The Morning Stream - TMS 2400: Egg Nog Zero

Episode Date: January 3, 2023

I enjoy large rear ends, I can't falsify that fact. Don't you see my five stars?! Dollar Stores Anchored by Spirit Halloweens. Making Thickened Liquid Great Again. Father of the Year 2 hours in. I will call in my cover favor. It's An 'OK' From Paul Hollywood. Lyft: moving at the speed of the DMV. Twas the testicle work what killed him! Fat Bottomed Ants you make the rockin world go round. Free Coke at the Crack Shack. Star Trek As Hell. My son called after the ball dropped. The Chicken is Red, Chickens Aren't Supposed to be Red. Giving People the Bird with Bill 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, I enjoy large rear ends. I can't falsify that fact. Don't you see my five stars? Dollar stores anchored by Spirit Halloweens. Making thick and liquid great again. Father of the year, two hours in. I will call in my cover favor. It's an okay from Paul Hollywood. Lift, moving at the speed of the DMV. Twas the testicle work that killed him.

Fat bottom dance, you make the rocking world go round. Free Coke and the crack shack. Trek is hell. My son called after the ball drop. The chicken is red. Chickens aren't supposed to be red. Giving people the bird with Bill and more on this episode of The Morning Stream. Pete's idea of the perfect lunch is any lunch with Campbell's chicken noodle-o soup.

There's lots of chickeny flavor and little round noodles for him, but not a lot of work for me. This is no time to show me your boobs. The morning stream. If you saw ninjas, you're seeing ghosts. Good morning and welcome to TMS. It is the morning stream for Tuesday, January 3rd, 2023. I'm Scott Johnson. That's Brian Nibbitt.

Hi, Brian. Woo, welcome to a brand new year, Scott. Yeah, man. We got the new year and it's all different, you know. It's all fresh. Oh, how I'm going to be still writing 2022 on my checks. I mean, look, I got the date right on the show today. Don't count on that being consistent all week, everybody.

I might screw it up, all right? That's the way it is. Well, it's kind of automatic now, isn't it? Yeah, it is kind of. Oh, I guess not. You do type in the full date and the little tab thing. I do, but I never look at it while I'm talking. I just start talking.

So if I get it wrong, it's because I'm dumb enough not to look at my own damn notes. And that happens. That happens. Yeah, it happens. We're digging out of the snowstorm still. It keeps snowing all weekend. And so I heard this morning, we are at 139% of our yearly average snowfall already. Wow.

Already for day three. Day three. So it's good. You guys got hit hard. Yeah. We got hit real hard. All that flooding and stuff in California, all that stuff came our way and then turned into snow and then just dumped on us for days.

And so today's like garbage day. And everyone's garbage is, like, pitched up on top of, like, snow drifts because there's nowhere for the snow to go. It's a nightmare. I tried to shovel some of it. That was a mistake. My freaking back hurts. It's not out, but, you know, hurts a little. Yeah.

All that business. And then the good thing, though, is if you're going to go sledding, now is the time to sled. Great time to go sledding. Yeah. And, you know, the mountains are full of the powder, the pack powder for the ski and the snowboarding. Yeah. We had our big blizzard hit last week, and then they said, oh, be prepared because Monday we're going to get hit again. I'm looking outside right now, and it's like a nice little dusting on top of the piles of snow we already had from last week, which still haven't cleared out.

That's not so bad. That's all. No, not bad at all. I don't mind it. The big thing for us is it does mean better watershed this spring, because last year we were like drought bad. We had like two snowstorms and they were tiny. It was like nothing. So the fact that we're already 139%,

which means the mountains are loaded, means we're going to have no problem, which means everybody can water their lawns, you know, with impunity as if water grows on trees, just go ahead and do it. Exactly. Just start the Zerescaping. Would you please get the Zerescaping going? I'd be so into that, dude.

In a heartbeat, we would go outside and fix that whole front yard to be that. The backyard's already kind of that. HOA gets all tiffy if you change that. but I'm telling you, there's no reason we need lawns. All it is is like, hey, we're better than the Smiths over here with our cool lawn. That's it. There's no value in it. It's just a bunch of...

Morrissey live next door? Is that the deal? The Smiths have amazing lawnscaping. When you're going to use some sure grow. Gotta beg bag of Scots should grow. Cut it open, cut it open, cut it open. Spread my new... Spread manure.

Spread manure. You've got a whole lyric sheet for this. Nicely better. It's pretty impressive. Anyway, so yeah, it's a new year, everybody. So enjoy yourselves. Do you do anything fun for the holiday, for the day? We did, for New Year's Eve, we just kind of had a nice little quiet night.

We had a glass of wine. We watched Glass Onion, which we enjoyed greatly. I have, again, you know, no spoilers because it's still very early in its release, but I enjoyed it, but I do have an issue with, with something that gets destroyed in the film. Is it a continuity thing or like a? No, no, no, no. And I, you know, like I said, you can't even, I can't even go further into it. Gotcha, gotcha. Yeah.

all right there's no other way to explain it something that got destroyed interesting I'll have to think about that because I saw it as well quite enjoyed it and I know a very big thing gets destroyed but so do some smaller things get destroyed so I'll have to suss out what

destruction you're talking about it's the thing the first thing the big thing that gets destroyed it's like gotcha not not a fan the way it was destroyed is that what you're saying not a fan in the fact that it was destroyed. Like, you know, um, uh, I understand, I like, can I say that? Nope, I can't see that. That's a spoiler. Can I say that? Nope. I can't see that. That's a

spoiler. You know what? Well, they'll leave it right that. Leave it right there. That's, that's a little thing that bothered me. Other than that, really enjoyed the film. And, um, and a thing we picked to watch last night, that I wasn't expecting to be a very, similar thing is making me rethink my recommendal list for this week. No, I keep in my recommendal, but now I have, I have got such a list of recommendals. Because over the holidays, we've been watching so much like this series and this movie and this other movie and this other series. I've got some fun stuff to rant and rave about for recommendals.

That reminds me. So Kim and I finished Strange New Worlds, and I have a. question. I was told the entire time I was watching that series from random fans and listeners and readers along with actual friends of mine who said, hey, it's great. There's one episode that I really didn't like, but everything else is great. And I said, okay, I'll watch for it. So I've been watching for it and watching episode. Well, here's, I'll get to it. So I'm watching the show and I'm getting through it. And I get to one where I think this is the one, they're talking about, but I don't actually have a problem with it because it was Star Trek as

hell. They do this all the time. Is anyone not seen TNG? Have you never watched? Yeah, and I didn't like it there either. I don't like Freaky Friday episodes of anything. Oh, that's the one. See, now, people told me it's not the Freaky Friday episode. Oh, really? Oh, for me, was the Freaky Friday episode. Okay. The one I got told is that is, let's call it the children's fantasy one. That's the one people told me that I wouldn't like. Oh, yeah. But it just seemed like, hey, it's warf and his merry men again. It's just a goofy, it's a goofy one-off. That's what they do. Star Trek does this constantly. TOS did it. TNG, DS9. Yeah, that would be my second least favorite episode of the season. In a season that I'd

still rank higher than Discovery completely, you know, me saying that this was my least favorite episode, my second least favorite episode, all that stuff is still high up there it's like me saying marvel movies right it's like yeah my least favorite marvel movie is still better than my number one favorite dc sure sure i just i just think they're leaning into classic trek in a really hard way and i knowing that they're leaning into hardcore classic trek it didn't bother me at all it was just like oh this is one of those so i'm here you've got to earn you've got to earn your your freaky friday episode you've got to earn your children's fantasy episode you need a season of of just straight up trek no meta breaking the fourth

wall silly cartoon episode whatever kind of stuff yeah but have you seen season one of tNG it's full of this stuff like chalk full of this in tng i know but they didn't do in the first season oh hell yeah they did did you remember do you remember that guy no uh vaccine no whatever that guy that's a season one and it's a big fantasy. Oh, no, there was the packlids. That was the dude. Yeah, but that wasn't, that wasn't like a silly episode. That was just a goofy character. I feel like season one was almost nothing but these. I mean, it was a lot. Oh, see, I didn't feel like they got to that until like season. And I didn't like it then either. Don't get me wrong. I'm not, I'm not using the TNG defense to say, but it was great when TNG did it. Nope, sucked when TNG did it too.

Sure. Well, at the end of it all, I really liked it. Um, I'm very, um, I'm very, very pissed about a certain thing in the finale. Piss me off. But in a way that I mean, it's fine what they did. I'm just mad. I'm sad about a character, that's all. And because that particular character, I just really grew on me. And so their decision at the end, it's just bumming me out.

Just bummed me out. But I loved it. I can't wait for more of this, man. I felt like I was in old Star Trek, old time. Here's the other thing. I was asking Daryl about it because he says he fell off. real hard toward the end. And he said that it wasn't any one particular episode.

He liked these weird ones. He said it's because they tried to redo something from an old one. And I still don't know what he means. I can't figure it out. Every single episode that I saw didn't seem like they were trying to remake or revisit. It was this, you know, it was all new, I think. So I don't know. I didn't think so either.

I didn't see any episodes that were force awakening the new hope. Yeah. So I'm going to have to ping him today and just say, dude, I'm sorry, I'm so confused, but can you please explain where this fell off for you? Because I don't get it. Yeah. People are saying, Brian, you need to see bullet train. I said, I saw bullet train in theaters before all of you's. And now people are responding, who's all I use? What's all I use? What's all I use? Alla use. All of use. All of use. Exactly. Brian's just doing a little regional colloquialism, you know? That's right. Exactly. Get with the program, people. All use.

that was my experience with that. Hey, you got your car back. Did you just lift all weekend? Is that what you did? Oh, you would think, right? Yeah, you would think. Oh, you know, I'm sorry, I was still going to see on New Year's. So, still talking about New Year's Eve night. Two years after the ball drops in Colorado. I get a call from the cover child, Tristan, who is downtown Denver, 40 minutes away, 35 minutes away. Hey, dad, me and Kay are downtown, we're at a club. We keep getting, like, ubers and lifts keep canceling on us, and we've been, like, trying to get a ride home for an hour and a half. Is there any way you could come pick us up? Like, yeah, okay. I'm basically, I locked in, as Tina put it,

I locked in Father of the Year two hours into the new year. I agree. I can do whatever I want for the next 364 days, and I will still be father of the year for 2020. He owes you big time. He's lucky it wasn't snowing like it was here. You wouldn't have been able to get down there very well at all. Like it would have been a nightmare.

So he's lucky. I mean, it was pretty bad. There was still a lot of snow on the ground from Wednesday. Still left on the roads that night. But yeah, so it was like, all right, yeah, I've earned this. So I took them, but you pick them up, brought them back home. They were, they dressed for being in a club. They did not dress for waiting outside in a club in 20,

eight degree, uh, weather. Nice, nice. Yes. Look, yeah, he does owe you. What's the, what do you demand in, in reprecation here? Oh, I don't know. I don't know. It's, this is, this is, this is for me, it's, uh, Frito, uh, asking the godfather for a favor. I'm going to call upon you for something else at some point. Yeah, it's, it's not, uh, I'll, I'll know when I get to, to what he, what he owes me. Nice. Nice. Nice.

It was good, though, that you did that. Yeah. You know, hey, it's what you do as a parent. We all do it. And then Sunday, we had the whole, well, Sunday was New Year's? Yeah, Sunday. We had the whole family over my mom's side of the family. So Uncle George, Aunt Barb, all the kids, all the grandkids over.

The grandkids just are, they come down here to the basement. And it's like, it's those kids at the beginning. beginning of Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory when the Candy Man song is going and they're all just running around like, oh, look, weird little Eminemes and giant lollipops and stuff like that, they get down here and that's what it is. So basically we just don't see them. They come down here and then they're playing with little articulated toys, little 3D printed toys, all the rest of the evening. That's fun. That's great. I made some almond croissants.

Oh, yeah, I saw pictures. Those look good. Still have a bunch of those left over, because even we said. people home with some, I still made more than we needed, so still have some of that left over. What would Paul Holly would have said of your bake? How would you have felt? He would have said, Brian, I would have liked to see a little more, a little more rise on your puff pastry. You went with a rough puff instead of a true laminated puff pastry, but I would have liked, but, you know, it's okay. It's okay. Yeah. Okay. You know what? I would not have gotten a handshake.

It could have gotten worse, though. You could say. way worse than that that's pretty good oh yes exactly by paul hollywood standards do you succeed the paul hollywood so what exactly were you going for here yeah that's the one where you were there was no soggy bottom but they were a little bit dense they were fully cooked all the way through but they were a little bit dense nice that's good well um you used you had a lot more activity that night than i did that day than we did we just we hardly did anything first of all too much snow but it was like let's just chill Let's watch Star Trek. Eat some homemade, whatever came.

I don't remember what it was. Something good. Oh, she made a batch of jambolaia, a nice hot soup on a cold day. It's fantastic. Great. Perfect for this kind of weather and leftovers and that sort of thing. Speaking of her, she's insane.

This is the weekend where she committed to feeding like 100 Ukrainians. Oh, this is it, huh? Yeah. Can we have a week where something major isn't happening here? I swear. It's just too much. Now, look, I say that, but I'm also. glad she's doing it. I'm going to help as best I can. I don't cook very well, but I'll do whatever

she needs, and we're going to take it over there together, and we're going to feed a bunch of refugees, but I'm just saying, it's to be nice if we could have a solid week of no commitments. Nice. I don't think it's possible. No, no, I don't think so. You guys are way too generous and get your hands in and all that stuff. All the hands in. Absolutely. All the hands. So, anyway, you would ask me about doing Lyft. Yeah, I got my car. back? So you think that like, you know, ever since then, I'd be in the car driving people around to the airport, holiday travel and all that stuff? No, no, because during the seven weeks that the dealership had my car, my account came up for renewal with the DMV with Lyft. So Lyft does a DMV check. Make sure you haven't been in any accidents, anything that you haven't reported. and then once that's done, they do a background check. But here's the dumb thing.

They don't start that process until you go into the app and say, okay, I'm ready to drive. Like, they don't tell you, hey, your thing came up for renewal. We're not going to, you know, you've been deactivated until you click the button to renew it. No, it's the dumbest. That is dumb. Why is that?

Why do you think they do it that way? That seems really stupid to me. I'll bet they get so many people who, lift for a little while and don't come back that they don't want to spare the expense of doing DMV and background checks, which I'm sure is an expensive thing, but they don't want to do it if somebody doesn't necessarily come back. So the only way to be sure they come back is if they go to the app and they click the button to say, hey, I'm back. I'd like to make some money again. Oh, no, I can't until this is all done. I think that's crazy annoying. I don't like that at all.

Yeah. So a few business days for the freaking DMV check. A few business. business days for the freaking uh background check so jeez louise man like come on can i fresh background check like why why i mean it's not like you what has changed i guess how long has it been 30 days something like that um since i lifted yeah since a last last lift november 11th was the last time i drove somebody so it's been almost two months just how many crimes though have you committed within that 45 days i had to count on one hand Right. Got to get that background check going again. Brian may have been up to some shenanigans. It's just so irritating that, you know, send me an email and say, hey, we've deactivated you, but if you are coming back, then just click this button and we'll start your process again right away so that as soon as you're ready to lift, you'll already be ready to go.

Like, just do that. Come on. So do you say how, what's the length of time you got to wait now? However long it takes. They don't tell you. They don't give you like a estimate. or anything? Oh, no. Uh-uh. Lain.

Now they say, you know, two or three business days for the DMV check and then another, and we won't start the background check until the DMV check comes back. Great. It's like, geez, Louise, come on. Can you look at my record and see, I'm five stars? Never, not a single ride less than five stars. Yeah, you've done really well that way.

They must have some record of that. They do, obviously. They have a record of all that. And a record of all that. Record Fraggle says you could have robbed a bank in two months, sure. I could have. Sure. But then he wouldn't need to lift, would he?

Yeah, exactly. See? Because he robbed a bank. He got money. He doesn't need lift. I would not need the, I don't need the money. All right. Well, I'm glad you're at least on the road to lifting.

So it's really, you know, it should be a lot of time of like putting stuff up on Etsy and stuff like that. The passive, quote unquote, passive income. Yeah, they always say passive, but what they really mean is other work because it still takes. work. It's not like you're doing that stuff. It's work. I got to clean the, you know, keep the 3D printer clean, clean the things that come off of it, all that stuff. The term passive income, I think, is, um, it's for billionaires who put all their money in investments and then just walk away and then have someone else manage it. TV shows and syndication. Kelsey Grammer has some kick-ass passive income. Oh, you know I learned to make some decent scratch off of very little

is, uh, the soup knots he did an interview. Yeah. Yeah. And he gets 30 grand a year on average. from his Seinfeld bit and then another something amount for his... Yeah, was it two and a half men or something? Some other show that he was on that was a movie. Wasn't it? So I married an axe murder or something? Something like that. Oh, that's right. So I married an ex-merder. Yeah, yeah. So

probably gets a lot less for that because, you know, I don't know how you monetize that, but... Yeah. You know, Seinfeld's on everywhere all the time. So syndication, streaming, everything else. So you probably get a chunk of that. But that, that'd be all right, just to be handed $30,000 a year for nothing, you know? For nothing. Just because you... you told some people no soup for you and next line next line next line please uh all right check

this out i got a follow up on our ufo discussion oh good okay this is uh this is from mink m k is the name he's going by he or she is going by scott and brian i loved your bit on the air force releasing video of ufos but there are two brief things i wanted to mention number one there actually is a way to talk to these people meaning people people that are convinced. Specifically, the UFO, the weather patterns are caused by the UFOs. Yep, those folks. So as interestingly, the science slash research in the past seven-ish years has vastly improved both on what is happening and how to handle it.

The important part is that it's a slow process and doing it the wrong way may make it worse. So you are absolutely right to not engage. I'm not trying to critique you. You rather share the fact that there is hope and everything isn't lost even if it's not easy. Clearly, I can go on for a while, but I find it incredibly helpful and hopeful that with any luck, this babbling is bringing you some optimism. Oh, I'm relatively optimistic. I just think that it takes people a while to get through their shit. And I have no patience for it.

Number two, you were reading a statement from the Director of National Intelligence in your general voice. This made me laugh as the current director is Averill Haynes, a lady, who used to do a book club that included erotic books. Really? That's awesome. So this was naturally brought up in the Senate hearings by people who didn't realize it's not 1990 anymore or the 1990s anymore. And clearly she was appointed so yay. That's awesome. Good. That's pretty great. I love that. If I ever went to, I'm trying to think if I went to Congress hearings for an appointment.

Sure. I've done this a bunch. I try to go back and think of what would screw me on them bringing something up from my pass that would be like a controversial thing and the only it's uh the only thing i think it was out of context tms episodes that's it i don't know what else they would uh no they would go back and say oh look at this mark knoffler's penis okay he's out oh yeah they'd hear my my youtube scare videos scare videos that's it the minute i yelled mark knoffler's penis you've kind of ended your potential political career right there at that moment yep no surgeon general spot for me

however dire straits just called they would like you to open for the They can't use the old F word anymore in their... No, they can't, and nor should they. Money for nothing or whatever, yeah. I heard that the other day on a station, and they did that thing where they don't replace words, but they do like the re-wr-wr-wr-wr-t like that. Oh, really? Okay. So did they like reverse that little chunk of audio, or did they just put like a little...

It's hard to say it sounded like a little... Right when he said the little R-R-R-R-R-R-Hat had his own jet airplane, that whole thing. and then, it was a millionaire. And then I was just at home and I said, hey, A word play, you know, play dire straits. And the song came on and it still has it in that version. Still has the original version. Yeah, yeah. So I assume that's just a radio deal.

Because they're pulling from, right, they're pulling from Spotify or Apple Music, which is going to have the original. But the radio stations are like, nope, we've got to play the redacted version of the song. Yeah, I assume it's FCC stuff or something. some rules yeah i don't know i'm sure but anyway uh that's interesting and also this reminds me this ufo talk i'm i'm uh browsing around the old uh the old uh roku there because i have roku hooked up where i when i'm on the treadmill and uh jumping around to some of these weird channels they got weird built-in channels on there and one of them is called burrow b-urr-r-o-w and it's their logo is a white rabbit jumping into a

hole and I thought what is this what is burrow the streaming service yeah no kidding so I pulled it up it is nonstop and I kid you not nonstop wall to wall excuse me uh conspiracy theories that's all it is the whole thing yeah their whole thing even there uh see if I can find this the the description is it like 30 minute episodes of weird conspiracy theories like welcome to earth is flat weekly uh I'm your host uh well kind of I mean, it's, okay, here it is. Burrow Channel on Firestick. Okay, here we go.

The Burrow Channel will help you uncover the contents that get censored by the mainstream media and big tech companies. Get to know about the conspiracy theories that are mind-wobbing through the Burrow Channel app, and there are many conspiracy theories that are neglected and buried deep down. But you can see them through the Burrow Channel. The things that they don't want you to know about. Yeah. Got to love that. Yeah.

It's pretty great. So, uh, anyway, I didn't watch any of it. I just saw the description and said, yeah, I don't want to, I don't care about that. Yeah. Not for me, thanks. Nope. But put a tube on. They got a bunch of dumb shit for free.

I'll watch that. All right. Well, how would you guys like to hear the first news of the year? Some of this happened in 2022, though, I'll warn you now. Sure. Sure. Because we're, you know. All of it did actually.

Yeah. Is there any of it that is like, rip from today's headlines? I don't think so. I think it's all, let's see. Yeah, these are all these are all 2020-Hugh stories because that's the journalistic standards we have here. Exactly. We're not going to, you know, we're going to say, hey, hope Jeremy Renner and Hamlin, Domar Hamlin, are recover quickly. That's our news for, that's our current news and last year's news. There you go. WinMega says, so the Burrow Channel is just history channel's illegitimate love child. I have bad news for you. They

history channel is its own illegitimate love child. That channel sucks. Sucks! It should be great. It should be nothing but amazing things. The only thing they ever did that was good was drama and it was the

oh my gosh, I can't think of the name of the damn thing. Oh, the Hatfields and McClellan. Yes, that was so good. That was really good. Yeah. You know that shopping mall that you have in your town that used to be really cool and it was where everybody would hang out? and oh, so awesome.

They had all the best stores. And then some stores, big stores, started moving out of there. But they kept them all. And now it's like a bunch of dollar stores anchored by an occasional spirit Halloween. That is the History Channel. You're not wrong.

It started out strong. Yeah. Petered out, man. Like TLC used to have science in it. You know what it is now? These three two-headed midgets live together in the same apartment. It's like, what are you doing? See.

Their words, not mine. all right even though i made it up right and it's easy for me to say that's the kind of like basically reality competition survivor amazing race totally all in that kind of reality show hot flaming garbage yeah i did watch i won't say by accident i had just like random uh pluto on yeah because that'll just jump around and i was doing work getting work done and this uh one of the 600 pound life things comes on speaking of TLC and i was so angry at the okay so there's this there's this one scene where this lady who is about 640 pounds is on her little scooter at the walmart what's that called a rascal yep that's a good thing in the name she's on her is okay too yeah either way

but she's on this rascal and she's moving through the produce department and she passes by some guy and he goes oh get any bigger you're gonna need a bigger cart or something something like that just really rude yeah and she starts to cry and she kind of can't move and all this i wanted to jump through the screen grab that guy's testicles time in a knot punch him three times in the throat and then pee on his dead corpse that's what i wanted to do it made me mad assuming my testicle work killed him i don't know i have no idea how we get to corpse but anyway that guy sucked oh i was so pissed i don't even like that show it's not even the the thing I want to watch necessarily.

I know. Why? He was over there. I couldn't get to it. It was over there and I didn't have the remote. Put on an episode of Survivor with the season that's got Mike White Showrunner for White Lotus and be entertained for an hour watching this guy trying to make it in the wild. Red Fraggle. Wait, that was, it was, sorry, I was wrong. That's your Congress quote. Okay, that one gets me in trouble. Oh, man. I don't know how anyone survives in this country when they got to go sit in front of people. Did they have to just sit and do nothing but like needle point, go to Boy Scouts, and... Pretty much. Yeah, exactly. That's the only way you get through this life, I guess.

Yep. Stupid. If you want a clean, if you want a squeaky, clean image, that's what you got to do, Scott. That's all you can do. I'm in. No, you cannot be on the internet. You've got to stay off. Well, I'm off now. To do the news. It's time for the news brought to you by. Filmzac, where we watch stuff like The Mist, and then we talk about it around a table with four, friends want to be a part of it all check it out weekly where you get podcasts or get film sack at frogpants.com slash film sack yeah that was a fun one and also the mist is great you should watch the mist it is absolutely currently on uh or do we see that Netflix where we see it uh think

that's right yes we watched so much HBO max lately I forgot where the hell we were I'm mad at max it took down all those ancient uh Looney Tunes cartoons they went oh they went through all the money in trouble to remaster them they probably did that for DVD sales as well or for Bluray, but they had them all up there and then took all the old stuff down, took Westworld down, like they're just trying to penny pinch and not pay royalties and all this. Like, what are they doing? Somebody yesterday wrote me and says, it turns out archive.org was the HBO max all the time. Are those going to be put on some sort of like, you know, Warner Brothers Plus? Like a, no, ad supported thing maybe. Yeah. Could be. I hope if they put

them on 2B, that'll be cool because those are easily blocked. I can do that. Yeah. Anyway, are they trying to make people pirate? Why? Why? Why? Why? Yeah. This Discovery Warner Brothers combo and the, and who's the guy, Laslov or whatever his name is? He's bad at this. He needs to step down. Step the F down. You're bad. All right. Here's the story of the morning here. High on life. Can trap players inside an Applebee's forever. Now, if you're not familiar with this video game, high on life. Which I am not. it is currently on a game pass but also for sale everywhere but playstations it's not on any playstation stuff yet probably about a year um it's on pc stuff but anyway uh it's a the game

it's a first person shooter set in an alien world designed by justin royland your dude behind rick and morty and solar opposites and all that so it's full of him obviously he he's a talking gun in this justin roylin is and it's really really funny the game really good. Surprisingly good. Oh, and Leon from Curb, J.B. Smooth or whatever. He's in it. He plays the shotgun, kind of weird, ailing character. Awesome. A whole bunch of people you know are in it. Sarah Silverman's

sister, whose name I always forget. Crap. Anyway, she's in it. It's all very good. Anyway, so the guy that gives you a little background. That's what this game is. Says there is a bug in the recently released comedy shooter high on life that traps players inside of an outer space version of the restaurant Applebee's. High on Life, a Rick and Morty creator, Justin Royland's squash games is a crude, wacky, and over-the-top zany riot of color and sound that either delights or annoys you, depending on your personal tolerance for that, which is wacky and or zany.

I would argue if you're a Rick and Morty fan, you're going to love this. Yeah, no kidding. If you don't like that. It's kind of like you're stuck in the restaurant at the end of the universe, basically. Yeah. Yeah. With riblets. Yeah.

Ribble, well, it's not so bad. I eat that. In a moment which, let's see, I know that is a bug. It feels extremely on brand, though. Players seem to be getting trapped inside the Space Applebee's. How do you know it's a bug? The only way to get past it is to start the game over. So this is a game-breaking bug starting from the checkpoint that does nothing for you. Space Applebee says devoured your game and you cannot have it back.

Anyway, I haven't had this problem. I think I saw this and got through it. So it wasn't a problem for me. But whoever got, you know, if you're getting stuck in there, it's pretty damn funny. I'm sure they'll patch it. So I wouldn't stress too much. But it's a very good game. And it sold extremely well.

Wow. So I think that means we're going to get more Justin Royland video. Oh, no kid. 60 bucks right now. I don't know if there was a discount over the holidays, but that's quite a bit. Yeah. That's a full price, you know, full price game, for sure. Although the new full price is 70.

So I guess this is now, so this is, uh, video games, been like kind of inflation proof for 30 years. Yeah. They were $49 in the 90s and they're $49 today until recently when finally the company started saying, hey, how do you feel about 60 on the low end, 70 on the AAA side? And people said, I don't like that at all. And they still did it. So get used to your new national nightmare.

I'm sure Scott played it on Game Pass because it's going to be free there for sure. Oh, 100%. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, I played on Game Pass. And I played it on both PC and console game pass. It plays great.

It's beautiful games. Unreal Engine. Lovely. And very dirty, very sweary. So if you're, you got little kids in the room, perhaps do not play that game. That's my recommendation there. Nice. Let's talk about Tesla.

Sure. This may have happened in this year, did it? Let's see. I don't know. I'm not sure. I don't know. But it's funny because we even have a letter later on in the show about Tesla. We do indeed.

Tesla autopilot leads police chase after the, or leads to a police chase after the drive. driver fell asleep. Police in Germany. That's over there in Germany. Germany? Yeah.

Say that they had quite the time attempting to pull over a Tesla driver who had fallen asleep behind the wheel. Bamberg traffic officers. Bamberg. I'm like this. Bamberg. They tailed the electric vehicle

for almost 15 minutes on Wednesday while the country's Autobahn or on the country's Autobahn, the A70. You ever been on that? I've not. I've never been to Germany. I want to go there.

But I've listened to a lot of craft work, if that, if that helps. Yeah. And I've got, I mean, I've got a, I've heard do Haast Mesh many times. Uh-huh, sure. So I feel like I've been there. So there you go. There's a, there's your equivalent. Yeah, I may as well have lived in Germany for half my life.

After signaling, signaling for a traffic stop with repeated horns and sirens, according to a release from the Poletsi Bairn, Bayerne, or the, Polizai, Polizai, Bayeerne. The Bavarian police is what that stands for. The Tesla vehicle notably or noticeably maintain a speed of 110 kilometers per hour, which is about 68 miles per hour. It's not that fast, but fast enough. Pretty fast when you're asleep. Yeah, I agree. They found the Tesla driver was reclined in the seat, his eyes closed, and his hands off the steering wheel.

This strengthened the suspicion that he had left the controls to the autopilot and had fallen asleep. A 45-year-old driver of the Tesla eventually woke up and followed police instructions. police noted the man showed typical or showed sorry drug typical abnormalities during the checkup the checkup that's interesting yeah how do we say that we don't say the checkup we say no we would call it a um a toxicity report or like uh you know the uh i don't know like a like what's a word the arrest like you know i mean that's all done as part of the arrest like uh yeah what do you call that procedures uh uh breathalizer uh During the checkup.

See, that's what you do when you go to your doctor or the dentist. Right, exactly. Oh, time for a checkup. Oh, you've got some drug abnormalities. Oh, okay. So won't drive a car then, thanks. You have drug typical abnormalities? Yeah, field sobriety test, but yeah, yes.

I don't know what they do over there. They just say nine and kick out. Or would this be once they got him back to the station? Woke them up and got them back to the station. Yeah, they don't say. They added this, though. They found a steering wheel weight in the vehicle's footwell. Such a device is used to tricks Tesla's safety systems into thinking the driver's hands are on the wheel so that the autopilot remains active.

Because the new rules are, and they've had this in place for a while, the Tesla's won't do autopilot unless you're holding onto the wheel. Right. So people have made a cheaty way of doing it by trick. Just like a little, it's just like a, you know, a block of cheese on a string basically. and that'll fool the Tesla to think in your hands are on the wheel. Yeah, apparently it works. I don't know if they're going to have to force Tesla to change that or I don't know. You know, make it like my treadmill's got the little metal bars where you put your hands

every once in a while when you want it to check your pulse and stuff. Oh, yeah. Have it like that to where it's not just weight-based, where it's actually like, we have to sense a heartbeat in order for it to, like, you know. Yeah, and then how would you get around that? You could, you'd have to strap an animal to it or. Right. Hamsters and duct tape, I guess, is how you get past that.

And then they would just say, boy, your heart rate's a little high. You sure you're okay? That's really high. Wow. And it's weird. It's like your right hand is going really fast and your left hand is stopped completely. It's funny you bring this up because it reminded me yesterday of how weird dog heartbeats are. I was laying with Rainer.

She was right up next to my head. And her heartbeat is normal most of the time. I'm like, but if she hears something, she'll perk up and look around, and her heart stops. And so it'll be like, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do. It's really erratic, yeah. It's freaky, dude.

I don't know if that's all dogs or if it's a certain breeds or something, but my dog, weird, weird. Yeah, Daisy's heartbeat used to be, so, you know, it would never go rhythmic like you'd expect, like you'd expect it to go kind of like you're describing with Rainer. It was like, do-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-. Yeah. Is that weird?

She would, I think she, she would get anxious initially when you cuddled with her. Because she, she didn't get, she didn't come from a loving home litter, a lot of puppies and a loving home. She went basically right from birth into the system, right, from being a puppy into the, into the, uh, into the New Mexico, dumb friends league and then got brought up to Denver where we got her. That's sad. Yeah, she... But you gave her a good home? We gave her a nice home for a long time.

We gave her a great home. Absolutely. That's the way... That's why rescues are awesome. Yes, for sure. Rainer was really antsy when we got her, but now she loves a good cuddle, which is weird because she's wiry and jumpy and all that, but when she wants to get with you, she'd be like all wrapped around your head, and then her heart is all erratic. And if that was what my heart was doing, I'd think I'd think I'd think.

guy was going to die or something. I don't know how dogs do it. Anyway. God. Yeah, we've been talking like, we're definitely not planning on getting another dog. We want another dog, but it's like, you know what, with travel and stuff like that, we want to do another international trip at some point this year. It's like, uh, let's wait until we're, we're more settled and we don't have the, the wander lust, and then we'll, then we'll get a dog again. Yeah. That's easy. Big bowl of food, big bowl of water. See you in a week. See you later, buddy. Don't eat anything or knocked shit over we'll be back exactly yeah they're pretty easy uh carter's cat's been here the whole two months she's been gone and we never even see him he's just living here you know

he's just crashed here just live in the independent it's like a it's like the roommate that has a different different work schedule or something right is that basically basically he's got his litter box we clean that out once a couple every couple days or whatever the yeah the food's a big unending bowl of food. When's Carter back? She gets home midnight on Wednesday. Oh, well. So Kim and I are driving out to the airport.

Thankfully, by then, all the snow is supposed to have stopped and we'll have clear roads, so that'll be good. I don't know about her trip out, though. Iceland's getting hit by something today, so. Oh, really? Okay. Yeah, I feel a little bad because that's just a gnarly day of travel, 15-hour flights and a bunch of running around and stop over.

She has to be in Seattle for a bit, and then three, four hours in Seattle. and then we'll see her at midnight, so, which is funny because she'll be wide away. It could be mourning for her at midnight. Kim and I all be dead. Right, right, the time change and stuff. Like her drive. All right, here's the story. Eight hours ahead?

Is that the deal? I think so. So when it's, uh, is she in the chat today? I was trying to see if she's in there. She's not in there today. Probably that makes sense because she's running around like crazy today. But she, uh, she's, I want to say eight is right. Could be seven.

Might be eight. but yeah I'm excited to get her home it'll be good I'm sure you are yeah her dog's gonna lose it she figures her cat's gonna be indifferent it's like uh you're back oh you're back right uh how about you tell these dogs to leave me alone that's what the cat'll say uh here's some story about some big butts all right sure oh i like big butts i can't lie about that oh you have to be truthful about the big butts you like i do yes yeah and and you know my other siblings might try to disqualify this, but I'll say that I like the big butts. Oh, okay, great.

You almost could make, that's almost sing-song. You can almost turn that into something. You know, I could workshop that into a song probably. Yeah, I think that's possible. Well, big butt ants, these not your aunt like your Aunt Martha. This is big butt, but ants like the bugs are a South American delicacy. And I'd never heard of these, but I'm going to share a photo here that you're all going to be real glad I shared.

Okay. I'm going to click the, oh, really? Wow. You want to, those are big bottoms. Those are.

God, talk about mud flaps. Those ants got them. Yeah, big time. And my question to you is, if somebody sent us, you know,

a bag of these or whatever, would we eat these? I don't, I don't think I can. I don't think I can. Oh, really? No. I've eaten,

yeah, I've had bugs before. I would probably, I'd eat one. Sure. I feel like I, what would it take for me? It would take a lot of

slap you mama sauce on there or slap you mama salt or whatever that is. Well, when they're freeze dried or however we got the crickets, I don't know what those were. Were they freeze dried? Whatever they are. The freeze dried crickets, yeah.

I might be able to pull that off. Maybe. It really, they've got to just be seasoned to the point where I can convince myself that it's a bag of broken fritos, basically. okay well how so let's get back to thick and liquid for a second how do you get what do you have to do in your head to make thick and liquid good again great again um all right you know what i could probably do thick and liquid if it's like if it's thickened chocolate milk and it's just basically a milkshake It has to be ice cold and, you know, maybe even ice cream texture. Just basically, it has to be a milkshake.

That's the thick and liquid I'm into right there. You know what? I agree with you. That is the kind I like as well. I like eggnog too. I didn't have any. You know what? I had no eggnog this season.

Me neither. You usually get a amazingly enough. One of the dairies has like a light eggnog, which, It just blows my mind that they could come up with such a dumb thing. Is it good? How is it possible? It is good, but I didn't have any of it this year, and I really kind of miss it, actually. Is it light on fat, or is it light on sugar?

Is it light on both? It's supposed to be light on both, light on fat and sugar. Eggnog zero, basically. I don't know how they do it, but. I don't either. If they could make a no-calorie eggnog, I'd drink that. Yeah, I'm sure it's like, like, it's normally 300% of, your recommended daily allowance of fat and sugar.

We've gotten it down to 200% of your recommended daily allowance. Yeah, may as well microwave butter and drink it. It's better for me. Anyway, well, I don't know if I'd eat these, but apparently this is a big deal right now, a real delicacy in South America. If you go down to Columbia specifically, they are intentionally in harvesting,

cooking these giant butt ants for consumption since the 7th century, so they know what's up. They also use it in medicinal things, spiritual things, culinary purposes. I guess it's just where you live. You know, we do to chickens what they do to ants. It's fine, you know? Yeah. Who are we to judge?

I can tell you I'm not going to eat it, but I can tell you I won't judge. All right? I just can't do it. They look too juicy, my point. They look like those butts look like they're full of something juicy. Oh, really to me, it looks like as soon as you pop them in your mouth, they're just going to go crunch, pop. And they're kind of little empty, empty carapuses of no flavor, no nothing. That's why, that's why you really just want the, the second your imagination kicks in and realizes, they're not realizes, but says to yourself, that bulbous thing is full of some kind of yellowish white puss.

Oh, no. No, then I might be done. Like a, like caterpillar goo. Dude, I couldn't do it. Because even if it's dry in there and even if I saw you eat one, you said, oh, they're totally empty. there. I don't still think I would struggle. I don't think I could do it. Speaking of struggling, I got to make a recommendation

and a warning. Sure. I went to a place called the Crack Shack. Oh, yeah, you've talked about this place before, yeah. We've never eaten there. We've tried to go there, but we couldn't eat there before. Yeah. I thought you'd mention it. We may have mentioned it because we tried to get in line once and it took forever, and we had to leave

because it just took too long. There's the Crab Shack. That's different. But the Crackjackjack is a chicken place where they make big massive chicken things sandwiches and salads and just like it's all about big crazy chicken concoctions and they're all

real funny in there lots of little comedy posters about chickens and stuff in there they recreate movie posters with chickens it's a weird thing anyway nice place nice people it's fine we got in yesterday because hardly anyone was there because the weather and it was close enough Kim and I could drive and not worry about it

so we went in there sure and I got the biggest gnarliest chicken sandwich I've ever seen. This thing was huge. It better have been for $12. It was just a big sandwich. Anyway, so I get this big monster sandwich, and I made the mistake, here's the mistake. I made the mistake of buying

their spicy chicken sandwich, because I normally like a spicy chicken. Sure, like the Popeyes or whatever. Sure. Usually no problem, no big deal. This thing is, I mean, the chicken is red. Whatever the stuff is on it, is red. So it's like true Nashville hot chicken.

Yes. It's very hot. And while I was eating it, it was very good, mind you. The going down, great. No problem. Everything's good. Last night, about 9 o'clock, let's just say the dragon came out. You experienced it in reverse. Yeah, and it was bad.

So maybe don't get that one, but I would recommend the crackjackets. And the lady was cool. She goes, what do you guys want to drink? I said, I'm just going to get water. She goes, sure, you can have this watercups. And look, because it's snowing and there's hardly one in here today, I absolutely don't mind if you use that water cup to get a Coke Zero or something out of the thing. Oh, really hilarious.

They never say that. So I'm like, sweet, I'm doing it. And then I still felt guilty doing it, but I did it. Yeah, I'd still feel guilty. Yeah, I still did. It just felt wrong. That's crazy that they would say that. I know.

I know. I don't know if she just really liked us. We only talked to her for about 30 seconds before she offered that. So I don't know. You know, maybe she knew that the sweetness of the Coke Zero would help calm down the fire that was going to be brewing inside you from eating that. Yeah. She did look at me. Her eyes widened when I said, y'all have the hot, whatever the name was.

And she kept in her eyes went, oh, okay. Anything to drink? What's your usual number go-to at Cupop? I like, was it three, maybe four? Spicy, but not killing me. You know? I don't know why I thought you were a five, so I did a five last time. And I was like, oh, this is hot, but damn, it's good.

I actually don't mind the hot, but I always, you know, again, I don't want to have a problem. You experience it on the other side. Yeah, my body's like, hey, all that all that capsaicin, we're going to send that down to the boys in the basement. Andy Dufrein may get into that pipe all nice and clean, but he came out dirty on the other side.

You know what's happening on the other side. That's right. Here's a fun story. This seems like something you might try. I don't know why. It just seemed like an abid thing. I'll tell you why I wouldn't after we hit to the story. Okay, good. A man ate 15 Michelin-starred restaurants in 24 hours.

No, 15, Scott. I'm sorry, 18. My eyes are blurry. 18. Not even 15. 18. New York foodie broke the Guinness World Record by dining at 18, Michelin-starred restaurants in 24 hours.

Eric Finkelstein, age 34, said his interest in dining out spiked when he moved back to New York City in 2021. And a Discord group he joined about city restaurants brought his attention to the Guinness World Record from most Michelin-starred restaurants visited in a 24-hour period. I love the idea. Yeah, Finkelstein told the Guinness Book of World Records. It combined my loves of eating, interesting foods, working towards a checklist, and working towards something silly.

Finkelstein said he attempted, or what he attempted, took months of planning and worked, sorry, and working to align reservations at some of the more in-demand eateries. The food fan shared his attempt at Le Pavilion in Midtown and ended at sushi bar in Noda. He said he spent a total of $494.94 bucks on food. that bad. That isn't bad at all. That's surprising. Very surprising. I'm surprised by that too. He estimated the attempt caused him to consume about 5,000 calories in that one day. He's a slim dude. I think he'll be fine. He'll recover. If he ran from each run away as fast as you can. Exactly. He says he's a former competitive table tennis

player. He previously set the Guinness World Record for longest table tennis serve, which was 51 feet one inch and largest table tennis ball, mosaic, 313 square feet, six square inches. Jeez, that's, that's thick, I guess, six inches thick. Anyway, so tell me why you couldn't do this, because it just feels ibid to me. Yeah, I wouldn't do it because I wouldn't, it would basically not allow me to enjoy any of those meals. because I'd be too worried about the speed, about getting from one to the next, and be like, all right, how quickly can I consume this so that I can make sure I get 18 restaurants in 24 hours? Give me, I'll take three Michelin Star restaurants over a weekend, fine with that.

Got it. I had to look up, because I don't know if I've been to any in Denver, but I have been to Picasso, LaSerk, LaTellier in Joel Rubichon, and all the Vegas ones that I've been to that are Michelin Star restaurants. I'm just looking to see. I haven't been to Nobu. Oh, no, I have been to Nobu. Was it good? So maybe four, it was good. Yeah, I hear that one.

So I've been to four Michelin Star restaurants in Vegas. I don't know if I've been to any in Denver. But, yeah, yeah, I had a fantastic meal at every single one of those. Well, and so, yeah, and your goal was never to break any records. So that's the key here. wants to break a record. Doesn't it seem like people who break, who get into the Guinness Book of World records, kind of get addicted to it, and then all of a sudden start coming up with other records they can break?

Yep, I think so. Well, we'll look at him with his ping pong business and then... Yeah, that's what I'm saying. It's like people, you know, just can't eat just one, basically. Yeah, break one record, be happy with it, you know? Right, right. That's my recommendation. The other thing I wanted to say about this is the Michelin's...

Star System. When I heard about that for the first time, I went, ooh, fancy. It's funny. It shares the name with Michelin, the tires. And then someone said, Scott, it is that company. It is that company. We talked about this on the show. Have we talked about this? Yeah. It's so weird. Isn't that weird? It's still weird to me. Yeah, just from the travel aspect of it, right? Like Michelin. Yeah, and it was at a time where Michelin, their whole thing was, ah, cross country and the beautiful, Michelin tire-based Chevy Cruiser deal. Don't worry, mom, you'll never need to cook again as you drive. Like, there was that whole era. And so I know it sprung out of all of that idea of cross-country travel and all this. But to have it become this highfalutin star rating. Like instead of, you know, better than average tires to be associated with the best restaurants in the world. Yeah. Imagine if Big O, it was like, oh, their Big O rating is a four-star.

Our big little restaurant. Like, what are you talking about? Well, I don't have any Michelin stars, but I've got Bridgestone thumbs-ups. My restaurant has three Bridgestone thumbs-ups. See, that's just weird to me. It's just weird. Ah, their Home Depot rated four stars. Anyway, we're going to take a break when we come back.

It's some time with Bill Duran. You may know him from such shows as Punished Props and Punished Props. That'll be a little bit later. No, Bobby today's flying. He's on a plane. Oh, he's in a plane right now? Yeah, that's cool. He's holding the yoke, as they call it. Nice. Nice.

He likes his over-easy, I guess. Anyway. But anyway, that's coming up next. We've got some other emails and other stuff as well, so stick around after this song selection from the vast library of Brian Ibitt. Yeah, we're going to delve into the music of Beauty Pill. Now, Beauty Pill is, I believe, the work of predominantly one guy, Chad Clark. um who just uh just released a compilation a double lp anthology of the band's complete recordings this all comes out i'm sorry this all comes out january 20th 2023 uh courtesy of ernest jenning record

company and big thanks to a clarin column media for letting me know about this so this is an older song this is something from 2015 but damn it's good and it's infectious and i encourage you to check out all the rest of it. Here is Beauty Pill from the album. Beauty Pill describes things as they are with a song called Stephen and Tawanga. Slide the Bureau against the door Bises 30 seconds or so Leave the locket on the nightstand Then out the window

A quick scurry down the fire escape Then I go left and you go right There is no time For goodbye tonight We have to let go Be brave and let go go State says

State says let go I I grab the lock slide the bureau against the door buys us 30 seconds or so I grab the locket because I love it

Then I out the window A quick scurry down the fire escape Then I go right and you go right This is no time For goodbye tonight We have to let's go Be brave and let's go I love you, let's go

I love you, let's go. I say let's go we have to, let's go be brave and let's go I love you, let's go. I say let's come slide the door slide the bureau

slide the bureau against the door slide the bureau against the door Slide a bureau against the door Slide a bureau against the door. Sly per bureau against the door. Slide a bureau against the door. against the door Cyber Bureau against the door

The unknown I'm going to see the view tomorrow The unknown company doing unknown things The morning stream What I saw was not a cat is that again. That's Beauty Pill and a song called Stephen and Tawanga from the one of their albums. Beauty Pill describes things as they are. Make sure to go check out the, uh, the blue period double LP anthology of the band's complete recordings coming out January 20th. So Stephen Tawanga when the walls fell. I remember that. That's right. Exactly. With his arms wide open.

I arms wide open. Bobby let us know in chat that he's driving home right now. Oh, is he going to be back? From the airport. So he'll be home at half past if we can, if we, uh, if we're ready to pull him in. Uh, yeah, we could probably do that. Let me make sure my call isn't going to bump into any issues if we go along today. I don't think so. Okay. Yeah. Well, Bobby, uh, it's a, it's a maybe. We'll, we'll see when you get there. We'll keep you posted. Don't drive. Don't drive crazy. Yeah. Be safe, Bobby. Always. Safe. Safe. All right. Uh, punish props.com. That's what we're doing. We're getting the old Bill back in here after a bit of a holiday. Let's see how he's doing. Your bat caves open there, Bill.

Bill Duran joining us all the way from Punished Props.com and the beautiful northwest of this country. Hello, Bill. Welcome back. Hello, good morning. Good morning. How are you? How was your New Year's holiday? Pretty good.

We had a really lazy week, played a lot of satisfactory, watched a lot of the X-Men 90s cartoon. It's a little-ner, nern, that's great. You know it. What does Disney Plus come out with their X-Men 97 animated series? That could be this year at some point? Yeah, pretty soon, which was, I didn't even know that was coming out until we started watching the cartoon again. Oh, really? Okay.

Yeah, so, like, we're going to finish this cartoon right when the new one comes out, which is kind of perfect. That's awesome. Let's see. Is there a date, 2023 for sure? It looks like release date, fall 2023. Brilliant. The second season already confirmed. All right.

I'm in. I'm all in on that. That sounds great. Oh, Jennifer Hales on that. I like her a lot. A voice actress extraordinaire. Anyway, Bill, it's good to have you here since you've been so busy building fake worlds and satisfactory. What have you been spending your time in the real maker world making? I've been taking photos of a hummingbirds. Cool. Yeah. I posted a video the other day of a hummingbird. I was sitting.

under the feeder out on our porch and the hummingbird was flying over my head. And I got slow-mo video with my phone, which was pretty cool, pretty thrilling. That is cool. Flying over my head. Yeah, I keep forgetting about your bird thing. You love the birds. Mm-hmm. Yeah. I do. You're not part of the cabal that knows that birds aren't real and that they're really mini drones, right? Oh my gosh. I've got captured a photographic evidence that we suggest that birds are not real.

Okay, well, good. Keep out of it, though. I think we can get there. Yeah. Um, I was just going to your, I was going to go to your Twitter to your Twitter to see the video you posted. And I went to, because I was talking about birds, I went to Twitter.com slash chinbird. And, uh, good news. Chinbird has been suspended for whatever he did. Oh, he probably upset Elon. The good news would have been as if chin bird was available.

Yeah, that would have been, that would have been awesome. Um, okay, here we go. Let me just going to see. I just want to see your bird here. This is where you put it, right? You put it up here. Oh, yeah. Probably in the last week or two.

Oh, look at that. Yeah, this is great. Birds. yeah so i've been taking pictures we got this one hummingbird that hangs out in the tree and kind of guards the feeder and scares the other hummingbirds away which is kind of cute that guy that guy right so like an alpha little alpha like an alpha hummingbird like all the hummingbird spirit that's pretty cool oh and there you are playing satisfactory oh yeah oh dude that's great uh well awesome i'm glad to hear that i'm one day you'll be the most

you'll be the foremost uh bird videographer of all time yeah yeah look at my twitter Feet is everything I just talked about. Birds and X-Men. Oh, yeah, and a bunch of you've been playing Snap, it looks like. A lot of snap. A lot of snap. Snap, birds and X-Men. Yeah, nothing wrong. So I've been taking how we've got photos.

They did just make their announcement today about the PV, like, play against friends coming out this month. So. You're ready to throw down, Brian? I'm ready. I am ready for a little frog pants tournament coming home. Oh, I like that. Count me in. Yeah.

That sounds like fun. That's this month? When? Do you know? Yeah. Update coming this month. Nice. All right.

So anyway, one of the things I love seeing every year, happy new year, by the way. Happy new year. Every year there are, there are wildlife, Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards. I'll put the link in the old chat there. There's a website. There's several websites to do this,

but I found this one here. It seemed to do a pretty good job every year. I love these. Yeah. So it's Comedy Wildlifephoto.com. People, you can submit your own photos. And also, I think it's kind of cool. I think they do 10% of their net profits go to conservation, which is really cool, too.

Oh, like this. But what I love about this is these are professional wildlife photographers. These guys spend so much time trying to take really perfect photos of animals. And every once in a while, they capture a photo of some animals that are just ridiculous or silly. And this is where they share them. And they're really good. We went through all these. We were in Vermont laughing with my parents.

And the raccoon, the raccoon that's like a, hi. Yeah. Hi. Hi. Hello. Yeah. All these are great. Yeah.

So, so good. It's a great way to find new photographers you might want to follow. Because like I said, all these people are, you don't get photos like this by accident. These people are trying to get really good photos of animals. And this is what they got. Yeah. Wait, where'd this penguin's head? I guess they do bend real easy and go all the way around the back.

Yeah, it's like the fish going into the bear's ear. You look closely, it's like, okay, it's not quite going into the bear's ear, but man, it's, it looks like it. These are fantastic. Oh, they have last years, too. They've been doing this for very long, a couple years at least. For a while, yeah. It was poor monkey. Aw.

Racked his noodle. Yeah. Oh, boy. Anyway, that's cool. Do you ever, you have anything funny your bird did you could send in? You should do that. No, not yet. So here's the thing.

Animal photography is very hard. You do a lot of waiting for animals. And you also take tons and tons of photos. I've taken thousands and thousands of photos of animals. And I posted like eight of them because most of them are just no good. So they get lots and lots of photos. And eventually, if you take enough, you'll get something like this. I've never got something that wild or fun or funny yet.

And I think that's just a factor of I haven't taken enough photos. I haven't spent enough time. around animals and they literally are just when they're from what i've seen and i've seen some documentary footage of wildlife photography it's just constant like they're just millions of shots once the animal gets out of the water and starts doing it shit oh yeah take every possible picture you can take right right like my camera will do here actually i can do this right i have it right here this is this is awesome it sounds like a machine gun when you uh when you take a photo with the high rate mode

let's see so just take a moment we'll do this this is how fast my camera could shoot ready yeah go I just took about 15 photos oh wow geez geez so that's what they're doing that's what sports photographers do that's what animals photographers do that when the animal does something

interesting they just go like a machine gun and they take dozens of photos and then I'll sort through those later did you let me ask you this did you just did you just now take a picture of your feet or was the cap on I took a picture out the window. Well, I took like 15 of them out the window. Probably not even in focus.

Nice work. Yeah. Nice work. I'll post that on photo. Yeah, that's actually completely black. There's nothing to see. Oh, great. No winners in this pack.

That's all right. No. But yeah, that's what they do. They take like dozens and dozens of photos at a time. And eventually you might capture something wackier, weird. Like this Mirkat that looks like it's strangling another. mere cat from buying. Yeah. Oh, yes, right? And the front mirror cat's going, ah! Yeah, Agent 47 there taking him out. Right. There's like a little field mouse looking thing and then a fox or something

looking at it. This is from 2021, I think, or maybe before. I worry that some of these are, it's like, oh, how cute. These two animals have met, but it feels like it's the moment before the mouse died. Yeah, totally. Yeah. The photos they took just after that one were a lot less wholesome. there's some kind of oh my gosh this fish looks like something out of Pixar anyway these are great what a fantastic thing and this turtle flipping me off is pissing me off I'm not going to look at him he looks all mad it's so good what I love about the photos like this is that it was not what the photographer was trying to get it was completely unexpected and and the series of events that led to that photograph were completely unique and impossible to replicate and I think that actually

leads to some really unique photography. It's pretty cool. Very, very cool. All right. Well, yeah, definitely check this out, you guys. Again, that is Comedy Wildlife Photo.com. And you can see the gallery, all the winners, what their conservation efforts are like.

Looks like a bunch of other cool stuff. It's a good thing. It's becoming a yearly tradition for me to check the stuff out over here. It's pretty awesome. For sure. Quality recommendation. Yeah. Anything else, Bill, you want to share with us? Yeah, so I have a specific photographer to share with you.

This is just as Instagram. goes by Julian Rad Wildlife. And, like, I don't even know how he gets these photos. They're just bananas. Oh, wow. He spent a lot of time, I think, in his yard. But these really low depth of field, really close shots of, like, these funky squirrels. And I think some of these animals are his pets, maybe not the squirrels.

Like punk rock squirrels. He's really good at capturing the, I'm flying towards you with a nut in my mouth. Yeah, yeah. And you better believe he's taken just thousands. and any action shots where the camera or the animal was moving. Just take tons and tons of photos. Man, the digital world has been kind of photographers, not only quality, but just the sheer amount of quantity you can do to get the right one.

Yeah. Yeah, what a jump that is from what it used to be. Like with my camera right now, taking those shots would have been almost an entire role of film, like what I just did now. Right. Of course. Throw that other one away. They're underexposed.

And prior to that, it was one shot with a bunch of friends. browny people in the 1800 trying to hold still. Like, it's just amazing where this stuff is now. It's incredible. Wow, this guy's good. Geez. Yeah. Yeah, yet another, the squirrel flying towards you about three quarters of the way down

his page is great as well as the one carrying what looks like an apple. Holy cow, that's awesome. Yeah, that's really good. Scampering towards you. Kind of blown away by this dude. I'm going to follow him right now. Here we go. Follow.

He's doing good. The 218,000 followers, not bad. Yeah. Yeah. Well, all right then, Bill, always a pleasure. I hope 2023 is just full of amazing stuff for you and that you share 90% of it when you come on and talk about it. That sounds about right.

Sounds good to me. 2022 was pretty great. Let's hope for more of the same. That's what I said. Hey, Bill, before you go, do you see the most recent Mark Roberer deluxe glitter bomb thing? Oh, yes, of course. That's what a thing that is, right? What a thing?

An engineering masterpiece? Mark, Litter thing? What is it? What are you guys talking about? Tell me. So the new, so the Mark Rober is the guy who every year does the glitter bomb that, you know,

disguises it as a package on somebody's doorstep. Oh, the porch pirate guy. Yeah. Yep. And then as soon as somebody grabs it, it like dumps glitter all over the place, fart spray, captures the whole thing on camera.

He did a brand new one that is a, like the size of an Oculus 2. Yeah. And like, it has little, little, doors that open and launches drones into your house.

Drones that fly around and dump glitter and then fly away from you if they sense that you're going to try to avoid you. It's gotten to this sci-fi level. That's kind of amazing. He claims on let's see, interview on where is this, Boing Boing, he claims

this is the last one he's ever doing. So you wanted Yeah, I think it's probably a little played out. Yeah. And he's you know, his new deal of like finding and exposing skin. phone centers. Hey, that's fine. Move to that path.

Right, right. Oh, my gosh. You guys weren't kidding. Yeah. Holy smack. I love the little drones with the little baggies of glitter flying around everywhere. Oh, my gosh. That's amazing.

Well, if you're going to stop doing it, that's the way to do it. Yeah, and it's big. And it's as big as you can. All right, that's awesome. Builderan, everybody. He is Punish Props.com, and of course, the Punish Props. the YouTube channel. Check out his latest and greatest over there.

Bill, we'll see you next week for a whole new episode. Have a good way. All right. Let's see you, Bill. Bye now. Okay. All right. Doing a quick check on the Bobby here. See what we got.

Bobby's situation. Yeah, nothing yet. Nothing yet. Yeah. In the meantime, we're going to read a couple emails, and then we'll see if Bobby comes. How about this one? Okay.

I don't know why that says email. I should say shows. It's flipped. Flip those, yeah. Yeah, I flipped them. But anyway, here's the email. From Lee, this is from Lee. He sent this in at, what is it?

The Morningstream at gmail.com. There's a the in there. So the morning stream at gmail.com. Lee says, hey, guys, I got an email a few minutes ago, or as he wrote, minuettes ago. Minuettes ago. About the full self-driving in Tesla. As Brian mentioned earlier, we have a Tesla email. He says, I wanted to add one thing.

I've heard Brian talk about test driving one. Do it. You will never have more fun driving a car. and it will save you a lot of money in the lifetime of the car. A Model 3 can actually cost about the same as a Civic in the long run, assuming you drive it for three to five years. You will pay more up front, but you will save over time. The hard part is the paying more up front part.

That's how they get you. Yeah, that's how they get you. People always talk about not having to pay for gas, but that's just the beginning. There's no oil or filter changes, spark plugs, radiator flushing, or flushing, fluid or flushing, rather. Belts to replace, tune-ups. It goes on and on. I have had mine for four years and all I have done is rotate tires

and one flat repair. That in wiper blades is really about all you have to do. Depends on where you live, you might have to do some extra stuff in the snow and the salt and all that. The only fluid you have to worry about is windshield wash fluid.

Anyway, I'm done. I'll ask Tesla for my money now. Love the show. So we got a Tesla lover that wants you to get on the electric car bandwagon there, Brian. My dad has Tesla. So when we went out there,

you know, he did all the drive. driving for us all around Vermont. And, yeah, it is, it's such a great ride, so smooth. I didn't say, hey, can I, can I, you mind if I drive it a little bit? Because I don't want the pressure of driving my dad's Tesla and something going wrong. How did it do in the snow, assuming it did some snow? Seemed to do just fine. It, uh, I don't know what the weight, um, you know, we had, we were the, the, when we were

driving it, it was the light snow of the blizzard coming in. We didn't do any driving on the day the big blizzard came in. But we did drive that night, and it handled just fine. Yeah. Well, I mean, I've always been dead serious about my next car being an electric, but I don't know what. I don't know if it'll be Tesla. It'll probably not be. It may end up being something like, I don't know, like Kim really wants that truck, that Rivian.

Oh, sure. Yeah, I'm looking at the Volkswagen ID4 and the Hyundai Ionic. Yeah, those are good. Those are the two that consumer ports really, really pushed. I liked the leaf for a while. That was cool. Yeah. I never liked the name.

It was a little bit lame for a name. It's a leaf. Check out my leaf on the wind. Yeah. Anyway, yeah, EV next. That's the deal. I ain't putting no more gas in no car. You're kidding?

If you're kidding me? What is this? 20 or is this, 1985? Come on. I'm done with you, gas. I'm all about the electricity, which doesn't take any energy to create. It just grows on trees.

That's right. It magically just shows up. It just comes out of the wall. You don't have to pay for it. We don't know where it's made. It's fine. There aren't giant coal plants that generate electricity and then foul up the air. We know that.

We know. We know everybody is like, you think that electricity's free while then you get your blinders on. Yeah, you got to take off those blinders, you see? uh all right let's see uh let's do another check on bobby here let's see nothing yet nothing yet from bobby uh bobby it looks like you're out buddy yeah we'll get you next time yeah we'll get you next time don't worry about it our science phil will come later that's just how it'll be

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Tobias wrote in and said anytime in January to ring in a new year and make sure that Brian gets to see this one oh I'm so glad you did this is Tommy Johansson maybe it's pronounced Johansson he is a power metal guitarist on YouTube kind of like Leo

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