The Morning Stream - TMS 2462: Blue On-Air Light

Episode Date: May 9, 2023

You'll get No TMS Monday, No TMS Tuesday, No TMS Wednesday and No Lt. Yar. Can't Tell Soft from Hard. My butt just had a rapid unscheduled pressure event. I Don't Like Soft Geeeeeeeeees. The ol' team entrance hole. Depodcastinization. Don't watch Alan cumming. Lyfting Gum off the floor. Hello? Is This Your Phone You're Calling For? The Vegan Glaswegian. Let's say it's Mayonnaise. Lord of the Rings-style Lightsaber. 661 pounds of Fruit Roll-Ups! Punished 3D Prints with Bill. The WHO chief with Bobby and more on this episode of The Morning Stream. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Coming up on TMS, you'll get no TMS Monday, no TMS Tuesday, no TMS Wednesday, and no lieutenant y'ar! Can't tell soft from hard. My butt just had a rapid unscheduled pressure event. I don't like soft, geez. The old team entrance hole. D-podcastinization. Don't watch Alan coming. Lifting gum off the floor.

Hello, is this your phone you're looking for? The vegan Glaswegian. Let's just say it's mayonnaise. Lord of the Ring-style lightsaber. 661 pounds of fruit roll-ups. Punish 3D prints with Bill. The Who Chief with Bobby and more on this episode of The Morning Stream. And speaking of rude, there is flaming.

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The morning stream Hello everybody welcome back to TMS It's the morning stream for Tuesday, May 9th, 2023. I'm Scott Johnson. That's Brian. Hi, Brian. Hello. Good morning. Good morning.

I would like to just do a quick advertisement for our pre-show. Okay. Today was really great. We learned some things about how hockey and basketball worked together. Uh-huh. We learned about how parrots can't have Teflon in the house. Didn't know about that. That's right. Yep. And how

the stratosphere looks like the clue candlestick. That's right. Exactly. And then, listen, if you're not a patron or a live listener, you'll never know this unless you join up. You'll never know what any of those things mean. Yeah, it was a particular. And you'll hear a little bit of Running Scared. Brand's impersonation of Billy Crystal's character from Running Scared.

That's right. The perfect meal topped off with the perfect dessert. So sign up and get in there, okay. Dessert, blueberry pie, yummy. So, all right, it's been a day. I had, oh, I couldn't sleep. I don't know what my deal is. I think I'm, I'm, I'm,

I'm stressed because I've got a lot to get done this week. We've had very little time since we got home from Vegas to kind of catch up. And I'm immediately going back to Vegas on, well, not immediately, but I'm going back on Saturday after FilmSack. And it just feels like I don't have, there's not enough time between this and that for me to do it all. So I think it's like keeping me up a little bit. I'm not sleeping great. It's just a little frustrating, trying to keep it all in motion.

And anyway, the reason I'm bringing that up. is just a just to vent but also to say I know there are way worse things out there in the world certainly we've had

our share of those this week in America don't want to get into details but some gnarly bullshit going down and...

Poor Scott getting ready for vacation oh no oh no I might get to go spend time with tiny children

and my wife and my daughter and her husband what a shame it is you're going to see Shojo and the Jan and everybody

Katrina while you're out there? I don't know about everybody, but some, perhaps. The real trick is, so the time share that we're staying in is out near the airport-ish. Oh, really? Okay. So it's not, for some reason, I thought it was just slightly off-strip. Well, there's two of them, and the one-off strip is on Flamingo, but that is all shut down right now.

Gotcha. What are they doing by it? Is that for the stadium or something? Does it all that shut down for? I don't know why. Oh, I have no idea. Oh, well, as you say, it might be because of the race, but the race isn't until November. Oh, yeah, I would not come near this place.

It wouldn't be this, yeah, exactly. Oh, my gosh, stay away from Vegas for the race. But yeah, it's, so anyway, my point is we're going to be spending, Kim and I, our job on this trip, not our job, but what we're planning on is we're going to be with the kids a ton while Dylan and Taylor get to finally see Vegas for real. This is there, is kind of like, is it a Mother's Day? It's like a Mother's Day thing, right? It is.

for Taylor the mother, getting to go and have some fun without having to worry about the kids. Exactly. And even though Kim's a mother, she loves doing this, so it's not hard, it's not work for her. This is, this is as much a Mother's Day gift for Kim as it is for Taylor. Yeah. So I don't know how much, like, fun, fun, like Vegas fun, Kim and I are going to have, but we'll see when we get out there. It's hard to say. I do know this, though, you know, having Dylan only ever being there for a couple of soccer games in college or in high school.

He was in the soccer team. His knees are destroyed. proof he has bad knees down uh and taylor's only been there for various bits with us this is like a real you know moment for them to just have a good time so that's the plan yeah i'm just stressed because i feel like i got a lot going on and a lot of it i can i can do from there i can do remote sure um work on but you know i can't oh but apparently not podcast no god apparently not can't record no podcast in the mornings sorry everybody although uh there won't be we we're going to going to push stuff around so that play retro core and well i'll be home before core so

really it only affects play retro and d tns and and then tms of course yeah so i tried i tried to wiggle in the days where it yeah it's like the easiest it is kind of the easiest days right like right after film sack and you've got the rest of saturday all a sunday monday and and you know you get to wednesday and really all that it's affected is uh play retro and film sat yeah yeah TMS. Yeah, so we'll see how it goes. I'm kind of excited, but... Fine.

Fine. Hey, you're going back soon, right? Pretty soon. I am. In, not till June, but mid-June, go out there for Elvis Costello. Oh, right. And Nick Lowe, Nick Lowe opening for Elvis Costello. It's going to be a great show.

You wouldn't miss that. I wouldn't miss it when the real Chris Brown buys me a concert ticket. Hashtag Twitter handle the real Chris Brown. That's right. Um, so that'll be good, but Brian, so, so yeah, if you want to know what month looks crazy, Brian's June looks pretty crazy. Oh God, my June is insane. Yeah. Yeah. Uh, family reunion, uh, Elvis Costello and then the MS 150 all like three weekends in a row, basically. And we're going to, you know, you're going to muddle through. We're going to push it, uh, push that month to its extremes. You're ready for that ride? You're feeling, uh, feeling good about that? Nope. Not yet. I'm not, but I still have a month and I have to get ready.

See, you know, a lot can happen in 30, 30, 30. 45 days you know yeah i had a pt appointment yesterday and um she gave me a new stretching exercise that is the worst i mean basically sitting um back up against a wall uh you know feet on the butt on the ground and then lifting like flexing my right leg like tensing it up and then lifting it straight up and it's harder to do when you you can't move your back at all your back is flat against a wall. You are sitting like a right angle against a wall and you're trying to lift that leg. And I have to do 90 of those. 90, Scott. I'm sorry,

90? 90 reps. The middle 30 reps with weight on my leg. Like with added weight on my leg. Yeah. Yeah. Oh. Yeah. You're sure PT doesn't stand for, I don't know. Something torture. Something torture. 20 of torture. Pointless torture. Pointless torture. Sounds hard, man.

That's a lot. It is, yeah. Yeah, it's no, no, bueno, as my physical therapist would say. I don't know why she always says it. She says no bueno. Wow. Okay. Yeah, it's to work.

So your quad, you know, your group of four muscles in your leg, your upper leg, there are three muscles that do a lot of the work. And then there's that one little muscle that does a little bit of work. They kind of work together to keep your kneecap. in place when you're bending your knee and stuff like that, but that it's that, it's that one little muscle that's not part of the big three that needs to get worked and that's the way to work it. Well, maybe you could get like a full-on pop-eye going with that thing and that muscle will just

be like a big old bulge. It'll just be, like, bulging out of my leg while the other three are like, yeah. Yeah, I would, this is a thing I would like to see. Sure. Well, anyway, busy months coming up, everybody, but my June's wide open, by the way, wide open nothing going on july meh august year but july or june

the only TMS that'll get affected i think is Thursday the 8th there's a couple couch parties that I might have to do remotely but um it's way more of an impact on film sack than it is on TMS yeah film sack we do on weekends it's kind of hard yeah

when the weekend's affected so well we're we're gonna figure something out we have plans in place for stuff yeah we're gonna try to figure it out we don't like to miss is our thing exactly uh well anyway let's let us now oh i'm gonna play some phone calls um yeah let's some phone calls when these come in it's just they feel like a priority so i want to play these this is one from uh somebody talking about those thermal well he's talking about thermal events but it was in reference to the uh space x rocket exploding oh wow okay remember that term they used

what was the term it was a conscious uncoupling no that was gwyneth and uh chris martin right It was a unplanned disassembly. No, it was something like that, though. Wasn't that it? I think that was it. Unplanned catastrophic disassembly or something? Something, I thought, un... Damn it.

Rapid unplanned, rapid. Rapid unplanned disassembly. Was that really it? I think that was it. Rapid unscheduled. I think it was unscheduled. A rapid unscheduled disassembly. Which is even weird.

That's great. What a great euphemism. Yeah, that's pretty awesome. So, as a fun little thing, we got a call about it. Let's check it out. Scott and Brian, Zinger, in Wisconsin here. I'm getting caught up. I'm way behind, but a couple Thursdays ago you guys were talking about SpaceX's rapid unscheduled disassembling.

I just want to let you guys know. I worked in the industrial world for a while, and whenever we had a fire, it was not called a fire. It was a thermal event. And if there was an explosion, oh, no, no, you cannot use the word explosion. You use the word thermal pressure event. Have a great day. Wow. Thermal events and thermal pressure events.

Hmm. I love it. I actually kind of like that, too. I think it's funny. So here's what I like to propose then, because our chat room, the genius Rickles-level comedians that they are, always coming up with pod fading whenever we talk about missing a show. Sure. All right. You clever individuals, you Norm McDonald's of the chat room world.

See if you can come up for a euphemism. for pod fading that is not pod fading so you know a rapid unscheduled uh deep deep podcastinization or something like something in that vein we would love a new term for that that's an amazing thing flex your flex your comedic muscle uh for for uh you know something something better something better better betterment of mankind because we've been holding on to that pod fade term since like oh six oh my gosh no kidding so it's time for something new it's time it's time to retire pod fading yeah f pod fading it's stupid rapidly look at some of these pod fighting rapidly unscheduled career dissolution that's pretty good failure to communicate sudden unscheduled host flex time is really good too

tied pot eating claire i don't know about that well oh claire oh claire i got to tell you by the way so we're in uh what's season you told me you're downloading some taskmaster two or queuing up i'm sorry your your your fingers hovering over the play button on yet another recommendation as soon as as soon as as Picard season three's over for me I'm going to do some taskmasters that's oh good okay there is a woman in the current season we're watching and I think we're in the middle of season 13 um her name is Fern Brady and uh uh I I'm enamored with her I don't know what it is about uh Brian got a new TV crush Brady but but it's

there's suddenly like she walks in I think I can't I think she's either she has a really, really thick accent and then her Wikipedia page says that I think she was born in Ireland, but that she grew up in Scotland or grew up in the UK, I can't remember. She's Scottish.

Yeah, she walks in to any task and goes, oh, no! She's this cute little adorable thing, and she goes in, oh, no! That's great. She's like a like a Warcraft dwarf walking into a art quest that's amazing she uh she's and she's uh got autism and she like uses her platform as a comedian to um you know to uh to educate people about autism and stuff like that she's she is

fantastic i just love watching her reactions to everything so claire says she's i don't think she's glass wegan is that how you say like someone from glasgow yeah from glasgow yeah Glasgowan. I've never heard Glasgow that's awesome. I'm a sucker for a Scottish accent of any sort and pretty much we'll have a crush on you decide. It doesn't even matter what sex you are. I don't care your proclivities. You got a Scottish accent. I'm freaking into you

hardcore. That's how it works. Her Shirley Manson from garbage, I could listen to Shirley Manson talked all day long. Yeah. Love her accent. But yeah, I mean if you end up watching whatever season of taskmaster she's in, you're just going to basically, uh, you're going to adore Fern Brady like I adore. I will watch for it. So how many, excuse me, how many seasons are there and should I start at the beginning? They're about to launch into the, um, the 15th season. Oh, I would say, yeah,

there's a lot of seasons. Um, yeah. Um, there's, uh, there's a, here's a couple seasons you need to watch. The one with Noel Fielding, hands down. Actually, there are two with Noe Fielding because he appears in two seasons. Do he host? That was what he was... No, no. Host is always Greg Davies and

Alex Horn. Little Alex Horn! Oh, little Alex Horn. Okay. Little Alex Horn. Who's not little. He's like extremely tall and he's actually he is the brains

behind Taskmaster. He writes all the tasks, but he also appears as the lackey to Greg Davies, even though he's kind of like that's the joke is that he's really the taskmaster. Okay. Oh, Claire sent us something in our DMs, by the way.

I'm afraid. Some Scottish bullshit or something. Is she going to yell at us for our pronunciation of Glass Wegan? Oh, here it is. I'll play it. Glaswegian. Weijijian, like Ouija board. Weegean.

That's a soft G, Claire, not a hard G. She's yelling at us in the chat. It's a hard G. Yeah, that's a, hold on. Let's play again. Glass Weegean. So Weijan is a hard G. Weigin is a soft G.

Or a soft G. West Wegan. would be a hard gie. Yeah, you have it backwards. Yeah. Claire, apparently can't tell soft and hard. Let that be known to all of you out there. Nice.

Anyway. Yeah. Yeah, so watch the one with Noel Fielding. You know, that's like season two. I think you can start with season two and just make your way through. It's so, so good. All right. I'm kind of into it.

I saw something yesterday. What did I see? I'll tell you this, the tough seasons are the ones with, where during COVID they didn't have an audience. Yeah. And it's just the five contestants and the two hosts sitting on a stage with no, with some very little audience piped in, or not piped in audience noise, but after they taped the show, they then showed it to an audience and they, and then they recorded the audience's laughter, but then they added it back to the show. It still feels really weird. It doesn't feel right. yeah but they don't it's gone now right they're not doing that now it's over no no they're back to

having an audience yeah that's good season 14 is tv's travis he's saying yeah dar o'brien it's brie uh darobrean but it's spelled b r i a i i think and it's pronounced and he's also and he is irish right darobrine i don't know i think is right anyway he's great too it's a really good mania chihuahua and yes that's the guy's real name mania chihuahua yeah um yeah he is irish darrow brain anyway it's really really good so for those asking where you can get it pluto had six seasons which is where i'm going to start it um because they're free and then after that uh amazon apple microsoft yeah i pay i i i it is the it is the one thing that i happily pay for on uh on apple is buying seasons of taskmaster yeah and they do um i thought

Brit Box have it. I don't see it here now. I thought Brit Box had it. They don't have it. So don't look at Brit Box, everybody. I thought they did. They don't. And maybe you have a complex friend. It's probably a very complex way. Yeah. There might be a complex way to do it. It's a really good season.

John, what's his face is funny. Yeah, the current season, season four, not current, but the season I'm watching season 14 is really, really good. Nice. Anyway. I'm now going to play this call. This is from Ian. I'm sci-fi, and it's something for Brian. All right? Oh, good. So enjoy this. Let's see what we got.

Hey, Scott and Brian. It's Ian. I am sci-fi. If I can't take Discord to work, I may as well at least leave a voicemail. Brian, I don't know if you've checked out Schmikadun at all. I forget whether or not it's been one of your recommendals over the past couple of months or year or whatever. But season two just started up and it's called Schmikago. And it is absolutely amazing. The theater part of it has just been ramped up to 11 this time around, and they've got parodies of company, Chicago, sweet Taz thrown in there for good measure. So if you have not checked it out, please make sure to do so, and I'm sure you will very much enjoy it.

Love the hobo. Talk to you guys soon. Tell me what Shimikago is and Schmikadun and all that. The Shmikidun, so this is a series with Kegan Michael Key and Sussex. strong from SNL as a couple we've only watched season one and it was a couple years ago when it first came out and I want to say this was actually Nicole

recommendal but Tina and I watched it as well and really loved it but they find this town called Shmigadoon. They're hiking they're kind of in the on the outs this couple and they stumble upon this town called Shmigadoon where everything is a musical

where basically they've walked into a 1940s Hollywood I'm carrying lumber to the shop do to do do do do and you know basically everybody you know every song is a musical and every everybody communicates that way and it was hilarious because you know they're the they're like experiencing this as like

all right well why are you guys saying well no what okay do we need to sing along is that what you're expecting and anyway first season was great second season I know just came out we have not started watching it yet but but the cast list the people they've added to this thing for season two looks amazing so yeah we're there it's already got crazy like i'm just here's a thing i just put in our chat that that group there i mean i see alan coming i see oh careful don't watch allan coming i see uh god how can you tell

anybody in this thing oh yeah coming and then on the far left you got the what's her name from uh oh yeah 30 rock brinkumee schmidt and 30 rock and yep Uh, what's her, uh, single female lawyer before that? What was that called? Yeah. I can only think of the Futurama thing they made fun of. I never remember. Yeah, Ali McBeal, that's right.

I can't think of her name though. It's like, uh, blondeie McPants. I don't know. I know. I want, uh, jeez. Jenna. Jenna, something. Oh, Jenna was her character on 30 Rock.

Oh, dang it. Uh, Krakowski. Something, Jan Krakowski? Janet? Jane. Jane, Jane, Krakowski. Jane, Jane, Kerkowski. Okay.

Jane Kerkowski. She's Louise. Yeah, she seems to be great. Yauza. Anyway, so yeah, excited to watch this. Right now we are watching season two of Perry Mason, speaking of Matthew Rise. Yeah.

Did you know they were a real couple? The reason that they cameoed and he did the cameo and cocaine bears because those two are like together, they have two kids. Elizabeth Banks? No. Who? Felicity. Oh, Carrie Russell?

Oh, really? I had no idea. Yeah, a bunch of people sent me pictures of me. out at a park pushing a stroller around holding the hand of a little three-year-old just looking all casual and married that's cool oh good on them man i had no idea they must keep it kind of quiet because it feels like someone i would have heard but anyway uh very cool i want to watch that how is season two because i love season harry mason season two is fantastic um shay wiggum is back it was in season one but again good can't can't beat some good old shay wiggum um uh what's his face brother on weeds

Oh, I like him. Kirk. Kirk something. Hold on, I'm going to look at it. Kirk Pumba is his name. Kirk Pumba. That brother is hilarious. What is his name?

His name is Hunter. Nope. His name is. Oh, Justin Kirk. Justin Kirk. Oh, that was the problem. I was trying to, I was thinking Kirk first name and trying to build off of that. Yeah, Justin Kirk.

Oh, he's got a face for the 40s and 50s. that's great. He does, so you see him in his, like, his, his look. Yeah, but even like his IMDB photo, you look at his face and go, oh, of course you're in a period piece set in the 40s. Of course you are.

Yeah. That's great. Yeah, it's great. Love it. So as soon as we finish that, we're watching, I think we're watching Schmigadoon, because some of the stuff that we're waiting to see, and I won't mention them here

because I'm saving them for recommendals, isn't finished hasn't wrapped up yet oh has Shmigadoon actually is a really good question or Schmikago I guess it is Didn't they just call it So they literally changed the name of the series I think it's Shmikadun season two

But I want to say it's called Schmikago as the Is the season title? Okay Let's see May 3rd is the Most recent episode It looks like

Oh looks like all six are out There we go. Oh, they're only doing six. Episode six. So there you go. Okay. Cool. Boy, there's a show I'm recommending on Wednesday.

I wish was all out and I could binge. Oh, I know. I'm talking about it on Wednesday, but it came out already. But man, I am all about what I saw. Holy crap. I can't wait for that. Work itself out. And I've even read all the books and I already know what happens, but I still can't wait.

All right. Let's move on to some news. We know that one of the important things we do here on the show is we keep our listeners informed. So today's one of those days. That's right. It was freaking loud, wasn't it? Today's news is brought to you by.

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podcast app. Soundography or Soundography.com if you want to subscribe, go check it out. And me and Hammond and all that stuff in one place. Nice. I love Cornell. I love Sound Garden and I really like everything else he did, solo or otherwise. Yes. Oh yeah. We talk about the audio slave and audio slave. Yeah, audio slave. They were great. Yeah. They were great. Morello in there. Good stuff. Yeah.

Oh, man. All right. Let's move on to this first story. This is an Uber story. You mean it's just a very, very, it's a very high-level story. Is that what you mean? Nope. I mean, it's about driving people around.

And I'm going to play this. Be crazy. And obey traffic regulation. Yeah, it's that kind of thing. The weirdest items people have left behind in Uber's. Brian, we're going to see if any of these have been left in your lifts before. Okay. It's not unusual.

says, what's his name? Is it? Tom Jones. Tom Jones. Couldn't think of him. For ride-share passengers to accidentally leave everyday items behind in the car, from phones to bags and so on. But Uber's annual lost and found index reveals far more unusual things that people report missing. Now, we have covered this list before in previous years. However, this year's list is pretty weird.

The most unusual item reported missing was a Danny DeVito Christmas ornament, someone left in a car. I love it. Yeah. That's pretty good. That's great. Yeah. I want to know what that looks like.

Is it like an always sunny Danny DeVito? Is it a taxi Danny DeVito? Alex Rieger, come on. Get your, get over here. I've got a fair for you. Let's see what it does. Ornament. Let's see if there's one listed somewhere.

Oh, I think it's, oh. Well, on Etsy, there's a thousand of them where people just making them. Oh, I'm sure. handmade. Danny Veed Ornaments, yeah. There's one that looks like a Dorito. That's pretty cool. That's right.

Oh, yeah, the penguin, that's a good obvious one, right? Yeah. You know, the cobble pot from Batman Returns. Returns. Yeah. Second one. Such a weird movie. Yeah.

The outlaws, among those other, or among the weirder things, he also had an assortment of animals, which included a toy poodle, somebody left hamsters in the car, two turtles and a rat. But here are the big ones, all right? Here are the ones that are strange. a fog machine got left that's huge those are not small tristan had one of those that would be the hardest thing to leave behind did you use one of those when you were doing wedding uh wedding uh no we had a bubble machine so it would sit on one of our one of our giant speakers and uh uh the worst it was the worst oh my god so yeah it would it would fire bubbles out into the crowd and then we had a light you know one of those disco balls with a light thing and that would reflect on the the bubbles and stuff here the here's the a big problem with that. Two big problems with that. Number one, you have to fill it with liquid. Yeah, like soap stuff, right? And it never uses up all the liquid throughout the night,

which means that, A, it's going to get knocked over by a drunk couple dancing or some dude trying to try to do the hustle, whatever. Number two, if it doesn't get knocked over and dumped out, then you have to figure out what you're going to do with the bubble liquid in this thing. And so you've got to find a bathroom or find some place where you can dump it and clean it out. Oh, horrible. That sounds awful. Not worth it at all. No.

It's barely worth having that, I got a bubble gun thing upstairs that shoots bubbles out of it and Van loves it. It's a freaking nightmare to take care of that thing. I hate it. It is. Yeah. Bubble liquid is like the worst, second worst substance known to man. Yeah. I don't know.

I don't even want to know what the first is. Let's just say, well, let's say it's mayonnaise. Let's say, let's go there for a jury's sake. All right. Justin Robert Young, mayonnaise, done. An ankle monitor was found in there as well. So that means somebody, somebody's in trouble, dude. They lose that.

Right. Or somebody is watching this going, wow, they are, this person, this former inmate is really going all over town. Yeah, he's just taking the longest drive he's ever had. Pregnancy test, didn't say whether it was positive or negative, but it was there. I hope they didn't hold it in their urine stream while driving. I was going to say, I hope they didn't conduct the pregnancy test. Yeah, don't, don't pee on stuff while you're in the car. 16 ounces of fake blood

Okay I'm hoping it was in a container Marked fake blood As opposed to They had to send it to a lab To find out that it was fake blood It's not so awfully specific 16 ounces

You know Oh I'm never driving Anna Pacquin again Nope nope She's the truest of the bloods Get out of my car That's right Remote controlled vibrator Oh yeah

Did they hopefully they left the remote too Yeah well I don't know But you see there's TikTok videos Of people using this thing they walked around town and the guy behinders got the remote oh i imagine somebody had one of those going in Vegas i just have to assume that that's a that's a deal some people do that uh star wars lightsaber weapon it says it's a star wars style oh style lightsaber weapon yeah so that you don't get it confused with all of those other style light lightsaber weapons like the what do they mean like

maybe they mean it's off brand or something like a dollar store version or something maybe i think it's Just somebody like, instead of saying, well, it's a Star Wars lightsaber weapon, it's a Star Wars style. Yeah, yeah. The style they use in Star Wars. Yeah, in the styling of Star Wars, we have made a weapon. The style they use in Lord of the Rings, for example. That's really dumb. This is the one that blows my mind because I guarantee it's more than this.

But they have the number, two fingernails. There's way more than that in these cars. Way more. Yeah, for sure, for sure. People are peeling their fingernails off all the time. You just haven't found them. the other eight yeah and maybe what they mean is the full like cuticle up to tip nail oh or or maybe they were fake nails oh good point it could be like fake because they well then they would have put

fake nails remember back in the day yeah yeah in the 80s that uh all our girlfriends had lee press on nails exactly they don't have those now i don't think or maybe they do stuff i don't if i heard somebody clipping their nails in my in my car while i was driving them i think i would say if you don't cut that i think i would say if you don't cut that out i'm pulling over and i'll wait for you to call another lift but i'm leaving you wow yeah i am not here's the deal you didn't we need to get you need to okay we got a plan here next time you're driving and you hear that okay and maybe the music's too loud and maybe you never will but let's just say you hear it no i never have the music so loud that i wouldn't be able to hear that you need to turn your phone on

video yeah we need to hear you say this to that lady I need to hear it. Well, here's the thing you guys, you will get to because I have a ring car cam in my car now, front and back car cam. I usually leave the interior facing one closed, which is probably dumb with me lifting because somebody's going to do something to me. That's probably a good idea for me to capture it on video. Right. Right. But I also notice when the thing is on and there's that little glowing blue light that shows that it's on. that hardly anybody wants to have a conversation.

Oh, they shut up, do they? Do they pipe down? They shut up. Like, it becomes, it's like, and I don't mind the occasional quiet ride, but it's basically like, hey, how are you doing today? I'm good. How are you? Good.

And then it's like, I can't see it, but I know probably at that point they're noticing the blue light. Yeah. And then it's like, all right, well, how's your, do you got any good plans over the weekend? Nope. Nothing. I got nothing. I'm not doing it.

I'm not doing anything, and this is all I have to say about it. Exactly. Yeah, I wonder. What if. If Fern Brady clips their nails in my car, I'll allow it. Okay. There's a guy, Chanel, Fern Brady. There you go.

There's a few names, Brian. He'll allow it. There's probably a really long list of Hawaii allowed to put their nails in my car. Andy Garcia can clip his nails in my car. Just so it's not, oh, Brian only cares about ladies. Nope. All right. Andy Garcia can clip his nails in my car.

Andy Garcia is your one male exception. That's right. I love that. Brad Pitt, if you can put down his food for one second, he can clip his nails in my car. Oh, I don't, do you think the rumors are true that guy never showers or something? There's a, there's stock that he never showers. What, that Brad Pitt never showers? Yeah.

Or am I thinking of, um, I'm thinking of, um, I'm thinking of, uh, Gerard de Pardukas because I'll believe that one in a heartbeat. No. I, uh, uh, this, that 70 show couple, uh, Tofer Grace. Oh, Ashton Cuchin, Milacunus. Oh, yeah, melecunus. Oh, yeah, melecunus. Uh, there's all this talk that never shower. rumor that he does that kutcher doesn't shower yeah and that she doesn't either now or it's some kind it's part of their natural lifestyle whatever i know gross gross take a shower once in a while gosh

dang it who turned on the shower it wasn't me i wonder how many people are tempted to leave stuff in a uber or a lift because they want to be funny you know like a remote controlled vibrator or whatever That's hilarious, but then, you know, you don't get to see the aftermath. You don't get to see the actual comedy bit of them discovering the thing that they've left in the Uber. Maybe you're hoping to make this list or something, you know. That's right. I've had two people leave phones, one at the airport, and then one that I actually took the, I did all the legwork to hunt this person down and get their phone back to them. Yeah.

And because I knew that they, I drove them to their waitressing job first thing in the morning. And I could tell it was like, ah, you know, got to do this and got to, got to pay the bills. And then I drove back up to Boulder on my own dime and returned the phone to her. How was your tip from her? Was it okay? She gave me 15 bucks and that's totally fine. Because it was $15 and like, and I even said, you don't need to tip me. She's like, no, no, I have to.

I'm sorry. you've done so much or you're like you know you've made my day or whatever but it was all like ones and fives which I know is like she got those were her tips or came out of her tips for the day and it's like if I could leave it in her mailbox and be sure that she'd get it then I would have done it yeah but and then some guy uh this weekend um like I'm dropped off what was was my last ride and I'm heading home and I get a call that a phone number I don't recognize and I say this is Brian and I usually don't say it that nicely when I don't recognize the number because I want to let telemarketers know that I mean

business yeah you're this is Brian yeah you're trouble you're not you're not just going to take their bullshit right exactly oh we're starting off we're starting off at a level five don't push me don't push me up that's right but anyway he says uh hey uh this is Alex I was just in your car uh did I leave a pair of sunglasses in there dope I said oh hold on let me check and so I find the next convenient place to pull over, I get out, I look all over the back seat, I don't find a pair of sunglasses. But I do find that someone during that day had gum on the bottom of their shoe, and now there is gum on my freaking floor.

Oh, well, to their credit, maybe they didn't know. They tracked it in. That's the, that's my, that's what I have to basically say. You have to live with that thought. Yeah, that's just going to be how it is. Somebody didn't just dump their gum in my. Or gun. Or gun.

Dump their gum, their Star Wars style gun. The Star Wars style blaster. Yeah. You know from Star Wars. Yes, exactly. I don't have to like ice and scrape and all that stuff. Oh, did that work? Have you done that or did that work?

I started the process and put some ice on it. And then we got too sucked into Perry Mason and forgot I'd put ice on it. So I have soggy gum and a floor mat. Yeah, I was going to say. Realized. In effect, you put water. on it nice job exactly what i put some nice cold water in so i'm gonna fix i'm gonna continue fixing it after the show today speaking the lost phones i don't know what happened but right before

Vegas we have we found two lost phones in the same day which is unusual we found one in a intersection crossing on our way to breakfast to this place we like around here and it was just laying there shattered up pretty good uh couldn't it wouldn't work it wasn't on so we just took it to the restaurant we were heading to and just said and case they come by here we don't know who this is just you know and she was fine doing that and then later that very same day we're walking around the lake another phone face down on the path that one was working so we're like all right we're going to take this to the closest place where they could do similar as the restaurant but also we're going to wait for the call yeah and the

lady called and said hi is this my phone you know she's like yeah how do you land's like that's the thing right so you've got their phone yeah i wrestled with this when this happened to the person in Boulder like I was waiting for a call I kept that phone with me went to the bathroom kept the phone with me the whole day kept the phone with me finally she gets a call I'm like I answer the phone

hi I have this phone that belongs to the person you're trying to call do you know how I can get in touch with them yeah it's weird it's all he can do right and you hope it's not a telemarketer going hi would you like to save 10% on your insurance by switching a guy come right I was

That's what I was worried about as we'd get calls from something else. Either something random like that or someone's mom or, you know, so how do you even do the conversation? But it was luckily, it was the lady who dropped it. Yeah. And I said, or Kim had it. And Kim's like, well, it's a little scratched up because it was kind of banged up and cracked and stuff. But she was like, oh, you're just going to save me.

This is so great. Where do you want us to meet you? And we just took it to a grocery store and dropped it off. I'm still waiting for the karma payback, though, and all that. So, uh, karma, where's my payback, payback for getting these two people, their phones back, okay? Yeah, yeah. I'm ready for, you might have to look back. Maybe you're, you know, you've got, uh, thousands of followers on, on TikTok.

Maybe that's your karma payback. That's my payback. It's in retro. Maybe you've gotten the good thing and now you're paying for the good thing by doing nice things for people forever. See, this is the problem. It's so undefined that nobody knows how karma works. That's right.

Exactly. Oh, I've already borrowed it. I've already gotten the loan, the karmic loan, and I'm paying it back? Oh, darn, okay. What a shame. All right, we're going to move on to the story about some Americans who did a thing that's weird. Americans caught smuggling 375 pounds. That's our measurement.

I don't know what it is in kilos. It's a lot, though. How many kilos per pound or how many pounds per kilo? I have no idea. That's one conversion I never bothered to learn. Yep, didn't either. I never had a need to, but anyway, 375 pounds of fruit roll-ups into Israel. They're blaming TikTok somehow.

Okay, so I'll read the story. Israeli officials found a strangely sweet surprise in an American tourist suitcase this week. Security at the Ben-Garon is that how you say it? Ben-Garon Airport. N-Gri-Gri-N-Gri-Gri-N-Gurion, I don't know. Ben-Gurian. Probably some famous. I'm pulling up the Indian in the middle stuff.

Oh, totally fine. Please continue and I'll participate as much as I can. I'll continue. This is at the International Airport in Tel Aviv. The unzipped the American couple suitcase and we're bursting, it was bursting with about 375 pounds of fruit roll-ups on May 2nd. There was a whole video and stuff around it. It wasn't the first time Americans have been caught sneaking, cavity-inducing amounts of fruit roll-ups into Israel. This week, in fact, it wasn't even the first time of the same week.

The, what? Why is, sorry, my Mac is. Freaking out. Okay, there we go. Let's see. First time this week, about 661 pounds of fruit roll-ups were confiscated within a week, one week of the airport, according to the outlet. They, apparently this is some kind of TikTok. Yeah, that's what somebody in chat is saying, A-Wet-N-W-N-N-N-I-Should-T-B.

Merman, I should turn to be. Merman, I should turn to be. Merman, I should turn to be. Sure. I think I'm saying that right. I mean, those are the words that Unless it's Mermani should turn to be. Oh my gosh.

Look at all these. What the frick? Yeah. People apparently know what to, apparently there's wrapping. Wow. Oh, people are saying wrapping around ice cream.

I hope that's what it is. Is that what it is? But it sounds like it's also wrapping them around weeners. Oh. Well, then. Okay. The sexual act of wrapping them around weeners, but, uh, okay, droves of TikTok creators created videos or shared videos of them trying out the latest snack innovation ice cream

inside of a fruit roll-up and a type of dumpling shape. According to the testers, the ice cream hardens the fruit roll-up, making it a delicious treat. Videos of the hack have gone viral, 14 million views. But why Israel? Yeah, that's a good question. Oh, look at that. Okay. All right.

I'm kind of in. so I was thinking it was rolled up around it like a you're basically creating a mochi ball right isn't that basically what you're doing it's like a little dumpling type thing yeah this uh here I'm going to give you a video or a page that has a video on it of a woman enjoying uh oh here we go this fruit roll up concoction and damn it if it doesn't look awesome it kind of does okay I hate to say how good this looks but it does look good.

All right, look at this, you guys. Hold on. Oh, it's not playing, though. That thing you sent

doesn't show. Where's video? There's video. Oh, really? Yeah, scroll down. There's a TikTok,

embedded TikTok video. No. No. It's the food and wine. com. Is that the one? Yeah. It's the,

here's why fruit rolloops are everywhere right now. I wonder if it's blocking, I wonder if it's blocking the embedded, here I'll give you, here,

I'll give you just a direct link to her TikTok. Oh. I think I found this blonde lady with a boofed up hair. Yeah, well, there's one above that. Did it look at the link I gave you in Discord first? Okay, hold on. Because then there's a dime store, Gene Smart is the second performance there.

Oh, yeah, look at that. Oh, yeah, like a little dumpling. Like a little dumpling, yes. Okay, if I was 10, I'd do this. I'm 53 and I want to do this. You should do this and tell us what you think. This would probably spike me too hard, but I'd be very curious about it. Yeah, it is, yeah.

I could tell when I was drinking that, that frozen drink that I got on Fremont Street. Yeah. I could tell. I could tell your. I miss those kind of things. Blood shirt was going, just being around. I love, I used to love, like any kind of slushy anything was kind of my jam, and now I can't have those anymore. Oh, it's a bummer.

But it looks like the key is freezing. I mean, you basically are just turning it into a mochi ball. Yeah. Or I guess it becomes harder than mochi. So I guess it's... I assume it, like, cracks when you buy it into it. Yeah, that's what it looks like. All right.

All right. I'm too lazy to go to the store. Actually, I do have to go to Target today, so I'll look and see if I can find... Oh, Tarjeet. Fruit Roll-ups there. Yeah. TikTok. Yeah, they have an exclusive...

Get ready to laugh at Brian. Okay. They have an exclusive Hasbro action figure set with one of Groot's transformations in Guardians of Galaxy 3 that comes with Baby Rocket and the dog Cosmo. Oh. And you can only get at a target. Well, of course you're getting this. Of course you are. I have one reserved.

Yeah. Yeah. Because they only had three. They only had three in stock. So it's like, oh, I've got to go there now. Well, yeah. No, you know what? Two thumbs up.

way up yeah yeah yeah i'll show it off on the store tomorrow yeah you gotta do what you got to do on the show on the show don't show it off on the store i'll show it off on the store today as i walk around looking i got group and then uh when i get to the show tomorrow then you'll tell us about how you're arrested and how that worked right it didn't work yeah and then i tried wrapping a fruit roll up around grude and it just went poorly and you can't wait it's gonna be great info um all right we're gonna take a break when we come back. Bill Duran will join us after that. We got Bobby. We got some science. All that and more coming up. But we got to play song. So play that song. What do you got? Yeah, July 14th. Mark that date on your calendar. Get it your calendar out. I'll wait. I'll wait. Okay. You got it out? Okay.

I'm out. On July 14th, the brand new album from Mr. Wives comes out. It's called nosebleeds. It comes out July 14th. These guys are going to be touring with Bishop Briggs across North America all summer and fall long. make sure you, you, uh, check him out. This is the band, Mr. Wives, not to be confused with sister wives, uh, and the first single from the album, it is called, it is the title track from the album, Nosebleeds, which makes it called Nosebleeds. Oh, very nice. Here it is.

We'll be right back. Halls. Writing was always on the wall, but I looked the other way. Sinking feeling inside my bones. A crowded room, but I'm all alone. It's my address, but it's not my home. So I look the other way. I'm up in the nosebleeds. I'm watching the show. I'm feeling some deja vu, and all the besieged. I'm up in the nosebleeds, and down in the seats. I see a thousand faces that look just like me. What it might be like, just for one night, I didn't care what they all think, wonder what it might be like, just for one night, I didn't care what they all think. Did you care without me?

I was blind to the warning sign. Spilling blood you were drinking wine. Contraway to the finish line. Told me I was D-O-A. All the wreckage inside my head. A consequence of the word you said is 2020 in retrospect. So I turned the other way. I'm up in the nosebleeds.

I'm watching the show. I'm giving some deja vu. I know the besiege. I'm up in the nosebleeds. And down the seats I see a thousand faces that look just like me Wonder what it might be like Just for one night

I didn't care what they all think Wonder what it might be like Just for one night I didn't care what that all day There's somebody Trying to be somebody I thought that I was different Just a garment

copy lost in the illusion if i'm winning or i'm losing thought that i was different that was a delusion wonder what it might be like just for one night i didn't care what they all think wonder what it might be like just for one night i didn't care what they all think i'm up in the nose bleats i'm washing the shadow I'm feeling some days I go And I'm up in the nosebleeds And down in the seats I see a thousand faces That look just like me

Isn't that wild I just took four flash pictures Without changing bulbs Too tired to piss, too full of piss to sleep Oh, here, Mirgerd. This is the morning stream. And we're back, everybody. Tell me again who that was.

Sure. A band that is based somehow in both New York City and Los Angeles, alt-pop group, Mr. Wives, a brand-new album is called Nosebleeds, comes out in July. That is the title track. How does that work if you say you're in all places? So it says today, New York City, Los Angeles-based alt-pop group. Let's see if they explain.

They're probably some of the band lives in one place. Some of the band lives in the other place, and they either perform or somehow record individually. Maybe they're just being a hoot. They're being a hoot. Yeah, there are so many paragraphs in this thing. I'm not going to read it. Wow. Who reads this level of PR?

Nobody. Nobody. That's a bad idea. Don't be putting that much PR. T-L-D-R-It. Damn straight. All right. We're going to do some good quality bill time, and that starts now.

There's still something wrong, isn't there, Bill? Oh, look who it is. It's Bill, our good friend Bill. He is all the way over there at punishprops.com. And he's here today to share some cool creativity with us, because that's all things, Punish Props. Hi, Bill. Welcome back to the show.

Hello. Happy to be here. Oh, it's good to have you here. You came up in conversation yesterday, and I'm trying to remember how. Kim and, oh, no, no, what was it? Carter. I can't remember. We're having a conversation with the kids, and somebody said something, and somebody

said, oh, Bill could make that. And I went, boy, he sure could. And then that was the end of it. But I don't remember what it was. But, you know, you could make anything, I guess, is the point. It's starting to feel that way. I sure have all the tools in my basement. That's right.

You can make whatever you want to make. But we're going to make content with you right now. tell us what you got going what's going on uh well we uh we i mean brittney and i have over the last couple of months started to um sort of spool up a new 3d printing venture let's say a new pre-d printing thing that we're going to do uh and we're still in kind of the early planning stages but um we'll be doing a lot of 3D printing prototyping so we decided to buy a new 3D printer nice oh nice uh we actually don't have a lot of lot of printers. I have an ultimaker. Yep. Okay. That one's actually quite old. It still works really

well, but I have it set up to print ABS for props. I was going to ask you. So that's a, that's a filament. The ultimacers a filament deal. Yeah. And I use ABS for props because I end up sanding all of them. But the new stuff I'm doing isn't going to be prop related. I'm not going to sand it. So we got this new Prusa 3D printer and we plan on printing only in PLA. Oh, okay. Nice. So we got a kit. We've put together several 3D printer kits over the years. But this 3D, I don't know, have you guys, either of you put together a 3D printed kit?

No, I never know. Yeah, I've put together, I think over the years, four different filament-based, FDM 3D printers. So what does that mean? You get like chunks and parts and then connect them and. Yeah, you don't, it basically comes in like bars and stuff that you have. to assemble like the the hot end is going to be all one piece and the the mechanism that moves it and all that sort of thing but you're you're basically assembling the frame that this thing sits in okay all right and i didn't even know that was the thing i thought you just buy a printer and

you had all the stuff you needed and off you go which is true i guess but there's a way you do just got a some assembly required batteries yeah included all right the uh what's cool about um let me see here. So you can get one fully assembled. It looks like I'm looking on the website. It's $900 and then for the kit it's only $6.50. So you save quite a

few bucks by buying the kit and you get to put it all together yourself. I was really impressed like you, Brian. I've put together several 3D printer kits over the years. This is the best the Prusa one. Yeah. The instructions are really good.

They're printed. Really good instructions. with past kits, that's been a problem. Especially ones from overseas, the instructions tend to be pretty lackluster. Yeah. And then the Prusa machines, a lot of the parts are 3D printed on Prusa machines. Yeah, yeah.

They have a giant 3D print farm where they print a ton of their parts. And what's really neat about that is they conversion their parts. So this machine has evolved over time, and all they do is, spit out a new part, push it to all their printers, and now that, all their printers are printing new parts. And on each part, you can look, and there's usually like a version number, which is kind of cool. So the Prusa I3 Mark 3S that I have is not the same as the one that someone would have bought like a year or two ago.

It's kind of neat how they're able to do that, iterate on the fly like that. Yeah. So if you, can anybody do this? You just have to have half a brain to figure it out, or is this like a complicated mess? No, super easy. Yeah. Okay. That's good to know because I've never done that. And if I got a decent printer in here, miss is always going to be true in some way, right? They can preassemble most of it, but you're still going to have to do some stuff on site. I mean, unless you get just a massive box, like the

Cobra Max that I have would have had to come in a box, probably about the size of one of those mattresses that expands once you open the box. Oh, yeah. Yeah. But, you know, it came in a much smaller box because it, you know, basically just, you're basically just putting all the bars in the first. and stuff together, and it's so easy. The instructions are really good. And if there aren't good instructions, YouTube has somebody's assembled it and put the video up on YouTube.

Somebody's always done it. Yeah, oh, totally. Yeah. For context, too, though, my Ultimaker came fully assembled, right out of a huge box, but you pull it out, plug it in, and it's ready to go. Of course, that machine costs $2,500, so. Do you pay for what you get sort of thing? Wow.

We've been printing a ton of stuff off of the new machine to start. to put it through its paces. I'm really impressed with some of the new features. These are not new for 3D printers, but I have not had a printer with these features. So it can detect when the filament runs out and it will stop printing.

Yeah. Which my Ultimaker does not do. It has mesh bed leveling. It doesn't actually level the bed. It just goes around and senses the height of the bed and then it prints accordingly. Oh, see, that's a cool feature. That's a cool step forward, because

Isn't that like the big hang up for a lot of people is trying to get that damn bed leveled? It used to be like I remember the earlier days of 3D printing getting stuff to stick down to the bed with always the struggle. Yeah. And then also power loss recovery. So if a power goes out,

it will, when you turn it back on, it'll be able to recover. And again, my $2,500 alt maker, granted, it's like 10 years old. Yeah. It doesn't do that. If the power goes out, I have to then figure out where the print stopped

and then reslice it at that, point print the rest of it and glue it back together oh wow okay you're you're much more like i wouldn't even consider no that worth the work i just say well there's some plastic crap i've got to throw out and i've got started over if you're like a day and a half into a three-day helmet print yeah that's true use um uh get a little raspberry pie and put uh octoprint on there because that will that will remember where you left off that's a great idea i'm actually planning I'm doing that on my Prusa, so I can do cool time lapses with a camera. Oh, yeah.

Yeah, very cool. Somebody in chat says universal power supply, our uninterruptible power supply. I do have one of those. They just wanted you to order something on the P.S. Yeah. I do. My Ultimaker is plugged into one of those, and it'll run the machine for about 45 minutes. Ask me how I know.

Yeah. No kidding. Yeah, that's the thing with those is they're great if you only have an outage that last 10 minutes, but it's not always true. Yeah. the whole idea of those is just like hey the power's out now I can safely shut everything down it's not so much that I can run for 45 more minutes yeah anyway so like I said we've been putting it through its paces and I've been doing a lot of printing on the machine and we've been going out and looking for people who make and sell really cool 3D files which is fun there are a lot of people out there now who are doing that a lot of patrons and stores we can buy 3D

files. Of course, I am an advocate for paying artists for the cool work that they do. So I've been tweeting about it over on my, on Chibbeard on Twitter. Some of the things we've been printing. This one place called J.B.V. Creative Studios has a bunch of cool things.

I like printing stuff that are like kits that you can put together. And they had a multi-part geared mechanism that's really neat. You can either run it with a power drill or a hand crank, which is fun. Oh, cool. And it makes a little bayblade type thing spin around, which is always a good time.

So that was a fun one to check out. And then my friend Allie Katz does a ultimate, what's this called? The Ultimate Picture Frame. So it's a modular picture frame for both Imperial and Metric. There's a whole bunch of different kits. And again, you print the parts you need and you can assemble it to make a picture frame exactly the size you need. Give me five seconds.

I'm going to grab the thing I printed just recently. All right. Go for it. Go for it. so the picture frame we put together and my friend uh sanit um spicy tie design sent us a drawing years ago we finally got it all framed up because of this thing fine you know sometimes projects start and then there's a big chunk of time and then i'm pretty sure i got this this picture in 2015 but i got finally got it framed it was a pretty good year so i mean you know you probably

probably for whatever reason sometimes we just put our stuff off i was looking here at your um that's Whoops, your Twitter account, hold on me, move that back up. This, did you, this, this, sorry, this repost you did of Metsula in Disneyland. Is that the thing, and Brian's back, maybe he did it. Brian, did you print that medallion that Mizzula is wearing at the Disney thing? Yes. Yeah, the, his, his grogou, uh, clave-a-flave thing that he's, he wore last night at Star Wars, Star was night. It's great.

It's great, yeah. All right. So if you saw him, though, if you saw him in a Walmart, you might call security, is all I'm saying. You totally would, yes, with those feet and everything. Yeah. So, um, one of the people that I follow that I have a, uh, uh, Patreon two that does 3D stuff is clock spring 3D and highly recommend them. They're on my list.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So this is the skull box. Oh, yeah. And it's got a nice little, little, little you pop off here. Let me. Yeah.

From this angle. nice little lid and stuff. Yeah. But let me turn off my lights here because I want this to be visible. Yeah. It works with the EL wire, electro-luminousing wire. Yeah. And so...

Oh, what? So, you know, you basically run EL wire through the grooves on this thing, and then you've got a skull box that lights up, and it's even got a place inside for the EL wire to terminate. to terminate, basically to hang out. Dude. I haven't separated out the lid yet, but yeah, this is... I want to do some...

This is the damn coolest thing. Oh, it's so cool. I want to make Tron stuff now. That'd be perfect for Tron stuff. You can totally do Tron stuff. You know, there's also... There's a new LED wire that's very similar. It's about three millimeters wide, very similar to EL wire.

However, it is brighter and does not require an inverter that winds at you. Really? Yeah. So it's worth, that would be worth checking out as well. So this thin lighting stuff is something I've been looking to explore. And through 3D printing, I think that's where I'm going to do it.

I love the idea of designing stuff for you that sock in the remade things and they just work. Yeah, that's cool, man. Totally. I'm trying to figure out a way to do a lightsaber slash khyber crystal holder that uses EL wire. And like, like, looks, you know, very, very, uh, sith. Because it'll be red and black and stuff. Oh, yeah. Oh, people use this on their car interiors.

Crazy. I've never seen this before. This is wild. That's news to me. It's only 14 bucks for this much. Jeez. It's cheap. You get a lot of stuff with, like, I ended up with five different colors of EL wire for 14 bucks.

Yeah. It's like you're only used the green for this. Yeah. Those kits with like all the different. I think I have like three of those downstairs. I can be an order. If I look up LED wire, no, it's, I'm not quite sure that what you would do to search for it, but test it has a video or two on it.

This thin LED wire. The only difference between the EL wire is you have to connect your leads on the opposite. You have a lead on one side of the wire and a lead on the other side of the wire. Oh, on this one I didn't. Yeah, for EL, it's all on one side.

Oh, I see what I said. For LED wire, you have to have a connection on both sides. I gotcha. Okay. So yeah. I've seen Amazon has some. They've got a, let's see, a toink brand. 100 feet

RGB 4 wire conductor cords LED is that is that actual LED wire is that wire to connect

your LED yeah I'm not sure the exact term to use yeah I can't find but like I said

though Norm did a video on out and test it if you're interested yeah I'll go look for that stuff and I'll be play I'll be ordering

and playing with some of that in the coming weeks I'm sure yeah very nice very cool man this is

I love that box Brian gosh dang it that's cool I know. It's so cool. That'll be my, I'll use that for my, um, uh, selfie for the, the show the thing today. Uh, thumbnail today. We should do. We should get, uh, we should make a 3D. I'm sure this would be easy, actually. Make a 3D printed, um, uh, disc, tron disc. Oh, yeah. And it's sort of translucent. I'm pretty sure someone's probably already done that. Oh, I'm kind of, I'm not more positive. Yeah, yeah. That'd be so cool. I'd put that on my wall and never let

it down. Uh, all right. Very cool. Always good. You're going to let you down. Always good getting some inspiration from Bill and from punished props. Bill, anything in the form of a bonus link this week? Speaking of Tested, I just put a link in the chat in Discord. Tessid did a video covering some of the stop motion walkers from BobaFet and Mandalorian. Now, these were done over at Tippett Studios and my friend Sean Charlesworth, another tested friend. He works at Tippett, and he got to make walkers, stop motion walkers, for Star Wars.

I think that's the coolest thing ever. Oh, man. Are you kidding me? Dude, when I was a kid, this is all I cared about. And they did lots of 3D printing for it. They got some stuff 3D printed in metal, and then they machined it after the fact. The Spider Walker, its legs were all 3D printed metal. Oh, this is so cool.

I love that they didn't just go with the standard Star Wars ad at, you know, looking thing like this thing with like the the claw machine and a crane and all those parts move you could play with it it's like these stop motion uh things are like the coolest toys ever yeah I'm the robust and

oh with the crane that's announcing what Brian's talking about holy shit yeah right I want that's so bad it looks so I hate to say it but it looks like something from that movie that you kind of like so much yeah that one I sort of mentioned occasionally yeah uh Star Wars and Mad Max had a baby basically that's awesome yeah that's it uh all right great stuff as always check out adam savage's

channel and of course punish props.com if you're not already subbed then who the heck are you what are you do you do you have a fantastic week we'll see you next time see you friends bye now see you that link by the way on quicktms dot l i so those of you listening to the show just go to that and you can check it out check it out indeed let's get science in here science yeah time to learn Get some science-y science, all up in our veins. We've got to play this, though. Science. Bob is hungry, and the soup looks good.

It sure does. Bobby's here, and he's here from South Carolina. Beautiful, South Carolina. Just one of the many folks we have on the show from South Carolina. Part of our South Carolina collection. That's right. You guys need to have a meetup of your own. Anyway, it's Bobby, and Bobby, it's good to have you here.

How are you? I'm doing great. I feel so relieved for almost half a year. I've had this sense of sort of dread and coming on the show every Tuesday has been really awkward for me because I've been really worried that one of you guys really hated me. Because I never got to, I feel like I got kicked off of Brian's Christmas card list. I mean, how do you know? You don't know until somebody, it's a hard thing to bring up. I get it. I get it. That's so true. I'm so glad now that, because I kept feeling like, my God, Bobby hates me. He hasn't said thank you for the $500 Amazon gift card that we included in his Christmas card.

How weird. You know, this is a public service announcement then that communication is very important. You can just say what you're feeling to the people you hear about. Yeah, if you like somebody and you have a concern, don't sit on it. Yeah. Let it out. All right? Like Bobby, we let him out one. a week to talk about science and he's here to do that today hey bobby what's going on i loved some of the stuff you're working on for your current uh episodes of the show like you were talking about um oh what was it the uh how not everything in nature is like someone says it's natural it must be good yeah that concept i love that stuff that is yeah we're trying to talk more about

or at least i am i've always wanted to make critical thinking of a major part of our mission at all around science and it's it can be tough to to decide to start doing a regular thing about that because you worry about when you're talking about critical thinking and logical fallacies you worry about you know being really pedantic and talking down to people and being like you're thinking wrong and this is the way you should be thinking yeah um so we've I finally found a sort of like weigh in with a new story that talked about you know healthy eating and and natural foods and stuff like that and it was from you know it was a way in to talk about you know the the appeal to nature logical fallacy which we see a lot nowadays so if you're

interested in that yeah um and how how that you should definitely check out this latest episode that came out yesterday and look forward to in the future it's not going to necessarily be in every week thing but i'm going to look for more reasons to to have like a recurring like let's let's talk about this logical fallacy. There's a lot, there's a huge long list of logical fallacies. And it's really important to learn what they are, not necessarily, because you need to be, everybody suffers from flaws in thinking and you need to be able to recognize them, not just in others. That's not the point, not to point other people's mistakes. To criticize others, yes. Oh, I like it, though. It's a nice little, it's icing on the cake.

Sure, exactly. But it makes you feel good. But you also want to be able to identify when you are doing it on yourself, you know. Yeah. More of that, please. More people recognizing their own bullshit. It would be nice. That'd be a really good thing. For sure. But there I am talking down. Hey, Bobby, let's get into whatever you brought for us today, though. What sort of awesome science are we going to try to scale?

So, did you hear, did you hear that it was just on January 30th? Was it January 30th? Oh, never mind. I'm looking at the wrong date. On May 5th, a couple of days ago. On January 30th was the day I marked on my calendar that I think my friendship with Brian has been canceled. Because it was a whole month after Christmas. It was nice of you to give you that much leeway, really. Yeah, well, you know, things happen. But on May 5th of this year, the World Health Organization declared that the COVID-19 emergency is over.

Did you hear that? Yeah, I did. Here's what I heard. I heard the 11th and then somebody yesterday in my car said that they heard it was the 8th. Have they, have they bounced around with dates? Have they like had a hard time pinning down? Who knows? Who knows? I may have just, you know, sometimes you're looking at these articles too and you're trying to figure out what date something happened and it says like yesterday or something in it and you just quickly look at the date that it was published. So I may even have the date wrong. No, I mean, you know, I'm seriously, two people said it not based on like. yesterday or tomorrow the thing will be over no somebody said the 11th and then i said oh yeah here the 11th you know is is uh we can we can call the covid uh nightmare over even though we'll still

will still be a thing yeah and they said oh i heard it was the eighth and so we were trying to figure out what was real a lot of people do jump to that conclusion though they go oh covid's over it's gone eradicated we've eradicated the virus not what it means it just means it's no longer an emergency mode. It's kind of like think DeFCon, we went from DefCon 4 to 3, or we went from Right. Well, so what it really means is that we now can officially sort of say that COVID is endemic. It's no longer a pandemic. It's the official thing that was being said was that, and this is why I actually wrote down January 30th in my notes here, was that on January 30th of 2020 was when the World Health Organization declared that COVID was a public health.

emergency of international concern, the P-H-E-I-C. And so basically that has expired and not been, you know, it's gone. And that might be what the 11th date is, that maybe that's when this is something is going, then when it's going to expire, but it was just announced by, um, by the, the, the who chief, T-drose. The who-chief. Who-chief? Yeah.

I like that. He, uh, finally just declared it. that's what was going to happen. And like you said, Scott, that, and even he emphasized that the fight is not over for COVID. It's just endemic. We cannot, you know, just like dismantle all the things we've been doing. His quote was he, quote, said, quote,

last week, COVID-19 claimed a life every three minutes. So it's still happening. You know, like it's still, people are still dying from COVID. We can't just say, we're done. and then not do anything about it anymore. It's just that this is, now we, what governments need to do is work this into, if they haven't already, work this into the standard operating procedures of how they handle yearly, you know, illnesses that go around like the flu, you know?

Right. We don't know exactly what we're going to be doing yet entirely, but I'm interested. I was talking to my wife about this. You know, she's a pharmacist. Stephanie was saying, I wonder how. she's interested to see in the fall what that's going to look like for her because they do flu shots, they do all kinds of vaccinations at the pharmacy. So is that just going to be part of the routine flu shots that they,

or the routine vaccinations they do in the fall? So don't really know yet. Interesting. So it's like red alert, but now we're at yellow alert. that's the that's the the star trek can't the star trek comparison is a closer thing right because it's still everybody's still got to be eh and if winter comes and suddenly a new variant starts wiping out half the population be like well oh shit we got to go back up to red alert captain right right yeah yeah i think that's fair to say right now but um but eventually

you're not going to probably be thinking about it as alert levels at all right but the the who chief did say um i know it's really funny every time you say that it did say it did say I will not hesitate to go back to a public health emergency it sounded like he was threatening it was like our parents right don't make me stop this endemic I will

I will turn this car around exactly but so he's like saying seriously we need to continue to take it seriously at the same time that this happened at the same time that this happened I just read this morning

that the current CDC director, Walensky, is resigning. Oh. So, uh, he's, he's had a busy couple of years. I think if I worked in that job, I would, if I, if it looked like I had a window, I think I'd take it. You know? Yeah. So she, she started at, um, during the pandemic. Right. So, so she took over with the, the sort of the Biden administration and inherited a CDC that was, that had a rapidly deteriorating reputation because of the Trump administration was was horribly mishandling all of the

pandemic stuff and so her effort was to completely restructure maybe not completely but a major restructuring of the CDC and their focus and their mission and to focus more on public health and communication rather than just churning out papers and science and stuff like that right did uh so let me ask you this you say we moved to endemic status effectively does that mean yeah I know someone's mowing don't get me started

how do you even mow in that state of years like when I was in Mississippi it's our lawn care guy and I don't like this guy yeah oh you don't like this guy don't like the look in his eye do you okay oh yeah so this is what I was going to say if it's endemic status

do you go does that mean that in September October every year we go in and get boosters Do we go in and get regular old-fashioned vaccines the way we do for the flu and that sort of thing? Like, what is the plan there? Yeah, I don't know. Yes, is the short answer to that. We don't know whether it'll be, will they call them boosters or will they just call them COVID shots?

I don't know. I mean, I don't even know if technically we can, do we consider the flu shot? Is that really a booster, a flu booster? I don't know. Not really, I guess. But we are going to get something on a regular basis. That's for sure. there's no way we're going to get around that.

And by the way, just so I can get it out there so I can stem off some emails, all the listeners who are, and you're fine to listen to the show. But if you're an anti-vaxxer, don't write in telling me what you think. I already know what you think. I already know. So when we say, what we have to give vaccines, you don't have to come and tell me why you think I shouldn't get one because I guarantee those emails are already clacking away on somebody's keyboard.

Just stay there. We don't need. We know. We already know how you feel you're good. We know. All right. and it'll go right to the trash. Sorry.

What I always say to those people is we're not going to convince you and you're not going to convince us. So let's just, let's just move on, right? Let's just move past it. If you need to, if you need to mute for a few minutes, that's fine. Let's just agree to disagree because we're not going to convince each other. Even though I'm right. It's true. the um but yeah so that's just that's just where it's going to be i think the bigger question when it comes to the endemic status of of covid is and and how the the the shots are going to work is is it going to be like a combo shot with the flu or are we going to have to get multiples or something like that that's that's the question i have right um is what it's what is it going to look like you know yeah um well interesting i'm um i guess i'm when i heard this

I had a feeling of, okay, that sounds right, right? Like a kind of a common sense feeling of that's where we're at with this thing. And that's good. That's better than what it could have been. You know, the mutations ended up being less and less severe, but more catchy, right? That's good, I think. As an alternative to they're really, really severe and everyone dies who gets it, right? So, like, the trajectory it took was one of, like, it watered itself down to be more, to be more catchworthy.

And to me, that was a positive direction. If you're going to have any positive direction, that's the one to have. And so when he said, yeah, the emergency's done, we're good. I immediately heard from some people around me, I'm not going to name names or anything, but some who are like, no, it's not done. It's the worst thing ever still. It's awful. Wear a mask right now, this very second.

like like kind of freaked out kind of hardcore on that end of it um how do you do you have suggestions about how people should balance their thinking with this because on the one hand it's like we don't we want government to be good at what they do on the other hand we don't trust them and it's just kind of this weird you know everybody probably has a little bit of of that in their head about about the government or about what's being told to us or what isn't being told to us and when it's being told us and that sort of thing Like, I know there's not a lot of science what I'm asking you, but do you, what do you say to that? What do you think is the best path for somebody to take who is either completely freaked out and still is about COVID or those who have definitely moved on?

Like, is there, what's the happy little middle place where, you know, where it's going to make the most sense for people to be? Well, I always tell people that that you have to do what's, what makes you feel the most comfortable. Um, you know, when it comes to like personal, like how, you know, like what I've, what I've taken to calling pandemic hygiene, right? Um, which is, you know, the, the way you conduct yourself, um, at home and in public, you know, mask wearing, hand washing, all that kind of stuff. For that part of it, I think you have to do what's going to make you feel comfortable. So if, if wearing a mask makes you feel comfortable, just do it. Um, if not, whatever. Uh, Like, some people have, everybody has different levels of, of threat detection, you know, when it comes to this stuff. Now, when it comes to other things like, like the actions you have to take in terms of trusting whether to get a vaccine, you know, with the science changing on all these things all the time, we get a lot of information from the government. We get a lot of information from CDC, from scientists. even on the level of scientists, you get debates about whether we should be getting the bivalent booster or not. There are some very, very smart people in the field that are, you know, calling to question whether or not we should even get certain boosters because of whether they're effective or not.

When it comes to that, I always say that what I try to keep in mind, is that the people in the I'm going to say what I'm going to say first and then caveat it the people that are in the the positions of power like the government they don't they're trying to do their best for the people right so they're they're they're being cautious and everything now the caveat there is that there are of course exceptions and you and in times of extreme pressure, you know, those kinds of advice can change all the time, and it depends a lot on your mileage may vary on whether or not you trust the current government, right? Right.

But if you do, then just keep in mind that they're just trying to help you. If not, again, it boils down to what do you feel comfortable with doing? You just have to, I don't know, I feel like this is probably, at the core of this, This is more of a Wendy question, really, if you think about it, because really, I think it has to boil down to, if you are the type of person who is really worried about what to do and how to navigate this, then it might be more of an anxiety, stress coping thing, right? And you have to deal with that before you can make rational decisions. And that can be hard. And we're getting further away from the really stressful part of all this. So it's becoming, I think, easier to make those decisions.

But that's not the last time. We're going to see this happen again. Probably, probably, I mean, we will see this happen again. Do you think we're prepared for it? Better? I mean, I'd like, I want to say yes, because I want to say. You would think at least that much would be prepared for it, just because because we've...

Depends on how long. If it's 100 years, everyone will forget again. But if it's like 10 years from now. And I don't think it's going to be that long. I think it'll happen in our lifetimes again. And I want to say optimistically that we've learned a lot of lessons from this. But at the same time, I know that there's evidence that we haven't. And I know that there's plenty of evidence that just the people who were in the positions to make those decisions will often ignore the,

the good advice that they're being given. So it's hard to say. And so I try, because it's such a, such a hard thing to say, I try to, I try to lean towards my optimistic view that we've learned a lot of good lessons and we're going to apply those lessons the next time it happens, at least on an individual level, we will. Sure. You know, so. Yeah.

Well, who knows? Who knows? We don't know. We don't know until we get there. Everybody'd be nice. That's the point. Yeah. excellent well bobby uh i do highly recommend people check out that episode um that you just put up

it's very good i listened to the appeal to nature fallacy yeah it's really really good and um you know probably uh stay subscribed because there's plenty of great science to be had you should do that you can get that podcast anywhere really right just go search for it yep you could go to all around science dot com or you can just search for it where where the podcasts are found um and uh and you'll You'll find it. You'll get it. You'll get it. Press subscribe. If it's free, it doesn't cost you anything. Yep, that's right. And if you don't remember it, do like Bobby and make up a little song or a story in your head about what you memorized and where you saw it. And then you go find it.

Four Queens looked on the podcast directory for a show that didn't get star dusted. That's the one. You nailed it. Bobby, have a fantastic week. That's the main thing. All right. Be good. Be nice. You all too. Do it all twice. We'll see. you next time. All right. Excellent. That went great. Brian, let me tell you what else is great. What else is great? Tell me, Scott, what else is great?

Ending this FN show right now. Oh, oh, oh my gosh. Well, not for good, but, you know, just for today. Yeah, we're at the end. So I do want to mention that we have a Patreon that supports the show. If you've not heard me say that before, then you might be new. And if you're new and you're thinking, what's a great way to support this cool show you just heard today, we have a way. patreon.com slash TMS where you will get no ads or commercials every day on your own custom feed that you get right there on the Patreon. Everybody at every level gets that, by the way. Pre-show content

every day also for everyone. Couch parties also for everyone. Play dates, art in the mail. That's a certain level. But, you know, so much stuff for everyone. Yeah, there's so much stuff. It's embarrassing how much we've included for so little. So go take advantage of us today at patreon.com slash TMS. Let's get out of here. Let's play some music to do that. What do you have? Oh, I have a song, Scott. I have a song. And this goes back to something that I had a conversation with somebody about in Vegas.

A guy by the name of Hootie 42. You remember him walking around with his Hootie 42 name badge. His real name is David. He said, my 42nd birthday is May 12th. And since I'll get to make answer to the ultimate question jokes for the next 365 days, I'd like to request to cover one of my favorite all-time songs Come Sail Away by Sticks, even if it's Cartman, L.O.L. Ladies, also close second, if you need a third option,

go with chasing cars by Snow Patrol. If plans hold, I'll also be having lunch with Scott, quote-unquote, today, which is actually in a couple days. Oh, right. Yeah, right, Thursday, I think, is the plan. Thursday. And if any of this didn't make sense, I'm still slightly drunk from TMS live in Vegas as I'm writing this. He really was. He wrote this, yeah, on the 26th of April, which was right in the middle of drinking days.

That's great. But we're doing this really because we have a lot of requests for the same day. So, come sail away. You're getting come sail away hooty 42 today. But before that, how about a birthday sound? Oh, yeah. Why not? Let's party.

Boom. Very good. All right. Well, come on now. I love the Cartman version of the song. We've played it on the show before. So I'm pulling something that's new, and one of the really good shows that were part of the MCU that weren't on Netflix or Disney Plus came out, I think, on, oh, what was it on freeform, I believe? And it was called Cloak and Dagger.

It was based on the Cloak and Dagger comic book characters. Really cool series, I think the two seasons in 2017 and 2018, and part of that soundtrack, was this song by Olivia Holt, Olivia Holt of the song by Sticks. Here is Come Sail Away by Olivia Holt. Awesome. We'll see you guys tomorrow for a Wednesday edition of DMS. Goodbye.

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On every shore And I'll try Oh Lord, I'll try To carry up I look to the sea Reflections in the ways spark my memory some happy sometimes

I think of child friends and the dreams we have we live happily forever so the story goes but somehow messed out

on that part of goal but we'll try Best that we can Together Gathering of Angels my head They said to me

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