The Morning Stream - TMS 2432: Flip Floppy Hoo Ha

Episode Date: March 7, 2023

I hate the tuck. The Bride of Frankenberger. Tune in Turn on and Turn against. The Psychology of Strangers. Deer in the doorbell ditch. Our house is a very very very wrong house. Held It Like An Elephant. Exit Through the Dog Poo. Working 9 to 4:30. Big long dude doesn't give a tuck. I went to area 51 and all I got was this lousy probe. Don't push your slow friend. Just outrun them. The Weed Whisper. Pros and Cons with Bill. Bouncy balls of pee with Bobby and more on this episode of The Morning Stream. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Coming up on TMS, I hate the tuck. The Bride of Frankenberger. Tune in, turn on, and turn against. The psychology of strangers. Deer in the doorbell ditch. Our house is a very, very, very wrong house. Yeah, it is. Held it like an elephant.

Exit through the dog poo. Working 9 to 4.30. Big long dude doesn't give a tuck. I went to Area 51 and all I got was this lousy probe. Don't push down your slow friend. Just outrun them. The weed whisper. Pros and cons with Bill.

Bouncy balls of pee with Bobby and Molly. more on this episode of The Morning Stream. Hi, I'm Vicki Tamburo here at the sunny surplus store in Towson to show you that surplus military clothes and accessories can be very fashionable. Turning on the ladies is about the only thing I do well. I'm not a very good golfer. The Morning Stream. I live and die by the Crystal.

Greetings and good morning and welcome to TMS. It's the morning stream for March 7th, 2023. I'm Scott Johnson, and that guy is Brian Ibid. Hello. Yes, I'm also very good at turning on the ladies. Just when they think I'm a nice guy, I turn on them. That's right. You turn on them and they never see you again.

That's right. That's Brian's calling card. Hi, everybody. Welcome back to the show. We're going to do you one here. It's Tuesday, and that's exciting. As you can tell, I've been lifeless, familyless

for a couple of days now. How can we tell? Is there a way we should be able to tell? If you could see the kitchen, it's a little disheveled. I probably need to do some dishes. What else? I think the Kim... You're not just shoveling ground beef and kimchi

out of a Tupperware and putting them back to the... the fridge like basically I haven't gotten that far yet I am dirtying up dishes warming up food that sort of thing but give me a couple more days Brian it'll be straight out of the tub my they take the car

did they drive it down to Vegas? They did so I have no car carless you are wow you are stranded stranded yeah I was supposed to have lunch with my daughter today she was going to come out here with the kids and we were going to go grab lunch somewhere but it's snowed again and so Dylan had to take the car

that's better in the snow to get work and the car that's not good in the snow also doesn't fit two kids and a full-size adult in the back seat or the front seat so she's gonna we're gonna have to we're gonna have to way lay that can't do that she'll send you she'll send you some door dash yeah she'll do something like that so yeah it's it's great um i am gonna walk to uh i think i'm gonna walk to the break today which is this bar restaurant place near us and uh grab something i think that'd be good you know it's a little it's a little snowy is the problem lots of snow you know you know what though that's like uh that's a great walk that's really good you know fresh air it's cold air

but it's a nice fresh air for you yeah why not yeah i think it's a good idea and i'll do the dishes before kim gets home so don't worry yeah oh the other thing she did all the time she would always make the bed in the morning she loved doing that i'm of the opinion that while i think that's very nice and it looks nice no one's going to see it but us and we're just going to mess it up again tonight so i have this bad attitude about bed making i'm i admit it i'm in the i'm not the normal guy i don't like it i don't know why i just don't but so that's a whole mess up there right now um there's where was there was a recent survey and that one's from 2015 there's like a uh people who make their beds in the morning are happier and more productive there's like a

study again this one is the 2015 one um however you're not alone 59 of people don't make their beds 27% do and the other 12% pay someone to do it for them that's a lot of people who pay somebody else to make their beds for them that is a that is a high number yeah it's just it depends like she just has a real like a moment of like pride with it she just like she likes how it starts her day you know how long does it take you don't do the full on like all right got to pull the covers way up beyond then flip them forward to put the pillow underneath and create that that covered pillow look of the covered pillow flatbed spread she does all that stuff all of it really oh yeah yeah me i just pull it up to the top

throw the pillows on top and call it good that's what i would do if i were doing it but i've but i'm not even at that step i'm uh i'm a leave it all laying there because i know i'm just going to be in there again and i'm probably going to have the dog with me tonight and you know it's just going to be well i wash dishes they're just going to get dirty again yeah but they run out so so what you do with like with your with your sheets and stuff when those are you know you've been having those for too long you need to clean those up you just rip them off the thing go wash them get a fresh pair put them on you make it that day right that's the day you make the bed but then between washes just flip floppy hoo-ha who cares just doesn't just doesn't

change how my day goes I'm a I'm a convert I used to be a yeah what's the point of making the bed and now I'm a nope I 15 it doesn't make the bed I make the bed like basically Basically, one of us during that whole morning, taking turns, taking a shower kind of thing. The other one makes the bed, and it just makes me feel like, I don't know, like I've accomplished task one of the day. Like, if I do nothing else today, I've got one checkmark on the to-do list. Can you bounce a quarter on it or whatever that old thing is? Oh, hell no. No, because I don't, I hate the tuck.

I'm kind of like George Kostan's in that way. I, it drives me nuts if I push my feet to the end of the bed. and they're pulled down by the weight of the sheet. Yeah. Tucked under the mattress. Tina likes the tuck. I do not like the tuck. I don't like the tuck either. I'm not a tuck fan.

Campbell tuck, but I always kicked the tuck out by the, it was when I get in there at night. And I felt a little bad because she did work to get that done, right, to get the tuck done. But, you know, I got to sleep. I'm a big long dude. I can't do this. I can't be having no tuck. Are you kidding me? Yeah.

Not the only thing me and George have in common. Anyway, so she'll be home. Thursday and it'll all be fine. Everything will be fine. I'll eat normal then. But, you know, check in tomorrow. We'll see how it's going. I did get a decent night's sleep, though, which is weird. I didn't, I usually, I don't know, when Kim's gone or out of town, I even have weirder dreams, but I didn't have any last night, which kind of threw me. But I did have an experience yesterday that I must share because I need to understand the psychology of strangers, all right?

Okay. Oh, gosh. Good luck with that. I'm, uh, with every passing day, I get more and more disappointed with the psychology of strangers. Well, I do too. This was a weird one though. So I just fed the dogs. It's about 7.30 last night. And, uh, dogs are good. They're full. They're happy. They're jumping around being idiots. Like dogs should do, right? Sure. Rainer's still in her stupid cone because she's still prone to licking stuff she shouldn't lick, uh, on her scar. Anyway, so there's that whole thing. And they're over there doing their thing. And I'm just kind of, you know, cleaning up after Ripley's water. Her water drinking is like a water park. It's just water everywhere when she slobbers around.

So I hear bing bong while I'm doing all that. I'm like, oh, who's here? Who could this be? Hopefully it's a package or it's something, you know, not. I don't want to like visit with anyone, you know. Right, right. I'm not in the mood for that. Is your neighbor coming over?

Hi, I just wanted to check on you. Kim said you'd be alone and want to make sure you're doing okay. Yeah, that would be weird. I would feel weird about that. And so I wasn't really, I was like, okay, I guess I get the door. I don't really feel like doing this. I go to the door and I open it.

And I've got the, it's dark out because it's 7.30 and it's, you know, that's the time zone we're in. Sure. And I open the door and there, and the lights are on. And the porch lights, I should say.

Yeah, porch lights. And this person of problem, it's a, it's a boy slash man of maybe 19, 20, somewhere in there So I guess if he's over 18 He's a man

He's a man, yes Classified technically and legally As a man Anyway, standing there And I open it up And like with the most Deer in the Headlight stare For what felt like forever

But it was probably five seconds He just stares at me Slack Jod staring at me And then immediately goes Sorry And then turns this way and runs runs Just runs down the road Now what I think happened

I shut the door before I checked I think he just had the wrong house Like I think he was going somewhere Where he thought somebody was And I'm not that person And I opened the door and it freaked him out a little bit But he didn't say anything other than Yelling sorry

Turning tail and just running up the street And so It took me forever to fall asleep last night Because I kept thinking about this dude Like where do he end up What was he trying to do? did I read this wrong? Was he supposed to be...

Was he case in the joint? Yeah. I don't know. Like, I don't know what that was. See, you're much more positive than I am. Like, my first thought is, was he, why wasn't he expecting somebody to answer the door? Like, yeah, yeah. What was he?

Because, you know, you have been waiting to see if he goes to another house would have been the, would have been the move. Yeah, I should have done that. exactly what the what the end game was and i didn't i mean he didn't go to the house next door so that made me think that he's not precisely confused you know how you know how may you might find somebody's house and go oh shoot it's next door sorry i'll go next door yeah yeah that could happen but he ran past that and then i couldn't see him and then i kind of gave up and then i just was like wait a man what was he doing why would he be here doing that and then never had another ring i never had anybody else come around the cameras were all good i i don't think he saw he they saw

the car drive off full of suitcases and a couple people and thought oh all right maybe it could have been maybe he was just looking to see who was home to get some giant plastic stormtroopers but does feel like he's uh his running away is a that's not good for his plan you know what i'm saying like you should just say oh shoot wrong house or if he is a thief if he is casing the joint as the kids say yeah uh maybe don't freak out and run away because that just makes you look like you're doing that is a good point right yeah that's a it does kind of make things look suss yeah it's really weird so i couldn't sleep i just kind of thought about it most of the night i tried to watch a documentary and i couldn't focus on it because i was thinking

about this dude and then i slipped like a rock you'd think i'd dream about it you know because it was like this thing i'm taking to bed with me it's a little stressful not too stressful but i'm just sort of thinking about you'd think that would be the transition uh well here's the transition I got a call about dreams and why we take certain things to our sleep. Check this out. Oh, good. All right. Yep, this is from a listener who is commiserating about higher rates of dreaming and why.

Hey, Scott and Brian. This is Colin from Seattle, calling in for the morning stream. I have been, first off, I've got to thank y'all. You've done a great job of entertaining me this weekend while I potty train my two-year-old child. And Brian, I must admit, you, I think, are very much on. point when it comes to I think we take our stresses with us to our dreams and we go to bed at night because for the past three night I have been dreaming about potty training and I've been waking up and potty training and the only thing that has been keeping me spain in this very stressful time in my life is being able to pop in an aeropod and listen to the sweet bolted tones of Scott and Brian and a caveman bye guys nice reference there at the end I like that yeah I don't see that Thank you. It was Colin, right?

Colin, yep. Yeah, no, thanks, man. I appreciate that. And I think there's levels of what I believe and what I don't believe with regard to dreams. I don't believe that if you dream about tomatoes, you're going to have luck that day. And if you dream about sneakers, you're going to be, spend the next day running or something like that. But I do believe that if you're stressed out, boom, that is your place for the dreams are your place basically for your brain. brain to go yeah and like put all that out what's frustrating is I agree with you 100% I think that

is your brain venting but sometimes it vents in a more stressful way like let's say you go to bed stressed about one thing and then the dream is psycho like all over the place crazy you can tell the origin but it's even weirder and you remember it all and you wake up feeling ah that didn't help me at all like feels like and that feels counterintuitive you know amplifies it right It's like basically, oh, you're stressed about potty training. How about a dream where you're having to potty train 12 kids all at once? Yeah. Yeah.

Oh, my gosh, dude. Can you imagine? At the same time? It's like keeping plates spinning, basically. Two of our three kids were really great potty trainers. No issues, no problems. But Carter. I'm going to throw out.

I was wondering if you were going to out the kid who wasn't. Yeah. Let me tell you this story. So when I was, she was about this age that he's, body training about a year and a half to two years. Yeah. I was laying on a, or she was napping on top of me while I was on the couch. She was just laying on me.

And she's little, little tiny, tiny kid. So she's on my chest and she's face down. And I had forgotten that she's been wearing undies all day because we're trying to teach her, you know, hey, you know. Yeah, it's like, you're a big girl. We can, we can do this. And so she was very excited to have those on. Didn't have to wear a diaper that day.

She's taking a nap on me. And I just kind of forgot. And I'm sort of dozing off. And then suddenly the most horrible warm liquid sensation rushes over me, just all over me. And I'm like, oh, my gosh, she's freaking peeing on me right now. And I'm half grogged out on a nap. And I don't know where Kim was.

I don't think she was even there. I think I was watching the kids or whatever. So I'm just like, and she's asleep and she's not moving. So I'm like, well, what do I do here? Do I shake her awake? Do I, you know, don't shake babies, everybody. I'm not saying to do that. But, you know, like, what do I do?

And I think I just kind of like, Carter, Carter, Carter, Carter, Carter, Carter, or something like that. And she was like, eh, you know, woke up and like, like, air raid cry. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And I was just soaked. And the couch was all wet. I swear she held it like an elephant. It was so much pee. But she's in Vegas.

She's not going to hear me tell this story. She won't know I'm talking about this. It's fine. She won't be mad. Yeah. If she was here, I would not tell that story. Anyway, there you go. Thank you for the call.

It's possible she woke up early. She's in there like, oh, well, I don't want to wake everybody up to go down the breakfast buffet. Yeah. Although they're not staying. I know I guess they're not staying at a hotel. I know where they're staying. But no, they're in a, what do you call it? Time share.

Time share thing, yeah. Although, I guess they were at the, so they went to. area 51 yesterday oh cool yeah so they did the whole uh yeah the smear meow wolf thing yeah Carter loved it of course it's so up her alley yeah totally she loved it came out a good time going back again as well I don't know if anything was different than before I assume not unless they were doing a special like you like you had the other day like a special night or something but yeah yeah yeah I don't think that happened but they've spent most of their time at the pool it's nice and warm during the day oh nice still a little cold it's a little cold it

night. I guess you'll find out because you're going to go down there at the end of the month. I'll be down there in about three weeks. Three weeks? Two weeks? Yeah. Yeah. Oh, no. Exactly, exactly three weeks. Yeah. You're preparing the way. I'm preparing the way. Basically, there are things that I need to

see and do in person, talk to people, get some things planned out that I just talk about my stresses. It's more stressful for me to go into parts of this completely blind and just hope that things are the way that they're described in the way I'm imagining them.

Yeah. And it's like, you know what? For 200 bucks, I can fly out, fly back. I'll pay for a lift. I'll grab cheap food while I'm down there. No big Guccino-Poblano meals or anything like that. I'll get to see Mizzula. I'll get to see James and Svet.

Yeah. And just get things kind of knocked out. So. That'll put a lot of the planning-minded ease. I think. Exactly. It totally will. Yes.

And KT Data. Kevin's going down there this week. What are you going there for, Kevin? Oh, is he really? Oh, man. I wish... Too bad. You could have coordinated your...

I wish we could have timed that because he's so involved with recording stuff that it's like, God, it would be great to actually be there to coordinate with him. Dice Tower West is what he wrote. Is that a thing? Dice Tower West. It's like a tabletop convention thing? I thought Adam West's little tabletop playing a little brother. Oh, little dice tower West.

Little Dice Tower West. Never quite had the careers his brother had. Keeps eating those dice and pooping them out, but gosh darn it if he doesn't roll a six every time. Yeah, I didn't heard of that. He says board game convention. I didn't know they had one in Vegas. No, I've never heard of that either. Is it large?

Like, is it comparable to, say, Gen Con or something? or because I would love to go to more of those kinds of conventions, but I don't want to go to Indiana every time. You would basically you're saying, I would like to go to those conventions if they're here. I'd like him to be in Vegas. Can they all be in Vegas? Because that's a thing.

Vegas would be, yeah, that would be great. That's all I'm saying. I just want to hop in the car. I'd meet you there for some of those. Yeah, four or five hours. Bam, I'm there. Convention.

Get out. Listen, Bobby, I know it's cool at GenCon. Mr. Cool Jencon guy. I know. anyway but that's like that's way out that's that's too far to go sorry i mean it's a place it's a place to go and you can go there right they have they it's a it's a place in america with an airport it is it's you know indiana it's it's it's a big state they got a lot of people there it's fine yeah yeah i just don't i just don't want to all of these things are true

all of these things are true i have not said any mistruths but it's not uh yeah it's it's uh I love South Carolina is where Gen Con is, right? Yeah, or Georgia. That was Indiana, no? Oh, is that the one that's in Indiana, Jen Con? Yeah, I thought it was. Okay. Isn't it?

I think it is. I don't know. That I don't know. I was thinking since Bobby mentioned, it's, yeah, Indianapolis, okay. I was thinking since Bobby mentioned, it might have been in South Carolina. That's how much I know about Jen Con. I'd have a good excuse to go to South Carolina because we could see Bobby and Brian and other, you know, cool people. I like South Carolina.

That's a cool place. Been to the Indianapolis Star. That's the, that's the newspaper, the big newspaper there. Yeah, how was that? How was the star? Did they have a... I remember a thing about it. Like, basically, you could ask me to describe the interior of any newspaper.

And I probably would be able to describe, like, the Seattle Times, I went to Seattle Times and Post-Intelligence are so many times. That place I could describe to you. visualizing any other newspaper there was one okay oh gosh was it Vallejo or Vacaville it was somewhere north of Oakland yeah um in California and I I remember it was the weirdest setup it's almost like they had a newspaper that took over the space from a a coffee bean and tea leaf and so the computer I had to work on was like in the very front it was a desk in the very front corner of the of the um the space yeah in like basically the glass like basically with windows on either side of me on both on two sides of me yeah and uh did you have to did you have to greet people as they walked in

i know i felt like it was on display there like hi everybody yep can i pour you you need to top that off for you yeah i need some water yeah belahua and vaucaville uh Silver Whisper, both north of Oakland. That was the trip, that was the trip where I hit Fairfield, Vacaville, and Vallejo. They're all part of the same newspaper group, the San Francisco, what was it called? The, was it Knight Ritter? I can't remember. Anyway, it was a newspaper group, and so they all had the same publisher, and so I just hit all the

newspapers all at once got all the way up to the most northern of those cities and then drove all the way back down to San Francisco to fly out and on that drive for about an hour and a half on that drive I was talking to Julie Peng at ASCAP about podcasting and explaining what podcasting was and what I was doing with Coverville and how you know what's the what's the legal way that I can be playing covers and doing this sort of thing. Oh very nice. And And over the course of that hour and a half with a tree, like my palm trio with a wired earbuds in my ears talking on the phone the whole time. And we came up with a contract that worked for podcasting, for music licensing. Wow.

Up between the two V's. Oh, no. It was basically between the F, the V, the V, and the big old SF at the bottom. And the big old SF, yeah. Wow, that's cool. that's a fun i would have never known that that deal was was reached that's when it was that's when it was uh it was consumed and i core yeah the jellybelly factor i did go to that and uh because frequently on those newspaper trips i'd find something cool in the area and then i would just

go do it like a tour or go check out a uh a street where you know famous things happened or something like that i bet the jelly belly factors there isn't a whole lot else so it's Does the Jelly Belly Factory, see, my impression would be that it reeks, that it doesn't smell good, because even though the individual candies are great, when you have the whole thing, the amalgamation of the process, the waste material it comes from it and all that, is it okay? I remember it's smelling really good. They're not refining the sugar in there. They're just, you know, basically producing the candy from the sugar that's already been refined. Usually a sugar refinery is the, is the stinking. But, yeah, no, the jelly belly, just like Silver Wisp said, no smell whatsoever. I was even thinking, ooh, maybe it'll smell like fruity in there. Yeah. But I think it might be that they've just got that production area so sealed off.

You don't even get the, oh, they're making toasted coconut today, or they're making burnt banana or whatever the flavor is. Burnt banana. Yum. Yeah, they're putting the jelly in the belly for sure over there. That's right. But, yeah, free samples. and, you know, you're a really cheap store on your way out. The gift shop that you exit through has, you know, the variety boxes.

And I remember walking out of there with some. It was good. I exited through a gift shop the other day. Did you? Yeah, when we took van to the aquarium, the, they make you go through there. And there's a lot of, like, you know, plushy animals and all this business. Yeah. And when I walked through there, there was a dog poo on the floor, a little dog poo.

No way, really. real or was it like a novelty item that they sell? I wondered because it looked a little fake. I guess why would they have that at the aquarium? Yeah. I mean, it wasn't on sales, just on the floor. And I thought, well, that's not good. You're not supposed to have pets in here.

And then I just didn't want to get any closer to it. So I just walked out. Because I don't want to know for sure. I don't want to get out there. You sure wasn't a baby Ruth that somebody opened the package and it fell on the ground? Totally could have been. Yeah. Could have been a twigs.

Could have been a thousand things. Sure. But that was not my favorite exit through any gift shop. Well, I'll put it that way. Exit past the dog poop. Yeah. And also, I know why they do this, obviously, is to get people to buy merch, right? What?

Dog poop on the floor? Well, no. But if you're going to, they make you go through there because they're like, hey, we'll get people to buy something because they've, you know, because how would they not? And it's more about the kids like, oh, crap, I have to take the kids to the gift shop. That's it right there. Ding, you nailed it. I didn't want to take Van through because I knew he'd want every damn thing in there. Yeah.

And he did. He's still big on the dinosaurs, or is he moved on to something else? No, he loves the dinosaurs. He's into, so his favorite things right now, dinosaurs, bluey, all things bluey. Doesn't matter what aspect of blue you're talking about. He's into it. And the third thing was, what did Taylor tell me is really, oh, Baymax from Baker-R-R-6. Oh, cool.

Oh, that's very good. That's a good third option right there. Once in a while, he'll just be at dinner and he'll look at somebody and go, are you satisfied with your medical care? Or whatever. Really? That's great. Yeah. He's such a little weirdo.

The other day, we were laughing or something in the car, and it was, we got really loud. It was the same day, I guess. And I hear this, sh, shh, sh. And I turn around and he's going like this with his finger to his mouth. He goes, he goes, shh, stop talking, stop talking. Like, oh, okay, Mr. Mr. 4-year-old stop talking. Okay.

Yeah, no kidding. Be prepared for me. to use this back against you at some point, kid. Yeah, you're a little turd. Anyway, well, all right then. Those are the fun things that we've discussed this morning. That constitutes your pre-show. That's right.

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BS. No, the morning deal. What's that point? Sorry, I don't know why Fletcher suddenly started talking and wasn't supposed to. I can't shut that guy up sometimes. No kidding. Tom Brady, you know, the goat, the great quarterback's man. Sure, yeah.

Well, all time. That's what they say. That's what they say. That they'll never be a quarterback as good as him, although there always is. Chose one last losing season of football over his wife. That's right. Yep, good job.

Giselle is just out. Anyway, Tom Brady is chasing a stand-up comedy dream after he delayed his Fox Sports gig. This is a little bit weird. NFL legend Tom Brady has drawn up a game plan for the new career in stand-up comedy, but his inner circle has been trying to talk him out of it,

according to radaronline.com. Website established by, Gary Berghoff in the 70s. Just kidding. According to sources, Tom was a terrific quarterback, but he needs to toss this idea before it's too late, said a source who heard the football star's material. I would actually love to hear the material.

Oh, God, I know. I would love you, too. Yeah, said a source, that source being everybody. Everyone, ever. Everybody. I don't care if you know him personally or not. I don't think he's cut out for it. Maybe, maybe I don't know.

Maybe I've never, what if he gets up and does a killer 20 minute set? Not even. There's not even a chance. Listen, I've seen, I think we've seen the guy host SNL, I think. Did we? Hasn't Tom Brady hosted SNL or my, uh, seems like a thing? Is he the only footballer who hasn't? Well, it seems like you would want to do that to show off your prowess so you could prime everybody for your awesome comedy career, right?

Yeah, yeah, exactly. Yeah, 2013. Uh, uh, no, I'm sorry. 2005, Tom Brady hosted with Beck. And Beck was funnier. And Beck was funnier. The real commercials that they aired after the fake commercials were funnier than Tom Brady. The only person I've ever seen, the only sports figure that I can think of that was funny on SNL was Peyton Manning.

And it was specifically that he's playing football with the kids and he's just. like nailing him, like hitting him so hard with footballs that he's knocking him over. Yeah, that was pretty good. I did see that. I don't know. Like, it just seems like a, my experience, I could be, this could be just me blowing horse poopy here. But my experience with sports stars, most of them are really good at the sport they're in. And then anything else is a little off.

Now, that doesn't mean they can't go on to be decent commentators. There's plenty of those, you know, ex-quarterbacks, X, quarterbacks. NBA, whoever, that go on to be, like, top-notch on the mic, color, color, not color coordinators. What do they call? Color commentators, not coordinators. Geez, they're coordinating all the colors. But, you know, so there's a future in that. Some of them can go on to do some acting in a couple of cases.

I feel like Bradshaw is the best example of that, where you go from being, you know, this big sports hero to being very funny. his his best comedy though is when he's kind of being the self-deprecating I'm kind of a lunatic or I'm kind of an idiot yeah yeah I like that about most people actually I like self-deprecation and comedy if you don't have that I feel like you're punching and like I watched a comedy okay I don't know how many people have heard of or seen Jim Jeffries in his stand-up before he's an Australian comic fairly big he's got like two or three specials on Netflix. For the most part, dude cracks me up.

He's always been edgy and he always pushes the envelope a little bit, but pretty funny. And his latest comedy thing, it just was mean. It was like mean. Yeah, it's hard for me to explain. I need

people to see it. Maybe I was in a wrong mood or something, but it felt like... Like mean in a David Spade kind of way? Like a... No, no, not like a, not like that's part of your gig. It's more like he was punching down oh really yeah okay I don't like that you know when comics get too big

for their own shit and they start punching down yeah I don't like it you know like Chappelle's is a good example Talley brought up a thing like regardless of where he's standing on his comedy he is one of the most brilliant comics in the history of the world but he's also

kind of knows it now and it's kind of a dick about it like I need I need my comics to stay in this like humble zone of they always punch up and I mean whatever I say I need them they can do whatever they want I don't care but but this just this one rubbed me wrong and I like Jim Jeffries before this set you'll have to see it and let me know what you guys think it bugged me and tell me if

I'm wrong maybe I'm up in the night watch some of it for sure yeah especially the stuff at the end he just was I just felt mean anyway um my John Mullaney is who I need to catch up on because that's he's becoming if he's not my favorite He's certainly up in my top three or four up there with, like, Brian Regan and Gaffigan and Seinfeld, of course. Yeah. I'm still mad at him for leaving. What's her name, not? His style of like, I went to the airport yesterday.

That's pretty good. Yeah. I still feel, I'm a little mad at him for cheeking on his wife with, uh, well, yeah. What's her name? What's her name? Is Olivia, no. Yeah, Libby Mun. He's with now.

Yeah. Dead Eye, Libby, Mon. They have a kid now and everything. Yeah. So he's kind of dicky that way, but whatever. Yeah, but he's funny. Return of the dead eye. Yeah.

Return of the old dead eye. And I know he had some like opioid stuff and he's gotten over. I mean, good on him, I guess. But still, complicated life. Life is complicated. Yeah. Anyway, let's see. What is this?

Oh, here's some great quotes. As a comic, he's strictly a water boy added the insider. Yikes. The Tampa Bay Bucks, ego inflated. when Jane Fonda, Lily Tomlin, and Rita Moreno gushed over him in a recent comedy flick, 80 for Brady. I haven't seen that. No, I have zero desire to see that. No, that sounds bad.

It just feels like the most, like, every, there's nothing about that that makes me say, well, that part of it could be pretty good. I mean, don't get me wrong. I like, I like Fonda, Tomlin. I like 9 to 5, and then you throw Rita Moreno into this because I guess Dolly Parton did want to have anything to do with it. I don't know. Yeah, that felt like the Dolly part and part, and she didn't want to. Right, exactly. It's nine to four and a half.

Sorry, let's bring in Rita Moreno. Similar age. He's got any. Let's bring her in. But, yeah, there's zero enticement for me to ever see that. Well, these sources say that this experience left him feeling like an all-pro comic. Yeah. So that's why.

He's feeling his oats there from that. The ladies were super nice to him, and he did a nice job reading professionally written material in a small part, but he'll be playing a whole different league if he takes up the stand-up stage, says the insider. Yeah, maybe you don't do it. Yeah, they managed to stroke his ego enough to, you know,

make him feel like, oh, I'm kind of a comedy genius. Great, there's nothing I can't do. And there's part of me that wants to see him just try and fail. Yeah, I kind of want to see him try. Take him down many, many pegs. Yeah, and then go back to your giant pile of money and lay in that. It's fine.

Exactly, yeah. He says, okay, this insight. better does end with this. He says he does a great impersonation of former teammate Rob Grunkowski and his over-the-top Boston accent is hilarious. I don't think it's enough. I don't think you can do it. It's not enough,

man. That's not enough for a whole comedy career when you start touring and stuff. It's not going to work. This is what sounds, you know what, it's the comedy equivalent of two guys who have hilarious phone conversations saying, oh, we should totally do a podcast. This would be huge.

You should do your Boston accent. And I'll do I'll do my impersonation of this guy that nobody knows. Yep, that'll be our whole shtick. Yeah. Well, good luck to them. Well, I guess, hmm. Wait, that is kind of us. Yeah.

Hold on a second. Oh, you want? Oh, man. Yeah, you want to hear my impersonation of James from same sex marriage. Oh, yeah, you know. Yeah. Maybe we are, we are the monster. Glass houses, everybody.

Yeah. That's right. All right. Here's a thing. this is interesting yeah National Park Service is warning people

do not push a slower friend down if you encounter a bear no it feels like a thing you don't need to tell me why waste your time if they're slower

you're set yeah just get out of there the National Park Service has some very important tips it says here yeah MSN.com

for what not to do if you and a friend encounter a bear in the wild and they mean like the animal not the very sexy hairy man in Idaho not a hairy large gay man not them okay just for clarity I don't you know I don't want

I don't want any questions later about this if you come across a bear never push a slower friend down says the agency they wrote this on Twitter even if you feel friendship has run its course still don't do it yeah the agency used the lighthearted joke as a segue

into some more serious bear safety tips. Here's one. Seeing a bear in the wild is a special treat for any visitor to a national park. While it is an exciting moment, it is important to remember that bears in national parks are wild and can be dangerous. Oh, that's not as funny as their first one. Not at all. I think that let out, they should have had a bigger finish with their,

they really should have come on. Come up with a, like, is there a cub pun you can throw in there? Is there like den, something? people in the chat room are pointing out that don't don't push your slower friend down what you need to do is push your faster friend down oh right right because all of a sudden you become the slower friend that's right you're the slower friend yes that's punching up see like we were talking about before maybe maybe fresh off his opportunity fast moving comedian tom brady could tell these jokes for the agency maybe that's what could happen did you see this did you You see in the National Park Service in their latest tweets, they said, don't push a slower friend down. You guys want to hear my... I think you should push your faster friend down. You guys want to hear my Boston accent?

No. Ooh. Come on. It's a wicked pissa. Yeah, I'm sure the crowd would go wild. Here's my personation of Gruncowski. Hey, I'm Grunkowski. Look at me.

I sell anything. That's what I do. I'll put my name on any product you tell me to. I'm Gronkowski. Real quick here. Have you ever seen a bear in person? Again, not the gay ones from Idaho, but the... I've seen bears at the zoo.

I'm trying to think if I've ever seen like a bear... Like out in the wild? Yeah, out camping and stuff. I don't think I have. I've seen one bear. The bear I saw was in the Uintas, the High Uinta Mountains. It was for a scout camp, and we saw one off. in the distance,

doing something with a log, like pushing a log around with its face. Hello. Okay, good. I was doing something with a log. I don't want to get into it, but let's just table that for right now. And the scariest thing was one night I camped,

and when we woke up the next day, it was clear that a bear had been through some of our stuff. Rummage through your stuff. Yeah, which we, you know, we tried to, you try to follow the rules. You don't have open containers. You keep all your stuff sealed. all that kind of thing

but even then like there was a tipped over cooler torn up garbage bag that was some ways off like that kind of stuff so be careful out there everybody you never know when a bear

again the hairy animal not the hairy man will be there to mess with your stuff wouldn't it be funny if you woke up in a camp though and there was like a big hairy leathered up man digging through your food and your garbage

that'd be great yeah like honey I think I think there's a bear in our game's saying. Hi, guys. My friend Scott Fairborn, who listens to the show quantifies himself as a bear. He can write it and tell me if that was offensive or not. I don't want anyone else telling me it was

because all of you, I don't want you white knighting for my friend Scott Fairborn. If he feels this way, he'll let me know. And then I'll cop to it, all right? Come on out, guys. This coffee is fabulous. See, stuff like that, Fairborn. Is Brian, has he crossed the line or not? Let us know. Let us know.

Okay. All right. Because I'm not punching down. I'm not punching up. I'm just, I'm reaching my arm across and hugging. Yeah, you're hugging. You're loving. You're nestling your face in this hairy chest. That's right. The UK is in the new, oh, Zoe, get ready. Hold on to your butts. Oh, no. All right.

UK thief admits stealing thousands of Cadbury eggs cream eggs before the Easter season which seems like a real crime You can have mine too Yeah take everything

I don't need any of that near me No Prosecutor said that Joe B. Poole That's a cool name That's a great job 32 years old used a stolen semi truck Or semi truck

Uh huh To tow away a trailer loaded with more than 38 grand worth of Cadbury cream eggs and other chocolate goods. The man who prosecutors said broke into the UK Industrial Park to still 200,000 chocolate Easter eggs pled guilty to theft and criminal damage. He's also now in a diabetic coma, I would assume, after eating all that. Yeah.

After one, really. He's said to have tried one Cadbury cream egg and his police were able to apprehend him because he was passed out. I even remember as a kid eating one of those and feeling like my day was over. Yeah. Yeah, it's, it is too much. And you can't like, ooh, you know, like a chocolate bunny, empty hollow chocolate bunny, you can bite the head off, bite the ears off, because you're supposed to. And then just wrap it back up in its foil. Have some more tomorrow. But this is like you can't, you can't partially eat a Cadbury cream egg because of all that goo inside. Yeah, the whole, the cream part is, that's what gets you. That's what gets you. Yeah, there's your problem. is the worst part. Yeah. Yeah, that's your problem right there.

It says here, West Mercia Police, I believe, is correct. Cweeted Monday that shortly after the break-in, officers stopped a vehicle presumably, presumably purporting to be the Easter Bunny. When you put Presumably and purporting together, it's going to stumble. It's going to stumble people. That's all I'm saying. Sure, sure. To be the Easter Bunny on a highway and arrested a man on suspicion of theft. Prosecutor Owen Beale said Poole gave up when he was.

realized police, we're after him. Oh, no, they're after me. I got all these eggs, he said. Dang, I should have put all the eggs in one semi. But my mom always said, don't put all your eggs in one semi-truck. Semi-truck. Anyway, chocolate guy walked toward the police with his hands up. He was arrested and the load was recovered.

Yep, they got it. They added. I was really hoping. It's a real shame. He added that pool. Unfortunately, all those Cadbury Cream eggs. were destroyed. Shoot. Oh, that's a shame.

He planned the theft and had previous convictions for handling stolen goods. Pull entered a plea guilty of theft of a trailer, theft of its contents, and criminal damage to a chain lock. He's expected to be sentenced next month. You know what? We'll keep

our eye on this hot case and see where it goes. Right. I love, it's almost like, man, it's like the tiniest little thing added on there. And you smell bad. Yeah, and you smell bad. Stealing a trailer. like grand theft auto stealing property oh by the way you also committed criminal damage to a chain lock yeah can't have that Brian no gosh can't have it it's uh we live in a society as george would say the barrister says that's what put me over the edge for this case is what got me all right finally uh something everyone's been asking for and no one will give them uh property owners propose a topless cannabis dispensary oh jeez in a place called weightly

Waitley. Let's see. The town of Waitley Select Board. Oh, no, no, no. It's the Waitley Select Board. It's a select board in Waitley. Where is Waitley? I don't know.

Let's see. W.W.L.P. I don't know where this is. I love, did you get this because of the name in here? No, where? No. Oh, we're getting to it then. I'm liking this a lot.

Okay. All right. Let's get where we're going then. Let's see. The idea of opening a topless can. cannabis suspensary at Club Castaway was brought to the attention of the town of Waitley and their select board last week. During the Waitley Select Board meeting held on Thursday, owners Nicholas Spagnola.

Oh, that's almost like Nicole Spagnolo, a messing up her own name. Damn. That's hilarious. I didn't notice that the first time I put this in here. Nicholas Spagnola. And also Julius Sokol, I guess. Sokol. Sure.

spoke about possible plans for a club castaway. This is a big picture of Tom Hanks out front, or what? What's this place like? I want to know what club castaway. Anyway, it says here they bought this place for $420,000, according to public records. And they, I'll say, they had to close it shortly after buying the club due to the coronavirus pandemic. You may be familiar with it. You may remember that.

Yeah, I've heard of that. Yeah. Let's see. They want to make it. So they plan to reopen the script. strip club, script club, in 60 days, and at some point transition to a marijuana dispensary. They approached the Wheatley board about the idea, put it out there for feedback because they want to open this retail marijuana business. They told the Wheatley Select Board that an agreement is being made with the Shine Diamond LLC to produce their cannabis provisional license and issue that was issued by the Cannabis Control Commission to open a recreational dispensary.

The point is, though, they want to have the topless ladies bringing you your weed. Yeah, so cannabis, booze, and nudity. Yep. And this is basically the wild cherry from the movie Walking Tall. Walking Tall, yeah. I think you just add the marijuana. There's some gambling in there, and you're all set. Yeah.

Yeah, I think they didn't show any weed in that movie, but they may as well have, you know. Yeah. They had wood panelling. They certainly had the meth or the, what was it, would the kid overdose on? Oh, it was meth, I think. Wasn't it meth? Yeah. And all his friends.

His theme gang of friends were all. Yeah, his theme gang of friends. I'm the heavy set kid with my hat on backwards. Yeah. We got a black kid. We got an Asian kid. We got a couple of white kids. You got they all have a look.

One of them's all tattooed up. The other one looks like she's like prep school, but is in the wrong crowd. That movie, dude. so so much potential wasted completely squandered it makes me kind of want to watch the original just to see what the deal is you know i know i know i think you could probably just get away with watching the movie clips the 10 movie clips uh with joan baker taking his shirt off at the in the court case and be said yeah yeah because joe don baker everyone likes him i know who doesn't like joe don baker um let me i point to the the great film uh magnolia wasn't that that was uh joe don baker

and Magnolia, right? The game show host. Oh, you're thinking of... Oh, I mean, I'm thinking of another guy. I'm totally thinking of, yes. The other Baker. Yes. The one that died just this year, I think. The one that was on Seinfeld, the... Yes, that's exactly what I'm thinking of. Yeah, it's easy. I mix those two guys up. Same thing.

I don't mix their faces up, but their names are, like, ridiculously close. I do it all the time. Dang it. Yeah. What's the name? I'm trying to coming up with it. He's in a... Philip Baker Hall. Philip Baker Hall! Philip Baker Hall.

We knew he was a baker and a candlestick Baker. Yeah, Jodon Baker is still alive and was in those, he was in James Bond a couple of times. He was, he was Felix Lider. Felix Lider. Was he Felix Lider? Yeah, he was Felix Lider. I think he was maybe like the version. Now I'm questioning everything, Scott.

Everything I know is wrong. I don't know anything today. Hold on a second. Hold on. I had a night with no dreams. It means I'm stupid in the morning. Somehow. He was, let's see. Oh, no, he was a different assistant.

He was Jack Wade, a different CIA agent that was a buddy to bond. Why not make him Felix? If you're going to have a CIA agent buddy of... Yeah, why not do that again? That's the tradition, right? I didn't know this. So I was always, it was a big deal back in the day, but everybody always said that Jeffrey Wright was the first time a black man had played the role of Felix Leiter.

That is actually not true. Really? Yeah, in Never Say Never Again, Bernie Casey. Not canon. Oh, that's right. It's not canon. That's a non-canon, shitty James Bond movie that should be stricken from the record. Yeah, you're not wrong.

Gosh, dang it. So, holy cow. Joan on Baker was in four James Bond films as four different characters. as four different characters. CIA agent Jack Wade and Golden Eye, and Tomorrow Never Dies. He was Charles Gray as, let's see,

and you only live twice, he was Blofeld and Diamonds Are Forever, Walter Gautel, the Spector Island trainer from Rush with Love, General Gogol, Weird. Chief of the KGB in six films

between 1977. This feels like, oh, one of four actors to appear is both of Bond Allen. line of villain gotcha oh wow all right i was gonna say that was a weird thing for him to do to be all four of those but that makes sense okay these other people now i'm now i'm there we go i just remember i remember when he was in golden eye the movie golden eye right played jack wade um in the game in golden eye the game yeah the shooter you when you played multiplayer you

could be his character and what was great was it was just because back then everything looked like look like shit you know yes his head was just like a square with jodon baker's face pasted on the front of it right yes it was really great oh the the whole like lawnmore man 3d graphics of the of that era yeah like uh that's what i used to love about like the max pain face yeah it's just just like snarled up dude but it's basically on a three polygon head it's amazing um all right we're going to take a break. When we come back from this break, we're going to have Bill here, and we're going to hear how Emerald City Comic-Con went. Oh, cool. Yeah, he went there, did a bunch of stuff. Excited about that. And also a little bit of science with Bobby. All that

coming up after this break from Brian Ibid, who has a song he'll play. I do. And I'm excited about this one. So yesterday I was getting music together for the whole week of Indy in the middles. I listened to everything that comes into a special mailbox that I've set up that filters out specific all the all the emails from specific labels and um media companies because it's always stuff right in the middle sure and um and then i listen to one song i'm like oh this is really good and picked it for today's in in the middle when i was driving yesterday uh for lift i pulled up my phone and usually i just go to the listen now tab and i'm like oh yeah how about churches today or how about we do you know vampire weekend and essentials or whatever right um

I saw that this, the song that I pulled from this album was still on the list. I'm like, oh, yeah, it recently played. Let's listen to the whole album. So I played the entire album, and I'm freaking in love with this stuff. If you like The Bird and the Bee, maybe with a little less of the tongue-in-cheek humor of the Bird and the Bee in Pomplammeuse, but you like that sound. You're going to love this. This is a band called Miss Grit, M-I-S-G-R-I-T. You might have just seen them on Stephen Colbert.

They were just on the late show, performing the song you're about to hear. This is the title track of the brand new album from Miss Grit called Follow the Cyborg. I'll wake up pretending Then I'll wake up again Leave my mouth wide open Then let her say the rest Because I was born to pause. Oh, I was born with clothes.

I'm a living girl. A real living girl. You're a real living girl. On a lot of my screams, she's in love my screams, she's in love my peace. window inside my home i'm alone i'm my close through the window inside my home i'm alone I was born to pause Oh, I was born with clothes As I was born to pause

Oh, I was born with clothes I'm a living girl, I'm a real living girl, you're real living good. I'm a real living boy. I'm a real living boy. You're really living again. Again, once again. Again, again, but again.

Follow the same, follow you. Falunusayor. Fallacy boy. Falunsaid. I don't know. ...andau, ...andah,

... ... As the President of the United States, I ask you, save all mankind. I'll try. Feverishly turning out 350 Pac-Man games every day. The Morning Stream. It's your job to make sure kids don't drown. I wasn't aware of that.

Tell me who that was again. I'd like to track them down. Sure. The band is Miss Grit. Don't be freaked out by the album cover. It's a little weird. Miss Grit and the brand new album Follow the Cyborg. That is the title track.

Now I need to see this album. Why is it weird? Is it freaking? Yeah, you kind of need to see it. Miss Grit. Let's see here. Miss Grit, follow the cyborg. All right.

I'm looking. Let's see. Follow. I can put it in chat if you need me too. Let's see here. Oh, here we're. Oh, geez. What do we got there?

What is that, do you suppose? It's almost like the last of us, she's, instead of it being like plant tendrils, it's like wires and cables coming out of her mouth. Wow. That's uncomfortable. I warned you. I tried to. You guys all heard me warn him, right? Yeah.

Yeah, I heard the warning, but did I heat it? No. not heed. When you heed the warning, you did not heed the warning. See, there you go, Chad. This is how she, this is how she continues to be alive. They plug her in here. Yeah.

And these are big, like, coaxial looking shit, man. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And you can see other pictures of her, like, holding the cables. So it's like, oh, okay, so they, you know, they obviously, those aren't 3D CGI added after the fact. No. Very weird. Yeah. She's obviously got some good bandwidth, though.

Yeah, yeah, clearly, right? She's got all guys. She's got fiber in there. She's got fiber. Sure, sure. Yeah. All right, we're going to add Bill here. Okay.

You know him as Bill. Oh, yeah, Bill. You know Bill? Yeah. Except Punish, there we go. All right. And we're going to talk to him, so let's do that. Your bat caves open there, Bill.

Bill Duran fresh off a stink bag trip to the Emerald City Comic-Con. he's all back and recovered and well i don't know maybe maybe you change that place and turned into a giant factory in your factorial outfit that's right i don't know but um i enjoyed watching some of your uh exploits from afar um bill welcome back and also how did how did that experience go hello happy to be back and uh i want to talk all about that today oh good cons in general because i think if you haven't been to a fan con or a pop culture con you may not know what's a available out there. Emerald City was awesome.

It's in Seattle. It's right in the bang smack middle of Seattle. And they built a brand new convention center. Oh, really? Was this there? When I was driving through there, I saw something going on. They've been working on it for the last two years, I think. Okay.

That must have been it. It's right next to I-5, so it's hard to miss. Yeah, yeah. I wondered what that was. I thought, oh, is this the? And I'm like, well, that can't be the. convention center bill goes to because that's already a thing and i guess they replaced it so we now have two i guess oh okay uh the emerald city took place only in the new one uh and it was

cool it was cool to be in a convention center that was purpose built for this era of conventions right because uh 10 15 years ago cons weren't what they are now right so the new place is huge just got five levels of, like, expo halls, panel rooms, and ballrooms. There are a ton of bathrooms. Very happy for that. Oh, that's nice. Very, very necessary for this sort of thing. And something I thought was really cool.

There were a lot of like, anywhere near a railing, they put these sort of shelves about waist height where you could just set stuff down, which you don't think about until you purchased a bunch of things or you got to take your helmet off and put it. somewhere. It's great to have a place not on the floor to set things down. So there were like hundreds of feet of these shelves. And along these shelves were both 120 volt plugs and USB plugs. Oh, wow. Just, just hundreds of them. Just like way more than anyone will ever need. So people aren't going to be fighting for places to charge their phone or anything. You know what that tells me? That tells me that they've, they understood the assignment. They

were like, yeah, right? Look, what a convention is now. It's no longer a bunch of businessmen walking around with a tiny bag of stuff that they maybe get a keychain here and there and then they look at whatever the other businesses are doing and then they go home it doesn't work like that designed by people who've been to to conventions yeah yeah or tried to carry the hand of ragnarose through a convention oh my lord no that's great i am very happy to hear that and i assume this is the new permanent ecc home yeah i'm wondering the two conventions or halls are close enough that they could probably spill over into one another, but you'd have to walk a block and a half to get to the other one.

So I don't know if they're going to use the old one as well once this one fills up. But it was pretty full. I'll tell you what. That's good. That's good to hear. Was it just your typical, like, you know, exhibitors and cosplay and all that stuff this year? Anything special?

Yeah. Tons of fun stuff. I was there with my brother and his wife and their two boys. obviously all cosplaying. In fact, if you look up Duran Clan creations on Instagram, you'll find them. They had multiple costumes, which was

really fun. And then there was lots of fun stuff for the kids to do. There was a Lego room. They went back to, I believe, four times because the boys just wanted to keep playing with Legos. Dude, people love the Lego room. I get that. There was larping going on so you could go grab a

foam sword and shield and go outside and beat the crap. I don't want another. That looked pretty fun. Nice. I cosplayed. You mentioned I wore my pioneer costume from Satisfactory. Yeah. And I'm surprised how many people recognize that costume. I guess a lot more people play the game than I realized. I think when they moved, when it became no longer an exclusive on on Epic and moved to Steam, I think they, that that was a huge boost for them. Could be. Yeah. Yeah. But tons of people saw it and loved

it. My favorite costume that I saw was one of the astronauts from Outer Wilds. Oh, yeah. I'm just enamored with that game and I don't see a lot of those, so that was cool. Outer Wild is crazy.

But there's obviously tons of other just incredible cosplay there. That's great. Very cool. And did you take the tool with you that you made for them? No, that got shipped off to them. I don't have it anymore.

Oh, okay. Yep. I'll have to make another one from myself. Oh, my gosh. Look at you standing next to that giant. What's that rabbit called? Totero. Totero, right, right.

Cool. Yeah, Studio Ghibli had a booth there, which I thought was really cool. Wow. Oh, wow. That's cool. That's really cool. Dude, your beard. So, yeah, that's overlooking I-5 there.

Keep this beard going. Good Lord. Look at that thing. Yeah. Funny story. My beard tremor broke a week ago, more than a week ago, and I ordered a new one, and it's been delayed. So that's the beard story.

Oh. Well, it's a planning on having a lumberjack beard. I like it. happened. I think that thing is looking, that's looking sweet, man. You got to put oil in there, though, right? Yeah, I got to get some beard oil. I don't have any beard oil. Yeah, that's my problem. When I get too long, I'm not, I don't have the gumption to get the oil, so it just turns into a scraggly freaking brats nest. I hate it. Yep, yep. Keep stuff in there. Awesome. So, Emerald City was a load of fun. But I do know that, I mean, it was big,

75,000 people. We have several other big conventions here in Seattle. But I know for a lot of folks, they might be looking for something a little smaller. And Seattle has a ton of them. So obviously we have packs, which is huge. Sakura Khan is big. Emerald City's big. But some of our smaller cons are things like King Khan, which is a small convention in Renton,

just south of Seattle. Great name. The Washington State SummerCon, which I went to this summer in Puyallup. And then in Seattle proper, there's one called Geek Girl Con. that's a very obviously geek girl focused convention. Yeah.

With programming to match. There's one called Norwest Khan, which I haven't been to yet. There's also one called BrickCon, which is all about Lego. Which I obviously haven't been yet because if I did, my house will be full of Lego. I'm sure of it. Sure. Wear thick-sold shoes when you go to. Oh, yeah.

That's happening. Looks like September 9th and 10th this year, 2023. Oh, yeah. Look at this. This is cool. This looks like fun. That's just a smattering of the conventions there are in and around the Seattle area. And I bet if you live near a large-ish city, you'll be surprised to find how many conventions there are.

If you're looking for something, they've propped up everywhere, and there are more than just this sort of general pop culture conventions. Like Emerald City Comic-Con is really a pop culture convention. It kind of spans many different genres and topics. but there are conventions for example that follow a specific franchise so i know that there is a specific convention for the show supernatural yeah there's and almost every show has like their own thing like that uh i do remember i didn't get to go but there was one for the game destiny really i think it was called guardian con yeah how do they keep how do they keep all those angry people happy while they're they got to feed them something special i got to give them give them like i don't know

nice coffee at the beginning to sit down and just chill for this week and everything will be fine. There are also conventions for specific genres. For example, there's Wasteland Weekend, kind of like a post-apocalyptic con or steampunk conventions. Yeah. There are different conventions for different trades. So, like, I've been to Autodesk University, which is a whole thing in Vegas. But also, like, tattooing has their own conventions. If you're into tattoos, you could probably find a con nearby that just does tattoos.

tattoos. And then I'm of course obsessed with maker conventions. So like I went to Silicon over the summer, but there's also one called WorkbenchCon, which I believe just happened. And I think is in Atlanta, I want to say. And then there's one in the UK called Maker Central that I really want to go to, but I haven't been to yet. So there's there's something for everyone quite literally. So if you've been thinking about it, just take a peek around where you are. I bet you'll find something. Yeah, it's just a matter of looking, right? You got to just check. I was just looking at some Salt Lake stuff and there's way more than I thought even.

Oh, yeah, right? And don't forget, we're going to be going to Dallas, I think it is, in November for the ArcadeCon, Scott. Oh, that's right. Is that this year? That is this year. That's right. The March thing always seems to come at the exact wrong time with, you know, regard to the pinball stuff or the, I'm sorry, the prep for TMS Vegas and stuff like that. It was just a hard month to do it.

It really is. Yeah, November's good, though. I like November. November, things aren't too crazy with snow yet and winter. That's a good time. Exactly. Well, plus it's Texas. They don't get their frozen pipes for another month after that.

All right. Well, yeah, do look around, everybody. Check your own, do a search for your own city. In your own backyard. Conventions. You'd be surprised, yeah, how much stuff's there. And somebody's got you. I'll be doing Fan Expo this year, June in Colorado, Denver, Colorado.

Oh, my God. Gosh, sorry, just saw something to freak me out. The guy that played Rictus in Mad Max Fury Road will be the keynote speaker at this year's Wasteland Weekend. That's awesome. This convention will be perfect in every way. That's right. He's going to test the fresh boob milk

and the little tiny brother will tell him to go see what's bugging dad. Oh, it'll be great. Anyway. He's probably not going to headline Emerald City Comic-Con, but at Wasteland Weekend he is a god Oh he is a god dude Nathan Jones he's a beat And he's even dressed up for it for this thing

You can see he's got he's wearing his like His thing Unless is the shot from the movie it might be I'm not sure Anyway doesn't matter Now I want to watch Mad Max Fury wrote again Hey Bill that's great You always leave us with a little bonus content

And today's probably no different What do you got there? Oh yes I sure do I've got a video from a channel called Cronova Engineering It's how to machine a watch gear. Oh, cool. I've been watching a lot of machining videos lately.

And making, machining things that are very small is quite a... Wow, look them adding the little teeth to the gear and stuff. Jeez. Oh, yeah. Right off the, right in the first few seconds of the video,

I'm hooked. I like when videos just freaking get to it, man. Yeah. It's my favorite. I don't need 10 minutes of you going, Hey, everybody. Oh, my God. I get a lot of people asking me to make a video about this.

that I decided I'd finally make a video about it. If you've never heard of metal, let me explain metal. Like, no, start cutting into it. Although I do like Bill's intro. I think Bill's are really good, but it can be done right, is my point. And some of them aren't. Oh, for sure. And they're comedic. Yeah. But this one,

this one freaking get right in, start machining your metal. People want to see chips fly. Yeah, dude. Give the people what they want. That's right, damn. I feel like I should be wearing goggles watching this thing. You know what I want? What I want is this tiny adorable watchmaker

late that's what I want it is really cute yeah yes you could just fit it in a drawer it's so so tiny how does how does one acquire such a thing it's probably a thing you can get right just buy it sure kind of Craigslist

yeah 15500 plus I'm guessing I'm guessing this is expensive this device that could be wrong uh Bill always a good stuff as always and it's always good to have you back I'm glad uh I'm glad you're well do you think you're uh you know it's still kind of cold flu, COVID season. Do you think your

satisfactory helmet protected you from the for many bugs getting into your hole? I had a not a surgical mask or anything, but a balaclava on under the helmet, which covers my mouth and nose, and I had the helmet on.

I couldn't hurt. You're feeling fine. Can't hurt. Yeah, and you're feeling fine. And in the worst case, put the stink bag on. Then you'd be all set. I felt fine for about a week after Dragon Con before I COVID hit me. Yeah, that's right.

We'll give it a little time before we sing hooray. Yeah. Well, when you do, we'll sing hooray with you in unison. It's Bill Duran, everybody. Punishprops.com is the place to go. Punish Props is also the awesome

YouTube channel. Go check that out. Bill, have a great week. We'll see you next time. Bye-bye. Bye-bye. We'll see it. Bye. I think I'm going to play a little satisfactory with Bill.

Just because, you know, I reinstalled it. It's there. May as well. Might as well use it. Sure. Maybe stream it. Why not?

We'll see. Okay. How are y'all set for science today? Oh, not at all? Well, good news. You don't have to be poor anymore. It's time for us to get a little sciencey in here. Where's the deal?

There we go. Science is our favorite thing to be talking about, really. And I don't know if that's true, but we talk a lot about. science on the show. It's definitely mine. It's definitely yours. That's right. Bobby comes on the show and does that very thing. Bobby, welcome back. Uh, hello. Thank you for welcoming me. I spoke out of turn and no, no, no, you always can do that. You can do that any time you want. Here's the funny thing. Bobby corrected me on something. I thought I had discovered this brand new, no one had seen it before, just out on Netflix, super awesome science documentary about black holes. And the, and the first

visualization that we ever got a couple years ago and I thought wow I'm going to be the one that tells Bobby that this exists and that he should see this so I reach out to Bobby yesterday and say Bobby this this is this documentary you're going to love it you're going to love this and you said oh the one that came out in 2020 yeah I've seen it it's great shit he's totally it's old sorry that my response made you feel that way because you characterize it like I corrected you but I didn't you just said hey have you seen this documentary and I was like oh yeah I saw a couple years ago. Yeah, it was self-correcting. You didn't have to do anything. It was just like, oh, it came out then. I was going to, I mean, I could still recommend it. We never did it here before, but it was so good. In fact, you know what? I'll just use, I'll use this as the thing. This one-time recommendal where we do it on your segment. This thing is called Black Hole's the Edge of All We Know. And it's on Netflix. And it was trending for some reason, which is why I assumed it was new. And I watched just kind of on a fluke. And it kind of, I I didn't expect this, but it covers some of the last years of Stephen Hawking and his involvement in that project.

And I didn't know he was even involved. This is how little I knew about that thing. That's a weird. Yeah. And it's just, it was the shot in this arm in my arm I needed. I don't know why. I came away feeling like it was the most hopeful, exciting reminder that people are up to cool shit. Yeah.

What I like a lot about it is, is it gives. so we've reached a point in in astronomy and astrophysics and and all this kind of like really far out astronomy that that individuals aren't doing the work um it's it's massive teams of of international teams of people that are having because there's so much data that that is involved and so the whole thing about this was this this documentary series that you watched was about the um it was about the uh the what was it called it's the new to event horizon is was that what it was called no no no but they call um you're right uh horizon's part of the term yeah shoot it's the thing where they describe the they call it hair uh where yeah they the the i mean they they can kind of reproduce they reproduce this in this pool and created a whirlpool to kind of model it, which I thought was kind of crazy, given the scale of this thing, but it turned out to be exactly what they thought because

the images they got were based on these theories. And anyway, I can't remember the name, something Horizon, but not event. Yeah, not Event Horizon. The idea is, the hair Horizon. No, it was like, every time, you know what's funny? All you have to do is say Event Horizon, and I picture Sam Neal with his skin all cut up and his eyes couched out. Well, sure.

I can't help it. Anyway, it's, but the idea is it's this, it's this, it's this, this, this, this combination of a bunch of different telescopes all over the world that have to, that had to do the first imaging of the black hole. You remember a couple years ago, the first image of a black hole came out. This documentary chronicles all the work that went into that. And what I love about the documentary is that it actually humanizes that process and you get to meet the teams of people who are working on it. they they really talk to them about it and you you know we imagine these like mathematicians and these nerds sitting in there crunching numbers and that they're just like robots that are like beep poop i need to take picture um and uh but no these all these scientists and and people

have like very profound motivations for doing what they do yeah and uh and you really get to talk to like hear them talk all about it and why it's important to them to explore this part of our universe and to understand what a black hole is and how it works and collect this data. I agree. The Stephen Hawking angle was was really amazing because it's very emotional because you're following this group of people who are very close with him and work very close to him. And have been for 50 plus years. Like they've been all a couple of men.

talk about their feelings about how he's dying in the middle of them working on this project and it's very good documentary it's really really good you're right about the humanization of it and i think that is what really won me over but it also just the excitement in some of these people there's a young girl on the project who's like some kind of genius prodigy isn't she delightful oh my gosh i just want to have lunch with her i want to talk to her all day like i just want to know i want to know how her brain works i want to i want to be with these people they that was the thing I came away from was like the effort to learn and discover is so palpable in this. It had a way of making me go, well, the rest of all this bullshit we deal with every day.

Everybody trying to get, you know, the rage farming and trying to get engagement on horrible issues and all these talking heads and all this crap. Like, while that's happening, there's a group of people somewhere else doing some really cool stuff like this. And that's what, yeah. That's science. Like all those people that you saw in that documentary, that's scientists.

They are doing what they do because they cannot contain the excitement they have about learning new things. And that's really all it boils down to it. But that documentary does a great job of showing that. It does. It gets in the weeds on the technical and it also stays very human. And I'm not used to that with these kind of docs. So highly recommend it.

Don't know how I missed it before. But it's worth your time, if any of that sounds interesting to you. All right, Bobby, you probably bought an actual package of science material with you. Yeah, a fun little thing that I read about. But I got a question for you first. How do you get water out of your phone or your smart watch if it gets, if it gets... I don't. I just throw it away by a new one.

I mean, they say putting it in rice. And I'll be honest. I did that once after jet skiing and the watertight container that I thought my phone was in, got filled with water. And it didn't work. I had to go buy a phone the next day. Oh, it didn't do it. So I've done it in rice and it did work for me. Did it work for you?

One time, but I've had other, excuse me, other devices where that didn't work. Yeah. And so I'm guessing it's real hit and this. This isn't about the rice thing. But do you think maybe, Scott, that the reason it worked sometime. and didn't work other times is because it just doesn't work? Entirely possible, yeah.

And you just happen to be lucky that the water you did get in there the first time you think it worked just didn't get to the bad place? Here's a weird thing we used to do. When I used to work for this computer company, we manufactured computers for the university accounts

and stuff like this. And it was like kind of a, I don't know, a small company, but we mass produced these PCs. And we're talking like Pentium era of PCs. And they used to These big, clicky, you know, Honeywell keyboards everybody loved. And we were buying those like crazy. And I had two of them.

And the problem, they were great, but the problem is they got really dirty, really quick. I don't know why. And they were white, so that was part of the problem. But they also would just get stuff in them. And we would wash those in the dishwasher without any soap. So we wouldn't use detergent, but we would wash the three or four of these keyboards in the dishwasher for a full load. and then we just let them dry and if he gave it a day

and then plugged them in they were 100% fine that worked great. So I think it was always an issue of if it worked either with or without the rice there was a good chance that it was the kind of electronics that if you just dries and you're not getting any kind of real corrosion

you're going to be fine but if it's something where stuff can get in there and really dink with important bits then you're screwed like if I drop my phone in the tub I'm more confident that I will have no problem with it later

than I am if I drop my steam deck in there which is full of vents and fans and all this other shit plus you know our phones they're water

resistant and waterproof to a certain level and stuff like that more so than they were you know 10 years ago 15 years ago yeah that's true

the deal with that and then I'll talk about what I'm going to talk about But the deal with that is, I've done a lot of research over the years on this whole idea, this whole question of rice. And the consensus is that rice almost certainly doesn't work. Even if it does work maybe a little bit, the risk of starch from the rice getting into and gumming up the electronics is far greater. So it could make it worse. Silica packs, people talk about, they might work a little better.

rice, but still don't work really well. I save those, right? Like, you know, you get some filament comes, a lot of times filament comes with those packets, and I save them just in case it's like, all right, I need to dump these into a container and then put some electronic in there that got water in it. Yeah. Yeah, the main, the thing that's going to work the best is just getting it opened as much as you can and exposing it to air, preferably moving air, like with a fan.

And the thing about silica packs, that's great, is that unlike rice, the silica packs aren't going to hurt anything to try. Unless you eat them. Yeah, don't eat them. Right. God, no. Yeah. It tells you right there,

do not eat. Yeah, do not eat. Well, that's the benefit of rice, right? Like, you can eat it when you're done. Yeah.

But it might mess up your food. I don't know if I want to eat rice after it's had my phone in it for a day. You can eat rice. Yeah, you can eat rice. Then you can eat rice. We know that. We know it for a fact for years now.

But what if I told you that some scientists, have got inspiration for a method of getting a device to eject the moisture, to eject its own moisture from itself, and that inspiration has come from the way a tiny insect peas. Wait. My watch does this. Yeah, I was going to say, the Apple Watch farts out a little water when it's wet, and it does it like that, right? The speaker goes, and it just poops out the whatever water or moisture's in there.

So is that where that idea came from? I don't know if that's what, but they could use this, this insect, what they could, learning from this insect to maybe improve that process. Interesting. So the insect is called a glassy-winged sharpshooter. It's a, and it's called a sharpshooter for the reason that you're thinking. It's about a half an inch long. It's very small. And it's part of, there's a sharpshooter family of insects.

So it's part of the sharpshooter family. And these insects, they hang out on plants and they have really sharp needle mouthpieces that poke into the plants and suck out the xylem fluid from inside of a plant. So all the fluid that's moving around in the plant. That's how they get their sustenance. They steal it straight from the plant. And since that water is so, since that fluid that they're eating is so watery, they've got to like me all the time when I'm on the show because I drink. so much coffee. They've got to pee constantly. Yeah. They're just constantly

having to pee because of all this water this second. So how do they do it? Well, they carefully secrete a tiny sphere of liquid from their, I guess it's their anus because they only have

the one hole, right? You know what? Just to irritate Dr. Tolbert, I will call it the cochlea one more time. There you go. Oh, there you go. Nicely Yeah, he hates that. Cochle. Yeah. I refer to it every time and there's like a weird egg sack or some kind of bung thing on a on a bird or whatever and they're always someone will say what is that oh that's just the cochlea which is not correct anyway that's not correct not even for birds it's the wrong word right right it's totally wrong anyway um that i sent you a link in the

thing that you can actually see a very close up image further down in this article of this uh of this insect's anus so it's not safe for work i guess but it is it's fine it's not safe for bug work if you're a bug yeah exactly it's not gonna get you're not gonna get anything done while you're at the office today just know that yeah which if you're an aunt then that is your insect work is digging you're not going to get anything dug yeah um so they so they so they what they do is they secrete it a little bit and if you're on the stream you can if you're here live you can see a video of how it works this is great dude he launches it like a little like a little brian i'll give you this link it's like uh yeah this do actually i'm seeing a

right now, Captain Kippre, I think it's like a weird catapult. Yes, that's exactly what it is. It's like a catapult. They don't let the little drop fall off. They just catapulted away with this feathery, like, spoon that connects to the base of their anus. I want to do this. This is how I want to pee. Sure.

Like, I want to stand way back. Like, go to the airport bathroom, right? Men's bathroom. I want to stand 20 feet back from that urinal. And I want to launch it like. this. It's like a weird pez dispenser kind of thing. It does. It's like it fills up and then they get rid of it and then the next one fills up. Absolutely wild. That's crazy. The cool thing about this though, and the reason that they're considering for electronics is because it

it uses it's what's called super propulsion. That's what they call it. And the idea here is that that water droplet actually launches away from the insect faster than their anal catapult can actually move. So if you measure the speed that that part on their, the catapult part, if you measure the speed that that actually moves, the droplet is moving faster than that. And that's weird, right? Like, how is that possible? They're able to, they've been able to determine that it's because the drop is small enough.

that there's an elastic due to surface tension on the drop there's an elasticity to the droplet yeah and so it's it's like it's uh it's like a bouncy ball of p that that it's able to launch away and because it's bouncy on its surface it's able to launch faster than than um and so that means it's low energy it takes less energy so for small electronics like your apple watch that you're trying to preserve battery life. This is a sort of a low power way to deal with moisture if you need to get rid of moisture from inside it. That makes perfect sense.

It's just wild, though. I mean, it's not the first time, obviously, that nature informs innovation sometimes. You'll see the way an animal will behave or the way something works. And then we're like, all right, why don't we try that? I mean, hell, the way we use computers are all based on, you know, human constructs. I'm putting a file in a folder and like all all operating systems basically

operate under that assumption that that's at least from a visual standpoint. I'm not talking about you nerds who, you know, command line everything. But you know what I mean? Like it's the construct of folders and files and a little can for your waste, things you're throwing away. You know, that's how we roll. So why not learn from a natural source and implement it? Right. I mean, nature, the natural world has spent, you know, hundreds of millions of years evolving these processes. They've been doing the R&D for a lot longer than us. Yeah. So why not just stand on the shoulders of these very tiny giants? Yeah, tiny giants. But yeah, because, and it makes sense that they would have evolved this process to be super energy efficient, right? Because they're,

They're sucking this fluid that's mostly water from inside a plant. So there's not a lot of energy in each drop that they get. So they need to, the process of getting rid of it needs to be very efficient so that they're not using more energy per drop that they're peeing out, you know? Right. Yeah, that's wild, dude. I absolutely love this. And what prompted this?

What were you like, how did you run into it? What did you search for that landed you on this? Yeah, I need an origin story. I read a lot of science news, and this one just came across, and I thought, I thought, insects catapulting P, this is perfect for T.S. Right up the alley of the show. Yeah, it is. And I'll tell you what, I think that this is a good opportunity because we talked about that documentary. It's a good example of what I mean, and also you bringing this up. I feel like, here's, this is just an idea. immerse yourself in scientific study and I don't mean like try to discover things but let's learn about what already is out there if you want even if it means just perusing things on Wikipedia and going deep sometimes because I am telling you it's cathartic in

this world right now like without I feel like that was like a high point for me to like delve deep into a thing where I just had to do this it wasn't about drama or plot points or anything it was just what does a black hole look like what do we have to do see it. How long is it going to take us? You know? Or in this case, just understanding how this little bit of nature works. You know another way to do this? Watch a nature documentary. A good one. Don't go watch ancient aliens on Freaking History Channel. Watch like a real thing about like stuff we know. It's just really cathartic. Maybe we'll pull out of our shitty funk if we'll just focus on that

kind of stuff, you know? When people, a lot of people sit on the toilet and go. through Facebook and Twitter and stuff, but I, I, uh, I, uh, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, uh, I, I, I, I, that's cool, though. Nothing wrong with this. I like this idea. I don't know with that at all. Yeah. I think, I think, we're on a, we're on a, we're on a new, uh, let's be better, better humans. Uh, all right, Bobby, this is awesome. Uh, uh, what else is I'm going to ask you. I had something else to ask you. I don't know what it is. Uh, oh, I know what it is. I'm very excited about this. I don't know if this is really doxing you. or anything, but he's coming to Vegas and he's bringing his wife. We get to meet

Mrs. Frankenberger. Ms. Franks. Her name's Stephanie. Stephanie Frankenberger. She's also very smart. I hesitated to say that because I realized I was saying, I'm very smart, and so is my

how much of you prepared her for the debauchery of TMS Vegas? Yeah. Yeah. How much much. I mean, not like we have some secret orgy going on or anything. It's not like that. We're going in blind. You're just never invited, Scott. Oh, is that it? Okay. Kim and I

drive away and they're like, okay, they're gone. Go, go. Boom, everybody, close off. Close off. Quick. Show me your boobs. Oh, he's coming back. Quick. She's very excited. I'm excited to meet her. I feel like, I don't know, you mentioned her a lot. I'm big on people's families

and all that's going. And obviously, she sounds awesome, so I can't wait to meet her. Will you feel like, you know, self-conscious about wearing the silver LeMay jacket in front of Stephanie? Oh, absolutely not. And it was, it was pink. Oh, that's true. Yeah, pink, yeah, I guess. And you sleep in that.

I was picking up the color from the video game plays. No, Stephanie lives with me. She knows who I am. Oh, God. No, you're like, you're like us. You're not putting on some show. You are who you are. Keep in mind.

I mean, there's, there's things I do in Vegas on a solo trip that I don't do when I'm on a trip with Tina. Let's just, you know. Oh, hey, now we're getting. It doesn't have anything to do with strip clubs or anything, but I'm, you know, slightly a different, you know. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, every one of those guys flicking cards. Brian actually goes up to him and says, give me one of those cards. Let me see what you got. Yeah.

It's a long callback. Oh, big time. I love it, though. All right. Bobby, always a pleasure. Check him out everywhere. You find Bobby. you'll tell us now where to get your podcast

because that's the place where the real magic happens. All around science. The name of a podcast is all around science. We talk about science every week, science news, what we find interesting in science. For example, just this past week, the episode that came out yesterday, Mora talked all about some cooking science.

We talked about the chemical reactions that happen to make to brown food and gluten and stuff like that. So a lot of chemistry, science chemistry, or cooking chemistry. Yeah, we should talk about gluten on here sometime, just about whether it's as big a deal as everybody says or how it actually works.

We should. I'll put it on a short list. Yeah, put it on your short list, will you? Please do. It's Bobby Franks, everybody. Have a fantastic week, and we'll see you next time. Brian, hold your, cross your fingers. I am. I am.

All right, here we go. Oh, did we make it? Did it work? Can you hear me? You seem to. I can hear you. Yeah, looks good. Yeah, and it's weird because it happens like minute or like seconds.

after he disconnects right yeah sometimes it's not right away so i think we're out of the woods i think we're good yeah it's not flipping maybe they fixed it i don't know you never know with these discord people i both love and hate their app uh speaking of which join us on our discord please frogpants dot com slash discord is where you can do it it's uh requires nothing you don't have to be special member or anything weird like that um anybody can be it there whether you're a patron or not uh discord is for the community and it and come It says everything that happens on Frog Pants. The TMS Group is a very active one on there.

So please come be a part of that family. Oh, and I just did it yesterday. I created a whole new channel, text channel, dedicated to contests and giveaways. Oh, cool. Smart. I started with just some random stuff here, but who knows what that could be.

Dunaway could do some of his things he's been working on with his retro 3D printing. Or Brian may have something to throw up on there. I could give away some 3D printing stuff that just, why am I keeping this kind of stuff? Exactly. And it's dedicated so that when people enter in there to win, there's, it's not clogging or clogging up some other channel. It's just all dedicated to that. So anyway, lots of reasons to join and no excuses not to. Check it out frogpants.com slash discord. And if you'd like to support the show in a more meaningful way,

you can join us on Patreon at patreon.com slash TMS. Be one of the many folks who get art in the mail, pre-show content every week, no commercials ever, and other great benefits. You can only get by being a patron for TMS. That's Patreon.com slash TMS. That's going to do it for us today. Unless you have anything else, Brian, I don't want to assume. No, I got nothing. Oh, tonight, 3.30 Mountain Time, me and Dunnoway doing play retro.

That's today's... Talking mist. That's right. Yeah, I'm tuning in for that for sure because I'm excited about... I like mist. I like me some mist. Mist is a good time. Okay, I think that's going to do it then.

Let's get out of here with a song. Sure. Now, Bologna Ninja sent in a request last month, and he made the mistake of not putting a date on it. He basically left the date of request open, which is not good if you're requesting a thing for your birthday. It kind of disappears. So he says, hey, Brian and Scott, long-time listener and occasional requester, my birthday. Birthday 18th birthday.

His mom was a birthday for her, I guess. I don't know. What's that? Maybe his mom had a burst day, if you know what I'm saying. I remember Kane had a birthday in Alien. Oh, yeah, that's right. he did, but as a spoil, what a sad day. Happy birthday. But that falls on a Saturday, so whenever you have an open spot, feel free to fulfill my request, which is, I just want the worst cover

song Brian has is in his library, a reggae remix of Baby Shark or Toto's Africa with kazooz. Whatever is the worst cover you can find, and not any of those William Shatner songs, those are actually pretty good. Thanks a bunch. Beloni Ninja. P.S. It's baloney that's been trained in the art of ninja to answer a question that we asked last month. And P.P. P.S, those examples actually do exist. Oh, my gosh. Okay, me ask you this, Brian. Have you always held, in some regard, a song that you consider to be the worst cover of all time?

I've held many songs, and it's hard for me to do that because the fact that somebody's willing to put themselves out there and record a cover is, you know, that already is something elevated over almost anything I've done. I have recorded a cover myself, and people know that. But there are, you know, there's the two different kinds. There's the ones that's like, all right, well, this had no hope of being any good. And I feel like William Shatner is kind of the great example of that. It's like, all right, once you hear the first William Shatner cover, you know, he's never going to do a cover that's just like fantastic spot on. I will argue the Benfold's cover of Rock in the Suburbs that uses William Shatner to great effect is about the best thing that William Shatner's ever done musically. And stuff like Wing, it's a very easy thing to go with Wing and her cover of Back in Black because that thing is so horrendous.

I struggled with this today, Scott. And I think I found the one that is going to hurt the most ears. Again, Mike Tyson covering 1-9 in Bangkok, too easy. Can't use it. No, we go. I get it. All right. So, this is a guy named I Alert Pilarm.

And he is, I think his nickname is the Swedish Elvis. I should have actually looked this up before I started. But his nickname, oh, God. The Swedish Elvis. The Swedish Elvis. And if you find a picture of this guy, too, I'm going to send you a link because it's, something to behold. Does he, so I assume he dresses in some sort of Elvis

Elvis thing. Yes. He's a Swedish Elvis impersonator. And what you're about to hear is a cover of the Elvis Presley song in the ghetto that sounds like Eilert is hearing it for the first time himself.

Sounds bad. Sounds bad. I can't. I can't, I don't think there's any way I can set it up any better than that. Yeah. You'll just enjoy this. Here you go. Here is I Alert Pilarm from the 1988 album, sorry, 1999,

Album, I Alert is back and a cover of In the Ghetto. All right. That's going to do it for us. We'll see you guys tomorrow for a Wednesday edition of the show. We'll see you then. Ezreth Northline. On the calling in Chicago, morning a pooled in the baby shy, is a born in the ghetto, and his mama cry. Because if there one thing, that she don't need this another, he'll want to be in the ghetto.

But don't you understand A child need a helping head And hell grew to be an angel A man someday Take a look at you with me All we took lying to see Oh, though it simply turns our head And look in other way

When the word turns out of time And I hung your little boy, with a run out place in the street That's cold white flows in the ghetto And his hunger burns And his hunger burns So I start to a room In a street

And a night he learns how to fight in the ghetto And one night in desperation, a young man breaks away The bicycle steal a car, tries to run But he don't get far And his mommy cry As he crawled ate his front And the angriam man face down in the street with a gunny's hand in the ghetto as her young man died.

On a cold in grey she called a morning of the little baby child is a bowl in the ghetto home and his mummy cry. This show is part of the Frog Pants Network. Frog Pants Network. Get more shows like this at frogpants.com. The shine that looks a foot deep. Oh.