The Morning Stream - TMS 2394: Thanos Ginger Snap

Episode Date: December 20, 2022

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Coming up on TMS, demon anus breath. An LSD trip. Meat con carnage. Did you ever read about the frog who wanted pants? And then he got some. Nice, cop a feel of that onion. The morning sciatica. Eight maids are cleaning up bird shit.

Yes, the band. I mean, you know, not the exclamation, the band. You take no candle in the wint. Just one inflatable. Hold my gridge. It's clitoritoritor. Take me seriously. Diddley-doo.

The art of one-third of the noise. Jinned up prank caller, I'm listening. Lego My Parts with Bill and more on this episode of The Morning Stream. Hello, this is Santa, and I am here to tell you that I eat millions of cookies each year. And yet I'm still not as morbidly obese as your mother. Hold up. Wait a minute. The Morning Stream. ironic isn't it

an archangel needs a monkey to get a vision from God Hello everyone And welcome to TMS It's the morning stream for Tuesday December 20th, 2020 Five Days Till Christmas Brian Abbott What do you think of this? It's five days

I haven't done the Oh man I haven't done the Advent calendar And it's way up there Oh you can't reach all the way up there Let's do it. Let's do it. I'm going to drop a couple of grutes. It's coming down.

Hold on. A couple of grutes got to come off of this thing because they're going to fall. Two grutes and you're all set. Two grutes for Sister Sarah. All right. Let's see what we got for day 20. Yeah. Day 20.

Big day. Big day. I'm going to make a prediction. All right. Alternate Thanos. Another Thanos, but a different version. Now, I will tell you that yesterday was cookie Thanos. Oh, that was cookie Thanos.

Oh, that was cookie. Thanos because we put it in the album or the show art. Oh, that's right. Yeah. Then, no, I'm going to change my thing. It's going to be Iron Man related. That's what I'll say. Okay.

All right. Iron Man. Iron Man. That's who yet. Ironman. It is. Ooh, it's a Thor that I don't have. Damn it.

Let's see. I mean, that's great. It's a Thor carrying, bearing a gift. Oh, he always, so they didn't make him like a cookie or a candy cane or whatever. I already have a cookie Thor. Gotcha. So that's the theme where a bunch of them are cookies. Yeah, I'd say, let's see.

One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten. So ten of these that I've gotten so far have not been cookies, which I guess means that ten of them have, right? If I do the math? Well, let me ask you this. If Thanos is a cookie, does that make him a ginger snap? Well done, sir. Credit words do. Anacacatatatatatoo in the chat said it.

Oh, I'm a cracketow, yeah. Yeah, you, I owe you one there, buddy. That was a good joke. Nicely done. Well, that's good. So you're going to catch them all, Brian, all of them. I'm going to catch them all. Still, no.

I have Spider-Man with an ugly sweater, which is kind of cool because he's pointing in himself, like the meme. Yeah, yeah, look at that. So that's kind of cool. I like that one a lot. Yep, but, and, you know, I've got Hulk with the presence, angry Hulk with, you know, shaking presence. Okay.

So in theory, there's a, there's a, a version of every character holding presents there's a version of all of them as cookies right is that kind of in theory yes and um uh they're just better there's a there's a spider man on the box that has a santa hat on and that better be that better be in the box somewhere maybe it'll be christmas day maybe you know what we'll do is on thursday i'm gonna we're just going to open all the rest of them we're just gonna so in two days we're opening everything that's unopened which i think will only be like two or three or three that aren't open. By the way, my only, the only, so in the 12 days of Christmas, which is not this, this is an Advent calendar, which is 25 days. But it reminded me,

I was listening to a version of it yesterday. And I've never given it much thought until now, but I really don't understand the lords a leaping. Like everything else makes sense to me. You got maids milking. You got diamond rings. You got, you know, weird birds. I mean, let's think about this for one second. Do the maids of milking really make sense? Because are they just going to be constantly milking? Well, they're milked. maids, right? So that's their whole deal. So they're, so yeah, I think every day they're up at four. Are they wet nurses? Wait, hold on a second. I think every day they're up at four milking the cow, bringing it in. So they're just always milking. So what that transaction was,

was I'm a very rich landlord and I've given you eight of these ladies. Is it eight of them? Eight maids of milking? Eight maids of milking. Okay. Seven swans of swimming. So wait a minute, but what are those maids going to be doing because those cows ain't going to be produced in milk? 24-7. Oh, good point. What are they're going to be doing while the cows aren't, well, they, you know, once they've drained the udders of milk, that's a really good point. Their maids are sitting around.

Perfect point. I would, I would, I would, you got to idling. Made to idling, yeah. You could put them to work and have them do other shit, you know, like, sure. Well, why can't they leap? They could leap. They could leaping. You're right.

And then you could actually, like, learn to pipe. Maybe play a drum. See, maybe, and maybe you could actually, you know, save me some money on what might, what I'm getting my true love. This is the problem with X. excess and rich people they just can't stop with that they have to keep going they don't think that oh the mill the maids could milk and then later take care of the leaping nope got to buy nine lords you know help with the massive amount of bird shit that's going to be all over the place

maybe they can help with that right out i don't know if you saw this it reminds me of another thing there's uh sony's headquarters in it's either here or in japan i don't know where but their big sony logo you know it's just the word sony up in the corner of a big glass building I saw your photo of this, yes. You see all that? There's some bird living up there, and he is shitting on everything. Living in the S, dumb bird. Why wouldn't, you have way more room in the O, bird.

Yeah, live in the O, bird. Maybe that's why the poo's going everywhere. But I love it. And I tried to imagine what competing video game bird is up there doing that, you know? It's Banjo-Kazooey. Yeah, like a Nintendo, some kind of Nintendo thing. I was thinking the owl that gives you coffee in Animal Crossing. He could be up there, just taking a dump.

One of the ostriches and joust. Sure. Could be third party, angry bird or something. Someone's mad at Sony. They're dumping it all over. Of course, Captain Kipper, first one on the job here with a nice link. Yeah. It wasn't Banjo-Kazooey?

Oh, no, that was a Nintendo game, or was that a... It was Nintendo, but it was made by... Nintendo game made by Rare, which... So technically it was third party, but Nintendo had the rights to publish. So, that's why. And Rare is currently owned by Microsoft. so in theory I don't know if they have the rights to make one or not

they had the rights to make no they do because they made banjo nuts and bolts for the 360 so actually the rights are now Microsofts yeah not platform specific I was just sitting here watching the cat knock over every single mini advent calendar funco pop that I've gotten as she decided to wander my desk

so whatever third host it's a cat it's fine that reminds us me also. He reminded me of relevant things. Oh, good, good. Our cat, or Carter's cat, because I don't want to claim him right now, last night at about 11, scratching at my door, because he's missing Carter's attention, so now he's trying to get it from me. So he comes on the bed and he gets all curled up on my chest and just starts breathing his hideous demon anus breath on me. Yeah.

And I'm petting him, and it's fine. Then I'm like, all right, buddy, you got to go in your little space in there. So I put him in the room, he stays in. And usually he's fine. He's fine. He's fine. in there all night but last night he decides to put his paws up underneath the door pull on the door and then let go and it made this like bunk bonk bonk sound and he did it all night long brian to the point that i almost killed a cat i feel like i was so pissed i so i couldn't sleep he just kept doing this thing and to this you know moment i just if i see him i'm gonna i don't trust myself around him right now i need i need some time away from him carter if you're listening Your cat sucks.

He's the worst. Deckard Cain, Deckard Cain, the cat. That's going to do what cat's going to do. I get so excited about talking about the guy on the flight out to Boston that I didn't talk about the flight back, which for the most part was uneventful, except for the two babies that were far enough.

I always think about Kim when I hear a baby. crying on a plane. It's like, oh, that Kim would be over there trying to help the lady out and say, can I hold them while you eat your bag of crackers or whatever they give you? They were too far away. They were close enough that I could hear them through my

noise-canceling AirPods Pro with noise canceling on. With noise cancellation off. And all I could think of was that I was basically listening to an all-baby cover, 45-minute cover of the dueling guitar

solo ending to Hotel California, which I think is Joe Walsh and Timothy B. Schmidt or something. I can't remember who the other, who the two guitars were. That's the one exactly. Wow. Wow. Well, at least you had fun with it and made a little

fun idea in your head about it while it was happening. Yeah. Yeah, exactly. You're right though. Kim would have been over there like holding it. She would have been over there and helping out and stuff. I was reading this I can't reach it as far over there. I was reading an autobiography by a man named Trevor Horn. And you're saying to yourself, I don't know the name Trevor Horn.

Are you saying that to yourself or do you... I am saying that. This whole time I'm saying, in my head, I don't know Trevor Horn. And why should I know that name? So now I'm excited because I'm going to tell you why you should know that name. Okay. He joined forces with Bruce Woolley of Bruce Woolley in the Camera Club to form the band The Buggles. And gave us the very first video on MTV, video killed the radio star.

But other than that, he is a record producer and musician who was one-third of The Art of Noise for a while. Oh, Lord of Noise. Love them. He produced Relax by Frankie Goes to Hollywood. He produced Crazy by Seal, The Look of Love and Shoot That Poison Arrow by ABC. What else? Jeez. Quite the producer man. I didn't know that. The sound of the 80s, in my opinion, is largely.

largely due to Trevor Horn. Oh, yeah, yes. The 901-25 album. So the... Oh, the band, yes. Got it. The band yes.

Sorry, not the exclamation, yes. I was like, wait a minute, Brian just said, oh, yes? Oh, yes. Wait, me, what? Yeah, you know, owner of a lonely heart. That was all Trevor Horn.

And that was, it was the scraps left over from owner of a lonely heart that led to the art of noise and beatbox and moments in love in a lot of those a lot of those

I had no idea art of noise songs I would say art of noise probably responsible for a good 80% of what drives me

in music I love anything it kind of industrial voice samples get used I love it like other songs

from the era like 19 19 yeah all hard castle you love that shit take California more modern

version of it I love techno that includes that stuff now I got to be in one with that laser song. Like, I love that. And it's all back to Art of Noise. It does.

It goes all the way back. And a piece of trivia that I learned that I think is, it's fascinating to a dork like me. Oh, what? Did you not knock enough stuff off? Do you try to knock more stuff off? Well, it's a cat, you know. Piece of trivia. So you know that moment in close to the edit by Art of Noise where to be in England in the summer.

summertime, with my love, close to the edit. Love that. She was a receptionist at the record studio that Trevor Horn owned. Oh, really? And she's also a woman who, at the end of shoot that poison arrow, they have their little bit talking with her and Martin Fry at the end. And he says, I thought you loved me. Now it seems like you don't care.

And then she replies, I care enough to know that I could never love you. And that's the same, it's the same receptionist. So she's like all over those early, uh, zeng tum-tum. She get paid for that stuff, do you think? Probably. Oh, I'm sure. I hope so. Yeah.

I hope so. I hope so, right? Because those are iconic. But she's not the one, she's not the one who says, hey. No. Uh, that they use all over that Ardenoy song and that the, uh, prodigy captured and moved into Fire Starter. Oh, right.

Reused in Firestar. Another band I adore. Holy crap. dude, rest in peace, lead singer. Again, another, you know, connection. And that, uh, that, um, so this book goes into all that? Like you,

this book goes into all that stuff. I think I would really enjoy this. You would, I think you would really love this book. It was such a quick read. I read it over the course of the two flights back from Boston to Chicago and the Chicago to Denver. And, um,

that, uh, that, that, Hey was actually said by like Christina something Pilkington who is, air to the Pilkington Glass Company in England or something like that. Weird. No relation to perfectly spherical head Carl Pilkington as far as I know.

I mean, maybe somewhere way back, but that's interesting. That's fascinating. I think I enjoy it. I may have to check it out. What's the name of the book again? The book is called Adventures in Modern Recording by Trevor Horn. All right. And I'm sure if there's an audio book and it's read by Trevor Horn, that seems like it would be the way to go.

Well, you think everywhere he sits, it's the horn section? All right, speaking of music, this is perfect transition. Look at that. It's almost like we planned this, and we really didn't. No, we didn't even talk about this. This is like all new to Brian. So here's a little thing I've been holding that I've been wanting to talk to you about since you left. And I got kind of into Neil Diamond lately.

Don't know why. Just am. And I've been listening quite a bit to his greatest hits. And he's got some remastered stuff, a recent Christmas album. Like, I just, I don't know, I'm in the mood for this cheese ball. business from from yesterday year and um i found a lyric a lot of his lyrics are a little bit weird and of their time and make him seem like he was ancient in his 20s you know yeah just that's just neil diamond well yeah one of these lyrics i hear a million times and i need to talk about it

because i have questions all right um oh i love this yeah go ahead and there's a lot of you know one of them's a little creepy like uh you'll be a woman soon it's just right which urge over kill cover for Pulp Fiction and uh yes it's just it's a little weird you know it is it's like wait what are you saying you'll be a woman soon it's like here's my number yeah let me know when you are the proper age legal age so I listened to uh this in particular and I can't get these lyrics out of my head so anyway here it is did you ever read about a frog who dreamed of being a king and then became one what that's it yeah yeah it's a frog prince story right it's like uh is it the frog it's the kissing one or what is he talking about i think so uh is the princess and the frog

is it charles the third what does that mean i blame the drugs sometimes you just need something to fill a couple verses and uh i guess so man he just he throws I mean, that's that whole song where he yells at a chair, right? Oh, yeah, he does yell at a chair. So it's also weird. There's an LCD trip right there. Yeah. I am I said.

That's right. He was in a, it was a place in a time, right? Right. And if I was there, perhaps I also would have been hopped up on mushrooms or whatever they were doing. Okay. Well, then that's out of the way. It's just weird and I didn't like it.

Here's the thing I really wanted to bring up. Sure. Okay. Oh, and then he has this great point in one song. It goes like this. I never heard anyone said deedle-do and tried to have me take them serious, you know? Yeah, no, because that's Justin Robert Young doing Adele's rolling in the deep, isn't it? Dead on.

I didn't even think about that. That's probably why it jumped out of me. What was that? That was Brother Love's Traveling Medicine Show or whatever it's called. Whatever the heck it is, yeah. There's a bunch of old stuff on there. In fact, that song I don't even think I was familiar with, and so that really jumped out at me.

But there's a really lot of great old... He was really good at melodic sort of... He was. I don't know, whatever. It's weird, though. You listen to his newer stuff because I did that just to see, and his voice ain't what he used to be. Oh, really?

Yeah, see, I mean, for me, like, stopped. And we talked about this before, about his shark jumping moment, I think, was America, or Song Sung Sung Blue or... It's like anything before that, you know, give me cracklin Rosie, give me, that song, that brother love, traveling, whatever, that stuff I'm all over, but it's the stuff after that that it's like, hello again, hello, yeah, that one sucks. Love on the rocks, ain't no surprise.

Want me a treat, get out, tell you some lies. I still sort of unironically like some of that, but not all of it. All right, okay. But I do like Forever in Blue Jeans. Turn on your heart light. That is the most, candory, three minutes of bullshit ever. Yeah, that's your candle in the wind. Yeah, it really is.

Your redo of Candle in the Wind. I fully support the Maryland Monroe version. He should have just written a new song for Princess Diana. That's right. Look, just by one. less pair of giant weird pink glasses and make a new song, all right? Your Elton freak, actually technically, you're Bernie Freak and Toppin. Yeah, damn it.

You could have written a new song for Princess Diana. You could have done it. All right. Here's one more thing I want to share. It's a new trend that I need to understand so that I'm not so angry at it. It annoys the crap out of me. There's a new trend on YouTube. Oh, God.

All right. I don't understand it. Some people are going to say... It's worse than smash and subscribe and all that stuff. think so it's worse because it's the entire video so i'm going to play for you an audio example i'm not going to show the video just because i don't know it doesn't need to be um the audio is what matters here i'm going to play this audio for everybody to hear it's about 22 seconds and you'll see what i mean when i get to the end of it so here you go this dad woke up early in the first day at snow to write good

morning in it so his kids could see it in the backyard when they wake up after he wrote the whole thing out with even drawing a family picture he then had to retrace his step so he didn't make any more footprints in the snow to ruin it. He stood there for a while thinking it was finally done and then remembered he should add one more thing. So he drew a heart at the bottom. An incredible thing for this dad to do just to make his kids day. Okay. Now, let me give you some context here. What this is, is a dude whose entire channel does nothing but take other people's videos and then describe what's happening as it happens. Oh, no. Really? Not in a kind of like, hey blind people i'm here for you kind of way not like that yeah it's not an accessibility thing it's

just him doing i'd like some like some views too please and he's got a ton of subscribers oh jeez and he just does this with every video where it's like okay a guy this man walked up to a thing like literally it's just him describing exactly what happens on screen it's not like yeah here's a cool video watch this and then says some at the end or here's my reaction to it's none of that it's just him saying here's what I'm observing just like you are there was nothing about that video by the way if I watched it silently I could have I could have seen everything he described but he also adds the the cheesy music and tries to me this guy what a great guy thing at the end fine it might have been whatever that's cool he did that for his kids I don't have a problem with

any of the video itself but this guy who's like lifting other people's videos and then doing this weird commentary and then I found a bunch more just like it and I think it's a trend and I don't get it I don't get it. Could we take his video and provide new narration? Yeah, we could. This guy is talking in this sort of voice and he's stealing other people's videos and recording his own descriptions over them in a way to get more views for his own crap station. I love that idea. That's not bad. Although, station's fine. This isn't that to be a channel. You know what, let's get, let's get back to station. Why is everything a channel? station.

Hey, visit my YouTube station for more radio programs. That's right. Visuals. That's right. More radio programs with visuals over at my station.com. Hearing the description of the video he was describing with the dad who wrote Merry Christmas, which at first I thought might have been in urine, reminded me of a joke. So the president wakes up and he looks outside. Freshly fallen snow, Washington, D.C.

He looks out of the front of the White House and sees, the president sucks, has been written in urine in the snow. He calls in his Secret Service, the head of his Secret Service Department, says, find out who did this. This is horrible. I won't stand for this sort of thing. Secret Service leaves. Comes back a few hours later and says, okay, well, we've had our scientists do an analysis.

We've discovered that the urine, sir, I'm afraid, belongs to the vice president. But that's not the worst of it. Okay. He says, president says, oh, my God, what's the word? worst of it. He says, it's the first lady's handwriting. That's good. It's really good. Anyway, I have not heard that joke.

That was good. I will share that one. Please do. It's a great Christmas joke. It is. You need to break the ice around the table on Christmas? You can use that one. It's a Christmas miracle, everybody. Anyway, so those are my two big audio thoughts today. I don't like this new trend. Look, I know.

I don't either. I don't approve of that whatsoever. Look, I'm not even, my big complaint isn't even that he's taking somebody else's video. I get reaction videos. I understand why people are interested in those. I get a lot of that stuff, but just narrating the video, unless you're doing it for some accessibility reason. What is the point? I can see it by myself. I see what's happening.

You don't have to tell me. Yeah, annoyed by this. And there are things, you know, there's assisted listening things that will work with a person's original channel that put up that video. That's right. That's right. Yeah. Yeah, we got closed captioning. We got all kinds of tools.

We don't need that tool. We don't need a dateline sounding recreation of what's happening in that video. Yeah. And I just don't understand it because the person whose original video was, even if this guy links to him, I don't know if he does. I didn't check. But if he links back, he's still got more views than anyone he's taken from. Some of them are big viral videos and he's doing those. But I just don't need a description.

It's like, oh, this kid. We can see Charlie biting the kid. That's so funny, I was just going to do the Charlie's example. Is that the one you were going to do? That's good. That's perfect. That's exactly what I'm saying. Like if you take any viral video, here we see Gangdom Style where Sye is dancing around singing open gangdom style.

You know what I mean? Like, what's the point? You're seeing a cat with the owner's hands held precariously on either side of the cat as he's moving the cat up and down over a Cassio Megatone keyboard. No one asked for this service. Oh, nobody. Yeah, nobody. All right. I got some news for you here.

Let's get to the news. Yeah, actual show news, everybody. Sit back, relax and enjoy it. It's time for the news. Brought to you by. Mitsula, the coffee, you know, what's it? Mitzula, the Rula. I can't remember.

Oh, Mitzula, the Rula. I like that. There was another, there was another word there that I can't remember. Mitzula, Blank Rula. Mike Rula? Is he the Mike Rula? Yeah, he's the Mike Rula. Oh, that's right.

Lord of Vegas. See him. and tremble at his power. Yeah, I just wanted to give Midzula a shout out. Chris is a great guy. He's awesome. He really is. And I can't wait to see him in April, if not sooner.

Yes, exactly. I might actually have to go out there a little bit earlier to, like, a whole separate trip to, you know, figure out my taskmaster challenges. Oh, gotcha. Oh, that reminds me. So I've had a few people pipe in and say, hey, I've gone to the website and there's links for tickets and stuff, but none of it works. Brian, I think, tweaked all that.

it's all good now until we put it up the link to buy your hotel works um the link to order your ticket for tms vgas scott and i are still working on so like to get your actual ticket to the event so i just need to take that link off of there until we have the yeah that's old stuff on there so sorry everybody about that but we will have it uh fixed don't worry uh we will let you know as soon as soon and it'll be soon yeah and claire you can't just you can't just demand to play taskmaster you have to be a you have to be a a TMS guest like that's you know that's why we got Amy and Bobby and yeah yeah yeah somebody comes on and does some you know some content sorry if Bill you know Tom's there Tom's going to be playing Scott Fletcher

doing the voice yeah you can't be a all caps provider that's not that's not good enough we need uh you know yeah you could be ginned up a prank caller I don't know but if you want to work with me on on helping figure out the challenges and figure out how to record them then you can you can do it which I think is way more fun than participating

is watching you guys struggle and oh I agree it'd be more fun to put the test to people than getting being the testers or testes you need us the testes yeah the testes nobody wants to be the testes

all right here's a story person cited for driving an HOV V-lane with an inflatable Grinch. Oh, shit. Well, he's technically a passenger. That's true. There's a photo here. Or a passenger, Mr. Grinch. You're sitting to my left. You're sharing my carpool.

You're saving me lots of money. And it's also kind of funny, Mr. Grinch. I wouldn't inflate you with a cigarette. Red Lighter adapter with a 9 volt telescoping cable battery plug. New version coming, everybody. New version of the news. I love it,

yeah. Anyway, this person got I love how they blurt out his face. He looks like a Minecraft character. He totally does. That's great. Anyway, one person was cited for driving in a high occupancy vehicle lane or HOV lane with an inflatable Grinch as a passenger according to the Arizona

Department of Public Safety. The driver wasn't on Interstate 10 at Avondale Boulevard in a Phoenix metro area when a trooper saw a quote unquote suspicious passenger and no one else inside or aside from the driver in the vehicle driving in the HOV name requires at least two people

to be in the vehicle and inflatable Grinch does not count under these rules well thanks article for clearing that up for us while we appreciate the festive flare this is illegal and the driver received a citation for their HOV violation says the AZ DPS which stands for Arizona damage percentage

second. Is that what it is? No, I don't know what it is. I guess the A.V. Let's see, Arizona Department of Political, stupid. I don't know. Something safety or police. Oh, public safety. Public safety. Yeah, Department of Public safety. I guess so. A friend of mine, Ricky says, hold my beer. One, just one inflatable. So I sent you a video of a friend of mine, Ricky. It's in your, it's in your, I sent it to yesterday. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. that was you hold on i remember this now hold on yeah yeah i got it before the show yesterday

um let me pull this up after the show yeah oh no i guess it was before the show we just never we didn't talk about it i got it like it's 730 or something oh there it is that's okay so i'm gonna bring i'm gonna pull this up chat so you can see it so this is uh uh my friend ricky uh who has not one not two but three inflatable christmas characters in all the seats of his car. And what's great is that when he turns on the car that's when they all inflate. So as soon as there's power going from the cigarette lighter to

all these inflatables. And so it's all like they all just like I love it. And he did this for just for funnies. He's not trying to get away with anything on the HIV, right? He doesn't apparently doesn't drive anybody around his car this time of here. So he just drives

around with these guys at his car the whole That's awesome. All right, I'm going to chat. Here's the video. You can see it. Go on when you start the car. So he starts the car. That's Mrs.

Crazy Neighbor, by the way. Oh, is that her? She's about to break out to some yacht rock. She is. Oh, this is amazing. And he's got the Grinch next to him. He does, yeah. That's great.

And he doesn't look at all like a, like a Minecraft character in his video. No, not at all. Not at all. And then when he turns off the car, they all go, so they're only up while he's driving they're only up while the car is running yeah it's like a that's great i think i want to be your neighbor sadly he's not a neighbor he's a friend who came over he actually we went to the uh the big drag show a few weeks ago together nice oh yeah that's right and uh was he at the uh i know it wasn't

he was that was chris brown doing the performance thing right yeah confused which friend you have doing what yes uh all right well there's that story the lesson is don't i mean he's big and green what do you think you were going to get away with there you know at least have a it's kind of obvious like if you you know i mean the mannequin at least could fool somebody right i even see those sometimes fooling people i see those in cars do you really like actual mannequins yeah on the freeway not long ago last week kim and i went to the mall that day which was a huge mistake uh yeah We saw a guy in the HOV lane with a dummy.

And I wasn't sure until we pulled right up on tight. And I looked over and like, yeah, that's a fake person in there. Woman in the passenger seat going. She's so freaked out. For those of you listening to the audio only, I was doing my impersonation of a blowup doll, folks. And if you could send me a clip of that, someone in the chat, I would really like to make a gift. If you don't mind, you know, like if you're just sitting there. Sure, sure.

Get that going. All right, let's move on to this story. Scientists found, oh, this is big news, everybody. All right, okay, good. The scientists, or scientists, plural, finally found the clitoris on snakes. Oh. Yeah, and they're two. They're one up on me?

They're two on me. Oh, now they're two up on me. So let's see where every snake's got two. Female snakes have not one, but two clitoritori. Clitori. Clitori. According to research documenting the first four. Normal evidence of the sexual organ in snakes.

I don't know why it took us this long, but we're finally there. This two-part clitoris called the hemacliturus is present at least in nine different snake species. I love it. Just the first four letters, hemie or hemai on the front is enough to make you. I don't know why. It made it sound weirder, didn't it? I don't know. It's weird.

Hemiclteris. My wife's got a full hemmy. Brian's got a semi, wife's got a hemi. Anyway, sorry everyone. There's a lot known about male snakes and their genitalia, but not much, really anything about the female, says Morgan Fowellwell, or Fallwell, nothing to do with the people or rip people off for church money. Let's hope not. At the University of Adelaide in Australia, previous research was, quote, kind of all over the place about whether the snake clitoris evening. existed.

This feels like a joke, because that's kind of the joke, right? It does, doesn't it? Like, there's got to be a punchline. Wanted to settle the debate. Yeah, exactly. Faldwell says her colleagues began dissecting female snake specimens from the University of Michigan Zoology Collection. They said it didn't take much searching if you peel back the skin.

It's right there in front of you, she said. Oh, geez. Right under the snake's tail there, dissections and micro-CT scans revealed a range of hemoclitoris sizes and structures between species. I think what they can't tell here, though, is, like, I mean, real talk here. Sorry, everybody, if you're uncomfortable with any of this, but the female clitoris is a pleasure zone, you know? Sure, sure. And thank goodness, because we shouldn't have all the fun.

That's right, exactly. You've got to find little man in the boat. That's right. That's right. And so, I don't, what I'm saying is I don't think this study says whether the snakes are enjoying it or not. Do you know what I mean? We don't know that. Right, yeah, exactly.

It may not be. Uh, I think, you know, didn't, didn't we do an article or something about, uh, uh, scientists saying that, you know, humans are the only ones that get pleasure out of sex or have a, uh, more than just instinct or whatever. Maybe those this American life could have been, could have been Ira Glass. It could be. I'm trying to think. Uh, snakes. And they have. Coming up, we'll talk about.

Act three. Cows don't enjoy sex. in act three we'll talk about whether the cow I don't remember but I know I know that I mean how do we I don't know if we really know right we don't know right because the animal would have to tell us and they have no way of telling us but

humans and dolphins see in their face but they always have that kind of like you know that that like grin snakes always have that grin on their face so you can't really tell no you never know if they're enjoying themselves or That's just as their default look. Yeah.

I totally would be like, is this good? Is this good? Do you like this? Is this all right? Right. How's this? Is this good? I feel like I've seen apes and other, like chimpanzees in particular.

I feel like they're having a good time. That's right. And we've heard the turtle eye, Corey. Yeah, we know the turtle sound. I have that somewhere. Let's hear it. Since we're here, we may as well hear it. Sure.

Uh, turtole. Whoops. Turtle. Yeah, here it is. I do have it. Yeah. That's it. I like turtles.

That's why he likes turtles. That turtle noise really sounds like Alex Jones, Alex Jones when he was crying about something. Oh, you're not wrong. All right. Well, there's that. So that's a thing. We learned that. That's good.

We did. Now we know there's two. And scientists are fountain. Yep. Now we move on to a very different kind of story. 40,000 pounds of meatballs Oh no Spilled during a truck crash in Virginia

I know rough stuff That's a lot of meat the balls That's a whole lot of meat the balls on the I-15 The driver of a tractor trailer was charged with an overnight crash That spilled 40,000 pounds of meatballs across the interstate Interstate 95 to be specific The Virginia State Police confirmed they responded to the crash At around 1230 a.m. Nothing good happens then

The investigation determined the tractor trailer driven by Al Stenford. I almost read that as AI Stenford. He's a truck driver that was created by a computer. Yeah, clearly. He ran off the road, overcorrected, and struck a guardrail. The vehicle jackknifed, causing the trailer to detach the driver of another tractor trailer, also traveling southbound, couldn't avoid the trailer and crashed into it.

Fire department says it took over two hours to free the truck, a truck's operator, rather, from the vehicle, and the driver is transported to a nearby hospital with minor injuries. um he's charged with failing to obey highway markings so i think there's a photo here i don't know if we can really see oh gosh i hope so the all the carnage the meat carnage um let's see here the meat carnage it's kind of funny actually oh yeah no there's a lot of stuff spilled all over the ground but i can't tell what's meatball yeah maybe it's all mushed out uh they don't look like i expected little roly balls yeah but they're all it's like you know Costco sells them in boxes

or bags or something. Oh, tell me this was on its way to an IKEA. Oh, man. Wouldn't that be great? That would be great, yeah. Borka, Borka, Borka, where's our stuff? Borka Borka, is there another truck coming with some Lingenberry? Where's it?

We're all out of Allen wrenches. Please bring those with the Mita boat. I'm looking at like, let's see. Oh, there's more photos. Oh, this is a bad crash. Holy shite. Yeah, I know. It's, if the driver hadn't gotten out with minor injuries,

I think we'd be like, okay, well... No, I'd skip this one. This would not have been... We would not have done this story had this guy died. Driver dies and massive meatball crash. And because it's meatballs, it's funny. Doctors performing meatball surgery.

There you go. A little mash reference. Never hurt nobody. Uh-huh. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Uh, all right.

I love how our last story kind of combines. It's almost like the greatest hits of everything we've talked. about so far yeah in a way it's like a it's the bread on the other end of this sandwich today it really is yeah deputy dressed about the grinch we've talked about food now let's talk about all of it let's go back to the grinch and food uh deputy dressed as a grinch the grinch rather there's no a grinch it's the grinch the grinch mr grinch really yeah truly uh gives onions to speeding drivers interesting several motorists who were speeding through an elementary school zone in the florida keys received an odorous onion as a remote

minder to slow the F down from a county sheriff's department dude dressed as the Grinch. Colonel Lou Caputo, a 37-year veteran of the Monroe County Sheriff's Office who conjured up the concept more than 20 years ago was back on the streets on Tuesday. A driver, see, drivers who travel about five miles per hour or less above the school's own speed limit can choose between traffic citations and an onion presented by the Grinch. I'd take the onion. I'd take the onion. I know what I choose.

Yeah, I'll take the onion. Yeah, unless he eats it and vomits it in your back seat, I'll take the onion. That seems insane to me. Yeah, yeah. I don't know why that's... I was going to say, I was going to say, well, I'm trying to decide paying a ticket or just cleaning up some onion vomit. Yeah, let's see. $200 ticket.

Yeah. Or onion vomit? Yeah, I'd probably take the ticket. But if he just handed you an onion, I'm taking the onion. Yeah, absolutely. I can take that home, make something out of it. Right. It says it's about education.

Yeah, the bloomin onion. It's about education, he says, awareness that our school zones are still operating even though it's the holiday season. He says, we want people to slow down. He said he portrays the fictional character created by children's author, Dr. Seuss, to give motorists a quote-unquote gift,

but also to call attention in a nice way to the need to obey speed limits in school zones. It catches them off guard, says the policeman. But when I give them the clear choice of citation or onion, they will take the onion. And I've had them eat the onion right in front of, front of me. Oh, see now?

There we go. Eating a raw onion, that is the way to do it, right? There's your punishment. All right, either you get a ticket, a citation, or you peel and eat this onion right in front of me. Yep, yep, yep. And Dr. Cahoon, you're probably right. He says, this is about cops giving a fluff story to distract from their shit.

Maybe, but I don't want to get, I don't want to, I'm sick of that world. I don't want to think about that stuff today, okay? Let us have our fun. Let us have our fun. Okay. Not everything needs to be horrible. Dr. Calhoun is doing his cover of Dice Tomato today in the chat room. It's a pretty good cover.

It's a pretty good cover. Yeah, it sounds a little too much like the original. Oh, yeah. Those aren't Brian's favorite covers. He preferred to be your own spin on there. He's like, put your own spin on it. Jeez. Now, Talley, don't pile on now.

now we're not going down this road we're trying to have a nice Christmas week of goofy stories it doesn't all have to be gloom all right let's turn our sights toward happier thoughts all right

moving on we're going to take a break when we come back from this break we're going to spend some time with Bill and his creative ways we had Bobby but he had to bail last second had some kind of airplane thing I know flight emergency I know right lame

there's fog And Santa said, Bobby, with your flight training, won't you help me get my sleigh through the raining? Yep, that's the old. Trying to rhyme the training and raining. Oh, I see. No, I think you did a good job. Take that, Dr. Seuss. Are you even a real doctor?

Brian did it better. Anyway, we're going to take our break now and come back with all that, plus some emails and some other stuff. So stick around. Brian, who are you playing off the break with here today? What do we do? Well, we talked about Electropop earlier. I think pre-show we talked about Trevor. No, we did talk about during the show, Trevor Horn.

Let's listen to some electropop. An indie electro-pop duo, Alexandra John, made up of the middle names of the twins, Liza and Weston Kane, who are the basis of the band, right? So it's twins, actual twins and musical twins, Liza and Weston Kane. Their middle names are Alexandra and John, and that's the name of their band. How cool is that? This is one of the three singles that they released here in 2022. The most recent, it is called Demons.

It's from the album Healing. Here is Alexandra John. Holden my head above our water A recklessly yearning for my life Never thought of being in night Your dark energies are closing down Spinning in circles, losing it all It's gotten darker, I can't see it all

Try to shake these demons Run away from me Try to hide these beam out You can't put no fear in me Try to shake these demon You don't know Controlled in me He's trying to

Like these females You can't Do my soul from me Ooh Ooh Ooh Ooh

Ooh The higher I get The lower I get The lower I feel Don't recognize Who's that in And bear

Redemption that's coming gone Will I make it past the break of dawn Spinning in circles Losing it all This gun's darker I won't fall Trying to shake these demons

Come in a lot away from me Try to hide these females me trying to shake these demons yes I'm not trouble with me try to buy these females you can't steal my soul from me you won't have the best of me

you can't steal my soul from me Hey, as long as you don't make me smell uranus. I'm sorry, Fry, but astronomers renamed Uranus in 2620 to end that stupid joke once and for all. Oh, what's it called now? Urectum. The morning stream. The phone's going to ring.

It's going to be you know who. Everything's going to be all right. And we've returned. Remind me, I need to know who that was. Sure. That is courtesy of Black Panda PR. That is Alexandra John from their new album, Healing that is just one of the three singles they've released from that album this year.

That song is called Demons. Go check him out. Alexandra John. Very nice. Very nice indeed. We're going to get Bill on. The week of Christmas. Let's get it on, Bill. Some last minute creativity talk here.

It's never hurt nobody. Yeah. Nothing like making presents for family. Nothing like it. Your bat caves open there. Bill. Hey, Bill. Welcome back to the show.

It's Bill Duran all the way from PunishProps.com. joins us on Tuesdays and talks about the world of makers and making things. Bill, what's going on? Man, how are you? Good morning. I'm doing great. Excited. Yeah?

You got the big Christmas plans all set and whatever the heck you're going to do. You're all good? Going to be chill here. My brother and his wife and their kids are flying to see my other brother and his wife and their kids. And I'm not. It's going to be a quiet Christmas here. And if we're lucky, we'll get a sprinkling of snow, but it is raining. So I'm not going to hold my breath.

Well, welcome to Seattle. I, real quick here, I just was going to, I forgot to mention this earlier, but it's a little bit weird. For the first time in my entire life, like my whole life, I'm going to, well, let's keep it to the marriage because prior to that, it was always with family like my parents or then friends or whatever. But for the first time in my entire marriage to my wife Kim since 1992, I've never. We've never had a Christmas Eve alone, just her and I. Oh, that would be nice. And that's happening this week, which we didn't even quite plan. It's just that all the other plans align, and we were like, oh, my gosh, we're alone.

And we're actually looking forward to this. It's going to be great. That's cool. You know what you should do, celebrate. Go watch Avatar. Or stay home and watch RRR. We're watching RR. That's my first move.

But I do want to see Avatar, but the tickets are already sold out, which I'm not used to, for Christmas Day. Yeah, Christmas Day. Well, for our two theaters that are near us. Yeah. They're both sold out for Sunday because we tried. And I don't know. Freaking movie theaters, dude.

Yeah, you could just watch Andor again. We just finished that and I'd watch that again. Oh, it's so good. It's so good. What a great show. It's good. I'll bet that show, as good as it was, I'll bet it's even better with a, you know,

just a binge straight through. Yeah. You're not waiting week to week. I do want to watch it again. I want to watch Rogue One again before I do. That's what I want to do. Yeah, me too. It's different as what I'm told.

For sure. I kind of want to see how that goes. Well, Bill, let's get to it. You got some cool ideas for folks here on this Christmas week, 2022. I do. This is a really fun one, too. So I'm obsessed with Lego. I mean, lots of people are.

It's not a unique thing. I have many kits on display around my house. I have the big, I guess I'm kind of bragging. I have the big slave one in my kids. kitchen. Wow. Weird flex, dude. I know, right? I've been, speaking of Christmas, too, what I've been doing with a lot of my older, smaller Lego kits is I've been repackaging them and giving them to my nephews as Christmas

presents for the last three years. Well, let me ask you about that, right? So when you get a big old Lego thing, you get five or six bags with big Helvetica printed numbers on them that collect all of the items that you need for that stage of the bill. Yes. You're not putting all those back like in the bags. Yeah, you're going to be saying, good luck. None of these are big enough to require that either.

These are smaller kids. Gotcha. Although I'm surprised my nephews now are, I have a couple that are in the seven to eight year range. They're really good at both Minecraft and Lego. They can handle some pretty advanced kits. Sure. So I'm going to have to up my game in the next few. years. I'm also running out.

It is kind of interesting how I feel like, if anything, you know, people were like, oh, this new Minecraft back in 2009 or whatever. This new Minecraft is a lot like, it's basically video game Lego. I wonder if kids will even care about Legos anymore. I think the opposite happened. I think kids got really into that and it gave them a taste for a physical, you know, thing. Yeah. I think so. I love that. I think that's great. Well, it's based on the reactions, my nephews go bonkers for these things. So I would say Lego is hotter than ever, a monk, among the youths. Yeah, the youths.

So I've got all these kits. Most of them are Lego brand kits, but I have a few kits that were designed by not Lego. One of my favorites, this guy named Chris McVeigh. He's an artist who used to design all of these really cool custom Lego kits. Actually, I'll throw his link in the chat. Chris McVeigh is his name. He no longer sells kits.

excuse me he used to sell kits i bought um his dsler camera one a while ago which was very cool uh but he got hired by lego he works there now oh geez uh but if you're looking he gives out the the um instructions for all of his kits for free uh you just have to order the parts yourself gotcha and his his kits are so so cool he makes all these little arcade like scott you're gonna see these little lego arcade things oh i'm gonna lose my mind dude yes that's what i want Want, if you're, of, lately, I haven't thought, I can't really think of a Lego set that it actually draws me that much right now. I don't know why. None of the newer stuff really gets me.

I check the Star Wars stuff, it's fine. But I'm just like, I really want to do that one. If you told me I could build like Flynn's arcade or whatever, holy shit in a heartbeat. Yeah, so he's got little arcade machines, a bunch of different varieties, vending machines. Looks like he's got little sets that are like the arcade with a wacky looking carpet. it. And again, these are just PDFs. They're free PDFs with the instructions on the list of all the parts. You've got to go get all the parts yourself, but I've done that. I've tried it out, and I can tell you how to do it. That's awesome. That's cool. My problem with a lot of that stuff

is, what am I going to do with it after I put it together? And you talked about a great way to do it, is take it apart, put it back in the box, give it to somebody else, and let them enjoy it. But if I've, you know, my helic carrier is sitting over there, just, as a thing that I have to constantly dust. That's my slave one. It's a great display and it's a nice dust collector. And it's not like you can even, you've got to really be careful on how you display it too,

because it can fall off and break into a million pieces. Yeah, you know. That's when like, again, I've got nephews, especially a couple of years ago when they were a little younger. They'd show up and they'd go, ooh, car, and reach for my, This is my, what is it, the Beetle, the Volkswagen Beetle. That is a very, that is a not, do not let your five-year-old nephew play with kind of Lego thing. And I have several of those.

It's becoming less of a problem, but yeah. Yeah, you kind of have to build a room around that helic carrier, don't you? Yes, you really do. Or at least plexiglass or something. Maybe that's the deal. I do have a glass display case for most of my Lego stuff that keeps the dust off. He keeps the little hands out. I do want this NES one.

It's expensive, though. It's more money than an NES cost. $269. But it's so cool. That's very cool, though. It's so cool. Yeah, I mean, it's actual size, too, right? I think the TV's small, but the actual box controller and cartridge are, I think,

those are out like scale, and I love that. So I was on Reddit, and I was on the satisfactory subreddit where I live these days and someone posted a there's a little workbench you build in satisfactory where you can go build things and someone made one out of Lego and they posted a link to all the parts and instructions that they made okay so I did it I ordered all the parts and I built my own I tweeted a picture yesterday on on Twitter and it's adorable it's this little uh little workbench that's mini-fake scale that looks just like it popped right out of the game

Satisfactory Oh look at that Oh, that's so cool Right I've played enough of this game To know exactly what that is And it's weirdly nostalgic for a game That's still in early access

That's fun Yeah right I think I need to play that thing Oh you'd love Satisfactory Brian It's so bad I bet I would If either of you starts playing Satisfactory and you'd like me to join

And help out let me know Because I love that game so much Pretty sure it's coming to, when it finally exits early access, that thing will be on consoles as well. Right now, PC only, but it is a rad game. There's little tools, there's a little, there's a little vice that red parts, a little bench vise. Yeah, look at the little blue chipper thing that you use in the early goings of the game.

We've got to chip the stuff. That's so great. So this is how it works. So he provided instructions and a list of the parts, and there's a website called bricklink.com, and you can upload the list. and it will go find individual sellers who have your parts, and it will put together as few orders as it can.

For me, it made two orders with two different sellers to get all of my parts. I paid for each of them, and then a few days later, all of my parts showed up. It was pretty cool. I've never used Bricklink before, but if you were going to do one of those Chris McVeigh kits, you'd have to go look at his instructions, get a list of all the parts, and then go to Bricklink and buy them all. And it worked great. I got my parts and I built my thing together and it's so cool.

It's like so few people have this Lego kit because there's this extra hurdle to go into buying it. But I have one and it's adorable and I'm going to keep it from it. That one's not going to the nephews. That one I'm keeping. Some of the stuff's pricey. I'm sure. Wow. Okay.

I think this Ferrari kit I'm looking at, I guess people sell them once they assemble them. They resell them. Anyway, they're selling for like $380. on here. Yeah, I think people will put together, like, there are kits that are no longer available. Like, there is a snow speeder kit that I really, really wanted, but they don't sell it anymore. And if you buy that kit on eBay in the box, it's thousands of dollars.

But you can just go get the parts. You can figure out. And I think that's what people on Brick Lake do with rare sets is they'll put together rare kits and you can just buy all the parts. Awesome. I'm trying to remember what the name of it was. I talked about it. And I can't remember if we talked about it during your segment, but there is.

the app that you could download where you take a picture of you know you throw all of your loose Lego bricks onto a table and then you take a picture of it and it's able to figure out what all of those parts are and tell you things you can make from those parts

and give you the screen. Oh yeah right no you did we talked about this and we even had a name I'm trying to find on my phone right now and it's not coming up under brick or Lego or oh wow I haven't never heard of that that sounds awesome app. I don't know what you call it. It is called.

Because if you look for Lego app, you just find like a... Captain Kipper for finding it. It is called... Oh, Captain Kippur always finds this stuff, man. It really is. Yeah, he's like the best of this sort of thing. Brickett. B-R-I-C-I-T. Yeah. So you literally just dump it on the table and it's smartly like, here's a good use for AI, everybody. It goes and just sees what everything is and then says, yeah, you've got this many of these, this many of these, this many of these. It's like having your own rain man in your phone

is really what it is. Yeah, exactly. You could definitely build a dock. Definitely build a duck. Got to watch Wapner, but while I'm watching Wopner, you can totally build the Star Wars thing. Yeah, it's pretty cool. It's worth getting, I think. I don't really have this problem,

but I remember when Brian first talked about it, I just thought that's so red. There's an application for your computer you can get. I think it's on Bricklinks. website. It's called Studio. And that's what people use to design their own kits and instructions as well. So if you want to get into that world and design your own kits for other people to put together, the software's out there. It's like CAD for Lego. I haven't really played with it myself, but I know it's very popular. And that's how the guy that made the kit I put together

designed it. That's how he did it. It's one for kids as well called Lego Kids Creator. And it looks like, oh, this is neat. There's one for Phil Collins called Stu Stu Studio. Well, may he ever live, is what I say. Well, all right, that's awesome. You know what? I'm among many kids of many generations who

woke up on Christmas morning and broke out a bunch of brand new Lego and built stuff all day and you were happy as a pig and poo. So talking about this, I think, is completely appropriate for this week. So hopefully somebody out there will be having a good time on Christmas point. Yes, definitely. My nephews for sure with their new kids. Absolutely. Bill, as is always the tradition, you leave us with a little link there. What do you got today? Yeah, so one of my favorite

YouTubers, this old Tony has a new video out there is a Secret Santa, Maker Secret Santa, go and think, let me start over. YouTube Maker Secret Santa. So Makers on YouTube did a Secret Santa with one another and Tony made some custom screwdrivers that are very, very nice screwdrivers he shows how he did it but also he made something for

someone else and he got something from someone else so if you want a whole string of videos of people making stuff for other people oh my god I thought that was like little lights overlay on his thing but now I'm looking closer no that's just a big pile of string lights yes oh my gosh yeah Tony's a goofball

I love his videos literally made screwdrivers that's crazy sorry listen i love i love being part of the tadpool secret santa i do it every year and tina does it i'm happy especially happy to send somebody overseas because i usually i always say that you all i'll happily do uh pick a secret santa that is outside the u.s uh i would love to separately do a maker secret santa where you create something unique you know it's not like oh i'm going to go to thing of us and download a giraffe and print a giraffe for you, but, like, actually make something, like, do a custom maker's secret Santa. That would be such a wild.

Yeah, it would be really fun. Everyone has to make their thing. Sew it, knit it, draw it. Like this Furby organ. Holy crap. Yes, the Furby organ's amazing. Oh, it's so good. We did that.

Some years, the prop tarts are a group on Facebook. They will do a secret standard. They didn't do it this year, but it'll be, it's that sort of thing where you make something for someone else. Yeah. Yeah. That's really, like, if you get something that someone made or you specifically, feels great. Pop-Tart's such a great name for a community. Pop-Tarts, yeah.

Prop Tarts, yeah. Yeah, I love that. Who came up with that? Was that you? Was it Brit? They did. They did. They became self-aware in about 2014 and made a Facebook group.

That's how the Tadpoolers did it, too. They made that up. Yeah, I can talk about it here because he's already received it and he loves it. But Hammond, you know, I wanted to make something for Hammond this year. And the big joke that we have on soundography is Dream Theater, one of his favorite bands, or maybe his favorite band. They have a propensity, as many people know, to create songs that are like 10, 12, 15 minutes long. And I decided to make for him a 3D printed Dream Theater timer. And so I went and bought a little timer, a little circular timer, and then built an entire Dream Theater case around it so that you can time.

your dream theater song you can actually remove the time and actually use it as a useful useful gift but uh uh i love the idea of you know doing something yeah yeah talk to talk about that next year maybe there's there's something to that i think that sounds like fun and even if you don't have if you can't 3d print or you know sculpt or whatever do whatever it is you do just get all the creatives to hop in on that that'd be really fun maybe you make puppets maybe you make maybe you just did googly eyes onto things i don't know that'd be fine Maybe you drink gin and make drawings in the snow with your pee. I don't know.

I don't know what you do. I'm not here to judge. Barf sculptures. I don't know. Whatever. Yeah, make a vomit sculpture. I'm down.

Well, there you have it. It's always good stuff coming out of Bill. It's always coming out of Bill. It's always good. If you want to check out his work, of course, punish props.com and, you know, keep an eye on all that stuff for the new year. Big cool stuff going on.

Bill, have a Merry Christmas. You too. And we'll see you later. Bye now. See, Bill. Bye. I have to go add that link to QuickTMS because I forgot to do that. Last time we had Bill on, new post.

What is it? What do we call it Making Things with Bill, right? Making things with Bill. Yeah, I call it punished props, I guess, is what I call it. Oh, gotcha. That works. Yep. All that stuff works.

Yeah. Very nice. Hey, I got an email to read. Do you want to hear this? I do. I'd like to hear all of it. Good. Here it is.

John Hines, aka Bean Man, wrote in. And he says, hey, S&B. On the TMS 2390 random joke about RSS, sorry, I'm thinking about RSS because I'm doing a host thing. Oh, yeah, I saw that. Sorry, random joke about RES erection or Resurrection and Plastic Man superheroes. I listen to a lot of power metal music, and there's a band called Resurrection by Erection by Powerwolf. So it seems like maybe that's the album name, and Powerwolf's the band. I don't know.

I guess so, yeah. Scott, you will love the lyrics to the song, and it is so much fun to listen to P.S. I'll check that out. P.S., my five-year-old son sings this song in the car, not knowing the meaning. I just hope he doesn't sing this at school. Long-time listener, first-time email or John. Well, John, that'll change. Your kid's not going to stay tiny forever, so enjoy that.

They'll very quickly start singing some very embarrassing stuff when families around or, you know, at times that you don't want them to sing it. Yeah, that's how it works. So best of luck with that. Now, the one thing I did want to recommend, since he was talking about heavy metal, I didn't, well, A, I didn't know this existed, but B, I didn't know how good it was. I saw a list of the 15 best album, sorry, 15 best metal albums on Rolling Stone. Oh.

And they had it number two, Ozzy Osbourne's Patient Number Nine. And I didn't even know he had a new album, brand new album. And I thought, well, I used to love Ozzy and, you know, still do and just whatever. But I figured, you know, he's well into his 70s now. I didn't know if he was doing anything cool or whatever. This record is so good, Brian. It's so good. Really?

Yeah. And he lists of these people he works with. One of the co-founders, Black Sabbath, what's his name? Tommy Ayami. That's him. He does a couple of tracks on here with him. So some, you know, getting back to basic. with those two guys.

That's a lucky guess right there, by the way. The lead track, patient number nine, features Jeff Black on guitar. He's got one featuring, who was, oh, Eric Clapton of all people is on one of these tracks. Oh, really? Okay. Those are two people I've never heard of working together, so that's kind of cool. I'm surprised how much I like this. It's so good.

It's really good. And it doesn't feel like Ozzy's missed a beat. He sounds like he always did. So maybe he's super overproduced and always sounded like this because he was overproduced. I don't know, but, man, it's really good. That's awesome. Anyway, we're checking out if you guys are interested in heavy metal this year. All right.

We're talking about, you know, it's Christmas time. We were listening to some Christmas music in the car. And do they know it's Christmas by Band-Aid? Oh, yeah, yeah. Classic from you and, you know, when you and I were young in 1984, we were listening to this and it was like, oh, my God, all our favorite musicians are all. all together in this one song. This is so cool.

Yep. It seemed pretty neat back then. And then in 2004, they did Band-Aid 2 or Band-Aid 20 or whatever it was called that did a cover of it with people who are popular then. They did another one in 2014 for the 30th anniversary, and I'm just going to point out that we're about a year, I'm sorry, we're about two years away from the 40th anniversary of Do They Know It's Christmas. we need to start figuring out who who needs to sing in us. Like we were thinking, all right, well, Adele has to sing in it. You know, other British singers, Ed Sharon has to be part of it. You know, but we don't know who's going to be popular in two years. So it's got to be, there's a little bit of a mystery involved with this.

Yeah, that's true, because by then we don't know who will be, you know, who's the upper cover. Adele might be old hat by then. Oh, yeah, Bono has to be in it because he always has to. sing to not thank god it's yeah yeah just bring him in have him be the one old guy he did that on the other two he did that on the 2004 of the 2014 he's your he's your he's your uh cliff claven for the Pixar movie right exactly you're keep bringing him in I love you know what great bring it on when they if they do it though do you call it a is it a rip off of Band-Aid oh Wayne doesn't Oh, Band-Aid rip-off.

Rip-off. Pull the band-aid off. I will say this. The last two have been a rip-off. Yeah, the last two versions they've done, joke or not, they've been a complete and total rip-off. Do you think that just fades into memory once all the Gen Xers who grew up with that die off? Because nobody, there's no Gen Zs who know what that is, right?

They don't know. Or maybe they do, and I just not get enough credit. I don't know. I mean, obviously, you and I know it so well that we don't even think about it, But, yeah, I'm looking at, all right, so they had Australian for the 20th anniversary. Oh, no, I'm sorry, Band-A-2 was 1989. So that was just five years later. Oh.

And then had Kylie Minogue, Lisa Stansfield, wet, wet, wet, banana, who were involved in the first one. Banana Ramma, oh my gosh. Banana Ram. I haven't heard their name in a while. It's been a bit. Yeah. I've not heard that name in quite some time.

The sequel had Natasha Benningfield. Chris Martin from Coldplay, Dido. Feeder. That's cool. Justin Hawkins from the Darkness. Sure. Sugar Babes. Justone, Snow Patrol. I mean, one of the keys to this, don't you think one of the keys to this is to get as diverse a group as possible?

For sure. Not staying just top 40, but like, here's a metal guy, here's a rap guy, here's a, you know, whatever. Lady, here's Bjork, or here's who. whoever exactly still got to be popular but but uh i think bork was no bork wasn't uh the 30th anniversary one was she was she wasn't she wasn't okay no but uh let's shame uh ellie golding would be a good one she was actually in the 30 year anniversary along with uh steel christ martin from cole play again chenade o'connor one direction seal ed sharon oh the ed sharon people like the ed sharon and he was already in the 30th.

Roger Taylor from Queen was on drums and keyboards. Anyway, so we've got two years. Let's start thinking about... Ed Sharon looks like somebody's little brother at a sleepover. Nobody wants to hang out with. It really does. It's like one of the Rugrats kids sort of grew up and became Ed Shearan.

Yeah, sort of his operative word there, because he really doesn't, hasn't changed much. And he's incredibly talented. Like, mind-boggling. But if you just saw him, you go, eh, get in line behind me. I got here first, you weird kids. And, like, you just, I don't know, something about him.

And those of you, you know, those of you on the audience, men or women who just say, oh, my God, I think he's so handsome. Would you think Ed Shearin was so handsome if it weren't for his music? Would it be like... The answer is no. The answer is no. They can lie to me all they want. He's a sex god. You see, you see Ed Shearin washing your car at the drive-thru car wash thing, like...

Yeah. He's cleaning your window. Do you say, that is a handsome fellow right there? Yeah, but I will say this, Claire, and this is why. maybe this is why you like him. He's an average dude with extraordinary talent. I think that's, I'm a dude speaking here with fully heterosexual tendencies. But I find that attractive in people.

You know, where they don't need to look like a freaking chisel cut model. They're just people that do amazing work. It's why I like movies that don't get all WB and make everybody pretty or television shows. Like I don't like the Burlanti effect. I like. right unless you're talking doom patrol which works pretty well over there oh yeah you saw you watch that for uh couch party yeah i was so glad i really liked it watch more of it with you yeah i loved it it was great when we fit so i was thinking as we finish miss marvel and then we'll we'll

rip through that yeah because i really like it anyway enough about ed sharon let me tell you guys about our friends over on patreon who support us it's you guys out there you guys help us uh make this show possible and help pay the bills we need it so head on over to patreon.com slash tms as we near the end of this month and launch into a new year. We got all kinds of cool ideas coming up, not just TMS Vegas, but other cool ideas. So stick around for more and check out patreon.com slash TMS for all the cool benefits you'll get. You'll never get commercials. You get pre-show content every day.

You'll get couch parties like Brian just mentioned, art in the mail and other great benefits that happen on the monthly, but only if you join us at patreon.com slash TMS. That'll do it for us. Brian, we probably should play a song. Do you have one of those? I do. Yavang! In the tadpool.

But he goes by the name Troy in real life. Says, hello, and happy holidays, friends. It's hard to believe, but this year marks my 10th year of being a TMS fan. Time flies when you're having fun. All those years ago, a friend told me about a podcast doing Star Trek trivia. I'm a huge Trek fan. I had to check it out, but I soon realized that Trek trivia was only a small part of the show, and the hosts made me feel like I was listening to a couple of old friends.

well we are just not that old no keep that of mine not not friends who are old for a long time but two guys who are really old who are good friends I don't know about really old but I know what you mean really really really really I came for the trek trivia but stayed for the poop jokes and Brian December 5th was my I'm sorry December 15th was my birthday and I would love it if you could play a cover song from my favorite favorite favorite their fragrant brass band brass against. Thanks for all the laughs, Troy, aka Yvang. Nice. How's he spelled yvang, by the way? How's that spelled? Yavang. Y-A-V-A-N-G. Okay. That's interesting.

Just like it sounds. Like if I were to say spell yavang in the fewest letters possible, that is exactly what you would do. Yeah. Yeah. I guess. That is the truth. Happy to do it. This is from their self-titled album from 2018, covering rage against the machine. Here is Brass against and Wake Up. Awesome. So a plan for the week just to give everybody a little idea of what to expect. We have

shows tomorrow for Wednesday. We have a show Thursday. Friday, couch party. Like, it's all normal. Okay, it is. All right. I wasn't sure. I think so. Unless there's something that I'm not remembering. I think everything's good. And we're going to do a show the day after Christmas on Monday? Because a lot of people

will be off on that day. because they have Christmas as on a Sunday so their boss gives them that's true we could do a we could do like a special show and just do some fun stuff

you know different than usual yeah yeah all right we'll come up with something but anyway and then we got this thing on the 31st where we're part of the streamathon over there with the

what's there I forgot the name of the thing the Extra Life stream yeah this they're doing it's all charity we do it every year the NYU yeah the Diamond Club folks yeah the Diamond Club guys but they call it

oh ritual misery that's it ritual is it that's right uh that's happening on the 31st i think our time is 3 30 that afternoon okay i was curious i was just going to ask you because i'd forgotten i think let me make sure that i have it right here i can tell you uh it's a saturday that's saturday it's saturday saturday uh it is not showing up oh here it is found it uh 330 mountain time so there you cool that's us yep i'll be right before tom's thing so stick around for his as well anyway That'll do it for us. Thank you all for being here today. We'll see you tomorrow. Come on!

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