The Morning Stream - TMS 2454: Shub Genre

Episode Date: April 18, 2023

Not beefing or queefing. Grimace: The Purple Psychic Chicken Nugget. Weekend at Birdies. Hillbilly beat boxing. How do you do, fellow birds? Heefin' and Meefin'. Sentient Milkshake. Not Made Of Cats. Well Stitch my Lyft. Ronald McDonald's Side Chick. It'll be One Week till we hit Vegas. He's a dumb fat purple raisin. Hey internet, can we stop talking about this? It's a Japanese Goth Girl Cafe (YMCA). Gazing into the past with Bill. What the Flock with Bobby and more on this episode of The Morning Stream. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Coming up on TMS, not beefing or queffing. Grimmis, the purple psychic chicken nugget. Weekend at birdies. Hillbilly beatboxing. How do you do, fellow birds? Heafin and mifin. Sensient milkshake. Not made of cats.

Well, stitch my lift. Ronald's side chick. It'll be one week till I hit Vegas. He's a dumb fat purple raisin. Hey, internet, can we stop talking about this? It's a Japanese goth-girl cafe. Gazing into the past with Bill With the flock with Bobby and more

On this episode of The Morning Stream I've got this song that I holler to It goes like this I I ha ha ha ha ha I ha ha ha ha I ha ha ha ha ha ha ha I sure did a very good job

baking these brownies D M-S G G The Morning Stream. If God was a villain, he would have been me. Hey, y'all, what's going on?

Welcome back to TMS. It is the morning stream for Tuesday, April 18th, 2020. I'm Scott Johnson. That's Brian Abbott. Oh, hello, Scott. Hello. I can't believe you start us off with some, what is that called? It's called, like, heifin.

Oh, is that a thing? Kiffin or mefin or, yeah, that, like there's a, I've never even heard of that before the miffin part. Oh, my God, let me see if I can find. Is that a whole, like a whole genre? Like a thing? It's a whole genre of like Appalachian singing along music. And I'm trying to figure out, oh my God.

If I can find it, there's like a. I'm interested in this. I want to know more of Heathen. Yeah, but I wish I could remember actually what it's, what it's called. I'm not looking, like, right now I'm looking in here, so if somebody in the chat room figures out what that, what that style of music is called. Heifan, I've never heard of it. But it sounds like the right word for what I heard, you know?

Yeah, yeah. I like this first part where she says this. I've got this song that I holler to. A song that I hollered to. A song that I hollered to. That's so accurate. I mean, Brian, you love you. You love your hillbelly culture, so I figured this would be some eaterbri.

Yeah, I'm working on getting you, let's see here, if I can find it. Oh, my God, all right. Because this, so the, oh, is this it right here? Please tell me. What do you got? Yes. Okay. What do you got?

All right, I'm giving you something. Giving it to you right now. Give it to me. Give it to you. Give it to me. Give it to me. I would believe this is going to be copyright-free. I believe this is something that it is okay to play on the show.

Okay. Let's give it a shot. Yeah. Is it coming to Discord or where are you sending us? So in the past, I've played an auto-tuned version of, with a little help from my friends, by Ringo Starr and the Beatles. Sure. That is intentionally out of tune because it plays on the whole, what would you think if I sang out of tune, da-da-da. Oh, that whole thing, sure.

That whole thing. And that's by a bunch of guys called the Evolution Control Committee. these guys they find audio they find weird music and stuff like that and they play it and it's just

freaking awesome and they turn it into like songs and I'm not selling I'm doing a bad job of selling them but they are really really good

I don't know you've sold me already I don't know what the hell I'm even getting into and I'm in one of the tracks that they do is this thing called

hillbilly beatboxing where I think it's called e-fing or anyway this talks about or this explains how you do it Okay, let's play a bit of it.

Here we go. Here I'll turn down the rest of this so we don't have to hear it. Here we go. You start out with the letter E. You say E. I say E. And then you go, and then you kind of gasp. You put the three together, E, like that.

And then you do I. I'll do it real slow. E, I'll do it real slow. E. Okay, what does it say about this. It says that you're human because there is no reason you shouldn't love this. Yeah, how can you not love this? That is absolutely fantastic.

Is that awesome? It's so good. I didn't even even heard of this. And that's beefing. Sorry, what did you call it? Eiffing. Yeah,

it's not beefing or quefeing, but I think it's called eifing. All right. I want to say it's called eafing, and I thought they used the name and the title. That's what made it really hard for me to find it. But, uh,

uh, yeah, no, that's, that is really great, dude. Really like that. Is there more of that?

Can I get more of this quefe? Not more of the eiffing, but there's lots more of the evolution control committee, and it's all fantastic. Was there, no, Barbara Streisand wasn't theirs. There was another thing they did that, besides the, what would you think if I sang Autotune, there was another thing they did that was also more popular. And I can't remember what it was, but I'll look for it and see if I can find it. Oh, what would you think? Is that the song? No?

Something else? Yeah. The, well, you mean the, the, what would you think if I sang? Oh, Utteroom, but a different song. Yeah. I was thinking, what would you? I didn't see, I'd give that one to you, but I know that one actually would get flagged by YouTube. Yeah.

Yeah. I don't know if this one will or not, but we'll find out. Probably not, but maybe. Yeah. I've been surprised before. And they usually assure me, they'll say. There's a tidy little bit of the Sanford and Sun theme in there. Yeah.

Quincy Jones might be coming after us. Yeah. Oh, I'm sorry. Hold on. Back that trek up. I didn't know Quincy Jones made the theme for that. I didn't know that. It's called the street beater, I believe, is the name of the song. I love that song. It's so good. Yeah, Quincy Jones. Oh, man. Did not know that. Okay. Well, more information than I needed to know today. I got it. It's in my head now and I'm going to tell the world. Oh, somebody in my lift the other day. Can I share a little bit of other information? Only if I can do this right here. courteous and obey traffic regulations.

All right, so we were talking about, so people often when they get in my car, they comment about my stitch. I have a stitch bobblehead that sits in the front of my car. Stitch like Disney Stitch, for those wondering. Disney Stitch, Leland Stitch, like this fellow right here. Yeah, a little smaller. About a thousand that I have scattered all around my office here. You are really a stitch super. fan. I do love Stitch. Yeah. I feel like, are you excited about a live action remake of Stitch,

or does that bug you? No, I'm fine with it. I think they've done really well with the live action versions of their stuff. That's definitely coming. So I'm excited for Brian's review. All right, back to your story. You're in the car. So, you know, so he gets in the car and he says, oh man, I love your Stitch Bumblehead. And I said, oh, yeah, thanks. Yeah, he's, you know, we're just about done for the day. So he's got a nice big smile on his face, even though he always has that. him smile on his face. And the guy says, oh, yeah. And I said, you as opposed to the grimace that he usually has on his face. And he says, oh, Grimmis. Funny you bring up Grimmis. I love Grimmis. I'm like, oh, the McDonald's

dude. Like, yeah. And I say, so, so he even says, my friends and I did a whole deep dive on Grimus back in the day. We would actually say, what would Grimmis do? Because we thought it was such a dumb, you know, he's such a dumb, you know, he's such a dumb, fat, purple raisin looking, we don't even know what he is. We don't know what he is. What is he? What is he? Yeah, he's not a chicken nugget. He's not any of the food items. I always assume shakes or something, right? I didn't know, but I always assume shakes.

So we'll see. Now, according to the McDonald's wiki at macdonalds.fandem.com, I'm going to read you the first paragraph. It's like two sentences of the definition of grimace. Some of this will surprise you. Okay. Sit still, everyone. This is going to be big.

Go. Yes. Grimmis is a character featured in McDonald's. Land commercials. He is Ronald McDonald's most bestest friend and psychic. He is a large purple chicken nugget being of indeterminate species with short arms and legs. He is from the planet, Kare.

Okay, hold on. Did you say psychic or sidekick? That's exactly psychic. And when he read that to me, because he pulled this up on his phone too, and he said, he said, psychic. I said, oh, yeah, well, of course he's Ronald McDonald's sidekick. And he says, no, this says psychic. So grimace, grimace lore, unless this was, unless this McDonald's Wiki was done

via dictation and it's a dictation error. Grimmis is a psychic, and he's a purple chicken nugget. So hold on. So when Ronald needs some future predicting, he goes to his psychic grimace, the purple chicken nugget, and says, Grimmis, tell me of the future. And Grimus says, ah, I perceive, we're going to do Monopoly again one day in the stores. Okay, thanks, Grimus. You've been a great psychic.

That's the relationship. That's the relationship. Now, I'm going to backtrack a little bit because I've read a little bit further in this thing. And paragraph two, prior to ascending to deity status and becoming destroyer of world, Grimmis had a successful career as a capital finance executive, primarily working in merges and acquisitions for Fortune 100 companies, Chuck E. Cheese and Kim Jong-il. Okay. Did someone's account get hacked on who fills out the wiki? Because that's insane. Apparently so. I mean, it is a wiki, so you can, you know, it can be filled out by anybody. But, uh... Sure. Let's see. Does Grimmis have any different kind of describe, like, how does Wikipedia describe Grimus?

Oh, that's a really good question. Let's find out. Is he a psychic on the Wikipedia? By the way, Frank Weldon. uh looks like frank welker did a voice did the voice of uh grimace almost really if if this is to be you know looks like the actual grimace stuff is down below all of this um uh all of this other stuff let's see here well i'm required to play this no more optimist prime whenever his name comes up i have to play that yeah for sure a grimace character a mcdonald land all right here we go hamburgler um voiced by lennie wine rib frank welker and sometimes larry moran front 86 to 2003.

So absolutely Frank Welker. Yeah. Oh, he had four arms in the beginning. Did you know that? Yeah, he was evil for stealing milkshakes. Like, in the 15-minute drive where I took this guy, he pulled up photos of like, yeah, have you ever seen the evil original grimace? I'm like, no, he was evil at the beginning. He's like, oh, yeah.

He had four arms. He'd steal milkshakes. And his eyes were like, like, gritty the mask off. That's amazing. Yeah. This entry says they have, he's from a species of grimaces, and he has an uncle named Uncle O'Grimacy who promoted the shamrock shakes. Oh, of course. Of course.

Was that, was he green? Was that other grimace green? It doesn't show photo. Ogrimacy? That's got to be, right? He's not linked here. Thank you. Yeah, exactly.

Like, why would you even do it? Oh, there he is. Uncle O. Jimacy, performer at Robert Towers. I can't find a picture, though. Damn it. Well, anyway, this is wild. Wow. This is wild.

He was often referred to in his first. commercial appearances as the crafty old hamburgler. Oh, I'm sorry. I'm reading a hambrugler. I went one paragraph too high. I forgot to. I was like reading and then I looked away and came back. So he's a theft and a felon.

Stealing milkshakes and coax. Reintroduced his 72 as a protagonist where he only has one set of arms. Oh, that was the difference? You see he was a robber, horrible thief, and then he lost two arms and he was like, that's fine. I'll be good now. Exactly. a McDonald's spokesperson has said that Grimmis is a taste bud,

but a 2014 tweet from McDonald's Twitter account stated that Grimmis says, Laura says he's the embodiment of a milkshake. Okay, so that's what my understanding was milkshake somehow. That he is an actual, that he's an actual milkshake. Yeah, he's the embodiment, he's a... Yeah, instead of having like a cup walking around. A sentient milkshake. Yeah, it's like the guts of the milkshake.

That's what, that was my, when I was a kid, I think someone somewhere told me that. But I, still, to this day, he's a big purple weirdo. Like, it's weird. He is a big purple weirdo. And I'm bummed now. I'm really bummed that he's not psychic. I want, uh, I wish that the McDonald's fan wiki was true because you're getting very hungry for a big Mac.

Yep. That's a pretty good grimace, actually. You did a good job there. Thank you. I've never actually done a grimace before, but, uh, had a little bit of a... You know, me and Frank Wilker. A little bit of a Barney the dinosaur vibe to it as well. Well, so does Grimmis.

Thank you very much. I was going to say, they're cut from the same purple cloth, I think, those two. That is my fat purple impersonation. It's applicable to Grimmis, Barney, and Dom Deloese. That's right, who was very purple in the end. By the end. Sadly, sadly, very purple. Very purple.

Merrimack cheese, by the way, this is a fun little side note. Yeah. I love the Merrimic cheese. Sure. He was voiced, so there was an episode of Clerks, the animated series, which got canceled way too soon. Oh, yeah. Oh, which was so good. It was really good.

Batman joke. He was legit, good. It was fantastic. It was. Anyway, he was voiced by Al Franken. Oh, really? Yeah. That says the Mary McCheese.

Yeah. Isn't that crazy? They had an episode called Nothing Can Kill the Grimmis. And they had Merriman cheese in there, played by Al Franken's future senator at the time. I guess he hadn't been, he wasn't in the Senate yet, but he would be. And then he would do something that was some light fondling, not fondling. What was it? Photo, photonle.

He put his hands in front like he was going to do some fondling. but the person was asleep and it was a little one gets the one gets the impression though that he may be bowed out too quickly compared to all those around him who also do worse things you know what I'm saying like you mean what do you mean by bowed out like he he quit self out of this stuff and just no no he quit so he quits the senate based on he literally retires from his position as a senator from the great state of Massachusetts uh in life of that. And I remember going, well, that's probably good if that was the standard, meaning if everybody held themselves to that level, I would respect it. But nobody does. Nobody.

They do way worse shit than that. And they stay. They double down. They say, oh, it was, you know, locker room talk. Or it was, you know, it was, uh, uh, hearsay. She was describing something, blah, blah, blah. I'll bet he, sorry, Commonwealth, not stayed. Sorry. I know that he probably you know, he probably has some regret. I bet he feels like he may have jumped too soon because that was right before things got weird. And I don't know, he probably could have hung around. I can tell you this, I didn't think he was very funny

as the stand-in host for The Daily Show for his week or whatever. Boy, split on that one. I didn't see any of it, so I can't offer anything. But, yeah, when you hear people talking about the comedy of the Daily Show stand-in replacements, because people either loved him or hated him. There's very few in between.

It didn't work for me at all. I thought the best one was, oh, what's the guy's name? I can't think of names today. It's just one of those days where I don't know names. Today is different. Just today. No other days I do this.

It's just one of those days. I can't think of his name, but I love him. Anyway, let's move on. We got a phone call to play from Kevin in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Holy cow. So Kevin, the originator of, of I don't like bees. Yeah, he's the I don't like bees guy.

Let's see. Do I have that handy as shit? Because that would be good to have. I don't like bees. All right. So famously, Kevin from Ann Arbor, Michigan, right? One of our favorite sound clips of all time. He hasn't written in a long time or done anything.

And I just thought, oh, well, he's fallen off. He's gone somewhere else. He's busy. Whatever. I just didn't know the fate of Kevin in Ann Arbor. Sure. Yeah, no. He didn't even know if he was still listening, any of that stuff. No, none of it. But now I get this call and it's fantastic. And it deals with us and him. And it's just great. I'm just going to play it. Here's a minute. One minute call from Kevin and Ann Arbor. Finally, back to the rest of us. Hey, morning stream. Kevin from Ann Arbor here. I don't call a lot anymore and pester you as much as I used to. But I was just listening to an episode from a couple days ago. And Brian was talking about waking up at four, not being able to fall back asleep. And then Scott was talking about. dreading having to pee

in the middle of the night because that's what sets off the old brain and so you pee as many times as you can't before you go to bed. I'm 32. You guys are like a lot older than that. And the fact that I can relate

so well to both of you does not encourage me give me a lot of encouragement for the next 20, 30 years of my life. If I'm already having the same problems as you now. So I appreciate it because misery loves company, but I'm also like, ah, great. I'll be doing the same shit when I'm 50. Anyways, I love the show, though. I also don't like peeing in the

middle of the night. Bye. Isn't that great? So, and Brian's right. Don't, don't be adding years to that. That's like 18 years. Yeah, yeah, like 20, 30 years. No, no. Hold on. Yeah. Slow that 30 down there, buddy. What do you think we're 70 by now or whatever we're supposed to be? anyway that was great and we don't like these long periods of time where kevin doesn't write in or call in so kevin feel free whenever you've had a thought i think you're one of our uh you're one of the all stars so please send those in we love exactly very well done you're an all star uh hey now he's an all star hey check you out uh andrew from uh this is asher 77 in the chat sent us a text that i thought would be good because i didn't know this maybe you knew this but let's read it uh high s and b in regards to the 112 game uh on Wednesday's Battle Royals, so this couple of weeks ago. 112 or 112 is the international recognized emergency number and will divert to the country yours, your emergency is in.

In my case, triple zero in Australia, keep up the great work, Andrew. So if you call, if you do the 112 and you're here in Salt Lake City or in Denver, that will route to a 911. That's what, that's what he's claiming. And obviously we can't try it. I don't want to try it. It does kind of worry me that 0-0-0, because, I mean, the reason I thought that they did 9-1-1 is because it makes it harder for a little kid who at the time would be playing on a touch-tone phone to accidentally press those numbers. But 0-000, like, again, back in the day, now not such a big deal when you've got send and, you know, phones to unlock with face ID and all that stuff.

but but zero zero zero seems very easy so does nine nine you know which is uh uh i think uh uk is nine nine nine right yeah that's yes i think so aren't they nine nine or nine nine i think they're nine nine nine yeah something like that so or they were they were at one point yeah to me it's sensible to separate your numbers so little kids aren't accidentally calling it because there's absolutely a greater than 80% chance that van could accidentally call one one two for zero zero zero obviously and not nine one one you gotta go nine and then you gotta go way up here and you gotta hit the one one in fact if i were them i would have been like nine one nine or something just to keep them jumping around the pad you know they're not actually hitting the thing right

but you also don't want to make it too difficult for the person who you know again movie trope is crawling their way towards the phone and they knock the phone off the receiver off the hook and then they reach up to the touch tone and go, Boop. Mm-hmm. No, you're right. Boop. Yeah.

Must press last one. Yeah, you're not wrong. But the thing that does surprise me more than anything else is that, yeah, if you type 112 or if you type, presumably works all, like the, in reverse, right? If you do 911 in Australia, does it automatically route to zero, zero, zero. Oh, great. I mean, that could work. Technologically, it's not hard. I don't know. I wonder.

Yeah. I wonder if, and if that's the case, why don't we all just settle on one, you know? Right. If everything works, then let's just settle on one so that, yeah. Let's do the one that makes the most sense. Kind of like days and weeks and hours and all the stuff we all agree on. We should agree on that. That's kind of a, it's a very good point.

Here's what Wikipedia says about it. 112 is a part of the GSM standard, and all GSM-compatible telephone handsets are able to dial 112 even when locked or in some countries with no SIM card present. It is also the common emergency number in nearly all

member states of the European Union as well as several other countries of Europe and the world. All right. So basically what we said. Yeah. It's interesting. I guess I'm going to remember that so that

you know. Oh yeah, it is not. It confirms here. 999 in the United King. Hong Kong is triple zero, so is Australia. Okay. Wow. That seems crazy. But then again, let's say, Brian, you're under extreme duress.

You've got your phone up. Let me pull up. My hands are tied behind my back, right? And I've got to unlock it with my, like, I have to pull off my shoes and my socks and operate my phone with my feet. Yeah. Then you can do, then the triple zero makes sense because you can kind of pinpoint that. Whereas 9-1-1, you're going to, okay, toe, I think I'm on the 9.

beep okay now where am i like yeah yeah exactly okay now i'm starting to swing now i would assume that uh unless i've unless i've got a gag on my mouth or something i could probably just say hey smeary call 9-1-1 or whatever yeah old shmary getting her work shmary i think that didn't trigger mine so that obviously i can say smeary no completely worked i loved it um okay let us now We've got to do some news. It's important that people need to hear what's going on in the world. Yes, so true. We can't leave them in the wings.

So here you go. Oh, look at that. It's time for the news, and it's brought to you by. Brought to you by waiting for what seems like an eternity for Kickstarter to approve your submission. Yeah, I submitted it, and it's taken forever. We thought it'd be Monday. Then we thought today it's still not approved. Now, I'm starting to think it's going to be Vegas before I can even see the damn.

thing. Oh, God. Yeah. Which would suck. Although how fun would that be? Like, have it approved while we're in Vegas. And then at the live show, you can say, all right, everybody who wants to buy this, who's here, jump on there, buy it now and see if that goes, boom.

Oh, that'd be a fun little bump. Yeah, that'd be all right. It would be, yeah. We'll see. I don't know. I don't know how things are going to go, hopefully today. But if not, it'll come around. But thanks a lot, Kickstarter, for taking your sweet effing time.

Okay? Yeah, I imagine that time has gotten longer and longer. I remember the Andrew Allen stuff. We were probably waiting two days. once we were ready to get it approved two days before it actually got approved but I imagine the number of

people doing Kickstarter now versus then is probably 10 times the amount Is there a future album from Andrew that might come one day? Maybe. We've always like every time we talk we talk about the idea of doing another one

and we both love the idea of him just doing a straight up pop song cover album but it would be jazzy versions of like wannabe by the spice girls and chop suey and you know and enter sandman and stuff like that that would be great yeah oh sign me up for album art you know you're you're on the you know you're on the speed dial for it speed dial for album art i'm ready i love that idea um all right here is uh here's some story about wall Walmart? You're familiar with their cup of soup

or cup soup offerings. I'm familiar with their curbside cup noodle, maple egg, sausage, monstrosity deliveries. Yeah, they do. It's a hell of a thing. They bring it right out. We actually went and saw Tristan yesterday at his Walmart. Oh, nice. And how is

his Walmart? Compared to other Walmarts. Just give me a taste. It's just I mean, it's They're all a little sad. Is that what you're saying? They're all a little sad. Yeah. It's At least this one in this area, I mean, somebody got beheaded behind his Walmart. Oh, my gosh. While he's working there?

Was he there at the time? No, it was overnight, but people came back to, you know, the openers showed up to Walmart to find somebody beheaded behind the store. That's the kind of, you know, the kind of Walmart. Wow, that says it all right there. That answered my question. And then some. Holy moaning.

And he's had people do meth in the bathrooms and come out dancing during, as soon as they've closed and turn on the house music for the cleaning crew. Some guy comes out of the bathrooms and dancing. Just like, like he's, you know, one of the snakes being coaxed out of Ireland or something. That's wild, man. Yeah, yeah. Beheadings and meth heads. That's actually a lot. And this is not, and this is not a bad part of town.

You know, it's a relatively, relatively good part of town, but... It's a bad part of Walmart, for sure. Yeah, exactly. That's rough, man. All right. Well, hopefully he never has to find a head in the back of a dumpster. Let's do this one. Walmart removes a t-shirt after customers spot a hidden vulgar word.

All right, so they did a little sleuth in there, and they found this problem. Walmart's in doing some damage control after inadvertently selling a t-shirt with a hidden vulgar word. The t-shirt has an artistically designed motto reading recycled. reuse, renew, rethink, and the RE is capitalized with the other words stacked on top of each other. Common thing to do in typography. People do it all the time. When only reading the letters from left to right, a person can see the intended message of the shirt. However, if you read it vertically, one of the words spells out something rather offensive. I'm going to show the shirt. I'm going to pull up this shirt. I kind of love this, actually. If it was intentional, it's, it has to be

intentional, right? Because recycle, reuse, renew is pretty common. But the rethink is not a common fourth word in the recycling group. No. But it is, yeah, for listeners who have not figured it out, see you next Tuesday is basically the the vertical first letter of the words made up when you take RE off of them. Yeah, it's. And they're beautiful. stacked in a nice future abled there's no way they didn't know dude they had to know yeah they had

to know somebody's a chucklehead down at I don't know where these are made somewhere awful with like child labor and stuff and and whoever designed it's like tee-he-he-he it's my last week tee-he-he and then did this there's no way there's no way that was an accident

no I think I think it's it is hilarious it's just is it somebody who doesn't you know who believes that recycling is too woke i'm gonna i'll show them i'll put a dirty word in a thing exactly i don't know that could have been the upset employee who knows but the green t-shirt has now been pulled uh it was available it's only five bucks i would have bought one for i know look at that price and that's canadian bucks oh is that is that the canadian well yeah which

means i think it would have been about three for us that the way that their uh exchange is right now. But anyway, let's see. The merchandise was available of the Canadian stores. It was quickly scrapped. The shirt was sold at Walmart Canada locations that's been removed. Company said, according to a statement to some Fox television news outlet, it says the image of the t-shirt continues to circulate online to not stop comments from flooding on social media. Yeah, that's how that works. People talk. Yeah, you don't just stop.

You don't go, oh, we're done because they hold it. They don't like this. Please, can we all stop talking about it now? Because they're not a fan. What were they thinking? For real? I don't know. So somebody gets beheaded in a, you know, a Westminster Walmart. In Canada, the equivalent is somebody bumps you in the shoulders. They walk by and they don't say sorry. Oh, that's really dark. That's a Canadian Walmart. Yeah, that's a dark, dark Walmart. Don't go there. That's the Walmart, the wrong side of town. Yeah, for sure. Yeah. All right, this is a cool story. I don't know. For some reason, I thought of Bill because he is both a maker

and a bird lover. I could have saved this for him, but anyway, dead birds get a new life. In New Mexico, we have researchers who are developing taxidermy bird drones. Oh. And this is real, by the way. This is a Reuters story, not some like onion thing. Yeah. I had to double check because I was a little unsure.

Right. Yeah. That's on Reuters. Look at this bird, you guys. There's a photo there. Scientists in New Mexico are giving dead birds a new life with an unconventional approach to wildlife research, a team at the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology and Saraco, Socorro, rather, I think, is how you said, is taking birds that have been preserved through taxidermy and converting them into drones in order to study flight. So they're studying the flight of birds, or flight in general.

Dr. Mustafa has salamander, a mechanical engineering professor who's leading the project, has found that artificial mechanical birds had not given the results he was looking for. We came up with this idea that we can use dead birds and make them into a drone. Everything is there. We do reverse engineering. That's the idea. Taxonomy bird drones currently being tested in all purpose, or sorry, a purpose-built cage at the university can be used to understand better the information and flight patterns of flocks. So, you know, birds of a feather and all that. That in turn can be applied to the aviation industry, he says.

If we learn how these birds manage energy between themselves, we can apply that to the future of aviation and its industry to save more. energy and save more fuel, he says. Okay. This I didn't read far enough to enjoy. So they can be used to understand the formation and flight patterns of flux. So they think that they're going to fly this drone with this dead-faced bird among all of its friends. Like among all of its, all the other birds and the birds are going to be like, oh, cool. there's uh there's frank yeah all right let's keep going yeah frank you look a little tired but uh i guess

you're fine don't worry about it let's do the v pattern let's do the v formation all already okay one two three v it does assume it assumes a lot about the birds not recognizing this strange thing right sound right the sound the look i mean oh frank sure sounds uh i don't know uh mechanical i like this frank the bird this is a good name for it it's good it's a solid choice This is what this guy, this bird drone looks like a frank. It does look like a frank. The poor thing. I mean, before you freak out animal rights people, these are already dead birds.

Sure. They're not killing birds to put drones in them. No, they're not even, yeah. All they're doing is taking taxidermied birds, already taxidermied. Yeah. And then they're adding all this drone parts to make it fly. Well, I imagine they're doing it simultaneously. You know, you're going to taxidermy and drone the bird at the same time, right?

You might, or it doesn't actually say it, but it might be, I assume you could take an old one and retrofit it, but, and this one, frankly. Oh, as you're saying, birds that have been preserved through taxidermy. Because usually taxidermists who do birds do, you know, if they take a seagull, it's just going to be a seagull standing there on its legs looking majestically off into the distance as opposed to a flight, a bird in flight, which you then, if you bought that, you would have to suspend from the ceiling. Right.

That's the rule. It's the rule. Better yet, suspend it from me. your ceiling fan so it moves around the room so it just flies around in a circle yeah hell yeah that's pretty cool well it sounds like they're not getting the results they wanted and i'm just going to just go ahead and be the first to say i think the birds are smarter than you think they are yeah i think the birds i think once you fly that drone into a flock of birds my guess is those other birds are going to scatter even though it kind of looks like one of their own yeah they're going to get the

f out of there anyway strange things going on down there in new mexico not just blue meth there's more to it uh check this out a video shows a drunk man falling from a 19th floor that seems like a lot seems like he'd die that is a lot yes but it turns out being drunk sometimes softens the blow he literally stood up unfazed and sang all the way to the hospital to make sure he was okay holy crap i don't even think i want to see this video because it feels like does he land on an awning like a hotel awning in front of a dormant because i know that happens in Speaking of movie tropes. It's just movie trope day, right?

Yeah, it feels like movie trope. Oh, here he is. So let's see what this looks like, guys. We're going to take a tiny look here. I don't look at this damn video, Scott. So here he is. This is going to freak me out. I don't like the feeling.

Like, it's going to make my groin hurt. Oh, that was him? Jeez, Louises. He dropped like a bullet. Okay. Then he gets up. Uh-huh. And continued singing all the way to the hospital.

There. You did land on a car just like a, just like a trope. Like a movie. And look at him getting off. He's just like, yeah, good. Like the naked girl at the beginning of lethal weapon right onto a car. Yeah. They did say he has a concussion and a compressed fracture of the spine, so he's going to have to do some stuff.

But he got up and moved around. So all I'm saying is, you know, maybe all the drunks are right. Maybe they were right all along. Be drunk. Yeah, maybe. Be drunk, get less hurt. You know, is that the deal? I don't know.

It is the thing like they say that, you know, babies in car accidents are fine because they don't tense up. It's when you tense up in an accident that, you, you know, you're prone to more physical harm. Yeah. But if you, you know, and flop around, then you're, you're going to be fine. I wonder if there's a way, and that's also probably why a lot of drunk driving accidents, the driver walks away fine. Exactly.

Yeah. Which is bad, obviously. I wasn't going to say, I don't think I have the capability mentally or otherwise to relax when I know a wreck is incoming. No, I don't either. It's like, okay. Oh my God, that semi's heading right towards this, and the car is stalled. Go limp. Yeah, I don't have that ability.

It would be awesome if I did because I could use it for all kinds of stuff. Like, I'm sure there are people who have mastered their domain to the point that they can do that sort of thing under stress. I don't know who you are or how you did it, but send your tips to the morning stream at gmail.com. I mean, that is a one in the million kind of landing on that car too, right? But, like, you know, if he's a little bit further forward and he's got, like, the windshield kind of bracing and being more of a non-collapsable thing to hit or the back or the trunk or missing the car entirely, he's out, he's gone, he's done. Yeah, it's no good. We have a mutual friend who told us a story about watching a live accident happen on the road. Oh, God.

That sounded awful, by the way, first of all. Yeah. And then you had to drive the Westray home. I'm like, I don't even know how you deal with that. And his description, hearing his description, made the visual, I'm sure, as, as horrible as the actual experience was. Oh, I can't even imagine. Just like, I mean, I've seen a few accidents. None of them have been fatal.

The ones I've seen, like physically witnessed somebody cutting over or missing a light or whatever. I've seen those. But no one's ever died in front of me like that. That would be rough. I don't think I could do it. Nope. Meanwhile, I could, you know, I can go into Grand Theft Auto and shoot 500 ladies. it's fine, whatever, but

I can separate that. And nobody can do a damn thing about it. You can't stop me. You can't stop it. That's all you get yet. Don't worry, folks. That's the extent of Brian's, yeah, Brian's Frump impression is best that you're going to get.

We're not even going to say his name. How about that? Ronald Frump. Claire, he yells coward. Yeah, whatever. It's the right thing to do, Claire. All right. Final story unless, yeah, this might be our final story.

That's literally our final story. A Japanese cafe waitress. We call them servers now, right? That's the deal. Sure, but, I mean, it depends on, it depends on the cafe because the, we went to, like, a cafe in, oh, gee, Shibuya. And it's very different than what you would call a cafe in America. Oh, did tell me. They're dressed as, they're dressed as, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, you should, shibuya.

maids and you call them over like maids and stuff like that and they they sing while they bring cat looking cakes to you and stuff like that cat looking cat like a shape like a cat like like yeah like a cat's face it's like a cake that's got ears and whiskers no actual cats were harmed in the making of the cake no actual they're not made of cats oh thank the lord so that's so the japanese cafe that it needs a little asterisk and define what kind of cafe yes it made cafe that's exactly kickets Okay. So that's a, that's like a subgenre of cafes in Japan. It is a sub sub sub, a shub genre of cafes. You ever lose your cat cafe?

I'm hungry. Let's go to Shubway. You ever lose your cat cake? Your cat cake. So check this out. Japanese cafe waitress fired for mixing her own blood in the cocktails. This is not a cultural thing of cafes, okay? Don't be putting your own blood in anybody's food. waitress from a Japanese

Cafe Hokkaido Oh, in Hokkaido, Japan I thought of the name of the place Was fired for mixing her own blood And the cocktails she served The cafe in Sapporo announced the news on Twitter Why is everyone to announce everything on Twitter?

Why? Why are we doing that? We all do it, but why? Why are we doing it? This is the problem. This is why billionaires are weird It's because we just keep doing it.

You want us to go somewhere else? Give us that name. Give us that name, Scott. You want us to go somewhere else? Give us that name, damn it. Saying that we have... You can't handle the other social media networks. It says they have fired the unidentified woman who made customers drinks.

It's called Orkiaku. Orkiaku. Orakaku, which means original cocktail. Mixed with fruits, colorful syrups, and her own blood. Yeah. Yeah. Blah! Blah! Such an act

is no different from part-time job terrorism and is absolutely not acceptable, says the cafe. Well, I agree with them. Adding the business was shut down for a day to replace all of its drinking glasses. They weren't even comfortable enough just to wash them then to replace them.

I'd be okay if they just washed them. It's fine. I'd be okay with it too, but it is, it's like, I mean, it's like the El Franken thing. It's like, you know what? Let's just get rid of all these glasses. is let's eliminate all the, you know, let's take a further stand than maybe we need to, just to say, we're just to show that we're serious about this and we're taking a stand.

That's true, especially if you're a regular there and you're like, I don't want, I don't want to ever go here again. I don't want blood in my cockatel. So. Oh, my or a cuckoo. I don't know what this is. Oh, the owner tweeted this. Please let me continue.

The store a little longer, so I can be happy alone. These are bad translations. Yeah. I'll clean the store, change glasses, and dispose of alcohol that may have been contaminated. Once again, I am very sorry to have caused you trouble this time, the owner tweeted. It advertises itself as a space where dark girls and problem children who are also the cutest serve customers. That feels like it should not be the last line of the article. No.

It feels like that. It's not good. It needs to be. We need further explanation about that. the dark girls and problem the cutest dark girls and problem children yeah i'm sure it's like they got a theme where it's their naughty or something i don't know i don't know what you're doing over there you got your fetish restaurant it's fine i mean i guess it feels like you you hired dark girls and problem children to serve you're going to get blood in your water kaku yeah and by dark girls i assume they

mean like you know emo depressing yeah like like uh women with dark thoughts yeah dark Dark actions. Yeah. Or in Claire's case, like she says, a naughty pale girl. Right. Yeah. That sounds about right. You are pale.

And she's not. She's, you know, we're going to find out. She's like us. She's just one of us, one of us, whitties, you know? Right, exactly. You're fine. Don't you worry about it. You know, the widest person I know right now is Phoebe.

The baby, she is like, like this stuff, like this right here. Hold on. And I'm not exaggerating. She is roughly this color of this storm. Trooper head. Wow. Which is a little yellow, unfortunately. Is that a 3D print?

Oh, no, that's a... No, that's one I bought somewhere. I think it's a bank, isn't it? Let's see. Oh, no, no, it's not a penny bank. It has a hole, but I think that's maybe just the make the, well, let's see. Lucasfilm, made in China. Yeah, I guess I think you're supposed to...

Aren't you a little holeless for a stormtrooper? Even like, like, let's see the front of it again? Here you go. Yeah. Yeah, you think that, uh... I think it's for painting. I think you're supposed to buy this and then paint a style. style on it or a design.

Yeah, you should. You should use the frog pants colors. Yeah, I should do it. The frog pants logo colors and make an orange. I'm like you, with you and your stitch, that's how I am a stormtrooper stuff. I will buy any stormtrooper thing I can get my hands on. I got a child-sized one right there behind me. I got like 15 over there that aren't in view.

There's another shorter one next to the child-sized one. The Luke Skywalker-sized one. Right, the Luke Skywalker-sized one. one. Oh, it's Boba Fetz between his legs. Oh, this guy. Yeah, I'm talking about that guy, the scout trooper. Good, I could not remember scouts.

Scout trooper, Chewy, and then Warcraft Duritan guy back there. Nice. Because we're nerds here on TMS. We collect shit. It is in our contract. I'll tell you what, there's somebody who collects way more shit than we do, and we're going to talk to him after this break. That's Bill DeRan.

He'll be coming up as well as a little science with Bob. We also have a call to play for Bill, which we'll get to in a minute. All that and more, but Brian's got to present this song you work so hard on. So what do you got there? Oh, man, it's finally, I'm finally ready to debut it. I've been working so hard on putting this song together. And it sounds a lot like another song by a UK psychedelic band called Temples that has just released last week. Their brand new album called Exotico.

This is the brand new song, the brand new single from this album. It's called Oval Stones. going to be starting a North American tour in June with support from a band called Post Animal. Here is the British band Temples and Oval Stones. swimming with your soul there was no one in the way out of your control was the destiny disdain finding out the way with the light that's in your head every night you stay in a bed inside your brain I don't want to know about the light, it says the sun Talking back around just to make it feel alright

Can we go back, right now forever? Shall we go back from the side? Can we go back at that time together? Should we go back back to the side? We're an ocean of regret to fill up our lungs. We're rising up the people who are love. There's a lightning up in every walk of life today There's a child that's our protection in our eyes

Singing with your friends With a doctrine of the waves Every lap was swayed to the sun that opens Skimming all the stones Are they licking in your head Every lap be played live in the padis up and send me Shall we go back then?

Can we go back then? Shall we go back then? Can we go back? Yeah, we go back. With an ocean of regret till up our lungs, we're the rising up people move in love.

It's alive and up in everyone. of life today there's a jealous of break up children in our eyes calling tired rising you want calling tired rising you want Carlyne, tire as in one Come, tire as in one With an ocean of regret to help our lungs We're rising up the people from the love

It's alive enough in every walk of life today It's a jealous of redemption in our eyes Can we go back right now forever? Shall we go back right from the side? Can we go back back back again? Shall we go back right to the sun? Can we go back right back forever? Shall we go back right from the side?

Can we go back back back back again? Shall we go back right to the side? Showbiz Pizza Place with over 60 electronic games. Pizza bake fresh every day. And the stage show extravaganza on three states. Fomit fruit. It's got its name because it smells like dirty socks. Here's your meatball. This is the morning stream. All right, we're back everybody. Welcome back to the program. Please tell me who that was. One more time, please.

That is the band Temples. They'll be coming to the urban. Lounge in Salt Lake City in June and the Bluebird Theater the day before in Denver, Colorado. That is their brand new song, Oval Stones. Aren't you a huge, correct me if I'm wrong, you're a big Pixies fan, right? I do like the Pixies, yeah. They're coming to, they're coming here to this little tiny venue we have in Salt Lake. The bands just love it there, but it's small. But they love it because the way it's like, I forgot the name of it.

If Carter was here, she'd tell me, but it's some kind of, it's a cool name. Anyway, and since I don't remember names today, you're not getting the name out of me. But the point is... Is it like all the original members, like Frank Black and... or Black Francis and Kim Deal and... Good question. I don't know. And those are the only two names I can remember. Kilby Court. There it is. Thanks, Carter.

Kilby Court it's called. And yes, I think it is the full band, but I don't know that for 100% sure. But it's supposed to be a big antis. And there's a whole bunch of cool bands like... Oh, the Japanese breakfast is coming there. Oh, I love them. Yeah, a whole bunch of bands. She mentioned these names.

I'm like, oh, my gosh, I think you're playing Brian's song here. He loves all that crap. Yeah, no kidding. Oh, man, I wonder if they're coming through Denver. And Sean Stratton says, Frank Black. Yeah, Black Francis goes under the name Frank Black as well. So he did a outside of the Pixies. He called himself Frank Black, released three albums.

But Black Francis, when he's a member of the Pixies. I respect that. What's wrong with that? do what you got to do with your name that's right um okay we are going to do some bill time and uh to do that we got to play this there's still something wrong isn't there bill there sure is it's bill deran joining us from punish props dot com all the way to our left if you're looking at a map hi bill how are you hello good morning i'm great oh that's so good you know what we're great because because now you're going to be in Vegas for a bit and we're super stoked

Back, yeah, got a place. Makes us happy. You got a room? Okay, you figure that whole thing out? I did. It turns out rooms are really cheap. They are. They are.

Yeah, they're not bad, especially if you're doing like a midweek thing like we are. It's not bad. Yeah, it was like $40 a night. Yeah, pretty much. It's because the plaza cares. The plaza cares. The biggest thing you got to worry about is if it's like, you know, if the Steelers are playing, or not Steelers, the Raiders are playing, don't go that weekend.

That's like $400 a night for everybody. Everybody's prices go up. can hate that. But our midweek plan? Perfect. Heck yeah. Yeah. Bill, real quick, I want to play a call that came in for you. Well, it's technically a transcription, but it's in the form of a call. It'll make sense when I play it. If I can find it, there it is. This is for you. It'll all make sense. Here you go. It's kind of for all of us, but here you go. Combining things. Hey, bowl and spatula and Bill, if you could combine two tools or implements into one to serve a multi-complementary purpose, like a spork what would they be used for and what would you call the combined tool asking because i

recently returned to a friend of mine a pencil affixed to a chisel her husband left at a flooring job site we had fun trying to imagine the purpose for the item and naming it penchiz which sounded a little dirty l-o-l cheers lcs lcs thank you for your uh for your service there and sending us that message you probably have some like janked together like combo tools that don't make sense unless you explain to somebody what you were thinking, right? I'm trying to think of something like that. I've made plenty of my own tools, but they tend to be single purpose. And in fact, I've found that when you buy tools, the more single purpose they are, the more

useful they are, and the more multipurpose they are, the less useful they are. Or the less good they are at each of those individual things. Right. Right. Yeah. Master, Jack of all trades, master of none, basically, is what it turns into. Sure. Yeah. I can't. Unfortunately,

I can't think of any examples because I tend to lean towards tools that are highly specific in what they do. Do you guys remember? They were telling us for the longest time

that we are never going to have this is like, think pre like trio, pre any kind of thing that resembled a smartphone. And I remember when we were starting

to have things happen like, oh, the camera's built into a phone or these other things are built into the phone. And people would say, well, that's going to be dumb.

that's like, again, it's the Jack of All Trades Master of None. They're worried that we are going to have these. It won't be as good as a real camera. Exactly. And now that's, it's just not true anymore. Like, they're great at all those things. Yeah, it's true. I mean, again, you can get your specialized like your, you know, your SLR and do some things with actual film that you can't do with something digital.

Sure. You know, you get zoom and hands, zoom in hands. But, but, but the best camera. What is the phrase, Bill? The best camera you have is the one that you have with you. It tends to be my phone. Yeah. That's just an interesting thing to think about, like, you know, music, it plays music,

it plays video, you can, all these things, we all take it for granted now. It's just like nothing to us now, but back in the day, this would have sounded crazy, you know? Yeah. Anyway, well, there you go. Bill is a highly specialized tool guy. Personally, I'd love to combine a 3D printer and a spray paint booth. So that, you know, while your print is sitting there cooling on the, on the place, you can then start spraying it and not getting paint everywhere and everything.

Everything will still work. Yep. Nailed it. Nailed it. Well, what did you bring today, Bill? I'm sure it's something very cool because we always like hearing from you. Sure. So a question for you.

Do you ever go back and listen to or watch your old work, your old shows or episodes? Sometimes. Sometimes. Very rarely, but it's usually for like, like I listen to an old film sack recently. and I don't remember what my, I was going through old files, I guess, and I saw one and I went, oh, this is that one that supposedly people think is really great that we did. And so I went and listened to it. And it's fun to do sometimes because I really want to hear myself, but it's fun to hear like we're in the process of making it. You don't always know what you're making. It's the same

with drawing and stuff for me. You don't really know if it's any good or not until I've had some time and then I can go back and go, oh, that was actually pretty good. That was a really funny episode. I didn't realize how funny that way. I should have promoted that one more, you know, things like that. So I will do that occasionally, but very rarely. It's just too much of it, you know. Yeah, I definitely don't. You don't go listen to like an old Coverville or something, like Coverville 2012.

No, no, no. No, it's a, and it's not one of those things like, I just take the sound of my own voice. But it's, you know, it's like, I don't know. I, maybe it's just I don't have time, right? I tend not to, although recently we've been trying to watch some of our old stuff. And there's a lot of reasons why not to watch them. We watch all our videos before they get published anyway. The final edit gets we watch it.

We sit down and just watch it real time. But also, like, when you're making content, yeah, you don't have time to watch content. I barely have time to watch all of my friends' content. In fact, I don't have enough time to watch all my friends' content. And we've made like 700 prop videos. It's just, it's just a monster to go through. Oh my gosh. That's a lot, dude.

That's a ton of content, you know. And if I look at my files, I got like 6,000 episodes of things. I'm not going to go back and, you know, do that very often. I'll tell you what, too, though. There are other forces that keep me from watching my old stuff. So, for example, maybe the video didn't perform as well as I had hoped. Like my Blade Runner Blaster video, I spent like six months working on that thing and almost nobody watched the video. Oh, man.

So that creates this mental block. And I don't want to, I haven't gone back and watched that video. I will at some point, but you get emotionally tied to this stuff. You do, you do. And when nobody's, when you work really hard on something and you find out you got like less engagement on the thing you worked on, that's kind of a bad feeling. It's unfortunate because we should just, you know, we talk about on the show all the time. We should do stuff just because we love doing it and you can monetize it great. But it is kind of disheartening when you do a thing you worked really hard on.

And then you find out, well, this one got 20 views. Yeah. Yeah. I don't know. Now on the flip side. Do you have any episodes or videos or anything like that that you are particularly proud of that you've gone back to watch? Well, TMS is a blur, right, Brian? Too much of it.

It's just too much. There's too much for us to go back. I mean, if I did go back and listen to things, it would be things like the Coverville 500, the, you know, the 1,000th episode, 800 was a, you know, one that I did specifically as a, as an episode to introduce new people to the show. So it was like, hey, if you've never heard an episode of Coverville, go listen to Coverville 800, and you'll get the type of show. Yeah, the just example. Exactly. So those would be ones that I'd go back and let's do. Interviews.

Howard Jones, Pat Boone, Jeanette Napolitano from Concrete Blonde, name dropping, name dropping. Don't trip over all that. There's a lot of bodies. I know. But those, but the interviews I had such a great time doing, those would be ones. Those are fun too, right? Because you want to, the other, what the other person was saying was like super interesting while you were being the interviewer and it's still interesting now, regardless of whether that you or not. So I'll do that with like the Metson interviews and stuff occasionally.

Yeah, I'll listen to those. For sure. I will say this. So like I'm trying to think of moments and one of them was some of them were kind of dumb. Like we did the hot tub episode, Randy and I did way back. I remember that. I forgot about that. That's one that sticks out my head, live, live nerd.

Natacular shows were always, you know, big moments. I have the photo on my phone from a live nertacular where jury was pouring a bag of chips on my face. One of my favorite moments of all time. I think I have that too somewhere. It's amazing. There's a great one of Tom Merrick kissing Ibit's head, which I treasure. Oh, yeah.

Yeah. I treasure that one. Tom made a face that said to me, he really, really had to, like, hunker down to make this choice to do, to kiss you on the head. And it's not just you. anybody to kiss anybody in the head in front of anybody i think was really hard for him i just the look in his eyes of like and i have video of it or something or giff i don't remember i have something but it's amazing like those kinds of things or finding out my yogurt soda was bad on

stage oh no yeah all those not a drop of that touched my lips i was a little hungover that day lucky man you're very lucky you may have hurled if you had tasted what i tasted it was pretty good are old without chasing any of it. But also there are time, like there are film sacks in particular that I think fondly of. Like someone in the chat or mentioned it, but the Street Fighter episode was one of my favorites. It also birthed one of Brian's greatest quotes of all time when he said shit, retiefted her, and I never forgot it. It's amazing.

There's lots of those sorts of things in that show. So it really just depends on the show and the content. Yeah, yeah. But I have some weird animation on YouTube that I put up there in like 2006, 2007. that I will go back to sometimes and I'm always surprised how much I liked it and how much I wish I would have kept doing it. It just was so time-consuming.

But they were just these cheeseball little flash animations that I turned into video and added my own sound effects and did all this stuff and I look at it now and I go, man, where's my gumption now? Why don't I make more animation? So yeah, it serves as that too, right? As like, hey, you used to do this. Why are you not doing that now?

Or why aren't you upping your game to match what you used to do. So yeah, yeah, to answer your question, yes. Occasionally we do. Sure. Now, like I said, we've been going back and watching some of our old videos. I've watched a lot of our older video for a while for our patrons. We were filming commentary on some of our shorter, older videos.

Over time, they started getting long and filming commentary for a 45-minute-long video. It takes a while. But things I've noticed while watching some of my older videos, including some of the newer ones. I really enjoy watching them. Turns out I've been making these videos for me. And I think that's a good thing. I've been making these videos as something that I would enjoy watching. And I've been consistent about that.

And I like that a lot. Sometimes I'll watch a video and I will have zero memory of filming it. We have filmed over 700 prop videos. And that's not counting all that we did a lot of behind the scene stuff. on our patron other four or five hundred videos for our patrons it's just so much to remember and it's bananas to watch me i know it's me doing something and have no memory of it yeah it's it's like film sack for us we do that every time have we seen this movie no maybe yeah all the time there's times where we have definitely seen it and nobody thinks we've seen it

we're just like how is that how is that possible to have zero memory of recording that episode but it happens uh something i think the the biggest thing i've noticed is the videos of that I enjoy watching the most are the videos that have friends or Britney in them. There's something about having me and my friends on screen making each other laugh and building something cool that makes me really happy and I want to do more of that. Those are the kind of videos I want to make. Yeah, you don't want sad, sad ones of you in the corner going, hey, it's Bill. No, there aren't any of those.

there are some that are awkward for sure. That's, uh, do you have any, how about that? Let me ask you this. Do you, do you have a barrier though when you watch your old stuff where you feel like, uh, cringe? I can't believe I said that. Like, that's what's hard for me sometimes is I'll hear an old, I don't know, ELR episode.

And I'll just think, why was anyone listening to this? What the frick was wrong with that? That's how it felt anyway. I feel that way when I, just the way I, I present to camera. That's something I've gotten a lot better at. But when I watch the old videos, I'm like, hey, this guy knows what he's talking about. I'm actually kind of impressed and surprised.

Yeah. So other than just being a little awkward in front of the camera, I don't cringe. I actually don't really do much cringing. And if I have to, I could just pretend that weird guy is Rob, my twin brother. Right. Exactly. What a weirdo. Who played it on Rob?

Yeah, shouldn't have him film this video. You always say you guys never did that stuff when you're younger, but now you can do it for, it's got a practical application. Oh, that video sucked out as Rob. It wasn't me. Yeah. Or that day in class, it was a terrible time during school. That wasn't, that wasn't Rob. That was Bill.

It wasn't me. I love it. I love it. Well, that's great. It's a good advice, you know, just don't always just throw your stuff. And this is, by the way, art advice, great advice, because sometimes you. Go back and view your. old stuff. When you're done, you're sick of it.

You're like, oh, I don't want to ever see this again. And then go check it a year later. And you'll be like, oh, it was all right. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You know? So anyway, Bill, do you have a little bonusy deal for this? I do. Tested over at Smarter Every Day. Did a video. He's done a couple of videos on the Prince

Rupert's drop, this glass drop that you can make. That's nearly indestructible. And then they put that glass drop into more molten glass. It's really cool. Oh, that is cool. They do. They spend a lot of time at a, um, glass, uh, blowing company and show a lot of different glass blowing technique. So it's a terrific video. Oh, that sounds, that sounds great. Oh, I just realized we didn't tell, we didn't tell. Put a link in the YouTube chat. Did you? Let's see. I'm not seeing it. Did it link? We don't have him blocked for linking,

do we should fix that if we do. I, uh, I posted it in the chat then. There we go. I've got there. Oh, weird. Yeah, that'll work. Uh, Awesome. Smarter every day. Yep. Which we all should be, you know? Yes. That's good.

I feel like it's a safe thing to say that everybody could use a little bit of smarter every day, you know? For sure. Look at this guy. What is he? Glass stuff scares me. Oh, really? Yeah, I don't know why. I find it fascinating because it's so hot.

Yeah, it must be it. Yeah. Very cool. Go check that out. And of course, Punish Props.com and the Punish Props YouTube channel, Bill Duran. It has been nothing. short of a pleasure to have you on today. Yeah. What do you say we go hang out, do this

next week in person? I think we should. Let's spend some quality time together next week. Have a good one in the meantime. I can't wait to smell you. Smell you later. Bye now. All right. My ASP is being a little weird. Hold on a second. That's what people are saying, yeah, that there's a little bit of laggy.

Yeah, it appears to be here, let me pause this for a second. One second, everyone. All right. We've resumed recording. We're back, and now time for Bobby, if I can remember to add him to the call first. Let's do it right now. Speaking of somebody we're going to meet next week. Yeah, we'll see again.

Bring in the misses, which is pretty cool. It's going to be nice, yeah. Yeah, I'm excited to meet whoever would marry Bobby, you know? It's going to be exciting stuff. Here's his intro thing. Science. Bob is hungry, and the soup looks good. It sure does.

Bob looks good, too. Look at you, Bobby with your hair pulled back, looking all suave. What's going on, man? Oh, not a lot. Yeah, just living life. That's a lie. There's been a lot going on. Oh, no, yeah, yeah. There are a few things going on.

People are busy. I know you guys got all your secret shit that none of us can know about that keeps you busy. But are, do you feel ready for next week? Do you feel, uh, do you feel prepared? Oh, I'm more than ready. I am, I'm excited even. Wow. High level of readiness.

Good. That's great. I'm not sure. I was looking for a word. I think excited. Is there a little anxious in there as well? Oh, for sure. I'm always anxious whenever, you know, people are involved. Yeah. When other humans are there, I get it.

Yeah. But we're the nicest, easiest humans you know, right? Yeah, I think, I mean, to be honest, it's true. I was out to dinner with my wife who is going to be. be coming with me and she was asking about you know we were just chatting about how fun it's going to be and I was telling her seriously the the the the people the TMS fans are just about the nicest people I've ever met so in your life in your whole life no maybe not maybe there's someone like your mom that's not even an exaggeration it is uh yeah it's just the truth oh your camera

and I'll blow down. No, I'm fixing it. Don't worry. That's all good. All behind the scenes, how the sausage is. Logitech G-Hub. Everyone's favorite camera software. It sucks.

It's really bad. I love Logitech. Can't stand that software. Bob, let's get to some science. Bobby hosts a science show, and so when he comes on here, we talk about science. So what's going on? What are we doing? I'm going to have, do you remember I told you how busy I was?

I'm going to have to say that my dog ate my homework. Um, that's the excuse that I have. So you want to talk about, uh, putting drone parts into taxidermy seagulls? Sure. I thought that was really funny. I, I'm with you guys. There's no, how in the, how are they going to expect? Like, if the, if the excuses that they're trying to study how birds flock, you know?

Yeah. Yeah. Because there is plenty to study there, right? Like, like, like, understanding what are the signals and behavioral, like, like, flocking behavior is emergent behavior and it's it's all you know some sort of algorithm inside the brain of each of those birds that when they get together they they behave in this certain way right worthy of study for sure trying to understand it's definitely worthy of study and it would be cool if you had a bird and you could control things about it like oh what if we have what how

do we have to do to make other birds follow this bird or what if we put this bird into the middle of the flock and do this, will it affect that, you know, you can, you can tease apart what kind of signals change the way that birds flock, but there's no way. I have a drone like one of those, those phantom DJI. Yeah. And when I turn that thing on, you can hear it from across the city. Right. Yeah, there's no. It sounds like someone is, is running. a weed eater in my ear. There's no way those birds are going to be like, like, oh yeah, he's just one of us. He sounds a little different, but he's definitely a bird like us.

I have an image in my head of like just a crowd of people and then some like, I don't know, some really, really janky, like, like, kit, like stack of kids in a trench coat walking. It's exactly what it is. like hey everybody I'm just a normal guy I will take two alcohols please you're not wrong I was looking at some video here

they put some up on the new scientist YouTube channel and it flaps I thought maybe it just hovered and its wings never moved oh no way really yeah so it flaps and so maybe we're missing part of this content which is like it flaps

pretty quickly but I can't tell if it makes sound is the problem it doesn't show the video is like got music over it so i can't tell so my guess is it's a little it's a high flute an idea that just didn't quite hold water yeah maybe so i do have i'm i've got a whole list of i haven't started my my picking what i'm going to talk about on on the podcast that's going to publish next week but i do have one here that i was started reading through that's uh about this the headline is uh science confirms the best kimchi is made in traditional clay jars. You might find that interesting. Oh my gosh. Yeah. So the best kimchi I ever had was made in a jar and was buried for like six months or something. It's the most

amazing, smelliest thing I ever to ate in my life. Totally stunk. Well, so I read through the article real fast and they said that they think what's causing it is that the clay jars are really porous and that it allows for the water, a very salty water, because you put a lot of salt. in when you're making kimchi. So it's seeping through the clay jars, the porous clay, and also allowing carbon dioxide to escape through the clay. So the general level of carbon dioxide is lower in the jar than, say, a glass or a metal container. And so they think that maybe what's going on, they think what's going on is that the bacteria,

that makes the kimchi taste good likes, it's lactic acid bacteria and it likes a lower carbon dioxide environment and the other stuff that makes kimchi not taste good is

other types of aerobic bacteria and aerobic bacteria, as I'm sure you guys know, loves carbon dioxide, so with there being less carbon dioxide in there, the aerobic, the bad, unwanted aerobic bacteria, there'd be less of that and more of the salt-loving lactic acid bacteria. Yeah, that is interesting, right?

Because it feels like they wouldn't have known the difference back then when people in ancient times were making early forms of kimchi. They just had clay pots. That's what they had. They stick them in there, bury it, and done. Exactly. Well, this one's a little more porous. I think this one will have a better flavor to it.

Yeah, I always find that interesting because they don't know. They don't have any idea until it's just working and they know it's good and people like it, but they don't know why. And I like studies like this because there's a lot of people who, especially when it comes to food and especially when it comes to like ancient wisdom, unquote, unquote, a lot of people are like, oh, people have been doing it for thousands of years. So it must be best. And so that type of thinking often leads to sort of confirmation bias and people just, you know, oh, it's supposed to be the best. So then, of course, I'm going to have this biased way of thinking. And then I will convince myself that it tastes better when maybe it doesn't really. You're just looking for it.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So these people are doing what scientists do and saying, you know what, we should actually look at this and see if it, A, it is better. So that's the first thing they did according to this article is they just made some batches of kimchi in a traditional clay pot and then other ones in other pots. And then they just blind taste tested it and then also measured it to see what kind of bacteria and stuff are in it. And then they looked at under like a microscope, like I think they actually used CT scans too to look at the very, the. microscopic structure of the material and what's going on there and stuff like that.

Again, a thing my brothers, you know, ancient ancestors would not have the wherewithal to do. They just knew it was good. Yeah, and they couldn't even test it in different things. Because that's another thing, you know, so I know that we talk, when it comes to construction, the Romans figured out a lot of really, a lot of things that we still use today, especially with things like concrete. Yeah. Yeah. And so a lot of people think, like, how did this?

they figured that out? You know, like, it's just amazing that they figured it out. And it's not like they just sat down and, and did a lot of the science that we can do today. And sure, they had a, the scientific method hadn't even been created then, but they, they, they were good thinkers and they also, a lot of people don't think about the fact that the Roman Empire lasted a real long time. I had a long time for trial and error. Exactly. That's what it is. So they had people whose job, if your job was to, if you made a living, building, building, as an architect or some sort of builder and you built things out of concrete you had a you know you had quite an interest in trying to figure out what the best way to make concrete is and so that's what you

did and you tried something and then you tried something else on a different structure and then you saw which one lasted longer and then you know you passed that knowledge on to because all of this was passed on through families right all these these trades were were usually passed on through families. Right. Or apprentices, if nothing else. And so you pass that knowledge on to the next person. The next person tries some different things.

But the reason I bring that up is because these clay pots didn't even have that as a benefit. Because what's the alternative, right? They didn't, I don't think, I don't know when glass was invented, but I don't think they had glass jars. And they certainly wouldn't have, I guess they might have had, like, bronze. Yeah, they could have had bronze possibly. So maybe they were trying other things. be. Yeah, but that would be just trial and error, right? They don't really understand the ins and out. It's like, oh, this one tastes like a Moscow mule. Let's not ever have this one again. Yeah. I assume. This is all the thought process, by the way, that I would normally go through before I came on. Before coming on the show. I would say, when was glass invented? Let me actually look that up. Did they have bronze pots back? Let me see. Yeah, no, this is like seeing how you make your sausage. That's right. Exactly, yeah. So let me ask you this. And I know this seems. It seems. separate, but to me, it's like the same process or the same kind of question.

And I'm sure data exists. I'm just, I just haven't looked it up. But you know that feeling when you're at camp or you're somewhere outside, food tastes better? You don't know why it does. It just does. If it's a peanut bread or jelly sandwich, that peanut bread, jelly sandwich is way better at the park than it ever would be in your kitchen. Except milk. Good point.

Milk is bad immediately in outdoors. You're right. I don't know. Exposed to sunlight. Yeah, yeah. Yeah. Gremlin. Yeah. Yeah. Well, I don't it's, yeah, if you take milk

outside, it's instantly disgusting. I don't know why anyone would drink milk outdoors. I don't either. It's gross. You're not wrong. But knowing that, what, there's probably science that tells us, it feels like Mythbusters may have done this even, but why I can have a hot dog at an outdoor

you know, I don't know, baseball park and have it be amazing. And not really that big of a deal. It's like kind of a poopy dog, but it's really good out there for some reason, you eat that same thing at home, you're just kind of bleh. I wonder why that is, you know?

Like, what's our deal? Do you think it's like, it can't be just pure, like, placebo? There's got to be more than that. Anyway, that should be an upcoming future thing you do. I think it's soaked in a ton of salt at the ballpark. And we just don't do that at home. I think there actually is,

there might be some actual food signs to it. But, yeah. Well, I don't know. I think, I think another, the point, part of the point Scott's making is that even if you make a burger at home, if you eat it in the backyard, there's something really good about that. Yeah, even if you made it in the house. And I agree with that, you know.

Yeah. But why, though. See, that's why I want to know is why. Maybe it's because you're outside and you're in tune with your primitive savage. Your primal existence. The fresh air combination. Yeah. Who knows?

I don't know either. But it makes me kind of want, you know, those tinfoil things, you heat up a bunch of of meat and veggies in a tinfoil ball and you cook it in a fire that sounds so good right now there's i mean most violent sports happen outdoors and violent murders most of them happen outdoors too that's a really good point we do all our best and worst work outside yeah i don't know why that is but there you are uh well that's uh cool i like having a little inside look at how you might come up with something for your next little bit of uh of science so there's nothing wrong with this uh why don't you explain to us what that show

is where to get it and what your last episode talked about. Yeah, well, we, our show is called All Around Science. Me and Mora do lots of science discussing, or is that a word discussing? Discussion. It's not, but I like it. Well, you know what? We do it. It's a shot foundry word.

Yeah, it's a shan foundry word for sure. That's very connery. You ever discussed your car? Yeah. But we talk about science. What's going on in the news? what's just going on in our heads what we're thinking about

and things that we find interesting in science called All Around Science yesterday, the latest episode that just came out. We talked about we're getting a lot of interest on this on social media. People are engaging with this a lot as migraines. A lot of people get them.

I've never had a migraine before. Lucky bastard. Yeah, that's what I'm hearing because my co-host, Mora, gets migraines and she looked into it and we talked a lot about the science. What we do know and a lot about what we don't know. Because if you've never had a migraine before, if you've had a migraine, you know this.

But if you've never had a migraine before, a migraine is very literally not just a bad headache. It's something different. In the brain, what's happening is different. A headache, you know, is just swelling of blood vessels in your head that causes pain. But a migraine is totally different. And so we talk about that. and it seems that people are really liking this one. So you should check that out all around science.

I've only, I can count on one hand how many times I've had them, but every time I have one, worst thing. It's the worst. And lots of migraines are very different. There's a very wide range of experience with migraines. That's part of what makes it so hard to study and why we don't know a lot about it. I wish mine wasn't so painful. My sister gets them to, my sister, Misha, she gets them really bad.

She has to lay in the dark for like two hours to get rid of them. I wish they weren't the painful kind. Because I have heard of kinds that were like, oh, you just kind of feel euphoric for an hour or you see bright lights. Exactly. I've never heard of that before. Exactly. Brian, there's some people just have all sorts of symptoms, but pain is not always one of them. Some people get euphoric after a migraine is over. So you go through all the pain for several hours and then you wake up and you feel great and you have lots of energy. Some of them are just visual. There was a famous, I forgot his name, guy that was on NPR all the time doing. doing brain neurology segments and he's from a different country and I can't remember his name because I don't remember names today but anyway this guy he had a version called visual something anyway

basically it was a visual thing he would hallucinate or he would see things that weren't there and he knew what it was he knew it was part of his migraine but the migraine would happen no pain but he would see people and stuff happening that weren't really there wow that's pretty did they ever come true like were they you know like premonitions seeing the future or alternate realities or something? I don't think so, but what a, probably more like my stupid dreams or none of it makes sense and why wouldn't you do it. But, um, but that's fascinating to me. So do check it out everybody. Big show coming up. That's all around Skyance, which you can find. I'll see you guys in less than a week. Yeah. Yeah. In Lost Vegas Sunday. Five days, something like that. I mean,

are you excited beyond control? Because I kind of am. I'm very excited. I'm having difficulty controlling myself day to day. Yeah. Yeah. Same. Sure. Every once in a while, I just start flailing like a Muppet. Yeah. You got to be careful because if you show too low on the Muppet, you see where the hand goes up your butt. You don't want that. You can't have that.

I am not interested in that. No. Bobby, have a great week. We'll see you next time. I guess we'll see him in Vegas. That's where we'll see him. Yeah. We'll see that will be the next time.

See you next time. You know where we see you? The next time will literally we'll see you in Vegas. How about that? That's right. We will visually see you. I found, so a couple quick things. I found, before we go,

I found a, let's see if I can find the name. Okay, there we go. I found a thing that it just kind of cheered me up yesterday. I was kind of having a rotten mood day. I don't know why. I just didn't. I think there was a storm coming and I react to that crap. It's weird.

Anyway, speaking of weird things, somebody named Andrew, I don't have his first name or his last name. I do have his first name. He is somebody who left me a note at Nurtacular 2017. It was somebody who didn't ever have a chance, and he included your name and a few other host names. He never had a chance to talk with any of us personally, which is something we always tried to do with those events, right?

Always try to be available to everyone all, whatever. We're not up on some perch. Everyone, everyone all at once. Yeah, everyone all at once. And he said, he said he didn't get a chance to do that. He didn't want to bother us and all the sort of stuff. But then there's just really long, nice letter that just said the nicest things about us, about the network, about the content we make.

And I know it was 2017. It's been some time now. I just want that, Andrew, to know if you're still listening to TMS, which he spoke very highly of in the letter. I just wanted you know it made my day better yesterday. So thank you for writing that all that time ago. And I'm glad I keep those things. I have a whole stack of that kind of crap. Oh, for sure.

Yeah, but older. And then one other note, a member of our community, Zomniaks in the chat occasionally, having some gnarly surgery this week. And just a shout out to him. Everybody be thinking about Zomniak. Some of you probably know him. He bought us breakfast last

year at TMS Vegas or about some people. I don't know if I was there for the for the Zomniak breakfast, but yeah, super generous awesome. Just an awesome dude and is currently just going through some rotten business. So anyway, I want to wish him nothing but the best during this week because he deserves it. For sure. Okay, that's it for us. Don't forget to join us on Patreon. That $2 threat may happen sooner than later. I've got to talk to Patreon to figure out of how this works. but you all you know if you want to bump it up to that one that happens great if you want to stay where you're at your grandfathered in don't worry but now's the time to get in if you want to lock in that dollar uh head on over to patreon dot com slash tms you'll never get ads you pre-show content every day post show as well you get couch parties on the weekend art in the mail and other great monthly benefits that you can read all about over there maybe eventually we unlock the frogpants all stars who knows who knows maybe someday someday will happen that's patreon dot com slash tms let's get out of here brian you got a little a little song for the end of the show today, or what? I do. I've got a little tribute here, a little sad story.

Simon, aka Conquer 87, wrote in and said, My partner of 11 years passed away last year on April 16th. Her favorite band was Bullet for My Valentine, and it would be great to hear it would be awesome to hear any cover by or of their work for the year anniversary of her passing. Sad tribute today going out to Simon, but hopefully a song that you like. This is from their 2018 album, Gravity. I think this is a bonus track on that deluxe edition of that album. Here's a bullet from my Valentine, their cover of Imagine Dragons radioactive.

All right, that's going to do it for us. Thank you all for listening and watching. And by the way, as a reminder, if you like watching or would like to be a part of the live watch of the show, that happens Monday through Thursdays, right here at frogpants. At 9am mountain time, 8 a.m. Pacific, 11 a.m. Eastern. Sorry, Central, we're not talking about you today. do the math do the freaking math all right that's going to do it for us thank you all for listening we'll see you next time I'm waking up to ash you dust

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