The Morning Stream - TMS 2391: Dingly Dangly Dongle

Episode Date: December 13, 2022

Diarrhea Dog is the worst Yoga move. I Don't Like Eeeeeeeeee Batteries. The Ones you Lick that Hurt. Save a Soul-a-Thon. When you're not here, you're family we don't like anymore. Borderline Political Jesus. The man at the recycling Center lied. Dunkin' Covfefe. Swamp Water is my John Fogerty Cover Band Name. Germans: Pretty cool since the war. Collective Soul Asylum. Your dog died? Prove it! You can't! My Chids are addicted to the Fortnite. A Pint Of Weed With Bill. Discovering Frogpantium 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, Diarrhea Dog is the worst yoga move. I don't like e batteries. The ones you lick that hurt. Save a solathon. When you're not here, your family we don't like anymore. Borderline political Jesus. The man at the recycling center lied. Duncan Cofefei.

Swampwater is my John Fogarty cover band name. Germans. Pretty cool since the war. Collective soul asylum. Your dog died? Prove it. You can't. My chids are addicted to the fort. night. A pint of weed with Bill. Discovering Frog Pantium with Bobby and more on this episode of The Morning Stream. Here at his gravesite, loyal fans have turned out by the several to pay tribute to the legendary ham. You disgust me.

The Morning Stream. Sometimes an insect will even mimic its prongs. editor. Good morning and welcome to TMS. It's the morning stream for Tuesday, December 13th, 2022. I'm Scott Johnson. That's Brian, hi, Brian. Hi, Scott. How are you?

Better than I was last night. The dogs slept. We gave her kind of a 12-month, 12-hour fast. The vet said to do that. So we did that. Sure. And that seemed to help. She slept fine.

We slept okay for the first time in about three days. But then overnight, like at 3 o'clock in the morning, found out my daughter, Taylor, their heating went out. So it's really cold right now. And you guys, you're dealing with massive snow and everything now. Yeah, and it's really, really cold right now. And so they're coming over here today with the baby and van to just sort of chill, for lack of a better term.

Maybe a baby else could say probably a better way to phrase them. Meanwhile, there's some emergency HVAC guy over there. house trying to figure out what happened but anyway that stuff's real fun and uh you know you get diarrhea dog and you got that and it's all good speaking of diarrhea dog yeah diarrhea dog i have something

very special for you today oh all right i can't wait excellent it's a reading you guys i'm doing a dramatic reading kind of like if you paid to go see like a one man show on stage or something right Kelsey grammars one man hamlet there you go like that exactly

or like when Picard did that that one man's Christmas carol thing for all those years, Patrick Stewart, not Picard. Anyway, think of it is like that. Probably did on the holodeck, too. He probably did his own. Oh, I guarantee it. While he wasn't a Robin Hood or whatever the hell that shit wasn't. So anyway, I'm a married man. I'm going to do this in a dramatic fashion. This is an email that I received. And I think the chat would really enjoy it.

And people at home. So here we go. I'm going to, I'm now going to. getting into character. Do you have music for this? I do. I do. Imagine the stage lights lower a little bit. The artsy-fartsy theater holds about 300. Here's where it begins.

Subject line. Dogs with diarrhea. Crapping in your house. Jesus Christ. Body of the message. They don't fix themselves, you jackass. The vet. can give a medication.

Problem solved in a few hours. You act like the dog is the problem. You are the problem. Jesus Christ. So hard to listen to your podcast. Thank you very much, everybody. Thank you very much. Thank you very much. You know, those borderline political ad.

It was kind of. That music and that reading. What he doesn't. want you to know is that he voted to eat children or whatever. Exactly. Jesus Christ. That was an actual email. I'm not going to drag his name or anything. But what a weird thing to get, dude. Yeah. It's freaking weird. Do you? So when do you get the, what do you get the shit, Scott? Do you immediately go to the doctor? You just say, this too shall pass. Maybe you change your diet for a little bit. Sometimes it will pass. Now, if this was been going on for four days straight,

yeah, you just go, well, maybe there's something more. We need to, we need to escalate the, the problem and go, you know, whatever. But come on. Give me a break. And she didn't go all over the house. She went in the kennel. Right. There's no all over the house. And if it's so hard to listen to the podcast, I don't know what to tell you. Anyway. Well, I was looking forward to that. I'm just glad they found religion. I am too. They really, I mean, honestly, truly have embraced their Lord and Savior, Jesus Christo. And I'm really proud of them. Let's move on to something cooler. So, But here's another thing to just remind people at home that you should do. I'm going to play a listener's phone message.

And I'm both late playing it, and they were both late on catching up a show. So there's a bit of a confluence there. It'll make sense when you hear it. So here you go. Hey, Scott. This is James. I'm calling about the smoke alarm discussion on TMS. I don't know how many days I am late.

I'm running behind on podcast. Anyway, you know, it's a pain in the butt, right? But why not just replace the batteries in all of them when you start hearing chirps? That way, the next time you hear chirps, you know that they all need replaced again. And then you don't have to hunt them down. I know that, you know, you're not made of money and no one is, but batteries aren't that expensive, are they? Love the show. Bye.

So I'm trying to decide whether that whole batteries aren't that expensive, are they, is meant as a little bit of shade in my direction? It definitely feels like it is. Like, batteries aren't that expensive, are they? Moneybags Johnson? Just a little. And it's fine. He's right. This is the best solution.

And now we are, we are synced that way. We went and did everything at once. Good. Yeah, that's the way to do it. So if anything bleeps, it will be at the same time or we'll know that that's the time to swap out batteries. Yeah, I mean, exactly, exactly.

So if, you know, if you change them all at the same time, then you know when the first one starts beeping, you know, the others can't be far behind. So it's just. sure sure sure and the other thing is let's say i i one of them beeps but the others for whatever reason only used half the battery like could i i guess i don't know what else to use uh what are those called i forgot the name of those batteries the uh nine volts nine volts the ones you lick and hurt yeah um god why couldn't we could they not use another letter like did they feel like they'd

run out of letters when they when the nine volt batteries came out and they just couldn't say oh we'll call this one an e battery or a j battery yeah i like that why not why didn't we do that because everything was a's and d's and triple a's and double a exactly i don't get oh man we are out of letters i guess we have to call this one a nine volt nine volt don't lick it that's right 12 bucks for a an eight pack of uh amazon basics nine volt batteries rechargeables or just throwaways just great just throwaways okay i haven't seen i'm sure they have rechargeables oh yeah there they do by tenorgy but i haven't seen like a eneloup rechargeable

right and they're the only good brand as far as I'm concerned they are yeah the problem is you know there's such a dumb shape that you have to use a completely different charger to charge those unlike the A's and the AAAs and the triple A's that we go through like candy for our with our enaloups it just seems like when you and I were kids

nine volts were all over the place and used for tons of things yeah you know because it was a lot of our toys yeah that's what it was batteries it was like oh my My Millennium Falcon doesn't go anymore because Time to change the 9 volt Yeah exactly So these days kids

You don't even know what you have They're a bunch of rechargeable everything's now Kids You don't know what it was like to be us We all of a sudden When our Simon stopped working We had to wait Until our parents were going to the store

And they could buy another battery for it Yep And the other problem with the 9 volts were it wasn't as simple as just sticking it in something the way that AAAs or double A's were. You had the little dangly dongle that you had to snap on top and it had to match the two pieces

because they were different. I don't know who designed that, but they were just trying to. Positive and negative terminal. They had to snap on there. And every once in while, those little red and black wires one of them would break and you'd be kind of screwed until your uncle

with a soldering iron came over. And it's a device that people would test to see if it still had to charge by putting their tongue to it. I never did that to test if it still out of charge. Oh, my dad did it all the time. Is that a good battery? I don't know.

Well, taste it. I'm like, Dad, I'm not doing that. And he'd go, come here, give me that. And you go, eh. If it didn't power my assignment, then I knew that it was dead. Then I knew that that was the, that was your little Calico vision football thing didn't work. So Kep Kipper did a little research. Went to Wikipedia.

And it turns out that the 9-volt battery. is known as the E battery. Oh, what? It is the, it's an E battery. Why don't we call it that? I don't know. It just never stuck, maybe, or something. Just never stuck.

Well, in the era of E everything, it's probably harder to call it that now because everything's like, yeah, yeah, right. You have an E battery? What is that an electronic version of the battery? Yeah. But do they, I mean, I assume that those are still, so the other thing was back in the day, they always told us you wanted to make sure you, you didn't, just throw them in the trash that you took them to a battery recycling thing.

I assume that's still true, you know, alkaline. I guess it is, you know, I mean, I'm sorry, and I use mostly rechargeables in the house, but every once in a while we get a new, like a new TV comes with a remote control. And in the box, you know, plastic wrapped triplet of some weird named, you know, lowest level of the latter battery company. yeah and you put those in there they last to get three months and then you replace them with rechargeable batteries and i throw those away i'm sorry yes i just i do that with remotes uh because i don't my my eneloups all go in controllers and cool things oh use use the crap batteries and remotes yeah

just because you know i don't know i don't because they they seem to live forever and then when they do finally die it's like i don't know it just feels like why would i put why would i put a rechargeable and it just sits there for an eternity rechargeable's need to be more more frequent, I think. Electronics, now, big electronics I take. We have a recycling place that takes electronics. We have to pay them. Right.

You know, like this iPad that, iPad 1 that you can't really, you know, it doesn't hold a charge anymore. You've got to use a plugged-in like, okay, I'll take that to the recycling place. They should pay you. They should pay you because they're going to make money on that trash. You should get paid. Sure, exactly. Do they make money on that?

Like, if I take an old monitor. They sell them as parts. I think they melt that down. They melt down like aluminum, all that, I think. And I took, we did a similar thing where I took like four old PCs, just junkers to this place. And they didn't charge us, but they also, we didn't, you know, we don't get anything out of it. But they, I asked him, I said, hey, what happens with this stuff? It says, well, sometimes you try to refurb machines that look like they might work and then we'll donate them to like a library or school.

And then sometimes, you go, sometimes we can't do that. So we'll just melt it down and break them out into their. Components. Into their individual parts and stuff. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Monitors, though, we have one of those rage rooms nearby. So when I was doing all those, all that equipment. Rage room, like the vaguest thing.

I know what you're talking about. Okay. Yeah. You go on there with a sledgehammer and smash fax machines and lamps and stuff like that. So cool. They take monitors. And when I had a bunch of monitors that didn't work that came from the company, the gig that I was doing for refurbishing computers and monitors and equipment.

Still working that job, by the way. We would take the monitors there, and they'd be like, oh, my God, thank you. This is great. And I'm just visualizing, I'm sure that when they beat the crap out of this, they're not saying, okay, now let's separate all the things that are recyclable, and we're going to take these to the recycling place. I'm sure that they've, they just put it all into a dumpster and haul it to the dump. I think you're right. There's someone in the chat says that recycling is a lie.

I mean, it can be. Well, there was a great John Oliver expose on recycling, and it's not as cut and dry as they make it sound, like 60% of the stuff that people put in recycling that they think is recyclable and does have the little recycle symbol doesn't actually get recycled because there are only a few facilities that can do specific kinds of plastic recycling. Right. And during the last administration, we shut down. exporting certain kinds of trash to China for recycling. We don't even know what really happens to it over there. But to us, it looked like, oh, look, they've taken this stuff. And now I'm being told all the time.

Don't put that in there. We can't do that anymore. Don't put that in there. So, yeah, as usual, and Brian said it. As usual, it's complicated. It's complicated. Yeah. Recycling colon, it's complicated.

Yeah, recycling your colon is complicated. Just ask Ripley, the poopie dog. anyway we got another we got a text here i want to read this is one that came in for brian specifically uh says from another soul soul uh this is from let's see yours and trash sven from baseball camp he says as a fellow kia soul owner i can't help but sympathize with brian's recent saga of mechanical misfortune i myself have had to pour oh thank you dear sorry my wife brought me a thing uh thank you uh let's see i myself have had to poor a metric oodle of money noodles what of money noodles you had to say it together a metric

uddle of money noodles because it's supposed to run there it's illiterative there it is i like that into various repairs just to keep the the beast running that said it got me to thinking you know it would be cool what if the tadpool had an old school telethon to raise money for brian's soul only it would be for this uh it would be for the save brian solathon even better it would feature songs from soul music groups, songs with the word soul in it, guest appearances from noteworthy citizens of Seoul Korea. And sorry, special guest performance by Collective Soul to finish it all off. At the very least, it would make a fun episode of Coverville. Soulmates assemble, yours and Trash, Sven. I'd rather have Soul Asylum. Can I get both

collective soul and Soul Asylum? You could? Yeah. Yeah, why not? I think that's good. What other bands have Soul in it? Uh, let's see. Soul coughing. Soul coughing. Soul coughing. that's a good pull there what's his face with the guy he went solo and he's even better solo than he was with soul coughing soul low solo solo yeah uh who else uh soul that's all i know oh uh long cold ill soul oh all right he's the guy who did that uh really cool of uh 99 problems are really cool oh yeah day la soul yeah mike doughty that's what i'm thinking of identity for. He's, he is great as a solo performer, man. He is great. Soul coughing was terrific, but man,

I love Mike Dowdy or Doty. I'm sure how it's pronounced. I never heard of him. Oh yeah, soul to soul. Yeah, soul to soul is another good one. Back to life. Back to reality. That's what they're going to say when your car's done. Speaking of which, is there any update on that? How's that? I called

yesterday and left a message, and I have not heard back. Just a quick message to say, hey has the parts shown up as of as of sunday they've had the car for exactly one month that's a long time showing no signs of me getting it before uh before christmas that's one twelfth of a year man that they've had your car that's a lot oh gosh when you think of it like that's a lot think about if somebody was in a coma for a month we'd all be gasping like oh my gosh i do like how you think of time as what what if somebody experienced the same amount of time that we're talking about that would be the same amount of time yeah what if they spent 30 days doing a

thing what then um actually it'd be great if i was in a coma for 30 days because then i wouldn't have been without my car i wouldn't have realized i was without my car so right this is bad this is the worst remake of dude wears my car we've ever had it really is totally is dude where's my soul quick uh quick final uh text here from someone named some guy uh or it's just some guy maybe just random, I'm not sure. Anyway, he's talking about Duncan, because we were talking about Duncan yesterday and how to change it from Duncan to Duncan, or from Duncan Donuts to Duncan. He says, Duncan acts the donuts to compete with Starbucks on coffee.

So they wanted to focus on, well, the thing, the thinking here is, they want to focus on the coffee delivery and the coffee, hey, we're a coffee shop. We're here for your morning addiction and less these big, round, gooey donuts that people don't care about as much as the coffee. That's smart. Yeah, I mean, basically, you're, if you think about as like, oh, you only go, you go to Duncan for donuts and then you go to Starbucks for coffee. They just want people to think of both the coffee and the donuts from the same place.

And Nicole Spagnola was like the biggest, you know, perpetuator of the great coffee at Duncan Donuts when she was, you know, back when she was here in Colorado and doing recommendals, she'd always talk about, or not always, but very early on talked a lot about the Duncan coffee and saying, that's really good. Where do you stand on, Duncan? I think I've only Well, I used to love their donuts Back when I was a little kid And they had a store in Arvada That was two blocks away from my house And it was on my way to and from school

So I could stop there on the way And get a donut as I walked to school And they made the donuts in house That guy, that fat guy got up And he turned the light on On his nightstand And he said, it's time to make the donuts And he, you know, shuffled into the bathroom

And shuffled back and forth in the dark at 4 o'clock in the morning and then he went to work and made the donuts. Now, I don't think they make the donuts there at all anymore. And so I don't go there at all. I'd much rather go. If I'm going to get a donut,

my go-to is, I think, Lamar's. Lamar's donuts. Lamar's donuts. I don't know if it's a local chain. I don't know if it's a national chain, but they're like five or six here in Colorado. And their donuts are just so

fantastic. Yeah. No, no, no doubt. So have you had their coffee, though, at the Duncan? I have only had, like, some, you know, sugar-free hazelnut, you know, sweet drink that didn't grab me. I think it was something that Nicole said was really good, and I tried them like, oh, that's a little too sweet for me, even though it was sugar-free. See, we don't always, our recommendals don't always line up, see? Sometimes we don't like what each other brings to the show, see?

No, no, it's true. Sometimes our recommendals fall flat. But that's not the case for me, Scott. No. I'm going to tell you right now, is Tina and I started watching a thing that you recommended back in August, August 24th, if I'm going to be specific. Ooh, B, please. You recommended a program, a series called The Old Man, starring Jeff Bridges and John Lithgow. And we're four episodes, three episodes in, four episodes in, oh, it's so days. Isn't it great?

It's so good. Really, really good. you know what else is great is Amy Brennerman is great she's good in it and what's her face from Arrested Development oh she's mind-blowingly good

yeah she's really good I felt like everything I've seen and I haven't seen search party so I feel like I missed out on other good stuff she's done but for me she was always the person on Arrested Development and when she came back for the newer ones I was like oh she's kind of I don't know

she's fine whatever and I just thought well we'd never see her again no dude she's good a shaw cat yeah her name couldn't be harder to say but yeah well it could have she had three names and then you'd completely like

a flare around like Chloe Grace Prants yeah yeah yeah no she's great in it and yeah I'm we're hooked that twirp who works for he's CIA but he's over in the FBI freaking that guy just want to rub him out and boy the

the actors that they got to play young versions of Jeff Bridges and John Lithgow, especially the John Lithgow actor, has his speech nailed. Oh, yeah. It's like, it's almost like, it's one of those where you worry that it's an impression, but it's, it's better than that. It's like. It doesn't feel like he's faking a voice. It just feels like that guy has that voice. Yeah.

If someone said, oh, that's his son, I'd believe you, because it's just a song. We're outlying dancing in this town, and you're going to, you're going to comply. That's pretty good. That's not. horrible. I have not workshopped. I've never tried to do a John Lithgow impersonation. I need to, that is one I feel like I could do, though. You could. I feel like you got

most of the way there just now. It's just a little tweaking and you got it. A little workshopping and I might have it. Because there's a lot of demand for a John Lithgow impersonation. Oh yeah, no, that's a huge. Well, it's like, what's his name always says? Bill Hater, he likes, I think we talked about this before. His impressions, his best impressions,

the one that he likes to do the most, or ones that nobody he thinks about like he's still doing hawkeye from mash or vincent price or these these character actors or or things that were popular in the 60s and 70s and no one cares about now that's a good point yeah anybody can do a trump especially freaking jamey fox who who knew right that blew my mind i can't believe that uh but but yeah who's you know who's out there trying to pull at vincent price or an alan alda or things like right i i respect it i think it's great but yeah it's a dying art All right. Well, that's all well and good. Yeah.

Guess what we have. We have this. It's time for the news. And it's brought to you by. Where there's Diablo. There's the Diablo show. That's right. As Diablo 4 approaches, the Diablo show is back on the air and available now on all podcast platforms and at frogpents.com slash Diablo. play a little. Wow, it's back, huh? Yeah, I decided, I've been mulling it around for a while, but I miss doing that. It's a solo show, and I get to be a little bit different on there, and I kind of like doing that. And up till now, it was always, people always like, oh, did you stop because of the blizzard stuff? Not really. I stopped it because there wasn't a lot to

talk about. Yeah, it was like, Diablo 3 sort of had gotten, you know, into a loop of the same stuff. They weren't adding anything to it, and they had announcements of other things. things. The last episode I did was in 2019 right after the announcement of Bliscon, but then there's just been, you know, kind of dead air since then. But things are ramping up. I'm hearing some insane things internally and externally about the game that make me think it's got legs. So I'm going to do an eight-season or an eight-episode season to start back up and see how it goes. And anyway... Always a good thing to say, you know, instead of saying, this is, this will go on forever. Start with the season and say,

I can end at this, at the end of this season, if I like, or keep it going. There's a reason TV does that. It's a reason they don't just go episode one, two, three, four, five, six. You know, they make seasons for a reason. Unless you're a news show or, you know, the talk show or something. Sure. Or like us, TMS is not the kind of show you do in seasons, right? It's not, doesn't really work that way.

Exactly. But anyway, we're going to give that a shot. And if you're interested, there will definitely be a talk about that battle pass chat. In fact, that's probably the very next episode. I'm going to release it on Mondays. And maybe we already talked about this. Maybe I asked about it.

But whatever happened with the, that mobile thing that they announced? Immortal, the game? Yeah, Diablo. Oh, it did come out. Yeah, that's a little thing. It came out this year. It was up for...

It sadly got booed at the... Yes. At the game awards a couple of days ago when they announced it. Yeah. Because it was up for mobile game of the year. And probably would have won. It had Snap not come out this year. Oh, really? Wow.

I think Snap usurped it. Yeah. I think deservedly. But Immortal is making... them money hand over fist but it's controversial as hell so yeah there'll be some talk about that um the show will probably lean into more four issues like four's got its own big questions around it right now there's a bunch of weird issues about like which version do you buy now and what does that give you and it's a little bit squampus there's a big freak out about how the collector's edition has no game

code in it of all any can no game there's no game with it uh it's just a collector's edition but it's not called that. So it's like a paradigm shift. Think of it this way, Brian. It used to be when you get a collector's edition of, say, a wow expansion that meant the DVDs would be in there plus art book, plus all the other stuff. So what this is, instead of this being

a collector's edition that costs you 150 bucks that includes the game in a code form or something, which they had a lot of problems with fraud with those, people reselling codes and stuff like that. So what they're doing instead is that basically they're giving you a

like think of it as a Diablo swag box or loot crate. Okay, gotcha. So you buy it on top of Correct. Or in addition to or not at all. Like you could buy just the swag stuff

and never even buy the game. Never buy the game. It'd be weird. But that way, so the box is only $99 instead of $150. And the thinking is that well, now you have the ability

to get the standard edition of the game digitally just by doing it. There's still be, boxed copies with discs in them for PlayStation 5 and Xbox series S and X, that's still a thing. Well, not S because S doesn't have a optical drive. But you know what I mean? That'll still be a thing. But from a retail perspective, at least on the PC side, no one's doing discs anymore.

Sure. And I don't blame them. I think it's actually an okay thing. It's just shifting the paradigm for people. So there's a lot of outrage about it. I'm like, well, A, I don't know why you're outraged because it's, you're not paying for the game. You're paying for a loopbox with a bunch of Diablo stuff in it. I think people just don't like change. And it's weird for the them but anyway we'll talk about issues like that but also like that's kind of the easiest like the best way to do it right you know collector's edition don't have to buy it and you can buy it on top of everything else and get your additional that's weird so that kind of dumb stuff I get talked about but

also dive deep on lore and who's that like people in that latest trailer they think that's terrial up there it's not it's not him who is it yeah tune in monday to find out all about who that guy is I'll be waiting with baited breath. Bated breath. Waiter, wait a breath. Let's move to this story here about Germans. They're pretty cool since the war, you know? We like them, don't we?

Yeah, we're... It don't work out okay. It was like that time... There's a great line from Norm MacDonald. He's the only one that can do it justice, but he'll say, you know, I've been reading about that Hitler. yeah the more I read about that guy the less I think I care for him I don't know why but nobody can do that kind of thing like he did yeah no it's true I can't think of another comedian that can pull that off I mean I'm trying to imagine if

if Kanye could pull that off uh doubt it doubt it uh hey I ain't saying she's a gold digger anyway moving on German police are seeking help in solving bull sperm heist oh no yeah this is oh it feels like you've got like you gotta have like almost people's court music with this

I got some yeah A whole bunch of bull sperm was stolen Meet the defendant He is very Ferdinand the bull Ferdinand the bull I like that name for a bull

It's pretty good Anyway police in Western Germany Are I came up with it Oh yeah well Go ahead Police in Western Germany are appealing for help

in the cracking a potentially very odd, very cold case. Authorities say about 60 containers of bull sperm. He's worth a lot of money, by the way. Yeah. We're stolen from a farm in the town of Ufflin, 90 kilometers, or 56 miles northwest, or east, rather, of Cologne. That's where they have the games comm every year. Late Monday or early Tuesday, police said in a statement Wednesday that while it's unclear how the Russell happened, the Russell. R-U-S-T-L-E.

Yeah, the Russell. The precious cargo needs to be super cooled with liquid nitrogen at 196 Celsius, so it isn't spoiled. That's about 320 degrees Fahrenheit. Negative, sorry, negative 320 Fahrenheit. Yeah, yeah. They are seeking tips from the public that might lead to the recovery of the sperm, which was intended for artificial insemination. The reason someone heisted it is because it is very, very valuable. And people just kind of go, whatever, sperm, he, he.

No, it's like gold, man. Yeah, I mean, this is like, you know, you put this into your prize cow and you get, you end up with super offspring or something. Yeah. You're getting some super big cabs, super cabs. And then those go on to make even better sperm. I don't know how it works. I don't either. I just know that, I just know that it's desirable for farmers.

They don't say how much is worth here, but I'm going to guess that's about 50s. Let's see, 60 containers, whatever containers are. So it's probably, this is probably a million, two million dollar heist. I'm picturing like an Ocean's Eleven style. Right. Yeah, exactly. Like they've got, you know, subterfuge going. And one guy like, you know, distracting them.

And they pause every time they introduce a new character to show you what they're, he's the bag man. He's the plant. He's the expert. And you don't want to be the little Asian guy That has to hide inside the bullsperm container The safe Oh yeah Yeah, that poor dude

I just watched a really good Futurama Where they basically Ocean 11 to heist And oh really? It's great Oh my gosh dude I forgot how good Technically the previous final season With its own finale was 11

Or 10? Yeah 10 Oh yeah that's right 10 because 11's coming And they end it so beautifully and so it's a heartfelt, wonderful, funny, but just a great way to end that show. But they leave this little crack of light for getting out of it.

And you didn't notice it when you watched it before because you thought that was it. That's all they're ever going to do. But there's this crack of we have an op-wee. There's a chance that all these characters come back. Yeah. And I'm so stoked. Oh, I love that show so much.

All right, moving on. If you're, okay, here's a phrase. You won't hear very. often. If your dog died, prove it. Prove it. You can't. This is what Olive Garden manager told a bunch of people who get time off at Olive Garden. It was a leaked memo, so we're going to share it here. Johnson County Restaurant Manager sent a harsh message to employees after taking time off and was subsequently fired. And Olive Garden Media Relations Representative confirmed this.

This happened where, let's see, this is the message the staffers that was sent out. Um, our call-offs are occurring at a staggering rate. I should do this with that music. From now on, if you call off, that's a weird way of saying it. I've never heard the term call off. Like if you, if you call out or call out sick or something like that. Call in sick, call in sick. I'd call in sick, right?

Yeah, call in sick. Oh, he called in sick. Yeah, that's the way you say it. Yeah, that's how I'd say it, unless your name is Colin, then you call in sick. Anyway, Colin's calling off. Oh, shit. Well, anyway, it says This is happening a staggering rate

If you call off, you might be You might as well go out and look for another job We are no longer tolerating any excuse for calling off Boy, when you're here, you're certainly not family No kidding. If you're sick, you need to come prove it to us. If your dog died, you need to bring him in and prove it. If it's a family emergency, you can't

And you can't stay or say, too bad. Wow. Go work somewhere else. It says if you want the morning, sorry, if you only want morning shifts, too bad, go to work at a bank. If anyone from here is on, sorry, is out calls, sorry, if anyone from here on out calls out more than once. Let me help you. If anyone from here on out calls out more than once. Didn't look right the whole time.

When you're here, you don't use punctuation. is the problem. More than once in the next 60 years, excuse me, 30 days, you will not have a job. Do you know why my 11.5 years at Darden? Okay. I don't know what Darden is.

Anyway. Whatever place he used to work. Yeah. How many days I called off? Zero. I came in sick. Well, no, we don't want that. No, exactly.

Great. I made my whole office sick, but by golly, I showed up to work. Lame. Oh, Darden is the parent company. Oh, oh, oh, okay. He says, I came to work on time. There's no more excuses.

Us, collectively, as a management team, have had enough. You skipped a whole great line, by the way. I got into a wreck literally on my way to work one time. Airbags went off and my car was total. But you know what? I made it to work on time. Oh my gosh, I did miss that. That guy went hard.

Dwight Shrewt is what this guy is. It says, if you don't want to work here, don't. It's as simple as that. If you're here and you want to work, then work. No more complaining and not being cut. sorry, no more complaining about not being cut or not being able to leave early. You're in a restaurant business. Do you think I want to be here until midnight, I'm Friday and Saturday?

No, I'd much rather be home with my husband and dog going to the movies or seeing family. But I don't. I'm dedicated to being here. As should you. No more excuses or complaints. I hope you choose to continue to work here. And I think we management make it as easy as we can on y'all. Thank you for your time.

And thank you for those who come in every day. on time and work hard. I wish there were more like you. And they were fired. And they were fired. I love that. The thing is, I, look, if your employees are taking advantage of your good graces, you put your foot down. I get it.

I actually don't disagree with, like, the reasons for this at all. I don't either. I feel like, but there's definitely a better way to handle it. Yeah, it's a better way to say words. Yeah, exactly. I assume it's a lady, but it could be a dude, Mary. dude, I don't know. Sure, sure.

What am I to say? How am I to know? All right, here's a good one. I don't know why this stuff happens. I feel like this happened a lot in the 90s, when it's happening again. Parents have filed a lawsuit saying their kids are addicted to Fortnite. That's what that tells me is you don't know how to parent.

But anyway. Right, exactly. A lawsuit has been filed in Canada. Oh, hold on. It's not U.S., everybody. Also this. Canada! And these are parents who say their chids, their kids, are addicted to the video game Fortnite.

It's your chids, Marty. The Canadian Supreme Court judge authorized the filing of Quebec parents against Fortnite's manufacture Epic games. And Epic has a huge office up in Montreal, so they can directly sue them. Anyway, parents say their kids are so addicted that they don't take care of regular everyday hygiene, such as showering. Again, you're a shit parent. Sorry, you just are. Yeah. You let it get out of hand.

Exactly. I don't know. Maybe say, hey, we're going to limit your time on that device that you're playing Fortnite on. Yeah. You'll have a couple hours, a few hours a day, but you got to make sure you get all these other things done like showering. Yeah. And we're not saying it's easy. We know kids can be hard.

We know those moments happen. But it's still on you. I hate to say it. The game doesn't make render you freaking useless. right uh let's see uh some kids are so dependent on fortnight they say they've stopped eating and sleeping uh quote the court concluded or concludes that there is a serious issue to be argued supported by sufficient and specific allegations as to the existence of risks or even dangers arising from the use of fortnight i think this judge has no idea how video games work the use of fortnight it's not a drug

Like, these kids are using Fortnite in dark alleys and backways. You make it sound like fentanyl in a bag. It's not that. It's a game. You have control. These kids are ghost peeking and goading on the sticks and clutch, clutching, and box battling. And all those things. All those things.

An attorney from the firm that brought the suit equated the game maker Epic Games to a tobacco manufacturer and said the legal responsibility is basically the same be prepared to argue that in court it's not the same yeah same thing and like uh with starcraft in in the 90s or early 2000s i guess it was early 2000s name any of it like when they did the hearings about mortal combat or freaking uh the stupid Sega CD game uh what was it called night trap like get over yourselves i remember when we were kids and we had Pac-Man fever And we couldn't do anything about it, and we didn't sue anybody. Nope, nope. I just kept putting quarters in it.

I had no control. Lucy or Echo the comparison of video games to tobacco addictions says the harmful effect of tobacco was not even recognized or admitted overnight, he ruled. Oh, come on. Canada, what are you doing? Yeah. We've been through this. Our resident scienceologist says, these parents might be neglecting their duties, but let's not pretend that Fortnite isn't a bit of predatory. Oh, I know it is, but it's predatory in a way that parents have full control over.

They control everything from, because when you say predatory, what you're talking about is monetarily predatory. The game is like, hey, do you want these cool skins showing the Mandalorian? You want to be the Mandalorian? Pay a little, exactly. You want some Marvel characters in here? Pay to win or pay to play. But if your parents, you still, it's still down to the parents. Still, you can, you can say that stuff's tempting to kids. I get it. It's tempting to me. Yeah. But you got to have some, you know, you got to step in and be a mom, be a dad. I know when to stop snapping. Yeah, Brian knows.

And he's not a kid, and I understand. Like, if Brian was a little kid and all he did was play snap, his mom and dad should probably step in. Totally, yep. Simple as that. We did the same shit back then. I spent too much time on a 2,600 or an NES. My mom would step in.

Put that light gun down. Hogan and his alley will wait another day, she'd say. That Mario, she'd say. Mario. Stop climbing that ice for a little while, Brian. Yeah, no more ice climbing. Exactly. Mario will save the princess in a different castle another day.

That's right. Mario. Mario. She'd say Mario. Which I think Canadians say as well. They say Mario. Oh, really? Yeah, Bo does.

And he's from Canada and he cannot say anything but Mario. Really? Yeah. Even though the game itself, Mario in the games, everybody who talks about the games. He says, it's a me Mario. How can you argue with that? He never says it. He'd never, the Canadian version of the game

does not say, it's a me, Mario. It doesn't, it definitely doesn't. So Brian is right. We know how to say it because Mario says it. Yeah. It's not like we had to wait until Charlize Theron said, here's how you pronounce my name. We know, right from, you know, right from Nintendo,

or Mario 64, when he said, it's a me, Mario. We knew right then. That's right. And that was all we needed. What else did we need? That way, you know what? You are right. That was the moment because that's when voice was lented to the character

before the first time. Yeah. So we finally had the answer in 1996. 90-effing six. It's not like we had to weigh another 20 years. We know this. Mario. Mario.

I don't think Bo's listening today, but if he is, it'll be fun to talk to him after. Final story. They should throw that out. It's dumb. I just want to, my final note on the stupid lawsuit.

Oh, the other, right. And I don't even like Fortnite that much. I don't like Epic that much. I think they're a little weasily, but. it's a bad precedent it's stupid you know what if you're going to go after stuff go after the moms who can't put candy crush down and have spent $4,000 right exactly you know like the adults that can't control themselves yeah anyway uh here's another dog story to end this the new segment of

the day um a dog accidentally pulled a fire alarm at an iowa doggy day camp who caused all kinds of mayhem um that's where daisy's all day's is going to be going to be going to be going in there a few days to a doggy day camp. Oh no, is it like a this isn't like hospice for the dog? It's actually technically not. She's getting kennel. Well, she's technically getting, not kenneled, but boarded with somebody who can

cater to her specific needs. It is like hospice, kind of. It kind of is. Well, it's it's, uh, yeah, I mean, it's just like, it's just while we're out of town. We just don't want somebody have to deal with the issues that she has as well. Yeah. I thought you were committing her until the

I just thought I was thinking of her. No, no, no, no. This is, you know, with her, with her cognitive issues and stuff like that, we don't want somebody to have to come over, because they pretty much have to be here. Here, and we've got somebody who's going to be house sitting, but they're not going to be here 24-7. What if you get, what if you get an email that says, uh, play the music. It goes. And they say, they go, whoops. Brian, you jackass. Jesus Christ. Jesus Christ, I can't believe you. Yeah, maybe we'll hear from him.

I doubt it, though. Go to the vet. They give you a medicine that cures cognitive doggy disorder. Jesus Christ, they're not going to fix themselves. Your heart, this show is so hard to listen to. Anyway, so this kid, this dog, rather, there's no kid. Maybe the dog behaved like a kid. Anyway, accidentally pulled this fire alarm.

Firefighters and I were summoned to a doggy day camp, arrived to find the fire alarm had accidentally been pulled by the canine canine camper dogwood's lodge and grimes that's uh Elon mussex squeeze right that's right hubba hubba yeah yeah she doesn't have nice things to say about him no i mean can you imagine if we know his we know his we know his quote unquote public persona it can't be better in private so here's what's weird it i try to stat of these things now because they're ridiculous, stupid, and unwinnable in a conversation. But he went on stage at that Dave Chappelle show for some reason. Chappelle has him out there.

He gets up. They booed for 10 minutes until he left. And he yelled things like, I'm rich, bitch, and all kinds of weird, really cringy stuff. There's video out there of it. And that crowd booed and booed and booed until Inlaan got off the stage. And then Chappelle was like chiding the audience for booing. and giving them a hard time. And all I could think of was like, hold on,

this flies in the face of everybody's narrative. The narrative is that Chappelle is like super transphobic and says a lot of transphobic jokes and all this stuff. And he's upset a lot of people. So in theory, the people that go to Chappelle shows now are ones that are like, yeah, screw, screw the thing, free speech, Chappelle. And they should love Elon Musk in their minds. But they don't.

They don't. he's showing himself as like really just unlikable forget about the political everything forget about all of it he seems really annoying and unlikable as a human being has zero to do with uh you know his his his what he's done with twitter that sort of thing the dude just comes across as unlikable so what happened to me was the scene in uh jango this is terrible maybe okay i don't want to be terrible but this might be terrible if it is i'll take my beatings it's fine but the Caprio's character is dying or dead if I remember it right Django Unchained yes Jango and Chained and the character played by Samuel L. Jackson

the kind of head of the house but you know his his head slave because it's all set in the 1800s right is just holding him and mourning his death right which seemed the whole point of that was to seem like so shocking and unusual because why would this this black man in this situation want to protect this plantation, horrible plantation owner that treats his property, quote unquote, like garbage, but there he is doing it. And there was this moment in that stage thing where it felt like Chappelle was doing this with Elon. It's hard for me to explain.

It just made me really uncomfortable and I hated it. So, end of the story. The sum up here is, I would have booed as well because why is he? stage at a comedy event. Exactly. Exactly. Why are you here? Go do something else. He's already getting bored with the Twitter thing. He'll go get bored

with something. Go get bored with something else. You're bored with Tesla. Your stock sucks right now. You obviously don't care. Maybe focus on your space stuff. Maybe focus on that. Bored. Yeah. Anyway. It's completely irrelevant to have him up on stage

for a Dave Chappelle show. Yeah, that's dumb. Okay, moving on. actually that's it that's the story we're moving on to it oh yeah the dog pulled the thing and everybody freaked out oh yeah yeah pulled at the

right yeah the fire alarm there is a dogwood lodge posted a photo of a Facebook showing the canine wearing a sign reading dear grimes fire department I'm sorry I pulled that a fire alarm today sincerely birdie

that's cool well now I've got to go look at the photo oh my gosh this who's the best dog ever look at this cute puppy dog oh look hold on I'm gonna pull it up chat he looks so

he looks so sweet where is it it's not kind of oh there it is oh look yeah look at him he's fine who's the goodest boy ever did they did they clip that to his fur it almost looks like they clipped it to his fur oh there's video of him doing it blinglinglingling you can see it oh pulling the alarm yeah he jumps up yeah they've probably got all that uh yeah well this looks like fun i'd go do this oh dogs are great until they poo at 3 a.m. uh all right well that's your news we're going to take a break when we were

turn. The fun really begins because Bill will be here. We got a little something from a listener for him. We also got a little science with Bobby after that. Stick around for all of it after this song, Brian Brought. What do you got? Yeah, well, here's a band that you've probably heard of, and Clarion Call was nice enough to send me this one. The

band's called We Were Promised Jetpacks. They have a new EP called A Complete 180. Just came out last week and features additional remixes of their songs by Manchester Orchestra, Andy Monaghan, and Zoe Graham. This is Scottish rock band

We Were Promised Jet Packs from their new EP Here's the song If It Happens Ooh very nice Well I hope it happens Here's the song We'll be back in a moment Stay tuned

If it happens And I'm not going to lose any sleeper bed And I'm not going to feel any shame of it anymore All now I want you do is get high and enjoy that view now I'm here And all I want to do is get high and enjoy the view If I fall on my soul on my soul, Would you question why I'd fall in such a stupid sport And I'm not going to kick up a fusser, baby

Because you can't really feel like the worst of the baby All I did you want was a future Somewhere to sit and paint up a bigger picture Somewhere to rest my head and face the music And all I want to do is get high and enjoy that view Now I'm here And all I want to do is get high and enjoy that view. There's always another wrong on the ladder.

Let's hang on a minute and stay where we are. Thank you. I want to be you I want to do it. I'm here. No, I feel. There's always another. There's always another, wrong on the ladder.

This high on a minute, stay where we are. Hi, this is Larry Bird calling. Listen, my agent sent me that cartoon script, and I've decided I don't want to be involved in any. These babies are the jewels of the Bean Kingdom. The Morning Stream! This is what I love about my job. I get to travel, see the world, meet new cultures.

I mean, it's all bacterial, but hey, what the bleep. I love that. Welcome back. Hey, Brian, tell me who that was again, please. We were promised jet packs from their brand new EP called A Complete 180. That was the song, If It Happens.

We were promised. It did happen. We were promised jet packs. We were promised flying cars. We were promised jet packs, and so far, none of it. Yeah, I feel like I've seen people on, you know, like those ones with the big arm things and they float out into the ocean, but there's always a big pipe attached to them.

Yeah, yeah. We're getting there. The pipe is basically a water pack because it's basically firing a bunch of water, isn't it? Right, right, because I don't think there's, well, I mean, you could do rocket fuel, I guess. It's like you're attached to a fire hose. Yeah, yeah. I would do that. I would do that for a day if someone would totally do that.

Yeah, maybe Bill can make one. Your bat caves open there, Bill. Hey, Bill Duran, you want to build a jet pack for all of us? Is that one jack pack for every single person or one? giant jet pack that we all share. Oh my gosh. I'm trying to imagine that. I'm not sure about the semantics of your question. Let's say one jet pack that we all just take turns using. How about that? Just to make things easier. Sure. How do you fly? Who would steer that thing is the question. Who do we let drive it? You know? I'm not flying at first. Okay. All right. That's fair

enough. I wouldn't want you to do either. Bill, of course, joining us as he does every Tuesday from his cool awesome shop up there in the Pacific Northwest where he makes cool stuff and runs the Punish Props.com website as well as the YouTube channel of much renown. And he's here this week to talk about whatever the heck he's making. Inspire us, Bill. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Well, it's gift giving time and I like to make gifts because I'm a maker. Sure. And in the past, both Brittany and I have made some cool stuff, got some cool things. And I wanted to share some ideas, especially because like maybe you don't have enough time to order something or maybe you're strapped for cash. And here's some ideas for things you can make.

First off, starting with what you should be going for. If you're going to make something for someone as a gift, it should be high quality. You want to aim for heirloom quality, right? The sort of thing that they're going to keep forever, hopefully, or for a very long time. Hopefully, yeah. Hopefully not just throw something together at the last minute. It's going to fall apart by New Year's. Right.

And then also, you know, it should be meaningful, right? Like, if you're going to make something for someone, I could make someone something that has nothing to do with me or us, and it wouldn't be as meaningful. So here's some great ideas with some really fun examples. The first thing you do is to repurpose something and turn it into something new

that's really cool and meaningful. So, for example, a couple of years ago, I told my dad that I needed some old sales. He has several sales. boats that he races. He has lots of old sails. And in like July, I said, hey, dad, I need some sail cloth for a project because you send me one of your old sails. And he did. And then for Christmas, I cut that sail apart and turned it into a bag. I purchased a pattern from Adam Savage's website for a really cool bag. So I made my dad a bag, a really nice bag out of his old sales. Which was really cool. Another good example, Brit, her family has this old farm, and every once in a while we go through it and get old cool stuff. Well, she found some sleigh bells, some really old, really legit sleigh bells that were on the leather straps that you would use to attach it to a horse. That's right.

The leather had deteriorated, so she rescued the bells, and she is cleaning up the bells, polishing them, and then she's going to make these. strips of bells that you would hang from your front door. Oh, cool, right. That's cool. And she had enough bells to make a bunch of them, so she's making some for her family. I like that, yeah. That's awesome. Something else neat about their barn.

They had a couple of barns on there. It's an old dairy farm, and one of the barns eventually, it wasn't used for a long time, eventually it was falling apart, so they tore it down, but they kept a lot of the wood, and the family has been using that wood to make all sorts of. sorts of neat things. So to have something made from the wood from grandpa's old barn is kind of neat. Yeah, no, that would be really cool. See, our whole vibe this year has been anybody can

buy anything for everybody. Like you can go. Yeah, right. We can just keep buying and keep buying if that's the way we want to do stuff. But there's probably better things to do. We ended up doing a thing. Actually, you both got this in the mail, but we started, we decided to try our hand at smoking stuff like meats and other junk. and we smoked a big huge batch of salt. Huge pain in the ass. It took 12 hours or something of just kind of watching it and raking it and making sure it's going. You know, it's not too smoky, not smoky enough, all that stuff.

And then bottling it up and doing this thing because we just thought, yeah, we can buy, why don't we instead buy containers and cool little labels and then all that? And then we'll make the thing and put it in there. The hard part is just being creative enough sometimes to think of something cool. Sure. And the idea of like, hey, we're tearing down that. barn there's a ton of history there you're all getting a piece of grandpa in a really cool way i think that's that's rad yeah did a thing where she made a uh a pillow from one of tina's dad's old shirts one

that he used to wear all the time and now that pillow kind of sits on my grandmother's couch and it's like you know a little piece of him that's always there that's right i love that uh yeah another cool thing to repurpose uh like you said the clothing uh brittga has a a a quick that her mom made from all of her old t-shirts from high school. You know, stuff you're not going to wear anymore, but stuff you can't get yourself to throw away. Yeah. You could turn it into something significant or meaningful. That's really cool.

Some more fun ideas. If you're a photographer like me or if you're a painter, you could get your pieces printed in some way. Although I will say it's too late now to get them ordered online. I tried yesterday and they're not going to get here in time. But you can get photos printed on camera. Envis or on metal, and they both look wicked cool. Oh, yeah, yeah, like almost like a lithograph kind of thing. Exactly, yeah.

And it feels a little more special than just getting a print, right, a piece of paper. Right. The canvas ones I especially like. They kind of stick out from the wall a little bit. You can get them so that the image wraps around the edge. They look really clean. I've done several of those. Yeah, you can get them at, I've had some done before.

Just of all places, Costco. they do a really good wrap-around canvas thing. Oh, yeah. In fact, I might have to see if they can do mine in time. Because I was looking online, it's too late. So, yeah, locally, if there's a place that doesn't locally check that. Yeah. That's the other thing.

Christmas at Costco, if you're trying to get prints or cards or that stuff made, you may as well end your thinking right now. It's not going to happen. You're going to have to glue some together to mold meat piece of wood for my mom. Right, yeah, macaroni. to a paper plate is kind of where you're at at this point. Something else really fun is you could take

an old family or heirloom, let's say, and restore or repair it. So, for example, we've been restoring old tools from Brits' family farm. And they're still useful. Some of them are like 100 years old. They still work.

They just need a little love. They made that stuff to last, man. It might get a little rusty or whatever, but, you know, construction wise, that stuff's a lot better. and what you're going to buy today. Could be, yeah. So, yeah, look for opportunities to do that. Or, like I said, repair something.

So let's say your family has an old clock that's just been sitting there. It doesn't work. You could figure out how to fix it. I think that would be pretty special. It's something else cool that was a really, really neat idea. If they have something they love, like a book, like a favorite book, you could bind the book in a decorative leather cover. Oh, nice.

A friend of mine had this done. with a book, it was Tobin's Spirit Guide, the fictional book from a... Beetlejuice? No, from, oh, maybe it's in Beetlejuice, too, but it's in Ghostbusters. Oh, Ghostbusters, that's right, yeah. You can buy the real book, they've made it, but then they went a step further and had the covered rebound in leather, and it looks so cool. That's right, it was your guide to the afterlife was the book about Beetlejuice, yeah.

Yes. So, yeah, like, especially someone who has a favorite book, that binding it in leather is something You can totally do yourself. Very cool. And it would make it really special. Like, how would you love to have a bound set of leather, Lord of the Rings books or something like that? Oh, yeah. That would be awesome.

And then the last thing I have on my list here is just, like, bake some cookies. Everyone loves getting cookies. And it would be even more special coming from you. Yeah, it's true. Yeah, I mean, normally you don't want me making anything, but I think I could do it. I could do cookies. Hey, you can do salt, Scott. I can do salt, that's right.

Yeah, not without help, but yes, I can do something. salt the real the real the real the real hero of all that was dylan because he's had some experience with it and he would help us sort of walk through it but yeah well the the meaningful thing though is every time i pinch a piece of smoked salt for my food i'm going to think of my friends yeah see and that's the real point isn't that the point and and now and knowing is half the battle i can't think of any other PSA endings to add to that was very good the other half is red and blue That's right. You know what you kind of did. You, you, uh, so last week, when at Thursday, Wendy, uh, told this story about, uh,

her boy, uh, Peter made her a gift. And it was literally a piece of wood with old parts from a broken, uh, Xbox controller arranged. So circuit boards and little plastic bits and all this other stuff arranged in the letters that say, I love you on there. Or I love you mom. And then it, that's all it was. And she. loves that like right it's a little kid so obviously there's a little bit of that going on but sometimes you know people don't want like the most shiny most expensive things sometimes they just want like a really human sort of thing and that's i think that's what these ideas are so right yeah this is great and also if you guys are last minute you might still be able to work something out whereas

they might be all out of the dumb toy you want to the store but you can still make things yeah you can do it a lot faster uh or personally and don't have to wait for for Amazon to get more of it in stock. You should have to sneak over to your parents' house, tear off part of the house, and then turn that into something special. That's right. Now, we have a bylaw here for the segment that you do,

and that is that you provide us with a little bonus link before you go. What do you got? I do have a good link. This is fun. This is a YouTube channel I just found called TM-Z-N-N-W-W-W-W-W-W-W-W-W-W-W-W-W-W-W-E-N-A-N. he makes tiny little whiskey barrels just pint-sized whiskey barrels which just shows his process and I think it's adorable I love stuff like that like he's just a little tiny little channel too this is just a guy who's like hey guess what I make

oh they're whiskey barrel the size of an apple this is awesome oh yeah these are cool and the process is the same as how you do these for a big one right pretty much yeah what's a barrel maker called a Fletcher? No, that's an arrow. Cooper. It is a Cooper, isn't it? A Cooper? Oh, I love that. And he smokes the inside? Yeah. That he's a rad. Right? I want one. Yeah, everything's way cooler when it's way smaller. It's way more fun.

Oh, Bill, you can keep your, you can keep your weed in it. That's right. Yeah, that'd be a lot of weed. Yeah, it'd be a lot of weed. Wow. All right. Well, there you have it. That's what I like, I like to have a pint of weed for Christmas. A pint of weed. His last name is Z-H-E-N-A-T-A-N. So it's Tim, that name, Woodworking.

It's pronounced that name. That thing I just spelled. And good luck finding that. It's on YouTube. But of course, punishprops.com and the Punish Props YouTube channel up there and raging with new content. So go check it out. Bill, have a great time.

We'll see you next week for, well, will that be the last? before no before christmas it will be but not before the new year not the last one of the year yeah okay all right so prepare accordingly okay all right i will see you later by now that means nothing he doesn't have to do anything no he doesn't have to you just has to prepare some making it's all he has to prepare yep um all right we gotta get mr pilot man on the phone yes aviator bobby yeah mr fly land to fly again mr expert boy i thought i said that if fletcher makes arrow When I was trying to remember the name, I was like, no, let's see Fletcher. No, that's...

Yeah, you said Fletcher, that's Aeros, you said. Oh, and intros for this podcast. You forgot about that part of the picture. Fletcher also makes intros. That's right. He doesn't make this, though. This guy does. Science.

Well, he doesn't make science, but he sure talks about it. It's all around science his own Bobby Frankenberger joining us as he does each and every Tuesday to talk about some science or another. Bobby, welcome back to the show. I thought a Fletcher was a podcast segment critic. Well, he's, that's more of his... Shit out of luck.com. Shit out of luck.com. It's more of a Christine thing, I guess, but...

Oh, okay. But we love her hot take. Shit out of luck.com. Nobody... Everyone would never go to that domain. Did we determine if that was real? Shit. Let's see. Oh, yeah, o'ee.

Of luck.com. I don't know if we ever checked that one to see if it was actually available. It says not secure and then a white screen. So there you go. I got that it's for sale. Oh, you did? I got none of that. Brave may block some of that, I guess.

I don't know. It could be, yeah. Well, I guess I'm shit out of luck.com now on getting that domain. Bobby, welcome back. What's burning a hole in your little science mind? Oh, I got to read you a thing first. Can I read you a thing? Yes, of course you can.

Okay. So I did tip you off on this earlier, but just so you'd be prepared. But we got a text from a listener. This is from an anonymous listener who says, Hey, Scott and Brian, regarding the text from episode 2373, where the listener said he wanted to craft with a allegedly fake supermetals, and we had the whole titanium discussion and all that stuff. Right.

So as I wanted to point out that the, and I know I'm not going to say of this, but Orich Alcom, a rich Alcom, or a Calcom, or a Calcom, was a real metal. It's believed to be an ancient name for either bronze, platinum, or brass, so you can craft things with Ora Malcolm. Or a Calcum, though it may not be as strong as games. make it seem. I'm not sure you what he means by games, but maybe video games? I don't remember where that came from. But anyway, so any additional thoughts on or a calcum?

And it being real? I didn't know it was real. I think it's, I did look very quickly at this. I think it's, it was a golden copper alloy or something like that. And it wasn't very great.

It might have looked really nice. It feels like that'd be soft because gold is a soft. metal so that's true copper copper's pretty self yeah right um but uh but it's it's in a it is in a lot of games i know it's um like in shadow run for example mm-hmm it's big in shatteron it's a magical metal um do you do you think we're do you think there's still i always don't know why this question comes up sometimes but when people talk about metals and rare earth metals and this sort of thing i always have this question in my head is there are there any

metals yet undiscovered naturally in the on this planet and I know I know there's weird shit floating in asteroids and you know chunks of other moons and planets and junk that perhaps one day may hit here in asteroid form or something but um and bring those metals with them but are are there any anything we haven't found I would say you know you can never know for sure because if we haven't discovered it we haven't discovered it right um but we can't we do know a lot about physics and chemistry and how how whether it would likely be possible and I would say that it's very unlikely because where would it fit on the periodic table we like the way that those elements are all like if you're just talking about a pure elemental metal then I would say basically

no because we know what is possible based on how physics and chemistry works now an alloy of a combination of metals we could make theoretically because you just combine metals together and figure out a way to get them to stick. Right. But as far as elemental metal goes, I doubt we're going to find anything new.

So if I was able to get a little aluminum and gold to hang out with each other, could I make a new metal and say, hey, I'd like to make an announcement. This is called frog pantium. Frog pantium. That's good. I like that, actually.

let's say frog panty yeah can i do can i do that and will it be recognized by the by my peers and those in the science community and that sort of thing or am i screwed i i have no idea i think the fact that it's an alloy means it's not really a new discovery it's just uh yeah it's just putting stuff together i think gold and aluminum i i just looked it up it's uh i think it's been done. I don't know. I'd have to read this entire Wikipedia article. They've probably tried everything, right? All things have been tried. I would imagine. Yeah. I mean, at this stage of the game, it's like we were the first time that they had a self-served drink machine at Burger King and we went up there and said, all right, what is Coke and Sprite

taste like? Ooh, I've invented a new drink. What is Coke and Dr. Pepper taste like? Ooh, a new drink. Yeah, man. I love Swampwater. It's my favorite thing to do it at a drink thing, or it used to be. We call it that. We'd go to the seven line of it, just jh, and just hope for it. I can't remember what they called it when I was growing up. We called it Kamikaze's here. Kamikaze is pretty good. I like that. Oh, sorry, I just heard of Sam.

What was that? Then I found out that Kamikaze is a real drink and I like those a lot better. Oh, okay. Well, there you have it then. Well, Bobby, all that aside, you probably bought some real science with you for this segment today. What do you got? Well, you guys have been talking about something that I thought would be interesting to talk about.

You've been getting emails and talking about toilets flushing and the Coriolis effect, right? Sure, right. We have. We talked only about toilets, but there's apparently a lot more to this, right, than just toilets. There is. There is. And the Coriolis effect is responsible for a lot of things. And you hear about it a lot in weather, which is something I've been studying a lot of because of flying.

and also in rocketry, the Coriolis effect is used. So I thought it would be interesting to talk about the Coriolis effect and why this whole toilet flushing in different directions things is total nonsense. All right. Well, you mentioned that it affects rockets, too, which surprised me because it feels like it only has an effect on things that are on the hemisphere. And once a rocket leaves the atmosphere, how could which hemispheric left from? Well, first of all, not all rockets leave the atmosphere.

Oh, that's true. Okay. Second of all, while the rocket is leaving the atmosphere, it is in the atmosphere first. It's still being affected by that hemisphere's atmospheric. So why don't we just talk about what the Coriolis effect is? Let's do that. Let's start with A. That's right.

So the Coriolis effect is the result. of what's called the Coriolis Force and it's a really weird thing physics is weird it's called a fictitious force or a pseudo force it's not a real force it's something a fictitious force

is something that you observe by being in a observing something in an inertial frame from a non-inertial frame all these kinds of weird things about accelerating bodies and where Einstein made things complicated by by talking about

relativity and now we have to think about it all the time right so but the easy way to think about it is when you're talking about the Coriolis force it's basically when you're looking at something that's moving in a rotational frame something that's rotating when something moves inside of it you will often observe or even feel a force that isn't really actually there it's only exists because the place from which you are observing it from is moving. Relative stuff. So like when you do the centripical force thing with a tire or like a bike tire or bike wheel

and you move it and you feel that pole or whatever, is that like that? No, so that's actually, that's a gyroscopic procession that you're talking about. That's a whole other thing. That's a real force. Sympical force, I think it was like the bucket of water on a string and you spin it around and the water stays in the bucket. Yeah, and then that's even more complicated because there's centrifugal and centripetal forces. Centripetal force, yeah, right.

And I can't remember, I always get those confused. I want to say centripetal pushes in and centrifugal pushes out. Yeah, there's centrifugal, I think you're right. Centrifical force pushes outward and centripetal force is just the opposite force. Because every force has an equal and opposite force, right? Right. It's hard to keep track of which is which because it's like stalactites. and stalagmites.

You got to come up with like that. Exactly. They named them things. They're coming up with these names and they're like, you know what? They're equal and opposite. Let's give them similar names. That'll make it easier. Sure. Sure.

At least stalactites and stalagmites are you remember because tight, it hangs tight to the ceiling, stalactite. I'll see, that's what I never had a good mnemonic device for that. I didn't, I could never come over there. I remember it in an opposite way. Stelagmites are like a mite is a little insect that would crawl on the ground. On the ground. See, either of those work.

I feel dumb because I never even had that. I never had a good one. The end of the delight mite looks like the things pointing up. There you go. It's kind of like Bactrian and dromedary camels, remembering two hums and one hump. I like that. Yeah, there you go. Anyway.

So an example of an example of like a choreolis force or a corleus effect might be, imagine you've got two people who are running and they're throwing a ball back and forth between each other. let's say you're running along a football field and you're passing a ball back and forth to each other. Wouldn't be too tough. You're just passing it back and forth, right? But imagine instead that while you're running, you're both running in a circle around each other. So you're like sort of, you know, like you're both running in a circle opposite each other around a central point. Yeah.

If you try to pass the ball back and forth to each other, from each of your perspective, the ball is going to look like it's veering off to the right. If you're running counterclockwise. And so that's sort of like a pseudo-for, or a fictitious, like it appears to be having a force acting on it, right? Right. Now, the way this works on the Earth is a little bit... So it's hard to talk about this because it's a little bit hard to visualize. You've got a lot of things to think about.

So I'm going to do my best here. Paint us a mental pitcher, will you? Yeah, so imagine that you're standing on the equator of the Earth. All right. I'm there. I'm in my head. Let's do it. Yeah.

And you're, you're going to shoot a bullet or launch a rocket to the north pole. Sweet. Let's take care of those bastards once and for all. Oh,

this isn't a, okay. This will finally shut those elves up. Yeah, shut up. It's Christmas time. And you're a villain. You're throwing it straight north. All right?

Yep. So now, as soon as that bullet or rocket launches, one thing you've got to remember is that the earth is spinning underneath it, right? Right. As soon as it leaves the ground, the earth is spinning underneath it.

So one thing you might expect to see is that when it starts to move to the north, you might expect it to look like it's traveling to the left, because you're facing north. So it looks like it's traveling to the west because you're moving to the right underneath it, right? You're right, yes. But that is not what happens. And this is where it's strange. And actually, you're moving to the right underneath it, sure,

but you will observe that the rocket, as it moves to the north, appears to veer off to the right. So is it because it's being launched from a thing that is also moving to the right and therefore it's taking it with it kind of thing? Man, look on the brain on Brian. I know, right? That stuff's coming out of your ears. Amazing.

that's half of of exactly what's going on so one thing we have to remember is yes the earth is as much as we feel like it's stationary the earth is spinning so when anything like a rocket launches off the earth and that's why i chose the equator very specifically is because the equator is the farthest point from the axis of the earth where it's spinning the axis of rotation right so anything that leaves the earth will not just be moving to the north like we want it to, it will also have that rotational velocity. It'll also have that velocity moving it to the east as well. So it will be moving north and to the east at the velocity of the point from where it left.

So if it left the equator, the equator has the most rotational velocity of any place on Earth because it's so far away from the axis, right? But for this point, yeah. Yeah, the closer you get to the North Pole, the slower you're moving around the axis. And that can be easy. It's easy to think about that if you just imagine yourself being at the North Pole and taking a couple steps back and just like thinking about how fast are you moving around the North Pole. It's still taking you a whole day to go around the North Pole, but you're right there next to it. So you're moving very slowly in that rotational way.

but at the equator it takes a whole day to move entirely around the earth so you're moving much faster um so if you launch that rocket from the equator it's got that same velocity that it had to the easterly direction when you launched it to the north now here's the key as it moves to the north the ground underneath the rocket is moving in that same direction but slower and slower the further north it goes, but the rocket as it moves north still has the same eastern velocity that it had when it left the ground. From the place that it left, right. Right. So it will from the, even though it's still really technically going in a straight line with the same velocity, it will appear to be moving to the right from anybody that's on the ground because they're moving slower to the right than the rocket was when it left the equator. And the further it goes, north the more it's going to appear to veer to the right because of the difference in exactly so much so that it might actually start to to to really go very far to the right

and and and anyway that's what you get is that that effect this we see also affects um weather systems uh because air is a thing that's moving above the earth right and so this also why hurricanes spin in the direction that they do is because it's being moved so a hurricane has a really low pressure center so it's like sucking all

the air into the eye right and so if the air is being sucked from the south of the eye to the north it moves in a particular direction as it's as it's moving because it veers off

to the right. Whereas if it comes from the north, it does the opposite because it's moving slower at the northern northern latitudes than the ground is underneath it from above. Does that make sense? Yeah. Yeah. More than that. That has the effect of causing the whole storm to spin. Right. I always wondered why they all look like that, right? You see the weather patterns. You're like, oh, there's a weird thing forming off the coast of Florida. We're going to call it Hank and it's going to hit landfall. And it's always going. Like, you know, weather patterns. You're like, oh, there's a weird thing forming off the coast of Florida. We're going. And it's going. that. Right? Yeah. Now, I hear people in the chat saying that it's clear as mud. It's very hard. It's so much easier if you look at a, if you, if you look at a picture, but just know that the reason all this happens, again, is just because the earth is moving relatively slower at different latitudes and whatnot. So, and that also has the opposite effect in the southern hemisphere. So you might be wondering if it does, because you know, hurricanes quote unquote in the southern hemisphere do spin in the opposite direction. You might be wondering, Bobby, didn't you say that the toilet thing was BS? You did say that. I remember you said that. So how can I say that when I just said this

about the storms? The reason is because these effects, you see these effects on large scales, and it's not happening on a small scale like that. I actually, to make sure that I wasn't just going to tell you something that isn't technically sure. I went and tested this this morning in my sink. And the reason you see spinning in a sink as it drains or a toilet has a lot more to do with the water motion. Some people will say that it has to do with like imperfections in the bowl of the base. Some people meeting me, that was one of the reasons I said that one of the things that could affect it. Like if you have a weird shaped bowl, it could affect the direction things go.

Yeah. And so that probably would have more of an effect than the Coriolis effect. You're right about that. But actually, most of what's determining the spin of either a toilet flushing or a sink draining is microcurrents in the water that already existed. When you turn on the water in the sink, for example, to fill it up, the water. the water is not just plopping down in the sink and then not moving the water hits the sink and then starts moving right uh and so the location of the the spout in the sink will determine how the collectively on a large scale all that water is in motion and so and you can even like you know you can fake it by i'm going to suggest you stick your hand in the toilet if you do this with a sink you have a full sink and you pull the drain, you can spin your hand one way or the other and make the water start moving

and you can control what direction it goes down the drain. You're a greater force than whatever the reasons it was spinning the other way. Even if, so this is the cool thing, even if, because you're right about that, but even if you fill the sink with water, and this is what I tested earlier this morning, even if you fill the sink with water

and let it stay until it looks like it's not moving anymore, like I filled up the sink and let it stay for like five or seven, minutes and it wasn't moving anymore and then you drain it it'll still always drain in sort of the same way because if if your bathroom sink you know the faucet doesn't move in like a typical bathroom sink so it's usually the the forces that it starts with are going to be the same no matter what but it's because there are very small motions still happening that were imparted into that body of water when you when you put it in there and as the water collectively moves toward that small drain hole those those those collective motions get amplified um because it's all concentrated into that small hole and so i tested that i did it multiple times i dropped a drop of food coloring yeah to see how it was moving and it every time it rotated in the same direction and i could i could alter that by pouring a jug of water on the other side of the sink in the other direction and filling it that way and then letting it come to

rest quote unquote after about five or ten minutes and then drain and it would go in the opposite direction and I could reliably do that every time. Even letting it sit after a long time after you poured that jug of water you still does little micro currents. That's moving. You just can't see it. Wow. That's cool. Interesting.

Well, I know I learned something today and boy howdy next time I see a big swirly anything I'm going to think about you. That's how it'll work. That's my goal. I just want you to think about me when you're getting a swirly. Like when I get a When I get a hot pudge Sunday, which I haven't ended a long time.

But if I did, and I see the guy putting the rip cream on in a certain direction. You go to the soft serve machine. I love ice cream. Yeah, when Dairy Queen does that little twist. Do they do it the opposite way in Australia? Oh, man. Now, see, what I'm going to do is regardless of what direction, I'm going to run over there and put my finger in it, make it go the other way and say, look, I can control. I have the power to make it change.

Periolis force be damned. Yeah, take that. Jerks. Well, anyway, I'm glad you brought this with you. And it's super fascinating. everybody who was afraid we were going to talk about toilets for 20 minutes. You were wrong. You were wrong. Okay? We talked about cool science, not toilets. Bobby, tell us more about where you talk and pontificate about science issues so people can find it and put it in their ear holes. Well, I have a podcast called All Around Science that we talk about exciting stuff in science news all the time. I think very soon either it wasn't yesterday, but but maybe next week's episode we might end up talking about this fusion energy breakthrough thing Brian asked me about it on discord and he said you're going to talk about that and I told him

sort of like a grump and I was like no because it's basically not even news and then I looked it up and there's been updates and apparently they have reached that it's been confirmed that they did cross that I was seeing that this morning yeah that's what it made me ask about it that a fusion reaction that that produced more energy than it took to create the reactions So it's still a little, it's still an incremental change and it's, it's maybe being overblown a little bit, but I would, I do want to talk about that a little bit because there's, there's a lot of nuance there. And it is exciting. They did, they did pass a threshold. And it's, but it's incremental advances that are hopefully going to eventually get us there. We are one step closer to having a Mr. Fusion built into the back of our DeLoreans that will power our trips to the, to the future. An incremental advance is still in advance. Well, let me ask you this.

If I drop a toothpick on the carpet, didn't take much energy, just a little bit, right, to drop it. But then Kim walks over there and she kicks into it and it jams right into her foot. And then she yells and swears and stomps around. She's putting out way more energy than it took. That is creating more energy than the energy it took to drop that. Yeah. So I've done fusion.

I've done cold fusion here at the house. You have used a toothpick with the car. A crisis. Actually, you've used a toothpick with Kim's foot is what you've done. Oh, man. What a combo. Bobby, it's always good having you on, man. I hope people do listen to your show because it's good, not just because it's there,

but because it's good. And we can't wait to have you on next time. We'll see you on a future episode. Hopefully next week, if you're around. I will try to be here. Bye now. Bye. Unless he goes to the zoo or to some kind of freaking flying lesson or some other BS.

Never know with this guy. Exactly. God, priorities, Bobby. No, no. I'd never thought about, you know, I just figured, oh, Hurricane Spin because they spin. But now we understand why Hurricane Spin. Yeah, I really didn't understand that until today.

I meant to ask you this before we go today. Did you, I know you bought it, but did you play Marvel Remix? Is it fun? I haven't played it with Tina yet, but I've, basically, you know, I get a game and I know I'm going to need to explain it to people until I take it to Christmas and New Year's Eve parties. Sure. I do a solo game just to kind of figure it out.

out. So I've played it, but just not with another living human being. Ah, but you see the potential. You like what you're seeing. Oh, it's great. It is a it's, you know, it's funny, it's like it's kind of modeled, not modeled, it's kind of similar to Marvel Snap in the way that it's a

quick game. You're only drawing, I think, six cards, if I remember correctly. And then the big part is the scoring, although the game that it's based on or derived from has a much more complicated scoring uh mechanism

and we talked about that with uh dan that you actually they recommend you get an app to do the scoring for was it mythic I think I've got the box the original game that it's based on is nope doesn't say

oh he did say though yeah fantasy realms that's it fantasy realms and that one requires that one's so complicated that you want an app to do the scoring for you This one is so easy. The paper that's in there is just fine for scoring. Okay.

Nice. Well, when you play more... When you play more, I want to hear about it. It sounds like a... Okay. It's one I want to get. It's like harder to get a little pricier than your usual quick battle game, but if it's worth it, it's worth it.

For sure. The second best Marvel card game I've played this year. Nice. Both of which he did solo, so that's cool. That's right. Yes, exactly. Play retro is happening today at 330 Mountain Time. doing a little bit of a Christmas thing,

me and Dunaway. We're going to talk about the Christmas games of the 70s through the late 90s that were specifically Christmas. These days you go play Fortnite and you have a Christmas event or World Warcraft or whatever. And you just are used to that.

And then it goes away and then you keep playing your game. That's not how it used to be. If you were going to have Christmas in your game, it was a Christmas game. That's the way it was. And that was a weird thing then. And we're going to celebrate that a little bit today

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states agree. Corey B from Australia wrote in and said, hey, screech and boom, sorry if this request is too late. Any day in December is fine. It is my sister Brooks' birthday this week, and I wanted to request a cover from her favorite band, The Wombats. We just saw them live last Tuesday,

and it was amazing experience. Their cover of running up that hill that they recorded for Triple J's like a version earlier this year was a great cover that gave it its own identity. If not that song, than any other Wombat's cover is fine with me or just any British indie rock cover will do. Happy birthday to you, Brooke.

Love the show, though. Signed Corey B. Nice. Well, happy birthday, Brooke. And great suggestion for this one. Yeah, this, the Triple J guys have stopped doing CD releases every year that collect the best of Triple J's like a version.

But now they're doing it. They're just releasing them as downloadable, purchasable singles. And it probably saves me money because there are some that I listen to and I'm like, I'll never going to play that one on the show. But now I can kind of pick and choose and buy the ones that I need to buy so I can legally play them on the show. This is one of them. This is so good.

Of course, a cover of the song by Kate Bush that everyone finally remembered, thanks to Stranger Things this year. Here is Running Up That Hill by the Wombats. Very nice. Real quick note, I guess during the show, the Spiderverse 2 trailer dropped. So we got to check that out today. Very exciting. Speaking of Marvel. anyway that'll do it for us we'll be back tomorrow remember short week this week no thursday

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