The Morning Stream - TMS 2409: Edging The Vinyl

Episode Date: January 19, 2023

Amputate The Grandma. Don't Put That in Your Mouth. A Saturday Night at Froggers House. Lies and the Lying Liars who Lie. Nobody pays me to talk to my wife. Pinball Wizard's Garage Sale. Pants on fire indicator. Keep your leg, make a lamp out of it. Aggressive Microtransactions. The curse of Karen and Brandon. I hate it when songs get stuck in my head...in your head, zombie, zombie. Don't finger the Vinyl. The centipede that led to my wife. Leave the Gun, Take the CannoLeg. Reading is Fundamental with Amy 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.

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Lies and the lying liars who lie. Nobody pays me to talk to my wife. Pinball wizard's garage sale. Pants on fire indicator. Keep your leg. Make a lamp out of it. Aggressive micro-transactions. The curse of Karen and Brandon. I hate it when songs get stuck in my head. in your head zombie don't finger the vinyl the centipede that led to my wife leave the gun take the canoleg reading is fundamental with amy and more on this episode of the morning stream who taught you how to handle vinyl you don't just grab the vinyl you grab it by the edge you don't want your fingerprints on the vinyl because it'll ruin the sound of the record i saw a joke that's how i say it The Morning Stream, My Philosophy, my philosophy, a hundred-dollar shine on a three-dollar pair of shoes. Good morning, everybody. Welcome to TMS. It is the morning stream for Thursday, January 19th, 2023. I'm Scott Johnson. Hi, Brian. Hi, Scott, how you doing?

Good. Here is how you hold vinyl. You have to hold it by the edges. You don't put your fingers right on it. You have to hold it by the edge. What is that? Is that Dark Side of the Moon? No, it looks like it.

For a while, MCA Records was putting that rainbow thing on all of their albums. I do have Dark Side of Moon right there, but no, this is the Sting, the soundtrack to the Sting, which is the album that's sitting on top of here. Something else you don't do, which apparently I did when,

the last time I listened to this, which was quite a while ago, was I put the sleeve inside the jacket with the opening facing out, which you're not supposed to do. Oh, is that a thing? I didn't know that was a thing. It's a thing, yeah. It's like, you know, people like, oh, I just want that album out and out quick. No, no, no, no. You have to put the album, you put the sleeve in the jacket. This is where I turn into Daniel Stern from a diner, basically. This is, this is. Exactly where I am. But yeah, you put the sleeve with the opening at the top into the jacket, preferably with side A facing up. Oh, okay. I didn't realize there was an effort to do that as well. You don't want it upside down. You absolutely don't want it upside down.

But you want basically, you hold the record with the front facing you and the opening to the right. You pull it open. The last thing you want is the record to fall down. So you have the opening of the sleeve up at the top. Yeah. And preferably you put the... side A facing you. All right. I hope all you kids are listening.

All you millennials with your brand new record players you got for Christmas your Crosly your Crosley suitcase record player and your copy of the Arctic Monkeys. That's right. That's right. Look, they got to hear it somewhere. They may as well get the hard truth here on the show. It's fine. Exactly.

It's all good with me. All right, well, you're this guy now. Who taught you how to handle vinyl? You're that guy. Fine. You know what's got a fine with that. He has a really good sound on his complaint, though, I thought.

It really did, really clear, but he's very close to the microphone. You can pick up every bit of saliva in his statements. See, that's where you get me. You're always, you know, you don't like it for me. It is anything. It's just like a, you know, I wonder, this might be a thing to trace back with Wendy. Were your parents super, super freaked out? about you putting anything in your mouth that wasn't food.

Like, don't put that penny in your mouth or don't drink from the hose. Right. A lot of parents, I think, were like that. Yeah, but I mean, if yours scared you to the point of where the merest thought of a germ or anything in your mouth would kill you, if they ever put that fear into you, that would explain the whole, like, what gross got out the most and, you know, barf teeth and stuff like that. I don't know why I notice that stuff. You may be right.

I'm trying to think back. I don't have any specific examples of them doing that. Like your parents put some mouth food. Maybe there's some foo. Yeah, they said, don't put food in your mouth. Put food in your mouth, they said. That's right, exactly. Even licking your fingers, like, oh, chicken wings.

Oh, I hate it. People licking their fingers. But how old are you going to get all of that great buffalo wings sauce off of them, Scott? I don't know. A napkin and let it just go to waste? Yes, let it go to the landfill, I say. Yuck. Yuck.

Yeah, I don't know where that comes from. now that you've asked, I kind of want to know. Yeah. Let's get to a show today. We have a slightly shorter show today. Brian's got a doctor's appointment that kind of cut into time, so we're going to rip through things and still have most of it. Wendy won't be here this week.

She'll be here next week. Like Cool Mo Dee said, go see the doctor. That's right. Cool MoD. was right. It was right. Yes. He said, go have that checked out. I had my doubts about the guy, but, you know, now enough time has passed that I feel like

we can we proved him out he's he was he was on the level the whole time you know what that that song uh in a weird way um led to me meeting tina now that i think about it so there was this club i'll do this really really quick no i can't wait to hear this this is a wild story i would have never guessed no all right so uh it's this song by kumo d called go see the doctor and it's like like the the core of the backing stuff goes skeezer do do to do to skis or skis And there was this club across the street from my high school, opened up in a strip mall. But it was an all-ages club. And back in high school, that was a really cool thing.

Went there. And for whatever reason, they started playing. I mean, I guess it was what they wanted to play. They played that song. And I started talking to this girl near me about it. And her name was Beth. And we were kind of laughing about that. then they start playing a slow song and so oh beth do you want to dance and she's like yeah okay

cool so uh beth uh and i went out on the dance floor and danced to that and decided hey let's you know uh like to take you out some time as the kids say these days uh or those days and uh beth became my girlfriend for a while she introduced me to rachel and then rachel introduced me to her friend shannon and shannon introduced me to tina oh my gosh look at that were these all your girlfriends in a row? It was like a game of Frogger, like a bunch of lily pads all in a row that led me to that, that, uh, that one spot at the very end of Frogger that's already got Mrs. Frogger in there that you land on. Oh, I always forget Mrs. Frogger's even in there. I always forget that. She's there though. Tina's Mrs. Frogger in this case. But hold on. Did you date all these girls in a row or was it that they just recommended the other few? They, uh, I dated, uh, Beth. I did not date Rochelle. We, we, we, we, we, we, we, we, we, we, we, we gave it a shot like we said you know we hang out enough like you know should we maybe try going on a date and we even kissed and stuff but it just it just totally didn't work yeah um and then uh and then i dated shannon then channon uh introduced me to tina and then when

i started dating tina Shannon got really pissed even though we had broken up for months oh she was mad she was mad oh yeah yeah she tried to slam uh very long story short she tried to slam my legs in a car door. I was standing outside or sitting in the car with my legs turned facing facing, uh, actually I guess I was, my body was turned. My legs were on the street. The door was

slightly ajar, but I was turned and I was talking to Tina. And Shannon came and launched herself at the door to try and slam my legs in the door. That's freaking terrible. And Tina like said, oh, Brian, it made me turn my head and I'm sorry, just as she was getting to the door at a full

run and like, pushed back on the Tor. Dang, dude. From doing that. That's hardcore. Hell hath no fury like a Shannon score. No kidding. That could have really hurt, you know?

Yes. Like, it could have been real damage. That's pretty hardcore, man. Yeah, she was easily the, you know, on the scale of zero to crazy town. She was way up there, like eight or nine. It's like that girl to stab the bear and put ketchup on it like blood. Right, exactly. I had my...

Gary, she could have been sisters. Long-lost sisters. Oh, my lord. Shannon and Paula, don't put those two together. The whole world ends. No, no. Anyway. Well, that's awesome.

I was not expected to talk about that. But, hey, we all have our therapy Thursdays. We do it all weekend. Yeah, it's Thursday. Wendy's not here, so we deal with it how we have to. Hey, we got a text I want to read. This is from a listener who called us in, or the text of us in at 80147-106462. I'm Mackhead in particular, is the name.

says funeral home employee here related to your discussion of wanting parts back after medical procedures. I always say it's your body. You should get it. Yeah. You should get to keep the old chip when they put a new chip in. Right. If they go like, like let's say worst case, this, I hope this doesn't have, but worst case scenario, your doctor sends you to a specialist and he says, we got to take your lbar at one of your things out. You're going to take one of your, your L5 or whatever. We've got to take it out. And we've got to replace it with some titanium thing.

Ooh, I like that already. You should keep, you should get to keep the old one. Oh, for sure. That's my thing. You do a coaster. Absolutely. It's the, I feel this way about teeth, about appendicituses. You want to keep that appendix?

You should get to keep your uterus. And that's where this came up. We were talking about it with, with Amy. Oh, right. Yes, with Amy's uterus. So he says, this IMac had says, years ago, I blew off a part of his hand with fireworks. Nope. no he did not oh wait i years ago a guy blew off

blew off a guy damn it years ago a guy blew off part of his hand with fireworks that is that part's correct uh the hospital end up releasing the unsalvageable bits of his hand but only to a funeral home whatever was left i couldn't see much was stored in a small bucket of formal formal or formalde i assume that's what formalin is formalin i think is a it might be a brand name of formaldehyde or just a but it's a preservative right like it preserves the flesh same same right exactly okay so that's weird why would you why would a hospital send the remains of an undead person yeah i would think that that's like considered medical weights you know what do you do with that you burn it ended up releasing the unsalvageable bits he could follow up and tell us but maybe they have a deal with this the city where they burn they're they're the ones that dispose of the the crematorium stuff or something. I don't know.

That's really weird. That's really weird. It's really weird. So, so, you know, his fingers, right? Oh, we can't sew this part back onto his hand. What else would a hospital send to a funeral home instead of just destroying there at the hospital is, like I said, medical waste? No kidding. Like, let's say it's half your hand and you're missing a big chunk of the meat here and that meat is no longer usable.

What do you do with that meat? Why would you send that to that thing? Or if they amputate somebody's leg. Oh, right. that's a good question yeah yeah do they all right there's a question there's a follow-up question then but let's finish this thought they amputate a leg do they do they burn the leg in their own furnace or whatever they have a medical waste thing or do they have to send that to a funeral home and follow-up question if you had your leg amputated would you want to keep your leg oh my gosh dude yes but i'd want to

put it in like lucite like uh you know what i mean like some kind of acid-free mylar uh yeah so it'd be C-3 Like when they put bugs and stuff or, you know, other animals in there. I want like that. So it's a big old triangular or rectangular block that's see-through and transparent of my leg. I would do that. Yeah. Hell yeah. I would do that.

I mean, I don't want to free people out. I don't know if I have the room here for a leg. Yeah, you'd have to get rid of something. We were talking about this new mini pinball machine that looks really, really cool. It's the Legends. What is it? Pinball Micro. Legends Pinball Micro.

I want to see it. So you know my video pinball here, this Marveled one, from arcade one-up. Right, right, right. That's like half or three-quarter size of a regular pinnball machine. This one is like tabletop size, but kind of just the right size. Oh, look at this. This looks great.

Yeah, and it's 500 bucks. 500 bucks. That's a pretty, I mean, that tells me it's made well, so that's good. But, okay, see, now I can see the size of it. Oh, yeah, this looks like. This is where you play your retro, right? Like 50 built-in games, all the Taito stuff. Do you play the probably, what's that new?

Who makes those new pinball digital games? Zen pinball stuff? Yeah, Zen pinball. You might be able to load the Zen ones on there. I can load the Zen ones on here. Can I load Pokemon pinball, though? That's my favorite pinball machine. Oh, gosh.

I love Pokemon Pinball. Pokemon pinball's amazing. Oh, that's kind of a cool idea. Like turn that Game Boy D. or Game Boy Color game into a pinball like a realistic looking pinball game

and but keep all of the the exact layout of the table, the bumpers, all that stuff because that was... I would love it. Yeah, the GBA game in particular is my favorite. I love that one. I can play that right now and have a good time. I'm not really a Pokemon person as you know and

for whatever reason Pokemon pinball scratches that edge for me. Not sure why. Anyway, you get that i'll be jealous if i won't because somebody in the no make i think it was in the chat room said uh that's cool brand where would you put it i'm like well yeah i don't ever i don't ever think about that question i we talked about this little off air i think but i have got to dejunct some i just have to hair down yeah i think we talked about after film sack and that's uh there's so much stuff i don't need if you follow me on ebay you're going to see a lot of stuff

a lot of collectibles and garbage and stuff yeah well no garbage i'm going to give it way what I can. eBay, what makes sense. Garage sales some of it this summer. I just, I got a simple. The stuff that I don't, that's too lazy to put in a box and ship to someone. Yeah, I just want to simplify. Just too much shit, you know, and then I'll compile more and then I'll get rid of that. That's just the pattern. But right now, it feels like we're at a crescendo. I don't know if it's because of the pandemic or something. I just pack right it or something. Yeah. I got a lot of stuff I don't need. But I'm not getting rid of

these Golden Girl figurines, Nicole. These are great. These are staying forever. I should just keep her there Keep her there the whole show Which one is it? Oh, it's even Betty White I should just keep Betty White in front of me Isn't that cute? Actually it changes the way the mic sounds

All right, put that over there All right, we also got one more text from A listener who did not leave their name Says this, My 10-year-old asked me a fun question That I thought might be fun content for TMS. Would you rather get $200 every time someone lies to you or $200 every time somebody tells you the truth.

100,000 I'm going with the every time somebody lies to me. Really? Yeah. People lie way more than they tell the truth. Way more. And we're talking like Little White, like every kind of lie from the big whoppers to the little white like, oh yeah, no, those pants don't make you look fat at all. Yeah, exactly.

All of it. I think you have to, if you count it that way, we are rich men with lies. Rich. For sure. I think so, too. Yeah. But if you do it with the truth, thing, you're going to make a little money.

You'll make a little money, you know. Like, you'll make money every time you talk to your wife, but any time outside of that, maybe you'll make a little money on the lies thing when you talk to your wife, too. I had a, this is forever ago, but a long time ago had a dream that if every, the way to disrupt the world entirely

and have it reset would be for a technology to come along that suddenly in a blanketed way, across the entire planet, Nine billion of us, whatever we are now, would immediately be able to read everybody's thoughts all at the same time? Sure. It would destroy everything. Everybody gets telepathy. Yeah.

So it doesn't matter who you are what you are. It's a bit like that Ricky Jervais movie where he... There was some movie about where they invented lying. I can't remember the name of it. I can never remember the name of the damn thing. It's that, though, right? The invention of lying. Was it there.

whatever that was but like if you did that suddenly like right now out of the blue man it would F things up just F things up because nobody

you would find out how many people are just like lying to you all the time and it would be a lot and I don't mean just people you know personally it would be

the mechanic up the street the guy who sold you those pants the you know the heads of massive corporations everybody from top down in the middle. It'd be bad. I'm going to say this right. I'm going to proclaim this right now, Scott, January 19th, 926 a.m. Mountain Time.

Yeah. That once we get our Google Glass or whatever Apple's working on, whatever any, you know, whatever AR system ends up being the dominant, the dominant AR glasses. Yeah. That someone is going to develop an app that uses facial recognition, uh, uh, typical, nervous ticks sound you know wavering voice and sound that's going to give you it's going to be an app that is going to sit in the bottom right corner

of your Google Glass screen your HUD and it's going to say 75% probability that what they just said is a lie I think you're right I think you're right I think that tech already exists in other use cases it's just a matter now of making it to the consumer

grade stuff because you know people use it all the time for like surveillance camera and facial recognition. Exactly. Yes, micro expressions. That's the word I was looking for. So little micro expressions that it uses people looking up to the right as they're saying something or a little wavering in their voice that might be normally undetectable

or on its own detectable but not compared with everything else. But can you imagine the future of Karen technology? She walks into a store. She doesn't even like say anything. She walks into the store and she sees a clerk and he walks up and goes, can I help you? And she goes, just a moment. and she pulls out her things, puts them on her face, and then looks at him and goes, okay, is there a better deal on this blanket than you gave me?

I was thinking it was going to be a lot more than haggling that she would use it for like, let me talk to your manager. Well, I'm the manager. Oh, no, you're not. But I'm thinking that that technology will also be in the front of retail establishments and will automatically lock the door if they sense a Karen coming. Oh, there you go. Yeah, see, that would also have a way of seeing her micro-transactions, which are aggressive and horrible.

Exactly, yeah. Oh, I love this. This is good. You know, can I tell you the two people in my life that I love, but I feel so sorry for right now? Yeah. And that's Old Man Franks and Old Lady Franks, because the names Brandon and Karen have been so besmirched in the last couple of years. I hadn't even thought about this because I just think of him as Old Man Franks and Mrs. Old Man Franks. I never think about it.

But you know what? You're absolutely right. In their regular work-a-day life, they have to be Brandon and Karen since 2000. And now that's, I mean, hats off. We owe them something. A debt of gratitude or something. I don't know what we owe them.

Because they're nice people. Anyway. All right. Well, there you go. We're going to take a bit of a curve now and talk to Amy. Yeah. Well, this we normally do here, but then the curve. Then the curve stops.

Yeah, then we have a different curb. And when that curve comes, you'll know it because you won't be ready for it. And it'll jerk your neck like you got the rubber neck. I don't know what that means. Here's this. Jaunty music means that Amy's back with us to talk about books and what we should be reading. Amy, welcome back to the show. And we don't hear her.

Oh, well. All right. Thanks, Amy. Well, thanks, Amy. We'll see you next week. Just kidding. She probably just needs to unmute or. Just turning a microphone off.

I want to hear her do the chock. You know, like Nicole used to do the mark. Yeah, you can tell she's probably scrambling. Hello, hello? Are you there? No, still nothing. No, still nothing. Check your sources.

Check your baggage. Two weeks. Tell you a little story. Amy was the first person to order a TMS steam deck, which are now back in full production. and, oh, yeah, you can mention on Quartanite. Oh, I was going to ask, yeah. Okay, that's good. Yeah. I will do that.

But, and the code I gave you is only for patrons, for TMS patrons. Okay. Yeah, I'll just do it. Anyway. Those scrubs, I'll have to pay full price. That's how I will handle it. Exactly those scrubs. But here's the thing.

The mail system, United States Postal Service, seems to have lost her order, her package. Oh, no. Yes. What? So it's like, I don't, God, that's annoying. That's annoying. I know.

I shipped yours like over a week ago. Have you not received it yet? She's like, no, it hasn't come in yet. It's like, I read and looked at USPS tracking. It's like received package from, from customer. And that's where it stops. Weird. Yeah.

Yeah, that sucks because when you're the first one, like literally like someone on a forum going first, I hate that, but she's literally the first. And now, when now it's late? Lame. Amy, you there? Can we hear you? Nope, still don't hear Amy. It keeps saying RTC connecting.

Oh. If you can hear us, maybe quit, um, quit, uh, Discord. Oh, there we go, she is maybe. Yeah, Discord is effing me. She says, I keep saying RTC connecting. BRB, so sorry. Oh, you're fine. Yeah.

We're easy, man. This show, you know, look. If TMS is anything, it's fluid, you know? Yeah. And it's simple. Oh, now she's chatting directly to us. She's going to try the phone. She's going to try on the phone.

All right. Yeah, we can make that work. No problem. In fact, I can even ring her from here. Let's see if it'll ring her phone. Okay, we've got the rings of ringage. I'll bet this works just fine. That's how the, how this stuff pans out.

All right. I see her fragile photo blinking. Yeah. That seems like a sign of. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Something, something's coming. I can feel it.

Oh, man, it's like a heartbeat. Oh, boom. Oh, it's a slow heartbeat, though. I'm going to look at that, look that. You need a little faster heartbeat. Oh, wow. Yeah. Okay.

Nothing. Maybe it's her ice. Maybe she's got a local loudage or something. I don't know. I mean, and technically, we are reading her replies. So if this is all read this ends up being this week, it's, we're reading. Look, here's the, we're reading. Discord is effing me.

It keeps saying RTSC connected. BRB so sorry. That's the end of the book, everybody. Go get it on Amazon. I-Corps you did receive yours because you ordered yours back in December, right? Like you, then you ordered a Yeti. ICOR is like, does that the same service use for me?

Please tell me you've received. Oh, I don't know. He didn't get it. Oh, Clara didn't get it. Well, Claire, you're in a weird place. She didn't order anything. Yeah. You didn't get the free thing.

You think you're owed? Oh, I see her back. Hi. Are you there, Amy? I'm here. Can you guys hear me now? We can hear you now. Yep. You sound like you're on a phone. Yeah. I'm on a phone because I have expletives for Discord. Ah, yeah. Well, look, they don't call it Discord for nothing, you know? It's sometimes there's Discord. You're fine. This sounds good. We can totally do this. Yeah. This works. Totally. Totally works. Yeah. A pinch? Totally works.

Yeah. Well, it's one of those things. We'll make it work. I don't know. You had said to me earlier, there was no clip for this one from an audio book, so you said you might be reading it. That'll be fun on a phone for you, but I don't mind. I don't mind at all.

Yeah, not on your way either. It's fine. I'll make it work. It's a little choppy. Are you on speaker? Yeah, I don't know why you're anything today. See if it'll let you do like non-speaker. It might sound.

better yeah you know that's what i'm trying to do but now i can't it's like not but yeah there we go okay ha ha ha ha there it is much better yeah lots better lots better you were in a can there before uh we'll take this hey uh look look everybody it's amy we're gonna talk about books and uh yeah yeah hey reading's reading's important everybody should read so it's fundamental i hear yeah yeah reading is fundamental it is it i say that all the time actually When somebody screw something up or they ask me a dumb question, it's like a red on airlight for reading, like if there's a sign, you know, I used to work at a Longhorn and there was a big, bright neon sign that said where the restrooms were. And invariably, people would come up to me

and ask me where it was. And I would, of course, politely direct them to the restroom and then under my breath, I'd be like, reading is fundamental. It is fundamental. So hold on a second. Is Longhorn a really hungry for steak? Is that what that is? I don't think we have Longhorn here. I don't think. Hold on. Longhorn.

It's part of the Landry's group, isn't it? Longhorn? Oh, no. Salt grass. Oh, no. Longhorn is part of those. So it's like it's, I think it's part of like this Darden restaurant group. So it's like Red Lobster and Longhorn Steakhouse and all those places.

That's right. What am I thinking of? There's something here that we have Texas and we, Texas Roadhouse. Outback. Do you have salt grass? No. Don't have salt grass. Why is Longhorn?

You have like Ted's Montana grill? No, that sounds good though. Oh, yeah. It's, uh, Jane Fonda's, uh, ex-husband. Really? Mm-hmm. That's a Ted Turner deal?

Is it all in black and white or color when you go in? Uh, part of the restaurant is you walk in, it's black and white and then it turns in colors you go for the rest of it. Ask your great uncles, folks, what Brian that I were talking about. Ask that weird old guy lives up the street. Yeah. That's an old reference. Anyway, Amy, tell us what.

reading this week. What should we fill our heads with? Because, man, I need to right now. What do you got? All right. So a little bit of setup for what I'm about to read you is there is an American man who is teaching English in China. And he is in his classroom speaking to his students. So that is the, that is the setup to try and make the actual. And I don't need to, I don't need to brace myself for a crazy accent or anything, right? You're not going to do that. No. No. Okay. Just making sure. Just making sure. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Let's see.

Teacher Mark, how do you feel knowing your country dropped an atom bomb on innocent people? My face turned red with embarrassment at having the question put so personally, but I tried to remain detached. That is a good question, teacher Zhu. I can tell you that in America, many people disagree about this. Not everyone thinks it was the right thing to do, although most people think that it saved lives. How did it save lives? Well, by ending the war quickly. Here, teacher Zhu looked around the room at his classmates.

But, teacher Mark, it is a fact that the Japanese had already surrendered to the communist eighth-root army of China. America put the bomb on Japan just to make the world think America was the... The, the Victor! shouted Faddy Dew. Yes, yes, the victor, shouted, said teacher, Zhu. I must have stood gaping for a long time, for the other students began to laugh nervously. Teacher Zhu, how do you know this is a fact? Because that is what our newspapers say. I see, but our newspapers tell a different story.

How can we know which newspaper has told the truth? truth. Here, he seemed relieved. Huh? That is easy. Our newspapers are controlled by the people, but your newspapers are owned by capitalist organizations, so of course they make things up to support themselves. Don't you think so? My mouth opened and closed a few times, but no sound came out. Faddy Dew, apparently believing that the truth had been too much for me, came to my aid. It doesn't matter. Any capitalist country would do that. It's it is not just your country. My head's swimming. I asked her if she thought only capitalist countries lied in the papers. It's not. The Russians do it too. But here in China, we have no reason to lie in the

papers. When we make a mistake, we admit it. As for war, there is nothing to lie about. If you look at history, you can see that China has never attacked a nation. It has only defended its borders. We love peace. If we were the most powerful country in the world, think how peaceful the world would be and seen so that's great so so uh boy see why you didn't do voices in that one yeah um yeah no i'm not i'm not gonna like mickey runy i'm just put this up oh yeah the the voice version of yellow face absolutely not yeah i respect that uh so what so so um this feels timely for some reason i don't know why it just feels like this people are having weird arguments like this right now you know interesting you should say

that i picked this book and i specifically put it on my calendar for today to do this book today because this sunday is chinese new year so that was why i had picked this book for for this uh time period but yeah and i thought it was really cool that you brought up on the show the other day you were talking about uh you know china and and things like things of of this nature so i don't know it was It's a really cool book. The name of the book is not shit out of luck.com. It is Iron and Silk by Mark Salzman. And be careful, look for the one by Mark Salzman because there is another book called Iron and Silk by someone else.

And I haven't read that one. So this recommendation is the one by Mark Salzman. It is a true account of his time living in China as a teacher. And, you know, like I said, he's there teaching. English to Chinese people. But he's also, he's one of these like Renaissance people that's just kind of want to just smack him, although you wouldn't be able to, because he's also a martial arts expert. And he plays the cello. And like, he's one of those people who's just freaking good at everything he touches. But, and he, you know, he learned to do Chinese calligraphy while he was there.

He literally just went to China, I think, to absorb as much of their culture. as possible and really learn where his viewpoints were, you know, very Western and that there is another way to look at things. And that scene, I read this book about 10 years ago. It's actually, it's a little bit old. So it was written in, let's see, 1986. And so, you know, there's some, there's some stuff that's dated in here. There's not, you know, you're not going to find people walking around with cell phones, things like that. But yeah, I mean, it's a completely true story, and it just kind of reads like somebody telling you anecdotes about their time spent living in China.

And it's fascinating, and it just gives you a really cool look at sort of the Chinese culture in a way that makes it relatable, in a way that we don't really get unless you actually know a Chinese person, you know? Um, so it's, and it's really fascinating. I always thought, I love that scene in the classroom where they're talking about the newspapers. Because, you know, my thought was always like, well, you know, China doesn't have a free press, right? So we don't, we don't really know. Like, especially I thought that during COVID, I was like, ah, we have no idea what their COVID numbers are because their government controls all their press, right? But then that that always stuck with me.

It's like, yeah, but corporations own all our newspapers. Yeah, it's easy to, I mean, people, people get xenophobic for a whole lot of reasons, but right now it's easy just to go anti-China because China, and don't get me wrong, the government's up to all kinds of weird shenanigans, but I just think it's so crucial to remember that on the ground, it's just not what you think it is. It's just people, maybe different cultures, but it's just people, right? They're people like being you, just trying to get their stuff done and take care of their families and do their thing.

And everybody's got their systematic issues from the ground floor all the way up. But at the end of the day, it gets so easy for us to just package it all up and go, China bad, you know, and we don't have the nuance to break those apart and like look at it separately. And we've done this forever. You know, my grandpa couldn't even say the word Japanese without shortening to the old JAP. they were so fond of in the 40s. And he never trusted an Asian person his entire life.

He just didn't do it because he came up at a time where they attacked us and we fought back. And there was a huge war about it. And, you know, all the baggage that comes with that. And so it's really hard for people to separate just people from whatever monolithic government or corporation or whatever it is that is actually doing the things you disagree with. And I don't know, I always, I always like being shocked out of that. I like being reminded that it's not that simple, you know. Well, and the fascinating thing to me, too, is, you know, the things that are just cultural norms that feel rude, you know, like things that would feel rude to us are not necessarily things that are rude to people in Asian cultures, right? Like, uh, there, and there's a lot of that in this book.

There's, uh, there's one scene where, uh, a master of some kind of art that he's trying to learn, you know, like I say, he tries, he learns everything and it's amazing, but, uh, offers him, offers to teach him basically for free at any time he wants. And he tries to be, innocently, he's being magnanimous about it. And he says, oh, no, no, that would be. be, that would be too much. I can't, I can't accept. And, you know, of course, to us, as Americans, we think, oh, he's just trying to be polite, you know, he's, he's trying to not impose, right? Well, to this, this master in this Chinese master, that was a huge insult. It was a giant insult that he turned him down. And so it was extremely rude that he didn't accept his offer. And And, you know, and then he tried to, after he kind of figured that out, he tried to go back to him and apologize, but it was kind of like, well, it's kind of too late now. You know, like the damage is done sort of thing. And, you know, it's fascinating to me. Like, we have a, we have a pretty big Korean community in our neck of the woods. And the community art center that I go to to do pottery, there's off there, there are entire, you know, Korean speaking classes there. So often if you go in for open studio time,

there'll be like, you know, half the, half the studios take it up with, you know, these little Korean ladies. And they're, of course, making just like the most gorgeous, amazing looking things. And here I am just like fumbling around with this clay looking, you know, just making a mess and looking like a dork. But, you know, I'm like, and I feel,

I often am just like, wow, I wish I understood what they were saying. because I bet there's some like really good nuggets of wisdom or something. They're probably just sitting there gossiping and half the time I'm sure they're like laughing at me. But you know, it's just interesting. Like they, there's a drawing slab at the front of the art studio and they will spread their stuff out and use the whole space.

Because culturally it's like, oh, well, this is here. This is a community thing. If I don't use it, that would be rude. Whereas we would think, oh, I only want to take up as much space as I absolutely need to leave it for other people. You know what I'm saying? Sure. So, and they, to them, they're not, they're not being rude. That's just what they're doing.

It's not a, it's just a cultural thing. So I find that stuff imminently fascinating. You know, I just, I really do. It's like, wow. And I also, I think about, because I don't speak a word of any kind of Asian, like, I can count to, you know, I can count in Japanese because I used to take martial arts a while back ago, and I used to be able to count in Chinese as well, or rather in Mandarin. But, yeah, like, that's it. Like, I can't, I can't speak a word of anything. And so I'm, I would be horribly intimidated to travel to that side of the world. But, but also I would find it really fascinating. I think I like watching things and reading things about their culture because I'm too chicken to go visit them.

Yeah. Having spent some time in southern China, Hong Kong was unique in its own weird way. Having spent some time in southern China and a full day in Tokyo is all I ever got, which bummed me out. I wanted to be there longer. Being faced with all that cultural difference and also being faced with the fact that there's also a lot of similarities. um was made even weirder by being six foot three and no one else is that tall oh my gosh i bet i felt i've never felt more like a fish out of water it was a real it's actually a real lesson for me because i i don't think of myself as that tall because on the average i'm not that well i am taller than

average but i'm not that tall i see brian were roughly the same you know as fletcher's like a quarter inch taller than me so i have friends that are taller and we're all kind of in that zone i went over there and there was half a body's worth of me sticking out of every crowd and i remember thinking is this what it feels like to have everybody's eyes on you because you're the you're the minority in the room yeah you are the one that looks different than everybody else and that i've never quite gotten over that feeling um yeah i actually have a funny story about about that not because i'm certainly i'm not tall anywhere i go you know i'm like five three five four so So I, you know, I'm, I am we, but I went, I spent a summer in France between my freshman

and sophomore year in college. And it was like a little study abroad program. And we had this guy who was also on our tour, our program. He was from like South Georgia. It was this big, huge guy. He was like six foot five. His name was Jeremy. I'll never forget. And this was the guy we took with us when we wanted to go out. right because we would not get accosted or whatever if we had this guy with us and we went to like one of the wine tasting caves there because we're like we're 18 but it's legal for us to drink here and so you know we went to the wine tasting caves and Jeremy's standing there and my friend Heather was up there and they're getting you know their tastes of wine or whatever and this little old man comes up to Heather and like tabs her on the shoulder and says excuse me and you know says all this in french he says excuse me would you mind asking your boyfriend to sit down he's frightening my wife just his just his presence by being this huge hulking person was like frightening this old lady well we all just thought that was hilarious

weird man i was i was at a chinese factory in southern china and shenzhen the home of sars where SARS came from. It was before me. But anyway, while I was there, this lady who was doing the tour of the factory we were touring, she kept holding my arm, like kind of holding my forearm with her two little hands and going, be careful, watch her head, watch her head, watch her head.

And she said that the whole thing, it doesn't matter where we were watching. He goes, oh, you're very tall, very tall American. Watch your head, watch your head. And I was like, I'm watching my freaking head, my gosh. but yeah it's a it's a it's a good perspective shake up you know to have that kind of thing literally a new perspective so anyway well this is fantastic i know we got i know we got to i know we got to go because we're doing a short short show of the day but you guys were talking about amputating things so i have

to tell you this story um it is it is really funny so chuck when he was growing up he had a very mean grandmother you know some people like their grandmas are the best And, you know, like, like, some people are lucky enough to be, like, van and have, like, the most awesome grandma in the world. But then, like, some people really don't like their grandmas. And that was Chuck's grandma. Yeah. And she had, among other things, she had diabetes. And so at one point, like, they had to amputate her leg.

And Chuck was actually not, he was living out of state or whatever. You know, he was well into his adulthood by them. And so his stepmom called him just to kind of update. him be like, oh, hey, you know, just wanted to let you know, like, your grandma's in the hospital and they had to amputate her leg. And he says, oh, which part did they keep? And she goes, and a stepmom goes, oh, wow, that's really funny. Your dad said you would say that. You want to keep it.

I'm with them. I say it on ironically when people have stuff for moves. Like, can we hang on to that? Keep the leg, amputate the grandma. Yeah. Amputate the grandma. Yeah, exactly. Well, that's awesome.

To remind people the book one more time so they know the name and all that. The name of the book is Iron and Silk by Mark Salzman. Nice. Go check it out. You got it up on quicktms. For your clicky, clicky needs. Ah, there you go. Everybody live, everybody at home.

You have no excuse. You can go check it out. Amy, we'll do this again one earth week from now. All right. Maybe my stuff will actually be working. Maybe it will. Yeah. But have a fantastic week.

Chuck. Chuck, yeah, you know, Chuck, everything will work out. All right, we've done it. And we're going to take a break. Yes, that's right. We're going to take a break and do a little bit of news after the break because we're breaking this up today a little bit. So, Brian, tell me about the middle song and who it is and what we're doing.

Absolutely. So coming from P-I-A-S marketing, this one is a brand new album from the band Circle Waves. The album is called Never Going Under. Very, very cool. Look, if you're a fan of Phoenix, the band Phoenix from France, I am, they, you know, when I do a, uh, a playlist that has, uh, vampire weekend on it, they almost always recommend a Phoenix song. And now it may be able to start recommending songs by Circle Waves. Here is the first single from the new album, Never Going Under. It's called

Do You Want to Talk? It's got nothing on me, you know And I'd like to think that I call the shots But my own reflection tells me I'm not She said, do you want to talk, do you want to talk, Do you want to talk? But I'm not thinking straight I guess I'm gonna pay for this

Do you want to talk, do you want to talk, Both my eyes are glazed Because I stumble the way from you I'm so removed I get consumed by every single song I spilled my drinking now I think some coke gets kicking off I'd like to think that I call the shots

But by the look on your face I think of not She said Do you want to talk? Do you want to talk? Do you want to talk? I'm not thinking straight I guess I'm going to pay for this Do you want to talk, do you want to talk, do you want to talk

Both my eyes are closed Because I stumble away From you From you I don't know what I even said I hope that it is I won't regret I don't know what I

even said I hope that is something I won't regret She said Do you want to talk Do you want to talk? Do you want to talk? Do you want to talk? Do you want to talk?

Do you want to talk? Do you want to talk? Do you want to talk? Both my eyes are glazed Because I stumble away Hey, it's from you, from you. From you. A great little item for you, girl getters. A futon keeps you away from the bedroom while performing the appropriate function. The electrocution was not my fault.

The morning stream. Don't order the snitchell. They're using schnauzer. And we've returned. Remind me who that was. Sure. From the brand new album, Never Going Under,

that was Circle Waves and the song, Do you want to talk? Do you want to talk? Do you want to talk? But you just have to just, it's just once. Oh. Just one do you want to talk.

Oh, just one. All right. I was just singing a long. to it because we just heard it and it's still stuck in my head. It'll be stuck in my head forever. Yeah, that's the goal. All right, well done. Now this. It's the news and it's brought to you by. How about a bunch more songs stuck in your head? That's right. Come to Coverville today at 1 p.m. Mountain Time at Twitch.tv slash Coverville for an episode celebrating Donald Fagan's 75th birthday. Donald Fagan, half of the team. Well, they had a band behind them, but he and Walter Becker formed the band Steely Dan, which at one

time had Chevy Chase as a member. Whoa. Hold on. Don't bury that lead. Is that true? That's 100% true. When they were in Annandale, the college in Annandale, they were performing with Chevy Chase playing drums. I had no idea. That is seriously feels like something I should have known and I didn't. That's crazy. Probably was just as likable then as he seems to be now. The stories here. Anyway, covers of all of your favorites, Hey 19. uh my old school do it again peg josie those two wonderful ladies all that and much much more coming up today twitch dot tv slash coverville an episode that tina will not listen to oh not a steely dan fan

not a like she is there's i've run into a lot of people in life that really don't like steely dan and uh i mean i can do i only want it in chunks but i i like an occasional dip yeah i'm i found an album uh first off. I found a cover of Oh, Babylon Sisters by, was it Babylon Sisters? Hold on, I got to look us up because this, speaking of mind-blowing. Oh, my gosh.

A cover of the song, come on, show me here. Oh, geez. It's going to take forever to load. Here we go. It is, oh, it's because it was loading the search. A cover of Deakin Blues. They call me Deacon Blues.

like that song they got a name for the winners in the world anyway covered by duke uh luke duke himself tom wopat whoa whoa yeah i mean i knew he's saying but i didn't know that i didn't know that was a steely dan uh anyway so i found an album called steely dance yeah and i was thinking oh this is just going to be horrendous like dance versions of steely dance songs no it is really it's it's way way better than it sounds it's Like, this is stupid good. Yeah. It's weird how that turns out sometimes. Sometimes people with their lesser careers impress us, you know?

Yeah, totally. Good job, Luke. It's Bo Duke. He's trouble now. He didn't do the album Steely Dance. That's a band called Steely Dance, and they just do dance covers of Steely Dance. That's the one I'm saying is stupid good. The Tom Wopat thing is pretty good.

It's not the version. It's not the version of Deacon Blues that I'm going to play in the show. I found a much better version that I'm going to play in the show. Nice. Check it out. 1 p.m. today. everybody music get some music on today you know don't have your whole day just filled with a whatever nonsense that of course depends time wise it should start right at one i don't think i'm

to be at the doctor's office for two hours but no unless they make it wait you start at one you start screaming my wallet's gone my wallet's gone it's a call back to a previous story just saw that last night uh let's see here uh here's a here's a story to kick us off an entire grocery store has nothing but plastic products It kind of reminded me that area 52 thing. Oh, yeah, the area 15, the Miao Wolf. 15. Why do I keep saying 52 and then 51?

Yeah, I don't know. Area 51's in World of Warcraft. Area 52 is the act. No, it's the other way around. Another way around. Area 52 is in World of Warcraft. Area 51 is supposedly where the spaceships are being held. My wife brought me a beverage.

Thanks, son. Ooh, nice. You're awesome. Area 15 and Omega Mart specifically. Yes. The part of Miawold. Which was awesome You did not oversell that

That ended up being as cool as you said it was Yeah And the one in Denver When people ask me Oh is there anything in Denver I should check out One of the first things I say now Is the Miao Wolf here in Denver

Because it's awesome as well Is it a permanent installation as well There is? Oh nice I thought it was a traveling thing But maybe there's a version that travels No? Nope

That's too bad I was hoping it would end up here Yeah They might still I mean surprisingly They're building two in Texas right now Oh, my gosh. Everything's bigger in Texas, including...

Everything's bigger in Texas. And so maybe eventually they'll put one in Salt Lake. I hope so. So check this out. This is an entire grocery store that has thousands of fake food items made entirely from discarded plastic bags. So this is all recycled plastic, which is the entire idea. It's not like, here's a bunch of new stuff and new plastic. That's those things like like, oh, it's like plastic wear and plastic floor mats and things like that.

No, not even. It's like non-edible. stuff that just looks like products, like meat and eggs and cakes. A plastic watermelon or whatever. Yeah, all that stuff. I mean, as a kid, there's a part of me and part of my life where this would have been the ultimate destination. I loved fake food for a long time as a kid.

I was really into it. This so looks like Omega Mart. Holy cow. I know. This might as well just be Omega Mart. I feel like all it's missing is like the weird cavernous like, oh, this freezer goes somewhere else or whatever. But beyond that, very.

a cereal called doesn't contain spiders or something like that, yes. But like, look at this lady, those are plastic flowers. God, this is garlic. I know, right? The garlic looks amazing. And it's like, oh, it is, it just wotted up grocery bags, but it just looks like garlic.

I really, look, even their Gatorade are just wotted up grocery bags and Gatorade bottles. I don't know if they're fake names. Are they all fake names? Yeah, because it's baggerade. Baggerade, you're right. So it's very, it's very, in that vibe of

of that art installation. Yes. I just think like, I mean, even now, this is interesting to me, but as a kid,

I'd have lost my mind. And this, and this view that we're seeing with a cake table in front and then, you know, two shelves and then the produce, I'm,

because of the work that went in this, I'm guessing that is, you're seeing all of it right there in that shot. Yeah, this might be it. Plus, would you really,

I mean, you're not going to rent like an Albertson-sized place. No, no, and fill it with no. This is, this took a lot of work to put together. So the fact that they did that much is very impressive. Yeah, I kind of love it.

All right, so there's that. Hey, check this out. A traveler's emotional support snake got found by a TSA X-ray in the Florida airport. And it looks, it just looks like somebody wotted up a big poo in their bag. Let me show you this picture. It would freak me out if I was one of those people. And also I have a complaint, which I'll get to in a second about TSA. I know there's a lot to say about TSA, but I have a very specific complaint.

But there it is. Look at that snake in there, just hanging out. Oh, there it is right there on the bottom right. Yeah. It's hard to say, because these shoes look weird, right? Yeah, it looks like they've got three belts in there. Yeah. Because you see all those, like, buckles and then kind of a faint line connecting them.

Yeah, that's weird. And then maybe a laptop on the left. Yeah, I think that's a laptop or it could be a tablet. Yeah. Yeah, it's a laptop. It definitely is because that's a track pad, the middle, and two speakers on the side. Oh, yep, sure is. Yeah, exactly.

That's cool. There's definitely a buckle on the bottom right, and then there's a different looking belt on the left side. So it's like maybe even a third belt with triangles on it. Like they're trying to say, I'll just put a bunch of belts in the bag and they'll think the snake is one of them belts. Yeah, they ain't going to have a problem, that'll be fine. Just don't move, Cletus. Don't move the entire flight, Cletus. It isn't the point of an emotional support animal, the fact that it's with you and not shoved in checked baggage?

No, that's a good point. Or even in your overhead bin, that's weird. Or carry-on. Yeah, exactly. Up there getting banged around. Poor snake. I don't think this is good for the snake. But anyway, the TSA says Bartholomew, this dude, or no, the snake, sorry, the boa

constructor, that's the name of the snake. Art! Was hanging out in a traveler's carry-on bag in the airport last month and was spotted by a TSA security x-ray. The traveler told the officials that Bartholomew was her emotional support snake. The airline, however, declined letting the snake on board. In 2020, the TSA ruled airlines could treat emotional support animals as regular pets, not service pets, which meant their presence on a plane would be subject to the same rules and fees as regular pets.

I didn't know that changed, but it did. Last year, a number of pets have been spotted by TSA X-ray machines, including a dog and a cat. Well, duh. Oh, wait, in the bag? Don't put your dog or cat in the bag? No. Oh, my God, it's worse. I mean, at least a snake, you know, it doesn't need a whole lot of room to stretch its legs.

No room needed to stretch its legs. Plus their air needs are different. A dog or cat getting all cramped in one of those things and for two, three hour flight, hell no. My dog would panic and poo. Oh, yeah. Then TSA's got a whole other problem to do with. The owner deserves to have a bag full of poo if they do that. Bastards.

I was going to say one more thing about this and I forgot what it was. Oh, did I tell you that totally by accident? Is that I'm twice now, but when I went on my trip to the cruise, I totally forgot to mention this. I didn't know that my carry-on bag, which I'd used a couple of weeks prior to do some stuff up in the canyon, had a retractable blade in it, like a knife. Oh, no, like a carpet knife kind of thing? Yeah, and it, well, no, it was more like a full-on lock blade, like a pull it out. And I had it in there just for having it and forgot to take it out.

I would always take it out before I fly. Of course, someone's going to catch it. Yeah. Nobody caught it on both directions. Really? Yeah. Oh, my gosh. TSA.

What are you doing? When did you discover it? like after you got back or no when i got to the ship i got to the ship and went oh my gosh it's here but then i thought well if i got out of here or if i got here maybe i can get back with it and what's the worst case they'll confiscate it wasn't going to kill me to do that so i did that and sure enough they just let it go i would i would probably just say hey can i get a padded envelope and a stamp i'll just mail it back to myself when we get back to you know what that's what i should have done they even had a mail service on the boat i could have done that

I didn't think about it at all. I just felt like a criminal, though. I was like, what did I get away with my accident? Totally, yeah. Jeez. Yeah. Don't worry, TSA. I didn't use it at all.

It just sat in my bag. I used it to cut pizza. Here was my complaint. TSA complaint. So it's not fun doing that no matter what. The shoe thing is over, overwrought. Like, we should stop doing that stupid shoe thing. It's just like somebody done things about it.

Here's my biggest thing, though. It's, okay, let's see you've got like a 5 a.m. flight. You're already stressed. You're probably already running a little late. At the very least, you're tired. This is all a hassle. There's a huge line. It's kind of nightmarish.

Maybe you don't even like flying. So this is like, ugh, I just don't need any extra stress. Here's what's stressful. Take all your shoes off and put them in the thing. Make sure your clothes are all prepared. Don't have any belts on. Hurry up people. That kind of like that thing they do.

Why is that allowed? can't they say I don't know what they should say just don't yell at it the issue you have is the way they like the way it's almost like like a dictator standing on top of a soapbox going hi does he

goodbye to show and indeed you're saying if they just said hey please take make sure your shoes are off I think it's because there are too many people who get all the way up to the conveyor belt and haven't prepared anything and they just hold up the entire line because that's when they decide they're going to start moving their phone to their carry-on bag and all that stuff.

I think you're right. I think that's, I mean, they probably have to. Like, I don't know enough about the job to say, but I do know this. If you're going to go that hard,

you know how machine learning can take a dead person's voice and make it seem like it's new again? Yeah. Get Lee Ermey and just broadcast him going, you know, listen, maggots freaking, and then we'll all do it. I didn't realize they stack shit that high. Yep. Exactly.

stack your shoes in your box like shit is high you'll say I don't know and you know the people I'm telling this to already do it I'm sure but you know if you travel more than two or three times a year just pay the 80 bucks five years TSA pre-check leave your shoes on keep your belt on all that stuff I'll give you eight I didn't know that gave you five years that's pretty good five years for 80 bucks 100% worth it I fly enough to make that worth it the greatest flying deal yeah exactly yeah I should do that I don't I should just do so you sit there as a TSA pre-check and just kind of look at the people all taking their shoes off and their belt and all that stuff.

And it's like, oh, yeah, okay, I'll put my hands up. Okay, sure. Yeah. Sure. Good. I'm a little surprised it's not more, you know. Don't give them ideas, Scott. I know.

I don't want to either. Don't tell them. I think 80 bucks is just about right. Maybe a little too high. A little too high. I'll still pay if it's 80 bucks. Bastards. All right.

We are going to, we're going to call the news there. Hey, good news, everybody. if you're like starving for content we mentioned coverville today at one core at 5 p.m. tonight oh core we're planning on some coverage of that Microsoft Bethesda event next week and a couple other little things so there's a lot going on with core you uh you should check that out tonight 5 p.m. live and then film sack this weekend we're watching daredevil the 2003 do I have the year right I think I do uh you you know better than I do I dare I can see I'm just test my my skill here With my ears, because I'm usually pretty good at this.

Let's see. Daredevil. You're usually spot on. 2003. There you go. Nicely done. Not bad. Anyway, that's the movie.

We're covering that. And I'm excited about that because that movie sucks. And, uh, man, it's not as, it's not as bad as everyone remembers. It's not as bad as, uh, a few of those X-Men movies that came out in the later part of that deal. And, uh, yeah. Could be worse. It's okay.

Could be a lot worse. Yeah. It could be, it could be, uh, Electra bad because Electra is really bad. Horrible bad. Anyway, Daredevil, that's this weekend on FilmSack.com for details. In the meantime, please support us over here on our Patreon. Please, patreon.com slash TMS.

Try our product. It's patreon.com slash TMS, where you, the fine listener, can avoid commercials, get pre-show content every day, including today, couch parties on the weekend and more. Speaking of which, we're going to do Ant Man on the Wasp this weekend. Yes. Preparation for Quantum. Indeed. I should have all your weird timeline ones covered because I've got, I watched the Doctor Strange. Yeah. This one, Saw Loki. Okay. I think those are all your lead-ups,

right? Um, yeah, maybe it wouldn't hurt to watch Captain Marvel the following couch party. Oh, we could do that, but it'd be fine. I still haven't watched that, so that'd be good. I don't know. I mean, obviously she'll be more important for Marvel's than for, um, uh, for the next Avengers movie in the King Dynasty and all that stuff. Oh, Kang is so cool. King is cool. Man, that guy who's playing Kang, what's his name? Jonathan Majors.

Johnathan Majors? Majors. Yeah, majors. What a stead. No kidding. Right? I look at him and I go, you know, if I had to be gay, I could do it for that guy. I could make it happen.

I think so, too. Thanks, Kim. Oh, look at this. I just got some bacon and some avocado toast. Avocado toast with tomatoes on it. Yeah, she's trying to make me eat. better, so. Yeah, people, if you saw Lovecraft Country, that was, for me, the breakout Jonathan Major's thing. Oh, hell yeah. He was in a few things before that, but that was like, oh yeah,

and the harder they fall, I still need to watch that. No, that's so good, dude. Oh. He's, he's got his moment coming because obviously the Kang stuff, which we're going to see him in quantum mania, the next to Avengers films in the Multiverse saga, but also he's the Big Bad and Creed 3 coming out this year. He's in something else this year called Magazine Dreams.

He's yeah, he's got it going on. He's in Defive Bloods, which I meant to watch and haven't yet. Oh, right, DeFive Bloods. Yeah, and he's in what's that other one I always wanted to see? Oh, the last black man in San Francisco

is supposed to be good, 2019. plays Montgomery. Montgomery. Anyway, there you go. There's our love for that guy. Let's move out of here and have a song. Why don't you play one for me? What do you got there?

I will play one. This one is a request. This one is going out to Jessica S. She says, Hi, Scott and Brian. I've grown up listening to all the great guitarists. My mom raised me in the, quote, School of Rock.

My favorite of all time is Jeff Beck. My mom and I have had many great moments listening to his music, and she has been able to see him numerous times with his sudden passing, my mom and I are heartbroken. Could you please play his cover of somewhere over the rainbow

or any of his covers. Love the show guys. Keep on Rocking, sign Jessica S. It was sudden, wasn't it? It was sudden, yeah. But what a great, what a legend. And if you ever go back to his Rock and Roll Hall of Fame,

when the Yardbirds got inducted into the Hall of Fame, he was a member of the Yard Burrard Birds for a short time. He got up there and got to the microphone and said, yeah, people told me that I should be proud today. And I say, why? Those guys kicked me out of the band. So F them. And then he walks off the stage. Oh, man. Say what you want to say, I guess. Wow. So I played somewhere over the rainbows part of the last week's coverville, which was a Jeff Beck tribute. So if you love Jeff Beck, please go back and listen to that episode as well. So I decided I'd play something. that also gives me a chance to drop a little more musical trivia on you. Stevie Wonder wrote the song

Superstition with the intent. She wrote it for Jeff Beck and intended for his version to be released and then Stevie was going to do a cover of it. They both recorded their versions.

Stevie Wonder's label said, oh, this is great. We're going to make this the lead song his next album and put it out on his next album before Jeff Beck's version come out. So this was a case where the intended cover became the original and the original became the cover. So I'm going to play for you what was going to be the original version of superstition. This is by Beck Bogor and Apis from 1978, or I'm sorry, 1973, here is superstition. We'll see you guys on Monday. Very Superstitious Very superstitious.

Rites on the wall Very superstitious Love's about to go 30 months old, baby Both a lucid glass Seven years of bad luck Good things in the past Believe and take

You know to death You've got to trust their own Superstition ain't the way Very superstition is a while Very superstition When we're all this stuff Walking over roomsticks lying on the floor

Open your umbrella To be you're out of the door When you rule by face You don't understand You're going to suffer a superstition in the way I don't know. Oh, oh! Oh!

Oh! Oh! Oh! Oh, I don't know. Oh! Oh! Oh! Oh!

We're going to be a bit of a bit of a bit of a bit of a bit of a bit of a bit of a bit of a lot. We're going to be. I'm going to be. I'm going to be. We're going to be able to be a lot of it. I'm going to be a lot. I don't know. This show is part of the Frog Pants Network.

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