The Morning Stream - TMS 2469: N is for Mountain

Episode Date: May 25, 2023

Highly Trained Medical Leeches. Happy True Star Wars Day. All my fancy friends are coming over tonight! Let The Turds Fly. Gay Mini Fridge. I changed blood with my dad, what did you do this weekend? Alternashug. Covered in Leprechaun Shit. Tina Ran Bartertown. Deep Fake Fried Paula Deen. A Metal Lathe is Like a Wood Lathe but for Metal. National is fine. League is fine. No more Zingers, ya fatty! I Take Care of the Two, My Name is MAX. I'm looking at the Manatee in the mirror 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, highly trained medical leeches. Happy true Star Wars Day. All my fancy friends are coming over tonight. Let the turds fly. Gay mini-fridge. I changed blood with my dad. What did you do this weekend? Alternashug.

Covered in lepricon shit. Tina ran bought a town. Deep fake fried Palladine. A metal lathe is like a wood lathe, but for metal. National's fine. League is fine. No more zingers, you fatty. I take care of the two.

My name is Max. I'm looking at it. the manatee in the mirror with Wendy and more on this episode of The Morning Stream. His yarn antenna on the counterfeit are about half the thickness so that they droop down across his face. You stop right there. Congratulations. You are King of the Birds. in Goodwood. Fine advice, Scott Fletcher. Hey, everybody.

Welcome back to TMS. It is the morning stream for Thursday, March 25th, 2023 is the year. Happy true Star Wars Day, Scott. Oh, yeah, that's right. Where we properly celebrate the birth of Star Wars. That's right. The very first day of the very first film.

Yep. We're doing it right. May the 25th. be with you. That's right. Okay. That's the proper date. It's like we need to start having Christmas in June or whenever Jesus was really born.

Yeah, there we go. Exactly. Celebrate the actual president's birthdays. Come on now. Yeah, right? Well, they didn't all get born on the same day. Chuckleheads. Oh, silly.

It's going to be back, everybody. Morning form reminder. We put them up on Monday, but we remind you on Thursdays because the next Monday we award our winner this week's choice or this week's vote is for Best Batman Movie. director, uh, like who made the best Batman is basically it. If you go to frogvance.com slash the morning form, you can vote for Tim Burton, Christopher Nolan, Matt Reeves, Joel Schumacher, Zach Snyder, Leslie H. Martinson, Chris McKay, or other, all right?

Or other. Or other. I'd love to see, I can't wait to find out what, uh, what other people put. I mean, I guess the, um, uh, the animated series stuff, right? Or the, uh, the Mask of the Fantasm and stuff like that. Oh, I loved Mask of the Fantasim. Yeah, those would have, those would have, those would have directors. Yeah.

I went down that list, Scott with my pencil, and I said, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, Batman. Uh, you know, it was a long way to go. It was a long way, but it was, I mean, I'll say it was worth it. It was worth it. Yeah, thank you. Yeah, yeah. I'm glad this destination is, I didn't know I was going there, but I'm happy to be there.

Nobody saw it coming. Nobody. Uh, so I heard a thing. that I wanted to ask you. It's a little bit of a contest here, but it just reminded me of you, and I had a real hard time with it. It took me a minute to get it done. And so I thought, if anyone can do this, you can do this. So here's what it was. It was this thing I saw in some video somewhere. I think it was on YouTube, where the person has to say, so your first name, Brian, B-R-I-A-N, right? They have to say a band or a musical artist for every

letter in your first name. Oh, wow. And you have to do it in 20 seconds, right? So you've got to go crack about it. So I'm going to start you right away so you don't have too long to think about it. So, Brian, your first name, bands and artists, ready, go. Beatles, Rolling Stones, Ice House, Aerosmith, Mountain. Oh, no, Mountain, N. It's N.

Oh, N. By, Nazareth. That works. You still did it under 20 seconds, even if you screw up. See, I knew you would be better at the end. this. I need be better at this. I had the hardest time. I couldn't do it in 20 seconds. Oh, wow. I was like Santana, uh, uh, uh, crowded house. Yeah, Oasis. Ozzy Osborne. I guess it's not a, uh, it has to be a band or can it be an artist. Can be an artist? Can be an artist? Thompson Twins. How about that for T.T? That's not that. Can I do.

Can't do it. Has to be two bands, right? I can't just do Thompson twins. I did no, but I think I did Tina Turner, which I hope I didn't curse it when I did that because... Oh, no! Yeah, she passed away the next day, but... But anyway, it's a fun trick for at home, everybody. Take it to your next little family get together and say, hey, dad, your first name is Bartholomew. Yeah. 20 seconds or last, please, assign a name or a band or an artist or a band.

Brian. And you nailed it. Dude, freaking, what was that? 10 seconds, even with an air? Well, it's except for getting the last letter of my first name off by one. like I'm a boneheaded contestant on Wheel of Fortune or something. Yeah, but you were like Michael Jordan. I'd like to solve the puzzle, Pat.

I think it's Brian Ibbett. No, I'm sorry. That's not correct. Oh, that's so sorry. Over you, Billy. Give the wheel a spin. Yeah, good old Billy. It's his chance to take it.

Anyway, it's a fun little thing. So try it on your own people, everybody, and see if they do as well as Brian did because he did it better than I did. um we got an email from uh james in connecticut connecticut who had a thing to say uh hello sound and bored uh at tms this is james in connecticut here just listening to episode 2455 and wanted to say myself and especially my kid got a big kick out of the pre show she's now pondering on how someone can smell their own farts Was that a thing on episode 2455? I'm going back, unfortunately, in our pre-show, we don't. I mean, I've got it here. Let's see if I can hear it. 24-55, right?

Yeah. Okay, 24-55. It's going to really freak some people out because they're going to... Oh, yeah, they'll hear how the sausage is made a little bit. Yeah, exactly. Well, also, if they tune in late, they'll think they're listening to the wrong episode. If they weren't paying attention, they'll think, wait a man, I've already heard this episode. Then they'll just skip the whole rest of it.

All right. So that's how this one started. Hold on. Tell that it was supposed to be third eagle. I'd probably say, it sounds like an AI third eagle. But that's Ointels with Mother Wicket. Fantastic. Yeah, good news, everyone.

I'm going to put all this stuff in, hold on. This is pretty good. Oh, Randy. Let's see if I can tweak that. What about an AI third eagle? Oh, my God. It's all AI stuff. I don't know what that's, I don't know what his deal is on episode 24.

But anyway, we probably talked about huffing your own ferts. We might, yeah. Yeah, and your kid, he says, he goes on to saying this email, she's only four years old, so she'll figure it out, whatever that means. Well, she'll figure out how you can smell your own farts. I guess so. Love the show, though, James and Margaret. Also, P.S.

Football should be renamed Tackle Concussion Sport. I like it. Good old TCS. What do you can watch this weekend? Oh, I'm going to sit in the lounge chair and watch some good. old TCS. Yep, and they'll say, wait, what is that? And you'll say, it's the new name for football, son. Get with the time. I still like gridiron. I think a couple people mentioned gridiron. Obviously, it's, you know, it's been nicknamed gridiron. Let's just make it official and call it gridiron.

Let's do it. Let's do it. Let's get a petition out there. You could still call it. Okay, so here's the trick. You need to do something that doesn't make you have to change the acronym or the initialism. So if you don't want to change NFL to something else, can we, can we give it a name that also has an N, an F and a National is fine. Yeah, so national is fine. So really you just got to change that. Just another word for the game that begins with an F. Yeah. Or just go NGL and just change your logo. So you've got National Grid Iron League.

National Grid Iron League. What does NRA stand for? Let's see if somebody else is using it. Sure. There's no, there can be any three-word initial, three-letter initialism that isn't already being used for something. Ah, the National Guardian Life Insurance Company. That's one. Oh, yeah.

Right. You got your, oh, there's a e-sports team. And you also got your natural gas liquids. So there's that. Kate Clack says, Fancy Ball, the National Fancy Ball League. Oh, I'm sure that would go over one. Hey, everybody, we're playing some fancy ball today. Are you ready for some fancy ball?

You have to swap out all your commentators to sound like that guy. All my fancy friends are coming over tonight. we're going to watch some fancy ball we're making cheese wraps and donkeys in a blanket or whatever and we're going to watch a fancy ball anyway thank you for that we appreciate it that was an email by the way so the morning stream at gmail.com is where that will come from

here's a text about sleeping near each other we talked about this and we were trying to figure out where yeah where we saw it and this is a theory from alley who says hi TMS regarding Monday's episode where you're all talking about the scene where two people are sleeping in the same bed together and either their butts touched or their faces forward or we're facing forward to each other it is 30 rock Tina Faye and Alec Baldwin have to sleep in the same bed together good episode love you guys certainly could be maybe I saw all those but I don't remember it because they would have done an entire thing about it would have been a five minute John Mullaney's analysis of butt to butt or face to face kind of thing I've seen that entire series but I don't remember a lot of it not because it's not memorable I just I don't know my brain I don't remember it too much yeah for sure and there was so much right it was like when you were finished appreciating one really clever bit they bring in something else and you forget about the last one and so it was just a matter just a you know one one great bit right after another would make you forget the previous bit that reminds me my wife I don't know why it reminds me but my wife saw a show that she binged without my knowledge I didn't know She watched it. That sounds like one I'd like to, so I mean, I have to go back and watch it.

But anyway, she says, she thinks that you would like it in particular. Oh, okay. And I said, why? She goes, well, it's got some people in it. It likes mainly, but also I think it's a story they'd like based on what you tell me about Brian's TV habits. And I said, what is it? And it's a show called Love and Death on Max. We have to call it Max now.

Oh, this is the one with Scarlet Witch, right? Yep, Scarlet Witch, Fat Maiman. Although this was like the last thing you'll see him in where he's chubby because he got all skinny again. Did he? Okay. Oh, he's like a stick now. Yeah, this is based on the, like a true story. True story.

Yep. Set in the 70s. It's very time specific. Yeah. Yeah. No, this is kind of on my list. Yeah, Elizabeth Olson. Kim says she's great in it.

Lily Robb. Oh, Kristen Ritter. Again, another. Yeah, can't do no wrong there. crush. Good old Jessica Jones. Yeah, Jessica Jones and Scarlet Witch in this. Yep. They're back, baby. They're back

and better than ever. And someone named Elizabeth Marvel, although she's never been in a Marvel, MC property. At least maybe she has. Anyway, yeah, no, this is something that Tina and I had on the list. Oh, we've seen Elizabeth Marvel and stuff.

Have we? She was in True Grit. Yeah. Oh, I love that her name is. She's in True Grit and uh, Lincoln, um, I'm putting it in our discord, but look how skinny Plymonds is now. He's back to his, uh, skinnyness. Let me see skinny Plemons. Yeah, he looks like, so what do we call him now? Oh, yeah, look at that. Yeah, lost a bunch of weight. I think he probably was, he was, he was, you know what? He was. Yeah. I'm in Hollywood. I can afford a, I can afford a trainer. Let's do this. Kirsten, uh, Kirsten finally, uh, brought the hammer down and said, uh, no more zingers.

Yep. She's like, listen, you, you fatty. You look like Fat Matt Damon. She was a Marvel thing. She was Victoria Hulstrom in the Helstrom MCU miniseries. Oh, I didn't. Okay. So there's a lady with the last name, Marvel,

who is in the MCU proper? Yeah. That's great. That's great. Look at them all slimmed down. There's another one. Look at that. Jesse Plymonds.

Yeah. Good on you there, Jesse. You go back and play Todd. I'm breaking bad again, if you want. You know that role? Totally good. Yeah. Oh, God.

I remember that role. He was, like, there were some frightening characters in Breaking Bad. For whatever reason, I feel like Todd was one of the scariest, like, scarier than Gus. Oh, yeah. By far, because he had this, like, dead, unfeeling thing about all the violence and awfulness he had to do, but also he was weirdly innocent at the same time, and it just was a, boy, what a weird juxtaposition Todd was. Yeah. Yeah.

Oh, I missed that, though. Kind of watch that show again. After Parasite! Yeah. Okay, whatever. Blah, blah, blah. It's all words, Scott. I'm going to watch Parasides first before I see Breaking Bad again.

It's all just words. I know you get a lot of crap when people, when you talk about shows you've watched again and again, or movies. It's like, I did my 11th re-watching of the bird cage. What about Parasar? I know, people who are like, wait a minute. Love the show, though, Bob. Yeah, bye.

Love the show. All right, there's that. So maybe you're right about the sleeping with it thing. I don't know. Yeah, it could have just nestled in our subconscious and sat there until we thought about it again. By the way, Parasite actually saw like it was on Hulu for a while,

maybe even still is on Hulu, but with this new streaming service, with this great name, Scott, it's not HBO, it's Max. Oh, it's Max, is it? Max. Don't forget, we've got to call it Max from now on. That's just the rule.

I take care of the two. My name is Max. Uh-huh. Yeah. Anyway, like I saw on one of their little advertisements, what to stream on Max? Now that we're Max, and under things like Rick and Morty and Succession, it showed parasite. Oh, it did show parasites. Look at it.

Look at it over there now. I've got it. I'm just checking here. You can hover over the button on Max now instead of having to hover over it on Hulu. It is also on Hulu, so it looks like they're trying even harder. Oh, wow. I'm not kidding. Yeah, looks like it's going to happen.

Much like the creature for which it is named, it's going to cling on to and suck the life out of every streaming service it can get on. Until I watch it. until you watch it. And then it'll go away. Inexplicably, it will disappear. Yeah. Correction on a text from Shane. I don't know if this is our Shane,

like Shane Maddox with the spin-around selfies. I don't know if this is ever not. I feel like he would have... I love that. That's what he is going to be forever for you now. Yeah, I love it. This spin-around on Fremont Street. He does it everywhere I get picture.

Every time I see anything he's doing. I follow his TikTok channel. He just does this all the time. I love it. Oh, I need to follow him on TikTok. He's a good follow. Anyway. Yeah.

No, I think if it was Shane Maddox, He would have put Shane Maddox in the text. A good point. Or shaved Matt, Mac. Madrocks. Madrocks. Anyway, this person, Shane, wrote in and says, okay, guys, or hey guys, I think the butter coffee you were trying to talk about is called bulletproof, not just bullet.

That's exactly what it is. Bulletproof. Kim corrected me after the show. Oh, did she? Yeah, she went up there and I said, hey, we were talking about bullet coffee. She goes, that's not what it's called. I said, what do you mean? She goes, no, it's bulletproof.

Bulletproof. Oh. Okay. But, okay, but let's break it down. Fire away. Why is it? It's so funny how it's, all you had to do is say that, and that song is now in my head for the rest of the day. Fire away, bro.

Why is it called bulletproof coffee, though? Yeah, I don't know. That's a really good question, because I would call it greasy poops coffee. yeah yeah different more more descriptive name let the turns fly that's right let's see why is it called that here we go yep um okay I found a thing on

what diet is it whatever that is dot com it says let's see as a creator of the bulletproof coffee gave it the name because it describes the extraordinary blend of coffee and fats which makes your morning cup of coffee extremely high in calories nevertheless, it's more than any other tasty recipe for an orinary latte that you can grab from a fancy cafe,

and it works magic with your brain chemistry and gives you an energy boost. Well, that doesn't tell me why it's inversed to bullets or why bullets wouldn't do it? Claire found alternative information. Bulletproof coffee is named after the coffee company that developed the drink. It is also called butter coffee or keto coffee. Oh. Also called butter coffee. Well, this guy named Dave Asprey claims he invents.

It's invented it. I don't know if that's the same guy. Oh, really? Yeah. It could be the same dude that started the company. Could be. Yeah. The idea, see. It's supposed to, it goes on to say it kind of bulletproof your health in the morning. Whatever. Uh-huh.

Yeah, yeah. By closing off those dangerous arteries, it protects you from blood flow. That's right. Oh, yeah, there it is all the keto stuff. Oh, here's a question. Does bulletproof coffee make you poop? And the answer is, Yes, coffee alone improves your intestinal movement and can remove constipation. So, when combining coffee with fatty substances, which in Bulletproof coffee is grass-fed, unsalted butter, and MTC oil, the stool becomes soft and easy to move about your body.

Move about. Move about. Hither and yon until finally escaping. Up, down, over, through. Left right, left, right, up down, up down. It's a weird thing for them to say, but whatever. All right, well, bulletproof coffee is still a threat. And thank you, Shane, not Maddox for your text.

Matuba says, nobody invented putting butter on or in stuff. Nobody, I would argue, Palladine. Palladine might have, you know. She was making love to her tater. I bet you there is no recipe. There's nothing that Palladine has heard of that she has not tried to add butter to. I feel like you're in a safe, a truth space when you say that. Should we check on her?

Is Palladine already? Yeah, how was Palladine doing? I thought I saw it. something on Food Network where she's back doing something. Oh, really? Okay. I don't know if she was... I mean, I felt like she was quote unquote canceled, but I don't know. Because wasn't she...

76 years old. Didn't she get caught like dropping N-words and stuff or something? Wasn't that the deal? Oh, there was some racial thing. Yes. What was it? Here she is on YouTube. She's got a big channel. Oh, I found out one of my neighbors is is on this whole boycotting Bud Light bandwagon. Oh, we.

enjoy being manipulated by your party enjoy enjoy being suckered into a fake culture war that is a complete bullshit enjoy exactly can't believe they're trying to shove it down our throats my favorite thing was is this somebody put up for sale they had a mini

fridge that was all Bud Light branded so it's covered in bud light stuff and a light up top and all that and the listing for the Facebook marketplace item was $150 bucks gay mini fridge. Isn't that great?

That is great. Yeah, that's just somebody who's really got grievances, man. Oh, man. Really pissed. Wow. Polidine still got a bunch of, let's see, she put up something yesterday in YouTube.

Is this her or some other dude? Okay. I mean, sorry. Is this her or a dude? I guess I should say, not another dude. Okay, latest post, who is this? Let's see.

There's no audio. Quick, simple recipe that I think that you and your family are going to. Well, you're not Paula Dean. What's the point of this channel? Hold on. So he's like she's hired somebody to get on her channel and, uh, I guess so. Uh, here's one. Okay, here's one.

Uh, is that her? Hold on. Y'all, I want to share with y'all during this Christmas season. something that my mother used to make this sounds like somebody doing a Paula Dean impersonation it really does

the new the new conspiracy is Paula Dean is not really alive that's a puppet right exactly yeah that's great totally does she looks good though

she looks like she's keeping her you know keeping it together good good for her good for her Whatever her life is, I'm sure it's fine. We got a phone call. This is about ice cream. This is once again Zinger, because he knows everything, apparently.

And he knows more about this. So here it is. Hey, Scott and Brian. This is Zinger in Wisconsin. Hey, you guys were talking about that ice cream, that super expensive ice cream, gelato, whatever, in Japan, and how that's sake leaves. Somebody might have to correct you already, but for Brian's sake, leaves are like what's left over at the bottom of container when you make wine.

so like grape leaves are kind of like the grape flesh and skin that's at the bottom and it's got some flavor to it but usually it's just kind of empty so it sounds like more of a thing that they put in for the sake of putting it in but that's all I got have a great day there you go those are your leaves interesting your lees okay it's or as I call them wine chunks would you like you the last glass of bottle of the bottle it'll contain some wine chunks do you eat the wine chunks or no Do you let those go? No. No. Okay. What is the wine?

The worm in a tequila bottle. What is the wine, what is the main wine take on that? Like wine, wine tasters out there. Do you like that weird, fleshy left over? No, the residue stuff. No, I don't think, I don't think any wine connoisseur likes the, they probably stop the pour just before the, the, the lees leave the bottle. When you and our kids, they would show. raisin brand commercials.

And the idea was there would always be one raisin left when you got to the bottom of your bowl. This just reminds me of that. And I always wanted that to happen in real life for me. So I would eat raisin brand as a kid. And I would think maybe today's the day I'm just going to keep eating this bowl. And when I get done with it, there's going to be one raisin. It'll just be left there.

And then I'll eat the raisin because they used to advertise this. It was like a campaign for a while. Yeah. Never happened. Never got to. And I knew if I forced it, I could fake it and end up with a raisin left. But I didn't want to do that. I wanted to eat it like normal and see if the magic would happen on its own and it never did.

And it never did. Yeah, because that's a thing with the raisin brand is that you need the raisins for the brand to taste good. So you're going to make sure that you get a couple raisins in every spoonful. Otherwise, you're just eating a spoonful of milk and brand and is very good. No, that's for Grandpa. That ain't for me. I'm sure there's plenty of brand left at the bottom of the bowl, sans raisins when you finish the bowl.

Yeah, and I'm not worried about making sure that's all eaten, you know? You probably don't, I don't know if you still do much cereal because a lot of it contains sugar. Well, you probably get some sugar-free stuff, but here and there. What's your take on maybe when you used to have things like Lucky Charms or cereal like that, the glittery sugar marshmallow dust that you'd find at the bottom of the, bag would you stop pouring the bag of cereal into the bowl before those things came out as a kid okay so as a little kid no i loved it i thought that was great we're not wasting any of this sugar magic sugar right right but if you got older i feel like in my 20s 30s maybe and i would have

a bowl of something like that i would yeah avoid that like the plague yeah yeah same because it's too much man it's just too it's way too much and it and it does it doesn't like magically blend into your cereal, it just sinks to the bottom of your bowl as well, and you're stuck with, like, a, one spoonful of, like, the sweetest garbage. Yeah, it's the worst. Like, eating that as a kid felt like a treat. As an adult, it was like, you've made a, this is a mistake. Every part of what I'm about to do is a mistake.

By the way, so speaking of cereal, I did have some cereal yesterday. Those things are made of leprechaun shit, by the way. Oh, good. Thank goodness. Carter's got a bunch of sugary crap around here, so I didn't, I thought I wasn't going to have cereal, but I thought, oh, look what's in the back here, special K. And I haven't had special K for decades. So I thought, special K, very low sugar. I think it's like, right, I would assume so, yeah. Yeah, which is going to be part of the problem about what I now

describe. But boy, special K is for special people. That is a disgusting cereal. I will never eat that again. I hated it. We talked about this before, and we got a lot of special K fans including Monica, if I remember correctly, defending the crap out of Special K. Yeah, Special K stands more like. These people are insane. They love their Special K. And I just thought, oh, what are we doing here?

I felt like I was eating like wood chips or, you know, this cardboard box I got here, whatever this is, whatever this compound material is, that's what I felt like I was eaten. And it was a whole bowl of it. And it was nasty. And I'll never do that again. Special K is not good.

I'll try what others I know they have one that comes with a little strawberry bits and junk like that this wasn't that yeah yeah the freeze dried strawberries this is just the raw stuff

it felt like I think I need to go and get some of those freeze dried strawberries so there's a recipe I found for lemon bars or grapefruit bars and you make them with you know real fresh

grapefruit juice you squeeze it and make the grapefruit bars and it's similar to lemon bars where it's like a like a gram cracker crust at the bottom and then it's kind of a gelat

in this form shape on the top. So good, yeah. And apparently to combat the tartness of the grapefruit, you get freeze-dried strawberries, crush them in a food processor, and then sprinkle them on top of the bars to combat the tartness of the grapefruit. That sounds all right. I got to make some of that. That sounds really good. Yeah.

Yeah. I miss lemon bars one of my all-time favorite things ever in the history of the world. I missed them. I bet you could do a monk fruit sugar-based one of those. Good, probably, yeah. I'm sure. Sometimes the problem ends up being the sugar. In other parts of the things that you have to add to it.

The graham cracker crust, for example. Yeah, and I can probably figure out how I do that too. But the problem is that sugar is a binder also. So sometimes when you do like a thing that you substitute something for, the taste is okay, but you end up with soup because it just won't hold it. Yeah, right. Munk fruit and grape. fruit might battle it out.

You're hitting the bowl and the mixing bowl. Whatever, you know, the people that are working on synthesized, lab grown meat, whatever they do next, I'd like it to be, you know, better sugar substitutes. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. People like meat can eat. Let's finally eliminate high fructose corn syrup.

Yep. And figure out some sort of alternus sugar that is. Alternate sugar is a great name for it. Alternate sugar. Yeah. There you go. Alternishug. Alternate sugar.

and do like, you know, a sugar that's 60% as sweet as regular sugar, first of all, this alternative. Yeah, we get our American levels need to be pulled back just a little bit. Yes, yes, yeah. We go a little too crazy. When I was on that cruise ship or when I go to some place that's got like real pastries from Europe or Japan or something, so much less sweet. Totally. And still wonderful. What are we doing over here?

This mascopone cream inside that is like not sweet. sweet just kind of has a little tiny hint of sweetness, just, you know. Yep, I agree. We know how to change the world one day at a time. Oh, my God. Why all of our openings make me so damn hungry? Because we talk about food a lot. Yeah, I'm going to go make some lemon bars covered with leprechaun shit.

And wine leavings or leaves. And wine dregs. All right. Well, thank you all for your feedback and your stuff. That call came to 801-47-106462. as well. We are going to dive into today's news because it's important to inform the people, not just entertain them, but inform them. And that'll happen now. Welcome to our news segment brought to you by.

Brought you by Coverville today. You could probably guess, but I'll confirm it for you anyway. A Tina Turner tribute hastily scrapped together yesterday at the last minute while I was waiting with my mom for her eye surgery. which went very well thank you oh good great yep she still can't see so i sent a text this morning said hey how are you doing and she replied back i'll actually read what she said it's kind of funny she said uh good morning i can't read what you wrote but i am assuming that it's asking me how i'm doing my eyes are getting a little less blurry thanks again for taking me yesterday love mom oh yeah it takes about three days was my experience anyway three days for that to sort of heal up and have your vision

be less crazy so yeah she's going to be so happy once that's done she's kind of like a Oh, she will. For sure. It'll be the best. So Tina Turner today, of course, a lot of covers of Tina Turner's music by folks like Michelle Indegicello. I was all set to get the name right. Sam Brown, Katrina in the Waves, Skala and Kallachni Brothers, of course. But lots of covers by Tina Turner of bands you wouldn't necessarily expect, like she covered massive attack.

She covered Led Zeppelin. She covered John Waite. She covered Wilson Pickett. So stuff like that and, of course, a cover of Golden Eye. We can agree that she ran Barter Town, right? She absolutely ran Barter Town. It was not Master Blaster. Never was.

Never was Master Blaster, even when Master and Blaster thought they were running Barter Town. No, they were delusional about who ran Bartertown. She ran it. It was a favorite scene. Who runs Bader Town, Master? Blaster runs Bata Town. That stuff was... Into the microphone.

Master Blaster runs barter town. Oh, man. Thunderdome. It's such a mixed bag. It's such a mixed bag. Oh yeah, and Ghost. Like, their timing couldn't have been better. The band Ghost just came out with an EP of all covers on Friday.

One of those covers is we don't need another hero. So, of course, that's going to be included in today's show. Do they do private dancer by chance? They do not. Not. They do not. But I'm going to try your name again. Michelle and Degucelo does do a great cover of Private Dancers that may be playing. Well, Tina Turner was a straight up badass and I'm really happy to hear you'll be doing that. So watch for that today. 1 p.m. if you want to watch live while Brian plays what Snap in between songs or? During songs. In between songs I'll be talking.

Right. Yeah. In between talking, Brian will play the game. In between talking, Brian will play Snap. Yeah, I'm excited because right now I'm playing a really Howard the Duck and Iron Ladd deck which means that I can take a look with Howard the Duck at what the next card that's going to come out of my deck

is going to be as a little secret and use Iron Lad to copy the card content from that card and immediately play it. So I can actually in effect get double cards, powerful cards by using that technique. So why

why is Howard the duck give you a sneak peek? I mean, how does that? Right? Because he's not like psychic or anything like that. Like if anybody it should be destiny from the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants. She'd be a perfect... Yeah, like usually I can do this.

The next card that's going to come off the deck. Usually when I hear about Snap or any other game with Marvel stuff in it, I go, oh yeah, of course, he does that because his power allows, you know, for this. It makes sense the card would do that behavior. But Howard the Duck, they're probably like, what the hell are we going to do with him? Right. No, I think Howard the Duck, it would have been great if turn all of your opponent's cards in this lane into ducks so you play it and instantly all the cards in that

in your opponent's lane would turn into a look that that's not bad yeah turned into ducks because it's duck world right like remember the beginning of that move that horrible movie yeah George Lucas's great epic film Howard the Duck that's right um all right our first new story is going to be of interest to those who like a good taco on a Tuesday uh Taco Bell The big conglomerate Taco Bell is fighting to cancel the Taco Tuesday trademark currently held by a rival chain. Now, I don't have Taco Johns here. This is apparently a thing. Is that who the, oh, it is Taco Johns is the one with the.

Do you have them there? Do you have a Taco Jones? We do have Taco Johns here, yeah. Maybe I do and I've just never seen it. Yeah, because they have the potato whoopies or something like that. Oh, the potato whoopies. Potato Olays, potato allays. Oh, well, that's familiar, too.

Maybe we do have a Taco Johns. I bet you have Taco Johns. I might. Let's see. Well, here's the deal, though. They, I didn't say Dildo, everybody. I said Dildo. Here's the Dildo.

There's only one, and it's in Fillmore. Oh, freaking, I just didn't, well, every time I go to Vegas, I go to Fillmore. Yeah. So next time I go through to Vegas, I'm stopping in Fillmore for a Taco at Taco John. Well, that's right. It's right by Beaver, right? So you can stop by Fillmore Beaver. Yep, the Fillmore Beaver exit, and as well as the Beaver liquor store.

which you can go. Yes. They took all that out, but one, there was a time where those were real, those signs and things. Oh, yeah. But anyway,

so here's what they're going to do. The Taco Chain filed the petition on Tuesday, naturally, given the content here, with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office to cancel this trademark, which is currently owned by rival Taco Johns

and has owned that phrase for 34 years, which seems insane to me, because Taco Bell claims the commonly used phrase should be freely available to all who make sell and eat and celebrate tacos. says Taco Bell Since Taco Johns owns the trademark Other restaurants and companies

must seek permission to use Taco Tuesday when they do any kind of branding or advertising I did not know this This seems like a weird thing But I'm sure 100% sure that if Taco Bell would have come up with the Taco Tuesday trademark Before Taco Johns

I'm sure they would have said You know what? Out of the goodness of our heart We're not going to maintain this trademark Because it should be for the freely available to all who makes, sell, eat, and celebrate tacos. You've basically described the problem with our modern life. You've just done it. This is the problem, because there's no way they would do that if they already owned it.

Not a chance. Yeah. So they want us to be all, look at them working for us, doing good things for the people. Bullshit. Bullshit. Yeah. Bullshit. It says, Taco Bell added this.

They said, nobody should have the exclusive rights to a common phrase. Uh-huh. Uh-huh. So if I start saying Taco John's head for the border or whatever. Right, exactly, yes. Then that's fine. Well, hold on there. Yeah, hold on one second, Taco Smell.

Yo, Kiettoe, Taco Johns. Wait one way. Wait a second. You've got a small dog in a commercial? Wait a second. That should be common. People all have dogs. Maggie Metler, director of legal for Taco Bell's parent company,

Yum Brands, sold on the stock market under the name, Yum. Told CNN that it's using the trademark law to remedy the injustice in a bold brand action. We hope others will be willing to support, says meddler. That sounds like someone, that name's awful close to meddler, like meddling. You're meddling with things. Yeah, you're meddling in our, it would have gotten away with it too if we weren't for those meddling kids. Yeah, yeah. Even says here, although Taco Bell's action sounds a little tongue in cheek, the company says they're very serious.

And it may have a strong case because Taco Tuesday has become a commonly used phrase, according to trademark attorney Josh Gerbin. Yeah, but Run for the Border also became popular. What are you trying to say? Right, but it became popular out of context with Taco Johns, Taco Tuesday did. Oh, I see what you're saying. Whereas Run for the Border is popular in context of Taco Bell. That's a good point.

So that's probably where, you know, where there might be grounds. Yeah. There's only two places you hear Run for the Border. You got immigration. You got immigration and tacos. Right, exactly. All right, this one's weird This one I hesitated on

Because I'm just so annoyed by this person But I'm going to read it Okay Um Okay, tech billionaire It's the dude who sold Venmo to PayPal for like, I don't know,

$2 billion or something Oh yeah So the Venmo creator That sounds like an AI version of this show Kind of yeah It's weird Tech billionaire He spent $2 million

He spends $2 million a year Right now currently to look young and is now swapping blood with his 17-year-old son and his 70-year-old grandfather, or old father, so the kid's grandfather. Okay. Yeah, they're swapping blood. I mean, if he thinks that getting his 17-year-old's, his 17-year-old son's blood is going to make him look younger, then why is he bothering with his 70-year-old father's blood?

That's a really good point. We're going to find out together, but this is the guy, Chad. I'm putting up a photo of this dude. It looks like Paul Red in the photo I found. Yep. His name is Brian Johnson. He's an unholy combination of us. He's not the lead singer of ACDC.

No, definitely not. Although he's trying to live as long as him, I guess. I don't know. Anyway, this is what he says, or this is what this article says. With all the money in the world to spend, the rich and the famous can afford to go pretty extreme. In terms of their lengths to remain forever youthful, Gwendoeth Paltrow, of course, recently revealed the Art of Being Well podcast that she fast until noon and only has one chicken broth, or only has chicken broth for lunch,

all the while hooked up to an IV vitamin drip for an entire interview. Oh, sure. Demi Moore, or Demi, as I used to say in high school, has... She's half a more. That's right. She's enlisted to, or the help of a highly trained medical leeches to suck and detoxify her blood. Can we analyze that phrase, highly trained medical leeches? Yeah.

Like, they're... What is that even? They're leeches that went to four years of college, eight years of college, sorry. Yeah, long internships, those leeches have. Highly trained. Yeah, they spend years just getting ready to have their first patient. Oh, Demi Moore, what happened to you, man? Yeah.

I watched it really uncomfortable, I think it was posted on Demi Moore's Twitter or something, but it was for Bruce Willis's birthday this year, they all were singing to them in the kitchen. and uh oh yeah i saw this i think and and it's like they finish singing and it's like demi more says no that's not enough we need more singing and so she starts another song that they all are like okay we'll sing for he's a good jolly good fella and oh no it's not enough we need to sing this and it's like everybody it just feels like everybody is uncomfortable in that kitchen except for demi more that's weird because the version of that i saw stopped at the end of the birthday song i didn't know oh there were two or three songs yeah oh my gosh that is and bruce and bruce

This is just kind of similar. Yep, thumbs up. All right, good. Doing all right. He wants out. You could tell he wanted it. I kind of felt like he didn't want to be there in the first place, but then that must have been uncomfortable. For sure, yeah.

Actually, was she filming? I didn't even know she was there. I think she was the one holding the camera, yeah, because you hear her very, very clearly over everybody else. Well, she was going to make a joke about how she slept with a guy for a million dollars. Was that movie? It was a decent proposal. Right. That was her, though, right?

Yeah. That was her, yeah. It was her and Woody Harrelson and Robert Redford. Robert Redford, yeah. I still like the Chris Elliott parody of it, though. No, top heavy. Give me a Tipperillo and Saki and Cebu play. Yeah.

I love him. I love him. And then, but does anyone make me cringe more? Probably not. No, no. But I still love him. Yeah. Well, anyway, this Brian Johnson guy,

his deal is recruiting his 17-year-old son, Talmage. This is a son's name. Okay. Talmadge. It's like the most old-ass name, like 1700s or something. Talmage, fetch me a horse, would you? Yes, I'm sorry I gave you this name. You're going to be in therapy forever, Talmage.

Or give me your blood. You decide. Talmage and a 70-year-old father, Richard. Richard Johnson, which is kind of redundant. To be dick. Yeah. It's the same damn name. Yeah.

To join him in the world's first multi-generational plasma exchange. Last month, the trio headed to the Resurgence Wellness, a medical spa in Texas, where, according to Bloomberg, the youngest Johnson got a full liter of his blood removed. For context, the human body has about five liters of blood. So that's a fifth of your blood. No kidding. Jeez. And separated into a batch of liquid plasma and then batches of red blood cells, white blood cells, and platelets. So I'll separate it.

I'm sure they gave him an orange juice and a chocolate chip cookie when he was done. I'm sure. I'm sure of it as well. Just so you don't fit, you know, on the way out. And a Bob the Builder Band-Aid. says, it says, Brian underwent the same process with the addition of having the same quantity of his son's plasma infused into his veins. And then finally, the multimillionaire's father had some of his own blood drain to make room for Brian's good stuff. Oh, gotcha. So,

so we took a liter of blood from the youngest. Yep. Yep. And then took some blood from from Brian, the middle dude, and added the kid's blood to it, put some in. him and then had some of the old man's blood removed so that you could put some the but old man's blood probably just thrown out right go gross old man blood nobody wants old man blood are you kidding nobody wants old man blood and then oh geez chat here's a picture of the uh the sun and the i think i can put this in discord it's being weird though let's see i'll try that again yeah it's a weird format i couldn't uh see more than just the headline in the top photo because of the is that open if you click that oh

it's an a v i f file it wants to download something on my computer scott Melware, malware, these new, like, WebEx and these stupid new formats. Oh, WebD, yeah. Like, we need any of that. Come on. Yeah. Anyway, there they are. Oh, geez. Okay, I see that creepy-ass photo. Yeah, I don't like it. That's the sun in the back. There's the main guy in the front.

I, you know, I'll admit he's looking young. Yeah. He's our, or no, he's 45, almost 46. So, I don't know, whatever. This is how supervillains are created, man. Have we not learned anything from any of the movies? we've seen, come on now. Does that kid go to high school and they go, oh, hey, Richard, or no, hey, Talmage.

Talmage. How was your weekend? Oh, I took a fifth of my blood and put it up my dad to ask. I put a fifth of my blood into my dad. What'd you do? Yeah. Saw the new Guardians of the Galaxy. I saw Guardians.

I played Fortnite. What did you do? I changed blood with Grandpa. My dad and grandpa have my blood now. What was the TV show? Was it Silicon Valley where there was a character who was, Yeah, Silicon Valley where the main character who's kind of like a Jeff Bezos, you know, Elon Musk narcissist, played by the guy from, one of the great, great characters from the HBO Mormon. Oh, yeah, true love, or no, big love, big love, big love.

Big love, big love. Yeah, true love. Anyway, yeah, Gavin, yeah, Gavin Belson, right, had a blood boy, right? That basically kept giving him fresh blood. That was such a good show. Like, let me tell you something about this. Let me give you a Utah perspective here. Sure.

Polygamy's outlawed here. You can't, it's against the law. However, there are people who fly under the radar and live the way those characters did and they just either lie or there's money under the table or whatever so they don't ever get busted and it happens all the time and they look just like what's the name bill uh bill paxton and all those women and stuff like everyone they all look like chloe 70 not too many of them sadly look like jennifer goodwin no yeah but the ones that are hiding in plain sight all look like hey they just look like me and you and then there's always these groups that are like out in places like

Fillmore or Beaver where it's like a big compound and everyone's dressing like yeah and they're all dressing these old ass dresses and weird bonnets and all that anyway so that show actually kind of got a lot of a lot of what they did was was they got it right it was it was it was pretty good pretty good show yeah what was that actor's name there it is matt ross uh alby i also miss bill paxton horribly oh yeah that's right oh there's a guy that should be harry dean stanton was in there Yeah, he was creepy good in there. Gray's Zabriski, I think we've lost. Oh, really?

Yeah. Oh, I don't like that. She was younger. I think we lost her before. Oh, no, she's still around. I was going to say, there was somebody that was in Twin Peaks or that, that, um, along with Harry Dean Stanton, that was like, oh, we lost two of the, two of the, two of the, uh, fine folks from, uh, from Twin Peaks. But Harry Dean was like a million, right? He was really old.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. We can deal with him going. away. These people that die in the 80s. I mean, I don't mean, it's not like good that they're dead. It's just like, oh, okay, that's the perfect life range. You've done great. Exactly. Yes. He was born in 1926. He'd be close to 100 now. He died four or five years ago. Yeah. He died in 1978 when that alien picked him up in the middle of the ship.

There's an estroma. Oh, poor janitor. Poor space janitor. Yeah. He was a space janitor. He was a space janitor. I love that the crew had a janitor, basically. Or at the very least, he looked and acted like it. All right, here's her final story for the day. A Minnesota man invented a beer-powered motorcycle.

Been waiting for this. Wow. Minnesota, not Wisconsin. I feel like Wisconsin kind of dropped the ball on this one. It would be a cheese-powered motorcycle. Oh, a cheese-powered motorcycle. Good point. Yeah, okay.

Minnesota inventor gained a following for his unusual vehicles unveiled his latest creation, in a beer-powered motorcycle, motor cycle. Kai Mitchelson, I believe, or Michelson, not Mitchell. I would say Michaelson. Yeah. Who previously inventions, his inventions included a rocket-powered toilet. Not sure how that worked. That's where your bulletproof coffee goes.

Yeah, it's a good compliment to your bulletproof coffee. A jet-powered coffee pot. I don't know why these are all jet-powered, but... No, he just really likes adding jet-powered. how I am with the Tears of the Kingdom. It's like, oh, can I stick a, can I glue a jet onto this? Don't we want a rocket? Tell me what happens when I do that.

Sure. Says the, let's see, beer powered motorcycle created in Bloomington in his garage, has a 14-gallon keg with a heating coil instead of a gas-powered engine. The coil heats the beer up to 300 degrees, which then becomes superheated steam in these nozzles that then propel the bike forward. I'm guessing that thing doesn't go that fast. though he claims he gets up to 150 miles per hour. Well, sure.

I mean, it's a steam-powered motorcycle that you could put any liquid that can generate steam, that can be boiled into steam. Yeah, he even says in a quote, it could be any kind of liquid. It could be red, he says, it could be Red Bull. It could be Caribou coffee. It could be anything. But beer, why not, he says? It's looking for product placement right there.

He's like, could be Red Bull. Yeah. Could be Caraboo Coffee. Wink, wink. Yeah, it's get a deal done. Let's get that ink on paper. Exactly. Could be Papp's Blue Ribbon.

Wink, wink. I guess it could just be water, right? Yeah. That's probably the most common steam. Wouldn't you want to do that? Like, you don't want to have beer smell all over the place. Right, but would somebody get as much attention if it was a man-in-vents steam-powered motorcycle? I think.

But beer-powered motorcycle, that gets the headlines. Yeah, you just nailed it. That's 100% it. Yeah. But whatever, you got to, you know, get a hustle. You got to be a hustle bro these days. That's right. Getting anything done.

I still want to know how the jet-powered toilet works. Yeah. Yeah. Your poop is instantly vaporized. I'm going to go ahead and say they buried the lead. I want to know more about that. Yeah. That is it for news.

And boy, aren't you glad you've been informed. So now stick around and be helped by my sister Wendy, who will be here after the song break. She's going to teach us a thing or two about dysmorphia based on a message that we got. Yeah. I have a bit of this, my son. self, so I'm curious about this. For sure. So watch for that.

That's coming up right after this song break. Brian, what'd you bring? Well, a big mess came out on Friday, Scott. It's an album called A Big Mess, a brand new album from the band Tan Lines. This early next month they're coming out with a record release show in Brooklyn at elsewhere. This is the band Tan Lines. Big thanks to merge records for letting me know about this one. TanLines is two guys. It's Eric M. and Jesse Cohen, and this is their highly anticipated new album, The Big Mess. It's their first LP in eight years. Excuse me. And this is the first single from said LP. It is New Reality. Here are TanLine.

I don't want to laugh, I don't want to cry I just want to mind happiness inside coming unhigh absolutely everything all the time I'm just trying to believe in this new reality I just gotta believe in this new reality

Say what you want to say Say what you want to say I'm saying what you want to say Say what you want to say I I just got to be in this new reality I just got to believe

I just got to believe in this new reality Say what you want to say What you want to say I say what you want to say Ah Say what you want to say Say what you want to say

I Uh Yeah I just can't disguise What I feel inside, let it go they say, let it go they say, I'll try, I'll try. But repetition lane, so cool, pay to me, over the routine, it's got to spend on I'm just trying to be me in this new reality

I just got to believe in this new reality say what you want to say Say what you want to say I Say what you want to say Say what you want to say I'm

I'm just trying to believe in this new reality I just got to believe in this new reality What happens when you cross rock and roll with the world's most spectacular wildlife creatures? It's really good to know that whenever I need to talk to somebody, I can call my angel guide. And we've returned. Tell me who that was again so I can add to my music collection.

I'll be happy to do that. That was Tan Lines and a brand new song from their new album, which is called The Big Mess. That song you heard was called New Reality. Sounds all right to me. Sounds all right to me. Yeah, you see the video of Kid Rock shooting up a whole busload of Bud Light? No, no.

because he was all angry about the transgender. There one tiny web-based freaking promotion that somehow... Right, exactly. One can that was given to a transgender woman with her face on it. So Kid Rock really showed Bud Light by going out and spending a lot of money on Bud Light cans and cases. Oh, here it is. Yeah.

Oh, yeah, there he is. He's such a... Whatever. Yeah. Look, whatever. People do what you're going to do. People do what you're going to do, all right? Trying to tell everybody else what to do. That's what I have a problem with. I don't care. Exactly. I don't care how you have your thing. Just do it away from me. Just get away. All right. Let's get windy in. As I like to call her windy, but it's Wendy. It was never windy, but it was always windy. No, the eyes at the end, not in the middle. of the name correct and it's important that we note that here for the listener uh we're gonna ring her and uh check it out wendy i mean random not a chance oh my gosh it's windy my sister who's oh my gosh hi oh my gosh hey we're just talking about minnesota is a guy that made up that's how we greet

oh oh my gosh dear oh okay uh we got we were just talking about a dude who made a motorcycle with a beer engine in where you live yeah yeah that's pretty cool i I'm not one but surprised. Yeah. It sounds like a little Midwest action, doesn't it? A little bit? Yeah, there's some, everything that's kind of slightly quirky, but hopefully good for the planet. It's going to come from here.

That's right. Like the attempt and the quirkiness. It's like a weird combo. Or just like someone who's, I don't know, created a thing that's strange. Or like really new actors out of nowhere will often be from some small town here too. That's the other weird part. You know, Winona writer. She's from Winona in Minnesota.

Oh, I didn't know that. Is that true? I know that's really old reference, but there are some new ones. Like, I think it's the American, the Chinese, the American Chinese. Oh, come on. Do you know the Hulu show that's just come out? Oh. Oh.

Wait, the Hulu one. Yeah, it's Disney Plus. Asian American. What is it? Dang it. Oh, born Asian-born Asian-born American. Asian-born American. That's it.

That's it. There we go. So the star of that. That out of nowhere is, well, I'm sure you hit this from somewhere. Aquafina is Nora from Queens? No. It's actually a really good show, by the way. Oh, is it?

It's excellent. It's really good, yeah. Is it too much aquafina in the way that is? As a matter of fact, that's not even as much aquafina as you get in Shangxi. Okay. Then I'm down because I can just only take so much of her. But she's great. I like her, but she's just such over the top freaking out all the time and other stuff.

The invocing is important. Yeah, it's really important. anyway yeah so Minnesota beer can motorcycle that's pretty cool yeah plus you guys are good for like fargo backdrop story and all that totally right I love it and if you want to learn the accent and just pull your face back and make your neck wide uh huh oh yeah that's how you do it yeah yeah there and say okay oh oh oh just say that oh oh oh like uh my car like it like excuse me you gotta get past, you just say, oh, really? I want to start doing that. I love it. I can't stop it. And it feels my kids are always like, oh, why are we saying this word? I'm like, because we are from here now.

Yeah. Well, look, it's a great point. It's their home. You got to embrace it while you're there. It's all good. Right. Right. Well, anyway, it's good to have you here, Wendy. My sister, Wendy, of course, a real therapist helps people all the time with her, with their real problems. And today, like all Thursdays, for the most part, she's coming here to help you guys. And we have a very short but interesting email that we got, actually came in the form of a text from a listener, and we're going to read that today. It's about body dysmorphia. It's the thing I think I have a little bit of, so I'm curious about this. Cool. And have my entire life, but never really know what it was called. But anyway, here's what it says. Hi, guys, I have a question for Therapy Thursday. I'm a 47-year-old

father of two, and I still worry about how I look as much as I did as a kid in high school. Is this normal? My wife says it's body dysmorphia, in quotes. But I think that sounds too, clinical. I just figured everyone always thought they looked bad in a mirror. Love to hear what Wendy's take on this is on this subject. Thanks. P.D. Whoever P.D. Is, thank you for the message. PD. P.D. Maybe Pete's sending you a thing and pretending to be a 47-year-old man. Definitely does not care at all of what he looks like. Yeah. Yeah. I admire that about Pete. Pete's like, whatever. I went into his room the other night and I was all right, time for bed. And he looks up. And there's this split moment.

like, should I tell her what I'm actually doing? Yeah. You know, whatever you want to tell me. Yeah. And he's training himself how to pick locks. Yeah. Oh, cool. Yeah.

And I was like, okay. And he's like, I mean, I'm not going to steal anything or break in it. I was like, okay. I didn't even think that. Now I think that. Now I think it. Yeah. So that's funny.

We just brought that up yesterday when you were doing our game. We had a game yesterday. And one of the answers came back. Pick locks was a geeky activity or whatever, right? a geeky hobby that somebody has always wanted to try it and hasn't yet. And there's, you know, there's some really cool sets you can get, I think, through Brian Brushwood's company that teach you how to do it. Yeah, that's awesome.

What he took was, and this tells you the state of things at our house, our front door knob just came off the other day. Yeah. And all the kids had to scramble out of the garage to catch the bus. It was very, it was very May, like, which is the nightmare. Anyway, so he just took, we got a new thing. I don't know how it even came off. But we got a new one, so he's just been picking the house look.

I love that kid. So he can break into our house and need to add. He is the coolest kid ever. I love the stuff he's interested in. I think that's awesome. That's cool. So this went, oh, really quick. This is just a, can someone help me?

Yeah. I can Google this. I know, but his summer goal is to build himself a metal lathe. Oh. Is that even a wood? Build yourself a metal lat? I got to look up what a metal lathe even is. I didn't even know what can be metal?

Like a thing that spins metal or spins metal around so that you can carve it. Like making bills shown us videos where people like make stuff out of coins by using. Oh, so this is literally like a wood lathe, but for metal, I guess. Okay. There's a picture of one chat. Is it what? what does he want it for what's he doing yeah that's the question he wants to make shields or something i don't know but he wants to make the lathe he doesn't want to buy a lave he wants to

make the lathe which he talks about in mixed company all the time and i'm like you've got to tone this down i like that it's a problem that it's a mixed company like uh people who don't know what the word lais means don't uh that's what i mean i love it nobody knows what what that is. So I'm assuming you could probably part by part something like this, but you'd have to source all of it. Like, I don't know where you get on it. I also need it to last all summer. So if anyone has done this before, please help me. Oh my gosh. All right. I don't want to be in charge or have anything to do with it. I just want a kid to be able to do it and don't watch YouTube. You know what I'm saying? Like that's my goal. Yeah. Although YouTube might be your best source for how to build

a metal aid. Oh, I guarantee that's why he wants to. Yeah. Yeah, that makes sense. Um, okay, sorry, All right, we digress. Body dysmorphia. All right. So let's talk about a couple questions I have is what was going on in high school. Like, okay, so the phrase like, oh, I think about how I look as much as I did in high school. Could mean a couple things. Yeah. One, it was just like, why can't I just stop caring as I get older? Like, this is stupid that I still care like I did in high school.

Or I overly overly cared in high school. Right. And it's problematic. I'm going to go with the first one first. Like, let's just say it's the normal amount. that you're like, ooh, people are looking at me and I've got to take my shirt off at a swim party. And, you know, there's just a bit of that built in. And kids are cool.

Yeah. Kids are mean. Horrible. Right. So that's all. Yeah. Yeah. The jocks were shoving you in a locker.

Yeah. Right. So really, trauma around this can be very legitimately real, right? Like, whether it was actually happening in a bullying sense or the fear that it would happen. Yeah. All legit, right? Okay. So let's say it's the, oh, kids are looking at me, you know. So as an adult, my question would be, you know, are you just wondering all the time if you're being watched or checked out or, you know, how much is this mentally interrupting your day versus how much is, you know, you glance in a mirror and go, what? I don't look like I did in high school. You know, it could be one of those things. Okay. So we're going to use you, Scott, because I know you've, Talked a little bit about this before.

Sure. Tell us what your experience is. We're just going to pretend this as your email. Okay. So when I was a kid, I thought I was way too skinny. And partly that's because everybody would tell me that. But I just felt like a string being. My brother Mark would tell me it all the time.

Just constantly being told I was too skinny. My chest was all kind of caved in, kind of concave, big bone sticking out the back. Just a bony weird kid. And the taller I got, the worse it got. And I look back at pictures of my. myself like swimming or whatever I looked fine I'd look like your average like normal normal I look like a 13 year old just growing like he's supposed to but at that time I just thought I looked like I must look like an alien to people and when I looked in the mirror I was like man

what is what even is this creature I remember feeling that way a lot growing up and then there was always this in this feeling of like well it'll all be fixed if you can just gain weight either muscle weight or just weight or something so I would eat a lot I would go do lift weights with the Kellogg kid like all this kind of stuff and nothing would stay because my metabolism was like that of a hummingbird and I just lost weight without thinking about it. So I just never gained any weight. Well, you know, jump ahead to my late 20s, early 30s and suddenly the table flips and I'm and I can put on weight and I don't want to because it's more than I wanted. And then I'd look in the mirror and have the exact opposite problem. It's like, gosh,

dang and look at this fat freaking manatee in this mirror here what is this and kim's like at me going you're fine what are you talking about you're like one of the slimest people in our lives how do you see this in our lives yeah and in my head I'm like I don't know what it is maybe it's the lighting I blame it on other stuff but it was just always just heinous hideous it's not all that different today I've learned to kind of give less craps about it or or you know what it is now I don't feel any of the social pressure so if it's like hey a whole bunch of us adults are all going to get in a hot tub and talk tonight, I'll go, eh, go into that, see ya, have fun tonight. Like, I don't care enough to, to force it for the social reasons. I'd much rather just

not go through the ordeal at all. And it's not like- Avoiding it because you have to take a shirt off? Yeah, because I just look heinous. I just look at myself and go, like right now, I've actually lost a bunch of weight and I'm getting way closer to my goals. And I look in the mirror and I still think, who is this? And Kim's like, you've lost so much weight. You look freaking great. You look as good. as you did 20 years ago, what is the deal? I'm like, I don't know what the deal is. So I feel like I can relate to this guy, maybe even more. He's probably not even half this. But my whole life has been like this. And I don't know why. Part of it was pressure from, you know, I grew up in the

freaking John Hughes 80s, man. Everybody was so like, you know, if you weren't, if you weren't super good looking, whatever the standard was, then you were some kind of freak, or at least that's kind of how it felt socially and plus I was into nerdy stuff so that didn't help and uh I don't know just kind of effed so now similar thing but I just don't care as much you know it'll be it'll be interesting because Pete absolutely 100% has your body type yeah oh yeah and he clearly also likes to pick locks and make metal lathes so he's he's on the road but it's such a different world in terms of, the risk factors are definitely different, but maybe straight up kids bowling you for being thin in the Midwest might not be a thing.

Yeah, maybe. Too thin or just like nerdy stuff is cool. His whole school system is built around nerd stuff. Like it's, I think there's some differences. However, the how you see it can start from experiences that you have, which clearly there are some experiences that you had, right? This just doesn't come from nowhere, right? What really, and this is what social media is so dangerous, it's so dangerous around body

image kinds of things, is that it shows you things that are just not real or possible for you. It's not your genetic subtype, you know, if you shared the same parents as these people and then used, you know, whatever to fix all the flaws, okay, but that's what's hard is we are human and so what we see is what we compare ourselves to, right? So a combination of all those things can sort of lend itself to not seeing yourself accurately and also not being comfortable no matter what. And that is really what's hard here. So this guy's wife is saying, hey, maybe have body dysmorphia because she's probably heard it over and over. Like Kim has heard it over

and over. There's no way they, your wives can convince you that you're okay because it's not actually about size. It's not actually about composition. It doesn't matter how much way. This is something else that occurs. Yeah. Back to, like I'll give you an example. Back in 2014, I lost a ton of weight and I got right into the range. I would love to stay at right around 195, something like that, 200 for my height is, is kind of optimal. And I did it. And I still thought I didn't do it. I still would look in the mirror and go, eh, what is this? Like, that, and part of me knows that's stupid. That's the other weird part about this is it's not,

I'm not like living in a different reality where I'm 100% convinced of anything. I look at it and go, why do I see this when I know this isn't true? Like, I kind of know it while I do it. It's an odd thing. And I don't know why that is a thing, but it's a thing. Yeah, well, okay, so we could figure this, and I would ask this guy the exact same question. So just pretend it's him when he's,

so Scott in your case you had an older brother who's just mean he was mean we were all scared of him and for him to be the one vocalizing this that is a different beast than uh even just appear or you know like your younger sibling like if i ever said scott you too skinny oh i wouldn't yeah it mattered as much you would not have cared no and also also i said a lot of rude stuff like when Wendy, I don't want to tell that story, but there were, whatever you're thinking, don't tell it. I'm not telling that story. If there's any question on whether or not, you should tell that story.

Do you remember the salt, do you remember the Salt Flats thing that I did? Yeah, of course I do. It was so rude. And look, I acknowledge it now, but back then, you know, you're a kid and whatever. You are. And it matters that direction sometimes, but it definitely doesn't matter the other direction. Your little brother or sister could say whatever. Yeah, no, it's a punching up, punching down thing, isn't it?

Totally. Yeah. It's a power dynamic. And so he punched. down and he picked this thing that, I mean, I don't know how Mark felt about his body or he's just a bully. But sometimes that's what the bullies are picking on is their own issue coming at you in some sideways sort of way, right? And he got a reaction out of you, but let's be honest, that's 100% what other brothers want. That's just whatever reaction they can get. Yep, right.

They're the first trolls. They are the first intro. They are. They don't just, they don't chase people through the house with a cold soldering iron for nothing, you know. They know what they're doing. You find what puts fear in your victim's eyes, and then you do it. And then when they don't care, so you could have said, Wendy, you're, I don't know, and I would have been like, what, that doesn't mean anything. But then you're like, I'm going to threaten you with a hot iron. That works. That works.

It works. Yeah. So that's part of it. Turns out. It's stuck. And it stuck for probably a reason. And, you know, you could find contextual clues like the era, the peer pressure, the time of your life, et cetera, et cetera.

And what was the norm? So, like, I don't think there's, you know, everyone's got a different version for their body, for their own gender identity, for how they're supposed to look, how they're supposed to feel. And I'm going to get to a big esoteric discussion about this in a second. But let's just go back to this idea that trauma in some form, maybe small to big, probably has something to do with you not seeing your body accurately. Okay. Because we can go all the way to elite, elite athletes with perfect functioning, beautiful bodies who have the same exact feeling.

So you're like, wait, and it's because it is not actually about the outside material. It's about how your brain identifies and identifies with and feels and describes sort of in this sort of felt sense in your body. it's relationship with your body, right? So when you are in your body doing something, like I play basketball with you when we were younger, we'd go play at a park and, you know, and the way you would talk about yourself or sort of show up in the world,

you would not think you could play basketball. Yeah. Right? But you can, and it was super fun. And you were in your body playing well. Right. At that moment, if I had said, hey, do you think you look weird right now?

I would have taken you out of your actual body, doing the thing that it's good at and loves and put you back in your head where it goes, I don't know, what do I look like? You know, like you can get to that place. So that disconnect is important. And I'll talk about that more in a second. Real quick, I want to mention another thing that I, not that I officially have, but I definitely have the opposite of this, which is reverse body dysmorphia.

I think I look way better than I do. I think I've got that. Yeah, Brian, what's up, right? I don't know what's up with that. But it was like, I look at myself in the mirror. I think, all right, doing all right. And then I see a photo of somebody taking me. And I'm like, what?

Who's that blob? Do you feel like, I feel like one of the things Brian has an advantage over me. I don't really have what I would call a look. Like, Brian can wear like a fedora and a cool shirt and look like the guy that's going to, all right, we're in Vegas. Brian knows where we're going. Let's do this. You know, like there's something.

There's something about. that is a there's a confidence about that I don't really have that I have these stupid hats I wear on days where I ran or jogged and didn't shower before the show so I'm wearing a hat for that reason today but I don't really you know I don't have like a look or anything I think I just have I don't if I feel like if I had that like if I could go oh okay well if I get my usual blah doesn't have to be closed but like whatever it is haircut I don't know then I've got ah now I'm ready for the world and whatever

it throws at me or whatever I don't have to you know that all my real steps fans are screaming right now they're all screaming like because it's not about any of it Scott it's not about what you wear it's not about what you weigh it's about something else and so actually

let me let me steer this to Brian for a second because we're going to check out where his reverse BDD comes from where does it come from where does it come from Where does it end? This is more the question. Where does it go? Yeah.

Where does it end? All right, Brian, tell me this. Let me just have some basic questions. Did you play sports? Did you, what kinds of activities have you, you know, taekwondo? Like, what's your, like, in your body sort of training or that kind of thing? The only thing that I've even consistently done since high school, junior high school, was cycling. Like I, even when I had a car.

I would still frequently cycle to school, bike to school. Up these hills that I look at now and say, wow, how did I do this hill and not even break a sweater, not have a problem with it? But yeah, I was like, I was cycling everywhere as a kid, and that's just still followed me through up until now. That's the only, really the only out-directedly. Can I ask you what it feels like when you're cycling? what do you how do you feel in your body when you're doing it i feel like i'm flying wendy i know i knew it no it's kind of true i do i feel like i'm uh i feel like i'm i'm going way faster than i probably am i feel really comfortable with whatever speed i'm going uh i feel

more in control of the bike than i probably do a car in some that sometimes uh um but i feel you know, it probably might be where you're going with this, but I do feel light on a bike. Yeah. Your body feels at home and your mind does not have to do anything with it. It's muscle memory to ride, right? And all of the benefits of that. And a big sort of defining factor here is that your body is being useful for something you love and it's seen as powerful in that moment. Like, it is literally an engine versus a lot of folks who don't have any younger experience moving in any consistent ways in sports or swimming or dancing or something where their body was used for something that meant power.

So the research on girls in sports is pretty deep in terms of this because, you know, at one point there was zero funding and your uterus would fall out if you ran more than a mile and a half. You know, so we had a nice start point in 1972, and we've been measuring stuff since. And what you find is, is girls and women who participate in regular sports see their bodies differently because it's useful and it doesn't have this just my, my only role here is for the male gaze or for also the female judgey gaze, you know, like that whole thing is, is disrupted a little bit. And so, you know, I think there's one piece to that of why movement that you love and you can find sort of flow in, it can be really a deterrent for some of this body dysmorphia. So I would ask this guy, are you moving on a regular basis in any way that you are finding flow? And Scott, same for you. What is your movement where you find flow? My flow, this is going to sound weird.

I feel very confident maybe it's because of all the examples around me I feel very confident walking like strutting through a mall or a public place that may sound a little bit weird but it's like all right I'm in I'm downtown I'm walking three blocks to whatever and I just feel I felt this a little bit in Vegas as well and I think it's because the stuff I think I see about myself

when I'm in a big place full of a bunch of people with a lot of variety because everyone's different right everybody's totally unique there's not a bunch of clones I go and this isn't I don't want this to sound like I'm going oh look at these guys they're way fatter than I am it's not what I mean but there is this feeling of like no I'm fine I'm fine why was I worried about this everyone looks like they look and same with me and and I feel confident just kind of strutting up and down like when we were in Vegas a couple weeks ago strutting up and down the strip that lady yell i'm going to argue that strutting is not enough uh of a movement to get what i'm getting at however you are describing that your brain

relaxes with the social comparison you give it yeah it doesn't relax when you look in a mirror or see pictures of yourself right right or so so how do you just feel in your own body like right now, how you feel sitting there? That's the other place I feel good or don't worry about this stuff is on air. Making content, I don't feel any of that stuff that I just, that I just told you about. Like, I feel chilled out. I feel confident. Like, I don't know. This is like a, this is a good, easy place for me. It's like, you know, it is a little bit like when I would, when I would play basketball, people where the pressure wasn't there. Like, it wasn't for any kind of trophy or first place or it was just because we're playing and we're getting exercise and we're having fun

and basketball is just great when you're not doing it for any other reason other than the fun that it can be it's it's a little like that where you just it's all out of your head and you don't think about it and so other than this segment talking to you about it otherwise shows that's how I feel at my you know my most chill which is weird because a lot of people are like I couldn't do that it's so many people listening how do you not die every time and it's it's the opposite for me for whatever reason. Right. Right. And so for whatever reason, you, and I would say exposure, right, you've done this so much. Yeah, probably. And since a little kid, you've, you know, been trained to talk in front of people and feel comfortable around others and we come from talking stock.

We really do. And so all of that just comes naturally, but that is something similar for people in their body. Right. Right. They can just feel really at home in their body. In fact, sometimes is that's the safest place people feel. Now, what I am finding at least, this is anecdotal, and I'm sure the research will follow is just more and more people are out of their bodies. Trauma is a great example of it is dangerous to be in your body when you have been traumatized. It can feel dangerous because, you know, all the alarm bells go off, your adrenal glands do their thing, your cortisol shoes through the roof,

you've got a fight or frilly, you've got all that going on. and maybe you're trapped, but your body is the mechanism where all this stuff happens. And so often a response is to exit the body and go somewhere else in your mind, right? When people are really stressed or feeling crappy, what do they do? They do something to get their mind off it. They do something, you know, to distract or get away from it. What can be, you know, people can do this in the extreme with exercise. obviously they can just overdo that as a way to escape.

But more often, we are disconnected from our body rather than we are in our body. And so that's one of the things I would suggest for this person is to look around your life and see, are you in your body more or less at different times? Are you constantly sort of escaping some of that? Because there is kind of this disconnect of I'm looking at an image that doesn't feel right. So what would feel right? And like you're saying, it's impossible to find it. So maybe it's not that you get your body to fit the feeling you are looking for

and you move to get your feeling to fit the body you have. Right. And that is not simple. Sometimes you need help walking through what possible trauma has created that. Like I would, if you were my client, absolutely make you work on how Mark treated you, right? like that's that seems real obvious hi mark if you're listening he's not he doesn't listen he's too busy he's he he spends all his time on conspiracy websites he's so we were fine okay so then so that other idea though for this person is just kind of take a look at that if that's something there

um i would suggest for both kim and his wife that you know you're going to want to make your spouse feel better so you're going to try to convince them that they're missing it um one idea is to just don't convince them just say how does it feel in your body like what feels good to scan your body right now what feels like the right thing what feels wrong um and as we age everyone who's listening is just like oh i don't have any of this well it's coming for you in some form right and if you've ever like twisted your ankle and then that's all you can ever think about for the rest of the day it's like our ankles are fragile and how are we all walking around on them that is your mind

taking over a bodily sensation and trying to save you from it or trying to understand or explain it, right? And so it's coming for all of us in some form. I think it was Megan Fox recently has talked about her body dysmorphia and some others. And you're just like, excuse me what now? And it's because that is not, it's not what it is about. Yeah. And how many times are there people who we look at as just beautiful, you know, perfect human

beings as represented on film or in Instagram or whatever how often are they dealing with that same thing that it's just it's it's not exclusive to you know guys like this guy wrote in it's like there are people in really high places of fame who you know have to deal with some really dark stuff because it doesn't matter how much adoration you get also with that adoration comes a lot of jealousy and hatred and you're spending all your time questioning yeah conversely yeah conversely people who are in larger bodies being really comfortable, like, let's say Lizzo from Minnesota, who, who, um, it's super threatening. It's super threatening to be like, wait, but hold on. That's not allowed. Like, you can't actually love the skin you're in and feel confident because I am smaller

than you and I hate myself, right? Like, there's a bit of like both ways here in either direction. And it's because it is so individual. And what is triggering you about a certain thing is probably really related to what's going on for you. So, yeah, if I summarized it would be like, look for any trauma to see if there's some stuff that needs help and resolve. And then the other is sort of figuring out some ways that this is what's happening to you frequently and why and see if you can tweak your life a little differently. So, for example, I probably should have defined this. So body dysmorphia disorder, which means it's so chronic that it's interrupting your ability to function very well, right? Right.

It's a bigger deal. I think body dysmorphia is probably almost everyone, and then a disorder level is obviously very different and can be connected to eating disorders and other things. But body dysmorphia is where a person spends a lot of time worrying about flaws in their appearance. So that can be your face, you know, your size, all the different things. these flies are often unnoticedful to others and then it doesn't matter how old you are it's most common in teenagers and young adults and it affects men and women so just to clarify it's everybody yeah you're definitely definitely not alone but what are the things so let me ask both of you Brian with your reverse body just yeah yeah do you know I'm just

telling you enjoy it that's great it's really rare I feel like it's a problem because you know if I if I was more concerned about the way I looked and I should probably be more concerned about the way I look. I'd probably exercise more. I'd have a little bit more discipline to say, I'd better hit the, better get on the bike again today or better make sure that I don't skip a day of cycling. Well, what if we reframe that just a little bit? Instead of wearing what you look like, what if you just worried what you felt like? Oh, that's true. Yeah. Like, do I feel good? Do I feel strong? Do I feel like myself? Do I feel, you know, whatever. You could add some other

framing. Mental dysmorphia. Yeah. Because basically what you look like is not motivating you to do anything different. So we already have that fact. And also there's a reason and it's a powerful reason. And this is why yo-yo dieting really exists is that that that as a motivator is should be at the bottom of the pole.

And that's hard as a young person because that is all you're ever exposed to. And we are very visual as humans. Right. And so, but as you get older, it's time to switch it. So now the mature Brian is going to care how he feels. That's a good. Yeah. You know what?

That's good. Can I add that to my, the card that I wrote that's still sitting on my desk about the I don't do? Yes. Yes. So I don't do, or we put it in a positive thing or like I don't, I don't care what I look like. There you go. I don't do caring what I look like. Yes.

I don't do what I'm caring what I look like. I do. I only care how I feel. There we go. I like that, actually. Yeah, there's room. There's room only card for that. Let me ask you this.

Why is it that like if somebody like, okay, I, the other day, I didn't think I was looking all that great. I just didn't. I got up, my, this shirt looks stupid, but whatever. We're going out the door. Let's go. Yeah. And all three of my kids separately and someone I'm not related to all came up to me and said, Dad, you look awesome today.

these genes are perfect where did you get these these are so good on you like all these compliments out of nowhere and and i and i even made sure it wasn't kim trying to preempt this or make me feel good yeah and i went oh well maybe this is just me again seeing what he wants to see and not seeing what's real right yeah and then i was i felt better about all of it for the rest of the day um you have just described the likes of psychology on every social media account like that feeling of I have been approved by my sphere is so powerful. It's one of our favorite drugs, right? But what keeps happening is it doesn't actually change how you feel.

Right. I mean, it can change it temporarily. Yeah, it's temporary, right? It's temporary because when Taylor said that, I went. And Taylor, you know, she's actually an opinion I trust on how people look, their fashion, that sort of thing. She's good at it. She's a photographer, you know, professionally.

She knows this stuff. And I said, she says, you look to like 15. years younger dad this is great you should wear these you know like this sort of stuff and so temporarily for the rest of that day i was like yeah look at look at me 15 years younger than he used to be this pretty great you know but then the next day i woke up and went burp and looked in the mirror and went oh burp and then just kind of burped through the rest of my day you literally burming no but you know okay so this is a great example of so brian because he has reverse body dysmorbia it's easier to solve his challenge yay yeah yeah brian's cured and you're a

Okay, Scott, and in our emailer, this is a little different, but, but even he had a, maybe he had a brother that tore his pants off while his friends were there, uh, just so he could laugh at me in my underwear or whatever. Maybe that happened. My brother was kind of mean. Maybe there's no trauma. He was kind of mean, you know, I don't know. 100%. And, and so you can, that is an important factor. It really is because it just keeps your system alert to how am I perceived. Yeah. That's what humiliation will do. That is why it's a powerful. social tool to control right is it's sticky it will last so finding piece there would matter the other thing is like pay attention to yourself for just one day and this is for the other guy too pay attention for a day what is what are you exposing yourself to or what are what inputs do you have or what behaviors are you engaging in that set you right up for this so one perfect example is to have an item of clothing that used to fit you, that you love and think, you know, used to feel good in, that doesn't fit you because you've outgrown it. I mean, as kids, we were like, oh, my gosh, you've outgrown your pants.

No way, you know, as adults, we outgrow our clothes. Yeah. I mean, when you look at someone who's older, they don't look the same. We are changing. And I know it's really hard for everyone to wrap their head around it because we're ageist. even you look 15 years younger is ages like we're all built to be like old is bad if you're American right I don't know about other cultures 100% some probably too but yeah I think it's less of an issue at least at least they get wiser we just get useless and gross uh terrible

anyway but that idea of like what are you actually doing that's that but you got to take some you know a baseline report first like write it all down pay attention one day and it may be that you are looking in your closet and there's still clothes in there that are 200 pounds scot clothes. Yeah. And that's just torture for you and it's not helpful.

So put them in a box, stick them in the garage, and leave them there for six months. Yeah. And then just see how different it feels to get dressed. Yeah. And then go buy something that fits you

that you think is really cool. If Brian needs to send you some shirt pattern ideas, get one. Or just like go do that test when you try and close, like, do I feel like myself or do I feel good in this? Right. Right. Um, And then what's weird is those pants are, those pants are fitting me again. And I still am annoyed. Is that weird? Yeah. That's weird. Right. Well, yeah, because they're not serving your brain and your brain is looking for a way to feel okay. And the only way I know how to

help people do this is to get more actually in their body and express some gratitude and move differently and find ways to feel more comfortable being embodied. Right. Right. And there are people, I mean, there's definitely a spectrum here, right? There are people who feel at complete war with their body and hate everything about it at all times, right? All the way to, ooh, my nose is weird. You know, like there is a version, everyone's kind of, and part of growing and maturing, some of that stuff will resolve itself naturally. I mean, how do you get to be 80 and not give a rip about what anyone thinks? But yet, I mean, we're going to find 85-year-olds with eating disorders. Like, there is not, this isn't something that just goes away because it didn't just happen.

It's not your choice. Your brain was trained around this in order to find a way to feel better. So it's going to keep looking for different size, different clothes, different way to feel okay. And your brain, guess what? Cannot be trusted? But that's where, you know, so if Brian you're feeling out of sorts, you jump on a bike, it'll get you feeling in sorts, right? Yeah. Also, I'm telling you what, this happened the other day.

I was like, terrible day. I am ruining my children's lives, which, by the way, no one wrote in about bad parenting, so I'm not sharing my story yet. but I was like, what is, people always talk about watching something that is like on repeat that's comforting. And I have never understood that. That just doesn't make sense to my brain. Comfort binge. Yeah. Because I mainly watch new things or nothing. That's right. Me too. It's like, I don't have time to watch stuff. Exactly. I'm so busy and mentally stable. I don't need. But I was like, I'm not mentally stable. What can I watch? And I found Golden Girls. And I'm telling you,

it is cathartic and innocent and funny and dumb and like my childhood wrapped in oh no now I understand these jokes differently because I'm old and anyway so golden girls I recommend I love the golden girls I know Brian didn't get too far in it but I think it's part of it is if you missed it when you know like anything you didn't see yeah there's an nostalgia aspect that uh totally yeah absolutely because it wouldn't go much further I think if I hadn't because I just have after school memories of golden And Betty White was a national treasure. So, okay, so Scott, that's what I would suggest to you and this emailer of just like finding ways to be lessen your head about these things. And that might be subconscious things, right? Like getting rid of some of the clothes that are annoying you. Right. That also might be, don't be looking in windows and mirrors and just do it in the morning and take deep breath and be like, you've got this. And then don't do it again.

take selfies. Stop looking at pictures of yourself online. You know what I mean? Like we aren't built to handle the technology that we have around our image. Right. Right. It takes Zoom calls. I mean, what? No one is meant for eight hours to see their face. That's not right. Yeah. It's a lot. Yeah. We just got to be a little more careful and then, you know, find a therapist. You know what I did yesterday? This is so stupid. But I was making a video for something and I had a little portion of the clip I wanted to just flip horizontally. So it was, you know, I'm used to seeing my face and features the way I see them. I did a flip and it looked so wrong.

I was like, whoa, why is my eye so funky over there? Why does my jaw seem like it's not the same size of the other side of the same jaw? Like all these things jumped out of me. Happens with artwork too. If you go, you know, you're doing digital painting and you're feeling real good about it, just flip it horizontally real quick to make sure you're still happy with it. Because sometimes it's like, oh my God. gosh, I have effed up.

This is so bad. What have I done? And we are so like, like imagine humans, you know, earlier in human history. No mirrors. You might see your rippling face in a river or something occasionally. But for the most part, it's just other people seeing you and you seeing other people. What a simpler way, you know? Yeah.

I have to worry about every little stupid nook and cranny. This is the other thing. The other day, Kim says, hey, you're doing that intro video. let me do a little bit of like camera good makeup on you. I'm like, no, we're not doing makeup. She says, no, no, I don't mean like all girly. Let's just do something that'll make the lighting, really make it pop. And so when you do your preview video for this new thing I'm doing, you'll look even better.

I said, okay, let's do it. So she does it. Get the video done. I'm all done. I go and I just take a hot rag and I wipe all that makeup off. And it was just like a base or I don't know what you call it. Just like a skin tone. Yeah.

And I just went, okay, done with that. The next day, I woke up with like 12 zits all over that side of my face, all up in my forehead, all the stuff. And I went, and my 12, what happened? And she says, she goes, you didn't wash it off? And I said, no, I just wiped it off. Shubbed it into the poorest further. Shubbed it, didn't. I didn't know.

I didn't know that's how that worked. Anyway, this has nothing to do with the story, but I thought it was a funny little thing. Other than you clearly haven't worn makeup before. I never have. I didn't know. Well, I did invent in my stage thing in BlizzCon. Oh, yeah. But when we were done there, they had a little area zone place where you could go and, like, literally, like, so your face off.

So I didn't get it off. Yeah, and I got it off. And I just didn't think about it again. So, anyway. So tell me this. Did you look better? On the camera thing? Yeah, I did.

I think so. In retrospect. Until I tried, until, like I said, like, I tried flipping horizontally. And I was like, who is this alien looking at me? This is so weird. Because we're, you know, we all think, we all think we're symmetrical, but we're not. We're not symmetrical. Oh, no.

And the mirror image thing is really freaky, right? When you see what people actually see you as, they don't see that your best side if you think, oh, that's my best side. That's not what they're looking at. It's that whole thing with Harrison Ford. If you take a line and split his face in half and then split the two halves, this half is angry as hell. Pissed. This half is smiley old man. It's so weird.

It's really bizarre. He's the comedy drama masks. He totally is. That's so funny. It's like his career, Brian. The whole thing. All in one face. Oh, this is six days and seven nights.

But this over here is frantic. It's really weird. I'll try to find it. I'll try to find it in Sanity, Wendy, because it's a weird thing. Yeah, that's amazing. All right. So, all right. So good luck to everybody out there.

This is a great plug for real steps. If you want to have your brain and body match better, join us. Yeah. It's really good. Yeah, I feel like, you know, this and other issues like this might be very helpful to be in the Real Steps program. So go check it out, realsteps.org, everybody. And please someone send in an email about your bad parenting. I would like to get this off my chest.

And I'm not sharing until someone else shares. Yeah, yeah, no sharing until you share is the rule around here. No, no, let's mutually share. Send us something to be fun. That sounds great. Have a fantastic week. We'll do this again next time. and see if you can find that weird email you might have dreamt about.

Oh, you guys. Okay, actually, can I announce this? Yeah, do it. Because I'm feeling like I've lost it. Sure. Golden Girls did not fix this part of my brain. But somebody sent a very long email about a good friend of theirs whose wife died of cancer. Yeah.

And it's a crazy story. And it was really long. And I swear this is real. And then I emailed it to Scott. And then he said, I didn't get it. And I went to go send it again. I cannot find it anywhere. So I am not sure this was a dream or not.

So if you're listening, could you please resend that or just ping me and be like, here's the name it would be in? I don't know something. That would help. And if not, it's fine. I'm losing it. It's fine. Yeah, maybe you are.

I've done that. I've totally done that. So don't feel bad. Wendy, have a great week. We'll talk to you soon. Bye. You do. Thanks, guys.

See you. All right. Brian, I'm putting in our Discord. this Harrison Ford split thing. Look at this. Oh, good. Isn't that crazy? That's crazy.

By the way, that is the TV show shrinking on Apple TV Plus embodied in two photos. Wow. Well, now I'm really going to watch it. Yeah, actually really just the right side is the TV show shrinking. Oh, that's great. Yeah, it's so like he just has two different faces in the one face. And it's never been, it's always been true. Even when he was young, like,

35-year-old Harrison Ford, you split him down the middle. He looks like he's both pissed and happy at the same time. I kind of want that show. Wow. That's crazy. Okay, we are done for the most part. However, I do have this. A quick note on today's show. As you notice, no Amy today.

Normally I read this today. We didn't have her because she's at her son's graduation, exactly where her mom should be. So we're going to put her in in the show in post right here, in fact. So I'm going to cut here. For the live audience, you're not going to hear her say anything. But everybody on the podcast, you'll be able to hear Amy's submitted segment that she sent over. Now, for those of you in the live audience or otherwise, who are like, Wayne, I want to see it.

I'll be putting a video version of it up on Discord and on the Patreon today as well. Cool. In the TMS chatter, probably, right? Yeah, that'd be a perfect place for it. So that's all going up today. So here, real quick, is Amy with her read this segment today. Good morning Scott and Brian and all of my Tadpool lovelies. Now it's time for silly stories with Amy, the part of the program where Amy comes on and reads you a silly story. For today's silly story,

this is one of my favorite books from when I was a kid. It's called Something Queer is going on. And this is, this book was published in, I don't even know how old the book is, 1973. This book was published in 1973. So queer literally just means weird. And if you look, this is the back of the book. You can see that it's backwards, which is hilarious to me. So, without further ado, something queer is going on. A Mystery by Elizabeth Levy, illustrated by Mordecai Gernstein. You can see. The illustrations are gorgeous.

One day, Jill came home and Fletcher wasn't there. Jill asked Linda, the woman who took care of her during the day. Have you seen Fletcher? He was sitting out there on the front steps at lunchtime, said Linda. You haven't seen him since? asked Jill. I haven't looked for him, said Linda. Jill went to look around.

She ran into her friend Gwen. Hey, she said, I can't find Fletcher. What do you mean? asked Gwen. Your dog never needs finding. He never goes anywhere. That's just the point, said Jill. He wasn't in front of the house when I got home. Fletcher was not the kind of dog to run away.

In fact, Fletcher hardly ever moved at all. Every day when Jill came home, Fletcher got up off the front steps and wagged his tail. This was exercise to Fletcher. You see, the illustrations are gorgeous. Maybe something queer is going. going on, said Gwen. Do you think maybe somebody snatched Fletcher? She began to tap the braces on her teeth.

Don't be silly, said Jill. What would somebody want Fletcher for? I don't know, but it seems weird to me. Look, I know you love mysteries, but that doesn't help me find Fletcher. We'll get to the bottom of this. I'll help you, said Gwen. Stop tapping and do something, shouted Jill. All afternoon, Gwen and Jill searched for Fletcher. By nighttime, Jill was really worried. When her mother came home from work, Jill told her that Fletcher was missing.

Suddenly, Jill started to cry. It'll be all right, said her mother. A dog like Fletcher can't go far. I'll call the police. The police said that nobody had called in about a funny-looking dog with a big stomach. At school the next day, Gwen asked Jill if there was any news. He's been gone all night. He never came home.

During math class, Jill got the feeling that Fletcher was home safe. She was sure of it. As soon as school was over, Jill and Gwen ran to Jill's house, but Fletcher wasn't there. The police are not going to find Fletcher. They don't even know him. We have to make a house-to-house search and ask if anybody has seen him. Not everybody knows what Fletcher looks like, said Jill.

You're right. Get some paper and crayons. Jill and Gwen each made drawings of Fletcher. Then they were ready to begin the search. I'm sorry for all the crinkly crackling. It's because I got this book from a book finder, and it is a reclaimed library copy, so it has this book jacket on it. So I'm going to skip ahead

because they go, they ask a bunch of the neighbors, and nobody's really seen anything. is suspicious of everyone and continues tapping her braces. It went on like that all day. Every place they went, Gwen found something that seemed not quite right. The one thing Gwen could not find was Fletcher. Late in the afternoon, they came to a big house that belonged to Fiedler Furnbach. Mr. Furnbach was the most famous person in the neighborhood.

he made television commercials. Mr. Furnbach himself opened the door. Hi there, he said. What can I do for you nice little girls? My name is Jill, and this is Gwen. My dog is lost, and we're asking everybody if they've seen him. Nope, said Mr. Furnbach. Never saw him in my life.

He started to close the door. But Mr. Firmbach, said Gwen. and sticking her foot in the door. You don't even know what he looks like. Well, hey, here's a picture, said Jill. Oh, said Mr. Fernbach, hardly looking at the picture. Just as I thought. Haven't seen him.

He shut the door with a bang. How rude. Now this time I'm sure. said Gwen limping. It's as plain as Fletcher's nose when Fletcher was around. Thanks, said Jill. That cheers me up.

I bet he's stolen Fletcher. He thought he'd gotten away with it. Then we showed up. We'll get him. You're crazy, said Jill. There's Fletcher's nose. No, I'm not. I finger-feeder Furnbach for filching Fletcher,

yelled Gwen. running up the hill. I bet you can't say that again, said Jill. I finger-Feedler-Fernbach for filching Fletcher. Feeder-Ferbler-Firn-Felcher, Feltcher, Fiedler-Firn-Ber-Belch-Fletcher. Hey! Y'all, Gwen, you know what? What?

Asked Jill, puffing. There they are running up and down the hill and screeching to a halt. Furnbach did do something weird He said he'd never seen Fletcher Before he looked at our picture So? Panted Jill How could he say he's never seen Fletcher if he didn't know what Fletcher looked like You know you really have something

See? Something queer is going on Firmbach could only know what Fletcher looks like if he has Fletcher but what would Firmbach want Fletcher for that's what we've got to find out we've got to go back and watch his every move and that is where I will leave you for the moment

I'll leave it a mystery whether or not Fiedler Firmbach Filtch Fletcher and if you want to check this book out yourself it's great to love this book when I was a little kid. Like I said, you can see the illustrations are just gorgeous.

And, I mean, there's one where they draw a map of the entire town. I mean, look at this. It's fantastic. And I used to love practicing saying that little tongue twister. And apparently it was very popular to check out

because the library that sold it to the bookseller left the checkout stamps in here. And it's fantastic. It goes all the way back to like 1979, all the way up through the mid-80s. So, yeah.

I think it's out of print, but I'm sure you can find... I found a copy, so I'm sure you can find one. But, yeah, something queer is going on. And if you guys would like me to finish the story or read you more silly stories, please let me know. I'll be glad to do so. Okay.

Thanks, everybody. And have a wonderful weekend. You know, happy rest of your morning stream. Toothless says hi. And, yeah, as Scott usually says, follow me on all the things, the TikToks and the, the Twitters and things. Red Fraggle 3. And I'll be seeing you guys again soon. Bye.

And we're back, everybody. Oh, that was great. My gosh. That was so awesome. Yep. That was amazing, right? Can you believe it? Can you believe it?

What a great book and or novel thing she recommends. ended. Yes, thank you, Amy, for taking the time to do that. We appreciate it, and I hope you all enjoyed it. We are brought to you by you, patreon.com slash TMS, is the place to do it. No commercials, art in the mail, couch parties, pre-show content every day. And boy, don't you know it? We only ask for a minimum of a dollar a month, which is insane. Please take advantage of insane people today by signing at the patreon.com slash TMS. Boy, that needs context, that line, doesn't it? Yes, it does. Maybe we want to rephrase that one. I thought about it more as I said it.

All right, that's it for today's show. Brian, anything else you got before we bolt? I got nothing. Again, tune in to watch me play some Marvel Snap and listen to some Tina Turner today at 1 p.m. Mountain Time, Twitch.tv.tv.com, coverville. Oh, right. Tomorrow.

No, go ahead. What's going on tomorrow? Tomorrow, no, guess the connection. I'm working out. I'm trying to figure out a solution to an issue that I'm running into with guest the connection, and I'll post about it on the Patreon, the Coverville Patreon, to see if I can enlist the aid of listeners as to how to fix a question or fix a problem with it that I see. But then we've got Couch Party, the Playdate Couch Party.

That's right. Tomorrow we're going to be playing a game, and I think it'll be a bunch of the, what do you call them, the jackboxes. The Jackbox, yeah. Yeah, we'll play a mix. We'll jump around. between different ones or, you know, we'll figure it out. We don't know, but we love doing that.

The one I want to make sure we play is the, as the one with the Aztec trivia question thing. Oh, right. You know, like climbing up the mountain. Absolutely. And also, they patch that problem that was making that other game crash. So we want to try that again, we can too. Gotcha. I tried it the other day and it worked fine.

So we should be good. Anyway, that'll be tomorrow. So check that out. Also, core tonight, 5 p.m. We've got a big, big core plan. There's also a core daily going up right after this show, or shortly after this show. So plenty of core today to get your, get your harp going. And what else?

FilmSack this weekend, Mission Impossible 3 is happening. I forgot where that's streaming, but just watch.com. Is it on, is it Max? I can actually take a look until you in 10 seconds. You know, Max, the app that made me change apps, even though it's exactly the same interview. I know. At least it didn't make me re-log in. That was amazed that.

That didn't happen. Oh, it's on both Paramount and Showtime, depending on which service you're supporting. Oh, well, there you go then. And it's the first movie and our hot action movie summer. Yep. Be prepared, because who's going to do it if you don't, I guess. Right. That's it for the show.

Thank you all for being here. Let's get out of here back Monday with a regular TMS, of course. And, you know, we're getting close to June. So buckle up, everyone. Summer's here. Hey, Brian, let's play a song. Sure. Dan says, Hey, Scons and Bannister, May 25th, the One True Star Wars Day, is my 41st birthday,

and it has certainly been a time of upheaval the past few years. I'm elbow-deep in the ordeal that is fixing, updating, selling my apartment, and hopefully finding a standalone house in a slightly quieter, more peaceful surroundings by the end of the year. I've tried to request a few times before to no avail, but hopefully this one gets through. Oh, sorry, Dan. I'd love to hear Johnny Marr's badass take on an already badass Depeche Mode track. I've been a fairly quiet ensign on board the USS Frog Pants for the past 11 years or so, and I'd appreciate all the badassery you all can conjure as I push through to the next phase in my life.

Also, if Scott could give me a Dolph Lundgren, Yulskahitahoten, for old Filmsack time's sake, that would make me laugh. Thanks for all the laughs and love the shows, though, Dan. Oh my gosh, hold on. That's a deep cut right there. It is, and I also, I don't know what it's... Yeah, what it would be stored under? Yeah, Yos.

Dolph, maybe. Dolph, maybe, Dolph. I don't see anything. Let's see. Is this it? I'm working for justice. That's him. How about this one?

Life's a joke. Shitbird. That's the shitbird. I don't think I have Yoskehito. Oh, no. I'll look around. But he did say it was his 41st birthday. Oh, well, then he gets this.

Let's party. Nice. All right. So, capping off a week where I didn't play any of the actual things that people requested, but I played alternate things that I thought they'd like instead. Let's actually play Johnny Marr's cover of I Feel You. This is so good. And he came out on a little EP, a two-song EP where Johnny Mar covers I Feel You by Depeche Mode and also covers, please, please, please, let me get what I want by the Smith's, a band that he was a member of, which is really cool. Johnny Marr, one of my favorite performers in music because of all the bands that he's been involved with, not just the Smiths and his solo stuff, but also a member of The The,

one of my favorite bands all the time. Let's get into this. It is I Feel You by Johnny Mar. I feel you your sun it shines I feel you within my mind You take you there, take you where the kingdom comes

You take me to, leave you too, by the love This is the morning of our love It's just a lonely to our love I feel you Your heart is sins I feel you the joy it brings

Where heaven waits Let's go up and gets you back again You take you to and leave you through a billion This is a mind of our love It's just a glowing our love I feel your precious soul I'm home I feel

rise in song my kingdom comes I feel you I feel you each love you make I feel I feel I'm glad you take

Where angels did spread their winds My left are high You take the loan to glory's love by and bright This is a morning of our love It's just a dawn in the hour This is the morning of hour. This is the morning of our love.

It's just a gone in an hour. I'm going to call in the day and give you a little morning stream of consciousness. I'm not sure why this morning, just the normal morning. Thuns out, birds chirping. Birds chirping these days, though, and Galveston means a little bit more since it's the height of migration. Never really been a bird nerd per se, but kind of fun to see the oranges and the red, and the blues and the greens and the yellows all flying around outside

other than the sparrows and the crackles. Humberbirds are fun. Always hovering and buzzing and zipping around, fighting for a little bit of sugar water from the theater. It's like a little war zone out there, something out of Dune or maybe Waconda. I don't know. Kind of inspired, I think maybe I'll go get myself a coat

from the gas station, something sweet like the hummingbirds get. So, it's supposed to say, love the show. Though, when you sign off, but I do love the show. Kind of crazy that you could be a patron of the show for less than the cost of a caffeinated sugar water from the gas station. And then you could have that sweet sugar in your ears for the whole month. Think about it. Support the show, yo.

Hey, Scott and Brian, this is Josh from Wisconsin, or Zinger. You guys are talking about angry 20-somethings. You know, you got to remember that these kids, they just spent the last three of their lives. you know, the party years, the formative years of their young lives in a pandemic. And being told no, being told you can't do this, you can't do that. There's a lot of pent-up

energy. It's something you guys could talk about with Wendy and what happened. I love the show, though. Have a great day. Hi, Brian and Scott. Last Thursday, you guys were talking about jerky, again, and talking about bear jerky, and then he got to talking about rabbit and deer. So, like, rabbit

is super greasy. It just is what it is. deer. Obviously, it's actually pretty good. Pretty solid makes great turkey. I think what really kind of messes with us when we start talking about bear jerky is a lot of bears are primarily, you know, vegetarian fruits and nuts, but they will go into the meat so that's that omnivore. And that's where that, I think that's where that flavor starts to turn a little bit, that it's not so great with jerky. Just my two cents, finger in with scots. Have a great day. Good morning, Brian. Scott. I was calling about the Katie Crick comments that you made on Monday about being awake for a colonoscopy.

I'm about a day behind on the show, so I don't know if you covered it on Tuesday. I guess I'll know later today when I listen to it. Anyway, I will say that there is one procedure of the poop chute that you are awake for that is very similar to a colonoscopy, and that's a flexible sigmoidoscopy. They don't go as far up the way, but they do keep you awake. and let me tell you, there is nothing more uncomfortable than an hour and a half on your side while you feel a hose going up and down, filling your entire lower body with air, and as it vibrates away as they move it, it is probably the most traumatic medical experience I've ever had in my entire adult life.

Just felt I needed to share. Thanks, guys. Hey, sord and board. I'll explain this later. I heard Scott say on Tuesday show that he was waiting for good karma to come to him after rescuing those two lost phones. And we're practicing Tibetan Buddhists, and this is my understanding of how karma work. Citizen recognizes five aggregates that constitute a person's being a personality. Physical form, sensations, perceptions, mental formations, and consciousness. These are sometimes called heaps.

Heapsen that you can deconstruct a person that is separate. piles. Karma is the Sanskrit term meaning action, and all willful actions are included in the mental formation aggregate. Every willful action you do was karma. It doesn't generate karma. It is karma. Good, bad, or neutral. Bardo is a Tibetan word for the transition state between your current life and the next. What happens in the Bardo is described in the Tibetan book of the head. It is in the bardo that your karma slash mental formation determines your next birth. or re-worth, rather. It will be better than worse or similar to your current life

and its ability to reach Nirvana. So, Scott, think of the positive karma from rescuing those phones as increasing your chance of a better rebirth. As for the current popular use of the term karma, I think a better term would be nemesis as we got as of retribution. Now, as for Sword and Board,

according to the Urban Dictionary, quote, sword and board, meaning sword and shield, is used in role playing. games. For example, my warrior uses S&B, unquote. To be honest, I've never heard this and all the time I've been playing World of Warcraft. Have either of you? Anyway, still love the show, though. Terry Z. in Chicago. 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. You like the smell of fish?