The Morning Stream - TMS 2441: Dune Mom

Episode Date: March 23, 2023

50 Shades Of Gay. Lawn Poop Vacuum. The Mortal Stream. Miss D. Meaner and Mr. Weiner. Donald Duck Learns The Fibonacci Sequence. Change is hard, use dollars. We called the Cat Crayola. Brian Brine Shrimp. I Don't Like Sea Monkeyyyyyyys. Epiphany is short for electronic piphany. We can dance if we want to. We can watch TikTok behinds. Cement Your Bunghole. Scott's Magic Sand Salad. Deflating the Political Footballs with Amy. I Don't Do Murder with Wendi 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, 50 Shades of Gay. Lawn Poop Vacuum. The Mortal Stream. Miss D. Meener and Mr. Weiner. Donald Duck learns the Fibonacci sequence. Change is hard. Use dollars. We called the cat, Crayola. Brian Brine shrimp.

I don't like sea monkeys. Epiphany is short for an electronic Piphany. We can dance if we want to. We can watch TikTok behinds. Cement Your Bunghole. Scott's Magic Sand Salad. Deflating the political. footballs with Amy. I don't do murder with Wendy and more on this episode of The Morning

Stream. Just found out there's an actual clinical name for what you call it when you can't sleep at night and you just eat instead. It's called insom-nom-nom-nom-nomnia. Not even Twitch. Good morning, everyone. Welcome to TMS. It's Thursday, March 23, 2023. We got ourselves a 323-23-23. That's right. 3-2-3-2-3.

I like these dates. You know I do. Don't know why. I just like a nice pattern. And that's a human trait that I value. I love it. It makes me, like I think of you, whenever I see any dates on the calendar that had some sort of weird pattern to him.

Yeah. Well, I can't help it. I don't know why it is, but since childhood, I can remember, like, weird dates. And I remember maybe, you know, when this was pounded into me is when I waited for Sonic, no, Mortal Monday. Because it was like a weird date. What day was it? They did a date thing when they

released Mortal Kombat for the Genesis. And I remember being like, yeah, because Al likes a pattern. Like, you can just take these dates, manipulate them. And they did it again with With Skyrim, it was 11, 11, 11. Oh, man. Really?

Yeah, that was the day to get Skyrim. PlayStation 1 had a thing like that, too. Wasn't it, like, $9.99? Might have been. Let's see. I could be totally wrong on that. Something tried to have. Maybe it was Sonic.

Something was $9.99. You're not wrong. Oh, Dreamcast. It's a dream cast. Dreamcast was 9999. That's right. Yeah, I was in line. That's right.

Yeah. 9.13.93 was PlayStation 1. Okay. There you go. Yeah. Yeah, definitely later on PlayStation. But earlier. Anyway, we're, oh, shit, I just closed the chat. Didn't mean to. Let's pull them back up. They're important. They matter. You know, chat matters. We got a full show. We got Wendy coming up. We got Amy. We got all that.

Before we do anything else or before we start much else, I did want to say this. The morning form reminder for the week. Stand back and check your personal belongings. It's time for the morning. form. All right, here's the deal. Last Monday, we had you sign it up for the form, and on Monday, we'll give away the prize for that week's winnings.

And on Thursdays, I'll remind people that they got to get in there. So they have the weekend to make up for whatever lax freaking attitude they had during the week. Yeah, yeah, exactly. You've got, now you've got no excuse. And time is ticking away. No, right now, literally, tick-tock, tick-tock. Right. That's funny we say that since the TikTok hearings are happening right now as we speak.

Anyway, frogpance.com slash the morning form is where you'll go fill out this form. And the form is basically just there to ask you a cool question. This week, the question is, I almost forgot what it was. Oh, no, I didn't. Best Primetime animated series. It's multiple choice. So you got your usual Simpsons and Futurama and Flintstones and Bob's burgers and all that stuff in there. There's also an option for other.

so you can submit your own if you didn't like it. The point of this is to get two things. One, a nice little graph of who thinks what's the best. That's fun to talk about. Sure, sure. But secondly, one of you at random will win the prize. Okay. And thirdly, we might be selling your email addresses to the Russians.

We don't know. Yeah, we don't know. We don't know. We don't know. No, the truth is we won't. But we won't. We might, but we won't. We won't, but we might, but we won't.

We won't. But we could. We could, but we won't, but we might. Anyway, there's that. So go check it out if you haven't already entered that because there is still time. You can still get in. I had another weird neighbor moment.

Okay. Oh, I love it. Good. Yeah. This is not only a weird neighbor moment, it's another weird word moment because I have these, fart gas, explosive tip, that sort of stuff. Last night, 10.30 at night, I'm in bed and I'm reading.

And I'm enjoying a reread of Hugh Howley, Silo series because I want to get pumped for the new Apple TV series. It's based on it. So I'm reading that. Fantastic series. Wool is amazing. Even if all you read is wool and you're done with everything else. Oh man. Just such a great story. And a quick read. It's not even like a super thick book. It's a very, very cool book. Anyway, some of my favorite stuff ever. So I'm reading that. And I'm pretty engrossed in it. You know, the story's going. And my brain's like, oh, I think this is the characters played by so-and-so actor and I think this person's you know every day every day whatever like who's Dune mom um on Dune uh Dune mom uh Jessica or no ah shoot she's also she's also the weird hat lady and um uh doctor sleep I get her name oh yes uh Ruth Wilson

no not Ruth Wilson uh it's like Rebecca something Rebecca Ferguson Ferguson that's it Ferguson yeah uh so I'm thinking, oh, this is her, this is Rebecca Ferguson. And then I'm thinking, oh, this other character is so-and-so, and I don't know who, I don't know who Tim, or Andy Dufrein is playing in this, but he's playing one of these characters. I'm trying to figure it out. Anyway, so I'm really deep into the thinking is the point, right? I'm super distracted by this book.

And then I hear out the window to the back of me next to my bed, which is kind of a rear alley sort of thing for the homes behind me, one of which is Tesla guy. He lives there. Oh, yeah, okay, gotcha. I don't think this was him. It could have been. I don't know, actually. I'm not totally sure.

But anyway, I just suddenly hear this sound. I hear misdemeanor. And then I hear a door shut, a car door. And that's the end of it. But he yells, he just, he yelled misdemeanor. No other voices, nobody else answered, nobody else said anything prior or after he said it. It was a singular thing where he yelled misdemeanor and slammed his car door. Maybe he was talking about his wife's ability to compose herself and saying, oh, well, aren't you misdemeanor?

Oh, I like it. This is a good theory. I mean, it's as good as any other because I have no context for this. Because I really don't know. Like, what the hell? It's so bizarre. Like, yeah. I mean, it was clear.

It wasn't like, well, I could have misheard another word that sounded like misdemeanor. Possibly, but let's think about what that would be. Like, Mr. Weiner. Mr. I missed a weiner. You missed the wiener. Missed to kick me. Too bad.

You'll have to try again. You missed the wiener. Yep, try later. How about Mr. I can't think of anything else. What else is there? Mistaminer. Maybe he was on his phone.

And he was getting out of the car and went. But he didn't say it like misdemeanor or a question. It was like misdemeanor. And then bam. Huh. I don't know what's going on. I don't know. I don't know.

Chatroom says, should I consider getting a hearing test? I've had hearing tests. They're totally fine. My ears are fine. It isn't that. And I heard him enunciate the word misdemeanor. I'm positive about it. Yeah.

So, or something that sounds just like misdemeanor. I'm willing to admit that it's possibly a variation on that. But then nothing else. Yeah, do we know anything else about this guy as far as like what his beliefs are, his leanings? Because somebody, Wolf Glendin and says, maybe he's a maggie guy complaining about Trump's case. that it's a misdemeanor. Oh, oh, maybe. I mean, I'm trying to think.

Oh, I'm paying off a porn star. Misdemeanor. Misdemeanor. He's making his statement. I mean, Satali says it sounds like a domestic dispute. But yeah, but there was nobody else there. Just a dude in the car. And I ran to the window and nothing.

All I see is shadows. I don't know who's there. There's no lights on. So I can't like say, even if it was Tesla or if it was this family next to him that always poops on our lawn now. Now, we have a new pooping on the lawn family. Oh, no. Really?

Yeah, at least they're like, oh, we're so sorry. What gets resolved now it's like a vacuum. A poop on the lawn vacuum has been created for another neighbor to fill. Yeah, they basically apologize a lot for it. And he's like, oh, I always thought I thought I got it all, you know, this kind of thing. Yeah. But they don't necessarily. It's better than Tesla reacted when we accuse them.

Yes. Oh, sure. But anyway, I don't know. I don't know, I don't know. I don't know why. Why would you say misdemeanor. All right. Well, you might have to keep us.

Does misdemeanor mean anything? Is it mean anything outside of what we know it means? Like, you know, law-wise. I'm sure there's, I bet you look on Urban Dictioner has got to be another definition for misdemeanor. Brian, this is a good idea. Yeah, you know, I took her in the bathroom and gave her a misdemeanor. All right. We're going to look.

We're looking. Hold on. Mestaminer. oh it went it says it doesn't know why did i spell it all right well no wrong maybe i spelled it wrong hold on oh i did misdemeanor nickname of the singer missy elliott the actual meaning of misdemeanor is a minor crime ain't slang uh the misdemeanor on de show um let's see okay here's one a minor wrongdoing did you hear about the guy that swore in public he was fined two thousand dollars for his misdemeanor okay that's the actual i like that that's that's on urban

dictionary is like the actual definition of misdemeanor? Once in a while it happens. Once in a while you get in there. Okay, how about this one? Oh, there's an all-girl rock band from Sweden. The May 97 release of the Misdemeanor EP, a psych-out, or psych-out records,

Sight-Cout. She double recordings, let's see, after a year in the studio, other releases include Fifth Wheel, never heard of these people. Is it spelled misdemeanor? Is it since it's an all-girl group, please tell me it's spelled misdemeanor. No, it's not. That's lame, right? That is lame. Yeah, missed opportunity. I can see it in their demeanor that they chose wrong.

Exactly. Okay, how about this one? And that's a petty one. Oh, Talley's right. Yeah, Miss D. Meanor is a great drag name. Like, I can hear RuPaul announcing her right now. Yeah. Work at Miss D. Meaner. The library is open. Let's drink some tea or something. I don't know what he says. I don't know what it is either. I think you did a good job of trying to come up with that.

Thanks. Yeah. Thanks. How about me? Okay, here we go. Mastominer Meadows. When someone other than a stoner has a lot of black ice trees hanging in their car, really recognizable by police officers. Quote, hey man, come on.

Let's roll to the store. Nah, fam. Not while you got that misdemeanor meadows growing in your car. The Mistameter Meadows. So all of the trees hanging from the rearview mare. You know what's bizarre about that? I see that all the time when I'm driving is I'll see, you know, when you, if you have one of those, and those, whatever, those trees, why are they so damn popular?

Because they, I see them on every car. Like, I'll be behind a car. Look, sure enough, little tree outline dangling from the rearview mirror. Number one, why are those so popular? But number two, why do people just stack them? Instead of saying, oh, this one's not working anymore, they just get another tree and stick it on top of that one. And then they stick another tree on top of that one. Because I see these stacks of about 15 trees unless it is exactly what you're talking about.

The misdemeanor meadows, which is the best description. It's pretty good. It's pretty good. So I'm going to do the final thing since we live in the age we live and we say, what other? I'm going to ask ChatGPT 3.5 this question. So we'll see if the AI knows, all right? What other uses are there for the word misdemeanor? Yeah.

I could probably do this like Google search, but whatever. Let's see. All right, chat GPT, open AI doing its work. All right, we're blinking. We're generating a response. It says nothing yet. Oh, stop generating. Okay, here we go.

The word misdemeanor typically refers to a minor criminal offense that is less serious than a felony. However, the term can also be used for more broadly, or more broadly, to describe any other type of wrongdoing or misconduct that is considered less serious than a major offense. Here are other examples of the use of the word misdemeanor. Number one, ethical misdemeanor. Number two, social misdemeanor. Okay. Number three.

Oh, wait. It's still writing number two. Number three, personal misdemeanor. All right? So, so far we got ethical, social, personal. And finally, fourth, linguistic misdemeanor. This didn't help at all. No, really didn't.

Nope. Thanks, chat. Claire found the term weaner misdemeanor, which is code for diddling. And basically, I just committed a weiner just the misdemeanor. Oh. Oh. Yeah. I don't think I like that one.

That seems nasty. No. Claire, did you find it or was it already part of you? Oh, she found it. Okay, good. Well, anyway, I don't know what to make of it. Everyone at home, you can ride in and tell me your theories, but that guy yelled it, and I don't know why. Yeah.

And he was a nuncy. It's not like it was, rahr, it's not like it was muffled. You heard it clear as day. Yeah. And when, and it, I do get a lot of sound back there because I'm literally the window's right where people pull into that back driveway. And if they say stuff out there, that's how we heard Tesla back when he was complaining about us and called the cops. That's how I heard, uh, yeah. I've heard plenty of things back there, and this is...

The things I've heard back there, Brian, I'll put hair on your chest. Oh, man. I don't know if I'll ever get over it. Anyway, there's that. I hope you're all doing well. We're going to add Amy to the call, and we're going to have some... We're going to have some reading. Speaking of a reading, we're going to have her...

Yeah, yeah. We don't need no AI to read us this. Hell no. But we do need to play her intro, which is fresh and new. One of the things that I enjoy also is reading. I couldn't change the music, though I love it too much. Yeah, no, it's perfect for Amy. Joining us now, we have Amy, aka Redfraggle.

She is our resident librarian, and lots of reasons to tell us why to read and what to read. And she's here today to do that just that. Hi, Amy, welcome back. Hi. How are you? I definitely would not claim the title of librarian. I have, excuse me, many friends who are actual librarians. And, yeah, that takes a lot of work.

Have you ever told anyone to... Or librarian by proxy. There you go. You're our librarian. That's right. We gave you an honorary... Probably the frog pants librarian. There you go.

Good. Yeah. You must tell us how the Dewey Decimal System works, though, to attain that title. Oh, Lord, if I know. I don't remember either. I mean, we were all supposed to be taught that, right? And no one remembers it. I don't know.

Well, we were all taught it. I mean, there's a difference between knowing how it works that it's like, okay, you find the number you like and then the subcategories are the decimal point or the numbers after the decimal point, blah, blah, blah. But I don't think anybody expected us to remember, while your reference books are going to be in the 100s, and your autobiographies are going to be in the 600s. Well, the good news is you already remember more about it than I do in total. So nice job.

I don't remember any of it. I just remember it had a funny name. I just like Dewey. Yeah, Dewey's good. It doesn't like Dewey. I think Dewey was better than Huey or Louie, really, if you ask me. That's right. I liked Scrooge, the way he would swim in the gold coins.

Capitalist. Dirty, dirty capitalist, literally because he's swimming in money and money is gross. There was an old Disney short about, like, they weren't actually all that short, but they used to do these educational videos, and they did one about, like, about money. And like how I remember that's where I learned that the word salary comes from, salt and like you know all this all this different stuff and it was like it was like a scrooge mcduck going on a kind of a multiverse adventure with a yeah an omniscient narrator it was in the same vein one of my favorite things ever was like schoolhouse rocks by disney basically yeah like i actually have the DVD or i used to i don't know if i still do of one of them that's called donald in math magic land and it was all like donald duck learning math and like really cool math concepts like the golden section and the fibonacci sequence and all that kind of stuff it was really cool so like better about than learning the times tables from a creature that yeah right basically yeah spoiler alert

i became a nerd oh bio cal found the video this is awesome uh i also found i found the the wittipikipedia for it it's called scrooge mcduck and money and uh it came out in 1967 it says in the description it says directed by Hamilton Lusk and featuring characters Scrooge McDuck, Huey, Dewey, and Louie. It was released then. It begins with them visiting their uncle in his bank vault and explain that they want to deposit their money, which totals a considerable dollar 95. Then he goes on to tell him all about money. So you're absolutely right. And it featured that Scrooge voice guy, that Bill Thompson dude, who did all the Scrooge voices back then.

Oh, that's cool. Yeah. Isn't that neat. I just wanted to explain how you're supposed to swim. and dive into a, you know, a vault full of hard coins. That's just like, it's going to hurt right in your landing. No, it's like a hard floor. Seems like that would be very painful and not, not at all, you know,

conducive to a good swim. It's like those people that try to cannonball into that liquid that is also a solid until you stand on a long enough. Oh, sure. Numatic fluid or whatever it is. What's it called? Not pneumatic. Not pneumatic, but yes.

Dang it. It's one of those. Kinetic, kinetic fluid. Is it kinetic? Is that it? Newtonian. Newtonian. Newtonian.

Yeah, yeah. There you go. And those people add water to, you mix water and what's it called cornstarch. Yeah. You put it on the speaker and watch it dance. I mean, how am I going to watch half naked people jump into those and slam on them hard if TikTok goes away? Come on now. Right.

Oh, yes. I know. I really, you know, it's a silly thing for me to be upset about. But if it does, I'll be upset because, like, I actually really love TikTok because I have curated my feed very carefully. It's like I get crafty stuff and art stuff and creative stuff and funny, like cute dogs and crap like that. Like I learned a lot from TikTok. I agree. I will be very sad.

There's really good content on there. What will happen is if it happens. I don't know that it will, but if it does, they'll all shift to YouTube shorts or they'll all shift to Instagram Reels. I don't like either of those things compared to it, but they'll do it. And it'll all be okay. But that's the big hang up or that's the big disconnect I have with this whole thing is there's tons of, I found a documentary series on there yesterday that is just a series of documentaries about seemingly ordinary people with like amazing stories. I wouldn't have found it any other way. it was really great and like heartfelt this 94 year old dude who flew planes when he was 19 in

World War II ran bombing runs and then he danced for the rest of his life he's 94 now and he and just tells this amazing story how am I supposed to find that shit otherwise you know it's really good well and my bigger question is is this who we really want to be because I heard a story about this a few months ago like when the bill was introduced and all this by one of the sponsors, you know, they were interviewing him on NPR. And NPR does this thing occasionally where, you know, people call in and leave a voicemail, you know, kind of like you do, but, you know, less, less fun and silly, more like, hey, here's the, here's the thing you guys are talking about. And I want to, I want to comment on it. And a guy called in and said, okay, can you explain to me how this isn't the same thing as China just banning?

all of you know American media or you know anything that they don't like how is it any different because it sure does smack of that no here here's my main take is it is a political football that is advantageous for people to keep in the air and until it's no longer that which is based on a lot of issues xenophobia actual concerns like there's a lot of mixed stuff mixed up in there but it's a political football nonetheless and like all political footballs nobody actually cares that we deflate the football and throw it away. They care that we keep it up in the air so everyone has something to fight over. And I hate it.

Because sitting there, especially, I said this at the top of the show, pre-show, but them asking questions that are, that they should be asking about YouTube, like saying, well, there's a lot of misinformation on your app. Do you disagree? I'm thinking, have you seen YouTube? Have you seen Twitter? Have you seen Facebook? Have you seen these American social networks? Those aren't currently on trial, but I'm sure if they were, it's. The excuse shouldn't be, here's all this information, but other ones are doing it, too.

It should be, all right, well, let's, you guys are currently on trial. Yeah, you know, address the ones that are in front of us and then we can get to. But they're not going to. They don't care, because those aren't, those aren't political footballs. Nobody wants to bring it to that. You will if all of a sudden Zuckerberg says, uh, might also be selling your information to China. You know, I need, uh, you think he's going to say that? No, he's not going to say that.

We need the equivalent of Tom Brady to. come deflate this football for us. Yeah. But anyway, we'll see, we'll see how it all pans out today. I'm not like, I'm not pro-China. I'm not anti-China. I'm just, of course, of course. I just think this is all stupid.

It's stupid. If you're going to go, oh, this is a tell you making our kids enjoy dancing or whatever your problem is, you're not being, they're not serious people in Washington. They're just not serious. The hilarious thing to me, and this dovetails right into today's topic, so it's all good. Yeah, but like the hilarious thing to me was listening to that piece on NPR and hearing the guy who was sponsoring this speak about it. He's like, well, you know, have you seen what's on there? Like, it's just nothing but, you know, misinformation and sexy videos and predators.

And I was like, my guy telling on himself there because TikTok's algorithm does a pretty good job of showing you what you go looking for. So what's you looking for there, Congressman? I know. There's way more of like, it figures out what you hesitate on like, oh, yeah, I don't want to have this in my feed, but I can't stop looking at this. And it's like, great. You can have a bunch more of that in your feed. Yeah. But I don't have, you know, like if they're trying to, if China is trying to fill my brain with Chinese propaganda via this app, they're doing a terrible job of it because I don't get any of that.

I get cats. I get dogs. nothing but goofy weird shit once in a while I'll send Brian something that's just funny Thanos dancing yeah Thanos dancing if that's if that's propaganda then I must have a weird definition of what propaganda is that's the part I don't get yeah I get I get like lots of gen X stuff and art streams and I get way more random like pro Russia shit in Twitter than I do you know and I don't follow any of it but I get it so yeah Congress let me show you guys how this this leads into yes please please let's

about a book no we're not we're going to keep talking about this um unfortunately brian so today i i didn't pick an actual book today what i wanted to do was talk about how silence only helps the oppressor right and and to to to censor things and to silence things is it's inherently not good um so i decided this week i was going to go look at band books and my my challenge to everyone as scott i sent you a couple of links there i'll throw them in the chat also um go go find a list of of band books and just pick one and go read one you know um and see if your mind gets corrupted that's right yeah right well and the interesting thing too is as uh the the link i just through in the chat is a link to a la.org, which is, I think it's like the association

of librarians. I forget what it actually stands for. But anyway, they will list there the reason that the book was banned or challenged. And how many of them are like, hmm, like, for example, the most challenged books, the top 10 most challenged books of 2021. Number one, gender queer by Maya Kobabi. It was banned for you know, LGBTQIA plus content. Lawn boy,

LGBTQIA. All boys aren't blue. LGBTQIA. Out of darkness. Depictions of abuse and considered to be sexually explicit. The hate you give by Angie Thomas banned and challenged for profanity, violence,

and because it was thought to promote an anti-police message and indoctrination of a social agenda. And, you know, like, and many, many other books on here, I'm like, you know, Tony Morrison, the Bluest Eye by Tony Morrison has been banned many, many times, you know, and there are some books that I have actually recommended on this segment before that have been banned. John Green books are banned a lot. You look at 2020 and you've got to kill a mockingbird and of mice and

men, too. Those are always, Tequila Bockenberg was always like this hot ball. I remember even in high school. Somebody was upset. We were reading it senior year or junior year. I can't remember what the deal was, but they tried to get our school to ban the book and we didn't do it.

The school wouldn't do it. They refused. I don't know if they'd refuse today or not, but at the time it was a bit weird. My favorite title on here, not for any good reason. I just like number nine, which is this book is gay.

I like that. Right. Yeah. That's cool name. like a podcast mentioned by Todd Cochran. Yeah, like a Todd Cochran, award-winning podcast that he might have mentioned before. Yeah. You know, everything from all of that to things like, you know, it's so funny.

Okay, can I just share something about books? Just real quick here. I promise I won't go off on a tangent. The Harry Potter series, the Harry Potter series constantly under attack for being about wizards and dark magic and what certain, extreme thinkers believe is demonic and straight from the devil's ass and whatever, right? Yeah, yeah.

Those same people are super stoked about it now because they agree with J.K. Rowling's stance on the transition. So here's, I'm so glad you said that because I thought it was really hilarious when I was looking up these lists for this segment, you know, doing my research,

as it were. If you look at the list, from 2019 right there number nine Harry Potter series by jK rolling because of you know occult and blah blah blah care to hazard a guess when jk rolling's public transphobia started 2020 2020 29 the end of 2019 the end of this same year okay yeah yeah it's right before the end of 2019 don't see her any any lists later on yeah no because they want to they want to keep it in now because they're like no let her have her say Hey, I know 10 years ago I was talking about boys shooting magic out of their hands and they were all going to hell for it.

But now it's great. I love it. F off. I got to do two birds for those people. Here they are. Two birds, fresh from the bird factory. Enjoy these. Put them where you want them.

All right. Sorry, go ahead. Oh, by the way. Sorry, sorry. There's a quick one. Exactly. If I wanted to be really conspiratorial, I could say like, hey, look at that. Harry Potter series ended up on a band book list.

probably, you know, sales and interest were kind of waning at that point. Yeah. You could, you could argue that maybe it was a calculated move. Well, let me make a controversy. It's possible, but I don't know, conspiratorial for sure. But I'm not saying it was, and I'm not a conspiratorial person, but I know some people have argued that like every time, every time she's got some new media that's coming out is when she acts particularly poorly publicly.

Yeah. So that may not have been the end. initial impetus but it's like hey let's stick with what works right or is it just that she tends to say these things when she's on a press junket yeah maybe oh maybe maybe that she says them all the time but the only time anybody hears her is they've got a microphone in front of her to promote her new thing here's the thing though like there i i i am uh let me i want to make something clear because the emails are already percolating i want to say this sure sure so people i just want where people i want people to know where i'm coming from uh if what bothers me the

most is not about people having differing opinions. What bothers me the most is abject hypocrisy. That's what bothers me always from any side. So, for example, number nine on 2016's list was a book called Little Bill. It was a series. It was written by Bill Cosby and illustrated by some lady. The reason it was being challenged or banned or being told to take out of schools was because of the criminal sexual allegations against the author at the time, which have now, you know, resulted in jail time and all that. I don't think you should ban that shit either. You can all have an opinion about how it sucks that he's got something on the market and it's a thing that you can buy and sell and it's a thing. I get it. Totally have that opinion. But I have a don't burn books rule across the spectrum as

far as it can go into the horizon. I don't care who you are because I know people who would say, no, that's good. Get rid of that one. But don't take this one. You know what I mean? That's not cool. buy any more coffee. Don't buy anything if you don't want to buy it. In fact, be vocal about how you can say to people, I don't think people should read this book. That's as far as that gets to go. You don't get to go to the library and say, take this out of here or we're burning that stack of these or whatever. Every time that's happened in history, nothing good comes from it ever, ever, ever, ever. So that's my whole thing. My problem is this whole, the whole, all of all of this that's happening now where they're banning books and doing all this is, you know,

these don't say gay bills and whatnot. It's under the guise of, oh, we're trying to protect the children. Protect your own damn children and let me protect mine. You don't get to tell me what books should be in my child's library. If you don't want your child to read something, maybe talk to your child. Yeah. Again, what you're describing, why this thing is what you're describing once again, you're describing once again that hypocrisy that I hate. It's one thing to say. So, for example, I think it's perfectly within somebody's rights to say, I'm not getting vaccinated and neither are my kids. Fine. Make that choice. Do your thing. Nobody's forcing you, even though you pretend they are. Just don't get vaccinated. But then don't turn around immediately and say, I'm going to ban all drag shows because they're grooming kids and I don't want the kids. You're doing the same thing. So take your hypocrisy. and shove it straight up your bunghole and then put some dirt up in there to pack it in real good and then maybe cement the outside of your bunghole so it can never escape again. That's my take.

That's my hot take. So those of you who have missed like angry, Scott from back in the days when jury was on the show, congratulations. I brought him back for you. You're well done. Well done. It's time for therapy Thursday. Right, right.

Rise from your grave is what you told me to do. I totally agree with you though, Scott. like you can ask you can ask Chuck we can talk about this in Vegas like I will get I get really heated about it like Chuck is like yep I agree with you stop yelling yeah stop yelling at everybody like I just you know I get what I get maddest about is and now it's almost preemptive because someone's going to you know if you come to it with different perspectives you're going to have a different take I just want my take to be extremely clear it's your hypocrisy that bothers me not your differing opinions so it's one thing to say

I don't want to do a thing. It's another thing to say, I don't want to let you do a thing. That's it. That's the whole thing for me. It boils down to that. Have your own weird beliefs. Have your own shitty takes.

Whatever you want to do, those are yours to have. But don't be telling me how to have them. That's it. That's it. Simple as that. And that goes for books. That goes for movies.

That goes for any kind of content. Look, I think it's cool that there are, if you're somebody who painstakingly goes through books and crosses out stuff that offend you so that your kids won't read them and then you hand them to your kids. You're a bad parent, but go ahead. It's your job until they're 18.

And when they're 18, I hope they freaking rebel. But my point is, I'm not going to force them the rebel any more than you're going to force my kids to do your weird shit. So stop it. Right. Well, and also, you know, it pains me how many people rail against a book that they've never actually read. Yeah. Oh, that happens all the time. Yeah.

You know, like, you don't actually even know what's in that book. You don't know anything about it. You're just, you know, like you saw the word gay in a title and freaked out. You know, like, oh, this is great. That's the thing that's me. It's like, oh, I'm going to speak at length about a thing I intentionally don't know about. Check this out. In 2015, I was still looking at this list.

There were two things that were asked to be banned that year. And this illustrates my point completely. 50 shades of gray for all the reasons that are obvious and the Holy Bible for all the reasons that are obvious

and shouldn't they have banned 50 shades of gray just because it's bad Brian's take is only ban it if it sucks and you know that's not a bad idea there's a lot of shitty stuff out there

I know there's a lot of people in the audience who read it enjoy it I actually own the movies thanks to Sebastian former mashup man because for a while he was sending me birthday gifts that were related to whatever age I was turning.

And so when I turned 50, he sent me the box set of 50 Shades of Grey. So I have all three movies on Blu-ray. Oh, no, it's really, it's really cool. Like, like, Blink, not Blink, some 41 I got when I turned 41, hitchhiker's guide I got when I turned 42. It was, it's very cool that he, he did that. He was super nice. That is.

That is very cool. And what else are you going to do for 50? If that's perfect for 50, what else you're going to even do? It's perfect for 50, and those movies are just sitting right over there, and I haven't watched them. And it's like, uh, you see, I, to me, I would much rather, you know, say, hey, I see problematic things in this text. Here, let's talk about them. And like, you know, I have kept my kids from reading certain things because I didn't feel like they were age appropriate for them at the time. and I felt like they would not, you know,

they would not be able to handle them or not be able to make sense of them in a way that was age appropriate, right? Like, I wouldn't have given my kids looking for Alaska to read when they were six. But, you know, if it's age appropriate, let's read it and talk about it. Right.

You know, and let's talk about why is this problematic. Similar to, you know, the Bill Cosby thing. Hey, let's talk about why this guy is problematic now. Yeah. And why, what makes this book problematic? You don't, you don't learn anything by burying it. You know, you don't learn anything by keeping silent about it. And you only help the people that are oppressing other people. You don't, you don't help, you don't help us move forward as, as humans by, you know, silencing people. Yeah. And the next time one of you says, I stand for freedom. I expect you to offer that same opportunity. to everyone around you okay we have a we have a visiting kitten who rarely makes a basement

appearance oh my gosh look at that oh my gosh what a beautiful kitty oh really really happy to be held right now by the way yeah super stoked about it oh we got the meow that's so cute is she is she clot or declawed i can't remember she is not declawed we we'll trim but we won't declock yes i just wanted if the rescue was that when i finally found out what clawing cats entailed. I was really... No, it's awful, dude. I was like, I will never do that ever. It's horrible. Not that I have cats because I'm super allergic to them, but I used to have a cat

exactly that looked exactly like that when I was growing up. Her name was Crayola. Oh, cute. That's adorable. I still think it's a great name for a cat. It's a great name. Yeah, absolutely. It's a brand name even. You've named it after a manufacturer of fine coloring implements. I like that a lot. My dog is pissed off. I'm talking about this. Well, that's all right. That brings us to the end of this discussion.

It's been a good one, though. I think, you know, it's always good to be reminded. It's important to, you know, let's... So everybody, go out this week. I don't care which one. I don't, whatever. Just go pick a book that's on a banned book list. They're easier to find than you think and read it.

Yeah. And the link in, on quicktm.org, today will be a link to that list of band and challenged books. By a year, which I think is a really good thing for folks to check out. Yeah, go check it out and see for yourself what people think should go. And then make up your mind to never have any of it go. Make your own choices. Yeah. And don't be it here.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. All right, that'll do it for us. Thank you, Red Fraggle, aka Amy. It's the other way around. Amy, have a fantastic week. And may all your books be unbanned.

We'll see you next time. Thanks, y'all. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. All right, we got time for a little bit of news. Whoa.

It's time for a little bit of news, and it's brought to you by. Brought you by Coverville, celebrating the 70th anniversary, no, 60th, sorry, 60th anniversary. Is that right? That seems like, I guess I'd be right. Of the album released in 1963, I still feel like I'm doing the math wrong. Am I doing the math wrong? I don't know. My God.

Scott, do the math real quick. I don't know the math. Of the, uh, the very first album released by the Beatles, uh, please, please me. Uh, it is the, uh, the anniversary is released on this date. Yeah, 63, 60 years ago. Thank you. I, I just felt like, I felt like I was doing the math wrong. But, uh, anyway, really 60 years ago, the first release or the first, uh, album released by the Beatles. Um, and, and, and one that, uh, surprisingly is filled with covers, believe it or not. Uh, they did, it was half originals, half covers. So find out which songs were not originally by The Beatles on that album. And then here covers of every single song on that album coming up today.

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Oh, yeah, yeah. I shouldn't do that. All right. I'll stay away from that. So I'd be, I'm usually cryptic in those and decide to be cryptic here as well. I'm like, please X-Men 2 me. A please X-Men, I could not figure it out, but now I get it. The X-Men sequel, X2, please me. X-2, colon, colon, me.

All right, let's talk about Brian Shrimp becoming Utah's official state crustacean. Yeah, please make sure you keep pronouncing it, Brian Shrimp, not Brian Shrimp. Yeah, not Brian Shrimp. Oh, hell, no. No, it's a very different thing. Uh, brine shrimp, uh, has become our official crustacean here in Utah after governor Cox signs the bill. Uh, the brine shrimp, tiny crustacean that has lived in the Great Salt Lake area for at least 600,000 years. Like if you go out to the Great Salt Lake, which is currently a little bit of trouble, um, because we had such horrible drought.

That's great, yeah. Uh, they're, they're doing some stuff about it. But anyway, the, uh, it's full of brine shrimp and it stinks. That's the reason when you go out there and it reeks so bad. It's not because of the salt content or any of that or that it's just sort of stagnant. It's the shrimp. And during certain parts of the year, they're just swarmed the place. They're everywhere.

Well, they are now officially the state crustacean. And Governor Cox signed this bill HB317 into law on Friday, creating the official designation. Quote, the importance of the Brian Shrimp and the Great Salt Lake ecosystem cannot be overstated, said the Utah Division of Wildlife Resources. Great Salt Lake ecosystem program manager John Luft. We are thrilled about the designation of the brine shrimp as the state crustacean and the attention they are getting for their role in the Great Salt Lake. Brian shrimp are about half an inch long. In the fall, they produce eggs.

These are called cysts. That's a real bummer of a name. Yeah, that's an unfortunate name for your offspring. Yeah, I don't like that. That's what I called my kids when they were born, little cysts. Which are harvested by private companies and used as food for fish and commercially grown shrimps. sometimes called sea monkeys. So if you ever wonder where you get your sea monkeys from.

Yeah, they're just brine shrimp. And so if the Great Salt Lake runs out, right, then don't worry. I know where you can get them for $1.99 for a bag online. This is how we'll replenish the ecosystem. You might need to buy, you might need to spend $1999 first on the habitat for their little, their little tridents and their castles that apparently they live in. Nice. There were three things as a kid that flummoxed me.

Sea monkeys Yeah The other one was I'm gonna guess the other one Guess it X-ray specs Close but not It's on the let's say it's in the top ten But for me it was chia pets

Just because now I know exactly how they work But as a kid they I just was like what? Really? How are these like ceramic pigs growing leaf hair? Like I just didn't understand it And then the other one was magic sand To this day Oh really?

Blown away by magic sand You know? Put in it, the water come out dry? How's that even possible? What's going on? Yeah, yeah, right. So that was always a weird thing. Yeah, that's a good point. God, well, yeah, what, uh, x-ray specs were one of those things for me? I'm trying to think of what else. Like, you see these on the, on the advertisements, usually, like, targeted towards us during syndicated, leave it to beaver or something. Or in the back of a comic book or whatever. Mexican jumping beans are one of those things for me, yep, right? That was a good one. I like that one.

Oh, I realize, oh, it's really just a worm in. there that's having a horrible life yeah no that's true magnets magnet's sure I guess but I feel like I learn more about magnets early on so I didn't really you learn those pretty quickly with the kitchen refrigerator basically is like oh click okay I guess I get that figured out oh these little letters I can spell things with they stick to the the fridge but they don't leave residue okay magnets I understand that seemed like a thing but yeah still to this day though if you give me a handful of magic sand I'm blown away by it I think that's really really cool even though that time i went to uh carls junior and got that salad and there was a big dirt

in it and i broke that that was you think that was magic dirt basically it almost was because when it looked wet on the outside but i tapped it with a fork and it went and was all dry on the inside which isn't the same as magic sand but that's kind of the opposite yeah and if you a bunch of you youngans out there not know what magic sand is look that up it's weird real weird the commercial the youtube commercial that we all got subjected to additive an item when we were kids and blew our little minds. Yeah, our wee brains. Add that Bobby Franks, add magic sand to all-around science.

Oh, yeah, that's a great idea. Or bring it on here and do a Tuesday about it. Yeah, yes, that's even better, yes. He's going to guest host on Tuesday while you're out. Oh, we're starting a half hour late on Tuesday because he's flying until then, so 9.30 on Tuesday. Oh, we can't do a show from the plane? Lame. Well, tell me how the Internet is up there.

I'll take you up on that. Wednesday, though, Brian, I'll be in Vegas, so that'll be cool. Yeah, we'll figure out what I can do out there, whether, you know, maybe I'll be walking on the, on Fremont Street, maybe I'll be in the hotel room, who knows? I was thinking that last time we had pretty good luck with your 5G tether, didn't we? Didn't that work out? We did, yeah. We might do that.

It might be what I have to use, and maybe I'll just do that in the hotel room. It's not like I'm walking through Black Spire Outpost at Disneyland. It's going to be. Yeah, way noisier and way more distracting. There you go. We'll figure it out. I'm sure the crustacean of your state, wherever you live, like if you live in Maine, it's probably lobsters.

Probably. Maryland is probably crabs. Probably crabs, yeah. Maybe even Alaska, I don't know. I don't know if any of you have crustaceans, but now ours are those ugly, smelly little two-inch, freaking gross little shrimps. Yeah, it just feels like such a choice.

Yeah, yeah. It's pretty strong one. Such an interesting choice. It's got a long history here. So I think they, and we're landlocked, so we don't have anything else. Like, what else are we going to have? Like, what would you guys do? Like, Colorado, have any kind of like, uh, uh, probably the leopard, the leopard, uh, is it the leopard snail?

Leopard mollusk? It's a, I guess it's not a crustacean. It's a. You have a mollusk then. It's a mollus. State mollusk. That'd be cool. I think we have those, too.

I like those. Those look good. Yeah, except, yeah, there it. Oh, no, that's not it. Leopard mollusk. What is it? Slug. It's not the leopard slug. Maybe it is the leopard snail, but

it's less the official I cannot find it. Traverham says cradads, but they're not, those aren't crustaceans either. Those are classified as something else. And we have those two. Are they really? Okay. They're mudbugs, but I don't know what you call them, though. I would think that they're crustaceans because they

have the exoscelain. Basically, they're a little tiny. Exoskellons on the outside, like a, like a lobster. Classification. Let's see what these are called. I'm curious. Cray fish description size. Oh, zebra mollas.

I think that's it maybe. Zebra mollusk? Zebra mollusks. Because the problem is they stick to boats. And now every time you go into a, oh no, it's definitely not zebra mollusks. Those we don't have their zebra muscles. I mean, yeah, anyway. I'm trying to see if it, let's see, I'm like the largest.

There's crazy names for these things, but none of them are crustacean. Let's see. I can't find it. Someone will find it. I would have gone that way. They're better looking. They're still mud bugs and kind of gross, but I'd still pick those over. Prefish or freshwater crustaceans.

They are crustaceans. We had that choice and we went this way. We have a ton of those. I know. And they're tastier. Like, you can throw those into a nice etoufay. Boo! That sounds really good right now.

You can't even make popcorn shrimp out of brine shrimp. No, you can't do anything with it. Brine shrimp. You can sell it to idiots and call them. sea monkeys. Yeah, exactly. We're going to take a break. And on the other side, my sister Wendy will be here. She's a therapist with real ideas to share with us. So we'll find out what those are coming right up. But before we do that, Brian's going to share a song with us. What do you have? Let's go to San Luis Obispo in California for a band called the Ragged Jubilee. This is a band that recorded their brand new LP, Mulholland Overdrive, great name, with Rob Campanella, who's part of the Brian Jones Town Massacre. um listen you've heard these guys you've heard them on shows like ozark supergirl walker shameless father stew buddy games and and much much more uh the ragged jubly finally getting a brand new lp out again called moll holland overdrive this is the first song from it it is called love junkie All of us like a tattoo Until the day I drop

Sweeting in the scars in my skin All the things that I did Feel like a different person Except that I still hurt Like it's old old that it is If I could only take it bad Love donkey, killing my blood soon I only was feeling my heart

Love donkey killing my blood soon My love is like a car crash I cut myself in half a broken boy And life's going together Well, nothing more than blood Nothing left to tell I think it might be poison You never had it to us

I was all that exists I could only take it back Locked on key, killing my bloodstream I want a real voice is feeling in my heart Locked on here, kill my blessing You've got to kill my blessing Long time

I'm John Key, you're in my bloodstream, I'm a real voice, feeling my heart, my heart, Lockedown keep killing my bloodstream Lockedown keep hearing my bloodstream On the real words feeling in my heart Lockedown keep hearing my bloodstream Oh! Oh! Oh!

Oh! Oh! Oh! Oh! Oh! We're going to be. I'm going to be. I'm going to be.

I'm going to be. I'm going to be. I'm going to be. I'm going to be. I'm not. The whole world knows John Lennon was murdered, but we know almost nothing about his killer. Until now. Doop do, sked-duddy-bada-bato.

The Morning Stream. Hey, don't shoot. We're peaceful. Honest and God, all right. And we're back. Regale me with information about that band. Gladly. That's a band called the Ragged Jubilee

from San Luis Obispo, California. Brand new album called Mulholland Overdrive. And this thing actually got recorded in 2020, but needed so much. much time to get released, especially with pandemics and lockdowns and producers are not available because of that. So, it's available now. Mulholland Overdrive by Ragged Jubilee.

That was the song Love Junkie. Nice. Do you think there are a lot of bands who get there music on TV, but there's probably like a short list of bands that are just like always churning into television use. You know what I'm saying? Yeah, yeah. I feel like Teigen and Sarah

got a lot of that action in the 2000s. I always like that, though. Yeah, Pamplemoos. Um, they're going to be on, uh, oh yeah, their, their song is going to be on Ted Lassau today. Oh, that's cool. The episode that premieres today, get old pompal moose. Nice. A favorite, a favorite here.

We love them here on the show. Yes. Um, well, speaking of love. Oh, hi. Speaking of love, we got, uh, we got some real love on the phone in the form of my sister. Here's her little intro. Wendy. I mean, random.

Not a chance. Okay. That's what, that's what we hear. Uh, it's my sister Wendy, everybody. She's here from Minnesota. Not really here, but she's on the line. And she's here to help us with our problems because she's an actual practicing therapist that does that stuff all the time. Wendy, how the heck are you?

Hi, I'm good. Yeah, good. You had a little family getaway I heard. That sounds like fun. Do you guys do something fun? We did. We did. That was very fun.

Yeah. Got away. Yeah. Got away. Little, what do you call it? Spring break. That's the word. Oh, yeah.

And the kids are, are they all back into the school today? And they're back in the groove. and it's, yeah. Oh, what a time to be alive. It's confusing. It is confusing. It is confusing. And then daylight savings happens in the middle of it, and you're like, I don't know where I am.

That was rough. It's only like one hour, but it feels that way, doesn't it? That helped my sleep so much because I would start dozing off at 9 o'clock at night, and I'd wake up at 4 o'clock in the morning. Now I'm going to bed at 10. I'm waking up at 5, and it's kind of perfect. Oh, did it stick then? It's stuck then, is what you're saying. It stuck, yeah.

It was, you know, I have the. occasional like wake up at four and still have to go to the bathroom but I go back to bed I fall back to sleep and five five 30 so it's kind of working out do you find that it sticks through and it will end up being you'll be back to the nine to four again when that rolls probably when in October when things revert back oh who knows probably all right we all need to move to Arizona not but but only for this one reason because they have I mean and no places that don't do this have sunshine all the time so there's a reason I think it's for that but I don't understand it and I hate it anyway yeah I don't like it either

well sorry farmers we don't get it um Wendy it's good to have you back we're gonna we're gonna talk about uh actually we're kind of winging it today I don't even know what you're bringing today so tell me what you brought what do you have we're gonna wing it well okay so I had a bunch of different ideas and then things went left and right and now I'm really winging it sweet so everyone get excited get excited so I have a couple options I'm gonna give you a choice it's like a choose your own adventure okay cool all right so one is just going to be like a very free form discussion about um observation okay as a general thing uh and kind of what is what you get out of something or what it says about you how you observe something there's that one and then the

other one is it's just like a little teaser of something we do in real steps we've done this last A little while, that is really fun and effective and is a cool little trick. It's like a little TikTok hack. I will do live. Okay. Oh, wow.

I kind of like the second one. I like the, yeah, because you're very mysterious about what that little trick is. And so I'm, now you got my, it worked on me. It worked on me too. I feel like curiosity peaked. I feel like our show will benefit from this bit of mystery. So I'm with Brian, number two.

All right. Fine. We'll be number two. And so those who do real steps will be like, wait a minute. I already did that. But you should do it. Anyway, so I actually have something to send you. I got to time it right. So you don't put it up too early. It's all about timing. Where are you sending it, by the way, text or just on ready? Where would you like it? You can put it here in Discord. But if you're on your phone, it probably is less convenient. So if you want text, text is fine. Do text. That's fine. Whatever is easy. I'm going to text it to you. Do not. I'm not going to send it until I'm right. right ready that's fine i've got it behind me based it in our discord yeah i won't i won't see it until you do it because i have it in the background it will it will remind me when you do so it's all set to go when you're ready okay excellent all right all right here we are okay so we've talked about you know lots of things on this show before and one of the things you know i think we hint to a lot is like um you know taking out your own garbage and making sure you get your stuff

dealt with before you know put your mask on your face before you help others yeah exactly um and you know easier said than done of course but like here's just an example and really what we're saying there is change just do it just figure it out yeah and that is a hard uh thing to just do right We are humans of, we have tendencies, creatures of habit. We tend to have patterns that got established probably a long time ago and they just keep repeating themselves. I think we've talked about this a little bit before where it's like, hey, look back at all your romantic relationships.

What's a thread that runs through them? I mean, that's a lot of the questions I ask people is like, I'm getting data. You know, it's good for people to share their stories, of course, but one of the things I'm doing in my head at the same time is I'm noting the patterns that I can see because it's easier to see when someone else cannot, you know, you can't see them so well in your own life, which is such a funny trait we have as a species, right? Like our self-awareness, we do know this, we are pretty bad at it. Some studies show that 90% of people think they're self-aware and the actual number is like 8%, 8% or 10% are self-aware. So we're all lying

to ourselves that we're good at this, right? Like, that's how unselfaware we tend to be. So anyway, we don't really see our patterns. We don't really know exactly what we're doing. But we may find, like, the shrapnel or the mess that is left behind after certain thing, that starts to seem familiar. Like, why do I always end up here? Or, you know, that kind of question.

So this is tricky stuff. So if you feel like, I don't know why my life sucks, blah, but I should do something about it. I don't know how it's hard. Or you've tried to change anything. This episode is for you. Oh, wow. Yeah, look at me.

Just still doing the preamble. Okay. So. You said something, you know what's funny? Earlier this week, I was thinking of you a little bit because somebody was trying to tell me that they were sure everything they did in their life was predetermined. Everything. Everything they did.

So they got up, but when they got up, they did the thing they didn't, they did, they didn't do the thing they didn't do, all because it was already part of a blueprint that we're just not aware of. And every single step of your day is 100% already, it's basically already done. You're just going through the motions of doing it, your pre-programmed to do every single beat of the day. So they don't even feel like they can say, you know what, I'm going to do something out of the ordinary because even that would be expected. Yeah. So this free, spontaneous. This whole free will versus no free will. will thing. What I would say to people is if you're trying to make a change in your life,

don't hang around those people. Because they're convinced everything good and bad is already written. And I just think it's a, it's not going to help you to have them be your, your coffee friend in the afternoon. That's all I'm saying. All right, Wendy, go. Okay. That is an interesting. I mean, that's a whole, that's a whole other. I could wing that for an hour and I'm not going to, but that is curious, right? Like, what does that do do for you to to believe that and then what does it do for people who don't believe that right like what where do we each get from our worldview is an interesting uh question to follow up on like huh i mean to me it feels like a lousy it just feels like a lousy excuse to me like if you if your things are going poorly

for you and you just can't seem to catch a break right that that's just your way of going well i give up like to me to me that's what that is but you know i could you know maybe there's more nuance to it and somebody who feels out. You know, it is a way for somebody to say, you know, the bad things that happen in my life, they happen for a reason, they happen to make me smarter or more or tougher or whatever. That's kind of,

there's a little bit of a positive way to look at it, but I don't think these people are looking at it in a positive way. No, no, no, no. They're using his excuse for like, yeah, my life sucks and I can't do anything about it because it's the way my... Yeah, because I'm actually with that idea of, like, negative things can be helpful.

You can take them in stride, you can learn from them. Like, that's absolutely true, I think for sure, 100%. But the idea that they were... You're taking the exact same experience of life and figuring out how it works for you, which is flipping it to see that it's a beneficial, right? And they're doing the exact same thing by having it all be predetermined. It gives them something, but I don't quite know what it is.

I don't know either. All right. We don't have to go there, but maybe stability. Maybe it's also just like it's really hard to wrestle with the messiness of life. Right? To try to understand why something happens. And really, it's, I don't want it to happen to me. So I got to understand why it happened to them or, you know, whatever that might be. Okay. All right. Distracted long enough. Here we go. Bring it back. All right. Okay. So change is hard. And change is hard because, and when you think about it,

like a neural network has been created. So I have a thought. I have a response. I have a behavior. you're having, you know, these different things that occur and think of them like wires getting wired together. So a neuron fires and it keeps firing with this other neuron and eventually they are wiring together to create a network. Okay. And that's occurring from a very young age. That's how we're getting our wrinkled brains is neurons are firing and wiring together. And the more diverse experiences you have or different kinds of people you meet, like you're, you're creating way more complexity than if you just sort of lived in the same house, never left, and only knew three people, you're not going to have a very wrinkly brain. And that idea is that's growth and change,

and it's happening throughout your life, whether you like it or not. That's going to keep happening. Some of you might recognize this experience of having a neuron die. You're like, and that memory's gone or, you know, like something's been pruned. You no longer can do it. I have this one. I need to do something physical and my old memory of how my body moved is not the same as my current memory, my current ability. Right? And like you ever experience kind of neural death a little bit that way? And then we've all experienced ahas or epiphanies where like a little spark and these two neurons fire together and you're like, bah, it feels kind of awesome. Yeah. Yeah. It's a nice, nice experience. Sure. Here's a question. When was the last time either of you had that experience

where you're, it's a new thought, a thing you'd never thought of before, an angle that you didn't know existed, someone told you about, you put two and two together about something you've observed. It's a thing of scale though, right? Like I can name a couple of small ones recently. Yes, small is good. Small is what I'm getting now. Okay.

Well, for me, it was, this is going to sound so boring. It was more boring and better. It was me integrating a password manager more fully in my life. life and part of it was brought on by this idea of um i have a of a someone i know who's whose relative passed away suddenly at a very young age and it was completely unexpected and the people in the aftermath have no access to any of the stuff he had like the bank accounts the all of it right like all of it was just they just hadn't thought ahead because no one thinks about this you know very often and so i got this feeling of like well i've i've been this like i subscribe to this one

password app and I love it. It's amazing. And I use it, but I don't use it as fully as I could. And I realized just how much of my stuff is in my own head and not somewhere, like not written down, not scurried away somewhere. And so I had that, this moment of I'm going full bore. And I took like three hours of an afternoon and just went and made sure everything was there, transferred stuff, changed a bunch of passwords that were kind of weak and lame and this big complicated ones so that nobody could hack me, made sure all my two-factor authentication was good, like this, just this moment of like, I'm going to tighten this down. And that was like an epiphany because for whatever reason, it just never occurred to me

before. And it was like this moment of, oh, yeah, I really should do it. And I have all the tools to do it. So why am I not doing it? Let's just do it. So if that counts, I did that. That counts. And here's what I love about it. I love that. I love that. it's the spark of the idea, the, you could die suddenly and your passwords are over the place and it really makes your family miserable. So there was the new neural firing, right? Yeah. A thing you didn't think about or know about before. Then you moved it into action. And that's actually where most of a struggle. We can have the great idea or the new thought and it doesn't

always lead to action because you could have just kept putting it off and knowing you still needed to do it. So that's a great example of, like, having a new neural pathway create momentum and do a thing. So that's awesome. Okay, how about you, Brian? What's your most recent opinion? Mine's going to be boring, too, but it came from me having some problems with the current ISP switch and having problems with a power supply. I actually talked about this, I think on Monday or Tuesday on the show, ended up buying a new power supply. As I was setting it up, I was thinking, oh, you know what? It's actually, I can actually work a couple of the other things. in the studio onto that switch to save energy and figure out these things that are kind of

always on in here that don't need to be on when I'm upstairs or out of the house or whatever. And so it was a matter of realizing that I could put some of these other things on that same switch. Again, kind of a boring one, but it was this kind of aha moment that kind of hit me there. I think people like you and I, where we're always tweaking our setups and we're always upping our, you know, our output and we're always trying to figure out a way to improve processes and things like that, I think we probably get these little ones more often than maybe, I shouldn't say more often than other people. Everybody has their version of this, but, but I, you know, big time relate to that. Like the same thing happened here recently with just a couple of ways I shoot the show out, like how I capture video and audio. And for years, I struggled to find a better way. And I'm like, ah, forget it.

I guess I'll just live with whatever I have. And here recently, I was like, oh, no, no, no. If I just do that and move this here, oh, my gosh, the whole thing, better now. For tech dorks like us, it's like, it feels like, it feels monumental even though it's like, yeah, okay, yeah, somebody who knows their Amazon Echo app does, has done this already a billion times. But yeah, yeah. So, yeah, I'm boring. It is boring, but it's exciting for us. Like, it's the little.

things for us that pile up, you know, it's good. Yeah, and that's true for all people. And actually, I'm glad you shared really small things, right? If you had this epiphany, they're like, I need to. I realize that I just need to leave podcasting and move away from my wife. That would not be a thing I wanted to hear on the show today. Those will come in your life a different type, but they're going to be way more rare than maybe some of these smaller things.

And most people hearing this are probably like, okay. So when I thought I should clean up my desk or finally straighten up the living room and then I didn't and I just feel bad, right? Like that is not actually what I'm referring to here specifically. I mean, we have a whole show on that. But this idea of a thought you've never had before is, we call it epiphany. It's kind of a cool experience. And then, you know, it might propel you to new things. Well, what changes is not, I wish it was just as simple as now, input, new epiphany, and change.

It is, it tends to be that the old wiring is pretty tough stuff, right? It's what we repeat to ourselves. So I always use this analogy. It's a little dumb, but I think it's so visceral for me because I can only imagine it. And I don't imagine a lot of things, as we all know. So anyway, is you on a treadmill next to somebody and that person is insulting you as you're running? Yeah. Or just like, oh, your knees are weird or like, why did you footland like that?

Are you okay? You know, just critical and unkind. And you absolutely will have to see an impact on your ability to do the thing you're doing, right? And a lot of us walk around with that soundtrack in your head of this critical voice telling you you're not doing it right or not doing it good enough. And even if you do, you know, blah, blah, blah. And so it really does affect our performance in just basic stuff all the way to the stuff that really that matters to us that we're trying to do. So this hack is about switching just a little bit of that, right? Not going down to the deep core of like your father told you we're no good at five and now we're fighting that battle because that's maybe real, right?

But this is more of the, a little more surface version of this, but it's typically the stuff you have said to yourself over and over the story you have told yourself. And that story, because we have negative bias brains, usually is negative, right? So it could be something like, and I'm going to have you guys both do this. Okay. So I hope you have something to write with. I prefer note cards and a pen and a paper. I got a computer, friends. You don't want computers?

Hold on. Get my notebook that I keep handy, which is the Xavier School for Gifted Youngsters. I got this from my first school when I was a mutant. Fantastic. Okay. so all right pen and hand paper and hand let's do it paper all right good good good good good all right so what I need you don't have to write yet but I just need you to write it eventually so we're going to do this thing and essentially and I can give you the link to the

study if you guys want to read it but there is a study that shows if you switch one word to another word you are eight times more likely to change a habit if you change the word the position or just one word to a different word to a different word eight times yeah more likely to be successful at changing habit. Everybody at home, all you live listeners right now, pull out your paper, for real, do this all together, all right? Yeah, no computer writing because it's not the same. Yeah, you're weirdos. You know how I feel about that. Okay, anyway, so here's what I want everyone to do and you got to kind of do it out loud. So if you're at work, just whisper. No, no, no. But whatever, but you're going to work through a statement

that you say to yourself all the time. And it's, it's, this is the word we're going to change. It's a can't statement. It doesn't mean you're using the word can't necessarily, but it's got the meaning of can't. So, for example, I can't get everything done. I'm not smart enough. I never have enough time. I can't get it all done.

I overthink constantly. I'll never be good enough. Those kinds of negative, think of the person on the treadmill going like, you can't run. You know, it's that can't kind of word. So I want you to be thinking and I'm going to have you guys do this. And I'll share with you what mine is as well. I feel I feel very specifically seen and exposed when you talk about the running and saying I can't run very well.

I feel very soon. Sorry. Because that is so me. I did this on the treadmill yesterday. I'm like, I'm terrible at this. Look at this. Look at this. Someone next to you.

What is the deal? Yeah, what's going on here? Anyway. I would love a little experiment like that, like actually have like anti-trainers in a gym next to people. I'm just going like, oh, you're the worst at this. And then watch what people do. Like, do you just keep doing it? It sounds like a YouTube channel that probably exists.

That's why I don't like that. Okay. For sure. Okay, so I want you to think, I'm going to give you mine so you can see how to do this. And then I'm going to ask, have you guys share yours. And then everyone else, you're going to do this at home, right? So I might have already said one that resonates with you. I am always overwhelmed.

I'm always stressed out. I am too busy. I can't seem to figure out how to do the thing or whatever, right? All right. So mine was, when I decided to try this out for the first time before I made anyone else do this, is mine was, I'm too busy. Like, I'm just too busy. You're like the caveman that ate the first blueberry and didn't die and said, all right.

I didn't die. In fact, now I'm an evangelist for this because it's so cool. That's great. The blueberry is delicious. Okay. So this is it. I'm too busy. And I've got too much to do. Always have too much to do. And so if we just take what that looks like in my life, yes, I have four children who all are too busy. And my husband and I both work full time. And I got a freaking dog that needs 4,000 walks a day. I don't have enough time. I'm too busy. I have too many things. And I say yes to a lot of stuff. I do a lot of presentations. I do a lot of, you know, whatever, just talking to random people who need it. And so a lot of lot of time I have dedicated. And so the thing in my head, the treadmill person next to me is like, you're too busy. How are you even here? I mean, I'd literally had someone say to me once at an early morning gym class, I mean, how are you here? Aren't you too busy? And I'm like,

and really, because what has happened is because I say that to myself, because some of it is true. I am too busy. But I say it. And then what do I do is I give that off. So, So everyone gets to feel the busyness, and then they're not sure they can bother me or ask me a question. Like, I have projected it outward, right? So people know. And so for someone to see me in a class at 6 a.m. and think, well, how are you here? It's like, well, because 6 a.m. has nothing else happening.

But I've already told you, you already know I'm too busy. So that makes sense why you would wonder how I could be here, right? So anyway, that's what I projected out to the world. So I'm going to stop there, and I want you guys to give me your things that you are to something of. We have to write these down or what? Yeah, you're not going to write down. You're not writing down. You're not writing down.

Brian's so efficient, you already roll one down. But I can tear this page out and rip it up. Wrip it out, Brian. Okay. But say out loud what they are. What are your can't statements? Well, mine's, all right, maybe I need to reword it as a can. I do the easy things on my to-do list before the more difficult.

urgent things that need to get done sooner because they're easy. Yeah. So do I need to rephrase that as a can? Well, how is it, make it an insult? Like, how do you say it to yourself as an insult? Like, I cannot get this. I'm always doing the easy things on us to do. So that's Brian's can't statement. Good. You don't have to use the word can't. It just is represented by that. But I do need to form it as an insult. Yeah. Brian's two chicken shit to do the hard things on his to do list.

Yeah. Like at the end of the day. when you have gotten not the important things done and just the little things are done. I mean, how do you think about it is there. There we go. So, like, I can't stop procrastinating. Yes. Yep.

All right. Okay. I can stop procrastinating. I love it. Okay. So that's the can. No, don't write it down. All right.

That's your state. You say it enough. We don't need it to be. Okay. All right. Good. Okay. So Scott, how about you?

What's yours? Well, as much as I hate that I share the exact same one with Brian in this case, a separate one would be uh i um okay listen you don't need to entertain us do you use the one you no no no no this is i will this isn't entertaining at all i i no this is height of entertainment i think about dad's death every day and worry that i'm headed toward the same thing oh wow okay i never got over that and that it was too young and that it came out of nowhere and I'm just I feel like there are moments in each day where I go I wonder when that you know I keep I think about it a lot I don't know if that's the same as what you're asking though oh but this feels like we have should we table the existing thing with you and have you go I should say it's not something that like I obsess over or all I think about none of that but I it's just I think about it once in a while it's the only time in my life where somebody I was close to was just ripped away like that, right? Yeah.

Since then, you know, mom is, mom is 84 now or whatever, 83. Like she's doing, and she's no sign of, you know, she'll be here for a bit longer, I'm sure. Um, it just doesn't feel the same. And so that feeling of, and one of my, I'm in 10 years of striking distance and when dad died, I think. That's a weird thing to think about. But this happens when I'll see like, uh, Lance Redick just died, the actor. It's perfectly fine in every way, suddenly dies in his home the other day. He's 60.

It's not very old. And then my brain immediately goes, oh, that's luck. That's close to what dad did. Oh, geez. I wonder how they found him. Who found him? How did that affect his family? I think about that stuff way too often.

Okay. So if we put this in the, I can't stop thinking about certain things category. So maybe I can't stop worrying, I can't stop ruminating. I can't, like how would you put it in the way you would describe this thing that you do? Again, it's the criticism of the running. It's not the running itself, right? The running is the actual existential dread you're going through, right? That, that voice, so the sentence that voice would tell me is you, you,

worry about this too much and there's nothing you can do about it. So knock it off. So the criticism is that you can't stop worrying about it. So it would be, I can't stop worrying about death. There you go. Yeah, I can't stop worrying about, I can't stop thinking about his death and its implications. Yeah. Yeah, perfect. Okay. So that's yours. Keep that in your head. Brian, you got yours in your head. I got mine. I am too busy. Okay. So everyone else, see, it takes a little work. So good luck over there on your own. Figuring out what is it the statement that kind of always is the storyline, right? Like if a random person interviewed you and just said, hey, what's your main thought about what you're not doing right? And it would be something like that. Like, I can't get

everything done. I'm too stressed out. I procrastinate. I ruin relationships. Whatever the can't statement is. Okay. So you hold the can't statement. That is neurologically. wired right now in your brain has been for obviously Scott since the year 2000 for you right like that thing has a home in your head physically yeah so what we're about to do and this is why this hack is so fun is that we're going to create a new neural network to replace this one so it's like one at a time and this is change ultimately is slowly building new neural networks right and this is just to do one really fast that's really fun okay all right all right so now we're going to find the don't statement so we're moving it from a can't statement to a don't statement so i'll tell

you mine first and the idea well let me start with this question do either of you do murder do murder do you do murder i do not do murder i don't do murder no i've never done there's a don't statement i don't do murder i don't do murder i don't do murder i don't do murder I don't do murder. It feels like you're trying to entrap me. Only guilty people say that, right? Don't do murder. I want, this is the same kind of energy you want to find around our don't statement.

Because it's a no-brainer. Brian doesn't do premeditated murder. Yeah, exactly. Yes. Now I feel better because I feel like there's too much of a generalization. But if you think about like, I don't do murder, if you had to just say that at like a party, like, oh, what do you do and don't do? Well, I don't do murder.

That would make you real creepy. But it's really solid, right? Like, I don't have to try to not do murder. I'm just, I just don't do it, right? And that's the kind of, like a little bit of click we're looking for. So as we do this next thing, this is really key. Is this kind of like the, in a lie detector test, this is like the, what is your name to make sure that, you know, we've got a baseline established kind of thing.

Yeah, exactly. Yeah, but I want to click here. I want, and this is, I mean, I don't, I feel it as a click. My clients have described it as a click. And I think it's like, maybe that's the sound it makes when two neurons fire together. I don't know. Okay. But the idea is that we're going to find a don't statement that feels right.

Okay. And so we'll work it until it feels right. So here's mine. I don't do too busy or stressed out. And then I have a second little line that I say there's always time for what is most important. That's mine. That clicked. That is what is written on a little three by five note card.

It's set next to my desk. I see it every single day. I forget it's even there, right? But like I turn on my lamp and glance at it. And I will get to how what has happened once I did this, but I need you to find yours first. Okay. So, Brian, let's take your can statement. What's your doing?

Don't statement. So my don't, I don't do procrastinating and then what's my follow-up? Because I have to have like the follow-up thing, right? Yeah, you don't have to, but if it resonates. I'll only if it resonates. Well, it definitely does. I don't do procrastinating. I tackle the most urgent item on my to-do list first.

Okay. So I don't procrastinate. Yep. I don't do procrastination. I don't do procrastinating because I was like, you know, instead of saying I don't commit murder, I don't do procrastination. Think of it as this way. You don't, famously, you don't do Santoria, right? That's the song.

We don't do things. Yeah, I like that. So I don't do procrastination. I like it. So write that down, Brian. I don't do procrastination and then do your little sub-title, which is I tackle the big things first, or however you want to write it, that feels like it flows. And what we're doing is we're replacing the thought you had before with this new. belief slash thought. It's a thought that turns into a belief. And I'll show you how that works.

Okay. So that, does that click in your brain at all? Do you feel it? It does actually. Yes. As I'm writing it, I'm kind of feeling it like. Yeah, baby. Yeah. Okay. Good. That's exactly what's supposed to happen. All right. Scott. Do yours. Name a therapist that never said, yeah, baby. And you did anything. That's amazing. I do all the time. All right. This one's tricky. So we have our can't statement. I can't stop thinking about dad's death and its implications. okay my can statement or my is it my do statement or will i don't i don't do something what don't you do um but in but to counter this though right yeah okay like brian's doing okay let's just brainstorm for a second i don't worry about my death i don't um because the more i've thought

about it since since i first told you this the more i think about it the more i think about it the more is maybe too complicated because part of it is I don't want to do this to my own kids and be gone. I also just don't like the feeling of this inevitability. It's just annoying. But the other thing is...

It's not that it's too complicated. It's that you have to try on something to not do here, right? Yeah. Because everything's complicated. You don't think procrastination's complicated? No, you're right. You're right. You're right. It's none of it's simple.

So I don't do overthinkings. Let me just throw out a couple words and we're going to find one that fits. I don't do overthinking. I don't do overwaring. I don't do trying to control something I can't. I don't, you know, that kind of thing. Keep going. Well, I like that last one.

Don't try to control. Like, it's funny how often the, the, the alcoholic's anonymous thing comes up in my head about, except the things I can control and the things I can, that whole thing. Yeah. And I understand why that's helpful because it is helpful for me to, to say that. I don't pay attention to any of the other stuff in there because I've never been to, I don't drink alcohol. I don't go to Alcoholics Anonymous, so I don't really have a connection to it outside of that. But hearing that one always resonates with me and like, and it reminds me,

it's like you can't control this stuff. And that helps with the complexities of what I'm talking about. Like part of my problem is, am I, if I were to go right now, kill over dead on the show live. What legacy am I leaving? Did I leave one? Did I leave one? Did I have an impact? I don't know. I don't know. Sometimes I don't know if I did or didn't. So what you're saying is you're going to worry about something.

You're not going to do one thing about. Yeah. See, that's why I don't, that's why it's so freaking annoying is it feels like I can't do anything about it. Yeah. So that's what we're learning here. So I don't worry about things out of my control. All right.

I'm going to write this down. I don't worry. Is it quick though? It does about things more than anything. Because again, like I say that that AA thing comes up. I don't worry about things that are out of my control. Things out of my control. Okay.

Do you need a little sub-sentence? Sure. Boy, my hand, it's bad. Like, notice mine, and Brian's is a good example. Brian's is an action part. Mine is also, like, mine's just a time optimism thing. Like, there's always time for what's most important. I truly believe that.

You always have time. And you can make what is most important there. And it just feels real. does now. I don't think it did seven months ago. Right? So you can tweak it, but it's got to feel true and real to you, too, even though it's not something you've been practiced saying to yourself.

So I don't do, what's your main sentence again? Brian's? No, yours. Oh, mine, sorry. My main can't sentence? Yeah. I can't stop thinking about the implications of dad's death. No, stop. That's done. We're done with that sentence. Oh, I thought you said the can't. You want the don't? Yeah, do. The I don't. I don't worry about things I can't control or things I, sorry, I don't worry about things out of my control. Okay. I don't worry about things out of my control. I take action on what I can or something like that. Do you have something? Yeah. I, so this is good. Let's see. How would you say that, though? I get my passwords all in order, baby. That's what you.

what you do. That's what it is, though, right? Okay. So I, don't worry about things I can't control. It's basically, you're giving me Gandalf's quote. He says, all we can do is what we can only do with the time that we are given. Yeah. So that's really what I need to say, a sentence like that. Yeah. I do what I can. With the time I'm given. With the time I'm given. There. I love it. A little Gandalf drawing right there. That's perfect. Time I'm given. All right. Okay.

Now I want you both to do this. I want you both read your full card out loud to us. Each of you take one, do it one time. So go Brian first. Okay. I don't do procrastination. I tackle the most urgent items first. Okay.

Scott. I don't. Sorry, my handwriting is so bad. I don't. That's a whole other day. I can't write. I can't write. Well, typing has ruined my life.

All right. I don't worry about things out of my own control. I do what I can with the time I am given. Love it. Okay. Now here's your homework. And I'll tell you then why this matters. Okay.

Your homework is to read that at least another two or three times out loud, say it out loud. And then put it somewhere you see it every day and just read it. Right? You can say that aloud or not. We just want that this. And this is why you want the click because it means some, some neurons tickled each other and are thinking about holding hands, right?

And so you're like, let's strengthen the bond by just having this repeated a little bit, right? Right. And then all you got to do is see what happens. And then when we talk next week, you guys can come back and report. Anything change? And that's all you've had to do was switch that thought and create this sort of new way to think about it and read it every day. Do you recommend having this up somewhere? Yes.

Okay. Yeah. I have it where you're going to see it. the mirror on your toothbrush, wherever, the thing you're going to, every day. I'm sticking it to the corner of my monitor here. I'll be putting it in a nice, pretty font, printing it, and then sticking it up in front of me. Do that. Because I can't read my own writing.

Yeah. I can control that. That's right. I can control it. You can beautify things. Okay. So, Scott, I'm going to send you the thing, but don't put it up until I tell you. Okay.

By the way, Scott, can you promise that this won't affect your constant need to point out when all the actors are dead from a movie that we watch? Oh, it's all connected, dude. It's all connected. Yeah. No, I'm not, maybe it will help that because. Can we fix one and not fix the other? Because this is what happens, Wendy. Wendy may not know this.

I'll watch like Casablanca, okay, some ancient-ass movie from the 40s. Yeah. And it always occurs to me that the camera view of 30 people in a room, that all of the, I picture the room empty because none of them are actually there anymore. They're all dead. And the guy behind the camera can't even move the camera because he's dead. everyone's dead is that a weird thing to think about it is isn't it yeah yeah it is it's basically scott is doing that end shot of the shining where you're looking at the

overlook hotel new year's eve photograph and he's saying oh everybody here is dead they're all ghosts yeah everyone's a ghost except somehow jack nicholson is there and that's weird in its own way but yeah i do this all the time and it's hard for me not to want to know i'll see an older actor in an 80s movie and goes he's still around like it's a thing. It is a thing. And that is more like a scary thing. When you look and see how old they're like when we talked about Great Kirsten, the first

thing you looked up was, oh, he's only two months older than me. I'm right? I did it today. Because I'm like, oh, look at him rock and rolling still. That makes any difference to what he's done or who he is or anything. No, exactly. I don't know why it's a thing. But anyway.

All right. Okay. Let's look at the thing that Wendy texted you. Yes. Don't do it yet. No. Don't send it yet. Okay.

All right. Okay. Let me explain. You guys took off. Okay, hold on. Okay, so with my... I'm going to tell you what happened when I changed my... I don't have enough time or I can't get it all done or I'm too busy to I don't do too busy.

Okay? Immediately, within 24 hours, I had two experiences. I don't know if I've ever had. And I did nothing to make them happen. They just happened. And this was it. One was sitting down to write an email that is beyond late like they all are. And I go to write the email and my hands physically stopped as I was about to write.

I'm so sorry, this is late. I have been really, like things have been really busy or crazy. I stopped. And I went, oh, I guess I don't do too busy now. So I just wrote, sorry, this is late. And then I moved on. I can't tell you, I do not write that. anymore. It is gone. I have no ability to tell someone I'm busy via email. It's gone.

If I do, it's an accident. I don't know. But for the most part, I don't do it. Okay. So that's the first thing to happen. Then the second thing that happened a couple hours later, mom called in the middle of a workday, which she knows I'm not going to answer the phone because I'm too busy. Right? And instead, I just answered the phone. I felt zero annoyance. Like, how dare you forget I was busy? I just answered. and she about fainted, like, whoa, sorry. I was planning on leaving you a voicemail. 100%.

And I was like, no, I have like a minute. Let's just chat for a second. It was the loveliest feeling. And I was like, what is this witchcraft? Anyway, so great. So I still do a million things, people. And I do say no to stuff a little more than I think I used to. Sure.

But for the most part, I just don't feel too busy or stressed out. I know this sounds great. Anyway, so I'm hoping you have a good experience like I did, but it was great. So I'm going to just, this is the picture I want to, I want you to set up, but don't set it up quite yet. So I'm talking to a client who's incredibly busy human being, many children, many grandchildren runs a busy psychiatric practice. This woman is busy.

And her can't statement was, I can't do anything for myself because I have to make sure everyone else is okay. And that was a very old statement. She's lived by it for a long, long time, as you can imagine. So we worked hers through, and we got to her don't statement. And her dope statement turned into, I don't ever skip creative time. Because that is something she used to love. She was an artist when she was young.

And, you know, whatever. So she switches her statement. Two days later, I get this email from her. And she says, the first time I picked up a drawing pencil in 40 years, and this is what I drew. And so Scott, you can tell. Now I can share it. Okay. so now I'm going to share it. Hold on a second.

Cool. And then paste in our Discord so I can see it too. I'll put it both places. There's Brian, and now here comes the chat. There you go. Oh, wow. Whoa. Really? Geez, Louise. After 40 years of not. Touching a pencil. Wow. This makes me feel bad because I touch a pencil three or four times a month and I can't do anything like this.

Maybe I need to just stop for years. And you know my first thought, because of course, I have zero. not a bone in my body thinks I could do anything like this, so I have no comparison, is my first thought is we have missed out on your art for four years. Sure. Like, it breaks my heart, right? Yeah, yeah.

So I got her permission to share this. She's happy to share it. And then she sent me her second piece, which was just as cool. So guess what she does every day? She's creative every day. Yeah. So something she thought she couldn't do,

she now doesn't ever skip. For those at home, audio, audio only people. Let me describe what Wendy sent us. It's this absolutely gorgeous rendering of a horse. Looks like colored pencil to me. Might be crayon. My gosh, I don't even sure. It's beautiful. And it's some of the most, someone in the chat said it too, some of the most bold color choices I've ever seen. It's beautiful. You'd swear this person was just working every day on this. It's like a horse with Cindy Lopper hair. Yeah. Yeah, a little bit.

Yeah. It's really, really awesome. Right. Do you want to see your second piece? Yeah, put it in. I like this sort of thing. And here's the thing. She just does it now.

Just like she doesn't do murder. She doesn't skip creative time. Right? Yeah. So you don't do murder. Number one, don't do murder. And then number two. Takeaway.

Don't do murder. Do your dang art. The new ABC series from Shonda Rhymes. Don't do murder. Don't do murder. But do art. Another thing, too. is like the don't I don't stay in the office after five I don't work on weekends I don't there's so many

versions of this so you can see she really likes blue yeah she's a big blue fan she's a nature fan uh so gorgeous this is beautiful yeah these are really nice geez louise yeah so imagine 40 years you don't draw that comes out of your hand and now you don't ever stop doing it dang it this is this is kind of a bummer because had this come up earlier I would have really distracted us because I've been having this very specific problem lately where I'm having a hard time picking up any pen and drawing, not because of these reasons, but because I'm so,

it's not even, an annoyed's not the right word. I'm so, um, uh, affected, I'll say it that way, affected by what modern AI image generation is doing that I know when I sit down and go,

okay, I'm going to make a thing. It's going to be my style. I'm going to do it. and it's going to take me maybe three hours to do the full piece. I'm going to crank this thing out. And my brain immediately goes, meanwhile, someone will sit down to mid-Journey 5,

never drawn a thing in their life. They will put in these prompts. They will get their thing and they'll do it in less than four and a half minutes. And they'll show it to everybody and everyone will be blown away by this amazing artwork that had really no human interaction other than a prompt. And I'm not even anti this technology. I'm just as someone who, someone who creates with a pen, paper, or tablet or whatever and has for a really

long time, something about it is in my way. I can't explain it. And so that's a, it's a whole separate issue, right? Here's what you need to do. Anytime you get that thought in your head, listen to the AI Scott Fletcher audio that you've got of the morning street, or whatever it is, you know, and just remind yourself that no matter how good AI gets, it's never going to. going to be human.

It's never going to do what we can do as humans with that, with our style. Somebody types, draw a picture of a leprechaun in Scott Johnson's style. They're still not going to get something that looks like something that you drew. Well, I would agree with you six months ago, but I've seen some stuff lately where I'm not so convinced. Like, they're fooling art experts, like people who know about everything there is to do with Pablo Picasso's art career, and they're faking his art, and they are saying, well, yeah, this looks, this has all the hallmarks of everything. This looks like a painting that we didn't

know existed that he had hidden somewhere. And that's, it's, again, it's not that it's concerning from a, I mean, there's all kinds of concerns. Coters have the same problem with, with these predictive chat things. They're, they, it's starting to look like maybe their jobs are in jeopardy. And that's a whole separate area of concern. But mine is mainly that, are we going to get so good at it that I kind of have this feeling of, well, then, what's the point? You know, which is a not, it's not a great place to be mentally, but it's making me not feel that creative when I sit down to put pen to paper.

And it's a weird effect. I didn't expect it. Because on the one hand, I'm kind of fascinated by the technology. I think it's interesting. Some people are using it as a way just to sketch out a composition and say, oh, here's, here's a bowl of fruit and here's how I would arrange it. And so this computer has done it for me faster so that I can get to the finish up work quicker. But this is different than just the tools are better.

This is all of it is being done for you. None of it you're doing yourself. And in a world where it's good enough for them, that might be good enough. You know what I'm saying? So it makes me just feel like, well, geez, what's with all the training and the time it takes to do this in a traditional way? Why bother? all right to do so to to kind of borrow wendy's don't do murder thing why do you do art i mean there i guess that's the the coming to jesus moment i had was i do art because

what i thought i did art for before were all these like altruistic reasons like oh i just love the creative process and the the the the the fun that i have doing it and the brer but really what it came down to is in a way it's one of my superpowers and now I'm on the outside I'm I'm Zod on the outside of Superman's freaking little thing he's in and boil it boil it down to something even finer do you do art because you love doing art do you do do do you draw because you love to draw I do but I also love maybe too much that other people see it and go wow that's awesome oh yeah in other words the reaction be that needs to be so down further down on the list that you know you do it because you love it

because as Carter points out and you should really read what Carter said a minute ago it's like air to you it's breathing to you your art and so you don't do it for you shouldn't do it for any other reason than because it is your art you do it because you love doing it yeah but I don't thinking I was just thinking Brian's such a good therapist and now I take it back yeah no I think he I see I think Brian I think Brian is and I love Brian like I love I've skipped a few things. I love Brian like her brother. I love Brian like a brother, but I think he's dead wrong about that.

I think that there's, there's, it's way, it's way more than that. Like, hold on, hold on. It's not, Brian's not wrong. He's just skipping steps two to eight. I skip the part where I go send you to Amazon to buy a book. You skip the part where you, you skip to telling him what to do or how he should feel. Oh, sure, sure. Okay.

Yeah. Well, all the other step up to that point was really. really good. And really, if you think about what it is, I mean, this is what everyone has to grapple with as the machines take over, right? What is it that matters to you? And yes, what matters to you is that people like what you create. And then if someone else can just create that, I mean, speaking of Van Gogh, which we've all been saying is name wrong our whole lives, that, you know, you sell one painting and you are suffering, your life is, and it's not to, you're after your death that anything has value like look at how that felt that was not something

we want to emulate right everyone's different everyone's own experience is their own experience but it's process like this is a big deal to come along and for you to navigate it just by like yeah just love it because you like to draw is just skipping the actual process to figure it out like what is it what does it mean to you what do you need to do with this yeah because i want that that's always what i want and if if you'd ask me 10 years ago if you asked me 10 years ago, that would have been my answer. Oh, I just love doing it. I love, I love the experience. It's just all just that. But it's not true. Like I, it's not even, I didn't even, it's not that I was knowingly deceiving myself. I didn't know until we get to this

point where it's like, oh, you can just poop this stuff out like it's nothing and that's only going to get better and more difficult. Then I had that question and go, well, wait a minute, why do I really like doing this? And I had to admit that a huge part of it is how other people, people feel about it, you know? Right. So I just, it's a, it's a weird thing. The academic like chap CBT, BBT, CBT, CCD, whatever this. Most enough. Thank you. You know, like you can write anything by just telling it to within seconds. Like what the, I mean, obviously, academics can stick that in a computer and say, hey, is this generated by a computer? And it'll say yes. And now you're cheating but like really grappling with what that means from all the academic sides of human

endeavor right like there's a lot of big discussions to be had and you know so if you aren't already complete and ready to rumble then you're normal like you this is something to actually grapple with yeah it's a weird thing i gotta go i love you guys you guys got to go it's getting uh that went places and i loved it uh do we did go places i do want this to like just to follow up with everyone who did the I don't or the can't to the don't statement. Just pay attention to the week. I would love to have, you know, someone, if you guys want to write in what happened to you or both of you, just I want you to repeat it and say it a couple times, put it in a place that you see and just see what happens. See what that new neural firing network just does to your day

if it does anything. And then we'll talk about it next week. Next week we'll report back and see how we did. Yeah. I might never, I may not see dead people in black and white movies anymore. I would love that. That'd be awesome. Uh, anyway, yeah. Fantastic. You really are a good therapist. Just know of it. Just a couple classes. I just tore up my psychology five cents cardboard, uh, shack that I made. And I'm never going to use it. So sorry. You're really quite good. Well, have a fun. Have a fun week, Wendy. And I hope you, I hope you have all the time in the world to get everything done that you need to on your list. I do. I've never busy. So it's great. Yeah, it's perfect. We'll see. We'll see.

see you later by now she's never busy that's a funny one yeah yeah right hers'd be hard because i know how freaking busy she is and have to oh i know yeah convince yourself that all is like she basically like she said it comes down to saying no and that's boy do boy do i have a hard time with that too it's really hard especially like you know i'll know i have a full crazy day and i'll get three or four requests to be on somebody's podcast and i'll i'll say yes and then it'll be i'll be so drained by the end of that day i want to do anything Right. Or I'll look at something that I do that's fun and say, ooh, let's, like the taskmaster thing for Vegas. Oh, that was a lot of fun last year. I know what I'll do. I will quadruple it.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Exactly. Let me go ahead and, yeah. Let me do four times the work and four times the things. Yeah, we escalate that to the end level. Sure. Well, anyway, we hope you guys enjoyed that segment. I always do. And there's more content coming your way because today at Coverville, or 1 p.m. for Coverville. Check that out. Yeah. Live stream. Please, please me. Yeah, be there. Be there with Brian. He's going to, what are you going to play while you're doing stuff?

More Marvel Snap. It's about the best thing because games last about the length of a song. And so I can easily stop mid-song after a game and wait for the break to do the announcing of the songs, the back announcing and stuff, and then I can get back into it. And who knows? I might even play some more against Redfragel if she's going to be around. How does that usually end up going? Do you guys have a tally of who wins and who doesn't?

I'd say it's probably 1-1. I think she, because she won this last time. She has a great, you know, she has a deck that's kind of always solid, and I will admit that it's, since there were a couple of nerfs to some of my favorite cards this last week, it's kind of the deck I'm using now to move up in the ranks. But I think I need to figure out another deck that I enjoy that maybe Amy won't be expected.

There you go. Watch out, Amy. He's after you now. Yeah. So don't forget that. Also, tonight, Core, I'm also guesting on Garrett and speaking of guesting on podcasts. I was not, this was not directed at them. We planned this forever ago. Just with the record. I just can't say no in a wine zirple. That's right. Today at noon, it's about an hour from now. I'll be on with Garrett and with Kyle Ferguson on their show, grinding gears. So check that out. We're going to talk a lot about Diablo and the beta, what we thought, and what's coming up this. weekend for that. So cannot wait to play the Druid and the Necro this weekend. Once guess the connection, is that tomorrow? Tomorrow, yes, tomorrow before

our couch party. So at 9 a.m., the normal time of you tune in here if you're a live TMS or, and you just need something at 9 a.m., then come and guess some stuff, guess what six songs have in common. I've already got my plan

for what's tomorrow morning, so look forward to that. Twitch. tv slash coverville again for that all right nice guess the connection and then of course right after that at 10 a am tomorrow if you're a patron you can join us for our couch party we're not sure we're watching it but we'll have that said we're watching blink oh yeah blink who episode yes i forgot we already agree and apparently does not have jena coleman who i have a massive crush on because she and tenant never even overlapped and boy mandela effect i had i had in my mind that tenant and Coleman were doctor and companion for a long time.

Who's hers then, the little, the blonde one? No, the. No, that's Billy Piper. Yeah, that's not, oh, that was, um, Eccleston, yeah. Yeah, and a little bit of, uh, she overlapped into tenant. Um, no, it wasn't until Matt Smith that we got Jenna Coleman, then she, and then she landed in a little bit in, um, uh, uh, Peter Capaldi land, yeah.

Yeah, exactly. My favorite favorite. Oh, no, I'm sorry. Yeah, Matt Smith, what am I thinking? Matt Smith was with Nebula. It was with, um, uh, what's her face? Uh, that plays Nebula. I can't think of her name.

Yes. Beautiful redheaded woman named something. Anyway, she was Amy Pond, but I can't remember the actresses name. Anyway. Thanos daughter number two. Yeah, I'm Karen Gillen. Thank you. Yeah.

Apparently, see, this is how long it's, It's been since I've watched Doctor Who, we need some more episodes. I finished up all the Whittaker. Well, I'm always down because I have zero, like, accumulated knowledge of much Doctor Who. So this stuff's all new to me, so all good. Then FilmSack on Saturday, we're watching Goldfinger. Get your James Bond, ancient James Bond movie on, because that's where we're going. Goldfinger.

Gofinger. Get your Shirley Bassian, all that fun stuff. So check that out. The first throw of the hat from Odd Job is really what I'm looking forward to the most. You get the first and last throw of that for my job. That's right. If you would like those couch parties or anything else provided on our Patreon, it's time to get in there.

Patreon.com slash TMS and join up today, never get ads, get all the art in the mail, other great monthly benefits. And that art will be drawn by me, not some generated thing. It'll be me. Yeah, yeah, far better. Yeah, if that sounds better to you, then patreon.com slash TMS should sound great to you.

Okay, we got to play a song and then get out. What do you have? I've got to tune. my heart and it's going out to Matthew E. He says, my birthday is on March 23rd. Oh, shit. Let's party. I should hear birthday and it should be the key.

It should be just like... I know, exactly. By the way, it's my dad's birthday out in Vermont. Oh. Let's party. All right. Yes, I've been getting texts from him all morning of like he's at this ski resort. He doesn't, he doesn't ski anymore, but he's at the ski resort in Vermont, sending me a pictures of it. It's like, oh, so, so pretty. Anyway, Matthew E. says, my birthday is on March 23rd,

and while I've been on a real synth wave kick lately, my musical heart still clings to power metal. I'd love to hear Patty Gerty's cover of Nightwishes Over the Hills and Far Away, but if that's not possible, any power metallicized cover would be amazing. Ooh, or Be Like You by Evergreen, ADHD, Brain, take your pick. Anyway, thank you guys so much for everything you do as the guy who listens to the weird stuff in his friend group, the songs in TMS always make it easy to have something new and different to show off.

Sign Matthew E. I agree. That's where I get all my cool music is from Brian. This is good. Likewise, you know, I wouldn't have listened to the new Dead Mouse thing, we're not for you. Oh, it's so good. I plan on doing that this afternoon. So good.

After Coverville. All right, let's get to it. Matthew E's request Over the Hills and Far Away, the Patty Gertie cover of this Finnish power metal song. It's great. It totally, it totally does put in a different style. It comes from the album Shapes and Patterns, I'm sorry, an EP from 2018. Here is Patty Gertie. They came for him one winter's night. Arrested he was bound. They said there'd been a robbery.

His pistol Have been found They marched him to the station house He waited till the dawn And as they let him to the dark He knew that he'd been wrong You stand accused of robbery He heard the bad

He knew without an alibi Tomorrow's light were to bore on his freedom Over the hills and far away Pretend long as he'll count the days Over the mountains and the seas A prison of life for him there'll be You know that it is But if he dared not say

Just where he'd been A secret it must stay A secret it must stay He had to fight back Teas of rage His heartbed like a drum But with the wife of his best friend He spent his final night of freedom Over the hills and far away

He swears he will return one day Couple from the mountains and the seas Back in her, I'll second and he'll be Over the hills and over the hills and over the hills And over the hills and over the hills And over the hills And over the hills and over the hills And far away

He looks Within his prison cell He looks out through the bars He reads the letters that she wrote One day he'll know the taste of freedom Hold by the hills and far away will return one day as sure as the rivers reach the seas back in the hazel arms again she'll be home by the hills ran far away he swears he will return one day as sure as the rivers reach the seas

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