The Morning Stream - TMS 2407: Let's go Cantaloupe!

Episode Date: January 17, 2023

I Like Tiny Pasta and I Cannot Lie. And It Comes With a Free Raspberry. vomit: the Ctrl-alt-del of the stomach. With His Mouth, Not With His Butt. Post Holdings Cereal. The Study of Meat Texture - Zombie Edition. Facing Shingles Head On. No Decisions, No Pasta and No Lt Yar. As god is my witness i thought Jamie Lynn Spears could fly. Spin the Cowboy guts in Vegas. Wrist Butts. The Critics Agree - Rut Roh. Bay shot the movie but he didn't kill the Pi-ge-on. Lightning Strikes Twice with Bobby. All Sorts of Detritus 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 like tiny pasta, and I cannot lie. And it comes with a free raspberry. Vomit, the control-alt delete of the stomach. With his mouth, not with his butt. Post-holding cereal. The study of meat texture. Zombie addition. Facing shingles, head-on.

No decisions, no pasta, and no Lieutenant Yard! As God is my witness, I thought Jamie Lynn Spears could fly. Spin the cowboy guts in Vegas. Wrist butts. The critics agree. Rutt-roll. They shot the movie. But he didn't kill the piss.

Lightning Strikes Twice with Bobby. All sorts of detritus with Bill and more on this episode of The Morning Stream. There's such a fine line between a good man and a bad. David Hasselhoff on Broadway in Jekyll and Hyde. This is no day at the beach. Somebody pooped on my couch and my blanket. The morning stream. Maybe it's Ransom. Good morning, everyone. Welcome to TMS. It is Tuesday, January 17th, 2022. I'm Scott Johnson. That's Brian Abbott. Good morning, Brian Abbott.

Good morning, Scott. Hey, man. Real quick note here. Yeah. We, oh, thanks, honey. My wife brought me a hot beverage. This just in, Scott, a hot beverage. Thank you very much. I'll be going in me shortly. But we skipped the show yesterday for MLK Day, the Martin Luther King Jr. day.

And that was great. I also took a little time to think about Martin Luther, just for no reason. I went and looked up some history about him. You know what? Martin Luther King Jr. So not just Martin Luther King, but you looked up Martin Luther as well? Yeah, I went to his namesake and just dug her. around. I have to admit, I didn't know a ton

about how Protestantism started or why he rebelled or why he was almost killed four or five times for his chaotic anti-Catholic beliefs, but or was a King of England, I can't remember which thing he was rebelling against, but it was fascinating. It was interesting.

So I recommend it. You want to go back in time? Go check it out. That guy's cool. I know very little about Martin Luther, so I will do that. I will have to do that. Or I'll just wait for the Netflix mini-series. Nice. There you have it. That's coming soon, I'm sure.

Check this out. Where did I put it? Oh, I don't have it. Well, I'll do the digital version. Hey, you guys, check it out. Vegas is coming. Did you know? In April, we're doing TMS Vegas. You knew that. I know that. Brian knows that. But did you know that? The good news is you can get tickets now. We put them up. So if you want to get a hold of either swag only, let's say you can't come to Vegas, but you want whatever cool swag we give you, there's an option for that. Or there's a full ticket option, which lets you come to the show as well as get the swag. And they're both up there and posted on the Frog Pants Store and directly linked at VivaTMSVegas.com.

So go there and sign up. Brian, isn't that exciting? It's exciting. That is very exciting. Yes, you do need a ticket to go to the show. Yes. If you want to be there, you need ticket. Please have ticket.

Please have ticket. It's the cheapest thing you'll ever buy that's related to Vegas. I promise you that. That's so true. all right there are going to be lunches you'll pay more for than this ticket so so get it and be there because we can't wait to see you the last week of april all the details are up there including what we have planned so far uh with more to come so go check it out and more stuff uh you pointed to your side or did you point you pointed to the store right i did yeah yeah you also can

go to viva tms Vegas and that's where there's no that's the one i sent them to that's the address oh okay i think you sent them to the store no gotcha no either one uh but you It doesn't matter which one you go to. It'll be the same destination, but we'd prefer you go to VivaTMSBegas.com if you can. Because Brian's got other stuff up there. There's a little bit of other stuff, but yeah. It's really a full motion video, an FMV, as the kids call it,

of hovering over Vegas with lots of casinos in there that aren't around anymore, I think. Nope. It's all right, though. That also is a hole I went down the other day. I was looking at old Vegas stuff for some reason and I shared a picture with Brian that was these old slot machines that were they were basically just dudes let me pull this up for the chat

so I can see it here it is so I don't know why these are so weird to me but they're weird to me here you go so these guys are Brian pointed out they're not one armed bandits they have to have two arms which is a good point that's right but look at that man which one do I pull I think the 60s was cool

that was a cool era for Vegas look at all weird stuff they used to have I love it anyway that might be a Contest to some artwork I'm doing for a... Oh, really? Oh, awesome. Yeah. It may not be obvious until I do it, but you'll see. Anyway, that's all coming up. So watch for that. Again, that's VivaTMSVegas.com. Yes.

All right. I have a question. Ask away. Yesterday. Kim was gone. Didn't have a car. And turns out the fridge was kind of void. It wasn't a lot to eat. The cupboard was bare as the nursery run goes. That's right. And I was a little frustrated. And I was like, well, what if I ordered food in? I don't like doing it now because it costs so much. They keep adding fees, you know.

Of course they do. It gets more and more expensive as time goes on. But I'm like, you know what? I'm going to do it. So I got food from DoorDash. And the DoorDash guy shows up or I hear the doorbell. Ding dong. And I run up there to get it.

And I open the door and I reach down to grab my stuff. And I see that that person is still walking toward his car to leave. And when that happens, I usually like, hey, thanks a lot. And I'll wave and say thanks, right? Yeah. Uh, did that. And this guy turned around, didn't wave and just went, like that.

Or more of it like a, more of like a, like that, no, with his mouth, with his freaking mouth. Oh, with his mouth. Oh, okay. Got you. And that with his butt. No, no, no. I mean, I wouldn't be able to hear it because he was like, I don't know, 20 feet away from him. But he just, oh, I've had some that, uh, you could hear. He just did a full on raspberry. Really? And I don't. I didn't know what to say. I didn't know what to do. He just caught in his car and left so i don't know what that's about i didn't know him it's not like i knew this guy he just and the food was fine i was like a little nervous after i was like wait right yeah

i looked at all it was all fine but why would you why would you do that i don't know that's really weird like not even a it's like it's not even a wave or anything to go along with it just turn around look at you raspberry and then to the car maybe he had a busy morning already and was tired and i can't explain. Oh, he was trying to do the but he came out as or even more farty sounding than that. Maybe that's what he, yeah, maybe he was just like, oh, I'm tired. That's a stretch. But he went,

like, all right, dude. I gave you a tip, are you just going to make a fart sound at me? That's terrible. It's a horrible reverse tip. Could have been mute, maybe. Maybe. That's something that, this is how we communicate, are you thinking? Harpo Marx would have done back in the day to get Croucho's attention. Look, I don't want to judge people's communication methods, but this guy seemed lacking.

I'll put it that way. Anyway, if anyone else experiences that, let me know. Also, like, what is it even? What am I even supposed to do with it? I just have to live my life now, knowing that it happened. Yeah. I mean, it's not something you want to go on to the DoorDash app and say, delivery was fine except my driver raspburied me.

I didn't order raspberries with my meal, yet I got one. There you go. say. Also, I had another weird dream and you happen to be in it. So I think this is good for us to mention here on the show. Oh, God. I didn't write it in here because I wrote all this last night. This dream was from this morning or I guess overnight. I had a dream that was really odd. I figured out somehow through, I don't know, I've fooled physics, but I basically created a scientific experiment that worked. And the goal was that I wanted to have it. And I told Carter about this. I want to have a big silver ball, solid, not silver, it could be anything, just solid metal ball, perfectly smooth and round, about the size of a little smaller than a bowling ball, okay?

So not too big, but not too small. Bigger than a, than a, bigger than the biggest fruit you could buy, but smaller than a bowling ball. Kind of like in that range. I mean, watermelon is pretty big. Oh, that's a good point. Yeah, this is about half size of watermelon. Like somewhere between a cantaloupe and a bowling ball? You know what?

Let's go cantalope. Actually, it's perfect size. Let's go cantaloupe. All right. Let's go candlelop without the smell and the thumping and all that. Sure. Those always smell to me. I can smell a mile away.

I don't know why. Yeah. Anyway. So I get this ball and I figured out how to suspend it four or five feet above the ground and have it stay there. But here's the problem. In my Michael Bay kind of dream, my goal was just to have it be there and I always hover there and everybody would always be amazed by it.

And they would put their hands under and go, whoa, there's nothing holding it up. How is this working? And here's the problem I didn't account for. The earth is constantly rotating, right? Right. But the way I did the technology, apparently, the ball doesn't rotate with the earth. It stays there. It stays in one place. Yeah.

And it very rapidly tear. It ever gets in the way of that ball. Exactly. So it very rapidly destroyed buildings, people. structures, mountains, like anything that got within its path during rotation, which was very fast because the Earth is going,

I don't know what the speed is. How fast is Earth rotate or how fast is stuff rotate? I don't know. I have no idea. I don't know the math. But this thing just started going, and it's immovable and nothing can break it or stop it. The Army tried to like scooch in.

They tried to scooch in with some tanks and stuff. And it just tore through those tanks, just ripped them to shreds. No barrier would work. And by the end of the dream, what happened is the way humanity got along after that. And this may not even be around some true physics here. But the way the humanity moved on from my mistake was that path of destruction just became that path. And everyone avoided that path.

It was just like you just don't put anything like little crossing signs, crossing guards and stuff. Like, oh, don't, the ball's coming. Everybody stopped. Yeah. basically yeah and they they couldn't cross it or if you did you had to be really careful because it would make a it would make a rotation like very quickly i can't remember what it was but it was like it was like it was like faster than that um again the physics of this all wrong and there's no way any of this was right but in my head this is out played out and there was just this big groove in the earth that became permanent and part of everyone's lives and became the most famous uh scientific mistake ever like like I would when I die I didn't die in the dream but I in the dream it was clear to me that when I died I would always be remembered for this thing that was permanent and there was no way you could not know this ball was there your name and the giant ball canyon will forever be uttered in the same sentence that's right that's right and maybe they'll put up a memorial of some sort or a tube or a way to protect people from getting like that's what I was thinking about is you just build like a little dome around it. Oh yeah, there you go, right. But isn't there a slight axis change in another direction as well? So this thing could, in theory, change. You know what I'm saying? It would start,

it would start, like, maybe slowly, but it would start cutting a bigger swath. Start hitting towards magnetic north or something. Yeah, something like that, I don't know. I have no idea, but when I woke up, I went, well, I am really sorry I did that. Like, I was sad that I had done that. Even though it seemed It seems like that would make a great, like, Black Mirror episode or, um, like, low-budget sci-fi, like, primer kind of thing. Sure. You know. Yeah.

I'd watch that movie. I would totally watch that movie. And I would take whatever royalties they want to give me for the cool idea. With a ball that can't be stopped. I also have a lovely email here today. Cool. From MS. We'll say that's Mississippi because I don't know what it means.

Yeah. But you've got a text and an email. Oh, yeah, right. I forgot. We have two of these. So these are about, it's all about the shingles. We got a lot more than this.

I just wanted to narrow it down to two. First one is from a no-nameer, somebody we don't know, who says, the subject was singles. It says, I had shingles before. It was rather uncomfortable.

The weirdest thing was that I got them in my early 30s, which my doctor didn't believe until he saw it. Life can be full of surprises. Yeah, my sister-in-law got it when she was 36. Oh, wow. You can get them younger. It's just most people get them over 50. And so you want to get that, you want to get that.

Great shot that everybody's looking forward to. Oh, it's so much fun, Brian. Yeah, it only wrecked my entire weekend last weekend. It was fine. Yeah. It only destroyed it entirely. Because of that thing. Yeah, F that thing.

I hated it. But I'll take it over the real thing, I guess. The follow-up email from MS says, Scott, since everyone's sharing their lovely experiences with shingles, let me try and one-up everyone so far. I'm in my mid-40s, and I had shingles in my early 30s. Oh, on my head, he says. oh my god also common i guess uh kim sisters was all up in her hair line up here

anyway says i was the little it was the literal worst pain i've ever experienced i was convinced i wouldn't need the pain meds my doc prescribed but within the first day of full pain i relented and fulfilled the subscription the subscription to pills that's funny which made things mildly better no migraine that i've that i've that i've fever or probably ever had is what he means ever had yeah has come close to what I experienced with shingles. To top it off, my oldest son, who was a toddler at the time, was too young to be vaccinated for chicken pox.

I had to stay away from the little guy for a fear that I would pass it to him. I'm now biting my time until I'm 50 so I can get the shot without paying the ridiculous costs for us youngsters. Thanks for reading. MS. Yeah, dude, don't get it.

You don't want it. No kidding. You don't want the shingles. You don't want it. It sounds bad. And these are, I've only heard about the head ones, but I know there's worse ones. You can get stuff that just feels like your entire inside is on fire.

You don't want to. You don't want it. Jeez. Yeah. Yeah, with the L4L5, the lumbar pain that I'm still trying to recover from, when I'm doing my stretches, which now I have to do like once or twice a day, well, twice or two or three times a day, really. It feels like my right knee is on fire. Like that is not an exaggeration. It is, it feels like somebody is putting a lit torch to my knee.

Ooh, dane. And they said they're sure that's still tied to the lumbar stuff and not like a knee thing. Yeah. Well, that's the worst because that's a, that's a nerve like wrapped around all in there. It is, exactly. That's what controls that is the, the L4, L5, like a nerve that comes down and wraps around to your knee right there. Ouch. That's no fun.

Yeah, I think I might, we'll see if things are still bad in a couple days, and don't get better with the stretching. I think it might be time for an MRI just to be safe. Yeah, it wouldn't hurt probably. Well, it may hurt. It may hurt, but it'll hurt far less. But it will stop hurting sooner maybe. Are they,

it's killing my sleep. Like, I cannot. Oh, that was going to be, that was going to be my next question is like how much sleep can you possibly get? I know you already don't sleep the best, but. I don't, yeah. And this, this is really what makes it worse is trying to find a position. position that I can lay down for a long for a long period time I can't lay on my right side anymore at all because that's the the side that hurts so do you flip around like I do I'd flip around all that I do yeah see that's a problem that ain't gonna go well that is a problem yeah oh that sucks dude on my left side the whole night until I wake up and then I move over to the couch where I can put my left foot up and hang my right foot down because that's the only position I can be in where it doesn't hurt

Well, maybe you could switch to Dr. Nick Riviera where you can get a arm for a leg, arm for a leg and a leg for an arm or whatever it is he used to do, where he'd swap them. There you go. Brian will walk around on a hand. Sure, there you go. Problem solved. All fixed. Problem solved. I think my legs will still be moving and bending.

And I can't imagine that's going to be great for my lumbar to be walking on my hands with my head constantly looking to. see where I'm going. Yeah, probably a bad idea. But hopefully they can get, you know, get you all fixed up before spring and stuff. You don't want to be limping around Vegas like that. That would suck. Oh, God, no. Yeah, I don't want that for you. Not to mention, like, MS-150 and

other summer fun things. I've got to be, I got to be good for all that. You got to be good for the summer fun. That's right. Woo! I like the summer fun. Bring it on. If you'd like to send us your emails and you got thoughts about anything, it doesn't have to be shingles related, but whatever, you can send those into the morning stream at gmail.com or you can send us text at 8014710462 or you can make those voicemails as well if you just stay on the line and say hello um all right that's it for all that we got some

big stuff coming up later in the show but right now it's time for the news I don't watch the news the news is brought to you by cracking crowns on soft bread oh the other thing I did this weekend so I got this crown down here it was just chewing some bread not a big deal all And I feel this little, and went and looked in the mirror, and sure enough, got a nice little hairline crack down there. So now I've got to go into the old dental office and do some bullshit. What are I making those things out of? Shouldn't those be?

Well, I've had this one for, this is a different one, the one that always breaks. This one's probably four years old. Yeah, but I mean, you know, well, four years old. I don't know how long those things are supposed to last, but it seems like it should be longer than that. Depends on the tooth. Like I have some, I have one up here, a bridge up here that I've had since I was 20. Never, never a single issue.

I think it's kind of where you chew the most and I chew a lot back here. So I think that was probably yet. Plus I have a gold thing up above that and I think that that thing is impervious. Press down hard on it. Yeah. So all it takes is like the right pressure and bam. My teeth suck. You should stop making his crowns

out of English shortbread. I mean, that thing, that thing, the other times I've had this happen, it always does seem to happen with something soft. I mean, it used to be, when I was eating Swedish fish back in the 2012-2013 era, and I pulled that thing out. That made sense because that was like gooey and whatever. But a little bit of bread, come on, man.

And it was right after we did couch party. It was so pissed. Oh, really? Yeah, as soon as we were done, I went and ate, and I was like, damn it. Anyway, that's how that went. I'll let you know how it goes. But, you know, the funny thing is it doesn't hurt at all. They have enough to cement on this thing where I barely notice it.

And part of me is like, yeah, it's just, who cares? Maybe just let it be there the way it is. You don't want that hairline crack to get bigger food to get in there and cause some major problems. That's true. I don't want any of that. I don't want any of that. But I may actually be given where this one is, and I, and it doesn't, I don't even have a matching tooth on the other side. They should just yank this one.

For symmetry? Yeah, because already, it's going to cost me like $850. to get a new crown or like 200 to pull it and there's nothing about that tooth that's cool it's just a piece of crap that's the side of your mouth that you chew on those I chew on both I chew on both it's just that I probably favor this side if I'm if I'm honest but I can chew on both no problem so I say get rid I'm thinking I'm going to get rid of it then I'll match I'll have a perfectly matching thing I don't need those rear rear molars that should not feel important to you Like, Wes Anderson in your dental structure should not be an important factor.

No, it's not really, actually. But I don't know. I just don't want to pay. I don't want to keep paying for this thing for four years. I hate it. Like, is it just another bill I should account for and just say, okay, well, I guess I pay $8.50 per four years. You've got a dental subscription, basically. Yeah.

Which kind of was what I have. I don't have. My insurance sucks, so I have a separate thing with the dentist, which I already pay. I don't know what I pay a year, but, you know, I already pay for, individual insurance over there i don't know i hate teeth teeth are stupid look when i'm in charge and i got my own universe here's what i'm going to do no teeth okay we're gonna have bones straight out of there they don't have nerves in the middle of them just big nasty bones like some of the animal kingdom have i just want bones there for teeth don't care how bad it looks and won't matter we'll all look

the same it's fine so that's what i'm doing number one number two we don't need pinkies get rid of the pinkies no more pinkies it's extra finger we don't need it you don't want evolution to take care of that you just want to like cut them out of birth or something? Yeah, I want to design it. I want to be like a Star Trek Overlord Planet Runner guy who makes up all this stuff. I do the Genesis machine and now I get to pick what I want. So I did all that and then I'm going to, oh, no more vomiting. That's going away.

We're done with that. We'll come up with a better thing. I don't know what it is, but some other way of expelling things that isn't that. That's horrible. You're going to have to create a new hole because we've got, we've already got diarrhea. So if you want an alternative to vomit, you're going to need a new hole. All right, I got a plan for that. Diarrhea will come out of a little, like Spider-Man, you know,

let's not talk about the good Spider-Man, but the bad Spider-Man where he has organic web shooters. Sure, sure. Where that little hole would be on this wrist, that's where you're going to take a dump. And on this wrist, everyone will be right-handed, first of all. On this right, no, there's no one lefties, I'm just kidding. On the right hand, because I know Brian's left-handed, I'm just teasing.

Yeah. On the right hand is where you're going to vomit if you need to. All right. But you'll still eat through your mouth and all of that will be fine. What else? Oh, that nerve that's hurting your knee. We're not wrapping that around your knee anymore. We'll come up with a better way.

A better way. Is your aversion to throwing up because you're kind of afraid of it? Or is it just to maintain your streak? Oh, I just hate it. I just can't stand throwing up. But you feel so good after you're done. It's like, ah. I've control alt deleted my stomach and it's running so much better now.

I mean, you're not wrong once you get there. But when you, it's the lead up, I hate it so much. I hate it. I hate that feeling. I mean, I don't like vomiting. I'm not saying that I like it, but it does bring you some relief at the end. I mean, I've got, there have been times that I've had like a horrible stomachache and I'm like, oh, my God. If I could just vomit and get this over with, then I'd be, I'd feel so much better.

And you're not wrong. Like, I know that you're right. My wife would agree with you. She's 100% on your side of this. I just don't want what it is. I can't do it. I hate it. Well, all right.

So it's got to be, you know, sorry for those who are listening to this as they eat breakfast or lunch or whatever. But isn't it going to be just the same thing if it's coming out of your wrist? Is it just the fact that it's passing through the mouth, the thing that you eat with? And breathe with and all that. See, that's my whole thing. This goes right into the whole what gross got out the most, milk breath, like everything. Yeah, we have too much stuff going on through our mouth.

This is a truth. And so, yes, you're right. But see, the arm thing, I can go, oh, you guys, I don't feel good. Okay, we'll see in a minute. Go out to a bush somewhere, hold my wrist over there and just let it rip. Big deal. I can do that. But I don't have to get like full body, stomach acid heaving, horrible.

I can't breathe. It's coming out my nose. Like all the horribleness. half that. Now, I know that evolution and natural selection have solved most of our biological needs and issues. I know that. I'm just saying if I get to go be an architect of my own planet, I got ideas. Your own species, I mean, your own version of the human race without pinkies and vomit rests. Yeah. And think about it. This way, Brian, you and I, let's say we're in Disneyland. We're on Space Mountain. Yeah. And there's a guy in front of us who's like, oh, I don't feel good. This is right. is making me sick, all he's got to do is hold his arm off to the side of down to the thing. Instead of going, britt, having to land on everybody, just use his arm. Well, do you think it's going to come up in front of his wrist?

Do you think it's just going to, like, go to a spot of the ride that doesn't have another roller coaster going through? Well, I don't know about those people. They may be screwed, but you and I in the back seat, we're all right. What if we're not in the car with him, but we're on that other roller coaster that's down below? Well, then that's still a problem. I agree with that.

But I think it at least solves half the issue. And then they're touching stuff with their vomit hand. Like, oh, I just threw up into that bush with my hand. And now I've got to touch the door to get back into the restaurant to go to the bathroom to wash my hands. Well, this is why it will always be right hand so that your left hand can do all the work until you're cleaned up. And then same goes for this end. If you got a problem on this end, you got your right hand to cover everything else. You see?

Sure. And then your right hand would also toot. or sorry, your left hand. So this is still your bum over here. So you'd get on a plane and you'd have to like tuck it in your pocket real tight and go, oh man, I hope nobody can tell him over here farting out of my wrist, you know? I got it all figured out. It's all good.

It's all set. There's nowhere to sign up for this. I'm just saying if somehow cosmically after we die, we end up, you know, getting, somebody says, all right, we got, well, we need to run about eight more planets. Johnson, come here. We like your idea about the wrist, the wrist thing. Get in here. Then I'll let you.

You guys can all sign up and be on my world. We're working on Blueprints for Earth 2.0. Yep. Very excited. All right. Let's get to this story about Denmark. Denmark, you know, that's a thing. That's a place.

It's a country, yes. Yeah, it's a full and nice people. Lovely country. Yeah. I'm sure they're wonderful there. We have some listeners there. I've seen the numbers. Colpenhagen.

That's right. Well, there wasn't a single bank robbery in all of Denmark last year. Not one. Wow. Yeah, no other country can boast this. Every country in the world had a bank robbery except for Denmark. The number of bank robberies in Denmark fell to zero as beefed up security and reduced use of cash in the Nordic country make holdups less lucrative. You know, I always wondered about this as money becomes more digital.

I mean, it's almost entirely that now. You can still have cash and stuff. But like the other day, we were walking, if we go across the lake, there's a like a specialty store away on the other side where, you know, Carter loves the coffee there. have like little food things and all this kind of stuff so we thought you know what let's walk all the way over there it's like a good half hour hard walk and then we'll get something then we'll walk all the way back it'll be that day's cardio or whatever and we did that and we got there and Kim goes I didn't bring my wallet I'm like oh shoot I didn't bring my wallet but then it hit us we have our phones yeah we got a way to pay it's fine I use that I use that tap to pay all the time

now I'm having a blast with it yeah it's great it's really great yeah easy to forget, though. If you forgot your wallet, you're like, oh, shit, I forgot the thing. But then you realize, oh, no, no, we live in 2023. We can do this now. So anyway, I think that, I think that's an interesting side effect of currency becoming so digital is that we are less, maybe there are less motivations and or opportunities to go rob a bank and walk out with a ton of cash. I think so. I could be wrong. But yeah, anyway, they've declined steadily since the year 2000, where 221 bank robberies happen in Denmark, one for nearly every day that the branches were open in that country.

But in 2021, they had one. And according to the same industry group that tracks that stuff, 2022 had none. Zero. And they've got a, you know, I was looking at their population, a little like five and a half million, basically, which is somewhere between Los Angeles and New York.

Yeah, it's small. It is small. But that's still considerable. sure you know they're there if you just said all right just new york city or just less Angeles you'd have multiple bank bank robberies over a year so you can't really blame it on just the uh the population i had somebody yesterday uh in an email trying to convince me i don't have it handy or i'd pull it up trying to convince me that china is communist and dictatorial and kind of like hardcore shut everybody down if we don't like

what they're saying kind of country that they're that way not because out of out of pure need and necessity because of the sheer size of the population of China so when you've got over a billion people versus here where we've got what 400 million 350 million whatever we are now yeah that they're there that is such a vastly larger thing that they have no choice but to be blunt hammers all the time they have that's the only way they can manage a country that many people I think he's wrong but that's That's what this guy says. And that seems really dumb to me.

Like, the question, I mean, first of all, I did reply and say, well, why? Like, just give me your all your, and he hasn't replied yet. But he sent this whole list of like, it's just too, it's a problem of scale. So it's the same reason that America is definitely going to have bank robberies and Denmark won't. Well, is it a scale thing? Because they only have five million. and it's just a and we have 300 plus or 400 million

is that a scale thing and so therefore is China a scale thing on the larger end where they're just like everything has to be smushed down real hard and real big or else there's no other way to manage a billion people

I don't know I don't know either it does seem very reductive it seems like it's uh trying to take a complex thing and make it

and oversimplify it oh yeah for sure That was the impression I got from it. And incorrectly, too. Yeah, especially some guy from Missouri. Like, what does he know? Nothing wrong with Missouri. We love it.

I'm just saying, like, you know, you're not, are you some China expert? Are you a 30-year veteran of an intellectual thought on how China works? No, he's just a guy from Missouri. Well, I mean, where would you, what state would you, if he was from, would you start to take him seriously? No, no, no. I'm saying he's from, he's literally from Missouri, his email said, and I'm saying he has no other credentials. So it could have been here, it could have been anywhere. I'm just saying, the guy from Missouri is saying.

Just a guy from Missouri. In other words, just a guy, right? Just a guy, exactly. Not a PhD. No PhD after his name. Just from Missouri is interesting. And probably has never been to China if I had to guess. I could be wrong. But if that dude's listening, I don't think he listens to the show. I think he's a core guy. But if you're listening, send it in. Because we were talking about China and the way. they handle video game approvals, and it's a big mess right now. So they're trying to, like, blanket ban certain kinds of games. They're slow to approve new games.

So it's making American companies who are invested a lot to be in China. Now they're having to rethink that. And, you know, because the government's making hard. China just had the first year where the population went down this last year. Wow. Really? Yeah. How much down? It was only like a couple thousand.

something. It wasn't, I don't think it was a huge number. Let's see. Five five, five, five people says Tom's norm. I can't be right. I don't think they track it if it was five people. Yeah, China's population shrinking for the first time in 60 years. Oh, this is a big long article. I got to have more. I don't know what that number is. You've got to have more words in it because you got all those people over there. More words, more people. Yeah, exactly. Well, more words and ads loading and, you know, this is your last BBC article or something like that. Let's see. They do have a lot of unreported death from COVID. I wonder if that has anything to do with it. It might have, yeah, because of, uh, let's see here. Every time they've

had an outbreak, it's like really bad. Yeah, the birth fertility rate, birth per woman was 2.6 in the late 1980s and it's reduced to 1.15 in 2021 per per per female per lady yes total for two births per woman 1.15 hmm didn't they control that for a while where they were like if you if you have a dude we're cool with it but if you have two girls you're done stop making babies or something like they have the one child policy yeah yeah but um they introduced a three child policy last year um they might be biting them in the butt now Maybe it is, yeah, don't know. Well, all right, good luck, China.

Yeah. I'm sure they'll be fine. I'm sure they'll be just fine. I think they'll still be huge and enormous. Well, anyway, good job, Denmark, and may your crime, free, spree continue. Speaking of crime, let's do this the opposite. This is in Britain. A delivery driver in Britain stole $14,000 worth of booze and a sophisticated scam, which they put in quote.

They took Denmark's robbery and put it in UK. Oh, yeah, easily. I mean, the British were just sitting there waiting for it. It says a British delivery driver stole over 20,000 pounds. That's about 24,360 bucks worth of goods, including 12,000 pounds or $14,000 of wine and spirits that he was supposed to deliver to businesses, according to the Birmingham mail, which I guess is a paper.

It is. The thief, former soldier Paul Magali, I almost said McCartney. Careful. Let's not. Don't want to be smirch former Beatles. Yeah, we only got two left. We've got to be nice to those guys.

Let's see. He was employed by an agency to work for a logistics company called ICT Express. Age 50 was supposed to deliver the goods to customers. Instead, made an unschedule stop during his delivery and forged signatures an attempt to cover his tracks. Wow. They were supposed to go to all these department stores, and he made these unscheduled stops. Interesting. So I was wondering how sophisticated, because sophisticated is in quotes. So I'm wondering if that's, it wasn't really sophisticated or if that's just what the news reported is sophisticated.

I feel like, yeah. Is it eight episodes, eight episodes on Netflix sophisticated? Or is it like four episodes sophisticated? Is it one, one 90-minute documentary certificate? It's hard to say, but I might, from what it sounds like here, it just was planned, but I don't know how sophisticated it is. Yeah. I think Bobby and Chats said that he started watching kaleidoscope, which is that's a sophisticated scam robbery. What do you think of that, Bobby? He's liking it so far. I've yet to talk to someone personally, like you and others who didn't like it.

And then all this weird critic and public freak out about, I don't understand why the disparity. It's weird. Yeah. Calidoscope is an odd. It's an odd divider. It is. And there's nothing. Like, sometimes you can say, oh, it's, you know, they tried to force a transgender character in there, or they tried to make a subplot about social commentary or something like that. But none of that. Like, you know, it's, it's, there's nothing that I can see that would be controversial, controversial to somebody who's more conservative.

Yeah. That would, you know, warrant, oh, well, let's, let's everybody review bomb this thing. So. Yeah. So it's not, so lefties like it, right he's like, or sorry, lefties and right, he's like, like, dislike it equally. Right, exactly. Or, or.

Except with the ones that we talk to who like it. Who like it. Yeah, I don't get it. Yeah. Lab and Magic liked it. Yeah. Huh. All right.

I definitely plan on seeing it. It's just. Yeah. One of those things where I cannot figure it out. I might be able to talk one person in our audience, uh, into seeing it if I say, there is no Bollywood style dancing involved. I'll bet that guy is now on his way to his TV. On board, fully on board.

fully on board. Yeah, he just left his day job, said he was sick, went home, and is now watching Clydeus. He's now binging it. Yeah, that's what he'll do. Let's move on. I kind of like that we have a new free hotel room because I was missing the old one. I know. What happened?

Where is he these days? I don't know. I don't know. I hope he's all right. We haven't heard from him for a year. It's been a long time, yeah. Or something. Free hotel room, are you still, if you're out there to let us know, we'd like to know.

Yeah. Yeah. Bob. I mean, Brian knows he's really had dinner or lunch with him. Yeah, I've met the guy. He's actually really, really nice. Yeah. Yeah, I don't know what happened.

Maybe he got tired of us never agreeing with his critics. Could be. I don't know. Totally could be, yes. I'm curious about it. If anyone else out there knows him or hangs out with him or has talked to him online, let us know. I like Bob. I liked his, you know, we get nice tomatoed occasionally, but Bob was a special breed.

Bob was a special breed. Bob, because of the. the extra things that Bob would put into his messages. Like, he'd correct us on the pronunciation of something, and then he'd go, come on, or Jesus Christ, or something like that. Yeah. And gave us kind of, he's, they're right in the chat. They used to give me lots of ideas for Fred and Can jokes.

I never used, never used any of them, but I think he was a fan. Yeah. I don't know. I just would like to hear from him. So, Bob, if you're still out there and you've just gone quiet, you know, just give us a well check, you know? Yeah, right. Make sure you're okay. A little hey.

Hey, I'm fine, man. The hotel room's still free. Yeah, I'm here. I just don't get to make it into chat anymore. Let's see. Here's a fun one. Foodies, you're kind of a foodie, so you count here. I'm kind of a foodie, yes.

We're left devastated that Ron Zoni will discontinue its beloved star-shaped pastina. Oh, Brian, what are you going to do now? How are you going to do it? I mean, don't foodies prefer handmade pasta? I don't know. I would assume so. Actually, I don't know. It's Ron Zonny one that you...

I have no idea. It sounds like a cheap name, doesn't it? Oil kind of thing. Yeah, it's... I know they're pre-made, but... It's pasta that comes in a box instead of in a bag. Mm. Says, uh, let's see, they announced the company's discontinuant.

It's pastina project, or product, rather, a tiny star-shaped pasta. They are a subsidiary... Aestina project. They're a subsidiary post-holdings. Is that the post-serial people? I bet it is. I'll bet this is a post. Post holdings. Interesting. Post holdings.

That's a delicious. Nothing says delicious like post holdings. Yeah. I wish there was a cereal called post holdings. That'd be great. Yeah. I don't think that exists. Anyway, some may see it as a tragic announcement that they put on Instagram.

We hear you and greatly appreciate your love for the Rosoni Pastina wrote the company in the post. After extensive efforts, we regretfully announced that the pasta in question is being discontinued. This wasn't a decision we wanted to make. Well, then don't make it. We were hoping it wouldn't have to come to this. Yeah, it's all come down to this. No more pasta shape like stars. I'm scrolling through, I'm trying to see, I mean, I found the past.

So it's really little teeny tiny stars. They're like... I don't think you ever had it. It's not familiar to me at all. I don't think I have either. What about those wagon wheel looking things? That's what I'm looking here to see. I think those must have already gotten discontinued

because I am not seeing the little wagon wheels. Oh, I kind of liked those. Yeah. So I could see why people who are into the stars would be sad. They held sauce pretty well. Yeah, a little sauce physics in those. Yeah. Also, I just like tiny, I like little pasta, with the exception of spaghettios or something.

I like tiny little pastas versus like big old shell ones. I'm not a fan. Too much. What's your, do you have a favorite pasta shape? Oh. Well, you mention the waggaw. I like the little shells, like the little, um, the itty-bitty ones. Kind of folded over shelves, shells, yeah.

Yeah, those are good. Yeah. I don't like the big tube ones, like the big, I don't know what you call them. Oh, Manicati? Yeah, I don't think I like those. Maybe in the right stuff I do. Yeah. You know?

It's usually filled with like a ricotta. I'm going to channel some Randy. Oh, yeah. You go out with it. And then marinaina sauce on top of some, uh, shaved Parmesan. I've moved cat woman. I tried to.

Parmesan. I've moved cat woman. As you have. Let's see. Well, anyway, they stopped doing it. It says we've researched or searched extensively for an alternative solution because I say their long-term supplier can't do it anymore. Oh.

I imagine it's just, do you roll out the pasta dough and you just have a little rolling stamper that goes brr and makes those little star shapes. I would think so, yeah. So according to the brosier. Brand's website, The Petit 5-pointed stars are typically cooked in soups with cheese and eggs. One 12-ounce box used to cost you a buck 69 on Stop and Chop's website. Online fans reacted with surprise and with the announcement, shock and outrage. Of course, because it's the internet.

Yeah, it's what they do. Oh, I can't believe you're taking away those pastinas, which I never bought once in my life, but it sucks because you're changing it. You're changing it. It's like the taco, the taco ice cream thing last month, wherever that was. taco sure yeah and i think they brought them back so i so then you get conspiratorial they're uh yeah it's easy to do like like you're oh sorry but we're dumping these oh no you freaked out we're bringing them back were you really gonna ever do it like was this just

always a plan to get more i uh i read i think it was over the holiday break um stephen schliker went on a twitter rant about the mexican pizza the taco bell mexin pizza nice and called it the most disgusting, quote-unquote, food he's ever eaten. Really? And why were people demanding for this thing to come back? I like it, though. I don't know why. It's not really great.

Like, it's okay. It's a crispy flour shell instead of corn. Yeah. It might depend a little on your Taco Bell, Stephen. It easily could, yeah. They're less consistent Taco Bell to Taco Bell than like McDonald's is between stores. Yeah. I agree. I've been kind of getting into del Taco lately.

I do like the fact that we're talking about, you know, me liking a Mexican pizza in the same breath as, Brian, you're a foodie, right? Yeah, I'm a foodie. Well, you're a foodie who's not pretentious. You'll eat, you know, you're down-to-earth foodie. You'll try some interesting, fancy stuff, but you're- Exactly. I have Taco Bell. These days, Taco Bell, maybe once a month. Maybe. Yeah. And it's just because it's like, I'm in a hurry. I've got Coverville to do. I don't have time to make anything. We're out of bags of salad. Let's just run over to Taco Bell.

Oh, I got a question for you. We went to Del Taco the other day, and this guy was helping us. He was super nice. Kim ended up tipping him like four bucks because he was so nice. But we don't usually do that at a Del Taco. But we're at the drive up. We pull up there and we're just getting tacos, and he's got, there's a pigment condition you can get.

I forget the name of it. There's a model that has this that's like really popular. Is that what it's called where it's like big patches of white? and had with the yeah that stuff whatever that is and it's like big big patterns and stuff but on for him it was from his like mid arm down to his hand he just looked like i don't know almost like a leopard not leper not leper like spots the beautiful fast running animals is the one i'm talking about yeah and it was all up to his fingers now here's the question we didn't ask him about it didn't say anything it's fine but part of me and not in a negative way I do want to say around people like that I want to go

oh this your skin is so cool or you this such an interesting pigmentation like I want to do it so unique yeah but it's weird right you wouldn't want to do that to a stranger

no no no he probably I imagine you know he's been a lot of his life with people thinking he's diseased or kids making fun of him

or whatever and yeah that's good point he probably just wants to I don't want to be that man. But I know you'd be doing it in a way that's like, oh, man, that's really cool. Yeah, I kind of, I just wanted to know more about it. And I thought, well, that's, the only way this works out is if I know this person. Sure.

And I've gotten to know them in a way that they are comfortable telling me things like this. Yeah. And we didn't have that relationship, so I didn't do it. Michael Bay in the news. Let's get to Michael Bay. Let's get to Michael Bay. Michael Bay really doesn't want to be called a pigeon killer, all right? He doesn't like it.

what he wants his legacy to be. He'd rather be a franchise killer. Yeah, exactly. There's been a little bit of update to this, but this is the original story. Michael Bay determined to prove he did not or doesn't have any bird blood on his hands. Per the rap, which is a website,

the director has been charged over claims that a pigeon was killed in 2018 on the set of the movie Six Underground. I thought that was a TV show. Oh, no, that is a movie. That's a Netflix thing. It's also a song. And it's a man, too. Or a song by Massive Attack, too.

Yeah, the... Take it down. Stakes up around. Oh, sneaker pimps? Sorry, it's a sneaker pimps, not massive attack. I don't think they used it in the movie. I thought 600 gram was a fun movie. I didn't know that was Michael Bay.

I don't know that was either. No, it's Ryan Reynolds. I didn't know it was Michael Bay. Um, we came and I watched it. Anyway, wild birds, including pigeons are protected by law in Italy. This is where they filmed it. Allegedly, a homing pigeon was killed by a dolly while the Netflix production was being filmed in Rome. Witness said to have taken a picture and reported the incident to authorities.

He says, this is what Michael Bay says, I'm a well-known animal lover and major animal activist. It's true. It puts a lot of money in it. With a bunch of explosions, too. That's true. And he reuses footage from the last time he did it. That's right. Wasn't that the island? It was the island and then Transformers reused stuff from the island, yes. Oh, I thought it was the other way around. But one way or the other, it was like.

It was some car chase thing, and they just used it like frame for frame. Nobody will notice. All car chases look the same anyway. Yeah, that was weird. Anyway, let's see, where was I? I'm a well-known activist. No animal involved in the production was injured or harm or any other production I've worked for in the last 30 years. He also claimed he was, that there's clear video evidence with multiple witnesses and safety officers that disprove the allegations, adding that he is confident he will win in court.

But they're taking him to court. Wow, seriously. Yeah, he's going. I mean, you know, who knew that in Italy, one of the worst things you could do is kill a damn pigeon. I'd be curious to see this, the picture that the witness claims to have of this. Let me ask you this. If I said to you, hey, Brian, a pigeon was killed, or if I said, hey, Brian, a dove was killed. Which does one have more meaning than the other one for you?

Of course, of course, the dove, even though they're basically, the same bird just with different coloring. Right. So I wonder if in court the prosecution will be all, the dove is the one we need to think of the dove. And he'll be like, I didn't kill that pigeon. Yeah, that's all about how you frame it. That's right.

The soil dove was killed by the dolly as it. Yeah. The millionaire filmmaker said Italian authorities offered him the opportunity to settle by paying a small fine. I declined to do so because that would mean I was guilty of harming or harm the animal. uh we suppose all that is left to do is to fight this out in court or cooort is what they wrote court court i hate that i hate it do you think they're making a joke there about like birds

that's what that is oh yes i hate it i feel like so dumb because i did not i just like what is that some weird typo court i mean it does look like a typo right looks like a stupid typo but yeah they put coo or that for a whole article that didn't use any other pigeon puns. Yeah. To all of a sudden work one in as the last word of the thing, Coort. I don't like it.

No. I don't like it. Chatroom likes it. I don't like it. It doesn't matter what I like. What I do like is this. We have guests on the show and they come on here and talk about cool stuff, which we're going to do now after we take a break.

When we come back, we'll make some things with Bill and hang out with Bobby and talk some science. He's not on a plane today. So that's good. Maybe he's on a boat and he's got his flippy floppy, on. I don't know. Anyway, that's all coming in after the song that Brian prepared. Brian, what is it? Yeah. So back in 2021, 2020, maybe even 2019, an album came out from a singer named Kendra Morris, and she was called Mockingbird. And it was, and still is one of my favorite cover albums ever released. She's just got this amazing voice. And she has this funk sound that is perfectly matched with it. And she took, Things like Shine on You Crazy Diamond, which we've played her version on this show before,

David Bowie's Space Oddity, a whole bunch of different songs that she's done on that album. So I kind of keep an eye on the things that she's released since then. Well, one thing that I missed was an album that came out before that called Babel. And Karma Chief Records is reissuing her Babel album on March 3rd with three additional tracks. So it kind of gives us all a chance to rediscover it. This is her, the first single from the re-release just coming out today. This is brand new. Here is the song Twist and Burn from Kendra Morris.

Twist and Burn, how you turn me on. out with the days are long Don't got a dollar But I got you friends So let's leave tonight Once the sunlight Tell me that you feel The same as I do now

Oh, I want your love. I want your love I want to show love Round and down Round and down Hotel rooms without windows No name faces just the two of us Holiday forever, just living off this world.

No, it is so real. The way we're feeling now. Oh, I want your love. I want your love. How does something happen? Got the best of me No nothing that can take this It's what we've got to be

Tell me that you feel the same as I do now know it is so real the way we're feeling now I want your love I want your love I'll watch your love I doubt

At least they're out of circulation, thanks to you. Now you can see how important it is to guard every place where diamonds are kept. I certainly do. We can get a line on who's after the diamonds and where they're taking them. Do you want to see Jamie Lynn Spears dropped out of a helicopter? The Morning Stream! I've never seen this jungle, and I've seen most. and we're back hey brian tell me again who that was yeah that sultry voice you just heard was

kendra morris from the reissue the brand new reissue of her album babble from 2016 that's the song twist and burn nice um a little update here um yes i was i gonna tell you i forgot dang it it was cool it was cool it reminded me something about was it the clip i played Did you want to see Jamie Lynn Spears dropped out of a helicopter? No, that's not it. There's something reminding it tonight, right? Was that from extra?

I don't know. It sounds like somebody like that. I just, I hear random things and I go, that's cool. We're putting that in the show. And then I never remember who they were. But I cannot remember what it was. There was a thing. I was going to say, hey, something's back, y'all.

What is it? Can't remember. Eminem's back, y'all. If I remember it, I'll spew it forth. In pod form. Yeah. If you think of it. If I think of it, then we'll all be better off.

All right, let's get Bill in here. Let's get a little bit of Bill talk going. Let's see if I can find. I do have a thing I've got to talk to Bill about specifically, but let's get to it. Your bat caves open there, Bill. Hey, Bill Duran, all the way from Punish Props.com and the Pacific Northwest of this great nation of ours. Hello, and welcome back to the show. How are you?

Hello, doing all right. Oh, that's good. So before we get anywhere, can we talk just a little bit about Dave the diver, just a little bit yeah so uh bill bill glommed on to the Dave the Diver uh thing it's just the small indie game made by a couple of dudes um that i got completely hooked on i think i recommended it to Brian last week for a steam deck and it's sitting in my sitting on my steam deck right there and i have not played it yet shocker it is uh it's fantastic i played a ton this weekend as well but man that loop is so good and kind of impressive that it works because it it seems so

disparate. It's like, okay, well, I'm over here diving for stuff. And there's some story and some RPG, but there's also, I just need fish and I need, you know, jellyfish for this, for this sushi I want to make or whatever. Then you go back to your sushi bar and it feels like, oh, totally different game over there. Somehow it works, though. It works really well. So I'm really glad you're enjoying that game. Oh, I really am. And they threw the kitchen sink in. There's so many, no idea is turned down. Yeah. Things keep cropping up. There's so many facets to this game. Exactly. Every once in a while I'll go, oh, I guess I've seen everything they're going to do, surely. Like this, now I'm just in the, in the routine of what they've given me.

And then, boom, there's some new, whole new mechanic or whole new like concept or, oh my gosh, I broke through a theme. A weird dream sequence. Yeah. Like, it's so funky. And at the end of the day, you know, you're this dude just diving for stuff and making sushi. It's the weirdest thing. And I love it. And I hope. It really is. You get to upgrade your tools and stuff. You get to dive deeper when you upgrade things and discover new stuff down in the depths. New fish, new story things, it is deeply satisfying. New ways to kill that freaking tiger shark that sucks ass.

I hate that thing. Literally sucks, right? That's the tiger shark is a lot that goes, who? The worst. Anyway, it's very fun. Check it out everybody. Dave the diver on Steam right now. It's an early access, but it feels done.

There's nothing about this game that feels early to me. It feels like it's pretty polished. It does feel done, but you will hit a point where the story literally tells you you'll have to wait until launch. Oh, I didn't get that far yet. Yeah. You might want to wait a bit if you don't want, because I'm at a point now where I need to wait for the rest of the game. Yeah. You could go keep fishing and keep making money in the sushi place, but you're going to wait for story.

Yeah, and I will. I will do that. Nothing's stopping you. All right. Let's get to the creativity of the day. Bill's a big time maker. you guys know, punishprops.com tells you all need to know, but as usual, we have no idea what creative thing you're working on, so tell us. Oh, yeah, yeah. Well, actually, the thing I wanted

to talk, the topic today, I'm surprised I haven't brought this up before, is portfolios as an artist, specifically artists looking for work. Portfolios are the first thing a potential hirer will see, so they're super critical, and I've got some pointers. Nice. First of all, like, your portfolio might make depending on your field it may take a different form right so if you're a videographer it might be like a two minute sizzle reel where you cut together a bunch of clips that you've used on your past projects or a 3D modeler might have a bunch of 3D turnarounds of things they've made if you're a YouTuber you might have a media kit that shows off past projects and your credentials or like if you're a sculptor photos of your sculptors that sort of stuff that's portfolios can take many many forms we're in a different era now because back in the day when like brian and i were in college a portfolio meant a big giant thing a big black zippered a bag that you had all your ginormous artwork and i still have mine from yeah mine somewhere you'd have to make slides you'd have to make copies of slides and mail them to people yeah it was bad it's a bad time i mean it was what it was but today is so much

so much better for the stuff and then that includes like what you're talking about like Like, back in the day, being a 3D artist of some sort, let's say a sculptor, that was always down to, well, how good are these photographs? Like, you didn't really have a great way to really show that stuff off, and now it's, you could almost do like 3D scans and some people quick files that they can rotate around. Like, it's really cool what you can do now, but anyway. Oh, yeah. So one of the top tips I have for any artists is to maintain your own website, even if it's just for the portfolio. Right. I think you should also share your work on things like Instagram or ArtStation or other places where artists share their work. But as we've learned recently, websites like ArtStation, why they may change their policies in a way that makes doing business there needlessly difficult, right?

Yeah, yeah. It's annoying. So being in charge of your own website means you can rely on it not changing when you need it. And you can completely customize the whole site to match your brand, right? You have a lot more options. That's true. So if you're an artist looking for work, having your own website that you own and control is super important. And then probably the next best thing is to figure out what your best work is and only put that in the portfolio. I think one of the hardest things for an artist to do is to call their collection of things they've made that they're very proud of and say this one isn't good enough for their portfolio.

out you know you get so emotionally attached to the things you make sometimes it's hard to kill your darling so to is it is it something that just means a lot to me or does it really show off the the things that i can do the variety of things that i can do yeah absolutely that's a good way of putting it i also feel the way that way about stuff i'm sick of looking at but i know we'll do well and trying to determine what that is so like there's there's stuff where i'll look at it and go and in a year i'll be like oh i really liked what i did them but not at the moment right So to have to put that in your portfolio and push it, that always felt a little funky. Yeah.

And he may have to fill your portfolio with the type of work that people are looking for right now. That may not be what you're into. Good example. One of my art professors from college, Sven, who is awesome. They had an art show in the art small town of Oneonta, New York, every summer. And he does these really wild prints. He was a printmaker by trade. really cool expressionist sort of things.

He also took photos of cows and barns and printed those as well. Guess what sold. In a small rural town like Oneonta, New York, people go crazy for photos of cows and barns. Pictures of cows, yeah, sure. That's what the market wanted. Yep.

So you do what the market wants. I get it. Carter's in the middle of applying at a bunch of places. Some are very cool. I promised or I wouldn't tell until we hear about it because it would be weird if she doesn't get it. But anyway, these are a lot of game companies are looking for UI, UX, art.

That's a big, a big, it's always been a trend in games, but right now it's like especially common to have these jobs opening because everybody needs good UI design. Anyway, she's applying for all of that stuff and watching her go through the process of like, well, what do I include in this? Like, what of my work best exemplifies this? Like, all of those pressures are still there.

I just try to convince her that it's better now than ever because she doesn't have to FedEx a big wad of a result of somebody or whatever. Yeah, and as a video game artist, too, especially if you're a junior artist, you might think, well, here are a bunch of characters that I've made. And you're probably not going to get hired making characters. It might be better to have a bunch of boxes and set pieces, right? Because as a junior artist, that's probably what you're going to get hired to make for a video game.

You got to fill the fallout universe with all sorts of detritus, right? Someone's got to make all that stuff. Somebody's got to do a barrel. I can make a really good barrel. Oh, I saw a thing you would love Bill. I should have forwarded it to you. But some dude who was talking about how old Fallout 3 was, there was some anniversary. I don't want to know.

And he goes, I want to, he goes, I just wanted to share this because it seemed like a good time for it. I was a texture artist at the time. And his job was to make some of the more humanoid-looking zombie dudes that run at you for. get their names. They have names. But the way he did it is he studied meat. So he would like get and take pictures of marbled, the marbled texture of like rib-eye steaks and stuff. And then he would apply that knowledge to what he would create.

And then he would cover these zombies in basically meat patterns. It was great. It's so much fun to see. Yeah, I love that kind of thing. Anyway, I'm right to me of that. So something you can do when you are putting. together your portfolio. Hopefully you have a lot of things to pick from. You might want to put a dozen or so things in there, probably not more than 20.

The person looking at your artwork isn't going to want to look at a whole bunch of stuff. Something you can do to help call the list, though, is to go to other creative professionals you know and ask them for their feedback. People that you trust, whose opinion you trust, obviously. If you're looking for a way to sort of shorten the list of things to apply. the other thing too is if you're applying for a specific job you might customize your portfolio to show things that would be more a better example of how you would be a good fit for that job so you may have let's say I have 50 pieces to pick from I'll pick the 10 best that best show how to make you know detritus in a post apocalyptic game sure I love the word detritus is a fun word isn't it it's a good word yeah it's also so much easier than before where you can easily, like, swap out and show the pieces that are relevant to the job you're applying for, then, oh, I'm bringing in, here's a, here's a drawing I did in my life studies class of a nude person, but I guess that won't apply to this brochure you're hiring

me to. Yeah. Yep. Cool. Well, that's great. A couple more other things to include. Sure. So if you've ever collaborated with other artists or companies, that's a really good thing for a hiring manager to know, especially if you've worked for other companies. That's a good thing to point out. I've been hired before. And where applicable,

give a rough idea of how long each piece took to create. So, for example, if you're a sculptor, let's say you're getting hired, you want to get hired by immortal masks to sculpt faces for the masks that they make. They want to know how long it takes you to sculpt ahead. Because if it takes you a week to do it, and the other guy

can do the similar work in a day, he's going to get hired. Good point. So if you can provide that information, that can be super valuable. And then the portfolio itself, we talked about customizing your website,

but let's say you do hand in, you have the opportunity to hand a physical portfolio to someone. A friend of mine applied to work at Weta Workshop, and he literally made his physical

portfolio, like the book. he made and bound a book from scratch using skills that are valuable to Weta, things like metal woodworking leather work, and then the book itself was full of really amazing photos that he took of his costume work, metal armor, sword making, and his photography skills. That's cool. These are all things that he does at Weta now. Um, he, even though, so now he's the assistant swordmaker under Peter Lyons, which is kind of bananas. He's Peter Lyons, a guy made all the swords for Lord of the Rings.

But every once in a while, they need a photographer. So he jumps in, he's got all the gear. He knows what to do. He can even, uh, because he has all the gear, Weta rents his gear from him while he uses it. So he gets paid extra to do that. Um, but that story of him handing that. physical portfolio to Richard Taylor.

It's one of my favorite stories ever. It was like, how do you say no to that? Everyone else is giving you a business card or linking you to a website and he handed them a book he made from scratch. That's cool. Yeah, that's the other thing. These changes give an opportunity for

is for people to show how serious they are by like doing it the old way. It's hard to explain. Specifically skills that Weta, uses. Yeah, yeah, that's true. I was going to say something about what I just heard the other day in Africa, what it was. There was something rad. I can't remember anything today. There's like three things that popped

in my head and then left immediately. What does that mean? All right. Anyway, this fantastic. Work on your portfolio, everybody, however it looks. Digital, physical, whatever. And it's something that should be updated frequently, especially if you're not just when you're looking for work. As I look at the portfolio section on my website and how pitiful it is, I'm like, hmm. I know. No, right? I do that. I don't know anyone who's ever like, oh, I'm 100% happy with my portfolio right now. I think it's like kind of an impossible task. However, there's a lot you can do to sort of, in fact, the more you worry about it, probably the better it is. So just keep worrying about it and keep working on it, you know, add stuff here and there. And sometimes it's just as simple as, you know, put a thing in a folder and say, this folder is where I'm dumping stuff right now, but later I'm going to go through these and I'm going to organize it and, you know, like just be. thinking about putting that stuff together. Even if you think you're never changed in jobs,

you might. Bill, that's awesome. As always, you've got a little bonus link for us today. I do. My friend Laura over in Germany is building another tiny house. She got a circus trailer, this giant trailer on wheels

that you would drag around circus equipment, and she's converting it into a tiny house. And it's quite the adventure. Oh, my lord. I love the, just the thumbnail art is fantastic. Oh, yeah. We've, uh, yeah, we've had her.

We've talked about her before. She's awesome. She's really great. Oh, look at this old thing. Oh, my gosh. Dude, what a job. That looks like a nightmare. But of course, she's awesome and probably doesn't.

Murder was definitely committed in that trailer. Yeah. What do you do with the bodies and DNA that were in there before? I wonder. Hmm. Uh, also, don't you want this shop every time you see it? It's so charming and full of amazing stuff. I want it.

I want it just to have it. I don't know what I'd do in there. But anyway, go check that out. That's Lara Kompf. You can find her on YouTube as well as PunishProps.com on YouTube and the dot com. I just mentioned, Bill, it's always good having you on. Have a fantastic week, and we'll see you next week.

All righty, bye-bye. Bye, Bill. I'll be sure I add that to Quick TMS. How do I remove him? There we go. All right, there it is. That's that. Time for some science.

Okay. Okay. If you were like, wait, confirm new group. This is a new thing. Okay. Discord added a feature that I was not aware of. All right. Did you say new groove or new group?

New group. It asked for a phone button. The emperor's new group. It's science. That's right. And it's with Bobby Frankenberger who is, oh, his hair is down today. Look at this, you guys. We don't normally get this.

It was up last time, Bob. Bobby. Yeah, it depends on if I'm in, you know, working mode or not. What would it take for you to cut that off? Would it be a real drastic thing, or would you be willing to do it for less? I mean, I don't know. I've, I haven't had it for that long. Yeah, donate it to science. That's a good idea. What do you think of that? Yeah, there you go. Hair studies. Yeah, hair studies with Bobby. No, for real, though, wouldn't, there's some alopecia person sitting around going, man, I could go for some black, curly, luscious hair, you know? Yeah, I don't need this hair that bad. If someone needs it more than me, they can have it.

All right. I'll miss it. Don't be looking at me. I know. I see where you're going. I'm going to... Well, I need it more than you. See, that's...

You definitely need more than me. Yeah. Although, I would not mind seeing Brian in that wig, just for the heck of it. Somebody want to Photoshop that business? All right. Let us know. Bobby, it's always good to have you here. Let's get into whatever you've brought today from some science.

You're an actual science podcaster, so you probably... we have some scientific knowledge to shed today. What do you got? I'm not an actual scientist, but I am an actual science podcaster. Nice. But what makes a scientist, really? If I'm doing science, doesn't that make me a scientist? I don't know. Sure. Sure. Why not? I've done science sure. I've done science. Look, if I go upstairs right now, if I go upstairs and I dip something in, I don't know, hydrogen peroxide and see it change colors, did I do science? Or do I have to publish a paper and have it peer reviewed? How does it work? Well, I mean, there are, you know, science is as science does.

Oh, that old, that old chestnut, got it. That old, that old wise saying from Forrest Gump. Well, well, speaking of scientists, some scientists have conducted an experiment on top of a Swiss mountain. Whoa. Where they've managed to direct the path of lightning bolts by shooting lakes. Lasers at storm clouds and forcing them into submission. Holy shit. Wow. Okay.

To what end? What was the effort there? Goal. They wanted to see if they could influence the direction of storm clouds by shooting lasers at them. That's really all. That's what they were trying to figure out. So. I'm not not, not influenced the direction of the clouds, but influence the direction, like influence where the lightning strikes.

Okay. So just the lightning. So if you, let's say you've got an area, I don't know, somewhere in the Midwest that's that's prone to lightning strikes and fires as a or whatever. This, in theory, could, what, lead that away to somewhere else or lead them to poles that can ground it or something? Or what's the deal? Maybe, maybe at some time distantly in the future, the technology would probably have to advance a lot. But this, I think, is more aimed at figuring out, well, it's aimed at the storm clouds, right? But the lasers are. But it's more the point is to maybe deliberately get a lightning

strike to go where you wanted it to go for research purposes. because it's hard to study a lightning strike at the point of where it's struck when you can't predict where it's going to strike, right? Oh, right. Yeah, because by its nature, that's the whole thing is we don't know ever, right? We never know. Right. So this is a little way to tell.

We can only kind of guess maybe by sticking something tall into the air. And super tall and metallic. Yeah. So if they do that, they do it near like a golf course. Then those golfers are never going to get struck again. and then go golfing in the rain, right? Yeah, I guess so. You know that more lightning strikes happened just before and just after the rain than during the rain.

Really? Yeah, I did not know that. I just know that as a kid, people were telling me to hide under trees. Yeah, which is a bad idea. You know that now, right? Yeah, as an adult, they say, laid down in the field. Yeah, don't get anywhere near a tree.

So why were they telling me the opposite thing when I was a kid? What happened in the 80s? Maybe they thought that, who knows? Who knows why people said the things they said? Everything was based on old wives' tales when I was a kid, I swear. Yeah, maybe they thought it was because the tree was wooden and it would be more likely to strike something metallic. I don't know. When you see the lightning, stop drop and roll, you'll be fine.

Yeah, duck in cover. I was also told, I don't know if this is still true, but if you're in a car, you're better off because the tires ground you and you're not going to feel a thing. You might short some stuff. that you're safe? So the tires don't ground you. Yeah. The tires don't ground you because they're rubber, so they don't direct lightning to anything.

They're, they're, see, another one of these things. I was taught when I was young. But it is true, right? Because then the lightning isn't passing through you. I think it passes around you. It's,

it's, yeah, you don't want to be in a car when it gets struck by lightning either because it's, lightning is, dangerous for other reasons than just being electrocuted.

I don't even know what to do with this information. Lightening is dangerous? Or better off outside? You're saying better off outside the car? Maybe I don't really know. I don't want to give anybody lightnings around cars advice for fear that they might die. That's fair. That's a fair point. Yeah. Just know that lightning, when lightning strikes, that lightning strike can get up to 30,000 degrees Celsius. which is hotter than the surface of the sun, five times hotter. So you don't really want to be near lightning, period. If it gets that hot, obviously it dissipates around it or else, you know, it'd be like a nuke

and the whole town would go down. Sure. But that must be a very brief moment where it's that hot, right? Yeah, yeah. And it's in a very small area. It's inches wide. But that's what that heat, that intense heat suddenly happening is what causes thunder because of the shockwave of the air expanding where the like.

Oh, so the sound of lightning, I've never thought about this before. What makes, what makes thunder sound? I didn't know that was it. It's not the strike. It's not like a lot of people I think would think that the thunder comes from the lightning striking something. Yeah. But it's not. It's just the air of around where the path of the plasma forms. Crackling, okay. Suddenly expanding very quickly at a super high temperature. So Thor is the god of of thunder, that's a little bit of a misnomer because he doesn't really have I mean, the power of thunder is dependent on the power of lightning because the lightning needs to have the heat to disperse the sound, which then creates thunder. Like, it's just not as cool.

You know? Yeah. You sits on the throne of lies. Yeah. This whole time. Ikechor actually puts it in an interesting way in the chat says that the thunder is the sound of the air hitting itself, which is kind of true. Oh, that's weird. Yeah. I do it. So let's, how does lightning happen? You want to talk about that?

Let's do it. So thunderstorm clouds, they tend to have positively charged particles at the top of them and lots of negative particles at the bottom. And that's not normal. That's not the normal way charges are distributed in a normal, like just white puffy cloud. The reason it happens in thunderstorm clouds is because in a thunderstorm cloud, those big, tall, rapidly rising cumulinimbus clouds, you've got a bunch of ice particles that form in there

and they collide with each other making larger ice particles right well the the larger ice particles will tend to float towards the bottom and as the smaller ice particles go up past the larger sinking ones the smaller ones will um like like rub up a bump up against them and and lose an electron and so the larger ones collect electrons which are negatively charged And since they sink down, you have these negatively charged ice crystals at the bottom of the cloud. Weird. Okay.

Yeah. This is not, this is news to me. I don't, what were they doing in school with me? Were they just like, the clouds are dark and scary? Anyway, moving on to math class. Like what they didn't, they didn't give us this information. This is new to me. Yeah.

And so what happens is because you have a bunch of negative charge at the bottom and some positive charge at the top, that creates an electrical charge. field around that huge cloud because of the the difference between the charges now the negative charge at the bottom of the cloud also repels negative charge on the ground so eventually over time underneath the the storm cloud the ground tends to be more positively charged because it's pushing away you know like with a magnet negative charges push away other negative charges right So you end up with the positively charged ground and the negatively charged bottom of the cloud And when enough of that charge builds up

A lightning strike occurs Because it's discharging Now to understand how these lasers work You have to understand how the lightning bolt itself forms So like I said The charge between the cloud and the ground gets strong enough And eventually what happens is a bunch of electrons from the cloud start to move toward the positively charged earth.

Like literally they start to make a snaking zigzag line. That's the lightning bolt that you see eventually, right? So these charges are looking for something to make contact with. They want to move towards the positive charge. All right. And they'll make all sorts of different paths. They'll branch off of each other. That's why when you see a lightning strike right before the big strike,

You see all these zigzaggy branching paths that go off into nowhere. That's because they're all looking for something to connect to. Yeah. And they call these stepped leaders. All these, they're leading the path of the electrons, and they call them stepped leaders. And so you have a bunch of stepped leaders that will, are looking for a positive charge. Only one of them are going to make it before the lightning strikes. The rest of them won't.

and at the same time from the ground you have the same thing happening with positive charges and they call those streamers. So where a streamer that's positively charged connects with a leader that's negatively charged it makes a link with the ground and then the entire charge that's built up just discharges into that path

and that's where you see the lightning. And that's where you get the big lightning thunder clap deal. Yes, exactly. Here's the sound of a good thunder clap I'll just, just for fun here, chat. Here you go. It's crazy out here right now. Okay, I don't want to hear this guy talk.

Just show me the Thunder Club. Okay, here it is. I know you hear that shit. Okay, this is a terrible example, and I regret playing it. But, hey, can I ask you this question? Because you're talking about polarity. Yeah. And it reminded me of a story that came out last week

about somebody who made it into an MRI with their Apple watch on. oh my gosh they weren't supposed to you're not supposed to have metal objects on in there uh or things with metal you think the warranty covers that i who knows but when they came out for the life of them they couldn't figure out why the watch was now repelling the little back charger circle thing that the apple watches have so they they normally just click and stick on there but it's now repelling it charger yeah so the story is that the the four the apple watch's four magnet magnet part of it was had its

polarity reversed while in the MRI machine. Do you think that's, does that hold water? Because it was reported in a few places, and I don't know how, you know, scientific the findings were. I don't know. It seems plausible because you can influence the magnetic charge. Like, you can make a piece of metal that's ferromagnet, like a piece of iron, you can induce a magnetic charge to it. And the direction of the charge will be determined by how you apply a magnet to it. So it seems plausible to me that a strong enough magnet, which an MRI is a very strong magnet, could change the field direction.

Because it just depends on how the electrons are lined up or how the polar molecules are lined up in the material. So if you can reverse the way that they're lined up, then that would work, right? Yeah. And the guy who seems plausible to me, but I don't know for sure. The guy who claims he did it said, I just, I am thinking about taking the watch back to the MRI. MRI center at the hospital and beg them to expose the watch again so they can get it going the other way again he says it still works but it it barely hangs on because it's really trying to repel it probably has to rubber band it to the

charging exactly what he said he has to rubber band it you're right so anyway I just thought that was kind of and then you got to be careful when you take the rubber band off because then the rubber band shoots in one direction and your watch shoots in the other direction oh no everyone and no one wins when that happens yeah so yeah so okay so we're talking about how This is the basic way of lightning strike happens. Like the actual lightning bolt forms is through these leaders and streamers coming together. But as I said, they're just searching, the leaders are just searching for something to connect to. It's just whatever it happens to make connection with first, that's where the lightning strike's going to happen.

So lightning, there are a lot of different ways we can, well, maybe not a lot, but there are a couple of different ways we can direct lightning. We already talked about lightning rods, right? They're helpful, but they aren't perfect. All they do is just add something really tall so that maybe there's a more of a chance that the leader from the cloud, the electrons are going to make it to that before anything else.

So that's all a lightning rod is doing. Because there's no guarantee that lightning will strike a lightning rod. In fact, it's been reported plenty of times as lightning striking nearby a lightning rod, but not on the lightning rod itself. It just increases the chance that it's going to, instead of striking something near, by, it'll strike that rod.

Another way that people have tried to direct lightning strikes that actually works is scientists have had luck with shooting rockets into clouds that have a conductive cable attached to it. Whoa. Basically, you're

like handing it a wire to shoot down. Wow. That's cool. And it works. It works. So you fired in and immediately the reaction happens and bam and strikes it? if there's enough charge built up for sure because you're like handing it the charge

the lead to follow you're saying here here's a path something close enough yeah right yeah but does it do does it actually okay so this this is my bigger question doing that makes sense to me but does that actually discharge things enough to now like oh yeah we've we've we've made that particular cloud system impotent today because we shot a bunch of cables into it well no you'd have to keep doing it right and that's the problem that's why it's not an ideal solution because as with any lightning strike. The clouds that form thunderstorms don't just get one lightning strike. They'd do it many, many times. Right. Right. So you'd have to keep doing it. And so it would be like, the way I think about how this is not an ideal solution, of course, is because it'd be kind of like if you wanted to stop birds from pooping on you, so you shot a bunch of silly string in the air to scare them away. Yeah. Yeah, you've gotten rid of the poop, but now you have silly string everywhere. Yeah.

No, that's like invasive species problems, right? It's like, oh, we got these horrible bugs. Bring those birds in from Madagascar. Okay, cool. Now what's the problem? Oh, we got too many of these birds. Bring in the... To get rid of the birds and...

Yeah. So you might have directed all the lightning strikes, but now you have like metal cables all over the place. So that's not a great solution. So they thought up these lasers. Now, what do the lasers do? if the lasers are high enough intensity which these ones were

what they'll do is you shoot it into the cloud and it heats up the air around the laser as it travels through it now why does heating up the air matter well as you heat up the air the air will move away from the laser beam creating a channel of low pressure

air around the laser and what that does is all the air that moved out was charged in a certain way and what's left is charged positively, and so it gives a low-pressure charged channel of air a path for the lightning

to travel down. And by doing this, they were able to guide several lightning strikes to a tower that they wanted it to strike, and it worked. Wow. So there you go. All right.

It's cool. Wow. I'm, I, this is way more than they taught me ever. Well, now, you know, They can finally make lightning strike twice in the same place. I guess so. Yeah, they did. Yeah.

We can throw that old idea away then, right? That old idiom. Lightning strikes in the same place with very controlled circumstances. With lasers. Oh, boy. All right. Well, that's awesome stuff, as always. I always love hearing this stuff out of Bobby.

And Bobby does more of it on his science podcast that comes out weekly. Bobby, what is that show and what's on tap right now? Well, the show you can listen to and hear all of it. science-y stuff is called all-around science. Me and my co-host, Mora, we every week talk about science stuff, news, and just things we're interested in science. This past one, the one that came out yesterday on Monday is we talked about invisible creatures, animals that are invisible, transparent rather. Oh. I shouldn't say invisible. Translucent? They're translucent. Well, no, that's the thing. Some of them are just straight up transparent. Whoa.

Okay, I'm in. Have you done an example? Like a little baby finish? Yeah, give us a thylode amphipod, is I think what it was called. Otherwise, known as Finnish people. Okay, keep going. Right, exactly. They're these very large shrimp.

They look like shrimp, but the whole thing is just clear. If you were to see a picture of somebody holding one, it's just clear in your hands. Some people think, not some people think. I think I've read somewhere that the, the, the, the aliens from alien were were inspired by uh really the the they called um the xenomorphs that's what you're talking about yeah yeah amphapod I'm trying to find a picture of it but I can't because I can't remember how it's spelled I just looked up I looked up translucent transparent I tried transparent animals but Google image

search thinks you're looking for PNGs without any background that's not what I'm looking for. So I did train. There's a cow without a background. Yeah, exactly. So I looked up translucent, and there is a ton of weird stuff, man. Like, there I put one in the chat. That thing's cool.

And scary as hell. Let me see it. Is this in our Discord? Oh, look at that. It's in our Discord. Oh, that is very xenomorphy, very xenomorphic. Yeah. Very, uh, facehugger.

Uh, nope. Do not want. Nope. This is enough to make Ripley take control of the weird Jeep car and get out of there. Look at that. You know, at some point it would be great. Is that his guts or his heart or something?

What is that little orange thing? I think it's the heart. Okay. Wow. It's a little marinara sauce. It'd be great at some point to talk about the, that thing that they describe on the last of us with the fungus that takes control of your mind and has an insect as a real, is a real thing. Oh, and cats and stuff.

Yeah. Like, it's a type of fungus that, uh, we actually haven't, we talked about that. that's called, oh, man, I can't remember what it's called. But we do have an episode of, we talked about that on our show all the time. So here's what's cool about the show. Corticeps, cordyceps. That's right, cordyceps, yes. This is 100, I know people giggle when I say this.

It's 100% not a spoiler about that show, but the game doesn't feature it, and the show does. It's a pre, sort of a pre thing at the beginning that is some scientists sitting around talking on a talk show in the 60s. and they're talking about what could happen. And it's all very foreshadowy, right? And I think it helps the show a lot to help set up the world and what's about to happen and everything. But what I loved about it, it might have been the scariest thing of the whole show, to be honest.

Yes. The way that was presented was insane and really cool and just really cemented the concept of what's coming. But what I liked about it the most is the nervous scientist guy sitting in the middle is the swede from Hill on wheels. So I just wanted to point that out. Big old Swedish guy, total freak show actor guy. And never be in this again

is the one time you're going to see him. I love him. Anyway, that's my fun little side note. That's very cool. So yeah, if you want to hear about transparent animals or cordyceps, zombie fungus that causes zombies, you can find out that all on

all around science. Nice. Go get it today wherever you get your podcast. Bobby Frankenberger. Always a pleasure. Oh, that's weird. It reset Discord. hang up on him. Hold on a second. Why did it do that? I don't know why it does that sometimes.

It resets Discord when I remove it. There he goes. I was like, we can still see. We just sit here and watch Bobby. Yeah, it's effed. I really don't get that. All right.

There you go. That's Bobby. We're just about done today. However. Yeah. One tiny note today. Play retro 330 Mountain Time. Put in your calendar and check it up.

It's a subject today. I think we're doing, it changed. and then we changed back. Hold on a second. Let's make sure I remember and don't say the wrong thing. Oh yeah. Single screen top down arcade racers. So think Super Sprint and like Al Rally X. Yeah, dude. My jam as far as like arcade stuff goes. We're going to talk all about that and get into it pretty deep. Things like Sprint, Super Sprint, as we mentioned, Danny Sullivan's Indy Heat. I remember that one. Badlands. Bump and jump. Oh, Demolition Derby. Some good stuff.

PC Pro-Am. Oh, yeah, RC rather. Anyway, that's all coming up. Today, 3.30 Mountain Time. If you don't want to watch it live, you can always get the podcast wherever you get it afterwards or the YouTube channel for video. And that will be later today. Brian, you got anything going on today? Working on my 3D printer, that's kind of why I haven't

brought up the steam deck stand because over the weekend, cranked out so many of these stands. So just about everybody's order who's waiting for theirs is going to get theirs. However, there's a couple people I've reached out to. They're like, it's going to be a couple days later. But I think the nozzle's gotten clogged on the 3D printer,

so I'm going to have to do a little emergency medicine on my 3D printer before I can print any more. Makes sense since you've got so many going, you know? Yeah, yeah. It's going to have issues. Yeah, and the other 3D printer is down as I wait for a crimper to arrive today so I can make a new part for it. Nice.

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but no shows on Saturdays, so I'm asking for Monday the 16th. No show yesterday either. Any good cover of the song Holding Out for a Hero would be great. Can I get a, you guys sound sparkly today? Oh, I think I have that handy. Oh my gosh.

Old Daryl clip. Here we go. Spark. Lee. Here it is. You guys sound kind of sparkly. Yeah. Don't forget, he was naked. He was naked when he left that message. So I decided to stay away from the Shrek soundtrack, which has two, count them two covers of that song,

one by Fru Fru and one by Jennifer Saunders, and go with something that I haven't played before, a version by Amazing Transparent Man from their album, taking back the covers, covering that song, by Bonnie Tyler. Here is Holding Out for a Hero. Awesome. We will be back tomorrow with a brand new show.

We hope you'll be here with us. It's our Wednesday edition. That means recommendals and Tom and all that stuff. So please, please come back and join us then. We'll see you tomorrow. Where have all the good men gone and where are all the gods? When's the street wants Hercules to fight the rising yachts? Isn't there a white night upon a fiery steep?

Late at night I toss and I turn and I dream of what I need. I need a hero holding up for a hero. Until the end of the night And he's got to be strong And he's got to be fast And he's got to be fresh from the fights I need a hero Holding up for a year

Until the morning night And he's got to be sure And it's got to be soon And he's got to be larger than light Larger than life Larger than life Somewhere out through midnight Somewhere out through midnight

In my wildest fantasy Somewhere just beyond my reach As someone reaching back for me Rising on the thunder And rising with the heat It's gonna take a Superman Just sweep me off my feet I need a hero

And he's got to be strong and he's got to be fast and he's got to be fresh in the fight I need a hero holding up for a hill until the morning in my heart and he's got to be sure And it's got to be soon and it's got to be larger than light larger than light Where the mountains meet the heavens above where the lightning explodes where the lightning explodes It's the sea I can swear that someone's someone watching me Through the wind and they're chill in the rain And the storm and the flood

I can feel as approach just like the fire in my blood I need a hero Holding up for a hero Till the end of the night And he's got to be strong And he's got to be fast And he's got to be fresh in the fight I need a hero

Holding up for a hero Holden up for a hero and he's got to be sure and it's got to be soon and he's got to be larger than life larger than life This show is part of the FrogPants Network

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