The Morning Stream - TMS 2434: My Newt Minute

Episode Date: March 9, 2023

Put Your Gees Back In Your Louise. If I can borrow your phone I can call long-distance for the figures. That bear was one day away from retirement. My Russian Sister from Korea. Keanu Creams. Raspberry Beret Records. Stouffer's: They're Fine. You'll have no Amy, no Wendi, and no Lieutenant Yarr 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, put your G's back in your Louise. If I can borrow your phone, I can call long distance for those figures. That bear was one day away from retirement. My Russian sister from Korea. Kianu creams. Raspberry Beret records. Stoffers, they're fine. You'll have no Amy, no Wendy, and no Lieutenant Yard, and more on this episode of the Morning Stream.

It's not what it looks like. Like I said, they always come back to the seat of the crime. We're going to have to take it down to the station. I don't think that'd be a good idea. We'll see who shits on the sidewalk. Jeez. The morning stream. Revereign, you've got balls as biggest church bells. What day is it Thursday, March 9th,

2023? I'm Scott Johnson. That's Brian Ibbott. Hi, Brian. Oh, hi, Scott. Hi. How funny to see you here. Oh, look who it is. If it isn't Scott Johnson. How convenient. Showing up to do the thing you do every day together.

Weird. What? I know. Very strange. Hi, everyone. We hope you're well. And welcome to another edition of the show. It's a little short today, just to give you a little heads up. We don't have Wendy, we don't have Amy. We have me and Brian, and we have a bunch of stuff.

But I also have an appointment pretty quick after the top of the hour, the next hour. And so you'll get us for about an hour, hour and 10 maybe, something like that. I mean, how much more of us do you really need, really? When it comes down to it, do you need any more of us than that? No. No. The answer is no. Isn't that enough?

Really? Emphatic no. Let's get to straight to it. So this marks final day of no. uh kim as you can tell i'm a little chipper and i'm a little excited because are you exhausted from having to uh clean the house rapid clean the house well that'll be after my appointment because she'll get home here she probably doesn't get here till about three oh yeah you got you got you get a couple i got some time yeah i got to get the dishes done it's and a lot of it was

stuff that like like when they left it was already kind of like i can't deal with this right now we're leaving and i'm like well don't worry i'll take care of it i says and i haven't done anything it. So there's a little bit of that. I also got some boxes during the week that I need to just break down and put somewhere for recycling and all. Like I just, I've kind of, I kind of haven't maintained anything since they left. And I don't want it to be a nightmare when they get home. So I'm going to take care of that. Uh, was I going to say something about Vegas and I totally spaced it. Uh, she, she told me something cool. Did she go? She checked out the plaza and their renovations or their, uh, they went to Vermont Street. Oh, they were going, so.

they got as far as the was that place we always go breakfast down there next to it or up the road it's like two blocks oh yes the place where your sister ordered her eggs cooked yeah how do you like your eggs

cooked yes not windy Misha the Russia the Russian sister from Korea anyway they yeah so my eggs cooked so that's not that I mean that's like a block

she could walked a further block. I know. That's what I said. I said, how can you guys didn't go up there? She goes, there was something going on and they had it blocked off. And I said, oh, so what does that mean? How could you've gotten in there? She says, I don't know, but probably have to go like around, a different direction, go behind it. So they gave up, they were going to check it again.

They were going to check today on their way out to see if they can squeeze in there because I want to get some pictures. So we'll see. But, oh, I know what it was. They all went to the, um, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the easy at the mob museum. Oh yeah. Yeah. And Carter's three friends that they're with are teetotelers. They're not into, they don't drink. And so they all had virgin stuff in there. But it was their favorite place to be. They loved it. They absolutely loved the idea that there's this secrety, hiddeny thing. They love this secret pizza place. Like these little things like that in Vegas,

it's your first time seeing that stuff. It's like, oh my gosh, can't believe this exists. But here's the funny bit. Her one friend, never. drank a drop in her life. Sure. Never done drugs of any kind. But she's really clumsy. And so she walks in there and immediately her purse explodes and then tripped over it and then fell

onto another thing. So she had a bar or she had a bouncer walk up to Kim and go, I'm going to keep my eye on her just so you know. Oh, that's hilarious. We don't want any trouble in here or something like that. Oh my God. That's great. And Kim's like, she's just clumsy. I mean, what are you going to do?

Anyway, they had a really good time. I'm stoked for them to be home because I'm sick of eating frozen dinners and, you know, all that. I mean, I've been eating stofer's, Brian. They're fine. They're okay. Oh, God. Yeah. They have some decent ones.

Lazzania or the, has it been all Italian stofer? No, it's been like one was a beef stew type thing. Another one was some kind of gravy turkey thing. You know what? I'll say this. It's still better than, you know, hitting Taco Bell. five nights a week so that's right i haven't done a single door dash since she left cool uh which was my goal i didn't want to do that at all i'm probably going to do one today uh myself actually

uh for lunch because um we've got somebody we've got people coming in to redo our kitchen tile they're ripping up our floors moving our fridge oh man they're going to take over the kitchen i'm telling you right now i mean i could i could do the bag of salad and just like get the bag cut the bag open cut all the contents open and dump them back into the bag and shake the bag up and eat a bag of solid like that

actually out of the bag I mean you could that sounds like a YouTube video doesn't it? It sounds like something I need to do at some point it does but yeah

because they're going to be working here and Tina's going to be gone I don't want to leave them alone so I'm going to have to order some DoorDash and get something here yeah so how long are they going to take Tino is it going to take all day? They're going to be here today and tomorrow

I hate when that happens. It disrupts my zone, you know? You got to do it. I get it. When you do it, you got to do it. I understand. But what a pain in the ass. It just feels like you're, you can't live your normal life.

This is such a, this is such a non-issue for so many people. But I know, I know. But it does, it's such a, it does interrupt the flow of everything. And then you've got hammering and pounding and. Yeah. Yeah. And then you're trying to podcast. You just feel like, yeah, he's like, all right, just.

finish the work you don't need to like look at our calendar or you know read our talking to your talking to your echo up there going yeah exactly hey uh send an alarm for 2 a.m loud music heavy metal oh damn it now you got me worried that they're gonna like yeah that's all we need exactly great thanks i don't know if that's a thing or not but if i was if i was somebody who you know caution to the wind didn't care go ahead and fire me that might be a way I'd go out is screw with people's echoes I might do that that would be kind of funny yeah it would be great I mean if you didn't care look if you have to be a bit of a what's the word where you don't care about nothing not

narcissist um anarchist uh that's close uh nihilist uh nihilist dude nihilism chat says arse yeah that's true ars yeah all right I got some phone calls I'd like to get through to you all right let's Let's hear it. These are important voicemails sent to us by important business contacts. Not really. You remember. They're finally reaching out.

I'm glad they're finally reaching out. Was it you on recommendals that recommended the good nurse? Is that you? Yes. Okay. Yes. Oh, good. Yeah.

So we've got a follow up on that. And it's interesting. Although I wonder if it's like, I watch that good nurse that sucked. No, no. Another one of brands. Okay. Definitely not that. This is a little bit more inside baseball.

So here you go. Enjoy. Hi, Scott. This is. Chris from Pennsylvania, and I have to share a story with you in regards to yesterday's show and recommendals specifically about the good nurse. I live in Pennsylvania, born and in 2002, I bought my first home. I lived on a one-way street in a place called Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, and one day,

yeah, I worked nights just my entire life. One day I'm coming home, and, you know, I see this neighbor fella, you know, he lives across the street for me, and we would wave to each other, you know, he was, sometimes coming or go, and I think he was coming home and saying, I never really spoke too much with him. A guy wore scrubs, and, you know, apparently he was a health care worker, it would seem. Come home one day, however, not in the morning. This is in the afternoon of a shopping trip, and there's news vans with those big masks still on them.

There's tons of people up and down the street everywhere. Turns out the gentleman I would wait a few in the morning coming home and work was Charles Cullen, The serial killer Angel of Death, Death, Nurse, that is the good nurse is based on. Yeah, pretty freaky story, but that's the close brush with a serial killer. I love the show, though. You never went across the street and said, I'm sorry, do you have any Tylenol I can buy, borrow, or anything like that? So that's good. Do you have a bag of insulin I could use?

Yeah. Oh, wow, that's cool. Have you ever had that where you were, like, close proximity to, like, a murderous person or famous? infamous no not really um trying to think if i've even had like a close run and like oh yeah no there was one time i was at this restaurant we later found out that it was the guy who went and did it afterwards but no i don't think so no i can't think of uh no brush with with uh the bad side of fame plenty of brushes with the good side of fame sure good side of fame brushes are always always good these are a little bit less good um yeah less i think the closest i can come was i used to go to this place

It's called Raspberry Records here in Salt Lake City. It's in Murray near the, or no, it was Cottonwood Mall, so it would have been holiday, I guess. Anyway, it doesn't matter. Locals will know what I mean. Cottonwood Mall has been torn down since. But across the street, there are a bunch of stores, and one of them is called Raspberry Records, where I got all my tapes and CDs and records and stuff back in the day. And we go there all the time, sometimes cut class to do it.

And we went there at about, oh, I don't know, I don't know what year it would have been. I could look it up. But we were there one week. picking out tapes. Who knows what I was buying. Yeah. Information Society. I don't know.

Something. Sure. And then they were $7.99. All their tapes are $7.99. I used to think that was great. Yeah, that seems like you. It's the best deal of this side of Columbia House. Yeah.

Oh, man. Only people in Columbia. No, how much better a deal they're getting from Columbia House. Anyway, so I'm, we go to Raspberry Records. and then my understanding is we leave Raspberry Records and then that very weekend, Ted Bundy is in the parking lot behind Raspberry

Records doing one of his kidnaps. Oh my God. Wow. And she's the one that got away, though. I think. I think she's one that got away and was critical in getting him tracked down eventually when he ended up in Colorado is where they got him. Yeah. Anyway, then the very next weekend, I'm back at Raspberry Records.

Now, of course, at the time, no one knew who he was. Like, this wasn't a thing. Exactly. And it wasn't like, oh, by the way, did you hear Ted Bundy was here this last weekend? Oh, really cool. Do you have the new album by Living in a Box called Living in a Box? Living in a Box, called Living in a Box. Have you heard the hot single Living in a Box on that album?

It's really good. Anyway, yeah, so we just had this when we found out later, we were just like, oh, my gosh, we probably walked in that one sidewalk where he went around the back. That's probably where Ted Bundy was. Oh, it's infamous. That's as close as I have. I don't have anything else like that. Yeah, that's crazy.

There's probably, you know, if you had this superpower, this ability to know things like this, there would probably be things. You have probably a lot more close calls with these infamous things than you probably know, right? Oh, you know, behind me in line at the McDonald's drive-thru was this guy who, you know, went and sniper fired at cars from the highway or whatever. Sure. Yeah, like someone bummed a cigarette off the Zodiac killer once and didn't know or... Right, exactly.

Best we don't know, right? Yeah, I'd rather not know. I would rather have... As far as my run-in with an infamous killer, that's as close as I want to be as a weekend apart. That'd be great. Yeah, that's a good distance. Yeah, although it would have been cool because we would have been heroes,

but if me and my buddies would have been there that day, I hope we would have said... done something if we saw scur-fuffle. Well, of course, if you would have seen that. Yeah, you absolutely would. But I'm also a dumb teenager, so I don't know, you know. I mean, at the very least, you may not have, like, rushed in and said, hey, stop you. Yeah. You would have probably called the place and said, I think someone just got pulled into a car against their will.

Yeah, we would have probably done that. Yeah. And in an age of like... Little Dotson 280 ZX, uh, silver with a... Yep. And the guy, the Raspberry, you'd have to let us use his phone because there's no cell phones on. right so it would have been hey can we use your phone you say yeah man go ahead yeah dude just don't just don't do anything long distance man because remember that nice it used to be a thing we'd pay for oh god i remember yeah like you'd go over to use somebody to somebody's

house hey can i use your phone you had better not be long distance yep oh i don't know is is calling carlo springs long distance yeah it is dang it it's such a racket what a racket that and paying per text doesn't cost the phone company any more money to have you call another state that it does someone down the street. And cell phone, cell phone so quietly murdered it without much fanfare. Like, I don't remember anybody talking about it. There was like a life before where people were calling you and saying, I'd like to save you money on your, on your long distance services during dinner. And you'd have to say, quit bothering me hanging up or whatever. Like, we had a whole life of that. And then suddenly we didn't. Yeah. What does that? He said it wasn't a thing.

Huh. Interesting. So phone company said, I don't know why are you guys charging more for them to call Connecticut than to call. It's such a load, dude. Such a load. Such a racket. I hate it. All right. Well, there's call number one.

Thank you for that. That's an interesting run in. Here's one about bears. Okay. And you'll understand, well, you'll get it when I play it. Here you go. Hey, Scott. And Brian, it's Seth from Philadelphia.

I guess this would be on yesterday's show. or one of the other shows you talk about bears and I complain about you calling big hairy gay guys bears that's not I'm calling about you said you asked Scott you asked Brian if he had ever seen a bear a fox or in the wild

I was in Vermont in Weston to be exact down my parents' house I'm not giving me the address and I thought I see my parents here but I was walking out for a walk and this big black bear walks literally right in front of me looks at me looks at hell

and keeps walking like no big deal there's a human here I'm on the road. I'm not scared of the human. Clearly, I was just like, oh, that's a bear. They didn't run. This time I stood there,

and the black bear went about his merry business. Another time I was in Yellowstone, and I walked up to my camp, my cabin, and I turned my head, and there's a buffalo face-to-face with me, maybe five or six feet away from me. It went, ooh,

and I went, and his call cut off. Oh, no, we never get an exciting conclusion, and then I got killed. You're talking to a ghost. And then I died. I'd like him in a bathroom. I'd like to introduce a way to speak to your dead relatives here on the show. Yeah, so I...

I was in Jellystone Park once in this bear who apparently got into somebody's tent and gotten clothes because he was wearing a hat and a necktie and a collar, but no shirt, just a collar and a necktie. And he came and stole my picnic basket. Your picnic, yep. Oh, boo-boo, you dumb shit. Yeah, that's a scary thing to see, but I'm glad the bear didn't care. and just turned around.

That's what I would hope. And just kept locked in. Yeah, that's what I would hope is because I would freeze and stare at it, I think. Is that bad to stare at it? Is that a thing? Like with dogs, you don't want to do that. I think, no, I think, oh, is it with mountain lines, you don't want to make eye, like, you know, sustained eye contact. I think bears, it's okay.

You want to run downhill with bears because their front legs are short. shorter than their back legs and they'll what's the deal i haven't heard that that's awesome so what they biff it and like they can't go down the hill because their legs are too stupid yeah like it's something about uh bears you know i love that yeah i love that that's like chasing chris parley down a hill with big cats you're supposed to oh i thought i thought oh so burgess diesel saying bears you're supposed to try and get as big as big you're supposed to try and be bear just to try and be big you You don't have to be bear anymore. Not exactly the same thing.

Okay, so for bears, you want to be big and make a lot of noise. Then what's the deal with, but it's something about their legs, their short legs and stuff, right? I don't know. I've never heard that. That's wild. If that's the case, I didn't know that. Back off without running, don't make eye contacts as rehab. There's a lot of different opinions on the chat.

I think we need to get square about this. It is funny because it's like, Well, this is something that could save your life if you know how to do it in the right circumstance. But we really don't know. It's like you'll be sitting there going, oh, crap, there's a mountain line coming. Do I be big? Do I not make eye contact? Yeah.

Do I. Well, I found a link. Curl up in a ball. So here's what, here's what, uh, re, what is this? Rilink.com where they do, this is all just like survival stuff. Oh, yeah. Okay. And so here's what they say.

Um, encounter 101. Are you ready? Are you really prone to bear attacks? Let's see. Forget about that. First, it talks about how likely it is. You'll see one. Okay, here we go.

What to do if you see a bear while hiking or camping? For hiking and camping enthusiasts, chances are good that you may encounter a black bear in the wild, but do not be frightened. Most bears encounters won't result in injury by adopting the useful tips below. Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. So here's what it says. Number one, don't panic. Most bears are shy and retired animals. Retiring, rather.

Retired. Oh, I spent years in the plant. Plantation, I'm going to... I'm for me to do some rest. Yeah, I don't know why I said plantation. Anyway, which will retreat to avoid direct contact with humans anyway, so they don't want to fight.

It's kind of like bees, you know, they aren't looking for a fight, you just got to piss them off. Good answer to what do you see when you see? It bears, adjust your breath, stay calm. Adjust what? What does that mean? Just... Adjust your... I probably just, you know, don't get too excited. Don't get over-excited.

Okay. So it says, adjust your breath, stay calm, just like you would if you met another backpacker on the trail, it says. Hey, let us want some trail mix? That's hilarious. That doesn't seem right. All right. Two, don't approach the bear or take any photos. Okay, no problem.

They hate photos. He says, if you're going to do any pictures of bears that you see, make sure you're up to 350 feet away from them. but if you move toward them they will treat you as a great threat and fight back so don't go toward them don't turn your back and run what to do with the grizzly running away grizzly bears will prey on your instinct

and they will go after you their running speed oh I'll chase. Yeah I'll chase you their running speed is 15 meters per second wow good lord you know what my speed is not that exactly not even close

oh man I'm totally I'm sorry National Park Service, I'm totally pushing my slow friend down. I'm pushing down anybody that I can. Yep. It says, let's see, haze the bears. Even brown bears in the wild won't offend creatures that are bigger than themselves. So to survive a bear encounter, you may play big by waving your arms, tree branches, and other handy materials. Sure.

What's another handy material? A lead pipe. All right. If you happen to be in the ballroom. Yep. I always take one on a camp. If you see a bear in the conservatory and you can't get to the secret passage to the kitchen, then just grab a lead pipe.

There it is. Back away slowly, they say. Look for shelters. So, okay, because the reason you do that is the bear could stalk you. So if you're out in nowhere and you have nowhere to go, you want to find a shelter so it stops stalking. Unless it stalks you straight to your shelter, I guess. I don't know. And then it says, use bear spray and handy sticks.

Such useful tools will help you survive a bear encounter when the bears. approaching you. All right then. Yeah, bear, bear bombs or bear horns? What is it? There's a thing. Oh, air horn. Yeah, you can do an air horn it says here. Is that what you mean? Yeah, air horns. Yeah, those things are big sellers here, actually, and probably there too, because you get a lot of hikers and stuff who, who just want to have one of those on the, hang and dangling off their backpack. So if they see something, they can, meert, meert. How about a bear spray? This is a highly concentrated version of a pepper spray that you might buy. Oh, really? Okay, bear spray. There's Also, ultrasonic deterrents.

It's very specific, yeah. Anyway, how to reduce things? How about anti-larger animal than me spray? Can we get something just like a little bit more catch-all? Can I use bear spray on a mountain line? No, I'm sorry, you need mountain lion spray. Well, could you make a formula that works for both, please? Yeah, how hard would that be?

Just make really strong spray, right? Give me some ghost pepper in there or whatever. This is my favorite thing. They have tips for making sure you are not blocking the bear's escape route. Oh, boy. Oh, sure. Yeah. Don't do that.

Don't do. Whatever you do, don't make the bearfield corner. That's with any animal, really. Yeah. That's true. That's good advice in general. That's why I don't get between my cat and my pinball machine. She's right there sleeping on top.

I don't know why she likes the pinball machine. It's not soft. It's a glass. But she likes sleeping on the glass probably because the machine is warm from the light and it homes. Oh, it's on? Okay. It's on, yeah. Probably the heat, then.

Yeah, she doesn't care if it's off. She doesn't like, meh, not interested. But, no, but she, she likes the warmth and the heat. The heat is probably why, and then the cool, or sorry, the smooth surface is probably great with the heat. So you're not bundled up in a carpety thing or anything? I don't know. Cats are weird. Are you able to see it from, or do I have the microphone in the way?

Probably not, huh? Yeah, I see her now. Oh, look at that. Try and play pinball now. Not going to happen. I can only, no, I can't even, I can't see even, you know, a third of the screen because she is a big cat. She takes up a lot of that, that monitor. I really like that thing.

That thing's so rad. Yeah. Third call. He was playing Star Wars pinball with Tristan the other day. Oh, nice. How'd you do? He was playing. I was watching.

Oh, okay. He got $6 million on the Darth Vader table, which is really good. It's not bad. He got put his name in the, the, the, uh, the, uh, the, uh, the high score list. Is it an internet connected thing so that people can, like, compete? Oh, okay. That's a shame. But not really.

That's how we used to do it. There's a way to do it. You can aftermarket raspberry pie that business and have it work, but I don't care enough to bother with that. No. You just want to play pinball. I get it. I just want to play pinball. I don't care if I'm better or worse than anybody.

Yeah. Take that. I'll care in a month and a half when we're in Vegas, but. That's right. Until then, I don't care. You get to compete in that one, finally. I finally get to compete, yeah, because I think Red Fragle is going to man the brackets. She's going to tackle, she's going to be a bracket tackler.

I think a couple people are offering, and so that way, you know, if we always have somebody at the bar with the brackets, then. Amy will man it or woman it. She'll woman it. She'll fraggle it, is what she'll do. She'll fraggle it. She'll make it all red. All right. Here is your final call.

Speaking of Amy. This came out of her segment. And it's not for her, but here's a recommendation from someone. Hey, good morning, guys. This is for the TMS show. It's specifically, I guess, for Andy Robinson's spot on Thursday about the audiobooks last week. I think she was asking who was our favorite narrator. And I've gone through or listened to, whatever you want to call it, Stephen

King's 11, 2263, 32-hour-long book three times specifically for the man who does the reading. His name is Craig Watson. He's an actor from the 80s. He was in Body Double, Boys

and Company C. I think Filmsack is going to do body double soon. But he is amazing. He's also done King's Blockade Billy. It's from the Bazaar Bad Dreams Collection, a Stephen King collection story.

But, no, he does really good emphasis on his reading, plus he does, like, impressions. I've heard him do Bert Lancaster, Jimmy Stewart, you know, as characters in the book. If you haven't read it or listened to it, give that one a listen. But I just wanted to throw that one out there. Nice. That's good recommendation. I love that book, first of all, the 11, what is it, 1122, 63? 63, yeah.

Amazing book. the TV show was okay. I don't think it was just too short. It was okay. Yeah. And even as he told you, a 32-hour book, that's hard to translate

into a mini-series. It really is. Yeah. I mean, they basically had to just kind of pick the best parts, so maybe I need to read the book. We've actually seen Craig Watson.

We are going to see body double as soon as we can slot it as soon as it's streaming because I feel like it's, it's Brian De Palma at his most Hitchcockian. It is like Brian De Palma says, oh, you know what things I really like?

All the Hitchcock things. I'll put them all in one movie. Oh, okay. I'm in. That sounds all right. But we've seen him as the, in Nightmare and Elm Street, Three Dream Warriors. He is the psychologist that helps the kids. You see a picture of this guy.

You'll be like, oh, yeah, that guy. Yeah, I'm looking at him even younger here and look at this. I don't know what this is from, but see if you can guess this film. I don't actually know. So I couldn't tell you if you were right or wrong. Yeah, I don't know. that could be Roller Ball because he apparently was also in Roller Ball. Might be Roller Ball would be about the age, huh?

Yeah. Yeah. He seems cool. I remember him and it sounds like he's got a cool voice. I'm into that. There he is, chat. Look at him. He's old now in this photo.

Yeah. He's like our age. With him on the microphone, doing a podcast or something. Here you go. Yeah, he looks like he's doing. Probably doing some narration. Yeah, there is right there. Yeah. Probably doing some audio book stuff because apparently he's got a good

voice for that. I'll check it out. I like that book a lot. I wouldn't mind hearing it or reading it through that. I read it as a book, but I wouldn't mind doing the audiobook. Nice recommendation. Yeah. Very nice. I got one final thing. It's a text about all those smells. Okay. Dustin wrote in, uh, let's, whoops, I'm on the wrong tab here. Hold on a second. Here we go. Okay. Dustin wrote in says, regarding smells outside of food plants. we were talking about all that stuff Yep In Battle Creek, Michigan

You can tell what type of cereal Is being made that day I work between Post And Kellogg's plants some days Fruity sometimes Sometimes raisin branny It's interesting some days he says Yeah that would be fascinating

Like just That is I didn't realize I knew Kellogg's of course Was in Battle Creek I had no idea Post was there too So it's like the battling

Oh yeah Well take some honey bunches of oats Oh alright Well back at you with some Quakeros. I guess those are Quaker serials. Yeah, those are Quaker brand.

But still, like, the idea of Michigan being the kind of state that houses multiple companies in the same industry is interesting, right? Because cars, obviously, in Detroit, that was the biggest thing

for the longest time. Tobacco and, like, the Kentucky. Yeah. So, this, finding out that all the cereal magnates are all based in Battle Creek is pretty fascinating. But it would be weird.

It would be driving through there going, All right, what do we have today? Oh, I think that's fruit loops. All right, cool. And then come back the next time. Oh, somebody's got some honey bunches of oats back there. I don't know. It's fascinating.

I can't tell from the smell, but I broke a tooth. Must be grape nuts day. Yep. Should never eat. Listen, I know there are people out there love their grape nuts. They are neither grape nor nuts. No, yeah. And they'll ruin your teeth.

Yeah, but they are great when it snows and you need something gritty to put on the ground behind your car so you can back out of your grass. That's right. That's the best. That's right. And they're good at blowing your colon out if you need to. So do that. All right. Time for the news, everybody. Yeah, that's right. We do the news. And today's news is brought to you by... Brought to you by Coverville. Take that Badger Lord. It's brought to you by Coverville where today you're going to hear an album that came out 50 years ago this month. 50 years ago, and if you have any

guesses, you could just look directly to my right, and you can see what album I'm talking about. You see a little prism with some rainbow coming out of it, light going in one side, rainbow coming out of the other side. This is an album produced by

Alan Parsons and was an album that was recorded and released after the band toured with the music. I'm talking about Pink Floyd, Dark Side of the Moon. Would you say that Alan's working on that

made it an Alan Parsons project? Was that what you'd say? I would say that it's absolutely an Alan Parsons project. All right.

Cool. Cool. So, I kind of knew where you're going to go with that. I'm like, yeah, but it is.

It just straight up is. It's the truth. It's straight up is. But, yeah, such an incredible, like when you think about bands right now

who release an album and then they tour a few months afterwards for that album, they did it reverse. They actually played all that music live. with the segways and everything,

because those songs all segue from one to another, they performed that stuff live, and then they recorded the album. And it came out March 1st, 1973, 50 years ago, this month. So we're going to go through the whole thing. That was its big claim to fame, right? It was for such a long time. I don't know if it is.

I think there was like a news story we covered when it finally left the billboard. The Hot Albums list. It does seem like something we'd cover on here. Yeah, but it was for such a long time. And what else? There was something else I was going to say about it. Oh, yeah.

Yeah, so if you, while you're listening to Coverville today, you can start The Whiz, and it's weird how music will sync up with the stuff that happens in the cover of the Wizard of Oz called The Wiz. Oh, I thought it was straight Wizard of Oz that it synced with, not the, I didn't know that. original album sinks up with the Wizard of Oz, but my cover show will sync up with the Wiz, which itself itself is a cover of the Wizard of Oz. Now I get it. That's a little slow on that one. Wow. All right. So there you go. Scott's long journey from Milan to Minsk. You witnessed it and witnessed it yourself. That'll be today right after. It was a great joke that I had to explain. No, that's good. I'd say right after today, after we're done, you're doing this. That's right. Yeah. So, like,

in 15 minutes after we wrap up TMS, I'm going to start the feed and then wrap up a couple things and then start the show. And it'll be a short one because it's, you know, it's a 40-minute album, 45-minute album, so. Yeah, I love that record. But, oh, yeah, there's some great fans. It's like, Godsmack you're going to hear, Wave Mechanics Union, and this one blew my mind, Matt Berry. Matt Barry. Matt Barry from what we do in the shadows with a version of any. color you like, the middle

song on Side B of Dark Side of the Moon. New York City. That's cool. That's awesome. I'm excited now. Are you like me, though, if you could burn one song out of that album, it would be money, just get rid of it, freaking hate it. It was overplayed.

Yeah, it's so overplayed. Yeah. Hate that song. Love everything else. In the context of the whole rest of the album, it fits. Yeah. Because it was the story of the album is that The band got together and said, all right, well, you know, we want to have, like, an album that deals with mental issues, probably coming off of the influence of Sid Barrett, who's no longer with him.

This was, them still trying to figure out who they were as a band after Sid Barrett. And so they came up with a list of things that weigh heavy on your mind and, like, anxiety, brain damage, money, greed, time, you know, the pressures of time. And they said, great, there's our concept, that's our album, Dark Side of the Moon. And it wasn't even going to originally be called Dark Side of the Moon. Well, I'll take the back. They had changed the name because another band called Medicine Head, one year earlier, had released an album called Dark Side of the Moon. So this album for a while was just going to be called Eclipse. Interesting.

Yeah. Yeah, I did not know that. So I was I going to say, oh, so the example, people always say, well, how do you feel about another brick in the wall? That got overplayed. It did. I like that song still. Yeah, but in the context, again, if you hear it separately, it's like, all right, yeah. But if you hear money in the context of Dark Side and you hear another brick in the wall in the context of the wall, I think it's a, both of them are much better songs with the support of the songs around them.

Yeah, like even comfortably numb, which got a lot of airplay as well. And I think is one of the greatest songs ever written is better when you hear it in the concept of the, album you're right and they don't do that enough anymore nobody does this anymore no concept albums are sadly a thing of a rarity these days that's because the money's in singles right it's all in like hey have a hot single and have it stand on its own and who cares about the rest of them yeah and with streaming and stuff it's like who listens to a full album these days except you and me and that awesome new guerrillas album it's really good it is really good oh that one with stevie necks is so good oh yeah all right moving on to this first

story of our stories. Yes. Newly discovered chemicals are so deadly to fungus that they have been named after Keanu Reeves. That's right. Two Keanu stories in one day, two days. Back to back Keanu. That's right.

We know he stole the red pill and now we know that he's got a deadly fungi named after him. That's right. Also, the stories about deadly fungus, they're a little harder to read when the Last of Us is still in its first season. And you know that that, what's it called the? Oh, what is the real disease that animals and insects can get? Yeah, the one that the show says jumps to humans. Yeah.

Anyway. Metafil. Shit. It began with a C, doesn't it? The C. Corticeps. You are correct. It does start with the same.

Metafil. What am I saying? Metafil. Take as director. Ask your doctor if metafil is right for your film. Yeah. And some people caused explosive diarrhea. Don't take metafil if you're allergic to metafil.

That's right. So here's the deal. It's not every day an effective fungus killing compound is discovered anyway, but researchers in Germany knew the recent find needed a special name. Oh, we must name this. Aksa Kiano Reeves, yeah? They said. They were so impressed, they named the chemicals after the actor,

a nod to how he eliminates villains in movies such as John Wick and The Matrix. Okay. That's weird. the potential treatment of fungus comes at a time when organisms are becoming more and more resistant to known antifungals according to a study

see this is what the entirety of Last of Us the game and the show is based on that we slowly are becoming we're getting to the point where we can't fight it anymore and then boom it crosses I'm not interested in that world anyway not only are the newly named microbes

effective against plants researchers found the compounds molecules found in bacteria called lipopeptides also to be affected treatment against human fungal infections. I'm trying to think I've ever had a fungal infection.

I don't think I have. Like a foot thing or I don't think so. Like a little, those little rashes you can get sometimes. Ringworm, which isn't really a worm. But I think that's fungal. I don't think I have either.

I did have a thing once where it grew, back in 2015, I probably talked about on the show. This little area of my arm had like a, it looked like ring warm at first. It was a big round thing and itched like crazy and it drove me nuts. Went to the doctor. He took a biopsy because he was worried it was some kind of cancer.

He says, yeah, this looks more like something, something, cancer or something. And tested it and it came back 100% negative for that. Negative for fungal infection. Negative for anything they could figure out. Two days later it was gone anyway. Oh weird. Okay. Never figured out what the hell that was. It was this perfect ring

and I hadn't been like, I hadn't been in an accident where something hit it and was a ring. Nobody put a suction cup. Did you fall asleep on your spirograph or something? My spirograph I sleep with? Yes. One of the gears just, you know, oh, what is this? Where's dad's spirograph?

Shake his blanket out. It's in there somewhere. Somewhere, yes. Anyway, so the good news is we found a new way to kill funguses until they get stronger than that. So I love this article at no point. Do they say what the actual? the fungus-killing compound is called, that's named after Keanu Reeves. Is it just called Keanu Reeves?

I think it has no name yet, so they gave it that. It's called Keanu Reeves. It's not even like, you know, Keanu Cillin or something like that, right? Like, you'd think it would be something along those lines. I would prefer that because the actor for which it is named still walks among us. It's just confusing. If you say to people, oh, that fungus on your foot never got fixed, let's get some Keanu Reeves on it.

Yeah, put Keanu Reeves on it and it'll go away. Cremano Reeves. Do you have Keanu Reeves? I like the cremano, who says this? Cremunis Rivasaris. Kiopis Rivasarist. Oh, that's so stupid. I love it.

Here's a story about a couple. They got jailed for stealing one. $1.7 million in wine from a Michelin-Starred restaurant. Oh, well, you know. Yeah, so you get in trouble for that kind of thing. That's right. This is big thanks to Binary Hermit in our Discord for providing this one. Oh, cool.

A couple who stole a hall of wine. Is that what a lot of wine is called a hall of wine? No, no, they just like a hall. Okay, so like I would say a shit ton of wine. It's like that. Yeah, exactly. They don't want to say a box of wine because that sounds like you're drinking a... I like Jeannie spelling.

I'm a good. I like Kendall Jackson out of a... cube it says so a hall of wine a murder of crows anyway valued at 1.7 million uh this is from a michelin starred spanish restaurant have been sentenced to four years in prison that's a lot for wine stealing mexican woman and her boyfriend a romanian dutch national wow he sounds he sounds interesting i'm a romanian dutch national uh-huh i guess that means so in my business card look i have a sash how does that make sense though you're the romanian national or you're a dutch National. How are you both?

It's a part of a joint effort by Romania and the Netherlands to finally. To build a bridge and put this guy right square in the middle of it. Finally. Put their hands together and make it happen. He left the famed restaurant in a trio

in Casseras, Western Spain. Casseris, I think. Cacieris? By the way, he just has dual citizenship. Oh, is that all it is? Yeah, it's all. He's not like important or anything. He's just He's just a... Just a dude that has a passport that says I'm from both places.

Just to do exactly. Okay. They were carrying 45 bottles, which is a hall of wine, wrapped in hotel towels. That sounds like something I'd do. Yeah. To avoid breakage and hidden in travel bags, according to a court report. Excuse me.

The heist took place on October 27th. It was planned in a... Sorry, in minute detail. I'm not sure what that means. Oh, my newt. Minute. Yeah, my new detail. Oh, my gosh.

What time's your appointment? English. English is so stupid. Because that word is minute when it needs to be. Exactly, yeah. And it's minute when it needs to be. But it's spelled the same. Oh, that minute minute.

That's stupid. Anyway, the hall included two bottles from the French winery, Chateau de. Uh-huh. I would not even bother with that one. De Quim? Yeah. I don't even know. Did the ukraim?

Did the ukule? He just wanted to sound fancy, I guess. Yeah. This is... It looks like it's... It should be in reverse, right? Mewki. Yeah, mukey backwards.

It's way better. One from 1806 that was listed on a trio's wine menu for 350,000 euros or $371,000, good lord. That is, okay, four years is maybe not enough. That's an expensive bottle of wine. Yeah, that is another one from 1883. for 45 grand or so. Many other bottles from the renowned wineries are also vintages from the 1990s and 2000s,

including details listed in the ruling by three judges on the panel. The court spokesperson told CNN Tuesday the couple would not be named due to privacy reasons. Why? Well, I mean, how many Romanian Dutch nationals could be out there? It seems like you'd be pretty easy to find this guy. It's not like they're 17-year-old minors or something, you know? Yeah, exactly.

Come on, they stole one point. $4.7 million of wine. Yeah. A haul of wine. Originally, uh, originally, uh, 46 bottles, uh, but they took one down. They passed it around and that left it to 45 bottles of wine in the hall. Oh my gosh. It's a long way to Vegas to hear that song.

A long way to get that joke. Yeah. I liked it though. I liked it. Thank you. Um, I'm going to skip to this last one because I have screwed you, Bucky Bananas. I have, it's always said. I have some scrutiny for this.

So I'm going to play this from film sex. Scroo. This story about 28 girls hospitalized after using a Ouija board. I just don't know if this is... What are they using it to do? It just feels like this might be... Used it in a brawl. Well, that would make sense because according to this,

28 girls have been hospitalized because they played with this Ouija board at school. The students were rushed to hospitals after losing consciousness at school. The school girls were admitted with signs of fainting, anxiety, and other symptoms. The school director... uh, directors, schools directors, rather, and concerned teachers accompany the students to the hospital. Hugo Torres, head of the Galeris educational, uh, institution of Galeris Secure Department, Columbia. So this is down in Columbia. The sucre department.

Sucle. Suclei. Sucre. Sucre. Oh, like sucrets, but sucre. Right. Exactly. Just like sucrets. Except you do the good tongue thing in there. I don't do it very good. Sucre. There you go. So you know what you're done. Soccre blue. Soclet blue.

It says Suck the blue Suck the brew My language skills There were 28 possible cases Of anxiety in school students Given the reported cases The series of comments

Were unleashed in the community after that A bunch of people think it's the devil's work Of course That's all they say We don't know It's I don't know We know it's bullshit It's a bullshit board

It is it's absolute one of It's a freaking Ouji board Right. And I know people love to go, ooh, something supernatural is going on. No. No. Go buy one at Target. Have a good. Go see what you can get out of it. Look, I know it was demonized in the 70s and 80s. We had satanic panic up the wazoon back. But today, go to Target, buy a Ouija board. Play with it all night. Here's what I promise you. Nothing will happen. Nothing. Right. Exactly. That one dumb friend of yours is going to like peek with their eyes slightly open and guide it over towards the letters that he wants you to hear. That's. what's going to happen with the week. Utter and complete total. Bullshit, that stuff. Now, that said,

the Lost Spirits Distillery in Vegas, which Tristan and, and Barry and me and Chris Brown, a bunch of us did while we were out there a few months ago. Yeah. They have a new seance room where you can sample whiskey and do a whole seance thing. Really?

I really want to go. You should go to do that. They wait, whiskey tasting and they do, like what? They have somebody. Yeah, so this is that place. So basically, this is this really cool, like, it looks like a Tim Burton's circus side show. And it's a distillery, but they've turned part of their distillery space into this cool little area. Yeah.

And you walk through and you sample different whiskeys of theirs. And each room is like, oh, this is the burlesque room. It's where I sent you that video of the dohaust woman with a googly aze on her butt. Mm-hmm. Wait, did you? Did you? I sent you a video. of a woman, a burlesque woman dancing to do host with giant Google.

Oh, we showed it on the show. Yes, I remember this. I remember it. That's the place. And then another one, they've got, like, a woman getting sought in half and another burlesque show on a pole or whatever. And now they've added a brand new room called the Seance Room. And it's like, oh, I can't want it.

I want to go. I want to go. So will they be a person sitting there going, okay, one of you tell me about a dead relative or something? Is that going to happen? Probably. Probably. Or there might be, you know, or it just might be, all right, let's

contact the original brewer of the scotch and then the table will flow it up and like, oh, this good whiskey. Is the room, like, rigged to have, like, cool, like, paintings on the movie? I don't know. See, I'd kind of want it to be, but I'd kind of not, right? Like, you want it to be, I don't want the Disney seance. I'd like a room that just feels like, ooh, this could be, if I believed in that crap, this could be a way to contact the spirits.

but I know, I know it's not. Now that you've said the words, at first I agreed with you, but you said the words Disney's seance and that you don't want that. Part of me wants that. Part of me. Really like the basically the enchanted teaky room of seances. A little bit. Just something cheeseball like that.

How would they do it? Like a couple paintings on the wall and the eyes move back and forth and then like a little, a little cross rattles or something. How would the imagineers imagine such a thing? I kind of am curious, but anyway. I don't think that would ever fly. Even under Chepecker, the newly restored leadership of Bob Iger, I don't think we're ever going to see a Disney seance. Yeah, I don't think I don't think Iger's first job back on the wheel is to get that going, I don't think.

Well, anyway, that sounds fascinating. I kind of want you to go so I can hear about it. So it's not really a whiskey guy and, I don't know, I'd probably be so. No, it would be, the whole experience sadly would probably, well, I'd say it'd be wasted on you, but it's still such a cool space. They've got a whole submarine room that feels like it's rocking back and forth and the windows have fish going by

like on a like a conveyor belt kind of thing, but it gives this whole cool like Jules Verne's steampunk. Like real fish? No, no, no, no, no, a little fake fish. A little fake fish, okay. A little fake fish. Because I figured it was like, you know, those glass tunnels they put in like aquariums.

Yes, yeah. See, that would be a good way. to do it. I like that stuff. Those are so cool. They made me feel like... By the way, Winemagus, send that in as a... So when Magus asked the question, I agree that a lot of supernatural stuff is bullshit, but are there

supernatural things that the two of us actually do believe in? I'd say, ask that, like call that in as a voicemail. Oh, I'd love that. Or send it as a text. We will answer that on a future show. I think it's a great idea. Yeah, for sure. In fact, I'm going to copy that to remind me in case he doesn't do that. So

here it is. It's saved for future TMS. Okay. Saved for the future. Yeah, that's a great question. Let's do it. You're not going to like my answer. Let's move on. That's going to do it actually for today's show. In about 10 minutes, I got a thing. And so we're ending things a little early today. Like I said, Wendy's got a family thing anyway. And Amy's on a cruise, which we'll hear all about next week. So we're just going to cut it a little bit short.

But that means another chance for me to remind you this entire operation is fueled by your contributions at patreon.com slash tms go read all about it today and find out why you who have been on the fence for so long can join now and it's fine that you waited it's okay just join now now is the time

here is the place we are the hosts get in there you're the one you're the dollar all right patreon.com slash tms let's get out of here with a song and uh brian's description of said so yeah a guy that uh we saw last year at tms vgas This is Tom Robinson from California.

This is, hello, distinguished gentleman. As with every year, my birthday is on March 12th, which falls on a Sunday this year. So not only is that not a TMS day. This year, it's Daylight Savings Day, which means I get a shortened birthday. So, for my request, I will have you pick a song from this question. What is your favorite album name? Tom's is, you can tune a piano, but you cannot tune a fish by Aario Speedwagon, which I agree is a fantastic.

album title. Pick a song that is a cover from that album. And Scott, it's time to play a random film set clip and guess the movie. Oh, let's do it. All right. I have these now in their own place, so it's easier for me to do this. You guys inspired this because you sometimes ask for this. All right, we're going to pick something randomly from 2014. Here, here is. Yeah, because you buried the eggs. Okay. Let's play that one more time so we can get it in their heads here. Yeah, because you buried the eggs. Yeah, because you buried the eggs. I don't know.

I have zero idea what that is. I don't either. This is the problems. I also don't label per film. I label per content. So like where's Harvey Dent? Darth Swifty says that's Paul Harvey in the film. Oh, sorry, Paul Walker.

Oh, that's Paul Walker. The film Timeline. Let's do it again. Yeah, because you buried the eggs. Okay, that is definitely Paul Walker. It must be timeline. We haven't, the only other one we've done with him. is the first fast and furious or second i guess right okay you got it yeah i think you guys got

it timeline nicely who got that well done darth swifty well done your name precede you anyway all right so do you have a favorite album title i know i kind of sprung this on you do oh gosh um my favorite title of all time let me just uh run of run through my head uh uh oh um no um no huge long Fiona Apple win the pun and the thing do the stuff with the place and they do the thing and this album title takes up the whole front cover of the album. You know what I do like?

I like, this is going to sound out of left field. Marvin Gay's Hear My Dear. Oh, that's interesting. I just like how it sounds and I, that's actually a pretty good album and it's when my mom played incessantly but the Hear My Dear is just a fun roll off your tongue kind of sounding thing. It's also all I could think of. I can't think of

else. I actually like, you know, with his name in it, too. Marvin Gay's here, my dear. Oh, no. Oh, shit. He's known for some things. Or actually, no, he was all right. No, no, he was all right. It was his dad that was a dick. Yeah, his dad was a huge dick. That's right. Well, anyway, do you have one? All right. What's your favorite? I do, and we're going to get to it right now. I'm so glad you asked, Scott. Yeah. So my favorite album title, this is the one that I could come up for this. We talked about it a couple weeks ago when I got the squeeze trivia questions is Cozy Fan Tudy Fruity. because it's a play on the Mozart opera Cozy Fan Tutte, Tutti. And what's great is the people at the Cosmopolin thought that it was really funny that it sounded like an Italian album name. So they put it in their hall of Italian albums on the way to the Secret Pizza Place,

even though it's from a bunch of British guys, which is great. Now, that album is fantastic. As a matter of fact, I'm going to listen to it after Coverville today because I'd forgotten how much I loved it. it's one of the only albums by squeeze that nobody's covered the songs from. There's one cover of I'll Never Go Drinking Again, but it's not very good. And it's a bummer because that whole album is fantastic. So I'm picking another song from another squeeze cover from a tangential. I'm sorry, this is a cover by squeeze, specifically by Chris Difford and Glenn Tilbrook.

So when they went out on tour, just the two of them, they did a bunch of acoustic stuff. stuff. And one of their live tracks that they did acoustically is a cover of Blur. It's a cover of a song called End of a Century, the title track from Blur's album. Speaking of Gorillas. This came out on their single for this summer in 1995. Here is Squeeze and End of a Century. Perfect. Oh, I'd also like to amend my pick and say Radiohead's OK Computer is another great name. Yeah, that's a good one. I love that one. All right, here it is. Thank you all for listening. We'll be back Monday with a regular show. Tomorrow, our play day, or excuse me, our couch party will be at 10 a.m. Mountain Time and will involve more Doom Patrol. So check that out if you're a patron, details on Discord and on the Patreon itself.

That'll do it for us. Thank you all for listening. We'll see you then. Thank you very much. Me and Chris are going to do a couple of acoustic songs for me. This is the first one. It's a song by Blue and it goes like this. Two, three, four.

She says there's ants in the carpet, dirty little monsters, eating all the muscles, picking up the rubbish, give her efferves, she needs a little sparkle. Good morning TV, you're looking so healthy, we all say we don't want to feel alone. We wear the same clothes, cause we feel the same. We kiss your dry lips when we say good night. And ever since she is, it's nothing special, sex on the TV. Everybody's at it. You might get thirsty. When you get closer to 30, you give Syracodagh,

they're growing in a huddle. Good night TV. You're all made up We all say We don't want to be alone We wear the same clothes Because we feel the same Because we try our lips

When we say good night And have essential It's nothing special Oh Can you Can you Yes, you can We all say we don't want to be alone

We wear the same cause we feel the same Because your dry lips when we say good night I know it says we are There's nothing special We all say we don't want to be alone We wear the same close because we feel the same Because of dry lips when we say tonight And ever since we are

It's nothing special And ever since we are It's nothing special Oh Oh Oh Oh Oh

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