The Morning Stream - TMS 2483: Practical & Not Janky

Episode Date: June 22, 2023

Let the resin hit the floor. Don't Cyclobenzoprine and print. Come down period. Taste the Duke. There's a little trunk in the front. Brian bikes uphill both ways in the hail! Bird Triage. The Axis of Pain & Time! Florien Gadsby: Destined for Pottery. Cheecharon an Chongaron. Poorly Drawn Elephant. I've got to ride my Bicycle, I've got to ride my Bike. Bigger Than a Sparrow, Smaller Than a Wren. Have you heard the word about the bird? Arrogant Cephalopods with Amy 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, let the resin hit the floor. Don't cyclobenzaprine in print. Come down, period. Taste the duke. There's a little trunk in the front. I bike uphill both ways in the hail. Bird triage. The axis of pain and time.

Florian Gadsby, destined for pottery. Chicharon and Chongaron. Poorly drawn elephant. I got to ride my bicycle. I've got to ride my bike. Bigger than a sparrow, smaller than a wren. Have you heard the word about the bird? Arrogent cephalopods with Amy and more on this episode of the morning stream.

Take the remote unit from its handy storage space and you're set for hours of pure pleasure. Like an unflush turd. She's only your girl because she ain't had a taste of the Duke yet. This is the morning stream. Hey, everybody. Welcome back to TMS. It's the morning stream for June 22nd, 2020, 23.

I'm Scott Johnson. That is Brian Ibitt. Hi, Brian. This. This right here is Brian Ibitt. Hello. Yep. Tired Ibit, we call him.

He's sitting today. Been riding that bike, getting ready for the MS-150 this weekend. Yeah. Can I, can I, since, we're talking about why I'm tired. Can I can we jump to this item right here in our show notes? Or do you want to do the morning 4th? No, no, let's do it. Go ahead. Let's get in all right. So part of the reason I'm tired is that I was having a little bit of a backache yesterday after I did 12 mile training ride yesterday. I'm going to try and do a 24 mile one today.

When you start that, by the way. Is it right after the show? Is it, you know, yeah, right after the show. So, you know, us doing a little bit shorter show today actually kind of works out for me and temperature-wise because oh we're at 65 we're at the magic number oh the magic number yeah magic number 60s 65 66 magic temperature for me because it's not too hot not too cool yeah sounds like and it comes with a slice of cantalope on the side uh so i did a 12 mile my back was hurting last night so i'm like oh you know what i've got these cyclobenzoprines that um that my physical therapist uh ordered for me a prescribed for me to take you You know, with back issues.

Right. They're like muscle relaxers or something, right? They're muscle relaxants. And I have a couple different levels. I've got Baclophon, which is mild and doesn't make me super drowsy, and then cyclobenzoprines, which just go, pah, and I'm out. I'm out like a light. So last night I took one of those before bed, boom, out like a light. Yeah.

But the problem is that with those, I wake up super groggy and super, not dizzy, just groggy. tires like I'm like I'm slogging through molasses I hate that feeling it's the worst feeling yeah and so I come down to my office and I look over in a 3D print that was supposed to go overnight didn't didn't work like the the print didn't stick to the build plate at all so I'm like oh crud okay well and the only thing you can do is empty out the vat of resin and then peel the the failed print off of the plate put resin back in and try the print again But it's this long process where you've got to basically empty out the vat with all the resin in it back into the bottle and then start the whole thing over. And I've got to clean it and do all this stuff.

So I start that process. I pull out on my little rubber gloves and I unscrew the two screws holding the vat down. And I get out this little funnel contraption that I have that holds the, it's really cool, holds the funnel above the bottle. It's actually, you know, it is it's a pour over coffee thing that you put usually put coffee grounds in there. and pour hot water, and the hot water goes through the coffee grounds into the cup. Then you got coffee. But in this case, I use it for resin. So I put in the little glass funnel.

I put a little filter in there to catch any bits of resin that did get cooked that would be impure in the mix. Then I unscrew the little vat, and I tip it up, and I start pouring, and I get about maybe a quarter cup of resin through the thing. before I realize I didn't put the bottle of resin underneath the funnel to catch the resin. And I've poured a quarter cup of resin all over. It went right through the funnel all over the little pour-over coffee thing, all over the table. It's dripping onto the floor.

And this stuff is thick like, what's a good comparison? thicker or thinner than maple syrup you know it's about as thin as uh as cheap this is butterworth's syrup okay okay no that consistency rings true if you're describing resin to me so is this in the car you've got carpet in that room right i have carpet in that room but fortunately i have my old standing desk mat um in this uh in this room and that's what to pour it onto so i'm like okay well thank good thank goodness for that but basically it was an hour and 15 minutes of me mopping up all of that spilled resin using alcohol to clean things to clean everything I had to change the FEPP sheet the little clear plastic sheet that's on the bottom of the vat because the print wasn't peeling

off of it and I didn't want to tear the vat freaking nightmare and basically that's how I spent the first hour and 15 minutes of my day so lesson to learn, don't do 3D printing on cyclobenzaprine. And I'm sure I'm going to get, here's where we get messages from geek jock and Jerry Tolbert, Dr. Tolbert, about, well, here's some stuff you should know about cyclobenzaprine. Yeah, just so people understand, this is actually kind of an interesting feature of the show. If we talk about anything medical, whether it's you and I take a visit to a doctor or we're

talking about a medical condition or we're talking about medication, almost 100% of the time when the show's over, we have this. very special little discord group where either Dr. Tolbert or our pharmacistice expert, Dan, will pipe in because they know, they know this stuff. They know. Yep. So they'll tell us where we went wrong or right. Here's what I'm going to guess.

I'm going to predict it right now. One of them, Geekjacker, Dr. Tolbert, is going to say, you should probably take those a couple hours before bedtime so that they don't, so that you can come down off them in the morning before you get up. They got a longer, I don't know if half-life fits this, but a longer half-life, like a... Yeah, the equivalent of whatever that is, right, the come-down period. Come-down period, yeah. And I hate that feeling of, like, almost all sleep-aids have this problem.

They make you feel groggy and horrible. These obviously aren't sleep-aids. They have a side effect of making you drowsy and sleepy, but maybe in the end it's sort of the same. It's like a hangover kind of, but not quite. Kind of, yeah, yeah. I hate that feeling. Oh, so bad. So that's why I'm, one of the reasons I'm sitting down today instead of standing, almost always

standing for the show, but today I'm sitting is because my back's still a little tender. I'm going to still do the 24 today, and I'm going to take tomorrow off and not do any riding tomorrow so that I can recuperate in time for Saturday morning. Yep, and that starts bright and early, right?

It does. The rest of the team, so we've got two starts, one's at 630, and the team that does the 75 mile is doing the 630 start, and I'm doing the 830 start with a couple other members of the team, including Aunt Barb.

Me and Aunt Barb. We're going to do the 32-mile ride, which Oh, that's two miles longer than I thought. I thought it was just a 30, I guess. Yeah, it's 30. It's 32. I should send you. Because you're like, oh, 32, piece of cake. Here, Scott.

You know what? I will never say those words, but please send this to me. I will always say 30. Sounds like a lot. All right, click that link I just put in our Discord. That is the route. Here we go, Chad. For the, okay, for the 32-mile ride.

There we go. Oh, that's a big, Chet's a lot. It's a lot. And if you look at the bottom, that is the elevation of the ride. So spread that out over 32 miles. And it's like, okay. Yeah, you got a mile 10 that's really going to take you higher. Mile 10, exactly.

Yeah. Like mile 8, like mile 9 and 10, it's like, oh, a nice little 200-foot. increase than a little bit of a drop than another under feet and then also when you get around to about like getting down to 25 from 20 to 25 is going to feel great look at oh it's going to feel great it is coasting that is like i'm going to be coasting all the way down yeah but then at the end you're like oh got to go up then i have to do another freaking uphill push to get to the finish line it's like oh that'll be oh no it's going to suck again it's a lot how how is it possible that it's an uphill

both at the beginning of the ride and the end of the ride when we start and finish in the same place that's a geographical anomaly that is true also I see kind of a poorly drawn elephant in the route

if you look at it there's a weird little trunk in the front there well head just your just your whole route oh the whole route yeah it looks like a chunky elephant man is it the Mario elephant

maybe a little bit boy that got me excited yesterday that looks awesome yeah I know I'm excited Mario man we haven't had a proper like new Mario side scroller since the Wii you because technically the other one on on switch is a port of that so right kind of awesome well anyway you're going to do great and you'll you'll be all rest of it'll be so much fun that's right Friday'll be your recoup and then Saturday will be your hell and then Sunday crash yeah and then Monday we're

back here talking about it all right yep exactly Monday I have a physical therapy appointment where She's going to say, you did what? It's going to be the first words out of front of her mouth. Oh, yeah. Dr. Jenny is going to be like, you did what? I'm sorry, 30 what? What? Yeah.

Are you trying to, are you trying to hurt yourself more brain? I mean, you know, obviously for general fitness, biking is great. But if you're in the middle of a regimen of physical therapy, she's probably going to be like, well, maybe not the first thing I would have chosen for going to be doing. Yeah. And let's be honest. This is how many actual training rides have I done this year? Six.

This will be six today. So it kind of hasn't gone well for like my back getting on the bike for the last couple months that I should have been doing the training ride. So I'm kind of a dumb ass. Well, don't forget because this is our last drill show before the MS 150. You can still do donations. Huge thanks to everybody who has, but you can keep going. if you want. Get in there.

Oh, my God. Yeah, yeah. Massive thanks. There's so many of you listeners who have donated and there's too many to go into. You guys have pushed me well past the, um, the target donation. And this, none of this goes to me, obviously. This all goes to MS and finding a cure and doing tests. One of the guys that I know, one of the guys on my team who has MS, our leader, a guy named Steve is he's been on trials, like on medication trials for MS, where when they show the effectiveness and they show that little graph, he's one of the dots, like they have a scatter chart and they show the dots of the different reactions that people have had to it. He gets to point out and say, like, I'm that dot right there.

That's me and where how it's affected me. So what does his dot say? Does his dot indicate something more than just he was a guy in the test? it says he had their reaction or something? Like effectiveness, like one access, excess, axis is pain, another one is time or something like that. And he can point to and say, yeah, taking this has put me here over the amount of time that it took that I was taking the drug. Oh, wild. Well, that's cool.

He's great. He is, like, there are a lot of inspiring people on our team, people with MS and Barb, of course. being the major one for me, the most inspiring of the people on our team. But Steve is also the most freaking positive person you will ever meet. The guy never has a frown on his face. He's never, I mean, the guy is awesome. And he looks like Chandler Bing. I need to get a picture of him in posting because he looks like if Matthew Perry was a cyclist.

So Matthew Perry in his prime. probably it is prime yes exactly maybe not now so much maybe not now so much maybe more during the the immediately post friends days before the drugs really took over yeah poor guys a mess or was a mess I guess it's clean so anyway we'll just one last big thank you to everybody who's donated and I read all of your your notes on the you know the messages that you leave on the MS150 site when you leave your donation and and to all of you I say uh Firt love the show though back at you and thank you for the go go brian go messages all the pat all the proper tadpool responses i love it yes they've checked every box that's right um okay a couple quick things just a reminder about the mondays morning

form giveaway if you haven't gotten in there already please do it's uh your favorite go-to junk food it's not a poll it's a questionnaire you're going to tell us what your your guilty pleasure is when it comes to food like that so go to it now frogpans dot com slash the morning form and fill it out if you haven't yet. Also, I want to give an update on the bird. So I haven't talked about on the show, but we've been talking about this bird, mostly on Twitter. On Twitter, yeah.

So a bird swoop, we don't even know what kind of bird. We think it's like a, not a sparrow, but something in that family. Bigger than a sparrow, like almost a wren, maybe? Yeah, maybe. I'm not, we're, I don't know, I don't know if Carter ever figured it out. She was going to try to figure it out,

but I think she's in the chat, so maybe she can say. But anyway, this thing swoops down and slammed into the side of a car. As best we can tell, that's where we found it. And Dylan actually found out when he was coming into the house with the kids the other day, brought Carter out there, and Carter went into mediate, you know, triage mode and was going to try to save this bird. And it was a real opportunity to make up for that one. I ran over in 2011, if you'll all recall that, or 2013, whatever it was.

Anyway, so she's been working on this bird for a few days. She had gotten it to eat more regularly, got them little worms, live worms. At the pet store, we got water and a droplet thing. And he was gaining strength, was seeming to get his, it basically just seemed to be concussed to the point that he couldn't stand up or fly. Like he was, he just really dizzy and would always like kind of lay back and look like it was kind of like the world was spinning for him or something. Yeah, yeah. But lots of energy, kind of defensive, you know, good signs that it's fighting and whatever.

So she could get it to drink and get it to eat. And over a two, three day period, this bird was doing so. so much better was starting to really show promise and then yesterday just quietly passed away oh yeah and some people said well sky should found a sanctuary well we had a perfect one and then they got they got uh i don't know what happened they got they had to pull the plug they had to go away and so they're gone now and we didn't really know where to take it so we just did our best and tried we kept him really comfortable we had him in his own little space and and made sure he was eating and drinking and he was he was eating and drinking which usually has a sign a really good sign things

are going good yeah and he was pooping another good sign because birds poop all the time and when they're doing that they're it's a good sign they were their body's working yep and um yeah it just didn't they didn't work in the end passed away yesterday so that's the update on the bird it's a bummer carter says gray cat bird gray cat i've never gray i've never heard of that but they, let's see, catbirds instinctively recognize imposter eggs by memorizing the look at their first egg and tossing all non-matching eggs. So basically, you know, how there are some birds that put their own eggs into a nest when nobody's in there so they can, you know, they can get those hatched in. Cat birds are like, nope, this is, this is BS. I'm not going to sit on this egg.

Yeah, you're not going to fool me with this fake egg that is my egg. So, Chad, there's a picture of one. that's basically what he looked like he even had the little dark head thing but he just slammed into yeah it's like a toupee he just slammed into that car and it just was too much I guess in the end so

anyway there is the sad tale we tried in our best yeah Mariah even says that I've got tons of those at my feeder and they run into my window a lot I hope I pronounce that right is it Mariah Mariah Mariah I kind of like that if that's true yeah it's actual too

anyway there's your update on the bird everybody Yeah, there you go. Yeah, there you go. That's what's going on in the world. Okay, Brian's sitting. I'm sitting. I got altoids. I have ibuprofen.

Yeah. Ooh, one. Just one ibuprofen left. Oh, no, Brian. One ibuprofen left. What are you going to do? It's a little sad gel tab, gel cap. That's not enough.

What will you ever do now? Okay. I will ride my bike to Walgreens and get some more ibuprofen. There's a guy out there. I know a bunch of you do this. somebody out there who listens to the show at two-time speed, okay? Okay. I'd like to mess with that person real quick.

And I'm going to do it. I hope they're listening to the show live at two-time speed. Oh, that'd be weird, wouldn't it? They could tell us what we've said about five minutes from now because they're ahead of us. That's right. Okay, so how? Oh, yeah, here it is. Okay, I'm going to set this to, I want him to, okay, so here it goes.

I'm going to play a portion of our show. Oh, no, this is core. Well, it won't matter. Same thing. Here we go. No. What the heck? Why is it all music?

I think this opened the door to the possibility of those other games existing. Okay. Did that sound normal? Did that sound normal to the two times person? Oh, that's a good question, yeah. Or did that sound... Because that was at half speed? That's a half speed.

That's a 0.5 speed. Oh. Um, if I change it to, this is just these thoughts I had this morning. It was all very dumb. Now, if I do this, does this just drive him crazy? Because here is, here it is at two time speed. Oh, God. Orp.g. They don't exist. So I for one, super stoked that they're doing this. And I will play the living in. Now, what did I do to his brain there? And did I really foul this dude up? Oh my God. Oh, my God.

I got, I got questions. I got questions about how that works for people's heads because I cannot, for the life of me, alter the speed of playback for podcasts. I've tried. I can't stand it. And everyone says, oh, you get used to it. Like, no, I don't. I don't get used to it. Yeah. Now, Crazy Neighbor listens to audiobooks at that speed. Good segue into Amy here, but he listens to audiobooks at that speed. And sometimes when we get in his car, it'll continue playing his audiobook. And I'm like, how can you listen this? I guess you get used to it. And you just basically, once you get used to it, it's easy. I guess so. It just take a long time to get used to it. Because I tried for a good 20 minutes once. And I hated it. so much. I never got used to it, but I never get used to this either.

One of the things that I enjoy also is reading. Oh, I never get used to having Amy here. I guess I'm used to it, but I never get used to how great it is. How about that? That's what I meant to say. There we go. Good recovery. Nice save there. Amy, welcome back to the program. It's Read This with Amy. Amy comes on the show and talks about books that we should maybe check out or be reading. We're all big fans of reading here. She does that every week. Hi, Amy, welcome back. Hi.

Thanks for having me. Did you get your computer working? I heard your computer was weird. Did you change? Yeah, it just needed a couple. I mean, sort of. Did you throw some clay at it? Well, it's funny you mentioned.

I actually do have clay all over my monitor in the studio downstairs. It's kind of funny. Just because I make a mess. Yeah. So I have decided that that's actually my little. My little, it's not a tagline because it comes at the beginning. But I guess my little catchphrase that I say at the beginning, I'm like, come on, let's make a mess. Why not?

Never trust a clean potter. No, no. If you see like a really clean pottery wheel or even like studio space or the person themselves, I don't trust the pottery you're making. Oh. You may as well be lying to me. Never trust a skinny chef and never trust a clean potter. That's right. We do clean our space really well after we're done because everybody likes to start off.

with a nice, clean workspace. Yeah. You know, and especially when we go to the community studio, it's really irritating when somebody doesn't do a good job of cleaning the space afterwards. Yeah, it's like a gym. You want people to wipe down the equipment, you know? It's picky. Yeah.

So. You don't want to do with their ugly pot that they were just there making. I get it. Right. Claire, you in the BJ face. So I have this jar that I've been making and I call it my bee jar. because if you've watched any of my little videos or anything, I have a lidded jar that I made and the top of the lid has a bee on it,

like a bumblebee. Like what you grab is the bumblebee's body to lift up the jar lid, right? Correct. Correct. And so, yeah, I was talking about that jar on my live stream the other day. And Claire, of course, wants me to call it the BJ for short. Oh, the B jar. Yeah, the B jar. Yeah, the B jar.

Yeah. I see what she's doing there. So, yeah, it's still in the kiln after it's, for its final firing. And so this is the part where it gets really, it's a little nerve-wracking, you know, because you have to trust one day we'll have our own kiln, and it'll still be nerve-wracking because it'll be up to whatever chemical reactions and whatnot happen inside the kiln. But it'll be less so because there won't be the added danger of like a studio assistant dropping it or something if I drop it it's down to me right but sure yeah you ever have anything

you ever have anything explode in the kiln just like pop and you're like oh no I've lost my B or whatever yeah so it was we were doing what's called a raccoon firing which if you've never done or seen raccoon pottery it's really cool it's like it's all you know outside you heat the piece up to a really really hot temperature and then you drop it into a bucket of combustible material and just catch it all on fire. And so it's really super satisfying. And there was, we did a Raku workshop last summer, which was hot as all get, I mean, it was the middle of summer in Georgia and we're outside setting things on fire because we're insane

people. Yeah. So, but yeah, I had one piece that, uh, when, When he put, you know, we have a little bitty kiln. So he was doing them kind of one, one piece at a time. So thankfully, I didn't blow up anybody else's piece. But yeah, he was like, he's looking at it and watching the temperature because you have to monitor the temperature really carefully for a raccoon firing, you know, because you're

bringing it up to temperature really quickly, as opposed to, you know, just a regular firing where you kind of can automatically set it and it gradually comes up to temperature. and then it gradually comes back down. So Raku is volatile that way. And so if you've got any moisture or any little air bubbles trapped in those pieces at all, boom. Yeah.

And so, yeah, that's what happened. It just sort of, it didn't, it didn't explode with like a satisfying, you know, cabloom or anything. It just sort of crumbled, really. But, yeah, but it did blow up in the, I have had stuff blow up in the kiln. Well, I have one last question about how things work in that world. Like in sports, there are people who dominate, right?

So you're like, oh, LeBron James, Michael Jordan, Michael Jackson. Other things like even the maker world, everyone thinks Adam Savage is sort of the lord of all that, right? So they have their superheroes within that world. Does pottery have anybody like that? It's like they're really. Yeah, there are a couple. So, um, one guy, one guy that I watch a lot. His name is Florian Gadsby. Uh, and he's got a whole YouTube series and everything, but he's like, such a celebrity in the potter world. I had, I hadn't, I'd be honest, I had not heard of him before I watched the great British pottery throwdown. But boy, howdy were the contestants on that show excited for him to be on there. A guy named Florian Gadsby was destined to make pottery.

That name is... Right. Yeah. Right. Exactly. It's almost right there in the name, practically. Yeah. Oh, his stuff's really pretty.

Wow. Oh, yeah. He does beautiful work effortlessly. It's amazing. Another person that I watch a lot, the name of his YouTube channel is Earth Nation ceramics. I don't know what his last name is, but his first name is Dante. And so we all, like, all of us in the community studio, we all talk about stuff that Dante says, you know, and Dante's videos are more geared toward sort of tutorials and, you know,

teaching beginners, that kind of thing. You could tell, he mentions stuff that his students do, so you can tell he teaches in-person classes and stuff like that. Does he use a killing or an inferno? Ha ha ha. Oh, I see. I think both. I think the answer is yes. Yeah, the answer is yes. I could feel the slow gear in my brain Click over to getting And those of us look at the chat Mark Flazer

I said it first before your thing popped up Yeah, that's right Not being wise Just so you know Don't get Brian any shit Oh look he's got like double Dungeon That's cool dungeon master mugs

This guy's great That's cool I like his work a lot So I love the combining of geek pop culture And pottery Because I feel like there's so many So many places to go with that It's like the maker community using resin or using foam or using plastics and stuff like that to make geek pop culture stuff.

Pottery is just one more one more way to do it. Yeah. Oh, yeah, for sure. There's a TikTok account that I follow called Crackpot Crockery. And she says, I make pottery for nerds. And she made like a cookie jar that was a baobam. Oh, that's awesome. Which is amazing, because, like, spheres are, like, some of the hardest things to make, as you can kind of imagine, right? Like, it, yeah. And so it, she, but it was incredible looking. And she's, she's made some, she made like a, I think, like a Kirby cookie jar also. And I mean, it's this amazing, amazing stuff. And she makes, you know, all kinds of pottery stuff. Mugs and things. And she does, she, it's really, really entertaining. Maybe you'll be the next.

big pottery influencer you ever think about that could be you you know I mean I don't know could be but at this point I'm just very happy like learning a new thing and then having a channel to have my friends come hang out with me and post my videos and kind of as an encouragement for people to see like yep it's okay to do goofy things like you know you got to fail before you can't nobody throws down a piece of clay their first day and something that looks like Florian Gadsby. He has been doing this for years and years and years and years and years. So I don't know.

I kind of like showing the in progress pieces because I think we kind of all get in our mindset like, oh, I'm not good at this. So I'm not going to do it. So I think it's kind of cool to show like, hey, I'm a big dork learning a new thing. For sure. It's okay. Learn it with me. Come learn it with me.

Yeah. Exactly. It's okay. to be a beginner. It's okay to not be great at everything. And then, you know, occasionally you'll get somebody who does know what they're doing, go, hey, try this. That might help you or whatever. And mostly, mostly my comments have been really encouraging and like, oh my gosh, this piece is beautiful, stuff like that. So did you get rid of, you haven't seen leg guy or whoever that was again? He's done. He's out. Right. Oh, yeah. Show's your leg. Yeah. No, that was on Twitch.

And I promptly, I have never, like, since you suggested doing the YouTube thing, I was like, okay, so that's what I'm going to do. And I haven't gone live on Twitch since then. I've just been using YouTube. Nice. Well, I really like your channel. So keep it up over there. Thank you. But today, we're going to about reading. I have this clip here, but I don't, you probably have some setup for this. What do you got going here? Yeah. So do you remember way back in the day, you had a show called Forecast. I do. And I was a guest on forecast long, long time ago.

And for those who may not know, the format of that show was we had to make predictions. And it was like a near future prediction, a not so near future prediction, but not like super in the future. And then, like, ridiculous, like, we're all going to be long dead before this happens prediction. Oh, yeah. And so my ridiculous. we're all going to be long dead prediction was that people always talk about how smart dolphins are

but actually like octopuses are incredibly smart also so I predicted that like way off in the stupid future there would be some kind of a weird hybrid of an octopus and a dolphin and that would be what would rule the earth like humans would be long extinct

long gone and like what would rule the earth would be like a dolphin octopus hybrid that Tom Merritt then dubbed the Dolph Octopus. I think the name of the episode was actually Rise of the Dolph Octopus. I believe that is correct. I think I even have that episode. That was a long time ago. Wow. All right. Yep. So anyway, so that's my setup for why this book attracted me. And yeah, it's it's me reading it because I didn't like the audible sample. So there you go. Well, all right then. Here you go. Here's Amy reading from this. Now more trash to collect. She empties the bins in the lobby, the can outside the restrooms,

then ends in the break room with its endless crumbs on the counter. My word, she says, scolding the empty room. Empty take-out cartons on the floor. She picks up the cartons and tosses them in the trash can, which oddly has been scooted several feet over from its usual spot. Then she sees it, something underneath. A brownish-orange clump shoved in the corner. A sweater? Tova kneels, preparing to fetch it and stash it in McKenzie's cubby. But then the clump moves. A tentacle moves. Good heavens! The octopus's eye materializes from somewhere in the fleshy mass. Its marble pupil widens, then its eyelid narrows, reproachful. Tova blinks, not convinced.

her own eyes are working properly, how could the giant Pacific octopus be out of his tank? The arm moves again. The creature is tangled in the mess of power cords. How many times has she cursed those cords? They make it impossible to properly sweep. You're stuck, she whispers, and the octopus heaves his huge, bulbous head straining on one of his arms around which a thin power cord the kind used to charge a cell phone is wrapped several times seems bad for the octopus to have that right yeah wow all right interesting so is that a is that a sentient octopus we just don't know it yet is it like a not sentient they're all sentient but you know what i mean is it like a gonna suddenly start talking i've evolved and

made your forecast prediction come true no nothing quite that famous fantastical. But it is pretty fun. The name of this book is remarkably bright creatures. And it's by Shelby Van Pelt. And it is a novel about this old woman named Tova who is, she basically sweeps up and cleans. She's the cleaning lady at an aquarium. And her favorite creature there is this curmudgeonly giant Pacific octopus named Marcellus. And very strangely, they gained this connection because she helps him become unstuck from the, you know, from the cords that he's trapped in. And, and then it's weird, the octopus actually starts helping her solve a mystery from her past. And it's like, it doesn't talk or anything, but it finds ways to sort of communicate with her. other ways and and the the book itself is fun because it it flip-flops between the octopus's perspective and you know the other people in the novel and I got to tell you I actually like the octopus parts better sounds crazy how do they do it do it just like I guess I need to

read the book that sounds fascinating how you would do that how would you give voice to an octopus like their inner line-alach. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, it's, it's the, the really fun part is that the octopus is very arrogant and he thinks in full, you know, English sentences and whatnot. And he said at one point, like the first chapter of the book, he says, yes, I can read. You'd be surprised at all the things that I can do. And, you know, and he's, of course, sneaking out of his tank at night. and it's it's great it's it's a lot of fun he's like i say he's very arrogant because he sort of looks down his beak i guess at the other creatures in the tank because they are not so

intelligent as he and so he's very lonely and so he he just gets this little connection with this cleaning lady who was kind to him and yeah it's good it's fun yeah i like the I like the concept. She has a, she has, you know, she's an old lady with like a, you know, very storied life and some tragedy in her past and whatnot. And so this octopus sort of helps her along the way. And it's, it's pretty good. I like it. Recommended, you'd say.

Yes. Yes. I do. I do recommend. Well, very nice. Go check it out. Give them the title one more time. Remarkably bright creatures by Shelby Van Pelt.

Looks like it is everywhere that I can see and all the Amazon things, the Kindles, the audiobooks, the what-nots. So grab your copy today. Amy, always good talking to you. You're at Redfragel on YouTube and doing stuff here and there. Anything coming up you want to mention? Yeah, well, like I mentioned, I've got the bee jar should be coming out of the kiln either today or tomorrow sometime in there. So look for a video about the final result there. and I'll probably be doing another stream within a day or two

to probably to decorate some pieces because I have been doing so much practicing with throwing that I have amassed like a huge collection of unfinished things so I need to finish some things and so I'll probably be doing some cool decorating techniques on a stream. Funny how that also parallels 3D printing, right? It's like, oh, man, so much stuff coming out of 3D printer that I've made. Oh, I really have to start, like, painting some of these things that I've printed.

Yeah. Uh-huh. Yeah, exactly. I've got like my shelf, my shelf runneth over at the community studios. So I had to take some stuff home. Yeah. Because I was going to say they probably limit how much space everybody can access to any time, right? You can't just take the whole shelf.

You get one shelf and it's got your name on it and that's your shelf. And that's it. That's your space. You can't scoot over. So if you have a nice instructor and you're making something really big, then they'll let you, you know, like have space on their shelf or something like that. But a lot of times the instructors have so much unfinished crap that they don't have any space either. Yep. Everyone's got their own shelf.

It's like the future. We're going to have to live on our shelf and not move, you know? It's going to be how we live. I see it as a series of containers. That's how I see the future. We're going to live like a series of tubes. It's a series of containers. Like Bruce Willis.

in his weird, you know, squared off thing he lived in in Fifth Element like that. That's how we're all over a little. Oh, gotcha, yeah. And the showers are going to lower down. Like there's some weird hotels in Japan. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, there's a capsule hotels.

I have to admit some part of that is a little appealing to me. Is that weird? To basically say, here, get rid of all my crap and let me just have a place. Yeah. Clutter free. There's something to do that. There is something, right? I don't know what it is.

I'm not actually asking for it. but I know I know it. It's weird. Anyway, Amy, I hope you have a... I want it, but I want it. I hope your week is awesome and that you have a good one until we see you next time.

Stay safe. Thanks. Have a good weekend, y'all. Bye-na. Thanks, you too. I'll throw some clay. Hey, look at this. Oh, that soothing music from your past,

your childhood says that it's time for the news and it's brought to you by. Brought to you by Coverville, where there will be no coverville today. Yeah, as I mentioned before, a training ride that's going to take me a couple hours at least and recovery from that and because of all the all the writing have not had time to prep a show but if i did it would have been a cindy lapper show and it would have been great but you know what i'm going to do it next week

so you'll get your cindy lopper next week probably cindy lopper and george michael just let's just drill right into the 80s and maybe colin hay for minute work because all three of them had milestone birthdays uh i was gonna ask today being cidie lopper's i was hoping something bad hadn't happened to cindy lopper but it's just a birthday okay who nope just her birthday and it's today as a matter fact happy birthday Cindy Lopper she's a national treasure she is she is um okay

some of you someone should interview and ask her if she ever did finally have fun you know because girls just want to have fun so did you find out of ready for me to blow your mind oh what is that a cover that's a cover girls just want to have fun is a cover by a guy

the original version version is by a guy named Robert Hazard. Really? Yes. Robert Hazard. Robert Hazard. Yes. I've never heard that before in my life.

That crazy? Yeah. Wow. And he's saying about girls having fun? Or did she change it? He sang it. He didn't change the lyrics or anything. It was girls just want to have fun.

All right. I think he does change it to third person. She comes home in the morning light. Her father says, when are you going to live your life right? Oh, I see. So some of that you can, yeah, you can fiddle with. But it makes sense.

Yeah. Didn't that have Lou? Albano in the video. The Captain Lou Albano was her dad. That's right. He's something with the brothers. Beep, bap.

I was thinking of him as the Mario guy in that show. That horrible Mario live action cartoon thing. Oh my God. Yeah. Right. Well, here's a couple stories for you.

Nearly 14,000 pounds of pork rinds shipped from Guatemala have been recalled in the U.S. Sorry pork rind lovers. Oh. I know. shame. I tried to think of a brand name. Funnion. No, no Funnions. Those are onions.

It's right there in the name. What are the, but it's like, yeah, I can't think of any, any actual brands of pork rinds. Yeah, I feel like whenever I get pork rinds, I'm not, I never think of brand, right? Right. We don't go, no, no, you have to go with lays. You have to go with ruffles. It's like, yeah, whatever, this pork rind bag with the orange writing is on it, fine. So it's, so it says here, um, the snag bags are 5.3 ounces. is containing tortrix con chikarian chikaron chikaron yeah and we're shipped to guatemala which is a country and eligible to export meat products in the u.s and yes they are considered meat products

sure even though they come like they sit next to the chip bags yeah they feel like potato chips but those are absolutely meat based meat in there bags do not have an establishment number nor us d a mark of inspection the items were shipped to wholesale and retail locations in georgia New York, New York, New Jersey, Rhode Island, and Virginia, the ineligible bags. I played the base for an ineligible bag for a year or two before they broke up. And I did mispronounce, chicharon. Chicharon. Not chicharon, chicharon.

It sounded great either way, I thought. It did, but I stand corrected. Thank you for correcting my pronunciation. Coming from a state that has such a great Latin community, I mispronounced it. people always think it's nothing but white bread here in Utah but we have yeah massive Hispanic population islander folks all that kind of stuff we have the best food Tongans right like tons of Tongans Tomans also Samoans yeah and they hate each other they don't like each other

because always fighting between those two even in high school like the Samoan kid and the Tongan kid in school hated each other's guts it was weird but yeah like Get out of North Carolina. Actually, you know what? Everyone's stay where you're at. I don't want house prices going up anymore than they already are. Right, exactly. There we are.

Get out of our states. Yeah, put it. It's really weird here. Don't come here. It's weird. There, I've done my work. Anyway, these went to all these places. The reports of adverse reactions due to consumption of these products have been confirmed.

Anyone concerned about reaction should contact a health provider. I'm guessing this is one of the reactions right here. Diarrere. Among other things, if I had to guess. So don't be eating no pork rinds that you're not sure about, okay? Yeah, yeah. I don't mind a pork rind here and there. They're okay.

Okay. But I don't think I'm in any, any, you know, reason to worry here because we don't have any, but just be on the lookout, everybody. Yeah, for sure. Food recalls from weird sources. Yeah. Here's one. A gas station, speaking of stuff, you get at a gas station, gas station clerk asked a friend to rob the store so he could go home early. It's tired.

I love it. Oh, that's funny. It's a pretty good little scam. Like the police are just saying, all right, well, the store's been robbed. You can go home. We don't need any sort of statement from you or anything like that. Don't need to stick around and tell us, you know, what the guy looked like. As a gas station employee in Tulsa is where this happened is accused of asking a friend to find someone to rob the store so he could go home early.

According to the Tulsa Police Department, the investigation began when the employee, Elias, or no, Osias Jones. Isaiah. I think it's Isaiah. But I was wrong with Chicharon, so. Asias. I'm not sure. I think Isaiah's. Isaiah.

I would say you would be right. I would put money on your bet there. Okay. A reporter, a man walked into the store June 5th, handed him a note that read, Give me all your money, or I will shoot you. All right. Very specific. Jones complied and then the suspect left with the cash.

Investigators later identified Stephen Jones, no relation to the suspect, and arrested him on June 8th. However, police said there were more to the story than what first appeared. Stephen Jones confessed to the robbery, but said his friend Alia Locke set him up for the crime because Isaiah Jones had asked her to get somebody who could rob the store so he could get out of there.

So it's actually three people. So there's a third person. Yeah, great. Clerk asked a friend to ask someone else to rob the place. Anyway, they're all in trouble now. They're all busted. Freaking complicated. The guy just wanted some time off from the come and go or the loaf and jug or whatever it is that he's working at.

Oh, we're getting some cum and go's here. Is that the worst named convenience store? Well, they even do the... It all has to do with the spelling of the word game. Yeah, they do K, right? Is it a K? What do they do? K and it's just K-U-M.

It's not even like it's... I don't like it. Why not spell it C-O-M-E and go? Come and go. Oh, great. You know, it looks great. It looks fine, but... Yeah, it makes me never want to eat.

You know, like on the front page, the first thing they advertise is the snacks on the go and they're fresh pizza. I don't want any your food. No, no. I might get your gas. That's it.

Then I'm done. Well, they're hiring, Brian. Look at this. They're hiring. Great. I don't want to work at the company. Apparently, they're hiring in Tulsa. Yeah, apparently.

I'm sure there's an opening there. Yeah, brand new, fresh opening in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Left, Left, Heath, you seriously don't have a place called Pumping. Munch, do you? Oh, my God. Please tell me you've got a gas station called the pumping munch. Really, the pumping munch?

I already don't like, what's the one store? I thought you're supposed to munch before you pump. Well, I mean, you know, people have their methods, Brian. Different methods, different, uh, different, uh, whatever's they have, you know, proclivities, let's say. Yeah. Uh, a Tampa woman. Let's go to Florida for a minute. Tampa woman left her mansion and her inheritance.

The entirety of it, she's a rich lady, left it all to her seven cats. I love it. Yeah. Her son died, so anyway, her two great loves became shopping and her cats. Shopping was her problem, says her friend. You couldn't buy just one. She'd buy 20 or 30 of something. That sounds like a hoarder to me.

It does. Totally does. That's how she ended up with seven cats. Couldn't buy just one. I need seven cats. Yeah, seven cats, please. She's got all kinds of crap in here. There were more than 50 Dale 10.

Tiffany, floor, and lamp tables, or table lamps, around 5,000 pieces of jewelry and over 200 Austin production, statues, and figurines. Like, this is expensive stuff. Wow. Wow. Anyway, the cats get it all. And the way the deal works, the deal is the house will not be sold until the cats have passed away, all seven of them. Oh, my gosh, really. But somebody has to live there and take care of the cats, right?

I think so. It doesn't say, but you'd have to be a relative or, uh. Let's see. Yeah, they don't say. Do they need me to live there? Yeah, Brian could do it. 4,000 square feet, Brian, South Tampa. Before I commit, how's the Wi-Fi?

2.5 million dollar, uh, quote-to-cold mansion. Yeah, I'd be fine with that. Yeah. So the cats and I would do everything I could to keep those cats alive as long as possible. No, of course you would. Let's see, seven times nine. They have nine lives each. What's the math on that? 63.

Oh, my God. So 63 lives, I would, I would, uh, they would live as long as 63 lives. That's not good. I love it. We had a similar story. When I saw the headline, I thought, oh, it's the story here in Colorado. There's a woman who stipulate in her will. So she passed away.

She has four Persian cats. And she says she'll pay somebody $300,000 to take care of them. But the $3,000 goes to the cat's care. So basically, they get the cats. They take care of the cats. and every purchase they take a receipt to somebody who then reimburses them for what they purchased for the cats. Really? Yeah.

I'm trying to think if I would ever do that. I don't think I would. That sounds like not a great deal for the caretaker, you know? Right. Yeah. I mean, it seems like such a... I mean, I guess you are covering the cost of the cab maintenance, but you're still the person having to deal with them all the time. Yeah.

Do you get reimbursed from when the cat yacks on the couch? Do you get money for that? No, this is the same lady. This is the same Florida seven cats. So it's, I found, because I found the article that we see here, 2.5 million South Tampa home. The Humane Society has, now has about $300,000 sour set aside to cover the cost to care for the seven cats for the rest of their lives. So if you adopt, she left money to fund all the vet care, all the grooming, all the food, whatever these cats need. basically you just take a receipt to the dumb friends league and they reimburse you for

everything to spend so uh no cat needs a new big screen TV okay cat got a big screen TV uh it's like free cheeseburgers at a restaurant or something for life or whatever you just keep going in the stipulation you've got to drive to the restaurant to get the cheeseburger yeah these things all sound great on paper but yeah when it turns it gets real inconvenient really fast i think yeah just go get a regular cat avoid this lady everyone just regular Nothing special about her cats, okay? Right. Everything will be fine.

I think that'll do it for that. All right. Let's get to this email real quick, and then we're going to end the show. Now, people are going to be like, wait a minute. No, no Wendy today? No, no Wendy today. Two reasons. One, I have a meeting, but even if it wasn't for that, Wendy is,

I said balls deep. Wendy is very busy getting stuff going for her daughter's big birthday bash. And my wife and my sister, Misha, they're all out in Minnesota today. They're out there to help. Yeah, so she wanted to make sure she was as available as possible and makes total sense. So no windy this week. Also, we have to end it early because I got a meeting earlier than I thought. And Brian's got to get on his bike and get that.

I'm going to get on a bike ride. And it's 69 degrees. Nice. Nice. That's a nice temperature. That's a really nice temp. I love it. That's a little bit of the old muncheon pump.

Oh, man. So then. So that's what we're going to do. But I'm going to give you an email before we go from Scooby Dad. You could call himself Shaggy because it wasn't Shaggy basically Scooby's dad. I don't think Shaggy was Scooby's Dad. Well, not his birth dad, but you know what I mean. Not biologically.

Yeah, no, that's true. Was Scooby Dumb related and Scrappy? Were they all part of the? Scooby Dumb were cousins. Yeah, and Scrappy were cousins. And I think we met an older. Was that Scooby Dumb was the older one? I don't know if I don't know if dumb was older

He sure got the Short end of that stick didn't he He really did Yeah We all hate Scrappy but Scooby Dumb was a bummer Oh gosh yeah If they would have made Scooby Dumb a regular That was the problem with Scrappy

Is they made Scrappy a regular Instead of just like a little one-off kind of thing But yeah no Scooby Scooby very often. Scooby apparently has daddy issues. That's what we've learned. So now we hear this email from Scooby Dad.

Who says? Dear Skungully and Biscotti. Cool. I don't know. Scungelly. Is this skunjili? Scunjili. I think.

But again, you know, not a great track record today. Yeah. It's usually me with these words. In episode 24 or 79, which would have been not too many days ago. Yeah. The 14th looks like.

you discussed, or you were discussing discussing Italian accents and played a couple of clips from NYPD Blue. That was not an Italian accent. It was a Brooklyn accent. Growing up on the Jersey Shore, we'd hear this from the Bernies or the Benes,

sorry, we would hear from the Benes, a term we used for the tourists that invaded every summer, and that was the accent that they had. Forget about it, he says. Oh, really? Oh, my God, that's hilarious. I think, yeah, it's a good point. But they are always Italian people doing the voice. So even if it's a Brooklyn accent,

they're Italian immigrants in Brooklyn. Almost always. Like, not always, but almost always. That's how they're portrayed. I'm not saying correctly portrayed, but that's how, like this dude in this show, very Italian. Like, full-blooded, full-blown,

let's-be-full Italian-Italian, this guy. And then he had that accent. So, yes, that's not an Italian accent. I don't, I didn't realize we were sort of suggesting that. we don't mean that oh gosh no no but italian guys with like street tough uh brooklyn accents and when they're over the top like that they drive me freaking nuts and i don't know why like the sopranos gets away with it yeah because there's some over the top stuff maybe it's because the overall quality of it is so good it doesn't matter but i think so and i just think that

it's like you know you could see one or two people being like that that are in the uh yeah that are in the new jersey mafia yeah true enough uh thanks for that email the email he used was what is that email? The morning stream at gmail.com is the address. The morning stream at gmail.com. You can also text this if you want. 801-47-1-0-4-62.

We've got some of those for next week. And that is going to do it for today's show. A reminder, we need your help over at patreon.com slash TMS. Without it, the show doesn't exist. Imagine a world without it entirely. It just doesn't exist. That's the world.

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Okay. Brian, let's get out of here. You got a song? I do have a song. This one is going out to Ryan Norda, aka Ryo Atemi, when he's in the chat room. Hello, Scratch and Bum. That's an easy one. It's my 44th birthday.

Oh, shit. Let's party. A little slow on the click take there. And it has been a great birthday. birthday week, which was way back on June 8th, by the way. Sorry. Just get into this one now. I do need requests for next week the last week of June. So if you've got requests, get him in. He says, let's see, a great first of hopefully many more Utah Tadpool meetups to watch Spider-Man. Oh, he went with you guys to see Spider-Man. That's awesome. Oh, yeah, Provo Ryan. Duh. Okay. I was, I never get his

nickname. I'm bad at this part. This is where I'm bad, you guys. I see you in person and I'm like, Oh, you're that guy. I don't know. Exactly. I'm horrible at that, too. Ryan's awesome. Let's see. If you could please play a cover of Billy Joel's The Downeaster, Alexa, and if I could

get some sausage for my big day, just seeing that that trigger it. Oh, very nice. I was going to trigger my echo device. He wanted to hear a cover of that song, which is named after Billy Joel's daughter. I'm not going to say the name again because I don't want to trigger everybody's thing. Well, I will see it one last time here. Here's a show of hands. from 2000 with their cover, from their album covers, Natch, of Billy Joel's The Downeaster, Alexa.

Nice. See you guys for all the other shows this weekend. We got Core. We got Film Sack. We got all kinds of stuff. So come back for that and we'll see you Monday. Well, I'm on the Down Easter, Alexa, and I'm cruising through Block Island Sound. I have charted a course to the vineyard.

but tonight I am Antucket bound I took on diesel back in Montauk yesterday and left this morning from the Bellin Gardner's Bay Like all the locals here I've had to sell my home Too proud to leave I worked my fingers to the bone So I could own my down-eastern Alexa And I go where the ocean is deep There are giants out there in the canyons

And the good captain can't fall asleep Well, I got bills to pay and children really close I know there's fish out there But where God only knows They say these waters I know what they used to be But I've got people back on land A count on me

So if you see my downeaster And if you work with the rod and the reel Tell my wife I am troll Atlantis and I still have my hands on the wheel. I was a faman like my father was before, but you can't make a living as a baby anymore There ain't much future for a man who works to see And there's no island left for islanders like me

Now I drive my down-easter, Alexa, more and I'm a little more and a little bit more and a little bit. More and more miles from shore every year. Since they told me I can't sell no strippers, and there's no luck in sword fishing here. There's the damn Superman. There's the damn Superman. There's the damn Superman.