The Morning Stream - TMS 2436: Traumatized Batman Resin Sculpture

Episode Date: March 14, 2023

There are 2 things you need to make it in the topless gig economy. New trigger, who dis? Dump a Load on Annie. Squirrely Roundhouse Shenanigans. Never Grant An Interview. kelp, kelp, its happening. It's not being topless that's the problem. It's the cleaning. Come on down to Hitler's Honeysuckle's! Tips for Nips. Is there a show tomorrow, cuz I, like, really wanted to know? I don't belieeeeeeve in ghosts. Shoutout to the tailor. Whenever I look at my package, I check the stream. Punished Clocks with Bill. Spinning yarns 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, there are two things you need to make it in the topless gig economy. New trigger. Who this? Dump a load on Annie. Squirrely roundhouse shenanigans. Never grant an interview. Help, kelp, it's happening. It's not being topless. That's the problem. It's the cleaning.

Come on down to Hitler's honeysuckles. Tips for nips. Is there a show tomorrow because I, like, really wanted to know? I don't believe in ghosts. Shout out to the tailor. Whenever I look at my package, I choose. Check the stream. Punished clocks with Bill.

Spinning yarns with Bobby and more on this episode of the morning stream. Oddly enough, Mrs. Kennecutt, I am a moralist, a vanishing species. I hate it. It smells and it's got hairs on it. The morning stream. She's a breath of fresh ass. Good morning. Welcome to TMS. It is Tuesday, March 14th, 2023.

I'm Scott Johnson. That's Brian. Hi, Brian. Hello. Welcome to the morning stream. You bunch of weirdos. Well, that's weird. You did that because last night I watched the thing where somebody kept doing the count.

What show was I watching? Oh, really? Doing the Sesame Street count? Yeah. It's just a just heard of that. I was kind of emulating. that Seinfeld episode with the talking belly button. Hello.

No, no, no. I also saw that recently. Kind of all my worlds coming to collide in here. Wow. See who has a camera installed somewhere secretly in your house. Exactly. Who knew? Didn't you in the Batman resin sculpture is plain.

We hope you're all well. It's a Tuesday. We got all kinds of stuff lined up today. So, you know, enjoy yourselves. Enjoy yourselves. Yes. Take a low. off. Yeah, take a load off, whatever that all meant. What did that mean back in the day when you said

take a load off? Put your feet up. Take a load off. Like you're taking the load off of your feet of your body above it. Is that the load they mean? Take that load off? It might or mean, you know, you're carrying a heavy pack. Take a load off. Set your pack down. Oh, right. Right. Okay. So you got a big old backpack on. You're like, okay, I got to remove this and take that load off. Okay. Exactly. Oh, my gosh, maybe we should analyze the lyrics of the weight by the band because they say, take a load off, Annie, take a load for free, take a load off Annie, and you put the load right on me. I think they're talking about pooping on other people. I think they're talking about a Cleveland steamer, Scott. Wow. Boy, you guys, you guys with your, your, uh, your, uh, I'm going to get on Twitter and talk about

how that band promotes Cleveland steamers. I think we found Brian's kryptonite. We need to make, we need to we need to give lyrics a harder time for bands or artists he really likes less my kryptonite apparently more of my trigger we were talking about triggers i didn't even know if we go back to that episode with wendy i maybe need to re-listen yeah we'll get her thursday and say wendy new trigger who dis Anyway, it's good to see you all And if you missed our pre-show today You heard us play this incredibly cringy Hugh Grant red carpet interview You know, people are giving him a lot of shit for it People are giving him shit

Saying he's not a very good sport about anything Or he's just cranky and they're all mad at him I don't think You know what? That's my whole attitude toward life right now I don't want to play your game and go Well, the glitzy glamour of Hollywood as well why I'm here, and, you know, let me tell you.

Exactly. Like, who cares? Who are you here to see tonight? Oh, you know, I'm really, really excited to see Angela Bassett and Michelle Williams and Williams, Williams. Yeah, no, you know what? Good for him. I'm sure that he was walking by, he probably even said, oh, no, no, no, that's all right. I don't have time. But, you know, if he would have been like, oh, no, thank you, and kept walking, then it would have been like, Oh, Hugh Grant snubbed us at the Oscar's red carpet. Oh, Hugh Grant's the worst. Yeah, I hate that stuff.

I say, good for him. He's awesome. Just say what you're going to say. If you got something to say, just say it. And then don't, if you don't. And it's okay. And we can sit here and spin, you know, around on our thumbs all day trying to understand what you meant. When really you're just there, you got tickets.

You're hanging out. You'll probably see some friends. You'll get on a plane. You'll be back in London before you know it. It'll be fine. Exactly, exactly. All right. So everyone just chill.

We got a big question. We got a hammer on today. Ooh, all right. Hit me. Hit me with your question. WinMegas in our chat room and community at large sent this message in. He says, oh, here's a fun idea. Frogpants in Coverville.

I agree that a lot of supernatural stuff is bullshit. But there are supernatural, sorry, but are there supernatural things you actually believe in? so like you know anything ghosts yeah big foot all that stuff any of the crypted stuff what else is I mean supernatural does that include aliens luck I don't know about luck I don't think luck's supernatural right no no because supernatural is like not natural Scott luck I mean luck's natural I guess it's not it's it's uh yeah what's the

there's a different term for believing in that sort Superstition. Oh, superstition is a totally different thing. Yeah, yeah. Supernatural. Superstition's like, hey, if I blow on these dice, it's going to roll better. Yeah, exactly. Supernatural would be if you say.

Thank you for mansplaining superstition too. Right. Well, it's for the audience's sake. But then if you blow on the dice and then, let's see. If you have a ghost blow on the dice. Yeah, then supernatural. That's both superstition and supernatural. Exactly.

That's supernatural stition. So do you, so let's answer the question. You have anything where you're like, oh, yeah, the ghosts totally exist or some equivalent to that. I am Mr. Super Skeptic when it comes to that. I say, I'm open-minded. If you show me proof, I'll believe it. Now, Tina totally believes that sort of thing. She, when her grandfather passed away, there was like a Christmas ornament that was his that moved for no reason on the Christmas tree, like started swinging like.

Like a gust of wind just blew that instrument. And so she totally believes in spirits and the, you know, well, maybe not totally believes, but she kind of believes that there could be an afterlife or a, you know, a ghostly apparition. You can come back and do that sort of thing. All right. So I'm kind of with you. This is maybe boring. This is a boring answer because I don't, I, the reason I don't believe in ghosts or supernatural occurrence.

is pretty much of any kind is because there's no sufficient evidence of such a thing and when there's sufficient evidence for a thing then you have me but someone just yelling about it or saying it happened to them or writing a book that they did this thing or saw this alien or did whatever is not proof uh i need more than that so for me for me that always comes down to that you could say uh well i you know last night the my aunt visited me cool record it next time or something like yeah right you know i just don't buy it and it and it's not look i don't want people out there this is the one thing i want to make sure about this with this question if there's somebody out there that believes 15 ghosts visited them last night and had

tea with them or something have at it i'm not here to i'm not here to i'm not ripping on you or saying you're stupid or saying you're wrong or saying you're lying or any of that you do you you be you all I can say is I there's there's never been any evidence based proof of any of those things and when there when there is let me know and it can't be Photoshop and it can't be AI generated and it can't be utter bullshit I need to I need real like real evidence and then maybe we'll talk and I say this knowing I got five friends and family who listen to the show I have one family member in particular, who 100% believes in ghosts.

Like, would sit down and give you a 400 mile page long thing about why ghosts are real and how we should all respect ghosts. And that's fine. He can have it. It's his to have. I believe that you believe it. I'm glad you believe it.

And I support your right to believe it. And I'm not going to tell you that you shouldn't believe it. I'm just going to tell you that I don't believe it. Yeah, I just don't believe it. And when people get mad that you don't believe it, then I question their belief because if you, if you believe it, you don't need me to verify it. Right.

Like if you, if you're fully 100% in on this idea that last night, the ghost of Hitler came to you and said, I've repented and started a, uh, the flower shop in hell or something. Whatever, whatever your story is, if you tell me that with a straight face and I say, I don't believe it, that should not harm your belief. Right. You should still believe it if you want, but I don't. I just don't, sorry, and it's not enough to tell me, you know? It's going to take, like, basically, here's what I visualize that it's going to take for me to believe it.

And for whatever reason, I visualize this as a totally 50s-looking contraption in a scientist's lab that is this big metal box, human-sized metal box with a window in the front of it, and a bunch of scientists standing around with clipboards and, you know, stroking their chins and looking at it. and inside it is like this hazy ghost with his hands on the glass kind of like looking back out and I'm like, oh, crap, you caught me. That's what I need. And it needs to look like the 50s and it needs to have a bunch of guys in lab coats with old aviator looking glass, not aviator glasses, horn rim glasses, and clipboards, and that's it. That's what you're going to take.

You know, aviators is pretty cool, but that, I don't know, it feels like it predates that or postdates. Well, the aviator glasses are sunglasses, aren't they? Are there seeing glasses that are called? I don't know. I guess you could get them. You could probably get them done. But that's, see, there would no way they do that in the 50s. 50s didn't have prescription aviators. So Brian's right. Basically, Fallout is what you're describing. Oh, is that what I'm visualizing it from? Is there like a scene in Fallout that kind of looks like that?

I mean, Fallout is basically the 50s. Yeah. Yeah. It's like the 50s is if then the bombs are all set off and everything exploded in the 50s instead of today. But then in the 50s you had helper robots and like, you know, It's like a super world of tomorrow today kind of kind of life. Yeah. I do love that whole motif. I do, too.

I wish that the, uh, I still wish, I know they're going to do the fantastic four intro in a different way, but I sure would love it if it was Johnny Quest looking 50s era science. What do you think it would take for them to do that? Like, I don't know. Well, we've got the multiverse, right? And they, they were, it was a brilliant way to basically say, we can introduce any team we want and not have to explain why they weren't here for the Thanos snap and didn't help out.

They were in a different universe that didn't have the same problem. And now they've come over because Dr. Strange has opened everything up. So they could potentially have a 50's looking fantastic four movie that simultaneously takes place, you know, takes place in the same, in a different universe, but in a different universe. it in a 60 years ago time frame, or 70 years ago time frame. And so it's 1953. Reed Richards is figuring this stuff out. He latches into the multiverse.

He comes over into Universe 616 and Bob's your uncle. I'd be into it. I'd be into that. I like that a lot. And brings an nihilus with him and, oh, crap, problems are coming along. Yeah, and I just, I don't know, I'm just kind of not tired of, but I'm just, it's just too easy to say. oh, here are these four doing their thing, and they're here, too, at the same time. And now they're here.

Like, I'd rather have them crossover like that for some reason. It's too, you know, it's too hard to explain MCU stuff for teams that have been like, and the Eternals had this problem. They had to figure out a way to explain why the Eternals did nothing during the whole snap. You know, what did the Eternals do during that time? Well, we're not allowed to interfere with the lives of humans. oh unless it's these specific aliens then we can get involved and stop them but no no no if it's a it's a big crazy titan sorry we can't do anything yeah too bad too bad Titan too sad as we always say that's right exactly it's a little bit like when they're speaking of Thanos oh my god so you know I I subscribe to one of my patrons that I follow or Patrions that I follow yeah is a 3D artist named Wicked 3D and this guy I have the Bruce Willis over in the other room, but he does these amazing 3D models.

I'm going to try and pull up his Thanos, which is brand new coming out this week. This isn't that weird when I saw Bent Over, is it? It definitely is not. All right, I'm just making sure, because I saw some Thanos stuff that I was like, please tell me that's not what Brian's talking about. I think this is it. I'm going to put it in our chat. No, it's a different one.

but this is this is almost just as good. It's also reversed. The Infinity Gauntlet should be on his other hand, but if you take a look at the one I just put in our chat. There it is. Oh, look at that. Jeez. He, this guy is amazing.

Look at that, you guys. We'll put a link on, in the Discord so people can see. Freaking gorgeous. The listeners can see. see. So that's the movie. That's the difference, right? That's the movie Thanos. Here is the new model. This is one I'm absolutely printing. I'm putting it in our, in our chat as well. All right. It's taking, say it's six megabytes, so it's taking something more. Oh, look at that, dude. How gorgeous is that? And that's comic book Thanos and, uh, that's so good. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, you get, why wouldn't you print that?

Of course, you're going to print that. I'm going to print the heck out of that. I mean, it's going to go in a pile of, oh, Brad printed it. No, he needs to paint it. But soon. Look at that, dude. Man, that Thanos has ripped. Yeah, he is.

Yeah. He's 100% ripped, not 50%, 100% ripped. No, no, no. He is 100% ripped. I mean, even his rip has rips. Yeah. Rippy McRip ripped. He's plenty, lots of rips.

For officinados of the 3D print in the audience, let's see patreon.com slash 3D Wicked is that right 3D Wicked yeah this guy is amazing this stuff's beautiful

he's got the whole black order coming some of it's already been done and he releases four to six models per month and and there

he prints out so much stuff it's like I want to print all this but I just don't have the time to do it that's awesome wow very impressed all right we also got this

Scott, OMG, I'm just catching up on this season of Rupal's drag race, and there's a sketch where somebody accidentally bakes ashes into brownies and feeds them to people at a funeral. You're writing for Rupal now or what? So I watched the scene. Yeah. My whole thing is that the people making the brownies would know they did it. Yeah.

The people making the brownies in this case don't. Yeah. And in the retirement community that eats them, it's not the same as a funeral, but the retirement community that eats my brownies, will be the ones that are none the wiser. They're never going to know that they just ate my ashes. So it's close.

It's not quite there, but it's close. The ashes and brownies part, totally correct. The scenario around it, there's a lot more clandestine bullshit going on. And boy, you know, I love me some RuPaul and I have zero problem with drag performances. I've gone to see quite a few live shows. But boy, is that comedy clip cringe. It's hard to watch. It's really hard to watch.

It's really hard to watch. I think they're playing up the, you know, the bad acting and the, you know, the 80s style three-camera sitcom kind of thing, but boy. I didn't know they were doing, is that a thing on the show that compete to make sketches or skits? I have no idea. I haven't, I watched the first season or part of the first season, and this is something new that I've never seen them do, little skits and things like that. Usually it's, you know, music and do your best impersonation of this or this kind of person. Yeah. Yeah, I thought it was like that. Like, here, I'm going to come out and sing some song from some.

I will survive by Glory Garner. Yeah. And then you get judges on your makeup and your hair and your, you know, your outfit and whatnot. Right. But I've never seen an episode of RuPaul's Drag Race, so I don't know. That one just never came across me. have. Yes. Oh, I assume so. Yeah. It's a popular show, right? This is a big one. It's a very popular show. It's frequently gets the Emmy for best reality competition.

Yeah. See, that's good. Good job, Rupal. You did it. Now. So bummed. I know. Have to have a season of that show and I never saw one car. How can they call it a drag race? Yeah, it's not a drag race. Yeah, what's the deal. I know what a car. Listen, listen, I've seen cars race before. I know how that's supposed to to work. Yeah, we'll get to, you are going to have drag racing and your drag race, uh, reality competition. If you're saying Jeff Goldblum's going to judge his season, then I'll tune in. Oh, I'll tune in for that. Yeah, that'd be no problem. Ha ha ha ha ha. Wait, that's, uh, no, that is him. Yeah, that's, I was thinking of Tom Hanks for some reason. Oh, it's very sparkly. Oh, I'm thinking of his, uh, the money pit when he's laughing.

I was thinking of that. Oh, yeah. It's kind of hard to hear now. Anyway, there you have it. That's our top of the show discussion. How about a little bit of this? Time for the news. And it's brought to you by. FTSMTG and our pal Nate.

Check out his rad YouTube channel, great magic, the gathering discussion, as well as great reviews and tips. Check it out at YouTube.com slash FDSMTG. Is it FTS or FDFS? FDS. FD.S. Okay. Why does it say FTS in the first part, though? I don't know.

Because I actually copied his channel. Let me just be sure. And pasted it from... Oh, yeah, I just put a T where there wasn't on it. It's FDS. FD. FDS. What is FDS? I know MTG, of course, Magic Gathering. I don't know what that is. Let's see here if it says on his channel, it says... Let's see, you're a collector of magic gathering and other TCG CCGs.

feminine deodorant spray that's it oh here it literally says what does fDS stand for it's in a paragraph lower says i hear you ask well originally stood for fat dad scoops because of an old running gop and joke i had with my buddy decided to drop to self-deprecating humor and just go with fDS so it could stand for fun dad scoops or fabulous dad slaps got yeah okay so it's really it's just his his uh initialism for something something for him. Like, it's not related to, it's not a, uh, uh, an industry standard acronym for something or initialism for something. Right. He goes on down here to say, foreboding doven spies. Ooh. How about first date stacks? These are all his. He hasn't in this list here. Yeah, yeah, yeah, sure. But anyway, it's a cool channel. Check it out. Is in our community a good guy. Uh, let's talk about NASA. They are, uh, I was like to have at least one science story that before Bobby comes totally right hopefully i didn't steal us from him but anyway they're monitoring an asteroid that could collide with the earth on valentine's day in 2046 oh no who i'm trying to think

23 years to prepare for this folks yeah 23 years get out there get ready because it's happening out of the millions of asteroids in our solar system is a very small fraction of known potentially uh that would impact earth but scientists found a new one just two weeks ago that so far seems to pose one of the greater risks of all of them the asteroid known as 2023DW was the only Dang Willie Was only discovered on February 26

According to the European Space Agency is now being added to the agency's risk list Catalog of Space Objects Potentially have some kind of impact on Earth Which and because of what scientists have seen so far It's ranking on the list currently as number one But don't worry, that doesn't mean catastrophic event catastrophic event is imminent. Let's see.

They have a Torino scale ranking of one, meaning that it's currently predicted to pose no unusual level of danger according to the scale. Researchers believe that it is about a 50 meter in diameter rock.

About the length of an Olympic-sized swimming pool, that was there to help the Americans that last part. Sure, yes, we love that. Yeah, because we've all seen Olympic-sized swimming pools. Yeah. Somebody somewhere saw a headline that said, an asteroid, the size of 14 Alligators is heading toward something something. I'm like, really?

We're measuring with alligators? The alligator, you know, the alligator scale. Sure. Yeah. So weird. So the size is size uncertainty could be large. I'm not sure what that means. I guess they just don't know for sure how big it is.

Current calculation shows the chance of collision is extremely unlikely with no cause for public attention or public concern according to that ranking. all of the other ones have a ranking of zero though I love that it's like a binary system I mean it's it's either going to hit the earth or not right zero one on or off yeah pregnant or not pregnant there's no

no half measures yeah the the chance of it hitting earth they say is one in six hundred and seven is the current rate ooh that that I don't like the never tell me the odds yeah I don't think those are those aren't good odds I mean they're good they're how do I put this they're fine odds if you're like, oh, the chance and I'm going to meet a girl at this bar tonight are 1 and 6707. That's fine.

That's a fine odd. Have your odds. How are my March Madness bracket's going to do? Well, you've got a 1 and 607 chance of winning. Okay. I'll take that. You're like, hey, how about 1 and 607 chance the world will be annihilated by a giant space rock? That suddenly seems like not such a high number.

Right. Anyway. Yeah, I kind of want, if we find out that it's, you know, that number keeps going down, the the 1 in 8 chance. or one in six chance. Is there a way, you know, we can't send Bruce Willis up there to blow up the asteroid, but maybe can we do something to speed up the earth so we can control which country gets hit?

Oh, that's great idea. Just shifted into gear right as it's about to hit. It's like, oh, we're a little off. Hit the gas. Now it's over, whatever. Get some rockets that can move the, you'll rotate the of a little bit faster. Let's aim it right at blank. Yeah, blank.

Because we're not going to say, because we don't want any heat for what we say, you know? I could say right over. I probably could use a new Olympic-sized swimming pool. Couldn't they? I'm an nice Olympic-sized swimming pool for Mar-a-Lago. Can we limit the damage of the Impax Zone to one single piece of trompone property? Would that be okay? Anyway, we'll see what happens. Look forward to Valentine's Day 2046, everybody.

Yeah. Your home-mark cards ready. You know, it's weird. All I think about is you take whatever number and you add it to 2000. That's how old Nick is. So Nick is, well, he's not 2046, but he'll be 46 years old there. He'll be 46 and 246. Yeah, yeah.

Just if it's a weird way of being reminded how old your son will be when things happen. It makes things really, really easy. I envy the people who got married in 2000 because it's so easy to keep track of how long. How long you guys have been married? 23 years. 23 years. Boom. Instantly know that answer.

Yeah. You ask me, it's like 31, 31 years. Yeah, we have to like dink with it so that we sound like we know what we're talking about. But what you do is you get married on January 1st, 2000. You're set for the rest of your life. You're good. Yeah. I like it.

Goats. On to goats now. Greatest of all time. Yeah. The greatest animals of all time. They're now running loose in San Francisco and nobody knows where they came from. Oh, boy. Just a loose goat herd.

A lonely goat herd. Several goats. I don't know. Is it a herd? What is a group of goats? Do you want know? I'm going to say, I'm going to find out a, what is that called? Group of goats.

Group of goats. I have no idea. It's probably a herd. Right? I'll tell you. I'll tell you. It is a herd. Yeah, group of goats is a herd.

That's boring. You can also say tribe, trip or flock. I like trip. It's a trip of goats, man. A trip of goats. Totally having a trip of goats. What happened in San Francisco? Yeah, a herd is boring. Everyone's a herd. That's lame.

Yeah. Several goats are seen learning loose in San Francisco on Wednesday. No one seems to know where they came from. From a video posted on Reddit on Wednesday afternoon shows at least four goats, which is probably a herd. It's enough to be a herd. Running through the South Beach neighborhood near Rickon Hill Dog Park, as several onlookers try very unsuccessfully, I might add, to corral them.

At the end of the video, the goats run off into the distance. They never were able to get them. Spokesman for the San Francisco Animal Care and Control told SFGate that a call was received at 3.49 p.m. Wednesday about a gray goat running in traffic. I'll see the video with that. Oh, it's great. It's pretty great. They're all running around like idiots. It's fantastic. Caller reported they didn't know where the goat went after civilians chased it away. It's a really weird one, says Genevieve Church. Executive Director of City Grazing, a nonprofit that rents out herds of goats to graze on properties throughout the Bay Area. Well, maybe it's one of your goats. Could be, yeah.

Have you counted your goats? Go count your goats. You might fall asleep when you count goats, or is it just sheep? I don't know. I don't know. That's a good question. You would think that either one would work. One of the goats was reported as saying,

eh, blah, blah, blah, blah, the ones that always go bluble up in the face. Yeah. And the ones that faint, I love them. I love goats. Oh, the fainting goats are the best. And those eyes? What's with those eyes with the square pupils and the whatnot? Yeah, that's not right.

It is not right. No, it's not right. I'll tell you what. Let's see. At this point, the only thing we know that it wasn't ours, she claims, but it really is odd because they aren't that many grazing goat companies that work in San Francisco, she says. I've never heard of grazing goat companies. Yeah, we have them in Colorado, and you hire them basically.

If you've got a really big plot of land, they'll just sit there. You just basically fence it off in sections. Keep them in this area. They eat the grass in that area. Then you move them in. into another section they eat the grass in that area there's um one right on the bike path a half a quarter mile from my house really and they just they just they just they just keep shifting yeah they just keep moving the they have one big area and they just keep like re uh quixing the uh the fence

so that they keep the the goats in a specific area wow you like my use of the reference to the video game quicks i like that quicks uh I'm trying to think of the last time I put a quarter in Quicks, and it's been like 40 years. It's a long time. The Quicks was great, dude. That was a great game. I'm ready for a new version of Quicks.

And the only way you can play that thing is, uh, well, I guess it was joystick. I feel like, would trackball have been good for Quicks? Maybe not because you need straight lines and stuff. Yeah. You could, it could be assistive, though, and like create those lines with a ball. Like you could with a mouse or something. Keyboard and mouse would be great. There's probably some Quicks equivalent now, right?

I'm sure. Yeah, I'm sure. somebody's got a quicks out there's a mobile game who knows oh good good point uh anyway good luck with your goats san francisco you got enough problems in that city let's find some goats how about get that fixed and then all everything else will take care of itself i'm sure here's a story about a giant blob all right okay now we can win megas here's your supernatural event not really uh it's not a blob you fight a giant blob of seaweed twice the width of the u.s okay of the The entire United States continent plus Hawaii and Alaska, okay, is taking aim of Florida.

It's a giant seaweed bloom. It's so large, you can see it from space. Wow. I know, hey, I got some goats that might take care of your problem, I think. Are we sure that it's the width of the U.S. including Alaska and Hawaii? I'm guessing it's just the continental. Oh, maybe it's just continental. It doesn't say.

I mean, believe it, it's still huge. That's huge enough. Yeah, it's big enough, but it maybe doesn't include the islands. and the, uh, whatever we call Alaska these days. Anyway, uh, this is headed toward the Gulf Coast, or the Florida Gulf Coast, the Sargne, sorry, Sargasm bloom. Sargassum bloom. Sargassum bloom. Sargastin C, yeah.

All right. That makes sense. Around 5,000 miles wide is twice, twice the width of the United States, is believed to be the largest in history. Drifting between the Atlantic coast of Africa and the Gulf of Mexico, the thick mat of algae can provide a habitat for marine life and absorb carbon dioxide. it seems like a good thing then. Maybe we shouldn't mess with it. The giant blue could have disastrous consequences as it gets closer to shore.

Coral, for instance, can be deprived of sunlight as the seaweed decomposes and can release hydrogen sulfide, negatively impacting the air and the water causing respiratory problems for people in the surrounding area. Well, we can't have that. No.

Feels like we shouldn't destroy it, but maybe we should figure out a way to just split it up. Just break it up into smaller little seaweed islands. It says here... Feed it to goats. Exactly. Brian LaPointe, a research professor in the Florida Atlantic University Harbor Branch Oceanic Institute told NBC News the following, what we are seeing in the satellite imagery does not bode well for a clean beach year? What does that mean?

I don't know. I mean, just basically saying you're not going to be able to hang out on our beaches because of the big seaweed island that's coming towards you. Big algae, algae mat. Algae mat. Algy mat. It sounds worse to call it that, doesn't it? Elgy mat. Ooh, algae mat. Ugh.

Well, anyway, it sounds like things are a little bit weird. This Brian Barnes fellow from the season, assistant research professor. They got all the brines involved, by the way. So many Bryans. Can you believe it? I mean, they said, look, here's a giant. It's an island of seaweed. Who do we call all the Bryans?

They reached out to me, and I said, no comment. I said, I'm wearing a suit. You had too much going on. Too much going on. Yeah, I'm wearing a suit. Who made it? My tailor. My tailor.

Oh, shout out to the tailor. She didn't know what to do with him I know so great She didn't know what to do And part of me feels bad And then part of me is like Yeah don't The way you people interview people

On that stupid red carpet It's a horrible It's a horrible thing It's awful I hate it Yeah And most people just comply And say well I'm just so happy to be here

And so Christian Dior Made this suit Oh wow Great suit from Christian Dior Yeah Try to pretend you're not. Are you excited to see? Oh, I'm excited to see

Olivia Munn. Oh, really? Okay. Why? Because she's got dead eyes, and we like to see it. Yes, exactly. Exactly, yes. All right.

Well, anyway, they're worried about Florida, so there's that. It seems like Florida, whatever you may say about Florida and it's, you know, perceived culture. They never catch a break on the natural disaster stuff. If it's always a hurricane or freaking this or some kind of high tide thing or, you know, something. Don't seem to be having problems with earthquakes, mudslides, and wildfires. That's true. Yeah.

But hurricanes and, you know, giant blobs of seaweed. Yeah. I guess tornadoes. You guys get tornadoes in Florida, right, I think. I think they do. Up north. Yeah, probably. Yeah, probably closer to the...

Near the base of the shaft. Mm-hmm. Sinkholes, sure. Yeah. Moving on to this final story here. Tampa, Florida woman. Oh, we're in Florida. We're staying in Florida.

Oh, more Florida. Okay, cool. We never left. Tampa Florida woman made $300 an hour as a topless maid. That's good money. I'm sure. I'm sure she does it. I'm sure she wears the requisite maid outfit, the black and white maid outfit.

Mm-hmm. Yeah, just without the top. It says here, just another example of the gig economy, which I guess, you know, lift and all that stuff. You should be the topless lift driver, Brian. You should do that. Oh, there we go. Yeah. I'm already sometimes in the bottomless lift driver, so I'll do the topless as well.

Nice. I have a thing for you tomorrow, or sorry, Thursday, because there is no show tomorrow. Right. That is. No show tomorrow. Just a reminder, everybody. Yep. I got a very specific lift thing for you.

Oh, excellent. Yeah. Somebody sent it. I'm keeping it a secret until we have the show. Anyway, another example of the gig economy, rather than to deliver food or drive people around, Sammy, a Tampa Bay Florida woman, has discovered her talent. She's a topless maid. All right. That's her talent.

Now, yeah, you can make an argument that I could be topless without much talent. Sure. I'm sure she's lovely and that this, her beauty contributes to her success as a topless maid. but I don't think going topless takes that much talent. It's a talent that if that's a talent, everybody has that at least one talent. At least once a day, you have that talent. Yes. Yeah.

Like I took a shower this morning. I totally had that talent for hot. Yeah. Topless and bottomless too. So you're like doubly talented. Yeah, very super talented. It was gross. How talented I was.

Yeah. Exactly. So now before you jump into this career path, it's always good to know what to expect. She broke it down in some video. So here's the deal. five houses in one day. That's how many houses she cleans per day. 300 hours plus tips. That 300 hours.

$300 per hour plus tips. It's pretty good. It's really good. Yeah, it's like a lawyer fee or something. It really is. Yes, exactly. It says the tips. It's the tips.

I'm not sure I understand. This says this article. Some of the tips are more than an hourly rate. She must be good at cleaning houses to make sure nothing goes wrong. She employs a security guard who waits outside of her car or in her car. she breaks it all down for a daily take of about 1,430 bucks per day. Clean and popless. It's news because it was on ESPN SW, oh, Southwest Florida.

ESPN Southwest Florida. Why is it sports news? I don't know. I don't know either. Doesn't make any sense. Wow. So she's making, so some people are tipping her more than the $300. Like giving her like a $400 tip on a $300 an hour.

Is Claire, are you new here? Why is this TMS news? Are you new to the program? We always take dumb stories like this. This is what we do. Exactly. Come on. This is the news.

She knows. She's just trying to cause trouble. Exactly. A little spitfire, a little Irish spitfire. Just because this is your week, doesn't mean you get to do this sort of thing every day. No. Okay. Let me ask you this.

Sure. As someone who's augmenting his income with lift driving. Yes. Would you, if there was a demand. man for it, would you topless clean houses for a living? Would you do that? No. And it's less about the topless and it's more about the cleaning houses. Kind of me too. I don't care so much about the to the topless. I would, I don't want to. Tina pretty much could answer that question. Yeah, maybe you want to start with this house. Maybe start with your own bathroom. Oh, you want to

clean houses, topless? How about you wear a bunch of shirts and clean this one? Yeah. Oh, someone found her Instagram page? Hold on. Curiosity wins. Hold on. I got a like, I won't show it to the chat because it's a little. Oh, she's lovely. Oh, she's fine. Yeah. I mean, look at her. She's then she's got the money. Oh, my gosh. Well, she's definitely going to have to clean up all that birthday cake that she apparently sat on in that photo. That's a, what happened there? Less. I don't know. I guess that's a house that wanted to get dirtier. Okay. Please sit on this birthday cake. Does she have a, uh, let's see if her link tree has um yeah she has a only fans what no way yeah i know i can't look brian i don't want to freak you out but topless maid has an only fans wow um all right this thing's loading funny you may get out

of this i feel like i'm i feel like i'm on the dark web yeah i want some dark web over here well anyway good luck to her and all her um money-making schemes i'm sure it's gonna all work out in the All right, Brian, let's get out of here for a break. When we come back from this break, Builder Ann will join us. We'll talk a little bit about the world of makers and making things. Always fun to do that on Tuesday. Bobby, after that, with some science, all that and more, but we need music to do it. What do you got?

Yeah, I love the description of this band. Nashville via Joshua Tree Trio, it's very hard to say. Nashville via Joshua Trio plays classic melodic slash stoner slash desert rock with big, alt-rock. hooks. Wow. Kind of accurate. This is a band called Karma Vulture from a single that they've just released. It's awesome.

It's a title track from their forthcoming album. It is called Something Better. Here is Karma Vulture. You're going to be able to be. Plant the flag To see the flag you're true. Don't wait when I'm not far from you. So close, no cigar or crew. Can you win when you play till you support a cause, fame and virtue. Ignorance isn't an excuse for the lack

morals you pursue. Chase the rules you still brave to lose Do what you want Now what you should Is it something better than something good Wouldn't do it right Even if you could Is a something better

Than something good Is it something better Thing is something. Take the thrill only to refuse. Made of friends to main let it cues. Common sense seems to convolut. Silly games that you aim to lose. Consequence bounces off for you.

Not like rubber. More like sniffing glue Your mess Because no one told you How to win So you Do what you want Now what you should

Is something better Than something good Would you do it right Even if you could Is a something better Than something good As you please and please No one you should

Couldn't do it right Even if you would Is there something better Than something good I'm going to be able to be able to be able to go away from the way in something Is it something Do what you want Now what you should

Is it something better Than something good Wouldn't do it right Even if you could Is it something better Than something good Do as you please There's no one you should

Wondon do it right Even if you could The good is a soft and better than soft and good. tell you that video games are taking this country by storm. This is the morning stream, a free-range solution to your morning routine. You know, AI Fletcher's just not quite there yet. He's getting there. He's not quite there. That was the Scott Fletcher AI. That sounded pretty good, but not quite. quite like if you're really listening this is the morning stream a free range solution to your morning

routine it doesn't quite get to the higher registry stuff that he does yeah because he'll do this is the morning stream and he's got a lot more range in his inflections well we'll work on it we'll keep training that machine brian tell me once again who that musician was cheeseburger uh that was the band Karma Vulture. Brand new album is coming out April 28th, 2023 via Bentney Records. Thanks Bentney for sending this. The album is called Something Better.

That is the title track. It's track two on the album. Track one is something good. Track one, something good. Track two, something better. How about that? Nice. That again, Karma Vulture,

if you want to check out their music. Let me ask you this question. Did you catch up on the Last of Us last night? I did. Watch The Last of Us. Okay. The Last Last of Us, as they call it. The Last Last Last of us.

us so last of the last of us so it's you know got all the salt lake city setting stuff right yeah and um there the big thing on the internet the next day was how many people were positive that the giraffe was bad cg i it turns out the giraffe was not cgi at all it was an actual giraffe was it really oh that's awesome i was wondering about that because uh this isn't don't worry this is not this is not spoilery a giraffe is a giraffe okay just a giraffe yeah they see a giraffe to you guys, that's it. That's really all there is. But it, you know, the thing eats some leaves and chills out for a while. And I looked at it and thought, oh, that's a real giraffe. But I was surprised how many people thought it was fake. It's an amazing looking CGI giraffe because I can't

imagine that you can get a giraffe to eat out of your hand like that. If they, so if they were, I don't know. You can. I have before. Sure. I don't know this for sure because I don't know where the filming location was. But if they filmed in SLC and they used Hogle Zoo's giraffes, those things will let you feed him that wouldn't surprise me I think that's why I think that's why I wasn't surprised that it wasn't that it wasn't CG I mean you can feed the giraffes in

Denver at the Denver Zoo to I have video of Tina doing it yeah yeah so they're you know they're docile they're nice yeah unless they're fighting each other you ever seen that you ever seen two fighting each other I've no but they like hit each other's necks right like yeah it's like I think I have seen video of them fighting it is unbelievable it is a freakiest thing to watch it really is yeah

giraffe fight. I'm going to find one real quick, because we have a minute. Fight. Oh, my gosh. If I could type giraffe, that'd be great. Boost 2271 says he thinks it was filmed in Calgary. Oh, was it? Okay. Well, they did, they used, they were really accurate as far as where they were positioned. Even the off ramp on the highway, totally nailed it. Like, they nailed all that stuff. Usually that, you know, in TV stuff, you're like, oh, they kind of fudge how far they are from something or that building doesn't look right or whatever. they nailed the SLC everything all of those buildings were right they were in the right place um so if they didn't film there they took some time to make sure stuff was cool okay here we go this this is drafts fighting chat room it is not for the oh man look at this they just they go it's so weird it's like it's like watching uh hand puppets fight yeah yeah because honestly but the way i guess you have to think about is how else are they going to do it sock puppets yeah because they got no other weapons they got no other way to hit each other

you just gonna have to stand by each other and then just swing watching uh those things those inflatable uh things they put in front of used card dealers like watching those fight what are those called those have a name can't think of it anyway draft fighting look it up everyone at home who can't see this let's call bill all right yeah yeah i think it's bill time it's bill time Yeah. Let's get Bill in here. Let's pay our bills. Get it? Bills? Get it? Yeah. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Like his name. Your bat caves open there, Bill. It's Bill Duran joining us, as he always does on Tuesdays. He's a mastermaker, makes props and all kinds of cool stuff at punish props.com. And he joins us on Tuesdays to talk about the very same. Hello, Bill. Welcome back. Bill. Hello. Are you muted? He's muted. He needs to 3D print an additional microphone.

Bill? You must construct more pylons to get your microphone working. I don't hear Bill. He is mutated. Well, what's the answer, Rainbow Bright? How many muscles does a giraffe have in his... Wait. Oh, really only seven muscles in their necks?

Really? Like giant, big giant slabby muscles. Hello, hello? Oh, hi, Bill. Hey, we can hear you now. I can hear you now. Hey, oh, then you cut out again. Are you there?

Oh, he cut out again. We have an internet issues. Is that what we've got today? Perhaps. Oh, hello. You're back. Are you back? No.

No. It's going good. For a second, it sounds like Skype for a second. Yeah, it sounded like old Skype days where people would like drift off into the ether. We called you in Discord, but did you answer in Skype? And then pipe it through Discord. And pipe it through Discord. Yeah.

I think I have a, uh, here's some old while we wait for bill here's some old skyplag listen to this the Skype seems glitchy not that that's a line from a movie okay here we got this one no that's bo's version of a kid on Skype let's see jumbled oh here we go reaction to reazone a night there you go that's some good ones here's windy hello oh hi we can hear you we can hear you now hi bill all right I'm not touching anything all right don't push any buttons you're good If you hold perfectly still... Oh, no.

He sounded great, and then he just disappeared off Discord. He said he wasn't going to change anything. I didn't... I mean, I guess if he didn't push anything. Bill, oh, there he is. Hi, Bill. Hey. Hi.

That's really weird. Are you back? I closed Discord. Oh. I mean, when you said, don't touch anything. I was like, you got it. Yep. Alt F4.

Boom. gone. I'm not going to touch anything except the close button. That's right. That's right. Nailed it. Well, all right. So this has been fun so far. I like this. It's a good time. You heard my intro though, right? How are you? What's going on?

What do you make besides weird internet problems? What are you doing? We have a big project we're almost done with. We'll probably talk about that next week. Today I want to talk about pools because I love tools. Tools, sure. Not the band tool, right? You're not doing that. No, no. No.

No. Never got into them. Yeah. But power tools, hand tools, those are my jam. Sure. Now, when you get started on your maker journey, you probably start off with pretty general tools, tools that kind of do everything. Like a hammer or screwdrivers, maybe a saw. But as you progress down your maker journey, you start to get more specialized tools.

And I think that's where things get really exciting. and by specialize you mean what like not your normal off the shelf go to lows and pick it up kind of stuff right okay and also though tools that only do one very specific thing why are we watching the video where guys putting screws in an angle grinder i don't know i just i looked up i looked up weird tools and i got this and i thought oh i want to see this guy make screws drilling a frightening looks like he's creating a weapon actually yeah yeah like you know just plumbing tools, for example. I had to buy one particular tool.

The only thing it does is help remove the wax deal that goes under your toilet to the sewer. And it's like, great, I'll never use this thing for anything else. This is just one thing it does. But I understand that, you know, for fun stuff, for making maker projects, having those specialized tools allow you to maybe do something that you can't do otherwise. Yeah. And probably even makes you want to do more of the thing. you bought the tool for it. Right.

Once you have the tool, you're like looking for reasons to use it. Exactly, yes. Yeah. Sure. So I've got quite the tool collection and I've started to get tools that are more and more highly specific

to do a certain thing really fast or whatever. I have a lathe which has just millions of accessories. I have a pair of pliers called engineer pliers that are used for holding screws on the very end of the plier. So the end of the plier. So the end of the plier is not flat. it is rounded to hold a screw. Very specific.

Okay. That is very specific. Yeah. And there's something about tools like that that makes you really happy. And there's a subreddit called Specialized Tools. Here, I'll put a link in the chat for you there. All right. I love this subreddit.

It is the weirdest tools that do like the one weird thing to help you lose belly fat. Mm-hmm. And it's just fun. There's like, for example, I knew about these. I wish I'd known about these when I was a kid. There's a tool that's used to hold a full sheet of drywall on the ceiling. It's this ratcheting lift that lifts it up to the ceiling.

When we were kids, we had to do drywall work. My dad just had the boys hold it on the ceiling, which is a lot of work. Oh, my God, it is because those things are heavy, and it's an uncomfortable position to be in for the length of time it takes to put in the screws on all four sides to be able to support it. Oh, I hate it back. Yeah, so someone made a tool just to fix that problem. I love this.

I just love cruising through this thing and seeing all the weird things. Here's a tool that's used to pry a door off the floor just a little bit, just to adjust the door. Oh, you mean like on the, like when you're trying to put a door on and the hinges are, you got to kind of hold it up straight or something? I hate that. But only like a quarter inch, right? Okay, yeah, yeah. Yeah, that makes sense.

So, you know what? I could have used that tool. I think about it. I think I had an experience like that. I had to buy a specific tool to fix a part of my 3D printer to put a, to basically, you know, those plug-in-socket connectors that you have on really tiny PCBs. Like, you know, they've got the white thing with the prongs, and then you put the plug-in into it. I had to buy this crimper that puts the metal deal on the end of the white thing. wire to put in the crimper, and it's a very unusual

size. So basically, I have this tool, this $30 tool to fix a $400 3D printer that I just needed for one plug to basically be able to replace a plug that came apart. Wow. I probably would have just sauntered them all together.

Sure. You only get one chance with that, though, is the problem. It's like, oh, no, I sauntered it wrong. Oh, I've got to melt it all and take it all apart. Yeah. Yeah. Get it right. the first time or you are screwed on that deal. That's awesome. Well, there's some wild stuff in here.

I can't believe I can't believe I'm actually interested in this Reddit. This normally would sound really boring to me on the face of it. No, this is the best stuff. This is great. So I've started buying some new tools. Brittany has this old pocket watch that she rescued from her grandfather's barn. It's from the late 1800s. It's really cool.

It doesn't work. Okay. We want to get it running again. We want to try anyway and get it running again. So the world of wristwatch repair, let me tell you about the specialized tools they have. Oh my gosh. I assume it's just really tiny screwdrivers, right? Lots of small stuff.

So that's where we started. We purchased some very small screwdrivers. The smallest flathead screwdriver I had was a 1.6 millimeter width, and the one I got is like 0.6.6. millimeter width. It's so teeny tiny. And then I just got a pair of tweezers that are specially designed for holding very small screws. Wow. It's like two little forks. They have two tined forks that sort of pinched together so it can

hold the stem of the screw between it. So you hold it in place with the tweezers to get it lined up and then you use your tiny screwdriver to drive it in. Oh my God, that's great. Yeah, because otherwise, right. you you start pushing down with the screwdriver the screw tips over like it always does if you jam the tip of the screwdriver into all the inner workings of the watch you can't have that and if you cross thread one of those little screws that's it you can't fix it oh god yeah right wow wow that's so i'm starting a wristwatch tool collection i'm going to have to buy a little box to put them all in a little teeny tiny box like a little toolbox oh god yes oh yeah i see lots

you'll get going to buy one you're going to make one you're going to make one You're going to make one. Yeah, you're going to make one. I'm looking at the, I was just looking on Amazon for like, hey, what they have in the way of, like, a kit for repairing watches or stuff? And they have some insane shit in here. They do, yeah. Some of these are specific to brand of watch, but most of them are kind of, you know, whatever. But these things come with so many little tools.

There are different oils you need to get different viscosity of oils for different parts of the watch. There are tools used specifically for pressing. hands of the watch back on the watch. There are tools for cleaning your watch parts. I've been watching a lot of wrist watch revival. Oh my gosh, dude. So I'm getting sort of a crash course in all

these special watch tools and they're all very cool. Oh, man, that's awesome. That's pretty good. Punished props. Yeah, I know you've given us a lot of, a lot of videos in this segment for watch, like redoing, remaking completely an old rusted watch. You should

do a sister channel, call it Punished clocks do that funnish clocks there we go yep nailed it clocks are good too because the parts are so much bigger than a watch wristwatch parts are microscopic yeah and you drop one i don't have a microscope yet you drop one of those little springs or whatever you may as well just stop looking you know like where you're never going to find that no cat's already got it in its fur or something you're done uh well that's great i i love this kind of stuff and love to hear about you getting into the tooling more and more. Tell us

what bonus content you brought us today. There's always a link. All right. So this is a video from wristwatch revival. He's a Marshall's a local Seattle dude who does wrist watch repair videos. And the watch that he has in this video is a pocket watch. And it is not the same

watch that Brittany has, but it is incredibly similar. So we watched this video recently to get an idea of what we would be getting ourselves into and I think it's doable pocket watches are significantly larger than wrist watches and the parts are what are larger it doesn't look like it when you look at them they're all really tiny but wrist watches apparently are a very good place to start if you want to get into this hobby because it's not quite so difficult oh my gosh it looks so

I'd be so nervous poking around in here like all of his little finger condoms yeah you got to have the finger condoms yes yeah any any real oh yeah why not just gloves i guess is it because one of your i don't know he's got a couple fingers that aren't covered oh okay probably like yeah just the just the first two fingers in his thumb have the little condoms on him dude there's i bet if you only yeah if you only have gloves like me i bet that would work just fine yeah i'm sure yeah but you could always cut the back two fingers off if you still need that's what i'll do i'll make my own yeah that's what i do well it's the reverse for art stuff but you keep the glove you keep the fin the pinky and the next finger gloved and then you cut out

middle index and thumb so you can draw on a tablet without getting all goopy and this is just the opposite of that it's like hey what if we what if we flipped it the other way it looks like fun and i don't know what it is about a pocket watch that's old just something about it is very alluring it's like man yeah i mean it's 140 years old more than that probably especially the in the inside you're looking at the gears and then the shapes that they have to cut the metal to hold those gears. These bizarre swoopy curves that are, like, as they go around each spindle, it's like the same distance around it.

So it's like a curve, like they've, you know, design this to the end level with these curves in here. So cool. Very cool. They get it in the, with a Civil War tech. Yeah, right. Exactly. They didn't have AutoCad.

What are you kidding? Yeah, that's right. And, uh, what do they? PaperCad, yeah. There you go. Well, there you have it. Go check it out. That is over at Wrist Watch Revival.

And I'm guessing that channel gets real cool with lots of different watch types. Sure does. Go check it out. And, of course, PunishProps.com and the Punished Props YouTube channel, Bill Duran, have a fantastic week. We'll see you next time. See you. Bye now. And that link is up at quicktms.l.I.

Fantastic. Now, somebody has been banging at my door for the last five minutes, and I thought they would leave, they're still banging. It's your front door. My front door. And I don't have a camera. I don't have a camera thing. So what I'm going to do is I'm a pause. All right. I am back, though. So let's do this. Thank you for keeping the fort down there for a moment.

Where are we? What are we doing? Oh, Bill, or Bobby is what I meant. Bobby's coming in. Yeah, that's right. Strap down, everybody. Hold on to something. Yeah, yeah. Tuck you in, everybody. It's coming. Because Bobby's on his way. And whether you like it or not. How about some scyance? Hey, it's spelled scyance. Skynes.

What do we know? Hey, Bobby, what are you doing? All around science. How are you? What's up with you? How are you? I'm doing great. I actually almost didn't make it.

I just sat down like a couple minutes ago. Oh, what happened? Were you busy with the... I was just racing back from... I had my first cross-country flight today. Oh, my gosh. Hold on a second. What does that mean?

Like, across the nation? Cross country means something very specific in aviation. It means a flight that is more than 50 nautical miles. Gotcha. So you didn't really, like, go down to Mexico or... No, I stayed within the state. Although I could have gone out of the state and made it back still. Yeah.

But no, who did not leave or go across the country, go to the border or anything. I mean, I guess cross-country skiing doesn't mean you've left the country. Right. So that does make sense. Yeah. How was it, though? Did you passifying colors or whatever you do when you do that? It was very difficult, and I definitely did a bunch of things wrong because it's crazy.

Like, I was telling my instructor, I thought I knew how to fly, but then you add all this, like, busy work. I call it busy work, but it's very important. It's a bunch of navigation, and when you do the cross-country stuff, so when you're in the plane, there's a lot of, like, You have a lot of things in the plane that take care of, like, navigation for you. Sure. So, you know, you have your GPS and all that kind of stuff. But when you're doing the cross-country stuff, you're supposed to plan it all by hand and do it on paper. You're manually navigating the plane visually by ahead of time picking out, like, waypoints on the ground, checkpoints.

that you can identify from the air and so you're looking for those and it's really complicated and you're working constantly because you hit that checkpoint and then you start a timer like you have to time between your checkpoints how long does it take you and the reason this is important is because you need to know when you fly a lot of times you're planning how much fuel you need to have right and so wind speed and changes in your predicted wind direction and everything can change how much fuel you're going to spend that you're going to burn getting somewhere. So you have to keep track of all that, and all of that is done by, you know, you're setting a certain power setting on your engine, you're keeping track of how long it takes you to get

from checkpoint to checkpoint. Also, going to the checkpoints, make sure that you know you're actually on course in the right direction, stuff like that. Interesting. Okay. So it was very hard. I did the flying part well, but it's also the point in you're flying when you're really start practicing and learning how to talk to air traffic control.

Oh, sure. I did all right at the beginning, but while I was in the air doing stuff, the air traffic control was like talking to me and I totally missed it a couple times. Oh, no. So do you, do, uh... Pull up, pull up. At some point, is there some kind of graduation ceremony or something? Like, what is the final, what is the final day look like?

They do have, um, they do have a tradition in aviation where, is it your first solo? I think it's your first solo flight. It's not when you actually get your license, but after your first solo flight, there's a tradition in aviation where they cut off the tail of your shirt and, like, write on it and stuff like that. Wow. Okay.

And, like, put, you know, first solo and the date and where you, the airport where you did it and stuff like that. Really? That's the thing. So wear a shirt that you're okay with having ripped off. My instructor hasn't told you. me that you do that, but that they do that. So I don't know if...

Good thing you know. Yeah, exactly. But you don't know when you're going to solo, so I guess I just need to be wearing old nasty t-shirts from here on out. I feel like I'm learning all kinds of things today. This is fantastic. Yeah. Yeah.

When I, 14, I worked in an Italian restaurant and they served pizza. My first day there, they're like, oh, Brian, you know, for your dinner break, you should try, I was like washing dishes or something. Brian, you should try the pizza. I'm like, oh, yeah, cool, I will. Yeah, I'll do, I'm taking my break in half an hour, I'll do the pizza. So I sit down, they said, oh, we'll bring it to you. I sit down there, bring me pizza.

And what they've done is they've taken a little personal-sized pizza, and they've, like, chopped, instead of chopping it into slices or even squares, it's like, br-br-br-br-br-b, like they almost mashed it with a pizza cutter. So it was like little tiny pieces that I guess I'd eat with a fork or something. And that was their hazing ritual. Wow. You know, they could have cut off my shirt. It would have been fine.

Yeah, it would have been okay, right? I just don't want to eat me. I don't want to swallow goldfish or any of that bull crap that make you do. Oh, God, no. This ain't you're not pledging for a fraternity. That's true. If I think of hazing, I think of either Scott or no, packing tape on your junk or swallowing goldfish.

Those are the two days. I know. Is this today's, this selfie you sent us? Yeah, I took a selfie before I started today. That's the inside of the plane that I fly. Oh, look at this, you guys. That's cool. up here on the top it's for everyone to see

look at that look at Bobby and his plane no kidding is that an iPad and an iPad pencil or an Apple pencil here's here's real quick and then we can get to the science sure but this is the plane that I fly me standing in front of the plane that I fly oh let's see

oh look at that what is that plane what do we call this plane this is a Cessna 172 S nice and this is you know made in the last century it's a it's a good plane. I think it was, I think it's like 2000, it's definitely in

two, after 2000. I think it was like 2007 maybe, which is pretty new for a, for a plane honestly. But it's a nice plane. Two things, you should use that photo for your podcast album art, which I think you do. Yeah, I do. Well,

actually, I do. And number two, you must really like that shirt. Yeah. Yeah, it's funny. I do. You know, Do you have this experience where you, because I took that picture a long time ago. Yeah. I'm just on a rhythm where like the same day of the week I end up wearing the same stuff.

I totally do. Yeah. That happens to me all the time. I would not feel bad. For some reason, my things got real choppy there and I don't know why. Oh, no. I don't think it's not you guys. It's something else here.

I'm going to hit stop on this thing. Yeah, the stream kind of went one. You did restart the stream after you went and checked. out your package, right? Yeah, whenever I look at my package, I check the stream. Okay, it's still going. All right, good. I don't know what that was.

We seem to be smooth now. That was weird. It's kind of a moment of clarity. Anyway, well, Bobby, let's do get to the science of the day. Speaking of packages and that kind of package, there was reported last month, did you recently hear about the wooden pleasure. instrument that they found from ancient Rome at a it was um no it's it's it's a dildo can we say that on the show sure sure why not this was this was a thing they found an ancient uh wooden dildo ah

it looks like it was made out of wood yeah but uh but i don't know what else would they make it out of i guess they could make it out of like if it's ancient rome they could have made it a marble, right? That's true. Yeah. Yeah, they found one. It was a little while ago, and so it's, let me, I know you want to see a picture of it. It's not obscene, I promise.

But here, I'll put a link to the article there, and it's right there. Oh, geez. Oh, are we sure that's not just a bat reversed or something? Louisville Slugger, I think. So it's about 16 centimeters long, and for anybody, I'll save you the shame. that's about average the uh the and um yeah so it was 16 centimeters long and uh and it was pretty well preserved it was found in vandalanda in the UK which is that's what this the site was called back in

the day it's south of hadrian's wall um and it's 2,000 years old um there's lots of cool things that have been found there it's a really interesting site for ancient Roman stuff because it's like got oxygen deprived conditions there and so it preserves things really well. Yeah. Yeah. So like it's made out of wood, right? You might have thought that that would decay but it was preserved really well. And they're not

so they think it might be the reason it's in the news is because it was believed that it was a fallace that was used for personal use. But there are a lot of people who think that it might have been many other things and there's a new

someone weighing in now thinking that it might have been what's called a drop spindle. Yeah, what is a drop spindle. I don't know what that is. I don't know why it's named what it is, but I know it's a spindle that's used for yarn making. Like when you're spinning, spinning yarn or any kind of thread, you want to have it wrap around a spindle as it's coming off of the wheel or whatever you're spinning it from, right? Sure. And that's what a drop spindle is, is it does that. And so a drop spindle does have a large end on one end so that it doesn't slide off the end and then it has a little

knob at the top. You can buy these nowadays. People spin fabric all the time or thread all the time. So they think that that might be the shape. Now you might be wondering, really, do you think that might be what it is?

Because it definitely looks conspicuous on that knobby end. Yeah. The one end there looks a little like, well, you know, Jimmy's first time is what that looks like. Yeah, exactly, yes. Right. But they do think it's possible because the Romans did all kinds of. So ancient Romans loved fallacies, right?

They're into them. They were way into it. And I actually was reading about this in preparation for this because I always thought, like, they were just cheeky people. Like, they just really were just, they just thought it was great and they were just into it. But it was actually for, first of all, they believed that, that phallus phalluses phallic symbols warded off evil like they it worded evil it protected you from evil and evil spirits did you know that no I know that today we act people act like it exposes us to evil spirits but back right it's a total 180 which is a whole other conversation there's a there's a big there's a many many scholars believe that the there's so many values that ancient romans had that that Christians just did a 180 on and they think that it's just a direct response to, because if you know your religious history, Christians and Roman, they didn't get along too well. No. No, no. In fact, there may be the ultimate example of we didn't get

along too well. Right. Turns out that the Romans might have not been too nice to a very prominent Jewish person who was important to Christians. Yeah, the name, the one all of it got named after. They didn't like him at all. So anyway, that's a whole other thing, though, but they believe that, they believed that phallus is warded off evil. And I guess it's probably because they associated phallic symbols with, like, power and fertility and just, they were just, they didn't have this hang up. The point is they didn't have this hang up that we have about, about penises. Right. They, they were, they were much more common.

They actually made, there were, there's been wind chimes that have been found that were, that were. made out of bronze penises hanging. Oh, really? That would hang. So do they go, dong, dong, dong. Why didn't I think of that? Oh, that's great.

No, there's one that they found that was a, it was a depiction of Hermes, the God Hermes, with a giant phallus and many other ones sticking out all over him, then there were loops at the end of them where chimes would hang. And because wind chimes, the sound of wind chimes, were also believed to ward off evil spirits. So I guess they were thinking, like, well, let's just combine these two ideas to make the ultimate evil spirit.

Why not? Yeah, right. Yeah, why not, indeed? You know what I like? I was like when they find some ancient architecture, some like old French cathedral. And all around it are these beautiful, ornate religious symbols. And it's like, well, wow, there's, there's, there's. saint whoever doing whatever he did and then booby-da-da-da all the way around and then eventually you get around far enough and you'll find a guy putting a stick up his butt or something

right what was the deal with that c3bio right there was so weird like in spain i'll never forget this in spain for the nativity when they create a nativity scene for christmas they have what's called i don't know the spanish word for it but it's called we here they call it the pooping man and it's basically just this this little dude somewhere and the fun of it is for little kids you're supposed to find where he is in the nativity scene so somewhere nestled between you know shepherds and and wise men and the little baby jesus and all this is some guy taking a little dump and this is a real thing it's a real thing somebody's uncle came up with this game it's apparently huge down there they love it down there and i don't know if maybe when i say

down there i mean spain but maybe some stuff in um parts of south america i don't know carried over there but it's got a name and it's a real thing. And even in the big ones where you put it out on a yard, like a yard-sized nativity, you got like a kid-sized pooping man somewhere. The immaculate excretion. Yeah. I thought that was great.

Immaculate evacuation. We don't have anything cool in our nativity scenes. I'm going to sneak one of those into my in-laws' nativity scene and I'm going to claim that it's a tradition in Spain. It's traditional Spanish. Yeah, exactly. Just see how long it takes somebody to notice it. I'm going to find it so that you,

You can give her, like, so you can have some backup when you need it, all right? DJ Stengel put a photo. Oh, did he put one? There is right there. Look at that. Yep. This is real. There it is.

Yeah, that's the guy. He looks just like this in all the ones I saw. And they had, uh, was at some kind of fair. And it was like Spanish something. I don't remember what the deal was. They were celebrating Spain and, and it was around Christmas time. So they had a bunch of activities and they all had this little pooping guy in it. That's Waldo's black sheep brother.

Kind of, yeah. It is where's, where's, They actually make a Boris Johnson one too. Oh, and there's like a little poop down there. Yeah, there's a poop on the ground. You got to have that. Oh, my gosh, why is there a Boris Johnson one? Jeez, Louises, that's terrible.

So they think that it was a drop spindle because it was found amongst a bunch of other craftsmen tools. So it would make sense that it was some sort of a craftsman tool, right? And so the reason I brought up how much Romans liked penises is because it's entirely possible. Like the person who thinks that it was a drop spindle, other people are like, there's no way. It looks just like, you know, a phallus. But the person who thinks it was a drop spindle says, look, it's entirely possible. Like we do, you, you, we often don't appreciate how much, just because they lived 2,000 years ago, how much they still could be like us. So she's, she was claiming like, it's entirely possible that it was just a funny joke.

It's a drop spindle that looked, that was meant to be shaped like a. penis like that's not outside of the realm of possibilities right yeah no you you could have made the claim i am a roman soldier and my wife is a wonderful woman who takes care of everything while i'm off to war fighting the whoever we fought you know so when i come back home boy it's good to see her using that really powerful drop spindle i bought her that actually just shaped like a penis to represent how powerful the drop spindle is right totally possible totally possible yeah you know know what? That's where my money is. I think that's what happened. Some people think it might have been an, this is maybe a little obscene, but thinking it was an object.

Because Romans used to have objects that they would insert into statues and then rub it for good luck. Oh, my lord. Really? That's an actual proposed what they think this could have been. Okay. Well, my money's on that. I like that. Sure. Well, excellent. I'm glad you brought this really hard-hitting important science to us today. And it's more historical, what's the word, anthropology kind of moment here on the show. That's science for sure. Which I'd love that stuff.

I'm a big fan. We don't talk enough about it on our podcast. So I try to talk about it here, doesn't it? It just feels like this is an appropriate place for that sort of thing. It does. Dreadnecks, who listens to TMS, his daughter, a seven-year-old, I think maybe eight now, listens to our show every week and so I would feel too bad putting this one on there.

Oh, yeah, you got to let out your garbage when you're on TMS, I get it. Yeah, TMS is my, is the cutting room floor. That's where you test your material. You don't take it to catch a falling star. You take it to Harry's Haha. Yeah, Harry's Haha Hut is right. Well, I'm glad you do it.

Bobby, you're speaking to your show. Tell people what you guys talked about this week and where it is. So people can do it. My show, my science podcast that I do, Clee is called not the morning stream I'm sorry

this is my show now dang it this is the hostile takeover we're worried about Scott yeah it's called all around

science is the actual name of my science podcast so if you want to check it out every week we talk about science news and just interesting

things we find interesting in science this past week the episode that came out yesterday was was a part of an episode

part of the episode a part that got cut out from our Valentine's episode when we had my wife Stephanie on and Moore's husband, Scott, who to talk about heart issues like cardiology and heart disease and stuff like that. But there was a whole section on there about women in heart disease because heart disease can present very differently in women, especially heart attacks, can look very different in women. And so we did a whole little segment on that.

Didn't quite fit in the first go-around. So we put it in this week. And you should listen to that. It's really, really great. Very nice. I saw a post on Twitter about it, and I was very curious. I'm glad to hear that you guys covered that. It seems like a thing that you don't hear about that much, you know?

No, no. It's the American Heart Association is trying to raise awareness for it. And so we're doing our part. Nice. Go get that show wherever you get your podcast. Bobby, you have a fantastic week. And may all your drop spindles be powerful. is like by now.

All right. Let's see if this hangs up on us, Brian. I'm going to try it. All right. So far. So good. I think maybe they fixed it, whatever it was.

Because we had it with Tom last week, too, didn't we? No, it worked last week with him. But the week before that, both these guys crashed. And so I think, I think whatever it was, maybe they updated it.

I don't know. I don't know. I do know this. We're about done here. I do want to play a call that we got. Okay. Cool. Yeah, I'm in. I'm ready.

It's a good one. This is about who would fight Salad Man. Remember you did that thing? Oh, yeah, from the feud last week. Yeah. I'm talking about different heroes and stuff, and he takes issue with why we didn't come up with a certain name. So here it is.

Hey, Scott and Brian. It's Ian with the thermos tattoo. I can't believe that we have so many awesome nerds that listen to the show, and nobody said Aquaman for who would fight the salad monster. The guy has a giant fork. He swims around with a giant gold. and fork. Seems like it was kind of tailor-built for that particular

task. Anyway, love the show though. I love the idea. It's a really good point. It's the fork that would be... It's a fork. Yeah. You know what? People did actually say Aquaman, not enough to make the top ten, but Aquaman did didn't make an list. But yeah, I kind of am surprised that nobody, none of you guys actually came up with that.

You know, I know why. It's because when I think of Aquaman, I think of, I think of Super Friends Aquaman. He never had a fork. Yeah, and didn't have the fork. Yeah, I mean, the new modern Aquaman with the whole, like, I've got a fork for a hand. I guess it's more of like a, you know, like a two-pronged, like hook kind of thing. Yeah, but he can still pick up sound. It's a weapon, right?

It's like a harpoon or whatever it is. Does it fly out, though? Like action, like action toy where you flick the switch and shoots out of him? That I don't know. I haven't seen, I haven't read an issue, but I've seen the way he'd look. looks with his little two-pronged fork hand. Yeah. Hook fork hand.

He was, that's when they made them all grungy and dark. Can he, do you think like in fights, you know, he can, like, do the spin around? What's the spin-round technique with a fight where you, uh, you knock somebody off their, off their feet? Oh, um, oh, roundhouse. Roundhouse? Yeah, he does he do a roundhouse with that thing and just kind of like cut them off at the feet? Oh, I love it.

That's a great way to sweep the leg, I say. For sure, yeah. Uh, well, there you go. Get the leg, Johnny. We, uh, we love your. calls, please keep them coming. We have one queued up for tomorrow from Gary from Lantronics, from Disneyland, from

senior geekland, who wants to clear some stuff up on Pink Floyd and in our conversation there. So look forward to that tomorrow on the show. It's going to do it for today though. I want to thank all of our patrons for helping us make this show possible. If you would like to be one of them,

go simply read about what's available to you at patreon.com slash TMS because you want no commercials? Good deal. Got you covered there. How about pre-show content every day? Got that as well. How about art in the mail? How about couch parties on the weekend? How about monthly play dates? How about many other great monthly benefits that you can have for as little as a dollar a month? Yes, that's right. I know. It's insanity. What I just say? That's so cheap. No way. We can't give them all that content for just a buck a month. What? What kind of ancient ass freaking business model did we sign up for? Well, go take advantage of us today at patreon.com slash TMS. And huge thanks to everyone who all. already does. Brian, that's it for us.

Let's get out of here. Do you have a song we can play? I do. By the way, no show tomorrow. So Gary's thing will be Thursday. Oh, yeah, yeah. Sorry. Thursday.

Gosh, dang it. The next episode. And getting you to say the word roundhouse was something the tadpull asked me to do while you were upstairs checking your package. Oh, so really? They were just waiting for that? Yeah. I had to get you to say squirrel, roundhouse, or shenanigans. Oh, and I got you to say roundhouse.

And any of the three and you win? Is that how it worked? Well, I was, I was going to try and get you to say all three. I tried, when you came back from getting your package, I asked you if there was a little rodent with a fluffy tail looking for his nuts. Oh, shit, I didn't say squirrel. Yeah, you said you'd invite him in, but you didn't say what kind of work. I didn't take, I didn't take the bait.

All right. Well, at least you got one out of me. I got one out of three. Yeah, one out of three is pretty strong. I wouldn't feel bad about that. And then that way also the listeners get in on the fun because they're like, why the heck is Brian talking about Aquaman doing a roundhouse? Anyway, Tom, cross-eyed in the chat when he's able to be here, said, hello, Scully and Bones.

The 14th is Pye Day and also commemorates the eighth anniversary of marrying my wonderful wife, Maria. No, I'm sorry, Malia. It's been a wild ride of self-discovery as we've both found new ways to be ourselves and not who we feel we have to be around other people. That's number one. Best thing you've discovered. She can definitely see why I like it. Can I get three random done-away clips? Oh, yes, you can.

And I'm clearly in a position to pull those up real quick here. Sure, there's no, it was instantaneous because you were ready for me to ask that. All right, here you go. Here's one. My balls are getting kind of squishy. All right, that's random. Here he is doing. Go hi, this is Brian.

Something obviously is going weird. Yeah, I didn't go well at that. And then third, we'll do this one. All right, there you go. Perfect. Well done. Yeah. Nicely played.

He says last story I requested dusty cartridges and lung boxes by Kirby Crackle. But since it's pie day, how about a cover of a classic rock pie song? Now, how many, when I say rock and roll pie songs, Scott, what do you think of? Like what pie songs are my chair pie, something, something moving. First one, absolutely. Warrant's cherry pie. Hold on, pie. There's, he's the pie, man.

I don't know. I made that up. Yeah, I was in the same boat. I was like, oh, yeah, cherry pie. What else is there? And then I'm like, then I did search in my library. And, of course, how could I forget American pie by Don McLean? Oh.

How could I forget custard pie by Led Zeppelin, honey pie and wild honey pie by the Beatles? Two separate pie songs by the Beatles. but let's go to Custard Pie by Led Zeppelin especially a cover of it from the questionably named album A Pleasing Pounding from 2007

here is the all-female Led Zeppelin cover band Zeparella and their cover of Custard Pie. See you guys on Thursday! Thursday! Not Wednesday. Thursday. We'll see you then. Drop down

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See me coming, baby By you know I ain't no stranger, baby I've been this way before See me coming, baby Slowly by your door By your door Oh yeah

Ain't no stranger, baby I've been this way before Come on your night shirt And your morning gown You know why not I'm on a shank on down Put on your night shirt baby, oh, and your morning gown. You know my night, baby.

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