The Morning Stream - TMS 2498: For the Hoard

Episode Date: July 25, 2023

Lawns are stupid & dumb. No PR, No HR, and No Lt Yar! Unbreakable Kimmy Shit. Frogpants: The Match Making Specialists! Stupid Pioneer Day. Alexander the Great can happen to anyone. Napoleon was Exiled without Tots! Gosh! Thanks a lot He-Man, YOU DICK! I'm so glad humans don't explode. (v) YOU CAN EAT RICE (but not if you're a pigeon). Prison Approved Podcast. Double Dip Firework Day. Bureaucratic Nimrods. The Whale Exploded. Oh The Huge Manatee. Dan Dan The Table Top Man 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.

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Alexander the Great can happen to anyone. Napoleon was exiled without tots. Gosh! Thanks a lot, he, man, you dick. I'm so glad humans can't explain. You can eat rice, but not if you're a pigeon. Prison-approved podcast. Double-dip-dip-firework day.

Bureaucratic Nimrods. The whale exploded. Oh, the huge manity. Dan, Dan, the Tabletop Man, and more on this episode of The Morning Stream. We're going to play a wonderful game called Who Is My Daddy and What Does She Do? He's my butt. The morning stream. Yes.

I'm not easy to get along with, am I? Good morning, everyone. Welcome to TMS. It's Tuesday, July 25th, 20203. I'm Scott Johnson. That's Brian Ibbin. Hi, Brian Ibbin. Yeah, look at this.

I mean, did July just fly by, or is it just me? I thought, look, I thought June was fast. uh i was wrong about june july is some kind of maniac i don't get it it's totally true yeah and i and the weird bit is it should feel slow to me because this was the month early in the month the fourth through the sixth or seventh or whatever it was that we were sick and had no water like that should have slowed time down and made everything feel eternal no yeah still feels like the month just flew by like some kind of bad out of hell and i don't like it one bit no sir i don't yeah yeah i don't like it i don't like it i don't like it. Look, I'm not asking for much in this life. I just would like time to stop

ticking like it's on fire. Like we have, what do we such a hurry for? I know. I know. Slow down everybody. The way things are going to go from now on as we get older, Scott, is that we're going to feel like, because I heard, you know, always heard my parents complaining about how it felt like time was going so fast. And I was felt like, oh my God, it's going so slow. Right. Remember when you thought three months out of school was an eternity and you couldn't waiting to get going, and you were just going to be there forever. No, three months is zero nothing. It's nothing. Two years is nothing. Everything's nothing. Nothing. It's nothing. What are we even doing? Yeah, I know, Chad. I bring up time sometimes. All right, calm down. Sometimes. Let's get on with the things at hand, though, so we can be part of time, not, you know, not against it all the time. Let's contribute to time and not take away from it. I'm happy to say that we had a miracle, a Christmas miracle here at the house. Oh, nice. A Christmas

and July miracle. Yep, a July Christmas miracle happened and that was that we finally figured out what the hell was wrong with our sprinklers. Totally separate

from our other water issue. Yeah, yeah. We couldn't figure out why one station was like dribbling. Other ones had perfect pressure and other stations were like freaking out and kind of being both

at the same time somehow. We just couldn't figure out what's going on. And we've had three different people come and look at it and go, like we had one guy, a neighbor who does this for a living. He's like,

oh, I'd love to help you out. And can I come over there and help you out? I'm like, sure. come on over so he comes over and he looks at it he goes or before he says anything he says to me ah this is nothing you're gonna you know you'll be surprised how easy this stuff is just just sit and watch you know and he comes over and he does stuff for about 45 minutes or an hour and by the time he's done he's like I don't know what the hell you got going here so I was like not easy huh

nope not so he didn't do it another guy didn't do it or couldn't figure it out and the only other way to figure it out was dig stuff up and it was going to cost more and I'm like well let's before we do that let's get somebody who kind of really knows. So the guy we got was Kim's brother-in-law, Devon. I guess he's my brother-in-law, too, somehow, through marriage. Sure. That was going to say, that's, uh...

Yeah. I actually introduced him to Kim's sister. Oh, really? He and I worked together forever ago, and then he was working in the warehouse of this company I was in sales for, and I, this would have been, oh, gosh, 2009, 98, something like that. And, uh, I introduced them and they got married. And he's very handy kind of dude, you know, knows how to do stuff and did sprinkling with his brother for a business for a long, long time.

So he knows this stuff. Yesterday was the 24th. Utah celebrates a stupid Pioneer Day. I only say it's stupid because your fireworks kept me up all night, you bastards. Two in a month. What do you? So it's such a two-for. They need to make that.

That's one of those days that they could say, we're going to do this on the last Saturday of the month or the second and last Saturday of the month or something like that. So that it's not a work day for most people. the next morning completely 1,000% if that's possible agree it's not possible but I do wish to increase my percentage of agreement but anyway it was gnarly and I don't like how we get to double dip in fireworks and the rest of the country doesn't it just annoys me but anyway so he's got the day off because a lot of locals get the day off not us though we work you know you and I we do what we got to do so devon comes over and devon says I'm fixing this today I don't

care what happens. And he brought his son who's now 16, 15, 16. Big, big, big, uh, heap and helping of a boy. He's got the all kinds of muscles now and he's working out and, you know, so he'll be good for any kind of lifting or digging or whatever. So they come over and he figures it out. Basically, when they built the house, so this is like a 10 year mystery for us since we've been here 10 years now. When they built the house, they tied, you're supposed to have these stations separate. You have the one branch out place. Well, the way it works at our house, have one out front and one in the back and I forget what those are called but you know the underground turn it on things what are those oh yeah you've got two of those yeah we have two of those

set up which should you should mean that we've got good you know better overall distribution because you're going to have better pressure in the back better pressure in the front like the idea of having two is a little unusual but it does benefit you if you have that anyway they put one in front one in back fine no problem but then whoever ran all of the piping for this connected them at some point and did so in like a spider web sort of way. So it's all skewampus going off in different directions. Basically had to tear that whole junction out in the two points and then repipe all of that. But he did all this so fast.

He had all this shit in his truck. It was great. He did it like while we were on the show. He did it. And by the time I got upstairs after the show was maybe another half an hour they were here, but then they were done. It was great. And of course, they're not charging us because they're family and they were just being nice. which was really nice of him.

He owed us anyway because Kim does shit for them all the time. Anyway, it's fixed. So now everything works right, the pressure's right, all that lawn that we had to let kind of die a little bit during July because we couldn't figure out what was wrong with it. That's all getting, it's going to start to come back. Yeah, it's just sucking it in like all night. Last night, it just sucked in the rain or the pipes.

Anyway, long and the short of it, all it takes is somebody who knows what the frick there. doing you know now that you say that we do have two and they're just side by side in in connecting bins tangent bins so oh weird um yeah we have one that goes in the front and then one that goes to the back and then it goes to our rachio um oh we're doing that too we have that same brand do you like you like how that's worked out you probably love it yeah the fact that it's like oh it's raining today we're going to skip your uh you know you would normally have a watering today but we're going to skip it because you're getting, you know, 0.31 inches of rain,

so we know we can skip. It is pretty cool. That thing's smart enough. And it's also smart enough to know when the forecast got it wrong and didn't rain. It doesn't stupidly just not go. It goes, oh, well, it didn't rain. We're going to go ahead and go. Like, it's a really cool system, but we had it tied to this nightmare that was never ride,

dribble over here, spray too much over here. Is it a broken head? No, it's not. Is it a pebble in there somehow? No. It was never anything we thought it was supposed to be. be now that it's all worked out we had to go do the you know you make photos of the zones for the app yeah for the app yeah we did all that again and i think we're good i think we're good now

what's funny is the other thing i love about it though by the way is that is that you know you can be the first the first time we run it every year we have to figure out if there are any zones that you know the frozen because uh some of the pipes were put a little bit too close to the surface so If there was any water in there, it'll crack and there'll be stuff that has to get replaced. So I can actually go and stand in the safe area right by a zone with the app and go, all right, run this for one minute. And then I check and see what the sprinklers are doing. It's like, all right, these are good. Turn it off.

Go to the next one. I don't have to keep running back and forth to the garage and that sort of thing. Yeah, same deal. We really like that thing. But as it turned out, it was like putting lipstick on a pig because what was under ground was apt. The problem was already deep in. But good now. So, uh, good.

Also, you get a break on your water. I didn't know we were getting this, but by having that system, that app and everything, they give you a break on your water prices because it saves so much. Something efficient. Yeah. Oh, I wonder if they do it here too. They should, right? The house one.

We get money back from the, um, the heater or utilities people for when we, we, we, because we have a smart thermostat, like you guys have one too, I'm sure. Yeah, that one, that one, that one we, we did get a discount with a smart I'm a stat here. I'm just looking to see Rachio Rebates program. Maybe that's it. Oh, it might be. I don't know if you're maybe it, maybe it comes down to your, your local utilities thing has to have a deal.

I don't know. I don't know how they do it. Yeah, maybe. But we get some break on that. But it won't make up for the 65,000 gallons. No, probably not. Probably not. Probably not going to make a difference.

Yeah. So it's one of those deals. But anyway, sprinkler hell, we're out of it now. Kim, I've never seen. him so happy she's so relaxed like she was stressing about this pretty bad because we were thinking great the lawn's already turning brown because it's the hottest summer on record and we couldn't we haven't been able to properly water anything the HOA gets pissy we rather part of me was just like this tear it out and zira scape at all very good well done well done scott i got to enunciate that

for people but uh i want to we thought about doing that we may still do that you have to have some percentage of plants out there no matter what like Russian sage or something it's because of your HOA yeah they gotta have some that's so dumb but anyway if we do if we end up doing that I still want to do that because I think lawns are dumb

lawns are stupid and dumb and they are a colossal waste of water for very little benefit like all you're doing is just saying hey look at me in my cool green lawn and yay yay for water yeah exactly my line's better oh it's yours is looking

Oh, no, I need to increase how much I water and blah, blah, blah. No, I need to spend more money. Yeah, it's not my favorite. So unnecessary. Completely agreed. A couple little patches for the dogs. That's all you need. There you go.

See? Especially now, I don't have little kids anymore, although little kids visit. But I don't need a big yard. I don't need nothing. I just need to not spend big, large amounts of money on water that was just to make something green. That's lame, you know? One day we're going to have water wars and we're going to all. be pissed that we shot all that down into the earth and just said there you go water

totally uh speaking of uh stupid stuff i think i have to go do jury duty i was really hoping oh really you get your you get your information back huh yeah so last time i did this i got nothing back time before that i forgot about it never submitted never heard anything this time i'm like all right i'm going to send it in like i did last time but i'm really adamant that i am the sole provider in this home that I don't have a lot of time, that time off means a real ding to my business, blah, blah, blah. And I did all that. And I was real, I was just real transparent about it, right? I wasn't making stuff up. Did they just send back a letter that was like just them going, shrug? Yeah. Or an animated gif of a guy rubbing his eyes saying

or whatever. Yeah. Right. Yes. Right. Well, anyway, so, uh, I got emails, but this is the weird thing. I get this, I get two emails. First one says, we received your, your, your, your, you're thing you're going to receive sometime after this email another email that will have a link to a thing and you're going to want to have this number from this email to put into that email so that it's the right number so you can fill out the rest of this form and i'm like oh my gosh really another the funny thing is the email that was supposed to come after actually came first so that was really confusing because it asked for this number i didn't have yet but then this said oh no you'll be getting an email that'll ask for this number i'm like okay this is who made this who's who's the

nomad who made this form. Anyway, so I get all that, and I go to fill it out, and it's kind of the same exact form, weirdly. Even though it said the purpose is you're now next step. We've gotten your first form. We approve it. This is the one I hand wrote and sent back in the old-fashioned way. And they said, now you've got to fill this out again.

And then I'm like, okay, why am I doing this twice? I don't know, but okay, fine, I'll do it twice. And now I wait for getting called. Sounds like the government. Yeah. So inefficient, dude. It's typical. Yeah.

I mean, who's... How soon is this... That part, they were not at all specific about. Oh, really? So they didn't say like, you know, coming up in August or end of July or... No, they essentially just said that I'm on call. It's kind of what it... I can't remember the exact wording, but it felt like it was like, it could be any time.

And if it's for any amount of time, it's... may only be for a day or two, possibly a week. And it's like, okay, but what week, what day? Yeah. I kind of need to know all that. And that's why the forum just felt kind of redundant. Like, I already answered all this. And so I don't freaking know, dude.

I don't know what to expect. That's really weird. I mean, usually the first thing that I get is the car that says, you've been selected for jury duty, and it's going to be on this date and call the night before and find out if you're going to have to come in. And, you know, the first thing you know. before you even have to go or not is see that seems really efficient to me

you were told here's the possible date are you ready to go done exactly yeah oh sorry I'm going to be out of town bummer yeah I don't get it dude it's weird yeah someone in the chat says in Davis County they put you on call for three months and they

contact you there if it's a trial so Davis County though is what north or maybe that's south of me I came remember what county so it's a county by county thing huh well anyway we'll see what happens i hope and doesn't happen at all i don't want it look you got plenty of prospective jurors who have who would love they would love to take a few days off of the jobs they have and and still be paid okay i don't have that option all right i don't have i don't have

i don't even have PR i don't have anything you don't have a backup no no it's just me so knock it off and quit bugging me all right uh we got one final note here about persia you know we were talking about when were they persia when weren't they oh yeah yeah right all that iran ran yeah here's the great text we received from an anonymous uh listener the text that or where they sent it was 801 471 0462 and they said subject to persia what happened alexander the great happened smiley face yeah things things you know it's like ah why couldn't my history teacher just of some things up for that eloquently. I mean, it could have been, you know, a five-day class instead of an entire semester. Yeah, yeah, right? What a waste?

What was I doing in high school for four freaking years? What was I doing in college? Oh, Alexander the Great happened? Great. It's all I need to know. Yeah. I want to be the answer to every problem we've got. Right.

Yeah. Well, what started the French Revolution? Well, Alexander the Great started it. Okay. That's just how work. Exactly. How did World War II start? Well, Franz Ferdinandand.

happened. Speaking of which, I'm actually excited. Yeah, not the band. I'm excited about that Napoleon movie coming out. Oh, yeah. Ridley Scott and Joaquin Phoenix, right? Joaquin Phoenix, right.

First time they've worked together since Gladiator, which is crazy. It's been 23 years since that, so that's crazy. And the reason I say all this is because some people are mad because they think this will glorify Napoleon, even though he was a horrible tyrant. And I would say this.

First of all, you haven't seen it yet, so who knows what Ridley Scott's plans are. Right, exactly. I don't know that they're glorifying him at all. But I, why wouldn't you want to get historical? Yeah. Hopefully, these things are usually fascinating. God, I hope Abba is doing the score, the soundtrack.

What if John Heater narrated it from Napoleon Dynamite? That'd be funny. And then he was exiled. And he didn't finish his tots. It's like the best freaking island ever. Yeah. I'd watch that. Yeah.

I would totally watch that. Anyway, thanks for the update. We appreciate it. The Alexander the Great happened is, we should put that on T-shirts. I don't know. But just that. Alexander the Great happened. Yeah, that's it.

And then that's it. No other, yeah. Let people ask. So what? What are they going to know? Yeah. By the way, you know where that name Napoleon Dynamite came from? No. Oh, I didn't realize we had a cool origin here. What do we have?

It's a very cool origin story. It came from, it was another alternate name used by a singer who was born, Declan Patrick McManus. Oh, good Lord. All right. But used the, based on his, what was it, based on his singing style? I can't remember what made him choose the name he's most closely associated with, which is Elvis Costello. Oh, no way. They didn't know that. And another one of his alter egos is Napoleon Dynamite. Do you think the Hesses were just real big fans?

And they were like, we're going to include this. They claim, and I don't know how you can possibly claim this, that they came up with the name Napoleon Dynamite and didn't hear about it somewhere else. That seems a little close. And it's super duper hinky. it's uh yeah we should ask wendy about this because they used to play board games with the hesses yeah this is before they this is before they made like movies and we're big yeah so they windy and adam played played board games with them and the jeopardy guy um who's the host now um the smart guy oh jennings ken jennings so is ken jennings my sister

and her husband this may have been during college and then the hesses and they're all locals or they were all, at the time, they all went to BYU, they were all out here. And I should ask her if they've ever heard any tales around that table. Like, it's been a while, so she may not remember this at all. Maybe they were listening to Elvis Castello, and

yeah, apparently he used it on his 1986 album, Blood and Chocolate, although he'd used the pseudonym on a single B-side as early as he's 1982. filmmaker Jared Hess states that he was not aware of Castello's use of the name until two days before the end of shooting. when he was informed by a teenage extra.

That is wild to me, if that's true. He later said, had I known that name was used by anybody else prior to shooting the whole film, it definitely would have been changed. I listened to hip-hop, dude. It's a pretty embarrassing coincidence. Come on now. Yeah, that doesn't sound right. Also, why, why, I feel like after, what was the one with Jack Black, the wrestler one?

Yeah, Lachio Libre. Elibre. It feels like after that, Jared and Jeruka Hess or whatever her last name is, Jerusha, or first name. Anyway, I feel like they stopped making movies, basically. They really did, yeah. Let's see. Known for. What is there? What do we got for director here?

Well, overnight, I'll say they've got a Minecraft movie coming out in 2025. What? Yeah. He's directing the Minecraft movie? Okay. All right. Film of the unicorn coming out next year. So, and that's all Jared.

Jerusha did a short film in 2020 called 95 Senses. Okay. So maybe they've been busy working and I just didn't. Did you know that they directed murder among the Mormons? No. I watched that and recommended it here. I know, yeah. I had no idea that Jared has had anything.

Director and executive producer, Jared. That's a great doc, by the way. That's Tina watched it. Yeah, she really liked it. It's really good. When I was growing up, I think I'd said it then, but when I was growing up, this was a massive story. It was so big.

The bombings and all that. It was nuts. He directed some Last Man on Earth episodes, two episodes. So he's been doing stuff. He's been doing it. Yeah, a lot of stuff. All right. Masterminds, the movie Masterminds.

I didn't see this. I did. And that was actually pretty funny. It was really nutty. Owen Wilson, Kristen Whig, Jason Sadecas, Zach Gallifine. Yeah, it's a big cast. You know, great cast. Kristen Wig and a blonde wig.

Yeah. Yeah. Oh, and Kate McKinnon shows up in there. That's cool. Yeah. Because, of course, she does. Leslie Jones. Kind of want to see it now.

It's Jason Siddakis, Owen Wilson, and a bunch of Saturday at Live, people. Oh, it was produced by Lauren Michaels, so there you go. Well, there's your problem. I've got a whole bunch of actors I'd like to recommend for your film. But I would love it to hear the two of them working on an original film again and not just working for the system, you know? I don't know. Yeah, well, it sounds like the, um, this micro nations is a new, uh, Jack Black thing. So it's going to be a new retaming of Jared Hess and, uh, and Jack Black.

I'm very interested in this then. You bet. Okay. Exciting stuff. Well, you'll have to wait until 2027. Can't wait. Oh, my Lord. That's a long time.

Yeah. Uh, all right. Well, it's time for some news, everybody. We like to keep you informed here, and we know that you have lots of choices for your morning news, and you've chosen this one. So we're going to try not to let you down. Enjoy. Good morning. Good morning, everybody.

In the news this morning, good morning. It's the news, and it's brought to you by. Stepping on two men in the dark, making Skeletor happy. See this guy here? This is two man, right? Yeah. Some people call them two. Two face or two head.

Two head. Oh, shit. What's it called two? Ah, whatever. there's another name for the guy but anyway two man which is basically a two-headed alien looking dude that did all at Skeletor's bullshit

he was on he was laying on this carpet over here where I have a Han Solo and Carbonite carpet oh yeah right yep I forgot it really ties the room together it does and I forgot I forgot to tell the A word

to turn the light on first and I stepped right on this guy and it hurt like hell so thanks a lot to man you dick people too I'm sure not quite as bad as stepping on a Lego but I better hurt

yeah it hurt plenty Kim did a thing where she stepped on a rock outside and it went right to her heel like a I don't know what kind of bruise you call that

Dr. Tolbert maybe you can pipe in but it's like a pinpointed bruise in her heel that has hurt so bad she can't walk out

it just hurts thinking about it man yeah sounds awful right deep deep tissue bruising foot bullshit, it sucks. I feel bad.

Yeah. Anyway, let's talk about this Kentucky man. Sure. Kentucky man. Kentucky man in the news. He found 700 gold coins buried in his farm and turns out it's valued at around $2 million. Wow. Nice. I would like this in my life.

Yeah. I feel like it's not a lot to ask. Just have a bunch of coins. Why couldn't they have found that when they were digging up your line, right? Yeah. I mean, oh my gosh, can you imagine? after all the shit we went through, it'd be great.

Although those guys would keep it to themselves. They'd find it and run off with it is what they would do. Let's get out of here. I don't care. Just leave the sign. We don't care about the sidewalk sign. Just go. Just go. Well, it says here last month,

the man found more than 700 rare coins from the Civil War era in a field that's not, has not been identified. The man found U.S. coin dollars, gold dollars, rather. Gold Liberty coins and a $2.5 dollar coin. Two and a half dollar coin. Weird. with the statue of Liberty's face on it. And there are also a bunch of $10 and $20 coins.

Boy, we were big into coins during the Civil War. That was a big deal. Apparently we were, yes. All 700 coins are worth about $2 million, the collection, which is being called, quote, the Great Kentucky Horde. I could think of a better name than that. Yeah, the Great Kentucky Horde.

I don't love it. They're basically saying, what should the Netflix series be called when they talk about this. Yeah. Yeah. What can, what? I hate how right you are about this.

That is absolutely what they would do. There's no way it's any other name. That's the name. Yeah. The Great Kentucky Horde, now on Netflix. Comprises coins that date between 1840 and 1863. Experts said, people used to bury their money during the Civil War.

The man wants to remain anonymous. The coins are now for sale at government.com. Oh, that's horrible. I don't like that at all. I don't like the name Govment. I understand it. It's like government, but it sounds like government. Yeah, government.

Not a fan. Okay, so let's see what this is. You just auction coins here? Let's see. Oh, yeah, it's a Norway silver eagle horde. There's another horde. Wow.

Maybe that's just, you know. Yeah, it's just automatically a horde. When you find a bunch of gold in your backyard, It's a horde. So they've got, okay, so here you go, Brian. AD 335 to 361 is the era. Okay. Centenologous Constantaneous 2.

Sure. It's a gladiator coin. But it's only 69.95. Oh, really? With a period in the middle? Yeah. Oh, there you go. Well, that, I could afford that.

I feel like maybe that's some bullshit. You know what? What are you talking about GovMint.com? Yeah, GovMint. There's some coins with holes in it. I like that. Canadians represent. Maybe these are fake?

Are these? I mean, it's also bronze. It's not gold. Well, that's true. But it just seems like something that old would be like. They just have a ton of them that, yeah, that does seem like it plums in a museum. Like, you know, we've. We've tried, we've given them to all the museums that want them.

We have a thousand left. How about, here's an ancient Mesopotamian hanging gardens of Babylon, Dracma, for $19.95. This can be yours. That doesn't sound right. It's a steal. So we got any coin collectors in the listening audience? You guys pipe in on why that seems so cheap.

It just seems so cheap. It must be, it usually is because there's so many of something, right? It must be, but still, I would think, I mean, it's, you know, it's, it's like not even, it's barely coin-shaped, it's so damn old. Yeah. Second century BCE, Faso, silver, tecrahedram deniasis, I don't know, some of these names. Dionysus? Dionysus, yeah, that's it. Silver King of Pentacles coin from 1240.

Why is that only 24 bucks? I don't get it. Yeah. How? people look at our side and say how can you sell these coins for so cheap we're crazy at

government.com it says Hobbsdog in the chat says it's not cheap it's overpriced I mean maybe so I guess these were worth probably pennies then and now they're worth 50 bucks

that is a lot but I just thought things like this would be like hey spend 10 grand on this one coin I don't know why I thought that I don't know things If they're even allowed to sell them, right? Yeah. Yeah.

I don't know things. These are things I don't know. Now, that surprised me too. Oh, Chad. Here's a picture of his coins he found. It's linked there. Oh, yeah, that little... I like his arrangement of those, too.

Like... Pain in the ass. Yeah. This looks like fun, actually. Can the video play? I'm going to put all these coins in a big circle. Then I'm going to arrange these all by size and make him in a little arc above it. And then I'm going to do another big size down below it.

But please keep me anonymous. Thank you. All right. Let's get to, we'll go from gold to a whale. Okay. And I don't mean the kid who buys all the V bucks on Fortnite and they call him the whale. I don't mean that. And you're not talking about Brendan Fraser.

No. Most recent movie that still is not available streaming, much to my disappointment. No, definitely not him or his ilk. Yeah, why isn't that streaming? the director Aronovsky yeah right said that he

he wants people well he wanted people to go and enjoy it in theater so he said I'm going to keep it out of streaming for that reason for as long as possible but then I don't know why now that obviously you can't go to the theater and see the whale why it's not why it's still not available for it's really weird to me

yeah I would kind of like to see it so I can see this performance everyone ramed oh I definitely want to see it yeah we've had that on our like just watch You know, let me know when it's available for such a long time. Yeah. Well, all right. No news on that news.

Anyway, this whale carcass. Yes. Bringing you the important stuff here. The whale carcass that exploded off the coast of California. I don't know if you've ever seen video of this process. I remember the old, like that old video of humanity. Oh, no, it's raining, fleshy whale meat down on everybody. Yeah, that guy freaking out back in the 70s, I guess.

guess, or 60s or something? Something like that, 60s or 70s, yeah. Well, this one, let's see, pull up some images here. Oh, there is video. Hold on. Let's see what we got. Oh, no. Oh, God.

Look at that. Like, that capturing the moment of... Of impact. Oh, yeah, there goes. That's a shame. It's part of life. It's a circle of life, everybody. It's a circle of a life.

But, man, I'm so glad. Humans don't explode. Yeah. I'll bet that reeked. Did they... Ugh. He's just a dead floating, you know. Oh, the guy just, the guy even says,

oh my God, it's probably going to explode too just before it goes. He was, he predicted the future better than third eagle ever could. It says here, whales can be the largest creatures in the world. The blue whale takes the crown measuring up to 90 feet long and coming in 180 tons. Is that what this was? anyway. Even small wells are massive compared to humans. And anyway, when their body dies, they start to decompose like everything else. Their thick skin and fat layers hold everything on the inside.

So all the gases start to build up. This is going to be us when we go. We're going to be like in a chair, an old easy chair. No one will visit us for like four weeks. And we're like, where's Scott? Where's grandpa, old man Scott? Oh, I don't know. We haven't checked in on them.

Let's go see. And then I'll be there. As soon as you walk in the door, oh, he might explain. out. Bam! Hoof! And just like all of his, I don't know if you watch the rest of that video,

but like all of the whale's innards went out the explosion opening. So it's like intestines like blol-l-l-l-l-l-l-l-l-l-l-l-l-cloth. And they just keep coming. They just keep coming. Yeah. They have a lot of, they have a lot of guts. Oh, look at that. I'll spare the chat that.

That's nasty. Yeah. Hope you're not eating breakfast there, chat room. Yeah. Sorry. But imagine your boats at this. close to this weird occurrence. Must be something else, man.

All right, well, from, from life, we go to death, and from death we go to life. A bunch of fish are going to eat that and live and be happy. It's the circle of life. All right. Here's that fun story. Have you ever seen like a whale up close outside of a zoo or a water park or not water park, whatever they're called? Yeah, like SeaWorld or something

Like seeing one out so well Yeah, when we went on our Alaskan cruise We saw whales, but not up close Like it was, they were breaching, but it was from a distance Oh, that's why we did that too, I forgot I was trying to think of I'd ever seen a real whale in the wild And I'm like, nope, can't think of it. Nope, just last year we did.

We saw them out on the outside of the cruise ship. Yeah, swimming. Yeah, just swimming along saying, Hey, you guys want a show, watch this. Yeah, yeah. I think they liked it because we also saw our boat venting what looked like old food or maybe sewage. We didn't know what.

Chum. Something. Definitely chum the water. Not intentional chum. Yeah. They may have all shown up for that. I don't know. But I remember thinking, that's probably pretty good.

If you got like all the food that wasn't eaten on a run of the, what do you call it, the buffet. Boy, you're probably a happy whale when that stuff gets shit out the back of the boat. I think so, yeah. Yeah, I don't know. I mean, if they, if that is what, I think they, don't they just prefer like the plankton and the fish when they just open their mouths and then swim and everything just goes into their mouth? Maybe they don't want like somebody's leftover grisly steak bits. I think you're right. I think probably.

Last night's corn on the cob. I'll bet they're like ducks. You know how ducks will eat your bread, but they shouldn't because it bloats them and kills them and they can't get nutrition? and rice like would you throw rice at a wedding how they said don't do that anymore i think i think humans once again we just we go out there and we put a bunch of food in the water and then the whales like it and it's not good for him you know what are we doing how are we doing that yeah yeah somebody should ask the whales someone asked the whales right hurry up before the giant chocolate bar from space comes and hovers over the planet.

That's right, exactly. And then there's Spock and Kirk in their 80s boombox disco outfit. When are we watching that for Film Sack? I don't know why we haven't. It seems impossible that we haven't done it. I don't know what's wrong with this. We saw five. We've seen four.

Or no, we've seen three. We've seen all the padding of Star Trek. Everything before and after Star Trek in film, I think we've. done, maybe not, maybe not Genesis or generations. We maybe didn't do that. If we didn't do generations, we should do that too. Yeah. Anyway, I-Course says the pigeon rice thing is fake, is it? Oh, really?

I mean, if a pigeon gorgees on rice being thrown at a wedding, doesn't seem good for the pigeon. All right, Snopes. This is what you come here to to TMS to learn about is rice. We provide learning. moments. We do, exactly.

Let's see. Uh, oh my gosh. I like your swear right here. May 24th, 2022, Snopes article, because I did a search for rice. Yeah. No, Rice Krispies did not announce that Pop

is now a trans woman. What? I'm sorry, what? Is that a thing? That's apparently, that was apparently a thing. Did somebody? Oh my gosh, that's great. Some of these are really funny just on the face of them. Like this one, no, the CDC has not endorsed the use of powerful drugs by men who want to breastfeed.

Or, let's see. Where is it? Because players had explodes. Does this video show a pigeon saluting Vladimir Putin? Did the Simpsons predict Twitter? Redder's rebrand to X? Oh, here it is, God, finally found it. Is throwing rice at weddings bad for birds?

An old rumor roans that discarded rice eaten by birds can expand in their tiny birdie stomachs and kill them. This is a 2000 article. Okay. False. Let's see. When birds eat the raw rice, they can't digest it when he gets in their stomach expands, cause them have violent deaths, blah, blah, blah, is what they tried to claim. However, local ornithologists said they've never heard of or seen birds dying after consuming rice thrown at weddings.

Wow. Okay. So unproven, really, is what they're saying. Unproven, yes, exactly. It's probably still not good to give them rice. Just trying to find like a nice little sound bite sentence that kind of sums it up. Carl Wagner, a former top official with the Connecticut Audubon Society, who now heads the State Council on Environmental Quality, also question the need for this bill to prevent people from throwing rice i've never heard of

anything like that ever and i read an awful lot of bird-oriented literature he said quite the comeback senator state senator or whatever you're right and way to make sure that you're never invited to another party ever yeah no kidding right i read a lot of bird oriented literature what do you do i i stand over there i don't talk to people like you goodbye that's right oh i think somebody's calling me. There is a wild one I just clicked on randomly here. There was a rumor that Harrison Ford

had a cameo in E.T. and it was cut. And I thought, that's not true. He's not an E.T. It is true. He's absolutely in it. Yeah. Was he another, like, was he another dude like Keys, another government agent wanting to wanting to make E.T. dry

out and leave him in a drain. Well, it says here, eventually agreed to shoot the cameo with Thomas. Oh, he plays an uptight school principal who scolds Elliot after the frog escape scene thing. After the, yeah, after he kisses Erica Aleniac. Yeah, I remember that. Hey, I've got audio. Let's see.

Because you don't see his face in it. That alien belongs in a museum. Let's see if this comes through. I don't know. We say you don't know why you did these things. I'll never do them. again. I see you fine young people from

good homes. Every advantage your whole life laid out in front of you. That's totally him, dude. Wow, that's really cool. Weird scene though, because I, whenever you, when you see a movie that's like a million years old and you love

it and you've seen it a hundred times, and then someone shows you a cut scene and it doesn't, it makes your brain fart. That's why I didn't like that director's, quote unquote, director's cut of aliens because all that stuff with her mom and the yes and like the whole colony stuff

yeah really through me because I'm so not used to that I can't watch that extra stuff it just throws me you can't do it to me to me you have your original thing and that's the thing and you're done anyway we learned a little something cool I know I like that I like learning learn's fun like learning that learning that cocaine dumped in the sea off of Florida this might explain why that whale carcass is so

messed up cocaine dumped in the sea off Florida could have crazy consequences if the sharks eat it according to scientists so Bobby listen in on this one buddy Says the writer of the next sci-fi channel movie Yep

Cocaine shark Shark Cognado Shark Cocaine I guess there's bear So maybe why not shark yeah Let's just do it Maybe that already exists It may, something's ringing a bell that it may exist already.

Someone done a cocaine shark? I think somebody just made up a cocaine shark movie poster. I could have sworn that was a thing. Oh, really? Yeah, but maybe I'm wrong. Maybe it was a fake thing. Hold on, I just want to look real quick. Show cocaine shark.

It's all about this story, so this, I can't. DJ says there's a cocaine shark movie on Tubi. Oh, shit. For them this year, this is real. sorry everyone. Mark Polonia directed cocaine shark 23 a mafia drug lord has unleashed a new highly addictive stimulant on the streets called H225 derived from sharks held captive in a secret lab

and which causes monstrous side effects after an explosion and leak at the lab an army of mutated bloodthirsty sharks and other creatures are set loose on the world as a small band of people try to stop the carnage. Wow. It's got a whopping 2.1 People, because low budget. Yeah. Yeah, there's a reason. Oh, my God.

These special effects are fantastic. Hold on a sec. I'm going to give you a link. Do you have the trailer? Is it the trailer? It's the trailer. I'm going to just let you watch a certain part of this. This is, wait until you see.

I think we'll call it Bat Spiner. Oh, did I not share the start at 15 seconds? 15. All right. Whoa, let me turn that down. Okay, 15 seconds. Hold on. I'm pulling it up. I'm going to the 13 just to be safe.

All right, Chad. Let's see if YouTube kills us for this or not. I'll pause video. There we go. Okay, watch this. Whoops. ...ated by its side effects. Oh, my gosh.

There's been a change of plans. Change of plans. Because of the lab explosion. This looks terrible. Oh, my God. We had an accident at the lab. An explosion. Lobster legs and a hammerhead.

Oh, my God. Swimming out there. Hold on. Oh, my gosh, dude. We got to get that. That looks so bad. That's horrendous. Holy Moses.

All right. So we take it back. Cocaine shark does exist. Maybe, you know, maybe you could invest in After Effects. I don't know. No kidding. Or actors that have photos on IMDB. How about that?

Right, exactly. 2.1 out of 10. That's low. That amazes me that people still gave it two. Somebody still gave it two stars. Somebody somewhere. Let's see. This review says,

not really about what you think it is, despite still being decent enough to enjoy. I don't like that. Oh, really? What is it about? Is it about man's toying with elements that he shouldn't be toying with? Or is it about a shark that eats some cocaine, grows, some lobster legs that makes the eastern seaboard blow up.

There must be some market for this because there's under this where it says more like this, there's cocaine cougar, which is not a 40-something-year-old lady. Doll shark. I mean, it is, but that's just not what the movie is about. Yeah, exactly. We got doll shark and sharkula. It was like a vampire shark. Sharkyla.

Jurassic part or Jurassic Shark 3. Shark side of the moon. Oh my gosh, dude. What else? Is there anything else here? And then for some reason, Star Trek 3, the search for Spock is on this list. Nice. Wow. Okay.

People who liked us also liked. Yeah. Well, their worry is that sharks will eat this stuff, this cocaine. Oh, yeah. Back to the news story. Is that what you're saying? Yeah, yeah, yeah. And smugglers left tons of the cocaine, spelled T-O-N-N-E-S.

So this must be a sky.com article. Tons. 64,000 kilograms, or 14,100-something pounds of cocaine in the Caribbean. Marine biologist Tom, the blowfish herd. Woo! I like that, Nickade. I liked his work with hoodie. Yeah, he's great, right?

And University of Florida environmental scientist Tracy Finera studied sharks off the Florida Keys to see if the drugs were having an impact. During one dive to observe behavior, a great hammerhead, you know, the big hammerhead style. Yeah, I like those. Like that CG one we just saw on that horrible thing. Exactly, the one with the lobster legs, yeah. Horrible. A species which normally avoids humans came straight to the team and appeared to be swimming wunkily. Oh, wunkily.

Wonkily. Uh-huh. That's when you eat a certain candy and you can fly now or something. It's when you look like you're about to fall, but you do a somersault and then you stand perfectly straight in your purple suit, cane, and top hat. Trying not to picture a shark doing that, but I can't help it. I am. I am picturing it. All right.

That's your news for this week, or today. There's more this week, everybody. But your news for today is concluded. We're going to take a break. When we come back from this break, we're going to have Dan, Dan, the Tabletop Man here. Yes, that's right. Part of our shakeup of who's on, when, and what. Today we have Dan, and it's his monthly appearance.

So that'll happen here. shortly, but we got to play some music to sort of break things up, and I know Brian is really into that stuff, so he probably brought something. I did. Yeah, Ottawa-based punk outfit, the fly-downs. They've got a brand new single that's called Fabric of Humanity, which

spots lights, the spotlights, the dark side of the world as we know it while trying to find the light at the end of the tunnel. Love that. These guys have been making music since 2016, directly under the flight path of incoming planes. Five years later, they'd add a fourth member, completing the current lineup, and this is

kind of like described as a mix of melodic pop and skate punk. Here the band is the flydowns. Here's the brand new single, Fate, I'm sorry, fabric of humanity. When the fabric of humanity is hanging by your threat in desperate times, I wonder why.

The scenes are all pan-the-gake their message to the world who ought to die. The past us bright, I guess it shows. The death is like a million vacant fries. I want to see your message carved in stone. The ground wakes, the air shakes, my brothers tell me that it is here. And I know it's somewhere the moment in all. becomes clear With the stitch is torn

And it seems stretch gone The hope we had turns into fear But don't worry I And still right by your side If our fists become formality, we'll buckle from the stress no end inside can't give up All that ever happens is

We'll show it in our temperature is known Nobody knows how cold I am I'm with the wall until the end of time I don't want to face it on my own The ground quakes The air shakes My bugs tell me that it is near And I know

It's somewhere The moment it all becomes clear With the stitches torn And the scenes rest gone The hope we had turns into fear But don't worry I by your side Yeah, we don't know when, and we don't know how to walk away.

Yeah, we don't know when, and we don't know how it's all. I'm in Yeah, we don't know when, and we don't know how to run away So there, I'm Granny Goodwitch, the only human in the forest. Yes! Did you recognize that yes, by the way?

I'm going to play it for you again. See if you recognize it. Yes! Do you know who that is? No, who is that? That's from episode three of, uh, your honor. Your Honor. Yeah.

Is that Cranston? That's Cranston telling his son. His son is basically making, I don't want to spoil anything. His son's making a point about what they should do during the aftermath of what happens. And he yells this as loud as he could. Right to his son's face. Nice. It was a little shocking, to be honest.

That show's really freaking good. Brian was right to recommend it. And I'm not even to the part. Apparently, it's season two where things really kick the, kicky in the hats. Oh, yeah. But I'm only three or four episodes in. It's really good.

Oh, my God. It's fantastic. Let's do this. Let's get Dan in. He's patiently waiting by his drug phone. I don't know what I didn't. I shouldn't say that. I don't know what Dan's phone looks like.

Let's see. He is a geek jock. There we go. I knew how to do this. We're going to bring him in. We're going to have our way with him. It's going to be great. Here's his little intro.

Here's a tangent for him. be careful may cause drowsiness dan dan the tabletop man joining us all the way from north carolina damn what's going on man oh getting a weird feedback loop some kind of we're we've got dan dan the static man static man it's been a while you know things change and happen your pc may have had three or four updates and who knows where that puts you in your audio but uh right now i feel like We're trying to contact him the moon. Oh, oh, oh, oh, I heard something. Dan, you there?

Yeah, sounds better. Sort of. He's, we're getting the rest. Static is basically. Yeah. The static went away, but we don't hear you. We got rings of ringage. I see.

Green movement. Like, I see his, yeah, like, talking. Yep. We get the rings of speakage, just not the rings of soundage. No noise. Yeah, it's an audio-free experience with Dan. We're going to intuit. what he had to say. He's going to let me see if

Discord is what he says, where he types to us. Oh, yeah, there you go. Yes, definitely see if Discord. Yeah, please see if Discord. I like the term. Please see if Discord. Clearly, he can hear us. Yeah, he can hear us, okay.

You're cool, no worries. Hopping those settings. You do you. I have a big medical question for Dan when he comes on because we like to Of course you do. Yeah. We'd like to do that here and there's like a there's a whole there's a whole sub-business in around a pharmacology that I have big questions about and only he can answer it after his rings of speakage work which are still rings but no speakage we hear nothing check your microphone check your settings check your

check your wife yep they're all coming out here to get us intruding on everybody out that's right how's that guy doing he had a moment he did he had a second moment when the uh unbreakable kimmy shit uh kimmy schmidt came out there's a title there that's going to the title list isn't it the unbreakable kimmy shit yeah that's really good i don't know why that never occurred to me just to say that in passing before really yeah that's really good um yeah that's right i forgot he had a little bit of that going on but i mean like does he does he retain any of the social media virality that he experienced or do you think he's just like no i think i think uh we're a little bit there there's so many new memes and things coming out daily we we used to really focus on

those old ones you'd hear those old ones uh um a lot right like you'd um uh you know charlie bit my finger and all that stuff but now it's like yeah you're you had your you're flash in the pen moment that's it yeah like uh even even our chocolate rain guy he still tries but i don't think he's got the following tays on day yeah yeah that was very weird uh dan says he'll restart okay he's restarting i see cool yeah what about uh tay allen are the are the uh she had a justin and brian still still doing stuff with tay allen i don't think they're doing stuff with her but they definitely called out her 10 year or they retweeted her 10 year anniversary of that song nice the text check your text song or whatever. Or I'm not in your

contacts. Rush, rush, sweet. Whatever it was. I mean, let's admit it. There was never a good thing. That was a bad song. But we had fun with it. You don't still have that clip anywhere, do you? No, I've no. I don't. Well, maybe. By the way, Dan, we're back to the

static you sound. Yeah, we hear you staticking out. Let's see. Brush, brush, sweep. Do I have this? I might. We're going to No. How about this one? I can clean the room if I try. A sweep, sweep, sweep, sweep, brush. I don't think so.

That's it. There it is. Right there, folks. Yep. I'm not in your contacts or whatever. I don't think so. Dan's still getting static and rings of no talking. Yeah, no, no other sound but static.

Do you have a, they have another device we could try? You try your telephone. A tabling voice. Oh, hey, there we go. There he is. There you know. Hi, hello. Am I there?

Yeah. Yeah, we can hear you know. What was it? Yeah, good old Discord changed my input on everything. So I was just trying to figure out which one would actually work. Oh, well, no worries. We'll take whatever you got. We had a little, we had a moment to talk about old washed up internet memes and it worked out fine.

Good old washed up band, too. So sorry. You're all good. I do have a bird fact for you. Oh, my gosh. Ornithologists, get ready. Yeah, let's do it. I'm hoping this is not untrue, but I've heard a lot about it.

And it seems to have worked here. So we have one of those bird feeders on the window so that our golden retriever can watch the birds. She just loves watching birds. But we have paining the ass squirrels down here. We've got just a ton of squirrels in our neighbor of this year. And the squirrel loves to jump up into the stupid feeder and grab some of the bird seed. Now, apparently, birds do not taste capsaicin, which is in basically like pepper flakes. Yeah.

It makes it hot. So birds can taste spicy, but squirrels can. So we put some pepper flakes, mix that in with the bird seed. And the squirrel has actually kind of left it alone for the most part. Wow. And that doesn't hurt the birds at all, really? Nope. Because apparently birds cannot taste capsaicin, which is basically.

Tasting it versus like still having the effects of the heat. Yeah. Right. They might be to taste it, but they are, but apparently they are unable to register to the effects of capsicin. Okay. Biologically. Interesting. Wow.

That's very interesting. You know what? That's like, it's not unlike. Like, I don't know, I can't think of a comparison. I can't think of another animal that does this kind of stuff. My dogs lose their effing mind over capsation of any kind. So, you know, birds. I guess birds have it going on.

That's wild. So no more squirrels. F the squirrels. And bring your birds, I always say. Here's your, here's the name. Here's the name of that bird. When you dig up this shit bird anyway. It's a shit bird.

It probably is. It's probably the runny shit bird. That's right. After all that, uh, uh, red, pepper flakes and list caps aison well in birds they don't even care they'll just poo whenever they don't care yeah unless capsaicin was the uh my high school uh marching band yeah all the uh yeah the old uh yeah the old uh capsaan marching band marching band hey dan if you were in a marching band what position would you be i'm just trying to picture where dan would be would you be like tubas

probably you know though the one thing i tried when i was in like fourth grade that i didn't last very long but it's the only thing only instrument i ever tried was uh was clarinet oh look at you clarinet i like it nice and classic you know no it ain't nobody very bad at it nobody minds a clarinet it's fine it's a good i'm not a very not very musically inclined but uh i feel like trombone people need extra room all the time you know they're always just yeah you don't want to get you don't you don't want to get nailed in the back of the head with a trombone every five no you don't uh all right now dan before we get to some game recommendations i have a question uh pharmaceutically related all right sure uh for those who don't know dan is a pharmacist a professional in his field and knows a lot of

stuff about this stuff. And it's usually a combination of him and Dr. Tolbert, where we learn all the important things about our medical day. So here's what I'm going to ask you. Compounding pharmacies or clinics. A new idea to me, obviously not new to you. And I think your wife works at one. She's a compliance pharmacist. Then she works at a pharmacist, you know, as a regular pharmacist at a compounding pharmacy. So a compound, first of all, what do they do? Do they take, they take stuff and make special pills out of them? Like, what does it mean when you even say the term compounding pharmacy. So when you have a special, so compounding is

basically just the art of making things, you know, or making more creams or or putting things into you can actually make injectables, which most regular compounding specialty pharmacies aren't making that sort of compound pharmacies are making that unless they have the special lab. Janice has, their

pharmacy actually has an 800 lab and a, you know, and a sterile lab, but they still don't do sterile injectables, which is, that's even more regulations you have to follow and it's you know you need a clean room stuff like that because her 800 pharmacy is basically kind of like a clean room anyway but with compounding all you're basically doing is basically mixing or making things almost from scratch um they're great because regular pharmacies

like you find like your uh you know right aid or Walgreens they will do some compounding but usually it's just kind of uh things like you they can even make uh suspensions taste better which is technically kind of compounding but it's really just adding uh some drops to this and some drops to that. So if you have any kids that don't like their medicines that, you know, the way they taste, whether it be the, you know, just things for allergies, stuff with that, because things like satirzine, which is XerTech, it tastes really bad. It's usually, I think it's really crazy minty or things like that.

So they can change the taste of that. It usually like $2 charge or whatever, but it's worth it to make the taste better. And that's from regular pharmacies. And that's, quote, unquote, kind of compounding. But normally a regular pharmacy will do things like mixing creams, where you get like triumcinolone with ucerin, Tramcinolone or hydrochlorosone or they can make magic butt cream

for kids or a magic mouthwash which is what you would use just when you have mouth sores it's basically like a swish and swallow or switch and spit is it really good magic butt cream for like rashes and that kind of stuff for babies and that's really? Yeah so that's usually used for either for really really really old

if they're in a home or anything like that and they get kind of sores bed sores stuff well bed sores are a little different but kind of sores from just from being soiled or children when you know just When you have really bad diaper rash, magic butt cream is usually, it's kind of a zinc oxide mixed with some other, you know, with you seren or things like that. It's basically just helps to get your moisture to help your body heal a little bit better. And they're just a little bit better than some of the creams that are out there by themselves.

Okay. So is it referred to as magic butt cream by the people? Yeah, well, things like this. So there's magic mouthwash, Duke's magic mouthwash. There's regular butt cream or magic butt cream. And there's probably like, you know, Dr. Johnson's butt cream. Like every area of the country has their own recipes for these things where it's called something different in a different area.

Like around here, since we're by Duke University, they're supposedly one of the first people to make up the mouthwash that I'm talking about. So they call it like Duke's Magic Mouthwash. But there's probably about 20 different recipes for this mouthwash. It's very, you know, basically normally like with hydrochortisone, dipenhydramine. And nystatin is what it kind of generally goes into there. but sometimes they put lydicane in there. Sometimes they put tetracycline in there.

They usually put a little bit of different things in there to make it different. So back to special, like a compounding place, we'll do things that are a little bit more, you know, a little bit more crazy, little heavier. They'll do things like they'll make up their own capsules, creams, trokeys, which are kind of dissolvable in your mouth, or they'll make up the suspensions or sprays or ornaments. A lot of them do not take insurance because, you know,

it's a little more expensive, but you can certainly file your own insurance after the fact, and many insurances will give you a lot of the money back. And, of course, there's different laws, you know, things that can, you usually have to be on things that are on back order. We're not available in that strength.

We're not available in that dosage form. You know, like I said, sometimes there's no tablets available of it and you can't swallow capsules and you do the tablets, things like that. And, you know, or the strengths where it may be an off-label use. You know, so they have different things like

creams for hemorrhoids, hemorrhoid creams, which will usually, a lot of times use like a calcium channel blocker, which is a, just helps a different blood flow. So you would use this cream on a hemroid, and it helps to shrink the hemorrhoid. So you have like dilettiasm cream, which dilettiasm usually use for your heart. So you're saying I shouldn't take like an exacto blade to a hemorrhoid and just cut it off. That's not the treatment. No, probably not.

That might hurt. But if you do that, then you use a stick. Only if you have some magic butt cream handy. Yeah, you'd have a lot. Or if you have a stifty pencil, that might. burn quite a bit too do you guys know what a stiptic pencil i've never heard of it it sounds horrible what does this do tell me about a stiffy pencil is uh i'm pretty sure it's just basically uh sulfur rock basically and you use this for things like when you're shaving so if you get like one of those really

bad uh cuts when you shave yeah you know you hit pot it just it just won't stop bleeding you kind of just put a little water on a stiptic pencil and you just basically just seals it it burns like hell but it but it stops the bleeding instantly okay it's like coagulant kind of thing yeah okay just yeah okay interesting well all right all right so the reason i even asked this is so recently i had a kind of not a run-in but i had a situation arise where they wanted me to do a prescription with a compounding clinic that where they were making some stuff that it turns out's a little bit legally dubious well that's changed so it's funny because we've been this this has been an ongoing kind of very fluid situation in the last couple of

months yeah we were talking about um do you want to mention a met or we'll just talk it we'll just well i can just say it's whatever the con whatever the thing that makes those zimpic work they wanted to do in a compound form because it was way cheaper and also more available or something was the deal. Well, things like Ozzympic, a lot of the GLP ones, which are for type 2 diabetes

and also for weight loss now in Wagovi since everybody's been using it a lot of insurances and even some Medicaid insurances have been letting Wagovi get paid for for weight loss provided you you have to follow certain rules. You know, Dr. Send in the different criteria

that you have to follow for the weight loss indication. But anyway, it's been used so much lately that it's on kind of a big time back order. Now, until recently, there was no main ingredient that was available. So in order to compound, and this is another thing kind of with compounding, let's just say, I'm using example, like things like Prilosec. You guys know what Prilosec is for your stomach? Yeah, it's like a, I have heartburn or my stomach hurts, or I'll get ulcers or whatever. It's like that. It's a proton pump inhibitor, and it's available in a capsule, and it has these little beads in it, and it wasn't commercially available in a liquid. So some pharmacies will

compound it. And what they do is they take like the beads out of the, out of the capsules and they'll break it down with sodium bicarbonate and put it into suspension. But it doesn't really last as long when you get a regular pharmacy that does this as compared to a compounding pharmacist who will get the actual ingredient powder.

And that's USP, United States Pharmacopoeia, which is the base powder and a base ingredient. Now and that when it's made in a compound pharmacy, it lasts a lot longer. And you know it's good, you know, a little bit better kind of concentration and effectiveness. So, What happens with, they weren't, since there was of Wagovi and OZEPA, it wasn't completely legal to compound this because the main ingredient wasn't available anywhere.

But recently, I think it's PCA, professional compounders of America, that center, that's the main center where a lot of people get their main ingredient. They've just recently had it available now in a powder form or in the base form. And of course, I'm pretty sure this is the main ingredient. It's derived from the, I believe it's the Gilemon. monster saliva, which is just how we come up with this crap is just amazing. Yeah. Right. Keeps, yeah, blood from collagulating.

Yeah, exactly. So what we've got... Okay, so what's the... So let's say that they... So are you saying it's now less sketchy? Is that what you're telling? Yes, a lot less sketchy. So if I go, so what I...

So here's what I did, based on advice from you and a few other people, I told my doctor, I said, yeah, this is all a little up in the air and weird. And we're going to hold off on this stuff for now. Should I go back to her and go? All right, get that rolling again, baby. We're going to put this in. We're doing it. Or do you think that's a bad idea?

I mean, it might be worth it also because you're going to get some of the, you can get it mixed with, I believe it's either B or D. I think it's with B12 or B complex, where they're mixing it so it's making some of the headaches a little bit less with some of these injections. And it is on a huge manufacturer back order now. So it's very hard to find, especially in different parts of country. Now, all the boards of pharmacies, I have licensed in four different states. And every board of pharmacy basically, like a few months ago, sent out the same, basic word for word, same email, and everybody's saying, hey, compounding this stuff is not legal because it's available commercially and you're not really changing anything and there's no real reason to do it. That's kind of changed. They didn't send out blanket emails to people out, but I did find it on some of their websites now that since there is a manufacturer back order of it, it is okay to be compounded.

And also, there kind of been a fight with a lot of the compounding places with this because being that normally doesn't come with the other ingredient of, like I said, I think it's B12, where it does help with some of the side effects of it. So that's kind of the big fight between them and the boards and the state medical boards and the federal boards are trying to figure out what is legal with that. But right now, like I said, since it is on back order, it should be just fine. Now, the reason why it was a little kind of sketching up in the air because there was reports that. that some pharmacies were based some compounding places were basically just taking the uh the liquid straight out of the pens and then mixing them in their you know in a lab and mixing it with the other ingredients and then just charging a huge upcharge that's a little sketchy that is when it comes to kind of what what's the legality of that and it's and you know if it's not done and i mean most

these places are going to i'm saying most say probably pretty much all of them are going to be done in their sterile lab so you're not going to have to worry about anything injectable like that it may just be hard to find ones that do injectables because like I said my wife they have a full compounded pharmacy but they don't do injectables or other you know or or intravenous medications. They do a lot of other

great creams and sprays and stuff like that and spot stories and such. I got a really good one for you there were there's a cream called I think I might have mentioned this in the past. It's called scream cream. Scream cream. Yes.

So that sounds delightful. It does, doesn't it? It sounds delightful, is the right word. So it's a little, it doesn't, you don't need a whole lot, and it doesn't come in a very big canister. But you put the cream, the ladies put the cream on a clitoris to help with blood flow to the clitoris and helps them climax a bit. So that's why it's called cream cream. There you go. They actually sell, they would come to the counter, go, this will help you climax a bit.

Enjoy. Yeah. Wow. I'd ask you if we could repeat all that information. Claire would like to know. the Irish have access. Do you have any links to where you can buy it? Yeah.

So ask your doctor for it by name that it can be compounded. And people have no problem paying cash for things like Scream Cream. And actually, and there's also a lot of great things. You know, they do have, not to perform blue again, but they do have a nipple cream, which is fantastic for breastfeeding mothers who get very dry. Right. And I have to say, Brian, this is something. I don't know if you get it when you're riding, but I know runners get bleeding.

the chafing. Yeah, I don't get bleeding nipples. He gets bleeding. That's why he uses the chode butter. That's why I use the, exactly. Like there's a saddle cream, I guess they call it. Well, saddle cream is what the nice way of calling it. But basically, yeah, chode butter, basically.

Yeah. And that's probably be similar to a magic butt cream as well. Yeah. It's going to keep in your, your moisture and rather than get it all chafed and such. Yeah, we don't want to chase them. It's just basically lubrication so that your legs can go back and forth and not rub that area raw. That's right. You heard it here first. Brian uses lube to ride his bike. You heard it here first. I mean, I got it. Yeah. Chain lube, butt loob. It's all.

It's all the same. It's all. Then, there you have it. It'll put some fun, a fun diversion into medical territory, but let's swing it back and give people a recommendation of a board game to play this week. Now, Scott, I'm going to let you decide this one. So, Jen Conn is either next week or the week after that. I can run down quickly in my top 11 to buy. from Gen Con, or the last time you had wanted me to talk about solo games, which I could push that off to next month since JenCon. I did have some people on Twitter

from the Tadpool were asking me about games to check out. Well, let's do the, let's do Gen Con since it's looming. It's like here almost. Yeah, let's do. Are you going to the share? Are you going to are you hanging around at home? No, no, I've got to go to, so this weekend we're going up to Boston for the Chowder Cup for, with DJ

for a big, that's a pretty big time tournament up there in Boston. And the next week we're actually going to the lake. We haven't had actual vacation as a family and pretty much since DJ started started hockey. Yeah. So like pre-pandemic really. You guys just don't get out. No, I feel you. You're busy

with that stuff and good luck to him. It sounds like fun. Chowder, the Chowder Cup. Oh, man. Yeah. So yeah, that's going to be a big time thing. There's going to be a lot of good, about a hundred teams up there. So good competition. There'll be tons of scouts and such. So, I mean, we're only about a little over a month away from him

going to prep school and then Lauren's going back to UNC Wilmington, so we'll be empty nesters before you know it's going to be a weird thing. Yeah, just you, your wife, and a room with 60,000 board games in it. That's right. That's a family right there. And a golden retriever that's going to be like,

where did everybody go? Yeah. You're going to get a little bit of attention-starved dog there, but anyway, yeah, let's do that. Let's break down what are the big expectations. Okay, so I'm going to run down, I'm going to run down 11 games really quick. So I'll try to get this within two minutes. I'll try to get the 11 games

two minutes. And then, if anything sparks your interest, you can ask me more about them. How's that? That sounds great. Go. Great. All right, so number 11, we got Rome in a Day. That's from Alley Cat Games. It's a pretty cool Ice Split You Choose, very light game where you're just kind of making your little, kind of, they call Roman a Day, so you're making a city. So you're

doing, I split, you choose with other people. That's going to be $30 from Alley Cat games. Number 10 is Namalia. This is from Lucky Duck Games. Another very good family-friendly game. It's only $20 you have. You're kind of drafting cards that you're sending, kind of drafting like Seven Wonder style, but they're kind of four by four grid on the card, and you're making basically a five-by-five grid with different

animals. So it's Namalia, but animals, and then there's different scoring cards for during the game. Very fun. A good, solid game. Number nine, wild, tiled west. This is from Dyer Wolf, polyaminoes. And you're putting tiles into the wild west, and you're drafting these tiles, which are polyamonos or tetris pieces. Then you're making up your city. And each one of these tiles has different icons on them for the scoring and, you know, and capturing bad guys and getting bullets and stuff like that. There's number eight. It's called Mecca a Dream. This is from blue orange for $40.

This is basically based on, I mean, it's loosely based off of, what is it, Philip K. Dick, do robots dream of animal sheep? Animal sheep. Do Android's, you're really spagnolo that one? Do Android's dream of electric sheep? So it's called Mecha Dream, a very kind of, again, light to medium weight game where you're kind of drafting different pieces or buying different pieces and they're kind of going down a conveyor about until then they eventually go. go into your tableau, and it's all about, you know, androids dreaming and such like that. Number seven is a large one. Brian, this is up for you from Atomic

Mass Games. Star Wars Shatterpoint, $165. This is kind of like your Marvel, Hoosie, what's it? The big time Marvel. The United, Marvel United? Or the crisis protocol. Crisis protocol. This is kind of like Star Wars Crisis Protocol, where there's minis that you can paint. You've got to put them together and there's just all the terrain and everything it's really cool um and it's not just like warhammer where you're and i know there's different types of uh warhammer things where you're you're doing kind of different scenarios and getting a different victory points but star war shadow point there's a

bunch of armies coming out for it as well but the base game is 165s 165 number six sagrata artisans that's from floodgate studios uh that's $75 basically we love sagrata it's one of the really great yes so good this is basically kind of like sagrata legacy is what it basically is so it's basically like campaigning and a legacy and there's different books and i believe there's four books in the sagrata artisans book so if uh if you and tina want to play this together then you'll have a whole separate you can do it basically twice because there's four books in there so very very cool number five from the creator of a medium is called and also from green team wins creator everything ever this is from also from floodgate studios this is from nathan thornton 25

basically it's just a party game where you're putting cards down uh and it'll be you're putting different cards in front of you that'll have things on it be like movie and bugs and things like that and then you're going to have to say something when it comes to your turn the cards in front of you you have to say something that goes with every card in front of you without repeating but if you can manage to say something like the fly oh well i just got a movie and bugs so now i've satisfied both of those what was the title again of that one everything ever everything ever okay just right very cool uh a very very cool uh party game okay number four distilled this is from paverson games this is about $90. This was on Kickstarter last year, but it's released now. This is a really cool kind

of Euro game. Think kind of a gricola, like a medium to heavyweight Euro, but it's all about owning a distillery for like whiskey and such. And then you're kind of putting the different ingredients in there. Very cool kind of work placement, auctione, very Eurocentric, very cool. I thought this one was neat. Number three, this game called the Isofarian Guard. So we're getting into the heavier ones that these are all the crazy Dan games and probably crazy Brian games. Johnson, you play them, but you take you by and I mean, the rules would take like an hour. Yeah, yeah, rules. Rules for rules. You know, it's funny today, this week is the week I had to do final proof and final sign off on the mass production of the rules for my

dungeon murder game. And so you bringing up rules and how I hate them, perfect time to bring that up. Well, I saw your sheet. That was perfect. That's, that's exactly what you want rules on that side of a size game to be. Yeah. You know where all the rules are. If you need the thumb through them you're not thumbing through 30 pages of things you just look and go in and it's uh and that game is great because it's got easy to learn plenty of replayability your game that is and um and it's just amazing uh what you've done with that so thanks man i'm very proud i'm excited to get that to you when i get decks to you to you help me with the whole solification of it because i want to be able to absolutely yeah and i've uh i just loved i just finished playing a couple of

solo games things i've had today and yesterday off i played a game called mosaic which is a sieve game played at soul just really fun game anyway number three is saffarian guard this is very much a very much a Haven game, like a Gloom Haven or Frost Haven. It's got basically like three different campaigns in it and each campaign whether you play it solo or two player there's basically two characters that you're using

to go through the story and when you go to the second campaign you use two new characters to play them so it keeps you kind of fresh without having to worry about unlocking other other characters and such like that. Very very cool. Number two you guys would probably both love it's called The Witcher Old World. It is

still large and sandboxy But you're basically going around a map, doing different quests, and trying to get victory points to, you know, to finish the game. And really, almost the same thing, but in a D&D universe is my number one called Dungeons & Dragons Trial of Tempice. It's a sandboxy game. You're creating your character kind of beginning with these cards and such where you have like a mage, then you're picking a speck,

and then you're getting some different skills. You'll be leveling up through the game. You're doing different things like area control on the... You know, you're maybe taking out the Colbolt camps over here, defeating them, or maybe over here, you're controlling a temple. and then you might have to take out the Gallum to get more victory points. It's a kind of a race for victory points kind of game.

But there's your 11 really big games to check out for Junk. And there's a lot of different prices and such. You can listen to the Geek All-Stars. If you have a good commute to the con that you're driving and you got three hours, we did a top 11 to try and buy. So try games where you can only demo them and then buy. So I'd myself,

my co-host, Chris Deice, Hate Me Kirkman, and B.J. Rojas from board game gumbo. We talked about um chris you i mean uh scott you'd probably love board game gumbo you know down in a down in a oh yeah you know i got some got some history both of those things individually so how could they be bad together yeah what a combo he got there oh that's fantastic we talk about a whole ton of games on the last show if you like and i've also got a top five which is uh coming out which is on major spoilers that's the top five to try and buy which i just kind of change you up the the you know

the games to drive just to have more games out there to the masses that's on uh stephen schlecker's major spoilers network on their top five feed that should be out sometime this week very nice lots of stuff going on follow dan out there and we'll see you next month for more probably another dumb medical question from scott plus more board games yeah we'll do the solo yeah we'll do the solo thing i'm excited about that so uh yeah i'm excited turning your turning your multiplayer games into solo games everybody and some of the best solo games out there dan have a fantastic month we'll see you next time it's may your microphone settings never change all right right yeah please don't change them, yes.

Man, are we sure he's not cocaine shark? Because he can go. You did tell him that he had more time this time than he usually does, right? The whole idea was give you a wider birth, you know? You can have a little more time. Anyway, we wrote down all these names. Hopefully we've got them all right. We'll double check them, but I think I'm going to put these in the show notes.

So if you guys want to find these top of 11 games, we'll make it so you can track them down. If I really wanted to vote the time, I could go into quicktmS. dot l i and create links for all of these but that's a lot of work that's a lot of work man yeah a lot if it wasn't 11 things you know if it was two things that'd be different if it was two things i would do it this is 10 things 10 or 11 things this is 11 things which is a strange thing not do 10 but to do 11 right i you know i guess i could do i could put the list there for sure you could put the list you don't have to link them all i guess yeah it's all those it's all those hyperlinks man oh claire's offering to do it you're going to give me links

If I give you the list, Claire, you'll... You give her the idol, she'll throw you the whip. There's no problem to that. And she's going to get me links for all of them. I love it. You can use my Amazon affiliate link to, Claire. Thanks. You should do that.

Why don't? Well, I'm not going to do it if she's... She's the one doing the work. She's the one doing the work. I don't feel good about... Before we get out here, I got a quick correction. I don't remember this, all right? So it's fine when we get corrected.

Now, usually we remember why we're getting corrected, but I don't remember this at all. Maybe you do, but it says, uh, this. This is, hey, Scott and Brian, uh, just had to let you know that. And Nettie O'Khafore is a she, and you can hear several of her short stories on the LeVar Burton Reads podcast. I don't know who that was or what the reference was for, but it obviously would have come up during our, um, uh, during our, uh, read, read this segment with Amy, but I don't remember it. NETI with two ends.

Something about that's familiar. Like we brought that up or something about the two ends. I don't know. All right. Well, thank for you the correction. We get another one. We're being watched, by the way, because I got this text from, I assume it's this person. I don't actually know.

It says, hey, I just wanted to let you and the whole TMS crew know that Joe Matteris is watching. Oh, no. Okay. Or Mata Mata Mata. I'm not sure. Okay. I don't know what to do with that. That's the single.

only text I ever got from the guy and he's watching so uh well I look and if you search for that name there's a Joe Matarista oh he's a he's a comedian apparently really like a yeah we have a comedian watching us we have a comedian watching us uh hold on

I want to see this guy he has his own website and everything oh yeah look at this guy he's a new jersey uh guy oh he's been on the Howard Stern show w t up with mark marron late show with David Letterman let's see the uh i bet i've heard i've heard this guy and not uh and just didn't know him by name

i'm looking at his account on x you know the the the news the hot news social media platform called x yeah i'm an ex user of that service i am too i think uh anyway all right well hey joe we're happy to have you yeah be here thank you send us some jokes would you uh one fun final note from Jim. This is our good pal Jim Jensen here locally. He says, My niece, Autumn, is ill and needs to be seen by the specialist within the Mayo Clinic. She is a single mother with limited resources.

The good news is she's an author of four books, four books that want to be read in an effort to broaden her potential readership and improve her chances of funding this trip. I present the following quote from her and several links to further information. Quote, I suffered from my father's death and several sudden and tragic losses in my life, then found out I'm facing my own debilitating rare disease or illness. I started writing to explore death in a creative way and now found a, and now to leave a legacy for my children who may not know me in adulthood.

So you can go to this Barnes & Noble link where you can find her books at tiny URL.com slash AM Books 23. Or you can go to her Facebook link, which is her authorship page over at tiny URL.com slash AM Author 23. So one is AM Books 23. The other is A.m. Author 23. And Autumn's missed Mayo's clinic campaign on Facebook, which is scheduled to run through the 3rd of August.

You can also find that at tiny URL.com slash AM Mayo 23. So books, author, and mayo, all between AM and 23. Those are your three links. Easy to remember. Go over there and check them out. Cool. Happy to help out and make mention of this. And Jim, we hope the best for

your niece, Autumn. For sure. Jim's a good guy. All right. The nicest. Niceest guy. We're going to get out of here. I need to remind people, though, that we subsist on Patreon and your good graces,

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All right. I guess we just have music left. Is that all we have? Just have music. I think that's it. Well, shit. Let's just do it then. Let's play it.

All right. Brian wrote in. Wait, was it me? No, I would remember it. Brian, sorry for the short notice on this request. Hopefully you'll be able to squeeze it in. This Thursday, meaning last Thursday, I will be for the first time since pre-COVID returning to competing in large pinball tournaments.

Oh, wow. Um, wow, very cool. What makes a, what makes it a, like, is it massive machines, a giant basketball sized pinballs bouncing around in these things? Is that what makes it large pinball tournament? Is that what makes it large pinball tournament? I kind of want it to be what you're describing. I kind of want it to be that too. Uh, so I was hoping you could play a song to get me ready on my trip up to the tournament. I was hoping you could play me something pinball related. If you can find something, anything pinball related, anything by Iron Maiden will do, feel free to play my, song on a different day if the nose was too short um sausage oh you want one of those do you i think i got that i got that right here it's right here hold on no that's not it doesn't it's going to happen again isn't it where's the name i can't find it uh this one this is why this is why we get rid of a lot of our segments because we need time to search the soundboards for things yeah we need time how about a booby you know what that's not it either but that's the right person we're on

the right track so we're now going to go sausage and we're going to find the long one. Here it is. Sausage. Did it feel longer? By the way, Claire, if you're searching for links, don't because Dan just sent me an email with board game geek links for all 11 games. So I'm going to make those a post.

And if you did already, all right, anyway. Right. All right. So I had to stay away from Pinball Wizard. There's only two other pinball songs that I know of. One of them is a song by, God, it's another Brian, Brian Porcheso or something like that. An old 70s song, like a bluesy, my wife left me for pinball, and I'm a truck driver and stuff like that. And then a song by a favorite band of mine called Yellow.

And you're probably familiar with Yellow's big hit, which is the song that goes, Oh, yeah, do, do, do, do you know that one. Bo. Bob. Yeah. Love it. Anyway, that's yellow, but they do a lot of great other music. And if you're not familiar with the band, you know, pull up Spotify or Apple Music and just do a search for yellow essentials. Just spell yellow without a W.

And you'll have that first song that you know really well. And then you'll have a bunch of other really interesting, eclectic and weird but fun music. One of those songs is a song called Pinball Chacha, which is about the greatest pinball player in all of South America or something like that. Weird. It's a great song.

I think it's from there. I think the album is called Claro Kesei, which is, of course, in Spanish. If I know my Spanish and I probably don't. I think it's Klau Kesee. Anyway, a whole lot of stuff information here about that. But we're playing a cover, and the cover we're playing is the one by Signor-Cose.

So, Signor Coconut is a German dude named Uba Schmidt, and he goes by a lot of names. He goes by the name Adam T.M. or Adam Trademark. He's gone by Signor Coconut. He's just gone by TM at times. And he's like the father of Latin electronic music. Brilliant stuff. You got to check him out. Oh, Stella.

That's right. Yellow Stella. Yeah, thank you, Universal Constant. Anyway, here is Pinball Chacha, all that's set up just for this song. Pinball Chacha by Signor Coconut from his 2008 album around the world. Wow, if you watch this man,

he's really one unity with this machine. He's the number one pinball player in Mexico's And for him, if he plays his game, everything is claddle to see. Come, come close to me, and tell you a man you will see. I like happy tree. Come close and then you will see. Well, every ball for me is another game for you this always looks the same.

Every ball for me is another game There's always always looks to sing Hey man, you're watching me Might be right, I'm a fool But man, why don't you tell me But you know a better too There's a little bit more There's a little bit.

One of the Uh-huh Uh-huh Uh-huh Uh-huh Uh-huh. I'm going to be able to be. All the gates are lit, and this is very good for me.

It's very good for me. I'll watch out man And let's see Now all lights are on Believe me, man, that I have won I've known for you This doesn't work a lot For me, this is the only thing I've got

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