The Morning Stream - TMS 2460: Popeye Soprano

Episode Date: May 4, 2023

You can't script Clare. Oh shit it's Chuck. Ease into a Slim Jim. Unloading Mr Carbonara. I Don't Like Bear Jerkyyyyyyy. Hats off to your fauxhawk! May the Fert be With You. Didja Ever Lose Your Porn Card? I Don't Like One Million Beeeeees. Wait, that video was for the Pandas? Booger Bedecked. No Porn in the Utah. Weinersmith! Everybody loves Puppets with Amy. She's Normal, How Weird, 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, you can't script Claire. Oh, shit, it's Chuck. Ease into a slim gym. Unloading Mr. Carbonara. I don't like bear jerky. Hats off to your footh. May the furt be with you. Did you ever lose your porn card?

I don't like one million bees. Wait, that video is for the pandas? Bugger be decked. No porn in the Utah. Wiener Smith. Everybody loves puppets with Amy. She's normal. How weird.

Wendy and more on this episode of The Morning Stream. As the president of the United States, I ask you, save all mankind. I'll try. I've purchased a blockbuster. I swear, M-S-S-D-S-D-M-S-S-S-D-M.

I swear by my pretty floral bonnet, I will end you. This is the morning stream. Yeah, noticed our pal Scott Fletcher in the chat today. He's in there. Yes. It's always nice to see him.

You know, I don't always think it's a check for his name, but today I didn't. There he is. Hey, everybody, it's the morning stream. It's May 4th. Let's get it out of the way now. Yeah, May 4th. No other syllables need to be said between the words May and 4th. It is May 4th.

Happy May 4th. Happy May 4th. the 4th of May, okay? May it be with you, I guess. I guess. I don't know. By the way, I mean, you know, my contribution to this is that I'm wearing a Star Wars Hawaiian shirt. Oh, look at you. Do you call it a Hawaiian shirt? It's a blueprint shirt. I don't know if it's like a... It's blueprints of all of the... It feels very Hawaiian, though. Like, if you saw it from a distance, you might go, oh, look at Brian in his festive Hawaiian dress suit. Exactly. I'm standing there. I'm sitting next to a dark

Darth Vader head and a stormtrooper head. Does this count? Okay. All right. Are we comparing, are we comparing Star Wars trinkets on our desk? No, yours are, you're going to have more and let's not do it. I have a little 3D printed. Grogu reaching for a ball. Oh, give me the ball. He's so cute. Give me the ball. Brian's, he made me a Mandalorian, but he's too far to reach. He can't reach him. Right behind me, I got a, that's actually a person in that storm for pursuit. That's a real, that's a kid. This is what Scott is one to hold up. It's like, yeah, look at that. Oh, that. Oh, that's actually. That is exactly what I have. I don't even know, like, looking at these guys, are they, I think Grogu's a little big for, to be scale to the Mandalorian. Maybe not. Maybe they're actually the right size for each other. Kind of hard to say. I need to see comparative. He seems like his head's a little big.

Grogu's head. Well, Grogu's head is in proportion to his body. So if his head's big, his old body's big, too. Yeah, he might be a little big then. Might be a little. If I had to guess, the ratio is off. I think so, yeah. but it's okay yeah these aren't the kind of things we have to worry about in our life it's fine

um hey everybody welcome to the show we're back and we got a Thursday thing uh lined up for you um i would like to uh i like to do this at the top of the show for whatever reason when you guys ride in with important information we like to read these things early and so we got a whole you know we talked about that cruise ship to put the body in the drink thing and it didn't really work in the drink cooler yeah which is funny because right now my my mom is on a cruise currently on a cruise currently docked in Costa Rica. Nice. And she did say that last night there was a medical emergency,

but she did not go into detail on what the medical emergency was. So maybe the cooler on that ship is occupied now by a corpse. I wonder how often it is. I'll bet every cruise has at least one moment of something, right? Oh, I'm sure. Yeah, some sort of, I mean, that's why you got, Dr. Bricker. You can't be, you can't be hooking up with all the pretty ladies all the time. There has to be some sort of medical emergency.

But, you know, like, this thing of, like, 6,000 people sometimes on these ships? Yeah. Just by the numbers? There's someone's going down. Yeah. Somebody's, maybe not dying, but having some sort of medical. Yeah, having something go on. Yeah.

And a lot of people throw up. And some of them go to the medical thing and go, oh, I don't know why. I've never been seasick before. And it turns out they're just seasick because it was really rough or something. Yeah. But anyway, we got this from Jimmy G. All right. Jimmy G.

It sounds like a mobster. Somebody, Tony, would tell to go do a thing. Hey, uh, have Jimmy G over with the service some gabagoo.

There are certain things I can't bring up and then expect Brian not to do impressions around them. And that's 100% fine that that's true. But I always, I always have to think of it first. But yes, you do a great Tony soprano. I do a horrible Tony Soprano. It's like, uh,

it's like a Popeye as the It's Popeye Soprano, basically, is what it is. It's Italian Popeye. I love it. You know, you're going to give me the spinach. Carboa. Carbole, you're going to give me. Yeah, exactly.

And you've got those huge, you get those huge forearms like Popeye as well. Yeah, that's right. I do. Exactly. Hi, Scott and Jerry. I don't know, or Tom and Jerry. I don't know why I said Scott. He says, I'm responding to your thoughts about the deceased body being stored in the

refrigerator on a cruise ship. I am a retired Coast Guard vessel inspector. Oh my gosh. Cool. We have the coolest listeners who do the coolest shit. We do. We really do. Yeah. It says, no, really, this is a thing.

And I can tell you that, yes, indeed, that storing bodies in the fridge is also a thing. The newer cruise ships have formal morgues, but older class vessels do indeed use the walk-in refrigerators to store deceased passengers. I have stood on the pier many times as a cruise ship was mooring up early in the morning and watched as they transferred a corpse from the vessel before the passengers ever depart. from the same vessel. Love the show though, Jimmy. Wow.

So probably more than we thought. Probably, yeah. Just a hush, hush kind of thing like, all right, let's get Mr. Carbinar. We're going to unload him off. Mr. Carbonara. Mr. Carbonara. I'm going to keep with the Italian monster names. It sounds like an old Italian guy who disembarked from Florida.

Vito Carbonara. Yeah, Vito Carbonara. He ate too much at the buffet. He's had one too many. Yeah, it's interesting to me that that's a thing, but I guess it makes sense. And there are probably worse ways to die, you know, if you're going to die on a thing. Yeah, you know, that's true, right? Die on a cruise ship.

Die in the middle of the ocean, the seagulls flying by. Yep. Yeah, why not? You know, why not? I don't, I just, and they'll get their body back to the wherever it needs to go because their boat. Right, right. You know, it's not a problem.

I feel bad for any grieving relatives. You have to ride the rest of that trip without the people. That would be rough, but it's good to know. Thank you, Jimmy, and that's awesome that you used to do that. What do you do now? Like, where do you go from that? If that's your job. Yeah.

Where to now, Jimmy? Retired Coast Guard vessel inspector. Maybe he's just retired, straight up. Maybe he takes people out on deep sea fishing expeditions, right? He's got his love of the sea. He's got his sea legs. He can take people out, strap him into one of those chairs on the back of a boat and have them catch sailfish. I love it.

A great plan. Great retirement plan. Like an old guy sitting at the, sitting on a stump in there in Alaska with a sign that says fishing trips four bucks or whatever. Yeah, like a, with a cigar in his mouth, it's never lights, but it just chews on the end. Yeah. I love this. This is good.

Yeah. Here's another one from Jesse. Jesse says. It's about bear meat again. We talked about bear meat. Sure. He did the very non-jokey version of us. He says, hi, Scott and Brian.

Okay, so that's, you know, he keeps it, he keeps it straightforward, keeps it, keeps it clear. That's what they say about Jesse, for sure. Jerky Jesse here is one that makes the amazing jerky. Yes, oh, I need to order a new bag from him. Speaking of which. I need to talk to him. I wonder if they do, so there's a lot more sugar in jerky, jerky than I knew before. And I wonder if I can get like a low sugar jerky.

I imagine you can, right? Just do like a salt, the salt and pepper jerky as opposed to a terriaki or something that's got a sweetness. That's what I was thinking. We got some of the Trader Joe's once, and the big difference I noticed is non-sugary jerky is kind of dry and loose. It doesn't really hold together. It breaks up a lot. Right. It isn't chewy.

You can't, you basically can break off pieces of a need as opposed to having to bite it and chew it off. Yeah, instead of snapping into a slim gym, I sort of ease into a slim jump. Bend into a slim jump. There you go. I mush into one. Anyway, he says, I heard Thursday's episode we were talking about Japanese trapped bear meat and wondering if, sorry, and wondered if in jerky form, it might be better. I figured I would weigh in with my professional jerky opinion, bear jerky sounds gross. It does.

Keep up the good work, guys. So, yeah, it does sound gross, but why? Why do we not like that idea? Does it just? Just because we know that there's a range of gaminess and we're okay with, like, deer and, and elk and stuff like that. But as you start progressing further and further, it feels like bear would go further into the gamey flavor.

Yeah. And I don't like that weird sort of, like I'm eating too many of the body's oils or something. I don't even know how to describe that. But if you eat like venison, you kind of get an idea of what that is, or even like rabbits like this for me. Yeah.

I've had a rabbit a couple times. and it just tastes like a, like, I'm not supposed to be eating these parts of a thing. Yeah, right. Like, it's a greasier meat. Yeah. And I understand that, you know, people got to eat what they eat wherever they eat it, but it's not my thing. Yeah. Jesse, thank you for that.

And Walter did you wrong. Okay, moving on. Science. Science. Science bitch. We're going to add, oh, this is weird. Oh, it wants to confirm that we're doing a group. That's weird.

All right, anyway, we're bringing Amy in. That's what we're doing. And we're going to play her little theme here, which is right here. One of the things that I enjoy also is reading. Yes, that's right. I also like reading. And so does our guest, Amy Robinson. You know her as Amy, but also Red Fraggle 3.

And she's also freshly back from a whirlwind trip to Las Vegas, Nevada. Welcome back, Amy. How are you? It's true. It's true. Hello, friends. Oh, my gosh. How are you?

Did you guys upgrade your stuff? because you sound amazing today. Holy crap. No, it's all same stuff. I don't know. Wild. You sound so good at the moment. Yeah, you sound really good.

Yeah. All right. Whatever you did, don't touch anything. Just let it all sit the way it is. You're perfect. Use a Sharpie and mark all of the bars and the knobs of the settings that you've got right there. Just keep it there.

Yep. Right. Yeah. Like, just I need to like just make sure, you know, put, make marks of where I'm sitting in my chair and where my microphone is and all that stuff. I do that once in a while. If I make any kind of changes, I take an overhead picture of my mixer just to make sure I remember where everything is. Yeah.

So I have a whole folder full of these, like stages. I should delete old ones. Like, I have pictures of a mixer. I don't own anymore. I've thrown it out. But I still have them because I'm a pack rat that way. Oh, sentimental. Yeah.

I'm sentimental about my overhead mixer photos. I just can't get enough of them. Who knows when my grandkids will want to look those up. Anyway, you may end up with one of those mixers someday in the future and you'll want to know the settings. That's right. Yeah, it's not at all because you don't feel like going through all that and cleaning it out. It's not that at all. Not that at all.

No. Well, it's wonderful having you on. I mentioned this to you directly, but I just wanted to say that my speaking grandchildren, my grandson, Van, loves this puppet. Oh, I'm sure he does. I thought it'd freak him out. I really did. I thought it would weird him out. Even the baby, even Phoebe is not freaked out.

She just kind of stares at it when you hold it in front of her. but yeah man kids love puppets i think that's i think that's a big reason why puppetry became a popular thing with kids is because they're just they're fascinated by them yeah yeah what's not to like look at this guy look at this dude here he's a freak he's a freak it later uh that's awesome uh so amy let's throw it over to you you got uh some recommendations for us thoughts feelings whatever you got i do yeah well first of all there's way too many to show shout out to from Vegas, but I just thank everybody because I, you know, I just had such a wonderful time. And yeah, that was, that's it. Oh, good news though. I should, I should mention this.

I totally, you reminded me of this. The show we did, the live show there is now up in audio and video form. So if you want to see Amy's, Amy and Chuck do their, their surprise puppet thing. It's up on YouTube now and you can go check it out. You know what? I wish. Great to watch again. I would like I turned it on just like, oh, I want to see how the, how the video looks. And I completely got hooked and watched the entire puppet show. And the beginning of our stuff, it's like I just had to see, I couldn't look away from it. I couldn't stop watching it. It was great.

I actually watched it last night, right, you know, right as I was getting ready for bed. And because, of course, I didn't see it. I was performing it. So it was really good. We got actually a better response than I had internalized while I was performing it. So that was awesome. I wish that I had asked somebody that was sitting over on that side of the room to film y'all's reaction. Because, you know, I would have loved to have seen, you know, y'all's faces when these puppets of you popped up and stuff like that.

You know, I can hear the crowd reacting. We were laughing. We were laughing so hard. With every, you know, with every Scott and Brynism that you'd pull up, you know, the introduction that you did of, I'm Scott. and that's Brian and dude we are. I'm glad we cleared that up for people. And me, you know, going through all of the non-winning answers for Tad Pooley Feud, three points, and this for three, and this for three. I love it.

Because we don't see, we don't even see our own stereotypes sometimes. So to have those portrayed by puppets was a very nice, very nice moment. And for the record, Brian, I typed out. I transcribed and typed out the entire Tad Pooley feud. introduction, word for word, Chuck just can't read. So, you know, that's, that's that. I do like the point that you had to coach Chuck on, uh, show me. I know.

I was like, dude, say show me. I was like waiting for that. I'm like waiting for, you know, now that part of it. Everything after the point where we call the Claire is completely unscripted because you can't. I figured, yeah, because you've got Claire. Yeah. Yeah. You can't script Claire.

Good luck, right? Plus, you know, it was a game. So we had to kind of riff off of, you know, the answers and stuff. But yeah, like all of that was unscripted. So I realized later I should have put in there like after each answer, say, you know, show me or survey says or whatever. But no, I didn't do that. And so that was awkward. But it was still funny.

So, yeah. I've heard from a couple of people, a couple people that were there way back in the like the cheap. seats in the rear. And they had a hard time live seeing us. They could hear us great, but they couldn't see us very well. Because we were low. We weren't on the stage. We were down low. And I got like two, three emails last night saying, hey, I'm really glad. These are people that were there. They're like really glad you posted this video because we really couldn't see it. So now this is... Yeah, that's the only problem I had with the Sand Dollar is that their stage is so short. And they've got the acoustic, what do they call that? The panels are

around the drum that keep the sound from the drum from bleeding into the other microphones, the vocal mics and that sort of thing that takes up so much room. There would be no room, unless Scott and I just stood on the stage, but then there'd be no room for, you know, for any of the guests. So next year, we just got to make sure that the tallest people get the booths in the back and the short people get the tables in the front. Yep. Right.

As I jokingly said, we're going to line everybody up by height and then we're going to let them into the into the sand dollar to get their seats. I love it. So like Zoe gets to sit in the front. Zoe, Claire. Exactly.

Yes. That's amazing. I'm not going to name all of our. But we've got we've got people like oh my gosh. One of my competitors in the arcade thing.

This is where I start forgetting people's names. I played against her, but a husband is really tall. She's not. as tall. And so how would we, do we split them up? How do we do this? What do we, what do we do? Right. Right. Yeah. Exactly. Well, the answer is we have KT data, film it. That's the solution. Yeah. And which, by the way, oh, many props to him. He's amazing. So, so cool. And like that, I, like, I, I shed a little tear when his little, his little Chiron went across the screen when I said the thing

about like do you think any of these people on Fremont think we're like actual famous people because we've got like this entourage of cameras following us and then KT Data put you're famous to me Amy and I was like oh my God that's adorable little additions both he and Hammond their little additions to the TM the taskville stuff were just great his like when when you guessed randomly guessed Luxor a spoiler alert for people I haven't seen the video but randomly guest Luxor in the right place and Hammond gave this look and KT Data sent me the screen grab of that and I said you what you had to do was put in the metal gear solid sound to go along with it that cracked me up so bad he did it it was he did such a great job

with all that stuff because there was that moment of like wait did she just accidentally get one of those right she accidentally randomly out of you know however many casinos but that existed in 93 that still exists she still got one that was in the right plans. Yeah, that was like your, that was like your version of Vegas itself. Like the house rules say that you should have not gotten any of those, but you did. Nice job. Right. Exactly. I know. I was, I was excited about that. I was like, oh, that's awesome. So, yeah. And also, like, if Bill is listening, I hope I didn't freak you out too much. So you guys know, you've met me. I tend to be, I manage usually to keep my cool around people I admire and whatnot. Man, Bill Durand showed up. And I just. fan girled all over him. Yeah. I was like, oh, my. It's like, because I, I love, I love making things. I love his videos. I subscribe to Adam Savage's channel. I just, I just love being inspired to make stuff. And so, and that's what Bill does. And it's clear with your, your puppets and your bowls and

your cups and, uh, your whatnot. Fantastic. Yep. I agree. Well, uh, awesome. Well, it's good to, it's great to, uh, that you were there. So thank you for being part of that. And Chuck, too. It was super fun. Yeah, no, no, no, no, no smearing on Chuck. Chuck's quite the, the dude. We like Chuck a lot. That's right.

Oh, I will say, Chuck. Yeah. You know, as people frequently say these days, chopped liver. He's not chopped liver. No, when I will say this about Chuck. He wrote on his name tag, Amy's person. Oh, my Lord.

He did. Yeah. I will say this, though, when Chuck's out walking around and is in the sunlight and he's maybe wearing a hat, I swear he was Scott Fletcher every time I saw him. It's really weird. It was, yeah. Yeah. I think I one time poked him said Scott and he went.

turn around. I'm like, oh shit, it's Chuck. So that happens. Oh, shit, it's Chuck. It's a good title. Somebody get that in there. Uh, all right. Amy, what do you got this week for the readings? Let's get this going today. Today we have, oh, this is so awesome. I'm so excited to, to share this with you guys. So I'm going to attempt to share my screen here. Oh, okay. See if I can do this because today we have, uh, we have, we have, we have, an illustrated novel, and it's fantastic. Can you guys see? Yeah, I totally see it.

I'm going to pull it up for everyone else to see. All right. Got it. Nailed it. Cool. All right. It's a little small, but is it as big as that will be? I can, because I can crop it or something.

I don't know if that's anything. Well, you know what? I'll just blow it up. Will the panels go wider than that is what, yes. In other words, because then Scott can crop it just to that. Yeah. I don't think they will. I'm trying to zoom in here because it's on.

Yeah, no. The bigger I try and mean is when you go to page 12, will the, will there be panels that are wider? Oh, oh, no. Okay. Yeah. Oh, yeah. I can totally do that. All right.

So I will do that while you're, while you're talking. So, yeah, continue on. Cool, cool. All right. Plans were stenciled. A safe house for kids, strong against foes. A high hall built hard. binding oak and aspen, bridging tree and time. The ladders were delicate, booger-bedecked, dotted with

dead bugs so no bedtime-bearing adult could bend the treehouse boards. Treeheart was the hall's name, sky-born stronghold, helmet of kids, Rogers Thanes gathered throneside, thirsty for adventure, Freeing Frisbees lost beyond the fence shields of fun haters, wielding water balloons by slingshots, scattering teenage smooch fests. Songs of those battles were sung well beyond bedtime by night when butts bent benches. Roger broke bars of chocolate, doling dolls, gum, games containing content not intended for kids. Roger Hallcrafter, fence climber, bar breaker, that was a good king. But Treeheart's triumphs turned many a tormented eye. Safety inspectors scowled, saying structurally unsound, what slugs,

and privacy-starved teens passed by pining over the Aspen Palace. But one age-withered Nightwalker nursed more wickedness than all others. He would stride the starless dark, staring over the hedge, stirring his temper, harrowing his hearing, hating the gum-smacking, the blowing of bubbles, the butt-jokes and belching laughter, the bursting of bang snaps, the vast, volumed video games of no educational value whatsoever. Oh, how he listened by night, loathing tree-hearts, fun lovers, Mr. Grintz. He was called, for his father was Mr. Grindle and his mother was Mrs. Grindle, and that is how names work. From Grindle's family grew all the fun grinders, the grim-faced joy gobblers, the homework hurlers, hailing problem storms, the kid bulliers, cruel to kindergartners, cowards when shields clash, the rule barons like rhombuses, rigid but bent, the fun confiscation. finders of nothing, keeping all. The shushers, scolders, grounders, scraping of screen time, the gradegivers, unclad but grinning, red in pen and eye. The fiends who fibed with food,

feasting on celery, fouled with cottage cheese. Cheese boats, they style these arcs of sorrow. What snakes! But Grindle outgrimmed all. Grindle, gloom, guardian, teacher of grief, born, mustache-mouthed, tie-bound, barren of boredom, yearning for plain yogurt, yokeless eggs for every breakfast, binge-watching, cable news, brows, burdened eyes empty. Those who felt Grindle's finger grew old, fog-eyed and furrow-faced, kitties became cats, piglets, pigs, calves, cows, elastic, waistbands withered from undies like time-worned parchment, eyes paled and lips parted, pouring forth unsought political opinions. He would move about by the hall, mourning and moonlight, because strictly speaking, Treeheart illegally overhung his property. But never had his kid hate been kindled so keenly as one autumn evening everlasting in the annals of evil. Wow.

This artwork's awesome. Who's the artist? Oh, my God. It's so good. Right. Isn't it good? So this is B-Wolf, which is kind of by the title, you could tell it is a retelling of the story of Beowulf. Oh, of course.

Yeah. Yeah. And, well, it's a smidgen of Beowulf. If they were to do this, like all of Beowulf, it would take like 800 pages. But, yeah, this is like. like a small portion of some of Beowulf. And it's fantastic. The author, as you can see, his name is Weiner Smith.

Yep, yep. That's great. Love it. Let's get it out now. Love it. Right, exactly. Go ahead. Bring on the titles.

Zach. Oh, this is Zach. I know Zach. He's like a friend. He does a comic called, oh, shit. I don't remember the name of the comic strip. That's where he got started. I know Zach Wiener Smith.

He's awesome. Yeah, he's a totally cool dude. Yeah. Anyway, I can't believe it took me that long to figure that out, but that is totally Zach. Anyway. Well, that's awesome. And the art is by Boulet, apparently. So, yeah.

And, I mean, as you can see, the art in this is fantastic. And I devout. It's obviously it's a kid's book. But, I mean, it's a little bit, it's kind of like the, which, what, what, what, it feels like the same. Fortunately, the milk. Yeah. Like, yeah, it feels like a graphic novel of the kids from the sandlot, except instead of a baseball field, they have a tree house.

Yeah, that's exactly it. And, you know, like I say, it's the retelling of Beowulf and, you know, Grindle is, instead of eating people's heads, he turns them into adults. And, yeah, and so it's, it's great. It is joyful. It is, it's everything you want in a, in a kid's book. They make fun of teenagers, you know, for, you know, having hair in weird places and stuff like that. And, you know, there's, you know, piles of bubble gum and, you know, what I can't remember, like, fiberless fare and stuff like that. And the, the verbiage is beautiful and poetic.

It's so literative in places. It's so poetic, yeah. Right. And he uses, oh, wait, I'll show you guys this. At the very end, there's like an appendix where he talks about, you can see here, he talks about kind of the history of Beowulf and how old English is nothing actually like English. And, yeah, and like, where's the part? I'm looking for it here. Yeah, here's where he like he goes through like explaining like what a what a throng is and and you know like how this A.E. symbol in old English and all this kind of stuff. So I don't know. I just think it's really, really cool the way he wrote this. Oh, and then he talks about he talks about the concept of kenning, which is essentially like sort of making a little bit of a word riddle. So, you know, instead of.

a sea, you would have like a whale road or, you know, like a, you know, where is it? He had a bunch of good ones in here. Yeah, like a storm of swords would be a battle and seawood is a boat, things like that. That's cool. So, and I like, I was like, oh, cool. That's a kenning is the word for that. I was like, this is really neat. In addition to having lots of fun reading this, I learned a thing.

That's cool. Um, you know, and her, you know, his daughter was coming up with some when he told her about and she called herself the joke teller and her little brother was the diaper stinker, you know, which I think is hilarious. That sounds right. Sure. So. Sure. So yeah. So yeah.

So yeah. So yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Real quick here, um, because I was dumb and couldn't remember it. His comic is called Saturday morning breakfast cereal or SMBC. That's, uh, so you're looking for that.

Oh, yeah. I remember that. Yeah. He's, he's great. He even had a podcast for a while with his wife called The Weekly Weenersmith, but I don't think they're doing it now. I can't remember. Anyway, he's a real cool dude, and I did not know about this book.

I don't know how I didn't know this. So this is very cool. Well, I have to give credit where it's due. Our friend, Jeff B, from one of my friends from Real Steps, actually recommended this to me. And, yeah, I immediately ran out and got a copy at, well, you know, a Kindle copy. obviously. But intentionally, so that I could share a little bit of it with y'all. And yeah, it's fantastic. And it's really fun. I love the idea of taking these classic sort of juggernautish

works of literature that are long held by English teachers and professors as like the magnum opus, you know, this this mountain of literary. giant that you have to you have to climb right and taking it and turning it into a kid's story like that that you know like the idea that maybe the odyssey is a kid in the bathtub playing with toys and you know stuff like that i i love i love concepts like that i love it when people make things like this so i i i greatly enjoyed this plus it doesn't hurt that you know he turns a beowulf into be wool and girl, you know, which is awesome. This is the most Zach Weiner-Smith stuff ever. This is like his whole vibe. If you follow him on Twitter, it's almost 100% like super philosophical questions. Really?

About life and things and what does this word really mean when we use it every day? And like he's all his brain works the way this book has written. It sounds like. So very cool. I love that. Well, yeah. Everybody go out, get it. Even if you don't have kids, like the kid in you will enjoy this.

you know so nice i mean i don't i'm at a point where you know all i have are are teenagers so in fact i'm about you know three months away from sending my kid off to college yeah oh my gosh my oldest you're that's a big that's a huge new step in your life that's a big deal i know i know it's it's it's it's kind of weird it's kind of weird but i'm excited for him you know i'm excited for him to go and choose his own adventure as it were yeah that's awesome uh well very cool go check it out again it's B-Wolf B-E-A Wiener-Smith and B-Lay the art is amazing I love it

yeah it's really really cool yeah and do that today it's everywhere you get books Amy anything else you'd like to mention before we go no well we are planning another Southeast meetup again it'll be sometime in the fall we haven't quite we thought we had

nailed down a date and then it turns out as the aforementioned kid who got into Vanderbilt has to be moved into a dorm that the weekend that we picked. So how inconsiderate of them not to think about me. How very rude. Yeah.

I know. Right. So anyway, we're going to nail down a different date. But stay tuned for that. And everybody, you know, whether you're in the southeast or not,

if you want to, if you want to travel a long way, come hang out with us. Come do it. Sounds good to me. It's Amy and she's red faggle, I'm going to say that wrong. Red fraggle three,

wherever you find. find her amy have a great week we'll see you next time you too bye bye bye oh man i almost said something terrible there um all right we are uh to the phase of doing a little bit of news here on the show sure and so brian let's do that with some panache here and dance by the light of the moon it's time for the news brought to you by part five of frog pants plays resident evil four remake shit potatoes with Scott and John is up and out on the YouTube channel. Check it out at YouTube.com slash Scott Johnson.

Yeah, go watch. It was fun. Playing with John's a hoot, as usual. And I'm scared of everything, and he knows everything. I love that he's so calm, too, like, oh, yeah, you're not going to want to go in there. Oh, that's a pretty scary thing. You're like, ah! Yeah, no, he doesn't get scared at anything.

His first time through these games, if something is like a jump scare, he might go. Oh, like that? Not me. I lose my mind. So he knows all this stuff because he's played through this game five times now. He loves this game. Yeah. Oh, really?

Wow. Okay. So he just knows it. No, he is dedicated. And so when I walk into a new place that I've never seen, he knows exactly what I'm walking into. And he just doesn't warn me. He's just like, oh, yeah, go over there.

And I'll walk over there. It just directs you right. Yeah. And then some nightmare happens. Yeah, it's awful. Of course. It's really fun to watch. So go check it out.

YouTube.com slash Scott Johnson. It's cool. and his wrestling stuff. I didn't see the results of my match against Garrett Weinzerpil, but... Oh, yeah. Yeah. I have to go back and look. The core group, Amiibo and John's...

I don't know why this is. People are going to cry foul here, but we keep winning. Do you? Yeah. Interesting. I think it's a little weird myself, but for some reason, our threesome one last night. Suspicious. Yeah.

I really want to make it like a big viewing spectacle. I want it to be a big thing all the time. yeah um and you need to you guys need to see brian's like walking out on stage business blue tuxedo uh hat it's amazing it's amazing yeah it's just like you need to do that in real life now just to bring it all together i just need to go back to that that uh place that i rented that blue tux and just buy it just buy it out right because i feel like i need it yeah i keep thinking you owned that but no you rented no i wish i did i really do and i'm who knows if they still have it and it's purchasable. But I imagine somewhere I can find a powder blue tuxedo. Yeah, they got to exist in some

form. Speaking of things that exist in some form, here we have one of these today. Utah connection. Yeah. One that's a little, this one really got, this one got a ton of coverage for obvious reasons. I'd be sure locally, yeah. Yeah, it was like a real moment for us. Pornhub in the news with Utah. Pornhub has blocked all Utah Utons, all of the state unless you use a VPN from its site. VPN is, yeah, VPN here now stands for virtual porn network, I guess.

Visit expressvpn.com slash coverville to get ExpressVPN for three months free. Yeah, that's pretty good. Get that deal. It's all right. I don't know if they still have it up, but it might still be up. It might be. Well, in response to a new law that requires porn sites to verify users ages,

Pornhub is completely disabled its websites. for anyone coming from IPs in the Utah, the state of Utah, anywhere within this state. As of today, this was a couple days ago, anyone accessing it from a Utah-based IP will not see it. Instead, they get a video from Cherry DeVille, adult performer and member of the Adult Performer Advocacy Committee, explaining they won't be able to visit the site.

Here's what she says in a quote, As you may know. I don't know why I'm doing it that way. Because that's probably the voice that she uses. Yeah, actually, I guess we can play it. You can pull it up. Yeah, you know what? Scott's going to pull up Pornhub right now live on TMS.

Yeah, I don't even know how to... There we go. I would do it in a incognito window or something. Yeah. Well, I could always blame it on the news, but... Like, you get the most... This is the most boring... I'll blame Nick.

I'll show this... Oh, why are you there? That's weird. There we go. Not on the site. Brian's not on Pornhub. That's not what I meant. His face was there for some reason for my video.

But anyway, here she is. This is what you're greeted with if you try to connect from Utah. Some of you, don't lie. You've seen this already some of you. You know you have. Anyway, here's what she says in this video. Hi, I'm Shreda Bill. As you may know, your elected officials have required us to verify your age

before granting you access to our website. While safety and compliance are at the forefront of our mission, giving your ID card every time you want to visit an adult platform is not the most effective solution for protecting our users and in fact we'll put children and your privacy at risk. In addition, mandating age verification without proper enforcement gives platforms the opportunity to choose whether or not to comply. As we've seen in other states, this just drives traffic to sites with far fewer safety measures in place. Very few sites are able to compare to the robust trust and safety measures we currently have in place.

Robust. In order to protect children and user privacy, any legislation must be enforced against all platforms offering adult content. It goes on like that. Now, at the bottom of this thing, there is, if you're a model or a content partner and you live in Utah, you can still log in and do your thing. Oh, that's cool. So you can still create your porn. Yeah, you can make your porn. You can create the porn.

You just can't watch the porn. And that's really the point of the porn. The porn. You're good at creating the porn. Yeah. It's been controversial. Governor Cox, which I think is... You think you'd be in favor.

It's the most perfect irony of all time, Brian, that our governor's name is Spencer Cox, which sounds like a porn performer. Yeah. Doesn't it? Like, these guys names are like... Spencer Starring Spencer Cox. And Christy Canyon. Exactly.

It's the only poor name I remember from the 80s. So, yeah, he's made. he's made they got they passed this through and it's got major holes in it it doesn't work right that's not trying to make so basically it's like what scan scan your driver's license and upload it or really scan a driver's license because really who you know like all you need is a picture of a driver's license doesn't have to be yours yeah that's the thing it doesn't actually help anybody it's a specific card i mean talk about government overreach i mean look i'm all for i'm a hundred percent for figuring out ways to protect kids.

Sure. Making sure kids don't see this stuff. Exactly. And you know what? For whatever you want to say about Pornhub or whatever, they at least, I don't know if they really do walk the walk because I don't go there. But they at least talk to talk about, like they have stuff in place is my understanding. They also do a lot of like sex positive advocacy and like that sort of thing. They did the whole thing with the pandas, like sending pandas.

uh panda porn videos to get them in the mood so that they'd procreate in the zoos exactly so there's a lot of that there's a lot of that stuff going on i don't know either way but i do know this trying to mandate a card that everyone 18 year older has to have for this stuff i just think is major government overreach uh in a pretty pretty you know pretty gnarly way so i don't know i would like to see what what i hope happens yeah i'll confess i go there but i only go there for the articles. Yeah, it's just the articles, right? They're some good writing, amazing. The interviews are great. Oh, yeah. That's incredible. Anyway. That's a joke that probably only people of a certain age will get because it's like

that was the whole thing with Playboy. When there was a, there was a magazine called Playboy, you see. We are entering an era where people are going to forget that when you say I read it for the articles is no longer going to work. No, exactly. Yeah. I didn't think of that. Yeah. Don't take that from us. We like that one. I know. It's such a fun joke. Well, anyway, good luck, Governor Cox, and everyone involved. Also, this is an important moment for all of us, given this thing right here. I don't like bees. This is a very important, okay? A crash has unleashed a semi-truck. Crashing has unleashed one million bees. One million bees. Bees, millions of bees, right?

A supervillain thing. Exactly. It does to me as well. In fact, this, clip is even more important. Bees! Millions of bees! Literally, millions of bees. A million bees. That's right. The semi-truck hauling beehives crashed early Tuesday, releasing a swarm of bees into the unsuspecting morning commuters. I don't know why that's funny. Florida... Unsuspecting. Yeah, unsuspecting. The Florida Highway Patrol told NBC that the truck was hauling beehies, which were home, or sorry, which were home to around 1 million bees. This happened in Jacksonville. No one was hurting the crash. but some of the hives were damaged, leaving a swarm of confused bees gathering around the truck. Beekeepers loaded the intact hives onto another truck before the road reopened around 7 a.m.,

the damage hives were hauled away with the semi. So nothing serious happened. That's good. That's good. My gosh, how close do you got to come to the sun to realize what you've done? That's too many bees. Way too many bees. They really should divide those into several different semis.

Yeah, more separate your one B per semi is my rule. just so just in case there's a crash you would have a million a million bees unleashed you just have you know maybe 100,000 bees unleashed or 50,000 bees I don't know because you've seen movies on film sack that made me really question our need to be around bees I know bees are important to the ecosystem all that stuff's important no question but I don't want to be around them okay don't like the bees listen if you you don't like bees as long as you're good as long as you're cool with bees bees will be cool with you. It's hornets and yellow jackets that can go eat a dick.

Because eat a dick, Pam, to hornets and yellow jackets. Because they will sting you for no reason whatsoever. They are the geese of the insect world. They suck. They suck. All right. Speaking of sucking, we're going to suck on some good information coming up here after this break. Are we now?

We sure are. My sister Wendy's returning. She also was in Vegas with us. It was great having her there. Yeah, so good to see her. Yeah, it's fun watching her in that video. I can tell she's just like, I could be wrong. Brian, what are you making me do?

Right. There's this feeling of like, why am I here again? What are these nerds doing? But she loved it, even though I have that feeling. She absolutely loves hanging around you guys. So we're going to talk to her and have an interesting back and forth today. So stick around for that. But we need a song, and Brian brought it.

So tell me what it is, I guess. That's right. We're going to go to Brighton in the UK, lovely beachside town, home of the Helter Skelter. and a delicious twisty peppermint thing called Brighton Rock, if I remember correctly. Brighton in the UK, band Tiger Cub, a trio, rock and roll trio out there, have a forthcoming album coming out in June called The Perfume of Decay. The song is set for release on June 2nd via Loose Groove Records. This is the first single from it.

Here is a song called Swoon. The band is Tiger Cub. There's a light in the dark, and I can turn it off, and the prey of the wind, there's a wave of the wind, there's a wave of a door, and I can see the show, there's a way of the truth, and the Pulling me My dear Swoon Swoon

Swoon Mild Swoon Swoon Swoon Swoon That I can Fug

In the mile Come down To the wire That's shadow About That I can figure out There's a calm in the storm where a clove sits at home

It goes away with the truth It'll be over soon to swim Where I want it to be Where I want it to be. Where I want it to be. Who? Where I wanted to be. Who?

Somewhere I can't believe. Smooth. Swo In the dark In the Swoon Swo In the dark

Turn it off In the break of the wind It's the chills on the skin I'm home, where I want it to be. Oh, where I want it to be. Oh, where I want it to be.

Where I want it to be Somewhere I can breathe Ooh With a Slovenia blue dot flash cube, you're always ready for the great show With the Slovenia blue dot flash cube, you're always ready for the great shots. The enormity of their stupidity is just overwhelming. Today's episode of the morning stream is brought to you with limited commercial interruption by the letters f and you.com. Ah, nicely done, Scott Fletcher.

Always enjoy that one. Hey, Brian, I would really like to write down the name of that band again. All right, get your pencil, and you're going to give you three pieces of information. First, you're going to write down Swoon. That's the name of the song. Then you're going to write down Tiger Cub, all one word. That's the name of the band. And then you're going to write down the perfume of decay, which is the album that this comes out on in June 2nd,

so you can pre-order that and have it ready for your little ears when the album comes out. I do have actually kind of small ears, but I've learned, as a little ear. I've gotten older, the reason they're small is because my head is so f-n-b. Yeah, I was going to say, your ears are normal size. Yeah. It's in just proportion to your head. Yeah. It's annoying as hell, if I'm honest

about it. Oh. You know, seeing you in person, your head really isn't as big as you. Does it, okay, that's a great I actually wanted to ask you and maybe others that were there. When you see me, do you go, all the proportions of this head are just... No, no, not at all. All right. That makes me happy to hear that. It looks like

you did trim your beard and do a little shaving on the sides you cleaned up it was a little much i started to feel like santa claus's stupid uncle or something i didn't like it uh so i let i let some of that go uh i still have the the weird fohawk thing going but my hats on it right now yeah it was a bit much off to your fohawk thank you very much i appreciate that uh let's get into this with uh that person who almost said a word wendy i mean random not a chance oh look who it is my sister that person it's my sister wendy who uh hails from Minnesota these days and is here from the Twin Cities to discuss all kinds

of important stuff. She's an actual therapist and helps people with their real problems all the time as many of you in Las Vegas know. Wendy, welcome back to the show. By the way, before we do anything else, I really enjoyed your psychological version of a timeshare

pitch meeting. That's sort of how it felt. The Real Steps Live. Yeah, the Real Steps Live. No, I mean, obviously, it's not that same thing. But it was kind of fun to, like, watch you be in, like, kind of that mode. And I've never seen it before.

Yeah, because it is not natural. I don't love it at all. I think you're good at it. Oh, really doing that live? Not a... Oh, I don't mind live, but it's like saying, you should join us, feel is so... Oh, see, this is a Johnson thing. We are bad self-promoters.

We are bad at. Yeah. I'm bad at it. I can't sell anything. Like... I didn't even know it was happening, so I didn't make it. That was my problem. Brian, you would have immediately signed up.

You know what's great, Brian? is you, if that was true, you would have been sleeping about 15 feet from where we all were. Yeah. Oh, I really was. I would have been able to sleep because I gave you guys my lawn chairs or my, uh, oh, that's right. That's right. You did show up with some furniture, which was very nice. I did.

I brought furniture over, yes. That was nice. Yeah, that was fun to see everybody and do just a little fun thing. I thought it was great to, yeah, it was hotter than a monkey's, what, Scott? Testicle. I don't know. Come to me. For all your, it's hotter, yeah.

For all you're hotter than whatever needs. I'm here for you for that, whatever you need. And thank you for being such a good sport with the whole Taskville, you know, putting you through being blindfolded and playing with Play-Doh and that sort of thing. I hope your fingers still smell like Plato because I haven't washed my hands since Vegas because of that. Yeah, I never watched my hands after Vegas. I came home. I had a couple extra packets left that Amy gave me and my kids were like, I want more.

And also I brought home illegal English Kinder eggs. my kids almost died. They did they almost choke on the giant yellow plastic container? And we had a, like, they just had this fun discussion. Like, I don't understand why this is a danger to kids. But, you know, guns are fine. Guns are great. Yeah, let's keep those out, but keep those guns in.

Anyway, yeah. But here's the other thing I wanted to say about you. I had, I don't know, 14, 15 people tell me in separate ways while I was there afterward, email, other stuff, private Discord DMs, that they were star-struck by you and it was the only time they felt nervous was hanging around you. Isn't that funny? Isn't that funny? You know what that means? That means you're an authority figure in their eyes. Too. All right. I don't ever want to do today. I really am. So she's about to put us, she's putting the hard work to us today. That's so cute. I had so many of the sweetest conversations.

People are so, so stinking nice. And that's actually the theme of what we're going to talk about It was just lovely, and it was so fun to see everyone. A couple of my favorites were like, hey, I emailed you 10 years ago, and you talked about on the show, and here's the outcome. And it was just like, wow, that was amazing. It's just so delightful. That was great. I can say, what a great impact you make on the community here.

Oh, it's massive. It's massive. And also, I just liked being around my sisters, because I don't see you guys very often. I know. And without all of our people, right? It's just us. Yeah, just us. It's not like John's not annoying us.

You know, Matt didn't fart at dinner or whatever. We're just kind of there. Anyway. Not that the Matt thinks a problem. Thanks for the invite. And even next year, maybe you could let me know in enough time to buy tickets. Yeah. I'll let you know way in advance next time.

And I said, Adam, you're coming with me. And he goes, listen, I do not want to break the illusion that you're just a voice. He could hang out. and gamble or something. He could hang, I promise. You'd all say, oh, maybe Adam should be on the show, not Wendy. Yeah, he's a really great. He's a really great. He's a very fun conversation, that guy, so people would be surprised.

You'll basically take over, and Brian and I will retire. You guys take the show. I know, he could just be playing board games. He'd love that. So maybe next day we'll bring the significant other. That'd be great. There we go. Tell us what you've got planned today.

I have a photo you said. Yeah, speaking of significant other. Oh, you know what? Before you do that, I got an email I want to read you. I totally forgot about this. Oh, yeah, sure. This is not about our topic today. It's just something I wanted to share.

There's Scott, Brian. This is Bree from Washington State here. To harken back to Wendy's segment about cognitive dissonance, I think I have a perfect example to which we can all relate. We buy anything and everything on Amazon and would hate to live without it, despite knowing and recognizing that Jeffrey Bezos is an absolute bag of D-I-C-S. Well, the show, though. Yeah.

That's a good point, right? Like a fair comparison. It's like, we're all mad at. it millionaire or billionaires but we use their stuff i mean kind of can't help it because yeah totally that is a good example i think there's also a really obvious um moment sometimes in conversations where you will uh here's a good midwestern one i think a lot of people i did this my whole life growing up too but it's definitely a midwest thing is to someone says oh i like your shoes or oh you got a new car you have to tell them that you had it got it on sale some version of like don't you dare think i have any

money here. I have to tell you about the coupon. And there's a bit of cognitive distance there, like, oh, a person with really nice new shoes, that's not me. I am a person who got a coupon and got lucky. You know, some self-identifying things can really show up in small ways, all the way to like big, you know, bigger picture things. Like, I think the Amazon one is probably across the board or like recyclable stuff. Sometimes you're like, oh, but I forgot my body. So shoot, I'm going to take this water, you know, like you, whatever you kind of care about or feel like is consistent with you, you're just going to make an excuse and do it anyway.

Yeah. Sometimes. That's people. That's people. I know I've done it before. I've definitely done that before. Yeah. Well, all right then.

Let's, let's dive in now. You got this photo. What am I doing with this thing? Okay. So this, speaking of, where are you putting it? I'm going to put it in both Discord. So Brian and you can see it. I'm going to also put it on the chat for the chat room.

Okay. So in case you wanted to want the back of my head. husband's head looks like. That's it. Oh, there's Adam's Curly. I didn't know those Adam's Curly Head. That's great. Yeah. I use portrait mode. It's pretty cool. And what you can't see behind him in front of him, I'm sorry, on this stage is, are you guys aware of First Avenue? It's, you know, kind of a famous music concert venue here. I haven't. They used to do the Lake Wobagon crap from there. At least I think they did maybe a couple of them. Oh, maybe they broadcast that a couple times. It's Prince Famous

did one of his concerts there in the early days and like you know everyone where they stop is that place anyway so that's where we are it's really fun location and the band was feist oh brian likes fice yeah i do like feist yeah talked about that was awesome here's what i was dying over the whole time she is my age and she acted like she was 20 she was killing me uh anyway it was really fun but i'm going to tell you something she did so if you have tickets to fice this is a trigger spoiler spoiler that's the right word spoiler word so turn this off if you don't have tickets to fice

then it's a trigger warning then it also is a trigger warning if you couldn't get tickets to fice yeah if you couldn't get it anyway so this was just her second stop and so it was really cute

anyway so I really I like her music and it's great I think she's got to be weird and that is a this is me not thinking too hard about this but her voice is so like

Celtic angelic freaky to me sometimes that I'm like she must be weird okay is that that is that I don't know if anyone else does that I've done that like when you hear Vincent does that for me like I hear seen Vincent I think she's got to be weird yeah every time I hear I've seen her in concert she is weird

oh you've seen Bjork in concert I've met her actually is she real nice she's super nice we tonight got to interview Tim DeLotter of the polyphonic spree and she was one of the members of the polyphonic spree when we did that. And then she went off solo and it became St. Vincent. Annie Clark is from a real name. So we saw her at the Armory, which is another fun venue that is like literally where

they kept all the arms in the early days. The Armory. The Armory. Yeah, she's great. And she definitely vibes is like, wow, she's probably very weird. And I don't mean weird in like, more like, it's going to be an interesting. creative person that you know you know what I'm saying okay so we go to the concert um I have no real sense of her at all and that experience is so what sorry I was gonna have her you can hear her

hold on so getting up in front of a of an honor would love you her she songs for the used to myself by playing the entire album beginning to end sort of she sounds like a normal lady when she's not saying she's super normal that feist that's vice that's vice that's fine that's okay okay so let me tell you how she starts the show and I'll get to what my point is here okay so So she, all of a sudden, there's this big white screen over the stage, so you can't see the stage. And there is one mic and an amp in the very center of the floor where everyone is. So it's a surrounded space. And we were like, whoa, she's like really unplugging here.

Like, this is going to be, you know, a different kind of show. So she, suddenly that white screen clicks on and you can see just shoes. And it's her walking around backstage. Oh, weird. And so we're all screaming. We're very excited to see a person, you know. Anyways, clever little use of whatever. And all of a sudden, she walks past us and she's filming her feet as she's walking up to the thing.

That was so cool. And then she got up there and she messed with the camera for a while. And she came across as the most normal, really funny down to earth. And not afraid of all these people near her. She'd stop and take photos of people's tattoos or their cool earrings and like mingling amongst us. totally was just, she was just so great, right? Does things, is wonderful. And then she does this trick.

And here's, here's where we're going. Okay. She says, hey, does anyone in the audience want to just do this while I'm performing? They can just walk around and film whatever they want. No way. And you're like, no, don't just let anyone. I was nervous about this. Anyway, so some guys, you're like, what's your name?

He's like, Colton. Okay. And so this guy gets the thing. And at first, it's making me sick because he's moving too fast, you know. He got better as time went on. And he just went around. He went upstairs in the balcony and did some funny, cool things with the camera. And then says, she's like, why didn't somebody show a picture of your lake house?

You know, we're in the lake, lake country. And someone pulled up on their phone some hilarious old drawing of an old lake house and showed it on their phone. And we're laughing. So she's really interactive while singing and playing. And, I mean, it was so fun and entertaining. And then he keeps filming And then he gets to like

Some coats and stuff And he's showing himself pulling back the coat And inside is like a notebook Okay And he takes the notebook out And he starts flipping through it a little bit You can't really quite read it And then he like goes and takes it to her

And says this is someone's journal So she goes on this riff of like This is somebody's journal She's like okay in the age of consent, I'm going to call the number. There's a number in the front. I'm going to call it. Please answer and let me know if I can read from your journal.

It's weird because it feels staged, you know, like, how do you know there was a journal there and all that stuff? Yeah, but they did it in subtle enough ways that you weren't quite sure. Sure. Yeah. And then at one point she says this. She goes, okay, guys, I'm really bad of this. And I'm just going to tell you, like, you know this is not a real journal, right?

Like, she just broke it. She, like, couldn't keep going. Yeah. And then she's like, because you were thinking I was like a nice person and suddenly I was going to do this thing where you were really going to wonder who I was. Yeah. And it was true. You kind of thought, like, you can't.

Exactly. Oh my God. We trusted you. Yeah, totally. And of course, it's like a journal full of poetry. And then that guy, Colton was, that was a ruse. He was really a professional camera guy. And suddenly he switches mode on the camera and is suddenly it is like a thousand times better and

artistic and really it was really clever so a little trickery here or there and she admitted like I don't know if this was gonna fly and just trying to be entertaining you know she's kind of doing that thing and you're like okay why are you telling me this here's the point okay I was wrong about her and then she literally 15 minutes into the concert is playing out the question of my perception not me personally but our perception of her is a good person or not and I was I like the psychology of you. It made it a little more fun, right? Anyway, so if you go see Feist, sorry, I blew the whole thing for you. It's all fake. But you kind of know that on one hand. Yeah. But it's still, it was clever. And

then, you know, she did a great job. Now, she gets up on, they drop the screen and the whole band's behind her and she starts rocking out. And then a song ends and I see her just take off her guitar, set it down, walk off the stage into the audience. And you're like, oh, she's going to do another thing. And why she did that was. because somebody fainted. Oh. Yeah. So she walked down, made sure they were okay.

Their little team came in home. Oh, my God. Did she faint for, uh, well, when she got back up and she's like, everything is fine. She says, when I looked in his eyes and saw wellness, I knew it was just flattery that it caused him to, like she was really funny about it, but she just stopped and checked on this person because she has control of the whole room, right? And so proving her goodness and blah, blah, blah.

Anyway, so the whole, all that is to say. I wanted to talk about this anyway, but I just, this was just last night. And I thought, huh, this is like a fun example of this. And Minnesota, Minneapolis crowds in particular were known for a couple of things in the music world. And that is, we yell thank you a lot. It's really, like to the artists, to the performers. There was so many yelling of thank you. She's always like, you're welcome.

Okay. You know, like we, we yell thank you. We're very polite. And it just made me laugh. The proximity to Canada, I think is what does that. I think so. Yeah. So that idea is like niceness.

Everyone's being helpful. She asked us, hey, if you were the camera guy, just show him the compassion you would want if you were doing this for the first time. Like, she just kept invoking like goodness, you know? So that was why I brought this up because this was the inspiration for this. Scott and I both listened to a podcast recently. He referred it to me. and then I sent him one, and that we're going to give everyone that assignment for homework.

I know that's probably bad business to send people to other podcasts when you want. Yeah, no kidding. Can we talk about this beforehand? So sorry. Unless you guys want to take a serious dive into some psychological things, I don't know if you can produce the same kind of work. But anyway, the idea is we want to talk about this idea. And Scott and I kind of referenced this before about are people fundamentally good

and there is this concept called the thin veneer and basically we all have just kind of a thin of civility and if that drops for any reason maybe scarcity of food or fuel or you know something puts us in a difficult state that thin veneer drops and then we're all savages and we're all going to you know, and I believe Scott and Brian

and you guys are kind of on opposite sides of the gosh where could this uh topic have come from scott i have zero idea yeah we've talked on the we've talked about on the show the short of it is for those who have missed it somehow is i think when like in the scenario of zombies coming i think people will band together and help each other more uh than brian thinks brian brian basically thinks that when you take away you know everyone's kind of left too well to survive i need food and whatever the thin veneer you're talking about you take that away and then it's just all chaos and we're all done. But I don't know why I feel this way, but I have this more optimistic view. And it's not this. And I appreciate the optimism. It's not that I think

that the world will turn to dicks. I think that there will be pockets of dicks that have guns and power and violence on their side, as opposed to, you know, the peaceful people are like, all right, well, you know, maybe we can't kill these zombies, but we can at least get people into the safe, fenced area, and that sort of thing. So I think that's actually my perspective, is that they're going to be pockets of dicks. There will be pockets of dicks, but there will also be, my take is there will be a much larger percentage of pockets of people who are not dicks and also have guns and also have the wherewithal to, like, protect and do what they have to do to get the larger.

And my whole, my entire basis for this is that this is humanity has always done this when there have been major things like this. So whether it's war, famine, destruction of some sort natural disasters, our tendency, with some exceptions, there's always exceptions, right? Always outliers. But for the most part, the large body of humanity moves forward and carries it forward. The survival is not just an individual thing.

It has to be a bunch of people. And I don't know why I have that in my, I don't know why that's the way I think about that. And I don't know why it is Brian thinks the way he does. about it. That's the one weird bit is I don't know, I don't know why there's different. Because I'm, because I'm a super optimistic person otherwise, but I, you know, I witness stuff during the pandemic that's like, wow, this is like how humanity acts when there's a, when there's strife. You know, you get people having, uh, shit fits about a mask in front

of a Costco. You get people grabbing up all the toilet paper and not like, all right, well, let's, let's leave some toilet paper for other people. You know, you've got all of these things that I saw demonstrated during the pandemic that I thought were just un-human or unsympathetic human characteristics that just got amplified by that. Yeah, totally, totally great. And so that's why I feel it's like, all right, well, yeah, there's going to be good people, but I think there are going to be groups of people that band together that are, that have their own best interests in front of the other people.

You're not wrong. The way I always looked at, see, that's what's funny about the Costco thing, when I would see those videos, and there were a bunch of them, I would see one, and I would try to remember that it was one lady up front freaking out, and there were 800 people in that Costco not doing that. Right. And so that, to me, to me, it's a percentage issue of the large portion of people will, will band together and figure this out and defeat whatever the thing is.

But there will always be a, you know, a jerk with a toilet paper roll or whatever. there'll always be somebody who's being a butthole. Yes, totally. I don't think you guys fundamentally really are on opposite ends of this. No, totally agree. Not as much as I think Scott would like to think. No, I don't film that conversation.

Yeah, I don't, I should. Maybe I make more of it on the show than I should, but I, I agree. When Brian says he's generally an optimistic person, I 100% agree with that, like more than most people I know. Yeah. But I just think it's, in this one case, I think it's like we're being disserved by videos and media and news and everything they only show us the crap they don't show us anything else and so i'm just always trying to keep that in mind that our vision of stuff is so freaking

curated you know genuinely want your perspective of this kind of thing to be the true one to be the the the actual one that we experience right um but yeah well okay so here's where see a few more that could be like we'd be done with the discussion like oh, yeah, the media influence is what we see. And, yeah, some people, right, we can stop there. But, of course, my job here is to make it way deeper. So this is why I want people to listen to these things. But that's why we're going to make it a two-weaker,

because once you have more of this information in your head, it will be interesting how you perceive some of these questions. Because the two podcasts have a lot to do with psychological studies and how we understand this. because people have been looking at this for a long time. You know, when ultimately we figured out what was happening in Nazi Germany, it was just unfaffinable, right? And having to figure that out over time and try to understand that.

Many things have come from trying to understand that level because it doesn't, that level of orchestrated evil is not common. I mean, it doesn't last, well, it lasts however long it lasts, but for what had to be in place, right? And we've talked about maybe on the show different elements of what psychology or biases or, you know, cognitive distortions we use to do different things. So I just find that stuff really fascinating. And when we think about this general worldview, there is some interesting things to note.

Like who is whose worldview actually is doing better in the world? You would often think, well, the one who's the most protected from the bad stuff is going to be the safest. but actually they're not. And so there's a couple of things that might be enlightening for people to hear. Because, you know, one of my favorite things in life is when it's the exact opposite of what I thought it was. I love that feeling like, oh, I was opposite. I was so wrong about that.

It was better than, yeah, exactly. Oh, for sure. You want to be proven wrong, especially in a situation like this. Especially about this. And so, anyway, so Scott, I gave you the links to both, but one is the hidden brain episode that is about your worldview sort of system and the guy who does a lot of research in that area. And so that's, it's nice little augmenting to the other one, which is about the thin veneer

theory. And that is that, you know, you go through that little thin layer and we're all going to just go nuts. And that is a through line episode. Throughline, yeah. I really like, I cannot recommend through line enough by the way. It's so good. Such a great podcast.

And it's not just stuff like that. There's a lot of history stuff in there. But this one in particular jumped out of me because they had so much background and data about, you know, I realized part of it was it was supporting my brain in terms of where I was at with this, right? Yeah. My overly positive outlook on that sort of stuff. But they had so much data to support it. Historical data long before we were filming these things or showing them on the nightly news or any of this other crap. it was that I found that really comforting because I was just like wow okay we we do generally move

in the right direction world war two is a good example like that is a tent pole of evil that is a moment in history oh god yeah human history is just like could it get worse than that maybe it could but boy howdy is that bad and what happened it didn't work we band it together and we pushed it over now could have something gone bad you know Germany get the nuke first really wrecked everybody's day maybe maybe all those things are true um but the overall like the macro level movement was end that and now that's gone and we're not doing that now and then it doesn't mean everything's perfect forever or that there aren't problems moving forward obviously there are but it does seem like we're good at like going nope that's not going to make that's that's bad for the

entire the entire body of human humanity that's bad move that out of the way and be done with that and burn that down. And here's something to think about. This is not to convince anyone to think differently. It's just to, it's like, oh, you've got to agree with and be more optimistic. Sometimes we have pretty natural set points when it comes to optimism or we have, you know, if your mom was always telling you about the terrible things happening in the neighborhood and in your school, like you're going to develop a sense, a radar, an anxious thinking

pattern because it was kind of modeled to you or it was a way to make. sure you were safe, right? Versus, you know, the mom and dad are like, oh, go running the forest. We'll see in a couple hours, right? If you don't come straight home from school, somebody's going to kidnap you and we're never going to see again. You're not going to know how to get home. So some of us have come by this honestly. I think the other thing that happens, I had a great conversation with a new Luke in Vegas. We had a great. We love new. We love New Luke. New Luke is our favorite Luke. Yeah. And we had a great conversation about, you know, how I can see people as fundamentally good and he can for the most part except for you know but there are bad people

and i'm like i would still argue that you know genetics loads the gun and environment pulls the trigger but like love compassion life skills all sorts of things helps you put the gun down right like i don't see anyone as fundamentally flawed and that's really hard sometimes when we need our we need someone to be bad and evil and so you know we jump to the hitler question I was like, listen, I know, pure evil. But I'm also telling you, no one liked his art. His mom was a piece of work. There is sources for some stuff that I can have some compassion for.

It doesn't mean I'm like going to categorize it as not evil. But we are going to see that differently. And that's why I want the Hidden Brain podcast on there too, because we really do have a different worldview. And some of it, if we're doom scrolling all the time, we can give ourselves a bad worldview. Or we can reinforce all of those things. And rather than leave zombie land, zombie worlds and that kind of stuff to the entertainment space, it's maybe putting it more with like your neighbor.

And, you know, we have some fundamental concerns with some things in the world today that kind of rely on everyone's a bad person and cause problems. Yeah, because there's money to be made, unfortunately, in that negative space. But here's the other thing about, like, zombie stories, apocalyptic stories, things I actually quite like. But I think the reason I like them and the reason they're popular and do well in general, correct me if I'm wrong, is that they let us from a safe perspective deal with our fears. So a fear of, let's say, a horrible virus taking over everybody in the alcohol crazy and kill each other. Yeah. Or death. Or death or whatever it is. Like every movie has death in it, I swear. There's no. such thing about a movie without death, except for a few rom-coms, and even those often have death.

And I always think, well, that's because humans are built to survive. We want to survive. And so when we deal with something that is just to position against staying alive, we are forced to see how, we experiment with, well, how would we react to this? And a lot of times, it stacks fear on top of fear. so it's like well we'll react to it by freaking out and losing our minds and killing each other and i and i and i know that while i'm watching it i but i also get the catharsis that is that of watching it without the actual fear of it like i love as much as i talk about fury road on here the

reason i love that movie but the primary reason well it's also really well made is you never stop breathing that's right no it's because i see it and and i know it's not going to happen in my lifetime. I just, that sort of thing is too far out there, but it still lets me experiment in these places that I'm never going to have to actually face myself. I don't want Mad Max world in real life. A lot of people are like, I love a movie because I want it to be like real life, but that's not the case in this case. I love this movie because it isn't real life. And so anyway, I think sometimes we're shaped by that a little bit. Like, if you consume a ton of that, and don't keep that perspective in mind, or at least I can only speak

myself. If I didn't keep that perspective in mind, then I don't think the catharsis would happen because I would see these things differently. I would see them as warnings or, you know, I don't know. If we don't change our ways with this, then we're going to be in Mad Max territory. Right. Well, we have an epidemic of loneliness. I mean, there's a report that just came out in February about basically the state of girls and just levels of anxiety and depression and disconnect and loneliness. And we've got an uphill battle that, you know, I think was headed that way technologically and then pandemic quadrupled that experience. And so it's one thing to watch, you know, a bunch of fun shows that show these sort of dystopian worlds, but then you go out and

hang out with your friends. And when that alter other state of normalcy doesn't maybe happen, and I'm not saying that that's the only thing that determines this. Some of it really is that point. Some is the way the environment and then other things might just be, you know, like you are struggling with people and it is easier to think of them as all bad. Like I think this is fascinating. When you ask anyone, I will, you know, talk to someone who's the world's biggest jerk according to someone else and you're like, what's going on for you? They all think of themselves as a good guy or a good person, right?

And so if everyone's a bad guy and you're the only good one, we're in trouble because it's not true. Everyone thinks of themselves as, you know, being, maybe making mistakes or, and I'm not saying people have negative cell talk. That's a different thing. Anyway, but that, that concept of figuring some of this out, I think is pretty powerful when I can help somebody maybe feel more alive in the world. So the hidden brain podcast breaks up these worldviews into different things. It's not just like, is the world bad or good? But sort of is the world interesting? And is it an alive? or a closeness, like there's a couple of different framings that I think it'll be really fun for people to think through as they listen. And then when we come back, we can dig into it. I don't

want to give all my good stuff away. I've got like dutties and I've got like questions for the two of you as we kind of navigate it because I think it's, it's a big picture view of all of this stuff. And Feist taught me last night that, you know, she could mess with my view of her goodness pretty easily. right if you call her her she's she has Feistian uh she is not Faustian I don't know what Faustian there's somebody named Faust and that's all based on that I don't know what that is that's maybe that's a terrible person for the term Faustian but I've never I have no I do that is uh all right so this is what we're going to do this week's a little bit weird but we're giving everything bargain there you go we're going to make uh we're doing

homework okay and the homework is everybody listened to these two episodes of these podcasts They're excellent and worth your time, regardless. I'll put links in the show notes in all the places I post the show. And then next Thursday, Wendy has a follow-on that will make sense when you're all done. Right, Wendy? We all love homework. Yeah. Do I have that right?

That's the assignment. We understood the assignment. Yep. We got two podcasts that listen to. And then Brian, you and Scott bring your questions. If anyone wants to write in about a question we can use to riff off of it, great. but we'll just dig into like what our worldviews are and then what actually is it may be good for us because it's not always easy it's like oh cool there I am it's like I'm a Sagittarius too bad there's

nothing I can do about it this is actually maybe something you could tweak yeah if you're satiris sorry that's you and I baby sorry everybody Sagittarius if you're cancer don't get cancer I don't know what that means uh excellent well this would be great I look forward to this this will be super fun and um in the meantime keep your eye on real steps.org there's not a we'll have another fall thing so I'll talk more about that when that gets closer and then if you are a real stepper go in and congratulate Elena is getting married at the end of the month oh my gosh that's great for her yeah it's great that's great get her to you know now she marrying is she marrying a partner who is ready

to you know get into the groove of the the nutrition you know all the stuff she's really big on are they ready for that you know do you know when is their first date he said to her like i am not going to run with you every day that was the first thing on a date she said he said i and i like junk food she's like it's okay oh wow well this is good you never know right when you date a nutritionist this is going to be pressure she'll yeah and she'll have an effect but it's good to you know opposites attract all that stuff so i want that guy eating a burger and i want her out running and eating sprouts all day that's what we want everyone's happy yeah No, she's, it's going to be great.

And I'm actually going to the wedding. It's in Orlando. And who goes to Orlando and end of May? It sounds terrible. No, that's actually, that's probably one of the better times to go. Is it really? Okay. Don't go in July or August to September, but May is probably pretty good.

Stay out of there for hurricane time. Don't go there. Oh, yeah. So send her congrats if you're on Discord with her. And, yeah, thanks. We will do real steps again, everybody. All right. Have fun.

And we'll do this next week. It's windy, everybody. Have a great week. Thanks, everyone. I put them in. I put those links in the chat. I will put them everywhere else the show is posted. I need those links again. Did you, so you did a poll during this, do you think humanity is mostly good or mostly bad? How do you think I voted in that poll? I bet you voted mostly good. Yeah. Yes. That doesn't surprise me. Okay. I think it would have based on our film sec discussion

after the nest. No, I think you, you took it as Brian thinks the world is mostly dicks that we'll take over and push the good people out. No, no, I definitely don't take it that way. I think I take it um i took it as oh it's hard to explain i think you're not wrong about some immediate things right yeah here's here's kind of the way that i break it down yeah um there'll be good people with guns they'll be bad people with guns let's say let's say it's this fictional weird zombie apocalypse kind thing why not fortunately we'll never know probably if this is right or if this happens or not uh the good people with guns will use their guns against the zombies the bad people with guns will use their guns against both the zombies and the good people who might have food that they want that they didn't think to get in stockpile.

Sure, sure. Well, what I hope is, the good people will have to defend themselves. So I would hope they would use it against bad people who are trying to kill them. But who knows? My overall is I think that your immediate aftermath of an event like this is accurate. I think you're more accurate than not that there was going to be some ugly shit early on. Like looters and stuff that happen after whatever things that happen now. looting and hurting and shooting and killing happens in the immediate aftermath of something

where society truly breaks down. So I think you're absolutely right about the short term. I'm, my take is more like, hey, in the macro level long term, 100 years from now, how do we look back on this? I think that we as a larger body had moved through it and passed it and will be okay. Lots of individual pain and suffering on the ground, no doubt. I also think that my perspective allows me to be pleasantly surprised while yours may let you be sadly disappointed. I hadn't thought of it that way, but it's entirely possible. I've set the bar low, so it's like, oh, good job, humanity, well done.

And then just in case the flop, you know, flip-flop happens, Scott's like, oh, crap, humanity, you really let me down. Shane in the chat, congratulations again, Shane on your win yesterday. Shane has made a point that I really like. I'm glad he brought this up. It says, for instance, do you think it's considered good or bad to feed your ashes to the elderly? Yeah. Yeah. Here's the thing about that.

But in the long run, a hundred years from now, it won't even matter. No one will even know. But also, I don't, for the record, I don't actually want this to happen. I say it all the time, but I don't want to feed my ashes to old people. You guys don't actually believe me when I say that, I hope. Of course. No, nobody does. I like to say lots of dumb things.

Let's get to, oh, my screen went weird. Okay, we're good. We're going to get out of here. Before we do a couple things, coverville today, tell me what you're doing. What's going on? Tributes to a couple musicians that we lost recently. Harry Belafonte, Deo!

And, you know, jump in the line. Basically, all this stuff you heard in Beetlejuice. I really honestly thought when you went, you were going to say dead. I thought you were going to go, hell like, Mom. You were going to go. Dead. Yeah, you were going to Harry Belafonte. Dead.

He's a dead. He's a dead. dead, he's a dead, he's a dead. Jeez, Louise, that's grim. I'm one of the bad people. I'm one of the pockets of bad people now. Yeah, no, Harry Belafonte did all this great calypso music. We were, it's funny, me and Shane, speaking again of Shane, my gosh, it's almost the Shane show today. We were walking down Fremont Street when I was, I think it was Shane, when we were trying to figure out like where to station everybody for

filming and and jump in the line came on which is the the one that winona rider floats up and sings at the end of uh uh beetle juice oh right okay i believe you that one and uh and i said we're never ever going to not think of beetle juice when we hear this song anymore right and he's like nope this one i will only ever think oh maybe it was bobby no it wasn't bobby oh it was bobby it was bobby when he and i were walking down to do his task we heard a jump in the line and i said we're never going to not think of Beetlejuice when the sun comes on. Yeah, it's impossible. It's part of it. And then the next day, the very next day, Harry Belafonte died. Oh, my Lord. It was like talking about him. The TMS curse extends to Vegas, apparently.

Yeah, who knew? Just not even on the air. It didn't curse him. My gosh. All right. Well, rest of So Harry Belafonte, but then also a tribute to Gordon Lightfoot, you know, the record of the Edmund Fitzgerald, sundown, so many great songs. If you could read my mind, I've got a Jonathan Colton cover i'm going to be playing of gordon lightfoot on today's show and i've got believe it or not harry belafonte covering gordon lightfoot oh my gosh the streams will cross and and uh the marshmallow man will will will vanish wow it's going to happen wow yeah so anyway uh there you go uh harry belafonte and gordon lightfoot today 1 pm mountain time twitch dot tv slash coverville what else got what else is coming well i'll tell you what else is going on um and for the

record. I don't know why I'm telling anyone this, but yesterday I, in the, in wake of the news, I listened to, uh, Gordon Lightfoot all day, like a ton of it. And he has way more hits than you think. Some people are real dismissive. Like, well, you listen to one of the two songs. It's good or whatever. No. I know. He has a lot of great songs. Yeah. Yeah, it's really great. So go do yourself a favor and listen to a little, uh, Lightfoot. Uh, core tonight, 5 p.m. Big episode of core coming up, uh, some, some stuff going on out there. Kind of a bad week for gamers. A bunch of broken games launched. Oh, no.

People are spending $69 for busted-ass games. We're going to talk about that trend and see what's good there. So check us out tonight. That's Core. Me, John and Bo, Talking Games, 5 p.m. Mountain at frogpaints.tv. Or check it out later on the podcast, wherever you get your shows. Guess the connection also happening tomorrow right before couch party, right? In like an hour before?

That's right. Yeah, I'm going to give away some stuff. What do I have? I can't remember if I gave, I think I didn't give this stuff away, so I decided I'd tear it over. these Vegas things No Maybe I Oh shoot I wonder if I did give these

Oh man if I did I need to go back and figure out who won them so I can ship them out But a blizzcon mouse mat Oh that's a good one I have that one That's a good one A trick gum Spearment Trick Gum from Pee Wee's Big Adventure With Francis with the black goo

Coming out of his face Nice And the Piest de Resistance A Star Trek Emperor Giorgio dagger Metal dagger That is also a letter opener That's very cool because

Section 13 or whatever the hell it's called It's getting a movie 31, yeah, yeah Very excited about that No, you did not win them, Claire. Good job. Yeah, nice job, Claire. You won the stuff that I gave you

A carnage bookend thing And a deck of Wizard of Oz cards And that sort of thing And a little plastic Phantom of the Opera or something I can remember But you got those. Some blue horseshoes, some yellow diamonds, all that stuff.

That's exactly it. That's exactly it. Yeah, yeah, awesome. Guest Connection. Check it out, 9 a.m. That also means couch party right after that. We're going to do it at 10 a.m. It's for patrons only.

You know who you are. Head on over to the Discord if you have questions about how to watch it. Most of you know. But we'll be watching the latter half of Vegas vacation tomorrow at 10 a.m. Mountain Time right there in the FrogPants Discord, which you can get into if you haven't already at frogpants.com slash Discord. All are welcome. okay get in there also a skim this weekend not sure when we're doing it but kim and i will bang one of those out that sounds out of skim yeah something about that seemed weird it sounds it sounds wrong

also some big news uh i got a text from an anonymous listener this morning breaking news beep beep beep uh hey this is for tms they say for anyone who can't make it to meow wolf uh an installation wherever they live the VR game walkabout minigolf is going to be releasing a meow wolf course I just need to flat out pick up that game because they added a missed course too. You can play minigolf on Mist Island. Yeah, that game's rad. Walkabout minigolf is good, like real good. It's one of my favorite VR experiences.

And hearing them doing this, it sounds great. I haven't seen the Mist thing either. I need to charge my quest. I wonder if I can play that on the Quest one. Maybe. I mean, I just need to finally break down and get a quest two. But I'm waiting, I kind of waiting like you did, to get, see if there's information about a plus three before I get a quest two.

They're supposed to announce something here before the end of the year, so I'm guessing fall. Fall release, plus Apple's thing is supposedly going to actually be announced this year, whatever they're doing. Oh, yeah, right. Yeah, do I wait for that one? You should wait and see. Then everything works all with all my other stuff, like my Apple Watch will now be part of my VR experience. That's right, because it's supposed to have AR, VR, and MR. Yeah, it's all, wait, what's the MR?

mixed reality or something I think mixed reality just means VR and AR there's but they are they are describing it as having AR VR VR and MR oh weird the early leaks maybe it's not mixed reality there's some sort of modified reality or something I can't remember what the oh I like that term that's fun yeah anyway yeah we'll we'll hear by fall I guess what they're doing that is it for on film sack this weekend cocaine bear for our 600 yeah 600 episodes you guys can you believe it it. That's 300 times two. Or 150 times four for the four hosts. Oh, that's nice. I like that. That's good math. You can do that with the only too. Anyway, so tune in for that. That'll be this weekend.

Filmsack Cocaine Bear. Watch it on Peacock, right? Yes, Peacock. Not Paramount. For some reason. Not Paramount Plus. We had Paramount Plus in our spreadsheet saying that's where you could find it. We mix up those P, those two P networks get mixed up all the time. I do it every day. All the time. They need to change their thing to something else. It's their fault, not mine. All right. That's it.

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His birthday. Tomorrow is, but we don't have a show tomorrow. So, tomorrow, he's going to be waiting. waiting on the HVAC repair person. So he's just like, I want to listen to my request. So sure. Happy birthday. Let's party.

There you go. Ooh, cut the fart off early. Anyway. I know. What's up with Fargo? Like doing cutoffs on the things lately. A couple of weird glitches. I got to figure them out, but I'll figure it out.

Yeah. Anyway, here's what he said. He said, coverville, please. Pick something you have not played for a while that you love. So like, oh, awesome. I can actually play a song that maybe I haven't even played. on on TMS before and so I am exactly going to do exactly that thing now those of you who are regulars to TMS Vegas may remember a show we did at the bunkhouse this was before we even did

a taskville thing this was like maybe 2019 2018 and scott and i went to that blackout restaurant with hammond hammond recorded audio of scott and i eating whatever it was they were putting in front of us vegan food in the dark and that whole experience who goes the year that I jumped off the deal off the stratosphere oh yeah 2019 then it would have been I think 2019 okay I think so I don't know I mush those two years together in a weird way I don't know I think no I think there was one after that that we did because you definitely jumped in 2019 that I remember okay did I jump in 20 then it must have been 2019 so yeah we had the bunk house it caught on fire during the pandemic then we came back and did one at artifice and then we did

And then we did the The deal Sand dollar this year. Yeah. Yeah. So the Anyway, if you came to that show and you stuck around after our live performance, of course you saw Same Sex Mary, but you also saw a dude come

out in a flight suit wearing a helmet that had a old style telephone welded into the front of it. And he played multiple instruments drums with his feet while he played guitar and you never saw his face and everything was

kind of like um modulated in his voice and everything like that that guy's name is bob log the third bob log the third this is a band that uh or a performer that james and svet wrangled for uh tms vgas it was wild absolutely wild what that guy did it was it was so great he was so awesome uh how about a song covered by him with chuck d yes Chuck D covering Johnny Cash. So Chuck D. and Bob Logg the 3rd covering Man in Black by Johnny Cash. I've been waiting to play this song for such a long time.

So I'm glad. Thank you, Jeff, for giving me the opportunity to play a song in my list. Here's Bob Log the 3rd and Chuck D covering Man in Black by Johnny Cash. Well, you wonder why I always dress in black Why you never see bright colors on my back And why does my appearance seem to have a somber tone Well, there's a reason for the things that I have on I wear the black for the poor and the beaten down

living in the hopeless hungry side of town I went for the prison who has long paid for his crime but who's there because he's a victim of the time I went a black for those who've never read or listen to the words that Jesus said about the road to happiness through love and charity why you think he's talking straight to you and me Well, we're doing mighty fine, I do suppose

And our streak of lightning cars and fancy clothes But just so we're reminded of the ones who are held back Up front there, there ought to be a man in bland and bland and bland I wear for the sick and lonely old For the reckless ones whose bad trip left them cold I wear the black and mourning for the lives that could have been Each week we lose a hundred fine young men And I went for the thousands who have died

Believing that the Lord was on their side I wear for another hundred thousand who have died Believing that we all were on their side But it's things that will never be right I know And things need changing everywhere you go But till we start to make a move and make a few things right You'll never see me wear a suit of white I love to wear a rainbow every day

And tell the world that everything's okay But I'll try to carry off a little darkness on my back Two things are brighter I'm the man in black Two things are brighter I'm the man in black Two things are brighter I'm the man in black

Two things are brighter, I'm the man in black. Two things are brighter, I'm the man in black. Black, black, black, black. If you like what you just heard, there's a very good chance you will like all the shows on the Frog Pants Network. Get more at FrogPants.com. I saw a joke. That's how I say it.