don't think that's true yet, right? It's not true yet, not with the, I'm sure people are working on it and that they're gearing up for that. But I haven't heard anything about flu vaccine.

Like, that's not what they're doing with the flu vaccine right now. But it does turn out that the COVID pandemic may have had a more direct positive. positive influence on the flu. Influence on influenza. Was it all the careful? I like to laugh at my own jokes too. Was it because everybody was masking more, more separated, less giant events, stuff like that?

Just made it so it couldn't spread and therefore take hold or whatever? Yeah, sort of. At least one of the strains, and that's what some researchers found out, that they're saying that one of the four main flu strains has disappeared. Oh my gosh. Yeah. Wow.

Disappeared. Like you just implied, we locked down in early 2020. And that the following 2020, the 2021 flu season was like virtually non-existent. You remember that nobody got the flu. Yeah, that's true. Yeah, because we were all masking, distancing, everything. Right, right. Nobody was out doing things.

if you were you were you were you know very paranoid about having masks on most people anyway and and that just really put a damper on spreading the flu and there's one strain of the flu one of the influenza bee strains called yamagata that seems to have gone extinct that's so weird okay well that's good we don't go away yeah flu we don't need you yeah one down yeah isn't it like the one it's the one kind of like everybody always says oh i hate bees I wish bees will go away. Well, no, you actually need them. They're good for the environment.

They're required, actually, for a lot of ecosystem stuff. Yeah. So then you say, well, I... Is there a good thing for flu bugs? Yeah, like flu bugs. Is there any reason why we want this shit? We don't. They can go away.

There's no, like, dependent ecosystems on a bunch of flu bugs, right? Other than their own. That's it. Not that I'm aware of. You heard it here first. Science, everybody, science. It would be great for the flu to go away. So, yeah, so there...

I mentioned there are a... four strains of flu, right? There's two influenza A. I say four, but we're talking about four main ones that we focus on. I'm sure there are plenty more. But there are two influenza type A and two influenza type B. One of the type A ones you've heard of, H1N1, I'm sure. And the other type A is H3N2.

And then the type B are Victoria and Yamagata. I don't know why they got, like, real names. I prefer it. I'd much rather say, oh, I got bit by Victoria last night. Yeah. Really? Because I got effed by Yamagata last night. I don't know, man. Like, I heard the other day a good idea for, like, hurricane naming and stuff that we should stop giving it regular people names and instead start calling it, like, penis ripper.

Like, really make them horrible names. Yeah, horrible because they're horrible. nobody wants to be associated. Like if your name was like Katrina, man, 05 was a bummer for your name. So give it a real name like butt cheek stretcher, you know, whatever, some, some horrible name. And then, and that's how we should do it. But I don't think they're going to, but I'd love it if they did. I like that idea, though.

All of it. Yeah. Yeah. But cheek spreader in particular. Yeah. Yeah. Instead of Ian, ah, butt cheek spreader really ripped Florida a new one. You know, it sounds.

so much more appropriate, but whatever. It does, and it fits the thing instead. Like, but Ian, Ian's like your, Ian's like your barista, your favorite coffee shop. Like, it's not a scary story name. Yeah. Yeah. Anyway, sorry, I didn't mean to derail. Back to you. Ian's the guy who tries and fails to make that leaf design every single time you order a half kaff latte. Bastard. Burt. Yeah. Burr bean serving bastard. Sorry. That's really hard. It seems really hard. So, vaccines, um, happened to be, they're what are called quadravalent right now. So that means that they quad meaning four,

they target all four of these vaccines or these strains of flu, right? When you get the flu shot, the one you got Scott targeted all four of these strains of the flu. Oh, I didn't know that. I thought it was a single deal. That's interesting. Okay. Yeah. So they will,

I think they make little modifications to it, you know, because you have these four strains, but these are the larger strains. If you were to compare them to COVID, you would say that they're the, the, what do we even call them? I don't even remember the terms anymore. You know, there's, there's omega and epsilon and whatever they're called nowadays. And so, but within each of these, they're subtypes. But these four are the main ones that are focused on.

they're in recent years they're the ones that have been that have been dominant so um the data shows that this is really interesting thousands of so there are two big uh sources of data that were dug to see what's what happened with the flu um one of them is uh is a is an art is collected from europe um and it was from a bunch of data that that goes through europe i can't remember the name of the group that collects the data, but it was an article that was published in the journal Euro Surveillance. And they found that thousands of, they checked out thousands of global flu genetic sequences, right? So when people come in with the flu, they can sequence the flu virus that they detect in you, right? And so they, and they will make this

data available to scientists. Sure. And they analyzed all the genetic sequences of thousands of flu viruses that were detected all globally, and they found not one, zero of this Yamagata sequence since March 2020. They've been looking at all of that stuff

since March 2020, and they haven't found it at all. Okay. Interesting. And then in the FluNet data, which is the World Health Organization's data, they found 43 from China and in 2021, and then eight of them are spread out around four other countries in 2022. And by comparison, normally they find, in 2018, there were 51,000 detected of this particular Yamagata sequence.

And so going down to eight is virtually gone. And they think that it actually, it's possible that those might not have even actually been, detections of this particular flu virus it might have been sensitivity from the sequencing they might have found viral DNA because of from vaccines or

left over from previous years even so that's good it's going to make it easier for us to target vaccines like less we can open it up to other strains or whatnot. But they have to figure all this out so that they know what they can target

in the vaccines moving forward. So before we get too excited, we should, I mean, obviously, the notion that common illnesses, not common illnesses, the seasonal illnesses, can actually go away in relatively short amount of time.

I mean, I guess what would be great is if we could figure out a way to have that happen and not need a three-year pandemic with various levels of shutdown to do it. Yeah, so, yeah, because one important thing to know is that, like, the news here is not, we found a way to get rid of the flu. This is more of like, this is really interesting, and they're actually having to change the flu, and this is a result of COVID lockdowns and everything.

Like, we don't want to have another global pandemic in order to get rid of another strain of the flu. You know what I mean? Right. Like, that's not a really viable way to do that. And scientists have been trying to deal with the flu for decades. Like, this is not a... So that's the news. It's like, wow, scientists have been trying to figure out how to get rid of the flu for decades.

And this got rid of one of them. Yeah. It's just more of a very interesting kind of thing. I agree. Well, I love this kind of stuff. It's progress, is how I see it. Sure, yeah. it's like I said it's it's going to change how they

target the vaccine it's not going to change how they targeted I shouldn't say it that way it's just interesting that they they don't have to target all four of those main strains anymore right they can they they want to to exclude this one now because there's no need to it looks like there's no need to to have to target it anymore sure and when you say it looks like that could just mean I mean obviously there's always

more to learn, right? So we could find out next week. Oh, actually, we found it. Some guy in Seattle was hoarding it in his basement. Now the virus is out again. Right. We don't know. I don't know a lot about whether the flu has animal vectors. Like, I don't know if it's transmitted through animals at all. So there could be some that are in animals or something like that. Like, it just takes time if you if they continue to see that it's not there anymore it the longer we go without detecting it the more confident we can be that it's gone but um like you said it's it could be hiding out in some guy's basement somewhere and and the flu the flu is very good at spreading so it could just take just one or two people to have it and then and then they give it to somebody else yeah yeah

well that's it's super interesting stuff uh along with things like this your show tends to cover uh all kinds of scientific topics including breaking late you know news breaking sort of things but sometimes it's just like hey you ever wonder why uh your boogers get dry in the hot drier climate well here's why or whatever i'm not i'm not saying you should do that story i'm not saying you should do that for sure i'm just saying i didn't know you had our uh you i didn't realize I shared you our list of upcoming topics. Yeah, I must have goofed and let it leak. But tell us what's coming up or what's happening this week.

What are you doing over there? Just yesterday we published an episode of All Around Science that is about renewable energy and something called the last 10% problem. So it's surprising. We've come a long way in trying to figure out how to transition to renewable energy, which is something that our country wants to do. We're moving in a direction to switch to renewable energy sources, clean energy sources, but in particular, renewable, like solar and wind.

And so in so doing, people have to plan, figure out how to get there, right? And so we kind of know from all the planning, we know a clear path on how to get about 90% of the way there. And it's that last 10%, which becomes very prohibitively expensive and difficult to do. And they call that the last 10% problem. And so we talk about what that is, why it's a problem, why it exists, why it's so hard to solve, and what some potential solutions could be. Well, very interesting. If that sounds like your idea of a good time, then it's on the podcast and available

all around science wherever you get your shows. hey Bobby it's been a pleasure having you on once again i hope you have a great week thank you yeah stay out of the uh i don't know whatever you stay out of down there stay out of it the dry boogers stay out of the dry boogers see you later all right uh there goes bobby and here we go to tell you people what's going on now today it's supposed to be play retro day it depends on when taylor berths so if it doesn't happen today it'll be tomorrow we're just going to shift it today no big deal sure sure we'll let you know flexibility with things like this. That's right. Trying to be flexible.

There will be a new diary today because I had a conversation with a three-year-old that I have to talk through. So we're going to do that today. Oh, I can't wait to hear that. That sounds like it's going to be cute. Yeah, that'll be a fun one. And then a reminder, because I never, I'm terrible at self-promotion. We do it here on the show here and there, but I think I'm bad at it. I think I'm bad at self-promotion. Brian and I've talked about this before. He's bad at it. We don't like pimping ourselves, for lack of a more PC term. Sex-workering ourselves.

Right. right correct terminology but brian if we're going to if we're going to climb that mountain called uh influencer mount influencer mount influencer then we got to get better at it so i wanted to remind which is what kagay west used to do yeah he did well in our hearts he still does uh i want you guys to go to frogpants dot club it is a URL that'll take you straight to a newsletter that i put out on the regular and um i started against all my nervousness i decided to start to start publishing chapters of a book I started. Whether it goes anywhere, I don't know, but it's up there and available to people.

So if you are interested in that or a bunch of other stuff that may get posted here and there, I'm personally of the opinion that at the moment anyway, newsletter, this resurgence of newsletters exist because we need alternatives to social media glut. Yeah. And so this lets you do more direct type stuff, and I'm happy to see it. growing it's awesome yeah and it it gives people more than just the blah here's a couple hundred characters take with what you will you get to kind of be more personal and give people more i think it's such a great it is really cool and i hope i don't know

it feels like the internet's just like swinging back a little and saying hey remember forums remember you know like discord's getting used this way um yeah the reddit is more like this remember pogs pugs are great anyway check it out frogpants dot club if you want to join the frogpants newsletter club deal. All right. Brian, we got a brand new patron. Or no,

we got a patron I wanted to mention that's old timey. Oh, okay. Because we didn't get a new one overnight, so I want to mention

an old one. His name is Michael. He's my name is Michael Farmer. And my understanding is he is in charge of farming all the Michaels. So, good job. That's true.

Yes. If he doesn't do it, no one will. Who will? If not him, who? And if not now, when?

Anyway, it's Michael Farmer. He's been around since 2014. Just wanted to give him a big thanks and a shout out. If you want to be like him, join us at patreon.com slash TMS. There's no reason you can't join today. In fact, there's a million reasons to. Go read about them at patreon.com slash TMS.

For all else, it's frogpants.com slash TMS. And we're going to get out of here, but only after we've played a song selection that Brian brought. What do you have? Sounds good. I was just writing something down that I just thought of. We got an email from Al. New Tilly, who says, this is really simple and easy.

By the way, this is not for any event. Just thought you might like the band in the song. Cheers. Well, I do like it. We didn't have any other birthdays or anything going on today. So, this is a good one for today. It's a band called Camp. I say it like that because it's got two A's.

Camp. Oh, weird. If there's one A, I'd say Camp. But it's two A, so I say, Camp. The name of the song is Square One. It's a single day released last year. It's a cover of a song by Tom Petty. Here is Camp.

We'll see you guys tomorrow. Had to find some higher ground. Had some fear to get around. You can say what you don't know. Later on won't work no more. time through I hit my tracks so well I could not get back

yeah my way was hard to find can sell yourself a piece of mind square one my slate is clear rest your head on me my dear

took a world of trouble Took a world of tears. It took a long time to get back here. Tried so hard to stand alone. Struggle to see past my nose. Always had more dogs than bones. I could never wear those clothes. It's a dark victory

You won and you were so lost TOTUS you were satisfied But it never came across Square one my slate is clear Rest your head on me, my dear. Took a world of trouble, took a world of tears. It took a long time to get back here. Square one, my sleigh is clear, rest your head on me, my dear.

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